Re: KDE printer interface problem

, myself. -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net au +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

infinitum, until I eventually booted again off a CD. So I installed 2.4. I still have occasional problems with kdm even with 2.4, so, perhaps my hardware may be the problem. Would it be worthwhile sending my hardware details to a list concerning the kernel? regards, James -- James Sinnamon

Re: Routing Question

144.132.248.1 to the net. Possibly there is more than one default route on the host where you are having problems? Also '/usr/sbin/tcpdump eth0' (or '/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth1') (don't think it will work with ppp0) is another debugging tool. HTH, James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net

OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)

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Re: OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)

Karsten and others, Firstly, thank you all for the responses. On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:35 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000, James Sinnamon snip/ So could anyone tell me how they handle ever growing Mail folders? Perhaps 'mutt' is the way to go

pppd authentication problem

/kppprc.txt Can anyone spot what is wrong or what is missing? BTW, is there a relationship between kppp and ppp? Does kppprc have anything to do with the files in /etc/ppp/ ? ... or with /etc/network/interfaces ? TIA James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net au +61 412 319669, +61 2

KDE printer interface problem

diagnose this problem? TIA. James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net au (aka jaymz-.a.t.-bigpond-net-auStralia) +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again, regards, James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

and ctrl-Fn to switch desktops. TIA. James. -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FYI: Mouse cursor problem due to wrong VideoRam value

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:34 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Mark and everyone else, snip/ However ... Cursor now gets blocked out with ugly black stripes -- One problem, which is more than a little irritating

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear list subscribers, For the record, the problem is now fixed and nfs works very well. On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:25 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: snip/ At first I thought my command:   mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed.  It seemed to have hanged.  I tried to kill

Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

to approach that of neuroscience. Are there any good online documentary resources which could explain how X Windows and KDE fit together? I would like to be able to understand how the Menu structures and other settings relate to files and directory structures. TIA James Sinnamon -- jps

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear John et al, On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:48 pm, John Summerfield wrote: James Sinnamon wrote: Dear list subscribers, At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. snip/ Eventually, I found, to my surprise, that that the 'mount' command had

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear Paulo et al, On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:12 am, Paulo Silva wrote: A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: Dear list subscribers, At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. It seemed to have hanged. I tried to kill

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear Paulo et al, On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:12 am, Paulo Silva wrote: A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: Dear list subscribers, At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. It seemed to have hanged. I tried to kill

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear John et al, (Firstly, sorry about the previous double posting. At first I posted using a different e-mail address to that under which I had been subscribed, so I resent it using the correct address.) On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:53 pm, John Summerfield wrote: James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Paulo

Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

=i386 or http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?\ word=NFS_HOWTO.gzsearchmode=searchfiles\ case=insensitiveversion=stablearch=i386 TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: HOWTO's on sid/sarge - where are they?

Flo, On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:13 pm, you wrote: Hello James! On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:56:02PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:22 pm, you wrote: snip/ This package is in the non-free section of the Debian archive, so you'd need something along |deb http

NFS mount very very slow

to work out what the problem could be? The entry in 192.168.0.6:/etc/exports is: /etc 192.168.0.2(ro) where 192.168.0.2 is the nfs client. TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

/path-to-apt-archives deb-src ftp:/hostname/path-to-apt-archives would they work? and even if they did, is there an easier way? TIA James - James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Debian equivalent for RedHat 9 X login manager startup

Dear Debian users, In RedHat Linux 9.0 the X login manager (and eventually KDE) is started at boot-up time from the following line in /etc/inittab: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm Can anyone tell me the equivalent way to do this with Debian? TIA -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph

Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working

--- Is lineakd (http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs) the solution? Is it necessary to have another daemon running in order to use a different kind of keyboard? TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357

Is there a utility to get IP address from interface?

'...' | etc 144.133.251.117 ? TIA James PS. I am doing this all in order to get ddns3 working so any pointers to useful docs would be greatly appreciated. -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Can I install non debian source packages?

prepared to set up the environment, configure it, build it, and also install whatever other packages on which the package depends? TIA. James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can I install non debian source packages?

Thomas, On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:41 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: --- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # If I want to install a package with a version number later than what exists as a Debian package (I had in mind Zope and Plone), is there any reason that I should not do so? ... as long

Connecting from (Debian) server to X server on desk machine.

konqueror [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ --- ? TIA. regards, James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Connecting from (Debian) server to X server on desk machine.

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:33 pm, you wrote: James, On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:12:49PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: Where do I set X on my desktop machine so that after I 'ssh' to my Debian server machine, I can run, for example, konqueror, and be able to connect that to the X server on my

/etc/network/interfaces statically defined default gateway

... instead of: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp ? TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/network/interfaces statically defined default gateway

Thomas, On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:13 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: --- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian users, How is the default gateway using, say eth0 or eth1, defined in /etc/network/interfaces, if dhcp is not used, that is if I use: auto eth1 iface eth1 intet static

have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but No free sectors available

that the change is permanent. I hope I am wrong. I partitioned about 45Gig, and planned to finish partitioning some other time. However fdisk now informs me: No free sectors available What should I do? TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123

Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but No free sectors available

On Mon, 24 May 2004 01:47 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Debian users, During my installation of a 'testing' (I think) system I partitioned my 80Gig hard disk drive. I have been told that I have not provided enough information. My apologies to all. I installed Debian 'testing' from a 110MB

after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

to that, as the normal user that started the X window session: xhost localhost This somehow doesn;t work on Debian Linux (unstable distribution). Would anybody be able to tell me why, and how to go about diagnosing the problem, or better still, what to do about it. TIA, James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

]' will evaluate to false, and so nothing will happen, as far as I can see. So I don't see what difference it makes in my situation. I appreciate your help, nevertheless, so thanks all the same. regards, James Martin On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Debian user's, My

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

a reasonable stopgap measure. By having two concurrent X window sessions running, I would not need to close down X and start another X session as root, every time I need to run some administrative task. Thanks for your help. James Sam Morgan James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Debian user's

Re: need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.

William, Firstly, thank yo for your reply. William Leese wrote: On Monday 05 February 2001 16:15, James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Debian users, I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for example, 'apt-get install debconf', I get error messages similar

Backspace key not working in xterm

key can be changed? (BTW, this problem is similar to one I have experienced with the emacs editor from time to time) TIA James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

Re: Configuring aptget to use HTTP proxy

James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.

me where there is information about a workaround that would get me around this problem so that I could start to build my 'unstable' system. TIA James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

need help installing unstable

to installind sid/unstable? Thank you. James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

Re: need a lilo.conf which does not mess up existing linux / partition

the correction, the problem was fixed. It seems obvious now, of course. Hope this is useful to somebody out there and sorry again, if anyone went to any great trouble. regards, James James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Debian users, WhenI ran lilo yesterday, it somehow change an existing (Mandrake

Installation : how to find 3Com card?

using drivers.tgz and base2_2.tgz from, but if anyone can offer any suggestions in the meantime, I would be very grateful. TIA JAmes -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

need a lilo.conf which does not mess up existing linux / partition

=/dev/hda ???!!! root=/dev/hda8 compact install=/boot/boot-menu.b delay=20 map=/boot/map append= vga=vga read-only image=/vmlinuz label=Linux image=/vmlinuz.old label=old === -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669