Re: HPT370 Questions

2002-11-14 Thread Martin Rowe
On Thursday 14 November 2002 7:15 pm Ellen Mingott wrote: > My HPT370 ATA100/RAID controller is on the motherboard (not PCI). > > 2.2.17 is installed on a disk connected to ide0 -- the ATA33 controller. > > It can't see the other disk which is connected to the HPT370 controller. > > Is there a

Installing Debian on a stubborn laptop

2002-09-28 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi folks I have an old Toshiba 110CS laptop[1] that I'm trying to get Woody on to. After a few false starts I managed to get it booted and into the first stage of installation. It didn't like the first driver disk, but six floppies later I managed to find a disk it liked, and then it failed u

/usr/sbin/eximconfig problem

2002-09-07 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi folks I was updating one of my boxes running sid, and as part of the dependancies for new packages it pulled down exim. The problem was on configuration: Setting up exim (3.36-1) ... syntax error at /usr/sbin/eximconfig line 955, near "" )" (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string startin

Re: cannot run X apps when 'su'

2002-06-18 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all Don't know if it's been mentioned on this thread yet, but Francois Gouget wrote a script, sux[1], to transfer $DISPLAY and X cookies so X apps work fine when assuming another user's identity. Details were posted here[2] about a year ago and I've appreciated it ever since. Just use it as

Menus not updating

2002-05-25 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all I've recently installed Debian sid on my kids' box and it's running fine, except that the menus (in Blackbox) don't get updated after an apt-get install or dist-upgrade. A manual update-menus does the trick, but I'm wondering what is missing for it not to happen automagically. It runs f

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

2002-05-24 Thread Martin Rowe
On Friday 24 May 2002 10:51 pm, Robin Putters wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 23:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports > > spelling checking/ GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > > Evolution? There's KMail too. Regards, Martin -

Re: Woody install infinite loop

2002-05-06 Thread Martin Rowe
On Monday 06 May 2002 2:13 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:51:19PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > The install proceeds as expected until I get to the point of > > specifying the system time. The HW clock is NOT set to GMT, so I > > select NO for that option. I give my locality

Re: Linux equivalent of CloneCD?

2002-04-22 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 21 April 2002 9:47 pm, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:33:43 +0200 > > "martin f krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also sprach Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.21.2228 +0200]: > > > Is there a Linux equivalent of CloneCD? (Meaning it can make a > > > perfect

Re: GDM under VNC

2002-04-21 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 21 April 2002 5:38 am, hanasaki wrote: > How can VNC server, on Woody, be setup to drop into the GDM and/or XDM > login screen? It is coming up already logged in with the id of the > process runing vncserver. > > Thanks, Hanasaki The VNC server can run from inetd bringing up a [xkg]dm

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-14 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 14 April 2002 5:56 pm, Carlos Sousa wrote: [snip] > So it would seem your unix machine must have as much instances of > vncserver running as you have users (each on its own virtual display, I > presume). gdm is still not required because user selection and > authentication is done on the

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-03-30 Thread Martin Rowe
On Saturday 30 March 2002 12:05 am, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:43:52AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 15:33:36 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Package: kcalc > > > Priority: optional > > > Section: utils > > > Installed-Size: 392 > > > Maintainer: Debia

Re: Could not connect passive socket?

2002-02-09 Thread Martin Rowe
On Friday 08 February 2002 11:10 pm, John Lord wrote: > Hi there, > > > The last couple of days I have not been able to d/l anything from the > uk server, I get the following: [snip] > Get:2 #ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org# testing/main killustrator 1:1.1-beta2-3 > [543kB] > Err #ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org#

Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(

2001-12-12 Thread Martin Rowe
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 19:12, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls

Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(

2001-11-19 Thread Martin Rowe
On Monday 19 November 2001 2:51 am, Jeff wrote: > Martin Rowe, 2001-Nov-18 22:47 +: > > Hi all > > > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls > > up KDE

vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(

2001-11-18 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls up KDE. The .vnc/ session log doesn't report any problems, and I can run xstartup within the VNC window and it runs (just lanches an aterm) fine - j

Re: Anyone gottem mndi to work?

2001-10-25 Thread Martin Rowe
On Thursday 25 October 2001 8:17 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > I want to create a disaster recovery CD using mondo. The first step to > doing this is using mindi to create boot floppy images. > > I've tried to do this on 2 different machines, and it has failed 2 > different ways. > > Has anyone gotten t

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 14 October 2001 9:25 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Sunday 14 October 2001 04:02 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: [snip] > > Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A > > google search turned this up, which appears to be on the money: > > This program is in the "hwtools" pa

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Martin Rowe
On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:13 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my > > meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp > > traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnec

Re: gmix problems

2001-08-26 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 26 August 2001 17:13, Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working > :( It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device > - check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into th

gmix problems

2001-08-26 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working :( It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device - check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into the kernel. Well the latter is okay as it works fine for root. Permission on /de

UK suppliers of laptops with Debian preinstalled ?

2001-08-26 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all Anyone know where I might be able to locate such a beast? I've been digging around on Google, but most links seem to be out of date - hardware firms now consultacy/software only, etc. There seem to be a few that sell RedHat[1] but I can't find anything for Debian. I wondered if HP had a

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-29 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 29 July 2001 06:13, Tao Liu wrote: > Yes! The problem is resolved! > I am using 2.4.7 now. > Thank you! > > But what does initrd mean? > Is it new for 2.4? Initial Ram Disk. It's been there for sometime as I needed it to get ide-scsi emulation going for my cdburner back on Mandrake 6.0

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-28 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi I'm afraid I 'cheat' and grab the iso direct from http://www.linuxiso.org which lists Debian right at the top (as it should be ;-) ). I did look into getting it the Debian way, but decided to go with linuxiso.org as it was easier and they're geared up for that sort of demand. I'm happy enou

Re: kmail

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Rowe
On Monday 16 July 2001 1:32 pm, Brian Schramm wrote: > OK, I have heard several times that kmail uses imap. Yet I cannot find a > way to set it up for that. Can anyone tell me how? All I have for > options are local and pop accounts. I would like to use kmail to have > full support for imap inc

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Martin Rowe
On Thursday 12 July 2001 17:28, Kurt Lieber wrote: > OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on > about MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you > scrape off the bottom of your shoe. I'm tempted to drop the from the sentence ;-) > I, for

No text echo in virtual consoles

2001-07-11 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all I've got a weird error that seems to crop up after being in X for a while. If I switch to a virtual console I see the login prompt fine. If I type my user ID, the cursor moves, but no characters are shown. Obviously nothing shows typing in the password. I can then type (but not see) som

Re: FRIACO

2001-07-08 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 08 July 2001 19:30, George wrote: > If anyone here has any experience with FRIACO and linux, or btinternet > friaco in particular could you drop me an email. > > Cheers > > George I have a couple of hours experience - is that enough? ;-) Just switched over from Freeserve Unlimited to th

Re: Not Debian related. wvdial

2001-07-08 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 08 July 2001 13:54, Wayne wrote: > After I do all this I then start Netscape and try to go to some web > page. The responds I get it that Netscape is unable to locate the web > page. > > I tried to telnet into my isp, but I get host name undefind. I don't > know which file telnet is look

NFS woes :(

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all I've just put Debian 2.2r3[1] on my work box (alongside Mandrake 7.1) and I'm getting nfs bindresvport: Permission denied when trying to mount some NFS shares from our AS/400s. This works fine if I boot back into Mandrake, and the NFS server on the AS/400 is running fine. A showmount -