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Re: Direct serial connection

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Robert Vollmert wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:39:53AM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > > The what I would like to do is to use the monitor that I have as a > > console for both machines A and B. Unfortunately, I cant accomplish this > > via a CPU switch, thanks to t

Re: Direct serial connection

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: > > >Is this possible? > > Yes. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt. > > I've just done it (after having some trouble due to an incorrect > /dev/console device). > > You ne

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i added a second HD (200 MB) to a system that already had the basic debian from the first installation steps installed on its 500 MB HD. now i wonder where would be the best mountpoint for the second one so that it will easily be used by the installation of one of the 500+ packages from the CD's.

Re: Exim allowing external mail...

On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:51:12AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > > How do I configure exim to allow mail from non-local hosts? It seems > as though my current (mostly default) exim setup will not allow me to > receive mail from anywhere other than my domain, uiuc.edu. I > currently have all my mai

Re: smail, not open email relay

:-) Done, and with the new version the attrib you suggested is exactly what I needed :-) I put this link in /usr/lib: /usr/lib/libnsl.a -> libident.a Compilation of smail-3.2.0.102-1 needed libnsl, none of the packages in the Debian1.3.1 binary CD contained such file, but I started thinking it co

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Hi there, I need help on understanding and using the ptrace syscall. I've been rtfming for some days, and still can't produce even a simple program that will print "ops!" everytime the traced process does a syscall. This is obviously not my objective, I actually need to code a special purpose "de

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On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 05:22:25PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > What he meant was : Netscape is so buggy and unstable that it shouldn't be in slink == stable != unstable. > >> "SD" == Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SD> Why is Netscape in the slink section ? > SD> It's to b

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Hi! I have a PHP3 script that accepts a file uploaded. I am using split() to parse the space-delimited file. An undefined amount of whitespace seperates the fields, so I am trying to use regexps to replace any contingous whitespace with one space. According to a Perl book I have on hand, " +" (w/o

Re: acct going berserk!

Subject: acct going berserk! Date: Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 10:41:42PM -0700 In reply to:Max Quoting Max([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Has anyone else noticed their /var/account/pacct files growing out of > control? Mine are reaching over 75 MB every day! Is there any way to > figure out w

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I want to use my debian box to capture the input/output from a windows serial line. Currently, the windows machine has a modem connected to say, COM1. My Debian Linux system has two free serial ports ttyS0 and ttyS1. If I were to hook the windows COM1 port through a null modem cable to ttyS0, an

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Question: when I cat a binary file to the screen, all the characters get replaced with graphical symbols. Sometimes, 'reset' will fix this, and sometimes it won't. Is there some utility that can restore such a corrutped screen in every case? What happens is that I slowly lose virtual terminals

Re: Direct serial connection

Hi, On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:39:53AM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > The what I would like to do is to use the monitor that I have as a > console for both machines A and B. Unfortunately, I cant accomplish this > via a CPU switch, thanks to the non-standard monitor cable (Aptiva S90) > that I have.

No such bug number

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Re: apt sources line

Brian Servis wrote: > > Then you need a sources.list line of > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ > > And yes it will sort out which are i386, sparc, etc. In fact, if you > look at the list in dselect it won't even show the architecture field. > > -- > Brian Thanks. I a

Re: MUTT keys and SCREEN

Hi I have no problem with mutt and screen. I just tried exc-k and it worked. This is from ncsa telnet on dos, vt100. -- Rob Murray

Re: /dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:42:49 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >I discovered that on ALL my systems that originally were Debian 2.0 and have > > > >been upgraded to Debian 2.1 /dev/console is wrong. It's a link to /dev/tty0 > >instead of a device special file (mknod -m 622 /dev/console c

Re: X woes

On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 12:20:51PM +0100, David Leal wrote: > I also tried to change the config like this > > XkbKeycodes "xfree86" > XkbTypes "default" > XkbCompat "default" > XkbSymbols"en_US(pc105)+pt" > XkbGeometry "pc(pc105)" or "pc(pc101)" or "pc(pc102)" > > and I get no er

Re: Sound

On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 08:51:15PM +0930, Trevor Glen wrote: > I got it to work, after I reset the computer! I think that it is a problem > with gnome. After I ran the Gnome Control Centre it seemed to lock the > /dev/audio device, and even after I killed, or exited the program it still > returned

