Banshee en HAmm?

1998-11-08 Thread M. Angel Esteban
Hols Alguien ha conseguidor hacer rular (en 2D, del 3D paso) la Maxigamer 3D de Guillemot bajo Linux Debian 2.0? Estoy pensando en comprarme una de estas, pero si no consigo hacerla rular para X (el 3DFx bajo Linux no me interesa para nada) paso de ella. Un saludo y gracias. -- El error

cdda2wav won't recognize my CD-ROM

1998-11-08 Thread Jason Lunz
I'm trying to get cdda2wav to work with my CD-ROM drive, and it seems that no matter what I do, it won't recognize the drive. I'm using an Adaptec 1542 SCSI card with a NEC-501 CD-ROM. The docs say that this drive is capable of reading audio tracks as digital data. There's a script installed

Re: netscape mail; mount on startup

1998-11-08 Thread AJT60
I don't know much about the mail problem, but you might want to 'man xhost' which might tell you how to get multiple users using the same X server. I believe there is a better way to do it than this, but I ca't remember what it is. As far as mount on startup goes, you want the file /etc/fstab

exim config

1998-11-08 Thread Chris Leishman
Hi all, I previously used sendmail for my mail needs, but I am trying out exim. However I am having one difficulty - is there a way to specify a place that mail for unknown users should be forwarded to? I can't seem to find a way to do it. Thanks, Chris --

Slink upgrade

1998-11-08 Thread Mario Bertrand
Greetings, Has I understand, the X packages in slink are not yet ready for installation. My question is: it is possible to upgrade to slink without upgrading the X packages? Message de Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé le: 07-Nov-98, à: 20:07:26

Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-08 Thread Kevin Grant
As some of my previous boneheaded questions to this mailing list have shown, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Debian and Linux and the development process for Debian packages and standards, so be warned that the following may be particularly stupid but... It seems to me that, as regards the

colormap problem

1998-11-08 Thread Jinsong Zhao
My computer has 96Meg, the Diamond 3D has 4Meg. However, I always get colormap problem. Look at printout of startx, and I found I was only using 6 bit per RGB. All I specified in XF86Config is 8, 16, etc. Seems I'm out of luck to get more colormaps... Thanks. Jinsong

slightly odd behaviour of X for a newbie and a request for help in configuring xdm

1998-11-08 Thread Mikael Suomela
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and slink is great! Except for the fact that it did some wierd things for my X. First off I couldn't get it to work at all and after uninstalling and re-installing + some symlinking the Xserver started to run. Now my problem is that I can run X as

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 07:57:50PM +, Kevin Grant wrote: to read the new style web pages). But remember that the Debian development community is far larger (and faster) than M$. The one problem with that is not tat we can't code faster and better, but the fact that we don't define the

Some Questions - Cont'd

1998-11-08 Thread Jimmy
OK, apparently my hardware problems were not as bad as I thought. The Zip Drive is recognized by the OS and it appears in dmesg as: scsi0: Iomega parport ZIP drive scsi: 1 host Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-08 Thread AJT60
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 07:57:50PM +, Kevin Grant wrote: to read the new style web pages). But remember that the Debian development community is far larger (and faster) than M$. The one problem with that is not tat we can't code faster and

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 04:29:45PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: web. I'm bearing in mind the streamed graphics that Intel is using to cripple your machine to sell you Pentuim IIs. Want a laugh, go to www.unitedmedia.com and take a look at the requirements for their Comics Browser.

Re: Some Questions - Cont'd

1998-11-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 10:14:18PM -0500, Jimmy wrote: Now, the million dollar question is how do I see the files on the drive? And if I want to use dpkg or dselect to install something what is the path to the drive? You need to mount the drive before you can see anything on it. Remember

Re: X broken?

1998-11-08 Thread Vaibhav Goel
Hello; Just a follow up to the X problem. Turns out that the problem was that I had recompiled my kernel (2.0.35) using egcs. Once I did a recompile using, gcc X worked fine again. Thanks to all of those with suggestions. I am posting this in hopes that it might help someone who has a

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-08 Thread Jon S
Kevin Grant wrote: the Debian development community is much better suited to develop an extended standard for HTML that includes the desired new special effects, but is still backwards compatible with the old stuff. Let's remember that the Debian development community is busily tending to a

Re: Some Questions - Cont'd

1998-11-08 Thread Gossamer
George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jimmy wrote: Now, the million dollar question is how do I see the files on the drive? And if I want to use dpkg or dselect to install something what is the path to the drive? I'm beginning to think fondly of DOS here...so

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-08 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am also trying to config my system for dual load from NT loader. I followed the steps mentioned by Pat, but if i select the Linux option then the system hangs. I see the blank screen with blinking cursor at the top left. (Note:

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 05:10:08PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: /usr/doc/dosemu/README.Dosemu (where this problem is documented). In the Dosemu package I have there is no README.Dosemu. I think you meant README.Debian. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: SNIP BTW, I can now use lilo for branching to NT and linux, this works fine. That is interesting. I was never able to do this. Maybe because my NT partition was NTFS.. damir I just today set

bash problem - cannot telnet to my box

1998-11-08 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi, I just did a partial upgrade to slink - partial because of limited bandwidth - and now I cannot use telnet or ssh to my box. After entering the password I get:- Linux elm 2.1.126 #4 Wed Oct 28 19:37:29 WST 1998 i586 unknown Last login: Sun Nov 8 13:13:40 on ttyp0 from

Re: Some Questions

1998-11-08 Thread Kent West
1. Will a Zip Drive work with Debian Linux? When I attach it now the PC refuses to do anything. No memory count, nothing. This may be a hardware problem, but if you know something please let me know. Yes (is the answer to the first question. The second issue is a bit more puzzling.

Re: Total absence of Ethernet iff dLinux

1998-11-08 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi there, I just want to say a big thank you to all the people who pitched in with suggestions on my problem: specifically, that the NIC refused to work under Debian Linux but worked perfectly under Winborg. Suggestions raised included Plug'n'Pray, Winborg specific NIC, even

Re: Some Questions - Cont'd

1998-11-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jimmy wrote: Now, the million dollar question is how do I see the files on the drive? And if I want to use dpkg or dselect to install something what is the path to the drive? I'm beginning to think fondly of DOS here...so

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-08 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK. As a tech support person for a university, I say AMEN! Goodness knows if it is possible to transfer your NT installation to

Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread William R. Ward
I am in the process of switching back to Debian from Red Hat, and am having one serious problem ... I have paying customers who need my virtual host web site to be up and running but I can't seem to get it to work. Under Red Hat, I had the PPP ip-up script do this: ifconfig ${PPP_IFACE}:0

Re: Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, William R. Ward wrote: Perhaps there was some extra step that I had done under Red Hat to make this syntax possible, but I can't remember what it is. Whatever it is, it should work the same no matter which Linux distribution I use, shouldn't it? Debian's default kernel

LessTif

1998-11-08 Thread Andrew Julie Daws
Hi folks, just a thanks to all those who offered advice etc... as one of you suggested, I had lesstif runtime installed ok, but not the devl package... d'oh... ah well, live and learn :-) Cheers, Andrew.

Re: APT 0.1.9 (yes, 0.1.9!) is released!

1998-11-08 Thread Randy Edwards
We hope everyone's Debian systems are made just a little bit better with APT. A little?! You have a knack for the understatement. ;-) Thanks much Ben. -- Regards,| Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org . |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __

gnome-panel blank

1998-11-08 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Problem with gnome-panel. It starts and takes all available CPU time, but I only get a blank grey stripe accross the bottom of my display. Here is hopefully useful info for debugging: I start gnome as suggested in "Quick Tour of GNOME Apps": $ cat ~/.xinitrc /usr/bin/X11/enlightenment exec

PPP Dial-up Problem

1998-11-08 Thread Dirk Melchers
Hi, I'm fairly new to Linux, so I was very happy to get my Debian running KDE and all that nice stuff that comes with it :) I then went off to get my PPP connection running, but this turned out ot be a problem. I can connect fine, but when I use Netscape or even PING to go to for example

Re: PPP Dial-up Problem

1998-11-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:33:04AM -0800, Dirk Melchers wrote: PING with the IP address of yahoo.com it would work. (DNS PROB? This happens on connections to different ISP's also) I also had another Have you edited resolv.conf to include domain name servers? -- Steve C.

Re: PPP Dial-up Problem

1998-11-08 Thread Piotr Wachowiak
hmm, i had the same problem - in my case it was authentication - i turned it off in /etc/ppp/config try to edit /etc/resolv.conf - put there your nameserver adress greetz look into /var/log/syslog - and try run pppd with debug option /-d/ how i test my ppp conection: run minicom connect to

Re: Slink upgrade

1998-11-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Mario Bertrand wrote: Has I understand, the X packages in slink are not yet ready for installation. My question is: it is possible to upgrade to slink without upgrading the X packages? Dear Mario, Try using dselect - go to the x packages, and set them to hold.

Re: cdda2wav won't recognize my CD-ROM

1998-11-08 Thread Dinesh Pannu
Ho there. On Sun, 08 Nov 1998, Jason Lunz wrote: There's a script installed with the cdda2wav package, scan_scsi.linux that's supposed to say what device to use: 07:05pm|~|1 $ scan_scsi.linux Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 CD-ROM - /dev/sg2 Didn't realize that script existed but

Re: majordomo stop working after installed sendmail 8.9.1

1998-11-08 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:49:12PM +0100, Maurizio Marini wrote: : hi, : after installed 8.9.1 majordomo stop to work with annoying :- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - : helpdesk-list : :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/helpdesk : (expanded from:

Re: Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, William R. Ward wrote: Perhaps there was some extra step that I had done under Red Hat to make this syntax possible, but I can't remember what it is. Whatever it is, it should work the same no matter

install-disks w/aic7xxx (Adaptec) support

1998-11-08 Thread Matthias Klose
Gregory T. Norris writes: I just wanted to let people know that I've sent Doug Ledford an unofficial set of installation-disk images for hamm, including version 5.1.2 of the aic7xxx driver, which he's agreed to make available at the aic7xxx ftp-site (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/aic/). They

IP assigning to LAN

1998-11-08 Thread chadi
hi all, anyway, i want to ask my ISP for 8 IPs that will be assigned to all our 7 computers here, the other one for our debian box. we only have a dedicated dial up account, is this possible ? any ideas or guidelines on how I may go about doing this ? thanks a lot, chad

Re: IP assigning to LAN

1998-11-08 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: This is certainly possible. Your ISP may give you more than 8 IPs depending upon his/her current block assignment schema. You will need the following information. Network interaface address Broadcast address Netmask If possible as your ISP to provide a group of addresses outside of the

test

1998-11-08 Thread Tung-Han Hsieh
Sorry, this is only a test. Please ignore this.

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 07:57:50PM +, Kevin Grant wrote: want to credit the author). A new, extended M$ HTML standard will not only be incompatible with the old HTML stuff (forcing everyone to upgrade to the propriatary M$ standard) but it will become popular largely because it will have

Re: Menu access to /usr/doc

1998-11-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Helmut Metzdorf wrote: considering myself still a novice to linux i spend lots of time reading documentation. first i complained about most of it beeing compressed text but soon i found a solution (zcat | xless). I am not sure whether I understand your problem properly.

Alt Key no longer functions

1998-11-08 Thread Brian White
I just upgraded to X 3.3.2.3a-7 and now the Alt key no longer has any effect. Neither emacs or tcsh (under xterm) recognize that it has been pressed. Looking at xkeycaps, pressing Alt does register but doesn't affect the KeyCode, KeySym, or ASCII in any way. Fvwm still recognizes it, though.

FW: More kernel problems

1998-11-08 Thread Cristov Russell
Just in case anyone missed the original message who might be able to help... A footnote to this. Although I can login and the kernel log does seem to identify my NIC card I do not have network access. How can I go back to the original kernel if no one is able to help me fix the new one. I'm

default kernel

1998-11-08 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know where can I get a set of the default kernel build configuration. I'm think to rebuild my own customized kernel but I'd like to include most if not all of the default kernel setting. Thanks -- Timothy C. Phan

some applications are eating memory

1998-11-08 Thread hubert . fauque
I have noticed that some applications are growing without limits: the first one is netscape; I have limited in Preferences the size of the memory cache to 3 Mb but as I use it, it takes more and more memory (as reported by top); I have to kill it when it is too big ( the maxmimum I have had till

XEmacs shell-trash

1998-11-08 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I encounter problems with XEmacs when using a shell within XEmacs. My linux is configured for german (also X). When I do an ls with the xemacs-shell, I get a lot of jam in braces [~sdklgja] ... Any ideas ? Please help. Marcus

Adaptec Newbie Problem

1998-11-08 Thread Brennan O'Brien
Okay. I'm an idiot. So I get my first installation of Debian going okay, until I hit this little snag with my adaptec 1520B adapter. From the rescue disk, i am at a boot: prompt. I grab the information about my adapter. (340h, IRQ11, SCSI #7) I type in: aha152x=0x340,11,7 and hit

Re: Installation on Toshiba 330CDT laptop

1998-11-08 Thread John
Hello, I used to have Debian 1.3..r8 installed okay on my Toshiba 460cdt laptop, once I figured how to do it correctly. You have to make sure that you use both the Tecra 'Rescue' and 'Drivers' floppies otherwise the install will fail. If you are installing from a cd then you will have to

Re: Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread pat
Le 08-Nov-98, William R. Ward a pris ses électrons pour écrire: I had recompiled it a few times, but didn't notice that setting before. I now am getting a slightly different error. SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument ppp0:0: unknown interface. And in /var/log/messages, it says this: Nov 7

Re: Some Questions - Cont'd

1998-11-08 Thread pat
Le 08-Nov-98, Gossamer a pris ses électrons pour écrire: For MY Zip drive at least, it's /dev/sda4. I have NO idea why it isn't 1 like it should be, but if sda1 doesn't work for you, try 4! For compatibility with Mac (related to different forks etc... don't ask me) all Jaz drives natively

dpkg speed?

1998-11-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Recently I installed a rpm based system (SuSE 5.3) just to test it and noticed that rpm is much faster while accessing its database, it seems to use a binary database instead of the text-based and a-lot-of-files approach of dpkg. Are they any plans to improve the speed of dpkg for database

Re: bash problem - cannot telnet to my box

1998-11-08 Thread Kevin
I had a similar problem on a Redhat 5.1 system once. I was unable to login locally or remotely as anything but root. It ended up I had a file called nologin in my /etc/ directory, once I removed this I could login. But this sounds like it is a problem more related to your system not finding a

Some help on ipfwadm

1998-11-08 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, What I want !? Mainly it's: have incoming telnet session and since someone it's on my machine could not make outgoing telnet sessions ... As i'm using kernel 2.0.35, I think, I must be using ipfwadm instead of ipchains (for 2.1.xx series kernel). 1. It's out there any good ipfwadm

Re: Adaptec Newbie Problem

1998-11-08 Thread Brennan O'Brien
Thanks Jim... That got me through that one... Now I have another, if I can The boot process seems to go well. AHA152x detects both the HD and the CDRom attached to the Scsi adapter. Then I get this message: scsi0: channel 0 target 2 lun 1 request sense failed, performing reset SCSI bus is

EQL PPP Load balancing

1998-11-08 Thread dman
Has anyone used EQL with USR Total Control Terminal Server. I can connect twice to the term server and get the same IP and such but i have alot of problems with route anyone have any docs besides the NET-3-How-TO? Dinesh

Program 'cannot perform malloc'?

1998-11-08 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, after installing the new slink netscape binaries (4.5-1) I get this error messages when starting the program: ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin

Re: Menu access to /usr/doc

1998-11-08 Thread David Frye
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:15:01 +0200 (SAST) From: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Helmut Metzdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Menu access to /usr/doc Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Helmut

Re: Some help on ipfwadm

1998-11-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC 2. When I've IP Firewall, IP Masquerable, IP Forwarding, etc I can't get NC my ISDN connection ! ;( NC - cut here -- NC Nov 8 12:08:08 cavern kernel: isdn_net: ippp0: dial suppressed: isdn stopped NC Nov 8 12:08:08 cavern kernel:

Netscape will not run for non-root

1998-11-08 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
I have installed Communicator 4.5 in the recommended manner, with the tarball in /tmp, and using the .dep file as an install wrapper. No one can run this directly. As root, the issue is being allowed to run an suid-root program as root. If I symlink this, the link runs no prob. Other users do

Re: Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread William R. Ward
No, PPP was already working. What I forgot was that there are both IP aliasing and Network aliasing options, and I had only turned one of them on. I turned the other one on, rebooted, and it works. Thanks to all who helped. It is *SO* nice to be back on Debian. I had been running a

Re: Slink upgrade

1998-11-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
M.C. Vernon wrote: On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Mario Bertrand wrote: Has I understand, the X packages in slink are not yet ready for installation. My question is: it is possible to upgrade to slink without upgrading the X packages? Is there still a problem with the latest X11

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-11-08 Thread lead
Hi! }- On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Lukas Eppler wrote: }- possible with a nice resolution with SVGATextMode. }- }- Most information I get is on 'how can I run X on my laptop', I look for }- information the other way 'round. }- }- Chips and Technologies chips seem to work

search engines in html

1998-11-08 Thread richard
How do I build a seach engine for web pages? Where should I look for information? I want to construct something similar to the microsoft online support search engine. (pet project 1) Any suggestions? * * This job's too hard for us -Andy and Randy Pig *

standardising X

1998-11-08 Thread richard
Hallo, This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd like to standardise my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same. I assume this is possible but I don't know where to start. Here's what I'd like. gvim looks very nice, it has a nice scroll-bar on the

Network-card unoprational

1998-11-08 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi everyone, after installing Debian 2.0 on my system I am facing the following problem: whenever I use a 2.1.x-Kernel the network-card driver module for my 3Com 3c509B (ISA, irq=15, iobase=0x210) will not load. The driver error message is a repeated device or resource busy. Whenever I use a

Some help on ipfwadm

1998-11-08 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Sorry if this message is duplicated but i was *again* removed from this mailing list and needed to subscribe again ! -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 18:30:38 + (WET) From: Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Some help on

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-08 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 21:08 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 05:10:08PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: /usr/doc/dosemu/README.Dosemu (where this problem is documented). In the Dosemu package I have there is no README.Dosemu. I think you meant README.Debian. Doh! Silly me.

Re: Smail configurationg (wrong from)

1998-11-08 Thread shaul
I am using exmh, and for this reason I can't help you with mutt (I didn't even tried to use mutt). Sorry. I think I had the same problem that you have with exmh as well, but someone on debian-user showed me how to bypass it and that is what I am doing. If you like I can send you his letter.

Re: cdda2wav won't recognize my CD-ROM

1998-11-08 Thread tko
Jason Lunz writes: [snip] I do have the generic SCSI driver installed (as a module, sg.o), and the only other lead I've found from reading stuff in /usr/doc/cdda2wav is that I might need to define something with /dev/MAKEDEV, but I can find devices 21,(0-6) which correspond to sg(0-6), You