Modconf and no modules after kernel upgrade

2003-08-08 Thread Rex Chan
Hi guys, after deciding to muck around with compiling and installing a new kernel (from 2.4.18-bf2.4 to 2.4.21) from source, I've managed to lose all the modules that I had before ie using modconf shows only one entry and that's a dummy network driver. Going back to the old kernel image hasn't he

Fluxbox, Bash and LANG

2003-08-11 Thread Rex Chan
Hi guys, I was playing around with locales and locale related stuff. I used dpkg-reconfigure localeconf to set everything to C as a default. I've verified as the /etc/environment file contains LANG=C. However whenever I call Bash through the fluxbox menu, it opens up an x-term-emulator with t

Re: Fluxbox, Bash and LANG

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Chan
> > Anybody got any ideas of where to look to set the LANG variable? > > grep -r "en_US\.UTF-8" /etc > > should ferrit it out. > > -- > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? > Words of the day: assassination bootleg Rubin fissionable Subversion lynch N

Re: Sound Config Asus A7V8x-x with 2.4.22-pre10

2003-08-17 Thread Rex Chan
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:32:06AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:35:05PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: > | Hi Dan, > | > | I'm just wondering if you were able in the end to get sound > | working on your motherboard. > > Thanks for asking Rex, not y

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread Rex Chan
> It sounds as though the lease times on the DHCP server are not long enough. > > A simple solution is to use a static IP address but this will depend on > your ability to manually assign an IP address at the server end. > > HTH > > Clive Well, one of my friends had the same problem, he wrote a

Re: System clock GMT or not

2003-08-24 Thread Rex Chan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:54:49PM +1000, James Steward<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian has a system configuration tool but I can't remember exactly what it's > called..something like base-config. > > Basically, in the file /etc/adjtime on the 3rd line there's either UTC or > LOCAL. > > Be a

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Rex Chan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:50:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Everything I've ever read indicates that a hardware-based firewall is > more secure and reliable than an PC operating system, be it Linux or > Windows. A PC OS has to be complex because it has so many functions to > perform, but that

Re: Getting Evolution to expand a threaded message list in unstable

2003-08-02 Thread Rex Chan
> I'm not sure since exaclty when, but recently I noticed, I can't get > evolution to expand/collapse a threaded message view. > > I have searched the menus, where I used to find this option, and the > online help to no avail. Could anyone help me, or has the feature > simply been removed? Ctrl

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Rex Chan
- Simmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-16 14:18:37 +0200]: > May sound lazy too, and yes I'm a lazy guy. If my boss tells me to setup an > apache server and tells me to use debian because the cust would like to have > especially this distri well heck I'm stuck in the installation routine for > hou

Re: Motherboard compatibility

2004-04-23 Thread Rex Chan
- Barry Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-23 02:27:27 -0700]: > I have 3 computers with the ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard in them. > switch to Debian. I am hoping that their is someone out there that has > either used Debian on this exact motherboard, or one with the same chipset > configuration

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Rex Chan
Hey, > > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one > > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the > > "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have > > showing the 'To:' field instead of the 'From:' field, since obviously

Usb multimedia keyboard not working

2004-05-03 Thread Rex Chan
Hi guys, I got myself a usb keyboard today, but i'm having problems with getting it working. I have HID module loaded, keybdev, and it appears to be detected sucessfully, ie dmesg | grep USB -> input: USB HID v1.10 Device [USB MULTIMEDIA KEYBOARD] on usb2:2.1 I get error messages