Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson scribbled... > Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing > C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. > Thankyou. I've heard a lot of people like KIDE for KDE. Personally I prefer gvim and

Re: LAN setup

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
> I've got my LAN set up and running, and so far so good. I'm using a > gateway/router/firewall (hadrian) to stop unwanted traffic and allow > internet access and LAN access to everybody else. Then I have > gashuffer, my main workstation, and a Win box that my girlfriend uses, > and an occasional

Re: plz help me i am new to linux

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
> I am new tolinux i have a problem. > debian linux. i am using "gcc"(for c++ i m using g++) to compail my c++ > program . > i try it but it will not work. > i write my program in c++ using "vi" and save it in a file new1.cc > then login as root and run this comand root:/g++ -o new1 new1.cc > it r

Re: mac alternative to wine?

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
> I installed wine on my potato box and have > really enjoyed it! > I'm interested to know if there is a similar package > for apple programs? I've heard of them for powerPC linux distros, but not for x86. The slowness you'd experience from having to emulate the powerPC architecture would be unbear

Re: plz help me i am new to linux

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
> I for one wouldn't do it for myself as a normal user either. Typing the > extra ./ is not much extra effort for the safety it provides. I do the same, I was just suggesting an option. If a file isn't in one of the system (s)bin dirs, $HOME/bin, or $HOME/perl, then it has no business running on m

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:33:30PM -0500, Kelly Kwasniuk scribbled... If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web page. :)

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
> If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web > page. :) > > __ > > I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial > > Bruce<+> Now that you mention it, it looks like the kind of email address that gets sent to my junk_mail file 5

konqueror browser emulation

2002-02-01 Thread Jason Majors
I vaguely remember being able to send a customized identification string in Konqueror, but I can't find it now. Is that still possible? I'm using 2.2 from Sid. Thanks, Jason

serial mouse

2002-02-04 Thread Jason Majors
I've installed Debian on a friend's ancient machine that has a serial mouse connection. X fails to load because it can't find the mouse. If the serial mouse is connected to the first serial port, what device do I need to link to /dev/mouse? Thanks, Jason

Re: e100 keeps up and down

2002-02-04 Thread Jason Majors
> Hello list, > My dmesg is filled with the messages: > > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half duplex > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half duplex > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half duplex > e100

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
> > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > > Device is not ready or in use. > > > > I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Ke

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
> my mom is (still) having trouble with a d-link 8139 dfe+ pci nic. i've > used them on 3 pc's, with both potato and woody, and both 2.2.x and > 2.4.x kernels. she was running a vanila potato install, with the > 2.2.19pre1 kernel. rtl8139 (using modconf) failed to insert. she tried > everything...

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller card Support

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:40:15AM +1000, Maurice Helwig scribbled... > I am new to linux and I have decided to use Debian. My problem is that I am > using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card. Promise do not seem to > provide a driver for it although I was told that they do when I bought t

usb mouse

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
How do I get a USB mouse to work? I'm running Sid with kernel 2.4.17, and have enabled: CONFIG_INPUT CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV CONFIG_USB CONFIG_USB_UHCI CONFIG_USB_HID I have an Asus K7VE with the KT133 chipset and a Logitech USB mouse. Thanks, Jason

usb mouse [added some detail]

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0700, Jason Majors scribbled... > How do I get a USB mouse to work? > I'm running Sid with kernel 2.4.17, and have enabled: > > CONFIG_INPUT > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV > CONFIG_USB > CONFIG_USB_UHCI > CONFIG_USB_HID > > I have

Re: Gnome problem

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> Ever since my last update adn upgrade gnome has been acting really > wierd. For one, I no longer have any icons on my desktop and when I > right click on it, nothing happens. I have also noticed that my system > as a whole is more and more sluggish. Programs have also been crashing > at random

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command? I need > this for the remote control of my TV box. I tried changing permissions, but > that didn't help. --Hans > I just did chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown But you have to rerun it whenever you update that package.

