Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-23 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
. I've come to understand that I'll not get compiz or beryl (flashy 3d desktop environments) to work anytime soon on my ATI card, and I must admit that I don't push my machine performance with many games. Have circumstances in the Nvidia/ATI worlds changed? -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
, so obviously it was a bit out of calibration. After a recharge, the battery meter more accurately reported that I had 2 hours left. It was still degraded from original performance, but I at least regained a little extra use before having to replace this aging battery. -- John M Flinchbaugh

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
technologies, but more about the monitoring hardware reporting empty prematurely, since the juice is there to run another hour, but the battery status says its empty. Once it's seen real empty, it can better report to the OS. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
yenta_socket from hotplug to allow it to later be initialized properly by pcmcia scripts. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/pcmcia pcmcia_core yenta_socket And reboot. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mobile Phone Software

2006-01-06 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
will talk the OBject EXchange protocol over serial-like links. I've used it with IRDA and bluetooth connections. I'm not really aware of any pretty gui apps available in Debian for this, though. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened

2005-12-14 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
as udf and see if you see the proper long names you expected: mount -t udf /dev/dvd -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

console font corruption w/ 2.6.12/xfree86/voodoo3

2005-06-19 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
. Thanks. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Disable power button in Linux

2005-06-13 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
is probably /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh. You can remove the mapping or edit the script to disable it. For mapping changes, a restart of acpid may be needed. Your sons method of restarting it would be fine too -- one last time anyway. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:10:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the machine to sleep. Its default was apm -s which of course never worked because the machine

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:20:06PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Something I missed. echo 4 /proc/acpi/sleep indeed does so. Then what? You power down? With the button? I reboot with resume=/dev/hda13 in the boot cmdline and linux complains about not being shutdown right, and he

Re: suplusing a disk, how to 'clean' up? Overwriting data?

2004-11-24 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:02:57PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: Just wondering how one can accomplish cleaning up the disk? I.e. I want to overwrite the existing disk so that no information can be recovered. I've heard that dd has it's uses? Simply recreating file systems is not likely to be

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:50:04PM +0800, ms linux wrote: which one is the best webmail ??? I've been looking for this ... squirrelmail ? openwebmail ? or ... on my debian unstable box a year or 2 ago, squirrelmail kept breaking (just got stuck sending mail, etc), and it was hard to get it to

Re: [ltp] Problems with automount

2004-11-02 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:22:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using autofs? For me '--timeout=tout' option in /etc/auto.master does not work (ie. I wait, wait and wait and the device is not unmounted). I'm using Debian and this is what '/etc/init.d/autofs status' gives me:

apache2 as caching proxy

2004-10-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
i have my apache2 server on debian unstable configured as a forward proxy and as a disk cache. proxy works, but disk cache does not. it never drops any files in the CacheRoot. i know that the disk_cache module is loaded, and that the CacheRoot directive is being read, because removing the

Re: Apache2 allocate shared memory!

2004-09-13 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:37:44PM +0100, nx13372 wrote: ii apache2-common 2.0.50-12 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se ii apache2-doc2.0.50-12 Documentation for apache2 ii apache2-mpm-pr 2.0.50-12 Traditional model for Apache2 I'm getting: [Mon Sep 13

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-12 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:44:53AM +0300, David Baron wrote: There is a bug in current kernels / alsa -- you may have to check this everytime you boot up. Hope they fix it soon. i've not looked it up, but i think the bug comes from letting hotplug load the sound modules, and they're not

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:44:53AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: Your configuration looks fine to me. Well, that's interesting. I have no sound whatsoever out of my machine. :( Any ideas then as to why when the configuration is good I get no sound? I'm

Re: Stopping kernel 2.6/discover loading Alsa and OSS

2004-09-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:06:05AM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: I just upgraded from 2.4.26 to 2.6.8 from unstable, in the process I upgraded hotplug, alsa, and discover to version 2, everyhing is generally fine, apart from when I run the gnome-mixer, it shows a sigmatel soundcard?? and my SB

Re: Stopping kernel 2.6/discover loading Alsa and OSS

2004-09-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:30:38PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: John M Flinchbaugh wrote: i've not used discover, but hotplug may be what's loading your sound drivers by their pci device. you may need to blacklist the one you don't want automatically loaded by creating a file in /etc/hotplug

