Brad writes:
> According to Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel source, an
> application is supposed to follow the symlink and lock the actual device
> (as well as the symlink). In this way, it doesn't cause the problem you
> predict. If you find a package that doesn't do this, file a bug repor
I've tried installing, tweaking and otherwise USING many different dists,
including redhat and slackware aside from debian... never found one yet that
was easier or more convenient, but maybe that's just my opinion.
debian was the first dist i ever installed as well as my first linux
experience. i
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By typing `insmod ide-scsi' you added the support for your cdrom into the
kernel. However this only last until the next reboot...
I see three obvious options to solve this:
1) The easiest one: you add a line with all the modules you want to load in
/etc/modules.
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I use these settings in my access.conf:
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Indexes
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride None
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
Nothing needed in srm.conf.
I can not be positively sure I did not have t
Subject: Debian Router???
Date: Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 11:54:52AM -0500
In reply to:Anthony Landreneau
Quoting Anthony Landreneau([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Greetings,
> I am building a debian router, however I prefer to use a FLASH ROM card
> instead of a hard drive. The largest
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Mark Wright wrote:
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always
> results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic
> characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have
> no idea, short of a re-boot
I have sucessfully installed Hamm on a 386 w/ 3M RAM.
I down loaded a disk image from somewhere on debian.org
look for a disk image refering to "low memory".
This disk is bootable and allows you to partition your
drive (using fdisk not cfdisk) and add swap. If you
get all this worked out (patien
Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 9 Jun, Andrew J Fortune wrote about "Unwanted Graphical Login and
> other woes..."
> >
> > I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to
> > a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was
> > wondering if anyone knew
On Thu May 27 19:50:29 1999, the user root was editing a
file named /etc/stmp on the machine SkunkPussy, when it was
saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the
changes to this file using the -r option to vi:
vi -r /etc/stmp
Any idea why I get this email repeatedly?(s
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Net
Date: Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 01:44:19PM -0500
In reply to:Kent West
Quoting Kent West([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> > Subject: Connecting to the Net
> > Date: Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 10:42:03PM +1000
> >
> > In reply to
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always
> results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic
> characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have
> no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover my console. Any idea
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always
results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic
characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have
no ide
Mark Wright wrote:
>
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always
> results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic
> characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have
> no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover m
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always
> results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic
> characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have
> no ide
I just upgraded an i386 box from hamm slink (a very rocky upgrade on this
box), and when starting Window Maker 0.60 which I compiled under hamm I
get an error message with an undefined reference to `_Xsetlocale'. Trying
to compile WM 0.60 does the same, giving the following output:
Making all in s
Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always
results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic
characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have
no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover my console. Any idea what's
ha
Most of what I have here has come from the LILO documentation.
I have a IDE drive that is booting with linux. My goal is to have lilo
boot both windows and linux with it.
The linux drive is IDE the other two are SCSI.
I boot into windows and it will freak out for some reason and never go
into wind
Yes the SB PCI is supported in kernel 2.2. But the driver is named es1370 (I
read Creative bought the chip from ensoniq). No idea about DVD or Voodoo2.
Hope it helps,
Lex
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:11:11PM +0100, richard newton wrote:
> I just have a couple of hardware questions that I don't know
Hmmm, I have it wide open, from my pap-secrets
# INBOUND connections
# Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd
* brian "*" *
I even tried
* brian "*" 192.168.1.99
and got the same results.
*- On 9 Jun, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about "Re:
trapstep wrote:
>Hi!
>
>i now use exmh for my mails, but i miss a "sent-mail" folder :-( doesn't exm
>h
>save the mails i send? if yes, where will i find them and if no, is there a
>way to automatically send me a copy of all outgoing mail?
You can do it on a one-off basis by add
The trouble is in your pap-secrets file most likely. The fourth field dictates
what IPs can be used. Put
in the IP you'd like to use or * to let it use anything.
