ppp hangup question

Hi all, Just one small quwstion. I would like my modem connection to hang up as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Any idea how to handle that ? I use pon/poff Best regards Joakim Svensson

esound problem

Hi all, anyone know what to do about this? slayer:/home/jocke1s# apt-get install esound Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: esound 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get

Write protected mailbox, mutt

Hi all, I did ask this a while ago but never got any real answers so I will try again with some more information. I am using fetchmail, exim, mutt to handle my mailing and I have one .forward file to redirect all my debian list mails to its own mailbox. Lately I have been having problems that

disc-cover error

Hi all, I just downloaded the latest debs from disc-cover homepage and installed with dpkg -i. Now when I run it is give the following error. slayer:~$ disc-cover Error (while reading cddb): 500 Command syntax error. at /usr/bin/disc-cover line 87 Error: could not fetch cdrom information.

poff makes X hang

Hi all, I have a strange problem I haven't seen before. When I type poff my machine hangs. ctrl-alt-del doesn't work ctrl-alt-[---] doesn't work. All I can do is pressing the button to reboot. If I instead kills the pppd process the machine reboots when my connection is closed. some syslog

Kernel panic VFS ...

Hi all, I did something stupid today :( While recompiling my kernel to add scsi support for my cdrw I accidently forgot some ide stuff and now I can't boot. VFS: Cannot open root device 03.05 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 This has been discussed before on this list and I

kernel compile problem

Here is the last lines of my make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image ..snip.. install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.3.16 sed -e 's/=V/2.3.16/g'-e 's/=B//g' \ -e 's/=S//g' -e 's/=R//g' \ -e 's/=K/bzImage/g'

garbled characters in vim

Hi all, I am trying to get swedish characters to work properly on my debian box. I have it working perfectly in rxvt and in vim (if I start it from inside mutt, as now when I am composing this). BUT! If I start vim from an ordinary rxvt shell It displays escape sequences å is \xe5 ä is \xe4 ö is

pr command

Just a quick one. I have some vague memory about a mail on this list a couple of weeks ago about printing with margins(indentation) but I can't find it again. So my question is how to use pr (or some other text reformating program) to add margins to my text output (for printing). The pr -o

Re: pr command

-snip- So my question is how to use pr (or some other text reformating program) to add margins to my text output (for printing). The pr -o command works nicely but when I print long lines the text efter the linebreak will not be indented. Like this: This is a very long line that

ACARD scsi help

Hi all, I installed a scsi card a week ago that I was told was a ADAPTEC 2904 card. Well I couldn't get it to work and finally! *blush* checked the small paper inside the plastic bag it came with and It is really an ACARD AEC-6710S Ok I think and recompile (2.3.16) and adds acard lower level

scsi help

Hi all, Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner. Recompiled 2.3.16 * SCSI support * SCSI generic support * Adaptec AIC7xxx support What now?! No idea what to do next :( Is there any newbie guide to using scsi or something similar to get me started. My boot message doesn't find

Re: scsi help

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:22:25PM +0200, Leonardo wrote: Jocke wrote: Hi all, Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner. Recompiled 2.3.16 * SCSI support * SCSI generic support * Adaptec AIC7xxx support Hmm some more info. Did some changes and compiled Adaptec

xcdroast and audio

Hi all, I can mount both my cdrom and my cdrw with data cds. When trying to mount an audio cd I just get mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems my fstab looks like /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto

mounting problems

Hi all, Been recompiling my 2.2.10 kernel to be able to use hp 8100+ CDRW. I think I got it all right but some strange things did happen. I can't mount my ordinary cd anymore! mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems Where do I start

Re: realplayer

On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 02:51:54PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: My guess, if you have sound working fine then it could be realplayer version vs kernel version. If you are runnning 2.2.x you'll need realplayer G2 which is still in alpha or beta, not sure, state. Because realplayer 5.0 use

Re: realplayer

On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 04:46:39PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: Where can you get linux g2 in rpm? My g2 comes as executable binary installer. If you would like to try mine. try ftp://kenji.anu.edu.au/chanop/ It's about 8Meg. I try www.real.com but I couldn't find thr like to g2 for

realplayer

Hi all, I am trying to get realplayer to work but when I try to play anything I just get a seg. fault. How to I start debug whats wrong ? Best regards Joakim Svensson

Re: Sound programs

On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:47:18PM -0500, Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd. And if

Sound programs

Hi all, Just some small wonderings concerning sound configurations. I have a Soundblaster Live that I can play .au files on by piping (AS ROOT ONLY) $ cat sound.au /dev/audio Been reading the Howtos and understand that I need some more things installed. Is there a list of a basic working sound

gome packages

Hi all, Just a quick question. I would like to get a complete gnome install (and windomaker). I have some gnome stuff already installed but I don't really know what and in what state it is in. I also have windowmaker(GNOME) installed. So where do I find out what apt-get packages I should get ?

startup commands

Hi all, I am trying to start mutt and 1 rxvt shell when a specific user logs into X. I tried to put #! /bin/bash # exec mutt exec rxvt in bit .xinitrc and .xsession but nothing really happens. How do I execute these commands at startup ? Best regards Joakim

Re: startup commands

I am trying to start mutt and 1 rxvt shell when a specific user logs into X. I tried to put #! /bin/bash # exec mutt exec rxvt in bit .xinitrc and .xsession but nothing really happens. How do I execute these commands at startup ? You don't want to exec the

lpr indentation etc

Hi again, Some more printer troubles. Been spending quite some time trying to get my printer to work. Now I can print very nice post script files using gs-aladdin *smile* I dont know how to put it together with lpr though. Anyone got any ideas ? I have an EPSON Stylus Color 740 and currently

Module problems

Hi all, Tried to recompile kernel 2.2.10 get no obvious warnings (to me that is) did use the kernel-package README For the Brave and the impatient: Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the kernel 1% cd kernel source tree 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure Phase

printing again

I am sorry to ask again but I am really stuck here. If anyone has a working system with an epson stylus color 740 printer I would be very grateful for some help. I would like something like 4 settings. 1: draft text mode 2: high quality text 3: draft pictures 4: high quality pictures I really

printer help

Hi all, I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just unexperienced so some hints and advice would be appreciated. I have a pretty slim potato setup. gs-aladdin lprng magicfilter - printcap file: lp|epson|EPSON STYLUS color 740:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\

Mutt

Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user josv My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] How should I set up Mutt to have all my outgoing mail show: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of From: Jocke