RE: Debian 12 System Requirement

2024-01-24 Thread CHENG YING KIT KEITH
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Debian 12 System Requirement

2024-01-22 Thread CHENG YING KIT KEITH
Dear Colleagues, Can I install Debian 11 or 12 with "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz" CPU? Do they both support the following application Nginx 1.22.1 PHP 8.2.7 Mariadb 10.11.4 On the other hand, may I know the minimum requirement of Debian 11 and 12? Best Regards, Keith Cheng | Offi

debianizing directories?

2006-11-07 Thread Kit Peters
nitely in the source directory - a bit of Googling suggested that might be a problem. I'm at a loss here.  I need a way to automatically distribute a directory full of files to these boxen in the field.  Is dpkg/apt not the way to do it?Kit Peters

installation on AIC-7902 RAID controller

2006-10-24 Thread Kit Peters
We're trying to install Debian at work onto a SuperMicro box with one of these controllers (Ultra320 SCSI RAID) on it.  When we build the RAID in hardware, it's not recognized by the installation kernel - instead it recognizes the four physical drives that are installed. Can anyone give me any tips

Package documentation

2006-10-17 Thread Kit Peters
I've noticed on the Debian homepage how every package has a neat little webpage, all to itself.  I'd like to do something similar for my local Debian repository at work.  What software do I use to generate those package-specific pages? KP

creating images of RAID boxen?

2006-08-16 Thread Kit Peters
our RAID arrays.  I want to be able to store an image of that setup in such a way that I can take two empty disks, stick 'em in the machine with the image, work some mojo, put those disks in a brand-new box, turn on the box, and have the box come up as a clone of the original machine.  What's the best way for me to do this under Debian? Kit Peters

Packaging PHP files

2006-08-02 Thread Kit Peters
s there a better way? Kit Peters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X11R7.1 for Debian?

2006-07-27 Thread Kit Peters
I'd like to try out X11R7.1, in the hope that it will fix the dualhead issues I'm having (Bug #378081 [1]). I'd rather not go to the trouble of compiling it myself if there are .debs available. Does anyone know where I might find such? Kit Peters [1] http://groups.g

Re: proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-07-19 Thread Kit Peters
Please excuse the lateness of my reply. I don't think this is going to work for me. A wrinkle that I failed to mention earlier is that I'm compiling a custom kernel for these machines, and the driver needs to be compiled against that kernel. Ideally, I'd like to use make-kpkg to generate the cus

proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-06-29 Thread Kit Peters
d we would like to "Debianize" things as much as possible.  This means that I wish to wrap the 3M driver in a .deb.  What is the best way to go about this?  Note that I plan to compile kernels on a fast machine that runs the same version of Debian, but is otherwise dissimilar to the p

Re: hw_random module cannot be loaded

2006-06-29 Thread Kit Peters
The first thing I'd do is try upgrading to a 2.6 kernel.  It may be that the hardware RNG you have isn't supported by 2.4.27. On 6/28/06, Malcolm E. Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot load the hw-random module. Can anyone give me advice on what to do. ThanksI am running a standalone desktop

Re: creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-28 Thread Kit Peters
b, and probably do the same for twm-kiosk, but I decided instead to use as many stock debs as possible, and only roll my changes into debs.  And I ended up writing simple Makefiles for everything, and building the debs that way. On 6/28/06, Kit Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Checkinstall doesn

Re: creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-28 Thread Kit Peters
didn't see anything there.  Can anyone give me some pointers?>> Kit PetersIf your package does not require pre- or post-install steps (or if youcan do them by hand), then check out checkinstall. -Roberto--Roberto C. Sanchezhttp://familiasanchez.net/~roberto --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-26 Thread Kit Peters
nd I didn't see anything there.  Can anyone give me some pointers? Kit Peters

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-24 Thread Kit Peters
ded a line: "root_cmd := fakeroot" to ~/.kernel-pkg.conf.KPOn 6/22/06, James Westby < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On (22/06/06 21:07), Kit Peters wrote:> On 6/22/06, James Westby < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >It is oft recommended to use fakeroot rather that a real root comm

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
On 6/22/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have configured the kernel via menuconfig.  Kernel sources are at> $HOME/src/linux-2.6.17.1/.  I execute 'CC=gcc-4.1 make-kpkg --pgpsign> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> --rootcmd sudo --revision 1.0 --append-to-version "-pt5500" buildpackage'.It is oft r

Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.17.1 from the vanilla sources at kernel.org.  As this kernel is for a specific machine, I want to append a note to the kernel version to reflect that fact.  Normally, I would do this from within $KERNEL_SOURCE_DIR/.config, but as I'm trying to keep this machine as

Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

2003-06-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Thanx for the HOWTO. It looks great to me. Just a side question. Is ACPI stable now? Coz a while ago it was broken I think. How well is it now? Edwin Lau On June 12, 2003 03:43 am, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi, > > * Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030612 09:00]: > > Emma Jane Hogbin <[E

Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, In what situation does ppl normally use shell script and when when will ppl use Perl? How about their performance like speed and also the ease of programming? -- Edwin ERTW Lau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
On June 11, 2003 11:14 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am writing some shell script (bash) to read from > > Addresses.pdb and convert it to m

how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am writing some shell script (bash) to read from Addresses.pdb and convert it to mutt address using lbdbq. I encounter a problem where some ppl have two or even 3 emails which I have to come out with a unique alias in mutt. How do I put a number in the alias name automatic

How does Linux shutdown?

2003-06-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel halt? If not, will there be data lost then? -- Edwin ERTW Lau --

Re: fontconfig doesn't read local configuration

2003-02-09 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:16:53PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > [Please don't top quote! It makes your message harder to read, especially in > long threads.] > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:35:32AM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > sorry, true... it was a typo. I have it i

Re: fontconfig doesn't read local configuration

2003-02-07 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
sorry, true... it was a typo. I have it in /etc/fonts/local.conf Edwin Lau On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:01:23AM -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 00:38, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I was trying to configure fontconfig so

fontconfig doesn't read local configuration

2003-02-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I was trying to configure fontconfig so that it will read the local configuation file (/etc/local.conf) where I have a font path to /usr/local/share/fonts and all my "local" fonts are at /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft/*.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/

Re: need some readline tricks

2002-12-18 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Yup, that's it. Thanx. Cool tricks and "\M-[B":history-search-forward for down arrow to search history forward Edwin Lau On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:22, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi

need some readline tricks

2002-12-18 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am looking for a readline trick. Say for example, when I type an "s" and a arrow key at the prompt, I should be able to scroll last command that begins with an "s". Is it achievable in realine? thanx -- Edwin ERTW Lau _

Re: Advanced procmail question

2002-12-01 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Or you can try archivemail + cron. Edwin Lau On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:46:19AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > What would be a good example procmail rule to automatically delete > > messages 72 hours old or more? > > > > Using mutt adding this macro

gtk2 very slow and memory hungry?

2002-11-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am not sure what problem is it? But since I upgrade to gnome2, things are just very slow. Startup time for gnome-terminal (gtk2), gvim (gtk1) and galeon (gtk1) are much longer then it used to be. gnome-terminal in gtk1 use to take 1s, but now the machine freezes up for like 3s o

Matlab R12 suddenly stops running

2002-11-25 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I ran Matlab R12 under unstable debian. After several apt update, I cannot run Matlab with java support. The following is the error msg with I run matlab Warning: Unable to load Java Runtime Environment:/usr/local/matlabr12/sys/java/jre/glnx86/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/l

Re: anoncron by regular user?

2002-11-24 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hmmm ok. I am not quite sure about what you mean. I checked the manpage but it doesn't mention anything about anacron. Do you mean to run anacron every, say, day by cron? Edwin Lau On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:22:02AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 24/11/02 Chun Kit Edwin

anoncron by regular user?

2002-11-23 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Can a regular user use anoncron? I noticed that anoncron is under sbin directory. I want to use it instead of cron because my machine isn't on all the time. -- Edwin ERTW Lau __ Post your free ad now! ht

procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

2002-11-15 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly. If any email in the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email should be purged from the mailbox. I am thinking using cron + procmail to do the job, but I don't know how. Anyone one? -- Edwin ERTW Lau

Re: hde: lost interrupt + clicking sound = harddisk failing?

2002-09-04 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
I am answering myself because I was wrong. Windows has the clicking problem too, but it doesn't crash yet. Could this be the heat in the computer causing the malfunction? Edwin Lau On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:58:53PM -0400, Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > >Recently experience some proble

Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-08-31 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I want to find a stable MSN and ICQ client but don't know which one is. I know that icq changes its protocol a while ago. Don't know if any client support it. Are Gaim and Gabber ok? Thanx -- Edwin ERTW Lau ___

wma in xine

2002-02-20 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am trying to listen to some wma file using xine. But how? I seems to me that I need some external plugin. How do I make it works? Thanx -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http:/

Mondo in Debian unstable?

2002-01-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I tried mindi the other day and it seems cool, but what about mondo I didn't see it anywhere in unstable. Anyone have packaged it? -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yah

GnomeICU, Gaim, Gabber and alike

2001-12-13 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I know recently that icq changes its protocol and breaking some ICQ client like GnomeICU, Gabber, and Gaim. I used GnomeICU and encounter a lot of problem like dropping message silently. Just wondering if the protocol change issues being addressed? What client should I use?

should tetex handle defoma registered font

2001-12-10 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know if tetex can handle defoma registered font. If not, is it a wishlist bug? I think the defoma idea is cool but only if application know how to use it. And also, I feel that the font handling in Linux is pretty complicated compare to windows, (too many different

Re: Arphic unifont Y2K

2001-12-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
re to look for answers. Edwin Lau On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:47:14AM +0800, Anthony Fok wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:31:55PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > I just bought unifont y2k from arphic and I want to install in > > it. The question is there is a installing

Re: Arphic unifont Y2K

2001-12-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
y Fok wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:31:55PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > I just bought unifont y2k from arphic and I want to install in > > it. The question is there is a installing script for Linux (for CLE), > > and it just copy file to one directory and

Re: hotplug... before the harddisk remount?

2001-12-05 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
au On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 07:11:18PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > don't know if anyone have this. hotplug doesn't see to be able > to modprobe usbmouse because modprobe can't write some file on a > read-only filesystem... I guess it is some

hotplug... before the harddisk remount?

2001-11-28 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, don't know if anyone have this. hotplug doesn't see to be able to modprobe usbmouse because modprobe can't write some file on a read-only filesystem... I guess it is some ordering problem right? how can I fix it... -- Edwin ERTW Lau

fetchmail error?

2001-11-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Recently, fetchmail seems to stop working in Yahoo... it has the following error client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.ca 5.9.5 querying pop.mail.yahoo.ca (protocol POP3) at Sat 17 Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) -- Edwin ERTW Lau __

Re: Stable IM client in debian

2001-11-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my message be delivered reliably. If not, any other alternative? thanx. your help was/is appreciated =) Edwin Lau On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:18:37PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:49:04 -0500 > Ch

Stable IM client in debian

2001-11-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
So in this case, gabber is stable enough to do the everyday messaging right? Edwin Lau On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:10:04AM -0600, DvB wrote: > Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am using GnomeICU and find out that it

Re: Stable IM client in debian

2001-11-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
So in this case, gabber is stable enough to do the everyday messaging right? Edwin Lau On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:10:04AM -0600, DvB wrote: > Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am using GnomeICU and find out that it

Stable IM client in debian

2001-11-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am using GnomeICU and find out that it is very unstable. It drop message a lot of the time. Can someone recommand some stable ICQ client to me running under Gnome. thanx. -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

panel crash when exiting...

2001-10-23 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know what's happening to panel. It just crash very often when I logout x-window. It starts happening since an upgrade a week ago. Is there a way I can find out what's wrong? And the xsession-error log have the following. Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (

Gnome Panel crashing all the time...

