Linux-Misc Digest #879, Volume #27 Wed, 16 May 01 22:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: OPENSSH SFTP (Mario Gruenwald)
Re: staroffice/rtf/italics ("Garry Knight")
Re: Running processes in the background. ("Garry Knight")
Re: Question about xinetd.conf ("Garry Knight")
Re: installing software from source vs package manager ("Garry Knight")
Partition types for Raid? (Michael B)
Re: Star Office -- I give up (Michael Heiming)
LOCAL: Looking for CVS talk (William Kendrick)
Re: harddisk full - help!! (Yves Bellefeuille)
Crash iwth 9679 Nvidia driver ("grendel")
WP Office2000/Hancom Office/Applixware? ("Christopher R. Carlen")
locale question (Robert Schweikert)
Re: Losing free diskspace on nothing? (Dances With Crows)
nautilus (Robert Schweikert)
Re: OPENSSH SFTP ("dubcaller")
Re: Star Office -- I give up (Chris Carlen)
Re: printing looks so ugly in Star Office 5.2 (Dave Uhring)
Re: Frustrated (Dave Uhring)
Re: running kde programs in gnome? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: harddisk full - help!! (Dave Uhring)
Re: fonts problem (Dave Uhring)
Re: Mandrake-8.0+KDE-2.1 fonts? (Dave Uhring)
Re: Star Office -- I give up (Chris Carlen)
Re: MIDI in Netscape??? ("William H. Pridgen")
Re: System.map and multiple kernel versions. (Mike Castle)
Linux as voicemail system? (Frank McKenney)
Re: MIDI in Netscape??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Mario Gruenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: at.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: OPENSSH SFTP
Date: 16 May 2001 23:07:59 GMT
In at.linux dubcaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Does anyone know if there's any good windows openssh clients?
putty
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice/rtf/italics
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:05:58 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <MSkM6.125760$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "G Pollack"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use SO52, linux. I've opened a word file, which includes italicized
> words and phrases, and saved it as RTF. When I reopen the RTF file in
> staroffice, huge blocks of text are italicized, not just the words that
> are meant to be. The same file looks fine when opened in AbiWord. Any
> idease as to what's wrong with SO and how to fix it?
It does the same with bold text sometimes. I haven't found a fix for it,
although it occurs to me that maybe saving in a different format, then
loading it in and re-saving as RTF might work.
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Garry Knight
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running processes in the background.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:12:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <unvM6.117$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "bowman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Paul Kimoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> (In most shells ...)
>> If you do "control-Z", then the process will be suspended and you will
>> be returned to the prompt.
>
> at least in tcsh, typing 'bg' at this point will put the process you've
> just suspended into the background.
Same in bash. And 'fg' will bring it back into the foreground.
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Garry Knight
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about xinetd.conf
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:10:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <9dsr0o$amh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chakravarthy K Sannedhi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is the first time I am using Red Hat 7.0. I know how the services
> are started and stopped that are controlled by inetd with Red Hat 6.2.
> In that just we need to comment, uncomment and restart the inetd service
> to make the changes to work. But I want to know how these things are
> done under the new version. Let us suppose how can I disable finger
> service running on my Red Hat 7.0 box.
<URL: http://www.xinetd.org.>
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Garry Knight
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing software from source vs package manager
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:19:26 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"tvn1981" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you find all the files that was installed if you install it from
> source ?
If 'make uninstall' doesn't work, then you need to look at the makefile.
You'll see something like:
install: [ignore what's here]
cp somefiles somewhere
cp otherfiles somewhere/else
and so on. This tells you what has gone where.
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Garry Knight
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From: Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partition types for Raid?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:34:46 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two 20Gig IDE drives running on a Debian 2.2 box (Kern. 2.4.4).
Do both drives partitions have to be set to 'fd' for successful Booting
into Raid1 ?
Regards,
MB
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:45:31 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
"Christopher R. Carlen" wrote:
[snip]
>
> Good luck Sun developers, I hope you folks can get SO to be a stable
> program some day. But you have a lot of work cut out for you it seems. I
> would even be willing to pay good money for SO if it worked well.
