Re (2): Questions regarding hardware for a Free Software (especially Debian)

2009-12-17 Thread peasthope
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:44:45 -0500, Celejar wrote, > KMS is apparently badly broken on my Intel 945GM: And LXDE is broken for the Intel 82815 Chipset on the board in the IBM NetVista 6578-RAU. Regards,... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: 2 questions: 1., iptables, 2., local net with rtl8139

2004-08-18 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:28:52PM +0200, Na Zo wrote: > >>>The problem come, if i try to use the following command:<<< > > router:~# iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state ^ > ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > then i go

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-27, Timmy P. penned: > hello, > > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network install for > debian does not support Internal PCI cards. I do not have a laptop, > and can not spare 7 cds to install the os that i have heard so much > good about. I'm not sure about the details

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Timmy P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040128 10:15]: > hello, > > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. It does. Why do you think otherwise? What card do you need it to support? > I do not have a laptop, and can not spare

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
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Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Timmy P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040127 17:27]: > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. I do not have a laptop, and can not spare 7 > cds to install the os that i have heard so much good > about. It depends on the chips

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:27:41AM -0800, Timmy P. wrote: > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. It does. I, for instance, installed using an internal PCI ethernet card the last two times I installed Debian. What probl

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:27, Timmy P. wrote: > hello, > > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. I do not have a laptop, and can not spare 7 > cds to install the os that i have heard so much good > about. > I've never

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-03 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: > Thanks Stephen for your help, just another question: how do you > control the volume output level (system wide, and/or user wide)? With a mixer. apt-cache search mixer will return a whole list of them. I prefer aumix myself, but YMMV. aumix

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks Stephen for your help, just another question: how do you control the volume output level (system wide, and/or user wide)? Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of background sounds: I had to

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: > ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of > background sounds: I had to disable gnome audio events to avoid a > bunch of repeating sounds that didn't seem to stop. Even that didn't > help. What could be wrong? Thanks. Usi

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 00:04:12 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't matter, though. 'export' just marks a variable to be > exported - it doesn't save its current value and export that. Watch: Sweet! learn something new every day! -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Nile Gomez
--- Nile Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 > > Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 2. How to add shutdown and reboot to logout menu? > > If you're using GDM, modify the gdm.conf file in /e

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 05:52:02PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 > Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Put 'export' before the $PATH part. For example: > > export $PATH="$PATH:/new_dir" > > The above won't work. You don't want the $ on the name o

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Nile Gomez
--- "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 > Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. How to add shutdown and reboot to logout menu? If you're using GDM, modify the gdm.conf file in /etc/X11 as root using your favorite text editor and change

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:57:53PM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote: > > > I installed woody on my pc. I have 2 questions: > > 1. PATH: I tried to add some directories to PATH, and I change > >/etc/profile and login.def,

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:57:53PM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I installed woody on my pc. I have 2 questions: > 1. PATH: I tried to add some directories to PATH, and I change >/etc/profile and login.def, but $PATH doesn't change. >( I add $PATH="$PATH:/new_dir" in /etc/profile an

linux 2.0.40 [was Re: 2 questions]

2002-02-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:57:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:22:38 +1100 Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not only did the 2.0 series not end at 2.0.36, but it is still going. > > 2.0.40-rc3 was released only 8 days ago. We'll see a real 2.0.40 in the > > near

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:22:38 +1100 Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dman wrote: > > It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for > > it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series > > ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. > > No

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: > It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for > it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series > ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. Not only did the 2.0 series not end at 2.0.36, but it is still going. 2.0.40-rc3 was release

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:19:57PM +0800, a wrote: | thanks! You're welcome. | actually both debians are in the same disk. the modem linux driver is for | 2.2, so i have to install 2.2, though i'm quite happy with 2.1. | | below is part of syslog. the first n lines is about modem's modules loadi

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread a
erminal parameters: Input/output error" means what? - Original Message - From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: Re: 2 questions > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:07:40AM +0800, a wrote: > | i have 2 debians: 2.1 a

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:52:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for > it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series > ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. Yes. But some people likes 2.0 over 2.2 for some

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:07:40AM +0800, a wrote: | i have 2 debians: 2.1 and 2.2. the 1st question is about 2.1 and the 2nd is | about 2.2. Oh, ok. If the slink box isn't too underpowered (ie a 386 with 5MB RAM) then I recommend upgrading it. I'm currently getting my 486 box up to woody (and k

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:21:07PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:51:55PM -0500, dman wrote: | > Debian 2.2 (aka "potato") comes with kernel 2.2.20 now, and AFAIK, has | > always had a 2.2.x kernel. | | No it does not look like so. Stable potato always and still have 2.

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:51:55PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:38:55AM +0800, a wrote: > | i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain > | it can't locate char-major-10 iWhat was minor? If 135, it is RTC. alias char-major-10-135 rtc You foregot

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread a
--- Original Message - From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:51 AM Subject: Re: 2 questions > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:38:55AM +0800, a wrote: > | i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain > | it ca

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:38:55AM +0800, a wrote: | i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain | it can't locate char-major-10 | | i have a Ham modem and debian 2.2. i compile the linux driver and install | it. but pon fails. i use the command below: | setserial /d

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-11 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> 1.how to fsck /dev/hda3 which is root? it's mounted rw, and fsck warns it is > dangerous to check it. this is the safest way, but it needs a reboot: touch /forcefsck init 6 this will force a full fsck on all your partitions. if you set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS, everything will happen au

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Hay Seed
> 2.in MS-Windows, the monitor is turned down (the > LED blinks) after > a period of in-activity. In X, it just blanks. > what is the > difference? how to make the LED blinks in X? > Blanktime, StandbyTime, SuspendTime and OffTime in the "Screen" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. See man XF86Con

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 16:34:39 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.in MS-Windows, the monitor is turned down (the LED blinks) after > > a period of in-activity. In X, it just blanks. what is the > > difference? how to make the LED blinks in X? > > not sure, i don't trust APM, i rathe

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-09 Thread nate
> 1.how to fsck /dev/hda3 which is root? it's mounted rw, and fsck > warns it is dangerous to check it. to do it without rebooting: init 1 mount / -o remount,ro e2fsck /dev/hda3 mount / -o remount,rw init 2 if you have other partitions mounted you have to unmount them first (umount /mountpoint)

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-13 Thread Ross Boylan
KDE has a feature in which if a URL goes into the paste buffer it offers to open a browser. At least if you're in a Konsole this is what happens. There's a little bug so that it won't open mozilla properly when you do this. Supposedly a fix is coming. This is probably different from your proble

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 22:34, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Ok, make uninstall seems to have disabled it, but the directories are all > still there. Is it Ok to delete them? If they are empty it's probably ok to rm them. > I'm using KDE. Sorry, I don't now anything about that > Clicking on hyperlink

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-11 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On Friday 11 January 2002 12:19, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 21:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? > > How did you install it? If from source, there is probably a "uninstall" > target in

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-11 Thread Craig Dickson
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? How did you install it? If you used a .deb package, then dpkg -P sylpheed should do the trick. If you compiled it yourself, and installed it with "make install", then yo

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-11 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 21:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? How did you install it? If from source, there is probably a "uninstall" target in the source directory. cd /your/sylpheed/source/dir; make uninsta

Re: 2 questions package installs and TCP/IP startup script

2000-08-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Mark! On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > 1. > I am trying to install vim on a really bare installation of Debian. I > have internet access that routes and resolves names fine. > > When I type "apt-get install vim vim-rt" or just about any other package > name i see listed on Debian's si

Re: 2 questions

2000-07-29 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 02:56:53AM +0800, Li Wei wrote: Fix your system date > I have Debian 2.0. Where is the package festival? > festvox-kdlpc8k depends on it. BTW do you know any text2speech software? $ dpkg -S speak speak-freely Emacspeak-HOWTO .

