Problem compiling Gzilla

1998-02-24 Thread James Dietrich
Has anyone successfully compiled Gzilla recently? I just downloaded version 0.1.5 from http://www.levien.com/gzilla/ and tried to compile it following the directions in the INSTALL file. However, the compilation failed with: gcc -DPACKAGE=\gzilla\ -DVERSION=\0.1.5\ -DSTDC_HEADERS=1

Re: Strangeness at boot

1998-02-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dominic Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I have started getting messages like this at boot and shutdown: trap: illegal number SIGHUP trap: illegal number SIGINT Aha, your /bin/sh is probably not bash, but ash. Older versions of ash do not reckognize the

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 20:23 +0100 1998-02-23, Peter Paluch wrote: I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed, but it doesn't seem to be able to use BGP. gated,

mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-24 Thread Paul Miller
I have a SupraFAXModem 288i v.34 (33.6kbs) and I'm wondering how to configure mgetty to distinguish voice/fax/date calls and use caller id. From looking at the mgetty logs, mgetty sends AT+FAA=1 to my modem after the init_chat initialization strings.. +FAA=1 is 'Adaptive Answering' for class 2

mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-24 Thread Paul Miller
I have a SupraFAXModem 288i v.34 (33.6kbs) and I'm wondering how to configure mgetty to distinguish voice/fax/date calls and use caller id. From looking at the mgetty logs, mgetty sends AT+FAA=1 to my modem after the init_chat initialization strings.. +FAA=1 is 'Adaptive Answering' for class

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:36:16PM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote: At 20:23 +0100 1998-02-23, Peter Paluch wrote: I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed, but it doesn't seem to be able to use BGP. gated,

How to run multiple X display servers?

1998-02-24 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I'm working thru some of the exercises in the book A Practical Guide to Linux. In the GUI chapter the author mentions that you can start multiple X servers in different blank virtual consoles. I thought this would be neat and thought I'd try it. When I do startx -- :1.0 the server

Debian Installation

1998-02-24 Thread Your Name
I have the debian 1.3.1 cd and am trying to make a boot(Rescue)disk of the file resc1440.bin with no avail. I keep getting a message stating that the file is too large for a 1.44 floppy. I've tried new disks, reformatted disks, different computers, and even tried downloading the file from the

compiling and installing non deb stuff

1998-02-24 Thread tmalloy
1. Is is normally best to try something out in my home directory before installing it as root? Will this always be possible? 2. Should source file normally be (tar -zxvf *.tar.gz) in /, or /usr, or /usr/local, or somewhere else? Do most programmers expect that you are installing from a

Re: Debian Installation

1998-02-24 Thread aqy6633
I have the debian 1.3.1 cd and am trying to make a boot(Rescue)disk of the file resc1440.bin with no avail. I keep getting a message stating that the file is too large for a 1.44 floppy. I've tried new disks, reformatted disks, different computers, and even tried downloading the file from the

Re: How to run multiple X display servers?

1998-02-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Richardson,Anthony wrote: I'm working thru some of the exercises in the book A Practical Guide to Linux. In the GUI chapter the author mentions that you can start multiple X servers in different blank virtual consoles. I thought this would be neat and

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-24 Thread Britton
This question or ones very like it seem to come up fairly often. Of cource the critical (and hard) part is driving two video cards. It is possible. There was an article in LJ a bit ago describing the Metro-X X server, which can control multiple video cards (though they may have to be a

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-24 Thread Britton
On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: Jameson Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users. This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously using Linux. It might be worthwhile finding a cheap 386 or 486 with a

Re: compiling and installing non deb stuff

1998-02-24 Thread Shaleh
It is recommended that any local software -- not a debian package -- be installed in /usr/local. dpkg/dselect ignores this directory(for the most part). There is a file system standard the all linux dists are supposed to follow. It is currently called the FSSTND, soon to be the FHS. It should

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML

Binary Directorys

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
Is there any significant difference between /bin|/sbin and /usr/bin|/usr/sbin ??? I am just interested as to why there are two bin and sbin directorys. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---

problems while updating packages with dpkg

1998-02-24 Thread José
Hello, Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud of myself ;-)). Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian 1.3.1. release. Eagerly :-) I began updating packages, installing this,

Re: How to run multiple X display servers?

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
Looking at the startx script, I'd say you should use :1 (without quotes) instead of :1.0. They both mean the same to the X server but the former isn't recognised as a local display by the startx script. If it doesn't work, your startx script is probably one of those that don't really support

Re: smail problems with smarthost

1998-02-24 Thread john
Bill Leach writes: I think that you still have a problem in that your Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] will route (at least some) replies and bounced mail messages to someone else. I have 'visible_name=win.bright.net', which gets my mail past brightnet's ever vigilant anti-relay software. Many

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Joel Klecker
At 19:22 -0600 1998-02-23, Jeff Noxon wrote: >On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:36:16PM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote: >> At 20:23 +0100 1998-02-23, Peter Paluch wrote: >> >I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using >> >BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed,

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash or sh or ksh - echo ^g^g Doesn't work for me. come on, its not rocket science, echo -e \a will do the trick. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Norbert Veber
Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version. But why reinvent the wheel if there is already one.

Re: Executing a process on another virtual terminal

1998-02-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 12:19:26PM -0700, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: Is there an easy way to start a process on another virtual terminal? For example, I would like to run the RC5DES client from Distributed.net on a virtual terminal, so I can alt-f7 over to it and see how it is doing from time

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-02-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, if you installed the specially compiled for bo bash 2.01 package be CERTAIN that you look back through the recent archives (this month) for note about the upgrade process -- the upgrade WILL fail. Specifically, check

Re: So what is ksmbfs pkg for?

1998-02-24 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :So what is the ksmbfs pkg for anyway? : : I think that the ksmbfs stuff got merged in samba a few versions : back. Perhaps the ksmbfs package will disappear eventually. To summarize: Package samba: it allows to convert your Linux box in a SMB server,

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

1998-02-24 Thread Brian White
I attached strace to the update process and it is doing as it says, sleeps for 5 seconds and then calls bdflush(). I can't watch bdflush because it is a new process everytime. Have you tried strace with the -f option and friends (-o, -ff)? Brian

Getting Started

1998-02-24 Thread Robert Smith
Unfortunatly I can't install Linux on any of my machines, but I can use the ASH Shell from the rescue disk, as I am a complete novice to Linux, I was wondering what to do next, where can I find some *simple*, and small programs on the net, how to unzip them, and if I need to format a drive for

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash or sh or ksh - echo ^g^g Doesn't work for me. come on, its not rocket science, echo -e \a will do the trick. Sure, that does the same as `echo ^g`. The question

Re: compiling and installing non deb stuff

1998-02-24 Thread David Z. Maze
tmalloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t 1. Is is normally best to try something out in my home directory before t installing it as root? Will this always be possible? It's often a good idea, though in the past I haven't necessarily. :-) If you install things in /usr/local so that they don't

Re: Getting Started

1998-02-24 Thread aqy6633
Unfortunatly I can't install Linux on any of my machines, but I can use the ASH Shell from the rescue disk, as I am a complete novice to Linux, I was wondering what to do next, where can I find some *simple*, and small programs on the net, how to unzip them, and if I need to format a drive

Re: X Windows 16-bit

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Peter Paluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I have another question: in bo, I was able to move windows between screen by simple dragging them. However, in hamm this is not possible. I don't want to have EdgeScroll disabled (in bo this wasn't needed). Why is this, and how to solve it? The

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML version. But

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash or sh or ksh - echo ^g^g Doesn't work for me. come on, its not rocket science, echo -e \a will do the

Signify and Pine

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
My signify signature's, when used with pine sometimes die completely, and I am completely frustrated :) And to top it all off, I only sometimes get: [1]+ Broken pipe signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature I suppose I should mention that I use the fifo option... Has anyone had something

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial port, which is about 120 kbps, I think. Even over ppp (33k modem)

Re: How to run multiple X display servers?

