Re: kernel 2.1.128 sound

1998-11-15 Thread mwb
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation

Re: Screw it! (Printer recommendations)

1998-11-15 Thread mwb
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote: possible, stuck it back on, and *wham* Nothng changed. So, I've decided it's time to get a good(low-priced) laser printer. So, who has recommendations? I'd like to stay below 400, around 300 if possible. It should work well under Linux (obviously)

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-06 Thread mwb
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive. Since my printer

Re: zip disk

1998-11-02 Thread mwb
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Debian-User wrote: I am pretty sure I installed iomega parellel support to my kernel when i built the last one And why my system boots i see some iomega stuff fly by but when this is what happens when i try to use it.: mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip mount: the kernel

Re: Slink upgrade messed up X configs

1998-11-01 Thread mwb
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Eric wrote: I recently pointed dselect to slink in order to upgrade. I picked through all the packages and everything and got it all to install properly, but when I was done, X would not work properly. I tried upgrading too, and I also found that the configs were gone. I

Re: lynx colours

1998-10-28 Thread mwb
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black, anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has been bugging me for ages, and I would

Re: Magicfilter setup

1998-10-08 Thread mwb
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 670c printer - what line do I need to give magicfilterconfig (the man pages don't seem to have such helpful information)? You'll need to get ghostscript from the slink distribution. This has support for the 'generic' hpdj

Re: nn local news spool

1998-10-06 Thread mwb
Set NNTPSERVER=localhost in your environment. It took me months to figure this out. I do NOT find this documented anywhere. I have my default server set up to localhost, so this wasn't necessary for me. However, I was emailed a message that told me how to fix the problem. Since

Re: nn local news spool

1998-10-03 Thread mwb
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set NNTPSERVER=localhost in your environment. It took me months to figure this out. I do NOT find this documented anywhere. I have my default server set up to localhost, so this wasn't necessary for me. However, I was emailed a message that told

nn local news spool

1998-09-30 Thread mwb
I'm using suck and inn to run a local news spool. Trn works fine, but I'd prefer nn. However when I try nn on my local spool it spits out could not fetch active file and quits. Nn works using my isp's news server, and trn works fine. Does nn not work with the default setup for inn? Can I

rvplayer works only as root

1998-09-28 Thread mwb
I've installed rvplayer but it only works as root. When I run it as normal user it gives error 72, expired version. The user is in the audio group. I've installed it from the slink version. Is there anything else I need to do? Mark

Re: misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread mwb
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) Can I get the printer command language

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-15 Thread mwb
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: Well, I reinstalled the debs, and it didn't help..same problems. Anyone else got ideas? I had problems using wu-ftp. I switched to pro-ftp. Mark

Re: Using ZIP drive on Linux

1998-09-12 Thread mwb
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote: Where do I get a driver to access a parrallel port ZIP drive on a Linux machine? Compile a kernel. Include modules for scsi support, parallel port, and ppa. Check out the Parallel Port Home Page at http://www/torque.net/parport/ Mark

Re: PON As Normal User

1998-09-06 Thread mwb
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote: If there anyway to have a normal user access PON? Yes, but its been long enough that I don't remember all the the changes that I made. I do remember that I added the 'normal user' to the dip and dialout groups. After makingthese changes, check the

Error Rebuilding speak-freely.deb

1998-08-12 Thread mwb
I needed to change an option compiled into speak-freely.deb, Script started on Tue Aug 11 21:28:49 1998 Here's the trimmed output of what I tried, and the resulting error message I got. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# dpkg-source -x

Re: Error Rebuilding speak-freely.deb

1998-08-12 Thread mwb
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: mwb wrote: speakfree.h:64: gsm.h: No such file or directory You need libgsm1-dev. Thanks Is there a way to tell which packages are required to compile a source package, that aren't needed to run the compiled source? Mark

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread mwb
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard headed. I really do not think there are that many dummies here. Look at it like this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 minutes to choose which one they are going to buy.

Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change

1998-07-14 Thread mwb
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jim Nicholson wrote: I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS

Re: XCDroast - Audio

1998-05-15 Thread mwb
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote: Hi, I copied one pure data-cd. This worked fine. Then I tried Audio Tracks. In this case the files of the correct size are created _without_ the CD-Drive running. I tried my second CD-Drive - same shit. My System: Kernel 2.1.101

Re: Help with cdwrite

1998-05-10 Thread mwb
On Sun, 10 May 1998, XRD Lab wrote: mwb wrote: I have a Mermorex CRW-1622. Sorry for the stupid question. Is the above drive IDE? YES, it is IDE. I use kernel 2.1.94 for writing. As far as it goes, you need to compile the kernel to use scsi emulation, generic scsi support

Re: Setup w/large hard drives

1998-05-10 Thread mwb
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: Why do you need a separate partition to boot from? I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders, obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb too. This is what I thought too! As I said, I

Re: Help with cdwrite

1998-05-09 Thread mwb
On Sat, 9 May 1998, XRD Lab wrote: Machine: Pentium 166MHz MMX, 32MB RAM, swap 40MB OS : Debian linux, kernel 2.0.29 CD-Writer:HP 7100 (internal model), (IDE interface, not scsi) cdwrite -v -s 2 -D /dev/hdd cdimg I have a Mermorex CRW-1622. Its not supported by

Re: Question about CDRW

1998-03-15 Thread mwb
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Alex Maneu Victoria wrote: --IMPORTANT!! PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] , thanks Hi. There's a friend of mine that has recently bought a Cd-rewriter (HP CD-writer plus). How can he configure his fstab to make it work? Same as any other cd. Can you be more

Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?

1998-03-15 Thread mwb
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Tristan Day that's you! wrote: OK, I'm finding all this Linux thing really difficult because I'm using it on my home computer and have to go to my mother's college to download things, and I'm a total newbie no! I hate that word. I'm a Brit! so I don't have a clue when it

Re: upgrading to current smail

1998-03-01 Thread mwb
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 07:12:51AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: I've had to install the bo smail, and leave it htere the last few months. Really, smail 3.2.0.100 is broken at the moment. There a couple of things you can try, please

Re: HowTo?: Log Everything - file

1998-02-17 Thread mwb
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: What's the trick to getting into a file all the contents of a console session, i.e. commands, and the output of commands, into a log file for that session? script filename Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

X restarts in different console

1998-02-08 Thread mwb
I normally run X under vt7, however I have had a couple instanced where when I exited X, by ctl-alt-backspace, it restarts in the next console. It doesn't always seem to do this. The message on the old screen after X exit is: received SIGPIPE signal: exiting... I am running hamm. Any ideas on

Re: How do I use magicfilter.

1998-01-31 Thread mwb
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several kind folks responded to my plea for help in solving the printing staircase effect when using lpr to print to an HP DeskJet used for Windows. OK, I have installed magicfilter-so how do I use it. I entered it as a command and the system

Re: Out of ideas with ppp

1998-01-26 Thread mwb
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Jeff Gutliph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've been trying to get PPP to work by following the PPP How-To. I called my ISP and got the required info. When I asked about PAP they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. So, I