Re: CD-ROM only plays mono??

2000-01-24 Thread Greg Starkes
Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: I'm using the cdtool package to play audio CD's from my CD-ROM drive. For some reason, playing CD's only outputs MONO sound (ie. only to one of my speakers). It's not a problem with my speakers since .mp3 and .wav files plays as stereo without any problems. Is this

Re: Thinkpad 365x

1999-12-30 Thread Greg Starkes
Debian user wrote: i'm new to this list and my english is not as good as i would like but i'll try to explain my problem. I use debian 2.1 since some time now, and i wanted to use it on a laptop. I buyed an old Thinkpad 365x (Pentium 100) HD:810Mb IDE and 24Mb of RAM, and tryed to boot

Re: What 'keeps back' packages from apt-get?

1999-11-05 Thread Greg Starkes
Mark Zimmerman wrote: Lately, I've been doing a 'apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade' every day to check up on how far I've drifted from the current potato baseline. There has been a gradually increasing number of packages that are 'kept back'; currently I get: This should answer your question:

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-28 Thread Greg Starkes
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Andrew Hately wrote: Then from /mnt try something like # ( cd / ; tar cf - bin boot dev lib sbin usr var ) | tar xf - Use the -p option on tar, or be prepared for lots of directories and files with improper permissions (mail problems, etc). I just used cp -a

Re: Netscape

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Starkes
Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? I never had a problem either, until I decided

Re: Intellimouse

1999-08-03 Thread Greg Starkes
Andy Spiegl wrote: sorry for posting to this list, but I have to know quickly, if it is possible to use the wheel of the MS-Intellimouse as third button to get the selections of gpm and X. Yes, sure is! GPM: If it's a PS/2 mouse, choose ps/2, otherwise ms3 I think. X11: * PS/2

Re: apt-get and windowmaker 0.60.0

1999-06-27 Thread Greg Starkes
Jonathan Lupa wrote: My theory is I have a malformed apt line. You're right. So...the inevitable qestions: 1. What would be the proper way to form the sources.list line? deb http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo packages/ 2. Do I have no business playing with these debs anyway? I'm using

Re: apt-get and windowmaker 0.60.0

1999-06-27 Thread Greg Starkes
Greg Starkes wrote: 4. Is there a better place to find wmaker 0.60.0 debs? I think that Marcello will soon be compiling the debs on a potato system. Of course, I could be wrong. I think I had a brain cramp answering this one. I meant to say that, for now, that is probably the best place

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-24 Thread Greg Starkes
Brad wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Greg Starkes wrote: Will Lowe wrote: I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off them. Here's what I do to at least make it `look' like

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Greg Starkes
Dennis Persson wrote: Hello, I've just installed windowmaker-0.60.0 from potato, and discovered a quite big problem. Wmaker doesn't save window attributes when I edit them in the Attributes dialog. I can edit the file WMWindowAttributes by hand and save it and then it works perfectly, but I

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Greg Starkes
Didi Damian wrote: Greg Starkes wrote: This issue has come up on the wmaker mailing list. After choosing Attributes..., choose Window Specification. Previous versions of wmaker would default to the first one. Now it doesn't default to any. So, if you want to set attributes, you must

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Greg Starkes
Will Lowe wrote: I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off them. Here's what I do to at least make it `look' like the aren't there: Can you get rid of miniwindows? Sure. Just don't

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-20 Thread Greg Starkes
one of the Ten Commandments of Microsoft: Thou shalt have no other operating systems before me. So basically, put win98 on hda1 and linux on hdb1, with lilo on hda's MBR. My lilo.conf is attached. --- Greg

Thanks [was: Re: Where is /usr/bin/file?]

1999-06-13 Thread Greg Starkes
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 12 Jun, Pollywog wrote about RE: Where is /usr/bin/file? On 12-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: On 12-Jun-99 Greg Starkes wrote: I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged

Where is /usr/bin/file?

1999-06-12 Thread Greg Starkes
I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged owned it, and found nothing. Is this not a part of the debian distribution? I noticed that RedHat has it.

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread Greg Starkes
incoming folders in Pine's configuration? When you do, you must create the folders to receive the filtered mail within Pine, and then put those folders in your .procmailrc --- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications, Memorial

Re: WARNING: VIRUS ATTACHED TO MESSAGE FROM Alexander Gutfraind gutfrnd@tht.net

1999-05-10 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Kenneth Sims wrote: Why did you (Alexander Gutfraind [EMAIL PROTECTED]) just send a virus (HAPPY99.EXE) to the debian-user list? He probably didn't realize that he sent it. Happy99 sends itself to everyone that the user sends a message to in the background. The user does

Re: wav mp3

1999-05-10 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Paul L. McNeely wrote: You moron, stop sending trojans over the mailing list that's not funny. You seem to know how to get rid of it, but you obviously don't know how it works. He probably didn't even realize that he had happy99 on his machine, which which would have sent

Re: Netscape mail - multiple profiles?

