Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-28 Thread Hilton Fernandes
On 27 May 99 at 13:57, Rafael Caetano dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hilton Fernandes writes: (...) Concordo com voce^. Contudo, como esta lista (debian-user-portuguese) tem trafego muito pequeno, talvez nao haja ^ Isso é bom. :-)

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-28 Thread Nuno Nunes
a diferentes culturas. Lembrar que, sendo europeu, o ingles deveria usar a virgula como ponto decimal, e o americano usa ponto mesmo. E a lingua e' a mesma. Palavra de físico a estudar em Inglaterra que os ingleses usam ponto decimal (mais uma influência dos States?). Creio que são os

KDE mail client problems

1999-05-28 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having problems getting KDE's mail client to delete mail that are in folders. I currently have my system set up to sort my mail using exim's filtering capablity. All of the filtered mail goes into various folders in my ~/Mail dir. KDE see's the files with the mail fine, and I'm able to

Monitoring FTP connections -- is it possible?

1999-05-28 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: Can I monitor 1. how many and which users are connected via ftp? 2. which files are downloaded and which files are uploaded? Another question: if I can't do that in real time, is there a log file the contains this info? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin ... without money one gets nothing in

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-28 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi - Even as a work station linux works fine on 486 hardware. Your basing your - argument on what you view as a workstation. Howeve, without X a - 486/66 does fine depending on it's purpose. You certainly don't need - pentium power to run vi, lynx, and elm. What else do you need?

Re: gnome-ppp someone?

1999-05-28 Thread John Hasler
I didn't manage to get connected with gnome-ppp, because of 2 problems: 1. There seems to be no possibility to use pap without setting 'noauth' in the /etc/ppp/options file... ... It was impossible to me to connect without changing this to noauth A bug in gnome-ppp, I'd say. 2. After

Re: Replacing NT/Netware with Linux (LONG)

1999-05-28 Thread John Foster
eric a. Farris wrote: well, it's happening. my boss wants me to take the summer to evaluate using Linux to run our labs as an alternative to Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows NT. __STUFF SNIPPED_ I can't offer any help as my network is only 3 machines in my

bug-tracking system having problems???

1999-05-28 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Anyone know if the bug-tracking system is having problems? I submitted a bug report on xserver-3dlabs (from potato) on Sunday, and it still doesn't appear to have been registered. I don't seem to be having any problems with my email, and I haven't received any delivery-failure notifications, so

Re: XF86Setup segmentation fault

1999-05-28 Thread John Foster
Sean wrote: I just upgraded to potato the other day, and have been pretty impressed so far. The only hang-up I've had that I haven't a clue as to what's causing it or as to how to fix it is with XF86Setup. Whenever I run it, it cranks the screen where it asks me if I want to use the

login.defs

1999-05-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade to potato the other day, and my login.defs no longer seems to be used. I assume this probably has something to do with pamification. Any pointers anyone can give will be appreciated. TIA PS Please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I am not a member of this list anymore.

Re: Latest GNOME on Slink?

1999-05-28 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
On 27 May 99, at 15:45, Jack Versfeld wrote: Where can I get the latest GNOME compiled agains the slink libraries, since I don't want to go to potato yet... Thanx... Jack Add the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/debian slink main

Re: What's the latest standalone Netscape w/128 encryption?

1999-05-28 Thread Brad
On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: Subj? Was at netscape's site and it looks like 4.6 is only available with 56-bit encryption as a standalone browser. Check out the fortify packages in non-US. Or, if they're not up to date yet, go to www.fortify.net and get the program from there.

Sony Vaio

1999-05-28 Thread David Welton
Hi, looking for information on getting Debian going on a Sony Vaio. Any information would be helpful. A friend managed to do it, but it was rather tricky... Thanks, -- David N. Welton Sors immanis - et inanis - rota tu volubilis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] status malus -

Re: java

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
If you have installed jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev in slink, then you should have the program appletviewer. Can this do the job for you?? If it doesn't, let me know exactly what you want... I am sure there will be a solution... On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 12:45:30AM +0200, moron wrote: To whom it may

Re: Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Could I please see the actual command you typed to blank the cd? Johann Spies at Johann wrote: I am for the first time experimenting how to do CD-writing with a HP 7200i. After my first effort using CDROAST on a rewritable cd I could not mount it - my effort to mount it resulting in

Re: xcdroast and HP7200i

1999-05-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
According to both the CD-Writing HOWTO and the XCDRoast manual: You need SCSI emulation support for the drive. That is: There are kernel parameters that you must select either to include in the kernel, or build as modules, which will make the kernel treat an ide device as

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Everybody does it differently unfortunately. The criteria is that the concatination of the last two and the word Packages.gz should locate the package file and that the concatination of the first and a File: line in the Package file should locate the .deb Would it be

Re: DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

1999-05-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
KGM == Keith G Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KGM the 'datagram' from 127.0.0.1) to see what it's trying to find. KGM It's probably trying to interact with Netscape's site in some KGM way. Keep us updated. I'd like to know if there's a good reason KGM not to upgrade, or how to get around

java in staroffice

1999-05-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Has anyone got java working in staroffice?? I have got jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev installed. But staroffice cannot seem to find it... Thanks Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___

chmod equivalent for files on mounted cdrom

1999-05-28 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all! Can I somehow disable read access to *one* directory of a mounted cdrom for a user or a group? Something like chmod 700 \ /mnt/cdrom/some_file ? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world...

bashrc file gone! Where is it?

1999-05-28 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I can't seem to find the .bashrc file. I checked all over for it. According to the debian package search on their website, its suppose to be in the bash package, but I installed that again, and its not there! What can I do to find it?? Thanks. Brendon

Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, Sorry, its not Debian specific but I am a Debian user :-). I have found that Matrox Millenium G200 is supported by latest XFree86 but I am not sure what version -- AGP or PCI? Or maybe both? Any experience? Thanks! -- Tad

re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread David Coe
Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8). I've done nothing since then but a lot of reading. Can I safely add them back using fdisk or sfdisk (or cfdisk or something else? I know their

pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how?

1999-05-28 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, To reduce the amount of printing I must do, I want to print two A4 pages of a pdf document on a single A4 sheet --- or even better, reduce 4 A4 pages down so that it can print on a single sheet. Is there any software to do this? (Could you please cc any replies directly to me as I am

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Alec Smith
The PCI version ought to work... I would venture to guess the AGP version might work too. If you already have the card, why not give it a try? Get the latest XFree86 3.3.3.1 debs for Slink using the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ On Fri, 28 May

RE: bashrc file gone! Where is it?

1999-05-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-May-99 Brendon Baumgartner wrote: I can't seem to find the .bashrc file. I checked all over for it. According to the debian package search on their website, its suppose to be in the bash package, but I installed that again, and its not there! What can I do to find it?? Thanks.

did windows kill my linux?

1999-05-28 Thread Christensen
This is so weird! I'm a very new user, got Linux working with the help of this group, using Lilo to boot Windows in the first partition (HDA1), and Linux in HDA3 (swap) and HDA4 (file system). I left HDA5 as DOS Fat 16, but am not using it for anything yet. I just installed Wordperfect 6.0

Re: DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

1999-05-28 Thread Adam Rice
Quoting Stephan Engelke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If so, what might cause the problem - what could I do to solve it? It appears to me that Netscape's host lookup behaviour has changed so it is not looking in /etc/hosts before asking your DNS server. This would explain why you haven't seen the problem

Re: pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how?

1999-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, To reduce the amount of printing I must do, I want to print two A4 pages of a pdf document on a single A4 sheet --- or even better, reduce 4 A4 pages down so that it can print on a single sheet. Is there any software to do this?

RE: Sony Vaio

1999-05-28 Thread Shaleh
On 28-May-99 David Welton wrote: Hi, looking for information on getting Debian going on a Sony Vaio. Any information would be helpful. A friend managed to do it, but it was rather tricky... a) debian-laptop b) I own a 505f, install was painless, what do you need? hints: use the tecra

Re: bashrc file gone! Where is it?

1999-05-28 Thread KaHa
Brendon Baumgartner wrote: I can't seem to find the .bashrc file. I checked all over for it. According to the debian package search on their website, its suppose to be in the bash package, but I installed that again, and its not there! What can I do to find it?? Thanks. umm.. try vi .bashrc.

Re: What's the latest standalone Netscape w/128 encryption?

1999-05-28 Thread John Foster
Brad wrote: On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: Subj? Was at netscape's site and it looks like 4.6 is only available with 56-bit encryption as a standalone browser. Check out the fortify packages in non-US. Or, if they're not up to date ___

dist-upgrade not working...