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people using > MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? One that will let me log in > to hotmail.com as well? If by hotmail.com, you mean the web-based email service, try Konqueror (I noticed you're using KMail, so I guess y

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> Is there any obvious solution (like I picked the wrong mouse driver?) or does > amybody know what the command/ioctl to reset the PS/2 bus is so that I don't > have to restart X? > There's a similar thread (with the same subject I think) running right now. Both the poster of that message and I

Re: usb mouse

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
> Goto /dev > Then run "MAKEDEV input" Ahh...I tried mkdir /dev/input; cd /dev/input; MAKEDEV mouse0. > > You can check to see if the mouse is working by typing the following: > "proc /dev/input/mice" > > wiggle the mouse about, if you see characters on the screen the mouse is > probably working

Re: ethernet issue

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:54:35AM -0800, Shaun scribbled... > I'm used to use Red Hat. All the ethernet drivers and etc were called > /dev/eth*. In debian is this > the same? All I see is /dev/gre*. does that mean that my NIC isnt being found > by the kernel? > Before you can set it up you need

Re: Network card problem

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
> My Network Card is a D-Link DFE-550 TX. 8139too? > > I tried to find the driver and I found it several times. Also from the > webpage of D-Link. But they were not comipled . So I compiled them in > Linux and than I wanted to add them in the list (I don't know the > correct technical words for t

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:48:41PM -0500, dman scribbled... > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > ... > > I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch > in my case) wasn't the Right Way. > > | The 486 that connects to the internet also d

kdm and sourcing rc files

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I started using kdm to control my login and have two problems. When I logged in on the console and ran startx, it would source my .bash_profile at login, and my .xinitrc during startx. Now neither is sourced. I copied the contents of .xinitrc to .Xsession, but the two commands in there are not acti

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
> I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? I've heard that if you defrag the partition immediately before resizing it, you won't lose any data. If you're of a commercial bent, you could get a copy of par

apt-get dist-upgrade problems

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to do apt-get dist-upgrade with the following sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free I get the error: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configur

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
> Who should I report this to? And what information should I provide? > I'm also looking to try an other mouse (mayby it's the optical thing > thats buggy?) It's not an optical issue. I have the same problem with a PS/2 ball-style mouse. As long as the mouse sends the right signals, how it genera

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> i want to change my laptop disk from 5 Go to 20 Go > But I do not want reinstall my debian. > I moved my /var once and had some problems, and here's what I learned: Do not simply tar/copy/etc. a running /var partition and expect it to start properly at the next boot. I forget the spe

Re: Connection Via FTP

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> Just a very quick question. Is there a feature in Debian Linux that lets you > connect to a server via FTP and lets you upload and transfer files? Also > would it be a problem if the connection would be via a 56K Modem? Yes, they named it 'ftp' to confuse people though..evidently somebody isn'

Re: New to Debian and Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> I am very new to Linux and Debian. What would be the first move in trying > to learn Debian? > I recently brought the "Learning The Bash Shell"? Read the docs at debian.org, install a system (the people on this list can help), and use it. I learned by doing and making mistakes. If you want to b

Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
I keep getting the following error when I run apt-get anything on one of my boxes: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): md5sum gave malformatted output `fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e' Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 I've tried removing th

Re: Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine > with the same version, right? > Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy? > If different files, do they match? Trying new package files doesn't change anything. Somewhere in it's caching, dpkg remembers th

ip forwarding under 2.2.17

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Majors
I have a firewall with two network cards running Sid with kernel 2.2.17. I have the following rule: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $IP_REAL 22 -R $MAGNETO 22 And it works fine. IP_REAL is the dhcp granted IP from my ISP, MAGNETO is the ssh server behind the firewall, and MYSTIQUE is the

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Dear People, > > I got the following quote for a computer (now quite old). I am thinking of > going with this, with the modification that I'll be using the Microsoft > Intellimouse Explorer instead of the Logitech. > | MBABKG7| Abit KG7 | 1 | > | CPUAMDXP1

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Majors
> No way! Those drives are very much worth the money. How can you > compare a 7200 RPM IDE disk to a 10k RPM SCSI disk? IDE is cheap for a > reason. It's junk. Don't put junk in such a nice machine! I like the evidence you gave in support of your argument...oh wait...you didn't give any eviden

Re: /dev/mixer missing

2001-03-25 Thread Jason Majors
You can use MAKEDEV. On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung scribbled... > Hi, > > Since I upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 I don't get my sound to work (which it > did under 2.2.17) > I can't set up any mixer because I don't have such a device anymore - > don't know why. Did I miss s

Re: deselect - bignner tutorial

2001-03-25 Thread Jason Majors
Look on the debian.org site under documentation. Or if you can't find it there try a search on google. I'd suggest not putting a whole lot on with dselect (I don't like it much), then use one of the apt-get front ends (like gnome-apt) to do your installs. On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:16:18AM -0800,

Re: Cable Modem

2001-03-25 Thread Jason Majors
I have @home and don't use dhcp. They don't change IPs (at least not in the two years I've had mine), so you're safe using a static IP. You can make the hostname and domain anything you want, just put in the right IP, gateway, and DNS servers and you're all set. I don't know about the interactive p

Re: Printer reccommendation

2001-03-26 Thread Jason Majors
I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're pretty reliable my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started doing so, right after the warranty ran out, so I'd recommend against Epson (but then that's only one printer, it could have been a fluke), and there's not a whole lot of

Re: Pentium 4

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
Go to tomshardware.com and look at his comparisons of P4s and K7s (in the CPU guide). Tom seems to think that an athlon 1200MHz is better than a P4 1500MHz. The P4 has a horrible FPU, so don't do any scientific calculations on it, unless you optimize the code for SSE (which will make it pretty fast

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:24:53PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti scribbled... > Hi All! > > I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried > out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I > may not noticed so far): > > - It broke my lilo, leavi

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
Check out the net-3 howto. You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a hub and switch is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can allow a maximum of 100Mbps of traffic (so two machines trying to transfer files from a server would get 50Mbps at most), and a switch allows 1

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:07:48PM -0500, D-Man scribbled... > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:46:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > | Check out the net-3 howto. > > Ok, thanks. linuxdoc.org I assume. > > | You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a >

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:44:11PM -0500, William T Wilson scribbled... > One thing I forgot to mention clearly in my other post is that you *do* > need a box to proxy the traffic of the others on the Internet, regardless > of whether you use a hub or a box-of-NIC's. > > If you have an analog mode

Re: xf86Setup

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
By different virtual terminal it means terminal 7 (Alt+F7). It has nothing to do with xterms. Sounds like X doesn't like your hardware or your config. On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:57:27AM -0800, Tim Boring scribbled... > Hello! I've successfully installed Debian 2.2r2 but > am now trying to configu

Re: your mail

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:12:59AM -0800, Shannon Menkveld scribbled... > I am really confused... I downloaded several .deb packages from > ftp.debian.org on my machine at work, and burned them to a CD-RW to take > home. I copied the files to a directory /home/Backups/debian, and added a > line t

Re: speaker sound for my laptop

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
With mpg123 you can redirect output to the pc speaker (if you like ultra-low quality playback... :). mpg123 -o s ... Don't know about redirection on a system wide level. On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:12:54PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson scribbled... > I currently get a beep or two out of my laptop speakers

Re: Enlightenment and Gnome won't work

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
Run (as root) apt-get install enlightenment task-gnome-apss task-gnome-desktop If it fails reply with a copy of your error messages, so we can get a better idea what's wrong. On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:13:40PM -0600, Micah Bogdan scribbled... > hi there debian! sorry to bug you but when i installe

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:56:59PM -0600, Kent West scribbled... > Barry Mathieu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > > transactions? > > > > Each time I attempt to