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Looking at the startx script, I'd say you should use :1 (without quotes) instead of :1.0. They both mean the same to the X server but the former isn't recognised as a local display by the startx

expand for UNIX

1998-02-24 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Is there any program where I can extract files from that MS-DOS expand/compress format under UNIX? -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: netscape communicator

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Pelikan
Hi, so I finally fixed it up. After I installed few libraries from oldlibs section of hamm distribution it began to work. I didn't know it was possible to install xpm4.7 when having libc6. thanx for help Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Free X server for Win95

1998-02-24 Thread pai
Is there a free X server for Win95 / WinNT ? If so where ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

1998-02-24 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, I guess i should know, but I am new to this list, and Debain(after just moving from RedHat), so if someone could please let me know, I would be grateful, especially if anyone could give me the URL of any information. Regards Graham Lillico -- TO

Re: Free X server for Win95

1998-02-24 Thread Massimo Manghi
Is there a free X server for Win95 / WinNT ? If so where ? Try http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix.htm If I well remember it emulates the twm window manager. -- Massimo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-24 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, I`m getting this error: $fetchmail -k -v [snip] fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 7064 octets reading message 1 (7064 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 ListProcessor 6.0 fetchmail: SMTP transaction error

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash or sh or ksh - echo ^g^g Doesn't work for me. come on, its not rocket science, echo -e \a will do the

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial port, which is about

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
AFAIK the standard version of speak-freely is compiled with the DUPLEX option, so it works only with the fully duplex capable hardware-driver. AFAIK most of the drivers available in OSS-Free included into Linux system do not support the full duplex. Get the source version of speek-freely package,

Re: Binary Directorys

1998-02-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, /bin and /sbin are usually on the root partition, availabel at startup; but th eroot partition has generally been small. /usr is generally larger, but not available at boot. manoj -- Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Re: Jetdirect

1998-02-24 Thread Rolf Obrecht
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Asher Haig wrote: How do I go about setting up linux to print to a Jetdirect printer? The Hi, I'd recommend the lprng package. 1) Install lprng 2) assign an ip-address/name to the jet-direct device (e.g. netprint.my.domain/192.168.1.100) and add it to /etc/hosts or

Re: Binary Directorys

1998-02-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Beattie wrote: Is there any significant difference between /bin|/sbin and /usr/bin|/usr/sbin ??? I am just interested as to why there are two bin and sbin directorys. Stuff in /usr may not be present when the machine first boots - if /usr is a separate partition. Programs in

Re: C locale

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
Corey Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use the tcsh shell, and couldn't find any scripts that could possibly be setting LANG to us. Just to be sure, I manually did 'setenv LANG EN_us'. However, I still get the error message as follows: Oops. That should be en_US. Make sure you've

Re: formatting a floppy

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
Tonetti.doc, R Tonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I format a 3.5 floppy disk in Linux, either bootable or not? % superformat /dev/fd0 (superformat is from the fdutils package.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with

Re: RFC1035 and MTA's

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
Thomas Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if anyone else was feeling constrained in their choice of MTA's on debian because of complaints about RFC1035 and their FQDN. Neither smail or exim will work on my system, because, apparently, my domain name does not comply to RFC1035

wwwcount from hamm

1998-02-24 Thread Bujtar Janos
HI! Is there anybody who uses wwwcount package fro hamm? THNX james -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However using the null modem cable one must be very carefull about power supply! Sometimes it is possible to destroy serial ports, when two computers are connected to the sockets powered from different phases. I've done it :-(. You're probably

Netscape error

1998-02-24 Thread K.Y.Lo
I had installed Netscape 4.04 communicator on Linux done. everything is ok but it has a problem. I tried to resize Netscape on Xwindows then later, logging off. Next day, I loaded Netscape with Xwindows. It went crash back to the user prompt. Fatal server error: Free: mismatched size. What

Unidentified subject!

