Samba file permission problem

2007-03-25 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I installed samba on my NSLU2 running etch and the setup was easy and sweet. I didn't change a thing apart from setting writable = yes for my home directories. However, I have the following problem when I mount my home directory on my linux box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/procyon$ sudo moun

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 18:02 +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:34:37PM +, Wackojacko wrote: > > David Fokkema wrote: > > >It is irritating > > >to discover that linux does not log everything (as I always tell windows > > >users who&

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:13 +, Wackojacko wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:37 +, Wackojacko wrote: > >> David Fokkema wrote: > >> > >>> Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out which > >>>

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:37 +, Wackojacko wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > > > > Still leaves me with one question: how do I figure out which > > daemon/script brings up my interfaces at what time? > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > &

Re: Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 14:54 +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:19:20PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > Hi, > > > Take a look here : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403706 Thanks! That was insightful.

Two identical usb networking cards problem

2007-03-03 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I googled / searched the list around a lot but couldn't find what the cause of my problem might be... I installed debian etch on an NSLU2. It has an internal network card which is brought up automatically at boot time. I have two additional usb network cards attached to a hub which are

Samba printer shares list

2005-05-23 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Since upgrading samba from woody to sarge (2.2 -> 3.0), I have the following problem: I can still use my printer shared via cups, but it doesn't show up in the browse list. This is my smb.conf: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 192.168.20.20 (192.168.20.20) # Date: 2005/05/2

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 15:13 +0100, David Fokkema wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 13:44 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello, > > > > ken keanon wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Since my discourse about free software last month, I > > &

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 13:44 +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > ken keanon wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Since my discourse about free software last month, I > > had installed Debian GNU/Linux Sarge on one partition > > of my harddisk while retaining WinXP in another. > > > > Starting with

Re: base-config error in Sarge

2004-10-18 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:23:03PM +0530, Rituraj Buddhisagar wrote: > Hi all; > > > > I am fairly new to debian. I took a bold step of replacing my WinXP > office desktop with Debian Sarge. > > > > After initial install completes, it reboots. So far so good. > > > > I am getting proble

Re: broken cd-rw drive

2004-10-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:58:28AM -0300, Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >Hi group, > > > >I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > >possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story.

Re: broken cd-rw drive

2004-10-02 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:26:33AM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2004 08:24 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > > possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here'

SOLVED: Re: Lesstif over VNC a problem?

2004-09-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:03:38PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > Needing a quick but decent plotting program while at work, I used VNC to > tunnel back home (server running woody). Problem: xmgrace wouldn't show > me any menus or dialogs at all. That is, every le

Re: Lesstif over VNC a problem?

2004-09-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:05:22PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > box. Unfortunately, I can't read boxes, certainly not when they all look > > the same. > > This is a locale issue. > > > I further tried

Lesstif over VNC a problem?

2004-09-24 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Needing a quick but decent plotting program while at work, I used VNC to tunnel back home (server running woody). Problem: xmgrace wouldn't show me any menus or dialogs at all. That is, every letter was replaced by a box. Unfortunately, I can't read boxes, certainly not when they all loo

Real translucency in X.org?

2004-09-11 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, With all those posts about the freedesktop.org/x.org server, I'm wondering... What's the fuss all about? Yes, I know it's very nice, but why do people really want to use it _now_? I'm really looking forward to the shadowing and the real translucency (especially translucent eterm windows,

firefox 'open with' troubles...

2004-08-28 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, When I click on a file in firefox, it asks me if I want to save it to disk, or if I want to open it with a choice of applications. The problem is that there are always three choices: some default choice, the latest other choice I chose, and 'other'. For example, for pdf files, the choice

Re: Editing video

2004-08-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:29:29PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote: > At 19:40 26/08/2004, you wrote: > >Hi group, > > > >My father has recorded some video on his camera and he wants to edit > >this on his computer. The camera doesn't have digital video output or > >something like that and his box doesn'

Re: Editing video

2004-08-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:49:11AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:40:40PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > My father has recorded some video on his camera and he wants to edit > > this on his computer. The camera does

Editing video

2004-08-26 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, My father has recorded some video on his camera and he wants to edit this on his computer. The camera doesn't have digital video output or something like that and his box doesn't have a capturing device. But, he has a dvd recorder and has recorded the video on dvd. Now, what can he do wi

Filing an RC bug: vis5d ?

2004-08-15 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I've tried to use vis5d a few days ago and it looks nice. Looking on the net for the home page, I've noticed that vis5d is quite dead [1]. Also, the project which was to continue development, vis5d+ [2], appears to be dead. And what's worse, the version in sid is not even the latest vers

Re: Wich brand of graphic cards?

2004-07-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:10:29PM -0400, Franco Gorziglia wrote: > I'm thinking in buy a new graphic card; Which one runs better with > linux? Is there a brand that support better the free software with the > appropriate drivers? > Thank you! ATI is nice, I think. I specifically bought a laptop w

Re: Disk tools in debian

2004-07-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:10:10PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:15:17PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:58:47 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 19:52, David Fokkema wrote: > > >> On Sun, Ju

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:26:42PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> - The premise that responses to challenges can be reliably predicted > >> is false. Legitimate senders will refuse to answer challenges. > >

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:31:00PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >> - The math for C-R simply doesn't scale. > > > ? > > I'm not sure what Karsten had in mind here but let me give my first hand > view on this piece. My curre

Re: TMDA considered harmful

2004-07-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:17:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The only response I send to challenges is a response to postmaster to > >> stop using TMDA. I'm wondering if there's any good resources on the web > >> that summarize the harms of TMDA,

Re: Disk tools in debian

2004-07-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:49:35PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm puzzled. I thought I might learn something by checking on this > fix to Tong's problem, but running as root on a Sarge system, I get > results just like Tong, and not like you, Oliver. I fail to see what > I could be doing wrong.

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:51:54PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:00:47PM +0200, David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:46:24AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:37:45PM -0600, Monique

Re: Un-installing this......

2004-07-11 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:39:38PM -0400, Bill Gladney wrote: > I see all kinds of help files.in here on this site.but noticed > there is not one piece of info on how to get this program off a > computer...maybe 'cause it's impossible to do.or what...if > possiblehow...?oh yeah.

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-10 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:46:24AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:37:45PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-06-25, Paul Johnson penned: > > > --=-=-= > > > > > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >> You can use pro

Re: detect wlan networks

2004-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:11:20PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a Debian tool which indicates the > availibility of other wlan networks in the range of > my wlan card. > > And suggestions? Install the 'wireless-tools' package. Then do the following: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: excellent advice for x-server driver [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:19:50AM +, p wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > __deletia__ > > > to configure your graphics card, which can > > be tricky if you have newer hardware. If you are unsure, select the > > 'v

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-06 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:56:35PM +0200, Eric van Rheenen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 22:11, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:33:59PM +0200, Eric van Rheenen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboar

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-06 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:04:55AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Thomas Adam wrote: > > >--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>John: You can fix this, but since you don't have anything important on > >>your system (presumably) yet, you could take this opportunity to > >> > >>

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-06 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 07:58:34AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >Hi John, > > > >On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:19:58PM +0100, JOHN WALL wrote: > > > > > >>Thanks for your help, I booted up and was asked for the > >>

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:20:02AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > The guy who packages ATI fglrx drivers for Debian > (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html) > is a godsend. > > Has anybody ever done a similar sort of thing to VMWare? It would be > highly useful

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-06 Thread David Fokkema
assword.png [5] http://nebula.homeunix.net/~dfokkema/tasksel.png [6] http://nebula.homeunix.net/~dfokkema/login.png > >From: David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >CC: JOHN WALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Unidentified subject! > >

