Re: Help For Newbie

Kent West writes: > If it just shuts itself down on its own, something's wrong. Perhaps she is not running pppconfig as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: networking windows and linux

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:44:53PM -0700, Dan Cox wrote: > I'm currently trying to network a windows box and a debian box. I'm > using ethernet cards and am able to ping both boxes respectfully. I use > the windows box for the internet and mail (although once I am comfortable > with Linux I will be

Re: how stable is the testing branch?

Testing is as stable as any other ditro of Linux not up to the Debain stable though. Having said that I would agree to only run testing if you have a need but it sounds like you do and I don't think Koffice will compile on stable. Having said that don't apt-get dist-upgrade every day. I would ch

Re: Installing INN

moin moin Joost! On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:35:05 +0200 you were able to write: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:02:30AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- > > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. > > http://www.gmx.net > > > > GMX Tipp: > > > > Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Pa

Re: X server and PS/2 mouse problem

If im the console the mouse works, you can try to youse the /dev/gpmdata. It works fine on my boxes. Look in your XFconfig file which device your X Server uses. Of course the GPM demon must be running. greets matthias On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:10:13PM +, Simon Lang wrote: > I am faced with

Re: how stable is the testing branch?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:51:25PM +, joe golden wrote: | Debian has koffice in the testing branch>> | this may be the answer to my need for a stable word processor and graphing | spreadsheet for our small school network of 10 machines. | | Will the testing branch be so unstable as to crash r

Re: Help For Newbie

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:33:33PM +0100, Keri wrote: | To be in root, am I not supposed to be opening it through the apps pull down | menu in Gnome? And it appears to open and swiftly close itself down but like | I said, I'm choosing it from the apps menu. Ahh, here's the problem. I bet it is op

Re: Help For Newbie

Am using pppconf in root by doing pppcong& and it's brought up the menu. Unfortunately it does not want to use the up and down kjeys properly at this time. We had problems with this configuration of the keyboard at various stages. Is there an alternative? Otherwise it seems to do it right. Keri

Re: Help For Newbie

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:57:03PM +0100, Keri wrote: > Does that mean I have to install something else if it doesn't? Should I try > dpkg -i? What is the correct app. name? No, it means that you have to read the pon manpage. It should be there if you were able to run pppconfig, because it depend

Re: X server and PS/2 mouse problem

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:10:13PM +, Simon Lang wrote: (summary) o mouse doesn't work in X o mouse works on console (with gpm) Solution : edit /etc/gpm/gpm.conf and change the reapeat_type to "raw". Note what the protocol is that gpm is using (probably "ps2"). Then edit /etc/X11/XF

Apt can't count anymore?

Hey folks. Recently started having an odd problem when doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. When the packages first start downloading every second package returns an HTTP 400 Bad Request error. Then when the 400 errors stop coming, the packages apt downloads somehow are the wrong size. Here's a sampl

Re: anyone know HP Vectra modem?

my vectra VE is a sportster flash one -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "Miguel Griffa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 07, 20

Re: X server and PS/2 mouse problem

> I am running a new inst of Debian and have discovered > my mouse will not work properly. The main problem > with the mous is the fact that the pointer does not show > up on the screen properly. The pointer is limited to a space > of 1/4cm strip along the botton of the screen and responds > errati

Re: Help For Newbie

Am overjoyed because I'm finally configuring this. The trouble is I'm at a loss at how to "connect" per se. Actually I remembering configuring the ppp when I installed Debian but that's another story. So basically I'm almost through with the configuring and then I'm at a loss what to do next. Ke

Re: Strange behavior

Hi John, Your post contains longest line I've seen in any mail. Remember to wrap your lines to 72 chars about. It'll be readable better. It would be better if you enclose fragment of your log. Check if you don't block transmission on lo interface, check if your host protects itself i.e. if you bl

lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Hi! I had to reconfigure my printer port from IRQ 7 to IRQ 5 (because I´ve got a soundcard which is hardwired to IRQ 7 ). Luckily I had compiled lp as a module, so I thought a simple change from `modprobe lp irq=7` to "irq=5" should suffice. Nope: bash-2.03# insmod lp.o irq=5 lp.o: init_module