1999-03-22 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I am running Netscape 4.5 under Debian (hamm). What I need is to be able is to open different Messenger profiles with different mail folders, different From addresses and different pop/smtp servers. Since Messenger isn't a multi account email

Re: Debian on IBM thinkpad 380XD

1999-03-15 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: Anyone have info on installing Debian on an IBM thinkpad 380XD? I'm installing the latest 2.1 version, and not having much luck with the rescue disk. It comes to the boot: screen. I press enter, and then it reboots the system. Repeats with

Re: Problems with .tar file

1999-03-12 Thread Greg Starkes
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it should be qt-1_42.tar (or qt-1.42.tar), not qt-1_42_tar.tar. Try renaming it ^^ ^ ^ If this doesn't work, may be it's a .tar.gz, rename it to qt-1.42.tar.gz, and try: Was this

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Greg Starkes
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noah L. Meyerhans dixit: On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so I've installed xfstt - the true type font server. The package says it doesn't contain any fonts, and I can't find a package of them via dselect.

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-03-07 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Curt Daugaard wrote: Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? It's under the unsupported unix section, so you can get the 128-bit from their web site. The supported one is libc5, as you

Re: Notebook manufacturer recomendation

1999-02-03 Thread Greg Starkes
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for

Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

1999-02-01 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jim Foltz wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know of a Quicktime .MOV player for Linux? xanim The problem with xanim though is the fact that it loads the entire movie into memory before playing. Try playing a 80Mb mov

Re: isapnptools

1998-11-23 Thread Greg Starkes
it. --- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]www: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/ You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge. -Neil Peart, Rush, in Show

Re: PCI Modem with debian 2.0

1998-11-05 Thread Greg Starkes
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Rakesh Mohan wrote: I have PCI inter modem (AOpen FM 56H) on my PC. It works well with NT 4.0, but i am not able to configure it for debian 2.0 I think all of AOpen's modems are software based, like the USR WinModems. Without the drivers (of which their are none for linux)

Re: SB32PNP

1998-10-26 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: According to the SB AWE how-to, since I have a PNP card I must load support as a module. Does this mean I do not have to recompile the kernel; I only have to build a module for sound or in order to use the module I will need to build I must

Re: (ignored) scsi,ZIP Drive

1998-09-04 Thread Greg Starkes
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Marlon Urias wrote: I'm having trouble getting my question answered, if I am not explaining my problem correctly would you please tell me what else I should post so that someone would answer me? thanks. It's possible that no one knows the answer to your question, or have

/var/log/messages

1998-08-27 Thread Greg Starkes
see, this happens every 20 minutes. What is doing this? It is a pain when I am tailing this file. --- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]www: http

Re: Help with Windowmaker

1998-08-23 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote: I have two problems with Windowmaker 1. Its using my 'Windows Start' key as the 'Meta' key. Seems to be only a problem with WindowMaker, not the other window managers like icewm or kde. I'm using the deb packages found at the windowmaker ftp site. I

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

1998-08-18 Thread Greg Starkes
what you want to do. If you want to compose music, I believe that the only thing out there is a mod tracker, and I can't remember where that is. I'll see if I can track it down. --- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications

Re: Checking dependencies

1998-08-14 Thread Greg Starkes
--- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]www: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/ Windows 95/NT: 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system

Re: Help: M$-intellimouse and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0

1998-08-10 Thread Greg Starkes
. It explains how to set up an IntelliMouse (or anything else). For more information about wheeled mice in X, take a look at http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ --- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications

gcc and egcs

1998-08-08 Thread Greg Starkes
. --- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]www: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/ You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -Neil Peart, Rush -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: gcc and egcs

1998-08-08 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Greg Starkes wrote: Last night I was trying to compile to programs that were written in c++ (wmcdplay wmmixer). The installation instructions said to run xmkmf, then make. When I did this xmkmf set CXX=c++ and CC=gcc

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Greg Starkes
. Loading linux.. If I remember correctly, floppy=thinkpad is only necessary for older models. I don't think I used it on my 365XD. --- Greg Starkes, Computing Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland. e

Re: dpkg

1998-08-05 Thread Greg Starkes
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Re: NAG, NAG, NAG

1998-08-04 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, john mcpeek wrote: I remember seeing NAG as I have flittered about but a can't remember where to go to download it. please help. I saw the mail about PLIP and that is what I need. The problem is that I don't have a clue where to start. Can Nag help ME? I do have an LPT

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-03 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard Evans Hartman wrote: Hello all, I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) When I login as me, I can access the KDE games However, when I login as root, and try to run a game, I get the message could not execute program ___ Any