Re: XMMS bug

2001-12-20 Thread Markus Lechner
Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2001 20:46 schrieb Steven Kurylo: > Running debian woody 2.4.12 > > I use XMMS all the time and have never had a problem with it. Today I > decided to play around with plug-ins so I did a > "apt-get install `apt-cache search xmms plugin | cut -f1 --delimiter=\ > > |sed

Re: The shithead damn it thingy - please cool down people

2000-12-10 Thread Markus Lechner
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 Chris Gray wrote: > Maybe you could give me some Message-IDs? > Sorry, already deleted them after reading. Fetched mails last day, searched them for kroeger, found the following subjects, read them (this threads were started by kroeger [2], at least the mails i had in my inbox

Re: scsi newbie

1998-08-21 Thread Markus Lechner
v: J.02 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > I had the same behaviour when installing an Apple SCSI-CDROM on my machine. Go into the menu of the ADAPTEC BIOS and switch off the wide negotiation for the CD and ZIP SCSI adress (3 and 6). They simply won't negotiate wide.

Re: "Free" Interbase

1998-07-25 Thread Markus Lechner
ne Informix-SE 7.24, ESQL for C 7.24 and Informix Connect for Linux. Caldera and Suse were mentioned and RedHat was mentioned to follow soon. But there's no 'must' distribution pointed out. The developer version should be here: (should be free and working) http://www.informix.com/

Sun Sparc-Station 5 and Debian

1998-07-24 Thread Markus Lechner
k... Hopefully someone can help in this context, i need this additional piece of hardware for serving :) thanks in advance, Mac -- Markus Lechner (Company - LightWolf) | The Prometheus-Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Ultra2

1998-07-19 Thread Markus Lechner
Lawrence wrote: > > Markus Lechner wrote: > > > > Hi Lawrence, > > > > I read on the kernel-list that the new boards run all except U2W - but > > they > > are working on it and it may soon be done. You can use the other > > SCSI-Parts up to UW-SCS

Re: Ultra2

1998-07-18 Thread Markus Lechner
This involves (in my case) a SMP-RAID machine. So i'm glad to read that the U2W is working :) It's planned to set such a box up (the RAID part) in 3-4 weeks. (got a little offtopic) ok, Mac > > Markus Lechner wrote: > > > Hi Lawrence, > > > > I read on t

Re: Ultra2

1998-07-18 Thread Markus Lechner
river developers) get it done. I'm buying a new MB with U2W in a week, for example :) ok, Mac Lawrence wrote: > > Does the current adaptec driver support Adaptec 2940U2W (Ultra2 Wide) > scsi card? > > Lawrence > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: Specifying Ultra-SCSI? Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Markus Lechner
r at least one of your drives). So the risk is not that high - only for old HD's :) Values up to 32 are 'high', but should be ok. This is (obviously :)) boosting the overall performance. When compiling the kernel, you can read the help when issuing make config/menu

Re: bo: Problem with Xlib

1998-04-29 Thread Markus Lechner
The paths... > -L/usr/X11R6/lib Thanks Nils -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bo: Problem with Xlib

1998-04-28 Thread Markus Lechner
omewhere in the books. But i didn't find it until now and so i'm asking. What do i do wrong? Maybe someone can remove the blindfold from my eyes :) Greetings, Mac -- Markus Lechner (Company - LightWolf) | The Prometheus-Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-11 Thread Markus Lechner
e mouse cursor is done in hardware > as I understand it -- Windows couldn't stop that just because it crashed > unless it went trashing registers too. Yep :) Mac -- Markus Lechner (Company - LightWolf) | The Prometheus-Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]| [EMAIL

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Markus Lechner
> > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > George Bonser > Just be thankful that Open Group does not own Linux. &g

Re: sdram and linux

1998-03-30 Thread Markus Lechner
tony mollica wrote: > Hi. Just looking for a little more info. > > Just installed 64megs 168 pin sdram (replacing the 64megs of the usual > type 72 pin edo stuff) in my system and it appears > to be causing file system corruption, as indicated on boot > up by fsck (attempted boot up, actually). B

HD-SelfTest

1998-03-30 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi again, my root HD (it's an IBM SCSI) is capable of executing a SelfTest after 72 hours uptime. During this time the HD is 'locked' for approx. 30 secs and can't be accessed in this period. It can't be switched off (at least this is stated in the description). But i think this 'feature' was inc

Re: X-Intrinsics

1998-03-29 Thread Markus Lechner
Thanks, this help's me much to hook on the X-Win thing... It's sometimes not easy to find the main-entrance... ;-) Mac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X-Intrinsics

1998-03-29 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi all, just a small question as i'm searching for the 'lowest-level' to use to programm under X-Win. Somebody told me that X-Intrinsics is this lowest-level, where other GUI's and lib's like OSF/MOTIF setup on. So, what's X-Intrinsics? Is it this lowest-level? Where are doc's for this? Thanks

Re: Hi guys - a short ADAPTEC-Note

1998-03-27 Thread Markus Lechner
Gary Kline wrote: > Done. Three or 4 brief paragraphs. :-] > If *every* freeNix user > would send mail to hardware vendors who don't support BSD or > Linux (on the PC or wherever), I'll bet they would all hop on > it. We are the people - and Linux is a

Re: Hi guys - a short ADAPTEC-Note

1998-03-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Gary Kline wrote: > I've run Adaptec on an old SVR4 PeeCee; more recently om > FreeBSD and Debian. So far, no problem. > > Since moderate kudos are more likely than flames to get > results, I'm willing to send Adaptec a note. What's > their email addr for

Hi guys - a short ADAPTEC-Note

1998-03-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Maybe this is too early, but there was a lot of discussion on the SCSI thing, so i thought this may be of interest: (sorry, i didn't give anything to those discussions - but i'll have more time in a few month...) Here's a short snippet from ADAPTEC's reply to my email:

Re: How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread Markus Lechner
Bob Hilliard wrote: > Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try the following: > > > > su - root > > > > dmesg | pg > > > > > > I can't locate 'pg' on my machine (hamm, up to date through last > week). What is it and what package does it come from? Looks like a simple more or most

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Yep, that's it :-) Many thanks. Mac -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Rich Puhek wrote: > If you go to /var/lib/dpkg, you will find a file called status. This > appears to be how dselect keeps track of what's installed/configured/etc. > The format is pretty self explanitory, so you should be able to hack the > status line of the package in question, "fooling" dselec

dpkg 'mimic' install/remove?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi all, is there a way to tell dpkg to 'mimic' an install/remove of a given package. For example, i removed a package by hand and want to tell dpkg that this package can be 'removed'. Mac -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble?

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Thanks, this information helps a lot. > Note that if you build the source yourself, dpkg won't > know that you've installed tcl and will give you lots of dependency > errors. This is poor. > I wondered if there is a way to 'mimic' install/remove with dpkg? Thanks, Mac -- E-mail the wor

Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi all, i'm expieriencing a problem when compiling different packages which use Tcl/Tk. The problem is that make ends up with an error complaining about a missing tcl.h and tk.h. The paths are set accordingly. Do i use the wrong versions (Tcl7.6, Tk4.2, and all the runtime-libs)? So i thought, it

Re: Partition

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Ok, here we are Read the entire text at http://www.stiller.com/Win95D.htm SR News: Risk of data loss for large disks under Win95 WebCrawler: Some users found cross-linked clusters and used Scandisk, Norton Disk Doctor or other utilities to "

Re: SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Thanks for your help, Marcus. Of course i red all the related docu before and i set the permissions according to my needs. The problem was solved with sfxload -I . I didn't know that i have to do this every time (because of unloaded modules?) before i start TkAweMidi (which is actually drvmidi's

Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Jens Ritter wrote: > You don´t have to. I always run my production system as bo (but ok, I > have got an unstable system, too. That´s because I want to take part > in the development.) The advantages/disadvantages of a hamm system are: > > 1) glibc6 > 2) New source format for packages > 3) A lot o

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Ok, Why i want to run many X-Sessions? It's just an old habbit - i loved the Amiga for it's WorkBench and Command-Line Interface. So i want to configure Linux in the same way. Actually i'll need a little more RAM for this. Bingo. The watchdog reboots my system. But what kind of multitasking is t

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Craig Sanders wrote: > > libc5/libc6 > > what's the problem with libc5 and libc6? they both work in debian. no problem, only a question mark for a newbie at installation > the usual cycle with dselect is: > > 1. Update > 2. Select > 3. Install > 4. Configure > 5. repeat steps 3 & 4 until there

Re: Partition

1998-01-28 Thread Markus Lechner
Fabian Knittel wrote: > >Never partition your harddisk using the 32Bit-Support from fdisk > >(Win95B). It's > >buggy. > > What is buggy, the support from Linux for this "feature" or the "feature" > itsself ? The feature itself is buggy... Don't use it! > Where could I get more Information on thi

Re: Virtual Desktop Size

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Catalin Popescu wrote: > How can I setup the Desktop Size under X to be not greater than the > physical size of my monitor? > Run the script xf86config - it should be what you want to start. Otherwise edit the resulting file directly, it's location is /etc/X11/XF86Config. At the end of this file

Re: Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Much better! > > thanks, > > Hamish I want to say sorry to everybody- won't happen again (grin)... Mac -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Here are many Questions about X-Windows: I read somewhere that an Window-Manager in the style of the Amiga-OS is available somewhere. Does somebody use this one, know whether the Package is stable and know where to find it (if stable and maintained)? What other Window-Managers are available? Whic

Partition

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Never partition your harddisk using the 32Bit-Support from fdisk (Win95B). It's buggy. Maybe most of you know this, but in an eMail in this list about partitioning i read the same error-message i got after using a harddisk partitioned with this 'feature' of fdisk. I had to repartition and use the b

Turning NumLock on

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
A short question: NumLock How to turn it on at boot-time? How to turn it on in X? I heard that using NumLock on Linux-Systems causes trouble. Is this true? Mac Sorry for the html, i dont' want to cause any overheat - so i hope it's better to remail this message again. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Maybe this question is really stupid, but anyway: bo, hamm, stable, unstable, etc. What's this? Hamm means unstable or untested - concerning to the kernel or only to the software packages? I feel a bit outdated when running bo and it looks like the amount of problems is mostly the same - no matter

Development under Linux and X-Windows

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another stupid question: I want to develop a few medium-sized Programms running under X-Windows. Oberon doesn't look stable on my system, C and C++ isn't my favour language (i do only know as much as it was neccessary to know about while programming Assembler on an Amiga), but it seems that i have

SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another question: I'm quite sure that the isapnp-config for my SoundBlaster AWE64 is ok. I know, that only AWE32 is supported through Linux. After make config in the awedrv directory and the make menuconfig (and all those other needed makes) in the linux-source directory (2.0.32 for now) i recompi

Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
I hope this is normal text... :-/) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Partition

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Never partition your harddisk using the 32Bit-Support from fdisk (Win95B). It's buggy. Maybe most of you know this, but in an eMail in this list about partitioning i read the same error-message i got after using a harddisk partitioned with this 'feature' of fdisk. I had to repartition and use the

Development under Linux and X-Windows

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another stupid question: I want to develop a few medium-sized Programms running under X-Windows. Oberon doesn't look stable on my system, C and C++ isn't my favour language (i do only know as much as it was neccessary to know about while programming Assembler on an Amiga), but it seems that i hav

SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another question: I'm quite sure that the isapnp-config for my SoundBlaster AWE64 is ok. I know, that only AWE32 is supported through Linux. After make config in the awedrv directory and the make menuconfig in the linux-source directory (2.0.32 for now) i recompiled the kernel and have now a work

Login-Warning

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
I want the system to tell me when (and how many times) somebody tried to login without proper password. Is this possible in a simple way? How? Or do i need some Package?    Mac   -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Here are many Questions about X-Windows: I read somewhere that an Window-Manager in the style of the Amiga-OS is available somewhere. Does somebody use this one, know whether the Package is stable and know where to find it (if stable and maintained)? What other Window-Managers are available? Whi

Turning NumLock on

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
A short question: NumLock How to automatically turn it on at boot-time? How to automatically turn it on in X? I heard that using NumLock on Linux-Systems causes trouble. Is this true?    Mac   -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Maybe this question is really stupid, but anyway: bo, hamm, stable, unstable, etc. What's this? Hamm means unstable or untested - concerning to the kernel or only to the software packages? I feel a bit outdated when running bo and it looks like the amount of problems is mostly the same - no matte

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
  Hi everybody,   most of the things were already pointed out. So if i repeat something - sorry. But i've not that much time to write. This is the 4th week after my first installation attempts. After trying many Computersystems and OS's i have to say that none of them is what it should be - user