(fuera de tema) formatos estandar (era Re: GNOME, KDE, StarOffice5.0 y Microsoft)

1998-12-02 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 11:24:29PM +0100, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: [... sobre StarOffice ...] Mi respuesta se sale totalmente del tema de la lista, pero no me he podido resistir. Espero que me lo perdonéis, y prometo contenerme en lo sucesivo... (si interesa continuar la discusión, mejor pasamos

Para cuando una version de Gnome en Debian?

1998-12-02 Thread Melkor
Saludos, Esta es la pregunta que me he hecho. Que pasa con Gnome?. Es que Debian espera hasta que congelen la 1.0 y hagan la oficial?. Es un sentimiento algo tonto, pero me da repelus ver un paquete en nonfree llamado kde-base, y no un gnome-base en el main, local, o contrib. (hablo

Re: Nethack

1998-12-02 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Creo que Jose te ha contestado bastante en detalle. Pero solo queria contestarte a la tercera pregunta: MUD = Multiuser Dungeon Aunque Nethack sea un juego tipo DD: imaginate un Diablo, pero, MUCHO mas completo, por ejemplo pasan cosas si metes objetos en pociones, si

Re: Para cuando una version de Gnome en Debian?

1998-12-02 Thread Melkor
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 03:51:35PM +, Melkor wrote: Saludos, Esta es la pregunta que me he hecho. Que pasa con Gnome?. Es que Debian espera hasta que congelen la 1.0 y hagan la oficial?. Es un sentimiento algo tonto, pero me da

Re: GNOME, KDE, StarOffice5.0 y Microsoft

1998-12-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 11:24:29PM +0100, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: ¿Alguien sabe si el equipo de GNOME (del que forma parte RedHat) ha hecho algun comunicado o postura oficial acerca de la modificacion de la licencia de Qt? No hay nada en www.gnome.org, pero me imagino que cuando la nueva

Re: Para cuando una version de Gnome en Debian?

1998-12-02 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:04:04PM +, Melkor wrote: Gracias por la informacion. Por cierto, hace un tiempo instale los paquetes rpm de la RedHat 5.0 (los de gnome, claro, y por supuesto convertidos a deb por alien). No me dio problemas de dependencias, pero luego, al ejecutar el

Imágen en GUI Tcl/Tk

1998-12-02 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos, Estoy realizando una GUI en Tcl/Tk y lo más sencillo supongo, que es que aparezca en el panel de entrada al programa: | | Boton1| | |- | | Boton2| | |-

Resolución de vídeo con Quake2

1998-12-02 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos, reciéntemente he instalado el Quake2 en mi disco DOS y accedo a el desde Linux mediante el pack debian2.deb (o algo así). El juego arranca y funciona pero la única configuración de vídeo que me admite es: driver: software videomode: 320X240 Yo tengo una tarjeta de vídeo Asus AGP

Re: Imágen en GUI Tcl/Tk

1998-12-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 06:06:58PM +, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: | | Boton1| | |- | | Boton2| | |- | LOGO | Boton3| |

¿Por qué un antiácido?

1998-12-02 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Ya Marcelo, si lo que uso es VisualTcl, pero no me pilla la imagen que le asigno al widget de la derecha ni a tiros, no se qué pasa. Gracias. Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problema con CDROM PIONEER

1998-12-02 Thread Knight Of Chaos
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:54:03 +0100 To:debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org From: Angel Barrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problema con CDROM PIONEER Hola: Soy un novato en esto de Linux tengo un problema para instalar la versión 2.0 de Debian (la

Re: headers

1998-12-02 Thread Pere Camps
David, Were you unaware that kernel source provides kernel headers? No, I was not unaware of that. I was just wondering if the .deb made the correct symlinks within the filesystem. Like /usr/include/linux or /urs/include/asm... Should /usr/include/linux point to anywhere? Do you

Re: How to use a ramdisk?

1998-12-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Eric House [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not | as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk | on hamm, how do I set it up? | | So far, I've: | put 'ramdisk=2000' in my /etc/lilo.conf file (and run lilo).

Re: Adding a DNS entry to the /etc/NETWORKS file

1998-12-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
The DNS addresses (up to three are allowed) are specified as nameserver parameters in /etc/resolv.conf, not in /etc/networks. See 'man resolv.conf'. Bob On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All :) Can someone tell me how to add a DNS entry into the /etc/networks file? I've got

Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread rathon
Hi, I bought a Netgear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter card - FX310tx by Bay Networks. Then I looked thru the EthernetHOW-TO and this card is not listed anywhere. I am using Debian2.0. Does this mean no driver, no support ??? Can anyone confirm for me pls ? I need to know if I should return this

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Helge Hafting wrote: [...] X-+-xbase | +-xservers | +-xfonts This looks good. Of course the groups should be collapsable so the user can get where he wants fast. Yes, this is what I was thinking of. Right now the only way to 'associate' packages with

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
On 1 Dec 1998, rathon wrote: Hi, I bought a Netgear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter card - FX310tx by Bay Networks. Then I looked thru the EthernetHOW-TO and this card is not listed anywhere. I am using Debian2.0. Does this mean no driver, no support ??? I saw Netgear cards with DEC (211**?)

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Leandro Dutra wrote: This feature would, I fear, strain the dpkg system even more. I'm starting to see occasional failures under dselect/apt/dpkg that fortunately, for now, are transient (i.e. rerun dselect/apt and the failure doesn't reoccur). It suggests to me that we are

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Sean Johnson
Go to the help directory on the floppy that came with the card. There are directions on how to compile support for the Netgear card. All it involves is copying a file (tulip.c) into your /usr/src/linux/drivers/net directory and recompiling the kernel. Be sure to remember the questions

Re: How to use a ramdisk?

1998-12-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Eric House wrote: The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk on hamm, how do I set it up? The file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt contains all the info you need. If you haven't

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have an older 310tx with the Digital 21140 AE chip which works great. I also noticed that Netgear decided to remove the Digital 21140 (Tulip) chip from their more recent models. If you have a 310tx card that says NETGEAR on the chip try and take it back. If you look hard enough you can

Xemacs 20.4

1998-12-02 Thread Robert Kerr
Xemacs 19 paid attention to the line in .Xdefaults : xemacs.geometry, why doesn't Xemacs20 pay attention too? thanks -bob UNIX _IS_ user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-12-02 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:48:15AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Dana G Haugli writes: Hi! I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. I have tried adding mem=128M to my lilo config file as recommended in the HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work.

Re: problems+suggestions

1998-12-02 Thread wb2oyc
Wouldn't it be nice if a configuration of all installed packages could be saved in some data file that you could put on a disk and whenever you want to install a new machine or go back to this good configuration you just load the data-file into dselect or whatever program that gets/installs

Re: problems+suggestions

1998-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 12:49:12AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: I'll take the suggestion first :) Wouldn't it be nice if a configuration of all installed packages could be saved in some data file that you could put on a disk and whenever you want to install a new machine or go back to this

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread john
Ed Cogburn writes: I occasionally see a general protection failure (or something similar) message that starts with a string of zeros. As long as they are transient, they are not serious (but indicate a weakness in dpkg) No they don't. A general protection failure can never be caused by an

Re: headers

1998-12-02 Thread john
Pere Camps writes: I was just wondering if the .deb made the correct symlinks within the filesystem. No, the deb correctly does not make the symlinks. Debian doesn't use them. This is a FAQ. See /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Bay used to use DEC tulip chips in these cards. Now they are being made with a chip by Lite-on. If you have the newest card, you will need the newest driver from: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html This driver is known to work with the new chips. Mike On Tue, Dec 01, 1998

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 01. desember 1998 reit Brant Wells svohljóðandi: Hey all! I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! Thanx, Brant This *.deb file is only the frontend for installing

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Matt Garman wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 12:01:07PM -0800, Brant Wells wrote: Hey all! I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! Did you get the *.tar.gz (or *.tgz) file from Netscape? Debian does not have a

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Matt Garman wrote: Did you get the *.tar.gz (or *.tgz) file from Netscape? Debian does not have a package, as such, for Netscape. Potato does (maybe even slink?). Having said that, I don't know if the poster is using the hamm package or not. Peter

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Cogburn writes: I occasionally see a general protection failure (or something similar) message that starts with a string of zeros. As long as they are transient, they are not serious (but indicate a weakness in dpkg) No they don't. A general protection

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-12-02 Thread Gary Singleton
IIRC you have to type the full line 'append mem=128M' including the 'append' part. HTH, G.S. - ---Michael B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:48:15AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Dana G Haugli writes: Hi! I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only

