Re: wvdial permissions

2001-03-10 Thread John Hasler
Wade Barocsi writes: > I have been using wvdial without difficulty for weeks. Upon use this > evening, I am getting "permission denied cannot open /dev/ttyS2". Any > Idea on why this has changed? A known bug in wvdial. The port should be group writeable. Just change it back. > wvdial works fin

Re: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:02:30PM -0800, Raphael Crawford-Marks wrote: > So now I'm trying to set up X. The motherboard has the intel FW82810 (also > called i810) chipset onboard for video. What card should I select in the > XFree86 setup? Tried the three intel cards on the list, none worked.

Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-10 Thread Raphael Crawford-Marks
So now I'm trying to set up X. The motherboard has the intel FW82810 (also called i810) chipset onboard for video. What card should I select in the XFree86 setup? Tried the three intel cards on the list, none worked. Thanks, Raphael

wvdial permissions

2001-03-10 Thread Wade Barocsi
I have been using wvdial without difficulty for weeks. Upon use this evening, I am getting "permission denied cannot open /dev/ttyS2". Any Idea on why this has changed? No one has made any (known)changes. What should /dev/ttyS2 permissions be on a standalone desktop system? ls -l:cr

Re: resizing /

2001-03-10 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:38:24 +0100 Sven Burgener writes: SB> is there any way to resize the slash partition without physically 'moving' SB> the hard disk into a different computer? I suggest GNU Parted for doing it. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/USER > 1.5 GNU Parted boot di

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB > > HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, > > with RH 7.0 installed. My thinking is, test drive the RH for > > a while. then copy all config files for reference to settin

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-10 Thread Andre Berger
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010311 02:25 +0100: > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010309 10:25 +0100: > > > Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes > > > mbox files. > > > > Theoretically yes. But it

xmh crashes

2001-03-10 Thread Rob Cymbala
"Go to the command menu bar and pull down the Message menu. Select the Compose Message command." At that point, a small dialog box appears. Before i can read what it says, everything's gone. No more xmh. mh works fine from bash login shell. Help! pc: Toshiba T4700CT notebook

installing win98 after everthing else....

2001-03-10 Thread rich
Howdy all, I've got a "tri-boot" box - linux, win95 and freebsd... I would like to install win98 and eventually erase win95. I have 2 hard drives configured as follows: master: /dev/hda1 win95 /dev/hda2 freebsd /dev/hda3 debian root /dev/hda4 debian swap slave: /dev/hdb1

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread Morai MacEoin Fraser
Price difference is because the dell Inspirion is a laptop. and a nice unit at that. though out of my price range by a bit. but the 400 is the choice I'ld make if you want to go with Dell. brian moore wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > > Dell has quoted: $218

Re: Auto Completion broken

2001-03-10 Thread Anthony Fox
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:23:47PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am noticing a strange problem. At the console or at a shell in > > an xterm, pressing the tab key logs me out of that session. This > > was not happening befor

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold > Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My thinking is, test drive > the RH for a while. then copy all config files for reference to setting up > De

Exim - Fetchmail - Procmail

2001-03-10 Thread MamoMC
Hi! When I send a message to myself (maurizio) locally exim passes the message correctly to procmail (I have a ~/.procmailrc) which moves it to ~/Mail/In which is read by Mutt. If I send a message to an e-mail address outside my PC world and the I fetch it by fetchmail (~/.fetchmailrc knows

Re: BACKSPACE problems..

