Re: Thermal Monitor & automatic shutdown on over temperature event

2007-03-09 Thread David A.
Hi all, I have similar worries since I run a fanless EPIA. If load gets to high and I'm not at home, or asleep I want the system to shut down. I wrote this small script using sensors to detect and warn high temps. At very high temps execute shutdown. A wall-message and a 30 sek timeout is good if

Exim4, GMail TLS error?

2007-07-12 Thread David A.
Hi all, I've been trying to forward mail from my SID box to my GMail box. I've followed http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 and actually successfully managed to get some mails through! However then I ran into problems, Exim now says: "A TLS packet with unexpected length was received." when exim t

new drive = new install?

2007-08-24 Thread David A.
Hi, I've bought a samsung solid state drive, 8gb, to replace my HD in my "silent home server". What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive and "copy everything" from the old one? As I said, small home server

(solved) Re: new drive = new install?

2007-08-29 Thread David A.
> > What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to > > another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive > > and "copy everything" from the old one? > > Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available, > one being

Re: Disk access.

2007-10-05 Thread David A.
> How I can find what processes access harddisk frequently, periodically > from ~20sec to ~20sec ? I did go to some extent to spin down my disk, here are som e info; What file system are you using? "Journaling filesystems like ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms. Th

rkhunter, changed files = problems?

2007-10-08 Thread David A.
Hello, starting oct. 2nd rkhunter has started to log warings about changed files. At first i thought "ok" it's probably because I usualy do a "aptitude full-upgrade" once every day or so, running SID, i386. But now I'm not so sure... Can anyone help me veirfy this as a false positive or a real pr

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread David A.
Jeff Zhang wrote: > The BTS of shorewall has a little long time between responses to bugs > report and 3.0.7 is also very lag of official stable version(3.2.4). > Does anybody maintain it? I like shorewall. But I too am worried by to big lag. I don't want to run an out-of-date firewall. Is there

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-23 Thread David A.
I look here when I compile my own kernel: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ /David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-28 Thread David A.
> > If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. > That's 2.0-beta2, which the add-on I'm trying refuses to install on. I'm also intrested in FF2 since it is officially released now. Is there an ETA into Debian? It would be too bad if political/license stuff prevents "normal/unstable users" to move

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-06 Thread David A.
> ...Very intelligent > and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around > here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty bickering. Well, some people like synaptic or pure apt-get, others worship aptitude.. it's all about what attitude you have.. Oh - attitude... I read ap

firefox / Xorg memory usage / swap

2006-11-13 Thread David A.
Hi, sometimes when I have many tabs open in firefox (10-15 or so) the system begins to swap and become virtually unresponsive. If I'm quick I can kill firefox. Below is a snapshot from top while swapping. As you can see Xorg is the heavy Mem-consumer. My questions; 1) why does Xorg consume much

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread David A.
Hello, since spring I run Debian on a EPIA PD-6000E, a complete fanless system. Noise is a big issue since it's running in my bedroom. I use "noflushd -n 5" to spin down hd, noflushd is "aptable". I also use ext2. "man syslog.conf" - there are some options here to sinlence syslogd. "man syslogd"

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-17 Thread David A.
I realy want a quiet PC in my bedroom. My experience is that journaling file systems generate mor disc activity than ext2 for example. I run ext2 and noflushd and it works rather OK. Logfiles spin it up say once every hour. I believe demand for "quiet pc's" is raising, and minimising disc activity

Silence syslog (noflushd & dhclient)

2005-08-18 Thread David A.
Hello, this is my first post here. I use Debian unstable on my fanless VIA EPIA home workstation. Noise is a big deal for me, so I use noflushd to spin down the HD. However log-messages spin it up, especially dhclient. I have tried adding "-" chars in /etc/syslog.conf but it keeps spinning up. Wh

kernel 2.6.13.1 make: *** [deb-pkg] Error 2

2005-09-18 Thread David A.
Hi, I've downloaded 2.6.13.1 kernel, successfully run "make all". But when I run "sudo make deb-pgk" i get; ... INSTALL net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko INSTALL sound/core/snd-rtctimer.ko if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/d

updade process, bzflag

2005-10-17 Thread David A.
Hello, I'm rather new to debian, I wonder how the package update process works. I run update && upgrade once a day - works great. Unstable feels stable enough for me. Now I've found that bzflag is updated - cool. I've looked here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzflag.html OK - so it is updated

Re: VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP: Can't get better than 800x600

2005-12-06 Thread David A.
Hi, I've had some problems too but with the right configure it will work. I run unstable and xorg. I use a kernel with via-module/driver enabled - I do not know if this is a requierment. Snipps from kernel config; -- CONFIG_DRM_VIA

Re: centericq and sarge

2005-12-06 Thread David A.
I use centericq on unstable. I know MSN protocol has changed recently. And althogh I am online on MSN I see no MSN-contacts online - eve thogh I know they are online... :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgraded to testing, broke X, can't open /dev/input/mice

2005-12-07 Thread David A.
This works for me in unstable/xorg, snipps from xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" #Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" Option "ZAxisMapping

Help! FATAL: kernel too old

2003-09-16 Thread David A. Greene
Hi folks, I think I have a hosed machine but maybe someone here is smart enough to recover it. I dusted off an old 2.0.x machine and decided to upgrade its Debian install (I believe it was running pre-potato install). Anyway, the first thing I did was upgrade libc6, libstdc++ and apt to the woody

Re: exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread David A. Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > David A. Rogers wrote: > >Yes your machine could send mail directly. > > > how! that was my question. even after reading the nag chapters, i am > unable to handle this! I always use a smart host, so I'm not the best one t

Re: booting to console

2002-10-21 Thread David A. Rogers
Try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to another console session. Then apt-get remove xdm - or try to get it installed correctly. dar On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Phil Reardon wrote: > How can I boot to the console? I am stuck in a loop at the graphical login > screen due to a faulty XF86Config file (I think!) > > P

RE: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-21 Thread David A. Rogers
I did a quick check on the xfree86 site. It doesn't look like the intense3d is supported. The one thing you can do to make sure that installing Linux is easy is to make sure all your hardware is fully supported. dar On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Price, Erik wrote: > > > > -Original Message- >

Re: exim configuration

2002-10-21 Thread David A. Rogers
For future reference read the Linux Network Administrator's Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html for everything you wanted to know about how Linux/Unix OSs look at email. For this time though - Yes your machine could send mail directly. In that case, you wouldn't need a smarthost. B

[Fwd: Returned mail: Insufficient permission: Error 0]

1998-05-24 Thread David A. Bandel
I believe the original post came from debian-user. Not sure wha' 'appened at Chris' end. David A. Bandel -- MS free and proud to be!--- Begin Message --- The original message was received at Mon, 25 May 1998 01:58:54 +1000 from gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au [203.17.189.194

Re: X-Windows and PPPD

1998-05-25 Thread David A. Bandel
mouse are using different IRQs. ttyS0/ttyS2 and ttyS1/ttyS3 share IRQs. Since you only have this problem with X (which activates the mouse) you probably have IRQ contention somewhere. Try installing GPM so you can use the mouse in a virtual terminal. If the problem reproduces itself there as

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-26 Thread David A. Bandel
SUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same trouble some time back. Take a look at /etc/init.d/xdm. Mine was 0 bytes and xdm.dpkg-new hadn't properly replaced it. David A. Bandel -- MS free and pro

Two Questions

1998-12-20 Thread David A. Lee
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gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-22 Thread David A. Cobb
erent generations of compiler. One, maybe two, but not this fiasco. Where can I go to get the missing libs?? [ backports is also no help in this ]. Anyway, why is gcc-3.2 on the download site so incomplete? I also couldn't get 3.3 up and flying for very similar reasons - key libs miss

Re: gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-22 Thread David A. Cobb
Windows weren't such a piece of crap I would have about run out of patience and chucked the Linux install altogether. On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:19, David A. Cobb wrote: After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before an "upgrade" make my whole insta

Re: gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-27 Thread David A. Cobb
Alexander Sack wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:19, David A. Cobb wrote: After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before an "upgrade" make my whole installation useless and sent me back to the CD's ), it appears that I nee

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-05-29 Thread David A. Patterson
, but the installer didn't recognize the card, so I was forced to install Debian to the old drive. Then, the installer installed a kernel that _did_ recognize the PCI controller, so now that Debian is installed to the wrong place I am able to partition and use the drive where I wanted Debian to

postings disappearing..

2005-05-29 Thread David A. Patterson
Oh. They're posted. At least to the archive on line. I just don't get them back. -- Regards, Dave Q: What is the difference between a duck? A: One leg is both the same. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Posting to the list ver 3

2005-05-29 Thread David A. Patterson
I'm not seeing the response come back from the list of my own mail to it, but I don't know if anybody else can see it either. Check of the list online at lists.debian.org shows that it's hitting the archive. Will somebody please respond so I know this thing is working? -- Regards, Dave Your best

Available printers

2005-06-21 Thread David A. Cobb
everything was working fine until one of my frequent aptitude--upgrade runs included the cupsys packages. Meanwhile, this has convinced my wife that I only installed Linux to annoy her. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian

Re: color ls

1996-08-01 Thread David A. Morris
I have the same problem. I to have upgraded some packages, but I can't remember which ones. I will try to look at my list and try to remember which ones I did just before I noticed it. Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >Something has happened to stop ls giving color output. I used

Does debian install sendmail?

2000-09-25 Thread David A. Rogers
What mail sending app does debian use by default? I've been using redhat and mandrake, but am thinking about changing over to debian. I use Linux on my home machine. I use ppp to connect to my isp, so I like to masquerade my address as my address on the isp. redhat uses sendmail by default. Th

Partition question

2000-09-27 Thread David A. Rogers
I've been using Mandrake, but want to try using Debian. Mandrake puts the kernel in /boot. So it was nice to make /boot one partition and / in another. I tried installing 2.2 but couldn't figure out how to make the installer do that. Any suggestions? dar -- Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus (

Problems installing X

2000-10-02 Thread David A. Rogers
I had problems installing X, and as I am new to Debian - though not Linux, I'd like to know if it was something I did or whether the Debian setup is not right. I previously installed 2.2 from a 2 CD set. Then I ran XF86Setup. When I chose the Diamond V770 (TNT2) from the hardware list, it told m

Re: (1) xdvi (2) ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 & Xfree86-v4.0.1

2000-10-06 Thread David A. Rogers
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote: Well, don't be shy. Share the answer please. dar > Hello, > > Ignore my previous message. I think I have found it > > Greetings, > > Stefan > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:46:05PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Interesting. I will

Re: abiword - new version?

2000-10-10 Thread David A. Rogers
Check www.abisource.com. That's home for abiword. Looks like the latest version is 0.7.11. dar On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I'm sure I read about 4-6 weeks ago that a new version of abiword was > being released. But I can't find it. Anyone know the story? > > Running 0.7.

Re: Xvidtune

2000-10-11 Thread David A. Rogers
By default, the current directory is NOT one of the places that the system will look for an executable. Try giving it a complete pathname /something/somthing/Xvidtune. Or cd to the directory and enter ./Xvidtune. That specifies that the executable is in the current directory. cheers, dar On We

Re: suggestions for buying a printer

2000-10-12 Thread David A. Rogers
Lots of useful information at www.linuxprinting.org. dar On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Alfredo Solano Martinez wrote: > Greetings, > > I want to buy a laser printer, and I have no idea of this field, maybe > somenone can help. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- Against stupidity, the gods themse

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread David A. Rogers
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeff Howie wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Nate Bargmann, > > > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: > > > set editor=/usr/bin/vim > > > > You may also want to include the contents of > > /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your

Re: need quick pointer for sound config

2000-10-16 Thread David A. Rogers
Does compiling the driver into the kernel work? I thought all the Crystal sound chips were PlugNPlay. dar On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know what it is, but I've never goten these cards to work on > Debian when built as modules (even when they worked with the

What documentation and what order

2000-10-16 Thread David A. Rogers
I've used Unix and other Linuxes for some time now, but I am just starting to use Debian. What documents should I read and in which order to get up do speed on how Debian does things? Would it be better to read a book? If so, which one? I particular, I am interested in: - Setting up X. - Settin

Re: What documentation and what order

2000-10-17 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Snowfox wrote: > > David - > > You're asking a million questions at once. Your best answer is to dig > in and start doing things. This sort of disconnected learning is only useful and fun if you are young and have no other obligations. Once you have a wife, kids, and a y

where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-23 Thread David A. Rogers
I have just inherited an old Thinkpad 365xd which I think has a DSTN display. From searching the net, it looks like only xfree86 3.2 works with that display. Does anyone know where I can find a .deb of 3.2? Thanks, dar -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Schiller

Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?

2000-10-23 Thread David A. Rogers
2000, Jim Crumley wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:08:07PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:01:49 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) > > From: "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: where is old (3.2) Xfree86? &

Re: Mouse not working in X -- still

2000-10-24 Thread David A. Rogers
It is either a PS/2 mouse or a bus mouse. It can't be both. Unless it's a raly old mouse it is not a bus mouse. You probably have a PS/2 mouse. Look at the connector. Is it round or oval. How many pins on it. Look at the bottom of the mouse. What does it say (manufacturer, model)? How

Re: Where and how to save Alias at?

2000-10-27 Thread David A. Rogers
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to set up an alias for shutdown -h now and worked fine. When I > rebooted it was gone. Is this a one time thing each session or can I save > my alaises to a file for all sessions? You add aliases to the .bashrc file in your home director

KDE2 for potato availability

2000-11-02 Thread David A. Rogers
I keep seeing messages pointing people to kde.tdyc.com. When I first read the announcement of KDE2 availability here http://dot.kde.org/972331966/ it had ftp sites for both potato and woody debs for kde. Potato: http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.0/distribution/deb/Debian/dists/potato/ Woody: http://ftp

Windowmaker and sound

2000-11-15 Thread David A. Rogers
Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I know earlier versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago and wmsound seems to be dead. If it does sound now, how do you set it up? Thanks, dar

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze > mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS' > at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or > Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in > my case).

Re: Does the stock kernel support VESA Framebuffers?

2000-11-30 Thread David A. Rogers
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with Debian. I've got X > running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the howto's I've > read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the FBdev > xserver... which requires that I

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64: potato package update wrecked sound

2000-11-30 Thread David A. Rogers
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Berthold Cogel wrote: > Hello! > > I had a working sound configuration until last weekend with Debian 2.2, > Kernel 2.2.17 and Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold. > Then I decided to update my system from potato-stable (about 32 > packages/25 MB). Since the next reboot the module sb wan

Connection speed

2000-12-07 Thread David A. Rogers
After pon does its thing, is there a way to see how fast my connection is? dar

Re: no modules after kernel recompile

2000-12-08 Thread David A. Rogers
Ah! What you have there is a gotcha in the current Debian kernel-building documentation. Most dists put a .config in the linux directory that reflects the options used to build the distributed kernel. Debian doesn't. However, you can get it from /boot/config-2.2.17 (if you are running Potato).

Re: no modules after kernel recompile

2000-12-11 Thread David A. Rogers
make-kpkg is the debian way to build the kernel. It is very nice. You'll need to apt-get the kernel-package. The signal issues are more serious. The gnu compiler uses lots of memory when compiling the kernel and/or the modules and really gives it a good workout. The common perception is that if

New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
I am in the process of writing some documentation for Debian. It is oriented toward end-user desktop systems instead of servers. Eventually, it will give enough information to allow the end-user to set up a ocmplete home system including sound, printer, cd-burner etc. It is also oriented toward

Re: New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
users helping. Or am I just being anal? > > -- Original Message ------ > From: "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:44:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time) > > >I am in the process of writing some d

Re: New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
gt; -- Original Message ------ > From: "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:58:59 -0600 (Central Standard Time) > > > > >No offense taken. This is the first documentation I've written and the >

Re: Sound Card Blues

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all > I have potato 2.2 installed on my system, I also have a Sound Blaster awe > 1024 card. A friend debian-user very kindly gave me a hand recompiling the > kernel to get the Sound Blaster drivers installed (this was magic as far as I > remem

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
The last Mandrake install I did ticked me off. Potato was just released and I thought I'd give it a try. Have since made Debian my permanent distribution of choice. dar On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increa

libncurses - which one?

2000-12-14 Thread David A. Rogers
There are two libncurses packages available for potato. How do you decide which one to install? Thanks, dar

Re: alsa and modutils

2000-12-14 Thread David A. Rogers
On 14 Dec 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CS> It seems that kernels and the alsa driver like to live in certain > CS> directories. I assume here, you do have the kernel sources comiled and > CS> installed (BTW, why aren't you using the latest?). The kernel

Re: Continuing sound saga (es1370, etc.)

2000-12-15 Thread David A. Rogers
Briefly, sound-slot-0 is the kernels "generic" name for a sound card module. Its like "eth0" for ethernet cards. See Debian University for a complete rundown on modules: http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt. What this message says is that the kernel is looking for a sound card to l

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread David A. Rogers
On 18 Dec 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian > > way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find > > it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run

Re: SBLive! w/o using cable to CD

2000-12-18 Thread David A. Rogers
Huh? I know we're hackers and all, but if the card is even semi-recently new, I'd be hollering for a replacement. dar On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > get an audio cable plug it from the headphone jack on the cdrom to the > line in on the soundcard..that works for me. > > nate > > aid

Weird audio cd behavior

2000-12-19 Thread David A. Rogers
I'm running potato with 2.2.17, ALSA with cs4236b chip. Run xplaycd. Press start. First track plays. After first track plays, it doesn't go on to the second track, it stops like I'd pressed the stop button (no I didn't). No matter what track I start playing, it stops when the track is finished.

Re: depmod question

2000-12-19 Thread David A. Rogers
imm.o is actually dependent on another module, but noone told depmod. Try to find what imm is dependent on. dar On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i *just* downloaded and compiled 2.4.0-12 for the very first time. after > my very first reboot with this kernel, i'm getting: > > #

Re: playing sounds from command line

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
Rob, You can use "apt-cache search someapp" to find stuff like that. dar On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Stupid Question: > > I'm used to other distros having a 'play' command to play sounds from the > command line. Does Debian have a similar tool, or am I just missing the > package

Re: device3dfx-source ?

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
You might want to rethink your purchase. 3dfx is going out of business early in the new year. They have sold their intellectual property to nvidea. dar On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Joerg Huber wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket > mentioned in th

Re: Sound record program

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
You might also try gramofile. It's more designed for recording off phono albums, but should work for what you want. dar On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a > script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming

Re: device3dfx-source ?

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
Jon, You could be right. I don't do 3d on Linux yet and don't have a 3Dfx board. But, personally, I'd be a bit leery of buying hardware that I _knew_ was going to be orphaned soon. dar On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > "David A. Rogers" wrote: > >

Warning ALSA and 2.2.18

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
The ALSA source shipped with potato (yes even r2) has a compile error when built against the 2.2.81pre21 kernel source. Fortunately, it's easy to fix. In the alsa source include directory, you'll find a file drivers.h. Edit this file. Search for the word "wait". The first occurance is in a #if

New course for Debian University

2000-12-27 Thread David A. Rogers
Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian University document has been updated to include information on compiling the kernel in the Debian way). Debian University can be found at: http://home.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt make-kpkg is very nice and makes

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread David A. Rogers
Carel, Thanks for your input. I appreciate knowing what people think of the document. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 08:12:05PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > > Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian >

Re: ISA SoundBlaster

2001-01-03 Thread David A. Rogers
You might find my document "Debian University" helpful. It gives a very good explanation of how modules work and talks about what you need to do to get OSS/Free sound working. http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt Cheers, dar On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote: > Hi!

Re: trying to install ALSA

2001-01-15 Thread David A. Rogers
James, No, the symlink is ok. AFAIK, there are a number of files that ALSA wants/needs that only exist after you have built the kernel once. If there is any other way to create these, I'd like to hear it. See my Debian University document for more information: http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debi

Re: Building a kernel

2001-01-16 Thread David A. Rogers
William, See http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt for a complete rundownd on this. dar On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, William Leese wrote: > Hello all, > > i wish to build a kernel but i've read somewhere that things cant be done > quite the same way as with other (rpm-based) distros becau

Re: re cdrw

2001-01-18 Thread David A. Rogers
, however there is nothing wrong with > re-building the kernel to suit your needs. Another > reason I build my own is to use a later kernel than > currently available as a .deb image. > --- "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kennet

Re: re cdrw

2001-01-18 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to > REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi emulation > will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed > because CDRECORD only uses scsi protocol. You will > then access the cdrom as /dev/scd0. I

Re: cdrecord

2001-01-18 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I have an IDE CDRW drive that I want to be able to use in linux. I have > done "apt-get install cdrecord". I have read the CD Writing HOWTO and I > know I have to enable SCSI emulation, but can anyone who has done it in > Debian tell me the easiest wa

Re: How to install a kernel module?

2001-01-25 Thread David A. Rogers
Add the line alias eth0 modulename to /etc/modutils/aliases then run update-modules. There is a lot of good information on modules in the Debian University document that I'm writing. http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt Cheers, dar On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Miller, Jim wrote: > I

Re: Need help/advise w/sound setup. LONG post!

2001-01-29 Thread David A. Rogers
John, Take a look at debian university. It will point you in the right direction. http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt cheers, dar On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, John Foster wrote: > I have been using OSS commercial grade for several years on our Debian > systems. This requires a licens

Re: vim window resizing

2001-02-05 Thread David A. Rogers
MaD dUCK, You probably have a lines= and possibly a columns= setting in your .vimrc. Did you use someone else's rc file? If not, check your system vim file. dar On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, > > my vim, when started from my regular 80x24 xterm, will blatantly > proceed to resize

Can run testing with slow net connect?

2001-07-21 Thread David A. Rogers
I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing? TIA, dar

Re: good sound cards?

2001-07-25 Thread David A. Rogers
Many sound cards that people will recommend here and elsewhere support only wave audio and not midi. If midi is important to you, make sure to ask. dar On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:42:16PM +, Robert Frank wrote: > * Kevin Krafthefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22-11-2000 12:56 PM -0600] > > Hello, >

CD audio halts after every song

2001-07-25 Thread David A. Rogers
Running potatoe r2. All the cd player apps that I tried halt after playing the first song. Anyone heard anything like this? dar

Re: Recommendations on Linux C/C++/Java IDE?

2001-11-20 Thread David A. Greene
dman wrote: python, bash, etc. For debugging I tend to use the 'print' technique, though for C/C++ gdb is _the_ debugger. (there may be others, but gdb gdb, in its current state, is most certainly *NOT* _the_ debugger for C++. There are many, many problems with it. Supposedly the gcc and

Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop

2001-09-12 Thread David A. Rogers
I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display. I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02 works well on the exact model I have. Here's my problem. I've only ever use

Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop

2001-09-12 Thread David A. Rogers
I have a fast (sort of) pipe at work, a cd burner at home and a scsi drive to carry stuff back and forth. So what do I do? dar On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:37:48PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's going to be

Kernel after dist-upgrade

2001-09-26 Thread David A. Rogers
I have a kernel built with an epoch as the documentation suggests. Will my kernel be replaced when I dist-upgrade from potato 2.2.18pre21 to testing 2.4.something? Thanks, dar

Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread David A. Rogers
I have been postponing attempting to upgrade to testing on any of my computers because I've just got a regular modem and thought it would take too long. I finally bit the bullet this week. I've got a hand-me-down laptop that I'm putting Debian on. The problem is that under xfree 3.3.6, it only

problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-01 Thread David A. Rogers
I have an IBM THinkpad 365XD with TFT display Model # 2625-1e9. I've seen a number of references on the net that this card/display was not supported under 3.3.6. However, recently I found a page that says they got the exact same model working under 4.02. That was here: http://geekjuice.dhs.org/~

Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-02 Thread David A. Rogers
Thanks. I'll give that a try. Do you have to have a 2.4.x kernel for that or will 2.2.18pre from potato work? dar On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > [video card specs, etc] > | Does anyone

cron, or something, chatters too much

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
't want it on my TTY ! I pops into the middle of an info screen or my editor or whatever else I'm trying to do. And it's not always easy to get rid of. How can I tell PAM or cron or whatever to log its complaints somewhere else; or to block any daemon logging messages from my T

dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
moved or downgraded. Right now I've fiddled sources.list so only 'testing' stuff is visible, since that is where I want to go. Isn't there a "better" way? It looked as though the "-o=whatever" was the trick, but I can't put anything there that do

dpkg-query --showformat

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
e file -- Package: ... Version: However, ${Filename} does not output anything -- always blanks. So, what's the magic? I'm running short on goats here ( and the smell of burnt goat hair is really annoying ). -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's

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