Re: Fwd: video card suggestions

2001-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
resolutions with ctrl-alt-plus or ctrl-alt-minus. I typically edit the line to show the highest supported resolution, since I don't find myself using the lower ones. You can also edit the virtual line for the server you use in the Screen section. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:36:06PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: Is there any way I can apt-get the patches for the security updates on Debian.org? Thanks! Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: X4.0 debs for powerpc

2001-01-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
and they don't appear to be there? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: RealPlayer installer problem

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
in realplayer.prerm so the next upgrade doesn't get hosed. --- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: SVGA server

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
over an internet connection. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
it be installed via apt-get? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap ?? On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:04:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: Hello Could anyone tell me what package this file belongs to? $ dlocate /etc/init.d/portmap $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap dpkg: /etc/init.d/portmap not found.

Re: update to 2.2r2 from 2.2r0

2001-01-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:16:03PM +0100, Fernando Carvajal wrote: I have a Debian 2.2r0 + Xfree 4.01 installed and i want to update to 2.2r2. it`s the first time. So i have read at debian the update page. As want to use cd-rom i suppose i have to modify source.list as indicated. My question

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's also in potato. Bob On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:49:31PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:40:13AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Seriously, maybe it's time to introduce the inclusion of grub to debian woody/unstable :) It's been there for a long time now... It's

Re: hp laserjet4plus

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
apt-get install magicfilter On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:47:07PM -0800, paul taylor wrote: I have a hp laserjet4plus. Setup seemed to recognize it but printcap only lists a generic printer. I need the printcap script for this printer or some way of getting back into setup or install to make this

Re: libcurses/libncurses problem

2001-01-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
It looks like you tried to install the libncurses5-dev from potato on a system running woody or sid. What do you have in /etc/apt/sources.list? You should not have to change symlinks. Bob On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:58:20PM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: Sorry, but the following packages have

Re: Realplayer

2001-01-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
In order to get realplayer to install the new version, I edited /var/lib/dpkg/info/realplayer.postinst (also realplayer.prerm) to change references from /usr/lib/RealPlayer7 to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8. I ~/.also edited mailcap in the same way so that netscape would use it. Works fine. Bob On Sun,

Re: DSL vs. cable and LAN options

2001-01-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:32:20PM -0500, D-Man wrote: I will be moving shortly and will no longer have my T1 connection :-(. I am considering getting DSL or a cable modem, but wanted to check with the Debian gurus first. Assuming both services are available, how well do they interroperate

Re: apt-get netscape v4.76 problem

2001-01-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
It looks like you are missing either communicator-smotif-476 or navigator-smotif-476, which are the packages containing the executable. On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:33:48PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: Yikes! I have done: apt-get install netscape-base-4 apt-get install netscape-base-476 apt-get

Re: Many install questions

2001-01-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:40:04PM -0800, David B. Small wrote: I haven't been able to find an install-help list. If I've sent this to the wrong list, I'll be happy to resend to a different one. I have a well-aged Dell Dimension with, among other things, a Promise UDMA-66 card and an old

Re: X error

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:22:39AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:28:57PM -0800, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had a problem with woody several days ago where X would die immediately after starting, before the window manager took over. In trying

Re: X error

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:28:51AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:22:39AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:28:57PM -0800, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had a problem with woody several days ago where X would die immediately

X error

2001-01-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
I had a problem with woody several days ago where X would die immediately after starting, before the window manager took over. In trying to fix it, I really messed up my X installation, so I decided to downgrade to potato and did a fresh installation of 2.2r2. I did this and everything was

Re: Wordperfect 8.0?