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:33:59PM +0200, Eric van Rheenen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. > > I have had some trouble in getting this motherboard to work fine, but > now the ide, and ethernet are working as they should. >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 09:11:04PM +0100, JOHN WALL wrote: > could some one help please. Have installed debian GNU v3.0r2(non us) > Everything seemed to go in fine, except for some seek errors which I > assume is normal. Got to user name and password OK. then nothing, > I was expecting some format

Re: New installation has no GUI [was: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:52:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You haven't installed the GUI. Run tasksel (as root) and select "X > > Window System" and probably you'll want "Desktop Environment" as well. > > ... which is bad advice since it will insta

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:13:17 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I (think I) have read the previous thread about the license change, but > > probably not good enough. Would some

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 09:31:07PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > > hi there, > > > > > > when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages > > > using`dpkg --set-select

Re: DRI, working somewhat? But ...

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:52:18AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2004 19:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > What is the output of 'glxinfo'? Look at the top four lines. > > OK. Here follows the glxinfo output, apparently fairly typical for a mach64 > card. > > Actually, Tuxracer

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:13:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > jack kinnon wrote: > > I'm not familiar with those licencing stuff. Does it > > mean that future software fr xfree86 will no more be > > free? > > Yes, that is correct. XFree86 changed their copyright recently and it > is no longer fre

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > hi there, > > when i first installed debian i tried to bring over my list of packages using > `dpkg --set-selections`, but i ended up just using aptitude and starting afresh. > > but i recently ran `apt-get dselect-upgrade` and it se

Re: DRI, working somewhat? But ...

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:02:15PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Here is what I have so far. Just put in the 2.6.7 kernel (Hey, now the mouse > is working immediately--enough of an improvement. :-) ) > > # dmesg | grep AGP > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd000 > [drm] Initialized mach64 1.0.0

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > > he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex > > thingie". >

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:15:01PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:10:45 +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:07:37PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Some

Re: Linux reports incorrect CPU speed

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:12:45AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hmmm good point - even using the bf24 kernel, the speed feels the > same... I'm sure this should feel a little faster considering its a > 750MHz CPU...? Or is it just KDE being bloaty? KDE is being bloaty, that's for sure! There a

Re: Interesting netstat results

2004-07-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:40:37AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 08:29:07 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:15:22AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > > > But, looking at the output of netstat, I

Re: Interesting netstat results

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:15:22AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > I noticed tonight as I was about to get off the computer and head for > bed that the network meter on my taskbar was still showing a bit of > activity. And while I did notice the Sarge upgrade has changed the > way the network meter shows

Re: Linux reports incorrect CPU speed

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:46:55PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > Have had lots of probs with this laptop and decided just to reformat the > hard drive and reinstall Debian (for the first time ever - oh the shame) > even tho all probs would be fixable - but I needed a working laptop

Re: dma timeout retry: status=0x58

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:02:57PM -0400, Owen Mehegan wrote: > Hello - > > The reason I'm submitting this to the Debian list is because this > issue seems to be related to whatever kernel options Debian gives me, > or perhaps the specific 2.4 version that Debian installs. In short, > when I boot

Re: Custom Debian distro

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:51:54PM +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > Hi, > Searched about this in gmane, but couldn't find much useful stuff. If I > remember correctly, there was a post by someone, who had written a > comprehensive document on building custom Debian distros. Specifically, > some mem

Re: Unknown root partition type?

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > There was a short thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't > recall seeing any resolution. I do remember that I wasn't the only > one experiencing the problem. > > Did I miss something, or is it still unresolved? It is st

Re: Unknown root partition type?

2004-07-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:04:49PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0400, Norman Walsh said > > There was a short thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't > > recall seeing any resolution. I do remember that I wasn't the only > > one experiencing the problem.

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: > > cecil wrote: > > > > >I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > > >requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > > >to do t

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:10:45PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:07:37PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > > > he called

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:07:37PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > > he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex > > thingie

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:45:13AM +, Ivan Fernandez wrote: > I guess you could say I use LaTeX "on a regular basis", I almost > finished writing my PhD dissertation in LaTeX..., also with emacs (and > the auctex package). > > LaTeX is great, but you have to be clear about something: it is not

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:22:12PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:45:20PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > ppower4 (for incremental build of pages in presentations) > > I have recently worked a little bit with latex-beamer that is also a > nice tool to build a pdf for pr

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: > I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Since you're already thinking about LaTeX.

Re: turning off CPU fan

2004-06-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:07:25PM +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using unstable on a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook E6560. Recently I > switched to the kernel version 2.6.6 and ACPI. Now the CPU fan is turned > on when it's necessary, but stays on forever. Is there a way to turn it >

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:21:41PM -0500, cecil wrote: > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex > thingie". My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some reading up on > it; it's interestin

Re: strange colors

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:50:21AM +0200, frank coldewe wrote: > have still problems with colors in aplications like gimp and sane, grey > is green or blue ... > all the other applications works fine, have installed kde and use woody > any idea ?? Why don't you try and make a screenshot? Best if y

Re: higher performance in knoppix

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:30:47AM -0400, Nathan wrote: > Recently I was playing around with Knoppix 3.4, and I decided to check > out glxgears performance. After loading the nVidia driver, I got > 1500-1700 frames per second. The interesting thing is that on the same > exact computer, with Debian

Re: higher performance in knoppix

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:19:08PM -0400, Nathan wrote: > Recently I was playing around with Knoppix 3.4, and I decided to check > out glxgears performance. After loading the nVidia driver, I got > 1500-1700 frames per second. The interesting thing is that on the same > exact computer, with Debian

Re: Something odd in XFree86 (unstable)

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:30:23PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:08:51PM +0100, David Goodenough said > > Just recently the Alt+ shortcut to get to KDE menu entries > > stopped working. I commented on this on the debian-kde list and got the > > reply that someone had cured it

Re: Re: Sound troubles

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:14:44AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > Thanks so much for the detailed advice! I have taken it, but I am afraid > it still doesn't entirely solve the problem. > > I blacklisted the OSS modules for both discover and hotplug, as > described in the alsa-base docs. Loaded modu

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:05:32PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > atm it seems impossible to get bugs fixed in Woody unless they're > security-related. I know, someone's going to ask for an eg, and right > now I can't think of one. Of course there are bugs discovered which a lot of people woul

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:12:06PM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:35:48 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > No, but [Red Hat] were always a company looking to make money off > > of their product (not that there's anything wrong with that). Debian > > has no such plans, and

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:32:08AM +, John Summerfield wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > >On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: > > > > > >>I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from > >>there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the > >

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:10:11AM +, John Summerfield wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > >>Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>&

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:42:09AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Guys, first of all, let me clarify a couple of things. I hail from the > Windows world where you just plug the card, install the drivers and > voila, you're all set. I am just trying to learn about access points and >

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:35:09AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > How hard will it be to switch or upgrade to sarge from woody when sarge > becomes stable? I'm hoping that CUPS and other stuff in sarge will let me > use my parallel port HP 697C printer and my HP psc1210 > printer/scanner/co

Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Norman Walsh wrote: > >My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. > > > >$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 > >/dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > >1 > >$ mount | grep h

Re: how do I remove "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0"

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:14:06AM -0400, Bingjun Ye wrote: > Hi, > I just reformated my harddisk, and found there is a compressed ramdrive > D:\. I cannot remove D:\ using command rd d:\, and cannot setup > Windows XP with the CD. How do I remove this compressed ramdrive in the > DOS mode? W

Re: Sound troubles

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:23:25AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > Sound was working fine with my system until recently, and now appears to > be quite screwed up in a way I cannot diagnose. Any help is appreciated. > > I am running sid with the 2.6.6-2-k7 kernel. I have a soundblaster card > that is

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > >Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable > >distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. > > > >Still, no one benefits from having blinders over their eyes. St

Re: Fwd: Re: Going wireless

2004-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:20:17PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Hi guys, I've been trying to install my wireless card to no avail. > > I have followed the suggestion by David, but still cannot make it work. > >iwlist wlan0 scan > > returns > > wlan0 No scan results >

Re: StartX fails

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:30:08AM -0600, Brad Nelson wrote: > When I run StartX from my user account it looks like it is starting up, the > screen goes blank, then I get an error "Fatal server error: no screens > found". I thought this was due to not having the proper video driver > initially but

Re: network working one way only?

