What to do with a tape drive?

1999-05-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
(Please CC all replies to me) Hi, I've just installed a new tape drive, but I can find no documentation on how to use it. Do I just write cron jobs to tar -zcvf {files} /dev/sct0 ? and how do I do incremental backups and restores, please? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn'

Tape problems

1999-05-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
(pls cc replies to me) Hi, I have a TR5 drive, which I think is on /dev/st0, but using mt on it just gives: /dev/st0 Input/Output error sysklogd shows: target did not report SYNC. Any ideas? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn

MP3 encoder

1999-05-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
please Cc to Me Hi all, Things like cdgrip say and your favourite mp3 encoder, or default to lamer - but I can find to evidence of a mp3 encoder in the archive. Can anyone help me out? Thanks -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College

Glide packages

1999-04-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
please cc all replies to me Hi, are the glide libraries packaged for debian? It seems that at one point mesag3-glide and mesag-glide-dev were available, but no longer. Or am I missing something? Thamks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society

Linking problems

1999-04-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, More compiliation problems I'm afraid: I'm trying to get this simple program to compile. It produces an object file OK, but ld complains: cannot open -lMesaGL: no such file or directory. This is confusing, given I have mesage-dev installed, and libMesaGL.a is next to

FAQ: realaudio player?

1999-04-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
I can't find one in the archive Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte

Re: compiling simple program

1999-04-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Uwe Behrens wrote: Hope that helps ;-) Thanks. I now get a bit further sigh Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/mcv21/programming/x/gl make hello gcc helloworld.c -o hello -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include \ -L/usr/lib -lm -lglut -lMesaGLU -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXmu -lX11

Re: compiling simple program

1999-04-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 23 Apr 1999, Kenneth MacDonald wrote: Try putting the -lMesaGL and -lMesaGLw before the X stuff. I've just moved them around, and it makes no difference to the error messages. Thanks anyway, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College

GTK probs again

1999-04-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, please cc to me Having solved my previous problems, I'm having problems with g_print - it always blocks. The following code compiles fine, but when the button is pressed, the thing just hangs, and has to be kill -9ed. Any ideas? compiled with gcc hello.c -o hello `gtk-config

NFS mount probs

1999-04-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi, I have a couple of nfs servers mounted on /sunsite and /nymph. Unfortunatly, when either server goes down, things stop working - bash I think reads its parent directories, and so if it can't read /nymph and /sunsite, it tries lots of times and fails. If this behaivour can't be

talkd doesn't work

1999-04-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, I just updated things to potato, and now talkd doesn't work - I runnign in.talkd and in.ntalkd doesn't stop me getting no talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk errors. Where should the talk daemons be started? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge

GTK problems - not compiling

1999-04-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, I grabbed this from the gtk tutorial page, but it won't compile: it complains that gtk_signal_connect is undefined (I think this is a linker problem). I'm compiling with gcc helloworld.c -o hellowword `gtk-config --cflags --libs` Any ideas? (please Cc) Source is: #include

Xhost probs

1999-04-19 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi, This is probably a FAQ, but anyway. I'm trying to set things up so that I can run a root Xterm should I need to. The methodology is: xhost root@ su /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm --icon-name ROOT -n ROOT --scrollbar-right -S red -b red -I /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/bomb.xpm -e bash

Bizaree IPaliasing problems

1999-04-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, hurd.sel.cam.ac.uk (kenel 2.2.2) is IPaliasing for pick.sel.cam.ac.uk, but things don't seem to be working quite right: If I dialup from home, and ping (undre DOS) pick.sel.cam.ac.uk, I get request timed out. If I then poing hurd.sel.cam.ac.uk,m it respondes OK. If I then ping

Cdir problems

1999-03-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, I use cdadd to create a record for a CD, and then run cdir, it still displays unknown cd. Strace shows that it is opening the ~/.cdtooldb file fine, but beyond that I can't tell. Any ideas? Please Cc replies to me. Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs RAM. Thanks in advance everyone! Hi, If you're still running kernel 2.0.x then you need to add this to lilo.conf

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. Also, upgrade your kernel when you reinstall - a

IP-aliasing scripts - in /etc/rc.boot?

1999-03-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have a little custom script set up to ipalias. I need to make it auto-run on bootup (I'm leaving the machine in a cupboard a long way from home). Can I just place it in /etc/rc.boot/ip_alias_fudge ? or do I need to do anything else. Will it be run last of all (and if not, where should I put it

Re: [off-topic] User Account Information

1999-03-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: I would like to write a cgi script to display to the user a listing of their usage on my system. I have the acct package installed so I can get the information from the command line, but how do I display this information to the users? If you have

Re: Debian Linux Install -

1999-03-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: If I remember correctly, this is asking you where all the base files are stored on the disk. Now, C disk for Windows is /dev/hda for Linux, but you need to insluce the partition # as well. If you are not sure, fdisk and see where the

NFS problems making system unusable

1999-03-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have sunsite mounted via nfs on sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk I've lost the connection to sunsite (network problems elsewhere in the university), but whenever mcv21 tries to do anything that involves running a shell, I just get the error nfs: task 358 the number varies can't get a request slot and the

Further problems

1999-03-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
the nfs server continues not to respond, still causing the same problems. Trying to umount /sunsite gets: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out umount: /sunsite: device is busy The kernel logs also contain: nfs_revalidate_inode: /// getattr failed, ino=2, error=-512 Is

Re: root doesn't have permission?

1999-03-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or symlinks. There are ext2fs flags to make files undeletable. You should be careful about deleting such files; it can be done tho. What are you trying to delete? Matthew --

Re: Problems with my HD

1999-03-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My HD is a Western Digital 6.4gb drive... /dev/hda: 784 cyls, 255 heads, 63 sectors units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes deviceBootBeginstartEndBlocksIDSystem /dev/hda1 *1117

Go \latex package?

1999-02-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, Is there a default place to put this? and furthermore, is there an update programme I need to run to get \latex to recognise it? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I have pine .debs if anyone wants them, let me know. I post them to my web site or email them to you, however you like. I was running mutt. But I have a soft spot for pine. It was the first email app I ever learned back in 92 when I started

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Thank you for forwarding me this information. I have one problem. I'm not sure where in my /etc/printcap file to put this line. My file looks like this: lp|hplj6l|HP LJ 6L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj6l:\

Removal of idle telnet connections?

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how might I disable it? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of

Re: Many questions

1999-02-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Bon Lam wrote: 1. When I boot Linux I always get this kernel message SIOADDRT: invalid argument This is due to the route command in the network startup script. Don't worry about it. I removed the offending command, and the network stopped working :( Matthew

Re: Debian who?

1999-02-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
I'm a Brand Spankin' Shinning Newbe with a Brand Spankin Shinning New Debian install using floppies, all seven of them D/Led from Debian.org, so now what? The man pages don't work. Nothing will install because of dependency errors except for joe (works great but there must be something

Make postscipt files use less pages?

1999-02-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Is it possible to make postscipt files print out with two postscript pages fitting onto one physical page (or is there an option in ghostview for this?), please? 350 pages of hurd manual could do with being shrunk before I use _all_ my paper up Thanks, Matthew -- Elen

Sound working almost...

1999-02-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have got my OPL-3AX sound working under kernel 2.2.1 It plays CDs, windowmanager sounds, and quake(II) noises fine. Unfortunatly, if I cat foo.au /dev/audio, or use something like saytime, the speech comes out very low and slow (sounds like it's 1/2 speed or something). DoeS

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce better documents than MSWord Matthew [1]I could name one, but that might be flame-bait

Re: hiding sterr

1999-02-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, tracheotomy bob wrote: Hi all How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file or /dev/null. Any suggestions

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for

RE: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
gain sound. I had several reasons for wanting to learn Linux but as a musician my stance quickly becomes, No sound, why bother? What is your sound card? I haven't really used Linux since October out of the hope that Slink would have the updated kernel with it's added multimedia features

CDs only playing the first track :(

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I've been playing with various CD playing utilities, and recently, they have taken to only playing the first track of my cd, and then stopping, even when I run something like cdplay 1 15 Any ideas what I've done wrong? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the

Re: CDs only playing the first track :(

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: I've experienced similar symptoms in Windows95; it turned out to be a bad CD-ROM drive. HmmTHe other tracks will pay if I select them, just only one at once. sigh It's a newish drive too. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to get the card setting without going to windows... My system doesn't have windows on it at all. I installed linux directly onto it. Its kind of MS free... As much as I could make it. Gain 100karma points! :) I am also pure in this regard ;), so I've

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
The problem I have right now is that the kernel won't recognize the NE2000 PCI card. A friend and I tried autoprobing it, and making it a module and loading it after compile, but neither has worked. We also tried to forcing recognition by putting an append line into LILO, but that didn't

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
I've had absolutely no luck with sounds cards and Linux. I'm in a position to where sound isn't really important on the machines I use, but I want to hear what a penguin sounds like. eh? I used to have an Awe64 but didn't hit on the trick of patching the drivers into the source and

Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: Hi all! I am trying to create a kernel-image-2.2.1 package in order to install the new kernel. I downloaded and installed kernel-source-2.2.1 and kernel-doc-2.2.1 packages, read all the files /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/* and

Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: Newbie question: I've compiled my own kernels (I am using a self-compiled 2.0.36) but use make clean make dep and make xconfig. What is make-kpkg? It's part of the kernel-package package, which is a set of scripts that make building kernels

CDDB updates

1999-02-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Is there any way to upload a record to a CDDB server (either the cddb one, or in a local record)? I have a cd in front of me that gcd refuses to play because cddb doesn't produce a match for that CD id Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-11 Thread M.C. Vernon
you could easily go even farther than that? OK, this might be impractical, but it sounds easy... Each step could be assigned (internally) a ranking according to user knowledge: 1 = what's a computer ---to--- 10 = Linus at the beginning of the install, you rank yourself. Then, for each

RE: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat in less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that speed with Debian. Right. I've recently tried Redhat and SuSE on a separate partition and Debian's installation is still pure stone age. Well, i

Re: Ping run-away

1999-02-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dean wrote: Just got debian up ( bare bones) and went to internet and to check I first pinged IPS, then debian.org and ping wouldn't stop. Finally got off internet by poff in another vc, ping cont. to try to send. Any suggestions on ping? Also what can I do to stop a

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Ben Messinger wrote: Pollywog wrote: Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them. -- Andrew I recently installed RH just to see what the big deal was about.

Re: Controlling Volume on an Audio CD?

1999-02-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I finally bought a cable to connect my sound card and cd-rom drive. I started up workbone and it sounds great! Is there a keypress or other utility that will allow me to control the volume though? I'm using a hamm system. Aumix is the best IMHO

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to make /dev/audio available

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: Here is my /dev/audio prompt$ ll /dev/audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 1998 /dev/audio run 'groups' as the user. If audio appears then the above should work, it does on every one of my machines. If audio is not listed as one

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom OK, so all I had to do was make /dev/hdc world-readable sigh Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom OK, so all I had to do was make /dev

RE: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 09-Feb-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote: Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll of distributions. Have you all voted? Why is that? I just ordered a copy because I have heard good things about the distro. RH is a commercially-based

3D software

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I want a nice (preferably simple) package to created 3D-scenes (spaceships and the like, so based on geometrical shapes), ideally with flashy raytracing and the like. Any suggestions? Processor,memory and video card no object :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Re: fvwm2 menu not working

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu MCV installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to MCV be there, but a decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas?

Re: fvwm2 menu not working

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu MCV installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to MCV be there, but a decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas?

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the

Re: using dpkg

1999-02-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) I always get something like this: cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status You need to run dpkg -i as root. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support

fvwm2 menu not working

1999-02-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I use E, but one of my system's users uses fvwm2, and is complaining that the menu isn't working properly. Sure enough, the menu shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to be there, but a decent

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Dan Hugo wrote: Apparently, I had forgotten to change the BIOS setting back to AUTO for the IDE drive probing, which I had set up when I first found that 3.2G drive to be flaky. Ugh! #includestdisclaim.h I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and

Severe DOS under 2.2.1

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting happening of my machine running a massive DOS in my abscence. I have an NE2000 card, and compiled a 2.2.1 kernel at 00.05 on Thursday morning, then went to bed. I then got up at about 7am, and did some ssh. I went out at 8. About 11pm, my

Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and have it boot

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
1. is easily doable. lilo should be happy (make sure you write to the correct hdd). How? By putting boot = /dev/hdc in lilo.conf, and then specifying /dev/hda1 as root (which is what the disk will be when it gets put in the other machine) But why not just move the floppy over to the

Modules and kmod - I'm confused

1999-02-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have a shiny new 2.2.1 kernel. I'm pretty sure I've not got modules sorted properly yet tho. I'm using kmod, so the kernel should load modules on demand. Do I need to add the rmmod -a line to root's crontab, or do the debian scripts put it somewhere? Also; I got a

Re: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. wc -l will do one file. Either write a shell script, or have a look at man wc

Re: error with rescue disk

1999-02-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Aaron Walker wrote: hello, When I try to boot the rescue disk (to install debian 2.0), I get the following errors. Anyone know what the problem is? Almost certainly the rescue disk is shot. Download a fresh copy, and write it to a new floppy. Matthew -- Elen sila

Pnpconf stuff

1999-02-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have compiled a shiny new 2.2.1 kernel, and want to play with my sound card :). To do this, I need (I think) to run isapnp before loading the sound module into the kernel (strictly, with the new kernel, kerneld will load it on demand, but that's another matter). So, I put the

Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( ftp.debian.org doesn't either Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support

Re: 2.0 install problems

1999-02-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ivan wrote: snip (7) Configure device driver modules (I choose to install the modules: cdrom, lp and serial) IIRC you need to include a support for filesystems here; I haven't installed in a while though - probably under block devices. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn'

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Mike Garfias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: | I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the | kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( snip It's usually

Re: XFree86 Almost Working...

1999-02-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
I am using the mach64 server and it appears to autoprobe my card OK using XF86Setup (The card isn't listed so I just left it to autoprobe the various settings). You may be better supplying what you know. If I set it up to run with 1024x768 I get 2-10seconds of flickering rolling lines and

Re: Tracking installs

1999-02-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks installations, and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my own, is there a utility that will do the same thing? dpkg does all of this :-) Matthew -- Elen sila

Re: Tracking installs

1999-02-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I knew dpkg did the install, but where does it track what it did? Is there a dpkg log somewhere? dpkg -l lists packages installed. dpkg --get-selections produces an output which you could later feed to dpkg --set-selections to restore a ***ed system

Re: Activating swap

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
How do I activate that swap? mkswap Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Re: Activating swap

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, dan wrote: How do I activate that swap? You need to setup the swap space first. try 'mkswap /dev/hda5'. It's the same as (only different) making a filesystem before mounting in. This will destroy all data on the drive. No, it will destroy all data on the

Re: No connect permission for the lp printer command (It's workings again!)

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
Yes, DEFAULT REJECT was there for a good reason. With DEFAULT ACCEPT, any arbitrary person from any arbitrary host can print to your printer. I have solved this problem by keeping DEFAULT ACCEPT at the bottom, but inserting REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER above the REJECT SERVICE=CSU line

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-01-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Richard Hall wrote: Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more? zless /usr/doc/foo/bar.gz Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society

Re: converting numbers

1999-01-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
If all you want is to convert to decimal, use this short C-program: #include stdio.h void main(int argc, char **argv) This is undefined. main should return an int. { while (*++argv) printf(%s == %i\n, *argv, strtol(*argv)); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } Matthew -- Elen sila

Re: Browser for a slow computer?

1999-01-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote: Hi! Alec Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape is about your only choice, other than Lynx. :-/ FWIW, you could try w3c in xemacs Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien

Re: Problem with Quake II...

1999-01-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 27 Jan 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: For anyone else who is interested: 1) Quake II 3.20 seems to have fixed this problem. How do I upgrade my debian packages to 3.2 Should the maintainer do this? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien

Re: OPL3SAx sound card

1999-01-27 Thread M.C. Vernon
Has anyone been able to get this card to work? I've tried every combination in the kernel and the best I've gotten is a series of four tones, each at a higher frequency than the last. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. I think these cards are now properly

Re: Browser for a slow computer?

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote: I already asked it some days ago. But I never saw my message or the answer in the list. I don't know why. Possibly because there is no easy answer. I'm looking for a browser for my computer, an old i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM. I.e. a

Re: Help a newbie installing pine

1999-01-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Darknight wrote: I'm not sure if I missed a package when downloading hamm or something, but pine was not included, so I downloaded the newest version available from washington university. However, whenever I try to build it using the linux option, I get an error ld

Re: Admin Questions

1999-01-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dan Furtney wrote: This is a bit off topic but the knowledege seems to be here so what the heck. When I did the Deb install I used the existing /home and swap areas from a RedHat installation residing on the same disk. I thought I would be able to use my /home/dan

RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
Yes, natural language is quite far from the code of a programm but the first algorithms that one must develope for a programm are much like cooking recipes in natural language. Is there someone out there thinking in C or Pascal? fprintf(HANDS,Me %s,SMILEY); Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn'

quake2 multiplayer (sorry)

1999-01-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I've got quake2, and installed the potato versions of the debian packages. When someone tries to connect to my machine however, their quake2 (which is the same version as mine) fails: wrong version number Server is version 3.19 I've installed quake2, quake2-dm and quake2-ctf.

Re: economy mode printing?

1999-01-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi all, Are there any economy mode print filters available for use with gs in debian? As root, hpset econo should do the trick Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer

PGP public keysevers?

1999-01-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Anyone know of any of these that work - the first few from the pgp documentation (dated 1995) all seem dead (unroutable mail domain, failed nslookup etc.)... Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer

Re: Language

1999-01-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Sam Franc wrote: I have been lurking on this group. What text do I need to get to interpret what all this language means, such as: snip Learning a new language isn't necessary to get a linux box running, and use it effectively. Sure, there are some new concepts (uptimes 1

Re: how to install sendmail or exim on my debian box ?

1999-01-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
i am a beginner on debian linux ... i have installed a debian box in my office and it is connected to my LAN, i have installed telnetd on my linux and it is running fine. now i wanna install sendmail/exim on my debian to let it be my mail server ,,, i have downloaded this software from

Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)

1999-01-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? use sed. It is very powerful for this sort of thing. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College

Re: rich text format

1999-01-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 15 Jan 1999, Harald Weidner wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just

Re: rich text format

1999-01-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up pw should do the trick Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge

Re: rich text format

1999-01-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
Rich, Sorry, it's xpw: Matthew Package: xpw Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 377 Maintainer: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: siag Version: 3.0.6-3.1 Replaces: pw Provides: pw Depends: siagoffice-common (= 3.0.6-3.1), siagoffice-plugins

XF86Config format changed?

1999-01-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
I've just upgraded to slink, and the XF86Config file parser doesn't like my config file, so xdm won't start. I fiddled the hsync OK, but it doesn't like the pointer section either: Emulate3Buttons set in pointer, but 3 pointer buttons specified the pointer section is: SectionPointer

Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( Is this a known problem, or am I being dumb? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer

Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: There's a new version of all the libc6 packages in slink today, so hopefully there should be no problems with that. In fact, my slink mirror has no libc6 at all ! (sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk). Using the potato one unhosed my system. Matthew -- Elen sila

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ ^ This is your working directory - ~/ is short

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. snip lots of good reasons why debian is better than RH :) I'd like to add the GNU/Hurd project to the list of plusses.

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