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
KDE 2. Thanks, Colin Mattoon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

X dies immediately after starting

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
at a loss to figure this out. I use xserver-svga, since my Cirrus card is only partially supported by XFree 4.01. What is really strange about this is that I can run win4lin with the 'fwin' command, indicating that at least part of X is functional. Any ideas? Bob -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: X dies immediately after starting

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0500, searcher wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote: Yesterday I exited X and the next time I tried to restart it, it died without any error messages. I tried switching to a different window manager with update-alternatives, but that made no difference. I am

Re: X dies immediately after starting

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:57:38PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0500, searcher wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote: Not sure if this will do it, but you can try: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common Strange, that dies

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:22:23PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: I've been running Debian Potato\Progeny for some time now, with a single nic attached to cable modem. I'm also running an ipchains firewall. I have added a second nic, which I would like to connect the wife's windows machine to, and

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:25:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now

Re: Debian CD in store

2000-12-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
, not a Debian release version. I expect that both 2.1 and 2.2 (of various revisions) are being sold currently in some of the boxed sets. A lot of the software you find at mass retailers is somewhat old. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA

Re: keeping the screen on

2000-12-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
the black-out feature? (xscreensaver is listed as, pn by dpkg -l xscreensaver, so i don't believe it's that package.) -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Starup script - how can I make it start later? (Firestarter)

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: dselect problems in woody

2000-12-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
are linked to potato, so anything else you had installed shows up as obsolete/local. In time, the other packages will show up in dselect. If you can't (or don't want to) wait, change sources.list to point to unstable instead of woody. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: error making module

2000-12-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
asm/uaccess.h and in fact i am missing those file from my /usr/include directory. What packages install those such files something related to modems... thanks for any assistance. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA

Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous version. What's up? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:18:11PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: Hello, * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous version. What's up

Re: package pools

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
to testing). Bob -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:11:36PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: Hello, * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable (potato) and the new unstable (sid). New

Re: dselect cancel

2000-12-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
Go into dselect and change the * to _ for those packages. On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:06:24PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all I have been using dselect to install packages from the Internet. I prepared to install some packages from the non-free section off the debian site and the

Re: Kernel compiling on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
a kernel ?? I've read mentions of using something like kernel-pkg or similar. Can someone point to a website with details ?? Or, can I simply download the kernel source and do it the way I've always done it with lesser distros ;-) ?? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Resolving http addresses

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
that the pppd connection is made with the IP and DNS addresses show. This work before I reinstalled Debian but now it just hangs. Any help will be appreciated. TIA -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
tracks would be missing? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Search

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
tell, i look fo rthe package that i think has the bugand thenn see if it has been mentioned please explain this if i am wrong thank -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
indicates that it adds carriage returns before each line-feed and form-feed, as well as a form-feed and an ASCII EOT character (Ctrl-D) at the end. 'cat filename.ps /dev/lp0' also works fine here. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA

Re: where's dexter

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
debconf database values On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:00:50PM -0600, Pascal Hos wrote: I just did an apt-get upgrade on my woody machine and now dexter seems to have dissapeared from the xutils package. Has it moved to another package or is this a mistake by the packager? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Optra E312 printers (was Re: Setting up a postscript printer)

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
cat +0 @PJL\t cat +0 @PJL\r cat +0 @PJL\n cat # GIF files 0 GIF87a pipe/usr/bin/giftopnm 2/dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net

Re: X: user not authorized to run the X server...

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
error message: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Which X is running?

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
as possible hope that helps... -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: My Video card does'nt work ?

2000-12-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Windows as S3 inc. 3D/2X Dispaly Driver Version 5.30.04 Engineering Release Chip Type: S3 Trio 3D/2X DAC: S3 SDAC Memory: 8 MB but I could not find that card under Linux XF86Setup ;-( -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA

Re: My Video card does'nt work ?