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-03 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:50:49PM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote > hi freaks, > > recently I´m using apt-get to install my potato. I think this way of > distributing debian is a great step into future and perfectly combines the > abilities of the internet and free software. Debian should go this w

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Edward Kear
At 06:40 AM 1/2/00 -0800, Fish Smith wrote: >hi freaks, Who's a freak?? >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the >standard kernel-image >and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled >versions. How can I >exclude >this packages from being upgraded? I would backup the compiled o

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Fish Smith
>hi freaks, Who's a freak?? >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the >standard kernel-image >and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled >versions. How can I >exclude >this packages from being upgraded? I would backup the compiled ones, then put a script into your shutdown sequ

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, Oliver Elphick wrote about "Re: 2 questions on apt-get " > Ulrich Hansmair wrote: > >2.apt-get upgrade gives the following message: > > > >... > >The following packages have been kept back: > >dpkg-dev kernel-package perl perl-bas

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ulrich Hansmair wrote: >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the standard kernel-image and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled versions. How can I exclude >this packages from being upgraded? Read the docs for kernel package and use --revision=... when building your own k

Re: 2 questions

1999-06-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:22:21PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Hi > > I have two questions to pose to the enlightened ones in this mailing > list (boy am i poetic today, maybe because a I've a couple of > presentations to do today :( ): > > Number 1 : Is there a way to allow the user

Re: 2 questions

1999-06-01 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Number 1 : Is there a way to allow the users to create an auto-responder > (so that their email sents a message for every message they got) saying > that they are on hollidays. I know, I know this things suck and they are > extremely anoying but the some people

Re: 2 Questions

1999-04-11 Thread Marsh Ray
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:30:05AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after > a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root > (it is only setup to run as me right now)? Debian's boot process is fairly well-described at: http

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Ramiel Givergis
At 09:33 AM 2/24/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: >> 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by >> itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has >> demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when >> I tell it. > >Thats pro

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Ramiel Givergis
At 09:33 AM 2/24/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: >> 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by >> itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has >> demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when >> I tell it. > >Thats pro

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limit. > > Try pppupd to get around no-traffic limits. For pure time limits... ? pppupd doesnt do what I need, since my ISP has dynamic IP allocation. I use a shell script I wrote instead. The source is availible on my homepage (it's

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 02/24/99 at 09:33:16, Andrei Ivanov wrote concerning "Re: 2 questions": > > 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by > > itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has > > demand dialing. I do not want this. I wa

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by > itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has > demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when > I tell it. Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limi

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-25 Thread Paul McDermott
hello again, this is a reply to my own message. I have found a way to overlap one image onto another on my web page. There is a program in the imagemagick package called combine. It did exactly what I wanted. If anyone had a similar experience try the combine command. Thanks for the help. Paul

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-24 Thread Adam Edwards
At 09:19 AM 3/23/98 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: >a picture every minute and it is put on my web page. I want to have my >updated quickcam image overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My >question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the >html help files in lynx and I c

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-24 Thread Bob Clark
Concerning your first question, you ought to look at the "mirror" package. It takes care of the cleanup task for you. --Bob Paul McDermott wrote: > > hello everybody thank you for all of your help. I am using wget to > mirror the debian site or part of it anyways. My question is this: Is > th

Re: 2 questions...

1998-01-16 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 02:23:43PM -0700, Mike Patterson wrote: > > Ok, actually, I lied. Three. The first is: I haven't been getting any traffic > from the list lately.. has something happened? For that reason, I'd appreciate > a cc of any responses... You're not subscribed anymore. I've put on

Re: Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
Following up my verbose message ... One place you can find all the RFCs in a browsable format is http://rfc.fh-koeln.de/doc/rfc/html/rfc.html I find using the browser a bit easier than ftping the RFCs from internic or wherever ... : On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote: : : : about private ip

Re: Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote: : about private ip address spaces: : : Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597 : http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt : : people may want to have a look at: : : http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html : : which also talks about

Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Sen Nagata
about private ip address spaces: Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597 http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt people may want to have a look at: http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html which also talks about: Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn'

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-21 Thread Yves Arrouye
Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Gilbert Ramirez Jr.
> Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on > my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only > problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to > type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a way

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Paul Christenson
Andy Tarkinson wrote: > Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript > files on my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. > The only problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt > and have to type "quit" to finish printing and eject the p

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Andy Tarkinson wrote: > First is a problem with dircolors. I had it working fine (I think) with > "stable" then I upgraded to "unstable" where the color-ls package becomes > obsolete. In profile I have a few aliases setting up ls, dir, etc using > color. Also I have "ev

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Brian C. White
> Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on > my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only > problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to > type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a way