Debian on a dual PPro PC

Hello, I am trying to decide on a motherboard for a dual PPro PC to run Debian Linux. Could anybody running (or thinking about running) such system share their experiance with me and possibly advice me on the motherboard to go for please ? -- Marek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Printing: apsfilter

Hello, During last system installation, I chose bj10e to be the default printer and to use apsfilter - it works fine. Now, I would like to add second printer now - cdj550. I created a new entriy in the /etc/printcap with cdj550-a4-auto-color, spool dir but this does tried lpc up new_printer,

g++ undefined reference to '__getfpucw'

Hello, I am still Debian1.1 - compiling a C++ program, which used to compile cleanly only a few weeks ago, gives me the following error message: /lib/libm.so.5: undefined reference to '__getfpucw' Do I need to upgrade any libraries ? Can anybody help me sort this out please ? --

tar multivolume archive - problem solved

Hi, Thanks to all who responded to my problem of not being able to use the tar command with the 'M' option for multivolume archive. The machine was capable of creating such archives and then reading its contents, but every attempt of extracting it with the command: tar xvMf /dev/fd0

tar misbahaving

Hello, A few days ago I noticed that my Debian 1.1 can not extract multivolume tar archives from floppies - each attempt ends up in segmentation fault. I have upgraded fdutils to the 4.3-5 version saying Y to new-style floppy devices. I also upgraded tar to the version 1.11.8-5. It still does

tar strange behaviour

Hello, I do not seem to be able to use tar for multivolume archives on my Debian1.1 I make a tar file of a file like: tar cvMf /dev/fd0 myfile and this works all right, prompting me for next volumes and the archive is created OK. I can look up its contents with tar tvMf

New HP DeskJet 870Cxi

Hello, Is anybody using the new HP DeskJet 870Cxi printer ? I would like to know if I will be able to print colour PostScript using apsfilter. Thank you very much for any information. -- Marek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

ppp: ip-up, ip-down

anywhere preventing you from doing so after X have been configured during installation? Thanks a lot. -- Marek Marek Duszynski Tel : 0171 589 5111 extn. 57040 PG Mech-Eng.Fax : 0171 823 8845 Imperial College email : [EMAIL

latex

.deb xypic_3.2-4.deb Nothing's changed. I'll appreciate any suggestions? -- Marek --- Marek Duszynski[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LyX

through the online TeXBook), but I've never used LaTeX before. Steve. I had the same problem a few days ago. If you are using latex version latex-2e-4 (you can check issuing the command: dpgk -l latex\*) get latex-2e-7 and mflib-1.0-8 from rex/binary-all/tex . -- Marek Marek Duszynski