Re: X in startup

2001-01-03 Thread matthschulz
I usually rename just the (in my case kdm) /etc/init.d/xdm into /etc/init.d/xdm.bak. It mkes a lot easier to bring everything back into the old status. /etc/init.d/xdm stopwill shutdown xdm without rebooting. Matth On Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2001 11:40, David Turner wrote: nope

Re: how? - downloaded debs on one PC as preferred apt source on another?

2000-12-27 Thread matthschulz
I did it already. I just nfs-mounted the /var/cache/apt/archive into the filesystem on the modemless machine. There is for sure a better possibility. Matth Am Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2000 05:15 schrieb Martin Waller: Hello, I have a small network masqueraded (which is so easy to do with

Re: Weird message header?

2000-12-27 Thread matthschulz
Take a look at http://www.spamcop.net Matth Am Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2000 16:09 schrieb Peczoli Zoltan: Hi, Some of my system users periodically receive an Win95.Hybris.Gen.dr infected EXE file. I tried to trace down the sender, but unfortunately i'm pretty lame interpreting the mail

Re: Two serial ports on a Linux laptop?

2000-12-25 Thread matthschulz
Are there laptops with two serial ports in this world? Matth Am Montag, 25. Dezember 2000 13:08 schrieb John Conover: Anyone done two serial ports on a Linux laptop? How did you do it? Thanks, John

Re: still no luck with ethernet between 2 computers

2000-12-25 Thread matthschulz
Am Montag, 25. Dezember 2000 14:21 schrieben Sie: Matthias Schulz wrote: But eth seems not to be able to resolve that matthschulzg is 192.168.0.1. Yes it is in /etc/hosts though just as 192.168.0.1 matthschulzg. Is this correct? take out the period if it is in /etc/hosts.

Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-19 Thread matthschulz
I use efax since about a year and I'm happy with that. Matth On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote: dear deb-users, I have a stand allone debian box with a fax modem. I want to send faxes from my box (but I don't really have to recieve them). Q What software, from the debian

Re: Onboard soundcards

2000-11-19 Thread matthschulz
Or install the OSS and look for the entrys in the config-file. Matth On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Christoph Simon wrote: On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:47:47 +1100 Bek Oberin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just got a new motherboard which seems to have an onboard sound card. I don't have the motherboard

SOMETHING FOUL???????

2000-11-14 Thread matthschulz
Every mail from: H.C.Hsiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] contains an attachment Navidad.exe??? Should we think about it? I blocked at least this address at my mailprovider. Matth

Re: AC-97 audio and MC-97 modem?

2000-11-13 Thread matthschulz
External modem is always better just because You have something to look on and it is compatible with just everything. AC-97 audio I'm just fighting by myself, even the OSS did not work as expected. But since I'm traveling I dont do anything till Friday. matth On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Thomas J.

Debian potato / KDE2 - deb's

2000-11-11 Thread matthschulz
After doing an apt-get dist-upgrade (with stopped kdm) today I'm not longer able to work with KDE2. kdm starts and gives me the blue backgound only. Sometimes - I could not figure out yet under what conditions - it gives me the kdm-login window but without icons and it wont take any keyboardinput.

AC97 Sound on Soyo K7VTA

2000-11-07 Thread matthschulz
I just got an Soyo K7VTA. There is an OnBoard sound made with Sigmatel STAC9721T AC 97 CODEC. Has anyone a tip how to set this up? Matth

new system to buy

2000-10-19 Thread matthschulz
Hi all, after many months fighting with myself and then with my better half I'm finally ready to build a new system. It is intended to run Debian and KDE2, maybe also OS/2 4. I did some research and i have the following in mind now: motherboard SOYO K7VTA Mem 128MB Corsair

Re: laptop booting potato

2000-05-18 Thread matthschulz
Just copying isn't enough, AFAIK, You have to tell the bootloader where the kernel physically is. I dont remember how to do without lilo - with lilo is clear - rerun lilo. Matth On Wed, 17 May 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote: debs, i'm just upgrading my slink lapbox to potato (on the 2.0.36

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-18 Thread matthschulz
Last thing i heard is APC distributes a binary for linux. Matth On Thu, 18 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread matthschulz
How far are the machines apart? If not to far, what about a dedicated connection between them? Matth On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: I highly recommend you check out the Ecra VXA-1. Check out www.ecrix.com. I've got one on order right now. It's also Linux certified (I forget

Re: X Starting automaticlly

2000-05-15 Thread matthschulz
I would recommend to use switchdm (certainly as root) Matth On Mon, 15 May 2000, Kent West wrote: Jay Kelly wrote: Hello Guys, How do I stop X Windows from startign automaticlly aafter rebooting? Should I use a boot disk to get to a promt? Any help would be great. Thanks Jay If

Re: xdm to kdm

2000-05-10 Thread matthschulz
With kdm comes a script called switchdm Run this as root it is self explaining. Matth On Wed, 10 May 2000, Pedro Quaresma wrote: Hi How dows one do to change from xdm to kdm? I have changed to kdm (not in a very proper way) in my home machine, not I do not know how to configure the

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread matthschulz
On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from hda. Is

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread matthschulz
On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2000, matthschulz wrote: What does lilo say when You run it? Nothing unusual: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~lilo -v LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Boot

Re: PCI Modem

2000-04-27 Thread matthschulz
WINmodem ? Matth On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Roso Giuseppe (Beppe) wrote: One of my friends have a Wisecom intenal (PCI) Modem. Someone can explain me which module I must include in kernel to use this modem? From last compilation I found out in /proc/pci a line like communication card

just one line output

2000-04-07 Thread matthschulz
Hi all, is there a way cat to tell it should just print the first or maybe a particular line(s) of the input? I was a little bit looking, but man cat says nothing. Though maybe I'm on the wrong track and something else is better for that purpose. But I have absolutely no idea, where to look.

Re: EPSON LQ100 Printer

2000-04-06 Thread matthschulz
Hardware handshaking problems ? Just a guess Matth On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, maths wrote: hello everybody i have only a aged printer, its a Epson Lq 100 (esc/p2).when i use it to print ps files, it often make little mistakes.for example:

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-04-04 Thread matthschulz
Extracted from the header of Earls mail: .. .. From: Earl Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 .. .. So the signature wont be helpful to him. Earl, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject unsubscribe and empty body. Matth

libc6-dev and libstdc++2.9-dev

2000-03-28 Thread matthschulz
When I try to install g++ with dselect then I get following dependancy problems: libc6-dev conflicts with libstdc++2.9-dev libstdc++2.9-dev depends on libc6-dev What am I missing here? Matth

libxpm4, libz1 - not found

2000-02-03 Thread matthschulz
Hi all, I tried to upgrade grace 5.01 by grace_5.0.5-1.2.deb. It says it depends on ...,libxpm4, libz1,... I couldnt. find those packages at debian.org packetsearch? Any ideas? Matth

Fwd: libxpm4, libz1 - not found

2000-02-03 Thread matthschulz
, 3 Feb 2000 13:46:27 -0500 From: matthschulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I tried to upgrade grace 5.01 by grace_5.0.5-1.2.deb. It says it depends on ...,libxpm4, libz1,... I couldnt. find those packages at debian.org packetsearch? Any ideas? Matth

IO-redirection seems to be not working

2000-01-14 Thread matthschulz
I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0

setserial, stty not working

2000-01-13 Thread matthschulz
I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0

Re: umount

1999-11-16 Thread matthschulz
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Dave == Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one Dave of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero Dave activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence

Re: New release over due

1999-11-15 Thread matthschulz
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote: I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown extremely out date. However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me to drop

Re:X screen resolutions.

1999-11-12 Thread matthschulz
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:50:34PM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows, but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone

PERL-Terminal

1999-11-12 Thread matthschulz
Hi, all I'm trying to do a terminal-like application in perl5. There is a serial-coupled box, which i try to handle. I used minicom, works fine, but i have to set some filters and controls for in- and output. So i tried following: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use English; my ($kidpid, $lines, $liner,

Handheld-Organizer connected

1999-03-31 Thread matthschulz
I'm looking for a recommendation for an Handheld-Organizer like SHARP Wizard OZ-650 or YO-470. Does someone know about the support in LINUX or can recommend a supported Organizer ? Matth

PPP-Dialup: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not permitted

1999-03-05 Thread matthschulz
I'm trying to use my working (as root) ISP-Dialupconnection as an normal user. I got following in ppp.log: Mar 4 19:55:29 Toshiba pppd[336]: pppd 2.2.0 started by matthschulz, uid 1000 Mar 4 19:55:30 Toshiba chat[337]: timeout set to 20 seconds Mar 4 19:55:30 Toshiba chat[337]: abort

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread matthschulz
Kevin Traas schrieb: Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue. To vote go to: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/toppersonmain.html

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-23 Thread matthschulz
on 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. I had to compile a zImage kernel to. Until i did this, it worked when i turned OFF the CACHE in the BIOS-Setup. Very slow, but better than nothing. Matth

minicom was: Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-19 Thread matthschulz
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven schrieb: When Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote, I replied: Try the command man minicom to learn about the minicom program for manipulating your modem. I don't have personal experience with it, (when I need to do these things, I write a perl script or something