Re: pppd won't reset (or hang up) the modem

Yes, passive option is used. ppp.log says something like (sorry, my machine is at home so I don't have the exact words). terminating on signal 15 sent TermReq id ... recd TermAck .. Yes, ppp.log says terminating on signal ... Perhaps the key piece of evidence is that

Re: pppd won't reset (or hang up) the modem

Yes, ppp.log says terminating on signal ... Perhaps the key piece of evidence is that everything *used* to work fine until I had to switch to pap-style authorization. Turn on debugging (pass 'debug' in options or on command line). Do you see a mesage in /var/log/ppp.log which says

pppd won't reset (or hang up) the modem

Hi, I don' think this came up before. My ISP changed to a pap style authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '* * password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Now the modem does not hang up if SIGINT is sent to

Re: Changing bit depth on X

The Gardyan wrote: How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16 bit color. Try using the command line option: startx -bpp 16. That should work with any color depth like 24 or 32. It should be startx -- -bpp 16 -alex

Re: Linux for the power PC

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Re: block diagrams

Have you tried daVinci? (it is on the sunsite somewhere) Allegedly, it was created specifically to make block diagrams. I have found Xfig to be pretty useful for diagrams. The gif export doesn't seem to work that good for me, so I output to postscript and use XV to convert to gif or