Hello,
curious, SO never crashed on various machines I use/used it.
Sure, you need a fast machine + plenty of RAM to be even able
to do something meaningful. Printer setup is a pain, there was
one version I had to setup some laser printer to get my HP 850 C
working, really strange. Perhaps, your soffice version/printer
has similar problems?
Michael Heiming
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From: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Looking for CVS talk
Crossposted-To: gnu.cvs.help,comp.software.config-mgmt,ucd.general
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 23:43:57 GMT
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD), located in Davis California
(near Sacramento; a few hours east of the San Francisco Bay Area) is
interested in having a speaker come to discuss "Concurrent Versions System"
(CVS).
If you are located near the Sacramento area, and would be willing to come
to our user group to discuss the basics of setting up and using CVS,
please contact me directly:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our club has approximately 200 official members, and a typical meeting
attendance of 25 to 45 people. Speakers are provided a free LUGOD t-shirt
and we're happy to take them out to dinner after the meeting.
LUGOD meets twice a month, on the 1st Tuesday and 3rd Monday of each month.
We are currently booked through the beginning of August; our first open
meeting is Monday, August 20th.
This changes often, though! Please double-check this page before deciding
on a date:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/
For information on the facilities we meet at (projector, network access,
and so forth), visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/facilities/
And for driving directions and maps to our meeting location, see:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/zworld/
Thanks in advance!
-bill!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.lugod.org/
PS - LUGOD is always looking for speakers to come talk at our meetings.
Any Linux-, Unix-, Open-Source-, open-standard/protocol- based topics
are welcome!
To see a list of topics members have shown extra-special interest in
hearing about, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/wishlist/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Bellefeuille)
Subject: Re: harddisk full - help!!
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:01:18 -0400
Reply-To: Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Moritz von Heimendahl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My harddisk is full (du shows 100% use) and removing even BIG files
> (like some 50 Mb) doesn't change a thing.
5 % of the disk space is reserved for root by default, so if you're a
normal user, a disk can be "only" 95 % full and still appear completely
full.
--
Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ottawa, Canada
Francais / English / Esperanto
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Rec.travel.europe FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/travel/europe/faq
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From: "grendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Crash iwth 9679 Nvidia driver
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 23:55:04 GMT
WIth SuSE 7.0 running the NVidia driver from Nvidia (with AGP disabled via
the NvAGP "0" option) I try to start X with startx I get a black screen and
have to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1. The last thing is "Write-combing range" in
Xfreelog. I get the error "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
address 0000400b" when I do dmesg. Any ideas? I've read all readme's and
Howto's.
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From: "Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WP Office2000/Hancom Office/Applixware?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:14:24 -0700
Hi:
I started with WP5.1 for DOS. I agree with those who assert it was the
best word processor ever. WP 5.2 for Win 3.1 was very unstable. WP 7.0
for Linux was marginally stable, and very buggy. I also bought
Applixware 3.5 or so for Linux, which has always been stable, but is too
weak on features to use for a job I need to do now. (Actually I could
have probably done the job with Applix's limited features in the time I
wasted battling with Star Office's bugs.)
Now I have tried Star Office 5.2 for Linux, and it is so unstable and is
such a struggle to get it to print, that I have given up on it.
Featurewise it is quite good. Interface is a bit disorganized and
complex, but the problem is the crashes and some serious printing bugs I
have posted in another thread. If these problems are the fault of my
Linux distro, and not Star Office, I'd like to work that all out
sometime, but I don't have time for that now.
I am now considering three alternative office packages for Linux:
Applixware 5.0, Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, and Hancom Office 1.2.
Hancom is probably not very well developed yet, but I will probably try
the eval. I have been disappointed by stability and bugs in WordPerfect
in the past, but it may be worth while now. Applixware has never let me
down, but there isn't an eval for the new version. It isn't very
expensive. Perhaps I will just buy it.
Any comments appreciated.
--
_______________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Sr. Laser/Optical Tech.
Sandia National Labs
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: locale question
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 21:03:52 -0400
How do I get rid of the following error?
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
It shows up whenever I start a GNOME application, such as gtk-xemacs,
gftp etc. I have the following settings
-> env | grep LAN
GDM_LANG=en_US
LANG=en_US
I just upgraded to Ximian GNOME 1.4
Help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
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Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Losing free diskspace on nothing?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 May 2001 01:09:17 GMT
On Wed, 16 May 2001 21:51:00 GMT, Frank de Bot staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>On my linux server I'm running diablo. I feed it with pullnews. At the
>beginning of this day I've freed up to 600MB of diskspace. Then I started
>to feed diablo and after a while ALL my free space was gone! diablo had
>only used 50/60 MB on articles. With du -h --max-depth=1 I couldn't locate
>any directories that were filling up... Does anyone how this is possible?
>And how can I get my free space back?
Slack space and/or inodes. If you're running a news swerver, or indeed
any application that creates thousands of small files, you can run into
these problems. Basically, since each file occupies at least 1 disk
block even if it contains only 1 byte, each file has a minimum size of
4K. (ext2fs defaults to 4K blocks unless you have a really huge
partition, or you tell it otherwise.) If you have a 400,000 4K-block
filesystem, and 399,000 1K files, you will have 1,301,000 K free on disk
theoretically, but only 1,000K free really.
Inodes are not usually a problem, but the number of inodes is set at
filesystem creation time. This number defaults to more than most people
would ever need, but if you are not most people, you could run out of
inodes if you have lots and lots of files.
If you are running into either of these problems, I encourage you to
take a look at ReiserFS. It was designed for operating on filesystems
with lots of small files. Its "tail packing" saves lots of slack space,
and it doesn't have those inode problems (AFAIK! Someone please squawk
if I'm wrong here), plus you get journaling for free....
>(Ps. I've posted the same question in several places, since I didn't knew
>exactly where I had to come with the problem...)
When you post to several places, please cross-post instead of
multiposting, and keep the number of groups you cross-post to at or
below 4. Cross-posting saves bandwidth and annoys fewer people.
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nautilus
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 21:11:59 -0400
I just upgraded to Ximian GNOME and when I started the new version I
made a mistake and configured Nautilus, now nautilus appears to start
whenever I log in. However, the unpleseant side effect is that it hangs
the desktop every now and so often. How can I turn this thing off again?
Thanks,
Robert
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Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: "dubcaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: at.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: OPENSSH SFTP
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:10:57 GMT
Thanks!!!
Is Putty pretty much the best one?
"Mario Gruenwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9dv18f$8ko$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In at.linux dubcaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. Does anyone know if there's any good windows openssh clients?
>
> putty
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Chris Carlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:15:59 -0700
Michael Heiming wrote:
>
> "Christopher R. Carlen" wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Good luck Sun developers, I hope you folks can get SO to be a stable
> > program some day. But you have a lot of work cut out for you it seems. I
> > would even be willing to pay good money for SO if it worked well.
>
> Hello,
>
> curious, SO never crashed on various machines I use/used it.
>
> Sure, you need a fast machine + plenty of RAM to be even able
> to do something meaningful. Printer setup is a pain, there was
> one version I had to setup some laser printer to get my HP 850 C
> working, really strange. Perhaps, your soffice version/printer
> has similar problems?
>
> Michael Heiming
Interesting. If I get a lot of reports that Star Office is stable, then
I may have to refocus suspicion on Suse 7.1 Linux. What distro do you
use? Are you using SO 5.2?
Perhaps I will go through the trouble of downloading the thing from Sun
instead of using the program included on Suse's CDs.
I am running on an AMD Athlon 1200 with 256MB RAM. Printing to a
Postscript HP LaserJet 5M. But even when I print to a file in the cases
that I am doing, the .ps shows only a blank page with a .ps viewer.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing looks so ugly in Star Office 5.2
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:18:14 -0500
tvn1981 wrote:
> I can print fine most apps except in Star Office ... it is almost
> unreadable, the font is extremely small and no space whatsoever. Anyone
> else has this problem with office5.2 ?
As root, run <install_dir>/program/spadmin.
Add a new printer, the HP Laser Jet 4 Plus and configure it. Make that
your default printer. Your system _can_ print postscript, can't it?
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Frustrated
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:27:37 -0500
Christopher R. Carlen wrote:
***** snip *****
> Now I am trying Star Office. I expected it to be a very stable, mature,
> and capable system. It is very capable, if it would only work
> reliably. I have tried to do a drawing, then copy/paste the drawing
> objects to a mailing label. I can't print it. It outputs a lengthy
> postscript file, but a printer or postscript viewer show only a blank
> page.
>
> Disappointment. I wonder if M$ Office could do what I want? I would
> try it except that I tried once to make labels in Word, and it was so
> complicated I gave up. It seemed that I couldn't just get a page of
> blank labels to appear, so I could just type manually. It wanted a
> database or something to merge with. Ugh. The user interface in
> Windoze in generable is so intolerably restrictive and disobedient that
> this is a main reason I use Linux. Star Office allows me to manually
> fill in a page of labels, but I can't print them. I wish I had time to
> modify the couple million lines of source code, but I have to get these
> labels done. I will find a workaround.
>
***** snip *****
I have StarOffice installed and configured on Solaris 8, RedHat-7.1 and
FreeBSD-4.3-STABLE. Sometimes it is necessary to tell SO that it is
printing to a real PS printer. I set it up to use an HP Laser Jet 4 Plus.
Then make that my default printer. My real printer is an HP-812C DeskJet
driven by apsfilter working through ghostscript, and the print quality is
excellent.
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Subject: Re: running kde programs in gnome?
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:29:37 GMT
["Chris Cera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] last said:
> Is this possible? I've compiled the support, libs, and base packages
> but I still can't compile a kde application. Am I doing something
> wrong, ie. can't run kde apps in gnome? Thanks.
Did you run ldconfig after installing the libraries? Did you also
install the header files?
Vilmos
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: harddisk full - help!!
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:30:16 -0500
Moritz von Heimendahl wrote:
> My harddisk is full (du shows 100% use) and removing even BIG files
> (like some 50 Mb) doesn't change a thing.
>
> Anyone has a clue what I can do? I tried fsck, it doesn't find any
> error.
>
> Desperately
>
> Moritz
>
Would you like to post the output of "df"? Sometimes a file gets assigned
a size of -1 (yes, minus 1) and you are going to have to find it and kill
it.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fonts problem
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:35:30 -0500
Florian Schmidt wrote:
> hi. i have slackware 7.1 installed. when i upgraded my X from 3.x to
> 4.0.2 suddenly many of the fonts don't work no more.. i suppose, there is
> different locatons for fonts in 3.x and 4.x. so i dug a bit into the
> XF86Config and changed some fontspaths, which made things even worse. so
> my question: can i use all of the old fonts, which must be there somewhere
> (suppose under /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts)? and if, how?
>
> --
> florian schmidt
Your XFree86-4.0.2 installation replaced all of the old fonts with new ones
in exactly the same locations where the XFree86-3.3.6 fonts were located.
The XF86Config file which you generated contains FontPaths to only the
fonts installed by XFree86. Your missing fonts are probably in /usr/share
and /usr/local/AbiSuite or somesuch other places and their paths will have
to be added to Section"Files" in XF86Config.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake-8.0+KDE-2.1 fonts?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:40:21 -0500
Ish Rattan wrote:
> I find the fonts under KDE-2.1 desktop a inconvinent. It is possible to
> use the X11 fonts (as reported by xlsfonts utility -- particulary the font
>
> lucidasanstypewriter-bold-14
> )
>
> in terminal window of desktop? If so, how to do it?
>
> - ishwar
>
>
Right click mouse in terminal window. Select Font -> Custom and play from
there.
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From: Chris Carlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office -- I give up
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:21:03 -0700
leif kremkow wrote:
> SO never crashed oin me as often as Word has in a week. Granted, that's
> more polemics than fact. Nonetheless, I can not second your report of
> it's instability.
Did it crash never, or rarely? Did you do mostly plain word processing,
or fairly complex integrated documents, involving objects created in one
app and pasted into another?
> I use it consistantly on Win2K and GNU/Linux and do not experience by far
> as much trouble as you did.
Which distro? Which Star Office? I have Star Office 5.2 on Suse 7.1.
I dread having to figure out another distribution. There have been
quite a few loose ends in Suse 7.1.
> When I get a chance, I will try to reproduce your crashes. Would you
> maybe send me that label or diagram so that I may walk more closely along
> your actions?
Ok, I haven't found a repeatable sequence of events to cause a crash,
but if you want I can send you my document, and you can see if it
prints.
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From: "William H. Pridgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MIDI in Netscape???
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:54:12 GMT
fred smith wrote:
> it looks as if Netscrape is trying to use playmidi to do midi instead
> of plugger. Check the netscape configs to see if it thinks it should
> use playmidi or plugger, betcha it still thinks playmidi.
I wish it were so, but Netscape lists Plugger as the plugin for
everything audio or video. I thought maybe Timidity was attempting to
use playmidi, and playmidi couldn't find an audio device.
Until I installed both Plugger and Timidity, I got a Netscape message
about needing plug-ins. Afterward, I got the playmidi error.
--
Bill Pridgen *** Sent with GNU/Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: System.map and multiple kernel versions.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:25:43 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wayne Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just curious as to the requirement for /boot/system.map when you have
>multiple kernel versions setup in lilo.
I keep mine in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/System.map
mrc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank McKenney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Linux as voicemail system?
Date: 17 May 2001 02:00:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spayam)
[ Followups to comp.os.linux.misc ]
This afternoon I was "hit" by a telemarketing call trying to inform me
about a "Wonderful new vacation 'web site". In spite of numerous
requests, the caller refused to hang up, so I finally did, but I'd like
to reduce the odds of dealing with these calls in the future.
I know there are special projects that use a cut-down Linux box as a
network router. Is anyone aware of any similar project aimed at
creating a Linux-based single-line answering machine?
Worded another way, what is the minimal Linux machine configuration that
can be used as an answering machine? I've seen a couple of posts
mentioning using mgetty and vgetty, but I haven't been able to find out
just how much horsepower these require. I have a couple of Dell
486DX2-66 boxes in the basement that I think I could get running with
perhaps 16Mb of RAM each; would these be fast enough to handle an
internal voice+FAX+data modem? How about an external voice+FAX+data
modem such as the AOpen FM56EX/2?
Assuming I have (or can get cheaply) the hardware I need, I'd like to
set it up as follows, triggered off Caller ID ANI:
- ANI unavailable: Don't ring phone, but play recorded message and
accept incoming message.
- ANI on "good" list (MY friends & family (;-)): Ring phone. If not
picked up, play a custom recorded message (keyed by ANI) and accept
an incoming message
- ANI on "bad" list: Don't ring phone. Play recorded message and accept
incoming message.
- ANI not on list: Ring phone(?). If not picked up, play recorded
message and accept incoming message.
Actually, I'd _like_ to check the ANI text for a "telemarketer" flag,
but that feature doesn't seem to be supported locally. (;-)
Okay, it'll be big and bulky, it won't run if the power is out, and I
may need to have it post messages to my office machine over the LAN, but
I'd at least be able to customize the ruleset and modify the good and
bad lists as neded.
1) How big a box will I need to do this with?
2) Is there a 'web site where this (and related information) has
already been collected (e.g. www.linux-pbx.com?)
I'm not going to start this for at least a couple of weeks (several
other things currently have higher priority), but I thought I'd ask
around before beating myself bloody on this. Any hints, comments, or
suggestions will be appreciated.
Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates
Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MIDI in Netscape???
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 02:04:10 GMT
William H. Pridgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> fred smith wrote:
>> it looks as if Netscrape is trying to use playmidi to do midi instead
>> of plugger. Check the netscape configs to see if it thinks it should
>> use playmidi or plugger, betcha it still thinks playmidi.
> I wish it were so, but Netscape lists Plugger as the plugin for
> everything audio or video. I thought maybe Timidity was attempting to
> use playmidi, and playmidi couldn't find an audio device.
> Until I installed both Plugger and Timidity, I got a Netscape message
> about needing plug-ins. Afterward, I got the playmidi error.
Are you sure that your sound card supports midi under Linux? What
card do you have?
Adam
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