RE: Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?

1996-09-01 Thread wb2oyc
On 16:47:57 Mike Taylor wrote: If so, I'd appreciate a short note from you. I'd like to know if you use SLIP because PPP is unavailable, more expensive, or otherwise inconvenient. Thanks Mike Yes, I do. At home I use SLIP (slattach) to connect two other machines (both running MiniLinux :) to

Re: Do you use SLIP or a variant with Debian?

1996-09-01 Thread Mark Eichin
I use SLIP because I have been using it for years and would need to reconfigure things to use ppp. Also, SLIP is easy to set up: you set five parameters, and it works -- with PPP, it only really needs one (the phone number) but if it doesn't work, the debugging problem is harder. (SLIP is also

Re: Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], : Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I think we should do the following. : : 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists

Re: Debian Color-ls Command?

1996-09-01 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Chris Westwood wrote: [SNIP] *** Excerpt from .bash_profile *** # set up color-ls LS_COLORS='di=1;34:bd=40;33;1:ln=1;36:cd=40;33;1:ex=1;32:*.tar=1;31:*.tgz=1;31:*.gz=1;31:' export LS_COLORS; LS_OPTIONS='--8bit --color=tty -F'; export LS_OPTIONS; alias

Re: dselect 1.3.9: cursor keys locked after search

1996-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Dinkloh writes (dselect 1.3.9: cursor keys locked after search): In dselect 1.3.9 the cursor keys do not work anymore after having done a search (with '/'). This is a known bug in ncurses, recorded as #4298, #2962 and #3974. Ian.

Re: Gcc won't compile :-)

1996-09-01 Thread me
Thanks everybody I didn't have the crt*.o in my lib directory. It should be in the libc-dev*.deb right? Also another question how do I swich ELF compile to a.out compile? I've seen it in the documentation but I thought since I have *.deb it was by default ELF. Thanks again.

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-09-01 Thread steve
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: XFree86 3.1.2F is out, according to http://www.xfree86.org. I am wondering if a Debian package of this beta software will be made available. Anyone have any plans to make this available??? I do not intend to package any versions of XFree86 other than

Re: Source Packages

1996-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Haakan Ardoe writes (Source Packages): how does the source packages work? If I understand everyting right I am supposed to unpack them with dpkg-source -x file.dsc. But then I need the file.dsc file, which not seems to be included in any of the availble source packages. Where can I find or

Re: inconsistency/confusion in aout-svgalib of Debian 1.1

1996-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Sebastian Kuzminsky writes (inconsistency/confusion in aout-svgalib of Debian 1.1): I'm not sure this is the right place to send this bug report... There's an inconsistency in Debian 1.1. When the aout-svgalib package is installed, it puts the libary files in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib,

Re: /dev/audio /dev/dsp Device or resource busy ???

1996-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Stoyan Kenderov writes (/dev/audio /dev/dsp Device or resource busy ???): ... The sparing comments in the source point to an IRQ or DMA conflict when one gets constant Device or Resource busy mesages on each: cat blabla.au /dev/audioor cat uuhuu.wav /dev/dsp Have you installed `nas'

Re: Debian Installation Boot Program missing something

1996-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bhaskar Manda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My disk controller seems to be wanting to be reset, but the Debian install boot doesn't do this. As a consequence, it just keeps repeating hda: hda: Status error: status=0x01 { Error } hda: Status error: error=0x04 {

Re: /dev/audio /dev/dsp WORK NOW!!!

1996-09-01 Thread Stoyan Kenderov
Thanks to everybody who answered my questions regarding the non-working /dev/audio, dev/dsp on my SB16 under linux-2.0.15 . It proved indeed to be Device or resource busy! NAS was to blame...and me of course! I found it out, after having recompiled and rebooted the kernel tausend times.

Re: irqtune: improve serial port performance by 3x?

1996-09-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hi again.. In my never-ending battle to make the kernel behave well by default without needing irqtune (which is very setup-specific, and as such not something the kernel can do automatically), I was thinking of doing interrupt priority rotations instead of the current fixed mode. Now, doing