Offtopic: Re: Portàtil para Debian

1999-06-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 25 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 21:44:03 +, Rafael Cordones Marcos contaba: me dirigí a ustedes porque el único problema que veía es el de tener que pagar por un producto (Windows) que no iba a utilizar. La licencia de windows dice que te devolverán el dinero si no lo

Offtopic: Toy Story

1999-06-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El antes: Soy un pecador. Soy un usuario de Debian que *no* ha visto Toy Story. El durante: :-DDD. El después (el ahora ;-)): Ya no soy un pecador! Ya he visto Toy Story!! :-)). -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no.

Re: Pregunta sobre particiones.

1999-06-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 25 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 10:21:51 +0200, Valentin Ruano contaba: 1) Cuando se copia de una particion a otra, se crean nuevos ficheros, por tanto las fechas cambiara inremediablemente. a) Posiblemente (seguramente) perderas la informacion de usuario y grupo de los ficheros b) La

Re: Ahora sí mutt...

1999-06-27 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Sat, Jun 26, 1999, Juanmi Mora... Juanmi Una preguntilla sobre el mutt... como puedo Juanmi purgar los mensajes marcados para borrar sin cambiar Juanmi de buzón? Pulsa `$' Saludines. -- Cosme = -=-=- A

AGRADECIMIENTO PUBLICO

1999-06-27 Thread ZUMBIJUNIOR
HOLA A [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Por medio de este mensaje quiero agradecer a todos y cada uno de los integrantes de listas que de una u otra forma me colaboraron eficientemente para solucionar un problema que tenía, sin su ayuda no hubiera logrado superar un inconveniente grave que tenía con una

Re: HWclock y la hora del sistema

1999-06-27 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Pues he ido a mirar a la lista de bugs del paquete de marras y esto es lo que me he encontrado, que ya hay un aviso sobre el cambio en el script de inicialización. Si tal me callo, pues estoy de acuerdo completamente con el autor del mensaje. -- Saudos: ose[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pregunta sobre particiones.

1999-06-27 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 08:01:55AM +0200, Antonio Castro contaba: monta la partici?n nueva en alg?n lado: # mkdir /tmp/nueva # mount /dev/hdxx /tmp/nueva copia lo que hay en local a esta partici?n: # (cd /usr/local tar cf - . ) | (cd /tmp/nueva tar pxfv - ) Vale y al

HWclock y la hora del sistema

1999-06-27 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Tampoco quiero crear en el área una discusión sobre si interesa utilizar `nts' o sobre la exactitud del reloj del sistema. Lo que me interesa es conocer cuantos usuarios que se han pasado a Slink han comenzado a notar errores en su sistema. Pienso que si este error sucede a más de uno, pues

RE: Actualizar a libc6 2.1.

1999-06-27 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Hola, [...] Por cierto, he activado las opciones de Framebuffer, pero el pingüino sigue bajo el agua, aunque con `vga=ask' puedo seleccionar 80x34. Y el sevidor X para framebuffer no rula. Hago `startx' (he modificado el `/etc/X11/Xserver') y hay se queda, pero con `ps' veo

Abiword

1999-06-27 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista ¿Esta utilizando alguien el paquete abiword? Cuando ejecuto, se abre una ventana, sin menus y sin nada y ahi se queda. He seguido las indicaciones de la documentación y lo mismo. Saludos.

BASE DE DATOS / GRAN NEGOCIO

1999-06-27 Thread N . H
si este mail no es de su interes no se tiene que dar de baja ya que se envia por unica vez... disculpe. NH Argentina, le ofrece la mejor informacion para su negocio o emprendimiento, bases de datos con direcciones y telefonos, bases de fax, bases de negocios con nombre y las mejores bases de

Re: AverMedia TVcapture 98 y /dev/video

1999-06-27 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hola! On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 07:36:48PM +0200, Agustin MuNoz wrote: Pues eso que el kernel me la detecta al arrancar: bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0, devfn: 112, irq: 15, memory: 0xf4008000. bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. bttv0: NO fader chip: TEA6300 bttv0: model: BT878(AVerMedia

Configurar diald

1999-06-27 Thread J. Ivan Juanes Prieto
Estimados listeros: Me he puesto toda una tarde a configurar diald para hacer dial-on-demand, después de leerme la docu (mayormente The Linux Network de Butzen-Hilton y man diald, man diald-examples). El caso es que no funciona, y seguro que es una tontería que no pillo. Aqui vuelco el

Re: AverMedia TVcapture 98 y /dev/video

1999-06-27 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 26 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 19:36:48 +0200, Agustin MuNoz contaba: zeppelin:~$ xawtv This is xawtv-/home/adam/x/xawtv, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.10) can't open /dev/video: No existe el fichero o el directorio ¿ Cómo se crea el /dev/video ?

Re: AverMedia TVcapture 98 y /dev/video

1999-06-27 Thread Paco Brufal
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Agustin MuNoz wrote: can't open /dev/video: No existe el fichero o el directorio ¿ Cómo se crea el /dev/video ? Con MAKEDEV (creo que xawtv lleva un MAKEDEV), si no, averigua el minor y el major number y los creas con /dev/MAKEDEV... problema era por tener la

Domain name not available

1999-06-27 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, when I try to post from knews (installed the deb from unstable) I get the message: Domain name not available. Posting will not be allowed! What can I do to fix this? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe

Mysql

1999-06-27 Thread Bob Ruddy
Hello, I am trying to install serveral mysql packages, I need 'mysql-server' 'php3-mysql' and 'mysql-client' or 'mysql-gpl-client'. When I try to install these packages I have problems because 'php3-mysql' depends on 'mysql-base'. I can't seem to find 'mysql-base' any where. The server also

Re: more fetchmail questions

1999-06-27 Thread Chris Flipse
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:29:09PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: What I have done in a like case was to connect to the server with telnet on the pop-3 port and delete the message by hand. It goes something like this: I've done this with a few offending emails... wasn't really my question

slink server crashing :(

1999-06-27 Thread Ed Breen
Hi, We are running a slink debian distribution with kernel 2.0.36 on a celeron 333 as our file server. Our SCSI adapter is an Adaptec 2940UW PCI card, with this configuration: 2940UW Adapter | Seagate Barracuda 9.1gig UW | Quantum

Re: vim backup files

1999-06-27 Thread Chris Flipse
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 06:19:17PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: When I use VIM, I get a backup file with ~ at the end. How do I go about stopping VIM from creating these backups on a system-wide basis? /etc/vimrc ...the command that sets it is in that file...change the set to an unset and you should

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1999-06-27 Thread Josh Varble
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Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Stuart Ballard
Is it possible to arrange for gnome-apt to be usable by a non-root user? To run it as root I have to mess about with X authorization and even once that is done my GTK themes aren't respected. I guess my question can be broken down as follows (and an answer to either part would be enough) 1) Is

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-27 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Hello and thanks a million to those who have responded to my request for taking some of your precious time to help me out. I downloaded wvdial and minicom like some of you suggested and wvdial cannot find my modem. I sent a message to them like they suggested because I am 100% sure that my

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-27 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
And I think that sharing of IRQs by serial ports is a kernel config option. It may be that your particular kernel can't do it.

fvwm pager window

1999-06-27 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
When I exit fvwm and restart it the pager window background goes black. This is on Debian Potato Fvwm 2.2.2.

Re: dhcp server

1999-06-27 Thread Philip S. Hempel
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I tried to setup the dhcp-beta (server) under slink. The machine has two interfaces. I would like to serve only one, say eth1. I edited the dhcp.conf file, the server was started but the clients couldn't get dynamic IPs. Both, Win98 and

sendmail config problem

1999-06-27 Thread Michael Roark
I just set up a spare machine intending on it being a small list server and mx host for another domain. The default Debian install is smail, but I removed it and installed Sendmail. I thought I had everything installed properly, but everything stops at /var/spool/mqueue . Sendmail seems to not

apt-get errors

1999-06-27 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
anyone know how I can fix this mess? Seems like the scripts are broken or something... viper:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xfig 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0

Re: vim backup files

1999-06-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: vim backup files Date: Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 06:19:17PM -0400 In reply to:Alec Smith Quoting Alec Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When I use VIM, I get a backup file with ~ at the end. How do I go about stopping VIM from creating these backups on a system-wide basis?

apt-get and windowmaker 0.60.0

1999-06-27 Thread Jonathan Lupa
Hello! I'm running slink (and apt 0.3.7) , but am interested in trying out the new version of WindowMaker. So I went looking around though the WM online docs and found the following URL which had the debs. http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages All is good so far. So I download the main

QT 2.00

1999-06-27 Thread The FreeStuff Web Ring
Hi, I'm trying to ./configure QT 2.00 but it won't seem to work. This is the error I'm getting: The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is currently set to , but it should be set to this directory, which is /usr/local/qt. I have all ready edited .profile to add in the correct

Re: emacs' delete behaviour changed?

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 09:00:12PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Did someone else notice that emacs in potato doesn't differentiate delete and backspace keys any more, as it did in slink? Yep. Take a look in the changelog in /usr/doc/emacs20 and you'll see why. I can't remember the exact

GET PAID to surf the web!

1999-06-27 Thread SillyRach9
Regarding: http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=DCG-313 Have you heard about All Advantage? It's a great new Internet company that pays you to surf the web. All advantage will pay you $.50 for each hour you surf the weband that's just the tip of the iceberg. Refer friends to All

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things as the current GTK theme; OR No, the theme is a per-user setting, so it won't apply to you while you're root. You could set the theme for the root user though. 2) Is there

RE: QT 2.00

1999-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jun-99 The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: Hi, I'm trying to ./configure QT 2.00 but it won't seem to work. This is the error I'm getting: The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is currently set to , but it should be set to this directory, which is /usr/local/qt.

ip masquerading/port forwarding

1999-06-27 Thread Paul Miller
I'm using Debian/unstable and kernel v2.2.10. I have a ip masquerading Linux box setup and working. I'd like to configure ports 137 to 139 of an internal machine to act as ports 20137 to 20139 on the external interface of the Linux box. I.e., the internal ip address sent from the internal

Re: ip masquerading/port forwarding

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:24:03AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: I'm using Debian/unstable and kernel v2.2.10. I have a ip masquerading Linux box setup and working. I'd like to configure ports 137 to 139 of an internal machine to act as ports 20137 to 20139 on the external interface of the

Re: Debian not talking to network

1999-06-27 Thread Robert Rati
I can ping my box, from my box, and it works fine. I'm pretty sure the ether card is working since it's the same setup I had when I was using it earlier in the year. It wasn't detected for some reason for a time and i h ad to add the irq=x to the options line for loading my module, but now it

ftping through a router

1999-06-27 Thread Robert Rati
I setup a router for a home network, and everything seems to work fine but one thing. I can't use ftp. I can connection to sites outside my network via ftp, but I can't do the ls command. Usually, when you do a lsc, you get something back like: 200 Port Command or something like that, but

Re: apt-get and windowmaker 0.60.0

1999-06-27 Thread Greg Starkes
Jonathan Lupa wrote: My theory is I have a malformed apt line. You're right. So...the inevitable qestions: 1. What would be the proper way to form the sources.list line? deb http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo packages/ 2. Do I have no business playing with these debs anyway? I'm using

Re: New to the group: my 3 boxes....

1999-06-27 Thread Revenant
I'm rather fond of WindowMaker. This was included in my Debian 2.1. You should be able to select a new Window Manager from the standard drop-down menus in X to give it a try... Tony T. wrote: Hi all, I was directed here by a very helpful person on the comp.os.linux.setup group, (thanks

Setting up i740 X Server?

1999-06-27 Thread Revenant
Okay, I've dlded the i740 drivers for X, I've set up a link from XBFwhatever (the i740 driver) and X and that works. But startx still won't run if I crank the res higher than 640x480 8-bit. What else do I need to do? Thanx. BTW, I'm officially an idiot. The reason my mouse wasn't working

Re: apt-get and windowmaker 0.60.0

1999-06-27 Thread Greg Starkes
Greg Starkes wrote: 4. Is there a better place to find wmaker 0.60.0 debs? I think that Marcello will soon be compiling the debs on a potato system. Of course, I could be wrong. I think I had a brain cramp answering this one. I meant to say that, for now, that is probably the best place,

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things as the current GTK theme; OR No, the theme is a per-user setting, so it won't apply to you while you're root. You

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Leen Besselink wrote: Maybe it's a reason to change it's behavour, maybe we could have it ask for a password and do sudo in the background or something, when installing. yeah, it will be fixed eventually. We might need to wait for Debian to have PAM. Patches gladly

How do I put a package on hold without using dselect?

