Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to > > transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will > > work with Debian. It's my Hauppauge WinTV card > > it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versi

Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

Timo Reunanen wrote: > Does anyone know when XFree86 3.3.3.1 get some kind of fix to SiS6326 chip > based cards like Diamond Speedstart A50 what I have? > > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- I'm using a pre-XFree release of newer SiS X-Server. I downloaded it from SuSE at late October (It was dated O

Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versions > > Just because it works with Windows doesnt guarantee it's work with Linux. > It's a WinTV card. Basicly, logic suggests it's a Win-hardware, and > therefor you can not use it with L

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:53:02PM +0200, scratch wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > P.S. `lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc' on the command line works fine, how can I add > > that to the .bash_profile? > > Just adding 'alias lynx="lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc" ' doesn't work? I think you shou

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Yes, WordPerfect is very nice. Unfortunely, neither SO nor WP > > are "free" in the opensource sense, but it was WP that got me to > > wondering if there was a serious OSS word processor project out > > there somewhere. > > > > This thread piqued

Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

> I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to > transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will > work with Debian. It's my Hauppauge WinTV card > it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versions Just because it works with Windows doesnt gua

Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > I've noticed in the newer kernels there is now support for TV tuners > and FM tuner > > I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to > transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will > work with Debian. It's my Ha

ssh problem: stdin is not a tty

Hello, since a couple of weeks I'm having problem ssh or scp to my laptop: I'm getting this error stdin: is not a tty I can ssh to everyother location or scp, but not to my laptop. I'm running potato and kernel 2.2.3. Any ideas on what the problem can be? graziano -- Cu do sc

using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

I've noticed in the newer kernels there is now support for TV tuners and FM tuner I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will work with Debian. It's my Hauppauge WinTV card it's a TV/Radio tuner which works und

System time is broken

Ever since we went over to summer time here in the UK my system has been broken. It started with the extra hour not being added after the change. I then tried to correct it using the date command, and have then tried the hwclock command (which worked). My problem is that whenever I use standby on m

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Yes, WordPerfect is very nice. Unfortunely, neither SO nor WP > are "free" in the opensource sense, but it was WP that got me to > wondering if there was a serious OSS word processor project out > there somewhere. > This thread piqued my interest. I ran across this site wh

Xawtv: no sound output

Hi, I have problem to get sound from my tv card. My harware: I have the 2.2.1 kernel with BTTV module support. I use XAWTV from the potato. My card come with bttv 878 chipset I have cs4232 sound module support (built in motherboard) Some logs: bash-2.02$ xmixer -all -debug -device /dev/mixer x

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

Daniel Mashao wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > > I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and > > AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any > > other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the > > goals is

Re: Size mismatch for xlib6g

Hi, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 21:44:27 -0800, Ingvaldur . Sigurjonsson wrote: > > >Get:1 http://master.debian.org xfree-3.3.3.1/ xlib6g 3.3.3.1-0 [956kb] > > Uhm, I'd say fetch it manually and install it manually. > So I did, downloaded xlib6_... xlib6g_... and xlib6g-d

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Installation

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > > "... iso9660 not supported by kernel" is there. Why? > iso9660 is a filesystem type. The kernel's complaining that it doesn't > have that module installed, and so can't read the filesystem. > > > . configuring device driver modules > > . fs modul

[Q] Midnight Commander

How could I say to the MC to get into that directory where I stand, after I leave the MC ? I observe that the directory showed by MC different from get into after I leave the MC. Sorry of my english:) Thanks Attila Debian 2.1/2.0.36

Re: shell scripting

On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 03:46:27PM -0600, Craig Hancock wrote: > Hello al I was wondering if someone can tell me of some website taht > talk aboput shell scripting in great detail thanks The definitive reference for bash can be found (among other places) at: http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bas

Re: Announce: 3D graphical install for Debian

t; > For an early demo of this technology, please try the current > > development boot floppy on my machine at > > ftp://pfaffben.user.msu.edu/misc/resc1440-3d-19990401.bin > > > > Pleased to bring you the future in Debian installs, > > > > Ben.

shell scripting

Hello al I was wondering if someone can tell me of some website taht talk aboput shell scripting in great detail thanks

booting from zip

Hello, On this side i read that it is posible to boot from zip. Could you please tell me what it costs and where i can order it. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9708/msg00560.html greetings, Arie

Re: Screen resolution

Why dont you post error messages to the list? Chances are, it will say that no valid modes are found (at least there are ways that can work to go around that. I have a more/less readable file on my page, about how to setup video modes. Try that too), but just to be sure, post them here, and we'll s

Re: mime types in KDE

> The only problem here is that you have KDEDIR set. It should not be set > at all. I've been using the KDE 1.1 debs for quite a while (since they > were released) and I've had no problems... When I installed the debs, I am sure I saw a message that stated I had successfully installed KDE and th

Re: April Fools?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it just me, the current date, or am I seeing a bunch of messages come > throught that I could have sworn I'd seen previously? > > -Jay > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I thought it was just me, but since you saw them too, I gue

Re: where is ldd ?

