400+ unwanted package removal

2004-05-18 Thread John Stevenson
I am running debian unstable (dist-upgraded from the Sarge Installer) and everything was working fine, until I decided to give aptitude a try. I normally use apt-get to install single packages or dselect to add lots of packages. After reading good comments I tried using Aptitude to install a

Re: 400+ unwanted package removal

2004-05-18 Thread John Stevenson
jano kupec wrote: I tried to change the package status by using dpkg: dpkg --get-selections package.list This gave me a list of packages, 26 of which were set for deinstall. I changed these to install and did: dpkg --set-selections package.list This did not seem to make any difference. There

Re: 400+ unwanted package removal

2004-05-18 Thread John Stevenson
jano kupec wrote: did you run dselect after this? isn't it that dselect re-resolved package dependencies and set those packages that you changed to install back to deinstall? If you do: dpkg --set-selections file Then you *will* have to do: apt-get dselect-upgrade before you then

Re: Problem with video card when installing X

2004-05-01 Thread John Stevenson
I have a new machine and am installing Debian Woody on it. Everthing seems to be fine till I get to installing X and then I get the error: (EE) No devices detected According to the blurb on the box, the card I am using is a Sparkle Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128Mb DDR+TV and the part of the log

Ext3 Journal problem

2004-03-18 Thread John Stevenson
I just noticed that one of my hard drives was no longer mounting. When looking through the output of dmesg, I saw the following output kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,68), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data

Re: Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo

2004-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
Just recently I downloaded the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for Linux. Uncompressing it was relatively smooth, but when I tried to run the program, I got this error message: Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. Either GL_EXT_bgra or glDrawRangeElements not supported-

Re: ut2004demo and OpenAL

2004-03-11 Thread John Stevenson
Well as I now see after working on getting unreal2004 working ive run into two problems. One of which I fixed (it being in the center of the two monitors) and the other I did not (not having any sound). I am going to assume it has something to do with that ut2004 uses OpenAL. I use artsd in

Re: ut2004demo and OpenAL

2004-03-11 Thread John Stevenson
Thomas G wrote: John Stevenson wrote: Well as I now see after working on getting unreal2004 working ive run into two problems. One of which I fixed (it being in the center of the two monitors) and the other I did not (not having any sound). I am going to assume it has something to do

Re: ut2004demo

2004-03-10 Thread John Stevenson
image for the nvidia modules. If you have never compiled a module image before, details are in the /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian document. If you get to this point and get stuck, let me known. Johnny. Thomas G wrote: John Stevenson wrote: I am assuming that you have

Re: ut2004demo

2004-03-09 Thread John Stevenson
I am assuming that you have an NVidia 3D graphics card and have installed the NVidia drivers for that card. If neither of those thing are true, then stop reading this now... as this email wont help you!!! Okay, still here... good. From the info you have provided, it sounds like you are

Re: 3D broken in unstable ?

2004-03-06 Thread John Stevenson
I have had problems using the NVidia Install ever since XFree upgraded to v4.3.x in unstable. I have tried every combination of tips I have googled to get the NVidia Installer to work with no success. Now I have a working system using the debian packages of the nvidia install. I am using

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread John Stevenson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: | Hi! | | Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play | games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it | possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? | Why did I ever start tuxracer? It is possible to complete bunny

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-07 Thread John Stevenson
Todd Pytel wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:29:06 +0100 John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If I'm using a wheel mouse (IMPS/2) and switch ports, the mouse goes crazy. One generally knowledgeable person hinted that USB mice

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and PS/2 outputs. Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread John Stevenson
Scarletdown wrote: I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) snip - Building kernel module: executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make nvidia.o

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread John Stevenson
I managed to manually compile the drivers. Now, when I go to set up my video card, I am faced with a large list of nVidia cards to choose from. Trouble is, none of them specifically say GeForce 5600 FX. So the question to anyone here who also uses this card... Which one do I select from

Re: Highpoint RocketRaid

2003-12-19 Thread John Stevenson
Hi, does anyone know hot get a Highpoint RocketRaid 1520 card to work ? Cedric I have a Highpoint Rocket 133 (IDE 133 Card) which I got working by using a recent version of Knoppix (www.knoppix.net). You can use boot the live Knoppix CD (wont change your existing debian install) to figure

Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada

2003-11-05 Thread John Stevenson
i have a compaq armada with debian installed x runs fine, but i when i switch to a virtual terminal ctrl alt f1, ctrl alt f2, etc , i get colored stripes down the screen, its just a mess. is this anything to do with my X settings? surely not? is there any setting that changes how the virtual

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3280

2003-10-28 Thread John Stevenson
I am trying to mount a directory as nfs filesystem from other machine. I am getting RPC error on other machine and it says (Host linux box) is not responding. Though I can ping to the linux box from there and also I can telnet ot it. What is that I am missing. Any suggestion. Thanks

Saving image from email in evolution

2003-09-29 Thread John Stevenson
I am not able to save an image from an email, in this case my daily dilbert strip, when using evolution 1.2 as my email client. I can right click on the image and get a pop-up menu with a single menu item of save as.. but when I click this nothing happens. I cannont find any reported bugs

Re: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread John Stevenson
The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there shows that there is a separate partition for /home. If there is no entry in /etc/fstab for a partition is will not be mounted (unless you use a manual mount command with all the necessary options). The command df will tell you

Re: Sid CD fails as apt source

2003-09-03 Thread John Stevenson
I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as: deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt sources.list file is to use the command: apt-cdrom add You should run this

Fdisk cannot detect my harddisk

2003-09-02 Thread John Stevenson
Sir , I use 20 GB seagate harddisk. Before installing the windows'98 , I enter into BIOS setup and gave YES for Boot sector virus enabled.When I install the OS , it says Boot sector virus Found, do you overwrite ? , I answered Yes for this. After then the computer hanged .

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread John Stevenson
I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces? You will probably have problems getting

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread John Stevenson
I've had ext2 running on massive partitions in the region of 60GB upwards. Only thing with ext2 is that if the system doesn't shutdown correctly it will scan the drives for errors on the re-boot which can take AGES with larger partitions. You can easily (and in my own experience safely)

Re: FYI: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-21 Thread John Stevenson
I succeeded today in installing IBM DB2 7.1 on Debian Woody. Since I have found many unanswered questions in the WWW I think that somebody might be interested. Regards Holger Are you going to provide us with any more details of what you did? Problems that you came accross and solved? It

Re: WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin recommended packages

2003-08-21 Thread John Stevenson
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:05 pm, Antonio Rodr wrote: What are the recommended packages for proper recognition and functioning of a WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin hard disk? Planning to install woody in it. Disks are more of a bios or kernel issue, most kernels by default are setup

Re: mozilla vs. mozilla-firebird

2003-08-19 Thread John Stevenson
OK, I've found what's happens. The mozilla-firebird launch mozilla if this one is running !!! François In my experience this is normal for debian packages of Netscape and Mozilla packages under debian. It can be useful, but it can also be a right pain. I would like to run Mozilla (for

RE: ftp to webserver - not as rot

2003-08-14 Thread John Stevenson
If you have managed to set up all these servers, you could also try set up a CVS server. A CVS server can be used for managing versions of you files and is also a standard way to deploy web pages and code to a live web environment. AFAIK it is very secure assuming that you run the CVS server

Re: Java database application development

2003-08-14 Thread John Stevenson
My goal is to use Debian linux as development platform for (classical two tier) database (MySQL) applications. I thought that Java would be ideal for that purpose. Am I right? Is there better free tool (language) for development of such application that can run on both Linux and Windows? Are

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #2112

2003-07-23 Thread John Stevenson
Hi all, Installation went alright. Only X was the problem. Error message was that unix fontpath having problem. So I commented out the line unixfontpath :7100 in /etc/XF86Config-4 file. Again errors, this time mouse goes unrecognised. It is a PS2 Logitech Mouse in a PS/2 port. It was detected

Re: GeForce4 card

2003-07-17 Thread John Stevenson
Try one of the following: a) Change the Generic Mouse protocol to ImPS/2 b) Change the Configured Mouse to point to /dev/psaux c) If you have a Logitec Mouse, try use the MouseManPlusPS/2 protocol. Johnny. Subject: GeForce4 card From: john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003

