Brad Keryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 4 Jan 2001, Douglas Bates wrote:
>
> > I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing
> > an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in
> > mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 >
I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing
an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in
mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 > track1.cdr
but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb does not accept
the option --cdr, as far as I can tell.
I would appre
"Stephenson, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use
> > landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give
> > the pr
I am using Debian Linux 2.2 (potato). I also have access to systems running
2.3 (woody) if that would help.
I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use
landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give
the presentation has a computer running Windows w
ything in the apache
configuration that looked promising.)
Please cc: me on any replies. I'm too far behind on too many e-mail
lists and would likely miss a reply to the list only.
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7;t set this
environment variable but I will change my ~/.bash-profile to do so.
$ export PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/bates/.python-startup.py
$ python
Python 1.5.1 (#1, Dec 17 1998, 20:58:15) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> dir()
[&#
According to some python documentation I have read I should put
commands that I want executed in every interactive python session into
the file `~/.pythonrc.py'. I have done that but these commands do not
seem to be executed when I start python on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
system with
||/ Name
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a
> > Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports
>
>I've got a Presario 1236 laptop running Potato very nicely with the 2.2.5
> kernel (well, all except the sound, I've only got
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a
Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Yamaha 6388 VPDC (Port Probed)
RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mod
[Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't
usually have the time to keep up with this list.]
Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system
on a hard disk partition?
Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I
repartitioned keeping
I would like to access images stored on an Olympus D400Z digital
camera. It uses 4/8/16 Mb SmartMedia Cards (in its format) and has a
serial cable interface. It also has a Flashpath floppy disk adapter
for the SmartMedia Cards. This allows you to stick the SmartMedia
card in the adapter which is
ound in
the file /usr/doc/sybase-1-1/LICENSE.update.
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s the interface that I should expect the office staff to
use? That is, is it a client that can allow access to an ODBC server?
Please reply with a copy to me. I don't regularly read debian-user
(too much traffic).
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When installing packages that include libraries I often get warnings
from ldconfig about "no such file". These look like dangling symlinks
to some shared object files that have been removed. Is it safe to kill
those symlinks?
519# dpkg -i apt_0.0.16-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 50512 files
"LeRoy D. Cressy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Douglas Bates wrote:
> >
> > I was having trouble installing apache_1.1.3-6 on a bo machine that
> > had an earlier apache (1.0.x) installed. I kept getting an error in
> > the pre-installation script
I am using smail as the Mail Transport Agent on my Debian GNU/Linux
systems. I would like to define an alias that expands to the contents
of a file owned by a user. On some sendmail-based systems I would
include an alias in /etc/aliases like
foo: :include:/home/bar/foo.list
to do this. This do
I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am
still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons
in
/etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than xclock for one of
the buttons. (rclock can be confi
Is it possible to get a copy of netscape4.05 with hard encryption (128
bit keys) for Linux 2.0? I would like to install this if possible. I
am in the U.S. and qualify to obtain such a version if it is
available.
I seem to a recall discussion of methods of modifying the 48 bit
version to create a
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700
> > Subject: NPR show on open source
> >
> > Eri
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700
> Subject: NPR show on open source
>
> Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on
> NPR's "Science Friday" today--looks like the segment's
> from 12:30-1:00 pm PD
Put a shortened form of the chapter title in an optional argument
to the \chapter command. In my case it looks like
\chapter[Structure of Grouped Data]{Describing the Structure of Grouped Data}
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I should have followed the discussion on the modconf package under the
unstable or hamm distribution more closely but I didn't. In trying to
install the modconf_0.2.16 package I get a message that it requires
whiptail but whiptail is not available. This has been the case for
over a week and I h
Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using
> only the ssh version:
...
> 2. Using ssh not su
> ===
> % ssh -l root localhost
>
> # xterm &
That latter version can be shortened to
% ssh -f -l root loc
Perhaps I missed any discussion of this article because I was off the
list for a few days while travelling but today's (Mon, Feb 2) New York
Times "Digital Commerce" column by Denise Caruso discusses Netscape's
decision to make the source code for version 5.0 of their browser
freely available. I'm
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> > > I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system.
> > > Recently I tried t
I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system.
Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep
on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to
grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when
newaliases is run.
Would
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
> > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
> > I get e
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
> > > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
> > &
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
> > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
> > I get errors from superform
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
there is a lot of memory available.
bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0
Formatting cylinder
The manual entries for ssh and sshd contain information about settings
for Kerberos authentication but I have been unable to decide how to
set up kerberos authentication with ssh. I do have a local kerberos
realm and authentication server. Do I also need to have kerberos
clients compiled and inst
Is there a way of setting checkout or checkin triggers with CVS? I
want to do something like having a postinst script in a Debian
package. Specifically, after checking out files in a given directory
I want to check for the existence of another directory, remove any
symbolic links from the current
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably
> pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode,
^^^
Not true. The new Diamond Stealth II S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with
> the
> line
>
> /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0
>
> in /etc/fstab
>
> I tried changing "msdos" to "auto", but no dice. Is there a change so that
> it
>
I ordered a computer with a Diamond Stealth PCI video card. When it
arrived I found that the card was the Diamond Stealth II S220 which,
of course, has absolutely nothing in common with previous Diamond
Stealth cards. (I hate it when hardware manufacturers use the same
name for fundamentally diff
This may be a leading candidate in the "dumbest question ever asked on
debian-user" contest but does anyone know of a program in some package
that provides a count-down timer? That is, I want to set a time of 5
minutes and start the timer then have it pop up a window or ring the
bell or do somethi
the kernel recognize the full available memory?
Also, this is a dual-processor system. If I look at /proc/cpuinfo it
seems to be reporting only one processor. Could someone please remind
me how to check if both processors are being used?
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drivers.
The www.xfree86.org web site does not seem to have any information on
this card. Does anyone have suggestions of where I can look for
information on this?
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I am bringing up a new machine with an SMC Ultra ethernet card. After
reading the rescue and drivers disks I ask for the Net modules and
install the SMC-Ultra module. I receive some curious error messages
after
loading device 'eth0'...
smc-ultra.c:v2.00 6/6/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently installed the AFS file system on a Debian Linux machine
running the unstable distribution. Every time the scripts in
/etc/cron.daily are run now I get a series of error messages about
connections timing out for /afs domains. The messages look like
find: /afs/bcc.ac.uk: Connection time
separate entry. I think that means that he is
testing the GNU utilities compiled on systems other than GNU/Linux.
His web page
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/
may contain more information on the study.
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tfpucw (_FPU_IEEE);
before doing any floating point calulations.
Under the development version of Debian 2.0 the include file
/usr/include/fpu_control.h is complete by itself. There is no
/usr/include/i386/fpu_control.h
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Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Lawrence Lucier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Howdy Will...thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b=
> > ase install disks
> > that don't respond to either:
I should have read what yo
fd0
brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 84 Aug 5 08:13 fd0u1040
IIRC the 2 and 0 on the line for fd0 are magic numbers for the kernel
to allow it to access the appropriate device driver.
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riate -t option in the mount command.
$ type fdmount
fdmount is /usr/bin/fdmount
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/fdmount
fdutils: /usr/bin/fdmount
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02 0
198.213.2.20 - - [06/Sep/1997:03:50:32] "GET /pub/R/doc HTTP/1.0" 302 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/spare3/bates
$ tail -2 /var/adm/boa/error_log
[05/Sep/1997:14:06:18] request from 206.10.88.120 "GET /pub/Sbook/VR2compl.pdf
HTTP/1.0": write: Broken pipe
[06/Sep/1997:03:50:32
I would welcome suggestions for printing fairly large collections of
html files. My immediate application is to try to make some
reasonably attractive printed copies of the contents of
/usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ so I can read the collection
conveniently some evening. (No, I don't regard borrow
I am running the unstable (hamm) distribution of Debian. According to
dselect my libraries etc. are up-to-date with those available in the
distributions hamm, hamm/contrib, and hamm/non-free on ftp.debian.org.
At some point in the last few weeks, xemacs-19.15 started segfaulting
and dumping core
n.org.
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several
> packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not
> available. The most important such package for me is gdb.
> Can anyone suggest an alterna
I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several
packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not
available. The most important such package for me is gdb.
Hamish Moffatt wrote to me earlier that ncurses3.4 was available in
the Incoming section on master.debian.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baetzler) writes:
> James C. Carr wrote:
> : As far as I've been told, though I haven't actually tried it,
> :the Linux kernel functions up to the year 2037. How that works, I'm
> :not entirely sure...
>
> The Unix timestamp is represented as time_t, which is usuall
am just frustrated
right now that so many things are broken and it is not obvious to me
how to fix them. Suggestions welcome.
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If you use xisp to connect to your ISP, the modem connect speed is
displayed in a field of the xisp window. There is a Debian package
for xisp in contrib/net.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes:
> Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has
> connected to the ISP?
I just installed several parts of the new XFree86 3.3 packages
including xlib6. xemacs will no longer start up. The versions of
packages are
ii xemacs1919.15-3XEmacs 19.15 editor and kitchen sink
ii xemacs19-suppor 19.15-3Support files for XEmacs 19.15.
ii xemacs19-supp
The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
ii libc5-altdev5.4.23-4 The Linux C library version 5 (alternative d
ii libc6 2.0.3-4The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii libc6-dev 2.0.3-4The GNU C library version 2 (development fil
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, decpt is 0, sign is 0
bash-2.00$ ecvt_test_libc6
result is 11234.567, decpt is 4, sign is 0
result is 9987.6543, decpt is 3, sign is 1
result is 00.00, decpt is 1, sign is 0
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I have been using Debian 1.3 with a 2.1.35 kernel at home. I usually
connect to my ISP using xisp but I also have pppd configured.
Recently I upgraded to libc6. I'm not sure that I got all the needed
pieces in place. One side-effect of the upgrade is that both pppd and
xisp now fail immediately
I have the netscape-beta package installed using
communicator-v40b3-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
I thought I removed the netscape package before installing this but I
may not have purged the netscape package.
If I try to run a java applet I get the message that java40.jar is not
on
etting transfer mode to binary...
Cd to /debian...
Checking hamm/binary-i386...
Warning: Couldn't find a Packages file in hamm/binary-i386
This may not be a problem if the directory is a symbolic link
Closing ftp connection...
press return to continue
Norris Preyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Douglas Bates writes:
> > Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms.
...
> > /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek'
> > /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek&#
On Tuesday I installed several updated packages from bo. I noticed
this morning that file system dumps have been failing since then.
Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms.
franz# /sbin/dump 0f /dev/null /spare1
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 1 17:13:35 1997
DU
A couple of weeks ago I believe that there was some mention of
Kerberos-4 and Kerberos-5 packages to appear on the non-US sites "real
soon now". Does anyone have an updated ETA for these?
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Trouble? e-
there are missing symbols.
We were able to compile and boot a 2.1.35 kernel for my office machine
but that has / on a SCSI disk. We do have an old IDE drive in there
as well and this morning the driver for that got jammed to the point
that we had to reboot.
It appears that the 2.1.3x series of ke
> "Chow" == Chow Chi-Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chow> Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for
Chow> multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial
Chow> up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually
Chow> each time I have to switch)
I just finished a fresh install using disks from the bo directory on
ftp.i-connect.com dated April 8. I believe I saw something on the
screen about the base disks being created on April 4. As I recall the
rescue disk identifies itself as being a Feb 12 vintage.
I got through the installation fin
>>>>> "I" == Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I> I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future
I> Domain ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680.
I> The disks are some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged fro
> "Jean" == Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jean> I have both working fine on my system which is based on the
Jean> unstable branch. Didn't have to do anything special.
Jean> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
>> Can someone explain why the xemacs and emacs packag
I am also caught in the "Catch 22" of trying to upgrade to modutils.
As I recall the sequence was that I installed a new system with the
dummy version of modules (2.1.x) in unstable but there was no
companion modutils package at the time and I could not manipulate
modules. I then backed out to the
I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future Domain
ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. The disks as
some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some DECstations.
The DOS device drivers distributed with the controller will recognize
and access these drives.
respond at that point it just
returns a message that there is no help available for that variable.
Does "make config" have difficulty with the "hex" type of variable?
Suggestions welcomed.
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I am using cvs with the file repository on the machine in my office.
I would like to be able to manipulate these files from the machine at
home. Both are running Debian Linux and both have the cvs package
installed.
The machine at home will communicate via a PPP connection and will
have a dynamic
that cfdisk has out-of-date routines for
seeking to parts of an IDE drive that are beyond the 2.0 Gb range.
"fdisk" does not share this problem. It is less friendly than cfdisk
but at least it works.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks to the suggestions from this list I do indeed have the IDE Zip
drive working. The command
mount -t msdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt
is successful. Apparently I didn't try all the possible combinations
previously. The web pages at http://www.torque.net/zip.html are very
helpful.
I am now happily running Debian Linux systems both at the office and
at home. When reading mail at the office I use VM within GNU emacs.
To read from home I could run an emacs on the office system displaying
on the X-server at home and start up VM but that is a lot of overhead
just to read a coup
that?
Any suggestions appreciated.
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I have version 4.16-2 of the gdb package installed. When I start gdb
I get the warnings
warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
warning: and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
It would be very helpful to me
When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I
suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of
the transcript.
...
Preparing to replace ldso (using .../base/ldso_1.8.2-1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ldso ...
Preparing to replace modules (using .../base/m
ol unless it could be compiled against the lesstif libraries.
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`dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. For
example
hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1097170, sector=48787
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1097170,
pleasing.
Are there similar things to look for when purchasing a motherboard today?
Please e-mail me and I will summarize to the list.
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This is just to correct a typo on my earlier message. I wrote:
Doug> Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary
Doug> upgrade.
That last sentence doesn't make sense unless I have suddenly acquired
masochistic tendencies. I meant to write "I would prefer to avoid an
unnecessary up
available Debian X11R6 packages
are from XFree86 3.1.2 and to upgrade I will need first to install the
3.1.2D distribution from ftp.xfree86.org then to install the upgrade
files for 3.1.2E. Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an
unnecessary upgrade.
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I have friends visiting for a couple of weeks and I would like to help
them access their e-mail while here. They are accustomed to using
applications such as Eudora or Netscape under Windows to access a POP
server. I can provide them with the opportunity to connect the
Windows machine to a PPP ac
Most information on Debian mirrors lists three sites in Australia.
For example,
If you're looking for another Australian-specific Debian GNU/Linux
mirror site then here is a list of all the official ones:
ftp.tower.net.au /pub/linux/debian (Tower Networking P/L - Perth)
ftp.i
t ready for configuration
cannot configure (current status `installed')
Errors were encountered while processing:
xbase
I can run an X server as root by using startx. I cannot run it as a
regular user; presumably because of permission problems.
I would welcome suggestions on wh
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