Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, On 27 Jul 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 26 Jul 2001 17:40:21 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > Hi All, > > I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I > > try to untar it I get the following error: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz > > > >

Re: Gnome's popt.h ?

2001-07-24 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi Josh, you'd have to install the popt package for your include to work. It seems like the gnome-popt you used does basically the same otherwise it wouldn't have compiled ;) bis bald, Rolf On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Josh Berdine wrote: > Hi all, > > Should > > #include > > work in potato? I had t

Re: apache doubt

2001-05-19 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, it depends on what you are trying to do. This message normally means that the directory you wanna access (if you just do http://localhost/ it is the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf) doesn`t have a index.html or whatever type is configured in DirectoryIndexes in httpd.conf and additionally the Option

SiS 630 nighmare (Gericom Webboy)

2001-05-14 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, anyone of you can supply any success reports on getting a SiS 630 to work apart from Framebuffer? I tried everything I could find out on the web to no avail. I even patched a X 4.0 with the SiS driver. Best I can get is a bit of twm output in the lower 3rd of the screen. Furthermore I now total

Re: DVD movie hardware requirements

2001-04-28 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, you could have chances to get dvds working ok if you use a different software. I currently have PIII-450 w/256Mb and xine is ready to play dvds just perfect since quite some time. My gfx card is a G400 with 32Mb video ram tho. Anyway checkout xine.sourceforgge.net and xine.cjb.net. Installation

Re: hosts for rdate?

2000-11-25 Thread Rolf Schillinger
that is one thing. The other is that every nfs server can be used too. bis bald, Rolf On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, tjm wrote: > Look here: > > > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html > > > > Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > > hello, > > i am searching for some hosts for time updating

Re: Unresolved Symbol?

2000-07-07 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Are you running on IDE? IF yes: SHUTDOWN AND PRAY immediately :) Maybe the information hasnt so wide spread yet but test2 is bound to corrupt your filesystems. take care, Rolf On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Thorsten Clever wrote: > > Heyja! > > I just build a 2.4.0-test2 kernel by doing the usual > make

Re: truss

2000-06-22 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi John, the mount & mtools thing is good to copy but if you are trying to copy some ascii file and get into trouble with the different line break schemes on unix/dos there is a tool out there called dos2unix and unix2dox respectively. You can do that with tr as well but I dunno the syntax out of m

Re: lp.o module will not load

2000-05-23 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, you seem to not have compiled the parport module. You can find it under General Setup in menuconfig. hth, Rolf On Tue, 23 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I recompiled my 2.2.15 kernel with printer support as a module and this is > what I get when I insmod the module. What could be wrong, and i

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-05-11 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi Andrew, the etc. etc. is the interesting part ;) bis bald, Rolf On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > etc. etc. > > > any ideas? > > thanks

alt-gr key not working in woody

2000-05-03 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, I recently did a dist-upgrade potato->woody. Since then I am not able to use my alt-gr(right alt) key anymore. I checked with xkeycaps read docs and all. My alt-gr now produces: state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), but on my german keyboard I cannot get any of @| and so on. I ha

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, if you suspect the mem to be faulty try compiling a kernel. This is a very memory intensive process and if the memory is faulty chances are you get the dreaded sig11. hth, Rolf On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :) > > Every now and then, I'll

Re: Screen full of ?'s

2000-04-14 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, could it be that you did 'cat' or 'more' a file with strange control chars? Maybe a binary? If that is the case you simply type 'reset' on that console. That should fix that problem. hth, Rolf On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Abyss wrote: > One of the Debian 2.1 console windows has lost it's normal font

Re: Memory (RAM) problems?

2000-03-29 Thread Rolf Schillinger
I think this is totally normal. Thats why linux is fast. And if you need more memory for applications it gets freed from cache or buffers. No need to worry. hth, Rolf On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Carlos Bustamante G. wrote: > Hi, I'm a litlle worry about the memory (RAM) used by my machine. > I'm using

Re: perl dbi problems

2000-03-29 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, you don't wanna look for a debian package when you are missing a *.pm (perl module). Simply goto cpan.org insted. That is the perl package repository. hth, Rolf On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote: > i have tried running a script out of the Perl DBI book (O'Riely) and it > keeps failing. It

Re: e-commerce solution needed

2000-02-11 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Have a look at www.minivend.com and see if it could fit your needs. If it does you get a good software :) bis bald, Rolf On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, > > It's there any decent e-commerce package that runs on debian?? > I don't care if it is commercial. > > I kno

Re: Bar Code Scanner in Linux

2000-02-05 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, It depends on what bar code scanner you are trying to use. There are barcode scanners that get inserted beetween the keyboard and the computer. You can configure these type of scanners usually through reading in config instructions in form of barcode supplied by the manufacturer. They then simp

Re: ISDN

2000-01-31 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi Michael, the question is what cards are supported by the kernel. Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn I must say I had to do with all sorts of AVM cards except the B1 and they are supported well nowadays. I didnt have any problems. hth, rolf On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: >

Re: File permissions

1999-11-26 Thread Rolf Schillinger
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission > settings such as: > drwx--S--- > drwxr-sr-x > > I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can > you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great

Re: ALSA problems

1999-11-26 Thread Rolf Schillinger
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying the current ALSA packages in Potato with kernel 2.2.13 and a > Trident/Jaton 4DWAVE card. Compile seemed to go ok once I symlinked > the usr/local/src with the kernel files to the usr/src directory that > ALSA package seems to expect. > Compi

Re: Network Internet Access

1999-11-25 Thread Rolf Schillinger
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > Hi Everyone. . . > > I think it's best to start off with the right question. I > have a network of about 25 computers, all on the same class C > (192.168.1.*). I have a Linux box, which is 192.168.1.1, and this > Linux box is going to be the d

Re: Problems mounting CD-ROM

1999-11-25 Thread Rolf Schillinger
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > I am trying to mount my internal CD-ROM. > > When I use dmesg I get the following: > > hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5702B, ATAPI CDROM drive > > when I do a mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom where /dev/cdrom is a > symbolic link to /dev/hdc, and /cdro