Re: Sound

2001-04-04 Thread Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp Jeff Levy Software Design Meta-Craft Creations On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Hey Ya, I've compiled what I think are the right drivers into my kernel (soundcore and cx36xx). Does anyone know how I can test my sound to make sure it works?? Thanks,

Re: GLUG: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-04 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Wed 2001-04-04 (15:59), Eugene van Zyl wrote: Thanks, I'll courier looks like it then :-) With exim I saw the debian docs for courier indicate that I set Exim up for maildir delivery - will the POP3 server pick the mail up correctly from the maildir then? also will the pop client (if

Re: No middle mouse button in X

2001-04-04 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
In your XF86Config, try mouse protocol=logitech and device=/dev/psaux, don't emulate third button and enable chordmiddle And telle me if it works. fred On Tuesday 03 April 2001 22:46, Debian Mailinglist wrote: Dear Debian community! I have a small problem with my PS/2 mouse. It works fine in

Re: Sound

2001-04-04 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp This yields the following error: rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device Any thoughts? Andy

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Alan == Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan Gary Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do they? I can name at least one which may not (depending on the tarif you choose). Alan If you have an ISP who doesn't provide a mail server for you but Alan provides you with a DUL-listed IP,

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Alan == Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan The usual response to this is Alan Your ISP gives you a mailserver through which to relay mail. Set a Alan smarthost and get over it. Alan Why isn't that sufficient for you? This seems a particularly naive world view. Not every

Re: fetchmail segfaults

2001-04-04 Thread Tony Crawford
Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48): Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90% chance of causing headaches, since the new initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some manual configuration. I don't think it should go in stable. Considering I've

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Remi == Remi Lefebvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remi Your ISP hopefully provides a relay for your outgoing mail, Remi which relay accepts your mail based on your IP (should accept Remi only mail from its clients). Why can't you use that one ? The operative word is hopefully. There

Errors writing to /tmp

2001-04-04 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
For some reason, I can no longer write to /tmp. Following is an example error from xmms: checkdir: cannot create extraction directory: /tmp/fileuaM3b6 Here's the permissions on /tmp: drwxrwxrwt 8 root root2048 Apr4 09:43 tmp Apparently I've done something, but I have no

Re: fetchmail segfaults

2001-04-04 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Tony Crawford wrote: Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48): Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90% chance of causing headaches, since the new initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some manual configuration. I

Re: Sound

2001-04-04 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, before cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp put your volume down. A better way of testing is to install bplay or cat a .wav file to /dev/dsp: find / -name *.wav /dev/urandom is empty soon, so you do not hear much then. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Hey Ya, I've

Help, looks like IMAP/PAM configuration

2001-04-04 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
Hello list, After wasting most of the day I have to resort to asking for help. My machine is a Debian Linux 2.2.14 and I installed the prepackaged Cyrus Imap 1.5.19. I have also installed prepackaged PAM modules. I'm trying to use the Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla to get the mail. Mozilla gives a

Re: ISDN setup

2001-04-04 Thread Felix Natter
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, list! :) We are a casualty of the Northpoint closure, but fortunately have our ISDN line still in operation. I'm considering purchasing the Eicon DIVA Pro PCI ISDN adapter to install in the Potato server here. Can anyone recommend or

Dselect ing

2001-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there. Installing new packages via dselect doesn't work anymore for me but I have no idea were to start looking for clues, so I just post the output, with a few comments. I can provide further information if necessary. -- I already selected some packages and went for install: -- Reading

kmod

2001-04-04 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've been having problems with dynamically loading modules. I've got a 2.4.2 kernel and I've configured kmod as described in Documents/kmod.txt. Sadly, I can't get it to work. I've been looking around for documentation on it and can't seem to find anything useful. Does anyone know of a

[olly@lfix.co.uk: Question re DGA extension]

2001-04-04 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk - From: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question re DGA extension Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:00:24 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hallo, I'm running xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-13 on a Matrox Millenium

Re: Errors writing to /tmp

2001-04-04 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
bah! probably right about the time your were sending this, i executed a df -h. sure enough, my root partition was a 0% availability. thanks! On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote: The only time this happened to me was when the partition that contains /tmp was almost full. You could be

Problems upgrading to woody

2001-04-04 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello, I've two major problems later an upgrade to woody: First, apache doesn't work now...at the finel setup of the woody upgrade it said me that libpaperg setting up failed, so I removed. Second, I removed php4 and when I try to reinstall apt-get says that php4 is not candidate to install...

