Re: X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-10 Thread Josh McKinney
: whiteglass... it was quite nice. but on debian, the resource makes no difference. anything else i need to add? apt-get install libxcursor1-dev; -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org

Re: Helix Gnome

2000-11-22 Thread Josh McKinney
You don't need to. On approximately Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:35:22AM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! Should I deinstall Gnome in order to install Helix Gnome in a Debian 2.2 machine? Thanks in advance Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: startkde

2000-11-22 Thread Josh McKinney
You need to have X started to run KDE. You can edit your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, at the bottom it will have the stuff about starting gnome probably, you can just comment out the gnome part and put 'exec startkde' On approximately Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:28:36AM +0100, Robert Epprecht

Re: Known Compile problems with 2.4-test11

2000-11-27 Thread Josh McKinney
I have seen the same post on debianplanet, and as far as I can tell this is OLD news. I am sure we all heard about the RH7 compiler gcc 2.96, it is unstable too, but does this mean that woody now contains the same compiler? As far as I can tell, it isn't. Also, it is rather annoying for

Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-28 Thread Josh McKinney
The fact is that mutt doesn't get your mail, it is simply a reader, you must use fetchmail or something like that to get your mail from the pop server. On approximately Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:32:23PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: The truth is that I am not sure. I supposed that it was in

Fwd: [PATCH] G450 support for matroxfb

2000-11-28 Thread Josh McKinney
This is from the linux-kernel mailing-list, I thought some of you may be interested in this, since I see alot of talk about the X packages and Matrox Cards. - Forwarded message from Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:13:33 +0100 From: Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-30 Thread Josh McKinney
From my personal experience I have not been able to get the kernel patches for 2.2* to work. The patches are not so great backports from the 2.4* kernels, so the easiest way to get the card to work with my experience is to use 2.4* kernels, I have been using them with the card since around

Re: Gnome Sound Problems Continued

2000-11-30 Thread Josh McKinney
I know that your problem with the gnome sounds is that esd and the gnome sounds are fighting over the sound card basically. I can't help you much more than that, I just don't use sounds with gnome, but it may help. On approximately Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:08:29PM -0500, Arlen Carlson wrote:

Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(

2000-12-27 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:07:05AM +1000, Ian Tan wrote: I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in Promise ATA/100 IDE controller, and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) Actually the 2.4 kernel series has support for the

Re: kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:53:42AM -0800, brian moore wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory. I was

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-18 Thread Josh McKinney
not hesitate to recommend virtually any nvidia graphics card for use with linux. It may be binary-only drivers, but that is pretty much what you have to live with to get GLX accelerated graphics. -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org

Re: mutt 1.5.3 test package

2003-01-15 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:31:38PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: I'm interested in testing your package, but the URL you gave 404's. Is there another address I can get the package at? It is in unstable. Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Lilo and vga=791

2003-01-20 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:29:20PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: I am facing a peculiar problem while booting with a kernel which has framebuffer support. My lilo.conf is as follows: root=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot-bmp.b vga=791 belongs here, not in the

Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:38:34PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: --- --- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread Josh McKinney
, --local Use local tests only in the manpages for spamassassin and spamd. -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org -- | They that can give up essential liberty Linux

Re: kernel compile failure

2003-02-06 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:30:20PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:08:03PM -0800, Torrin wrote: I'm having trouble compiling kernel 2.4.20 on my woody system. I'm using gcc version 2.95.4 I issue the command . . . su -c make-kpkg kernel_image

Re: ut2003/Games in general woes

2003-02-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:43:50PM -0500, karrottop wrote: Ok, I installed ut2003 under debian 3.0 (woody) and it ran. I have recently upgraded to (Sid) and now it only goes to splash screen then blacks out my window, just to return directly to my desktop. So, I installed

Re: xfree86 4.3

2003-03-03 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:29:55PM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote: apologies if this is not the proper list. when can we expect xfree86 4.3 to find its way into unstable? Please read this: http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/xsf.html Then go here:

Re: resetting a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for answering. I am afraid that this is not what I want: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in

Re: debian spammed

2003-03-14 Thread Josh McKinney
and for all. Spamcop.net is pretty handy in reporting it all. Have you got that URL at hand? http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html Google is your friend. -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org

Re: Toy Story List

2003-03-29 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 07:58:21AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:59:46AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Potatoe? No! Its Potato. Potato! potato!! He took his spelling lessons from Bush. Actually it was Dan Quayle.

Re: ATI releast drivers for late model cardz = 8500+

2002-11-23 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:53:50PM +0100, Thomas Kallenberg wrote: Hi!! Well.. I thought these would be open-source driver... or what happend. Does anybody know something about that?? TK It is my understanding that ATI first releases the driver with closed-source, then

Re: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

2003-12-16 Thread Josh McKinney
compile the 2.4.22 kernel properly, and it is just a matter of configuring LILO properly now? http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org

Re: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

2003-12-16 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:29:38PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: On 16 Dec 2003 at 22:56, Josh McKinney wrote: http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html That worked quite well. Only thing that isn't working now is the on- board nVidia NIC, which is what

Re: GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:56:34PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: Which one do you recommend? Maybe try glimmer, it works pretty well, not to fancy or anything I'm looking for a Graphical User Interface for the GCC compiler.

Re: partitioning revisited

2001-08-09 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:22:57PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: that are AFAIK not yet fixed? If this has been fixed, please let me know as I have been checking the changelogs at kernel.org, and seen no mention of swap issues being addressed in the last little while. Check out

Re: basedebs.tgz

2001-08-12 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: On Aug 12 2001, Peter Leipold wrote: I've found some mails written by developers that this file is not available anymore, but I didn't find the solution how to install the base system now??? I think that

msyslog crazy screen output

2001-09-12 Thread Josh McKinney
I recently upgraded to msyslog. It seems to all work the same for the most part, but I have one problem. I have logs sent to tty12 so I can check out whats going on if I want to. This should be fine but it looks like it is being auto-indented or something. Is this normal? Here is an example:

Re: exim

2001-09-12 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:10:39PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: # exim -bS mail file does this. But it has the bad effect to need an online connection, cause this -bS option like to send the mail at the same time to my mail ISP. And i only like to put the mails into exims queue

Re: msyslog crazy screen output

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
Thanks, that worked wonderfully. On approximately Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:09:50PM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:48:58PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: Sep 12 14:46:10 cy599856-a fetchmail[3374]: reading message 1 of 2 (2721 octets

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? It can also be a slackware package, which is still basically a tar.gz file. -- Linux, the choice | No, his mind is not for rent To any god or of a GNU

X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want to now how I can get that too. Thanks Josh -- Linux, the choice | Carswell's Corollary: Whenever man comes of a GNU generation

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
Well, I answered my own question as you may see. Thanks On 14-Sep-2001 Josh McKinney wrote: We have all seen where people have strange X-headers in their Things like X-Operating_System: Debian GNU/Linux or X-Uptime: blah. I just want to now how I can get that too

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:40:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:39:21PM -0500, Josh McKinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, I answered my own question as you may see. Thanks Cute. How'd you do the uptime trick? my_hdr X-Uptime: `uptime

Re: mutt and vi

2001-09-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:40:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all... is there a way to get mutt to load vi using a different rc file? Look in your muttrc file and find the 'editor=vim' line or whatever and make it 'editor=vim -u /patch/to/vimrc' I think that should do the

Re: X-'insert message here' headers

2001-09-14 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:40:05AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This works for OS, but for something dynamic like uptime you probably want to have a filter run bewteen mutt and your MTA to add those. Or, easier, a filter run between mutt and

Re: xinit problem

2001-09-14 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:25:00AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I'm having trouble getting startx to read my .xinitrc or .xsession file. I downloaded gdm but then removed it with the --purge option, but still I can't get startx to read the init file. The way I have to start the

Shell script to call apt-get install --reinstall

2001-09-21 Thread Josh McKinney
I am trying to call a shell script to reinstall all packages. I have a file that lists all installed packages called file. The problem is when I call the script it just goes by saying it couldn't find the package. Here is the script. #!/bin/bash cat file | (IFS= ; while read prog; do apt-get

apt-get install --reinstall FIXED!

2001-09-21 Thread Josh McKinney
Well I figured out my problem and am posting it here just in case someone else may want to use this to. First I used this to find all installed packages. dpkg -l '*'| grep '^i'| cut -f 3 -d ' ' | installed.packages Then I ran apt like this. apt-get install --reinstall `cat

Emacs question

2001-09-27 Thread Josh McKinney
I have what seems like a simple question but has become tough to find an answer. I have been playing around with Emacs for a little while and have noticed one thing thats really bothers me. Why can't I tab(indent) a new line in c-mode? Basically when I open a *.c file and want to indent a line

Re: IMPS/2 problems after kernel 2.4.1 update

2001-02-17 Thread Josh McKinney
Maybe you should try ExplorerPS/2 in XFconfig rather than imps/2. It all works great for me. On approximately Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:06:46AM -0500, Tyler Braun wrote: I experienced the same problems with my intellimouse. What you're looking for is quite simple, I guessed at how I could get

Re: unstable: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-11-09 Thread Josh McKinney
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Michael P wrote: After restarting my computer to install a new kernel, X refuses to start. I get: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I recently ran into this problem and here is my fix. dpkg -i --force-confmiss

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but the results were

Another mutt question?

2001-09-27 Thread Josh McKinney
I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am subscribe to all listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. It all seems to work fine with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is that when I open the say 'debian-user' mailbox all the from lines say debian-user. I want it to be

Re: What's making the list go back in time?

2001-10-05 Thread Josh McKinney
Glad I'm not the only one. Earlier today /. was going in and out, going back to yesterdays headlines and such. I thought I was going crazy. On approximately Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:50:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: debian-user is redelivering messages from several days ago. I just got a

Re: mutt navigating

2001-10-08 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:05:25PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: Hi all, I have a small problem with mutt. I want to use the space bar to scroll and the up and down arrows for previous and next messsages. However, I want to stop mutt autoscrolling from 1 message to the next when I

Re: Lost cursor in X

2001-10-10 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:07:18PM -0500, Angelo Cano wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:37:22PM +0100, Roland Hinkley wrote: [snip] I recently did an upgrade and now I do not have a cursor visible in X. The mouse works as the screen will move in the virtual desktop as you

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-10 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:11:43AM -0600, John Purser wrote: snip If you've got the bucks or the bandwidth then you might want to get a few sets of CD's and have a little install party once a month or so. Use a distro for a while, talk to the people on each mailing list, then a

Re: Cable Modem Problems

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:50:25PM -0400, Luke Reeves wrote: Hello everyone. I've recently erased my RedHat Linux machine and installed Debian Woody. I used [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in Canada) with RedHat just fine, using either Pump or DHCPCD - specifying the hostname and

Re: I'm in a loop

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
The person is using AOL. On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:11:42PM +, Piotr Foremniak wrote: Try to remove CD from drive? :-) On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After making choices (series of questions), I'm told that I've reached the moment of truth.

Re: fish tank desktop background?

2001-10-11 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:36:59PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: So this is admittedly unimportant and frivolous, but when I first saw Debian in use a few years ago, the computer I saw had a fish tank set as the desktop background with fish swimming around, bubbles rising and other

Re: Why no man pages?

2001-10-19 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:50:55PM -0400, Ken Mead wrote: Hello: I have yet to find a fix for this problem I am experiencing. I have a testing box without any man pages(command)! When i run the man command I get this error back: bash: man: command not found However, I

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:28:09AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major

Re: about the gcc-3.0 package..

2001-10-31 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:47:02PM +0100, Rune Elvemo wrote: I downloaded the gcc-3.0 i386 package (to do a little check), it could seem like it would add a file called gcc-3.0 in /usr/bin. (using debian woody here) Anyone who could confirm whether this is true? Yes, you are

Re: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-10-31 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:50:27AM -0700, Michael Patterson wrote: Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows, and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it to

Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people. Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l? ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l netscape*

Re: Can't mount audio CD - help

2001-11-01 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:18:10PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andy Hartford wrote: I'm having trouble mounting audio CDs. I can mount data CDs fine however. I do't think that you =can= mount an audio CD. If you want to play an audio CD (say using

Re: OT: PCI video recommendations

2001-11-08 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:43:02AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 09:32, dman wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:00:54AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: [ wants PCI video card ] I've heard that Matrox cards are really good -- they're cheap and work

Re: 2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Josh McKinney
Don't know if this helps too much either, but I am running unstable(sid) and 2GB files work just fine. On approximately Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:21:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:13:11AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Maybe you've received better

Re: X doesn't redisplay on return from console

2002-03-26 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:52:23PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: it's screen when I do return to vt7. It's just black. So returning there (in whatever fashion) does me know good. So, it's as if the X-server no longer knows to come up for air. Or whatever. Do you have a

Re: dpkg -l long-package-names

2002-04-04 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:31:25PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the command `dpkg -l ...' prints a name colunm which length is limited. As a result long package names are cut and may be displayed ambigiously. Is there an option to habe

setmixer broken in unstable

2002-04-09 Thread Josh McKinney
I am having troubles with the setmixer package in sid. No matter what I try to do, be it apt-get reinstall, or dpkg --force-all install, remove, etc. It gives me the same error. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:45:41PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: Speaking of the binary drivers, that logo and delay on X startup annoys me. I'd like to get a patch that removes it (yes I know that means a binary patch), if I can find such a patch (or be bothered writing one)

Re: Warning only 896MB will be used?

2002-06-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:23:55PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, The following is part of my dmesg output. I have 2 512MB ECC registered ram modules. But only 896MB will be used? What does this mean? Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.

Re: log anaylizer

2002-09-03 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 05:49:30PM -0700, Debian User wrote: What do you guys use for a Web Server Log anaylizer using apache. I tried analog but can't seem to get it to work. Is there a web based version that can be totally administrated by web page? Thanks -debuser

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:49:08AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: If I want to live my debian life in the middle with 'testing', should I create a preferences file? If I don't, and just put entries for testing at the top of my sources list, does that mean the apt-get function will

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:47:39PM +0100, jerry k wrote: I'm new to GNU/Linux Debian and am having a problem with installing to a system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong with