Blender menu problems

2003-03-06 Thread John Stevenson
I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have problems with the application 'blender'. On launching the program it automatically spans the whole screen, seems to work outside of the window manager (i.e. no window decoration) and most importantly the menus are drawn (when selected) ab

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
I have had this very same problem with Mozilla and have found two 'remedies', but no real answer 1) The anonying remedy: Minimise or shade the window that is not responding to text input and then unminimise / unshade that window. You should now be able to insert text. 2) The 'Okay so far

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907

2003-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
Using dselect I searched for gimp and found this package that should meet your needs: gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program Enjoy.. Johnny. Subject: GIF driver for Gimp ? From: dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:46:35 + To: Debian List <[

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907

2003-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
You should look at the package: cron-apt This probably does everything you need, without doing any damage to you system by default I just use it to do an update and download (not install) any packages overnight). Once I read the changelogs in the morning, I then decide whether to let the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3280

2003-10-28 Thread John Stevenson
I am trying to mount a directory as nfs filesystem from other machine. I am getting RPC error on other machine and it says (Host linux box) is not responding. Though I can ping to the linux box from there and also I can telnet ot it. What is that I am missing. Any suggestion. Thanks Thes

Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada

2003-11-05 Thread John Stevenson
i have a compaq armada with debian installed x runs fine, but i when i switch to a virtual terminal ctrl alt f1, ctrl alt f2, etc , i get colored stripes down the screen, its just a mess. is this anything to do with my X settings? surely not? is there any setting that changes how the virtual t

Saving image from email in evolution

2003-09-29 Thread John Stevenson
I am not able to save an image from an email, in this case my daily dilbert strip, when using evolution 1.2 as my email client. I can right click on the image and get a pop-up menu with a single menu item of save as.. but when I click this nothing happens. I cannont find any reported bugs against

RE: ftp to webserver - not as rot

2003-08-14 Thread John Stevenson
If you have managed to set up all these servers, you could also try set up a CVS server. A CVS server can be used for managing versions of you files and is also a standard way to deploy web pages and code to a live web environment. AFAIK it is very secure assuming that you run the CVS server

Re: Java database application development

2003-08-14 Thread John Stevenson
My goal is to use Debian linux as development platform for (classical – two tier) database (MySQL) applications. I thought that Java would be ideal for that purpose. Am I right? Is there better free tool (language) for development of such application that can run on both Linux and Windows? Are th

Re: mozilla vs. mozilla-firebird

2003-08-19 Thread John Stevenson
OK, I've found what's happens. The mozilla-firebird launch mozilla if this one is running !!! François In my experience this is normal for debian packages of Netscape and Mozilla packages under debian. It can be useful, but it can also be a right pain. I would like to run Mozilla (for e

Re: FYI: IBM DB2 installation on Woody

2003-08-21 Thread John Stevenson
I succeeded today in installing IBM DB2 7.1 on Debian Woody. Since I have found many unanswered questions in the WWW I think that somebody might be interested. Regards Holger Are you going to provide us with any more details of what you did? Problems that you came accross and solved? It w

Re: WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin recommended packages

2003-08-21 Thread John Stevenson
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:05 pm, Antonio Rodr wrote: What are the recommended packages for proper recognition and functioning of a WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin hard disk? Planning to install woody in it. Disks are more of a bios or kernel issue, most kernels by default are setup

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread John Stevenson
I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces? You will probably have problems getting

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread John Stevenson
I've had ext2 running on massive partitions in the region of 60GB upwards. Only thing with ext2 is that if the system doesn't shutdown correctly it will scan the drives for errors on the re-boot which can take AGES with larger partitions. You can easily (and in my own experience safely) conver

Fdisk cannot detect my harddisk

2003-09-02 Thread John Stevenson
Sir , I use 20 GB seagate harddisk. Before installing the windows'98 , I enter into BIOS setup and gave "YES" for Boot sector virus enabled.When I install the OS , it says "Boot sector virus Found, do you overwrite ? , I answered "Yes" for this. After then the computer hanged .

