Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Ender Wigin wrote: Hi, Please do not forget that there are users who access the site using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site more difficult to navigate for them. That should not be an isue ... you can write a script that

Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-29 Thread W Paul Mills
Perhaps this is the shadow password thing. Try shadowconfig off then shadowconfig on. On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: Hi guys, I have returned to the list, had to get my processor fixed. Anyway, I am running Debian 1.3R6 and I want to have an XDM setup so I can remotely use my

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
Kenneth L. Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would have to disagree. I like it the way it is. It is simple, elegant, and I don't have to search through five screens to find what I want. As for professional: I've seen plenty of professional sites that are cluttered, take *way* to long to

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: What exactly is Deity? When you say stuph, what exactly is that? but thanks for the early review :-) It is the replacement for dselect. I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to

PGP key server

1998-03-29 Thread Darren Renaud
Could someone give me some advice on setting up a key server for PGP? Thanks Darren Renaud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xsession problem

1998-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm just trying out vncserver -- excellent stuff. In my /etc/vnc.conf I put $vncStartup = $ENV{HOME}/.xsession; but when vncserver runs, the ~/.vnx/X.log says rfbInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5901 httpInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5801 sh: /etc/X11/Xsession: Permission denied but

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: Windowmaker only shows the xterm and exit commands on the menu, while afterstep shows several others, but none of the packages I have installed show up even though the files exist in /usr/lib/menu and update-menus has been run. This one's my fault. Do

vncserver for bo

1998-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone have a vncserver port to bo? I tried to compile it but obviously it wants jdk 1.1 to compile the java client, which bo doesn't have. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I think I found something which might explain the problem with windowmaker. $ less ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu menu.hook menu.hook is missing. IIRC it was there previously. Yikes! Can I see /etc/menu-methods/wmaker? Have you edited the file?

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). This is Debian we are talking about... ;-) deity runs both under X11 and text. I have got used to dselect, but Deity is way

Re: mail server

1998-03-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:07 -0500 1998-03-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I suggest www.qmail.org. Forget Smail Sendmail and get a good MTA. Check the archives of the qmail list. There are Debian users that have qmail running, even tho it is not a debian package. Save yourself a LOT of grief! Use qmail! If

Re: Debian Hamm Dselect

1998-03-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:20 -0500 1998-03-28, Wintermute wrote: Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other day that my package list went to nothing. You should always use dists/*. In this case, dists/frozen/* for

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 17:13 -0800 1998-03-28, George Bonser wrote: Not from what I understand. I was told that it will run in either graphic or comman-line modes completely replacing dselect. That's true, deity has both a slang and a GTK interface, the coolest thing is that both interfaces are in a single

Re: PGP key server

1998-03-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 20:14 -0500 1998-03-28, Darren Renaud wrote: Could someone give me some advice on setting up a key server for PGP? You can get source for a key server daemon at: http://www.mit.edu/people/marc/pks/. I am also doing a Debian package of it, but it'll be awhile before I have it done. -- Joel

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, cleto wrote: Please do not forget that there are users who access the site using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site more difficult to navigate for them. On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: To make it more clear what I mean: I

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Rob Browning
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). It has a text mode as well. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30

deity in 2.0? CD's anyone?

1998-03-29 Thread Britton
Is deity going to be in 2.0? And are any developers burning CD's? I would like to buy from a developer, since I have had trouble with mail order places in the past, and want to get a local network set up on 2.0 systems as soon as possible without risking version skew problems (If there are

Applixware- user view needed

1998-03-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day -- I would like to know what HD space one needs to install applixware office suite? I have searched high and low for this piece of info to no avail. And while we are at it, can someone give me a feedback on spreadsheet part of the suite: does it provide a function similar to the one found

Re: vncserver for bo

1998-03-29 Thread aqy6633
Does anyone have a vncserver port to bo? I tried to compile it but obviously it wants jdk 1.1 to compile the java client, which bo doesn't have. What? Netscape 3 runs VNC java applet with no problems which means it uses java 1.0.2, not 1.1. Also, you may go ahed and install jdk1.1 packages on

Re: debian not working on a PC without math copro

1998-03-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
thanks a lot for all who responded to this thread,your help was greatly apreciated. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I think I found something which might explain the problem with windowmaker. $ less ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu menu.hook menu.hook is missing. IIRC it was there previously. Yikes!

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). This is Debian we are talking about... ;-) Yes, that is one of the

diald

1998-03-29 Thread Tim Sailer
I was trying to get a friend switched over from freeBSD to Debian today. All went fairly well. This was my first experience with pppconfig, and it worked slick! Good job! Now, to the problem. I wanted to get diald working for him. I think I have everything set up the way it should be, but when I

X-Intrinsics

1998-03-29 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi all, just a small question as i'm searching for the 'lowest-level' to use to programm under X-Win. Somebody told me that X-Intrinsics is this lowest-level, where other GUI's and lib's like OSF/MOTIF setup on. So, what's X-Intrinsics? Is it this lowest-level? Where are doc's for this? Thanks

Re: X-Intrinsics

1998-03-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
just a small question as i'm searching for the 'lowest-level' to use to programm under X-Win. Somebody told me that X-Intrinsics is this lowest-level, where other GUI's and lib's like OSF/MOTIF setup on. So, what's X-Intrinsics? It's a thin object layer over Xlib written in C (not

Re: X-Intrinsics

1998-03-29 Thread aqy6633
just a small question as i'm searching for the 'lowest-level' to use to programm under X-Win. Somebody told me that X-Intrinsics is this lowest-level, where other GUI's and lib's like OSF/MOTIF setup on. So, what's X-Intrinsics? Is it this lowest-level? Where are doc's for this? As for

deity trouble

1998-03-29 Thread Britton
I have been trying to install deity (largely because dselect has been seg faulting on me since libc6 upgrade and I havn't been able to fix this. I suspect it is related to the below ncurses problem). Here is what happens: # dpkg --install libstdc++2.8_1.0.1-0.3_i386.deb Selecting previously

Best Book for Linux/Unix

1998-03-29 Thread Mike Acklin
What is the best book to learn Linux/Unix as for overall basics. I am not into programing yet, but would like to learn as much as I can about running a system. Like how to set my system for every day use. Editing the .bash_profile to make it usable. How to set up at and crontab. Directory

Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
Whoa... big problems. I checked my /etc/init.d/xdm... it is a zero byte file. Apparently, when I installed the system, I never setup xdm. Is there some kind of setup script to get xdm on my system working again? I have shadowed passwords... and I am looking for a package called xdm,

X query..

1998-03-29 Thread Michael Beattie
Whenever I start X, I get an xterm automatically opening. Is there a way to stop this? I have never minded until now, but now I usually close it straight away. The reason I ask is that it does not appear to be a result of one of the windowmanagers opening. there is a routine in the Xsession file:

stopping pppd redial with persistent connection

1998-03-29 Thread Daniel Quinlan
hi, I've got a Linux Router Project (Debian based) box running a permanent connection to the 'net via a 57.6 modem. I'm using pppd in persist mode and a few weeks ago over the weekend the account ran out of credits at the ISP so they disabled the account. The box rang the ISP every minute or

broken ncurses?

1998-03-29 Thread Britton
I suspect a broken ncurses setup is the root of my problems. The ncurses-base and ncurses-bin packages install fine, but when trying to reinstall ncurses itself I got the following: # dpkg --install ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-8.deb (Reading database ... 28942 files and directories currently

Re: X query..

1998-03-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Michael Beattie; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Whenever I start X, I get an xterm automatically opening. Is there a way to stop this? I have never minded until now, but now I usually close it straight away. The reason I ask is that it does not appear to be a result of one of the

Re: broken ncurses?

1998-03-29 Thread Adam Klein
On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 07:38:41PM -0900, Britton wrote: I suspect that in trying to fix this I managed to annihilate my ncurses.3.4.so file, as bedore something like this showed up (I think in /lib), but now find gives: Actually the file is libncurses.so.3.4. Adam Klein -- To

Re: deity trouble

1998-03-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Britton wrote: I have been trying to install deity (largely because dselect has been seg faulting on me since libc6 upgrade and I havn't been able to fix this. I suspect it is related to the below ncurses problem). Here is what happens: # dpkg --install

Re: EXIM Help

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
Did you turn off fetchmail's rewrite option? Also you can tell exim: sender_unqualified_hosts = localhost in it's configuration file (see the fetchmail FAQ) -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
You are probably using debian version 1.3 or earlier and have a ps2 style mouse. Your message is not clear to me but... If you move the mouse when in a console, does a mouse curson appear on the screen? Where did the error message you listed come from? If you received that message when

Re: help ?

