Windows me salvó el procesador. :'(

1999-06-08 Thread Gabriel B.
Hola debianitas. Pues que me compré hace dos meses un pc con K6-2/400 y, como es normal, me rozaban los cables con las aspas del disipador del procesador. Las separé bien. Hace poco (mis hijos usan windows para los juegos) me avisaron de que se oía un pitido continuo. Pensé que era un aviso de

Re: Actualizar la hora...en potato

1999-06-08 Thread Netman
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 05:37:49PM +0100, Correcaminos wrote: Me pasa lo siguiente ...: 8=== elsa:~$ rdate 129.127.28.4;hwclock --systohc Sun Jun 6 17:26:34 1999 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused

Eterm y background

1999-06-08 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. El tema va de Eterm-DR-0.7 sobre WindowMaker 0.20. La pagina man de Eterm esta muy desfasada y no encuentro forma de forzar que el background sea un pixmap en concreto. He probado con -bg -pixmap --pixmap, y muchas otras combinaciones. Al final abro Eterm con la siguiente linea (para

Re: Eterm y background

1999-06-08 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Andres Seco Hernandez preguntó: ¿Como fuerzo el background (de Eterm) a un .ppm determinado? Eterm -P tu-fondo.ppm Si quieres ver las muchas opciones de Eterm, usa: Eterm --help saludos desde Protugal, Jaime

RE: Xdm

1999-06-08 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. He visto que el fichero al que hago mención ha sido sustituido por uno llamado /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options. El problema es que no sé qué debo poner ahí. He probado a poner la opción del antiguo fichero Config; no-xdm-start-server, pero no funciona. Bueno, para todo aquel que no lo sepa: Se

Re: Xdm

1999-06-08 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Manuel Trujillo wrote: Buenas. Resulta que en la Debian 2.0, cuando instalabas el xdm, no tenías más que ir a /etc/X11/, editar el fichero Config y cambiar la línea que decía xdm-start-server por no-xdm-start-server. Pero en la 2.1 que tengo no encuentro por ningún lado el maldito

Re: Problema con la RDSI

1999-06-08 Thread Antonio Castro
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, jose wrote: Tengo un problema con mi RDSI, es una Teles 16.3c ISA/PNP y realizo = todo lo que me dice el HOW TO de INSFLUG, pero cuando recompilo el = kernel y tiro a reiniciar... me la detecta pero cuando pongo el modprobe = hisax type=3D14 protocol=3D2 io=3D0x100

Re: xmcd no despierta el módulo de sonido ( Era: Re: Muchas gracias por las respuestas)

1999-06-08 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Agustín Martín wrote: Juan C. Amengual wrote: Hola a tod*s: vaya, hablando de mis cosas, como siempre ... 8^}} Hablando del xmcd, ¿consigues que te autocargue el módulo de sonido?. En mi caso no lo hace y sin embargo otras cosas como xplaycd o saytime sí lo hacen. Es curioso porque

3Com Etherlink III 3c509

1999-06-08 Thread Cesar Talon
Hola, Estoy intentando instalar la Slink en un 486 para montar un servidor de web y el problema es que he tropezado con el primer problema. La tarjeta que tiene instalado el ordenador es una 3Com Etherlink III ISA 3c509. A la hora de configurar los módulos no he logrado que el 3c509 funcione.

Re: Windows me salvó el procesador. :'(

1999-06-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Gabriel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ante esta lamentable situación, ¿Alguien me sabe decir cómo configurar el núcleo para que sea linux quien me avise? Mi núcleo es 2.0.36. Tengo los discos de Debian 2.1, pero todavía no lo he instalado. lm_sensors. No sé si está soportado por el

Re: Xdm

1999-06-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Manuel Trujillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ¿Podría alguien decirme cómo quitar el arranque del xdm? $ dpkg --remove xdm ó $ rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm Marcelo

Re: Xdm

1999-06-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Manuel Trujillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bueno, para todo aquel que no lo sepa: Se debe editar el fichero /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, y comentar la última línea, la que pone :0 /usr/bin/X11/X vt7, y todo vuelve a la normalidad. Eso lo único que hace es no levantar un servidor en el display

Re: Windows me salvó el procesador. :'(

1999-06-08 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, jun 07, 1999 at 09:54:05 +, Gabriel B. wrote: Ante esta lamentable situación, ¿Alguien me sabe decir cómo configurar el núcleo para que sea linux quien me avise? Mi núcleo es 2.0.36. Tengo los discos de Debian 2.1, pero todavía no lo he instalado. Visita:

Re: xmcd no despierta el módulo de sonido ( Era: Re: Muchas gracias por las respuestas)

1999-06-08 Thread Agustín Martín
Juan C. Amengual wrote: Agustín Martín wrote: A ver, no entiendo la cosa. ¿Para qué quieres que el xmcd te cargue el módulo de sonido? Aun teniendo tarjeta de sonido no necesitas esto. Si no me equivoco el (dispositivo) CD (o la tarjeta de sonido, ya no me acuerdo bien) deben venir

Re: xmcd no despierta el módulo de sonido ( Era: Re: Muchas gracias por las respuestas)

1999-06-08 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Agustín Martín wrote: Juan C. Amengual wrote: Agustín Martín wrote: A ver, no entiendo la cosa. ¿Para qué quieres que el xmcd te cargue el módulo de sonido? Aun teniendo tarjeta de sonido no necesitas esto. Si no me equivoco el (dispositivo) CD (o la tarjeta de sonido, ya no me

Re: 3Com Etherlink III 3c509

1999-06-08 Thread ~ Miguel P.C. ~
At 14.01 8/6/99 +0200, you wrote: Hola, Estoy intentando instalar la Slink en un 486 para montar un servidor de web y el problema es que he tropezado con el primer problema. La tarjeta que tiene instalado el ordenador es una 3Com Etherlink III ISA 3c509. A la hora de configurar los módulos no

SLINK + DIALD

1999-06-08 Thread Ángel Carrasco
Hola a todos, Estoy configurando mi IP masquering en la red y esto funciona bien. Pero trato de configurar el diald para llamada bajo demanda y no me funciona. ¿Alguién me puede decir un poco cómo se hace o dónde podría obtener información sobre el tema??? Un saludo. Angel

Re: ¿Utilidad para desinstalar librerías sin usar?

1999-06-08 Thread Juan Ignacio Llona
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me pregunto si existe alguna utilidad que detecte las librerías instaladas en el sistema que no entran en las dependencias de ningún paquete de los actualmente instalados. Me explico, ¿no? Esto se puede hacer con la Bueno, aquí os envío otra opción

Re: ¿Utilidad para desinstalar librerías sin usar?

1999-06-08 Thread Juan Ignacio Llona
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Xose Manoel Ramos wrote: Existir, existe el `pkg-order'. Está hecho, como puedes imaginar en [] Hay una utilidad que se llama `pkg-nodep' que busca paquetes que no [] lista de dependencias, como por ejemplo, `pkg-deptree': Dónde puedo encontrar estas

procmail para cuentas sin shell

1999-06-08 Thread Marga
Hola. En una maquina cuyo servicio principal es un sendmail he dado de alta un gran numero de cuentas cuyo shell es /usr/bin/passwd para que solo puedan utilizar el correo electronico y cambiar su password. En algunas de esas cuentas quiero respuestas automáticas. Pues bien, despues de crear un

Re: Windows me salvó el procesador. :'(

1999-06-08 Thread daniel
Si estás tan seguro de que fue Windows quien te avisó, dime qué parte de Windows o que programa de windows lo hizo... A mi me da que el equipo se te había bloqueado por sobrecalentamiento del micro y que por eso te pitaba... no? :P bueno, tu nos dirás... Daniel. On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at

Re: ¿Utilidad para desinstalar librerías sin usar?

