Re: GNOME-bluetooth package AWOL in Etch i386?

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/19/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 20:50 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > As far as I can see, this issue has been going on for about a year now > without resolution. So, it won't be a part of Etch? What about bluez? > I see

Re: GNOME-bluetooth package AWOL in Etch i386?

2006-12-19 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/19/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:11 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Why isn't the gnome-bluetooth package included with Debian Etch > i386??? There seems to be a lot of confusion in this area, when I > google "

GNOME-bluetooth package AWOL in Etch i386?

2006-12-19 Thread Brian Durant
Why isn't the gnome-bluetooth package included with Debian Etch i386??? There seems to be a lot of confusion in this area, when I google "Etch bluetooth". A lot of complaints about compiling the package from source without a satisfactory "make", among other things. Does anyone have a reliable HowT

Bluetooth dongle and internal DVD/CD-RW rule of thumb.

2006-12-18 Thread Brian Durant
I am interested in purchasing a Bluetooth dongle and an internal DVD/CD-RW for an IBM ThinkCentre A50p with Debian Etch installed. Is there a rule of thumb when purchasing hardware for Linux systems? Hardware models and configurations are often different from continent to continent and country to

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-18 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/18/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 14:03 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > In this case, all I can find out is that it's not an > > uncommon warning, but it seems to be harmless. > > I don't know how harmless it

Re: Totem xine problem in Debian Etch with KDE.

2006-12-18 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/18/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 21:38 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > ""$ totem %U > Creating link /home/user/.kde/socket-bifrost. > can't create mcop directory" > > How do I solve this? It seems like s

Re: Totem xine problem in Debian Etch with KDE.

2006-12-17 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Carl, On 12/17/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:38:19PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > DOH! I have a self created problem with totem xine that I can't seem > to sort out. I am running Debian Etch i386 with GNOME, but I tried out > kxdock

Totem xine problem in Debian Etch with KDE.

2006-12-17 Thread Brian Durant
DOH! I have a self created problem with totem xine that I can't seem to sort out. I am running Debian Etch i386 with GNOME, but I tried out kxdocker without realizing how dependent it is on KDE. I have since uninstalled kxdocker and all of the KDE things, but now totem xine crashes every time I st

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-16 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/16/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:14 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > The ao_driver was already set correctly, but I had to change the > vo_driver values from "xmga" to "xv,x11". I now get a picture, but >

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/15/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > OK, I have changed this in both .mplayer/config and > /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf MPlayer at the command line seems to be > working fine now, but my problems

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/15/06, Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sven Arvidsson escribe: > It should be, > mplayer vcd://3 For a common vcd try this: $ mplayer vcd://2 Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ m. +34679156321 http://www.flickr.com/p

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
While I am able to play audio CDs and MP3 files with the sound being fine, and my system sounds working properly, there doesn't seem to be any sound in Flash. I don't know if this is related to the MPlayer issue, but I just thought I would mention it as it might be relevant. Cheers, Brian -- T

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/15/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 22:24 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi Sven, Hi again, :) > The below works fine: > > $ mplayer -ao esd vcd://6 > > I added '-ao esd' to the .mplayer/config file and now &

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/14/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 19:04 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > I don't really understand what it is you're trying to do and what goes > > wrong? For example, what are you trying to accomplish with sox?

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Durant
Hi again Sven, On 12/14/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 17:58 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > I still have issues with playing video on Debian Etch i386. I'll try > to take this piecemeal and see if I can get the individual problems > sorte

VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Durant
I still have issues with playing video on Debian Etch i386. I'll try to take this piecemeal and see if I can get the individual problems sorted out. When I try to run MPlayer from the command line, I get a number of various errors. I have tried to follow (among other things) Debian Help http://www

Re: Newbie no go with VCD's and mov files with Etch i386.

2006-12-11 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/11/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 08:05:17PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi Nik, > > On 12/10/06, Nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OO.org dictionary tool upgrade install. Where?

2006-12-08 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/8/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 16:24 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > When I open OO.org and try to install extra dictionaries, I get > prompted for installing a newer version of the OO.org dictionary tool > and a file path promp

Re: Using aspell-id package from Ubuntu? Was "Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie)."

2006-12-08 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/5/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:03 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Any idea how to get rid of my install from source? Either carefully delete the files manually, or see if there is an "make uninstall" or similar option. I

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/6/06, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Baz wrote: > Hello. Will someone please recommend a reference book (or website) about > fundamental to mid-level command language (Unix/Linux/Debian)? Thanks. > Sebastian Please don't cross post! aptitude install rutebook Where does

Re: Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Mathias, On 12/6/06, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Brian. Brian Durant, 06.12.2006 17:32: > I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app > from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install > Flock for al

Re: Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/6/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 17:32:04 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app > from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install > Flock fo

Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install Flock for all users and will installing Flock screw up Firefox in anyway? Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/6/06, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > > Thanks. The interesting thing is that my xorg.conf already reads > "DefaultDepth 24". I was positive that this was the same problem that > I was experiencing - system freeze/crash with Gmail and

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Albert, On 12/6/06, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 12/6/06, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >After reading this thread, I sear

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/6/06, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After reading this thread, I searched for a solution with renewed enthusiasm, and just now found this: --- https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/27626 ---

Re: Using aspell-id package from Ubuntu? Was "Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie)."

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/5/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:30 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > I have tried to get a aspell to work with Evolution, to get > spellchecking in Indonesian to work. [snip] > 2) To download an Ubuntu aspell-id .deb and tr

Newbie wants to install Flock on Etch as deb.

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Durant
I have just been doing some reading about how it is possible to compile and install a program as a .deb package: ./configure make sudo checkinstall I have been thinking about maybe trying this with Flock or Firefox 2. I have two questions: 1) Isn't there a way to create a .deb package from sour

Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/4/06, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? And, if I'm looking to install Ubuntu, will it simply overwrite Debian? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division I think that if you install Ubuntu and install GRUB in the s

Re: Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/4/06, Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many thanks. The install went smoothly, but I am experiencing some > problems with Java based apps. FrostWire never seems to connect to a > network and I have t

Using aspell-id package from Ubuntu? Was "Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie)."

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Durant
I have tried to get a aspell to work with Evolution, to get spellchecking in Indonesian to work. I even downloaded aspell5-id-1.2-0.tar.bz2 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/id/ and compiled, but still no luck. The only response I got from the Evolution list was to ask why aspell-id wasn't i

Re: Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Kelly, On 12/3/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/2/06, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if it is the time of the night here or whether it's > because I am a newbie, but I can't seem to sort this out in my head. I >

OO.org dictionary tool upgrade install. Where?

2006-12-03 Thread Brian Durant
When I open OO.org and try to install extra dictionaries, I get prompted for installing a newer version of the OO.org dictionary tool and a file path prompt opens up, but I haven't got a clue where the app is supposed to be installed. Nothing in the dialog box that gives a clue. Any ideas from any

Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

2006-12-02 Thread Brian Durant
I don't know if it is the time of the night here or whether it's because I am a newbie, but I can't seem to sort this out in my head. I thought I should write this before I do some damage, as it usually pays to prevent problems before they happen :-) I would like to install FrostWire http://www.f

Re: Media player

2006-12-02 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/2/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 19:35 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Whoops, my fault. A return character crept into the command. However, > there still seems to be a problem. When I try to play a CD after > having started Goobox form comm

Linux app similar to TypeIt4Me on OS X?

2006-12-02 Thread Brian Durant
I am trying to win back as much of the functionality as possible that I had under Mac OS X, before I started using Debian i386. I am looking for a Linux app with similar functionality to TypeIt4Me: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/6908 Does anyone have any ideas??? Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBS

Re: Media player

2006-12-02 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/2/06, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Sven, On 12/1/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 23:00 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > Neither of these were installed. I installed them both and now GNOME > > CD, Rhythmbox an

Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/1/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:54 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Are you refering to this? > > "If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the > variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set

Re: Media player

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Antony, On 12/1/06, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > So, now that this problem is solved, I still need to deal with the > original issue I posted about, which succinctly put is that I am a > newbie mucking around trying to get all of the mul

Re: fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian folks, I recently stuck a 13 GB drive in a Gateway 2000 Pentium 133 Mhz ancient PC. I loaded Sarge 3.1 r3 on it. This was a slow process and involved a certain amount of farting around in the installation but in the end it

Re: fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
Libranet used to use IceWM as default. If their archives are still around, that would agood place to find out a lot about IceWM. As I remember it, you have to edit a text file. Sorry I can't be more helpful Cheers, Brian On 11/30/06, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian fo

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you Brian -- Initial Header --- From : "Brian Durant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : debian-user@lists.debian.org Date :

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 18:16:29 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: [...] > >> Where do I import

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu November 30 2006 09:16 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, W

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Is your sources.list entry like this?: > > > >deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linu

Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:11 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > I just installed Debian Etch (rc1) on an IBM A50p and am trying to > wrap my head around multilingual spellchecking in Evolution (2.6.3). I > managed to get English a

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Brian Durant wrote: >> > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Brian Durant wrote: >> >

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to GNU/Linux for its said overall mag

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Brian Durant wrote: >> > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.o

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Durant wrote: > > >

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. Wha

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) > > Cheers, > > Brian > no deb http://www.debian-multi

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 16:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] пишет: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, sorry. > Now, I would like to have a media pla

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
I have been experiencing similar problems with Debian Etch (rc1) repositories mentioned at Debian Help: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ It sure would be nice if there was a Debian version of this "source-o-matic" sources.list generator: http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic and/or a Debian vers

Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
Hi, I just installed Debian Etch (rc1) on an IBM A50p and am trying to wrap my head around multilingual spellchecking in Evolution (2.6.3). I managed to get English and Danish spell checking to work by installing aspell, ispell, myspell, and ienglish, idanish and gnome-spell. My problem is that

Re: Implementing and mounting USB external HD on Deb 3

2003-03-24 Thread Brian Durant
o the mounting point. Alex Togstad Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Custom Built Servers the way you want them. Ask me for a free quote!! -Original Message- From: Brian Durant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 11:41 PM To: Debian User Subject: Implementing and mou

Implementing and mounting USB external HD on Deb 3

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Durant
Hi again, How do I implement and mount a USB external FAT formatted hard drive on a Debian 3 compatible system (Libranet 2.7) with KDE 3.x? I need to get some log files off the box and onto the USB hard drive, so that I can transfer them to my main computer and eventually post them. Once I can

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Durant
Brian Potkin wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to

Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Durant
Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to make sure that all the bits and bobs from OpenOffice.org are removed, so that there i

Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Durant
How do I expunge OpenOffice.org totally from my system? I want to install Star Office 6, which I have on CD. I am using Libranet 2.7, which I believe is 100% compatible with Debian 3. Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
Other network cards are not an option. There is no expansion bay and the Ethernet card is built into the motherboard. The only alternative is a USB to Ethernet device of some sort. The Celvin is kind of a PC version of the iMac. Cheers, Brian Burkhard Ritter wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Brian

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
Brian Leo Spalteholz wrote: On March 2, 2003 02:06 am, Brian Durant wrote: I checked Knoppix' web site, which directed to a page with "cheat codes". I gave the command "knoppix noapic" at the boot prompt. When the system started, I used "netcartconfig" to get

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
blem must be with the SiS 900 driver, but have never been able to pin anything down. Cheers, Brian Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 11:43, Brian Durant wrote: The only thing interesting that I found, was with the "dmesg" command. The response was "eth0: Media Link

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
e source code! Cheers, Brian Robert Epprecht wrote: Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I checked Knoppix' web site, which directed to a page with "cheat codes". I gave the command "knoppix noapic" at the boot prompt. When the system started, I used "

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
there were no contents to start with in the file). I then rebooted. There was no output to the command "# /sbin/ifconfig" or "ifconfig". However, a new line prompt did appear. Cheers, Brian sean finney wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:10:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
rs on my WAN/LAN that I have tried this Knoppix system on, my daughter's computer could not successfully get an IP address assigned with DHCP. Cheers, Brian Robert Epprecht wrote: Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The reply from Knoppix was: "Could not find kerne

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Brian Durant
M and KDE still doesn't load from the CD. Cheers, Brian Robert Epprecht wrote: Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have tried the Knoppix CD to test out some SiS 900 driver and DHCP problems on my daughter's computer. Even though it didn't work [...] I had SiS

(Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-01 Thread Brian Durant
I didn't want to butt onto someone else's thread, I hope I did this the right way 8-) I have tried the Knoppix CD to test out some SiS 900 driver and DHCP problems on my daughter's computer. Even though it didn't work, I was very impressed by Knoppix. I have some questions: 1) I suppose the bes

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-03-01 Thread Brian Durant
Thanks for the Klaus. Do you have any advice with regards to the dhcp problem I am having in Debian 3 rev. 1? I have almost completed a download of the latest Knoppix iso and can burn a CD from that. I can then try to boot the CD, but am not sure what I need to do to see if dhcp works in Knoppi

