Odd sound issue

1999-12-23 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
Hello, I'm running a Debian 2.1r4 box with a SB 16 WavEffects (CT4171) sound card. It seems to work in some things but not others. I have support for it compiled into the kernel and I have 'PnP OS?=No' in the BIOS (Award 4.51pg, I believe). cat english.au > /dev/audio works fine, but xanim engl

Re: printing in netscape

1997-09-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
> > hello, all, > > > > when i try to print from netscape, i get this message in my xconsole: > > > > Sep 12 09:53:40 mattyt lpd[1143]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13) > > What do you have as "print command" in the window which pops up in > Netscape when you try to print? Just a simple "l

printing in netscape

1997-09-12 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, all, when i try to print from netscape, i get this message in my xconsole: Sep 12 09:53:40 mattyt lpd[1143]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13) ??? Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO U

Re: bash

1997-08-27 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
sorry, bruce, but i have no programming experience. i grep'd all the files but couldn't find --dir-file anywhere. where do i change it? thanks, matty Matt "well, i know a heck of a lot more that i used to..." Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Rent

bash

1997-08-27 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, i downloaded the bash 2.01 source from /gnu and did a ./configure and make. i then attempted make install, and received the following: mattyt# make install mkdir /usr/local/info /usr/bin/install -c bash /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/bin/install -c bashbug /usr/local/bin/bashbug ( cd ./doc ; mak

xdm error on boot

1997-07-28 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, i get this: xdm error (pid 125): extra arguments on command line:xdm error (pid 125): "start"xdm error (pid 125): ...then xdm starts. everything works ok, but it seems like i shouldn't get this, ya know? :) ??? matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

xdm error on boot

1997-07-25 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, i get this: xdm error (pid 125): extra arguments on command line:xdm error (pid 125): "start"xdm error (pid 125): ...then xdm starts. everything works ok, but it seems like i shouldn't get this, ya know? :) ??? matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

mail????

1997-07-25 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, well, i'm sending this message from windoze. :( i can't seem to send any mail, only receive it. i ran smailconfig --force twice and still the same thing, it says no route to host. any suggestions? matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

Re: pause

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
no, it was working properly, but i had entered the last field as .1 when it should have been .2 (i ping'd the main server and compared values). all is fine now. thanks! matty On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: &g

xmix

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, sorry to be so chatty tonight... i installed xmix, and it works fine for root, but when i try to run it as mattyt, i get the error message: Error opening mixer device: Permission denied ...and yet, when i ls -l xmix, i get: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17032 Nov 17 1996 /usr/bin/X1

pause

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, i just installed 1.3.1 and everytime i do anything 'net oriented (popclient, netstat -r, netscape) there seems to be about a five second pause before anything happens. did i maybe enter some info incorrectly or something? thanks, matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

sane

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, i'm trying to get my umax s6e scanner to work using davidm's sane. i have a adaptec ava-1505 card working well with my scsi zip drive. during boot-up, the kernel recognizes my scanner correctly, right down to the model name ( :)! ). it lists it as "generic device sga" or some such (i know it

Re: netscape communicator error

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
when i upgraded to 4.01b6 i no longer got that message. matty On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this > > > english language version of communicator. all encryption and

color xterm (again, *sigh*)

1997-07-21 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
sorry about another color-xterm question, but root seems to have all colors in xterm (dir=blue,jpg=green, etc.) but my user (mattyt) only has blue for dir and white for everything else. ??? matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tro

Re: [gtk-list] Re: sane problems

1997-07-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
> > > these are the errors i received: > > > > > > gdk.c:31: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory > > > > This sounds to me like you need to install the XFree86 > > developement package. For RedHat systems, this is the XFree86-devel rpm, > > but I don't know what it would be for your Debian

adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
greetings, so what's the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at all. i am running 1.3.1 (installed 1.3 and update on a daily basis with dselect). thanks, matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions (fwd)

1997-07-10 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
> > Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper > apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from > netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications > and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that > this is for extension w

Re: Is Your Web Site A Secret? (fwd)

1997-07-09 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
EVERYONE should send these bozos an email telling them how much we DON'T appreciate it and that we'll tell everyone we know not to use or recommend them. Maybe they'll get the message, but probably not. :( matty -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 97 20:20:11 -0500 From: Da

app pause

1997-07-08 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, y'all, occasionally when i start up pine or emacs, the system pauses for 10 to 15 seconds before the apps fully appear. anyone else experiencing this? this happens even when i have few windows open, and nothing going on, like compiling or printing. btw, i have a mmx166 with 32mb edo, so syste

Re: PPP (fwd)

1997-07-08 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
>> As root I have no problems connecting to my ISP using PPP. >> However when trying to connect as a normal user the connection >> drops after the serial connection is established. I've checkde and >> rechecked file permissions and they seem correct. Couldn't under- >> stand the ioctl manual pag

Re: PnP ( ie: Modem )

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, don't know if this will help at all, but if you're running an award bios and can upgrade to the latest version (4.51, i believe) it will initialize the pnp cards for you. i just built a computer with an asus motherboard, and it initializes my sb32pnp and usr pnp cards so all i have is the drive

default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, i just updated my system (dselect) and several x-related files were updated, including xbase, vga & svga servers, fonts, etc. i am using xinside's AcceleratedX with a Matrox Mystique video card. since i updated, when i attempt startx, i get the following error messages: failed to set def