Re: Accessing internet...

2004-10-10 Thread Vijaya S
Hi , Yes you can share the internet connection from Comp A to Comp B by the settings as follows:- Open Network and Dial Connection In shared connection you have an option called "Enable Sharing ".. Sorry since i am working in linux i could not give you exact path.. Regards, Vijaya Asim Jamshed wr

Monitor resolution

2004-10-10 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi. I installed the debian sarge yesterday, and I'm not able with the setup to increase the monitor resolution to more than 800X600. I would prefer 1024X768. The graphic card is an old ATI, but with SuSE, it has worked fine at 1024X768. TIA Erik Jakobsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Accessing internet...

2004-10-10 Thread Asim Jamshed
Hi, I've got two computers connected(cross cable) through Ethernet cards (Intel PRO 100). Computer A has Windows 2000 installed and a properly functioning dialup winmodem(Conexant). Computer B has a recently installed Debian OS(over Windows XP) but also has a Conexant winmodem. I would soon buy

Re: KDE?

2004-10-10 Thread Erik Jakobsen
On Sunday 10 October 2004 18:29, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > Short answer: # apt-get install kde > > More details: according to > % apt-cache search kde | grep kde > the debian package for KDE is called ' kde ' (I'm using XFCE myself, not > KDE), so: > > (as root) > # apt-get update > to update

Enabling hyperthreading

2004-10-10 Thread ms linux
I'm very sorry for asking the same question as I had before. But since googling doesn't help me much ( no luck I guess or I'm just too lazy ), I wonder if anybody here got good enough how to to enabling hyperthreading in my desktop debian. I've got P4 3GHz Hyperthreading on Intel 865PERL mainboard,

configure 2 cards wALSA

2004-10-10 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hey all, I had alsa configured and sound was working. I added a second card. It is a ICE1712 and is used for recording purposes. Both card drivers are compiled as modules in kernel 2.6.8 Now when I boot both the ICE1712 and the INTEL8x0 (onboard AMD sound card) load. When I run /proc/asound/ca

Re: how to print PDF from mozilla

2004-10-10 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _John L Fjellstad_, on 10/10/04 21:25,typed: "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am using Mozilla 1.6 in Sarge (running 2.6.7-1-686) and was able to print to PDF files from Mozilla directly by choosing xp_pdf_spool... (or something like this) option from the Print menu of Mozilla til

apt

2004-10-10 Thread Marek Pawinski
Hi I am now getting this error with apt: "Method http has died unexpectedly!" can't find anything usefull in google. Marek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to print PDF from moizlla

2004-10-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using Mozilla 1.6 in Sarge (running 2.6.7-1-686) and was able to > print to PDF files from Mozilla directly by choosing > xp_pdf_spool... (or something like this) option from the Print menu of > Mozilla till a few months ago IIRC. I am not able to do so

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 10 October 2004 09:45 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and > advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a > test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped > me set it up.

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday, 10 October 2004 23:45, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > snip > > The newspaper has been working on a series of articles about the > switchover from Windoze to Linux. Right now they're not very happy with > Debian. Is there anyone who offers paid, secure support for Debian? > Donation to th

Re: GTK 1.2 fonts not recognized after in GNOME

2004-10-10 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hello, I'm aiming to change 1.2 application fonts; my GTK 2 apps are fine. -Rohan On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:45:43 +0900, Jaehoon Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNome2 uses GTK2.0 and GTK2 has different font setting. > I think you should modify ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to change menu font in GTK2 apps. > >

adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread Jim Hall
Greetings, I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped me set it up. I started getting used to it, especially apt, because I've b

Re: MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-10 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:41:37AM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on my computer to do a Linux MediaCenter (to play videos, DVS, > music, maybe games, and such). Since this computer will not have internet > nor LAN access, i'd like it to auto-login, so that by insterting a CD and > boo

MediaCenter auto-login

2004-10-10 Thread Jacobo221
Hi, I'm working on my computer to do a Linux MediaCenter (to play videos, DVS, music, maybe games, and such). Since this computer will not have internet nor LAN access, i'd like it to auto-login, so that by insterting a CD and booting up, everything is done and not a single key has to be pressed. H

xterm ignores XTerm*backarrowKey resource

2004-10-10 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Hi, all. I've got Sarge running on my laptop, and I'm having a fairly annoying problem. To wit, xterm ignores my XTerm*backarrowKey resource. I know it's taking some direction from my X resources, because my XTerm*VT100*Translations resources are working, XTerm*Background and XTerm*Foreground are b

Re: ssh recovery

2004-10-10 Thread Jacob S
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:15:37 -0700 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My cable provider likes to disconnect me during especially long > sessions. Usually when I've been making extension changes to some > configuration file and haven't had a chance to save. > > Sometimes when I rec

