Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 10:52 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote: If you compile all modules for scsi emulation of CDRW you need in the kernel config: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m for ide-scsi module...scsi emulation CONFIG_SCSI=m scsi-mod scsi support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m sr_mod

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote: >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the >card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the card >somewhere) then search google

/proc/partitions "blocks" ?

2001-01-16 Thread ktb
I'm looking at the /proc/partitions file and it lists "block" sizes. I've been looking on the web, archives, docs on my system and can't find what the formula is for converting blocks to MBs. Does anyone know how to do this or where to find the info? Thanks, kent -- I'd really love ta wana hel

Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-16 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > # Card 1: (serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e) > > # Vendor Id CSC6835, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xB6. > > # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.1 > > # ANSI string -->CS4236B<-- > >This would indicate the accel

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the card somewhere) then search google for a MAC address to vendor converter and pop on the

Re: Mounting on a mac

2001-01-16 Thread C. Falconer
At 07:25 PM 1/16/01 -0600, you wrote: > > Is there a way to make a directory (namely, etc/www) on a mac network, so > > I can just open the directory on the mac to work on the files? I was going > > to set up ftp, but since I'll only be working on at home within the > > network, I really only n

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Mike
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > > Here's his problem: > > > > > > > > 2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf > > > > > > Should just be "hdd=scsi". Search for "=scsi" in > > > linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info. > >

NIC identification

2001-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
OK i've got a NIC that i need to get working. its PCI appears to support Co-ax as well as cat-45 it has a netware approved sticker on it it has 3 components on it made by Delta the most comprehensible component proclaims itself to be Delta LANF7236 9701F has anyone got any ideas what driver

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 10:49 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote: Mike wrote: > > Here's his problem: > > > > > > 2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf > > > > Should just be "hdd=scsi". Search for "=scsi" in > > linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info. > > Uhh, you sure

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Jon Pennington
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:34:26PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > What exactly do you mean by loading sg? I load scsi_mod and ide-scsi and > then do a cdrecord -scanbus and I still have have no luck. Any ideas? > The sg module is necessary to identify undefined devices on the SCSI bus. In

Fwd: video card suggestions

2001-01-16 Thread MrHobbit420
I have a NVIDIA TNT2 M64 video card and am a first time user of debian. I am using version 2.2r2. I am having three problems : 1. the resolution is pretty bad. I have windows in the first partition of my computer, there the windows resolution is much better. But after configuring my xwi

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread mike
On at 22:34 on Tue 16 Jan, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > At 09:41 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:21:57PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > > > > When I run "cdrecord -scanbus" I still get no devices. If I comment out > > > the "append" in lilo.conf hdd is mentioned once more at boo

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > |> It's dvipdfm actually, located in the package by the same name. I > |> love it work. > > No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex). > > In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package > dvipdfm (w

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Mike wrote: > > Here's his problem: > > > > > > 2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf > > > > Should just be "hdd=scsi". Search for "=scsi" in > > linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info. > > Uhh, you sure about that? Argh, RTFM! I eve

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-16 Thread Brian May
> "Cliff" == Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cliff> Well, I think like any software that manipulates Cliff> fundamnental locations on your disk drives, like boot Cliff> sectors, it is not suprising that it warns you that you Cliff> have no-one to complain to if it d

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 09:41 PM 1/16/01 , you wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:21:57PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > When I run "cdrecord -scanbus" I still get no devices. If I comment out > the "append" in lilo.conf hdd is mentioned once more at boot time, so > something is happening, I'm just not sure what. C

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex). Oops. My apologies. > In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package > dvipdfm (which I hadn't known about before your message: thank you). > > It's on

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-16 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:55:44AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Joachim" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joachim> Could it be simpler than launching a `grub-install > Joachim> /dev/sda' (or whichever partition you wants to install it > Joachim> to)? You should

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> It's dvipdfm actually, located in the package by the same name. I |> love it work. No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex). In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package dvipdfm (which I hadn't known about before your message: thank you). It's only availabl

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Mike
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > > I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what > > > I've done so far: > > > > > > Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi > > > support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in

