Re: mozill hangs due to realplayer 8

2004-03-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
H. S. wrote: Hi, I installed realplayer 8: 1) Downloaded rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm 2) did "apt-get install realplayer" 3) it asked for the location of the _rpm file, which I specified 4) and it installed the realplayer Then I tried listening to a realplayer music and the window that realpla

Re: ALSA Cannot find Sound Device

2004-03-14 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Alexander B. Cheng wrote: Hi All, There seems to be a problem with the ALSA driver not being able to find my sound card. I can get sound if I use the OSS Driver in XMMS but not ALSA. I even get sound when I us XINE. Below is my log: Mar 14 03:22:49 knsmen kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Dri

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-14 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called "third" world) from downloading them and will I ever see the set if I "order" them in Mexico by mail? Hugo. The "thir

Re: Dark fonts in console

2004-03-14 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Kent West wrote: After upgrading a couple of my sid boxes (to 2.6.3-1-k7), after the boot I find that the console fonts suddenly turn dark just before getting to the login screen. It's like the brightness on the monitor suddenly gets dropped down to 20%; not so dark you can't read the fonts, b

Re: Mouse problem with kernel 2.6.3 and Xfree 4.3.0-2

2004-03-07 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Manu wrote: Hi I am having a problem with my mouse (Psaux) and cannot figure out what it is. It not working at all. Everything else work but my mouse... I have attached the log when booting with kernel 2.6.3 and my Xfree86 configuration any idea? Thanks Manu _

Re: Alsa with 2.4.24

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Tony Middleton wrote: I run a sarge system using standard kernel-image-k7 and alsa modules. I have an Audigy sound card which uses the emu10k1 driver. Since moving to 2.4.24 i get no sound but can't find any error messages anywhere. If I revert to 2.4.22 everything works OK. Haven't been a

Re: usb scanner, kernel 2.6.3

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Philippe Marzouk wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I found out that to use the scanner I had to boot with the 2.4.22 image, now I am trying to recomp

Re: kernel 2.6.3, alsa, debian testing

2004-03-06 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Nathan Malmberg wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:00:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have problems loading the Alsa drivers in kernel 2.6.3 on my debian testing box. I get the following error: Starting ALSA (unknown version): failed - ALSA modules not installed I know i compiled

Re: installation

2004-03-05 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Jeff Loy wrote: When I enter the "vanilla" at the boot prompt, and the installation process begins, it hangs up at the line "Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled". At this point, I have to unplug the computer and plug it back in to reboot. I have a new

Re: kernel 2.6.3, alsa, debian testing

2004-03-05 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Sidnei Medina wrote: Hi Kenneth, I Had the same problem you mentioned in your e-mail... and after some tries, I installed, not as modules, the sound support, the alsa support, the driver for my sound board, and the OSS api in the ALSA section..., and, in the oss section I installed everything as

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-04 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:23:55PM +0100, Jens Simmoleit wrote: So: anybody know a graphical (preferably) client, that can do FTP over SSL or tunneled via SSH? lftp yftp gftp Sven The lftp in stable is somewhat crippeled regarding https. if you add something like

Re: Anyone compile/use transcode in stable/testing

2004-02-04 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: All, My search on package with the name transcode returned nothing. Thus I am assuming that it is not part of standard debian distros. Given that, any one compiled/installed/used the transcode package for creating/modifying/transcoding DVD content? The source has

Re: passing xterm parameters

2004-02-03 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com > temp.txt. in order to capture the entire web page, i have found that i have to run this from an xt

Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-12 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Antonio RodrX wrote: Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or howto on hard drives? I would like to understand a little better this part of the hardware before playing with hdparm. Some hdparm bash script examples would be also welcome. Here is my script: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/init.d/h

logcheck

2003-09-10 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Hi. I am running stable and just installed logcheck I get this mail: run-parts: component /etc/cron.d/logcheck is not an executable plain file in /etc/cron.d/ i have this: -rw-r--r--1 root root 147 Feb 21 2002 logcheck the contents of file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.d$ cat logc

Re: Debian?

2002-10-18 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Edward Guldemond wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:03:52PM -0500, Lannie Schafroth wrote: Where I will build the Linux machine is in my office and nowhere near the real router. I will need to use the ICS function. Can Debian use this connection? Debian and linux supports tcp-ip It is ve

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-16 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:28, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 12 Oct 2002, 16:38:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:30:22PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I am sure Baloo meant a "rogue" IT staff member. :-) And rogue is > > > probably the best way to learn the classic vi keystroke

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-10-16 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 17:16, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > I downloaded the newest drivers from nvidia and installed them. > As far as I can see, it runs fine. I have a Woody system with the 2.4.18 > kernel. > Recently I tried to add USB support, but borked my system. > I think I have everything wo

RE: gdm, log in as root?

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 01:10, David Pastern wrote: > Adrien Verlee said: > > To use GDM configurator, you must be root. But the session manager > (GDM) says: System Adminstrator is not alloweded tot login as root. > How can I use GDM configurator as superuser? > > Adrien > > Dave says: This is

Re: gdm, log in as root?

