Re: Mozilla 5.0: evitar ventana del `composer'

1998-11-01 Thread Luis Clausell
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Re: Controladres

1998-11-01 Thread Lord of Hell
Hace una semana estaba luchando con mi supra 33.6i voice y ahora lo tengo trabajando bajo linux ( Lo que sufri para que me trabajara :-) ) No requieres de ningun drive en especial solo sigue esto paso: Que me dieron a mi !! 1.- coger las isapnptools de la internet. 2.- usar el isapnpdump para

Particion IDEAL !!!

1998-11-01 Thread Lord of Hell
Después de leerme el FAQ-Debian Mi pregunta es la siguiente Voy a instalar el Debian 2.0 el 15 de Noviembre Quisiera saber como crear la particion ideal si yo creo una gran particion corro el riesgo que en caso que se corrompa el sistema de archivos puedo perde mucha informacion Asi que me

Re: El rescue disk de bo salvó mi vida

1998-11-01 Thread Gerardo . Aburruzaga
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ismael Valladolid wrote: 1.- ¿Como se crea un disco de arranque de emergencia con hamm? Igual que con bo. Lo mismo que hiciste con bo, hazlo con hamm. 2.- No necesité contraseña de root para desfacer el entuerto. Supongo que entonces da igual poner contraseña a root si

El rescue disk de bo salvó mi vida

1998-11-01 Thread Ismael Valladolid
Esta mañana, trasteando con el XF86Config, conseguí dejar colgado el Linux durante el arranque (al iniciar xdm). Por suerte tenía un rescue disk creado para instalar Debian 1.3.1 (bo), con el que inicié el sistema, monté mi partición Linux en mnt, y devolví el XF86Config a su estado inicial. Me

jserv

1998-11-01 Thread oswald berthold
yo please, was anybody lucky with installing the jserv module for apache on debian (and already has a package at hand?)? apparently the apache installation which comes with deb2.0 , expects modules to be compiled as shared_object files, which i do, but with the 1.3.3 source of apache rather than

dselect and changing CD's

1998-11-01 Thread Michael A. Endsley
Hello! I bought the official Debian2.0 CD's and am having trouble installing everything that I want. I mark the programs that I want, install them, then change the CD to the contrib CD and then do a update. When I select and try to install the programs/apps, it won't install them! What am I

Closed end of a pipe

1998-11-01 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello evebody, I have a general C/Unix question. Is it possible for a writer to find out the state (opened/closed) of the other end of a pipe without writting to the pipe? Take these broken wings and learn to fly...

Re: Contributing?

1998-11-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
G == Gossamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G I was just looking at URLview and the url_handler.sh ... it references G mutt, netscape, lynx and ncftp directly - shouldn't we be calling G the /etc/alternatives/whatever files? Depends on what the package does now. Alternatives are for packages

Re: Modem connection speed

1998-11-01 Thread Michele Bini
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard sorry, what posting do you refer to? another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm

Re: mutt broken after slink upgrade

1998-11-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Eric; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I just updated to slink and now mutt refuses to send mail. When i start up mutt it works fine, except for the fact that it is in black and white instead of color, until I try to actually send a message that I have composed. It says Error sending

Mutt and exmh not talking?

1998-11-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am losing mail. I have the following installed. ii mh 6.8.4-25 Rand mail handling system. ii mutt0.93.2-1 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME and th ii exmh2.0.2-2An X user interface for MH mail. Recently I have been losing mail.

Re: how do you recompile the kernel?

