Execl Throughput Test

1998-04-09 Thread Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt
I would like to know the meaning of the Execl Throughput Test in the linux benchmark test (http://www.linuxnow.com/bench.html). Fernando -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread dpk
I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 however, a device is not assigned to

Re: Xwindows

1998-04-09 Thread Kit Plummer
I have found that the XF86Setup utility doesn't work with some monitors, especially with multi-sync type monitors. It is much better the setup up the config file manually with a text editor. To do this you will need to know the exact specifications for your monitor, including horizontal and

Re: LibICE and general X install

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
When trying to install lib6 and many x-related packages to get x running, I keep being unable to install them, as dpkg tells me that I haven't got libICE something-or-other. I looked thru www.debian.org/packages and can't find it. I got this when installing xlib6. However, I just installed it

Re: KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
Matt Kennedy wrote: SNIP library files needed to run KDE on Debian (I think it takes care of libgif2). You also need to get QT version 1.3 or better. KDE's site has a link to Troll Tech who makes QT where you can get the current version 1.33. /SNIP I found that KDE required QT1, but the

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, and so far I have performed the basic installation. Severall problems have appeared : 1- in the section of the configuration called

Re: tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 however, a device is

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, and so far I have performed the basic installation. Severall problems have appeared : 1- in the section of the configuration called

smail

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Elliot
Hello, I've asked a question about mail before and got a little help. I can now run fetchmail(thanks to whoever showed me how to setup .fetchmailrc). So I can READ my messages. However, I still don't know how to setup smail so I can send my mail. I posted a little info about my

XF86Setup

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Elliot
Hi, I'm having problems getting XF86Setup to setup up X properly. First, let me give you my system info. Graphics Card:Cirrus Logic GD6420 VRAM:1 MB Now, there's a couple things to know about this card. First, it allows a 'dual monitor' mode. It's on a laptop, and I can plug a crt into the

Re: Printing with an old tractor

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Subject: Re: Printing with an old tractor Well, that's your problem rat chair - you s'ppose t' be _plowin'_ with a tractor, not printin'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

print spooling disabled

1998-04-09 Thread zhang xu
hi, I try to use the hp5l printer on the remote win95 pc. I read the HOWTO file and got the smbprint and printcap,but I found the spooling disabled when I use lpq. what's wrong? printcap: # //kuosj/hp5l via smbprint # lp|hp5l:\ :cm=HP 5L hp5l on kuosj:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\

mh isn't sending (exim is mta)

1998-04-09 Thread adavis
When I try to send a message now, using the comp/send programs in mh, I am getting this message for a valid user: What now? send -watch user at domain: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to user at domain prohibited by administrator post: 1 addressee undeliverable send: message not delivered to anyone

Where is XF86_SVGA package?

1998-04-09 Thread sohel
Hello all, I have installed debian 1.3.1 and few other packages. I want to set up X now and would like to know what packages do choose? can it be done form the command line? Where are the packages(On the CDROM) that deals with X server, configuration files and X softwares??? Any help would be

Newbie Setting up Fonts Server in X Windows

1998-04-09 Thread Gnoh, Chee Seng
Hi, I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as well. I used xinit to start. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread r3chard
In response to a question about threading debian-user, Mike wrote: I use Gnus - a powerful, customizable news- and mail-reading part of emacs (and xemacs). It will thread, score, sort and do just about anything you want to your mail. Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messages

[mfhanzh@public.xa.sn.cn: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China]

1998-04-09 Thread Hanno Wagner
FYI - Forwarded message from Cai ShaoMin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Cai ShaoMin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:32:27 +0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157

Modem installation

1998-04-09 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Sorry for the question since it is not directly debian-related. I bought a US Robotics external modem. I don't find any documentation saying how to install it, how to access my internet provider (do I need ppp, sendmail...?). Could anyone point me to the good way. Thanks in advance Franck

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 12:31:30PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.) Either use the super or sudo package or install perl-suid and create a small suid perl script

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:20:31AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: 1- in the section of the configuration called Configure device driver I was not able to find the internet card I am using. This card is compatible Ne 2000, at irq = 11 and io = \0xFF80.

