svgatextmode funnies

I rebooted my box today to clear out a kernel module that got itself stuck somehow and wouldn't unload. When the machine came back up the screen went blank upon SVGATextMode running. I logged in remotely and messed with it for a bit, to no avail. My last ditch solution was to purge svgatextmode

Re: svgatextmode funnies

Never mind. Bug #72818 had the answer. Should check the bug database before carrying on *sheepish grin* :) Regards, Rob. pgpZJvByT8fet.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sync mail with palm

Anyone's able to sync a lokal mailbox/maildir with some mail software on a palmpilot? Ideally I would like to sync to my local IMAP server, but without using a modem connection. I've written a small coldsync conduit that sort of does what you want. It will grab a single folder from an IMAP

Invisible pointer under X

Hi all, I'm having a problem with a new machine I'm setting up. I've set up XFree, and for some reason, the mouse pointer doesn't appear. I know its working because I can click on stuff, select, do all the normal mouse things, but I just can't see the pointer. Has anyone had any experience with

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =) You don't need an LDAP server, you can use mod_roaming with Apache instead, we use it at work and its great :) Regards, Rob. pgpW23YCdN34P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

Here at Monash University in Australia, we use both Solaris and Linux. Solaris is used for most mission critical services, but most of the time we use it because we need the grunty Sun hardware that it comes with it. Linux is being used more and more within the IT department. We've found it

Re: how to make a zImage

Now, you say you _have_to_ have a zImage, so you just have to compile all that you can as modules, and only have the bare essentials that you need _in_ the kernel, untill you partitions are mounted and you can load the modules. I heard that the zImage support is going to be removed from the

Re: cos() in math.h ?

/tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You need to link against the math library, libm, eg. gcc -o myprog myprog.c -lm Regards, Rob. pgpUKraBeXZBU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Offtopic: html gurus ... is br / valid ?

A br tag has no end tag, so it doesn't need br.../br, and the SGML shorthand br../ wouldn't be legal... Ouch, just noticed /li's. Those aren't needed either are they? There isn't even an environment for the li tags! You're looking at XHTML - HTML redefined in XML. In XML all tags must have

Re: truss

Hi, can you tell me what the LINUX equivalent of SVR4 'truss' is please. I,ve found 'gdb' but it is not suffient. You want 'strace'. Regards, Rob. pgpIYpvNSX9sI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ipchains and vmware

Can I just use IP-Masquerading with ipchains to allow my vmware virtual machines to access the internet? You certainly can. Enable the 'host-only networking option' of vmware, which will create an interface called 'vmnet1'. Give this an IP address like 192.168.1.1 (or whatever). Set up

Logging out from serial login

Hi all, I've been setting up a ppp-over-null-modem connection for a friend's Palm, and its working great, except for one point. I've created a user called 'palm', with shell /etc/ppp/ppplogin which looks like this: #!/bin/sh mesg n stty -echo /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/pppd nodetach passive local

Re: Logging out from serial login

you disconnect? i assume, that this means only disconnect, but not log out. if so, then you have no problem: this is intended behaviour (at least to some point). so it is theoretically possible to reconnect and continue the session after some time. however, this will possibly conflict with

auth_ldap

Hello, Which package contains the Apache module auth_ldap? apache-common has the documentation for it, but I can't find the actual module. If it's not anywhere, why not? Regards, Rob.

Re: Off-topic: what is bogoMIPS?

I understand what MIPS is (Million Instructions per Second), but what does the bogo stand for? My 486-33 measures 4 bogoMIPS during Linux boot-up, so how is this calculated? -Hans It means 'bogus MIPS', in that it's not the real MIPS value for your system, but a calculated one. I have no idea

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato. Actually .. it won't. I can't remember exactly what I installed, but I know I installed the libc6 libs, headers, and gcc all from potato onto my hamm system, and

Stability

Hi all I will shortly be taking a two week vacation, and sadly, I have to leave my trusty box behind *schniff* .. It has to stay running, however, because a local user group relies on it for mail and web serving. There is no one else who will have access to the machine, so I need to ensure that

Re: wordperfect

What I like to know is how to put a shortcut on the X desktop for Word Perfect. Can't figure out where to look. -- Hans It depends on the window manager you're using. In KDE, its as simple as right-clicking the desktop, and selecting 'New-Application'. GNOME has a similar feature, I beleive.

Re: Some newbie questions

1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to auto - start. How do I take that option out? I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file /etc/X11/config. In their will be a line 'start-xdm' which you should replace with 'no-start-xdm'.

Re: wav mp3

I don't know if there is a Debian packge for it, but look for the program called bladeenc, it's free and considered one of the better mp3 encoders. Another decent encoder is 8hz-mp3, at www.8hz.com. bladeenc is good, its a shame about 8hz-mp3, they got yelled at about patent infringements or

Re: Network and serial port

I've got my two desktop computers networked using 10base2 and they are working nicely, now I'd like to add my laptop into the system. I don't have a network pcmcia card, but I do have a null modem cable. I think I should be able to use it to network my little laptop into the system, can

re: Lynx.cfg

how do I setup lynx to download *.iso images (ie prompt with Download/Cancel) rather then displaying it. I know it is something I had to set in the lynx.cfg, but what would it be and what do I put? You can simply press 'd' over a link instead of enter ... this will download the file and prompt

Re: ppa.o?

Alternatively, you can just go to http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ , and download the drivers from the author. re, Rob.