Re: Sid CD fails as apt source

2003-09-03 Thread John Stevenson
I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as: deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt sources.list file is to use the command: apt-cdrom add You should run this com

Re: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread John Stevenson
The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there shows that there is a separate partition for /home. If there is no entry in /etc/fstab for a partition is will not be mounted (unless you use a manual mount command with all the necessary options). The command df will tell you w

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #1796

2003-06-20 Thread John Stevenson
You could try apt-listchanges package which will present you with a list of all updates to your system (not to sure about removed packages though). This can be viewed during the installation process and/or results mailed to a user. It might not be exactly what you want, but it should do some of

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-23 Thread John Stevenson
Logitech wheelmice usually use a different protocol to PS/2. Try using MouseManPlusPS/2 as the protocol. Here is a snippet from my XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"

Re: installing mouse

2003-06-24 Thread John Stevenson
If you really get nowhere with your mouse, before you abandon debian you could try using Knoppix (a debian based distrobution) from http://www.knoppix.net/ especially if you are happy to download a CD image ~600MB. If not, you may as well ignore the rest of this email. You can run Knoppix comp

Setting Up ProFtp Server

1999-06-09 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am trying to set up an ftp server to hold some non-free debian suff I dont have no cd. I am using proftpd and am able to ftp to the machine, but I cannot see any files or directories. I have read the docs for proftpd and only found info on how to hide directories (but they are already h

not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread John Stevenson
/main dpkg-http 550 /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0. 19.deb: not a plain file. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: not a plain file - apt method with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread John Stevenson
Looks like I have found the problem. It seems to have been the ftp site I was using. I eventually got through to another site and dont seem to have the same problems. Still strange though. I might try to just ftp the files by hand and see if there is a real problem -- John Stevenson, Objective

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-20 Thread John Stevenson
I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian and have had no problems. David Wright wrote: > > Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.

NeoMagic Card with Slink

1999-02-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Has anyone had any problems using Slink with a Neomagic video card. I am currently using Hamm with Precision Insights XFCom_NeoMaic Xserver. Now from what I have seen from slink is that a lot of changes happen when you upgrade to slink, especially with the fonts. My question is will the

Re: Screen Size in X

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
Before you start editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, try using the following key press combination: control Alt - control Alt + Pressing these three keys (Holding control and Alt then tapping either plus or minus) will change the resolution that your screen runs at. Using this method will all

Re: strange messages at boot.

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
I have just had a similar problem with my laptop. It seems to have been caused by one of the following reasons: * Conficting Modules installed * Conflicting IRQ when trying to configure my sound card. I seem to have fixed these problems at the same time and now no longer get the messages as belo

Re: HP Web Jetadmin

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
I cheated to install the Jet Admin package. I created a symbolic link inside /etc called rc.d which linked to the above directory, which was etc. The install was then able to carry on with no problem. I think I was even able to remove the rc.d link when the install had finished. I have not actu

Re: keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread John Stevenson
I had a problem with my keyboard when I used the tleds package (which used the keyboard leds to indicate events). This stoped my laptop keyboard working. If you have a package like this installed, it may be causing the problem. John. "Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-12 Thread John Stevenson
If you have slink installed then I suggest using GTKICQ which looks (more or less) identical to the mirabilis version for windoze Seems to work quite nicely for me to talk to people using mirabilis... bye John. Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > What Linux version of ICQ? Do you mean the j

[Slightly Off-Topic] Printing from Netscape - page address

1999-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Is there any way to get the Netscape Browser (in communicator 4.5) to include the address of the web page on the top corner of the printout. The same version of netscape but for M$ does this automatically, even when attached to a linux print server. Is there anything I can do to get this

smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am having problems installing printers on win95 machines. I am using a linux server running debian slink and have been able to set up clients running windows98 to use the linux printer, but windows 95 refuse to acknoledge that the server even exists. Attached is my smb.conf file.; ; /et

Re: smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
with regional software, some is English(British) and some is English(International). But I am only guessing Last resort is to upgrade the machines to win98, which seems to work just fine on six machines that I have tried with the samba servers. Hope some one can help, John John Stevenson wrote

Re: smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To answer my own problem, it was a windoze config problem. We found a win98 doing the same thing and discovered that the subnet mask was incorrect on some of the client machines, doh. What a pain... John John Stevenson wrote: > > To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that work

Remote Unix printer - Permissions

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am running a linux print server that is working very nicely with win95 clients (using samba) but am having trouble connecting to the printer from linux clients. I have read the printing howto (see snippet below) and it refers to the /etc/hosts.lpd file, but I have know idea what the stru

Re: remote printing permissions [solved]

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To solve my problem of remote printing, it was very simple (once I found out what I was doing). Edit the /etc/lpd.perms so that it allows remote print job requests: Find these following lines in the file: # reject remote prints from arbitrary hosts REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Replace them wi

Backing up a Linux Machine (and NT)

1999-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, How do I back up our linux server (Debian slink) using a HP SureStore DAT8 tape drive. The Dat Drive is an external box attached to the linux server via an adapted scsi card. This is probably a simple questiong to answer, but I cant find the right info. Which packages should I use to bac

Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking & Sound Problems

1999-04-03 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have to problems that I think may be related. 1) I installed slink from scratch on a Dell Laptop (which worked using hamm) and selected the source for kernel 2.0.36. When I went to the /usr/src directory, I fount the tar file had not been extracted and therefore there was no linux symbo

Re: Weird behavior with GNOME - Solved my own weird problem..

1999-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
I get the same problems with gnome. I have also got an even weirder problem that I dont even know how to report. I had been running Enlightenment 0.15 with some of the gnome apps from www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main Everything was working fine, although as be

Re: eth0: unknown interface

1998-12-09 Thread John Stevenson
Ethernet dirvers are not included in default kernel (as far as I am aware) so unless you have re-compiled your kernel then you shouldn't have any in. If you want to check, well I guess you could just look at the screen output during boot time and see if there is any repeated info about setting up

Re: Still clueless

1998-12-09 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I may have missed the initial thread on this, but if you want to install a Network card based on Intel Ethernet chipset. If this is the case then do the following: * Login as root * On the command line type the command: modconf * Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the net section, then

Re: ACER extensa 390

1998-12-09 Thread John Stevenson
:> The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing :> that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by :> Xfree 3.3.2. :> :> The Neo magic card is supported by Xfree 3.3.3 but that is not generally :> avaiable in distributions. : :

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-09 Thread John Stevenson
I have been experiencing the same problem with my hard drive. I believe the problem is that is is simply reaching the end of its life as I have had it running solid for the last year and have had it for 3 years before that. If anyone can give me a more optomistic diagnosis, I would be very happy.

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-09 Thread John Stevenson
Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > What do the following errors mean: > > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, > > sector=103023 > > 0 > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 > > hda: dma_intr

tleds on Dell Inspiron 3200

1998-12-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, I have a warning for anyone who is thinking of installing the tleds package on there Dell Inspiron 3200 Laptop. Dont !!! I have had all kinds of problems with caps lock and shift and even some of my applications would not work properly with the mouse. The worst problem was no

Update-menu with /usr/local apps

1998-12-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello... Is there a 'standard' way to add applications installed locally in /usr/local/bin to the update menus system. I have a number of applications that I would like to run from the window managers menu, but as they are not debian packages then some other way to add them is needed. Any ideas.

Re: ??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

1998-12-11 Thread John Stevenson
; want to listen to cds and .wav files or mpeg3 files, should I have to > recompile the kernel and all of that other harsh stuff described in > the sound HOWTO? > > Thanks in advance, > > Rich > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: X on DELL laptop hangs

1998-12-15 Thread John Stevenson
available in Debian Unstable): http://www.precisioninsight.com/products.html John Stevenson "David S. Zelinsky" wrote: > > A friend of mine installed hamm on a Dell laptop with Neomagic video. He got > X configured with the VGA16 server. The X server seemed to work fine, but

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread John Stevenson
oad.com/PC/corel/download/> > > Rod. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread John Stevenson
. John Stevenson wrote: > > Actually this does not work, as you have to agree to the licence > first. Go here to start with: > > http://www.download.com/PC/Result/TitleDetail/0,4,0-42505-g,1000.html?st.dl.fd.hl.g42505 > > then agree to the licence and things should be okay

Re: P/S 2 Mice

1998-12-18 Thread John Stevenson
ed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It > wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S > 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? > TIA! -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: WP Question

1998-12-19 Thread John Stevenson
link that directory > (shlib10) into /usr/local. To make it easier on myself, I just linked > every directory in /usr/local/wp/ into /usr/local/ and it works fine now. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Debian Hanging on Serial Port config

1998-12-21 Thread John Stevenson
but when I rebooted it got as far as configuring the serial ports an then just hung... Any ideas why the system would hang. This laptop was having problems with the pcmcia card dieing under windowsNT, so I am woundering if it could be a hardware problem...? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.

Re: WP8 - now does it *read and write* Word docs?

1998-12-21 Thread John Stevenson
er word. I am actually tempted to buy the CD (especially as it is only $50) even if I have to still use word once every blue moon. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Samba

1998-12-21 Thread John Stevenson
> > > I've just installed the Samba-server (and read the > > man-pages). > > > I might be missing something but I can't figure out how to > > get a list > > > of what Wimpdos calls "the entire network". Can this be > > done without > > > knowing > > > any server-names? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-22 Thread John Stevenson
name'. I have a book I am looking > at and I > think I am using the command mv correctly. I also tried to use cp thinking I > could > copy the file to the /tmp directory. I got the same result, "No such file or > directory." What is going on here? Help! > Thanks, > Kent > -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Web mirroring software

1998-12-24 Thread John Stevenson
t John. Cagdas Ogut wrote: > > Hi all, > > Can anybody suggest me a tiny web mirroring software to run on debian, > preferebly in *.deb format? I don't expect much, only the basic > functionality. > > Thanks already, -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

NFS problems, cannot mount-permission denied

1998-12-24 Thread John Stevenson
sions are as follows: drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 1024 Dec 20 16:12 nfs/ drwxrwxrwx 2 js js 1024 Dec 20 16:06 export/ Does any one have any clues as to what is wrong ???? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

SOLVED:Re: NFS problems, cannot mount-permission denied

1998-12-25 Thread John Stevenson
> > --On Thursday, December 24, 1998, 3:24 PM +0100 John Stevenson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I am trying to set up NFS between to Debian Linux 'Hamm' boxes. > > I have followed all the instructions in the NFS Howto, but > > always run i

Network setup problems

1999-01-05 Thread John Stevenson
Debian 'Hamm' kernel 2.0.34 and pcmcia modules to match for the network. Do I need to add a route to my web server, or change my configs to represent it? Do I need to have DNS services running?? Can anyone help me ?? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Network setup problems

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
rkstar.oa.nl (172.16.1.7) 0.556 ms 0.438 ms 0.432 ms Can you see anything that helps understand the problem ??? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Network setup problems

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John Stevenson writes: > > I am running Apache as a web server and everything runs fine > > when I am attached to my home LAN, using my own machine as the > > gateway. > > Why do you need a gateway at all for your home LAN? I have ab

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
not harm win98, it just wont let you boot into win98 untill you tell LILO that win98 exists, edit the /etc/lilo.conf file to do so. > > 3. Will the earth explode at 12:00:01 jan 1st 2000? I hope so, I could do with a holiday -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: XWP - NOT!

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
bout placing DISPLAY=":0.0" into my profile or > one of the bash files to eliminate some problems, but I don't know if > that will help. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Help

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
based on libc6 (all libraries compiled using -D_REENTRANT) X 3.3.2.2 Linux kernel 2.0.34 Gimp 1.0 Apache 1.3.0 first public release for m68k architecture -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...

1999-01-08 Thread John Stevenson
re an alternative? > > > > Regards, > > > > Jeff > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...

1999-01-08 Thread John Stevenson
debian, if it supports your equipment. BUt just try and get an > answer on their mailing lists; you need your own personal guru. I've managed to teach people to install debian, it took an afternoon to do and these people didn't know anything about Linux before they started. John. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread John Stevenson
l remove them. Can you > suggest anything, please? > > please cc me as I'm not on this list ATM. > -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-13 Thread John Stevenson
s related to the problem > > any help to figure out what is hapening will be greatly appreciated > > Thanks in advance, > > Uilsses -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-14 Thread John Stevenson
t; > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society > Selwyn College Computer Support > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ > http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ > http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

Re: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-14 Thread John Stevenson
Our NT server (doh) is used by both Linux and windoze clients at the same time, with out any problems (apart from the usual ones with NT) John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > > > I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr in

Re: UML Software for Linux

1999-01-21 Thread John Stevenson
and tell me what you think of it. Check out the code too, you might even want to contribute... -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."

apache proxy configuration on slink

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian land, Does anyone know where I should put the configuration directives, in order to switch on proxy caching. I am following the guidelines in the O'Riely book on apache, and it says to place the directives in a file called .../site.proxy This file I created as /etc/apache/site.proxy

Re: HP Web JetAdmin

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
I got HP Web JetAdmin to work okay on my Hamm distribution, after making a few sym-links to make up for the differences in filespace layout. However, I tried it again with slink and it refuses connection. I wonder if there are some access permissions that changed default from the two distros'. E

Re: linuxconf

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
Last I heard about linuxconf was that it had a negative affect, as it does not follow the debian file structure properly. I guess that if the debs are in experimental then you should not install them on a machine that you arent prepared to trash. John. Oliver Thuns wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anyon

Re: Multiple gnome-panels are started by gnome-session and other problems

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
I have the same 'feature' running slink with the slink-staging-area gnome debs (these few do work quite nicely actually). In order to avoid the problem, I always log out of the gnome pannel before exiting from the window manager. It would be nice if there was a more elegant way around this though

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-16 Thread John Stevenson
There is a nice little command called xhost which allows you to specifiy from which machines users are allowed to run X applications. So this alters the Magic Cookie stuff. If you type: xhost +mymachine where mymachine is the hostname of the computer you are currently typing at, then no matter

Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread John Stevenson
If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source) alias rm='rm -i' This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do not use the -f option. The -f option will just do it no matter how your shell is set up. I guess you

