Re: X default fonts

Hi, On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:46:45PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > I'm using the debian installer to do an automated install of a bunch > of workstations. We have various users who speak non-English > languages, so I installed every font package I could. > > Problem: > > I myself speak Korean

Re: Vim behaves very strange lately

Hey, On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:22:18AM +0800, Richard wrote: > it seems vim doesn't want to behave like vim anymore when opened with > the command vi ... > > When i open a file to edit, the normal lines at the bottom to show i > am in edit mode are not shown when i have typt "i" ... this is > dif

Re: screen : problem

I've never seen these errors before. > lstat64("/var/run/screen", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = > 0 > fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2439138, ...}) = 0 > mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, > 0) = 0xb7e01000 &

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

ilar to gnome/kde maybe you could try out XFCE. Like GNOME, it uses the Gtk to render widgets. It was a lot more responsive on the old Sun boxes at school than the other desktop environments I tried. Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scim with openoffice 2.0.2

Hi, On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:11 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim wrote: > i am now using openoffice 2.0.2 > But problem is, i can't use scim to get work our local keyboar layout. > > Any body using scim with oop 2 ? Doesn't work for me either... have you tried googling? SCIM works for me in abiword. Good

Re: Running 2 versions of Debian?

e... you would just triple-boot w/ two versions of Debian... it seems like it would be a lot easier to just compile mono if that's the only piece of software you are lacking though. Good luck, Cameron Matheson P.S. If you need to shrink down your existing partitions look into gparted. --

routing tables, vpn, etc.

mask ... .. .. . ..iface 192.168.0.0* 255.255.255.0 eth0 but that didn't seem to work. Any ideas? Is this even possible? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install from usb-stick

/cdrom/* /mnt/usbstick Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

difficult international font question.

e font (is there any locale-aware information in fonts.conf?), or if not, is there any other way i could trick this into working? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: realplayer 10 hassles

an mplayer plugin and it works sweet (supports full-screen and saving the streaming media, so it's much better than the lame proprietary lard you usually run into). Check out mplayerplug-in.sf.net . Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

our config file, the alias should go in /etc/aliases. It's unsafe to let root receive mail, so generally you send all mail addressed to root to a different account (perhaps your local user account). just add a line like: some_user root to /etc/aliases, and then run 'postmap /etc/ali

Re: problem creating/recognizing new folders

I'm assuming you're using maildrop or something similar? Is the .Spam directory you mentioned inside of a Maildir or is it just a directory inside of $HOME? Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

correct way to customize debian package

venient way to build the software into a deb package (just adding that one tweak to the ./configure script?) Could someone point me to the correct documentation or a brief HOWTO or something? Thanks Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

n't think > that every user knows all their passwords for all their accounts, so it > would be nice to transfer all the pertinent settings and do the upgrade > smoothly through the weekend and have them look at the new desktop on > monday, completely set up ;-) Why not just [r]sync all

Re: set from: address in standard command-line mailer (/usr/bin/mail)

;mail -s "blah" -a "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fail to load Gnome

Hi, could you include your whole .xsession-errors file? Or is it just repeats of the same stuff? I think i had this problem once and i just had to delete some of the temporary files GNOME keeps in /tmp. Maybe you could try that? HTH, Cameron Matheson On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:53:13AM -0700

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

my system, at least > not in '~/.*' directories. what does 'find ~/ -name accounts.xml' report? alternatively, perhaps you could try something like 'grep -R your_account_name *' Sorry i don't use KDE so i can't give you any definitive answers, but i would th

Re: udev trouble: no /dev/sd* devices

xed the problem. > > Please share how. I believed he inserted the 'sd_mod' module Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i need a yum debian package

use the tool alien (available in Debian) to convert a yum > .rpm to a .deb. You'll need to make sure dependencies are satisfied. I think he's actually needing to mirror a yum repo (not install an rpm)... i could be wrong however. Unfortunately i have no experience w/ yum so m

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

How many average users (the ubuntu target-audience) would prefer to have source code over an additional 400M of software? I probably shouldn't have even replied to this as it's wildly off-topic. But seriously you do spread a whole lot of FUD. Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

the maildrop manpage and it looks like you can do system-wide /etc/courier/maildroprc file, or you can have a ~/.maildroprc. Now would it be possible to change that so that it's a .maildroprc in the Maildir? or how would this be done w/ virtual accounts? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- T

preferred method of using imap/mutt

ists, etc.) 3. mutt keeps all mail on server w/ the POP of course i had to download the mail, so i used procmail for the filtering. Is what i'm wanting to do even possible (i know it is w/ thunderbird, etc.). How are the folks on this list doing it? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNS

Re: Shutdown missing from GNOME "Actions" menu....

that your user doesn't have those kind of powers over the kernel. I would say you would be best off just running the command as root and not giving yourself any unnatural super-powers. Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Got the Qlogic card working, Now it's loading before internal SCSI!!! Help!

hi nick, i'm curious, did you go w/ the 2.6 kernel drivers, or use the drivers off of qlogic's site? Thanks, Cameron Matheson Nick wrote: So we got the the qlogic drivers built into the debian kernel, and it loads ok and see's some LUN's that we built. but it's lo

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

-browser, and there are no clues in /usr/share/doc for either package or in the epiphany-extensions help page on the gnome.org <http://gnome.org> website. How do I activate the extensions? tools->extensions Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

pen-source equivalents, but have you tried wine? Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qlogic Fibre Channel Controller

Hey, On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:59:59 -0700 Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I am in the process of doing this myself (same card). I had to > > compile my kernel, but only because it seems that the debian kernel > > has removed the qla2300 mo

Re: Qlogic Fibre Channel Controller

), but how do i access the san? I really have no idea how it works but it seems like i should have a /proc/scsi/qla2x00 w/ some various information about the cards, etc. but i dont' have it. Could someone clue me into what i might be doing wrong? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBS

Re: weirdest network problems of my ilfe [SOLVED]

elease my dhcp lease also (i don't understand why that would make a difference... could someone explain why? or am i just confused?). Anyway, it's nice that everything's working again. Cameron Matheson P.S. Yesterday i was trying to figure out why the windoze boxen would work

weirdest network problems of my ilfe

x27;t figure out why everything works on the windows, but not on my linux boxen. the network stuff is all assigned by the router (dhcp). What should i do? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minimize diskaccess on a light server

This means I have to spend the PCI slot on another NIC. Sounds like bad memory as opposed to a cpu bug. I used to have the same problem... just swapped my ram out and it was fine. have you run memtest on it yet? (maybe that would be easier than buying a whole new system) Cameron Mathes

Re: Motherboard with SiS 620 video chipset and HT8338A/PCI sound

hong canh wrote: i need driver Motherboard with SiS 620 video chipset and HT8338A/PCI sound thank you Um, i'm assuming you're looking for the right settings for your xorg.conf? change the Driver in the video section to "sis" Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: .xsession problem

just make a symlink from one to the other. Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

this problem... iirc my friend running X.org on his laptop (it was ubuntu also i think), had this problem though... not sure what caused it. Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

running one thin client?

for this one-client setup. So what's the best way going about this... just using gdm acroos the network to log in (btw, how is the performance for across the network X?)... nothing i do is too intense, except watch the occasional movie w/ mplayer. any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Cameron Matheson

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

sages, or is it definitely loading the wrong driver? (it might just be something as simple as needing to add yourself to the 'audio' group...) Cameron Matheson --- Shidai Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/2/05, Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

ack again. Very annoying. > Any idea? oss is just a generic sound system (it won't load any drivers or anything for your sound card... that module is probably loaded already anyway, can you send us the output of lsmod? Cameron Matheson __ Do Yo

excluding files w/ tar

c /var/tmp/* /home/suse then i'm using this command to tar it up: $ tar cv -X /tmp/excludes -p --atime-preserve * -- | netcat 10.1.22.39 80 but all the directories in my excludes file are still being backed up! where am i going wrong? Thanks, C

Re: Installing a program from source

You could (assuming you specified the entire path of which xmms you wanted to load), but i would think it would be a lot cleaner to 'make uninstall' in the xmms cvs source tree when you decide to install the debian version. cameron matheson --- Rhys Hardwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

kernel panics

i'm in the market for a new scsi card, just curious which cards have worked for people (i don't want any more problems like this...) Thanks! Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around h

Re: eth0: link down problem

Hey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a newbie on linux I am pretty proud that I already have linux > running, apache, samba, dhcp are all up.. Yet I now came accross > something that I do not understand. > I had everything running and now, suddenly the ethernet cad is not > working anymore > > What

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:41:46PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > I want to learn shell programming. Thus I went to my university's library and > found a book named "UNIX Shell Programming". The problem is, the book is > written on 1988, and covers shell programming on Korn, Bourne and the C Sh

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

Hi (scroll down), On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-03 22:23]: > > > Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the > > order of the fontpaths is non optimal. You probably also have a > > .bak file with the

Re: Building a Xinerama kiosk

Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:56:02AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > I've been asked to build a nice kiosk with a dual-head machine, and I'm > having difficulties with a couple of issues. > > - I need to place a full screen Galeon window in the second head. >Galeon ignores positioning with the

Re: Latest MPlayer

Hi, Don't use apt for this. Compile it yourself you will be happier. If you want to take the easy route you won't even have to RTFM, just run 'debian/rules' in the source directory (although i would recommend reading the install guide). Good luck, Cameron On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:08:57PM -0

voodoo3 troubles

II) TDFX(0): Failed to set dac value, bypassing CLUT ... A quick search on google only turned up source code for the tdfx driver... Anyway, i am at a loss, any ideas? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disabling the framebuffer

Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:58:38PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > In /etc/lilo.conf if I want to disable the frame buffer what d I need to > change the vga= line to vga=normal but you could disable the fb in your kernel as well. Good luck, Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Soundcard es1371

Hi, On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:23:36AM +0100, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello! > But when i start xmms and i want to play a mp3 file, i get this error: > > 1. You have the correct output plugin selected > 2. No other Programs is blocking the soundcard > 3. Your soundcard is configured properly > >

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

Hey, What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-name). With aterm, i use the font "-ormaxx-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". I'm guessing you were just trying something like -fn "courier"? xfontsel will be your friend. Good luck, Cameron

Re: X windows w/ no screen error

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:06:50AM -0500, iggy wrote: > I tried running it several times. > I think I know what my error is. > I'm probably inputing the > incorrect address for the > video card. lspci -vv states > that the address of the video > card is 01:00.0 > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 wants > t

Re: Need to locate .debs for mplayer2

Hey, Just get the sources from mplayer's site, the source is ready for debian so it is very easy to make a package (just run 'fakeroot debian/rules') HTH, Cam On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:34:53PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Anyone know where to find .debs or debian sources for mplayer2?? > Thanks

Re: Pb with Gnome2 and blackbox

Hi On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:07:32AM +1100, ~lucas~ wrote: > And now whenever I try and login, both blackbox and gnome load at the > same time. > Dose anyone know how I mite be able to fix this? GNOME2 will start a window-manager, although the GNOME2 official WM is Metacity. You can change the

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

f not, how does one get maildir, and what are the technical advantages? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X windows w/ no screen error

Hi, On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:30:36PM -0500, iggy wrote: > Hi all. My fresh install of debian will not allow me to use gnome as i'm getting >errors with x windows. My question is, what file do I edit to configure screen 0? >Thank you for your time and consideration. -iggy /etc/X11/XF86Confi

Re: Mouse cursor wrong after upgrade

Hi, On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:52:13AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > Hello Debian Imperators, > Last night I upgraded my box and my mouse cursor (the arrow) now > appears as a one inch by one inch square of thick, random black dots and > transparent pixels. I heard that X4.3 has a transpare

Re: GTK, GTK2 Fonts

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:02:48PM -0500, Richard Beri wrote: > I am not having fun with fonts in GTK and GTK2. I installed gdm to > replace kdm, so now ~/.gtkrc-kde has no control over the gtk1 fonts > (which it did a nice job of). For some reason gdm wants to always use > the ugly default fo

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

On Thursday 23 January 2003 04:45 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * kernel 2.4.19 has got tdfx compiled in > > This might actually be the problem. Remove the kernel builtin tdfx support > and use the module from drm-trunk-module-src. The DR

Re: Flash player for Konqueror

ow about versions before that. Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I think testing busted my dri set-up

Hi, try removing libglide2 (i think that it actually was detrimental to me in the past--i'm not using a voodoo right now tho, so i can't check my settings). also, have you checked your XF86Config-4 to make sure that it hasn't been overriden? Cam On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:32 pm, [EMAIL

Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount

Hi, On Friday 17 January 2003 01:19 am, Joris Huizer wrote: > I've just found cdroms won't mount - and the "zip" > drives don't work either. What exactly happens when you try to mount them? > These are the drives, according to the kern.log : > > hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK Drive > hdb: Maxto

Re: Trouble implementing PRISM2 WiFi Card

Hi, On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been trying to use my new Wifi card for my laptop with limited > success. I have a Siemens(PRISM2 chipset) card that I cant seem to get running. > The card is recognised by the hardware and the last time I recompiled the > kernel

Re: Need Help getting DRI working

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:57:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Cameron Matheson wrote: > >Hmmm, it looks like you're first problem is that you only compiled in > >generic agpart support, but no actual agp device driver. It looks like > >you should enable 'VIA chips

