GNOME 1.4 on Woody

2003-02-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm doing a baseline netinstall of Debian, and I want to add the GNOME 1.4 desktop to it. Is there some specific meta-package I should be installing? How do I know I'm getting the full desktop? A specific order of apt-get commands or something? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Multidi

GNOME 1.4 Time

2003-02-28 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
When I installed Woody, I set up the hardware clock to GMT, then specified US/Eastern as my time zone. The GNOME 1.4 time applet, though, shows a time of 4:52 pm, when the actual local time is 9:52 pm. 'hwclock' shows 16:52. What gives? - Joel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signatu

Re: GNOME 1.4 Time [SOLVED]

2003-03-01 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Here's what I did to get the correct time to show on my GNOME 1.4 clock applet (at least during the current session, I haven't tried rebooting): -- # mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.backup # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime # ntpdate time.ucla.edu -- Thanks for

CUPS - HP Deskjet 952C

2003-03-01 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I have an HP Deskjet 952C attached to my USB on a Debian stable (Woody) box. I'm trying to set up my printer using the browser interface. First question: should I be using the "HP DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)" model or the "HP New DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)" model? Second question: when I speci

Sound solutions for Woody

2003-03-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I have a Debian stable (Woody) box with a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer running on the standard 2.2.20 kernel. What sound solutions do I have available to me? I can get by with just hearing a cd or some mp3s or something through it, for now. - Joel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Sign

Sound solutions for Woody

2003-03-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I have a Debian stable (Woody) box with a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer running on the standard 2.2.20 kernel. What sound solutions do I have available to me? I can get by with just hearing a cd or some mp3s or something through it, for now. - Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME 1.4 running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it brings me to the GNOME login screen, with no 'reboot' item there, either. CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't

Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same error message, something to the effect of "cannot modprobe binfmt###c; error=8". That's from memory, so I forget what the switches are, and 'modpr

Sound

2003-03-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of sound infrastructure or something? I have a soundblaster audigy. - Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Seneca wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:25:41PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
> "adduser foo audio", where foo is your username. You might want to > take > a look at the adduser manpage. > > > -- > > # cat di604_firmware_218.zip > /dev/dsp > > bash: /dev/dsp: No such device > > Were you doing that as root or as an ordinary user? If you are doing > something as an

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
> For sound blaster audigy you have to visit > http://opensource.creative.com/ or > http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 > and download the source to the driver that supports sb audigy plus the > tools. > You then do a make, make, make install, make tools, and make > install-tools and > you sho

Installing my own Apache?

2003-10-19 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
at do other people do? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing my own Apache?

2003-10-19 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
nd be done with it? Do I build my own package and install it that way? What do other people usually do when they want to add some external software to their Woody system? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ion included in Woody. I think 1.4 and later do, though. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Alfredo Valles wrote: > > Is there a template or guideline to follow in debian for making init > scripts? Take a look at the Debian Reference section on the boot process: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-boot -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Bal

"Community-oriented" distros

2003-11-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ould be best for my needs? Are there other philosophical differences between them that I should know about (besides Gentoo's source-only approach)? Thanks for the opinions, guys. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Miguel de Icaza on Debian

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
entrenched due to its deep community roots. Tools like apt-get help people try out the latest developments in the open source world with little effort, and their community commitment is fantastic, but is a very hard platform to support for an ISV." -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ball

"locale not supported"?

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I keep getting warnings along the lines of "Gdk-warning: local not supported by C library" when I install packages in gnome-terminal. I'm using en-US.utf8. Is there something I can change to make this go away? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-5

Re: i810_audio.o

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ll have some 'define' statements with some pci ids. If yours isn't there, it's not supported. Try a new kernel. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Desktop hostname?

2003-11-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
d to me to be good for server-type systems, not home desktops. Although I'd really like to get it working to at least be able to send mail through it, so I don't have the personal stigma of having a 'broken mail system' anymore. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Web

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
n OS. And yes, I know about WineX. But it's not there yet, and I don't have the funds to spend $5/month for something I may not use very often. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
6 Nov 8 03:01 /lib/ld.so -> /lib/ld-2.2.5.so $ -- Running as root comes up with the same problem. Help? Is WINE really the answer? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ow what changed? Is this actually Doom, or is it an 'enhanced' version with added features the developers thought would be cool? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

a.out libraries?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
presume it needs an a.out version of libvga.so.1. Does anyone know where I can get old libraries like this? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Linux. And the better it is, the better we are for it. By the way: want to support Linux gaming? Pre-order Doom 3 for linux! -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
t quite figured out how to use them. UT and other things try direct access to /dev/dsp, which doesn't work with esd, I guess. Any advice? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:33:00PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: My sound system is being really fickle for some reason. It'll work fine, then all of a sudden simply stop playing sound. This happens during games (UT) and with other apps (IM sounds). I've

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:18:21AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Bijan Soleymani wrote: If you are talking about a laptop then you might have to live with what you have. I do indeed have a laptop. Thing is, I've had no problems under Windows. And using XMMS/ESD p

twm gdm session file?

2003-11-09 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Does anyone have a twm session file for gdm? Mine doesn't seem to be working at the moment, and I can't figure out why. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
#x27;s no reason this shouldn't work... -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
nents, but who knows... -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ID_PDC=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_SII=m -- -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: When I try to get dma to work with my hard drive, I get the following error: -- # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) # -- Does anyone know why this

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Alvin Oga wrote: hiya joel On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: -- # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) # -- > What version of hdparm are you using? What version

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Well hell, after all of that it was a simple case of `modprobe piix`. Thanks for everyone who helped. This list is great. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
0 using the latest nVidia-supplied drivers. I don't have any apps running while I'm playing the games, save for Gnome and its applets and such. Does anyone have any clue what could be the problem here? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 66

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a mi

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a

Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they really not used? If not, why? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Gnome meltdown

2003-06-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I had somewhat of a Gnome meltdown last night, and I'm trying to pick up the pieces. I'm using a generic clean tasksel "desktop system" install of Gnome 1.4 on Woody. Here's what happened: 1. I ejected my pcmcia 802.11b card, since it was causing some problems (ksoftirqd_CPU0 using 100% cpu, it

How to turn off scsi emulation?

2003-05-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
x27;t just disable ide-scsi altogether. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xscreensaver not starting with Gnome

2003-06-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
How do I make xscreensaver start when I log into Gnome? Currently I have to right click on the lock applet > Restart Daemon before I can lock my screen. I have xscreensaver-gnome 3.34 with Gnome 1.4 on Woody. -- Joel Konkle-Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Wifi

2003-06-09 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
PCI or PCMCIA? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
1000 0 0" if "1000" is the ID of "mark". -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
How do I get a nice little penguin logo during kernel boot? Is that a kernel option that must be set at compile time? I noticed kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 has it, while kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 doesn't. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
problem. /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 shows CONFIG_FB_VESA=y, while /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 shows # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: eth0: error -110 failure writing Tx descriptor to BAP

2003-06-18 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
/ You'll need to have your kernel sources present to compile them. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Easy firewall advice

2003-06-19 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Woody? I'm used to ZoneAlarm for Windows, so that gives somewhat of an idea of how much I know about firewalls. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
kernel? I don't want to recompile my kernel Are there any other ways of doing this I'm not aware of? I have 1 hard drive with a windows partition, and one each of /, /boot, and scratch partitions, running Woody on the linux side. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Karsten M. Self wrote: ...and you want to do...? I want to test debian-installer. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creative Audigy

2003-06-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
module installed. Thnaks! Get and install the drivers from http://opensource.creative.com Worked perfectly for me. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Multi-word Label in LILO

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I could get it to work was to put: Label=Debian_2.4.18 What's the right way to do this? (Or is there an overriding reason I should be using GRUB instead, besides the run-lilo-after-changes bit?) -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PRO

Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
x27;s what non-free was for in the first place. Thoughts? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why can't Sun's j2re and mplayer be provided in non-free or contrib? > > I've read various things about how their legal status is > > incompatibl

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >> I've dabbled in Gentoo for a little while, and they have a system > > >> that prompts for download of the j2re from Sun > > Isn

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 18:00 GMT, Bijan Soleymani penned: > > Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I've dabbled in Gentoo for a little while, and they have a system

Mozilla fonts

2003-12-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
illa 1.0.0 from a .mozilla generated with 1.5, so that might have screwed things up on my end. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla fonts

2003-12-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:41:02PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Under Preferences > Appearance > Fonts, everything is set to "Agfa Monotype-andale mono-iso8859-1" and Slashdot renders in full monospace. Uhhh... Andale Mono *is* a monospace font. Exa

USB tv tuners?

2004-01-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm looking for a good USB tv tuner for my Woody box so I can use it to basically just watch TV on my computer, nothing too fancy. Does anyone have any suggestions for something that works with Linux (preferably Woody out of the box)? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E

Woody: Remembering Desktop Assignment?

2004-01-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
up in whichever desktop I'm currently in. Is it somehow possible to "assign" gtm to desktop 4? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Catches in upgrading to backports.org kernel?

2004-01-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm considering adding a 2.4.24 kernel from backports.org to my pure Woody system to get support for my multitude of peripherals and such. Are there any catches that I should look out for before I go for it? I noticed that this will also update my initrd package. Is this safe? -- Joel K

Benefit of source packages?

2004-01-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm curious: what's the benefit of source packages? Do they allow you to optimize the package for your system like Gentoo does? Are there any other reasons why they're "better" than regular packages? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL P

Why is ide-scsi necessary?

2003-06-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
This sounds like a FAQ, but I can't find the answer... maybe I'm not googling the right keywords. Why is SCSI emulation necessary for cd-r/w drives? Why can't I use them as the IDE/ATAPI drives that they are? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-5

Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my own package? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL

Re: Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my own package? Personally, I would

Gnome Mixer 1.4 Problems

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ck these, it resets the volume on a logout/login as well as a reboot. So I'm thinking there's some kind of default setting that's getting applied during system startup, but I can't imagine what it would be. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parke

New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-28 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: http://ballsome.com Thoughts? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 15:50, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: http://ballsome.com Thoughts? Perhaps I'm just dense, but what's new here? To me, Ian's "plan" sounds like a fairly g

FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ieve that we may want to inaugurate a special process for orphaning such packages. Feel free to repost this reply publicly. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multimedia keys in Woody?

2004-01-25 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
What's the best way to get my keyboard's multimedia keys to work in Woody? I've used Gnome 2.4's media keys applet, but is there something available in 1.4 that can do the same thing? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EM

Re: Multimedia keys in Woody?

2004-01-25 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
sven kissner wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: What's the best way to get my keyboard's multimedia keys to work in Woody? I've used Gnome 2.4's media keys applet, but is there something available in 1.4 that can do the same thing? you may take a look at lineak, but i d

Adding GTK+ engines to /usr/local

2004-01-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
OME. Is there a way to "tell" GTK+ about the engine in /usr/local? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Esta

2004-01-30 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
My Mozilla (1.0.0, 3.0r2) always reacts badly to these kinds of messages (with the subject full of s), freezing up, running the cpu to 100% for 30 secs or so, leaking memory, etc. Anyone have any advice? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone

Controlling size of printed text?

2004-01-31 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
n the Galeon window has no effect on the printed output. How do I control the size of the printed text on the page? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

plex86

2004-02-01 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
According to unstable's plex86 page <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/plex86>, it has been superceded by bochs. But I thought plex86 was a virtual machine and bochs was an emulator. Isn't there a big difference? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E

Alternative to VMware?

2004-02-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I really want to get a copy of VMware, but I don't have $140 for the student version. So I'm looking for alternatives. I just want some kind of sandbox where I can test out new software, distros, etc, without rebooting into a seperate partition. What do other people use? -- Joel Kon

Re: Alternative to VMware?

2004-02-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Robert L. Harris wrote: Have you looked at bochs? http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ I've messed around with 1.4pre2 with Woody, but didn't get very far. I've heard it's too slow to do anything with anyway. I guess I could grab 2.1 and give it a shot. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webm

x-ttcidfont-conf help?

2004-02-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
e lines with the above x-ttcidfont-conf alternative, like debconf suggested, and I've reconfigured both x-ttcidfont-conf and msttcorefonts, but to no avail. How is this stuff supposed to work? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-

Re: Alternative to VMware?

2004-02-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Massimiliano wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I really want to get a copy of VMware, but I don't have $140 for the student version. So I'm looking for alternatives. I just want some kind of sandbox where I can test out new software, distros, etc, without rebooting into a seperate

Re: x-ttcidfont-conf help?

2004-02-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:01:49PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker said When I installed Woody, defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf were installed along with it. I assume from what I've read that x-ttcidfont-conf is designed to control my TrueType fonts, rather than X itself. Well, t

Audio Advice

2004-02-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ee options, I believe: 1. Build myself a new 2.4.2x kernel. 2. Install Woody's alsa packages and compile a corresponding module version for my 2.4.18 kernel. 3. Build myself a new ALSA system. Any advice on what would be the cleanest solution here? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker We

Re: Audio Advice

2004-02-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ny sound through /dev/dsp came out sped up and at a higher pitch). -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio Advice

2004-02-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joel Konkle-Parker (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Loevborg wrote: You could also use a "backported" kernel-image from www.backport.org That would save you the trouble of compilation and would still be quite clean. Yeah, that's what I tried first

Kernel compilation woes

2004-02-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
ode make[2]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24' make[1]: *** [real_stamp_image] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24' # Anyone have any idea what could cause something like this? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail

Sound help?

2004-02-14 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
The game complains about /dev/dsp when I have esd running, so I kill esd before I run the game. Any advice, please? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound help?

2004-02-14 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: My mind is somewhat boggled when it comes to getting sound support working on my machine. I have a Dell laptop with Woody using a self-compiled 2.4.24 kernel. I have i810_audio.o and sound.o explicitly loaded, with all their respective dependencies. Sorry to reply to

Disable plugins in Mozilla?

2004-02-15 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Is it possible to disable a specific plugin (like Flash) in Mozilla without physically removing the files from the plugins directory (or renaming them)? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Disable plugins in Mozilla?

2004-02-16 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Keith Willoughby wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Is it possible to disable a specific plugin (like Flash) in Mozilla without physically removing the files from the plugins directory (or renaming them)? If you only have a problem with Flash, then Flash Click To View is ideal http

fsck needed with ext3?

2004-02-17 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
For some reason I had thought that fsck wasn't needed if I was running ext3. I installed Woody using ext3 for my main partition, but still, every 32nd boot, the system runs fsck. Is there some setting I'm missing that tells it that I'm running ext3 and don't need fsck? -

DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
e new medium? I mean, copying an mp3 file from one cd to another doesn't require you to decode it first. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Taking a module from another kernel?

2004-02-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
dates, though. Is there some way to take i810_audio.c from the 2.4.20 kernel sources and compile it for my 2.4.18? It doesn't seem like it would be all that different from other third-party modules (like NVIDIA's), except that I don't have a Makefile ready. Any tips? -- Joel Kon

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: With the recent injunction granted against 321 Studios for their DVD X Copy software for copying DVDs, I've been wondering something. Why is it necessary to break CSS encryption to make a copy? Could you not make a bit-for-bit copy of the DVD and have the con

Preserving changes to resolv.conf?

2004-02-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]