On 1 Apr 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > :-> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What version of ldso do you have installed. It should contain ldd (the > > potato version does not, however, since it is now included in libc6 2.1. > > > Bob, I installed the version 1

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

tkirc works fine for me. Bob On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, BENJAMIN FARRELL wrote: > Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x (other > than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click (yagirc > anyone). I still find for everyday use Win95/NT is better (quaking

Re: Announce: 3D graphical install for Debian

ter, so these requirements should be > acceptable to everyone. > > For an early demo of this technology, please try the current > development boot floppy on my machine at > ftp://pfaffben.user.msu.edu/misc/resc1440-3d-19990401.bin > > Pleased to bring you the future in

Message from cron

Hi, I keep getting this message from cron daily: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to root.root 4755 I have not touched the permissions for sendmail. I am using exim, so "sendmail" in /usr/sbin is a link. What does this mean? TIA -

Re: Debian-Gnome mailing list

> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > If I remember right, I heard of a debian-gnome list some time ago. But it > > is > > not in the mailing-list archive. Does anybody know more of it? > > You are probably looking for debian-gtk-gnome. > But it is not on the archive either...

Re: mime types in KDE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I am running Slink and KDE. My mime stuff is in > > /usr/share/mimelnk(I installed KDE from deb packages) > > and my KDEDIR is /usr/bin/X11 > > Is there anything wrong with this picture? > Should I remove the KDE deb

Re: Debian-Gnome mailing list

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > If I remember right, I heard of a debian-gnome list some time ago. But it is > not in the mailing-list archive. Does anybody know more of it? You are probably looking for debian-gtk-gnome. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Debian-Gnome mailing list

If I remember right, I heard of a debian-gnome list some time ago. But it is not in the mailing-list archive. Does anybody know more of it? --Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni StuttgartTel.: 0711-7816-215

Re: The newbie needs more help.

Hi, On Thu, 01 Apr, 1999 à 02:05:26AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > IBM PS/2, 386 > 6 megs ram > 58 meg esdi hard drive > MCA (ugh!) architecture > 1 1.44 floppy > > Ok. I tried the fdisk fix. No good. I tried the MCA site > http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/default.htm that was suggested

April Fools?

Is it just me, the current date, or am I seeing a bunch of messages come throught that I could have sworn I'd seen previously? -Jay

Re: Screen resolution

At 4/1/99 7:39:00 AM, you wrote: >Why don't you just increase the resolution? >So...change the resolution. If you can get 1024x768 in windows, you should >be able to get at least 800x600 in Linux, if not better. Just rerun >xf86config. I have tried to but then X won't start. Gives me a bunch of e

Re: Creation of Device for CD-ROM

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: : Hello. : : Figures... Unfortunably... I do not have those devs on my dev : directory. So.. it seems that I need to make those devices. Can you help on : that so I can get my CD-ROM working? Either a copy of those files or other : m

Re: Size mismatch for xlib6g

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 21:44:27 -0800, Ingvaldur . Sigurjonsson wrote: >Get:1 http://master.debian.org xfree-3.3.3.1/ xlib6g 3.3.3.1-0 [956kb] Uhm, I'd say fetch it manually and install it manually. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your

Size mismatch for xlib6g

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade to XFree 3.3.3.1 from http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1 but I always get this "size mismatch from package xlib6g". I've tried several time without success, so now I wonder if anyone else has had the same problem and if there is a solution to it? The output

Re: where is ldd ?

*- On 1 Apr, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote about "Re: where is ldd ?" > :-> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What version of ldso do you have installed. It should contain ldd (the > > potato version does not, however, since it is now included in libc6 2.1. > > > Bob, I

mime types in KDE

I am running Slink and KDE. My mime stuff is in /usr/share/mimelnk(I installed KDE from deb packages) and my KDEDIR is /usr/bin/X11 Is there anything wrong with this picture? Should I remove the KDE debs and install KDE from source? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: where is ldd ?

:-> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What version of ldso do you have installed. It should contain ldd (the > potato version does not, however, since it is now included in libc6 2.1. Bob, I installed the version 1.9.10-1 that comes with the Official CD number 1 of vers

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > As an example of how much control over websites the evil empire actually > has: http://www.userfriendly.org/ has bit the dust, leading to a new > "gray ribbon" campaign . > > Unless the whole thing is related to th

Disk usage utility?

Hi all, I was wondering if there's a utility like top to see who is accessing the drives. The machine has been going nuts with disk access for no obvious reason, and we don't know if it's a program running in the background, one of our shell users, or something else. Thanks, Chris

Re: Creation of Device for CD-ROM

Hello. Figures... Unfortunably... I do not have those devs on my dev directory. So.. it seems that I need to make those devices. Can you help on that so I can get my CD-ROM working? Either a copy of those files or other methods will help so I can get it moving. Thanks for the

Help Installing Linux

Further to the advise of 30th March to check whether the file "linux" via Netscape came with extension ".htm" and to save it as only Linux and not Linux.htm. I tried to do that but could not achieve that. So I tried to download the file (by keeping the shift key down while downloading) again and it

Re: need to scan drive thoroughly

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > Hello, > > well, if any of you are wondering, I was able to get debian installed on > the system by low level formatting the IDE drive from BIOS (LILO kept > giving crc errors upon uncompressing Linux). > Now I have another problem...anything that I down

Enlightenment .15 required debs

I am trying to install the enlightenment 0.15 package, obtained from www.debian.org via a link from the Enlightenment download page. The package for Enlightenment requires that I have imlib1 >= 1.9.4 installed, but I am unable to find this package anywhere. Unstable only offers 1.9.3-4. I tri

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > The issue is not that the Linux kernel would still be available > > > as open-source, the problem is what happens when 85-95% of app > > > developers are writing their software only for

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

Happy April fool's On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application > to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning > "wonderful world of windows" but I can't remember the web address. > > Does anyone know anything about this ? >

Help! I can't even login!

Hi, I have a debian system installed on my box, and it has been working fine for the past 6 months or so. Yesterday, I decided it was time to update my packages, so I ran dselect, it downloaded about 100Mb of stuff, and started installing them. Everything went fine, until it started displaying rep

Re: where is ldd ?

What version of ldso do you have installed. It should contain ldd (the potato version does not, however, since it is now included in libc6 2.1. Bob On 1 Apr 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > I've lost ldd, looks like it's not included in the slink distribution. > Is this a bug or am I suppo

Re: Aagh! A little problem with Corel WP8

Both libc5 and libc6 have a libXt.so.6. /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 is libc6. The libc5 version is in /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6. If you don't have this, install xlib6 (and possibly libc5 and xpm4.7). If you are running a Debian version <2.0, the above doesn't apply. Bob On Thu, 1 Apr 199

Re: Do We Need a New Evangelist?

On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 04:40:57PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > > On 29 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Since Eric Raymond has expressed a desire to retire as Open Source > > evangelist, > > I've written an article "Do We Need a New Evangelist?" discussing how he > > sh

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Kent West writes: > But isn't this the case only if the provider (or whatever) file directly > references the serial port rather than a symlink like /dev/modem? Which is why such a symlink should never exist. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Solaris 7 dual boot

Has anyone here looked at Solaris 7 for Intel? Is there any problem setting up a dual boot? Can you make any comparisons to Debian Gnu/Linux? Thanks

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, athos wrote: > Ivan wrote: > ivna> I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application > ivna> to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning > ivna> "wonderful world of windows" but I can't remember the web address. > > ivna> Does anyone know anything about this

Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation

Is there a way to say apt that the system should be slink except for some packages (eg. wmaker, x11amp, gnome, wine) that should come from potato, so that I can safely issue an apt-get upgrade without being asked to download 63.1Mb of packages? TYA, Enrico -- PGP key available on finger -l [EMAIL

where is ldd ?

