Re: When to stop tracking sid to make transition to stable woody?

2001-09-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Friday 14 September 2001 09:34 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: That isn't phrased right. Sid *is* unstable. Woody will transition towards stable, first going to freeze, then hitting release. Speaking of which, how far are we from freeze? What's still to be done? - David Nusinow [EMAIL

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Friday 14 September 2001 10:45 pm, will trillich wrote: $ uptime 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 break out the root beer! :) Since I don't have root on your machine, I'll just break out the beer ;-) - David legal to drink as of two days ago

Re: From RH to Debian: two pending problems.

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
an enormous wealth of info there, far more than in any HOWTO. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
, get unstable. If you can't find the package, it's in the aptly named gaim. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
of useless crap on your system. There you go. You're fed :-) - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
(modified for you) post-install 8390 insmod ne That line fixed everything for me. Hope this helps if nothing else does! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 September 2001 01:49 pm, Ross Burton wrote: Hi, Okay, until I get kernel 2.4.x working to my satisfaction I've got to live

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
Sorry, that should have been modprobe 8390 insmod io=0x260 irq=5 ne -David Nusinow krmt1984

Re: DRI

2001-08-31 Thread David Nusinow
. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 31 August 2001 06:07 am, Eric Whitestone wrote: This is what glxinfo returned. It does say no next to direct rendering. Im not sure what to edit in xfree86config, and what module i need to load. I am using kernel 2.4.8 (is compiled for 3dfx vid card

Re: Sound not working

2001-08-30 Thread David Nusinow
problems is that you're not part of the audio group. If you never added yourself to that group, go ahead and do it, then logout and log back in as that user and see if your apps can play sounds. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:31 pm, Eric Whitestone wrote: Ok

Re: Sound not working

2001-08-30 Thread David Nusinow
Oh, and the volume is so low because your mixer settings are set that way. Get a mixer program (Gnome has one of its own in the multimedia package I think) and up the volume. On Thursday 30 August 2001 07:09 pm, David Nusinow wrote: Hi Eric, My guess is that your soundcard isn't

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
that is antialiased. I agree with this completely. I could not find good antialiased fonts that simply worked well with KDE. Nothing would scale to look right in Konqueror and overall the font selection wasn't good enough. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
the massive flamewars nearly as often. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
. As for free vs. non-free, check out www.gnu.org/philosophy for tons of explanation. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:59 pm, Mark Seven Smith wrote: Blank Karsten M. Self wrote (I just noticed this): The book and CD are very poor. They can be used

Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-27 Thread David Nusinow
On Monday 27 August 2001 02:48 pm, Ross Burton wrote: You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake posse... :-) Man... if we're more friendly then I'd really be scared of the RedHat/Mandrake people... have you checked out debian-devel? Scary! - David Nusinow [EMAIL

Re: questions

2001-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
the kernel whole again. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
had any problems with it. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two video questions

2001-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
Ron, Try the xlibmesa3 package. It was the missing piece in my DRI config, and it's not included or referenced at all in the xlibs or xlib6g packages, so it's possible you missed it. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java apt sources link for woody potato

2001-08-24 Thread David Nusinow
Thanks Wayne, I've been looking for those for a while now. One more step on my road to re-establishing my debian box to its former glory! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 24 August 2001 11:44 am, Wayne Topa wrote: Just found the apt sources link for the Blackdown Java

Re: Network configuration

2001-08-23 Thread David Nusinow
for ifup and ifdown. It should be able to do the stuff you want without resorting to a custom script. interfaces is in /etc/network by the way. Good luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 23 August 2001 05:19 pm, bob parker wrote: I'm still quite new to this excellent os (Potato r3

Re: DEB vs RPM

2001-08-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:34 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: Debian (if it wants to be LSB compliant) provide a way to install the RPMs from such a vendor. As a sidenote, Debian does, via the rpm and alien packages. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ot] netscape popup-windows

2001-06-28 Thread David Nusinow
the autoresponder... Now, Is it possible to disable such popup windows generally? This would be really great Konqueror actually has this feature as a preference. That way you can have the rest of javascript running, but disallow new windows to pop up. Very convenient. - David Nusinow [EMAIL

Re: ???

2001-06-28 Thread David Nusinow
in the right direction. Still, learning by doing it yourself and reading the documentation is the Debian (and really the Linux) way of doing things. It'll make you much much more competent with your machine than you would have guessed. Good luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmms problems?