1999-06-08 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 04:04:43AM +0200, Hue-Bond contaba: ¿En qué paquete está esta maravilla? :-) Ya lo dije: `pkg-order' Como puedes ver, está en la sección Misc: Package: pkg-order Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 193 Maintainer:

terminal y ahorro de energía

1999-06-08 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Estoy usando la opción de ahorro de energía de la termial: --- setterm -powersave hsync setterm -powersave on setterm -powerdown 5 --- Bueno, tengo que decir que lo hace muy bien. A los 5 minutos de apaga el monitor. El problema

Re: ¿Utilidad para desinstalar librerías sin usar?

1999-06-08 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 07 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 09:47:41 +0200, Jose Luis Trivino contaba: probado y tarda 3 segundos y medio en darme la lista de paquetes en un Pentium 333. Ua, qué vicio :-) Eso si, casi todos son librerias que me consta que usa algun programa. Mmmm, me extrañaría

About number only login names?

1999-06-08 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
why can't i add users with number only login names? I want to create accounts as people is indexed in the main dbs. []'s

Re: About number only login names?

1999-06-08 Thread Rafael Caetano dos Santos
Leonardo Ruoso writes: why can't i add users with number only login names? I want to create accounts as people is indexed in the main dbs. Escreva em português, por favor. Da página de manual do adduser(8): --force-badname 2By default, user and group names are required to

Re: Manual de Instalação - Sombra x Escondida

1999-06-08 Thread Carlos Emir Mantovani Macedo
Olá todos. Concordo com o Anderson, o termo Senhas protegidas abraça a idéia. Christiano Anderson wrote: Ola Gleydson, ola todos, Referente ao termo Shadow Passwords, porque nao utilizar Senhas protegidas... A palavra shadow tem o significado de sombrio, escuro, que nos

Re: Atualizacao da pagina

1999-06-08 Thread Lalo Martins
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 04:34:29PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Oi, eu atualizei a página (A Debian em Português -- http://linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/debian-pt), Vc esqueceu de incluir o novo logo da Debian :-) O site da Debian ainda está usando o velho, mas nós

Re: X server for SiS

1999-06-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, for your sis video card, you need to get the latest xfree86 3.3.3.1. YOu can either download the binary driver(SVGA) from the xfree86 homepage, or you can upgrade your system to potato. Potato has 3.3.3.1 but you will need the glibc2.1 as well.

offtopic: reading Usenet via email?

1999-06-08 Thread Matt Garman
Hello: Is there any type of service where I can subscribe to particular newsgroups via email? For example, I frequent the newsgroup alt.guitar.amps, and I think it would be nice to have all of the alt.guitar.amps traffic forwarded to me via email, and I could read it as a mailing list (as I do

can bind keep best routes ?

1999-06-08 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Hi all, I think bind is able to keep the best routes in a file. Is it really possible? And how can I set it up? I'd like to keep all the routes used to access certain web servers. -- Jean-Yves Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membre fondateur du CGE La justice immanente est rarement imminente. P.

Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ]

1999-06-08 Thread rathon
I am almost there! Now I am resolving various dependency issues. Had to download xfree86-common.. and xserver-common... and zlib1g.. zlib1g_1.1.3-2.deb depends on libc6(= 2.0.7u). On the Debian stable site, I found one called lic6(2.0.7.19981211-6). Is this the right one ? if not how do I get

Re: x11amp installation problems

1999-06-08 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 04:26:09PM -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: I have been trying to install x11amp for quite sometime now but I keep running into installation problems. I tried it with both the .deb package (from www.debian .org) as well as the source. I get the following error: Libc6

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-08 Thread Lazar Fleysher
hi There is tar.exe tar for dos. You can create a multi volume tar archive with tar for dos and then untar it on your linux machine. I do not remember where I got tar.exe from though... Maybe there is such a thing as gnu-tar for dos... It is not much, but maybe it helps... ZORO On

problem with libgnomeui32

1999-06-08 Thread scuzzy
I'm using a Debian 2.1 slink. I've installed gnome-apt 0.3.2 with apt-get and it upgraded libgnome32 libgnomesupport libgnomeui32 gnome-libs-data gnome-bin to versions 1.0.9. And now every gnome app return : gnp: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefined symbol:

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: After about 10 seconds of looking on the Debian website, i found this on http://www.debian.org/devel/maintainer_contacts.html Spam Fighting Team -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] member Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] member Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE packages for slink

1999-06-08 Thread wen
From: Kristopher Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KDE packages for slink Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 09:57:54 -0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nosleep Last week, I was able to download slink KDE packages via this nosleep /etc/apt/sources.list line: nosleep nosleep deb

Re: Problem with RAID

1999-06-08 Thread Corey Ralph
I have debian running on a similar setup on a HP LPr. You didn't mention the specifics of your problem, but one problem I found was booting from the raid array. I found that it was easier to put in a seperate internal drive to boot from, then mount the raid array. If this isn't what the problem

Problem Serving Fonts After Upgrading X from slink to potato

1999-06-08 Thread Ken McCord
Upgraded my Debian slink system to potato last night. This machine, besides being used as a workstation, is set up as a server for PC-based X Terminals. While I've fixed the problem with the PC serving fonts to itself, I'm having trouble getting fonts to the X Terminals. When starting X on the

Re: Linux Install

1999-06-08 Thread Decklin Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the /main directory from the stable area on the Debian.org FTP site and burned that to a CD, less the devel section. (This and the disks directory almost fill one CD.) This is almost always not necessary; you can download the essentail files from

Re: PCMCIA and NFS

1999-06-08 Thread David Coe
Near the bottom of /etc/pcmcia/network.opts you'll see a couple of almost-empty shell functions, start_fn() and stop_fn(). I believe they're installed originally as: # Extra stuff to do after setting up the interface start_fn () { return; } # Extra stuff to do before shutting down

Re: Problem with RAID

1999-06-08 Thread Brian Schramm
I am sorry, I cannot set them up from the install disks. I need to boot from them or figure out a way to use the cdrom or floppy to boot and get the raid system working. In my job, puting another HD in th system is out of the question. So to sumerize, I need to access from the install disks

wmaker-gnome crashes with netscape mail

1999-06-08 Thread Phil Dyer
Can anybody else confirm? WindowMaker .53 will crash if you have the messenger window open (not minimized) in Netscape 4.6 and get a new email -- dyer

glibc2.1 with slink... will stuff break?

1999-06-08 Thread Craig McPherson
Can anyone point me towards a document on installing glibc2.1 under slink? I could have sworn that I found such a reference somewhere, but now I can't seem to find it again. Anyway, is it a relatively safe matter of downloading a few updated packages working out dependencies (which is about

Re: A couple of questions.

1999-06-08 Thread Barry Kauler
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Monte Copeland wrote: 1. What is the name of the program that allows one to take a snapshot of your desk top. I have used it before but I can not remember the name. I am trying to convince a potential convert to switch from

Re: glibc2.1 with slink... will stuff break?

1999-06-08 Thread Sean
If you really need glibc2.1, upgrade to potato. Just sticking glibc2.1 into slink will undoubtedly do nasty things. Sean Craig McPherson wrote: Can anyone point me towards a document on installing glibc2.1 under slink? I could have sworn that I found such a reference somewhere, but now I

Re: problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3

1999-06-08 Thread Stuart Ballard
Luis M. Garcia wrote: Raphaël\@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed some others package like libgnomeui32. But now, every gnome application tells me: gnp: error in loading shared libraries:

Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ]

1999-06-08 Thread Johnie Ingram
rathon == rathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rathon zlib1g_1.1.3-2.deb depends on libc6(= 2.0.7u). On the Debian rathon stable site, I found one called lic6(2.0.7.19981211-6). rathon Is this the right one ? if not how do I get the right libc6.. I think thats the right libc6; only the dpkg

install of mutt seg faults

1999-06-08 Thread debian
I am running 2.1 Debian, with qmail smtp and qmail pop3d and use $HOME/Maildir apt-get install mutt Downloads fine.. goes to install and Seg Faults! Ideas?

fd0 deviation question

1999-06-08 Thread Jonathan Lupa
Hello, Quick question on floppy deviation. Everytime that I use superformat to format a floppy, it does a little warmup test and tells me to set a deviation flag in /etc/driveprm. Well, before I did that I tried again and superformat gave me back a different number for the deviation.

Linux on SUN IPX

1999-06-08 Thread Michel DUPIOL
I would like you to use Debian Linux 2.1 on my old SUN IPX. If somebody know if it is possible. Thank's to let me know. Friendly. Michel DUPIOL.

Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Brad
Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why i hope to get a lot of opinions! Right now, i have my entire Linux on one 4G HD (minus some data files and things for Wine to play with on a FAT32 partion on a second drive). One partition for swap, one for everything

Re: A couple of questions.

1999-06-08 Thread gla2
1. What is the name of the program that allows one to take a snapshot of your desk top. I have used it before but I can not remember the name. I am trying to convince a potential convert to switch from windoze, but I need some jpeg pics to show her. I use KSnapshot, a

Re: Rights on shared directories

1999-06-08 Thread Paul Anderson
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, L.U.S.T List wrote: I am assuming that I would have to force a set for the full directory somehow but I am not sure how to do this. Can anyone tell me how? Make it setgid, like so: chmod g+s directory Though, if you have a+wr mode on the dir it should do what you want

Re: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Orion the Hunter
Quoting Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why i hope to get a lot of opinions! OK, you asked for it... I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for exaple, debian potato). You don't need to make a

netscape with vi's keys

1999-06-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Is it possible to bind the netscape's scroll up, down keys to the same as vi's, just like what we can do in mutt! Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

RE: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I mostly agree with his point about not knowing to put the second CD in while installing debian. I missed that also the first try. I didn't experience his problem with makeing the symlink, and i'm not sure how obvious modconf is to a new user. I don't remeber it being mentioned during install, but

RE: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail. Maybe it was one of their admin docs. Not sure. For me, I make partitions of: / /usr /home swap I sometimes get more creative depending on the purpose of the system. If its a news server or high traffic mail server, i would

Re: A couple of questions.

1999-06-08 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Monte Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the name of the program that allows one to take a snapshot of your desk top. I have used it before but I can not remember the name. I am trying to convince a potential convert to switch from windoze, but I need some jpeg pics

What/Where is ssh?

1999-06-08 Thread Kent West
Is ssh a more secure replacement for telnet, or what? And, where is it? I've got my apt sources.list pointing to stable main contrib non-free, but apt-get install ssh returns a message that ssh is mentioned in the database but there's no installation candidate, which probably means the package is

RE: can bind keep best routes ?

1999-06-08 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Ummm ...what does bind have to do with routing? -Original Message- From: Jean-Yves F. Barbier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:07 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: can bind keep best routes ? Hi all, I think bind is able to keep the best routes in a

Re: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Brad
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Orion the Hunter wrote: OK, you asked for it... I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for exaple, debian potato). Actually, i'm running potato right now. Haven't had too many troubles with it yet, submitted bug reports (usually with

Re: What/Where is ssh?

1999-06-08 Thread Alec Smith
ssh is an encrypted remote login kinda like Telnet. You need to have apt including the Non-US stuff since ssh can't be exported from the US, but can be brought in. Add a line something like deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free That's for Potato, but a

Re: ISPs

1999-06-08 Thread F.P. Groeneveld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Are there any nationwide ISPs around for Linux users? I'm using AOL, : which doesn't support Linux, and there aren't any Linux ISPs in my area. : It'd make it a lot easier on me for upgrading if I could get onto the : internet. Does anyone know of anything like this?

Newbie Question!

1999-06-08 Thread Arjen
Hi all. I've just installed Debian 2.1 on my system. everything went fine until the moment that dselect show up. Dselect shut put the files on my harddisk what it did partialy. after that it shut configure, which it didn't at all, by very file there was an error (it went so fast i could see

RE: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Brad
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote: There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail. Not that great. Several docs and HOWTOs mention splitting off /usr and/or /var and/or /home and/or /tmp, but none recommends sizes that are at all useful. Most of the size

Re: What/Where is ssh?

