Re: sound ?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"V.Suresh" wrote: > > After a long struggle for a month, I finally managed to get X up > under Debian. I have a i810 m/b. Now a problem: Sound isn't working. > mpg123, gmp3 say mixer can't be opened. But 'lsmod' shows all required > modules neatly loaded. Help please. try it as root to be sure th

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Mark Hurley
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:15:23PM -0400, Daniel Freedman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi. Based on current bang for the buck, I'd go for a 40 Gb rather > than 10-20Gb. It seems to be the sweet spot in pricing right now. > The 10-20Gb start at 60-70, while the 40Gb

sound ?

2001-04-15 Thread V.Suresh
After a long struggle for a month, I finally managed to get X up under Debian. I have a i810 m/b. Now a problem: Sound isn't working. mpg123, gmp3 say mixer can't be opened. But 'lsmod' shows all required modules neatly loaded. Help please. -- Regards, .-

Debian install on RAID hardware

2001-04-15 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
Here I go again, one more time. This time I'm only asking a simple question. How does one go about installing drivers from a floppy to install Debian from the CD? Booting from the CD gets us to: megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000) megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx0:bus1:slot10:func1 scsi2: foun

Re: soundcard volume too low.

2001-04-15 Thread Kent West
MaD dUCK wrote: mh. another problem. so this one computer was running win98 with one of those crappy winmodem/soundcard combo (conexant riptide) junk things, but it was playing mp3's through a set of passive speakers at a loud volume. after failing to get that piece of crap soundcard to work, i

Re: LaTeX word count?

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
There's detex (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/detex/) which removes latex commands from source; and there's dvi2tty (I'm pretty sure it's available through dselect) which prints dvi output to the terminal so you can do dvi2tty foo.dvi | wc -w . Note that dvi2tty is somewhat inaccurate sin

LaTeX word count?

2001-04-15 Thread Neil Conway
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to count the number of works in a LaTeX document. I need the number of words that will be produced in the output, not the number of words in the source document (i.e. so 'wc -w' is inaccurate). Does such a package exist? Or is there some other way to do this? TIA,

Re: soundcard volume too low.

2001-04-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Rick Commo (on Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:42:03PM -0700): > I went from a SB PCI 16 to an SB PCI 128 with the same effect. It turns out > that the SB 61 (and presumably your old junker) can drive an 8-ohm load to a > decent volume. The SB PCI 128 only has a line out (ie 600 ohms). I went >

RE: soundcard volume too low.

2001-04-15 Thread Rick Commo
Most likely a hardware problem. I went from a SB PCI 16 to an SB PCI 128 with the same effect. It turns out that the SB 61 (and presumably your old junker) can drive an 8-ohm load to a decent volume. The SB PCI 128 only has a line out (ie 600 ohms). I went out and bought a set of Altec Lansing

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-15 Thread Ted Gervais
unsubscribe -- Ted Gervais Coldbrook, Nova Scotia Canada

Re: [debian-user] Warum sollte ich gerade Debian Linux kaufen?

2001-04-15 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:08:23AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: >... > 30 bucks or so is not a bad investion. BTW, Felix, you're from Germany > so I would suggest the Debian distribution packaged by Lehmanns. Or the CHIP periodical has just put out a Linux Special with a 2-CD version and lots o

X doesn't find fonts after update

2001-04-15 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, after I have updated a bunch of (unstable-)packages on saturday X cannot find some fonts any more... especially the chinese ones. :((( The font-files are still there as well as the entries in in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/misc/fonts.dir. The fonts.alias is correct, too but has moved to /etc/X11/font

Re: [debian-user] Warum sollte ich gerade Debian Linux kaufen?

2001-04-15 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
Hello Viktor Rosenfeld, Once you wrote about "Re: [debian-user] Warum sollte ich gerade Debian Linux kaufen?": %I> BTW, I used to suggest SuSE to beginners. Not anymore. I can only support this opinion - I used to use SuSE, now I've upgraded to Debian and I ran into lots of trouble because of h

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Simon
> dpkg --purge gnome-control-center gnome-panel > > then do the rest of the ximian/helix purging as described earlier. > > also make sure your sources.list do NOT contain ximian or helix > sources and run apt-get update. Thanks for your help, that did the trick. I think I'll try Windowmaker

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-047-1] multiple kernel problems

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:21:38PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: [snip DSA] > > Does anyone know: > > - If these problems effected other 2.2.x kernels? yes all of them. > - If they effected user-compiled kernels? yes. though some of the holes would not affect you depending on your kerne

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > this may only affect the woody dpkg but setting COLLUMS (that looks > spelled wrong) will adjust this. Very nice! I had no idea. Thanks. Oh, it's COLUMNS. :) > i think apt has a --force-downgrade. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave]$ apt-get --force-downgra

Re: bad minute?

2001-04-15 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:03:00PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and try to save my changes, I get the > following messages: > > "crontab.16288" 54L, 1391C written > crontab: installing new crontab > "/tmp/crontab.16288":1: bad minute > errors in crontab f

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-047-1] multiple kernel problems

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Does anyone know: > > - If these problems effected other 2.2.x kernels? > - If they effected user-compiled kernels? from what ive read, the answer is yes to both questions, unless user compiled kernels are 2.2.19 :) 2.2.18 is immune to a couple of those bugs provid

Re: bad minute?

2001-04-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
> 00,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh The double-zero might be causeing it to choke.. the rest of the crontab seems fine... Regards, Gavin.

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:20:16PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > > > dpkg -l | grep helix > > > > Minor point: you might want to make that "grep ximi" instead of > "grep ximian", given that helix/ximian version numbers t

Re: sawfish on woody

2001-04-15 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > No mirror problem. It's just not there. I think you may be mistaken cause > unstable != woody. -Jeff You're correct; it's not there. I think it's probably related to the librep dependancy. -- David Steinberg -o) Compute

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-047-1] multiple kernel problems

2001-04-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:08:20AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > - > Debian Security Advisory DSA-047-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.debian.or

Re: [debian-user] Warum sollte ich gerade Debian Linux kaufen?

2001-04-15 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
RĂ¼diger Kuhlmann wrote: [Rearranged for better readability] > In short: If you're a beginner, > go for SuSE. If after a while you feel the urge to try something different, > go for Debian. No! If you're serious about Linux, then you'll have to learn how Linux works anyway. And although I appre

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > dpkg -l | grep helix > Minor point: you might want to make that "grep ximi" instead of "grep ximian", given that helix/ximian version numbers tend to be quite long, and "dpkg -l" offers no way to specify a field width. I (mos

Re: Kernel configuration

2001-04-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 07:48:27PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > Should I start out by copying the .config file from the previous > kernel tree? Yes. Especially if you customized it, use one from the tree where you made best kernel configuration. Their copy exist as config-... in /boot

Re: Kernel configuration

2001-04-15 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Apr 15 19:48:18 2001 Osamu Aoki wrote... > >Jens, >"make-kpkg" actually runs "make oldconfig". It may be redundant unless >you really want to run it twice. I tend to run following sequence after >creating initial .config: > This may be the answer t my question. Let me as

Sendmail or mail worries

2001-04-15 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I am pulling my hair out here with this mail problem. It has worked wonderful for about 12 months and then my DNS provider make a boo boo. I did not know and thought I had a software problem and so I unistalled sendmail thinking that was why I could not receive email then found out it

Re: Kernel configuration

2001-04-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Jens, "make-kpkg" actually runs "make oldconfig". It may be redundant unless you really want to run it twice. I tend to run following sequence after creating initial .config: $ make menuconfig# customize as one wish, optional $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --flavour=spec

Re: bad minute?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and try to save my changes, I get the > following messages: > > "crontab.16288" 54L, 1391C written > crontab: installing new crontab > "/tmp/crontab.16288":1: bad minute > errors in crontab file, can't install. > Do you want to

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:14:49AM +0100, Simon wrote: > I cannot remove any of the packages. Whatever I attempt to remove I > just get the following error:- > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Simon
On (15/04/01 14:45), Ethan Benson wrote: > purge every gnome package. removing task-* packages does not remove > anything. > > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > dpkg -l | grep helix > > > then try a apt-get install task-gnome with your sources.list NOT > including ximian/helix. > I cannot remove a

bad minute?

2001-04-15 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and try to save my changes, I get the following messages: "crontab.16288" 54L, 1391C written crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.16288":1: bad minute errors in crontab file, can't install. Do you want to retry the same edit? I realize that it's tellin

Re: 3c905c once again.

2001-04-15 Thread Rafael Hinojosa
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > I've got a problem I can not solve by myself. Please help if you > can. Recently I tried to install Debian on a new computer (Intel > Duron 800/256MB Ram, 3 COM 905c network card). At first I used > Debian 2.2 (first release) but I could not g

Re: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c

2001-04-15 Thread Luigi Bianca
On 14 Apr 01, at 23:32, Shaul Karl wrote: > > after recompiling 2.2.17 (official potato) i cant boot normally, but > > only with cdrom as rescue. > > I tried to recompile changing modules in different combination but > > nothing. > > Anybody can help? > > Bye, from Luigi > > > > > Do provide

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Debian User
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi > > Do you know where is it? I bought my motherboard a few months ago but it > seems like there isn't any update bios after rev1005 on the website > > Edwin Lau > Here goes, from suse-linux-e list, could not find out which motherboard they were talking about, hope i

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 11:36:52PM +0100, simon wrote: > I cannot apt-get -f install out of it as that fails with the same > error. I thought I would remove helix completely and then reinstall > gnome, but apt is telling me I do not have task-helix-gnome > installed. I'm at a bit of a loss. Am I r

newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread simon
I'm new to Linux and even newer to Debian. I am running woody, and today (15th) I did an apt-get upgrade that's messed up Gnome. I was running Helix Gnome, although I did plan to remove it and go back to plain Gnome...whatever the update did today it seems to have replaced parts of Helix Gnome wit

Marking bad blocks

2001-04-15 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Using badblocks I've found some bad blocks on one of my hard disks, and I'd like to mark them bad so that Linux will avoid to use them. The number of bad blocks I've found is low, but they are scattered on many disk partitions: some of them are formatted ext2, some reiserfs and one is used

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Do you know where is it? I bought my motherboard a few months ago but it seems like there isn't any update bios after rev1005 on the website Edwin Lau On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:16:45 Debian User wrote: > Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am planning to buy a new har

Re: stream manipulation with time

2001-04-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:06:01PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong. ntp allows receiving (setting host computer > time/date) and broadcasting (a lot of options) of date/time to > internal (or external) lan. > > ntpdate ONLY acts as a client. Setting the (host) with the correc

Re: opera browser

2001-04-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:03:13PM -0500, Zac Epkes wrote: > I dont know but u could possible TRY www.opera.com before u send a message to > hundreds of people :-/ jsut an idea [not meaning to be mean] > > - overid3 =) > > > On Thursday 12 April 2001 18:15, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello,

Re: Debian not ready for Euro?

2001-04-15 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 07:02:36PM +0200, Theo Herrmann wrote: > Hi, > > I spent several hours getting the euro symbol working, but it seemed that is > impossible. Nothing helps and there is no usable documentation avaible, no > howto > no faq and nothing in the mailing-archive. > How can i set u

Re: sawfish on woody

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
No mirror problem. It's just not there. I think you may be mistaken cause unstable != woody. -Jeff > >There is currently neither sawfish nor sawmill in woody. I suspect > >that sawmill has been removed from sid because sawfish replaces > >sawmill, and sawfish didn't make it from sid to wood

Re: soundcard volume too low.

2001-04-15 Thread iehrenwald
> a SB PCI 128 and got it working. however, the volume is very low. i > used aumix and set it to 100% on all channels, but it's barely Make sure your speakers are plugged into the right OUT jack on the back of the soundcard. Line out and Speaker out are two different things.

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:54:32PM +0200, Robert Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 15 April 2001 16:51, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > > > > >fr

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk >

soundcard volume too low.

2001-04-15 Thread MaD dUCK
mh. another problem. so this one computer was running win98 with one of those crappy winmodem/soundcard combo (conexant riptide) junk things, but it was playing mp3's through a set of passive speakers at a loud volume. after failing to get that piece of crap soundcard to work, i installed a SB PCI

Re: offtopic (completely): linux games

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 15 Apr 01, 1:52 PM, Nate Amsden said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > sorry, but people like me who refuse to run a dual-boot computer (refuse to > > fork over $$$ to the evil empire) rely on loki software for recreation. :) > > then you should pay full price and support loki. well, i

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Erik Steffl
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link > to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later models?). But it s

Re: Kernel configuration

2001-04-15 Thread Jens Gecius
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would copy .config from your previous build tree or /boot/config-2.4.2 > to your new build tree. And I would run "make oldconfig" once after it is copied, just to update the new config-options and to see, what's going on in kernel-development. I know St

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread iehrenwald
> server), SCSI offers a strong performance advantage, for about twice the > price. No kidding.. A month ago I paid about $360 for a Seagate 68pin UWSCSI 18.4GB drive (model ST318416W). But it's worth the price because if a drive dies they'll ship one out to you UPS Red at no cost. I've never

Re: stream manipulation with time

2001-04-15 Thread Jens Gecius
Mark Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > May I suggest you use ntp or ntpdate instead. They keep the time nicely > > synchronized, no time lapse either way. > > Hey you brought up a very good point. But can you confirm something for me? > > I have had ntpd and ntpdate install for awhile. O

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > The other consideration, of course, is IDE vs. SCSI. For a > general-purpose single-user system, IDE is probably sufficient. > However, if you're looking at a multi-user environment, heavy > data I/O, or lots of multiprocessing (development, data processing, > server),

Re: offtopic (completely): linux games

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > sorry, but people like me who refuse to run a dual-boot computer (refuse to > fork over $$$ to the evil empire) rely on loki software for recreation. :) then you should pay full price and support loki. i bought quake 3 about a week after it came out. i played the hell

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:15:23PM -0400, Daniel Freedman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with V

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link > to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later models?). But it s

test - please ignore

2001-04-15 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, This is just a test of the emergency mutt system. Trying to learn to use mutt. Jimmy Richards

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk > is what I want bu

Re: help! can't start X anymore

2001-04-15 Thread Kent West
Philipp Bliedung wrote: Hi I have a problem. I'm on a potato machine with xfree 4.0.2 installed. Everything was working fine until I installed Gimp 1.2 from woody. I added the woody tree to /etc/apt/sources.list and did an apt-get install gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl and installed a whole bunch of pack

Re: An intro to Debian website

2001-04-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:43:22AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:28:18PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > > There wouldn't be a whole lot of original content on this site I was > > thinking of. All the documentation is already out there; it's just so > > scattered around and d

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Debian User
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk > is what I want but I

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk >

Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk is what I want but I guess ATA100 with ide card is welcome

Re: sawfish on woody

2001-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Marc Haber wrote: >On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:22:06 +0200, christophe barbe ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I've dist-upgraded a fresh potato box to woody. >>Everything works fine. >>But I can't install sawfish. >>It seems to not be available. >>I can't see it anymore in the available packa

Re: Progeny upgrade from potato

2001-04-15 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one having trouble doing this? I'm getting an error message on package i386 binaries not being found using deb http://archive.progeny.com/progeny newton main contrib non-free in my sources.list. I had trouble upgrading from rc1 to final :-\ It complai

Re: XOSL extended operating system loader

2001-04-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, April 15, Jeff H did write: > Hi. I am new and moving very slowly in ditching windows. I have recently > been doing some major hardware upgrades and have yet to install debian. I > have a question. Has anyone been using XOSL? I ran across this site and > thought it might be interest

modem troubles solved

2001-04-15 Thread MaD dUCK
hi guys, sorry for flooding then, for i in {1..15}; do setserial /dev/modem $i; minicom; done revealed that it is running not off irq 3, but off irq 2. weird. when connecting, /proc/interrupts reports the serial driver to use irq 9. oh well, it works... thanks though if you spent even a second rea

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Mike
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link > to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later models?). But it seems

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 8)

2001-04-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.3 on a Debian 2.2r2 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: kernel-source-2.4.3 Binary packages: o kernel-doc-2.4.3 o kernel-so

modem troubles

2001-04-15 Thread MaD dUCK
hi, i have this pretty straight forward ISA modem, 33.6 and running off /dev/ttyS3: orange:~> setserial -a /dev/ttyS3 /dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000 Flags: spd_normal auto_irq i am ru

Re: OT: Mutt checking files for new mail

2001-04-15 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > Are you using exim as your smtp server? If so it may be worth checking > in MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS and looking for > > # Have exim deliver all mail that's received in a single connection. > # Normally it will deliver the first

Re: offtopic (completely): linux games

2001-04-15 Thread Greg Gilbert
* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i know i'll get flamed for this, but i also happen to know that some of you > will greatly appreciate this information: Don't see why you'd get flames. Those are great deals that you might miss if you don't read www.linuxgames.com regularly.

XOSL extended operating system loader

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff H
Hi. I am new and moving very slowly in ditching windows. I have recently been doing some major hardware upgrades and have yet to install debian. I have a question. Has anyone been using XOSL? I ran across this site and thought it might be interesting as I still have a strong interest in DOS and som

Re: stream manipulation with time

2001-04-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 16:44:42 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > The problem is the nested `` here: $(command) is equivalent to `command` but is nestable. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes

unable to insert ftape module

2001-04-15 Thread Robert
When I try inserting the ftape module: % modprobe ftape it says: /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: invalid parameter parm_ft_fdc_driver /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: insmod ftape failed I h

mounting CD-ROM hangs/freezes entire system

2001-04-15 Thread Robert
When I % mount /cdrom the entire system hangs/freezes/crashes and I have to hit the reset button to reboot. When booting, the 2.2.18pre21 kernel identifies the CDROM drive as a "BCD E520C". It's a 40X ATAPI CDROM drive. Surprisingly, I can successfully mount /cdrom on the 2.0.36 version of the

offtopic (completely): linux games

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i know i'll get flamed for this, but i also happen to know that some of you will greatly appreciate this information: if you ever wanted to get quake III but didn't want to spend the (admittedly hefty) price of $50 or $60, now is your chance to purchase it: quake 3 arena: 9.99

Re: startx - Fatal server error

2001-04-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
I agree on Karasten's analysys but I would do slightly different. I usually install gpm daemon too (Typical default potato install). Then using repeater device as imput to X may be better, IMO. If mouse hanges for any reason, you can restart gpm to reinitialize it. Try it by unplugging it, if you

Re: Staroffice for stable?

2001-04-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 11:25:32AM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Where can I ge (preferably a .deb) to install SatrOffice on my stable machine? No debs. Get it from Sun: http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html There's a free-software spin-off project, OpenOffice (http:/

Re: Kernel configuration

2001-04-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
I would copy .config from your previous build tree or /boot/config-2.4.2 to your new build tree. On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 11:24:25AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > Givne that I am building kernels with kernel-package (which works > great), and given that I _know_ I don't need any of the new options, >

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes, readcd -- Disclaimer: Do not make a copy if it is prohibited. Below is my experimental result which used Windows disk as one of the example. --- Make an image file of CD Some CD-R and commercial CD have junk sectors at the end which makes copy by dd im

Debian not ready for Euro?

2001-04-15 Thread Theo Herrmann
Hi, I spent several hours getting the euro symbol working, but it seemed that is impossible. Nothing helps and there is no usable documentation avaible, no howto no faq and nothing in the mailing-archive. How can i set up debian for using iso8859-15 char-sets and +e == Euro-symbol ? thanks very

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

2001-04-15 Thread robin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:46:21AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 02:06 +0200: > > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > > > * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 19:02 +0200: > Do you really print to _two_ printers at once?? > :) Hello, I have loosed your latest

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link > to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later mo

Re: Staroffice for stable?

