Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
looks fine to me. I've read that the ac97 sound can be a little problematical but I'm sure it's fixable by upgrading something or other. btw, you might want to wait for redhat 7.3; it's almost out -- there are beta's available. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

2002-04-29 Thread Luke McKee
Slug people, I'd like to get a discussion going about licensing things through hardware or having licenses on drivers I think sometimes it is great like the commercial license for the GSM codec MS net meeting uses in the DSP chip in my quicknet card. But what really shits me is when a

[SLUG] Install (hopefully) being done this week.

2002-04-29 Thread kagemusha
Hi, Thanks for the rather impressive replies I have received regarding my request for help with my install. The first reply I got was about 30 minutes after I posted to the list, and I'll take his offer of assistance. Thanks to everyone else, and if for whatever reason I can't link up with

Re: [SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Dalton
Luke McKee wrote: These 3rd party device vendors should just rack off. It should be free or not at all. It isn't right to have Linux hardware taxes to replace the Microsoft OEM tax when it eventually goes. Why do some vendors still need to guard the API to their hardware? Let me know what

[SLUG] ask makefile (debug)

2002-04-29 Thread henry
Dears List : I try to modify a open-source-projectto fit my own use . But the source consists ofmany sub-directories : some are shared-libraries. Could I add -g(adding debug-information) to CFLAGS for those libraries ? Tks In Advance ! Henry

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Kevin Waterson
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:02:44 +1000 Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, you might want to wait for redhat 7.3; it's almost out -- there are beta's available. Umm, if you are referring to skipjack, I was unaware it was a 7.3 beta Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] Problems with RH7.1 kernel upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Still
Hey all. I wanted to upgrade my RH7.1 box's kernel to 2.4.18. I followed these steps: - download code - make config - make dep - make bzImage - cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 - make modules - make modules_install - editted /etc/lilo.conf - /sbin/lilo (which said the new image

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Kevin Waterson Umm, if you are referring to skipjack, I was unaware it was a 7.3 beta skipjack is indeed the 7.3 beta; I'm intrigued to know what you thought it was. :-) - Jeff -- I came for the quality, but I stayed for the freedom. - Sean Neakums -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] (no subject)

2002-04-29 Thread Jeff Ford
Hi I have installed Debian 2.2r2 and trying to run x windows but i have had problems. first thing of all i have only installed linux once before (red hat) about 2 years ago so i know a little bit. x windows was a lot easier to get running. as far as i can get is running XF86Setup. setting up

Re: [SLUG] Problems with RH7.1 kernel upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Michael Still wrote: As requested, my lilo.conf says: root=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message linear default=linux2418 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 label=linux2418 read-only root=/dev/hda1

Re: [SLUG] Problems with RH7.1 kernel upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread Tom Massey
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 06:46:12PM +1000, Michael Still wrote: I wanted to upgrade my RH7.1 box's kernel to 2.4.18. I followed these steps: Not sure if it's relevant, but you should probably copy the System.map from your 2.4.18 kernel source into /boot. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

RE: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Simon Bryan
Thanks to all that replied. Yes I was not worried about the sound as the machine will be a server sitting with seven others so the less nosie it makes the better! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pia smith Sent: Monday, 29 April 2002

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-04-29 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 19:29, Jeff Ford wrote: Is there some edit setup file or some one could tell me how of some way (Detailed) to deal with this problem for some reason I am unaware of, in debian I've always had to create that /dev/mouse link manually. If it's a serial mouse you've got

[SLUG] Re: Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-29 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Jamie Wilkinson} This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote: I agree, but only if we also encourage uploading keys to a public keyserver. There's no point signing a message if the recipients don't have the key and can't get it. Ever since the keysigning in July last year, I've

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Jon Biddell
At 14:16 29/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I am looking at putting RH7.2 on the following machine and wondered if anyone had heard anything good or bad about the system. I would be upgrading to 512MB RAM and a 40GB 0r 60GB HDD. Simon, The spec seems to look fine - the only concern is

Re: [SLUG] Problems with RH7.1 kernel upgrade

2002-04-29 Thread Triet Hoai Lai
Michael Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Michael Still wrote: As requested, my lilo.conf says: ... message=/boot/message [snip] When I boot, I only get the old prompt for the old kernel. Probably because you forgot updating the /boot/message. It's a text file and its

RE: [SLUG] Of web-cams with video recorder etc.