Re: IBM Compatibility

2004-08-31 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:45:47PM +0200, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: I am ordering IBM G40 Thinkpads and would like to know wether they will work nicely with debian. Googling seems to say that in general ibm hardware will work painlessly with linux but no definitive answer on debian or any

Re: use udev

2004-03-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:32:46PM +0200, Ilkka Lindroos wrote: I installed 2.6.3 with udev just a couple of days ago, and everything is workin just fine. I have booted with 2.4 few times, and no problems there either. i installed it as well, but i had to revert back to the /dev/hda* devices

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

2004-03-22 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:31:34PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant bookmark any page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click Bookmark this page on any random page, a warning dialog pops up saying: XML Parsing

Re: ALSA and Kernel 2.6

2004-01-12 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:13:57PM +0100, Gregory Soyez wrote: just installed the kernel 2.6.1 with ALSA support (alsa snd module , PCI snd_intel8x0 module and all the OSS emulation stuff) as well as the packages alsa-base and alsa-utils. But when I try to modprobe snd I get unable to

Re: More 2.6.0 woes

2004-01-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:41:58AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: Last night I've reported a bug about the evbug issue to kernel-image-2.6.0-1-686-smp[1] but it still hasn't appeared in the BTS. You might want to keep an eye on

Re: switching user in X without logging out previous user

2004-01-07 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:40:13PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: If you're using Gnome 2.4, there's a New Login item in System Tools under the Application menu item. This will create a new X11 session on a different virtual terminal, complete with (x|k|g)dm. I uses gdm as my graphical login and

Re: postgres connects to server every 5 minutes

2004-01-06 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:16:24PM +0100, outsider wrote: After an upgrade from postgres 7.3 to postgres 7.4 I see every 5 minutes in the /var/syslog messages like --- connection: Host=[local] Port= user=postgres --- postgres connects every 5 minutes to each database I have. What is the

Re: Fw: 2.6.0, ppp, devfs

2004-01-01 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:07:17PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 2003 23:31, Andrew Morton wrote: when i modprobe ppp_generic, i get this error in dmesg: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 devfs_mk_cdev: could not append to parent for ppp failed to

Re: menufont in psi

2003-12-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:12:28AM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: Somebody could tell me how to change the font in menu and dialogs of a KDE program? I do not use anything of KDE beside psi, which got a hindu looking font after the last update of my debian sid. Where could I change that?

Re: menufont in psi

2003-12-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:19:55PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: Thanks for your reply. I don't have it either, or at least, I can't find it anywhere. What exactly do I have to look for to get the kde desktop config app? Please note, that I do not want a full KDE installation, Psi is the only

Re: Best Current Pratice Postgres upgrade 6.5--7.2

2003-11-20 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:50:19PM -0800, Henry Hollenberg wrote: The docs seem to imply that upgrading with this big a jump from 6.5 to 7.2 is dangerous.even if I do it by hand like so: pg_dump mydatabase dump.mydatabase destroydb mydatabase upgrade the database system to 7.2

gnome root window (background) image?

2003-11-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
what sets the background image in sid's gnome? i set it in the background dialog found under desktop preferences menu, but it never takes affect. i end up resorting to running chbg in session startup programs. i have another machine though that does the background just fine with the one in

sid: gnome background not set

2003-10-28 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
using latest gnome and sawfish or metacity in sid, my background image has stopped being set on login. if i check it in the desktop preferences and touch a config, it comes back. what is responsible for doing this? i'd like to file a bug report. -- }John

Re: user-level logrotate?

2003-10-03 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:14:16PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I have a few applications that create log files in my home directory. Is there a (simple) way to use logrotate as a normal user? simpler than logrotate, there is also savelog(8) for individual logs.. --

Re: Apache dies silently?

2003-09-23 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:00:55PM +0200, j2 wrote: Sounds familiar, but i cant recollect php or paache being upgrade lately.. more /etc/apt/preferences slightly deeper, i think it was a conflict in the libs used by 2 php modules: pg and imap. i dropped the imap module and i was fine. i

Re: Faked From-Adress with my domain on them

2003-08-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:12:24AM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: Since there is no reaction to my private mail, I have to do this publicly. Kevin Mark uses my domain 'waidele.info' in order to fake his from-adress. I have asked him to stop it, but he still continues. So once again,

Re: nfs use-once-only?

2003-08-26 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:00:23PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: I was so thrilled to get nfs working (laptop to workstation) for the first time yesterday. But today I get mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused every time. So I tried in the other direction. Set up

pcmcia not identing cards on boot (2.5/sid)

2003-06-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i'm running the 2.5 kernels and sid on my laptop, and for probably nearly a month my pcmcia nics have not been recognized correctly on boot. it tries to load

Re: Starting Mozilla NOT maximized?

2003-06-14 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:07:20PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: Some time ago, I exited Mozilla (1.3.1, from unstable I think) while=20 it was=20 maximized. Since

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-29 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: Try xfwm as your window manager. It's configurable, light-weight and=20 has full xinerama

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-29 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:27:39AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:39:49AM -0400, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: i'm actually seeing

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-31 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:25:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: equivalent linux program that anyone here knows about / uses? or do i have to suck it up and do them by hand? my solution has been to use one of the online website-based tax services. i personally have used www.taxact.com for the

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-06 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:19:48AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: that LOGINDISABLED seems to mean that normal non-tls auths are disabled. i have it listening to imap2 and imaps: Somehow you seem to have missed the debconf question about enabling plaintext authentication. # dpkg-reconfigure

squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
i'd like to use squirrelmail, but the only imap implementation i can get to allow it to login is the mailutils-imapd. that server apparently doesn't let me append to the INBOX.Sent, so it always complains about that when i send mail. i'm trying to use uw-imapd now, but it seems to only allow ssl

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:39:32AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:47:22 -0500 John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need: a) to get

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:31:51PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: I presume you mean either in testing or stable? Unstable has... Package: squirrelmail Version: 1:1.3.2+1.4.0rc1-1 ...which is what I've been calling 1.4.0rc1. Maybe doing the same with v1.3.2 would help? I'm not sure. may

Re: changing IPs

2003-01-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:00:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Pentium 200 MMX running Debian Linux v1.3. The machine has recently moved and now needs a new fixed IP as it is functioning as a server. What files need to be modified for this IP change? I have modified the file at

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
on the subject of journalled filesystems. i've been using reiserfs. i've noticed that invariably, some files will get corrupted, especially logs. they end up looking like 2 files spliced together. anytime inn doesn't get to shutdown properly, i end up having to rebuild all its history db's,

gnome session unusable after sid update!

2002-11-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
has anyone else run into a problem with the gnome session login? with gdm or startx, it gets stuck at the gnome splash screen. it shows no icons for loading programs like usual. logging in with no configs doesn't help either. -- }John Flinchbaugh{__ |

Re: gnome2 + enlightenment

2002-11-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:56:59PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gnome 2? Is this a major irritant or something fairly minor(I don't quite understand what you mean)? Do multiple desktops work properly(each is allowed to have its

broken jabber-1.4.2?

2002-10-22 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
i have jabber 1.4.2 install from source (to more easily facilitate transports), and it's completely broken with the upgrade of libc6 in sid. it segfaults and dumps core when i try to connect, and running it in gdb and backtracing it produces the following: #0 0x40023aaf in __pth_ring_delete ()

dpkg assertion failed

2002-09-24 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
is this a dpkg problem or a problem with my package database? how do i correct it? i know it's happening with dpkg 1.10.[789]. thanks. --- density:/home/john# dpkg --configure -a dpkg: /mount/md0/home/adam/debian/mine/dpkg/v1_10/dpkg-1.10.9/ main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion

gdm dies occasional

2001-04-13 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
my gdm dies occasionally while i'm logged in. i'll log in, work a bit, logout, and x restarts, but gdm is gone, so it doesn't show the login. i have to kill x, then restart gdm to get it back. it's on a laptop, and i often suspend the machine, instead of shut it down, but i don't see much

Re: Dell Q A Comments

2001-03-12 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all

reconfiguring pcmcia nic when laptop resumes

2001-02-16 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i seem to remember months ago, with the linux 2.4pre kernels and debian unstable, dhclient would run anytime the laptop awoke and reconfigured the nic. this was quite convenient since it often awakes on a new network. somewhere along the line, it

broken gnucash in unstable

2001-02-16 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 has anyone else managed to get gnucash deb installed in unstable i386? when i try to add it, it immediately removes itself in conflict resolution because it depends upon two packages which ultimately conflict with each other. - --

Re: Cannot bring up lo.

2001-02-14 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:59:55AM +, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: I have had this error for about 2 days I can't bring the loopback interface. If I type '/etc/init.d/networking restart', I get: Reconfiguring network interfaces: lo: