re: virtual installation?

2005-11-01 Thread Matt Price
On 11/1/05, Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to test different drive configurations virtually without having > to resort to something like vmware or qemu. I know how to create a > virtual filesystem using dd and wonder can I create a virtual drive that > I can partition with fdi

diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and trying to get them to function on my university's wireless network. I have been following instructions for the network as laid out in the various "generic instructions

setting up wifi / interpreting errors

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hifolks, very excited about my new wireless connection (d-lnnk dwl-650+, on a thinkpad 600e, running a suspend2-enabled 2.6.13.4 kernel w/ the acx100 module added in using module-assistant). THe card works perfectly at home. yay! But at work I cannot associate with the network. Following the W

Re: diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
gaah sorry! not used to the tab commands on gmail. reposted in a sep thread. matt On 11/2/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link > dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and tryin

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
thank mitch, this looks great! It's slow enough that I haven't had a chance to explore it fully, but will report back in any case! thanks, matt On 11/1/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >On 11/1/05, Randall Smith <[EMAIL PRO

qemu & vt's

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
On 11/2/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Kopp wrote: > > >>When I create an iso image of my custom Knoppix > >>CD, I test the image > >>>with the "qemu" program. That way I don't have to > >>burn a cd until I'm > >>>sure the iso is going to work. > >>> > >>>Here's the comma

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
> ok, here's a question: somehting is wrong with my cd -- "error > installing the base system" If I were on a real, physical computer, I > would ctrl-alt-F2 to a ocnsole, or ctrl-alt-f3 to the error log, and > try to diagnose the problem. But on qemu ctrl-alt releases the > "grab", so it seems to

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
On 11/3/05, derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:52:36PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > you will need the source for qemu too. for example, if i'm in > /usr/local/src and i have the two sources downloaded... > > $ tar xzf qemu-0.7.2.tar.gz > $ cd qemu-0.7.2 > $ tar xzf ../kq

save a search in beagle?

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, have just installed the latest beagle, and find that it actually works! astonishing but true and very groovy. I seem to remember that, when I was first thinking about installing beagle ages ago (and it never seemed to work out) I saw a way to save searches in desktop icons -- so if you

OT: Shared calendar server on Debian

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
On 11/3/05, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, November 3, 2005 1:47 pm, Caleb Walker wrote: > } Hello all, > } I am wondering if there are any suggestions for a shared calendar system > } on Debian. My setup is as follows. I have a Cyrus, Spamassassin, > } Procmail, Postfix and

save a search in beagle?

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, have just installed the latest beagle, and find that it actually works! astonishing but true and very groovy. I seem to remember that, when I was first thinking about installing beagle ages ago (and it never seemed to work out) I saw a way to save searches in desktop icons -- so if you

finding files by content from the command-line

2005-11-04 Thread Matt Price
Having checked out beagle and quite liked it, I seet here ae also various graphical file-finding tools outthere, e.g. the gnome "search for files" program, that allow content searches (e.g., "contains the text"-type searhcing). In many cases similar effects can be achieved using find andor grep, b

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread Matt Price
On 11/4/05, derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:23:44PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > ... > > /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574: error: unable to > > find a register to spill in class 'GENERAL_REGS' > > /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574:

pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
a option seems to be enabled. ANy hints as to what I might have done wrong here? Or what the next debugging step would be? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- --

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > > > just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy > > hints as to what I might have done wrong her

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-08 Thread Matt Price
On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antonio Paiva wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to > > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend > > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? >

bash, read, and tab completion

2005-11-09 Thread Matt Price
I'm saving in a valid directory) I don't notice any hints in this direction in the ABS, but probably I'm just missing them. Guiadance appreciated! thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-g

Re: php5

2005-11-09 Thread Matt Price
On 11/9/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Wiki wrote: > > Is website actualized alaways when new stable is public? > > Could you rephrase that please? I don't understand. > this presumably means, "is the website updated" ('actual' in most europ

Re: OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-09 Thread Matt Price
On 11/9/05, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > >> All of which seem to be for OpenOffice.org 1.1 and will break my OOo > >> 2.0 installation. > >> > >> Paul Scott > > > > > > A quick search of the Debian unstable packages revealed this help package: > > > >> > >>

kernel upgrade, no console

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Price
e to look in my .config? thanks, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel-compile-troubleshooting -- help with a howto

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Price
are-suspend2-patched kernels to load an initrd (despite howtos on the website). In this case all showstopper modules must be built as integral parts of the kernel, NOT as modules. Also, I often uncheck initrd-related options from the kernel when I make a non-initrd version. I think this is just

unregister_netdevice

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, with a new 2.6.14 kernel, I am getting this message: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 5 repeated ad nauseum in dmesg after ejecting my pcmcia nic (xircom something or other, rebranded by IBM). not only can I not reload the card, I am unable to shut

Re: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible...

2005-11-15 Thread Matt Price
On 11/15/05, Eric van der Paardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Martin Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:20 AM > > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible... > -snip- > >

post-hibernation tasks

2005-11-16 Thread Matt Price
y no big deal. SO just wondering if anyone has ideas how to do such a thing. thanks much, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, th

spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there? Matt -- .''`. Matt Pri

stereo component from laptop?

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Price
'd stick with it unless there are other suggestions... Thanks much fory our help! Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Price
On 11/30/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd > player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo > component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a > p

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price
someone had some suggestions about debian-based players, I'd also welcome them... Matt > > -Original Message- > From: Matt Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 November 2005 20:10 > To: debian users; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: stereo compon

merging Openoffice docs in unison

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price
st of my work takes place, and where most of my synchronization comfusion comes from. Has anyone tried anything of this kind? Any hints? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-05 Thread Matt Price
lp me here? was the -dao option a possible source of error? this is the first dvd I've burned so I don't have much experience with this stuff. thanks, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `-

Re: dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On 12/5/05, Gnu-Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11:23, Mon 05 Dec 05, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm > > pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under >

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