sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread William
I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I should install woody or sarge. I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should probably use sarge. Any advice? thanks William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

compiling custom kernel/Sarge

2005-06-20 Thread William
I need to compile a custom kernel, to add raid and a scsi driver. Is the kernel that comes with sarge just from kernel.org or does it have some kind of security patches? If it is just from kernel.org, is it best to use the latest kernel? thanks william -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-07 Thread William
ter is '^]'. | GET / HTTP/1.1\r | GET / HTTP/1.1\r | ^D | | ^Z | | Connection closed by foreign host. | ~$ ` -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-07 Thread William
2007/4/6, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Jollans wrote: > William Xu wrote: >> The problem is that i'm unable to connect to the internet >> directly(execpt for google, weird..). ping, dns, traceroute, netstate

Re: network problem on a dell machine

2007-04-07 Thread William
RX bytes:12589789 (12.0 MiB) TX bytes:12589789 (12.0 MiB) | ` -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-16 Thread Paul William
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:57:59AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Fellows, it's time for a dist-upgrade, but > > - From what to what? dist-upgrade is just an upgrade that resolves the more comp

Re: Where can I get lame for "testing"

2003-10-17 Thread Paul William
> lame appears in dselect, and I've tried to install it that way, but it does I dont think lame is in debian (http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=lame&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=all) ... try searching apt-get.org. --

Re: how could Packages mention files that don't exist yet?

2003-10-17 Thread Paul William
; $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdc1118729904 103213752 14309912 88% /home/ftp > /dev/hdd1118729904 104041660 13482004 89% /home/ftp/pub Are you saying that you have shell access to the mirror you use?!?!? --

Re: Network setup

2003-10-18 Thread Paul William
canned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix

Re: vga mode

2003-10-18 Thread Paul William
Please do not sent HTML emails -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] is swen evoluting ?

2003-10-18 Thread Paul William
ot quite true. Windows will prompt you if the file contains an unknown file extention. .bat file is a batch file which is an executable file. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a sy

ALSA configuration for CT5880 onboard chip. ES1373? ES1371?

2003-10-19 Thread William Guynes
ailed I'm now well beyond my knowlege levels of enabling audio in Linux, and am stabbing in the dark. Where do I go from here? Did I make a misstep somewhere? Do I even have the right cardtype selected? ES1371. -- William Guynes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

java in mozilla

2003-10-23 Thread Paul William
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Re: java in mozilla

2003-10-24 Thread Paul William
> Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/ > > the do: > > dselect update && apt-get install j2re1.4 Works great. Thanks all of you for the help. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debi

Re: Installing NVIDIA drivers

2003-10-24 Thread Paul William
#x27; commandline option. > > I've installed the kernel-source and kernel-headers for 2.4.22. > Can anyone help me? > Thx anyway > Steve -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

vim syntax

2003-10-25 Thread Paul William
Hi How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to type :syntax on? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- .''`. Paul W

vim syntax

2003-10-25 Thread Paul William
Hi How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to type :syntax on? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: vim syntax

2003-10-25 Thread Paul William
Thanks for your help. On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 17:44, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:05PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > Hi > > > > How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to > > type :syntax on? > > in .vimrc: >

Re: X11R6

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
> Nvidia MX200 GF2. Is this the problem? > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 10/22/2003 -- .''`. Paul William : :' :De

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
what a kool idea. Pity I live on the other side of the world (New Zealand). Enjoy the party. Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:24:02 +1300, > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > what a kool idea. Pity I live on the other side of the world (New > > Zealand). Enj

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:22:45 +1300, > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:2

palm on debian

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am getting a new palm (tunsten E) tomorrow. My last palm m105 was sold before I switched to Debian and worked fine in mdk. Is there any tip /things-i-need-todo to get a usb palm working in debian (apart from installing the right software)? Cheers Paul -- .''`. Pa

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
ldera/SCO's business, now it's > litigation: http://www.groklaw.net/ ;-) Well there is a good reason not to eat @ pizza hut :-) -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a s

unsubscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-10-26 Thread Kim, William
PLEASE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: e-mail

2003-10-27 Thread Paul William
ection. Now I can not get my e-mail up. Neither Network > Everywhere or USB ports. What has happened? > Gailon O. Hall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a sy

gpilotd crashes all the time

2003-10-28 Thread Paul William
Hi, gpilotd keeps crashing and the gnome "your program has crashed" dialog keeps popping up. I can use my Tungsten E with pilot-link so the palm is playing nicely with Linux. What should I do? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and

gpilotd crashes all the time

2003-10-28 Thread Paul William
Hi, gpilotd keeps crashing and the gnome "your program has crashed" dialog keeps popping up. I can use my Tungsten E with pilot-link so the palm is playing nicely with Linux. What should I do? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and

Re: gpilotd crashes all the time

2003-10-28 Thread Paul William
I managed to fix it by it by running the following command as root: mount -t usbdevfs usb /proc/bus/usb -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

pppd headache

2003-10-30 Thread Paul William
003 i686 GNU/Linux Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gpilot on unstable

2003-11-02 Thread Paul William
Hi, Has any one managed to get gpilot to sync with a USB palm on unstable? I cant get it to sync, it used to crash but thats now sorted out. At one stage it actually did sync ... but not anymore. Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `

Re: chat-class room package

2003-11-02 Thread Paul William
t; Thanks. > TR Just tar it up, write some instructions on howto deploy it and put it on a website. You could even start a sourceforge.net project. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do tha

gpilot on unstable

2003-11-02 Thread Paul William
Hi, Has any one managed to get gpilot to sync with a USB palm on unstable? I cant get it to sync, it used to crash but thats now sorted out. At one stage it actually did sync ... but not anymore. Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `

hotplug problem

2003-11-04 Thread Paul William
-k7 #5 Sat Oct 4 14:11:12 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux I am running debian unstable. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- .'&#x

hotplug problem

2003-11-04 Thread Paul William
-k7 #5 Sat Oct 4 14:11:12 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux I am running debian unstable. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-05 Thread Paul William
me.kc.rr.com/snidely/cornscolio.gif LOL. Nice. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java on linux

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
hat handles mount and umount > cdrom. > Thanks > > __ > From Beethoven to the Rolling Stones, your favorite music is always > playing on MSN Radio Plus. No ads, no talk. Trial month FREE! -- .''`.

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
the coolest > wrapper in the world)? -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail problem

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? Thanks very much Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian

Re: Kernel Compiling: Source for my nic isn't included: Was:Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
y > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Giving debian a chance. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl ?

2003-11-09 Thread Paul William
> Lynn > My first post to this list. Nice of you to join us :) -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: fetchmail problem

2003-11-09 Thread Paul William
thanks, I will try that. Cheers Paul On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:10, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I am running fet

Re: k3b 1.0 ?

2003-11-15 Thread Paul William
6uhpcYlIaPO/m/uU9Cfq1wTLQCghcbA > eixJswA2KeCyKo+Ur2VWmQw= > =TaWz > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian sunk by Windows format and install.

2003-09-08 Thread William Bradley
off and the unit boots straight into Windows. Is there a way that I can get back to dual booting that machine. I'd hate to have to reinstall Debian and go through getting KDE 3.0 again. Thank you, Bill. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org

Re: Debian sunk by Windows (Update)

2003-09-09 Thread William Bradley
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:08:35PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > > Got virus attacked on the Windows section of a dual boot machine that > > runs Debian (latest Woody) and Windows 98. Windows got into such a state > > between the virus and me messing with it that I ende

Mounting Windows C: drive.

2003-09-11 Thread William Bradley
. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP only with Windows? Why not Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread William Bradley
t; 'ftp users.snip.net' > > If a 'dir' or 'ls' after successful login takes forever, reconnect to > the server and type 'passive' right after successful login. I've used gFTP with Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian. Never had a problem with moving docume

whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb

2003-09-14 Thread William Bradley
file please? Thank you, Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb (Update)

2003-09-14 Thread William Bradley
still like to know how to do it as a package on the system. Cheers, Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.4.18-bf2.4 and Alsa sound configuration

2003-09-15 Thread William Sykes
All, Can I run Sound on this Kernel Version without patching the Kernel? Im running 2.4.18-bf2.4 on an IBM thinkpad with a ESS1969 card. I am trying to use Alsa, but I am getting "Can't locate module snd" I remember messing with this once before and failing. Is there a problem with the version o

strange 8139too problem/question

2003-09-18 Thread Paul William
Hi, I went through the woody installation. I installed the 2.4.18-bf kernel and when I got to the part of the install where you select kernel modules the 8139too (realtek 8139 NIC driver) was not there?!?! I then exited the installation and reinstalled because I need that driver. I did my reinsta

installing nvidia - missing

2003-09-19 Thread Paul William
Hi, When I try to install the nvidia drivers I get a compiler mesasge that I am missing this file: nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 modversions.h is not installed wit my kernel (2.4.18-bf). I am running sid. What should I do. I have sear

Slide show software

2003-09-22 Thread William Bradley
Does Debian in their "deb" files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? Thank you, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian bug reporting

2003-09-25 Thread Paul William
Hi, If there is a bug in a debian package and you are 90% sure its the upstream developers fault should you still report it and let the packager forward it upstream? I dont want to piss of debian packagers. Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

3d games crash

2003-09-26 Thread Paul William
Hi debian-users I am running debain unstable. I know that things crash in unstable I just find it odd that two 3d games both give segfaults so I think it may be a problem on my end. I have an nvidia card and I am using the latest nvidia drivers. If you have any ideas what I may have done wrong to

3d (opengl) games crash

2003-09-26 Thread Paul William
Hi debian-users I am running debain unstable. I know that things crash in unstable I just find it odd that two 3d/opengl games both give segfaults so I think it may be a problem on my end. I have an nvidia card and I am using the latest nvidia drivers. If you have any ideas what I may have done w

3d (opengl) games crash

2003-09-26 Thread Paul William
Hi debian-users I am running debain unstable. I know that things crash in unstable I just find it odd that two 3d/opengl games both give segfaults so I think it may be a problem on my end. I have an nvidia card and I am using the latest nvidia drivers. If you have any ideas what I may have done w

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Paul William
Heres my perl script. I also run it in cron. On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 03:49, Ron Johnson wrote: > (Mailfilter only checks headers, so can't see filenames of > attachments.) > > I've got this in my crontab: > */5 * * * * (/home/me/pop_zap_msft.py && fetchmail -s) > > The rc (named ~/.pop_zap_msftrc)

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Paul William
Opps, forgot to mention that the line: $delete=0 if /^To.*?linux/i; Must be altered. Replace the linux part with any string that occurs in your email address. eg if you address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] you should replace linux with abc123 ie. $delete=0 if /^To.*?abc123/i; My bad, Cheers Paul --

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
To get access to your cron conf file run $crontab -e It will open up your defualt editor. This means you do not have to be root to change cron run times. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

k3b cant copy cds

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am trying to use k3b to copy cds but it will not work. I ave tried running it as root but the same errors occur (yes I know doing stuff in root is a risk). I can blank cdrws and write to cdrws but not copy cds. I am running unstable. Here is the debuggin output: System -

k3b cant copy cds

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am trying to use k3b to copy cds but it will not work. I ave tried running it as root but the same errors occur (yes I know doing stuff in root is a risk). I can blank cdrws and write to cdrws but not copy cds. I am running unstable. Here is the debuggin output: System -

huge amount of unsed kernel modules.

2003-10-03 Thread Paul William
Hi, I installed the 2.4.22-1-k7 kernel image. I had the 2.4bf kernel and now I find that a huge amount of kernel modules are bing loaded. I understand that the new kernel probably has more things compiled as modules than the 2.4bf but there are heaps of modules that are unused. /etc/modules: af_

installing unstable package in woody

2003-10-04 Thread Paul William
Hi, There is an unstable/testing package (firehol) that I need to install on a woody system. I do not think there will be any dependency problems. Is this possible? Will dpkg allow me to install a testing package on woody? Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: installing unstable package in woody

2003-10-04 Thread Paul William
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Re: Mplayer eating all CPU

2003-10-04 Thread Paul William
you could use the nice command which alters priority of programs your run. do a man nice to find out more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDA/GSM Phones

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
> A lot of these new phones have Bluetooth built into them. Here is where > my questions begin. There are bluetooth drivers with my 2.4.22 kernel. Run (as root) modconf and scroll down till you see the bluetooth drivers category. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

netsaint

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
Hi, I installed netsaint but when I access it throught my browser I get the following error message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /netsaint/ on this server. I am using woody and my web server is apache. The netsaint deb made the needed changes to my httpd.conf. How do I access

Re: Stable? Unstable?

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
*official* debian cds are stable. After you install upgrading to unstable or testing is easy and painless. I use unstable because I love having up2date (excuse the rh pun) software and I dont like waiting for milestone releases from other dists ie. redhat/mandrake. Upgrading to unstable or testi

Re: netsaint

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
unfortunately that didnt work. Thanks anyway. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:42, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:50, Paul William wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed netsaint but when I access it throught my browser I get the > > following error message: >

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Paul William
> Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an > online "station") that a linux box can talk to? I assume a serial port > is the interface of choice here. The old fashioned way - use wget, curl or perl to rip any data you want off the numerous weather info sites on the net

Re: woody bf24 problem

2003-10-11 Thread Paul William
Install with the 2.2 kernel and then install another kernel when debian is install. You could install a nice new 2.4.22 kernel which might fix your problems. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:41, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > I have a little problem with the woody cd's bf24 kernel image: > When the 'bf24' kern

Re: Mail server

2003-10-12 Thread Paul William
postfix is *supposed* to be better for larger volumes of email. I use exim and in the past have used postfix. Both are good. On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 16:10, ralph bacolod wrote: > I just read the header of an email from this list and > I saw that murphy.Debian.Org uses Postfix. Why is this > so? Why

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread Paul William
> (4) requires a working (1) and moreover requires modifying > /etc/X11/XftConfig; in particular enabling anti-aliasing (match edit > rgba = rgb) and pointing to TrueType (dir "..path..to..bitstream-vera"). > (4) is representive of all Xft v1 apps. (4) also takes care of old GTK1 > apps. I am

Mouse freezes after X logout - why?

2002-11-22 Thread William Crowshaw
Just upgraded to woody (PowerMac 7500 using kernel 2.2.20). Every time -- and I mean every time -- I logout of an X session (regardless of which wm I'm using) and am thrown back to gdm, my mouse freezes up. The keyboard works, but I loose the mouse entirely in gdm and when I log back in. I have t

Building Deb packages for source?

2003-08-20 Thread William Crowshaw
Why is it that everytime I apt-get source a package and try to build it with dpkg-buildpackage, I run into the problem that it looks for a director called "DEBIAN" with all the revelant debian information when the source package itself contains a directory called "debian" (note the case change). I

Script for IP address change

2003-08-20 Thread William Crowshaw
via e-mail when this this IP periodically changes? I use dhclient to retrieve the IP from the DHCP server. Many thanks, William. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Mouse Problems

2003-08-22 Thread William Bradley
p the mouse and though it is a Logitech mouse, Windows lists it as a PS/2 mouse. When I ran "dmesg" it showed the Com 1 was listed as tty00 and I tried it at that setting and got the same result. Can someone point me in the right directions with this please. Thank you in advance, Bill --

Help Please!!

2003-08-24 Thread William Bradley
I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rl "Woody" Official i386. The installation is not as graphic as some but it got the job done without a lot of trouble, except for one item. The mouse did not work. It is an off the shelf Logitech PS/2 mouse with a wheel. There is nothing wrong with the mous

Re: Help Please!! Mouse Dead.

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
nt, tried the above and it did not work. The correct one was > the first, "/dev/gpmdata". I had uninstalled gpm but re-installed it > when you made the above suggestion. ..now get gpm working right in the console first, when it works, it's time to restart X. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
ng" "4 5" > > End Section > > > > Section "ServerLayout" > > [... more blah ...] > > InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer" > > [... more blah ...] > > EndSection > My XF86Config-4 has a

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-25 Thread William Bradley
had a mouse problem. Had a printer problem in the early stuff until I went to a postscript printer, but never the mouse. It does leave me a bit perplexed. Thank you for your response and I will follow any further advice you might have to see if I can get this mouse moving. Bill. William Br

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
tangle but it is stationary on the screen. Thank you for this help, I appreciate it very much and I would like to get Debian going. Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Monday 25 August 2003 11:09 pm, Kent West wrote: > Okay, so we know for sure the mouse is okay. And if either mouse works > on Windows on the "Debian box", we can assume the ps/2 port is okay. > Which leaves software. > > I see two basic possibilities: > 1) kernel issues > 2) gpm issues > > I

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
;Terminated' > message > 13) Email me the file /tmp/mousedata Thank you for taking so much trouble Kent West got my playing with gmpconfig and when I got to "fuimps2" under type, the mouse moved. This was done with X completely shut down. Best wishes, Bill. -- W

Re: Looking for a simple SSL-CA package

2003-08-26 Thread William Cooper
Tarjei Huse wrote: Hi, I'd like to thank all who contributed. If you don't want to run your own certificate authority or pay a commercial one to sign your key, and you don't have a lot of certificates to deal with, you can have each key simply be self-signed, which I believe is what's being re

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
"gpmconfig" and get it going again. Sometimes it doesn't take on the first configuration and has to be done again and then it will work. Thanks, Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
t, finally I am up and running. Changed the mouse again and configured it "gpmconfig" and now it is stable and working. Bill. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
e screen. Thank you again Kent for all of your patient help. Debian would have been gone by now without it. Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-27 Thread William Bradley
d gpmcongfig accepted it "fups2" in a stable fashion and has been stable ever since. Go figure!! Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Debian and KDE

2003-08-27 Thread William Bradley
T-F3, where I have to login as root and close with: "shutdown -h now". Is there a less complicated way of getting Debian closed down? -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Debian and KDE

2003-08-28 Thread William Bradley
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 06:45 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > Uninstall XDM and install KDM, if you installed the task x-window-system > you will have to uninstall that first, it is only a meta-package, will > not affect other apps. Thanks Greg and excuse my ignorance what exactly is the "task" x-w

Debian and KDE (Update)

2003-08-28 Thread William Bradley
ion to ":0.0" refused by server. Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1. kppp: cannot connect to X server key :0.0 I have been able to logon to the internet as "root" using "pon" and "poff" Any and all help appreciated. Bill. -- William Bradley Come visit

Re: Debian and KDE (Update 2)

2003-08-28 Thread William Bradley
still getting: KDEInit could not launch 'kppp': Could not find 'kppp' executable. Something has to be modified somewhere but hanged if I know where. If anyone knows could you tell me the file that has to be modified. Thanks again, Bill. -- William Bradley Come visit

Re: Debian and KDE (Update 3, It works!! )

2003-08-28 Thread William Bradley
kppp. The problem was solved be adding "noauth" under the "pppd" in the modem setup. Thanks again, Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get online question

2003-08-28 Thread William Bradley
. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get online question

2003-08-29 Thread William Bradley
apt-get update before using apt Thanks James, the above did the trick. And thank you to other list members who responded also. Bill. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread William Bradley
Presently Debian Woody ships with KDE 2.2.2. I would like to upgrade it to KDE 3.1, which I believe is available in the unstable Debian. There must be a way I can get at it with apt-get but at this stage of my experience I don't know how this is done. Thank you, Bill. -- William Br

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread William Bradley
es from the unstable tree? > > The difference is that the packages on kde.org are built for stable, not > for unstable. I am running the stable or Woody version of Debian. Does that mean that I can get the version from KDE? I'm still a bit unclear about this stable, unstable versions

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-30 Thread William Bradley
On Friday 29 August 2003 04:15 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Presently Debian Woody ships with KDE 2.2.2. I would like to upgrade > > it to KDE 3.1, which I believe is available in the unstable Debian. > > There must be

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