Real releases G2 player alpha

1999-05-20 Thread Larry 'Daffy7; Daffner
For those of you who haven't seen yet, the Linux Real player G2 alpha is out, and it works just fine with the latest potato bits. You can get it at http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html - I grabbed the Red Had 5.2/6.0 version and installed with alien (the generic linux package comes as a

Re: libungif?

1998-06-20 Thread Larry 'Daffy7; Daffner
> "WL" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WL> Thanks for your help. I'm assuming that "libungif" is some sort WL> of freeware clone of "libgif"? Will The way I understand it, it's just giflib with the compression and/or writing routines stubbed out. I'm not too clear on how everyt

Re: libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
> "WL" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WL> I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all WL> complaining that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it WL> be? There's no libungif package, according to WL> www.debian.org/packages.html. According to Jim,

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> We are working on a report of failure in US/central WRT Daylight DS> Savings Time, right? DS> There is one variable we haven't nailed down yet. The hardware DS> clock can be set either to local time or GMT (UTC). As I DS> rememb

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
>>>>> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Larry" == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> I would say to register it with suidmanager, leave it Larry> non-suid by default, an

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BG> One question: x11amp uses the real-time functions of Linux (and BG> sounds much better) if it's installed suid-root, but there are BG> unknown holes that this opens up. Should I use suidmanager and BG> make it suid? I would say

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-17 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
> "APH" == Adam P Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: APH> BTW, are .elc files arch-dependant or arch-indep? I've always APH> wondered about this. .elc files are architecture independent. However, they are not emacs-independent. What happens is: .elc files compiled with xemacs 19.x or em

Taking my leave/Packages available

1997-06-18 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
It is with great regret that I must give up my involvement with Debian. Between the large volumes of list mail every day and the other commitments in my life, I never seem to have proper time to devote to my packages or other projects of mine that have been on the back burner forever. Therefore,

Bug#4401: rcvtty doesn't work properly...

1996-09-05 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
Package: mh Version: 6.8.4-2 rcvtty looks for utmp in /etc/utmp, rather than /var/run utmp, which causes it to fail. This can be worked around by making a symbolic link, but that's an incorrect solution. It should be checking /var/run/utmp for a utmp entry. Also, after fixing that problem, it

Bug#4328:

1996-08-29 Thread Larry &#x27;Daffy7; Daffner
Package: util-linux Version: 2.5-5 If clock is invoked with the -u flag and the kernel has the real time clock enabled, it causes a segmentation fault. omitting the -u flag or running a kernel with the real time clock disabled will not cause the problem. I don't have the strace handy, but I can