Bye thanx Debian

Hi yall, a quick note to say bye thanx to Debianista's. I have been testing out FreeBSD 5.1 like it am now using it as my main OS. A special thanx to Karsten M. Self Rob Weir; you guys do wonders on this list! :-) *BFN* Greek Geek :-) The surest way to corrupt a youth is to

Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

Hi yall, subject says what wants said. Follow the yellow brick url too http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linuxprodType=graphicprod=productsLINUXdriversubmit.x=18submit.y=10 There are specific Debianized instructions too. Kudos to rage3d for the link. *BFN*

ATI talks Linux!--ATI news link for those interested.

Hi yall, not much to add from the subject, except the url http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=threadid=33715645 Oh, one more thang. A big thank you to the weather Goddess Godz for their work in CHCH, NZ :-) *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Holidaze are okaze! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

Hiyall Nick Paul, who typed snip Nick Lidakis wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

Hi Yall Rus, who is having some grief with his Radeon 9800 under Tux. Yeah, I've been down that road too now have my 9500 Pro up with full 3D, on a nForce2 board snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] haralambos]$ glxgears 13880 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2776.000 FPS 17298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3459.600

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

Hi Yall Antony, who is having some grief, with his Radeon 9000 Pro (full text below). My previous card is a Power Colour Radeon 9000 Pro I am now on a 9500 Pro. I had my Radeon 9000 Pro up last year, using the DRI project stuff it is good for 2D ok for 3D. Now for a quick cup paste

Kernel compile error message assistance please

Hi yall, having *finally* (three weeks worth), gotten Debian to load on my NF7, after a bios update, I am now getting this kernel compile error message, which I do not understand. Could someone suggest a fix or pointer to one, please? snip make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory

Speedstream 3060 adsl modem Tux?

Hi yall, has anyone hereabouts gotten one of these beasties to work with Debian Tux? Efficient networks have Doze drivers up, but nothing for Tuxians Not that Efficient after all ;-) It is most excellent to be online @ speed, but I wanna my Tuxa! Much Googling, has me vexed about this

Re: philosophy mailing list

Hey Yall, snip Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:02:53PM -0500, Natali Gulbahce wrote: Hey all, Is this a philosophy mail list or Debian user list? It's a Debian user list with philosophically inclined subscribers. snip Gotta jump in here, since the topic was my major

Re: New

Hi Jerome, who typed snip I am very new to Debian Linux Can anyone help me by giving me a good online reference and pointing me on what good books to get regarding this OS. Thanks for any help that i'll receive JhaY snip I found the following incredibly helpfull, by Clinton De

Re: xfree86 4.3

Hi All Roman Joost, who typed snip On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:02:14AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: Then go here: http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/README Enjoy! Josh Did these packages work for somebody who has an ati radeon card? I tried them and got many trouble for enabling GLX. I use the

The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

Hi Yall, spotted the above titled article it seemed to me some of us me might find it of use, so here is the url http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=2949 It is written by Clinton De Young mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , who is in no small part responsible for me being on a Debian based

Re: Synaptic won't start.

Hi All Terry, whom typed snip Since my upgrade to KDE 3.1, I have had no problems with Synaptic. Then yesterday, it stopped initializing. The only thing I can think of that has changed recently on the setup is the move from GDM to KDM. Here is the output I get when trying to start from

Re: radeon 9500 pro not working with X

Hi Yall Rob, whom typed snip I'm not having much luck getting ATI's firegl drivers to work. I can get X started with the vesa driver but I get some weird artifacts here and there. I wrapped some relevant files in a tarball for anyone who cares to peek at my crappy problem. I don't know

Re: Anyone get WineX-CVS up in Debian?

Hi yall Roman, whom typed, snip On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:23:13PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: Hi All, ./configure --help' for more information; I am finding inscrutable All this for CivIII on Tux! Any assistance most gratefully accepted :-) Maybe you can try

Anyone get WineX-CVS up in Debian?

Hi All, I've been Googling trying to compile for a wee bit now, with no joy, so I thought I would ask around. This is the error I get stuck on snip make[2]: Entering directory `/home/haralambos/wine/dlls/dpnet' gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall

Re: Best WWW browser..

Hi Yall Kevin, I am on Netscape 7.0.1 like it very much. There is no .deb file, but the installer rocks. ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.01/unix/linux22/sea/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz Happy surfing, Greek Geek :-) I don't know that you can measure public

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

Hi All Paul, who typed, snip A. Because it's backwards. On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:44:15PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: I killed the motherboard (FIC 503, *sobs*), with a 7200 rpm kooler plugged into it not directly to the power supply. Doh! Aww, you're going about

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

Hi All Nathan, who typed snip On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: Mr Powell said he was representing the newest country and the oldest democracy,-Apparently Mr Powell is not aware of the Hellenic/Greek Democray, dated around 300 BCE; when we

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

Hi All Norman, whom typed snip Michael Moore, right? He doesn't have an axe to grind ... snip Prey tell, do you have a point of view, axe to grind or did God/Alah tell you to type your stuff? Is your line of reasoning beyond critique? snip Say, you're quite adept at non-sequiters!

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

Hi All, and Daniel Santamaria, who typed, snip Greek Geek??? that would have to be the BEST example of an oxymoron I have ever heard! From your silly comments below, i think you should change your signature to dumbGreek!, just to be consistent ;) cheers, Dan snip Argumentum ad

Re: PCI graphics cards recommendations

Hi Yall Johnathan, yo man, I've got one of those cpu's also (K6-3-400-+), mine will OC to 600 :-) I killed the motherboard (FIC 503, *sobs*), with a 7200 rpm kooler plugged into it not directly to the power supply. Doh! If you can afford it, the Radeon 7500 64mb, will do what you want,

Re:

Hi Yall Petrovic Ivan, please ignore Jeremy's completely inappropriate response, it plainly refers to himself. For Corel type thangs, surf on over to http://linux.corel.com/ and c what you c. Also, for future posts, please give some sort of subject, that way Geeks on this here listie will

Synaptic can't run in console with su or xhost local:root

Hi Yall, having finally, after many months of trying, finally gotten my Radeon going with the ATI drivers, Synaptic is now not happy! Here is a cut past of what is up-it used to work! Any ideas? snip Hellene:/home/haralambos# synaptic Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No

Re: XF86Config and Gidday

Hi All Sid, who is having some grief with gpm. In the end, I did not use gpm, because I could not figure out how it worked A wee pain, if you are only at the console face, but otherwise bearable, I found. YMMV. ON the other hand, Debian does come with Aussie Detection Features,

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

Hi Yall Karsten, who now makes the claim, that Debian can create, whiter whites Brighter Brightz snip Karsten M. Self wrote: Rinse, wash, and repeat for additional partitions. Peace. snip *LOL* Keep up the excellent werk dude :-) *BFN* Greek Geek :-) I've got a very bad

Re: Lilo and vga=791

Hi Yall Sridhar, just change it too vga=791 for each option you want too; no append statement is needed. That way, you can have multiple resolutions available @ boot time. Well, try it with one see how that goes. The above is how I work mine :-) *BFN* H :-) Arrogant dragon will have

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

Galbraith wrote: Haralambos Geortgilakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, some Debianista's gets it a going with the ATI drivers some not Surf thru this lists archive Didn't find anything in recent months anyway concerning the 9000. or have a look

Re: Karolina KDE 3.1 Ralph'z

Hi ya guys, a wee word of Thanx! from myself for all the awesome work you guys do. Ralph, don't forget to sleep man! ;-) *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Fear not dying, but never having lived - Mexican adage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: KDE3 -- wich packages to download

Hi yall Andy, yep, it is not a good thing, when your debs fly into a mincer. For package managment, I love Synaptic. Give it a try. It is an apt front end. snip Now, to install Synaptic, type apt-get install synaptic at the command line and press Enter. Once apt has finished installing

Re: browsers crashing

Hi ya All David, whose browsers are falling like bad trousers... (xcuse me, could not resist the rhyme!) ;-) Give Netscape 7.0.1 a go, she is like a rock will leave that ancient 4.xx serises for deadage. Also, Mozila 1.2.x is a very stable beastie too. Hmmm, how is your ram? Is it just

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +, Chris Owen wrote: Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: ... Try running (as root) chmod ugo+rwx /dev/cdrom I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to give

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

, it compiles! Ship it! Shyamal Prasad wrote: Haralambos == Haralambos Geortgilakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Haralambos my Sound Blaster 128 goes fine for root, but as a mere Haralambos user, does not. Haralambos I've added myself to both the cdrom audio groups, Haralambos but still I

Sounds of silence--I want volume!

Hi Yall, my Sound Blaster 128 goes fine for root, but as a mere user, does not. I've added myself to both the cdrom audio groups, but still I get the following error message in KDE 3.0.4, when trying to use KSCD. snip CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

: Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: snip CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to: /dev/cdrom snip Um, what gives folks? Try running (as root) chmod ugo+rwx /dev/cdrom If your sound card uses other devices, such as /dev/dsp or /dev

Re: Debian support of ATI video cards

Hi All James, who inquires after ATI drivers Debian Tux. I have a Radeon 9000 Por I am running it via the dri-sourceforge stuff. Tiz nice. I used Synaptic to do the dirty work it is a honey of an app. Well done to the geeks that put that beastie together. There are official ATI drivers

Re: debian rocks

Yep, it sure does rock. I am a recent convert, from SuSE Mandrake. Oh, check out Synaptic, it is a most excellent gui front end for all the CLUE apt stuff. No, I am not blond, but I am a bit gui. ;-) *BFN* H :-) There is no such thing as an ugly woman -- there are only the ones

Re: netscape not in unstable

did the Trojan's my ancestors dealt with them we shall deal with you. --GG, on Debian Linux. Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:44:18PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: Hi Yall Mike, point your software @ Netscape's FTP/HTTP grab whatever you want. I am on Netscape 7.0 now

Re: ATI driver install kernel source error?

Hi all Nikita, thanx man, it fixed that problem, by installing the headers then pointing make.sh to them, only to produce a new error message snip Error: XFree86 drm includes at /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include/../drivers/char/drm do not fit this driver. This driver is

Re: ATI driver install kernel source error?

before `)' firegl_public.c:2474: parse error before `)' compiling failed - object file was not generated haralambos:/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod# snip Hmmm. Think I will send that onto ATI. Anyone hereabout install the ATI drivers get 'em going-care to share? Greek Geek :-) Haralambos

ATI driver install kernel source error?

Hi yall, I am trying to install the new ATI stuff get the following error message snip haralambos:/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod# ./make.sh ATI module generator V 2.0 == kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete file:

Re: Directory permissions

that as a Geek of very little brain, they did not make sense to me. Do you know what I mean, gov? To wit, help please. *BFN* Greek Geek :-) While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several. martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Haralambos Geortgilakis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: XFree 4.2.1 and Radeon 9000 hickups.

Hi Yall Russell, I went to the DRI project added that to my apt list, grabed installed them have not looked back. Give it a try man! *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Support your local Search and Rescue unit -- get lost! Russell Neches wrote: Interesting. I'm able to start XFree86 this way, but

Directory permissions

Hi yall, sometimes I read the howto's they make sense sometimes they don't Well, I tried to change them in the KDE file manager Midnight Commander (God I love MC!), as root it said I could not; insufficient permission! Hmmm. So, I have a directory, on a Win-FAT-32 partition, with

Re: Directory permissions

shop: PLEASE WAIT PATIENTLY TO BE SERVED. I ONLY HAVE TWO HANDS martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Haralambos Geortgilakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.18.1110 +0100]: So, I have a directory, on a Win-FAT-32 partition, with various sub-directories I wanna access then as a plain user

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000

Hi Yall Russll, you me both, when it comes to these Radeon 9000 Pros *mutter-mutter* We both get the same output from lspci. On the XFree86 xpert list, the advise is too snip The patch for Radoen 9000, M9 and Radeon 9700 2D support has been submitted and will be in XFree CVS tree

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000

Hi Yall Sven, whom typed as below. snip Alternatively, you could make use of the dri-trunk packages from michel, which i guess will include this, not sure though. snip Where does he abide on the net? *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software --- Social

