On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, David M wrote:
> Plug and Play SCAM support
> --
> The default setting is disabled. They mention in the manual that if
> enabled than SCSI ID are automatically assigned to those SCSI devices
> that support SCAM. Those that don't usually are not af
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Just added another IRC network to the #debian channel net.
>
> We currently have Undernet , Linpeople and EFNet linked together through
> Bots. Giving people on one irc network access to help from the other irc
> networks.
Annex! Annex! Annex!
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:
> Perhaps using xfs should be made the default then.
>
> It should be just as simple to have either be used as long as all
> font packages register themselves with both /etc/X11/XF86Config and
> /etc/X11/xfs/config.
Oh!
That reminds me, while the nice
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> This calls to mind a survey I read by O'Reilly at www.ora.com regarding
> web-crawling to find out various facts about usage/trends. At one point
> he broke down what powers various web sites. I don't have the figures at
> h
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
> The system has been up for "32 minutes" according to uptime, and they
> are actually /not/ noticeably hot, just slightly above "cold metal"
> temperature. Large shiny pieces of copper-colored metal, large enough
> to /look/ like they should be hot.
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:
> in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs. On most stand-alone
> machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell.
The nice people on #gimp told me that xfs makes things more responsive
because the XServer does not block while it is rendering fonts.
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
> Just remember, many people can use dpkg-ftp through a firewall if their
> proxy is a 2 step procedure+password. All you do is tell dselect to ftp
> to the firewall. Then set it to respond with [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> and then when the password is asked, u
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
> After trying all sorts of measures, I have found one that seems so far
> to reliably fix the problem: run it with the case off. Since there is
> unlikely to be any "grounding problems" because of the way the case is
> laid out (its a full tower, the
> It did work but it wasn't very polished. With Deity on its way and CDs
> going for as little as $3.99, there is probably not much point but if
I'm going to try to make sure that deity will support a FTP over
HTTP-Proxy and HTTP over HTTP-Proxy methods, I am usualy behind such a
firewall myself
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
> It is on the Cyrix "recommended" list as well, and has specific
> documentation for setting up with this CPU (Cyrix 200+ has a 75 MHz
> bus speed; if your MB runs it at 60 MHz bus, you effectively have
> a 200 * (60/75) = 160.)
> I guess it's going
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
>
> The problem I have right now (and this showed up long before I started
Check the voltages from the power supply, some older cases tend to fall
a bit low and will cause exactly this, should be close to 5 and close to
12.
Jason
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
> "Kevin M. Bealer" wrote:
> Following up on this:
>
> After:
>
> 1) installing set6x86
> 2) Setting all BIOS settings to maximum delay timings (for RAM)
> 3) Setting the ISA bus frequency to 7.159 MHz (lowest setting)
>(only my CDROM, modem, and
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edward McKnight wrote:
> Jason,
>
> I have Seagate and Quantum scsi disks, ~1G each. One of them, I'm pretty sure
> it's the Quantum, spins up then down again during disk/scsi identification. I
> don't consider it defective--I'm assuming that the driver is exercising
> ca
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
> Any other guesses?
Maybe it has nothing to do with the heat, just a defective disk?
Jason
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
> I should point out that during boot, the hard drive spins up, green
> light looking normal, then spins down with the green light blinking
> slowly and non-stop. I am not familiar enough with hard drive fails to
> know exactly what this means.
I've seen th
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
> What I would like to do is contimue to use my Netcom address, download
> my mail for local reading, and uplad outgoing mail such that it still
> show Netcom as the point of origin.
>
> I have a couple of questions about this.
>
>
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> The EEPROM getting scrambled is a result of drivers probing for devices
> on the bus that don't happen to be there, and hitting the network card
> instead. This happens more with the rescue disk than with a custom kernel
> because the rescue disk is bui
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> I had a similar problem with tcpdump. After I saw it referenced in a
> message here I decided to see what kind of info it would print out. The
> info on my card (3C509) looked correct, but after running tcpdump, I
> couldn't connect to any other machi
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > > 2) What ethernet driver should I use for a D-LINK 220? NE-2000?
> >
> > D-Link 220's are PnP NE-2000 clones. If you get isapnptools you should be
> > able t
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> 2) According to the HOWTO, you need to get winipcfg (or what ever it is
> called the probes the cable modem server for an ip address) to write out
> it's information to file using some switch (specifics listed in HOWTO).
> The HOWTO then goes on to ins
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> This is a kernel problem that started small in 2.0.29 and got worse in
> 2.0.30.
AFAIK this is a problem in all the 2.0 kernels that was angered by
2.0.30's new buffer modifications. I have had it nuke a 8M box just idling
on 2.0.27.
Jason
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On Wed, 28 May 1997, John Burwell wrote:
> On the way home from college graduation, some good buddies in Memphis
> opted to steal my car loaded with my nearly new Pentium Pro 180
> workstation. Needless to say, I loved this computer, but now I am
> faced with replacing it.
Ouch!
> I have b
On Tue, 27 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> I have seen the same problem with a small system (8MB) when attempting to
> mkfs a disk drive. I wonder if it has anything to do with the disk
> controller baing busy when the system attempts to swap. This is a BusTek
> ISA SCSI controller card that s
On 10 May 1997, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thanks again, Rick.
> I've just tried again:
>
> For each of three brand new diskettes, I put resc1440.bin on it from
> my Linux box using dd (first with dd-3.16, later using dd-3.12,
> and then cat) to write the disks, then tried to boot with it.
>
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in
> >
> > the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable.
> >
> > what is the best way to upgr
Jonas Bofjall wrote:
>
> On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
>
> > This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a
> > primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5).
>
> I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks
> serial number. A very good soluti
On Sat, 3 May 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 3 May 1997, Brian Freeze wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install the latest debian release onto a system that had
> > slackware running on it. It has a dlink 220 ethernet card in it and was
> > running fine with the slackware system and also w
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> I'd like to use/test the Standard Template Library. A GCC faq says that
> it's included in libg++, but I couldn't find it? Where is it?
Try /usr/include/g++. You can just include stl headers with a normal
#include when compiling w
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Apr 14, Ryan Shaw wrote
>
> > the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
> > its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't find
> > any mention of the new list.
> >
> > could someone point me in the
On 12 Apr 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just finished the next version of the package ordering
> libraries/tool which shall be uploaded tonight to master -- I think I
> have caught most of the design issues rasied on the lists (I am
> including the spec below).
Hm, I th
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Just a short suggestion:
>
> Split dselect. A small one (dinstall?) just for installation and a more
> full-featured one for configuration management.
Okay I will bite, Why?
If you have a small dselect then the first thing to be installed would be
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> I think it was one of the Debian gurus that just sent an email stating that
> it was only the ftp install that had this bug. He'll most likely send you an
> email on this but in case he doesn't get to it for a while I'll s
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> > Yes. Many have raised the issue of conflicts on install. The answer at
> > this
> > point is to run configure over and over. Each time it will install
> > something
> > that is needed to settle the conflicts. The problem is that the selected
>
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
> A new list "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" has been created with these people
> subscribed to it. I'm sure I speak for the whole team when I say that we
It seems the new list is not working quite correctly, I sent several
emails to it but recived nothing in reply
On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jim wrote:
>
> The sound tool, sox, used to have a 'play' symlink that no longer works.
> So.. how on earth do we get sox 12.12 to play (.au) files? Simply cat'ing
> them to /dev/dsp sounds terrible! :-)
Try catting to /dev/audio, it does the ulaw decoding by default.
Jason
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> libc 6 hasn't been officially released yet and it'll be a little while
> before any distribution includes it as a stable package. I'd suggest just
> getting a normal pthr
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
[Clip about glibc]
> 3) Fully MT safe.
Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that
will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a
thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but..
Thanks,
Jas
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > Unless GCC is some all powerfull god like compiler this exact problem
> > exists in Linux too. Any shard code system basically breaks badly when you
> > try and
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Mar 31, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote
>
> More programs would share DLL if it wasn't asking for trouble like it is
> currently. Just take MFC or OWL as an example... Quite a few progams use
> one or the other, both Microsoft and Borland ship them as DLL
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> Well, let me put it this way: I have extensive experience with various
> C++ compilers, but this was the first time that 'Visual' actually meant a
> way of programming, instead of just a buzzword. I can't comment on the
> quality of the code generated,
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> Dear debian-users,
>
> Yesterday I attended an IBM-conference about IBM's line of VisualAge
> products. Great stuff - exactly something that could give Linux an extra
> boost. I would like to ask everyone on this list to send IBM an e-mail
> (http://w
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:36:13 MST Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .ca) wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how to control the order in which constructors are called
> > during program startup (for global static objects)
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Robin Beckett wrote:
> > Well, porting over the digital mixer would be interesting, doable very
> > quickly -- just don't cry when a 20 channel song brings your 486 to it's
> > knees :> (A 486dx-50 can sustain about 30 channels with all the asm code
> > in place)
>
> I'm not
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> >It's an OS/2 player called Muse/2. It supports,
> >xm/mod/s3m/it/ult/669/wow/far/mtm/it2 and was designed from the start to
> >run under multi-tasking os's like Linux and Os/2. I figure it could take a
> >few weeks tops to port over with gus only support.
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 18:23:23 MST Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .ca) wrote:
>
> > I noticed that there are several mod player packages in the debian
> > distribution and I was wondering how populare something like that
Hi,
I noticed that there are several mod player packages in the debian
distribution and I was wondering how populare something like that is with
the linux crowd?
The reason I ask is that I am thinking of porting my module player to
Debian, but it is very difficult to test a program like a mod pla
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> 'Craig Sanders wrote:'
> >
> >Package: less
> >Version: 321-2
> I'm not sure about this design. There could exist gzip files that
> don't have .gz endings and so on. I think a better approach is to use
> file(1) (and gzip?) to do this. And I someti
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Arup Mukherjee wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what
> some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my
> disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or
> windows 95 from the hard disks (vi
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> I simply tried creating a 2.0.0 kernel image and pasting it with "dd"
> on the Debian rescue disk, attempting to replace the kernel image
> while leaving the root image intact. IIRC 350K is the size limit
> for the kernel image. My attempts failed, the
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody please point me in the right direction (hints, docs,
> links, etc.) as to how I could tell my Linux box to use a Proxy server
> for outbound connections (http *AND* ftp). They just put a Proxy
>
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;The Doctor What wrote:
> Isn't HPFS, which is refered to in the Debian Install Device Drivers
> section, actually OS/2's High Performace File System, which is Read
> Only? It says it's NT's HPFS... I didn't think Linux supported that (yet).
OS/2 uses HPFS
On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
> I have been reading the gcc-howto and the elf-howto... and have made my
> first shared library. My question is: does the code have to be
> rewritten/redesigned to take care of any reentrantcy problems? I have a
> feeling that globals/statics are
I recall someone mentioning a similar problem to mine. I recomined the
kernel and excluded IPX and Appletalk totally, erased their modeles form
usr/lib/modules, but kerneld insisted of still trying to load them
Anyhow, from a usenet post the fix is:
alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off
In /etc/
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Mike Patterson wrote:
> The problem is that I'm trying to do a debian install in less than 100
> megs. Of course this means forgoing things like X, etc... But every time
> I go through dselect and choose packages to remove, it refuses to comply!
> Instead, it complains about f
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote:
> Is there a way for a user without root priveleges to cleanly unmount the
> root file system and shutdown the computer?
>
> I've been running 'init 0' as root before turning off the box, but I
> don't want to have to give out the root password to my
Hi,
What would be the recommended way to find out if someone is still actively
maintaing a package? I few packages that I have upgraded myself haven't
been released in the past several months to keep up with up-stream
versions (Jed, Slang, Squid). Is there anyway to tell if a developer is
still ac
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Steve Izma wrote:
> Installation of netbase and netstd seemed to go well
> using dselect, except for an unsurprising temporary problem in
> finding the right i/o port for the ethernet card. I'm using the
> D-link DE220P, which the ne driver easily finds. Ifconfig gives
>
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, QUALITY ASSURANCE wrote:
> Debians:
> 6. edit /etc/init.d/network and append the following line.
>ipfwadm -F -a accept -m -P all -S XXX.XXX.XXX.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/ Where
>
>XXX.XXX.XXX is your network ip address or the first three octets of
> your lan
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, John Foster wrote:
> I don't think that's the problem, less is my PAGER, and I know about zcat.
> Most of the text is quite readable. The little squares are often where I'd
> expect an apostrophe to be, and some of the funny codes are for
> example. It looks like a bit of hex.
Hi,
I just installed Debian on my 486 and thought I'd try to do it without
disks. I got as far as the point were it wanted to install the kernel, but
couldn't go any further. Is there any reason why there is no drivers.tgz
and perhaps kernel.tgz?
For those who are interested I have got it down to
On 1 Mar 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better
> than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient
> considering the number of users installing tetex.
>
> Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > Marcelo Ma
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if it would be possible to make a package that included a good
> > degree of the typical customizations? I have
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> > > If someone is going to evaluate an entire distribution on a prompt
> > > (even if there are other factors), I'm not going to be upset if they
> > > don't choose Debian.
> >
> > I'm
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Please note that this doesn't help those of us who already *have* to
> > use socks to get to the 'net.
>
> I guess you'd have to get at your SOCKS server in order to tell it to call
> our SOCKS server for
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have the following situation: my company has a HTTP proxy server to
> access Internet WWW sites. All browsers are required to use this proxy
> because we all are behind a firewall.
>
> I am overseas and connected to our corporate
On 24 Feb 1997, Dirk Bernhardt wrote:
> > Stefan Walder writes:
>
> > does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be?
>
> >From /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/CHANGES:
>
> Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a
>
> [..]
> - Check that no data can
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote:
> I am setting up a linux box for proxy masquing what is the what is the
> lowest motherboard I can get with decent performance.
> I will be using maybe an ethernet card and/or a local talk card and/or an
> internal modem.
I did just this last week, setup
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> I am currently using a debian system to masquerade all the traffic from
> my high school's win95 lan to the internet. This is ok for a temporary
> manner, but my school wants me to implement a way to track where all the
> students are going, can't
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Alex Monaghan wrote:
> > Colin Watt wrote:
> > > Does Debian (or any Linux) support a DE200 network card?
> > > I can't see it on the list.
> > Don't know about Debian, but assume it's similiar to Slackware.
> > I have a few DE-100's
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On 16 Feb 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> > I created a RESQ disk and a DRV disk, booted with the RESQ disk, told
> > it to mount the CD, executed a shell, made a symlink /tmp/base1_2.tgz
> > pointing to the base1_2.tgz file on the CD, then told the instal
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> I'm in favour of this because I think it's the only distribution that
> lets me install in the following way.
>
> Other well know distributions don't let me get a kernel up an running
> from scratch without needing another installation medium. This
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> I'm having a problem. Not a big one, just annoying.
>
> Right now its setup to connect at bootup. (-er- login of console user)
> When it starts up, it tells me the password is incorrect, and then I enter
> it in manually. (I've deleted and readde
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Colin Watt wrote:
> Thanks for the previous help.
>
> Does Debian (or any Linux) support a DE200 network card?
> I can't see it on the list.
I have got the DE-250's to work (be carefull, do NOT put them at IO port
0x280) I think the DE-220 would only have porblems with PnP,
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