Re: installing mouse

2003-06-24 Thread John Stevenson
If you really get nowhere with your mouse, before you abandon debian you could try using Knoppix (a debian based distrobution) from http://www.knoppix.net/ especially if you are happy to download a CD image ~600MB. If not, you may as well ignore the rest of this email. You can run Knoppix

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-23 Thread John Stevenson
Logitech wheelmice usually use a different protocol to PS/2. Try using MouseManPlusPS/2 as the protocol. Here is a snippet from my XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #1796

2003-06-20 Thread John Stevenson
You could try apt-listchanges package which will present you with a list of all updates to your system (not to sure about removed packages though). This can be viewed during the installation process and/or results mailed to a user. It might not be exactly what you want, but it should do some

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907

2003-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
Using dselect I searched for gimp and found this package that should meet your needs: gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program Enjoy.. Johnny. Subject: GIF driver for Gimp ? From: dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:46:35 + To: Debian List

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907

2003-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
You should look at the package: cron-apt This probably does everything you need, without doing any damage to you system by default I just use it to do an update and download (not install) any packages overnight). Once I read the changelogs in the morning, I then decide whether to let the

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
I have had this very same problem with Mozilla and have found two 'remedies', but no real answer 1) The anonying remedy: Minimise or shade the window that is not responding to text input and then unminimise / unshade that window. You should now be able to insert text. 2) The 'Okay so

Blender menu problems

2003-03-06 Thread John Stevenson
I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have problems with the application 'blender'. On launching the program it automatically spans the whole screen, seems to work outside of the window manager (i.e. no window decoration) and most importantly the menus are drawn (when selected)

Re: Choosing Packages?

2000-05-08 Thread John Stevenson
One way to emulate the 'initial install' package group selection is to find and install packages that have the 'task-' name, such as task-debian-devel. This will bring up a dependancy list of things that are useful if you want to develop debian packages. In case you dont know, use the / key to

Re: .deb for the latest version of lilo? any ideas?

2000-04-28 Thread John Stevenson
It would be great if the latest version of lilo could be droped into the potato boot flopies, especially as one of the main problems our site has had was not being able to boot our laptops from the hard drive unless we got hold of partition magic or re-installed NT from scratch. We have

apache + mod_proxy

2000-04-26 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have a problem with apapche and mod_proxy. I added the following to the /etc/apache/http.conf ## www proxy settings CacheRoot /var/www/cache CacheSize 500 CacheDirLevels 3 CacheDirLength 1 and uncommented the LoadModule proxy_module line. I set the clients to access the webserver,

Re: local mirror dist.

2000-04-25 Thread John Stevenson
You can use apt-move to add downloaded debs into a local cache, it can also be used to grab and sort all the debs for a particular distribution 'apt-move mirror'. Johnny. Harry ten Berge wrote: Hi, I want to use dselect/apt with a local mirror of a debian site to update/install new

Re: External monitor in X

2000-04-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Kari, Kari Ruohonen wrote: I apologise to contact you directly but I would like to ask a few further questions if you don't mind. Not a problem Thank you for your answer. I am running the modified xserver Mach64 from Steve's Dell-pages. What version of debian are you running? I

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-14 Thread John Stevenson
You shoud really just edit the .xsession file in your user directory, /home/username/.xsession You do not need to include a command to run the window manager (fvwm2), gnome-session will do that for you. Check that you dont have a .xinitrc file in your home directory as this will override the

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread John Stevenson
A very simplistic (and rough) answer would be: /lib /bin are to do with the real core of unix/linux, like the kernel modules live in /lib/modules /usr/lib /usr/bin are the applications/libraries that run on top of the core unix/linux, things that the users make use of, hence '/usr'

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-12 Thread John Stevenson
Alternitvely, you could use gnome-session which will run gmc and the gnome panel (an anything from previous sessions) for you. Create a .xinitrc file in your users home directory and include the following line: gnome-session Hope this helps. Johnny. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Sandy ==

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-12 Thread John Stevenson
I have always had a problem with the boot disks occasionally dying. The things I can advise are: * check that floppy access has actually finished and then give it a few seconds * going too fast throught the install (and swapping disks) make it more likely the install will hang If it hangs at

Re: Java IDE

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
You could try using the Blackdown JDK from www.blackdown.org, get the Release Candidate 4 (RC4), this uses native threads and has the sun JIT compiler in it. This make a noticable improvement of speed on my machine. It seems to work fine with all Java apps I have tried, with the exception of

ftp but no apt

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello I have set up a partial mirror of debian on one of our machines. This was orignially on the same subnet x.x.1.x as all the laptops we use. Apt worked fine and we reduced d/l time emensly. Now we have moved the box to another subnet, x.x.3.x and now apt no longer works. It stalls at the

Re: netscape6 anyone?

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
I have netscape6 (mozilla in netscapes clothing...) running fine on my potato install. I ran it as root first (a bit risky but its not an important system) and it complained about missing library: libstdc++ So I checked thorugh dselect and noticed some old versions of this library. Once

Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am trying to install StarOffice 5.1 from the official sun CD onto a debian potato system. However when I try the set up program from inside the /cdrom/linux/office51 directory, I get the following error: # ./setup bash: ./setup: Permission denied I have tried this both as root and as

Re: Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
The file is executable by all users and I do not have noexec opions on the CD. I have set the umask to 222. I sill get the same problem and after reading through the readme on the CD it seems that there is a problem with glibc libraries. It looks like star office needs to have a specific

Re: ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc

2000-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
Is it me or do you have this command the wrong way round. I would have thought that you wanted: ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc I hope this fixes things for you... Johhny Debian Mail wrote: I moved /usr/doc to /home/doc, since I have more space on the partition that is mounted on /home. Then I

Re: XWindows Error

2000-04-04 Thread John Stevenson
One of the quickest ways I know is to go to dselect and search for the packages: xf86setup xserver-vga16 xserver-svga Install these packages and any packages they depend upon. Once installed, as root use the following command to set up X: XF86Setup This will launch the vga server, which is a

Re: DHCP

2000-04-03 Thread John Stevenson
Perhaps you are using pump as the dhcp client, therefore you could probably try: pump eth0 or just: pump Hope this helps. Johnny. Chris Mason wrote: On a Linux box, just run dhcpc eth0, I get command not found when I try that. On 01-Apr-2000 Chris Mason wrote: How do I force the

Re: Stock kernel config info?

2000-04-03 Thread John Stevenson
You will fine the file at: /boot/config-x.x.x where the x is a value of your kernel release. Johnny Terry Hancock wrote: Is it possible to determine what the configuration settings were for the stock kernels that Debian packages? I need to recompile the kernel (1st time), and I would like

running gmc remotely

2000-03-30 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have a problem using gmc when I have telnet'ed to another machine. I have two potato (frozen) systems, a laptop and a desktop I run X on the laptop and allow connections for X apps using the 'xhost +desktopname' command. I then open a telnet session from the laptop to the desktop. In

local debian mirror subnets

2000-03-30 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have a very strange problem regarding a local mirror of debian and subnets. We have two subnets: x.x.1.x Laptops x.x.3.x Servers We have set up a local mirror of debian on a machine on the server subnet. This can be ftp'd to and telnet'ed by a user and anonymous ftp. However, when

Re: xwindows

2000-03-17 Thread John Stevenson
This is of course assuming that you have installed the window maker package (wmaker). If you install a window manage (such as window maker) it should add itself to the alternatives in /etc, but I am no expert on that Johnny. C. Folstrom wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:11:01PM -0800,

Re: dselect

2000-03-17 Thread John Stevenson
It seem that you have not pointed dselect (apt) to a more up-to-date distribution. As root, try running the apt-setup command and select a complete mirror. Then run dselect and chose the update option to get a new list of packages from the chosen source. Once the packages are updated, you

dhcp webserver

2000-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
I have a laptop running dhcp (pump) which successfully gets its IP address from our dhcp server. The problem is, how do I then get other people on the same internal network to attach to the web server running on that laptop?? Obviously there needs to be some name resolving to get the correct IP

Re: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe

2000-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Apparently it is someones attempt at a virus (or something as undesirable). Our mail client didnt like it and removed it as an attachemet. Johnny. Ron Rademaker wrote: What is this about??/ On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Arne -- Unsubscribe?