Re: Virtual Console Messed Up When Switching From X

1998-12-02 Thread Pete Harlan
I have the same problem, also with an S3 ViRGE/DX card. I can produce it by stopping and starting xdm. Running setfont (or is that seT7onT?) restores the vc console fonts, but it's probably a bug in the SVGA's server for this chipset. Perhaps it's fixed in 3.3.3... -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ed Cogburn wrote: [snipped for brevity] Yes, /usr/local is a problem. Well, perhaps this method could include an 'override' for any package that would suppress dpkg's indication that a deb package has been orphaned. The user who as developed a /usr/local/ binary that depends on an

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
rathon wrote: Hi, I bought a Netgear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter card - FX310tx by Bay Networks. Then I looked thru the EthernetHOW-TO and this card is not listed anywhere. I am using Debian2.0. Does this mean no driver, no support ??? Can anyone confirm for me pls ? I need to know

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ Something about gpfs ] As I said later in my message, I'm not sure of the error messages 'name' or origin, because I haven't seen one of these failures recently. It can't be hardware though, these transient errors

backup

1998-12-02 Thread Richard Black
Hi I have recently converted from nt to linux and have some tapes, made by ntbackup, that I would like to restore under linux. Any help about how I could do this would be much appreciated! The best that I can think of is via wine, but I haven't looked into this yet. Unfortunately, I have not

sb 32 PnP

1998-12-02 Thread Richard Black
Hi I have got my sound card (a soundblaster 32 PnP) up and running (with the 2.1.125 kernal). Is there a way to check whether the card is just running like a sb16 (if indeed this is a meaningful question) os as a sb32? My /dev/sndstat is below. thanks in advance Richard e: Driver loaded as

Re: Win95 - ghostscript (oneko)

1998-12-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: BTW, anyone know if there is something like oneko available for Win95? (Cat chases the mouse cursor.) I've had an aww, that's cute, can I have that on a floppy? response, and I'm not sure what he'd do with a .deb :-) Yep... neko95 exists somewhere out

Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, robinson:~/uni/c++/src$ c++ hello.C /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I heard some people have the same problem. But how can I fix it? You need libstdc++, install

Re: sb 32 PnP

1998-12-02 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, From your /dev/sndstat, your midi device is working! Is this because of the new kernel, or you did some tricks with isapnp tools?? Thanks in advance. PS. I can never get my midi device working under 2.0.35 Shao. On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Richard Black wrote: Hi I

Re: sb 32 PnP

1998-12-02 Thread Richard Black
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, From your /dev/sndstat, your midi device is working! Is this because of the new kernel, or you did some tricks with isapnp tools?? Thanks in advance. PS. I can never get my midi device working under 2.0.35 Shao. I have no idea--I'm

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 1 Dec 1998, rathon wrote: : Hi, : : I bought a Netgear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter card - FX310tx by Bay Networks. : : Then I looked thru the EthernetHOW-TO and this card is not listed anywhere. tulip.o -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL

libstdc++ : __register_frame_info (Repost)

1998-12-02 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Folks, If you are getting the error /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info after upgrading to slink, please go through the mail below. Mitch's solution worked for me. This issue may be irrelevent when the new stuff shows up on the servers. This is just a

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-02 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Of course. Add the two commented lines, and watch. \address \signature don't produce output, they define variables. Output is produced by \opening \closing Regards On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Roy C Bixler wrote: I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office

upgrading to slink

1998-12-02 Thread Jameson Burt
I see no upgrade notes for slink. For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in .../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the upgrade distribution. For example, I might install a newer gimp from slink. Since I wouldn't have upgraded

Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Jeff Browning
Howdy all, I am a Windoze user tired of having 5 lockups a day. I should be installing Linux soon and I have a few questions. 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. What are desktop environments, window managers, etc.? 2. Is Star Office compatible with Office 97 documents? Does it

.bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Lindsay Allen
A while back I upgraded my slink box and now root's .bash_profile is not being processed at login. Normal users do not have a problem. The bash man page says When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/pro-

just a test - please ignore

1998-12-02 Thread MallarJ
Sorry, but I needed to test my connection to this list - my messages don't seem to be going out. Please ignore this post.

