Re: display problem

2004-12-03 Thread Kieren Diment
In linux.debian.user, I wrote: On 2004-12-03, Dudley Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since doing > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade > > this morning my display has been ugly with horizontal streaks in X and > console (curses programmes where there are blocks of colour). I'd like > to fix

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-07 Thread Kieren Diment
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >> What's a good tool to do some really lightweight editeing on them >> with? Mostly I just need to rotate the vertical ones, but I _might_ >> do just a little cropping on some few. Kuickshow is what you need. The only thing it doesn't do is cropping for which

Re: Question about LaTeX...

2003-10-17 Thread Kieren Diment
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:54:21PM +0200, JG wrote: >>> >>> >>> No. You don't need to run anything as root. These are user files. In >>> Debian you don't need to run texhash in this case. Example: >>> >> Yes. I was

Please help solve printing weirdness

2003-08-25 Thread Kieren Diment
For some reason I am having printing weirdness on this machine. I am running testing, upgraded from Woody if that helps. I have recompiled my kernel to contain parport and parport_pc (Kernel 2.4.18) I have a HPLJ2100 printer. I have lpd and magicfilter installed: magicfilter.conf looks lik

Resolv conf not working with dialup connection (testing)

2003-08-14 Thread Kieren Diment
I did apt-get dist-upgrade to testing this morning, and now when I connect to the net using wvdial, the dns entries in resolv.conf are not updating. This leaves me without a useful net conneciton ( I can get out by numerical ip address, but this is not terribly useful). Any help in remedying this

Fwd: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-24 Thread Kieren Diment
From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading Kieren Diment wrote: >>From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Newsgroups: linux.debian.user >>Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading >> >>i'

Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-24 Thread Kieren Diment
From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading i'm using 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21) and for some reason the tulip module that runs it wont load by default. I came up with a really ugly hack for thi

Fwd: Driver for Netgear PCI Ethernet board?

2003-01-20 Thread Kieren Diment
> From: "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: linux.debian.user > Subject: Driver for Netgear PCI Ethernet board? > Is there a driver available for the Netgear FA311 Ethernet board. If > so, where can I get it? It's the national semiconductors module (natsemi). I had a wei

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-26 Thread Kieren Diment
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:58:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.2100 +0100]: > > I recommend just using fetchmail intstead and having exim or procmail > > sort the mail into folders for you. The advantage of using > > fetchmail+exim/procmail is t

Misleading newbie tip [was Re: mutt recipe wanted]

2001-12-11 Thread Kieren Diment
Your newbie tip needs a slight correction: On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:17:00PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > -- > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #83 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > GOT GIBBERISH? And wondering what to do next, to clear the > mess? enter a blank line (making sure you've cleared > yo

Re: Digital photo archive

2001-11-26 Thread Kieren Diment
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:11:28PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > What is the best archiving approach for bundle of digital photos. > > My idea is simple script to create web page. Use "du -s" to check > archive size,... (imagemagic + perl script + make should do this.) > I do not like this to be com

How to allow a user to send a fax with mgetty

2001-10-18 Thread Kieren Diment
At the moment I need to su in order to send a fax. How do I fix it so that I can send a fax as a normal user? Pertinent info: Kernel 2.2.17 Mgetty running from Pototao 2.2R3 TIA Kieren

Fax / Modem question.

2001-09-23 Thread Kieren Diment
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, to ask this, but here goes. I'm happily using mgetty to send faxs out, but I need to receive the occasional fax as well. I can't have the modem auto-answer, as this would disrupt the separate voicemail system, so I need to be able to type in a command or w

Re: Microsoft compatibility (aarrggh!)

2001-09-01 Thread Kieren Diment
So long as your computer has enough grunt to run Star-Office ( > 32MB ram, > P133 ) then you should be fine. On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:09:00AM +0100, charles verbeken wrote: > Hello, > > This is regarding a few questions regarding the installationa and the > compatibility of debian OS. Will I

Further Adventures of my ESS 1888

2001-07-23 Thread Kieren Diment
I posted a message about my ESS 1888 on my Dell Laptop card last week, and am grateful for the most useful replies I got. Aagain, According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive (although according to Dell it is a ESS 1888) I/O Range 0240 - 024F 0388-038B 0330-0331 IRQs 5 an

Help with ESS1888 setup.

2001-07-19 Thread Kieren Diment
have tried the commercial OSS package with no sucess. It claims not to be able to compile soundcore properly. I am using kernel 2.2.19pre17. I have tried installing ALSA with no success. Can anyone help me based on the above information Thanks Kieren Diment

Most painless re-installation method

2001-05-25 Thread Kieren Diment
I have had some rather bad disk corrpution (laptop battery failed on me I think). The easiest way for me to fix it as far as I can see is to re-install as there are a few key applications that don't work.. I have a root partition and a /home partition. Only the /root partion is affected. I can

More Dpkg Broken errors

2001-05-17 Thread Kieren Diment
g returned an error code (1) Can anyone advise how to fix please. I'm running potato with Kernel 2.2.17. Am I going to have to reinstall (please no)? TIA Kieren Diment (original message and reply below) > Kieren Diment wrote: > > > > I was trying to install LyX, with dpkg

Dpkg broken.

2001-05-16 Thread Kieren Diment
I was trying to install LyX, with dpkg -i lyx*.deb, but was told that libforms0.89 was not installed. So after that I kept making errors, downloading libforms-bin and installing that by mistake, downloading libforms and Lyx for the wrong Architecture (Mk68 and Sparc) by mistake. I finally got t

Dialup script question

2001-05-07 Thread Kieren Diment
understanding is that this is when the DNS is registered. What would I put in line two to do this? I'm running potato. Thanks in anticipation. Kieren Diment

Debian for infants.

2001-04-05 Thread Kieren Diment
I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be re-directed into the stdin for

REcompiling the kernel on non root partition.

2000-11-13 Thread Kieren Diment
Due to lack of disk space I am having trouble recompiling my kernel. my system lives on hda2, and I want to use my redundant vfat partition on hda1 to recompile the kernel When I tar -x -f kernel-source-2.2.17.tar I get the following error: tar: kernel-source-2.2.17/include/asm: Cannot

Installing kernel sources on alternative partition problem

2000-11-08 Thread Kieren Diment
Hi there, I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop. I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel sources on my other partition, which is a now redundant vfat partition that had win 95 on it. When I extract the tarbal

Some help with e-mail setup

2000-09-23 Thread Kieren Diment
I am in the process of setting up my laptop to work with Debian as a home dial-up computer. Now that I have apm and pcmcia working together, I would like to be able to get the e-mail system working so I don't have to reboot to windoze every time I send an e- mail. I am running debian slink 2.0