Re: APIC error

2004-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
I posted: > I have a Giga-byte GA-7DPXW+ mobo with dual Athlon MP 2800+ cpus. The kernel > is a custom 2.6.8, basically the stock k7-smp kernel with PCMCIA, ACPI, and > OSS removed, compiled with gcc-3.3. > > Trying to clone a hard disk using dd, i get the following error repetitively: > >

APIC error

2004-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
I have a Giga-byte GA-7DPXW+ mobo with dual Athlon MP 2800+ cpus. The kernel is a custom 2.6.8, basically the stock k7-smp kernel with PCMCIA, ACPI, and OSS removed, compiled with gcc-3.3. Trying to clone a hard disk using dd, i get the following error repetitively: APIC error on CPU1: 00 (40

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-10-05 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:32 pm, calvin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:24:10AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > >>Top posting leads to a big mess. Every non-technical person does it > >>and it ends up with them saying "let's use a forum or something" > >>because they can't follow the thread

Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is Linux Unix?)

2004-07-30 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:16 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Varies by jurisdiction. > > Superior (county) judges are frequently elected. > > State/Federal judges are appointed by governors and presidents, > respectively.  I don't believe any state has an elected judiciary, > although California has r

Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51 am, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was > based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably still > testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that far back. > > Thanks > -- > Kind regards > Hans d

Re: dpkg, make-kpkg and 2.6 kernel

2004-02-01 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 January 2004 5:04 pm, Darryl Barlow wrote: > I have used make-kpkg to make a 2.6 kernel deb which > is producing a strange > error on attempted installation. I simply used the > source package with the > config file from the 686 kernel

Re: apt-get upgrade.... dont.

2004-01-21 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 2:00 pm, Jacob S. wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:34:16 -0800 > > Day Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Corel 1.2 (the debian 2.2.18 kernel) > > apt-get upgrade tries to hit on corel.com for the upgrade list.

Re: apt-get install problem

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 8:04 am, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Today's upgrades included 'foomatic-filters'. When dpkg asks about > instlling the new `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' I press 'd' to see > what has changed and the program hangs. Ctl-C aborts the i

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 9:53 pm, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:23:29 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > > I've done installations in the meantime with RH & 9, Mandrake > > 9.2, and Suse with 2.4 kernels, and they all run both the USB > >

Re: many marillat users don't realize their Packages.gz is old

2003-12-27 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 December 2003 4:22 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Dan> Because of the broken Last-Modified, I am unable to get fresh > Dan> copies of > Dan> > http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Dan> from my ISP's cache!: > >

Re: gnutella

2003-12-21 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 December 2003 6:39 am, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I was recommended various peer networking software for debian. I > have installed gnutella. Will someone give me instructions on > setting it up and use pls. A brief note is great, e

Re: Install problems on Asus A7V333

2003-12-01 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 30 November 2003 2:01 pm, Chris Gumm wrote: > I'm trying to get debian installed on an asus A7V333 and I am > running in to a problem. Now, I didn't think debian supported the > RAID controler so I disabled it with a jumper setting. Now when it > gets to the partition hd, I have 3 choices

Kernel-Recompile edba too big

2003-03-17 Thread Bob Underwood
Hi all, I just recompiled a 2.4.20 kernel to include the 2.7.0 i2c modules. It appeared to compile correctly. However, when I attempt to boot the kernel, I immediately receive the error message: "EDBA too big." A search of google doesn't turn up a lot of help. There is one reference to the

Re: Can only login as root

2002-12-29 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 28 December 2002 22:28, matt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Woody v3.0 with a 2.4.18 kernel. > > I can only login as root, if I try to login as anyone else it does > not even ask for a password, it juts says 'Login incorrect'. > > Regardless of which username I enter it always says 'System b

Re: 2.4.18 to 2.4.19/20 locks up

2002-12-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 01:07, Charles Lewis wrote: > I wouldn't even worry about upgrading except that I keep hoping > that maybe a dri fix for my rage128 card will appear. have you tried the kernel modules at http://dri.sourceforge.net? i'm using them with a custom 2.4.18 kernel (rage128 p

printer.c loading at different location than printer

2002-11-14 Thread Bob Underwood
hi all, i have a usb printer which is located at /dev/usb/lp0. dmesg reports the printer is at /dev/usblp0. obviously, it doesn't work this way. there is no /dev/usblp0 on my system. i haven't a clue how to either relocate the printer or to redirect the module loading. any help would be ap

Re: Problem with DRI and ati 128 card

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 11 November 2002 01:57, Dave North wrote: > The recent update on sarge to xfree86 4.2 (I hope I got that right) > broke DRI on my ati 128 card. I was able to fix this by replacing > the two new files /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r128_dri.so and > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o wi

Re: rage128 and dri (?)

2002-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
sent to poster in error. message to list below. On Monday 21 October 2002 14:17, Phil Reardon wrote: > I am trying to get XFree86 4.2 to like my rage 128 video card. I > can get a grey X screen up and mouse around, but thats all. When I > ctrl-alt-backspace, I see these messages on the consol

Re: Athlon MP boards that work with woody

2002-10-09 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:00, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > What MB's have people used with Woody successfully, unsuccessfully? > > Thanks I'm using an Asus A7V333, with the 2.4.19 kernel (compiled from source) and i2c compiled from source. Works quite well. bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Kernel Modules

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 19 September 2002 09:44, Volker Cordes wrote: > Bob Underwood wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've asked related questions in the past without success. So, > > I'll try one more time. I'm just looking for a pointer to the > > correct place

Kernel Modules

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Underwood
Hi all, I've asked related questions in the past without success. So, I'll try one more time. I'm just looking for a pointer to the correct place to resolve the difficulty. I'm using the XFree86 experimental 4.2.1-0pre1v1 debs because my rage pro 128 is not supported by previous editions.

Re: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Underwood
e other kernels besides "bf" > support this file system type? > > Best Wishes! > Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org yes, they do. I also use the ext3 file system. best wishes. bob > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: We

Re: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:53, Michael Olds wrote: > This boils down to two problems: if a module is missing, where can > I get it? I did a Google search and there are a zillion references > to the missing modules but no mention of where they can be found. > > And Second, what is the proced

Re: Setting-up CDRW

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Underwood
I just did this again last evening on a new machine and it was loads easier than i remembered it being. I'm using kernel 2.4.19-k7 with both an ide cdrom and an ide-scsi cdrw. i added this line to /etc/fstab: /dev/scd0 /cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 my /etc/m

Re: idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:25, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: > > i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. > > during bootup, i get the following messa

idebus=xx and lilo

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, i have a new mainboard running woody with kernel 2.4.19-k7. during bootup, i get the following message: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx. lspci -v shows (in part) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, med

Re: Package Manager doesnt start.....

2002-09-11 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:55, Hoffice-Rafael Puyau wrote: > Dear All, > > I can't open the package manager on Linux Under Kde I click on > Package Manager Link but nothing appears.. So how can I fix > this problem. I try to log wit

Re: Problem detecting sb128PCI

2002-09-11 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 07:04, Pierre Dupuis wrote: > Hi all :) > > First i want to thanks everyone on this list, community spirit is > great and debian is one of this ! > > I have a problem with my sb128PCI, it seems the mixer device ok but >

Re: Free Cell

2002-09-07 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 07 September 2002 15:51, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2002 5:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0700, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > > > How do I find and install "FREE CELL"??? > > > > Try g

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 14:10, Helgi Örn wrote: > Hello all! > > I got a CD-ROM and a CD-burner the ide-scsi module makes both of the > drivers emulate as scsi, I don't want the CD-ROM to appear as emulated > scsi driver how can I avoid that? > I can't install the VMware tools because VMware does

Re: KaZaA + Debian Woody + XP

2002-06-07 Thread Bob Underwood
en a curses based search tool... > Gary > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:39 PM > To: FreeportWeb Debian Support Account > Subject: Re: KaZaA + Debian Woody + XP > > On Friday 07 June 2002 10:08

Fwd: Re: KaZaA + Debian Woody + XP

2002-06-07 Thread Bob Underwood
oops, blindly hit reply in kmail without getting the "to" address correct. bob -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: KaZaA + Debian Woody + XP Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:39:04 -0400 From: Bob Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Friday 07 June 2002 10:08, FreeportWe

Re: lm-sensors

2002-06-07 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 06 June 2002 23:34, David Z Maze wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:34:55PM -0400, Bob Underwood wrote: > >> are the new lm-sensors and libsensors2 available somewhere? if so, > >> where? i just checked

lm-sensors

2002-06-06 Thread Bob Underwood
from a different thread, david maze said: >(There's also the problem that each of the developers has their own >personal pet packages that they'd really like to make the "point >release", but it can't happen for everyone's packages, and someone >needs to make the decision.  Hypothetically, to pick

Re: two ethernet cards

2002-05-29 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 23:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to set up a firewall, however I have hit a > snag that I cannot seem to get around. I am trying to > run two ethernet cards, both of them are Netgear FA310TX > cards, and both are supposed to run on the tulip > driver. When I in

Re: Menus not updating

2002-05-26 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 26 May 2002 20:14, Shaul Karl wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:59:45PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > any package not supporting menu when it should (ie. almost any X app) > > > is violating policy. > > > > The X apps do have this. Console apps that previously did have menu

Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

2002-05-25 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:07, Russ Cook wrote: > Another respondent suggested I run XFree86 -configure to get a starting > config file. I did, and it worked - although low res and distorted. I > then restored my original guess at synch rates, and got my original > symptons, which confirms your s

Re: 2.4.18 - nic modules

2002-05-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:25, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > > Try 8139too. I don't know the whole story, but something about > > different people maintaining it now caused the name change. > > Most excellent - that was the answer I needed to get it to work. I would > like to know the reason fo

Re: woody's "frozen-bubble" package

2002-04-20 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 20 April 2002 13:04, James Vahn wrote: > Does anyone know the cure for this fatal error? > > [SDL Init] X Error of failed request: > BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 144 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) > Min

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 13:01, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be. > All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution > files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my > computer to woody. 'potato'

Re: frozen-bubble

2002-04-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 11:33, James Vahn wrote: > Does anyone know the cause for this? > > [SDL Init] X Error of failed request: > BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 144 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) > Minor opcode of

Re: java

2002-04-13 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 13 April 2002 09:38, Ted wrote: > Hi.. > Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for the blackdown > java and is there a file anywhere of preferred sources ??? > Regards > Ted Wager deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free --

Re: xserver-xfree86 not found on mirror

2002-04-12 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 12 April 2002 10:23, Janis HAGELBERG wrote: > I've upgraded my debian potato dist., but now xfree doesn't > work anymore. the problem seems to be that the xserver-xfree86 > doesn't exist on any official debian mirror. did the name > changed, or am i looking for the wrong package? > becaus

Re: XFree86 problems

2002-04-04 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 04 April 2002 15:04, Fañch wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 April 2002 16:53, Fanch wrote: > > > I have now tried to install Debian 3 times without succes on an i586 > > > which has run RedHat6.2 until I began my Debian

Re: XFree86 problems

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 16:53, Fanch wrote: > I have now tried to install Debian 3 times without succes on an i586 > which has run RedHat6.2 until I began my Debian experiments... > > I have 2 good years experience with Linux through RedHat and have no > problems with the course of the install.

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 04 March 2002 14:33, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > Try deadftp, although it is gnome I find it the > most usefull ftpclient I have found. > > Cheers, > Bastiaan > > On Monday 04 March 2002 20:17, R.Pac wrote: > > Hi , > > > > > > can someone give me any good ftp front end > > based on gnome or

Re: Open Office on Woody?

2002-03-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:28, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2002 01.07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > I noticed all the talk of Open Office on potato, but is it also on woody? > > and, if so, where? > > > > Thanks > > Hi, I've been running it for a while on Woody, (2.4.17). As far

Re: Refresh dselect db?

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 28 February 2002 18:12, Troy Telford wrote: > I hope this will be simple... > > I recently re-installed Debian. After revising my apt.sources list, as > well as a good 'ol dist-upgrade to bring my system up to Debian > 3.0/unstable, I discovered an interesting problem: > > For some rea

Re: Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro TF

2002-02-27 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 07:42, Bill Triplett wrote: > am not an expert, but barring the lack of any other useful advice to > your question, it looks to me like the Rage 128 Pro TF chipset (from > lspci) is not listed in the supported chipsets in the logfile. Check the > XFree86 website and se

Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 23 February 2002 19:59, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:22:01AM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > | Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit > | organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend > | I have to reinstall the O

Re: Connecting to Port 631 - THANKS

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 23 February 2002 13:58, ben wrote: > On Saturday 23 February 2002 10:51 am, Bob Underwood wrote: > > I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to > > localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host > >

Connecting to Port 631

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to localhost:631. The error message says: "Could not connect to host localhost (port 631)" /etc/services has these lines: ipp 631/tcp #Internet Printing Protocol ipp 631/udp #Internet P

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 22 February 2002 22:57, Stephen Nosal wrote: > Folks - > > I recently got Time Warner Road Runner installed. It seems to be a straight > forward dhcp install but I'm having a problem getting dh-client running. > I've manageed to make it work with the same box running NT, as well as an > o

Re: OT-COX DHCP Cable Internet conversion

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 17:03, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Greetings: > > I wanted to post a quick note here for others going through the Cox cable > internet transition from Excite to Cox dhcp servers. > > When (if) you get your kit, copy the provided number and log onto the cox > web ser

Re: OT: hardware recommendations?

2002-01-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 27 January 2002 22:32, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Greetings, all. > > My PII-233MHz is beginning to show its age (already?!), so I'm looking > for a replacement. The idea of saving a few bucks by building my own > system from components has its appeal, but frankly, I'd really rather > not bo

Re: Apt question

2002-01-22 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 20:23, Scott Henson wrote: > A few weeks ago I heard something about pinning in apt. If I remember > correctly you can put sid in your sources.list and pin its urgency down > to 50 and there for you could install stuff in sid with out upgradeing > to sid. Or something t

Re: icons in kmail

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
There's an issue with libpng compatibility. (Take a look at debian-kde archives for more details.) It's been fixed now in unstable (thank you daniel and chris for your quick work on this). I have had unstable kde for quite a while and it works quite well. If there are no RC bugs in the new

Re: Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:11, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:42AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: > > the /etc/network/interfaces file reads as follows: > > [...] > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > hostname: what @ home gave me > > Try it w

Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Bob Underwood
With the impending demise of @home and transferrance to cox.net, I need to reconfigure my gateway from a static ip to dhcp. I'm sure I'm missing something here, so help would be appreciated. the /etc/network/interfaces file reads as follows: iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet st

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:23, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: > hi, > > I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had there (some > weeks ago, not working anymore) internet sharing enabled. When > switching, I also want it to be correct again. The problem is My debian > does not recognize

Fwd: Re: MAC Address and Ethx

2002-01-02 Thread Bob Underwood
Oops, hit the wrong reply to button. My apologies to Mr. Spoon. bob -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: MAC Address and Ethx Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:05:19 -0500 From: Bob Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Monday 31 December 2001 18:49, Donald R. Spoon wrote:

Re: MAC Address and Ethx

2001-12-31 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 31 December 2001 14:59, Ray wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:36:17PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: > > I had a phone call from my Cable ISP the other day, stating that I should > > reconfigure my computer or risk losing connectivity. The web site they > > point

MAC Address and Ethx

2001-12-30 Thread Bob Underwood
I had a phone call from my Cable ISP the other day, stating that I should reconfigure my computer or risk losing connectivity. The web site they pointed me to is a windows site, basic config stuff. Later phone call to tech service (level one and level two) confirms they are going to start che

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread Bob Underwood
Virginian, mostly retired, 54, liberal in all matters I consider important. User not developer, part-time freelance writer, Tuesday is bridge day! BS in psych; Masters in Philo. bob On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:24, Matt wrote: > Forget support and distro discussion for a second.. > > Who

Re: Configuring apsfilter and Lexmark Z11

2001-12-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 16 December 2001 23:02, Akintayo Holder wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get my Lexmark Z11 to work with debian. I have found a > driver and instructions to configure apsfilter to work with the driver. > The problem seems to be a difference in the apsfilter currently used in > debian a

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-14 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 14 December 2001 16:49, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2001 08:50, Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs wrote: > > I have the same problem, that fix did'nt helps me out. I saw also the > > mailboxes in text-editor. I don't know why, the downloaded mailbox > > contains random newline cha

Re: Can't find vroot.h

2001-12-12 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 16:32, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to compile a couple of screensavers, and they call for a > file called vroot.h, apparently in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/. I looked > at packages.debian.org for which package it comes in (I would have > thought xlibs-d

Re: After upgrade to woody, having weird problem with KMail

2001-12-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded to woody, and now when I get my email with KMail, half of the > emails don't have "no subject" and sender "unknown" But when I look at the > headers the information is there. this was discussed recently on debian-kde. the w

Re: kdm

2001-12-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 05:02, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > Like Bob Underwood said. You can edit the users and session types by using > the control center and go to system/login manager. > > With respect to your strange kdm behaviour. I remember that during the >

Re: kde install

2001-12-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 08:26, Norman Cohen wrote: > I try to install KDE on potato 2.2 r4 on a ppc by putting the following > in my sources.list: > > deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto > then wvdial > > and then running > > #apt-get update > #apt-get install task-kde > however as m

Re: kdm

2001-12-10 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 10 December 2001 11:53, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello All, > > After upgrading to woody (from potato) I get some unexpected behaviour from > kdm. > > 1) In the kdm window, I see a lot of users listed, basically all users are > listed. I only > want root and myself listed there (as it was w

Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139 too

2001-12-08 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know which of these drivers works better for people in > kernel 2.2.x. > > Reason: one of them may be enabled as the default driver in the next > woody installation system (boot floppies). > > Gruss/Regards, > Edua

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 22 November 2001 04:54 pm, Serge Rey wrote: > i did the upgrade yesterday, and along the lines of brian's suggestion, > this worked for me: > > 1) change apt sources to point to woody > 2) apt-get update > 3) apt-get -u install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl > 4) apt-get -u dist-upgrad

Re: bug: "neighbor table overflow" message

2001-11-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 19 November 2001 09:51 am, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting a "neighbor table overflow message" during installation of > woody from 2001-11-09 and also afterwards > Does anyone know where this message comes from? > > > Best regards -- > Josef Dalcolmo not sure where yours

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

2001-11-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 16 November 2001 03:03 pm, Patrik Modesto wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:16:37AM +1000, Jason Currey wrote: > > A GUI installer might not make install easier, but it gives first time > > linux users a much better feeling about installing the product. > > Yes! But it makes it a bit ea

Re: [dspoon@satx.rr.com: Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?]

2001-11-18 Thread Bob Underwood
My Netscape, woody, 2.2.19 kernel, locks up similarly when the window to confirm cookies pops up and I have any of the bookmark folders opened. I've come to expect it and I still forget. bob On Saturday 17 November 2001 01:04 pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yes, I've had Netscape lockup just its

Re: Lexmark Z22 on debian OR printconf deb package

2001-11-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 16 November 2001 01:48 pm, Pilluli wrote: > Hi all, > >I've got a Lexmark Z22 printer that I'm not able to > set up under my debian box. I've checked some > resources on the web which say that there is no > support for the Z* series under linux but the thing is > that the utility "pri

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > >  > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > > updates ).  The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem see

Re: permissions for pon/poff

2001-11-13 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 07:01 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Bob Underwood writes: > > He is brand new to Linux (first installation) and using KPPP. > > > That's your problem. I thought you were using pon and

permissions for pon/poff

2001-11-13 Thread Bob Underwood
I just set up a new box for a friend, installed from 2.2r3 and upgraded to woody. He can dial out as root (a no-no) but not as a normal user, so it's apparently a permissions problem. I added the user to the dip and dialout groups with no change. Poking around, I notice that /usr/bin/pon and

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-09 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 08 November 2001 11:48 pm, 57j wrote: > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI > login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? > > Thanks, > Cathy Cramer from an earlier discussion, (16 Feb 2001), worked for me: -copied te

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 02 November 2001 20:26, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and > then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the > following happened. > > Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-10-31 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 17:57, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Is my interpretation correct, or have I misunderstood > > the man page? (My main concern is that I don't want to > > accidentally upgrade to woody). > > You are mostly correct. IIRC, if the package structure ch

Re: List traffic

2001-10-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 28 October 2001 03:25, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > >Is it just me, or has the traffic on the list died to about 1/100 of what > > > >it was a week ago? I used to get probably 180 messages a day from this > > > >list and now I get.. 4. I wonder if my ISP is screwing around with > >som

Re: gif support grayed out..

2001-10-26 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 25 October 2001 23:15, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have > > gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making? > > i made a new, 300x300 pixel whi

Re: Mouse

2001-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
; /dev/input/mice exist? if not, you need to create it with mknod. does gpm > run? > > patrick > > On Sunday, 21. October 2001 18:43, Bob Underwood wrote: > > I have an interesting situation with the mouse on the little woman's box. > > I recently swapped her old two-bu

Mouse

2001-10-21 Thread Bob Underwood
I have an interesting situation with the mouse on the little woman's box. I recently swapped her old two-button for a three-button Logitech mouse. The new mouse doesn't work on her box, but it does on mine. The relevant sections of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file are identical. Early on, I di

Fwd: Re: how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 19 October 2001 21:07, Jerry Wang wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 02:48, Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Friday 19 October 2001 11:49, Jerry Wang wrote: > > now the following packages are installed on my Debian -- cupsomatic-ppd, > cupsys, cupsys-pstoraster, xpp, apsfi

Re: how to make Lexmark Z11 work with Debian?

2001-10-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 19 October 2001 11:49, Jerry Wang wrote: > I installed the following packages:apsfilter, lprng, lprngtool > and downloaded cZ11.tar.gz from > http://www.kornblum.i-p.com/Z11/LexmarkZ11.html, after make and make > install the cZ11 driver, I use lprngtool to setup printer, but lprngtool > s

Re: Help : Keyboard + ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 18 October 2001 10:27, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just tried to upgrade to woody from potato, but I've lost my French > keyboard. > Now, I have an American keyboard, and I don't know what to do to > retrieve my original one. > I'm using console-tools. Can anybody help me

Re: bad file

2001-10-14 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 14 October 2001 05:26, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:18:55 PDT, Kevin writes: > >its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms > > > >lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on > > ./guide.it.html > > > >and i cant fsck it because im not local and

Re: Flashplayer for potato?

2001-10-11 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 11 October 2001 08:46, Stan Brown wrote: > Can someeon point me to a place to get a Netscape FalsgPlayer plugin for a > Debian stable machine? go to www.macromedia.com/downoads works well with my netscape in woody; worked well in potato hth bob

Re: xserver-xfree86 install problem (debian-testing)

2001-10-07 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Do you still have the 2.2.18pre21 kernel that shipped with potato? If so, either disable the framebuffer interface in xserver-xfree86 (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86) or upgrade your kernel to one that supports framebuffering. It's also probably preferable

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel?

2001-09-23 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 21:19, richard wrote: > A still new installation of potato from CDROM. > > Upon mount /dev/cdrom or mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get the > subject error message. > > The line >/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,no auto > is already in /etc/fsta

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > interested... > > Bob Underwood wrote: > ... > > > i looked at all the files in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 directory and > > all appear corre

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > interested... > > my apologies for replying off list. this kmail defaults to the originator and i didn't verify the right addy. bob

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 16 September 2001 21:29, DvB wrote: > > > added the following to the helper applications: > > > description: real player > > > MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin > > > Suffixes: ra,ram > > I believe the mime type you want is audio/x-pn-realaudio (without the > "plugin"). > > HTH su

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 16 September 2001 21:29, DvB wrote: > > > added the following to the helper applications: > > > description: real player > > > MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin > > > Suffixes: ra,ram > > I believe the mime type you want is audio/x-pn-realaudio (without the > "plugin"). > > HTH th

Real Player as Plug-in

2001-09-16 Thread Bob Underwood
surely, I'm missing something here. I've spent quite a bit of time over two days looking in the archives, but still haven't a clue. I've downloaded and installed the realplayer package, which apparently debianizes and then installs the rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm file previously downloaded

Re: Network; UNEX Card (RealTek8139) wont work...

2001-08-12 Thread Bob Underwood
I had a similar problem when I added net cards. IIRC it was a config problem with the /etc/hosts and the other machine nor properly configured. can you ping this machine from the other? Bob On Friday 10 August 2001 03:40 am, Tor Arvid Lund wrote: > Hi Emil, thanks for responding... > > > Are

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