I've lost ldd, looks like it's not included in the slink distribution. Is this a bug or am I supposed to use something else instead? It has disappeared since I made a total upgrade to slink yesterday. Thanks Pf -- --

Re: what exactly is a "segmentation fault"

rich wrote: > > >Every item in the list should have a left and right side. > > Here is what that tells me - it seems like everything is okay? > > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) > libvgagl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1 (0x40058000) > libX11.so.6 => /usr

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Carl Johnson writes: > You might want to look into the 'connect' program from > 'http://www.caesium.fr/freeware/connect/'. Interesting, but it doesn't address Mark's problem. It also requires that pppd be configured in an idiosyncratic fashion. > It tracks multiple connect attempts so none tramp

Re: kernel eats alot of memory (fwd)

Fethi Okyar Research Assistant Computational Solid Mechanics MMAE Department, IIT Chicago, IL 60616-3793 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:14:10 -0600 (CST) From: Fethi

Aagh! A little problem with Corel WP8

A (hopefully) small problem ... When I run WordPerfect 8 it says "Can't load file libXt.so.6" and quits. Problem is, I have this file. It's part of libc5, no? The libc5 data is in usr/X11R6/lib and WP8 is in ~/WP8/bin. Any suggestions? Thanks again - Bill

Anyone help set up Iomega ZIP drive please?

I have installed an Iomega ZIP 100 parallel drive and it works under DOS. I have read the HOWTO but there seem to be some differences relative to the latest kernel (2.2.5), which I'm using. I've compiled in SCSI support, SCSI Disk support, and IOMEGA parallel support (which I think is unnecessary)

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > P.S. `lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc' on the command line works fine, how can I add > that to the .bash_profile? Just adding 'alias lynx="lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc" ' doesn't work? -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --::

Re: [Fwd: star office]

I feel your pain. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get StarOffice to work on my machine with an S3 card, with no success. It doesn't just crash when I read mail; usually if I have it on for about five minutes, it will freeze and won't boot up again. (It also then causes problems when I try t

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

John Hasler wrote: > Robert V. MacQuarrie writes: > > Put this is /usr/local/bin and call it ispon It isnt anything > > fancy but it should work for you until ppp's maintainer, Philip Hands, has > > time to maybe add a check into ppp itself. when run it'll simply tell you > > if pppd is or isn't r

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Isn't this what the line: ABORT "NO CARRIER" should do in the chat script? On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:43:45AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > This morning I typed "pon" to dial up a ppp connection, only to hear > noise on my modem to idicate that the line was already in use. I > quickly typed

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Mark Phillips wrote: > This morning I typed "pon" to dial up a ppp connection, only to hear > noise on my modem to idicate that the line was already in use. I > quickly typed "poff", but it was too late --- I had already killed my > father's connection to the internet. He was not pleased as I ha

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Mark Phillips writes: > Why does pon kill his connection? Pon is just simple script: #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} > Well because pon merrily walses in, spewing out phone numbers and other > noise onto the line. Your modem should drop the connection when it fails to get dialtone.

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Bud Rogers writes: > The most your father should hear is maybe a click when it picks up and > another when it hangs up. Curious. Does it actually try to dial out > while he's on the phone? His father is using a modem, not talking. It is possible that the modem is so badly designed that it mista

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Hamish Moffatt writes: > In my experience, the noise of the line being picked and up dropped by > the other modem will interfere with the session -- it will almost > certainly cause the modems to retrain, and may cause them to hang up. This depends very much on the particular modem. The one I hav

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

I wrote: > Not even if the rumor is true. ^^^ Ivan writes: > Actually I thinks it's now April 1 where John is as well now. Note the qualifier. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GC> Is is possible that the MAIL FROM: command in the SMTP protocol is GC> responsible, and if so, is there any way to circumvent ? >> >> No, I never heared of a MTA changing the from or sender headers or >> such. It may do checks on the heade

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish Moffatt dixit: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of > > > /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: > > > > > > $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

> > > Some sort of "line in use" indicator would be better. > > I presume you mean a hardware "led indicator" or something like that? > I could do that, though I'd prefer a software solution if there is > one. > At your local Radio Shack, along with the LED line-in-use indicator, they also have a

Re: kernel.org mirror[oops]

see this script: http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > I'm wanting to start mirror Debian here (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) > since > I have installed 10 box of Debian Linux around UFRJ campus. :) > Anyone have the steps to use rs

Re: kernel.org mirror[oops]

I'm wanting to start mirror Debian here (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) since I have installed 10 box of Debian Linux around UFRJ campus. :) Anyone have the steps to use rsync (the best solution to mirror) or some conf file. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Quoting P

Problem: NFSROOT with netboot and 2.2.x

whenever i try to boot a 2.2.x kernel with netboot everything goes all-right until it starts to mount nfs. At this point I get on my client: Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.1.1 portmap: server 192.168.1.1 not responding timed out Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, u

Re: Raid issues

The maintainer appears to be Martin Schultze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. There are no bugs reported for this package which is impressive. I expected a please update to upstream release or something. The only thought I have is that raidtools has been replaced by another program or perhaps in the kernel.

