Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Greg Madden
; I believe, when the script asks for the path. > > Kent On a recent install of Vmware the config script suggested the following path to the 'include' dir. I am not sure if this means you don't need a headers package though. '/lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP/build/include/'

Re: Debian Download Problems

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Madden
allow you to check other possible issues. I do not know what the Windows or Mac equivilent is to md5sum. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Madden
One search for a pcmcia card hcl: http://www.sot.com/en/linux/server/hcl/pcmcia.shtml I use a Xircom RealPort card. I just noticed that Intel has bought Xircom. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to create a 3.0r1 repository on disk?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Madden
cation you copy the directories to. Not what I would call an elegant Debian tools type solution but should work. Jigdo may be worth a look a for reconstructing a new DVD from the two new sources . You can always use a loop device for mounting the DVD, then use the file location in your sources.

Re: Ogle

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Madden
dvd. You will need a ~/dvd directory and an entry in fstab mounting the actual device to ~/dvd. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dummy

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Madden
n't know about the rpm command being on Debian. > But sure enough, it's on my box, and the man page says indicates that > it'll install rpms. > > Cool. > > Kent I think to be LSB compliant a distro has to be able to install rpm's. RPM seems to be the LSB p

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Madden
'll run > 'deborphan' to clean up any unneeded libs then. > > If I'm not using gnome/gtk, I don't want it on my machine. That's just > the way I am... snip I start with the apps I want to use which then pulls in only the depends needed to run the app.

Re: What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Madden
emote and local. For > the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked > for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. > > Teilhard Knight > The Extraterrestrial You might want to try wvdial or pppconfig. These two do all the conf

Re: Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
Btw, I can't find my answer in the Debian docs, nor has IRC been > helpful - they directed me to inquire here. This is from the config file for the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. This is an alternate kernel available during the install. CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Unistalling Gnome, Wmaker, KDE and re-installing KDE

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Madden
y? Any hint will be > appreciated. > > Have a nice day, > Didier. Dselect or Aptitude work well for this. These both have search functions and the listing can to re-ordered to alphabetical to help find packages. I guess I like to see that everything has been removed. -- Greg Madden

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
nough to not back things up. > > So i'd be happy enough if I could just recover my home directory. :) > > --Azaghal May be off base but what hapens if you create a new partition with the exact same geometry , then mount the partiton without initializing it. The program 'ntfsr

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:58 pm, Marlin Unruh wrote: > ibc-5.3.12-3 There is a libc5 & ldso package available in woody. I don't know for a fact that these are what you need but I use them for an old copy of WordPerfect for Linux. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
php4 will be broken on all architectures. This will be fixed by the removal of the Conflicts: line from the libc6 packages in a forthcoming revision. It can be worked around by not upgrading until that version of libc6 is available; by upgrading to php4 from unstable; or by manually forcing the de

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
or fix depends. You can use 'dselect' or 'aptitude' to add new packages. In this case 'apt-get install libc5 ldso' will work. It may take some time and learning the various Debian tools but it is not necessary to even reboot your system in almost any scenar

Re: LAPTOPS

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
ion. What I have issues with is ACPI support, I haven't gotten it to work on my Sony Vaio. This is an issue if battery life is important to what you are doing. I use mine plugged in so I have the luxury of procratination in dealing with ACPI. I do like my Sony VAIo though, I got the Athlon mo

Re: Postfix Issue

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 07 April 2003 12:47 pm, GBV wrote: > When i´m sending mail... all other internet services are terrible... > that´s because my outgoing bandwidth is fullfiled.. > > Any sugestions?? > > I´m using postfix > > > thanks... OT How about fixing you time/date :

Re: cannot install Woody on P4B533-E

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
stall (using bf42). Anyone > happen to know exactly what to do about this? I've seen that some of > the developers have 4 machines running this motherboard, so I'm hoping > someone has some pointers! > > --Alexander This looks like a likely place to get more info

Re: gimp & gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
what is > avalible via CUPS ? > > Any ideas > Dave I am just begining to work with Cups but so far I can see no way to change some printer driver settings outside of the Cups interface of Kprinter (KDE). The closesest I have come is to change them with Kprinter but this works on

Re: DVD Recording

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:30 am, Joao Paulo wrote: > In cds i use mkisofs and cdrecord. > In dvds i use ? and dvdrecord. > > Tanks. Afaik, you can use mkisofs with dvdrecord. I don't make the iso images myself, I let jigdo do this, but you can use iso9660 to do dvd.

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Greg Madden
:~# This may be one of those cases where using dselect will be more helpfull. Dselect, or aptitude , have search functions. Searching on cups shows cupsys and some other cups related packages, *-gimp-print., etc. There are some foomatic packages that have additional printer drivers also. -- G

Re: Testing the connection

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 March 2003 01:18 pm, csj wrote: > Thanks to the pointers in this list (and 1.2 MB of downloaded > documentation) I have what appears to me to be a crossover > cable. I have the two Linksys NICS slotted nicely in and have > loaded the tu

Re: e-machines , e-one

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Madden
chine but now it does not load the system fron > CD, in the setup it's set that the first boot is on CD, but the machine > ignores it, and goes directly to the floppy disk and later to the Hard > disk. > > Thanks a lot > > Ronny I think Knoppix needs 96mb of memory. Try

Re: Offtopic : MS Linux :) -- joke or ??

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Madden
ll the other flavors of linux distro" > - same OS, same bash, same mta, same apache, ...etc.. Once you read the GPL license you may understand. The BSD license works for MS. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+eozDk7rtxKWZzGsRAkVWAK

Re: Upgrading to Sid Via Apt-Get

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Madden
able/updates main non-free > #deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free > > Is there anything I'm missing (other then mirrors.kernel.org)? Change stable to unstable. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Lin

Re: Kernel Recompile Issue

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Madden
h. # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_FILTER=y - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+e6hEk7rtxKWZzGsRAhM/AKDPypRAMB9ciygJZyHOPFTDiI35KwCghatr +9wvjNqK44o4vP5jUIe6GGI= =3QGA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Can't find NIC module

2003-03-23 Thread Greg Madden
ou got your image from I am not sure that the Debian Sarge netinstall disks are ready to use for installs. As odd as that sounds, afai,k the Sarge netinstall images from Debians site are for some sort of testing purposes only. There are woody images that do work, SIS900 is a part of 2.4.18 o

CONFIG_FILTER

2003-03-24 Thread Greg Madden
cket filtering (see the CONFIG_PPP_FILTER option below). If unsure, say N." My guess at a solution would be to enable this option in the kernel source .config files, as long as it didn't create more issues than it solves. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: preloading modules, sarge netinst cd

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Madden
anks, > > Eliot Stock. I had this experience, tried the business card cd and found a lack of nic card drivers for my card. Tried the netinstall cd and the boot kernel didn't have my nic card module either but there is a new kernel on this cd that you can install that has a full complimen

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
vailable in Sid & Testing. The depends that is no longer avaialble is xlib6g, which has been replaced by libxaw6, libxaw6-dbg, & xlibs. I installed these but there are not recognized as the replacement for xlib6g. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
; Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 under dosemu. > > Do you know where it's possible to get WP5.1 or WP6.0 disks, except > on Ebay? If anyone would know this site would, if it is still active. http://www.wpuniverse.com/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
would switch to OO.org if and when they add WP > inport/export. It would be good to get one more person to rally > OO.org for this. > -Kev http://freshmeat.net/projects/libwpd/?topic_id=857%2C70%2C131 - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Madden
on test releases of the kernel and (2.4.22 is at > least in theory stable). thoughts? i really would rather downgrade my > gcc than my kernel. snip I use the 2.4.22 on my laptop for the acpi support, compiled with the woody gcc. the ide-scsi works fine also, the laptop burner works fine. - -

Re: Which kernel-image for Dual-XEON?

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Madden
ot;stock" kernel, not > a home-grown, for this machine.] > > Cheers, WB I don't know, but I am curious as to what 'proc/cpuinfo' shows as to the number of processors. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEG

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Madden
t; might have excluded something that the kernel needs to set the dma. > What kernel options do i need to have set in order to allow dma=1? > > Thanks. > Benedict Use this command to see what kernel options there are and what is selected in your kernel config file located in /boot. '

Re: Straight to SID...

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Madden
r Sid. I used the Net Install disk for Sarge, it had an additional step available which I liked, you could install a new kernel early on in the install process. This may be the speedup you are looking for. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Madden
'special' driver for a modern ATAPI drive. Load the IDE drivers, a default on any non-scsi system, and you have all the drives on an IDE controller covered. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oCv8k7rtxKWZzGsRApxrA

Re: Debian on Compaq Evo N800w

2003-10-30 Thread Greg Madden
, some or all? has been backported to 2.4.22, afaik. For a newer version of XFree or other packages that aren't in Woody you need to use 'unofficial backports' of which there are quite a few sites to choose from. http://www.apt-get.org/ has lists of these sites. - -- Greg M

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Madden
; What are we missing? Modules: scsi_mod = scsi support sd_mod = scsi disk support st = tape support sr_mod = cdrom In your case it looks like you need the tape & cdrom modules installed. Your kernel must have the aicxxx module compiled into the kernel. - -- Greg Mad

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Madden
erial to upgrade? > > Haines You need a source for Debian Security.Woody only gets updated through the security site. i.e. deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8

Re: Miguel de Icaza on Debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Madden
all Debian. Debian's release cycle is what RH & suse are switching over to. The difficulty must be something other that ever changing libraries or whatever. He could have just complained about older versions of software. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -B

Re: Linux Standard Base

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Madden
t other distros but its not a bad thing. Ask those folks whether or not they have read the spec :) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qfAOk7rtxKWZzGsRAh+9AKCpxRJfGk4JbZ6pPeq6k9oOIXufHQCfVJYY cEUilZA+cDGeJFbWMk/MgVk= =maJ0 -

Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada

2003-11-06 Thread Greg Madden
' in lilo, you will be presented with the various choices which shows the differnt modes. Once you find the one you like you can edit lilo and put it in 'vga=xxx' - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qfTpk7rtxKWZ

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-09 Thread Greg Madden
hot > kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword libarts libkdenetwork1 > libkmid libkonq3 libvorbis0 secpolicy xmmsarts > > That looks pretty bad to me. > > Am I mistaken? It depends, do you have KDE 2.x installed, or some other backport ? If so KDE 3 went into testing about a

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
ng/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst- > >iso ? > > I forgot to specify that I mean the one that's dated Nov 9. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso This one works here, it is dated Nov 9. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
an/dists/stable/main/binary-i386. > > What am I missing? How can there be NO dpkg's in > stable? > > > Drew The packages are in ~/pool. You can search for packages at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BE

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
a package from unstable you will also have to upgrade the libc6 libraries and maybe other depends. I would try to build the package for Woody using 'apt-get source -b '. You will need to have unstable sources in your '/etc/sources.list' file. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux

Re: want to undo apt-pinning

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Madden
me way, hopefully remembering what they all where. If you use the '-s' option with apt-get (apt-get -s install xxx) it will show you what is going to happen witout actually installing aything. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (

Re: DSL and Sound Configuration

2003-01-20 Thread Greg Madden
ian too much to just quit at it. That's why I'm asking you > guys. Any ideas for either of these two problems? Thanks a lot. > > Regaurds, > Kris Kerwin Add the user (you?) to the group that is shown for the device, i.e 'ls -l /dev/dsp' will show 'audio' as the group for the ~/dsp device. Use 'adduser' to do this. You also need to restart x-window for the change to be effective. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Greg Madden
und with a kernel-source-2.4.x package? > > thanks, > macho You might consider using the 2.2.x series of kernel. There is so much in a 2.4.x kernel source that won't apply to a 486. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian on an iPAQ

2003-01-21 Thread Greg Madden
uot;What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?" maybe this ? http://www.emdebian.org/ -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Madden
uot; or something? > > -- > Got Backup? I think 'dpkg --get-selections;' & 'dpkg --set-selecections does this. I haven't used them myself so I can't say for sure. 'man dpkg' -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE 3.0 Package Issues

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Madden
rd and I get a libsensors dependency issue. > > Is there anything I can do? > > Thanks, > Curtis You will have an easier time (and be succesful) if you use 'aptitute' or 'dselect' to do the upgrade. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pioneer 105 DVD ... How to Burn?

2003-01-23 Thread Greg Madden
d 1.3.x didn't work, media errors. Reverting back to the previous version of dvdrecord fixed it though. What do you get from 'dvdrecord -scanbus' or /cat /proc/scsi/scsi' ? dvdrecord does't have any special depends, works just like cdrecord. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pioneer 105 DVD ... How to Burn?

2003-01-24 Thread Greg Madden
nd I > > compiled dvdrecord from unstable sources, 'apt-get source -b > > dvdrecord'. I did notice on another box (unstable) that the latest > > version of dvdrecord 1.3.x didn't work, media errors. Reverting back > > to the previous version of dvdrecord fixed

Re: supported hardware

2003-02-02 Thread Greg Madden
ith no problems. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downgrading to xfree86 3.x

2003-02-06 Thread Greg Madden
/purge all the xfree86 ver 4 packages. Then use dselect to add the ver 3 packages. Aptitude works also. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is wine worth the bytes ?

2003-02-07 Thread Greg Madden
perimental > > What are you're thoughts on this ? > > Sorry is this is really off topic > Thanks in advance, > > Joris Huizer These two companies have commercial versions of Wine available. http://www.transgaming.com/ http://www.codeweavers.com/home/ -- Greg Madden -- T

Re: G550 amd Xfree Problems

2003-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
92 > VertRefresh 50-85 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection I am curious as to why you use the framebuffer driver . The Matrox 550 card has its own driver in Xfree86 4.2.1 (mga). I am not familiar with the use of this card and a LCD monitor or framebuffer technology

Re: good sources.list

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Madden
select-apt' will use the list of mirrors from Debian.org, find the fastest one to your location, then write a sources.list file. Interesting info on different mirror sites. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: good sources.list

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:17 am, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:05 am, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've got a question about apt and dselect. > > ATM sources.list contains: > > > > Deb http://devel-home.

debmirror ?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Madden
182." This is line 337: $ftp->cwd($remoteroot) or die "cwd to $remoteroot failed"; The directory structure is a little different on the internap.com server, they use ~/pub/debian, other mirrors I have tried have ~/debian. I don't know if this is relevant though. TIA -- G

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Madden
hey could do it as a special order, but again, > I'd really just like to say "deliver", and then let a script I've > written rip through /etc/... > > best, > -tony http://www.tdl.com/~netex/software/software.html -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: testing/unstable reccomendation

2003-09-08 Thread Greg Madden
ore reliable and better for someone > who wants bleeding-edge packages that have at least a > safe level of critical bugs? > > = > --Joey-- If 'bleeding-edge is what you want then unstable is the version to use, i.e Testing has the same vesion of Evolution that Woody has,

Re: Upgrading to testing

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
gt; 3. apt-get update I would use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > 4. apt-get upgrade > 5. apt-get install x-window-system > > Are these the best options? - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Z5mQk7rtxKWZz

Re: Sources.list

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
n the command from, it will not replace your existing sources.list. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Z9CWk7rtxKWZzGsRArgGAKDCbb3dxIzH31QvAhEplt3nSUroLQCgi3Ng dFOHTEf8O7dJA1vvvVK7eIQ= =Dc/4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --

Re: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
ng lilo with to much info :) other=/dev/sda8 label="Sid(sda8)" - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Z9Ovk7rtxKWZzGsRAnORAJ0aQeN2pN2BYjAlOgLbw3cNOh8KHgCgoPsM Be25DPBvQCnw91Pv1G+dSmY= =Rdxk -END PGP SIGNATURE- --

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Greg Madden
e vendor is not the one providing the driver, Linux developers are. I would venture a vendor won't guarantee a product they don't produce. I have seen the penquin on a few pieces of hardware I have bought. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-08 Thread Greg Madden
gain after running update-modules powering down and rebooting > usb-uhci still gets loaded > > Help - any ideas on how to get this to work > > Lou Losee You may need the USb 2.0 module. I used modconf to look at all the USB stuff, USB 2 module= ehci-hcd. This may be in addition t

Re: Fw: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Madden
tp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debia > >n woody main non-free > > deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody main non-free > > > > # XCDRoast, cdrtools, pilot-link etc. > > deb http://dc.deb.free.fr/debian/woody/binary-i386 ./ > > &g

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 after apt-get upgrade today from unstable included incorrect symlink?

2002-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
en my unstable box & woody box is the syntax? of the linked file woody: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so unstable: libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so there may be other differences but what is the significants of the additional (-) af

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup

2002-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
is will build a list of modules that will load at boot time. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
does it compare to gimp? It is not Open Source, hence the EULA, and it runs on a Corel version of Wine. It is a bitmap editor much like Gimp. Gimp, being native, works much more reliably, imho. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 05:17 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I > downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. > > Thanks in advance, > mw. You can add a cdrom with 'apt-cdrom

Re: Laptops!

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Madden
ps/hardware are supported by GNU/Linux. One item that is dissapearing from laptops is a real serial port. I had to buy based on that feature, but most hardware I looked at was supported. BTW, I ended up with a Sony Vaio, mobile Athlon-Via chipset. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNS

Re: Do SCSI disks have a MBR (master boot record)?

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Madden
quence selection, IDE or SCSI. If the IDE is selected on a scsi system it will try to boot from IDE, fail , boot from floppy. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptops!

2002-11-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 07:14 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:24:52AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > As mentioned most laptops/hardware are supported by GNU/Linux. > > One item that is dissapearing from laptops is a real serial port. > > This isn

Re: setting up USB

2002-12-01 Thread Greg Madden
the install I selected a PS2 port and then the actual mouse driver. The USB modules were already installed, you can check with 'lsmod'. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scsi errors, how dangerous could it be?

2002-12-01 Thread Greg Madden
never plan on getting that second processor you don't need an smp kernel, but the board rocks with 2 :) -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfree, matrox millennium G450 problem..

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Madden
-- > > > --- - > Thanks, > Louie Miranda I use 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' to configure my Matrox card. Also the V & H are ranges, i.e. v=30-97, h=50-160, unless you are using a LCD. In Woody there is a tool for configuring the Matrox dual head card: mgapd

Re: WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin recommended packages

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Madden
or kernel issue, most kernels by default are setup to handle atapi drives. That said I like to have hwtools & hdparm installed on IDE systems. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QuD5k7rtxKWZzGsRArWLAJ9rqAwBrvOauXtjweMmzZt

Re: Updating and upgrading using apt-get and problems

2003-08-20 Thread Greg Madden
.5-11.2 is installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > What is the problem I have here? What should I do? > > > > = > Hooman > A newbie in Linux world I am not familiar with Nvidia stuff,..but libc 2.3.1 is not from Debian Stable/Wood

Re: Debian and KDE

2003-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
Debian closed down? Uninstall XDM and install KDM, if you installed the task x-window-system you will have to uninstall that first, it is only a meta-package, will not affect other apps. > -- > William Bradley > Come visit us at: > http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org > Fre

Re: Debian and KDE (Update)

2003-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
cannot connect to X server key :0.0 > > I have been able to logon to the internet as "root" using "pon" and > "poff" > > Any and all help appreciated. > > Bill. I think it is a permission issue. You need to be in the gr

Re: What is the Best DVD burner for linux?

2003-08-28 Thread Greg Madden
DE model works as well for me. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ToEek7rtxKWZzGsRAoQWAJwMa83NcQN13lMDz2SZswphVuI53QCgudBI XTaSi6a7lQHqT2vdAfkgcRw= =etZ7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

permissions on .X11-unix file

2003-08-29 Thread Greg Madden
wrong permissions. It is owned by root but the group is user, and X won't start untill I chgrp to root. Problem is this is a manual intervention and it then boots straight to KDE so I can't choose Wmaker. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: What is the most cost effective DVD Burner for Linux?