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:41:10PM -0500, Vlad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Re, > > Having small problems with backspace.. when i ssh to my box from console > and run screen, backspace works perfectly fine.. > > however, when i ssh from X (running Eterm) and run screen.. it stop > working, ctrl

Re: Auto Completion broken

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:23:47PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I am noticing a strange problem. At the console or at a shell in an > xterm, pressing the tab key logs me out of that session. This was not > happening before. Has anyone seen this problem, and, if so,

Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread hammack
Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed.  My thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all config files for reference to setting up Debian.  I may bump the HD to 20GB.  Comment and suggestions: 

resizing /

2001-03-10 Thread Sven Burgener
hey debs is there any way to resize the slash partition without physically 'moving' the hard disk into a different computer? is this at all possible?? resize2fs tells me about slash being mounted and that it's not possible to resize a partition in such a state... i suppose i have to use a speci

lprngtool and filters

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Wohler
I just started using lprngtool and it seems pretty good. However, the printers that come with it can only handle text and PostScript. What filters do you folks use to print JPGs and the like, color and b&w, and how do you configure them (in concert with lprngtool?) -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, > XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My > thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all config > files for reference to setting up Deb

Re: Mail question

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:22:00AM +0100, Marko Simendic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all! > > I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa? Say you have two computers on your network, potato and mswi

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread John Galt
Are you tied to mp3? There's a free alternative that's reasonably supported by Debian: ogg/vorbis. Try it. It's a little bigger file for file, but I was able to play ogg files reasonably on a 486... On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >Ok, I know there have been some licensing

Re: ppp0 not found when switched to 2.4 kernel

2001-03-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > Sebastiaan wrote: > > ... > > > have you installed modutils-2.4.1 and the new ppp package from woody? You > > > will need those if you want to run 2.4 kernels. > > > > yes, I've got everything from unstable (modutils 2.4.2 and

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-10 Thread Colin Walters
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010309 10:25 +0100: > > Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes > > mbox files. > > Theoretically yes. But it doesn't work with anything else but ML (here), > and I can't find example

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya I have a few links for endcoding/decoding mpeg files mpeg1, 2, 3... http://www.Linux-Video.net look at the encoder and decoders links am trying tofind mpeg3/mpeg4 linux-based players than can also play its mpeg out to the regular TV... Am sorta testing the NetStream2000

Re: CNET Pro120c

2001-03-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i believe that silly card is the same as DFE530TX+ so use the rtl8139 driver c ya alvin On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Raphael Crawford-Marks wrote: > Hello, > > I'm installing Potato on a system with a CNET Pro120c card. What driver > module should I load for it? > > > Thanks, > > Raphael >

cannot compile QT 2.3.0; anyone else have difficulty

2001-03-10 Thread Pollywog
I tried to compile QT 2.3.0 and got lots of unresolved symbols, too much too post here. Did anyone else have such a problem with 2.3.0 ? thanks -- Andrew

BACKSPACE problems..

2001-03-10 Thread Vlad
Re, Having small problems with backspace.. when i ssh to my box from console and run screen, backspace works perfectly fine.. however, when i ssh from X (running Eterm) and run screen.. it stop working, ctrl+backspace does the job. what's funny.. backspace works if im NOT in screen.. any ideas

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-10 Thread Pete Meyer
>> 3) In windows there is the idea of formating a partition >> or a floppy. Debian installation seem to do something similar. >> How does it work in Linux, and what is the utility that does it? I believe mkfs formatts a partition for linux (it doesn't make the partition). This is done mostly tr

Re: mutt/fetchmail config

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Martinovic
> > ...or set exim to check its queue more often. 2-6 minutes might be a > > good interval. /etc/init.d/exim, if you're not running it from > > /etc/inetd.conf. If you *are* using tcpwrappers, I'm not sure > > > > you can also set > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 > in /etc/exim.con

Re: SAMBA not running

2001-03-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Agner-Nichols wrote: > > Wondering if anyone might have some insight on why my smbd server is not > running. SMB filesystem support is compiled into a 2.2.17 kernel (running > on a Dell pentium 166). Per the SMB-HOWTO, /etc/services has: > > netbios-ns 137/tcp nbns > netbios-ns 137/ucp nb

Re: Installing Linux

2001-03-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Andrew wrote: > > Hi. I am getting ready to install Linux and are > considering the way's to install it. I am wondering if > I can start the installation system and tell it to > download the packages,etc. If I can, please tell me > what I need and how to do it. Thanks. > I bought the 3 CD 2.2r0 b

