Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > I don't know how to tell init where to find the swap. Perhaps > > /etc/inittab tells? > > I was thinking of going back into the installation program and telling it > I wanted to use this partition as a swap space after a

Re: kde2 is running 1600x1200

2001-07-22 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:46:48AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi my debian gnu/linux 2.2 potato > uses kde2 only with 1600x1200 display. > everything is small and bad to read, > so i would like to change solution to 1024x768, but how can i do that? Not kde2 runs only with 1600x1200 resol

Re: reinstall exim as daemon from inetd configuration

2001-07-22 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:13:26AM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > is there a command that will reconfigure exim to run as a daemon instead > of from inetd? Take a look at /usr/share/doc/exim/README.Debian.gz: --> README.Debian.gz <-- exim for DEBIAN --- Exim will install by

Re: viewer

2001-07-22 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:14:32AM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi guys > does anyone know which program i can use to > view > pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? > thank you for helping > markus e.g. gs, gv, xpdf will do the job Try 'apt-cache search viewer' jops,

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

2001-07-22 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:27:48PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > Thank you for your help, but one last question: > the solution of my display is now 1024x768, but the > desktop has still 1600x1200, so it scrolls while using it, how can i > stop > that? > thank you for helping me! > markus A

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:16:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > > I think I am two questions away from getting this to work: > > * What script is run when the connection to the ISP completes? > > * How do I know, in that script, what my assigned IP is? Actually you co

Re: Reading a mac disk

2001-08-13 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:32:41PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my > x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a > Windows system too, but that looks harder). > > Do I have a prayer? :}

Re: Sound problems - newbie

2002-05-24 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Hi Glen, If adding yourself to the audio group doesn't solve the problem, try it the hard way: as root do chmod 777 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer Hope this helps! Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions for a USB Webcam

2002-05-25 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Hi David, I'm looking into getting a USB Webcam I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro ($85) which I use with gnomemeeting and with which I am quite happy. Getting the driver for it was easy... it comes with the Debian stock kernel. Getting usb to work and setting up /dev/video was more of a pain,