Blackdown java install problem

2003-02-20 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm using woody/stable and I'm having some problems with java utilities such as jar, rmic etc. I try removing and reinstalling but the problem persists. It seems that the symbolic links such as the following are broken: /usr/bin/jar -> /etc/alternatives/jar -> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/jar It

Re: Macintosh formatted FD's usable in Debian?

2002-12-23 Thread Eric Richardson
Toku wrote: Hi, I would like to just occasionally transfer a file to an olde Macintosh LC II that is not connected to any network to utilize a laser printer attached to it. For this reason I would like to know wether it is possible to read/write Macintosh formatted floppy disks from within the D

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

2002-12-23 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Kent West wrote: Dan Jacobson wrote: How kind of you to help me find the simplest way to make my system give even the littlest bleat. I did Second, kill X (for now), and make sure you don't have any sound daemons (esd, artsd) running. I just recently upgraded to woody and esd was runni

Re: Locale problem

2002-12-20 Thread Eric Richardson
Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Fre, 2002-12-20 um 00.18 schrieb Eric Richardson: Hi, Just upgraded a box from potato to woody and I ran out of disk space and then started to have this problem when ever perl gets called such as installing something. I have not rebooted. perl: warning: Setting

Locale problem

2002-12-19 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Just upgraded a box from potato to woody and I ran out of disk space and then started to have this problem when ever perl gets called such as installing something. I have not rebooted. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (u

Re: pcmcia stops working on 2.2.20 to 2.4.19 upgrade

2002-10-28 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi Kevin, Now you should use yenta_socket and the tulip driver. tulip_cb is no longer needed. Hope this helps, Eric Kevin Coyner wrote: I've got an older IBM 560X laptop that I recently put Debian 2.2.20 on. The pcmcia card that I got to work was a Netgear FA511 ethernet. Once I got it all w

Re: PCMCIA Help

2002-10-15 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi Andreas, You might want to try debian-laptop list. I always use the /etc/init.d/networking script or /etc/init.d/pcmcia to start and stop the cardbus. Did you try booting with the card in? Eric Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi, > > I already lost too much time trying to get PCMCIA work on my la

Re: Kernel 2.2 to 2.4 on a laptop

2002-10-14 Thread Eric Richardson
Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my laptop which I would appreciate some guidance with. It is a >Dell Inspiron 3700 (hardly cutting edge now!) > > I installed Woody on it with the default 2.2 kernel and the various packages I want >and it runs fine. I then use dselect to

Kernel 2.4 and ISA PnP Questions

2002-10-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I have an old Cyrix 686 on Pentium Mainboard with Award BIOS which supports ISA PnP. With the 2.2 kernel, I had to use a DOS utility to set the IRQs, DMAs etc on two BocaLan ethernet cards so the lance module would find them. These are PnP cards so I turned off PnP and set the IRQs and DM

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Claudio Bley wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 19:15, Eric Richardson wrote: > >>Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>> >>>>>"Eric" == Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> >>

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>>"Eric" == Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> > > Eric> I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom > Eric> kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: > > >>Hi, >>I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom >>kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are >>compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: > > >>Hi, >>I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom >>kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are >>compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: > > >>I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom >>kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are >>compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but

Re: PCMCIA ethernet and Woody with 2.4.x kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Pat Colbeck wrote: > Hi > > It seems that with 2.4.x kernels the way PCMCIA is handled has > changed. I have managed to get my Xircom Realport card to work > with the 2.4.18 kernel that comes with Woody after much loading > and unloading of modules and starting and stopping of > /etc/in

Re: Mac-Linux filetransfer

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
D. Joe Anderson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:09:17AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > >>Correction for woody: apt-get install netatalk >>It will modprobe the appletalk module in the startup for you. >> >>I can't get the passwd to work yet. I comes

How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets created. How do I create the modules deb file? On a related note, does the kernel installe

Console output

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, This is a really basic question. Why does only part of the console output on boot go into the /var/log/dmesg file? It's pretty hard to see what is going on when you can't see the output. Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Mac-Linux filetransfer