1999-06-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg and apt-get man pages and can't see a way to do it. Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ICQ

1999-06-27 Thread The FreeStuff Web Ring
I've been trying to install Licq, but it doesn't seem to be working, any suggestion? I keep getting char errors during make. It configures just fine. I have gtkicq installed but I don't like that one very much. thanks!

Re: how to burn CD with IDE/ATAPI CD-RW burner?

1999-06-27 Thread Geordy Korte
I am trying to burn CDs using Mitsumi CR-2600-TE which is IDE/ATAPI cd reader/writer. If anyone successfully used IDE/ATAPI cd-rw device with basic IDE/ATAPI kernel (+ whatever modules), I would appreciate very much if you could give me some pointers. Hi, Okay the first thing you have to

Re: ftping through a router

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi Rob, FTP is a difficult protocol in that it uses two channels/connections. The first one is the command channel which is the one you, the client, makes when it connects to the FTP server. The second is the data channel which the server makes BACK to the client when any data, such as a

openssl

1999-06-27 Thread Gerhard Kroder
found some things that look strage to me, almost a bug, isn`t it? ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-=== ii openssl 0.9.2b-3 Secure Socket Layer and related cryptographi - openssl contains no

Problem with route and kernel 2.2.10

1999-06-27 Thread Ralf Comtesse
Hello, I compiled kernel 2.2.10 today and almost everything went fine. The only problem is when booting. In /etc/rcS.d S40network is called and there you find the line route add -net 127.0.0.0 wich gives me SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Was there change that I did not get? Sth. else I missed?

Re: MP3 -- WAV

1999-06-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
You could try mp3asm On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 09:30:51PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: Thanks, bedankt, merci, gracias, xie xie. It worked, but alas the header of the MP3 file was corrupted, so even Sox couldn't help out here. -- Hans At 04:18 PM 6/24/99 +0200, Remco van 't Veer

Re: MP3 to WAV?

1999-06-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
Mpg123 do this. On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 12:41:05PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Is there a tool that allows me to transform MP3 files back to WAV? Michael P.S.: Please CC me on your answer since I'm not subsribed here. -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!

Re: Problem with route and kernel 2.2.10

1999-06-27 Thread Dennis Schoen
Ralf Comtesse wrote: Hello, I compiled kernel 2.2.10 today and almost everything went fine. The only problem is when booting. In /etc/rcS.d S40network is called and there you find the line route add -net 127.0.0.0 wich gives me SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Was there change that

Re: Problem with route and kernel 2.2.10

1999-06-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ralf Comtesse wrote: Hello, I compiled kernel 2.2.10 today and almost everything went fine. The only problem is when booting. In /etc/rcS.d S40network is called and there you find the line route add -net 127.0.0.0 wich gives me SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

Re: How do I put a package on hold without using dselect?

1999-06-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Jun, Phillip Deackes wrote about How do I put a package on hold without using dselect? I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg and

Domain name not available.

1999-06-27 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I installed the knews deb, but I am not able to post. I get the message: Domain name not available, posting will not be allowed I can not find anything in the docs or in the list archives regarding this. Can anyone help? P.S If this posting appears more than once I appologize. I have had

Re: How do I put a package on hold without using dselect?

1999-06-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Jun, Brian Servis wrote about Re: How do I put a package on hold without using dselect? *- On 27 Jun, Phillip Deackes wrote about How do I put a package on hold without using dselect? I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I might want to hold back a

Trouble with xf86setup

1999-06-27 Thread Teofil Dereta
Dear Debian, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 onto my computer. Everything goes well until the installation program asks me if I would like to run xf86setup so I could finish my installation and configure the keyboard, monitor etc. When I answer yes an error message appears which says

Re: Trouble with xf86setup

1999-06-27 Thread Morgoth3
You probably don't have the packages for X windows installed. Go to the Debian package list and get what you need. Colin Winters

Re: emacs' delete behaviour changed?

