an as debian :)
>
> You could get Linus to do it, but he might say "I pronounce debian as
> 'LIH-NIX'". :-)
Or, better yet, RMS: "I pronounce Debian as 'Deb-ee-in Ga-noo Lihnix'."
But then again, that's the proper full title of the distributi
#x27;t have to use "make install" -- you can write your own
script that does everything you want (copying files to the right places,
making symlinks, etc.) and then run checkinstall on the script. It's an
astonishingly easy way to make your own debs.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"T
that doesn't work for me (I've tried in gcc 2.95.4 in sid and 2.95.3 in
an LFS installation). So I've been using -march=k6 instead; but, then I
noticed in my latest kernel recompilation that it was compiling with
i686 when I chose Athlon/Duron in the config. Bah.
--
Thomas J.
t; for C++ stuff to
compile with the same optimizations. And, of course, you might want to
set those in your ~/.bash_profile or something.
Of course, replace my example with the actual gcc options you would want
to use.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"Science without religion is lame, religion witho
ct, or do it with dpkg as explained here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem."
-Ashleigh Brilliant
;t mention anything about sounds. Sounds in Gaim and Licq work
fine for me.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to
pause and reflect."
-Mark Twain
year and a half ago. I also converted
my girlfriend to Linux a couple years ago, and we're both happy sid
users. (And my gf, bless her heart, converted her college's student-run
webserver from RedHat to Debian potato.)
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"I do not feel obliged to believe that t
vga on my potato 2.2 r0
[snip]
It sounds like you're probably using the old X server in potato. You'll
probably need to upgrade to a 4.x version of X--you definitely need
newer versions if you want to use nvidia's drivers for 3D stuff.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"The greatest thing in
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> > > How can I get dselect to install packages that depend on
> > > no-longer-ava
re any way around this?
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come
through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was
false."
-Bertrand Russell
e depends on.
Ironically, most people find the command-line program--apt--more
user-friendly and easier to deal with than the (console-based) GUI prog,
dselect. Dselect is harder to get used to, but IMO learning it is
worthwhile.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be abl
lled is the j2re1.3 package from
blackdown.org. They have apt-getable deb packages.
It works perfectly with both Konqueror and Mozilla.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"If your judgment wishes to rise against these prejudices, your neighbors and,
above all, your neighbors' wives cry out: "
/exim.conf file. Look for a "local_domains =" line--if
home.com is there, take it out.
I had a similar problem, and that's what I had to do to fix it.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"To the shame of mankind, it is well known that the laws which govern our
games are the only ones which are
Running 'reset' resets the terminal to the defaults. It
> could be a language/internationalization thing that your display isn't
> handling properly.
Well, I figured out what it was--for some reason, /etc/motd was full of
binary junk, that was of course being loaded every tim
Running 'reset' resets the terminal to the defaults. It
> could be a language/internationalization thing that your display isn't
> handling properly.
If I run 'reset', the text is fine. BUT, if I then log out and log back
in, the console is messed up again.
--
Thom
ix it? I'm running unstable, but
it started a week ago and recent upgrades haven't fixed it (and I don't
see anyone talking about it here).
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"To the shame of mankind, it is well known that the laws which govern our
games are the only ones which are completely ju
can be found in the manpage.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too may precautions."
-Alfred Adler
it
> actually tried to run "/etc/init.d/alsa start". It gives me an error of
[snip]
Did you compile and install the actual drivers/modules?
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-Galileo Galilei
aying the music but
depend on working drivers for midi playback. I have tried Alsa drivers,
but even with all the midi-related modules loaded I can't seem to use
anything midi-related.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:34:51PM +0100, John Toon wrote:
> I've just installed KDE 2.2 on my Sid system, but am getting some
> bizarre and frustrating font problems
Try turning anti-aliasing off. A lot of the fonts aren't available with
anti-aliasing enabled.
--
Thomas J
ror, and when
I tried running executables on it (it's a Windows program that my mother
wanted copied), Windows gives me lots of errors. The original CD works
fine, though. I wonder if this is a sort of copy protection?
