Re: /proc/interrupts

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:43:29PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > If you need the number when it's not in use, get it from the > intr line in /proc/stat (first number is total). Wow. How do I read that? Off to the proc manpage for me. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soul

Re: mozilla & netscape

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ll get along fine :-). Wierd. I don't know what happened with me. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: problems with gnome

2000-10-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
gt; recognize any wm running at all. I'll give it a shot when I want to try gnome again. Currently I'm cruising in IceWM, and it's so lean and quick I'm not sure I want to go back. ;-) But hey, it's gnome-compliant, so... Thanks for the response, Mike -- Michae

Re: gnome won't start now

2000-10-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
sed to be, but it's there. Is that why gnome apparently isn't using it? It just sits there. No panel, menus, nothing. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace back to xdm. I could copy it manually, but I shouldn't have to according to the docs, and common sense. Mike -- Michael P. Soulie

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

2000-10-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:48:29PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes. in my setup i have > /var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just > press "c" to change mailboxes. i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i > reme

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

2000-10-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ll the mailboxes in > /home/fayard/Mail/. > I'm quite sure I had that on an old distibution, and I can't find anything > in the mutt > documentation. Don't start with 'd'. Start with '='. Hit '=d', and then Tab to complete. This ass

Re: [Fwd: dependencies rpoblem]

2000-06-20 Thread p . b . burton
After having used SuSE for almost a year, I have just installed Debian 2.1. One thing I missed right off the bat is the Pine mailer. It is not available from Debian AFAIK. I downloaded it this morning and now have it working. The problem I run into is I am "pbburton" on the Linux system but "p

Fetchmail problem

2000-06-20 Thread p . b . burton
Just recently installed 2.1. Standalone box with dialout ppp net connection. Running fetchmail and sendmail. The .fetchmailrc file says 'set daemon 600' but the daemon keeps dying on me so I have to manually do it over and over. I have used fetchmail on my previous system (SuSE) and have not

Re: Pine (Was: [Fwd: dependencies rpoblem])

2000-06-21 Thread p . b . burton
Thanks for this. Phil >If you're running potato (or probably woody) you can get an >unauthorized Pine binary from >http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ > >noah > >On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:09:19PM +, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 2.1. One th

Re: your mail

2000-06-22 Thread p . b . burton
Um ... I think this is the list for Debian GNU/Linux. You might get better results on a Red Hat mailing list. Phil On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Eric Gildhorn wrote: > I want to install Red Hat Linux 6 on a currently working > file server. My question is: how do i install this > program without loos

WTF

2000-06-24 Thread p . b . burton
Hi. Last night I did much apt-get upgrade by including frozen on my sources.list. I have basically 2.1 (slink) installed from cd from _Learning Debian GNU/Linux_ book. The problem is: I use procmail. Before "upgrading" I had man pages for procmail and procmailex. This morning I go to edit my

Unidentified subject!

2000-06-25 Thread p . b . burton
I am having troubles trying to upgrade to potato using apt-get. I enter 'apt-get update' and get the following: Fetched 445kB in 2m16s (3269B/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occu

Some apt-get problems

2000-06-25 Thread p . b . burton
I am trying this again with a decent subject line. Sorry about that. Phil > > I am having troubles trying to upgrade to potato using > apt-get. I enter 'apt-get update' and get the following: > > Fetched 445kB in 2m16s (3269B/s) > Reading Package Lis

diald problems

2000-08-11 Thread Joseph P Turner
Hello I'm running diald on this DEbian box and got it to work quite well , but then after a bit more mucking around I managed to stop it working :/ Basically the PAP authentication doens' twork. I get the followin ug 12 11:01:35 router chat[8281]: -- got it Aug 12 11:01:35 router chat[828

non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

2000-08-14 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
Hi, I was thinking about installing xfree4.0.1 on my debian system, but then I started worrying about how it would interfere with the debian package management. For instance, say I just install XF4, overwriting all the older stuff that debian has put there. What will happen when debian thinks it

Re: no netscape

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:41PM -0500, Joe Paxton wrote: > I recently installed 'potato' on my iMac and got X up and working - just one > problem. I click on the Netscape icon on the taskbar and nothing > happens. I installed the Netscape-pseudo package using dselect (which I am > assuming

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:26:01AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed sgmltools-2 but I am always getting this error: > > # sgml2latex --style=dookbook.dtd libggi-api.sgml > Processing file libggi-api.sgml > DTD check - Error: this sgml-tools package supports Linuxdoc DTD onl

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
That figure is in the unstable version of sgmltools-2, but it's in the wrong location. I plan to submit a bug report. Cheers, Mike On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:46:05AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Thank you very much it seems to work.. (I had jade installed also) I still > get som

RE: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread Jason P Holland
do you have apm installed?? i had it on my laptop, and it would restore the time in gmt, which was about 5 hours off. it took me a while to figure it out. it was kinda a stupid thing. maybe that is it, maybe its not. sure sounds weird if its not. if you think its cron, go into /var/messages a

ppp-2.4.0 routing problem in testing: tap0 issue?

2001-02-15 Thread Daniel P. Katz
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:208.192.101.

Fw: Debian crashes.

2001-02-20 Thread Alexey P. Ivanov
ar at console and in system logs. > And some errors programs from CRON report before crash of "out of memory" > errors, malloc failures or such... must be a memory leak or what ? > Nothing in process accounting logs seems to take that much memory (512 mb > RAM, 750 mb swap). &g

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Richard Taylor wrote: > > > > There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect > > and so forth. > > > > On Linux? I didn't know. Same name? WordPerfect, yes, but Adobe has cancelled the Beta of Frame on

fake packages?

2001-02-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey guys. How does this work? lupus:~# apt-get install latex Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting tetex-bin instead of latex I don't see a package called latex in the cache, but apt-get knew to grab tetex-bin. Where does it get that information?

Re: iptables and 2.4.1

2001-02-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:47:20AM -0500, spent187 wrote: > (i hope this posts properly) > > I am relatively new to linux, and have recently upgraded to woody, and > the 2.4.1 kernel. But now my ip masq'ing doesn't work. This is what I > had in 2.2.18pre with potato: > > echo -n "Starting IP

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:26:11PM -0800, Richard Taylor wrote: > And... then, you got the Gnome Office stuff... www.gnome.org The most recently is at Ximian, www.ximian.com. Abiword is maturing but it's got a ways to go yet. Staroffice 5.2 impresses me not. I still can't get it to sav

Debian crashes

2001-02-22 Thread Alexey P. Ivanov
My server crashes every week. error messages is : VM: read_swap_page: page already in page cache kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page It is bad block in swap area ? or other ? Best regards. Alexey P. Ivanov [ Adm

booting a rescue disk

2001-02-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I picked up an old Toshiba T4700CT laptop, and I'm trying to replace win95 on it. I can't seem to get the rescue image to boot. I've tried about 3 different boot disks, tested on my P-III, and they work, but on the Toshiba I just get a "boot failed" er

scsi emulation

2001-02-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer and xcdroast. So, I recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi support, emulation and scsi cdrom support. xcdroast still complains. So, I try them as modules instead, and get this lupus:~# depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules

Re: scsi emulation

2001-02-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
In xconfig, I selected generic scsi support, scsi emulation, and scsi CDROM. Mike On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:17:26AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > Hi! > > Obviously you lack some module.. what scsi modules did you compile? > > > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scs

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:20:12PM -0800, Richard Taylor wrote: > I've never had a problem with it... that surprises me. Surprised me too. It seemed to be working fine. A friend suggested printer settings saying he had the same problem. I wasn't trying to print mind you, but neither was he

emu won't work in kernel?

2001-02-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
This might be obvious to everyone else, but I just rolled a custom kernel, and since I almost always have music going, I built the emu module (SB Live!) into the kernel. Sound wouldn't work, as the open on /dev/dsp would come back with "no such device". As soon as I went back to loading it as a

xfree 4.0

2001-02-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2, and now my desktop looks horrible. The fonts are all bitmapped and grainy, and too large. I've crawled through the settings, read up on fonts from the XFree86 site, and I can't see anything wrong. Did anyone fight with this when they installed it?

