2.6.0 + framebuffers + TNT2/GeForce4

2003-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! Has anyone been able to use framebuffers with kernel 2.6.0 and a GeForce4 MX 440 or a RIVA TNT2 Model 64? Thanks! Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Noisy computer

2003-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
It isn't veryfan, but varyfan and it works using the /proc fs and lm-sensors. I tried it and it wants the control pwm2 which apparently is not used by my mobo. But since my fan does not shut up with XP (when I used it last year) and yours does, you probably will have better luck. Google for varyfan

2.6.0 + where is /etc/modules?

2003-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Putting that into the URL box produces NOT FOUND. Big question: What do you do in 2.6.0 with the modules that were in /etc/modules in 2.4.x? Thanks. Hugo Vanwoerkom. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

2003-11-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
wil wrote: Hi, Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:( Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system. HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including surface (advanced) check and was fine. Did an update via dselect yesterday and after that the wh

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no good reason I'd know about. Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (f

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Christophe Courtois wrote: Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 03:42, Wesley J Landaker a déclamé : Then again, as I said, I'm not a native French speaker, and although I've got *fairly* good inuition into a word's gender, I still make mistakes! ;) Don't worry, even French people don't always know all

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Peter wrote: Lukas Ruf wrote: Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-03 10:06]: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:25:13 +0100, Jaque Moreau wrote: ... you can always upgrade manually ... ! can I find the required .deb files anywhere? wbr, Lukas I did a quick search on Google amd found it right

parted: "rather strange layout"

2003-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! I partitioned my new disk with parted. Runs great. However, when I run parted on it now he comes up with: No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet). So you can do anything else, no resizing. Googling my way around I find indica

Re: galeon 1.3.x fuckwittedness -- 1.2.5 fork, anyone?

2003-11-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:15:12PM +0800, Uwe Dippel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I propose "pub", for "power users browser". To four significant digits. Namespace is available in Debian. My own coding mojo is weak, but I know what I like in a browser: http://twiki.iw

Re: Multi-user Ruby (was Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely)

2003-11-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Monday 03 November 2003 22:58, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hold it... If you get this one then you get something terrific besides just getting 4.3.0: XFree86's that will run side-by-side on separate display cards. I am using this one right now. I am logged in on

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ScruLoose wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:04:58PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: uhm... "apropos clock" on my box returns clock (3)- Determine processor time clock (8)- query and set the hardware clock (RTC) hwclock (8) - query and set the hardware clock (RT

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:20, Miernik wrote: Switching between X and virtual console is very slow, (with Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc). Is it possible to have it swich as fast as is switching between virtual consoles? If I set exactly the same video mode on my text console and X (I m

Re: parted: "rather strange layout"

2003-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: I'm interested in this too, so I went looking a bit, and there are many people citing this message in the parted mailing list archives, but AFAICS no responses. So you can do anything else, no resizing. Yeah, well, I don't know if that is exactly the point, but accord

SVGATextMode

2003-11-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! I am doubtful that this gets a response... but here goes... Because I run BACKSTREET RUBY the *great* multi-seat Linux solution, I cannot use framebuffers. So a, perhaps better, solution is to use SVGATextMode, which sets console fonts by writing directly to the graphics card. It, however,

Re: SVGATextMode

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:22:49PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: You really need an answer from someone who uses svgatextmode on your video card; I don't have an nvidia card so can't be specifically helpful. Do your other systems that still work use the same video card

modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition. Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load. If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed by hid". Then if I do insmod /lib//hid.o it gets loaded and the mice can be used. Sure enough when I do "modprobe -c" it shows:

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition. Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load. If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed by hid". You're

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do? Run naked down the street, and then disembowel yourself with a short, dull knife? Punt? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Am I supposed to do something else? I am asking because I

Re: keyboard doesn't respond: assistance needed

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hooman Javidnia wrote: Hi list, I have tried to install debian on my laptop several times and everytime it was a failure. I tried two times with KNOPPIX but each time when computer boots up, in a text login screen I am been asked to enter the user name, but the KEYBOARD doesn't work! But KNOPPIX

Re: problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

2003-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rafael Quintanilla wrote: (Texto en castellano más abajo) Hi members of the list, I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3 catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768 resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S, samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85 Hz).