1998-11-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, roadrun37 wrote: 4) so instead i did make dep 5) then make clean 6) make zImage 7) make zdisk 8) make modules 9) make modules_install 10) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0 Like someone else said, you don't need 6 or 10 with make zdisk. But that

Re: Slink upgrade messed up X configs

1998-11-01 Thread mwb
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Eric wrote: I recently pointed dselect to slink in order to upgrade. I picked through all the packages and everything and got it all to install properly, but when I was done, X would not work properly. I tried upgrading too, and I also found that the configs were gone. I

Install to removable hdd

1998-11-01 Thread Neoklis Kyriazis
Hi all, I am a newbie to Linux, Debian and this forum so I hope I get thru! I have been trying to install (sneak in!) Linux from cdrom on to a PC at work so I have to do this on a removable hdd. I originally failed to install from the cdrom for some reason so I downloaded resc1440 and copied

Re: Modem connection speed

1998-11-01 Thread john
Michele writes: It seems that there isn't a place (manpages, howtos, readmes) where these speeds are listed :(, and even worse, my posting about this problem via the debian bug tracking system had no replies What package did you file the bug against? You should at least have gotten an

neXtaw widgets?

1998-11-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have installed the neXtaw widget package in hopes of having the cleaner look to my apps. It appears to have worked half way. I have the outline and relative effectiveness OK but the bar and buttons do not look right. They should be a solid color with an indented dot in the center of the

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-11-01 Thread Darxus
Well... I would say I've had substantial success. Cygnus gnu win32 gzip/tar was able to extract my 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz, and all the filenames seemed to be intact in windows' long filename format. But when I booted back to Linux, and attempted to copy the files over to my current home directory,

How to confiure debian 2.0 for AOpen FM-56H modem??

1998-11-01 Thread Rakesh Mohan
Hello, I have installed debian 2.0 on my pentium-11 pc, along with Windows NT 4.0 The machine has an internal modem AOpen FM-56H (Rockwell Chipset)and is using COM3 port for Windows NT. I can't check the IRQ on NT because the Advace button in the setting of ports dialog box is grayed out. I

Haunted PPP daemon.....

1998-11-01 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
Well, apparently in the spirt of Halloween, pppd has decided to become haunted and not cooperate at all. I am trying to set up a dialup internet connection on my laptop running Debian 2.0. I just updated it from ftp.debian.org this morning, so everything is about as current as it can get.

ALSA........

1998-11-01 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I just get kernel 2.1.126 and i have a problem with it. Sounds woes not work... i was told on irc, that the sound support of this kernel of broken for SB cards (i have SB AWE 64). The sound support from the kernel is from OSS, isnit? Well what about alsa?, there are several packages

please help with netscape and sound

1998-11-01 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I have try different ways to make my Netscape play some .au files from the web pages. It was impossible (for me). The sound is OK and the au files play ok if I send them to the /dev/dsp. But I don't understand how to tell Netscape to do this ! Please help ! Ionutz

Re: neXtaw widgets?

1998-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Keith Setford wrote: I have installed the neXtaw widget package in hopes of having the cleaner look to my apps. It appears to have worked half way. I have the outline and relative effectiveness OK but the bar and buttons do not look right. They should be a solid color with an indented

FLOPPY DISK INSTALLATION RAWRITE

1998-11-01 Thread Bill Miller
Dear Friends, I am brand spankin' new to Debian Linux. I am really looking forward to using it for GIS and also as a way to learn Unix. The Debian Linux Installation How-To says that you have to copy about six or so files to floppy disk in order to install from floppy disks (yes, I read that

Motif?

1998-11-01 Thread D'jinnie
Ok, I'm going to thoroughly expose my ignorance of all things X Motif... I'm taking a class on Motif programming and thought I could use my Linux machine at home to compile the code...no go, obviously. So I guess I'm wondering - is Motif thoroughly un-free? I attempted to go to their website (why

lilo

1998-11-01 Thread Debian-User
Hi I forgot the var in lilo to set in order to tell the kernel 128M Ram. Can any one clue me in?

How to run a prog in graphics virtual console

1998-11-01 Thread John Leget
Darn, bitten again by updating with slink ;0) new version of open open_1.4-9 seems to behave differently ive been using it to launch doom onto a graphics capable console now it just comes up in its ussual vt7 saying not running in a graphics capable-console. Used to run into this problem before i

Re: Motif?

1998-11-01 Thread aqy6633
Ok, I'm going to thoroughly expose my ignorance of all things X Motif... I'm taking a class on Motif programming and thought I could use my Linux machine at home to compile the code...no go, obviously. So I guess I'm wondering - is Motif thoroughly un-free? I attempted to go to their website

Re: FLOPPY DISK INSTALLATION RAWRITE

1998-11-01 Thread AJT60
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Bill Miller wrote: Dear Friends, I have several problems with the file copying that I baaadly need help with. First, the instructions say to use the utility program, rawrite, to write the appropriate files to my 1.44 MB 3.5 floppy disks. As both rawrite and the

Re: FLOPPY DISK INSTALLATION RAWRITE

1998-11-01 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Bill Miller wrote: Dear Friends, I am brand spankin' new to Debian Linux. I am really looking forward to using it for GIS and also as a way to learn Unix. The Debian Linux Installation How-To says that you have to copy about six or so files to floppy disk in order

my x-server install fails..

1998-11-01 Thread puzzle12
hi i just got the right server Mach 64 for my ATI Expert Graphics card but the probe fails and the installation too any one has similar card ? please help thanks or do i need to set the monitor resolutions correctly too ? i just made a few guesses and all failed so far i use Compaq 17''

kernel build

1998-11-01 Thread Waif W. Urchin
Ok, This is a long tale to get to my question, so please bear with the background info. I've been using Windows for a decade or so, but yearned for the opportunity to run a system that spends more time running applications than flashing blue screens and fatal exception errors. Linux sounded

Re: kernel build

1998-11-01 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Waif W. Urchin wrote: snip I have been trying, for the last 17 hours of my Linux experience to get a PPP connection running to my ISP. USR Courier external (not winmodem) on TTYS1 (com2). I've used pppconfig, pppsetup, PAP, CHAP, Chat, and the Lord's prayer all to no

Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-01 Thread Bruce Jackson
When I try and mount my Linux server from Solaris 2.6 the Linux box denies it. Any ideas. I have another Linux box that can NFS mount the server. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-01 Thread Bruce Jackson
George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: When I try and mount my Linux server from Solaris 2.6 the Linux box denies it. Any ideas. I have another Linux box that can NFS mount the server. Might it be the old lockd bug? I have trouble getting solaris to mount

Re: .Xresources?

1998-11-01 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app understands if | its not listed in the man page? I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called editres. -- Eschew obfuscation(go on; look them both up)

RE: FLOPPY DISK INSTALLATION RAWRITE

1998-11-01 Thread David Karlin
1) Download rawrite to the winbox 2) Download the disk images to the winbox 3) Use rawrite to copy the disk images to floppies (also on the winbox) 4) Run the floppies in the linux box. This worked for me with no problems. --David -Original Message- From: Bill Miller [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: kernel build

1998-11-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Waif W. Urchin wrote: Ok, This is a long tale to get to my question, so please bear with the background info. Sure... I downloaded Debian 2.0.34 from the debian mirror site a couple weeks ago. Pulled all the base files, the drivers file, etc. I ran rawrite2 to

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-01 Thread Bruce Jackson
George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same time now, maybe in the future. Solaris complains that it can not lock files over

Stuck with M$ Exchange.

1998-11-01 Thread Leandro Dutra
I work at a company which uses only M$ Exchange for email, and a gateway to SMTP. I could install Linux on my machine, but would need a piece of s/w to be able to talk to the Exchange server. Is there any thing available? TIA! Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra

transferring large files from DOS/Windoze to Debian

1998-11-01 Thread Chris Evans
Is there a way to transfer large files from DOS/Windoze machines to Debian if you only have a null modem or floppies to connect the two? I want to download some large files for Debian (staroffice and a newer kernel source). My Debian machine is now at home and it will cost a fortune to

gtk+

1998-11-01 Thread Jimmy Tan
hi, i need some help on gtk+ compiling. i compiled glib with the following commands; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/gnome make su make install vi /etc/ld.so.conf (added /usr/local/gnome/lib in it) idconfig after that i added /usr/local/gnome/bin to my $PATH then i tried to compile gtk+

