Re: fetchmail question

2001-02-01 Thread Romain Lerallut
add fetchmail -d3600 -f config_file to your /usr/bin/pon script and fetchmail --quit to your poff you might even do special my_pon , my_poff , calling pon and then fetchmail and the opposite with poff. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, john smith wrote: hey, I would like to know how to configure

OT: new Nvidia drivers released

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
I had problems with sending mails yesterday so I'm re-sending it. My apologies if it _did_ get through the first time -- Forwarded message -- Hi all ! I saw a post questioning about Nvidia drivers,and debs.I have not seen any .debs of Nvidia's drivers, but the new tgz ones from

OT: atime

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
I've read that disabling atime for a partition could speed up access time. I guess it's true, but is it a great improvement ? And are there security issues ? Especially for a mostly one-user workstation, not for a mail server... Thanks for any answer, Romain

Re: what do you mean you can't find stdio.h!!!

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
Luckily the standard C library is installed, or else all would be broken. However the headers are not necessarily installed. Depends on the type of installation you chose. In general: The libfoo.deb package will contain the libfoo.x.y.so binary files, but not the foo.h headers, since they'll

OT: atime

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
I've read that disabling atime for a partition could speed up access time. I guess it's true, but is it a great improvement ? And are there security issues ? Especially for a mostly one-user workstation, not for a mail server... Thanks for any answer, Romain L.

OT: new Nvidia drivers released

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
Hi all ! I saw a post questioning about Nvidia drivers,and debs.I have not seen any .debs of Nvidia's drivers, but the new tgz ones from www.nvidia.com work like a charm. (new = January 18th 2001) INCLUDING WITH KERNEL 2.4 !!! There here: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html

Re: compiling lame - glib error

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
such an error is caysed when gcc can't find a foo.h Standard basic gcc call: add a -I/usr/include/foo (or whatever you installed foo.h to) to the gcc call that compiles a .c into a .o Autoconf call: if you use ./configure try ./configure --with-foo-inc=/usr/include/foo or ./configure

Re: sb module

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
add a sb line to your /etc/modules file, it will load module sb during the boot process. HTH Romain PS:I don't think you need the sb module to play audio CDs, not with the standard IDE drives, at least. On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! Each time I want to listen music

Re: OT: new Nvidia drivers released

2001-01-30 Thread Romain Lerallut
funny. Good Luck, Romain On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: Romain Lerallut wrote: I had problems with sending mails yesterday so I'm re-sending it. My apologies if it _did_ get through the first time -- Forwarded message -- Hi all ! I saw a post

Re: net-pf-10?

2001-01-29 Thread romain lerallut
check /etc/modutils/alias (aliases ? ) it's an alias for the IPv6 module, that you don't seem to be using. uncomment the line and it should disappear. Or else, compile IPv6 ... HTH, Romain Begin Original Message From: Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:45:30

Re: change IRQ

2001-01-26 Thread romain lerallut
Hi! I have this card and I chose the IRQ from the PnP menu in my BIOS. Linux can't soft-modify IRQs, AFAIK. Go to the BIOS Setup and then to the PnP menu. (If your BIOS isn't too old, there is one :) somewhere there is an listing of the devices. Check out the one that says Multimedia Device

building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. Here it is (it's pine 3-96) apt-get source -b pine fetching data...OK compiling...OK and then: install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1

Re: building pine

2001-01-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
I took a closer look at what gcc says when it's compiling: This does not look good: os.c:1235: conversion to non-scalar type requested os.c:1236: invalid operands to binary == os.c: In function `fset_pos': os.c:1246: incompatible type for argument 2 of `fseek' os.c: In function `post_reap':

Re: building pine from debs

2001-01-25 Thread Romain Lerallut
, Romain Lerallut wrote: -Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. -Here it is -(it's pine 3-96) - - -apt-get source -b pine - -fetching data...OK -compiling...OK - -and then: - -install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin -install: cannot stat `bin/pine

Re: Making a copy of a CD

2001-01-18 Thread romain lerallut
Add to this the X frontends for cdrecord, cdparanoia, cdrdao,etc: my favourite: xcdroast 0.98 ( doesn't copy on-the-fly audio CDs , though, just data) gcdmaster (1.1 i think) (can't find a .deb for this one, check out .rpms or non-packaged binaries) this one does on-the-fly copies for audio

Re: debian and win2k

2001-01-15 Thread romain lerallut
Hi, I've used debian and win2k on the same computer w/o any problem: I was able to boot with a standard-issue lilo , and no need for the win2k bootloader neither. Bye Romain PS in case you encounter a problem here is a patch: format c: :-) Begin Original Message From: Tristan

Compiling OpenGL apps for Nvidia

2001-01-15 Thread Romain Lerallut
Hi all! I'm using an nvidia card and I have a problem with compiling OpenGL apps with it: cc -o origami origami.o -L../libglut -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -L/home/romain/OpenGL/opengl_for_x/glut/libglut -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lXmu -lXext -lX11 -lm origami.o: In function `display':

Re: Compiling OpenGL apps for Nvidia

2001-01-15 Thread Romain Lerallut
any strigns in the liberary, and you will get the functions, and a lot of unwanted stuff as well, dont know how usefull that wuold actually be if the compiler is mangling names. On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: Hi all! I'm using an nvidia card and I have a problem

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
There you are, have a lot of fun Romain Kristian Rink wrote: Hello there... ...can anyone give me a help by posting me the patch that makes NVIDIA's kernel module driver build with 2.4.0? By now I only found an url for this on linuxgames.com but it seems the site is down, at least I

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
I've used that patch for a while now and no problems with it, though X needed some tweaking (it's X 4.0.2 BTW). If you want/need help, please send your X log files (/var/log/XFree86.0.log) and some kernel info... regards, Romain PS: thanks for pointing out that the patch is NOT

Re: fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
here's what I got in /usr/X11R6/lib with a dpkg -S libXpm.so.4 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.11 xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11 xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 HTH Romain Gary Jones wrote: I've just installed X and am getting this

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
Casey Webster wrote: www.nvidia.com, click on support, then drivers, then linux Well, no... The driver won't compile with kernel 2.4. Romain

Re: Xfree86 4.02?

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
The debs are in debian/pool: you can get them by adding unstable to your apt sources list (apt-setup will do it fine for you). I did it by hand, because I didn't want to change my apt settings, the files I got are: libfreetype6_2.0.1-1.debxserver-common_4.0.2-1_i386.deb

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
it's in bin86 HTH Romain Xucaen wrote: Hi all.. I'm compiling a kernel, and everything goes well, untill the very end, when I get a make error: as86: command not found I need to create a boot disk by compiling a custom kernel, but the kernel that is produced is not bootable. what

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Just FYI you can also swap disks with LILO. (I've not often seen it mentioned so I guess I'll say it aloud here) Apart from the syntax that was a bit more evoluted than GRUB's it is exactly the same. It's something like this: map-drive = 0x80 # Logically swap the drives so that

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-12 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thanks all! just what I wanted to know Romain Ayman Haidar wrote: Once upon a time Romain Lerallut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Brian May wrote: Romain == Romain Lerallut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Romain I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
Brian May wrote: Tom == Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? Tom Thanks! grub is harder to initially install (as far as I know installation is still manual, but I could be mistaken), but once installed you can

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
Brian May wrote: Romain == Romain Lerallut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Romain I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner, Romain and I had no problem installing, none at all :-) Romain However I'd like to know how to pass arguments to the Romain kernel when I

Question: Xfree 4 and startx

2001-01-08 Thread Romain Lerallut
I have installed Xfree 4.0.2 by downloading and dpkg-ing the following .debs, from The Pool: libfreetype6_2.0.1-1.debxserver-common_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xfree86-common_4.0.2-1_all.deb xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb no problem: XFree86

Re: kernel 2.4.0-test12 and get_module_symbol

2001-01-06 Thread Romain Lerallut
, Romain Lerallut said: Hello everyone, I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test12. I need to compile the drivers for my nvidia card and they call get_module_symbol and put_module_symbol which I cannot find. I did a quick search on the web but I found nothing about test12... If anyone could

kernel 2.4.0-test12 and get_module_symbol

2001-01-05 Thread Romain Lerallut
Hello everyone, I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test12. I need to compile the drivers for my nvidia card and they call get_module_symbol and put_module_symbol which I cannot find. I did a quick search on the web but I found nothing about test12... If anyone could tell me how I can get a patch or

Re: Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-03 Thread romain lerallut
have you tried the ESD output plugin instead of the OSS one ? Begin Original Message From: Jerrud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:55:06 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sound blaster live! 512 I followed your instructions and did this:

Re: irq problems

2000-12-21 Thread romain lerallut
1) please don't post in HTML 2) just a guess: did you check in your BIOS that the PnP OS was set to Disabled ? If it isn't it might explain why linux doesn't see your hardware. Besides, if all your peripherals are __still__ set to the same IRQ, you may need to force the IRQ settings in the

Re: Re: SBLive working but something is missing

2000-12-15 Thread romain lerallut
posted a question about that a few days ago, this is the answer I got: * romain lerallut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - there's nothing in /dev/sndstat _(the file exists but cat /dev/sndstat say no such device) - there's

Re: Re: Re: es1371 (SOLVED hopefully )

2000-12-13 Thread romain lerallut
This is a security risk, how can I protect my system against this ?? Access permissions should do it, since they come before anything is sent out to /dev/dsp. However, I don't know why it locks up your system. Thorsten IRQ, I guess. It seems that the video card and the sound card were using

es1371

2000-12-12 Thread romain lerallut
Hello debian-users ! I have a problem using a es1371 sound card (it's really a SB128 PCI). In a nutshell: the system can't talk to the card... I am using woody and a kernel 2.2.17 Here's what I did: recompiling the kernel (sound support: module , es1371: module ) es1371.o and soundcore.o are

Re: Re: es1371 (SOLVED hopefully )

2000-12-12 Thread romain lerallut
Begin Original Message Hello, * romain lerallut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: BUT - there's nothing in /dev/sndstat  (the file exists but cat /dev/sndstat say no such device) - there's no /proc/sound file AND This is normal since the es1371 driver is not fully OSS compatible

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