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-09 Thread Alain Toussaint
First of all I notice that you are saying that you only have 256k of video ram. If this is the case then you cannot even run 640x480x256 color mode. This requires a least 1 meg of video ram. At 256K of video ram 320x200 mode is the only mode that you can possible run which is atrocious

Re: tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
dpk wrote: I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 however, a

Unidentified subject!

1998-04-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Valerie CAYOL wrote: I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, and so far I have performed the basic installation. Severall problems have appeared : 1- in the section of the configuration called Configure device driver

Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
Hi, Are the terms DFSG and Open Source completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines What's the relationship between Debian and Open Source? (I know they share webspace, but

Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-09 Thread Matt Kennedy
Hi Dan, I had the same problem when I installed Linux 2 months ago. Some people have been fortunate enough to have their PS/2 mouse work, but I wasn't one of them. After asking around I found the answer that worked for me. Get the GPM package if you don't have it already. When you install GPM

infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Does anyone know the proper way to generate a NaN value? (I am using NaN as an initialization value so

Re: infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Did you, by chance, forget to link the math library (-lm switch)? Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL

Re: tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, dpk wrote: I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01

Problems with ATI RAGE PRO AGP Card

1998-04-09 Thread Andre Byström
Hi As a new user of linux i wounder how to get and install XFree86 3.3.2 for debian. I have heard that support for ati rage pro AGP card driver comes with that package, im i wrong? I have found it at ftp.funet.fi but witch part am i gone download ? And how do i install it? do i really have to

Re:Xwindows

1998-04-09 Thread Geza Gyorgyi
BTY in the rc*.d directories there is the K99xdm and S99xdm files to bring up Xwindows at boot time but they do the same thing as xdm does from the command line, apparently nothing. The console messages appear to me like the Xclient isn't coming up for the server to connect to. John C.

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-09 Thread Damon Muller
Mildy suprised someone hasn't already mentioned this. There is a program called SUDO, which has a debian package. It allows selected users to run selected programs as root, without them having to su to root. It's really easy to use. I use it on my laptop, both to shut it down, and run APM to

Re: linux debian installation preserving dos

1998-04-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: Thank you, It worked, I preserved my dos pqrtition and I mounted new linux partitions. the dos partition is visble from linux. However, lilo does not allow to boot on dos anymore. Instead I have to boot on a floppy !!! Hi, Booting from floppy is a

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Valerie, On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Valerie CAYOL wrote: I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, and so far I have performed the basic installation. Severall problems have appeared : 1- in the

Re: Fw: (RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I forwarded this mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure they will let you know what they think. Marcus On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 03:43:54PM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: I suggest a new list for this second purpose - tracking bugs and problems with the unstable (or,

booting from dos

1998-04-09 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Hie, At work, I've got a HP venturis FX2 with 1.2 Go hard disk with windows 3.11 and connected to a novel (HP3000) network. I am not allowed to partition or reformat the harddisk but I would like to run linux on it. Is it possible to do ? How ? Thanks Franck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: hanging on boot; NFS problem in 2.0

1998-04-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Geza Gyorgyi wrote: The 2.0 rescue disk (both the February and the March versions) may have an incorrect mount, neither I nor the local Linux guru could install the base system by NFS. Furthermore, it can be useful to have the FTP option for installing the base system,

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 10:19:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to a question about threading debian-user, Mike wrote: I use Gnus - a powerful, customizable news- and mail-reading part of emacs (and xemacs). It will thread, score, sort and do just about anything you want

Re: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China

1998-04-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:32:27AM +0800, Cai ShaoMin wrote: i am a new debian linux user . i install the base system yesterday , and i have one ethernet board named Novell NE2000 Compatible , but the install program can not detect this hardware . i knew the card parameter

Re: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China

1998-04-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:15:52AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: i install the base system yesterday , and i have one ethernet board named Novell NE2000 Compatible , but the install program can not detect this hardware . i knew the card parameter is io=3D280 irq=3D3 , how can

