Re: console tools

1999-05-18 Thread Adriano Freitas
Itamar Grochowski Rocha wrote: Alguem conseguiu configurar os acentos com este novo pacote console tools? Ja rodei o kbdconfig e experimentei todas (acho) as opcoes em i386 e nada :-( Aguma sugestao? Eu não conheço esse novo pacote, mas os meus acentos estão funcionando

Re: Core Debian

1999-05-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Que õtima noticia! Tem como voce mandar maiores detalhes para mim, que eu anuncio como novidade na pagina do LinuxClub (http://linux.cos.ufrj.br)? Abracos,PH PS: Eu to instalando Linux (Debian) em todas as maquinas que posso aqui na faculdade. :)

Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port

1999-05-18 Thread jeb
Linux doesn't recognize my parallel port. The lp module is loaded. ls /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1 both give the message no such device. I can use the parallel port from Windows 95, so the hardware is functional. Anything I should try? The printer isn't anything exotic--just a plain 24 pin dot

PHP3 and Mysql -- Broken Module

1999-05-18 Thread jeb
I'm using the latest Debain versions of PHP3 and the PHPMysql module. I'm also using the latest version of Mysql. It works fine. PHP3 seems to work by itself; PHP3 scripts that don't access Mysql work. When I try to run a PHP script, I get a message saying Call to unsupported or undefined

Re: Newbie problem

1999-05-18 Thread Morgoth3
In a message dated 5/17/99 5:03:50 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) What kind of mouse do you have? (PS/2 or serial) I have a Logitech Mouseman 3 button, on serial. 2) What brand of mouse? Logitech 3) What is the setting in XF86Config? You can get this with:

Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port

1999-05-18 Thread Allen B. Riddell
Yup -- you're probably not used to this new parport thing that was introduced in 2.1 and now is in 2.2 --- but it needs to be compiled with the kernel -- Look it general options or something -- you need to enable parport devices -- then go to character devices and you'll be able to enable

Re: PHP3 and Mysql -- Broken Module

1999-05-18 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Mon, 17 May 1999, jeb wrote: I'm using the latest Debain versions of PHP3 and the PHPMysql module. I'm also using the latest version of Mysql. It works fine. PHP3 seems to work by itself; PHP3 scripts that don't access Mysql work. When I try to run a PHP script, I get a message

Re: Where are X includes

1999-05-18 Thread David Z. Maze
franck legall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FL I am trying to compile messenger. When I do ./configure I have got : FL FL [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/messenger-0.0.3] $ autoconf FL [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/messenger-0.0.3] $ ./configure FL loading cache ./config.cache FL checking how to run the C++

Re: Newbie problem

1999-05-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/17/99 5:03:50 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) What kind of mouse do you have? (PS/2 or serial) I have a Logitech Mouseman 3 button, on serial. 2) What brand of mouse? Logitech 3) What is the setting in

Re: Newbie problem

1999-05-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /dev/mouse - ttyS0 This indicates mouse is on COM1. Is it really there? 5) Does your mouse work in console mode? Is gpm installed? gpm is installed, but I don't know how to use it in console mode...i'm still a newbie :) You need to kill gpm. It seems that gpm

Re: Newbie problem

1999-05-18 Thread Brad
On Mon, 17 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Logitech Mouseman 3 button, on serial. Protocol Mouseman Device /dev/mouse Have you tried Protocol PS/2 and device Device /dev/psaux? i have the same mouse and those are my settings. At least i think it's the same mouse, it says

Re: ppp addresses

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Cranston
Dan Smith wrote: ... I have succeeded in accessing sites using numerical domain (DNS) addresses, but not using addresses with words. What's up? Well, your basic networking is functional, but there is some problem in your domain name resolution setup. You should have the numeric addresses of

Re: A file's permission controler

1999-05-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Khalid EZZARAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you see in mailing list some people speak about problem to configure their sound card. in fact a part of them did not have their /dev/audio, /dev/mixer created or well setting. other with their cdrom forget to create a link from /dev/cdrom to

Re: PHP3 and Mysql -- Broken Module

1999-05-18 Thread Andrew Chung
When I try to run a PHP script, I get a message saying Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() I've added the mysql module to the PHP configuration, but it's apparent that it can find a library or something that it needs. Does anyone have this combination working, or

Re: Newbie problem

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Cranston
Just to muddy the waters a little bit more :-) My laptop needed external mouse enabled to be set in its BIOS before I could use my external PS mouse... -- Charles B. (Ben) Cranston mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben

Re: Debian on LC630

1999-05-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
Tito de Morais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to disturb you with a novice question : Does the Debian 2.1 run on a Mac LC630 (680LC40) processor ? Thanks for your help I have no idea. The best source for this type of information is the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have

Re: Newbie X (no @ on kbd)

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
Have you read the French HOWTO? http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/French-HOWTO.html I don't know if it addresses your problems specifically, because je ne parle pas Francais, but it might be a good place to start. The Keyboard and Console HOWTO also has some good general information.

compiler in PATH ?

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
After reinstalling Linux, I get this: configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH I am not sure what it wants. Does it want to see the path to gcc in /etc/profile? -- Andrew

(Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port

1999-05-18 Thread jeb
Hmmm.. I compiled in the parport and lp modules, and the items for parallel port support. Is there anyway I can check what IRQ or address space the module thinks it is supposed to be using? JEB YOU WROTE Yup -- you're probably not used to this new parport thing that was introduced in 2.1

Re: ppp addresses

1999-05-18 Thread John Hasler
Dan Smith writes: Using both web (lynx) and ftp (ftp) programs, I have succeeded in accessing sites using numerical domain (DNS) addresses, but not using addresses with words. You need to put your ISP's nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf, like this: nameserver 111.222.333.444 nameserver

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #879

1999-05-18 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Kris wrote At 03:36 17/05/1999 +, you wrote: A quick kludge that might fix your problem (it fixed it on my machine under hamm, and after I get done upgrading to slink, I'm going to try it there) is to kill inetd. I think the problem revolves around the netbase script in the

RE: compiler in PATH ?

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 Pollywog wrote: After reinstalling Linux, I get this: configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH I am not sure what it wants. Does it want to see the path to gcc in /etc/profile? Oh wait, gcc is for C not C++ right? Which compiler will I need to install,

Re: Problem (non-newbie) compiling 2.2.9 w/ make-kpkg

1999-05-18 Thread Brad
i already had a deb build using the pervious version of kernel-package (the update was just a few days ago), so i just cd'ed to the source dir and make-kpkg'ed it. And i got the same error. After a little investigation and compatison with the slink package to be sure, i think i've found the

Re: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port

1999-05-18 Thread Brad
On Mon, 17 May 1999, jeb wrote: Hmmm.. I compiled in the parport and lp modules, and the items for parallel port support. Is there anyway I can check what IRQ or address space the module thinks it is supposed to be using? If you have an IEEE1284-compliant printer, the parport_probe

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-18 Thread Kris
{blush} You can tell I follow the digest now... darn. Apologies for the waste of bandwidth, but it's for archive continuity (and so people actually know wts(meg) I was going on about). Re-send, in reply to Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the correct subject: snip suggestion about killing inetd,

Re: Where are X includes

1999-05-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:21:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to compile messenger. When I do ./configure I have got : [...] checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! Where should be thois

Re: PHP3 and Mysql -- Broken Module

1999-05-18 Thread Fraser Campbell
I had this problem on several occasions. I had to manually edit the file /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini and uncomment the line that says: extension=mysql.so Then you should be ok ... this is with slink. If you are using potato versions of apache/php3/mysql then the builds may indeed be broken. Not

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

1999-05-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:32:55PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in as a normal user? The message i get when i try is: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server If you're

Re: Newbie problem

1999-05-18 Thread Morgoth3
Thank you, thank you, thank you... it turns out it was a ps/2 device, which meant i needed to use the psaux file. Thank you all for helping me out here :) Colin Winters ...a very happy person...

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-18 Thread John Gilger
The RedHat 5.2 CD is $1.89 at LinuxMall. Select all and let it rip. It works fine and lets you have a learners system to start from. Once you learn Linux, you'll probably want to come back to debian :-) -John - Original Message - From: Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tf [EMAIL

wu-ftpd-2.4.2.16-12 security problem

1999-05-18 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I just found that this version of the wu-ftpd allows any user do a cd / And then all users can see the / directory on the system. How do I stop this? I only want them to see /home/username. Thanks. Shao. --

WordPerfect can't open ~/.wprc/.wp8x.set

1999-05-18 Thread Alec Smith
Every time I try to start WordPerfect as a user, I get the error Unable to open /home/sweetin/.wprc/.wp8x.set The file is there, and is zero bytes long. However, I can start WordPerfect as root and it'll work just fine, with no errors during load. I tried copying root's .wp8x.set file to the user

Re: compiler in PATH ?

1999-05-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pollywog After reinstalling Linux, I get this: Pollywog configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH Pollywog Pollywog I am not sure what it wants. Does it want to see the path Pollywog to gcc in /etc/profile? gcc isn't a C++ compiler, it's a C

Re: compiler in PATH ?

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 David Z. Maze wrote: gcc isn't a C++ compiler, it's a C compiler. You should have g++ somewhere in your $PATH (if you install the Debian g++ package, in /usr/bin). If you haven't yet, install the g++ package and its dependencies. I realized later that gcc is not for C++ so I

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Kenneth Scharf wrote: Alien can be used to install binary packages, but it does so outside of the dpkg database. That's completly wrong. Alien converts things into debian packages which may be installed and manipulated just like any other packages. use alien to install ANY package that

Re: wu-ftpd-2.4.2.16-12 security problem

1999-05-18 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
thats not a security problem. its how its supposed to behave. if u dont want users chrooted to /home/username, that is, they can only go to as high as /home/username, read on re giving users guestgroup access in wu-ftpd docs, and then change their respective enreies in /etc/passwd so that

Re: laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

1999-05-18 Thread wmccall
I got a lexmark optra e310, which is a postscript laser printer at buycomp.com for about $375. Its great. I printed 140 pages last night without a hiccup. Inkjets will eat you up for the cartridges if you print many pages. it does 8ppm. without the postscript option, its less than $300, and

Re: wu-ftpd-2.4.2.16-12 security problem

1999-05-18 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, thx for you reply. but it does not work for me. here is what I have: in /etc/passwd: shao:x:1000:1000:Shao Zhang,,,:/home/shao/./:/bin/bash in /etc/group: floppy:x:25:shao in /etc/wu-ftpd-academ/ftpaccess:

[potato]: Broken version on kernel-package (6.09,6.10) uploaded yesterday

1999-05-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi folks, I uploaded a broken version of kernel-package to potato yesterday. A new fixed version (6.11) has been uploaded to master, and should be in the Incoming mirrors. It should get installed tomorrow. In the meanwhile, the patch below shall fix the problem. The

w3/xemacs and proxy

1999-05-18 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I'm having a problem using w3 as regular user. I have to use proxy for http, and I have an environment variable HTTP_PROXY=http://fasthttp.sympatico.ca:80 set for both root and my normal user accounts. When I run xemacs with identical .emacs files as root and as a user, w3 fails to open

HELP: EXT2-fs error

1999-05-18 Thread Bob Billson
Hi all... I'm running a full Potato system (2.2.9 kernel). Tonight, for the first time, I got an error I've never seen before in the 4 years I've been running Linux full-time. I'm hoping this is bug in Potato and not something more serious with my system. The error popped up when Debian was

I need your help

1999-05-18 Thread ÀÌ Àº Á¤
== I'm Korean. So I can't speak English well. Also I'm linux beginner now. I want to your understand. I have a problem I was installing boa_3.0A-2.deb. So starting server is boa. But already I'm usr apacheV1.3.6(httpd.lrp). So apache is collide

Re: I need your help

1999-05-18 Thread Egon Schmid
On Tue, 18 May 1999, ÀÌ Àº Á¤ wrote: == I'm Korean. So I can't speak English well. Also I'm linux beginner now. I want to your understand. I have a problem I was installing boa_3.0A-2.deb. So starting server is boa. But already

Re: HELP: EXT2-fs error

1999-05-18 Thread Rob
I'm running a full Potato system (2.2.9 kernel). Tonight, for the first time, I got an error I've never seen before in the 4 years I've been running Linux full-time. I'm hoping this is bug in Potato and not something more serious with my system. [snip] 3,69 is the /dev/hdb5 partition on

stable gnome window manager

1999-05-18 Thread Oz Dror
I am looking for a gnome stable (or almost stable) window manager any ideas? -Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Re: stable gnome window manager

1999-05-18 Thread John Foster
Oz Dror wrote: I am looking for a gnome stable (or almost stable) window manager any ideas? -Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Re: HELP: EXT2-fs error

1999-05-18 Thread Bob Billson
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:23:41PM +1000, Rob wrote: Have you run fsck on the partition? Its probably the best place to start with disk problems. Yes, that was one of the first things I did. The partition came up clean.

Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port

1999-05-18 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, jeb wrote Linux doesn't recognize my parallel port. The lp module is loaded. ls /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1 both give the message no such device. I can use the parallel port from Windows 95, so the hardware is functional. Anything I should try? Mine works, under kernels

Re: laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

1999-05-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 10:29:16PM +0300, shaul wrote: I am considering what printer to buy. With today low cost ( $400) laser postscript BW printers, they seem appealing. But is there really a reason to spend 2 times the sum of money on this kind of printer ? Perhaps a $200 new ink jet,

Re: compiler in PATH ?

1999-05-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On 18-May-99 David Z. Maze wrote: gcc isn't a C++ compiler, it's a C compiler. You should have g++ somewhere in your $PATH (if you install the Debian g++ package, in /usr/bin). If you haven't yet, install the g++ package and its dependencies. I realized later that gcc is not

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

1999-05-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 07:20:55AM -0400, Allen B. Riddell wrote: Easy way to do this... put xhost localhost in your .xinitrc or, you could type it each time before you go into root. A safer solution would be to do (as root): # export DISPLAY=:0.0 # export

Re: stable gnome window manager

1999-05-18 Thread Sean
I don't know how well it works with gnome, but I think Window Maker is pretty stable. Sean Oz Dror wrote: I am looking for a gnome stable (or almost stable) window manager any ideas? -Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Soundblaster PCI : es1371 and IRQ clash ?

1999-05-18 Thread Gorik De Samblanx
Hi, This question has been asked but I could not find an answer : I have a PII with a PCI SB64 soundcard that requires the es1371 sound driver in the kernel. I installed my system (slink) without the sound and then compiled kernel 2.2.1 (and 2.2.9). Result : * /proc/sound does not exist *

Re: WordPerfect can't open ~/.wprc/.wp8x.set

1999-05-18 Thread John
Try removing the file altogether (move it to a different location or name). I have had problems with other apps that got there configs messed up and this technique worked. No guarantees that it will work this time though. John. Alec Smith wrote: Every time I try to start WordPerfect as a

Re: WordPerfect can't open ~/.wprc/.wp8x.set

1999-05-18 Thread John
This file just seems to contain a list of recently visited documents (in between the binary stuff). Hopefully word perfect can just recreate the file. If not, try removing the whole ~/.wprc directory and re-do all your settings John. Alec Smith wrote: Every time I try to start

Re: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port

1999-05-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port Date: Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:59:09PM + In reply to:jeb Quoting jeb([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hmmm.. I compiled in the parport and lp modules, and the items for parallel port support. Is there anyway I can check what

Does cdparanoia swaps channels?

1999-05-18 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. A few days ago I reported a bug saying that cdparanoia (and cdda2wav, on which cdparanoia was based) swaps channels when translating a CD track to a .wav file. I later closed the bug because of lack of evidence, but now I have more proofs that this could be indeed the case and not just a

Re: A file's permission controler

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
thanks it is exactly what i'm looking for.

Re: Sound Card

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try to found the reponse in the : http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ there was a lot of tal about this during april and mai

2.2.5 - 2.2.7 .config file

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
is it safe to use the old 2.2.5 config file (to compile the kernel) in the 2.2.7 configuration ?

Asking for information

1999-05-18 Thread José L . Redrejo - ITAIS
HI, I'm a linux beginner who comes from de world of Windows NT and I'm getting a little crazy. I have installed liinux without many problems, KDE and apache and I am working with they all reasonably well. But I haven't my ideas very clear yet. I don't understand the way liinux uses to assign

Re: 2.2.5 - 2.2.7 .config file

1999-05-18 Thread Peter Makholm
Khalid EZZARAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is it safe to use the old 2.2.5 config file (to compile the kernel) in the 2.2.7 configuration ? I havn't tried exact that combination but it should work. Just use make oldconfig -- Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags usenettere, og moderator

Re: A file's permission controler

1999-05-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Khalid EZZARAOUI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): David B.Teague wrote : Could you be asking about chmod? That file utility sets No I'm speaking about an other application. As you see in mailing list some people speak about problem to configure their sound card. in fact a part of them did

Re: Does cdparanoia swaps channels?

