Re: 2.6 kernel causing X to hang?

2004-04-16 Thread Bob Billson
. And to make it more interesting, sometimes (though less often) X will lock up while I'm using it. I'm not sure if this is a kernel or X problem. It never happens if I switch back to 2.4.25. bob -- bob billsonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Billson
for mysql? bob -- bob billsonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz /) [EMAIL PROTECTED] beekeeper -8|||} Beannachtaí na Nollaig! Linux geek \) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HELP] sarge, 2.6.0 and ALSA won't play

2003-12-28 Thread Bob Billson
that are in the 2.6.0 tarball. hrm... However, the ALSA start up scripts for the 2.4 kernel are still installed. Wonder if this is messing things up for 2.6. I don't want to remove the 2.4 ALSA stuff since I dual boot this box. bob -- bob billsonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham

Re: [HELP] sarge, 2.6.0 and ALSA won't play

2003-12-24 Thread Bob Billson
1 (autoclean) Any ideas? bob -- bob billsonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz /) [EMAIL PROTECTED] beekeeper -8|||} Beannachtaí na Nollaig! Linux geek \) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

[HELP] sarge, 2.6.0 and ALSA won't play

2003-12-23 Thread Bob Billson
module-init-tools (deb v0.9.15-pre3-2) installed. I did make sure that the correct System.map is in /boot. I'm puzzled what I'm overlooking; probably something stupidly simple. If someone could poke me with a clue :-), I would be most grateful. Thanks for the help! bob -- bob

Re: Small debian install

2001-02-15 Thread Bob Billson
Quoting Neil Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have this P75 with 500MB HD and 16Mb RAM just sitting there doing nothing (unwanted present from friend) so I'm going to install Debian on it. Sure, you can install Debian on it. I'm running a 486/133 w/24 MB as a mail/webserver. It's running with two

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-12 Thread Bob Billson
. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. beekeeper -8|||} --Dorothy

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-12 Thread Bob Billson
/menu.lst. Thanks! That answers my question. Looks like I'll have do so playing with grub! :-) bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin

help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
it out? Thanks for the help. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. beekeeper -8|||} --Dorothy

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
. Maybe it's just me. *This* is *slow*?! :-) I didn't have chance to try the prerelease before Linus released the real version bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
this: hda1=windows hda3=/ hda5=/home hda6=/usr hda4=swap If this is the case, make the appropriate changes in lilo.conf, i.e. change all hdc to hda and lilo should be happy. Let us know how you make out. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
won't be able to reboot! bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. beekeeper -8|||} --Dorothy

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
misunderstanding. Thanks. From the snip from Dale's dmesg it appears he only has only physical drive. The kernel only reported find hdc. There may be more which didn't he post. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:10:41PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: Thanks. From the snip from Dale's dmesg it appears he only has only physical drive. Sorry, I'm cixelsyd today. I meant to say appears he only has one physical drive.

Re: Linux 2.4.0 root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
Setup) and scsi disks? I once built my kernel with ext2 support as a module late one night. Needless to say, my machine was very unhappy with me. :-) bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
to the kernel like with lilo.conf's 'append='? Second, is it easier to install Debian package or play with original tarball? bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon tinteán mar do

Re: Linux 2.4.0 root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
? I forget. Soon there will be ext3 and others to choose from. hhmm... Can ext2 be replaced with, say, romfs for embedded apps? I'm glad Linus and the others gave us this flexibility unlike that choice-less OS ahem out there. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
clear. I should have said does grub have the equivalent of lilo's /etc/lilo.conf where an equivalent 'append=' line goes? That avoids have to press 'c' and entry to info. Thanks... bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED

dead keys map info?

2000-10-25 Thread Bob Billson
or various programs allow use of the dead keys. This is good. What seems to be missing is a map of what key combinations produce what. I'm looking for the info both for X and the normal console. Can someone point me where to RTFM? Thanks! bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-15 Thread Bob Billson
is a standalone POP server which can handle maildir. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to make XMail's POP server standalone. Or is there? Courier has a POP server, but it isn't standalone either. :-( bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-15 Thread Bob Billson
it. -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ /) Linux{|||8- beekeeper ...4 years -8|||} Join the snowball

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-15 Thread Bob Billson
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Damon Muller wrote: Try the pop3d server which is part of the qmail package. It's the only My apologies for not making myself clear enough. I'm running exim and really would rather not switch to qmail. -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-14 Thread Bob Billson
? bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ /) Linux{|||8- beekeeper ...4 years -8|||} Join the snowball

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-14 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:46:28PM +0200, Davide Libenzi wrote: Try XMail : http://www.maticad.it/davide/xmail.asp XMail is a *client*. I need a POP *server* which handles maildir. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #475

2000-03-21 Thread Bob Billson
, definitely not a Debian genius :) -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\ /) Linux{|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Join the snowball!! (/ 60,000 head

Re: Router Project

2000-01-31 Thread Bob Billson
Project called Coyote Linux. Their web page is at www.vortech.net/coyote/ bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\ /) Linux{|||8- beekeeper ...3 years

Re: Sound from cassete to mp3

2000-01-19 Thread Bob Billson
may be disappointed with the results Agreed. Tape-mp3 will definitely not be of CD quality. However, if you are willing to accept the lower sound quality or if there is no CD available, this might do the trick. -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

[OT} firewall question

1999-12-29 Thread Bob Billson
going to the cable modem. The firewall (ipchains) is set to deny and log anything not specifically allowed or denied. Are we breaking something by denying these ICMP packets? Thanks for the advice. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

debianized mars-nwe?

1999-12-04 Thread Bob Billson
. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. - RFC-1925 (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/60,000 head of livestock

Re: mars-nwe

1999-12-04 Thread Bob Billson
Francois Deppierraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filename: project/experimental/mars-nwe_0.99pl12-1_i386.deb No wonder I couldn't find it! Thanks very much. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

Re: Help! mgetty ppp won't play together

1999-09-16 Thread Bob Billson
that. hmm... That's odd. I'll give it a try and see what happens. To any PPP experts out there who know what I'm talking about, please tell me what this extra field signifies so I can sleep at night... Indeed. Inquirer minds want to know. :-) bob -- bob billson email

Re: Help! mgetty ppp won't play together

1999-09-16 Thread Bob Billson
running on the caller? -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/60,000 head of livestock\) no place like $HOME. CIA terrorist NSA

Re: Help! mgetty ppp won't play together

1999-09-16 Thread Bob Billson
Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /etc/ppp/options also contains the following options: +pap -chap Don't have that in mine, but it's worth a try. :-) bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

Re: dpkg-dev / dpkg broke?

1999-09-15 Thread Bob Billson
--install dpkg-dev dpkg --install dpkg After that apt was happy again. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/60,000 head

Help! mgetty ppp won't play together

1999-09-11 Thread Bob Billson
secret (password). Does someone see what I am overlooking? Thanks for the help. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because

help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Bob Billson
someone has already gotten Eudora to talk to a Debian box. If not some advice on what I'm doing wrong with either approach would be very well! Thanks for the help!! bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Bob Billson
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:00:07AM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. Thanks. I'll give it a try. bob

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Bob Billson
* quickly. Note how quickly, Alan Cox found and fixed the remote crash bug in the kernel.) bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because

Re: why is xdm ignoring the keyboard?

1999-05-30 Thread Bob Billson
dealing with various config files would be useful. Maybe it already exists? :-) bob ...thinking it's cool to be running xdm and X again :-) -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8

why is xdm ignoring the keyboard?

1999-05-29 Thread Bob Billson
, itself, still appears to be functioning. cron still is running its jobs. The mouse still moves cursor around. Can someone clue me in what I need to change to get xdm to work properly? Thanks for the help. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz

packets hanging diald

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Billson
to get diald to ignore it? (System info: Debian potato, 2.2.9 kernel) TIA ... bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/60,000 head of livestock

HELP: EXT2-fs error

1999-05-18 Thread Bob Billson
as above. Is this a bug in Potato TeX package or a problem with my system? How do I fix it? Is it safe to rmdir that directory and recreate it? TIA for the help. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8

Re: HELP: EXT2-fs error

1999-05-18 Thread Bob Billson
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:23:41PM +1000, Rob wrote: Have you run fsck on the partition? Its probably the best place to start with disk problems. Yes, that was one of the first things I did. The partition came up clean.

bash weirdness under potato?

1999-05-06 Thread Bob Billson
any ideas what is going on? bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/60,000 head of livestock\) no place like $HOME

2.2 kernel under slink?

1999-05-06 Thread Bob Billson
no longer seems accurate. Thanks for the help. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz (\/) {|||8- beekeeper ...3 years -8|||} Linux! Because there is (/60,000 head of livestock

[DHCPC] eth0 disappears after booting

1997-12-20 Thread Bob Billson
disappeared, so I don't think the cable modem problem is related. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but just don't see it. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks! bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] first year beekeeper, 2 colonies

[HELP] Netscape RealAudio plug-ins

1997-10-27 Thread Bob Billson
. However, I'm not familiar enough with Netscape to know what to add. Any help would be welcome. Thanks. bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] first year beekeeper, 2 colonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you

Re: [HELP] Netscape RealAudio plug-ins

1997-10-27 Thread Bob Billson
the Navigator home page selection box. I clicked on the the little triangle and sure enough there was everything else. Thanks! -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] first year beekeeper, 2 colonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS

Re: Best Ethernet Card

1997-09-16 Thread Bob Billson
with it. bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] first year beekeeper, 2 colonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it./) {|||8- Linux: Resistance is futile

Re: [X] why does X kill my modem?

