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From: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: 2.0.32 kernel: strange error
Hi,
I just compiled and succesfully booted the new 2.0.32 kernel. But I am
getting a strange error message which I also got with 2.0.31 and not with
any lower 2.0.x kernel.
I
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, David S. Zelinsky wrote:
I want to back up my choices in deselect on a floppy, so I can later do a
clean install of the whole system, and install all the same packages without
having to go through the selection process
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
Hello,
I have root partition on /dev/hda5
/usr and /home directories on /dev/hdb1
I have another Harddisk I would like to put it
such that it increases the space for my /usr and /home
I compiled my kernel to include linear and Raid
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
Andrew Akins wrote:
Could someone please point me (or tell me) to the HOWTO or FAQ that
explains how to tell xdm to use 16 bpp instead of 8?
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Add -bpp 16 to the end of the only line in there
that's not a comment.
Or edit
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, E Papantoniou wrote:
I have read that to correct the problem I must reduce the colors used by
netscape...does anybody know in which file are these defined?
Put this into ~/.Xresources:
! For Netscape 3.04:
!
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
Hi Y'all,
I think this question has been asked before and I'd like to bring
it up again since it been a while.
Is there a set day for the Debian 2.0 (or the next release after 1.3.1)?
No. Debian doesn't set release dates in advance. If a
On 19 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
RedHat Linux User [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a news machine that I am trying to put a KNE100 kingston network
card into. however when i try the card is recodnized and ifconfig works
but all the traffic goes to the lo device. How do I fix this ?
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Daniel Martin wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gerald Livingston wrote:
If I can find a sucker -- errr -- nice person to host for me, would
it be possible for me to set up a MX on someone's system such as
force-1.xxx.com and have mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I
feel
I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has
moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right
entries into
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Bill Leach wrote:
I do know that dpkg does not pay any attention to the hold status in
the admin file when executed directly (which makes sense to me).
That is because you will have to supply the -O option to dpkg if you want
it to pay attention to that flag (which can be
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Gaudine wrote:
I installed the Debian 1.3.1 base system from diskettes, on a system that
has only 32 megs disk space (not counting the swap partition).
I copied /usr and /var/lib/dpkg to a larger system (this one) and did
NFS mounts;
Filesystem
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
That solution will certainly not work like you say it. First libc6 would
have to be installed. Before that, libc5 would have to be upgraded to
'unstable'. And before that, lsdo would have to be upgraded to 'unstable'.
Also, locales would have to
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ranty wrote:
I have an slow link (33.600bps modem) so I can not go around downloading
too many things, but I have the chance of getting all of it via ethernet, the
problem is:
-I have to get it in about 300MB pieces. I mean, I have plenty of room
in my
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Stern wrote:
Hi,
My isp provides a Unix shell account, and because I pick my e-mail up
from different platforms (Mac, PC, NeXT, Unix terms) and locations, it's
been most practical for me to simpy telnet into my isp and run my
(curses-based) e-mail program
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Matthew Majka wrote:
Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a
system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for
some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6
dependent.
Read the Libc5 to Libc6 mini-HOWTO that is posted to this
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote:
Didn't save me. I followd the instructions on an old test system here and
STILL managed to blow it up. I was tired and cranky ... got to the part where
I
manuall did a dpkg on libc6 ... but it conflicts with libc5 ... (dpkg -i
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that
the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM)
and a 15 NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems
and I have seen that the
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
On 14-Nov-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi--
I need to know the path for the tcl.h file and I have been unable to
locate it myself. Any direction is greatly appreciated.
Try this:
find / -type f -name tcl.h -print
Much faster:
locate
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
Well, you've read it wrong then :-)
From the adduser manpage:
Add an existing user to an existing group
If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add
an existing user to an existing group.
Well, I didn't know that.
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk
that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg
--force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response:
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Yes, it works, although sometimes getting access to a WINS server
(eg nmbd) which knows about the server can be a hassle, I suspect.
I have accessed samba through terminal servers fine. The login
message at ftp.kernel.org even advertises an SMB
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, BG Lim wrote:
Hello,
I've been using Netscape Navigator 4.03 for some time. I use it to
browse sites like ZDnet. My problem is that the fonts are not legible
and quite small. I don't knwo how to change them. How do I reassign
fonts in Navigator? OR is it a system wide X
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Luka Pravica wrote:
I have couple of questions:
1. I tried to install xirc, but dselect complained that it requires qt1,
which is not available. What is qt1 and where can I find it?
2. Anyone knows where I can find a program called pftp?
Both of these are still in
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Collin Rose wrote:
Is there a .deb package for X Window System? If not where should I get it
from?
ftp://ftp.debian.org/deboan/bo/binary/x11
Oops, you made a typo. But you could have simply said that the X Window
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
Joeey Hess wrote,
My approach has been to add something like this to /etc/inittab:
X:2:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect foo
Then you don't need to log into the local computer, X is started
automatically on boot querying the server. And
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Sam Ockman wrote:
I need to take the diff of two directories recursively, but am not just
interested in what files are different...I'm also interested in if the dates
of the files are different, the uids, the gids, and the permissions. Anyone
know of a program to tell me
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
You'll want to add the users that must be able to read the raw cdrom
device (as opposed to a mounted filesystem on the cdrom) to the cdrom
group. The same with group audio.
This is done with the adduser command.
adduser username groupname
will
On 3 Nov 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote:
Hi!
I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The
binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into
another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local machine. The
login prompt comes, but it never asks
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
What about making empty package named ssh and put it into archive which
will just say when installed that there is also non-US part of archive
and where one can find it.
Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask
you if
On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
We'd like to set up some boxes that come up as xterminals, to be used on
the remote connections. I've found the -querey type options for startx,
but not for xdm. We really just want to turn old hardware into remote
heads on alphas. Can anyone make
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Larry Gariepy wrote:
Hello.
I am mailing a message that I posted earlier on the newsgroup because a
friend of mine informed me that many people subscribe to the list but do
not check the newsgroup that often.
-
I am a new Debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
what is the best mp3 (layer 3) player (in terms of least CPU usuage)?
I have a P75 system. The mp3 players I have used are:
l3dec in combination with wavplay or (self-compiled) bplay with a 2MB
buffer
- used about 70% CPU and without the 2MB buffer I had
Hi,
A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals',
which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen
terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space and Enter, I'm not sure)
were used and the output was all ASCII. This program was part of the
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
: A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals',
: which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen
: terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space
On 27 Oct 1997, Peter Weiss wrote:
Hello Debianers,
Usually I have set up runlevel 2 for logging in using xdm. This works
fine, I can address my Display by Host:0.0.
If I start the X server on runlevel 3, which has no S99xdm at the end,
only local connections with Display
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
I just put an older copy of rpc.portmap back onto this system and everything
seems to be fine
now. dpkg -S /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap returns netbase, so I think I found some
of the problem.
The new netbase doesn't have rpc.portmap, only portmap,
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote:
Where can I download a free copy of Netscape Communicator or just
netscape
for LINUX ? I can't seem to find it at netscape.
Look at
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.03/shipping/english/unix/linux20/
Here are three directories:
base_install/
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver.
A question related to this: is it posible to force a driver to unload,
even if it says 'device busy'?
I have a QIC-80-WIDE tape drive, which doesn't seem to understand the
'eof'
On 21 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
what you all think about creating a new libc6 Samba package without
PAM support? I am asking because the current Debian package is libc5
based and is quite old. However, I can not release an updated libc6
Samba package because it depends on libpam0,
Sorry about the last message. I sent it to the wrong list.
Remco
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Hi,
I need the file libX11.a because I want to compile a program that needs to
be linked with it. However, I can't find it. Can anybody tell me where it
is? I do not know much about C let alone compiling X programs.
I have installed xlib6g_3.3.1-1, but I doesn't contain this file.
Remco
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing
2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it?
Yes. In fact, I had so much troubles with it I am now back to 2.0.30. I
had two problems that caused hardware not to be detected
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
I just did a dselect of stable on my local mirror and it grabbed
xlib6_3.3-4.deb. Is this a
libc6 package, or is the version number confusing? I'm still running an
entirely bo system
right now.
No, this is a libc5 package. The '6' stands for
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
Can you explain why it doesn't work?
cause I'm an incompetent, lazy and useless maintainer, that's why.
Or, put it differently, because the /tftpboot/$IP/lib directories
are filled with libc5 versions of the libraries only, not the libc6
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs
on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to
create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem
is once its booted
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
Note, that for hamm, the not-perfectness is somewhat extreme: it
doesn't work at all, however hard you try.
Can you explain why it doesn't work? I think I haven't used my diskless
computer since I upgraded the nfsroot package to the current hamm
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Mike Lucius wrote:
Just loaded Linux for the 1st time. I would like to know how to create
an msdos file system. I think I need other files installed on my system
but have not been able to figure out what or how.
You can't _create_ an MSDOS
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 03:15:07PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
is the xlib6g problem known to break netscape? Ever since I upgraded it
yesterday, netscape's been crashing with a bus error.
I get lots of
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote:
I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I
discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns
without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe
that this is because the .gz
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Any ideas on how best to do this? I have installed a version of Socks5
and have symlink /usr/bin/ftp to point to /usr/bin/rftp. This works fine.
However dpkg-ftp doesn't work and dftp doesn't take into account what I
have set in dselect :-(
If you
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote:
Thanks !
It really works, however there is another small problem. I'm maintaining
two debian systems, and /etc/login.defs exists only in one of them (the
one with installed shadow passwords).
Is the existence of /etc/login.defs associated
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, B. Bell wrote:
hi, i know someone named a couple of sites that still had rex and maybe
even buzz archived, but i lost the message. (and the mailing list search
is busted) so, can anybody tell me where i can find debian 1.1 or 1.2?
You can find rex on
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote:
There is a temporary solution that does not involve downgrading:
I clipped this from the Sept. debian-devel archive:
Yes, but that only solves the problem with netscape. Another problem is
that files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults can't be found. I have seen
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Darin Johnson wrote:
Regarding my problem with login/passwd/su failing, I've tracked
it a bit further. It seems that getpass() is failing, and more, that
it's actually /dev/tty that's completely screwed up.
Symptoms:
$ echo howdy /dev/tty
$ cat /dev/tty
howdy
Hi,
I was wondering: when will there be packages for issues 20, 21 and 22 of
the Linux Gazette? The latest package I can find on debian is issue 19,
which came out in July.
Remco
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On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, R Chris Ross wrote:
I wondered if anyone knows weather cron responds correctly to a
SIGHUP or not? I did the following and managed to kill it all
together.
kill -HUP `ps -aux|grep [c]ron|awk '{print $2}'`
Is there a different signal to send it or is it a
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
Hello all!
Last time I discovered, that when I added user option in /etc/fstab for
floppies and zips, it is possible for everybody having account on my box
to read, write and delete files on my removable disk (floppy or zip).
When one
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Anthony Kulish wrote:
I was just wondering if there was a way to install ALL packages from the
binary-i386 in the dselect tool? I really dont know if its me but I seem
to get lost in the dselect tool and I am unable to figure how to select
all packages. Thanks for your
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote:
Hi,
Could someone please help me interpret the following messages:
during boot:
/dev/hda3 (my Linux part.) has reached maximal mount count ... forced
check
This is a harmless message. If you mount and unmount an ext2 partition a
certain number of
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
how do I kill an idle telnet user?
Manually? Kill his/her shell process. Automatically? Use idled. This
program removes users that have been idle too long.
how do I watch a telnet user?
Use ttysnoop.
Ttysnoop is in the admin section, idled is in
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
Has anyone gotten an error like this one when loading Netscape 4.03? How
can I fix this?
netscape: locale `C' not supported.
snip
Yes, this is caused by version 3.3-6 of the xlib6 package. Downgrade it to
3.3-5 and you'll be fine. If you can't find
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
how can I do this?
You can do this in the Xstartup script, which is run as root after the
user has logged in and before the Xsession script is run. These scripts
are in /etc/X11/xdm on a Debian system. You can simply put a line killall
xconsole in
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Heiko Heijenga wrote:
Howdy,
I have two debian systems linked with an ethernet cable. On the most powerfull
machine I have X installed. On the other I've only a textconsole.
How do I use the second (slower) machine as an X-Terminal. I really haven't go
a clue, do I have
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now.
I can actually do usefull work ;-}
I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...)
*) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
I noticed
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
Hi,
I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 .
However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a
number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can
somebody briefly
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
The problems are easy to summarize:
- xlib6 version 3.3-6 has a bug in it that causes a lot of programs not to
find files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ . xlib6 version 3.3-5 doesn't have
this bug.
- the rest of the packages don't seem to
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Chew Keat Yeow wrote:
After installing xlib6 3.3-6, Netscape 3.01 will not start.
How do I resolve this?
There is a bug in xlib6 3.3-6 that wasn't in 3.3-5. Reinstall 3.3-5 and
the problem should go away. If you can't find it, try my own ftp server at
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
how can i do to avoid that an user can make telnet to may host? (but I
must can do ftp,irc,http,etc)...I only want prohibit telnet.
Change shell for the users you want to forbid telnetting to /bin/true
and add the line /bin/true into
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote:
/usr/doc/util-linux/README.fdisk.gz says:
You can have up to 64 partitions on a single IDE disk, or up to 16
partitions on a single SCSI disk, at least as far as Linux is
concerned; in practice you will rarely want so many.
Maybe that's why
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
Actually ... it is a scsi... parallel port is a kind of scsi and under
linux is seen as a true scsi device (and is faster than in dos)
Are you talking about the same thing as everybody else? (Hint: look
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
Fatal server error:
No Display subsection for -bpp depth 8
That should be --bpp 8, as in startx --bpp 8
Well, if the X server complains about a missing -bpp 8 subsection,
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Is dosemu vfat32 compatible?
I assume it is, if you run a vfat32-compatible DOS in it. That would be
MS-DOS 7.1, taken from Windows 95 OSR2 or any higher version.
Remco
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On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
Hello All,
I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and
nedit:
Warning: ... found while parsing '%s'
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown
Warning: translation table syntax error:
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Thank for your info. and yes the server compiled with a default font
paths.
By the way, I can still run startx with the following FontPath, and
don't know you said your won't work?
FontPath tcp/localhost:7100
FontPath
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
sorry, my previous post have some typo errors, here is the correct one.
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I CAN still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am using xsvga, does it has a
On 26 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
Sorry, guys, the saga goes on.
Now that X is up and running again, there is only one (pretty annoying)
problem:
When placing, moving or resizing windows I don't see the typical
window outlines. All I see is the changed mouse cursor.
I am using the
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
On 25 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Bob Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Looks like you're missing the FontPath line(s) in the
Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. Try man XF86Config.
You are right, I commented out the
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote:
You didn't say (and I can't figure out from your error messages) whether
or not you are using AcceleratedX. If so, you need to go into all of
your font directories and gunzip the fonts, then ncompress them if you
have it, then do the
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the 'catalogue'
line in /etc/X11/xfs/config. You have
On 25 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Xfs is the X Font Server. You won't have much problems if you don't use
it, but it seems to be better than letting the X server manage the fonts
in some cases. For example, you don't have to gunzip all fonts if you are
using an X server that doesn't
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
If I put 'FontPath tcp/localhost:7100' the very first line and follow
by others font paths, do you think the X server will try to use the xfs,
if fails it uses the others.