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Erik Steffl
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:11:46PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > > > Yes.. I am using lame is great.. dont know if I installed it by apt-get or > > from source code tarball anyway go for it. > > I don't see lame anymore. I just grabbed a copy of bladeenc from

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Waldner
(sorry for following up on my own post) On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:59:58 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >You may also want to search for "gogo"[0], it´s based on lame, with some > portions re-written in assembler[1]. Unequalled in speed and > quality[2]. Unfortunately I know of no .deb for it, you´d

SAMBA not running

2001-03-10 Thread Agner-Nichols
Wondering if anyone might have some insight on why my smbd server is not running. SMB filesystem support is compiled into a 2.2.17 kernel (running on a Dell pentium 166). Per the SMB-HOWTO, /etc/services has: netbios-ns 137/tcp nbns netbios-ns 137/ucp nbns netbios-dgm 138/tcp nbdgm netbio

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:20:00 EST, "Michael P. Soulier" writes: >On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Latreyte David wrote: You may also want to search for "gogo"[0], it´s based on lame, with some portions re-written in assembler[1]. Unequalled in speed and quality[2]. Unfortunately I kn

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
> > Put deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/source.list and then type > > apt-get install lame > > Well, the source-line didn't work, but I grabbed the .deb in my browser. It does work - did you remember to a) Put a space between forcix.cx/ and debian/ ? b) run apt-get update bef

Netscape problems

2001-03-10 Thread Timothy Bedding
I am having trouble using the debian website. Could someone use it to tell me where on the debian FTP server I can find the package files (.deb files) for these two packages: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 2.91.66-4 libxpm4 Thanks

RE: gateway settings

2001-03-10 Thread Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net
You can set a gateway option for each interface. Add a line "gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" under the nic settings. Also, see man interfaces. -Rick Jansen ** Server Administrator [Linux - FreeBSD] Websites: www.shellz.nl www.tweakers.net ICQ#: 374

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Latreyte David wrote: > Put deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/source.list and then type > apt-get install lame Well, the source-line didn't work, but I grabbed the .deb in my browser. Thanks! Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAI

Unresolved symbols in alsa-modules-2.2.18-ide

2001-03-10 Thread Jeremy Bowman
I just re-installed Debian, and in the process of trying to get sound working, I: - installed kernel-image-2.2.18-ide - rebooted and verified that that was in fact the version I was using - installed alsa-modules-2.2.18-ide But every time I run depmod (starting with the installation script), I ge

gateway settings

2001-03-10 Thread Chris Mason
I have debian 2.2.17 on my dual homed firewall. I know that the network card IPs are set in /etc/networks/interfaces but where is the gateway set? The only place I could find is /etc/init.d/network but there are settings for the interfaces there also, and they don't work. Chris Mason Box 340, The

Re: Where are clear-text passwords stored?

2001-03-10 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:23:41PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Is this list an exhaustive list of places where my dial-up password is > > stored? I'm about to return a laptop after installing Debian for a > > friend, and want to make sure all my passwords are deleted. > > -- > > htt

mutt: how to change new mail checking frequency

2001-03-10 Thread Mirko Parthey
Hi, mail_check doesn't have the effect I would expect: When a message has been delivered to /var/mail/mpa, mutt takes about 10 minutes to notice the new mail, despite mail_check being set to small values such as 5 or 1 (seconds). Pressing ^L makes mutt notice new mail immediately, but I'd rather li

Problems installing debian Potato 2.2r2 on an AMI MegaRAID

2001-03-10 Thread Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net
Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian on an AMI MegaRAID Elite 1500. However, when the CD boots up, it freezes after it detected the MegaRAID card (the line showing IRQ etc). Is there any way to install Debian directly onto a drive connected to this card, without using an IDE drive as targetdisk?

