Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sonbird wrote: > i was just going to suggest that he clone your brain. :) If brain cloning is a viable option then i propose those of Vladimir Serbinenko and Daniel Kiper because of their experience as maintainers of GRUB. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I think that at least in the past it was possible to boot Debian Live systems > with `toram` option, too. You should probably just try it out? Well, it seems DL has its own "toram", "fromhd", "bootfrom", ... but not as parameters to be entered right in the first splash screen while it boots up

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... > If i wanted to expand my knowledge towards x86-related firmware, > bootloaders, and the Linux kernel i would probably begin at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS > https://uefi.org/specifications > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/ > https://www.

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > imagine you had to code a new bootloader now (as an exercise) in > hindsight which books would you have picked? I only know about the small bridges between computer firmware and the first custom program to be started, which usually is a bootloader. https://dev.lov

Re: which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread Linux-Fan
Albretch Mueller writes: imagine you had to code a new bootloader now (as an exercise) in hindsight which books would you have picked? I do not know of any books about bootloaders, but having a look at multiple different bootloaders (documentation and possibly source code) should be a good

which references (books, web pages, faqs, videos, ...) would you recommend to someone learning about the Linux boot process as thoroughly as possible?

2022-04-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
imagine you had to code a new bootloader now (as an exercise) in hindsight which books would you have picked? I am OK with Math and technology of any kind and I am more of a Debian kind of guy. In fact, I am amazed at how Debian Live would pretty much boot any piece of sh!t you would feed to it, b

Re: "partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 August 2019 07:52:45 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-08-30 13:42:27) > > > I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first > > time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just > > encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the article

Re: "partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/30/2019 06:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-08-30 13:42:27) I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the articles I found were too focus

Re: "partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-08-30 13:42:27) > I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first > time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just > encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the articles I found were too > focused on "What is a partition?" > > I'm lo

"partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Richard Owlett
I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the articles I found were too focused on "What is a partition?" I'm looking for authoritative articles whose purpose is to exam

Debian-installer writes /dev/ references in grub.cfg, was Re: Log files: location and description

2017-10-08 Thread David Wright
On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 09:36:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > My current problem is finding the appropriate logs to document the > details behind my addendum to Bug 852323. Looking at the grub.cfg written by stretch's d-i RC3, it appears to write linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-686 root=

Current references for debootstrap and multistrap ?

2014-08-25 Thread Richard Owlett
to be installed' architectures will be the same. The references appearing to be appropriate include: Multistrap (last edited 2013-11-09 ) https://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap Debootstrap (last edited 2013-10-01) https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap MULTISTRAP(1) (2010-10-02) http://manpages.

List of references - was [Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox]

2014-08-24 Thread Richard Owlett
ed; and it's not a laptop. [ snip excellent set of instructions to emphasize references ] REFERENCES http://linux-sxs.org/ http://www.linux-tutorial.info/index.php http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/410 https://wiki.debian.org/Openbox https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Openbox/HO

Re: bluefish 2.0.1: Where are the language references? (Solved)

2010-07-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:12:48PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > In the older bluefish (1.0.x) I had the full references to inter alia > html, php, python available in the sidebar. I cannot find it in the new > version (2.0.1). Bluefish is still advertised as having those > referenc

bluefish 2.0.1: Where are the language references?

2010-07-08 Thread Johann Spies
In the older bluefish (1.0.x) I had the full references to inter alia html, php, python available in the sidebar. I cannot find it in the new version (2.0.1). Bluefish is still advertised as having those references available. Where do I find it? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

grub: avoiding device references

2007-08-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, So I was concerned with avoiding the knowledge of *what* device is needed in grub commands. Like 'root (hd2,2)' you have to know that what you want is on device '2'. Or 'kernel root=/dev/sdc' you have to know that the root is on /dev/sdc. I changed the latest Sid legacy grub 0.97-29, a b

m-a + fuse => unresolved references

2006-05-11 Thread Vladimir Zolotykh
Does somebody heard or experienced that module-assistant doesn't work with fuse module while make-kpkg does? I've got a bunch of unresolved references with m-a while make-kpkg goes without and I can't get why. Is it my misuse of m-a or kind of a "bug"? However the usage of

Using LaTeX and references (was: Re: sharing a bibliography)

2005-12-24 Thread Rogério Brito
in". Within a Latex document, I just put > \cite{bob:95:pumpkin} and it inserts a citation, then adds a perfect > entry into the references. For a large document (like a > dissertation), this is wonderful. Have you already played with Emacs + AUCTeX + RefTeX? RefTeX is amazing in wh

nail email references

2004-08-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know of any place where one can find examples of using nail email client? Just discovered nail and looks pretty cool if one is into such things! I am trying to use nail with imap server and search folders and subfolders for messages with subjects containing FOOBAR but haven't found any do

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So the question is: what "mode" are these things in if they aren't in > the "ide-cd" mode or "ide-scsi" mode. Probably this is an ignorant > question asked by one in ignorance :-) Check dmesg. Maybe it says something there. -- John L. Fjellstad web: ht

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-23 Thread Nano Nano
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:59:11AM +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > I'm not an expert, so I'll try to answer the best I can. At my place > (Sony VAIO laptop), the cdrom didn't get recognized at all unless I had > that line in there. Looking at the ide.txt file in Documentation > directory of t

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would >> > do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x > > Q: Is putting hdc=cdrom equivalent to not putting anything at all? I'm not an expert, so I'll try to answer the best I can. At my place (Sony VAIO lapt

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would >> do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x > Is there any need for this if I am NOT booting from a CD? YMMV, of course, but at my place, my cdrom didn't even get recognized unless I had that line in th

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-22 Thread Nano Nano
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would > > do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x Q: Is putting hdc=cdrom equivalent to not putting anything at all? I.e., will ide-cd get loaded by default? (I tried this and my ker

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Is there any need for this if I am NOT booting from a CD? On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would > do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: references

2004-02-07 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Paul Johnson wrote (2004-02-07 04:55): >On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:07:47PM -0500, David T-G wrote: >> % * David T-G wrote (2004-02-07 00:03): >> % >Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. >> % >> % Your $indent_string still sucks, but this is now sigged. >>

Re: references

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:07:47PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > % > % * David T-G wrote (2004-02-07 00:03): > % >Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. > % > % Your $indent_string still sucks, but this is now sigged. >

Re: references

2004-02-06 Thread David T-G
Thorsten, et al -- ...and then Thorsten Haude said... % % Hi, Hi! % % * David T-G wrote (2004-02-07 00:03): % >Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. % % Your $indent_string still sucks, but this is now sigged. Nice to hear from you, too :-) Glad you liked

Re: references (was "Re: Has anyone ever ...")

2004-02-06 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * David T-G wrote (2004-02-07 00:03): >Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. Your $indent_string still sucks, but this is now sigged. Thorsten -- Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlich. - Grundgesetz, Artikel 10,

Re: references (was "Re: Has anyone ever ...")

2004-02-06 Thread David T-G
7;s phat. It rulez. Everything else sucks. Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. % it supported threading, but I see a number of posts without references % set, which is a royal PITA for me. I use Sylpheed-Claws, which has Me, too. % awesome support for mail

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-03 Thread Pigeon
ests dated after November 21 are > > missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The > > result is that when I burst the digests and view the result in mutt, > > threading is broken. > > > > Any idea why / estimated date of fix please? > >

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-03 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:48:46PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:41:52PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > But you don't get the digest version, do you? > > Nope. Never saw the point, since it's easier to deal with each > message individually. True, so I burst the digests and re

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-02 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:54:10PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) > and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are > missing the References: headers from the messages co

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:41:52PM +, Pigeon wrote: > But you don't get the digest version, do you? Nope. Never saw the point, since it's easier to deal with each message individually. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-02 Thread Pigeon
ests dated after November 21 are > > missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The > > result is that when I burst the digests and view the result in mutt, > > threading is broken. > > > > Any idea why / estimated date of fix please? > >

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-02 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:44:32PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:30:11PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > Thanks for the correction... but the In-Reply-To: headers have gone missing > > too, from the same date. Before Nov 21, bo

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:30:11PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Thanks for the correction... but the In-Reply-To: headers have gone missing > too, from the same date. Before Nov 21, both sets of headers were present in > the digest messages; after then, neit

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-01 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:54:10PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) > and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are > missing the References: headers from the messages co

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-01 Thread Pigeon
are > > missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The > > result is that when I burst the digests and view the result in mutt, > > threading is broken. > > References is a USENET header, not a mail header. You want In-Reply-To: Thanks for the cor

