Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura

I hate Windows (1995-now)
so
I start to get interested in Linux. (1997)
but
I don't have the adequate attitude/knowledge (1998. Debian 2.0 install 
ok but problems with Winblows, still needed at the time).
I keep on trying (1999. RedHat, but flakey electrical installation make 
lots of kernel panics. W9X simply crashes a lot).
I solve the electricity issue. Corel stinks (2000)
I go to a basic course of Linux (I learn Slackware).

I return to home, and I think about what distro do I choose.



I am Catalan, and Mandrake is the best Catalanised distro. Here we have 
to defend our language _every day_.
But I think and think and I decide Debian is the only solution for me 
and to work for: 

freedom. I agree 100% on the main/contrib/non-free model.

Frankly speaking if Debian was not the technically best Linux distro in 
the world, I wouldn't care and I'd continue with it, only for the political 
reasons. Debian can be Catalanised, but I don't think Mandrake can transform in 
a non-profit organisation.

About the technical reasons, I like Debian because

-Very flexible: from 386 to PI.
-Stable. 0 undocumented crashes.
-Honesty (unstable/stable branches) 
-A thing that I hate and it's very common today it's that you can get 
your work done easily but loosing flexibility. But because the program is bad 
made, if you run into a problem... Good luck! Of course, Debian is 'harder, but 
safer'. The ocasionally really easy stuff like pppconfig works... And no more 
headaches.
-debian lists. debian-user is my #1 solution provider (by reading 
archives 90% of the times).

Sure I miss something, but...

Hope it's interesting,


Ignasi

P.S. Ah, I missed something.



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Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:03:56AM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> I just upgraded my sound card from an Vibra 16x to a Creative Ensoniq
> PCI. My question is, which modules do I need to use this card. I know
> that the es1371.o module will work with the card, but what other modules
> 
> do I need to load in order to play midi and wave files and to listen to
> audio CDs?


Well, I have the es137X stuff integrated in the kernel, not as a module

Jan 16 03:22:15 pabellon kernel: es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 
0x1371 revisi
on 0x06
Jan 16 03:22:15 pabellon kernel: es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0x1080 irq 11
Jan 16 03:22:15 pabellon kernel: es1371: features: joystick 0x0
Jan 16 03:22:15 pabellon kernel: es1371: codec vendor CRY (0x435259) revision 
19 (0x13)
Jan 16 03:22:15 pabellon kernel: es1371: codec features Headphone out 20bit DAC 
18bit ADC
Jan 16 03:22:15 pabellon kernel: es1371: stereo enhancement: Crystal 
Semiconductor 3D Stereo 
Enhancement

But I don't think it does not need another module than the one you mention.

I remember you perhaps need a package or whatever called timidity in order to 
hear midi's, but I cannot say much, as I don't hear them. Please check in the 
archives.

Hope that it's useful,


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Re: OT: X window-managers

2001-01-15 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:23:26AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:47:28AM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> > Hi all. I'm curious..  
> > I installed X for the first(?) time last weekend
> > and I installed FVWM. I had heard about Gnome,
> > but decided not to use it because I wanted
> > something fast and small. Now I'm wondering, what
> > are the advantages to using something like Gnome,
> > (which runs on top of a window manager anyways)
> > when I can get the same functionality from a
> > smaller, yet configurable, window manager?

I always ask myself the same question... I think that there's a kind of drag 
and drop support in Gnome, but many programs here are enough functional to not 
care much about that kind of Windoze stuff.

Here using Window Maker with lots of xterms...

Best,


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Re: potato instalation error

2000-12-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:33:19PM -0200, Antonio wrote:




> I`m trying too install the potato with CDROM (with the 5 boot`s floppies: 
> rescue, root, driver1, driver2 and driver3).
> It`s all well until the Base System instalation. I select the CDROM 
> instalation and it begin read the Debian CDROM.

Actually you don't need all that floppies. Rescue and boot will lead you to the 
installation program.

> The Base System is being extracted from
> 
> /instmnt/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz

> 
> 
> 
> After, it write:
> 
> 
> 
> File error!
> 
> There was a problem extracting the Base System from
> 
> /instmnt/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz
> 
>


It could be an error with the CD. Try to clean the CD-ROM unit and the CD 
itself. Check for scratches.


Hope that's useful,


Ignasi

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Re: Locale annoying warning

2000-12-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hola Pedro,

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:13:00AM -0500, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> I have a fresh unstable install and every time I operate on the packages 
> with apt-get I get the following:
> 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>LANGUAGE = (unset),
>LC_ALL = (unset),
>LANG = "c"
>are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> 
> Where am I supposed to set these variables, /etc/profile? 


It will be useful for you.

If you need to spanishize your Debian, in http://www.laespiral.org there is a 
nice Debian manual to do it so.

The lowercase "c"... I've always read it as C, not c... C is just a default.


Saludos,


Ignasi






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Re: 'sendmail' option -commented- in Muttrc... (SOLVED)

2000-12-27 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:10:56PM -0500, D-Man et al wrote:

>[...] commented out [...] default value [...]

Oh, thank you. I thought that all missing parameters like this commented out 
one, would result in mutt complaining when sending mail.

> PS.  I would guess that english isn't your native language, and I
> don't want to you feel insulted after reading my message, I just don't
> want to assume anything since that results in misunderstandings (and
> even more confusion on your part when it doesn't work the way you want
> it to)

I have not felt insulted at all. Actually I thought that 'commented out' would 
mean 'uncommented' :)

Thank you to all. 

Ignasi

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Re: 'sendmail' option -commented- in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-26 Thread Ignasi Tura
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:44:24AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote:
> > Dear colleagues,
> > 
> > I am able to send mail correctly  with Mutt.
> > 
> > I take a look to what happens when I send mail with mutt, and the manual 
> > sends it sends a command to sendmail (in this case, aka exim). It seems 
> > that it's done through the option 'set sendmail' in /etc/Muttrc.
> > 
> > But I have this option commented!
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what I'm missing, in order to understand it?
> 
> The Fine Manual says:
> 
>   6.3.176.  sendmail
> 
>   Type: path
>   Default: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"
> 
> So if you uncomment this option mutt uses the default as specified above.

Uh... Rereading, it seems I wrote a somewhat indecent letter.

I wanted to mean that I have the 'sendmail' option commented.
I don't have a 'sendmail' option in my .muttrc.
But the mail is sent.

Why?

What I am missing?

Did I understood your answer?

> The Fine Manual says:
>

:) I confess I've configured almost all the Debian by just grepping and lessing 
documentation. I've never read a whole manual. My lazy days are counted?


Best,


Ignasi





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'sendmail' option in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-26 Thread Ignasi Tura
Dear colleagues,

I am able to send mail correctly  with Mutt.

I take a look to what happens when I send mail with mutt, and the manual sends 
it sends a command to sendmail (in this case, aka exim). It seems that it's 
done through the option 'set sendmail' in /etc/Muttrc.

But I have this option commented!

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing, in order to understand it?


Thanks,


Ignasi

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exim pop auth question

2000-12-23 Thread Ignasi Tura
Dear colleagues,

I use a mail service that needs POP authentication before sending messages 
through SMTP.

I've read the exim FAQ and it points me to the 
http://cc.ysu.edu/~doug/exim-pop.tar.Z in order to solve this.

But I'm no expert and I haven't any 'make it easy' guide in order to have it 
working, as I have in /usr/doc/exim/README.Debian and the daemonisation [sic] 
of exim.

I'd like to know experiences on this, or if you could suggest me any other 
mailer for just a poor soul dialup intermittent connection.

I know the answer could be RTFM, but TFM is so huge and technical...

Thank you. If I finish this, the network will be the last part to configure.


Best,


Ignasi

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Re: Merry Christmas

2000-12-22 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:24:08PM +0100, J. Reilink wrote:
> Alex Horsnell wrote:
> > 
> > To everyone on the list,
> > 
> > Thank you for all your help and advise this year, I hope you all have a 
> > _VERY_
> > Merry Christmas and a brilliant Millennium!!
> > 
> > I look forward to further help and advise in the New Year!

> Hereby I also want to wish everyone on the list a Merry Christmas and
> a Happy New Year !!

Merry Christmas and happy new year to this great list and to all the Debianised 
computers :)


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Re: I can't type any ü, ä or ö in a shell

2000-12-20 Thread Ignasi Tura
> can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less" is
> also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What do I
> have to look at to fix it?

in /etc/profile

use 


export LANG=

and then, put your locale (mine is ca_ES, which means Catalonia_Spanish State).

so 


export LANG=ca_ES

you can take a look to them on 


/usr/share/locale/

Refer to the list of your country to put it the way you need.


Aufwidersen [sic]


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Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Ignasi Tura
In www.debianplanet.org or in www.debianhelp.org there was a document that 
treated this issue.


Hope that helps,


Ignasi

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

2000-12-13 Thread Ignasi Tura
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase
> > in posts in the last few weeks. 

Yes, I noticed it so. I usually go to geocrawler.com to read debian-user 
archives. There is there a top ten mailing list. Since August we were the third 
(SuSE Linux-2, Linux-Kernel-1).

Since the beginnings of December we are the first!

This is a good notice, of course.

Let's see if we continue this way or we just split (I suggest debian-novice if 
there's the case).


Best to all list: Our effort (developers, users), make Debian the way it is.


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Re: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-11 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hola Rodolfo, salutacions des de Barcelona!

> After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to 
> use Debian as my distro and not change anymore.

Good decision! :)

> 
> I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled 
> distros (RH7, for instance), but I´d like to have some packages in 
> more bleeding-edge versions. Any problem about that? Should I 
> install woody instead if I intend to use non-stable packages?

I've read many times that using woody is like using RH (not 7, it's curious but 
this list was full of ex RedHat sysadmins. With RH 7 it seems that this number 
is even increasing!)

> 
> -After reading Debian docs, I don't get how updating works. Should 
> I expect stable packages of gnome 1.2, XFree 4, etc.for potato or 
> they're reserved for when woody becomes stable? In different 
> words: through updating, does potato become woody, or potato 
> doesn't change and it's woody what will change until stability?
> 
> -How stable is unstable? I'm not running a server, should I go to 
> woody directly?

You can try potato with the bleeding edge packages you need from woody.

If you used in detail those distros (going to /etc with a text editor) Debian 
won't be painful.

You can check the Xfree 4 issues on this list, in the previous weeks. There 
have been some.



Que vagi bé,

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Re: odd gpm behavior

2000-12-07 Thread Ignasi Tura



> I'm running potato, and have recently been having trouble with my
> mouse not working under X (XFree86 3.3.6), even though it worked
> fine on the console. That (and some tinkering and reading) led me
> to believe that gpm might be causing trouble.
> 
> At the same time, my dialup with ppp and wvdial quit working a few
> days ago, for no reason that I could discover. pppd appeared to
> connect to my ISP, and I could ping the local IP assigned by pppd,
> but I was unable to ping the remote side.
> 
> Anyway, I read somewhere that X controls the mouse very well all
> by itself, so I used 'update-rc.d -f gpm remove' to turn off gpm,
> and voila! Not only does my mouse work, but now pppd works again
> as well!
> 
> I'm at work, and not able to test this yet, but tonight I'm going
> to start gpm again, and see if that breaks my pppd. Has anyone
> experienced this?

gpm has never broken my pppd, but the issue you mention is quite usual.

I don't remember much how I solved it, but these /dev settings were 
important, AFAIR.

These ones are mine and I can use both gpm and X without any trouble.


prw-r--r--1 root root0 oct  2 03:22 gpmdata
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root5 oct  2 03:23 mouse -> psaux


You'll have more info in the mailing list archives.


Best,


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wmaker crashes. Locale involved?

2000-12-07 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi again,

I'm recently experiencing a much larger wmaker crashes.
My locale ca_ES is not supported by it.
But I can do several long sessions without problems.
My problem is this one: I don't know what can cause the crash.

my most recent .xsession-errors are quite simple:


Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: lang/locale settings will cause printing problems
ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/wrapper.d: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

^
|
--This error was given one hour before the crash.

And then: BUM! Crash!
|
V

/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker fatal error: got signal 11 (Segmentation fault)

/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker fatal error: got signal 11 (Segmentation fault)

/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker fatal error: crashed while trying to do some 
post-crash cleanup. Aborting immediatelly.
xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
mutt:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"


Another crash: this wmaker session has longed for 30 seconds.

/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker warning: X server does not support locale
/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker warning: cannot set locale modifiers
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker fatal error: got signal 11 (Segmentation fault)

/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker warning: trying to restart Window Maker...
/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker warning: X server does not support locale
/usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker warning: cannot set locale modifiers

Where can I get more clues?



Thanks,

Ignasi

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Re: Getting off-line version of debian manual

2000-12-06 Thread Ignasi Tura


On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:04:24PM +1000, Michael Glickman wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to read the manual off-line (e.g. a tarball that has all
> html's or a postscript version) ?
> 
> Awaiting reply impatiently.
> 
> Michael


Package: debian-guide
Version: 1.0.0
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/doc/debian-guide_1.0.0.deb
Description: Text from: Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage
This package will install the full text in HTML and PostScript formats
from the book "Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage" by
Debian developers John Goerzen and Ossama Othman (ISBN 0-7357-0914-9).
You can find the installed items under /usr/doc/debian-guide.
 
Of course, you can also download it with the same path on the ftp, or go to the 
usual link from Debian and try there the very good program (although 
complicated, as always) wget.

If you don't have a Debian machine running near, another program for Windoze 
that will follow the links and download all the pages, like wget, is one called 
webcopier, free as beer.



Best,


Ignasi


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Re: WM for GNOME

2000-12-06 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi Marcin,

F12 on wmaker -> window managers -> info panel...

wmaker says it's Gnome compliant. There are a pair of options in 
WPrefs, at the far right of the menu, regarding compatiblity with Gnome.

Hope that you like Gnome 


(I'm also running only wmaker)


Best,


Ignasi

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:54:06AM +0100, Marcin Landowski wrote:
>   Hi
> 
>   I have never used GNOME before but I have taken an interest in
> possibilities of this environment and plane to learn and use
> GNOME.
> I very like WindowMaker, but GNOME in Potato uses icewm or
> sawmil. How can I integrity GNOME and WindowMaker to use it
> together?
> 
> best rigards
> 
> PS. I know it is inside documentation but I'd like for an
> nice start - there will be a time to study documentation


















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Fetchmail skips messages that Netscape Messenger does not

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hello list,

I have the following problem with Fetchmail. Now it does skip letters 
that should be downloaded. It run appropiately in the past but now I don't know 
what happens. 
I've tried to download the mail with Netscape Messenger, and it behaves 
correctly.

In my .fetchmailrc I have the option 'keep'.

Fetchmail still runs correctly on the other POP account I have, with 
'flush' and 'expunge 5' options.

I changed the settings for the troubling POP account adding 'fetchall', 
and it downloaded them all, but it's not what I need, of course.

I also don't like Netscape Messenger so...

Any suggestions?

Thanks for all,


Ignasi





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Kernel config questions: SCSI, Tux and letters

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hello list,

I have a SCSI card Symbios Logic 53c400. Searching list archives I read that 
the kernel option for my card was the NCR 5380.

But if I look the kernel options in SCSI low-level drivers I find the following 
options:

NCR53c7,8xx SCSI support   
NCR53C8XX SCSI support

and a final 

SYM53C8XX SCSI support

What one should I choose?

The symbios 53c416 no, isn't it?


And another pair of questions.

When loading the default Debian kernel, Tux appears with a beer. I know that 
this is done with a pair of kernel options. I'd like to keep it, but there is 
something strange with that graphic. In a particular moment of kernel boot, 
Tux's colours get totally psychodelic. This has happened with an S3 Virge, with 
a NVIDIA TNT and with a Cirrus Logic ISA card. Can I solve this? Is there an 
explanation?

What option should I add in order to get smaller letters in the console while 
booting and in bash? It's in "console drivers" option? What option? Sorry, but 
I didn't understood much the help.

Thank you for your help. These are the only affairs I had with kernel config 
before compiling and installing it.


Ignasi

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Re: Netscape

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Netscape 4.73 from Potato r0 works well here.

Best,

Ignasi

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:31:26PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote:
> Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape?
> 
> I get a crash when downloading
> http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm
> 
> Do anyone else get that? If so, can you
> email me with your version of Netscape?
> 
> Does Netscape 6 have this problem?
> 
> I am considering upgrading, particularly if
> crashes have been fixed.
> 
> 
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Re: Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

2000-12-04 Thread Ignasi Tura
> That's be fetchmail's default.  If it's not doing it, then check your
> configuration (options like 'flush', 'keep' and 'nokeep' affect these
> things). See man fetchmail for the nitty gritty.

Thanks for your answer, but perhaps I've not done the question with much 
accuracy.
I know that fetchmail options. Actually in my .fetchmailrc I put the 'keep' 
option.

But, as an example for my situation:

I download the mail. The mail is kept with the 'keep' option. I read it with 
mutt and I decide to delete one of that emails and keep the others. If I was 
using Netscape Messenger or Eudora Light, for example, the next time I 
downloaded mail that letter would be also deleted in the server, and the others 
would be kept.

I would like this behaviour, as I also access Yahoo with the browser.

If it's RTFM again, please forgive me. I can't figure how the mutt and 
fetchmail can communicatein this way.


Best,


Ignasi



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Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

2000-12-04 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi list,

I'd like to know if I can enable any option in the typical Debian
mail combination fetchmail-mutt-exim to do like the Netscape Messenger option 
"When deleting a message locally, remove it from the server".

Thank you.


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Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Ignasi Tura
I won't say much more that has been said before (actually I wouldn't be 
able to say halfof the comments said, he). But, as an ex-Eudora Light user I'll 
tell you something that perhaps you'll appreciate a lot. When emptying the 
trash (200 messages per day, to say the least) the differences are the 
following:

Eudora: the disk drive song (seven seconds on a PIII?)
Mutt: a SNAP.

Man man man. I still feel quite awkward with Mutt, but I think I'm 
starting a love affair with this program.

On the other hand, I answer the questions I can. As a newbie, there are 
not much, so no trouble at this time.

I delete more than 95% of messages. I keep only the interesting 
messages that I know they would be quite difficult to find using standard 
searching techniques.

I use a lot search engines for this list. I go to http://geocrawler.com 
to do basic search about debian-user. If the thread is enough interesting to 
follow, I follow it copying year, month and day in http://lists.debian.org (The 
reason why I use geocrawler instead of the lists.debian search engine is 
because I'm too lazy to learn how it works :)




Best,


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Re: Purging a package with apt (was: Re: Q: Why 24 depth/not 32?)

2000-11-29 Thread Ignasi Tura
> > apt-get --purge xdm
> > 
>   It should be : apt-get --purge remove xdm

Hi,

I've grepped /usr/doc/apt for 'purge', man apt, apt --help and I haven't found 
any reference towards 'purge'!

I should repeat the commands and clean my glasses, or the docs must be updated?


A purge option for apt was something I missed from it, so I've been interested 
in the theme.


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Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-28 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi,



On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:32:23PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> The truth is that I am not sure. I supposed that it was in .muttrc,
> that's probably the reason why I could not see anything in the
> documentation. Does it mean that mutt uses fetchmail to fetch the
> messages?

>From /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz


  4.10.  POP3 Support (OPTIONAL)


 If Mutt was compiled with POP3 support (by running the configure
 script with the --enable-pop flag), it has the ability to fetch your
 mail from a remote server for local browsing.  When you invoke the
 fetch-mail function (default: G), Mutt attempts to connect to
 ``pop_host'' and authenticate by logging in as ``pop_user''.  After
  the connection is established, you will be prompted for your password
   on the remote system.
Once you have been authenticated, Mutt will fetch all your new mail
  and place it in the local ``spoolfile''.  After this point, Mutt runs
   exactly as if the mail had always been local.

 Note: The POP3 support is there only for convenience, and it's rather
 limited.  If you need more functionality you should consider using a
 specialized program, such as fetchmail


Please don't think I'm using RTFM, because I know the Mutt manual is so huge 
that some issues can be easily missed out.


Saludos,


Ignasi



























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Re: Modem info needed...???

2000-11-26 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hi Larry,

I'm owner of Pavilion 8550 with the same crap as you. I also took off 
that "board" with any unpleasant result.

The Rockwell is also a soundcard which is pretty uncompatible with 
SoundBlaster, which was another reason to remove it and leave it waiting for 
better days... So the CD-ROM connection is just for playing audio CDs. As far 
as I remember, there is also a cable that goes to a TV cable (more or less). No 
problem at all if you remove it. I connected a vulgar US Robotics to a COM 
there and connected without trouble to the 'net. 

Larry... Seizing this... If you ever find a page where appear the 
motherboard models of each Pavilion, please tell me.


Best,


Ignasi


On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:18:30AM -0600, Larry Shields wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I have a HP Pavilion 8590c, which I have installed Debian 2.2.17 on a 20gb
> hd, not thinking about the modem at the time, I just found out that it is a
> Winmodem...This modem has connections to the cd-rom drive, sound etc, now  I
> would like to know what others if any, are using to replace the Rockwell HCF
> 56K Data Fax modem, to have all of the same connections, or how have you
> reconfigured everything with a different modem and have it work
> correctly...??
> 
> Any information would be appreciated, thanks...
> 
> Larry Shields WD9ESU
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acceleration + threshold vs. speed

2000-10-06 Thread Ignasi Tura Olivella
Dear colleagues,

Under 1024x768 the idea of 'acceleration' and 'threshold' from xset
values dizzies me a lot as a Windoze user. I was very used to the simple
'speed' value under Windoze.

Can anyone point me to any direction so I can be able to get something
similar to just speed, like I have under Win?

Thanks,


Ignasi



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