1999-06-27 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Matthew == Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 09:00:12PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Did someone else notice that emacs in potato doesn't differentiate delete and backspace keys any more, as it did in slink? Yep. Take a look in the

Re: How to remove a user

1999-06-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Sami Dalouche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but I've another question : How do I remove cleanly (without VI) a group ? How about groupdel [group]? Greetings, joachim

RE: ICQ

1999-06-27 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have used the lick deb in the Debian distro to install licq. It works fine on my potato box. Maybe you should install using the lick deb instead of compiling it yourself? That is if you are running Debian of course. The only problems I have with lick is that it easily forget settings you

audio cd problems

1999-06-27 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I was trying to make a copy of an audio cd, tried with both cdrdao and xcdroast and all I got is only the left channel. Data CDs are ok on the same cd writer (Yamaha 4416S), also I made an audio cd a couple month ago and it was ok. Is there a way to tell if the writer has failed or if it's a

Netscape fonts

1999-06-27 Thread Paolo Stra
Why in Netscape the 'increase'/'decrease' characters size menu voices are disabled? I have upgraded it to the release 4.6 and I have added the ttf fonts support without any results. Could anyone help me? Thanks, Paolo - Italy

Help!

1999-06-27 Thread Algernon NG
Help me! First I subscribe to debian-user, then I subscribed to debian-user-digest, and unsubscribed from debian-user. Since then I receive no emails. Do I have to be subscribed to debian-user to receive debian-user-digest? Thanks, Algernon NG begin:vcard n:Nagy;Gergely x-mozilla-html:TRUE

Re: Trouble with xf86setup

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi Teofil, As someone has already said it looks like you don't have the right packages installed in order to get the X Windows System running. The xinitrc file which is at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is used to read in default settings for the X session so it's essential. According to

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Remco van 't Veer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the -X switch. On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 20:06, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ... less uses the alternate screen, and you can switch back and forth with Ctrl and a mouse button ... Can

RE: ICQ

1999-06-27 Thread Brad
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I have used the lick deb in the Debian distro to install licq. It works fine on my potato box. Maybe you should install using the lick deb instead of compiling it yourself? That is if you are running Debian of course. Unless you want to play with

Re: New to the group: my 3 boxes....

1999-06-27 Thread Frankie
Revenant wrote: I'm rather fond of WindowMaker. This was included in my Debian 2.1. A perfectly useable version of WindowMaker [0.20] was included with 2.0. frankie You should be able to select a new Window Manager from the standard drop-down menus in X to give it a try... Tony T.

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-27 Thread Frankie
Andrew Holmes wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:52:50AM -0700, Greg Baker wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: I've looked through the man pages for splay and mpg123 but I can't find an option to output the trackname information from an mp3 file. Have a look at the

Re: Problem with route and kernel 2.2.10

1999-06-27 Thread Robert Rati
Just comment out the route add -net line from your /etc/init.d/network file. It is no longer needed because in the 2.2.x kernels, that is taken care of in a different place. Rob On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ralf Comtesse wrote: Hello,

Re: How do I put a package on hold without using dselect?

1999-06-27 Thread Jim Pick
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg and apt-get man pages and can't see a way to do it.

Netscape: rearranging bookmarks crashes extremely frequently, especially working with separators

1999-06-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
For those of you dealing with Netscape Communicator crashes, have any of you encountered frequent crashing when you are rearranging bookmarks (dragging bookmarks around, and editing names), especially right after creating separators? (On version 4.08, Netscape installer, with manually-created

Installing with LS-120 Drives

1999-06-27 Thread Joao Paulo Figueiredo
Hi, Is there any chance to install Debian with a LS-120 Drive? My system doesn't have a 3.5 inch floppy. When I trie Install Base System it gives an error saying it can't read floppy: I/O error. I'm using Debian Slink in a Compaq Deskpro 4000. Thanks in advance, jpf.

Re: How do I put a package on hold without using dselect?

