apt-cache question

Hi list, I have some questions about cleaning up my install a bit. I tried the command apt-cache unmet and got quite a long list of suggested and depend packages. What techniques do you usually use to manage an installation? (apt, dpkg, ? ) I am running a home machine and I am using unstable. An

ppp hangup question

Hi all, Just one small quwstion. I would like my modem connection to hang up as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Any idea how to handle that ? I use pon/poff Best regards Joakim Svensson

esound problem

Hi all, anyone know what to do about this? slayer:/home/jocke1s# apt-get install esound Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: esound 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0B

Write protected mailbox, mutt

Hi all, I did ask this a while ago but never got any real answers so I will try again with some more information. I am using fetchmail, exim, mutt to handle my mailing and I have one .forward file to redirect all my debian list mails to its own mailbox. Lately I have been having problems that th

disc-cover error

Hi all, I just downloaded the latest debs from disc-cover homepage and installed with dpkg -i. Now when I run it is give the following error. slayer:~$ disc-cover Error (while reading cddb): 500 Command syntax error. at /usr/bin/disc-cover line 87 Error: could not fetch cdrom information. M

poff makes X hang

Hi all, I have a strange problem I haven't seen before. When I type poff my machine hangs. ctrl-alt-del doesn't work ctrl-alt-[<---] doesn't work. All I can do is pressing the button to reboot. If I instead kills the pppd process the machine reboots when my connection is closed. some syslog me

Kernel panic VFS ...

Hi all, I did something stupid today :( While recompiling my kernel to add scsi support for my cdrw I accidently forgot some ide stuff and now I can't boot. VFS: Cannot open root device 03.05 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 This has been discussed before on this list and I p

kernel compile problem

Here is the last lines of my make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image ..snip.. install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.3.16 sed -e 's/=V/2.3.16/g'-e 's/=B//g' \ -e 's/=S//g' -e 's/=R//g' \ -e 's/=K/bzImage/g'

garbled characters in vim

Hi all, I am trying to get swedish characters to work properly on my debian box. I have it working perfectly in rxvt and in vim (if I start it from inside mutt, as now when I am composing this). BUT! If I start vim from an ordinary rxvt shell It displays escape sequences å is \xe5 ä is \xe4 ö is

Re: pr command

-snip- > So my question is how to use pr (or some other text reformating > program) to add margins to my text output (for printing). > > The pr -o command works nicely but when I print long lines the > text efter the linebreak will not be indented. Like this: > > This is a very long line

pr command

Just a quick one. I have some vague memory about a mail on this list a couple of weeks ago about printing with margins(indentation) but I can't find it again. So my question is how to use pr (or some other text reformating program) to add margins to my text output (for printing). The pr -o comm

ACARD scsi help

Hi all, I installed a scsi card a week ago that I was told was a ADAPTEC 2904 card. Well I couldn't get it to work and finally! *blush* checked the small paper inside the plastic bag it came with and It is really an ACARD AEC-6710S Ok I think and recompile (2.3.16) and adds acard lower level driv

Re: scsi help

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:22:25PM +0200, Leonardo wrote: > > > Jocke wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner. > > Recompiled 2.3.16 > > <*> SCSI support > > <*> SCSI generic support

scsi help

Hi all, Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner. Recompiled 2.3.16 <*> SCSI support <*> SCSI generic support <*> Adaptec AIC7xxx support What now?! No idea what to do next :( Is there any newbie guide to using scsi or something similar to get me started. My boot message doesn't

xcdroast and audio

Hi all, I can mount both my cdrom and my cdrw with data cds. When trying to mount an audio cd I just get mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems my fstab looks like /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0

mounting problems

Hi all, Been recompiling my 2.2.10 kernel to be able to use hp 8100+ CDRW. I think I got it all right but some strange things did happen. I can't mount my ordinary cd anymore! mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems Where do I start l

Re: realplayer

On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 04:46:39PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Where can you get linux g2 in rpm? My g2 comes as executable binary > installer. If you would like to try mine. try ftp://kenji.anu.edu.au/chanop/ > It's about 8Meg. > > I try www.real.com but I couldn't find thr like to g2 for

Re: realplayer

On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 02:51:54PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > My guess, if you have sound working fine then it could be realplayer version > vs kernel version. If you are runnning 2.2.x you'll need realplayer G2 which > is still in alpha or beta, not sure, state. Because realplayer 5.0 use

realplayer

Hi all, I am trying to get realplayer to work but when I try to play anything I just get a seg. fault. How to I start debug whats wrong ? Best regards Joakim Svensson

Re: Sound programs

On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:47:18PM -0500, Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > > Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is > > a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd. > >

Sound programs

Hi all, Just some small wonderings concerning sound configurations. I have a Soundblaster Live that I can play .au files on by piping (AS ROOT ONLY) $ cat sound.au >/dev/audio Been reading the Howtos and understand that I need some more things installed. Is there a list of a basic working sound

Re: startup commands

> > I am trying to start mutt and 1 rxvt shell when > > a specific user logs into X. > > I tried to put > > > > #! /bin/bash > > # > > exec mutt& > > exec rxvt& > > > > > > in bit .xinitrc and .xsession but nothing really happens. > > How do I execute these commands at startup ? > > You don'

startup commands

Hi all, I am trying to start mutt and 1 rxvt shell when a specific user logs into X. I tried to put #! /bin/bash # exec mutt& exec rxvt& in bit .xinitrc and .xsession but nothing really happens. How do I execute these commands at startup ? Best regards Joakim

gome packages

Hi all, Just a quick question. I would like to get a complete gnome install (and windomaker). I have some gnome stuff already installed but I don't really know what and in what state it is in. I also have windowmaker(GNOME) installed. So where do I find out what apt-get packages I should get ?

lpr indentation etc

Hi again, Some more printer troubles. Been spending quite some time trying to get my printer to work. Now I can print very nice post script files using gs-aladdin *smile* I dont know how to put it together with lpr though. Anyone got any ideas ? I have an EPSON Stylus Color 740 and currently tr

Module problems

Hi all, Tried to recompile kernel 2.2.10 get no obvious warnings (to me that is) did use the kernel-package README For the Brave and the impatient: Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the kernel 1% cd 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure Phase TWO: Create a prota

printing again

I am sorry to ask again but I am really stuck here. If anyone has a working system with an epson stylus color 740 printer I would be very grateful for some help. I would like something like 4 settings. 1: draft text mode 2: high quality text 3: draft pictures 4: high quality pictures I really

Mutt

Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user "josv" My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] How should I set up Mutt to have all my outgoing mail show: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead o

printer help

Hi all, I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just unexperienced so some hints and advice would be appreciated. I have a pretty slim potato setup. gs-aladdin lprng magicfilter - printcap file: lp|epson|EPSON STYLUS color 740:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\