SoundBlaster128

1999-10-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I've read the list archives on SB128 topics and tried both the OSS and Alsa modules. But whenever I try to do anything I get a No such device error like so: frontier:/dev# ls -al dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Oct 5 02:00 dsp - /dev/dsp0 frontier:/dev# cat ~/english.au ./dsp

Video Board Support?

1999-10-04 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, my new computer came with an ATI Rage Fury 128 AGPx2 (32MB). I'm not sure which X-server to use for htis, does anyone know, or know whether it is supported by xfree/accelx/metrox etc at all? Thanks, Tim

Databases

1999-09-08 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, ive been trying out MySQL and PostgreSQL on debian too see which I will use for my database projects. Can anyone recommend: 1. Documentation / HOWTOs or whatever on how to set these up with web interfaces - expecially about how to do so as a database beginner and not compromise the

XDM startup?

1999-09-06 Thread Timothy Hospedales
How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Sep-99 Time: 11

Palm Pilot Software

1999-07-15 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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Xemacs

1999-07-11 Thread Timothy Hospedales
be nice). Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Jul-99 Time: 20:05:02 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --

Palm Pilots

1999-07-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Which palm pilotswill available linux software work well with? I was thinking of buying a palm IIIx and was wondering if there were any isses with it good or bad stories appreciated! Thanks! Timothy PS:Does anyone know if the later palms with infra red are compatable wit heach other across

Emacs psgml mode?

1999-06-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
How do I get Xemacs to colorize/facerize HTML tags in psgml mode? I did M-x sgml-mode, M-x set-variable, and set sgml-set-face to '1' as specified in the psgml doc files, but html files are still quite normal looking:(. Any idea? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy

Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!

1999-06-04 Thread Timothy Hospedales
;)). Anyway, if this sort of thing is possible could someone point me to a winblows program to use to examine what gets sent over a port? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:21:42 This message was sent

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
; apt-get install x11amp allways works for me! :) x11amp uses the least CPU time of any of the others ive tried, (All!), so its probably the best:) HTH. Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Jun-99 Time: 22:02:03 This message

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
! :). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:07:57 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --

RE: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux

1999-05-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
messages while using it... More than that, it looks like gtkicq is no longer in potato (why?), and I can't upgrade some of my gnome slink stuff to potato, because this would remove my gtkicq. Any comments? -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30

xemacs + nextawg?

1999-05-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
prettier? (Color at least?) The dull black-grey-white thing kind of spoils a pretty windomaker + gnome-themeified desktop! :) Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-May-99 Time: 13:06:49 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian

rvplayer working?

1999-04-30 Thread Timothy Hospedales
? - Unable to connect to server. :(. Errors of the first kind are accompanied by: audio: write error: 706 bytes errno: 0 type messages at the command prompt. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?! Thanks! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-24 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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File Processing: Please Advise

1999-04-23 Thread Timothy Hospedales
is there a good way to do this with BASH or should I bring Perl up to the top of my TO-LEARN list or what? Thanx! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 22:05:40 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --

Re: File Processing: Please Advise

1999-04-23 Thread Timothy Hospedales
stuff to $1 here... echo $1 #example --end cut Put this in a file, then chmod +x that file. Now, invoke this like so: $ find . -name '*.jpg' | xargs myscript.sh Carl -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 23:29:54

BASH programming

1999-04-12 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, Where can I find a bash programming HOWTO? Im trying to make some scripts to make my life easier but I cant seem to decipher the langage by looking at scripts on the system:(. thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

Program Stats glibc2.1

1999-04-09 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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w3mir and perl

1999-03-24 Thread Timothy Hospedales
: ii w3mir 1.0.5-1w3mir is an all purpose HTTP copying and mir ii perl5.004.04-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Thanks! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24-Mar-99 Time: 18:28:43 This message

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-22 Thread Timothy Hospedales
, see the info pages then I've learned _exactly_ what I need to know from the manpage. If there's no manpage there then I'll just be confused and wondering why there's no documentation. Later, Dale -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22

dia debian package

1999-02-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
broken on my system? The files seem to be saved allright, as if you uncompress them you can go and read the actual xml. I am running slink with afew things from potato on kernel 2.2.0 Thanks for any advice! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

RE: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)

1999-02-17 Thread Timothy Hospedales
, until I can figure out how to make this work in linux Thanks NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian/GNU Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Feb-99 Time: 22:58:55 This message was sent

Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
; but its nice to be prepared for the worst. ;). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05-Feb-99 Time: 00:47:27 This message was sent by XFMail --

GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Timothy Hospedales
the src? After installing lots of libs 1.1.25 nearly finishes but dies with lots of parse errors when it starts to compile perl stuff. If you've got it to work please tell me what relevant packages/versions you have! Thanks alot! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy

Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
devices $ cat hardware base: 0x378 irq:none dma:none modes: SPP $ cat irq none $ -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 13:12:28 This message was sent by XFMail --

Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?

1999-01-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 15:01:29 This message was sent by XFMail --

CDROM ISE-SCSI: Help please!

1999-01-17 Thread Timothy Hospedales
. :(. Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jan-99 Time: 21:07:49 This message was sent by XFMail --

Adding ftp users?

1999-01-14 Thread Timothy Hospedales
to /etc/passwd because /home/ftp is on its own partition...? I haven't seen much about this in the relevant manpages and wuftpd FAQ. adduser and addftpuser scripts don't seem to be much help either. Thanks for all advice! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL

X-CD-Roast

1999-01-12 Thread Timothy Hospedales
on here / how to fix it? Apparantly it can't work without this field filled in. I have 2.0.36 compiled with SCSI-ATAPI-emmulation, and everything detects fine on bootup as well as on the SCSI/IDE info section of X-CD-Roast. Thanks in advance! Timothy Hospedales

VCD player.....

1999-01-09 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I just got my first VCD! Does anyone know of a open/source/free VCD player for linux? All I could find was mpegtv which doesn't do audio unless you pay for it. :(. Thanx in advance! Timothy

WindowMaker/XFMail?

1998-05-17 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi all. I just used apt to get and install WindowMaker, (I was using icewm b4). Now that its installed, my xfmail refuses to do anything that involves opening a new window - Reading Mail, Composing mail etc. When I press compose or something, the main XFMAIL window goes into the background,

Possibly Off Topic: Fonts gone bananas in X.

1998-04-16 Thread Timothy Hospedales
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Re: Linux article in Sunworl

1998-01-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Incase any of ya'll care, in my inexperienced opinion. Debian is definitely the best distribution. :). I tried Slackware, which as mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then I tried

Mail not getting through....

1998-01-01 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I have to write all my messages from my old NT system, because for some reason whenever I send mail from my new Linux/X - Netscape, it doesn't seem to get through to the list. Everywhere else I send mail to is fine. Any ideas why its doing this? Thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Fine tuning X.

1998-01-01 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Can anyone tell me how to, (or just where to start looking in order to): 1. Turn up my mouse sensitivity so it moves faster. 2. Change the font used in xterms and x apps so it's bigger. 3. Make my mouse emmulate 3 buttons. Oh yeah... has anyone tried Linux Explorer succesfully, it claims it needs

Debian.

1997-12-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Does anyone have an idea of how long it will be until the next release of debian? Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Ensoniq Soundscape

1997-12-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Following the Sound HOWTO, I just built a kernel with soundscape support (2.0.32), and only the MIDI is working. :(. Does anyone else have a Soundscape, and if so how did you fix this? It says this on bootup: Sound initialization started Ensoniq SoundScape at 0x330 irq 9 dma 3 SoundScape

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape

1997-12-31 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Can I (and if so how), change the settings that it's using now, or do I have to rebuild the kernel each time I want to change them? Also - when you say disable the SB compatability under MSDOS, do you mean changing 'SBENABLE=true' to false in the soundscape.ini and then running the batch

Question.

1997-12-30 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost effectiveness of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short supply and so linux would probably be alot more expensive to

Debian on CD.

1997-12-29 Thread Timothy Hospedales
My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Bizarre problem.

1997-12-29 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own. Any attempt at contacting, using the IPs directly, or via a dyn.ml.org

XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh rate, and open look window manager? thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Timothy Hospedales
IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in the man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not, since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some file somewhere which has them listed in it, anyone happen to know

Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
wow! I can finally get online with my linux box!:). Thanx 2 everyone who gave me advice. I'm looking for a mail (perferably X based) program to receive/send email from my ISP's POP3 server. Can anyone recomend a good one for me? Oh yeah Can anyone point me to

Oh yeah!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I'm also looking for drivers for an APC UPS, and my Ensoniq Soundscape sound board. Thanx Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Mail!

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[no subject]

1997-12-27 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions for linux beyond 1.0.2, or because

PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Thanks to everyone who helped me before!... Now I have a somewhat more complicated looking problem. :(. I'm trying to dial into my ISP using PPP. (At this point I haven't done any extra configuration besides network config info that the debian setup asks for). In X, I startup minicom, dial, and

Re: PPP dialup. :(.

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? Thanks, Timothy You are closer here. ttyS0 is locked by your minicom session. Forget minicom.

PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
I made to try out everyone's suggestions for getting my PPP dialup to work. The first thing that happened is t hat when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then

Xfree86 question

1997-12-24 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? Also! Is there an equivalent of Microsoft's file manager for X