Re: Installing Sarge

2004-02-27 Thread Greg Madden
and work in most cases. If you want a full gui install using only cd's you would probably need 3-4 cd's. If you have a fast wlan connection you could use disk one or one of the net-install iso's. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP

Re: evolution in testing issue

2004-02-21 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 02:28 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > I have a system that I upgraded from woody. I grabbed Evolution this > morning , yea!. The problem I have is the calendar only shows a view > consecutive months, I would call it

evolution in testing issue

2004-02-21 Thread Greg Madden
ar that I can drag to the right exposing the other views underneath, but the year view remains partially visable. Dselect does not show any broken packages, everthing else works great. TIA - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Are there any known problems when using apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-02-19 Thread Greg Madden
table listed, there is nothing gained, security wise, by upgrading to another version. As mentioned using Debian security is all you need, esp if your system works for you now. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANOalk7rtxKWZzGsRAm

Re: mounting loop iso9660 rw

2004-02-18 Thread Greg Madden
eft it still in a read only state. You would have to copy the contents elsewhere, add files/dir then run mkisofs. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANCRXk7rtxKWZzGsRAhdiAKDCcAOIwcjtbIbFrZVwsI28afYZTgCgnH4P PY+pkqeIPknzOgJGjX

Re: Debian on a SUSE computer

2004-02-17 Thread Greg Madden
ou wouldn't find that in official Debian. So it depends. I don't know Suse but I would at least compare the X & video card items. Suse also patches their kernels more? than Debian does. They used to have some drivers (scsi) available that were not available in the Debian kernel. - -- G

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 February 2004 12:19 pm, Marty Landman wrote: > At 03:17 PM 2/16/2004, Greg Madden wrote: > >Ping localhost doesn't use the nic, internal inerface. > > Ok. > > >Ping something else on your net. > > Nothin

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Greg Madden
an Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 > This Month's New Quiz --- Past Superbowl Winners > Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAMSVUk7rtxKWZzGsRAkp7AKCHfdzG

Re: kernel upgrade and LVM

2004-02-15 Thread Greg Madden
> > Any clue ? > > Thanks for help You may have the labels mixed up. The 'default=' is still the old kernel. I would have to see how the links from '/' to /boot for the kernels, to tell. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Multihead

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Madden
creens combined with > xinerama? > > Sincerely, > > Jan. I would check the Matrox site. They used to support multiple monitors with their card selection. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALe8ok

Re: sarge installer: unsure what images needed

2004-02-11 Thread Greg Madden
booted directly > from the CDROM ??? > > 11) then do an installation from network using either Germany > mirror or local mirror of 'testing'. > > If anyone can offer any advice, it'd be appreciated! Many thanks! > > Also, can anybody confirm: at the m

Re: pcnet32 driver for vmware

2004-02-11 Thread Greg Madden
f not, during the install you can select the module during the install. Woody works just fine in Vmware. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKoyqk7rtxKWZzGsRArfiAJ9Gyp/WsxLsGZD2Y4ElsYCvkMYYOQCg1+RD gvk5eW3tXuAGonrITQmeG/A=

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
nt have to be new, or handle > games, as i use consoles for that. but i want video playback, also, a > nice resolution wouldn't be that bad. > > any suggestions? I have never bought anything here but this is a great card, esp if you use two monitors. http://www.compuplus.com/insidepa

Re: How to see if SMP is working

2004-02-06 Thread Greg Madden
live) > > Marcel The 'Intel Multirocessor Spec' (MPS 1.4) is set in the bios. I do think it should be set to '1.4'. You can google MPS 1.4. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAI9JFk7rtxKWZzGsRAgk/A

Re: G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-01-29 Thread Greg Madden
owerful, particularly > for the graphics (which are not the main difficulty of my project). > Is this correct or does the higher Hz of the Dual G5 mean it is much > faster than the UlraSparc > Thanks, > Angel You might want to check to see if/how well Debian PPC suports the G5,

Re: jigdo question

2004-01-29 Thread Greg Madden
ore info needed to be more helpful, except the .iso.temp file can still be used by the program s don't delete them. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGWk4k7rtxKWZzGsRAgyVAJ94zabWUI8oAL4jWue7e5VMxo0DRwCggU2D 6Yu/caT

Re: pppoe

2004-01-27 Thread Greg Madden
at comes with Debian, my IPCOP box uses a flavor of it, and it is on 24/7, without redials. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFwsLk7rtxKWZzGsRAmEnAKDWgNFFL7wgGKoTC9vbkfrz3yXWqQCgzJLw grnQGhiZZAD90zA1GfVj9fs= =1ehA -END P

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-01-21 Thread Greg Madden
You might try netselect-apt to create a sources.list of a faster mirror. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADxNRk7rtxKWZzGsRAjJrAJkBO/wYfxWSU8uq2TYip2DY8SKVsACeKchy kGINNzLQ6Mb2CEuCmZ8U1Js= =Xmji -END PGP SIGNATURE- --

Re: hdparm questions

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Madden
t.d/hwtools' is a good place to put 'hdparm' comands, afaik. > > How might one add and a script /etc/rc#/hdparm? (Just take one of > the other, leave the preambles and simply do hdparm?) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Madden
tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free HTH - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABg89k7rtxKWZzGsRAtEMAKCai10sjGJtF0sBBnbQztS6pU4y+wCfRGrJ G5Jq+eL31UDZzPfC4Pqmf1s= =W/Ub -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?

2004-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:07 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Greg Madden: > > On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:04 pm, tripolar wrote: > > > Recently when doing apt-get update I get failures from > > > deb http://mir

Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?

2004-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
es.list' from the fastest ones it finds. These are not necessarily the ones geographically closest. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAKdgk7rtxKWZzGsRAuOrAKCPbWt4zgYUdyfozS5v82IhfrGVyQCgqlqt Xx46jHel/KY5cilsbcXkE4

Re: using cd roms with dselect

2004-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
nt apt-cdrom to each mount point. You will always have to have each cdrom mounted on the same mount point for dselect or apt-get to work though. A local mirror is a cleaner way but I don't know how to get a mirror from the 7 cdroms. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
ught a set and wants to find out the release number. > > Regards, There is a file, README.txt, located on the cd that mentions the version. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+wTok7rtxKWZzGsRArZaAKDN63/zv/iWM7ll8

Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-05 Thread Greg Madden
u could use jigdo do get the new parts of r2 using your current cd's as a starting point. With jigdo you can loop mount the old iso, jigdo copies files from there, then goes as dl the rest. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/L

Re: debmirror issue

2003-12-30 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 11:16 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using debmiror for quite awhile. Recently it has stopped > working, the last errors are the following: > "project/trace/clos: project/trace/clos failed > Failed

debmirror issue

2003-12-30 Thread Greg Madden
conections from the outside. Any thoughts appreciated. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/8TRKk7rtxKWZzGsRApO+AKCU87cnUhd5vlRVvfGeVWSdT/6GfwCfSwUU jKPdqZ1Rxj3/Urda9h1btHo= =uNjx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs

2003-12-27 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:36 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > On Saturday 27 December 2003 02:28 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > I have a box with a Tyan Thunder dual CPU MB. The two CPUs I have > > are both 300MHz Pentium IIs. But one

Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs

2003-12-27 Thread Greg Madden
86-smp from debian.org. > > TIA, > Jeffrey http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/19981215/sl2w8-01.html - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7k+jk7rtxKWZzGsRAmFoAJ9af2FsNUMwL6Hv+eUQhGuQgayIQgCeKXZt FkBy988ZxxbfO

Re: Is Evolution available for net-installation

2003-12-27 Thread Greg Madden
mixed versions of deb packages, is to use the .tar.gz file from the vendor. I.E. Mozilla provides Thunderbird.tar.gz package, untar it to /usr/local and link the binary to /usr/local/bin, make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path. This keeps your system clean as far as apt knows, you can

Re: Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Greg Madden
is x86 compatible. Once you do an initial install there are kernel-images available for different CPU's, 686, 586, athlon etc. If you use dselect/aptitude you can look at the different choices available. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -B

Re: upgrade from Corel Linux

2003-12-23 Thread Greg Madden
e it's time to scrap the old beast and reinstall > debian. Or -- is there an easier path that I haven't tried? > > What are your opinions? > > -- > - David - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/6RgCk

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-21 Thread Greg Madden
ll not supported by Sony. BTW, Debian just worked :) Its probably 'all about the money' - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5nx+k7rtxKWZzGsRAsG5AJ9ZpDooOY7BV2Le1GtMKgpiyHVBLwCdGxIk 1CpzdYpNCEkNtEFojhumNY8= =7Q0j