2000-12-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
with it . My Debian Potato has not this card on any list with cards . What can I do ? There isn't my video card on XFree86 list ? Why ? Please help me ;-) __ Mateusz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge

X weirdness after today's woody upgrade

2000-12-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
After running an upgrade of woody today I notice two strange things happening with X: 1. If I try to run X as a user, I get the message: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. The second line in Xserver says Console so a user should be permitted to run X. 2. I had set X to run

Re: X weirdness after today's woody upgrade

2000-12-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:14:06AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: 2. I had set X to run the version 3 xserver-svga, but version 4.01 runs instead. However, /etc/X11/X is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA and Strange, but /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA and /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 were identical. I

dselect: recommends are evil

2000-12-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
IMHO there should be some way to override a recommends once and not have to do it every time that dselect is invoked. If this is not feasible, most recommends should probably be downgraded to suggests. For example, every time I run dselect it tries to remove timidity and libasound1 (which

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
the config file to XF86Config-3, and the new Xserver it says no screens found and exits. Is there something that needs to be changed or a tool to configure for 4.0.1 yet? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http

Re: lprng/samba/win98 problem, at a loss to know what to do

2000-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
the case then I've no idea. Can someone please help me discover just where the print's going? Cheers, Robin Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL

Re: kernel 2.2.17 and PPPoE: PROBLEM SOLVED

2000-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
is still back at 1.7). Hope this helps anyone else avoid wasting the time I spent trying to work this out! Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: X broken after today's woody update

2000-11-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
too dense to figure it out, I guess. What gives here? Bob On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:14:18PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: After the upgrade I get a series of: var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . var

Re: X broken after today's woody update

2000-11-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
expects this link to be there and bombs out if it isn't. After making the link, try 'dpkg --configure --pending'. Did the trick for me. HTH, j On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:14:18PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: After the upgrade I get a series of: var: allowed_users, value: rootonly

Screen resolution with X 4.01

2000-11-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
I finally was able to get a display with the new X, but I can't get it to work with any resolution greater than 800x600 (16bpp). With 3.3.6 I am able to get 1024x768. My video card uses a Cirrus 5430 and has 2MB of video memory. The messages I get for 1024x768 are: (WW) CIRRUS(0): Default mode

X broken after today's woody update

2000-11-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
After the upgrade I get a series of: var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . var:

Re: Ok, how can I prevent the system from upgrading kernel-image-2.2.17 ?

2000-11-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
package using an epoch. See /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
that this printer is a postscript level 2 printer. Is this a true postscript printer ? It is quite a bit more expensive than what I wanted to spend on a printer, but if it supports true PS then it might be worth it. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island

Re: finding which package a file came with

2000-11-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: X 4.01 gives blank screen

2000-11-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
-4 carefully. Some essential stuff to change there is probably to have the DefaultDepth as 16 and not 24 and maybe the range of values for HorizSync and VertRefresh. In the meanwhile I am using /etc/X11/XF86Config with the xserver that is in /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

X 4.01 gives blank screen

2000-11-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
in PCI config space (EE) CIRRUS(0): I2C initialization failed Any clues? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Kernel-Module for Intel Ether Express PRO/10 (ISA) Card

2000-11-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
this ether-card works with the generic kernel, which was installed at the initial Debian 2.2 installation! Has somebody an idea, which menuĆ¼oint in make menuconfig should be choiced or how to do correctly otherwise? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island

Re: New to debian, q about pkgs on hold

2000-11-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
. What does this mean... packages have been kept back? Is this a Good/Bad Thing (TM)? Since I use helix-gnome with sawfish, I would like to have the most up-to-date stable versions. How do I make apt-get fetch these packages? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to activate properly the configuration and I was not given a second chance to run the configuration even after removing and installing again the package. man magicfilterconfig -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge

Re: WordPerfect 8 on Debian 2.2 with XFree86 3.3.6

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Question about potato/woody

2000-11-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:34:32PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I'm a potato user and I would like to know some things about it. I use my computer at home just to work, but I would like to know if I should upgrade to woody, because I would like to have the last packages of some programs, and

Re: KDE2 installation

2000-10-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
You have to run [U]pdate in dselect before any new listings will show up, even if you have done apt-get update. Bob On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:15:57AM +, sena wrote: Hi... I'm planning on installing KDE2 in my potato system. I have the entry in the sources.list file, and I've made apt-get

Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: IMWheel help

2000-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
with the ZAxisMapping), but I couldn't get it to work with /dev/gpmdata and MouseSystems protocol, which are the two I've always had to use to get X and gpm to play nice. Is there another way? Rob - Original Message - From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, October 21

Re: lpr broken by woody package

2000-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
for Christ. Philippians 3:7 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Recording mp3 files to a CD

2000-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
to cause the .wav file to be written in ~/MyMusic, but nothing appears there. Has anyone on the list figured out how to record mp3 to a CD? Is there a version of sox which supports the mp3 format? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA

Re: Recording mp3 files to a CD

2000-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
speed=4 dev=0,1,0 -fix ### Mike wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote: snip Has anyone on the list figured out how to record mp3 to a CD? Is there a version of sox which supports the mp3 format? I'll throw in a second for gtoaster. I've been looking for something to do

Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: IMWheel help

2000-10-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
5 Buttons 7 In /etc/gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness=25 type=imps2 append=-l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\ repeat_type= -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Staroffice and Debian

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
components but works on a SuSE box. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Mouse freezing in X

2000-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have noticed in the past few days that if I switch from the X display to a VC and back again that as soon as I move my mouse the cursor jumps to the upper right corner of the display and stays there. This is on a system running woody. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
in the system belongs to? dpkg -S /path/filename -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
. then save the configuration upon exiting the program. then issue the command make dep and after that is run, make zlilo. If the kernel compiles correctly you can reboot it and the new kernel should take effect. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge

Re: GPM + Xfree86

2000-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Ghostscript

2000-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
than GPL. You can find 6.01 in woody under the name gs-aladdin. At the time of a new release, the previous version is re-released under the GNU license. Version 5.50 is the latest GNU version, but that has not yet been packaged for Debian. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL

Re: Pine

2000-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: suggestions for buying a printer

2000-10-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
work with magicfilter or apsfilter as well. The Lexmark driver can be converted to .deb with alien (it puts some files in /usr/local, which is probably not a good idea, but shouldn't really hurt). Since I haven't yet received my printer, I haven't been able to test yet). -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: what's djscript?

2000-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Missing Ping in Woody?

2000-10-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
on? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Missing Ping in Woody?

2000-10-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
. Aughgh! The Woodysphere! Aughgh! New info: When I tried dpkg -S /bin/ping, I get dpkg: /bin/ping not found. I guess that means that it is indeed broken. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Dual NIC Problem

2000-10-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
you to security issues Good luck and stick with it. It will eventually work. Krafty -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: apt-get problem

2000-09-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
user -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: kernel options/settings

2000-09-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
/config-x.x.x to /usr/src/kernel-source/.config before running 'make menuconfig' you will see the options in your installed kernel. Possibly the kernel-source packages already include this, but since I don't use them I really don't know. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
only if I reboot? Just trying to be pre-emptive here. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
that, and then shut down your server just to play 'how-many-ways-can-regedit-fsck-my-shell*'? But not everyone can afford to have a second computer to play games on :} -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: Paranoid's Question

2000-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
bad yet? Have I just been lucky for over two months playing 'apt-get upgrade roulette'? Or, am I in pain and just don't know it? Well, major libc6 upgrade coming up now, ho ho ho. Let's see what happens ... -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge

Re: Does debian install sendmail?

2000-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
on the isp. redhat uses sendmail by default. That's ok because they have an m4 script that is easy to modify to get masquerading. How does one go about doing the same thing in debian? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http

Re: dselect query

2000-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
seem to work, tells me that the most up to date version of installed (this error didn't supprise me). Anyone got a easier hack to do this via a script of something, or any ideas as to how I can sort this out. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
didn't work... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

Re: kernel-image-2.2.17 overrides local kernel?

2000-09-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: Packages held back?

2000-09-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Why are they kept back and how do I get them back? They probably depend on packages which you have not installed. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will fetch the new dependencies as well as the held-back packages. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY

Re: Can't get rid of kde...

2000-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
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