Re: oskit troubles, anyone out there use it?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Ok, I am of course, an idiot... dpkg -L oskit|grep bin reveals /usr/bin/mkmbimage, a shell script which does much copiler/linker magic, but more importantly works :) -Jon

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Mike wrote: > Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what > > I've done so far: > > > > Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi > > support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically. >

Re: oskit troubles, anyone out there use it?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:23:05PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: :There is no "void main" in C (always returns an int). Doh! that'll learn me to belive examples :) For reference, gcc warns about this (after stripping it to hello.world) but will compile with void main... :Is it possible liboskit

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Jon Pennington
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:21:57PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > When I run "cdrecord -scanbus" I still get no devices. If I comment out > the "append" in lilo.conf hdd is mentioned once more at boot time, so > something is happening, I'm just not sure what. Can anyone help me get > this th

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Mike
Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what > I've done so far: > > Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi > support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically. ^^^ The

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-16 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:59:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Could anyone reccomment a good MUA with good support for IMAP and | filtering of incomming mail. I'm assuming one can't use procmail to | filter mail as it won't work in a IMAPd (I think!), so which MUAs are I'm not sure what y

Re: oskit troubles, anyone out there use it?

2001-01-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:13:25PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > just installed oskit, but cant seem to compile anything using it: > > #include > #include > void main() There is no "void main" in C (always returns an int). >{ >oskit_clientos

cdrecord problems

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what I've done so far: Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically. 1. apt-get install cdrecord 2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf 3. Ran l

oskit troubles, anyone out there use it?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, just installed oskit, but cant seem to compile anything using it: #include #include void main() { oskit_clientos_init(); printf("Hello, World\n"); } fails to compile with: /tmp/ccPfErPd.o: In function `main': /tmp

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128 (ES1371) installation

2001-01-16 Thread Jon Pennington
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:34:17PM -0500, mike wrote: > There is a conflict with irq 5 and the USB controller. Move the card > to a different slot. And put es1371 in /etc/modules so its loaded at boot. Putting es1371 in /etc/modules, though not harmful, is unnecessary. I'm just mentioning

Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:55:40PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: :Is it possible from within X to start another session of X on a diffent :console? I know I can just Ctrl-Alt-F2, login, and then startx. Then I :could toggle between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. However, I would like :to accomplish t

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:05:46PM -0700, Curtis Hogg wrote: > cherry-chan:~# xset s noblank > xset: unable to open display "" > > i want to disable the text console blanking... i don't run X on the > machine in question... > Sorry didn't read. "setterm -blank 0" kent -- I'd really love ta wa

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread Curtis Hogg
cherry-chan:~# xset s noblank xset: unable to open display "" i want to disable the text console blanking... i don't run X on the machine in question... -- Curtis Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I came, I saw, I deleted all your files.

Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I believe that he is having the same probs that I have. Normal user can't # startx, but root can. Is there a group they need to be a part of? What's the exact error? David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or dea

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:40:03PM -0700, Curtis Hogg wrote: > Is there a way to disable the console blanking? If so, how do you go > about doing that? > It looks like "xset s noblank" Type "xset" at the command line and it will spit out options. I have also seen "xset s 0" on the list. You ca

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:25:14PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > There was a *long* thread about this on the list recently. Search the > archives. Briefly, the options are: > > . run pdftex or pdflatex, rather than tex or latex, on the source file > . run dvipdf after the initial TeX run

Re: bin86

2001-01-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:35:47PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > The debian.org site says that bin86 "a complete 8086 assembler and > loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux > it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries)." > It is not installed in

Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread Curtis Hogg
Is there a way to disable the console blanking? If so, how do you go about doing that? -- Curtis Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I came, I saw, I deleted all your files. -- Email 1 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email 2 - [EMA

Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Jeremy wrote: > > >Is it possible from within X to start another session of X on a diffent > >console? I know I can just Ctrl-Alt-F2, login, and then startx. Then I > >could toggle between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. However, I would like > >to accomplish the same thing without dropping down t

bin86

2001-01-16 Thread Ken Weingold
The debian.org site says that bin86 "a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries)." It is not installed in the initial Debian install. Both times I have done new installs of 2

