Re: Swapfiles

m. That said, when was the last time you read into a core dump? When was that last time you dumped core??? It's just one of those laws of the universe that you don't want to violate lest you will fly off the surface of the earth at a constant velocity tangent to a point on the curve.

Re: Finding monitor refresh rates?

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:31:31AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I need to find refresh rates for 2 monitors: > > Panasonic TX14H35ET > > Hansol Electronic E14AL > I've had good luck finding specs at: http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitor.html -- Thank you, J

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

aranoia does a better job of ripping my daughter's scratched up CDs. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

be glad to share it with any other emu10k users who might want it. Basically I edited the source code to dump it through sox with "play -t ul -r 8000 file.au". Not pretty but it works. Email me directly if you want it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Sound after restarting from win$$

my case I have learned that if I reboot I don't have any sound until I start "gmix" at least once, then everything is fine. I don't have to touch any of the adjustments, just bring up the panel. That may be just in my particular setup, but you might give it a try. -- Tha

Re: mac alternative to wine?

slink or Redhat 5.2. I still have an RPM I downloaded if you can't find it (3.6mb). The filename/version that I have is executor-21-glibc-demo-rpm.tar.gz, although newer version would probably be better if it will run on your existing system. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

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Re: Sound applications..

ything related to sound and music. > Thx, > Dani. apt-get install wavtools apt-get install playmidi -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: My modem..argggg

onfig. If that doesn't work try COM2 - IRQ 3. I've used a few USR hardware modems, and I have never had to setserial manually, hence I doubt you have to go through that. Also, your 14.4 modem may be old enough that it's not PNP. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: My modem..argggg

get install minicom). This is a terminal program which will dial your modem, etc. First time, run as root and use "minicom -s". You can use ATDT to dial your ISP, and then interactively give it your ID and password. If you can do that much, your modem is fine, and you have a ppp configuration problem. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: star office 5.2

ents which aren't part of a normal install. I don't remember what they are - that's just what I saw on a thread a while ago. I installed this myself last week without a hitch on a stock Potato machine. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debugger for C programming?

sed to use it a lot. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Bug in mutt?

. Has anyone > else noticed this? As others have mentioned Control-S is stop, and Control-Q is continue. You have no doubt heard of XON/XOFF...? Well, Control-S is XOFF and Control-Q is XON, or so I have been told. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages

number of the messages you want to check. Like "192", whill jump to that message. Then "U" - upper case U will undelete a thread of necessary. The J and K is really cool - I didn't know that one. Probably better. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Emacs question

errors while writing code, not as compilation errors. For syntax highlighting here are a couple of lines from my .emacs file which I believe are the right ones: (global-font-lock-mode) (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

7;m not giving up... A few years ago, when I was first learning linux, there was a rule that a pc operating system MUST boot off one of the first 2 IDE drives. I believe that wasn't a LILO thing so much as in IA (Intel Architecture) thing. Of course at that time, we had a 512 Mb booting

Re: Printing go bye-bye

oved from lp1 to lp0? That happened (or vice versa) to people a year or two ago. My 2 "standard" potato PCs with one parallel port each call it lp0. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Can the scsi emulation kill the hard drive?

"hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" where they are cdrom and cd-burner, but I don't do that with hda hard drive. I suppose if you have scsi emulation on your hard drive, that might not be a good thing? Otherwise I suspect the scsi emulation isn't the cause of your problem. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: GNOME Blank Screensaver

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:49:56PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME? Try adding "xset s on" in your .xinitrc file. man xset -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: startx not for normal user?

in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) Anybody -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Sound problems

that may be part of my problem here). Let me know if you get it working, otherwise I plan to spring $30 for a PCI-128 that I know will work. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: gnome/mouseroller

; of > XF86Config file the line: > ZAxisMapping4 5 > and it`s working fine. Sweet! I have been meaning to get around to figuring this out. Thanks for the help. Works fine on potato with x3.3.6. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Wordperfect Suite 8 for Linux

el CDs, or if > there is some other way. Thank you for any help that you can give me. > > Nathan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: AudioPCI: choppy sound (ES1371)

works fine on windows directx games and minor linux stuff - never choppy. All this really means is the linux driver does a good job at what it was intended to do. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: error message with "libdb.so.3"

ssage saying something like > > "libdb.so.3 is not a symlink." FYI . . . on my pototo box it is in fact a link to another library. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Apr 17 19:25 /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.3.so Perhaps someone with a working woody box can tell you what the

Re: shutdown as user

X isn't running). Not elegant, but it works, and doesn't introduce any new security issues. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: stable packages without priorities

o joe,2.8-15.3 == 0 > Bad prio nis,3.8-0.1 == 0 > Bad prio rxvt-ml,1:2.6.2-2.1 == 0 > Bad prio exim,3.12-10.1 == 0 > Bad prio qpopper,2.53-4 == 0 > Bad prio sendfile,2.1-20.3 == 0 I get exactly the same thing, and I doubt your system and mine are hosed in the exact same way. I'm

Re: xv alternatives

o what do people here like? > > Thanks. > noah > > -- > ___ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: What's with the Oracle for inux?

ber the details but I really don't think it was a crippled version. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: printtool

son StylusColor 600 printer at 360, 720 and 1440 dpi. # apt-get install magicfilter # magicfilterconfig HTH -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Print to windows Printer?

ly" printer. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: cron.daily and slrnpull

ng the entry in cron.daily, which > doesn't seem to be right)? I deleted the entry in cron.daily and haven't had any side effects that I can see. (yet...?) -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Required Hardware?

all with 8mb. I tried a couple of different boot disks, but didn't find one usable, so I went with the upgrade. Can your machine see the 1279Mb disk? I suspect it will only see 512mb or something like that. Hope that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'

7;t seem to dig it out > ... can anyone jog my memory... See your /etc/inittab file: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now change the -r to -h and you should be all set. Since inittab is read on boot, I expect it would take a reboot to

Re: Loading X w/only netscape

nted this out! fvwm2 netscape -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: gif

a legal/political issue with GIFs. You may want to stick with .jpg or .png -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Newbie Slink install CDROM problem on old computer

s, so I wouldn't think it would matter. Then you might need to make a link to cdrom: ln -s hde cdrom Good luck! -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: giving access

e printer. I saw a current thread on these. Hope that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: 2 newbie questions

ly on bootup. If you don't have a good X setup, then it can be a hassle. Once you get X working if you want to use xdm that's fine. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: ppp problem

t; Is there something I can edit to fix this? > > Is more information needed? Did you put a DNS nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf? Like so: nameserver 208.130.43.5 nameserver 208.130.42.5 -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Documentation for Newbies (was: win and linux)

there also. Typically it's the same stuff that is on your disk but it's worth a shot. - Web search. I like http://www.google.com (no need to start a debate here either), and you will find more documents and lessons learned. Hope that helps. I'm sure other people have other sources of information. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: debian + red hat linux

s, you keep the first 4 partitions no matter what, and the only thing you would be wasting is a 10mb chunk. To configure LILO in a case like this, I think I would pick one distribution as the "master", probably Debian. Keep only one lilo.conf and execute lilo from there. Just my 2

Re: Boot mystery

27;t put linux on hdc. Try swapping hdb and hdc. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [NEWBIE]not installing from which partition?

also ftp, apt-get, and floppy installs, but that is another story. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: skipping forced fscks

it should work I would think, but I'm just guessing. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: locate warning . . . ?

. - If in doubt, run "updatedb" as root before doing a locate (like if you just installed new packages and want to do a search). -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: SMP-howto

4) do a better job with SMP than 2.0.36, but I have never tested it. > (yes, I'm new at this ;-) We all are. You can be the world's expert on one thing, and you still don't know a damn thing about the other 99% of it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Help! Memory gone missing...

#x27;t, but it sounds to me like you just joined the group that does require it. Maybe I am just too accepting, but I would add the append line, and if that fixed it I would quit wondering about it, and move on to bigger and better things . . . -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Last chance: unresolved symbols and depmod weirdness

) cd /usr/src/linux; make modules_install 11) cd /boot mv vmlinux-2.x.xx vmlinuz-2.x.xx-stock 12) cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot cp zImage /boot/vmlinuz 13) emacs /etc/lilo stock -> /boot/vmlinuz-stock linux -> /boot/vmlinuz 14) /sbin/lilo -v 15) make sure the module/k

Re: Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!

ction = 0 Other MTAs are decent too. No religious wars please! -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Off topic: Free POP3 email

etc) is kept to a minimum. Any ideas? Since this is off topic, it might be appropriate if responses came to me instead of bogging down the rest of the group. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [*] about x

> /etc/initab, and set init 3 to default will be ok, but debian is quite > different. try: apt-get remove xdm The default run level 2 always worked fine for me. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Setting up Debian

I don't thing it will allow you to break the 1024 rule (I could be wrong, I usually am...) And like someone else said 1gb of swap is an awful lot. The traditional standard is 2x your RAM. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Need help on installing CD-ROM drive

e CDROM is on the ide2, it will be /dev/hde, but that isn't there by default. This fixed mine, and it may work for you: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV -v hde (note: you can use "./MAKEDEV -n -v" to do a test run) Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

nstalled" link. > Typing "about:plugins" in netscape shows Flash installed. This is my experience also. I assume (right or wrong) that the web server doesn't interpret linux browsers so well. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Fwd: Corel Install/SetUp

al for Linux) The display area is oversize and I have to keep dragging it to the left to get to the corner controls. I tried a reinstall with the same results. Corel has not returned my calls after long waits for tech support. Nice of them -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

[jpb@cybertours.com: Re: menu problems]

app starts then...nada. menu_2.1.5-2.1_i386.deb and plugger_3.2-1_i386.deb seem to be bad. If you did an apt-get upgrade you probably got them. In my case I went to /var/cache/apt/archives and the old ones were there, so I removed the latest ones, installed the older ones, and I was all set. Good luck

Re: menu 2.1.5-2.1 broken?

ng two boxes, one with gnome and one without, and it happened > on both. Or have I missed something lately about a change in setting up > menus? Yes, I noticed the same thing in fvwm after an apt-get upgrade today, and yes it installed the new version of menu. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Pow

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

emacs.background: Black > emacs.foreground: LimeGreen > Put this line in /etc/bash.bashrc: alias emacs="emacs -bg Black -fg LimeGreen -cr LimeGreen" Not elegant, but it works. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: HP 680C

bin/magicfilterconfig? If not, try that. Also, try "ps aux", is kerneld running? If not, then you have to insmod manually. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: New HP Printers...?

P printers have the words: "HP Deskjet xxx For Windows" written right on the front of the printer, and these are the ones to avoid. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: suidregister problems after dist-upgrade today

advice is what makes this list so great. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: Help with X Windows

ed for a config file for something > like that, but I couldn't find anything. The window manager I am using is > olvwm, if that matters. I use fvwm2 and I edited the file /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook You may have a similar olvwm file. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard P

Re: PPP, CDROM, and Floppy Questions

ng the > mount command shows the drive can read msdos diskettes. Unfortunately, > when I attempt to view the contents of a msdos diskette (using ls or dir), > I get garbage which seems to be the parts of a Microsoft Word document > that I know resides on the diskette. Have I done something

Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: ...snip... > Does anyone know the line I need to add to my exim.conf file? smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 works well for me. This will dump them all as soon as it comes in. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Deb

Re: MTA

ong enough to let the thing go. Since I rarely do this I just keep an eye on xnetload until is says zero. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?

the other OS!! I've thought about this a lot too. Can you teach your kids to type "sudo reboot"? (I don't mean that sarcastically, I have kids too . . .) You may even be able to put it in a menu item. I think visudo and has options to give people just certain privilige

Re: need help with modem

t;dip" group instead of "dialout". What's the difference? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: the perils of software re-use

s this be marketed as a game. Call it Kanga-Doom. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: good book to learn perl

ndation . . . and once you get get good at it get the O'Reilly's "Programming Perl", more in-depth. I tried to read "Programming Perl" first, but that was a mistake. Go with "Learning Perl". -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)

losing mail?

ned to me once before. I guess the best thing to do is to make sure I exit mutt, but I wish there were a more bullet proof solution. Am I missing something? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)

Re: Lotus Notes

would put me one step closer to eliminating windows all together. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)

Re: PPP for non-root users

> > How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? > > adduser username dip Thanks from me too! I've been doing "sudo pon" for a long time, but had just resigned myself to it... This mailing list really is the greatest source of information. -- Thank

Re: i can't hear my cd's

> using cdtool's cdplay, i can't hear my cd's. are there any special > configs to get the audio? (there are no probs with the device > (/dev/hdc).) try: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom chmod 777 /dev/cdrom -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

> I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to > know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? On my meager Pentium 90, Xemacs takes about 20 seconds to load, and emacs loads in about 3. I prefer emacs. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered

How to set line length?

I figured there must be something in mutt which I need to set? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)

Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format

> (actually - I am not using this computer - I prefer fvwm) > > -- > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I tend to get in the habit of hitting ALT-F10 which is "maximize", or in this case "resize to fit". Once upon a time, I was in your position, and I took the t

Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?

und your problem too. Can you rearrange things and hang it off the primary slave? That works. Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)

Re: newbie install problem with CD-ROM mount

r virtual console and: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV /dev/hde Then I was all set. Later I did a: ln -s /dev/hde /dev/cdrom I apologize if this has nothing to do with your problem, but I sounded like it did. Good luck either way. Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)