Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
with the apps I want to use which then pulls in only the depends needed to run the app. You can do this with KDE apps or GTK apps without running the KDE desktop or the Gnome Desktop. You pick the window manager you want to use to display the appps. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Madden
. For the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial You might want to try wvdial or pppconfig. These two do all the configuring for you. Greg Madden

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 after apt-get upgrade today from unstable included incorrect symlink?

2002-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
unstable: libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3 - libstdc++-3libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so there may be other differences but what is the significants of the additional (-) after libstdc++ in the woody example? -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup

2002-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
that will load at boot time. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
? It is not Open Source, hence the EULA, and it runs on a Corel version of Wine. It is a bitmap editor much like Gimp. Gimp, being native, works much more reliably, imho. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
- they directed me to inquire here. This is from the config file for the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. This is an alternate kernel available during the install. CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unistalling Gnome, Wmaker, KDE and re-installing KDE

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Madden
. Dselect or Aptitude work well for this. These both have search functions and the listing can to re-ordered to alphabetical to help find packages. I guess I like to see that everything has been removed. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
recover my home directory. :) --Azaghal May be off base but what hapens if you create a new partition with the exact same geometry , then mount the partiton without initializing it. The program 'ntfsresize' does something similar to this and seems to work. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:58 pm, Marlin Unruh wrote: ibc-5.3.12-3 There is a libc5 ldso package available in woody. I don't know for a fact that these are what you need but I use them for an old copy of WordPerfect for Linux. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
in a forthcoming revision. It can be worked around by not upgrading until that version of libc6 is available; by upgrading to php4 from unstable; or by manually forcing the dependencies (and not using apt). -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
use 'dselect' or 'aptitude' to add new packages. In this case 'apt-get install libc5 ldso' will work. It may take some time and learning the various Debian tools but it is not necessary to even reboot your system in almost any scenario, exceptig new kernels. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: LAPTOPS

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
Sony Vaio. This is an issue if battery life is important to what you are doing. I use mine plugged in so I have the luxury of procratination in dealing with ACPI. I do like my Sony VAIo though, I got the Athlon mobile with VIA chipset, well supported in GNU/Linux. -- Greg Madden

Re: Postfix Issue

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 07 April 2003 12:47 pm, GBV wrote: When i´m sending mail... all other internet services are terrible... that´s because my outgoing bandwidth is fullfiled.. Any sugestions?? I´m using postfix thanks... OT How about fixing you time/date :) -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: cannot install Woody on P4B533-E

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
about this? I've seen that some of the developers have 4 machines running this motherboard, so I'm hoping someone has some pointers! --Alexander This looks like a likely place to get more info. https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ataraid-list/ -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
no way to change some printer driver settings outside of the Cups interface of Kprinter (KDE). The closesest I have come is to change them with Kprinter but this works only for apps that use Krinter for printing, afaik mostly the KDE apps. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: DVD Recording

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:30 am, Joao Paulo wrote: In cds i use mkisofs and cdrecord. In dvds i use ? and dvdrecord. Tanks. Afaik, you can use mkisofs with dvdrecord. I don't make the iso images myself, I let jigdo do this, but you can use iso9660 to do dvd. -- Greg Madden

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Greg Madden
. Searching on cups shows cupsys and some other cups related packages, *-gimp-print., etc. There are some foomatic packages that have additional printer drivers also. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing the connection

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
it simple, use 'scp' to copy between boxes, 'man scp'. i.e. 'scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user1/file? \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user2/'. You can eliminate the first user@ command by copying from the directory the file is in. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: e-machines , e-one

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Madden
the system fron CD, in the setup it's set that the first boot is on CD, but the machine ignores it, and goes directly to the floppy disk and later to the Hard disk. Thanks a lot Ronny I think Knoppix needs 96mb of memory. Try using an Offical Debian cd. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP

Re: Offtopic : MS Linux :) -- joke or ??

