Re: From RH to Debian: two pending problems.

2001-09-06 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:19 pm, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > Hello: > > I have switched from RH to Debian recently (for my desktop). Welcome! > Unfortunately, I still have two pending problems which > I had taken for granted while I was using RH: > - turning on the sound sndconfig, the

Unidentified subject!

2001-09-06 Thread Jack Grigg
Dear Debian support, I have subscribed with mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (but the return address for this email is also valid) I'm installing release 2.2 r2 and I'm having trouble getting my mouse to work in the X windows system. It is a microsoft mouse, connected to the COM1 serial port. I

Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > uh-oh... too late :-( ? I have > 20 Mbytes of gziped > email archive in cascaded folders. I have not found > a better GUI replacement (yet). Why do you need a GUI for an essentially plain-text application? When I first switched to doing my email under Linux, as an

Re: fetchmail question

2001-09-06 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:06:42AM +, john smith wrote: > Hi, > > a question on fetchmail > > 1. I have created my $.fetchmailrc file via fetchmailconf and set daemon at > 60..(that's in seconds right?) and sent myself a test message but > bizarringly fetchmail doesn't go get it even af

Re: How to obtain net load?

2001-09-06 Thread Tao Liu
On Friday 07 September 2001 11:35, you wrote: > I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but have you examined > /proc/net/dev ? This will give you both bytes and packets for each > interface, both transmit and receive. Hope this helps! Good luck. > > --Myke > > >>> Tao Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTE

From RH to Debian: two pending problems.

2001-09-06 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello: I have switched from RH to Debian recently (for my desktop). Unfortunately, I still have two pending problems which I had taken for granted while I was using RH: - turning on the sound - turning on the printer printer (my beloved ole' BJC-210SP) I am currently using KDE on a potato 2.2r3.

Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-06 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: >> I guess, that this is a Netscape mailer problem, since >> there is no problem with mutt. Apparently, Netscape >> put a non FQDN "Sender: ", and the smarthost adds >> its FQDN to that header. > > It's a Netscape mail problem. Get a real mail client. It's possible > yo

Re: cron: why not?

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Allison
I did that too. They need to use the words "OR" and "NOT AND" when specifying dates... Martin F Krafft wrote: also sprach Martin F Krafft (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 01:28:37AM +0200): i though saying "run on days 1-7 if day of week is 0 (sunday)" does not include thursday, september 6... nevermin

Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-06 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Osamu Aoki wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ >{$value}fail} bcfrF > > Last option tells which address to rewrite. See manual for details. > > wrotell envelope fields > F rewrite the envelope From field > T rewrite the envelope To field >

fetchmail question

2001-09-06 Thread john smith
Hi, a question on fetchmail 1. I have created my $.fetchmailrc file via fetchmailconf and set daemon at 60..(that's in seconds right?) and sent myself a test message but bizarringly fetchmail doesn't go get it even after 10 minutes until I tell fetchmail to go check my mail! I don't know

How to obtain net load?

2001-09-06 Thread Tao Liu
I know in KDE, KNETLoad can do the job, But how can I obtain net load in text mode? Thanks. -- Regards Tao Liu _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Help!! Soundcard questions

2001-09-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I'm running debian potato, on a K6-2 500 with 500+MB RAM, on a Gigabyte > GA-5AA M/B. > Everything's working fine, except that I'm trying to get a soundcard > working. > > Mandrake on the above system auto-detects the card, and gets it working > automatically. No drama. > But under pota

Re: syslog.conf - a contest

2001-09-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> it's a *contest*, but you ain't winning anything but my eternal > gratefulness and respect from the whole group. > > i *hate* syslog.conf and the entire syslog daemon. i tried syslog-ng a > while back, but it would keep crashing - no good for a logging daemon. > (btw: anyone got better experienc

Fwd: Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
meant to send this to the list... - Forwarded message from Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - also sprach Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 08:44:50AM +0800): > Here is a far more complicated perl script that make the "tail -f" part of the > actual application. It is desi

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: > hi, > why does the following not work: > > tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | while read i; do myprog $i; done > > i basically need to run myprog as soon as a new entry in syslog > happens that matches the criteria of the grep call. it needs t

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Joseph Dane (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:04:52PM -1000): > Martin> no: xargs(1) --max-args=max-args, -n max-args Use at most > Martin> max-args arguments per command line. Fewer than max-args > Martin> arguments will be used if the size (see the -s option) is > Martin> exceeded, unless

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-06 Thread Dan Christensen
"C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dan Christensen wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I'm having what sounds like the same problem. See bug #96709 >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96709&repeatmerged=yes > [...] > > [EMAIL P

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> also sprach Joseph Dane (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 01:26:37PM Martin> -1000): >> why not just use xargs? >> >> find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l >> >> I think you can pass '-n 1' to xargs to cause it to execute the >> command

Re: cron: why not?

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Martin F Krafft (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 01:28:37AM +0200): > i though saying "run on days 1-7 if day of week is 0 (sunday)" does > not include thursday, september 6... nevermind, sorry for replying to my own post and not RTFMing too carefully: crontab(5): Note: The day of a comman

Re: Super slow NFS

2001-09-06 Thread James D Strandboge
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:53:39AM -0700 or thereabouts, Anthony Lau wrote: I too had the same problems. I had updated part of my LAN with a Fast Ethernet switch and cards, but alas I had a bad cable. Once I switched out the cables and made sure I used Cat 5 cable for the 100baseTx cards, all w

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-06 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dan Christensen wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm having what sounds like the same problem. See bug #96709 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96709&repeatmerged=yes [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY > scratchy:10.0 OK, I just fig

syslog.conf - a contest

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
it's a *contest*, but you ain't winning anything but my eternal gratefulness and respect from the whole group. i *hate* syslog.conf and the entire syslog daemon. i tried syslog-ng a while back, but it would keep crashing - no good for a logging daemon. (btw: anyone got better experience? i'd love

Re: devfs

2001-09-06 Thread Daniel Wagner
--- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > problem: everytime i boot to 24.7. with devfs i have these msgs: > > can't locate module: /dev/xconsole > can't locate module: /var/log/ksymoops/*.log can't create regular \ > file. read-only filesystem... > can't locate module: /dev/cdrom1 if've got the p

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:33:01PM -0500): > > I couldn't get a variation of that working either... but if > > myprog is a perl script and is driven by the while(<>) loop, > > then you should be able to just pip

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Joseph Dane (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 01:26:37PM -1000): > why not just use xargs? > > find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l > > I think you can pass '-n 1' to xargs to cause it to execute the > command a separate time for each argument. no: xargs(1) --max-args=max-args, -n max-args

cron: why not?

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
30 7 1-7 * 0 /home/madduck/mirror/mother/do_backup -x 30 7 8-31 * 0 /home/madduck/mirror/mother/do_backup am i right or not, this should run do_backup with the -x argument only every first sunday of a month, and otherwise just do_backup without arguments every other sunday? the -x version just ran

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> and could someone give me a perl one-liner that takes each Martin> such line fed into its STDIN, and for each line, calls an Martin> external shell script with the entire line as argument? why not just use xargs? find . -n

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:16:58PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > tail -f /var/log/syslog | perl -n -e '`myprog $_` if m/pattern/' > > Note that it's usually safer to use system rather than backticks, but > as you requested this is a quick one-liner :) that'll work too.. i didn't see your post

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > and could someone give me a perl one-liner that takes each such line > fed into its STDIN, and for each line, calls an external shell script > with the entire line as argument? > here you go :) #!/usr/bin/perl $| = 1; while (<>)

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:33:01PM -0500): > > I couldn't get a variation of that working either... but if > > myprog is a perl script and is driven by the while(<>) loop, > > then you should be able to just pip

Re: enlightenment and update-menus

2001-09-06 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:54:41PM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > I've never touched it. This procedure works fine for me. Great, I'll try that, thanx Bye -- Haim > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:48:28AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:08:35AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-06 Thread Steven Kurylo
Does anyone have any tips to getting a no-name ISA NE?000 clone working with Sid? I does work fine as I rebooted to Mandrake and used it... Is it a PNP card? If so you need to use the isapnp tools. Otherwise the card should have jumpers on it and you can set them to whatever IO and IRQ yo

Help!! Soundcard questions

2001-09-06 Thread David McNab
Hi, I'm running debian potato, on a K6-2 500 with 500+MB RAM, on a Gigabyte GA-5AA M/B. Everything's working fine, except that I'm trying to get a soundcard working. Mandrake on the above system auto-detects the card, and gets it working automatically. No drama. But under potato (which I prefer),

can't get files for binary-i386-1_NONUS (potato)

2001-09-06 Thread c-3
Hi! I'm trying to create a pseudo-image of the official binary-i386- 1_NONUS disc (potato). I already downloaded about 630 MB, but I wasn't able to get following files, because I couldn't find them on any server: /doc/FAQ/html/ch-basic_defs.html /doc/FAQ/html/ch-compat.html /doc/FAQ/html/ch-con

Re: How to use KDE with GNOME in woody

2001-09-06 Thread Georges Goncalves
Le -09.06.2001 12:50:21-, « Mohan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « How to use KDE with GNOME in woody » M> Dear sir, i am using Woody (latest version) woth GNOME. i am also want M> to install KDE with GNOME. can mail me, how can i acheive this, please? I have BOTH i

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:33:01PM -0500): > I couldn't get a variation of that working either... but if > myprog is a perl script and is driven by the while(<>) loop, > then you should be able to just pipe the output of the grep > right into it, like so: > >tail -f /var/l

Mozilla & JAVA -- AGAIN !!!

2001-09-06 Thread Georges Goncalves
Hi, I finally solved most of my problems with JAVA and Mozilla ! I use the IBM JRE which is very verbose when loading applets compared to the SUN JRE which is very quiet ! I have both installed and I can switch from one to another by changing the symlink in the Mozilla plugins dir. I'd like to

RE: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-06 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Is this an ISA card? Do you have isapnp configured? Hm Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Ross Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 06 September, 2001 03:49 PM > To: Debian Users > Subject: ne driver in kernel 2.2 > > > Hi, > > Okay, until I get kernel 2.4.x wo

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock [was: Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!]

2001-09-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
>on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and >> especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have managed >> to e2fsck the partition using the backup supe

Re: Sylpheed

2001-09-06 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Change the apt sources.list file, do a apt-get update (or dselect update), > and then request: apt-get install sylpheed. > > Now, change the apt sources.list file back, and run apt-get/dselect update > again to reset state. Thanks, I'm trying this now. > Lo

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-06 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:49:18PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Does anyone have any tips to getting a no-name ISA NE?000 clone working > with Sid? I does work fine as I rebooted to Mandrake and used it... > Is this a pre-packaged kernel, or did you build it from scratch? Either way, try this ou

Re: Fwd: seamus 2001/09/06 22:15 ACTIVE SYSTEM ATTACK!

2001-09-06 Thread Myke Place
Martin, This was discussed a few months back on the SuSe mailing list. The answer given there is pasted below. I'm sure a net search will yield more info. Hope this helps. Posted to Suse list in March 2001: This is most likely triggered by someone from your internal LAN accessing a web site w

Re: Sylpheed

2001-09-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > no luck even though I'd bet a zillion dollars that this question has > been asked before... Well, I am not sure it was asked before :P > How do I upgrade a single package and it's dependencies from the stable > versions to a less stable version like t

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:49:18PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: | | Okay, until I get kernel 2.4.x working to my satisfaction I've got to | live with kernel 2.2.x with it's poor non-autodetecting ne driver. ... | Does anyone have any tips to getting a no-name ISA NE?000 clone working | with Sid? I

Re: How to handle "unofficial package" upgrade

2001-09-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
You probably won't have to do anything special. What is the 'fairly common source' you speak of? A month ago, I upgraded from potato (stable) to woody (testing, and soon to be stable). In potato, my KDE 2.1 packages came from kde.tdyc.com. The KDE packages are part of woody, so I only had on

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:45:37PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: | Hi, | | After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I | managed to make it boot my Sid systems. | | 1. Why does it wait for 5 seconds? ("wait 5 seconds or press enter for a | shell")? No idea, but I'd like it if m

