Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-12 Thread Paul Galbraith
Mike Ward wrote: Hehe.. in all fairness, it's just because we hired some new guy who now has the windows box I used to use for testing. Oh, and because I think it'd be hilarious to run IE6 on Linux. Just... well, if you don't see the humor in that, I'm not explaining it. :) I do see the humour, not

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-12 Thread Paul Galbraith
Mike Ward wrote: Thanks for al the suggestions everyone, I'll play with it a bit. Also, for the record, I'm not trying this because I'm designing for IE or because I want to browse in IE, but because I know that 95% of the people that log into our site use IE, and it'd be stupid and neglegent to no

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-12 Thread Paul Galbraith
John Summerfield wrote: As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. Whoops, it's extremely rusty. mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. and in PL/1 money fixed dec(11,3). :-O QUICK! Let me get you a wheelchair. :-D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: bash profile how?

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Galbraith
Bill Marcum wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:01:06PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: For some reason bash isn't sourcing /etc/profile. In fact after adding . /etc/profile to .bash_profile I don't think .bash_profile is being sourced b/c it had no effect. I just wiped RH 7.3 and I don't know the shel

Keyboard Shortcut (CTRL + SHIFT + C) in Mozilla under Gnome / Metacity

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Galbraith
This keyboard shortcut doesn't work for me in Mozilla. I'm assuming it's more to do with my Gnome or X or metacity configuration than Mozilla, but I don't really know where to start looking. Can anyone point me in the right direction? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Trying to move root partition

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Galbraith
Kent West wrote: Paul Galbraith wrote: I want to move my root partition to a new drive. I created a new partition and formatted it, and then used cp -a from a knoppix CD to copy the root parition files over to the new parition, and changed fstab to point to the new location. However, when I

Trying to move root partition

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Galbraith
I want to move my root partition to a new drive.  I created a new partition and formatted it, and then used cp -a from a knoppix CD to copy the root parition files over to the new parition, and changed fstab to point to the new location.  However, when I reboot from the new location, I get t

Re: suffering from an apparently broken tcp

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
Kim Sparrow wrote: So I managed to set up a Debian Woody box with Tomcat + Scarab, Apache + Subversion, winbind authentication, Mailman, and a few other goodies. I thought that everything was fine, until I tried to move the existing Subversion repository over to the new system via SMB. I then found

Re: routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ppp is started, these messages are recorded in the syslog. ... pppd[n]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid argument ... pppd[n]: not replacing existing default route to eth0[192.168.1.1] ... pppd[n]: Cannot determine eth

Re: routing in presence of PPP

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ppp is started, these messages are recorded in the syslog. ... pppd[n]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid argument ... pppd[n]: not replacing existing default route to eth0[192.168.1.1] ... pppd[n]: Cannot determine eth

Re: Reset sound card in alsa?

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Galbraith
r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:08 AM Subject: Re: Reset sound card in alsa? > On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:02:39 -0400, Paul Galbraith wrote: > > Does anyone know of a way to reset (for lack of a bet

Reset sound card in alsa?

2004-05-31 Thread Paul Galbraith
Every once in a while when I boot my machine, my sound card only produces noise and I need to reboot again to get it cleared up. Does anyone know of a way to reset (for lack of a better word) my card so that I don't need to reboot the machine? I'm using 2.4.25 kernel with sarge alsa packages.

Re: Multiboot Query

2004-05-30 Thread Paul Galbraith
Tony Bradley wrote: I am currently using the SuSE 7.2 version of Linux, and am feel I am no longer quite a newbie (but certainly no guru! ;) ) I would like to experiment with the debian distribution, but still retain SuSE in case of emergencies. Could you please explain how to install two or more

Re: GNOME or Nautilus filetype associations

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Galbraith
Paul Galbraith wrote: I'm running Sarge, and in Nautilus all XML documents are somehow associated with the project manager application. I've set the mime type association to default to use gvim to edit .xml files, but Nautilus seems to ignore this. Does anyone know how to

GNOME or Nautilus filetype associations

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Galbraith
I'm running Sarge, and in Nautilus all XML documents are somehow associated with the project manager application. I've set the mime type association to default to use gvim to edit .xml files, but Nautilus seems to ignore this. Does anyone know how to change the association that Nautilus uses?

Strange problem with modconf

2004-03-30 Thread Paul Galbraith
I've just installed the 2.6.3 kernel image from testing, and notice a peculiar problem in modconf. When I hit enter on the kernel/drivers/net line, instead of seeing a list of network drivers, I am dumped back in the main module list...I'm pretty sure that in 2.4 there was a list of network dr

Sourcing /etc/profile for gdm logins

2004-03-28 Thread Paul Galbraith
I want all logins from gdm to source /etc/profile so that I can put the java_home environment variable (and possibly others) there. How can I get all gdm user logins to pickup the settings in /etc/profile? I tried putting ". /etc/profile" in /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and that didn't seem to

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy under OSS?

