Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
(Thomas is the author of tpctl, Debian maintainer and allround guru!) Thomas - have you any ideas? On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:08:13 -0400 (+), Tom Allison wrote: Pavel Epifanov wrote: Hi All, I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, suspicion is about

Re: heads-up (and a chance to object) on expect packages

2001-05-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 15:32:57 -0700 (+), Mike Markley wrote: Hi all, I'm planning to drop the two separate expect packages (expect5.24 and expect5.31) and create a single expect package with the current version. An automated upgrade path will be provided. Nothing depends on either

Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 02:10:20PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: If you need your machine for real work then you shouldn't be running unstable. If debian unstable isn't tested on machines used for real work, debian is going to end

Re: Zip drive problem

1998-12-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 11:46:07PM +1100, Attila Csobonyei wrote: Hi, I have just installed Debian 2.0 slink and tried to remake the kernel with the Zip drive. Not being an expert in these things I first did a make zdisk which worked fine, the Zip drive was working without any problems.

Re: --MARK--

1998-12-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:13:35PM +, Daniel Marquez-Klaka wrote: Patrik Magnusson wrote: Gregory T. Norris wrote: It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still active. You can use the -m option to change it's frequency. But in my

Re: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 I added the append=mem=128M line to lilo.conf so the system realy sees 128M of RAM.

Re: libsvga

1998-11-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:01:06AM -0500, Phil Dyer wrote: Hi all, Trying to upgrade to svgalibg1.0.3 or dummy but dpkg won't let me replace the current svgalib. Just trying to install gs, ghostview. How do I get around this? thanks, dyer more info needed - what's the error message and

Re: newbie diff question

1998-11-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:20:09PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:03:50PM -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: is there an automatic way to update the applicable files based on the diff content or do I have to apply the changes manually? patch your.diff This may

Re: Debian 1.2.125 kernel source

1998-11-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:58:00AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: [snip] Other than that minor change, the 2.1.125 kernel seems to work pretty well. Now to patch it up to 2.1.127 :) What about Alan Cox's 2.1.127ac1 patch? g Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:30:56PM -0800, jim r wrote: Once more the newbie asks a question: I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. Use something gross like this in /etc/issue (but leave issue.net

Re: what is invalid ICMP error ?

1998-10-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 04:59:30AM +, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: Hi, My kernel is reporting: borco-ei kernel: 133.87.240.13 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast. What and how bad is this ? A machine has told your machine a different route to go through, but it isn't allowed to do

Re: slink: pppd libcrack problem with last night's download?

1998-10-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:06:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Art Lemasters writes: /usr/sbin/pppd: error in loading shared libraries libcrack.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory PAM is hosed. Downgrade ppp, if possible. Ditto, I fixed it a different way -

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 05:57:26PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security patches which

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:39:48PM -0500, dsb3 wrote: I certainly wish to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to completely seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss the Fat16 format these disks have in favor of the far superior

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:06:32PM +0200, Christophe Broult wrote: Hello, I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64 Mb and

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from Ryan Kirkpatrick on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500 On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: Does ldd squake.real say anything useful? Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote: That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted fine. Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that? Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since we can squeeze 1.6meg from a

Re: Debian and two more OS's

1998-09-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:48:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:09:43PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. Re-read table failed with error 16

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:23:18AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business (as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages) I don't suppose ldconfig (as root) helps? You are runnning the programs as root aren't

Re: Debian and two more OS's

1998-09-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: [snip] NT needs read access to /dev/hda1 IIRC - so it must be FAT/NTFS Using fdisk (linux) I got the following partition table: [snip] Unfortunately after the command 'w' Command (m for help): w I got the message: The

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:22AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: It doesn't work basically! It seems that the Mach64 libvga drivers as supplied on the Debian 2.0 CD-Rom don't actually work (it crashes out with a segmentation fault when it attempts to initialise the display) If I select

Re: can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 04:21:09PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue on the following error message:

Re: pc keyboard oddity in xterm

1998-09-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 06:23:54AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: You don't happen to be using xbase 3.3.2.2-1 somehow, do you? That version did exactly what you describe. However, it has since been fixed (in 3.3.2.2-2, released on 15 July). It's also possible you used xbase 3.3.2.2-1 at

Re: getting fqdn from gethostname on a hamm box

1998-08-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Alan Su wrote: when i call gethostname() on my hamm, it returns only the name of the machine, rather than a fqdn. i distinctly remember that when i was running bo, i got a fqdn. does anyone know how i can make it return the fqdn? or is there another

Re: svgalibg1 with mach64?

1998-08-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 06:07:12PM +0200, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: Hi, one stupid question: Does svgalib support mach64 (it supports mach32)? The docs seem to indicate that although the code is there, it doesn't work :-( I've just uploaded 1.3.0 which you might have more success with.

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded to: Version: 2.0.7t-1 with

Re: Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:43:29PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:10:03PM -0700, Alexander wrote: A deleted inode seems to have zero dtime sometimes when the machine is not shut down normally. (i.e., power failure, system crash, nuclear accident...) I tend to get

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen

Re: using NTFS partitions under linux?

1998-07-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 07:52:58PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:00:44 +0200 (CEST) Jens Reinsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know if there is a kernel module for Debian linux. Any hints/suggestions? There is a kernel module floating around somewhere (try a

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head screwed on right (apart from the I don't think Microsoft is an evil company bit which I

Re: nsswitch.conf host.conf

1998-07-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 01:13:05PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: Hi, The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). But, I did find host.conf. Looks like host.conf and nsswitch.conf have very

Re: [andrmuel@rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE: 'rm' doesn't terminat anymore]

1998-07-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: - Forwarded message from Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [snip copious headers] I have used the program cdda2wave. I gues that it will create big files (about 50MB and more). After my tryings I deleted my big files:

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:02:37PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There are several,

Re: remote print-server

1998-07-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
on remote server (lp normally - look in /etc/printcap) type of print spooler on remote server (BSD) description :-) Adrian Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internal: 7-245528 External: 01962-815528 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Customize Xemacs in text mode

1998-07-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:35:28PM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote: How can I customize Xemacs to have colors and menus in text mode? I read all the stuff about faces, I try with customize-face but no success. I have a hamm distribution. Something like this in .emacs: (set-face-foreground

Re: CTRL+ALT+DEL reboot in X

1998-06-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:10:14PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: Is there a way to make CTRL+ALT+DEL shutdown and reboot the computer in X? I have this in my .fvwm2rc. You will need to setup sudo to use it though. AddToMenu Quit +Quit fvwm Quit +Reboot exec sudo reboot -t now

Re: Socks

1998-06-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 06:06:01PM +0200, Boris Lackovic wrote: helo!! Where can I find socks package? Running bo 1.3.1. I would like to install sockd demon to help local users to use port 1080 as SOCKS port for the netscape etc... in my gateway to another network. Btw...Im inside

Re: ZIP ZIP+ drives

1998-06-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 03:45:45PM +0200, Max Lawson wrote: Hi, I know the ZIP drive is supported in the kernel; and I would like to know if the ZIP+ drive is supported too. Not yet - try looking at http://www.torque.net/zip.html Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Default permissions(was Re: cat's got my lp1)

1998-06-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 01:39:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jun, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, click_here wrote: I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I was having, I know - major stupid, This might

Re: cat's got my lp1

1998-06-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, click_here wrote: The only way I can print is with cat filename /dev/lp1 If I use anything other, I get: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice Operand stack: --nostringval-- followed by lots of hex addresses, offsets, names,

Re: fvwm window shadows don't move...

1998-05-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 11:19:02AM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: Hello: I just installed Debian/GNU 1.3.1, I've got pretty much everything going as I want it. On problem, though, is as follows: I'm using fvwm2 as a window manager under XFree86. When I click and hold the left mouse

Re: Can I read NTFS from Linux?

