Re: X

2003-03-22 Thread Kent Nyberg
Section "Device" Identifier"Graphics nVidia" Driver"nv" Option"UseFBDev""true" EndSection Turn off FBDev, that workes for me. Do not know why it is on by default. That is, put an "#" before the option or maybe write false instead of true? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Kent Nyberg
I have tried to run 2.4.0 with that patch from you are talking about. It just dont work. I have crashed my system about a million times with it. X just wont start, it just crash the computer. You could try it, but dont get angry when it crashes your system, i have warned you now :) But please te

Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??

2001-01-07 Thread Kent Nyberg
I find it much easier to mess with the initscript with the update-rc.d script. To remove for example xdm from the initscript you enter: 'update-rc.d xdm remove' If do do that, then xdm wont start from init any more. I dont know the exact command but you can do it the other way to, that is, you ca

buggy vesa framebuffer.

2001-01-05 Thread Kent Nyberg
I was going to try LPP today so i patched the 2.2.18 kernel against that and it worked perfect. I compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer and edited lilo to: vga=0x301 append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2" It workes perfectly, the logo shows when i boot as it should do. But when i for

su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

2001-01-04 Thread Kent Nyberg
When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. How could i make it so that su will use that.. Sorry.. i cant describe it better, hope you understand!

Is it possible to make an unofficial ISO of woody?

2001-01-02 Thread Kent Nyberg
otato ISOs. I would be very happy if there already are ISOs out there ready be downloaded, but i can make it my self from school since we have a pretty fast connection there. /Kent Nyberg.

How to make apache use php?

2000-12-30 Thread Kent Nyberg
I have a normal woody (as in the old woody.. not the test thing..) system. I have apache installed as a normal .deb package using apt. But it seemes that the standard apache can't use php. I have searched for a php module in my system but i cant find any :( I noticed that there are php* packages i

is there a good program/script/whatever to make bootable rescue CD's?

2000-12-30 Thread Kent Nyberg
I need to make bootable rescue CD's, is there a good program for that?

Re: help me

2000-05-30 Thread kent nyberg
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ^^ Did you just happen to miss this part of alla the mails you get from the list?

Re: Wine

2000-05-25 Thread kent nyberg
It workes for me! Maybe you have a damn slow computer? On my P2 400 with 192 mb ram it takes a while to start programs in wine.. Or, perhaps you have not configured it right? On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Leget wrote: > Does anyone actually have wine working on debian woody. > > For a long time now

Re: chaningen the username on outgoing mail in pine.

2000-05-19 Thread Kent Nyberg
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Is there some way i can change the username on mail sent by pine? > the usual way to go is to configure your mta to do address rewriting. > however, in pine you could add a custom header "From: blabla" - but this > is not very clean. How do i ch

chaningen the username on outgoing mail in pine.

2000-05-18 Thread Kent Nyberg
Is there some way i can change the username on mail sent by pine? Since my local user is vovin the mail be shown as from vovin, which workes for now. But if i change to another pop3 host.. then that username won't work. And i do NOT want to change user on my local system just becaus mail is fucked

Re: Pine question

2000-05-11 Thread Kent Nyberg
You can edit the ~/.pinerc i think.. There is some options there where to looke for the mailboxes.. Just change it to ~/Mail or something. On Thu, 11 May 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote: > Whenever my mail file gets too large, my mail administrator moves all the > mail in my inbox to ~/Mail/huge.mail.

Re: dd and Playstation CDs

2000-05-08 Thread kent nyberg
Playstation cd's contains audio tracks. You cant do a 'dd' on audio tracks.

Re: Vfat and space in file name

2000-05-08 Thread kent nyberg
Write the name in " ", so that My Documents is "My Documents" On Mon, 8 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What do you have to use to access something like "My Documents" in a > mounted partition? I can see it, but if I, say, type in "ls /mnt/drC/My > Documents" it tells me not such file or dir

RE: General Protection Fault

2000-04-29 Thread Kent Nyberg
Try with a better and larger cpufan. My K6-2 400 was so hot that Linux crached all the time. Nearly all those who sells computer with K6-2 and K6 use a to small cpufan. Sad but true.. Once upon a time someone wrote: > Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? > >

language support for update-menus?

2000-04-28 Thread Kent Nyberg
I like update-menus ALOT, but would like it even better if it had support for diffrent languages, like swedish and so on. Would this be impossible? I know its not much, its just the "net" graphics" and those things that needs to be changed.

changing refreshrate on the console, with lilo.conf?

2000-04-27 Thread Kent Nyberg
I am using vga=9 on at the moment in my lilo.conf . I would like to use the next mode, but my my eyes dont like the low refreshrate :( I dont use framebuffer, since the console gets so slow, try running ls /dev if you are using framebuffer at 1280x1024 :( Well, i dont like framebuffer at all.. B

Re: OPTi sound card support

2000-04-27 Thread Kent Nyberg
Try using the MAD16 in kernel->sound. In think i read it in the Documentation dir or in the help info in menuconfig. My old OPTI soundcard worked that way. Just set the right dma and irq stuff, and it will work. Once upon a time someone wrote: > Hey, > > I got this sound card with an OPTi 92C9

Printer filter for Lexmark 5700?

2000-04-24 Thread Kent Nyberg
the time or knowledge to compile a new version of ghostscript, and i dont want selfcompiled binaries, i want .deb packeges! Is there .deb packets some where out there, with these ptatches applied? Or must i wait for a new version of ghostscript ? I realy want that printer to work in Linux! /Kent

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-12 Thread kent nyberg
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: ppp check. > Date: Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:09:56PM +0200 > > In reply to:Kent Nyberg > > Quoting Kent Nyberg([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Kent> Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ?

kde in .deb

2000-04-11 Thread Kent Nyberg
Where can i find kde in .deb ?? I have licq fron potato so i dont want kde to get in trouble with my existing qt libraries.

ppp check.

2000-04-11 Thread Kent Nyberg
Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ? I used a program in windows to check how long i have been on internet.. so that i do not get to expensive bills :) So i would like one for linux :) I know its enough to check the /var/logs/ppp... But its not that funny :(

Re: Upgrading X (without buggering up desalect?)

2000-04-11 Thread kent nyberg
I was able to put potato in sorce.list and did apt-get install xfree. It worked for me.. I have gtk and gnome from potato on my slink and it workes pretty good. The only thing that does not work is sawmill and winowmaker. But use blackbox so it do not matter to me :) On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Marti

pon and normal users.

2000-04-09 Thread Kent Nyberg
How can i let normal users run pon? It would be much easier if a normal user can use those nice looking pon applets for gnome. Now they have to su and then run pon :(

Re: Alternative to dselect?

2000-04-09 Thread Kent Nyberg
When i installed debian slink last week all i did was select the "preselected packages" for a normal computer with gcc, X and those things. What is so hard about that? And when i wanted to install something.. like aumix, i just ran apt-get install aumix from the cdrom. I do not realy see the har

/etc/gateways

2000-04-07 Thread Kent Nyberg
I just found the file "/etc/gateways" in my debian slink system. What is that file for? Im just a Linux beginner.. but shouldn't gateways be configured with the command "route add default gw ..." ??