On Jun 8, Bob Nielsen wrote
will have a script, .sd.sh, installed in your home directory. Running
that will modify some environments, including $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will
place the required lib files in your library path so you will no longer
get that message and swriter will work.
Check
Is anyone here running Virtual Hosts for web access on Debian;
I understand you have to have a special kernel module
for this. Is this module installed by default ?
If not, what steps would I take to install the module ?
Also, I see no documentation on what modules can be loaded
while the
atc1d2 fixes these problems which isn't the factory default. The d2
tells it to hangup, with autoanswer inhibited, when DTR is droped.
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly.
I have a Diamond Stealth 3d 3400 (it's got 4 megs of ram) and I'm using
an old 14 Tatung monitor which can only do 640x480 (I know it can handle
this resolution fine because I'm running win95 on it sometimes). I've
been using the SVGA server from XF3.2 because the Virge/VX chip isna't
all
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
Note that most modems these days make V.42 compression, which is LZW.
BSD compression would be redundant.
Van Jacobsen compression is, however, good to use on a V.42 connection.
It takes advantage of the redundancy of frame information in a
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
Anyway, the only modeline in my XF86Config is 640x480, but the server
insists on running in it's builtin 320x200 mode. Needless to say,
this is unusable ... why would it do this? I've tried hitting CTRL-ALT-+
to cycle up one mode, but nothing
I can't get Debian 1.2 to see my modem. My mouse works, so it isn't just
the serial ports. The modem works somewhat under win95, but every two
minutes it hangs for about two miutes, and sometimes you need to hold a
key down for a while to get it to register one press of that key. It
isn't my
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
:
:Is anyone here running Virtual Hosts for web access on Debian;
:
:I understand you have to have a special kernel module
:for this. Is this module installed by default ?
:If not, what steps would I take to install the module ?
Read
Hi,
The problem with my 3c900 card's been solved. For some reason, the driver
I was using (1996-1997 version of 3c59x.c called 3c900.c) wasn't working
properly. The 1995 version of 3c59x.c with 3c900 support seems to work
fine. Strange.
J. Goldman
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turn off (some) modem compression? This is because I've heard that
the protocols in the modem may actually slow things down when handling
already compressed data.
This is true for MNP5 compression. V.42bis compression disables itself when
data can't be compressed further. At least it is supposed
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 11:50:25AM -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
I get that too once and a while with the StarOffice stuff as well. And I
figured out what it was with me ... and it may be the same for you.
If I would get the error, I would do an 'su - your user name' and then
try
On Jun 8, Stefan Baums wrote
Hello,
I recently installed Debian 1.2 on my notebook and everything went fine.
Almost everything. While I am duly impressed by Debian's complex package
management system and wide range of packages, I seem to fail in the
simple task of getting it to display
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote:
StarOffice looks like quite a piece of work, althou a bit slow since
I am using the static linked libraries.
Why would this make it slower? The only thing I can think of is if you're
running more than one of the StarOffice programs and you're short of
I see a flag to disable VJ compression, but not one to enable it.
In general if there is a -something flag to disable something in
pppd, if you give something on the command line without the minus,
that enables it. The two PPP daemons will negociate about the feature,
and it won't be used unless
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly.
Then my modem isn't set up properly. I got a private email mentioning
something about how
I currently am using RedHat and would like to try out debian 1.3. My
problem is that I currently have no working floppy. I grabbed the base
packages from ftp.debian.org(not the disk images). How should I go about
this? I have a formatted ext2 partition already prepared, can I run dpkg
with a
Thanks Oliver,
I installed the sendmail package and my troubles disappeared.
--ken
Oliver Elphick writes:
I think that mh is compiled to use sendmail. I did strings on every
mh executable and got sendmail but not smail. Perhaps you need to get
the source and reconfigure it to use
i've just installed the new xfree86 version 3.3 packages from
Incoming, but now i am having problems restarting the x server. if i
try to restart it using startx, i get the following error:
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
When reporting a problem related to a server
I'm happy using binary packages most of the time, but certain packages
like ssh and pgp I feel more comfortable compiling myself.
So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source
tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and
install from that. Is this the
Mark Boyns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source
tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and
install from that. Is this the best way?
Yes.
Also, should I be running `debian/rules binary' directly or is there a
Ralph == Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ralph One of these days I'm going to have to reverse engineer a Word
Ralph to troff perl.
You could start from catdoc.c, which will convert word* to text or
TeX.
catdoc.c
Description: Binary data
Mark Boyns writes:
I'm happy using binary packages most of the time, but certain packages
like ssh and pgp I feel more comfortable compiling myself.
So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source
tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and
install
Hello.
I'm having problems with g++: when I launch a program I've compiled with
it, I have a segmentation fault; I first thought that it was my program
that was bad, but even if I make a *very* simple program (a Point class,
with a main that just adds a new point and deletes it immediately
On Jun 9, Sebastien Phelep wrote
gcc is 2.7.2.2-4; libg++ is 2.7.2.1-9 / 2.7.2.5-1
I guess it's because I've used unstable packages, but I'm note sure.
Does anybody knows what's the problem is ?
Debian's gcc 2.7.2.2 packages by default use with libc6; for libc6 you need
the libg++272
Mark Boyns wrote:
I'm happy using binary packages most of the time, but certain packages
like ssh and pgp I feel more comfortable compiling myself.
So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source
tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and
install
I currently am using RedHat and would like to try out debian 1.3. My
problem is that I currently have no working floppy. I grabbed the base
packages from ftp.debian.org(not the disk images). How should I go about
this? I have a formatted ext2 partition already prepared, can I run dpkg
with a
Sorry for the e-mail which is not strictly on a debain matter,
I am looking for the non-commercial version of staroffice. The
stardivision www page says that it is available from ftp.gwdg.de
However I can't get through. I also checked sunsite and couldn't get it.
Anybody know a mirror that has
This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are
non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong
to other forums.
Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix
questions unbearable (in that
If you want to unsubscribe be my guest.
Paul
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are
non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong
to other forums.
At 02:07 PM 6/9/97 +0200, you wrote:
This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are
non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong
to other forums.
Am I the only one which finds the amount of general
Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix
questions unbearable (in that case, I will unsubscribe) or is it time to
plea for more discipline, such as Please use only this list for
Debian-specific stuff (like dpkg, dselect, discussions of the upgrade
path to 1.3,
I think I had already tried this, but for the record, it doesn't work.
dpkg --remove lesstif-bin
(Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lesstif-bin ...
dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:
Hi,
I've just put a 3c900 card in my linux machine and it's giving me
problems. Kernel version is 2.0.30. From what I could ascertain, the new
version of 3c59x.c is a plug-in replacement for the old one without 3c900
support. Accordingly, I replaced
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain
Debian packages such as xemacs for instance. Everything seems to work
OK.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
I've noticed that the installation disks (for 1.3, although I think
the problem existed with 1.2 as well; its a long time ago, but I seem
to remember that 1.1 was OK) fail to make the hard drive bootable
without booting from a floppy as an intermediate step.
Since the machines concerned are now
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are
non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong
to other forums.
Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix
questions
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 10:50:19PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote:
StarOffice looks like quite a piece of work, althou a bit slow since
I am using the static linked libraries.
Why would this make it slower? The only thing I can think of is if you're
On Mon, Jun 09, 1997 at 01:18:26PM +, Paul Seelig wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Romosan) writes:
i also tried to reconfigure my x settings with XF86Setup, but if i try
to use the old XF86Config it tells me it can't read it, and if i try
to create
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, DANIEL STRINGFIELD wrote:
I'm not personally thrilled with the high volume, but I wouldn't wan't to
make things not specific to debian (other than things like how to on
Redhat or something) to stop being supported. I think the list serves
well as a LINUX mailing list,
Hello, guys.
I'v got a strange phenomenon: sometimes when I close the rlogin
connection started from console (not xterm), the console appeared to be
broken - all the output is confined in the last line of the screen.
reset fixes it, but does anyone have reasonable explanation?
Thanks.
Alex Y.
Hi !
I am a happy user of Debian-linux 1.2. So far I have regularly updated my
system via dselect by ftp. However, I am not sure about how to upgrade to
1.3. I have two questions about it.
1. From the announcement notes it seems that I should upgrade first
libc5 5.4.20-1 - 5.4.23-6
ldso 1.10-1
Christian Meder wrote:
On Jun 8, Stefan Baums wrote
I recently installed Debian ... I seem to fail in the
task of getting it to display German Umlaute (a, o, u, sz (if
your mailer can handle them, they should look like this: ä, ö, ü, ß))
...
Hi Stefan,
I haven't checked out yet
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, DANIEL STRINGFIELD wrote:
I'm not personally thrilled with the high volume, but I wouldn't wan't to
make things not specific to debian (other than things like how to on
Redhat or something) to stop being supported. I think the list serves
well as a LINUX mailing list, for
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
I can't get Debian 1.2 to see my modem. My mouse works, so it isn't just
the serial ports. The modem works somewhat under win95, but every two
minutes it hangs for about two miutes, and sometimes you need to hold a
key down for a while to get it to
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Ed Down writes:
What _I_ would like is a nice concise posting regarding setting up a mail
filter for pine and other mail progs, posted regularly, so that instead of
saying 'I will unsubscribe' and losing possibly important members of the
list, people say 'That mail filter sounds easy to set up,
I saw in a recent message here that StarWriter had a filter for
WordPerfect. I don't see that on the list when retrieving a file. Is it
hidden somewhere?
Bob
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Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian K Servis writes:
For those of you following this here is an update.
It appears to be some sort of name lookup failure. I can't figure it
out. When I try and print with lpr it fails with the error given in
the subject. This turns out is just an indicator of something else. I
have a stand
As long as we're talking about this list and filters, I just joined
this list and I made sure I had a mailfilter going *before I even
joined*. I mean come on people, there's always going to be noise on a
mailing list. Filtering it is better then complaining about it.
I recommend (highly highly
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I'v got a strange phenomenon: sometimes when I close the rlogin
connection started from console (not xterm), the console appeared to be
broken - all the output is confined in the last line of the screen.
reset fixes it, but does anyone have reasonable
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I'v got a strange phenomenon: sometimes when I close the rlogin
connection started from console (not xterm), the console appeared to be
broken - all the output is confined in the last line of the screen.
reset fixes it, but does anyone have
Hi,
I installed Debian with no problems (and no special drivers--maybe I
should have) on my 166mhz Pentium with 16MB RAM, U.S. Robotics 36.6,
8x CD-ROM (I forget which brand--I'm at work), no network connection
as yet.
When I try to boot, everything seems okay, but then I get stuck here:
Simply Hao wrote:
Oh, yeah, during installation I kept seeing messages about an open
tray and some I/O error--I can't tell you the exact wording because
it flies by too fast. Maybe just my imagination.
I saw that too, but the install disks have been updated at least once
since then, so I
I trying to set my default settings to 16bpp and 1024x768 but I get the
folowing errors:
SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 31.5 Mhz
SVGA: Clock mode for 1024x768 is too high for the configured hardware
Limit is 31.5 Mhz
Do I have the clock mode limited because I didn't specify any clocks.
Greetings,
I am having trouble getting some network cards that we just bought to work
with Debian linux. Previously, the SMC 9332DST cards worked just fine.
However, the new batch that we purchased, SMC 9332BDT (note the DST vs.
BDT) don't work. Has anyone gotten these to work? I only need
Regarding the beta version of Corel WordPerfect for Linux, I asked them
what's requiered to become a beta tester. I got this from sdcorp.
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From: Brad Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WPLINUX Beta Testing
We have
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
2) What ethernet driver should I use for a D-LINK 220? NE-2000?
D-Link 220's are PnP NE-2000 clones. If you get isapnptools you should be
able to configure the card in linux and then use the ne driver.
I have tried to do this without success. I
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
I have a question about this tri-linux CD:
How on earth do you fit three distributions on one CD? The official
debian CD release will now be 2 CD's. Does leaving out the source
distribution really makes such a difference?
They leave out a lot of
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
It does not work for me. I found a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --
../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory.
Lawrence,
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Trouble?
Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware?
I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD
student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200
for students I think, regularly nearly $500).
I tried Staroffice quite some time ago and couldn't get it to run
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
It does not work for me. I found a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --
.../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory.
Well it mostly works. It installs netscape properly into
Lawrence Chim wrote:
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
The final release started coming out today. (win/95/nt)
Hopefully the UNIX versions will be out right away too.
And hopefully they'll be better than beta5!
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The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to
monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to
run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any
applications on X via a network connection befor so I thought this
would be interesting. After
Randy Edwards wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
It does not work for me. I found a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --
.../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory.