1998-05-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 02:08:40PM +0100, Robbie McGarrigle wrote: HELP! I've just installed a Debian Linux *bare* system.. I got it on a bunch of 8 floppies whilst @ work. I can download lotsa stuff at work but I don't know how to read my NTFS partition from within Linux. COnfig is:

Re: Lincity and SVGAlib not working

1998-05-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:09:19PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: Hi all I d/led Hamms Lincity, Lincity-svga and the SVGAlib dummy. However, after typing 5 for mouse (PS2 - I do not have gpm if that makes a difference) it just stopped. I then tried removing the svgalib dummy and installing

Re: DOSEmu 97.7

1998-05-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 09:34:45PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 04:49:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to try a 2.1 kernel. Which do you recommend/Which one is the most stable? At this point, the latest is probably stable. I use 2.1.101 and

Re: login + nis problems in hamm

1998-05-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 03:55:23PM +0900, Kevin Squire wrote: [snip - problems with nis] Try looking at /etc/nsswitch.conf, to get info on it do info libc -name service switch - nss configuration file, also man nsswitch. Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: printing 2.0.33 2.1.101

1998-05-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:25:04AM -0700, Mike Nachlinger wrote: I'm running Debian 1.3.1r6 on a P5/120 96meg, libc.so.5.4.38 Printer Hewlett Packard LaserJet 6mp 19meg postscript Printing under kernel 2.0.33 no problems. Printing under any 2.1.xx[x] kernel doesn't happen. This is using

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:49:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port zip drive? Yes It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is

Re: Dos (spit partition

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 02:06:51PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear Debian People, Thought it best to mail this separately to the last one, since the problems are entirely different. I could do with being able to run a couple of dos sysadmin programs on Selwyn-Server2, which I can mount

Re: XDM doesn't work

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: [snip] The xdm-errors file gives an error that there are no valid resolutions for the xserver / monitor. The machine is at home, and I neglected to beinf the error report with me to work. If there were no valid resolutions,

Re: DOSEmu 97.7

1998-05-11 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 12:22:14PM -0500, Asher Haig wrote: Has anyone managed to make DOSEmu 97.7 work? There doesn't seem to be a .deb file, so I downloaded the source from the dosemu site. It compiled fine and everything in setup seemed to go fine to the point where I tried to run dos.

Re: Problem with my shell

1998-05-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:36AM -0400, Jeff Shilt wrote: I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it I get bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out . and tried to run postinst with

Re: M-g in XEmacs 20.4?

1998-04-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:28:25AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi there, When I press M-g (which as a developer I use frequently) I get A-g not defined. So my ALT key has reverted to ALT behaviour, instead of META which I am sure it was before. What has changed? I'm need my M-g!

Re: Bash help

1998-04-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:23:13AM -0400, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: I am trying to tell if a program is passing back an error in a Bash script. I would like to branch on receipt of the error to a wait statement that will give me about 20 seconds and then retry. My trouble is

Re: inconsistent X security?

1998-04-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 10:52:15PM -0500, pgarcia wrote: I'm currently not using xdm; I'm using startx to start X. When I don't have an .xserverrc file, X uses magic cookies. When I do have one (that simply says X -bpp 24), the security is completely disabled. What gives? How do I use an

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and Debian of course)? We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:21:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: Hello. I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out. However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I could find. The

Re: swapFILE vs swapDISK ??

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed to having a static swap partition? Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993) increase the wear and tear on my hard drive?

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 10:40:55PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: Matt Thompson wrote: This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and

Re: mail in linux...

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the requirements for hostnames: 1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z),

Re: XFree86 gamma correction

1998-04-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 02:35:49PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: My XFree86 stuff looks much darker than on PCs or Macs... sounds like a gamma problem to me. Anyone have any pointers to docs on setting up gamma on XFree86? Doesn't seem to be a how-to on it. I've seen someone else has answered

Re: 2.1.xx Kernels

1998-03-30 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:52:41AM -0400, Adam Greene wrote: Whats with these 2.1.xx kernels, When I was in University over a year ago, they had 2.1.xx kernels, will this kernel ever come out of development, and is Plug-and-Play in the kernel yet??? It sounds like there is going to be a code

Re: crash burn win95 splashscreen

1998-03-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 12:35:17AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year, I think it was, someone mentioned a crash burn win95 logo splash screen. Does anyone know where it is (I've tried to look for it, but there are a *lot* of win95 startup screens)? This is actually the second

Re: Now he's a liar, too

1998-03-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 11:30:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I lied. I thought I had posted my last message of the day, but there has been an outpouring of requests for the loggin surrounding my PPP problem. I concede that I should have included it in my original posting.

Re: TRANSLATION Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 08:07:03AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Luiz Otavio L Zorzella writes: Here it goes. It comes from: http://www.pro-unix.org/~puma/ I translated the most important items: 2, 3 and 7. Well, folks. I don't know about you, but I tried. And tryed. And

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 12:32:10PM -0500, Brian White wrote: Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically got focus if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option could be tri-state: never, always, if-parent-has-focus. Great idea! If this could be a style option then it

Re: IBM Token Ring Card [does not work]

1998-02-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Try using the diagnostic tools and setting the card to Auto 16/4. I have a Turbo 16/4 at work and it works fine. The routing table looks strange - how does the kernel pick which card to send data out on? On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 08:16:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] [kermit:/root]

Re: problems while updating packages with dpkg

1998-02-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcía Pacheco wrote: Hello, Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud of myself ;-)). Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian

Re: Viewing bootup message

1998-02-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: I have spent quite some time on this one. Reverting to the bo svgatextmode does not help. The thing that makes the difference is the particular font chosen. If I use 80x25, 80x25x9 or 80x25x8 I can still scroll right back to the

Re: lpr remote printing

1998-02-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 02:49:36AM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote: the problem is the missing link to /var/spool from /usr/spool. since base-files_1.6.1 has removed this link as it is against FHS, it might be put back in before the release, but it is good that we can find broken packages now.

Re: X-Windows Question

1998-02-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:28:32AM +0100, Hubert Fauque wrote: Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: I get the dread: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X try xhost name of your computer in your .xsession

Re: zip drive

1998-02-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:35:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm running Linux 2.1.x and haven't been able to get my zip drive to work in ages (parallel port one). It should be as simple as installing parport, parport_pc, then ppa, shouldn't it? parport_pc always tells me device/resource

Re: fetchmail smail

1998-02-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Ole J.Tetlie wrote: [Please CC replies] Hi, I've tried to set up fetchmail to get mail from my university-account and deliver it locally to smail on port 25. Telnetting to port 25 goes well. When I run 'fetchmail -v' however; the following happens:

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 10:26:48PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On my P166 (64 meg RAM) it takes about 20 seconds. Strange, on a BSDi P133 it takes about 5-10 seconds and that machine has less memory. I suspect our Xemacs is loading a bunch of unneeded stuff but I don't know for sure. You

Re: netscape 4.0 can we get just navigator?

1998-02-02 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 08:18:29AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Feb, Andrew wrote: I downloaded the beta version of the browser, and liked the new look feel. However, it said it had expired, and wouldn't allow me to link anywhere but netscape to download the new version. I'd

Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-27 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 12:04:40AM +0100, joost witteveen wrote: Adrian Bridgett wrote: Let's compare like with like. To install a program on windows you double click it and then keep clicking on next. To install a program on Debian you type dpkg -i filename. Dselect

Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, David E. Scott wrote: Tyson, I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the installation process. Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the

Re: Monitor Specs for Xfree86

1998-01-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: Gregory, I believe that the dot clock setting is from the video adapter and not the monitor. Correct, however monitors *do* have a bandwidth limitation - for instance my Iiyama is 160MHz. I believe that the dot-clock you specify

Re: Some remarks: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: Hi all! I've read a discussion about serial ports and interrupts and still have some doubts. WHY KERNEL'S SERIAL DRIVER IS WRITTEN IN THIS WAY THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SHARE INTERRUPTS? I think it is more of a case of

Re: xinetd not starting -- where is rpc.portmap?

1998-01-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:17:27PM -0500, debian mail recipient wrote: I've had a problem telnet-ing to my machine recently, and the reason is because xinetd is not starting. This is because the startup script (S20xinetd) checks for a file called /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap and, as it is not on

Re: NTFS driver as modul

1998-01-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 05:45:00PM +, Ian Watkins wrote: MM I have tried all sorts of things to get around this, what have I m MM I have not got module versioning installed in the kernel as far as MM MM Try to recompile the module under new kernel v33 or insmod it with o MM

Re: misc questions: screen, version notation

1998-01-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 12:31:22AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: G. Crimp wrote: I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to me to

Re: misc questions: screen, version notation

1998-01-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Jan 08, 1997 at 11:17:42PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote: G. Crimp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/8/98 10:51 PM I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection browser. The screen package is one. From the

Re: lp/ppa configuration; how to set to use printer?