1999-05-28 Thread Eric Bass
I don't know if I screwed something up or what, but the apt-get dist-upgrade isn't working. I believe I'm currently on 2.0 (still shows 2.0 on the login screen) Is there a better way of Checking your current dist? Wanting to upgrade to slink, or possible potatoe... Run apt-get update, then

Re: dist-upgrade not working...

1999-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Eric Bass wrote: I don't know if I screwed something up or what, but the apt-get dist-upgrade isn't working. Grab the latest APT (0.3.x) and use apt-get --ignore-hold dist-upgrade Jason

dselect wants to remove everything! Stop!

1999-05-28 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Anyone know why, everything in dselect is set to uninstall? How do i reset the damn thing? I think debs are great, but having to use dsleect is just a nightmare. Thanks for any help! Brendon

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Would it be posslbe to make apt recognize a complete, unplitted url, so long as the .deb's and Packages file are all in a directory together and the Filename: lines in the Packages file doesn't have a directory component? This just changes the problem,

netscape46 probs

1999-05-28 Thread Mark Bathie
Upon running netscape46 I get the error ./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' ? what environment variable do i set ? Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com

Re: Xfig: no Indicator Panel?

1999-05-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 May 1999, Lance Heller wrote: I've used xfig under various linux releases and have not had the problem you describe. However, if xfig is used on a small screen or with low resolution, it will size itself to the screen and some bits of it may be hidden. If this is what you're seeing,

Re: Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: Could I please see the actual command you typed to blank the cd? cdrecord speed=4 -dev=0,0 -v /f/image1.raw -multi Johann -- | Johann Spies

Cut paste with gpm stopped working

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
The subject line says it all. I have recently upgraded my kernel to 2.2.7 and installed libncurses4. How can I get it to work again. Maybe it is related: when I try do do menuconfig in my kernel source tree, it fails complaining about some include files that is missing. That started happening

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: Christopher J. Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just to add to everybody's whining, I should say that I haven't been able to get my CDR (Panasonic 7502 SCSI) working for about 6 weeks now. Yes, Me Too (tm), I have to boot into Windows to burn CDs

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread ferret
I haven't had any problems with the 3.3.3.1 server with my G200 AGP, although Windows 98 had problems with it on the same hardware with Matrox's latest drivers. : Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? And does anyone know of current 3D acceleration efforts in

Re: Replacing NT/Netware with Linux (LONG)

1999-05-28 Thread Adam Shand
this is a machine that we would need to grow, obviously. what i want to do is just bring one or two of the smaller labs up with it for testing. With only two drives, i won't be able to RAID5 the thing as i was hoping, but i thought i saw someplace where RAID5 isn't Linux's Very Good Friend

xscreensaver and gnome

1999-05-28 Thread Dan Brosemer
Hi, I hope I'm not asking a silly question that could be found out by reading the docs, but I have a weird situation. I recently removed my xscreensaver 2.xx that comes with slink and installed 3.12 from sources (I wanted sonar). Now, when I run 'xscreensaver-demo' and select a particular

Re: XF86Setup segmentation fault

1999-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Extract from the text below (John Foster's comment): I ran into the same problem except I got the main configuration console screen but it does not work properly. I tried to make the selections for my system and the buttons did not indicate which ones were selected. I went thru the motions and

Re: pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how?

1999-05-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 09:40:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, To reduce the amount of printing I must do, I want to print two A4 pages of a pdf document on a single A4 sheet --- or even better, reduce 4 A4 pages down so that it can

Re: What's the latest standalone Netscape w/128 encryption?

1999-05-28 Thread Brad
On Thu, 27 May 1999, John Foster wrote: Brad wrote: Check out the fortify packages in non-US. Or, if they're not up to date ___ the fortify pkg in Slink does not work with ver 4.6; havent checked the potato files yet. Did you read the line you cut

Re: netscape46 probs

1999-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You don't set any environment variable! You have probably not installed xpm (X Pixmap libraries for libc6 - runtime. Install xpm with dselect (search with /xpm, next search with \). Have you installed Netscape with the netscape4_4.0-15.deb (unstable version)? NOTE: You need to install glibc2.1 as

desk jet 710C - drivers

1999-05-28 Thread IS ZG
Hi, My name is Margaret. I'm writing from Poland. Help me!!! My printer Desk Jet 710C doesn't print in DOS 6.22. I need this. Where can I find these drivers? Thank you very much

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 27 May 1999 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of my knowledge this one doesn't use any acceleration, like e.g. the S3 server.

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 28 May 1999 13:25:45 +1000 (EST), Tadeusz Bak wrote: Sorry, its not Debian specific but I am a Debian user :-). I have found that Matrox Millenium G200 is supported by latest XFree86 but I am not sure what version -- AGP or PCI? Or maybe both? Any experience? Both versions are supported.

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Mark Nellemann
Hi ! I have a G200 AGP that works fine with XFree 3.3.3, not as fast as with AccelX but still fine. It's not supported in XFree 3.3.2, so you have to use Potato or upgrade the XFree in slink as Alec wrote. Alec Smith wrote: The PCI version ought to work... I would venture to guess the AGP

Re: please help - hdd activity control

1999-05-28 Thread L. Besselink
you could try looking at this new site: http://www.nl.linux.org/linuxperf/ this is where they mention what could be interresting to you: http://www.nl.linux.org/linuxperf/general/poa.html hope this helps. On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jarek Lewinski wrote: I am putting this message once again,

Re: Making Makefiles

1999-05-28 Thread Martin Waller
This is good: ftp://ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu/pub/elef/autotools/toolsmanual.html I recommend it as it has a top introduction to autoconf (i.e. the configure.in stuff you're concerned about) It also covers plain makefile writing if you want to do it that way. Martin From: Dennis Schoen [EMAIL

[OT] Playing sound file over the modem

1999-05-28 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hi, Sorry for this off-topic post. Does any of you have an idea how I could implement the following scenario under Linux ? - have the modem dial some (voice) number - keep the line open even when answered by a human - then play some sound file (pre-recorded alert messages) over the modem line -

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 May 1999 14:52:04 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: (1) Is the required format for such targets defined, exemplified, or documented anywhere? man sources.list ? There are several examples at the bottom and the exact line syntax is given in the

Re: Changed CDROM hdd to hdb

1999-05-28 Thread Barry Kauler
- I changed the IDE cables in my PC and now the CDROM drive - is at hdb (primary ide slave), and previously it was hdd - (secondary IDE slave). - I did this when I was messing around getting Win95 to install - properly. - - Now, what file do I change in Debian Linux (Slink) to get Linux - to

Re: xscreensaver and gnome

1999-05-28 Thread upp105
Dan Brosemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently removed my xscreensaver 2.xx that comes with slink and installed 3.12 from sources (I wanted sonar). Now, when I run 'xscreensaver-demo' and You seems to want xscreensaver_3.10-1_i386.deb (potato only maybe?); I can see sonar in my GNOME

ipmasq package

1999-05-28 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hai, I have installed the IPMASQ package, and now I can ping myself. I now that this has something to do with the firewall rules, but I can find any documentation on how to use the IPMASQ package. I did do a man ipmasq, and looked in the /use/doc/ipmasq directory but I can't find any good

KDE uses another PATH

1999-05-28 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
I'm using KDE 1.1 on a debian slink. When I login in KDE I have another PATH then when I login in a console or another WindowManager. I don't know where to set the PATH that uses KDE. Any idea would be apreciated Lorenz

X and nice values

1999-05-28 Thread Matthew Gregan
Greetings. I was reading somewhere recently that you should run X with a nice value of -10... I can't remember which document I saw this in now, I think it was one of the X setup HOWTOs. Well, I have a couple of questions: 1) Is this changing of the nice value considered a good idea? 2) If I

Re: Debian Logo Vote Debian Keyring?

1999-05-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 10:43:21 -0500, John Foster wrote: I just read the Debian news section on the Web Site and came across the vote posting for the Debian Logo. My question is: Is this vote for Developers only? The vote system in general is for developers only. The requirements for

Re: did windows kill my linux?

