kde mirror

2000-08-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Sorry but I'm not subscribed to the list, so can you please answer directly? I actually use an rsync connexion to mirror sunsite.tut.fi, unfortunately, this one is hugely sloow, does anybody knows about a *fast*, reliable and up to date mirror (with rsync) for DEBIAN-KDE? Thanks in advan

Re: ??? :undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1999-12-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Bob Brown wrote: > Here is my problem: My end goal is to install StarOffice 51. I loaded hamm > from my cd, upgraded to slink using apt-get from ftp.debian.org, then pulled > down XFree86 3.3.5 (current) for glibc. When I run startx I get this: > /usr/

Re: DNS slow?

1999-12-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:55:33AM +0100, Onno wrote: > My experiance with older versions of netscape under > windows is the same, so this -could- be a netsacpe issue... > > Regards, > > Onno Thanks Onno, I checked with lynx, which does not give the error, so it is really a nestcape issue :( JY

DNS slow?

1999-12-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I've a 486 as DNS/FW/ROUTER and a PII400 as a station. Sometimes when I surf the net, if I quit a site and instantly click on another link (netscape 4.7), the browser tells me tha site is unreachable. When I click a second time, it works w/o problem. Have you any clue? (i.e. a parm to ch

Re: Two problems to solve...(i hope)

1999-12-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:22:47PM +, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > First of all Linux is unable to find my UDMA66 HardDisk. I know that > exists some patches to make it working. Anyone have already tryed them? Yep, I use slink with kernel 2.2.12; patch comes from: ftp.kernel.org/people/

Re: lpr problem [SOLVED!]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:08:42PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > jybarb >Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port. > > Ok, just want to re verify that you enabled parallel *printer* support, > they are differ

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:08:42PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > jybarb >Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port. > > Ok, just want to re verify that you enabled parallel *printer* support, > they are differ

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:11:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > jybarb >I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago). > jybarb >I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend. > >

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:33:29PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > I also suggest you cat a file directly to the port and see what > > > happens. at least then you know you have communication and later you can > > > work on the lpd/m

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:41:26PM -0800, aphro wrote: > I dont know what exactly is installed when(if) your using a debian binary > kernel but if your compiling from source make sure you enable the Parellel > printer support option in character devices when your making the kernel. Hi Nate, Sure I

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:12:27AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I didn't print for a long time; > > when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ), > lpq says: "waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)" Motherboard is an ABIT BE-6. Of co

lpr problem

1999-12-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I didn't print for a long time; when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ), lpq says: "waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)" I check the cable, I de-installed/re-installed the 'lpr' package (always using my conf files for a Epson 750, on /dev/lp0). Still nothing (even under

Re: databases, which one? (THANKS)

1999-11-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanxs to all of you, I think I'm gonna try MySQL + Perl JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad

databases, which one?

1999-11-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder if there's a package with easy-to-use-and-powerfull database? (something like dBase III+/IV) Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ask not for whom the  tolls.

Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

1999-11-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:29:25PM -0600, ktb wrote: > I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my > xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X >. > Nov 23 23:08:19 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > Nov 23 23:08:24 xyf ker

Re: your mail

1999-11-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 06:28:03PM +0100, Skynet wrote: > 212.210.122.9 ??? = agmemnnone.penters.it

Re: little www svr

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:49:38PM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Jean-Yves: > > Hello, again. I'm doing fine. And you? Fine, thanks Marc. > I see now what you're talking about. I've never heard of these kinds > of upload limits before, either because they aren't common in the U.S., > or becau

Re: ethernet irq #4

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:46:25AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I feel like I`m getting close now.:-) > Unfortunately the cards had no software with them, they were both > unwanted freebies from work. As for the i/o address I would imagine > that this is covered by the message at boot time : >

Re: little www svr

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 09:20:26AM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Jean-Yves: > > I'm a little confused about what you're asking. If your ISP is > providing 500MB disk space, presumably on their Web server, then > you don't need to worry about running a Web server. You create Hi Marc, doing well?

Re: Ethernet irq #3

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:24:36AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... > I`m fairly new to all this so before I go to the extent of replacing > the kernel, which I hadn`t intended to do until potato was the stable > version, please could someone tell me in laymans terms how to change > the IRQ th

Re: Help

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:05:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please send me anything you can send. > -On any and everything. I've got a boring ex-wife, can I send it to you? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> U X e dUdX, e dX, cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159..

phoenix maxi gamer 3D xserver [URGENT]

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm going to help a friend tomorrow mornig to setup Linux on his computer, he's owning this card, and I don't know if the xserver exists (and if so, where I can download it). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PURGE COMPLETE.