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
are > > missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The > > result is that when I burst the digests and view the result in mutt, > > threading is broken. > > References is a USENET header, not a mail header. Not true - see RFC 2822. In fact, it wa

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:54:10PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) > and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are > missing the Refer

References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2003-12-31 Thread Pigeon
Hi, Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The result is that when I burst the digests and view the resu

References (was Re: *plonk* (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium))

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
h-volume > spam thread is dozens of zombie threads in your inbox :-/ Not with References: headers. E.g.: References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Acer TravelMate 660: Need Debian References

2003-10-12 Thread Abdul Latip
/ twm. However, KDE aborts, even after I copied the KNOPPIX configuration into the Woody one. May I know where I can find references specific to Debian, Woody, and ACER TravelMate? regards, -- Abdul Latip - Junior Staff - http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ - - Dear IETF: I want back my X

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron
On -4949-Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 05:40:55PM -0700, Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:20, Aaron wrote: > > > > I don't really care about bitmap fonts, but I am still very unclear > > how X11 is made aware of the availability of the FreeType fonts. > > Sorry for th

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-19 Thread Steven Yap
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:20, Aaron wrote: > > I don't really care about bitmap fonts, but I am still very unclear > how X11 is made aware of the availability of the FreeType fonts. Sorry for the rather long delay for this reply. Procastination is my weakness. :) I am assuming that you're using

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-11 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Steven Yap wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > > > cl

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 July 2003 05:06, Aaron wrote: > Just an update on this font thing... > And I don't mean not anti-aliased, I mean the characters are TRASHED. > Also, they are trashed the same way every time, like if you look at a > capital W in one place

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron
Just an update on this font thing... First I found out that RedHat 7.x uses a hacked version of xft that includes TTF support from xfstt (yes, I use RedHat on one of my machines, forgive me). I finally did get TTF files to become available to X, and I can browse them in xfontsel, but they all look

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron
On -3389-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts

Re: Debian references

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:56:34PM +0200, Schulze Thomas wrote: > Where i can find the Debain references? http://qref.sf.net/. http://newbiedoc.sf.net/ is neat, too. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Commecen armed

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > > clue... For example, in Knoppix, openoffice.org uses a font for the > > me

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Aaron
On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > Yes, sorry... > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > clue... For example, in Knoppix, openoffice.org uses a font for the > menus etc. that looks quite good, while

Re: Debian references

2003-07-09 Thread Zhao YouBing
Schulze Thomas wrote: Where i can find the Debain references? The best document of debian is on debian site itself, www.debian.org/docs -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China Tel : 0571-87951045(O), 87933444(H) Email: [E

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:10:56PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > > Aaron, is this a joke? _Your_ lines are about three screens wide! > > > > > > Maybe, just maybe, it _was_ a joke and I just made a fool of myself, ;-) > > > > > Actually, I'm the one who made a fool of myself. I messed with my vim > se

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread David Fokkema
ss Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > spake thus, > > > > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few > > > > days, and thought it might be useful > > > > to share some of the references that look especial

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Aaron
> > Aaron, is this a joke? _Your_ lines are about three screens wide! > > > > Maybe, just maybe, it _was_ a joke and I just made a fool of myself, ;-) > > Actually, I'm the one who made a fool of myself. I messed with my vim settings recently to get some cool comment formatting in PHP to work an

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Aaron
; I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, > > > and thought it might be useful > > > to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I > > > think I've found out. I was > > > inspired p

Re: Debian references

2003-07-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:56:34PM +0200, Schulze Thomas wrote: > Where i can find the Debain references? in the fine packaging system :) apt-cache search debian reference -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Debian references

2003-07-09 Thread Schulze Thomas
Where i can find the Debain references? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-08 Thread David Fokkema
ful > > to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I > > think I've found out. I was > > inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't fixed > > them yet. So I'm hardly an > > expert. >

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-08 Thread Aaron
On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and > thought it might be useful > to share some of the references that look especially useful and

Font references and info

2003-07-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and thought it might be useful to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think I've found out. I was inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and

Re: GLX and undefined references

2002-11-12 Thread Danie Roux
Roman Joost wrote: It helps me, but i get some other undefined references. Don't know on which they depend, but: gcc -Wall -pedantic -ansi lesson06.c -o lesson06 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lXext -lm -lXxf86vm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glxext.o)(.text+0x1a): In fun

Re: GLX and undefined references

2002-11-12 Thread Roman Joost
). > It helps me, but i get some other undefined references. Don't know on which they depend, but: gcc -Wall -pedantic -ansi lesson06.c -o lesson06 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lXext -lm -lXxf86vm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a(glxext.o)(.text+0x1a)

Re: GLX and undefined references

2002-11-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:38:14PM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: [snip] > gcc lesson06.c -o lesson06 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lXxf86vm You probably need to add -lX11 for any X proggy (and maybe others). -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTE

GLX and undefined references

2002-11-11 Thread Roman Joost
I want to compile a tutorial from gamedev.net -> exactly this link: http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/linuxglx/lesson06.tar.gz I get a lot of undefined references like: F86VidModeGetGammaRamp': : undefined reference to `_XReply' /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86vm.a(XF86VMode.o)(.text+0x23d8)

RE: References, please: /dev/sequencer and Ensoniq 1371

2001-12-03 Thread Donald R. Spoon
a > hardware-based MIDI capability). Is there a way to get /dev/sequencer > support through some sort of software MIDI emulation, or am I out of luck? > > Any pointers to references would be appreciated. I don't mind RTFM, if I > can find it. ;-) > > Thanks, and plea

Re: References, please: /dev/sequencer and Ensoniq 1371

2001-12-03 Thread Alan Shutko
nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ive had 1370 and 1371 cards for a little over a year and love them.. I just picked up a cheap es1373 and was absolutely delighted to find it has s/pdif out! Great card. As for the original question, ISTR there's some way to get timidity to work as /dev/sequenc

Re: References, please: /dev/sequencer and Ensoniq 1371

2001-12-02 Thread nate
> I'm at my wit's end here. I have a 'testing' system that's got an > Ensoniq 1371 sound card in it. I recompiled the kernel after I got > the card, and sound in general (xmms, sound effects in Doom, etc.) > has been working fine for months. However, /dev/sequencer doesn't > seem to work. > a

References, please: /dev/sequencer and Ensoniq 1371

2001-12-02 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
20 other documents, but I can't find one that says conclusively whether there's a way to get /dev/sequencer working with this card (or any card that doesn't have a hardware-based MIDI capability). Is there a way to get /dev/sequencer support through some sort of software MIDI emula

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"Chad C.Walstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I should give you more background than this. These are not > symbolic links. This is a screwed up ext2 filesystem. There was either > a runaway sendmail process or a runaway mailman process that dumped some > nasties into /var. I'm seei

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
dumped some | nasties into /var. I'm seeing corruption most likely from a sircam | virus or some such thing. I'll look back into the sendmail logs (if | they're there) to see if I can track down the offending email. | | Regardless of the cause, I have a corrupt file system with

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread Chad C.Walstrom
virus or some such thing. I'll look back into the sendmail logs (if they're there) to see if I can track down the offending email. Regardless of the cause, I have a corrupt file system with multiple circular directory references, i.e. inode level, that fsck.ext2 refuses to clean. Origin

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:11:01PM -0600, Chad C.Walstrom wrote: | On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:33:46AM -, madhu wrote: | > | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah]# > /var/lib/mailman/data will empty the file. | | Ack... You know what it is. Circular directory references! Ugh. | There

Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread Chad C.Walstrom
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:33:46AM -, madhu wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah]# > /var/lib/mailman/data will empty the file. Ack... You know what it is. Circular directory references! Ugh. There's a bunch of them all over the partition. How do I get rid of them? --

Re: References to the mailing list archives

2001-07-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: >I'd like to make references in some changelog to a message in debian > mailing list archives. [...] >Can I put this as reference? >How can I get the message in the archive with this reference? Go to http://lists.debi

References to the mailing list archives

2001-07-07 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Please CC copies of replies to me as I'm not a subscriber of debian-user. Hi, I'd like to make references in some changelog to a message in debian mailing list archives. In the header of the message I have: X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/91560 Can I put this as referen

Re: woody Packages-file references potato debs

2000-12-24 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:20:58PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Erm.. could you explain what testing means and what unstable means? > Which has newer packages? Debian Weekly News explains this: - ---

Re: woody Packages-file references potato debs

2000-12-24 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 24-12-00 at 14:35 Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:40:51AM +0100, Robert Sander wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Where have all the woody debs gone? > > woody is no longer debian's unstable distribution, its now the > `testing' dist

Re: woody Packages-file references potato debs

2000-12-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:40:51AM +0100, Robert Sander wrote: > Hi! > > Where have all the woody debs gone? woody is no longer debian's unstable distribution, its now the `testing' distribution. unstable is now and forever more `sid' (unstable will always be a symlink to sid now). after packag

woody Packages-file references potato debs

2000-12-24 Thread Robert Sander
Hi! Where have all the woody debs gone? Must have happened yesterday. Greetings -- Robert Sander "Is it Friday yet?" @Home http://www.gurubert.de/

Re: Removed services but references still in rc2.d

2000-10-13 Thread Joel Dinel
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 08:49:32PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I did 'dpkg --remove' on some services I don't want: anacron, diald, > wwwoffle and junkbuster. But these services still show up in /etc/rc2.d and > /etc/init.d. Why didn't these references get re

Removed services but references still in rc2.d

2000-10-13 Thread Dwight Johnson
I did 'dpkg --remove' on some services I don't want: anacron, diald, wwwoffle and junkbuster. But these services still show up in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/init.d. Why didn't these references get removed as well? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latex2html and table/figure references--more info

2000-02-24 Thread Yifang Dai
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:15:38PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [original below] > > I've got a little more information now. All of the students who have > problems have netscape (and don't know their version number). latex2html > is using links on the figure numbers--so a reference to f

Re: latex2html and table/figure references--more info

2000-02-24 Thread hawk
ey square boxes rather than > the proper references for figures and tables. It looks like I > can us pstoimg to create huge bitmaps, but this will be ugly :) > > Is there a cleaner answer? > > Rick

latex2html and table/figure references

2000-02-24 Thread hawk
Due to the difficulties that many of my students have had installing ghostview (I didn't know that it *could* be done wrong), I have had to distribute assignments in html form as well. It seems that latex2html is producing grey square boxes rather than the proper references for figure

Re: c references

2000-02-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:51:33AM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > I have found anything by Herbert Schildt to be quite excellent and unusually > comprehensible > > C: The Complete Reference > > C++: The Complete Reference > > both by Osborne/McGraw Hill > > David Many people on comp.lang.c wi

c references

2000-02-17 Thread davidturetsky
I have found anything by Herbert Schildt to be quite excellent and unusually comprehensible   C: The Complete Reference   C++: The Complete Reference   both by Osborne/McGraw Hill   David

stat and fstat undefined references

1997-12-23 Thread Stuart Lamble
I recently upgraded my system to libc6, with most of the other programs going with it. Now I'm trying to compile the Modula 3 bootstrap compiler (to try to get the whole shebang going under libc6), and I get a heap of undefined references to stat and fstat. Before anybody starts jumping u

Re: Just starting - looking for references

1997-10-31 Thread Frank Cullen
Thanks all for the tips. I couldn't wait for my distribution to arrive so I've borrowed a copy of Debian ver 1.3 It is a slightly limited copy from a trilinux CD with all 3 major disributions on 1 disk but should keep me happy untill my ver 1.3.1 arrives. I believe that the difference from ver 1

Re: Just starting - looking for references

1997-10-30 Thread John Spence
Hi Frank. >I've just placed an order for the Debian Gnu/Linux 2 cd set. I can't >afford a lot of reference material so I'll be using library books as >much as possible. Snap! I've just ordered a 2cd Debian set from Linux Software Labs' Aussie site. A$10.95 for two CDs and enough software to ch

Re: Just starting - looking for references

1997-10-30 Thread stick
> > > There are two main differences: > > 1) The init directories -- RedHat uses the /etc/rc.d/rcN.d type of layout > while > Debian uses the /etc/rcN.d structure. > > 2) Debian packages tend to work and work with each other. They are better > integrated as a total distribution than RedHat's

RE: Just starting - looking for references

1997-10-30 Thread George Bonser
There are two main differences: 1) The init directories -- RedHat uses the /etc/rc.d/rcN.d type of layout while Debian uses the /etc/rcN.d structure. 2) Debian packages tend to work and work with each other. They are better integrated as a total distribution than RedHat's are. As for which uni

Just starting - looking for references

1997-10-30 Thread Frank Cullen
Hi all. I've just placed an order for the Debian Gnu/Linux 2 cd set. I can't afford a lot of reference material so I'll be using library books as much as possible. So, which of the versions of Unix comes closest to resembling Linux from Debian? I've been using Redhat for a while but I expect t