Re: lucent winmodem driver and potato/2.2.18pre21

2001-02-20 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, I got it working under 2.2.18 from the stable dist on thinkpad A21m ... compiled my own from source 5.78e HTH, I'm trying to get it working right now, trying some advice from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a weird error, I'd expect it to work for other people. Make sure to download the source

Re: PCMCIA Network Installation

2000-02-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dave Whiteley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I have an Ethernet Gold II PCMCIA card, (GCS2220) Looking at Linux Laptop documentation it suggests that this card uses pcnet_cs. I have run the Configure PCMCIA in the installation process before configuring the drivers. I accepted

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Christopher S. Swingley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the card after bootup seems to be OK though.

Re: Packet libz1 missing

2000-01-13 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Gerhard Heid; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hallo, i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not listet at all. How to solve this ? Best Regards Gerhard The potato distribution

Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian

2000-01-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Florian Lohoff; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: It doesnt work with the Slink PCMCIA utils as i noticed - I backported the potato source package 3.1.0 at that time and since then i am a happy real-port user ... Thinkpad 390E + Xircom RealPort Now the only thing i havent tried is

Re: libc6 =2.1 on slink, without apt-get possible?

1999-10-24 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi John Miskinis; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, At this time I can't use apt-get, as I can't connect to my ISP under linux. If possible, I was hoping to find a site that has the lib6c = 2.1 and dependency packages, that I could install with dpkg on top of a slink CD based system.

Re: keymap error when closing X

1999-10-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Ookhoi; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: How do I fix it? System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Greg Wooledge; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If I want to check out something that is only in Potato, I go and use apt-get to grab and install it. If it uses glibc2.1, it'll get that, and any other libs that it depends on. Yup.

Re: Using linux 2.2.x with Debian 2.1

1999-10-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Salman Ahmed; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: AW == Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AW Hi, I have read the errata conscerning Linux 2.2.x and Debian 2.1 AW (http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/running-kernel-2.2) and it AW basically said that I would have to mix the

Re: can resolve now..and Star Office...

1999-10-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Shao Zhang; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, To remove star office, IIRC, if you run set up again, I think there is an option to remove star office. But I cannot see any problems with rm -rf /home/Office51 as well. Shao. and you may want to remove two

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-06 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Miles Bader; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because of the developments such as glibc2.1, perl, and probably numerous other things, you can't take something out of Potato and put it on a Slink system and expect it to work. It's an

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Miles Bader; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's a howto somewhere on the Debian site saying which packages have to be updated to use a 2.2 kernel with Slink. Do you have any idea where this would be? I've been searching the debian site for this

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Mark Brown; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Damir, are you sure mutt is using vim? If you have nvi installed and haven't adjusted the alternatives vi will default to that and if you normally use a shell alias to select your vi mutt won't pick that up. Yup, I'm positive. I am a control

Re: fatal error in SO 5.1

1999-10-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote: I've read the mailing list archives about the various Star Office problems in potato, and something tells me that people are on the wrong track. I am currently getting a Fatal Error about 10 seconds

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-03 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better though, it leaves room for replies. Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc files specs 76 columns, maybe I need separate command in muttrc? I'm not sure what

Re: pppd (slink version) with kernel 2.2.X

1999-09-21 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi John Hasler; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Mario writes: Can I run pppd (slink version) with kernel 2.2.X? You should be able to, yes. I have not been able to get any version of pppd to work with 2.2 kernels, but others have. I'm running ppp 2.3.5-2 alongside the 2.2.10 kernel in

xfree 3.3.4 for slink and dpkg

1999-09-20 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, I have just tried upgrading the xfree by manually downloading and upgrading the xfree packages. I have downloaded all of the packages I need from Branden's ftp site ( _Thanks_ Branden for slink packages), and xfree86-common had upgraded smoothly (from 3.3.2.3a-11 version, running on slink and

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
I am pretty happy with the spreadsheet that came in a StarOffice 5.1 package, and it is free (if you don't count the download time). It is resource hungry, but then so is excel and I'll take Linux app anyday over Win-based one. My two cents, damir

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-28 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Steffen Evers; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I've attached a typical log of a ppp-connection. I've cut of many lines. So [...] stand for an unknown number of lines. These hexdumps always start with a line Jul 27 01:30:19 darkstar pppd[295]: rcvd [proto=0xfd] ... Does anyone no

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Steffen Evers; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I've updated my kernel to 2.2.10 and everything is fine except PPP. There are some strange hexdumps in the ppp.log file and the connection hangs sometimes what is very annoying. I'm using Debian 2.1 and ppp 2.3.5-2 netbase 3.12-2

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi John Hasler; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hmmm. I tried it both ways. What libc do you have? My system is slink based on libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6; I only wanted/ was curious about 2.2.10 kernel, so I installed it. I can't imagine why that would matter. Why did you need bootpc? I

sound config with 2.2.10 in slink environment

1999-07-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, all I have upgraded my 2.0.36 kernel (home compiled) to a home compiled 2.2.10 (all sources are debianized packages), and all is well (actually, remarkably faster, it seems) except for sound. I have enosniq soundscape elite ISA card, which worked under 2.0.36, after I have made a script at

Re: can anyone access this site?

1999-06-19 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, thanks to everybody for their time and reply. I am still trying to get to the ottom of this. Your replies, and the ones from my ISP -althoguh they do not offer tech support for Linux they were quite friendly and courteous- made me think it is a Java problem or my ISP address problem. I will

can anyone access this site?

1999-06-18 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, apologies for bugging all of you, but I have troubles accessing this site: http://www.be-ca.com from my debian/slink. I can see the site from WindowsNT 4.0 (same box), but it generates awfull lot of javascript errors. Otherwise it works. is it my setup, or is it linux ver. of Netscpe? slink

Re: wmaker0.60* and libc6 (slink)

1999-06-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Marcelo E. Magallon; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:22:31PM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: Does anyone know if wmaker_0.60.0 will be released for slink system (linked against libc6, _not_ libc6 2.1)? IIRC, the packages at http://master.debian.org

Re: still wterm

1999-06-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Pedro M . A . Bastos; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: still trying to compile wterm, i got the two libs that were missing (wmaker and wings). so, i went to wterm's dir and restarted the compile process: configure - ok. make - /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory

wmaker0.60* and libc6 (slink)

1999-06-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
Does anyone know if wmaker_0.60.0 will be released for slink system (linked against libc6, _not_ libc6 2.1)? TIA, damir

Re: Time Keeps A changin'

1999-05-08 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi roddie; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I've done all that. I'm running 2.2.5 kernel, so that rules out the kernel problem. But, this did happen to me before, maybe if I reinstall the kernel it will fix it. Today, the time was off by 23 hours? Even the time difference isn't consistent

Re: Fax software

1999-05-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Carl Fink; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I'm running a Debian 2.0-based system (with some newer packages installed as needed). My CD-ROM contains these fax packages: 1)Hylafax/tkhylafax 2)efax 3)mgetty-fax I will primarily need software to *send* faxes, as I

new imagemagick?

1999-04-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, does anyone know if there is newer version of imagemagick already packaged? I could swear I have seen an e-mail either on this list or debian-devel-changes announcing the 4.2.* imagemagick NMU, but that was weeks ago and all the sites I have tried to ftp, still only have the 4.0.4*. If anyone

Re: Mutt 0.95.4-0.1 and slang

1999-04-05 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Hi there, I'm currently using Mutt 0.93i and would like to upgrade to 0.95.4-0.1, which I ftp'ed. The problem is that the dependencies for it are slang1 ( 1.3) and slang1 ( 1.2.2-0), whereas I only have

Re: Enlightenment .15 required debs

1999-04-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Sean M Maguire; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am trying to install the enlightenment 0.15 package, obtained from www.debian.org via a link from the Enlightenment download page. The package for Enlightenment requires that I have imlib1 = 1.9.4 installed, but I am unable to find

Re: Enlightenment crashes machine

1999-03-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dan Brosemer; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Netscape, in windows, in my experience, always had a tendency to | make a system run progressively slower until either netscape was | closed or everything crashed. I hadn't seen it under

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Micha Feigin; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote: Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian? there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for SO3)? If its like staroffice 4, Then use the setup supplied

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

1999-02-08 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Gary L. Hennigan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: | Question. I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. | I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

1999-02-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Question. I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work. If I This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error

Re: using dpgk

1999-02-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David Z. Maze; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: rod peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rod Could someone please send me an example dpkg command with flags rod and such. There are many such simple examples on the dpkg(8) manual page. Or, you can do : dpkg --help |more for a bunch of

Re: Mutt vim

1999-01-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dave Swegen; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding the configuration of mutt and vim: 1) How do I go about assigning different settings for vim, ie having textwidth when composing mail with mutt, but not when coding? 2) Where do I change the

Re: What filter to use for HP Deskjet 520?

1999-01-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Yi-ping Chang; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, guys: I got an HP DeskJet 520 from a friend of mine moments ago. I tried it out, using 'dj500-filter' of magicfilter package. It seemed to function well (paper is loaded correctly, the printing head is moving), but nothing printed

Re: how to umount /floppy with superblock error?

1999-01-14 Thread Damir J. Naden
Thanks to all who replied. I have taken out the floppy, and went on to sleanly shutdown the system- everything went fine from there. Matthew was right- I should have used e2fsck first. Thanks damir

how to umount /floppy with superblock error?

1999-01-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- I wanted to reuse the OS/2 warp floppies I had hanging around. I wanted to make them ext2 filesystem, so issued the command (with the floppy in /dev/fd0, but _not_ mounted): mke2fs /dev/fd0 The drive light was on for a while and I got the info about formatting; and the prompt

Re: Question on a purchase I am considering

1999-01-03 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Shaleh; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hey all, I am considering buying a Sony VIAO Superslim notebook. The URL for it is www.sony.com/pc. Has anyone had good or bad experiences with these computers (even in non-Linux OS')?? Highlights include: 1 inch thick and 2.9 lbs weight (=

Re: spreadsheet

1998-12-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: You might also look around for WingZ. Free download for Linux. If you want to be as close to Excel (for whatever reasons), I'd go with the spreadsheet in StarOffice5.0. damir On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: ApplixWare

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-13 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I tried your suggestion, it did not return an error but also did not work I continued on and also tried your suggestion using a shell from inside install program it return the error couldn't find kernel image:aha152x=.0x3

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Robert Vollmert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during the long series of hardware detection messages, successfully detects all the IDE devices and then hangs on the line. md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4

SOLVED: install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)

1998-12-12 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jim Pick; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b)alternatively, can I, temporary, make a link for /tmp to point to /usr/local/tmp and so trick the system long enough to install the so5 in my /home partition? Are there any side effects I should

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-12 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am installing the debian version of linux from cd rom. I have an adaptec scsi controller as my 2nd controller, it is an AHA-1510. In windows(shhh) I found this info on it,AIC 6x60isa single chip scsi controller, using irq 11 and

install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)?

1998-12-08 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- I just tried to install newly downloaded so5.0 following their instruction (run ./setup form installation directory), but my installation stopped with the msg that the disk was full. df showed that my / partition was indeed 100% full, adn I discovered it is due to so5 using /tmp

Re: Netscape - Newbie Linux User

1998-11-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Subject: Netscape - Newbie Linux User Date: Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:27:53AM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wuz up all? Alright here is my problem. I have

iomega zip (scsi)

1998-11-14 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- I am trying to decide on buying the iomega zip drive with scsi interface; but have difficulties determining the usability of the drive with my regular (two HDs and CDrom) SCSI adaptor host (DTC3130B; based on ncr53c815 chip). I currently _happily_ use the above config, and my

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

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

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Patrick Ouellette; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: rumor has it that you need to update the bootsector file whenever you update your kernel. this is very true... I am using same method with the exception of the line added to the boot.ini; I just have a line that reads:

Re: mutt broken after slink upgrade

1998-11-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Eric; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I just updated to slink and now mutt refuses to send mail. When i start up mutt it works fine, except for the fact that it is in black and white instead of color, until I try to actually send a message that I have composed. It says Error sending

Re: realplayer just buzzing.

1998-10-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brent McMillan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I downloaded RealPlayer, Version 5.0.0.45 and in a bout of lazyness, downloaded the rvplayer.deb installer. Install went without any error messages I could see, but when I try to play realaudio, I just get a bunch of feedback and

slink and netstd package(s) question

1998-10-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, all -- sorry for being slow but I have noticed that slink now hosts netstd package and a whole pile of separate daemon and client networking packages ( for example, telnet and telnetd). Can someone point me in the general direction of the html or somesuch document hwere I can learn about what

Re: Magicfilter setup

1998-10-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi H C Pumphrey; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, mwb wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 670c printer - what line do I need to give magicfilterconfig (the man pages don't seem to have such helpful information)? You'll

Re: ATI Xpert98 x setup

1998-10-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi M.C. Vernon; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to get this setup properly, with only limited success ATM. Here is the devices section: Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName ATI Pro Turbo+PC2TV, 3D

Re: Q:xfsft binary on debian system

1998-09-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Stephen J. Carpenter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: anyway... have you downloaded it? is it glibc or libc5? Yup, I did download it and it is compiled on a RH5.1 machine against glibc. If it is compiled for linux it SHOULD work (of course there are always those situations where

Re: Shared Lib problem

1998-09-22 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 21 06:47:01 1998 I'm having problems using some software downloaded from the net (netscape, StarOffice etc etc). Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these. I did for

Q:xfsft binary on debian system

1998-09-22 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- has anbody tried to install the precompiled binary for xfsft (not xfstt) that is available from this site: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/xfsft.html I'd like to know if it is possible to just copy that font server over the regular one debian uses (part of xbase, I

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-21 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: I will support that. I have tried maybe a dozen times to get exim running without success. The documentation most of the time explains some technical detail that I am not interested in. I

Re: modem and PPP trouble

1998-09-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Joshua Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp.

Re: wmaker 0.19

1998-09-06 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Paulo José da Silva e Silva; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hello, Today I have dowloaded and isntaled wmaker 0.19 from slik (unstable) using apt. The instalation was OK, but I can not start wmaker now. I get the following error message: $ wmaker /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker:

Re: Exim fail to receive mails !?!

1998-08-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I had this problem too a couple of times... smail's post-rm script removes /etc/aliases. George, You use exim, is this alias file non-generation a bug??? Isn't there a script or something

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Serge Delorme; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I only have a simple dial-out PPP connection from my ISP. I'm still on a Bo system with shadow password enable. Two days ago I see this message from my xconsole: Aug 20 10:19:56 ordino in.telnetd[349]: connect from

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: I have tried pinging the above host right after that and it returned the I.P. address 153.36.2.35 . does anyone know how can I get the actual site name from this? As the original poster

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: Interesting ... after reading the above messages, I decided to check out my /var/log files and found a whole suite of in.telnetd[XXX]: connect statements. Should I be worried ... or

Re: How do I use xconsole?

1998-08-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi BG Lim; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Everybody on the lists seems to be able to use xconsole. I don't. I've been reading the man pages and all the x stuff I can find on the net and so on. Whenever I start xconsole, nothing happens for a long time. What parameters should I give? And

Q:gs-aladdin/gimp printing (may not be Debian-specific)

1998-08-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day -- I apologize if this turns out to be non-Debian specific, but I was reading earlier on a thread in this group on printing under gs, and I have a couple of questions ( I am running Debian 2.0- just released and 2.0.35 kernel): 1) Has anyone gotten gimp to print freefont-supplied fonts

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Raymond A. Ingles; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Andreas Nolda wrote: Dear Debian users, trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Sony PCMCIA-Discman (PRD-250) using pcmcia-cs_3.0.0-9, I constantly get error messages of the following kind: scsi4:

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jens Ritter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Did you grab an image from the mirror and burned that, or did you generate your own images for burning? Where did you get it from? I haven't done it myself, but one of the debian maintainers did it for me. Don't know the answer to that one.

looking for info from dpkg

1998-07-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day -- Could anyone tell me if there is an option in dpkg command line which will tell me what packages are _not_ used and/or needed but already installed? I have recently discovered hat I had isapnp-related package installed on my system, but I do not recall ever putting that package on the

Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Joey Hess; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I take it you're not using the rvplayer debian package? You should try it. It's only in debian 2.0pre, but it makes installing real player very easy (and it should work on older debian 1.3 systems as well). -- see shy jo Sorry to butt

Needed: NEC CDrom drive info

1998-07-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day -- I am happily running a 24x NEC CD-Rom drive 464 (as reported in my /var/log/messages) alongside two SCSI-2 HDs on a NCR53c815 based card. Now I am trying to use a souncard (FWIW, Ensoniq soundscape, *non* PnP one...) and am confused as to which audio cables to use between the CD and the

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-06-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Adrian Monk; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Does anybody know whether there is an equivalent for Linux/Unix of the MS Powerpoint prog for preparing slides for overhead projector? My wife has to use this prog for preparing slides for medical lectures and because of it (and a private

Re: slrn scrolling trouble

1998-06-11 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Paul Miller; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I can't figure out how to scroll down in the message window. The help screen says to press ESC + UP/DOWN .. this works, but it is extremely slow (keys and only 1 line at a time)... Is there a way to use PgDn/PgUp? Thanks -Paul I have

User views on software reqd, please

1998-05-31 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day everybody -- I have a feeling that this is not going to get me far but I'm going to ask anyways: 1) Does anyone here uses mechanical drafting apps (like AutoCAD or Cadkey-lookalikes) under linux? I have a demo of Varicad running, and there is a LinuxCAD, but they don't have any demos..Or

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Bonard B. Timmons III; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, that was my experience also, but I did not give up. I am glad because exim really is clean, powerful, and logical. I would be glad to assist anyone; at the very least I can help those

StarOffice 4.0 and Faxing

1998-05-21 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day everybody -- has anyone successfuly set up SO4.0 (under hamm system) to fax directly from the application- to avoid save to file (as .ps) method? I'm using efax, can fax from the command line, can fax directly from Lyx0.12, but can't do much more than initialize the modem by using faxlpr

Re: New User Needs Help

1998-05-15 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Robert Harrington; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am a very new user to Debian/Linux and I just want to know how to access my floppy drive, fd0? Rob mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy at the command prompt will do the job. This is provided you (as a user) have a permission to mount

New tetex (0.9*) question

1998-05-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Greetings, just curios: why is tetex package so much bigger (in installed size) than the 0.4* version? Are there that many new features? I use Lyx under hamm system and wonder if there are any advantages of installing the 0.9 version at this point? TIA DamirN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Just my two ccents: I installed StarOffice 4.0 in the /home/damir/ directory by using the install script that came in the original tarball without any problems whatsoever. I don't pretend to know how this works, but it does :-) Also, I have fetched URW fonts (link from the gimp site) and installed

Re: Adaptec 2840 VLB Fails from bootdisk

1998-05-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Daniel; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I have a 486dx4/100 system that has both PCI and VLB on the same board. I have Caldera currently running on the machine. The SCSI controller on it is a Adaptec 2840 VLB (Rev E, btw) Basically.. it hangs.. and gives errors something like scsi0

