magicfilter con IBM 4029

1998-09-16 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Alguien sabe que tipo de impresora hay que escojer en el magicfilter para imprimir de forma eficiente en una impresora IBM 4029 (que tiene que trabajar de forma nativa -IBMPPS- sin emulaciones -LJ-II, IBM proprinter, Plotter, etc.- ) Muchas gracias

Re: Variables de entorno para Español

1998-09-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:27:31PM +0200, J.Parera wrote: Hola, yo tengo las que siguen: export LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LC_ALL=es_ES export LANG=es_ES Esto se está convirtiendo en una PF (pregunta frecuente, o FAQ, en inglés). Si defines LC_ALL=es_ES, el sistema no tendrá en cuenta lo

Re: [Fwd: Configuracion XFree86 (fwd)]

1998-09-16 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hui, quue despiste! Perdona. No se que ha pasado pero juraria haberte contestado. Bueno, es igual. Mas vale tarde que nunca como se suele decir. Decia que necesito ver que tienes en /etc/X11/XF86Config Ese es el archivo 'principal' de configuracion de las X windows. Un saludo: Juan Carlos

Re: Variables de entorno para Español

1998-09-16 Thread thoth
J.Parera wrote: Hola, yo tengo las que siguen: export LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LC_ALL=es_ES export LANG=es_ES ¿Si usa LC_ALL=es_ES, para que exporta LANG? ¿Puede dar problemas exportar LC_ALL?

Silicon Graphics y Linux

1998-09-16 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola, Se preguntaran que clase de asunto es este en una lista de Linux Debian. Veran: He oido que la biblioteca de funciones OpenGL, hoy disponible bajo ese u otro nombre en Linux (Mesa, creo) fue un regalo de Silicon Graphics, que un buen dia decidio hacerla publica. No se por que motivo lo

Re: Silicon Graphics y Linux

1998-09-16 Thread Sergio Gomez Bachiller
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Veran: He oido que la biblioteca de funciones OpenGL, hoy disponible bajo ese u otro nombre en Linux (Mesa, creo) fue un regalo de Silicon Graphics, que un buen dia decidio hacerla publica. No se por que motivo lo haria aunque supongo que no

Re: Silicon Graphics y Linux

1998-09-16 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Sergio Gomez Bachiller wrote: Te equivocas totalmente. Mesa es un librería bajo licencia LGPL creada por Brian Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mesa no es una implementacion *autentica* de OpenGL porque no ha sido creada bajo licencia ni testeada por SGI, por lo que no se asegura que sea 100%

Re: Silicon Graphics y Linux

1998-09-16 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL.* To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc. However, the author makes no claim

Re: Menús del KDE

1998-09-16 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
J.Parera wrote: Hola, tengo un par de entradas del menú del KDE mal y me gustaría retocarlas. El problema es que no conozco el sistema de menús. Como funciona? Utilizo el paquete update-menus (o algo asi, ese que te añade las aplicaciones al menú automáticamente. El menú que he de

Re: Copiar imagen ISO

1998-09-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Gracias. Te entendi mal. He usado dd pero tarda mas de 6 horas en volcar un CD entero a disco. ¿Es esto normal? Como maximo debe durar 74 minutos (tal vez un poco mas, pero no *mucho* mas). El problema es que le estas diciendo al lector que saque *byte por byte* lo cual es sumamente lento,

Re: Menús del KDE

1998-09-16 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
J.Parera wrote: Hola, tengo un par de entradas del menú del KDE mal y me gustaría retocarlas. El problema es que no conozco el sistema de menús. Como funciona? Utilizo el paquete update-menus (o algo asi, ese que te añade las aplicaciones al menú automáticamente. El menú que he de

Re: Variables de entorno para Español

1998-09-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:01:07PM +0200, Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: # Este fichero es leído por /etc/X11/Xsession y por /bin/login # para establecer las variables de ambiente comunes al xel y a # una sesión X Window. export PATH LESS LESSOPEN LANG MM_CHARSET NLSPATH como explicas,

pgp.cfg en PGP5

1998-09-16 Thread J . Parera
Hola, Tengo instalado el PGP5, mediante el deb de la hamm, y me sale el el siguiente mensaje cada vez que lo ejecuto: Cannot open configuration file /home/josep/.pgp/pgp.cfg Cómo creo el archivo pgp.cfg? Un saludo, J. Parera

Re: Hamm

1998-09-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: I relativley new to Debian. I did my first Debian install a week ago, After 4 years of slackware, and a brief stint with RedHat Welcome! rant (I asked three email support questions like, why doesn't g++ wok with full error messages etc. All

