these take of your harddisk. Removed the
attributes, defragged, set them again, et voila.
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Now I´m defeated ;-) I have tried this with and without automount,
mounting /cdrom before (which doesn´t help, since apt-get clearly
unmounts /cdrom first), not mounting it before. The manpages give me
no clue either. This is apt 0.3.0 for i386.
TIA for any hints,
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important information, and with the
exact steps on how to read this information with a standard Debian
installation.
This would also help in reducing the traffic on this and other lists,
IMO.
Colin
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* Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I use WXftp, a GTK app. Very nice, very stable. The WXftp web site address
is:
Pavuk is another GTK+ app (can also be used from the command line):
http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/
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you notice it--which can
take quite a long time sometimes :-)
Colin
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, on whatever Os this may
be.
Cheers,
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work well.
Very good. I just posted some ideas to debian-user. Just let´s
see^H^H^Hhear what the developers are saying about the idea as
such.
Cheers,
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newbie documentation you seem to have in
mind (judging from the TOC and index reference) is already written,
manyfold. We just need a jump-station to the best of them, put in a
prominent place (/etc/motd was my suggestion for a jump-station to
the jump-station).
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of the info will be out there in the
end result.
Fully agreed. What we still need is a pointer to the true Debian
FAQ's (add for Newbies mentally, Doug :-), clearly visible. We
need this to compensate for the Finding out more chapters of the
manuals the commercial distribution´s come with, IMO.
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http://www.debian.org/%7Ejoey/linx.html
Will keep an open eye.
Cheers,
Colin
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* Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane
In fact, your line length should be even smaller than that to allow
for quoting. RFC 1036 (I think) says 72 columns.
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distribution in slink has such
references, e.g. /usr/doc/texmf/latex/general/guide.ps.gz,
although that already is for 2e.
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much in 5.50 (and will further in the next version).
Colin
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crash. W/o the map file, it´ll give you only a few addresses.
Look for System.map in kernel-source/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
for more information.
Cheers,
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-SysRq at that point. If you don´t know what that
means, read kernel-source/Documentation/sysrq.txt.gz, then try e.g.
Alt-SysRq-s (sync disks), Alt-SysRq-u (remount mounted filesystems
read-only), Alt-SysRq-b (reboot), in that order.
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,
Codpkg-newbielin
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|ters are even worse for 4-, 2-, and 1-bit palette images.
There are rumours that there is also gif2ps, but I don´t know where,
and whether it preserves compression.
HTH,
Colin
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mentioned there
translate to that here.
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is going to learn
a scripting language [*suggest, suggest*]. I always wanted to give
Python a try, so I might actually do it, but when :-(
Cheers,
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would be to return the RAM you have and get
Huh? This is almost certainly the SPD (Serial Presence Detect)
EEPROM. And why should the RAM have a clock chip anyway?
But sorry, don´t know about other possibilities that can cause the
original poster´s problem.
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-a (plus -vvv when I
want to check something out), and right after correctly receiving a
message from the server, it flushes it (this is version 4.6.4). So,
in case of interruption, only the last mail should be duplicated, if
at all.
Colin
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. :-)
HTH,
Colin
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* Martin Uecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 06:45:10PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
* Frankie Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sometimes fetchmail is interrupted when it is fetching mail from my
pop account. The result of this is that I have duplicate emails
* Pedro Bastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
asmem_x.c:18: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory
[...]
~# dpkg -l | grep xpm
ii xpm4g 3.4k-1 X Pixmap run-time libraries
Yeah, *run-time*!
ashwork:~$ dpkg -S xpm.h
xpm4g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h
HTH,
Colin
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/driver/MODULES. The bttv/driver/MAKEDEV script creates the
| special files for the driver.
Note that you need the MAKEDEV from bttv, not the one in /dev.
HTH,
Colin
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graphics
bundle).
Depending on your needs (tables etc.), you could also try the rotating
package.
HTH,
Colin
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://www.picante.com/%7Egtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
HTH,
Colin
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worth trying: I don´t know whether the big hardware support
database at www.suse.de is also available in english---if not, I could
look it up for you.
