Re: check superblock

2007-02-21 Thread Kent West
by including enough of a snippet of the original post to provide some background to your answers. Thanks! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New Sid iceweasel already running when opening second link from T-bird

2007-02-20 Thread Kent West
close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart your system. Any clues? Thanks! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Sid iceweasel already running when opening second link from T-bird

2007-02-20 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 09:23, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Hi On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:47:20AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Before yesterday's upgrade of Sid's Iceweasel (and the subsequent creation of a new profile -- I only moved my

Re: why not try lilypond

2007-02-20 Thread Kent West
. Wow! This task just keeps getting easier and easier! Thanks, folks! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with debian

2007-02-18 Thread Kent West
to remember him and his posts, even if they're only two minutes old. (After all, they're important to the poster, so they _must_ be important to others also.) But even so, that expectation is wrong and rude. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Kent West
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO

Re: why not try lilypond

2007-02-16 Thread Kent West
! This is wonderful! Thanks, Joe! -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Kent West wrote: What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will be necessary. ---LaTeX-File--- \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \newlength{\chordlength

Re: Can't get to a console from gdm screen

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
the xlibs stuff doesn't have working ctrl-alt-fn while the xkb-data does. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The material looks like standard guitar tabs you'd find on the web, like this, from http://www.guitaretab.com/a/adam-sandler/211.html: Package: musixtex Description: Typeset music scores

OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-14 Thread Kent West
much does the job already? Thanks! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: Kent West wrote: Now as a normal (non-root) user, run startx. What happens? I logged in as my user and ran startx. It returned three lines: xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110 /etc/X11/X is not executable xinit: Server error

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
to add a line in /etc/fstab. Feel free to ask for clarifications, etc. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to mount Solaris disk as slave? [Was: Using graphical environment]

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
is on. I like cfdisk, but it's not as reliable as plain ol' fdisk. You might try fdisk instead. You mentioned having seven machines. If the other six are still running Solaris 9, you can look in it's /etc/vfstab to see what partitions hold what. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: Kent West wrote: I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only. or better yet, do as the file says and run dpkg-reconfigure x11-common and change the setting that way. I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: Kent West wrote: What happens when you run /etc/init.d/networking restart? Returned: Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0. done. Then a series of messages scrolled down the screen

X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-12 Thread Kent West
and a gateway-switch are connected to it. This installation is only ever used by my spouse and me. Run ifconfig and see if you have an expected IP address; my first suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems with networking. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http

Re: StartX problem

2007-02-12 Thread Kent West
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) snip -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-12 Thread Kent West
packages needed. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-11 Thread Kent West
. How did you accomplish this? In the KDE Control Panel stuff? -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using GUI

2007-02-11 Thread Kent West
marked with EE in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/XFree86.0.log. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-11 Thread Kent West
. Just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and change all the stable's to etch's (assuming you did a netinstall the first-time 'round, and not all from CD - otherwise you'll have to change more), then apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http

Re: StartX problem

2007-02-10 Thread Kent West
tried the vga driver in XF86Config-4 instead of vesa, or have you tried dropping the DefaultDepth from 24 to 16? -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: What you do is purge the packages gdm, xdm kdm. You'll only have one of them installed, but I list them all just to be comprehensive. Not quite all; wdm is also a possibility; perhaps others. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Kent West
in the script (or, for ease of finding later, just as the first line). This way you only have to edit one file rather than five or so. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: No space in new mail message on login

2007-02-05 Thread Kent West
to test with.) -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I have a question...

2007-02-04 Thread Kent West
; what are you doing to generate any errors referring to HAL, and what do the errors say exactly? -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!

2007-01-31 Thread Kent West
Terence wrote: IIRC it also was the name of a character in the cartoon strip Popeye. Close. Eugene was the character's name; Jeep was the type of creature he was. He was Eugene the Jeep. Jeep jeep! -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: thank you

2007-01-31 Thread Kent West
have an integrated video system, you might jump into the computer's BIOS and see if there's any tweaking you can do there. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread Kent West
don't have any unbacked-up data on the drive you don't want to risk). Or, assuming you've taken adequate precautions, try out the installer's partitioning program; it'll be a good education for you to see how well it works. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: newbie wanting debian...

2007-01-29 Thread Kent West
Ctrl-Alt-Plus-on-the-numberpad to move to the next available resolution setting. Continued pressing of that key sequence should cycle through all the possibilities. Of course, this depends on the LiveCD being configured the way I expect it to be. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Kent West
; you'll need some way after the install to reinstall LILO; I generally use Knoppix for this. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Kent West
. I'm sorry Debian wasn't what you needed, but be thankful that you have the freedom (hmm, there's that word Free again) to switch to Gentoo. I hope you'll find satisfaction there. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Etch display problem

2007-01-25 Thread Kent West
the real solution (other than tinkering with /etc/X11/xorg.conf until the real problem is fixed), but a work-around is simply to de-activate the automatic startup of X. Uninstall [xwgk]dm. Then just run startx when you want to start X. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kent West
, such as Arch, have. yes, the upgrade is as simple as you've put it Just a clarification: upgrading is fairly painless usually, but that's not necessarily the same as switching from one version to another. The point being, downgrading is next to impossible. -- Kent West http

Re: grub: not found or no block device

2007-01-19 Thread Kent West
. But as mentioned, I'm no expert. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Xorg will not start no matter what I do

2007-01-19 Thread Kent West
a lot of ASCII garbage show up on the screen. (Ctrl-C to stop the cat.) This will verify if your mouse is being seen by the system. Also, does lspci report your video card to be on 1:0:0? -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how make the debian bootable

2007-01-17 Thread Kent West
they've specifically requested it; they already read the list, they don't need to get two copies of your replies (particularly if they're having to pay for each byte they download). Thanks!) -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch

2007-01-17 Thread Kent West
. Create the directory. The installer will be happy. or 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.) I just fed the path /usr/lib/iceweasel to the installer program, and it was happy. -- Kent West Westing

Re: x don't start in debian

2007-01-16 Thread Kent West
, it didn't start any graphical interfece Try aptitude install x-window-system. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba Client: Permission Denied on Mounted Share

2007-01-16 Thread Kent West
. Shot in the dark; your Linux box may need to be added to the XP domain. (I'm unsure of the syntax; it seems the syntax changed in the past couple of years and most of the Google hits provide the old syntax.) -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-11 Thread Kent West
, make sure to include some relevant context for your response. List members see a lot of mail, and can't be expected to remember what you're talking about, or who said what when. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-11 Thread Kent West
or not you agree with the logic for those mores. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-11 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: * several suggestions * When turning on a vacation responder, exclude mailing lists. * Turn off Request Receipt when posting to a mailing list. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Iceweasel download manager problem

2007-01-11 Thread Kent West
of your partitions are out of space. Make sure your /tmp directory has appropriate permissions: drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 20K 2007-01-11 09:23 /tmp Try as a different user. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-10 Thread Kent West
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:20 -0600, Kent West wrote: Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 02:02 +1100, Geoff Reidy wrote: It's awful, if I just type in /usr/bin I get /usr/src//bin because of it's autocompletion, so you have to type slowly

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-10 Thread Kent West
Mathias Brodala wrote: Kent West, 10.01.2007 17:44: I thought it was a problem in iceweasel, but I can not now recreate the problem there. But I can recreate it in icedove, version 1.5.0.9 (20061220). Steps: * Receive an email with an attachment. * Double-click on the attachment

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-05 Thread Kent West
-h-h-h; much better. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Kent West
frame (30 days?). but then we'd miss all of Michele Konzack's mail! ;-) A Ha HA-A-A-A!!! So true. :-) -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xorg overloaded

2006-12-30 Thread Kent West
pol wrote: Kent West wrote: If it's really X, then you shouldn't need to shut off your laptop; simply restarting the X server should solve the problem. If it doesn't, the problem is not X, but something else. Ok, I will try to restart X, next time. Are you suspecting 'top

