Usb multimedia keyboard not working

2004-05-03 Thread Rex Chan
Hi guys, I got myself a usb keyboard today, but i'm having problems with getting it working. I have HID module loaded, keybdev, and it appears to be detected sucessfully, ie dmesg | grep USB - input: USB HID v1.10 Device [USB MULTIMEDIA KEYBOARD] on usb2:2.1 I get error messages

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Rex Chan
Hey, How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the sent folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have showing the 'To:' field instead of the 'From:' field, since obviously the

Re: Motherboard compatibility

2004-04-23 Thread Rex Chan
- Barry Mead [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-23 02:27:27 -0700]: I have 3 computers with the ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard in them. switch to Debian. I am hoping that their is someone out there that has either used Debian on this exact motherboard, or one with the same chipset configuration.

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Rex Chan
- Simmel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-16 14:18:37 +0200]: May sound lazy too, and yes I'm a lazy guy. If my boss tells me to setup an apache server and tells me to use debian because the cust would like to have especially this distri well heck I'm stuck in the installation routine for hours

Re: System clock GMT or not

2003-08-24 Thread Rex Chan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:54:49PM +1000, James Steward[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian has a system configuration tool but I can't remember exactly what it's called..something like base-config. Basically, in the file /etc/adjtime on the 3rd line there's either UTC or LOCAL. Be a little

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread Rex Chan
It sounds as though the lease times on the DHCP server are not long enough. A simple solution is to use a static IP address but this will depend on your ability to manually assign an IP address at the server end. HTH Clive Well, one of my friends had the same problem, he wrote a script

Re: Sound Config Asus A7V8x-x with 2.4.22-pre10

2003-08-17 Thread Rex Chan
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:32:06AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:35:05PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: | Hi Dan, | | I'm just wondering if you were able in the end to get sound | working on your motherboard. Thanks for asking Rex, not yet. I will keep you posted. Let me

Re: Fluxbox, Bash and LANG

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Chan
Anybody got any ideas of where to look to set the LANG variable? grep -r en_US\.UTF-8 /etc should ferrit it out. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: assassination bootleg Rubin fissionable Subversion lynch NASA Thanks

Fluxbox, Bash and LANG

2003-08-11 Thread Rex Chan
Hi guys, I was playing around with locales and locale related stuff. I used dpkg-reconfigure localeconf to set everything to C as a default. I've verified as the /etc/environment file contains LANG=C. However whenever I call Bash through the fluxbox menu, it opens up an x-term-emulator with

Re: Getting Evolution to expand a threaded message list in unstable

2003-08-02 Thread Rex Chan
I'm not sure since exaclty when, but recently I noticed, I can't get evolution to expand/collapse a threaded message view. I have searched the menus, where I used to find this option, and the online help to no avail. Could anyone help me, or has the feature simply been removed? Ctrl-t

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Rex Chan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:50:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: Everything I've ever read indicates that a hardware-based firewall is more secure and reliable than an PC operating system, be it Linux or Windows. A PC OS has to be complex because it has so many functions to perform, but that