Linux On NPR

1998-04-09 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
hi, I was listening to my local public radio station on wednesday and there was this 5 minute long program about linux. it was expansive, went into the whys of linux, even had a small interview with linus. so heads up it looks as if linux may be the the only viable alternative to microsoft

Kernel version in Debian 2.0 - PARIDE support

1998-04-09 Thread Jeremy Malcolm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In view of the below: The PARIDE drivers have been available as a standard feature of the Linux developmental kernel since version 2.1.77, and will, therefore, be available in the next stable kernel release. At that time, it would be reasonable to expect

Debian linux and X11 installation

1998-04-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: Valerie CAYOL wrote: I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, and so far I have performed the basic installation. Severall problems have appeared : 1- in the section of

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Mike Miller
r3chard == r3chard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messages to thread? Yes, Gnus uses the Reference: header(s) to build threads. If references aren't available, it does what it can using Subject: headers. It can also use fuzzy matching of

Re: Where is XF86_SVGA package?

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
Hello all, I have installed debian 1.3.1 and few other packages. I want to set up X now and would like to know what packages do choose? can it be done form the command line? Where are the packages(On the CDROM) that deals with X server, configuration files and X softwares??? Any help would be

Re: Tkdesk error

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Marc van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes... Tell me, what does xlsfonts -fn -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-* It says font unmatched say? If it says nothing, do as root /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfnt100.postinst and then do xset fp rehash (as your regular user) and then try the

Re: booting from dos

1998-04-09 Thread Joop
Hie, At work, I've got a HP venturis FX2 with 1.2 Go hard disk with windows 3.11 and connected to a novel (HP3000) network. I am not allowed to partition or reformat the harddisk but I would like to run linux on it. Is it possible to do ? How ? There are a couple of distributions

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hi, Are the terms DFSG and Open Source completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. Yes, they are, AFAIK. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines What's the relationship between Debian and Open

Re: infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Does anyone know the proper way to generate a NaN value? (I am using NaN as an initialization

Re: infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You should also be able to use the constant _QNAN. Check out /usr/include/nan.h. Stuart Marshall wrote: Hi, I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be

Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-09 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I have just installed majordomo version 1.94.1 on my Linux (debian) system, version 1.3.1, kernel 2.029. I am using smail version 3.2.3. All programs, majordomo and smail were compiled for debian linux version 1.31. I was wondering if anyone has seen this problem and if

Re: Installing debian (fwd)

1998-04-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
[ Forwarded from private email. Note Reply-To ] Hi John, I don't use a SoundBlaster card, so I'm afraid I'll be of limited assistance here. I'm forwarded your question on to the debian user-list. I would imagine someone there could help. Let me know how it turns out! -- Nathan Norman

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Rick Younie
On 9 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messages to thread? Yes, Gnus uses the Reference: header(s) to build threads. If references aren't available, it does what it can using Subject: headers. It can also use fuzzy matching of subjects

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-09 Thread David Morris
It was a nice little piece. NPR has put it on their web page. If you have a RealAudio player installed (rvplayer is the wrapper deb) then you can point it at: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980408.atc.14.ram On Thu, 09 Apr 1998 08:56:28 EDT. ' ALLAN W. BART wove together: hi, I was listening

Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi all! I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) Any comment will be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance, Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

iBCS2 with Unixware Oracle7 binaries

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Cant
Hi there! I am trying to get Oracle running on my Debian Hamm box using iBCS2.2.0.33 971113-4, the main Oracle binary however makes a strange kernel call: getksym which according to Unixware is used to get kernel symbol info(kernel call 202 in unixware 2). Do you know how to go about finding

RE: Problems with ATI RAGE PRO AGP Card

1998-04-09 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I am working on the same thing with my system... Turns out you install the VGA server and get it running, then update to the latest X setup via FTP. Using the Mach64 server (I forget exactly which one - it was described as Rage II or Rage on my CD) should work fine... Good luck!

Re: iBCS2 with Unixware Oracle7 binaries

1998-04-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Helo Ben! On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Ben Cant wrote: Hi there! I am trying to get Oracle running on my Debian Hamm box using iBCS2.2.0.33 I can't asnwer your question but maybe this helps: Oracle for SCO works fine If you want more info about it, email me to

Problem CD-rom

1998-04-09 Thread Gabrie van Zanten
Hi, I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers: Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom / Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486 using Win95. Unfortunately thats when the links got lost and Linux now

Re: Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulisses I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? Ulisses (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) Look in the Emacs info, under Version Control. -- _ / \ The cat's been in

Re: smail

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes: I've asked a question about mail before and got a little help. I can now run fetchmail(thanks to whoever showed me how to setup .fetchmailrc). So I can READ my messages. However, I still don't know how to setup smail so I can send my mail. I

Re: Newbie Setting up Fonts Server in X Windows

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gnoh, Chee Seng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as well. I used xinit to start.

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
On 09 Apr 1998 10:35:20 EDT, Ben Pfaff wrote: Hi, Are the terms DFSG and Open Source completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. Yes, they are, AFAIK. On the one hand that's nice because it's completely interchangeable, on the other hand two names for the

Re: Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again! On 9 Apr 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulisses I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? Ulisses (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) Look in the Emacs info, under Version

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
To clarify, RedHat is DFSG-compliant (it's listed in Open Source products), and Debian is Open Source-compliant (Open Source definition is DFSG), but because DFSG targets non-commercial software (ironically the same software that appears on commercial Linux distros) and Open

Re: Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulisses On 9 Apr 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: DZM DZM Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulisses I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? Ulisses (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) DZM DZM Look in the

Re: Problem CD-rom

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gabrie van Zanten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers: Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom / Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486 using Win95.

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:49:47AM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: : I've put off learning Emacs for too long. Sounds like I'm just : re-inventing the wheel with the mail to news thing. Indeed. However, you don't need to learn the finger-breaking keystrokes emacs requires (sorry guys, what was that,

CERT Advisory CA-98.05 - bind_problems (fwd)

1998-04-09 Thread Curt Howland
Anyone know if the debian named/BIND is effected? Sorry if this has already been covered, I cannot keep up with the traffic on the users list, and there is no announcement on the Debian.org home page. Curt- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:46:07 -0400 From:

Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-09 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 09-Apr-98 skrifar Matt Kennedy: PS/2 Mouse to Mouse Systems and change the location of the device to /dev/gpmdata. /dev/gpmdata is a file GPM creates and stores the input from the mouse to. This did the trick for me, so I hope it'll work for you. I recently got myself a Logitech

sgml authoring

1998-04-09 Thread Richard Sevenich
Does debian include any sgml authoring tools as an alternative to the brute force write-it-tags-and-all-with-an-editor approach? Any hints would be appreciated. TIA Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OFF TOPIC] Connecting Win95 to Linux(server/gateway)

1998-04-09 Thread servis
Hi all, Shortly I will be adding a second computer to my home office and I would like to get a jump start on the documentation for networking the two. My current machine dual boots Linux/Win95. The new machine will probably stay all Win95. I have a dial-up PPP connection currently on the Linux

Re: smail

1998-04-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: (If you want an example exim.conf for a dialup system, I can send you mine) Can you send me the configuration files, please. And some info to set up my e-mail system. I have an POP3 account and I aleready configured the ppp. The computer has only an dial-up

Debian and ISDN: Getting there...

1998-04-09 Thread Atte Koivula
Ok, I think I'm finally getting somewhere with my ISDN configuration ;) I finally got HiSax working but I have run into some more problems (figures). My current problem is that I have no clue on how to configure the isdnutils package. Do I need to configure it in the 1st place or do I just need

Motif

1998-04-09 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hi ! I was trying to install XMCD and I think what I'm lacking is ... Motif. Where do I get it ? Thanks, Helmut --- Accept the challenge! http://fbma.tuwien.ac.at/~e8426331/ ... and write to me !

About qt

1998-04-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Again with similar message. Can somebody send me a Makefile for any of the qt tutorials from bo's qt ? Something to help me for the start. Please. I've tried something, but as I'm new to Linux I couldn't even compile the first tutorial example ! TIA, Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Pete Poff
Is there a way I can multi-task in debian? Like with Win95, you can open two programs and switch between them. I compare files, and it would make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then editing it, looking at a section, quiting, then editing and comparing it with the

Re: Scanners?

