fvwm95 message

2000-02-14 Thread Jacob Schmude
00103 *FvwmTaskBar: Received SIGPIPE signal, exiting... Anyone know what this means? thanks. Jacob Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 53401220 email for public PGP key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Made with pgp4pine iQCVAwUBOKd56XH24cKJ7frBAQHS

Re: Decoding MP3 to WAV

2000-02-13 Thread Jacob Schmude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Actually' you'll probably want to use: mpg123 -w file.wav file.mp3 rather than the -o switch. This will make absolute sure it writes .wav output to the .wav file. Jacob Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 53401220 email for public PGP key On Sun, 1

video bios address

2000-02-12 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi How do I find out my video bios address and size so I can map it into dosemu to allow some games to run which need the extended features of the bios? Jacob Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 53401220

cannot install pine debs

1999-11-09 Thread Jacob Schmude
with the exact same result. I cannot seem to get them to download in anything but plain text, which I suspect is causing this. However, if that is true, the server that these debs are on needs to support the mime type application/x-debian-package and have the .deb extension associated with t

segmentation faults when running man

1999-11-04 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello When I envoke man, I get a segmentation fault. However, it only seems to happen if it needs to search for a while. for example, it doesn't need to search long before it finds the mkboot(8) man page, but when envoking man hello, it seg faults. Anybody know why? -- Jacob Schmude [

w3 and .mailcap

1999-11-02 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello Emacs/w3 doesn't seem to recognize the way metamail handles .mailcap commands, for example the %s to pass the filename as an argument to the program. I know its w3 because lynx works fine with it. Is there any way w3 can be set to recognize this?

dv_version? what is that about?

1999-11-02 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello When trying to upgrade to the latest potato release I get the following error: db_version: command not found dpkg: subprocess exited with status error 127 There's no package that seems to be associated with the error and there's no db_version command on my debian system. The commands I en

is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-28 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's dos/win on this pc too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't enable shadow ram

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 for x86 Installation Problem

1999-10-28 Thread Jacob Schmude
If you mean installing the base system, then I have done so from a hard disk. Note that it is recommended that you only install the basesystem from the harddisk and then install the other stuff from the net. Robert J Cristel writes: > Hi Hendy, > > I enjoyed your informative post. I found i

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-10-28 Thread Jacob Schmude
You can hold down the shift or alt keys as lilo loads to be at the boot: prompt. However, to get the boot prompt back do the following: edit your /etc/lilo.conf right before the image=/vmlinuz line add the following line: prompt Save the file and exit the editor. Run liloconfig and answer yes a

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread Jacob Schmude
It is called update-agent. It can do almost the same things as apt can do. The main difference is that you can only get updates from priority.redhat.com, while apt can get them from any mirror. Update-agent for rh6.1 only runs in an X session. I'd take debian apt-get any day. Peter Ross writes

putting packages on hold from cmd line

1999-10-23 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello Is there a way to put a package on hold from the command line? I'd prefer not to go into dselect just to find one package, (emacs20_20.3-11) which is giving me problems. I want to put it on hold to a new version comes out as this only causes problems when installing.

Configuring HP printer

1999-10-21 Thread Jacob Schmude
Try apsfilter rather than magicfilter. Note, only the version provided with potato seems to have any specific modules for the deskjets. The one that comes with slink seems to only have one module for the colored deskjets. After you get apsfilter installed, run /usr/sbin/apsfilterconfig to set it

sound blaster pnp, please help!

1999-10-21 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello I've finally got my system upgraded to debian potato (don't know how I got emacs installed). However, my sound card only partially works. Wav and au files play, but midi and mp3 do not. I'm trying to play mp3 with mpg123. This worked on redhat with its sndconfig utility. The exact details of

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
I think we are looking at a package problem, a compiler bug in the package, or maybe both. Maybe its emacs, maybe its the new compiler that comes with potato. Either way, there's a package problem. On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 19/10/99 Jacob Schmude wrote: > > &

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
s my system was configured it was out of there because it was causing too many conflicts with version 20. On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 19/10/99 Jacob Schmude wrote: > > >That didn't work but it got me more detail on the problem, the exact > >output of the c

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
p/pcl-cvs/pcl-cvs-lucid.elc sed -e '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@"/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/pcl-cvs/"@g' < pcl-cvs-startup.el > startup.el Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20_20.3-11_i386.deb Any ideas? What needs to be done? On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ethan Ben

upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello I'm trying to upgrade slink to potato. However, when it comes time to install the new emacs packages (gnu emacs 20.3-11) I get the following errors: some errors were found while processing emacs20_20.3-11.deb while compiling the last portion of the code This is happening when compiling an e

seg faults while building kernel

1999-10-19 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello When I try to build a kernel the debian way, I get a seg fault. On my previous linux system this never happened. I'm trying to build a custom 2.0.36 kernel but may switch to 2.2 if that will help. The error is: make: *** [first/rule] Segmentation fault make: *** [first/rule] error 2 I'm