Re: Small footprint window manager

at home. You login to your home computer, then do a "screen -r" ("reattach") and wallah! You're screen session is *exactly* as you left it. Don't wait another second! "apt-get install screen" now :) Hoping somebody finds this useful, Matt -- Matt Garman

pppd ignoring idle option

pppd STILL doesn't hangup. If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: IDE cd burner acting flakey w/cdrecord

etting the new writer. It's something to try, anyway, if you haven't already. Good luck! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

diald extreme slowness

x? I used to use OpenBSD for septictank, and it's dial-on-demand program didn't suffer this problem. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes,

Re: dri causing hard lockups?

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:10:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Trying to use the DRI stuff is causing X to lockup. In fact, the > > ... > > I have experienced this, but only while playing 3D-accelerated g

Re: dri causing hard lockups?

rding to Matrox's documentation, I really don't even need the HAL library for what I'm doing. Thanks for the feedback! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving

dri causing hard lockups?

"mga" Option "AGPMode" "2" Option "DPMS" EndSection # ... Well, if anyone has been down this road before, I'd be happy to hear your experiences! Thanks Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PRO

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

where the original cd was most damaged. As someone already said, the only real downside to cdparanoia is that it takes longer due to the analysis it performs on data. If you have a fast machine, you probably won't notice too much. Good luck, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain&

can't boot; was: Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:46:34AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > > The new problem, though, is now my SCSI CD-ROMs don't work. The hard > > drives work fine. The SCSI device driver *is* recognizing the SCSI > > CD-ROMs. However, I can

Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:46:28PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Just a shot in the dark here since you didn't mention which SCSI > controller you are using, BUT you "should" have a SCSI setup to > configure its BIOS somewhere. It is NOT the one you have been using > in the KT7's BIOS setup prog

booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

but I can't my system to boot from a SCSI CD-ROM (but it LOVES to boot from SCSI disk). I already put my IDE CDROM back in the other computer... okay I'm starting to vent. Any help? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

OT: getting the family in on Linux. was: Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users

into some sysadmin type stuff. Anyway---I don't want to insult anyone's intelligence---I had the capability of doing this long before I got the idea, so my goal was to help out anyone on whom this hadn't yet dawned :) It's an easy way to let someone slowly wade into Linux without h

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

mpletely barbaric (constantly warring, anarchy) and yet be technologically advanced (enough to send/receive galactic messages). Those aliens might look at us and say, wow, that planet gets by with only 75% barbarianism! Disclaimer: I do love to read sci-fi :) Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTE

OT: scsi vs ide: some data

d IDE isn't as great as the price margin. Depending on the feedback I get, I might do some more testing. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions/thoughts on how I can achieve some more data? E.g., other methods, other programs, ...anything that doesn't involve buying stuff :) Hope someb

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

g in xmms really taxed my CPU (according to gkrellm). With xine+XV, however, viewing mpegs uses almost no CPU (again, whatching gkrellm). Good luck. Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

Re: mozilla and vnc

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:27:26AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:09PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > However, mozilla is a bit strange: it will load, and the window will > > be created, but the content of the window is entirely black! xrefresh > >

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

the time, or don't want to fill your mind with the subtleties of two Unices, stick with Debian. (I'm sure most would agree that a properly configured Linux firewall is as safe as any other free Unix's firewall.) Good luck! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain

mozilla and vnc

ows nt vncviewer program. I'm guessing this has something to do with mozilla... but I don't know what that would be. Anyone seen this? Any ideas? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

ssh'ing within LAN triggers diald

akes forever---the modem might be dialing, but I'm not sure (forgot to check that before sending this email). Anyway, thanks for any thoughs or suggestions! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

Re: fullscreen video playback

elevant dbe files on my system. In fact, I don't even have the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules on my computer. Thanks again! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I may make you feel, but I can't make you think." -- Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick"

fullscreen video playback

re another software package I need to install? Or is this a limitation of my video hardware? I have a Matrox Millenium I (the lowliest of the Milleniums I guess) with 4mb of (video) RAM. My computer is a Pentium II 266 with 96mb of RAM. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I may make

installing on an old 486

hen it asks for a install media, I choose CD-ROM. I selected /dev/hdc and it says mount failed. I actually went through all choices (all /dev/hdx) and the mount always failed. Could the problem be the CD-ROM is some strange proprietary interface that the installer can't talk to? Thanks, Matt --

quake-svga

using this? Does it happen to have anything to do with the fact that I'm running kernel-level frame buffer (i.e. vga mode text console)? Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of

Re: ipmasq and howto

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:14:52PM -0600, matt garman wrote: > I executed "ipchains -P forward ACCEPT" for the three default chains > (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have "(policy ACCEPT)" > for all three chains. > ... Problem solved, all of

Re: ipmasq and howto

/24 anywhere n/a Chain output (policy ACCEPT): But still when I do "ipchains -M -L" I don't get anything. Any ideas? Thanks as always, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one

Re: dhcp-client not working with at&t @home cable modem

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:02:55AM -0600, matt garman wrote: > I'm trying to get AT&T @home cable modem service working on my system. > >From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as > installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everyt

dhcp-client not working with at&t @home cable modem

erval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAI

Re: ipmasq and howto

y config files I could post that would be useful in diagnosing the problem, or output of any particular program? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos

Re: ipmasq and howto

masq and other related Debian packages, do I still need to follow all the steps in the howto? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. W

Re: ipmasq and howto

t in my question what I meant was, In all the steps outlined in the IP-Masquerading howto, where does Debian leave off, and where do I need to pick up? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don

ipmasq and howto

s instructed by the howto, and what does the ipmasq package take care of automatically? -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Wel

which driver for Netgear FA310TX

w" tulip driver as supplied by linux kernel 2.2.14 or the "old" tulip driver (also in linux kernel source)? Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play

Re: cable modem and LAN

ow many ping requests I did on my roomate's computer). MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you

Re: cable modem and LAN

er (i.e. outgoing traffic)? eth1 is the NIC that connects to the switch. Thanks much, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I

Re: cable modem and LAN

l IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface jakarta.gw.uiuc * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 default jakarta.gw.uiuc 0.0.0.0 UG0

Re: cable modem and LAN

her minor detail. Does anyone have any hints on getting my LAN running? I'd really like a step-by-step guide to setting such a thing up (aimed at the Debian distribution). Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World

Re: cable modem and LAN

one send me their /etc/dhcpd.conf file for a small home LAN, such as mine? Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. We

cable modem and LAN

ork mini howto, but it's assumes a redhat distribution, which apparently does configuration of these things a bit differently. Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide for setting up my network for Debian? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I was just reading the intervie

fetchmail not working

or on the machine where I download my email just because fetchmail doesn't get very far, but that's only a guess. Any ideas? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

ther than just performance, the Celeron is usually the winner. For what you'll save on buying a Celeron over the Pentium II, you can probably afford a higher clock or more physical ram. If you can afford it, you might consider the AMD Athlon, arguably the best PC chip available at this time,

make-kpkg and /vmlinuz

ernel with make-kpkg and installed the resulting .deb with dpkg, that either /etc/lilo.conf was updated to see the new kernel, or the /vmlinuz symlink was updated. Or am I mistaken? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunli

Re: SVGATextMode Chip ?

You might want to look into the linux kernel's framebuffer options. The framebuffer makes SVGATextMode more or less obsolete. Try this on for size: http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/Framebuffer-HOWTO-1.1.html It's pretty easy to setup and use, too. MG -- Matt Garman, [EM

kernel compiling error

pkg --revision=custom.1.1 kernel_image" and the compilation dies with the following: drivers/video/video.a(vga16fb.o): In function vga16fb_set_disp': vga16fb.o(.text+0x1ed): undefined reference to fbcon_vga_planes' vga16fb.o(.text+0x1fa): undefined reference to fbcon_ega_planes'

/bin/sh and ash, bash

a few things got broken. I was just curious if anyone knew whether or not it's "safe" to link /bin/sh to /bin/ash? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of mornin

alt key in jed under X

me :). The Alt key works as expected on the console. Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

Re: zsh and tab completions

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:27:43PM -0600, matt garman wrote: > I have zsh version 3.1.6.pws13-1 installed on my potato system. For > some reason, it's not doing *any* completions when I hit the tab key. > By default, it behaves similar to bash with respect to completions, I >

zsh and tab completions

using the default zsh config files provided by the installation via dpkg and also the config files I was using when I had a roll-my-own zsh installed in /usr/local. No completions, either way. Do I need to explicitly turn on completions somewhere? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

I don't know how sensitive they are to heat, but just to be sure, I re-mounted mine in my case so that there is a gap between it and any other drive. I also installed an extra case fan in my computer to get some more moving air in the case. I don't think all that was necessary, bu

Re: su and chsh never work

.tgz from my root directory? I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million

Re: su and chsh never work

it would to fix every little broken piece. I'm running on a fresh install now, so if I had to throw it all away, it wouldn't be a problem. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

correct apt sources.list line for non-us?

What is the correct line to use in /etc/apt/sources.list for the unstable non-us files? I tried the following: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US but I always get a 404 not found error. What I am I doing wrong? Thanks, Matt

su and chsh never work

Hello: I just installed potato via the floppy+ftp method. For some odd reason, I cannot "su" to root as a normal user, it always says I have the wrong password. But I can switch to a different virtual terminal and login as root with the same password, no problem. Also, as a user I tried t

su and chsh authentication/password failures

eas on this? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

debian install and multiple partitions

ackups and some security benefits. My question is: how does this affect the installation process? Are there any "gotchas" I should look out for, having my disc split up as such? I'll be doing the floppy+ftp method of installing potato. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

our access method in dselect to "mounted," and just point it to your cdrom mount point. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

mething that Lynx, after years of > > development, *still* fails at. > > > Try links. > links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser And there's another text-mode web browser called w3m, which somewhat supports frames and tables. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: MTA and debian default mta

Just out of curiosity, why did Debian choose exim as its default MTA? I remember Debian's default MTA used to be smail. Why did they move away from smail? And why did they choose exim over others (such as postfix)? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the

/dev/fd0: Input/output error (making base disks)

Input/output error This is using a standard 1.44 floppy drive that came with my system. It has worked fine for as long as I've had the machine. By the way, I also tried several different disks, all with the same results as above. Any thoughts? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: plextor cd-r trouble

. I used to have the cd-r and harddrive on the same ribbon, and used a 68-to-50 pin adapter for the burner. That setup was also unsuccessful. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of

Re: MTA

ckage. I have postfix setup to defer messages until I explicitly flush the outgoing mail queue. I have a simple script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that flushes the queue automatically whenever I make a ppp connection. I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. M

plextor cd-r trouble

328 reads and 2794 writes) (scsi0:0:4:0) Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 10.0 MByte/sec, offset 8 Transinfo settings: current(25/8/0/0), goal(12/15/0/0), user(12/15/1/0) Total transfers 3770 (3770 reads and 0 writes) -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the

compiling from debian source package

make sure it uses the compiler and compiler flags I want it to when it builds? I probed around some random files within the source tree, but can't find out where it sets the compiler and compiler flags. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the

pentium-optimized debian?

ce to have a Debian equivalent of the Stampede, Enoch, and Mandrake distributions, which are compiled for Pentium or better systems. Just an idea. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassa

when a build fails with debian source

e something I should have done to make it start where it left off, rather than start fresh? I assumed debian/rules worked like make, i.e. it doesn't bother with things that don't need to be changed. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall

Re: "unstable" distribution on CD

incl. source codes Is there an English translation to that site? I'm not entirely sure what some of those packages actually contain! MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

"unstable" distribution on CD

at's fast enough for downloading the whole distribution. I'd also like all the source packages on CD so that I can recompile packages with pgcc (pentium optimization). Again, same problem, I can't afford to download all the source packages I want over a slow modem. Thanks! Matt --

Re: How to get stats on modem?

On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:24:21PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > I like WMppp in WindowMaker. Another WindowMaker dock application that may be of interest: wmnet. It works for ppp/modem connections, but also for ethernet connections. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the windo

offtopic: reading Usenet via email?

with the debian-user list, for example). The only real reason I'd like this is to have one piece of software for reading news and email (e.g. gnus, which I didn't like too much). Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming

Re: setting up a news server

erver and read while the modem is connected. I want to have the articles downloaded automatically (say, in the middle of the night) so I can read them at my leasure, offline. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wing

Re: apt-get and two cds

cial binary CD supposed to be binary, or is my CD corrupt? It seems fishy that both my Packages and Packages.gz files would *both* be corrupted. Anyone have their Official binary discs handy to check up on this? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in

setting up a news server

running? I don't need anything too fancy except the ability to read from more than one server (e.g. my ISP's news server and my school's news server). Also, my school's server needs to be sent a login and password before I can access it. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: fetchmail problems

cks for fixing it do not work for me. :( Thanks again! MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

fetchmail problems

running Exim, and have been for quite a while. I did a little snooping on DejaNews, and folks usually say that sendmail needs to be running... I don't have a sendmail process, but does exim create one anyway? Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

apt-get and two cds

isc, I get this error: E: Line 2 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/cdrom_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages has no :. E: Package file /var/state/apt/lists/cdrom_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages line 2 does not start a package Any ideas? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman

postfix

Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

Re: wav > mp3

enc," it's free and considered one of the better mp3 encoders. Another decent encoder is 8hz-mp3, at www.8hz.com. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

Re: wav > mp3

on't think it is malicious, but a pain nonethless. In short, don't run it (shouldn't affect Linux-only users, though :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning." --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

Re: [Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage

ot;debian" directory, with the binary argument which says just create the *.deb binary package. That should be sufficient in most cases (except for XFree86 :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright

Re: Mutt and signature

llowing line: set signature="~/.sig" And that appends the spiffy file ~/.sig to the end of every message I send with mutt, as seen below :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors o

Re: Exim + Procmail + Mutt

$header_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-user@lists.debian.org then save /debian-user finish endif # enf of debian-user filter This works, although I think I liked smail+procmail better, personally. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And though the window in the wall Come streaming in

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

s a Debian package for it). You can print multiple pages (of text or postscript) on one physical page. Obviously the text comes out smaller, but it saves paper on lengthy stuff. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" --Pink Floyd

Re: acroread can't load library libXt.so.6

y the environment variable should make a difference.) Thanks again! On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 09:58:25PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > > Hello: > > I installed the acroread package. I've installed and removed it > before, in the past, with no trouble, but this time, I get the >

acroread can't load library libXt.so.6

so.conf /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/local/lib And I also tried running "ldconfig" as root before running the program, no dice. Any ideas? thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good t

Exim allowing external mail...

me, but I'm not getting the confirmation notice because (I think) Exim is disallowing mail outside of the uiuc.edu domain. I've had this come up on other occations, i.e. not receiving mail sent specifically to my machine from outside of my domain. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL P

building glibc from dpkg source

.status'. Stop. I don't know why it's looking for the 2.0.36 kernel headers. I'm running kernel 2.2.5. Also, I also tried a "debian/rules clean" and then tried to build the binary again, but the same error still comes up. Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman,

making source and non-free CDs

of a close mirror that has the source, or is there a preferred method? Also, same goes for the non-free and non-US stuff that I'd also like to have on CD. (I'm in my University dorm with an ethernet link to T3s and the like; I want to take advantage of my bandwith before the end of the acade

Re: MP3 encoder?

-mp3, www.8hz.com bladeenc, http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625 Bladeenc is supposedly faster. Hope that helps, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"

cd-to-cd burning

round this. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"

pgcc Debian package?

s there or will there be a pgcc Deb package? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"

Re: What do I do with tarballs?

is a distribution or two that actually uses this method for package management. email me if you want more info, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"

graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

y. Does anyone know if anything of this sort exists? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

nd or a bit obscure. A lot of reporters probably don't take the time to actually find out what *IS* available for Linux. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"

Re: still no luck with apt-get

On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:17:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > > Which apt version are you using? Which distro? (hamm, slink, potato) > > > > I'm using apt version 0.1.9 in the slink distribution. > > I am trying to update from t

Re: still no luck with apt-get

p, ftp or file URIs > > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > Which apt version are you using? Which distro? (hamm, slink, potato) I'm using apt version 0.1.9 in the slink distribution. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always hav

still no luck with apt-get

d return code from subprocess ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL

which package provides ldd

Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal disaster mentioned in an earlier post). Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayo

Re: compiling xfree86

On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:00:38PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Could anyone offer any advice or pointers as for how to custom compile > xfree86 as a debian package? I want to compile using egcc and only > include support for the video driver that I need (trying to make it a

dselect removed (almost) everything

a ftp, and installing them by hand with dpkg. Why is my system in this state? What did I do? These packages that dselect started to remove, I have NEVER flagged to remove them. help. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, t

Re: compiling xfree86

On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:00:38PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > Could anyone offer any advice or pointers as for how to custom compile > xfree86 as a debian package? I want to compile using egcc and only > include support for the video driver that I need (trying to make it a > bit le

compiling xfree86

rently the default Debian xlibs are not compiled to be thread safe. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me." -- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"

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