Well it mostly works. It installs
I have a machine that is set up with an NFS and I was able to
mount it's drive one time on my ethernet at home but not after that.
The host.allow and host.deny are set up and the exports file has an
entry something like this:
/mnt (ro,insecure,no_root_squash)
but it returns an
Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
this one and I'm not even sure where to look. Can someone point me
in the right direction.
Absolutely. Check out man xauth, and go from there.
(You can also use xhost, but xauth should be preferred).
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Hi Chris, you could /etc/X11/Xserver. and see if this helps.
Paul
On 9 Jun 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to
monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to
run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v
Nope, that message is not normal. It points to a problem in /etc/inittab,
I think. The file probably got truncated or something. Try booting with
the command line flag single. If the root is not mounted read-write,
get it so by mount -o remount /. Find the base/sysvinit package, and
reinstall it
Lawrence Chim wrote:
Randy Edwards wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
It does not work for me. I found a symlink
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --
.../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory.
Well it
Greg Vence wrote:
Lawrence Chim wrote:
Randy Edwards wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
It does not work for me. I found a symlink
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --
.../../lib/netscape, but there is no such
On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:43:14 +0200 Miguel A. Arranz
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am a happy user of Debian-linux 1.2. So far I have regularly updated my
system via dselect by ftp. However, I am not sure about how to upgrade to
1.3. I have two questions about it.
1. From the announcement
On 09 Jun 1997 14:43:36 CDT Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to
monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to
run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any
applications on X via a
Hi. I want to install Debian on a system without an ext2 partition. I can
boot the install program using loadlin, but can't mount my umsdos partition
because the generic kernal doesn't support umsdos. My intention, perhaps
wrongly, is to 'mount -t umsdos /dev/hdc2 /target'.
I have Debian
On 09 Jun 1997 14:59:17 CDT Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have a machine that is set up with an NFS and I was able to
mount it's drive one time on my ethernet at home but not after that.
The host.allow and host.deny are set up and the exports file has an
entry something
Howdy,
I have a no-name modem/fax combo oon my laptop that is not correctly
configured. It is apparently detected, but I then get:
cs: overrun in get_next_tuple for socket 1 (5 times)
serial_cs: GetFirstTuple: No More items
I'm running a 2.0.30 kernel with 2.9.5 pcmcia-cs/modules.
Could
( Re Message From: Giuseppe Vacanti )
Howdy,
I have a no-name modem/fax combo oon my laptop that is not correctly
configured. It is apparently detected, but I then get:
cs: overrun in get_next_tuple for socket 1 (5 times)
serial_cs: GetFirstTuple: No More items
I'm running a 2.0.30
I have been using Debian on my machine at work for quite some time.
When the box was upgraded to Debian 1.2, it was left with one
obsolete package - base. Just as a matter of compulsive
cleanliness - will we ever be able to purge base or will there
always be one obsolete package popping up in
Paul Rightley wrote:
I have been using Debian on my machine at work for quite some time.
When the box was upgraded to Debian 1.2, it was left with one
obsolete package - base. Just as a matter of compulsive
cleanliness - will we ever be able to purge base or will there
always be one
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
If it's decided to tighten things up, the powers that be should give
thought to a Debian-specific newbie list if this list isn't going to
support that function.
Hmmm...
The problem would be that the list would be used by people of limited
help to
Does anyone know when there will be a Tcl/Tk 8.0 package available?
cjr
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Well, I bit the bullet yesterday and started installing Debian 1.3. I'm
interested very much in the idea of dpkg-ftp, since I don't have a CD-ROM
of Debian and don't want to spend my time copying the package files onto
my hard drive.
I got my system to where it will boot up into
Chuck,
Thanks for the reply. I guess I have to make my own kernal.
The main reason I want to run Debian on a dos partition is so that I can
see unix files from the Win95 side (backups and other conveniences). The
umsdos faq says that I shouldn't expect any degradation in speed or
reliability,
Although the creation of a 'Debian-guru' list would have the same
effect as creating a 'Debian-newbie' list. Everybody would ask their
questions on the guru list since
a. All the gurus would be reading it (obviously)
b. None of the gurus would bother reading the regular list
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way to get the list of email addresses
that the user account gets sent out to. I'm interested in this partly
because I've had a few people from the list write me and I can't write
them back because their email address is bad, and partly because I
want to avoid
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