Re: Need Help getting DRI working

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:17:23AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've decided it's time to get Direct Rendering to work. Can anyone > tell me what's preventing it from working? ... > Self-compiled 2.4.19 kernel. > >MTRR enabled. >/dev/agpgart (AGP Support) enabled. >Direct Rendering Mana

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

Hey, On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:55:18PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:17:01AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > You are using procmail to filter your mail aren't you? In that case, > > just move the rule that filters your debian stuff into a d

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:59:02AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i was told in a separate thread that whitelisting does not help. > spamassassin still processes the mail. how do i make spamassassin bypass > some messages altogether? i will prefer to do it as a normal user than > as root. You a

Re: gnome 1.4 rather than 2 w/ unstable?

Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:15:38AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Is it possible to run GNOME 1.4 rather than 2 on unstable? > > My understanding is that there are only 2.x debs in unstable, and that > they will replace the equivalent 1.4 debs. Doesn't this somewhat > violate the principle

Re: xfree can't get it to work.

obably be able to help you better. Good luck, Cameron Matheson On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:07:26AM +0100, Lennart Weijl wrote: > just can't get xfree86 to work.. > just finished my installation of debian 3.0 > > i installed xfree86 and configured it. > but i just seems that

Re: questions about mutt

ok, sorry, i have another question... i guess this one is more about regular expressions than anything... i'm recoloring my headers and various parts of my messages to be a little bit easier for me, so i want to make the PGP output (the lines that start w/ 'gpg: ' the same color as the default head

Re: questions about mutt

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:56:55PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > * Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 15:44]: > > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at > > least i think it is), is there any fonts or other ways of running mutt > >

questions about mutt

Hi guys, Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, i kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about it: 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at least i thin

Re: quake

Hi, I know they're used to be quakeforge packages but i don't know if they're even still in unstable (and they might be in the contrib section?). But i would suggest just grabbing the sources from CVS at quakeforge.net as it changes pretty often. Cam Douglas Orchard wrote: Can someone tell

Re: Alsa + es1371 + oss

What config do you need? You can't have OSS and Alsa at the same time, but you can use Alsa's OSS-emulation layer stuff. just load the modules snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss and snd-mixer-oss. Cameron Tom Allison wrote: If anyone has a working configuration of this, please send my way. alsaconf is

Re: cups wont print

I am also having this problem (using sid). Cam Jason Pepas wrote: hello, I recently setup an epson 740 printer using cupsys from unstable. I can send jobs just fine, and cups shows them as "completed", and /var/log/cups/error_log doesn't show any problems. But nothing comes out of the print

Re: Problem using joystick after upgrading to kernel 2.4

Hi, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I am running testing, and I just upgraded to kernel version > 2.4.19 from 2.2.21. I have managed to get all my devices working except > for my analog joystick (MadCatz, 2-axis, 4-button) which hooks up to the > game port on my SoundBlaster PCI 128 (es1371). The j

Re: gnustep config problem

Hey, You need this somewhere (like in your .xsession or .bashrc): export GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=/usr/lib/GNUstep/System . $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh then it should work... Cam Richard Weil wrote: > Can anyone provide some advice on getting gnustep > working properly? When I try t

Re: OT - RMS homepage moved?

Hi, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I am looking for RMS's homepage. I am getting "unknown host" when attempting > a connect to http://www.slallman.org. Anyone have any info on a current url? I'm assuming this is a typo... but i think it's really http://www.st

Problem w/ printing from apps (CUPS)

r. I tried 'printing to file' my OpenOffice document, and then doing 'lpr openoffice.ps', which also resulted in nothing (all of these jobs do show up as completed in the cups status page though). Any clues? Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

gorm debian package doesn't work

x27; the error it results in a segmentation fault... should i file a bug report or what should be done? (i'm using sid, on an x86 box w/ the 2.4.19 kernel (w/ preemptive patch)) Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3d hardware / nvidia driver problems

share/nvidia-* to learn what you must do (installing the packages is not enough). Good luck, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loop in today's sid

Hey, doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' solved the problem for me. Cam Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Did a dist-upgrade today and got this... > > Preconfiguring packages ... > Selecting previously deselected package coreutils. > dpkg: regarding .../co

