System trashed

Ok, I just upgraded to slink, and thought everything was ok, but that was before I rebooted. My system rebooted, and started xdm (or whatever), which I don't want, and the keyboard seemed to be locked up. I could move the mouse, but couldn't attempt to log in, or even switch to another virtual te

Re: My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.

When you turn on your computer, it should make a beep noise through the internal speaker as the BIOS initialises (POST). This is so you know it has started correctly, for example if your monitor fails. If you do not get any sort of sound at start up, the speaker may be broken, or disconnected.

rich text format

Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up thanks rich

Re: rich text format

I tried man pw but I don't have an entry. What is pw, and from where do I get it? Thanks Rich

local web proxies

n bother trying'. Thanks in advance Rich Harran

Getting X to run as a normal user

I one of those people who've moved from windows, and use their computers as a single user. Thus I've always done everything as root. I'm finally trying to get out of this habit, but it's not so easy once everything is set up. I'm having problems getting X running properly as a normal user: it lo

Thanks for X help and Smail help

Thanks for the help with X: changing the permissions of /dev/null worked. I hadn't had other problems with this, 'cos I'm wasn't using normal user operation very much. I've also been trying to get my mail through fetchmail + smail from a pop3 server. I type : smail -bd fetchmail

More problems becoming a 'normal' user

I emailed a problem on the list yesterday, about getting to use X as a normal user. The problem was the permissions of /dev/null, which I changed to: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root and everything worked. However, when I restarted today, I had the same problem, and found that the permission

still fighting for normality

I've been trying to get a dos partition mounted in group 'dos', with read-write permissions for those in this group. I found an old thread on this, and now have: /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat unmask=0002,gid=101,uid=0,showexec 0 2 in fstab, (where 101 is dos gid). However, the drive mounts with permissi

Thanks for help becoming normal and /dev/null problem

Thanks to everyone who helped me sort out the proper mounting of my dos drives so that the group 'dos' could access them rwx. As many of you suspected, it was my inability to distinguish between umask and unmask which was causing my problem (I have the same problem with umount: I read an

Re: CR key broken

I don't know if I'm barking up the wrong tree, but I've seen similar things over a slow telnet connection when I've eg. been editing mail messages. If this is the same thing, the problem is just with updating being slow. If there are a lot of lines to move down, this takes ages, and you don't see

fetchmail, exim, fvwm95, and netscape mail

I would like to use fetchmail to get my mail of a POP3 server, exim to sort it, and deal with the SMTP interaction with fetchmail, and Netscape mail to read it, and to compose outgoing mail with. Firstly, I got fetchmail & exim working together by using: exim -bd fetchmail -d 300 w

Compiling with X [bit off topic]

I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library. I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines: #include And I compile with: gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Compiling with X [bit off topic]

Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Cheers Rich On 26 Jan 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "Rich Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be > | portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I

netscape mail; mount on startup

just want a xterm that can't open for example an emacs window for root. My original question is in the attachment. Thanks for your help Rich Harran From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 7 13:27:39 1998 Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 13:27:19 +0000 From: Rich Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Debian Crash

My Debian system just crashed. This has never happened before, which is one of the things I like about Linux. I've got a pretty standard Hamm system, and I was running X with emacs (20), xmix, and netscape, with a navigator and mail window open. I went on a webpage I've visited many times before

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Crash]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Rich Harran wrote: > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:46:29PM +0000, Rich Harran. wrote: > > > My Debian system just crashed. > > [description] > > > > It sounds a lot like it may have been just a crash

Re:96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting something, or do I have a memory problem. (I only tried 'free' after following this thread!) TIA Rich Harran

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!

tried 'free' after > following this thread!) > > TIA > Rich Harran > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev > /null --- End Message ---

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

Not very enlightening: I cut and pasted: dmesg | grep Memory into an xterm, and it just did a linefeed. non the wiser Rich --- Begin Message --- On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:41:11PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: > I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting > somethi