Where can I get slink?

2001-12-11 Thread Eric House
#x27;t find any actual binaries. Can anybody point me at an installable slink (for i386). Thanks, --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Safe Ha

Is GPROF broken on potato?

2000-09-07 Thread Eric House
It's been broken for me since I updated. But searching the mailing list archives shows no discussion of gprof. Is it working for other people, or am I the only Debian user doing profiling? Thanks, --Eric

where did moncontrol go?

2000-09-06 Thread Eric House
program profiling.) Thanks! --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Safe Harbor for PalmOS: <http://www.peak.org/~fixin/harbor> * *

Can't use ediff from *cvs* buffer in emacs on potato

2000-09-05 Thread Eric House
illa diff works just fine from the *cvs* buffer. Any ideas what's up, or on how to debug it? Thanks, --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Sa

I've broken lilo; how to fix?

2000-03-27 Thread Eric House
;8 part of the disk, but only with being able to run lilo again. Thanks! --Eric House ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Crosswords for PalmOS: <http

Has anybody gotten port forwarding to work with Debian?

2000-02-08 Thread Eric House
e sources for 2.2.14. Meanwhile, running 'ipportfw' gives me: root#: ipportfw Could not open /proc/net/ip_portfw Are you sure you have Port Forwarding installed? ipportfw comes from the package ipportfw_1.11-6.deb, which installed without errors. Has anybody done this? What am I m

slink minicom sez: "already online; pls hangup"

1999-10-23 Thread Eric House
sources for minicom 1.75. The strings weren't there either -- but when I built that version of minicom it worked just fine. I'm using a pcmcia modem, but am not sure that it's the problem, as ppp still works fine ove

Getting Gnome themes respected when xhosting

1999-05-29 Thread Eric House
ace to ask? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |"The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux"| +-+

8-bit safe text utils?

1999-04-22 Thread Eric House
et the desired result. Working with grep's the same way. This can't be an unfamiliar problem for those of you across the Atlantic. What's the best coping strategy? Thanks! --Eric House /** * Sun .signature deleted: this isn't a Sun project! **/

psaux module won't auto-install

1999-02-25 Thread Eric House
n these modules that one loads automatically and the other doesn't? Can it be fixed? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ | from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |"The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux"| +-+

How to trace why a process is running?

1999-02-09 Thread Eric House
'. Question: how do I figure out who started that 'find' and why? Thanks, --Eric House

Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Eric House
r actions, and my laptop mouse is a royal pain to use on airplanes. Even the Mac did this years ago, so I'm hopeful. Thanks, --Eric House +-+ | from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Learning about/modifying drivers

1998-12-21 Thread Eric House
out what source files to modify, who the author/maintainers are -- and later how drivers work? Please recommend books, point me at source files/HOWTOs, etc. Thanks! --Eric House

Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

1998-12-17 Thread Eric House
y (still mimimal) expertise transfers, I can use the same .emacs file everywhere, etc. --Eric House

Problems building kernel for sound: dmabuf.c not compiling

1998-12-06 Thread Eric House
Besides, there must be something more serious wrong. Any ideas? I have been trying to add sound support for at least a year now, on several machines running bo and hamm. All fail in the same way. Thanks, --Eric House

Re: How to use a ramdisk?

1998-12-04 Thread Eric House
r an emulators's file system, into a ramdisk would significantly improve performance. That's not true? Thanks, BTW, (to you and others) for the quick responses. --Eric House PS /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt does not talk about using ramdisks in any context other than for creating boot floppies. I guess that's because they're pretty much useless otherwise?

How to use a ramdisk?

1998-12-01 Thread Eric House
files are written to (real) disk on shutdown or at predefined intervals? I'm so full of questions. Surely there's documentation on this somewhere. But: Where? Thanks, --Eric House

Re: SVGATextMode! (was Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-24 Thread Eric House
it doesn't know about NeoMagic chips, SVGATextMode can only assume the standard VGA speed around 28 and so barfs. At least, that's my naive reading.) --Eric House

Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-19 Thread Eric House
> > My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode > > it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even > > though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. > > try adding vga=extended or vga=ask to your boot-prompt I tried that a few weeks back and g

RE: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-17 Thread Eric House
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: > in your bash startup file place: > $MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True ^^^ > export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS > > This kills the "dns helper". See if that helps any. You don't want the '$' there, do you? --Eric House

Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-16 Thread Eric House
the area unused. Does anyone know if it's possible to do what I want, and if so, how? Pointers to documentation welcome! Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Notebook for Debian

1998-11-13 Thread Eric House
out $70 and $64 $160. 1 year warranty. For battery life I'm getting about 3 hours running in console mode and about 1 hour running X. The server is the NeoMagic one just moved from binary-only to a free part of XF86. It

How much RAM do I need?

1998-11-11 Thread Eric House
development) and will never be a server. Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |"The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux"| +-+

Re: VAIO notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread Eric House
necessary to write the drivers has since been released. My overall impression of the Sonys, though, was that they'd done too much proprietary/cute Windoze-specific stuff. A more generic laptop is happier w

Problems with IBM "Home and Away" 14.4 PCMCIA modem

1998-11-09 Thread Eric House
ng; Kermit reports "NO DIALTONE". If you've successfully configured this modem, or have any ideas, please share! Thanks, --Eric House PS I don't know if the card works under Windoze, as I wiped the disk clean as soon as I got the machine. Probably should have waited +

Will Apple Studio Display work w/ x86 Hamm?

1998-10-07 Thread Eric House
Anybody know if there are any problems using a flat panel/LCD display, and Apple's in particular, with Debian? I don't even know if I'll need a different driver... Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from

instructions for setting up Wacom ArtPad?

1998-09-27 Thread Eric House
I've borrowed a Wacom Artpad for use with the Gimp (1.0) on bo. But all the searches I've tried for information on configuring my system to use the tablet have turned up nothing. Surely there's an article or HOWTO or FAQ on the subject. Pointers please! Thanks, --Eric House

Re: How to get a screenshot?

1998-09-14 Thread Eric House
answer. :-) Thanks for all the replies. xv was the most common suggestion, but I'm running Bo still and haven't ever installed a non-free deb before, so it was nice to learn that, once again, the GIMP is all I'll ever need. --Eric House +

How to get a screenshot?

1998-09-11 Thread Eric House
I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually to convert it to a .gif file. I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything comparable to Snapshot (on Solaris), for example? Thanks, --Eric House

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Eric House
e=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done I'd not bother with the variable names, but they make it clearer. Disclaimer: I didn't test the above, and may have gotten the tr syntax

Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?

1998-07-17 Thread Eric House
unch the daemons yet none of them starts up. At least they're not there according to 'ps -a'. When I launch rpc.nfsd manually I get this: root# rpc.nfsd -F -d call nfsd[167] 07/16/98 17:25 Could not bind name to socket 0.0.0.0:2049: Address already in use nfs

HOWTO on setting up NFS?

1998-07-14 Thread Eric House
w to start them up -- and I can't figure it out. Can anyone describe the process or point me at a Debian-specific HowTo or Readme? Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric Hou

using dhcpcd's -c option

1998-06-23 Thread Eric House
c?.d/* where it *is* invoked I ought to be adding this param. Any suggestions? Thanks, --Eric "relative newbie" House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |"T

Re: emacs *very slow* to launch

1998-06-17 Thread Eric House
emacs comes up in the traditional 5+ seconds. Not bad for something that big! :-) Thanks for the quick and accurate diagnosis! --Eric House +-----+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs *very slow* to launch

1998-06-17 Thread Eric House
> of Emacs? I wouldn't run it on anything sub-pentium, myself. It's a pentium-class machine, 166mhz most likely. It ran emacs fine just two weeks ago. And once the thing's launched it's still fi

emacs *very slow* to launch

1998-06-16 Thread Eric House
-q or --no-site-file to prevent reading in the startup files. I don't think this is an emacs config problem. The same thing seems to happen under X Thanks for any help you can give! --Eric House +-------