Re: Latest MPlayer

2003-02-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Don't use apt for this. Compile it yourself you will be happier. If you want to take the easy route you won't even have to RTFM, just run 'debian/rules' in the source directory (although i would recommend reading the install guide). Good luck, Cameron On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:08:57PM -0

Re: Building a Xinerama kiosk

2003-02-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:56:02AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > I've been asked to build a nice kiosk with a dual-head machine, and I'm > having difficulties with a couple of issues. > > - I need to place a full screen Galeon window in the second head. >Galeon ignores positioning with the

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

2003-03-03 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi (scroll down), On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-03 22:23]: > > > Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the > > order of the fontpaths is non optimal. You probably also have a > > .bak file with the

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:41:46PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > I want to learn shell programming. Thus I went to my university's library and > found a book named "UNIX Shell Programming". The problem is, the book is > written on 1988, and covers shell programming on Korn, Bourne and the C Sh

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, try removing libglide2 (i think that it actually was detrimental to me in the past--i'm not using a voodoo right now tho, so i can't check my settings). also, have you checked your XF86Config-4 to make sure that it hasn't been overriden? Cam On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:32 pm, [EMAIL

Re: Flash player for Konqueror

2003-01-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
ow about versions before that. Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

2003-01-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Thursday 23 January 2003 04:45 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * kernel 2.4.19 has got tdfx compiled in > > This might actually be the problem. Remove the kernel builtin tdfx support > and use the module from drm-trunk-module-src. The DR

Re: GTK, GTK2 Fonts

2003-02-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:02:48PM -0500, Richard Beri wrote: > I am not having fun with fonts in GTK and GTK2. I installed gdm to > replace kdm, so now ~/.gtkrc-kde has no control over the gtk1 fonts > (which it did a nice job of). For some reason gdm wants to always use > the ugly default fo

Re: Mouse cursor wrong after upgrade

2003-02-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:52:13AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > Hello Debian Imperators, > Last night I upgraded my box and my mouse cursor (the arrow) now > appears as a one inch by one inch square of thick, random black dots and > transparent pixels. I heard that X4.3 has a transpare

Re: X windows w/ no screen error

2003-02-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:30:36PM -0500, iggy wrote: > Hi all. My fresh install of debian will not allow me to use gnome as i'm getting >errors with x windows. My question is, what file do I edit to configure screen 0? >Thank you for your time and consideration. -iggy /etc/X11/XF86Confi

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-02-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
f not, how does one get maildir, and what are the technical advantages? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pb with Gnome2 and blackbox

2003-02-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:07:32AM +1100, ~lucas~ wrote: > And now whenever I try and login, both blackbox and gnome load at the > same time. > Dose anyone know how I mite be able to fix this? GNOME2 will start a window-manager, although the GNOME2 official WM is Metacity. You can change the

Re: Need to locate .debs for mplayer2

2003-02-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Just get the sources from mplayer's site, the source is ready for debian so it is very easy to make a package (just run 'fakeroot debian/rules') HTH, Cam On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:34:53PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Anyone know where to find .debs or debian sources for mplayer2?? > Thanks

Re: X windows w/ no screen error

2003-02-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:06:50AM -0500, iggy wrote: > I tried running it several times. > I think I know what my error is. > I'm probably inputing the > incorrect address for the > video card. lspci -vv states > that the address of the video > card is 01:00.0 > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 wants > t

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-name). With aterm, i use the font "-ormaxx-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". I'm guessing you were just trying something like -fn "courier"? xfontsel will be your friend. Good luck, Cameron

Re: Soundcard es1371

2003-02-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:23:36AM +0100, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello! > But when i start xmms and i want to play a mp3 file, i get this error: > > 1. You have the correct output plugin selected > 2. No other Programs is blocking the soundcard > 3. Your soundcard is configured properly > >

Re: Disabling the framebuffer

2003-02-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:58:38PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > In /etc/lilo.conf if I want to disable the frame buffer what d I need to > change the vga= line to vga=normal but you could disable the fb in your kernel as well. Good luck, Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

voodoo3 troubles

2003-02-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
II) TDFX(0): Failed to set dac value, bypassing CLUT ... A quick search on google only turned up source code for the tdfx driver... Anyway, i am at a loss, any ideas? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnustep config problem

2002-10-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, You need this somewhere (like in your .xsession or .bashrc): export GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=/usr/lib/GNUstep/System . $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh then it should work... Cam Richard Weil wrote: > Can anyone provide some advice on getting gnustep > working properly? When I try t

Re: Problem using joystick after upgrading to kernel 2.4

2002-10-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I am running testing, and I just upgraded to kernel version > 2.4.19 from 2.2.21. I have managed to get all my devices working except > for my analog joystick (MadCatz, 2-axis, 4-button) which hooks up to the > game port on my SoundBlaster PCI 128 (es1371). The j

Re: cups wont print

2002-10-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
I am also having this problem (using sid). Cam Jason Pepas wrote: hello, I recently setup an epson 740 printer using cupsys from unstable. I can send jobs just fine, and cups shows them as "completed", and /var/log/cups/error_log doesn't show any problems. But nothing comes out of the print

Re: Alsa + es1371 + oss

2002-10-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
What config do you need? You can't have OSS and Alsa at the same time, but you can use Alsa's OSS-emulation layer stuff. just load the modules snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss and snd-mixer-oss. Cameron Tom Allison wrote: If anyone has a working configuration of this, please send my way. alsaconf is

Re: quake

2002-11-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, I know they're used to be quakeforge packages but i don't know if they're even still in unstable (and they might be in the contrib section?). But i would suggest just grabbing the sources from CVS at quakeforge.net as it changes pretty often. Cam Douglas Orchard wrote: Can someone tell

questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi guys, Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, i kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about it: 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at least i thin

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:56:55PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > * Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 15:44]: > > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at > > least i think it is), is there any fonts or other ways of running mutt > >

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
ok, sorry, i have another question... i guess this one is more about regular expressions than anything... i'm recoloring my headers and various parts of my messages to be a little bit easier for me, so i want to make the PGP output (the lines that start w/ 'gpg: ' the same color as the default head

Re: xfree can't get it to work.

2002-12-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
obably be able to help you better. Good luck, Cameron Matheson On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:07:26AM +0100, Lennart Weijl wrote: > just can't get xfree86 to work.. > just finished my installation of debian 3.0 > > i installed xfree86 and configured it. > but i just seems that

Re: gnome 1.4 rather than 2 w/ unstable?

2002-12-16 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:15:38AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Is it possible to run GNOME 1.4 rather than 2 on unstable? > > My understanding is that there are only 2.x debs in unstable, and that > they will replace the equivalent 1.4 debs. Doesn't this somewhat > violate the principle

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

2002-12-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:59:02AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i was told in a separate thread that whitelisting does not help. > spamassassin still processes the mail. how do i make spamassassin bypass > some messages altogether? i will prefer to do it as a normal user than > as root. You a

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

2002-12-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:55:18PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:17:01AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > You are using procmail to filter your mail aren't you? In that case, > > just move the rule that filters your debian stuff into a d

Re: Need Help getting DRI working

2002-12-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:17:23AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've decided it's time to get Direct Rendering to work. Can anyone > tell me what's preventing it from working? ... > Self-compiled 2.4.19 kernel. > >MTRR enabled. >/dev/agpgart (AGP Support) enabled. >Direct Rendering Mana

Re: Need Help getting DRI working

2002-12-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:57:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Cameron Matheson wrote: > >Hmmm, it looks like you're first problem is that you only compiled in > >generic agpart support, but no actual agp device driver. It looks like > >you should enable 'VIA chips

Re: Trouble implementing PRISM2 WiFi Card

2003-01-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been trying to use my new Wifi card for my laptop with limited > success. I have a Siemens(PRISM2 chipset) card that I cant seem to get running. > The card is recognised by the hardware and the last time I recompiled the > kernel

Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

2003-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Friday 17 January 2003 01:19 am, Joris Huizer wrote: > I've just found cdroms won't mount - and the "zip" > drives don't work either. What exactly happens when you try to mount them? > These are the drives, according to the kern.log : > > hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK Drive > hdb: Maxto

Weird fluxbox menus

2002-09-05 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm having a weird problem w/ fluxbox. For some reason the menus (and all submenus) have a blank separator, and the an 'exit' item (that exits the WM), I tried the menus in blackbox and they are fine. does anyone know what is wrong w/ flux, or how i could fix this?

dhcp/windoze question

2002-09-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
tained Automatically', does this mean i want to use DHCP? Or does Windows have some proprietary method of automatically obtaining IP addresses? If it is DHCP, i shouldn't need to know the default gw or nameservers right? That would be a big relief too me... Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: dhcp/windoze question

2002-09-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
nate wrote: >yeah. if this is a normal ethernet network you should have no problems. >HOWEVER, if the DHCP server is a win32 box you may quite likely have >DNS problems, as at least NT4 seems to add a line feed character or >something at the end of the nameservers it reports, so check /etc/resolv

need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
source (that takes way too long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz, (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go about this? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >two packages: pbuilder and pentium-builder. One makes a chroot for compilin >apps in the other wraps gcc and causes it to use machine level optimizations. > excuse my simplicity, but you could go into a little more detail (maybe an example?), i could probably fi

Re: Loop in today's sid

2002-09-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' solved the problem for me. Cam Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Did a dist-upgrade today and got this... > > Preconfiguring packages ... > Selecting previously deselected package coreutils. > dpkg: regarding .../co

Re: 3d hardware / nvidia driver problems

2002-09-19 Thread Cameron Matheson
share/nvidia-* to learn what you must do (installing the packages is not enough). Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gorm debian package doesn't work

2002-09-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
x27; the error it results in a segmentation fault... should i file a bug report or what should be done? (i'm using sid, on an x86 box w/ the 2.4.19 kernel (w/ preemptive patch)) Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem w/ printing from apps (CUPS)

2002-09-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
r. I tried 'printing to file' my OpenOffice document, and then doing 'lpr openoffice.ps', which also resulted in nothing (all of these jobs do show up as completed in the cups status page though). Any clues? Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT - RMS homepage moved?

2002-09-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I am looking for RMS's homepage. I am getting "unknown host" when attempting > a connect to http://www.slallman.org. Anyone have any info on a current url? I'm assuming this is a typo... but i think it's really http://www.st

Re: eth0: link down problem

2005-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a newbie on linux I am pretty proud that I already have linux > running, apache, samba, dhcp are all up.. Yet I now came accross > something that I do not understand. > I had everything running and now, suddenly the ethernet cad is not > working anymore > > What

kernel panics

2005-05-27 Thread Cameron Matheson
i'm in the market for a new scsi card, just curious which cards have worked for people (i don't want any more problems like this...) Thanks! Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around h

Re: Installing a program from source

2005-05-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
You could (assuming you specified the entire path of which xmms you wanted to load), but i would think it would be a lot cleaner to 'make uninstall' in the xmms cvs source tree when you decide to install the debian version. cameron matheson --- Rhys Hardwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

excluding files w/ tar

2005-06-01 Thread Cameron Matheson
c /var/tmp/* /home/suse then i'm using this command to tar it up: $ tar cv -X /tmp/excludes -p --atime-preserve * -- | netcat 10.1.22.39 80 but all the directories in my excludes file are still being backed up! where am i going wrong? Thanks, C

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

2005-06-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
ack again. Very annoying. > Any idea? oss is just a generic sound system (it won't load any drivers or anything for your sound card... that module is probably loaded already anyway, can you send us the output of lsmod? Cameron Matheson __ Do Yo

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

2005-06-03 Thread Cameron Matheson
sages, or is it definitely loading the wrong driver? (it might just be something as simple as needing to add yourself to the 'audio' group...) Cameron Matheson --- Shidai Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/2/05, Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >

running one thin client?

2005-06-05 Thread Cameron Matheson
for this one-client setup. So what's the best way going about this... just using gdm acroos the network to log in (btw, how is the performance for across the network X?)... nothing i do is too intense, except watch the occasional movie w/ mplayer. any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Cameron Matheson

Staroffice

2000-08-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Now that Staroffice is open source, will Debian include it? Or is it not GPL'd? Cameron

My _simple_ network problem

2000-08-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
for this to work, I don't know how to use telnet, and the man-page was very un-enlightening, so I was hoping one of you might be able to help me. If i was'nt specific enough, please just tell me what info you need, and I'll send it promptly. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Quake II problems

2000-08-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
tion fault What's this? I searched for Signal 11 in the svalib doc, but I couldn't find anything. Something that could possibly be related, is that when we play a network game, all the computers will lock up, and we have to telnet to shut my down. Just wondering if anyone else has exper

Trying to get my Scanner going

2000-06-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
you could help me, that would just make my day. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm waiting for the new Debian to come out, and I need some information about WINE. In Potato, how stable is WINE? Does it run better than windoze? Also, What's the speed like, is it as fast as the app would run in windoze? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

What do I have to do to get my server running?