Re: display postscript

1998-04-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David B Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Is there any sort of display postscript support in Linux? David Maybe ghostview_*.deb or gv_*.deb? Regards DamirN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-25 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi ' ALLAN W. BART; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: hi, I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages that you know of? allan bart I'm very happy with the features they have

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro vx Xfree (and a comment)

1998-04-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Hogland, Thomas E.; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I know this can be done, but can't find the answer in the old digests... Have a Compaq Presario with the ATI 3D Rage Pro card. Installed from CD, set up X, used the listed Mach64 servers (for the Rage and Rage II) and X dies with the

Re: Applixware- user view needed

1998-04-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
Thanks to everyone who offered help on this matter. I had hoped this program would have been somewhat smaller...Sigh. I'm using Lyx on top of tetex for WP and experimenting with xesslite for SS (which is quite nice, actually). Xesslite takes up only about 4 Mb (with examples and html help files),

BIG thanks to all on bash* problem

1998-04-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
I just want to thank all of the people who were very quick and helpful in dealings with my broken upgrade of the hamm-based bash package (2.01.1-1). I have managed to install ash package, edit /etc/passwd to make ash a login shell for root and user, and than reinstall old, working bash_2.01-5.deb

Applixware- user view needed

1998-03-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day -- I would like to know what HD space one needs to install applixware office suite? I have searched high and low for this piece of info to no avail. And while we are at it, can someone give me a feedback on spreadsheet part of the suite: does it provide a function similar to the one found

Re: X query..

1998-03-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Michael Beattie; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Whenever I start X, I get an xterm automatically opening. Is there a way to stop this? I have never minded until now, but now I usually close it straight away. The reason I ask is that it does not appear to be a result of one of the

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dale Smith; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: I have read about this in one of the HOWTO's. This is a real pain for me because my NT partition is ntfs, and I can't use linux tools to copy the boot sector. I'm using the same setup, that is

Re: GIMP Problem in hamm

1998-03-21 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Damir wrote: Actually, you'll have to upgrade the libgtk1 package to at least 0.99.7-4. This fixed the problem for me libgtk1_0.99.7-2.deb is on the site (currently) and on this machine...did it via dselect ftp. It's still

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

1998-03-20 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Tristan Day that's you!; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I still

Q: New (hamm) afterstep info

1998-03-03 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi -- just wondering: is it me or is there no info on the Net on the changes that were incorporated into the afterstep version 1.4*? I found the European mirror that carries the tarball, but no info on what the differences are between the 1.0 and 1.4 . Any pointers would be welcome.. TIA DamirN

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-03-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jens Ritter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Well kernel-source-2.0.32_*-5, can be removed then, but not totally: Lot´s of */.depend and other files do not get deleted, seems not to be in the bug tracking system yet. Can this be confirmed by other people? Thanks, Jens If

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-02-28 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Manoj Srivastava; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, Create or download a kernel-headers-2.0.32 package, and install that. Then you should be able to remove the kernel sources. manoj Thanks. I'm doing the d/l right now. But, why is that necessary in the first place? I

Re: lyx 0.12 final in hamm is actually bo ?

1998-02-28 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Oleg Krivosheev; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, looks like lyx 0.12 binal bo version live now in hamm tree. Is it known probelm ? regards I'm running a lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb from hamm tree and this one is libc6 dependant: ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/lyx libforms.so.0.88

2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-02-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, all -- I just recompiled my own version of 2.0.33 kernel, based on 2.0.33_2.0.33-3 source package. Everything runs fine for the time being, and the only question I have is : how do you get rid of the kernel-source-2.0.32_2.0.32-3 package? It takes up a whole lot of space on my machine and it

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

1998-02-20 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jesus Duran; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Greetings all, i was looking for Kermit, remember that old thing? I did not find it the Debian Packages site. I did down load it from www.columbia.edu/kermit/ in a tar'ed-gz'ed file but had problems when i tried to tar -x it?!?!? Any

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