Hi guys,
I used to use the Windows key as one key but with the recent upgrade, that
has changed.
If I recall correctly, both of these keys were mapped to Mod_4. Now in the
GNOME 2.8, it is mapped to a Super_L and Super_R.
Can anyone help me on how I can get my old keys back?
bp
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At Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:03:30 +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
On Friday 17 December 2004 15:10, Bruce Park wrote:
Hey guys,
Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point?
Yes, it's certainly possible. Get a card which supports the hostap
driver. I have some notes which you may be able to use
What kind of encryption (WEP, WPA) will it be able to do?
Would the card control this?
bp
At Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:03:30 +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
On Friday 17 December 2004 15:10, Bruce Park wrote:
Hey guys,
Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point?
Yes, it's certainly
Hey guys,
Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point?
bp
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Fellow Debian Users,
Do any of you have a problem when you hit the Print Screen key inside Eterm? It
seems to freeze the terminal for me.
I'm using Sid.
Any help is appreciated.
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, is postint?
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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:26:43 -0500, Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tim wrote:
I experienced the same problem recently while updating unstable (I've
been running unstable for a while; it's possible I accidentally
corrupted some file).
Anyway, I solved my problem by running apt-get
Ken Gilmour wrote:
Captain's Log, stardate Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:11:46 -0600, from the fingers of
Michael Madden came the words:
Does anyone know of a decent Linux based router project out there?
In the past I've used LRP (http://www.linuxrouter.org), but it
looks like the project isn't maintained
Eric Gaumer wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 19:19 -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
In attempt to change the GNOME icon size, I did the following, Applications-Desktop
Preferences-File Management Preferences.
Under the Icon View Defaults I change this to 75%. Both of the checkboxes right
below
William Ballard wrote:
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:31:05PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
By the way, what is up with all these broken up things in GNOME. Eversince
I did an upgrade, it's been a nightmare when it comes to small things like
this. I really like Debian but it seems like I'm spendin a lot
In attempt to change the GNOME icon size, I did the following, Applications-Desktop
Preferences-File Management Preferences.
Under the Icon View Defaults I change this to 75%. Both of the checkboxes right
below are unchecked.
Now, desktop and Nautilus seem to be fine but when I use the Run
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 22:40 -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
Hello Debian Users,
I am currently using the unstable version of Debian. Prior to this, I was using
testing (Sarge) and I noticed that a serious problem had occurred after an dist-upgrade.
Basically, all my file associations
René Seindal wrote:
Bruce Park wrote (11-12-2004 16:14):
Is it possible that GNOME 2.8 (or Debian for that matter) did away
with the File Association application found on the Applications -
Desktop Preferences menu?
Yes it did,
Use Open with other application and type in the application you
Hello Debian Users,
I am currently using the unstable version of Debian. Prior to this, I was using
testing (Sarge) and I noticed that a serious problem had occurred after an dist-upgrade.
Basically, all my file associations seem to have dissapeared. While using testing, I
was able to at least
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Debian users,
I'm having some difficulty regarding accessing an audio cdrom through
/cdrom directory. I was hoping that someone could help me with this problem.
Currently, I can access the audio cd through /dev/cdrom. Here are some
info about the files.
bash$ ls -l /cdrom
drwxr-xr-x2
Dear debian users,
I'm having some trouble loading my audio cd through /cdrom directory.
Before I start talking about the problem, here are the files that are of use
to this problem.
==
[brock@parker brock]$ ls -l / | grep 'cdrom'
Hello debian users,
I'm reposting this problem again in hope that someone can help me out. I
really need to solve this since it's a real annoying bug.
When I use emacs(emacs20-7), the window and the fonts are distorted at
times. After running some tests, I have figured out that this will occur
I've been experiencing this weird emacs problem regarding X. I'm hoping
that someone can help me to resolve this situation. Before I go on any
further, I'm currently using version 4.1.0-16 in the debian distribution
under KDE desktop.
Here is the normal pic:
How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very
dangerous.
bp
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Hello users,
I posted a message regarding bash and what files it executes. Some replied
that I should read the invocation section of the bash man page. I've done
just that and while some questions are answered, others are not.
As far as I understand this, there are two ways of invoking bash.
1.
Hello all,
I recall using KDE2 for a short time but I remember that there was window
decoration called CDE. I'm now using KDE3 and I don't see this anymore. Does
anyone know if I can find this window theme? If I do find it, what directory
should I put this in? Any help or suggestion is greatly
Dear debian users,
My understanding with the original Bourne shell was that when it starts up,
it will execute .profile in the users home directory. How does this work in
bash? I have a .bash_profile but I know that it isn't executed since my PATH
variable isn't updated everytime I log on.
bp
Hello debian users,
I'm currenty experiencing some difficulty in trying to install 'aktion' from
KDE. Here's what happens:
bash$ apt-get install aktion
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Package aktion has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means
From: Drew Cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: quick shell questions
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:00:51 -0500
1. How do I combine these two (JPG vs jpg):
for f in /path/to/*.JPG; do mv $f `date +%N`.jpg; done
for f in /path/to/*.jpg; do mv $f `date
Hello debian users,
I am currently using Mozilla 1.0.0 and I noticed a strange effect in the
mail reader. The mail reader has fields such as subject, date, etc. In the
date field, I get the time when the mail was sent or received instead of the
date. Is this field configurable? I already
From: nate [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mozilla mail reader
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:59:51 -0800 (PST)
Bruce Park said:
Hello debian users,
I am currently using Mozilla 1.0.0 and I noticed a strange effect in the
mail reader. The mail reader has fields such as subject
From: Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian User List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mozilla mail reader
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:42:49 -0500
Bruce Park wrote:
From: Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It shows just the time of all mails sent today because it assumes that
you know what day
Hello debian users,
Is true type fonts already installed in woody? I was looking at some screen
shots and I see no differences from my fonts and theirs.
bp
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From: Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: grub question - please help
Date: 07 Dec 2002 13:37:27 -0600
Bruce == Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The leading '/' on the vmlinuz kernel name was probably
Hello debian users,
Does anyone have any info on how I can splashimage to work in GRUB for
debian?
I just realized that this is not included in the original GRUB package.
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vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 resides in /boot
vmlinuz resides in / but is a symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
bp
From: martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: grub question - please help
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:03:20 +0100
also sprach Bruce Park [EMAIL
Hello Debian users,
How can I see if I have ttf installed on my machine?
If I don't have it installed, is there a simple package that I can install
or does it need configuration?
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From: Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: grub question - please help
Date: 06 Dec 2002 18:33:09 -0600
David == David P James David writes:
David initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-bf2.4
David Come to think of it, the leading '/' should probably be
David
Hello Debian users,
I need some help regarding file system in Linux. Currently, I have four
partitions on my hard drive. I will use Grub's notation for representing an
IDE primary-master hard drive
hd0,0 - Windows (NTFS)
hd0,1 - boot (ext 2)
hd0,2 - swap (swap)
hd0,3 - root
Hello folks,
I'm having a difficult time loading the linux partition in grub. I'm going
to do the best that I can to explain what I understand and what I don't. I'm
currenty using 2.4.-18-bf2.4 kernel. I am also using a floppy to test this.
I have NOT loaded this into the MBR. Instead, the
Sean,
I too always thought the .Xdefaults was the deprecated version. Regardless,
creating the symlink definetly solved the problem. Thank you.
bp
From: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .Xresources file
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:39:08 -0500
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002
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Subject: Re: audio cd
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:13:28 +0900
Hi,
* Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021204 14:04]:
Nick,
I took myself off the disk group. I see your point in how dangerous that
can become.
You stated you have this:
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root
+1300
Hi Bruce Park,
When I run XMMS from the shell, I get this error: libmikmod.so.2: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
Bruce, head off to http://packages.debian.org and type libmikmod.so.2 in
Search the contents of packages. Click search and you'll find the
library
From: Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: audio cd
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:20:29 +0900
HI Bruce,
* Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021205 11:03]:
Nick,
It seems you are absolutely correct about using cdplay. It's better to
concentrate on the initial source
Hello Debian users,
I'm using KDE3 and I had a few questions regarding the sound server aRts.
I need to edit the system volume but when I go into sounds in the control
system, I don't see anything that pertains to volume. It states something
about using a sound server at start up and I'm
It looks like Michael is absolutely correct about this. I too had a problem
loading it and although I had emu10k1 already loaded, I wasn't added to the
'audio' group. Make sure to do that and restart.
bp
From: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB Live
Eric,
Are your sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list valid?
Just run the update command and see what happens first. Then run upgrade
afterwards.
bp
From: eric lin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: apt-get update, upgrade and install not success, please help
Date: Tue, 03 Dec
Hello Debian users,
I was wondering how I can fix this problem regarding the root user and X.
Normally, I log into the machine as a regular user then use the su command
to become root. Whenever I need to utilize X(xmms, emacs), I get an error
stating the following:
Peter,
Hmm, which kernel are you using? I am using 2.4.18.bf24. It was only loaded
because I chose to install it when I first installed the system.
In anycase, I don't think the creative website will have this module. Your
best bet is search google and find it at a linux site.
bp
From: Peter
Hello Debian users,
I'm having a problem loading any audio cds. I currently have KDE as a
desktop and I can run mp3 and ogg files. I know the cables are plugged from
the CDRW to the sound card because they work in Windows2000.
