LSR safety check

2001-04-01 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
Ok, I have to admit my ignorance on this, so I turn to you all. I've got a dialup connection, no problem there, except that when I have been working in the computer for some time without being connected (like maybe 2-3 hours) and then try to connect, I can't. I looked at the syslog and it displays

LISP (Was: Re: pyton & perl)

2001-03-30 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
> But remember, to be a truely self-absorbed, prescious, self-ritcheous > unix god-wannabe, you can't go past LISP :) > Ok, It seems like the cool-factor of LISP is as high as you can get, but what are it's practical merits? If one intends to hack Emacs, then LISP is of course essential, but does

Mail config for dial-up

2001-03-29 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson,,,
Hi, I have a dialup connection to the net, a mailbox at Yahoo (I'm a bit on the move) that I access using pop3 retreaval with Fetchmail, and since I really want to use Mutt (pretty sure it's safe to admit that in this crowd:-) I guess I have to use Exim as the smtp-server. I'm not sure, though, if

Re: sound with 2.4.1

2001-03-17 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
Did you compile the sound support as module? I had some problem with the ESS1868 soundcard, I didn't read the documentation in the first round, and the support in the new kernel is a bit different from the 2.2.x kernels. Anyway, read all the docs concerning sound and your specific soundcard, and if

Re: no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
I have the same problem. I updated the kernel to 2.4.2 and the sound became partly disabled. According to dmesg the kernel finds and sets the soundcard correctly (I have ESS1868), I can play soundfiles by sending them to either /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, using cat (this I can do both as root and norma

Re: KDE for woody

2001-03-14 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
I haven't been able to connect to the kde.tdyc.com server for the last two days (the connection always times out), so I was wondering if there was a mirror site available? Gudmundur On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:01:21PM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: > kde2.1 debs can be have from > > deb http://kde.

Re: Use different cache dir for apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-03-14 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
You can solve this by making a directory in another more spacious partition (/home for example) and make /var/cache/apt/archives/ a symlink to that directory. hope this helps, Gudmundur On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:57:58PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading m

Re: Accented chars are replaced by ?'s

2001-03-13 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
hi, Happened to me too. Try to set the LC_LCTYPE argument to your locale, put something like this in your /etc/profile: LC_CTYPE='fr_FR' (or whatever it is) export LC_CTYPE When I did this it didn't work right away, even if I executed it from the command line, but when I booted next time, everyt

Re: gdm login

2001-03-13 Thread Gudmundur Erlingsson
Hi, I had a similar problem once, and that seemed to be an Xauthority problem. Did you use xdm to login before installing gdm? If so, did it work fine? If it worked fine, then the problem lies somewhere else. If you didn't use xdm before, try to start X and run some app from an xterm window, like:

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