Re: Tarjeta 3D Blaster Banshee

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio Ballesteros
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Jose L. Erausquin wrote: Hola a todos: Tengo un compañero de trabajo que está teniendo problemas para arrancar el entorno de ventanas X, porque parece que la version de XFree que tiene (3.3.3) no soporta su tarjeta (3D Blaster Banshee). La version 3.3.3.1 tampoco

Re: Instalacion imposible:SOLUCION

1999-02-14 Thread Juanjo Martinez
Hola a todos/as, de nuevo: J. Ivan Juanes Prieto wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:17:40AM +0100, Juanjo Martinez wrote: El ordenador es un P100, 32Mb, Quantum 2Gb IDE, S3Trio64 2Mb, Pioneer DR-A24X (24x, en hdb). Je, je je ... no es ese el innombrable modelo de cd que no me permitia

Re: permisos para correo

1999-02-14 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 02:44:21AM +0100, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Gracias a vuestra ayuda he configurado fetchmail y smail, y uso un header personalizado para mi dirección de correo con mutt (el my_hdr From: etc. ese que comentabais por ahí). El caso es que recibo mensajes, pero

Problemas al ejecutar Startx

1999-02-14 Thread Lucky Kentucky
Al ejecutar las X con el Startx, se abren pero no aparece ningun WindowManager. Siempre habia funcionado pero no se que debo haber tocado que me pasa esto. Desde dentro de las X, puedo ejecutar el AfterStep o cualquier otro pero yo quiero que se inicie uno por defecto. Que debo hacer?

Alguien tiene la libreria Qt

1999-02-14 Thread Lucky Kentucky
Alguien tiene una version algo nueva de esta libreria, la que tengo no me deja instalar el KDE? Podeis enviarla? Gracias.

Re: Alguien tiene la libreria Qt

1999-02-14 Thread botto
que version necesitas? On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Lucky Kentucky wrote: Alguien tiene una version algo nueva de esta libreria, la que tengo no me deja instalar el KDE? Podeis enviarla? Gracias. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Problemas al ejecutar Startx

1999-02-14 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
SP, do 14 feb 17:36:04 1999 Hola : Al ejecutar las X con el Startx, se abren pero no aparece ningun WindowManager. Siempre habia funcionado pero no se que debo haber tocado que me pasa esto. Desde dentro de las X, puedo ejecutar el AfterStep o cualquier otro pero yo quiero que se inicie

K6-2

1999-02-14 Thread botto
Saludos... Bueno la cuestion es sencilla, estoy pensando en comprarme uno. Van bien con linux? o me pillo un PII?

Alguien tiene la libreria Qt

1999-02-14 Thread Lucky Kentucky
Alguien tiene una version algo nueva de esta libreria, la que tengo no me deja instalar el KDE? Esta disponible bien en slink bien en potato. No recuerdo en cual de ellos. (Estoy suponiendo que te refieres a la KDE 1.1) Luis.

Problemas con ZIP-100 y LS-120

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hola 'tonta': Lo siento no puede resistir el chiste fácil. Ahora en serio. Tengo dos unidades de disco extraible, a saber: una ZIP-100 en el puerto paralelo y una LS-120 interna (MATSHITA LS-120 VER5 00). El kernel es el 2.0.36 y no tengo instalado el módulo ppa para la ZIP porque no acierto a

Re: QOT: Formatear discos SCSI

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Jose Luis Trivino escribió: Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Jose Luis Trivino wrote: Concretamente lo que busco es un programa que formatee un disco en la unidad JAZ-SCSI a bajo nivel y las jaztools me parece que no lo hacen. Mi placa SCSI es una Adaptec

Re: where is /usr/src.linux???

1999-02-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
rich wrote: I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! What's up here? So I just tried to go to /usr/src and type make

Re: Zip detection in Kernel2.2.0 Problems

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
I've installed Slink and when I tried to set up the ppa parameters I'd got an error an the zip was not installed. Now I must to install it from the command line. Any help will be regreted. My system's got just one parallel port at 0x378 irq7 Mike Merten escribió: On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at

Re: boot prompt for scsi drives

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
There's a SCSI-HOWTO in the HOWTO's. Look for it in http://www.linux.org Sorry for the delay. ___ Even God discusses the details with the devil (anonymous). Antonio A. Rivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] STARTEG Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] marc escribió: where can i get more information regarding

RE: 2940UW installation problem

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio Alfredo Rivas Ojanguren
I've got a set of unofficial install-disk images, which have a newer version of the aic7xxx driver. You can find them at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/. Several people have reported i'd had got the same problem and those drivers didn`t work. Mayne you could be luckier than me, but if

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread John Bagdanoff
Thanks, John H I'm embarrased to say I must have recently deleted the $ by accident. This was in the manual section though. ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS2 uart 16450 port 0x3E8 irq 3 ${STD_FLAGS} ^ (i put it back in) So I don't get the SETSERIAL not found anymore on bootup, but I still have to

Re: Voice Answering Machine (much better)

1999-02-14 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Martin Bialasinski wrote: NC Feb 13 17:35:20 cavern init: Id I0 respawning too fast: disabled NC for 5 minutes ps ax must show it. $ ps ax | grep vboxgetty 427 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/vboxgetty -d /dev/ttyI0 init tries to start it, but there is something wrong, so vboxgetty exited and

Re: where is /usr/src.linux???

1999-02-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
rich wrote: I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! What's up here? So I just tried to go to /usr/src and type make

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread robbie
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:05:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: r == robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r Why does debian not include sound modules in the default kernel package? Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel.

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, John Bagdanoff wrote: So I don't get the SETSERIAL not found anymore on bootup, but I still have to reset the irq to 3 before I reconnect to my isp before every session. I thought at first this change of behavior was due to installing slink from my hamm partition, but

Re: smail - exim = mail now broken

1999-02-14 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I fixed my local mail and retrieval of ISP mail. added / changed local domains (were not set properly by eximconfig, probably a type-o by me) that took care of local mail. found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: My ifconfig eth0 output on my laptop is the following: eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:98:04:55:3B inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255:255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: My ifconfig eth0 output on my laptop is the following: RX packets:2175 errors:0 dropped:192 overruns:0 frame:728 TX packets:2590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:3 Base

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread John Hasler
John Bagdanoff writes: So I don't get the SETSERIAL not found anymore on bootup, but I still have to reset the irq to 3 before I reconnect to my isp before every session. I thought at first this change of behavior was due to installing slink from my hamm partition, but I also upgraded most

Re: where is /usr/src.linux???

1999-02-14 Thread Randy Edwards
I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! What's up here? Holy cow! RedHat's advertising campaign is taking over your

Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive

1999-02-14 Thread wtopa
Subject: Can't Mount a Zip Drive Date: Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:42:00PM -0600 In reply to:Alex Quoting Alex([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I can't mount my zip drive. It is a scsi zip drive and I think my isa-to-scsi host adapter is working. During boot I get these lines

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-14 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Installing Sound Card Date: Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 11:40:25AM -0600 In reply to:Andrei Ivanov Quoting Andrei Ivanov([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, basicly, it's all been said how to get the card working. I hope you succeed at that. I was never able to get my card

Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how to do this, or where I can find out how

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread William Park
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, J K wrote: Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
At 07:19 PM 2/13/99 PST, J K wrote: Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how to do

Re: smail - exim = mail now broken

1999-02-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenneth F. Ryder III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there was no cron job, since Dselect had done one for smail, when I had that installed Errr...

Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Similar thing here: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
apt-get install mtools? Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Similar

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
ivan wrote: At 07:19 PM 2/13/99 PST, J K wrote: Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type. IIRC, the filesystem will be autodetected. If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to specify filesystem vfat rather than msdos. I'm not sure on this one. Ivan. At 04:53 AM 2/14/99 GMT, Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: My ifconfig eth0 output on my laptop is the following: RX packets:2175 errors:0 dropped:192 overruns:0 frame:728 TX packets:2590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

dircolors and LS_COLORS

1999-02-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
Can anyone tell me what file that the LS_COLORS environment variable is set? I thought is was in /etc/profile, but it's not there. I'm asking because I'd like to add the *.bz2 extension so that bzipped files are the same color as other compressed files. TIA --

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on both. I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why would this be? On both machines there is a fast ethernet NIC, and I have a fast

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread KTB
This may help. http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue01to08/linux_gazette.html#mounting Kent J K wrote: Hi again! When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:09:25 +0800, you wrote: try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type. IIRC, the filesystem will be autodetected. Didn't help. Same errors and then it came back with mount: you must specify the filesystem type. If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to specify

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
apt-get: command not found mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: apt-get install mtools? Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
Ignore that last message. mtools was already installed. I tried mdir and got the same sort of error messages as below end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: apt-get install mtools? Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Orion the Hunter
Quoting Malcolm Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Similar thing here: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev

lilo at end of kernel compile

1999-02-14 Thread John Leget
Hello , For some reason at the end of kernel compiles ( running potato and 2.2.1 now ) it complains that it cannot find a lilo signature on my sda2. Funy thing is lilo runs fine invoked manually, and sda2 is the boot partition for it to install ( i use another boot manager for several

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread claydona
I have a 'not brilliant floppy that will sometimes give an error message with mdir a: or mcopy a: . It will often work on the second attempt ie. when the green light is still on and the disk still spinning from the first attempt; good luck angus claydon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Cristov Russell
I very much agree with Robbie. We are in a very modern age of multimedia computers (something Bill and the Boys do deserve credit for) and it's very likely that the majority of end-users have sound cards they would like to use. Have this hacker mentality of well if I Can do it you can too does

iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hellou Friends, My recent Red Hat installation (don't know how to check the kernel version yet!), says iso9660 file system not supported by kernel. It can't be like that, because I installed from the cdrom. Is there any way out? Also, the system does not allow me to edit a few files, one I have

Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! Another question: 1. I finally mounted my floppy drive with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, but when I try to l(i)s(t) a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: directory sread (sector 0xd) failed What am I doing wrong?

Re: Is there a Logon Log?

1999-02-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
I thought for sure he was asking to be pointed to /etc/motd and /etc/issue[.net]. But I don't boot my machine every time I log in, so I could just be wrong. They're handy things to know about, anyway. Rob On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 05:38:54PM -0600, KTB wrote: After you boot up dmesg | less

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:09:32AM -0600, David Webster wrote: During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for installing sound card info. I find this quite odd since sound is as ubiquitous in computing today as ethernet and TCP/IP. The failure to Not on Unix, IMHO. But anyway

Re: apache-ssl eperl : problems

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 09:56:29PM +0100, Mike Gerber wrote: i tried to configure my apache to filter .phtml-files through eperl. i added to srm.conf: AddType application/x-httpd-eperl .phtml Action application/x-httpd-eperl /cgi-bin/nph-eperl but my apache says invalid command Action.

Re: question about xawtv

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 10:49:30AM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I just install a Hauppage (sp?) tv card. I compiled 2.2.1 to enable video4linux, and for this card. I also installed xawtv. Does anyone have this stuff working? If so please relay some war stories. Thanks I have a noname

Re: Help with lilo.conf and booting

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 09:56:46AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I am trying to setup my system to run a zipdrive and printer using kernel2.2.0. I have installed ppa directly into the kernel and it was suggested that I add the lines to append below. Dmesg gives me the message below. Any

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 01:25:29AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:09:32AM -0600, David Webster wrote: During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for installing sound card info. I find this quite odd

RE: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
gain sound. I had several reasons for wanting to learn Linux but as a musician my stance quickly becomes, No sound, why bother? What is your sound card? I haven't really used Linux since October out of the hope that Slink would have the updated kernel with it's added multimedia features

Re: SB16 ISA/PNP DMA3?

1999-02-14 Thread Daniel Elenius
my error, dma2 is the one for the floppy, but i think i may have found why dma3 might not work for sound, i just noticed here (i have a P2) that my motherboard, if set for a ECP type printer port, it requires dma3 for itself Yes, it's always different DMA's being used for different things on

new: debian packages for mtv

1999-02-14 Thread Tristan Savatier
I have just made debian packages for mtv (the famous MPEG and VCD player for Linux). Those packages have been created on a RedHat system by converting RPM using the debian alien package. I would like to have some feedback, i.e. could someone try to install them and tell me if they work fine ?

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
M == MallarJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, M [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for some

Re: dircolors and LS_COLORS

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 05:19:38AM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: Can anyone tell me what file that the LS_COLORS environment variable is set? I thought is was in /etc/profile, but it's not there. I'm asking because I'd like to add the *.bz2 extension so that bzipped files are the same color as

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:12:41 -0800 (PST), you wrote: Try mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt -t msdos or mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt -t msdos And see if that works. Some fd0 drivers do not work for all floppy drives. I don't know why. Didn't work either. I tried formatting a few disks. They failed

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
r == robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:05:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Why bother with this. You should recompile your kernel anyway (to get a slim version that only has the things you use). With kernel-package, this is a breeze. r I strongly disaggree

Re: Voice Answering Machine (much better)

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC At the moment, syslog, sounds fine: NC Feb 14 00:22:42 cavern kernel: isdn_tty: call from xxx , - NC RING on ttyI0 This looks good. NC 1. Which options should I use on isdnctrl ? Callback !? Define EAZ/MSN !? isdnctrl is not used for

GPL, was: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB As an aside, did you know that the GPL can be used to PREVENT the GB distribution of software? The GPL ENSURES the distribution of binary AND source. It prevents binary-only distribution. So what? This is a core element of this license. If you

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB Huh? Just about every commercial Unix has audio support by GB default. When was the last time you installed Solaris? Can you choose between different soundcards, when you buy Solaris? Anyway, the 2.2 kernel has modular sound support, so just

Re: iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
iso9660 support can be either compiled directly into the kernel, or it can be compiled as a module. When compiled directly into the kernel it is always available, while in the case of a module, the module must be loaded (inserted into the kernel) before it can be used. The command 'lsmod' will

Re: iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
Debian's a great distro - even comes with iso9660 support built into the installation kernel. You might want to try it :) Recompiling the kernel should work. Check out news://linux.redhat.misc if you need further assistance. At 03:05 PM 2/14/99 +0800, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: Hellou Friends, My

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread robbie
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:21:44PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: r == robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:05:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Why bother with this. You should recompile your kernel anyway (to get a slim version that only has the

please help re:creating more disk space

1999-02-14 Thread claydona
When I installed Debian I alotted about 200mb of hd space on hda5 for /usr. I've installed so much that I've started to run out of space. What I was planning to do was to move the bulky linux source packages to a temp directory somewhere under /var and use ln to create links to them. What

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-14 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'? Simple enough - the modem wasn't in command mode, it was at the end of the previous dial Oh, of course. Didn't think of that. (that failed) but somehow the modem

Re: iso9660

1999-02-14 Thread wtopa
Subject: iso9660 Date: Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 03:05:42PM +0800 In reply to:Bal K. Paudyal Quoting Bal K. Paudyal([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hellou Friends, My recent Red Hat installation (don't know how to check the kernel version yet!), says iso9660 file system not supported by

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd love to have is some advice on a no-hassle sound card. The card doesn't have to put out great sound -- most any noise will do. By far the highest priority is for the card to mesh seamlessly with Linux. Anyone have

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: The Port status section of the leds remains light on the 100 section for both cards. The Network Utilization section of the hub leds consistently blinks, on the 1% led of the 100 section; after every 13th blink, both the 100 and the 10 blink together. Does this

Re: apache-ssl eperl : problems SOLVED

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Gerber
AddType application/x-httpd-eperl .phtml Action application/x-httpd-eperl /cgi-bin/nph-eperl but my apache says invalid command Action. Here's what I use to run .sql files through mysql: Action www-sql /cgi-bin/www-mysql Maybe you can adopt this. thank you, i

CD-ROM problems

1999-02-14 Thread Nathan Dena Blair
Hi all, I am experiencing problems with my CD-ROM drive under Linux. The drive is a Memorex CD-322E (aka Dysan) IDE that is on /dev/hdc. The problem is I can't eject the drive once it's been mounted. I can supposedly umount it ok (no error messages show up or anything), but if I press the

Re: CD-ROM problems

1999-02-14 Thread Dave Swegen
One thought - have you got a cd player on your desktop? Some of them grab the eject function. If so you have to use the cd players eject function. Just a thought... Cheers Dave On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 15:42 +, Nathan Dena Blair wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing problems with my

Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during the dselect thing, but when I finished, my wordperfect 8 nolonger

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during the dselect thing,

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Hmm... Do you have any idea what I can do about this? (i.e., get a different hub)? Looks like I'm going to have to buy some hardware at Frye's Electronics. On a totally different note... Do you know of any Finnish people with that last name 'Puri?' My father has this theory whereby our clan

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
Paul, Have your tried to plug another system on this endpoint to verify that is it not wiring or a bad port form the hub? It would just be a quick check to make sure you are not spinning your wheels on the IRQ problem. You could have a bad cable or be out of range. At any rate, just my $.02.

Re: Circuit design software?

1999-02-14 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
You can try GEDA (it's somewhere on the www.seul.org), but it is still in statu nascendi. On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Afternoon all. Is there any circuit design software for Linux? I need to find a replacement for the program that my prof. wants me to useand I would hate to

XF86 Setup

1999-02-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I upgraded my video card from an S3Virge to a Matrox Millenium with 8meg. After running SF86Setup and vidtune I couldn't get a full width display. After some head scratching I copied the mode line from my old config file to the new one and was back in business. I guess the setup program

Re: libgnomeui.so.0: undefined symbol

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Gerber
I just installed gnome 0.99.3 from potato and I've been having some problems running a few gnome apps like gnotes and gmc. They give the error /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.0: undefined symbol: argp_program_version i've got the exactly same problem...

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Thanks NatePuri Jay Barbee wrote: Paul, Have your tried to plug another system on this endpoint to verify that is it not wiring or a bad port

SPARC Ssystem Server 630MP - Internet Server? or 80lb. Boat Ancher

1999-02-14 Thread Lance
Greetings, I have recently aquired a SUN SPARC 630MP which I have been able to clean up, repair, and make fully functional. My desire was to install Linux on the unit and adapt it as an Intranet/Internet Web Server. The unit has 4 CY605c processors, 64mb RAM, CDROM, Tape Drive, 3 Hard drives

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Why kind of wire, I seem to remember them labled class 3 through 5 and needing a class 5 for 100

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks Bob! That did the trick. I only had the libc5 package loaded. When I loaded the xlib6 and xpm4.7 everything started working again. Thanks again for your help! Doug Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I was in the process of getting my

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
I would say yes.. if you other laptop works fine in other endpoints. You can try replaceing the patch cord with a new one. Also if you are in a building with pre-existing wiring, you might want to look at distances. I am not sure if you are wanting FastEthernet, but you will need to make sure

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Jay Barbee
At 2/14/99 01:36 PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Why kind of wire, I seem to remember them labled

Dselect CD-ROM help

1999-02-14 Thread Terence E. Kane
Gang: I have started to install Linux using dselect and the cd-rom method. On the menu when I select [A]cess and select cd-rom it puts me in a screen that asks for a block device name What is this? I haven't found anything in any of the instructions that tells me what to do with this. I can't

Re: Dselect CD-ROM help

1999-02-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
devices in Linux are named as follows: /dev/hda for master on primary IDE /dev/hdb for slave on prim. IDE /dev/hdc for master on sec. IDE /dev/hdd for slave on sec. IDE Now, just you need to know where your cdrom is. ---

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Jay Barbee wrote: At 2/14/99 01:36 PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires?

Re: Dselect CD-ROM help

1999-02-14 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Terence E. Kane wrote: Gang: I have started to install Linux using dselect and the cd-rom method. On the menu when I select [A]cess and select cd-rom it puts me in a screen that asks for a block device name What is this? I haven't found anything in any of the

where is rc.local

1999-02-14 Thread Pollywog
I just jumped over to Debian from another distro. I am trying to find my way around, but I cannot find rc.local, the Debian version of it. Also, I have a newer Exim package to install, but I cannot figure out how to get dselect to install from /usr/src thanks -- Andrew

Re: Is my locale wrong?

1999-02-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I keep getting error messages about locale. My locale is set like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Work/Debian-doc/ddp $ set | grep LC LC_CTYPE=finnish.iso88591 Please use LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.iso8859-1 instead. LC_CTYPE=fi_FI is also possible.

Re: screen setup and vim

1999-02-14 Thread shaul
Oops, sorry about my lack of knowledge. Could someone explain to me what screen is?? screen - A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate screens on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal

Re: where is rc.local

1999-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: I just jumped over to Debian from another distro. I am trying to find my way around, but I cannot find rc.local, the Debian version of it. There is no rc.local. All the rc-type files are in /etc/init.d and are invoked by symlinks in /etc/rcx.d. What I do

Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! A question: I finally mounted my floppy drive with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, but when I try to ls a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: directory sread (sector 0xd) failed What am I doing wrong? Thanks again,

mySQL.

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Wong
Okay, I've installed mySQL using apt. Now, I'm wondering, it's running, but how do I do a crash-and-burn test with it? I'm also wondering if the version is the same as the one on www.mysql.org. Another funny thing, I'm not too sure on what this does. I mean, how does a user use

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