OT: RE: no war

2003-02-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 16:02 PST]: > > > Iraq. > > Please consider this an urgent request. UN Petition for Peace Stand for As much as I like where this guys heart is, he is a bit naive. The decision for war was pro

Re: burning a lot of coasters

2003-09-17 Thread Crispin Wellington
ling allows the burning process to get all the CPU it needs, regardless of what other processes are doing. I have never made any coasters, ever, burning as root. For background info on scheduling (this is off topic, but interesting none the less), man 2 sched_setscheduler. Kind Regards Crispin

Re: No screens found

2003-09-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
reens found' try dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low --frontend=dialog xserver-xfree86 Kinds Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
Hello there stranger! On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:48, Chris McCormick wrote: > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it > work

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > >when it doesn't work > > > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output > > Excellent suggestion - at the moment I can't get it to run correctly

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:57, Chris McCormick wrote: > At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > > > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > > > >when it doesn't work > > > > > > > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.

Re: configuring ADSL at Debian??

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:43, Albert Tuulas wrote: > Hello. > After > setup my parameters pppoeconf tries to make a connection and I am > getting error: > > > ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found! > > > Runing plog after that prints out: > > > Oct 7 05:21:12 localhost

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 16:40, Chris McCormick wrote: > I'm suspecting i might have some kind of broken glibc action going on. I > think that it might not be able to re-attach to tar because of an actual > corruption in the library binaries that handle that kind of thing. Maybe > it's half instal

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so* > >lrwxrwxrwx1 root root

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-09 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:16, Chris McCormick wrote: > >So your package system has libc6 marked as installed but /lib/libc.so.6 > >is not there. Is that correct? > > No, it has /lib/libc.so.6 but it's just a previous version. > > I guess this problem is going to be the dpkg race condition that Co

Re: CD-R not mounting

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
make sure the modules are in the kernel) and then 'cdrecord -scanbus' and see if your drive is being scsi-emulated. Then you'll need to change any symlinks, /etc/fstab entries etc. from /dev/hdc to /dev/scd0 For example, /dev/cdrom might point to /dev/hdc. You'll need to poi

Re: Terminal type

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
ell type from the pwd database (/etc/passwd) and begins that as your login shell (depending on the user logging in). Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal type

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 00:23, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:05, Russell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Where abouts in the linux boot-up sequence is the > > terminal type (VT220?) defined that users interact > > with after logging in? --snip &

Re: Weird(?) process " -:0 "?

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 00:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Do somebody know what process named " -:0 " do? > I was running ps -aux, when i spotted that i > have quite "weird" process running... That will be X. In particular, a display manager, like kdm. for me... crispin@void:~$ ps auxw

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
here's a way to do something like this in > X... man import Something like sleep 5; import -window root filename.png For shell windows, just highlight the text and middle-mouse click into your word processor. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Command line utility to put stdin into the X 'current selection'clipboard

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
Is there a shell utility that can take stdin and put it into an X clipboard. The 'current selection' clipboard would be ideal, but any of the X Clipboard's would suffice. For example ls | someutility and then middle mouse click (or ctrl-v) somewhere else to paste the text?

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
iling script looks for them in the linux default /usr/src/linux Thus you should symlink one to the other... ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux Then the NVidia compile script should be able to find your modversions.h Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: T

Re: Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
hese for adding extra routes if they're needed, or doing funky stuff as the link changes. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
an internal lan (192.168.*.*) and the world at large on the other interface, then the 192.168.*.* interface shouldn't have a gateway entry at all. More explanation of what your trying to achieve might be of aid here, David. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-11 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 23:25, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 11 Oct 2002, 18:20:19, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > When you put gw: in your interfaces thats the *default* gateway. That > > is, the host to send it to if no route matches. Set it up something like > > this.

Re: ADSL, routers firewalls etc.

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
odem is not assigned an IP. In PPPoE, neither is the Ethernet card. If the modem were assigned an IP (or two, one for each interface) it would be called a router (you can get DSL routers). Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: making a deb distro

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
line to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and go apt-get install jmrsystem. Have a read of the debian packaging guides. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Reiserfs & bad blocks??