1999-05-28 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Send in the output of fdisk -l Brandon Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ: 30631197

SoundBlaster PCI64

1999-05-28 Thread p
Hi I have a new computer (the old one had commited suicide :)

SoundBlaster PCI64

1999-05-28 Thread p
Hi (sorry about the last incomplete message) I have bought (I had to) a new computer: It has a SoundBlaster PCI64 card, but ... pnpdump does not see any card, I alreday had compiled a new kernel (2.0.34) with (module) sound support and with the awe32 patch, and inded I have the drivers (cat

emacs confused about alt and meta

1999-05-28 Thread Michael Stenner
emacs seems to want to interpret ALT as META and ignore META altogether. I found no mention of this in the emacs docs. I'm pretty convinced that it's an emacs issue: I've used xev to confirm that it's getting the appropriate keysyms, so when I say it interprets ALT as META, what I mean is: It

upgrade problem

1999-05-28 Thread johpe
Hello! I have upgraded from slink to potato. But something happend. I could not start X after the upgrade. So I decided to config XF86Config again. When I type XF86Setup I have got following error : _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect- Can't connect : errno = 111. So I tried xf86config but when I type

cd burning with memorex 1622, audio tools

1999-05-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just got a Memorex model cdr1622 cdrw drive. I havn't actually tried to burn any cd's yet, but I have so far rebuilt my kernel to use scsi emulation as required by xcdroast. Has anyone out there used this model drive, and how has it worked out? Anything I should know? I am reading the

RE: upgrade problem

1999-05-28 Thread Person, Roderick
I'm not a potato user, but it should as if you have a font path in your xf86config that does not exist anymore, or possible has moved from it slink placement to it potato placement. This happened to me with truetype fonts placement from hamm to slink. Check on that. Hope it helps. Rod...

HELP: can't access serial port???

1999-05-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am still trying to get my Xircom CEM-28 pcmica-card modem to work, without success at the moment, and the problem is really strange: cat /var/run/stab Socket 0: Xircom CEM28 Ethernet/Modem 0 network xirc2ps_cs 0 eth0 0 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS3 4

Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, if you have the exact partition geometries you can just add them back as long as you haven't created anything else on top of them since. David Coe wrote: Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7

Re: Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-28 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Q: How well are CD-RW-Writers supported? A: You can write on CD-RW's exactly like on a CD-Recordable. X-CD-Roast does not handle these any differently. To erase a CD-RW you have to call cdrecord manually (see the X-CD-Roast logfile where to find cdrecord and what your scsi-device is).

Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread John Gay
This is a reply I received in response to a request for Linux drivers for the Colour Inkjet 3200 printer from Lexmark. I guess I should have checked printer compatibility a bit better before I bought it : ( In reference to your e-mail of 25/05/99, unfortunatly at present we do not have the

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Boonstra
John Hasler wrote: Brian Boonstra writes: For what it's worth, my OpenStep machine at work has command line directives copy and paste, so you can do things like paste | wc or cat myfile.txt | copy A fairly simple script, if I understand you correctly. I'm not really sure.

Re: [ILUG] Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Vincent Cunniffe
I especially like the 'Best regards,' bit. Rather Ironic, I think. On a related note, does any one have any experience with attempting to get this printer to work from Linux? I'd have thought that 'a printer was a printer, was a printer' In theory, they should be... sadly, a lot of

How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happens, that one of users sends a print job in the wrong format (e.g. binary data for HP-LJ). In this case, I as a supervisor have to log in, clean up the print queue and

Problem with a sound card OPL3-SAx

1999-05-28 Thread Raphael Alla
Hi, I am using debian slink 2.1 A few days ago, I decided to compile the new 2.2.9 kernel. Everything is fine, except for my sound card. I have a OPL3-SAx card, for which a driver exists in linux 2.2. But for some reason, when I use my sound card, the computer freezes and I have no other choice

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Marc Mongeon
John: Check the printer manual to see whether your printer emulates any of the HP Laserjet models (or, even better, Postscript-- but this isn't likely). If it does, you can set up filters (using ghostscript, most likely) to print anything you want. I don't know the details about your specific

Re: How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Wojciech, On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi all! I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happens, that one of users sends a print job in the wrong format (e.g. binary data for

Re: desk jet 710C - drivers

1999-05-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:28:05AM +0200, IS ZG wrote: Hi, My name is Margaret. I'm writing from Poland. Help me!!! My printer Desk Jet 710C doesn't print in DOS 6.22. I need this. Where can I find these drivers? Thank you very much This list is

cdrecord - and VideoCDs ?(and/or .bin/.cue CDs)

1999-05-28 Thread nate
anyone know if its possible(and if so, how?) to record a videoCD (mode2) with cdrecord, or any other burning software in linux? I tried converting a .bin/.cue using binchunker to .iso and tried to burn it, burned fine..no errors..but when i went to access it (in win9x) the cd was blank. I was

Re: How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 03:57:32PM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: Hi Wojciech, On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi all! I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happens, that

Re: ipmasq package

1999-05-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: ipmasq package Date: Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:42:32AM +0200 In reply to:Ries van Twisk Quoting Ries van Twisk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hai, I have installed the IPMASQ package, and now I can ping myself. I now that this has something to do with the firewall rules, but

Re: pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how?

