Re: sound configuration
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running potato and I'm looking for a tool to configure my > ESS1868 sound card. I've compiled 2.4.5 with the modules for the > card, but I don't know how to configure it. This is an ISA card, right? If so, make sure to enable ISAPnP in the kernel and you should be all set. Check the dmesg output to see if your soundcard is detected once you have compiled in ISAPnP. Also, compile it into the kernel if you want to save you some trouble. -- André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [OT] IP to phone
oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any IP-to-telephone services that will work with debian? Speekfreely comes to mind: http://www.speakfreely.org/ gphone is an application for this too, and it's available in Debian. I have tried neither of those though, -- André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Transfer stalls with proftpd in 12 minute intervals
Hi everyone, People have been experiencing dropped downloads from my FTP because of transfer stalls. I am using the proftpd server, in standalone mode, and I did some grepping in my /var/log/daemon and found this: Jul 1 23:56:52 sledgehammer proftpd[5619]: sledgehammer (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - Data transfer stall timeout: 600 seconds Jul 2 00:08:51 sledgehammer proftpd[5841]: sledgehammer (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - Data transfer stall timeout: 600 seconds Jul 2 00:20:51 sledgehammer proftpd[5904]: sledgehammer (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - Data transfer stall timeout: 600 seconds Jul 2 01:18:48 sledgehammer proftpd[5909]: sledgehammer (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - Data transfer stall timeout: 600 seconds Jul 2 01:30:47 sledgehammer proftpd[6105]: sledgehammer (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - Data transfer stall timeout: 600 seconds Jul 2 01:37:50 sledgehammer proftpd[6191]: sledgehammer (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - Data transfer stall timeout: 600 seconds Notice that almost all of these stalls happen with 12 minute intervals. Could there be some cronjob that is interfering here, or what is happening? I have not added any cronjob myself. I would be very glad if someone could give me some hints. -- André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: no ping
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:02:17PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies > > They're there already. However, a ping localhost still works... Notice the "1" in the above statements. That means "true". -- // André
Re: search contents of a tar.gz
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:05:06AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I would like to grep the contents to find the CD that I'm looking for, > but I don't want to extract everything. It sounds like you're looking for 'zgrep' which is included with gzip. -- // André
Re: General anser to "where I place the configuration of"
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:27:04PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > As a rule of thumb, if you need to know how to configure a package you > just do a "dpkg -L packagename". This will list *ALL* files in the > package. Now look for anything going into /etc, it'll give you a very > good clue on how to configure the package. Even better would be to do a "dpkg -s packagename" and read under "Conffiles:". -- // André
Re: new pine packages available
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:17:33PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > (Try actually reading the license.) Okay, so binaries can be distributed if you append "L" to the version number. I can see you're doing that, so I'm happy. -- // André
Re: new pine packages available
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:33:06AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Jaldhar Vyas has built a new set of unofficial Pine, Pico, and Pilot > packages which have been uploaded to my official unofficial mirror > at http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ These new packages include > LDAP support. Pine and friends has a license which disallows re-distribution of modified binaries. I think you are breaking that license by doing just that. -- // André
Re: OFFTOPIC: test kernel7
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:48:45PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Thanks, I just updated from modutils 2.3.11-8 to modutils_2.3.14-3. > This replaced my aliases and /etc/modules. Is this what you meant? The new layout in /lib/modules required changes to modutils upstreams. If you're gonna run 2.4.x kernels you should make sure to either follow linux-kernel, or at least make sure you're up to date with the packages listed in Documentation/Changes. -- // André
Re: depmod question
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:21:35PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I am using Potato. > Does Debian run 'depmod -a' when the machine boots or should I put that in a > script? sledgehammer:/tmp# grep -r 'depmod -a' /etc/* /etc/init.d/modutils:depmod -a > /dev/null /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils:depmod -a > /dev/null sledgehammer:/tmp# exit -- // André
Re: OFFTOPIC: test kernel7
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:10:19PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Does anyone know what the kernel developers have done to the kernel > (2.4.0-test6 and test7) that puts the modules in different places in > /lib/modules/ ? Update your modutils. -- // André
Re: From: line shows recipients domain name
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:34:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > What you were doing is more like mail from: - some servers tolerate that > and append their own domain name to it - others bounce the mail. I forgot to ask you, should I have use_domain set? I'm on dialup. -- // André
Re: From: line shows recipients domain name
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:34:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > What you were doing is more like mail from: - some servers > tolerate that and append their own domain name to it - others bounce > the mail. But when I have tried sending mails to other accounts the From: line has been correct. And I always get responses to the mails I sent, so I suppose it must be correct most of the time. Does it only use the servers domain name in some cases, or what? -- // André
Re: pkzip for Debian ?
