Re: [techtalk] Linux Mandrake 7.0

2001-02-15 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:35:20AM -0500, coldfire wrote: > richie, > how about lynx? open up a terminal emulator (Eterm, xterm, etc) and see > if 'lynx freshmeat.net' will bring up their page. narrow it down to see > if it's a netscape specific problem or what. actually just typing lynx will wo

Re: [techtalk] sound card

2001-01-06 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Elizabeth Wright wrote: > > i've got instructions on how to configure the sound system. i log in as > root, stick in the first cd that came with the book, and start an x-terminal > session. i type sndconfig and get their little blue magic window. it has > the correct soun

Re: [techtalk] CDs won't play

2001-01-06 Thread Lyta Alexander
are your sound modules loaded? do you have an iso image mounted when you try to play an audio cd? anything show up in /var/log/debug or /var/log/error_log On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Darren wrote: > > Hi all, > > As of, well, an hour or so ago, my system will no longer play audio CDs. > This is someth

Re: [techtalk] Desperate Plea for CDROM mounting help!!

2000-11-19 Thread Lyta Alexander
have you tried as root: mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom Summer On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, S. Stubbs wrote: > > > > > Hey, it has been a while now and I have not been able to mount my > CDROM drive. I have mdk 7.2. I have one cdrom drive, it is recognized > correctly in the hardware. > It is I

Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-28 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Olivier Tharan wrote: > > Le 27 septembre 2000, Samuel Lavenz écrivait : > > There is a niftycool program called 'screen' that allows me to detatch a > > My question is this: Does there exist such a beast for X apps? > > You sure could take a look at VNC : http://www.uk.re

Re: [techtalk] ISDN and Linux

2000-08-14 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Rachel Andrew wrote: > > Hi > > I've tried to do this before unsuccessfully but I thought I'd have another > go at it. > > At the moment my network at home consists of two pooters. A doze box called > George and a Linux box called Dot. ATM i am connecting to the net > thr

Re: [techtalk] laptops

2000-05-15 Thread Lyta Alexander
i've an ibm thinkpad 380ed dual booting slackware and dos it was no problem setting up (i don't use X though so can't say about that part) except that ibm shipped it with the serial port disabled and i need that for my braille display On Mon, 15 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Caitlyn Máire Maritn wrote:

Re: [techtalk] cak-handed mice: resolved!

2000-04-01 Thread Lyta Alexander
if you want to change the mouse button sequence in console also you can give gpm the -B option :) from man gpm : -B sequence Set the button sequence. `123' is the normal sequence, `321' can be used by left-handed people, and `132' can be useful with two-but

Re: [techtalk] Su slow?

2000-02-05 Thread Lyta Alexander
is there anything unusual in /var/log/messages when you su? for example: in mine this line shows up: Feb 5 13:45:56 teep su[13164]: + tty8 lyta-root On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Sunnanvind wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When I hit the enter key after typing in the root

Re: [techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-26 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Sunnanvind wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Brian Engle wrote: > > > text file. Oh, if it matters, the box is running RH 6.1, just wondering if > > anyone else had seen this problem before or knew off the top of their head > > how to fix it. > > It's about the repeat rat

[techtalk] fyi [oclug] Syslog resolution (fwd)

1999-12-19 Thread Lyta Alexander
-- Forwarded message -- Hi, The new syslog package from Red Hat's update site fixes the problem. I think it uses datagram sockets instead of stream sockets. So Red Hat 6.1 users should go to: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA1999055-01.html and get the new s

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Julie Meloni wrote: > > > (slack 4.0) > > Sorry, but I can't remember how to check for specific packages with > Slackware. the list of installed packages is in /var/log/packages there's a program called pkgtool that you can

[techtalk] fyi Fwd: [RHSA-1999:041-03] File access problems in lpr/lpd

1999-10-27 Thread Lyta Alexander
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 27 19:08:25 1999 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:03:16 -0600 From: Scott Wunsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: [RHSA-1999:041-03] File access problems in lpr/lpd This is starting to get amusing. Red Hat has released three new versions of the lp

Re: [techtalk] Okay so I recompiled my kernel under RedHat 6.1

1999-10-26 Thread Lyta Alexander
if you need scsi emulation this option should be set SCSI emulation support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices, and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native ATAPI driver. ... that was from the Configure.help in th

[techtalk] [Fwd: SECURITY: [RHSA-1999:043] New wu-ftpd packages available] (fwd)

1999-10-21 Thread Lyta Alexander
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:08:38 -0600 From: Mike Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LOSURS Members <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Fwd: SECURITY: [RHSA-1999:043] New wu-ftpd packages available] If you are running wu-ftp from a RedHat 6.1 install, there is a maj

Re: [techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1 - almost solved

1999-10-15 Thread Lyta Alexander
looks like /etc/rc.d/inet.d/gpm calls /etc/sysconfig/mouse to determine the mouse type On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Michelle Leonard wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:08:00 -0700 (PDT) > From: Michelle Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [te

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-12 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Amanda Knox wrote: > Just This Girl wrote: > > > Did you try 'kill pid' or 'kill -9 pid'? 'kill -9' should bring down > > anything. > > Simple question (I hope): > > Why is it '-9' exactly? Are there different kill levels or something? What if > I typed 'Kill -1'? Just cu

Re: [techtalk] request(<-was) Terminals/screen

1999-10-12 Thread Lyta Alexander
i think alt+right or left arrow keys can be used to scroll past 24 consoles On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Erin Clarke wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:22:51 -0400 > From: Erin Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] request(<-was) Term

Re: [techtalk] Building ADSL - LAN

1999-10-08 Thread Lyta Alexander
you could check your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Just This Girl wrote: > Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 02:58:03 -0500 > From: Just This Girl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [techtalk] Building ADSL - LAN > > First off, I would like t