Re: xwin

*- On 25 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: xwin" > Jason Winters dixit: > ~> How can I get it so that xwin does not start up when I boot up? > >>From /etc/X11/config: > > run-xconsole > allow-user-resources > allow-user-modmap > allow-user-xsession > allow-failsafe > use-sessreg > no-start-

Re: X Window

On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 07:57:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also XF86Setup, but I believe this one would only work if you have > xserver_svga (or xserver_vga16, or any of those two, not sure) installed. The package description sometimes helps. Package: xf86setup Description: X server con

Re: Hard Lock-Up Problems

On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 09:23:08PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: > I'm suspecting something doesn't either like a specific disk position or > consecutive positions, or a specific stream of bytes. I'm looking at > either hardware, kernel or cmos settings. Having had problems like this before, I'd ask:

Re: /dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)

"Ralf G. R. Bergs" wrote: >Hi, > >I discovered that on ALL my systems that originally were Debian 2.0 and have > >been upgraded to Debian 2.1 /dev/console is wrong. It's a link to /dev/tty0 >instead of a device special file (mknod -m 622 /dev/console c 5 1). > >Can anyone pls.

Re: apt sources line

*- On 25 Apr, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: apt sources line" > George Bonser wrote: >> >> Ok, so what is the line to pick up the slink-proposed-updates packages? >> > > I dunno. I checked out > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/. There is a packages > file in that directory, but

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #746

I finally upgraded to slink, and everything seems fine; there were only minor glitches in the upgrade---I had to install telnet and telnetd manually, for instance. (Thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for advice about using multiple CD's with the new apt.) There's a new message when I boot, though: lsp

Re: Debian, laptops, and X

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > I'm looking at buying a pair of laptops which will need to dual-boot > Windows and Debian. > > I'm not concerned that they be Pentium IV 600 Ghz machines or be huge > number-crunchers, but I would like them to run X enough that I can use > emacs and font-lo

accelerated X

I just put a system together, installed slink, installed AX5, and everything was fine. I upgraded to potato, and X still works, but when I try to run Xsetup I get a segmentation fault. On my main system I just stripped my operating system, which was slink, and reinstalled that, upgraded to potato

Re: debian 2.1 installation

wolfgang zeikat wrote: > > hi, > i am new on this busy list and fairly new to linux. > > when trying to install netscape from the debian 2.1 CD > 5/5 via dselect i got errors that files were not found > where dselect had expected them. how do i find and > copy them to where dselect wants them (mc

Re: Debian, laptops, and X

I have a Dell Inspiron 3000. I have 800x600. go to http://ompages.com/debian/laptoptopscreenshot to see for your self. I use the XBF_neomagic xserver from RH. It's pretty nice. I've no problems. Dell laptops kick ass. They are a bit pricy though. I hear IBM thinkpads are nice, and very li

Re: Sound

> I got it to work, after I reset the computer! I think that it is a problem > with gnome. After I ran the Gnome Control Centre it seemed to lock the > /dev/audio device, and even after I killed, or exited the program it still > returned the Device or Resource..etc. Yeah, gnome is still a little

Debian, laptops, and X

I'm looking at buying a pair of laptops which will need to dual-boot Windows and Debian. I'm not concerned that they be Pentium IV 600 Ghz machines or be huge number-crunchers, but I would like them to run X enough that I can use emacs and font-lock mode, netscape (with something more that 256 col

Re: debian 2.1 installation

Am Son, 25 Apr 1999 schrieb wolfgang zeikat: > hi, > i am new on this busy list and fairly new to linux. > > when trying to install netscape from the debian 2.1 CD > 5/5 via dselect i got errors that files were not found > where dselect had expected them. how do i find and > copy them to where dse

Re: Help!!!

On %M 0, William R Pentney wrote > > Okay, much worse problem now. man doesn't work, period. > > Ask it "man anything", and it will say "No manual entry for anything." > > What do I do? > try logging in as a regular user, and going man -u anything John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - yo

Re: xwin

Jason Winters dixit: ~> How can I get it so that xwin does not start up when I boot up? >From /etc/X11/config: run-xconsole allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe use-sessreg no-start-xdm Regards Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.r

Re: X Window

Richard Harran dixit: ~> That is the name of the configuration file: the setup program uses all ~> lowercase letters: ~> xf86config Also XF86Setup, but I believe this one would only work if you have xserver_svga (or xserver_vga16, or any of those two, not sure) installed. You may install it

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Does anybody know what is happening with the german Debian home page http://www.de.debian.org/ ? Some days ago the site (at least the main page) was not readable at all (only messy characters, but NO, it was not my browser encoding), now I get the finnish Debian page at http://www.de.debian.org/ Ha

Re: Help!!!

George Bonser dixit: ~> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: ~> ~> > ~> > Okay, much worse problem now. man doesn't work, period. ~> > ~> > Ask it "man anything", and it will say "No manual entry for anything." ~> > ~> > What do I do? ~> ~> install the manpages package? having "anyth

Re: LOG messages

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Re: apt sources line

George Bonser wrote: > > Ok, so what is the line to pick up the slink-proposed-updates packages? > I dunno. I checked out ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/. There is a packages file in that directory, but there are debs for all the architectures there too. Will apt-get be able

Re: Direct serial connection

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: >Is this possible? Yes. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt. I've just done it (after having some trouble due to an incorrect /dev/console device). You need a 2.2.x kernel for this to work or a patched 2.0.x one. Basically

Re: Help!!!

Some shells (or even all?) use a MANPATH variable, which is defined in /etc/profile from where bash reads it IIRC. Maybe it is not set or it does not contain the right path? -- Thomas Ruedas Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W. Goethe Universi

Re: Debian CD

On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 12:12:52 -0400, Aaron Knoll wrote: > I am an employee at the Washington & Lee Computing Help Desk. I and > several of my friends will, in the next few months, install Debian 2.1 > on our machines. We could truly use a master copy of the CD at the Help > Desk, > If you could

Re: smail, not open email relay

>> "NB" == Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NB> Alas I fear that the version string "Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2" NB> means _before_ that feature was added, sendmail does not work any NB> more, the above line is what I got when I tried to send out mail NB> as a user of the box. You sai

Direct serial connection

Hi, I have the following setup : --- | | | | |A| | B| | | | | ---

How can I permentently get rid of the Enlightenment 15 pager?

I guess the subject line says it all. I am running the latest potato, enlightenment and gnome. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Re: smail, not open email relay

Ph, installed jed which survives much better than emacs the awful Windog telnet. Also, had to install bind and libident for smail wanted them... now it asks about libnsl, I'm afraid I don't have any package containing it on the cdrom which is in the machine there... building list of packages a

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I am an employee at the Washington & Lee Computing Help Desk. I and several of my friends will, in the next few months, install Debian 2.1 on our machines. We could truly use a master copy of the CD at the Help Desk, since the only linux CD of any kind is an old version of Slackware and we have to

(mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:17:00 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- >>console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. > >That shoul

/dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)

Hi, I discovered that on ALL my systems that originally were Debian 2.0 and have been upgraded to Debian 2.1 /dev/console is wrong. It's a link to /dev/tty0 instead of a device special file (mknod -m 622 /dev/console c 5 1). Can anyone pls. check whether this is the case with "native" 2.1 syste

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RE: X Windows installation

A good start would be xbase, xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbase, and an xserver depending on what type of video card you have. If you use deselect it will let you know what other packages (I'm sure that I'm forgetting several) are needed to run xwindows. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: [EMAI

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Anyone using gated of any variation with any of the 2.2.x kernels? -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA

Re: adding to PATH

When Richard Harran wrote, I replied: To be safe, it's best to set your path on an early line in the file: PATH=whatever:something:else and later (perhaps the next line) export the variable(s): export PATH HOME ... This is so other shells which don't allow export and set variable on the same line

Re: smail, not open email relay

Sorry, I realize that the diff file I sent was unreadable, here's a not-context one which seems to be much more clear. Anyway, I just got smail_3.2.0.102-1 sources and am going to try compiling+installing and using the attribute you suggested for /etc/smail/config :-) Nicola Output of diff -B tran

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Khalid EZZARAOUI schrieb: > > hello, > > I would like to know if it is possible to delete all file ending by the > symbol ~ > with the command without risk : > rm -R *~ > I have more and more of them every day. > Hello Khalid, with mc you can make a find for your *~ backup-files, pane

Re: [Debian]: Grafisches Tool zur Auswahl von Verbindungen

Michael Hönisch schrieb: > > Hallo, > > ich habe mit pppconfig Verbindungen zu mehreren Providern eingerichtet. Gibt > es ein tool für X (und Debian), mit dem man die jeweils gewünschte Verbindung > auswählen > und starten kann? Schön wäre es, wenn es gleichzeitg einige Informationen > wie die

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Hello again I am using Netscape 4.5 on a slink box and it has just started to refuse to connect to my ISP proxy server. I have ping'ed the server successfully (avg. time 180ms) and mail and news still seem to be running OK. I have tried closing and restarting NS with no luck and then I closed a

Unidentified subject!

debian 2.1 installation

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Re: the ~ files

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About a month and a half ago I installed Debian Potato on my Cyrix 686-150(200) system with 32Mb of each of RAM and swap. My experience has been fairly positive, but I am having an extremely annoying problem with hard lockups. I quickly determined that these lockups seemed to be reproducible. Ce

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Re: Sound

Will Lowe wrote: > Are you sure that the IRQ settings and stuff you gave the kernel sound > config were right? Yeah. Stop Press: Progress! I got it to work, after I reset the computer! I think that it is a problem with gnome. After I ran the Gnome Control Centre it seemed to lock the /dev/audio

Re: xwin

>> "JW" == Jason Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JW> How can I get it so that xwin does not start up when I boot up? If you want to remove this permanently, remove the xdm package. If you still want the xdm daemon (for X Window logins across the LAN or so), comment out the server line in /et

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Re: X Window

That is the name of the configuration file: the setup program uses all lowercase letters: xf86config HTH Rich Harold Hartley wrote: > > Mine is different, I type XF86Config and I get: > Bash: XF86Config: Command not found: > > Harold > > - Original Message - > From: ying shang

Re: X Window

Mine is different, I type XF86Config and I get: Bash: XF86Config: Command not found: Harold - Original Message - From: ying shang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Adam Linford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Pietro Francescatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian users Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 3:28 AM Subjec

Re: X Window

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages is your friend. the search form at the bottom of the page there will tell you that XF86Setup is in the xf86setup package, and startx is in the xbase-clients package. also, as an alternative to XF86Setup, try xf86config, it sometimes works better. -Brad On S

Re: adding to PATH

I believe /etc/profile IS the place where the system-wide default PATH is defined. Are you sure it isn't being changed somewhere in .bashrc or .bash_profile? anyway, to add to it, you'd do this: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/bin -Brad On 25 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm having a problem addi

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Hi, I am running slink and have kde desktop setup and running nicely. However, I can't seem to get any printing done in it. It seems that when I print in kmail or with the kde web browser I get a whole bunch of ascii characters output into my printer and subsequently printed. I have no

Re: X Window help!

Try xf86config HTH Rich ying shang wrote: > > How can I know if I have installed the X-Window Package successfully? When > I run XF86Setup, it gave me the following message: > > bash: XF86Setup: command not found > > Any idea? > > -Ying Shang > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscrib

Re: adding to PATH

I'm not sure exactly where your path is coming from. However, a couple of points: you need export PATH somewhere to make PATH part of the global environment (not just limited to within the profile script; you can extent the path thus: export PATH=$PATH: or export PATH=:$P

Re: seeking cd player with network detached cddb support

The cddb package is sopposed to do this for you. It stores the db in /var/lib/cddb -- If you do have cddb installed, it's probably just a matter of configuring xmcd to make use of it. -Brad On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > I enjoy using xmcd to play cd's on my laptop, but it's less pleas

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I enjoy using xmcd to play cd's on my laptop, but it's less pleasant when I'm on the rooad and my laptop's not on the net, because xmcd can't query the cddb then for cd information. I'm looking for a cd player that supports the cddb and that can cache cd data locally, so it can used the cached data

X Window help!

How can I know if I have installed the X-Window Package successfully? When I run XF86Setup, it gave me the following message: bash: XF86Setup: command not found Any idea? -Ying Shang

adding to PATH

Hi all: I'm having a problem adding to a system-wide PATH variable... I've added the following in /etc/profile: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/java/bin" However, "echo $PATH" produces: ./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin My ~/.bashrc and ~/b

Re: X Window

I have the same problem. When I run XF86Setup, it showed the following: bash: XF86Setup: command not found any idea? Thanks, -Ying Shang On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Adam Linford wrote: > > >-Original Message- > >From: Pietro Francescatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Debian users > >Date: 23

Re: apt sources line

Ken Scott wrote: > > Hello, > > What's the preferred line in the apt sources.list file so that I can use apt > to upgrade from slink to potato? > > Thanks, > Ken I think it would be almost the same as the default, with the exception that the reference to stable would be switched to unstable lik

apt sources line

Hello, What's the preferred line in the apt sources.list file so that I can use apt to upgrade from slink to potato? Thanks, Ken -- ><> Ken Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcisys.net/~kscott This is the day that the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad

acct going berserk!

