Re: JAVA + AWT = ARGH!

1997-11-21 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Ok, I give up. I've been bothering everyone I possibly could on both the > DEBIAN and JAVA mail lists, and I've finally gone nuts. > > Is there anyone who has sucessfully gotten any version of java, javac, and > AWT libraries to work together? If so, could they give me a basic rundown > on how

ATI Graphics cards (Xpert@Work/Play, etc)

1997-11-21 Thread Paul Miller
Someone on this list was asking where to find more information about ATI cards... Their URL is http://www.atitech.ca/ ATI seems to be really big into the new AGP 2x graphics ports; does anyone know where I can find more information about Pentium motherboards with AGP ports? --- Paul Miller <[EM

Re: XDM and color depth

1997-11-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Akins wrote: > > Could someone please point me (or tell me) to the HOWTO or FAQ that > > explains how to tell xdm to use 16 bpp instead of 8? > > Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Add -bpp 16 to the end of the only line in there > that's not a comment. Or

finding orphaned files

1997-11-21 Thread Rick Hawkins
I recall a discussion about finding orphaned files a couple of months ago. Particularly, hunting down things in /usr/bin, /usr/lib that got installed from outside of debian packages. But i don't remember what the solution was. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

JAVA + AWT = ARGH!

1997-11-21 Thread Mike Patterson
Ok, I give up. I've been bothering everyone I possibly could on both the DEBIAN and JAVA mail lists, and I've finally gone nuts. Is there anyone who has sucessfully gotten any version of java, javac, and AWT libraries to work together? If so, could they give me a basic rundown on how they did i

Re: Where is /etc/hosts in Debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Mark Phillips
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > > I can't find a /etc/hosts file in the Debian distribution. When I go > > > > dpkg --search etc/hosts > > > > it doesn't find it. Does Debian have this file? > > Yep Debian does have it and it is called /etc/hosts . If it doesn't exist > just cre

Re: Where is /etc/hosts in Debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Adam Shand
> I can't find a /etc/hosts file in the Debian distribution. When I go > > dpkg --search etc/hosts > > it doesn't find it. Does Debian have this file? Yep Debian does have it and it is called /etc/hosts . If it doesn't exist just create it. Surprisingly it didn't show up when I did a '

Where is /etc/hosts in Debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I can't find a /etc/hosts file in the Debian distribution. When I go dpkg --search etc/hosts it doesn't find it. Does Debian have this file? The lack of it has cause problems for a friend. He wrote: > Whenever I have PCMCIA cards running on my (Toshiba) laptop it is > impossib

Re: XDM and color depth

1997-11-21 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Akins wrote: > Could someone please point me (or tell me) to the HOWTO or FAQ that > explains how to tell xdm to use 16 bpp instead of 8? Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Add -bpp 16 to the end of the only line in there that's not a comment. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

SOLVED: unable to complete upgrade to libc6 development

1997-11-21 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi, all: Earlier this month I recounted my sad tale of woe, when I tried to upgrade my development environment from libc5 to libc6. To make a long story short, I found that gcc, g++, and g77 all failed to work. After my complaint I received many helpful suggestions, but none of them solved the

Re: ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
Timothy Phan wrote: > I do not quite know how the ATAPI CDROM work. I've alread > gotten all the base install. Now, I need to do the dselect > and mount the cdrom. However, it seems that the CDROM is > not recognizable the the system. I did a manual mount: >$ mount -t iso9660

XDM and color depth

1997-11-21 Thread Andrew Akins
Could someone please point me (or tell me) to the HOWTO or FAQ that explains how to tell xdm to use 16 bpp instead of 8? Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

I need help with my Gravis Ultrasound

1997-11-21 Thread Pancho Horrillo
Hi! I have trouble configuring the MPU-401 MIDI interface under Linux; my sound card is a Gravis Ultrasound Extreme, which is just like GUS MAX, mostly. I cannot also initialize it under Linux, so I have first to boot with MS-D*S :-( and execute the init programs. Has anybody any

