Converting .mp3 to .cdr

2001-01-04 Thread Douglas Bates
I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 track1.cdr but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb does not accept the option --cdr, as far as I can tell. I would

Re: Converting .mp3 to .cdr

2001-01-04 Thread Douglas Bates
Brad Keryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4 Jan 2001, Douglas Bates wrote: I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 track1.cdr but the version of mpg123

Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-03 Thread Douglas Bates
Stephenson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat

ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-02 Thread Douglas Bates
I am using Debian Linux 2.2 (potato). I also have access to systems running 2.3 (woody) if that would help. I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows

Serving Zope pages from a secure port

2000-08-24 Thread Douglas Bates
configuration that looked promising.) Please cc: me on any replies. I'm too far behind on too many e-mail lists and would likely miss a reply to the list only. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin

Re: python startup files

2000-01-05 Thread Douglas Bates
) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam dir() ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'readline', 'rlcompleter', 'sys'] ^D I think I have the answers now for my questions. Thanks for the help. Douglas Bates wrote: According to some python

python startup files

2000-01-04 Thread Douglas Bates
According to some python documentation I have read I should put commands that I want executed in every interactive python session into the file `~/.pythonrc.py'. I have done that but these commands do not seem to be executed when I start python on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 system with ||/ Name

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-03 Thread Douglas Bates
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports I've got a Presario 1236 laptop running Potato very nicely with the 2.2.5 kernel (well, all except the sound, I've only got it

X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-01 Thread Douglas Bates
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Yamaha 6388 VPDC (Port Probed) RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit

Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Douglas Bates
[Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't usually have the time to keep up with this list.] Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system on a hard disk partition? Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I repartitioned

Interface to Olympus D-400Zoom

1999-01-13 Thread Douglas Bates
I would like to access images stored on an Olympus D400Z digital camera. It uses 4/8/16 Mb SmartMedia Cards (in its format) and has a serial cable interface. It also has a Flashpath floppy disk adapter for the SmartMedia Cards. This allows you to stick the SmartMedia card in the adapter which

Installing Sybase server from RH ftp site

1998-10-02 Thread Douglas Bates
/LICENSE.update. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/

Choice of database

1998-09-16 Thread Douglas Bates
the interface that I should expect the office staff to use? That is, is it a client that can allow access to an ODBC server? Please reply with a copy to me. I don't regularly read debian-user (too much traffic). -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department

ldconfig warnings

1998-06-19 Thread Douglas Bates
When installing packages that include libraries I often get warnings from ldconfig about no such file. These look like dangling symlinks to some shared object files that have been removed. Is it safe to kill those symlinks? 519# dpkg -i apt_0.0.16-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 50512 files

Re: apache_1.1.3-6 preinstall script giving errors

1998-06-17 Thread Douglas Bates
LeRoy D. Cressy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates wrote: I was having trouble installing apache_1.1.3-6 on a bo machine that had an earlier apache (1.0.x) installed. I kept getting an error in the pre-installation script. I thought it was because of the previous version so I

alias expansion using smail under Debian

1998-06-09 Thread Douglas Bates
I am using smail as the Mail Transport Agent on my Debian GNU/Linux systems. I would like to define an alias that expands to the contents of a file owned by a user. On some sendmail-based systems I would include an alias in /etc/aliases like foo: :include:/home/bar/foo.list to do this. This

netscape4 and long keys

1998-05-22 Thread Douglas Bates
Is it possible to get a copy of netscape4.05 with hard encryption (128 bit keys) for Linux 2.0? I would like to install this if possible. I am in the U.S. and qualify to obtain such a version if it is available. I seem to a recall discussion of methods of modifying the 48 bit version to create

Overriding fvwm95 buttons in the post.hook?

1998-05-22 Thread Douglas Bates
I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons in /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than xclock for one of the buttons. (rclock can be

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like the segment's from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like

Re: tetex question

1998-03-16 Thread Douglas Bates
in an optional argument to the \chapter command. In my case it looks like \chapter[Structure of Grouped Data]{Describing the Structure of Grouped Data} -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison

modconf needs whiptail under hamm

1998-02-16 Thread Douglas Bates
I should have followed the discussion on the modconf package under the unstable or hamm distribution more closely but I didn't. In trying to install the modconf_0.2.16 package I get a message that it requires whiptail but whiptail is not available. This has been the case for over a week and I

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Douglas Bates
Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using only the ssh version: ... 2. Using ssh not su === % ssh -l root localhost type root password # xterm That latter version can be shortened to % ssh -f -l

NY Times article on Netscape and free software in general

1998-02-02 Thread Douglas Bates
Perhaps I missed any discussion of this article because I was off the list for a few days while travelling but today's (Mon, Feb 2) New York Times Digital Commerce column by Denise Caruso discusses Netscape's decision to make the source code for version 5.0 of their browser freely available. I'm

dbm files for aliases in smail [was Re: qmail vs smail]

1998-01-27 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-26 Thread Douglas Bates
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot

qmail vs smail

1998-01-26 Thread Douglas Bates
I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when newaliases is run.

superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Douglas Bates
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when there is a lot of memory available. bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 Formatting cylinder

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Douglas Bates
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when

ssh and kerberos

1998-01-13 Thread Douglas Bates
The manual entries for ssh and sshd contain information about settings for Kerberos authentication but I have been unable to decide how to set up kerberos authentication with ssh. I do have a local kerberos realm and authentication server. Do I also need to have kerberos clients compiled and

[off-topic] CVS advice?

1998-01-11 Thread Douglas Bates
Is there a way of setting checkout or checkin triggers with CVS? I want to do something like having a postinst script in a Debian package. Specifically, after checking out files in a given directory I want to check for the existence of another directory, remove any symbolic links from the

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-10 Thread Douglas Bates
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode, ^^^ Not true. The new Diamond Stealth II S220

Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Douglas Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the line /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab I tried changing msdos to auto, but no dice. Is there a change so that it can automount

Diamond Stealth II S220

1998-01-08 Thread Douglas Bates
I ordered a computer with a Diamond Stealth PCI video card. When it arrived I found that the card was the Diamond Stealth II S220 which, of course, has absolutely nothing in common with previous Diamond Stealth cards. (I hate it when hardware manufacturers use the same name for fundamentally

a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Douglas Bates
This may be a leading candidate in the dumbest question ever asked on debian-user contest but does anyone know of a program in some package that provides a count-down timer? That is, I want to set a time of 5 minutes and start the timer then have it pop up a window or ring the bell or do

More that 64 Mb memory

1997-12-29 Thread Douglas Bates
recognize the full available memory? Also, this is a dual-processor system. If I look at /proc/cpuinfo it seems to be reporting only one processor. Could someone please remind me how to check if both processors are being used? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED

smc-ultra module from drivers disk

1997-12-24 Thread Douglas Bates
I am bringing up a new machine with an SMC Ultra ethernet card. After reading the rescue and drivers disks I ask for the Net modules and install the SMC-Ultra module. I receive some curious error messages after loading device 'eth0'... smc-ultra.c:v2.00 6/6/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL

Diamond Stealth II S220 card

1997-12-24 Thread Douglas Bates
drivers. The www.xfree86.org web site does not seem to have any information on this card. Does anyone have suggestions of where I can look for information on this? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University

/afs timeouts from /etc/cron.daily

1997-12-09 Thread Douglas Bates
I recently installed the AFS file system on a Debian Linux machine running the unstable distribution. Every time the scripts in /etc/cron.daily are run now I get a series of error messages about connections timing out for /afs domains. The messages look like find: /afs/bcc.ac.uk: Connection

OS tests: Linux proves to be one of the most stable

1997-10-13 Thread Douglas Bates
as a separate entry. I think that means that he is testing the GNU utilities compiled on systems other than GNU/Linux. His web page http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/ may contain more information on the study. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics

Re: Gcc prints NAN for floats that are not NANs

1997-10-09 Thread Douglas Bates
. There is no /usr/include/i386/fpu_control.h -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: formatted floppy type??

1997-09-25 Thread Douglas Bates
. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: formatted floppy type??

1997-09-25 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lawrence Lucier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy Will...thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b= ase install disks that don't respond to either: I should have read what you actually wrote and not what I thought you wrote

Re: floppy

1997-09-14 Thread Douglas Bates
-t option in the mount command. $ type fdmount fdmount is /usr/bin/fdmount $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/fdmount fdutils: /usr/bin/fdmount -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp

boa under hamm is catching SIGBUS

1997-09-07 Thread Douglas Bates
:03:50:32] GET /pub/R/doc HTTP/1.0 302 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/spare3/bates $ tail -2 /var/adm/boa/error_log [05/Sep/1997:14:06:18] request from 206.10.88.120 GET /pub/Sbook/VR2compl.pdf HTTP/1.0: write: Broken pipe [06/Sep/1997:03:50:32] caught SIGBUS, dumping core $ -- Douglas Bates

Printing html Debian documentation?