Re: Help For Newbie

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:56:13PM +0100, Keri wrote: > Am using pppconf in root by doing pppcong& and it's brought up the menu. > Unfortunately it does not want to use the up and down kjeys properly at this > time. > We had problems with this configuration of the keyboard at various stages. > Is

Re: Help For Newbie

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:33:33PM +0100, Keri wrote: > To be in root, am I not supposed to be opening it through the apps pull down > menu in Gnome? And it appears to open and swiftly close itself down but like > I said, I'm choosing it from the apps menu. This explains a lot. Normally in linux,

Re: X server and PS/2 mouse problem

Simon Lang wrote: > I am faced with a conundrum. > > I am running a new inst of Debian and have discovered my mouse will not work > properly. The main problem with the mous is the fact that the pointer does > not show up on the screen properly. The pointer is limited to a space of > 1/4cm strip

Re: how stable is the testing branch?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:51:25PM +, joe golden wrote: > Debian has koffice in the testing branch>> > this may be the answer to my need for a stable word processor and graphing > spreadsheet for our small school network of 10 machines. > > Will the testing branch be so unstable as to crash r

mailto tag in netscape

Hi all currently, Netscape 4.76 does nothing when I click on a mailto: tag. I want to set it up to use mutt or some other email client. How do I do this? Thanks! xucaen

Re: How do I clear out a list

I did a apt-get update. Acually I followed the instructions on www.progeny.com web site. For your instructions, would that install them or remove them? Brian Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 104442754 AIM schrammbrian www.linuxexpert.org On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij

Re: mailto tag in netscape

Xucaen wrote: > Hi all > > currently, Netscape 4.76 does nothing when I click on a > mailto: tag. I want to set it up to use mutt or some other email client. > > How do I do this? The package muttzilla can do this for you. Package: muttzilla Priority: optional Section: contrib/mail Insta

Re: Help For Newbie

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:56:13PM +0100, Keri wrote: > > Am using pppconf in root by doing pppcong& and it's brought up the menu. > > Unfortunately it does not want to use the up and down kjeys properly at this > > time. > > We had problems with this configuration of the keyboard at various

Re: X server and PS/2 mouse problem

Simon Lang wrote: I am faced with a conundrum. I am running a new inst of Debian and have discovered my mouse will not work properly. The main problem with the mous is the fact that the pointer does not show up on the screen properly. The pointer is limited to a space of 1/4cm strip along th

crontab

Hi All, I was wondering if someone could look at this crontab file and tell me if I've got it right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Mon Jul 2 16:23:22 2001) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:3

Re: lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:09:28PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > I had to reconfigure my printer port from IRQ 7 to IRQ 5 (because I?ve > got a soundcard which is hardwired to IRQ 7 ). > > Luckily I had compiled lp as a module, so I thought a simple change from > `modprobe lp irq=7` to "irq=5

Re: Help For Newbie

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:56:13PM +0100, Keri wrote: > > Am using pppconf in root by doing pppcong& and it's brought up the menu. > > Unfortunately it does not want to use the up and down kjeys properly at this > > time. > > We had problems with this configuration of the keyboard at various

d´oh! (Re: lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy)

On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 20:09:28 +0200, Robert Waldner writes: >I had to reconfigure my printer port from IRQ 7 to IRQ 5 (because I´ve >got a soundcard which is hardwired to IRQ 7 ). > >Luckily I had compiled lp as a module, so I thought a simple change from >`modprobe lp irq=7` to "irq=5" should suff

Re: Help For Newbie

Yeah. I'm confused. There ae two icons on the desktop here. On for conencting and onforon/off. I have no idea where this fits in and if I have to configure the ppp in -term? The books I _do_ have unfortunately aren't tackling the problem as it seems there are so many different set ups. It doesn't s

Re: crontab

well it seems to me that you are erasing the tape every thursday at 14 hours and 21 minutes. Do you backup in the tape? then you will loose the old backup. That's fine, but field 4 () day of month) matches every day, so you will have a backup every day, and an additional backup every friday this a

Re: Help For Newbie

* Keri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > When trying the "loadkeys defkeymap" I received the following: > /usr/share/keymaps/i386/querty/defkeymap.kmap.qz > > and then typing install-keymap defkeymap brings me: > > Command Not Found It means /usr/sbin is not in your search path. You can a)

Re: lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 20:23:35 +0200, Joost Kooij writes: >On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:09:28PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> bash-2.03# insmod lp.o irq=5 >> lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy <...> >> Hints? FM?s? Clue!? > >First the hints: > >/sbin/modinfo -p lp >filename:/lib/modules/

Re: networking windows and linux

Joost Kooij wrote: > >.My question is how do I share > > the files from the windows box with the Linux box? And while I'm at it > > Don't do that. Windows is not a stable server. It will hurt when you do it. I wouldn't recommend using an Windows box as an Internet server (in the sense of, mill

kernel compilation error

hi. I already posted a question, but got any replies. Once I had a power fail, and on reboot, there were some errors. So, after fsck some files in /lib were missing. Now im trying to compile kernel 2.4.5 and in keep getting errors about undefined labels, and unknown variables and things like that

Re: Help For Newbie

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 07:23:32PM +0100, Keri wrote: | I am able to configure ppp in tty2, | but I don't think that is what I'm suppose | to do, no? Yes. Use the ttys! They are your friend :-). Unix (and then Linux) is largely based on the command line. As Joost mentioned, pictures of using/c

Re: Help For Newbie

Keri wrote: Yeah. I'm confused. There ae two icons on the desktop here. On for conencting and onforon/off. I have no idea where this fits in and if I have to configure the ppp in -term? The books I _do_ have unfortunately aren't tackling the problem as it seems there are so many different set up

RE: Help For Newbie

FWIW, here's what I get when I try to run pppconfig as non-root on my gateway machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]$ pppconfig You must be root to run this program. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fr

RE: Help For Newbie

Keri, First off, bring up an xterm/rxvt/whatever so that you're at a shell prompt. If you're not logged in as root (as you shouldn't be), enter the command "su -" followed by your root password. From there, run "/usr/bin/pppconfig" and configure your dialup connection. After that's successful,

RE: networking windows and linux

Wow, Windows isn't a stable server!? Damn, I bet that's news to the millions of people and corporations worldwide who've been running it for years. ;) j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Joost Kooij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 20

No keyboard or mouse in X

I've been having some trouble setting up a friend with a Debian system. First, I installed Debian 2.2 (stable) from CD, using the normal install methods. The mouse (a USB mouse) worked fine under X, using /dev/psaux (I think). The keyboard (a PS/2 keybaord) worked at the console, but not under X

q ad migrating IDE -> SCSI, partition layout

Hi! Currently I´m running my whole home-box off a large IDE-disk: bash-2.03$ df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 495746 48534421609 10% / /dev/hda110213 3946 5740 41% /boot /dev/hda5 101

Re: kernel compilation error

"J.A.Serralheiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi. I already posted a question, but got any replies. You did. I've cc'ed you directly this time; you might want to check the web archives at http://lists.debian.org/ if you aren't subscribed to debian-user, as the convention here is usually to send re

RE: networking windows and linux

At 02:29 p.m. 06/07/01 -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Wow, Windows isn't a stable server!? Damn, I bet that's news to the millions of people and corporations worldwide who've been running it for years. ;) It's not news, just ask if they reboot servers every week or every morning... j

OutPut of Pon?

/etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem' Keri

Keyboard Prob

Okay. My keyboard just pooped out in tty2 so I have no idea if my configurations are okay , plus I also notcied upon bebooting that it does not have "any ports found", now I wonder what this is? Is this why it could not find the modem? Keri Debout les damnés de la terre Debout les forçats de la

x wincdow login after reboot

Hi all I would like to stop X-window login after reboot how do i do it? Tks regards Peter

Re: how stable is the testing branch?