Diamond 2500, drivers, & XF86Config

1997-11-21 Thread rhawkins
I have installed a 2mb stealth video 2500. It works--sort of. I'm having no problem with getting it to launch in 1280x1024 or 1024x780. But it's full of artifacts, horizontal lines about 5 or 8 pixels long. I'm using debian hamm, which is the developer/unstable release, with libc6, xfree 3.3.1,

crash at partition check during boot

1997-11-21 Thread Joel N. Weber II
I am attempting to get a debian rescue disk to boot. The disk seems to boot fine when tried on another machine. I've also tried writing the same image to a different floppy, and that does not change the error. The machine crashes when after saying `partition check' and then `hda:'. If I specify

Re: My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

1997-11-21 Thread Alex Romosan
>(the latest of which being 3.3.1-2), and even though Motif apps work >fine with the newer ones, pretty much every xcontrib client can't find >its app-defaults file and thus looks really bizarre and is mostly or >totally non-functional. I can sort of solve the problem by copying the > you need to s

Re: [Q] defrag

1997-11-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Try using ex2defrag (I am assuming you are using a linux native FS) > > Have you used this tool? Is it working for you? Has it crashed > (itself, the system)? Where should I'm be careful?? I once run the e2defrag and it worked well. I had no cr

Re: help- ldconfig: warning

1997-11-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Udjat the BitMeister..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libolg.so.3 (No such > file or directory), skipping > > Anyone know what package libolg.so.3 comes from? It seems to be from the xview package. If you just want to get rid of the error message r

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-21 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 01:40:51PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Does anyone know the best way to copy a huge directory tree (~1Gig) > to another disk (mounted at some point)? I need to preserve the > ownerships and permissions, preservation of times are optional. You can try : (cd dir1 && tar c

Re: ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer

1997-11-21 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 12:07:46PM -0600, Timothy Phan wrote: > and mount the cdrom. However, it seems that the CDROM is > not recognizable the the system. I did a manual mount: > $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb1 /cdrom You have to specify the whole device for a CD-ROM, ie in your case i

Re: Mounting CDROM

1997-11-21 Thread Steve Mayer
David, Go to the /dev directory and see if there is a symbolic link for cdrom pointing to /dev/???. Most IDE CDROMs will be /dev/hdc by default, SCSI will be /dev/scd0. You can also just try the following command after putting a CD in the drive. mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom Hope

Re: CVS for debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Adam Shand
> Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the > Packages files but didn't see it. Remeber to use the package finders when you are looking for packages. It makes life a lot nicer. One of there (there are about four I believe) is at: http://badger.alaska.net/d

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-21 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I don't know if this works under Linux, but under Solaris we (egr) > have used dump to do this. I would try using dump of a filesystem > to another filesystem. I'm no authority on this... so please > dispute me if I'm crazy. Thanks to everybody for quick response. I guess cpio is the best bet.

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Adam Shand
> Hi can I do the fg on vertual consloes. Lets say when I go home and login > with telnet? Here's the deal (as far as I am aware): Using CTRL-Z you can suspend a running process. If you then want that process to go into the background (so it continues running) then you can do so by issuing the

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:34:12 EST Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED] a) wrote: > Hi can I do the fg on vertual consloes. Lets say when I go home and login > with telnet? You want to use screen's session management features. Let's say you're login from the console, you start screen, run a few things (inclu

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-21 Thread Jay Barbee
> Does anyone know the best way to copy a huge directory tree (~1Gig) > to another disk (mounted at some point)? I need to preserve the > ownerships and permissions, preservation of times are optional. > > I am aware of 3 ways: > tar cpfl - dir1 | tar -C dir2 -xpf - > find dir1 -xdev -print | cp

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-21 Thread dpk
I don't know if this works under Linux, but under Solaris we (egr) have used dump to do this. I would try using dump of a filesystem to another filesystem. I'm no authority on this... so please dispute me if I'm crazy. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Systems/Network | work: 3

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: : Hi. : : Does anyone know the best way to copy a huge directory tree (~1Gig) : to another disk (mounted at some point)? I need to preserve the : ownerships and permissions, preservation of times are optional. : : I am aware of 3 ways: : tar cpfl - dir