Re: A serious X problem after Testing upgrade

Hi All, once upon a time, I had a Matrox card Matrox had binary closed source drivers for it. Check out the Matrox site. Heck, even the Perihelia (sp?) has Tux drivers. That makes Nvidia Matrox one up on ATI *mutter-mutter* If anyone is here from ATI, please blush now ;-) Sigh, I

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000

yet. Time for sleep. *HTH* Greek Geek :-) May your Tongue stick to the Roof of your Mouth with the Force of a Thousand Caramels. Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: Hi Yall Sven, whom typed as below. snip Alternatively, you could make use of the dri-trunk packages from michel, which i guess

Re: putzing with the Radeon 9000 *****SUCCESS****

Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: Hi All again, ahhh, that is where he is. Missed it last time I had a look. Anyhow, here is the url for snip Debian packages (currently for powerpc and i386) based on CVS snapshots are available via deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./ snip Have

Radeon 9000 Pro

Hi All, Ive just tried to get my Radeon card going, by using the Option ChipId 0x4242 in my Xfree86 config file, with XFree86-4.2.xx, viz the lastest deb's had no joy :-( Any hints most greatfully needfully accpeted! Greek Geek The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take

KDE 3.0.4 update various errors struck....

Hi Yall, from the Help dang the update did not work dept What does this mean snip Removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libkssl.la to /usr/lib/libkssl-nossl.la by kdelibs3-crypto' Selecting previously deselected package libqt3. (Reading database ... 80317 files and directories currently

Re: KDE 3.0.4 update various errors struck....

of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Goethe Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: Hi Yall, from the Help dang the update did not work dept What does this mean Unpacking libkcal2 (from .../libkcal2_4%3a3.0.4-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg

WordPerfect 8.0 or WordPerfect Office 2000

Hi All, anyone hereabouts have joy getting either or both of these old beasts of verbal burden up running on Debian 3.0? If so, any trix for one new to Debian whose old Tux trix fail *BFN* H :-) It is a custom carbon fiber bodied ferrari GTO with a one-of-a-kind billet aluminum

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 or WordPerfect Office 2000

Hi All Karsten, who responded to my call for help. Thanx guys :-) H :-) Our products just aren't engineered for security.-- Brian Valentine, senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Looking to switch to debian...

Hi ZephyrQ Yall, good to see another SuSE refugee hereabouts ;-) I found the snip The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough By Clinton De Young - Posted on 2002-10-27 18:15:48 at OSNews [http://www.osnews.com/] snip most helpfull, as is this list :-) The only thing I

Re: Radeon 8500

Hi All Chris, who is a swine! ;-) OK, now I've got that off my chest-let me xplain... Your Radeon 8500 is officially supported by ATI-go to there site download the drivers install. I am not sure how hard this will be, but I guess there is a howto or readme or some such with the

(none):/home/haralambos# Whoops-how do I configure a hostname.....

Hi all again, whoops Doh! I managed to miss this out in my installation. What is the easiest way to fix this, so I can use Gnome again? *TIA* Greek Geek Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Netscape 7.0 installation Error-Help please.

Hi all, well, I have not had this one before I've had a long look thru Synaptic ATP gui can't find this stuff. Um, where is it? snip ./netscape-installer ./netscape-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: Netscape 7.0 installation Error-Help please.

Hi All Colin, thanx guys, that helped installing it, but now it wont run (either as root or vanilla user)!?!? Um, it has behaved itself in other distros-but the distros didn't Any suggestions? H :-) Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:38:00AM +1300, Haralambos

Re: Wish us all luck...

Hi All Mark, good luck! Say, do you know if the Debian 4.2 will have the CVS support for the Radeon 9000 cards? Greek Geek :-) The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. -- William Butler Yeats -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

XFree86 4.2 update howto?

Hi All, I am new to Debian am trying to figure out a few things. How do I solve the folloing error message? snip (none):/home/haralambos# ./synaptic bash: ./synaptic: No such file or directory (none):/home/haralambos# synaptic Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not

Radeon 9000 copy of working XFree86 config?

Hi yall, I am about to give Debian a try, after a couple of years on various flavours of Tux Has anyone got one of the above they care to post to the list, but not using the Frame-buffer, or am I the only Greek Geek around these parts with one of those parts? ;-) I gather there is a