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:14, Adrien Verlee wrote: > To use GDM configurator, you must be root. But the session manager > (GDM) says: System Adminstrator is not alloweded tot login as root. > How can I use GDM configurator as superuser? > you dont log in as root. you log in as user and type su an

Re: Download manager

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:17, csj wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:16:38 -0400 > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > | > > | Is there a download manager for linux at all ? > > > > gtm > > > > | I would

Re: install nvidia driver woody

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:16, hervé wrote: > Le Mardi 15 Octobre 2002 23:12, vous avez écrit : > > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:00, hervé wrote: > > > hi all > > > i'm trying to install nvidia driver on woody and when i do make install > > > with the kernel driver part i've got an error: > > > > > > in

Re: gdm - adding windowmanagers

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:28, csj wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:43:19 +0200 > Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just cant figure how i add different windowmanagers to gdm. > > Its a real pain for me. With som hacking i managed to add >

Re: gdm - adding windowmanagers

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 18:47, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:43:19 +0200 Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just cant figure how i add different windowmanagers to gdm. > > Its a real pain for me. > > With som hacking

gdm - adding windowmanagers

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Hi all. I just cant figure how i add different windowmanagers to gdm. Its a real pain for me. With som hacking i managed to add enlightenment to the list of available windowmanagers. I copied some files from a mandrakebox but it was a pain. There must be an easyer way. Anybody with experience

devfs and 2.4.19-686

2002-10-09 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Hi all. Im running testing and tried to install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 on my system. The problem is that it will not boot with that kernel. I think the problem is related to devfs of some kind since the kernel finds my two harddisks and locates them on devfs mannor. /dev/ide/host0/bus... It lo

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Andy Saxena wrote: >On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > > >>never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel >>as I get them(habbit? maybe). >> >> >> > >How do you do it? Isn't it a pain to go through the entire configuration >routine when, perhaps,

Re: Printing trouble driving me crazy.

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Andy Saxena wrote: >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > >>Hello Joh: >> >>IMO, the thing you did wrong was not installing cups. I think it has to be >>the most user-friendly way to get a printer up and running on any distro of >>Linux. The driver base is

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file >> from one kernel source tree to another. >> >> Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in:

Re: having problem with X on woody with r128

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
b d wrote: >hah. I thought I had enough skills to do this (and >no, man apt-get, didn't seem to help me either - :) ). > >I put Branden's line in my sources.list (deb >http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ sid/i386/) and >did an apt-get update and upgrade, and it all looked >fine and dandy that 8

Re: Where is 'startx'?

2002-09-22 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 10:54, Michael Kristensen wrote: > * Bill Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-22 10:50:16]: > > Hi, > > > > I'm still getting used to the Debian way of doing things, so please > > forgive me if this is a "stupid" question. But what package provides > > the 'startx' command?

Re: ssh and rsync

2002-09-21 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
D. Joe Anderson wrote: >On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:38:35PM +0200, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > > >>For various reasons (Bandwidth limiting opiton) i wish to copy a file >>from my local machine to a remote machine using rsync. >>I wish to tunnel this troug

ssh and rsync

2002-09-21 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
For various reasons (Bandwidth limiting opiton) i wish to copy a file from my local machine to a remote machine using rsync. I wish to tunnel this trough ssh since the remote site doesnt run rsync. The problem i'm running in to is that the ssh deamon on remote site is running on a high port and

Re: how to set console key repeat speed?

2002-09-12 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 19:49, valerian wrote: > I'm in console mode 99% of the time, and I like the default keyboard > repeat speed that is set when the machine boots up. But if I 'startx' > and then exit back to console mode again, the key repeat speed is quite > slower. I looked at 'stty' and '

Re: not mailing output of cronjobs

2002-09-12 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Thanks guys. Kenneth On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 19:36, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > In your cronjob, > add this just above your command, > MAILTO="" > > This will mail to no one. > Cheers, > Mike > > Quoting Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

not mailing output of cronjobs

2002-09-12 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Hi all. I tried to read man but with no success. How do i avoid to get a report by mail of a specific cronjob? I run it hourly and I do not want to receive mail about it. Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NTP not syncronising

2002-09-12 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 03:35, David Cureton wrote: > Hi all, > Anyone else had trouble with ntp lately. I have two hosts that used to > syncronise fine, however now they will not hold sync to remote time servers. > I don't see anything abnormal with there configuration or operation of NTP.

[Fwd: Re: Login to home from work]

2002-09-09 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
--- Begin Message --- If your isp has possibilities for a homepage you can make cron.hourly and put a script there. Example of script is: ken@pingu:~$ cat ip.script #!/bin/bash wget www.showmyip.com -O /var/tmp/ip && grep nextgen /var/tmp/ip | cat> /var/tmp/test.html && ncftp

Re: problems with tux(racer|kart)

2002-09-08 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
martin f krafft wrote: >hi all, > >could anyone shine some light on why i am having problems with >tuxracer and tuxkart on a Dell Lat. C800 laptop with an 800MHz PIII >and 256Mb of RAM, running sarge with X 4.1.0. the graphics adapter >(Rage Mobility M4) is handled by X's ati/r128 driver after ag

Re: viewing gzipped files "inline" with less (was Re: FW: kernelsource patching)

2002-09-05 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020831 20:30]: > > >>Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz >>text files without having to first unzip them. >> >> > >less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the >environment is properly primed with "e

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

2002-09-04 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Günther Palfinger wrote: >Hi, > as root type route and have a look at output. from man route: route add default gw mango-gw adds a default route (which will be used if no other route matches). All packets using this route will be gatewayed through

Re: FW: kernel source patching

2002-09-04 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Russell wrote: >"Chris A. Morgan" wrote: > > >>Hi List >> >>I'm struggling through the sea of documentation as a linux and Debian newbie. Got >Debian 3.0 installed (2.4.18-bf.2) on my Thinkpad 770 with only a few minor >annoyances like no sound and some other strange functionalities. >> >>I