Re: [Fwd: Heathcliff for Saturday March 17, 2007]

2007-03-20 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:08 +1100, Sam Couter wrote: > ... neither of which are the originator of the message. Thanks for making > the problem worse. Please don't do this. Actually, if those aren't the originator of the mail, then there is little point of letting it through. I am not going to res

Re: KDE not responding to mouse clicks after a resume-from-ram

2007-03-20 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 03:07 -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > >> ...after about 3 or 4 sleep/resume cycles, the kbluetoothd stops > >> recognizing any bluetooth adaptor ... > >> > > > > Try stopping kbluetoothd, unloading and reloading your kernel bluetooth > > modules, and starting kbluetoothd. T

Re: [Fwd: Heathcliff for Saturday March 17, 2007]

2007-03-20 Thread Ian Greenhoe
[I am *trying* not to stir up a bee's nest here, since I know that this is a topic on which many people have very strong opinions.] I emphatically agree that something needs to be done about the volumes of spam we are getting. With that said this is not a moderated list and non-subscribers can po

Re: KDE not responding to mouse clicks after a resume-from-ram

2007-03-20 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:54 -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I'm using the hibernate script triggered from a lid-closed action to > suspend my Inspiron 8600 to ram. This works fairly well, except... Are you using hibernate from the hibernate package? If so, then there are some things that you can do

Re: Streaming video over SMB in KDE?

2007-03-19 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 09:19 +0100, Giuseppe Bellini wrote: > try mount manually "mount -t smbfs //x.x.x.x/folder /folder" Use cifs if possible (that is, if you are running any 2.4 or 2.6 kernel that was released in the last year or two, *and* you aren't talking to win98 or earlier). cifs is the

Re: ask an information

2006-09-24 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 20:33 +0200, Nicola Conti wrote: > Good morning, > I'm an students and I would like install the operenting system DEBIAN > into my machine (notebook ASUS model A6Q00KM) so I ask you if there > are any problem of compatibility with my hardware. > Thanks soo much for your time s

Re: Problems trying to configure laptop monitor

2006-08-28 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:48 -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:03:50AM -0300, Nilton da Silva Branco wrote: > >Hi. I am new here so I apologize if this question was > > answered before. I cannot configure my laptop's monitor, > > using Debian 1.3. I've got a HP Compaq. Any

Re: graphics card i810 with 1280x800 resolution on etch

2006-08-22 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Have you tried getting/using the 915resolution package? It sounds to me like X may be tickling something that hasn't been set up yet. -Ian (Who has a i855, and hasn't had any real trouble with it.) On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:31 +0200, Thomas Zeitzler wrote: > Hi, > > I can't get the resolution of

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-18 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 02:05 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > > As a person who lives in Washington -- specifically in Seattle, I must > > say it really does come down to where you are. Seattle and the > > immediate vicinity

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-17 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 19:03 +0200, André Wendt wrote: > I feel the strong urge to add things here. Don't get me wrong, this is > not a hate mail, as I always love to hear from Americans who enjoy their > trips here. But being a German myself, I have to say the exact same > things about Internet ac

Re: Deb-Sid: last updates: BAD:pcmcia,wireless-ipw2200,ogg123

2006-01-23 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Have you filed bugs on these packages? Do you know what caused the breakage? -Ian On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 19:17 -0500, George Hein wrote: > If you havn't upgraded Deb-Sid (unstable) in the last two weeks, DON'T. > > If you do, backup everything before you do. > > On a ThinkPad-T42 the following

Re: Issues with updated Linux

2006-01-23 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Jen, How is your mouse configured? What type of mouse is it -- PS/2, serial, USB? If it is USB, does unplugging it and plugging it back in help? Does your touchpad continue to work even if your mouse doesn't? If you could, show us the contents of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: Mebius MP 50G black screen on X

2005-12-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:10 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > > On Friday 30 December 2005 10:29, Charles Muller wrote: > > > >>After having run my Sharp Mebius MP 50G successfully for a while with > >>Woody, and then Sarge, I recently installed Etch Beta 1, but can't >

Re: [Wireless] network disconnections

2005-12-05 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:51 +0100, Detlev Casanova wrote: > The IP on each cards are 192.168.123.106 and 192.168.123.107. > I've just notice that if only both Linux's machines are connected, it work > perfectly. So the problem is when I boot my father's computer (running > Windows). I'll try i

