Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.20.0118 +0200]: > > it might be a problem. the 2.4 kernel has the most embarassing > > virtual memory management i've seen. quite possible it's the cause. > > 2.2 still had fair (not good) virtual memory management. > > I hope you aren't talkin

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:13, Alex Malinovich wrote: > apt-cache show beep And then there's "apt-cache show morse" for when you really what the machine to tell you what's wrong through the speaker. ;-) Friends of mine have an ip-up.d script for their 56k modem that lets them know it is time to hi

jigdo-lite problem...

2002-06-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i need to make rapidly some bootable debian CD's for my father who hasn't broadband net, and rapidly needs a replacement machine... reading through the website, the actual system seems to use jigdo, unfortunately the usage of that thing doens't seem as straightforward as it is sayd in

Re: Digicams

2002-06-20 Thread Gregor Szyrach
Hi Ted, On Thu, 2002-06-20, 08.12 Ted wrote: > Has anyone any comments on the Fujifilm 1400 zoom camera ?..I cab now > buy > this model for around £100...Any comments appreciated I bought the FujiFinePix 4800 Zoom, and it works perfectly under Debian woody 3.0, although i don't know if i

Re: xemacs background won't show an .xpm file

2002-06-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, sort of not really. I have extensive modifications, most of which > are in various files in ~/lisp. When I installed xemacs on this box, I > first copied all my configuration files over from the other server. On > installing xemacs, it s

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-20 Thread arthur_dent
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:06, David P James wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help: > > > > I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives. > > > > And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bill Benedetto wrote: Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome> I have just tried Jerome> Jerome> ntpdate 17.254.0.26 Jerome> Jerome> and I got exactly the same error message Jerome> (17.254.0.26 is the ip btained via ping for ntp.apple.com) Jerome> Jerome> Very strange ! Really! Let

gnome and random beeping

2002-06-20 Thread Baan Zoltan
I'm using gnome-sawfish, and sometimes my speaker beeping. A haven't found anything in the log files, so it semms to me my gnome beeping causeless. Any idea how to solve this problem? It's gnome 1.4.1 Zoltan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Steve Juranich
> How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it > from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. > > I used to do the below, but now: > $ echo -e \\a > /dev/console > bash: /dev/console: Permission denied > Now only root can make it beep. Without r

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it > from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. > > I used to do the below, but now: > $ echo -e \\a > /dev/console > bash: /dev/console: Permission deni

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:39, Dan Jacobson wrote: > How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it > from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. > > I used to do the below, but now: > $ echo -e \\a > /dev/console > bash: /dev/console: Permission de

Digicams

2002-06-20 Thread Ted
HI.. Has anyone any comments on the Fujifilm 1400 zoom camera ?..I cab now buy this model for around £100...Any comments appreciated -- Regards Ted Wager Libranet Linux user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. I used to do the below, but now: $ echo -e \\a > /dev/console bash: /dev/console: Permission denied Now only root can make it beep. Without resorting to ro

Re: DOSEMU question

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:35:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello was wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on the dosemue What version of dosemu? What exactly is the error message? Cut and paste output would be helpful for people to diagnose what's going wrong, as would usi

Re: dhcp-client startup

2002-06-20 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 12:09, Bedford, Donald T. wrote: > I've been using dhcp-client 2.0pl4-2 w/ Potato and just upgraded to Woody > (w/ dhcp-client 2.0pl5-11). When I rebooted (and every time since) the dhcp > client does not pick up an IP address and I have to manually start it - then > all is we

Re: how to boot debian on a oldwolrd ppc ?

2002-06-20 Thread Aaron Hall
First of all, please set your mailer to wrap your text at approx. 72 characters. It makes responding much easier. Thanks. On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > im trying to install debian potato on a 8500 series oldworld > ppc. everything goes fine besides the "make debian bootable from

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > I believe that putting the following in the authentication configuration > section will allow you to use PAM. You will just need to add a file > named /etc/pam.d/exim with the appropriate P

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:18:46PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: > Yes, I would like to implement that. The problem is > that examples use plain text file, but I would like > to use system accounts (I have shadow passwords). Yeah, I'm in roughly the same

Re: what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:55:08PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Our lug is having its first installfest this coming Saturday. What would > be the best debian install for those who want it? Depends on what the user wants or needs. Debian does a lot o

Re: digital camera recommendation?

2002-06-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Henry House wrote: > Can anyone recommend a digital camera for use with Linux? My goals (in no > particular order): > > * Good image quality > * Uses compact flash (the little wafers, each as large as an air-mail stamp) > * Complete Linux compatibility with OSS drivers > * Linux-friendly manufact

Re: i made a boo-boo

2002-06-20 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:31:08PM -0700, alephtnull wrote: > Hi, I have made a boo-boo. I recompiled my kernel (after 5 months > doing make dep,make clean, make modules and make modules_install) then > make bzImage then copied bzImage to vmlinuz and backed up vmlinuz > (just in case something goes

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:45:12PM -0400, Bill Benedetto wrote: > Okay. ntpdate with no REMOTE_MACHINE_NAME_GOES_HERE gives me > no servers can be used, exiting It wasn't a literal, he ment chose a time server to pick on and put it's name there.

Re: Re: More modem problems with kernel 2.4.18

2002-06-20 Thread Seth Carbon
> Have you taken a look in /etc/serial.conf? Check very carefully to see if > any lines are uncommented, and if so that they match what your modem setup > really is. Thanks for the idea :) I have just checked my serial.conf and it seemed alright--but I've played with it for the past hour anyways

i made a boo-boo

2002-06-20 Thread alephtnull
Hi, I have made a boo-boo. I recompiled my kernel (after 5 months doing make dep,make clean, make modules and make modules_install) then make bzImage then copied bzImage to vmlinuz and backed up vmlinuz (just in case something goes wrong) then issued the command "lilo" to update my changes then reb

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:18:02AM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: > There was a point at which it asked me if I wanted to setup a point-to-point > connection, but I just want to connect to the network and the gateway server > for Internet. So I said

Re: Gnupg & Evolution

2002-06-20 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:59, Helgi Örn wrote: > I have this annoying problem with Evolution and gnupg; when I click a > message lock icon to check the signature Evolution often hangs before > the lock opens. I then have to brutally kill it and start anew. Do you have network connection at the same

Help: Network Printer Config

2002-06-20 Thread Larry Smith
I've had to build a new kernel to get Debian to recognize my Lan Card. Now I'm missing the print spooler commands, and there's no printcap file. I've included printer support in the kernel, necessitating including the parallel interface. It appears that during boot, parport sees that I actually

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