CNET Pro120c

2001-03-10 Thread Raphael Crawford-Marks
Hello, I'm installing Potato on a system with a CNET Pro120c card. What driver module should I load for it? Thanks, Raphael

Re: Where are clear-text passwords stored?

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:45:31PM -0800, Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is this list an exhaustive list of places where my dial-up password is > stored? I'm about to return a laptop after installing Debian for a > friend, and want to make sure all my passwords are deleted. > --

Re: Moving redhat -> debian

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:29:04AM +0100, Przemyslaw Bak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We are going to move one of our production servers > from redhat (basically 6.1 upgraded to 6.2) to debian (potato 2.2r2). > It works as a samba server (over 120 accounts, printing included as well) > and oracle

Re: No sound with CT5880 on board

2001-03-10 Thread Roberto Diaz
> I have Debian 2.2r2. When I installed it I selected the modules es1371 and > soundcore. Then I installed alsaconf and other alsa packages and configured > the module 0x10 Ensoniq-AudioPCI_ES1371 in alsaconf. Then i did > update-modules. > Here is the resulting section in /etc/modules.conf : You

Re: secure copy without user input

2001-03-10 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:27:07PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Bjarne S . N?ss (on Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:40:17PM +0100): > > This is quite simple. Just run ssh-keygen and an empty passphrase. > > By default the key generated will be put in .ssh/identify.pub copy > > the line into the .ssh/a

Where are clear-text passwords stored?

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Cymbala
Is this list an exhaustive list of places where my dial-up password is stored? I'm about to return a laptop after installing Debian for a friend, and want to make sure all my passwords are deleted. -- http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/Debian/t4700ct.html#passwords

No sound with CT5880 on board

2001-03-10 Thread f1k
Hi, I have a problem with my onboard sound chip CT5880 on a Gigabye GA7ZXR. I have Debian 2.2r2. When I installed it I selected the modules es1371 and soundcore. Then I installed alsaconf and other alsa packages and configured the module 0x10 Ensoniq-AudioPCI_ES1371 in alsaconf. Then i did update

Re: Netscape problems

2001-03-10 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 10-Mar-2001 Roberto Diaz wrote: >> Hello! I installed netscape-base-4_4.76-1.deb >> and netscape-base-475_4.75-2.deb to try to get the >> 4.75 Netscape running. >> However, I have done this and I do not seem to have a netscape >> executable any more. >> Are there other packages I need? > > You

RE: Netscape problems

2001-03-10 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 10-Mar-2001 Timothy Bedding wrote: > Hello! I installed netscape-base-4_4.76-1.deb > and netscape-base-475_4.75-2.deb to try to get the > 4.75 Netscape running. > > However, I have done this and I do not seem to have a netscape > executable any more. > > Are there other packages I need? Yes;

Re: Netscape problems

2001-03-10 Thread Roberto Diaz
> Hello! I installed netscape-base-4_4.76-1.deb > and netscape-base-475_4.75-2.deb to try to get the > 4.75 Netscape running. > However, I have done this and I do not seem to have a netscape > executable any more. > Are there other packages I need? You need communicator it is in the non-free branc

Re: AWE64 Configuration...

2001-03-10 Thread James K. Wiggs
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Jason Loll wrote: > "James K. Wiggs" wrote: > > > Folks, > > > >First off, I don't have access to my machine that's receiving > > mail from the debian-user mailing list right now, so please respond > > via email as well as to the list if at all possible. If not, I wil

Netscape problems

2001-03-10 Thread Timothy Bedding
Hello! I installed netscape-base-4_4.76-1.deb and netscape-base-475_4.75-2.deb to try to get the 4.75 Netscape running. However, I have done this and I do not seem to have a netscape executable any more. Are there other packages I need? If so, what are they?

RE: [OT] how do I use xmess?

2001-03-10 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 10-Mar-2001 Matheson Cameron wrote: > Hey, > > I want to play genesis games with xmess, but I can't > seem to do it. I run xmess, but it says I'm missing > file (901??). Where do I get these? Am I doing > something wrong? I do not know how to run Genesis games with xmess (I know it is

[OT] how do I use xmess?

2001-03-10 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I want to play genesis games with xmess, but I can't seem to do it. I run xmess, but it says I'm missing file (901??). Where do I get these? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy th

Re: Japanese in Emacs

2001-03-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Sat, 10 Mar 2001 08:34:48 -0800 (PST) Matheson cum veritate scripsit : Hi, > I was wondering if it was possible to make it so that > when I type into emacs (emacs, or XEmacs) it would > convert the romaji to hiragana or katakana. Can Emacs > do this? Emacs can do everything can't it? I thin

Re: secure copy without user input

2001-03-10 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Bjarne S . Nćss (on Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:40:17PM +0100): > This is quite simple. Just run ssh-keygen and an empty passphrase. > By default the key generated will be put in .ssh/identify.pub copy > the line into the .ssh/authorized_keys into the home folder of > target machine, and you s

taking a break

2001-03-10 Thread MaD dUCK
debianers, sure enough, i wouldn't really have to post this but i am too enthusiastic about this list as to simply leave. i am writing my thesis and expecting to graduate within the next 2.5 months. you all know it, i'd much rather answer questions on this list of just learn while reading along,

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:41:35PM +0300, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes but that's not my point. 'F10' and 'M-`' exist and I use them :-) > ... > > Put (menu-bar-mode '-1) in your .emacs file. If you

gnome: virtual desktops

2001-03-10 Thread Erich Birngruber
hi everybody! I wondered if there is a way to create _different_ virtual desktops in GNOME, as far as the icons are concerned; i.e. i know i can have different backgrounds, but i would also like to have different icons on different desktops... for exemple: - an office desktop with icons for lyx...

TFTP-Server

2001-03-10 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi! I am using potato and need to set up a tftp server (for firmware, configuration and history of our DLink Switch-stacks. The debian tftpd-package (in.tftpd) doesn´t allow clients to create new files, they have to exist beforehand. That´s quite annoying. Can anybody point me to an alternative

Re: US Maintainer Putting Package on non-US

2001-03-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:59:38PM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > * Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010305 18:46]: > > My problem is that I'm a US citizen. I think, as far as I can tell, > > that it's legal for me to upload this code to a non-US server. > > It is, provided you mail a copy of

Need Help Compiling the DFE 530tx+ driver

2001-03-10 Thread Arlo White
I'm still trying to install that DFE 530tx+ Dlink driver.  I unpacked the .deb kernel-headers file and it created: /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.12 I symlinked /usr/src/linux > kernel-headers-2.2.12 but afterwards when I tried the compile command again:gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -W

Re: AWE64 Configuration...

2001-03-10 Thread Jason Loll
"James K. Wiggs" wrote: > Folks, > >First off, I don't have access to my machine that's receiving > mail from the debian-user mailing list right now, so please respond > via email as well as to the list if at all possible. If not, I will > not see your reply for 3-4 days. Now, on to the fun

Re: LVM, RAID stability

2001-03-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:25:49AM +0100, Stefan Traber wrote: > Has anyone made any experiences with these two? How stable is the code? > Would you recommend running these in a production environment? (If so what > kernel?) > I use LVM on debian.lcs.mit.edu under kernel 2.4.0 on potato. 6 4GB d

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:41:35PM +0300, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes but that's not my point. 'F10' and 'M-`' exist and I use them :-) ... > Put (menu-bar-mode '-1) in your .emacs file. If you want menu bar only > under X you can test for window

/var/log/wtmp was corrupted

2001-03-10 Thread calyth
Somehow, by some odd chances, that my /var/log/wtmp was corrupted, and it left 5 files in /var/log/lost&found and logrotate is complaining. What's wtmp about and how can I fix it? Calyth

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Latreyte David
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:47:38PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > > Yes.. I am using lame is great.. dont know if I installed it by apt-get or > > > from source code tarball anyway go for it. > > I don't see lame anymore. I just grabbed a copy of bladeenc from > > Slovenia, > > because I can't

Re: CYRILLIC/RUSSIAN?! any Russians out here?! help

2001-03-10 Thread Peter Novodvorsky
Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I was asked by our Russian co-worker to enable cyrillic support in > Debian, both in console in X. So far I have no idea how > to implement that. GTK complains that the locale is not supported and console > doesn't want to show any symbols. >

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes but that's not my point. 'F10' and 'M-`' exist and I use them :-) > > To use emacs menu in console, this top menu line is really useless. F10 > works even after I killed this top menu line with "meta-x > menu-bar-mode". I always wonder why do not th

Re: CYRILLIC/RUSSIAN?! any Russians out here?! help

2001-03-10 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I was asked by our Russian co-worker to enable cyrillic support > in Debian, both in console in X. So far I have no idea how to > implement that. GTK complains that the locale is not supported and > console doesn't want to show any symbols. I can

RE: Truetype with X-tt

2001-03-10 Thread Carlos Laviola
apt-get remove xfs-xtt && apt-get install xfstt cp /wherever/you/store/truetype/fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype /etc/init.d/xfstt restart add "FontPath unix/:7101" to /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) [in the proper section] enter X and type xlsfonts|grep ttf in a terminal to see if TrueType fonts are avai

Auto Completion broken

2001-03-10 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, I am noticing a strange problem. At the console or at a shell in an xterm, pressing the tab key logs me out of that session. This was not happening before. Has anyone seen this problem, and, if so, how did you fix it? Thanks, Anthony

Re: ipchain and init.d

2001-03-10 Thread Roberto Rosario
Debian will auto execute on boot up anything it finds on /etc/rc.boot/, remember to do a chmod 700. However in this case I would recomend that you install the package ipmasq. Jack wrote: > A short question: > > where could I put these commands, to be run at the boot time: > > ipchain -A forwar

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Forrest English
check the unofficial apt source page. there's one that has lame there. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Robe

test-please ignore

2001-03-10 Thread Andre Berger

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes but that's not my point. 'F10' and 'M-`' exist and I use them :-) To use emacs menu in console, this top menu line is really useless. F10 works even after I killed this top menu line with "meta-x menu-bar-mode". I always wonder why do not they simply say "Press F10 for menu" or something re

Re: mp3 encoding (fwd)

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:49:12PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > I don't see lame anymore. I just grabbed a copy of bladeenc from > > Slovenia, > > because I can't find it in the west. I think a lot of the western sites were > > slapped with ceast and desist orders. > > > Can you see http:/

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:47:38PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Can you see http://www.mp3-dev.org/mp3 ? > > Lame is there.. Actually, no. [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ nslookup www.mp3-dev.org Server: proxy1.rdc1.on.home.com Address: 24.2.9.33 *** proxy1.rdc1.on.home.com can't find www

Re: Moving redhat -> debian

2001-03-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > We are going to move one of our production servers > from redhat (basically 6.1 upgraded to 6.2) to debian (potato 2.2r2). > It works as a samba server (over 120 accounts, printing included

Re: mp3 encoding (fwd)

2001-03-10 Thread Roberto Diaz
> I don't see lame anymore. I just grabbed a copy of bladeenc from Slovenia, > because I can't find it in the west. I think a lot of the western sites were > slapped with ceast and desist orders. > Can you see http://www.mp3-dev.org/mp3 ? Sorry.. I mistyped www.mp3dev.org thats the site for

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Roberto Diaz
> > Yes.. I am using lame is great.. dont know if I installed it by apt-get or > > from source code tarball anyway go for it. > I don't see lame anymore. I just grabbed a copy of bladeenc from Slovenia, > because I can't find it in the west. I think a lot of the western sites were > slapped wit

Japanese in Emacs

2001-03-10 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to make it so that when I type into emacs (emacs, or XEmacs) it would convert the romaji to hiragana or katakana. Can Emacs do this? Emacs can do everything can't it? Thanks, Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yaho

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:11:46PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Yes.. I am using lame is great.. dont know if I installed it by apt-get or > from source code tarball anyway go for it. I don't see lame anymore. I just grabbed a copy of bladeenc from Slovenia, because I can't find it in the w

video enconders.

2001-03-10 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi! Theres a lot of time since I had my tv/videocapturer card forgottem... but recently I have purchased a cd-roast and I am very excited converting all to cd's.. I would like to put movies into cd's (for personal use I know the copyrights has to be respected) so I would need something able to r

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Roberto Diaz
> Ok, I know there have been some licensing issues which is probably why so > many of these disappeared, but is anyone still doing mp3 encoding on linux? I > installed grip, but I don't have an encoder installed. What is everyone else > using? Yes.. I am using lame is great.. dont know if I in

mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, I know there have been some licensing issues which is probably why so many of these disappeared, but is anyone still doing mp3 encoding on linux? I installed grip, but I don't have an encoder installed. What is everyone else using? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: AWE64 Configuration...

2001-03-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I don't really know what the problem with your config is, but I can tell you it'll probably work fine if you compile the drivers as modules (don't forget to give the parameters you've set in isapnp.conf to them). But I guess the problem with your config is, that the driver initializes first

Re: ppp0 not found when switched to 2.4 kernel

2001-03-10 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > Sebastiaan wrote: > ... > > have you installed modutils-2.4.1 and the new ppp package from woody? You > > will need those if you want to run 2.4 kernels. > > yes, I've got everything from unstable (modutils 2.4.2 and pppd 2.4.0) Strange. I have ppp_g

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread W. Paul Mills
Hit the key, and notice what happens! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Osamu Aoki) writes: > Can we use emacs menu bars on the top of screen in Linux console? > > Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Mule Help > > I know these works as menu in X, but what does it do in console??? > > Should I close

Re: Compiling the DFE 530tx+ driver

2001-03-10 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arlo White) writes: As I recall, when compiling with the gcc command shown below, you have to add "-I/usr/src/linux" This can be done without compiling the whole kernel. To use the make commands, you have to be in the directory "/usr/src/kernel-source??" depending on the k

Re: Wrong Mouse Driver

2001-03-10 Thread Andre Berger
On 20010310 12:39 +0100, Phil Reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I selected the wrong driver for my mouse when I installed > potato. It is a Logitech Mouseman serial mouse on com3, but the > middle mouse key does not work at all. How can I fix this? (I've added some

Truetype with X-tt

2001-03-10 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
Hi all, I recently installed potato and I'm trying to get truetype fonts going. I noticed that the X-tt truetype server is installed, but haven't been able to find any useful documentation to get it going (the examples file in /usr/doc/xtt is in japanese!). Does anyone know of some nice documentat

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:09:01PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Can we use emacs menu bars on the top of screen in Linux console? > > Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Mule Help > > I know these works as menu in X, but what does it do in console??? try Meta-` or F10 and go from there -- groetj

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Carl Greco
The following is from the Emacs -> Menu Bar section of the Emacs Info page: On text-only terminals with no mouse, you can use the menu bar by typing `M-`' or (these run the command `tmm-menubar'). This command enters a mode in which you can select a menu item from the keyboard. A provisiona

Re: PPP weirdness

2001-03-10 Thread John Hasler
hogan writes: > Noticed that recently that I don't always get assigned an IP when I dial > up What would be causing this? Would it be my end or remote end? I would tend to blame the other end. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare

2001-03-10 Thread Cory Snavely
Bill, since my similar experience, I've seen plenty of other posts about the same thing. Thanks go to Joey for responding, although I agree that his answer is a little terse. What I take from it is that 1) that's what unstable is all about--needing to be prepared for some weirdness here and there,

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