2003-08-29 Thread Greg Madden
anded and sold for less. Cendyne(sp?) repackages the Pioneer A105 dvd-r under the Cendyne label and chargers quite a bit less. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/T7CGk7rtxKWZzGsRAhATAKCsnyeFDAa29XVJqmi/ajVVMIwGVwCgzmot DhgUw

Re: VIA CPU's - cooling with ICE - shuttle - heat

2003-08-30 Thread Greg Madden
type of system. You can install one and forget about it. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/UQsek7rtxKWZzGsRAmJgAJ9i8DmEq+TYY4H+xO8pGLEL9wgrXACdEzqD jP1a4XyIaTE12lZ66IrNHL8= =jtCd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To U

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
will have to also build. You may need to run 'apt-get build-dep' in order to build your package, you would get an error message to this effect. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U+QEk7rtxKWZzGsRAkNYAJsFII7hg1P+CVa

Re: Sid CD fails as apt source

2003-09-03 Thread Greg Madden
ut everyone who downloads a Sid image must have this problem but I > don't see anyone mentioning this, so what's going on here? Uhmm.. might be a dumb suggestion, but do you have a i386 Sid cd. Sounds like you may have dl'd an alpha iso. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Woody+KDE3.1

2003-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
o use kde3.1 on woody. And can't do it from the net > because i don't have a fast net connection.thanx > > > > Sharninder Singh > National Institute Of Management, Calcutta Delete KDE 2.2 & install KDE 3.1, it only takes a few minutes :) - -- Greg Madden -BE

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
kernel to support the smbfs filesystem? > > Thank you. 'smbfs' is a kernel module that you can load. Checkout 'modconf' - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+gLDwk7rtxKWZzGsRAu8iAKCjxg/krTZraiSx0OyJvO9CShkemQCferEY fhOAUiUzu

Re: Latest Version of KDE

2003-03-31 Thread Greg Madden
info. The packages on KDE's server are aptable, you can find the correct line to add to your sources.list file either on KDE's site or the Debian-KDE users list. I use these two. deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main deb http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1

Re: Installing WordPerfect 8.0 in woody

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Madden
ich normally > uses libc6 and other newer libraries? > > Teemu Luojola I run WP8 that came with Corel Linux so it is a .deb package. Woody has all the depends for WP8, libc5, type1inst if you have the fonts, and a couple more that i don;'t recall from memory. If you get a prompt for a

Re: create an image of a partition

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Madden
executable. http://www.partimage.org/speakimage_index.php3 - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jMQwk7rtxKWZzGsRAsYdAKChHPtNLZX/Uyhvd7at+aZZHMJ7FACcDnaI /QNPKcyon10JqgjbKXyAILw= =QQLg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: installing woody

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Madden
MDK would probe for the device and offer to configure it. Debian does not do this but you can do it yourselff with 'modconf'. All you need to know is the module needed for your device and you do the install with 'modconf'. During the install you are offered a chance to select d

Re: Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread Greg Madden
ent to dlete xdm in dselect, > and it toldthe that the "x-window-system" package depended on it. I can > see "recomends", but depends? x-window-system is a meta-package, hence the depends. You can delete this package , it doesn't delets any other packages. - --

Re: CD label maker - what's your preference?

2003-04-05 Thread Greg Madden
rake, > doesn't seem to be available, at least in the official debian packages. > > Any comments on relative merits / drawbacks for these packages greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks. > nl glabels works here. I haven't tried the others, I was using oowriter & fram

Re: Writing to a usb-device

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Madden
> > 1. Which is the best way to copy large amounts of data to a usb-device? > 2. How can I install Debian on such a device? > 3. hdparm would not work on the device (mounted as a scsi device). > How can I improve the transfer rate? Are you using USB 1 or 2 ? USB 1.x would seem s

Re: cupsys works, lpr does not

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Madden
it appears you had LPR stuff installed at the same time. Start fresh, purge all printing systems except cups. It looks like you are not using Woody so I can't say how to fix the conflicts issue. Cups uses a different printcap file, /etc/printcap.cups. I - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linu

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Madden
without any extra effort > on my part. Just hit "print" in Mozilla, accept the "default/postscript > printer" and it does it's thing... > > -Don Spoon- I don't use mozilla much but I know you can edit the properties on the default ps print

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