Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-12 Thread John Peter
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start

Re: Where to get the new installer?

2003-12-06 Thread John Peter
Mariano Kamp wrote: Hi Richard, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [··] My experience with Knoppix was excellent. I used it on two systems (laptop and desktop) and both are now mostly unstable - only bit of knoppix obviously remaining being the X splashscreen. It certainly solved

Re: App for making invitation cards

2003-12-06 Thread John Peter
Kent West wrote: I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-12-03 Thread John Peter
Bill Moseley wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:12:07AM +0100, Elie De Brauwer wrote: Let's do some benchmarking I have a PIV 2.8 ghz (800 mhz fsb), 1 gig ddr 400 ram and an geforce fx 5900 ultra with 256 meg ram. When running X at 1600x1200 resolution I get about 4800 fps in glxgears

Re: SMTP setup question

2003-12-03 Thread John Peter
Todd Pytel wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:46:33 + (GMT) Anim Asante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have signed up with two ISPs and I tried to set up my Mozilla mail for the second mail account. Mozilla mail would not let me set up a second SMTP. My question is if I send a mail from the second

Re: Compiling kernel - problems

2003-11-30 Thread John Peter
Cruncher wrote: I'm running Debian woody on a Pentium machine, installed from DVD and using kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4. I'm trying to play around with different kernel settings, so I thought I start by recompiling this one. I installed kernel-package and kernel-source-2.4.18. I go to

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread John Peter
Paul Burkett wrote: I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread John Peter
Elie De Brauwer wrote: (I didn't turn any of my processes of, attached is ps axf) Hardware: AMD Athlon T-Bird 900mhz 768mb Crucual PC2100 GeForce4 MX440SE 128mb IBM G74 1280x1024 24bit Matrox Millennium2 8mb Acer 79g 1280x1024 24bit FIC AN11 mb (VIA 8266/A/7) 2x Maxtor 160gb

Re: icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-29 Thread John Peter
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:59:20PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: I don't really care, as it works, then again I don't think that editing this file is advisable for the integrity of my system. Did I miss the Debian Way here, or is it a bug / one of those things? No, you

Re: Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

2003-11-27 Thread John Peter
Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:09:49PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. They're all usable. I've tried XDM (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), Awful is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I find the simplicity of xdm

Re: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

2003-11-27 Thread John Peter
Peter S. Hayes wrote: Thank you! I did read enough to figure out how to reboot (through LILO) into a single-user mode so that X is not started. The keyboard works fine there; it's only after X is started with the logon that the keyboard goes wacky. I haven't figured out how to get networking

Re: Installing CUPS

2003-11-26 Thread John Peter
peted wrote: Hello, How do I know if I have CUPS installed? Also, is there some type of configuration program for CUPS? I get an error message when I try to run the KDE Printer manager stating that it could not connect to the CUPS Server on localhost:631 Thank you in advance for the help.

Re: ATA Controller

2003-11-26 Thread John Peter
Linux wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:10:09 + John Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Linux wrote: Greetings all. I have a second IDE controller card installed in my system and am trying to get it to work under debian. Things that may be relevant: hda - 15g HD hdb - 20g HD hdc

Re: Changing the default Gnome to KDE

2003-11-26 Thread John Peter
James Hosken wrote: Please could some some one tell me how I change the default graphics enviroment to be KDE rather than Gnome. You should have that option on your desktop manager, usually a dropdown where you just select the desktop you want to run. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Changing the default Gnome to KDE

2003-11-26 Thread John Peter
James Hosken wrote: Please could some some one tell me how I change the default graphics enviroment to be KDE rather than Gnome. You should have that option on your desktop manager, usually a dropdown where you just select the desktop you want to run. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ATA Controller

2003-11-26 Thread John Peter
Linux wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:10:09 + John Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Linux wrote: Greetings all. I have a second IDE controller card installed in my system and am trying to get it to work under debian. Things that may be relevant: hda - 15g HD hdb - 20g HD hdc

Re: 3rd Attempt at installing Debian

2003-11-25 Thread John Peter
Mark Healey wrote: After doing a bunch of ugly things for a second time to get a Debian system installed and running I'm trying a third time. There is no networking. I need to build a module for my nic which doesn't have a .deb package. I have the source but need the kernel source which wasn't

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread John Peter
Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better.

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread John Peter
Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better.