1999-05-18 Thread Dale E. Martin
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before I reopen the bug, could anybody having a test CD confirm/deny this behaviour? I'm the maintainer of cdparanoia. As was mentioned previously about this bug, there are many opportunities for the channels to be swapped aside from the software. It

Re: Asking for information

1999-05-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Check out http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ . There is lots of information there. Peter José L. Redrejo - ITAIS wrote: HI, I'm a linux beginner who comes from de world of Windows NT and I'm getting a little crazy.I have installed liinux without many problems, KDE and apache and I am working with

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Scharf wrote: Alien can be used to install binary packages, but it does so outside of the dpkg database. That's completly wrong. Alien converts things into debian packages which may be installed and manipulated just like any other

Re: slink: Which directory am I supposed to install from?

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MH == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MH However, the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it MH can't mount the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel MH (that is quite a few KB smaller than the one installed by the MH install system from /install) doesn't

Re: 2.2.5 - 2.2.7 .config file

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
KE == Khalid EZZARAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KE is it safe to use the old 2.2.5 config file (to compile the KE kernel) in the 2.2.7 configuration ? Yes. Just copy it to the new directory. If there are new options, make-kpkg will ask you for the values (actually it is make I believe).

KDE and my $PATH

1999-05-18 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
Starting KDE 1.1 in my debian slink I get another PATH (and not the one I want to get) as when I login at a console or another WindowManager. I have the .bash_profile and .bashrc files in my home directories pointing as links to /etc/bash_profile and /etc/bashrc. Any idea??? Thanks

apt-get from a CD

1999-05-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I have just copied a load of KDE for hamm onto a CD and want to install on slink. Is there an apt-get install command to get the whole darn thing from the CD in one go? I don't hace Qt instaslled. BTW, are there any issues with installing debs for hamm onto slink? Advice, war stories,

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Beattie
perhaps from whence you are down loading) ^^ Sorry about the excess bandwidth killer, but is it whence or whom? Hi Michael Never say bandwidth killer about an English language issue. It is from whence or from where, as whom refers to a person. I think from

can i use truetype fonts?

1999-05-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, a friend send me some fonts taken out of his windows system, for me to be able to view some web pages he converted for me from a word-document... now he send me true type fonts (suffix .ttf) and i looked a bit around but noticed that nowhere on my system were such fonts, mkdontdir

Re: mount drive through internet?

1999-05-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
True, but does anyone do this? Seems kind of bandwidth-wasteful, and like it would be slow. Sounds like a connection-oriented protocol like FTP would be more like what the doctor ordered... Bob Nielsen wrote: You will need to set it up on the remote computer for NFS. On Thu, May 13, 1999

Re: PHP3 and Mysql -- Broken Module

1999-05-18 Thread budi w
i've got that problem too and then i recompile apache,mysql and php3 (all in source) and all works fine regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeb wrote: I'm using the latest Debain versions of PHP3 and the PHPMysql module. I'm also using the latest version of Mysql. It works fine. PHP3

Re: EDI?

1999-05-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 02:07:43PM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: Looking for a pointer to a GNU EDI environment/project. EDI == EDA? http://www.geda.seul.org/ There are packages in potato for it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Newbie X (no @ on kbd)

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
Jean-Yves: I am not running X on my Debian machine, and my X manual is at home, so I am lacking resources, but I'll try to offer some tips... Look in the directory /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols. Is there a file called fr-latin0 in this directory? If so, is there a section in this file that looks

Modem went poof...GRRRR

1999-05-18 Thread Robert Rati
I have a Boca Research 33.6 PNP (unfortunately) ISA modem which has ceassed to work recently. I had it working fine with isapnptools aside from a few errors I got at boot time. I always got: IO Resource Conflict -- Error allocating 8 bits at 0x2f8 IRQ Conflict -- IRQ 3 These, obivously, were

Re: root password?

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
You can log in as root, but it doesn't prompt you for a password, right? Login in as root, type passwd. Enter your new password (twice). Log out. Log back in as root. Does it prompt you for a password now? Re-boot the machine and try it again. Still working? If this isn't working, look in the

about xfstt an freefont

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Today I made my truetype fonts accessible by X by changing the /etc/init.d/xfstt and changing this line : portno=7101 to this : portno=127.0.0.1:7101 or by : portno=inet/127.0.0.1:7101 I hope this will help you. but I have a probleme with the freefont package. the font that

Wine (unstable)

1999-05-18 Thread Ratki Tamas
Hi, I tried to install the newest wine (wine_0.0.990508-1.deb) but it doesn't work: bash-2.01$ wine sigaltstack: Function not implemented I have installed on my Debian 2.0 the packages: wine_0.0.990508-1.deb libwine0.0.971116_0.0.990508-1.deb libc6_2.1.1-5.deb libncurses4_4.2-3.2.deb

potato+slink

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
I read before that potato is a duplication of slink, and the potato's tree are just link to slink. And each time a new application is generated to potato the link to this become a new file. So if this is true, why using slink+potato but not just potato in apt-source? in fact i understood

Re: syslog: ----MARK---- ?

1999-05-18 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : The above message keeps popping up in my syslog every 20 minutes, and : I couldn't figure out from where it originated. My guess is smail, but : smail's configuration files did not provide any clues either. It's from the logging program, it put those in

Re: can i use truetype fonts?

1999-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: now he send me true type fonts (suffix .ttf) and i looked a bit around but noticed that nowhere on my system were such fonts, mkdontdir does not recognize this suffix, so is standard X not capable of using true

Re: Modem went poof...GRRRR

1999-05-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I have a Boca Research 33.6 PNP (unfortunately) ISA modem which has ceassed to work recently. I had it working fine with isapnptools aside from a few errors I got at boot time. I always got: IO Resource Conflict -- Error allocating 8 bits at 0x2f8 IRQ Conflict -- IRQ 3 These,

Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-18 Thread Debian Mail
Any other suggestions? OK, I compiled my own 2.2.7 kernel and went through the docu: It seems, that the module parport_pc was missing and therefore causing all the trouble... Thanks for you help! Stef

apt-get: libc6-dev: Depends:libc6

1999-05-18 Thread Debian Mail
Doing apt-get update I get the following error: Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends:libc6 But I just installed

Re: mount drive through internet?

1999-05-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): True, but does anyone do this? Seems kind of bandwidth-wasteful, and like it would be slow. Sounds like a connection-oriented protocol like FTP would be more like what the doctor ordered... Bob Nielsen wrote: You will need to set it up on

Re: compiler in PATH ?

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote: The 27 and 272 packages provide support for older versions of g++. You don't want to use these for compiling programs unless the program depends on the bugs in the 2.7.2 compiler. For slink, you need to get the following packages: g++

compiling and installing lib's

1999-05-18 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so) and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker or programs.

html to prolog mode in XEmacs

1999-05-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, anyone knows why when I open a .html file in XEmacs and it enters in html mode, if I press Tab key XEmacs enters in prolog mode? Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique PS: I'm using an older potato (2 months without update, because glibc2.1

Debian server install needed (Atlanta, GA)

1999-05-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, my company (Opera Software A/S) has a server placed at the Mindspring operational center in Atlanta, GA. We need to get Debian installed on this box. It is going to be our web server. As the company is Norwegian, we are willing to pay someone to set up our server in Atalanta, GA, since

HTML formatter

1999-05-18 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, is there a program that formats html source code. I would like to have a pretty printer for HTML just like 'indent' does with c source code. Armin

net-pf-19

1999-05-18 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.5. At boot it prints modeprobe: can't find module net-pf-19 two times. What's missing? Armin

RE: net-pf-19

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 Armin Wegner wrote: Hi, I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.5. At boot it prints modeprobe: can't find module net-pf-19 two times. What's missing? I have the same problem. I am getting rid of the messages by editing /etc/conf.modules and setting net-pf-19 (and

Re: compiling and installing lib's

1999-05-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so) | and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker | or programs. You just put them in a directory somewhere. Generally /usr/local/lib is a good location if

Re: can i use truetype fonts?

1999-05-18 Thread Alec Smith
Take a look at the xfstt package. I'm currently using it to gain access to Windoze TrueType fonts without difficulty. xfstt is part of the Slink distribution. On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, a friend send me some fonts taken out of his windows system, for me to be able

loading module for NE2000 Ethernet card

1999-05-18 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I have a box running slink and am trying to install an NE2000 ethercard. When I do: # insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o I get: /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved

Re: Modem went poof...GRRRR

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
in your bios you can set some information irq to your parallel,mouse port. and you can set your bios to be : not plug and play or reserve the irq 3 to your modem but forget the old setting to come back if nothing of this work

Re: loading module for NE2000 Ethernet card

1999-05-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
David Karlin wrote: Hello, I have a box running slink and am trying to install an NE2000 ethercard. When I do: # insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o I get: /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init

Re: laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

1999-05-18 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-18 09:27, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: The only reason for having ink jet printer is the color (color laser printers are extremely expensive :-(. Entry level color laser printers are ~$2k and prices are dropping fast. Just checked pricewatch for the fun of it: HP DeskJet 2000

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