1999-06-08 Thread Brad
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote: Is ssh a more secure replacement for telnet, or what? Basically, yes. ssh uses strong encryption to secure your connection. Just about any connection between your computer and the remote one can be forwarded over the ssh encrypted channel (X is a common one)

slink to potato

1999-06-08 Thread Craig McPherson
The lure of all the shiny bleeding-edge glibc2.1 apps has gotten to me, and I've decided to upgrade to potato. I stuck the unstable directory of a couple mirrors in my sources.list, selected to update all of the required and recommended packages, put all the optional extra packages on hold

apt problem

1999-06-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a problem with a potato machine here. He stays for all the time in the line: Correcting dependencies... I dont know what to do... Now I'm upgrading another potato machine (there isnt this error). But there is an error in liborbit-dev. I run select again and

Unidentified subject!

1999-06-08 Thread Perivoje Stojanovski
Daer Sirs I have an ATI Rage 128 GL 32MB + TV out Can I use it under Debian - Linux? While installing i have not seen such a server supporting this graphics adapter Please advice Thank You in advance Best Regards Perivoje Stojanovski

[off topic] installing linux from scratch

1999-06-08 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux from c source code. Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But there is no support for my Riva TNT chipset in X 3.3.2.3. So I've installed version 3.3.3.1 from source to /usr/local. Now there are many very anoying

antialiasing for xterm fonts

1999-06-08 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, is there a variant of xterm witch uses font antialiasing like xdvi? Armin

RE: java

1999-06-08 Thread Adam Shand
As far as I know there is not a port of JDK2 for Linux. Check www.blackdown.org to keep updated. sorry this is a little late but there is a version being worked on: http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/06/05/897078982.html ftp://iodynamics.com/pub/mirror/linux-jdk/JDK-1.2/

apt starngeness

1999-06-08 Thread XRDLAB
Hi, I upgraded one of my system from hamm to slink via the apt method as suggested in README.upgrade by following method: 1. Installed the new apt package on the cd 2. After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to my cdrom, did apt-get update apt-get -f

16-bit or 24-bit Color Palette ?

1999-06-08 Thread Andrew J Fortune
I have just installed Slink on my machine, and have ... almost got it working the way that i want it to. The only thing that won't work is that it is coming up in 256 colors, and I want it to use the 16-bit color palette or greater (with 1024 x 768). I have been running xf86config, and the

Re: mySql probs...

1999-06-08 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 06:42:52AM -0500, Jeff Bachtel wrote: In dselect, from unstable, I get: libdbd-mysql-perl depends on libmysql6 libmysql6 does not appear to be available mysql-client package (3.22.22-2 i think) provides libmysql6 -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED]IRC:

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:19:46PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: Yes, but maybe he wasn´t so wrong after all: man run-parts | Filenames should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, | digits, under­ scores, and hyphens. Subdirectories of directory | and files with

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 12:14:53PM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: Are you certain that the script is called with those arguments? I don't believe the $[1-6] variables are available to the scripts in ip-up.d. Instead, use the environment variables set in ip-up: Good point. I'll try it out.

Re: can bind keep best routes ?

1999-06-08 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Brendon Baumgartner wrote: Ummm ...what does bind have to do with routing? -Original Message- I think bind is able to keep the best routes in a file. Is it really possible? And how can I set it up? I'd like to keep all the routes used to access certain web servers. Ok Brendon,

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-06-08 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Perivoje Stojanovski wrote: Daer Sirs I have an ATI Rage 128 GL 32MB + TV out Can I use it under Debian - Linux? While installing i have not seen such a server supporting this graphics adapter No X-server for ATI 128GL, it seems its still the mess for xfree86 team to get the entries of

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as root

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:05:34PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Is it possible to change the user-privileges to allow me a large degree of freedom within the system as user (suppose it is, but how?!) It is possible, but undesirable to do this. Part of the reason for not operating as

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Barry Kauler
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote: I mostly agree with his point about not knowing to put the second CD in while installing debian. I missed that also the first try. I didn't experience his problem with makeing the symlink, and i'm not sure how obvious modconf is to a new user. I

Re: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote: Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why i hope to get a lot of opinions! 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev, parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one

Re: What/Where is ssh?

