Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Casey Webster
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Re: proper_SCSI_cdrom_Settings_RE:->parity_&_TermPower ???

2001-11-05 Thread Casey Webster
There are no "correct" settings for those. If your scsi bus (host adapter and all devices) uses parity, then you want parity on, otherwise you want it off. Likewise, term power should be on if you want to terminate the chain at that device. -casey On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:27:06PM +, Court

Re: debian@home

2001-02-02 Thread Casey Webster
I use dhcp over cable and pump (the default dhcp client) does not fetch an address properly for me. It just sits there for 2 minutes and tells me Operation Failed. I downloaded and installed dhcpcd and tell it dhcpcd -R eth1 and it gets me an address in less than a second. You might try that

Re: .xinitrc or .Xsession is not being read!

2001-02-01 Thread Casey Webster
use "startx" to startup x, dont call X directly. startx is responsible for running X as well as running .xinitrc. -Casey On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:09:00PM -0800, jdls wrote: > help! I have removed gdm via update-rc.d with no errors > now when I try tostart x (via X) I just get a mouse point

Re: Mirrors?

2001-02-01 Thread Casey Webster
i use ftp://ftp.us.debian.org and consistently get ~1mbit/s from it. -Casey On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:26:36AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I'm trying to find a good mirror for doing updates with apt. I'm using > a proxy server so I need to point at a specific server. Anyone know > a

Re: DHCP server configuratian

2001-02-01 Thread Casey Webster
to assign static addresses vie dhcpd, add blocks like the following to your dhcpd.conf file. host caseybox.meathouse.trifocus.net { fixed-address 192.168.1.192; hardware ethernet 00:A0:C9:5F:C8:48; option host-name "caseybox"; } as for getting an address to nic in the dhcpd box, you are

Re: Memory upgrade and kernel panic

2001-02-01 Thread Casey Webster
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:26:17AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > That append line hasn't been needed since kernel 2.0.36, has it ?? I > remember when I first started with Linux and Redhat supplied 2.0.34 or > so (Redhat 5.0) and I needed it since I had 128mb RAM and it only saw > 64mb. Once I upgr

Re: Security Related Questions

2001-02-01 Thread Casey Webster
portmap belongs to portmap i think, not sure. as for whats on port 1024, netstat -a and grep for 1024, or the service name for that port if there is one listed in /etc/services. -Casey On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:09:19AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I have a couple of security related quest

Re: PIII & 2.4.0

2001-02-01 Thread Casey Webster
Bogomips really isnt a measure of anything performance wise, its just there to calibrate a delay loop. I'm not sure about 2.4, but in 2.2 bogomips was generally equal the mhz for intel chips, and *2 for amd chips. Your inablity to run more than java 1.3 is most likely not related at all the y

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Casey Webster
if they are .deb's, you can dpkg -i package.deb as for yur browser, apt-get install communicator-smotif-476 apt-get install mozilla apt-get install lynx pick the one you like best. -Casey On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > Good people of the community- > > Why on God

Re: Sound using Gigabyte GA60XM7E Motherboard with SigmaTel AC97 (STAC97001) chipset

2001-01-30 Thread Casey Webster
try modprobe ac97 and then sound should work for you. -casey On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > Does any body know if its possible to get sound from my Motherboard? > Thanks. > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com a

Re: Lilo and Win98 Q's

2001-01-30 Thread Casey Webster
on my dual boot machine, a windows reinstall always overwrites the mbr to boot straight into windows. I always keep boot floppy around so i can boot and re-lilo the thing. If you are having problems getting lilo to load windows, the line i have in my lilo.conf to do this is other=/dev/hda1 la

Re: Fw: Still No Cursor in X Now Closer!

2001-01-30 Thread Casey Webster
t; Section "Pointer" > Protocol"PS/2" > Device "/dev/gpmdata" > # BaudRate1200 > # Emulate3Timeout50 > # Resolution 100 > # Buttons 3 this line was commeted out before > # Emulate3Buttons > End

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread Casey Webster
sorry for the blank first message, hit ctrl-x instead of c... here is what is in my gpm.conf, and XF86Config, my mouse works fine under X and in console at the same time gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=ps2 append="" XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol"

Re: CD-RW support

2001-01-28 Thread Casey Webster
afaik, you cant mount a cd-r in read-write mode (until someone implements packet writing like adaptec's DirectCD anyway). To write to the CD-r(w) use a program like cdrecord or cdwrite. For help on configuring scsi emulation (assuming your cd-r is IDE), look at the archives for this list, there i

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
i'm not familiar with cvsupit, but if you are just looking for CVS capabilites, apt-get install cvs will get cvs installed and you can do all your normal cvs stuff. I assume this is what you mean by manual cvs. -Casey On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, John Travis wrote: > Hello Debianites :-). > I'v

Re: Debian Compile for SysV?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
if you really want binaries, you prob need to setup gcc to cross compile for your destination platform, unless the ATT sysV system happens to understand the i386 ISA, and ELF or a.out binary formats. If you just want to write scripts in perl/shell, they will work on the ATT box provided you stick

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
I dont have the exact link handy, but if you visit xcdroast.org and click the ling near teh bottom for a CD writing HOWTO, it will describe how to do the following: you are not getting your cdrom under scsi-emulation because the IDE-cd driver is loaded for that device. You need to tell ide-cd not

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-24 Thread Casey Webster
xdm runs .xsessionrc, startx runs .xinitrc -casey On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all. > I added xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" to > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but nothing happened. > > I deleted it from xinitrc and added it to > /etc/X11/xdm/xsetup_0 and it worked. > > is there any reason why

Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?

2001-01-24 Thread Casey Webster
any time you are lookin at memory usage, you need to subtract out the totals for buff and cache. Right now your system is only using roughly 169 megs, thats far from maxing out half a gig of ram. Linux will take al your 'free' memory and fill it up with stuff that will improve the performance of

Re: memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
under top, look at how much of that memory is marked as cached. Linux caches filesystem accesses in memory to speed up access for commonly requested files. This is normal, and if some actual process needs memory, the kernel will give up some of its cache space. -casey On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ken W

Re: ftpd

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jeff Weatherford wrote: > Ok here is one for you: > > I'm running ftp out of inetd (i know...i will write a script to start it in > the correct place soon) I have re-started inetd when ever i change > anything in hosts allow/deny, etc. > Its commonplace to run ftp from

Re: newbie ReiserFS question

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
it should be officially supported in all distros when 2.4.1 comes out, but until then you need to obtain the reiserfs patches to the kernel to use it (suse comes preinstalled with a very heavily patched kernel). I run reiserfs on top of LVM on my boxes, and its very nice to be able to resize partit

Re: Get a single file from a tar archive?

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
its its a .tar.gz archive, tar zxvf archive.tar.gz path/to/file/in.archive will extract that singular file, and note the extraction will prob take as long as you extracting the entire archive since tar goes through the archive sequentially looking for that file (as if it were really on tape) -C

Re: How do I get off this list?

2001-01-22 Thread Casey Webster
-casey > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-20 Thread Casey Webster
your problem is that you ran make modules_install on your laptop, which installs your newly built modules over your laptops modules. You may also notice that there are no modules on your terminals. -Casey On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Debian and fairly new t

Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...

2001-01-19 Thread Casey Webster
more /bin/more then keep paging till the text clears up and quit works well also I used to have a prog that just output the magical char that fixes the console, but i cant find it and dont remember the character. -Casey On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Nicole Zimmerman wrote:

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-17 Thread Casey Webster
i this case thats 3com (3c905-c-txm) -Casey On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > At 11:38 PM 1/16/2001 -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > >if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works > >for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure ou

Re: NIC identification

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
if its netware approved you might try the ne2k driver, that thing works for a lot of cards with that sticker, also if you can figure out the card's MAC address (in the form of xx:xx:xx:yy:yy:yy and often on the card somewhere) then search google for a MAC address to vendor converter and pop on the

Re: Setting up a DNS server

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
i attatched 2 of the files from my named setup. trifocus.net is a normal zone and hosts.rev is a reverse lookup zone -Casey On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, eric baierl wrote: > > > I've got two new domain names that I need to set up a DNS server for, on > the machine the websites will be hosted on. BIND

RE: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache [ css weirdness ]

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > me and brian get along real fine after some priv. mail :) > > Must admit your reply freaked me out big-time, dce ? dfs/afs ? With A-pa-che > ?! iek! never said it was a good idea :) > > > > Friendly greetings to all you helpfull people out ther

Re: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache [ css weirdness ]

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
> > [Tue Jan 16 17:36:29 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Filename is not valid: > > /:/htdocs/site/./default.htm.meta > > Why the goofy filename? > > What is trying to fetch a file named: > /:/htdocs/site/./default.htm.meta > > (Hint -- the first two characters most likely don't belong

RE: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache [ css weirdness ]

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
configured apache to run and took loads of time to figure out the > shebang syntax for my config (ibm http + windows 2000 professional), now it > refuses to render style sheets ... what am i supposed to do ? > > edit httpd.conf i presume ... > > > tnx, > > J.L. &g

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
Its likely that windows is actually reporting the speed to the UART chip on the modem and not the actual connect speed (i've it do this to me before) which would be 57600 for a 56k modem. Trying to force your modem to a higher speed is probably not a good idea. I see you are .fi so the US FCC lim

Re: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache

2001-01-16 Thread Casey Webster
i attatched part of my apache config for you, i have a lot of domains using 1 ip. Note that the sytax i'm using is only good for 1.3.14 and later (the lines in particular). -Casey On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > I've been searching for a while in the Apache documentation. I have > heard it

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Casey Webster
when i was using a .forward file, it had a single line with my email address to forward to on it, thats it. -Casey On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Adam Read wrote: > I'm looking for a doc on how to write .forward files. I've searched > sendmail.org, all the documentation that comes with sendmail, and the

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-15 Thread Casey Webster
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:11:31PM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: > | > | > | > | QT - http://www.trolltech.com > | > | It's the toolkit used in KDE. Supposedly it cross-platform. KDE has been > ported > | to other Unices, so, it obviously works across Uni