recompiling the kernel

2001-04-04 Thread Ted Gervais
I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and typing 'make menuconfig'. It seems that Debian does things differently. How is this done in Debian. I hope I don't have to put the CDrom

Re: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Disclaimer: I'm the UW imapd maintainer so I'm biased. :-) On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eugene van Zyl wrote: Hi, Any recommendations for a IMAP server (on Debian 2.2)? IMAP4.7c (I think this is UW IMAP?) Yes. seems to intergrates relatively painless and support most IMAP features (although I

ATI 3D Rage IIc and console

2001-04-04 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Hi! I have ATI 3D Rage IIc card. And I prefer to work in console with 100 chars / 50 lines / 100Hz. But 1) framebuffer doesn't work with my card since kernel 2.2.18; 2) svgatextmode doesn't work too. What can I do? Thank you in advance for any answer. -- Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help, looks like IMAP/PAM configuration

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Amsden
Aaron M. Stromas wrote: Hello list, After wasting most of the day I have to resort to asking for help. My machine is a Debian Linux 2.2.14 and I installed the prepackaged Cyrus Imap 1.5.19. I have also installed prepackaged PAM modules. be sure you create the mailbox with the cyradm

Re: recompiling the kernel

2001-04-04 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and typing 'make menuconfig'. It seems that Debian does things differently. How is this done in

Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc and console

2001-04-04 Thread idalton
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:09:23PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Hi! I have ATI 3D Rage IIc card. And I prefer to work in console with 100 chars / 50 lines / 100Hz. But 1) framebuffer doesn't work with my card since kernel 2.2.18; 2) svgatextmode doesn't work too. Try looking up

Re: recompiling the kernel

2001-04-04 Thread Vinh Truong
* Ted Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 11:06]: I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and typing 'make menuconfig'. It seems that Debian does things differently. u can do the

Re: Mutt and NFS

2001-04-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:37:22PM -0500, Cheng H. Lee wrote: Hi all, I have a question about running Mutt and NFS together. My current mail setup has procmail delivering mail to ~/mail and mutt reading the mail boxes from there. However, when I'm reading mail from my other box (which has

Re: recompiling the kernel

2001-04-04 Thread Michael Soulier
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:07:11PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and typing 'make menuconfig'. It seems that Debian does things differently.

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Following is with pgp.ai.mit.edu (My current setting) for Ethan's sig. I do have problem even with this. [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Apr 4 10:35:23 2001) --] gpg: Signature made Tue Apr 3 23:15:10 2001 PDT using DSA key ID 2C447AFC gpg: requesting key 2C447AFC from pgp.ai.mit.edu

Questions for MAC user

2001-04-04 Thread V.Peters
Hi, I'm looking for a non-commercial, internet access service provider, search engine, and browser. My present provider's access numbers change so much that it wreaks havoc with my system. I used to use Infind (a very good search engine) that apparently is no longer accessible. And my browser t

Re: WARNING: ReiserFS (and request for help!)

2001-04-04 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 03 Apr 2001 22:48:57 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: Does anyone know whether these faults can be fixed? I've tried reiserfsck to no avail: it doesn't even report a fault. But I'm sitting here wondering just how much time I'll have before the whole thing goes I can't run fortune anymore

Re: Sound

2001-04-04 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp This yields the following error: rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device This means that your card is not configured correctly yet.

Re: Questions for MAC user

2001-04-04 Thread dork-nige
Check the Yeelow Pages of your phonebook. Its under Internet Service's or Computers. Dan - Original Message - From: V.Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:01 PM Subject: Questions for MAC user Hi, I'm looking for a

Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux

2001-04-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
A note to users... I have packaged `Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux' as dwarfs-debian-guide: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/dwarfs-debian-guide.html The Debian package should install on potato without problems. This book by Debian Developer Dale Scheetz covers: - Package

My NFS problem

2001-04-04 Thread Michael Meskes
I found it. statd was not running on the client. It seems to work now. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2001 19:45 schrieb Osamu Aoki: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Apr 4 10:35:23 2001) --] gpg: Signature made Tue Apr 3 23:15:10 2001 PDT using DSA key ID 2C447AFC gpg: requesting key 2C447AFC from pgp.ai.mit.edu

OPL3-SA3 Sound problem

2001-04-04 Thread William Staniewicz
I'm trying to get my sound working with OPL3-SA3. When I try to install the module, I get the following error. What needs to be done to make it work? localhostnl:/home/wstan# insmod opl3sa2 Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #261

2001-04-04 Thread Georrge Lotarev
Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #261

2001-04-04 Thread Georrge Lotarev
Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OPL3-SA3 Sound problem

2001-04-04 Thread Andrew D Dixon
William Staniewicz wrote: I'm trying to get my sound working with OPL3-SA3. When I try to install the module, I get the following error. What needs to be done to make it work? localhostnl:/home/wstan# insmod opl3sa2 Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o

qpopper weirdness

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, i am using qpopper for pop3 access. one of my users hasn't been reading mail in two weeks, and now her mailbox is 16Mb. that's not a lot, no. however, she uses microcrap software, which is not succeeding at downloading whereas a direct POP3 interaction with the server through netcat revealed

Re: Sound

2001-04-04 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Sebastiaan wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp This yields the following error: rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device This means that your card is not

Error using setxkbmap

2001-04-04 Thread list
Hello, does anyone knows what does this error means when trying to use setxkbmap, I'm using an up-to-date potato: Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property the command I used was: setxkbmap us well, i get it with 'setxkbmap es' also, so I guess is a general problem wit setxkbmap. Any

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500): I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats: well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay between the user entering

Keyboard lockup

2001-04-04 Thread Casey Henderson
Hello all, I have a major problem with my Linux box. I am running the unstable version of Debian, and my system has been running fine for months. No major problems. This morning I booted up my machine and discovered my keyboard will not work in Linux. Here's the scenario: LILO comes up and

cucipop delays (was: qpopper weirdness)

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
an addendum... the delay is dependent on the mailbox size. if i POP to an account with a small mailbox, it works like a jiffy. however, when connecting to an account with a 16Mb mailbox size, it takes 20 seconds before cucipop returns the login acknowledgement. i.e. fishbowl:~ nc mail 110 +OK

hardware clock keeps local time?

2001-04-04 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine and would like to arrange for the hardware clock to use local time. I've changed UTC=yes to UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS, but my system is still getting changed back to utc. Can anyone point me to what else needs to be adjusted? Thanks, Mike

Boot parameters

2001-04-04 Thread Shawn Garbett
I want a script to be executed once at boot time, (i.e to do /sbin/hdparm setting). Where would this go? If I use a command like update-rc.d foo.sh default 19, then it would be executed at all init levels and at all changes of init levels. Seems excessive to me. Shawn

Re: Printer reccommendation

2001-04-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:44:01 +0200 John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget printer with good linux (and debianised) support? I can recommend Lexmark Optra E310. It has Postscript, it is fast and reliable. It just works very

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
I do not think you imported just your own public-key but all your previously obtained public-key, did you?? I tried the same thing. Now I can verify my signature but not others as I expected. I also tried to get my public key sent again to keyserver with $ gpg --keyserver pgp.ai.mit.edu

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2001 23:12 schrieb Osamu Aoki: I do not think you imported just your own public-key but all your previously obtained public-key, did you?? NO. I exported my public-key just after i created it. And I only imported this key,

wtmp question

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
another question about my non-working system... i finger a user to retrieve the following information: diamond:~# finger nori Login: nori Name: Nori Directory: /home/nori Shell: /bin/bash Never logged in. No mail. No Plan. diamond:~# however, the

SMTP transaction error

2001-04-04 Thread davidj
I'm afraid I'm doing all this wrong, but please excuse me. I started a thread - Fetchmail segfaults - yesterday, but I don't know how to get back into it. My problem is that fetchmail won't deliver. Thanks, Henrique, for pointing out the general flakiness of fetchmail, but I never had a

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My pubring.gpg is noe 17306bytes, before that it was 580k ! Why do you care how big it is? Mine is 5.3MB, and it's fine. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! There's only one everything.

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Wow, YES I can get new key from europe. Thanks telling me one working keyserver. keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net I have problem with pgp.ai... still. Strange since I am in USA (California). Maybe another local IP routing issue of my ISP? Maybe overloaded keyserver in USA? I will stay with this

Re: Are you guys sure about that?

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Duehr
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:24:54PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: That's actually a common misconception. I can't believe I'm defending redhat, but the up2date tool has been around since 6.1, and it doesn't cost anything. What does cost money is priority ftp access, without which you'll be

LDAP authentication and SASL/PLAIN

2001-04-04 Thread Mullins, Ron
Dear fellow Debianites: Hopefully there are those of you out there who have experience with the OpenLDAP server 2.0.7 (from Sid) and it's authentication methodologies, 'cause I need help bad. I'm trying to move to LDAP authentication and will be using the libpam_ldap to do so. Setting up the

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:58:24PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: Wow, YES I can get new key from europe. Thanks telling me one working keyserver. keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net I have problem with pgp.ai... still. Strange since I am in USA (California). Maybe another local IP routing issue

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #262

2001-04-04 Thread Georrge Lotarev
Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #262

2001-04-04 Thread Georrge Lotarev
Hello my e-mail address has been changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing everything in text mode. At the

Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing everything in text mode. At the

Re: wtmp question

2001-04-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:45PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: another question about my non-working system... i finger a user to retrieve the following information: [deleted] however, the user has logged in previously. if i finger while the user is online through ssh (that's all i ever

Re: recompiling the kernel

2001-04-04 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Michael Soulier wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:07:11PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: I want to make some changes to my kernel in my newly installed debian system and am used to going to the directory where the kernel source is located and typing 'make menuconfig'.

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-04-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:42:12PM +0100, David Wright wrote: ... Yes, I was going to point out to the person that suggested using I think that was me:) index points instead of tracks that many players can't handle them, and that using tracks should not require any gaps. Most classical CDs

Maildir POP3 server

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, anyone know of a POP3 server capable of serving out of $HOME/Maildir/ and which isn't part of qmail? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- void write_thesis(char *subject, char *title} { // do something }

Re: Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:27:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT flatscreen

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-04 Thread csj
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file file.txt which contains command sequences which I would like to touch up before running. I don't

Word to postscript from the CLI

2001-04-04 Thread John Griffiths
Does anyone know a good way to convert MS Word docs to postscript from the CLI? TIA john

Re: Word to postscript from the CLI

2001-04-04 Thread Henry House
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:59:13AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: Does anyone know a good way to convert MS Word docs to postscript from the CLI? Antiword does this; you will need to judge for yourself whether its output is satisfactory. Antiword preserves table structure pretty well. Another

Re: Boot parameters

2001-04-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shawn Garbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want a script to be executed once at boot time, (i.e to do /sbin/hdparm setting). Where would this go? If I use a command like update-rc.d foo.sh default 19, then it would be executed at all init levels and at all changes

Re: Maildir POP3 server

2001-04-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, anyone know of a POP3 server capable of serving out of $HOME/Maildir/ and which isn't part of qmail? The Courier mailsystem comes with an IMAP and POP3 server that do Maildir. In the unstable distribution there's a

ResiserFS?

2001-04-04 Thread Adam Bender
OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty habit of leaving some messages out sometimes. I missed the recent messages about ReiserFS. Could anyone give me a recap of what that was about? I was planning on installing it, but from the header it looked like there might

Re: Sound

2001-04-04 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You're evil, you know that? :) On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp Jeff Levy Software Design Meta-Craft Creations On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Hey Ya, I've compiled what I think are

Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

2001-04-04 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Just a thoughthave you checked to see if the driver module(s) are being loaded? I have an older PCI128 card here that uses the es1370 chipset, and it works fine in Linux. A lsmod command should show both a soundcore and a es1371 module loaded. If they are not there, you might want to use

/dev/dsp

2001-04-04 Thread eric
dear Jeff: Do you know what may cause /de/dsp : No such device, when I run cat /dev/random /dev/dsp sincere eric

Re: [attn] non-us.debian.org ... security is Down

2001-04-04 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 19:22, John Bacalle wrote: Been trying to 'apt-get update' for an hour, but the process hangs at the unresponsive security URI. for an hour, but the process hangs at the unresponsive security URI. I took it to be a routing issue and sent traceroute logs to my ISP.

