Linux, Solaris, KDM

2002-01-06 Thread iehrenwald
I'm having a lot of difficulty getting my Sid box to serve KDM to an Ultra 5 w/ Solaris 8. I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers (added ultra5:0 foreign). I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess (uncommented * and * CHOOSER BROADCAST). I edited /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc (in the [Xdmcp] section set Enable=true).

Re: Canon BJC-250

2001-12-26 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jack Dodds wrote: How can I configure it to print to my old Canon BJC-250 through a standard (non-ECP) parallel port? apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-pstoraster cupsomatic-ppd Add yourself to the lpadmin group, log out/in. Open up a web browser to

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread iehrenwald
On 19 Dec 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: Yeah, I'm a white (I'm not a nazi tho) 17 year old that lives in Uh, what does one have to do with the other? Are you such a stupid and brainwashed mess that you feel the need to apologize for being White? What a sick person. Oh, I'm White so I'm

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Thomas Hallaran wrote: I am a white 22 year old very very far to the left debian user and though I am not personally responsible,people of my race ARE responsible for much of the world's woes. White males like : John Zerzan, Wendell Berry, Howard Zinn, and myself told ME

CUPS prints small text

2001-12-09 Thread iehrenwald
I'm having trouble printing text. CUPS is set up fine and I can print and all that good stuff. But the text itself is way too tiny. I notice when hit the Print icon in any KDE app, the text in the window turns very small and then returns to normal a few seconds later. Do I not have the right

RE: Setting up devfs

2001-11-30 Thread iehrenwald
Once you convert all your config files to use devfs names, you might want to comment out the first REGISTER and UNREGISTER commands in /etc/devfs/compat_symlinks and then reboot. You'll get a much cleaner looking /dev. eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev]$ ls MAKEDEV dsp input mixer printers

Re: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Randy Orrison wrote: times. Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes, then hanging up after the idle timeout. I've looked at all the /var/log/... Maybe you have exim/sendmail/$YOUR_MTA set to send a queue every 10 minutes?

Re: cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote: when i run cupsomatic, it returns an error relating to missing ppd files. where do i get them and where should i put them? apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd

Re: cupsomatic

2001-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote: apt-get install cupsomatic-ppd this returns an invalid operation error. Well Ben... All I can say is PEBCAK.

Re: Help: Load win2k with lilo 21.7-5

2001-11-06 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Liu Tao wrote: I want to load win2k, using lilo 21.7-5, how to edit /etc/lilo.conf? Add a line like : other = /dev/discs/disc0/part4 label=win2k Replace /dev/discs... with the device that Win2K is installed on. Run lilo to set the configuration. Reboot and you should be

Re: nvidia driver's opengl is slow

2001-11-01 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: I was just wondering why the NVidia driver's OpenGL is so slow when I Did you run 'make install' from the NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541 directory? This removes the software OpenGL and installs the NVIDIA stuff. You'll need to re-run 'make install' every time

List traffic

2001-10-28 Thread iehrenwald
Is it just me, or has the traffic on the list died to about 1/100 of what it was a week ago? I used to get probably 180 messages a day from this list and now I get.. 4. I wonder if my ISP is screwing around with something. Time is like a fuse; short and burning fast.

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread iehrenwald
On 9 Sep 2001, Ross Burton wrote: I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian 'apt-get install junkbuster' and install the cron files in /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/examples Then read /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/squid.txt

Re: Killing your keyb.controller...

2001-08-22 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: is an 600-650MB, so it's recognized. I intenden to shit in two smaller disks and use it as a firewall, but I think now it's going to be tough I know it's a typo, but it's still funny.

OT : Monitor dying?

2001-06-30 Thread iehrenwald
In the past week, the picture on my monitor has gotten progressively lighter and lighter. I haven't touched the contrast or brightness wheels. I checked all the connections to and from the tower and monitor. Even opened up the tower and re-seated the video card. No luck. The only thing that

Re: OT : Monitor dying?

2001-06-30 Thread iehrenwald
I suggest that he should get a replacement soon. After weighing the options I had (repair, replace, wait till it dies) I went with the 2nd option and bought a KDS AV-7TF which seems very nice. Super flat Trinitron tube, .24 dotpitch, and refresh rates high enough so I'll never have to worry

Re: [ot] netscape popup-windows

2001-06-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: from the autoresponder... Now, Is it possible to disable such popup windows generally? This would be really great You could disable JavaScript when you visit that site and turn it on again when you need it. Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Enable

Re: XFree86 cannot initialize NVdriver

2001-06-07 Thread iehrenwald
I have NVdriver in /lib/modules/2.2.19/kernel/drivers/video Does anyone know of a solution? Run update-modules. Make sure the permissions on NVdriver are 0644.

Re: XFree86 cannot initialize NVdriver

2001-06-07 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Steven Isaacson wrote: That still didn't fix the problem. If I copy NVdriver to NVdriver.o and insmod NVdriver.o the module will be loaded, but XFree still won't start. I still cannot get debian to find the module. I forgot, are you using the Debian package or the

Re: apcupsd: How to make the shutdown?

2001-05-29 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 29 May 2001, John Plate wrote: Hi I've tried to make apcupsd (version 3.6.2) do the shutdown of the server when power fails. It didn't work. The status reported seems ok, though. I gave up on apcupsd for my BackUPS Pro 1000 and switched to nut. It works well for me. To get it

List errors?

2001-05-19 Thread iehrenwald
Is it just me, or is the normal English debian-user mailing list getting messages from the German debian-user list?

Re: APC ups problems - backupspro

2001-04-18 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote: The daemon clearly talks to the UPS. It knows the voltages and the times and the events. When the power fails it stops people logging in. But it does not shut down the server. I have a BackUPS Pro 1000 with the simple gray cable so my suggestions

Re: any women here?

2001-04-16 Thread iehrenwald
have? the only thing missing i guess would be something to the effect of they could bake us cookies at conferences. Well? Can you? 'Cuz I'm hungry and I'm sure everyone else is too. While you're at it, a refresher on the beer would be nice. And could you grab that bag of nachos? The

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread iehrenwald
server), SCSI offers a strong performance advantage, for about twice the price. No kidding.. A month ago I paid about $360 for a Seagate 68pin UWSCSI 18.4GB drive (model ST318416W). But it's worth the price because if a drive dies they'll ship one out to you UPS Red at no cost. I've never

Re: soundcard volume too low.

2001-04-15 Thread iehrenwald
a SB PCI 128 and got it working. however, the volume is very low. i used aumix and set it to 100% on all channels, but it's barely Make sure your speakers are plugged into the right OUT jack on the back of the soundcard. Line out and Speaker out are two different things.

Re: CD-RW recommendations

2001-04-13 Thread iehrenwald
$250 Yamaha 16x10x40 CD-RW , part number in ad: CRW2100EZ If I get the Yamaha, I can get 128MB PC13 RAM for free (after rebates) If this Yamaha one is SCSI then go for it. I have the CDRW8824SZ (8/8/24) and it works fine. I don't like IDE at all except for cheap desktops so I'm

Re: Debian 2.2 won't boot up

2001-04-12 Thread iehrenwald
I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no avail: ATTEMPT #1: _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Well, that could be your problem. Grin.

Re: Cheap video cards

2001-03-31 Thread iehrenwald
Does anyone have a recommendation for cheap PCI video cards that work well with X? Thanks! Matrox Millennium II PCI or G200 PCI. You'll have to go digging on EBay or something to find one, but Matrox makes the best cards for crisp text. Or if you want a more modern solution with 3D

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-25 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, jh wrote: I am in the process of upgrading my motherboard and don't want to take any chances. Thank you. -Jeff H It's all about the environment in which you're performing the surgery. Do it in a room with no carpet. Don't wear big wool clothes that rub together. Short

Re: ?!: 2.4 kernels, modules_install

2001-03-25 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Tony Crawford wrote: It seems the behavior of make modules_install has changed radically with linux 2.4. Or is it just me? RTFM. Line 55 of Documentation/Changes. You need modutils version 2.4.2 or greater. insmod -V to see what version you have.

Re: GDM background image

2001-03-18 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:47:25PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ^ Fix your system clock. The list was flooded with old messages again, I don't think it's his box.

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael J. Micek wrote: If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? On a very fast drive (7200RPM U2WSCSI or faster) seperate from all other filesystem tasks. Mount it under /swapfiles and add the apropriate entries in fstab. Don't

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: Has anyone else experienced problems with their reiserfs partitions after upgrading to 2.4.2? All systems a-go on this box. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux solvent 2.4.2 #3 SMP Sat Feb 24 21:37:46 EST 2001 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: unstable breaks kernel compile

2001-02-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: I just ran a distupgrade to debian unstable. I tried to compile my 2.4.2 kernel and I get this: [snip] From /usr/share/doc/binutils/changelog.Debian.gz : * Added text during postinst that informs users to modify their i386 kernel Makefiles

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. I don't know if this

Re: NFS hangups.

2001-01-29 Thread iehrenwald
This box is fairly important, being our main server (NFS, DNS, NIS, etc...)... Any suggestions? I know this is going to sound rather crass, but.. Don't use Linux for NFS. Linux NFS really is awful. I'd throw that task to a BSD. Ian

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
chgrp wheel /dev/somedevice chmod 660 /dev/somedevice and have it stick. (past reboots) With devfsd this is also very simple possible. Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
That installed a script(s?) in /etc/init.d, which start devfsd at boot-time. Of course, you have to have the kernel automatically mount devfs in /dev, which is available as an option in the kernel pre-compilation configuration. If you didn't select it there, add devfs=mount as an argument to

Re: xdm doesn't start

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: I installed xdm, but x doesn't start up. It says starting x display manger: xdm, but it never does. Anyone know why? (i'm running potato w/ x4) Maybe it started but didn't switch vts for you? Try alt-F7? Im not sure, I don't like booting into

Re: kernel - contact

2001-01-06 Thread iehrenwald
2.2.18pre, but I can not get it work correctly, so I guess there is an error somewhere. PEBCAK. -- Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. -Robert A. Heinlein

Debian CD in store

2000-12-14 Thread iehrenwald
I was browsing Software Etc and saw the Debian retail CD. Is this Debian 2.1 or 2.2? It didn't say on the box anywhere. If it's 2.2 I'll pick it up. Thanks.

Re: Sawfish 0.34

2000-12-05 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, does anybody else have the problem where this version of Sawfish won't save your personal settings anymore? Know of a fix? Thanks. -Jeff I thought it was something broken here. I guess not. If I change a key-binding it doesn't seem to stick.

Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, jakemsr wrote: works as a PS/2 on a PS/2 port with X), and a PS/2 to serial adapter. I've got the mouse/adapter in com2. /dev/mouse is a symlink Why did you put it in COM2? Plug the mouse into COM1/ttyS0 and smylink /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0. Then give gpm a shot. I

Re: your mail

2000-11-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jodi Pullen wrote: Please remove me from all your mailing lists. See that little blip of info at the bottom of _EVERY_ message on the list? Follow its nice, helpful instructions and the world will be a happy shiny neato good place. Ian - Tremble you

Re: failed to connect port 25

2000-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just installed Postfix mailerdeamon, and now I am unable to send email out of the network. After searching, I discovered that I am also unable to telnet to the smtp port of the delivery-mailserver. That is: $ telnet mail.somewhere.nl 25 Trying

Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
On 7 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: [snip] what package they are from. The font that I remember was called neep, and the foundry was jmk. Can anyone tell me which package it's in? [snip] apt-get install xfonts-jmk Hubert Ian

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps me with a GLX

Re: Thanks everyone! Still problems though.

2000-11-07 Thread iehrenwald
Thanks everyone!!! Quake 3 runs almost fine now! The only problems I really have are with X. The screen tries to go blank all the time (especially when playing Q3) and when I boot my machine, I have to re-make the NVidia drivers everytime. It doesn't take that long, but if I could get

Re: X4.0.1 crashing -- help!

2000-11-04 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dan Griswold wrote: Hi all, I was hoping that somebody could help me figure out what's going on. [snip] Make sure you're using the NVIDIA supplied GL and GLX libs. Follow the instructions on their web site for manual installation. Try adding Option NvAgp 0 to your

Re: game board

2000-10-30 Thread iehrenwald
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, kenneth and elizabeth oatis wrote: i played mille bourne as a child and i'd love to share it with my children. where can i order the game? apt-get install xmille ? Ian - Religion stops a thinking mind.

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
On 15 Oct 2000, Matthew Emmett wrote: Hi all, When netscape screws up and dies, it sometimes leaves it's dns [snip] I made a script caled 'killzilla' that I run when netscape pukes. I have it assigned to a hotkey in sawmill. The script: #!/bin/sh kill -9 `pidof communicator-smotif.real`

LAN upload speed slow

2000-10-07 Thread iehrenwald
Has anyone ever seen the following situation: There are three machines on this 10bT LAN: iansbox (linux 2.4.0-test8, woody) crapbox (freebsd 4.0) caseylaptop (windows 98 SE) caseylaptop can upload and download from crapbox with no problem. FTP, SAMBA, WWW, whatever. caseylaptop can download

Re: PINE -- Full headers

2000-09-24 Thread iehrenwald
I don't use Pine anymore so I can't remember what the command is, but if you look at Pine's help and browse through the list of commands you should find it. Shift+H will give you the full headers while viewing a message.

Re: Please recommend internal modem

2000-09-22 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: I need a good internal (controller based) modem for a potato server. USRobotics Courier v.Everything. It's expensive but it will be around forever. My friend has one that started life as a 14.4 and then upgraded to 19.2Terbo/bis and 28.8 and

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere? What is so good about it and where can I get it? http://www.helixcode.com/

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. Uhh.. So why not just purge the games along with task-helix-gnome? Problem solved.

Re: strange /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread iehrenwald
Sep 3 17:37:30 stimpy -- MARK -- Those are from syslogd. I think it defaults to every 20 minutes making a -- MARK -- in the logs. I occasionally find them useful for finding out an aprox. time when an even occured. The interval can be changed with the -m arg. Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Netscape color problem

2000-09-02 Thread iehrenwald
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, James Clawson wrote: Help: When I run Netscape (4.73) the colors keep changing-from gray to brown, for example. This occurs when I move the mouse pointer off the window. I get [snip] If I remember correctly, Netscape misbehaves like this when you're using 24bpp color

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: Just read it and tell me what you think about it. I think it has some valid points. He brings up issues that make sense and should of been taken care of a long time ago (eg: commenting out archaic services in inetd.conf, default homedir perms,

Re: Linksys LNE100TX ethernet lan card

2000-08-25 Thread iehrenwald
So the long and the short of it is, I'm looking for anyone who might have installed this card and gotten it running on a debian box, lspci -v: 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 25) Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc:

Re: over 400 msg's this am

2000-08-25 Thread iehrenwald
Someone in Hong Kong has a broken mail-news gateway that is regurgitating the list. As a slight aside, why does so much spam and other troublesome things come from/get routed through Asian systems? Do sysadmins over there just set up a box and forget about it?

Re: I've got me a sourceforge project for something I really don't think exists, but haven't much any coding experience

2000-08-22 Thread iehrenwald
nothing that has the ability to have a playlist that fades from 1 song to apt-get install xmms-crossfade

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread iehrenwald
/tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Try adding -lm to your compile command. That tells gcc to use the math lib. Ian

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 from source

2000-07-31 Thread iehrenwald
Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! I did the same thing you did and I get those same errors. It doesn't seem to hurt anything so I always

Re: Good 2D PCI card?

2000-07-24 Thread iehrenwald
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted some opinions on a good 2D PCI card that has good support in linux/xfree86. Needs to support 1600x1200 @32bit Try to find an 8MB or larger Matrox Millennium II PCI. Ian

Re: XF4.0 deb eta?

2000-05-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, Not trying to tick anyone off, but I need the NVIDIA driver for my new video card and it appears to require XF-4.0. I'd rather keep to .debs and not go source or converted .rpm, so I can keep my box clean... Anyone got an eta or a

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Gould wrote: Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controller will have no effect on the disk rotational velocity. However this is not what the poster asked! If you put an Ultra 2 wide on a non wide channel the transfers will be eight bits at a time instead of 16,

Re: problem with 2.3.99 kernel

2000-05-05 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: [snip] shmget: shm filesystem not mounted [snip] Ghhh RTFM! Shared memory is now implemented using a new (minimal) virtual file system, which you need to mount before programs can use shared memory. To do this automatically at system startup just

Re: terminals

2000-01-15 Thread iehrenwald
and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one. But this should at I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-read the inittab. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux? My Umax Astra 1200S came with a piece of crap $5 SCSI card that worked under Windows only. I picked up an Adaptec AHA1520 for $20 at a local used computer place and it works fine. I

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. Whoops. My fault. I missed some details on my end. After I used to AHA card for a while I replaced it with a Tekram 390 PCI. The 390 has an external 50 pin, so I needed an adaptor. I'd rather have a PCI card than an ISA one. Brain fart. Sorry.

Re: acer modem?

1999-12-15 Thread iehrenwald
never takes the fax call, manually i can receive fax, but not automatically Are you using mgetty? If not you might want to take a look at it. apt-get install mgetty mgetty-docs erasmo --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi, I'm building an ISP and I have 56 Kbs modem's and configured mgetty but I cant connect with my clients above 31200 kbs. What can be wrong? Right. You cannot do 56k - 56k using modems. You have to have

Re: PPP problems on potato

1999-11-18 Thread iehrenwald
Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Connection terminated. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Receive

Re: TNT2

1999-10-18 Thread iehrenwald
are there any drivers for the TNT2 AGP (not the new ultra) available? I'm using a TNT2 Ultra with Xfree 3.3.5 and the glx module from http://pandora.debian.org/~crow. I'm 99% sure that the X server and glx module will work with the normal TNT2. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread iehrenwald
If you have an ATX case and motherboard, shutdown -h -p now or the shorter poweroff also turns power down. You should have compiled your kernel with APM poweroff option for this to work. Note: If you are on a SMP machine, APM will break things badly. So don't use it then.

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-16 Thread iehrenwald
Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? Look in your BIOS and check out the boot order options. Stuff like A,C,SCSI C,A,SCSI SCSI,A,C CDROM,A,C etc --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: linux unformat

1999-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Luis wrote: HI [snip] You've mailed this message four times now. Please stop it. If anyone has ideas, they'll say something. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: install, I'm in over my head

1999-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5. You probably don't need any of them. paride is for parallel port IDE devices. All the RAID ones are for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. I'm not sure what linear is for. I could not install one module though it really sounds important:

Re: Banner

1999-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux penguin may be. How do I do it? This is part of the BIOS and as far as I know

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread iehrenwald
I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH faster and more stable that all of the previous versions I have used. Does it fix the

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread iehrenwald
I am using the latest .deb packages (4.7) and I _never_ have any of these things happens. Perhaps your problems lie elsewhere. No offense I dunno. Ever since I started using Netscape 4.0x and everything later it always would exhibit those problems on certain sites. I know others have these

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone? Netscape's cache features never worked right. Netscape is a stupid and terrible browser. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy, and is slow and lacks features even more... Heh. Nope. No alternative. You learn to

Re: Debian menu

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
I accidentally deleted the Debian menu while playing with WMakerconf. Is there a way I can get it back? Try running 'update-menus' --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
If you're looking for a better lynx than lynx, try w3m, found at http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/. I've been playing with it recently and it's not perfect, but I'm very impressed. I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very impressed with how it

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very WHoops. took a look :P

Re: video accelarators under linux

1999-10-10 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: I was wondering whether video accelerators work undre linux (such as vodoo ( i think 3000 or somethink like that ) which is popular at list around here). I like my AGP Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra 32MB. You need to do a lot of fiddling with files to

Re: customized-hdrs (Pine)

1999-10-10 Thread iehrenwald
Hi, before I compiled Pine source, I set the right options. But Pine send the [Not allowd to change header From] message when I start compose. I have an elder version, too. It workd fine before I install this newer 4.10. But now it says also Not allowd What did I do wrong? (It's not

Re: filenames beginning with -

1999-10-10 Thread iehrenwald
Apparently about an hour ago something made a few files in my homedir that began with -, and now I can't read them and can't remove them: Try using midnight commander or some other tool like that to remove them. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: X crashed, keyboard blocked...

1999-10-08 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Debian Mail wrote: XF86_Mach64 crashed on my system, leaving it in graphics mode. No the keyboard is blocked and I can't change to a virtual console anymore. ps aux tells me that the X server is gone. How can I unlock the keyboard? Stef Next time you're compiling

Re: Pine 4.1

1999-10-08 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, ping.win wrote: Hi, I'm new here. My English is poor, sorry. I'm trying to compile the $SUBJECT :( There is ... ranlib libpico.a cc -g - DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a -ltermcap -o pico ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or

Re: telnet banner

1999-10-08 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: How can I set my linux to display a banner before it prompts for login? I can do it in solaris by editing /etc/default/telnetd Edit /etc/issue.net for remote logins and /etc/issue for local. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Sound Config Probs

1999-10-06 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have compiled the sound support into my kernel for a SB16 card also using isapnp. A few points which I noticed. 1. you MUST not compile INTO the kernel, make sound drivers a module. After installing your new kernel [snip] Not always true.

Re: dual celeron m/b

1999-10-05 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Kam Yee Lo wrote: Just curious about Debian running dual celeron with better FPU? I'm thinking of installing Debian on dual celeron for CAD. Is dual celeron 500mhz faster than Pentium III 500mhz? I want good debian linux and cheap dual celeron :) Anyone have dual

unix:0

1999-10-03 Thread iehrenwald
What controls what appears when you 'w'? I just noticed that when I am in X and I 'w' all my X terms are from unix:0 instead of plain old :0 like they used to be. extace doesn't work with unix:0, it just likes :0. Is there a non destructive way I can change it back to :0? Thanks.

Kerneld guilty of module descrimination

1999-06-05 Thread iehrenwald
Good [morning|afternoon|evening], Can someone give me a little help with kerneld and my sound modules? kerneld loads every module automagicly when needed, but not my sound modules. It was working fine then just broke one day. Probably when I got the new modutils. I have modutils 2.1.121-23

PAM trouble

1999-06-04 Thread iehrenwald
Hi, I'm having a little trouble with PAM on my bleeding edge potato system. When I am in a rxvt term and try to 'su' I get the PAM_RUSER error described in the NOTES.su file. But if I 'su' in xterm or Eterm, everything goes fine. I compiled rxvt with utmp/wtmp support thinking that would fix

Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread iehrenwald
Hi everyone, I am using pine to read/send mail. I am also using a dial-up connection for my Internet access. My login name for my machine is 'ian'. My account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'. How do I get pine to send mail from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or whatever it is at now

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