1998-04-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Don Berkich wrote: I'm looking for advice on what flat-bed SCSI scanner to buy; something in the $200 - $400 price range, if possible. I've got Debian 1.3.1 on a Cyrix-166 machine currently, but I'll soon be upgrading to a dual PII-300. Advice on what scanners to

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- Is there a way I can multi-task in debian? Like with Win95, you can open two programs and switch between them. I compare files, and it would make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then editing it, looking at a section, quiting, then editing and comparing it

Problem with X and ViRGE card

1998-04-09 Thread John Plate
Hi I have an AOpen 3D Artist PT70 video card based on the ViRGE/DX chip. I can start the svga xserver and it seems to work. After selecting exit with the mouse, the xserver terminates and leaves the console corrupted. About every second character is visible. Apparently the video card has been

no DRQ after issuing WRITE

1998-04-09 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear Debian people, Today I swapped my 486 board for a Pentium. Now I get the following error messages in my /var/log/messages: Apr 6 00:16:10 souterrain kernel: hda: status error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Apr 6 00:16:10 souterrain kernel: hda: no DRQ

Re: Motif

1998-04-09 Thread servis
On 9 Apr, Helmut Leinfellner wrote: Hi ! I was trying to install XMCD and I think what I'm lacking is ... Motif. Where do I get it ? Well since Motif libs cost about $100US you could go to your local sunsite mirror and go to the ../apps/sound/cdrom/X/ directory where there is a

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-09 Thread Paul Huygen
Richard Sevenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does debian include any sgml authoring tools as an alternative to the brute force write-it-tags-and-all-with-an-editor approach? Any hints would be appreciated. ^^^ OK, my 2ct: I understood that HTML is a subset of SGML. If you can live with

Re: Patience, this will get longer

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 07:58:36PM +0200, Helmut Metzdorf wrote: Since January I am trying to learn a bit about Linux, and beeing lucky to find answers to most questions either in the online documentation or else searching the www. There are still two thing that bother me, 1st: though I´ve

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 02:58:54AM -0400, Alain Toussaint wrote: here's the output of SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Oak OTI037C (Port Probed) Memory: 256 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables

Re: Novell NDS compatiblity.

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 09:07:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: There is a program which provides a near full Novell 3.x (BINDARY) emulation. It's the mars package. I don't know if there is a debian package available. No, it is not. Hamish has

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
On 09 Apr 1998 13:15:21 EDT, Ben Pfaff wrote: Products that are DFSG compliant are Open Source compliant, and vice versa. It's two names for the same thing. Suits understand `Open Source' better than they understand `Free Software'; they have a suspicion of anything that has `Free' in the

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Connecting Win95 to Linux(server/gateway)

1998-04-09 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Shortly I will be adding a second computer to my home office and I would like to get a jump start on the documentation for networking the two. My current machine dual boots Linux/Win95. The new machine will probably stay all Win95. I

visudo

1998-04-09 Thread Corey Miller
While I was editing my /etc/sudoers file using the visudo command, my computer lost power. When I was able to restore power, everything seemed to be functioning alright. Except, I tried to run the visudo command, and got the following error: visudo: sudoers file busy, try again later.

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Colin Telmer
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Is there a way I can multi-task in debian? Like with Win95, you can open two programs and switch between them. I compare files, and it would make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then editing it, looking at a

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Richard Sevenich wrote: Does debian include any sgml authoring tools as an alternative to the brute force write-it-tags-and-all-with-an-editor approach? Any hints would be appreciated. psgml is a package that adds SGML support to emacs and allows you to use xemacs pulldown menus to add SGML

Problem with SMTP

1998-04-09 Thread Adrian Monk
Having previously has smail, fetchmail and procmail working perfectly I now - after having had to re-install Debian - cannot get fetchmail to work. The error message fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed keeps on appearing, in spite of my having reconfigured smail with smailconfig --force.

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Mike Miller
With either emacs or xemacs, Gnus can be completely mouse driven. xemacs is likely to satisfy even the most pointy-and-clicky folks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]