Re: Can't subscribe to debian-mentors list

2002-03-30 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Matthew Twomey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there anything special you need to do to subscribe to this particular list? I send the email get the initial confirmation, reply to that - then nothing. Have I missed something simple? (I

Re: regarding duplicate messages

2002-01-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, dman wrote: Regarding duplicate messages on debian-user, here is the relevant portion of the headers from a recent one : Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with SMTP id [EMAIL

[root@natas.g0thead.com: Qt and kde]

2001-12-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Reminder, posts from root or daemons do not get to the lists. - Forwarded message from root [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11820 invoked by uid 38); 7 Dec 2001 09:40:59 - Received: (qmail 11796 invoked by uid 38);

Re: mail2.secnoc.de spewing yesterdays mail back to list

2001-12-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, 07 Dec 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: Mail is being spewed back onto d-user from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Several hundred so far ... I don't see any evidence of that and there are no subscriptions from that domain. You are the only one reporting this. When reporting issues like this,

Re: autoreply on debian-user-french

2001-12-04 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001, Benoit Friry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an autoreply to debian-user-french. The message is : --CUT-- Hi, As of 1 july 2001, I am not longer working for Tiscali. Please send your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For personal matters please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nfs re-export issues

2001-04-27 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Shane Liebling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I am working on getting a diskless cluster working and everything seems to be fine except for one thing, but first let me give you a breakdown of the suspects: client - app server - file server The client mounts /export/home as

Re: slink server crashing

1999-06-26 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:55:57PM +1000, Ed Breen wrote: Hi, We are running a slink debian distribution with kernel 2.0.36 on a celeron 333 as our file server. Our SCSI adapter is an Adaptec 2940UW PCI card, with this configuration: 2940UW Adapter |

Re: Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-16 Thread Jaakko Niemi
First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables. With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables on

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK. As a tech support person for a university, I say AMEN! Goodness knows if it is possible to transfer your NT installation

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 07:38:16PM +0200, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Actually my NT installation from February is still working fine, as is my 95 installation (but that's because all I use it for is Total Annihilation. :-) Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Actually my NT installation from February is still working fine, as is my 95 installation (but that's because all I use it for is Total Annihilation. :-) Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK. Goodness knows if

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
BTW, I have configured it down to one single error message that I can't seem to shake: hdc: write_intr: status=0xff { Busy } ide: reset: success This is what is leading me to believe that the driver is either attempting a transaction before an earlier one completed ( is the drive

Re: Dialup ISDN performance

1998-10-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am using a Bitsurfer Pro on a linux box and a win 95 box. Download rates from my provider's site seem not all that exciting. With my x2 modem I can download at the rate of about 4-5 Kb/KB, with ISDN using both channels its around 6-8 KB at best. I get that with one channel, and very good

Re: Suddenly can't send mail...

1998-10-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
All of a sudden I can't send out mail, if I try to force exim with -qf I get 1998-10-16 19:01:26 0zUDEj-FQ-00 TCP service smtp not found (using Exim version 1.92 #1 built 13-May-1998 10:01:52) fetchmail delivers incoming mail without any trouble... Is this something on my end or is

Re: ISDN: HOW TO start?

1998-10-04 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Dear Debs, I have a new Debian 2.0 distribution running well. I have recompiled the kernel with PCMCIA and ISDN support, bought an AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card, and ordered the ISDN installation by the Telecom. On tuesday, I'll be ready for a first try. Unfortunately, by reading the

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-09-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Isn't there a howto on how to set up a single pc with a dialup connection to an ISP using exim, fetchmail and procmail? I know I do not need procmail if I use exim, but then I have to understand how exim works and I cannot get it working for a basic system. I have fetchmail feeding

Re: *sigh* source for pcmcia modem cables?

1998-09-25 Thread Jaakko Niemi
*DOH* the day after jens found a solution to let me ppp, I managed to put down my laptop sideways, crunching the connector on the cable--it now features a 90 degree bend :) and the connectors are broken. This is one of those two flat prongs inline.does anyone know a likely

Re: 386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server

1998-09-25 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I have a 386sx-33 with: 4mb ram 100 mb hard disk 10mbit ethernet card Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network= with one dial up connection ? A router and a firewall yes.. but for proxy and mail that box has too little memory and hdd. (something like

Re: PCI problems

1998-09-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hey, I have a 3COM 3c905TX network card and a Real3D StarFighter video card. = When I boot my machine, the PCI probe gives both of the cards the same = IRQ number. However, the network card is on bus 0 and the video card is = on bus 1. Are the different bus numbers because the network

Re: IPPORTFW IPFWADM

1998-09-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Whenever I type an ipportfw command, I always get an error back: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. What does this mean? And how do I resolve this? I have the current kernal, installed IPchains successfully, but need to get this piece of the puzzle going :) 2.1 kernel

Re: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

1998-09-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Has anyone ever seen the Subject: line's message before? I just compiled 2.0.34 to get ip masqing going, and I appear in the process thereof to have trashed something really basic. Ecch! I get this whether I ping a local host, a remote host, or the machine itself. The system's ifconfig

Re: [Debian] keyboard stops working on Compaq EP

1998-07-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 (can't use 2.0 for development reasons) on a new Compaq EP 6350. The Compaq has a ps2 style mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately about one time out of three when I boot the PC it hangs for a very short time after installing the PS/2 driver afterwards

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-SCSI disks and

Re: is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-22 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 02:07:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: E is where you were told to find it. It will appear in slink within the next week or so. There are some Redhat'isms to clean up. Apparently it writes to your .xinit files and some such. Also the new Imlib (1.7) has problems, so

Re: fetchmail error

1998-07-21 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello all, I have problems with fetchmail. Everytime I execute fetchmail -a -F to download emails from my ISP server POP3 protocol, it justs hang there. But if I use netscape mail to download email using POP3 protocal, there is no problem. Can someone tell me what's wrong? Could you

Re: Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-21 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello Debian Community! I was wondering if someone could save me some time on finding information about how to configure Debian to map portuguese keys and use the portuguese keyboard layout. Take a look at kbd - package and kbdconfig util it includes. This worked at least with the

Re: installation problem

1998-07-21 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Problem is that nothing I am doing is getting me an XF86Config file anywhere. Use the textbased xf86config instead of XF86Setup. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: hdparm

1998-07-20 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi... Umm: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.61 seconds =39.75 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 6.87 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA can't go past 33 MB/s. But I do believe I heard of a

Re: netscape-help!!

1998-07-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I've recently hit a snag with netscape: I can't get it to download pop mail. Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be causing this? User

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). The drives are older: Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=15672304 Model=QUANTUM

Re: libc6 Netscape form problems

1998-07-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am running the libc6 version of Netscape 4.05 and am experiencing some strang problems when entering text into text fields. Something keeps appending random binary bits to the end of the strings and it really screws things up. Sometimes it isn't even apparent in the field and other

Re: You have new mail

1998-07-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. I

Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)

1998-07-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? FileRunner is a great ftpclient and filemanager. You can find it from section: net. IIRC this was in contrib or non-free before, but the license changet month or two a go

Re: Web transaction security.

1998-07-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Jaakko Niemi wrote: snip This is a ns bug. Really funny, when you are paying bills through a www-service. Or entering passwords/uids/urls... snip --j There was a big discusion in one of the slashdot.org poles awhile back, I believe the pole was something like

Re: [Debian] Intel Etherexpress Pro 82557

1998-07-13 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Howdy, can anybody tell me how to get the Intel Etherexpress Pro (82557 chipset) running. I tried the Intel Etherexpress Pro driver (which resorts under ISA?) but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using an Intel Redwood motherboard with on-board 10/100TX ethernet controller. Use the

Re: hda1 problem

1998-07-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
1. xdm won't let me log in as anything but root 2. hda1 partition now shows 0 MB available and 100 percent usage. du shows the same amount of space being used in /usr and the copied partition. Every ext2 partition has some extra space reserved for root. So, if nobody but

Re: recompiled kernel now I get crc error on bootup

1998-07-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I recompiled my kernel on one of my linux machines but now I get a crc error when I try to load the kernel. I tried to recompile twice and get the same thing. If I copy the kernel to a floppy it loads fine. I don't mind booting off of a floppy but I am very concerned about this error. I

Hamm size?

1998-07-11 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi! Does anybody have any estimates, how many lines of code there will be in hamm (main)? And how much more there is than in bo ? --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Super disk drive

1998-07-11 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Has anyone successfully integrated the 120MB Super Disk drive (by Digital Research) in their Debian system? Is it recognized by the linux floppy driver? The linux/drivers/block/README.fd (and driver software) in linux-2.0.32 does not have any information about this drive. There is a floppy

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-11 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I forgot to say that I'm using a ISDN card and my script use ippd ! So the passwordis on /etc/ppp/isdn-auth ! Do you have the option +pwlog enabled in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 ? Disabling this makes the passwords to _not_ be logged. Unfortunally, I don't have isdn directory !

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
You could use make-kpkg, I've found that it works great. What is everyone's aversion to using the kernel-package anyway? There are so many problems with people trying to install custom kernels without it. Old habits, I guess. How does it work with 2.1 series, anybody ? --j --

Re: high end SCSI card recommendation

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi: I am working out problems using an onboard Adaptec aic7888 SCSI controller. The machine takes 12,000,000 web hits per month and growing, and has lots of disk space as well as 4 11.5GB IDE drives in it. Its locking up now after I turned on verbose error reporting with timeout messages

Re: Advice on a new system

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello everyone, I am going to help one of the engineers at my company to build a personal system. He has expressed interest in learning about linux and would like to have a system that will dual boot in both windows 98 and linux. I have read several messages on this list talking about

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an account to can call up xconsole and thereby see

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
[snip] I'm new to Linux and wavering between going with Red Hat and Debian. Could anyone comment on the strengths/weaknesses of the Debian package manager vs RH's RPM system? Also does Debian provide some kind of Uninstall-type manager? The package management

Re: Help with Debian GNU/Linux (fwd)

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:53:38 PDT From: Chris Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Help with Debian GNU/Linux I just downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and am using bash as the shell. I am completely new to the

Re: http mirror list?

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi, I've searched on a lot of places, but I couldn't find any: is there a list of debian mirrors which are accessible through http? and which have frozen and unstable? (this is for use with apt, and I prefer a mirror somewhere in europe, but not france, they have very slow links...)

Re: mke2fs - bad blocks

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I suspect the drive is toast, but thought I would check first. Does anyone know if a low level format or something else can save this, or is it just garbage ? Generally one bad block will come many, sooner or later. It is a defect on the surface of the disk. However modern harddisks

Re: Needed: NEC CDrom drive info

1998-07-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
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

Re: AWE Kernel Patch Troubles

1998-07-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I have an AWE64 and I've been using the kernel patch for it ever since I've had Linux. However, with my upgrade to hamm and the 2.0.34 kernel, I had to repatch and recompile my kernel. Along with that upgrade, I got the newest version of the AWE patch, 0.4.2d. I followed the directions in

Re: Can't Copy 161 MB

1998-07-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2 separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB of free space. First, I don't think you can

Re: strange lock up problem

1998-07-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello, just started with this list so hope this msg gets there. I ahve a pII/266 system with 256MB RAM, 4 IDE hard disks, and 1 4.3GB SCSI and 1 23GB SCSI disk, onboard AIC7888 SCSI controller, 3c905 card, floppy drive, (can't remember which chipset we are using on this board). Running

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Johann Spies wrote: I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: I received a message with similar text which I forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] They said they were dealing with it.

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
This from the Linux-newbies list: From: Mike Ricketts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donald Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu Subject Re: Which distribution is the best? GENERALLY? (fwd) On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Donald Thompson wrote:

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
settings. What is the chipset used with that mb ? TX? Do you have any pnp cards ? Kernel settings? I'll have a look at it since I compile my own kernel. You may have hit on something with the chipset - Intel 430TX PCIset with PCI Bus Master IDE controller. I do have PNP cards on the

Re: xfstt

1998-07-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I have xfstt font server thing installed and functioning. I was just wondering if I can have that load on boot. If so which file do I edit. Check that you have '/etc/init.d/xfstt' and appropriate links pointing in /etc/rc*.d . For example 'etc/rc2.d/S20xfstt' where xfstt is started at

Re: Using 2.1.108 kernel

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0063_01BDA7E0.D6CCC9A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all: Yesterday I tried to get the 2.1.108 kernel up and running. I did get it running however I hand one

Re: Can't connect to slashdot.org

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
HAHAHAHAHA Ok, now that that is said. slashdot.org's founder Rob Malda is in the process of moving. And as we all know once you do not have time to work on something -- it breaks. the DNS server has had problems the last few days. It is functional now, but will more than likely be

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO

Re: SCSI Disk Farm

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I want to experiment with 'raidtools' to set up my disk farm (100-200GB) and it requires a kernel version 2.1.62. I haven't worked with experimental kernels before - where is a good place to get them and how would I pick one that is not TOO experimental, i.e. doesn't break too easily...

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-05 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel

Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-03 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: (2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm) Yes, you do need the isapnptools, unless you plan on using loadlin from windows or something wierd like that.. The sound

Re: Bulletin Board SOftware

1998-07-02 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi , I am working to develop a Intranet for my company and one of the suggestions is to use Debian. One of the features needed is a bulletin board. Is there any software available to implement it(esp. in Debian).. A local news-server and discussion areas. Or www-server with some

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-02 Thread Jaakko Niemi
All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the

Re: Atapted AIC-7890 controller

1998-07-02 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Does anyone know how to get Debian(the hamm version) to recognize the Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I need to install Debian to a SCSI drive connected to the 7890(built in to my motherboard), but when Debian boots up, it says 'no scsi controlers found.' Obviously, this is a problem. :

Re: Playing CD's

1998-07-01 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I'm having a problem playing CD's using both workbone and xmcd. I can run 'saytime' and get somthing out of the speakers I can also start workbone and xmcd and see progress (lights on the CD and info on xmcd) but I don't get anything out of the speakers. What can be wrong. The sound card

Re:

1998-06-30 Thread Jaakko Niemi
--=_899193828==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks to everyone. I got pppd to connect to my isp. Under plog I see where a serial connection is established and it shows a link between ppp0 and ttyS2. But shortly after the link is created, it hangs up. I

Re: Matrox Millenium G200

1998-06-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi all, Does anyone know if the Martox Millenium G200 is compatiable with XFree? Its a new AGP card, and I amd asking if it compatiable before I go out and buy it. If not does anyone know where I could go and find out if it is? Not yet. Xi Graphics do have an X server, but it will cost

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: As root exim -bp shows the queue. I re-installed exim (I think for the last time now). I can see the queue. All the messages are reported to be frozen. Eximon does show some messages. This is because you are running as user, and you do

Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!

1998-06-28 Thread Jaakko Niemi
--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok now I pulled a Good One. My hard dirve died 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed=20 The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly larger

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-27 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Which version ? Hamm or bo ? 1.3.1 Do you have a permanent connection or a dial-up ? dial-up. How does exim.conf look ? I re-installed exim to get exim.conf again. I made some progress. I do not know what I did differently

Re: Raid controlers

1998-06-27 Thread Jaakko Niemi
What raid controlers are supported in linux? Is the adaptec AAA-130 series? I'm looking into buying one, so is there a reccomened choice? Adaptec has very recently opened up their policy, and we might see drivers for these cards in the future, but not yet. DPT is supported for sure, and I

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-26 Thread Jaakko Niemi
-- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-25 Thread Jaakko Niemi
i have the same problem,my cdrom is no more accessible (though it's not a indrance for now),i have a pioneer ATAPI CD drive,a regular ide card and the drive is properly configured as slave (my Hard Drive is master),i did not have the problem before when i was having Ontrack Disk Manager but i

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-25 Thread Jaakko Niemi
popclient: POP3 +OK 5698 octets reading message 1 (5698 bytes) popclient: SMTP connect to (null) failed Smells like exim is not running, nor inetd is starting it. Do you have something like the following in your inetd.conf: #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtpstream tcp

Re: Voodoo2 under Hamm

1998-06-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I also have just become the proud owner of a Voodoo II card, an Orchid Richous 3D. Is anybody doing any development for this board, it is sooo cool, I would love to make use of it inside Debian. First you need the Glide library, and I don't think the 2.51 version has been yet

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-20 Thread Jaakko Niemi
matthew tebbens wrote: Is anyone running Debian - Internet via ISDN ?? Please mail me, I'd like to ask a few questions about the setup. I'm running Debian with a Teles 16.3 internal card connected to my ISP in the Netherlands. It was working fine with bo, but I seem to have

Re: quake2 freezes(crashes) machine

1998-06-20 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi gamers, I have installed the hamm quake2 package on my hamm system. When I run it it runs for a little while and then locks my machine up hard. No three finger salute, no telneting in, nothing. This happens under both X and svgalib. I end up having to do a cold reset!! Not what I

Re: Mesa

1998-06-19 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:35:43PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be debianized? (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty easy to compile them

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-18 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:15:07AM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly through every version, even major version

Re: Mesa

1998-06-18 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be debianized? (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty easy to compile them yourself though, just put them in /usr/local/lib and put a

Re: [ debian-user-request ] libXpm and wine

1998-06-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am looking for libXpm in order to compile the source version od wine (its newer then the one in the debian package) is there a debian package of libXpm? because i couldn't find one. id not, does anyone know where i can find a binary version and how to install it? (i think there is one

Re: cd writer support under linux

1998-06-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Does Linux support the HP SureStore 2X6 CD-Writer 7200? The internal model uses the IDE interface and the external model uses a ECP or EPP parallel port. Has anyone used either of these drives (on any OS)? Any comments? According to kernel documentation (2.1.101, paride.txt), the

Re: Zip and CD-rom (part two)

1998-06-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
--- 1. As i mentioned I have an IDE zip-drive, it is recognized as a IDE floppy drive, but it looks like a driver is missing or something, because it does not want to read it. It says it doesn't have a msdos-file format, which it does. 2. Same message on HDA3, where some

Re: CD-rom and Zip-drive

1998-06-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
MV I have a problem with my secondary IDE channel. I have a CD-rom as MV slave ans MV a Zip-drive as Master on that controller. When I insert my Debian-CD, MV install goes OK. Then, after reboot, dselect starts and I say; load from MV CD-rom. That's the place it does not work. I tried

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: After my fun experience upgrading to hamm, everything has been goin well, but I have had one problem. After upgrading svgalib, squake seg faults when started. (so does quake2) Is there a problem with svgalib? svgalib-bin 1.2.13-3.2

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
After my fun experience upgrading to hamm, everything has been goin well, but I have had one problem. After upgrading svgalib, squake seg faults when started. (so does quake2) Is there a problem with svgalib? svgalib-bin 1.2.13-3.2 svgalibg11.2.13-3.2 svgalib1 1.2.13-3.2 quake2

Re: Q: Second Ethernet Card

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am planing on purchasing a 256k DSL to my Linux server. I currently have one Ehternet card that is connected to my home PC with a crossover cable. I will need to purchase an additional Ethernet card for my Server to connect to the DSL connection. Should I purchase the cable and then

Re: PPP problem

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I also don't have device driver for Sound Blaster. I tried using MAKEDEV, but I don't have any docs. Can someone who got his/her SB to work tell me what to do? Thx in advance :) You'll need to have the sound drivers enabled, either as modules (the stock kernels come with there, right,

Re: 1 SCSI 1 IDE hdd w/LILO

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Yo- I just added a SCSI drive to my computer. I now have a 4.3g SCSI and a 2.1g IDE. I have moved Debian to /dev/sda1 and I have installed Winblows on the IDE (/dev/hda1) so I can play StarCraft and Unreal. I have had no luck with LILO. It will boot to Debian no problem but I can't get

Re: LINUX Newbie

1998-06-03 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I have never used LINUX. What do I need to download/purchase to get started on my learning journey? Read some install documentation, until you know something about what you are planning to do. For Debian you can find them at least from www.debian.org. If you have fast net connection (ISDN

Re: No E 14 yet

1998-05-31 Thread Jaakko Niemi
--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 09:28:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am at Linux Expo and there is STILL no E 14 yet. So the wait= =20 continues. what is E 14? :) A

Re: X installation for ATI Page II+

1998-05-31 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi! i'm pretty new to linux, and still struggling. i've installed bo 2 months ago. I've AMD K6, 32M RAM, ATI Page II+ with 4M. i can't startx. i wanted to ask whether anybody encountered special problems with ATI Page II+, because my debian reacts only to ctrl+alt+del EVEN after I select

Re: Quake

1998-05-30 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: -sndbits 8 gave me a promising result, just a bit of clicking occasionally, I could live with it.. but.. Is there any other cure, or if not, where can I put the

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-30 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hallo, Why do you call that an upgrade? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. I couldn't get smail to work and went to exim, which worked almost out-of- the box. :) --but

Re: system does not recognize 64 MB RAM

1998-05-30 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I know this is not a debian problem but maybe someone has an idea: Today I replaced the 32 MB SDRAM chip in my computer with a 64 MB SDRAM chip but the system - starting with the BIOS! - only recognizes 32 MB. I tried all of the three DIMM banks, had a look at the BIOS options but all

Re: Intel Redwood(?) motherboard

1998-05-28 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi, I need to buy a couple PCs featuring an Intel Redwood (I'm not sure this is the correct name) motherboard with onboard 100MB Ethernet and fast SCSI-2. However I need to be absolutely sure Linux will run on it. Does anybody have any experience with this motherboard? To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: SB16 install configure

1998-05-24 Thread Jaakko Niemi
How do I enable my SB16 card? I did not see a option during the base install. I have seen AWE32 stuff, but I don't think that is the same thing. Where how do I setup my card? Umm, it's pretty similar to AWE, but you just leave out the AWE spesific stuff. To put it short: you'll have

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Sat, 23 May 1998 16:25:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The other data in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information, installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address. Proprietary to Debian... ^ That's a pretty flamboyant choice of word

Re: ppp, PII/P90, ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100)

1998-05-22 Thread Jaakko Niemi
May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x6 compress VJ 0f 00 addr 195.64.64.1] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP ConfRej id=0x6 addr 195.64.64.1] May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x7 addrs 195.64.64.1 195.64.69.173 compress VJ 0f 00] May 21

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