Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, I'd appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for bothering anyhow :) Are you saying that if you

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: Are you saying that if you dpkg -i kdelibs4c2a_3.5.1-2_i386.deb the installation of the deb will fail? yes indeed Oh-h-h-h. Does it complain about the libkdecore also, as in: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: Tore Ericsson wrote: The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, I'd appreciate other suggestions than what

ping works in 2.4; fails in 2.6

2006-03-03 Thread Kent West
Some weeks (months?) ago I tried to update my sid box from a 2.4.x kernel to a stock 2.6 kernel. Whenever I'd boot into the 2.6 kernel, the network failed to work. Not finding a solution, I decided to live with 2.4 until such time as I could pursue the matter further. Last week I tried again,

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-02 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: I did this, and I could see my mounted drive ... but if i tried to ls, i got mostly garbage, so i've probably done something ELSE wrong. I went back to the knoppix boot to see if I had further destroyed anything, but fortunately, everything there still looks the same, so at least I

Re: X doesn't start

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
Anakreon Mendis wrote: The X server fails to start. Yesturday it worked fine. I can't figure out how to fix the problem. From the log file I found this message: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc refcount is 2, should be 1;

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer from a Knoppix CD and can see all the files, I just can't get it

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it display a Copyright notice for grep, then for egrep, then for grep again, then for egrep again, then hangs I've booted the computer from a Knoppix

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: maybe it's time to give up and move on, rather than further waste anyone's time ... Well, sure, you _could_ do that. But you're missing out on a learning experience. but before I do, let me ask one more thing: since the drive seems to be okay (I can see all the files when

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Greetings. I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it Try mounting the partitions -- mount -a. You may need to remount / in rw mode if you need

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it Maybe rename the rc[whatever]. directory so no services/daemons start up, and reboot normally, and go from

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: Kent West wrote: If one of the files says something can't be found, like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk: ldd /bin/ls linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) librt.so.1 = /lib/tls/librt.so.1 (0xb7fd) libacl.so.1 = /lib/libacl.so.1 (0xb7fc8000

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: kenn wrote: Okay, you're right ... I DO need to think of this as a learning experience. In this case, I have no line with a not found message Okay. So on the line that says not found, what file is on the left? Oops; I see that I misread I have no line... as I have

Re: No xterm window by default?

2006-02-27 Thread Kent West
Sammy wrote: I ran aptitude install x-window-system and successfully installed X-Windows. When I run startx I get a gray background with an X in the middle (mouse pointer). My mouse is not working, but I don't get any errors (EE) lines in /var/log/XFree86.0.log file. From the HOWTOs, I

Re: I need help with XF86Config-4 :-(

2006-02-25 Thread Kent West
Sammy wrote: I cannot find anywhere online what the config should be for my PowerBook G4 (1.67GHz) with Radeon 9700 should be. I can't work the trackpad. All I get is a screen with X in the middle once I run startx. Where am I going wrong? Sorry, new user :S The gray screen indicates that

Re: Installation issues

2006-02-20 Thread Kent West
TAC Forums wrote: Hi All, I was trying to install Debain Sarg stable 3.1 on a system, with 20 GB HDD and 128 MB RAM. The base installation went smoothly. While configuring the packages to be installed, i selected the web server option and the the instllation procees started off.. At some

Re: Debian Jam, Seisure, Notch ...

2006-02-19 Thread Kent West
AUTOHK wrote: I install debian on TravelMate 245LC. Starting is normal only to start server X, and in this time jam. ERROR MESSAGE: Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely is not set up corretly. Would you like to view to X server output to diagnose the probelm ?

Re: kernel compile volume picture.

2006-02-19 Thread Kent West
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 2/18/06, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you get it if you log into a different windowing environment (Gnome, fluxbox, edtc)? Do you get it if you log in as a different user? As I don't have other wm or other user I didn't try them. The reason I asked

Re: kernel compile volume picture.

2006-02-18 Thread Kent West
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Today I compiled kernel with same config but for enabling dell laptop option and disabling radeonfb. But when I boot with new kernel and do login through kdm, I get volume picture as given in attachment. I don't know how to remove it? Why does it appear? Do you get it if

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 09:11, Mankuthimma wrote: And the OP is silent after all the ruckus his mail has created. IMHO, he deserved every bit of the rudeness, nastiness. Courtesy is rising above others' rudeness and anger and being decent to them even in such a

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:51:59 + john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked well'. snip I've just recharged the battery

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Kent West
On 2/16/06, the original poster wrote: i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. Here's what I wrote several years ago (but I don't claim that it's a good tutorial): http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/05/025207 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Configuring network

2006-02-11 Thread Kent West
Henrique RennĂ³ wrote: I know it's not a question concerning laptops but I've just installed debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop Acer Aspire 3002LCI and I'm not able to connect to any other host. When I try pinging a host I get: Destination Host Unreachable. Like my network configuration were set

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

2006-02-10 Thread Kent West
Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck which was why I went to Debian/Apache. I will keep trying, thanks for your information. Basically your host is using Debian/Apache on the host server, and since you have yet to upload

Re: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-038A on Mozilla products

2006-02-08 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The following appeared yesterday on vulnerabilities in Mozilla products: snip Overview Several vulnerabilities exist in the Mozilla web browser and derived products, the most serious of which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an

Re: Problems with X window system

2006-02-07 Thread Kent West
ManuP wrote: I just installed Debian 3.0 from CD. Because I only had a text-based system, I typed apt-get install kde (or kde2, don't know). Because kde requires X, I thougt it would be installed with kde. It was, but doesn't work. As I understand it, KDE does not depend on X, as you might

Re: Hopefully a Simple internet problem

2006-02-07 Thread Kent West
paulakkermans wrote: As requested some more details on my problem. I have a Pentium II 400 MHZ (with Debian installed on it) and it connects to the internet via another computer which runs Microsoft Windows XP. So I would like to share my internet connection in my network as this is commonly

Re: Problems with X window system

2006-02-07 Thread Kent West
ManuP wrote: x-window-system as well as kdm is installed. So that should not be the problem. Maybe i should start from the beginning: I have a text-based linux. What do I need to get eg. kde? Is apt-get install kde not enough? No; as mentioned, KDE does not depend on X, so simply

Re: Lost partitions

2006-02-03 Thread Kent West
James Hudspeth wrote: I recently installed Debian Sarge i386 to dual-boot with XP Home. This is not the first time I have installed Linux to dual boot with Windows, I used to have Mandrake/Mandriva. With Mandrake, I could access the data held on my windows partitions through

Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread Kent West
Tyson Varosyan wrote: Again, I apologize for posting a Windows-based problem on this board, but I did so with the assumption that there would be many Apache users here and that the more experienced ones may know how to help me in Windows and Linux. I reinforced my belief in the reasons why

Re: wrong RE: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread Kent West
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Tyson Varosyan wrote: Sorry that I made you feel so incompetent. you're proving your own incompetence i doubt anybody would do what you suggest to get virtual domains working and there may be more than one solution.. but yours is not it ... and

Re: [OT] debianhelp.co.uk steals my words?

2006-01-27 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: Who knows: I blame the Puritans, one way or the other. (Fascinating group of people they were. Their culture is the North-American culture of to-day. (Why in the World have I brought this up?)). Can I quote you on that? :-) (Just kidding, in my lame, unfunny way.) --

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:33:45 -0600 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple instances of X, on the same box (say, one for you, one for the wife, one for the kid, etc)? so that's cool. but does it start

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple instances of X, on the same box (say, one for you, one for the wife, one for the kid, etc)? That's about the same as the so much advertised Switch User feature

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
Ken Walker wrote: So from a basic net install boot disk, what is the minimum you would need to install to get icewm or blackbox running ? I'm not positive, but I'd probably do: aptitude install x-window-system-core icewm -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Can't chmod a file

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: Igor Milovanovic wrote: First, I suggest you put a reasonable subject on your messages. I have this file: -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? This hasn't happened to me... please, help. Are you

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-24 Thread Kent West
debian wrote: I've been forced to because KDM has stopped working. For the life of me I cannot get it to load. In the /var/log/kdm files there are messages about being refused an X connection, yet I can start X and startx and run xfce fine. I've googled for solutions until I am dizzy.

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

2006-01-23 Thread Kent West
Paul E Condon wrote: 2) by installing and configuring a 'display manager'. Available display managers are gdm, kdm, xdm, and one other, I think. wdm -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to get a clean xserver-xorg installation?

2006-01-23 Thread Kent West
Christof Hurschler wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting my xserver to run on an unstable machine which I just upgraded. kdm runs, pauses on login and returns without entering any desktop (KDE or otherwise). I am getting an error: error opening security policy file

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-23 Thread Kent West
Joe wrote: Hi Kent I do not mean to bother you but I am confused. If I have X running it shows a GNOME desktop. Is this correct? X is the underlying server and GNOME is what I see? I was under the impression that X is a Desktop such as KDE or GNOME. The X server is the underlying graphical

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2006-01-23 Thread Kent West
thierry wrote: Kent West wrote: Hope this helps you understand things. Thank you for these explanations, I was using, and wondering about all this since I moved to linux,for over a year now. Thanks again. Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Kent, that has to be one of the best down

Re: KDE Freezes and exits

2006-01-17 Thread Kent West
Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: ALWAYS use a subject! El Virolo wrote: Hi all, I recently reinstalled Debian Sid on my Athlon XP machine, with KDE 3.5. The problem is I can't launch KDE : it freezes and gets back to KDM as soon as it starts displaying initializing hardware ... Is there

Re: ktuberling

2006-01-16 Thread Kent West
Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: My four-year-old ktuberling user is getting the following message when trying to load the program: Fatal error: Unable to load the picture, aborting. The program works fine for the other three users on the machine, but won't even load for her. Since this is

Re: ktuberling

2006-01-16 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: My four-year-old ktuberling user is getting the following message when trying to load the program: Fatal error: Unable to load the picture, aborting. The program works fine for the other three users on the machine, but won't even load

Re: Mouse configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
Don wrote: I've looked and I've looked and I can't find an answer to this one. I had a Woody upgraded to Sarge Debian system running for some time. Had my Logitech mouse as a PS/2 and did not have the wheel mouse functionality. Due to a bad decision on my part I got my system into a

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
Bob Hynes reports a slow Debian setup. My first suspicion would be that DMA is not turned on. What's the results of running hdparm /dev/hda (assuming your setup is installed on /dev/hda)? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: system requirements for debian]

2006-01-15 Thread Kent West
(Bob; let me encourage you to keep conversations on the list rather than private replies; this way, others who might be helpful can help; and others who are looking for the same answers can find the answers both on the list and later in the archives.) Bob Hynes wrote: Kent West wrote: Bob

Re: Ubuntu to Debian

2006-01-11 Thread Kent West
Jay Zach wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Greetings oh most knowledgeable list, I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago, and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently purchased an

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread Kent West
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. Looks very good. 5. As questions tend to be referred to debian-user and due to the dilemma of appropriate mailing list to

Re: Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]

2006-01-08 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: It has been suggested by several people in this thread to have a 'debian-newcomer' list. Question: Is there real interest in having this and how many users will subscribe in order to help the newcomers (from doze or Mac or other distros)? A name or nick as an answer i

Re: Tabbrowser Extensions

2006-01-08 Thread Kent West
Mark Grieveson wrote: Please help me uninstall Tabbrowser Extensions. I feel like Mozilla has caught a disease, and I can't get rid of it. Please see http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en to know what I'm speaking of. I tried pressing the uninstall button that comes

Re: fsck Fails On Reboot After Partially Completed Testing Upgrade

2006-01-06 Thread Kent West
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I get these boot messages on a cold start or reboot after doing an # aptitude upgrade -t testing that is still not completely finished. Checking root file system fsck 1.39-WIP(current date) /dev/hda1: Superblock last write time in future I believe there was a

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-06 Thread Kent West
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Ray Lanza wrote: Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows on my machine. No, of course not. It is the _easiest_ fix. It is becoming aparent that we can do a much better fix in glibc, but I

Re: help

2006-01-04 Thread Kent West
frederick c woodruff wrote: Well thank you for help,I used su to get past my name @ debian$,now Im stuck at the next step,like I said before I am new at this,now I am getting debian:/home/desktop#,I tried some commands I thought would work they did not,can someone help please what command do I

Re: need help please

2006-01-03 Thread Kent West
frederick c woodruff wrote: I just started installing sarge on my computer all was going ok untill I did the log in,did ok untill at the bottom of page it askes something @debian $ I dont know what to tell it to get in I know you know its a bash command I dont know I am knew at this can you

Re: Not Authenticated ???

2006-01-03 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: Now that I've got Etch installed, I'm seeing a Not Authenticated warning for many packages. Is this normal or is it something I don't have that is causing such? We'll need more detail than this. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: GUI

2006-01-01 Thread Kent West
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 06:17:20PM -0600, branko wrote: Hi.Please help.I want to use Linux but in GUI.I have a DVD of Debian Sarge.I have tried to install it and evrything went fine except at the end all I got was a prompt.I have tried evry command I could think of to get

Re: GUI

2006-01-01 Thread Kent West
branko wrote: Thanks.Are those the exact commands you enter at the prompt. Whatever is in quotes is an exact command, yes. If you don't have 'sudo' installed/configured, you'll instead need to become root for the command, and not include the word sudo . By the way are there any programs that

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

2005-12-31 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: I remember during the upgrade to etch that I selected Xfree86 where I'm not sure I did back with stable. Could that have anything to do with the problem, and if so how do I go about reversing that decision??? You probably want to run X.org now rather than XFree86. I'm not

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI

2005-12-31 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: Etch installed the 2.6.12.1-386 (2.6.12.10) kernel. My processor is: Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2519 Mhz Intel(R) 82850/82860 Processor Should I be using the 2.6.12-1-686 kernel? That's what I would do. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Getting xfree86 running

2005-12-31 Thread Kent West
S Clement wrote: I have been trying different things to get XFree86 running. The last message I got was: xfOpenConsole: command not found When I try vidtune, I get: Error: Can't open display This is because vidtune depends on X running already. vidtune is not a tool you need at the

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

2005-12-30 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: I've moved up to etch and the 2.6 kernel. In the upgrade I remember selecting dialog as such was the best at the time. Now though, I'd like to get back to KDE (login and sessions). I was using KDE before I started the upgrade. I'm sure it's some simple little thing, but I

Re: X config

2005-12-27 Thread Kent West
S Clement wrote: No matter what I do with the XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11, I get the same fatal error message at the end: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT I could not find anything like xf86OpenConsole. When I had Debian before, X attached itself to tty7

Re: Linux or K3B issue???

2005-12-27 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: In my trials today I've had no problem creating and restoring a data CD, but I can't get K3B to do anything with DVDs. == The Writing window basically says: i Starting writing... x :-( /dev/hdd: unable to proceed with

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: Yep, I have the session KDE GUI the way I want it, but I get there from a Gnome login screen and I can't shutdown from such without entering the root password. So you're running gdm. When I stepped in it before, part of the problem was probably that I was switching around

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: Yep, I have the session KDE GUI the way I want it, but I get there from a Gnome login screen and I can't shutdown from such without entering the root password. Speaking of post-install tidbits . . . here's a freebie that's off-topic :-) Chinook, did you

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: Kent West wrote: or you can just install kdm instead of gdm: aptitude install kdm (or dpkg-reconfigure -plow kdm). I did install and it said it removed a bunch of Gnome packages which were unneeded. I said OK. Then I did the reconfigure kdm which just asked me to select

Re: New post install tidbits?

2005-12-25 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: With the Gnome login screen I could login as root though and I can't seem to find a way to allow such with the kdm login screen. Not sure I need to though, because I can use the root terminal or sudo in terminal, and there seems to be a File Manager - Super User Mode to

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-24 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file as Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was in a pile of it. There is no more GUI (neither gdm or xdm will come

Re: Can't switch to virtual console anymore

2005-12-22 Thread Kent West
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Dear all, I can't switch to a virtual console any longer. I'm fairly sure whatever happened must have happened during my last aptitude upgrade, because I switch to VC's very very often. Datapoints: 0. This is a Debian/testing machine. 1. My XF86Config does not

Re: mac address

2005-12-22 Thread Kent West
Tony Heal wrote: how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a remote server? ssh in, and run ifconfig -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla 1.5 download directory

2005-12-22 Thread Kent West
Richard wrote: 2005/12/22, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest mozilla package. I am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or a debian package bug so i ask here if more people can confirm this. I am also using KDE and every time when i

Re: Remote Desktop to Windows server

2005-12-21 Thread Kent West
Bob Hynes wrote: Can anyone tell me exactly what I need to do to a remote desktop session from a Debian workstation to a Windows 2000 server? I can do it easily from Windows XP, but I don't really know the steps for Debian or the syntax involved. I tried looking this up in the KDE help file,

Re: Error Installing on debian

2005-12-20 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting up exim (3.36-16) ... install: invalid user `mail' dpkg: error processing exim (--configure): In your /etc/passwd file you should probably have a mail entry, like below: snip games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-20 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Never take the advice of people who use spellings like kewel, n33t, and abbreviate you to u, etc. Could you please explain me why? Just to know And what does kewel means? :-P am

Re: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

2005-12-20 Thread Kent West
Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: Hi all, When opening emacs from terminal as su I'm getting this error: debian:/home/nipra# emacs Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use

OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-20 Thread Kent West
Aaron Stromas wrote: On 12/20/05, *Kent West* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've known plenty of kids[1] who speak leet who are [ otherwise ;-) ] very smart. choosing to communicate in an incomprehensible way on the wide public forum doesn't strike me

Re: APT::Force-LoopBreak

2005-12-20 Thread Kent West
Christian Stalp wrote: I got some problem while my notebook-installation. I got an error concerning the failure of deleting a essential parcel e2fsprogs. While the installation apt told me that this parcel has to be deleted. But when I confirm this I got this dump: E: Internal Error, Could

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: Gabriel wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Chinook wrote: I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which

Re: README files

2005-12-18 Thread Kent West
Ed Paris wrote: Hi There, I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? Thanks. Take care, Ed zless README.Debian.gz should do it. Or zcat README.Debian.gz | more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-18 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: am trying to decide which Linux to install. 1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she says she has to have her card games :)) 2)

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-18 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: am trying to decide which Linux to install. Pretty much any distro will do the things you've specified; I don't think these criteria will suffice for choosing a distro. You may have to move to other criteria (such as the Freedom argument

Re: New User/No GUI

2005-12-12 Thread Kent West
Charlie wrote: This is my first post, please tell me if I am in the wrong place and possibly suggest where I need to be. This is the place. I am really interested in Debian and have read everything in the install instructions. I have tried the auto install and the expert26 install. In

Re: Computer archetecture

2005-12-08 Thread Kent West
Blitz wrote: It may just be hard to find if it is there... but im looking for a way to find out which version of debian I should download (based on computer), and have no idea what my computer archetecture is by looking at the list. I know it's not a mac, so I won't click powerPC... but

Re: Problem running Corel WP

2005-12-06 Thread Kent West
Hodgins Family wrote: Good morning! I am using Corel WP Office 2002 But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord. It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-05 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Computer manufacturers have gotten together and agreed on a standard (or standards), for example, ASCII. This standard specifies that 8 bits arranged in a certain sequence stand [snip] ASCII is a 7 bit code. D'oh! It has indeed been a while

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Kent West
Paddy Hackett wrote: In view of this could anybody tell me how we get from the stage of bits to the letters of say the English language. In short how do bits, Boolean Algebra lead to letters such as a,b,c,..etc. If I understand what you're asking Computer manufacturers have gotten

Re: using two graphics cards in one machine

2005-12-03 Thread Kent West
Brent Clark wrote: Hi all Does anyone know if its possible to have two different vendor graphics card in one machine. The one is an old Voodoo 3 pci card, and the other is Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE If anyone has any tips / advice or link on how to does this, I would be most

Re: thunderbird

2005-12-03 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, After years of building my own mozilla-suit, what got to me is that its mail-news component will not search messages. So I apt-get installed mozilla-thunderbird on Sarge. It does search messages and is faster too. But one thing I miss: clicking on a URL and

Re: reinstalled windows xp serious sarge unidentified problem ended in Kernel-panic please help....

2005-12-03 Thread Kent West
Prakash Jose Kokkatt wrote: Hello, I encountered a kernel panic on sarge after M$ XP reinstalled,which i tried to recover by all ways which i know.i already recovered grub.the partition number descended by one number after windows reinstalled;Now i have sata 80GB disk with '/' at sda8

Re: Can't login... need help

2005-11-28 Thread Kent West
Paul Ravish wrote: Hi Antony, I logged in as root and typed startx. This seemed to work as it took me to roots desktop. When I logged in as me (paul) and I typed startx I received the error message xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority rm

Re: Can't login... need help

2005-11-28 Thread Kent West
Paul Ravish wrote: Still no luck. I received the same error message. Here is what I did: as root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop it looked like it shutdown but then automatically restarted. But when I listed the processes it didn't come up. $ps ax | grep gdm What you've described is an

Re: Can't login... need help

2005-11-28 Thread Kent West
Paul Ravish wrote: Hi Kent, I received the same error message when I removed .Xauthority. However, towards the end of he process it said that couldn't find .Xauthority What's the result of ls -l /home? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Linux nukes my network hardware?

2005-11-24 Thread Kent West
Gerard H. Pille wrote: a couple of days ago, when booting into Debian, I could not get a DHCP-offer, so the network was not brought up. I assigned an address that was not in use via ifconfig, and tried a couple of pings. Pinging a system in the same subnet succeeded, but pinging the gateway

Re: Just installes Debian

2005-11-24 Thread Kent West
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Rafi Gabzu wrote: 3.Since KDE wasn't installed I searched it in Synaptic Package Manager , I got a long list with short descriptions , now I had to understand what to install Maybe you should mark somehow the basic/core/main packages in the Synaptic

Re: Just installes Debian

2005-11-24 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I think he's expecting Synaptic to be a little more helpful; I just installed it to see how it behaves, and when you search for kde, it finds the KDE section, but not the KDE metapackage. You can then scroll through the KDE section and manually find the KDE metapackage

Re: Linux nukes my network hardware?

2005-11-24 Thread Kent West
Gerard H. Pille wrote: Got feedback about the previous MB: a number of capacitors blown. Capacitors on the current MB look fine to me. Linuxing may harm your capacitors? We're a Dell shop where I work, and over the past couple of years have had to replace a LOT of Dell mobos because of bad

Re: Problems installing firefox

2005-11-24 Thread Kent West
Adam Richard wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian. I installed using the Debian Sarge minimal CD and installed a Desktop system over the Internet. Then I did apt-get install mozilla-firefox and I got the following errors: Unpacking mozilla-firefox (from

Re: Problems installing firefox

2005-11-24 Thread Kent West
Adam Richard wrote: Kent West wrote: Adam Richard wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian. I installed using the Debian Sarge minimal CD and installed a Desktop system over the Internet. Then I did apt-get install mozilla-firefox and I got the following errors: Unpacking mozilla-firefox (from

Re: X Server not working on Video Card

2005-11-23 Thread Kent West
Libin Varghese wrote: Hi, I have two machines with the Intel D845 series motherboard. Both of them have a different number from the D845 series. In one when it asked me to select my video card I chose Trident, since D845 was not on the list, and X server works fine. In the other also I

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