Re: Cannot find Ncurses when I run "make menuconfig"

2002-09-25 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi, You have to have the libncurses dev package as it actually need the header files of libncurses. -- Alwyn Schoeman SMART Money Inc. "The clock on the wall keeps moving, time stands still... No matter how the dice may fall, someone else always gets to call the number..."

Re: intell i830 and kernel 2.4.19

2002-09-24 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi, I think you will need XFree86 4.2 for your card. Whether that will work on kernel 2.20 I do not know. What I do know is that you will not get DRI to work for your card if you do not use a 2.4.x kernel. -- Alwyn Schoeman SMART Money Inc. "The clock on the wall keeps moving, time s

Re: intell i830 and kernel 2.4.19

2002-09-24 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
t new drivers. Then do make menuconfig or make xconfig to customize. Then do the above below "Also compile it by doing:" We'll look at the i830 problem when you have 2.4.19 ready, but you do not need that for i830 support, 2.4.18 should do? What you really need is XFree86 4.2.

RE: Problem with gethostbyaddr while trying to run commercial app

2002-06-26 Thread alwyn
Both hosts.conf and nsswitch.conf is configured to use the hosts file for lookup first. The hosts file is setup e.g. 127.0.0.1 hostname localhost 10.10.10.11 hostname where hostname above is not the FQDN. I will have a look at using the FQDN. Funny thing is that it seems that the applic

RE: SSH and compression

2002-06-26 Thread alwyn
I guess it depends on the encryption algorithm used. DES should compress well if represented as a stream of hex values. On the other hand you can always represent binary data as hex. -Original Message- From: Barry Michels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:37 AM To

RE: SSH and compression

2002-06-26 Thread alwyn
I might be misguided but I find it interesting that compression seems to look for patterns in data in order to reduce the size, where as encryption's goal is to make the data devoid of all distinguishable patterns? -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thurs

RE: Problem with gethostbyaddr while trying to run commercial app

2002-06-26 Thread alwyn
ould anyone > confirm or assist? > > Regards, > Alwyn Schoeman > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.371 / Virus Database: 206 - Release Date: 6/13/2002 > > > > >

Problem with gethostbyaddr while trying to run commercial app

2002-06-26 Thread alwyn
s the data. I seem to remember that the problem is libc version related. Could anyone confirm or assist? Regards, Alwyn Schoeman --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.371 / Virus Database: 206 - Release Date: 6/13

Network problem, box sending tcp flags SWE on SYN.....

2001-06-12 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
tend to ignore that, but I think the pix doesn't. I get an RWE back and then nothing happens Anyone know how this can be fixed? Thanx -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Prism Wireless The Internet will destroy the barriers that are isolating people from decent opportunities based on

Re: getting ps to not display all processes for normal users

2001-05-30 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
revealed by `ps a` and would be potentially exploitable is > which programs that use unix domain sockets or named pipes are running - > and even that could be derived with `find` or any other sort of recursive > directory search. -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Prism Wireless The In

getting ps to not display all processes for normal users

2001-05-24 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi, How can I make ps so that it doesn't display all processes for normal users? ps aux would thus still only show that specific users processes. Regards, -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Prism Wireless The Internet will destroy the barriers that are isolating people from d

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-03-01 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
m running a p3 with a netgear 310tx(tulip) and nvidia tnt2 with > xfree86 4 installed, but I'm pretty sure it's actually using the > XF86_SVGA server found in xfree86 3. I'm currently running the kernel > image 2.2.17 found in potato but I synch with testing. > > Thanks. -- ~~~ Alwyn Schoeman Uhm...

Building kde2 from source packages

2000-10-17 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi there, Could anyone maybe give me a quick rundown on the procedure used to build kde2 from the source packages. Do I need to have the kde2 sourcetree somewhere? Thank you Alwyn

Kde2 crashing and debugging

2000-10-16 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi there, While someone was on the subject of his kde2 not working like mine is now Could we please build the kde2 .debs with debugging enabled so that our experiences can be sent back to the kde2 team and maybe help fix problems??? Thank you Alwyn

Re: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-26 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
The funny thing is that the EN1207D which I think is made by SMC, is also a RTL8139. I don't like them that much, they seem to go dead during too much traffic (:

Re: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-25 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Its an RTL8139...

Re: reread inetd.conf

2000-07-25 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi Richard, The man page say you can send it a SIGHUP signal to have it reread its configuration file... I think its... kill -s SIGUP pidwhere pid is the process id you get by ps aux | grep inetd Alwyn

Xemacs and cvs problem...

2000-07-24 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
nstalled. Thank you Alwyn Schoeman