1999-05-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: pdf: printing multiple pages on a single sheet - how? Date: Fri, May 28, 1999 at 12:59:00PM +0930 In reply to:Mark Phillips Quoting Mark Phillips([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, To reduce the amount of printing I must do, I want to print two A4 pages of a pdf document on a

Re: How to reset a printer from debian?

1999-05-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stephan Engelke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: I have a small problem with my server. It serves as a netware printer (with mars nwe and HP-DJ670C). Sometimes it happens, that one of users sends a print job in the wrong

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Johnie Ingram
Alec == Alec Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alec The PCI version ought to work... I would venture to guess the Alec AGP version might work too. Hm. (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G200 AGP rev 1, Memory @ 0xe800, 0xe400 (--) SVGA: detected an SGRAM card (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to

Re: ipmasq package

1999-05-28 Thread Jack Versfeld
Subject: ipmasq package Date: Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:42:32AM +0200 In reply to:Ries van Twisk Quoting Ries van Twisk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hai, I have installed the IPMASQ package, and now I can ping myself. I now that this has something to do with the firewall

Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread David Coe
Thanks, that worked beautifully and all is well again. I highly recommend gpart -- it did an admirable job of telling me where those deleted partitions actually were. I'll see if I can debianize it if someone isn't already doing that... Begin3 Title: gpart Version:0.1c

closed bugs

1999-05-28 Thread Nick Cabatoff
Is there any way of getting complete bug reports (including those that have been closed) for a particular packages? I think I've found a bug in librx1g/regexec(), and was hoping to verify that.

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread ferret
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Thu, 27 May 1999 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of my knowledge this one

apt-0.3.x on slink: unable to parse package file

1999-05-28 Thread Andreas Loew
Hello Debian folks,anybody out there who can help me with apt being "unable to parse package file":I am trying to use apt-0.3.x for a series of slink CDs I wrote at the officein order to install slink on my private PC at home. For the two officialslink CDs, everything works fine: first

Re: apt-0.3.x on slink: unable to parse package file

1999-05-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Try this APT version: http://wakko.deltatee.com/~jgg/apt_0.3.6.1_i386.deb It is a bug.. Jason

Official CDROM images

1999-05-28 Thread Charlie Hedlin
I wanted to download the i386 and Alpha cdrom images, but do not seem to be able to connect to cdimage.debian.org (either http nor ftp). These images don't seem to be on the standard ftp mirrors either. I have previously done installs via ftp, but I need to take these with me on the road, and I

Debian hardware vendors

1999-05-28 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Does anyone know of a list of hardware vendors who are experienced in installing Debian into the systems they package? Has anyone had good experience they'd like to share? My recent experience has been so-so, (although the complications aren't entirely due to the vendor's lack of familiarity with

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of my knowledge this one doesn't use any acceleration, like e.g. the S3 server. The SVGA server automatically detects supported cards and does have acceleration. A new card

Re: Debian hardware vendors

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Boonstra
Two vendors I've been happy with are http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ and http://swt.com/ Both are quite Linux-aware. - Brian

Confused CD-ROM

1999-05-28 Thread Patrick Rauls
Hi... When I bootup the computer, I get this: CDROM_PC_INTR: The drive appears confused ireason = 0x1 This has happened on all of the 2.2.X kernels that I have put on. Any suggestions/answers Thankx, Pat

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :

1999-05-28 Thread Bob Brown
I had the same conversation with Lexmark about a year ago. However, I recall reading a post in this list re: someone who had hacked a driver. My solution was to give the printer to my kids (win-machine) and buy a Canon BJC-610 - that I found was compatible via the supported hardware page. Let the

Re: java

1999-05-28 Thread moron
Thanks for your help. I'm not short of JDKs (on CDs and on the Win95 half of my hard drive), but I don't know my way around Debian yet. I presume I would need some Debian program (jdk1.1-dev?) to install the JDK. I didn't find anything linux-specific on the javasoft site. Would I have to

Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread Colin Marquardt
* David Coe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8). [...] If not, how can I find and update the extended partition table without modifying the partitions'

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