1998-02-24 Thread Elias G. Gounaris
I am trying to downlod the resc1440.bin and it seems that is larger than a WIN95 formated disk do you have any suggestions Thanks in advance Elias G. Gounaris email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/var/log/messages

1998-02-24 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I had set up PPP then check /var/log/messages.. I accidentally deleted in /var/log/messages. I want it back How? Help me! Thank youz -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

1998-02-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 hat gesagt: // Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Hi all, Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, I guess i should know, but I am new to this list, and Debain(after just moving from RedHat), so if someone could please let me know, I would be grateful,

isdn shorthold support - eicon/diehl diva2

1998-02-24 Thread Piers Barber
I want to run PPP over ISDN into an NT4 RAS. I could use diald to give me connectivity on demand, but if the shorthold feature is possible, I'd like to use that. I need to be able to re-establish the link with activity from either end, and by using shorthold I

Re: Getting Started

1998-02-24 Thread iquest
Hi, I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount it onto any partition: mount /dev/sdca /syquest Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something wrong? Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunatly I can't install Linux on any of my

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Elias G. Gounaris wrote: I am trying to downlod the resc1440.bin and it seems that is larger than a WIN95 formated disk do you have any suggestions Thanks in advance Elias G. Gounaris email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to write it to the raw disk, not to the dos

mount dos partition

1998-02-24 Thread iquest
Hi, I'd like to know how can 'root' mount a msdos/vfat partition that would allow other users (non-'root') to write file onto it? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Getting Started

1998-02-24 Thread Tim Sailer
iquest wrote: Hi, I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount it onto any partition: mount /dev/sdca /syquest Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something wrong? Thanks! Do you have a valid partition and filesystem

dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-02-24 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, I've been playing with some package's source and now I have a question: When I run ./debian/rules it prints lines containing: -DHOSTTYPE='i486' -DOSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DMACHTYPE='i486-debian-linux-gnu' I think that the it is the line ARCH = $(shell dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture) that

Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-24 Thread Antti Arola
Hello Debian-users, I have installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 (from InfoMagic CD-set dated Aug 97). Next I would like to have XFree86 running, but with my Matrox Millenium II I have faced some problems (I have Nokia 447Xpro terminal with line frequency range from 30 to 96 kHz and refresh frequency

Re: Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

1998-02-24 Thread tko
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: Hi all, Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, No stupid questions, just information requests 8-) Anyhow, to answer your question, hamm is a project name for the _next_ stable release of Debian. The current stable release is bo. Debian provides 2 kinds

anonymous ftp permissions

1998-02-24 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, I have an anonymous ftp site up and running. I want to add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was

Some module missing...?

1998-02-24 Thread Joakim Burman
Hi, debian users When I try to use pppd, the program is halted. 'In TOP I see insmod -k at the top displaying that /sbin/insmod -k consumes 90 % of CPU-time searching a modul (probably some PPP-modul). How do I solve this problem. I have to first Ctrl+C and then kill the above running. Is

Re: Getting Started

1998-02-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount it onto any partition: mount /dev/sdca /syquest Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something wrong? Thanks! To mount the disk in syjet, you should know the partitions you have on

re: wwwcount from hamm

1998-02-24 Thread Bujtar Janos
Bujtar Janos wrote: HI! Is there anybody who uses wwwcount package fro hamm? Solved !! I called the cgi script like that: (Debian hamm / Apache) img src=/cgi-bin/wwwcount.cgi?df=counter.dat Does NOT work !! BUT: img src=http://my.ip.addrr/cgi-bin/wwwcount.cgi?df=counter.dat;

GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6. Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such as: Unknown paper size: (A4). Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow. Unexpected interpreter error -17. Error

Re: bbs for debian?

1998-02-24 Thread Pere Camps
Hamish, Sorry for taking so long in replying. Ugly solution: I'm running my RA 2.50/Bink 2.60/IMAIL 1.75/Squish 1.10 system under dosemu on Debian 1.3. I just unplugged the hard drive from my DOS BBS machine and plugged it into my Linux box, mounted all the drives, set up dosemu to

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-24 Thread Chi Wong
I think Xinside Accelerated X 4.1 supports the Matrox Series. I thikn it is overall better than XFree86 since most of the drivers are optimized for the specific cards. check it out youreself www.xinside.com The package doesn't come free though. It cost $100 but I think it is well worth it.

Re: netscape communicator

1998-02-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
but how can I install the libraries depending on libc5 when I have libc6? You can. If you install those from hamm/ tree - there would be no problem. They are just installed in an alternative location. Check out oldlibs/ section in hamm. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I hope you'll put it under the GPL. Hope you wouldn't :) Since I wouldn't be able to create a Motif interface in case you put it under GPL. I am having a big problems with GPL'd software now: I am writing a Motif clone of WS_FTP and while the front-end is almost ready, I am

diald with dynamically assigned IP?

1998-02-24 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Hi, Has anyone got diald running with an ISP who does not give you a static IP? From what I can see the slip proxy that diald uses requires you to know what address your localhost will be assigned beforehand -- which is tricky if it changes every time you dial up. Has anyone experienced this

looking for hamm/binary-all/oldlibs

1998-02-24 Thread Mike Miller
The oldlibs directory at several Debian ftp mirrors is empty? Anyone know where they went? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

1998-02-24 Thread Jeff Alami
I have a Matrox Millenium II PCI with 4 MB WRAM. One of the best resource for information on how to upgrade and configure XFree86 for the Millenium II is the Web site for the XFree86 Matrox Team at http://matrox.alloy.net. I got it working with the Matrox Team's download and installation

Re: aha2920, no disk found

1998-02-24 Thread TW Kayos
doesn't anyone have experience installing Debian on this hardware? Perhaps the card should be removed from the working hardware list, as it doesn't work with linux. What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller? The hardware FAQ http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-7.html:

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Stephen Zedalis
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: gated, but there is no Debian package for it due to licensing[1] (there was talk of doing an installer package, but nothing ever came of it). gated is available at http://www.gated.org/. [1] The gated consortium requires that groups who wish to distribute

error in fdisk/cfdisk ?

1998-02-24 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hi there ! I've partitioned my hard drive with fdisk / cfdisk this way: Pri 1 Linux Swap (64 MB) Pri 2 Linux native (1200 MB) Pro 3 DOS (2 GB) Pri 4 Extended DOS (4-part. 800 MB) When I verify with fdisk it (correctly!) tells me that partition 3 starts WITHIN partition 2 ! As a consequence, DOS

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Stephen Zedalis
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: Hello, friends, === I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed, but it doesn't seem to be able to use BGP. gated, but there doesn't seem to be a debian

`icmplogd: destination unreachable from localhost'

1998-02-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
What does `icmplogd: destination unreachable from localhost' mean when it appears in my system log? I just installed iplogger, and I'm curious as to what this implies. I don't have any connectivity problems AFAIK, yet this message appears at least once every couple of minutes in the log. -- TO

Backspace in Netscape

1998-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I installed Netscape 4.04 with the installer in hamm. The backspace key results in delete rather than backspace. I recall there was a fix for this in earlier versions but I can't seem to find any reference about it (3.02 didn't have this problem for me). Backspace works correctly for other X

Re: diald with dynamically assigned IP?

1998-02-24 Thread Erv Walter
Thomas Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone got diald running with an ISP who does not give you a static IP? From what I can see the slip proxy that diald uses requires you to know what address your localhost will be assigned beforehand -- which is tricky if it changes every

Re: /var/log/messages

1998-02-24 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:40:24 GMT, K.Y.Lo wrote: I had set up PPP then check /var/log/messages.. I accidentally deleted in /var/log/messages. I want it back How? AFAIK, there's no backup copy. I'd avoid writing manually to your log files. (Last night I typed mailstat and a string of text

Re: aha2920, no disk found

1998-02-24 Thread Richard B. Talley
On 24 Feb 98 at 9:56, TW Kayos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [back and forth about deciding if 2920 is supported snipped] This is a perfect example of why computers (any OS, any platform) are such a pain (can't find the one detail you need) and why the 'net is such a wonderful tool. The hardware

Re: looking for hamm/binary-all/oldlibs

1998-02-24 Thread aqy6633
The oldlibs directory at several Debian ftp mirrors is empty? Anyone know where they went? My guess would be that you are looking for hamm/hamm/binary-i386/oldlibs/ Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___

How can I create new dpkg status file?

1998-02-24 Thread Patrick Ouellette
My status file got clobbered (ok, it was removed from /var while I was looking for more space to work in). Is there any way to get dpkg to look at my system and update the installed packages list based on what is actually on the system? Pat -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: aha2920, no disk found

1998-02-24 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:56:28 CST, TW Kayos wrote: [..] What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller? The hardware FAQ http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-7.html: 7.1 Supported [..] Adaptec AHA 2920 .. It does NOT say that the 2920 is supported by the aic7xxx

Re: Free X server for Win95

1998-02-24 Thread mike
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, pai wrote: Is there a free X server for Win95 / WinNT ? If so where ? Well this isn't exactly a X server but it's the next best thing *AND* it's gpl'd look at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ The win32 server is a little slow, but the win32 client is pretty peppy.

Re: Viewing bootup message

1998-02-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: I have spent quite some time on this one. Reverting to the bo svgatextmode does not help. The thing that makes the difference is the particular font chosen. If I use 80x25, 80x25x9 or 80x25x8 I can still scroll right back to the

Re: lpr remote printing

1998-02-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 02:49:36AM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote: the problem is the missing link to /var/spool from /usr/spool. since base-files_1.6.1 has removed this link as it is against FHS, it might be put back in before the release, but it is good that we can find broken packages now.

Re: X-Windows Question

1998-02-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:28:32AM +0100, Hubert Fauque wrote: Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: I get the dread: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X try xhost name of your computer in your .xsession

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen Zedalis wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: gated, but there is no Debian package for it due to licensing[1] (there was talk of doing an installer package, but nothing ever came of it). gated is available at http://www.gated.org/. [1] The gated

Re: Getting Started

1998-02-24 Thread Keith Beattie
Robert Smith wrote: drive. The reason I can't install is because I can't put anything decent on my work computer, HR thinks that would make me less productive, and my home computer has some propriety hardware. Also I can't cd I'd consider searching for an old 486 (or even a 386) beater

Port Scanning

1998-02-24 Thread matthew tebbens
Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Cyrix 586/100

1998-02-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Can anyone tell me if this processor is compatible with debian, and if any special installation procedures will be required? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6. Both gs? They conflict. Ah, one after the other Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such as:

Re: Strangeness at boot

1998-02-24 Thread Dominic Davidson
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 01:50:54AM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Aha, your /bin/sh is probably not bash, but ash. Older versions of ash do not reckognize the (posix) signal names (as opposed to numbers). This should have been fixed AFAIK. Try to update whatever your /bin/sh is to the

Bug in EGCS?

1998-02-24 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, this small program doesn't seem to work properly with egcs. I was wondering if this is a kwown bug/problem or if I am just doing something *very* stupid: #include iostream.h #include iomanip.h main() { cout.fill(' '); for(float i=0;i10;i+=0.1) cout setprecision(2) setw(5) i endl; }

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