Re: Window Manager selection

2003-12-23 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 10:17:57AM -0500, D Hoyem wrote: Hi All, I just did a dist-upgrade on my testing system. When I did the startx and my window manager came up I found that I was in gnome 2.4 and Window Maker wasn't up and running. After I did the startx it asks me some questions

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread jqdkf
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:34:15AM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: Well ... I don't know if there's a `debian-way' that could be used, but I installed it by downloading it from the web ... From the following address, I believe: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html I use Mozilla

Re: XP doc to Debian printer?

2003-11-19 Thread jqdkf
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: My grandson does homework on an XP laptop which connects to our wireless network but all the other computers on the network are Debian. Last year we were told of an HP generic postscript driver, installed it in the XP and

Wierd Mouse Behavior of ThinkPad R40

2003-10-07 Thread jqdkf
Hi, I just buy a new thinkpad R40. Everything is ok except the mouse. I use sid and X is 4.2.0. There are two mouses, one is trackpoint, the other is touchpad. I configured the XFree86Config-4 as /dev/psaux with PS2 protocol. The strange thing is sometimes they can work together, but sometimes

Wierd Mouse Behavior of ThinkPad R40

2003-10-07 Thread jqdkf
Hi, I just buy a new thinkpad R40. Everything is ok except the mouse. I use sid and X is 4.2.0. There are two mouses, one is trackpoint, the other is touchpad. I configured the XFree86Config-4 as /dev/psaux with PS2 protocol. The strange thing is sometimes they can work together, but sometimes

LVM copy rather slow

2003-08-31 Thread jqdkf
I installed lvm on my new machine which is IBM thinkpad R40. DMA is set up, as from hdparm /dev/hda the output is : /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-28 Thread jqdkf
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:02:21AM +0200, BUIRA Etienne wrote: As we use Debian, I don't think there is the need for any company to protect us. As far as I know, linux is immune to any virus, and that's the main reason why I don't want to install windows on my machine. WRONG !!! Linux

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread jqdkf
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:20:55AM -0400, amg wrote: Hello all, Being relatively new to the whole mailing-list scene I have a question about the linux mailing-list scene actually (actually part of a mailing list in my windows days). While browsing my inbox, which I only do every several

Re: Stripped down versions of software

2003-08-25 Thread jqdkf
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:04:20PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hi all I'm installing debian on a 486 laptop, and want to use it for X, IRC, www and email, so which window manager is best to use for the 100MHz laptop with 20mb RAM, and which IRC, WWW and email clients would also be good to use

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-20 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:16:29PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: likely comming from the server. You could ask them if the length of the lease you are getting is what they intended, and maybe provide some reasons for increasing the lease. I would be frustrated having the lease expire while

ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
Hi, I'm using DHCP to connect to the network, and I use ssh to contral another machine. The problem is, my ip address is always changing. This makes my ssh die. I wonder if it is because of my configure file is not correct or is the common way of DHCP. By the way, I have never changed the default

Re: [Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:57:41AM +0200, Sylvain Briole wrote: I have run the compilation like this : make dep;make clean;make;make zImage I obtain : [...] Root device is (7, 7) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4804 bytes. System is 1450 kB System is too big. Try using bzImage or

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:49:27AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: 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

Re: [Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Sylvain Briole wrote: I think you should use make bzImage to get a compressed one. I have met the same problem before. But I don't know why. I have also tried this possibility. I quote my original mail : So, I have tried it with make bzImage

xman warning

2003-06-11 Thread jqdkf
Hi, There is a problem when I use xman. When I first start a new man page, it always pops up 3 identical windows saying: Xman Warning: Something went wrong in retrieving the uncompressed mannual page try cleaning up /tmp. but after the first page, if I start a new one without closing the

Re: hot keys under fvwm

2003-06-10 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:28:27AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I use fvwm as my window manager, and I define some hot keys to perform some functions, like type CTRL-ALT-M to pop up a mutt window. Now my question is when I use emacs, I want to screen out those hot

hot keys under fvwm

2003-06-07 Thread jqdkf
Hi, I use fvwm as my window manager, and I define some hot keys to perform some functions, like type CTRL-ALT-M to pop up a mutt window. Now my question is when I use emacs, I want to screen out those hot keys, as there are some conflicts between them and emacs's definition, how can I make it?

Re: lilo broken after upggrade

2003-06-06 Thread jqdkf
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 06:13:38PM -0700, Richard Cochinos wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, John covici wrote: Just specify lba32 in your global section of lilo.conf -- that is all you need. Also, I would be sure to use version 1:22.5.4-1 because there have been some problems, but it works

Re: Gnome2.2 Window Manager

2003-06-04 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:58:01PM -0400, Hamid wrote: Hi I am using ICE Windoe Manager and I am not very happy with it. What is the default window manager for Gnome2.2 ? Thanks Hamid sawfish -- Zeng Nan Simple is Beautiful. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Can't locate char-major-6

2003-04-05 Thread jqdkf
Hi, When I boot into my system, I get this information, and the syslog record this every minute. I try to search this with google but only find answers written in languages other than English, so I don't understand. Could anyone help me to figure out what is wrong and fix it? Thanks. Zeng Nan

Why my nfs client doesn't work?

2003-04-05 Thread jqdkf
Hi, I have set up an nfs server and it can be mounted by most nfs clients, but there is one doesn't work. I use rpcinfo -p ***.***.***.*** to test that client, and it answers Can't contact portmapper: Remote System Error - connection refused. When I use rpcinfo -p on that client, which is also an

Re: Root login

2003-03-19 Thread jqdkf
you don't need to be root, if fact, if you only want to use openoffice yourself. if you really want to do that, just su to root with any terminal under gnome, then you can do anything you like. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact