Re: Nvidia kernel not autoloading

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
this one myself right now. I have found the advice to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the vid driver from 'nv' to 'nvidia'. Otherwise try reading this http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/README as there are a lot of options in the file that might cause the problem.

Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

2003-09-23 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
J Y wrote: Quoting Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 16:28, J Y wrote: I re-installed deb3.0 and it looked great only two pkgs broke. BUT I screwed up and selected the wrong mouse type. Now I can login to a great looking desktop but I can't use it! :( There's a dialog box op

Re: [OT: m r ducks] Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
nori heikkinen wrote: on Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:27:02PM +0200, David Fokkema insinuated: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:14:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote: David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:20:28PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: I always heard it as: M R ducks M R not

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question. Why, exac

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jacob Anawalt wrote: ...and how that at times seems to be a 'waste of space' (mutter, if only they'd all use C and Perl I wouldn't have to download all these packages...) :P, but thinking of the choices it gives everyone and the extra software that might get written because some group's 'cup

Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2003-06-04 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I have a couple of problems upgrading from potato to woody, using a 14-CD official set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions at this address: http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/as recommended in the installation manual. I first went with the recommended approac

Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
This has got to be the longest time without a working system since I started using Debian in november 1995. Of course, when I say 'working' I mean 'with a working desktop' - I still have FTP and all non X-related stuff working, and my system thinks it has completely upgraded OK. Normally I would ha

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those "--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going into the dreaded dselect? I think that if yo

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-13 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: Now my question is: do you still have any other problem? If the answer is no, I do not see why you should worry about those removed packages. ;) This is very true! I have found one new problem (and know how to fix it): the gnome control center doesn't show up the sawfish-sp

Re: Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Joris Huizer wrote: Most of my actions were the same, but there's one big difference - do you know why this article recommends: make-kpkg -rev Custom.1 kernel_image while the other article I used says: make-kpkg --append-to-version=bla kernel_image Well, if -rev is the same as --revision, then the

apt-get/cdrom curiosity

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
A curious thing happened today with apt-get, that I have never seen before. I recently upgraded my system from potato to woody, using an official CD set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions rigorously, and am now 99% sure that all is correctly upgraded (but see http://lists.debian.o

Re: apt-get/cdrom curiosity

2003-06-19 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Moe Binkerman wrote: A curious thing happened today with apt-get, that I have never seen before. I recently upgraded my system from potato to woody, using an official CD set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions rigorously, and am now 99% sure that all is correctly upgraded (but see

apt-get still broken

2003-06-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I have not received any further suggestions about my apt-get problem... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/msg02698.html ...but I do have a bit more information to add. Just for laughs, I made a minimal fresh woody install (which went very smoothly!) to a free partition

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
t it precedes. So as far as I can see, the examples give the same result. > I hope one day all would agree on one standard. > > Robert I personally prefer the second version, but I guess it's a matter of taste :-) -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "There are 10 kinds of people. Those who can count in binary and those who can't." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to check a set of Woody CD's for integrity

2002-09-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
-- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "I'll give up Smalltalk when they pry the browser from my cold, dead fingers!" begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter tel;cell:+46 708 797 753 tel;fax:+468 676 5010 tel;home:+468 511 793 38 tel;work:+468 676 5270 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:http:/

Re: How to check a set of Woody CD's for integrity

2002-09-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020917 11:38]: > > I have just purchased a complete set of 14 Woody CDs (7 binary, 7 > > > Does anyone have a suggestion of how to check the integrity of the > > complete set? I first thought of a rec

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
get working. Why is that, people? Is it a Swedish thing (I notice the original poster is in Sweden like myself) :-)? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller .~. /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~´^ < hugge > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Question about upgrading to version 2.2

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
y have five days available for this attempt, and it took two weeks to get the GUI part working last time. That black and white console screen starts getting old after a while... 2) Is there some "magic invocation" that can fix the broken packages, or remove them prior to the upgrade? -- Bes

Re: Question about upgrading to version 2.2

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
install "apt 0.3.19" on my 2.0 installation, and would it help with the previous two points (repeated below)? Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > 1) Can I perform an "upgrade" to 2.2, with broken packages in the > system? I really don't want to install from scratch, as I

Re: Question about upgrading to version 2.2

2000-09-22 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
e both installed, and switch between them (without too much hassle)? Are they both easy to uninstall, once I decide which I like better? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Unable to format drive A:. Formatting drive C: instead." begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter tel;fax

Manual for apt

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so there's no apt on my machine. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
' to check if 'init' does anything at all, and this shuts the system down, as expected. Any ideas? Can I start up Linux and prevent X from starting up, through some magical invocation a la (Windoze)? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Faber est suae quisque fortunae.&qu

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
ay 7) and then 'init 7' whenever I feel like shutting down X? Does this sound possible, and if so, how do I find out how to do it? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Industri-Matematik International version:2.1 email;int

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to > > define a new > > (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X (say 7) and then &#x

Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
he penguin? He should be standing in front of a PC with the horrible dselect tree displayed on the screen, and should be "pecking" at the key. I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any takers? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
for help here. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Bill Gates: The man who gave cream pies a good name." begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter tel;fax:+468 676 5010 tel;home:+468 756 93 58 tel;work:+468 676 52 70 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:http://www.im.se";>http://www.nasdaq.co

Re: ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I'll try again with 'woody'. And 'bullseye', 'jessie' and 'stinky' if needs be ;-). Maybe apt will get finished one day, and maybe someone will get round to writing a decent installer so that newbies can use it too. Only time will tell. Enough about t

ISDN question

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
rt speed to max, and fill in all the AT strings to configure it to run as I want (single channel, dual channel, BOD, etc). What is the difference in Linux, and specifically, why is there a difference? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "" begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter tel;f

Re: Debian chicken

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jason Quigley wrote: > --On Thursday, October 5, 2000 11:22 am +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, > > and the only distribution I have looked at is Debia

Re: ISDN question

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Sax" chip so you'll need to select the the "HiSax" > driver. I'm running this driver as a kernel-module. > Configuration => RTFM > > Additionally you'll need to get the "isdnutils" package. > This package provides some ISDN specific tools and

Re: ISDN question

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
hat know when to run at 64kb/s and when to run at 128kb/s. I've never seen or used any special ISDN utilities neither under 'doze or OS/2, just their plain old vanilla diallers for any Hayes compatible modem. So what exactly is it that isdnutils is going to give me? I'll use it

How to partition a 10GB disk

2000-10-09 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
s? I tried using just fdisk, BTW, but it also thinks there are only 8 GB on the disk. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "" begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter tel;fax:+468 676 5010 tel;home:+468 756 93 58 tel;work:+468 676 52 70 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:http://www.im.se&quo

Re: How to partition a 10GB disk

2000-10-09 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
big the disk is. > The 8Gig restriction was afaik a BIOS one. > Jeff This sounds like what I'm looking for. Could you please give a (very brief) rundown on these three commands? I can't access 'man', or any other help, as I've nothing installed yet. TIA, -- Best rega

Re: How to partition a 10GB disk

2000-10-10 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
are trying to boot from the big disk AND your kernel is not > in the first 8GB of the disk. Problem solved! My new 6CD set of Debian 2.2 (potato) disks arrived last night, and potato's cfdisk knows about 10 GB hard disks. All is now partitioned OK! -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Mi

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-10 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
can get to a world of GUI. There are only a few percent missing now before a true newbie, coming from a world of Windoze, could actually use install and use Debian out of the box. So the big question is this: is the Debian team interested in this potentially huge user sector or not? With the demise of

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-10-31 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be > > possible to define a new (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X > > (say 7) and then 'init 7&#

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller > wrote: > > > sounds interesting to any other newbies, just do the following: > > > > $su > > Password: > > lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh > > this

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
alled at all, then he/she is also kept from learning this new system. More money goes into B*ll G***s pockets as newbie gives up and buys 'doze2K. > MS has demonstrated that making the system TOO easy and the users > too dumb leads to disaster, we should learn from their mistakes > instead of making them again. I couldn't agree more! Long Live Linux! -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Asking for quality software from Microsoft is like asking for the wine list at McDonalds."