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you install from sources or from a kernel image? I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real problems with the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed in

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-17 Thread John Stevenson
I have taken a giant leap of faith and gone back to using gnome-session. In the earlier days of gnome, this used to cause load of interesting effects to happen, but now everything seems to work just fine. Try the following in your .xsession file (and dump your .xinitrc file) exec gnome-session

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-17 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am not a developer or expert on policy, but as far as I know the intent of xdm is to start linux up X rather than on the terminal. Now as debians default init level is 2, it seems natural to me to make the appropriate links for xdm in that init level (otherwise it would seem to the uni

Gnumeric fonts missing

1999-11-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello all, I have come across a problem with gnumeric, when I run it I get the following error: ~$ gnumeric Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font. Please verify your gnome-print installation and that your fontmap file (typically located in /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap) is not empty o

Re: JDK 1.2 debs for slink?

1999-11-21 Thread John Stevenson
As far as I know there are no jdk1.2 debs for any debian distribution.. Using the jdk1.2 from blackdown is what most people do (www.blackdown.org). There are two versions availble differing on glibc. Get version 2.0 for slink. John. Rick Macdonald wrote: > Are there JDK 1.2 debs for slink av

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread John Stevenson
; > has anyone else had this problem and solved it? i would love to run star > > office but am a little disappointed in the 'ease of install' :-) -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-13 Thread John Stevenson
ou who think you know everything : KD6GNS Portland, OR | > \ are annoying those of us who really do.: '97 Toyota Tacoma SR5 / > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread John Stevenson
. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

Re: Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

1998-11-18 Thread John Stevenson
I got the following messages: > -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)

1998-11-20 Thread John Stevenson
. Rainer Clasen wrote: > Hi! > > John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 > > partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. > > I use this in my fstab: > /dev/sda1 /dos/c vfat umask=0002,gid=110,uid=0,showexec 0 2 > > gid

Repeating Package Installation

1998-11-20 Thread John Stevenson
Any one have any good solutions out there??? Thanks. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

Re: printing over smb

1998-11-26 Thread John Stevenson
rs using magicfilterconfig before, but how do I set the > printer up to print using smb? -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-27 Thread John Stevenson
roll back. > > HTH, > Eric > > -- > E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

Re: Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

1998-11-27 Thread John Stevenson
~~~~~~~~ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology, they are a state of mind"

An alternative to glint (reading rpm's)

1998-11-27 Thread John Stevenson
this application CD, is there an equivalent for debian ?? or should I try installing glide (which I doubt would work as I would need to include other parts of redhat) ?? Any one have comments on this... Thanks. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Objects are not a technology,

Re: eth0: unknown interface

1998-12-08 Thread John Stevenson
One of the easiest ways to configure the network is to use the install program on the Rescue Disk / CDRom. You can mount an already initialised swap and linux partition and then move on to configure the network. This will create all the right files for you (/etc/networks /etc/resolv.conf). If yo

Re: Java IDE

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
You could try using the Blackdown JDK from www.blackdown.org, get the Release Candidate 4 (RC4), this uses native threads and has the sun JIT compiler in it. This make a noticable improvement of speed on my machine. It seems to work fine with all Java apps I have tried, with the exception of Tog

ftp but no apt

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello I have set up a partial mirror of debian on one of our machines. This was orignially on the same subnet x.x.1.x as all the laptops we use. Apt worked fine and we reduced d/l time emensly. Now we have moved the box to another subnet, x.x.3.x and now apt no longer works. It stalls at the fi

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-12 Thread John Stevenson
Alternitvely, you could use gnome-session which will run gmc and the gnome panel (an anything from previous sessions) for you. Create a .xinitrc file in your users home directory and include the following line: gnome-session Hope this helps. Johnny. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > "Sa

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-12 Thread John Stevenson
I have always had a problem with the boot disks occasionally dying. The things I can advise are: * check that floppy access has actually finished and then give it a few seconds * going too fast throught the install (and swapping disks) make it more likely the install will hang If it hangs at t

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread John Stevenson
A very simplistic (and rough) answer would be: /lib /bin are to do with the real core of unix/linux, like the kernel modules live in /lib/modules /usr/lib /usr/bin are the applications/libraries that run on top of the core unix/linux, things that the users make use of, hence '/usr' /usr/local/

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-14 Thread John Stevenson
You shoud really just edit the .xsession file in your user directory, /home/username/.xsession You do not need to include a command to run the window manager (fvwm2), gnome-session will do that for you. Check that you dont have a .xinitrc file in your home directory as this will override the .xse

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