2000-08-03 Thread Cameron Matheson
twork. Any help would be appreciated. (My server will be somewhat useless, as their are only two computers it's serving, but I'm doing it for the learning experience) Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

2000-08-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
ter, but then it just tells me that their is no kernel image 'default'. Just wondering how I can load the CD's kernel image. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: ### a problem with installing Deb 2.1

2000-08-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
ot; > none of the > selections seems to work. What kind of CD-ROM are you using? If you watch the boot-up messages it will tell you what the device your CD-ROM drive is on (e.g.. hdb, hdd, etc.). Then just choose the correct device from the list and it will mount it for you Hope it helps, Cameron Matheson

Re: USB with potato

2000-08-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
You'll have to get a patch for the kernel. I can't remember the URL, but you could probably find it if you searched for 'USB patch for kernel' on google. Cameron Matheson "Tibor D." wrote: > > Hello, > Could anyone give me a hint where to enable USB

SCIOSFLAGS: Resource busy

2000-11-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   Trying to get my DSL working, but I can't get my network card to work.  If I say `ifconfig eth0 up`, then it gives me the error:   SCIOSFLAGS: Resource busy   What does this mean, and how do I fix it?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

SCIOFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable

2000-11-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
d be wrong here?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Simple network card problem

2000-11-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
ly 10.  It tells me that in Windoze, and while my computer is booting up (before LILO starts).  I tried compiling the 3c509 module and insmod-ing it like this `insmod 3c509 irq=10`, but it still detects it at 9.  This has me stumped, so I'm hoping you can help.   thanks, Cameron Matheson

basic xscreensaver question

2000-11-16 Thread Cameron Matheson
sets it in my bashrc.  What would be a better (global) file to put that it so all programs could take advantage of it?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

global file for exporting variables (not profile)

2000-11-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I need a file that I could export variables such as MESA_GLX_FX (ones that do not depend on the shell), but I don't know of one, please, if you know of one, share it with me.   thanks, Cameron Matheson

Is X using Xdefaults?

2000-12-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I was just wondering how I would test to make sure that X is reading my ~/.Xdefaults file.  I set it up so that netscape should have scroll mouse support, but it hasn't changed anything.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

[OT] Anyone got Neogeo working with mame (or other emus)?

2000-12-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
y one else experienced this?  If so, how did you fix it?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: CD Audio tracks/file system

2000-12-23 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I had to open up the xmms properties, and then enable the CD plug-in. It will probably ask you what device name it is, etc. But after that, it worked fine for me. Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, Decem

Can't start rpc.nfsd

2000-12-26 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I have a slight problem with my file-swapping.  When I try to start rpc.nfsd, it gives me the following error:   nfssvc: Function not implemented   I have no idea what this could mean, or how to fix it.  Please, if you know what's going on, help me.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

2000-12-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, That only happens to me when I'm already playing a sound (other games, MIDI's, etc). I would make sure no other processes are running, and also that your sound is configured properly. Cameron Matheson - Original Message - From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Voodo3 3000

2000-12-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
This card is beautiful. I love it, my friends love it. I've tried on on X3 and X4, it's wonderful on both (slightly better on X4, but then older games that don't support DRI don't work). I would definately get this card though, good stuff. Cameron Matheson - Origina

kernel is using 50M of memory

2000-12-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory.  I was rather disturbed, and wondering why   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Xemacs won't run

2000-12-30 Thread Cameron Matheson
hanks, Cameron Matheson  

[OT] How to create MPEGs

2000-12-30 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   Just wondering how I might go around to creating MPEG's with Linux.  Any links would be helpful.   thanks, Cameron matheson

[OT] all you emulator folk, please read this

2001-01-01 Thread Cameron Matheson
as Playstation.   DREAMCAST: I Don't think this has ever been emulated at all   Anyways, if you guys can think of any others I need to know about, please share.   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

sharing internet between WINDOZE and LINUX

2001-01-01 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   My family's crappy windows computer has this beautiful DSL connection, which I have lusted after for many months.  Anyway, I can't steal the modem or anything, so I was wondering, is their a way to share a window's internet with a linux box?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson  

TWAIN compliant digital camera

2001-01-01 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   My friend got a USB digital camera for Christmas.  It's TWAIN, so I was wondering if I could use it with Linux (with SANE or something).  If their is, could you point me towards some documentation?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Voodoo 2 in Linux

2000-04-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   My friend is thinking about buying a Voodoo 2, but I told him I should make sure it will work in Linux.  I had heard that the Voodoo 3 is hard to set up in X Windows.  Will the Voodoo 2 work?   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Autoloading modules with kernel 2.2.14

2000-04-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
like this:   # /etc/modules /usr/src/linux/modules/sbpcd.o sbpcd=0x230,1 /usr/src/linux/modules/lp.o   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

/dev/mem and /dev/kmem

2000-04-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
't know what else to do (besides changing permisions, but I wasn't sure if that would be a good idea). What can I do? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

help me with apsfilter setup

2000-04-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
at is the program to configure apsfilter with? Thanks Cameron Matheson

when's potato stable?

2000-04-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Just wondering how much longer until potato is stable. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

OPTi sound card support

2000-04-27 Thread Cameron Matheson
g slink if that makes a difference. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

(very URGENT!) hung up on install

2000-05-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
ecify your device name on cmdline, in order to avoid this step . Different baud rates are tried at different times It's not doing anything though, even when I move the mouse and press enter. What do I do? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Unzipping utility

2000-05-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I used to have an unzipping utility (for .zip files) called unzip that I got from cnet.com. I couldn't find it anymore, so I was wondering if anyone knew where I could get it. Thanks Cameron Matheson

SNES joy-console questions

2000-05-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I just made a SNES gamepad into a linux gamepad (I followed the directions in joystick-parport.txt). Anyways, I got it to work (I'm using a module with 2.2.14), but the response seems to be really slow. Is their anything I can do to speed it up? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

108-key keyboard in Slink X Windows

2000-05-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
oard I found was 104 keys (other than the 106 key Japanese keyboard). So I was wondering if their is support for my keyboard, and if not, if potato will have a version of X Window that will work with this keyboard. thanks, Cameron Matheson

Unreal 1 on Linux

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I know you can get Unreal Tournament working for Linux with a patch, but I was wondering if their was a patch for Unreal 1 too. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

XScreenSaver

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I was just wondering how I would get xscreensaver to start up at the beginning of every session in X. I'm using WindowMaker on Slink if that matters. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

WindowMaker .61 in Slink

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
.xpm" /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: RGetXImage I'm stumped, what should I do? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Couple questions

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have two questions: What's the difference between typing 'su', and 'su root'? -and- Are their any noticable differences between the 2.2.14 kernel and 2.2.15? Thanks Cameron Matheson

[OT] GTK-- 1.0

2000-05-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
O. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Changing user name

2000-05-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I want to change my user name from fatmike to cmatheson. Is this possible? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

When's the potato test-cycle done?

2000-05-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I was just wondering how long this potato test-cycle would take. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Can't compile GTK programs in Slink

2000-05-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Whenever I try to compile GTK+ or GTK-- programs, It says it can't find glib-config.h. I have the rest of the glib headers, so I don't know why I don't have this one. Anyway, Does anybody know what package that file would be in? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

isapnp.conf

2000-05-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
ksum 13] # ANSI string -->PLUG & PLAY ETHERNET CARD<-- # Logical device id EDI0119 #Device support I/0 range check register (CONFIGURE EDI0119/236861364 (LD 0 Where can I find out what the logical device id (and serial no) are? Somewhere in /proc? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

X11 Quake1 display problems

2000-05-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey When I start Quake.X11 on Debian slink, It brings up the window, BUT when it does one half of the widow is black and the other is displaying the game in a greenish tint. If you have a solution I would appreciate it if you E-mail me back. thanks Jordan Swain

Getting free ISPs to work

2000-05-27 Thread Cameron Matheson
PPPconfig). Please, if you could give some help, that would make my day. Thanks, Cameron Matheson Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.

FTP uploader on Slink?

2000-05-27 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm wondering if anyone could suggest a good uploader on Debian Slink (preferably graphical). Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

2000-06-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
  Hey, I'm sorry even to mail the Debian list about this, but I can't find this information anywhere.  I'm wondering what a function would be in C++ that I could use to clear the screen at the beginning of the program (this is just a console program).  Sorry to bother you.

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