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:33:45PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller > wrote: > > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > teaching newbies how to run arbitrary code as root on there > > > machine without having the slightest idea what it is goin

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:04:52PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller > wrote: > > > That depends on whether you consider you can trust helixcode or > > not. "arbitrary" to me means "selected at random", but that might > >

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I know I said it's time to close this thread, but Ethan came up with some good points, so I'll just answer them, and (hopefully) be done. Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:48:19AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller > wrote: > > > Perhaps a better descripti

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
/distributions/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list fi apt-get update Then one of these (selected by the user) apt-get upgrade apt-get install task-helix-core apt-get install task-helix-gnome -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Debian Newbie, but working on it..."

Newbie sound help

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
-- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "To every rule there is an exception, and vice versa."

Re: Newbie sound help

2000-11-07 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
a good service and are an > excellent example of how commercial products can exist in an > open source world. i used them for a long time before figuring > out all this stuff on my own. :) > > pete -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"

Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
oes it have security problems associated with it that one ought to know about? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

Re: gpm-configuration for use of ps2-mouse with X-Windows

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
#x27;m afraid I don't know how to fix it (I can live without the mouse in the console). -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "" begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter tel;fax:+468 676 5010 tel;home:+468 756 93 58 tel;work:+468 676 52 70 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:http://www.im.se"

Re: Please translate .sig; was Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
David Teague wrote: > Peter > > I can't help you with linuxconfig, but I am intrigued by the .sig > quote. Can you translate it for me? > > > "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur." Literally: "That which is said in Latin, sounds profound."

Re: Newbie sound help

2000-11-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Peter, Nils, I've identified the sound chip in question, it's a Crystal CS4236. The settings in WinNT can be seen in this picture: http://www.netg.se/~hugge/images/Sound.jpg . The alsa-related stuff I've nstalled from the CDs can be seen in this excerpt from root's .bash_history (commented by me)

Crystal CS4236B-104 with ALSA?

2000-11-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Has anybody managed to get the above sound chip working under Debian 2.2, using ALSA? I've browsed the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives for two hours now. Plenty of people have had problems, nobody has posted with a solution. Perhaps they've solved their own problems, and not bothered to report back to

Re: Crystal CS4236B-104 with ALSA?

2000-11-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Has anybody managed to get the above sound chip working under > Debian 2.2? > > I've browsed the archives for two hours now. Plenty of people have > had problems, nobody has posted with a solution. I won't bother > with posting my sympt

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Outlook. this way this garbage won't happen each > > and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller. (BTW - this is coming at you from OS/2 Warp 4.0 - Netscape)

CS4236B no good, what else is there?

2000-11-20 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
second problem: this CS4236B chip is a part of the motherboard, so I can't physically remove it. Will this cause problems if I install a second soundcard? Please mail me privately, as this isn't specific ehough for the list. Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Best regards, Peter Hugos

apt-get source question

2000-12-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
y 1" Where foo depends on bar and bob, but bob doesn't depend on bar. Armed with this information I would do "apt-get install bar" then "apt-get install foo", and it would work, as foo and bob are on the same CD. Any script ideas gratefully received! -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Faber est suae quisque fortunae."

Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
ntial candidate, then it's considered quite acceptable to publicly describe someone as "a major-league A**hole". In fact it probably wouldn't even stop you from becoming president... -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur." b

Compiling stuff

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I've just put my brave hat on and compiled my kernel for the first time. Thanks to Robert Guthrie and his tip to use kernel-package, and KMDWAF, everything just worked first try! I do have a couple of questions, though. 1) There were many warnings during the compile, although no errors that I no

New beep in Gnome

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I'm getting a strange new beep in Gnome. This happens whenever I change to a new workspace using the desk-guide applet. I've looked around in the Gnome control panel but can't find an option to turn this off. My WM is Sawfish, BTW. As I mentioned in my most recent mail, I've just recompiled my ker

Re: New beep in Gnome

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I'm getting a strange new beep in Gnome. This happens whenever I > change to a new workspace using the desk-guide applet. I've looked > around in the Gnome control panel but can't find an option to turn > this off. My WM is Sawfish, BT

Re: New beep in Gnome (SOLVED)

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > I'm getting a strange new beep in Gnome. This happens whenever I > > change to a new workspace using the desk-guide applet. I've looked > > around in the Gnome control panel but can't find an option to turn > > this o

Kernel patches (Was: make-kpkg question)

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
> you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any > other kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you > would have to make sure that the files that the patch changes > are unchanged between 2.2.18 and whatever you will use). This brings up another question: According to w

Re: The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jonathan Gift wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:35AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > > As to your question, what you're looking for is the kernel-package > > package. So > > apt-get install kernel-package > > cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package > > zcat README.gz|less >

apt-get source question

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
it would work, as foo and bob are on the same CD. Any script ideas gratefully received! -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Faber est suae quisque fortunae."

Re: Can't create Moden Lock file

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Frank Rocco wrote: > Hello, > > I am only able to dial in as root, when I try as a user, > I get a message that PPP is unable to create modem lock > file. > > Any idea on what I can do? > > Thanks > > Frank adduser frank dip -- Cheers! .~. /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~´^ < hugge >

Re: Whirl logo instead of Tux

2001-01-09 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
oad but pre init? 3) Is it used as a background picture for xdm or gdm? FWIW, I've never seen any logo during boot up, neither tux or otherwise, so I just don't get this. Is it maybe a 2.4 kernel thing (I'm still on 2.2.17)? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quod vol

Re: wacky kernel question

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
e, wait five years for a ten line BCPL program to compile, wait a further three years for t' program to load an' run, and at t' end of t' day our boss would sack us, and send us off to work for Microsoft!" AH1: "And if you tell that to the young folks o' today, th

Re: [Fwd: pon permissions]

2001-01-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
s to use pon ? > > Tom George # adduser jack dip # adduser jill dip etc... -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quod volimus credimus libenter"

Re: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
5 rvf rvf 4096 Dec 5 20:10 apg-1.1.6b/ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd apg-1.1.6b > > bash: cd: apg-1.1.6b: Permission denied > > > > Why would it do this? > > > > -Rob -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Sometimes it works, sometim

Re: cdrecord

2001-01-16 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
assuming you don't have any /real/ SCSI > cards I do have a real SCSI card, that I'm hoping to use with my Christie tape drive. Does this mean I can skip this line, or if not, how should it look in my case? > Run lilo, reboot, and run `cdrecord -scanbus'; your drive should show up. > YMMV. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Faber est suae quisque fortunae."

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
at work you can get paid for beating your head against a wall... -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Faber est suae quisque fortunae."

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
idn't want to play nicely, even w/ the onboard sound > disabled in the BIOS. The main reasons I've been trying to get the > onboard sound working is a) the principle of the thing, and b) I've had > it working under RH w/ sndconfig (though w/ that damn 'pop'), and > flawlessly under SuSE 6.4 w/ the OSS/commercial drivers and SuSE > 7.0/Mandrake 7.2 w/ whatever drivers they use. Unfortunately, I never > dug around to see 'how', since things just 'worked'. If you still have them, why don't you try to see if those OSS/commercial drivers work together with Debian? I for one would be _very_ interested to know if that works - it would probably be cheaper to buy commercial drivers for the card I have than to buy a new card (what do they charge BTW?). -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

Notice for Swedish readers

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
In case you missed the news: Linus will be signing his new book at the Akedemibokhandeln in Stockholm 17:30 today. The adress is Mäster Samuelsgatan 32, telepnone 08 - 613 61 00. See you there... -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"

