Public PC

2007-08-05 Thread Dave Walker
I hope to place a PC running Etch in our small (tiny, actually) airport building for use by pilots. The PC will be used to access perhaps 10 web sites (plus or minus) over a DSL connection and to run a few utilities to show GMT and a calculator and maybe a few additional applications. The box will

Re: how to set up a wireless network?

2007-08-03 Thread Dave Walker
On 8/3/07, pinniped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (quote) Bluetooth uses the same frequency range as 802.11b and g ... (end quote) That's right, and you're also right about the power meant to be limited to less than a normal 802.11 transceiver. I've mostly seen Bluetooth run as an extra

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Walker
On 4/10/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sarge. I downloaded a huge info file (kernel-doc-2.6.8) successfully

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Walker
On 4/11/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: On 4/10/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel

Document reader?

2007-04-10 Thread Dave Walker
In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sarge. I downloaded a huge info file (kernel-doc-2.6.8) successfully. It unpacked to: /usr/share/doc/ and joined many other doc files there. ButI found,

Re: Mozilla and Flash

2007-04-04 Thread Dave Walker
On 4/3/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:16:40 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 12:47:22PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote: Running Mozilla/5.0 1.7.8-1sarge10(current stable

Re: Mozilla and Flash

2007-04-04 Thread Dave Walker
Yes it is Sarge, but do you mean I won't be able to use Flash unless I upgrade to Etch? Maybe the world has moved on from Sarge and Flash 7?? On 4/4/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:23 -0500, Dave Walker wrote: 7.0.25 Your version number, herein lies your

Re: Mozilla and Flash

2007-04-04 Thread Dave Walker
On 4/4/07, Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:28:32 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody got a hint or even better, a solution (one that does not involve -- wait for Etch, etc...I know someone wants to say that!) ??? I do not know the

Re: Mozilla and Flash

2007-04-04 Thread Dave Walker
On 4/4/07, Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:47:51 -0500 Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/4/07, Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:28:32 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody got a hint or even better

Mozilla and Flash

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Walker
Running Mozilla/5.0 1.7.8-1sarge10(current stable release). I am curious whether it is possible to get some version of Flash to work? --- Here is what I did to this point:

Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Walker
Running Sarge 3.1r5 (all up to date), kernel 2.4.27-2-386 and Gnome desktop. The following situation is repeatable, behaving in the same manner each time: Running

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/31/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Gnome in terminal 1 as normally privileged user. Initialized by startx. Switch to terminal 2 (CTRL ALT F2) and log in as same user as in terminal 1. No commands issued in terminal 2

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/31/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 17:29:13 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Walker escribió: That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. Why won't it respond

Re: Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Walker
Success - in part..I think??? On 3/28/07, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:50:07AM EST, Dave Workshop wrote: On Wed, 2007-28-03 at 06:45 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: [..] Run the following commands: fc-cache -fv fc-list The output of the first

Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Walker
I have downloaded (apt etc) and installed truetype fonts which Sarge placed in file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ (60 entries)and in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/ (11 entries) but I can't seem to make applications aware of them. I have a Gnome

Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Walker
I have downloaded (apt etc) and installed truetype fonts which Sarge placed in file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ (60 entries)and in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/ (11 entries) but I can't seem to make applications aware of them. I have a Gnome

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-11 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/6/07, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Walker wrote: In summary, my problem was that X would load but the mouse would be frozen on the screen. Bingo, Andrew - your suggestion that there might be interference by another utility (maybe gpm) causing the problem proved

Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Dave Walker
I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share directory. What is the best way to accomplish this? I don't mind reading tutorials and

Setting up X on Netvista

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Walker
I have been working through various set-up issues relating to XFree86. I have made some progress with the video resolution that I thought I should share: Running latest Debian Sarge (3.1) with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 on an IBM 8306KCU Netvista (512 Mbyte Ram). The motherboard has an Intel 82845G

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-06 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in response to my query below: I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. Andrew's suggestion: are you using any utility that might interfere with a mouse (I'm specifically thinking of gpm here). In summary, my

No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Walker
Running Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. My initial install was from the Sarge 3.1 cd's prior to my having an active internet connection. My install was via: apt-get install x-window-system (from cd's) I am considering removing x and

Configurable files and functions

2007-03-02 Thread Dave Walker
I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used in sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the location (path), function (what the system uses it for), and whether the file can be successfully changed by editing. Does such a list exist? I have in mind such files

How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Walker
-mail. If I use the reply button in Gmail, the reply goes to the sender, and not to the list. It would be infinitely better for me to keep similar posts in a thread together, and to reply to the list. Anybody know how to do that in Gmail? Thanks Dave Walker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Walker
I gave it a try...how's this? On 3/1/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:55:45AM -0600, Kent West wrote: On 3/1/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't know is how to reply to the list so that I don't create a separate thread

Re: How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/1/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 18:08, Dave Walker wrote: I gave it a try...how's this? Well, you're top-posting, and that's non-optimum, but it's threading, and you only sent it to d-u. I think I can, I think I can

No Mouse in X

2007-02-28 Thread Dave Walker
If it is a PS/2 mouse you should not have that /dev/input/mouse section. For PS/2 you should be fine with just /dev/psaux. Use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to reconfigure X again and just choose PS/2 when selecting mouse. let us know if the problem still exists. Couple of other things: 1.

No Mouse in X

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Walker
this on Thanks, much Dave Walker