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128 (ES1371) installation

2001-01-16 Thread mike
On at 01:15 on Wed 17 Jan, TylerDurden wrote: > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/es1371.o: insmod > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/es1371.o failed > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/es1371.o: insmod > es 1371 failed > > the soundcard uses (as the windows

Re: group permissions

2001-01-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
Sorry, I didn't make as much sense as I meant to. Basically, I was wondering if it is possible for the default group permissions to change on a created file. like: I create a file in /var/www called 'test' it is normally: -rw-r--r--1 rvf www-files0 Jan 16 20:05 test I would lik

Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-16 Thread Jeremy
>Is it possible from within X to start another session of X on a diffent >console? I know I can just Ctrl-Alt-F2, login, and then startx. Then I >could toggle between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. However, I would like >to accomplish the same thing without dropping down to a console. When I >try

Re: Mounting on a mac

2001-01-16 Thread eric baierl
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Samuel Hathaway wrote: > eric baierl wrote: > > > Is there a way to make a directory (namely, etc/www) on a mac network, so > > I can just open the directory on the mac to work on the files? I was going > > to set up ftp, but since I'll only be working on at home within the >

Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-16 Thread Warren Turkal
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 17:33, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Is it possible from within X to start another session of X on a > diffent > # console? I know I can just Ctrl-Alt-F2, login, and then startx. Then > I > # could toggle between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128 (ES1371) installation

2001-01-16 Thread Jon Pennington
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:15:31AM +0100, TylerDurden wrote: > Hello! Hi! :) > So i tried > modprobe es1371 > but that caused following error: > modprobe es1371 > /lib/modules/2.2.1.18pre21/misc/es1371.o: > init_module: Device or resource busy > Hi

Re: AAARGH - Re: cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread Jon Pennington
> > when stupid people like me are asking (you can tell because our questions are > like this one!) its safe to assume we are running a stock kernel. > Stock kernels work fine; I have a stack of Verbatims to prove it, too ;) -- -=|JP|=-"This space intentionally left blank." Jon Pennington

Re: ld -lz error

2001-01-16 Thread mike
On at 17:29 on Tue 16 Jan, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I get this error when compiling a perl module: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lz: No such file or directory > > What would I be missing? Maybe its permissions, butal so check if you have zlib1g-dev installed. -- ~

Re: IDE CD-RW

2001-01-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:42:22PM +, john gennard wrote: > I've purchased a Traxdata 8x4x32 CD-RW, and can only install it on my > main box. Unfortunately, this has two Hard Disks (both on the Primary > IDE channel) and a normal CD Drive as Master on the second channel. > > The literature w

Re: latest wine config

2001-01-16 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Richard Black ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all > > has anyone had any success with the latest wine version 2001011? When I > run it I get: > > Can't open configuration file /home/rblack/.wine/config > > This error remains if I copy my /etc/wine.conf to > /home/rblack/.wine/config and if I

Re: group permissions

2001-01-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:22:05PM +, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I have the permissions on /var/www set so that any file created within > it is owned by www-data. Currently, www-data does not have write access > to the files. What I want to do is set it up so that any file created > in /var/www is

Re: AAARGH - Re: cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread mike
On at 10:37 on Wed 17 Jan, John Griffiths wrote: > >> In /etc/lilo.conf: > >> > >> append="hdX=ide-scsi" # where X is the letter assigned to that unit > >> > >> In /etc/modutils/local: > >> > >> alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi # assuming you don't have any /real/ SCSI > >> cards > >> > >> Run

Soundblaster PCI 128 (ES1371) installation

2001-01-16 Thread TylerDurden
Hello! I'am a linux newcomer and i have a problem with my soundcard. I'm using Debian 2.2 rev 2, kernel = 2.2.18pre21. I loaded the module soundcore successfully. But, as i think, the correct module for my soundcard has to be es1371. So i tried modprobe es1371 but that caused following error: modp

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd?

2001-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From a tip given somewhere on this list, I typed: > ># apt-get dist-upgrade -s > >And lo and behold came the following output: [...] >Inst diff [shellutils on hurd] [...] >What does the "shellutils on hurd" mean? The shellutils package depends on 'login | hurd', sin

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-16 Thread John Hasler
Phil Brutsche writes: > Netscape can. Whether or not it's a good MUA is highly subjective :) > Pine can. Whether or not it's a good MUA is also highly subjective :) > Dunno about anything else. Gnus, of course, can. That it is a good MUA is an objective fact :) -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting on a mac

2001-01-16 Thread Samuel Hathaway
eric baierl wrote: > Is there a way to make a directory (namely, etc/www) on a mac network, so > I can just open the directory on the mac to work on the files? I was going > to set up ftp, but since I'll only be working on at home within the > network, I really only need it locally. Any relatively

Re: cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jon Pennington wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:11:52PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have > > done "apt-get install cdrecord". I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I > > know I have to enable SCSI emulation, but can anyone

Mounting on a mac

2001-01-16 Thread eric baierl
Is there a way to make a directory (namely, etc/www) on a mac network, so I can just open the directory on the mac to work on the files? I was going to set up ftp, but since I'll only be working on at home within the network, I really only need it locally. Any relatively simple way to do this?

AAARGH - Re: cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
>> In /etc/lilo.conf: >> >> append="hdX=ide-scsi" # where X is the letter assigned to that unit >> >> In /etc/modutils/local: >> >> alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi # assuming you don't have any /real/ SCSI >> cards >> >> Run lilo, reboot, and run `cdrecord -scanbus'; your drive should show up.

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Dear all! > > I have recently managed to set up Postfix, and get it to feed to the > Cyrus IMAP server. At the moment I'm using TkRat, but am finding it a > little restrictive. Ok > Could

ld -lz error

2001-01-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
I get this error when compiling a perl module: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lz: No such file or directory What would I be missing? -Rob

Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Is it possible from within X to start another session of X on a diffent # console? I know I can just Ctrl-Alt-F2, login, and then startx. Then I # could toggle between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. However, I would like # to accomplish the same thing w

Re: cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread mike
On at 14:18 on Tue 16 Jan, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:11:52PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have > > done "apt-get install cdrecord". I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I > > know I have to enable SC

IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-16 Thread matthew
Dear all! I have recently managed to set up Postfix, and get it to feed to the Cyrus IMAP server. At the moment I'm using TkRat, but am finding it a little restrictive. Could anyone reccomment a good MUA with good support for IMAP and filtering of incomming mail. I'm assuming one can't use procma

Re: ttmkfdir vs mkttfdir

2001-01-16 Thread mike
> > I've installed xfs-xtt (I'm still using XFree86 3.3.6 and am not > interested in moving to 4.x yet, thanks anyway...) > > Now it says use ttmkfdir; I've searched everywhere and I can't find this > in any Debian package. The mailing lists suggest using mkttfdir instead > (why? Why isn't the

running another X from within X

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Stults
Is it possible from within X to start another session of X on a diffent console? I know I can just Ctrl-Alt-F2, login, and then startx. Then I could toggle between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. However, I would like to accomplish the same thing without dropping down to a console. When I try to d

re cdrw

2001-01-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi emulation will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed because CDRECORD only uses scsi protocol. You will then access the cdrom as /dev/scd0. In my computer I have a cdrw drive AND a real scsi cd r

re cdrw

2001-01-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You can put the cdrw drive as the master on the secondary channel, and (if you want) put the old cd rom drive as the slave. However unless you want to copy cd's there is really no reason to even keep your old cd rom drive, just use the cdrw as your cd rom drive, most of them are as fast enough in

Re: cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread Jon Pennington
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:11:52PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have > done "apt-get install cdrecord". I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I > know I have to enable SCSI emulation, but can anyone who has done it in > Debian

Re: Can't contact archive.debian.org

2001-01-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Lance Heller wrote: > I've not been able to contact 'archive.debian.org' for some days now. > Should another host be used, what's up?? archive.debian.org == saens http://db.debian.org -> "debian machines" -> saens: "crashed, hoping to recover" ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/debian-archive/ seems to h

ttmkfdir vs mkttfdir

2001-01-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
So, I'm trying to follow the X Font Deuglification howto. I have a bunch of Windows fonts on my "other" partition (the old dusty one that came with the system but is almost never used anymore). I want to grab those fonts, just like the above doc says. I copy them all over. I've installed xfs-xt

Re: Installing Debian on PowerEdge 4300 [solved?]

2001-01-16 Thread Bill Cooper
Hi all, tried the install again and I might have a working solution. Note the word might, I have not been able to fully test the install and strange things may happen with constant usage. Again I used the 2.2.18 kernel recompiled with only scsi, AMI Megaraid card and I2O support, also compi

cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have done "apt-get install cdrecord". I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I know I have to enable SCSI emulation, but can anyone who has done it in Debian tell me the easiest way? Thanks! Ben Pharr

Re: Setting console keybindings

2001-01-16 Thread MH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Paul" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> It's sure a shame that there's no way to include extra, Paul> user-specifiable settings that don't require modification of Paul> standard files; say you create a Paul> /

Re: Making System Back-Ups

2001-01-16 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:58:53PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is the best approach to making system back-ups on a tape drive? > I was thinking about using cron to just tar everything I wanted in to the > tape drive. > Is there a better solution? Maybe I should j

Re: IDE CD-RW

2001-01-16 Thread Scott Patterson
>I've purchased a Traxdata 8x4x32 CD-RW, and can only install it on my >main box. Unfortunately, this has two Hard Disks (both on the Primary >IDE channel) and a normal CD Drive as Master on the second channel. > >The literature with the CD-RW is basic and suggests ways in which it >can be insta

Can't contact archive.debian.org

2001-01-16 Thread Lance Heller
I've not been able to contact 'archive.debian.org' for some days now. Should another host be used, what's up?? -- Lance Heller | Network Systems| WorldCom email: [EMAIL

Re: Kernel panic

2001-01-16 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:29:00PM +0100, Manuel Hendel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > can anyone help me with the error message of a kernel panic? Debugging kernel panics is a bit of a black art. Knowing what kernel you're using helps a bit. Take a look at the attached script. It w

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2001-01-16 Thread Stéphane Danel
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Abiword (was Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?)

2001-01-16 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:56:34AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is AbiWord now stable enough to be useable? Given save early and often, yes. Recent versions seem to be pretty good. Doesn't appear to be an autosave feature ye

F-Keys for Server-commands

2001-01-16 Thread Tibor D.
For a server I would program some F-Keys for maintenace. Without anybody logged in (you see just the console with the login prompt), I'd like e.g. following: Someone presses F1 -> the server should shutdown press F2 -> unmount/eject CDRom, F3 -> print the IP-Accounting infos F4 -> start the prog

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-16 Thread francisco m . neto
» Stefan Srdic disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > I've had no luck whatsoever trying to initialize my sound card through those > modules (es1371, sound, soundcore) I attempted to configure the > device through the ALSA-Configurator (deb package = alsaconf). From > what the support documentation says,

Re: Setting console keybindings

2001-01-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: m> Once you have built the keymap file that you want, store it in m> /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz. It will then get loaded at boot m> time and will not be disturbed by package updates. OK. But, it still seems to me that if I rerun kbdconfig or whatever it

Making System Back-Ups

2001-01-16 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
What is the best approach to making system back-ups on a tape drive? I was thinking about using cron to just tar everything I wanted in to the tape drive. Is there a better solution? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

ipchains and redirection

2001-01-16 Thread aphro
hi i have a firewall machine on a network somewhere and it has 2 real ips and 1 fake ip. our mail server acts as a secondary MX incase the primary MX is down. here's the current setup: 123.456.789 - primary ip addy of the firewall on 'net 123.456.788 - secondary ip (also resolves to our mail serv

Re: IDE CD-RW

2001-01-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:42:22 GMT, john gennard writes: >The literature with the CD-RW is basic and suggests ways in which it >can be installed on those channels already in use. This seems to >imply that I shouldnot/cannot use the secondary channel slave, but it >does not specifically say so. Th

Re: Setting console keybindings

2001-01-16 Thread mark
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:27PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > What's the good/right/proper way to set console keysyms? > > I want to change the CapsLock key to a CTRL key in my Linux console. I > see that there are two packages which manage this, either kbd or > console-tools. The latter is i

(newbie) how can I get my sound card to work?

