Re: Matrox Millenium II vs. #9 Revolution 3D

1997-12-27 Thread Mark Montague
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Yukhimets wrote: I am about to get a new P II system and had to decide on many alterantives available. My current concern is what video card would suit me the best. I have no doubt that I would go with AGP one (even not for the sake of

Re: debian 1.3.1 apache

1997-12-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 10:47:57AM +, Berni Ernst wrote: I have an debian box with version 1.3.1 where I want to run apache as a http server. Works! But I am unable to run any cgi scripts or SSI in my html documents. I commented out the described parts in srm.conf. What else can I do or

Not really a Debian question, Netscape bookmarks?

1997-12-27 Thread Stan Brown
I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 for my Debian box. It looks interesting, but i have a pretty baci question. I have a *lot* of bookmarks. In Version 3 there was a window which gave you a scrolled list of the entries in your bookmark file. Where does this

Re: Real Audio

1997-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Ciciretti wrote: I got the Real audio player working. I just ran the install scripts that came with it and added it to my path. I had some problems with the real video player. Last month, or the month before there was some discussion on the list about Real Audio. Someone released a

Man Pages -- Section 2?

1997-12-27 Thread Paul Serice
Where did the Section 2 man pages go? They had been located in the manpages package. Thanks Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: UPS

1997-12-27 Thread Jameson Burt
I concur that Best Power's products; eg, the Fortress that I also use, have a well deserved reputation. While the inexpensive Fortress models may not still have all the push buttons they did a year ago; when the lights got bright here, the firemen came to put out an electrical fire next door,

Re: Man Pages -- Section 2?

1997-12-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Where did the Section 2 man pages go? They had been located in the manpages package. They were moved to manpages-dev so that people who don't need the syscall info don't have to install it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Setting up a PPP Server

1997-12-27 Thread Tim Sailer
G. H. wrote: I've been searching 2+ days in information on setting up Debian as a Dial-In PPP Server and have found NOTHING! Sure there's plenty of info on hooking up Debian to an ISP. But I want Debian to BE an ISP. All I need is support for 2 incoming lines to connect us to our

Installation problem

1997-12-27 Thread Guglielmo Rabbiolo
Hi, I just got a Micron Transport XKE and I'm trying to install debian. The problem I have is that after booting of the kernel from the rescue1440 diskette and entering the menu for the istallation the system hangs. The keyboard does not work any more and I have to turn off/on the computer to

Re: getting started in Xwin (Help)

1997-12-27 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997 23:35:55 GMT, Rick wrote: Hi I am a compleate newbie to this whole linux thang(but am making some progress - but not much), i have just recived the 'official' cd, and am wondering about how to get this xwin thing to work. i have read loads of docs (etc) but am having very

Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
wow! I can finally get online with my linux box!:). Thanx 2 everyone who gave me advice. I'm looking for a mail (perferably X based) program to receive/send email from my ISP's POP3 server. Can anyone recomend a good one for me? Oh yeah Can anyone point me to

Oh yeah!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I'm also looking for drivers for an APC UPS, and my Ensoniq Soundscape sound board. Thanx Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread David Stern
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997 00:42:24, Timothy Hospedales wrote: wow! I can finally get online with my linux box!:). Thanx 2 everyone who gave me advice. I'm looking for a mail (perferably X based) program to receive/send email from my ISP's POP3 server. Can anyone recomend a good one for me? I tried

sound

1997-12-27 Thread Thomas E. Vaughan
I have a SB 16 PnP, and I am using Debian 1.3.1 stable. I have installed the isapnp package. Do I need to do anything special to generate a voxware kernel module appropriate for my system? I just looked at the output of pnpdump, and I think that I can figure out how to set the card to a

Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM

1997-12-27 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 08:55:20AM -0500, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: Well, I am at work today and I do not see any mention of a backpack driver. Any Ideas? Brian No, sorry. Adam Klein __ Reply Separator _

Re: debian 1.3.1 apache

1997-12-27 Thread Rob
At 11:27 27/12/97 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 10:47:57AM +, Berni Ernst wrote: I have an debian box with version 1.3.1 where I want to run apache as a http server. Works! But I am unable to run any cgi scripts or SSI in my html documents. I commented out the

Re: debian 1.3.1 apache

1997-12-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 09:23:19AM +, Rob wrote: This may be a bit obvious, but I found, when I was trying to get SSI to work, that just editing the conf files was not good enough: I had to run 'apacheconfig' afterwards. Once you have done that, view /etc/apache/httpd.conf and check that

Re: Oh yeah!

1997-12-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 09:43:12PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: For sound drivers, use the OSS commercial sound drivers. For $20, you can't beat it with a stick. But for most cards, you can beat it in value for money with the free sound drivers in the kernel, in my experience at least. Hamish

Re: Oh yeah!