Hmm, interesting thought. I'll try it.
-- wait some time --
No, it doesn't work.
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Peter Loje Hansen wrote:
[snip]
On the router I would like to have the interfaces numbered from eth0 to eth3
in the same way they are placed in the slots. So I reordered the append line
accordingly, but then Linux found no cards at all! I was too lazy to split the
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Darin Johnson wrote:
What's the passive mode option for dselect (ftp) anyway?
I've never been able to find an explanation of it.
When you are using normal ftp, the server initiates the connection for
the data (data is sent through a different connection from the commands).
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
Hello.
I was reading about running software on clusters of machines. There's
(at least) two different ways: PVM and MPI.
Neither of them seems to be available as a debian package, but I have
found a rpm package of MPI.
Now my questions. Is
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Dima wrote:
Bruce Perens wrote:
Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect:
Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable
Distributions to get: main contrib non-free
( this should probably go to developers list )
Bruce, it doesn't work. It'll
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Sorry for the waste of BW... but I need some advice.
I need to install winblows95 (cringe) again..
I would like to install it on my second HD... hdc1
While keeping Debian on my main HD...hda2 swap is hda1
and to use lilo to switch between
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Jimmy Lu wrote:
I use BOOT disk to boot up my system. Now I want to
duplicate the BOOT disk as a backup but I am having
problem. I tried to mount BOOT disk in fd0 but it won't
mount. I use: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
or
mount -t
On 4 Sep 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Jerijian) writes:
I tried to install the XConfigurator and newt RPM packages from Red Hat
onto Debian, using the alien program. I was able to start XConfigurator,
but it was apparently looking for some Red Hat administrative
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Stephen Zander wrote:
I think that MS will have to do this within a few years anyway. no
commercial OS will be able to compete with the free operating systems
like linux or freebsd. Linux isn't playing catch-up anymore, and hasn't
done for at least a year...it's now
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote:
lc29b50 wrote:
After I execute the su command to switch to root, when I run Xemacs, it
gives me an error message(something related to xlib6) and won't run. Is
this normal?
Try opening another window and typing xhost +.
When you su,
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote:
I know about
setterm blank n
which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen
rather than using the more advanced power saving features.
Some monitors are smart enough to switch off
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael,
I give up. What's the difference between
tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tk42_4.2p2-6.deb
Well the package names usually go by:
Name_Version-DebianPackageVersion
So they are _probably_ the same thing. It is just that they included
the
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Having recovered from a corrupt filesystem due to power failure - thanks
to those who assisted - I still have a lot of files in lost+found.
Some of them obviously belong to packages like tetex, but I can't identify
others. I would like to run
On 31 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Remco writes:
/usr/local/bin/skipdouble is a shell script that filters out double lines
from stdin and echoes the rest on stdout.
So does the ancient Unix utility uniq, one of a plethora of text processing
utilities that have been around since at
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Udjat the BitMeister... wrote:
I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload
and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost. I
cant find this package anyplace (or something close)
Say, you have hosts remote1, remote2, ...,
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
I just ran into this problem myself. The problem for me was upgrading
the package compface from 89.11.11-9 to 89.11.11-10. Downgrading back to
the original solved the problem. The problem might be that the new
compface is compiled for libc6.
In some newsgroups about Linux and in the Debian mailing lists I have read
some positive remarks about the GNUS mail and news reader, but I can't
find it in the Debian distribution. I would like to try it, so:
- is it in a Debian package?
- if not, from where can I get it?
- what else do I need
Today I tried to install xemacs, but I haven't been successful in running
it. First, I tried to install the packages xemacs19_19.15-3.1.deb and
xemacs19-support_19.15-3.1.deb from hamm, since I have been following the
hamm tree for a while now. But instead of a nice program, I got this:
$ xemacs
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
You may need the line:
Option power_saver
in Section Device in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
In fact, you can configure the whole thing in /etc/XF86Config.
Some lines from mine are:
Section Screen
Driver accel
Device
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