multihead

2004-10-18 Thread John Floren
I have tried multiheading in the past, without much luck. It seems that if I do not use the same resolution and bit depth on both screens, X will crash when I logout. Then, when I do use the same res and bpp, there is a huge increase in CPU usage while doing even simple tasks. Is there a way t

Re: What is the program to reset Exim configuration??

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: It's been a long time but I remember there is a console program that will ask me a number of quesions about my Exim setup like Using Smarthost, name of smarthost, etc What is this program called? For the life of me I cannot remember. Lance I believe "dpkg-reconfigure exim

Re: XMMS doing strange things

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:44:13PM -0700, John Floren wrote: MadMan and id3ed show the tags as correct; is this an xmms issue? No, it's an inability on your part to not check the BTS (Bug Tracking System): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=260168 -- Thomas

XMMS doing strange things

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
Today I downloaded Juk and used the "Guess Tags from Filename" feature on my entire music directory. When that was done, XMMS started displaying some song names completely incorrectly. For example, "Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" shows up as "als - c nTeSyWt imns" What did I do tha

Re: X pointer problem

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:23:24AM -0700, John Floren wrote: A few months ago I downloaded an OS X-style theme for GNOME. Part of the theme changed the mouse pointer so as to look similar to in OS X. However, when I stopped using that theme, the mouse didn't change back.

X pointer problem

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
A few months ago I downloaded an OS X-style theme for GNOME. Part of the theme changed the mouse pointer so as to look similar to in OS X. However, when I stopped using that theme, the mouse didn't change back. Now when I start, say, FVWM, instead of the usual large black "X" cursor, I get a

Re: How to configure /etc/network/interfaces WAS: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
Bram Mertens wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:36, John Floren wrote: [...] Could I use something like this? --- /etc/network/interfaces --- auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface lan inet static address 192.168.0.123 netmask 255.255.255.0 iface wan inet dhcp --- EOF --- No

Re: How to configure /etc/network/interfaces WAS: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
Bram Mertens wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 22:37, Jon Dowland wrote: [...] A better solution is to use logical interface names aka interface aliasing. The details are described in manpage interfaces(5) ; the mapping 'eth0-home' would probably be what you wanted for transfers, and 'eth0-work' for nor

Re: running network config in Sarge

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
john gennard wrote: How do I run network configuration in Sarge. I ignored it in a recent install? Would someone please let me know. John. Probably the easiest way is to do "apt-get install etherconf", which will give you a nice interface to network configuration. If you need to change anything

Re: unsubscribe

2004-08-22 Thread John Floren
Robert Parker wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 00:41, Janine La Fon wrote: This is one of the reasons I wish to unsubsribe. Children get on my computer and I don't want them seeing things like this. Well why are are you giving them access to your mail moron? Or maybe the best course of action wou

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

2004-08-21 Thread John Floren
Michael Rumpf wrote: Hi, I'm about to buy a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a board that is known to work well with free software drivers. I just don't want to buy another board and find myself disabling most of the features as they don't work under Linux. Thanks, Michael I just upgraded t

Re: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

2004-08-21 Thread John Floren
Bram Mertens wrote: I suppose I will have to create a file /etc/network/interfaces that contains: --- new /etc/network/interfaces -- auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 iface ppp0 inet ppp provider dsl-provider Here is what I

KDE 3.3 install

2004-08-20 Thread John Floren
Hello I am running Debian Unstable. I want to install KDE 3.3, but when I run "apt-get install kdebase" I get the following message: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some require

Re: Version To Use? (2)

2002-11-17 Thread John Floren
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 10:46, sean finney wrote: > hiya, > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:28:26AM -0800, John Floren wrote: > > So, I should just use the new release? Remember, my computer is really > > slow, I could only download with a 56K modem, and I can't download &g

Version To Use? (2)

2002-11-17 Thread John Floren
So, I should just use the new release? Remember, my computer is really slow, I could only download with a 56K modem, and I can't download directly to the intended computer. Also, exactly how large is the current release? I don't want to spend _too_ long downloading it :-) Thanks, >From a Debia

Version to use?

2002-11-17 Thread John Floren
Hello I am looking at installing Debian on my old 33Mhz 486 w/ 16MB of RAM, and I am wondering which release to use. I want one that is featureful but won't be too slow on my machine. I plan on downloading CD images on another computer then installing them on the old computer. Any tips would b