Re: X flickering

2005-11-22 Thread Kent West
jack wrote: I'm running testing (etch) on x86. About a week ago, possibly Wednesday 16/11 (sorry, I can't be more precise), after updating my packages, I've started having problems with flickering in X. The trouble is, I can't pinpoint the problem down. I'd be happy to file a bug report, if only

Re: Got totally messed up with Debian Unstable

2005-11-17 Thread Kent West
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hey guy, we are using GNU/Linux and backups are only for wimps. Our power OS does not need backups. :-P I backed up my laptop computer the other day, about two inches. Had to in order to see it since since I got these bifocals -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-17 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: I have the Corel CDROM which has on it the WP 8.0. .deb package. There is however a dependency problem on which I would like some advice. The WP 8.0 package depends on only two other packages, libc5 and xlib6g. The former is still available from the Debian archive;

Re: Changing default runlevels

2005-11-15 Thread Kent West
Scott wrote: I've gathered Debian starts in run level 2 and from there X is started. How do I change the setting so that when I log in I don't go any further than a shell and if I want ex I just type startx and enter? I don't know why but Debian seems to be more cryptic when it comes to this

Re: Changing default runlevels

2005-11-15 Thread Kent West
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Kent West wrote: Scott wrote: I've gathered Debian starts in run level 2 and from there X is started. How do I change the setting so that when I log in I don't go any further than a shell and if I want ex I just type startx and enter? I don't know why

Re: Got totally messed up with Debian Unstable

2005-11-14 Thread Kent West
All Nicks Are Taken wrote: Hi. A few of days ago I decided I want to upgrade my Sarge to Sid (unstable) and so I did (changed the apt sources list, as I've read in some article.) Couple of days ago everything worked fine, absolutely no problems; a clean shutdown with nothing suspicious.

Re: unsubsrib

2005-11-13 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: I can count. It's called an hyperboolic approximation for humerous intent because I didn't feel like having an exact number. :P I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root

2005-11-12 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: When I try to log in to KDE using KDM through my normal user, the screen goes black, then returns to KDM. This is indicative of X having crashed, since I told KDM to re-appear if that should happen. Loging in through a consle tells me that /etc/X11/X is not executable.

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-12 Thread Kent West
Bruce Hohl wrote: I have been running Debian Stable on a PC and Debian Testing on a PC for a few months. All is well. I have a few questions: 1- Compared to Debian Stable, Debian Testing has many more programs on the Gnome menu (many without icons). Will the next Stable release retain all

Re: [Solved] Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-11 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: AFAIK What does that mean? As Far As I Know. There are sights that list the common acronyms. I don't have a link, but if you're interested, you can just google for it. BTW, btw is a TLA, just FYI. (Sorry.) There is another problem, though. KDE does not start

Re: [Solved] Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-11 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: There are sights ... D'oh! sites. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-09 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did the keyboard work during the KDE setup? I would create a new user and log into KDE as that user, to make absolutely sure that the problem is not in your user's settings. (I doubt that's the problem, now, but still, it's an easy test.) Assuming the new user

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-09 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: It would go into gnome, but I couldn't create a new user there for some reason. So I just searched around and around till I found that KDM bit, which fixed the problem. That was me posting that thread, by the way. Ah, great. Then it's all working now? Whoo-hoo! --

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 pm, Kent West wrote: I'd try firing up KDE as a different user (or, if you don't have any KDE settings you with to preserve, rename/delete ~/.kde and ~/.kderc and/or other KDE-related files in your home directory). in my /home

Re: openoffice woes

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
michael wrote: As far as I can tell both are versions 1.1-3.9 so I'm lost to what is going on... (not sure how to list the actual versions etc apart from using 'apt-cache show openoffice.org') ooffice --version -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I renamed all the .kde stuff in my home dir, and booted up...KDE setup walked me through the setup, but still- no keyboard. Any idea where to look next? Thanks. Did the keyboard work during the KDE setup? I would create a new user and log into KDE as that

Re: Setting up a File Server

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
White-Hat` (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: I wanted to set up a file server using Samba--I thought the idea of creating a small, home network using my old box's would be sort of neat. I'd hate to see them go to waste anyway. I'm pretty new to networking on Linux also, so feel free to give me any

OT: Reminder - Trimming Replies

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
(Apologies for playing List-Cop.) Several threads lately have included replies following long quotes. Whereas the replies are in the correct location (yea!), leaving all of the previous material as a quotation is unnecessary and has several drawbacks (which have been discussed multiple times

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I have a good mouse, and the nvidia driver is working so X works fine. The problem is now, the keyboard doesn't work at all. It's getting so close, please help me fix the keyboard? Does the CAPSLOCK key activate the indicator LED? If you have a ?dm that allows

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: Thanks so much Kentthe numlock light is on and stays on...you cannot turn it off. None of the other (caps lock etc) buttons do anything. (All this in KDE.) I think it has to do with the newer KDE version 3.4.2 which, when I dist-upgraded caused all the problems

Re: how do I reinstall Mozilla?

2005-11-06 Thread Kent West
Philippe Grenard wrote: Le Dimanche 06 Novembre 2005 09:13, Mark Grieveson a écrit : Hello. Mozilla is not working properly on my computer. How do I completely remove it (including the configuration files) and then reinstall it? When I've tried via synaptic, I'm told that all of gnome will

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-04 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to get into X by running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and choosing vesa video driver, Ah, so your earlier suspicion that your woes were caused by video driver issues was correct, notwithstanding my suggestion to tackle the mouse issue first,

Re: starting cups

2005-11-04 Thread Kent West
Joe Zien wrote: I installed deb 3.1 sarge and it is working fine but can't print a test page. On my libanet 2.8.1, a debian distro, when it boots up cupsys starting is shown. On sarge, the cupsys starting is not shown. How do I start cupsys in sarge? You probably don't have cups

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Kent West
Basajaun wrote: I hope anyone in the list is more enlightened than me, and can make, for example, a brief comparison of Debian Etch and Solaris 10. _That_ would be way more usefull than just calling you naïve. I read something recently (wish I could remember where and what - probably

Re: busybox in debian

2005-11-04 Thread Kent West
S guo wrote: Has anyone used the busybox in Debian? I read the introduction to the package BusyBox in Debian and thought it would be quite easy to use. However, I installed the package busybox, which is just BusyBox binary, and tried to run busybox --install in the directory where I would

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Kent West
Heimdall Midgard wrote: I think it's time we emphasize the fact that Debian is not (just) Linux. Debian also comes in BSD and GNU/Hurd flavors. If Open Soalries is free as well as open, you can be sure some develepors are already working on a Solaris port that will make the claim moot. Hal

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-03 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I am stuck. I cannot get the log file. I am mostly ignorant when it comes to the in-depth stuff on Linux. The main error sems to be fail to initiate core devices. In the past, when similar problems occured, I have been able to get into X by using the NV or VESA

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-03 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:44 PM Subject: Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I am stuck. I cannot get

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-03 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure GPM is not installed, I remember trying to install that and could never get it working a long time ago. I just checked the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and the mouse is (as it should be) listed as /dev/input/mice. However I tried putting it as /dev/psaux

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Kent West
James Foster wrote: I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is:

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Aside from that, how does one code to non-standards? You are taught non-standards? You copy from non-standards? You use tools that use non-standards? This is coding to standards: tagtext goes here/tag This is not coding to standards: tagtext goes here Either

Re: boot to kdm

2005-11-01 Thread Kent West
Bio Tech wrote: hello. I started using knoppix which got me using full debian (ive tried a lot of other distros and yours is the best so far) and my question is how can i get my system to boot to kdm to logon. im running a mutt :) P1 256/ram 5 gig hd im useing debain sarge 3.1 any info will

Re: apt-get install wants to remove too much

2005-11-01 Thread Kent West
Thomas Schuett wrote: Hello, when I do apt-get install mozilla-browser it answers: [...] WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! e2fsprogs sysvinit It also wants to remove many other tings I actually

Re: Question

2005-10-28 Thread Kent West
jithesh kk wrote: 1. how to add hardware coponets to debian linux operating system(configure a internal modem to my system. i have driver soft for this device but not installing) 2. How to configure Networking(configuration, file sharing printer sharing) These questions are too vague for

Re:

2005-10-27 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Kent. I know that the man page says that doing Force-LoopBreak is an option, but as I quoted in my mail it is apparently a risky thing to do. Was your problem / solution also with the e2fsprogs package? Yes, it was. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-27 Thread Kent West
Meni Shapiro wrote: On 10/27/05, *Kent West* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Zagrabelny wrote: I can access another box on the local home LAN (ping, ssh, sftp, etc), but I can't ping or otherwise get to my USRobotics wired/wireless router

Re: Minimal instalation

2005-10-26 Thread Kent West
Mitja Podreka wrote: hello I have few old computers in a library and I want to set them up so that they will run Firefox for web browsing and nothing else. I've done a basic Sarge (net)install and then x-window + window manager + Firefox. Is there any better way? Is there a way to get even

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-26 Thread Kent West
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: I can access another box on the local home LAN (ping, ssh, sftp, etc), but I can't ping or otherwise get to my USRobotics wired/wireless router or beyond. what kernel is the other box that can see the outside world running? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk

Re: Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop APT::Force-LoopBreak

2005-10-26 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run a somewhat out of date installation of Testing. When trying to update some packages, apt-get fails with the following message: --- E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a

Re: /tmp Cannot write: No space left on device

2005-10-26 Thread Kent West
Björn Lindström wrote: Kai Hendry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 6.5G 6.1G 0 100% / /dev/hda6 21G 12G 7.8G 60% /home tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 10M

Re: Web Page... Missing sound

2005-10-26 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not getting any sound on foxnews.com. I'm getting the video just fine, but no sound. They have a free video section that I was trying to view. The video comes through, but no sound. I can play my CD's just fine. Using Firefox 1.0.4. It worked okay for me in FF

Re: Broadcom SATA-II card support -- when?

2005-10-26 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 04:28 pm, David B van Balen wrote: Please CC me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list. You have successfully killed any chance of getting a smart answer. No he didn't. Please read the Debian list rules I assume you're

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-25 Thread Kent West
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 07:52 -0500, Kent West wrote: I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2-k7; now my network is mostly broken. what version were you running before? 2.6.3-1-k7 I can access another box on the local home LAN (ping, ssh, sftp, etc), but I

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-25 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2-k7; now my network is mostly broken [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric

Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-24 Thread Kent West
I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2-k7; now my network is mostly broken. I can access another box on the local home LAN (ping, ssh, sftp, etc), but I can't ping or otherwise get to my USRobotics wired/wireless router or beyond. I can ssh to the other box in the LAN, and run a web browser

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-23 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 22 October 2005 03:57 pm, Ian Cavnar wrote: I'm hopingthat you mean 60 and 80 GB, as 140MB is nowhere near enough to install Debian and have anything useful for a newb on there. Not true. Just depends on the newbie's situation. Case in point, I

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Kent West
Greg wrote: apt-get install gpm Tell gpm that your mouse is on /dev/psaux, of type imps2, and to repeat raw. I have since learned that the officially proper repeat type is ms3. If you have a USB mouse, the location will be /dev/input/mice, but you also have to have USB support working, which is

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Under what conditions can I copy data under X and paste with gpm and viceversa, with just the mouse strokes? I don't believe you can. I just tried selecting text in X, switching to VT1, and pasting with my middle button. Nothing happened. So I selected text in VT1, then

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Kent West
Greg wrote: THank you for you insight on this. FYI, I was able to make this work. However, when I go into aptitude and look at packages to be removed, it shows gpm. I also recall an error message that stated something to the affect that gpm was obsolete and would be reomoved from the install.

Re: gnome doesnt start

2005-10-21 Thread Kent West
wood wood wrote: i was trying to make some changes in /etc/apt/sources.list and i dont know what happened but my user dir 'wood' which was under /home got deleted. I can think of no way that these two items (editing sources.list and /home/wood disappearing) would be related. Is /home on a

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Kent West
Greg wrote: My question is this, I want to use a boot loader that will load either WinME or Debian. Grub seems like the default boot loader per the installation docs I've read. During installation, will Grub be smart enough to see WinMe on the other drive and will itput the boot loader file on

Re: Thunderbird Signature

2005-10-20 Thread Kent West
Peter H. Ha wrote: I got your contact info from a forum, but I can’t still configure Thunderbird Signature. Can you help? Thank you. This would really probably be addressed on a Mozilla Thunderbird list, but ... In T-Bird, start off like you're creating a new outgoing message. Create your

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). Whatever problem you have, you probably don't need to

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This email is about Mozilla-thunderbird... I used apt-get to retrieve it and install it from the debian.org server. Went in very smoothly, and in less than five minutes I had configured it and downloaded 150 messages from my SpamCop.net popmail server. Then a couple of

Re: /lib deleted

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
theal wrote: The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my servers. Does anyone know of a way to recover this? Tony 1. Restore from backup. 2. If you don't have a backup, copy the directory from a machine that's setup as close as possible as your server. If it's not an exact

Re: Cannot get Xorg to start

2005-10-14 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys and Gals, sorry to bother again, I am still struggling with getting Xorg to start on my system (debian testing, 2.6.7 kernel). I have used essentially the same settings as previously with xfree86. When I enter startx, I get a message that no device can be

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-13 Thread Kent West
Chris Humphries wrote: If you (second person plural) . . . That would be y'all. -- Tex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip address

2005-10-13 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed Debian Sarge, and by mistake I configured the NIC to DHCP. I don't want DHCP, how can I change the ip address from DHCP to a permanent static ip address? I tried already ifconfig eth0 ipaddress, it works, but the change is just temporary. When I

Re: ip address

2005-10-13 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I already did these steps, I rebooted the computer and run ifconfig, but nothing, I didn't get the information for the nic. What is wrong? thanks again Please post the output of ifconfig and the contents of your /etc/networking

Re: Broken Pacakages X Window

2005-10-12 Thread Kent West
Santosh Kumar wrote: Hi! I have got the 14 CDs of Sarge Debian. I have manged to install base debian. But when I start to install X Window System: apt-get install x-window-system It flags off unmet dependencies Finally it says it is broken pacakage. It sounds like you have a set of

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-12 Thread Kent West
in it, particularly since I believe it is praising Debian with faint damns. Pragmatism vs Principles -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SoundMAX and ALSA problem - ASUS A7V8X module onboard card

2005-10-12 Thread Kent West
On 10/13/05, *Ivan Paganini* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am struggling with a debian sarge installation on a ASUS A7V8X. It uses a SoundMAX onboard sound card, and by no means I can put it to work. It does not appear on lspci, or the ethernet card.

Re: Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC snip That got me to the command prompt. No sign of a GUI anywhere ... Making progress. Excellent. Then I got the system to recognize the network (Linksys router, DSL modem, WXP laptop also on

Re: [xorg] H/V Sync of an old 17inch monitor

2005-10-11 Thread Kent West
Andrea B. wrote: Hi, my second monitor is an old and poor 17inch markless. I don't have the manual. How can I find the Horiz/Vertical Sync values? Unsure. Unfortunately, my PCI cirrus card works only at 800x600 @ 85Hz. I've read the documentation and the card can (theorically) work at

Re: [dual monitor] Second video card (Cirrus Logic 5446) doesn't work

2005-10-10 Thread Kent West
Andrea B. wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Kent West wrote: Andrea Ballatore wrote: I've tried to read some HOWTOs and google stuff which ones .. you need to change /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config - you need to add the stuff for the 2nd

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

2005-10-09 Thread Kent West
On 10/8/05, *kamaraju kusumanchi* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using vncviewer on Debian Unstable. In the vnc session, If I press F8 then there is a pop up menu and I can choose to go to full screen mode. But how do I exit from the full screen mode? Any ideas? I'm not at a

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

2005-10-09 Thread Kent West
Joe Smith wrote: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Anderson writes: Any ideas? Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard. I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have a mouse. Now that is bizare. Not even

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

2005-10-09 Thread Kent West
. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dual monitor] Second video card (Cirrus Logic 5446) doesn't work

2005-10-09 Thread Kent West
Andrea Ballatore wrote: I want to set up dual monitor with 2 video cards on my linux box. Here's the hardware list: * AGP card: nvidia ti4200 (128 MB) * PCI card: cirrus logic (2 MB) (don't laugh) * monitor philips brilliance 19'' * cheap monitor markless 17'' * Athlon XP+ 2400,

Re: X problems after dist-upgrade

2005-10-03 Thread Kent West
wdm as your display manager. If it's not available as a choice, try reinstalling wdm: apt-get install wdm -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No Swap

2005-10-03 Thread Kent West
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap partition. Here is an output of fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
Janeque Peterson wrote: Needless to say I'm very new to this. I tried starting the x window (although I don't have a very clear idea what it is exactly) The X Window System has been the traditional windowing system (Graphical User Interface - GUI) for Unix/Linux based systems. Apple

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: In X, the server is the basic GUI engine. As a general rule, it would sit on your local computer where the user sits. The X server is kind of like the blue screen on a Windows computer that appears just before the Start Menu and Taskbar and My Computer appear. The clients

Re: XFree86 with i915 chipset fails with the i810 driver

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
G Christiansson wrote: Dear Debian people, I can not get my XFree86 to work with the i810 driver, and tried for hours with various Google-based tips, so now I ask you. I don't know about your Fujitsu PC, but I've seen similar issues with i810-based Dells. I find that if I go into the BIOS,

Re: iPodder wont start

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
Roger Creasy wrote: Howdy! I just installed iPodder. It will not start. When I click on the desktop icon, it bounces about for a while, but nothing happens, no error messages or anything. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Try running it from a command line; you may get some error

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-09-27 Thread Kent West
password, but rather a system password. Assuming you have sudo installed, boot into the system as a normal user who has enough sudo capability, and sudo change root's password. Then try again. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Joel Peter William Pitt wrote: I am confused however, since I'm reasonably sure I haven't tinkered with my Xauthority files - ie they are the debian default - and yet synaptic has no problem running from su. -Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk su - Password: westk03:~# synaptic

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Kent West wrote: 1. Training oneself not to run things as root is one benefit of sudo, so that you don't mess up when you go to another machine. One presumes when you go to another machine you won't have root. Hmm; I've got two machines here in the house, one

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Kent West wrote: And when you need to run an X app? Ah, gotta muck around with Xauthority files now. I've yet to see an X app that needs me to have root. Chances are if such a beast exists I don't need it. /usr/bin/synaptic, at least on my box. (Granted, I

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Kent West wrote: Unless you need to know two days after the fact, when you've forgotten when you did what when. Why would I need to know what I did and when I did it? If something is broken the path is clear... fix it! Wow. We must have totally different

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: I like the benefit of not having to worry about permissions on certain directories getting in my way when I am looking for information. For example.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log} cd exim4 cd: permission denied: exim4 This is so true. But this is a benefit of being

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: From an xterm: $ su -m Then you can run /usr/sbin/synaptic from a # prompt in a user's xterm. Ah, okay. That's good, and decreases the benefit of sudo for me. (And thanks for quietly correcting my typo of bin to sbin.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Kent West wrote: So, I'm confused. Are you saying that the logging capability of sudo provides a benefit on a single-user machine (my claim), or not (the original claim)? I pointed out that sudo provides logging. You got into the semantics of logging Ah-HA, you

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
can turn on, or restrict wireless to discourage drive-by-net-accesses, etc) from within this utility. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
trying to accomplish. Perhaps you're trying to turn the computer that's plugged into the USB modem into a router, sharing it's internet connection with the second machine? -- Kent -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Would you then agree that the supposed benefits of sudo in a single-user environment are far outweighed by the troubles of trying to wrangle people into using it instead of just teaching them good habits (regardless of tools) and getting them working. I really don't have an

Re: Can't start OpenOffice anymore

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Bernard Fay wrote: Hello group, When I try to start OOo, I have the following error: The program 'soffice.bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 83 error_code

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: On a single user machine or for when the person who is pretty much the de facto administrator and they know to just su root, run the command and get the hell out of dodge there is *NO* benefit of sudo. 1. Training oneself not to run things as root is one benefit of sudo, so

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:29:09 +1200 Joel Peter William Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/26/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] 2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a single X client/app as root

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Kent West
Joel Peter William Pitt wrote: 2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a single X client/app as root is different than running all of X as root. You can run su within a terminal in X, no one mentioned anything about running X as root. That's an aside from whether

Re: I cannot install anything!

2005-09-24 Thread Kent West
Roger Creasy wrote: I just reinstalled my Sarge system. Everytime that I try to install a package, using Kpackage, I get the following error: E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad,

Re: I cannot install anything!

2005-09-24 Thread Kent West
On 9/24/2005, Roger Creasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the same error from command line I did just reinstall...Maybe I need to reinstall again?? Agh! No. No need to reinstall. List the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list please. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Printer

2005-09-24 Thread Kent West
Kenneth P. Turvey wrote: I'm running Debian unstable and I connect to a wireless network on which there is a Windows XP box that has an HP PSC 750 connected to it. I would like to be able to use this printer to print web pages and PDF documents from my computer. A few years back setting

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-23 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: PEBKAC? Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair Another common computer problem is the I.D. Ten-T issue, more commonly written as ID10T. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Computer Name

2005-09-23 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 23 September 2005 01:56 pm, Redefined Horizons wrote: Debian Users, I thought that the host name of my Debian box was the same as my computer name, but I just learned that they are not the same. How do I set the computer name, and what is the difference between

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

2005-09-22 Thread Kent West
Joe Mc Cool wrote: Get to lift his head and look out at the real world. What is this real world of which you speak? And from where can I download this mod? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-22 Thread Kent West
Andrej Repisky wrote: I entered 'aptitude install x-window-system' and something started, but attempts to connect ftp.sk.debian.org failed. That's why the packages were not installed. I thought it was because of some drop out of debian servers, so I tried today again, but it was the same.

Re: SSH

2005-09-22 Thread Kent West
-reconfigure ssh. -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x-window startup and other problems

2005-09-21 Thread Kent West
gcc x-window-system and see what that does for you. -- Kent -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-19 Thread Kent West
Fritz Brown wrote: OK, everybody, THANKS! I finally got it installed without it asking me for all the extra packages (which is where the overwhelming part came in). Now, the only thing is I don't know how to start the GUI. I took most of the default settings (this is Woody, BTW - may try to

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