Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-14 Thread Don Hayward
Hi Graham, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Graham Evans wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:30:16 +0200, Don Hayward wrote: ---snip So my questions are: 1) what string substitution do I use to get the needed bit into my command? 2) do I need quoting in the rule? 3) can this work anyway? Thanks for any

udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-10 Thread Don Hayward
I have a new Seagate FreeAgent usb hard drive. After install, it spins down and when one tries to write to it, it gets marked read only. This can be prevented by running the following command line: echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/14\:0\:0\:0/allow_restart where this bit^^^

Re: usb hard disk / ext3 partition - permissions change automatically(!) from read-write to read-only

2007-05-27 Thread Don Hayward
by Ilias Paraponiaris May 26, 2007; 07:14pm I would appreciate any help to the following issue: My system is debian-testing (not stable=etch). I use linux exclusivelly only for 3 months and I have no programming background, so I am rather newbe than expert. I have an external usb hard disk Se

Re: Installing Mozilla Sunbird With Debian On AMD64

2007-05-10 Thread Don Hayward
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Redefined Horizons wrote: I'd really like to get Mozilla Sunbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/) running on my new computer. I'm running Debian Lenny on a brand new Dell with AMD64 dual core processors. However, it doesn't appear that a Debian package (h

Re: tv-out, nvidia, nvtv etc

2007-04-26 Thread Don Hayward
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Don Hayward on 26/04/07 16:25, wrote: The setup is quite different, but this "Device" works for me. Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go]" Driver "nvidia&

Re: tv-out, nvidia, nvtv etc

2007-04-26 Thread Don Hayward
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: spent the last 24 hours trying to get on top of this but reached the limit of my resources now and seem to have hit most of the relevant googleable info out there without getting past the current impasse. I've got a hot nvidia 7950GT GPU which is support

Re: Which is the right Kernel Image for Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210

2007-04-04 Thread Don Hayward
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Siju George wrote: === websrv-1:~# apt-cache search kernel-image | grep amd64 kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on generic x86_64 systems - transition package kernel-imag

To be M$ free....

2007-03-10 Thread Don Hayward
Hi, I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent. She uses it for live dictation as well as recording to a digital recorder followed by transcrip

Re: s-video out, Dell nvidia laptop?

2007-02-09 Thread Don Hayward
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 February 2007 12:02, you wrote: # TV Out Setup � � � � �Option � � �"TVStandard" "NTSC" � � � � �Option � � �"TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO" � � � � �Option � � �"TVOverScan" "0.6" � � � � �Option � � �"C

Re: AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Don Hayward
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: Wackojacko wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package (planning on using etch). I do an "aptitude search linux-image" and lo

Re: s-video out, Dell nvidia laptop?

2007-02-09 Thread Don Hayward
Thanks Evan, On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Evan wrote: Can we have more details as to what you've already done? Has your problem produced any error messages? On 2/8/07, Don Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with Geforce4 440 Go graphics. I need inst

s-video out, Dell nvidia laptop?

2007-02-08 Thread Don Hayward
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with Geforce4 440 Go graphics. I need instruction for getting the s-video port to work. I've googled a lot and tried some suggestions found there, but they haven't worked and I haven't a clear idea of what's needed. I'm running etch. X works with either the

Re: XP and Samba.....again

2006-12-21 Thread Don Hayward
Sorry, I just dropped into this thread, but... On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, schmity wrote: Here is my latest from the command line. Looks like the problem is a user and password problem. ### Linuxbox:/home/brent# smbclient -L linuxbox Password: session setup failed: NT_STA

Problem with gnome-sudoku, python, cairo?????

2006-12-03 Thread Don Hayward
When I try to run gnome-sudoku I get the following messages: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-sudoku Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/games/gnome-sudoku", line 10, in ? from gnome_sudoku.gnome_sudoku import start_game File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gnome_sudoku/gnome_s

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Don Hayward
It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me do what I want to do, a

initramfs/mdadm question

2006-09-19 Thread Don Hayward
Running etch -- Often lately, when upgrading, I'm getting a warning from update-initramfs like the following: Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/udev ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp I: mdadm: RAID support installed to mount /dev/md0, during

Moneydance anyone??

2006-08-01 Thread Don Hayward
I'm running AMD64 etch. I had moneydance working with the Sun JRE, but I installed OO, which pulled in the gnu-java packages as dependencies. I'd like to get MD working with gnu-java, preferably, but working in any case. Now I get the moneydance splash, followed by nothing. I have to ^C to get

lirc mythtv pvr350 confusion

2006-02-06 Thread Don Hayward
rc in place. I'm wondering if, with "native lirc" in mythtv, I actually need lircd. But mostly I'm wondering what I've missed in the setup. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Don Don Hayward at pomobuli.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache2 and ssl

2006-02-02 Thread Don Hayward
e2-ssl. I just got throught purching all the apache stuff and keeping apache2 so I don't think I want to install apache-ssl. With Apache2 you have enable the ssl module in /etc/apache2/mods-available/ -- See /usr/share/doc/apache2/README.etc HTH Don Don Hayward [EMAIL

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Don Hayward
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Don Hayward wrote: Hi Roberto, On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Don Hayward
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Re: Home surveillance

2005-11-10 Thread Don Hayward
movement stops? Purpose to keep an eye on the fruit trees. Check zoneminder -- http://www.zoneminder.com Don Hayward ISDIV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.4441x403 Cell: 941.350.8503 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway Fax: 941.388.4312 Sarasota, FL

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Anthony Walters wrote: Otherwise you could use dhcpdump to see what is being sent and recieved from the server This worked -- I found a rogue server on the network NACKing the XP REQUEST before the real server could ACK it. Thanks Anthony Don Don Hayward ISDIV

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward
r I will try this. Don Don Hayward ISDIV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.4441x403 Cell: 941.350.8503 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway Fax: 941.388.4312 Sarasota, FL 34236 See: http://www.mote.org Independent, non-profit, marine and estu

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote: This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe someone out there has seen this or has an idea. I have

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Don Hayward
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:10:16PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe someone out there has seen this or has an ide

DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Don Hayward
eth0 This continues indefinitely -- while the XP box continues to think it's acquiring an address. It continues until I disable the interface. Everything works if I give it a static address. Any help appreciated. Don Don Hayward ISDIV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine

Re: Mysql problems after the install

2005-08-30 Thread Don Hayward
ysql/my.cnf Comment out the line old_passwords = 1 HTH Don _ Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.4441x403 Cell: 941.350.8503 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway Fax: 941.388.4312 Sarasota, FL 34236 See: http://www.mote.org Ind

Re: imap-addressbook connect failure

2004-12-23 Thread Don Hayward
Thanks to all replies. On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Adam Aube wrote: Since the address book is on an SMB mount, most likely the upgrade of Samba, not uw-imap, caused the problem. I copied the file into a non smbfs volume (the user's home directory) and altered the address on the client -- the error message

imap-addressbook connect failure

2004-12-23 Thread Don Hayward
eanup - completely_done_with_adrbks - about to end_tty_driver goodnight_gracey finished Don Hayward don at mote.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netatalk 2 deb

2004-12-03 Thread Don Hayward
Is there a netatalk 2 deb available? If so, where? Failing that has anyone a working debian/rules file to build a deb? Thanks Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread Don Hayward
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, downtime null wrote: I'm going to be upgrading my system very soon and was considering upgrading to the AMD 64 bit processor. Are there already binary packages available for 64 bit or am I going to have to compile everything? I'm pretty sure there is already support for this ar

/bin contents

2004-09-29 Thread Don Hayward
Is there a package that contains the standard contents of the /bin directory? I erred. Thanks. Don Hayward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse

2003-10-22 Thread Don Hayward
p/movecursor.html Is there a way to control cursor movement speed? This is lovely, but seems very slow. I didn't find anything on this page about it. Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.4441 Cell: 941.302.4982 1600 Ken Tho

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppyqveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Don Hayward
hing > but a simple straightforward way to make a simple straightforward boot disk > that is all. Something I used to do -- haven't done it lately -- but it used to work. cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.444

vgetty/pvftormd problem

2003-02-09 Thread Don Hayward
re the rmd file. Is this modem a known problem? Is there a known problem with pvftormd, and can I work around it? If not, what modems currently available on the US market are known to work with Debian, vgetty & pvftools? Thanks. Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Mari

pam_ldap Invalid credentials

2002-11-14 Thread Don Hayward
y the credentials so that lib_pam can find and use them? Or, if I've misunderstood completely, what should I do next? Thanks. Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.4441 Cell: 941.302.4982 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway Fax: 941.388.431

Re: NIS problem

2002-10-03 Thread Don Hayward
Thanks Mike. It was an iptables problem. On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Don Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I should have been more clear about rpcinfo --- > >rpcinfo -p client from the client fails

Re: NIS problem

2002-10-03 Thread Don Hayward
that introduced some problem with portmap. Thanks for your thoughts. On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > Don Hayward said: > > Thanks for the response. > > > > Yes, portmap is running -- at least ps shows it. > > rpcinfo -p hangs and returns no output although lsof -i lists se

Re: NIS problem

2002-10-02 Thread Don Hayward
set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is not set # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED

NIS problem

2002-10-02 Thread Don Hayward
y the operation is not permitted? Thanks. Don Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mote Marine Laboratory Office: 941.388.4441 Cell: 941.302.4982 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway Fax: 941.388.4312 Sarasota, FL 34236 See: http://www.mote.org Independent, non-profit, marin