Re: Webadmin

2003-02-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
on but unfortunately it isn't easy to update > stable.) > I found that using the update in Webmin itself works well, and fixed various problems. This is on a box running Woody. -- Kevin C. Smith | May you hava a long life and a merry one. Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | May you

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:20:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:13:35 -0800 > "John F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I looked at that, but the part with "make-kpkg modules_image" seems > > like it is starting to compile a new kernel. I don't know, but most > > of t

X trouble!

2003-10-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I just upgraded by Sid box and now 99% of my X apps no longer work. Such as: KDM fails to start. I can start fluxbox but the majority of the X appls fail. I have not seen any errors in the logs or from the output of various applications. Anyone else experience this, or is it just me? Kevin --

Re: Re: X trouble!

2003-10-20 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:33:34AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, thanks to people on IRC, I fixed the problem. > > It was because of fontconfig bug 216605. The solution was to uninstall > gsfonts-other, and rebuild the font cache (I used dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig). > > (And sorry

ut2003 & OpenGL

2003-11-09 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'm running Debian SID. After not running games for about a year I reinstalled UT2003, however it does not run. I've search google, but have not found a solution. I get the following error: ### Could not load OpenGL library History: Exiting due to error ## Quake3, glxgears, armagetro

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ollbars. The default in the > > Debian packages is the modern theme. I tried this, and it does not change the scroll bar in Galeon. -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is

Re: GTK, GTK2 Fonts

2003-02-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
> ~/.gtkrc works only for the user whose home '~' refers to. use /root/.gtkrc for roots gtk apps. use ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and /root/.gtkrc-2.0 for gtk2 apps. -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the lead

cups & hp5550

2002-11-02 Thread Kevin C. Smith
me up with is to reboot the computer, which is not acceptable. Restarting cupsd alone does not solve the problem. Anyone how what is happening here and how to fix it? -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the leaders. Th

gtk-engines-lighthouseblue

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ll file a bug report, but sure if I'm missing something or not. -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is www.debian.org | tell them they are being attacked, and den

agpgart & nvagp

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'm trying to test the nvagp, but the agpgart module continues to be autoloaded when X starts. How do I stop the autoloading of agpgart without removing the module or recompiling? Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux

Re: agpgart & nvagp

2002-12-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:42:19AM -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:40:58PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > I'm trying to test the nvagp, but the agpgart module continues to be > > autoloaded when X starts. > > > > How do I stop th

LKM?

2003-11-28 Thread Kevin C. Smith
his a problem? Or is this normal for SID. Maybe Devfs related? Thoughts and suggestions would be helpful. Thanks. Kevin C. Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
gid mode nvidia0 c 195 0 rootvideo 0660 nvidia1 c 195 1 rootvideo 0660 nvidia2 c 195 2 rootvideo 0660 nvidia3 c 195 3 rootvideo 0660 nvidiactl c 195 255 root

X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

2000-09-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
running fine. I no longer use GnuCash because X also locks hard while using it. I run Debian "Woody" however this problem has been around for me since "Potato" first went frozen and I starting using that. Video card is a Voodoo3 2000 it that helps. Any thoughts? Kevin C. Smith

Re: X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

2000-09-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:51:44PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > "Kevin C. Smith" wrote: > > > > Looking for solutions to X locking hard. > > > > While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can only > > reset > > the compu

Re: X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

2000-09-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Looking for solutions to X locking hard. > > > >While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can > >only reset the computer.

Re: X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

2000-09-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Looking for solutions to X locking hard. > > > >While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can > >only reset the computer.

Re: Installing Debian with ATA100

2001-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0800, Stephen Keller wrote: > (I apologize if this post is breaking any etiquette or anything -- I > haven't had time to really lurk as I'm excited about trying to get Debian > installed). > > My setup is as follows: > > I'm using an Asus A7V motherboard with

Re: your mail

2001-02-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:43:59PM -0600, laurence wilson wrote: > where can i get a cd with the linux program on it.. to install on my > computer?? > thanks > laurence If you have a CD burner download an image from www.linuxiso.org. You will find plenty of linux distros to choose from. Kevin

new hard drive

2001-03-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Looking for some intial advice. I admit I have done no research on this yet. Just purchased a new 40 GB ATA 100 hard drive. I would like to avoid reinstalling debian, which is currently on a 10 GB ATA 66 hard drive. Will there be a problem moving the OS from the 10 GB to the 40 GB? I plan to inc

Re: Is it possible...

2001-03-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:28:09PM +0100, Marcin Landowski wrote: > ...to start Linux (DemoLinux - CD distribution) on NT-workstation? > I haven't admin privilages, boot possible only from HDD > (BIOS settings), I can't open box (plombs). > Check out their web site. I remember reading something

Re: Is it possible...

2001-03-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:13:38PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Kevin C. Smith (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:19:01PM -0600): > > Check out their web site. I remember reading something about booting > > demolinux from Windows (not sure which Windows). > > (surely not wind

alsa-base

2000-10-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed. Received the message stating that alsa-base_0.5.9c-8.deb is not available, which is true. It should be getting alsa-base_0.5.9d-1.deb. How to I fix this? Do I need to report it to someone? Thanks, Kevin

Re: Recent Woody update - alsa broke gnome?

2000-10-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:49:43PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > After updating to the latest woody, something, I think alsa, broke > gnome. Both of these groups of packages were updated. > > The problem occurs when trying to log into a Sawfish-Gnome session from > gdm - the login window disappears

Re: alsa-base

2000-10-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:55:40PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:03:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed. > > Received the message stating that alsa-base_0.5.9c-8.deb is not available, &g

XFree4.01

2000-11-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Upgraded to XFree4.01. No real difficulties, but now the screen blanks when not in use. Wouldn't be a problem except it will sometimes not restart. Hard to tell, given I can't see the screen, but believe it get locked up. How do I turn this off? Thanks Kevin

apt-get dist-upgrade error

2000-11-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Did an apt-get dist-upgrade last night and ran into the following problem: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up debconf (0.5.01) ... Can't locat

Re: 75dpi font default-haw?

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:24:42AM +, sena wrote: > On 18/11/2000 at 01:23 -0800, Tino Ionescu wrote: > > Please advise haw can the 75dpi font be set default, > > as opposed to 100dpi font. > > > Start X with "startx -- -dpi 75"... Assuming you are using XFree 4.01 ... Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xs

screensaver/dpms

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I had posted this quetion a week ago and got the response: man xset This does not appear to do what I require. How do I turn off the screensaver and/or dpms by default for all users. Also wish both to be off while users are logged out to the xdm login screen. The command xset reverts to de

Re: screensaver/dpms

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:56:13PM +0100, Daniel Faller wrote: > On Saturday 18 November 2000 16:50 Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > I had posted this quetion a week ago and got the response: > > man xset > > This does not appear to do what I require. > > > > How do

screensaver/dpms solved

2000-11-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Thanks for the help. Adding xset -dpms s off in /etc/X11/xdm/ Xsetup and Xreset files worked. Kevin

Mozilla 18

2000-11-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Is Mozilla able to print? I have Mozilla M18 with recent woody update. Printing works in all other instances, including Netscape. The command "lpr" is given, but no results. lpq indicates no jobs were even sent. Kevin

gnome-name-service

2000-11-23 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Issue: Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and requires hitting reset. They lock up not all the time, but enough to be annoying. I may have stumbled into the problem, but not certain. So, heres the question: What is gnome-name-server? What does it do? There is not a man page. The net se

Re: gnome-name-service

2000-11-23 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:55:45PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin C Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kevin> Issue: Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and > Kevin> requires hitting reset. They lock u

Re: Problem updating to woody from stable

2000-11-25 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Try installing perl-5.6 before upgrade. apt-get update apt-get install perl-5.6 apt-get dist-upgrade If I'm remembering correctly that worked for me. Kevin On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:57:40AM -0800, Vaibhav Goel wrote: > Hi all: > > I recently tried apt-get upgrading my stable distribution to w

Re: gnome-name-service

2000-11-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:42:51PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote: > > Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and requires hitting reset. > > They lock up not all the time, but enough to be annoying. I may > > have stumbled into the problem, but not certain. > > Can you browse with a text-mode

Re: XFree 4.0.2, testing all new stuff to me

2000-12-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:44:09PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I'm wondering what to put in sources.list for the new testing distribution. > I've been holding off a wholesale woody upgrade for something exactly like > this! You would change ("stable" or "potato") to ("testing" or "woody")

Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:53:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Malformed" line 13 > > It is:deb file://sources/x11 > > What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work Not claiming to be an expert here, but shouldn't it read: deb file:///sources/x11 Kevin

Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:46:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 01-01-07 16:54:37 EST, you write: > > << deb file:///sources/x11 >> > > Thanks for trying to help me Kevin. I tried your suggestion, > and it still doesn't work. Happy New Year. Just read the man page. Try

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I would also suggest looking at icewm. It's easy on the resources and is ready to use. It also does not require a mouse, which is nice. I've been using icewm for a year and love it. I've tried others but always come back to icewm. Kevin

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:50:32PM -0500, Terry Warner wrote: > If I remember correctly when I was out there .. what prevents them from open > sourcing it, is the OpenGL code they use in their drivers. > > Something with the OpenGL code, and something with SGI (If memory serves me > right). I ha

Re: IDE CD-RW

2001-01-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:42:22PM +, john gennard wrote: > I've purchased a Traxdata 8x4x32 CD-RW, and can only install it on my > main box. Unfortunately, this has two Hard Disks (both on the Primary > IDE channel) and a normal CD Drive as Master on the second channel. > > The literature w

mozilla-browser-0.9.1-2

2001-06-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
essing mozilla-browser (--cofigure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: mozilla-browser E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that

Re: Problem with cdrecord

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin C. Smith
J?rg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero. apt-get -b source cdrecord then install the resulting debs. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading.

/proc/pci incorrect

2001-06-24 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Changed the NIC months ago, but noted that the /proc/pci continues to show the old NIC. Why would this be? How do I correct it? -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The

Missing libpanel_applet.so.0

2001-07-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running sid/unstable and trying to install galeon. error reads: libpanel_applet.so.0 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. This file not installed. BTW the gnome panel also does not work due to this. What package has this file? -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody

kde2

2001-07-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. What happened? How do I fix this? -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn't think I'm sm

Re: kde2

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:15:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Saturday 14 July 2001 02:49, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After > > later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. > > Looks bad. Been tryi

logrotate error: unexpected text

2001-07-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Anyone know how to fix this? Logrotate produces the following error message. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate error: /etc/logrotate.conf:9 unexpected text. I haven't touched the logrotate.conf, so it's the standard one. -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn't think I

Re: Browser Problem

2001-07-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ee what IE will do. Yes. I did this a year ago just for sh*ts & giggles. It was show, but worked. I would think wine & IE would be fine for just checking to see how a page would look, but not for regular browsing. It's been over a year though, so it may now work better, or worse, I do

reiserfs question

2001-07-29 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Maybe this is a stupid question but: I plan to try the reiserfs, but an curious about the fsck. In particular, about when it runs after so many boots. Do I have to disable this somehow. I suspect a e2fsck on a reiserfs would be bad. -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn&#

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
l of the runlevels except 1 seem to > have xdm. Should I just pick a runlevel and delete the xdm in the > corresponding rc.x directory? As root do: # update-rc.d -f remove xdm -- Kevin C. Smith| Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
how to unsubscribe. > by the way looks like nobody gave you some lessons in manners. ask a > preschooler for help. > > harsha I recently saw a list become almost useless because of name calling, snipes, and such. Just let it pass, please. Just wanted to plead for the "turning o

Re: problems with intellimouse explorer USB

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin C. Smith
dentifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection My /etc/X11/Xsession I added: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" The above stuff got my wheel working in X. -- Kevin C. Smith| Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: File Manager

2001-12-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
an package. > > I hope somebody has a suggestion > > If you can spare the memory, try Nautilus :). > I like emelfm. I would suggest giving more than one a try to see what suits you. I did notice that xfm looks a like dfm (this also produces icons on your desktop if you want them).

Re: Update to X 4.1.0-10 overwrote my XF86Config-4

2001-12-09 Thread Kevin C. Smith
B> happen? It's backed up in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.dex* or something like that. -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: UrlView strangeness

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
and arrow down > to the appropriate blank line it fires up lynx and takes me where I want > to go. > > Has anyone else experienced this? > Had this problem for a time. But it just "went alway." Running Sid. Maybe it was corrected during an upgrade. -- Kevin C. Smith

mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
magic bytes at the start. ldconfig: /usr/lib/libmoz_art_lgpl.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgkgfx.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. Any suggestions? -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can gi

Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:01:35PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:32, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Running SID. Did apt-get upgrade on 2/10 and mozilla failed to upgrade. > > Not sure if this is a packaging problem or my system got hosed in some > > wa

dpkg system messed up

2002-02-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
lty Tree... 0% Any suggestions? How do I rebuild the "Tree"? -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: 3d with nvidia

2002-03-01 Thread Kevin C. Smith
evice" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "nvidia" Try: Option "NvAGP" "2" > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" >

Re: 3d with nvidia

2002-03-02 Thread Kevin C. Smith
part as a module, then experiment with using agpart and nvagp (Option "NvAGP" 0,1, or 2 I believe). I have a Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset and 4x works fine, but the above poster is correct there have been problems reported. -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
n't > > been disabled, eg. an exit 0 thrown in to stop the script. > > Indeed check that /etc/init.d/gpm is sane. > > Do I remeber correctly that without gpm and X config pointing to > /dev/psaux you had a working mouse in X? You should have. -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: Win4Lin

2001-03-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
o getting > up and going. I used alien to convert the rpm and installed that, but > everything after than has failed miserably. > > Thanks! > -- > steve Try: http://zeolites.cqe.nwu.edu/marty/tips1.html -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that le

networking prob

2001-03-31 Thread Kevin C. Smith
lights on my Linksys Etherfast Cable router show the connection to this computer is failing every 10-15 seconds. Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The

Re: networking prob

2001-04-01 Thread Kevin C. Smith
gt; > > > Hope that helps somehow, and good luck, > > Jimmy Richards > > On Saturday 31 March 2001 17:07, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > I installed Debian 2.2_R2 today on my second computer. It was running > > Redhat then Progeny RC1 just fine. After installing Debia

Re: XDM

2001-04-03 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ives is what you need here. apt-get install kdm will most likely work or: Try creating in your HOME directory .xsession. In .xsession put: exec startkde Probably needs it to be executable so, $ chmod 755 .xsession. Should work. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of m

Re: [OT] AMD Athlon fan

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
inks. I think it was there that I had read this. I got the same thing, and after reading some I just put it on. It has been working fine and Temputure is within acceptable limits. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading

Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ion of Debian > distro will accompany book. Thanks. It will come with the current release of Potato. I've been keeping an I out for it, but it is still yet to be published. Don't know what the hold up is. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [

Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
. I do not buy from amazon for this very reason. Did not know there was a boycot beyond myself. You can order the book from www.borders.com when it comes out. Or any other bookstore, I just like Borders. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL P

Re: "The following packages have been held back..."

2001-04-08 Thread Kevin C. Smith
nstall" on one of the > packages that was in the list. It upgraded without a problem. > > -- Stephen Do apt-get install on each package that was held back. The reason for holding back some packages is explained I the Apt User's Guide. -- Kevin C. Smith There

Re: Kernel in what package?

2001-04-08 Thread Kevin C. Smith
n of kernel 2.4.2, so I'd > like to try one that a package maintainer has compiled. > > -- Stephen kernel-image-2.2.18 and so on. You will not find a package fore 2.4 yet. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]b

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
s > > 0.0.0.00.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 > > I'm going to assume this is correct also. This is correct on mine, yet still not able to ping the gateway. Cameron: Does this sound like your situation also? -- Kevin C. Smith T

startx not working

2001-04-11 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running Debian unstable. Just did an upgrade and now startx does not work. Can start xdm, but will now go further then the login screen. This happen to anyone else, and what is causing it? -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by

webmin install failure

2001-10-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
being defined as a user first. -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

/dev/snd help

2001-10-25 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I once was using ASLA. I no longer doing so, but the following remains: /dev/snd -> /proc/asound/dev I am using the emu10k1 module from the 2.4.12 kernel. What should this link point to know? Or should I just delete it? Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up e

menu trouble

2001-10-31 Thread Kevin C. Smith
appears to be down. Anyone else having this one? How did you fix it? -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: startx problems

2001-11-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
s exhist? If they don't, you most likely need to install/reinstall the xbase-clients package. -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
stock 'nv' driver that came with XFree86 4. > maybe you should alternatively to use the tarballs from nVidia and use > their make install I second this, which worked for me. -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTE

sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
tates "You have won the match." Penguin Command also produces distortions when there are more than one explosion at a time. Any ideas? I've search, but no luck so far. -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | l

Re: sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:59:49PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 18:46, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Installed kernel 2.4.10. Built emu10k1 as a module. Before this I was > > running 2.2.17 and ALSA without trouble. I am now experiencing sound > >

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
omewhat. The nvidia drivers tend to hang due to AGP problems. Fixed my trouble by using AGPGART rather then nvidia's AGP, and in: /etc/modutils/aliases added under alias char-major-10-175 agpgart options agp_try_unsupported=1 Works anyway on the ASUS A7V133 motherboard. -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa

2001-10-11 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ve me/us a step-by-step, Erik? It compiled fine, yet was unable to get the sound working. Don't remember the errors. I'm not satisfied with the emu10k1 driver, and would like to get ALSA working. (unstable, 2.4.10) -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essen

Re: Hardware Question

2002-01-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Linux Sound Howto or other sound howto documents. 2. Read about compiling your own kernel, if you have not done so before. Use kernel-package and the debian method for the kernel compile. -- Kevin C. Smith | I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED

dumb icon question

2002-01-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/ /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/ /usr/share/xfce/icons/ /usr/share/pixmaps/ /usr/share/icons/ and more Anyone know where they could be? -- Kevin C. Smith | I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pilots wore helmets.

Re: dumb icon question

2002-01-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:32:24PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > | Help ... I'm about to go insane. > | > | Running XFCE, love it, and want to find icons for guiTAR and gps (the > | process manager). When I iconify a window t

Re: Quake III

2002-01-27 Thread Kevin C. Smith
distributers of games for Linux? > > > > what about the FSF? > > Can I get Tribes 2 from them? :) I did! -- Kevin C. Smith | Guns don't kill people, bullets do! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Guns just make them go real fast.

Re: IceWM + dockapps

2001-06-01 Thread Kevin C. Smith
able as far as I know. I've installed icedock, and it works fine for me. Yes you can remove the taskbar. Try apt-get install icepref It's a icewm configuration tool that works well, and in it is an option to remove the taskbar. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of me

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
cewm/icons/. If you do make icons labeled freeamp_16x16.xpm and freeamp_32x32.xpm it will look like: prog freeamp freeamp freeamp then save and restart icewm. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observatio

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar *n

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ht about it before. Maybe if you can save a Windows icon as a bitmap and then move to Linux and use Gimp to play with it (change to xpm). I would check out the Windows icon editing/making programs out there, such as IconCool. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one

Re: grub & dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
e. Before it didn't seemed unable to use: kernel /vmlinuz because it is a symlink? Also root (hd1,1) failed to work. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. -- Will Rogers

Re: icewm and WM apps

2001-06-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a convenient way to run wm dockapps in icewm? I don't > want mine floating around, nor do > I want them displayed on the taskbar. > Check out icedock at www.maol.yi.org/icewm/icedock/ -

Kernel 2.6.7-1 & NVIDIA Trouble

2004-07-20 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running Debian Sid Upgrade from kernel 2.4 to kernel 2.6.7-1, and recent nvidia driver. I have noted a "stutter" every few seconds when playing OpenGL games. So far the only thing I've noted is this: # xdpyinfo | grep GLX GLX NV-GLX I'm missing "NVIDIA-GLX

Re: Inspiron 8200 Alsa Problems

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin C. Smith
_oss snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss ide-cd speedstep_ich psmouse nvidia rtc Sound should work after this. -- Kevin C. Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin C. Smith
, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 4.638s timeout 120s Trouble flushing the cache Writing time: 180.834s Average write speed 27.7x. Min drive buffer fill was 73% Fixating... Fixating time: 30.112s cdrecord: fifo had 4342 p

Re: OpenOffice.org and Spelling

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ly spell checks my documents, but I prefer OO's > look-and-feel. Any suggestions? Thanks. > > Ed I had to: # mkdir /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict # ln -s /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ ooo and then spellchecking worked. -- Kevin C. Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

2004-08-30 Thread Kevin C. Smith
ing non-root users to burn CDs. I used sudo: /etc/sudoers localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdrecord localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap and then modified /usr/bin/cdrecord: #!/bin/sh VERS=`uname -r` case "$VERS" in 2.0.*|2.2.*) exec cdrecord.shm "$@" ;; *) e

Re: can't shut down

2004-01-27 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:25:33AM -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > I'm a newby to debian linux and feeling pretty dumb. I have managed to partition my > hard drive and install Debian but I can't figure out how to get into root in order > to shut down my machine. If I am in Gnome how do I close De

Re: Getting the same USB device?

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:42:56AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-09, Norman Walsh penned: > > --=-=-= > > > > I have three or four "plug in" devices: a firewire PCMCIA card and > > several USB devices. Depending on the order in which they're added to > > the system, they get installe

xfce

2002-03-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Anyone running XFce and Unstable. Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian menu (xfmenu). Anyone know how to get this back? -- Kevin C. Smith | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor D

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