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Hugo! Just a short note, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213092 might be of interest, too. Cheers, Flo Thanks Florian! That explains why I could not find where modprobe -c gets the above from: it is build into the upgraded modutils! The fix is above h

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Right Kjetil! And I figured out that backstreet-ruby removed it. Yup! :-) I cannot find keybdev anywhere in the 2.4.22 kernel that I am using, except for traces in the documenation, but nothing in .config

Re: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.4496-2.1

2003-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Dear Sir, I have an NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX440] video card that worked fine with the nvidia-glx_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb that I got from Justin A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s web page about nine months ago. Now, during a routine update/upgrade cycle, the package

Re: Using parted without a floppy disk?

2003-09-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Only way to go: Knoppix. It will cost you an iso download, but it is a fantastic system for recovery anywhere on anything. Regards, Hugo Vanwoerkom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
g%3Dd%26hl%3Den BTW Knoppix (the booted CD, not the HD installation) is a great tool to discover if you tuned your system correctly. You have to find out what IDE controller chip your mobo has and enable that particular option in the kernel you are using. It made a world of difference for me... Regar

Re: XFree86 + Signal 11 = Bad Juju

2003-09-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
So may be it is hardware caused, but how to explain that only one program ever gets it? BTW I never see it in XFree86 (4.3.0) Regards, Hugo vanwoerkom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.co

RE: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

2003-09-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
That is the error you get when you don't have the right service activated for your IDE controller chip. What is your controller chip? Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUB

A4tech WOP-35PU optical mouse

2003-09-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi: I got 2 A4tech USB mice for the Ruby Backstreet Multiseat Linux project. They have 2 wheels 2 top buttons and 2 side buttons. Of course the installation folder only discusses Windoze and does not say what the side buttons are for. Has anybody figured out how to use it? Thanks! Hugo. ___

Multi-user Debian

2003-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box, but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard and a mouse. I put them in my box that just runs various flavors of Debian and apt-getted a modified 4.3.0 X and installed the vanilla 2.4.21 kernel and applied a patch. Then I started xdm an

LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I am doing this from memory, so I stand to be corrected. But... You must chroot to the root directory that has the problem and the /etc with lilo.conf. Lilo does that with the -r option: so try lilo -r /mnt/hda1 Regards, Hugo __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shop

Re: Son of Swen?

2003-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Right on. Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! I have Backstreet Ruby installed so I have 2 monitors with kbds/mice that each have a user. The monitors are samsungs 17" but the cards are different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and the other a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x. I notice no difference between the 2 other than that I paid

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! Thanks for those answers! So... apt-getted xscreensaver-gl. gears -fps -delay 0 indeed is the most straightforward app. to show the difference. Left monitor, with the GeForce4: 155 fps. Right monitor, with RIVA TNT2: 50 fps. Quod erat demonstrandum! Hugo _

xinerama ideas

2003-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse and I use them with Backstreet Ruby to have 2 users use the one Debian system. But another use is one user with xinerama. Since I usually sit 17 inches off the tube, I find looking at the other tube, which is 31 inches away, not easy. What in the

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
From: Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2? >> Quod erat demonstrandum! >The nvidia-using-TNT2 will *smoke* the nv-using-GeForce4. Unfortunately with Backstreet Ruby I cannot mix nvidia and nv, so both the figures are with nvidia. Unfortunately that it i

xinerama ideas

2003-10-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! They are sitting so far away because they are normally used to each have a user with its own keyboard and mouse and the PC in between them. That is the Backstreet Ruby multi-user use. So that way I can (at present) boot with each monitor having its own xdm login screen, but way I cannot switc

Re: Multi-headed X servers for multiple local users

2003-10-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Best solution ever seen on Linux: I am using it right now. Have 1 PC running various flavors of Debian, with 2 nvidia video cards, 2 samsung monitors, 2 IBM Model M keyboards, and 2 usb mice. They have patches for 2.4.21, 2.4.22 and are working on 2.6.0 1. I downloaded the 2.4.21 kernel 2. Apply th

Where is modversions.h with kernel 2.6.0-test6?

2003-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! Installing the 2.6.0-test6 kernel with make-kpkg and trying to install the Nvidia kernel module, I get: modversions.h not found. It indeed is not there. Using kernel_image and kernel_headers still no results. Specifying loadable modules -> module versioning produces a modversions.h in /i

Re: Where is modversions.h with kernel 2.6.0-test6?

2003-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thanks! I found the site. Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I spoke too soon: mondo 1.62 does NOT always restore correctly: about half the time it does not and pops out a message that there was no device specified. I appear to have 3 double CD backups and 2 or 3 (I can't tell on one of them) single CD's. Mondorestore works correctly on 2 single CD backups a

mplayer and vsound

2003-08-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
In using vsound with realplayer, realplayer stops after about 10 minutes. So a better alternative to realplayer is mplayer, which I installed from the tarball. It does not stop after so many minutes, but vsound cannot find its temporary file after it runs. Anybody out there use mplayer for music st

mplayer and vsound

2003-08-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Better yet: mplayer does not need vsound. With the -ao pcm option, what you are listening to is dumped as a wavefile. One hitch, unlike the vsound -d option you cannot listen to what is recorded. But the annoying static bursts that used to occur with vsound and realplayer are gone. Mplayer is quit

Europe Charges Microsoft With Ongoing Antitrust Abuses

2003-08-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/06/business/06WIRE-MSFT.html?hp Hugo __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
the primary vc. Other than that it does things well. I would love to create a bootable CD with midnight commander but so far no success. What are the errors you are getting? Hugo Vanwoerkom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design

Knoppix - observations

2003-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I downloaded the Knoppix CD. Booting with it gets: 1. It does find everything, but not perfectly, e.g. the X screen. 2. I have a slowmodem to get onto the internet and for some reason I had to manually fill in the /etc/resolve.conf for anything to be found. Restoring a partition with it: 1. What a

What to expect after XP installation on the other disc

2003-08-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Give him Knoppix that can show him a lot of Debian Linux without having to make any decision. Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

linux(knoppix

2003-09-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Je kunt er in het nederlands over praten hier: http://unix-gg.hobby.nl/forums/index.php?bn=unixgg_knoppix Groetjes, Huug. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian Users! I use make-kpkg to create a new kernel-image for Knoppix and install it using dpkg. The install will go all the way except for a Failed-config because he is trying to create an initrd.img on /boot and cannot because there is no /etc/fstab around. There won't be a fstab because K

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ge"... Thanks again! Hugo Vanwoerkom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I thought too about hold... So I did set the package to hold, has no effect: I apt-get install he gets and first tries to reinstall the kernel-package again, when I Ctrl-c out of that, he installs . May be I'll try the developers group. Thanks!! Hugo. __ Do yo

When is the time set to local time?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
.org/HOWTO/Clock.html#toc2 says to do just what I did except it doesn't talk about /etc/timezone. Is there something else I can look at to find out what is happening? Thanks! Hugo Vanwoerkom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site desig

apt-preferences: is this right?

2003-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! Reading man apt_preferences I can *almost* get it, but being a doubter... As a happy user of Backstreet Ruby, the multi-seat Linux solution, I want to avoid that when Debian testing gets X 4.3.0, that its version will be installed. (Unless Debian will have Backstreet Ruby as an option!

Re: apt-preferences: is this right?

2003-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Schulman wrote: Package: * Pin: origin "www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby" Pin-Priority: 999 I think that will work. Unfortunately, the last time I looked, the "origin" feature is badly documented. So I'm not sure about the quotes, or how much of the URL you need. But for example, I have Pa

Re: xfree86/x-server/x-window

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Henrik wrote: Hello, I couldent find any other place to ask, and no one is intrested in helping in IRC. I have installed Debian, and conifgured it a bit(I think) Now, i need to login with user name and password(Im still in a shell-code, much like DOS) Then X-server tries to run(so i can get a grap

Re: virtual terminals become unusable when starting x on sid

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
navaja wrote: hi, i boot up, and get command prompt login. can use all vitual termninals. then i start x, with "startx" (with login manager i get the same problem). x starts, then i try to go back to a virtual terminal, and all i see is messed up lines going down my screen. thanks And what

Re: Please, no GUI boot.

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:10:20AM +0100, guran wrote: Hi I have a sarge installation and only got to chose between gdm and xdm. I have read the thread on "GUI login screen" and have a difficulty to decide what to do to get rid of a graphic login. regards guran /e

Re: Knoppix on top of woody

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ralph Bacolod wrote: Hi! I just bought a knoppix cd and i want to install it on my computer. I'd be interested: why do you want to install the Knoppix CD? The *installed* knoppix is Debian with zillions of packages. The Knoppix *CD* is Klaus Knopper's super scripts figuring out where everything

More apt-preferences

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! Having been straightened out by Andrew a few posts ago on preferences: he said that for him: Package: k3b Pin: origin debian.org Pin-Priority: 991 did the trick. So I now have as only entry in my /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: origin schuldei.org Pin-Priority: 999 Rationale: the man-p

sarge net.iso

2003-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! Because of previous posts that the "stable" sarge netiso was not booting I downloaded the 11/15 version on Sunday. Very fast server: could do it easy on my 56kb line. It boots. The menu sequence seems messed up: the selection stays put on network install. Debootstrap kept failing with no

Re: More apt-preferences

2003-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Schulman wrote: So I now have as only entry in my /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: origin schuldei.org Pin-Priority: 999 Rationale: the man-page says about origin "fully qualified domain" and "debian.org" is really "www.debian.org" so I did the same for schuldei.org which is really "ww

Re: SVG graphics and mozilla

2003-11-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Howorth wrote: Mozilla crashes whenever I try to display an SVG graphic :( so I'm trying to work out how to display the graphic instead :) I'm running Woody with mozilla 1.2.1 (Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-2.bunk - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1

Re: OT: Flatbed scanner recommendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Dear all, Well, I guess many of you have been through this, so allthough it may be somewhat OT, I hope it can be enlightening. My father needs a new flatbed scanner, something in the NOK 800 range (that's about USD or Euro 110). He has a workstation running Woody with s

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:53:09PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: ... Could you possibly do me a favor and run 'xev', and then put your mouse cursor over it, and hit that button, and then report whether anything comes out? Nothing comes out, when I press it nor when I move it. I never ins

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so I'm trying again. My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to look at the log followed by one asking i

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vineet Kumar wrote: * Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031120 10:19]: * Tom wrote: The ability to launch special applications when I press buttons doesn't "press my buttons" :-) Do they work as back/forward in Moz? That would be useful. (I wonder if anyone has gotten Micro

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: I've been lurking on the #debian-devel IRC channel, some info on lists. This is an unofficial informational posting. If you weren't already aware, several Debian project servers were compromised by what appears to have been a password capture through one of the Debian Develop

Re: usb mouse

2003-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Simon Tod wrote: I'm having no luck in getting a USB Mouse to work... /etc/fstab reports: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 On boot up into a Knoppix 2.4.20-xfs kernel I always get... usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ t

Re: usb mouse

2003-11-27 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Simon Tod wrote: I'm having no luck in getting a USB Mouse to work... /etc/fstab reports: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 On boot up into a Knoppix 2.4.20-xfs kernel I always get... usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ t

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

2003-11-27 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Akira Kitada wrote: Hi all. Refering "debian-reference", I'm configuring Debian for learning debian(and my convenience). One of my intention is make debian auto power-off when I invoke "shutdown -h now". for that, I've done the following configurations. (in /etc/lilo.conf) append

Re: what I'm wondering is ...

2003-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Will there be a sudden flood of the messages that weren't processed in the last several days, or are they just lost? Yep! Reply posted yesterday turned up today. But all this is very interesting: I depend very much upon Debian: its mailing lists and its archives... Yesterd

Re: I`cant create boot disk on fd0

2003-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joxny wrote: I try to create floppy boot disk, but something is wrong. I study method in how-to-bootdisk, and I`d like create single bootdisk with lilo. But when start my system it only write: Uncompresing linux...ok, booting the kernel. and it`s all. Where is the problem ? (sorry fo

Adding packages to basedebs.tar

2003-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi List! I had this crazy notion to add some packages to Debian 3.01r2, because when I create a system from scratch it for one has a terrible console font and for two it doesn't have a decent file manager. So first I discovered upon googling that the way to change the root disk was appended to

Re: [OT] True Spam, was Holiday Gifts

2003-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Dominok wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 14:33, Dennis wrote: Please think of Fairbury Steaks for your holiday needs. We have been in business since 1937, most recently marketing our premium quality meats online at www.FairburySteaks.com -- Check us out there, or call toll free at 1-877-31

Re: Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

2003-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Otto Wyss wrote: Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. I've tried XDM (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), login.app (can't start my otherwise perfect running X). I won't try GDM (requires too much of gnome), KDM (requires too much of KDM). Does anyone know a simple solution? O. Wyss

Re: fonts in Mozilla

2003-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alf Werder wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 06:17, H. S. wrote: In my newly intalled and dist-upgraded Debian system, I get crapy fonts in Mozilla(version 1.5). How do I get the nice anti-aliased fonts? Install 'mozilla-xft'. -alf True. But I note that even after that, my fonts suddenly get bett

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom Badran wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: All I can think of:- 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies Radio Times 1 tin Crapso Olives Peregrino Water 1 box tonic Grab a pack of 12 guiness whilst there :) To continue with this ra

Re: is it possible to use newsgroups?

2003-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
mighty sword wrote: Hi, I am new to all this lists stuff. I have primarily used newsgroups readers till now. I have just subscribed to debian-user list from my linuxmail account, found that inconvenient and unsubscribed, and again subscribed from this yahoo account. So from this new email account,

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that fails there is an error message stating Fatal server error: no screens found. I tried xf86config

Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Cruncher wrote: Anybody know whether and how I can set text modes in the console? I'm running woody, on a Pentium 200 with ATI Mach 64 chipset. I've installed svgalib, svgatextmode and fbset but I can't see how to change my text mode from 80x25. I've put vga=ask in the boot script (or whatev

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Bug in chrootkit. Check Debian Bugs. Has been discussed here before. Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd backup using growisofs. The backup of /usr was succ

Re: Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
M. Kirchhoff wrote: I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well

Re: shopping

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard Kimber wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:05:45 + Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri 28 Nov 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: All I can think of:- 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies Radio Times 1 tin Crapso Olives Peregrino Water 1 box tonic Grab

Re: questions/comments about new sarge installer & LILO

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tripolar wrote: I have used the new sarge installer alot in the last week and am pretty impressed. Thanks to all responsible. But where do you get the iso file from? I still cannot get to gluck on Debian. Hugo. A few things that seem different are 1) the way discs are labeled in lilo for exam

irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! Is there an irc equivalent to linux.debian.user? Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Burkett wrote: I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU resourc

libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I did a Sarge dist-upgrade (after backing up the partition with mondoarchive) and got 71 packages upgraded. It went with blazing speed (4.4Kb/sec) on my 56kb line. However... After the installation I get this error from Xprt: debian Xprt_64: lpc: /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version inf

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! Is there an irc equivalent to linux.debian.user? Yes, irc.debian.org #debian Thanks, Jeromre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eric Dickner wrote: Hello All, I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PCI Bus 1, device 4, function 0) on an Intel Pentium 4 that the debian configuration software never did detect. I went on to try and configure PPP as best I could... When I try to use 'pon' I get messages about looking for ethernet cards

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points by logging into X as root, unless

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Morgan wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:17:41 -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: This is not meant as a smartass answer, but, as "real" modems are relatively cheap, I would respectfully suggest that you consider getting one instead of using CPU cycles running a winmodem. I second that. Even at a hi

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: Gerard Ceraso wrote: I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I have noticed that some of the Ati cards seem to have a bit

Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

2003-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Patrick Beard wrote: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi list! I did a Sarge dist-upgrade (after backing up the partition with mondoarchive) and got 71 packages upgraded. It went with blazing speed (4.4Kb/sec) on my 56kb line. Howe

boot-floppies.tar.gz?

2003-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I would like to understand Woody's dbootstrap, which I understand is hidden in boot-floppies.tar.gz. With packages.debian.org being down, I am having a heck of a time finding it. Anybody? Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom wrote: God, I hate dicking with the kernel. What would be nice is a really well-thought out Wizard that just tells me what to do. My process for answering the questions is pretty formulaic: favor modern features over archaic ones, favor simplicity, and don't use every feature under the sun

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Chema (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. Is there a mirror or e

Luck with sarge-i386.netinst.iso?

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I tried again with the sarge netinst iso from http://freedesktop.org/~daniel/d-i/ But had no better luck than the last time. The menu hilite keeps pointing to network install (forget the exact wording) and does not progress, so you have to do the things yourself. Result is something th

Re: apt-get broken after KDE dev download

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jeff Bauer wrote: I recently installed Knoppix 3.3 on my desktop (2.4.22-xfs). I had no problem using apt-get to grab the latest openoffice, python, xemacs, etc. But after I retrieved some KDE development tools, I'm no longer able to use apt-get. When executing apt-get -f install: Reading Pack

Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:09:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [zealous snip] | debian Xprt_64: lpc: /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information | available (required by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2) Install libgnutls7, or install a different version if you

Re: When will packages.debian.org be available again?

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:51, Neodym123 wrote: Hi! Does anyone know, when the packages list and search on www.debian.org will be available again? apt-cache search Does just fine! Having installed apt-file... apt-file search CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz (previous post) produces

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