Re: Fuentes texi de los info

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Esteban Crespi: ¿Alguien sabe donde se pueden encontrar los fuentes de los info, es decir los ficheros .texi ? En el código fuente del programa. En Debian, el código fuente (suponiendo que uno tiene el conjunto oficial de dos CD-ROMs de Debian) está en el CD

Re: libpthread

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hola. No es por nada, pero creo que libc6 (GNU libc 2) ya tiene soporte para threads incluido (es una de las cosas nuevas que tiene), y posiblemente no te haga falta nada más. Una pista: Según dpkg -S, el fichero /usr/include/pthread.h pertenece al paquete

Re: Debian hamm. Al fin?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hola. Me acaba de comunicar el responsable de sunsite que lo de debian es un problema transitorio y se espera que este fin de semana vuelva a la normalidad. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1

Re: libpthread (y libreadline2)

Gracias a Luis y a Santiago. Era eso. Ya he instalado libc6, ahora me estoy peleando con la libreadline2. Hay varios paquetes que la utilizan, entre ellos Bash y parece ser que tendré que desinstalarlos para desinstalar la libreadline2 que viene con Debian 1.3.1 , y así poder instalar la nueva y

Re: libpthread (y libreadline2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Jose Miguel Gurpegui wrote: Gracias a Luis y a Santiago. Era eso. Ya he instalado libc6, ahora me estoy peleando con la libreadline2. Hay varios paquetes que la utilizan, entre ellos Bash y parece ser que tendré que desinstalarlos

Re: libpthread (y libreadline2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Corrección. Dije: No debes desinstalar bash, porque es esencial, y puedes hacer el sistema completamente inutilizable si lo intentas. Bueno, por intentarlo no pasa nada porque dpkg es listo y sabe que bash es esencial, pero si además de intentarlo uno pone

Re: libpthread (y libreadline2)

-Original Message- From: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jose Miguel Gurpegui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-esp debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Date: jueves 11 de junio de 1998 17:08 p.m. Subject: Re: libpthread (y libreadline2) Mmm, pues sí :-) No debes desinstalar bash,

Re: libpthread (y libreadline2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Jose M. Bello Dieguez wrote: Ahora me hago el loggin y el password, me dice que no tengo correo, y me saca un [none]#, tras lo cual me vuelve a pedir el loggin y el password, y así hasta la eternidad. ¿Hay alguna forma de

Sound Blaster 16

Hace tiempo leí sobre un programa que configura automáticamente la Sound Blaster 16. Me pueden decir que programa es ese? De donde lo saco? Lo lleva el CD-ROM de Debian 1.3.1? Grácias, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

ISAPNPTOOLS (era Sound Blaster 16)

Hola. Una pregunta. Las isapnptools servirían para configurar mi GUS? Gracias. Saludos, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAN Soft® Magazine http://www.maptel.es/pagpersonal/mansoft

Conectarse a Internet

Hola. Ya se que quiza es inocente y no sirve para nada, pero yo en mi web (www.mansoft.home.ml.org) en la seccion de linux tengo un articulo sobre eso... a ver si sirve algo de ahí. Saludos, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound Blaster 16

On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 05:54:30PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: Hace tiempo leí sobre un programa que configura automáticamente la Sound Blaster 16. Me pueden decir que programa es ese? De donde lo saco? Lo lleva el CD-ROM de Debian 1.3.1? Pues tienes que recompilar el kernel para que de soporte

Supuesto sobre dselect

Hola! Supongamos que yo quiero instalar el paquete X. Como X depende de su funcionamiento de otros dos paquetes, A y B, también los instalo. Luego pruebo X y no me gusta. Bien, lo desinstalo. La pregunta es: sería mucho pedir que dselect me sugiera desinstalar A y B? :-?¿ (Es que el binstats

Re: Supuesto sobre dselect

On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 08:14:50PM +0200, Juan Ignacio Llona wrote: Hola! Supongamos que yo quiero instalar el paquete X. Como X depende de su funcionamiento de otros dos paquetes, A y B, también los instalo. Luego pruebo X y no me gusta. Bien, lo desinstalo. La pregunta es: sería mucho

Re: ISAPNPTOOLS (era Sound Blaster 16)

On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 08:03:01PM +0200, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote: Una pregunta. Las isapnptools servirían para configurar mi GUS? Sirven para configurar cosas PnP, ¿es tu GUS PnP? Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

RePresentacion...

Pues nada que creo que no he conseguido enmascarar con sendmail el nombre de usuario de mi maquina con el de mi cuenta de correo y por si no sale bien que sepais que es: [EMAIL PROTECTED] o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aunque pensandolo bien creo que no la necesitais...

Presentacion

Hola All! Pues nada que soy nuevo en las listas de correo y en esta en particular asi que me presento: Soy estudiante de 2º de informatica de sistemas en la Complutense de Madrid y me gusta bastante todo lo relacionado con la informatica y como no con Linux, aunque lo conozco ya

Re: RePresentacion...

On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:35:42AM +0200, Tomas Guemes wrote: Pues nada que creo que no he conseguido enmascarar con sendmail el nombre de usuario de mi maquina con el de mi cuenta de correo y por si no sale bien que sepais que es: [EMAIL PROTECTED] o [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppd-2.3.5 pap authentification does not work

[...] Thanks a lot, it works now. The reason was another one: Due to some trial and approaches I set the remotelogin name on the bo-version with the keyword remotename, which isn't what the hamm version wants. After fiddling a little around with the pppconfig package which

[Hamm Install] package dependency problems

Hi, I downloaded Hamm last night from fp.mi.us.debian.org and I got quite a lot of package download problems. Packages that seem to have moved between the ime I selected them and the time I downloaded them. Anyway, I have a lot of package problems, 58 packages are in

key repeat in X

anyone know how to turn repeating keys back on after some stupid program (like quake) has screwed it up? i don't want to logout and restart X (i shouldn't have to anyway: this is unix, not 'doze :) after checking out the x11 quakeworld client, i find that my keys don't repeat if i hold them

Re: [Hamm Install] Dselect/ftp, what is this error message ?

=?us-ascii?Q?Francois_Gouget?= wrote: I'm installing a new Debian 2.0 on my PC using the ftp method to download it from ftp.mi.us.debian.org. During the download I got the following error message: getting: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb (3125884)

Re: key repeat in X

] anyone know how to turn repeating keys back on after some stupid program ] (like quake) has screwed it up? Check out the xset program. xset q will query status (so you know what is going on without changing anything). xset r on might fix your key repeat problem.

Re: [Hamm Install] package dependency problems

Francois == Francois Gouget?= us-ascii writes: Francois 5.004.04-2)'. I tried to find another package Francois that would provide 'perl' but did not find Perl itself provides perl: ./hamm/hamm/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb Francois 'libg++' not the one I expected. I

Re: aic6260, cdrom linux

thanks hamish. tried your settings and still no joy. this one's got me stumped. anybody else have a suggestion? is there an optimal place to put 'append' lines in lilo.conf? -c- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:59:28PM -0400, Chea Prince wrote:

Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

Hi All, About a year with Linux (Slackware, Caldera) new to Debian. Just Installed 1.3.1 (bo) CD format from Linux Mall on the same hardware that used previous OSs.I saw some problems during the install as the CD image was not true to the source. dselect complained about certain

Re: key repeat in X

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, David Keegel wrote: ] anyone know how to turn repeating keys back on after some stupid ] program (like quake) has screwed it up? Check out the xset program. xset q will query status (so you know what is going on without changing anything). xset r on might fix your key

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

Non-free can not be on a CD, that is the point of it being called non-free. As to your problem here goes (I help maintain the FAQ-o-matic). COM2 is /dev/ttyS1. You can make a /dev/modem w/ ln -s ttyS1 modem. While in the dev directory. The No PPP support in kernel is caused by it trying to

Beowulf?

What do people know about this brand of parrellel processing linux? thanks == On the plains of hesitation lies the bones of countless millions who, on the verge of victory, sat down to wait and in waiting died. _ DO YOU YAHOO!?

RE: [Hamm Install] package dependency problems

On Wednesday, June 10, 1998 3:49 PM, Johnie Ingram [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francois == Francois Gouget?= us-ascii writes: Francois 5.004.04-2)'. I tried to find another package Francois that would provide 'perl' but did not find Perl itself provides perl:

RE: Zip and CD-rom (almost there)

Try mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt The file system on a CD is in the ISO 9660 format not fat. You also don't have to specify a partition. for CD: mount -t msdos /dev/hdd4 /mnt this does not work. Same with vfat I tried fdisk on /dev/hdd. Here's the output. --

Re: [Hamm Install] package dependency problems

Francois == Francois Gouget?= us-ascii writes: Francois (a rather bad name imho), not perl. perl-base Francois replaces perl which I guess means it provides Francois it (once the install worked out ok). Or maybe Francois the package perl provides perl because it is Francois called perl then.

X-crash

Hy, I've got BIG problemm: I've got Debian some time and it was well, but I've just bought new mainboard (fic 502)and my X window started to crash ... undefinied references in libX11.so.6, fatal error in freeing of nonexisting swap page, ... But I've got RedHat 4.2 too, and it is unaffected by

Re: auctex not happening

[A courtesy copy has also been sent to the auctex package maintainer.] Waldemar ¯urowski wrote: AFAIK it is not. AUCTeX is separate package for Emacs, and there is native(?) tex-mode in Emacs. In other words, if someone wants to use AuCTeX, she/he should put require tex-site in .emacs. Mark

slrn scrolling trouble

I can't figure out how to scroll down in the message window. The help screen says to press ESC + UP/DOWN .. this works, but it is extremely slow (keys and only 1 line at a time)... Is there a way to use PgDn/PgUp? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 08:29:20PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Non-free can not be on a CD, that is the point of it being called non-free. As to your problem here goes (I help maintain the FAQ-o-matic). Well, if it by definition could not go on CD, it should be called non-CD. Some parts of it ARE

Re: slrn scrolling trouble

Hi Paul Miller; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I can't figure out how to scroll down in the message window. The help screen says to press ESC + UP/DOWN .. this works, but it is extremely slow (keys and only 1 line at a time)... Is there a way to use PgDn/PgUp? Thanks -Paul I have

[newbie] svga(lib?) help with tgui 9680

Basically, while X works and svgatextmode works, things like Sasteroids doesn't. It gives me a garbled screen, where i can make out some stuff, and when i quit, i get a ferked up console screen with or sans svgatextmode on. so...what do I do? Should I tool around in /etc/vga/ and if so, double

Little Screwy smal tincy bug I'm gonna feal real dumb about

For some reason my box excepts nil for connections. I found and removed the all pariniod from my /etc/hosts.deny and added ALL to hosts.allow and still it dosn't help. I noted that my xinitd also has some problems wiht haveing no listing but for ports like echo and local things. little help

Re: Beowulf?

What do people know about this brand of parrellel processing linux? Hmmm. Kind of an open ended question. You mean besides what the web pages say? I know that a cluster of Linux machines using a resonably quick intercommunications network can rival some of the large supercomputers for a

How to get lpd not to print userid pages

How can I disable the userid/printjob identifier pages using lpd? I just moved a Canon BJC-4000 which used to be attached to a Win95 machine on the LAN; I used to use samba to print to it. Now I've got it on my machine, but it's printing those id pages, which is a waste of paper and ink. Do the

Re: How to get lpd not to print userid pages

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Kiyan Azarbar wrote: How can I disable the userid/printjob identifier pages using lpd? I just moved a Canon BJC-4000 which used to be attached to a Win95 machine on the LAN; I used to use samba to print to it. Now I've got it on my machine, but it's printing those id

my slrn isn't using the system newsgroups.dsc file

(I'm using the lastest slink/hamm packages...) My slrn isn't using the system newsgroups.dsc file... the file exists and has the groups/descriptions as expected. When I run slrn when .jnewsrc and .newsrc don't exist, I get the following error: $ slrn slrn 0.9.5.2 (May 17 1998 11:27:48) Unable

Missing packages?

What missing package causes the following in source configure scripts?: 'checking for working makeinfo.. missing' Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Jun-98 Time: 03:10:14 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0.

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: Hi, A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now mount every thing I want. Is there an automatic mounter ? If I would like to mount three things, what should they be called? I know /mnt, but that is only one out of three.

HTTP mirrors

Sorry to bring this up, but can someone suggest an up-to-date HTTP mirror? I tried http://ftp1.us.debian.org, timestamp there is June 10 which is ok, but APT says I don't need anything new. If I use ftp://ftp.debian.org, I need to download 60mb+ of stuff -- odd. Unfortunately FTP seems to have

Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 problems

Hi, I have some problems with X running on a bo system, with a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 series video card (4MB memory). The PC used to run a bo system (1.3.1) and worked OK. Then the hard disk broke down, and problems with memory were also suspected. The hard disk was replaced and the memory

Re: key repeat in X

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: anyone know how to turn repeating keys back on after some stupid program (like quake) has screwed it up? xset r on doesn't work? xset 100 10? Regards, Damien Miller | Damien Miller | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ilogic.com.au/ | Internet

Using Vim with mutt

Hi Folks, Not strictly a debian question, I guess. I've just started using mutt as my MUA, and I'd quite like to use Vim as the editor. At the moment I'm using pico (yukk!) because it's the only thing I know of which loads fast and does word wrapping. I'm guessing that mutt doesn't wrap

Money where my mouth is

Hi Folks, Just something I thought I'd like to share with the list... It's nothing crucially important, so if you're in a hurry, feel free to skip over it. I've sort of been into Linux for a year or so now, I guess. Actually, prolly not quite that long. I consider myself an 'advocate' and I'm

Re: Money where my mouth is

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have surmounted the major obstacles (the fact that I can send this sort of proves that). I have got X running with my fav. WM, AfterStep 1.0 (tho I don't like that Debian menu... how do I get rid of it so I can edit the .steprc and get

RE: Unidentified subject!

Did you installed some packages using dselect for example ? Franck -- I've installed Debian 1.3 but can't run many commands, including man. Why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

[ debian-user-request ] libXpm and wine

I am looking for libXpm in order to compile the source version od wine (its newer then the one in the debian package) is there a debian package of libXpm? because i couldn't find one. id not, does anyone know where i can find a binary version and how to install it? (i think there is one under

DNS and Host access.

Hi, I have just set up a primary and secondary name servers on my network, and I have created some A class records for things like ftp, www and news. I would like to deny access to say the web site if someone used say http://ftp.bogus.org and just allow access from http://www.bogus.org, I have

Re: Using Vim with mutt

On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:39:11PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I have found some Vim settings that wrap messages on screen, they don't seem to insert the CR (or LF/CR, or LF, or whatever it is these days) at the end of the line... Here's part of my muttrc; among other things, it

Re: telnetting to a host behind ip_masq

On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 04:30:42PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: Is it possible to telnet directly to a host behind ip_masq? -- Something like connecting to a different hostname at the same ip, and acting as a different computer. -- Apache does this with virtual hosting. You can use .

Re: telnetting to a host behind ip_masq

I have done this and other tricks with an IP MASQ network by using a port bouncer and bouncing a particular port to and from a masqued box. Joe On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Is it possible to telnet directly to a host behind ip_masq? -- Something like connecting to a different

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

Come to think of it Redhat did put mount points under /mnt/ Being lazy I usually mount everything (cd, floppies) under mount. But I did make mount points of /A, /B, /CD, and now /bernie. The latter is for my bernoulli drive, the first two for the floppys. I don't remember if /A: was legal.

Domain name server

Hello all, I have one PC at work with debian installed, where I would like to use ftp (we have a fast connection). In the manual it is described how to configure the resolv.conf file, i.e you must write the IP address of the domain name server, but what if you don't have any? We reach

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I reinstalled debian 1.3.1, using the XF86_S3V server. I am using xdm to login. Every so many times the machine hangs when terminating the xsession. The screen gets a single color, it seems to have a

Re: Using Vim with mutt

On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:39:11PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I have found some Vim settings that wrap messages on screen, they don't seem to insert the CR (or LF/CR, or LF, or whatever it is these days) at the end of the line... Am I completely losing it, or is it possible

Re: Using Vim with mutt

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:15:39 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Yes, you just hit the enter key at the end of each line. :-) Use J to join lines when reformatting, etc. Or use Joe. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my

Xemacs weirdness

I need to ask a question that isn't Debian specific: if inappropriate, let me go ahead and apologize. I still have SuSE installed on my laptop. Curiousity got the best of me and I installed XEmacs this morning. I opened the prog and everything works fine except this: whenever I mouse-over the

Permission problem with FTE

I use the FTE editor quite a bit for programming and html, but I have to use it as root. I would prefer to be able to use it in my normal account. When I try to execute FTE as anyone else but root it gives me this error message: open: Permission Denied Failed to open /dev/vcsa* I never get

Re: HTTP mirrors

On 11 Jun, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Sorry to bring this up, but can someone suggest an up-to-date HTTP mirror? From my /etc/apt/sources.list my two favorites are: deb http://bigfoot.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian frozen main

Re: Beowulf?

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: What do people know about this brand of parrellel processing linux? thanks check Extreme Linux at www.redhat.com regards OK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: key repeat in X

Craig Sanders wrote: anyone know how to turn repeating keys back on after some stupid program (like quake) has screwed it up? I use this in a hacked /etc/init.d/ file to set it to something sane. By default it was awfully slow: /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 (Note: this is because X is even started,

RE: HTTP mirrors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I don't know how up to date it is, but there is another Australian http mirror at http://ftp.it.com.au/ftp/ (I think). They also have non-US. They used to be very fast, but I've been finding their ftp site very slow lately, but YMMV. I can't vouch for http

Re: my slrn isn't using the system newsgroups.dsc file

Yes, that is how it should be -- but mine isn't! That is why I posted the message in the first place! Touching that file doesn't work because slrn isn't using the system newsgroups.dsc file. I've even tried setting the SLRN_LIB_DIR variable.. -Paul On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On

Re: Apache

On: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:42:21 +0700 Michael Acklin writes: Hello, I have just installed Apache Web Server and keep getting the same message I try to start the server. What do I need to do get the server working. Here is the error.log [Wed Jun 10 13:59:35 1998] [alert]

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 problems

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi, I have some problems with X running on a bo system, with a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 series video card (4MB memory). The PC used to run a bo system (1.3.1) and worked OK. Then the hard disk broke down, and problems with memory were also

FTP gone from dselect

I've just installed Debian 2.0 and successfully downloaded several packages using the custom install and FTP method of access. Now, when I reboot the system, it gives me several network errors, and FTP is gone from dselect's Access menu. Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

dselect ftp problem - the solution

Many thanks - Norbert in particular Changing the options file to initiate ppp on the ISP machine - I just inserted the line $ ppp to the options file and it worked perfectly. As an experiment and to ensure that all my playing didn't upset anything else I restarted the installation using the

Debian vs. W95 (was: Money where mouth...)

I think I can safely say that anyone who tells you Linux (any flavour) is as easy to set up as Win95 is pulling your leg. ... You can make it exactly how you like it, and nothing (much) is forced down your throat. -- I am trying to get some networking up on W95/NT, to do it on Debian took a

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

Thanks guys, I now automaticly (sp) mount my harddisk partitions. And I'm going to find one of those automounters (for CD and Zip). Thanks Again, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CD-rom and ZIP

/A: is legal. I use /c: /d: /e: for my windoz partition. (It's a pitty that I can't get rid of them now.) Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 5:09 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: CD-rom and

Re: Apache

On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 01:12:41PM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: It seems to be the famous Cannot determine hostname problem. Check the contents of your /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf files. /etc/hosts should contain your ip-address and your fully qualified hostname and /etc/host.conf

Re: FTP gone from dselect

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0 and successfully downloaded several packages using the custom install and FTP method of access. Now, when I reboot the system, it gives me several network errors, and FTP is gone from dselect's Access menu. Any

Re: telnetting to a host behind ip_masq

Paul Miller wrote: Is it possible to telnet directly to a host behind ip_masq? You need to run a port forwarder on the masquerading host. -- Something like connecting to a different hostname at the same ip, and acting as a different computer. -- Apache does this with virtual hosting. This

x-window

Dear Debian, I have installed Debian version of Linux on my PC as a dual boot WIN95/Linux system. I tried installing x-windows and I have a video problem. I set up the mouse, keyboard, moniter, and video card correctly but the screen comes up all fuzzy, wavey lines, etc. My video chipset and

Re: HTTP mirrors

I've had pretty good luck with http://llug.sep.bnl.gov Bob On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Sorry to bring this up, but can someone suggest an up-to-date HTTP mirror? I tried http://ftp1.us.debian.org, timestamp there is June 10 which is ok, but APT says I don't need anything

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

Hi All, We can close this thread. PPP works now. Thanks for all those who jumped in to help me. I really like the response time of this list. First response from Shaleh was in ten minutes. WOW!! Here is the scoop. I un-installed PPP package and installed it again. It still did not work.

netscape

I just installed netscape using the ns-install script since the package wasn't working. It installed correctly, however it won't let me run it. When I type netscape it tells me: cp: *: No such file or dirctory I don't suppose that anyone has a solution for me? Thanks for any help, lynx is

gnus

After using rmail for reading mail for several years, I am now trying to learn to use gnus. I have a several questions that I haven't been able to resolve. I find it convenient to leave the point in the summary buffer at the top of the screen, and read the messages in the article

Re: netscape

I just installed netscape using the ns-install script since the package wasn't working. It installed correctly, however it won't let me run it. When I type netscape it tells me: cp: *: No such file or dirctory I don't suppose that anyone has a solution for me? I don't know why it's giving

Re: auctex not happening

* NY = Noel Yap NY [A courtesy copy has also been sent to the auctex package NY maintainer.] Thank you, I'm not subscribed to debian-user at this moment. The Debian AUC TeX package currently works the way it does because Debian is a multi-user operating system. A system administrator may

Re: x-window

I have installed Debian version of Linux on my PC as a dual boot WIN95/Linux system. I tried installing x-windows and I have a video problem. I set up the mouse, keyboard, moniter, and video card correctly but the screen comes up all fuzzy, wavey lines, etc. My video chipset and moniter

Re: gnus

Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BH How can I use gnus to review old (previously read) mail that is BH held in the gnus folders? My .gnus file is set up for the BH nnfolder secondary-select method. Use C-u RET to enter the group from the *Group* buffer. -- _

upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best route for something like this? Which brings me to another question... what do I use in dselect for

X11 not installing on debian 2.0

I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' When I go to the x11 directory, and try the man

Pitfalls of domain-name aliasing?

I've just applied to register an *.org domain name that will be aliased to my Linux box (already an *.edu host). I'm wondering whether any of the standard Debian Internet services are likely to need reconfiguration if an IP address becomes associated with more than one Internet name. I use Exim

Custom Bootdisk Problem

I am using yard-1.15 to make a compressed root fs floppy for installation of the some new systems (hamm). I can write the image out, and it boots fine, but when I try to login as root (with no passwd) I get: login[20]: invalid password for 'UNKNOWN' on 'tty1' If I try to CTRL-ALT-DELETE it, I

Format of entries in /etc/hosts.lpd?

Debian Gods/Goddesses - I am trying to set up remote printing. I have a Intel PC compatable running Linux attached to a HP LaserJet 4m with a parallel cable and local printing is working fine under the bsdlpr package. I have a room full of SGIs and Suns, all happily networked together (with the

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

Raj writes: I was focussed on the other file in ppp directory called optionsttySXX. And I did not see any reference to the port in that file except the file name. The comment inside that file says that I should rename that file for my serial port to optionttyS1 and edit it to put my hostname.

libungif - missing

This one is driving me crazy and cropping up everywhere when compiling. Anybody got some hints on which package libungif.so.3 is hiding in? tia -- Patrick Scott Pierce MindSpring Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: libungif - missing

Libungif is not officially debianized yet. Jim Pick and I have a temporary version available. See www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software Patrick Scott Pierce wrote: This one is driving me crazy and cropping up everywhere when compiling. Anybody got some hints on which package libungif.so.3 is

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

Glad it is working now! I will add an item to the FAQ-o-matic telling people to ignore that file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libc5 vs. libc6

I'm having trouble setting up xwindows in debian 2.0. I install Xwindows as an option when installing debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.33), but get error messages all over the place about missing libraries when I type xdm or startx. In running dselect, I see that I have libc6 installed, but everytime I

XFree86

Thanks to the numerous responses I received from my posting (June 9, 10:04) regarding setting up XFree86 on my Debian 1.3 O/S. Below is what I think I'm supposed to do. Possibly, someone could verify if this is correct. First, let's make sure I understand the difference between various versions

Instructions for producing a new Debian package

Are there any instructions? I thought the hello package was supposed to explain it all, but clearly this was a joke. Unless the src package is better? -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O.

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