Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-03 Thread James Mastros
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 01:14:10PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: no, dont need to load oss driver, just the es1370 That's what I thought after reading the kernel es1370 docs; good. Right now I've got the driver compiled straight into the kernel (not as a module). Interesting, how

vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-03 Thread Pollywog
vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not really vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems? vim works well, but vi is weird. It acts buggy. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: error running make

1999-04-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 05:14:03PM -1000, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, I downloaded imwheel 0.9.5 and ran the make command and got an error. I was wondering if you knew what I am missing. It looks like when it's trying to look for some X library and other stuff. jax.h:6: X11/Xlib.h: No

Re: network interface

1999-04-03 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Jianbo Wang wrote: When I played with redhat, it has netcfg to create and config a network interface, does anyone know if there is a software in debian to do the same thing? Or how can I create a network interface and activate it? dinstall on the rescue disk does the

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-03 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not really vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems? vim works well, but vi is weird. It acts buggy. /usr/bin/vi is linked to /etc/alternatives/vi; take a look at what

Re: Install - which device drivers?

1999-04-03 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Stefan Langerman wrote: Ok, I'm installing slink right now, and I'm currently in the part where you install device drivers. Now, How do you know which are the ones you need? most of them have only one short line of explaination, (one even just has a '.'), and several

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Apr-99 thomas lakofski wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not really vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems? vim works well, but vi is weird. It acts buggy. /usr/bin/vi is linked to

Re: top like drive usage utility?

1999-04-03 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Chris Brown wrote: Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. They would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for 10 minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is accessing the disks? actually, top will do

Re: Wvdial permissions

1999-04-03 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Chris Mayes wrote: This means that the dialout group can read it, right? So, I did this to the dialout line of /etc/group: dialout:x:20:cmayes: close: dialout:x:20:cmayes you would separate users by commas if you had more than one in that group. the 'adduser' command

Re: Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-03 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 12:46:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of 8hz-mp3, but it takes like 10hrs to rip and encode a cd. I'd prefer an open source encoder, but am not opposed to a commercial one. I just want to get one that is fast. i use cdparanoia for ripping and bladeenc for

Re: Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: : On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 12:46:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : of 8hz-mp3, but it takes like 10hrs to rip and encode a cd. I'd prefer : an open source encoder, but am not opposed to a commercial one. I just : want to get one that is fast.

Re: X locales problems.

1999-04-03 Thread José
Em sáb, 03 abr 1999, Branden Robinson escreveu: Make sure you're using the latest version of the slink xlib6g package. The version number is 3.3.2.3a-11. For a while the locale and NLS data got caught in limbo, but that problem was solved months ago. My

Re: float matrices under MuPAD (was: What DO you lose with Linux ???)

1999-04-03 Thread Jerry Lynn Kreps
Look up the DOMAIN of FRACTIONS--- DOM::FRACTIONS Mark Phillips wrote: I do my symbolic math with MuPAD 3.4 instead of MathCad 7.0 but I must be dilusional there also. On a total tangent --- have you worked out a way of getting matrices with floating point arithmetic under MuPAD? I

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to automatically bounce messages over a certain size as soon as they arrive at the ISP :-) I doubt I'd get so many large attchments if I could do that, actually it's only one person who regularly sends me large attachments and I'm going to

C Programming problem (termios)

1999-04-03 Thread Wayne Topa
I am writing a C program to interface with a Weather Station connected to /dev/ttyS2. I has the program working, to a point, with kernel 2.2.3 on slink. I was using the following post initialization: void SetBaudCOM(int new_baud) { int baudrate; switch(new_baud) {

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-03 Thread David Z. Maze
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pollywog vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my Pollywog system is not really vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to Pollywog vim on most systems? On most Unix systems (including the Suns and SGIs I use on a routine basis) 'vi' is a pretty

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