1999-06-08 Thread Barry Kauler
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote: And, where is it? I've got my apt sources.list pointing to stable main contrib non-free, but apt-get install ssh returns a message that ssh is mentioned in the database but there's no installation candidate, which probably means the package is obsolete

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has

dpkg on SunOS

1999-06-08 Thread Robert A. Nader
G'day, Is it possible to compile dpkg on sunos? If yes, then, If possible, I'd like to get a 'dpkg' binary atar.gz dist for sunos. If anyone can can tar one up for me greatly appreciated. Please email me direct as I'm not (yet) on the mailing list. TIA, Robert A. Nader

Re: 16-bit or 24-bit Color Palette ?

1999-06-08 Thread Barry Kauler
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: I have just installed Slink on my machine, and have ... almost got it working the way that i want it to. The only thing that won't work is that it is coming up in 256 colors, and I want it to use the 16-bit color palette or greater (with 1024 x

XFS XFree86 3.3.3

1999-06-08 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi Well I figured this out eventually. Just in case anyone else is having problems with this here is how it works. xfs will start automatically. You should remove all references to the actual fontapths in XF86Config and replace them with this FontPath unix/:7100 The actual fontpaths are

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:17:06 +0800, Barry Kauler wrote: I started with Red Hat. It took me a *few days* to get Debian up and running. Took me days as well. Oh, wait, that was because I downloaded it over a 33.6k modem. Silly me. I still

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:46:50 +0100 (BST), Patrick Colbeck wrote: minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M Are you sure it isn't the locate

RE: Mirroring the distributions

1999-06-08 Thread Paul Sargent
My biggest problem is that I'm behind a paranoid firewall which blocks access to the rsync port :-( I followed up on the www.debian.org/mirror/ site that I was given by Eric Farris. That suggests using mirror to do the job, but that's been giving me problems. a) It complains about my RE for the

Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Jim B
That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped and I got a Kernel Panic. After I rebooted however, fsck found bad

Re: can bind keep best routes ?

1999-06-08 Thread Marc Mongeon
JY: When you say route, do you mean IP address? /etc/hosts is the file in which static name-address pairs are stored. You can use bind (i.e., nslookup) to determine the name-address mapping, and then manually enter these into /etc/hosts. There are some caveats to using the hosts file, which I

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Barry Kauler
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: Multi-CD needs to be streamlined. No, it doesn't. Why use a CD at all when you van get the latest and greatest direct from the net? Better documentation, maybe, so people can get a base install working, but beyond that, nothing but net. Yes,

RE: Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!

1999-06-08 Thread Dmitry Ya
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Timothy Hospedales Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:19 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated! Anyway, if this sort of thing is possible could someone

KOffice DEB package?

1999-06-08 Thread Barry Kauler
Hi, Has anybody compiled KOffice and generated DEB package/s for Slink/i386? The KOffice site, via http://www.kde.org/, only has the source, and I don't have the right stuff installed to do the compile. I wondered if any other Debian person has already been down that path if there is no

PCMCIA Problem

1999-06-08 Thread Stefano D'Ubaldi
Hello everybody, I installed Debian 2.1 (kernel ver. 2.0.36)on my i386 PC. When I try to load the PCMCIA base modules I get the message 'modules/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/i82365.o init_module:device or resource busy' and in /var/log/messages 'kernel build:2.0.36 unknown

RE: Mirroring the distributions

1999-06-08 Thread Paul Sargent
Solved (a) (thanks Marc Mongeon), but I'm no nearer on (b) Paul -Original Message- From: Paul Sargent Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:09 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Debian User List' Subject: RE: Mirroring the distributions My biggest problem is that I'm behind a

Re: [off topic] installing linux from scratch

1999-06-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:05:32 +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But there is no support for my Riva TNT chipset in X 3.3.2.3. So I've installed version 3.3.3.1 from source to /usr/local. It's probably easier to use the 3.3.3.1 packages for slink from

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Jun-99 Steve Lamb wrote: Multi-CD needs to be streamlined. No, it doesn't. Why use a CD at all when you van get the latest and greatest direct from the net? Better documentation, maybe, so people can get a base install working, but beyond that, nothing but net. I'll tell you

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