Brian Servis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to establish a network connection with my Palm Pilot via
> the cradle on ttyS0 and pppd
That did it. Thanks...
Brad wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kelly Corbin wrote:
>
> > On my potato system, 2 files will not install from dselect.
> > nfs-server_2.2 fails as it says it is trying to overwrite a file from
> > nfs-client. Gnome-utils_1.0.1 fails as it says it is trying to
> > overw
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> addgroup dip
>
> Change/correct persmission of the following if not already set, well
> this is what I have and it works for me,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd
> 118 -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip119004 Apr 5 06:40 /usr/sbin/pppd*
> [E
Hi all.
I have a 2 CD set Rel 2.1 but is actually a single CD since the other
contains tecra. From what dselect Access options I
see, this is an outdated CD? Dselect does not find the packages and will
not continue, even after I enter the path. This is
with both multi-cd and cdrom access metho
Hi all,
I am trying to establish a network connection with my Palm Pilot via
the cradle on ttyS0 and pppd won't let it stay connected. It
successfully lets the Palm log in but then terminates the connection
when it is setting up the interface, saying the peer(the pilot) is not
authorized to use t
*- On 9 Jun, Will Lowe wrote about "Re: X"
>> is there an easy way to update my X server to the newest version? ie..
>> something i can add to my apt get file??
>
> run
>
> apt-get update
>
> then
>
> apt-get install
>
> This'll, of course, only work if you're following "unstable".
>
> is there an easy way to update my X server to the newest version? ie..
> something i can add to my apt get file??
run
apt-get update
then
apt-get install
This'll, of course, only work if you're following "unstable".
Will
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Apparently intel has discontinued 450 MHz PII processors. Will linux (the
> debian flavour, of course) work with a PIII?
Yes. I'm posting this from a machine running Slink on a PIII 450.
--
Jerry Gardner | "Bill Clinton has all the steely resolve resolve
[EMAIL
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, richard newton wrote:
> I just have a couple of hardware questions that I don't know the
> answers to. I need to know whether the SoundBlaster PCI cards
> are supported in any way.
Yup. See the Sound-HOWTO at
"http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html";. In fact, for
is there an easy way to update my X server to the newest version? ie..
something i can add to my apt get file??
thanks..
--
--No Regrets--
the /cdrom is a directory that you will change to to view the content of the
cdrom.
for example in you /etc/fstab
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 auto,noauto 0 0
here the cdrom will mount on /cdrom directoy so when you cd /cdrom and ls
and the program on the cdrom will be there.
Rod...
> -Origin
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Hi rathon,
I didn't follow the whole tree, but I am running to Matrox
Millenium G200 AGP cards (8mb and 16 MB) with the XF86_SVGA X-Server. It
knows them and it runs perfect with to 15'' TFT Displays
---
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, rathon wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can y
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On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Arjen wrote:
>>Hi all. I've just installed Debian 2.1 on my system. everything went fine
>>until the moment that dselect show up. Dselect shut put the files on my
>>harddisk what it did partialy. after that it shut configure, which it didn'
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On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, Will Lowe wrote:
>> But, now during boot, it does not detect the CD-ROM drive and as root I
>> could not mount the drive either. I tried both these commands:
>>
>> % mount /dev/hdc /cdrom (I do have /cdrom as the mount point)
>> or
>> %
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 12:34:02PM -0800, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> When I first started using Linux, it was RedHat 5.0. The emacs it had
> with it was much more aesthetic than the one I have now. It was kind of a
> green and gold color scheme with small buttons and what not. My question is:
> wtf happ
Hi!
i now use exmh for my mails, but i miss a "sent-mail" folder :-( doesn't exmh
save the mails i send? if yes, where will i find them and if no, is there a
way to automatically send me a copy of all outgoing mail?
TIA
Stefan Bunse
Brad wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
>
> > /dev/modem is a "generic" term for where your modem actually is. You
> > can solve this in one of two ways: 1) make a symlink named /dev/modem
> > that points to your actual modem (not recommended, because the system
> > then can't place a l
Hi!
i've got a problem:
i want to use speak-freely to phone over the net. i have two comps, one with a
creative sb16 pnp (using sb-driver), the other with an onboard CMI8330
soundchip (using ad1848 and sb driver). half-duplex sound operations work
fine, but i have got no idea how to use fulldupl
hi
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> >I have a PCI Matrox Millenium 2 MB video card (2 years >old) and
> >now I find I really want 32 bit colour. I tried to >find a Matrox
> >Millenium G200 PCI 8 MB card, but only AGP ones are >available
> >(PCI is in back-order).
>
> >Any suggestio
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> /dev/modem is a "generic" term for where your modem actually is. You
> can solve this in one of two ways: 1) make a symlink named /dev/modem
> that points to your actual modem (not recommended, because the system
> then can't place a lock on the modem to prev
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:14:40PM -0400, Sean wrote:
> I've often wanted to go with a TNT card, but I'm concerned about the card's
> heat
> output. Every query I've ever made about "just how hot does this card run"
> has been
> left largely unanswered, which has just increased my trepidation ab
Have you got the most recent version of apt, as I had a _really_
old version that my upgrade to slink had for some reason not
upgraded. Once that was done, everything worked fine.
Peter Allen
"Nadarajah, Dinesh" wrote:
>
> I have been trying to install x11amp for quite sometime
I've often wanted to go with a TNT card, but I'm concerned about the card's heat
output. Every query I've ever made about "just how hot does this card run" has
been
left largely unanswered, which has just increased my trepidation about the card
in
general.
Sean
Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I'm not sur
> Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
>
> > Hi All!
> >
> > Is there any way to print from debian on a printer connected to the
> > Winblows machine on the same LAN?
> > I found information about smbprint in SMB-HOWTO.pz, but there is no such
> > utility in my Debian 2.1 box. :-(
> > I have installed both sa
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> On my potato system, 2 files will not install from dselect.
> nfs-server_2.2 fails as it says it is trying to overwrite a file from
> nfs-client. Gnome-utils_1.0.1 fails as it says it is trying to
> overwrite a file in package gnome-pim. Is there a way
I just have a couple of hardware questions that I don't know the
answers to. I need to know whether the SoundBlaster PCI cards
are supported in any way. How about DVD? Is anyone running two
Voodoo 2 cards in SLI mode?
I'm building a new machine and I want to know just how far I
can go technolog
I'm not sure who started this thread, but I recommend the nVidia RIVA
TNT chip. You can buy a 16MB TNT card (PCI or AGP) for $99 at Best Buy.
You can find them cheaper on the 'net. Creative Labs makes one, and so
do several other companies. They work very well under both Windoze and X.
And the d
HI,
I am still having problems with mule in emacs 20.3. Supposedly, it
should display international fonts; e.g., simplified Chinese fonts are
builtin fonts for X windows now. But, still, I cannot have the fonts
displayed in emacs. Can anyone tell me how I correct this? Thanks!
Best wishes
Judith Bush wrote:
>
> My experience yesterday helps me sympathize with the original
> poster. My personal installation last year went beautifully as i ran
> from a bootable cd. On the other hand, I run debian at work, where i'm
> developing a kiosk system. I've a handful of thin clients -- NONE W
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote:
> Hi!
> I want to compiele x11amp so that it usese esd. However the configure
> script does not find esd.
> I installed enlightenment 0.15.5 from source to /usr/local.
You can get esd from your preferred Debian mirror, just install the
packages esound
Wayne Topa wrote:
> Subject: Connecting to the Net
> Date: Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 10:42:03PM +1000
>
> In reply to:Andrew J Fortune
>
> Quoting Andrew J Fortune([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > This is another newbie question.
> >
> > I am trying to connect to the Net. I have run PPPC
Hi!
I'd like to know how could I remove a file with the following
permissions:
c--xr--r-- 1 267402676 109, 114 Feb 8 1987 printop.list
I cannot move or delete that file.
I already tried rm, chmod, tar and MAKEDEV, but I know I missin
Hi,
>>"Ron" == Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ron> Whenever I compile a new kernel, I give it a new version number with
Ron> --revision, thus:
>> make-kpkg --revision custom.2.3 kernel_image
Ron> ...yet the version number of the resulting .deb package stays the same as
Ron> the
Hi!
I´m using Debian 2.1 and I am having some problems with all graphic libs
(libjpeg, libtiff etc)
I have installed them directly from the CD but when I run ./configure on
ImLib it complains
on all of the graphics libs. I have the path in my /etc/ld.so.conf file.
Would be glad of any help!!
/Jo
Debian runs automatically (every day) a program named `updatedb' which builds
some sort of file database. To disable this you can simply chmod 644
/etc/cron.daily/find.
-Lex
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 08:47:38AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote:
> It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote:
> I'm currently using slink with the default kernel, and am currently
> downloading packages to update to potato, and I was wondering if
> there is a default kernel for potato like there's a default 2.0.36 kernel
> for slink. I tried the "linux" kerne
On 09-Jun-99 Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>>I cannot install Debian from my Cheapbytes Slink CD >without the base
>>floppies,
>>but I believe I can do it from the Hamm CD, also from >Cheapbytes.
> With
>>the
>>Slink CD, the installation stops because of an error >with the ncurses
>>package.
> Hmmm I did
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I have a AWE 64 that's PNP. From Windows, the resources it's using are:
Great first start! Numbers are important (:
> I've tried to follow the instructions for setting up sound, but without
> success. I've been able to compile kernels (pre-2.2.0) under ot
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> >I have a PCI Matrox Millenium 2 MB video card (2 years >old) and
> >now I find I really want 32 bit colour. I tried to >find a Matrox
> >Millenium G200 PCI 8 MB card, but only AGP ones are >available
> >(PCI is in back-order).
>
> >Any suggestions for an 8MB card well-s
>I cannot install Debian from my Cheapbytes Slink CD >without the base
>floppies,
>but I believe I can do it from the Hamm CD, also from >Cheapbytes.
With
>the
>Slink CD, the installation stops because of an error >with the ncurses
>package.
Hmmm I did not have this problem installing on my other
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get -f dist-upgrade
>
> as per the README. All went well with the download, but part way through
> the config KDE locked up on me. I couldn't do anything. Ctrl-alt-F#, etc
> wouldn't get me out of X, and I was really bummed, cu
Date:
>I have a PCI Matrox Millenium 2 MB video card (2 years >old) and
>now I find I really want 32 bit colour. I tried to >find a Matrox
>Millenium G200 PCI 8 MB card, but only AGP ones are >available
>(PCI is in back-order).
>Any suggestions for an 8MB card well-supported by >XFree PCI that
>
Is there a program available that looks at the access times of the various
installed binaries, and reports on the packages whose binaries hasn't been
used in the last, say, two months?
Would be a great way to get a list of those "hey, this sounds cool!"
packages one selected in dselect but never g
Might want to try making the device with MAKEDEV.
Rob
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, David Hamilton wrote:
>
> I would expect to see it at /dev/st0 or /dev/tape, but there are no such
> devices. I see the SCSI device during boot and the DAT
I would expect to see it at /dev/st0 or /dev/tape, but there are no such
devices. I see the SCSI device during boot and the DAT drive is
recognized. What am I missing?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: Last week I installed Debian-2.1 on a few machines, then
: I attempted to put some configuration into profile. Actually
: I created a directory /etc/profile.d and a few scripts within
: it. /etc/profile was modified with
: for file in /etc/profile.d/*.
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> but the only time I find I _HAVE_ to use dselect is for something
|> like replacing smail with exim-- I've never found a way to convince
|> dpkg to do that for me.
No, but dselect isn't necessary for this, is it? Won't
`Apt-get install exim'
do it
Will Lowe wrote:
>
[snip]
> before we get too much farther, check and make sure that the /var
> filesystem isn't full.
My /var is on my root partition, and there is still 1.7 gigs free on it.
Is there a limit on how much space files under /var can eat up? There
are a bunch of debs in /var/cach
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am building a debian router, however I prefer to use a FLASH ROM card
> instead of a hard drive. The largest I can afford is a 60 meg card. Can I
> set up a debian router with all the drivers (three cards two DS3 and one
> Gi
Also, the /var/log/messages contain kernel reboot output after the
syslogd restart. So yes, it is rebooting!
--
/--\
|James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A |
|Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(42
>From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:10:33 +0100
>Reply-To: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Priority: Normal
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>First, no reason to worry!
>
>On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote:
Greetings,
I am building a debian router, however I prefer to use a FLASH ROM card
instead of a hard drive. The largest I can afford is a 60 meg card. Can I
set up a debian router with all the drivers (three cards two DS3 and one
Gigabit), VI as an editor (don't hate me because I like VI
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> I like pon/poff to be available to ordinary users of my system. Now I have
> to su before being able to turn on and off the ppp connection to the net.
> Does somebody know how to go about this? -- Hans
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscrib
Subject: Connecting to the Net
Date: Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 10:42:03PM +1000
In reply to:Andrew J Fortune
Quoting Andrew J Fortune([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> This is another newbie question.
>
> I am trying to connect to the Net. I have run PPPConfig, hopefully
> successfully, a
> Will,
> files list file for package `dotfile-rtin' is truncated
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> dotfile-rtin_0.02-5.1.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
before we get too much farther, check and make sure that the /var
filesystem isn't full.
*- On 9 Jun, Kent West wrote about "Re: How to print on shared Windows
printers from debian?"
> Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
>
>> Hi All!
>>
>> Is there any way to print from debian on a printer connected to the
>> Winblows machine on the same LAN?
>> I found information about smbprint in SMB-HOWTO
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> Been there, seen that, still confused (well, at least I subscribed to
> the sgml-tools list).
Some introduction into DocBook:
http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/
http://www.freebsd.org/
First, no reason to worry!
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote:
>I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also
No shutdowns! Or have you actually observed them yourself? I mean have
you been sitting at the console watching the machine go down?
Will Lowe wrote:
>
> I've noticed similar things once in a while; apt will get stuck sometimes
> if you interrupt it while it's working. This usually works for me:
[snip]
Will,
Thanks for the reply.
I tried your suggestions but I am still having problems. I can't seem to
install any of the
On 09-Jun-99 Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
>>
>> On 09-Jun-99 Barry Kauler wrote:
>> > err,
>> > Could someone tell me what "OSS" means?
>>
>> "Open Source Sound"
oops. Thanks for the correction.
--
Andrew
>
> Actually, "Open Sound System", see "http://w
*- On 9 Jun, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote about "How to print on shared Windows
printers from debian?"
> Hi All!
>
> Is there any way to print from debian on a printer connected to the
> Winblows machine on the same LAN?
> I found information about smbprint in SMB-HOWTO.pz, but there is no such
> ut
*- On 9 Jun, Hans van den Boogert wrote about "pon/poff for ordinary user."
> I like pon/poff to be available to ordinary users of my system. Now I have
> to su before being able to turn on and off the ppp connection to the net.
> Does somebody know how to go about this? -- Hans
>
>
Add the use
Thanks Egon, but:
Egon Schmid dixit:
~>
~> Anything you should know is here:
~>
~> www.oasis-open.org
Been there, seen that, still confused (well, at least I subscribed to
the sgml-tools list).
~> > h0rus:/tmp$ sgml2html debiandoc-sgml.sgml
~> > Processing file debiandoc-sgml.sgml
~> > p
You might want to check out cygwin, at
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin.
The price is right (free, actually open source). It's a
fairly complete Unix emulation layer that runs on NT & 95.
It has a "real" command line telnet that works as it should.
There is also a telnetd, in case you want
> I'd like to piggy-back on this thread if I may. I've been unable to get
> sound working since I made the transition to Debian about six months
> ago. It hasn't been a major issue for me, but now that I'm out of
> school, there are several things I'd like to accomplish for the summer.
> Sound is o
You really need to be able to understand what is located inside your
computer, and how to find information that is needed.
Start->Control Panel->System->Sound (expand it to the list of sound
devices)->single click on soudn card->Click on properties->On the top bar,
click on Resources.
Andrei
--
Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> Is there any way to print from debian on a printer connected to the
> Winblows machine on the same LAN?
> I found information about smbprint in SMB-HOWTO.pz, but there is no such
> utility in my Debian 2.1 box. :-(
> I have installed both samba & smbfs.
>
>
On my potato system, 2 files will not install from dselect.
nfs-server_2.2 fails as it says it is trying to overwrite a file from
nfs-client. Gnome-utils_1.0.1 fails as it says it is trying to
overwrite a file in package gnome-pim. Is there a way to force the
overwrite? This is really starting
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:32:50PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Has anybody HylaFAX working?.
I've been using it for a few years without any problems (I never could
get efax to work).
> I use slink and HylaFAX just spools the files to fax but does not
> start to fax at all.
Just a
Sergey V Kovalyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> libpam-ldap will allow password change. The rest have to be done
> manually (or through some customized software. I am considering
> Ganymede.) Although there is a nice package pam-mkhomedir that will
> automatically create homedirs (and copy /etc/s
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 09-Jun-99 Barry Kauler wrote:
> > err,
> > Could someone tell me what "OSS" means?
>
> "Open Source Sound"
Actually, "Open Sound System", see "http://www.opensound.com/oss.html";.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:49:36AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Any suggestions for an 8MB card well-supported by XFree PCI that
> can do 32bit-colour at 1600x1200 and 76Hz?
I wouldn't call ATI well supported but here they are the only PCI cards
still available. And they work with Linux (XFree
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>
> > Recently, apt-get has started segfaulting on me every time I do an
> > apt-get install. It will also often do it in the upgrade phase. This
> > is, of course, quite frustrating. I'm using the 0.3.6 package.
> >
> > Has
Hello,
I am trying to set up an ftp server to hold some non-free debian
suff I dont have no cd.
I am using proftpd and am able to ftp to the machine, but I
cannot see any files or directories.
I have read the docs for proftpd and only found info on how to
hide directories (but they are already h
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 08:43:20PM -0500, Chris Frost wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade a box from hamm to slink and can have access to both
> binary discs concurrently. Can I simply put both filename's (one under main
> and the other contrib) and do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and be done? Or will
> I s
Matthew Gregan wrote:
> Greetings...
>
> I've tried searching the debian-user list archive already, and found some
> messages which probably contain the answer I'm after, but it seems that the
> actual messages aren't available, so I can't read them... (It was working a
> week ago when I last t
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:37:51PM -, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 08-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > When I finally tried RedHat a couple of years later I was disgusted
> > because it wanted me to do configuration using their 'tools' vs. just
> > editing /etc/* --- I found that I could tweak it
Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> My guess is that you cuold create a custom kernel with the RAID driver
> compiled in, and put it on the rescue floppy. If the RAID controller
> BIOS provides the capability to boot from the array, that should be it.
> However, this is hipotetical, I never dealt with RAID
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> {I'm writing some docs on SGML, but I'm having some trouble when
> converting them with sgml-tools, and I too am a bit confused with it, is
> there any mailing list on the subject (ie. SGML)?
>
> Also, what's the difference between Debiandoc-SGML, Linux
My apologies, I know I shouldn't try to call the attention with caps
etc., but I've tried this question a couple of times and seem to get no
response so far:
{I'm writing some docs on SGML, but I'm having some trouble when
converting them with sgml-tools, and I too am a bit confused with it, is
th
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