emacsclient

2002-06-17 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hi debian-users, a question for the emacs-heads on the list: is there any way to get an emacsclient process to connect to an emacs running on a remote host? I can't find any answers in the documentation, but I think it should be possible. Any ideas? -- Tiarnan O Corrain (tiarnan.o&#

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-09 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote: > > > 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char? For accents put (set-language-environment "Latin-1") in .emacs. To wrap text mode lines at 72, try (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fi

Re: newbie install problem

2001-05-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
>From the lilo manual (probably in /usr/doc/lilo): Disk error codes - - - - - - - - If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes are known: 0x40 "Seek failure". This might be a media problem

Re: Yet Another X question

2001-05-14 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:51:02PM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: > I just installed Debian on my system. Because I wanted a new version of > Window maker, I didn't install an X-window manager. I compiled Window maker > and all that good jazz. I ran all the setups, Now when I login to xdm > (remotel

Re: Unable to connect to X Server

2001-05-14 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:04:15AM -0300, Arlequ?n wrote: > Another thing.. > when I start running xf86Config, when it's goning to enter graphic mode it > says > "Unable to comunnicate with X Server!" > and throws this error Try xf86config (note the capitalization). It's a text-mode configuration

Re: OT - WindowMaker

2001-05-08 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:17:43AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: 1. i've added mutt in the wm's menus (using wprefs) but whenever i click on it it doesn't do anything Perhaps you need something like xterm -e mutt as the command to execute when you click on mutt. -- Tiarnán Ó Cor

Weird apt error

2001-05-03 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello all-- I'm getting a really odd error with a debian box I administer. Apt seems to be broken, or at least missing some serious files. Any advice would be most welcome. crhist95:~# apt-get remove gdm Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to write mmap - msync (5 In

Re: alsa et al

2001-04-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Vicar In A Tutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alsa source code doesn't want to compile. Tells me it needs the kernel source > to > be present in one of the directories; scoobied if I know what to do with it. Check that you have the kernel-source package installed, and that /usr/src/linux is a sy

pppd problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-22 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey all, for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. I have a 2.4.0 kernel installed on my computer which invokes pppd perfectly, but when I try pon under 2.4.1, I get the following melancholy missive (from watch plog)... Feb 23 04:13:29 mousetrap chat[259]: ATDT1332103001235^M^M Fe

Re: OT - WindowMaker

2001-02-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:17:43AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: 1. i've added mutt in the wm's menus (using wprefs) but whenever i click on it it doesn't do anything Perhaps you need something like xterm -e mutt as the command to execute when you click on mutt. -- Tiarnán Ó Cor

apt-get broken

2001-01-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey, is there any easy way to find out which packages apt depends on? My installation of apt is broken, and I seem to need a library (libapt) which I can't find anywhere. Cheers Tiarnan

Re: apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
> > Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under > > the new kernel. When I try (for example) > > apt-get install mpg123, the > > program segfaults immediately. Ditto with > > apt-get remove xxx > Try runnin 'strace' to see what system calls are run immediately pr

apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-28 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey All, many thanks to those who gave advice on installing kernel 2.4 on my laptop. Turned out the problem was that I hadn't set the processor type in the kernel configuration... Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under the new kernel. When I try (for example) a

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:38:54PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. > > > > Help much appreciated > > Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? Do you kn

Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Dear All, Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. Help much appreciated -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus." --- GPG fingerprint: 4A05 1FC3 5370 26

Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-13 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
All cool... we have sound and we are happy. What I ended up doing was compiling the sound directly into the kernel, using the Sb option on IRQ 5. Other than that, the defaults worked perfectly. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Cheers Tiarnan -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Part

Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello... I recently installed Debian on a Compaq Armada 7770DMT laptop with an ES 1878 sound card. I've compiled support for the Soundblaster into the kernel (2.2.17), which allows me to play audio cds, but gives a weird echo effect when I try to play wave files using 'play'. I've compiled the ke