2001-04-15 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sunday 15 April 2001 08:25, Stan Brown wrote: > Where can I ge (preferably a .deb) to isntall SatrOffice on my > stable machine? I'm not sure if there is one, but I downloaded the monster-sized file from Sun's site (http://www.sun.com) and installed it. Just install it as root with the /net (

help! can't start X anymore

2001-04-15 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi I have a problem. I'm on a potato machine with xfree 4.0.2 installed. Everything was working fine until I installed Gimp 1.2 from woody. I added the woody tree to /etc/apt/sources.list and did an apt-get install gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl and installed a whole bunch of packages. Well, that did work o

Progeny upgrade from potato

2001-04-15 Thread cathyy
Am I the only one having trouble doing this? I'm getting an error message on package i386 binaries not being found using deb http://archive.progeny.com/progeny newton main contrib non-free in my sources.list.

Re: stream manipulation with time

2001-04-15 Thread Mark Hurley
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:20:11PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:44:42PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > May I suggest you use ntp or ntpdate instead. They keep the time nicely > synchronized, no time lapse either way. Hey you brought up a very good point. But can you c

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 15 April 2001 16:51, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > > >from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link > > to a Diamond Rio 500

Staroffice for stable?

2001-04-15 Thread Stan Brown
Where can I ge (preferably a .deb) to isntall SatrOffice on my stable machine? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical she

Kernel configuration

2001-04-15 Thread Stan Brown
Givne that I am building kernels with kernel-package (which works great), and given that I _know_ I don't need any of the new options, when moving from say 2.4.2 to 2.4.3, isb't there some way that I can move the kernel config, without having to da a make [x|menu]conifg, again? -- Stan Brown

Re: stream manipulation with time

2001-04-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:44:42PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I have two computers and I want to set the time on computer 1 the time of > computer 2 minus 1 (I need this because I run root over nfs, and I do > not like 'modification in future' warnings). May I suggest you use ntp or ntpd

Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later models?). But it seems like there are better players out

stream manipulation with time

2001-04-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have two computers and I want to set the time on computer 1 the time of computer 2 minus 1 (I need this because I run root over nfs, and I do not like 'modification in future' warnings). I played along with some commands and it seems that something almost works (and when it works, 'date' wil

Re: Best way to run a 2.4 kernel with "stable"?

2001-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is it safe to run a 2.4 kernel with stable? > >If this is OK then, what is the best way to do it? > >Should I use Adrian Bunk's stuff to do it? >http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html > >Is this safe or will this cause potential problems? I haven't heard any com

Re: Woody (Testing) Missing Gnome Packages

2001-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was hoping someone could tell me why Woody (Testing) is missing >sawfish, sawfish-gnome and gnome-applets packages? There don't seem to >be any important bugs filed against them and these aren't very new >packages, I can't figure out why there wouldn't

Mail & Sound probs

2001-04-15 Thread Nic Strong
(Repost not sure if the first got through) First ofhaving to resort to hotmail to send this because I seem to have broke mail on my box! When ever I use a mail client (mutt, evolution) trying to send (configured to use sendmail) I get the message: Error sending message, child exited 71 (Oper

Re: startx not working, but X does

2001-04-15 Thread Kent West
Jens Gecius wrote: Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If you just did an upgrade today, then you aren't the only person with the problem. However, I suspect its' actually a KDE related problem that's breaking X. I've now reverted to a X/WindowMaker setup until I see some more KDE upda

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to use L inux?

2001-04-15 Thread Kent West
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Brenda J. Butler wrote: I'm not complaining about open source stuff (on my home systems that's all I use and I'm very grateful for it), but open source has changed from when we learned it. It's hard to learn it that way any more, because lot

Re: Update on 'unstable' left Gnome unusable

2001-04-15 Thread Chris Cyll
Sorry. I sounded a little too sure of myself in that last post. I'm still getting used to this whole list server thing. What I probably should have said was... that's what worked for me. Judging on what you've said though, Nate, it sounds like that might fix your problem too. ;-) -Chris O

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