Re: IFS variable in bash

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Hipp
Matthew Carpenter wrote: I show: IFS=$' \t\n' Try IFS=$'\n' Thank you. I'll try it later. Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Allan Rabenau
I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-10 Thread James McDonald
Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, James McDonald wrote: To compile mplayer mean't a search of the web for many supporting libraries that came standard with Mandrake. That wasn't my experience. mplayer build on both of my RH9 systems without a single problem. I was attempting

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Ken Moffat
Matthew Carpenter wrote: No but I'm using them with 2.4.20 from SuSE. They're pretty good, but it took a while for them to get a good version, and there are still some tradeoffs (like switching to console mode doesn't scroll lines correctly for me). On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:33:21 -0700 Ken Moffat

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread James McDonald
Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft conspiracy to make Linux look bad: I love it! Will file this away. RPM, like any other software product, has syntax that

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:27:17 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft conspiracy to make Linux look bad:

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Ken Moffat
Matthew Carpenter wrote: No but I'm using them with 2.4.20 from SuSE. On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:33:21 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone using kernel 2.4.6 with Nvidia drivers? Just wonder if it works Thanks. Ah! I see the problems! What I mean is 2.5.n or 2.6.n; finally

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:27:17 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft conspiracy to make Linux look bad:

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Allan Rabenau
Thanks, Llama, but unfortunately I'm not in a position (capable?) of trying that. xfs Is running (by ps). I guess it's the window manager (xdm?) that seems to be failing. -Al - Original Message - From: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10,

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Wunder
On 10/10/2003 9:27 AM, I believe that James McDonald wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft conspiracy to make Linux look bad: I love it! Will file this

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread James McDonald
Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone using kernel 2.4.6 with Nvidia drivers? Just wonder if it works Thanks. I tried the Nvidia drivers under 2.6test2 and they failed to compile Using the default X nv driver works but the OpenGL support is (subjectively) slower than the closed source nvidia

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Ian Stephen
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Alma J Wetzker
James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:27:17 +1000 Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft conspiracy to make Linux look bad: I love it! Will file this away.

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Hipp
James McDonald wrote: Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, James McDonald wrote: To compile mplayer mean't a search of the web for many supporting libraries that came standard with Mandrake. That wasn't my experience. mplayer build on both of my RH9 systems without a single problem.

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Stephen wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Wunder
On 10/10/2003 10:55 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Stephen wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the

linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread dep
greets, folks . . . having endured a *way* too big phone bill this month, most of it long-distance stuff with other linux users and some of it long-distance with windows users who have high-speed connections, i'm looking for a better approach. six or seven years ago i played with some windows

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread Hermann J. Beckers
six or seven years ago i played with some windows and OS/2 apps which let people do telephone over the internet. i'm trying to get a sense of the current state of that technology, with an eye toward setting it up here on the linux box. speakfreely? The original author declared its End of

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:51:56 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/2003 9:27 AM, I believe that James McDonald wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:45:39 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone using kernel 2.4.6 with Nvidia drivers? Just wonder if it works Thanks. I tried the Nvidia drivers under 2.6test2 and they failed to compile Using the default X nv driver

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Wunder
On 10/10/2003 12:42 PM, I believe that Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:51:56 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/2003 9:27 AM, I believe that James McDonald wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:45:53 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greets, folks . . . having endured a *way* too big phone bill this month, most of it long-distance stuff with other linux users and some of it long-distance with windows users who have high-speed connections, i'm looking for

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:47:23 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:45:39 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone using kernel 2.4.6 with Nvidia drivers? Just wonder if it works Thanks. I tried the Nvidia

Re: IFS variable in bash

2003-10-10 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Hipp wrote: Matthew Carpenter wrote: I show: IFS=$' \t\n' Try IFS=$'\n' Thank you. I'll try it later. If that dont cut it: IFS=CTRL-VENTER where everything in is the keys to press - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at linux-sxs.org) -

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Hipp
David A. Bandel wrote: yep -- I use gnomemeeting w/ a PhoneJack card and call the US all the time -- anywhere, $.03/min (beats $1.05/min + connection charge any day of the week). I've save thou$and$ (no kidding). When I'm not at my system, I leave ohphone running so I can receive VoIP calls (or

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:37:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] A quick Google search turned up that PhoneJack and LineJack are evidently made by http://www.quicknet.net but I only get DNS errors on that. Are they out of business? whois says their DNS servers are:

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread James McDonald
Collins Richey wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:45:39 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone using kernel 2.4.6 with Nvidia drivers? Just wonder if it works Thanks. I tried the Nvidia drivers under 2.6test2 and they failed to compile Using

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:03:56 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:45:39 +1000 James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone using kernel 2.4.6 with Nvidia drivers? Just wonder if it works

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I got there. On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:12:02 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:37:36 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] A quick Google search turned up that PhoneJack and LineJack are evidently made by http://www.quicknet.net but I

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Who makes the PhoneJack cards that you recommend? What's the deal with the tariffs placed on VoIP, specifically I think I remember hearing about Panama. What ever became of that? The US is fighting over how to regulate VoIP... which can only mean trouble. On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:58:10 -0500

Re: linux telephone apps

2003-10-10 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:45 am, dep wrote: greets, folks . . . having endured a *way* too big phone bill this month, most of it long-distance stuff with other linux users and some of it long-distance with windows users who have high-speed connections, i'm looking for a better approach. six

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread James McDonald
Info redargding apt4rpm for redhat can be found at http://freshrpms.net and/or on the kde-redhat site, http://kde-redhat.sf.net Regards, Tim I just installed apt4rpm and it rocks the synaptic gui is ok too. But it's probably best if you have broadband. Linux Magazine had an article on it