Re: A few more questions
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:11:30PM -0500, dman wrote: | On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:23:44PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | | When I click on an email link in galeon, I wan't it to open evolution, | | I've seen this work in mandrake 8.1. When I click on an email link now, | | I get this error | | | | Galeon cannot handle this protocol, | | and no GNOME default handler is set | | Ahh, I see. I don't click on mailto: links, I just copy-paste it into | the term that has mutt open. What you want to do is open up the | control center (that toolbox on your panel) and go to the Mime | Handlers section. In there add a handler for the mail links. I guess | you'd need to figure out the MIME type of the link first. Correction : (having just used the control center) there is a section called URL Handlers. In there specify evolution as the handler for mailto: URLs. I thought it sounded funny for mailto: to have a mime type. -D -- A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24
A few more questions
I'm using debian woody... 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I kill gpm my mouse works fine in X Window System. 3. How do I make evolution my default email program in gnome? thanks for any help
Re: A few more questions
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | | I'm using debian woody... | | 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I | get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS What's the error? | 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I kill gpm my mouse | works fine in X Window System. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and tell it to use /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/psaux (or whatever). Be sure that /etc/gpm.conf specifies raw for repeat type and that both programs are set to use the same protocol (ex imps2 for gpm and IMPS/2 for X). | 3. How do I make evolution my default email program in gnome? Run evolution instead of mutt when you want to read/send mail? I'm not sure what you mean by this question. -D -- Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.
Re: A few more questions
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote (1.00): 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I kill gpm my mouse works fine in X Window System. su, then update-rc.d -f gpm remove M
Re: A few more questions
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 18:47, dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | | I'm using debian woody... | | 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I | get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS What's the error? couldn't open audio Please check that: 1. You have the correct output plugin selected 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard 3. Your soundcard is configured properly | 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I kill gpm my mouse | works fine in X Window System. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and tell it to use /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/psaux (or whatever). Be sure that /etc/gpm.conf specifies raw for repeat type and that both programs are set to use the same protocol (ex imps2 for gpm and IMPS/2 for X). Do I put imps2 after type=? | 3. How do I make evolution my default email program in gnome? Run evolution instead of mutt when you want to read/send mail? I'm not sure what you mean by this question. When I click on an email link in galeon, I wan't it to open evolution, I've seen this work in mandrake 8.1. When I click on an email link now, I get this error Galeon cannot handle this protocol, and no GNOME default handler is set -D -- Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A few more questions
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:23:44PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 18:47, dman wrote: | On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote: | | | | I'm using debian woody... | | | | 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I | | get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS | | What's the error? | | couldn't open audio | | Please check that: | 1. You have the correct output plugin selected | 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard | 3. Your soundcard is configured properly You probably have the OSS output plugin selected. Instead use the eSound one. Here's the core of the problem: the sound card is (like all devices) presented as a file (/dev/dsp usually). This makes it quite easy to play sounds, simply open the file and write the data to it. The kernel handles the hardware itself. But now you have a problem - you want both xmms _and_ something else to play sounds at the same time. How can you do this? Only one process can have the device at any given time. The solution is esound (aka esd). It is a daemon process that controls the sound card. Now applictations that want to play a sound don't open /dev/dsp, but instead request that esound play the sound. Esound then takes all the request and combines them into a single wave and writes it out /dev/dsp. The GNOME desktop uses sounds so that gnome itself (and/or my wm) can play sounds for animations and the like, everybuddy uses it (an AIM+ client), and XMMS needs to be told to use it. Then they can all share and get along. | | 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I kill gpm my mouse | | works fine in X Window System. | | Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and tell it to use /dev/gpmdata instead of | /dev/psaux (or whatever). Be sure that /etc/gpm.conf specifies raw | for repeat type and that both programs are set to use the same | protocol (ex imps2 for gpm and IMPS/2 for X). | | Do I put imps2 after type=? Yep. | | 3. How do I make evolution my default email program in gnome? | | Run evolution instead of mutt when you want to read/send mail? I'm | not sure what you mean by this question. | | When I click on an email link in galeon, I wan't it to open evolution, | I've seen this work in mandrake 8.1. When I click on an email link now, | I get this error | | Galeon cannot handle this protocol, | and no GNOME default handler is set Ahh, I see. I don't click on mailto: links, I just copy-paste it into the term that has mutt open. What you want to do is open up the control center (that toolbox on your panel) and go to the Mime Handlers section. In there add a handler for the mail links. I guess you'd need to figure out the MIME type of the link first. HTH, -D -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
Re: Few more questions
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:12:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's answers to a few... 1.) X11 and Gpm bite over the mouse. To use the mouse under X11 I have to turn Gpm off. Have gpm repeat as ms3 and tell X to use an intellimouse protocol mouse on /dev/gpmdata. 5.) I have a Cd-RW and want to use it for backups. What is the recommended way? CD-RW's aren't really the recommended ways for doing backups. There probably aren't any packages for it, so you're probably going to have to write up a bunch of scripts. Do you want incremental or full backups? Full is easy, just use mkisofs and cdrecord to write the CD(s). Incremental is a bit trickier. The first thing you'll want to do is write a script that uses find with the mtime parameter to find files that have been modified since the last backup. Then if you want to write a second session to the cd, you'll have to get the multisession info from cdrecord with the cd in the drive and pass the offset to mkisofs. Then write the iso using cdrecord with appropriate multisession parameters. The CD-Writing HOWTO will help you out with the details as there's a bit too much to go into in an email. 7.) To connect to the Internet via DSL I use the command: pppd call provider --- as root!! Is there a better way? Yep, just use pon for a start (as that does exactly the same thing) - use poff to go offline. Add any users that you wish to be able to dial up to the dip/dialout groups and they should be able to use pon. pppd has to run with elevated permissions anyway as it needs to mess about with routing and network interfaces so it's setuid root. M.
Re: Few more questions
Martin Feeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CD-RW's aren't really the recommended ways for doing backups. There probably aren't any packages for it I don't know about Debian packages, but there are a whole slew of them on freshmeat. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Style may not be the answer, but at least it's a workable alternative.
Re: Few more questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:12:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5.) I have a Cd-RW and want to use it for backups. What is the recommended way? i've been doing this for years, and it works great. here's my script: #!/bin/sh # # clean up from prior run rm -rf /bkup cd /bkup # # tar important directories - edited for brevity but you # get the idea tar -cpZ -f etc.tar.gz /etc/ tar -cpZ -f home.tar.gz /home/ tar -cpZ -f usr.tar.gz /usr/ # # dump and tar mysql databases /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -c -uSYS mozart mozart.sql tar -cpZ -f mozart.sql.tar.gz mozart.sql /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -c -uSYS kbase kbase.sql tar -cpZ -f kbase.sql.tar.gz kbase.sql # clean up dump files rm -rf mozart.sql rm -rf kbase.sql # # make iso9660 of all files mkisofs -o /bkup/backup /bkup/ # # write to cd-rw /usr/bin/cdrecord/cdrecord -v blank=fast speed=4 dev=0,4,0 \ -data /bkup/backup this creates my cdrw, and leaves the .tar.gz files in /bkup. i have another job that runs during the night and transfers (via scp2) the .tar.gz files to an offsite computer (which is, for the most part, configured just like my server -- if i needed to, i could retrieve the offsite server, plug it into my network, and i'm back in the game). both the transfer job and the script above are set up in cron. and yes, the scp2 job (which kicks off around 1:00am) runs throughout the night, normally ending around 7:00am. basically, this set up leaves me with 3 backups. one cdrw, one offsite and one in the /bkup directory (which is handy if i only need to recover a few files). works like a charm. - -- steve * linux : http://exitwound.org mozart: http://mozart.sourceforge.net buck : http://www.BuckOwensFan.com * -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE66C9IpoyYujFtnVMRAsI/AKCGc140J51XAfBOq2RNLgWiuN6PuQCfZk+n SHOdtLYhOEIeRDQNskk0Iw4= =FQeB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: a few more questions
MP == Mark Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP Could you help me with the following: MP 1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it MP to me via my ISP (uses POP) fetchmail can poll the mails from your provider. Check man fetchmail for more info. The section configuration examples will show you what to put into your ~/.fetchmailrc Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a few more questions
Could you help me with the following: 1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it to me via my ISP (uses POP) Try Pine, works for me. 2. What is a good soundcard which is $40-$50 that works well in Linux and Win95? No Idea. 3. Does Netscape 4 install correctly under Hamm? I would like to try to install the .deb file containing this program but I know that it is an installer, and when I had BO it complained about not being in some temp dir. What if any, is the special config for this? Sorry, haven't installed it yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Could you help me with the following: 1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it to me via my ISP (uses POP) 2. What is a good soundcard which is $40-$50 that works well in Linux and Win95? 3. Does Netscape 4 install correctly under Hamm? I would like to try to install the .deb file containing this program but I know that it is an installer, and when I had BO it complained about not being in some temp dir. What if any, is the special config for this? Thanks Mark Panzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a few more questions
The netscape is an installer, yes. What you do is download the 4.05 tar.gz from Netscape and put it in /tmp (owned by root). Then you install the installer package and it will set up Netscape. I use Netscape for my e-mail and have no problems with it. I get about 400-600 e-mails a day. As to a soundcard, I have always liked SoundBlaster and the used ones w/ jumpers work good and are cheap. The plug-n-play ones are also rather easy to config and work fine. I have one of each (in two different systems). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