Re: Screen resolution

Doug Dine wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have X set for 640 x 480 with 24 bit color as this was all I could get to > work > under X. In Windows I can get 640 x 480, 800 x 600 (which I use) or 1024 x > 768. Probelem I run into with 640 x 480 in X is that some programs fall off > the screen and are diff

Re: kernel eats alot of memory

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > Q: > Don't you think this is a lot of memory being used when I'm not > running X11 ? > So I'm afraid to compile a kernel right now, and thinking of > rebooting the system... You don't need to rebuild your kernel; the

Re: Screen resolution

Why don't you just increase the resolution? 640x480 is awfully small. I'm able to get 1024x768 out of my monitor (My S3 DX/Virge can do better, but monitor is stopping me), and I am already out of space on one screen. But switching between virtual portions of a desktop could be not very convinient.

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Simple solution, we have another phone downstairs ( i camp with the pc and modem upstairs). I bought myself a "privacy" adapter which is basically a phone splitter wich disables textension "A" if "B" is in use ( and vice versa), thus i do not get disconnected when they pick the phone up downsta

(update) Re: working apt line for unoffical X 3.3.3.1 debs

*- On 31 Mar, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about "Re: working apt line for unoffical X 3.3.3.1 debs" > It doesn't work because there's no Packages file. You can still download all > the debs and install them by hand. > Well, I sent a note off to Vincent and asked if he could put the Packages file in

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> reason); the technology should allow users to send huge email Hamish> attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be fixed. OK, but then the user should be prepared to pay for it! And often people

Re: Partitioning help

> I am installing Debian and having problems partitioning the drive properly. > During the bad block scan, it starts counting by '10' and is taking forever. > Do I have my drive partitioned wrong? Is the drive bad perhaps? How should > it be set in my bios? I'm not sure about this, but you mi

Re: kernel.org mirror[oops]

:-> "Chris" == Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone, > Sorry about that last message, I had a little glitch with my > computer. Anyway, my question has to do with mirroring. We are > using slink's fmirror package to mirror "ftp.us.kernel.org". We >

what's this: *** SECURITY information for gusp.infogroup.it ***

I've found this in my mailbox today: gusp.infogroup.it : Apr 1 10:10:10 : root : preposterous stampfile date; TTY=tty12 ; PWD=/home/jnos ; USER=jnos ; COMMAND=/home/jnos/jnos -f /home/jnos/etc/nos.cfg -C -g2 What does it mean? What package does generate it? User jnos is a fictitious user f

Re: Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

Quoting Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:41:47PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > > > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > I hope this explains now why I was trying to write a script that would > > > > actually allow me to hear what was on the phonelin

Re: emacs and autosaving

Quoting Peter Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:28:10 +0100 (IST), Angus Claydon <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> said: > Angus> IMHO If there's one program that could firmly go into the Heinz > category > Angus> (in > Angus> terms of it being better because its harder to get o

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Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:16:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish Moffatt dixit: > > > You could alias lynx to "/usr/bin/lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynxrc" in .bash_profile. > > That sounds like it, thanks. > > > It might be better to rename lynx and create a wrapper script which adds > > this o

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Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

Hamish Moffatt dixit: > You could alias lynx to "/usr/bin/lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynxrc" in .bash_profile. That sounds like it, thanks. > It might be better to rename lynx and create a wrapper script which adds > this option. Perhaps you could add the wrapper script in /usr/local/bin > and put that be

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:10:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish Moffatt dixit: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of > > > /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: > > > > > >

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Phillips wrote: > > This morning I typed "pon" to dial up a ppp connection, only to hear > > noise on my modem to idicate that the line was already in use. I > > quickly typed "poff", but it was too late --- I had already killed my > > father's conne

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Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

Hamish Moffatt dixit: > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of > > /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: > > > > $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc > > Any files in /etc/skel get copied to any new user ac

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

Laurent PICOULEAU dixit: > > how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of > > /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: > > > > $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc > > > Why not do it with an alias ? Already thought of that, but hoped for a more "standard" solution. I wonder if I re

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Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

Daniel Mashao hat gesagt: // Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and > > AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any > > other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of th

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