Re: Problems with Speak-Freely under Debian Linux

Ryan Smith-Roberts wrote: > This is because SpeakFreely is compiled in full-duplex mode, and 99% of > the soundcard drivers under Linux are NOT full-duplex (IE you cannot send > data to the speaker and read data from the mic at the same time). Speak-freely version 6.1b-4 is compiled without full d

Re: Problems with Speak-Freely under Debian Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Steve Kostecke wrote: > I don't have an explanation. But I do have the same problem. > > > I was able to send voice, but when it returned to me, sfspeaker > > started to write error messages: > > opening output audio device: D

Problems with Speak-Freely under Debian Linux

I don't have an explanation. But I do have the same problem. > I was able to send voice, but when it returned to me, sfspeaker > started to write error messages: > opening output audio device: Device or resource busy -- _ _ Steve Kostecke

Re: exim / mh problems

Ken Lauffenburger wrote: ... >> mh has probably been compiled to use sendmail. Get the source and recompil >e >> it. >> >OK, I'll try that. > >But I thought that exim was supposed to be a drop-in replacement for >sendmail (?). For instance, there are sendmail links to /sbin/ex

Re: emacs 20.*

On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 07:18:14PM +0200, Gustaf Erikson wrote: > > I've heard a lot about Emacs 20.*. But there doesn't seem to be a > Debian package out. How come? There is an xemacs20 in unstable. Don't know about emacs. > And don't tell me to Debiainize it myself. I haven't got that sort of

Re: PAS16 and cdrom....

On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 01:02:37PM -0500, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > > Hi, although this has nothing to do with Debian in paticular ... I hope > that I can get some help with the Linux end of this problem > > I got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and the cdrom that comes with it ... I put > it in and c

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I would be surprised if you could find a debian package newer that 0.3.3c (I > filed a bug report against this old version). get the 0.4.2c at: > > http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/ Oh, nice of you, so I won't go arowing in hamm direct

Re: Where is xload program?

"Daniel J. Mashao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for xload package and I don't know where it is? xproc package > How can I find out where it is w/o having to waste bandwidth? and There is a search engine for pacakges on www.debian.org. You can also look onto your Debian CD-ROM, th

Re: Netscape's Stale Lock Files -- Automatic Removal

Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I grew weary of starting Netscape after it crashed only to get the > message about there being a stale lock file. So I added this small > script to my Netscape wrapper. It seems to work. Is there a better > way of doing this? I don't think so. Yo

Re: Q: How to add to X Mngr popup menu

"Dean C. Sullinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The subject line says it all. I am using > Afterstep as my WinMngr. I would like to > add menu items both to the menu that pops > up when you left mouse click on the > background and to the Afterstep menu. > > There must be a doc for this somepla

Re: 2.0.31 kernel

I had sucessfully installed the 2.0.31 2 days ago, have not working out about the advantage of it, a major notice after rebooting is the disappearance of pci unknown, where it used to be coming out every time I boot my 2.0.30 kernel, that is all I know..:-) good luck kusuma -Original Message-

PAS16 and cdrom....

Hi, although this has nothing to do with Debian in paticular ... I hope that I can get some help with the Linux end of this problem I got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and the cdrom that comes with it ... I put it in and compiled the kernel to use it ... However ... the sound output is very very s

Re: Netscape??

On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: > Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: > > > > > I have Netscape 4.03 (non-beta, full release) and it comes with it's own > > > installer. Just download the file from: > > [cut] > > > > Yeah, I guess I'll just br

emacs 20.*

I've heard a lot about Emacs 20.*. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package out. How come? And don't tell me to Debiainize it myself. I haven't got that sort of expertise... /g. -- Gustaf Erikson <---*---> 59*19'N 18*05'E email :

2.0.31 kernel

Anyone care to give their opinion on the new 2.0.31 kernel? Manoj any idea when the package will be out? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The files in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups are the groups that will be > downloaded next time fetch runs. That's strictly correct, but let me expand on it a little. When fetch sees e.g. interesting.groups/comp.os.linux.advocacy, it reads all new article

Re: Security Problem !?!

> > No, I was not running patch as root. > I've done it a number of times now with the same result ! Well, if that is true, then eighter you've got a setuid patch (likely, though it means whoever did it should be banned from ever touching a keyboard again. If you did it, then tough), or you've r

Re: exim / mh problems

> >leisure:~> send > >Use "/home/ken/Mail/drafts/2"? y > >post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available > >send: message not delivered to anyone > > > mh has probably been compiled to use sendmail. Get the source and recompile > it. > > -- > Oliver Elphick

Re: Security Problem !?!

No, I was not running patch as root. I've done it a number of times now with the same result ! I have not changed anything with regard to patch I'll test again today, but I'm sure I'll get the same results. Matthew On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if this

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 09:55:20AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Oct 16, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote > > The big catch is that you have to edit some files to alter which > newsgroups you download and I also never seem to see which new groups are > created. The files in /var/spool/news/interesting

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 09:04:14PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > #define AWE_DEFAULT_BASE_ADDR 0x620 /* base port address */ > > > > #define AWE_DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE 4096 /* kbytes */ > > > > > > > > Then it should work. > > > > > > Done

RE: Q: gcc & cpp

On 17-Oct-97 Dean C. Sullinger wrote: >>> I have written a basic C program just to try >>> out gcc, the source code is... >>> >>> When I executed the application, it ran >>> yet I did not get the "This is a test" >> >>You probably got the wrong "test" program. There's one built into bash >>and t

Re: ppp

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK. Now and again, when I try to go online via pon (ppp), the > modem hangs up before I'm connected but pppd just sits there and never > goes away. Try killing chat. How long does it sit there? You might be able to add a timeout to chat, if it's the problem. --

Re: nslookup failure due to "Connection refused"

"Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1, > and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working. > The error message is >*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed Are you running BIND on your

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

On Oct 16, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote > Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I now use inn and newsx [ ... ] > > INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks > everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET > using a Unix-like file system. The thing

Re: Kernel Panic !!!!!

On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 03:12:21AM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > Maybe, maybe not. Best case, you found your first bad block. It can't always have been there, the machine worked before ... > Worst case, you are seeing the beginning of the end of your harddrive. If the drive isn't too old,

Re: ramdisk usage/errors ??

> > Could you please fix you mailer? When I reply, I don't see > any text of your message. Oh, and while you're at it, fix the rest of your mail system too: > Subject: mail failed, returning to sender > Reference: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > |- Failed addresses follow:

Re: ramdisk usage/errors ??

Could you please fix you mailer? When I reply, I don't see any text of your message. > I'm sorry to bother you but I need to ask some questions pertaining to > Linux ramdisk support. > [..] > > Oct 17 01:18:26 Kernel: end_request:I/O error,dev 01:01, sector 16890 >...

Re: Security Problem !?!

> > I'm not sure if this is suppose to happen, but it sure > looks serious to me... > > While patching some source code I noticed that all the files > that were patched were now group owned by root !?! > > The command I used was: > patch -p1 < patch.diff > > I've done this a few times to check,

MOMSpider

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, is there a debian package for MOMSpider or a similar tool. Or does anyone know, how I get the MOMSpider distribution to work with perl5? Thanks Ralf Ralf Comtesse

Re: kde for debian's menu program

On Sat 18 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > Has anyone added a kde converter for Debian's menu program (like those of > all afterstep, fvwm2/95, etc.)? If so, where can I download it? kdebase includes such a converter, but it isn't working... but i'm fixing it. andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Dselect: Obsolete packages really obsolete?

Hi, Deselect tells me that there are obsolete packages in my debian system (I use stable contrib non-free bo). One of the obsolete packages is the modules-package. When I try to remove it, Debian tells me that I use a modular kernal and the modules-package cant be removed... Why is it listed as

Re: Kernel Panic !!!!!

On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest > Error} > hda: read-intr: error 0x49 {UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=1897876, > sector 180244 > end_request: I/O dev 03:02 sector 180244 > Is

Re: exim / mh problems

Ken Lauffenburger wrote: >Hello, > >I have been running sendmail on my machine at home for a long time >with few problems. I use mh and exmh, and sometimes elm. > >When I recently installed Debian on a machine at work I decided to try >exim instead of sendmail. I liked it so I repla

where is iostat?

Hi, Is there a version of iostat available for Linux? I've search for this utility but I can't seem to find a version for Linux. Can you generate the same output as provided by the iostat utility with the hdparm utility. I've got two drives each of which is connected to it's own ide controller.

ramdisk usage/errors ??

Hi, I'm sorry to bother you but I need to ask some questions pertaining to Linux ramdisk support. Most of the information I've found concerns installation/boot floppy usage but I have a different purpose in mind. I'm using the Squid Proxy server which generates several log files: access.log, cach

Kernel Panic !!!!!

Hi My Linux box had problems shutting down when I Ctrl-Alt-Del, so I can boot up in Windows, and now Linux would not boot up. When I boot up, after the message - Running /etc/init.d/boot - I get the error message hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest

Re: kde for debian's menu program

On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 12:38:33AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > Has anyone added a kde converter for Debian's menu program (like those of > all afterstep, fvwm2/95, etc.)? If so, where can I download it? A new version of KDE for Debian was uploaded today. It should hit ftp.debian.org and mirrors

kde for debian's menu program

Has anyone added a kde converter for Debian's menu program (like those of all afterstep, fvwm2/95, etc.)? If so, where can I download it? Thanks, -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Booting to SCSI

On 14 Oct 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > (an AWESOME combination, BTW ) How do I make the system boot from > the SCSI drive instead of the IDE drive? > > Yes, I know I can make the LILO in the MBR of the IDE drive point to > the Linux partition on the SCSI drive, and I have done this; but I > would

RE: Q: gcc & cpp

>> I have written a basic C program just to try >> out gcc, the source code is... >> >> When I executed the application, it ran >> yet I did not get the "This is a test" > >You probably got the wrong "test" program. There's one built into bash >and there's also an (equivalent) one in in /usr/bin/

Security Problem !?!

I'm not sure if this is suppose to happen, but it sure looks serious to me... While patching some source code I noticed that all the files that were patched were now group owned by root !?! The command I used was: patch -p1 < patch.diff I've done this a few times to check, and each time it chan

Re: packages from parallel Zip drive

If your installed kernel has support for the zip drive (it recognizes the zip drive as a scsi device, sda?) you should be able to just mount the zip drive normally, such as mount /dev/sda? /mnt, and then just use it. If there is no support for the zip drive already built in, you will need to compi