Re: xfree 4.0

2001-02-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. Mike On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:17:32PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Hey people. I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2, and now my desktop looks > horrible. The fonts are all bitmapped and grainy, and too large. I've crawled > through the settings, read up on fonts f

Re: Debian 2.2 and Linksys LNE100TX - problems

2001-02-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:49:47PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jason Price wrote: > > Until you get a new kernel, you're SOL. That is not true. I am using 2 of those cards in my firewall running 2.2.12. You just need the updated tulip driver and pci-scan module. Mike

Re: Hot to install a different Xserver

2001-02-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:04:58PM -0800, Rick Commo wrote: > Newbie Debian user... > > I accidentally installed the wrong Xserver. During the install I thought I > would be given a choice so I said to when asked if I wanted to install > XF86_VGA16. > > The one I need is XF86_MACH64 for my ATI

rebuilding system map

2001-02-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I installed a new kernel by rolling my own and using make-kpkg. Then I decided to go back to the stock one, so I downloaded it and installed it with dpkg -i. Now... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.18pre21 does no

Re: xfree 4.0

2001-02-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:34:54AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > XFree 4.0 has a new way to handle scalable fonts. Probably you did > something that got it working. I am having the same problem with > fonts also--still working on the solution. Apparently the new font > server does scalable/true-ty

Re: Communicator-after-Mozilla

2001-02-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
: when I first start up mozilla, and then I'd like to start > communicator too, then another mozilla-window is opening instead of > communicator! > Any ideas how to solve thist? I sometimes want to use both apps. Same thing happens to me. I guess you could hack the netscape invocat

Re: Getting to the GUI...

2001-02-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
d depending on how well supported their hardware is. That can make you turn your back on an entire distro. It's a shame, but I understand. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea.

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
a bit of a pig though, and I had to shut off http 1.1 in the debug network menu to get it to stop sending me to the wrong websites. Hey, I've been trying to get it to fire off acroread or xpdf when a pdf is seen, but that refuses to work. No idea why. Have you had a problem with this? M

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:43:32AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > It's a bit of a pig though, and I had to shut off http 1.1 in the debug > network menu to get it to stop sending me to the wrong websites. Hey, I've > been trying to get it to fire off acroread or x

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
yed > with the weak-browser thang on linux) I use mutt for mail, I'm only interested in browsing. I think browsers that also make your breakfast are a tad too much like Emacs for me. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fl

help with rogers!

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
d settings still work, the new ones don't. They work from my wife's NT box, but no matter what I do, I can't get them working from my Linux box. Help! Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not nec

remote printing

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I print, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ lpr mail.out lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. I've checked, the the lpd daemon is running on both machines. What am I missing? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &q

Re: remote printing

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:24:08PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ lpr mail.out > lpr: connect: Connection refused > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > > I've checked, the the lpd daemon is running on both machines. > >

xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I recently installed XFree86 4.0 and am using the tdfx driver for my Voodoo 3. Is it automatically set up to use 3D accel, or do I still have to work to do if I want to play Quake? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fl

apt-get strangeness?

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3.2.3a-8) but it is not going to be installed But I _do_ have >= 3.3.2.3a-8! Help? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be su

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e: > it's automatically set up to use 3D acceleration. > > pete > > On Fri 02 Mar 01, 11:27 PM, Michael P. Soulier said: > > Hey people. I recently installed XFree86 4.0 and am using the tdfx > > driver for my Voodoo 3. Is it automatically set up to use 3D

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > oh, sorry -- i thought you were talking about quake 3. > > do yourself a favor. don't compile the original quake source. there's a > project quakeforge which is a group of people doing a re-write of quake, > similar to how prbo

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ill has the file open, but the file should be flagged for deletion. You should never be able to permanently damage the filesystem in this way. If you reboot the machine, will the space be properlly deallocated? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust,

making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large numbers of images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify -geometry argument doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly jus

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
plugins directory and > > ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . I tried this with the flash plugin, but I can't get mozilla to recognize it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not

Re: [OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
the VM first before it will do anything. Try the configuration wizard. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could

Re: Debian site down?

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Works for me. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925

Re: making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:32:57PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. Is there an easy way to make thumbnails for large numbers of > images? I'm thinking of Image Magick, but the mogrify -geometry argument > doesn't maintain the aspect ratio. Oh wait, it

Re: xfree4.0 and 3d accel

2001-03-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:33:36PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > I have the first and last by different names so I can fix those with > > symlinks. I don't have the X11 and Xext modules. They're apparently &g

Re: OT: problems with OpenGL

2001-03-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ave Mesa > installed (the newest version, whatever it is). Looks like you're missing a header file. The compiler doesn't know what the glPointParameterfvEXT function is. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

laptop boot image?

2001-03-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I heard a rumour that the toshiba laptop I have works with Slackware, so while I wasn't able to get Debian's boot disks to work, the Slackware bootamp.i image worked great. Is there a Debian laptop-specific boot disk? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EM

dga in xfree4.0.2

2001-03-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
on this on the XFree86 site. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as

Re: dga in xfree4.0.2

2001-03-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
t's a known problem. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925

Re: VMware work on Debian

2001-03-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Yup. I use it all the time. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925

Re: dga in xfree4.0.2

2001-03-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:06:34AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:05:09PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > No problem with full-screen vmware here. My /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > makes no mention of DGA. Try editing your config file. Actually Bob, c

Re: laptop boot image?

2001-03-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Yup. On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:40:31PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Did you try ide and compact images? > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:50:37PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Hey people. I heard a rumour that the toshiba laptop I have works with > > Slackwa

mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, I know there have been some licensing issues which is probably why so many of these disappeared, but is anyone still doing mp3 encoding on linux? I installed grip, but I don't have an encoder installed. What is everyone else using? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier &l

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
27;t find it in the west. I think a lot of the western sites were slapped with ceast and desist orders. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
m can't find www.mp3-dev.org: Non-existent host/domain Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous si

Re: mp3 encoding (fwd)

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
t orders. > > > Can you see http://www.mp3-dev.org/mp3 ? > > Sorry.. I mistyped www.mp3dev.org thats the site for lame. Ah, better. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is n

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Latreyte David wrote: > Put deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/source.list and then type > apt-get install lame Well, the source-line didn't work, but I grabbed the .deb in my browser. Thanks! Mike -- Michael

Re: Digital Camera to Linux

2001-03-12 Thread Jason P Holland
have you looked into gphoto?? www.gphoto.org it seems to have support for your camera. Jason -Original Message- From: hammack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: User Debian Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: Digital Camera to Linux Are there applications out t

Re: Realplayer: You are running in non-interactive mode...

2001-03-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ng global > destruction. It's calling close on a non-existent file handle. Looks like there's an execution path where the communicate method is never called to create it. This is definitely a bug. I would let Joey Hess know. =head1 AUTHOR Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =

RE: man missing !

2001-03-13 Thread Jason P. Holland
Yeah, the man command itself is not in your path. was it working before? $ whereis man and add that to your path. Jason > -Original Message- > From: franck routier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > franck routier > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:53 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debi

Re: debconf bug (was Re: Realplayer: You are running in non-interactive mode...)

2001-03-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
figuration data stored, and can I modify it by > hand? I would hack the appropriate line of code in the file. ie. change $this->{read_handle}->close; to $this->{read_handle}->close if $this->{read_handle}; That should do it. Mike -- Michael P. S

Re: Something's missing? (konqueror is not loading .gif)

2001-03-14 Thread Brent P Buchholz
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:16:31AM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > Hi > > The problem is that konkeror is not loading images (i believe that does > not > load .gif only, .jpg are loaded ok). I have been seeking dselect but were > Have you got a gif library installed? Try apt-get insta

RE: A SSH question.

2001-03-14 Thread Jason P. Holland
Perhaps you should try using the -P option, which will use a non-privileged port for outgoing connections. Jason > > I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm > hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in > short easy to understand words.

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
board because I find handwriting > recognition too fiddly to let you get any real work done, like > writing the occasional C program ;>) Check out the Agenda. http://www.agendacomputing.com/ Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust,

Re: Dual ethernet cards

2001-03-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ideas what I overlooked, or what might be wrong? > > > > Thanks for any input. > > Steve > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >

RE: How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Jason P. Holland
go to http://www.cheapbytes.com and buy a debian cd. they are cheap and very convenient if you don't have a high speed connection to do a network install over the internet. plus, if your new to linux, having a cd around to do a quick reinstall is always nice! ;) Jason -Original Message

RE: ppp configuration problem

2001-03-22 Thread Jason P. Holland
If you manually add a route to the gateway on your subnet of the ip address your assigned, use a x.x.x.1 address, does it work? Jason > > I am having difficulty getting my modem to communicate > correctly with my > ISP. The problem is that once connected I do not get a route > or gateway that > a

RE: deleting specific files

2001-03-23 Thread Jason P. Holland
find /dir -name "*.doc" -exec rm -rf {} \; Jason > > Hi debianers! > I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form > *.doc, scattered > into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What > should I do? > (a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but > unfortunatly

Re: nvidia tnt2 drivers and Xfree 24bit true color

2001-03-23 Thread Brent P Buchholz
Truecolor on the nVidia driver is 32 bit. The 3.3.6 _SVGA server will work nicely at that depth. Brent

Re: CD player: kscd error / how to mount audio cd?s?

2001-03-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ROM to tell it to start playing. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925

Re: Soundblaster Live Player! Which driver?

2001-03-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
2.2r2. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925

resizing partitions

2001-03-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Partition Magic isn't an option. I'd just like to grow my /tmp partition a bit. Options? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure wh

Re: Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
gt; GV*scrollForeground: Blue > > did not work for GV. You can set resources mentioned in the gv manpage in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file. Remember to merge it into your current session when you modify it. ie. xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <

Re: Can shell-script be setuid ?

2000-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
#x27;t know that. I learn more about this bloody language every day. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

getting printing working

2000-10-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: So, why wouldn't the printer be responding? Works under windows so it's not the hardware. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort.&

crash - human stupidity - no netscape, no mozilla

2000-10-10 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
Hi, First a crash and then some human stupidity caused me to loose my / partition. I just installed a fresh debian woody and almost everything (X, networking, ...) works. I cannot get netscape and mozilla to work. *** Attempt 1, use the installation in /usr/local/ When I type netscape I get:

what's djscript?

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
upus:/home/msoulier# cat /var/log/lp-errs /bin/sh: /usr/bin/djscript: No such file or directory /etc/magicfilter/dj690c-filter: /usr/bin/djscript -q failed What's djscript?? lupus:/home/msoulier# apt-cache search djscript Nothing. What's it talking about? Mike --

apt-cache: was:what's djscript?

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
msoulier]$ apt-cache search djtools djtools - Tools for HP DeskJet printer. That works, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ apt-cache search djscript [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ ...does not. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used

printing works!

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Woohoo! Yet another peripheral conquered! Printing works! I installed djtools, and magicfilter's dj690C filter works perfectly on my DJ 812C. I love it when stuff works... Thanks all, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is u

Re: sound card and ethernet card configuration

2000-10-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
t card which is not > one of the choices in modconf, how can I configure my ethernet card ? Try either the ne2k-pci.o or tulip.o drivers. I have a 3Com Fast Ethernet PCI card, and it takes the tulip driver. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is

Re: dhcpcd weirdness

2000-10-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
n file for the > equivalent. But he's adding one, via his config files, no? I'm using dhcpcd and the config files, and with rogers it often takes me multiple tries to finally get an IP address. They really suck. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the wor

Re: potato LateX error

2000-10-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ine appears in most > of them. > > Is there a workaround? No idea. You might want to try tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de and ask if they know about it. If it's a bug, I'd definitely want it fixed. I use LaTeX quite a bit. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: dhcpcd weirdness (resolution)

2000-10-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
simple after all. Thanks for the responses! With Rogers I have to use -I for the client ID. Not sure what the difference is from hostname, but apparently there is one. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massi

Re: console MP3 player

2000-10-12 Thread Daniel P. Katz
I use mpg123 with no problems. Note, however, that it's in stable/non-free. Anybody got a free alternative? Dan Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there such a thing as a console-only MP3 player for Debian? I > spend a lot of time in Command Line lately, and I don't want to > start

Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...

2000-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html pgpA2K1x3oH0E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
iting mail via # Use vim as my composing editor. set editor='vim -u .vimtextrc' Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html

realplayer

2000-10-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
that simply offer a .ram file are working perfectly for streaming video. Does anybody have video working off the CNN website? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley H

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
7;t even know there was an update-inetd program. I always hack the inetd.conf file by hand. Can't you just uncomment the telnet entry? You shouldn't use telnet anyway, unless you're on a closed network. Too much cleartext. Use ssh. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
s remain a bit of a mystery, > though I've mapped a lot of it out. Yeah, I might switch to procmail from this perl filter myself, just for the public support... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive

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