Re: puertos serie???

1998-05-02 Thread Raul Hernández Alvarez
PD: ¿Hay en la distribucion al gun programa gestor de archivos grafico como el xfm que viene con la slak, o algo parecido. Si lo hay porfa me pasais el nombre del paquete. Tienes dos mucho más buenos: filerunner y el tkdesk Un saludo Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

por si alguien puede ayudarme :)

1998-05-02 Thread Manuel Suarez Calafell
lo primero perdón por incluir una pregunta fuera de contexto, y si alguien puede ayudarme agradecere sea a mi direccion de correo electrónico. He querido montar una máquina con los componentes que cito abajo. una vez conectada a la corriente me da los mensajes: (parpadeante en rojo) Cpu setting

Re: Perdón por el mensaje, pero es que no consigo explicarmelo

1998-05-02 Thread gustavo
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:23:49 +0200 From: Jose M. Bello Dieguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Ayuda con tarjeta grafica. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Para empezar, la educación ante

Re: por si alguien puede ayudarme :)

1998-05-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 05:21:09PM +0200, Manuel Suarez Calafell wrote: (parpadeante en rojo) Cpu setting incorrect que interesante chipset... si es tan simpático, ¿no pone la velocidad del CPU en forma automática? (el que tengo yo lo hace... al principio no me gustó la idea, pero funciona

2 páginas en 1

1998-05-02 Thread J. Parera
Necesito imprimir 2 páginas en 1 (es decir, por delante y por detras de cada hoja) pero no encuentro nada. Alguien sabe de algún script o programa? En formato *.deb? Y algún otro programa que comprima las páginas? atentamente, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Unas recomendaciones

1998-05-02 Thread J. Parera
Tanto para consola como para X: Que procesadores de texto recomendais? Que hojas de cálculo? Que bases de datos? Programas de dibujo (vectorial y mapa de bits)? Están en formato *.deb? atentamente, J. Parera P.D. Que es eso del Software Map (que dirección tiene? si es una web)? -- To

Re: How to speed up the EMACS at start-up ?

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: Hi, Thanks to all for the quick answer. The $ emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile source-file(s) is what I've wanted. But this leads me to another question: now, as a 'system adminstrator of my own PC, I just wonder

Re: Network Problem

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
Michael Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really believe this is being caused by a reverse lookup or lookup from ftp.debian.org. I can log onto other ftp sites, ie sunsite, without any problems. But would rather download the packages via Debian. I can confirm that ftp.debian.org

ncpfs not working

1998-05-02 Thread Keith
I have succeeded in configuring my ne2000 card to log in to my Novell 4.11 server and everything is great besides the fact that I cannot mount any Novell volumes. Both times that I have compiled my kernel I have said yes to the feature for mounting Novell volumes and both times it seems to not

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-05-02 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote: Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :) just installed the debian package and now i get this message... badger(larry) tkman Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0. You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebuild wish.

Re: ncpfs not working

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 07:06:46PM +, Keith wrote: I have succeeded in configuring my ne2000 card to log in to my Novell 4.11 server and everything is great besides the fact that I cannot mount any Novell volumes. Both times that I have compiled my kernel I have said yes to the feature for

Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?

1998-05-02 Thread Rev . Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: Actually fips is on the cdrom in /tools. If the Win95 system is OSR2 (4.00B) with FAT32, you will need to get fips15c, which is available from ftp.debian.org in /pub/debian/tools. Another choice would be the commercial Partition

STARTING UP EMACS

1998-05-02 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
If you contact me I will send some more information. I have me .emacs stuff all byte compiled. When I edit .emacs.el, the compiled file is .emacs.elc. There are two ways to have this loaded. I used to just link .emacs to .emacs.elc. That doesn't sit well with some things that emacs20 does

Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and heat are the major concerns here. I know I can just do a full install in some

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Randy Edwards wrote: Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance. I just installed it last week. The installation is just like a Win95 application: a big blue screen and you just click Next a few times and it's done. I seem to remember that

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Allan W. Bart, Jr.
Hello, could you tell a bit more about what it takes to install star office and how do you like the package. allan bart Rick Macdonald wrote: Randy Edwards wrote: Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance. I just installed it last

SCSI..woes..The FIX!

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I finnally solved my SCSI problems and got it working... since I posted here I thought I would share how I did it. This was s stupid... I went into the main BIOS just for Shits and Giggles and noticed a Plug N Pray area (i forget the actual name) where it

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Allan W. Bart, Jr. wrote: could you tell a bit more about what it takes to install star office and how do you like the package. Really, the installation is simple. Just run it. I changed the installation location from ~/Soffice40 to /usr/local/bin/Soffice40, but other than that it was just

Re: mounting /usr as read only.