Re: xorg overloaded

2006-12-29 Thread Kent West
this issue? If it's really X, then you shouldn't need to shut off your laptop; simply restarting the X server should solve the problem. If it doesn't, the problem is not X, but something else. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian Installation

2006-12-28 Thread Kent West
prompt you if you want to use gdm or kdm as your login manager (kdm is KDE's; gdm is Gnome's, but either will let you log into either the Gnome or KDE environment (if both are installed) via a menu on the login screen). -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Need Help with Samba [Was: Re: Debian Installation]

2006-12-28 Thread Kent West
| php] should get you pretty close. Note: None of these should be taken as criticisms (although in the terse format I've written them they may sound that way); instead, they should be taken as educational as to how this list generally functions. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http

Re:

2006-12-28 Thread Kent West
and see if they provide any clue. I'd do an aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade to see if any newer packages solve the problem. I'd search the bug database and general Google for this issue. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: /etc/network/interfaces file ?

2006-12-21 Thread Kent West
/etc/init.d/networking restart gets me an address. If this is of value to you, great. If not, sorry for the wasted bandwidth. If you need more info/testing, holler. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Very ugly problem after upgrade and unistalling KDE

2006-12-21 Thread Kent West
it's system-wide rather than a user-specific problem (but I'd still create a new user and test with that user to make absolutely certain). Again, this is not a fix necessarily, but it might get you closer to one. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Fwd: X aborting

2006-12-20 Thread Kent West
: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config should have allowed_users=console; I'd start by checking that file. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: xine video playback jumpy

2006-12-20 Thread Kent West
you're not running low on drive space on any partitions. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-19 Thread Kent West
For myself, I just duplicate the existing root line in /etc/sudoers and then change one of the roots to my user. Granted, this isn't particularly secure, but it's easy and adds a significant level of security to doing things as root. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-19 Thread Kent West
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:00:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: For myself, I just duplicate the existing root line in /etc/sudoers and then change one of the roots to my user. Granted, this isn't particularly secure, but it's easy and adds a significant level

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

2006-12-17 Thread Kent West
section needs to be added to the newbie documentation. When someone gets the itch who can address this issue, I'm sure it'll be addressed. Until then (and even afterward), no OS is perfect in all respects. *shrug* -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Kent West
. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wulfy wrote: Kent West wrote: You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for Firefox. Do a locate libflashplayer.so and rename/move any that you aren't confident is the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories. I don't appear to have ANY

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Kent West
by default, I believe, every day. However, just to be sure, I'd run it manually, then do another run of your locate command. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-14 Thread Kent West
-swap the 7 and 9 versions of the file and restart FF). -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greetings and a minor rave!!

2006-12-13 Thread Kent West
The __last__ thing to install is X. But I usually install X and Icewm early on (just after lynx and ssh and sudo); I likes me graphical environment, yeppers. Then I toss on the fluff, KDE, OO.o, FF, T-Bird, etc. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Greetings and a minor rave!!

2006-12-12 Thread Kent West
window managers for you. You're probably launching X via gdm; the gdm login window should have a menu item somewhere for choosing which environment you want to log into. Mix and match; try 'em all; have fun! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread Kent West
install aptitude.) -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with rdesktop

2006-12-12 Thread Kent West
you'd configure that. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to Play Two Audio streams to two different outputs?

2006-12-12 Thread Kent West
Dave Thayer wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:42:02PM -0600, Kent West wrote: We're wanting to use one Debian box to play two different audio streams to two different systems: one playing music-on-hold for our general telephone system, and one playing tips-and-updates for our Helpdesk

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread Kent West
. After figuring that out, Good zing, Hendrik! -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread Kent West
/sources.list and paste the exact output into a mail back to this list. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat/etc/apt/sources.list bash: cat/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory You need a space just after the word cat. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread Kent West
thing.) (PPS. No need to CC: us in addition to sending your replies to the list itself, since we're already reading the list. We don't need two copies of each message.) -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: large rendering

2006-12-08 Thread Kent West
-KeypadPlus (the plus on the numeric keypad) or Ctrl-Alt-KeypadMinus to see if you can cycle around to the normal resolution. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to Play Two Audio streams to two different outputs?

