Re: sound configuration

2001-07-26 Thread André Dahlqvist
f so, make sure to enable ISAPnP in the kernel and you should be all set. Check the dmesg output to see if your soundcard is detected once you have compiled in ISAPnP. Also, compile it into the kernel if you want to save you some trouble. -- André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [OT] IP to phone

2001-07-20 Thread André Dahlqvist
oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any IP-to-telephone services that will work with debian? Speekfreely comes to mind: http://www.speakfreely.org/ gphone is an application for this too, and it's available in Debian. I have tried neither of those though, -- A

Transfer stalls with proftpd in 12 minute intervals

2001-07-01 Thread André Dahlqvist
any cronjob myself. I would be very glad if someone could give me some hints. -- André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:02:17PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies > > They're there already. However, a ping localhost still works... Notice the "1" in the above statements. That mea

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:05:06AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I would like to grep the contents to find the CD that I'm looking for, > but I don't want to extract everything. It sounds like you're looking for 'zgrep' which is included with gzip. -- // André

Re: General anser to "where I place the configuration of"

2000-09-04 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:27:04PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > As a rule of thumb, if you need to know how to configure a package you > just do a "dpkg -L packagename". This will list *ALL* files in the > package. Now look for anything going into /etc, it'll give you a very > good clue on

Re: new pine packages available

2000-08-29 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:17:33PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > (Try actually reading the license.) Okay, so binaries can be distributed if you append "L" to the version number. I can see you're doing that, so I'm happy. -- // André

Re: new pine packages available

2000-08-29 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:33:06AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Jaldhar Vyas has built a new set of unofficial Pine, Pico, and Pilot > packages which have been uploaded to my official unofficial mirror > at http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ These new packages include > LDAP support. Pine a

Re: OFFTOPIC: test kernel7

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:48:45PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Thanks, I just updated from modutils 2.3.11-8 to modutils_2.3.14-3. > This replaced my aliases and /etc/modules. Is this what you meant? The new layout in /lib/modules required changes to modutils upstreams. If you're gonna run 2.4.x ke

Re: depmod question

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:21:35PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I am using Potato. > Does Debian run 'depmod -a' when the machine boots or should I put that in a > script? sledgehammer:/tmp# grep -r 'depmod -a' /etc/* /etc/init.d/modutils:depmod -a > /dev/null /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils:depmod -a > /dev/

Re: OFFTOPIC: test kernel7

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:10:19PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Does anyone know what the kernel developers have done to the kernel > (2.4.0-test6 and test7) that puts the modules in different places in > /lib/modules/ ? Update your modutils. -- // André

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:34:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > What you were doing is more like mail from: - some servers tolerate that > and append their own domain name to it - others bounce the mail. I forgot to ask you, should I have use_domain set? I'm on dialup. -- // André

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:34:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > What you were doing is more like mail from: - some servers > tolerate that and append their own domain name to it - others bounce > the mail. But when I have tried sending mails to other accounts the From: line has been co

Re: pkzip for Debian ?

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 05:11:39PM +0200, Jose Angel Fdez . Luengo wrote: > zip and unzip, but they're in non-free ;) Well, actually they aren't any more. The latest unzip has a new BSD-like license. Because it also has built-in encryption support it is now located in non-US/main. -- // Andr.

Re: pkzip for Debian ?

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:52:45PM +0200, Petr Danek wrote: > exists some utilty which will work with zipped files in Debian ? unzip. -- // André

Re: cron error -> @cmp: command not found

2000-08-27 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 05:52:33PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Over the last couple of days I have added and removed a lot of > packages so I do not know what exact package might be causing this. > Nevertheless, cron is reporting: Upgrade to the latest cron, which fixes this problem. -- // A

Re: Where is acroread?