Re: transferring large files from DOS/Windoze to Debian

1998-11-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 10:58:33 -, Chris Evans wrote: Failing that, anything that will split files under DOS/doze in a way that they can be reassembled after floppy transfer under Debian? RAR. There is a version for both Win* and Linux which will allow you to archive up the files and split

mutt trashes mail

1998-11-01 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I upgraded mutt to v 0.93.2-1. Now all mail that has been read is deleted from my inbox. Is there a configuration issue? alan davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help! apt upgrade breaks everything

1998-11-01 Thread timothy
Hi, I left my machine doing apt-get upgrade, and now I have tonnes of pages of errors like - dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8', which is also in package passwd dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to

Pre-Assigned groups documented?

1998-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! Is there a web page (or even a file locally on my Debian/GNU 2.0 system) that documents the purpose of the preassigned groups in my /etc/group? For example: There is a group called www-data. I might believe that this group is the group of users that have write access to the web server

Re: help! apt upgrade breaks everything

1998-11-01 Thread Randy Edwards
PS: Why is xbase_3.3.2.3a-6 100K and my old xbase_3.3.2.3a-1 2.1MB? With 3.3.2.3a-6 the slink X package underwent a major redesign. It still has a lot of problems (I've still got one system which has WindowMaker broken sniff, sob:-). IMHO, you might want to consider putting the various

X Server..

1998-11-01 Thread puzzle12
Hi, I have a problem in XServer Instalation. Any one using Mach-64 for ATI Expert ? I downloaded th sever and tried to run the xbase-config program but it fails at probe level. I use Compaq 17'' (171FS) monitor Any clues of possible config problems ? thanks

about latex and tables

1998-11-01 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I have a table that is too big (too long) to fit on one page. Can LaTeX break this table by itself ? How ? I was forced to split the table in 2 parts, but I would like a more intelligent solution (my table fitted in 2 pages, so it wasn't so hard to split by hand. But what do I do when the

Re: lilo

1998-11-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I forgot the var in lilo to set in order to tell the kernel 128M Ram. Can any one clue me in? apppend=mem=128M in /etc/lilo.conf. I assume just mem=128M at the lilo prompt, if you want to type it every time :) rick

Re: dselect and changing CD's

1998-11-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Hello! I bought the official Debian2.0 CD's and am having trouble installing everything that I want. I mark the programs that I want, install them, then change the CD to the contrib CD and then do a update. When I select and try to install the programs/apps, it won't install them! What

Re: Install to removable hdd

1998-11-01 Thread Michael B. Taylor
It is possible for a disk to be in a state where cfdisk (the program used on the installation disk) can't work on it, but fdisk can. fdisk is a bit harder to use, but I suggest that you give it a shot. -choose the option on the installation program that lets you exit to a console -type 'fdisk

conflict w/ .debs

1998-11-01 Thread Darxus
Okay, I have a very recent snapshot of imlib installed -- I'm not using the .deb of imlib, because it's not recent enough. Now I want to install the gnome .deb -- but that depends on the imlib .deb. What am I to do ?

Re: Pre-Assigned groups documented?

1998-11-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MH == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MH Is there a web page (or even a file locally on my Debian/GNU 2.0 MH system) that documents the purpose of the preassigned groups in my MH /etc/group? Sorry, no idea about that MH For example: There is a group called www-data. I might believe that

Delete key changed its behavior

1998-11-01 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, After installing some packages from Debain-JP, my delete and backspace keys changed their behavior under X. Now they delete the character in front of the prompt. Even Netscape behaves like this. Can somebody please tell me where should I make the changes ? TIA, Ionutz

NQS ported to Debian?

1998-11-01 Thread John Plate
Hi Does anybody know if NQS has been ported to Debian? NQS is a batching system for Unix. Thanks in advance. -- John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transferring large files from DOS/Windoze to Debian

1998-11-01 Thread Michael B. Taylor
If your home machine is dual boot, you could transfer to the MS side with laplink, reboot to Debian, and mount the FAT partition. If you resort to floppies, at least some zip programs in MS-land allow you to split big files into many, floppy-sized, files. Debian can mount floppies, and with the

TeTeX and fonts

1998-11-01 Thread Ralf Comtesse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, since a while ago, when I upgraded my tetex distribution, not all fonts are used when using LaTeX or lyx. Especially palatino is used replaced by the normal roman font family. I deleted all *.pk files and they are reprocuced, when I run xdvi again,

Re: transferring large files from DOS/Windoze to Debian

1998-11-01 Thread Kent West
Also, if you have access to a parallel port zip/jaz, you could take it home overnight. = Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO = A day without sunshine is like... night.

Re: about latex and tables

1998-11-01 Thread Colin Telmer
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: I have a table that is too big (too long) to fit on one page. Can LaTeX break this table by itself ? How ? I was forced to split the table in 2 parts, but I would like a more intelligent solution (my table fitted in 2 pages, so it wasn't so hard to

weird problems with RedHat+debian

1998-11-01 Thread zhaoway
some local messgae for folks in our LUG: I've just deleted windoze from my HD, and I'm not very sure you can receive this fucking message yet. Anyway, I need help. First, things do not seem to be such easy as I thought 5 hours ago. AT that time I'm just too excited about jianghao's show up in

Re: conflict w/ .debs

1998-11-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Okay, I have a very recent snapshot of imlib installed -- I'm not using the .deb of imlib, because it's not recent enough. Now I want to install the gnome .deb -- but that depends on the imlib .deb. What am I to do ? dpkg

Re: realplayer just buzzing.

1998-11-01 Thread Brent McMillan
Yup, still no use. On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi Brent McMillan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I downloaded RealPlayer, Version 5.0.0.45 and in a bout of lazyness, downloaded the rvplayer.deb installer. Install went without any error messages I could see, but

Re: transferring large files from DOS/Windoze to Debian

1998-11-01 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:58:33AM -, Chris Evans wrote: Is there a way to transfer large files from DOS/Windoze machines to Debian if you only have a null modem or floppies to connect the two? I want to download some large files for Debian (staroffice and a newer kernel source). My

xntp3 and local time zone setting

1998-11-01 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I am very pleased with my brand new kabel internet connection. My Debian box does the masquerading trick great. Now I would like to install a time client, in order to keep my system up to date. I installed xntp3 and it seems to return the time very well. The problem is that it (seems to) assume

Kernel rebuild

1998-11-01 Thread Waif W. Urchin
Grr... Alright, still trying to recompile my kernel after doing an initial install from floppy. First I couldn't find 'make'. As pointed out (nicely) by some of you, the floppy install apparently does not contain this file. Downloaded and dpkg'd it (I actually had dpkg installed!). Tried

Re: help! apt upgrade breaks everything

1998-11-01 Thread timothy
Oh dear But it gives me the same errors when I try to downgrade. :(. So what should I do, just sit wait and pray that I don't have a long enough power failure to drain my UPS and kill my current X session? (I presume It will be broken if i try to restart X). thanx, timothy With

Re: Stuck with M$ Exchange.