2001-10-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, Don't know if it is just me, I am using unstable and upgrade recently. And Gnome Panel just crashed a lot of the time when I exit X window. I don't have much info so far. Just wondering if it is a bug or just me -- Edwin ERTW Lau __

libgnomevfs-pthread.so missing?

2001-10-15 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I think it is a bug. This was complaining libgnomevfs-pthread.so is not there when I want to run nautils and galeon... btw, I am using unstable and just upgrade the system -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your f

Re: Gnome and X no longer works -- My fault... sorry

2001-10-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, well, it works... it was my fault when I edited the file.. thanx Edwin Lau On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:52:19PM -0700, Robert Gill wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Don't know what's happen

Re: Gnome and X no longer works

2001-10-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hmmm weird, I tried both method... it still didn't work.. =( it showed the grey X screen and then quit Edwin Lau On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:52:19PM -0700, Robert Gill wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > >

Gnome and X no longer works

2001-10-05 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Don't know what's happening. I upgraded today in unstable (I upgraded everyday). But Gnome and X no longer works. X seems to start properly, but not gnome. My .xsession-error said /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent /home/lauedw/.xsession: No such file or

Galeon crash like hell

2001-09-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am using galeon. After the recent upgrade it seems like the galeon no longer run java and javascript. And it crashes like hell when I tries to say access slashdot.org or other java/javascript enable site. Anyone knows what's happening? After I disable java/ javascript se

Anyone has gnome-pilot 1.61 (latest) compile with USB?

2001-08-29 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am just wondering if anyone out there has compile gnome-pilot 1.61 (the latest version I believe) with visor USB support. 1.54 is rather old version. BTW, is the visor USB stuff work for gnome-pilot? Serial seems to work fine expect it didn't sync automatically with th

Realplayer Stop working for now reason...

2001-08-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Don't know what's going on but realplayer suddenly stop working for now good reason. It gives my this error... /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/cook.so.6.0: undefined symbol: atexit anyone have that? -- Edwin ERTW Lau

XKeysymDB, what is it?

2001-08-08 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I come across with something called XKeysymDB and wonder what that is. I know it is for keymap or something. Is there any more information on it? -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

anacron vs cron, conflict?

2001-08-08 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I just find out that there is a package called anacron which does similar things to cron. I wonder why they are no conflict to each other. What happen if both anacron and cron run some maintance script? would it run double? -- Edwin ERTW Lau __

Re: Java plugin under Galeon

2001-08-08 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Don't know if anyone care. I get it working (partially) it runs applet (I think)but it segfault if I exit galeon. But if I just close it(close the last window, it exit gracefully. a bug in jre? anyway, I am sort of satisfied now and thanx for those who helped me. and attached is the error messa

Java plugin under Galeon

2001-08-08 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I was trying to install java plugin in Galeon. I went to d/l the java plugin from ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/6.0/unix/linux22/jre.xpi. But what shall I do next? it is xpi extension which I don't know how to unpack it. Anyone have any idea about it? -- Edwin ERTW Lau

xdvi doesn't work, fontset?

2001-08-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, When I tried to use xdvi the other day, it gives me this warning Mercury:~/school/rsty/proposal$ xdvi proposal.dvi Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset /usr/

xdvi doesn't work, fontset?

2001-08-05 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, When I tried to use xdvi the other day, it gives me this warning Mercury:~/school/rsty/proposal$ xdvi proposal.dvi Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset /usr/

Re: Matrox G400 dri woes

2001-08-03 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Try the source at dri.sourceforge.net. It works for me. I did the following 1. d/l matrox mga_drv.o and mga_hal.o from matrox site 2. copy them to the appropriate x11 directory 3. d/l the dri from dri.sourceforge.net 4. compile the mga.o by make -f Makefile mga.o 5. cp mga.o to the appropriate /lib

can't compile mga.o from dri.sourceforge.net

2001-07-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know why I can't compile mga.o from source got from dri.sourceforge.net. I tried compile mga.o from X4.0.3 source too. It didn't work either. the error I guess is: cc -O2 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpoi

can't compile mga module from sourceforge source

2001-07-28 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am sure someone have tried to compile mga kernel modules from the source from dri.sourceforge.net. But in my case, it didn't compile and it said something about next is not a member of something. I just download the source from there and compile. I tried the 4.0.3 sour

Re: DHCP

2001-07-24 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Are you using the client dhcp stuff? Mine didn't work b4 (like what you said.. dying), and it turns out that I need to compile some more stuff in the kernel in order to make it work. check out the syslog and various log to find out if you are missing some modules Edwin Lau On Tue, Jul 24, 2001

Re: exim no longer works?

2001-07-22 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, So I guess that means I have to add myself to the mail group right? well, that's alright. Well, isn't that's a bit weird considering the fact that I have to add every user to mail group... I am using the default header rewrite from the exim.conf which change any login name t

Re: exim no longer works?

2001-07-22 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hmmm ok... so I think there is a bug in the new version 3.31 exim. when I step down to 3-21 and rerun the config(config from 3.31 didn't work) and everything work perfectly (the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is replaced by [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Anyone care to file a bug report... =)? Edwin Lau On Sun, Jul

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
19AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:39, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Thanx but xine dependence screwed up. it require libasound1 not > > libasound2 which is needed by esd I think > > No problem here (sorry for the ugly output): > > alpha:~$ dpkg -l libasou

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Thanx but xine dependence screwed up. it require libasound1 not libasound2 which is needed by esd I think Edwin Lau On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:57:15PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:53, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Just

VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Just wondering if there is any software under Gnome or X11 that play VCD? I try xanim, it gives me some error saying unsupport format. I am using unstable right now. -- Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _ Do You Yahoo!

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Same here, exactly same problem. no xpicleanup process. just the file. I tried sun and netscape's java2... but no luck. It maybe a good idea for someone to make a deb so that I don't have to dig into that anymore. Just too exhausted. Edwin Lau On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:39:15PM +0200, Alex Su

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
at 07:57:35PM -0500, DvB wrote: > Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > After a long and exhausted trial and error, I am giving up. I can't > > get the java and flash plugin work for mozilla. Anyone care to tell me how > > they

Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, After a long and exhausted trial and error, I am giving up. I can't get the java and flash plugin work for mozilla. Anyone care to tell me how they get it working? Java doesn't seem to properly finish the installation even it said so. After Java 2 plugin installation,

Re: Pluggin in Galeon

2001-06-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi So will plugger works under galeon as well? Edwin Lau On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:45:00PM -0400, Leo Laursen wrote: > "Chun Kit Edwin Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Galeon is a great brower but is there any pluggi

Pluggin in Galeon

2001-06-26 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Galeon is a great brower but is there any pluggin like flash, java work under it? Pluggin for network work well (most of the time) just wanna switch to galeon ASAP coz it is cool =) -- Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

GMC working under Gnome?

2001-06-25 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi, Just wondering if anyone get GMC working under Gnome in unstable. I tried to start it but it gives me the following warning and then quit Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: Missing ch

xscreensaver dpms doesn't work...

2001-06-25 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know why, but I used xscreensaver under gnome (config in control panel). The screensaver popped up correctly, however not the standby and off part (the orange light). Before I install xscreensaver, it worked (no screensaver but have powersaving). I am using unsta

Re: Can't read bootup message

2001-06-25 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Thanx guys, Ctrl-S stuff works well (so does scroll lock) the SHIFT-PgUp is cool Edwin Lau On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:04:28AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:40:14AM +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Chu

Re: Can't read bootup message

2001-06-24 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi I didn't know the pause works in Linux. I tried that it didn't work and the /var/log/syslog didn't have that error. Edwin Lau On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:24:26PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:51:42PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone

Can't read bootup message

2001-06-24 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I noticed that when I booted up Linux, I saw some error message. But the message just when very fast that I couldn't really read it. dmesg and the message file didn't have that error. I think it was some shell script error. Can anyone show me a way to show all the message

GMC not working?