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-04 Thread Richard Stallman
I don't like this either. However, I don't think that expressing anger at whoever runs mail-abuse.org will be effective. He is not likely to listen to us. People need to express their views in other situations--when a site decides to *use* mail-abuse.org and block mail from dynamic sites. Is

Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc and console

2001-04-04 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a mach64 framebuffer in 2.4 kernels... Try that. On 4 Apr 2001, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Hi! I have ATI 3D Rage IIc card. And I prefer to work in console with 100 chars / 50 lines / 100Hz. But 1) framebuffer doesn't work with my card

Re[2]: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-04 Thread Chris Matta
Hello csj, Wednesday, April 04, 2001, 6:47:53 PM, you wrote: c On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file file.txt which contains command

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-04-04 Thread Bill Wohler
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if you don't know, just say so. :) My answer was correct ;-). -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong

Re: signing off

2001-04-04 Thread Mark A Hill
Jim Richardson wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:16:05AM -0700, paul taylor wrote: In the month or so I have had debian on the machine I have not been able to get pon to work. I can't get kppp to work. the printer does not work in star office or koffice. It just another distro that is not

RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga support removed. Comments? Torsten (Ghostscript Maintainer)

Re: Word to postscript from the CLI

2001-04-04 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Two stages: word2x -- to LaTeX dvi2ps -- to ps On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, John Griffiths wrote: Does anyone know a good way to convert MS Word docs to postscript from the CLI? TIA john - -- Be Careful! I have a black belt in sna-fu! Who is John

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-04 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:40:32PM -0400, Chris Matta wrote: ... c Hmm, does this really mean I have to really vi? Actually I was c thinking of something like cat file.txt /dev/ttyX which however c pastes the thing not just on the screen but on the command line c itself. Is there such a

how to downgrade: woody - potato ??

2001-04-04 Thread Rob Torop
I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an update then dist-upgrade). Now I want to go back! I replaced testing with stable in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to get it to revert everything to potato. Can someone advise me?

Re: mysterious problem with NICs, isapnp, and modutils

2001-04-04 Thread Jason Pepas
sorry all, just didnt know about running update-modules after making changes. also didnt know about /network/interfaces either. anyway, looks like things are in working order now... jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Admiral Thrawn To: Jason Pepas

Re: Maildir POP3 server

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Miquel van Smoorenburg (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:48:45PM +): The Courier mailsystem comes with an IMAP and POP3 server that do Maildir. In the unstable distribution there's a 'courier-pop' package right. and i don't want unstable on this system at this moment, since it's

Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:47:16AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Hi *, Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga support

Re: how to downgrade: woody - potato ??

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Amsden
Rob Torop wrote: I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an update then dist-upgrade). Now I want to go back! I replaced testing with stable in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to get it to revert everything to potato. Can someone advise me?

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Amsden
MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500): I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats: well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay

Re: keyserver has problem???

2001-04-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think problem is overloaded server or DoS. Look below. On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:04:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: i got a connection refused from pgp.ai.mit.edu last night, its ... I did run nslookup and found this is problem with nework near pgp.ai.mit.edu. ...(First try to

Re: /dev/dsp

2001-04-04 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, eric wrote: Do you know what may cause /de/dsp : No such device, when I run cat /dev/random /dev/dsp i'm not jeff, but the first thing to check for is an improperly configured sound card. -- steve

/etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-04 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I have the following /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.2.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.2.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 gateway 192.168.2.1 At startup, I get the following

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-04 Thread CaT
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:16:56PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: And, of course, eth0 isn't configured. Can anyone point out what I'm missing here? auto is a sub command like ip and network and not a base command like iface (AFAIK) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined

Re: /dev/dsp

2001-04-04 Thread Mircea Luca
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, eric wrote: Do you know what may cause /de/dsp : No such device, when I run cat /dev/random /dev/dsp i'm not jeff, but the first thing to check for is an improperly configured sound card. -- steve Not being Jeff myself neither I

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-04 Thread Mircea Luca
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: I have the following /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.2.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.2.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 gateway 192.168.2.1

Re: how to downgrade: woody - potato ??

2001-04-04 Thread Rob Torop
Nate Amsden wrote: Rob Torop wrote: I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an update then dist-upgrade). Now I want to go back! I replaced testing with stable in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to get it to revert everything to potato.

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-04 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: At startup, I get the following message: Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: option without interface The module for the NIC seems like the most likely candidate. dmesg | grep eth0 should

Power off Button

2001-04-04 Thread Patrick Mauro
I have a question that hopefully someone can answer. How can I get my power button to work? It used to work. I guess, here's the details. Basically, when I run shutdown -h now, I should be able to hit the power button, computer off, no problem. It doesn't work any more. It stopped working

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