Re: DRM failure with ATI radeon 9200 and Kernel 2.6

2005-06-27 Thread Terry Hancock
problems, so I thought it might be relevant. Thanks, Terry *As opposed to not having any docs anyway. ;-) -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: DRM failure with ATI radeon 9200 and Kernel 2.6

2005-06-27 Thread Terry Hancock
On Monday 27 June 2005 02:22 am, Terry Hancock wrote: Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a multihead setup, and you can't avoid the bus ID's, and I have yet to see a multihead config program. You might not be able to avoid reading the docs. They are big, and complicated

DRM failure with ATI radeon 9200 and Kernel 2.6

2005-06-26 Thread Terry Hancock
be a C API mismatch? Or maybe there is something being passed from a config file that I can change? Any recommendations for what to try next? Any ideas appreciated, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com

Re: DRM failure with ATI radeon 9200 and Kernel 2.6

2005-06-26 Thread Terry Hancock
Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/26/05, Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardware acceleration (DRI) is not working with my ATI Radeon 9200 card on a fresh install of Debian Sarge (3.1), using the AMD 64 build of Kernel 2.6. I have a radeon 8500, and it works with a fresh

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-15 Thread Terry Hancock
for the link! It appears that I stand corrected on the PDF spec issue. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
that it will have to depend on. And it will have to (somehow) engage in the same responsibility and AT YOUR OWN RISK risk sharing that the open-source software movement uses. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
positioning as a convenience distribution for experts, rather than a real newbie distribution, it seems like a very compatible idea. Of course, I am not a Debian developer. Just a very satisfied user. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
Untested, of course, but that ought to give you the idea. man sed man tcsh Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
a deep-link, but normally, Adobe makes you go through a forms process to get this far, AFAICT. That's probably why Google can't find it, too. So, yeah, it's there. And that's better than I thought. But it still doesn't quite give me warm-fuzzies. ;-) Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
distribution model for the hardware, too. I'm still not sure what that model is, though I have a few ideas about pieces of it. But it's a problem to be solved. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
the language in detail). I'm not sure whether it was intended to be open or not, but it is in effect, at least. And that would probably be Debian's reason. ;-) Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
/ work, though. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:11 pm, Nunya wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: It would be conceivable to call PDF 4 an open standard, since Ghostscript can already handle it. But we really ought to make a distinction, since the newer versions

Re: Firebird losing toolbar configuration after restart

2003-12-11 Thread Terry Hancock
, but it's the most common problem I've had with them. The trick is, the symptoms may not always be the same (probably depends on exactly where the problem is in the preferences files and which files are affected). HTH, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http

Re: Firebird losing toolbar configuration after restart

2003-12-11 Thread Terry Hancock
it seemed relevant that this sort of problem needs to be reported. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread Terry Hancock
to accept criticism of your work without feeling personally attacked. ;-) One thing you get with free-licensed open source software that you don't get with the proprietary beast *is* actual contact with the author. That's unheard of for proprietary stuff! Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock

Re: Why should non-root users have a password?

2003-12-07 Thread Terry Hancock
in most root exploits is to get normal user access, and so it's helpful if that's not too easy. *That* is why you don't want just anybody to use your system. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Moving programs into KDE menu

2003-12-07 Thread Terry Hancock
not sure what happens when you run update-menus with KDE (maybe nothing?). Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OT - archiving mail

2003-12-05 Thread Terry Hancock
of tools that can do it. But they're all going to involve some kind of scripting, not just flipping through menus in your mail client. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread Terry Hancock
eyes with access to proprietary code. There is also the point that *somebody* found this bug. Just not the folks we were hoping would. ;-) Letting real crackers hammer your system is another way to find bugs, although we hope it's a last resort. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 01:34 am, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: I've exported drawings to wmf and then opened them in OpenOffice Draw with no apparant information loss. Right, because WMF is a vector format. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
-- WMF is supported by Sketch and apparently Open Office. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-25 Thread Terry Hancock
= sketch package) can import Corel Draw CMX format files. The author and some of the more involved users are former Corel Draw users. HTH, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-25 Thread Terry Hancock
less sure about exporting). Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Workspace/desktop switching

2003-11-18 Thread Terry Hancock
that controls that (or will be in KDE 3?), but it's not really such a pain -- I've already gotten used to it. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
option? Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
for when you decide to get rid of the os.system() calls. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
sensible to me; I've never understood why file managers don't provide this functionality. Indeed, and Netscape does this. Why doesn't Mozilla, I wonder? (as of 1.0.0 anyway -- maybe it does now?). I agree that this is an oddly missing feature. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-10-01 Thread Terry Hancock
). Unfortunately, I can't remember where, and I'm not finding it with Google. This information is obviously ephemeral -- such a site would have to be maintained, and it may not have been. (?) Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http

OT: Re: patents, Re: Multi-user Debian

2003-10-01 Thread Terry Hancock
enough absurd cases will finally motivate eliminating or reforming the patent system. Hey, I can dream, can't I? Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: dselect, was Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-27 Thread Terry Hancock
--get-selections and dpkg --set-selections to save and retrieve your choices or replicate onto multiple computers. HTH, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-23 Thread Terry Hancock
would probably think so. No need to scent conspiracy theories -- it's not a bad approach to transition: gives plenty of time for the two to grow towards a standard (e.g. the LSB stuff), and then make the transition smooth for the end user. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock

Re: Slide show software

2003-09-22 Thread Terry Hancock
, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get problem (bug in apt-get?)

2003-09-22 Thread Terry Hancock
option is probably to wait. Ah, but for what? ;-) Well, it's not crippling at the moment -- it's only blocking installation of a few games my kids want, and there are other ways around that. It's just a matter of maintenance. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com

apt-get problem (bug in apt-get?)

2003-09-21 Thread Terry Hancock
it has to be a bug in apt-get and not something wrong with kdebase-audiolibs that gets us to this point. Right now, though, it's probably a corruption of my package database. Anybody know how to check it or correct it? TIA, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi

Mozilla/Konqueror + Kaffe JVM?

2002-11-01 Thread Terry Hancock
choice when I was looking at the Debian packages. Any advice greatly appreciated! Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

jigdo checksum error

2002-09-22 Thread Terry Hancock
error I'm making. Why would I get a bad checksum? Simply corrupted files, or is there a chance that I'm somehow getting the *wrong* files? Thanks for any advice you might be able to offer, Terry -- -- Terry Hancock Anansi Spaceworks

dpkg database repair

2002-04-05 Thread Terry Hancock
system? The only thing I can think of at this point is to manually backup all the user data areas and reinstall the whole system, but that's pretty painful, so I'd really like to try something less destructive. Thanks, Terry -- -- Terry Hancock

package size stats

2001-11-26 Thread Terry Hancock
is in there, since apt-get can compute the consumed disk space of a potential installation before doing it. Does anyone know how to do this? Please CC. Thanks, Terry Hancock -- -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anansi Spaceworks

Linux ALSA sound ThinkPad 380ED

2001-05-04 Thread Terry Hancock
the config file, run update-modules, and then either reboot or stop and start alsa, I get the message referring to 0x534. Hmm. I've been struggling with this for four days now, so I'm getting pretty frustrated with it! If you can offer any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it! -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL

xbanner w/ X4.0 upgrade

2001-04-23 Thread Terry Hancock
? Any help would be appreciated -- I really liked my old login screen! And it's so much harder to intimidate Windows users this way. ;) -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Terry Hancock
could've fallen through the cracks). Please CC me -- I'm using a Yahoo mailer because my usually mail system is down too. Fortunately Lynx still works! :D Thanks! Terry Hancock reply to -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Terry Hancock
Thanks! This was the problem. Now I have X windows again. Some other stuff is not working completely (the fonts look _bad_ all of a sudden), but I'm running again. Thanks for the help (and in 15 minutes, too!), Aaron and the two others who replied. Terry Hancock Indeed, there is no /etc

Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Terry Hancock
the development packages at all? Thanks for any suggestions. Please reply direct or CC me. -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A Solution: LILO stops at LI

2000-12-11 Thread Terry Hancock
???!?!?!? -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to set up ISA SCSI card.

2000-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
arguments to give them, how to get them configured at install time, or where the documentation is. I posted before, but maybe at a bad time. Sorry for the repost, anyway. Thanks! -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I can burn CDs, but can't mount any CDs.

2000-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
to as /dev/sg0 though, when I write to it. In general, scd# is a SCSI CD Device and sg# is a SCSI Generic Device. The original poster can probably solve his problem by changing the /dev/cdrom symlink to point to the correct device. Good luck. -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs - howto? (aviplay)

2000-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
the option (this means you may have to wait for them to make a release). Debian packages usually follow only after a release has been made. I understand that one of their lists can be used to post a request for package or RFP you might want to look for that (I haven't used that though). -- Terry

ISA SCSI card in Python

2000-11-23 Thread Terry Hancock
, it worked with Debian 2.1, so I don't really understand why it would mess up now. What is it trying to do at that point? Thanks in advance, -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stock kernel config info?

2000-04-02 Thread Terry Hancock
that the modules would operate more independently, but I suppose not? Please CC direct to me, as I am only on this list intermittently. Thanks, -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compaq 5300

2000-03-31 Thread Terry Hancock
untitled ? :) -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printcap problems, please help

2000-03-27 Thread Terry Hancock
: printcap printcapType: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) Encoding: base64 -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ALSA Mixer Trouble

2000-03-27 Thread Terry Hancock
# Set up by Terry Hancock, 2000-3/26 # based on ALSA install instructions #ISA PnP support options isapnp isapnp_reserve_irq=9,10,11,12,13 #ALSA native device support (Avance Logic ALS120 -- Avance Logic ALS100 driver) alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd

Re: debuser- Debian on Olivetti PCS 42P

2000-03-27 Thread Terry Hancock
as well as the drive, of course. Most 486 BIOS's can't do it. Nicely, Debian has a lot of CD interfaces supported in the base system, so you might get lucky that way. Anyway, good luck. Best regards Johan -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bus error crashes, different programs

1999-07-26 Thread Terry Hancock
! -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Terry Hancock
everything with dpkg. Would appreciate any help at all, thanks! Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-21 Thread Terry Hancock
recommendations? Having two different types not work does not instill me with confidence about others on the market! Anyway, I appreciate any help at all, thanks! Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ATAPI CDROM problem (NEC-260)

1999-01-19 Thread Terry Hancock
figured it would be better to leave that on the Windows machine. It's also an ATAPI IDE CD-ROM. I would expect it to have the same problem, but I'll probably try it if all else fails. -- Many thanks! Terry Hancock ** Complete DMESG Listing