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:01PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Try `mem=256M' instead. > > Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... > > No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. Try `mem=255M' instead. JY -- Jean-Yves

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 01:57:43AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > > When I try, I get the following: > > > > westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > > rm -f include/asm > > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > > make -C scr

Re: +64 mb ram

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 09:06:17PM +0100, luis wrote: > which are the options to have recognized by linux more than 64 mb of ram? > i have put a line in /etc/lilo.conf, stating : > > append="mem=128m" You should read the HOWTOs before, it says that giving the whole RAM is dangerous, because you

Re: How to savely copy a disk? (a bit off topic)

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:10:30PM +0100, Francis Pirotton wrote: > For the win95 partition :. > > 1 - Create another primary partition. > I have already tried to do it with the fdisk of linux but I had > messages like > "partition table corrupted" Hi, just a word about this kind of error

Re: Ethernet irq

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 06:17:59PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "eth0: AT1700 found at 0x320, IRQ 5, address f4aacbbd auto-sense > interface. > at1700.c:v1.15 4/7/98 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" Good, its well recognized > /proc/interrupts and ioports are as follows; > > "FUDO2:

Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:43:09AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > > Are you sure your user is part of the 'audio' group? > -- > Yes. I did check and it made no difference. Thanks for t

Re: open ports (1/2 oops!)

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:58:16AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > I was also returned an 'imap2' opened port??? I did not installed > such a package (in fact it was purged long ago). Why is it still > present? Sorry, forget about this one, it was still opend by inetd.

open ports

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I made a 'netstat -a --inet', and it returns me 3 ports I don't know opened: tcp 00 *:sunrpc *.*LISTEN udp 00 *:sunrpc *.* raw 00 *:1 *.* raw 00 *:6 *.* Is it normal? Am I

Re: Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 04:08:08PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Tom Allard wrote: > > VMware is kinda heavy on the requirements side, too (minimum 96MB > > memory recommended). If you just need to run an app or two, VMware is > > overkill. > > And it's

Re: Extremely Strange Problem (keyboard mouse die)

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:38:39PM -0500, Harlan Crystal wrote: > Hello: > > Sometimes, when I boot up my machine, it'll boot normally > but when I get to the login prompt, my keyboard and mouse > get no response on screen. The cursor keeps on flashing > and everything seems to be working (I c

Re: X and the ATI Xpert 128

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 04:45:43PM -0800, Jon Hughes wrote: > We have the 3.3.5 version of X, but he has a ATI Xpert > 128 video card. The documentation states that it is > not yet supported, but has anyone managed to get > the card to work yet? I don't know this card, but if it has a Rage128 cpu

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:55:55PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care > about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable > to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux? > > I'll be encoding wavs i

Re: ethernet card irq

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:29:36PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > eth0: transmit timed out with status 8180, IRQ conflict? > eth0: timeout registers: 8180 8182 0106 e85a d920 8080 4000. What driver did you inclued in the kernel? is it a module or inclued in the kernel? > Also the value

Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:01:37AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have sound working fine as the root user, but it is screwed as any > other. I am using commercial OSS as I have NEVER been able to get any of > the other stuff to work. I presented this problem to the tech folks at > 4Front and their

little www svr

1999-11-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi folks, I'm on a cable connection, and my isp changed its upolod limit from 150 to 500 MB [ better than nothing :( ]. So I intend to have a small www svr, BUT I would like to be able to contain it within my limits: stop the svr if my upload is > 400 MB; and I don't know which svr I must use (isn

Re: Xfree-changing default

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:17:57AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How do I change my default starting of Xserver to 32 from 8 or so? I > have several modes avalable, but if I try from the command prompt: > startx -- -bpp 32 it says: Xserver already running. Can't, or something > similar. > So, w

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 09:19:57AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > I did that (append="ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x320,eth1"), it > wouldn't boot. > I recall that boot options will not work for modules. Is this correct? I don't really know, since I only use modules for sound in my kernels. > If it is, t

Re: Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:37:43PM -0600, Brian Neal wrote: > Hi, > > I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used > so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled > up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which > is pretty much empty.

Re: Linux as a router

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 07:16:40AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > BTW, would using a floppy for the system be better than a HD in terms of > security? Or, it just means that a floppy will have less data so that > even if the system badly hacked, the recovery would be pretty simple > (just make a copy from

Re: 2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
> One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my LAN, and I > was wondering if it is okay to share the /home/ftp/pub directory between the 2 > distros so that as it gets modified in one distro the modifications will be > updated in the other. For example if my partitions are: >

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:25:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether it's possible to load ne.o module for a dual > ethernet machine. Can it be done? I have tried to load the same module > twice (with different iobase's), but it wouldn't work. Do I have to > recompile the ker

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:38:08PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? Don't know, I'm interested too ;) > How do I implement the server? The qpopper package work perfectly for me (without touching any config file) JY --

Re: Debian 2.0 booting problem

1999-11-17 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 05:25:02PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: > Sometimes it boots up well. I have installed only the base system and > netwoking code (NIS and Automount) > > Sometimes the boot process hangs with the following error message: > > qlogicisp: PCI bios not present > > eata_dma :

xawtv and kde problem

1999-11-17 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, kernel 2.2.12, slink, KDE 1.1.2, Miro PCTV, xawtv-2.46, bttv-0.6.4 After several deseases with 2.2.13 + xawtv-3.01 + lm-sensors-2.4.3 card was recognized as a BT848A instead of BT848, so it gives an image like beeing in PAL, receiving SECAM :(; I turn back to my former configuration. But

Re: Capture sound/video under linux

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:14:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: > For all of those of you that have been(like me) dreaming for the day of > being able to capture FMV with audio under linux there is now a > stable(appears) program available. > > XawTV 3.01 (Nov 14) Sorry to disturb you again Nate, I'm unde

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:48:52AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Maybe I re-formulate my Question: > Is there something (a Key combination) that locks > the physical display to a fixed position on the > virtual display (=prevents scrolling). Sorry Bernhard, I don't know it it exists. JY -- Jea

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:19:56AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling > when you have a virtual display size larger than > the physical display size ? I think the answer is contained in the question ;) If you set a virtual screen larger than the r

Re: fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:49:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as > it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep > getting errors and having to start again from scratch. > > Please mail answers to me at

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:18:47PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > .. > to the global (top) section of/etc/lilo.conf. Now the only problem is that > I've got a 534 Mb partition that I can't decide where to mount, so it's just > sitting there, still unused... (Any suggestions?) You could enlar

tracing the HD access

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'd like to optimize my partitions locations for the maximum of speed Is there a utility which can trace the partition access (in order)? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D

Re: ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP)

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Sergey Lishchuk wrote: > Hi > > What X server must I use to make potato work with > ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP) video card? VGA16 works, but > I need larger resolution. SVGA does not work. I tried > to install manually the SUSE package XFCom_Rage128, > but unsu

Canon LBP8 III+

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Following an unsuccessfull test to make it work in serial mode, I'm not able anymore to print the special french chars on my printer. I made a reset of the setup (LOAD FONT < ROM), but I'm still stuck :( I tryied to 'recode' in 'cp347 & 850', but this time, the printing was stuck; if som

Re: Realtek NIC speed issues

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:21:44AM +1000, Daniel Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully someone can help me on this as I've just about given up. I have > a realtek8029 based PCI network card. Under windows this card performs > well, getting good (50+kb/s) from local sites. Under Debian however I'm

Re: networking options

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:09:48PM -0800, Michael Hunter wrote: > I have a six-year-old 486DX with 24MB running Debian, and I'd like to > connect it to my home network, which currently consists of two Win98 > machines connected by 3Com network cards. What is the best way to connect > my Debian box

Re: Interested

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 01:25:14PM -0500, Donta' Watson wrote: > Hello I am trying to find my way in this gigantic way of networking and > communications. I have recently graduated and I am looking toward > working > with some other product other than Microsoft. I have heard about Linux > and > I l

Re: ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!

1999-11-12 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:18:17AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd > man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get > no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full > permission t

Re: netscape navigator 4.5

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 04:35:17PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > Hi, > > I installed the following packages from slink: > > navigator-base-45_4.5-1.deb > netscape-base-45_4.5-1.deb > netscape-base-4_5.deb > > now I try to run netscape from X, but the only netscape executable > around is `netscape

Re: Mirroring

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:08:38PM +, Brian Schramm wrote: > Is there a way to mirror directories in a two way fasion? I want to > update the directories that have older files in it with it's > counterpart on another machine. This way my mini network will always > act the same no mater wha

Re: creating ttyS5?

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:52:21AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I just purchased a pci-modem from Actiontec that uses a Lucent chip and > on the box it says it is compatible with Linux. I have to create a > ttyS4 (com 5) > > I have done a /dev/MAKEDEV ttyS4 and this appears to create the fil

Re: FIXED: audio cdrom broken in 2.2 kernels???

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 07:48:12PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > One of my friends reminded me that hdparm works on ATAPI drives too. > It turns out that the CD-ROM was going to sleep and not waking up > properly. hdparm -S 0 /dev/cdrom fixed the problem. > > Will I break anything by adding this to

Re: X screen resolutions.

1999-11-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows, > but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please help me. Hi, are you sure this resolution was 'plain' and not compresses, like on LCD for projectors? If so

Re: win95/netscape/smartupdate over ipmasq failure

1999-11-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 05:16:06PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to use the Netscape SmartUpdate feature to upgrade a few > Win9x boxes that access the net through my Debian box using ipmasq. > Everything goes fine until the actual download is supposed to start. > The 'Sma

Re: Clock problems

1999-11-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:50:10PM -0800, aphro wrote: >. > my > server's clock is never off by more then 0.01 seconds. > > nate Hi nate, Do you have a clue to use the log files from xntp3 to correctly setup time TICK & FREQ, in order to have quite a good time kept by the cmos clock on a

Re: Pine

1999-11-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:23:25PM +, John wrote: [SNIP] > Also, Pine depends on libc6 >=2.1 (my slink has 2.0.7) and libncurses ^^^ Forget this version, lic6-2.1 is for potato, and it is almost impossible to go back once ver. 2.1 is installed; use a former versi

drive not ready...

1999-11-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi, this is for those who met the same errors I just have this kind of problem; I was scared about a HD failure, as many mails are talking about. Since it is an 8 months HD, I was quite sure is was not a failure. So I opened the beast and had a look: it was simply the power supply connector of th

Re: MiroPCTV and ATI 128

1999-11-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:19:56PM -0800, aphro wrote: > its best to avoid the video4linux drivers in the kernels, they are > somewhat outdated. try grabbing the latest bttv drivers from the homepage > > http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html > > i use the latest driver with both a TN

sblive and speak-freely

1999-11-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Does anyone succeeded to run speak-freely on an sblive? I can't even have it to work in loop mode (local). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil.

MiroPCTV and ATI 128

1999-11-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder if I'm alone with the following problem: When I watch TV (xawtv, KDE 1.1.2, kernel 2.2.12), sometimes, it hangs; evrything is stuck for # 7-12 seconds, then it goes on; I really mean goes on, because if I have a clock opened, the hand of seconds don't jump: it go fast from the sec

Re: KDE 1.1.2 for slink problem - kfmclient

1999-11-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 08:30:11PM +0100, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > Hello! > > I've used KDE 1.1.1 (naturally from kde.tdyc.org) on my slink system > without problems but some days ago I've upgraded it to version 1.1.2. > Everything works OK except kfmclient. When I try to browse any directory >

Re: SB Live Module

1999-11-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 05:22:18PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: > Hi! > > There are still problems with the SB Live kernel module. > I have added the following lines... > > Makefile: > -I/usr/src/linux/include to the line > CFLAGS += -I$(INCLUDEDIR) -I. > newline--> CFLAGS += -I$(INCLUDEDIR) -I

Re: Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:55:59AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there > are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard > drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to > accelerate

Re: SB Live

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:29:44AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Raaahhh, too simple: there are many things to change :(( Sorry, forget it: the PB was comming from the include directories as many people, I began with 2.0.36, which is always set in /usr/include; so I just changed,

Re: Obscure Hardware

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:50:51PM +1100, Andrew Clark wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone out there knows where I could get a pH probe > with serial output and a water hardness probe with serial output. Hi Andrew, You can call HANNA INSTRUMENTS, they have a Ph-meter with RS232 Sorry I don't have t

Re: SB Live

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:42:36AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > I finally found what's wrong with sound.h : > The program refers to /usr/include/. > instead of: /usr/src/linux/include/.. Raaahhh, too simple: there are many things to change :(( (BTW I work under 2

Re: SB Live

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:45:52PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: > I used th e dpkg -S command but no file was found. > The other problem is I have installed the libc6-dev. > > Do you have now any idea??? ;-) Hi Sven, I finally found what's wrong with sound.h : The program refers to /usr/include/.

Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

1999-11-04 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:22:25AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is > a separate package)? netdate seems to be the former form of ntpdate. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> May Euell Gibbons eat your only c

Re: [LRP: DHCPCD] ISP rotate IP-Adresses

1999-11-03 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:58:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 2 MBit cable modem with DHCP and my ISP rotate all 3-4 weeks > the IP-Adresses. > How can I check with a simpel and small program that the connection > is broken ??? The program must force the router to reboo

Re: Backup Media

1999-11-03 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:03:37PM -, Bernadette McKevitt wrote: > I am based in small office with 2 pc's and 1 laptop. The computers > are set up on a local network and I am trying to decide which > backup media device would be best for this office. > > Bernie, Hi Bernie, Well it depends

Re: problem with telnet

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:58:22AM +0100, Markus Lenzing wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up a little server with debian linux. When I connect > to my server via telnet and try to change my configuration files (like > smb.conf), I get a 'permission denied'. The user account I have used has >

Re: Disk error! ACK!

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:24:27PM -0500, Jon Hughes wrote: > I'm cautious about clearing some illegal block for fearing I'll lose data or > what not. And you're right :) Try to change it again, but this time with 'fdisk' instead of 'cfdisk', some cdfisk versions are not very good, especially wit

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 05:59:18PM -0800, Iain Lamb wrote: > Note that netdate tcp 192.168.1.1 works fine on .2. That means your xntpd is not loaded, otherwise it should return: 2 Nov 03:21:51 ntpdate[5563]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting Check you've got a symlink in /etc/rc2.d, alike: S20x

Re: Where I find kernel and netscape?

1999-10-31 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 06:17:49PM -0200, Ribamar FS wrote: > Hello! > > Sorry my english (I brazilian) :) > > Where do I find the packages of the kernel of Debian? > I bought Debian 2.1 in just a CD (Cheapbytes) and I am having > difficulties of finding the kernel and the netscape. > Can any

Re: samba questions : thanks

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks to you, I'm gonna mount it this W.E. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: > > kewl, what kind of language is that? > > Ingo Seems to be korean. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice

Re: boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. > > What URL's have such a list? > > If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I > look to study (and perhaps modify) the b

samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers. I'd like to know if its possible to: * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial) and use them remotely from W$, without special trick to switch from one to the other * Use them also from a Linux station, without ch

Re: restart exim

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:11:11PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: > How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to > send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon > process pid. Hi Richie, do: kill -HUP , or /etc/init.d/exim restart JY -- Jean-Yves F. B

Re: Linux/X and LCD projectors (sort of video beamer)

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 06:06:57PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > The hardware vendor said that the projector can't show up modes at > high frequencies, only about 60--70 hz. There's no problem with > flickering because basically it is a LCD display. AFAIK the LCD's projectors cannot go f

Re: modem speed

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > I'm looking for a program that measures the speed of downloading( for example > for the wget program ). > ( better if it is console based or can be X-based ) > > Thanks > Attila Hun, hun :))) Use 'iptraf' on another console JY --

Re: Netscape and exim?

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:23:45PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I have recently installed netscape 4.7 communicator on my slink system. > > I don't want to use for all my email, but would like to use it to email > messages to webmasters or while I am browsing the web. I cannot figure > out how to

Perl hashing problem

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I have a problem with 2 hash tables in perl: My first table contains As it comes without ordering on sizes, I want to sort it in another hash table, so I make: @New_Table = sort { $File_Table{$a} cmp $File_Table{b} } keys %File_Table; but when I print both tables on the screen, New_Tab

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:23:16PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hello! > > I've finally solved it! Great, now you should have a look at your MUA and MTA, because you posted the same mail 5 times! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is easier to change the specification to fi

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:38:43PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. > > I use

Re: gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Richard Clarke wrote: [SNIP] Hi Richie, Have a look to 'la gazette' #43, I think its all you need. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX enhancements aren't.

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: > > /etc/rc.boot/hwtools > > > Yummi, > > could you be so kind to tell us, in which package this script should be? I > didn't find it on my system... Ooops, you're right, it's a

Re: getting exim to clear queue immediatly (w/o "exim -qf")

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 03:42:15AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > in a queue. It is cleared out of the queue and delivered by > "exim -qf" but it used to just go out right away, which was > more convenient to me. > > Can anyone tell me what I need to change so mail will clear > out from the queue r

Re: Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Lars Nixdorf wrote: > hallo, > > I want to update to kernel 2.0.38. Are there .deb packages to do that? > Is it a problem for debian , when I install kernel-2.0.38 from a tar.gz file > to komile the kernel (/usr/src/kernel-2.0.38 and link linux to this)?

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from > runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. > Andrew Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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