Re: Linux Version

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
You could put any distro on that box...debian might be best, simply because it doesn't use X by default, and you will not want to run Xwindows on that box, unless you're a serious masochist! I would suggest a RAM upgrade, 8MB is the bare minimum, I'd also suggest a general hardware upgrade if you h

strange error files

2001-10-17 Thread Jason Majors
I get strange empty error files in my root directory. I have no idea what causes them. Here's a listing: -rw---1 root0 Oct 12 21:49 errs3IY3FQ -rw---1 root0 Oct 15 20:56 errs83W4Qt -rw---1 root0 Oct 16 22:48 errs8oJuts -rw---1 root

X sessions die when using KDM

2001-10-19 Thread Jason Majors
When I use KDM to start X, after logging in it goes right back to the kdm login screen. I can login from the console and run X with startx without a problem though. Here are the lines from applicable logs: auth.log Oct 19 12:12:21 scd714 PAM_unix[692]: (kde) session opened for user jmajors by (ui

Re: RedHat vs Debian?

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Right. I'm running all woody (unstable) at home and on a couple > test boxes at my office. Problem is management is looking for some > "studies" and the like I can point them to showing a comparison. > Things like which d

Re: ipchains & home user

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
The minimum is none. :) I don't know if you really need firewalling...do you have a network on the other side of that machine? What you probably want is just to close down ports you don't use. Use nmap to see what ports are active and close those you don't want or need. That should give you pretty

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: > Hi > I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 > partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the > installation of Debian, I am not able to boot into Win2k. I checked > /etc/lilo.co

using mailman and exim

2001-08-31 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to setup a simple mailing list using exim and mailman. Every minute when the cron runs I get this: Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(16682): Traceback (innermost last): Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(16682): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 275, in ? Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(1

using pipe in .forward with Exim

2001-09-19 Thread Jason Majors
I use exim for my mailserver and its .forward file to do my delivery. I have this at the end of my .forward file: # The rule to go to the inbox. ###

ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we can download and install a version of X that will work. I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to connect. I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP address for the ppp c

Re: New woody machine, can't ssh to it.

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> look this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -1 localhost > Permission denied. > > but... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -2 localhost > Password: > > I'm using OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 from woody. > > In Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:10:38 -0500 > Acheron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First, is the ssh daemo

Re: ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> > I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we > > can download and install a version of X that will work. > > I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to > > connect. > > I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP a

Re: kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> I've been trying to set up a small home LAN (just two > boxes) with the addition of a SmoothWall firewall. I > think I've enough gen to make a fair go at it, but I > just can't get 2.2.19 kernels to enable support for > RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet Adapters, and can't > understand why. You hav

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> hi all. > > im just a newbie, both to unix and linux. > > i installed gdm, and now, when debian boots, it boots > in graphical mode. > > how do i set it so i can make it boot on text mode? i > want to start x windows via startx, not whenever i > boot. I did it by doing 'apt-get remove gdm' as

exim error?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local or remote, using mutt I get this message: Error sending message, child exited 1 (). When I use mail on the command line, I get no error, but the mail is never delivered. It worked fine until a few days ago. I haven't done a

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > convert it to an audio file on my computer. > Thanks. If you have a line in on your sound card, you can use it.

Re: exim error?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:38:19PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker scribbled... > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 18:59, Jason Majors wrote: > > I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local > > or remote, using mutt I get this message: > > Error sendi

Re: ppp connection

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> > > I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so > > > we can download and install a version of X that will work. > > > I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to > > > connect. > > > I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even g

Re: power down

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:31:29PM -0800, Alan Su scribbled... > as long as you have the kernel option to "power off on shutdown" > selected, it should do the right thing. if the screen is black, it > sounds like it has. is the fan still spinning? is the disk still > spinning? are you sure the

Re: exim error?