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-03-01 Thread Brian Durant
OK Sean, the output of "# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111" was "eth0 Media Link Off". The result of "$ ping 216.239.57.100" was "Network is unreachable" :-( Cheers, Brian sean finney wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:07:55PM +0700, Brian Durant

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-03-01 Thread Brian Durant
Gary Turner wrote: A: See for yourself Brian Durant wrote: If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's computer, mak

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Durant
able to find out how "ipconfig" output, which is used in Win2k, can be sent to a text file or copied from the command prompt. However, I can tell you that my Win2k box's IP address is 192.168.1.101. I hope the above helps. Cheers, Brian sean finney wrote: hi brian On Fri, Feb 2

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Durant
-x 1 root root 55180 Nov. 24 2001". I also just rechecked at boot-up to see which kernel was loading: kernel 2.4.18-bf24. Cheers, Brian Kent West wrote: Brian Durant wrote: "SIS 900 Internal MII PHY Transceiver found. at address 1 Using transceiver found. at address 1 as default.

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Durant
ney wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:34:22PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: "SIS 900 Internal MII PHY Transceiver found. at address 1 Using transceiver found. at address 1 as default. SIS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xe400, IRQ 11, 00:30:67:06:4f:86" okay, that's Good, it means

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
hth sean [1] for example: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.99 Brian Durant wrote: The response is "not found". Remember, I am still in the install. I don't have any problems dhcp on any of the other connected boxes, all running a version of Win at this time. All receive an IP

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:16:43PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: The response is "not found". Remember, I am still in the install. I the response to what? ifconfig? lspci? also, were you able to install the kernel onto the hard disk? if you can finish t

Re: (Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Brian" == Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> While I am fumbling with problems getting Debian to install Brian> on my daughter's computer, I have been speculating about Brian> Debian support for the hardware on my box

Re: (Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
The Epson C80 is just a normal parallel port client printer, connected directly to my box. Cheers, Brian Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: While I am fumbling with problems getting Debian to install on my daughter's computer, I have

(Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
While I am fumbling with problems getting Debian to install on my daughter's computer, I have been speculating about Debian support for the hardware on my box (considering a Win2k Pro and Debian 3 rev.1 dual boot). I have been looking for info on my SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! motherboard, Asante

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
less. Cheers, Brian sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:19:25AM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: Giving the output is not an easy task, as the computer I am installing on has a USB floppy (the Celvin is a kind of iMac for the PC world) and hopefully will work when I get Debian insta

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
st MTU 1500 Metric:1 and then comes some stuff about packets sent, received and packet errors, all of which are 0. Does this help? Cheers, Brian sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:30:26AM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: OK, I started the install process from the beginning again, r

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
listed .-( According to a posting from Klaus Imgrund, there is a module for SiS900 on the "testing CD", but I am unsure what "testing CD" this is and how I can load the module into the kernel I am installing. Cheers, Brian sean finney wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
OK, way down the list I found "open a shell". The reply was "no module by that name found". What now? Cheers, Brian Klaus Imgrund wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700 Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the same problem with getting Si

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
How do I open a console when in the install? Cheers, Brian Klaus Imgrund wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700 Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 r

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have with a "netinstall". Exact same place it stops too. I used the command "bf24", which is supposed to load a kernel with SiS 900 support. Trying to install on a Fujitsu-Siemens

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
OK, I finally got CD1 image downloaded for Debian 3 Rev1. I followed the SuSE partitioning scheme for the first install attempt. Got to "configure network", where I am prompted for a "hostname". Not really sure how this compares to a MS "workgroup" so I left it at the default "debian". Then tri

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread Brian Durant
c form and what values (sizes) do you suggest? Which of these should be ReiserFS partitions "/" and "/home", if I want to use ReiserFS? Cheers, Brian sean finney wrote: heya, On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:25:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: /dev/hda7reise

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread Brian Durant
t the partitions at the same size for the same uses as I have now, unless there is a reason not to. Cheers, Brian Mark Janssen wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 08:04, Brian Durant wrote: I am a relative Newbie to Linux and totally new to Debian and this list. My first questions, which I

Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-24 Thread Brian Durant
Hi, I am a relative Newbie to Linux and totally new to Debian and this list. My first questions, which I hope aren't like the above subject, is how closely related is Xandros (formerly Corel) to Debian? Is it close enough that list members wouldn't mind me posting problems to this list or is t