1997-08-22 Thread Bob Billson
happens. -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it./) {|||8- Linux: World domination. Fast. -8

Re: magicfilter Espon Stylus Color II

1997-08-21 Thread Bob Billson
Thanks to everyone who sent me info on getting my Epson Stylus Color II working under Linux. It works great! Some of the colors are quite right, but I can live with this! Thanks again! Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS

[X] why does X kill my modem?

1997-08-21 Thread Bob Billson
is ctrl-alt-del. Is there something buried in X which enables/disables the serial ports? If so, what and where? If not, does anyone have suggestions as to what might be going on here? TIA... Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS

Re: [X] why does X kill my modem?

1997-08-21 Thread Bob Billson
to update the controller to adjust for seasonal changes. All this works fine when X is not running. This is why I'm puzzled to what X is changing. Any other ideas? Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live

Re: [X] why does X kill my modem?

1997-08-21 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, I wrote: ttyS0 and ttyS3 are IRQ 3 ttyS2 and ttyS4 are IRQ 4 I *meant* to type: ttyS0 and ttyS2 are IRQ 3 ttyS1 and ttyS3 are IRQ 4 -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live

Re: POV-ray?

1997-08-21 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Greg Vence wrote: Does anyone who uses POV know why I cann't see http://www.pov.org/ ? Try www.povray.org, instead. -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without

magicfilter Espon Stylus Color II

1997-08-09 Thread Bob Billson
Has anyone already gotten magicfilter to work with the Espon Stylus Color II (ink jet) printer? Is is compatiable with one of the other Espon ink printers? I don't want to write my own configuration file if it has already been done. Thanks. Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZ

broke dpkpg files :-( help?

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Billson
asking a similar question when the last few months. However, searching the mail list archives didn't turn up anything. Help? he asked sheepishly :-) Thanks. Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You

Re: nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
. the typo), but I I did. No answer yet. -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it./) {|||8- Linux: World domination. Fast. -8

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
-nighter my brain is somewhat fuzzy. :) Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it./) {|||8- Linux: World domination. Fast. -8

Re: nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 7 12:43:30 1997 From: Sales Information [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Billson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 12:28:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Comments From LSL Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing was left out. I sorry to say the oficial is a typo You can forward

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
likely me. :-) -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it./) {|||8- Linux: World domination. Fast. -8

nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-06 Thread Bob Billson
into problems and out of time. Since the 1.3 was already ordered, we decided to wait for it. Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it./) {|||8- Linux: World

using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-06 Thread Bob Billson
the cable modem uses now talking to Win95. Should we install this for Debian? If so, how to get it going? Any help will be most welcome. Thanks! Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live

1.2 to 1.3 short cut?

1997-06-28 Thread Bob Billson
upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3. Anyone foresee any problems with doing this? Or should we do a complete installation of 1.2 before we upgrade? Thanks for the help. Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You

1.3 disks to install 1.2?

1997-06-25 Thread Bob Billson
with the 1.2 set? Thanks. By tomorrow afternoon, we should have another [Debian] Linux convert. :) Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\ MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it./) {|||8- Linux

multi-volume backups with taper?

1997-03-24 Thread Bob Billson
of directories at a time. This is wasteful of both time and tape. Any help would be most welcome. TIA! Bob -- Bob Billson, KC2WZ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS-DOS, you can't live with it. You can live without it. Linux: the choice

Debian (not Linux) ne

1996-09-18 Thread bob . billson
@SUBJECT:Re: Debian (not Linux) newbie N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use multi-volume backups as I do them off-line anyway. I just define my backup volumes such that they will fit on one 170 MB tape. That holds /etc, /home and /usr/local, which is all I need. My

Debian (not Linux) newbie

1996-09-10 Thread bob . billson
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #2 N Hi again all... Question #2 of problems getting Debian install. I tried a test install of Pacific Hi-Tech's Debian 1.1.1 CD-ROM on another hard drive (not the one I'm trying to backup) on Friday. All went okay until I got

Debian (not Linux) newbie

1996-09-10 Thread bob . billson
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #1 N Hi all, I've been running Linux for almost a year now. I started with Slackware, moved to Red Hat 3.0.3 now I want to move to Debian. I will be moving Red Hat to another machine once I get Debian configured the way I want.

Debian (not Linux) newbie

1996-09-09 Thread bob . billson
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #2 N Hi again all... Question #2 of problems getting Debian install. I tried a test install of Pacific Hi-Tech's Debian 1.1.1 CD-ROM on another hard drive (not the one I'm trying to backup) on Friday. All went okay until I got

Debian (not Linux) newbie

1996-09-09 Thread bob . billson
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #1 N Hi all, I've been running Linux for almost a year now. I started with Slackware, moved to Red Hat 3.0.3 now I want to move to Debian. I will be moving Red Hat to another machine once I get Debian configured the way I want.