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
Have you tried moving your orignial ~/.mozilla folder. It may have config settings that the new version of mozilla doesnt like... Johnny Bryan K. Walton wrote: Hi everyone, This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded

Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread John Stevenson
There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. I assume that you have just done an upgrade to the new package and this broke dselect. dpkg itself still works, so you just need the file and use: dpkg -i packagename.deb Then when

Re: Maestro sound driver

2000-03-07 Thread John Stevenson
I dont know if this really helps, but I have a Dell Latitude wich also has the ESS Maestro sound chip. I installed using the latest potato boot floppys, selected Maestro module along with the 3 OSS modules and everything worked just fine. I had a couple of hangs due to the sound card, but I

Re: Lock file Debs over NFS

1999-12-04 Thread John Stevenson
I believe that you are not supposed to delete the lock file. I had this problem at first when I had a shared debs directory between the machines on my local network. I also had a problem with the lock file being on the nfs mounted system and got round the problem by linking it to a lock file

Re: JDK 1.2 debs for slink?

1999-11-21 Thread John Stevenson
As far as I know there are no jdk1.2 debs for any debian distribution.. Using the jdk1.2 from blackdown is what most people do (www.blackdown.org). There are two versions availble differing on glibc. Get version 2.0 for slink. John. Rick Macdonald wrote: Are there JDK 1.2 debs for slink

Gnumeric fonts missing

1999-11-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello all, I have come across a problem with gnumeric, when I run it I get the following error: ~$ gnumeric Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font. Please verify your gnome-print installation and that your fontmap file (typically located in /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap) is not empty

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-17 Thread John Stevenson
I have taken a giant leap of faith and gone back to using gnome-session. In the earlier days of gnome, this used to cause load of interesting effects to happen, but now everything seems to work just fine. Try the following in your .xsession file (and dump your .xinitrc file) exec gnome-session

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-17 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am not a developer or expert on policy, but as far as I know the intent of xdm is to start linux up X rather than on the terminal. Now as debians default init level is 2, it seems natural to me to make the appropriate links for xdm in that init level (otherwise it would seem to the

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you install from sources or from a kernel image? I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real problems with the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed in

Setting Up ProFtp Server

1999-06-09 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am trying to set up an ftp server to hold some non-free debian suff I dont have no cd. I am using proftpd and am able to ftp to the machine, but I cannot see any files or directories. I have read the docs for proftpd and only found info on how to hide directories (but they are already

Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread John Stevenson
If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source) alias rm='rm -i' This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do not use the -f option. The -f option will just do it no matter how your shell is set up. I guess you

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-16 Thread John Stevenson
There is a nice little command called xhost which allows you to specifiy from which machines users are allowed to run X applications. So this alters the Magic Cookie stuff. If you type: xhost +mymachine where mymachine is the hostname of the computer you are currently typing at, then no matter

apache proxy configuration on slink

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian land, Does anyone know where I should put the configuration directives, in order to switch on proxy caching. I am following the guidelines in the O'Riely book on apache, and it says to place the directives in a file called .../site.proxy This file I created as

Re: HP Web JetAdmin

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
I got HP Web JetAdmin to work okay on my Hamm distribution, after making a few sym-links to make up for the differences in filespace layout. However, I tried it again with slink and it refuses connection. I wonder if there are some access permissions that changed default from the two distros'.

Re: linuxconf

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
Last I heard about linuxconf was that it had a negative affect, as it does not follow the debian file structure properly. I guess that if the debs are in experimental then you should not install them on a machine that you arent prepared to trash. John. Oliver Thuns wrote: Hi! Does anyone

Re: Multiple gnome-panels are started by gnome-session and other problems

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
I have the same 'feature' running slink with the slink-staging-area gnome debs (these few do work quite nicely actually). In order to avoid the problem, I always log out of the gnome pannel before exiting from the window manager. It would be nice if there was a more elegant way around this

Re: Weird behavior with GNOME - Solved my own weird problem..

1999-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
I get the same problems with gnome. I have also got an even weirder problem that I dont even know how to report. I had been running Enlightenment 0.15 with some of the gnome apps from www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main Everything was working fine, although as

Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking Sound Problems

1999-04-03 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have to problems that I think may be related. 1) I installed slink from scratch on a Dell Laptop (which worked using hamm) and selected the source for kernel 2.0.36. When I went to the /usr/src directory, I fount the tar file had not been extracted and therefore there was no linux

Backing up a Linux Machine (and NT)

1999-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, How do I back up our linux server (Debian slink) using a HP SureStore DAT8 tape drive. The Dat Drive is an external box attached to the linux server via an adapted scsi card. This is probably a simple questiong to answer, but I cant find the right info. Which packages should I use to

smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am having problems installing printers on win95 machines. I am using a linux server running debian slink and have been able to set up clients running windows98 to use the linux printer, but windows 95 refuse to acknoledge that the server even exists. Attached is my smb.conf file.; ;

Re: smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
with regional software, some is English(British) and some is English(International). But I am only guessing Last resort is to upgrade the machines to win98, which seems to work just fine on six machines that I have tried with the samba servers. Hope some one can help, John John Stevenson wrote

Re: smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To answer my own problem, it was a windoze config problem. We found a win98 doing the same thing and discovered that the subnet mask was incorrect on some of the client machines, doh. What a pain... John John Stevenson wrote: To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just

Remote Unix printer - Permissions

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am running a linux print server that is working very nicely with win95 clients (using samba) but am having trouble connecting to the printer from linux clients. I have read the printing howto (see snippet below) and it refers to the /etc/hosts.lpd file, but I have know idea what the

Re: remote printing permissions [solved]

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To solve my problem of remote printing, it was very simple (once I found out what I was doing). Edit the /etc/lpd.perms so that it allows remote print job requests: Find these following lines in the file: # reject remote prints from arbitrary hosts REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Replace them

[Slightly Off-Topic] Printing from Netscape - page address

1999-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Is there any way to get the Netscape Browser (in communicator 4.5) to include the address of the web page on the top corner of the printout. The same version of netscape but for M$ does this automatically, even when attached to a linux print server. Is there anything I can do to get this

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-12 Thread John Stevenson
If you have slink installed then I suggest using GTKICQ which looks (more or less) identical to the mirabilis version for windoze Seems to work quite nicely for me to talk to people using mirabilis... bye John. Andrei Ivanov wrote: What Linux version of ICQ? Do you mean the

Re: keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread John Stevenson
I had a problem with my keyboard when I used the tleds package (which used the keyboard leds to indicate events). This stoped my laptop keyboard working. If you have a package like this installed, it may be causing the problem. John. Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V.

Re: Screen Size in X

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
Before you start editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, try using the following key press combination: control Alt - control Alt + Pressing these three keys (Holding control and Alt then tapping either plus or minus) will change the resolution that your screen runs at. Using this method will

Re: strange messages at boot.

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
I have just had a similar problem with my laptop. It seems to have been caused by one of the following reasons: * Conficting Modules installed * Conflicting IRQ when trying to configure my sound card. I seem to have fixed these problems at the same time and now no longer get the messages as

Re: HP Web Jetadmin

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
I cheated to install the Jet Admin package. I created a symbolic link inside /etc called rc.d which linked to the above directory, which was etc. The install was then able to carry on with no problem. I think I was even able to remove the rc.d link when the install had finished. I have not

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-20 Thread John Stevenson
I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian and have had no problems. David Wright wrote: Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using

NeoMagic Card with Slink

1999-02-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Has anyone had any problems using Slink with a Neomagic video card. I am currently using Hamm with Precision Insights XFCom_NeoMaic Xserver. Now from what I have seen from slink is that a lot of changes happen when you upgrade to slink, especially with the fonts. My question is will the

not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread John Stevenson
/main dpkg-http 550 /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0. 19.deb: not a plain file. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..

Re: not a plain file - apt method with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread John Stevenson
Looks like I have found the problem. It seems to have been the ftp site I was using. I eventually got through to another site and dont seem to have the same problems. Still strange though. I might try to just ftp the files by hand and see if there is a real problem -- John Stevenson, Objective

Re: UML Software for Linux

1999-01-21 Thread John Stevenson
the code too, you might even want to contribute... -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-14 Thread John Stevenson
://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..

Re: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-14 Thread John Stevenson
Our NT server (doh) is used by both Linux and windoze clients at the same time, with out any problems (apart from the usual ones with NT) John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead of samba

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