Re: Swapfiles

was that last time you dumped core??? It's just one of those laws of the universe that you don't want to violate lest you will fly off the surface of the earth at a constant velocity tangent to a point on the curve. /sillyness -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Finding monitor refresh rates?

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:31:31AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I need to find refresh rates for 2 monitors: Panasonic TX14H35ET Hansol Electronic E14AL I've had good luck finding specs at: http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitor.html -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

a better job of ripping my daughter's scratched up CDs. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

users who might want it. Basically I edited the source code to dump it through sox with play -t ul -r 8000 file.au. Not pretty but it works. Email me directly if you want it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Sound after restarting from win$$

that if I reboot I don't have any sound until I start gmix at least once, then everything is fine. I don't have to touch any of the adjustments, just bring up the panel. That may be just in my particular setup, but you might give it a try. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: mac alternative to wine?

). The filename/version that I have is executor-21-glibc-demo-rpm.tar.gz, although newer version would probably be better if it will run on your existing system. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: creating an ISO image of a cd.

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Re: Sound applications..

and music. Thx, Dani. apt-get install wavtools apt-get install playmidi -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: My modem..argggg

. You can use ATDTnumber to dial your ISP, and then interactively give it your ID and password. If you can do that much, your modem is fine, and you have a ppp configuration problem. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: My modem..argggg

. If that doesn't work try COM2 - IRQ 3. I've used a few USR hardware modems, and I have never had to setserial manually, hence I doubt you have to go through that. Also, your 14.4 modem may be old enough that it's not PNP. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: star office 5.2

install. I don't remember what they are - that's just what I saw on a thread a while ago. I installed this myself last week without a hitch on a stock Potato machine. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debugger for C programming?

. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Emacs question

errors. For syntax highlighting here are a couple of lines from my .emacs file which I believe are the right ones: (global-font-lock-mode) (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages

. Then U - upper case U will undelete a thread of necessary. The J and K is really cool - I didn't know that one. Probably better. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Bug in mutt?

this? As others have mentioned Control-S is stop, and Control-Q is continue. You have no doubt heard of XON/XOFF...? Well, Control-S is XOFF and Control-Q is XON, or so I have been told. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Can the scsi emulation kill the hard drive?

suppose if you have scsi emulation on your hard drive, that might not be a good thing? Otherwise I suspect the scsi emulation isn't the cause of your problem. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Printing go bye-bye

. My 2 standard potato PCs with one parallel port each call it lp0. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

system MUST boot off one of the first 2 IDE drives. I believe that wasn't a LILO thing so much as in IA (Intel Architecture) thing. Of course at that time, we had a 512 Mb booting rule too . . . Maybe the above doesn't apply any more, but it might. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian

Re: startx not for normal user?

of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) Anybody -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: GNOME Blank Screensaver

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:49:56PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME? Try adding xset s on in your .xinitrc file. man xset -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Sound problems

. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: gnome/mouseroller

4 5 and it`s working fine. Sweet! I have been meaning to get around to figuring this out. Thanks for the help. Works fine on potato with x3.3.6. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Wordperfect Suite 8 for Linux

-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: AudioPCI: choppy sound (ES1371)

this really means is the linux driver does a good job at what it was intended to do. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: error message with libdb.so.3

is not a symlink. FYI . . . on my pototo box it is in fact a link to another library. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Apr 17 19:25 /lib/libdb.so.3 - libdb-2.1.3.so Perhaps someone with a working woody box can tell you what they have - anyone? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered

Re: xv alternatives

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Re: stable packages without priorities

== 0 Bad prio rxvt-ml,1:2.6.2-2.1 == 0 Bad prio exim,3.12-10.1 == 0 Bad prio qpopper,2.53-4 == 0 Bad prio sendfile,2.1-20.3 == 0 I get exactly the same thing, and I doubt your system and mine are hosed in the exact same way. I'm not going to worry about it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard

Re: shutdown as user

, but it works, and doesn't introduce any new security issues. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: What's with the Oracle for inux?

it was a crippled version. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: printtool

. # apt-get install magicfilter # magicfilterconfig HTH -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Print to windows Printer?

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:15:43PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me? I've used pbm2ppa to print to an attached HP820Cse windows only printer. -- Thank you, Joe

Re: cron.daily and slrnpull

in cron.daily, which doesn't seem to be right)? I deleted the entry in cron.daily and haven't had any side effects that I can see. (yet...?) -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Required Hardware?

of different boot disks, but didn't find one usable, so I went with the upgrade. Can your machine see the 1279Mb disk? I suspect it will only see 512mb or something like that. Hope that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] = 'shutdown -h now'

memory... See your /etc/inittab file: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now change the -r to -h and you should be all set. Since inittab is read on boot, I expect it would take a reboot to take affect. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered

Re: Loading X w/only netscape

commands you can probably make it just right. Well, it's a thought . . . = my .xinitrc = #!/bin/sh . /etc/X11/Xsession = my .xsession #!/bin/sh xinit $HOME/.xinitrc -- -auth $HOME.Xauthority #commented this out! fvwm2 netscape -- Thank you, Joe

Re: Newbie Slink install CDROM problem on old computer

cdrom Good luck! -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: gif

/political issue with GIFs. You may want to stick with .jpg or .png -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: giving access

that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: 2 newbie questions

setup, then it can be a hassle. Once you get X working if you want to use xdm that's fine. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: ppp problem

information needed? Did you put a DNS nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf? Like so: nameserver 208.130.43.5 nameserver 208.130.42.5 -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Documentation for Newbies (was: win and linux)

people have other sources of information. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: debian + red hat linux

, and the only thing you would be wasting is a 10mb chunk. To configure LILO in a case like this, I think I would pick one distribution as the master, probably Debian. Keep only one lilo.conf and execute lilo from there. Just my 2 cents worth. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: locate warning . . . ?

a locate (like if you just installed new packages and want to do a search). -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: skipping forced fscks

guessing. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [NEWBIE]not installing from which partition?

. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Boot mystery

you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Help! Memory gone missing...

to me like you just joined the group that does require it. Maybe I am just too accepting, but I would add the append line, and if that fixed it I would quit wondering about it, and move on to bigger and better things . . . -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: SMP-howto

have never tested it. (yes, I'm new at this ;-) We all are. You can be the world's expert on one thing, and you still don't know a damn thing about the other 99% of it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Last chance: unresolved symbols and depmod weirdness

mv vmlinux-2.x.xx vmlinuz-2.x.xx-stock 12) cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot cp zImage /boot/vmlinuz 13) emacs /etc/lilo stock - /boot/vmlinuz-stock linux - /boot/vmlinuz 14) /sbin/lilo -v 15) make sure the module/kernel names match 16) reboot! -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered

Re: Fetchmail, sendmail... let's do a thread about mail!

you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Off topic: Free POP3 email

to a minimum. Any ideas? Since this is off topic, it might be appropriate if responses came to me instead of bogging down the rest of the group. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Need help on installing CD-ROM drive

there by default. This fixed mine, and it may work for you: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV -v hde (note: you can use ./MAKEDEV -n -v to do a test run) Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Setting up Debian

usually am...) And like someone else said 1gb of swap is an awful lot. The traditional standard is 2x your RAM. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

in netscape shows Flash installed. This is my experience also. I assume (right or wrong) that the web server doesn't interpret linux browsers so well. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Fwd: Corel Install/SetUp

is oversize and I have to keep dragging it to the left to get to the corner controls. I tried a reinstall with the same results. Corel has not returned my calls after long waits for tech support. Nice of them -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: menu 2.1.5-2.1 broken?

with gnome and one without, and it happened on both. Or have I missed something lately about a change in setting up menus? Yes, I noticed the same thing in fvwm after an apt-get upgrade today, and yes it installed the new version of menu. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux

[jpb@cybertours.com: Re: menu problems]

. menu_2.1.5-2.1_i386.deb and plugger_3.2-1_i386.deb seem to be bad. If you did an apt-get upgrade you probably got them. In my case I went to /var/cache/apt/archives and the old ones were there, so I removed the latest ones, installed the older ones, and I was all set. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

: LimeGreen Put this line in /etc/bash.bashrc: alias emacs=emacs -bg Black -fg LimeGreen -cr LimeGreen Not elegant, but it works. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: New HP Printers...?

. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: suidregister problems after dist-upgrade today

makes this list so great. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: Help with X Windows

for something like that, but I couldn't find anything. The window manager I am using is olvwm, if that matters. I use fvwm2 and I edited the file /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook You may have a similar olvwm file. Good luck. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: ...snip... Does anyone know the line I need to add to my exim.conf file? smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 works well for me. This will dump them all as soon as it comes in. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU

Re: PPP, CDROM, and Floppy Questions

diskette (using ls or dir), I get garbage which seems to be the parts of a Microsoft Word document that I know resides on the diskette. Have I done something wrong or missed invoking an option? try: man mtools Hope that helps. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: MTA

on xnetload until is says zero. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?

!! I've thought about this a lot too. Can you teach your kids to type sudo reboot? (I don't mean that sarcastically, I have kids too . . .) You may even be able to put it in a menu item. I think visudo and has options to give people just certain priviliges. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered

Re: the perils of software re-use

this be marketed as a game. Call it Kanga-Doom. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: need help with modem

. What's the difference? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)

Re: good book to learn perl

the O'Reilly's Programming Perl, more in-depth. I tried to read Programming Perl first, but that was a mistake. Go with Learning Perl. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)

losing mail?

the best thing to do is to make sure I exit mutt, but I wish there were a more bullet proof solution. Am I missing something? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)

Re: Lotus Notes

put me one step closer to eliminating windows all together. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)

Re: PPP for non-root users

How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? adduser username dip Thanks from me too! I've been doing sudo pon for a long time, but had just resigned myself to it... This mailing list really is the greatest source of information. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered

Re: i can't hear my cd's

using cdtool's cdplay, i can't hear my cd's. are there any special configs to get the audio? (there are no probs with the device (/dev/hdc).) try: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom chmod 777 /dev/cdrom -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? On my meager Pentium 90, Xemacs takes about 20 seconds to load, and emacs loads in about 3. I prefer emacs. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux

How to set line length?

there must be something in mutt which I need to set? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)

Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?

? That works. Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)

Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format

) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tend to get in the habit of hitting ALT-F10 which is maximize, or in this case resize to fit. Once upon a time, I was in your position, and I took the time to make aliases for all the common commands. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)

Re: newbie install problem with CD-ROM mount

./MAKEDEV /dev/hde Then I was all set. Later I did a: ln -s /dev/hde /dev/cdrom I apologize if this has nothing to do with your problem, but I sounded like it did. Good luck either way. Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)