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-02 Thread Jameson Burt
exmh I use. It is an X-based front end to mh. I have thousands of mail in about 40 folders right now. I like seeing message titles/date/author above and the messages below. Perhaps since no one else has mentioned exmh, it might have a flaw. For example, since it is based on mh, one could alter

Re: upgrading to slink

1998-12-02 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
I have written a page for how to upgrade from HAMM to SLINK. It goes from a stock non apt-get HAMM distro to installing apt-get to upgrading to SLINK. It's located at http://www.tdyc.com/archive/slinkup.html/index.html I wrote it for a friend who kept asking me how to do the upgrade and he

Re: Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. What are desktop environments, window managers, etc.? Check out the tutorial on this - http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html/ it should give you at least a partial answer. 3. I currently

Re: Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: Howdy all, I am a Windoze user tired of having 5 lockups a day. I should be installing Linux soon and I have a few questions. 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. What are desktop environments, window managers, etc.? X-Windows is a

Re: Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: Howdy all, I am a Windoze user tired of having 5 lockups a day. I should be installing Linux soon and I have a few questions. 1. Could someone please explain X-Windows to me. What are desktop

Re: Mouse freezes

1998-12-02 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 12:27:42AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: AI == Andrew Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AI I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver, AI mouse stops working, and only reboot fixes it. I saw this just today (ps/2 M$ mouse). I restarted the

RE: Monitor vs X servers

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
Well, in running XF86Setup, it wouldn't bring up an xterm when SVGA was specified (nor S3, if I recall correctly). 0---51525354555657-- You were sure you installed the X server *before* running XF86Setup, weren't you? And also a window

Recommendation for PGP

1998-12-02 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Could anyone help me in getting the right PGP. There seem to be two versions, 2.6.3i and 5.0i. I have not been using PGP for quite some time, but need it again. In the old days there was no 5. Thanks up front -- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remove mail periodically?

1998-12-02 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I have around 10.000 mails in this folder now and it takes a while to open it so I'm wondering if there is some tool I can use to remove the old mails? Maybe periodically in a cron job? I'm using mutt with the Maildir format.. Maildir format - that means messages in individual files?

Re: Samba

1998-12-02 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I've just installed the Samba-server (and read the man-pages). I might be missing something but I can't figure out how to get a list of what Wimpdos calls the entire network. Can this be done without knowing any server-names? Hmm, can't find that! The best I can come up with is:

Re: Should be installing Linux soon. Questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Jeff Browning wrote: Howdy all, I am a Windoze user tired of having 5 lockups a day. I should be installing Linux soon and I have a few questions. 2. Is Star Office compatible with Office 97 documents? Does it have a spell checker. As far as the graphical interface is concerned, it

Re: problems+suggestions

1998-12-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 12:49:12AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: I'll take the suggestion first :) Wouldn't it be nice if a configuration of all installed packages could be saved in some data file that you could put on a disk and whenever you want

Festplatte partitionieren

1998-12-02 Thread Michael Wahl
Hallo ! Bin absoluter Debian / Linux Neuling und brauche ein paar Tips über die Festplattenpartition. Ich habe eine 1,7GB ATAPI und demnächst kommt noch eine 6,4GB Western Digital hinzu. Die ATAPI würde ich gerne für die Installation von Debian und anderen Betriebssystemen nutzen (NT40,

Re: sb 32 PnP

1998-12-02 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Richard Black wrote: Hi I have got my sound card (a soundblaster 32 PnP) up and running (with the 2.1.125 kernal). Is there a way to check whether the card is just running like a sb16 (if indeed this is a meaningful question) os as a sb32? My /dev/sndstat is below. Basically, a SBAWE32

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: [snip] I don't want to get pegged as an X/Emacs fanatic (which I am), but gnus, in conjunction with fetchmail (and maybe even without it) can do all the aforementioned operations. I'll second this. I'd also like to mention the `nnimap' backend

Re: Re : Re: Re : RE: please help me: problems for users!

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick RICHARD) writes: Hi, The files /etc/group and etc/passwd are OK. I use the shadow mode (password field = x in the file /etc/passwd). OK then, what are the permissions of the files? Mine are: $ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Helge Hafting
The problem of needing *some* sort of terminal can be solved by having both xterm and rxvt provide the same terminal capability, and have x-base suggest the terminal stuff. It shouldn't depend on it though, one can imagine an useful x-installation without a terminal. Nothing

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Larry de Graaf
Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be deleted. Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero. Larry

Re: backup

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
Richard Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recently converted from nt to linux and have some tapes, made by ntbackup, that I would like to restore under linux. Any help about how I could do this would be much appreciated! The best that I can think of is via wine, but I haven't looked

Re: How to fix Kernel panic

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
TONY ANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. [ ] text/plain [*] text/html (Please post just in plain text.) Now,I cannot boot from HDD as I did normally. I tried booting from F.Disk but I have this Msg Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 Can you please advice me

Re: Help! I need to de-install a custom kernel

1998-12-02 Thread Rodrigo Moya
ae, I created a kernel package for another machine. To create installation floppies I used dpkg -i .deb But that installed the wrong kernel into my good machine. How do I de-install my custom kernel I am not really sure about this, but I think this creates a vmlinuz.old

[maxwell@more.net: Re: Network Configuration]

1998-12-02 Thread ivan
Have you added lines to your /etc/resolv.conf? ex. nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of your DNS server. Yes, all the configuration files are right. I think that the problem is with the DNS or some configuration in it, but I don't know what kind

Re: which package for C++

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 16:55:03 -0600, JonesMB wrote: I am trying to build kpilot for my Palm Pilot and I get this error when I run .configure configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH AFAIK I already have the gcc package. The following is listed by dpkg -l. I am able to

Re: upgrading to slink

1998-12-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I see no upgrade notes for slink. That's right, it is not released yet. For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in .../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the upgrade distribution. For example, I might install a newer

Re: Recommendation for PGP

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:15:04 +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Could anyone help me in getting the right PGP. There seem to be two versions, 2.6.3i and 5.0i. It's difficult to tell which one is right for you if you don't state any criteria. For Debian development, you currently need an RSA

Re: problems+suggestions

1998-12-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I'll take the suggestion first :) Wouldn't it be nice if a configuration of all installed packages could be saved in some data file that you could put on a disk and whenever you want to install a new machine or go back to this good configuration you just load the data-file into dselect or

Re: Help needed with compressed files

1998-12-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[...] The unzip package doesn't do disk spanning. OTOH, if you can find a way of splitting the .deb into pieces, you can then easily put it back together again with cat part1 part2 xyzzy.deb. (That is, the first part contains bytes 1-100, second 101-200 etc.) The command for

Re: Help needed with compressed files

1998-12-02 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive and is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can compress them using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from spanned floppy disks? Any suggestions? I would use

R:Installation on IBM ThinkPad 380XD

1998-12-02 Thread Gualtiero Dellarole
I have not yet found a solution. I can only say that sometimes the system is able to boot and other times not (the most!). I continue to wait if someone else has found a solution. Gualtiero. -- Da: Ignacio Garcia[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato:venerdi 1 dicembre 2000 22.08 A:

Expect script for Del key under pico/pine. (fwd)

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi all, I am using the folowing method to correct the work of the keys backspace and delete under pine/pico: [latt-s:~] alias |grep pico pico/home/danieldf/bin/pico-pine.fix pico -e -k pine/home/danieldf/bin/pico-pine.fix pine

Re: [Off-topic] What happened to ORBS?

1998-12-02 Thread Marc Haber
On 01 Dec 1998 17:05:13 +0100, you wrote: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody know what happened to orbs.dorkslayers.com? I'd email them, but there are no address records for the domain - just ns and glue records. I got this on third hand: There is a thread starting off with the

Install issue

1998-12-02 Thread Philippe Dal
Hi, everybody.. Here is a question for you. I'm rather new in LINUX (but not in UNIX), and I encountered a major issue trying to install it, in a multi-OS environment. My system is an AMD cpu with all needed to run well (!?)... I have a 8.6GB disk, on which I installed (using W95 FDISK):

driver for webcam? (SOLCAM)

1998-12-02 Thread Ben Jorgensen
I have a SOLCAM DIGITAL CAMERA CV-1501 from Cellvision systems Some features/specs: Color CCD camera with direct connection thru printer port (EPP mode) RISC based single processor for image DSP Support 16.8 million true color 256 gray scale Flicker-free capturing Powered from keyboard of

Re: Festplatte partitionieren

1998-12-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Michael Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hallo ! Bin absoluter Debian / Linux Neuling und brauche ein paar Tips über die Festplattenpartition. For answers in German language please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ich habe eine 1,7GB ATAPI und demnächst kommt noch eine 6,4GB Western Digital

What does the number of supported visuals depend on?

1998-12-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I am currently porting my program from an SGI to a DEC Ultrix and a PC Linux system. The biggest problem (besides byte swapping stuff) is the number of supported visuals. On the SGI I can chooes between lots of different truecolor, directcolor and pseudocolor visuals. The same on the DEC

Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-12-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't know what to do with them or how. Can anyone help?

If kernel 2.2 gets out before christmas, will slink be released with it?

1998-12-02 Thread F. Fernandez
Hi all! The subject says all. I'd like to know if there is any plan to include kernel 2.2 in slink or will we wait for potato? If slink comes out with kernel 2.0, will the binutils and other be able to work with kernel 2.2 when it's released? Thanks in advance, Fernando -- Fernando Fernandez

RE: recommendations for an X news client?

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
I'm looking for something better than knews and netscape's news client -- any suggestions? Try GNUS... runs under EMACS or XEmacs. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda

RE: about the HOWTO's

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
Can I read the HOWTO's in html or text on the www somewhere, I cannot as yet get them on my linux system? http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX.html But I hear SunSite will become MetaLab, so in some months expect the URL to change to metalab.unc.edu   Leandro

Re: R:Installation on IBM ThinkPad 380XD

1998-12-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:28:01AM +0100, Gualtiero Dellarole wrote: I have not yet found a solution. I can only say that sometimes the system is able to boot and other times not (the most!). I continue to wait if someone else has found a solution. Did you try the tecra floppies? Did you try

RE: beginner: mouse jitters

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
I am trying to get the mouse running on an NEC powermate 486 sx-25 i. When installing the mouse driver from floppy, a message says, No module parameters. Depends on misc.o and the driver installation usually fails. When the driver does install and I run vgacardgames there is

RE: If kernel 2.2 gets out before christmas, will slink be releas ed with it?

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
The subject says all. I'd like to know if there is any plan to include kernel 2.2 in slink or will we wait for potato? No! Slink is frozen, that is, can get only bug and security fixes. New features and new versions must be included only in unstable distributions. If slink comes out

Re: If kernel 2.2 gets out before christmas, will slink be released with it?

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Podlejski
F. Fernandez napisal(a): : Hi all! : : The subject says all. I'd like to know if there is any plan to include : kernel 2.2 in slink or will we wait for potato? No. Why ? Look at archive of debian-devel list. : If slink comes out with kernel 2.0, will the binutils and other be able : to work

pb Tekram dc390 SCSI card

1998-12-02 Thread Francois chevrollier
I can't boot with the rescue disk because it can't initialise my scsi card, so I can't install debian 2.0 I downloaded the files 'linux' 'root.bin' 'resc1440.bin' 'drv1440.bin' from debian.org in order to boot from floppies or hard disk, but it didn't work the system hook after the message :

RE: Festplatte partitionieren

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
Hallo ! snip I can't understand a word of German (only English, Portuguese and a little bit of Spanish), so only thing I can do to help you is ask that you subscribe to the German-speaking Debian users' list. debian-user-de This mailing list is the main mailing list for German

Re: gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 23:17:32 +, Richard Deighton wrote: Is anyone working on debs for gcc 2.8.1? There are debs of 2.8.1 in project/experimental. They're unsupported of course. It'd be nice to have soon. Why? We have EGCS. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages

Re: DNS-DHCP solution for linux?

1998-12-02 Thread John Lines
Is there any such? It would be nice not having to update the DNS server by hand all the time. And using DHCP to assign IP:s automatically could solve this if there was a tool for updating the DNS server. There have been some published patches to the ISC DHCP server (the one which is in the

Boot problems

1998-12-02 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi A few days ago I reported a problem booting from the stock 2.0.34 kernel distributed with Debian. My laptop just rebooted after displaying loading Linux .. I fixed it by compiling my own kernel fronm the 3.0.36 sources and though well there you go a 2.0.34 bug. Not so I am

Re: subnetting/debian router Q's

1998-12-02 Thread Paul Miller
Sibuyas Bombay wrote: I am using ppp to connect to my ISP, so that means xxx.33 will be my ppp0 interface's IP rite ? What about my eth0 interface ? Will I also need to give it one IP of its own since its the only interface my LAN (of windoze puters)can directly see ? Your ppp0

programmes to turn emacs text in WinWord

1998-12-02 Thread Cristian Carnutu
Hi everybody, I want to work with Linux but where I am, I am the only one. Does anybody know if there are programmes to assure compatibility between emacs (or another editor) and MS Word ? Even under licence, not only free. Or maybe somehow using Netscape as text editor ? After all we can not

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