Re: pppd won't reset (or hang up) the modem

Yes, passive option is used. ppp.log says something like (sorry, my machine is at home so I don't have the exact words). terminating on signal 15 sent TermReq recd TermAck <..> > > Yes, ppp.log says "terminating on signal ..." > > Perhaps the key piece of evidence is that eve

Re: pppd won't reset (or hang up) the modem

Yes, ppp.log says "terminating on signal ..." Perhaps the key piece of evidence is that everything *used* to work fine until I had to switch to pap-style authorization. Turn on debugging (pass 'debug' in options or on command line). Do you see a mesage in /var/log/ppp.log which says T

pppd won't reset (or hang up) the modem

Hi, I don' think this came up before. My ISP changed to a pap style authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '* * password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Now the modem does not hang up if SIGINT is sent to pp

Re: Changing bit depth on X

The Gardyan wrote: > > How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16 > bit color. Try using the command line option: "startx -bpp 16". That should work with any color depth like 24 or 32. It should be "startx -- -bpp 16" -alex

Re: Linux for the power PC

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Re: block diagrams

Have you tried daVinci? (it is on the sunsite somewhere) Allegedly, it was created specifically to make block diagrams. I have found Xfig to be pretty useful for diagrams. The gif export doesn't seem to work that good for me, so I output to postscript and use XV to convert to gif or