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Eric Richardson wrote: > DSC@Siltec wrote: > > > Okay, here's my problem: > > > > My PC apparently can write CDs okay. My Macs, more and more, > > cannot. Technically, they come back with "medium error". Some of > > it may have to do

Re: Mac-Linux filetransfer

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
DSC@Siltec wrote: > Okay, here's my problem: > > My PC apparently can write CDs okay. My Macs, more and more, > cannot. Technically, they come back with "medium error". Some of > it may have to do with disk fragmentation, but that's a problem with > my Macs. > > I'd like to do two

Kernel versions and module loading

2002-09-04 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I have a woody laptop and upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18. The new kernel uses the yenta_socket and tulip for the ethernet card whereas with the 2.2.x kernel used the tulip_cb driver. Now if I try to boot the old kernel the network stuff won't work right. Here is what I found. The following

Re: Book on iptables?

2002-09-04 Thread Eric Richardson
Did you see Linux Firewalls by Ziegler? ISBN 0-7357-1099-6 Eric Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a good dead-tree book on iptables? Something that would go > into more depth and with more detailed examples than the howtos? > > What I want to do is to learn more about security and buildi

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-13 Thread Eric Richardson
Joerg Jaspert wrote: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: whatever question was pending goes through before you have a chance to answer it. It's like hitting the space bar acts as a return and the default action gets executed. The reason why i always press Strg/Ctrl to

debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody. The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then one of these configuration screens comes up, and then the monitor blanks out fo

Re: How to get xfree86 v4 working after dist-upgrade?

2002-05-10 Thread Eric Richardson
ll packages needing interactive configuration? Also, slightly off subject, is it possible to supply a file with answers to the configuration to do a completely automated headless install? Thanks, Eric Eric :-) Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Eric" == Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: How to get xfree86 v4 working after dist-upgrade?

2002-05-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Brooks" == Brooks R Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brooks> | What is the Debian way to get this working? > > Brooks> IIRC you can rename /etc/X11/XF86Config to Brooks> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > > Don't do that! Install xserver-xfree86, and let the installer gui

How to get xfree86 v4 working after dist-upgrade?

2002-05-08 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I upgraded from potato to woody and now I would like to use the new version 4 x windows software. It seems that it all installed everthing but version 3 is still running when I do startx. I didn't see anything in the release-notes. Other than that the upgrade went well. What is the Debia

potato to woody upgrade again

2002-05-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I upgraded from potato to woody today following the release notes and this is what I found. The potato system was development tools and X and that's about it. The install went fine and post install I followed the directions exactly and found the following: 1. dpkg --configure --pending

Re: Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card

2002-03-11 Thread Eric Richardson
Nikolai Hlubek wrote: Hi there, I have the Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card and just wanted to ask if someone here has experience with this thing? Any idea which drivers I should use? Nikolai Searched on google. According to philips, no. http://www.pcsound.philips.com/faq_rhyt

Re: How to specify default WM (woody)?

2002-03-11 Thread Eric Richardson
I think you should install gdm or xdm to get the default login box. There may be other ways but I'm no expert. I use the gdm since I am using gnome. The other box I have has neither and I have to type startx after console login. Eric Martin Edward John Waller wrote: Hello, I just upgraded t

Re: potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > >> Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt >> first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A >> couple of small things. >> >&

potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of small things. Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.20 was not installed during the dist-upgrade. When installing a few more

Re: using Woody vs testing

2002-02-27 Thread Eric Richardson
Ken Irving wrote: > I'm wondering about the difference between using "woody" vs "testing" in apt-sources. I currently have "testing" in my systems, but perhaps > "woody" might be preferable. Assuming woody (as current testing) does > what I need, it ought to continue being sufficient once it

Re: How to add second network card?-solved

2002-02-26 Thread Eric Richardson
Thanks for everyones help, solution inline. dman wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:58:38AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | dman wrote: | | | > | > Since the cards are PnP, you'll probably need to use a DOS utility to | change the card's settings. Perhaps you can get isap

Re: How to add second network card?

