Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

in the matter, not yet. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

Nate Duehr wrote: On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: This is the first time I have to disagree with you S. Keeling. Users of CAD (espe. AutoCad) realy have to use windose. No maker of professional CAD is porting to linux. I know a shop here that builds buildings

Re: CLI (was Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space)

. :-P Which doesn't imply marriage... Which is even better, isn't it? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are there any known problems when using apt-get dist-upgrade

. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why I left Debian

by default in any Linux. Nos Suse, not FC, not Ubuntu, not Debian, not any I have tried. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why I left Debian

Steve Lamb wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: No, you are right, but as far as I know, it is NOT included by default in any Linux. Nos Suse, not FC, not Ubuntu, not Debian, not any I have tried. Mepis? One of my on-again-off-again projects is to drop Windows for my gaming platform

Re: Why I left Debian

Bruno wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I had to install different stuffs fglrx and ati as it was not able to do 3D

Re: help

Yura wrote: Just guessing: help, my email program strips all text! What can I do to fix this issue Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why I left Debian

Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:53 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: You are right. It is not. Nor are the w32codecs you need to watch video. Nor are they included in any distro I know of due to legal reasons, by default. This is not a Debian issue, it is a Linux/DRM/Copy right

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

and --force-depends. How do you install the nvidia installer? Every time I use it, I have to re-run it at boot time to get it to work. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:12:37 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [...] How do you install the nvidia installer? Every time I use it, I have to re-run it at boot time to get it to work. My guess is that you had the Debian nvidia-* packages installed at some

pci_set_power_state reasserting

:09.0: state=3, current state=5 Nov 3 10:58:38 Dam-Main last message repeated 120 times -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-image-k7 nvidia-glx

is not broken then gdm/kdm should also work. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00 Dam-Main kernel

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00

Re: crazy screen

. I find it doubtful that just running an external screen damaged your video card. Most likely your xorg/xserver config file changed or your fn-F8 is in the wrong position. It is possible your card is damaged though. This test will prove that, one way or another. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser

Re: crazy screen

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:53:58AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, I have just launch a diagnose software provided by Dell: the video memory seems corrupted (error in writting or reading). two days ago I plugged my daily updated

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting SOLVED

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00 Dam-Main kernel

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

rest my case. My hands are clapping! Bravo! Bravo! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

desktop, just IT policy said no. I share your pain. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

, using a password (to keep IT off of it?) I could not uncompress in Linux. I had to use windows, then transfer the files back to myself on Linux. Perhaps this is the problem? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

into it as it was not that important to me. However, your question implies you can stream video from/to the tivo from Linux. How? What am I missing? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

Kevin Monceaux wrote: Damon, On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I was under (it would seem falsely) that streaming from/to a tivo was limited to windows. I can access the tivo from Linux by IP, but I get no menu to do anything with it, just a webpage. I never looked

Viewing Tivo from Linux

Anybody know of a way to view Tivo on a Linux box? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

with that program). Just my 2c worth. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

of a CD using dd? dd if=/dev/whatever of=/file/name.iso ? I never tried to dd a CD. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing own packages with aptitude

this to install skype (ony 32bit version available) and a few things which it depends on (also 32bit versions) HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restore apache help

and when I receive them back, again, does not seem like it is 72 char/line. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

Celejar wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:38:59 -0500 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK (--see the disclaimer?) in the USA, you are allowed to make personal copies of media you own for your own use (not to install on multiple machines). This has been upheld time and time again

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

the MB, etc. Just find an acid brush to paint and scrub with and all the gunk should also come up. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

T o n g wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:53:19 +1100, Owen Townend wrote: On 3/8/08, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected DVDs. Anybody knows how to do that with Linux? Have a look here

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

think your CPU has it ). If the game will run off of any windows video card and your system is fast enough, yes you can play. If you need advanced 3d graphics, probably you can not as the virtual video card will not support it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

platform... As for myself, I was just answering the question. BTW, the newest game I have Sins of a Solar Empire is pretty high spec and works out of the box with wine. I just tested it today. Works with out flaws. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

to me. HTH! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lvm root partition was full, deleted data -but still reports it is full.HELP!!

37G as per your df -h posting (half of 10% of 728G) I suspect that is your issue. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lvm root partition was full, deleted data -but still reports it is full.HELP!!

over looked! Something is not correct on that box. Here on my home box I filled up all of 3.5G of / with everything installed I can think of with only /home and swap on a diff. partition. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Thanks for the great system / installation successfull report

it: http://blog.danieldk.org/ -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

Grandhi Raj, I think it has to do with /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi I am not sure how to edit it, but I believe that holds the key to the actions allowed. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

is for user rules. beyond that, I can not help with out much googleing as I don't know the syntax. I have seen this come up on this very list from time to time, but never paid it any heed. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 22:58, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] This [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# rgrep floppy * led me to /etc/udev/permissions.rules which has these 2 lines in them: # all block devices

Re: i'm having some problems, I am a fairly novice user, such as just getting to my /etc/apt/sources.list ( can you help)

! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Red Hat is the business distro

(GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3oA9S9HxQb37XmcRAt7+AKDrG8qVGyrJzGg/8pjReIyVY5vDCACghX2F eSFCQrgYMgaRbdUdyHD19Qk= =rNNm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Well, That explains why people use MS. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Why Red Hat is the business distro

/kXWbtyW/NC1RyX6/2RK6M= =EB3Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- No, See my MS entry, 1st reply, I believe. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Red Hat is the business distro

/kXWbtyW/NC1RyX6/2RK6M= =EB3Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- How much did your link cost? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Red Hat is the business distro

which I failed to comprehend Why Red Hat is the business distro. Send me $2500 US and I will explain it to you. You know it has to be good! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

it is Ubuntu, but until a week ago, I had Sid and it worked there). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

this method has worked for VMworkstation and VMserver and you don't have to muck with mod assistant. Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

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Re: RAID suggestions?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] changes in HD tech). 6. I have seen dozens of catastrophic hardware controller failures with complete data lost and not one mdadm failure. That just means you're

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

locks up. Currently updated to the latest patch for the game, that might have something to do with it. Very playable, if annoying. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

of my knowledge base. All I know of this subject is from that one customer I could not effectively help other then to say use EMC's application, even after extensive research by me. Even after going through all the howto's I could find, his SAN was not properly being displayed. HTH Damon L

Re: RAID suggestions?

can ignore the out of warranty issue. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

Michael S. Peek wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Having done support for a tier1 OEM, I found many of our customers (running Linux) ignored the raid controllers and used them as disk controllers and then used software raid. This would be fine, I don't really care if it's a hardware or software

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, March 19, 2008 8:27 am, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Sins of a Solar Empire does NOT run flawlessly, it sometimes locks up. Currently updated to the latest patch for the game, that might have something to do with it. Very playable, if annoying. You say

Re: RAID suggestions?

as the only solution I do know about outside of Dell hardware. HTH Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DELL Inspiron 530N

certifies it works with it. What ever Ubuntu does, Debian can do and of course, vise versa. Linux is Linux and those two are close relatives. You stand a very good chance of THE Linux Architect for Dell to respond to you. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: debian on Dell R900

anyone help to figure the cause? Thanx Again, I have to recommend Dell's Linux mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] see http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops to subscribe. Very active list about Linux on Dell dealing with servers and workstations/laptops. -- Damon L

Re: dpkg error

to Ron Johnson: is this happening a lot? I did not see any posts on this. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg error

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one dpkg failed to recover from; just the relevant lines of the script file follow: Selecting previously deselected package libdjvulibre21. Unpacking libdjvulibre21

Re: dpkg error

--force-overwrite /path/in/error/message/packagename.deb OR wait until some one releases a newer version of the package. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg error

Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:18:00 -0400, Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I hate to ask this, this is so stupid! I gave up using the bug search function long ago. I can't ever find anything! If I go to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ and put in libjvulibre I get

cupsys does not print

. All this is very strange. I have not had this issue before (though I have had printing killed in sid, never in sid and stable). What to do? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 32 or 64 bit on DELL INSPIRON celeron

have not had one in a long time. YMMV HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-Desktops mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman

Re: 32 or 64 bit on DELL INSPIRON celeron

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Wrong list, should have been sent to the dell linux user list. Sorry. Boris Epstein wrote: 64-bit Java for Linux is not quit ethere yet, so if you intend to use the machien as a workstation - which most likely you do - running 32-bit Linux probably makes more sense

Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-5-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6_i386.deb (--unpack):

/2.6.18-5-486/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko': No space left on device IF I read this correctly, you ran out of room at ./lib/modules/etc/etc, which should be on / do a df -h / HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-5-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6_i386.deb (--unpack):

on / if they are not running raid or LVM or have some other reason to hang it alone. If /boot is not on it's own partition, look at a full / HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cupsys does not print

Bernardo Dal Seno wrote: On 04/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Can you recover the configuration file of Cups for that installation, e.g., a backup? Regards, Bernardo Bernardo, Thanks for replying. Cups is set up correctly. Cups reports the job

Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-5-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6_i386.deb (--unpack):

Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Tue April 8 2008 15:11:06 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Has anyone seen this issue before (*). I am running a linux debian stable (etch). Yes. Wou

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

. There is the bug listed above but the dev says that sid does not fix the issue. If you are running ubuntu, it should work. (it does here, YMMV.). But then again, it always worked for me in Debian also. HTH? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

SNIP I am on amd64 lenny (with some sid), 2.6.24 I don't normally use UUID's i have been using labels mdadm --detail /dev/md1 | grep UUID UUID : ba8c4627:6e74a6c4:1a2e6c15:22feafcf tune2fs -l /dev/md1 | grep UUID Filesystem UUID: ec3e3537-4e36-443e-8132-5b0f03dd0978 As

Re: how to fix my broken system..

). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

can get better coverage yourself for cheaper, just your boss will not be assisting your payments. Phew, I feel better. I am now donning my fire suite. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

OT: what scripting language to learn?

I keep coming up against a wall Solid scripting experience required in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one scripting language to learn? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 08:23:19 am Damon L. Chesser wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:16:21 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 07:40, Christopher Judd wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/10/08

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

down and our military was no longer needed in the ensuing lack of war and destruction) :) -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 04/11/08 13:47, Daniel Mahoney wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: I keep coming up against a wall Solid scripting experience required in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one scripting language

Re: moving /usr, /var, and /etc

that might require a recovery boot to fix. I am awaiting the results to increase my understanding. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I need further understanding of wine or bash

or the tunneling via a GUI? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

Brian McKee wrote: On 21-Apr-08, at 11:08 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: if I use a term and cd into the games dir and type wine Sins\ of\ a\ Solar\ Empire.exe it works Why not try adding a 'cd into the games dir' before the wine line? Brian Brian, That worked: #bin/bash! cd /home/damon

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

Dylan Garrett wrote: On 4/21/08, *Damon L. Chesser* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian McKee wrote: On 21-Apr-08, at 11:08 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: if I use a term and cd into the games dir and type wine Sins\ of\ a\ Solar

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

the guy, after seen this for YEARS wrote #bin/bash! ! If I would have taken a second to SAY it (sha-bang) I would have realized it. No apologies needed. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damon L. Chesser wrote: Dylan Garrett wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:05:23PM -0400, Dylan Garrett wrote: One

Re: NC problem

can then find out what driver you may need. What is the model of the laptop, someone else might have done the leg work all ready. Google Fujitsu MODEL Linux. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: removed root directory files

file, so I mkswap / It works! It will make your / into swap. Then as you close apps, you will not be able to open them back up, or call new ones. Root! Respect it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Strange window problem

, the bad news is I can't remember what it is: perhaps xtrace? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange window problem

Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:06:04 -0400 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank wrote: For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminal

Re: NC problem

Martin S wrote: Damon L. Chesser skrev: Martin S wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I swap

gdm and network-manager issues

and back up, it all works. If I reboot, it will not work auto-magically. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

, still persists. Hugo I conclude that this is perhaps due to the DRI being loaded and/or running the latest binary from Nvidia. However I never had an issue running the latest sid xorg with the latest debian nvidia glx. HTH Damon L. Chesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 06:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: snip I conclude that this is perhaps due to the DRI being loaded and/or running the latest binary from Nvidia. However I never had an issue

Re: gdm and network-manager issues SOLVED

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:44 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Just returned back to debian (been using Ubuntu for a while) and dist-upgraded to sid (as is my habit). All works but I have two annoying things I don't know how to fix. 1. When I boot up I see this: Starting gdm starting

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

of freedom talking will get you marked as a radical!! Next thing you know, you will be talking about source code. I think we need to watch you! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-271-8699 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

lose everything with out a replacement controller (and it has to be exact or at least based off the same chipset/embeded system family). HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

won't do it again. no, responding like you did, is by def. bottom posting. ---comment- -response-- and i just found out my left and right arrow above the ',' and '.' keys don't work, in fact none of my upper row keys work , zoinks. snip -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

would not put anything into it in light of Mr. Reiser's troubles. I do not know the future of it. Now I will read the rebuttals and learn! HTH! P.S If you want to know the best religion contact me off list (joking!, please don't!) -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

badCRC

. Could this be related or a seperate issue? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-271-8699 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: badCRC

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/08 10:00, Damon L. Chesser wrote: from messages: Jan 19 10:19:25 dam-main kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jan 19 10:19:25 dam-main kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84

laptop adapter on a desktop

I have a few laptop ide laptop HDs lying around. I can use an adaptor to run it from my IDE controller on the MB. My question is this: Is there any draw back to doing this? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 1:03 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1 and in the GUI (gdm). Running Sid, up to date This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go, hm. Any ideas? and I can do sudo su. When you

unable to su to root, sudo works

This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go, hm. Any ideas? and I can do sudo su. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-271-8699 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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