Re: Stable/Unstable Frustration ...

1997-10-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Now in order to compile KDE I have to have libgif* which require xlib6g etc etc... this is a bit frustrating as I am somewhat reluctant to put so crucial a part of my system into the 'unstable' tree. Is it possible that older versions of the non-free

xconsole doesn't work anymore w/ xdm

1997-10-22 Thread Paul Miller
for some reason or another, xconsole doesn't work with xdm anymore. the /etc/config file have 'run-xconsole' and everything is correct in the setup file.. I didn't change anything, only upgrades selected by dselect.. It works perfectly from the the wm's menu.. I tried changing 'xconsole' to

netware/novell emulator

1997-10-22 Thread Paul Miller
I think I saw a netware/novell emulator on redhat before I switched to Debian.. what do I need to do to emulate netware? -- I decided this was probably a better alternative to samba for my win95 clinets (because win95 will prompt for the username and password).. I've already compiled my kernel

mgetty; caller id; printing caller's name number to x/console

1997-10-22 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to have mgetty not answer the phone, but have it print the caller's name number to the x/console? ie. in xconsole it'd say something like: Oct 21 17:30:00: Incoming call from Anonymous at 555-1234 If so, how could I set this up? Thanks, -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: I can't interpret that SCSI error, but you can write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and there are people on that list who can help. Could it be a data underrun? I would suggest burning CDs in single-user mode until you are sure about that. My Pentium 90 can

bad data in /var/run/utmp

1997-10-22 Thread Will Lowe
When I try uptime, or w, or any of several other commands, I get a bad data in /var/run/utmp message. I tried rebooting, and it didn't help. Any clues? Will [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Not sure if this has been thrashed out before: Is Debian (or Linux in general) year 2000 *safe*? I'm not even sure what that means precisely, but I'm responsible for finding out round here and wondered if it's been discussed on this group. 8---8 Richard

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502

Re: netware/novell emulator

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
Is it that you don't want win95 to prompt for the username and password, or you want it to do so? I am using Samba and in the Windows 95 control panel I set the login to be the network login. Then it prompts for the username and password when logging in the user, and does not prompt again. Note

Re: Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too. The biggest problem that may happen has to do with the motherboard BIOS and the PC

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Lindsay Allen wrote: I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it? Yep. Random freezes, generally when I'm not using the machine, in the dead of night (the *worst* time for a computer to freeze). -- see shy jo, back to

Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

1997-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce Perens wrote: By the way, my Toshiba system runs the disk about 20% faster when I use hdparm to turn on 32-bit mode. How did you benchmark that? I've tried using bonnie, and don't see any real difference with my disks when I turn 32 bit on and off. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: netware/novell emulator

1997-10-22 Thread Paul Miller
I want it to... but only when connecting to shares... win95 prompts only once at boot.. with novell you can specify a login name for the server and not have to have the same name for both. Yeah I could have win95 check a name server, but thats a hasle for those who don't connect to the server.

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Jim Pick
Yes. I was having a problem with PPP - after 6-8 hours it would drop the connection, and then die shortly after reconnecting with the messages in /var/log/ppp.log Oct 20 07:14:33 fleming pppd[11094]: No response to 5 echo-requests Oct 20 07:14:33 fleming pppd[11094]: Serial link appears to be

Re: PerfectBACKUP now free

1997-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
But it looks like if you don't have the activation key, the functionality is no greater than the personal edition. I downloaded the manual and both gv and ghostview would only view two pages! I'll stick with taper. Bob On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote: Right, so don't download

Re: Compiling kernel rm -rf asm linux scsi?

1997-10-22 Thread Jim Pick
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories are just symlinks to the kernel sources. They are not, so should I do a rm -rf asm linux scsi as they

Re: PerfectBACKUP now free

1997-10-22 Thread George Bonser
On 22-Oct-97 Bob Nielsen wrote: But it looks like if you don't have the activation key, the functionality is no greater than the personal edition. I downloaded the manual and both gv and ghostview would only view two pages! I'll stick with taper. Bob Yeah, after I tried using it ... it

Re: NIS problems

1997-10-22 Thread Jim Pick
Bao C. Ha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having problems configuring NIS in Debian 1.3. I set one up as master and one as client, no shadow passwd. From the client, I can do ypcat passwd, and see NIS distributed users. But when I try to log in as one of the NIS users, it just does not

DMA with IDE on Triton II

1997-10-22 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I've been fiddling with hdparm, trying to improve the I/O performance of my machine (Gateway PII 233, 96Mb, 3.2Gb IDE disk). However, I can't get hdparm to turn on the DMA mode: # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not

Re: [PPP] pon and plog not working

1997-10-22 Thread Mark Phillips
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon. It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an

Re: [PPP] pon and plog not working

1997-10-22 Thread Mark Phillips
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote: Silly question: can he use the modem at all? Is he using a pcmcia modem or hooking up to a serial port? Some pcmcia configs have trouble w/ interrupt conflicts... I'm not sure if he can use the modem at all. I'll see if I can find out. He is using

Re: Compiling kernel rm -rf asm linux scsi?

1997-10-22 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1997-10-21 at approximately 05:45 PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories are just symlinks to the kernel sources.

Re: [PPP] pon and plog not working (fwd)

1997-10-22 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, Well I don't know why, but plog has suddenly started to work. At least we now have a clue as to why pon isn't working. It comes up with the following: Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: tcgetattr: I/O error Oct 21 22:36:51

Hello, total idiot here plesea rospedn :)

1997-10-22 Thread OS2LinuxGuide
Hey guys, signed on to the mailing list a couple days ago, VERY good. Keep up the good work! Okay, now comes the things I don't understand or that are bugging me... (p.s. LOTS of stuff coming up here) Note that is any of this is covered in a previous message, just point it out to me so you

Re: [PPP] pon and plog not working (fwd)

1997-10-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Well I don't know why, but plog has suddenly started to work. At least we now have a clue as to why pon isn't working. It comes up with the following: Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Oct 21 22:36:51

Re: Compiling kernel rm -rf asm linux scsi?

1997-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Joel == Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joel -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel 1997-10-21 at approximately 05:45 PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and

Re: XMGR

1997-10-22 Thread tibor simko
hi franck Hi, I would like to know if there is any Debian package franck for XMGR (graphics software). yes, there is, in hamm/math section: xmgr_4.0.1-1.deb cheers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too. The biggest problem

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver. Hmmm, how do you do that? Do you mean you unload and reload it as a module? Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver. A question related to this: is it posible to force a driver to unload, even if it says 'device busy'? I have a QIC-80-WIDE tape drive, which doesn't seem to understand the 'eof'

glibc and X

1997-10-22 Thread markc
Hi folks. I've tried to install xlib6g_3.3-7.deb and it requires a xlib6_3.3-7.deb which is advertised in the Packages file but does not seem to be available on ftp.debian.org (?). The glibc-libc5 mini-howto is great (although discovered after the fact) but does not go into upgrading X. Any clues

Re: glibc and X

1997-10-22 Thread joost witteveen
Hi folks. I've tried to install xlib6g_3.3-7.deb and it requires a xlib6_3.3-7.deb which is advertised in the Packages file but does not seem to be available on ftp.debian.org (?). The glibc-libc5 mini-howto is great (although discovered after the fact) but does not go into upgrading X.

KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-22 Thread Adam Shand
Well I spent the day upgrading my system to libc6 so I could install KDE Beta1. First off thanks to the KDE team who look like they make have the beginnings, and more, of a decent X interface... YAY! (and of course the debian packagers) Everything went smoothly but I am left with a couple

Re: Security questions

1997-10-22 Thread joost witteveen
What I was looking for was any potential secuity risks that exist in the default setup of Debian 1.3.1.*. http://www.debian.org/security.html (this lists all security problems. As far as I'm aware, all have been fixed in bo-updates). On the other hand, probably the only way to get your system

Re: upgrading ldso (because executor does not work)

1997-10-22 Thread joost witteveen
I'm trying to upgrade from ldso_1.8.10-2.deb to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb because I can't get executor to run. I can run it under slackware just fine, and one of the differences is the ld.so itself. I've tried preloading the various other libraries with copies from the slackware distro. No luck.

X upgrade

1997-10-22 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, From my mirror I see that the setup for X has changed considerably. I am wondering what is the correct procedure to upgrade. I have X 3.3-4 Here is what i think i should do. First upgrade xlib6 to 3.3.1-1, then remove xlib6-dev and everything that depnds on it and install xlib6-altdev,

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Lawrence
Bruce Perens wrote: I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver. iff the boot drive is not on the same SCSI Bus as the CDR drive. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NIS problems

1997-10-22 Thread Bao C. Ha
I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not in the master. /etc/passwd +:* /etc/group +:*:*: I also changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf to use either compat or db nis files for the passwd, group, shadow entries. It still does not work. Appreciate any other

URL sendsms

1997-10-22 Thread Stoyan Kenderov
http://www.bai.de/sendsms/sendsms.shtml -- Dipl.-Inform. Stoyan Kenderov __ __ _ _ email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NTG Netzwerk und Telematic GmbH\ \/ / (_)_ __ | | __ fax : +49 721 9652 210 Geschaeftsbereich Xlink \ /| | | '_ \| |/ / phone: +49 721 9652 223

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Lindsay Allen wrote: I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it? Yep. Random freezes, generally when I'm not using the machine, in the dead of night (the *worst* time for a

Re: network setup confusion

1997-10-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Waller Martin MEJ wrote: Hi, I have two seperate problems, but both are to do with setting up networking. 1. My PC(s) at home: I have two connected with 3C509 ethernet cards, and have given them reserved IP addresses. They talk to each other perfectly. No problems. In

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Thanks to all who offered help on getting my Yamaha CDR400tx (1.0d) CD recorder working, especially to Nathan Norman who pointed me to http://www.shop.de/cgi-bin/winni/lsc.pl where I discovered that cdwrite-2.0 does not support the CDR400tx but that cdrecord-1.5 does. There does not seem to be

Re: XMGR

1997-10-22 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, I would like to know if there is any Debian package for XMGR (graphics software). Thanks Franck There are precompiled linux binaries (4.01 alpha, I think) at the xmgr home page, http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr I installed the semistatic version on my

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-22 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k)

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Kirk Hilliard wrote: I do seem to have a reliability issue with some fairly cheap green on gold CDRs. (US$4 ea @ qty 100 with a black label thermally printed on them by a local company -- supposed to be Sony CDRs, but they were totally blank before being printed). The

Re: DMA with IDE on Triton II

1997-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
Have you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y I get: hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) However, the man page says: -d Disable/enable the using_dma flag for this drive. This option only works with a few

Year 2038 problem (was Re: Year 2000 Debian)

1997-10-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:51:07 +1000 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two digits.

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it? Nope, Not a problem here. It seems to know my hardware well. Granted I have only a three day

SMP Linux

1997-10-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Can someone recommend a good motherboard for use with SMP Linux ? I was looking at the DK440LX by Intel for use with dual pII 300's, it comes with an onboard Adaptec 7895 Dual Channel SCSI controller with RAIDport... not sure if Linux supports that controller. Thanks. Matthew -- TO

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread kestrel
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: I've been running it for 24 hours now with no problems, other than the map file error at boot up. Lately I have been building my kernels without module support. I have heard that some of the modules in .31 don't load and unload properly at all times.

Re: Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
There is some dispute over whether it's 2038 or later. In any case, one only need define time_t to be 64 bits and it will last until the heat-death of the universe. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system.

Re: Hello, total idiot here plesea rospedn :)

1997-10-22 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, OS2LinuxGuide wrote: # I just bought Debian 1.3.1, and for some reason the version I got on the cdrom pretends to be every bit 1.3 Now I don't have a problem with this, but do have a problem with the kernel level of the cdroms. The

Re: Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be recompiled. One would hope that the world can find something better than POSIX, C, and Unix by

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 03:59:54PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly detects size of memory on soundcard: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k) I tried installing it on top of the AWE support coming with

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 07:32:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : This is news to me. What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with : pppd? I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very extensible. vi. -- Jason Costomiris | VMS is about as secure as a

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Scheetz wrote: I've been running it for 24 hours now with no problems, other than the map file error at boot up. Lately I have been building my kernels without module support. I have heard that some of the modules in .31 don't load and unload properly at all times. Is it possible this is

A couple of questions

1997-10-22 Thread Valerio VALDEZ Paolini
Hi there, i have some questions about the apache package and about Debian Logo. I am webmaster at my faculty (Computer Science, Bologna, Italy) and we are running a web server using (and mirroring) Debian Linux and Apache. Here are my questions: 1) why debian's package contains

Sendmail with Linux

1997-10-22 Thread Aldrin L. M. Leal
Hi! I was reading the sendmail documentation, and found a note saying that linux has got a undocumented feature (bug?) which lets the system without answering accept() calls from the remote side. It's true, since i saw some machines crying out that the remote system is down. As of

Re: Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Darin Johnson
Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be recompiled. One would hope that the world can find something better than POSIX, C,

Re: A couple of questions

1997-10-22 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Valerio VALDEZ Paolini wrote: I am webmaster at my faculty (Computer Science, Bologna, Italy) and we are running a web server using (and mirroring) Debian Linux and Apache. Here are my questions: 1) why debian's package contains old v1.1.3 instead of 1.2.4? 1.1.3

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Timm Gleason wrote: Does anyone out there know of a way to prevent a Debian box from being able to boot into single user mode? We have removed any sort of delay= settings from the lilo.conf, and this makes it extremely difficult to get into that mode, but does not prevent

Games problems

1997-10-22 Thread Darin Johnson
1) Nethack has a problem with the /var/lib/games/nethack/perm(?) file, and claims there's no permission to write to it. I changed /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack to setuid, and it worked (it was setgid already). I presume setuid was the wrong thing to do; what's the real scoop? 2) can't get

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread Timm Gleason
Well I have seen some interesting answers and even some helpful ones :-) As for physically cutting off access to the floppy, if I wanted to do that, I would just send out the server without the floppy in it. If it gets to the point where we have clients having to boot off of a floppy, we usually

Re: Compiling kernel rm -rf asm linux scsi?

1997-10-22 Thread Carl Johnson
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories are just symlinks to the kernel sources. They are not, so should I do a rm -rf asm linux scsi as they

Re: Many configuration doubts (PWD, colors, executions and the modules)

1997-10-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jun 21, Juan Carlos Muro wrote ^^^ Your date is set wrongly! - How can I do for the files and folders' colours to appear? eval `/usr/bin/dircolors` alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias dir='ls -l' alias sl='ls' alias ll='ls -al' - How can I do the PWD to appear in the 'prompt'? if [

Re: Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Andy Kahn
Darin Johnson wrote: - - Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after - Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by - typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be - recompiled. One would hope that the world can find

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: I've been running it for 24 hours now with no problems, other than the map file error at boot up. Lately I have been building my kernels without module support. I have heard that some of the modules in .31 don't load and unload

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Scheetz wrote: That is exactly when they start unloading! Yep, you're right, I've relaized that my sounds module could be unloading about then. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Paul Serice
Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Lindsay Allen wrote: I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it? Yep. Random freezes, generally when I'm not using the machine, in the dead of night

Re: Year 2000 Debian

1997-10-22 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Not sure if this has been thrashed out before: Is Debian (or Linux in general) year 2000 *safe*? I'm not even sure what that means precisely, but I'm responsible for finding out round here and wondered if it's been discussed on this group.

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Philippe Troin mentioned something about a password option, Lilo has a password option (which you probably want to use with the restricted option too). RTFM. but I have been unable to find anything about this.

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: That is exactly when they start unloading! Yep, you're right, I've relaized that my sounds module could be unloading about then. Make an explicit entry in /etc/modules for that module and it will stay installed. (even if you have

Re: Games problems

1997-10-22 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Darin == Darin Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Darin 1) Nethack has a problem with the Darin /var/lib/games/nethack/perm(?) file, and claims there's no Darin permission to write to it. I changed Darin /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack to setuid, and it worked (it Darin was

1.3 or 1.3.1 kernel

1997-10-22 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Anyone here know offhand that the 1.3 or 1.3.1 kernel has been built with Generic SCSI device and Loopback device as loadable module? Secondly, is there some document somewhere describe how to build a debian kernel and make it a *.deb package? Lastly, how to build the loadable

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread Timm Gleason
D'OH! Well then, didn't really think to look at the man page for lilo.conf. Thanks for the assist. Timm On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:44:19 -0700, Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Philippe Troin mentioned something

How do I - boot into maitenence mode?

1997-10-22 Thread David Oswald
How do I - boot into maitenence mode. I have a machine about 6 months old that will not boot completely. I get the message : mounting local file systems ... and then the box hangs ... any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: DMA with IDE on Triton II

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
I think you have to re-build the kernel with Triton IDE DMA support enabled. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER:

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-22 Thread shawn . fumo
Nicole, Ah, about that cheap MIDI (possibly mute) keyboard, I saw that [EMAIL PROTECTED] was talking about it too, he was looking for midi software packages and mainly for software synthesis. Well, speaking of that, this is what I settled on. I turned out getting a Yamaha PSR-220. It cost

HELP: Using sgvalib and ARK 2000 chipset

1997-10-22 Thread Chris R. Martin
I am having a really hard time getting SVGALib working with my Stingray 64/V. I have the svgalib package in stable installed. I believe the Stingray uses the ARK 2000PV chipset XFree86 works fine. However, whenever I try a SVGAlib program, it either causes my monitor to 'sleep' or gives me a seg

Re: 1.3 or 1.3.1 kernel

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
is there some document somewhere describe how to build a debian kernel and make it a *.deb package? The kernel-package package produces packaged kernels. Say that three times fast. Then install kernel-package and read its man page. Lastly, how to build the loadable module in debian? I

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt, which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason, we are looking very hard at several upcoming replacements for KDE, and will probably designate one as our preferred graphical desktop when it is ready. If I

Re: Compiling kernel rm -rf asm linux scsi?

1997-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Carl == Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl You should just be aware that the 'make mrproper' also appears Carl to remove your '.config' file, so you should save it elsewhere Carl if you have already run a configure. make-kpkg clean (from kernel-package) call make mrproper while

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-22 Thread john
I wrote: What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with pppd? Jason Costomiris writes: I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very extensible. vi. Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it, having used it to (among other things) configure cnews since the early 1980's.