Has anyone else noticed their /var/account/pacct files growing out of control? Mine are reaching over 75 MB every day! Is there any way to figure out why they are so huge? I have a suspicion that bigbrother may have something to do with it, but I don't know if that's the case. Any clues? Thank

ipaccounting

What is it? Do I need it on my system (desktop)? I've been getting emails from cron every six minutes and finally got sick of it: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -f /etc/ipac.conf && test -f /usr/sbin/fetchipac && /usr/sbin/fetchipac To: [EMAIL PROTE

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Hi all: I've compiled and installed WindowMaker 0.53. I refused to work until I removed libwraster1, but wdm was using that one... So I had to switch to Login.app, which I don't like as much as I liked wdm. :( Is there any way to get wdm working with WM 0.53? I'm running Slink. Thanks for any in

Re: smail, not open email relay

:-) Nice to meet you, I was no more expecting to have a reply. On 24 Apr 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "NB" == Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NB> the problem is far from here on a Debian box permanently connected to the > NB> Internet and I would not like to update

Re: Quicktime viewer

install the xanim and plugger packages. unfortunately, though, xanim can not play all qt movies, just most of them. -Brad -- Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission critical applications, and - due to it's open source code - has a long term credibility which exceeds man

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Hi, Do you know of free modeling software for linux? I'm In particular interested in UML (Universal Modeling Language). The standard is published at www.omg.org, maybe someone has done it or working on it? I know dia draws some uml diagrams, but I need something more "project" oriented than "dra

xwin

How can I get it so that xwin does not start up when I boot up? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw

Re: Sound

> > cat file.au > /dev/audio > I run the command below, and this is the output! > $ cat /usr/lib/games/crossfire/sounds/magic.au > /dev/audio > bash: /dev/audio: Device or resource busy Are you sure that the IRQ settings and stuff you gave the kernel sound config were right?

Re: Quicktime viewer

> > I'm sure it is a particularly stupid question but I wonder if > > there is an Apple QuickTime plug-in available for Linux Netscape ? > > > > I suspect that writing to Apple would publicly announce my > > heretical status and result in the MS goons^H^H^H^H PR staff > > arriving in short order t

Re: Quicktime viewer

Nope, I'm not ware of a QuickTime player for Linux. On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sure it is a particularly stupid question but I wonder if > there is an Apple QuickTime plug-in available for Linux Netscape ? > > I suspect that writing to Apple would publicly

Quicktime viewer

Hi all, I'm sure it is a particularly stupid question but I wonder if there is an Apple QuickTime plug-in available for Linux Netscape ? I suspect that writing to Apple would publicly announce my heretical status and result in the MS goons^H^H^H^H PR staff arriving in short order to "help" me :)

Re: DMA on MVP3 ChipSet? (was: ALI V)

On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 11:54:14AM -0400, Chris Mayes wrote: > Well, I aw this thread and realized that my problam may be with the > motherboard rather than anything else. I have just bought an EPoX MVP3G-M > motherboard (along with a bunch of other stuff), and both Debian and BeOS > (which is OT,

Re: ISA vs PCI Modem

On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:20:56PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On 23 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote: > : Greg Scharrer writes: > : > I am thinking about buying a 56k modem. I have a 28.8k modem. I know not > : > to buy a Winmodem. I have seen ads for ISA and PCI modems. Is one kind > : > bette

Re: kernel 2.2.6

On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 06:02:50PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > What is the inherent issue which puts a limit on the size max size of > the kernel? And what plans do Linus et al have for 3.0+ or whenever even "bz" > Kernels pass this size limit? How close does bzImage come to the lim

Pico on Debian "Slink" v2.1 error message.

I just got Debian "Slink" 2.1 installed and it seems to be working fine but when I tried to run pico I get this error: Unknown terminal type vt100! Someone suggested changing the terminal type to "linux" by typing "export TERM=linux" but that just had pico return the error: Unknown terminal type

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