Is there something speical I need to do because this is a CDRW?
bp
Hello all,
Just exactly what is blackdown java? Is this java2 from sun? I installed
j2sdk1.3 when I was in Redhat but since I converted, I'll need to install
the appropriate software.
Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated.
bp
03.12.2002 um 16:21 schrieb Bruce Park:
I'm having a problem loading any audio cds. I currently have KDE as a
desktop and I can run mp3 and ogg files. I know the cables are plugged
from
the CDRW to the sound card because they work in Windows2000.
Is there something speical I need to do because
Park [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: blackdown java
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:43:26 -0500
On 2002.12.03 16:35 Bruce Park wrote:
Just exactly what is blackdown java? Is this java2 from sun? I installed
j2sdk1.3 when I was in Redhat but since I converted, I'll need to install
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: audio cd
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:43:28 -0500
-- Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
(on Tuesday, 03 December 2002, 04:21 PM -0500):
I'm having a problem loading any audio cds. I currently have KDE as a
desktop and I can run mp3 and ogg files
Hello Debian users,
I am currently looking for two drivers for a microsoft sidewinder joystick.
Currently, I'm using kernel 2.4.18.bf24. I found some drivers for earlier
kernels but I'm afraid that I won't be able to use these in my kernel. Is
there a site where all update drivers
Hello Debian users,
I just recently realized that my .Xresources file is not being run everytime
I log into my account. While I can easily put this in my .bashrc file and
execute it with the xrdb command, I am trying to understand what's going on
here. Can anyone tell me why this doesn't get
John,
From what I can see it looks like you should install it in the MBR. When you
initially installed Lilo, it should have prompted you for that. It also
should have prompted you to put everything into a menu so that you can
easily choose which OS to boot without having to formally type the
Hello Debian users,
I'm going to restate my problem regarding this audio cd problem that I'm
having. But first, I would like to thank all those that have contributed in
this matter.
I am currently running kernel 2.4.18-bf24. I have a IDE-CDRW from LG. I'm
running KDE3.0.5 and I have XMMS
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Subject: Re: weird X effect
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:03:29 +1100
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:30:07PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
Hello all,
Thanks to many generouse people's advise, I now removed xfonts-100dpi
and
am using xfonts-75dpi. Now one of the main reasons for this transition
was
to make
Hello all,
Exactly how stable is KDE3 and Gnome2? It seems to me that Gnome2 still is
having a lot of problems but I'm really not sure about KDE3.
bp
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Hello all,
I have a sound blaster live value card and it seems that I cannot get this
to work. I have this driver 'EMU10k1' for this card. When I try to play an
mp3 using xmms, at the prompt it tells me that it cannot access /dev/dsp.
Then xmms pops open a window with three things basically
:50 +0100
Am 02.12.2002 um 13:09 schrieb Bruce Park:
I have a sound blaster live value card and it seems that I cannot
get this to work. I have this driver 'EMU10k1' for this card. When
I try to play an mp3 using xmms, at the prompt it tells me that it
cannot access /dev/dsp. Then xmms pops
2002 19:36:00 +
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On Monday 02 December 2002 3:35 am, Bruce Park wrote:
Hello all,
I read that I should use:
http://kde.tdyc.com/ stable kde2
as the source for my kde packages however, when I run 'apt-get update',
I
get errors regarding
From: Dennis Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: audio problems
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:14:13 +0100
Am 02.12.2002 um 14:49 schrieb Bruce Park:
** warning **: oss_open() failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp):
Permission denied.
As for the other window, it's just
Mike,
Adding myself to the user did the trick. Thanks to everyone that helped.
bp
From: Mike Strean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: audio problems
Date: 02 Dec 2002 17:12:16 -0600
you can do this w/ adduser
adduser (your username) audio
Good Luck!
On Mon
Hello all,
For security reasons, I'd rather the root user NOT be able to login through
kdm. Currently in /etc/kde3/dkm/kdmrc, I have AllowRootLogin set to false.
However, I can log in as root at kdm. What do I need to change in?
bp
Hello all,
I'm still having difficulty in setting up my USB mouse for woody. Since I am
currently kernel 2.4.bf2.4, my assumption is that the USB drivers are
already loaded. When I setup X, I chose /dev/input/mice for the my mouse
path. Is there anyone that can help me getting this correct?
As
Hello all,
I'm trying to get rid of xfonts-100dpi and instead use xfonts-75dpi.
However, when I try to remove that package:
apt-get remove xfonts-100dpi
apt states that it will also remove x-window-system and
w-window-system-core. I know that these packages should not be removed so
what can I
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Subject: Re: usb mouse
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:32:59 -0800 (PST)
Bruce Park said:
Hello all,
I have a MS Wheel Mouse Optical plugged into the usb port in my pc. This
mouse has two buttons and a scroller.