2006-12-08 Thread Kent West
two different apps (or even the same app) under two different users is not a problem; I just need the audio to not mix between the two outputs. Thanks! -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mouse freaks out

2006-12-06 Thread Kent West
if it's installed, or installing gpm if it's not installed, and then reconfiguring X to use/not use /dev/gpmdata accordingly, just to see if anything changes. You might also want to provide a bit more info, such as how your xorg.conf (or XF86Config) file is configured mouse-wise. -- Kent West

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Kent West
) which disables all extensions, etc., (presumably flash and java etc) to see what difference, if any, that makes. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound system stopped working

2006-11-23 Thread Kent West
on an Athlon XP1800. I think I'd start by reseating the card (assuming it's not integrated). -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphic program stopped working after (Xorg?) Etch update

2006-11-23 Thread Kent West
running strace envi; see if that provides any additional info about what's dying. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Sound system stopped working

2006-11-23 Thread Kent West
suggestions? 1. Try a different user. 2. Try a different windowing environment. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-19 Thread Kent West
in /tmp to get the full .iso. -- Kent -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken MBR

2006-11-14 Thread Kent West
a difference. I have a copy of the original sarge disk1 and a Knoppix 5.0 disk at home. Will either of these simplify the repair/ Boot from Knoppix. #sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (or wherever your / partition is) #sudo chroot /mnt/hda1 #mount -a #lilo #exit #reboot -- Kent West

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Kent West
your own research; that's good. Sorry there doesn't seem to be a clear answer to this question. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Kent West
reason for this: Does debian offer a lot of packages choices? 20,000+, last I heard; I'm unsure how many other distros offer. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-10 Thread Kent West
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West: I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5 floppies on two different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post. I've tried

Re: Boot problem

2006-11-10 Thread Kent West
the configuration.) -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Kent West
a Debian-based LiveCD, that should give you an idea as to whether it'll see your HostRAID controller (I suspect yes; Adaptec's a big enough name that the issues have probably been worked out, but that's just a guess on my part). -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-05 Thread Kent West
ChadDavis wrote: But what's with all the attitude people flash around here. We're people; people are imperfect. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delete Win 2K partition on Debian dual boot to re-use space.

2006-11-04 Thread Kent West
No.) You could however have a /home2, or an /opt, or an /overflow, or a /home/home, etc etc etc. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot ping my own machine

2006-11-02 Thread Kent West
/hosts, then you can reboot, or run hostname -F /etc/hostname. You may also want to change another half-dozen or so files in /etc (such as mailname); grep is your friend. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Kent West
10:00 trash.desktop -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: anthony wrote: I'd like to know what exactly happened and perhaps to get my user (anthony) and my settings back iat some point so, what should the permissions be for all the settings (invisible) files in my home directory /anthony/home ? Are they each different? To get your

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Kent West
was telling some of the utilities I was trying to use what filesystem/size to use, they'd fail. Then this simple little change works (or at least seems to, with my very limited test sample). Those utilities *should* have worked; decreases my respect for Debian just ever so slightly. -- Kent West Westing

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote: sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440 I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for fdformat(8). Because the man page for fdformat only mentions the /dev/fd* paths

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing geeks reproduce. What is this reproduce of which you speak? Is that a new utility similar to cp? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
leaning toward the idea that my floppy drives have gone southward. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
anthony wrote: one other clue is that I cannot save text files logged in as anthony (i get a no space left on device error) but I can as root in the same directory Ah, then perhaps you're out of drive space on that partition. (*nix leaves a small buffer available for root to write to, which

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
on another couple of Debian boxes at work tomorrow. And I think I'll boot up this machine from Knoppix and see how it handles these floppies. More info later -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
cleaning the head in the drive with a qtip and rubbing alcohol. This might do some good, but that'll have to wait until I have those things available. In the meanwhile, I'm going to try another couple of floppies, and via Knoppix. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I'm going to try another couple of floppies, and via Knoppix. I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read those files from it, I then did the verify thing again: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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