Re: one more on plan (fwd)

1997-11-21 Thread Daniel Martin
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > One of the packages that I maintain includes a daemon, pland, that is > recommended to be started in users' .xsession file. Previously, after > logout, the daemon just hung around and is therefore recommended to be > started as pland -k, where the -k k

tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-21 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. Does anyone know the best way to copy a huge directory tree (~1Gig) to another disk (mounted at some point)? I need to preserve the ownerships and permissions, preservation of times are optional. I am aware of 3 ways: tar cpfl - dir1 | tar -C dir2 -xpf - find dir1 -xdev -print | cpio -p -adm

Mounting CDROM

1997-11-21 Thread david.j.jasper
I have recently installed Linux, and am having trouble locating the device name of my cd. I see, in the boot up, that the cd is detected, but do not see the device name. Does anyone know how I can locate this? Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Re: Problem with shadow passwd, MD5 crypt and XDM

1997-11-21 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: > > Hi, > I just enable shadow password on our server (debian 1.3.1). I activate > the MD5 encryption in /etc/login.defs . If the user change their > password, they can't loggin on the console (with xdm-shadow 3.3) but by > telnet they can access the statio

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: : I haven't tried this, but I think "fg " will work if you are : logged in by telnet, as long as you have the same userid as the owner : of the process. This doesn't work (just tried it, for grins) : Bob : : On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:34:12 -0500, you

Re:[Thanks] IP Masquerade and X-Windows

1997-11-21 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi Carey, Sorry for a long silence, did not have time to check mails... and now I have thousands of them... Thank you very much for your suggestion. It works! ZORO On 26 Oct 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I can not do (and what the question

Re: XWindows

1997-11-21 Thread Arnold Mazur
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Jeremy Blonde wrote: > Well, I was able to get my modem working just fine. Thanks for all the help > everyone provided. But now I've got another problem. When I start xwindows > (using startx) it begins to load and then quits saying it couldn't load > fonts and connect to

ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer

1997-11-21 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I've been using SCSI for all this time for my Debian Box. Now, I'm trying to help a friend to install Debian onto his computer. I do not quite know how the ATAPI CDROM work. I've alread gotten all the base install. Now, I need to do the dselect and mount the cdrom. However, it

Re: problems with libproc.so

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
clif smith wrote: >Hi, > I got the following message while setting up Debian; >"ldconfig: warning:can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libproc.so (no such file or >directory), skipping" > The file is there and it shows up when I do "ldconfig -v". A file called *.so is likely to be a symbolic lin

Re: NE clone

1997-11-21 Thread Arnold Mazur
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Pablo Ares Gastesi wrote: > Hello, > > does any one know about a clone for Norton Editor (the same way > Midnight Commander looks like Norton Commander) ? I have a bunch of > users who do not change to LINUX just because they are used to NE. > > Thanks,

Re: Memory and Compaq

1997-11-21 Thread Arnold Mazur
On 21 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Arnold Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have added > > append="mem=48m" > > to my lilo.conf but it doesn't work. A free command reports about 16 M. > > Did you run `lilo' after editing lilo.conf? The boot block needs to > be reinstalled. > -- > Ben Pf

A few (small) problems w/libc6 update

1997-11-21 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
I needed updates to perl and bash, one thing led to another and now I found myself upgrading everything to hamm. Everything went well ;^} just a few problems: 1) SUDO fails to parse the sudoers file (already reported) 2) man database for some things in /etc/alternatives (xemacs, ctags, e

Re: Matlab5

1997-11-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Steve Hsieh writes: > > >Sounds like you need to include some of the libraries that matlab was >compiled against inside the $MATLAB/sys/lnx86 directory -- the libstdc++ >library that comes with debian doesn't work with matlab 5.1 and will >produce the error you write below. Here's the libs we use

Re: XWindows

1997-11-21 Thread kevin havener
Check in your X11 font directories. Are the fonts compressed or gzipped (*.Z or *.gz)? Depending on the vintage of your server, it may be expecting *.Z fonts. (XFree < 3.3 and commercial ones earlier than August of this year or so.) You can work around by ungzipping them and then compressing th

Re: Sound Module missing / isapnp AWE64

1997-11-21 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
Hi! Please try my Soundblaster-AWE-HOWTO at one of the following locations: sunsite.unc.edu in pub/Linux/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ or http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html it is written especially for debian with 2.0.{29|30} kernel, so it should work for you. For your

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
Sorry for the duplicate posting, but when I do 'ps -a' I see my background processes in the list along with everything else. Does this not work for you? I have had a report from another user that 'ps -a' didn't seem to show all of his processes. Is this the case with you as well? Luck, Dwarf --

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: > Hi everybody, I had a little trouble finding what to say in the subject > line. But here goes nothing. I put a process in the background with the > &. Now I want to look at what it is doing. > ie I am running hardcrack and I put it in the background and I want

Re: [DEBIAN] Financial software?

1997-11-21 Thread Orn E. Hansen
> > I'm looking for an application that will let me manage > my bankaccounts and can draw some nice graphs to show > what I'm spending my money on. No fancy features are > necessary :-). > How much "features" do you want in your package? To be able to record your income, spending and reco

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I haven't tried this, but I think "fg " will work if you are logged in by telnet, as long as you have the same userid as the owner of the process. Bob On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:34:12 -0500, you wrote: > Hi can I do the fg on vertual consloes. Lets say when I go home and > login with telnet? > Paul

to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-21 Thread Andrea Mennucci
hello to everybody I had a strange slowdown on the internet, and I wanted to locate the fastest debian mirror for me so I wrote a simple shell script that I call sort_mirrors_by_speed this script takes as its argument the file README.mirrors (that can be downloaded from the debian ftp sit

more misc questions, esp. re: dselect.

1997-11-21 Thread Aaron Brick
a. dselect is messed up. it gives me conflict resolution screens with no packages to select and fails to install things. b. why can't i install staroffice? i get the error "staroffice3 depends on libc (>= 5.4.4-0)". i tried to get all the packages with "libc" in their name via dselect but since i

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
If you run bash, fg will bring it into the foreground; ^z will put it back in the background. (If you have more than one background job, fg %hardcrack or fg %. Bob > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:05:05 -0500 (EST) > From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi everybody, I had a little trouble finding wha

XWindows

1997-11-21 Thread Jeremy Blonde
Well, I was able to get my modem working just fine. Thanks for all the help everyone provided. But now I've got another problem. When I start xwindows (using startx) it begins to load and then quits saying it couldn't load fonts and connect to the unix server. I'll include the error messages in

Re: NE clone

1997-11-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote: > How about joe? Don't know anything about Norton Editor, but I've heard > some oldtimers say joe is like Wordstar was. Does that ring any bells? > Joe seems to me to be somewhat like pico, but with more features (?). > I'm one of those "old tim

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Paul
Hi can I do the fg on vertual consloes. Lets say when I go home and login with telnet? Paul On 21 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi everybody, I had a little trouble finding what to say in the subject > > line. But here goes nothing. I put a process in the ba

Re: Matlab5

1997-11-21 Thread Steve Hsieh
Sounds like you need to include some of the libraries that matlab was compiled against inside the $MATLAB/sys/lnx86 directory -- the libstdc++ library that comes with debian doesn't work with matlab 5.1 and will produce the error you write below. Here's the libs we use for a working matlab on Deb

Re: one more on plan (fwd)

1997-11-21 Thread Colin R. Telmer
One of the packages that I maintain includes a daemon, pland, that is recommended to be started in users' .xsession file. Previously, after logout, the daemon just hung around and is therefore recommended to be started as pland -k, where the -k kills any existing pland before starting a new one. An

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Steven Tonnesen
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: > line. But here goes nothing. I put a process in the background with the > &. Now I want to look at what it is doing. > ie I am running hardcrack and I put it in the background and I want to see > what it is doing. hardcrack&. Can I see what it is doing? Is

Re: question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, I had a little trouble finding what to say in the subject > line. But here goes nothing. I put a process in the background with the > &. Now I want to look at what it is doing. > ie I am running hardcrack and I put it in the background and I want

Re: Free PageMaker-style program?

1997-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think I heard that someplace. I also seem to recall hearing that DSSSL > was Scheme based. > > Another important thing to realize is that alot of the generated content > in some documents like table of contents and so on can actually be handled > by

Problem with shadow passwd, MD5 crypt and XDM

1997-11-21 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, I just enable shadow password on our server (debian 1.3.1). I activate the MD5 encryption in /etc/login.defs . If the user change their password, they can't loggin on the console (with xdm-shadow 3.3) but by telnet they can access the station. So, where is the problem? After enabling shadow-p

Re: Free PageMaker-style program?

1997-11-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 21 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Thanks for the concise summary of what SGML and DSSSL are and how they > relate to a PageMaker-type tool. > > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The thing is, SGML, DSSSL and HyTime are amazingly general. There is very > > little text processing

Re: daild setup

1997-11-21 Thread Rick Hawkins
john scroggins asked, > i am having a time setting up my ppp connection ... i want to run daild > but i cannot seem to be able to configure it ... > i continue to get various error messages as follows > diald[182] you must define the remote ip address > daild[182] you must define the local ip

question seeing background process

1997-11-21 Thread Paul
Hi everybody, I had a little trouble finding what to say in the subject line. But here goes nothing. I put a process in the background with the &. Now I want to look at what it is doing. ie I am running hardcrack and I put it in the background and I want to see what it is doing. hardcrack&. Ca

Re: problems checkerg++

1997-11-21 Thread ychim
Ben Pfaff wrote: > > "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there anything I can do to improve this situation, or is checkerg++ > > not ready for prime time yet? I really think it will be a great tool > > when it works. > > I guess it must be the latter. As the maintainer of

Re: [DEBIAN] Financial software?

1997-11-21 Thread Joerg Plate
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~clolson/cbb/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NE clone

1997-11-21 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
How about joe? Don't know anything about Norton Editor, but I've heard some oldtimers say joe is like Wordstar was. Does that ring any bells? Joe seems to me to be somewhat like pico, but with more features (?). hth .kevin On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: >

Re: NE clone

1997-11-21 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Pablo Ares Gastesi wrote: > does any one know about a clone for Norton Editor (the same way > Midnight Commander looks like Norton Commander) ? I have a bunch of > users who do not change to LINUX just because they are used to NE. > Actually the same Midnight Commander

Re: [DEBIAN] Financial software?

1997-11-21 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Nico De Ranter wrote: > I'm looking for an application that will let me manage > my bankaccounts and can draw some nice graphs to show > what I'm spending my money on. No fancy features are > necessary :-). I'm not sure if it's been debianized, but there's "CBB" (Check Boo

Re: Free PageMaker-style program?

1997-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Thanks for the concise summary of what SGML and DSSSL are and how they relate to a PageMaker-type tool. Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The thing is, SGML, DSSSL and HyTime are amazingly general. There is very > little text processing that they cannot deal with when combined. > Of

Re: Memory and Compaq

1997-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Arnold Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have added > append="mem=48m" > to my lilo.conf but it doesn't work. A free command reports about 16 M. Did you run `lilo' after editing lilo.conf? The boot block needs to be reinstalled. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PR

Re: NE clone

1997-11-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Pablo Ares Gastesi wrote: > Hello, > > does any one know about a clone for Norton Editor (the same way > Midnight Commander looks like Norton Commander) ? I have a bunch of > users who do not change to LINUX just because they are used to NE. Although it is somewhat dif

NE clone

1997-11-21 Thread Pablo Ares Gastesi
Hello, does any one know about a clone for Norton Editor (the same way Midnight Commander looks like Norton Commander) ? I have a bunch of users who do not change to LINUX just because they are used to NE. Thanks, Pablo. -- Pablo Ares Gastesi

Re: Memory and Compaq

1997-11-21 Thread Arnold Mazur
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Arnold Mazur wrote: > > > >I have Compaq Deskpro an Debian with 2.0.27 kernel instaled on it. > >I have added memory up to 48Mb Ram. My kernel returns a message during > >boot time: Memory 14140k/16384k > > > >A free command reports about

Re: Sound Module missing / isapnp AWE64

1997-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: > I`ve got my hands on an AWE64 Value and am trying like buggery to get it > working. Installed ISAPNP , shoved it in the init.d files BUT.. > In order for this technique to work Soundblaster needs to be installed > as a module. Trouble is... using xconf

Re: problems checkerg++

1997-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anything I can do to improve this situation, or is checkerg++ > not ready for prime time yet? I really think it will be a great tool > when it works. I guess it must be the latter. As the maintainer of checker, I don't ever use C++, a

Re: Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory

1997-11-21 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > Will someone please test the 3.9.0-1 (unstable) version of Imagemagick to > see if it releases shared memory on your box? It doesn't on mine, and I'd > like to verify that it's a bug in Imagemagick, and not my box, before I > file a bug report. H

Re: [DEBIAN] Financial software?

1997-11-21 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Nico De Ranter wrote: > I'm looking for an application that will let me manage > my bankaccounts and can draw some nice graphs to show > what I'm spending my money on. No fancy features are > necessary :-). You probably want cbb. I remember there was a debian package, but

cfingerd not working for remote for remote queries

1997-11-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, I have some Problems setting up cfingerd. Local fingering: I have in /root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Nov 21 14:11 .nofinger but still one can finger root. I have a userid martin, but when I "finger martin" I not only get the info about this user, but also about a user whose

Re: Memory and Compaq

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
Arnold Mazur wrote: > >I have Compaq Deskpro an Debian with 2.0.27 kernel instaled on it. >I have added memory up to 48Mb Ram. My kernel returns a message during >boot time: Memory 14140k/16384k > >A free command reports about 16Mb. At boot time, specify the amount of memory you actual

Sound Module missing / isapnp AWE64

1997-11-21 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, I`ve got my hands on an AWE64 Value and am trying like buggery to get it working. Installed ISAPNP , shoved it in the init.d files BUT.. In order for this technique to work Soundblaster needs to be installed as a module. Trouble is... using xconfig the Sound stuff can only b

StarOffice font problem

1997-11-21 Thread Peter Bodnar
Hi Today morning I was install StarOffice debian package. All is working fine except StarWriter. Writer offer me only his default font (times,helvetica,courier ...), which is iso-8859-1 based. I need a add iso-8859-2 based font to StarWriter. I try modify .sd.csh (.sd.sh) script - SVFONTS envirome

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

1997-11-21 Thread Gertjan Klein
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: [Upgrading mc] >> Why? My current version works for me - are the later versions so much >> better? > Yes. 3.5.17-1 has real troubles - in particular it is slow and the screen > flashes black at times. Th

problems with libproc.so

1997-11-21 Thread clif smith
Hi, I got the following message while setting up Debian; "ldconfig: warning:can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libproc.so (no such file or directory), skipping" The file is there and it shows up when I do "ldconfig -v". I don't know what is going on here. This is the third time I've installed Debian.

Re: CVS for debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: > Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the > Packages files but didn't see it. Debian 1.3.1: /binary-i386/devel/cvs-pcl_1.9-4.deb /binary-i386/devel/cvs_1.9-4.deb ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Kingsley G. Morse Jr." wrote: >Will someone please test the 3.9.0-1 (unstable) version of Imagemagick to >see if it releases shared memory on your box? > >Please post your results to this list so other people won't duplicate your >effort. I see the bug on this system linda:~/.netsc

Re: Diamond Stealth II

1997-11-21 Thread ychim
It uses Rendition chipsets and I don't think XFree supports it. E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > Hi, > > On my work we ordered two PC's with Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 series video > cards with 4MB ram. The PC vendor now has problems delivering this card > and wants to deliver Diamond Stealth II inst