It seems to me that my X-Server won't start because it doesn't recognize
/dev
Hello all,
I've got a few questions regarding X. I hope that someone can help me to
solve these problems.
1. I need to configure X so that I can use xfont-75dpi. I currently have
xfont-100dpi and I cannot get rid of this since it will get rid of the
x-window-system as well. So, can anyone
Hello all,
I previously wrote that all I need to do was add mousedev into
/etc/modules. Although that actually worked, when I rebooted X, I couldn't
move my mouse anymore. I apologize for the error.
bp
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As for twm, I'll get rid of it and see what happens. Thanks for the help.
bp
From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: configuring X
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:12:42 +
On Sun
Hello all,
Thanks to many generouse people's advise, I now removed xfonts-100dpi and am
using xfonts-75dpi. Now one of the main reasons for this transition was to
make emacs look nice but now it looks like there is a problem with graphics.
Please look at the file attatchment and tell me what I
Hello all,
I read that I should use:
http://kde.tdyc.com/ stable kde2
as the source for my kde packages however, when I run 'apt-get update', I
get errors regarding 'Packages' not being found. I got this from the KDE
website so I'm thinking, what should I do?
bp
Hello all,
I'm not sure which flavor to install on my system. After reading the
manuals, it seems that most USB drivers are within b2f.4 flavor. Is this
correct? Also, I only have cd1 one of the debian cds. The default boot
prompt without any argument is designated for the idepci flavor. At
Hello all,
I'm fooling around with cfdisk and wanted to ask the superiors about
something. I plan to dual boot this with windows 2000. On the first
partition because I've had disatrous results when windows is NOT on the
first partition. Anyhow, now I've created a boot partition and after I
Hello all,
First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question.
OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the
boot, swap, and root partition. Here are some questions that still linger in
my head.
1. Should I make the /boot bootable? I'm dual booting
Hello all,
I have now succesfully installed debian a second time with DHCP. =)
The first thing I wanted to install was emacs and I tried this command as
root:
apt-get install emacs
And I got the follwing error:
-
E: Package emacs has no
Hello all,
I have a MS Wheel Mouse Optical plugged into the usb port in my pc. This
mouse has two buttons and a scroller.
It seems to me that my X-Server won't start because it doesn't recognize
/dev/input/mice. I've read somewhere you need to load the usb modules before
you can use them.
Hello all,
I just finished installing the base system for debian. Even though I don't
have anything on it right now, it's still better than Redhat.
OK, unlike what I thought would happen, when I was installing debian, it
never prompted me if I wanted for internet configuration. I figure that
Bob,
After doing some research, I found out that ash is a clone of a bourne shell
from BSD. I was using this last night and I really couldn't find anything
that differs from the real shell. Now, what can I do about the C shell and
the Korn shell? Are those also not free?
I'm doing a lot of
What exactly is a POSIX shell?
bp
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Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
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I plan to install bash and tcsh. I'm currently running bash under redhat(I'm
waiting to for a new release for debian) and I use it all the time. The only
reason why I want the original UNIX shells is to test some scripts that I'm
writing.
bp
From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X - window manager - desktop
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:06:00 -0800
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:35:33AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
the X? What exactly is a window manager? twm, enlightment, sawfish ... I
The window manager
Hello all,
I was wandering, what sound enhancing software are available for linux? I
hate to make the comparison with Windows but one of the reasons why I keep
it is because of soundblaster live's audio hq and sound mixer.
bp
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companies require development work under unix/linux environment but I
believe MS has some tools regarding GUI with c and c++.
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Hello,
Does anyone know where I can find the package for emacs-nox20.7-1? I looked
on the main site for debian but I couldn't find it.
bp
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Hello,
Can anyone tell me which cds I should download if I want to install gnome
with workstation like environment? I know that there are seven cds including
the non-us but I've read that you really don't need to download more the
third cd.
bp
Hello,
I was just wandering, it seems like the latest version has this thing called
flavors where you decide what type of installation you want to do
regarding your hardware. So, is it OK for me to JUST download disk 2 that
contains the vanilla flavor? Will this include all the necessary
Hello all,
I'm a newbie in this debian world so please be patient with me.
I'm trying to undestand everything about debian before I can install them
and I was hoping that some one can answer my question.
It seems that debian has three ways to install packages.
1) dpkg
2) apt
3) dselect
My
Hello all,
I didn't see a mail list for installation problems so I decided to try this
group. If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize in advance.
I'm trying to install a debian system but I need to have the partition set
up correctly.
I currently have Windows and Redhat linux on my
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