I'll second that.
I just unsubscribed from the list because I don't like sifting through
a couple hundred messages. Maybe someone could invent a system
whereby first-time posters are placed on "probation", which is some
moderated antechamber to the debian-user list. After three
kosher
Yeah, apparently some of the modems memorize the hardware address of the
ethernet card, so if you change the card, you have to turn off the modem
for a few minutes. -chris
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Smith wrote:
> BTW, I've hooked up several boxen to @home, and sometimes the "modem" needs
> t
Can I take advantage of a new video card to reduce the flicker I
see in X Windows, or is this strictly a function of the monitor?
I copied the modelines from my old machine to my new machine and they
work fine, but I'm wondering if I can do better.
My new machine has an agp ATI Xpert98 (mach64)
OK now this is _really_ off-topic: my ATI Xpert 98 makes X seem a bit darker
than my old mach32 card. It's also a different X server. It's not a big
deal really, but I'm curious if this is normal. -chris
13:28:47<~>$ apt-cache search perch
13:28:56<~>$
-chris
> now getting ready to perch,
>
> bentley taylor
> (potato on 2.2.16)
Type
runlevel
This will print a number, say 2. So go to /etc/rc2.d. Type
ls
The last listed file is the last rc file run. Or was that your question.
What you want to do is install the modutils package, put the cs4232
arguments in /etc/modutils/options:
options cs4232 io-0x534 irq=
Console shmonsole. What you want to do is open up the machine, find the
speaker, rip it out, and throw it somewhere far. Note the place where it
lands though. If your motherboard/memory/cache ever fails you might need
the speaker to beep X number of times to identify the problem.
I think the ans
nen 1993-1996
> cs4232: dma, dma2, irq and io must be set.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> D. Ghost
>
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > Type
> > runlevel
> > This will print a number, say 2. So go to /etc/rc2.d. Type
> >
I've got a modem, a soundcard, some speakers, and potentially a
microphone. Does this mean I can use my linux box as a telephone?
This would be particularly useful for things like "the secretary says
he's on another line can you hold for a long long time while we
entertain you with
My cable provider tells me my hostname is cr275960-a. So I've put
cr275960-a in /etc/hostname and everything works. My /etc/hosts looks
like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
24.115.135.172cr275960-acr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com
Anyway, cr275960-a is a pretty ugly name for my machin
Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware posts I shook
in my boots a little after coming home and finding my new machine
frozen solid. It was running xseti at the time FWIW.
Where should I start looking?
-chris
This is a QDI Advance 5 with Intel PIII/500 and 1/8 gig ram.
It's got some kind of hard drive in it too, and a network card
and stuff. -chris
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Krzys Majewski wrote:
> >
> > Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware pos
Omitting the question of whether JavaScript is broken to begin with,
it looks like *nix versions of Netscape don't support JavaScript in
the same way that Windows versions do. In my case this means, some of
my web banking services work under Windows, but give JavaScript errors
under linux (com
e IBM hdd
> Debian 2.2r0 Linux 2.2.17pre18(self compiled)
>
>
> it is very important to be as specific as possible when attempting to
> diagnose a potential hardware problem. i remember spending upwards of 3
> months trying to diagnose the problems on my BP6, i finally came to the
Not sure if this is what you want, but here's mine. -chris
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
# Remember that you can only u
Yes, there is. I don't remember the incantation but if you search through the
archives on www.debian.org you'll be sure to find some posts about it.
Something like apt-get selections... -chris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> is there any way to install on a
Anyone know how to set up Netscape Navigator (4.74) to invoke
an external mail client (say, pine) when I click on a mailto: link?
(Navigator is the stand-alone web browser, right now it does nothing when
I click on such a link) -chris
Go to www.debian.org and click on the Search link. It does work, sometimes..
-chris
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Something like apt-get selections... -chris
>
> thanks for the hint. I would have started by the mail archives,
> but I didn't find out how to sear
1. Is it possible to apt-get install, specifying say "stable" or "unstable"
on the command line, rather than by editing /etc/apt/sources.list?
2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it would
install, without actually installing it, regardless of the version of
the existing
Has anyone got hibernation going on a desktop? How about suspend-to-RAM?
My hardware supports APM and ACPI. I've compiled APM support into my
2.2.17 kernel and it is recognized at boot time:
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
The apm options I've configured are:
CONFIG_APM=y
> Try installing the apm daemon (apmd), but I think it won't do these
> things.
Yeah I got the apm daemon, it's the debian/unstable version though, maybe
I should get the latest sources?
> > The apm options I've configured are:
> >
> > CONFIG_APM=y
> > # CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT is not se
rror (0x00?)
What happens is, the disk shuts down (woo!), the screen fails to blank (suck..)
and about two seconds later the disk, and everything else, starts up
again. Any ideas? -chris
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:27:56AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
I worried about this too a few days ago and came to the conclusion
that adding a line to an existing script might be unreliable, since
package installations may replace said script.. so I added my own
script. I then put this script in /etc/rc.boot/, a directory whose
infinite mysteries I have yet t
What's the story with /etc/rc.boot/? Is it deprecated? Is it good?
Should its files be run by /etc/inittab via /etc/rcS? The contents
of my /etc/rc.boot:
0setserial* hdparm* kbd* update-modules*
-chris
You probably already know this but, apparently the recommended gcc for
compiling 2.4.0-test* is 2.7.2.3. I did see something like "gcc 2.95
may give problems" in one of the readme files in the kernel sources.
-chris
^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I sent this one off to the linux-kernel em
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff.
>
> Which is how? Never done this so please help me out a little.
Well you can do something like this:
13:27:57$ zcat man.1.gz | nroff -man > ~/tmp/woo
but this still puts funky characters in the ou
Oh haha, the parameter is actually called "-m" ("macro"), the "an" is an
argument to the parameter. -chris
> That seems to do a fine job. I cannot find a documentation of that
> "-man" parameter anywhere. Where would that be? (checked the man
> page of *roff)
>
My italian is bad but maybe this will help you:
http://www.debian.org/international/Italian
-chris
Here's the latest update. I've got my drive to enter standby mode
for extended periods by mounting all my partitions with the "sync"
and "noatime" options. AFAIK, the first option causes data to be
flushed to disk synchronously, and the second prevents file access
time updates from being flushed t
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:59:38PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > Sep 8 17:50:11 mi apmd[1744]: User Suspend
> > Sep 8 17:50:13 mi kernel: apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state
>
> I get the exact message. I am s
Here's a csh hack for doing this. I didn't write it (csh? ugh)
it but I do use it from time to time.
Maybe test it first to make sure it does
what you want. -chris
#!/bin/csh -f
# Performs search & replace on the given files
if ( $#argv < 3 ) then
echo "Usage: replace "
exit
Oh yeah according to my docs you should be adding stuff to
/etc/apm/event.d, /etc/apm/suspend.d is deprecated.. -chris
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote:
> I've tryied to add the hdparm script in /etc/apm/suspend.d... the disk
> shut down, but in a while wake up another time. I think it's b
Anyone else have this problem where old manpages refuse to die
and provide confusing outdated information? I just had this
with "hdparm" and "mount". In the first case, there was an old
manpage in /usr/man/ which took precedence over the new one
in /usr/share/man. In the second case, there was a
/u
Has anyone managed to have their cpu fan shut down when they
(and/or their machine) go to sleep? Can APM do this? I
realize there is also ACPI but it looks like the linux impl
doesn't yet cover all the bases. -chris
Yeah, there's an option in the BIOS called "fan off on
suspend" which I've set, but it doesn't seem to help..
-chris
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Krzys Majewski wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone managed to have their cpu fan shut down when they
>
I vaguely remember, after installing realplayer, having to
manually run one of the shell scripts (maybe mime-install??)
it comes with.
As for the mimetype-application bindings, editing ~/.mailcap
works for me. -chris
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> Does anyone have the rea
--
For the knowledgeable and impatient, there are two questions
at the end of this post:
1) How to stop both the hard disk and the cpu fan at the same
time?
2) How to stop the power supply fan?
--
OK here's the latest Re: putting my machine to sleep.
First of all, what I w
How do I know if I need any of these options for my hard
drive? Are the kernel/ide driver defaults reasonable? Do these flags improve
performance? (Right now I'm just using hdparm -y to spin down the
disk) -chris
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED M
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> curious why you'd be so interested in doing all this i could never see
> why people wanted to suspend/sleep a desktop system(a notebook i can
> see..)
Yeah I get this question a lot. To me it's really obvious
though: I live in a small apartment and the no
I changed my hostname, after consulting this List, from the ugly one
given by my cable provider to one that I like. There is no DNS entry
anywhere for this new hostname. Now, I run sendmail not as a daemon
but as an mda or mta or whatever: to send cron errors to my usual
e-mail account.
How does noflushd compare with the noatime,sync mount options?
I looked at the package description but it doesn't say much,
and I'm a little scared to install the deb lest it do
something intense. -chris
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Thomas Hood wrote:
> I suggest that you check out the "noflushd" daemon
Debian install docs do say something about disabling all
"memory holes" in the bios. -chris
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote:
>
> > Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure
> > if
> > tha
I can get my drive to spin down now with hdparm -y. It then
spins up right away again unless I mount my filesystems with
the noatime option. I throw in the sync option for good
measure. -chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:18:31PM -0700, Krzys Majew
Uh ok this is a braindead reply but did you try turning off
the modem for a few minutes. I had a hard time getting my new
machine to work with cable, it suddenly worked on the third
network card (a 3c905b). -chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hey
>
> i have been trying to get 2
Uh yeah that's what the package webpage says, but I'm a bit
perplexed about the last part. Surely they have to spin up
the hd again *eventually*. Maybe I can just install it, kill
the daemon, and read the manpage..
-chris
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Krzys Majewski wrote:
t this seems to try to put the machine
to sleep regardless of what it's doing: it interrupts those
tasks briefly and then fails.) What I'm looking for is
basically a screensaver that saves not the screen but my ears
and power bill. Noflushd is a good start. -chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000,
Where do I find the "at" command, or equivalent, which is like
a command-line crontab that says: execute such-and-such
command and such-and-such date and time. A search for "at", as
you can imagine, is not very helpful. -chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > Debian install docs do say something about disabling all
> > "memory holes" in the bios. -chris
>
> I have these options disabled... but why are
Shit shit shit I've broken my machine again.
Won't halt, won't boot. When booting it claims it's going into
runlevel 3 but none of the rc3.d scripts are run, and it
won't let me login (except as root), saying "system bootup in
progress". If I try to change runlevel it sends TERM, sends
KILL, and t
Aha. That is exactly what I did. In fact, I got the idea from
this list last night.. maybe from you!
Thanks
-chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, Septembe
It looks to me like you didn't do anything wrong.
Given an infinite amount of time,
everyone on this list could solve all his Linux problems
without any third-party help. All you have to do is read every
single man page, every README, every info file, and the
source code to all the programs on yo
Yes but it turned out to be, as the note below was meant to
explain, the uncommenting of the "debug" line in
/etc/init.d/rc which caused the problem. -chris
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> Had you updated any packages before this happened?
>
>
> On 12-Sep-200
So we are now agreed that gnapster bit it, yes?
Can someone who has just been through this post a brief
summary of the procedure for replacing gnapster (notably, what
to replace it with). I tried knapster a while back but I never
managed to install the right libs for it (I'm not running kde
fwiw)
t
:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > e-mail account. After changing the hostname, I'm getting "Domain must
> > resolve" errors from sendmail (formatted strangely here to fit 70 cols):
>
> > relay=smtp.cs.ubc.ca. [142.103
and then get the server list from Zeropaid.com. Load the list and
> it works fine.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Krzys Majewski) wrote:
> > So we are now agreed that gnapster bit it, yes? Can someone who has just
> > been through this post a brief summary of the procedure for replacing
&
OK I've rtfm'ed to the best of my ability, and I still have no
idea how to make gtk_gnutella do anything interesting. It does
run, but "search" does nothing. Maybe I have to edit the
.gtk_gnutella/hosts file? Tried that. Maybe you can just tell
me what you did..
thanks
chris
On 12 Sep 2000, mike
> Tip 3: there are kits available which will control the speed of the PSU fan
> by means of an NTC. I bought them for US$10 in the local electronics shop
> and they work fine. Alternatively a resistor in the circuit of the fan
> might work too for fixed speed reduction.
This sounds interesting. Wh
In my first post i forget to mention you can just apt-get
> > > gtk-gnutella and read the tutorial at gnutella.wego.com.
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:10:16 -0700 (PDT), Krzys Majewski said:
> >
> > > Hm, I'm getting
> > > "This Project
OK, here's how I understand it. When the web first came out it
was like a nice way for nuclear physicists etc. to share data.
You knew what you wanted, you went to
www.foggybottomuniversity.edu and got it. Great.
Then the common man found out about the web and it became a huge mess.
Then search en
onnections are limited
> to 28kbs .
> The netstats on the first page will show how big the
> catch is e.g. 181 hosts; 1680998260 files ; 330.4 GB. If
> the net is very busy things run a bit slow so i just run it
> in the background and check it occasionally.YMMV.
>
>
Hahaha. I missed the att, can you re-post it? (minus the
company info, for obvious political reasons) -chris
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote:
> Normally I'd agree - I hate spam as much as anyone - but this was so bizarre
> and out of context I thought it was hilarious. I though
I just ran into this shell scripting problem again where I have
some lines of text and would like to perform an action on each
line. For example, I have a do...while loop (a few lines of
/bin/sh), and I would like to have the body executed for each
line of a given file / stream.
I understand the
What's a good way to debug /bin/sh scripts? I thought there
was an interpreter option which would run the code line by
line, prompting after each line, but I looked through the
man/info pages and found nothing, or am I blind? I already
know about sh -x and sh -v, but these by themselves are still
a
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't log in as root very often, but never had any problems having a
> .bash_profile in /root.
OK sounds like you're telling us something here. You're on the list,
so obviously you tweak your debian box from time to time. But you
don't log in as
--standby fails whenever you have, say, an mp3 player running.
My questions answered below. Mail me if you want more details.
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --
> For the knowledgeable and impatient, there are two questions
> at the end of this post:
>
My /root/ is a symlink to /home/krzys. Since it's been this way for
about a hundred years, I figure it's about time to ask the question:
is it a really bad idea? -chris
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Debian do
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I use sudo, logged in as a regular user. It's generally considered a
> security risk to be logged in as root, and a bit less of a risk to use
> sudo or fakeroot.
Aha. I only started using sudo seriously about an hour ago.
> Funny, but 'sudo echo $PATH
line executed. -chris
Date: 14 Sep 2000 09:46:49 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Daniel E. Wilson"'s message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:34:24 -0700"
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I did find another thing,
trap _foo DEBUG,
where _foo is some function (or command) of your choosing.
Do an
info bash
s
debug
-chris
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sh -x is about all i have found for stepping through the script, i
> agree its rather rough, this is why i usually ad
It works now after adding my host to /etc/hosts.. -chris
"Neil L. Roeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Add this to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, then run make in the same
> directory.
>
> FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl
>
> But are you sure you need this? If you just want this particular
> ad
I'm trying to create a filesystem in RAM. I've got the rd.o module, but
when I try to create the fs I get:
16:18:04# mkfs -t ext2 -v /dev/ram 2048
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
mkfs.ext2: error in loading shared libraries: mkfs.ext2: undefined symbol:
e2p_edit_feature
Rei
Thanks for the tip. I checked out the web page, but I'm still
wondering if these power supplies have a variable-speed fan.
Do they have a temperature sensor? Do they support the fan
on/off connector which is part of the new ATX spec?
Several people cited the cd-rom as a major source of noise,
I'm
Suppose I have a CDROM drive with a lousy D/A, and a sound card with a great
D/A. How can I read the data from my favourite audio CD and send it to
the soundcard? (Presumably all the standard software CD players like
Xmcd rely on the D/A hardware inside the CDROM drive..)
cat /dev/cdrom > file
"Dexter Graphic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, no, and no. I just went to their site to check the specs
> and noticed that they have a new model, the Silencer 400 ATX.
> Last time I ordered 275 watts was as good as it got.
>
> http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/power_supplies/ultra_quiet
> > Hm, the chopstick is starting to smell bad, gotta let the fan run for
> > a bit..
>
> the fan motor will probably burn out like this.
Hm, really? I don't think the motor is running; the P/S makes
absolutely no sound at all. Still going strong. Do mean that
the motor will burn out because i
Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is a purpose for the power supply fan you know. I
> had one going on the fritz ( running slow and stopping at
> times). I ran it this way for 6mo or so. Then all at once
> my hd started going haywire. Short story: I had to replace
> the hd and power supply.
OK Here's the latest
P/S outside computer (sitting on top of case cover insulated
by two wooden chopsticks). Fan disconnected (looks like
cutting the wire didn't cause the P/S to panic).
P/S case removed. The two aluminum (?) heat sinks that came
with the P/S are too hot to touch for more than abo
d? Too many variables..
-chris
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> OK Here's the latest
> P/S outside computer (sitting on top of case cover insulated
> by two wooden chopsticks). Fan disconnected (looks like
> cutting the wire didn't cause the P/S to panic).
>
It's all good, turns out my mke2fs is broken. Works fine with
a minix fs.
Thanks,
chris
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:21:48PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to create a filesystem in RAM. I've got the rd.o mo
I've disabled wakeup-on-LAN in my BIOS, but my machine wakes up on
incoming connections, unless I shut down networking
(/etc/init.d/networking stop). Is this normal?
* If not, what can I do about it? I don't think the apm driver is
ignoring all my BIOS settings, for example
How can I disable the mouse interrupt for APM so that moving the mouse
does not resume the machine? (The mouse is on my desk, there are other
things on my desk, some of these things move occasionally, etc.)
I tried disabling IRQ4 in the apm section of the bios setup, which I
*think* is my mouse
Sadly, interrupt 12 is not listed in the power management section of
the BIOS setup. It goes, perversely, something like this:
Interrupt 3 [Primary Secondary Disabled]
Interrupt 4 [Primary Secondary Disabled]
Interrupt 5 [Primary Secondary Disabled]
Interrupt 6 [Primary Secondary Disabled]
Inter
I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its
pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves fine
under gpm (even cut&paste works) but is unuseable under X. The
mouse cursor does move when I move the mouse, but in
completely erratic and unpredictable ways. The only way I've
got t
What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under
X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By
programmatically I mean "not by unplugging the mouse or cutting
the wire and re-soldering it".
-chris
Thank you! This works for me. Note that I also had to hack my
/etc/init.d/gpm to look at the repeat_data variable, though it
may be an old /etc/init.d/gpm. My gpm version is the latest
with respect to "stable", "unstable" was down when I tried.
I agree that this is the sort of thing that really s
Yeah I guess the repeat_type vs. repeat_data thing might have
been part of it, aside from this all I meant is that my
/etc/init.d/gpm may have been an old one from say 1996 (who
remembers what that dbn was called??), and I may have answered
"no" to subsequent "overwrite old /etc/init.d/gpm?" prompt
What!? And here I thought I was at the height of fashion with
my brand new PS/2 mouse. (The hell is a PS/2, anyway?).
Anyway, eventually I'll figure out how to dispense with the
mouse entirely and throw it happily out the window into the
lane. Lots of good things to be found in that lane.
-chris
Thanks, now that I've got the gpm fifo working, this solution
works perfectly.
-chris
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under
> > X, and re-enable it again,
What's with this silly junkbuster default
user-agent @
in /etc/junkbuster/config ?
>From the manpage:
"In Version 1.4 and later, if user-agent is set to @ (at) these
headers are sent unchanged in cases where the cookiefile specifies
that a cookie would be sent, otherwise only defa
How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried
putting
> *
< *
in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works.
-chris
I know netscape has its faults but I really need it for some of the
sites I use, like my bank. Otherwise I'd be using lynx, really I
would. OK now that that's settled..
I've got navigator 4.74 right now and it seems pretty buggy. A lot of
sites just refuse to work with it. What's the b
I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of
the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and
cdda2wav. They both work, but they both spin the hard disk constantly
when writing an audio file, even if the file isn't being written to
the hard disk. Anyone
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> this is not tested (no audio cd at hand ...), so it possibly does not
> work [as expected]:
> cdda2wav -e -H -t1+ /dev/null
> the -H switch _might_ be the solution.
> or maybe -N? really no idea. just play around with it a bit.
Thanks, that helps.
I've found a way of putting my machine to sleep (so nice, don't have
to boot anymore just to check my mail..), but it's not very
reliable. Sometimes I have to run the script two or three times before
everything shuts down. It looks like the hard drive occasionally spins
up again at th
Timothy Bedding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to get my Sound Blaster card working.
>
> Can anyone suggest a simple test program that I can
> run to prove that it is working?
I use "saytime". For example:
while true
do
saytime
sleep 1
done
I've been playing with sound lately (so
Well, I do Polish, not Portuguese, but here's what I found.
- You need to use the right font, under the console (man setfont) and
under X if you're using X (man xrdb).
- You need to use the right keymap to type the funny letters
(man loadkeys under console, man xmodmap under X)
- Every program yo
How can I optimize hard drive access? Please tell me I don't
have to try one million random combinations of the various flags
to hdparm. Or is the kernel doing the right thing already?
Possibly relevant bits from dmesg:
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will
I use M-x info in Emacs. -chris
Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I *hate* the user interface for info. man is so much easier.
> Is there a better way to use info other than the command line info command.
> The
hard drive thing or what. I want my hard drive to be fast. I want
to record some nice tunes with it and stuff. -chris
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:15:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian user list (undigested)"
Su
Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Krzys Majewski wrote:
> >
> > How can I optimize hard drive access? Please tell me I don't
> > have to try one million random combinations of the various flags
> > to hdparm. Or is the kernel doing the right
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