[OT?] Hard disk dying?

2000-06-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
m, but I'm still getting the occasional error like above. I've tried turning DMA off, but the errors are just about the same. Does this mean I have a faulty disk? How can I test if the disk is faulty or if it's something else? -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/lib gone

2000-04-24 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
n shown packages once > more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro. Um, all the dpkg database is stored in /var/lib, so that won't work. Probably. -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

LaserJet 1100

2000-04-24 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ljet4l magicfilter. Is there any way of improving the quality of the output? Has anyone got their LaserJet running in high quality mode? Thanks in advance, -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 02:05:16PM +, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > > > I'm trying to get

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > I'm trying to get PHP3 and MySQL to play nice, but they refuse. I want > > to load the mysql.so extension, so in the /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
old' | dpkg --set-selections -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] `It would be unbelievable, because I just wouldn't believe it.' -- Pat Prosser on solving NP-hard problems in polynomial time

PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
them fail to work: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /home/alisdair/public_html/test.php3 on line 4 Why isn't it working? Do I have to recompile PHP3 with MySQL support builtin? -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Colour changes in Netscape/Motif

2000-02-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
akes it look somewhat similar to the CoolIce GTK+ theme, my current favourite. Have a look at editres, it's a great program :-) HTH, -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Colour changes in Netscape/Motif

2000-02-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Motif's 3D colours. Is there documentation on this anywhere? Has anyone managed it? -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard > autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms > as it was before. > > I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF

Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
0 5 in the Keyboard section) but the virtual console setting is still wrong. Where can I change this setting? Thanks in advance, -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: config script for ghostscript

2000-01-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:39AM +0100, Markus Schaub wrote: > > Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in > /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time > after installing it? magicfilterconfig, perhaps? HTH, -- A

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
> wouldn't mind know how to make them, myself. If you go to the relevant pages (wm.themes.org, e.themes.org, sawmill.themes.org) there are often links to guides to theming for these window managers. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]

BitchX irc server list

2000-01-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
tional definition. Please set this * to your nearest servers. However if you use a seperate 'ircII.servers' * file and the ircII can find it, this setting is overridden. */ Where can I put the ircII.servers file so that `ircII can find it'? -- alisdair mcdiarmid

Re: html -> text

2000-01-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 04:00:43PM -, Brian Mc Namara wrote: > Is there any command to convert html files to plain text? lynx -dump infile > outfile? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:30:01PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:42:30 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: > > >> This sounds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses > >> only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM) > > > &g

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses > only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM) Hrmph. So the solution is Don't Do That Then. Oh well, I'm off to buy a SCSI card and a Plextor :-) Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:00:35PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in > &

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ and are listed in > > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk too. >

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
[reformatted] On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:17:19PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > I'm trying to use leafnode to access my university's nntphost, which > > requires authentication. It appears to connect okay, but it doesn't &g

leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ne requires authentication too), and I can use slrn to directly access the nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk one (so my password isn't incorrect). But I still can't get fetchnews to download articles from the university server. Can anyone help me find what I'm doing wrong? What sort o

slrn and leafnode: connection times out

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
lains that `posting is not allowed' and loses my post. Is there an `idle timeout' variable I can set for leafnode or slrn? Is the nntp connection held between slrn and leafnode inbetween article reads? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day

Re: Xwindow hassles, helphelp

2000-01-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
;t work - it needs to be Left-Ctrl Left-Alt Backspace, and besides, this will get you back to the xdm prompt at best. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]

Re: X problems HELPPPP

2000-01-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
creen that is too large for my 17-inch monitor. At this point, try Ctrl-Alt-F1, that should get you a virtual console. If not, try typing `linux single' at the LILO prompt to go to single-user mode. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is don

PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
t on my SCSI machine yet: possibly the IDE PIO stuff is the problem. Could someone test this on their machine for me and see if it occurs? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]

Re: modprobe automated.