1998-01-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:26:17PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print. The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported. How can I disable ppa, and print? Two

Re: WordProcessor + SoundCard + ZIP PRINTING

1998-01-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:48:57AM +0100, Àlex Maneu wrote: [snip] And another question! I use a Iomega Zip 100MB parallel port drive. I can use it with fstab, but I cannot print having this drive connected to the parallel port. I've heard that there's a patch or something that you can

Re: Tip: how to speed up XEmacs start

1997-12-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 10:00:58PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Hi, If you are in a hurry do touch /tmp/.sockets/audio0 otherwise read on :) I was qurious about what makes XEmacs so slow at startup. With the help of the strace(1) utility I found the following interesting behaviour

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: [snip] DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies again). During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them from

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 03:06:02AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. I don't believe this. I don't know why, but this is

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:39:05AM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip - BIOS and large HDs] Take your pick. What many people seem to be confused about is that many, if not most, decisions concerning this stuff are driven by market forces requiring backward

Re: zgv (libc6)

1997-12-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this: red# zgv svgalib: FATAL internal error: Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything. Normally I'd suggest sending something like this to [EMAIL

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean with incompatible workarounds? What's incompatible about booting from an extended partition? I have lost it. In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone then

Re: umsdos

1997-12-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 01:27:20PM -0600, Jason Ish wrote: I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers, even though I know it isn't a suggested practice. What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I have a up and running Debian system

Re: package update listing from dpkg ?

1997-12-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 10:54:02AM -0600, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I checked the dpkg man page and the dpkg --help listing but could not find an answer: Is there an option or set of flags that can be passed to dpkg in order for it to provide a listing of installed packages that

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 04:23:44PM +, E Papantoniou wrote: (this is a repost) Hi all, my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0

Re: EPP Driver

1997-12-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 10:05:54PM -0500, Lou5212 wrote: I'm trying to optain or download the EPP Driver which is said to increase loading time to at least 18 to 24 megs a min. My Zip is so slow I loose my patience. I have a 166mhz can you please tell me how I can increase loading time. No -

Re: zipdirve

1997-11-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 04:54:02PM -0700, Keith Holler wrote: One more thing that might be a bit confusing... The Parallel Zip Drive installs as a SCSI device under Linux and does not as of yet support port thru for a prin ter plugged into the Zip Drive. If you want to connect your

Re: Communicator 4.

1997-11-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 11:15:17AM -0800, TJM wrote: I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30 kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes with the

Re: FW: HotJava browser for Linux?

1997-11-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 07:58:25AM -0600, Jones, David A (CAP, ITS, US) wrote: -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 1997 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: HotJava browser for Linux? Dave- JavaSoft

Re: PCL printer cannot be accessed

1997-11-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 07:41:48AM -0600, Charles Read wrote: Two questions: 1. If I used dvihp to generate a PCL file, can I then go to a DOS shell in Win95 and say: c: copy PCL.file LPT1 I tried this, but first page was very messed up. DOS is stuffed - you must use copy /b

Re: xmcd_2.2-4.deb problems

1997-11-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 07:27:43PM -0800, Jason Wright wrote: Setting the binary +s allowed it to run, and start sucking all available memory: overmind:/var/adm ] ps -auxww | grep xmcd peewee 28825 0.0 0.5 836 360 p0 S 19:17 0:00 grep xmcd root 28809 43.3 50.7 64088

Re: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Nov 05, Stephen Ryan wrote Charles Read wrote: I'v installed Debian 1.3 on an AMD-K6 platform. My Xserver, XF86_S3V, starts out fine and autodetects the chipset used for my Nitro 3D (S3 ViRGE/GX). In the /etc/X11/XF86Setup, I specify in the Pointer section a protocol of

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