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
endor to vedor and is nice to have working in a laptop. The 2.4.23 kernel just fixed the 'reboot' issue on my Sony laptop. Other than ACPI my Sony 'just' works with Debian, is that a certification? :) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: question

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
ld use a version of 'wine' (google>wine/codeweavers). It runs windows apps without running the Windows OS, which is what you might want to do anyway. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5P/Bk7rtxKWZzGsRAmsIAKD

Re: Dlink DI-604 router

2003-12-18 Thread Greg Madden
used to dealing with the GNU/Linux community for solutions. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/4i3Pk7rtxKWZzGsRAls5AJ4r6YPUrjuIbLfK2J2AT+4ZLMPiMQCfY8Rz AoB4ReOn3hduueIO3DpYNGg= =bWIH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

2003-12-16 Thread Greg Madden
; modified i810) is pretty decent. > > -Roberto The x86 architecture uses lots of power/electricity. You could try a lower power solution such as PPC, of which the following is only one example, and comes with Debian. The other well know vendor, for PPC, is Apple. http://www.pegasosppc

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Greg Madden
ommon (2.0.1+cvs.2003.11.07-2 Debian:unstable) Conf abiword (2.0.1+cvs.2003.11.07-2 Debian:unstable) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/27F4k7rtxKWZzGsRAjU6AKDRw+PXs1Dk72TWHeKydCHT7B1TSwCgjgP8 QwK+6jK2KXg9bbSJhvuEH3I=

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-11 Thread Greg Madden
elmet. > > Mmm, raspberry swirl! Delicious! > > -- > monique For a do-it yourself (sort-of) Debian Swirl go to Kinko's (print shop). They do cut vinyl, fairly cheep, bring in a .esp logo from http:// debian.org/logos/. I put one on my work van :) - -- Greg Ma

Re: 2.4.23 (exploit-removed) kernel soon?

2003-12-10 Thread Greg Madden
Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading > http://www.jabootu.com I thought Debian Security, for Woody, had an updated 2.4.18 kernel? http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU

Re: LSI Fusion MPT ?

2003-12-10 Thread Greg Madden
sting netinstall.iso that is being developed. It is in the testing phase but worked here, and it uses a 2.4.2x kernel.\ http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/. The link to the Testing netinstall cd's seems broken though. Or a Knoppix cd. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP

Re: Trying to get modem to work with Debian

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Madden
..smile. > > James E. Merritt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't own one but a quick google/linux search doesn't turn up any hits, and the Windows reviews I read said it dosesn't work well in Windows, Not a good sign for a Winmodem :) Zoom makes som

Re: Knoppix and SCSI detection

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Madden
ect the SCSI adapter, and that > the installation can then not proceed. Is there someone who has used > Knoppix with this hardware and willing to share his experiences? > > Thanks > Ben > > http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/options-matrix-all.html - -- Gr

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Madden
#x27; this to shrink a ntfs partion (whole disk) to create free space for another OS. Google 'ntfsresize' Use lilo, or your favorite bootloader to boot bothe OS's. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uZx1k7rtxK

Re: want to undo apt-pinning

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Madden
me way, hopefully remembering what they all where. If you use the '-s' option with apt-get (apt-get -s install xxx) it will show you what is going to happen witout actually installing aything. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
a package from unstable you will also have to upgrade the libc6 libraries and maybe other depends. I would try to build the package for Woody using 'apt-get source -b '. You will need to have unstable sources in your '/etc/sources.list' file. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
an/dists/stable/main/binary-i386. > > What am I missing? How can there be NO dpkg's in > stable? > > > Drew The packages are in ~/pool. You can search for packages at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BE

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
ng/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst- > >iso ? > > I forgot to specify that I mean the one that's dated Nov 9. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso This one works here, it is dated Nov 9. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-09 Thread Greg Madden
hot > kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword libarts libkdenetwork1 > libkmid libkonq3 libvorbis0 secpolicy xmmsarts > > That looks pretty bad to me. > > Am I mistaken? It depends, do you have KDE 2.x installed, or some other backport ? If so KDE 3 went into testing about a

Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada

2003-11-06 Thread Greg Madden
' in lilo, you will be presented with the various choices which shows the differnt modes. Once you find the one you like you can edit lilo and put it in 'vga=xxx' - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qfTpk7rtxKWZ

Re: Linux Standard Base

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Madden
t other distros but its not a bad thing. Ask those folks whether or not they have read the spec :) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qfAOk7rtxKWZzGsRAh+9AKCpxRJfGk4JbZ6pPeq6k9oOIXufHQCfVJYY cEUilZA+cDGeJFbWMk/MgVk= =maJ0 -

