Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-06 Thread Wackojacko
(with C'nQ) than in Linux. I think its because the default kernel state for powernow is 'Performance' which keeps the processor at full speed. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Wackojacko
You can't. I believe it is hardcoded in the depths of X. (Perhaps the newer X stuff from X.org might do something differently) Just installed X.org and can report that it doesn't solve this problem, sorry. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-09 Thread Wackojacko
On Fri, 6 May 2005 11:26:06 +0100 "Wackojacko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't think that is the case--at least, not in stock Debian kernels. >I have an Athlon XP 1700+, and it idled at 45C until I installed >athcool. Now it idles below 40C, sometimes as low a

Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-09 Thread Wackojacko
a/c status, time, ... Regards, Dennis Thanks for the excellent response I will certainly give this a go. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bcm5700 driver installation problem

2005-05-09 Thread Wackojacko
evice Hint: insmod errors can be caused any incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters New to this myself, but it looks like you have tried to insmod bcm5700.o and not bcm5700. You don't need the .o Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Audio CD Burning Perplexities

2005-05-09 Thread Wackojacko
od quality media, slowing the burn speed down may reduce errors, but an upgrade to the CD player on the boat might be in order :) Regards Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xwindows

2005-05-13 Thread Wackojacko
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 06:04:51PM -0700, asc wrote: I can't get this to start it has a failure. How do I reconfigure this? as root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 You also have to reset the md5sum of /etc/X11/XF86config-4, see the header of this file for details. Wackojacko

Re: xwindows

2005-05-13 Thread Wackojacko
:) You do have to rename the original file so as not to overwrite it, so I would have thought this was the same as deleting it. I do like to keep a copy of the original as it invariably has to be tweaked after running dpkg-reconfigure, in my case anyway. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Two IDEs - KDE and Gnome

2005-05-26 Thread Wackojacko
'other' HDD and Y is the partition number for home on the other HDD. Use a mount point like /otherhome but the rest of the details can be the same as your /home information. Save and $mount /dev/hdXY. Repeat for the other install when required. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

KDE 3.4.1 .ICEauthority

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
bug? FYI I am also using Xorg 6.8 from Ubuntu Hoary archives. TIA Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDM Error - no screens found

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
loaded just before kdm spits the error out so I'm a little confused. Could it be a timing thing where the driver is not fully loaded before kdm tries to use it? As always your help is appreciated. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

No joystick device nodes

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
s. I would really like to try out some of these Linux games I keep hearing so much about but using the keyboard is a little tedious :-( Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDM Error - no screens found

2005-06-18 Thread Wackojacko
Just tried xdm and it worked fine so I guess its a bug in kdm. How do I go about reporting this, does the reportbug package do all the hard work? Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-20 Thread Wackojacko
ading the way http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915 I'm so glad I bought AMD! Although I suspect future CD's will only be able to be ripped if the appropriate DRM system are in place :( Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

RE: KDM Error - no screens found

2005-06-21 Thread Wackojacko
odules.conf file generated from an entry in /etc/modprobe.d/ and being a newbie I thought this would mean it would be loaded. It wasn't and putting an entry in /etc/modules fixed the problem. Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Wackojacko
(WW) open /dev/fb5: No such device (WW) open /dev/fb6: No such device (WW) open /dev/fb7: No such device (EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device (EE) NV(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings and/or errors above for possible reasons (you may have to look at the server log to see warnings) HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Wackojacko
directory /etc/rc(runlevel).d. The SXXscript 'starts' the script KXXscript stops it. These links are run in numerical order of the XX. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Wackojacko
David Fokkema wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:37 +, Wackojacko wrote: David Fokkema wrote: Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out which daemon/script brings up my interfaces at what time? Thanks, David /etc/init.d/networking is the script. The order of the scripts is

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread Wackojacko
e.g. the last line of hotplug.rules has an additional logging function, it may help you track down what happens when you insert the device which is not happening on boot? HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-05 Thread Wackojacko
tworks, including WEP, WPA and WPA2. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Wackojacko
etc. to shrink/reauthor the DVD. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: troubleshooting ls120 mount problems

2007-03-07 Thread Wackojacko
/dev/hdb is the whole disk I doubt you want to mount it like this. #dmesg | grep hdb should give you some idea whether its seen #cfdisk /dev/hdb will tell you about the partitions. I suspect you need to change the 'hdb' in fstab to 'hdb1' if you only have one big partition

Re: troubleshooting ls120 mount problems

2007-03-07 Thread Wackojacko
fails with "fatal error: can not open disk drive". It doesn't look like its recognised the disk. As an aside I think you may benefit from installing hdparm and setting the DMA mode of your disks to improve performance (currently pio which IIRC is not the best). HTH Wackojacko

Re: apt-cd setup [was Re: Re: initramfs-tools fixed (maybe)]

2007-03-07 Thread Wackojacko
pt/sources.list and you may have to also do some other mojo to ge tthe recognised. i'm thinking its something like apt-cd or something like that. I think apt-cdrom add is what your looking for:) Wackojacko I do this, and the message remains. It seems not to be recognizing the CD. My guess is that

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Wackojacko
HTH Wackojacko Thank you! Regards: Zhang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Wackojacko
H.S. wrote: Wackojacko wrote: H.S. wrote: Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing

Re: pppconfig "command not found"

2007-03-24 Thread Wackojacko
someone has already hinted at, the OP could boot into the Ubuntu partition he already has installed and then *chroot* into the debian partition and run apt-get as normal using the internet connection from ubuntu. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Wackojacko
ave/cant make a vfat partition there is another option. There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use) which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://www.fs-driver.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Wackojacko
i put parenthesis. --Mohsen Excuse me jumping in, but I think its the 'end of task1 function' that requires a '}'. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: riped dvd menu

2007-03-27 Thread Wackojacko
l DVD you want and they are recoded to fit a standard DVD. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Wackojacko
mystery to me). Try commenting the PCI bus line out of the xorg.conf and see if the driver can auto detect the card. Otherwise, look at lspci -v for details of the bus. Ah well, ... as written .. thanks for responding at least. Ian HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Wackojacko
ever. same error-11 , same warnings. Ian OK, rename the current xorg file and rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select nvidia, leave the PCI BUS empty and restart X. Also post the output of lspci -v |grep VGA (should show video controller) and /var/log/xorg if no luck. HTH Wackoja

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Wackojacko
Ian Broadbent wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:39 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Ian Broadbent wrote: Try commenting the PCI bus line out of the xorg.conf and see if the driver can auto detect the card. Otherwise, look at lspci -v for details of the bus. Oh and BTW. I had already tried that

Re: riped dvd menu

2007-03-28 Thread Wackojacko
gustavo halperin wrote: Wackojacko wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I need change the DVD region of my DVDs, What I do is: 1: make a dvd backup with 'dvdbackup'. 2: change the region with a rubi's script that I found in the net. 3: make a dvd image with 'mkisofs&#

Re: entering data into a pdf file

2007-06-30 Thread Wackojacko
ee software alternatives. Acrobat reader is available from the unofficial debian repository at www.debian-multimedia.com. With the additional plugins available from this site, it does allow filling of forms in pdf format. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!

2007-07-12 Thread Wackojacko
front end to smbmount. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!

2007-07-12 Thread Wackojacko
> Wackojacko wrote: I have had no problem mounting windows shares on my debian box. For one of mounts I use LinNeighborhood (like Win Xp Network Neighbourhood) ^^ s/of/off :) KDE also has a quick browser menu for samba shares if you just want to view the contents. You can mount them t

Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM

2007-07-28 Thread Wackojacko
CD like Knoppix or Ubuntu? If this boots OK the output of lspci -vv lsmod would help identify the correct modules to load. Thanks, Michael HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM

2007-07-28 Thread Wackojacko
if you have already tried this. There is a possibility that the etch kernel is not new enough for this MB, what kernel does fedora run on? If this is the case you may need a custom installer, google is your friend here. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM

2007-07-30 Thread Wackojacko
michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:03 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: michael wrote: iTCO_wdt 20625 0 iTCO_vendor_support12741 1 iTCO_wdt snd_page_alloc 19025 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_core 35777 1 i2c_i801 rtc_cmos 17017 0 sr_mod

Re: Debian4 network install woes [WAS: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM]

2007-07-30 Thread Wackojacko
michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:01 +0100, michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 14:47 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: michael wrote: Folks, I've a new machine Its likely that the machine has more bearing on this problem than the CDROM itself. We need more information regardin

Re: CD/DVD Burner Configuration

2007-08-13 Thread Wackojacko
;. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the new (experimental) ATA drivers in 2.6.22 kernel all drives are seen as SCSI drives hence the sr0 assignment. This may be what confused K3b if you have recently upgraded the kernel and your IDE burner went from /dev/hd? to /dev/sr0. HTH Wackojacko

Re: /dev/cdrom & /dev/dvd symlinks and udev

2007-08-22 Thread Wackojacko
is one and resets or refuses to allow a reset of the symlinks? Thanks for any help. Patrick See /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules this is auto generated by the script in /etc/udev/. I think you can change these around if you set the $GENERATED variable to 0 (from comments in file). H

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wackojacko
uot; NAME="eth1" Just change the mac addresses to your own values from ifconfig. Thanks for the reply! Wayne Wayne It looks as though udev is now detecting the card differently as the PCI device now has a '0x' before 8139 so effectively the mapping for eth0 is for a non existent card. I would try deleting all the eth* entries and restart. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipod mount and udev

2007-08-24 Thread Wackojacko
YMLINK+="ipod" The first three "=" are assigning not comparing. Replace them with "==" and restart udev. Here's mine for completeness which is slightly different but works. BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{model}=="iPod", KERNEL=="sd?2"

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-16 Thread Wackojacko
vfat shared windows partition is /dev/sda6 /mnt/Windowsdat vfat rw,user,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0020 2 and it's mounted a boot with user and group ownership I want. These options are not available on all fs types I think. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-16 Thread Wackojacko
Wackojacko wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like /dev/sda1 /home/user/partition autouser,auto,exec 0

Re: /dev/hd* gone with udev

2006-11-18 Thread Wackojacko
model}="USB to IDE Card", NAME{all_partitions}="cf_card" You need '==' instead of '='. But only for comparison, assignment is still "=" HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-cacher questions

2006-11-27 Thread Wackojacko
s deb http://localhost:3142/site.address 3142 is default port. Substitute ip address of server on client machines. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Saw upgrade changelog of the packages before apply and start the upgrade

2006-12-02 Thread Wackojacko
ith::software:package HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-17 Thread Wackojacko
current machine will give you an idea how many files are shared. IIRC you can use this as a source for jigdo too :). HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Wackojacko
ay so. I don't mind. Not at all. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dell power edge

2006-12-21 Thread Wackojacko
. nevertheless, dell poweredge 2900 has a intel xeon dual core which normally handles 64 bit. can someone help me ? Thanks for reply You need the amd64 version of etch. This supports the 64bit xeon em64t instruction set. ia64 is for itanium processors. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-09 Thread Wackojacko
which I2C chip it uses and then compile the driver into the kernel. If I used modules I would probably just load them all up and see which one works. Install the package lm-sensors and run sensors-detect, it will even write the modules to /etc/modules for you. HTH Wackojacko -- To

/etc/alternatives not working properly

2007-01-09 Thread Wackojacko
e the alternatives system to its former state? TIA Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly

2007-01-09 Thread Wackojacko
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:43:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:14:55PM +, Wackojacko wrote: Due to changing partitions around I managed to mess up my Debian Sid AMD64 install. I reinstalled from scratch and then restored my

Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly

2007-01-09 Thread Wackojacko
It certainly does, I do not have all of these symlinks. Obviously, I can create them manually but I would prefer to know why they disappeared in the first place. What command is suppose to create them? Thanks Hi Wackojacko, My guess would be to use 'aptitude reinstall' on th

Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly

2007-01-10 Thread Wackojacko
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:55:37PM +, Wackojacko wrote: It certainly does, I do not have all of these symlinks. Obviously, I can create them manually but I would prefer to know why they disappeared in the first place. What command is suppose to create them

Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly [SOLVED]

2007-01-10 Thread Wackojacko
s that are missing don't have postinstall scripts I could find. Thanks for looking. Hi Wackojacko, this should be the answer. you and I both have java installed and I looked for the elusive /usr/bin/java with: grep /usr/bin/java /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst This turned up: /var/lib/dp

Re: error using make-kpkg

2007-01-11 Thread Wackojacko
list. HTH Wackojacko Just for the record the graphics card is (via lspci -v) is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro4 500 GoGL] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00d5 Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium

Re: Always falling to grub prompt

2007-09-09 Thread Wackojacko
l it (whatever 'it' is) gets fixed. Sorry I could not help. Wayne Not necessarily. Grub uses /boot/grub/device.map to identify which HDD maps to which (hd?). It might be useful to see the OP's device.map file, but grub could just ignore hda and hdb as they are not HDD. HTH W

Re: I hate Alsa

2007-09-15 Thread Wackojacko
Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-19 Thread Wackojacko
e not part of debian main so we will have to wait until the new drivers are released and packaged for debian. In the mean time back to nv driver :( HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-19 Thread Wackojacko
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Wackojacko wrote: I'm seeing the same on sid AMD64. A new version of xorg has hit us which requires xserver-xorg-video-2 and the old nvidia-glx only provides xserver-xorg-video-1. I think (from error logs) the ABI has changed. Nvidia drivers are not pa

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-28 Thread Wackojacko
allow direct access to the partitions without the need to boot a live CD. HTH Wackojacko Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ifconfig reports weird IP addr

2007-01-16 Thread Wackojacko
ddress via ifconfig, even with the udev renaming. So what's going on here? Thanks, Rick Reynolds If you have installed zeroconf, its installed as a recommends to other packages, purge it and restart your networking. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: wireless USB dongle

2007-01-17 Thread Wackojacko
e care of that I think. aptitude install module-assisstant m-a prepare m-a a-i zd1211 (maybe -source, use m-a with no options for interactive mode and check) modprobe zd1211 HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: random quirkyness

2007-01-24 Thread Wackojacko
though it's loaded. So I get a blank screen. I had this problem with the nvidia module. The problem for me is that it's not loaded automatically so when X starts up it tries to load the nvidia module then start X, but the nvidia module isn't loaded quickly enough so it fails.

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Wackojacko
t of blabbering blather known as Slashdot, as well as many other places. Hal This I can't argue with :) my 2p Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting broadband working on my new AMD64 box....

2007-01-27 Thread Wackojacko
as many times as it took to get at the NTL hookup page and then have the PID and password ready, Then you would reboot and repeat the process until you had a successful link to the debian mirror sites Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill I use NTL cable and have a netgear rou

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Wackojacko
u get there, i.e. BIOS or MBR, the MBR may well get overwritten and you could be left without the rescue option. Anthony HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to make work dual monitors with Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad?

2007-02-01 Thread Wackojacko
il which is specifically for list use. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem connecting to Wifi network

2007-02-05 Thread Wackojacko
figuration file and let wpasupplicant chose the right one. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: News Flash

2007-02-07 Thread Wackojacko
ountries might force him to fully unlock the iPod for competing online music stores and/or to license his DRM-format to the manufacturers of other portable music players. Maybe this has something to do with it http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1fc40360-abe9-11db-a0ed-779e2340.html Wackojacko -- To U

Re: AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Wackojacko
ive you most of the extensions the amd64 is capable of without the need to reinstall. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Wackojacko
kg-reconfigure kdm or gdm would solve this the debian way. Also if you removed kdm it would force you to select a new default anyway. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-10 Thread Wackojacko
n would be a stupid action by the user since Windows won't do that on its own. But if one already has a linux installation and uses a bootloader windows will erase the bootloader record during its installation, but that can be fixed easily. Regards Regards Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Wackojacko
ting (Edit->Preferences->General-> Offline and Diskspace) which automatically compacts these files when it will save a configurable amount of space on the HDD. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-22 Thread Wackojacko
type "/etc/init.d/kdm stop" and that stops X, then I start it up again with /etc/init.d/kdm start, log out and go back to X. Why not use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Much quicker. (you could also use /etc/init.d/kdm restart from the console to save a little typing :) ) Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Wackojacko
Michael Acroread is not available for AMD64, you will need to run a 32 bit chroot environment. Its fairly easy to set up (I've got one :) ) but may be overkill if acroread doesn't do what you need. Google will help if you decide to go this route. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNS

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-14 Thread Wackojacko
Wayne Topa wrote: Wackojacko([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: michael wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:41 +, Chris Lale wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies. acroread-l10n-en: Depends: acroread (>= 8.1.2-0.0) but it is not installable E: Broken packa

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-14 Thread Wackojacko
Micha wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:00:32 + Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: michael wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:41 +, Chris Lale wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies. acroread-l10n-en: Depends: acroread (>= 8.1.2-0.0) but it is not inst

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-23 Thread Wackojacko
This will only work on PC's that have been modified for your particular stick though. Suppose its an extra level of security and you could always carry the modified driver on the first partition of the stick for portability. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion

Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-11 Thread Wackojacko
userspace doesn't allow this. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Wackojacko
n. Either purge the nvidia-glx package and reinstall the NVIDIA script or remove the NVIDIA script and then install the modules from the repository. HTH Wackojacko NB if you run custom built kernel you can build the nvidia module using module-assistant As root #aptitude install modul

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-04-01 Thread Wackojacko
the correct architecture, and install a i686 kernel. There are no k7 kernels in debian, but you can roll your own if you think that this will be of benefit over the 686 kernel. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: invalid action operation

2006-05-16 Thread Wackojacko
turned out to be that the new udev is now very picky about the use of "==" and "=" for comparison and assigning respectively. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev problem

2006-05-17 Thread Wackojacko
es you to use '==' instead of '=' when looking at comparisons. You will probably see errors on boot such as 'invalid BUS command' relating to this rule. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: autoconf.h file missing Kernel-2.6.15?

2006-05-18 Thread Wackojacko
/lib/modules/2.6.15/build should do the trick I think. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade wants to install 695 new packages

2006-05-18 Thread Wackojacko
stall *recomended* packages by default. You can switch this off in the UI, so i imageine it can be configured via the CLI as well. Try the 'man' page or fire up the UI and C-T->Options->Dependency Handling->Automatically install recommends. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNS

Re: autoconf.h file missing Kernel-2.6.15?

2006-05-19 Thread Wackojacko
Marco wrote: Wackojacko ha scritto: Marco wrote: Hi all, I have installed Debian Etch on my computer. I have compiled my custom kernel with the linux-source-2.6.15 package, but now when I install the HSFMODEM driver I get this error message: WARNING: missing file /lib/modules/2.6.15/build

Re: udev: invalid KERNEL operation

2006-05-19 Thread Wackojacko
r the past week. In case you missed it, the new version of udev requires you to use "==" for comparison and not just "=" ie KERNEL=="ttySHSF0" hth Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include files for WxWidgets 2.6

2006-05-19 Thread Wackojacko
re whether this is the right list? libwxbase2.6-dbg libwxbase2.6-dev libwxbase2.6-0 wx2.6-headers wx2.6-doc libwxgtk2.6-dbg libwxgtk2.6-dev libwxgtk2.6-0 wx-common man wx-config. I think its just 'wx-config cxxflags' for C++ HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

[Fwd: Re: include files for WxWidgets 2.6]

2006-05-19 Thread Wackojacko
Sorry the correct command is 'wx-config --cxxflags' #wx-config --cxxflags -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-release-2.6 -I/usr/include/wx-2.6 -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D__WXGTK__ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE=1 -DNO_GCC_PRAGMA Sorry for the noise Wackojac

Re: searching for dts_internal.h

2006-05-24 Thread Wackojacko
LeVA wrote: Hi! Anyone knows which package contains the file in the subject? Thanks! Daniel I use apt-file for this. apt-get install apt-file apt-file update apt-file search HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: T-bird outgoing filters?

2006-05-29 Thread Wackojacko
account. 'Edit->Account Settings' brings up a list of active accounts. You can then set where the outgoing messages are stored via the 'Copies and Folders' section of the relevant account. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: T-bird outgoing filters?

2006-05-29 Thread Wackojacko
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wackojacko wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Evolution has outgoing filters, so that, for example, emails that I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get sent to the subfolder john_doe instead of Sent. Does T-bird have anything like that? I

Re: New DVD+-R/RW/RAM drive

2006-06-06 Thread Wackojacko
Not the same drive, but I use DVD-Ram disks in a LG-GSA4163B. I've even formatted them with an ext3 partition as I found the UDF filesystem kept getting corrupted. HTH Wackojacko It's unfortunate that none of the resellers, nor Sony, list which Linux version started support

Re: dvd movie playing

2006-06-14 Thread Wackojacko
b. 2) Will that package be enough to play dvd movies (e.g., with totem)? I have Debian Sarge. Thanks for any reply, Rodolfo dpkg -i should work, but it would be better to add marillat repository to your sources list and use apt-get in order to satisfy dependencies. HTH Wackojacko -- To U

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Wackojacko
to edit the raw wave first and then export as mp3 providing you have the LAME libs installed. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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