Re: Compiling OpenGL apps for Nvidia

2001-01-15 Thread Casey Webster
Are you using the nvidia openGL libs? if so, your problem is likely that you are using nvidia libs, and mesa headers. There should be some headers in the nvidia_glx download, you should use those instead of the current headers and the problem should clear up. If there are no headers in that tarb

Re: Wow, after weeks re-installing everything, I finally started x

2001-01-14 Thread Casey Webster
when you are in X, use ctrl-alt-Fx instead of just alt-Fx to switch to a virtual console. i believe the command you want to start gnome with is gnome-session, if you start X via startx you should put that command in your .xinitrc or if you start X via xdm, put it in .xsession. -Casey On Sun, 14

Re: Nvidia + 2.4

2001-01-14 Thread Casey Webster
www.nvidia.com, click on support, then drivers, then linux On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Kristian Rink wrote: > Hello there... > > ...can anyone give me a help by posting me the patch that makes NVIDIA's > kernel module driver build with 2.4.0? By now I only found an url for this > on linuxgames.com but

Re: Kernel boot messages

2001-01-13 Thread Casey Webster
dmesg is just the kernel bootstrap messages and will catch all of that, once init is spawned, the kernel is done, and you should check syslog for further messages. -Casey On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.0 with no apparent problems... I did notice

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-13 Thread Casey Webster
I've got 3c509 cards (ISA) in 2 486's and neither have MCA support compiled in or built as modules, just the 3c509 driver compiled in. -casey On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > no, I have compiled the 2.4.0 kernel without any probelms and both my > 3c509 cards worked perfectly. Ha

Re: Cannot get Philips CDRW PCRW80 4K17 - 800 Series to write

2001-01-13 Thread Casey Webster
read the FAQ's linked to on xcdroast.org. you have to have scsi emulation build in ther kernel or as a module, and you have to tell the ide-cd drivers to ignore your cdrom. Rather than doing this, i just didnt compile and IDE drivers at all, just scsi emulation and scsi support (the cd-r is the on

Re: 3c905c-txm driver problems

2001-01-12 Thread Casey Webster
just use the driver already included in the kernel. The driver you want to build into the kernel/make as a module is 3c90x. -casey On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, benny k wrote: > hey, > > i'm having trouble getting the 3com driver (3c90x) to work with potato r2, > i386. i downloaded the driver from: >

Re: USB and Potato 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-10 Thread Casey Webster
check out http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html i am setting up my usb joystick and came across that, should help you. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi everyone, > > wonder if it's possible to set up an USB mouse under XFree86 3xxx ? > > I already have a PS/2 mouse so I t

Re: GeForce2 MX, drivers, X4...

2001-01-10 Thread Casey Webster
The stock drivers for nvidia's cards depend on mesa for opengl, so you will not get accelerated 3d graphics. whether you need/want them us up to you, but here is what do do if you want them. from nvidia's ftp there is a NVIDIA_KERNEL*.tgz and an NVIDIA_GLX*.tgz, grab both and make sure the get th

Re: Emergency: RADIUS server HDD down!

2001-01-09 Thread Casey Webster
i find that if there is not a vilid superblock at 8193, you might be able to find one at 32768. On my larger partitions, that is the first backup superblock that is made. -casey On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ron Mullins wrote: > I think I might have a problem. ;-) > > My radius server (an old DELL P75 w

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 support for potato 2.2r2

2001-01-09 Thread Casey Webster
Make sure your modutils is up to date with what the kernel expects, you can find this in /usr/src//Documentation/Changes. This file lists all the required programs and thier versions to have a working 2.4 system. The modules for 2.4 are stored in a different hierarchy than 2.2 so your current mod

RE: Unable to Install Debian From CD

2001-01-09 Thread Casey Webster
Your problem is likely that you kernel resides on disk above the 1024th cylinder and your bios cant handle that. You might try creating a small partition 10-15 megs is more than plenty, and make sure this is the first partition on your disk and select this partition to be /boot. this will insure

Re: Xfree 4 and KDE on woody

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sthitaprajna wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:29:57 -0600 (CST) > Casey Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > co xc; cd xc; make World) or if there are .deb's i can get via apt-get. I > > have a friend who tells me that i can apt-get the

mail client

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
Hello, I've noticed debian doesnt distribute pine on its package mirrors, and as i've only really used pine under unix for mail, what mail clients do you guys use, so i can check them out. thanks -casey

Re: nis/nfs/automounter

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
i use nis/nfs on my lan and here are the pertinent bits for NFS /etc/exports on the nfs server: /home 192.168.1.100(rw,no_root_squash) /var/spool/mail 192.168.1.100(rw,no_root_squash) /www192.168.1.100(rw,no_root_squash) /etc/fstab on the client: smu

Xfree 4 and KDE on woody

2001-01-08 Thread Casey Webster
Hello, i'm new to debian (and must say that i like it better than any other distro i've used), and i'm hearing people say they are using xfree 4 and kde, and am wondering if i need to install that the old fashioned way (cvs co xc; cd xc; make World) or if there are .deb's i can get via apt-get