Cheers,
Colin
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in a special (La)TeX forum, e.g. the comp.text.tex
newsgroup.
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).
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, has non-free drivers and is
probably what you meant.
Colin
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of
| the numpad.
how to start staroffice 5.0 after a crash of it, without booting. I wasn't
able
as yet.
Hmm. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? If *that* doesn´t help, read
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.x/Documentation/sysrq.txt
(you need to have a 2.2.x kernel).
HTH,
Colin
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was of course put in /usr/bin/perl. So how can I write a
Perl script that be executed on a variety of systems (Unix/Linux/DOS)??
Basically form the camel book:
eval '(exit $?0)' eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+$@}' eval 'exec perl -S $0 $
argv:q'
if 0;
HTH,
Colin
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: /usr/bin/aumix
netpbm: /usr/bin/ppmmix
mctools-lite: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmixer
(the binary from the netpbm pakckage is probably not a mixer)
HTH,
Colin
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* Lance Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone know how to quickly add .php3 extension to the C++ mode in
Xemacs?
Try the following in your .emacs:
(append '(
(\\.php3$ . c++-mode)
)
auto-mode-alist)
HTH,
Colin
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version when asking for
help. :-)
Cheers,
Colin
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.
| In order to help ghostscript figure out which fonts are available
| the --gslist option was added to xfstt. Usage example
| xfstt --gslist --sync fontmap
Cheers,
Colin
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* Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
logs appear in log.info and mail.log. how do i stop that?
/etc/syslog.conf ?
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, at least less often than *LaTeX*. :-)
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as in the global texmf tree.
For further information, read
/usr/doc/texmf/help/tds.dvi.gz
about the TeX Directory Structure.
(Also at ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/tds/draft-standard or, at
your side of the Atlantic, www.tug.org)
Cheers,
Colin
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the same (or similar) functionality as
Solaris?
info getc works fine for me.
When you are coding in (X)Emacs, another nice thing is word-help.el
or func-doc.el.
Cheers,
Colin
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/user/76201/gpart/
HTH,
Colin
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segfaults. Afterwards, if i try to mount another floppy it
Have you tried the mtools? These allow you to access the drive with the
DOS commands (with a prefix-m). Thjey don´t use mount internally, so
just try mdir.
HTH,
Colin
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usepeerdns in /usr/doc/ppp/README.gz and take a look
at /usr/doc/ppp/examples/scripts/ip-up.local.add
Cheers,
Colin
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'
| if 0;
|
| # The above lines allows us to find perl along $PATH rather than
| # guessing a fixed location. The above construction should work
| # with most shells.
Should also work with awk after a little tweaking.
Cheers,
Colin
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* Frank Petzold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How should I configure apt-get to use
1) my 2 CD binary distribution
2) ftp.debian.org
See apt-cdrom. It´s easy.
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the most used)
ezmlm-src (+xezmlm)
berolist
smartlist
(slink)
HTH,
Colin
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settings as may be with make config.
If you set up lilo to be able to choose the old kernel, nothing should
go wrong (but I have never set up APM myself, so who knows :-).
Cheers,
Colin
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font
whose actual font file (in PS Type 1 format) is n021003l.pfb.
HTH,
Colin
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, please. If you don't wish to
Yeah, but is this ever claimed?
Colin
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packages.
There is also an unarj package which you might try as well.
Cheers,
(also) Colin
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will be silently ignored.
Maybe that is it?
Cheers,
Colin
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a 'less' instead of 'cat'.
less also can show .gz files and the like: in my /etc/profile, I have
LESSCHARSET=latin1
export LESSCHARSET
LESS=-M
export LESS
LESSOPEN=|lesspipe %s
export LESSOPEN
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installation also yields this call...)
Cheers,
Colin
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bookmarked:
http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/linuxfaq
http://www.on.openprojects.net/glx/
HTH,
Colin
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a mechanical problem? Is the movement that
steady? I have seen something like that with an old mouse of mine...
Maybe this when pressing a button is pure coincidence?
play quake with this mouse.
The CTRL key shoots the faster anyway :-)
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stuff. If anyone
knows, it should be the folks at http://www.ufaq.org (the Netscape
Unofficial FAQ). I haven´t checked, as wget or pavuk are much nicer.
Cheers,
Colin
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,
Colin
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hardly familiar with either sgml or
This is a genuine TeX problem.
Cheers,
Colin
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my last msg sent as HTML... Kristopher
Johnson wrote:
2) Use the winipcfg command on Win98 (or ipconfig /all on NT) to
figure out what IP, DNS, etc. was given by DHCP.
That´s it.
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imagine. CTAN is
http://www.tug.org, http://www.dante.de and ... oh, I always forget
the name of the one in the UK. Just use the search function there and
look for recipe.
HTH,
Colin
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* Sven Esbjerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:54:39AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote:
In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at bootime.
Where in debian can I put these.
The correct place for bootscripts in Debian is /etc/rcS.d . Normally you would
put
* aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
livingston portmaster kicks some serious ass .. ascend max 4000 isnt so
bad either. i use both.
Weren´t there reports with Ascend not supporting vj and BSD
compression and users having problems with that? ...
Co not an expert lin
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* David J Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message:
slrn fatal error:
slrn: pid 1549 is locking the newsrc file.
For this reason, I guess, nothing shows up in the spooled slrn window. What
can I do to fix this?
What process
* David G Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another possible reason:
Slink is too old! (As far as I know, it doesn't support my video card well
or at all - it's a TNT2)
For such reasons, Corel has a current XFree86, AFAIK.
* Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care
about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable
to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux?
LAME is said to be the best-quality free encoder.
* Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /dev/console - tty0
Then there is a bug in Eterm. Or you are trying to let multiple
programs catch the output of /dev/console - TIOCCONS (the mechanism
that provides console output cloning to ptys)
* Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm looking for a way to create rather nice-looking network topology
maps. I figure a solution will involve an easy-to-use object-oriented
drawing program with a library of network objects (routers, switches,
links, clouds, etc.) that is also
* Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood
Yes. You can use pdf(la)tex which produces PDF directly
(http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/), and dvipdfm, which uses
the normal DVI output
* Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was recently trying to render a pdf from docbook, but the farthest I got
was TeX. Upon calling jadetex on jade's output, metafont dumped a bunch of
complaints about missing files.
Well, I cannot answer your question exactly, but to get
* Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes:
If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can
display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1
fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman,
Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf
Hi,
* Ron Hale-Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've discovered that the Slink pdflatex doesn't do everything I'd like it
What are the features you are missing?
I have all the Blue Sky fonts, and pdflatex uses them, but LaTeX still uses
the ugly Type 3 CM fonts. Everything I have read about
=0x40 addr 10.0.60.1]
IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 No network protocols running]
rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x41 addr 10.0.60.1]
rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3]
Connection terminated.
Connect time 0.6 minutes.
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the
suggested fix above.
Uses Type 3 fonts, as can be seen in File| Document Info| Fonts.
Did dvips tell about some .pfb or .pfa fonts? Can you send it's
output (just the first few lines)?
Try maybe a mktexlsr (both as root *as well* as user).
Colin
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* Ron Hale-Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote:
* Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes:
If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can
display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1
fonts. Since
* Jesse Jacobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ah, yes. I've been using ae with pdflatex. I don't remember if that
was a part of Slink's teTeX either. Pdflatex makes a pdf directly
Yes, in tetex-extra.
Images also must be included a bit
differently.
Not at all! :-)
* Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
description about the purpose of each mailing list and the issues that are
discussed on it?
www.debian.org has a one-line despcription in the Mailing-List
section.
* Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is a
href=http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/; GOGO /a,
that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times
faster than LAME at the same quality.
Why does it say I should combine
* Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are
not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two
words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or
two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high.
* Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 09:06:02AM +, Paul Keenan wrote:
Jason Winters wrote:
does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to
run them nothing happens?
Could you be any more vague ?
i could!
Why does it not work?
Better
* Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[gogo]
You use the -b switch to specify the minimum bitrate, or the VBR code
might get too agressive during easy portions of the WAV file.
Where did you find that info?
I use -v -b 112 as suggested in the docs, works well here.
Hmm, the docs.
* Paolo Pedaletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The internet server I'm setting up for a school needs
a filter for porn, ads en maybe some custom sites.
I'm useing squid at the moment...
I use at home junkfilter with wwwoffle.
Do you mean junkbuster? That certainly can do the job.
And wwwoffle
* Christopher Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm shopping for a computer for my work, and I need to know what support
is available for re-writable CD-ROMs is. Can someone clue me in on that?
Check out the CD Writing and CD-ROM HOWTOs. Re-writable CD-ROMS
These URLs should help:
* aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i want to know what people reccomend for an e commerce package for
linux(free or not) something thats stable, secure, and runs on debian 2.1
:)
Freshmeat has this to say:
--- - --- -- - --- -- - - - -- -
subject: MiniVend 4.0 alpha3
added
Sounds good, but it won't install. Seems that debhelper has to be
upgraded as well and 'that' seems to require the perl upgrade.
Depbelper fails with
DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ }
[...]
I had this problem as well, but the answer I got from the -devel-List
Hi,
* Jens Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed,
because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the
potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command
(it might have been
* Jens Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package building
process did not work. I could have installed the programs by hand, but I
would have to bypass the package control system and would get problems when
the real packages eventually
* Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*- On 6 Jan, Shao Zhang wrote about Re: modem RX rate is considerable
slower than RX rate
What does not make sense is that, the TX rate is so much slower
than RX rate.
I have the same problems. Try playing around with your mtu and mru
settings.
* Francois Deppierraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, the last field should be one only for the root partition. Any
other partitions you want fscked on boot should have a 2 there instead.
Partitions that should never be fscked should have a 0.
Why does the
Hi,
I finally have gotten myself a domain name, and now I'm using it in
/etc/hosts and everywhere (my machine is called ashwork).
I have two users here on this machine whose mail adresses are
{colin|[EMAIL PROTECTED] I also have two other users who are
*not* on this machine but have the same
Hi,
with Stefan's permission I'm forwarding this mail from
debian-devel. Please be gentle and include useful information in
case you want to send a report to him.
---BeginMessage---
Jules Bean wrote:
That's right. IIRC, doogie said that actually it was some complex
interaction with some code
* Vincent Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
there's a file that comes with emacs called viperCard.tex (in
/usr/share/emacs/../etc/). it's a reference card for emacs viper-mode.
i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it on my
wall. i can get hard copy (and stick it
* Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which package do text conversion utilities come with? I'm looking for
dos2unix primarily.
For me:
ashwork: ~ $ alias dos2unix
alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc:lat1'
ashwork: ~ $ dpkg -S recode
[...]
recode: /usr/bin/recode
[...]
HTH,
Colin
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* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[pid 17274] read(9, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 64) = 64
[pid 17274] write(17, 335\r\n, 5) = 5
[pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left
{299, 98})
[pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 627961}, NULL) = 0
[pid
* Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like my modem connection to hang up
as soon as I get an incomming phonecall.
Hmm. Do you maybe have knocking on the line enabled? (Sorry, don't
know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone
tries to call you if you already have
* Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Colin Marquardt said:
Hmm. Do you maybe have knocking on the line enabled? (Sorry, don't
know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone
tries to call you if you already have a connection.) That might
disturb it.
You mean
* J Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
README.Debian file for sgml-tools says that version 1 is orphaned
upstream. I take that to mean that I might not get help from the
upstream authors.
Not sure, but I think that even the sgmltools2 is orphaned by now.
Indeed. Because of lack of a
* David J Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess. I think I have the alsa driver installed as well. Only problem thus
far is kmod won't load the module; I've got to insmod au8830.o myself.
You just have to add it to /etc/modules. Options go to
/etc/modutils/modconf.
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