mh-rmail in emacs falls over at 10k messages.

2001-01-17 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, I was starting to enjoy using mh-rmail mode in emacs. It suddenly stopped displaying messages, even though it would read them, at message (or there abouts). The Debian connection? This took about 5 months of debian-user, debian-laptop and kernel-dev. I copied ~/Mail/inbox to ~/M

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Benjamin Pharr wrote: > It works, for you, but I gave it a shot with no luck. You mean you tried hdd=scsi? > What modules do you > have loaded at boot time? None. Everything's compiled into the kernel.

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Monte Milanuk wrote: > > > Any idea's suggestions, I'm open to 'em. I would say, use an external card, rather than trying to get an onboard Crystal CS4236B chip to work. I've never seen a report from someone who's managed to get one working. I have the identical setup you have, and I've given u

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:37:17PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > # Card 1: (serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e) > > > # Vendor Id CSC6835, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xB6. > > > # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.1 > > > # ANSI string -->CS4236B<-- > >

apt-get trouble

2001-01-17 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, just wondering if anyone can help me with this problem I've been having and can't figure out: when I do an apt-get update I get errors from several different servers, randomly, it seems, here is the stderr from the `apt-get update' command (last time I tried it): Failed to fetch http://n

Re: AAARGH - Re: cdrecord

2001-01-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:37:54 +1100, John Griffiths writes: >I've been reading this with a lot of interest as i'm a bout to receive a nice >new AOpen ATAPI CD-RW. > >there seems to be conflicting info going around. Can SCSI emulation be done wi >th modules or does it require a re-compile? Well, at

QT2.x and woody?

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Hughes
>From what I've seen on teh web page, Qt2.2 is only avaiable in the unstable/Sid version of Debian at the moment? Or is there a way to get QT2.2 library stuff working in woody? Thanks:) Jon = "God, Root. What is the difference?" Pitr, User Friendly _

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Mike wrote: > SCSI emulation support > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI > This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices, > and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native > ATAPI driver. > > This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native >

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:11:12 EST, Mike writes: >Yes, I did indeed have conflicts between the IDE CDROM support and the SCSI >emulation. Took me quite some time to get it sorted out. Ah, here we go.= >=20 >Found it. From the help blurb in the SCSI emulation section of make >menuconfig: > >If both

Re: QT2.x and woody?

2001-01-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps then apt-get update; apt-get install libqt2.2 If you plan on compiling any qt2.2 apps, also apt-get install libqt2.2-dev -Rob On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:57:49PM -0800, Jon Hughes wrote: > >From

Re: QT2.x and woody?

2001-01-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
Sorry, make that deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:36:16AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps > > then > > apt-get update; apt-get install libqt2

Re: mh-rmail in emacs falls over at 10k messages.

2001-01-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:27:59 +1030, Paul Schulz writes: >I was starting to enjoy using mh-rmail mode in emacs. It suddenly >stopped displaying messages, even though it would read them, at >message (or there abouts). 10k messages seems to shoot every mh-client I ever tried/used/set up. Somew

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Kent West wrote: > "tcpdump" doesn't seem to be an available command (yes, as root); nor > does "locate" return anything for it. Does this indicate that I'm > perhaps missing a package? It's not "missing", it's just not installed by default apparently. Run apt-get install tcpdump. > >> My "/e

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > OK i've got a NIC that i need to get working. > > its PCI appears to support Co-ax as well as cat-45 > > it has a netware approved sticker on it > > it has 3 components on it made by Delta >

Q: SB16 ok-Need load other modules?

2001-01-17 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I have my SB16 working fine with the following modules compiled and loaded: sound uart401 sb io=0x220 irq=10 dma=1 dma16=5 Everything works. But I didn't find the other card options when compiling to, I believe, load the following modules: mpu_io=0x330 op13 io=0x388 So the question is, hav

Q: Use of XDM.log correct?

2001-01-17 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, My DEbian system when first loaded dropped me in XDM. I removed the package and have booted to the proimpt and started X manually ever since. Yet I've notice that when X starts it writes the info to an XDM.log file. Is that normal? What would be considering I use .xinitrc and "startx"? How wo

modules

2001-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
over the last few days i've been wrestling with a lot of cryptic modules. and so it would seem have others, judging by the list. how difficult would it be to make an apt-like module tool?

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:58:55PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:40:03PM -0700, Curtis Hogg wrote: > > Is there a way to disable the console blanking? If so, how do you go > > about doing that? > > It looks like "xset s noblank" Type "xset" at the command line and it > will spit

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-17 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, will trillich wrote: > how do you establish screen-blanking preferences for text consoles, > when there's NO x installed at all? setterm is what you need. setterm -blank (and setterm -powersave) allow you to control this.

Re: modules

2001-01-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, is that not something like depmod does, but then better? You have my support! Greetz, Sebastiaan On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > over the last few days i've been wrestling with a lot of cryptic modules. and > so it would seem have others, judging by the list. > > how difficu

Re: Firewalls and IP Maskerade

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:41:43PM -0500, seg wrote: > Hi, > > Both my network cards were detected and both seem to be > working right. One of them has a local network address which > I assigned my self with the following command: ifconfig eth0 > 192.168.0.1. The other was configured as a cabl

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:59:34PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there is a speed/operating difference when compiling > kernel daemons like knfs static in the kernel or in modules. > Anyone know something about this? I think there is no measurable (is this spelled righ

DHCP and NFS instalation

2001-01-17 Thread Marcin Grzesiak
Hi, how to install Debian via NFS when local host is dynamicaly assigned IP address using DHCP/BOOTTP protocol? Marcin Grzesiak

Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:07:39PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > * On 16-01-01 at 07:28 kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > See the Debian FAQ. > > > >$ echo " hold" | dpgk --set-selections > > > > Cheers. > Is there a way to do this with apt-get (I do apt-get -u > upgrade

RE: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Joris Lambrecht
can't you just upgrade to the 2.4.0 kernel wich will probably have support built in for this card ... ? -Original Message- From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:21 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Aaaarrrhhh On Tue, Ja

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:59:34PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if there is a speed/operating difference when compiling > > kernel daemons like knfs static in the kernel or in modules. > > Anyone know something about this? > > I think there is no measurable (is t

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-17 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Matthew, On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:59:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently managed to set up Postfix, and get it to feed to the > Cyrus IMAP server. At the moment I'm using TkRat, but am finding it a > little restrictive. This isn't an MUA solution, but rather a whole mail s

Re: Making System Back-Ups

2001-01-17 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:26:48AM +0100, wrote: > (private reply) Respondee redacted, response to list. > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:51:36 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > >http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > > I´d slightly extend your script and think that that may b

MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i've got the MUA blues, badly, i'm feeling slightly depressed, let down and so on. I'm also freaking out on text-based mailclients (i know, i'm a wuzz) and can't find a reasonalby good X-MUA. Mutt, is to much of a hassle for me and lacks some feature. Pine seems like really good but darn i

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> i've got the MUA blues, badly, i'm feeling slightly depressed, let down and > so on. > I'm also freaking out on text-based mailclients (i know, i'm a wuzz) and > can't find a reasonalby good X-MUA. > Mutt, is to much of a hassle for me and lacks some feature. Pine seems like > really good but dar

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-17 Thread Brian May
> "Damon" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Damon> I use effectively this combination myself, and it works Damon> really well. My only dislike of the above is courier-imap. It insists that all folders appear below "INBOX" (eg. "INBOX.trash") which in turn looks messy and pre

Re: find???

2001-01-17 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Stephen Brooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone give any hints as to why find is running and what might be > starting it? It is probably run from the daily updatedb or checksecurity cron scripts. "ps fax" should show which. You can of course disable those scripts but then you lose som

RE: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Well, it does make it clear to me that i will have to embrace console base mua's sooner then i think. Don't wanna go back to Win2K, thought it is tempting. Still, how HARD can it be to write something decent ? That does not require knowledge of compiler's to install and so on. I pray some rogue ge

Re: /proc/partitions "blocks" ?

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Each block is 2 sectors, or 1024 bytes (1k) To convert #blocks to MB, just divide it by 1024. Example: 8001 blocks as shown in /proc/partitions would be 7.81 MB. Tom ktb wrote: > > I'm looking at the /proc/partitions file and it lists "block" sizes. > I've been looking on the web, archives, do

Re: Making System Back-Ups

2001-01-17 Thread Robert Waldner
(I hereby out myself as , the anonymization being pointless anyway, since Karsten hasn´t checked his References-Headers and they would reveal me anyway ;) ) On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:49:06 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > >on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:26:48AM +0100, wrote: >> (private reply) >

On bug reporting

2001-01-17 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I would like to know if there are guidelines for bug reporting: I use debian unstable, and I find bugs, but I don't report most of them for many reasons. I've never discussed these reasons with anyone. Now I would like to. I identified until now three kind of such unreported bugs: - Ev

Re: bin86

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
That error seems to get just about everyone when compiling a kernel the first time. If you look back in the debian-user archives far enough, you'll find me asking about it. The base system is only meant to get enough of a running system so that you can then go ahead and install the rest. It should

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Jonathan Gift
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > Well, it does make it clear to me that i will have to embrace console base > mua's sooner then i think. Don't wanna go back to Win2K, thought it is > tempting. Still, how HARD can it be to write something decent ? That does > not require knowledge of compiler's to install a

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:55:12 +0100 , Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Joris Lambrecht wrote: >> Well, it does make it clear to me that i will have to embrace console base >> mua's sooner then i think. [..] >I was in ypur position a little while back with a dual boot finally just >to use

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
apt-get install sylpheed On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:02:55 +0100 Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've got the MUA blues, badly, i'm feeling slightly depressed, let down and > so on. > I'm also freaking out on text-based mailclients (i know, i'm a wuzz) and > can't find a reasonalby

Re: nbd & modem

2001-01-17 Thread christophe barbe
nbd export only block devices and in my understanding modem (serial line) are char devices. Christophe On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:04:29 Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone ever use nbd (network block device) to remotely "mount" a > modem (which is supposedly to reside on a server)? Does it work on

RE: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Joris Lambrecht
very nice screenshots at the sylpheed page, i hope those kanji (japanese) characters are specific to the language and not to sylpheed :) http://sylpheed.good-day.net/index.cgi.en#screenshot -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednes

Re: On bug reporting

2001-01-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Enrico Zini wrote: >I would like to know if there are guidelines for bug reporting: I use >debian unstable, and I find bugs, but I don't report most of them for many >reasons. ... > - Evident bugs > > I work mainly offline, so I don't have constant access to > bugs.debian.org, an

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Dominique Rousset
> > > and so on and on and on > > > > tkmail, tkrat, tried it but didn't really got thrilled. > > > > Do i REALLY have to install kde to get something close to say outlook > > express (i know, i know, but it beats any linux mua i've seen) > > > > > > Suggestion PLEASE. I've been using ex

Re: Making System Back-Ups

2001-01-17 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:36:48AM +0100, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > (I hereby out myself as , the anonymization being pointless > anyway, since Karsten hasn´t checked his References-Headers and they > would reveal me anyway ;) ) I managed to reply on-list when meaning t

Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-17 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:12:08AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:07:39PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > * On 16-01-01 at 07:28 kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > > See the Debian FAQ. > > > > > >$ echo " hold" | dpgk --set-s

Apache, SSL, proxy, etc.

2001-01-17 Thread Ola Muan
Hello Debianers, I'm in the situation of being the only lucky person in our company with any knowledge of Linux. My skills aren't too high, though. That's why I would like to do some loud thinking about this case I'm working on, and hopefully I'll get som answers to my questions from anyone with

Looking for a driver for a sound card

2001-01-17 Thread Jim Lynch
I recently purchased a pci sound card for my system and haven't been able to make it work. I tried a generic Yamaha driver, based on things I read when I did a search, and when I try to insmod sb.o, I get a message saying Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o Device or resource busy Hint: this err

Re: latest wine config

2001-01-17 Thread Richard Black
thanks--that worked like a charm cheers Richard Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Richard Black ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all > > > > has anyone had any success with the latest wine version 2001011? When I > > run it I get: > > > > Can't open configuration file /home/rblack/.wine/config

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:37:17PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > > # Card 1: (serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e) > > > > # Vendor Id CSC6835, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xB6. > > > > # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.1 > >

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Jonathan Gift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Bowsers is my one complaint :). Ie is still betetr than anything on > >Linux. > > One word: Opera. I would tend to agree. Of them all, and I believe I've tried them all, Opera is light, good looking, and fast. he only problem is the beta and they still charge. Though

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread Casey Webster
often they will pe printed onto th card, or printed onto a sticker that is placed on the card or one of the chips on the card, it will be a in the form: 00:01:02:70:5E:B1 or possbile without the colons, but it will contain that many digits. The first 6 numbers (00:01:02) identify the vendor, and i

RE: Apache, SSL, proxy, etc.

2001-01-17 Thread Joris Lambrecht
http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/websphere/http-p Try this, gives you all you want i guess ... try it, nice and easy interface, i've learned apache the easy way and now understand a lot more about the httpd.conf file than by reading some boring book or other doc. -Original Message- From: O

RE: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread Joris Lambrecht
eh, won't it show when typing ifconfig with one or more options ? -Original Message- From: Casey Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:26 PM To: John Griffiths Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NIC identification often they will pe printed onto

curious: Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-17 Thread Xucaen
--- "David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first X session's display is :0 . You have > to tell 'startx' to start > a new X session, on a display other that :0. > For instance, > > startx -- :1 > > Would start a second X session, accessible by > CTRL+ALT+F8. You can also > embed an X

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mike wrote: > Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is > > what I've done so far: > > > > Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi > > support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically. >

Software to use the c6711 DSK for music

2001-01-17 Thread vgaines
Hi i would like to experiment with programming DSp processors for music. I was wondering if there exists sofware in the linux community which could be used to generate music using the Texis Intruments C6711: DESCRIPTION: The C6711 DSK replaces and is a superset of the C6211 DSK. The C6711 is bi

Re: curious: Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-17 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> > --- "David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The first X session's display is :0 . You have > > to tell 'startx' to start > > a new X session, on a display other that :0. > > For instance, > > > > startx -- :1 > > > > Would start a second X session, accessible by > > CTRL+ALT+F8. Y

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
>> somewhere) then search google for a MAC address >> to vendor converter and pop on the xx:xx:xx from >> the mac addr and it will give you the vendor of >>the card and then you can check thier website >> for the model number and >> try and figure out what driver to use > eh, won't it show when ty

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Monte Milanuk wrote: > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:37:17PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > > > # Card 1: (serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e) > > > > > # Vendor Id CSC6835, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xB6. > > > > > #

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what # I've done so far: # # Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi # support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically. # # 1. apt-get install cdrecord # 2

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Do i REALLY have to install kde to get something close to say outlook # express (i know, i know, but it beats any linux mua i've seen) No, you don't - not in my experience. Currently, for me, Sylpheed is in the "sweet spot". It has all the features

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread Cliff Sarginson
> To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Do i REALLY have to install kde to get something close to say outlook > # express (i know, i know, but it beats any linux mua i've seen) > > No, you don't - not in my experience. > > Currently, for me, Sylpheed is in the "sweet spot". It has all

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # > To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # > # Do i REALLY have to install kde to get something close to say outlook # > # express (i know, i know, but it beats any linux mua i've seen) # > # > No, you don't - not in my experience. # > # > Cu

RE: Firewalls and IP Maskerade

2001-01-17 Thread Serge Gibeau
Hey, I am able to access the internet from my linux box. I tried a few sites with lynx, and they all connected. My /etc/network/interface file has the following entry when I boot up, which is sufficient to properly configure my cable modem NIC as it seems. iface eth1 inet dhcp That /etc/

Get a FREE 2-Way Motorola Pager

2001-01-17 Thread NewPager32
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Re: curious: Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:05:14AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > is there a practicle reason for doing this? What > is the purpose? I'm not the original requester and I assume that he has a different/better reason but... I normally run X in at least 24 bpp (32 if the video card can do it at my preferred

Re: XFree86 3.3.6 / Linux 2.4.0 / Intel i810

2001-01-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi bejamin the XFCom_i810 driver will work with your older XFree86-3.3.x setup for linux-2.2.18 on the i810 chipsets ( onboard SVGA ? ) linux-2.4.0 fails to install the required agpgart.o for the server XFCom_i810 ... so no X11 on 2.4.0 ( yet ) - insmod complains about MAP_NR problem...

problems with imapd from potato

2001-01-17 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i've been having repeated problems with potato imap server (from the imap package). Sometimes, while you are working with your mail folders, the daemon just drops the connection. The relevant line from syslog: Jan 17 10:00:23 moon imapd[20791]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user=alf host=dns1.localn

Re: [OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I belive that creative's soundblasters are well supported under Linux. The bigger versions (they vary between $200-$800 I belive) have loads of input and output types and they deliver very good sound. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I am constructing a m

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
--- Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you still have them, why don't you try to see if those > OSS/commercial drivers > work together with Debian? > > I for one would be _very_ interested to know if that > works - it would probably be > cheaper to buy commercial drivers for th

Matrox + XF4 + 2.4

2001-01-17 Thread James Leigh
Morning, I have been trying to help my brother set up his new Matrox G450 under debian GNU/Linux. It is their unstable (woody) distro. I have search the web and everyone says it is easy just put this as your configure file..., but it is always the same XF86Config-4 file and it never works. I co

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works > >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the > >card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:y

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Oh, hell. I hate it when I have to retract a statement like this. Looks like I was _very_ wrong (big surprise there, huh?) about the OSS drivers. Either I didn't find this page before, or the info wasn't as _blatantly_ obvious as it is now (possibility). But, in any event, here it is: http://w

Re: Matrox + XF4 + 2.4

2001-01-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have been trying to help my brother set up his new > Matrox G450 under debian GNU/Linux. It is their > unstable (woody) distro. I have search the web and > everyone says it is easy just put this as your configure > file..., but it is always the same XF86Config-4 file and > it never works. I

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Pennington
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:17:25AM +, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:59:34PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I was wondering if there is a speed/operating difference when compiling > > > kernel daemons like knfs static in the kernel or in modules. > >

Re: DHCP and NFS instalation

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Pennington
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:02:02AM +0100, Marcin Grzesiak wrote: > Hi, > how to install Debian via NFS when local host is dynamicaly assigned > IP address using DHCP/BOOTTP protocol? > > Marcin Grzesiak Use the Potato installer, and make sure that when you `Configure Networking' you set it to u

Re: wvdial connects, but then ppp gets launched and crashes

2001-01-17 Thread Joerg Johannes
Well, if wvdial dials, and detects a promt, and sends "ppp", I'm pretty sure that the man has got the permission to dial out... no need to check all these things. In fact, I have no idea how to help here, because I have the same problem :-( So, any other suggestions? joerg Bart van Dommelen schri

Re: Making System Back-Ups

2001-01-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "is there a better backup solution" was the posters original question.. vs tape backup -- i think tape backups are too slow, too old and too cumbersome.. ( my opinion ) -- i think a backup system should be able to restore a suystem within 1hr of the disk "being erased/or s

Re: Matrox + XF4 + 2.4

2001-01-17 Thread Jon Pennington
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:11:36AM -0500, James Leigh wrote: > > Any success/failure stories would be helpful `:) > It's not complicated, but you /must/ follow directions. Get the 2.2.18-ide kernel image from /debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.2.18-i386/ on a Debian mirror. The actual packa

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-17 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:33:29PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: [snip] | If postfix supports .forward files, you'll need something like | | | maildrop -d $USER "| maildrop -d $USER" You need the quotes, otherwise the mail disappears. I'm not sure but you may also need 'exec' (probably not, it pro

RE: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread robin . c . smith
If you want to find the vendor of any piece of eletrical equipment and you can find the FCC code on it then go to http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ and type that number in. Works every time Robin -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2001 16:17 To: Jo

fetching source/recompiling all my packages

2001-01-17 Thread Andreas Boman
Does anybody have a nice little script that will download the source, recompile and reinstall all my installed packages? Thanks, Andreas

wterm and .Xdefaults

2001-01-17 Thread Jools Smyth
today i upgraded some packages (following stable/unstable) i think a new version of wterm was installed. problem is, it is no longer following my settings for wterm in my .Xdefaults file. any ideas? regards buzz

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:36:18AM -0800, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:17:25AM +, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:59:34PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I was wondering if there is a speed/operating difference when compilin

pine4

2001-01-17 Thread Michal Kolesar
Hello! I have potato and try to install pine4. I installed pine4-src and pine4-diffs and than continuing from /usr/src/pine4/README... and when I compiling i get error: cc -O2 -g -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -c -o os.o os.c os.c: In function `fget_pos': os.c:1122: conversion to non-scala

jdk-runtime from blackdown.org version 1.3 how to install ?

2001-01-17 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, is there a packaged version available somewhere or is there an easy way to install the needed files ? Thanks in advance Greetings Michael

Re: [OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:14:18PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I belive that creative's soundblasters are well supported under Linux. The > bigger versions (they vary between $200-$800 I belive) have loads of input > and output types and they deliver very good sound. before bying one of

Re: curious: Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Stults
Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all, curious here, > is there a practicle reason for doing this? What > is the purpose? > > xucaen > I am using win4lin to run mswindows applications (in fact, mswindows itself) from within linux. You can run the mswindows session in a window in X, or you can start a new X

Re: MUA Blues in X

2001-01-17 Thread mike polniak
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > i've got the MUA blues, badly, i'm feeling slightly depressed, let down and > so on. > I'm also freaking out on text-based mailclients (i know, i'm a wuzz) and > can't find a reasonalby good X-MUA. > Mutt, is to much of a hassle for me and lacks some feature. Pine seems lik

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Xucaen
--- Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > card. The card started dropping packets and > causing collisions under only 50% of what the > interface would have been capable of if it were > built-in to the kernel. > why? xucaen __ Do You Yaho

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-17 Thread csj
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 02:16, Bob Hilliard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... > > > > ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to > > happen, what would be the best

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd?

2001-01-17 Thread debuser
Actually, I think it's just a minor bug in apt-get. I see it too even though I'm not running hurd, it mentions hurd in brackets with the -s option. I've never worried about it, since it provides the need functionality - telling me what packages will be upgraded. On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Colin Watson w

Re: Looking for a driver for a sound card

2001-01-17 Thread mike polniak
Jim Lynch wrote: > I recently purchased a pci sound card for my system and haven't been > able to make it work. I tried a generic Yamaha driver, based on things > I read when I did a search, and when I try to > insmod sb.o, I get a message saying > > Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o Device or

Re: pine4

2001-01-17 Thread W. Paul Mills
Did you unpack the source with "dpkg-buildpackage" and them build with "debian/rules binary" from the "pine4-4.21" directory? Michal Kolesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hello! : I have potato and try to install pine4. : I installed pine4-src and pine4-diffs and than : continuing from /usr/src/

Re: Fwd: video card suggestions

2001-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
The display comes up in the lowest resolution, but the "virtual" size is that of the highest resolution. You can switch resolutions with ctrl-alt- or ctrl-alt-. I typically edit the line to show the highest supported resolution, since I don't find myself using the lower ones. You can also edit t

Good NIC selection?

2001-01-17 Thread DSC Lithuania
Hi,       We have a windows network and I'm trying to set up a Linux intranet email-server.        Right now, we have in the computer a COMPEX RL2000A-PnP card.  Since there are no jumpers or switches, I think that it is probably automatically Plug-N-Play, which may be a problem.  But may

Re: fetching source/recompiling all my packages

2001-01-17 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:58:03PM -0500, Andreas Boman wrote: > Does anybody have a nice little script that will download the source, > recompile and reinstall all my installed packages? > apt-get won't work? kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:38:49 +0100 Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monte Milanuk wrote: > > If you still have them, why don't you try to see if those OSS/commercial > drivers > work together with Debian? > > I for one would be _very_ interested to know if that works - it woul

Mutt and viewing attachments simultaneously

2001-01-17 Thread Neil Booth
When I run Mutt and I receive a mail with 3 attachments, I see something like: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] [blah blah blah] [-- Attachment #2: test-cpp-if-2.patch --] [-- Type: text/x-patch, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.8K --] [-- text/x-patc

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