1997-08-29 Thread Douglas Bates
I would welcome suggestions for printing fairly large collections of html files. My immediate application is to try to make some reasonably attractive printed copies of the contents of /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ so I can read the collection conveniently some evening. (No, I don't regard

xemacs-19.15 on a hamm system

1997-08-15 Thread Douglas Bates
I am running the unstable (hamm) distribution of Debian. According to dselect my libraries etc. are up-to-date with those available in the distributions hamm, hamm/contrib, and hamm/non-free on ftp.debian.org. At some point in the last few weeks, xemacs-19.15 started segfaulting and dumping core

ncurses3.4 deb file

1997-07-22 Thread Douglas Bates
I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not available. The most important such package for me is gdb. Hamish Moffatt wrote to me earlier that ncurses3.4 was available in the Incoming section on

Re: ncurses3.4 deb file

1997-07-22 Thread Douglas Bates
. Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not available. The most important such package for me is gdb. Can anyone suggest an alternative location? I would really

Re: installing/upgrading to hamm

1997-07-18 Thread Douglas Bates
welcome. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Year 2000 and samba...

1997-07-18 Thread Douglas Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baetzler) writes: James C. Carr wrote: : As far as I've been told, though I haven't actually tried it, :the Linux kernel functions up to the year 2037. How that works, I'm :not entirely sure... The Unix timestamp is represented as time_t, which is usually a

Re: modem speed

1997-06-11 Thread Douglas Bates
If you use xisp to connect to your ISP, the modem connect speed is displayed in a field of the xisp window. There is a Debian package for xisp in contrib/net. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes: Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has connected to the ISP?

xlib6 and xemacs19

1997-06-10 Thread Douglas Bates
I just installed several parts of the new XFree86 3.3 packages including xlib6. xemacs will no longer start up. The versions of packages are ii xemacs1919.15-3XEmacs 19.15 editor and kitchen sink ii xemacs19-suppor 19.15-3Support files for XEmacs 19.15. ii

libc5 version 5.4.23-6

1997-06-06 Thread Douglas Bates
The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr ii libc5-altdev5.4.23-4 The Linux C library version 5 (alternative d ii libc6 2.0.3-4The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dev 2.0.3-4The GNU C library version 2 (development fil -- Douglas Bates

libc6 version 2.0.3-4 and ecvt

1997-05-30 Thread Douglas Bates
is 11234.567, decpt is 4, sign is 0 result is 9987.6543, decpt is 3, sign is 1 result is 00.00, decpt is 1, sign is 0 -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp

Yet another PPP question

1997-05-25 Thread Douglas Bates
I have been using Debian 1.3 with a 2.1.35 kernel at home. I usually connect to my ISP using xisp but I also have pppd configured. Recently I upgraded to libc6. I'm not sure that I got all the needed pieces in place. One side-effect of the upgrade is that both pppd and xisp now fail

netscape-beta: where should java40.jar be?

1997-05-23 Thread Douglas Bates
I have the netscape-beta package installed using communicator-v40b3-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz I thought I removed the netscape package before installing this but I may not have purged the netscape package. If I try to run a java applet I get the message that java40.jar is not on

ftp dselect for unstable/non-free

1997-05-09 Thread Douglas Bates
to /debian... Checking hamm/binary-i386... Warning: Couldn't find a Packages file in hamm/binary-i386 This may not be a problem if the directory is a symbolic link Closing ftp connection... press return to continue -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL

Re: /sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_llseek'

1997-05-02 Thread Douglas Bates
Norris Preyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates writes: Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms. ... /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' DUMP

/sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_llseek'

1997-05-01 Thread Douglas Bates
On Tuesday I installed several updated packages from bo. I noticed this morning that file system dumps have been failing since then. Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms. franz# /sbin/dump 0f /dev/null /spare1 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 1 17:13:35 1997

kerberos packages?

1997-04-24 Thread Douglas Bates
A couple of weeks ago I believe that there was some mention of Kerberos-4 and Kerberos-5 packages to appear on the non-US sites real soon now. Does anyone have an updated ETA for these? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

1997-04-23 Thread Douglas Bates
and this morning the driver for that got jammed to the point that we had to reboot. It appears that the 2.1.3x series of kernels are indeed development versions. I think I will stay with the 2.0.3x series for a while. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
Chow == Chow Chi-Ming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chow Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for Chow multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial Chow up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually Chow each time I have to switch). Chow Is

crc error in kernel after fresh install

1997-04-09 Thread Douglas Bates
I just finished a fresh install using disks from the bo directory on ftp.i-connect.com dated April 8. I believe I saw something on the screen about the base disks being created on April 4. As I recall the rescue disk identifies itself as being a Feb 12 vintage. I got through the installation

Re: xemacs and emacs

1997-04-08 Thread Douglas Bates
Jean == Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean I have both working fine on my system which is based on the Jean unstable branch. Didn't have to do anything special. Jean On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Can someone explain why the xemacs and emacs packages can't

Re: Future Domain controller

1997-04-08 Thread Douglas Bates
I == Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future I Domain ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. I The disks are some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some I DECstations. I The DOS device drivers

modules and modutils

1997-04-06 Thread Douglas Bates
I am also caught in the Catch 22 of trying to upgrade to modutils. As I recall the sequence was that I installed a new system with the dummy version of modules (2.1.x) in unstable but there was no companion modutils package at the time and I could not manipulate modules. I then backed out to the

Future Domain controller

1997-04-04 Thread Douglas Bates
I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future Domain ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. The disks as some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some DECstations. The DOS device drivers distributed with the controller will recognize and access these drives.

wish4.2 - the disappearing file

1997-03-25 Thread Douglas Bates
that there is no help available for that variable. Does make config have difficulty with the hex type of variable? Suggestions welcomed. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison

Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

1997-03-23 Thread Douglas Bates
does not share this problem. It is less friendly than cfdisk but at least it works. Hope this helps. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison

Debugging cvspserver

1997-03-23 Thread Douglas Bates
I am using cvs with the file repository on the machine in my office. I would like to be able to manipulate these files from the machine at home. Both are running Debian Linux and both have the cvs package installed. The machine at home will communicate via a PPP connection and will have a

IDE Zip drive

1997-03-22 Thread Douglas Bates
Thanks to the suggestions from this list I do indeed have the IDE Zip drive working. The command mount -t msdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt is successful. Apparently I didn't try all the possible combinations previously. The web pages at http://www.torque.net/zip.html are very helpful.

IDE Zip drive

1997-03-21 Thread Douglas Bates
that? Any suggestions appreciated. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison

Emacs-based mail programs with IMAP

1997-03-21 Thread Douglas Bates
I am now happily running Debian Linux systems both at the office and at home. When reading mail at the office I use VM within GNU emacs. To read from home I could run an emacs on the office system displaying on the X-server at home and start up VM but that is a lot of overhead just to read a

gdb and dynamically loaded code

1996-12-03 Thread Douglas Bates
I have version 4.16-2 of the gdb package installed. When I start gdb I get the warnings warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers warning: and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. It would be very helpful to

ldso package and perl

1996-08-23 Thread Douglas Bates
When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of the transcript. ... Preparing to replace ldso (using .../base/ldso_1.8.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ldso ... Preparing to replace modules (using

lesstif and mp

1996-08-22 Thread Douglas Bates
against the lesstif libraries. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/

UncorrectableError from two disk sectors

1996-08-13 Thread Douglas Bates
`dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. For example hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1097170, sector=48787 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1097170,

Recommendations on mother boards?

1996-08-08 Thread Douglas Bates
pleasing. Are there similar things to look for when purchasing a motherboard today? Please e-mail me and I will summarize to the list. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp

XFree86 3.1.2[DE]

1996-08-02 Thread Douglas Bates
available Debian X11R6 packages are from XFree86 3.1.2 and to upgrade I will need first to install the 3.1.2D distribution from ftp.xfree86.org then to install the upgrade files for 3.1.2E. Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary upgrade. -- Douglas Bates

Re: XFree86 3.1.2[DE]

1996-08-02 Thread Douglas Bates
This is just to correct a typo on my earlier message. I wrote: Doug Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary Doug upgrade. That last sentence doesn't make sense unless I have suddenly acquired masochistic tendencies. I meant to write I would prefer to avoid an unnecessary

POP forwarding

1996-06-12 Thread Douglas Bates
I have friends visiting for a couple of weeks and I would like to help them access their e-mail while here. They are accustomed to using applications such as Eudora or Netscape under Windows to access a POP server. I can provide them with the opportunity to connect the Windows machine to a PPP

Australian mirrors

1996-05-07 Thread Douglas Bates
Most information on Debian mirrors lists three sites in Australia. For example, If you're looking for another Australian-specific Debian GNU/Linux mirror site then here is a list of all the official ones: ftp.tower.net.au /pub/linux/debian (Tower Networking P/L - Perth)

Re: xdm config after install

1996-05-06 Thread Douglas Bates
encountered while processing: xbase I can run an X server as root by using startx. I cannot run it as a regular user; presumably because of permission problems. I would welcome suggestions on what to reconfigure so the X server starts up at boot time. -- Douglas Bates Dept. of Statistics