Re: [Wireless] network disconnections

2005-12-02 Thread Ian Greenhoe
What's the IP address on each of the cards? (If you could, please send the output from ifconfig on each of the machines). -Ian On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 17:07 +0100, Detlev Casanova wrote: > Hello ! > > I Have a problem with 2 Computers accessing the internet through a wireless > home network. The

Re: IBM A30

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 12:54 +0800, Cholo Balili wrote: > Hello. I just wanna ask how to override the startup password for the > IBM A30. > > Theres a passoword going to the BIOS, and I forgot what password I > entered before. Now, Im stuck up and cant use my laptop. > > Thanks. > > Cholo Ba

Re: Hot CPU after hibernate (Dell Inspiron 4100)

2005-11-23 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 23:57 -0500, Scott Bigham wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:59:04PM -0800, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > What does the top command show? > > I've attached the output of top -bc -n 1 from shortly after resume; by > this point the CPU was hot enough fo

Re: Hot CPU after hibernate (Dell Inspiron 4100)

2005-11-22 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 22:05 -0500, Scott Bigham wrote: > Let's see, information you'll want... What does the top command show? -Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Policy Violation

2005-11-21 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 17:47 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The following message sent by this account has violated system policy: > > > > Next, they'll be asking us to sign their Terms of Use before sending them > email... > -- > derek > Yep, I can see it. -

Re: Broken key

2005-11-21 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 13:06 +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: > hi: > > i am running debian sarge in my Fujitsu s series notebook. Few days > back i found the key F7 is not working which is used in increasing > the brightness of my screen. so my question is .. is there any sotware > in linux/debian tha

Re: Re:

2005-11-14 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 09:43 +0200, Ogz wrote: > Why is this list taking spam? Mostly because the people on this list can't agree about how to get rid of it. >It is irritating to see viagra > advertisement instead of somethig related with laptop and debian. > Ther

Re: zd8156ea

2005-10-23 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 14:15 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > It suspends, it resumes, I get to watch the whole process, then I get to see > it respond to a shutdown request. When it comes back up, the disk is in a > consistent state without any journal recovery. Hrm. As I think you mentioned be

Re: zd8156ea

2005-10-22 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 09:18 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > No. It works just fine. I didn't say it was unable to resume. > Unfortunately, once resumed, it immediately starts the shut down sequence > because Dell uses the power button to resume. I should have been more > precise. I already knew

Re: zd8156ea

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 13:38 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > Seems to work on my Inspiron, too, though I haven't figured out a safe way > to wake it (it comes back from resume and then shuts down). Unable to resume == does not work. This is how it "works" on my current laptop as well. Sorry, but

Re: zd8156ea

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 17:18 +0200, Koen Vermeer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 05:52 -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > * Suspend to ram will probably not work (Seems to only work on IBM > > Thinkpads) > > Who told you that? I'm able to suspend to ram and resume from it with

Re: zd8156ea

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Hi there! I'd agree with one of the other posters that said to try knoppix. If nothing else, it does a very good job of autodetecting the hw. If it can't find something, that can give you a good idea of where your trouble spots will lie. As far as installing Linux goes, here's what you will lik

Re: Mounting local filesystems: failed!

2005-10-19 Thread Ian Greenhoe
plicitly mounts /proc, so you could comment out the proc line in your /etc/fstab file. That is my guess as to what is most likely causing the error. BTW, don't delete anything from fstab unless you are *sure* that it should be deleted. Comment it out ins

Re: IPW2200 install

2005-10-04 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 16:42 +0100, marc wrote: > Am I on the right track here? Sorta. Best bet is to grab the latest sources from http://ipw2200.sf.net/ -- I had minimal trouble compiling with a recent version from there. IIRC, they had to change a few things to make it work correctly with 2.6.(

Re: IPW2200 install

2005-10-04 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 14:08 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > marc wrote: > > Am I on the right track here? > > I can only say that I'm running Ubuntu breezy with a stock kernel and my > ipw2200 works out of the box. No need to install anything extra. Isn't it > just a kernel config option when yo

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-23 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 08:11 +0100, Colin Cotter wrote: > Dear list > > There is a lot of chat about moving from Xfree to xorg on here. > Could someone please explain the issues and reasons behind it? A link > to a good web page would be fine. > Well, there's a few things going on here. Xor

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:19 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > apt-get update > apt-cache search xorg > >x11-common - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure >xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients >xserver-xorg - the X.Org X server > > apt-get install x11-common xbase-clients xserver-xorg

Re: Wifi configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 22:15 +0200, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to configure a wifi pcmcia card DWL-G650+ on a laptop with > Sarge. I've installed ndiswrapper, and configure the card via iwconfig. > All seems to be good (the card is connected to the access point), but I > can't reac

Re: how to update packages now sarge is stable?

2005-07-25 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:54 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > Lee wrote: > > > The only reason I wish to upgrade Firefox 1.0.5 is precisely because it is > > a security fix and no update has yet been forthcoming. 1.0.5 has now been > > superceded by 1.0.6 but the issue remains. > > Then you need to

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:52 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > It's not that clear! > > It's clear enough for people who are interesed in finding an answer to be > able to do so. I agree it could provide more information. But that does not > mean it isn't clear. > I have to

Re: C/R (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-07-18 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 03:22 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:34:22AM -0700, Ian Greenhoe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:34 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > There has been heated debate on comp.

Re: OSS community interaction (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:35 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > A C/R system on a mailing list? Please don't even consider it. Other suggestions are welcome. Please contribute some. If you have something better that challenge-response, please let us know. BTW, As you are a subscriber, a) you've al

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:34 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > There has been heated debate on comp.mail.misc about C/R systems. > > There is a "Fighting email spam and anti-UBE pointers" posting which is > posted to comp.mail.misc, comp.answers, news.answers 2 times a month. > > Excerpt: > > "Cha

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-29 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 12:15 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-05-28 21:24:18, schrieb Ian Greenhoe: > > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:49 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > C/R Systems are just as bad as spam. > > > > I have to disagree with you. Spam come

Re: OSS community interaction (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-05-29 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 12:08 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Ian, > > Every day I get tonns of messages "unsubscribe" into my BOX. > > Maybe we can send a monthly REMINDER, which inform the user on which > Mailinglists she/he is subscribed and how she/he can do unsubscribing ? > > I think,

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-28 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:49 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:57:06PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > My experience is the *exact* opposite. Personally, I'd rather have to > > deal with a challenge-response once -- which, mind you, is how you get &

Re: OSS community interaction (was: Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^)

2005-05-28 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 19:36 +0200, sascha brossmann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > on 5/25/05 2:38 AM, Michael Marsh wrote: > |>On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 23:15 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > |>The question here is what's less acceptable? A bunch-o-spam or not > |>having

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-24 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 23:15 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-05-24 13:28:04, schrieb Ian Greenhoe: > > There are several solutions that I can see: > > > > 1) Have the mailserver reject the first delivery attempt by a non-list > > recipient. (Or, for that

Re: Male sexual enhancement formula^

2005-05-24 Thread Ian Greenhoe
There are several solutions that I can see: 1) Have the mailserver reject the first delivery attempt by a non-list recipient. (Or, for that matter, the first delivery attempt of *any* mail.) 2) Require that someone who is not on the list to respond to an automatic response. 3) Reject non-subs

Re:

2005-05-13 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 18:34 +0200, robert wrote: > help me... notebook sony vaio model PCG-9N1M, DRIVER ATI RADEON IGP > 345M---PLEASE!!! We know some about your equipment, but what are you having a problem with? Installation? Sound not working? Video going scrambled when the moon is full and y

Re: Kernel 2.6.xx

2005-04-11 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:17 +1000, Ryan Heise wrote: > As I mentioned, I would *much* prefer to use netinstall. Sorry, I missed that part of the thread. My Bad. :( > BUT, > > Can someone tell me if the netinstall CD includes the driver for my > network card: sk98lin? And if so, which version?

Re: Kernel 2.6.xx

2005-04-11 Thread Ian Greenhoe
In answer to your question: I do not know. I know that the first CD is necessary for a base system, and the rest tend to have packages placed by popularity. So, the first three or four is a reasonably good guess. OTOH, I was trying to find a reference to the netless upgrade route for Debian, bu

Re: Kernel 2.6.xx

2005-04-11 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Or, do something revolutionary: Use the netinstall... but it depends *how* short on bw you are. For a simple system, you are probably looking at around 640M downloaded. On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:41 +1000, Ryan Heise wrote: > According to: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/i386/ > >

Re: Kernel 2.6.xx

2005-04-10 Thread Ian Greenhoe
You probably do not want to run woody with a 2.6 kernel. There are several system components that need to be updated (such as the module loader) that I do not believe were back-ported into woody (Hey Guys -- feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!) Now, you could get the components necessary from

Re: thinkpad t42 number lock/number pad problem

2005-04-05 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Yes, it will, *if* you use the purge option. apt-get remove --purge tleds The caveat with the "--purge" is that it gets rid of any/all config files, so it is as if the package was never installed in the first place. This is good if you want to get rid of the launch scripts. This is bad if you a

Re: thinkpad t42 number lock/number pad problem

2005-04-04 Thread Ian Greenhoe
apt-get remove tleds On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sooner or later I'll have to figure out where in the boot > sequence tleds is invoked and comment out that line. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: XFree86 not actioning: Option "DPMS"

2005-03-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
A couple of things: 1) IIRC, all XF86 "Option"s require two arguments. Have you tried: Option "DPMS" "true" or: Option "DPMS" "1" ? 2) IIRC, the "OffTime" option should be in the "ServerFlags" section and not in the "ServerLayout" section. HTH, Ian On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 09:05 +1000, sime wrot

Re: Toshiba battery dead

2005-03-28 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Well, you could fiddle with a voltmeter (don't forget to have a resistor in line if you want to do so), but what you describe is fully consistent with a dead/dying battery. They do have a finite lifespan. The only real way to check is to get a new battery (unless you want to risk damaging your co

Re: Help with Raw CD images? (input/output error)

2005-03-12 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Try cdparanoia. On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 19:11 +, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Hey all, this is more of a general linux question. > > I have an (audio) CD which want to make a raw image of. Searching google > indicates that this command should do it: > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/image.img > > but

Re: snd-cs4236 and Thinkpad 600E

2005-03-10 Thread Ian Greenhoe
I have alsa running on my Thinkpad 600E. Note that I am running kernel version 2.6.8.1 -- if you are running 2.4.x, these may not be exactly correct, but will be similar. Any 2.6.x series kernels will be very similar. Also note that I have been having trouble with sound on any kernel more recent

Re: make-kpkg won't compile thinkpad-source

2005-03-09 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Hmmm... Have you compiled your copy of thinkpad-source before, against another kernel? I've found that I need to nuke the source dir (/usr/src/modules/thinkpad) and re-extract it from the tarball when I want to compile it against a new kernel. HTH, Ian On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:39 +0100, Karl Eb

Re: apt-get problem

2005-03-07 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Nope. Won't work -- I've tried that before. Apt is actually checking its database, not the filesystem. -Ian On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 07:15 +0100, Anders EllenshÃj Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 08 March 2005 01:25, Ben wrote: > > trying to overwrite > > `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.

Re: apt-get problem

2005-03-07 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Things to try: 1) Run aptitude. Tell it to uninstall kdeoffice and openoffice. 2) If you don't have aptitude installed, try forcing an upgrade of openoffice. (apt-get install openoffice-de-en), and then do your regular upgrade. 3) If neither of those works for you, you can tell apt to "hold"

Re: logrotate stopped working ?

2005-03-07 Thread Ian Greenhoe
Actually, there should be an entry in cron.daily: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate Mine looks like this: --- begin 755 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate #!/bin/sh test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0 /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf --- end 755 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate More lik

Re: SD Card

2005-01-25 Thread Ian Greenhoe
I use SD cards with my system all of the time (digital camera). It's really more a matter of whether or not your *reader* is supported. -Ian On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:10 +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > Hello > > I have a toshiba portege r100. I'm thinking to buy some SD Card, but > I'm not su

Re: Garmin GPS-18 connected by USB

2005-01-21 Thread Ian Greenhoe
er? > > I did some apt-cache searching and couldn't find anything. > > I am not averse to compiling something from source. Just tell me > where to download it. > > Thanks! > > -Jason > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:17:41 -0800, Ian Greenhoe <[REMOVED]&g