Sylpheed

2001-09-06 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
I've searched the Debian FAQ and the mailing list archives but am having no luck even though I'd bet a zillion dollars that this question has been asked before... How do I upgrade a single package and it's dependencies from the stable versions to a less stable version like testing? I'm running

ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-06 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, Okay, until I get kernel 2.4.x working to my satisfaction I've got to live with kernel 2.2.x with it's poor non-autodetecting ne driver. Maybe I've got slack with Mandrake 8 and it's wizzy kudzu (why doesn't Debian use that?), but I'm used to "modprobe ne". $ modprobe ne device not found $

Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-06 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I managed to make it boot my Sid systems. 1. Why does it wait for 5 seconds? ("wait 5 seconds or press enter for a shell")? 2. I got an error about an incorrect cramfs magic number, is this critial? 3. How do I get devfsd to wo

Re: devfs

2001-09-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 10:33, --- wrote: > problem: everytime i boot to 24.7. with devfs i have these msgs: > > can't locate module: /dev/xconsole > can't locate module: /var/log/ksymoops/*.log can't create regular \ > file. read-only filesystem... > can't locate module: /dev/cdrom1 > > can

Fwd: seamus 2001/09/06 22:15 ACTIVE SYSTEM ATTACK!

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
i use snort and logcheck, and there is a windoze machine (NT4) on my subnet (unfortunately), and i constantly get this message from snort via logcheck. wtf??? - Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Active System Attack Alerts =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sep 6 22:00:34 seamus

Re: How to handle "unofficial package" upgrade

2001-09-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: > Good day all- > > On a Debian Potato, I am using KDE 2.1 packages that > are, obviously, not part of Potato but are from a fairly > common source. If you are using stuff Ivan Moore has done... > Since KDE 2.2 is slated for inclusion in the upcoming > Debia

Re: How to handle "unofficial package" upgrade

2001-09-06 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.06 19:03 Greg Wiley wrote: > Good day all- > > On a Debian Potato, I am using KDE 2.1 packages that > are, obviously, not part of Potato but are from a fairly > common source. > > Since KDE 2.2 is slated for inclusion in the upcoming > Debian release, what is the best way to prepare

Re: [LIH] XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-06 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
>Rajesh saw fit to inform me that: > >However when I changed the order of 'dri' loading ( I made it as the first >module to be loaded), dri started working on my i810 :-) > >Section "Module" >Load"dri" >Load"ddc" > >EndSection > One more thing. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file c

Re: SHIT! Was: Re: procmail don't work

2001-09-06 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.06 19:46 ktb wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:25:59PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > What a bad thing. I experimented with my .procmailrec and lost 14 of > > your mails. ARGHHH!! Next time i will use fetchmail -k for someting > > like that. > > > > Ok! If someone wrote

Re: "mount" command question.

2001-09-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 11:33, Timeboy wrote: > > On 2001.09.06 17:25 Wayne wrote: > > Hi Timeboy, > > Yes, I use the same port. I leave the cord to the > > camera plug into the USB port and unconnect the > > end to the camera. > > Wayne > > Hi Wayne! > > Then i have no more ideas. I don't use USB

Re: lxdoom-x11 and music

2001-09-06 Thread Adam McDaniel
I've tried previously to get midi to work on the es1371. >From what i've read, it lacks the 'hardware capabilities' to be able to >produce proper midi output. It produces midi in windows via a software >intrepreter. There are some software midi programs that might work out for you, but i'm not

Re: Wordperfect 9 and e-mail

2001-09-06 Thread John Galt
I think this functionality (save as email) was introduced in WP 7. I would HOPE that it propagated. Look in the drop-down menu in the save as dialog, and see if there isn't some sort of email thing. On 6 Sep 2001, John Conover wrote: > >Is it possible to send a Wordperfect document as an e-ma

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-06 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Ailbhe Leamy wrote: > >Then I have a script that extracts all the probable mailbox names from >my .procmailrc, and puts them in my mutt mailboxes file. No idea >whether pine will let you do the same, but it might. Pine builds them as needed: I found this one out after cosmic r

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:23:09PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > > tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | while read i; do myprog $i; done > > i basically need to run myprog as soon as a new entry in syslog > happens that matches the criteria of the grep call. it needs to happen > immedia

Re: i810 sound?