If you want koffice, you could install it on a system running stable also. see: http://kde.debian.net/ On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:51:25PM +, joe golden wrote: > Debian has koffice in the testing branch>> > this may be the answer to my need for a stable word processor and graphing > spread

Re: OutPut of Pon?

Keri wrote: /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem' Keri If you'll give the command "ls -l /dev/modem" you'll see something like: westek:/home/westk# ls -l /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root10 Jul 6 15:34 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0 This means that /dev/modem is

Re: q ad migrating IDE -> SCSI, partition layout

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > 0: And, regarding the IDE-disk: Is this possible _without_ losing the > data on the current /mp3 (hda8)? Eg, deleting hda1-7, re-creating a > large hda1, ´cause I don´t have any means to backup 15 GB and I surely > don´t want to

Re: networking windows and linux

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:13:08PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | At 02:29 p.m. 06/07/01 -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: | >Wow, Windows isn't a stable server!? | > | >Damn, I bet that's news to the millions of | >people and corporations worldwide who've been | >running it for years. ;) | | I

Re: No keyboard or mouse in X

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:38:45PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > tatus: O > Content-Length: 1943 > Lines: 42 > > I've been having some trouble setting up a friend with a Debian system. > > First, I installed Debian 2.2 (stable) from CD, using the normal install > methods. The mouse (a USB mouse)

Re: OutPut of Pon?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Keri wrote: | | /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem' There's a syntax error in the provider script that pon doesn't understand. My technique for configuring dialup (ppp) is to use vim :-). I edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and

Re: OutPut of Pon?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Keri wrote: > > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem' > Did you use pppconfig to generate the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file? Have you hand edited this file? Most people, even experienced users who know enough to put this file tog

Re: dpms and X4

FYI, I found the problem, sort of. I had xscreensaver rotating at 2 minute intervals. Every time a new screensaver loaded, it came out of standby mode. Mike On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:35:40PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Ola. > > Under XFree86 3.3.6, I could execut

Re: wavtools

wavp and wavr. Use the deb from woody as the deb from potato segfaulted with me all the time. At 06:39 PM 7/4/01 -0700, Xucaen wrote: >Hi all, >does anyone know anything about wavtools? I >used apt-get wavtools and it installed, but where >are the executables? the desc. says wavtools has >util

Re: crontab

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:14:15PM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I was wondering if someone could look at this crontab file and tell me > if I've got it right. > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev / |cpio --create >/dev/st0/root.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /boot |cpio --create>/dev/st0/boot.cpio > 0 2

Re: x wincdow login after reboot

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:33:20PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > Hi all > > I would like to stop X-window login after reboot > > how do i do it? > > Tks > > regards > Peter > Hi, Try update-rc.d -f xdm remove HTH, Jim Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: q ad migrating IDE -> SCSI, partition layout

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > So, basically, I want the system to reside on SCSI and the > not-so-valuable data on IDE. Does something like > > SCSI: > sda1 /boot 25 MB > sda2 / 100 MB > sda3 /usr 1200 MB > sda4 /var 840 MB (/tmp -> /var/tmp) > > ID

Re: OutPut of Pon?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Keri wrote: > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem' Can you show us the contents of that file? It is not clear why this is not working. It may be that /dev/modem is not actually pointing to a valid serial device, such as /dev/tt

Re: OutPut of Pon?

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Keri wrote: > > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem' > > Can you show us the contents of that file? It is not clear why this > is not working. It may be that /dev/modem is not actually pointing > to a valid serial device, su

Re: Help For Newbie

Kent writes: > 7) Once everything works and you're getting comfortable, you can replace > step 4 and 6 with a graphical ppp client, such as kppp or xisp. Or gpppon, which is a GUI front-end for pon and poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Keyboard Prob

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:23:52PM +0100, Keri wrote: > My keyboard just pooped out in tty2 so I have no idea > if my configurations are okay , plus I also notcied upon bebooting that it > does not have "any ports found", now I wonder what this is? Is this why it > could not find the modem? It cou

xv alternatives

Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a new image viewer to use. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find one that's as good as Xv. eeyes seems pretty nice, but I refuse to install the necessary GNOME libraries to make it work. I grabbed the source to see if it

Re: x wincdow login after reboot

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:33:20PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > I would like to stop X-window login after reboot It's called xdm. You can remove it completely, if you don't like it. Use dselect. After that, you can still start x windows manually with the "startx" command. Alternatively, you can

Re: Keyboard Prob

> These winmodems are a crock. Intel loves them, because you need a > fast processor. It saves the modem manufacturer a few cents on > component costs, and requires you to spend considerably more money > on a faster processor. You lose. The international-conspiracy-of- > marketeers-to-sel

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

> "Jason" == Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why you can say "asprin" when you want to cure a > headache (because Bayer didn't defend its trademark), but > not Xerox(tm) to mean photocopying, Kleenex(tm) to mean > facial tissues, and Ziplock(tm) to refer to pla

Re: xv alternatives

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a > new image viewer to use. Why is this happening? Can't we continue to use the current version? -- People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of go

syslogd really slow

Hello, I am currently running Kernel 2.2.19pre17. I recently recompiled it to support Generic SCSI devices (this is the only thing that I added). I then restarted and from some reason (which I don't even have the slightest clue why) when booting the message: "Starting system log daemon: sysl

DBD Pg problem

Using woody with unstable DB stuff I get the following error. What file or link am I missing? Thanks for any help. install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol:

Re: OutPut of Pon?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Keri wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Keri wrote: > > > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem' > > > > Can you show us the contents of that file? It is not clear why this > > is not working. It may be tha

Re: Keyboard Prob

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:34:20PM +0100, Keri wrote: > Am in the case and the modem isn't telling me much. > What serial numbers would I look for to indentify it? > It's an Athlon 500 machine and am starting to know > it intimately. Spent hours last week mucking inside > looking for what kind of m

Re: Keyboard Prob

> Many real modems have a chip on them marked "rockwell". > > Cheers, > > > Joost Well Made in Taiwan doesn't come close. Will have a good think abotu this one and have someone do some searching for the origination. At least it's a start to one of the reasons why this puppy won't work. Ke

Re: syslogd really slow

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:38:10PM -0500, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently running Kernel 2.2.19pre17. I recently recompiled it to > support Generic SCSI devices (this is the only thing that I added). I then > restarted and from some reason (which I don't even have the slight

Re: DBD Pg problem

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:47:04PM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote: > Using woody with unstable DB stuff I get the following error. What file > or link am I missing? > > Thanks for any help. > > install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load > '/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' > for module

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

Jason writes: > ...but not Xerox(tm) to mean photocopying, Kleenex(tm) to mean facial > tissues, and Ziplock(tm) to refer to plastic storage bags. I can say all of those things, as long as I am not doing so in an effort to sell anything. Michael A. Miller writes: > Nor spam to mean SPAM(tm) lunch

Re: xv alternatives

> "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would > like to find a new image viewer to use. I use "display", which is part of the imagemagick package. > 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab & Backspace were

Re: xv alternatives

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a > > new image viewer to use. > > Why is this happening? Can't we continue to use the curren

Re: xv alternatives

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > The features I really want are: > 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab & Backspace were great in XV) > 2. Intelligent scaling (I liked the zoom maxspect feature of XV, where >it would zoom as close as possible to the screens

Re: Keyboard Prob

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:59:25PM +0100, Keri wrote: | | Well Made in Taiwan doesn't come close. | Will have a good think abotu this one and have someone | do some searching for the origination. | At least it's a start to one of the reasons why this puppy won't | work. Serial numbers don't re

Re: xv alternatives

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to > > find a > > new image viewer to use. > > Why is this happening? Can't we continue to use the cu

Re: xv alternatives

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:16:17PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > > "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would > > like to find a new image viewer to use. > > I use "display", which is part of the imagemag

Re: lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Subject: lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Date: Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:09:28PM +0200 In reply to:Robert Waldner Quoting Robert Waldner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi! > > I had to reconfigure my printer port from IRQ 7 to IRQ 5 (because I´ve > got a soundcard which is h

Re: networking windows and linux

Subject: RE: networking windows and linux Date: Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:29:24PM -0500 In reply to:Jeremy Gaddis Quoting Jeremy Gaddis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Wow, Windows isn't a stable server!? > > Damn, I bet that's news to the millions of > people and corporations worldwide who

Re: Going slightly spare!