2001-01-16 Thread c-3
Hi! I've got a Creative Labs SB16 (ISA) installed on my computer. What do I have to make to get also sound out of it Chris (Germany)

Re: Setting up a DNS server

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:40:38PM -0600, eric baierl wrote: > And then what goes in the .db and .rev files? Check out the DNS-HOWTO. It will tell you everything you need to know (as well as a fair bit of the theory that you should know, but can get by without). -- SGI products are used to crea

Setting console keybindings

2001-01-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
What's the good/right/proper way to set console keysyms? I want to change the CapsLock key to a CTRL key in my Linux console. I see that there are two packages which manage this, either kbd or console-tools. The latter is installed by default; is this the preferred tool going forward? With eith

Re: Burning ISO-Image in Windows?

2001-01-16 Thread Kris
At 13:57 2001/01/16 +0100, you wrote: >> I think with Nero, you may run into differences because of the language >> translation. Can you just try it with the default settings for creating >> an image or ISO file ?? I understand it may not be the case with you and >> where you live, but here in the

IDE CD-RW

2001-01-16 Thread john gennard
I've purchased a Traxdata 8x4x32 CD-RW, and can only install it on my main box. Unfortunately, this has two Hard Disks (both on the Primary IDE channel) and a normal CD Drive as Master on the second channel. The literature with the CD-RW is basic and suggests ways in which it can be installed o

Firewalls and IP Maskerade

2001-01-16 Thread seg
Hi,    New to linux, really don't know squat :) I just installed debian on my 3rd comp at home. I want to use this comp has a gateway/firewall to the internet. Basicly I want my 2 others comp (running win98SE) to access the internet through this comp (games, emails, internet, etc...).  I hav

XF 4.0.2 and glide for v3

2001-01-16 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi - I've been trying to configure drm support for my voodoo3 (hence I'm using xf4 from unstable), and having very little luck. I went through all the configuration questions, insmod'd the 3dfx drm module, and typed startx. this is what I get: (II) GLIDE: driver for Glide devices (Voodoo cards

Re: xfstt??

2001-01-16 Thread mike
On at 10:44 on Tue 16 Jan, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > 'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* > > > about what ths has over > > > the regular way X handles fonts, but I use > > > 'xfstt', which handles > > > truetype fonts. > > > > > > > > > is xfstt a font server that can be used in place

group permissions

2001-01-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
I have the permissions on /var/www set so that any file created within it is owned by www-data. Currently, www-data does not have write access to the files. What I want to do is set it up so that any file created in /var/www is owned by www-data and www-data has write permissions to it, so that f

Re: what does menuconfig require?

2001-01-16 Thread Ken Weingold
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Anything in general that 'make menuconfig' needs? I just did a new > # install, and when I type it at the console, I get an error when it is > # in lxdialog. > > I know I had to install libncurses5-dev t

[OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I am constructing a machine that will be used as a dedicated MP3 player. I need a bit of input regarding what sound card to put in it. Pretty much the only cards I've got experience with are Trident chipset based. The chipset is well supported in ALSA, but the card is pretty low quality (only cost

Re: what does menuconfig require?

2001-01-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Anything in general that 'make menuconfig' needs? I just did a new # install, and when I type it at the console, I get an error when it is # in lxdialog. I know I had to install libncurses5-dev to get 'make menuconfig' to work. Aside from that, everyth

what does menuconfig require?

2001-01-16 Thread Ken Weingold
Anything in general that 'make menuconfig' needs? I just did a new install, and when I type it at the console, I get an error when it is in lxdialog. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

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