debian-user-digest ?

1997-12-16 Thread James D. Freels
what has happened to debian-user-digest? My subscription has stopped. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research

problem with StarOffice-4.0

1998-02-10 Thread James D. Freels
flawlessly. Kind of a no-brainer (nothing to do). -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e

question on network security

1997-09-10 Thread James D. Freels
. This confirms that they are the problems, but doesn't fix the problem. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors

PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386

1997-10-29 Thread James D. Freels
not work. Do I need to compile in PS/2 mouse in the kernel? What, then use the serial port? I'm not sure about this. Anyone else tried this? I couldn't find this topic in the HOWTOs. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D

Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives

1998-06-27 Thread James D. Freels
= no create mode = 0700 [printers] comment = all printers path = /tmp print command = lpr -h -r -P%p %s postscript = no printable = yes public = yes -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645

major problems for me upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-06-30 Thread James D. Freels
from scratch, in which case, why Debian? I think you should test the upgrade on a representative machine! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574

to debian developers: workaround installation problem with Debian-2.0 beta

1998-06-30 Thread James D. Freels
?). -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge

Debian-2.0-beta upgrade: my experience (after the 1st time)

1998-07-07 Thread James D. Freels
numbers of packages to install directly via dpkg. In fact, I have found that I only use dselect for finding packages to install on the Alpha (and now the i386). -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L

trouble with remote X app displaying to linux

1997-03-11 Thread James D. Freels
? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008

trouble with remote X app displaying to linux

1997-03-11 Thread James D. Freels
(X_CreateColormap) Minor opcode of failed request: 0 Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 6 Current serial number in output stream: 17 How can I fix this problem? -- /--\ | James D. Freels

long-standing netscape problem fixed

1997-04-07 Thread James D. Freels
). -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U

was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-06 Thread James D. Freels
it... -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U

debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem

1997-06-07 Thread James D. Freels
for this, I'll post it as a bug. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL

Nope this didn't work either

1997-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: lesstif-bin -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H

On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread James D. Freels
... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge

new kernel-2.0.34 missing filesystems?

1998-06-05 Thread James D. Freels
that this is not a debian-specific topic, but we all are Linux users. Surely there is a mistake somewhere (my part I hope)! PS: I am also using 2.1.103 on another machine which does contain the support for these filesystems. -- /--\ |James D

can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-15 Thread James D. Freels
: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 ___ -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L

WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread James D. Freels
' I would like to set up a wrapper script that sets up these variables temporarily just to run wordperfect. How do I do that ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread James D. Freels
D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread James D. Freels
, then paste the clipboard contents into another application, then print. Any other ideas ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

strange behavior with keys and virtual windows

2003-10-29 Thread James D. Freels
? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

first experience with defrag: have slight problem.

1997-06-24 Thread James D. Freels
to do)? BTW, the program and graphical progress are great. Reminds me of old Norton utilities days on DOS! -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX

I have the same problem: getting rid of old base

1997-07-10 Thread James D. Freels
entry from the status file would it be safe ? ... more stuff deleted Laurent. base-files replaced base, but we cannot get rid of the old base. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge

Re: Adaptec 2940 SCSI

1997-07-11 Thread James D. Freels
timer finished, 10baseT. Max size:186957 Log zone size:2048 First datazone:28 Root inode number 57344 ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National

question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

1997-07-24 Thread James D. Freels
? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

1997-07-28 Thread James D. Freels
to run the vendor's (APC) software for smart-ups based on SCO emulation. Perhaps there are other stories of Ibcs2 or other 2.0.30 failures the Debian users would like to share? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576

Netscape plugins don't work

1997-08-04 Thread James D. Freels
is loaded, but I haven't a clue how to correct the problem. Anyone else fixed this problem? -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H

the bash 2.01 fix for Netscape 4.02 plugins: a mistake for me

1997-08-06 Thread James D. Freels
. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008

xautolock not working for me

1997-08-08 Thread James D. Freels
tried compiling from source and received the same segmentation error from the locally compiled version. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172

on bo-updates and Debian incorporation whinnies

1997-08-22 Thread James D. Freels
on. - -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008

question: /usr/doc and minimal system

1997-09-03 Thread James D. Freels
a postinst error and may not be successful. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet

Re: MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-04 Thread James D. Freels
problems). -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O

installing/using an old IBM tape drive

1999-02-01 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I have an old IBM Model 7207-001 scsi tape drive that I have obtained from some old IBM RS/6K equipment we are no longer using. I would like to use the tape drive as a backup device even

help with password and xlock

1999-02-11 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I use the xlock feature and kde wm to screen save and lock the monitor/keyboard. Everything was working fine until I recently *had* to change my password. I *have* to use a local password

lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!

1999-03-08 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version until such time as it gets fixed. Basically after

sling (Debian 2.1) lprng work around

1999-03-09 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. After differencing the /etc/lpd.conf and /etc/lpd.perms between the old and new versions, I discovered that the bug in the new version can be corrected by commenting out the following line

cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel with standard Debian 2.1

1999-03-24 Thread James D. Freels
-- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m

Debian/Etch/4.0 upgrade experience

2007-04-15 Thread James D. Freels
Essentially flawless ! I have upgraded two i386 and one amd64 machines from sarge to etch. Except for configuration files that I changed myself, it was clean and straight forward. I am VERY impressed. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windmills can't even produce enough energy

confused about NFS-server in kernel versus nfsd package

1999-09-08 Thread James D. Freels
. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. If unsure, say N. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574

fixed sound problem at the 2.2.12 kernel level: bug??

1999-09-09 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.sources.kernel as well. Dear Linux developers: I am not normally a kernel or c-code developer, but I wanted to relay this to the community to correct a sound problem I have had. My sound quit working (SB16

unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel

1999-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
are performing perfectly. Does anyone have any idea what to look for here? Any help is greatly appreciated. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574

Re: unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel

1999-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
From: Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:10:33 +0100 Reply-To: Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 First, no reason to worry! On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote: I am getting

Re: unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel

1999-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
Also, the /var/log/messages contain kernel reboot output after the syslogd restart. So yes, it is rebooting! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX

howto: booting from CD

1999-06-17 Thread James D. Freels
if a bootable floppy is in the floppy drive (2) boot from cdrom if a bootable cdrom is in the cdrom drive (3) boot from harddrive as the final option if (1) or (2) is not available. Anyh help is appreciated -- /--\ |James D

on Compaq FORTRAN: help to put pressure

1999-07-07 Thread James D. Freels
any other support than -fpe0 and -fpe3 options. The README file that is installed also says th same. Anshul Chadda University of New HampshireA -- Name = James D. Freels Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brief Problem Description = nonsupported Architecture

X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread James D. Freels
to be security related. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!! a work-around fix

2000-06-26 Thread James D. Freels
The fix as recommended by several folks is to rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix I trust this information is being passed on to the developers without a formal bug report. Thanks to all for responding!! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D

netatalk printing problem: need help!

2000-07-11 Thread James D. Freels
... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN

problems upgrading to 2.2r1

2000-11-13 Thread James D. Freels
D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392

potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread James D. Freels
. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL

Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread James D. Freels
? Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 11:19:05 -0400 From: David Huggins-Daines [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have posted a bug

Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread James D. Freels
], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors

help on editors for a user: same as edit on Sun/Solaris

2000-06-05 Thread James D. Freels
. No flames please. My favorite editor is emacs... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work

new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
I have recently upgraded my kernel to the new stable version 2.2.16. I noticed the new kernel has new support for legacy Yamaha PCI sound, so I thought I would give it a try. There is very little documentation (only the comments in the driver code). I enable the driver in the configuration,

Re: new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
linking that wouldn't show up during compile time? Is it a make issue? Is it a linker issue? -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I

Compaq Netscape problem on Debian 2.1 Alpha system

2000-01-27 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.windows.x.kde as well. I have a problem getting the new Compaq-donated netscape package to work correctly on my Debian 2.1 (slink) Alpha machine. Here are the facts: (1) stock Debian 2.1

Netscape 4.7 install in Debian 2.1 Alpha fixed!

2000-01-27 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.windows.x.kde as well. Thanks to all who sent in help. The fix to the problem was to delete the character string ,yp from the file /etc/svc.conf that was installed by the Compaq package. The

better print output filter ?

2000-03-03 Thread James D. Freels
it. -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home

X-windows problem: why did I have to reboot?

2000-03-13 Thread James D. Freels
, many packages as potato updates come in. But I would like to know if there was a memory leak? -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I

mozilla-firebird bookmarks import: howto ?

2003-12-10 Thread James D. Freels
I have an html file containing collected bookmarks from opera. I want to import them into mozilla-firebird. I use manage bookmarks-import-opera6.html. However, they do not appear and are not saved. I can view the opera6.html file just fine within the browser. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak

new trouble printing from current Debian/Sid system

2003-01-31 Thread James D. Freels
' Need help.. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

need help on using acpi for power management

2003-02-13 Thread James D. Freels
) on complete shutdown, power down the machine 2) enable standby or shutdown mode of various components (monitor, drives, etc.) 3) generally experiment with ACPI Where can I go to get help on this ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: need help on using acpi for power management

2003-02-13 Thread James D. Freels
Never mind here. I discovered my newly compiled kernel was not getting liloed correctly. All is well now! On Thursday 13 February 2003 14:38, James D. Freels wrote: Hello All ! I have been fortunate enough for my employer to have acquired me a new machine on which I naturally am running

Debian/Sid system no longer able to execute WordPerfect

2003-05-27 Thread James D. Freels
is installed from the xlibs package which is presently at 4.3.0-0ds4. Does anyone else have this problem and have you fixed it ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Ximian dropping Debian ?

2003-06-07 Thread James D. Freels
of gnome which Ximian depends on. Second, how could the product not work anyway provided all the supporting Linux libraries were also loaded ? Do they have some type of check to see if I am running RedHat before Connector will run ? Confused... -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED

evolution import kmail files ?

2003-06-16 Thread James D. Freels
I am experimenting with evolution. Previously, I have exclusively used kmail. Is there a way to import existing kmail folders into evolution ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian

2001-08-16 Thread James D. Freels
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home

Re: trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian: try #2

2001-08-17 Thread James D. Freels
Try this again. I have also added some additional information to the end. On Thursday 16 August 2001 01:20 pm, James D. Freels wrote: We have a fairly stock Debian/testing system. Layered over this is the 0.9.0beta6 ALSA packages (driver,lib,utils) and Quake3 Arena. We also have a via686a

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian: try #2

2001-08-20 Thread James D. Freels
I got some help on this problem. It was fixed by downgrading to 0.5.11 of the drivers and 0.510 of the libs utils. Therefore, the 0.9beta has a bug for the via686a drivers. On Friday 17 August 2001 01:21 pm, James D. Freels wrote: -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National

on upgrading to testing

2001-03-15 Thread James D . Freels
' ? If 'unstable', I will hold. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home

Re: on upgrading to testing

2001-03-19 Thread James D. Freels
, and no more /dev are over. I will only use Debian unstable from now on. Any other Debian becomes more and more unmaintained as time passes. I can't deal with that. This is my work laptop, and even though it _must_ work all the time, I am quite fine with testing/unstable. rob -- James D. Freels, P.E

problem with remote stty and remote login

2001-06-08 Thread James D. Freels
will not occur ? -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home

beowulf ? Fwd: before bug report: perhaps I can get help here

2001-06-20 Thread James D. Freels
debian-beowulf appears to have very little activity. Perhaps I can get some help here? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: before bug report: perhaps I can get help here Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:19:42 -0400 From: James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-beowulf

bug #102226 regarding Samba: some good news !!

2001-06-27 Thread James D. Freels
recommendation to resolve the bug: Don't bother to fix it, just install the newer version into Potato! -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

2001-11-12 Thread James D. Freels
error: could not open default font 'fixed' Any help appreciated. Ty reinstall xfont-base package. It helped in my case (I noticed the same error exactly) but I have no idead why. Mariusz -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL

Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

2001-11-13 Thread James D. Freels
? Any fixes ? -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home

Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

2001-11-14 Thread James D. Freels
. McCarty wrote: I just saw your email and realized that I had the same problem. After some playing with strace, here is a fix that doesn't involve downgrading! The problem is due to the new version (3.3.6-39) of xlib6. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL

Netscape6.2/Mozilla0.9.5 broken for Debian/Sid

2001-11-16 Thread James D. Freels
suspect java-related issues, but I am certainly not sure. Both packages are slow on my system anyway. Netscape 4.79 was announced today, so I installed this (and remembered how much faster it should be). -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work

Netscape 6.2/Mozille 0.9.5 now fails in Debian/Sid

2001-11-16 Thread James D. Freels
no longer using Mozilla until such time as the problem is corrected. I am attaching the errors printed to the console when this happened. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home This is a pre-release version of XFree86

need help! dpkg corrupted!

2001-10-08 Thread James D. Freels
to create updated files list file for package zip: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: zip_2.30-3_alpha.deb fea6:/var/cache/apt/archives# This is a major problem that I do not know how to fix. How do I fix this? Help is appreciated! -- James D. Freels, P.E._i

my dpkg problem fixed!

2001-10-08 Thread James D. Freels
do I fix this? Help is appreciated! -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home

v2.4.14 kernel compile problem

2001-11-05 Thread James D Freels
I have just tried to compile a clean source (without any patches) of v2.4.14. I did a straight make oldconfig of a working v2.4.13 .config. I get the following error message at that last part of the make bzImage when it is creating the final kernel image: ld -m elf_i386 -T

annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode

2002-01-15 Thread James D. Freels
The present kernel (2.4.17) prints an annoying message to the console each time my parallel port printer is used: lp0: compatibility mode I have found where it is printed in drivers/char/lp.c and I suppose I could comment it out. Isn't there a better way ?

NO ANSWER, trying again...annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode

2002-01-16 Thread James D. Freels
I got no response. Anyone know about this one ? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:30:41 -0500 From: James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org The present kernel (2.4.17) prints

strange font problem in kde-2.2.2: can't change fixed-width fonts

2002-01-23 Thread James D. Freels
I am using a current Debian/Sid. With or without anti-aliasing fonts enabled, I cannot change fixed-width fonts from the control center. When I click choose in that category of the control center-look and feel-fonts, the screen garbles up, and will not allow me to do anything from the console

Debian/Woody broke StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-11 Thread James D. Freels
snapshot binary of openoffice and it also failed. I supose I could build openoffice from source at last resort, but I am trying to avoid. The main thing I need StarOffice for is to read M$-Word .doc files. Abiword can do some of them, but not all, nor as well, as StarOffice. -- James D. Freels

Debian/Sid no longer breaks my StarOffice 5.2

2001-04-25 Thread James D. Freels
under the present unstable release of Debian. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home

samba messages: what do they mean ?

2002-05-22 Thread James D. Freels
[2002/05/20 10:31:20, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2002/05/20 12:23:30, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(500) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D

open URL link to Mozilla from Kmail ?

2002-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
, then change to the Mozilla window and manually insert the URL and open. This is not convenient ! Please respond by e-mail if possible. -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] mpg123 http://scastsrv2.shoutcast.com:8048/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

log file size due to unwanted messages

2002-06-27 Thread James D. Freels
at large log files, but I just want to not have them in the first place. Please respond via e-mail. Any help appreciated... -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

strange error in mozilla-firefox under Debian/Sid

2004-08-17 Thread James D. Freels
: class=t ^ I have disabled about every option (plugins, etc.) and still this shows up. Also every web page including a blank page this shows up. It is such a nuisance, I cannot use it. Anyone else seen this before I file a bug report ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

1996-05-02 Thread James D. Freels
scratch? I would like to save all my configuration files (of course I will have this from backup, but I want to minimize hand tweaking). -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National

Re: New Upgrade notes for 1.1 beta testing

1996-05-06 Thread James D. Freels
Thanks for making your upgrade notes available. This is exactly the level of detail I was looking for. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423

beta 1.1 problems with 3c503 and the debian search system.

1996-05-14 Thread James D. Freels
organization, but i also really want to use debian, not just play with it!) -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research

Re: beta 1.1 problems with 3c503 and the debian search system.

1996-05-16 Thread James D. Freels
. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008

status and another question on the debian 1.1 beta (upgrade)

1996-05-31 Thread James D. Freels
with such a system? Perhaps these questions would best be answered by the vendors (since I did pay for them), but this information might be useful for the community at large. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423

Unidentified subject!

1996-06-03 Thread James D. Freels
. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U

atrun problem fixed

1996-06-03 Thread James D. Freels
was input incorrectly which mailed me all the error messages every minute. I don't know if this constitutes a bug since I did not create the file myself. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L

reporting in on my new upgraded debian 1.1 beta installation

1996-06-03 Thread James D. Freels
. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I

another problem with my debian 1.1 upgrade

1996-06-04 Thread James D. Freels
think it is also probably generic. warning: setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ) failed. warning: LC_ALL = (null), LC_CTYPE = (null), LANG = de, warning: falling back to the C locale. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645

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