Re: Miguel de Icaza on Debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Madden
all Debian. Debian's release cycle is what RH & suse are switching over to. The difficulty must be something other that ever changing libraries or whatever. He could have just complained about older versions of software. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -B

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Madden
erial to upgrade? > > Haines You need a source for Debian Security.Woody only gets updated through the security site. i.e. deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Madden
; What are we missing? Modules: scsi_mod = scsi support sd_mod = scsi disk support st = tape support sr_mod = cdrom In your case it looks like you need the tape & cdrom modules installed. Your kernel must have the aicxxx module compiled into the kernel. - -- Greg Mad

Re: Debian on Compaq Evo N800w

2003-10-30 Thread Greg Madden
, some or all? has been backported to 2.4.22, afaik. For a newer version of XFree or other packages that aren't in Woody you need to use 'unofficial backports' of which there are quite a few sites to choose from. http://www.apt-get.org/ has lists of these sites. - -- Greg M

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Madden
'special' driver for a modern ATAPI drive. Load the IDE drivers, a default on any non-scsi system, and you have all the drives on an IDE controller covered. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oCv8k7rtxKWZzGsRApxrA

Re: Straight to SID...

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Madden
r Sid. I used the Net Install disk for Sarge, it had an additional step available which I liked, you could install a new kernel early on in the install process. This may be the speedup you are looking for. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Madden
t; might have excluded something that the kernel needs to set the dma. > What kernel options do i need to have set in order to allow dma=1? > > Thanks. > Benedict Use this command to see what kernel options there are and what is selected in your kernel config file located in /boot. '

Re: Which kernel-image for Dual-XEON?

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Madden
ot;stock" kernel, not > a home-grown, for this machine.] > > Cheers, WB I don't know, but I am curious as to what 'proc/cpuinfo' shows as to the number of processors. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEG

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Madden
on test releases of the kernel and (2.4.22 is at > least in theory stable). thoughts? i really would rather downgrade my > gcc than my kernel. snip I use the 2.4.22 on my laptop for the acpi support, compiled with the woody gcc. the ide-scsi works fine also, the laptop burner works fine. - -

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
would switch to OO.org if and when they add WP > inport/export. It would be good to get one more person to rally > OO.org for this. > -Kev http://freshmeat.net/projects/libwpd/?topic_id=857%2C70%2C131 - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
; Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 under dosemu. > > Do you know where it's possible to get WP5.1 or WP6.0 disks, except > on Ebay? If anyone would know this site would, if it is still active. http://www.wpuniverse.com/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
vailable in Sid & Testing. The depends that is no longer avaialble is xlib6g, which has been replaced by libxaw6, libxaw6-dbg, & xlibs. I installed these but there are not recognized as the replacement for xlib6g. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: preloading modules, sarge netinst cd

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Madden
anks, > > Eliot Stock. I had this experience, tried the business card cd and found a lack of nic card drivers for my card. Tried the netinstall cd and the boot kernel didn't have my nic card module either but there is a new kernel on this cd that you can install that has a full complimen

Re: Fw: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Madden
tp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debia > >n woody main non-free > > deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody main non-free > > > > # XCDRoast, cdrtools, pilot-link etc. > > deb http://dc.deb.free.fr/debian/woody/binary-i386 ./ > > &g

Re: System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-08 Thread Greg Madden
gain after running update-modules powering down and rebooting > usb-uhci still gets loaded > > Help - any ideas on how to get this to work > > Lou Losee You may need the USb 2.0 module. I used modconf to look at all the USB stuff, USB 2 module= ehci-hcd. This may be in addition t

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Greg Madden
e vendor is not the one providing the driver, Linux developers are. I would venture a vendor won't guarantee a product they don't produce. I have seen the penquin on a few pieces of hardware I have bought. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
ng lilo with to much info :) other=/dev/sda8 label="Sid(sda8)" - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Z9Ovk7rtxKWZzGsRAnORAJ0aQeN2pN2BYjAlOgLbw3cNOh8KHgCgoPsM Be25DPBvQCnw91Pv1G+dSmY= =Rdxk -END PGP SIGNATURE- --

Re: Sources.list

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
n the command from, it will not replace your existing sources.list. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Z9CWk7rtxKWZzGsRArgGAKDCbb3dxIzH31QvAhEplt3nSUroLQCgi3Ng dFOHTEf8O7dJA1vvvVK7eIQ= =Dc/4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --

Re: Upgrading to testing

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
gt; 3. apt-get update I would use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > 4. apt-get upgrade > 5. apt-get install x-window-system > > Are these the best options? - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Z5mQk7rtxKWZz

Re: testing/unstable reccomendation

2003-09-08 Thread Greg Madden
ore reliable and better for someone > who wants bleeding-edge packages that have at least a > safe level of critical bugs? > > = > --Joey-- If 'bleeding-edge is what you want then unstable is the version to use, i.e Testing has the same vesion of Evolution that Woody has,

Re: Sid CD fails as apt source

2003-09-03 Thread Greg Madden
ut everyone who downloads a Sid image must have this problem but I > don't see anyone mentioning this, so what's going on here? Uhmm.. might be a dumb suggestion, but do you have a i386 Sid cd. Sounds like you may have dl'd an alpha iso. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
will have to also build. You may need to run 'apt-get build-dep' in order to build your package, you would get an error message to this effect. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U+QEk7rtxKWZzGsRAkNYAJsFII7hg1P+CVa

Re: VIA CPU's - cooling with ICE - shuttle - heat

2003-08-30 Thread Greg Madden
type of system. You can install one and forget about it. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/UQsek7rtxKWZzGsRAmJgAJ9i8DmEq+TYY4H+xO8pGLEL9wgrXACdEzqD jP1a4XyIaTE12lZ66IrNHL8= =jtCd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To U

Re: What is the most cost effective DVD Burner for Linux?

2003-08-29 Thread Greg Madden
anded and sold for less. Cendyne(sp?) repackages the Pioneer A105 dvd-r under the Cendyne label and chargers quite a bit less. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/T7CGk7rtxKWZzGsRAhATAKCsnyeFDAa29XVJqmi/ajVVMIwGVwCgzmot DhgUw

permissions on .X11-unix file

2003-08-29 Thread Greg Madden
wrong permissions. It is owned by root but the group is user, and X won't start untill I chgrp to root. Problem is this is a manual intervention and it then boots straight to KDE so I can't choose Wmaker. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: What is the Best DVD burner for linux?

2003-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
DE model works as well for me. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ToEek7rtxKWZzGsRAoQWAJwMa83NcQN13lMDz2SZswphVuI53QCgudBI XTaSi6a7lQHqT2vdAfkgcRw= =etZ7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian and KDE (Update)

2003-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
cannot connect to X server key :0.0 > > I have been able to logon to the internet as "root" using "pon" and > "poff" > > Any and all help appreciated. > > Bill. I think it is a permission issue. You need to be in the gr

Re: Debian and KDE

2003-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
Debian closed down? Uninstall XDM and install KDM, if you installed the task x-window-system you will have to uninstall that first, it is only a meta-package, will not affect other apps. > -- > William Bradley > Come visit us at: > http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org > Fre

Re: Updating and upgrading using apt-get and problems

2003-08-20 Thread Greg Madden
.5-11.2 is installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > What is the problem I have here? What should I do? > > > > = > Hooman > A newbie in Linux world I am not familiar with Nvidia stuff,..but libc 2.3.1 is not from Debian Stable/Wood

Re: WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin recommended packages

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Madden
or kernel issue, most kernels by default are setup to handle atapi drives. That said I like to have hwtools & hdparm installed on IDE systems. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QuD5k7rtxKWZzGsRArWLAJ9rqAwBrvOauXtjweMmzZt

Re: xfree, matrox millennium G450 problem..

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Madden
-- > > > --- - > Thanks, > Louie Miranda I use 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' to configure my Matrox card. Also the V & H are ranges, i.e. v=30-97, h=50-160, unless you are using a LCD. In Woody there is a tool for configuring the Matrox dual head card: mgapd

Re: Question about SCSI IMMED flag in cdrecord!

2003-08-02 Thread Greg Madden
onfigure this way. AFAIk having a cd reader & cd-recorder on the same bus and copying from one & burning to the other can cause the issue you mention. If this is the case, DMA or scsi emulation need to be used. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: sound configuration in Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
laster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a > Cirrus Logic CS 4614 Chip (but I don't know as it's second user kit > with no documentation). 'lspci' will give you any info on whats attched to the pci bus. If your sound isn't on an ISA bus this will

Re: Problem with apt-move

2003-07-20 Thread Greg Madden
ebian > DIST=unstable > DELETE=yes > with the same behavior > > Any hints? > > Thanks, > Patrick. Dunno, I use apt-move a little differently. 'apt-move get' to sync the packages.gz file, then 'apt-move move' I would try 'not' using th

Kernel/lilo/initrd upgrade issue

2003-07-10 Thread Greg Madden
both kernels unable to boot the box, kernel panic error message. A question from all this: can I add 'initrd=initrd.img' as an option in lilo.conf but not in the stanza'a mentioned above ? - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: How to play CD and video in debian?

2003-07-08 Thread Greg Madden
, i think > that the problem is under my configuraton. > > Can anyone help me to solve this problem? > > Regards, > James Ng As mentioned don't mount the cd's or DVD's. Xine looks for a movie disk in /dev/dvd, you can configure Xine to play from your device. - -- Greg Ma

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Greg Madden
home of course > > What do the other think? I would think any file system that the system doesn't write to. This would also include /usr/local and /opt. Though on some distro's /opt gets software installed, I don't think sharing it would affect any particul

Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Madden
; > Ghe Rivero First reply to a Google :) http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/BFeuk7rtxKWZzGsRAqnxAKCIWaawsV6SpVT3EpDnYU/6tABYMgCePe8t qCheN/GEtLxPFVtqlik8Z7Q= =kr9o

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Greg Madden
- > Dan Collis Puro > GeekUprising Internet Consultants > http://www.geekuprising.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Install the package 'hwtools'. This puts a script into /etc/init.d where you can put hdparm options, the hwtools script comes with some hdparm options. - -- Greg Madden Debia

Re: Trying Again

2003-07-02 Thread Greg Madden
that are available for the install, or read the install instructions on the first screen that pops up when you boot from cdrom. I assume you are installing from a cdrom. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AifMk7rtxKWZzGsRAiKcA

Re: Debian source code (resent)

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Madden
you /etc/apt/sources.list file and 'apt-get' to download the source packages. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AGM9k7rtxKWZzGsRAlw2AJ0coKIClrOVN/SGGwysBdZ1n09qDQCfaiQZ sIzrDKAKRV81FbLI8/OhI6g= =ryU5 -END P

Re: dual booting

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Madden
ou have a system that installs XP from a restore disk, not an OEM copy, you will need to resize the XP partition using 'ntfsresize', then install Debian in the free space. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+

Re: Abiword dependency problem in testing?

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Madden
, 2 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 284kB of archives. After unpacking 28.3MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] n > Abort. > gnu:~# > --- > > Kind Regards, > Jakob Sandholm AFAIKT, abiword is not in testing. My testing s

Re: dosemu-freedos on woody / using glibc from woody+sid?

2003-06-29 Thread Greg Madden
> > -- > Felix Natter > Linux from *scratch* (www.gnu.org/software/emacs) You can try to build the packages from source. Setup apt-pinning (/etc/apt/preferences) file. Use 'apt-get source -b -t '. If there are not a lot of depends it could work without breaking woody.

OT, Novell Linux survey

2003-06-28 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.novell.com/linux/ Something to do to kill some time at work. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/GVGk7rtxKWZzGsRAjo1AJ4jJamhyly0MXLVJMWbJWrKnSdWUQCg3Jwh

Re: My Scsi Drive Disappeared...

2003-06-24 Thread Greg Madden
r id (first one being 0) b == SCSI channel on hostadapter (first one being 0) c == ID d == LUN (first one being 0) See the SCSI-Programming-HOWTO for more details." - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Li

Re: Windows NT/2000/XP related problems

2003-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
; program for windows (not command >line). > 5. What/where is /dev/null? It used to be "nul" in WIN9X > > Thank you for any clue. > > > -- > Abdul Latip -- Angkasa Internet Junior Staff -- ANGIN.com > http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ -

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Greg Madden
witch to CUPS if that is necessary. > > -Roberto Sanchez http://www.linuxprinting.org/ I use a Brother 1270N, cups has a driver for it , it has a nic card and picks up an IP address from my dhcp server. I like having a nic card in the printer for sharing on a network. - -- Greg Madd

Re: cupsys works, lpr does not

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Madden
it appears you had LPR stuff installed at the same time. Start fresh, purge all printing systems except cups. It looks like you are not using Woody so I can't say how to fix the conflicts issue. Cups uses a different printcap file, /etc/printcap.cups. I - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linu

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