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> >> What does it say in /var/log/exim/* ? > > > >Not a thing recently. > > You want help and that's your response? Heh. > > Post some of the logs pertaining to the specific message so we can sort > through them and look for a problem. Although it is possible, I doubt your > logs are completely

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your full e-mail address > and password, but my Internet Explorer does this automatically. And IE > is *all* I use. I only signed up with EL *because* I wouldn't have to > use their software. > The next step, of course, is to get rid of IE. I'm re

dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to setup dhcpd on one machine and setup my notebook as a dhcp client. I have this as my /etc/dhcpd.conf and have started dhcpd, but the notebook won't connect on dhcp. Any ideas? Thanks, Jason #dhcpd.conf # option definitions common to all supported networks... option domain-name "kwi

Re: ...and then add a nic

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> I have another question about installations. If you install Debian > with a network card, a number of files/settings are presumably > createds. Yup. > > If you install it with out a nic, I assume that these network specific > files and settings are not created. If a nic is subsequently added, >

Re: dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> --exec /usr/sbin/dhcp eth1 eth2 > hth, I only have one nic in this box, so it's either that or lo. But I'll try that when I get home tonight. > > Mike > > Quoting Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm trying to setup dhcpd on one machin

Re: power down

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> Did you try to make APCI-modules and install apcid ? The modules you'll need > for power down > are "system" and maybe "button". In my case that showed good (i.e. the > expected) results, > while the ACPI-"bus" module totally spoiled performance. > Using APCI in 2.4.17 worked for the powerdown

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > > about > > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > > > > I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This > > is quite an adventure. Wi

Re: Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> I am having trouble using my Micro$oft PS/2 wheel mouse under X. > When I run startx (as either a regular user or root), the desktop appears > normal, but moving the mouse causes random buttons to be pressed, and the > pointer moves in random directions. I had this. I removed gpm (apt-get r

Re: Color control in Mutt & Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... > I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and > exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- > culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other pair

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> This may sound like a stupid or minor question but i'd really like to > hear from all of you why do you think Debian is great, in > comparison to ALL of the other Linux distributions out there! > > For me , the Apt package managing tool solely is like 50% of the > reasons i like Debian for! ;) A

Re: exim error? FIXED by embarassed idiot.

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:02:12PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck scribbled... > > >Actually they are. > >here's the ls: > >-rw-r-1 mail0 Jan 24 01:08 mainlog > >-rw-r-1 mail 377962 Dec 21 06:23 mainlog.0 > >-rw-r-1 mail 100 Jan 23 19:29 paniclog > >

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Almost any (choose your expletive here) can install a Microsoft product and > almost any (same expletive here) can install Red Hat. Think people, don't > just follow a fad. Honestly, I think the debian install is just as easy as RedHat and easier than win98. When I install windoze, it tells me w

Re: Mouse stops in xfree86 4.1.0

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> I have a serious problem that I think is with xfree86 > 4.1.0. I boot into x-windows, KDE or gnome and can > only use the mouse for about 1 minute before it stops. > The mouse locks up as I move across window or applet > boundaries. Some of the time I can hit the enter key > or alt-tab and the mo

Re: CD-ROM issue

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I was having trouble > finding out what parameters to > pass to the kernel during an install to allow the cd-rom to work. I have been > through the mailing > lists, debian documentation, and linuxdoc.org, and found nothing. SCSI vs. IDE? Cable n

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> | Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in > | Debian. Depends on the chip. In my machines I've go a aureal vortex 2 (I had to compile a driver from sourceforge), an sb16 (picked the module at install), an es1371 (picked the module at install), an sbLive (had to recompil

Re: ppp connection doesn't work

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Just switched from SuSE to Debian potato. Can't get my ppp connection to > work. I'm pretty sure I configured wvdial correctly. It dials, logs in, then > it says PPP negotiation detected, Starting ppp at . Nothing > more. None of my browsers work. Can't open any internet site. When I try > Gnome

Re: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes > and whether the program has to run at boottime > to have the setting take effect? does it belong > in an rc script? Settings like dma do not persist between reboots. You need to either compile it into your kernel or add it to a startup scri

Re: Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
> I am trying to clean out my potato. I recently removed network news, inn2, > because I installed it by mistake, thinking it was something else than it is. > I removed it by using dselect and marking it for removal. > It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run > > rnews -U > > every hou

kdm won't start

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Majors
I run /etc/init.d/kdm start as root and it says 'done', but kdm doesn't run. I can run gdm and kde just fine. I enabled verbose logging for kdm and got the following in syslog, but it doesn't tell me much. All config files for kdm are the .deb defaults and all kde packages are from Sid as of 07:00

dhcp and default gateway

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Majors
I have my network set up to use dhcp. The clients can connect, ping, ssh, etc. to the server, but they can't connect beyond my gateway. The only part of my static network setup that isn't present in my dynamic setup is the default gateway. How can the dhcp server tell the client which default gatew

Re: dhcp and default gateway

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Majors
> > > I have my network set up to use dhcp. The clients can > > > connect, ping, ssh, etc. to the server, but they can't > > > connect beyond my gateway. The only part of my static > > > network setup that isn't present in my dynamic setup is the > > > default gateway. > > > How can the dhcp server

Re: AMD's PowerNow?

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
> > So, any comments on how ACPI helps? Can it exploit PowerNow or is it > > something else that makes it run cooler? > > The main trouble with ACPI on Linux appears to be that Linux's support > for it is still in fairly early stages and may or may not be stable > (ACPI is a pretty complex way of

Sendmail and local addresses

2001-05-10 Thread Jason Majors
I have several machines, one acts as a mailserver, with an MX entry and all. The others are clients that know to use the server as a smarthost. When I send mail to a local account, I get an error from the smarthost server saying that the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] can't be found. But when I add the

Re: Sendmail and local addresses

2001-05-12 Thread Jason Majors
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:28:00PM -0400, Richard A Nelson scribbled... > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > > > I have several machines, one acts as a mailserver, with an MX entry and all. > > The others are clients that know to use the server as a smarthost. >

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-13 Thread Jason Majors
The 3c59x kernel module covers that card. On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0700, The Reutzels scribbled... > I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C > are not for Debian. Could anybody help point me to the right place to get > these drivers so I can get

Re: Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread Jason Majors
Do you have the necessary modules loaded to use a printer? Do you have an entry for it in /etc/printcap? How is your networking setup? Is it cable? DSL? dialup? And how is it configured? You need to provide details in order for people to help. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:09:12PM -0700, Sidney Brook

debian and oracle clients

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
I've convinced my employer to try debian for our main processing boxes, but have run into a few problems. We have Oracle 8i running on a solaris 2.6 box. The Linux boxes we use need to be able to connect to them as a client. We need to be able to run Pro/C and PL/SQL commands from our C++, so we ne

802.11b

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
I'm thinking of getting an 802.11b network, so I can carry my debian based notebook around the house without running cables everywhere. I'll be getting a PCMCIA network card, and a receiver that I can plug into my existing 10/100 switch. Any suggestions on brand/model? And what does or doesn't work

Re: Xfree86 4.2.XXX

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
> I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a model that > came out early last year). It's got a Trident CyberBlade XP Ail graphics > adapter. > > I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the following > conclusions: > > * XFree86 (hereafter referred t

Re: trouble unmounting

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:45:35PM -0100, andrej hocevar scribbled... > Hello -- I'm having trouble unmounting a drive. In order to do some > administrative work on a newly set up server on a little local > network, I had to install some programs from a cd. Since the server > doesn't have a cd driv

Re: What does this mean?

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
> > This is from /var/log/apache/error.log > > > > [Tue Apr 2 07:35:20 2002] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful > > restart > > [Tue Apr 2 07:35:23 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) Debian > > GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations > > [Tue Apr 2 07:35:23 2

Re: PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more

2002-04-03 Thread Jason Majors
> MY PROBLEM: I got the PS/2 mouse to work in the XFree86 setup by > choosing dev/psaux instead of dev/mouse, and it worked perfectly during > THAT setup routine. BUT, when I now boot into X (man was that an > accomplishment!) the mouse won't move at all at first and then when I > try to move it,

installing oracle 9i

2002-04-04 Thread Jason Majors
Where I work we need to use oracle 9i (I'm pushing for mySQL conversion) on Linux boxes to communicate with oracle 8i on a Solaris box. Our DBA tried to do the 9i install (when he looked for a "d drive" I got scared), and keeps having problems that he won't share with the rest of us. He talked to o

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