2002-04-29 Thread Chris Barnes
I have a Logitech Quickcam Web...i found linux drivers for it but the software isn't too fancy...it just opens an xwindow and displays the camera output, if you know how to alter the code you could have it send the output to a file instead...e.g. by using libjpg or something, have it dump to a

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Borg
I wouldn't have bothered with the extra expense of the card just make sure there is a /boot partition within the first 32gig or so The linux kernel is perfectly ok with ide disks it just ignores that the bios has to say on the matter My laptop has a 12gb disk in it bios only supports 8gb

Re: [SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

2002-04-29 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
What's more, by buying only supported hardware, you encourage the good guys who DO release free drivers. It is for this reason that I will never buy an Nvidia card, no matter how many zillion polygons it does. Well, never unless they release free drivers. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Question re Apple notebooks and Linux

2002-04-29 Thread David
Craige.. How far have you got with MoL? This sounds like a killer app. to me. As I get the hang of iApples with Debian I like them more and more. David. On 29 Apr 2002, Craige McWhirter wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 10:04, Tim Bateman wrote: SLUG, At the SLUG meeting there

[SLUG] Squid/Firewall Helpppppp (Please)

2002-04-29 Thread Chrisj
Hi Guys, Have just installed RH 7.2 including squid 2.4 and firewall. Having many problems .. any help appreciated... Setup 1. Have internal Network using 192.168.x.x addresses 2. Have an email server outside of firewall delivering mail to internal network Problems ... 1. Cannot ping any

RE: [SLUG] Squid/Firewall Helpppppp (Please)

2002-04-29 Thread Chris Barnes
ok firstly i need to know a few things because you were a little vague with your description of the problems. when you say you cannot ping any ip addresses outside the firewall does this mean you are trying to ping the address from a machine inside the firewall, or from the machine that is

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Kevin Waterson Umm, if you are referring to skipjack, I was unaware it was a 7.3 beta skipjack is indeed the 7.3 beta; I'm intrigued to know what you thought it was. :-) Well strictly speaking, they haven't given a number for the next version, so it skipjack

Re: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jon Biddell wrote: The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise them as 32Gb An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they are now hde and hdf...:-( Did you try updating your

Re: [SLUG] Hardware and driver licensing?

2002-04-29 Thread Matthew Dalton
Luke McKee wrote: From what you've written at [1] and [2] below, it doesn't sound like you had done any research at all before purchased your hardware. LMC: True. But sooner or later Linux should stop being a DAYOR (Do at your own risk) operating system. Many people - especially the

[SLUG] How are you [OSP2002043000000106]

2002-04-29 Thread contact
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Re: [SLUG] Of web-cams with video recorder etc.

2002-04-29 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:21:19PM +1000, Chris Barnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a Logitech Quickcam Web...i found linux drivers for it but the software isn't too fancy...it just opens an xwindow and displays the camera output, if you know how to alter the code you could have it send

RE: [SLUG] Of web-cams with video recorder etc.

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Donohue
Brilliant! still... it might take a bit of processing power? i'll add that to the project, but it's way down the list of essentials. for an outside camera you could possibly map out the areas that should not change and exclude large areas with trees etc from the calculations. then do the calcs

[SLUG] Re: graphics-programming (debug)

2002-04-29 Thread henry
Dear Thomas: Linux is multithreaded OS, I found I can telnet from another computer. Now I can debug at one computer ,see graphics-display produced by program-execution at another. Bestregards Henry - Original Message - From: Thomas Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Squid/Firewall Helpppppp (Please)

2002-04-29 Thread Chrisj
Hi guys, I am not sure how to reply to a thread, so I hope Chris Barnes can see this message. I would like to thankhim forhis prompt reply and help. I will have a look at the suggestions to see if they fix the problems. Just some more info, (in case it helps with more suggestions). * We

[SLUG] Linux and device drivers

2002-04-29 Thread tenzero
I don't think Linux will ever have plug and play ready decent drivers in the kernel for all hardware. I have to patch iptables, SMC (net), ftape-4x, quicknet, isdn-dov capi, cups, sane (hp4200) + scarse just to all my hardware working. There are always going to be extra drivers but

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla trouble

2002-04-29 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:45:57PM +1000, Peter Rundle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: FWIW, the backslash is not valid in a URL. My guess: Netscape convert errant backslashes to forward slashes in such URLs, whereas Moz and Galeon do not. Just another example of M$ dirty inovation. IE is

[SLUG] xcdroast

2002-04-29 Thread Andy Eager
Hi all, Got a strange thing happening with x-cdroast. A system with both a USB cd-writer and IDE reader does the following: When Reading from the usb device, the sector size reported is 2048 When reading from the IDE device the sector size reported is 2352 (audio cd??) (Though it sees the

Re: [SLUG] Of web-cams with video recorder etc.

2002-04-29 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:51:32PM +1000, Ben Donohue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Brilliant! still... it might take a bit of processing power? Not really. Considering that a camera produces bitmaps of 640x480 you only have to calculate 307200 pixels If you worried about that just write a