Re: Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-14 Thread joseph evan porter
No, quite frankly, Maelstrom doesn't seem to be working for me, either. The only way I can get it to work is to d/l pristine source and compile it myself I used to play this game for hours and hours on my old Mac LC III. Anyway, I just discovered that it existed last night, and I'm

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread joseph evan porter
I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on another machine urgently). I found I couldn't get the same and put in an Adaptec 2940U. The Adaptec shows me all the devices on the chain correctly. I've told

Re: 3Com card

1998-11-24 Thread joseph evan porter
Do you have a multi-processor motherboard? I know my 3com card had a hardware conflict with the dual processor stuff. I'm now using kernel 2.1.120 with the 3Com driver downgraded to 0.99E. That config seems to work with the SMP switch. If you're not using SMP, I don't know what to tell you.

Re: downloading kernel image

1998-11-17 Thread joseph evan porter
This happens sometimes when Netscape doesn't recognize the extension of the file your trying to get. At the link (the one you clicked to get the machine-code-like text), right click and choose Save Link As... This can also be accomplished by holding shift when you choose the link. The default

Re: Matlab 5.2 and Hamm

1998-11-17 Thread joseph evan porter
I saw your e-mail on the list. I'm having problems with installing. I'm getting the error message Regex Error: Memory exhausted Abort (which isn't particularly informative) so if you get things working, I'd appreciate hearing what you did. I want to install matlab 5.2 on a Hamm

Re: socket destroy delayed

1998-11-11 Thread joseph evan porter
I keep on seeing the following error message appear over and over in /var/log/syslog: Nov 10 13:21:46 chinook kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=112 w=0) Does anyone have any idea what this might be about? I'm not sure, but I've been getting that same message only recently. Has anyone

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-10 Thread joseph evan porter
I recently installed Linux on drive D: of a two-disk NT box. At first, I used a custom boot disk when I wanted to run Linux. Over the past weekend, though, I figured out how to add Linux to the NT loader list and at first I had the same symptom as you: a blank

Re: StarOffice

1998-10-19 Thread joseph evan porter
A while ago, someone mentioned that it was possible to d/l a version of StarOffice. I've looked at the (rather feeble) www.stardivision.com and couldn't find any mention of it. Could someone please post the location of it? Thanks! Look at

Re: Debian and K6-2

1998-10-19 Thread joseph evan porter
I am planning to do an upgrade from a Pentium 233MHz to an K6-2 350MHz. I really like the idea of a faster processor combined with a faster bus. Maybe I'll manage to compile the kernel in less than 3 minutes :-)! But I would like to know if Linux behave well in such machines. I've heard

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread joseph evan porter
Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Can I use kdm without all that or is there something else I can use instead of xdm? Perhaps you should take a

Re: SupraMax 56i Voice PCI modem

1998-10-08 Thread joseph evan porter
Once again, I must be the bearer of bad tidings... The SupraMax PCI (and all of the Supra series PCI modems) will not work with Linux. Please search the mailing list archives for my more detailed explanations. Several people have had trouble with these modems (including myself). You'll either

Re: Debian Linux on HP/Apollo 400?

1998-10-05 Thread joseph evan porter
First of all, Peter, you should *remove* the 310kB jpeg image that were attached to the origianl mail. Secondly you should tell your mail program not to send HTML mails. Peter L. Berghold wrote: According to what I understand from the web page I'm to ask on this list before I

Re: Supra 56K PNP Modem Not Working

1998-10-01 Thread joseph evan porter
It seems that I am to be the doomsayer of Diamond modems. Folks, if you plan on using Linux, don't buy one! You weren't very specific about your modem. Some of the older Diamond Supra modems are actually accessible to Linux, but it's not easy to set them up. The newer PCI modems are

Re: NFS simple question

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
And used the comand mount -a in 10.0.1.222 and the error was: mount: RPC: Program not registered and the NFS-HOWTO says the this error was caused because neither nfsd or mountd was running on the server, but: We already had this kind of problem, but I believe the

Re: nfs mount: RPC: Program not registered

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
Look at the replies to NFS Simple Question posted above -- it looks like the same problem. Joe When I try to mount an nfs export, I get the message: mount: RPC: Program not registered for example, something like mount eyry.econ.iastate.edu:/mountabledirectory mountpoint -t nfs

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
Everytime I install a program, windowmaker menu is updated and I like it. My problem is that I would like to change some option on windowmaker menu and I don't find the menu file! :( It's not on GNUStep directory and theirs subdirectories nor in /etc/X11/WindowMaker directory ! Well,

Re: more modem

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
Just as a test, I'd try the following command: echo ATDT(some_phone_number) /dev/ttyS0 and see if you hear the modem pick up and dial. If you've got a second phone line (or cell phone, etc), you can dial it and answer it and hear yourself talking to yourself (if you've got a

libpng2 troubles

1998-09-16 Thread joseph evan porter
I installed the latest WindowMaker at home, and upgraded the libraries as discussed in previous posts to this list. I have 0.19.2 working fine at work, and it seems that my two setups are identical (except for hardware and kernel, of course). When I type startx with wmaker as the default window

Re: supramax

1998-09-14 Thread joseph evan porter
have you gotten your supramax to work in linux? please let me know.. i cant get mine to work either... is this modem a winmodem? From what I understand (you can look back a week or so to see my question in the mailing list archives), the SupraMax is a software modem. It has a Rockwell

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-14 Thread joseph evan porter
i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700) I have a 15 Gateway Vivitron (Sony manufactured) that works fine. Gateway was very helpful when I called about technical specs, but they didn't have many. I had to play

Diamond SupraMax Modem

1998-09-08 Thread joseph evan porter
This is what I get for buying before checking to see whether my new hardware is supported: Has anyone tried to configure a Diamond SupraMax PCI 56K modem on Debian? If I look at /proc/pci, I get: Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown Device (rev. 1)

Broken X

1998-09-03 Thread joseph evan porter
I just upgraded xbase to 3.3.2.3a1 from the slink distribution (using apt-get BTW -- it's very nice). I'm still using the hamm distribution, and now I have no window manager. I can start it from the command line of the default xterm that shows up, but I think a link is broken somewhere. Anyone

Ethernet Lock Up

1998-09-02 Thread joseph evan porter
I have a 3Com 3c905 ethernet card on a dual processor Dell Workstation. I'm using kernel 2.0.35, and occasionally I get a screen full of: eth0:error re-entering the interrupt handler (or something very similar). I haven't been able to recover from this without rebooting the whole system. I've

failure notice (fwd)Documenatation

1998-07-23 Thread joseph evan porter
I'm trying to figure out how to set up the on-line documentation. I have Apache set up on my installation, but when dhelp starts the Web browser, I only get some general info., and some cryptic information about doc-base and install-docs. It seems that there is a relatively easy way to