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

2003-11-25 Thread John Peter
I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. Where are you trying to gett it from? (the

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-21 Thread John Peter
Travis Crump wrote: Dan Jacobson wrote: is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx program, but no stopx. Preston CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server. Indeed it does, with no questions asked. But then it

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-21 Thread John Peter
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Scarletdown wrote: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Hopefully it won't come to that though. Sadly, I took a look through those instructions and found myself rather overwhelmed (time to go take an Ibuprofen and read through them again...) To slove

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread John Peter
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 11:00, Alexander Rink wrote: apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` will fetch that missing files from a debian server for you. And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the

Re: Help! strange bttv problem

2003-11-20 Thread John Peter
Richard Kimber wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:18:57 +0100 Albert Dengg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi bttv works well for most things with 2.4.22 (at the moment im using bttv 9.11 (development version) from bytesex.org/bttv/ with 2.4.22 to test v4l2 support but otherwise it works well with the

Re: messenger

2003-11-19 Thread John Peter
Paul Valley wrote: could some one recomend a very easy to setup insent messenger that would work with yahoo i dont like to compile things so if its in dpkg ill take it also any thoughts on where i can setup my sound card? This is the original :

Re: 2.4.18bf24 kernel and APM question

2003-11-19 Thread John Peter
Keith Hooper wrote: OK I've got Debian Woody 3.0 installed on my old Toshiba Tecra 700ct laptop. Took some tinkering but I've got it fully functional. I originally installed it with the 2.4.18bf24 stock kernel that came with Woody. Everything worked though I had to add one tweak to get the pcmcia

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-18 Thread John Peter
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Chema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:56 -0500 Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PSG After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use PSG something else. Any suggestions appreciated. Try blackbox or one of its derivates.

Re: ATA Controller

2003-11-18 Thread John Peter
Linux wrote: Greetings all. I have a second IDE controller card installed in my system and am trying to get it to work under debian. Things that may be relevant: hda - 15g HD hdb - 20g HD hdc - cdrom hdd - cdburner and on the second controller hde - 30g HD hde is reiserfs and is operational

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-14 Thread John Peter
Bill Marcum wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:08:44PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Icewm is lovely and a bit friendlier than pwm, but not the leanest by a bit. Here's some sizes for reference: Package: pwm Installed-Size: 336 Package: icewm Installed-Size:

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread John Peter
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:31:35 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy. I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it would

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Nicolas Rueff wrote: Ainsi parla Otto Wyss le 315ème jour de l'an 2003: Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the

Re: Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Haines Brown wrote: I need to have installed the kernel source in order to compile a driver, but have difficulty finding the source for 2.4.18-bf2.4. Is the answer that the bf2.4 is just an addition, and that the kernel source for my kernel is actually just 2.4.18? Haines Brown Could it be

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:07 Subject: Re: Installing modem. Hoyt Bailey wrote: You say ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 ttyS1; um, yes. They're different files.

Re: kde in testing ?

2003-11-10 Thread John Peter
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:28:30 -0900, Greg Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:55 pm, stan wrote: Am I mistaken? It depends, do you have KDE 2.x installed, or some other backport ? If so KDE 3 went into

[Fwd: Re: Gaim needs kernel-headers ?]

2003-11-10 Thread John Peter
---BeginMessage--- On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:45:37PM +, John Peter wrote: Hello all I would like to understand why, if someone has the time to explain it ... I have Sarge and 2.4.22 kernel ( installed and configured by me from sources). I allready had installed gaim_0.72-1 wich

Re: Source list help

2003-11-09 Thread John Peter
Haines Brown wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Gaim needs kernel-headers ?

2003-11-09 Thread John Peter
Hello all I would like to understand why, if someone has the time to explain it ... I have Sarge and 2.4.22 kernel ( installed and configured by me from sources). I allready had installed gaim_0.72-1 wich was compiled from sources and a .deb produced with Checkinstall . No kernel headers where

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread John Peter
Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-05 Thread John Peter
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 08:41 Subject: Re: GUI login screen. I do not dissagree on any point. However it should be my choice. Should I do something so stupid as

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
Lukas Ruf wrote: Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-03 10:06]: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:25:13 +0100, Jaque Moreau wrote: ... you can always upgrade manually ... ! can I find the required .deb files anywhere? wbr, Lukas I did a quick search on Google amd found it right away : Put this on

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
Damien Solley wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:29, John Peter wrote: Lukas Ruf wrote: Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-03 10:06]: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:25:13 +0100, Jaque Moreau wrote: ... you can always upgrade manually ... ! can I find the required .deb files anywhere? wbr, Lukas

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
Chema wrote: Hi there. I recently decided to give Debian a try ... But, of course, I'm pushing the reset, and starting again. But would like some guidance this time. The Getting Debian page mentions that: A network installation of the testing distribution will provide you with the very

Re: Soundcard problem

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
Dean Sue wrote: i have a old motherboard msi don't know the model number! it has an on-board soundcard is there anyway to find out which soundcard drivers i need? Well, if you use discover maybe it can detect it and you can see it in dmesg after a reboot. Here is my audio section from dmesg (

Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread John Peter
I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim and I get the error: E: Build-Depends dependency for gaim cannot be satisfied