Re: APT

1999-10-29 Thread ferret
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Jokker wrote: I remember awhile back there being problems with APT for sparc getting stuck in infinite loops...has this been resolved? or should I go for an older distrib? I am trying to do an ftp install I've had this exact same problem after updating my

Sparc Newbie looking for information...

1999-10-29 Thread ferret
Hello, I've recently picked up a used Sparc IPX machine and gotten Slink installed on it. I'm interested in any online information about the machine and what it's capible of, hardware-wise. It has an sbus card in it that I haven't been able to identify by FCC number, and I'd like to know how to

Re: sound compilation problem with kernel = 2.2.10

1999-10-29 Thread Baudin maxime
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 11:10:22AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Baudin maxime wrote: Hi, I installed S/Linux on a RDI powerlite (full sparc5 compatible tapdole) This computer use an amd7930 as sound chip. I got problems to compile it for now. simple

Silo 0.9.3

1999-10-29 Thread Davide Barbieri
Hi, has someone tried the new silo 0.9.3? I have some problems with my sparcstations, and could not test it well. In particular I need someone who can confirm that it works well on Ultra, as Ben Collins told me that silo 0.8.9 didn't work for him. For those who has a debian account, there is a

Re: audio?

1999-10-29 Thread sharkey
you probably are. default setting for /dev/audio is 8bit mono ulaw. a wav may or may not have a header which happens to be of the correct size to be one or more audio blocks and hence not upset things when you cat it to /dev/audio, i dunno. I was under the impression that an audio block for

Re: Silo 0.9.3

1999-10-29 Thread sharkey
has someone tried the new silo 0.9.3? I haven't, but I'm willing to do so. I have some problems with my sparcstations, and could not test it well. In particular I need someone who can confirm that it works well on Ultra, as Ben Collins told me that silo 0.8.9 didn't work for him. I have an

Re: Silo 0.9.3

1999-10-29 Thread Davide Barbieri
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:45:35PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has someone tried the new silo 0.9.3? I haven't, but I'm willing to do so. [...] Can you put it somewhere publicly accessible? as someone explain to me I can use faure ... so, you can get silo_0.9.3.deb on

Re: Silo 0.9.3

1999-10-29 Thread sharkey
as someone explain to me I can use faure ... so, you can get silo_0.9.3.deb on http://faure.debian.org/~paci It works for me on an ultra 1. Eric

rsh when root

1999-10-29 Thread Horst Wetzel
Hello everybody, I want to use rsh for remote backup. It works for normal users but as root not. Does anyone knows which files do I have to edit? Thank you.

Re: rsh when root

1999-10-29 Thread sharkey
I want to use rsh for remote backup. It works for normal users but as root not. Ack! rsh! Ack! Are you using a -l flag? Is there some reason you can't use ssh? Eric

Re: audio?

1999-10-29 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you probably are. default setting for /dev/audio is 8bit mono ulaw. a wav may or may not have a header which happens to be of the correct size to be one or more audio blocks and hence not upset things when you cat it to /dev/audio, i dunno.

Re: audio?

1999-10-29 Thread sharkey
Understandably so. This is Linux, after all. And? Then where's my RealPlayer, since they support Linux? No they don't. They pay Linux lip service. Supported Linux software comes with source. Period. No exceptions. Anything else is just hot air. Hell, I can't even install RealPlayer on

Re: Bug#48549: w3m crashes on sparc

1999-10-29 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
Thank you for your bug reports. At Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:23:44 +0200 (CEST), Teun Vink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Hi, can you explain why w3m is using the older libgc? Is there no sparc port of libgc5? I would suspect that there is a