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 May 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: Liran Zvibel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LZ What do you have to say about $SUBJECT? LZ I think that in that way the /usr partition cant get currupted. It's probably a good preventative measure, in the same way that

Diskcopy

1998-05-02 Thread Pete Poff
I'm booting debian off of a secondary harddisk and I need to know how to format a disk and make a diskcopy of my system boot disk. thanks, Pete Poff E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok ...I installed StarOffice 4.0 a few weeks ago but... it didn't work... it would install (will hafta try that trick on the install) but as soon as I try to do ANYTHING it exist with n error (I think it seg faults) did you do this on a bo system? I am running

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Stephen Carpenter wrote: Ok ...I installed StarOffice 4.0 a few weeks ago but... it didn't work... it would install (will hafta try that trick on the install) but as soon as I try to do ANYTHING it exist with n error (I think it seg faults) did you do this on a bo system? I am running

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've installed both 4.0 and 3.1 in hamm using the debian installer with minimal problems. I had installed 3.1 into bo before the installer package came along and it was a bit strange to configure, but following the instructions to the letter helped. One thing I noticed with the word processor is

Re: Diskcopy

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Thats pretty easy... format a disk...as in put an second extended filesystem on it? try mke2fs /dev/fd0 to copy a disk...(this works for any disk I found...even DOS disks it doesn't care) cp /dev/fd0 filname put in a new disk cp filename /dev/fd0 -Steve On Fri, 1 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: I'm

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 08:13:29PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and heat are the major

Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 12:50:51AM +, Rev . Joseph Carter wrote: Boot Manager is a little weird though with Linux. At least it was with IBM fdisk in OS/2. Problem was that you could not ADD a type 83 partition to Boot Manager but you could create an unformatted partition, add that, then

Staroffice

1998-05-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, Sorry for the stupid quiestion but where is the debian package for staroffice ? I can't seem to find it in my nirror. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
is this a bug or have i done something wrong? Have you compiled your own tk8.0 binaries? If not, you could have the wrong version of the tk8.0 package. Did you use any --force flags on dpkg when installing tkman? You need at least version 8.0p2-2 of the tk8.0 package for tkman to work.

Installation Millenium2

1998-05-02 Thread Olivier
Hye , I want to install my Millenium 2 video card , and my Linux version don't support it ( Linux Mnis octobrer 97 kernel 2.0.30 / 2.1.56 ). I don't find the drivers for it . So , i want to know how do to get it or how do to configure the Linux system for this card . Thanks . mailto: [EMAIL

Re: Installation Millenium2

1998-05-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Check out the mailing list archives for this list for march and april. This question has been answered many times. :) Briefly, you will need XFree86 3.3.2. Debian 2.0 already has packages for this. Debian 1.3.1 or older doesn't. In the latter case you will need to download the Linux_ix86

How do I check disk space?

1998-05-02 Thread Keith
I would like to know how do I check how much disk space I have left on my drives. I am not running xwindows. Does Linux have any type of disk compression utility. Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] CNE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: How do I check disk space?

1998-05-02 Thread Egon Schmid
Use df (disk free). For compression you can look for tar and zip. I don't think that there is disk compression utility. But I could be wrong. -Egon On Sat, 2 May 1998, Keith wrote: I would like to know how do I check how much disk space I have left on my drives. I am not running xwindows.

Re: How do I check disk space?

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
There is a compressed ext2 (linux) file system. Like any compressed fs though -- it is best left untouched. It is safer and not that much more expensive to get a bigger drive. man is you friend. man -k topic gives lots of nice help. There are also numerous HOWTOs in /usr/doc/HOWTO once you

Re: Installation Millenium2

1998-05-02 Thread Carroll Kong
Carroll Kong On Sat, 2 May 1998, Olivier wrote: Hye , I want to install my Millenium 2 video card , and my Linux version don't support it ( Linux Mnis octobrer 97 kernel 2.0.30 / 2.1.56 ). I don't find the drivers for it . So , i want to know how do to get it or how do to configure the

xntp ?

1998-05-02 Thread Jonas Bofjall
I'd like to set a computer's hwclock periodically using NTP. I've installed the xntp .deb. Now what? (Yes, I've read the docs.. :( ) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which xwindows should I use

1998-05-02 Thread Keith
Let's say that, hypothetically, I wanted to install xwindows on my system, which one would you say is the best, and why. Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] CNE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xntp ?

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
Read them again (-: Ok, now that you are back Edit /etc/ntp.conf and put the server you wish to sync w/ in there. Jonas Bofjall wrote: I'd like to set a computer's hwclock periodically using NTP. I've installed the xntp .deb. Now what? (Yes, I've read the docs.. :( ) // Jonas

Re: which xwindows should I use

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
I assume the question is which server in the list do I choose. If so the answer is usually XF86_SVGA. This supports most video cards. The other servers are designed for specific cards. If you have one of these cards, then use one of the other servers. To better help, give us the kind of video

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Thomas Lakofski
4.0? using the staroffice3.deb package? how? staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own installer) -thomas On Fri, 1 May 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I've installed both 4.0 and 3.1 in hamm using the debian installer with minimal problems. I had installed 3.1 into bo

Re: perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation

1998-05-02 Thread Yann Dirson
Joost Kooij writes: #!/usr/bin/perl $TRANSLATION = '\1;$2'; $str = ab; $str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION}; [snip] Have you tried wrapping the substitution statement with an eval construct yet? I think that should make it work. I had not, and it works. $TRANSLATION

Re: xntp ?

1998-05-02 Thread Ralph Winslow
Shaleh wrote: Read them again (-: Ok, now that you are back Edit /etc/ntp.conf and put the server you wish to sync w/ in there. Gee, if it's that simple, a ntpconfig command that might be as simple as: #!/bin/sh $EDITOR /etc/ntp.conf wouldn't be an unreasonable expectation.

Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses? Are we just out of luck if the default one goes down? 2. Could I make a symlink from /var/cache/apt/archives to another drive/partition with more space and let it keep the cached archives there? 3. If apt retrieves a newer

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
I have a simpler one: where do i get apt? And is there docs w/ it or somewhere else? -- --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you think, when your eyes are closed? - Jason Bonham Band, Ordinary Black and White

Re: e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm)

1998-05-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dselect won't install e2fslibsg because of a conflict with e2fsprogs, but it won't remove e2fsprogs because it is an essential package. How do I resolve this dilemma? I did it using the --force-remove-essential flag to dpkg while removing. Make sure

Re: pppd and fetchmail OR ip-up.d and ip-down.d

1998-05-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Paul Serice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just now noticing two new directories in /etc/ppp called ip-up.d and ip-down.d. They look like they have scripts that will be run automatically? Currently, the only scripts I have in there are fetchmail scripts. From the looks of it, they have

Re: IP Masq and users

1998-05-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway what I need is to ask all users connecting (from any of the client machines (2 * W95, 1 * Linux) to 'login' before they're allowed net access (mainly for monitoring - who's running up the usage bill etc.) Is there an easy way

Re: MIME Encoding

1998-05-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Alex Monaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may be covered in a Howto or a FAQ, if so please can you point me in the right direction. There is a mimedecode package in the standard 1.3 installation CD. Is there something to go the other way ? I want to create an auto-reply program to

star office seg faults :-(

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
hi, i got and installed star office 4.0 from the tar ball. everthing installed without errors, but when i run it the first window opens up (where you can open new documents etc) and then it seg faults and dies. it looks like such a nice program that this is very frustrating. i am running a

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:04:04AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: I have a simpler one: where do i get apt? And is there docs w/ it or somewhere else? project/experimental in the ftp archive. It comes with docs. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:01:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses? Are we just out of luck if the default one goes down? /etc/apt/sources.list 2. Could I make a symlink from /var/cache/apt/archives to another

RE: Instaling Hamm.

1998-05-02 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello all cp -a /source/* /mnt/whatever some time ago I asked about cp -a behaviour, I thought that it was ok for backup but... if you have two files hard-linked cp -a will copy two files not just one... regards, Ulisses -

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses? Are we just out of luck if the default one goes down? /etc/apt/sources.list (man 5 sources.list) 2. Could I make a symlink from /var/cache/apt/archives to another

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Thomas Lakofski wrote: 4.0? using the staroffice3.deb package? how? staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own installer) I used the staroffice 4 installer from hamm and had no problems. I had some unrelated disk problems later and reinstalled

Help with IP forwarding

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
I have a cable modem connection that is just being converted to a business-class connection, which means I get 5 statics IP addresses and my packets destined to the office are routed directly. I can't get IP forwarding to forward anything. The setup is simple: (I've disguising actual IP's in

samba error: device does not exist on the network

1998-05-02 Thread Pete Templin
Good morning, I'm experiencing some difficulties with a samba server I've got, and frankly I'm perplexed. I'm trying to use user security on a server that was providing server security, and I'm getting the above message (The specified device does not exist on the network). It

Re: COBOL?

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
K. Claussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. I was wondering if anyone knew of any COBOL packages available for Linux? If you want to go commercial, ACUCOBOL is available (a pretty mainstream version of COBOL) - see www.acucobol.com. Other than knowing that, I've got a bit of an aversion to

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
I used the staroffice 4 installer from hamm and had no problems. I had some unrelated disk problems later and reinstalled hamm. This time I installed 3.0. hmm, i had problems getting 3.0 to work. it gave me so errors about not having the my environment setup correctly and to run a setup

conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
midnight commander now requires e2fsligsg, but when I tried installing that, it won't install because of a conflict with e2fsprogs. The packages file says it conflicts with e2fsprogs = 1.10-7. but I have 1.10-15 installed. e2fsprogs says it conflicts with e2fslibsg (no version listed). mc still

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based? Normally when i'm installing stuff, I su to root in an Xterm and use apt or dpkg. But if the APT GUI will be X based, and I do that, won't the X-serve reject the connection? thanks, Timothy --

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Just my two ccents: I installed StarOffice 4.0 in the /home/damir/ directory by using the install script that came in the original tarball without any problems whatsoever. I don't pretend to know how this works, but it does :-) Also, I have fetched URW fonts (link from the gimp site) and installed

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's first knowing of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus Torvalds. Would anyone have any idea if this is available, or even if it was saved? Or even where I could

ESS1688 Laptop Sound Card

1998-05-02 Thread Asher Haig
I sent a message a while ago asking about this soundcard in a Dell LM166M laptop and got several responses. Unfortunately, I still have not been able to get the soundcard set up. How can I figure out all the settings that I need to put in for it? I/O Base IRQ DMA 16 bit DMA MPU401 I/O Base MPU401

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
Jeff Noxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and heat are the major concerns here. I

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
Any time you log in as a user different than the one who owns the X session you have to set the variable DISPLAY. so next time you su to root simply: export DISPLAY=:0 or whatever you run your X on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based?

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based? Normally when i'm installing stuff, I su to root in an Xterm and use apt or dpkg. But if the APT GUI will be X based, and I do that, won't the X-serve reject the connection? apt

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Randy Edwards
staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own installer) After getting some replies on this thread, I went ahead and dove in too. I'm running the latest hamm and extracted the tarball into /tmp. I then read the read.me, looked at the license, and said, what the heck,

mutt - new mail feature?

1998-05-02 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]' I don't know if I just plain don't understand what the docs are saying or ... I use procmail to sort 'deliver' mail to mailbox folders in directories called ~/Mail ~/Mail/Debian. This works 'just dandy', and with mutt I can read the mail (psudo-threaded

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
After getting some replies on this thread, I went ahead and dove in too. I'm running the latest hamm and extracted the tarball into /tmp. I then read the read.me, looked at the license, and said, what the heck, I'll give it a shot. as a side note i always use dpkg to upgrade my

Re: star office seg faults :-( [fixed]

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
Copy your StarOffice directory from root to your regular user account. chown everything over and for some strange reason this fixes it. yep, this fixes it. that is very broken of it. now i'm going to go play and see if it's a path issue or a permissions issue :-) thanks for the tip,

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Randy Edwards
as a side note i always use dpkg to upgrade my system (i just don't like the interface that dselect offers) ... but i'd like to sync my system to the latest hamm. what is the easiest way to do this with (dselect i assume)? This is what I'd do: Use dselect, update all of the package

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
Yes, it's still using dselect, but you can use it once. ;-) i can use dselect for most things ... i just prefer not to :-), i find dpkg causes me less pain. Yes, that is the S)elect function's default behavior. Just update your package files, choose S)elect, press space to get out of

AccelX and Could not open display :0

1998-05-02 Thread Asher Haig
Does anyone have any idea why with AccelX, after updating to the X stuff in unstable, would give me Could not open display :0 when I run Xsetup? I reinstalled AccelX afterward and I have to enter a serial number, now so startx just doesn't work at all. Everything worked fine before upgrading

whoop

1998-05-02 Thread Plutonically Incorrect
I finnaly managed to install debian, first try too! I'm having a bit of a problem with X... It doesnt have the drivers for my video card. it's an Intense 3d Voodoo Rush Video card (3dfx, 3d/2d) Does anyone have an idea on where to obtain drivers for this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: whoop

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
Dont exist. Sorry. Please support hardware vendors who support freenix. Voodoo is NOT one of them. Plutonically Incorrect wrote: I finnaly managed to install debian, first try too! I'm having a bit of a problem with X... It doesnt have the drivers for my video card. it's an Intense 3d

Re: whoop

1998-05-02 Thread Plutonically Incorrect
Well, just because hardware vendors dont support their hardware with unix based clones doesnt necessarily mean that there arent drivers out there to support it under x. On Sat, 2 May 1998, Shaleh wrote: Dont exist. Sorry. Please support hardware vendors who support freenix. Voodoo is NOT

No sound, no nothing from OSSFree 3.8, SB Vibra 16

1998-05-02 Thread kaynjay
Hello, I'm a Debian (and Linux) newbie with OS/2 as my other system, and have been struggling with several problems in my setup. One is the (apparently infamous) issue of getting my SB Vib. 16 PnP sound card working. After much playing about, I got the 3.8 ver. of the OSSFree drivers.

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
After all the discussion I tried to install staroffice 4 as well. I have a slightly out-of-date hamm. I tried installing the net installation all went ok. Then I tried installing it on my directory as a user. The first thing to note is that there is a huge duplication of files. The net

Re: whoop

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
You missed the point -- we as a community MUST NOT support hardware vendors who do not return the support. The economy is a consumer driven one. If we ALL stand up and refuse to buy hardware that is not supported things will change. Otherwise hardware like the winmodems will continue. Instead

How to redefine Multi_key generated characters?

1998-05-02 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
Hello all! I would like to use Multi_key to generate some specific characters, for example: Multi_key, s, ' - sacute Multi_key, a, , - aogonek and so on... Where can I modify the definitions of special characters generated with Multi_key? TIA

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
Hi! I've been looking for a way to run root stuff under X! I tried doing what you said and su'ing to root, and then export DISPLAY=:0 Then when I start anything X it says: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key I'm not sure what you mean by whatever I run

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Shaleh
Are you logged into the same box? I mean you start an Xterm on the same box and then su root. It should work as shown. Try this: as the user running X type 'echo $DISPLAY'. su to root and type what the other display is set to. Also as the user running X try typing xhost +. This will allow

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Roberto Magana
As a normal user xhost + (name of your host) THEN su and export DISPLAY=:0 On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've been looking for a way to run root stuff under X! I tried doing what you said and su'ing to root, and then export DISPLAY=:0 Then when I start anything X it says:

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GK == G Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GK files. The net installlation takes up about 110 Mb, the user about 88 Mb GK obviously muh is common between the two. As I did not know that and did One of the stardevision developers has set up a homepage with tips for SO4. There is one file,

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: S Are you logged into the same box? I mean you start an Xterm on the same S box and then su root. It should work as shown. Try this: as the user S running X type 'echo $DISPLAY'. su to root and type what the other S display is set to. Also as the user

Internal ISDN Support?

1998-05-02 Thread Kevin Traas
Hello everyone, I'm looking for an internal ISDN TA that I can use under Linux, and I'm hoping someone can provide some info on which, if any, are supported. I've looked at the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO and the ISDN HOWTO, but they're both years old and aren't much help at all - so, I'm

HTML in e-mail

1998-05-02 Thread Kevin Traas
First off, no flame-mail please grin I've got a Linux system here at work that's used for diald/ipmasq access to the Internet for our LAN. Anyway, I've written a bunch of Perl scripts that grep log files and create some reports that are then mailed to several people on the LAN that have an

Re: HTML in e-mail

1998-05-02 Thread Kevin Traas
On Sat, 2 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 2 May 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: How do I send an e-mail message with the new/custom header that defines the message as being in HTML format. (Just sending HTML code as the body of the message doesn't work - I've tried) Thanks

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses? Are we just out of luck if the default one goes down? You should edit /etc/apt/sources.list (see souces.list(5)) or use Dselect to configure the APT method. Both will let

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Shaleh wrote: I have a simpler one: where do i get apt? And is there docs w/ it or somewhere else? project/experimental the newest version is 0.0.8, the docs are in /usr/docs/apt - especially read 'guide.text' Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based? Normally when i'm installing stuff, I su to root in an Xterm and use apt or dpkg. But if the APT GUI will be X based, and I do that, won't the X-serve reject the connection? If