2000-08-27 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:25:41AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > earlier today i installed acroread, which i downloaded from > www.adobe.com. i was never aware that there was a .deb for. gv can > read some .pdf files, but of course acroread does a much better job. > why not just get it from ad

Re: Procmail

2000-08-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 07:03:16PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > Most mta's don't, by default, run procmail as an MDA. Depending > on your MTA and how it's configured, you may need a .forward > file to get procmail actually run; if you're using Exim, a > .forward file containing just the line > >

Re: procmail receipes

2000-08-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:17:05AM -0400, John Bacalle wrote: > Since you're talking about procmail, how would you do something like > the following? > >:0: >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >IN.debian > > This is schematic, of course; how to do p

Re: procmail receipes

2000-08-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:27:52AM +, Geordie Birch wrote: > THUS SPAKE Dale L . Morris, on Aug 24: > > > I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using > > for a procmail receipe: > > > > :0: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > debian-user > > > > Will it work? > > No. you need

Re: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-21 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:02:29AM -0400, William Smith wrote: > I've had similar problems playing midi files (SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP). > > I can play .au and .wav files fine and I can use timidity to play a > .mid file but when I try running playmidi I get "No playback device > set. Aborting"

Re: Kernel VM problems.

2000-08-21 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:35:12PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > Sometimes I see my machine nearly freezing, and then becoming good > after a minute or two. In the logs I get up to several hundred > lines like these: [snip, error output] > My kernel is a selfcompiled (with make-kpkg) 2.2.17pre

Re: Adding commands to Debian Program Menu

2000-08-20 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:43:09PM +0200, André Dahlqvist wrote: > This is described well in chapter 5.1 of the manual for menu. Take a > look at /usr/share/doc/menu/html/ch4.html and I'm sure you will > understand how to do it. That should of course have been /usr/share/doc/menu

Re: Adding commands to Debian Program Menu

2000-08-20 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:03:00PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I have what is probably a very simple question for this list. How > can I add commands to the Debian Program Menu. Assuming you have installed the 'menu' package, which I suggest you do, you can add your own menu entries in ~/.me

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-19 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 07:50:31PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > That produces a list that is certain to be incomprehensible to a new user. If you're only interested in which config files a certain program uses you can do something like: dpkg -s package_name and read the part after "Conffiles:".

Re: CONFIG_KMOD in kernel

2000-08-18 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:43:34PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > Out of curiosity, should I have CONFIG_KMOD on or off when configuring > kernel 2.2.17? If you want modules to be auto-inserted on demand I would suggest doing so, yes. > I have CONFIG_MODULES=y. Is CONFIG_KMOD the same sort of thin

Re: Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters

2000-08-18 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:50:48PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > No, I haven't seen that. But what, in precise terms, does > "will not accept" mean? Does your computer beep? Does Emacs > segfault? Does it get your computer on fire? :-) This actually varies a bit depending on which character I try

Emacs and ISO-8859-1 characters

2000-08-17 Thread André Dahlqvist
I have a strange problem that I discovered while switching to using emacs as an editor in Mutt. It turns out that emacs will not accept non-ASCII characters like åäöé if I'm running emacs from within an xterm, but it works fine on the console or as a stand alone X application. To make things even s

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:09:42PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Where do get Gecko? Gecko is the rendering engine that Mozilla, and now other projects use. It is not a browser by itself, if that's what you though. -- // André

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:19:29PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Interestingly enough, the most common machines nowadays in my country > seem to be Celeron or K6-2 machines with 32MB of RAM. This makes > surfing the web with Linux almost a nightmare (even if you turn on > UDMA/66 so that swapping

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:50:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > The current mozilla Debian package (M17-1 here) *is* a browser-only > version (unfortunately, it has no themes either). Someone said that this was not actually the case, and stated that it seamed more like a permission thing on

Re: starting a default window manager

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:49:23AM -0700, suresh kumar wrote: > How to startup say fvwm95 on login *without* touching > users home director located files such as .xsession > etc. If you want to set the default window manager you can do something like: update-alternatives --config x-window-manage

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-16 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:48:02AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Not to mention that this implies that Mozilla is *slow* (since > it doesn't fit in core), depending on what it is doing (for > basic navigation, it is ok; opening a new window makes it > slow; navigating through the Preferences menus

Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

2000-08-14 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:02:39AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Uh, no. The bin86 package is needed to compile 16-bit 8086-compatible > source code. This pretty much means that it's only needed to compile > the kernel boot loader itself (I wouldn't be surprised if the LILO > source needed it to

Re: Themes in mozilla

2000-08-14 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:03:40PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up > any entries in the Themes list. I can't reproduce that with the upstream version of M17, but I remember hearing people complaining about it during the M17 de

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-14 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > That's great! Except it doesn't seem to contain all the necessary > headers... specifically gtkmozembed.h and all the nsI stuff I haven't tried the package myself, but I know that there is also a libnspr4-dev package. That's

Re: fetchmail configuration

2000-08-13 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:31:54PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > "fetchmail -v -d0" produces too much output to be useful. I guess I'll > look into procmail. While I definately agree that procmail is the right tool for this job, you could actually do something like: fetchmail -vv | grep "About

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

2000-08-13 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:13:06PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > http://galeon.sourceforge.net. But to compile Galeon's source you need > either Mozilla's source compiled (unless you make symlinks to dozens of > spread out headers yourself), or the mozilla-dev rpm which provides > just Moz

Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-13 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:41:12PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > Heh, Mozilla (M16 iirc) is completely unusable for me too - doesn't > segfault, but won't download anything because it completely screws up the > reporting of the download (winds up with about a 30k rate, about 20Mb > completed of a

Re: proper permissions for /usr/src/linux

2000-08-12 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 03:57:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > no, /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm should NOT be symlinked > into your kernel tree. debian does this right unlike most redhat > distros. Exactly. And Linus has also pointed out several times that people should *not* compi

Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-12 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:41:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > But what about plugins? Can I get the streaming RealPlayer plugin to work? Yes, plugins written for Netscape 4.x should work from M17 and forward. -- // André

Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-11 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:55:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I would, if it didn't always segfault. Have you tried any of the recent milestones, or even better the recent nightly builds? I haven't yet managed to crash my M18 builds... Also make sure to nuke your .mozilla directory when upgradi

Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-11 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:00:42AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Perhaps you can tell me how to use HTTPS with Mozilla. Yes I can. Go to the below webpage and install PSM. http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/psm/psm-mozilla/index.html It's the same software that Netscape 4.7 uses for th

Re: Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-11 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:21:45PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Now the installer runs, but netscape-installer-bin crashes, apparently > as soon as it tries to download something: Let me give you an advice: use Mozilla and not Netscape 6 prX. Sure, they use the same source base, but Netsc

Re: OT: what's the point of mp3's?

2000-08-09 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:22:30AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > -rw-r--r--1 krzyskrzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3 > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 1308716 Aug 9 10:05 hip1302mp3.wav > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 117718 Aug 9 10:06 hip1302mp3.wav.gz > > So what'

Re: Journaling file system

2000-08-05 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:57:36AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Note that out of all of these, only reiserfs has been ported to the > 2.4.0-testX series. Actually, xfs has been ported too. I just saw on freshmeat an announcement of xfs for linux-2.4.0-test5. The website for the project is here:

Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-02 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:11:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > if you want athlon i would wait for asus's new board A7V, many reviewers > seem to agree that it has the best features. it should be out anytime.. While we're on the subject of hardware, does anyone know when USB v2 is expected

Limit devel-changes to i386 related news

2000-07-29 Thread André Dahlqvist
Is it possible to only get announcements from debian-devel-changes regarding a specific architecture? I am primarily interested in i386 changes. -- // André

Re: Kernel recompile problems

2000-07-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
> My first problem is that after the recompile and setting up lilo, > when I reboot my computer, every single module fails to load because > of a huge number of unresolved symbol errors. It sounds like you forgot to install the modules, or installed them in the same directory as the old modules.

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:04:30PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote: > When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get "Connect script > failed". Pon works fine for the root user. I changed several file > permissions to get this far. Do I have to change permissions on all > the scripts in /etc/ppp

Re: Sound..should be easy, but...

2000-07-24 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:59:51PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > alias sound-slot-0 sound > alias sound-service-0-0 sb > alias sound-service-0-3 sb sound-service-0-0 is the mixer, right? But what is sound-service-0-3? Is there a complete list of these somewhere? The Documentation/sound/Introduct

Re: My first ever incursion into sound isn't very successful

2000-07-24 Thread André Dahlqvist
> (3) Create a file emu10k1 in /etc/modutils with the following contenst: > alias char-major-14 emu10k1 Why not use /etc/modutils/aliases? -- // André