2002-02-26 Thread Eric Richardson
dman wrote: > > Since the cards are PnP, you'll probably need to use a DOS utility to change the card's settings. Perhaps you can get isapnp or some linux > tool to do it, but I haven't tried. I heard of this so I'll take a look. > > | Okay, if I'm not running DOS, is there anyway to run it

Re: How to add second network card?

2002-02-25 Thread Eric Richardson
dman wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:46:28PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | Hi, | | I'm trying to get a second identical network card to work and need some | assistance. The card is a AMD PCnet-ISA+ (a pnp card) that uses the | lance.o module. When installing I was able to get one

Re: How to add second network card?

2002-02-25 Thread Eric Richardson
Sebastiaan wrote: High, On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: I'm trying to get a second identical network card to work and need some assistance. The card is a AMD PCnet-ISA+ (a pnp card) that uses the lance.o module. When installing I was able to get one card working by addi

How to add second network card?

2002-02-25 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm trying to get a second identical network card to work and need some assistance. The card is a AMD PCnet-ISA+ (a pnp card) that uses the lance.o module. When installing I was able to get one card working by adding io=0x300. The module assigns IRQ 3 and DMA 5 when loaded. I am using DHC

Re: docbook xae problem

2002-02-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi Hans, Docbook-apps mailing list is the place to ask this sort of question. The list reference is found here towards the bottom of the page: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/ It could be something else with the install packaging etc. but some on the list use Debian as well. Ho

Re: Potato to Woody Notes/Comments

2002-02-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: >> >> Is it possible to create a upgrade-woody package that depends on >> dpkg and apt and any other prerequisites that loads them and >> then as a post process starts apt-get

Potato to Woody Notes/Comments

2002-02-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody upgrade. Being a idiot, I haven't followed this list for awhile and didn't read the release notes until after the upgrade but I think the results may be interesting nonetheless. Unfortunately I didn't use the script command but I

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

2001-11-14 Thread Eric Richardson
dman wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:21:25PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | Stephen Gran wrote: | | > Thus spake Eric Richardson: | >> | >>The problem I had is that XMMS 1.2.5 is needed to use the ogg plugin and | >>this won't compile as it needs: | >>gno

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

2001-11-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake Eric Richardson: The problem I had is that XMMS 1.2.5 is needed to use the ogg plugin and this won't compile as it needs: gnomexmms.c:24: applet-widget.h: No such file or directory That comes from libpanel-applet-dev. :-) Wouldn't you know som

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

2001-11-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Stan Brown wrote: I'm trying to get abcde working on a potato + progeny + 2.4.3 kernel machine.. I actually have it working using lame, but In the spirit of Debian, I'd like to get rid of the questionable mp3 format. I grab vorbis from sourceforg, but I had a problem getting one of the librarie

Re: Right way of installing woody?

2001-11-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:02:01PM +0200, Andriy Korud wrote: > >> I'd like to install Debian with relatively fresh software (XFree >> 4.1.x, libc 2.2.x, kernel 2.4.x, etc). Which will the best way: - >> install 2.2r3 and then upgrade everything I need? or - install >> woody

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Bob Underwood wrote: On Friday 02 November 2001 20:26, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the following happened. Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main

potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the following happened. Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1 [151kB] Fetched 229MB in 1h3m28s (60.1kB/s) 86% [Scanning pa

Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)

2001-09-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try multizilla which would like 0.92 or 0.94. Thanks, Eric

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Damon Muller wrote: > > > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > > suggestions. > >> > > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > > for any kernels newer than 2.4.5 (I think). > >

Re: RealPlayer Installer

2001-07-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Thanks for this posting - it fixed me up. One change below. Eric Janto Trappe wrote: > > > It's a bug realplayer installer procedure. A workaround for potatos > realplayer 8.0.1 posted by Frodo Baggins: > > --8<-- > > 1. run >dpkg-reconfigure debconf > to reconfigure the deb

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Richardson
will trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:44:32AM +, Victor wrote: > > Me, again! > > > > No one using docbook & xml out there? > > > > Vittorio > > Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > >

Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Richardson
Harold Bibik wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:31:16PM +0200, Guy Geens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > scribbled > > > I long time ago, I found a page with tips on how to make Netscape > > fonts look better. I can't find it now, but this page seems to have > > the information you need: > > http://www

Re: IBM Java 1.3 - Anyone get to work?

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to get DB2 to install and run on my Debian box. One of the > programs it needs is java. IBM is highly recommending that you install and > run their version of java. I have pulled down the .rpm for it and > installed it both as a rpm and as a deb (not at t

Re: Starting with XML

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Richardson
Victor wrote: > > Hi, > > In my job I now need to transfer data between application using XML. > > As an absolute beginner in this field I'm asking you the very very > basic of XML. > > As far as I know having leafed through debian documentation XML as a > tagged language is a subset of SGML th

Re: gnome development - update

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Richardson
Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to compile "gbonds", a GPL US bond management system, from > snaught.com/gbonds on Debian potato. The requirements are libgnome > 1.2.x, gtk+ 1.2.7 and libxml 1.8.x and gnome-print 0.25. > > I installed libgnome-dev whi

Re: a quickie

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Richardson
Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > This one should present no problems for most guru's out there. How do I > disable Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooting on a debian box. I recently got my uptime to > 114 days and due to the multiple keyboards on my desk, I accidently rebooted > the server when winblows

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Richardson
"Darryl Röthering" wrote: > > Can one of you gurus quickly help me with a script? I have a directory with > several thousand files named inconsistently with a mix of uppercase and > lowercase. I need to rationalize these to be named with all lowercase. I > know you guys will have a dozen ways to

Re: iBCS broken with 2.2.19

2001-05-24 Thread Eric Richardson
Mike Barton wrote: > > ibcs-2.1-981105 compiles and works find with 2.2.18 but with 2.2.19 this > happens: > > pogo:/usr/src# modprobe iBCS > /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: unresolved symbol strlen_user > /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS failed > /lib/modules/2.

Re: Debian Reinstall

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Richardson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote: > > Hi there, > >I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed > >packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to > >know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to

Re: a rather simple question

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > hi > > I have jdk-1.1.8-3 installed right now. I want to update to jdk-1.2.2 so > I got the tar.gz file. > Now my question: how can I _replace_ the old by the new? > For jdk-1.1.8-3 I uesed apt-get and it told me to get the jdk-1.1.8-3 > tar.gz file and installed i

gnome development

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I would like to compile "gbonds", a GPL US bond management system, from snaught.com/gbonds on Debian potato. The requirements are libgnome 1.2.x, gtk+ 1.2.7 and libxml 1.8.x and gnome-print 0.25. I installed libgnome-dev which installs libgtk1.2-dev and I also installed libxml-dev. All this we

Re: Kernel Modules

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Richardson
John Tatum wrote: > > Just call me Mr. Newbie. This is my first Debian box and I have reached > the limits of my current knowledge. > > I am looking for info on how to configure kernel modules. I presume > there is a howto somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. > Look in /lib/modules/ for the

Re: Debian 2.2 in Armada E500

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Arian Novruzi wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if somebody has succeded installing Debian > in a Armada E500, or in a laptop in general. Many people use laptops like me. There is a site that has info on your book. Luckily I remembered that this is a Compaq -- give details as per the other p

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Richardson
"Thomas H. George" wrote: > > Started to build a 2.2.19 kernel for my second computer. Make bzImage > exited with error 2 because it couldn't find as86. My first computer > has as86 from somewhere and I bulit the 2.2.19 kernel with no problem. > > I tried apt-get install as86 and got a message

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Richardson
Alex Strasheim wrote: > > I'm having the same problem (can't login), and hosts.deny didn't solve it. > I can't ssh to localhost either. > > I'm new to debian, and I'm just trying to get a usable system set up -- one > that I can ssh into. I haven't figured out the package management system > ver

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Richardson
D-Man wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the > article, for me, is this paragraph : > > """ > Limited Developer Tools > > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are > avai

Re: [offtopic] recommendation on resources (books, websites) on object oriented programming?

2001-05-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Walter Tautz wrote: > > Just wondering if there are any books that explain in detail with > real-world (non-trivial) examples just what the OOP is about and > why it might be a good idea to use it. I have no particular > preference for languages, rather concepts should be emphasized > although I

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-11 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, debian users. > I have a question not so specific to debian, but I'm sure you can help me. > > I'm in the need of developing a multi-platform system. > Can anyone give me a hint of which tool's (libraries) to use? I'd like to > develop applications for linux(es

Re: Need USB help? Re: USB setup problems

2001-05-10 Thread Eric Richardson
p wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:59:54AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > Nobody has commented yet on this. Please help if you can give me any > > pointers. I went through all the docs on linux-usb.org and haven't found > > anything to help. >

Need USB help? Re: USB setup problems

2001-05-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Nobody has commented yet on this. Please help if you can give me any pointers. I went through all the docs on linux-usb.org and haven't found anything to help. Eric Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using 2.2.19(not a custom build), 2.2r3 stable. I'm trying

USB setup problems

2001-05-08 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm using 2.2.19(not a custom build), 2.2r3 stable. I'm trying to use a Belkin USB mouse for starters. Here what I did so far. 1. loaded the modules - usb-ohci didn't work so I assume the usb-uhci is correct # lsmod (edited) mousedev3596 0 (unused) hid11

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-07 Thread Eric Richardson
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm just amazed that it is so important to block us from caching > > > > postage-stamp sized movie commercials, and

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Richardson
MaD dUCK wrote: > > also sprach William Leese (on Fri, 04 May 2001 01:31:15AM +0200): > > get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the > > partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your > > configuration) and you'll find a line like: > Hit shi

Re: Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Richardson
Greg Madden wrote: > > Keith O'Connell wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I recently went from Netscape 4.76 to 4.77 via stable and have just > > noticed that the spell check option is greyed out on the menues now. > snip > > For whatever reason spellcheck does not get upgrqaded/replaced during an > upg

Re: Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Keith O'Connell wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently went from Netscape 4.76 to 4.77 via stable and have just > noticed that the spell check option is greyed out on the menues now. I noticed this too. I also found that emacs didn't have spell checking and was looking for ispell so I loaded ispell but t

Re: netatalk setup gaflooey

2001-05-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:07:00PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > trying to install netatalk for macintosh file serving capabilities, and the > > setup script goes all fuxnored(tm). is this something i caused? or can > > cure? > > > > # apt-get install netatalk > >

Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Eric Richardson
Joey Hess wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:55:11PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > Because you have rpm installed, which may be because you installed > > > > alien. > > > I did install alien but these directories

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Eric Richardson
Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Does anyone know what has happened to the realplayer installer package > in stable? > > I believe it's supposed to be in /contrib/net/ and the package search > engine at the debian site says it exists: > >Package: realplayer 7.0.2.2 [contrib] > > But if you try to d

Re: Upgrading

2001-04-23 Thread Eric Richardson
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:45:12PM -0400, Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been using Debian 2.2 for about a year now. Could some kind sole > > tell me what is the best way to upgrade Debian? I see Debian 2.2r3 was > > released today

Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:30:12PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > I was downloading the kernel source and found the following: > > > > ls /usr/src/redhat/ > > BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS > > > > All the dire

/usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I was downloading the kernel source and found the following: ls /usr/src/redhat/ BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS All the directories and sub-directories are empty. I'm using 2.2r3/potato upgraded from 2.2r0. Anybody know why the redhat directory is there? Thanks, Eric

Re: PCMCIA Support for 2.2.19 kernel

2001-04-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Walt Mankowski wrote: > > I'm confused as to how to upgrade my laptop (currently running potato > 2.2r3) from kernel 2.2.17 to 2.2.19. Which pcmcia-modules package > should I install? There are four choices: > > pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17 > pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17-compact > pcmcia-modules-2.

