Hiya Debian users!
I just upgraded from Slackware 2.0 to Linux/Gnu 1.2.8 (read reformatted
harddrive and installed Debian) So far things are great except
for 2 things... I have a 8bit (old but stable) SoundBlaster
(Factory default setup, IRQ 5 etc etc) and so far have been unable
to figure out
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The only problem is that some packages, such as gzip, give an error
in the perl (!!??) postinst script.
Here (with gzip 1.2.4-14) the postinst script is for /bin/sh.
I suspect the problem is the line in /etc/zshenv:
Thank you John,
Just more info about it. Last night i did not give up and tried any
BIOS settings i could think of but still the problem existed except
when i tried:
chdir to /extra ( this is on /dev/hdc1 )
tried a ftp session to retrieve a zipped file - lo and behold, i
can download it
I have System Commander as well. What it wants to do to laod linux is
find lilo on the boot(right word?) sector of the partition linux is on,
not the MBA of the whole disk. Lilo can be configured this way, but I'm
not sure the Debian distribution has an option set up for doing it on
install
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
.fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility?
It comes with the fvwm2 package, and automatically makes the changes when
fvwm2 is installed.
However, be
The problem is that I cann't get these three things working together. What
I did what set magicfilter as an input filter (if=whatever), and a shell
script that calls samba_print name? as an output filter (of=whatever),
but this doesn't work. In the printcap, lp is set to /dev/null, but
there's
Hello!
Richard Morin writes:
Hi folks, I'm still having some difficulty with my setup, but I trudge on.
No questions this time, just a request for some files so I can compare and
see for myself what I'm doin' wrong.
If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please
MT == Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MT I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian
MT still blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using
MT the system. Where is this option in Debian ? I want to disable
MT it during the day.
Look at the man
Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after
a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far.
Would anyone know where that setting is ?
Matthew
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
MT == Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For the console, I believe setterm -blank 0 is what you want. It
won't change the X screen blanker, though, which uses a different
mechanism. You can use xset, or I believe there is an option to set
the blank time in the XF86Config file.
-Larry
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Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the
Hi,
I've run into what appears to be a library problem with one of my debian
systems. When I try to compile a fortran program one one of them,
compilation chokes at the linking stage because a subroutine called
fdate can't be found. This doesn't happen on any of the other machines
but all of
Hi,
after mounting a self-toasted CD-ROM with Debian 1.2.7 I get tons of
kernel messages like Unsupported NM flag settings(2). AFAIK this is
because the CD-ROM has been made on an SGI workstation, which uses some
extensions to ISO9660. It works however perfectly with dpkg -i The
message
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote:
The problem is that the scripts only work with bash in sh mode and not
with sh-compatible shells such as ash. Try making /bin/sh a symlink to
/bin/ash and reboot. You'll get error messages from the startup
So if these script doesn't work with ash nor zsh in
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after
a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far.
Would anyone know where that setting is ?
Try 'setterm -blank n', where n = 0 to 60 (minutes.) 0 = no
What's wrong with ASCII art? Just don't waste the time scrolling down to
read it...
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Greetings to the list.
I am having a problem with my debian install and I was wondering if anyway
else has any solutions?
1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system
with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it.
Problem: I am having major
Brian Freeze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system
with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it.
Problem: I am having major delays in ftp'ing or telneting to any site from
this system. When I try I get
No anwser ultil now... I would like to know where e can get the
driver for the network card GE2500.
TIA
Paulo
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:
I've run into what appears to be a library problem with one of my debian
systems. When I try to compile a fortran program one one of them,
compilation chokes at the linking stage because a subroutine called
fdate can't be found. This doesn't happen
Carey Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 March 1997 13:32:
Here (with gzip 1.2.4-14) the postinst script is for /bin/sh.
I suspect the problem is the line in /etc/zshenv:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:.
which means that every time zsh is used, /usr/sbin
Brian Freeze typed:
If I telnet out or ftp out I wait long periods of time for the username to
be excepted then the passwd. From there it is the same for ls or any other
command. For example. System www2.deltastar.nb.ca is the system with the new
debian release on it and www.deltastar.nb.ca is
Hi,
I am trying to get my Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 (Model A I believe) to
work in Linux. I used to have an old driver which only works with Intel
EtherExpress Pro 100 Model B. Does anyone know where I can get the
drivers for my ehternet card?
thanks in advance,
-Qiang
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:41:46 -0500 (EST) Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please
send me the following.
I have a simple dialup PPP connection to my PSP. I don't use
diald. My installation is essentially the same as
Paulo Ramos wrote:
No anwser ultil now... I would like to know where e can get the
driver for the network card GE2500.
As I've seen Bruce respond before...
No answer == No one knows.
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Qiang Rao wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to get my Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 (Model A I believe) to
work in Linux. I used to have an old driver which only works with Intel
EtherExpress Pro 100 Model B. Does anyone know where I can get the
drivers for my ehternet card?
[...]
On 14 Mar 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote:
Brian Freeze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system
with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it.
Problem: I am having major delays in ftp'ing or telneting to any
Hi
I have been using ghostscript 3.33 and magicfilter to produce printer PCL
from postscript. With large documents, occasionally a strange character
sequence appears on a page and some of the page body is skipped. Sometimes
the printer just halts and refuses to continue. The printer has 3MB of
Hi All,
I would like to know does this debuger (GDB 4.16) work with fortran
source files or no.
Tried to set source directory using 'directory MySourc' but in vain.
Thanks forward for any help.
Eugene Sevinian
Cosmic Ray Division
Yerevan Phisics Institute
Hello =)
Has anyone managed to succesfully connect a Windows NT server? THe
How-To's I've looked up and the books I have bought assume I use a
normal server (Unix/Linux) but unfortunately at work we run Windows
NTfor our servers ..
Thank you.
Any RTFM please tell me where to find the
On Mar 12, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote
my keyboard was not well configured. My AltGr key on
my french keyboard doesn't work. Therefore, this is a
bug of the Debian distribution ;-). Does someone know
how to fix this bug ?
This isn't a bug but a bad confugiration of your XF86Config.
Uncomment
Are you sure that your motherboard dosent have some powersaving feature
that is kicking in?
Joseph Palicke
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:09:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Larry 'Daffy'
Nop, not the motherboard, thats one of the first things I checked.
I'm able to control it now using the following commands:
xset s off (for xwindows, will not go blank after 10 minutes)
setterm -blank 0 (for my console sessions, does not go blank at all)
Should these options be run as root ??
When I try to configure ppp I get:
Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ...
chown: root.dip: invalid group
dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure):
Should I simply create the group using addgroup? What should the group
ID be?
Hi,
I use minicom with the Sz package for Zmodem download, and was
wonder, to resume a download is it sz -r, sz r, szr, or something else?
Thanks,
Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack
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Kyron E-Mail Address:
You can very definitely make a connection to a Windows NT server. You
neglected to say what kind of connection. PPP? Should be pretty easy.
File service or printer sharing via a LAN-Manager-compliant protocol?
Make sure to install TCP/IP and Microsoft file/printer sharing on the NT
side. Use the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes:
I would like to change the way xterm displays highlighted words.
Currently it underlines those words, but I would like to have it
change the background color to something else, let's say yellow
(as my xterm background is set to dark blue).
What do I
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) wrote:
Riku Saikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can X be set to read app-defaults
files in /usr/local/X11/app-defaults/ (or whatever) in addition to the
normal directory?
You could try (ab-)using XUSERFILESEARCHPATH. Mine is
David Gaudine writes:
When I try to configure ppp I get:
Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ...
chown: root.dip: invalid group
dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure):
I ran into that recently with diald. Turned out to be a typo in
/etc/group.
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John Hasler
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