Re: Unreadable DVDs

2006-02-25 Thread Damien Solley
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 07:13 -0600, Paul Stolp wrote: * Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-23 21:15]: Greetings, I am trying to write single session DVD+R discs under Debian Etch (and previously also in Sarge). I have tried Nautilus CD/DVD burner and K3b. Both programs apparently

Unreadable DVDs

2006-02-23 Thread Damien Solley
well, but I can't rule out a physical writing issue (although it used to work, under linux). dmesg doesn't show any abnormalities, but relevant output at end. TIA for any clues, Damien Solley SIS5513: chipset revision 0 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: SiS 962/963

Re: Dlink DWL-G510: Never get hardware present message

2006-01-14 Thread Damien Solley
[Sorry for previous off-list reply] Hi Ed, I say madwifi is 1) simpler and more 2) stable because: 1) Ndiswrapper needed kernel configuration ndiswrapper config, madwifi just needs kernel config (and make install in the madwifi directory). Took me ages to get ndiswrapper running and when I

USB Mass Storage - Kernel Bug?

2004-09-15 Thread Damien Solley
Greetings, I am having trouble using an external USB 2.0 to IDE converter box with recent 2.6 kernels. The box houses a 200GB IDE drive. When I try to perform large transfers (eg 500MB files) to the box it aborts after a variable proportion of the file/s have been transferred. The dmesg output

USB Mass Storage - Kernel Bug?

2004-09-14 Thread Damien Solley
Greetings, I am having trouble using an external USB 2.0 to IDE converter box with recent 2.6 kernels. The box houses a 200GB IDE drive. When I try to perform large transfers (eg 500MB files) to the box it aborts after a variable proportion of the file/s have been transferred. The dmesg output

Write Caching for External USB Disk

2003-12-08 Thread Damien Solley
anybody know how to disable write-behind caching (if that's the correct term) for this disk? Perhaps an option in fstab? Hdparm doesn't like to work with it (reports that SCSI not supported). Thanks for your time. Damien -- ~~~ Damien Solley Linux

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Damien Solley
uccellina:~/Conf!73 dpkg -l xserver-xfree86 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:29, John Peter wrote: Lukas Ruf wrote: Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-03 10:06]: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:25:13 +0100, Jaque Moreau wrote: ... you can always upgrade manually ... ! can I find the required .deb files anywhere? wbr, Lukas I

Re: How to Eliminate Popups?

2003-11-03 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 01:03, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a setting in Mozilla to eliminate popups? I am running testing and have the latest release of Mozilla for testing but a search of the index finds nothing regarding popups. Tom George Hi Tom George Edit | Preferences |

Bootsplash in Debian

2003-11-02 Thread Damien Solley
Hello All I am trying to get a splash screen while booting into my Debian Sarge box. I found instructions at: http://bulmalug.net/impresion.phtml?nIdNoticia=1812 and have followed them (almost) to the letter. The kernel has been patched, images and initrd in place, etc etc but I don't get a splash

Re: Bootsplash in Debian

2003-11-02 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 01:02, Nicolas Rueff wrote: Ainsi parla Damien Solley le 307ème jour de l'an 2003: Hello All I am trying to get a splash screen while booting into my Debian Sarge box. I found instructions at: http://bulmalug.net/impresion.phtml?nIdNoticia=1812 and have followed

Re: Bootsplash in Debian

2003-11-02 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:50, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Damien Solley wrote: Thanks for you answer, Nicolas. It seems that it may indeed be a framebuffer error. Although I had assumed my kernel framebuffer was working correctly (because I am getting 1024x768x8 console) there is an error

Re: Bootsplash in Debian

2003-11-02 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:22, Johann Koenig wrote: On Monday November 3 at 03:37pm Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel is 2.4.22 from ftp.kernel.org with Con Kolivas' -ck2 patch (includes bootsplash). I've got 512MB main memory with 1MB accessible to the BIOS while booting. I

RESOLVED Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-21 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:58, Herbert Xu wrote: Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #211594). However, when I boot with acpi=on as a kernel argument, I get no ACPI. There is an off-by-one bug that breaks acpi=on. Try acpi=force instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http

Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-20 Thread Damien Solley
Hi How do I enable ACPI with the debian kernel package kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (in Sarge)? I see that ACPI has been disabled by default with this kernel (closing bugs #210512, #210563, #210727, #211594). However, when I boot with acpi=on as a kernel argument, I get no ACPI. Dmesg shows ACPI:

Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-20 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:34, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Damien Solley wrote: Hi How do I enable ACPI with the debian kernel package kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (in Sarge)? I see that ACPI has been disabled by default with this kernel (closing bugs #210512, #210563, #210727, #211594). However

Re: A Selection of XMMS Skins?

2003-10-13 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:19, Michael Bonert wrote: Is there an apt package of XMMS Skins? I'm getting sick of the default one. I searched with 'apt-cache search xmms', that, however, didn't find anything. I then tried googling--that just found me RPMS--yuck! The archive (here) doesn't

Re: login-delay after boot

2003-10-13 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:11, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: my woody-box drives me mad: after boot, wen the login-prompt appears, i can enter a username, but then i have to wait ~4 MINUTES!!! until i can enter my password. it's not that my machine was so

Re: A Selection of XMMS Skins?

2003-10-12 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:19, Michael Bonert wrote: Is there an apt package of XMMS Skins? I'm getting sick of the default one. I searched with 'apt-cache search xmms', that, however, didn't find anything. I then tried googling--that just found me RPMS--yuck! The archive (here) doesn't

Re: Default install w/apache - how to create local web access?

2003-09-01 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 07:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built a default debian box with apache, apache-ssl, and squirrelmail. I am creating accounts for family members who also want web page creation capability, but none of the accounts have web-like directories in their homedirs, like

Re: Hi, how can I add a key map to show the desktop undergnomesawfish?? Thanks

2003-09-01 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:09, Zhao You Bing wrote: I know that under RedHat there is a CTRL-ALT-D and it's very convenient. Anyone can give me a point? -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CADCG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China Tel : 0571-87951045(O),

Re: Default install w/apache - how to create local web access?

2003-09-01 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:13, Damien Solley wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 07:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built a default debian box with apache, apache-ssl, and squirrelmail. I am creating accounts for family members who also want web page creation capability, but none

Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-01 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:47, Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. My father has a Win XP box with a builtin DSL card (no linux driver available AFAIK, it's a Eicon Diva DSL). So the only possibility to get my Linux laptop connected to the net when I am at home is to let XP dial in and

Re: 855GM chipset supported?

2003-08-30 Thread Damien Solley
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 10:13, Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm planning purchasing an Acer Travelmate 290; it's a centrino based laptop so it's got an Intel 855 chipset + integrated graphics. The question is... am I going to have any problems

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Damien Solley
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:51, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:12:17PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even let me select the spell checker under Options - Language

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 22:41, Mark Maas wrote: Ok.. This going to sound dumb... Bare with me... New to linux and all. I installed webmin by doing: apt-get install webmin and it worked fine. Now how do I access webmin? something like: http://[debianhostname]:1000 ? For the life of

Re: Webmin

2003-08-25 Thread Damien Solley
, but still no go. I also rebooted. There must be something I'm missing in the conf files somewhere... Is it started by inetd? Mark - Original Message - From: Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Webmin

Re: acme package - experiences

2003-08-25 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 23:46, Olivier Robert wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package. The packege description is: acme - Enables the multimedia buttons found on laptopsacme - Enables the multimedia buttons found on laptops I have a Compaq

2.6 Kernel -problem with console spewing symbols.

2003-08-24 Thread Damien Solley
Hi I've been testing the 2.6 kernel series on my laptop, and have a recurrent (but low priority) issue. I'm running sarge. While booting up, when the system begins starting init scripts, it immediately starts spewing characters like so: @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Damien Solley
There's even handy scripts that'll show arrange the dpkg output by size of package, so you can really trim it. Someone published this on a newsgroup list a while back, but am not sure who it was! Very nice output, kudos to the original author. Oh, and here it is (a the bottom of the page):

Re: LFS problem with Debian testing

2003-08-20 Thread Damien Solley
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 19:17, Jukka Salmi wrote: Hello, I'm having problems with opening large (2 GB) files on a Debian testing System: --- #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h #include fcntl.h [...] int fd; fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_LARGEFILE); [...] --- gcc complains

Re: KGhostView Display Problem

2003-08-20 Thread Damien Solley
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 18:47, Brian Poole wrote: Hi, When I view a pdf document with kghostview and scroll back and forth the text disapears from view. The portion of the page that scrolled off the screen disappears and is replaced with a plain white background when I scroll back to it.

Re: LFS problem with Debian testing

2003-08-20 Thread Damien Solley
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 20:01, Jukka Salmi wrote: Damien Solley -- debian-user (2003-08-20 19:37:28 +1000): Old kernel version? AFAIK, you need a recent (ish) kernel to create files greater than 2GB. $ uname -sr Linux 2.4.21-3-686-smp It's the latest kernel from the kernel-image-2.4-686

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

2003-08-19 Thread Damien Solley
Cabinet files lcab - Create MS Cabinet (.cab) files. Maybe these might be of assistance? And prevent you the need to reboot! -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-19 Thread Damien Solley
, but you could try downloading the point release, as it contains the game minus the .pak files. You may be able to use the .pak files from the demo with the point release, just to test it... Then, if it works, go out and grab yourself a platinum copy of Q3A. Good luck -- Damien Solley [EMAIL

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 20:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using DHCP to connect to the network, and I use ssh to contral another machine. The problem is, my ip address is always changing. This makes my ssh die. I wonder if it is because of my configure file is not correct or is the

Re: ACPI sleep - time/date problem

2003-08-18 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 01:29, Paul Miller wrote: I'm trying to get ACPI sleep working on a Dell I8500 laptop. Currently, it will go to sleep, but the time/date also go to sleep. When it wakes up, Linux reports the time/date that it went to sleep. Is there some way to automatically save the

Re: Samba running under inetd and init.d

2003-08-18 Thread Damien Solley
-reconfigure samba will allow you to choose which method you wish to run samba under. -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cloning Debian?

2003-08-18 Thread Damien Solley
directory in the root drive (except /mnt and /proc) and it seemed to work fine. On the new beast I simply used tar -x USR.tar /mnt/hda1/ Then edited the necessary config files (fstab, XF86config, etc), installed grub and never looked back. So that's another option for you, Regards Damien -- Damien

Re: VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

2003-08-14 Thread Damien Solley
-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 options snd-via82xx index=0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Damien Solley
that almost _no_ *nix problem requires a complete reinstall. You're thinking like a Windows user. :) T -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Damien Solley
for this, as I've already wasted a day on it. Advice anyone? -- richard Lucky I got this laptop working or I wouldn't be able to ask for help... -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My xserver crashes once my monitor goes to sleep...

2003-08-14 Thread Damien Solley
: xscreensaver -no-splash icewm Hope that helps. Damien On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 10:42, B. L. Jilek wrote: Hi Damien! On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Damien Solley wrote: Use xscreensaver-demo to control power management for your monitor. If you're using KDE or GNOME, this is available

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Damien Solley
of seconds the tty7 graphics disappeared and left me with the same error messages plus ... /.xinitrc: line 1: startkde: command not found not much help there. -- richard -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: My xserver crashes once my monitor goes to sleep...

2003-08-12 Thread Damien Solley
or how to fix my xserver? -- Thanks, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Tires, and Performance Parts. -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: USB Intellimouse problem

2003-08-11 Thread Damien Solley
and accurate using the touchpad (/dev/psaux) but really choppy and inaccurate using the Intellimouse. Any suggestions? Any help appreciated. -- Aaron Bieber - Graphic Design // Web Design http://www.core-dev.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-11 Thread Damien Solley
with a little white terminal widow containing an active and operational shell. Also the mouse is working. I expect that is the correct operation. So it is KDE that is incorrectly installed or configured? -- richard -- Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: wireless howto[s] indepth ???

2003-07-25 Thread Damien Solley
Firstly, on wireless Howtos, have you checked out http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ and it's links and associated pages. Secondly, the orinoco_cs driver is only recently becoming half decent (although still not there, IMHO). The recent kernels (2.4.21 and .22-pre releases) all

Re: Black screen with XFree86 on laptop

2003-07-25 Thread Damien Solley
Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ mail to leif at solumslekt dot org -- Damien Solley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla 1.x and java-vm

2003-07-17 Thread Damien Solley
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