Re: XRINGD AGAIN

1998-09-16 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi I have only one line in my xringd.conf R 10-15 R 30 : /usr/bin/pon If I add -m /dev/ttyS1 the xringd starts to complain that the file does not exist By default it should use /dev/modem so I've made dev/ modem point to /dev/ttyS1 but it does not help either... Oh and yes, please send

GGI

1998-09-16 Thread Panajotis Karajannis
Hi I saw in slink many GGI libs with various targets.I wonder if there is a GGI ready kernel witch I can use, because it is impossible to build one myself.I always get errors at compile time. Also I saw hurd binaries and I am very happy about this because the hurd looks very promising (see

XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-16 Thread David Warnock
Hi, I am attempting to work with XEmacs, so far I can't say I am particularly enjoying the experience ;-) There are some things I really miss and one is the ability to select text using the shift key combined with any cursor movement. From the latest FAQ where it talks about windows versions it

Re: XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-16 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:28:27PM +, David Warnock wrote: There are some things I really miss and one is the ability to select text using the shift key combined with any cursor movement. From the latest FAQ where it talks about windows versions it mentions a package called pending-delete.

Hamm post-install blues - wvdial vs pon/wmppp

1998-09-16 Thread Ken Westerback
When I installed Debian 2.0 I chose 'Dial-Up' and got the large number of useful packages included in that selection. The first time (let's not count the retries) I installed it I postponed the configuration of wvdial, not knowing what it was for, and followed the instructions in the Installation

Re: Linux for Disabled -- Contact sought

1998-09-16 Thread robbie
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 03:54:26PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: I know of blinux for the visually impared. I do not have the website handy but you can find it from www.linux.org I think. That site might have other links to Linux for the disabled. blinux is at http://leb.net/blinux/ I think.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #953

1998-09-16 Thread Preston Landers
Subject: Weird fonts problem in X Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:45:30 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I get messages that seem to indicate some fonts are missing, but I can't figure out how to fix it. If anyone has a clue please tell me! Here's what Netscape

Re: XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-16 Thread David Warnock
Matt, Thanks for your reply. I have been attempting the (x)emacs way of selecting text as you describe and I agree the functionality is similar but I find it is not as easy for me to remember. All I needed to remember in MultiEdit was that the cursor keys worked, the control key made them go

Re: XEmacs novice customisation

1998-09-16 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:27:27AM +, David Warnock wrote: I definately do not want to start any kind of flame war on this. I believe that our preferences here are simply due to the what we learnt first (the best block support I have ever used was in MultiEdit on msdos). I also believe

xgalaga: can't fire!

1998-09-16 Thread Matt Garman
I installed the xgalaga deb. It works, mostly (even sound!)...except for the space key: I can't fire! And the q and Q keys are also useless. Really, I can only move back and forth, which is pretty boring. Anyone know what's up? Thanks

GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice, isnit ? So i donwload gtkicq version 0.53. I have done /autogen.sh --prefix=/usr and it went ok. Now when making `make' linux said: bla, bla make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: Fw: PPP and wtmp not working together

1998-09-16 Thread Gavan Murphy
Hi Folks, Peter and Jens have commented on this matter already, but I have a slight variation on the theme. I can get wtmp entries made when the user connects and initiates PPPD, but I fail to get a corresponding entry in wtmp when the session is complete. It is not until another user gets that

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Ian Eure
Don't think a reset will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though. As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the last sentence of my

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-16 Thread DMDP
Yes. Emacs recognizes C++ by the file extension ... cc, cpp, etc. The program also has functions, such as ESC a, ESC e, to browse to the beginning and end of statments and to browse between errors. D. -Original Message- From: Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hi All, If some kind soul could help, I'd appreciate it. :-) The HOWTO instructions don't seem to work correctly (but more than likely, my lack of understanding is at fault), so I plea for help. :-) THE MACHINES: The firewall machine is running that latest Debian. Aside from a few default

Re: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:29:10PM -0400, DMDP wrote: I would like to know if there is some kind of source navigator mode to browse C/C++ under emacs. Investigate etags. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann

Re: g++/gcc system errors

1998-09-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 04:29:39PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: While working on some C++ code for a programming assignment, I got the following error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status And that is simply after typing g++

q: Web/Mail Server

1998-09-16 Thread deans
I am bringing a 256k DSL into my home to connect my Debian Linux Server to. I plan to use it as a Web Server. I am currently running the simple Mosaic Web Server software on it because all I really need to do is serve up HTML, but I have a few questions for anyone who might have an opinion or