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
s now without a blip. The important thing though, is *dont trust it*. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
can even sell it (Python's license is quite liberal). If you want to sell your game, and need it to be *high speed* binaries, then C/C++ is probably the way to go. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:04, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Crispin Wellington wrote: > > While most games are developed for Windows systems, you can find a lot > of useful information at gamedev.net and such. Oh yes! And gamasutra.com is another excellent resource. Crispin s

Re: X color pickers

2002-10-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
olour picker. It gives it to you as a HTML style hex string aswell. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to "contribute"

2002-10-16 Thread Crispin Wellington
ally found my final resting place. As if there is such a thing... If you do write documentation, don't forget to attach a license. The FDL springs to mind. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
ely due to bad coding in the Windows client. There is no reason why the windows client is so slow, other than its badly programmed. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
dedicated clients on their machines (TightVNC tunnelled over SSL), but the web option is there for them when they are at a kiosk or something. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: unknown restarts

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
Read up on setting up your kernel with ksymops. This is used for kernel debugging and can be used to trace the point at which the kernel's last boot stopped functioning. Your going to have to be a pretty mean code monkey to work this one to a solution though. Kind Regards Crispin Welli

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
RAID-5 SCSI array, and with 100 desktops being used it sits at about 50% CPU idle. Under windows of course, there is only one session. Because windows is not a multi user OS. Even if it pretends to be sometimes. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

RE: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
it colour only. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 16:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 18, 2002, Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 08:15, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > <...> > > > One thing I have noticed is the Windows VNC viewer is *crap*. During >

Re: Tomcat woes

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
ut log have a full backtrace in it? Its something like /usr/share/tomcat/logs/stdout.log I think. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
ject is really for a diskless workstation, not a thin client. It uses NFS to mount the root filesystem over the network AFAIK. Thus you would need to allow the world to mount your root filesystems (eek!). Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Trouble ripping from CDs.

2002-10-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
hese "generic" drives, and the driver that works for mine is generic-mmc. If I use others, I get very similar "scsi" errors. So maybe one of these drivers is worth a try. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: xterm raw input

2002-10-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
erminal into raw mode. Thus ctrl-v, return prints ^M, but its not ^ - M. Its ctrl-v, return. ctrl-v left cursor for me does... ^[[D Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: looping ogg123 file

2002-10-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
d of that you are going to have to probably do your own code ussing the ogg libraries. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS "Open Source"

2002-10-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
ot;shared-source". I don't think they've ever called it open source, nor should they, because it isn't open source. I remember the register had some articles about this. www.thregister.co.uk and do a search. Slashdot might have some stories and links. The other referen

Re: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS "Open Source"

2002-10-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
*legally* do this (its bordering on restraint of trade) is irrelevant. They have the money and the lawyers. You go directly to jail, and do not pass go. And the law doesn't seem to have been much of a problem for them so far :P Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
nc it will reboot my linux box, > not a good move at present. I have ctrl-alt-delete disabled in /etc/inittab Always better to initiate my own shutdowns rather than the cat on my keyboard do it for me :) Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Speed

2002-10-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 16:33, nate wrote: > C. Brewer said: > > > Debian 3.0= 47secs > > not sure what kinda computer you have but i don't even get to > my LILO prompt for at least 30 seconds from power on. Some motherboards are reprehensible for the bios startup time. When are we going to demand

Re: print some pngs with a console program?

2002-10-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
m using > cups. > > Some suggestions what is going wrong here? crispin@void:~$ pngtopnm shot2.png | pnmdepth 128 | pnmtops | lpr pnmtops: warning, image too large for page, rescaling to 0.597656 pnmtops: writing color PostScript... apt-get install netpbm Kind Regards Crispin Wellington si

Re: Speed

2002-10-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
(you'll need to use a disk-on-chip and NFS root), then your boots can get very quick indeed. Combine this with the Linux BIOS project and you have <1 second boot times. Although no HDD :P Makes you realise why linux is used for so much embedded work. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: Ogg Vorbis encoder speed

2002-10-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
as jack steals *all* the CPU. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Speed

2002-10-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
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Re: /etc/init.d services start/stop question

2002-10-29 Thread Crispin Wellington
ne goes "telinit S"? > > What scripts are called first, K or S? AFAIK... K's are called in order as the run level is *exited* as /etc/rc2.d/K20whatever stop S's are called in order as the run level is *entered* as /etc/rc2.d/S20whatever start Is that correct? Kind

Re: html as background

2002-11-01 Thread Crispin Wellington
know whether I'd do it like that (I think it would be better to bottom stack a shell window than a browser, or a transparent, borderless shell window showing a nice backdrop and the shell is tailing the system logs ...), but it certainly is possible. Check to see if windowmaker supports this f

Re: html as background

2002-11-02 Thread Crispin Wellington
c I have found to render HTML most beautifully as postscript. It has a gui but can also be launched scripted-style from the shell. Use lynx to download your webpage in your script as html. Use htmldoc to render it to postscript. And the pstools to turn the postscript into an image. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 01:28, Bob Proulx wrote: > Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 18:58:41 +1300]: > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > > > > The state ``D'' means uninterruptible. > > Any idea why? Blocked waiting for I/O perhaps? A DMA event that ha

Re: Elementary Woody Firewall with DSL.

2002-11-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
it on startup, edit /etc/network/options and change ip_forward to 'yes'. You can make sure syn cookies and spoof protection are on as well while you're there. If this doesn't make the packets traverse the gateway properly, then something else is wrong. Kind Regards Crispin Wellingt

Re: funky network slowdown

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
oses the connection. This way its a process thats generating the data rather than a file being read of disk. You know the process is going to be able to saturate the pipe faster than the network can handle. And then any Web browser can be used to test the speed (This removes the encryption bottle ne

Re: Qt compiling problem

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
identifier is reported only once main.cpp:34: for each function it appears in.) main.cpp:34: parse error before `;' main.cpp:35: `bookForm' undeclared (first use this function) make: *** [main.o] Error 1 Looks like you need to include a header file or two that are missing. Kind Regard

Re: file encryption

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
sl enc -h Kind Regards Crispin Wellington. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[OT] Re: World Higher Ed: Gender Balanced True Govt(s) OutgrowingMostly-Monogendermt(s)

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
is is not a re-present-ational democracy. So becoming more non-democratic really doesn't do anything for a system that isn't democratic to start with. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Icons on a Blackbox Desktop

2002-11-16 Thread Crispin Wellington
ler as a desktop with blackbox. Its very lightweight and super-fast. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dlt tape drive on Compaq ML370

2002-11-24 Thread Crispin Wellington
xx controller. modprobe and add that in. Then your SCSI bus will appear. Cheers Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: programmatic access to framegrabber

2003-08-29 Thread Crispin Wellington
Why not use the v4l calls directly? Then your grabber will work with all the cards v4l supports, not just the bt8x8 series. Crispin On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 16:36, martin f krafft wrote: > I need access to the data provided by a framegrabber in a program (C > or C++). I have two questions about that

Re: Piping file to scp

2003-08-30 Thread Crispin Wellington
You can utilise a fifo. mkfifo whatever.fifo someprocess > whatever.fifo & scp whatever.fifo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path Crispin On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 15:47, Neo wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 07:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to send an attachement directly from mutt to another machine.

Re: an unfortunate dummy apologies

2003-09-01 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:20 am, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:13:22PM +, zoe wrote: > > red hat, suse, mandrake, caldera, and half a dozen > > other distributions all crashed or became unworkable) > > Sounds like a hardware problem in your computer. I second this. Everything yo

Re: which RAID cards work with debian?

2002-12-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 17:38, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > I tried to install woody on an old HP server with NetRAID card and it > didn't recognize it. I've also couldn't find any reference for this over > the internet. I was wondering which RAID cards are supported except for > Mylex (I know tha

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:34, Paul Johnson wrote: > If none of this makes sense to you, you probably shouldn't be calling > yourself a geek and should sell your computer and switch to WebTV or > something a little less fun. Humour can stay, but geek elitism must die. (That goes for all elitist geek

Re: SCO-ANSI emulation via telnet

2003-01-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:54, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way I can get sco-ansi terminal emulation in a telnet session? > > Thank you for any hints, Use a telnet programme that emulates a sco-ansi terminal. Crispin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: Accelerated NVidia XWindows ? ....

2002-02-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 05:05, Sean wrote: > Actually NVidia doesn't use DRI ... they have their own direct hardware > interface that's bundled with the binary driver. > They're very fast, but I have found slightly unstable. Starting and stopping the Xserver on a few different VT's (say 7 and 8) an

Re: Which FTP client?

2002-02-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 02:37, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to replace my current favorite FTP client > > CuteFTP with a Linux one. > > Which is the best client out there? > > > > I'd like to be able to: > > -easyly create a que

Re: program to repair broken avi-videos?

2002-02-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 07:47, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > i have several avi encoded videos that stop playing (with mplayer) at > specifyed positions in the file: > unknown segment type: 0xEA % > ASF_parser: warning! segment len=10904 > 01422F73: UNKNOWN TYPE E0 A8 40 C3 A8... > > if i

Whats happened to debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386

2002-02-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 5888437 Feb 03 21:11 Packages -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 1619616 Feb 03 21:11 Packages.gz -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 81 Feb 03 21:27 Release Wheres everything gone? Kind regard

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 12:32, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, > primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, > however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. > > In order to get DVD's scaled to f

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:43, James Rende wrote: > Folks. > > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > Device is not rea

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 18:27, Vegh Karoly wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to set up an ISDN connection, in case the net-connection would be > unreachable. > I mean direct, because the two computers are far away from eachother, and > we really need a fallback connection. > I would like to be able t

Re: eth0 and eth1 same card????

2002-02-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 12:55, Peter Donaldson wrote: > Having a small problem with a new deb box i am trying to set up. eth0 has its > own ip and eth1 has its ip. I can ssh into the box using eth0's ip but for > some reason i can also ssh in using eth1's ip even thou that nic is not > pluged into

Re: dns

2002-02-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:23, Alexey wrote: > There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities. > Is it a Debian-specific software? > > I can connect to the provider, run pppd. There appears resolv.conf with > "nameserver..." lines. I can ping those servers, and it's possible to >

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-08 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 12:33, will trillich wrote: > and how do i find out what irq/io parameters would be > appropriate anyhow? Have you tried switching PnP off in your BIOS settings. Crispin

Re: XDMCP Howto?

2002-03-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
m the remote host. X -h for more info Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 18:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:44:40PM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > > > "Hans" == Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hans> This tip is bad. It does not work. The first line makes the > > Hans> following fail (or, I think, in case of

Unable to access a IDE HDD sitting of an Silicon Image ATA PCI controller card

2004-06-21 Thread Crispin Wellington
0 LOC: 71676 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Any ideas of where I should go from here? Kind Regards Crispin Wellington Network Administrator Christ Church Grammar School -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unix programing question

2002-03-12 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:43, a wrote: > i use popen to run a command and read output from the command, > but the command outputs error message to something else than std out. > > how can i read the error message? popen is not really your command. use pipe() to create pipe pairs. One for stdout, s

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 02:04, Lazarus Long wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Lazarus Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:55 PM > > > > > > Yo family's so black, when they ho

Re: Help with PPP Script

2002-03-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 09:56, faisal gillani wrote: > I am a Windows Administrator trying to switch to Linux > Before i replaced my IIS web server with Apache & > liked it very much . > Now i want to replace my Windows Firewall/Proxy Server > with linux ones . > On the first step I got a Linux compa

Re: soundcard use as non-root

2002-03-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
it /etc/groups and add the usernames comma seperated at the end of the line for audio Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: Internet access problem

2002-03-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
longer appear in your ppp debug output. Although this removes the compression, it won't slow your link to much as you think as the modems will still have their LAP-M or whatever its called. Basically when iprimus says "we don't support linux" they mean, "we don't debug our dialup routers, if windows dials OK, then its OK, right!" Let us know how you go. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: Help with compiling X 4.2.0

