Re: choice of software

2002-11-07 Thread Nick Traxler
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:09:01AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: I'd also recommend 'abuse' and 'abuse-frabs' which is a fun little game of killing aliens with huge guns. It reminds me of Metroid. Of course, Debian includes Super Nintendo emulators, so if you can acquire ROMs, you can play the real

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:43:17PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap partition.) did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap

Re: XFree 4.2.x question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Traxler
Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2. I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my XF86Config both times. Pretty annoying. -- Nick This one time, at band camp, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka said: Me.I'm using it for some time and it's great. The

Re: nfs-kernel-server with tcp

2002-08-30 Thread Nick Traxler
This one time, at band camp, Jean-Michel Besnard said: Is there a way I could have tcp as well for nfsd ? Read the NFS-HOWTO at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO It tells you there is a patch for kernel 2.4.17 and later to support NFS over TCP. Section 2.5 of that

Re: dhcpd.leases stays empty

2002-06-25 Thread Nick Traxler
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:37:01AM +0200, Andreas Eichner wrote: Hi list, I've got some trouble with the dhcpd-2.2.x (package is dhcp)from Woody (on 2.4.18). It assigns IP addresses in a correct manner but /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases stays empty. Does anyone know why this could be? I

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-20 Thread Nick Traxler
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:19:59PM -0800, Christopher Swingley wrote: * Derek Gladding [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-Jun-19 15:46 * AKDT]: I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any comments are appreciated. If you feel this is off topic please reply anyway off the list.

Re: Where are the GAIM sounds?

2002-06-19 Thread Nick Traxler
, Nick Traxler wrote: Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome. None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable. My gaim uses esd. Do you have that properly configured? Though it seems you can

Where are the GAIM sounds?

2002-06-18 Thread Nick Traxler
Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome. None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable. -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Nick Traxler
Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the kernel. Check up on this as well as APM. ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may have been the reason. -- Nick On Thu, Jun

Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

2002-06-10 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:41:29AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:46, AE Roy wrote: I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for. I've never used it, but

Re: ISA network card

2002-06-08 Thread Nick Traxler
, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:24:43PM +0200, Rainer Ellinger wrote: Nick Traxler wrote: I got the value 0x340 through trial and error. All the others fail the initial ne2000 probe. dsl-093-a:~# ne2k-diag -p 0x340 You've also tried ne2k-diag without any option? Winbond W89C905F. I wasn't able

Re: ISA network card

2002-06-05 Thread Nick Traxler
gateway address, it returned an error that the eth0 transmit had timed out, one error message per packet. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Any ideas? I'm not sure if the interrupt can be arbitrary or if I have to find a way to read it off the card. -- Nick Traxler Computer Science

Re: ISA network card

2002-06-05 Thread Nick Traxler
part doesn't. -- Nick Traxler Computer Science, Purdue University http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend The two most common things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity. On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Rainer Ellinger wrote: Nick Traxler wrote: Any ideas? I'm not sure if the interrupt can

ISA network card

2002-06-03 Thread Nick Traxler
probe the address or set it? pnpdump does not show the card. -- Nick Traxler Computer Science, Purdue University http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend The two most common things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject