Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5? RESOLVED
Thanx for the reply Problem is resolved. They show up in the device manager, and I know they work because of diagnostic utilities provided with the board. The problem was that non of the apps I used would see com5. Hyperterm still won't, but PCPlus did after some configuration of PCPlus. So problem is resolved. Thanx again, Ed On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward J Young writes: [snip] I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the W/World, most programs don't go up there. I believe it's simply that they have hardcoded their programs, not that it's not possible. Ok, are the additional serial ports shown in the device manager menu? (Settings, Control panel, System, Device Manager, Ports) If they show there, you should be able to use Hyperterm. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?
Kent, I guess I didn't make myself clear. I need a com program to *use* the ports, not to verify that they work. I already know that they work, and that the card is working. I know this by some other diagnostics which the board came with. The new ports are mapped to com5 and above. I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the W/World, most programs don't go up there. I believe it's simply that they have hardcoded their programs, not that it's not possible. Thanx, Ed On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: I've never played with more than 4 com ports, so this may not work at all, but you can give it a go. Attach a modem to one of the ports (say, COM5), then from a Command Prompt Only (or Restart Computer in MS-DOS Mode) prompt, enter a command like: echo ATDT(phone_num_of_your_second_line) COM5 and see if the modem dials your second phone line. If so, then you know the card is (at least partially) working. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?
Sorry to ask about a W/95 issue here, but I need to validate a board on W/95 before I use it on Linux. I need to be able to talk to my extended serial ports using a terminal program. I can't find any Software that will open a terminal and talk to anything above COM4. PCPlus, hyperterm, etc are hardcoded to COM4 and below, so I can't even get started with those. I am using a Cyclades 4yo board which adds 4 more serial ports and works under Linux. Too bad W/95 apps are limiting me. Ed Young
kpilot errors out with lib error
I've been trying to run kpilot but when I try to invoke it I get the error: kpilot: error in loading shared libraries libkfile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dpkg sez that kpilot is installed: Alaska:~# dpkg -s kpilot Package: kpilot Status: install ok installed Installed-Size: 1207 Maintainer: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 3.0.2-1 Depends: kdelibs0g (= 2:980312), libc6, libstdc++2.8 (= 2.90.26-1), qt1g (= 1.33-5), xlib6g (= 3.3-5) Description: PalmPilot/III hotsync package Kpilot provides file transfer and sync capabilities for owners of the 3COM PalmPilot or Palm III PDAs. It currently includes conduits for mail, datebook, and memo pad. It seems that my libraries are installed correctly: Alaska:~# dpkg -S libkfile kdelibs0g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so kdelibs0g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.1 kdelibs0g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.la kdelibs0g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.1.0.0 I have the latest kdelibs0 Alaska:~# apt-get install kdelibs0g Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok Sorry, kdelibs0g is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 220 not upgraded. What could the matter be??? Thanx, Ed
As user: swap capslock/cntrl?
How do I swap the capslock and control keys on a standard PC keyboard as a user only? (not as root) I need to do this so I don't get Carpel Tunnel from straining to hit the control key when running emacs all the time. Since this is a system at Univ. of Colorado, and I'm not root, I need to do it in user space. Thanx, Ed Young
Off-topic:non-scsi tape backup?
Sorry if this is off-topic, it's just that this list has proven to be so helpful in many areas. Please suggest any alternate news groups that may be better for this question. I've not been receiving the debian-users digest list lately and am reposting this in part to test if this bounces, and to reissue the question. I'd like to get my tape backup working under Linux. I have a connor QIC-3020 Travan tape system. This drive has a separate controler which is connected to an ISA slot. It uses the same IRQ (6) as the floppy and the same DMA channel (2). I believe this is a tape drive which could connect directly to the floppy controler, but I never could get it working that way. My questions are: Is anyone familiar with this type of tape backup system, and has gotten it working under Linux? DoI need the interface card or is it better to run it directly from the floppy controler? I'm not interested in performance (speed) since I'll do backups lat at night. Is this an ftape issue and if so, how do I proceed to configure? Thanx in advance for any help. Regards, Ed Young
Is www.debian.org down?
I've not been getting the debian-users digest list lately, and I can't hit the www.debian.org site. Is there a problem on my end or debians's. If this is making it to the list, someone please respond and let me know. Thank you, Ed Young
Connor QIC-3020 Tape backup?
I'd like to get my tape backup working under Debian. I have a connor QIC-3020 Travan tape system. This drive has a separate controler which is connected to an ISA slot. It uses the same IRQ (6) as the floppy and the same DMA channel (2). I believe this is a tape drive which could connect directly to the floppy controler, but I never could get it working that way. My questions are: Is anyone familiar with this type of tape backup system, and has gotten it working under Linux? DoI need the interface card or is it better to run it directly from the floppy controler? I'm not interested in performance (speed) since I'll do backups lat at night. Is this an ftape issue and if so, how do I proceed to configure? Thanx in advance for any help. Regards, Ed Young
Re: Proportional fonts in Kde?
Thanx for the tip. That fixed the problem in Emacs, I believe, or atleast is a workaround. Strangely, Xemacs now has reverse video and hard to read fonts. I've never been able to try xemacs because of this problem. I'll check into this problem. Thanx again, Ed On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Edward J Young wrote: I updated my KDE packages, to 1.0and now GNU emacs19's fonts are different, and very difficult to read. The video is now reverse video and very difficult to read. Yeah, KDE 1.0 did the same thing to me. What happens is that KDE installs some very poorly constructed app-defaults files in /usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/. They made emacs completely unusable on my system, and screwed with Netscape in suble ways. I couldn't figure out where that directory was refered to in the KDE scripts, so I simply deleted it. THings went back to normal. These files are installed as part of the kdebase package, and honestly, I think they're so bad that they're worthy of a bug report. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNc4YpIdCcpBjGWoFAQGa7AQAmLIHsOBaAfx2gH2JGFKvZ2MUH24hC4f7 ZIzUpqWQTsnO703hV+suqYw3qvFUO38XhiE6i28Xdep3ArWneT9LRFRhQ+GJtIuB qJr0T4M7qWVao22aAnp9mpEsFiia0Afau5xyngXMKKhl5lcPmQPBzd43GnHvoRws ecA+Sar6jMc= =UtJ6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Proportional fonts in Kde?
I updated my KDE packages, to 1.0and now GNU emacs19's fonts are different, and very difficult to read. The video is now reverse video and very difficult to read. I believe that they are now non proportional fonts. So when running dired, for example, now the files and permissions etc, don't line up. Is the problem the default font in KDE? If so how do you chang the default font in kde? Any other ideas? Thanx Ed
change from fvwm95 to kde?
I installed Debian 2.0 with fvwm95 as the window manager. I'd now like to use kde. I installed all the packages and am able to run kde, but it seems to be running on top of fvwm95. How can I change the window manager to kde? Where is the window manager invoked? Thanx in advance. Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
only root can hear sound..?
I've got something of a catch 22 going with regard to rvplayer and netscape, and the oss sound driver. I loaded the oss sound driver for my 2.0 config and it works nicely, but for root only. play -v /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/Snicker.au results in: /dev/dsp: Permission denied I can't run netscape as root (a security issue) and I can't hear audio as a user. Rvplayer works only under root root as well. I can start it up as a user, but can't hear anything, presumably because of th permissions problem. Thanx for help on this matter. Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Netscape won't invoke rvplayer.
Got the user access to audio working. Thanx. Now, how do you get Netscape to invoke the rvplayer when I click on a realaudio clip? I installed both Netscape and rvplayer using the Debian package installers. First Netscape and then rvplayer, if that matters. Thanx in advance, Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Small Laptop, etc
I din't believe it matters, but the laptop is a T1900, not a T2100 as I said before. Thanx for all the responses, though. Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs
I have upgraded from 1.3.1 to hamm with some difficulty, but feel like I'm getting there. My latest problem is that when invoking emacs from a console, I get segmentation fault, and no emacs. I don't believe that emacs was upgraded during the deselect process so I suspect that the version I had (v19.34.?) requires the old libc, though I realy don't understand the issues here. How do I rectify this? By running deselect and upgrading Emacs. I'm loath to try that since emacs is huge and a download would be epic, but if absolutely necessary I will. If it matters, My upgrade went like this: -autoup.sh -deselect with ACCESS UPDATE, INSTALL (No SELECT) -several more iterations of INSTALL since the first ones resulted in brokenly uninstalled packages. -dselect and running SELECT to get X running (but that's another posting...) Now deselect reports no brokenly installed packages and I believe that all the necessary packages are now installed. So again, how do I fix emacs? Thanx in advance. Ed NL7FU [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs
I should mention that in the deselect screen, there are headings for packages that are headed as obsolete, one being emacs. Does this mean what I think: that emacs 19.34.? is now obsolete because I've upgraded around it and now it needs upgrading too? Probobly. There are some other packages labeled obsolete as well. How should this be handled? One other question: Where can I get a CD in the Denver area? I would order a CD of 2.0 but it seems to still be in a state of flux and I don't want to have a CD which may or may not have a fully stable Debian system. Thanx, Ed On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Edward J. Young wrote: I have upgraded from 1.3.1 to hamm with some difficulty, but feel like I'm getting there. My latest problem is that when invoking emacs from a console, I get segmentation fault, and no emacs. I don't believe that emacs was upgraded during the deselect process so I suspect that the version I had (v19.34.?) requires the old libc, though I realy don't understand the issues here. How do I rectify this? By running deselect and upgrading Emacs. I'm loath to try that since emacs is huge and a download would be epic, but if absolutely necessary I will. If it matters, My upgrade went like this: -autoup.sh -deselect with ACCESS UPDATE, INSTALL (No SELECT) -several more iterations of INSTALL since the first ones resulted in brokenly uninstalled packages. -dselect and running SELECT to get X running (but that's another posting...) Now deselect reports no brokenly installed packages and I believe that all the necessary packages are now installed. So again, how do I fix emacs? Thanx in advance. Ed NL7FU [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