Re: need advice on building packages from source

Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >two packages: pbuilder and pentium-builder. One makes a chroot for compilin >apps in the other wraps gcc and causes it to use machine level optimizations. > excuse my simplicity, but you could go into a little more detail (maybe an example?), i could probably fi

need advice on building packages from source

source (that takes way too long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz, (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go about this? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcp/windoze question

nate wrote: >yeah. if this is a normal ethernet network you should have no problems. >HOWEVER, if the DHCP server is a win32 box you may quite likely have >DNS problems, as at least NT4 seems to add a line feed character or >something at the end of the nameservers it reports, so check /etc/resolv

dhcp/windoze question

tained Automatically', does this mean i want to use DHCP? Or does Windows have some proprietary method of automatically obtaining IP addresses? If it is DHCP, i shouldn't need to know the default gw or nameservers right? That would be a big relief too me... Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Weird fluxbox menus

Hey, I'm having a weird problem w/ fluxbox. For some reason the menus (and all submenus) have a blank separator, and the an 'exit' item (that exits the WM), I tried the menus in blackbox and they are fine. does anyone know what is wrong w/ flux, or how i could fix this?

touchpad on laptop

aptop howto. Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Framebuffer ati mach64 laptop

Hey, X apps shouldn't run any faster at all. In fact, X won't even use the framebuffer unless you use the framebuffer server, which is probably a bad idea unless you absolutely have to. Cameron Matheson Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, Do X apps work faster if you enable the fram

Re: Mplayer PNG sprt WMaker

Hey not sure about the dvd stuff... i'm assuming you compiled it wrong or something (did you read the docs?). To get 3dfx support you need to give arguments to ./configure... read the docs, but I think that it's only for the old glide stuff or the framebuffer Cameron Matheson On

Re: from casette tape to computer?

not sure where the volume on my cassette deck should be... i tried putting it all the way up, but that makes it all static-y, so should I have it all the way down, or at listening level or what? Also gramofile only detected 2 tracks and i think that there should be more like 15. Thank

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

Hey, apt would have to be a great deal of the reason (it made me come back from LFS after a few months), but the morals are equally important, and the debian community can't be beat. Cam On Friday 25 January 2002 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi people! > > This may sound like a stupid or

Re: /etc/resolve.conf

it as your isp's Primary and Secondary DNS. You'll also need to set your gateway to your windows computer by editing /etc/network/interfaces. Windows will need to be running something like ICS too... Cameron Matheson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: xserver

s 3.3.x then you will need a modified SVGA server (debian might have it... i used to convert the RPM's i found on the net w/ alien because slink had no 3d packages). Then just edit your XF86Config[-4] appropriately... email me w/ more details if you need h

Re: Mouse functionality

X, although I'm sure some would disagree), but it's a problem w/ your XF86Config[-4] Cameron Matheson On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:23 am, Theo Bierman wrote: > Hi All > > I have a ps/2 microsoft intellimouse. I am trying to get the the middle > button to complete my past

Re: [beginner] OpenGL and Debian

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 01:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to know which packages should I install for developing > applications with OpenGL and the glut library.(I've got an NVidia card) Hey, I think `apt-get install xlibmesa-dev glutg3-dev` should do it... Camer

Re: USB Mouse, GPM and Kernel 2.4

so if I get gpm working, X works) Just curious... what happens if you try X w/ your /dev/usbmouse file? > Thanks, > -D Cameron Matheson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

Hey, Yeah, I'm a white (I'm not a nazi tho) 17 year old that lives in America. I like punk-rock and emo. I code in c++, java (kinda), ruby, etc. Haven't ever installed a distro other than Debian (been using Linux since 98). That's about it. Oh yeah, I'm definately l

Re: GnomeICU, Gaim, Gabber and alike

Hi, I can't be for sure (i don't use icq), but I know that jabber changed some icq stuff, and gaim did too (it says to use the oscar plugin i believe...). Sorry i'm so vague, but hopefully that's a start. Cameron Matheson On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:31, Chun Kit Edwin Lau

Re: Weird problem installing Debian

Hey, I've gotten this problem many times w/ the Etherlink III. For some reason the card doesn't seem to work w/ debian's factory kernel in PnP mode. I hate PnP anyway, so I disable that (there's a utility to do this on 3com's site. Cameron Matheson On Thu, 20

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

Hi, try changing your vga param (not in append, but it has it's own line in lilo.conf to 'vga=794' instead of 'vga=normal' Cameron Matheson On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 15:34, Stan Brown wrote: > On Wed Dec 12 00:20:27 2001 dman wrote... > > > >| Adding &q

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

EDEV audio' makes many devices (including dsp, mixer, etc). Another possiblity is that esd is running and just locking the dsp device. Try typing 'esdctl standby' or 'killall esd' and then running your app. Cameron Matheson ___

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