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
I think that you need the file 'lmemroot.bin' to do the installation (see the intallation text files). Also, please turn off your 'html' mail feature. Regis Hautière wrote: My system(386 with 6Mo of RAM) stop during the installation from the rescue disk after the floppy drive detection.

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread David Stern
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 21:33:10 +0100, cleto wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: To make it more clear what I mean: I think of home page with a navigation bar on the left and a text column on the right. The navigation bar should contain a maximum of about 6 top level categories

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Netscape/applications

1998-03-29 Thread Corey Miller
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I want netscape to download a text file and run an application. I've been able to get netscape to execute a script, but I don't know how to retrive the file. The file is a 2 line text file sent by a cgi script from a web page. Is there any way I can

Re: Applixware- user view needed

1998-03-29 Thread Corey Miller
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: I would like to know what HD space one needs to install applixware office suite? I have searched high and low for this piece of info to no avail. And while we are at it, can someone give me a feedback on spreadsheet part of the suite: does it provide

Re: ext2fs resize?

1998-03-29 Thread Waye-Ian CHIEW
Hello! I'm presently trying to shuffle and resize several partitions on a disk device without losing data. My answer to this is NOT authoritative, that is, I haven't looked at the code. However, in general, partitioning doesn't move data about; it merely updates a small file

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). This is Debian we are

Re: X-Intrinsics

1998-03-29 Thread Markus Lechner
Thanks, this help's me much to hook on the X-Win thing... It's sometimes not easy to find the main-entrance... ;-) Mac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-29 Thread Carey Evans
Carroll Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whoa... big problems. I checked my /etc/init.d/xdm... it is a zero byte file. Apparently, when I installed the system, I never setup xdm. Is there some kind of setup script to get xdm on my system working again? I have shadowed passwords... and I am

Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Carroll Kong wrote: Whoa... big problems. I checked my /etc/init.d/xdm... it is a zero byt e file. Apparently, when I installed the system, I never setup xdm. Is there some kind of setup script to get xdm on my system working again? I have shadowed passwords... and I am

Compilers Paranoia

1998-03-29 Thread adavis
I am afeared to install the (rather contorted) mosaic of C and C++ compilers and libs, after reading comments on the list. Wanting to install Deity, however, I find that the new C++ libs are required. Is it safe (and how safe) to install this mosaic? Alan -- Our loyalties are to the species

Re: Setting up network on Hamm install

1998-03-29 Thread Carey Evans
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the following correct? Your host name (you may be able to decide this on your own). computer name used when booting Win'95 (dual boots) Your domain name. lynagh.demon.co.uk This would make your computer's full Internet name

Re: Applixware- user view needed

1998-03-29 Thread Joey Hess
Damir J. Naden wrote: I would like to know what HD space one needs to install applixware office suite? I have searched high and low for this piece of info to no avail. Package: applix Installed-Size: 53801 Package: applix-english Installed-Size: 53450 So about 107MB total. And while we are

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread John Wingfield
Thanks for your reply. When I was installing Debian (which should be the latest version - I received the CD only recently) I was given the option to install mouse support in the kernal. I attempted to do so, but this produced a device in use error or something similar. I have no objections to

What are the slink sundirecrories all about?

1998-03-29 Thread Stan Brown
I noticed on my local mirror, that some subdirectories called slin: are being created. Is this new, or have I just not noticed it before. What are these for? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: Thanks for looking into this. My pleasure. It does look ok... are /etc/menu-methods/{wmaker,wmstyle} executable? (This gotta be it!) If you do: $ chmod +x /etc/menu-methods/{wmaker,wmstyle} $ update-menus -v does it work?

rsync/ssh-script no longer working in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Harald Schueler
Here's something I don't understand: I used to be able (in bo) to execute the following script to update my home PC from the one in my office: sh-2.01$ cat xxx rsync -e ssh zoppo:.profile . Simple enough. But since I upgraded both machines to hamm the following happens: sh-2.01$ sh xxx Enter

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: It does look ok... are /etc/menu-methods/{wmaker,wmstyle} executable? (This gotta be it!) No! If you do: $ chmod +x /etc/menu-methods/{wmaker,wmstyle} $ update-menus -v does it work? Yes! Thanks again, Bob Bob

Re: ext2fs resize?

