Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-04-24 Thread Marsh Ray
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:50:40PM -0400, Dan Willard wrote: > > Think of it as a record (ya' know those old odd looking vinyl things). > It spins at 33.3 rpm but the sound/music doesn't change from outer to inner. > Same deal with hard drives although the outside is 'spinning' faster, it > still

Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-04-22 Thread Marsh Ray
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 03:56:31PM -0700, debian-user list wrote: > The HOWTO, and the person responding to the Mindcraft survey, both assert > that the part of the disk furthest from the spindle is the fastest, and that > one can use this to optimise performance. While I don't doubt the first p

Re: spam & debian-user?

1999-04-20 Thread Marsh Ray
I use a e-mail alias specific to the debian lists: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) If it ever starts picking up too much spam, I'll cancel this alias and resubscribe with a new one. - Marsh On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:09:17AM -0700, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > I noticed thast this list gets posted to usenet...what d

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-17 Thread Marsh Ray
Maybe you have a ppp connection like me? I run qmail from home, and I have a file in the ip-up directory like this: This sets the 'HELO' response to the correct reverse lookup is for my IP. You may want to try something similar/different for your MTA. --begin '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/6_set_qmail_

Re: /dev/nst0 hosed

1999-04-11 Thread Marsh Ray
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:49:30AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > Somehow my /dev/nst0 device has become messed up. Could someone > please tell me what it should be? bash-2.01$ ls -l /dev/nst0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 Jul 20 1998 /dev/nst0 > Also, how do I use /dev/MAKEDEV to rec

Re: 2 Questions

1999-04-11 Thread Marsh Ray
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:30:05AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after > a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root > (it is only setup to run as me right now)? Debian's boot process is fairly well-described at: http

Re: ppp connection speed

1998-08-06 Thread Marsh Ray
Try putting the 'REPORT CONNECT' at the beginning? - Marsh >/usr/sbin/chat -v -r /home/patricko/speed \ >TIMEOUT 60 \ >ABORT '\nBUSY\r' \ >ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r'\ >

Re: Automatic X startup

1998-08-06 Thread Marsh Ray
On new hamm systems, all I had to do was change the line in '/etc/X11/config' from 'no-start-xdm' to 'start-xdm'. - Marsh From: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to >> write 'startx' every time. > >Try configuring xdm to st

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Marsh Ray
>I would like a 56k but am not sure what to get. I do NOT want to be >stuck in a winmodem hell. Have the problems with 56k modems been >resolved (ie is there a standard yet?). What is good to get >(ie it must not need any special "windows" driver but...they ALL say >"made for Windows 95" so..its

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Marsh Ray
My experience was that: 3Com is now selling the 3c905B card. Notice the "B". Drivers for this appeared in the 2.0.34 kernel. The boot-floppies I used had 2.0.33. - Marsh -Original Message- From: Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org ; Debian Mailing L

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Marsh Ray
From: Curt E. Spann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. > So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be > a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like > to make one. Is it even p

Re: unsubscribe "helper line"

1998-07-09 Thread Marsh Ray
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 01:50:13AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > >>> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >> Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the >> former "mail a message with the subject "unsubscribe" to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Marsh Ray
>*-Shaleh ( 7 Jul) >| >| price range. As a general comment I say avoid Diamond. For a long time >| they have not supported any form of driver for their cards (even their >| Windows support is not all that great). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Didn't this occur around 3 or 4 years

Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Marsh Ray
From: Geoff Brimhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I recently got a rather brilliant pc notebook, and have > been able to utilize just about everthing it has through > debian and recompiling the kernel. > Except for one thing - the internal modem. > setserial does not detect the modem's COM port, > nor

Re: Driver bug? 56k USR doesn't transmit properly?

1998-07-06 Thread Marsh Ray
You might try "AT&F&B1" in place of "atz". I have found that most USR Sportsters (contrary to documentation) require &B1 to lock DTE rate (serial speed) upon connection. The &F ensures you're starting from the factory defaults every time. - Marsh >>ABORTBUSY >>ABORT"NO CARRIER"

Re: ppp analog bonding w/ eql

1998-06-26 Thread Marsh Ray
From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 10:26:48PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: >> they both need to be the SAME IP Address for EQL to work. > >Hmmm. I got the impression that it should work on any link. They use >plip as an example in the doco, I think. I did try it with

Re: Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread Marsh Ray
I just set up a machine sort of like that one . . . From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have a Logitech TrackMan Marble (same connector as the standard PS/2 port >mouse), use /dev/psaux, I think you need to load a kernel module. >an HP DeskJet 820 CSE on LPT1, ATI Video Expression+ (D

Date Disparities

1998-06-23 Thread Marsh Ray
I'm having an interesting experience with one of my Debian machines. I've got a few, all synchronized with ntp. One of them always reports the time as 20 seconds slow. As an example, I do this: --- radha# date ; date +%s Tue Jun 23 09:41:48 EDT 1998 898609308 --- and at the same time I do this