2000-01-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 01:07:48AM +0100, Hans wrote: > How can I automagically load modules with modprobe at boot (I don't > want to use kerneld)? I once knew, but it's been a while. Insert the names of the modules in /etc/modules. -- alisdair mcdiarmid

Quake 2 and glx/mga

2000-01-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
aforementioned window drags a selection (if it's an Eterm or Netscape, for example). Is this a bug in the quake2[-bin] package or glx, or is it possibly my configuration? Has anyone else suffered the same problems? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:03:32PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > try adding > > /directorytobeexported hostname_to_export_to(ro,no_root_squash) This works well, thanks. > you could do that, or just setup one user/group and add eve

Re: NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:47:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > alisda >I've no idea what I'm doing wrong here. The HOWTO doesn't help for > alisda >this case. Should I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a > a

NFS mounts fail silently

1999-12-30 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
hould I be using the kernel nfsd instead? Is there a Debian package for knfsd, and is it easy to install? Thanks in advance, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [where are all the stupid people from, and how'd they get so dumb?]

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

1999-12-29 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ng like [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ apt-cache unmet | grep '^ Depends' | wc -l 19 As Suggests don't count, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [where are all the stupid people from, and how'd they get so dumb?] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java problem

1999-12-28 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
;m using jdk1.1 version 1.1.7v3-2 on 2.2.13 and all my Java development stuff works perfectly well. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [where are all the stupid people from, and how'd they get so dumb?] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH

1999-12-26 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
the path of least resistance at least for potato is (1). But it's not a good long-term solution, as it makes /sbin pointless. Right? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [burnt toast is what comes of trying to do too many things at once] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simultaneous multiple CD burning

1999-12-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
; > I am assuming one copy works ... Yes; this is how the system is currently running. Thanks for your input, it might solve the problem. I'll go check it out. Regards, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] []

Simultaneous multiple CD burning

1999-12-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
SI bus. Is there any reason why this shouldn't work in principle? Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks in advance for your help, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] []

exim configuration

1999-11-27 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
1rpjY-0003lF-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] D=procmail defer (-1): file existence defer in procmail director: Permission denied I'm not (intentionally) using procmail - I've no idea why this is happening. Is this a bug? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how ever

Re: Netatalk works/doesn't work

1999-11-21 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 05:30:11PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 20/11/99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > >Starting Appletalk Daemons (this will take a while):socket: Invalid argument > >socket: Invalid argument > >atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting. > >atalk

Netatalk works/doesn't work

1999-11-20 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
esn't have this problem, boots up cleanly and is seen in Chooser. What could be causing this problem? I don't even understand the error message, nevermind how to fix it. TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Re: screen capture

1999-11-19 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular porĀ­ tion of the screen. Use display (see display(1)) for redisplay, printing, editing, formatting, archiving, image processing, etc. of the captured image. HTH, HAND, -- alis

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
/mypanel: #!/bin/sh sleep 5 panel & and it now works fine for me. This may be a bug, I'm not sure. Apparently it's an enlightenment problem rather than a gnome-panel one, though. HTH, HAND, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Writing to multiple CD-Rs

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
mply dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/var/cdimage.iso to read a data CD? If this is an inappropriate forum to ask this question, I apologise and ask that you point me to somewhere else I may get an answer. Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore

ALSA modules have unresolved symbols

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
thing else into the kernel, or is something more important wrong? Thanks in advance for your help, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Re: Recording audio...

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
s? I think the package you're looking for is sound-recorder. Actually, I want to be able to record /dev/dsp output and mp3 it straight away - mp3ing from the radio - but I can't find a way to do it. Can anyone help? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how

Re: Large disks

1999-11-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ou knew about the limitation and acted accordingly, I would say [snip] The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB: there's no free space left at the end of the drive. Why's that? Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Large disks

1999-11-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
/home partition. How can I do this? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]

Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment

1999-11-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
audio group. 'adduser audio' should get you past > the above problem. I think you mean `addgroup audio'. And check that /dev/dsp has group `audio' too. > You might have to restart X to get the group > noticed, use the 'id' command to check that the current s

Re: 486 and printing

1999-11-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:22:04PM -0800, aphro wrote: > > try going to /dev and typing ./MAKEDEV lp > > that should make the lp devices. tried that already. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]

486 and printing

1999-11-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
RINTER_READBACK=y What could be wrong? Might the parallel port be broken? Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]

Printing with a Laserjet 1100

1999-11-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've got a Laserjet 1100 here, and under Windows it prints things like photos and other such dithery stuff wonderfully, with barely a trace of dottiness. While magicfilter does a good enough job for text, its graphics performance is shocking. It's like it's doing it at 150dpi. I'm stuck with the L

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:55:30AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:57:59PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > > > i've got a printer set up on skinny, which prints locally fine. > > the printcap on letdown is: > > > > lp|hplj|HP La

Re: Moving the iconbox in Enlightenment 0.16-1

1999-11-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:01:20PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: > How do I move the Icon box? Hold down alt and drag. You can do this with any window in enlightenment, it's really handy.

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
t be sure (the only line is DEFAULT ACCEPT). what could it possibly be? (i have RTFM and FAQ and HOWTO and they don't help). thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [everything that matters has gone http://wasters.org/]

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
enlightenment enlightenment-theme-bluesteel works fine for me. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ http://wasters.org/]

Re: Apache and SSI

1999-10-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
[Reformatted] On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 12:53:02PM -0800, aphro wrote: > > > I've been trying forever to get Apache to work with SSI and I just > > can't. > > you may also have to add access to type "Includes" to access.conf. Yep, this was the pro

Apache and SSI

1999-10-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
.shtml Options +Includes Yet nothing happens when I load any .shtml files - they just aren't processed. Why? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ http://wasters.org/]

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > > > I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in

cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
2 GMT, and so doesn't work how I'd expect. I'd rather not have to change my crontab when we swap between BST and GMT here: is there a way of making cron take notice of the timezone? Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Re: Slow TNT2?

1999-10-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
0fps > > on timedemos now. > > Where might these G200 GLX drivers be found at? Um, try glx.on.openprojects.net. Follow the Download link. > And more importantly: will it work out of the box with my stock > slink (2.1r3, actually) install? Possibly - y

Re: Slow TNT2?

1999-10-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Ingles, Raymond wrote: > > From: Alisdair McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > > I've got a PIII/450, 128MB, Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 system here > > running potato current and it's quite slow in X. Dragging windows &

Slow TNT2?

1999-10-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
eally. Is there a newer, faster X server or have I just bought the wrong graphics card? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] []

[OT] Best sound card for Linux

1999-08-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
6 ISA card and it has performed well since then. Unfortunately, this model's not available anymore as far as I can tell. Has anyone got a card they're happy with? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

Re: vim config bug in potato

1999-08-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
e path should be /usr/share/vim/vim54/syntax/c.vim. This means that the $VIM variable is set incorrectly. I don't know where this is set, but you can probably work around it by doing export $VIM=/usr/share/vim/vim54 in your .bashrc or something. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAI

Eterm delete key

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
might be broken. What could it be and how best should I fix it? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

vim syntax files

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
wrong, but where else can I put these syntax settings? I'm sure I didn't concede to overwriting these files on install, and I don't want to lose the settings next time I upgrade. Where else should they go? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some

Re: Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
k. > I understand Xfree86 has got much better however. AX supports > many more cards, it's money well spent! I might be interested in buying it if it's significantly faster, I suppose, but is it? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

apt-get upgrade list of downloads

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
l disk. The apt-get upgrade -u command lists the packages which are to be downloaded, but not the URLs (or anything from which I can easily determine the URLs). Does anyone know of a way to get a list of URLs to packages from apt? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ing - that way you'll get the graphical install, and Wordperfect should work okay. It's a bit of a dire wordprocessor though, anyway. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

Re: Problems with X

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:50:07AM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've been fiddling with my XF86Config file to get the GLX module > working properly, and I've obviously broken something, somewhere. > I'm not sure if it's in the configuration file, but now X r

Re: re deltree

1999-08-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
la deltree, IIRC). -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

Problems with X

1999-08-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ve tried reinstalling xdm and cleaning out all the configuration files, deleting XF86Config and starting again, and still these two problems persist. Has anyone got any idea how to fix this? TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink

1999-08-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
evices to start from 0 instead of 1 (more logical to computers and geeks). HTH, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [life is like a box of biscuits - yum, crunchy and full of crumbs]

KIllustrator 0.70

1999-08-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I really know nothing about C++ (C is my favoured language) so I don't know what the problem with `export' is. Has anyone got any idea what the problem might be, and how to fix it? Alternatively, is there a similar or better drawing package available? TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [it's all done, everything is finished. so can i die now? please?]

Re: wordperfect problems

1999-07-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:25:53PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > However it does not run, I go through the installation stuff (the text > version, since the graphic version won't load) You need to install xpm4.7 from oldlibs. That should fix the problem. -- alisdai

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
care to enlighten me? Pointing to documentation would be sufficient. my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free hth, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 04:39:13AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > So changing xnetload to /usr/X11R6/bin/xnetload worked, and now > > xnetload loads on ppp up. > > well, looking into /etc/ppp/ip-up: > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Thanks to all for your help! Tata, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:45:12PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > >

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:40:47AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > xnetload -geometry 200x4

problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
s to work every time. has anyone any idea why this won't work? tia, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]

Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:48:20AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 15 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: CD-RW woes. > Again." > > > > right. well, it seems that if i can work out what modules.conf > > is, > > this should work! > > > &g

Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
odules.conf is, this should work! > THIS IS ALL FROM MEMORY. I'm not at my linux box right now. > If it doesn't work let me know, and I'll write down my setup > (which is the same as what you're trying to do) and send it to you. this would be great, thanks. thanks for yo

CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ny idea how to get it working? I swear if it works this time I'll write it down and stick it on my wall. TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
g going IDE/IDE (Creative x32 CD-ROM and HP 8100i CD-RW) - the IDE CD-ROM drive is useless, really, and the CD-RW takes a lot of CPU time. > Would an IDE CD-RW be easily used in Debian? My HP 8100i works well. Or it did until I forgot which kernel options to use. -- alisdair mcdiarmid

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
> starts off at the top). > > How can you live without the wellspring of informed and reasoned > discussion that is Usenet?! I sort of gave up Usenet when I got a Real Life. Sad, but I've just not got any time to read flame wars on comp.sys.acorn.* anymore. I do have slrn ins

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ttle Clue to correctly compose and format an email or news message, they are unlikely to be able to communicate anything useful. > > I have yet to see a program on any operating system that comes > > close to the power of gnus. > > Which also starts you off at the top. I wouldn&#

Connection to localhost:25 refused

1999-07-01 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
mail via SMTP either. I've checked /etc/exim.conf for anything obvious but I can't see anything blocking connections. Can anyone help me please? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [your home may be at risk if you do not keep up repayments on your loan. any and all advice given is strictly confidential]

ppp problem

1999-06-29 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ent/c] $ cat /etc/ppp/peers/green cat: /etc/ppp/peers/green: Permission denied this is just a test example: i'm trying to get pon to work normally. alisdair is a member of group dip, but why on earth is the above happening? tia, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [your home

Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
n similar to this in the kernel options. -- alisdair mcdiarmid `nothing i say is absolute. i just make it sound that way :)'

Re: vim config question

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:57:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Is there anyway to configure vim to have a status bar just like in emacs?? :set laststatus=2 :set showmode -- alisdair mcdiarmid `nothing i say is absolute. i just make it sound that way :)'

Re: Potato Gnome upgrade non-happening?

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
s on the ftp site. -- alisdair mcdiarmid `nothing i say is absolute. i just make it sound that way :)'

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all the time. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [it looks like we might have made it we might have made it to the end]

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 03:11:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw > > > > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > &g

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
k=32 [Sorry to put all this in, I didn't want to miss out something important.] Any idea what to try now? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [it looks like we might have made it we might have made it to the end]

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:54:52AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > I'm trying (again) to make my IDE CD-RW work. > > Have you done this this way successfully before? Something along these lines, yes. > On 2.0.x kernels, the SCS

ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
r IDE CDR as a SCSI one'. Would someone please point out some relevant documentation? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Backup and reformat

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
just restore the archives from CD? Is there a better way to do this? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: Configuring exim

1999-06-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 12:13:56AM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:33:54PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I'm using Demon Internet as my ISP, as you can probably guess. > > Demon automatically sends email via SMTP if the port is open (as > > far

ip-up scripts not running

1999-06-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
mail from ip-up only if it's not running already? TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Configuring exim

1999-06-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ke to configure exim to not receive mail from Demon's servers. I can't work out how to do this from the exim docs - can anyone help? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

[OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration

1999-06-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I heard that there are OpenGL drivers for the Matrox Millennium G200 available for Linux, but I've looked on www.matrox.com and everywhere else I can think of, and I can't find them anywhere. Does anyone know where they are? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't b

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