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: Well, I reinstalled the debs, and it didn't help..same problems. Anyone else got ideas? I just created an anonymous ftp account for my system, copied the libs from /lib as specified below, and it worked fine. On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Thomas Apel

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Ian Eure
No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text console. When I close

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Greg Frye wrote: I have 4 NT Servers running MS SQL Server 6.5 and though there is a lot of documentation, it isn't always that easy to follow or necessarily accurate. I have found Linux support through this mailing list and other newsgroups to be FAR superior to paid MS

Re: Audio

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: [...] The same problems happens to me too. Is occures when my machine is low on physical memory and there seems to be not enough room to allocate the DMA buffer. When you start some big programs (memory consumption) like netscape

RE: Modem statistics.

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On 15 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try pppload ? Franck --- Hello, and thanks in advance. I'm looking for a program to extract modem statistics from my dial-up conection to the internet. I use the ppp log, but my boss wants this information in a more graphical

Re: HAMM - do I need everything right now?

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote: Hi After running autoup.sh on my 1.3.1 system, do I need to update *all* my packages at once, or may I choose to wait with some of the packages and update them when I have time? Is my system unstable if I run autoup.sh without doing anything

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-16 Thread Eric Jensen
Ya, I got mine to work just fine too. I didn't think I was replying to that message...sorry. :) _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | ICQ #19022931 | |___ | | Page me via ICQ at |__/ | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 |__/ On Tue, 15 Sep 1998,

Re: Define printer

1998-09-16 Thread Jay Barbee
At 9/15/98 09:50 PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: How do I install a printer under Debian 2.0? I have an Epson Stylus COLOR 200 and have setup magicfilterconfig. Is there anything else I have to do? Do you have lp driver compiled into your kernel or loaded as a module? Did it find your LPT port?

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-16 Thread Raja R Harinath
Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, What does 'file myprog' say? the g++ may be adding a messed up header. Well, I am floored. :) It seems that the compiled program is a Bourne Shell script, according to the file program. I confirmed this by viewing the contents of my

Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi, I have just installed the postgresql DBMS from debian hamm. I am trying to play a little with it, but at the first attempt I get this error: hsogso:~# psql Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user root is not in pg_shadow hsogso:~# uname -a Linux hsogso 2.1.120 #16

Re: Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Nicolai Guba
Giuseppe == Giuseppe Sacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Giuseppe Organization: HSO Business Company Giuseppe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Giuseppe hsogso:~# psql Giuseppe Connection to database 'template1' failed. Giuseppe FATAL 1: SetUserId: user root is not in pg_shadow Root is NOT

Multiple hosts hosts.equiv

1998-09-16 Thread Gunnar Strand
Hi, I've never connected two or more computers before, and have questions regarding administration. I now have two Debian Linux boxes connected via Ethernet and NFS up and running, no problem. However, I can't get rlogin/rsh/rcp working passwordlessly. I have added +host in /etc/hosts.equiv on

Re: can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue on the following error message: I compiled it without problems (well, one problem on driver/char/apm_bios.c) and

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 15 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Chad == Chad Walstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chad No, I haven't R-all-TFM's out there, but I'm getting burnt out Chad on 'em. So, I'd like to hear a little about what some of you Chad do personally to keep track of things. What you like

My clock troubles me unexpectedly

1998-09-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hello list, somehow the time settings on my machine are messed up. The reason is: /sbin/hwclock does not work anymore. Instead it gives this error message: $ hwclock --test --debug Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno = No such file or directory (2). falling back to more primitive clock access

Re: Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi Nicolai, I thank you very much for explaining that I have to use the postgres user. I will. About the second problem you said thet I should delete the file in /tmp/.s.PGSQL.portnr but this file does not esists! This is the problem. I am not sure but I think that the /tmp directory is

core dump user + memory map

1998-09-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I understand that it should be possible to feed core to an editor that will clear it up (remove lines of nulls for example), and will show the hex characters and ascii equivalents. In addition the c compiler should I think be able to produce a memory map as well, in order to

Re: Postgresql refure to connect

1998-09-16 Thread Nicolai Guba
Giuseppe == Giuseppe Sacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Giuseppe Organization: HSO Business Company Giuseppe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Molto grazie Giuseppe ;) Giuseppe About the second problem you said thet I should delete the file in Giuseppe /tmp/.s.PGSQL.portnr but this file does

Re: Audio

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[audio crashes because `cannot allocate dma buffer'] Unfortunately, the PC ISA DMA controller can't address memory beyond the first 16MB. So, when a DMA buffer is requested, the kernel has to find a continuous chunk of memory that is physically below 16MB. If it can't find it, too bad.