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom."
-Benjamin Franklin
c++.moderated and comp.std.c++. Some of the posts might be
> difficult for beginning C++ users, but hey: live and learn !
I would also recommend alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++
They are generally friendly to beginners there, as long as you're not
acting like an idiot of course.
--
Thomas J
he drive.) It just gives me
another command prompt, and I don't seem to still have a find process
running.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"There are persons who have resolved all these questions; which once
occasioned a man of sense and wit to say of a grave doctor, 'That man must be
problem is the particular CD. The CD does work fine,
however. So, what I'm wondering is whether or not there is anyway
around such an error, or whether it would be worthwhile to go ahead and
burn the resulting image and hope it works.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"Science without religion is lame
so for now I'm just using
KDE without anti-aliasing. Try turning anti-aliasing off and restart
KDE, and see if you get the normal list of fonts back. (Or maybe
someone else has an actual solution? That would be nice.)
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a v
x27;t take long before you have everything deleted.
That's what I use on those "I haven't had time to read debian-user in
the past week, I better 'catch up'" days, anyway.
Alternatively, you could probably just delete the file. Procmail will
happily recreate it next
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide
> fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not
> working, and I'm not looking forward to having to periodical
ically restart
the process myself if it keeps happening.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein
etchmail version recently.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words
without heart."
-Mahatma Gandhi
like they should.
Fortunately, you can have Konqueror lie to them. Under the "User Agent"
section of Konqueror's config, use one of the MSIE identities for the
sites that give you trouble.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing
In what documentation/manpage/whatever can I find a list of ports and
their numbers (like the ports for telnet, http, etc.)? And also I'd
like to know how to see which ports my computer has open.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man&#
Maybe I'm misremembering, but...
The real problem isn't even being mentioned in this thread. The
developer of Killustrator is willing to change the name; the problem is
that the lawyers in Germany (possibly quite independently of Adobe) are
demanding lots of money from one of the developers, to "
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:59:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I would
> therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace the lost files.
> Is there an easy was how this can be done? I checked the dpkg man
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed
> Debian 2.2r3 on. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on it. The
> most serious problem appears to be with ssh. What should I do about this,
> if anything?
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote:
> I wish that Debian used /usr/local more, but I guess its a case of where
> do you draw the line when deciding if something should be in /usr/bin or
> /usr/local/bin. For me, I generally reserve local for stuff that I install
> by hand to k
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:57:21PM -0500, Me wrote:
> I totally agree with you. There's a LOT more to cross distro
> compatibility than the package format and manager! A
> whole heck of a lot!!
You do realize that there is a lot more in the LSB than package
formats... right?
--
Tom
"The chief d
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:12:49PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> > from random import *
> > from linecache import *
> > print getline('~/.muttrc',randrange(1,20))
>
> except that hardcodes the file length, does it not?
Yep, like I said it was a quickie example. Here's something that
wouldn't
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:15:13PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> hey,
> do you guys know of a smart way to access random lines in a file? so
> if a file had lines 1-5, 5 random reads would return something like
> line3, line1, line2, line5, line4? you get the picture... oh, and that
> preferably
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:05:24PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:16:28AM +0800, Lamer wrote:
> > However, Microsoft do have good
> > products (like this Outlook express i'm using).
>
> For one, it does't include any In-Reply-To: headers when you reply to a
> message in a
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:00:27PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote:
> If we got this system up and running, Debian would be the *easiest* OS
> install anywhere! Debian would take over the planet!
Ah, if only it were that easy.
When I think about the possibility of introducing Linux to, say, my mom,
it
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> The RPM thing is nice because you can find out what package matches an
> exact file, and not get any extraneous results.
You mean like this?
hawk3:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
xutils: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
The problem isn
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:26:57PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> i only meant, when i fortune-ify a set of 40 tips, and then want
> to add seven more... but even then it doesn't sound too
> difficult.
I use fortune for the randomized quotes in my sig, and it's easy to add
new quotes. Just separ
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:31:38PM +0100, Liam Ward wrote:
> Do any of these mail readers allow selective download from a POP
> server? In other words, I want to view the message headers and choose
> the ones I wish to download. I access my work mail from home and
> sometimes get large attachmen
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:50:04AM -0700, John and Kristy Woodill wrote:
> I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to
> get x to configure and load correctly. I just get a black and white
> screen all scrambled up. I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero
> problems with t
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> Are you using exim as your smtp server? If so it may be worth checking
> in MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS and looking for
>
> # Have exim deliver all mail that's received in a single connection.
> # Normally it will deliver the first
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:21:48PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> "For hours" is strange, using noflushd or so? Try "set timeout=10",
> anyway.
>
> Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nope, not using flushd. I hadn't noticed the timeout variable before,
though; I'll try
I use fetchmail, procmail, and mutt for my E-mail, and I'm having one
little issue with mutt that has been disturbing me for a while:
Sometimes, new mail in my files does not show up in mutt for a while
(sometimes even a couple hours) after I have received it.
Does this happen to anyone else? Ho
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:06:01AM +0200, Johan Groth wrote:
> The result was a segmentation fault. The fonts.dir-file was partially
> completed (35 fonts out of 53) after mkttfdir had run.
I had problems with mkttfdir too--it didn't segfault, but I have several
fonts that it fails to include in
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:33:57PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> I was wondering how others are installing KDE with Debian. I select apt-get
> install kde, and it can't find it. Do I have to add a line to my
> /etc/apt/sources.list file? Or, do I have to go and download the KDE files
> mysel
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:06:36PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> I guess I'm really just curious as to whether it's possible to
> actually put the fourth mouse button (under the thumb) to any use.
I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I notice my XF86Config-4 uses 'Option
"ZAxisMapping" "4 5"' so appa
Well, I recently bought a non-cordless (cordful? corded?
cord-bearing?) optical MouseMan, and it's very nice. You'll
appreciate having an optical mouse, especially if you're at the point
where it seems like you have to clean your current mouse every couple
days.
I'm not sure if mine is supposed t
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:45:02PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> That won't necessarily help as the print job isn't all in its memory,
> it's being sent from the computer's print queue. You should remove
> the job(s) from the printer queue (lprm).
I should have mentioned this in my first post, but.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:53:04PM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote:
> It even prints when I haven?t logged in (at the login window in
> Gnome). I?ve commented every line in /etc/printcap and doesn?t work.
> Thanks in advance Yope.
Did you mess up a print attempt at some point?
With my old HP DeskJet
Take a look at the suggested printers at linuxprinting.org:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
I recently bought one of the low-end laser printers that they
recommend (Lexmark Optra e312) and I've been very happy with it.
--
Tom
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no
hawk3:~$ dpkg -L idle-python2
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2/copyright
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2/changelog.Debian.gz
Where exactly is the executable for running the Python 2 version of
idle?
--
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:07:12PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote:
> To quote "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # X: The "xhost localhost" thing doesn't seem to work with X 4; what do
> I
> # need to do to allow my gf to run programs with her u
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:11:53AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> I know what s is, when designated in the permissions of a file, but what
> does a capitol 'S' stand for? ie:
>
> drw-r-Sr--
I have a related question: How come almost every file in my home
directory has s or S permissions set? Even
I'm using unstable and having a few issues I could use some help
with
X: The "xhost localhost" thing doesn't seem to work with X 4; what do I
need to do to allow my gf to run programs with her user when we're
logged into X as my user?
gtv: For a while now, the gtv program in the smpeg-gtv p
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian
> unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to
> why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem an
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 04:23:34PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would be the best to install on a
> Debian Box?
> Also the easiest would help..
Try a Creative Soundblaster PCI 128 (or 64). I just got the SB 128 for
around $25, and all you have to do to get
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:24:44PM -0600, dude wrote:
> nv.c:49: linux/modversions.h: no such file or directory
> make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
I don't know what conversation this is supposed to be part of, but it
looks to me like you're trying to compile a kernel module without the
kernel headers?
Thanks to a swift response, my problem was solved--apparently I just
needed to symlink /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386
Though I wonder what made me suddenly need the symlink, if I didn't have
it before, or what made me lose it if I did have it before. (I notice I
did already h
Since dist-upgrading to the most recent Woody packages, I have been
unable to compile a kernel. Both the 2.2.17 kernels and 2.4.0test10
kernels abort with the same error.
I can't think of anything else that could be the problem, outside of the
recent dist-upgrade, because I have already compiled
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:10:09PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did
> not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I
> thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient.
The Debian packages _are_ sufficient, or at least
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:08:20AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> CP> Anyone running a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 on Debian?
> CP> Just curious if it works well or not.
My Voodoo3 2000 worked fine with the older Glide stuff in X 3.3.6, and
works fine with the DRI st
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:37:13AM -0500, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote:
> On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception of
> https support, which isn't there. Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or is
> it just not compiled into the packages at kde.tdyc.com?
I don't kno
I'm going to be upgrading my computer soon, most likely with a
motherboard with a KX133 (with an Athlon) or a KT133 (with a Duron or
Thunderbird) chipset.
Does anyone have any experience with those chipsets/CPUs in Debian? Are
there any problems with them?
And, specifically, since all the mother
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:30:39PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> I'm confused about the interaction of kernel sound support and ALSA
> drivers.
>
> If I want to switch to ALSA drivers, do I build the kernel with sound and
> soundcore, or just soundcore? I assume that I turn off the kernel suppo
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> After all this discussion recently on the list about opera for linux and
> galeon/skipstone, I looked at the galeon/skipstone webpages. So a question
> came to my mind:
> They both use the gecko rendering engine from
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:47:21AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user
> yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-)
>
> I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a
> mostly potato system. What I would like to kn
Okay, I have the latest 2.4.0 test kernel compiled with DRI and the 3dfx
driver, I have XFree86 4.0.1 running fine
Now how do I even find out if I have 3D hardware acceleration working?
Is there any simple test? None of my games currently work, but I know
Myth 2 and Quake 2 need the older gli
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:13:48PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote:
> Most of you might have gotten bored to tears by my running efforts to get
> the X4.0.1 in woody functional, and probably know by now I have, so I
> thought I'd quickly and briefly say how:
[snip]
Err... did you try running the littl
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:13:41PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote:
> OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore.
>
> XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86
> -xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and
> the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:27:52AM +0100, Robin Collins wrote:
> Can someone tell me the order in which the KDE2 source packages should be
> built? With Gnome there's a page on their web site listing the package
> order and using this I fired up Gnome with only one minor glitch. With KDE2
> thoug
Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP?
My desparate attempt to stop it from printing out the rest of a document
after I specifically told the word processor to print out only the first
page resulted in the current situation the printer is in now:
It wants to keep "printing
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote:
> > 2) Can "pon" be set up to display a "connect" message
> >for my wife and kids to see? The enter a "pon" command
> >and expect to "surf" or read email before the connection
> >is made.
>
> I just want to ask for somet
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:53:34PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote:
> hi,
> I want to install xfce and tkgoodstuff on my
> debian system. OK so I installed lg-issue11 /45?
> But I must say: I dont really know what lg-issuel is.
> And now I must ask you what is lg-issuel and
> how can I install xfce and tk
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:21:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
> > --report
> > /etc/cron.daily
> >
> > /etc/cron.daily/exim:
> >
I'm trying to help my gf set up Pine on a server at her college (since
those silly students actually prefer it over mutt), and we're both
running into the same compilation problem (with Woody on my box and
Potato on the server).
Using the pine4-src and pine4-diffs packages, after running
"debian/r
After running an apt-get update in woody, I ran an apt-get -s
dist-upgrade to see which packages were going to be upgraded, and I was
given this error message:
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package libpam-modules due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:26:59PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text?
>
> lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large.
> lpf or pr is not much of use either.
>
> man -k print|grep filter gives:
> lpf (1)
I was walking my gf through an install of Debian (it didn't scare her,
and she's no techie), and everything went fine until she tried
installing some stuff.
Installing task-x-window-system basically choked, and now she is left
with a bunch of half-installed packages. I can't tinker with it myself
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 04:05:36PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote:
> I've made sure the Enable-Full-Headers-Cmd options was selected in Pine's
> setup, and I still don't seem to be seeing the full headers for any emails
> in PINE.
>
> Is there anything else that needs to be done ?
That enables a _comm
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:19:34AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting
> there ignoring printjobs. ;-)
I'm no expert (obviously :) ), but to try to get stuff set up as cleanly
as possible and eliminate potential sources of trouble,
Disregard my last post on this subject--I rebooted my machine and now I
can print ps files just fine! :)
Michael, thank you again for all your responses, I appreciate it
immensely. :)
Finally, I can write my English essay in peace.
--
Tom
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:45:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> What is the best practise for obtaining and installing the odd
> unstable package in to a stable system?
Hmm I think there was a thread on that very recently... I think the best
answer was:
Make your /etc/apt/so
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps
> > lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>^^^
> That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to you
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
Thanks for your continued advice, Michael.
> From man lpr (woody):
> -V Verbose mode. Additional -V flags increase verbosity.
> Use debug flags for extreme verbosity.
That's very interesting... I'm usi
Okay, my printing situation is getting weirder.
In desparation I tried using printtool, and used it to set up my printer
exactly the same way I had set it up under Mandrake before switching to
Debian. I was excited when printtool successfully printed when I tried
its option for printing a postscr
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:40:26AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
> You are able to print text files with lpr and you can't print
> Postscript-files that way?
Correct.
> What's the output of "lpr -V -V your-file.ps"?
That gives me no output... are you sure the -V options are correct? I
don't see -V lis
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:22:01PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> > why not dpkg -l emacs ?
>
> un emacs (no description available)
>
> > or better yet, dselect.
>
> Never thought I'd hear someone say that! :)
>
> I also tried apt-get remove emacs* but it didn't help.
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:48:21PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> You shouldn't need to print postscript from ghostview. Does your printer
> understand postscript? What print filter are you using?
I don't know if it understands postscript; I'm using the dj550c filter.
Here is what magic
Okay, I thought I had my printer working just fine (albeit without
color); I've printed dvi's fine in xdvi, and I can print text files fine
with lpr.
But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just
does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer,
opened
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:34:15PM +1200, voy1d wrote:
> Hey.
>
> Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount
> my cdrom drive like so.
>
> mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
>
> I get an error message :
> error mounting device: device not found.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> I've found that gnome-napster works perfectly whereas gnapster stays
> disconnected. However, gnome-napster has few less features, but at least
> its a temporary answer.
> Andrei
I have a different problem when I use gnome-napster--I
Is there any software available for Linux that can intercept phone calls
(to a phone that's connected to a modem), and...
1) Serve as an answering machine when the modem isn't in use, and/or
2) Inform me when I'm on-line and there's an incoming call?
Any help would be appreciated, since I'm goin
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote:
> Here is the situation, I'm a Debian user. The company I work for, so far,
> will only allow Red Hat as it's Linux OS on it's servers. I need some good
> reasons to justify using Debian. So I'm asking you guys to help me out with
> y
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:31:04PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> Occasionally (okay, frequently), the time on my computer gets randomly
> changed to something incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't figure what's
> causing it because I never catch it when it happens--I just event
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:52:29PM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote:
> William Jensen wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like the clock/system battery is dying. Have you tried replacing
> > that?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> What if it's soldered to the mutha board? Does anybody (company) do that
> anymore?
>
> Pa
Occasionally (okay, frequently), the time on my computer gets randomly
changed to something incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't figure what's
causing it because I never catch it when it happens--I just eventually
notice that my time is off by several hours for no apparent reason.
I'm using Woody, b
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