Re: user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Andre Berger wrote: > * Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-06 18:07 -0400: > > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > > > I guess I could chown /sbin/shutdown, but that doesn't seem like the best > > > way > > > to do this. > > > > Are they a local user? >

Re: [OT] : A new Laptop

2002-09-06 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 September 2002 03:38 am, Thierry Leurent wrote: > Hello, > > I want buy a new laptop but What's the better solution ? > > CPU: AMD or Crusoe ? > Mem: 258 Mo or more 256MB or better is always good. Apps aren't getting any smaller!

Re: user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 September 2002 01:49 pm, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I guess I could chown /sbin/shutdown, but that doesn't seem like the best > > way to do this. > > Are they a local user? > > If so, try this

Re: Debian & sound

2002-09-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:34:09AM +0300, Jani Tiainen wrote: > I tried to setup linux running on my Chembook 9870M. > > It has OPL-3SAx non-pnp soundchip and I couldn't get it working. I tried > using OSS/Lite OPL-3SA2 driver without success. I tried same thing on ALSA > drivers without success.

Re: Installing Xfree on a Satellite 2100CDS

2002-09-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:16:17PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install Debian Sid (Xfree 4.2) on a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS > wit a S3/Virge video chipset. > I've had some pixel corruption problem that I managed to resolve by adding an > "noaccel" option to the Xfre

Re: [OT] : A new Laptop

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff
Thierry Leurent, 2002-Sep-06 12:38 +0200: > Hello, > > I want buy a new laptop but What's the better solution ? > > CPU: AMD or Crusoe ? AMD > Mem: 258 Mo or more Minimum 256MB, more if you plan to use things like VMware. > HD : 15 Go or more Minimum 20GB, more if you plan to car

Re: user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread Erich Schubert
> I have never looked into this before, but is there a way that I (just a > joeblow user) can shutdown my system without having to become root first? For example using sudo, gnome-sudo, gksu, super or any other of these utilities. Ctrl+Alt+Del in the console is very nice, too. As are the "halt" o

Re: user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread Andre Berger
* Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-06 18:07 -0400: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > I guess I could chown /sbin/shutdown, but that doesn't seem like the best > > way > > to do this. > > Are they a local user? > > If so, try this in your /etc/inittab > > # What to

Re: user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:42:08PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I have never looked into this before, but is there a way that I (just a > joeblow user) can shutdown my system without having to become root first? > > I looked at man for shutdown, there isthe -a option. I added my user to

[OT] : A new Laptop

2002-09-06 Thread Thierry Leurent
Hello, I want buy a new laptop but What's the better solution ? CPU: AMD or Crusoe ? Mem: 258 Mo or more HD : 15 Go or more Screen : 14 inch or more DVD One Lan adaptator Graphic : Radeon or I would like use all features as multimedia keyboard, . Thanks Thierry

Re: user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I guess I could chown /sbin/shutdown, but that doesn't seem like the best way > to do this. Are they a local user? If so, try this in your /etc/inittab # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now I

user shutdown?

2002-09-06 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings: I have never looked into this before, but is there a way that I (just a joeblow user) can shutdown my system without having to become root first? I looked at man for shutdown, there isthe -a option. I added my user to the /etc/shutdown

Re: i830 chipset problems

2002-09-06 Thread Markus Amersdorfer
> Has anyone got the 830 graphics working in Debian? I have a HP Omnibook XE3 GF which also uses the i830 chipset. The i830 is not natively supported with acceleration by XFree86 prior to version 4.2. Debian currently ships with 4.1, so you won't have accelerated support, but you can use the frame

i830 chipset problems

2002-09-06 Thread David Owen Kritzberg
Hello Everyone, I've been trying to install linux on my Dell Inspiron 2600. I understand that the problems I am having are caused by the 830 graphics card embedded in the i830 chipset. I've seen a post on 'linux-laptop.net' describing how to work around this problem Red Hat 7.3 with a patch and

Re: Dell Inspiron: Using glidepad and stick/nipple separately?

2002-09-06 Thread Erich Schubert
> The annoying thing is that I *believe* that the other OS ('98?) could > distinguish between the stick and the pad... Argh! Hmm... i would like that very much, too... Did you try the driver from mobilix? See the mailing list archives, and http://mobilix.org/touchpad_driver.html Greetings, Erich

Re: Dell Inspiron: Using glidepad and stick/nipple separately?

2002-09-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:23:27PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 13:13, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Has anybody out there has any luck with using the glidepad and > > stick/nipple *separately* on the Dell Inspiron series of laptops? > > > > With separately, I me

Re: HTTPS TROUBLE

2002-09-06 Thread Erich Schubert
> *sigh* I should have thought about that. You're right. A freshly > started galeon is using about 18MB. Does gtkmozembed really leak that > much memory? No, but galeon has a memory cache... like almost every graphical browser. Default is at least 5 MB, maybe 10 MB... Then plugins get loaded an

Re: Debian on a Dell 4150?

2002-09-06 Thread Alejandro Flores
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Spiros Kapetanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2002 (20:34) : > > > > Initially, I have the following questions: > > > > 1. How do I resize the other operating system's partition (it's the XP > > variety) without having to reinstall? The only reason why I need t

Re: Debian on a Dell 4150?

2002-09-06 Thread Jan Weintz
Hello all, Spiros Kapetanakis schrieb: > > Initially, I have the following questions: > > 1. How do I resize the other operating system's partition (it's the XP > variety) without having to reinstall? The only reason why I need to do > this instead of just wiping out completely is so because I d

Re: Sony VAIO FX401 versus FX701

2002-09-06 Thread Chad Thompson
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:30 pm, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: They can always pull the hard drive to look at it's contents. Failing that, there is usually a jumper on the motherboard to reset it to it's factory defaults, and that would clear the BIOS password.

Re: HTTPS TROUBLE

2002-09-06 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Erich" == Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> lightweight than Galeon, and only uses GTK+, not Gnome. Top reports >> it as using "only" about 14MB (versus 29MB for Galeon), so it might >> be usable on a low-memory system. Erich> I guess you have been using galeon for some

Re: Woody on Sony VAIO PCG-8A6M, GRX316G

2002-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Charbel, thanks very much for the detailed step by step guide. Together with the information of Mattia I have been able to do almost all of the described tasks. There is just one thing which I didn't get done properly. I am talking about the finger crossing thing. Hmmh. That didn't work out.

Re: HTTPS TROUBLE

2002-09-06 Thread Erich Schubert
> Heather> Galeon really is mozilla, different skin. Find me a way to use > Heather> less than all of Mozilla on low-quality systems (only 32 or 40 > Heather> MB of true RAM) and I'll be paying closer attention. This is not quite correct. Galeon uses a real GTK interface, not an XUL skin for mozi

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Re: performance with Crusoe

2002-09-06 Thread Mattia Dongili
Hi, AFAIK Crusoe is designed to run at low speed until the system asks for full power (eg: while doing nothing run at low speed to maximize battery life and minimize heating, while doing hard work switch to full speed to maximize performance). >From Transmeta site I can see that this cpu is win

Re: AlsaOnGateway9550

2002-09-06 Thread Nyk Tarr
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:58:46AM -0700, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:14:21AM -0700, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote: > > > Every time I boot up this machine the volume (and some other parameters) > > > in aumix or alsamixer is reset to 0. > > > > > > My ~/.aumixerc and the

ANN: Infrared-HOWTO 3.4

2002-09-06 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, the new issue v3.4 of the Linux-InfraRed-HOWTO is available at http://mobilix.org/howtos.html Werner changes: - improved the Linux PDA (Agenda, iPAQ, Yopy, Zaurus) chapter with information about PPP, OpenOBEX, printing and more, - worked the new syntax for -s option of irattach into the