1997-12-27 Thread George Bonser
I suppose that all depends. There are some cards that the kernel drivers do not support that the commercial version does and it really boils down to how much you value your time. If the OSS drivers save you an hour or two, it is probably money well spent. For the $20 you get upgrades as future

Re: Oh yeah!

1997-12-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 02:01:09AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: I suppose that all depends. There are some cards that the kernel drivers do not support that the commercial version does and it really boils down to how much you value your time. If the OSS drivers save you an hour or two, it is

Re: Apache 1.2.4 Binary Version

1997-12-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: : I just downloaded the binary version of Apache 1.2.4 for my Debian 1.3.1 : machine. At the Apache site, it says if you have a binary version, : there will be a file called httpd in the src directory. I have no httpd : file in my src directory. Does

any monetary support for Xfree

1997-12-27 Thread Shaleh
Does SPI, Debian specifically, or any of its CD vendors support Xfree86 in anyway?? Seems that since w/out a windows environment Linux could not be as popular. It seems that it would help to give them aid as well. On a similar line, please consider supporting Xfree yourself, the user.

Re: sound

1997-12-27 Thread hawk
I have a SB 16 PnP, and I am using Debian 1.3.1 stable. I have installed the isapnp package. Do I need to do anything special to generate a voxware kernel module appropriate for my system? I just looked at the output of pnpdump, and I think that I can figure out how to set the card to a

Rocks'n'Daimonds

1997-12-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
This game just made it resently into Debian, and I tried it... but so far I haven't gotten past the level, has anyone else? There is one daimond at lower left corner, trapped behind three rocks, and obviously your supposed to snap it quickly before the top rocks falls on you. However, I'd

bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. Regards,

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread hawk
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. You can find them

Re: Rocks'n'Daimonds

1997-12-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 05:55:14PM +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote: This game just made it resently into Debian, and I tried it... but so far I haven't gotten past the level, has anyone else? There is one daimond at lower left corner, trapped behind three rocks, and obviously your supposed

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 01:14:56PM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance

Re: Rocks'n'Daimonds

1997-12-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 08:14:41PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 05:55:14PM +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote: This game just made it resently into Debian, and I tried it... but so far I haven't gotten past the level, has anyone else? There is one daimond at

can´t use FIPS on windows 95

1997-12-27 Thread Jesús Antonio Santgos Giraldo
Hiya all! I´m new to the list, and of course I have some questions. 1) There is no UMSDOS for debian isn´t it? 2) I bought my computer and it comes preinstalled with windows 95, so all of the hard disk is in one single partion. Reading the files that come with the debian distribution I

Hard Disk Error Msg: Drive door open

1997-12-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
I am having a problem installing debian linux. when the installation program tries to write to the hard drive it produces nothing but error messages. It goes by too fast but I think it says that the drive door on my hard drive is open. I don't understand this because I know that my hard drive

Installing Debian and setting up PCMCIA E-net

1997-12-27 Thread Asher Haig
Hey everyone, I'm trying to install Debian after having Redhat installed on my system. I've gone through the install, but I'm confused as to how I can make my ethernet card work. The card is a PCMCIA 3-com 3c589a. It doesn't seem as if there's any driver for it in the installer, and as far as

Re: Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
netscape comes with mail client, give it a try, pretty easy to set up. good luck kusuma Timothy Hospedales wrote: wow! I can finally get online with my linux box!:). Thanx 2 everyone who gave me advice. I'm looking for a mail (perferably X based) program to receive/send

Re: can?t use FIPS on windows 95

1997-12-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
See http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html This should answer all your questions and includes a link to a new version of fips which has limited support for FAT32 (w/o LBA). On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Jes?s Antonio Santgos Giraldo wrote: Hiya all! I´m new to the list, and

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Randy Edwards
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential libc5 package first or force the installation of libc6 in addition to

Re: bo to hamm upgrade

1997-12-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential libc5 package first

Re: Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[no subject]

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions for linux beyond 1.0.2, or because

Re: your mail

1997-12-27 Thread Matthew Franz
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any

Re: Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for linux? There's a version of communicator for linux someplace, but I'm still using 3.01 ...

Re: JDK for Linux

1997-12-27 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions for linux beyond 1.0.2, or

Re: can´t use FIPS on windows 95

1997-12-27 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:38:25AM -0800, Jesús Antonio Santgos Giraldo wrote: 1) There is no UMSDOS for debian isn´t it? That's correct. If you want to run Debian from an umsdos filesystem you have to install a basic system on an ext2 and then create the umsdos filesystem using their specific

Re: can^ôt use FIPS on windows 95

1997-12-27 Thread Alex Yukhimets
2) I bought my computer and it comes preinstalled with windows 95, so all of the hard disk is in one single partion. Reading the files that come with the debian distribution I read that I could use fips, but unfortunatly when I run it it stops with an error: that the