Re: acroread

2001-04-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Frank Copeland wrote: > > On 20 Apr 01 20:32:39 GMT, Lance Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When running acroread 4.0 (x86 linux stout0124 Jan24 2000 > > 15:00:03) on my 2.2r2 x86 system running a 2.2.18 kernel, acroread > > commonly gobbles up all available system memory causing the

Re: pcmcia startup order: was Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
The Nose Who Knows wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote: > > More than one person is having problems with the startup sequence with > > pcmcia. Is this a problem with the distribution? I searched open and > > closed bugs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could not find anything

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
"George M. Butler" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I > am new to > Linux but have some > limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just > discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related > to my job. > I am a

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > install the 2.2.19 version of pcmcia modules. i don't know the exact > package name, i have no hardware with pcmcia. The only version in stable is pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17 and so I get the following Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: pcmcia-mo

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:42:26PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > apt-get update > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 > > > > If I do the last step, will my current kernel be left in place an

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-19 Thread Eric Richardson
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote: > > Ethan, > > > > As someone who is still a newbie in a lot of the "Debian ways", I am > > curious. How is 2.2r3 different than doing apt-get update; apt-get upgrade > > on 2.2r2? > > thats exactly what you do.

Re: Fujitsu lifebook

2001-04-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > Does anyone know if this mini-portable is supported with debian ? I'm > looking forward to use it for some admin-tasks ... > > Joris > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like it.

Re: gtcd/sound problems

2001-04-11 Thread Eric Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > When trying to play gtcd I get "error playing cd"...but it's an audio cd (an > introduction to classical music)..what is wrong here? > > Also, when I try to play login.wav (gnome's file) no sound is coming out...I > have unmuted the mixer via gamix, mixe

Re: real player version 7

2001-04-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:46:23AM -0400, AR wrote: > > Bud Rogers wrote: > > > > > On Sunday 08 April 2001 09:09, AR wrote: > > > > I need the rpm real player 7, for 2 reasons: It is the version that the > > > > debian installer requests, and it is the version that is suppo

Re: command for system beep?

2001-04-09 Thread Eric Richardson
hammack wrote: > > The bell: > You can use a script with the echo $'\a'. I did the following > #bell > # make the iteration length as desired or put in another line after the echo > with > # a call to another bell but with a different name. I did a recursive call > and the bell > # continued and

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
"Timothy J. Ford > > you should try octave, it's very good. > How does this compare to Mathematica? Eric :-)

pcmcia startup order: was Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
sure makes the out of box experience with Debian a little rough. Eric :-) Eric Richardson wrote: > > "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > > > > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40

Re: Installing communicator.

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Simmons-Davis wrote: > > Hello, > > My question now is: how do I get Communicator on my sytem in order to run > "apt-get install communicator"? Currently when I try to run it it sends back > the response: > > "Package communicator has no available version, but exits in the database. > This typic

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40networking .So if > > you start pcmcia at 39(with S39 a symlink to /etc/init.d/pcmcia or > > wahtever the script name is) in rcS.d you'll be just fine.I don't have >

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:28:42PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > I want to listen to Art Bell and had no luck with getting RA v8 to work > > on stable. It has bunches of dependencies that don't belong on stable. > > The v7 installe

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Mike McGuire wrote: > > > > I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you > > > run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or > > > piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for real > > > player from command line? > > > > you might

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-05 Thread Eric Richardson
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > > I would agree that everything looks right.What happens if you type > > ifup eth0 > > or in the worst case try and bring it up manually ? > > ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.6 up > > You should get a more specific error messag

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:28:33PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > So you could try: > > - compiling your own 2.2 kernel > > - upgrading to a 2.4 kernel > > Here's a fairly painless idea. If you're using the stock debian > kernel-image, add a line to your /etc/lilo.co

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