2002-03-19 Thread Crispin Wellington
' > make: *** [install] Error 2 > " > > How can I fix this error, or is it an error I can fix? > Does anyone know what this means? Install the zlib dev package. apt-get install zlib1g-dev All those different dev packages contain the header files (.h) for developing software (or compiling) for the various libraries. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: Network Card error

2002-03-19 Thread Crispin Wellington
No answers to your problems specifically, just some general advice. Try not to compile your ethernet drivers into the kernel statically. It causes headaches when you want to change an ethernet device or fiddle with debug parameters. Compile a whole bunch of useful ones as modules. Then you can load

Re: .htaccess does not work under /var/www/

2002-03-20 Thread Crispin Wellington
. for the doc root and one for the public_html parts. Inside of these are options. These options may be overridden by .htaccess. There is an option AllowOverride which describes what can be overridden by .htaccess. All, None, or a combination of Indexes, Options, Limit etc. See the apache docs for more info. Crispin Wellington

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary full?

2002-03-20 Thread Crispin Wellington
oot (30 Megs or so should be enough to hold all the kernels you'll ever want) If that doesn't make absolute sense, then don't do it. Maybe du -sh to find whats taking up all the space. Kind regards Crispin Wellington

Re: strange behavior of executables

2002-03-20 Thread Crispin Wellington
run it so it runs inside gdb. Then theres no need for a core file at all. The debugger is your friend. Its tricky at first because of the new commands. But once you start experimenting, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Crispin Wellington

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-20 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 06:05, Greg Murphy wrote: > Greetings, > > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of > the time from clock cycles. I have not rebooted my machine in a week, so if

Re: PS/2 mouse lagging

2002-03-21 Thread Crispin Wellington
ng a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using > kernel 2.4.17. Any ideas? Try switching on DMA access on your ide bus. for i in a b c d; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

[Fwd: Re: PS/2 mouse lagging]

2002-03-21 Thread Crispin Wellington
issuing the hdparm you can set "Use PCI DMA by default when available". CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?

2002-03-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
ind soul either - give me a "cook > book" recipe, - or guide me through the installation > with a lot of messages? I reckon the best way would be to temporarily install either a floppy or a CD-ROM. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: moving from ext2 to reiserfs

2002-03-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
ce your existing HDD with. Ext2 can be converted to ext3 on the fly. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:04, stan wrote: > I have a woody machine with sound working for things like mp4blaster, > xwatv, etc. > > However, even though I have "use sound" check in Gonems configuratior, I'm > not geting it's sounds. > > Sugestiosn Try starting esound as a daemon process. Make sur

Re: vpn mystery

2002-03-25 Thread Crispin Wellington
nfig" tools > to set up the tunnel. > > anybody around these parts have any experience with VPN this > way? i'd love to pick your brain for a moment or two, if you can > help me out... Check out the CIPE project. Crypto IP Encapsulation. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
open*. Use something like lsof -n |grep magic Hope lsof will help you here :) Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
o if someone can point us to another programme, that would be great. I'm interested too. the programme pstops (apt-get install psutils) can disect postscript man pstops Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: using windows key to pop-up KDE menu?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
the functionality of the windows key in > windows -- i.e. have it pop up the main KDE window. It will be set as the meta key in the XF86Config file. Change the meta key to another in this config file (but don't change the keyboard type) and it *should* free the key up for other use.

Re: Domains/trusts

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
f you already have a border router/firewall, CIPE can use SOCKS5 to bind to the necessary ports on the live IP. It uses UDP for the carrier packets. As for "with or without any consideration of our NT-based network", it doesn't really matter. It all looks like TCP/IP (broadcast won'

Re: [OT]: Recommended Gaming Controller for Linux??

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
be a PS controller would be more straight forward. Have a read of the linux/Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt file in the linux kernel tree for more info. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenGL dev & NVIDIA driver

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
wrong ? > > Have I really compiled the application linked with the NVidia library > ? Use ldd to check. ldd will tell you which libraries its linking with and where. Are they the NVidia .so files? Compare with a working GL application. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSC

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 19:08, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i have found this program which looks ok: > > apt-get install poster > > :) Cool. I'll check that one out. Crispin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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