Re: Kernel Strategies

1998-09-16 Thread Nicolai Guba
Manoj == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chad My personal guidelines (and really, I hope all that one would Chad need to know) exist in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. I have Chad included in there a step by step process to creating kernel Chad packages. If I have missed something, or

Re: Linux for Disabled -- Contact sought

1998-09-16 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 11:40:40PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: A few years back there was a guy (in the US) active on some of the Linux lists who was developing linux applications for the disabled. He set up his own list, as I recall, and disappeared from general view. The Linux Access HOWTO

passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi everyone, I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root accounts. In /etc/passwd this looks like root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Re: My clock troubles me unexpectedly

1998-09-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
George Bonser hat gesagt: // George Bonser wrote: Sorry, I could not help but laugh. Every morning my clock also troubles me unexpectedly too. Yeah, I know this boot time trouble as well. Especially on sunday mornings when I have reached my maximum mount count the evening before and e2fsck

Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121

1998-09-16 Thread Max
Has anyone been able to get the latest development kernel (2.1.121) working with an Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I compiled the kernel with AIC-7xxx support built in, but it refuses to recognize the SCSI interface at boot time. I'm currently running 2.0.34 with the AIC-7xxx patches, but I

Re: Apple diskettes OK

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I got what I needed - THANKS! Get the hfsutils package. xhfs has done its job! Mac double-density disks (800K or so) ... IBM floppy controllers physically *cannot* read Fortunately it was a 1,44M, anyway: thanks. Blazej

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! [...] I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only thing that works is X. I suffered the

Re: Is there a .deb version of netscape?

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
There are .deb's of the 4.5b1 prerelease. Get them from http://master.debian.org/~doogie/netscape/ I'd say. -Remco Sorry, for not knowing that, but who is who there: communicator4-dmotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:32 4.1M communicator4-smotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:31 4.9M

watchdog UPS

1998-09-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Anybody know a good (cheap too!) UPS that can also work as a UPS for debian? I guess 400W would do it. It's only a K6 and a 15 monitor. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL

RE: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread timothy
I don't understand how much of these configuration things are supposed to work, but I got the impression that it didn't configure itself properly for our debian system and is still for the authors? redhat system. So I simply went thru the files in gtkicq-xx/support/.deps and replaced all

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi everyone, I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root accounts. In

pine debian v1.3

1998-09-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail. Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me: [Sending mail | 100% |] But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 minutes to 10 to unblock. If i run mailq, the

FTP oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I have two hosts, running bo and hamm respectively. I can't ftp (telnet either) from hamm to bo. The session goes as: $ ftp bo Connected to bo.my.domain.name 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ftp ... If I ping from hamm it sees bo. Additionally I _can_ ftp from hamm

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi everyone, I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root accounts. In

Re: passwd oddity

1998-09-16 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or `whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway.. I used it under Solaris, and it was quite a Good Thing. The root account was reserved for

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PN == Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PN I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice, PN isnit ? Better than what? I made a Debian package for gicq, but I have problems contacting the upstream authors to clearify some issues before I release them. Check

Re: watchdog UPS

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello! On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! Anybody know a good (cheap too!) UPS that can also work as a UPS for debian? I guess 400W would do it. It's only a K6 and a 15 monitor. I would like to suggest you to buy a BestPower UPS

Powersave / clock / crontabs

1998-09-16 Thread Felix Chang
Hello, I have been using debian for quite a long time now and have recently upgraded to hamm. I must say that it is quite an improvement over 1.3. My question is not so much debian related but the problem is as follows. I want to keep my computer on all day to receive faxes and voice messages

undump or unexec under Linux 2.0/2.1?

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all Looking in the execellent perl book Programming in Perl from O'really i found that in some Unix systems there are undump/unexec wich seems to use core dumps to re-rerun programs... at the point it died... Any comment will be greatly appreciated,

Re: q: Web/Mail Server

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
1. Should I move to Apache, even if I don't need that much power? Would it be best because everyone else is running Apache and I can get better support? Do you need better support? I don't think you need Apache, but it could be wrong to install it. 2. Before I place this online, is there

THANKS: is this possible with emacs?

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I would like to thanks the massive posting suggesting me the available options Thanks! Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!! http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm -

PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Johann Spies
Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable. After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. Does anybody know which other documentation is available on the subject or what

program to do avi-mpeg

1998-09-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I couldn't find a program to do avi-mpeg transformation. Is there such program? A command line one should be better! Thanks []s, Mario O.de Menezes | Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails Prov. 19.21 Then you'll

Re: xconsole doesn't tell me anything

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:12PM -0500, Eric Jensen wrote: I don't understand this problem at all. I remember back when I ran bo that the xconsole started automatically when I started X and it reported things like remote logins and stuff. Now, it doesn't start automatically (which is fine,

Installation from Win95-Fat32 HD partition?

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
It is possible to install debian2.0 from Win95 (Fat32) HD partition? If so, could someone explain how to do it? I have not found information in The Can I after having installed the base system from 5 floppies just on the other console 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95' ? Which module have I to

Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Ken Westerback
I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: Sep 16 08:38:26 pinky pppd[577]: pppd 2.3.5 started by krw, uid 1000 Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (BUSY) Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Sep 16

Re: pine debian v1.3

1998-09-16 Thread dsb3
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail. Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me: [Sending mail | 100% |] But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 minutes

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable. After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. Does anybody

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-16 Thread David Wright
On 10 Sep 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Brian Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700) Have you tried the Linux Monitor Data Base (http://cande.dyn.ml.org/monitors/)? I

Re: Hamm

1998-09-16 Thread Kent West
At 04:09 PM 9/15/1998 -0600, you wrote: I relativley new to Debian. I did my first Debian install a week ago, After 4 years of slackware, and a brief stint with RedHat rant (I asked three email support questions like, why doesn't g++ wok with full error messages etc. All answers this is not an

Re: xgalaga: can't fire!

1998-09-16 Thread Kent West
At 07:44 PM 9/15/1998 -0500, you wrote: I installed the xgalaga deb. It works, mostly (even sound!)...except for the space key: I can't fire! And the q and Q keys are also useless. Really, I can only move back and forth, which is pretty boring. Anyone know what's up? Thanks I have no

Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hello! Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development?

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 06:30:27AM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: Is was a dep problem. I found a directory inside another directory called .deps. I remove it and the compilation went ok. Why is this problem? The conculson of this is that the maker of this program used redhat .? My

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Martin Bialasinski wrote: PN == Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PN I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice, PN isnit ? Better than what? There are four or five ICQ free distributables. You can check starting from LDP site. Ciao, Giuseppe

Choice of database

1998-09-16 Thread Douglas Bates
I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an SQL-aware relational database

Emacs20-mule and problem using latin2 under X Window

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed debian2.0. I would like to use emacs20.2-mule under X Window and polish (latin-2) signs (e.g. ogonek) typing them using right-alt+sign but I have the following problem (on the console without X Window I have polish signs in emacs, pine,...; under X Window so far only I can see

Re: core dump user + memory map

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I understand that it should be possible to feed core to an editor | that will clear it up (remove lines of nulls for example), and will show | the hex characters and ascii equivalents. In addition the c compiler | should I think be able to produce a

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Has anyone been able to get the latest development kernel (2.1.121) | working with an Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I compiled the | kernel with AIC-7xxx support built in, but it refuses to recognize the | SCSI interface at boot time. I'm currently running

scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu demos scilab crashes with the following messages: [1] 410 $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request:

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread servis
*- Johann Spies wrote about PLIP-howto? | Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with | information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable. | | After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. | | Does anybody know which

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: Hello! Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find it at www.debian.org - packages - search I think it's in the non-US section

X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Mrpeabody
My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. -jeff

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Dale E. Martin
The missing link for me was that if you're using standard linux firewalling, which is packet filtering, you _need_ ip forwarding enabled. (The HOWTO says don't enable it, but that's for TIS proxying firewalls - not what we're talking about here.) Also, for ipchains at least, order counts. You

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Pierre Blanchet
I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu demos scilab crashes with the following messages: [1] 410 $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)

Dos partition not mounted after new kernel boot

1998-09-16 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debianers, I just compiled a new kernel in Debian 2.0 (excluding PCI, SCSI, ..., from the default Debian 2.0.34 kernel, and adding ISDN, APM) using kernel-package (thanks to Manoj Srivastava for the excellent work). After rebooting (both the diskette and the HD boots work), I noticed that my

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
(I'm copying so much text because the original didn't make it to debian-user) Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/15/98 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Paul M. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 2) Is there a liability to

Re: Choice of database

1998-09-16 Thread aqy6633
I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an SQL-aware relational

Re: X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Mrpeabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. -jeff Two ways: If you're starting X with startx, you can do: startx -- -bpp 16 (or 15, 24, or 32) If you're

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