1999-06-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = = Here's a nice little script. It would be nice to have it added to a = package somewhere, but I'm not sure which one it should go into. Thanks, Jim. Exactly what I needed! -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato)

weird crontab entries in system logs

1999-06-27 Thread Pollywog
A few minutes ago, I started getting this about every five minutes. My /etc/crontab has not been changed, so I am stumped Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 27 19:40:32 lilypad /usr/bin/crontab[7692]: (root) LIST (root) Jun 27 19:40:32 lilypad crontab[7695]: (root) REPLACE

Re: Netscape: rearranging bookmarks crashes extremely frequently, especially working with separators

1999-06-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
Yohanes Santoso wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if you are using the correct libc library. I am using libc-2.0.7 and Navigator 4.5; the Navigator seems stable. However, about last month, I tried upgrading my libc to libc-2.1.x and that caused Navigator to crash almost

3d cards

1999-06-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, can any one tell me what a good 3d card to get in a p2 400. i ordered a voodoo banshee. is that ok? paul

XDMCP without xdm?

1999-06-27 Thread Stuart Ballard
Is there any way I can allow remote hosts to access my machine via xdmcp without running xdm on the machine itself? (running xdm seems to lock the machine completely on a regular basis). Would running xdm without managing any local displays solve the locking-up problem? Alternatively, does anyone

X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

1999-06-27 Thread Johann Spies
Since upgrading to slink, the zoom does no longer work in X. The dontzoom line is commented out in the /etc/X11/XF86Config. How can I get it back? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19

Re: tacacs and radius

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi, RADIUS is an authentication system used by ISP's etc for checking a userid and password when you dial in. I think the reference is looked after by Livingston: pretty much every network hardware supplier should have info about it. Guess TACAS is the samr thing - but you will need to check

Re: Nameserver activity

1999-06-27 Thread Steve George
Hi, If I get this right you are saying that even though you have a route to the IBM network the ISDN line to your ISP is coming up when you make a connection to the IBM network. My guess would be that the client program you are using is using DNS to connect the IBM host. If you are trying to

Fatal Xserver error 111?

1999-06-27 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I tried to install cxterm and xcin, but with no luck. Not only that, I seem to have messed up X windows. Now, I cannot startx. It will give me the following error if I start it from runlevel 3: -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect cannot connect: errorno= 111 Failed to set default font path

Re: 3d cards

1999-06-27 Thread Jim Pick
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello everybody, can any one tell me what a good 3d card to get in a p2 400. i ordered a voodoo banshee. is that ok? Debian won't support it until the next release of XFree86 comes out. Your best best is probably a Matrox G200 or a nVidia TNT card.

Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

1999-06-27 Thread ktb
I don't know if this will help or not as I'm really not familiar with the program but after a cd install the xzoom program is found here, /usr/X11R6/bin/xzoom I looked under dselect and no zoom was found just xzoom. If there is a zoom program perhaps it wasn't included with Slink. Just some

Re: 3d cards

1999-06-27 Thread Jon Kelly
hello everybody, can any one tell me what a good 3d card to get in a p2 400. i ordered a voodoo banshee. is that ok? Debian won't support it until the next release of XFree86 comes out. Your best best is probably a Matrox G200 or a nVidia TNT card. I personally have a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-27 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:40:54 +0100 From: Andrew Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian List debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname? Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:41:16 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org

Re: Help!

1999-06-27 Thread ktb
Algernon NG wrote: Help me! First I subscribe to debian-user, then I subscribed to debian-user-digest, and unsubscribed from debian-user. Since then I receive no emails. Do I have to be subscribed to debian-user to receive debian-user-digest? No, you didn't say how long you've waited,

Re: Help!

1999-06-27 Thread Algernon NG
ktb wrote: Algernon NG wrote: Help me! First I subscribe to debian-user, then I subscribed to debian-user-digest, and unsubscribed from debian-user. Since then I receive no emails. Do I have to be subscribed to debian-user to receive debian-user-digest? No, you didn't say how

Re: XDMCP without xdm?

1999-06-27 Thread Ulrik Haugen
* Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Failing all this, is there a way to get a similar effect using startx? (ie, start an x session but run all programs from another machine). Use ssh! ssh will take care of seting up X-forwarding and setting the DISPLAY variable... On your client use startx with