2004-03-23 Thread Paul Galbraith
Katipo wrote: You'll have more success with the soundblaster range if you install and run the alsa packages. Alsaconf will install the snd-emu10k1 driver for you, it is the right one, and then test it for you. I'll give alsa a try. Can anyone confirm for me, though, whether the kernel/drivers/s

SoundBlaster Audigy under OSS?

2004-03-22 Thread Paul Galbraith
I have a soundblaster audigy gamer, and am running sarge with a 2.4.24 kernel. Has anyone gotten this card to work under OSS? I tried installing the emu10k1 driver module and it wouldn't install, complaining that there is "no such device". I was able to install the ac97_codec module, but that

Bourne Shell help

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Galbraith
I think this should be an easy question, but after some effort I still haven't found an answer, and am really curious now! I wanted to run a compile in the background (in a bourne shell) and dump stderr and stdout to a fileshould be simple enough, but obviously I don't spend enough time in

Re: What can't sudo do?

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Galbraith
I don't think I get your gistbut, fwiw, sudo can be configured down to command/user granularity, so that only user x is permitted to run command y, and vice versa, user x is only permitted to run command y. Ulimately, though, has to be able to perform somecommand>, and that account is a ri

Re: Problems with PDC20276 ataraid under 2.4.24 kernel

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Galbraith
This was just a matter of enabling the appropriate modules in the kernel with modconf. I don't know much of anything about initrd, but could my problem be caused by a config change in the initrd image? Won't people who need to boot off of an ataraid drive have a major issue with t

Problems with PDC20276 ataraid under 2.4.24 kernel

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Galbraith
I just installed the latest 2.4.22-k7 kernel from testing, and it's broken my ataraid drive, which is an onboard Promise PDC20276 controller with two drives in raid 1 configuration. This drive was working find under 2.4.22, but now when I try to mount any partition from the drive under 2.4.24,

Installing Debian with an Asus A7V333 Motherboard

2004-01-29 Thread Paul Galbraith
I've written up the method I've used to install Debian on my Asus A7V333 system, which is a buggered process due to the onboard Promise PDC20276 "raid" controller. I've stalled in my writing of the document, but I think there's still enough information to be of use to anyone who wants to install D

3c905C-TX IRQ sharing problem

2003-09-09 Thread Paul Galbraith
I have a 3C905C-TX network interface card, and am having a problem with the vortex driver and my card; I'm running debian with 2.4.18 kernel.  dmesg reports "eth0: could not reserve IRQ 5", which is indeed the irq that the BIOS is assigning (verified under Windows on the same machine).  The

Re: Keyboard detection failure during installation of debian unstable.

2003-09-03 Thread Paul Galbraith
This is a bug in the unstable snapshot. See this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200308/msg00478.html - Original Message - From: "Paul Yeatman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Harley Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday,

Problems with Samba and/or Sundance Ehternet Driver

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Galbraith
I'm having a lot problems getting Samba running on my deb 3.0 machine. I suspect the problem is really a problem with the sundance ethernet driver, but that's a fairly random guess. The main diagnostic symptoms are numerous read failures in the samba log file, such as: [2003/07/15 15:29:33, 0]

Re: Source Code for Kernel Modules

2003-07-15 Thread Paul Galbraith
Andreas Janssen wrote: > The sundance driver is not included in the standard 2.2 kernel. You have > to use kernel 2.4 or install the package kernel-patch-ethernet-drivers. The sundance driver is included with the 2.2.20 kernel. It is an option on the default install for woody with the 2.2 kernel

Source Code for Kernel Modules

2003-07-15 Thread Paul Galbraith
Apologies for what ought to be very straightforward, but after trying for a few hours I still can't find what I'm looking for.   I'm trying to find the source file "sundance.c" that was used to compile the "sundance.o" ethernet driver module for Debian 3.0r1.  I can't find it in the linux kernel so

shutdown or reboot from gdm

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Galbraith
I'm running woody and have gnome installed, and everything seems to be working fairly well, except that there's no shutdown or reboot option available from the desktop.  From the docs I've seen, it seems like gdm should offer this option after I've logged out from gnome, but it doesn't appea

X hangs when trying to configure

2002-09-07 Thread Paul Galbraith
configure process, but nothing seems to work. Things are still running, because CTRL-ALT-DEL cleanly shuts down and restarts the system. Is there some magic key combination I can use to kill the configuration program so that I don't have to reboot my system every time this happens? Pa

Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical

2002-09-07 Thread Paul Galbraith
7;ve tried most of the types that are listed by "gpm -t help" (the obvious looking ones to me, at least: ms, mman, autops2, amongst others) and cannot get gpm working. Has anyone successfully configured this mouse under woody, and can you please post your gpm.conf file? Thanks! Paul

Woody on Asus A7V333 with Promise FastTrak133 Controller

2002-08-31 Thread Paul Galbraith
ped out at me, and a search of the web and these archives didn't turn up anything helpful. Does anyone have any idea how to force the bf2.4 install kernel to recognize my striped drive? Cheers, Paul = Paul Galbraith [EMAIL PRO