1998-03-29 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Waye-Ian CHIEW wrote, I replied: A utility to pack the current content of a filesystem to one end (or the other, or the center) of its space would be possible for each filesystem type, but a general tool would be extremely difficult (probably impossible). For example, the original UNIX file

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread Alex Yukhimets
When I was installing Debian (which should be the latest version - I received the CD only recently) I was given the option to install mouse support in the kernal. I attempted to do so, but this produced a device in use error or something similar. I have no objections to reinstalling Debian

Re: What are the slink sundirecrories all about?

1998-03-29 Thread Anthony Fok
---BeginMessage--- On Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 08:02:26AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I noticed on my local mirror, that some subdirectories called slin: are being created. Is this new, or have I just not noticed it before. What are these for? Yes, this is new. :-) Hamm (the toy

Re: Best Book for Linux/Unix

1998-03-29 Thread Anthony Fok
---BeginMessage--- On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 10:13:42PM -0600, Mike Acklin wrote: What is the best book to learn Linux/Unix as for overall basics. I am not into programing yet, but would like to learn as much as I can about running a system. Like how to set my system for every day use.

Re: exmh and procmail filtering

1998-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Oliver Elphick wrote: Erik van der Meulen wrote: ... Could anyone send me an example of a .procmail file for use with exmh? This is my ~/.procmailrc: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail LOCKFILE=$HOME/procmail/lock LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail/new LOGABSTRACT=all

Mouse Driver?

1998-03-29 Thread Carl Brown
Greetings! I am new to Debian Linux, so I'll be asking lots of dumb questions.G In Win-xx and OS/2, the mouse movement can be accelerated, so the speed of cursor movement is proportional to the speed of mouse movement. It would be an especially handy feature in Linux-X with all the virtual destop

Re: What are the slink sundirecrories all about?

1998-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Stan Brown wrote: I noticed on my local mirror, that some subdirectories called slin: ar e being created. Is this new, or have I just not noticed it before. What are th ese for? I presume you mean `slink', as in the subject line. slink is the next release after hamm;

Re: Mouse Driver?

1998-03-29 Thread James Troup
Carl Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be an especially handy feature in Linux-X with all the virtual destop space. gpmconfig or XF86Setup didn't offer me any setting for this. Is there a way to do this? Add -a X (where X is some number) to the append line in gpmconfig to accelerate

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
John is probably right (insmod psaux). Where exactly did the 'device in use' message show up? -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want

Re: Mouse Driver?

1998-03-29 Thread aqy6633
Add -a X (where X is some number) to the append line in gpmconfig to accelerate the mouse when using gpm. Don't know about X, sorry. I know :) While in X, execute the following comand: xset m 4 3 Acceleration --^ ^--if you move it for the distance of 3

ttf Fonts and debian

1998-03-29 Thread Peter Shtinkov
Can I use my TTF fonts from win95 to X (Debian 1.3) ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
Scott K. Ellis wrote: The graphical interface is coming along nicely, but we haven't quite bound it to the actual package installation routines (although those are also very close to completion). Scott -- are there screenshots somewhere that we can look at? -- ...RickM... -- To

netstd_3.03 problem, KDE problem

1998-03-29 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm in the process of updating my hamm system and while installing netstd_3.03-1 I get the following error message: trying to overwrite '/usr/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz', which is also in package wu-ftpd dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Could someone give me a clue as to

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread John Wingfield
Alex, My mouse is a standard Microsoft PS/2 Intellimouse connected to an almost new Dell Dimension D266. It connects to a small round 6pin socket which I assume to be a serial mouse port. As root, I tried 'insmod psaux' which executed, but produced no response. I then typed '/dev/psaux device'

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread George R
On 03/28/98 at 09:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth L. Summers) said: Hi! The last times I visited the Debian web site I had to realize that it is not very impressing concerning design and structure. Especially in design the sites of FreeBSD, The GNOME Project, KDE, Red Hat, etc. have a

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread aqy6633
My mouse is a standard Microsoft PS/2 Intellimouse connected to an almost new Dell Dimension D266. It connects to a small round 6pin socket which I assume to be a serial mouse port. Nope, this is not a serial port. As root, I tried 'insmod psaux' which executed, but produced no response.