Re: ssh recovery

2004-10-10 Thread Ben Bettin
I'm not certain if this approach will do what you need, but it might be worth looking into. I use a program called "screen" to have multiple terminal windows running in one ssh window. The program also allows you to detach processes and reattach them later. People use this to connect remotely

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-10 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Just wanted to say thanks for the replies! Considering these replies, I think I will just make a seperate ext3 for home, and manually save a second copy of a document if I want. Thanks again! --- Scotty Fitzgerald On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:40:06 +0200, David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On F

Re: overiding KDE graphical login

2004-10-10 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Just wanted to say thanks for the replies! --- Scotty On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:40:08 +0200, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 08 October 2004 12:22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: >> Setting up woody on my system, wondering if you all could point me to >> a faq or howto to try the fo

Re: ssh recovery

2004-10-10 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 18:15, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > My cable provider likes to disconnect me during especially long > sessions. Usually when I've been making extension changes to some > configuration file and haven't had a chance to save. > > Sometimes when I reconnect - I can see the old ss

ssh recovery

2004-10-10 Thread Daniel L. Miller
My cable provider likes to disconnect me during especially long sessions. Usually when I've been making extension changes to some configuration file and haven't had a chance to save. Sometimes when I reconnect - I can see the old ssh, bash, and editor processes still running. Is there a way t

Re: More on umount problems on shutdown

2004-10-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Several posters, including myself, have cited problems umounting the file >systems on shutdown with recent 2.6.8 kernels. This may be caused by timing >problems leaving the file systems busy. I got rid of the error messages

Re: OpenOffice & Sawfish...

2004-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 04:17:46PM -0700, Brent Miller wrote: > I've been googling for a solution to my problem, and although I've been > finding what seems to be a troubled history between the two, I haven't > been able to find an answer to my problem. > > When I open OpenOffice in Gnome/Sawfis

lm-sensors watching daemon?

2004-10-10 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I recently got lm-sensors to play along with my stock unstable 2.6.8 kernel. Now I'm looking for a daemon which utilizes the information read from the Mobo. I have found two which do what I want (shutting down at certain threshold values): 1) sentinelle (http://denis.corbin.free.fr/software

OpenOffice & Sawfish...

2004-10-10 Thread Brent Miller
I've been googling for a solution to my problem, and although I've been finding what seems to be a troubled history between the two, I haven't been able to find an answer to my problem. When I open OpenOffice in Gnome/Sawfish, everything for the most part works fine. However, if I click on an i

Re: Segmentation fault (solved)

2004-10-10 Thread Marek Pawinski
ognen wrote: I have had this problem many times, and it was not due to faulty hardware but rather a software issue with me (well it was partially hardware, it would corrupt the database creating the segmentation fault). There was a way of fixing it, i think you had to delete some files ala

Re: cron + apache problem - I think

2004-10-10 Thread Adam Aube
Richard Lyons wrote: > I have a server that runs apache1.3. Every sunday morning at 06:30 it > stops. /var/log/apache/error.log says >[Sun Oct 3 06:30:59 2004] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing \ >graceful restart > but it gracelessly doesn't. Perhaps the logrotate program, which runs

Re: Segmentation fault

2004-10-10 Thread ognen
I have had this problem many times, and it was not due to faulty hardware but rather a software issue with me (well it was partially hardware, it would corrupt the database creating the segmentation fault). There was a way of fixing it, i think you had to delete some files alas i cannot re

XkbOptions and gnome

2004-10-10 Thread Michael Graham
I was about to submit this as a bug against gnome, but I wanted to check I wasn't being stupid first ;) When I log into gnome (59) my XkbOptions get ignored! Can anyone confirm this? XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard"

Re: java plugin works, programs do not run (exception in thread main)

2004-10-10 Thread Rohan Deshpande
hi, yeah i tried everything on that site. same problems still :{ -rohan On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:04:25 -0500, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:49:45 -0400 > > > Rohan Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm getting an error when tryign to run any

GTK 1.2 fonts not recognized after in GNOME

2004-10-10 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hello, I have been using Gnome2 lately, and I've noticed that any font changes I make or theme changes to .gtkrc are completely ignored. However, when I start x in something other than gnome that does not load the control-center, gtk 1.2 fonts work when I use gtk-theme-switch. So, it must be som

X keyboard broken *again*

2004-10-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi, Another day, another variation of the "Help, the update ate my keyboard mapping!" For a change, it's not the '#'-key that got lost, no, it's the AltGr-Key which at least on the german layout gives access to useless characters like the pipe symbols, the brackets or the unneeded "at"-symbol

Re: passwd/su how to no password also two modules files?

2004-10-10 Thread ekco9595
On October 10, 2004 03:30 am, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:40:21 -0400, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > Im trying to do no password for my user account and root (please dont > > warn me about that ;0, It brings such freedom I love it.) I got it to > > work in /etc/