1998-11-01 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote: I work at a company which uses only M$ Exchange for email, and a gateway to SMTP. I could install Linux on my machine, but would need a piece of s/w to be able to talk to the Exchange server. Is there any thing available? Exchange servers, at

Re: Kernel rebuild

1998-11-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
WWU == Waif W Urchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WWU Debain can't find gcc. Well gcc is a compiler. You can't expet to have this big fat thing on this few disks. WWU Where do I find, and what is cpp? Is it part of libc? The version of cpp is the C (the programming language) preprocessor. It

Re: xntp3 and local time zone setting

1998-11-01 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Is it possible to set some parameter to overcome this time zone difference? The xntp3 docs did not give an aswer, so I am assuming that it should be on the Linux side. Erik, Try 'tzconfig'. .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my

Re: Modem connection speed

1998-11-01 Thread Michele Bini
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 02:01:55AM +0100, Michele Bini wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:23:31AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is it just an improper

Re: Delete key changed its behavior

1998-11-01 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: After installing some packages from Debain-JP, my delete and backspace keys changed their behavior under X. Now they delete the character in front of the prompt. Even Netscape behaves like this. Can somebody please tell me where should I make the

Problems switching to debian

1998-11-01 Thread Zack Brown
Hi, I recently switched from Slackware to Debian, and overall I am happy with it: in particular, configuration is much more regular than with Slackware, and I really appreciate that. There are still a few stubborn little problems that are actually pretty central to my work. I'm hoping I can find

Re: Stuck with M$ Exchange.

1998-11-01 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Netscape Communicator's IMAP email client works very nicely with Exchange's (rather strange implementation of an) IMAP server. Works with public folders too... On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote: From: Leandro Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'DebUsr' debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun,

Re: please help with netscape and sound

1998-11-01 Thread Thomas Lakofski
set netscape to use 'play %s' in the 'helper applications' section of the preferences. 'play' is in the 'sox' package. this isn't the only answer, just the first off the top of my head. On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: From: Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users

Re: No PPP connection :(

1998-11-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shaleh wrote: Paolo, the Cannot determine proxy arp is normal. Can you ping by IP? What Add 'noproxyarp' to your ppp provider file to make this go away. does ifconfig show? Mayhaps the default route is set to the ethernet card and not

Re: Modem connection speed

1998-11-01 Thread john
Michele Bini writes: Also please remember to edit your /etc/rc.boot/0setserial file to have spd_vhi (or spd_hi) in the STD_FLAGS: STD_FLAGS=session_lockout spd_vhi Please don't. pppd will work just fine at 115200 without this. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

splitting up a MIME-digest

1998-11-01 Thread Thomas Lakofski
I have a couple of messages with about 1200+ messages in each as MIME-digests (thanks to the braindead forwarding of microsoft exchange server) I was wondering if anyone had suggestions of a way to split these digests up into folders of individual messages. Sadly, the obvious candidate, the

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-01 Thread Tomas Jareckas
Hello, I installed Debian and now have problem: I need the sound card to start work, but I cant find source code (in howto doc given path /usr/scr/linux/drivers/sound is not correct) What should I do ? I have SoundBlaster AWE 32. Please help Tomas Jareckas

Re: Kernel rebuild

1998-11-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Waif W. Urchin wrote: [ snip ] : I'd like to find a nice essential things to download after doing a bare : floppy install FAQ or some such. There is a reason the install throws you into dselect after the initial reboot :) dselect has a minimum set of packages ready for

exim and bad Sender: header

1998-11-01 Thread Carl Johnson
I have received 2 bad debian-user messages in the past couple of days that have held up my mail system. In both cases fetchmail received the message, but exim rejected it, which then caused fetchmail to quit without deleting the message. In both cases it appeared to be a message with a header

netatalk printing again

1998-11-01 Thread Thomas Adams
I solved my former netatalk problem. Looks like netatalk and LPRng don't go together unless you put a :pr=| lpr -Pprinter:\ into the papd.conf file. But now that I can print to my DeskJet 520 from my Mac I notice that the margins don't fit. I have yet to see a document that appears on paper the

Print Postscript in draft-mode on Canpn BJ200, today!

1998-11-01 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I have spent some time in the ghostscript source trying to make my BJ200e print Postscript in draft-mode. Anyone who uses the BJ200 knows it can be a real ink-hog when priniting some documents, and most of the printing I do can be done in draft mode. If you are interested in how, please

Re: FLOPPY DISK INSTALLATION RAWRITE

1998-11-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Bill Miller wrote: polite note: all caps locked titles aren't nice I am brand spankin' new to Debian Linux. I am really looking forward to using it for GIS and also as a way to learn Unix. The Debian Linux Installation How-To says that you have to copy about six or so

Re: X Server..

1998-11-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have a problem in XServer Instalation. Any one using Mach-64 for ATI Expert ? I downloaded th sever and tried to run the xbase-config program but it fails at probe level. I use Compaq 17'' (171FS) monitor I use the Xpert98, and IMHO it is very good. My XF86Config file is available by

Re: .Xresources?

1998-11-01 Thread stick
Ole J. Tetlie said [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app understands | if its not listed in the man page? I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called editres. Editres will list the reasources an application uses

Re: Problems switching to debian

1998-11-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
1) printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer. Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install. I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a DeskJet 500,

LyX questions ...

1998-11-01 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm having some questions that i would like to know today to print my work! 1. How can i remove the page number only from the first page !? 2. I've a line on quotation format, then a equation made on math editor and then again a line with quotation format. I've:

Re: ALSA........

1998-11-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 01:32:28AM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hello, I just get kernel 2.1.126 and i have a problem with it. Sounds woes not work... i was told on irc, that the sound support of this kernel of broken for SB cards (i have SB AWE 64). The sound support from the kernel is

Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?)

1998-11-01 Thread tko
Eric Webb writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:43:05 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?): Nick Lucent writes: -- Start of PGP signed section. On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Eric Webb wrote: check

Re: Modem connection speed

1998-11-01 Thread Michele Bini
On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 08:23:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michele writes: It seems that there isn't a place (manpages, howtos, readmes) where these speeds are listed :(, and even worse, my posting about this problem via the debian bug tracking system had no replies What package

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-01 Thread tko
Bruce Jackson writes: George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same time now, maybe in the future. Solaris complains

SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

1998-11-01 Thread Reagan Doose
I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD. I have a Dell Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a 2GB UW hard drive. All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like it is coming up, then I get this: (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr

Okipage 6e control program.

1998-11-01 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, I have an Okipage 6e that I would like to hook up to a Debian box. Unfortunately it has no control panel--it is intended to be controlled with software via a bidirectional parallel port. The docs say it emulates a LaserJet 4p, which I have confirmed to be true. It will work under Dos

PPP Connection and local networ

1998-11-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I setup my PPP connection, but I'm in trouble with my ethernet local network. How I can route the packages correctly. When I'm using PPP I can't use the network and vice-versa. Also, I setuped the network and when I telnet to one computer I can login and

Slow ppp w/Debian2.0 vs. Debian1.3.1

1998-11-01 Thread tony mollica
Using my old Debian 1.3.1, plog gives a consistent 50666 to 5 connection rate and ifconfig never registers any errors at these speeds. Netscape download speeds range from 4.8 to 5.5 Kbytes/sec, sometimes a little more, somtimes less. With Debian 2.0 however, even though the initial

Re: exim and bad Sender: header

1998-11-01 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I ended up with the following fetchmail messages: reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 @kira.peak.org : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 carlj : sender address must contain a

Isapnp won't see my AWE64 sound card.

1998-11-01 Thread roadrun37
does anyone have this problem?

Re: Kernel rebuild

1998-11-01 Thread Michael Beattie
In response to all of the below, I would recommend that you try to get your ppp connection to work, so you can _finish_ the installation. The kernel is probably the least of your worries at this point in time. If you post the tail of your /var/log/ppp.log file, starting from where pppd is fired

Re: Haunted PPP daemon.....

1998-11-01 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Klaus Lepschi wrote: As far as I know there is a little bug in the example scripts for ppp 2.3.5 insofar it does not mention a necessaray parameter that is needed when pppd is called. To connect you to your service provider pppd needs to know your login name. This can be

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