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Madden
license works for MS. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+eozDk7rtxKWZzGsRAkVWAKCmuggH5l3LQ2qqHSDSgXTTHdcolgCeN4Bx gDw2BYY1qyJ+YxlOajKmP30= =Y3qu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Upgrading to Sid Via Apt-Get

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Madden
missing (other then mirrors.kernel.org)? Change stable to unstable. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+e0vkk7rtxKWZzGsRAr47AKCk4ML/qd72IAJQVKSraacPJ1ygxQCgnh/k SwXY7KAxg1P642+5CikG4Mk= =+kCm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Kernel Recompile Issue

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Madden
, Jon D. Irish (Mevatec Contractor) Lower Tier Project Office You may have missed one of these two options when you compiled your kernel. 'dhclient' requires this, or you could use 'pump' which doesn't require one or both. # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_FILTER=y - -- Greg

Re: Can't find NIC module

2003-03-23 Thread Greg Madden
netinstall disks are ready to use for installs. As odd as that sounds, afai,k the Sarge netinstall images from Debians site are for some sort of testing purposes only. There are woody images that do work, SIS900 is a part of 2.4.18 or later. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

CONFIG_FILTER

2003-03-24 Thread Greg Madden
the CONFIG_PPP_FILTER option below). If unsure, say N. My guess at a solution would be to enable this option in the kernel source .config files, as long as it didn't create more issues than it solves. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Woody+KDE3.1

2003-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
connection.thanx Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta Delete KDE 2.2 install KDE 3.1, it only takes a few minutes :) - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+gJ4Ak7rtxKWZzGsRAvFpAKDFSTYgFua2MxLyg0ct+FuuxjRwHgCdFDKK

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
load. Checkout 'modconf' - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+gLDwk7rtxKWZzGsRAu8iAKCjxg/krTZraiSx0OyJvO9CShkemQCferEY fhOAUiUzuxpdY1qrKaEPRjw= =E9ZR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Latest Version of KDE

2003-03-31 Thread Greg Madden
find the correct line to add to your sources.list file either on KDE's site or the Debian-KDE users list. I use these two. deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main deb http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/Debian/woody ./ - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Installing WordPerfect 8.0 in woody

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Madden
. Woody has all the depends for WP8, libc5, type1inst if you have the fonts, and a couple more that i don;'t recall from memory. If you get a prompt for a missing depend use apt-get to istall it. BTW, libc5 co-exists peacefully with newer libraries. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: create an image of a partition

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Madden
/Linux apps that can image a hard drive or partition. I have used the following one to back up a monolithic install of Linux. google shows others, i.e g4u. My all time favorite is Drive Image (PowerQuest) but it is a DOS executable. http://www.partimage.org/speakimage_index.php3 - -- Greg Madden

Re: installing woody

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Madden
it yourselff with 'modconf'. All you need to know is the module needed for your device and you do the install with 'modconf'. During the install you are offered a chance to select drivers, this calls modconf. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread Greg Madden
, and it toldthe that the x-window-system package depended on it. I can see recomends, but depends? x-window-system is a meta-package, hence the depends. You can delete this package , it doesn't delets any other packages. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU

Re: CD label maker - what's your preference?

2003-04-05 Thread Greg Madden
in the official debian packages. Any comments on relative merits / drawbacks for these packages greatly appreciated. Thanks. nl glabels works here. I haven't tried the others, I was using oowriter frames before glabels. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux

Re: Writing to a usb-device

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Madden
on the device (mounted as a scsi device). How can I improve the transfer rate? Are you using USB 1 or 2 ? USB 1.x would seem slow for disk to disk transfers. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: cupsys works, lpr does not

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Madden
. I - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4Oeck7rtxKWZzGsRAla4AKDdjf14IqhV8epIpXmllVQ2kyBMxQCdEuyz 45U79H0vjQUgXgV6LE9CQcg= =4PsM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-28 Thread Greg Madden
cupsys-bsd, using 'lpr filename' with a properly configured cups printer here works also. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1FJfk7rtxKWZzGsRAujPAJ9QeJUSzytg0fKwHZeea0vHEYpU8wCdFBs7 sG3mAXgTMG7M6wdHu6lJ7Vc= =L/XB -END

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-29 Thread Greg Madden
? It may be a permissions thing, accessing sound as a user you may have to be in the 'audio' group. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1UCGk7rtxKWZzGsRAuaeAKCuogzPYdggyfdHMWHXsuvcLvGiVgCfWtgK HP3RymNeeITB4v/R4Tao5M8= =CZAP

Re: AIC7xxx drivers Thunder K7x Pro

2003-06-01 Thread Greg Madden
available in Woody kernel sources. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+2Q0fk7rtxKWZzGsRAo2SAJ4/cnSlsBxOb0lTAoi/flVJi16i+gCg2QMe LEBbVnXOYnikYOuuiA5Lbc0= =KPQY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Laptops!

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Madden
are supported by GNU/Linux. One item that is dissapearing from laptops is a real serial port. I had to buy based on that feature, but most hardware I looked at was supported. BTW, I ended up with a Sony Vaio, mobile Athlon-Via chipset. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Do SCSI disks have a MBR (master boot record)?

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Madden
system it will try to boot from IDE, fail , boot from floppy. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptops!

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 07:14 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:24:52AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: As mentioned most laptops/hardware are supported by GNU/Linux. One item that is dissapearing from laptops is a real serial port. This isn't really that big of an item

Re: setting up USB

2002-12-01 Thread Greg Madden
and then the actual mouse driver. The USB modules were already installed, you can check with 'lsmod'. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scsi errors, how dangerous could it be?

2002-12-01 Thread Greg Madden
with 2 :) -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compaq 1600r's with Debian 2.4.18-686-smp

2002-12-21 Thread Greg Madden
versions of MPS (1.1 or 1.4?), which in my dual proc box exhibited the same symptoms, not a Compaq though. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

2003-12-16 Thread Greg Madden
know vendor, for PPC, is Apple. http://www.pegasosppc.com/tech_specs.php - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/391gk7rtxKWZzGsRAolUAKCdyxqWJoxGfqxr0+VyGkevjivUegCcD0Rl rl3YVnXsfCpR5HFx9ShSOV0= =a3p3 -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Dlink DI-604 router

2003-12-18 Thread Greg Madden
a browser interface so it really does not matter what OS you are using, afaik. One thing I realized after the switch was now I depend on Netgear for updates, which seem to be timely, but it is a different feeling if you are used to dealing with the GNU/Linux community for solutions. - -- Greg Madden

Re: question

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
' (googlewine/codeweavers). It runs windows apps without running the Windows OS, which is what you might want to do anyway. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5P/Bk7rtxKWZzGsRAmsIAKDOMdcCt7/iCzA53VONm6KKptzR6QCcCMBA

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
the 'reboot' issue on my Sony laptop. Other than ACPI my Sony 'just' works with Debian, is that a certification? :) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5QKJk7rtxKWZzGsRAplgAKDDd12smFeBH8a8RBveDwwuAcAnfACg1Mvn

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-21 Thread Greg Madden
' - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5nx+k7rtxKWZzGsRAsG5AJ9ZpDooOY7BV2Le1GtMKgpiyHVBLwCdGxIk 1CpzdYpNCEkNtEFojhumNY8= =7Q0j -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: upgrade from Corel Linux

2003-12-23 Thread Greg Madden
- -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/6RgCk7rtxKWZzGsRAg5nAKDYGF5Nmu26OLvUB9vrzvzV54nWegCgngjW +ymhG6AeDJchyo8Q1unME0I= =fDEP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Greg Madden
available for different CPU's, 686, 586, athlon etc. If you use dselect/aptitude you can look at the different choices available. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/6g27k7rtxKWZzGsRAmMkAJkB5dfw5OBoUhxG3d335WKdX2dPqgCaA5ym

Re: Is Evolution available for net-installation

2003-12-27 Thread Greg Madden
or whatever dir when the package gets released/ installed as a deb file. /usr/local (/opt for LSB/FSH?) is a good place to manage third party software, afaik. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs

2003-12-27 Thread Greg Madden
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/19981215/sl2w8-01.html - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7k+jk7rtxKWZzGsRAmFoAJ9af2FsNUMwL6Hv+eUQhGuQgayIQgCeKXZt FkBy988ZxxbfOXcyMGbI29k= =2OaN -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs

2003-12-27 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:36 pm, Greg Madden wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 02:28 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I have a box with a Tyan Thunder dual CPU MB. The two CPUs I have are both 300MHz Pentium IIs. But one is a Deschutes step

debmirror issue

2003-12-30 Thread Greg Madden
the outside. Any thoughts appreciated. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/8TRKk7rtxKWZzGsRApO+AKCU87cnUhd5vlRVvfGeVWSdT/6GfwCfSwUU jKPdqZ1Rxj3/Urda9h1btHo= =uNjx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: debmirror issue

2003-12-30 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 11:16 pm, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using debmiror for quite awhile. Recently it has stopped working, the last errors are the following: project/trace/clos: project/trace/clos failed Failed to download files (5190

Re: Are there any woody r1-r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-05 Thread Greg Madden
. I don't know about plans for an update cd. You could use jigdo do get the new parts of r2 using your current cd's as a starting point. With jigdo you can loop mount the old iso, jigdo copies files from there, then goes as dl the rest. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP

Re: Are there any woody r1-r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
. Regards, There is a file, README.txt, located on the cd that mentions the version. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+wTok7rtxKWZzGsRArZaAKDN63/zv/iWM7ll8oSmnl+2PX0LiwCgr7Lt Iy1RsaDMwSkRZosKE4rV8qY= =tYQq -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: using cd roms with dselect

2004-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
, i.e., as /mnt/cdrom1-7, then point apt-cdrom to each mount point. You will always have to have each cdrom mounted on the same mount point for dselect or apt-get to work though. A local mirror is a cleaner way but I don't know how to get a mirror from the 7 cdroms. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU

Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?

2004-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
it finds. These are not necessarily the ones geographically closest. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAKdgk7rtxKWZzGsRAuOrAKCPbWt4zgYUdyfozS5v82IhfrGVyQCgqlqt Xx46jHel/KY5cilsbcXkE4s= =/2Sn -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?

2004-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:07 pm, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Greg Madden: On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:04 pm, tripolar wrote: Recently when doing apt-get update I get failures from deb http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Madden
, the best way to get newer packages for Woody. This may be the current site for KDE. http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main Another backport site I have had good luck with is : deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free HTH - -- Greg Madden

Re: hdparm questions

2004-01-14 Thread Greg Madden
place to put 'hdparm' comands, afaik. How might one add and a script /etc/rc#/hdparm? (Just take one of the other, leave the preambles and simply do hdparm?) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Greg Madden
, cups has a driver for it , it has a nic card and picks up an IP address from my dhcp server. I like having a nic card in the printer for sharing on a network. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5qnkk7rtxKWZzGsRAu0pAKDT

Re: Windows NT/2000/XP related problems

2003-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
to be nul in WIN9X Thank you for any clue. -- Abdul Latip -- Angkasa Internet Junior Staff -- ANGIN.com http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: My Scsi Drive Disappeared...

2003-06-24 Thread Greg Madden
on hostadapter (first one being 0) c == ID d == LUN (first one being 0) See the SCSI-Programming-HOWTO for more details. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++KKRk7rtxKWZzGsRAgs0AKCVOlHUakWA3ah

Re: dosemu-freedos on woody / using glibc from woody+sid?

2003-06-29 Thread Greg Madden
/apt/preferences) file. Use 'apt-get source -b package name -t Debian Version, Testing or Unstable'. If there are not a lot of depends it could work without breaking woody. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Abiword dependency problem in testing?

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Madden
testing system is slightly broken but a search here : http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages in testing doesn't show anything. Do you have a mix of testing woody or ? - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: dual booting

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Madden
a restore disk, not an OEM copy, you will need to resize the XP partition using 'ntfsresize', then install Debian in the free space. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/2iPk7rtxKWZzGsRAsaxAJ0csh7umC3nrmFwqo4ee36/niqKqwCgvT7Y

Re: Debian source code (resent)

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Madden
' to download the source packages. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AGM9k7rtxKWZzGsRAlw2AJ0coKIClrOVN/SGGwysBdZ1n09qDQCfaiQZ sIzrDKAKRV81FbLI8/OhI6g= =ryU5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Trying Again

2003-07-02 Thread Greg Madden
assume you are installing from a cdrom. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AifMk7rtxKWZzGsRAiKcAJ0UlklyD2cYyyfpvt62tuN2ZNJ8kQCfV7iD GLY8pzUqrkctNCoFxRFkS4Y= =7Ccg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Greg Madden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Install the package 'hwtools'. This puts a script into /etc/init.d where you can put hdparm options, the hwtools script comes with some hdparm options. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Madden
reply to a Google :) http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/BFeuk7rtxKWZzGsRAqnxAKCIWaawsV6SpVT3EpDnYU/6tABYMgCePe8t qCheN/GEtLxPFVtqlik8Z7Q= =kr9o -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Greg Madden
include /usr/local and /opt. Though on some distro's /opt gets software installed, I don't think sharing it would affect any particular distro. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: How to play CD and video in debian?

2003-07-08 Thread Greg Madden
anyone help me to solve this problem? Regards, James Ng As mentioned don't mount the cd's or DVD's. Xine looks for a movie disk in /dev/dvd, you can configure Xine to play from your device. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Kernel/lilo/initrd upgrade issue

2003-07-10 Thread Greg Madden
error message. A question from all this: can I add 'initrd=initrd.img' as an option in lilo.conf but not in the stanza'a mentioned above ? - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/DZbrk7rtxKWZzGsRAmzaAJ9yF

Re: Real Player

2001-07-18 Thread Greg Madden
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] The RealPlayer I use from real.com is a .bin file. Install directions from their site: 'chmod u+x rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin' './rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin' -- Greg

Re: How to install gnumeric on testing? (libgal4 problem)

2001-07-31 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 08:00 am, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:12:31 -0500, Colin Watson wrote: Unfortunately the unstable version is broken too (bugs #102406, #103776, #104908), so it might be a while before it's fixed. An NMU built against the latest libgal is

Re: 3c509b and dos utility to disable PnP; or isapnptools

2001-08-18 Thread Greg Madden
in. This is for systems with 2 nics, one for a cable modem (3c509 as eth0) and a pci nic for the internal network. -- Greg Madden

Re: glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread Greg Madden
I install to satisfy the glibc 2.1.3 requirement? thanks snip libc6 2.1.3 is in Debian Stable. Greg Madden

Re: Intel L440GX+ MB

2001-08-21 Thread Greg Madden
at the different boot disks available. I know awhile back I dl'd the disks for IDE and another set with four floppies worth of modules, hopefully one of those will support your scsi card. i.e. http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r3/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/ Greg Madden

Re: Xwindows

2001-08-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 26 August 2001 12:37 am, Ron Sanders wrote: Hellos there. I'm trying to get XWindows to run, but it won't for some strange reason. after i run XF86Setup as root, and get it all rolling, i get this error _XIITransSocketUNIXConnet : can't connect errano 111 I just got Debian, and just

Re: 3com NIC card configuration

2001-08-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 27 August 2001 02:56 pm, Frank Preut wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:17:58PM -0400, dman wrote: The 2.2.12 version refers the Linux kernel that is included in that release of Debian. uh, no.. potato ships with 2.2.17pre[something], it's recommended to update to 2.2.19 I

Re: Streaming and Win Media Player plug-in

2001-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
in Linux. The 'other' popular commercial product is : Real Audio. Most stations stream in one of these medias :( even those publically funded ones. Greg Madden

Re: differences Debian and Corel?

2001-06-03 Thread Greg Madden
98% (carefully) of the packages with Potato packages. Its a pain but for me there is some value in Corels tools. -- Greg Madden

Re: stable word processor and spreadsheet with graphs

2001-07-05 Thread Greg Madden
, otherwise folks will want to go back to NT. If abiword were a little more solid and gnumeric had graphs my job would be much easier. If you can spend $$ for apps try Applixware. Applixware works well. WP8 for Linux is a nice word processor. http://www.vistasource.com/products/axware -- Greg

Re: network card problem

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
is appreicated. Thanks. Richard The cards may be setup for using the same resources. Use 'el3diag' from the 3c5x9utils package. This only reports the settings, to change them you would need the DOS utility for the card. -- Greg Madden

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
the tools that are present in Woody. -- Greg Madden

Re: df and ext3

2001-11-21 Thread Greg Madden
be the problem, try using typeext3. 'df' doesn't have any issues with ext3 fs's , afaik. (works here) -- Greg Madden

Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Madden
for the future. Thanks! Jen You could 'dpkg-reconfigure lilo' , I think if you don't have a lilo.conf file it will generate one. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: Upgrading to 2.2r4 from 2.2r3

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Madden
it? yes - -- Greg Madden Reply to the Group Share the Knowledge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwD0UcACgkQaefA3q8KcpBLHgCcDNpFXNL8PKLTVFwmyfrZqXIV j+EAn3a0DC4fur3XsYhF9SYtIyW6247R =bo9n -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: WordPerfect 8 starts to load, then dies.

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Madden
the 'libc5 package from the 'oldlibs' area of dselect the 'type1inst' package. I am not to familiar with the free download but I don't think it is different in its requirements for running. - -- Greg Madden Reply to the Group Share the Knowledge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Evolution depends libgtkhtml20

2001-12-07 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a Sid install Evolution doesn't install because of a missing depends, libgtkhtml20 = 1.0.0. I don't see such a package on Debians site or Google. This seems new as I just installed Evolution on my Testing box, from Sid, the other day. ? Greg

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-07 Thread Greg Madden
unmodified? AFAIK it is clean source no patches. There are some patches available on Debians site. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwRF1EACgkQaefA3q8KcpDRSQCgo2T5k83OhayjwpzgqdJvANqt

Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20

2001-12-07 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 December 2001 10:20 am, Greg Madden wrote: On a Sid install Evolution doesn't install because of a missing depends, libgtkhtml20 = 1.0.0. I don't see such a package on Debians site or Google. This seems new as I just installed

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Greg Madden
. Of course this requires access to the source and a knowledge of what drivers your card uses, aolso the names are somewhat cryptic. The Linux hcl may be easier :) - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: LILO

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Madden
) once you do try using 'tasksel' it has a 'task xwindows' option. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72NdigFopErbyUAoRAhyeAJ9yyy9KM0sdNp5/eu8n4RocS/GukACfUjKW 0zL0DsGMKcZwnPUvD0LbPB8= =vts9 -END PGP

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-28 Thread Greg Madden
, No, it didn't deny intrance it redirected you to a site that suggests you download a MS product., while suggesting MS was standards compliant whatever you were using was not. FWIW, Konq Opera passed the W3C validator, Netscape didn't., don't use IE. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: kernel .config

2001-11-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 06 November 2001 04:30 pm, Richardson, Martin wrote: Greetings everybody, is there a template or a default .config for compiling a Debian kernel from source, keeping the binary's defaults. What I mean to say is, when I run make xconfig/menuconfig, is there a

Re: The Debian Way

2001-12-31 Thread Greg Madden
- The Debian Way If it exists could someone give me the url for it please? Ask Google for 'Debian Way'. Wendell Cochran West Seattle Or search on 'make-kpkg' - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: How to limit network traffic?

2002-01-01 Thread Greg Madden
issues? - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwyMUMACgkQaefA3q8KcpAHnACeKAqDy6LtjcVW1s7jI/HvPmdu 2mEAoImWMtnkUYt/XC5wLb0eumSxW4Rm =5F5n -END PGP SIGNATURE-

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