2001-06-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know if anyone has this problem. GMC won't start and with the warning in .xsession-error GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_font): assertion failed: (default_font != NULL) aborting... Anyone knows what's happening? Nautilus seems to wor

Evolution and Balsa in unstable

2001-06-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
I used to use balsa in unstable but recently balsa dependence is broken. Is it the case of just me. I think the evolution dependence for libgal6 is broken too -- Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

xdvi doesn't work

2001-06-07 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, When I tried to use xdvi the other day, it gives me this warning Mercury:~/school/rsty/proposal$ xdvi proposal.dvi Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset /usr/

Re: ESD no long works after new alsa modules compilation

2001-05-01 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
on a time, Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. > And typed: > >On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > >>I don't know what's happening.. but it seems like my esd can > no > >> long startup after I compile and install the

Re: Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?

2001-04-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
thanx to you all :) I guess I will go and buy promise ata100 and a new harddisk Edwin Lau On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:10:55 Daniel Freedman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > newer VIA ide chipsets seem flaky with linux. i have > > a Epox MVP3G5(Super7) and it runs perfect. b

ESD no long works after new alsa modules compilation

2001-04-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know what's happening.. but it seems like my esd can no long startup after I compile and install the new module 0.9+0beta3-1. also some of the option for module ens1371 are no long support, isn't it? it gave me the follow when I start. Anyone knows what's happening? C

Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?

2001-04-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am exhausted by my P3V4X board and Maxtor combo because of the once-in-a-while system freeze due to the harddisk (some timeout out error, and dma trouble) does anyone with that combination but works fine? I am using kernel 2.4.3 right now... the system worked fine for me a q

Re: ip masquerade : which one?

2001-04-16 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Yes, both ipchain and ipmasq about roughly the same things but I think ipchain is a newer with more features and mainly for 2.2 kernel. (I think ipmasq for 2.0 kernel, but I am not sure). For 2.4 kernel, iptable is the recommended one. All these tools do packet filtering AFAIK. This pa

Re: ip masquerade : which one?

2001-04-16 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Actually, you can use ipmasq and ipchain in 2.4 kernel if you compile the corresponding module. On the other hand you can use iptable for 2.4 kernel. (it is the recommended way since it is native to 2.4 kernel. Edwin Lau On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:35:26 D-Man wrote: > > I see there are 2

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Do you know where is it? I bought my motherboard a few months ago but it seems like there isn't any update bios after rev1005 on the website Edwin Lau On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:16:45 Debian User wrote: > Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > >

Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk is what I want but I guess ATA100 with ide card is welcome

can't install gnome-help?

2001-04-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know if it is just me or what? I can't really install gnome-help in unstable. dpkg said postinst is a directory and can't install it.. anyone? Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Alsa's sequencer?

2001-04-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, How do I test if the alsa sequencer (also the oss emution sequencer) works? Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Via + kernel 2.4.3 + maxtor = crash?

2001-04-09 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, this is strictly speaking not a debian problem. I am using maxtor 9000 series harddisk with asus P3V4X via mother board using kernel 2.4.3. I don't know what's really happening, but linux gives me an error message saying the harddisk is busy and not ready for command.

gnome-help error?

2001-03-29 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Don't know if this is any error, but when I was trying to upgrade gnome-help to 1.4-2. the instalation script said the postinst is a directory and permission denied. is this a bug or just me? Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

no more icon for gnome panel?

2001-03-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know what's happening. it seems that after an upgrade. I can't really change those icon on the gnome panel but the root account ones are working fine. I check the permission but it seems ok like rw--r--r for the icon. can anyone help me.. I am using unstable Edwin Lau

Re: reset: success

2001-03-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:17:26 D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > | I don't know if it is related to the problem. Sometimes when I try to > | upgrade debian using dselect. I got the forwarding error > | > | hda: timout waiting DMA

Re: Win4Lin

2001-03-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Ok... yeah I just check and it seems that they are writing patch for 2.4 kernel but nothing comes out yet. and until I figure out if my UMAX usb scanner and usb logitech webcam pro works under win4lin, I will not buy it. Edwin Lau On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:03:02 stephen wrote: > > You wrote: > > >

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