installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread David Harrison
Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Cheers David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Attempting to install gnome-desktop-environment gets me: > > gnome-desktop-environment: >  Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed >  Depends: alacarte but it is not going to be installed >  Depends: cheese but it is not goin

Re: Wireless usb device not working [SOLVED]

2011-11-17 Thread Matt Harrison
I found a post on the Linux Mint Forums that fixed my issue. I ran the following commands: echo 'install rt2870sta modprobe --ignore-install rt2870sta ; /bin/echo "1737 0078" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2870/new_id' | tee /etc/modprobe.d/rt2870sta.conf modprobe -rf rt2870sta modprobe rt2870sta dmesg

Wireless usb device not working

2011-11-17 Thread Matt Harrison
I recently purchased a Linksys wireless USB device. When I plug it in and run lsusb I see the following: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1737:0078 Linksys WUSB100 v2 RangePlus Wireless Network Adapter [Ralink RT3070] I install firmware-ralink and wireless-tools after checking the Debian Wiki and determ

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail >> Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually >> serve any purpose on an out of the bo

Re: How to unlock apt-get?

2011-10-09 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Bill.M wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having a problem with apt-get. I seem to be locked out of > /var/lib/dpkg/lock and /var/lib/dpkg when I try to do an apt=get update , > How can I clear these locks? And if there's another process using apt, how > can I discover what

Re: Num Lock off but on

2011-10-02 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > Just the other day  i noticed when the Num Lock LED is off i can type > with the keypad numeral's. But when the LED is on it is dead. Any > ideas? > > Worked fine for ages. > > Cheers > > Mark > > Are you using numlockx by chance? I kno

Re: Tap to click not working

2011-07-19 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently running debian testing on Acer laptop. Everything was > working as expected. Since a couple of days, the tap to click on the > touchpad has stopped working. Of course, I can set it Gnome preferences. > But, when I switc

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Matt Harrison
In your /etc/apt/sources.list file you need to place a # before the entry for the CDROM. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed Debian 5 without X, and so far had no problem installing > extra packages from CDROM. However, now I need to install from > packages.debian.or

Automounting USB drives

2011-05-19 Thread Matt Harrison
I recently did a base install and then installed a handful of packages to get myself X and Openbox running on my system using XFE for my file manager. I am running into an issue where when I plug my external (NTFS) hard drive in to my machine, it is not automounting like it would if I had XFCE ins

Re: Access to non-free from aptitude?

2011-05-12 Thread Matt Harrison
On 5/12/11, Charles Blair wrote: >Somewhere I read that this should be done by modifying > the /etc/apt/sources.list file. I tried changing this to: > >> deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny main >> deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny non-free > >but I'm still only seeing

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote: >>On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. >> wrote: >>> On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: >>>>On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Steph

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: >>On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote: > If you need more support than Debian provides and<= 5 years, install an >

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:17:56 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > > (hey Matt, next time you want to going on-list again, advice ;-) > >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >>> Hum... I've

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > Hum... I've got some servers hosted on XO (San Jose, CA) and no one there > is able to speak to me in Spanish when I place a call >:-P > That's oddMost of where I have been in California always have someone who speaks fluent Spanish as mos

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> >> On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: >> > >> > So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install >> > w/ >> > no "server" services? >> >> It's b

Re: Problem/regression on ETPS elantech touchpad

2011-03-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Sorry to top post this, but I'm in a hurry. I actually got my touchpad working again. I'll dig up the documentation that I used and post it when I find it, unless someone else is able to get it to you first. It has something to do with creating a configuration file and setting something with mod

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

2011-02-15 Thread Matt Harrison
> cat debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdc > sync > > Instead of doing this, have you tried running: dd if=(path to ISO) of=/dev/sdX ? I did this with the netinstall ISO and the Disk 1 CD ISO and it worked just fine for me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Lenny or Squeeze?

2011-01-25 Thread Matt Harrison
So I've used Lenny in the past, but ended up switching back to Ubuntu because of video card performance and a few other bells and whistles that I thought were easier to install in Ubuntu vs Debian. However, that being said, I am looking to switch back. I know Lenny is currently Stable but I have

localhost interfaces on vservers

2008-04-07 Thread Gabriel Harrison
Hi, Can anyone enlighten me as to hows and whys of the way localhost is implemented in vservers? I've done a fair bit of reading so now know how to get more than one vserver's lo interface working by using different 127.0.0.x addresses and not binding things to 0.0.0.0. But I can't work out why t

Experiences with LSI / Adaptec cards

2005-09-19 Thread David Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've been googling around to find out which HW RAID cards work best with Debian and from what I can see the LSI cards seem to do best. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with either of the following cards (do they work, do they suck

Cron runs out of control

2005-09-06 Thread David Harrison
Hi all, I've got a Debian sarge machine, and while I've gone through and removed pretty much everything from : /etc/crontab /etc/cron.* /var/spool/cron/* if I give cron even a single small job to run, it goes crazy and chews up all the CPU cycles (and also doesn't respond to being stopped via th

Adaptec AIC-8130 and HP ML150 G2

2005-05-31 Thread David Harrison
Hi all, I'm having a large amount of trouble finding out how to use an Adaptec AIC-8130 under Linux (specifically Debian) [it came as the SATA controller in a HP ML150 G2]. It certainly isn't detected using the latest build of Testing, and I can't even find references to the specific driver to us

SAMBA share name length limitations ?

2005-05-01 Thread David Harrison
Hi all, I'm wondering if there is some restriction on the length of share names that prevents shares with names over 12 characters being browsed to ? I have a share with a name that is 14 characters, and I'm able to connect to it if I type in the name by hand, but I can't browse to it from eith

NTOP and Mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Dave Harrison
Hi all, I've installed Ntop, and I can see its html pages properly under links, but when I look at it with either Mozilla or Firefox I get a "Unable to be viewed with web browsers that dont support frames", which is obviously not true. What the problem ?! (It's driving me up the wall ;-) ) --

NAT-T and openswan ?

2004-09-01 Thread Dave Harrison
uthby=secret left=10.0.2.2 leftnexthop=%direct compress=no leftsubnet=10.0.3.0/24 right=10.0.0.3 rightsubnet=10.0.1.0/24 rightnexthop=%direct auto=start Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Harrison, Systems Administrator, Sensory Networks email: [EM

advice on ipsec implementations

2004-08-30 Thread Dave Harrison
enSWan and StrongSWan that support NAT-T already, and are ongoing projects. Can anyone give me feedback on their experiences with either of these projects ? cheers Dave -- Dave Harrison, Systems Administrator, Sensory Networks email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: [W] +61-2

ldaptor-ldap2dhcpconf

2004-08-16 Thread Dave Harrison
directory to look, and the schema that it wants ? It might also be the case that there are better tools for the job. Has anyone successfully run dhcp out of ldap ? if so how ? cheers Dave -- Dave Harrison, Systems Administrator, Sensory Networks email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:

ldaptor-ldap2dhcpconf

2004-08-15 Thread Dave Harrison
directory to look, and the schema that it wants ? It might also be the case that there are better tools for the job. Has anyone successfully run dhcp out of ldap ? if so how ? cheers Dave -- Dave Harrison, Systems Administrator, Sensory Networks email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:

unsubscribe

2004-04-08 Thread chris harrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian-user-digest DigestVolume 2004 : Issue 1168 Today's Topics: SQL Help [ "Saqib Qureshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: AMD vs. Intel [ martin

Re: Re: Your archive

2004-03-03 Thread harrison
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testing/unstable reccomendation

2003-09-08 Thread Joey Harrison
I understand there are no security updates for testing/unstable, because they are so fluid, but what exactly is the difference between them and, between the two, which is more reliable and better for someone who wants bleeding-edge packages that have at least a safe level of critical bugs? = -

use of dbootstrap and debootstrap

2003-09-07 Thread Joey Harrison
Looking through the Debian installation and reference manuals, I found references to both dbootstrap and debootstrap. What exactly are they, what is the difference between them, and why is there a debootstrap package, but no dbootstrap package. = --Joey-- __ D

Which release

2003-09-05 Thread Joey Harrison
I am installing Debian on a Internet-capable computer for experimentation and a way to continue learning about Linux without the limitations of a live CD. Should I use stable, testing, or unstable? My preference would be to have the most recent packages, but also somewhat tested, so should I use

winbind/pam/apache

2003-08-14 Thread chris harrison
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:32:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Re: Ooops. I've broken my command line. > chris harrison wrote: > > >I seem to have broken the cardinal rule of tinkering - I'm not > >able to back out the change because I'm not sure

Ooops. I've broken my command line.

2003-08-05 Thread chris harrison
I seem to have broken the cardinal rule of tinkering - I'm not able to back out the change because I'm not sure what I've broken. I've been trying to configure my machine (woody) to authenticate with the PDC on the local win2k network, using samba, winbind and pam. All's been going reasonably

Re[2]: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Paul Harrison
isdom for *serial* wheelmice/mouses/meese? I have a Chic Scroll Serial Mouse 12832. Paul Harrison -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-nr1 (Windows Me) Comment: PGP clear signed for verification iQCVAwUBPvU1INqITBXGTrZbAQGpeQP7B9SRj/ci9BEc8CGtu4oS+71qJ+hfd

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Jay Harrison
archy Standard http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ - Linux Standard Base Specifications Good luck. -- Jay Harrison If XP is the answer, you didn't understand the question "lists1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Wedsite Resources

2002-04-03 Thread Jennifer Harrison
Firstly... sorry if you have just received another copy of this.. my email client is playing up! I wonder if I could suggest some extra links from your Security page? Could I propose the following: A full and free glossary of information security terms and phrases: http://www.yourwindow.to/

Re: .htaccess does not work under /var/www/

2002-03-20 Thread John Harrison
--- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made a very simple .htaccess file under /var/www, > which is the default DocumentRoot in the apache of > Debian, but it doesn't work. > > However, if I put it under ~/public_html/, it works! > Is there any configuration problem? If you add somethi

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread John Harrison
--- faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything I hope this is what you need: http://www.deb

RE: MBR 13FA

2002-01-02 Thread Chris Harrison
install-mbr is the program that you are accessing. Try looking at man install-mbr to tell you how it works. -Original Message- From: Paul A. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2002 12:12 PM To: Debian List Subject: MBR 13FA Hi. My first install is functiona

book

2000-10-13 Thread Mike Harrison
some binary disk images on tehcd to enable you to make some boot floppies. There are not. There should be an dos executable (rawrite.exe) to wite the images. There is not. I am a little dissappointed" Michael Harrison HM Computing Ltd. Harmac House Enigma Park Malvern Worcestershire WR

FWD: RE: system frequently screws up when printing

1999-02-02 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I've had problems with lprng in hamm -- not system lock-up, but printer freeze. You might try removing lprng and then installing lpr in its place. It fixed my problem, it might fix yours. HTH, Shawn == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

LPRNG BUG? (WAS: truncated printing)

1999-02-02 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Since you're using Debian 2.0, I assume you have the lprng package installed. I have had the same problem, as I mentioned yesterday. Last night I removed lprng (using dselect) and installed lpr (cd /cdrom/.../net && dpkg -i lpr_*.deb), and now the problem is gone. I'd be interested to know if t

DSELECT - Install from CD-ROM - Block Device Name

1999-02-01 Thread Lee Harrison
.   Regards, Lee Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Master Boot Record Wars

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I think the 98 install on my Pentium may have trashed LILO. I cannot active the LILO menu with any combination of ctrl/alt/shift. I think I can recover w/ the recovery disk. Yes, Windows doesn't ask, it just takes. Specifically, it takes the master boot record -- it likes to assume that it's t

FWD: Printing with HP DJ-500

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I said: When I'm printing with my HP DJ-500 printer, it will frequently get to within approximately 1 paragraph of the end of the document, then it hangs. I have to force the paper to eject, and then write the last few lines by hand -- or else copy in a "dummy paragraph" at the end of the document

RE: Printer Setup

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
>That's what it was... magicfilterconfig kept telling me that a printcap >already exists and would exit unless --force. that can be confusing to >someone who knows squat about linux printing. That's a good point - thanks for bringing it up. It would be helpful if magicfilterconfig would print a m

Printing with HP DJ-500

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
When I'm printing with my HP DJ-500 printer, it will frequently get to within approximately 1 paragraph of the end of the document, then it hangs. I have to force the paper to eject, and then write the last few lines by hand -- or else copy in a "dummy paragraph" at the end of the document. I s

RE: Printer Setup

1999-01-27 Thread Harrison, Shawn
> With lpr as the print command in Netscape, my printer prints: > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%BoundingBox: 54 72 558 720 > %%Creator: Mozilla (NetScape) HTML -> PS > > and then starts feeding sheets. I have a HP Deskjet 682C which doesn't > understand postscript. If yo

RE: LILO Problems...

1999-01-27 Thread Harrison, Shawn
/dev/sda1 <== New SCSI Disk, Linux filesystem, bootable /dev/hda1 <== Old 9GB Disk, hda1 currently holds old copy of filesystem. /dev/hda2 <== Windoze partition on old disk, bootable. I included my lilo.conf below. I'm sure that I'm either doing something dumb, or just not considering an obvious

Re: A pipe dream? (a.k.a. File Backups)

1999-01-26 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Much of what is "customized" or specific in the system is found in the /etc directory, and then all of your data files should be in the /home directory. So if you back up those two trees, you'll be mostly there, I would think. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

RE: setting up Linux

1999-01-26 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Yes, you can run your current drive as a slave drive - but you need to be sure to install the driver for that when you are doing the installation process (during "Device Drivers" installation). It is commonly recommended that you use separate partitions for various parts of your linux system. T

X Freeze 99

1999-01-25 Thread Harrison, Shawn
When working in X, I sometimes find that my screen becomes frozen or very sluggish. On other occasions the mouse alone is very unresponsive. I haven't found a pattern to it, although it seems to happen more often when running Arena, Amaya, gzilla, and perhaps TkInfo (although I'm not sure about

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-21 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<<>> Linux, and Debian in particular, opposes everything B.G. and MS stands for. A kingdom at war with itself will collapse. A home divided against itself is doomed. --Mark 3:24-25 I think this saying applies in this case as well. I really don't think B.G. goi

Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<<>> When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do I need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the C:\Linux directory to that? or do I need to make the 814MB hard the master disk? <<>> The

RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-21 Thread Harrison, Shawn
>> How does Python rate as a beginners language? >From the little I've looked at it, I'd say it's a good starting place. The syntax is clean, the organization logical, and the new learner can begin using OOP in his or her programming career. One could argue that *any* programming language coul

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<> I *do* understand what you're saying, but I disagree. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" What, in your view, is "broke" about the Debian development model? I like the proposal of a Debian User's Association (Mark Phillips' proposal). But to really "go after the market", it takes a for-pr

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-19 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<> It's possible to have a privately-held corporation, in which the board of trustees and perhaps a few others hold the stock. The company I work for is organized this way - it gives the advantages of a corporation without the possibility of hostile take-overs and other nastities* of public tr

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<> One little trick I've begun using to get around the cumbersomeness of dselect is to use it to select new packages, but then to install those packages manually. That way, it tells me about all dependencies and I can make a list of needed packages. Then I simply go into the CD and dpkg -i all

Re: Install Questions

1999-01-16 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Use FIPS (on the CD or the FTP site in /tools or utilities or somesuch). It does exactly what you're looking for -- but READ THE DOCS CAREFULLY. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-16 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<> Precisely. Such as the various Linux distributors (lsl.com, etc), but on a larger scale in terms of marketing. -- Or like what VA Research is doing. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-16 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I think that it is worth considering skipping the Pascal stage and going straight to C, or equivalent languages. Taking this approach a bit further, I think it is even worth considering going straight to C++, perhaps by talking first about the procedural aspects of C++ and only then, as a sec

Re: file managers

1999-01-15 Thread Harrison, Shawn
"tkdesk does not conform to X11 ... and cannot be restored at the next session" What does it mean ?? It conforms just fine to X11, it doesn't employ KDE's session management. That's all it's saying -- a harmless message (and plug for you to switch to KDE apps, of course). ==

Fwd: Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Another approach would be to install a Mac version of Linux or NetBSD. If its a powerpc, use MkLinux, available through apple's website. If its a 68k mac, use NetBSD. See www.netbsd.org. There's a very helpful mailing list for this. All you have to do is repartition your hard drive and put the

Killing CLOSE/CLOSE_WAIT Sockets?

1999-01-13 Thread Dale Harrison
IT's. They don't seem to disappear. Is there any way I can nuke these manually? or decrease the time it takes for the kernel to clean them up? Or even increase the number of simultaneous connections per socket? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Help appreciated.. :)

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-08 Thread Harrison, Shawn
The REAL question for the Debian list, is this: How do I get a "logo" at startup in Debian/GNU Linux, before all of the init functions take off, using Lilo as bootloader? THAT would be the cat's meow, IMO. -- Or the penguin's waddle, if you wish. == [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Harrison, Shawn
O.k., I downloaded the nifty bitmap and put it in c:\ as "logo.sys", but what happened is that now there is *no* logo at bootup. Can anyone (on this Linux list!) help me figure this out? (a Win95 question!). I'm booting with Win95. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-06 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I've managed to get Debian running with Win95 on my home machine. Here's how I did it. First, I used the Debian installer to partition the drive. This, of course, means that everything on the drive is wiped out. It sounds like, since you have two drives, you can handle doing this. Using the pa

PCI Modem?

1998-11-18 Thread Harrison, Shawn
where I can find information? TIA. +===+ | Shawn Harrison | "One does not discover new lands| | Associate Editor| without consenting to lose sight of | | Tyndale House Publishers| the shore for a very long time."| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --Andre Gide | +===+

Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more

1998-09-15 Thread Mark Harrison
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > The loginid and password are correct; they're the same ones it uses to login. > what can possibly be going wrong here? and why is the password nakedly > displayed like that in the log? > > rick I found (after several phone calls) that turning off the debug optio

Re: Virtual Desktop in X HELP

1998-08-02 Thread Mark Harrison
Rick Smith wrote: > > Hi > > As you will get form this I am definatley a NEWBIE, I am having a problem > shutting off the Virtual desktop in X I just want all my desktop in one > viewing area... I am running a Diamond 3d2000 and a Princeton monitor > (ultra 15) amd I am using th eSVGA Xserver.

Re: Printing problems

1998-07-27 Thread Mark Harrison
Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Hi all! > > I was wondering if anyone could help me resolve a printing prblem > I have got? > > I have an HP LaserJet 4L. If I do > lpr textfile.txt > then it works fine. However, printing in lyx appears to work fine, > but nothing is printed :-( [snip] > > Save your mone

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Mark Harrison
Mark Panzer wrote: > > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:03:23AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > > > Here's what happened, > > > > > > I guess I was a little jumpy and I started typing in one of the X-terms > > > that opens by default before window-maker started. Then it

Re: Tkdesk (was: File managers ??............)

1998-07-15 Thread Mark Harrison
Michael Beattie wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu > > > which > > > appear on the left of the screen. > > > > > > > Nasty ha

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mark Harrison
Mark Panzer wrote: > > Mike Merten wrote: > > [snip] > > I also had the exact same spam mail (beanie bags and all) there should > be a debian policy against using e-mail archives for spam-mail > purposes. It really does get annoying recieving such mail. > > Mark Panzer > There is a debian pol

Hamm in Australia?

1998-06-26 Thread Mark Harrison
Hi, I've been looking at the companies that are shipping debian 2.0 CD's but cannot find any in Australia. Does anyone know where I might be able to get the CD's (binary only is fine)? Thanks, Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

pppd 2.3 oddity. Help me, dammit! :)

1998-06-25 Thread Dale Harrison
Howdy, I recently [ie, 6am this morning] upgraded one of my bo boxes to hamm, via apt-get [which I must say is incredibly cool.. ] Everything seems ok, except for ppp. It doesn't want to work anymore. I'd be happy if that were the end of the story, it'd mean that I was doing something wrong. See,

IMAP4-4.1 Broken

1998-02-25 Thread Dale Harrison
Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this? IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell. I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory. Bug? Feature? D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

IMAP quirk

1998-02-25 Thread Dale Harrison
I've got IMAP4 (imap4-4.1) installed and it seems to work well.. I'm using Netscape 4 as the mail client, I can retrieve/send mail fine. WHat I can't do it delete messages. It moves them into the trash folder, then barfs that it could not delete the source file [the actual message I assume] So it

Debian box go sleep now.

1998-02-22 Thread Dale Harrison
Howdy, Got a bit of a problem here. Actually, it a LOT of a problem. I had a fairly standard bo installation. I ran the autoupgrade.sh script, which seemed to work, kind of. It missed a whole lot of stuff in /oldlibs and some stuff in /base when retrieving everything, so the system was in a half

Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-27 Thread Dale Harrison
> bo and hamm are just code names. bo has been unstable when rex was stable > and hamm will become stable with the next release. The names actually are > names of figures from Pixar's movie Toy Story. Bruce Perens, who used to > be the project leader, works at Pixar. A bit of a silly question, but

Re: xconfig ?

1998-01-13 Thread Dale Harrison
> > Yo- > > I am trying out the GUI xconfig kernel configuration utility bur I come up > with an error: > > (it runs fine until this, then bails) > ... > wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk > make: wish: Command not found > make: *** [xconfig] Error 127 > > Can someone interpret that and inform me on wh

Re: EQL - all traffic is via ppp1

1998-01-01 Thread Dale Harrison
> Is there a HOWTO or similar? I have /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/README.eql > and I got hold of eql-1.2.tar.gz which has the source for eql_enslave. It's in the NET-3 Howto. 6.6. EQL - multiple line traffic equaliser > The application is for a school which needs 64K bandwidth but ISDN is too

Re: ttys accessible to root

1997-12-14 Thread Dale Harrison
> what do i need to change to affect the settings of which ttys root is > allowed to log in from? ie, right now he seems to be able to log in from > ttys 1-8 and some ttyps but not elsewhere. /etc/securetty gives a list of tty's that root can login from. D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-28 Thread Dale Harrison
> Does anyone out on the list know which startup file it is that sets the > initial network routes? (Since I've never had anything but ppp, I never > found out) You might consider seeing if routes are being set up for your > ethernet card at boottime, and disabling them, at least until such time

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-28 Thread Dale Harrison
> > Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which > goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something > like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not > perfectly flat (on a nano scale). I think it's more a case of sheer l

Re: sort_mirrors_by_speed v 0.2

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Harrison
> ## this doesnt work as I expected, alas > #trap "/bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit" SIGTERM > #trap "/bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit" SIGQUIT > #trap "/bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit" SIGINT > #trap -p try: trap "/bin/rm -r $tmpdir ; exit 1" 2 3 15 works for me.. nice script by the way.. D. -- TO UNSUBSC

identd logging?

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Harrison
Howdy, Something caught my eye tonite.. well, actually, the lack of something. Where does identd log stuff to? According to the source, it uses LOG_DAEMON, but I can't seem to find it in there. daemon.* is logged to /var/log/daemon according to my syslog.conf. I'm inclined to believe it seeing a

Re: K56Flex Modems

1997-11-13 Thread Dale Harrison
> > Can anyone make any recommendations for K56Flex modems (preferably external) > that work well under Linux? This isn't a Linux issue. Any modem, whether K56Flex or x2 will work under Linux. D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

Re: how to multi home a system?

1997-11-06 Thread Dale Harrison
> > i expect that there is a faq for this, however i have not been able to > find it. > i want to setup a box as a router. how do i plumb a second ethernet > interface > under debian? if there is not a faq for this, i will be glad to > summarize any > replies and start the faq... There already

Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-10-30 Thread Dale Harrison
Hello. I had a weird problem last night, installing Debian 1.3* on a friends PC. For what it's worth, it's a PentiumII/266, some hideous amount of memory, some hideous amount of HD space. Aside from the SuperMicro motherboard bug [Which has been reported, I'm fairly sure..], you know, the one whe

Sendmail question.

1997-10-27 Thread Dale Harrison
This isn't particularly Debian, but I'm hoping someone can shed some light anyway. It involves Sendmail, so if you don't care for it, you can ignore the rest of this message :) Heres the deal. I have two hosts. hosta.foo.com and hostb.foo.com. hosta uses hostb as its smtp gateway. [hosta is inte

Re: unable to boot off floppy

1997-10-25 Thread Dale Harrison
> > -- [ From: Louis H. Iselin * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > I real problem is that the keyboard works to look at all of the function key > helps, but times out after Linux runs. The keyboard becomes completely > unresponsive when the booting gets to the screen to choose color or B&W. I had the exa

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Dale Harrison
> > Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx > > itself was > > pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it > > from > > /etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I > > screwed > > something up and wil

Debian Installation w/ AHA-2940

1997-10-15 Thread Dale Harrison
I tried installing 1.3 today on a PC. It didn't go too well. I've installed Debian more times than I can recall, and have never had this problem before. Mind you, i've never installed it on a machine like this either. AHA-2940, 1x 2.1gig drive, 1x Sony CD. For a start, the autobooting CD part wou

xdvi

1997-10-14 Thread Dale Harrison
This greets me whenever I try to power up xdvi. From memory it's supposed to spit out the usage blerb. --- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])$ xdvi /usr/X11R6/bin Error: XsraSelFile: can't get font 9x15 --- When I first ran xdvi with an argument, MakeTeXPK spat ou

Re: freeware/shaware collection

1997-10-13 Thread Dale Harrison
> > On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Wiria Amadja Kusuma wrote: > > > Hi guys, I am wondering if there is any website on the net which provides us > > freeware or software specifically for linux, something like tucows, nonags > > or download.com for windooz. > > Well, just about anything for unix can run o

xterm/keypad

1997-10-12 Thread Dale Harrison
This is probably going to sound stupid, but... How does one enable the numeric keypad in an xterm? I've never actually noticed that the keypad acts as cursor movement before. [It's the weekend, I'm allowed to ask stupid questions :)] D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

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