Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-16 Thread Matt Garman
now :) Hoping somebody finds this useful, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: IDE cd burner acting flakey w/cdrecord

2002-05-06 Thread Matt Garman
. Good luck! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pppd ignoring idle option

2002-05-06 Thread Matt Garman
, I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

diald extreme slowness

2002-05-01 Thread Matt Garman
, and it's dial-on-demand program didn't suffer this problem. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dri causing hard lockups?

2002-03-27 Thread Matt Garman
don't even need the HAL library for what I'm doing. shrug Thanks for the feedback! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dri causing hard lockups?

2002-03-27 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:10:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Trying to use the DRI stuff is causing X to lockup. In fact, the ... I have experienced this, but only while playing 3D-accelerated games. The system in question

dri causing hard lockups?

2002-03-25 Thread Matt Garman
has been down this road before, I'd be happy to hear your experiences! Thanks Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread Matt Garman
. As someone already said, the only real downside to cdparanoia is that it takes longer due to the analysis it performs on data. If you have a fast machine, you probably won't notice too much. Good luck, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy

can't boot; was: Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-18 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:46:34AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: Matt Garman wrote: The new problem, though, is now my SCSI CD-ROMs don't work. The hard drives work fine. The SCSI device driver *is* recognizing the SCSI CD-ROMs. However, I can't mount any /dev/scdx device. Do you have

Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-16 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:46:28PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Just a shot in the dark here since you didn't mention which SCSI controller you are using, BUT you should have a SCSI setup to configure its BIOS somewhere. It is NOT the one you have been using in the KT7's BIOS setup program,

booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-15 Thread Matt Garman
in the other computer... okay I'm starting to vent. Any help? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Matt Garman
, anarchy) and yet be technologically advanced (enough to send/receive galactic messages). Those aliens might look at us and say, wow, that planet gets by with only 75% barbarianism! Disclaimer: I do love to read sci-fi :) Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey

OT: getting the family in on Linux. was: Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users

2002-03-06 Thread Matt Garman
had the capability of doing this long before I got the idea, so my goal was to help out anyone on whom this hadn't yet dawned :) It's an easy way to let someone slowly wade into Linux without having to do the whole partition and dual-boot rigamarole. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't

OT: scsi vs ide: some data

2002-02-28 Thread Matt Garman
. Depending on the feedback I get, I might do some more testing. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions/thoughts on how I can achieve some more data? E.g., other methods, other programs, ...anything that doesn't involve buying stuff :) Hope somebody finds this interesting! Matt -- Matt Garman

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Matt Garman
no CPU (again, whatching gkrellm). Good luck. Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-23 Thread Matt Garman
with the subtleties of two Unices, stick with Debian. (I'm sure most would agree that a properly configured Linux firewall is as safe as any other free Unix's firewall.) Good luck! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy

Re: mozilla and vnc

2002-02-23 Thread Matt Garman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:27:26AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:09PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: However, mozilla is a bit strange: it will load, and the window will be created, but the content of the window is entirely black! xrefresh doesn't do anything

mozilla and vnc

2002-02-21 Thread Matt Garman
this has something to do with mozilla... but I don't know what that would be. Anyone seen this? Any ideas? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

ssh'ing within LAN triggers diald

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Garman
that before sending this email). Anyway, thanks for any thoughs or suggestions! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''

fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread matt garman
package I need to install? Or is this a limitation of my video hardware? I have a Matrox Millenium I (the lowliest of the Milleniums I guess) with 4mb of (video) RAM. My computer is a Pentium II 266 with 96mb of RAM. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may make you feel, but I

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread matt garman
/X11R6/lib/modules on my computer. Thanks again! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may make you feel, but I can't make you think. -- Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick

quake-svga

2000-04-02 Thread matt garman
it happen to have anything to do with the fact that I'm running kernel-level frame buffer (i.e. vga mode text console)? Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said

installing on an old 486

2000-04-02 Thread matt garman
choose CD-ROM. I selected /dev/hdc and it says mount failed. I actually went through all choices (all /dev/hdx) and the mount always failed. Could the problem be the CD-ROM is some strange proprietary interface that the installer can't talk to? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just

Re: dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:02:55AM -0600, matt garman wrote: I'm trying to get ATT @home cable modem service working on my system. From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for me. ... Sorry, I

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
ideas? Thanks as always, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-01 Thread matt garman
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:14:52PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I executed ipchains -P forward ACCEPT for the three default chains (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have (policy ACCEPT) for all three chains. ... Problem solved, all of my roommates and I are connected! Thank you

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-31 Thread matt garman
in diagnosing the problem, or output of any particular program? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
their /etc/dhcpd.conf file for a small home LAN, such as mine? Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface jakarta.gw.uiuc * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 default jakarta.gw.uiuc 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
to the switch. Thanks much, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
computer). MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond

which driver for Netgear FA310TX

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
as supplied by linux kernel 2.2.14 or the old tulip driver (also in linux kernel source)? Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well

ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
, and what does the ipmasq package take care of automatically? -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
, where does Debian leave off, and where do I need to pick up? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
and other related Debian packages, do I still need to follow all the steps in the howto? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true

cable modem and LAN

2000-03-29 Thread matt garman
, but it's assumes a redhat distribution, which apparently does configuration of these things a bit differently. Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide for setting up my network for Debian? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_

fetchmail not working

2000-01-14 Thread matt garman
on the machine where I download my email just because fetchmail doesn't get very far, but that's only a guess. Any ideas? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread matt garman
on buying a Celeron over the Pentium II, you can probably afford a higher clock or more physical ram. If you can afford it, you might consider the AMD Athlon, arguably the best PC chip available at this time, and reasonably priced. Hope this helps, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through

Re: SVGATextMode Chip ?

2000-01-08 Thread matt garman
want to look into the linux kernel's framebuffer options. The framebuffer makes SVGATextMode more or less obsolete. Try this on for size: http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/Framebuffer-HOWTO-1.1.html It's pretty easy to setup and use, too. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED

make-kpkg and /vmlinuz

2000-01-08 Thread matt garman
-kpkg and installed the resulting .deb with dpkg, that either /etc/lilo.conf was updated to see the new kernel, or the /vmlinuz symlink was updated. Or am I mistaken? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million

kernel compiling error

2000-01-03 Thread matt garman
kernel_image and the compilation dies with the following: drivers/video/video.a(vga16fb.o): In function vga16fb_set_disp': vga16fb.o(.text+0x1ed): undefined reference to fbcon_vga_planes' vga16fb.o(.text+0x1fa): undefined reference to fbcon_ega_planes' Any ideas on this? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman

alt key in jed under X

2000-01-02 Thread matt garman
key works as expected on the console. Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

/bin/sh and ash, bash

2000-01-02 Thread matt garman
things got broken. I was just curious if anyone knew whether or not it's safe to link /bin/sh to /bin/ash? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd

su and chsh authentication/password failures

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
Hello: I just installed potato via the floppy+ftp method. For some odd reason, I cannot su to root as a normal user, it always says I have the wrong password. But I can switch to a different virtual terminal and login as root with the same password, no problem. Also, as a user I tried to

correct apt sources.list line for non-us?

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
What is the correct line to use in /etc/apt/sources.list for the unstable non-us files? I tried the following: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US but I always get a 404 not found error. What I am I doing wrong? Thanks, Matt

Re: su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
piece. I'm running on a fresh install now, so if I had to throw it all away, it wouldn't be a problem. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

Re: su and chsh never work

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
directory? I assume all the files will be put in the correct places, but will this throw off or otherwise interfere with dpkg's accounting in anyway? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
-mounted mine in my case so that there is a gap between it and any other drive. I also installed an extra case fan in my computer to get some more moving air in the case. I don't think all that was necessary, but it certainly doesn't hurt. Good luck, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED

zsh and tab completions

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
the default zsh config files provided by the installation via dpkg and also the config files I was using when I had a roll-my-own zsh installed in /usr/local. No completions, either way. Do I need to explicitly turn on completions somewhere? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through

Re: zsh and tab completions

1999-12-31 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:27:43PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I have zsh version 3.1.6.pws13-1 installed on my potato system. For some reason, it's not doing *any* completions when I hit the tab key. By default, it behaves similar to bash with respect to completions, I believe, but this deb

Re: MTA and debian default mta

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
Just out of curiosity, why did Debian choose exim as its default MTA? I remember Debian's default MTA used to be smail. Why did they move away from smail? And why did they choose exim over others (such as postfix)? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
of development, *still* fails at. Try links. links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser And there's another text-mode web browser called w3m, which somewhat supports frames and tables. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

debian install and multiple partitions

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
and some security benefits. My question is: how does this affect the installation process? Are there any gotchas I should look out for, having my disc split up as such? I'll be doing the floppy+ftp method of installing potato. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window

/dev/fd0: Input/output error (making base disks)

1999-12-22 Thread Matt Garman
a standard 1.44 floppy drive that came with my system. It has worked fine for as long as I've had the machine. By the way, I also tried several different disks, all with the same results as above. Any thoughts? MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming

plextor cd-r trouble

1999-12-21 Thread Matt Garman
(23328 reads and 2794 writes) (scsi0:0:4:0) Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 10.0 MByte/sec, offset 8 Transinfo settings: current(25/8/0/0), goal(12/15/0/0), user(12/15/1/0) Total transfers 3770 (3770 reads and 0 writes) -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window

Re: MTA

1999-12-21 Thread Matt Garman
explicitly flush the outgoing mail queue. I have a simple script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that flushes the queue automatically whenever I make a ppp connection. I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window

Re: plextor cd-r trouble

1999-12-21 Thread Matt Garman
and harddrive on the same ribbon, and used a 68-to-50 pin adapter for the burner. That setup was also unsuccessful. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

when a build fails with debian source

1999-12-20 Thread Matt Garman
done to make it start where it left off, rather than start fresh? I assumed debian/rules worked like make, i.e. it doesn't bother with things that don't need to be changed. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings

pentium-optimized debian?

1999-12-20 Thread Matt Garman
a Debian equivalent of the Stampede, Enoch, and Mandrake distributions, which are compiled for Pentium or better systems. Just an idea. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning

compiling from debian source package

1999-12-20 Thread Matt Garman
make sure it uses the compiler and compiler flags I want it to when it builds? I probed around some random files within the source tree, but can't find out where it sets the compiler and compiler flags. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come

Re: unstable distribution on CD

1999-12-16 Thread Matt Garman
what some of those packages actually contain! MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

unstable distribution on CD

1999-12-15 Thread Matt Garman
for downloading the whole distribution. I'd also like all the source packages on CD so that I can recompile packages with pgcc (pentium optimization). Again, same problem, I can't afford to download all the source packages I want over a slow modem. Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through

Re: How to get stats on modem?

1999-06-14 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:24:21PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: I like WMppp in WindowMaker. Another WindowMaker dock application that may be of interest: wmnet. It works for ppp/modem connections, but also for ethernet connections. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window

offtopic: reading Usenet via email?

1999-06-08 Thread Matt Garman
with the debian-user list, for example). The only real reason I'd like this is to have one piece of software for reading news and email (e.g. gnus, which I didn't like too much). Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings

Re: setting up a news server

1999-05-24 Thread Matt Garman
while the modem is connected. I want to have the articles downloaded automatically (say, in the middle of the night) so I can read them at my leasure, offline. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors

Re: fetchmail problems

1999-05-23 Thread Matt Garman
! MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

setting up a news server

1999-05-23 Thread Matt Garman
running? I don't need anything too fancy except the ability to read from more than one server (e.g. my ISP's news server and my school's news server). Also, my school's server needs to be sent a login and password before I can access it. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though

Re: apt-get and two cds

1999-05-23 Thread Matt Garman
to be binary, or is my CD corrupt? It seems fishy that both my Packages and Packages.gz files would *both* be corrupted. Anyone have their Official binary discs handy to check up on this? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight

apt-get and two cds

1999-05-20 Thread Matt Garman
/cdrom_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages has no :. E: Package file /var/state/apt/lists/cdrom_debian_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages line 2 does not start a package Any ideas? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming

fetchmail problems

1999-05-20 Thread Matt Garman
needs to be running... I don't have a sendmail process, but does exim create one anyway? Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

postfix

1999-05-17 Thread Matt Garman
-- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

Re: [Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage

1999-05-09 Thread Matt Garman
argument which says just create the *.deb binary package. That should be sufficient in most cases (except for XFree86 :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd

Re: wav mp3

1999-05-09 Thread Matt Garman
, but a pain nonethless. In short, don't run it (shouldn't affect Linux-only users, though :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

Re: wav mp3

1999-05-09 Thread Matt Garman
and considered one of the better mp3 encoders. Another decent encoder is 8hz-mp3, at www.8hz.com. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes

Re: Exim + Procmail + Mutt

1999-05-08 Thread Matt Garman
then save my_mail_directory/debian-user finish endif # enf of debian-user filter This works, although I think I liked smail+procmail better, personally. shrug MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright

Re: Mutt and signature

1999-05-08 Thread Matt Garman
: set signature=~/.sig And that appends the spiffy file ~/.sig to the end of every message I send with mutt, as seen below :) MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Matt Garman
, but it saves paper on lengthy stuff. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces --Pink Floyd

acroread can't load library libXt.so.6

1999-05-03 Thread Matt Garman
/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/local/lib And I also tried running ldconfig as root before running the program, no dice. Any ideas? thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me

Re: acroread can't load library libXt.so.6

1999-05-03 Thread Matt Garman
the environment variable should make a difference.) Thanks again! On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 09:58:25PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I installed the acroread package. I've installed and removed it before, in the past, with no trouble, but this time, I get the following error: /usr/lib

Exim allowing external mail...

1999-04-21 Thread Matt Garman
not getting the confirmation notice because (I think) Exim is disallowing mail outside of the uiuc.edu domain. I've had this come up on other occations, i.e. not receiving mail sent specifically to my machine from outside of my domain. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always

making source and non-free CDs

1999-04-15 Thread Matt Garman
, or is there a preferred method? Also, same goes for the non-free and non-US stuff that I'd also like to have on CD. (I'm in my University dorm with an ethernet link to T3s and the like; I want to take advantage of my bandwith before the end of the academic year ;) Thanks! MG -- Matt Garman

building glibc from dpkg source

1999-04-15 Thread Matt Garman
it's looking for the 2.0.36 kernel headers. I'm running kernel 2.2.5. Also, I also tried a debian/rules clean and then tried to build the binary again, but the same error still comes up. Thanks for any help! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down

Re: MP3 encoder?

1999-04-14 Thread Matt Garman
, http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625 Bladeenc is supposedly faster. Hope that helps, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

cd-to-cd burning

1999-04-13 Thread Matt Garman
this. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

pgcc Debian package?

1999-04-12 Thread Matt Garman
; is there or will there be a pgcc Deb package? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

Re: What do I do with tarballs?

1999-04-08 Thread Matt Garman
if you want more info, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

graphic df type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread Matt Garman
know if anything of this sort exists? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Matt Garman
the time to actually find out what *IS* available for Linux. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

Re: compiling xfree86

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:00:38PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Could anyone offer any advice or pointers as for how to custom compile xfree86 as a debian package? I want to compile using egcc and only include support for the video driver that I need (trying to make it a bit leaner). Also, I

which package provides ldd

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal disaster mentioned in an earlier post). Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta

still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess ERROR http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Bad return code from subprocess Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
? Which distro? (hamm, slink, potato) I'm using apt version 0.1.9 in the slink distribution. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:17:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: Matt Garman wrote: Which apt version are you using? Which distro? (hamm, slink, potato) I'm using apt version 0.1.9 in the slink distribution. I am trying to update from that mirror without much luck. Try changing

apt-get update help

1999-03-10 Thread Matt Garman
/non-free/binary-i386/Package s.gz Bad return code from subprocess Any help? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

Re: apt-get update help

1999-03-10 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:57:58AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: When I try to do an apt-get update, I get the following errors: Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages 0% [Packages `Connecting to http.us.debian.org' 0]http: Bad header line Get http://http.us.debian.org stable

compiling xfree86

1999-03-10 Thread Matt Garman
the default Debian xlibs are not compiled to be thread safe. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man

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