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a driver from scyld.com on my Debian 2.2r3 install. I > > have the kernel source downloaded from kernel.org (as this isn't for my > > Debian > > install - I have also tr

Re: xv alternatives

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:26:37PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > If you do 'display *.jpg' for a large number of files total memory > used keeps increasing until all memory (including swap) is used up. > > This does not happen with xv. It's things like this that will make me miss xv so much. It's

RE: networking windows and linux

I don't want to start a war here and I've refrained from replying to the many other posts, but there are many NT machines which go for weeks and months on end without being rebooted. My departmental NT server had been up for 120-something days last time I was there. I've been on vacation for a fe

Abiword and xset don't work

I'm new to GNU/Linux, and have just finished my first installation. I am running unstable because I want to use the newest version of gnucash. I also want to use Abiword. I used apt-get to install the latest version, but when I try to run it I get an error that it cannot find the Times New Roman

Re: Going slightly spare!

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:42:12PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > > > I'm trying to compile a driver from scyld.com on my Debian 2.2r3 install. > > > I > > > have the kernel source downloaded fr

testing packages not consistent?

I just upgraded my system to all the latest woody stuff as of about an hour ago. Now, I want to install the alsa-source package so I can rebuild alsa for my system (I have an older version, 0.5.10b-6, installed now) But whenever I try to install it, it wants to remove some critical files from my

RE: networking windows and linux

At 06:04 PM 7/6/2001 -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: >I don't want to start a war here and I've refrained >from replying to the many other posts, but there are >many NT machines which go for weeks and months on end >without being rebooted. NT is reasonably stable. A home computer running (e.g., Win9

Re: testing packages not consistent?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >But whenever I try to install it, it wants to remove some critical files >from my system first! > > # apt-get install alsa-source > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: >alien debhelper dh-make

Re: xv alternatives

I like xloadimage (xview), although xv is certainly nice. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

Re: q ad migrating IDE -> SCSI, partition layout

On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 23:10:09 +0200, Joost Kooij writes: >On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> So, basically, I want the system to reside on SCSI and the >> not-so-valuable data on IDE. Does something like >> >> SCSI: >> sda1 /boot 25 MB >> sda2 / 100 MB >> s

Re: Digital camera and Linux

> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> My advice is to buy a camera that uses media that is Brian> supported in Linux. I own a Kodak DC280, which uses Brian> CompactFlash media, and a USB card reader that is perfectly Brian> supported in Linux. I never c

Re: Digital camera and Linux

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > John S. J. Anderson wrote: > > > > On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital > > Ilya> camera which can be used with Li

Re: Keyboard Prob

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:59:25PM +0100, Keri wrote: > Will have a good think abotu this one and have someone > do some searching for the origination. > At least it's a start to one of the reasons why this puppy won't > work. > Actually, I have on several occasions used winmodems without a prob

Re: networking windows and linux

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:04:40PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > I don't want to start a war here and I've refrained > from replying to the many other posts, but there are > many NT machines which go for weeks and months on end > without being rebooted. But that's completely irrelevant, because th

Re: Shutdown -h now FIXED (finally)

> > Does anyone else have a problem with proper soft power off? I > realize > > it's a faq but I've never actually seen a clear-cut answer. I finally read somewhere that with SMP kernels (which mine is, even though I don't have MP), you need to put "apm=power-off" into your lilo append line.

Swapping /usr and /

Hi, After install potato on my laptop, I realize that I would like to swap the partitions for /usr and / .. any idea how I can do this safely? I managed to swap /home and /usr with little hassle but I'm kinda more concerned about / and /usr. Any suggestions appreciated. Andrew -- Andrew Overho

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