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 05:11:39PM +0200, Jose Angel Fdez . Luengo wrote: > zip and unzip, but they're in non-free ;) Well, actually they aren't any more. The latest unzip has a new BSD-like license. Because it also has built-in encryption support it is now located in non-US/main. -- // Andr.Aé
Re: pkzip for Debian ?
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:52:45PM +0200, Petr Danek wrote: > exists some utilty which will work with zipped files in Debian ? unzip. -- // André
Re: cron error -> @cmp: command not found
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 05:52:33PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Over the last couple of days I have added and removed a lot of > packages so I do not know what exact package might be causing this. > Nevertheless, cron is reporting: Upgrade to the latest cron, which fixes this problem. -- // André
Re: Where is acroread?
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:25:41AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > earlier today i installed acroread, which i downloaded from > www.adobe.com. i was never aware that there was a .deb for. gv can > read some .pdf files, but of course acroread does a much better job. > why not just get it from adobe - it just takes 10 min to install? May I suggest using xpdf instead? Acrobat Reader is non-free, and since there's a good alternative I don't see any reason to use it. The latest xpdf has some nice improvements too. -- // André
Re: Procmail
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 07:03:16PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > Most mta's don't, by default, run procmail as an MDA. Depending > on your MTA and how it's configured, you may need a .forward > file to get procmail actually run; if you're using Exim, a > .forward file containing just the line > > |/usr/bin/procmail > > should be enough. On Debian, Exim is configured to hand mails directly to procmail if .procmailrc is present, so there is no need for a .forward file. -- // André
Re: procmail receipes
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:17:05AM -0400, John Bacalle wrote: > Since you're talking about procmail, how would you do something like > the following? > >:0: >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >IN.debian > > This is schematic, of course; how to do properly and succinctly? Do you mean that you are subscribed to three different debian-related mailing lists, and you want them all to end up in IN.debian? If so, you could use something like: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] IN.debian Alternatively, to avoid checking To:, Cc:, Bcc: and frieds every time you could probably do something like: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IN.debian -- // André
Re: procmail receipes
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:27:52AM +, Geordie Birch wrote: > THUS SPAKE Dale L . Morris, on Aug 24: > > > I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using > > for a procmail receipe: > > > > :0: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > debian-user > > > > Will it work? > > No. you need a colon, not an underscore. Actually, what I think he was trying to do was use procmails special TO_ trick. It will match To:, Cc:, Bcc: and so on. So this should work: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user > Also, using the 'To' field is suboptimal (the word of the day ;)) as many > people cc the list. TO_ will catch this. -- // André
Re: Playing MIDI files
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:02:29AM -0400, William Smith wrote: > I've had similar problems playing midi files (SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP). > > I can play .au and .wav files fine and I can use timidity to play a > .mid file but when I try running playmidi I get "No playback device > set. Aborting" If I don't remember incorrectly you have to use the -e switch when you're using playmidi with AWE cards to have it find the midi device. drvmidi is another program that should work. -- // André
Re: Kernel VM problems.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:35:12PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > Sometimes I see my machine nearly freezing, and then becoming good > after a minute or two. In the logs I get up to several hundred > lines like these: [snip, error output] > My kernel is a selfcompiled (with make-kpkg) 2.2.17pre6 kernel from the > kernel-source deb, no extra patches. The VM has been in a very bad shape in both the 2.2 and 2.4 series, and Alan is fighting hard to get 2.2 into an acceptable shape. Since I'm running the 2.4 series I can't say for sure exactly how the latest 2.2.17preX kernels behave, but I'm pretty sure things have improved a lot in this regard since 2.2.17pre6. I recommend that you try the latest 2.2.17preX kernel, where X is currently 19. The final 2.2.17 should be released soon as well. -- // André
Re: Adding commands to Debian Program Menu
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:43:09PM +0200, André Dahlqvist wrote: > This is described well in chapter 5.1 of the manual for menu. Take a > look at /usr/share/doc/menu/html/ch4.html and I'm sure you will > understand how to do it. That should of course have been /usr/share/doc/menu/html/ch5.html Sorry 'bout that. -- // André
Re: Adding commands to Debian Program Menu
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:03:00PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I have what is probably a very simple question for this list. How > can I add commands to the Debian Program Menu. Assuming you have installed the 'menu' package, which I suggest you do, you can add your own menu entries in ~/.menu. This is described well in chapter 5.1 of the manual for menu. Take a look at /usr/share/doc/menu/html/ch4.html and I'm sure you will understand how to do it. -- // André
Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 07:50:31PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > That produces a list that is certain to be incomprehensible to a new user. If you're only interested in which config files a certain program uses you can do something like: dpkg -s package_name and read the part after "Conffiles:". -- // André
Re: CONFIG_KMOD in kernel
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:43:34PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > Out of curiosity, should I have CONFIG_KMOD on or off when configuring > kernel 2.2.17? If you want modules to be auto-inserted on demand I would suggest doing so, yes. > I have CONFIG_MODULES=y. Is CONFIG_KMOD the same sort of thing? Not quiet. CONFIG_KMOD enables the kernel to auto load modules, and it works the same way as the old kerneld did. If you don't enable it you will have to manually modprobe modules to insert them. -- // André
Re: Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:50:48PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > No, I haven't seen that. But what, in precise terms, does > "will not accept" mean? Does your computer beep? Does Emacs > segfault? Does it get your computer on fire? :-) This actually varies a bit depending on which character I try to insert, if I try to write é the cursor jumps a few positions as if I had typed a tab. When I insert ö it beeps, and when inserting å or ä abolutely nothing happens. Remember that all of these things work flavlessly if I run emacs on the console or as a stand alone X app, and only fails when I run it inside an xterm or rxvt. But the xterm itself accepts these characters if I type them it at the standard prompt. > Anyway, try using M-x iso-accents-customize and/or M-x > standard-display-european. See if they help. I had actually tried those too before, and they didn't help. I don't think the problem can be in the custimisation of emacs since it works fine in the above mentioned cases. -- // André
Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters
I have a strange problem that I discovered while switching to using emacs as an editor in Mutt. It turns out that emacs will not accept non-ASCII characters like åäöé if I'm running emacs from within an xterm, but it works fine on the console or as a stand alone X application. To make things even stranger I can always display such characters if I open a file containing them, even from inside an xterm. I have tried executing 'set-language-environment' and setting it to 'Latin 1', but to no avail. My LC_CTYPE variable is set to sv_SE.ISO-8859-1, but it doesn't seam to matter if I change that. Has anyone experienced anything like this? -- // André
Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:09:42PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Where do get Gecko? Gecko is the rendering engine that Mozilla, and now other projects use. It is not a browser by itself, if that's what you though. -- // André
Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:19:29PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Interestingly enough, the most common machines nowadays in my country > seem to be Celeron or K6-2 machines with 32MB of RAM. This makes > surfing the web with Linux almost a nightmare (even if you turn on > UDMA/66 so that swapping is 2 or 3 times faster). I understand that this is a money issue, but 64MB of RAM is considered standard these days, and that requirement is unlikely to shrink. Buying 32MB of RAM when your other hardware is K6-2 and UDMA/66 harddrive doesn't make much sense IMHO. > I recognize that not everybody should be developing for embedded > systems, but expecting people to change their computers so that they > can run the newer software is an absurd. While I partly agree with this I also think that if you expect to be able to run the latest sofware you will have to expect to sometimes also upgrade your hardware. If a person can't do that he's going to have to stick to what he's using now. > I will get in the next month a new Athlon with 128MB and a good > motherboard. I hope that Mozilla runs on my new machine. :-) I'm gonna buy myself an Althlon soon too, I just want to wait a little longer so that USB v2 gets supported on motherboards. Bluetooth would be nice too, but that would be too long of a wait:-) > Well, I also think that Netscape 4.x is slow. But it is not as slow as > Mozilla (and it is acceptably stable here on my machine). But the problem with Netscape 4.x isn't just that it's buggy beyond words, it also has really poor standards compliance. > Well, optimizing has its limits. I don't hold that much of a faith > until I see the size of the program decrease a lot. The source is out there, you can always jump in and help fix it. > Ok. I'll try one of the nightly builds and then I'll post my analisys > here, as soon as I have some time. Great, I'm looking forward to hearing your experience with it. Let me also know what kernel you're doing your tests on, the VM can have quiet a big impact on these things. > So, if you have other applications using those libraries, then the > increase in memory occupation won't be as noticeable as if you > increase the size of your binary (which will only be shared by > different instances of your program and not by other programs as > well). Yes, that's obviously the point with gnome and similair projects, but if you don't normally use gnome, which isn't very likely if we are talking about a low-end system, you don't gain much from this. > I'm not complaining about the slowness of the project. I'm just > fearing that it may not be as successful as it could be. Just remember that you can always step in and give those guys some help. > Ok. Let's wait a little bit more about it. And hope it gets > smaller. :-) Mozilla 1.0 will bring peace to earth, I just know it:-) -- // André
Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:50:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > The current mozilla Debian package (M17-1 here) *is* a browser-only > version (unfortunately, it has no themes either). Someone said that this was not actually the case, and stated that it seamed more like a permission thing on the directory where it is installed. I'm using upstream M18, so I wouldn't know. > Shouldn't it be possible to run Galeon (alas, no deb available, and it > seems impossible to compile it) without GNOME (of course, the > libraries are unumbearable, but they don't occupy much space on the > hard disk)? I doubt that, it is a gnome program and it's therefore rather tightly bound to the gnome libraries at the moment. I'm sure someone will do a GTK+-only thing soon, if it hasn't been done yet, but Mozilla runs great on my box already, so I'm sticking with it. -- // André
Re: starting a default window manager
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:49:23AM -0700, suresh kumar wrote: > How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching > users home director located files such as .xsession > etc. If you want to set the default window manager you can do something like: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and then choose among the installed ones. -- // André
Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:48:02AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Not to mention that this implies that Mozilla is *slow* (since > it doesn't fit in core), depending on what it is doing (for > basic navigation, it is ok; opening a new window makes it > slow; navigating through the Preferences menus is even > *slower*). Like I have said before, this is constantly improving. The other day I was surfing the web, and as I was going to shut Mozilla down I ended up closing window after window. As it was, I had had in total 5 different windows open, and I hadn't noticed any considerable slowdown. This is with the M18 build on a 233Mhz K6 with 64 megs of RAM, so my machine is rather modest too. When I look back at the days when I used to run Netscape I seem to remember that opening more than one windows was pretty much asking for a crash. People also seem to forget that performance has been very much a secondary priority up until now. The big work so far has been to get features in and fix bugs. Now that most features are in the performance work can begin, and I have full trust in that the Mozilla team will do an excellent job optimizing it. I have seen some incredible speed-ups in the past, so I know just how much things can improve. > I don't know why the rationale of such a complex application is. Not > even making considerations from a usability standpoint, the Mozilla > coordination must have nightmares every single night for maintaining > such a huge project. One of the basic laws of engineering is the KISS > principle, of course I agree that the Mozilla team has given themselves a huge task by choosing to make an entire communicator suit, and not just a browser. I myself don't want Mozilla Mail; I use Mutt for that just like you do. I don't want a USENET reader nor a IRC client in my browser either. What you have to remember though is that you have the option of exactly what components you want to install. If you only want to install the browser you can do so. I am pretty sure that we will see a browser-only debian package of Mozilla pretty soon, and a mailnews package for those who want that. Looking at mail headers over the years have tought me that there still are quiet a lot of people who seam to like using Netscape to handle their mail, and I think it's nice to give those people that option. But don't get me wrong, I applaud alternatives like Galeon and similair projects. They are using what many feel is the best thing the Mozilla team has created, namely Gecko. This rendering engine has also seen some big improvements on the Linux side recently in M18, closing the gap to the Windows build. Although I must admit that having to install around 20 different packages (libgnome32 and friends) in order to be able to run Galeon doesn't strike me as very light weight nor nice from a users standpoint, but who am I to judge?:-) So to summarize, it is great to have many choices to choose from when deciding what browser or communication suit you want to use. We should be glad that we have that choice, instead of complaing about the slowness of one project or the other. Don't forget that the Mozilla team created Gecko, and the word "slow" isn't the first one that pops up in my mind when I think of it. -- // André
Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:02:39AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Uh, no. The bin86 package is needed to compile 16-bit 8086-compatible > source code. This pretty much means that it's only needed to compile > the kernel boot loader itself (I wouldn't be surprised if the LILO > source needed it too, but people never recompile that). In > particular, it's *not* needed to recompile kernel modules. And starting with 2.4.x kernels this requirement has been lifted, and you only need a recent version of binutils. -- // André
Re: Themes in mozilla
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:03:40PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up > any entries in the Themes list. I can't reproduce that with the upstream version of M17, but I remember hearing people complaining about it during the M17 development. I don't have the debian M17 package installed, so could you check which build ID Mozilla shows on the right of the titlebar? The official M17 build should have the ID "280712". Not removing the .mozilla directory in your $HOME can also produce the most strange errors, so you might want to try that too. > It also seems to not have mail and news, even though there is no > mozilla-mailnews package (I even looked in Incoming...). The maintainer probably chose to disable mail-news when compiling, since that's what most people want. There should definately be a package however that has this included. So if that hasn't been reported as a bug yet I suggest that you do it. > Does anyone else see these problems or is it something in my > installation only? Not likely if you have removed your .mozilla directory. > I haven't received any responses to any bugs I have ever filed on the > mozilla package, and lots of ancient ones are still open). The M17 release was a NMU if I'm not misstaking, put together by Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and I'm sure he'll respond to mails sent to him. > I wouldn't mind so much about the Themes issue if Classic was the > default... but I don't even have the option of selecting it! I agree, the Classic skin is a beauty, especially on the nightly M18 builds! -- // André
Re: cannot get all the galeon files
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > That's great! Except it doesn't seem to contain all the necessary > headers... specifically gtkmozembed.h and all the nsI stuff I haven't tried the package myself, but I know that there is also a libnspr4-dev package. That's the Netscape Portable Runtime Library development files. If you think that more files should be included in the mozilla-dev package you should e-mail the maintainer who released that package ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), especially since he specifically reqested this in the release notes. I am not sure if some licensing issues can prevent inclusion, but you could always ask him. -- // André
Re: fetchmail configuration
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:31:54PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > "fetchmail -v -d0" produces too much output to be useful. I guess I'll > look into procmail. While I definately agree that procmail is the right tool for this job, you could actually do something like: fetchmail -vv | grep "About to rewrite From:" -- // André
Re: cannot get all the galeon files
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:13:06PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > http://galeon.sourceforge.net. But to compile Galeon's source you need > either Mozilla's source compiled (unless you make symlinks to dozens of > spread out headers yourself), or the mozilla-dev rpm which provides > just Mozilla's headers. If you guys are using Woody there's now a new package called mozilla-dev that probably contains what you need. -- // André
Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:41:12PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > Heh, Mozilla (M16 iirc) is completely unusable for me too - doesn't > segfault, but won't download anything because it completely screws up the > reporting of the download (winds up with about a 30k rate, about 20Mb > completed of a 2Mb file and about -300 minutes to go :) And this has been fixed a long time ago. -- // André
Re: proper permissions for /usr/src/linux
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 03:57:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > no, /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm should NOT be symlinked > into your kernel tree. debian does this right unlike most redhat > distros. Exactly. And Linus has also pointed out several times that people should *not* compile kernels in /usr/src/linux, and instead do it in their home directory as a regular user, not root. The only time you should become root is when you install the kernel. -- // André
Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:41:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > But what about plugins? Can I get the streaming RealPlayer plugin to work? Yes, plugins written for Netscape 4.x should work from M17 and forward. -- // André
Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:55:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I would, if it didn't always segfault. Have you tried any of the recent milestones, or even better the recent nightly builds? I haven't yet managed to crash my M18 builds... Also make sure to nuke your .mozilla directory when upgrading. // André
Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:00:42AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Perhaps you can tell me how to use HTTPS with Mozilla. Yes I can. Go to the below webpage and install PSM. http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/psm/psm-mozilla/index.html It's the same software that Netscape 4.7 uses for these things. > If I could access a web site that requires Java and HTTPS using only > free software, that would be best. Java is a special case, and support for Java in Mozilla doesn't work on the Linux port *yet*. This is not something the Mozilla team can do anything about, Sun needs to port a Java plugin that works with Mozilla. This is being done as we speak, and you can read the below Mozilla bug on this issue to follow the progress. Remember that this does not have anything to do with Javascript, that works completely. Java should work on Mozilla on the Windows platform at least, don't know about Mac. That shows that this is not a Mozilla problem, but a Sun problem. But like I said, follow the below bug if you want to know the status of this support. Things seam to move forward. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28461 And staying with Netscape 4.x for Java is not something I would do, I certainly don't have any happy memories of that combination... -- // André
Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:21:45PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Now the installer runs, but netscape-installer-bin crashes, apparently > as soon as it tries to download something: Let me give you an advice: use Mozilla and not Netscape 6 prX. Sure, they use the same source base, but Netscape has managed to skrew things up rather badly with their additions. And do you really *want* any of their aditions? Use the real deal, use Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org Try the nightly M18 builds if you're brave, they have some mighty impressive speedups compared to M17. Also the Classic skin in M18 is very much more polished. If you run into problems with Mozilla I would gladly help, but Netscape 6 prX stuff is not my area. -- // André
Re: OT: what's the point of mp3's?
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:22:30AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > -rw-r--r--1 krzyskrzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3 > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 1308716 Aug 9 10:05 hip1302mp3.wav > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 117718 Aug 9 10:06 hip1302mp3.wav.gz > > So what's the point of .mp3? -chris Try loading the gzipped file in XMMS and see what happens:-) -- // André
Re: Journaling file system
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:57:36AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Note that out of all of these, only reiserfs has been ported to the > 2.4.0-testX series. Actually, xfs has been ported too. I just saw on freshmeat an announcement of xfs for linux-2.4.0-test5. The website for the project is here: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ And for the brave, the patches can be downloaded from here: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/ For those looking for a journaling filesystem right now I would go for Reiserfs (http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/). It has had quiet a bit of testing, and it just barely missed inclusion in 2.4. -- // André
Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:11:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > if you want athlon i would wait for asus's new board A7V, many reviewers > seem to agree that it has the best features. it should be out anytime.. While we're on the subject of hardware, does anyone know when USB v2 is expected to be supported on motherboards? When it is I'm ready to update this old machine:-) -- // André
Limit devel-changes to i386 related news
Is it possible to only get announcements from debian-devel-changes regarding a specific architecture? I am primarily interested in i386 changes. -- // André
Re: Kernel recompile problems
> My first problem is that after the recompile and setting up lilo, > when I reboot my computer, every single module fails to load because > of a huge number of unresolved symbol errors. It sounds like you forgot to install the modules, or installed them in the same directory as the old modules. Modules reside in /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION. When installing new modules you should either remove or move the old directory before running modules_install. So ifyou have a directory named /lib/modules/2.2.16 you could rename that to /lib/modules/2.2.16_old and then run modules_install. After I went back to the original kernel, I'm having problems with vfat.o and fat.o. Probably because you overwrote the old modules with the new ones, and the kernel you're running now wasn't compiled at the same time as these modules. -- // André
Re: Non-root user executing pon
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:04:30PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote: > When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get "Connect script > failed". Pon works fine for the root user. I changed several file > permissions to get this far. Do I have to change permissions on all > the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory too? Is there an easy way > to allow non-root users to use pon? There sure is, just run pppconfig and choose to add a ppp user. Or you could manually add that user to the "dip" group. -- // André
Re: Sound..should be easy, but...
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:59:51PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > alias sound-slot-0 sound > alias sound-service-0-0 sb > alias sound-service-0-3 sb sound-service-0-0 is the mixer, right? But what is sound-service-0-3? Is there a complete list of these somewhere? The Documentation/sound/Introduction document is not up to date as far as I can tell. -- // André
Re: My first ever incursion into sound isn't very successful
> (3) Create a file emu10k1 in /etc/modutils with the following contenst: > alias char-major-14 emu10k1 Why not use /etc/modutils/aliases? -- // André