2001-06-28 Thread David Nusinow
. I'd heard a lot of rumblings over on the KDE lists that arts was really really buggy in general still. Probably the only such thing in KDE. Anyhow, I'd avoid arts right now until they firm up on those bugs, which could be a while. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Streamed Audio application - great opportunity

2001-06-14 Thread David Nusinow
make the plugin available at the broadcaster's site... Winamp has a plugin already (http://www.winamp.com/plugins/detail.jhtml?componentId=60647) and from what I can tell on my xmms plugin, it already supports the streaming stuff just fine. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] (currently

Re: Evolution and Balsa in unstable

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
bugs). Balsa didn't seem to have one though. There were a few others, like gabber that also had this problem. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early days of linux, and I still head back there every so often to search the archives to see if anyone else has had my problem. - David Nusinow [EMAIL

Re: newbieDoc.sourceForge.net

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:22 am, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: * David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [130601 11:03]: Not that I'm against some duplication, but isn't this basically what www.linuxnewbie.org is doing? They were absolutely critical in my early days of linux, and I still head back

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
) but I'm pretty sure you can just make an alias to the directory where it mounts much the same way. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need automount floppy and cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread David Nusinow
and selecting mount. You could try the auto option in fstab for automounting too, but I don't know if it'll work. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freeamp MP3 player problem

2001-06-12 Thread David Nusinow
. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord problem in testing

2001-06-11 Thread David Nusinow
SUID is chmod +s file, right? Thanks for filling in a few blanks! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
. Remember, it's all at no cost (except download time and bandwidth) so why not? - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
Oh, as a postscript to what I just said, nothing prevents you from switching later. I was happily in one environment and switched to the other about a month ago. I still like to go and use blackbox every so often too. Flexibility is good :-) - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Am I an idiot? Gnumeric

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
a free spreadsheet program, staroffice does have a native windows version, and it's got a lot of features. However, I highly recommend linux and Debian, if you're willing to learn them. You'll find a lot more cool stuff besides gnumeric! - David Nusinow

Re: Very occassional lockups of X

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
a few). Also, OpenGL apps are still not totally solid with my rage128 card (said after having just played tux racer for a half hour straight :-) so those have been factors for me having similar lockups. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: login -graphical user interface

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
they are, but one should be S##xdm or S##kdm or whatever. Just rename it (I usually just change the S to a Z) so that it doesn't confuse the package manager. That way you can keep the login for later if you want it. The script won't run if it's prefixed with the wrong letter. - David Nusinow [EMAIL

Re: Need Printer Help..............HELP!

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
so very much be appreciative. Great day to you, Ruby What software are you talking about when you say I updated my computer to 6.0? - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker? Windowmaker's pretty light, but with 16 megs I'd throw on blackbox. It's superlight and still a really nice WM. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 10 June 2001 07:45 pm, Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: Another I migfht have input on (after a while) is amiwm(I've dabbled w/ enlightenment, fvwm, and am now going to try amiwm {due to MY lockup problems and the recommendation of David Nusinow that lockups in X were attributed

Re: KDE on a slow machine (was: Best WM for slow machine?)

2001-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting an Audio CD

2001-06-09 Thread David Nusinow
, it is device '/dev/hdd'. These are the reasons that I was thinking a symbolic link might fix it. Thanks! Michael We literally just answered this about a day or two ago. Check the archives. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio CDs [solved]

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MSN internet dial up connection problem

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
of characters before or after the password perhaps? I have emailed MSN support for help but have not yet received a response. Thanks. Maybe it's just me, but I doubt you'll get any response from MS if you ask them Hey, I can't get my Linux machine to connect to your network, can you help? :-) - David

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
a way out that is really no easier. You can achieve the same effect with the same number of commands (su; adduser username cdrom; adduser username audio) but still keep that small bit of security intact. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
you've added yourself to the group just fire up a CD player and it should work. CD audio is one of the easiest things to get setup generally. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP which is the best?

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
. Easy to configure and runs like a dream. I've also heard that wu is really really insecure, although I don't know if that's been resolved since then. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need info please

2001-06-01 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 31 May 2001 03:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am very excited about beign able to use a linux OS. I looked on the debian site, but all the places where I could get information and downloads were either too technical to understand, or blended too well with my screen. I

Re: gnumeric

2001-05-31 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:13 pm, Renai LeMay wrote: can someone give me pointers as to why gnumeric is not apt-gettable in unstable? or a way to apt-get it? I assume you mean the libgal6 problem. It's bug #99041 if you're curious. The gnumeric package has a dependency on the libgal6

Re: Netscape? how to kill?

2001-05-29 Thread David Nusinow
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 06:57 pm, Steve Kieu wrote: mtest=`ps -A | grep navigator-smoti` if [ $mtest ] ; then killall -9 navigator-smoti #It says no process killed here fi Hi Steve, I haven't run Netscape in quite a while, so I can't test the process tree myself, but you probably

KDE Font Problems

2001-05-28 Thread David Nusinow
overrided in my directory? This happened randomly as far as I can tell. Thanks! -- - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread David Nusinow
being stable is the boot floppies. There's been a pretty big cry for help on them over at debian-devel, so if you've got the skills maybe go help out. -- - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread David Nusinow
with the thing, because it led to a reinstall. Twice! -- - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP machine hangs ofter

2001-05-21 Thread David Nusinow
and it took a kernel upgrade to fix it, but it was only going down with GL. Windowmaker also took down my system inexplicably where no other managers I tested did. -- - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]