Re: CVS for debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Olaf Weber
Chris R Martin writes: > Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the > Packages files but didn't see it. Yes, I use stable/binary-i386/devel/cvs_1.9-4.deb -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

Memory and Compaq

1997-11-21 Thread Arnold Mazur
I have Compaq Deskpro an Debian with 2.0.27 kernel instaled on it. I have added memory up to 48Mb Ram. My kernel returns a message during boot time: Memory 14140k/16384k A free command reports about 16Mb. Have someone similar problems and had solved them? Arnold Mazur. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: autodetect on debian

1997-11-21 Thread ychim
Ben Pfaff wrote: > > "butch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i was talking about autodetect of hardware as will be available on > > redhat 5.0? > > The Linux kernel attempts to autodetect hardware devices at boot time, > if that is what you mean. maybe he is refering to the MS PNP:) -- Lawrenc

Re: video cards

1997-11-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > "Paul Miller wrote:" > > I'm looking for a PCI video card for Linux, which will allow me to do > > at least 1024x768 in 24bit mode.. and of course as fast as possible. I > > would like to spend around $300.. > > > > Here are a few card

[DEBIAN] Financial software?

1997-11-21 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm looking for an application that will let me manage my bankaccounts and can draw some nice graphs to show what I'm spending my money on. No fancy features are necessary :-). thanks in advance, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:59:20AM -0800, Bill Leach wrote: > > It seems to me that I have had more than 4 logical partitions on one drive > but memory being what it is (mine that is), I can not be certain. At this time, I have the main partition table filled, with one of those being an extended

Netscape 3.01 and Helpers

1997-11-21 Thread Witold GRABYSZ
Dear Friends, I have just installed Debian. It was not smoothless, however so far I was able to manage all problems by myself. Unfortunately I cannot fix the following one: I have installed Netscape 3.01. It runs, but when I try to open a ps file it propose me to save it on the disk in spite

problems checkerg++

1997-11-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello, I upgraded to libc6 to try the alledgedly highly improved checker package, version 0.8-19. However, the simplest `hello world' program in C++ dumps core on me when compiled with checkerg++. This is a list of what I think are the relevant packages I have installed: libc6: 2.0.5c-0

Diamond Stealth II

1997-11-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, On my work we ordered two PC's with Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 series video cards with 4MB ram. The PC vendor now has problems delivering this card and wants to deliver Diamond Stealth II instead. Does anybody know whether this card will work out of the box with the XFree distribution that come

Re: thread support?

1997-11-21 Thread Mark W. Eichin
well, the important parts of that patch appear to be standard part of 3.3.1: #define HasPosixThreads YES #define ThreadedX YES #define HasThreadSafeAPIYES #define ThreadsLibraries-lpthread #define SystemMTDefines -D_REENTRANT in the config file... a q

Re: Free PageMaker-style program?

1997-11-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 20 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 20 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > That's an idea. I'm planning to write it this way: > > > > > > 1. Design a script-like language that can be used to fully specify how > > > an output page should loo

CVS for debian?

1997-11-21 Thread Chris R. Martin
Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the Packages files but didn't see it. Thanks, Chris please cc: me in your reply Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas A&M University"... I'm a 2

Re: Ping won't work..

1997-11-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello all! > > We have a Linux laptop here that we've just recompiled kernel 2.0.30 > along with the PCMCIA card services for a 3C589 ethernet card. > We've finally gotten some communication over the ethernet card > but not everything works. For instance, from the box

Re: no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hmm. after putting my new pieces together, i've lost write permissions > in /tmp > > lyx can't create its temporary directory, emacs sometimes gets a > permission denied to make /tmp/emacs when sending mail, and exmh > has similar problems: > > er

Matlab5

1997-11-21 Thread Bill Moran
Hi I am tryng to get matlab 5 working on my Toshiba laptop. I have run S56flexlm to set up the license manager. When I try to run matlab I receive the error message: /usr/local/src/matlab5/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol '__register_exceptions' Does anyone know hoow to fix this? Thanks

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