Re: How to access a file with RTSP protocol?

2003-04-05 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:30:32PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > Many of the files in our university's server, have an address that > starts with "rtsp:\\" I investigated a bit, and it seems that RTSP is a > standard protocol for real time streaming, which is recognized by IETF. > >

Re: Ugly font hell

2003-04-04 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:37:13PM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > 3. GTK1 applications are defined through ~/.gtkrc configuration file or > "gnomecc". GTK2 has gnome-control-center or kde has kcontrol (or maybe > newer.. don't know - i don't use kde). Ah, this is it. I was using the "URW Gothic" fon

Re: Woody reinstall, mozilla menu huge fonts

2003-04-03 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:53:05AM -0800, Michael Rudmin wrote: > So I'm wondering what's gone wrong. *WHY* do those > fonts on the menu come out giant? I really like > mozilla, but at the current stage it's unusable, and > googling doesn't provide any clues. I don't know why ... I have been

Ugly font hell

2003-04-03 Thread Robbie Huffman
Help! I'm in Ugly Font Hell. I have a Sarge system that's all up-to-date, but can't find the Debian Way to have decent looking antialiased fonts in X. I've gone through message archives, Google, Debian bug reports, and every other source trying to fix this problem. I've mucked with defoma, libfree

Re: apt package listing error.

1999-09-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:08:15AM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got > this message while doing a "[U]date". > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) >

Modems, caller id, and init strings

1999-09-29 Thread Robbie Huffman
Hi all, I thought this list might be the best place to ask: What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? Specifically, I want "AT#CID=1" to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo "AT#CID=1" > /dev/modem'? Thanks much, Robbie [

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-27 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 03:03:17PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > 7: At the moment, my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E > > be configured to reduce any problems this causes? Right now, with > > fvwm95, if I open one app wi

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:44:28PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > Right, it is not having a clearly marked button that drives many of > today's users into fits. They did not read the docs so they do not know > that R means Revert if they get thrown into conflict resolution and a > bunch of packages

In-home networking

1999-07-12 Thread Robbie Huffman
Greets all, I'm looking for some good pointers on how to configure the software for an in-home network. I've managed it before, but I was hoping that now I could find some better resources on the web. Are there any that any of you would recommend? Thanks! Robbie

Re: chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!

1999-07-10 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 06:21:19AM +, Dan wrote: > That config doesn't really sound right... I mean, image=/dev/hdc1 would > imply that the image IS that drive. Shouldn't it be something more like > root=/dev/hdc1 or something like a lilo config? I would seriously just go to > lilo. Can you

chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!

1999-07-10 Thread Robbie Huffman
Has anyone out in debian-userland managed to get chos to boot Win98? I have it installed on a small drive at /dev/hdc1. If I set my bios to boot drive "D" Win98 works great. But the following entry with chos gives me errors. bootsect "Windows 98" { color=lightblue image=/dev/hdc1 } I would g

Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-04-21 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:11:40 CST, wrote: > Hello, > I was the one who posted the original message for help with this. > After reading your message, I played around with the "soffice" wrapper that > calls soffice.bin. Here's how I got mine to work... > > 1) I got the libc deb from slink. > 2) I ma

dselect madness w/enlightenment

1999-04-20 Thread Robbie Huffman
I fired up dselect to get an updated list of packages tonight. I saw several new Enlightenment themes in the list of new packages. Nothing else caught my eye, so I proceeded. However, I was presented with a list of dependency errors based on enlightenment, enlightenment-themes, enlightenment-conf,

Re: Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-14 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:43:10PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > The only way I know of to get a SoundBlaster working 'with-out' > compiling it into the kernel is to purchase the OSS commercial > Sound package for $20. That has it's advantages. It is the way > I run my sound blaster. How about

Mouse buttons, xinput, drawing tablets, help!

1999-04-09 Thread Robbie Huffman
I have one of those nifty drawing tablets working with my Debian system. However, the button on the side of the stylus is mapped to button 4! I've played with xmodmap, but can't change the mappings on the tablet. I've tried playing with XInput stuff, but the documentation is way too sketchy for me

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 12:33:36PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I upgraded one partition to potato a week ago, and whenever I try > pon, I get the following message: > > bob:vc-ty1:bob>pon /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file > /home/bob/.ppprc: Function not implemented I had this problem

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:19:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > This is in /etc/diald/ip-up: > === > #!/bin/sh > > # Set the time and date > ntpdate -s -t 5 ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk ntp4.strath.ac.uk & > > # Get mail > fetchmail mail.ente

Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > rdate time.nist.gov > hwclock --systohc I use the netdate command, which has been working really well from me. Run it periodically, or else from ip-up. Robbie

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 02:14:37PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I'm assuming that you have multiple users dialing into a single provider > account. Change 'pon' from > > /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} > > to > > /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} ipparam $USER > > and have the

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > It sounds as if you should use diald to bring the link up automatically > whenever a program attempts to connect to an external site. My own > arrangement is for fetchmail to run whenever the link comes up, and for > cron to do a si

ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread Robbie Huffman
I'm currently looking for a way to have a per-user version of ip-up. For example, I'd like to start fetchmail if it isn't running already and execute a few pilot programs. But this sort of thing doesn't seem to belong in the systemwide ip-up file. I know I can hack together something which would a

Failed partition check

1999-03-31 Thread Robbie Huffman
What would cause a 2.2.5 kernel to fail at bootup time when it reaches the "Parition Check" section? It says it can't find the driver for HDA, and subsequently panics. This is a standard PC with IDE drive. I have the ext2 stuff built into the kernel. What else could I be missing? It doesn't make a

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:50:12PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1 > I installed the sources that way, compiled them, and then used make-dpkg to get a deb package. But dpkg won't install the resulting deb. Is there a way to coerce apt into installing a local file

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:03:53PM -0800, Gary Singleton wrote: > --- Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --snippage-- > > > No, you could even retrieve this kind of "features" > > with bsod, a linux application to emulate Win1895 > > BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I've saw it a lo

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
Regarding: > > dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): > > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC

HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
This is an urgent plea for help! The problem is one I've experienced sporadically since I started with Debian several months back. Some packages won't install, giving an error such as this one: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error proces

Need printer help

1999-03-27 Thread Robbie Huffman
g-HOWTO doesn't have any debugging hints. I'm lost. And my only guess is that the Debian setup for lpt1 is somehow different. Any pointers? Thanks, Robbie Huffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]