CD-writing with IDE CD-RW

1999-06-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
0 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '/dev/hdd' devname: '/dev/hdd' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 cdrecord: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open SCSI driver. Has anyone any idea what I've done wrong? Thanks in advance, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [everything is plastic and we're all going to die]

Enlightenment's mini-desktop windows

1999-06-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
emove them? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [everything is plastic and we're all going to die]

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ur root partition - don't make things like your default HD interface (IDE, SCSI) into modules - but do so for most other things, like PPP and parallel port interfaces and so on. > What is the maximum size of the kernel? Is possible to increase this size? No idea, and I doubt it. Isn't it

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:25:55AM -0700, Ecotech Technologies, L.L.C. wrote: [spam] isn't there some way of stopping this spam? can't posting ability be restricted to those who subscribe to the list? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

su problems with xdm

1999-06-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
d to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 This doesn't occur if I use startx as alisdair, and then su, or login from xdm as root. Why is this happening and how can I fix it? Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: su problems with xdm

1999-06-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:58:36PM -0400, Jason Willoughby wrote: > > Yeah, xdm is more paranoid than startx. You can disable access controls > by running, as alisdair, "xhost +". Check the man page for more info. great, thanks! -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear agai

System beep

1999-06-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Is there any way of intercepting the horrible PC case beep and sending a nice sample to /dev/dsp instead? I really hate the grunt my case generates on tab completion in bash and so on. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

vim printing stuff on startup

1999-06-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
done or it a known bug? tia, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
, though, not $HOME/SO5.1/ or whatever it suggests. > 4. hda1 should be /, but how about the rest? home var swap usr as 2 3 > 4 5? Extended partitions. (5, 6, 7, 8). > Just trying to learn here. So am I :) -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
on of Linux awhile ago which could be called UNIX, but that could be a crossed neuron path in my brain or something. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [why?]

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
all FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't > > selling it. > > I don't think that's anything to do with it. I apologise for quite probably entirely missing the point of your post, John. I plead temporary (yeah, right) insanity. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [because]

ide-scsi module

1999-06-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
the kernel. Why? -- alisdair mcdiarmidwww.letdown.demon.co.uk [cRusHed liKe a buG in tHe gRounD]

xfstt

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
onts). Still, though, xfontsel doesn't show any of the TrueType fonts and my customised xdm (which uses Arial) defaults to courier. What have I missed out? It did work previously. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

BST date

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
My current date is set to Thu Jun 10 12:52:05 GMT 1999, but the actual time is 13:52:05 BST. How do I set BST? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Navigator 4.08

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm using Navigator 4.08 quite happily, but the icons in the toolbar are all monochrome. Can I make Netscape show them in lots of pretty colours instead? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

"ipacset not run?"

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ed running ipacset and it complains that: /usr/sbin/ipacset: cant read "/proc/net/ip_acct" - exit so I don't know what to do now.) Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: BST date

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:35:18PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-06-10 12:52, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > My current date is set to Thu Jun 10 12:52:05 GMT 1999, but the > > actual time is 13:52:05 BST. How do I set BST? > > Ops, I answered another questio

Re: BST date

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:40:50PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:35:18PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 1999-06-10 12:52, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > > My current date is set to Thu Jun 10 12:52:05 GMT 1999, but the > > >

Re: xfstt

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: xfstt

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 06:07:41PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > > > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? > > > > Where in my

Re: Navigator 4.08

1999-06-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 01:22:12PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:37:18PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I'm using Navigator 4.08 quite happily, but the icons in the > > toolbar are all monochrome. Can I make Netscape show them in lots > >

ipacset

1999-06-11 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
L PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/fetchipac: Cant read "/var/run/ip-accounting-rules" - ipacset not run? Please help or I'll go mad. TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: ipacset

1999-06-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:30:53PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: ipacset > Date: Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:16:10PM +0100 > > In reply to:Alisdair McDiarmid > > Quoting Alisdair McDiarmid([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Cron continues to mail me every si

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 11:38:28PM +0900, Tadayoshi Ohkuma wrote: > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* > > > files. > > > > use zgrep, zmore or zless, or use an editor like vim which can &

Re: A simple weird question

1999-06-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 12:40:55PM -0300, Tacio AGSantos wrote: > So the simple question is: How is "Debian" pronounced? debb-ee-ann: it's from Deborah and Ian, the names of two people. hth, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

[OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration

1999-06-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I heard that there are OpenGL drivers for the Matrox Millennium G200 available for Linux, but I've looked on www.matrox.com and everywhere else I can think of, and I can't find them anywhere. Does anyone know where they are? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't b

Configuring exim

1999-06-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ke to configure exim to not receive mail from Demon's servers. I can't work out how to do this from the exim docs - can anyone help? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

ip-up scripts not running

1999-06-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
mail from ip-up only if it's not running already? TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: Configuring exim

1999-06-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 12:13:56AM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:33:54PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I'm using Demon Internet as my ISP, as you can probably guess. > > Demon automatically sends email via SMTP if the port is open (as > > far

Backup and reformat

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
just restore the archives from CD? Is there a better way to do this? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
r IDE CDR as a SCSI one'. Would someone please point out some relevant documentation? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:54:52AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > I'm trying (again) to make my IDE CD-RW work. > > Have you done this this way successfully before? Something along these lines, yes. > On 2.0.x kernels, the SCS

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
k=32 [Sorry to put all this in, I didn't want to miss out something important.] Any idea what to try now? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [it looks like we might have made it we might have made it to the end]

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 03:11:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw > > > > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > &g

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all the time. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [it looks like we might have made it we might have made it to the end]

Re: Potato Gnome upgrade non-happening?

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
s on the ftp site. -- alisdair mcdiarmid `nothing i say is absolute. i just make it sound that way :)'

Re: vim config question

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:57:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Is there anyway to configure vim to have a status bar just like in emacs?? :set laststatus=2 :set showmode -- alisdair mcdiarmid `nothing i say is absolute. i just make it sound that way :)'

Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
n similar to this in the kernel options. -- alisdair mcdiarmid `nothing i say is absolute. i just make it sound that way :)'

ppp problem

1999-06-29 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ent/c] $ cat /etc/ppp/peers/green cat: /etc/ppp/peers/green: Permission denied this is just a test example: i'm trying to get pon to work normally. alisdair is a member of group dip, but why on earth is the above happening? tia, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [your home

Connection to localhost:25 refused

1999-07-01 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
mail via SMTP either. I've checked /etc/exim.conf for anything obvious but I can't see anything blocking connections. Can anyone help me please? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [your home may be at risk if you do not keep up repayments on your loan. any and all advice given is strictly confidential]

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ttle Clue to correctly compose and format an email or news message, they are unlikely to be able to communicate anything useful. > > I have yet to see a program on any operating system that comes > > close to the power of gnus. > > Which also starts you off at the top. I wouldn&#

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
> starts off at the top). > > How can you live without the wellspring of informed and reasoned > discussion that is Usenet?! I sort of gave up Usenet when I got a Real Life. Sad, but I've just not got any time to read flame wars on comp.sys.acorn.* anymore. I do have slrn ins

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
g going IDE/IDE (Creative x32 CD-ROM and HP 8100i CD-RW) - the IDE CD-ROM drive is useless, really, and the CD-RW takes a lot of CPU time. > Would an IDE CD-RW be easily used in Debian? My HP 8100i works well. Or it did until I forgot which kernel options to use. -- alisdair mcdiarmid

CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ny idea how to get it working? I swear if it works this time I'll write it down and stick it on my wall. TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]

Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
odules.conf is, this should work! > THIS IS ALL FROM MEMORY. I'm not at my linux box right now. > If it doesn't work let me know, and I'll write down my setup > (which is the same as what you're trying to do) and send it to you. this would be great, thanks. thanks for yo

Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:48:20AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 15 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: CD-RW woes. > Again." > > > > right. well, it seems that if i can work out what modules.conf > > is, > > this should work! > > > &g

problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
s to work every time. has anyone any idea why this won't work? tia, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:40:47AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > xnetload -geometry 200x4

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:45:12PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > >

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Thanks to all for your help! Tata, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]

Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/

1999-07-17 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 04:39:13AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > So changing xnetload to /usr/X11R6/bin/xnetload worked, and now > > xnetload loads on ppp up. > > well, looking into /etc/ppp/ip-up: > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin

Re: need help adding entry to sources.list

1999-07-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
care to enlighten me? Pointing to documentation would be sufficient. my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free hth, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wordperfect problems

1999-07-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:25:53PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > However it does not run, I go through the installation stuff (the text > version, since the graphic version won't load) You need to install xpm4.7 from oldlibs. That should fix the problem. -- alisdai

KIllustrator 0.70

1999-08-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I really know nothing about C++ (C is my favoured language) so I don't know what the problem with `export' is. Has anyone got any idea what the problem might be, and how to fix it? Alternatively, is there a similar or better drawing package available? TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [it's all done, everything is finished. so can i die now? please?]

Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink

1999-08-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
evices to start from 0 instead of 1 (more logical to computers and geeks). HTH, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [life is like a box of biscuits - yum, crunchy and full of crumbs]

Problems with X

1999-08-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ve tried reinstalling xdm and cleaning out all the configuration files, deleting XF86Config and starting again, and still these two problems persist. Has anyone got any idea how to fix this? TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

Re: re deltree

1999-08-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
la deltree, IIRC). -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

Re: Problems with X

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:50:07AM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've been fiddling with my XF86Config file to get the GLX module > working properly, and I've obviously broken something, somewhere. > I'm not sure if it's in the configuration file, but now X r

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ing - that way you'll get the graphical install, and Wordperfect should work okay. It's a bit of a dire wordprocessor though, anyway. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

apt-get upgrade list of downloads

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
l disk. The apt-get upgrade -u command lists the packages which are to be downloaded, but not the URLs (or anything from which I can easily determine the URLs). Does anyone know of a way to get a list of URLs to packages from apt? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you

Re: Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
k. > I understand Xfree86 has got much better however. AX supports > many more cards, it's money well spent! I might be interested in buying it if it's significantly faster, I suppose, but is it? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

vim syntax files

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
wrong, but where else can I put these syntax settings? I'm sure I didn't concede to overwriting these files on install, and I don't want to lose the settings next time I upgrade. Where else should they go? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some

Eterm delete key

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
might be broken. What could it be and how best should I fix it? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

Re: vim config bug in potato

1999-08-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
e path should be /usr/share/vim/vim54/syntax/c.vim. This means that the $VIM variable is set incorrectly. I don't know where this is set, but you can probably work around it by doing export $VIM=/usr/share/vim/vim54 in your .bashrc or something. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAI

[OT] Best sound card for Linux

1999-08-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
6 ISA card and it has performed well since then. Unfortunately, this model's not available anymore as far as I can tell. Has anyone got a card they're happy with? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [if you see some guy spit on me knock him on the side of the head]

emusic

1999-06-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
window appears. If I use a filename of an mp3 as an input to the command `emusic', the file is played, but still no window appears. Am I doing something incredibly stupid, is emusic broken or am I just asking in the wrong place? -- alisdair mcdiarmid www.letdown.demon.co.u

Slow TNT2?

1999-10-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
eally. Is there a newer, faster X server or have I just bought the wrong graphics card? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] []

Re: Slow TNT2?

1999-10-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Ingles, Raymond wrote: > > From: Alisdair McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > > I've got a PIII/450, 128MB, Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 system here > > running potato current and it's quite slow in X. Dragging windows &

Re: Slow TNT2?

1999-10-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
0fps > > on timedemos now. > > Where might these G200 GLX drivers be found at? Um, try glx.on.openprojects.net. Follow the Download link. > And more importantly: will it work out of the box with my stock > slink (2.1r3, actually) install? Possibly - y

cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
2 GMT, and so doesn't work how I'd expect. I'd rather not have to change my crontab when we swap between BST and GMT here: is there a way of making cron take notice of the timezone? Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > > > I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in

Apache and SSI

1999-10-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
.shtml Options +Includes Yet nothing happens when I load any .shtml files - they just aren't processed. Why? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ http://wasters.org/]

Re: Apache and SSI

1999-10-31 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
[Reformatted] On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 12:53:02PM -0800, aphro wrote: > > > I've been trying forever to get Apache to work with SSI and I just > > can't. > > you may also have to add access to type "Includes" to access.conf. Yep, this was the pro

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
enlightenment enlightenment-theme-bluesteel works fine for me. -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ http://wasters.org/]

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
t be sure (the only line is DEFAULT ACCEPT). what could it possibly be? (i have RTFM and FAQ and HOWTO and they don't help). thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [everything that matters has gone http://wasters.org/]

Re: Moving the iconbox in Enlightenment 0.16-1

1999-11-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:01:20PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: > How do I move the Icon box? Hold down alt and drag. You can do this with any window in enlightenment, it's really handy.

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:55:30AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:57:59PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > > > i've got a printer set up on skinny, which prints locally fine. > > the printcap on letdown is: > > > > lp|hplj|HP La

Printing with a Laserjet 1100

1999-11-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've got a Laserjet 1100 here, and under Windows it prints things like photos and other such dithery stuff wonderfully, with barely a trace of dottiness. While magicfilter does a good enough job for text, its graphics performance is shocking. It's like it's doing it at 150dpi. I'm stuck with the L

486 and printing

1999-11-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
RINTER_READBACK=y What could be wrong? Might the parallel port be broken? Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]

Re: 486 and printing

1999-11-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:22:04PM -0800, aphro wrote: > > try going to /dev and typing ./MAKEDEV lp > > that should make the lp devices. tried that already. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]

Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment

1999-11-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
audio group. 'adduser audio' should get you past > the above problem. I think you mean `addgroup audio'. And check that /dev/dsp has group `audio' too. > You might have to restart X to get the group > noticed, use the 'id' command to check that the current s

Large disks

1999-11-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
/home partition. How can I do this? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]

Re: Large disks

1999-11-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ou knew about the limitation and acted accordingly, I would say [snip] The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB: there's no free space left at the end of the drive. Why's that? Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Re: Recording audio...

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
s? I think the package you're looking for is sound-recorder. Actually, I want to be able to record /dev/dsp output and mp3 it straight away - mp3ing from the radio - but I can't find a way to do it. Can anyone help? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how

ALSA modules have unresolved symbols

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
thing else into the kernel, or is something more important wrong? Thanks in advance for your help, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Writing to multiple CD-Rs

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
mply dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/var/cdimage.iso to read a data CD? If this is an inappropriate forum to ask this question, I apologise and ask that you point me to somewhere else I may get an answer. Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
/mypanel: #!/bin/sh sleep 5 panel & and it now works fine for me. This may be a bug, I'm not sure. Apparently it's an enlightenment problem rather than a gnome-panel one, though. HTH, HAND, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Re: screen capture

1999-11-19 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular por­ tion of the screen. Use display (see display(1)) for redisplay, printing, editing, formatting, archiving, image processing, etc. of the captured image. HTH, HAND, -- alis

Netatalk works/doesn't work

1999-11-20 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
esn't have this problem, boots up cleanly and is seen in Chooser. What could be causing this problem? I don't even understand the error message, nevermind how to fix it. TIA, -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]

Re: Netatalk works/doesn't work

1999-11-21 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 05:30:11PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 20/11/99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > >Starting Appletalk Daemons (this will take a while):socket: Invalid argument > >socket: Invalid argument > >atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting. > >atalk

exim configuration

1999-11-27 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
1rpjY-0003lF-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] D=procmail defer (-1): file existence defer in procmail director: Permission denied I'm not (intentionally) using procmail - I've no idea why this is happening. Is this a bug? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how ever

LaserJet 1100

2000-04-24 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
ljet4l magicfilter. Is there any way of improving the quality of the output? Has anyone got their LaserJet running in high quality mode? Thanks in advance, -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/lib gone

2000-04-24 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
n shown packages once > more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro. Um, all the dpkg database is stored in /var/lib, so that won't work. Probably. -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT?] Hard disk dying?

2000-06-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
m, but I'm still getting the occasional error like above. I've tried turning DMA off, but the errors are just about the same. Does this mean I have a faulty disk? How can I test if the disk is faulty or if it's something else? -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Colour changes in Netscape/Motif

2000-02-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Motif's 3D colours. Is there documentation on this anywhere? Has anyone managed it? -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Colour changes in Netscape/Motif

2000-02-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
akes it look somewhat similar to the CoolIce GTK+ theme, my current favourite. Have a look at editres, it's a great program :-) HTH, -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
them fail to work: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /home/alisdair/public_html/test.php3 on line 4 Why isn't it working? Do I have to recompile PHP3 with MySQL support builtin? -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package compilation madness

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
old' | dpkg --set-selections -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] `It would be unbelievable, because I just wouldn't believe it.' -- Pat Prosser on solving NP-hard problems in polynomial time

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > I'm trying to get PHP3 and MySQL to play nice, but they refuse. I want > > to load the mysql.so extension, so in the /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-10 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 02:05:16PM +, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > > > > I'm trying to get

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