2001-09-06 Thread Chris Parker
> > Problems with sound. How to get sound out of an i810 board. Could > > someone tell me if I have the correct modules loaded? They are listed > > below: > Got rid of these: > > mpu401 18960 0 (unused) > > uart401 6352 0 (unused) > > sound

Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-06 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Hereward Cooper wrote: > > called nse2html. > > It works OK, but I have to problem that the file is 220Mb+ and > I just run out of memory when trying to convert it (I'm running > 416Mb)! But it works on smaller files. You may enlargen your swap space temporary, to meet larger ram requirements

lxdoom-x11 and music

2001-09-06 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, Has anybody running lxdoom with midi music ? I have got a Creative Ensonique es1371 sound card. When I try to play doom I get sfx sound but midi sound seems to be not working. I am using the kernel oss sound modules. When I run doom the following is displayed : I_InitSound: Passing sound d

Re: [LIH] XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato & dri

2001-09-06 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Rajesh saw fit to inform me that: >On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:35:38PM -0700, Naren Devaiah wrote: > >>In your XF86Config file you must load the DRI module. Have you done that? >> >>In the Modules section, add >> >> Load "dri" > >Yes. That is already there. > Finally I got it. I had the follo

Re: SHIT! Was: Re: procmail don't work

2001-09-06 Thread ktb
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:25:59PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What a bad thing. I experimented with my .procmailrec and lost 14 of > your mails. ARGHHH!! Next time i will use fetchmail -k for someting > like that. > > Ok! If someone wrote me a message with subject Re: i810 sound?, > Re:

Re: kde - realplayer

2001-09-06 Thread Adam McDaniel
My experience is that realplayer has always had flakey support when it comes to piping out to 3rd party sound daemons, whether it be esd, arst, or what not. Whenever I use it i just give it direct access to the sound card, its the only way it stays happy. Address your concerns with Real :) On Th

Re: kde - realplayer

2001-09-06 Thread Bas van Gils
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:06:27PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > stop sound server artsd and realplayer will be happy again! myeah ok, but that's not really a structural sollution is it (eventhoug it works ;-). Are there better/more structural options? Who knows which programs might bre

How to handle "unofficial package" upgrade

2001-09-06 Thread Greg Wiley
Good day all- On a Debian Potato, I am using KDE 2.1 packages that are, obviously, not part of Potato but are from a fairly common source. Since KDE 2.2 is slated for inclusion in the upcoming Debian release, what is the best way to prepare for the upgrade? I cannot assume that the new packages

Re: "mount" command question.

2001-09-06 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.06 17:25 Wayne wrote: > Hi Timeboy, > Yes, I use the same port. I leave the cord to the > camera plug into the USB port and unconnect the > end to the camera. > Wayne Hi Wayne! Then i have no more ideas. I don't use USB. Its new for me to hear about mounting a camera. The only i can s

SHIT! Was: Re: isdnlog not working

2001-09-06 Thread Timeboy
Hi! What a bad thing. I experimented with my .procmailrec and lost 14 of your mails. ARGHHH!! Next time i will use fetchmail -k for someting like that. Ok! If someone wrote me a message with subject Re: i810 sound?, Re: procmail don't work or Re: isdnlog not working in the time between 15:00 a

SHIT! Was: Re: i810 sound?

2001-09-06 Thread Timeboy
Hi! What a bad thing. I experimented with my .procmailrec and lost 14 of your mails. ARGHHH!! Next time i will use fetchmail -k for someting like that. Ok! If someone wrote me a message with subject Re: i810 sound?, Re: procmail don't work or Re: isdnlog not working in the time between 15:00 a

exim: some mailfile -> queue

2001-09-06 Thread Timeboy
Dear exim professionals! I like to use a shell script to send my mails with exim. An example: The file /home/timeboy/mail/outbox is a mailfile. How i mean a mbox file. How i have to call exim to to put this file into the queue directory so after that i kan use the kommand runq or exim -q to send

SHIT! Was: Re: procmail don't work

2001-09-06 Thread Timeboy
Hi! What a bad thing. I experimented with my .procmailrec and lost 14 of your mails. ARGHHH!! Next time i will use fetchmail -k for someting like that. Ok! If someone wrote me a message with subject Re: i810 sound?, Re: procmail don't work or Re: isdnlog not working in the time between 15:00 a

Re: OT: suspending vmware

2001-09-06 Thread Adam McDaniel
We use vmware extensivly in our environment, and every time apm has kicked in on the host machine, the guest oses work fine and come back up properly. I'm not sure if they're actually being 'suspended' per-se, but they dont complain. I do know however that NT4 workstation out of the box has litt

Re: ot: vcd's on mtv

2001-09-06 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
csj saw fit to inform me that: >On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:40:15 + >p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But then why use the non-free mtv, when there are two great free Debian >alternatives for playing VCD's? (You need to be using at least >woody/testing, however.) > >apt-get install smpeg-plaympeg >ap

Re: Super slow NFS

2001-09-06 Thread Adam McDaniel
I actually had the exact same problem once a while ago, and after tweaking every possible setting on the machines, I switched the hub they were using. That fixed the issue. I'm certain that that was the first thing you checked :) If not, try switching not only the hub/switch but also the cables

jikes problem:Lexical: Comment not properly terminated

2001-09-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i am still setting up a new comp, strangely enough javac runs fine while jikes won't compile the stuff... and the problem are my headers: /* $Id: Electrical.java,v 2.0 2000/07/07 10:40:23 bboett Exp $ -*- java -*- * Copyright (C) 1997 Bruno Böttcher */ on my laptop the same files r

Re: conflicting network-cards?

2001-09-06 Thread Joerg Huber
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:26:50PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote: > On 02 Sep 2001 11:29:23 +0200, Joerg Huber wrote: > > > But I wasn?t right, when saying that eth0 works properly. When I deconfigure > > eth1 with "ifconfig eth1 down" eth0 is stopping to work, too. All > > connections > > freeze and

Re: kde - realplayer

2001-09-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Bas van Gils wrote: > Hi > > I installed KDE2 a couple of weeks ago, working like a charm. A few > hours ago, though, I found out that my realplayer doesn't seem to work > anymore. That is, it tries to start up, pop-up's a window and that's > about it. The window remains entire

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Stefan Deibel wrote: > The only way to run mozilla and artsd or esd seems to be to kill the flash > plugin. I did not succeed by calling mozilla by 'artsdsp mozilla'. > Well, we still have hope --- and netscape! netscape 6.1 doens't work as well, at least for me! stop

Re: a good laptop

2001-09-06 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Bob Koss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > IBM Thinkpads work well with Linux. I'm using one now. > > There is a mailing list for linux-thinkpad users. > > In the same off-topic spirit, I'm seriously thinking of getting a Powerbook. > Anybody have experience with OS-X versus Debian on one? Hey. I

kde - realplayer

2001-09-06 Thread Bas van Gils
Hi I installed KDE2 a couple of weeks ago, working like a charm. A few hours ago, though, I found out that my realplayer doesn't seem to work anymore. That is, it tries to start up, pop-up's a window and that's about it. The window remains entirely black. I'm running Debian-testing and have updat

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach christophe barbé (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 04:53:42PM +0200): > Are you using a 2.4 kernel ? > If yes, you should try the same thing with a 2.2 kernel. > If my guess is right, your line will works nicely. that's not an option for i need the 2.4 kernels. why would it work with 2.2??? martin

Re: HOWTO check mp3 files

2001-09-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I was wondering, whether there is a tool that will check > mp3 files for consistency. I'm asking because I've found > a couple of mp3 files I'v ripped that are cut short. I played > them through mpg321, but this doesn't report any error, > the playing just stops when the file is finished. > > I

Re: want gdm to manage remote displays ONLY...how?

2001-09-06 Thread Tim Moss
Walter Tautz wrote: how do i do this? The reason is the graphics card does not seem to agree with X11 on the machine gdm would run on so I want to have it manage a remote display instead. Commenting out does not seem to work and the documentation doesn't seem to offer a solution. This is on wo

Re: Annoying Network Problem

2001-09-06 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hey, If you have trouble reading my emails, then don't. I use IMP as an emailer, and I'm no internet english prof. I just try and help people as best I can. If I can. I usually just read the email, and hit reply (all) if I can add some positive input. I understand little things, like not typing wi

Sound in Woody

2001-09-06 Thread Stefan Deibel
Here's a problem with sound in Woody: Although I get sound when KDE starts and although /usr/bin/play works right I can't use kscd, no matter whether I use ide-cd or the scsi emulation ide-scsi: steve:/var/lib$ kscd initCDROM ~initCDROM1 ~initCDROM2 ~initCDROM4 ~initCDROM Then kscd pops up fo

Re: "mount" command question.

2001-09-06 Thread Wayne
Timeboy wrote: > On 2001.09.06 11:49 Wayne wrote: > > Hi, > > Yesterday morning I was able to look at pictures on my > > digital camera by the afternoon I couldn't. > > My camera has a USB connection. The command I use > > to get access to my camera is- > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera > >

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-06 Thread Stefan Deibel
The only way to run mozilla and artsd or esd seems to be to kill the flash plugin. I did not succeed by calling mozilla by 'artsdsp mozilla'. Well, we still have hope --- and netscape! Stefan

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > suggestions. >> > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > for any kernels newer than 2.4.5 (I think). They released them a few weeks ago. I'm run

devfs

2001-09-06 Thread ---
problem: everytime i boot to 24.7. with devfs i have these msgs: can't locate module: /dev/xconsole can't locate module: /var/log/ksymoops/*.log can't create regular \ file. read-only filesystem... can't locate module: /dev/cdrom1 can someone help? TIA -- "Just For Fun" --Linus Torvald

want gdm to manage remote displays ONLY...how?

2001-09-06 Thread Walter Tautz
how do i do this? The reason is the graphics card does not seem to agree with X11 on the machine gdm would run on so I want to have it manage a remote display instead. Commenting out does not seem to work and the documentation doesn't seem to offer a solution. This is on woody. -walter

Re: HOWTO check mp3 files

2001-09-06 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu 06 Sep 01 17:09, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Is there a tool, that will check whether an mp3 file is complete? Or is > this by design not possible? Here are two: mp3check - Check mp3 files for consistency mp3asm But I suggest you use ogg vorbis for songs you encode yourself, since the MP3

Re: Debian's default MTA + MDA

2001-09-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:06:01PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:38:58AM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > | Hello. I am still preparing to install Debian, but I am not sure of what the > | default MTA is. I get the impression that it is exim, > Hmm, ... default ... I guess whatever

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
> /proc/pci shows IRQ 10 in three places. Could this be > a problem? I don't see any way to change any of these > IRQs. Your system supports IRQ sharing. It should *not* be a problem... You may be able to turn this off in your BIOS though. Doing so may cause you to run out of available resources t

HOWTO check mp3 files

2001-09-06 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi there, I was wondering, whether there is a tool that will check mp3 files for consistency. I'm asking because I've found a couple of mp3 files I'v ripped that are cut short. I played them through mpg321, but this doesn't report any error, the playing just stops when the file is finished. Is

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread christophe barbé
Are you using a 2.4 kernel ? If yes, you should try the same thing with a 2.2 kernel. If my guess is right, your line will works nicely. Let me know Christophe Le jeu, 06 sep 2001 13:23:09, Martin F Krafft a écrit : > hi, > why does the following not work: > > tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, dman wrote: > | > I don't know. Do you have all DMA channels, io addressed, irqs, etc, > | > configured right? > | > | There isn't anything to configure. Well, you can change a "clocking" > | parameter (for special cases), but that's all. > > I had configured my card when I

Re: i810 sound?

2001-09-06 Thread francisco m neto
Hi, » Remco van 't Veer disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > On a Debian potato installation using linux-2.2.19 running on a i810 > chipset 'cat /proc/pci' lists the following: > > Bus 1, device 7, function 0: > Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 6). > Slow devsel

netscape unable to access lc3...

2001-09-06 Thread joe golden
I just installed nescape 1:4.77-2 on a network of 7 machines in our small school. Students have been unable to access hotmail for the past couple of days. After entering their login and password they get the message "netscape unable to locate the server lc3.law13.hotmail.com". I am able to a

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