Re: Mouse Driver?

1998-03-29 Thread wtopa
Carl Check out the man page for xset. Option m handles mouse functions you can set. HTH Wayne Subject: Mouse Driver? Date: Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 10:25:00AM -0500 In reply to:Carl Brown Quoting Carl Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Greetings! I am new to Debian Linux, so

Re: Best Book for Linux/Unix

1998-03-29 Thread wtopa
Mike Of the dozens of Linux/Unix books I have, one of the best is A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark Sobell. It is NOT distribution specific but has more General info the the others. Over 1000 pages packed with information. Try www.bookpool.com for Very Nice prices. Wayne Subject:

Re: netstd_3.03 problem, KDE problem

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
The 'normal' default for dpkg is --force-overwrite. This is disabled in hamm (frozen) currently to make detection of just the sort of error that you encounted easier to find. Check the bug list and report if it is not already there. You can use dpkg --install --force-overwrite package name or

Re: Setting up network on Hamm install

1998-03-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The Bo install notes say I need to know the following. I assume Hamm will need it too. I have a LAN with Linux (none yet installed) and Win'95 boxes on and will also want to connect to the 'net. Since you are on two

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
After you do the 'insmod' then do o a 'cat /proc/modules' and you should see an entry like: psaux 11 which indicate that the mouse module is indeed loaded and known to the kernel. For gpm to work you need either: /dev/psaux (or /dev/mouse and a link from /dev/mouse to

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: Scott K. Ellis wrote: The graphical interface is coming along nicely, but we haven't quite bound it to the actual package installation routines (although those are also very close to completion). Scott -- are there screenshots somewhere that

Re: Mouse Driver?

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
Yes. Modify your .xinitrc and add the line xset m 5 2. I would experiment with it. Do a man xset to get all of it.. but basically xset m 5 2 means set the mouse acceleration to 5x and 2 means something about the deceleration I believe. Experiement with it. :) It is a lot faster than

Re: Frozen Hamm...

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
Still testing the xdm thing, but thanks for everyone's help on it. (I got to run to a remote system to test it). This Frozen Hamm deal is confusing me. I tried hamm, and I know I am not nearly as experienced with Linux as alot of people who have tried hamm, so I got problems left

missing /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout libs

1998-03-29 Thread Randy Edwards
When it rains, it pours! :-) Does anyone know what package contains the various libraries found in /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout? I'm missing these files for some reason and many packages want them! Right now, all I have are some bad symlinks in that subdir. A grep of /var/lib/dpkg/info

Heavy X11 and SVGATextMode and SVGAlib error

1998-03-29 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, I have the latest (very unstable) hamm,frozen,slink - mix installed on my System. During theses updates suddenly all Graphical-Systems didn't work any more. X11 Version 3.2.2:Segmentation fault SVGAlib:Segmentation fault SVGATextMode:Dont know (Display crashes totally :- ) XF86Setup:

smail: rsmtp spools all mail

1998-03-29 Thread debian-user
It seems that after I upgraded smail to 3.2.0.92-3, rsmtp now spools all mail, i.e. it behaves as if it were called with -odq. Is there a way to restore the old behavior of immediate delivery? I can't find a config option for this. rsmtp also refuses to take the -odf parameter, so a wrapper won't

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread ixx \(your favorite desease\)
it says i do not have some file in err /var/lib/deity/cache/... made my apt-get or something..??? so i can not get it to run I'll grab a copy and have a look. Are there any known, serious bugs? Well, other than not actually installing packages? :) The graphical interface is coming

-I- XDM Works Great.. Thanks!

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
Hey thanks a lot guys, XDM is working great. I just need to make a few modifications since the remote system's video card can't handle high res and high color depth so my background looks.. heheh crappy. Nonetheless, thanks to everyone to helped me out here! Carroll Kong -- To

.xsession

1998-03-29 Thread shaul
$man fvwm2 | grep xterm -geometry +1000+1000 -B 10 will always show up in the upper-left hand corner of the visible portion of the screen. It is permissible to spec­ ify geometries which place windows on the virtual desktop, but off the screen. For example, if the

More on XDM?

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
Hm... i originally thought my wallpaper sucked up all the resources... but even when I take it off, I cannot run one of my programs in workable color anymore. And... it works fine if I xdm to another server aside my own on the same terminal so it is not the terminal. I looked into the

Re: Hi im Sandra

1998-03-29 Thread Norbert Veber
On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 11:34:05PM -0500, GILLILIGAN wrote:   From: GILLILIGAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hi im Sandra Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:22:59 EST Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type:

Re: ext2fs resize?

1998-03-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Waye-Ian CHIEW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm presently trying to shuffle and resize several partitions on a disk device without losing data. Can the ext2fs resize itself? That is, can the filesystem shrink or grow in size to accommondate a resized partition? Is there a tool to do this?

Netscape 4 not working

1998-03-29 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, X works again (gcc 2.8.1 was a big mistake by me). Yet I get Bus Error, when i start netscape. Maybe this could help to find the error (I don't know anything) $ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000) libSM.so.6 =

Imlib compilation error

1998-03-29 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
First I would like to extend a thanks to all of you who helped me with my imake madness problem. Since then, I have installed the GNU autoconf in the hopes that *it* might work. At this time, I am having problems at the gdk_imlib make install. I get the following two error messages:

Re: missing /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout libs

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
Maybe you just need to remove the symlinks. I notice that my /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout directory is empty (hamm). Randy Edwards wrote: When it rains, it pours! :-) Does anyone know what package contains the various libraries found in /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout? I'm missing

Re: Hi im Sandra

1998-03-29 Thread john
Norbert Veber writes: why the hell are AOL people even allowed to post here? For the same reason you are: to get help with Debian. Besides, its not like you can use aol software in linux, they really have no business here. There is no rule that says that you can only post to this mailing

Re: simple smail questions

1998-03-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Otavio Exel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all, I'm using Debian 1.3 bo with a 2.0.29 kernel; my smail installation is preety standard; I have a permanent connection to the internet; smail is working fine for most everything here; ..but I still have some questions.. see if you can help me,

tin

1998-03-29 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
When I try to post an article using tin, I'm getting the message: Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii) Anyone know why that is? What can I change us-ascii to that will make this work? I need to be able to post to c.o.l.m again. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

AWE64, kernel 2.1.91

1998-03-29 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
I'm having a little trouble setting up my AWE64. I've followed Brinkmann's AWE 32/64 HOWTO and I think I'm close to getting it to work. I have set up isapnp.conf as suggested, and verified all of the numbers against those in my win95 drivers. However, when I boot up, it appears that only the

Re: .xsession

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
I'm sure I dont' understand your question... 2) Where can I look for documantation about customizing the X windows (not neccesarily the window manager) ? It seems to me that most of the documantation is about the instalation of Xfree86 and the window manager customization. fvwm2 is,

portslave on hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Tim Sailer
Has anyone gotten portslave to work on a hamm system? I am using .16 of portslave, and no matter what I do on the hamm box, I get PAP authentication errors, while an identical bo box (both with 32 ports) authenticates fine. I'm running cistron's radiusd on both boxes, and the radtest runs fine

Re: Hi im Sandra

1998-03-29 Thread Bill Leach
Let me start by saying that I have no particular love for AOL. AOL has proven to be a real PITA for me several times (including necessitating my putting together a Windoz box to access one of their accounts for business purposes). However, having said that, I believe that AOL is a 'responsible'

Re: jdk1.1-runtime

1998-03-29 Thread Jens Ritter
Jeff Shilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just downloaded biss-awt_0.87-1 and the web page says there are no depends, etc but during installation I found out it needs jdk1.1-runtime. Where is this package? Does jdk1.1-dev provide this or should I just ignore depends? See www.jimpick.org HTH,

what serve the file in the /dev directory

1998-03-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello i need to know what serve the files in the /dev directory,it's because i did some experiment trying to build a boot/root disk set (sort of rescue disk and a good way to learn about linux),i copied all the files in the /dev directory to a floppy disk (the root disk in question) using

libc6-dev dependencies

1998-03-29 Thread Matt Thompson
Why does libc6-dev depend specifically on kernel-headers 2.0.32? Why won't 2.0.33 suffice, or kernel-source-2.0.33? It seems that I should only have to have one of any of the kernel headers/source packages installed at any one time. Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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