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:30:05AM -0400, richard lyons wrote: > I must be in an exceptionally dim mood today. I just noticed that my > laptop, on which I am writing this, is not accessible from other boxes > on the network. Ping, nfs, cups are all failing to connect. Must be > something I ha

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:28:44AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:11:38 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 > > >

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have be

Re: ipchains problem,

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:30:52PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:06:40PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote: > > > > > >>debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 > >> > >>Still I am configuring the boxes in kiosk m

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks > off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have > been teaching myself over the weekend. > > I can pull from CD to Ogg on my m

Re: ipchains problem,

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:06:40PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote: > debian 3.0r2 kernel 2.2.20 > > Still I am configuring the boxes in kiosk mode. > > First now I observe that the debian I downloaded last week included 2.2 > kernel and not 2.4. Wich means I can not use the firewall script wich Ar

Re: /etc/hostname

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:33:06PM +1000, Darryl Luff wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > >My /etc/hostname file contains only the machine name and not the FQDN of > >the machine. > > > >This is causing problems with procmail, squirrelmail and probably 50 > >other things out there. > > > >How do I set

vmware mouse problems

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I have to evaluate VMWare for work, and I'm trying to get it to work on my laptop running Debian sid. So the host OS is sid. I had to evaluate a DVD containing a slackware distribution, and my mouse won't move. I created a new virtual machine and tried running Knoppix 3.4 from it, same p

Re: Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:22:19AM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote: > On Monday, 21 Jun 2004 00:33, David Fokkema wrote: > > Is there some sort of secure vnc available with a client running on > > windows? Of course, on decent systems, ssh -X is the way to go. The > > problem

Re: Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:27:24PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >> You could create a secure tunnel between the two systems, then run VNC > >> over it. SSH port forwarding + PuTTY would work, as would Stunnel. > > > > Just to be certain

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:24:45PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>On Sunday 20 June 20

Re: Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:57:41PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > > There is this particular windows machine that had a vnc viewer > > installed. I thought: hey, that's cool! and installed a vnc server at > > home and use it from time to time.

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE

Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, There is this particular windows machine that had a vnc viewer installed. I thought: hey, that's cool! and installed a vnc server at home and use it from time to time. And now I find out it is not encrypted. Nice. Is there some sort of secure vnc available with a client running on windo

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most > experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than the > testing distribution. Th

Re: ndiswrapper as a module

2004-06-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:58:22AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > OK. The make install displayed a line like > > #!/sbin/depmod -a > > I thought it had done. Anyway, I did so and as far as modules and > modprobe it seem to be working. Good! > As far as my card being recognized, i

Re: ndiswrapper as a module

2004-06-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:09:00AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Guys, > > As I mentioned on an email I sent just to David after I sent this > message to him, I was confused the version.h file is in fact there. > > I was able to compile ndiswrapper and install it. That's great!

Re: ndiswrapper as a module

2004-06-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:18:47AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Hi David, > > I was so exhited when I read your mail that got me thinking everything > was going to work just fine. Unfortunately it didn't work, at least it > didn't create the famous version.h file. It didn't creat

Re: ndiswrapper as a module

2004-06-15 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:50:19PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Guys, > > I've been trying to install my wireless card. As far as I can see I > would need a module called ndiswrapper. > > I"ve been traying to install ndiswrapper as a module to no avail. > > I must be doing somet

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