Re: CPU Overclocking & Kernel compile

2001-09-18 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:44:47PM -0400, Rossy Roman Salgado wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > > What are the issues involved in compiling a kernel on a machine with CPU > > overclocked ? > > > > Yesterday I tried to compile 2.4.9 kernel on a celerone machine 466MHZ > > which w

Re: Home/End keys don't work in xterm

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:20:12PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" wrote: > > > What is the file I'm supposed to edit to make the home and end keys work in > > xterm? > > Well, this is a thing i would like to know me too, but i've seen no answer > till now. I've looked

Re: why does ps->eps conversion reduce line thickness?

2001-04-24 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi Erdmut, Thanks for such a detailed reply. > 5 setlinewidth I added this line in box.ps, and yes, the box lines are quite thick. However, after doing an epswrite, to my surprise the lines were thin again. I installed the non-free gs-aladdin, and now it works - so there must be a slight b

why does ps->eps conversion reduce line thickness?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Mackenzie
I do ps->eps conversions using: echo -n '\004' | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite \ -sOutputFile=box.eps box.ps >/dev/null using box.ps below. When box.ps is printed, it comes out as a 1mm thick 1" box (quite dark). When box.eps is printed, the lines are very thin (perhaps .2mm) and faint. Th

Re: printing pdf containing font not recognised by ps printer

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Mackenzie
> I have a document that contains fonts that are unrecognisable to a > postscript printer (hplj2100tn) Just in case anyone else has this problem, pdftops from the xpdf package seems to fix this (as apposed to pdf2ps from gs). Mark

printing pdf containing font not recognised by ps printer

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I have a document that contains fonts that are unrecognisable to a postscript printer (hplj2100tn) The fonts are (AFAICT): HMLODN+Universal-GreekwithMathPi AIKCIF+MathPackOne acroread correctly displays the document, but when printing, it is sent to pdf2ps (which is from the gs package) b

Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-22 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:48:46AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Word is broken with eps. If you can find an eps to wmf translator, > that'd be your best bet (I recall someone working on one somewhere...). Yes this did the trick. It looks like pstoedit (which is packaged for debian) does have an

Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:46:39PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > This EPS picture will print to a Postscript printer > > ... [] > > This text is also printed on my PS printer (hjlj2100). > > It _will_ print to a postscript printer, but what goes where the ...'s > are? I think it says something l

importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I plot a graph with gnuplot3.7, and have: set terminal postscript eps set output "prop.eps" giving me an eps that I can view with gv. However, importing this into ms word gives: Title: prop.eps Creator: gnuplot... Preview: EPS not saved with preview... Comment: This EPS picture will print to

Re: compiling lame - glib error

2001-01-30 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:35:44PM -0500, joeytsai wrote: > Hi, I just downloaded the newest version of lame (3.87) and I'm having > problems > compiling. The error message I'm getting is: > > gcc -DNDEBUG -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -ffast-math > -finline-functions -Wall -pedantic

lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, Normally, with magicfilter installed, printing out a .c file will give a two collumned small font sized landscape printout, because it uses enscript. If you make a small tst.c and: $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps $ gv me.ps you will see what I mean (and this works properly

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-22 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:30PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > >Why do you skip 2 messages? > > In Digest mode you get first 2 messages which are the indexes of all the > mails in that digest. Are you sure? I have '| formail +1 -ds >> user' and don't see the index. splitdigest used to give me 2

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Please ignore my last post. I used to use splitdigest and saved in $HOME/user. procmail saves in $HOME/Mail/user as it should. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:27:15PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > :0: > * ^TOdebian-user > | formail +2 -ds >> Today_debian Why do you skip 2 messages? Regards, Mark

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hmm, what is the trick to get procmail to work or to debug it? /usr/share/docs/procmail/QuickStart tells me to add |/usr/bin/procmail to .forward for exim systems. However, I get: error in filter file: unknown filtering command "|/usr/bin/procmail" This is my .procmailrc: # comment PATH=/usr/bi

Re: ssh to solaris: how do i get fully functional terminal?

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:24:05PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > What terminal are you using? Linux console? (What is $TERM when you > log in to the Solaris system?) > > If it is "linux" you can just use > export TERM=vt100 well, > | export TERM=dtterm gives me an almost functioning terminal. just

ssh to solaris: how do i get fully functional terminal?

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Mackenzie
hi, (this has to be a faq, but i cannot find it) export TERM=dtterm gives me an almost functioning terminal. just have to fix up sun's annoying delete, home/end & pgup/dn key problems. if i was in X i would: (from xterm FAQ) XTerm.VT100.Translations: #override \

Re: Packages list.

2001-01-04 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:24:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a quick way to rebuild the Packages file under the binary-i386 > tree? In other words, I would like to download the files I want for > Debian to put on one CD, like KDE 2, netscape 4.76? In other words, is > there an ea

Re: broken woddy "Packages" file on mirror

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:23:35PM +0100, Andreas Gartus wrote: > Hi! > > I wanted to install the woody package bluefish_0.6 (which I found on an > australian mirror _only_) on my potato system, but apt-get mysteriously Ugh, as I understand it aarnet may be having trouble staying in sync.

Re: vim's syntax highlighting + typedefs from #include

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 08:38:58PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > As another poster mentioned, it's probably quite easy to add new types to > vim's syntax lists, but that's not quite what you wanted. Ok, thanks to Rob's sugestion I can temporarily add these other typedef's into the syntax files.

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during "apt-get update"

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:56:35PM -0700, Jeff Kelm wrote: > I still haven't been able to get 2.2 to network properly. A suggestion > was a possible hardware problem. I don't see how this would explain > the problem. If I boot off the harddrive with Debian 1.3, everything > works fine. Booting

Re: DNS problem after upgrade to woody

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:51:02AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:54:37PM -0500, Giulio Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, to > > > remore > > > hosts with

Re: upgrade errors: libgnomeprint-bin 0.25-0.1, overwriting files

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:31:03PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I have Gnome as well. X has slowed down considerably by going to 4.0, and > Gnome doesn't help. Know how to trade X servers? I tried reinstalling the > 3.3.6 version, but found myself with an invisible mouse. Have a look in deve

Re: s3virge server crashes

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:13:46PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:10:30PM +0100, Bernhard Josef Rieder ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:24:33AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > Applications that don't: > > > > xedit, nets

Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg system

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Benj wrote: > Hi, > don't ask me why, but I can't use anymore anything related to the dpkg / > apt-get system. Just describe the symptoms - someone will be able to help sort out the problem. Regards, Mark

woody networking problems

2000-11-02 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, Is anyone else having networking problems in woody? I cannot work out what is wrong. 2.2.17 kernel with eth0 card that worked fine up untill a few days ago. When I ping another computer, the packets do not seem to get to the networking layer. ifconfig shows no increase in the tx packets (it

Remote X app over openssh-1.2.3 problem

2000-06-04 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I have a problem running an X app from a remote SunOS 5.6 on a potato system with openssh-1.2.3 protocol v1.5 Simple things like xclock work fine over openssh (so yes, settings should be ok). The remote app works properly if I telnet to the remote machine (the app is some horrible glish/ja

Re: Printing *should* work...

1999-09-10 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi Ray, This may be a stab in the dark, but I once had a similar problem. After each bootup, I could not print untill I had done a dpkg -i lpr_whatever.deb For some reason, simply restarting the lpr daemon did not seem to get printing to work (yes, I know that sounds very hard to believe). Unfor

Re: [ss@cse.unsw.edu.au: Re: [disconnect@unsw.edu.au: Re: network problem]]

1999-06-23 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi Shao, I have been using [EMAIL PROTECTED] since Bo (installed the 5 disks, then minicom.deb, setup ppp, and then got the rest of the distro) and have not had a problem. I do *not* set mtu or mru in /etc/ppp/options What kernel are you using? I am currently using 2.2.10 (but had no problems un

Unsupported Cards (was Re: X-Server for AGP-7410 )

1999-06-23 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Just thought I'd let people know that if your card is unsupported, (or if you have trouble with Redhats XBF...) then I have found that compiling frame buffer support into 2.2.x kernels and using vserver-fbdev_foo.deb works well for me (unnacelerated of course, but I just wanted to get a motherboard

dpkg-source gives getcwd() error (Potato)

1999-06-04 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I upgraded to Potato on 22/5/99 and am having trouble with dpkg-source. icarus:~/dnlds/lilo# dpkg-source -x lilo_21-5.dsc dpkg-source: extracting lilo in lilo-21 shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory icarus:~/dnlds/li

Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi all, I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 I guess) I have had a look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html and the hardware howto, but the later models I am looking at do