[Slightly OT] Linux's 10th Birthday

2001-08-21 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
arty on both days." So it sound as if Linux, like the Queen of England, has two birthdays. Linus apparently has no strong feelings about which is the "official" one, so... Party, Party! -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"

Re: Stop the beeping

2001-08-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > Hi there. I am up-to-date with Debian unstable on an x86 machine. I > installed a lot of GNOME junk including Galeon, Nautilus, and Gnumeric. I > also installed alsa 0.9.0b7 from sources, including OSS emulation. Then I > installed esound. > > My problem is that the

Philips CDRW1200 or CDRW1600 compatible with Linux?

2002-02-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
to be part of a series, so maybe their firmware is similar enough. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Ceterum censeo Microsoft delenda est"

OT: Merry Christmas!

2001-10-31 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Why do we geeks celebrate Christmas today? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25 (8r31 = 10r25) -- Cheers! .~. /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~´^ < hugge >

ESD click problem

2001-09-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
ntroduces a further complication. Six months ago I would have been glad to have problems like this! Now, it's starting to get old... Please help! -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"

Re: ESD click problem

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 03:41, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got sound > > to work, but I guess I'm not so easy to please... there's a > > tiny problem with esd that I hope someone

Re: ESD click problem

2001-10-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
christophe barbé wrote: > Le jeu, 27 sep 2001 11:11:28, Peter Hugosson-Miller a écrit : > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 03:41, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > > > I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got soun

Re: Stable -> 2.4 kernel, best path?

2001-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
so if you follow Max's routine it should be fairly straightforward: > 1, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: > >deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main > > 2, run apt-get update > 3, run apt-get dist-upgrade > 4, install your 2.4 kernel >

Puzzling PPP Problem

2001-10-09 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I have a problem that I have started getting recently with one of my ppp connections. I have two dialup connections at home, one via my place of work, and another that I pay for myself. Both use the ISDN modem that I share between two computers, via a switch box in the serial cable. One computer

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
ny? > > Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections. > > Rob But then even masochists avoid comparable suffering... -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller ""

Re: Knoppix boot vs debian boot

2004-10-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jerome Lacoste wrote: Hi, long time Debian user, I often use Knoppix for rescue and test operations. There are things that makes the Knoppix boot lean and clean, e.g. the hardware autodetection, etc... But I don't have that on my unstable boxes. So I am wondering if it's a Knoppix special feature o

locale not supported by C library

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Since I upgraded from potato to woody, I've started getting _lots_ of these warnings in my ~/.gnome-errors file: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library OK, it's just a warning, but it's new, and I just wonder a) If I need to fix it to avoid _real_ problems later b) If so, how do I

Re: I have a problem with this list

2003-06-28 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Paul E Condon wrote: I think that it used to be that when I posted to this list, my message would be returned to me from the server at the time that it was sent out to everyone else on the list. Now that is not happening. Now, when I post, I see nothing on the list, but my message is showing up in

Re: locale not supported by C library

2003-07-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:08:00PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Since I upgraded from potato to woody, I've started getting _lots_ of these warnings in my ~/.gnome-errors file: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library OK, it

Re: apt-get/dselect - network *or* CDs

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the net, but no luck. I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the spec

Discover X version

2003-07-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Is it possible to ask X what version it is running? I know I can check (in Debian) by looking at dpkg -l and trying to guess a likely looking package that might contain the X server, but a) I might not always be sitting in front of a debian box when I need to know, and anyway b) I would prefer

apm power_off hangs system

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
After 8 years of running Debian, I've never had Linux crash on me before, not once! Until now that is... I've just upgraded my wife's PC from OS/2 to Woody. No real problems, other than I found it a bit tricky getting X 4.3 installed, so that I could use the GLX drivers for her nVidia GeForce2

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Vittorio wrote: I've tailored my 2.4.20 kernel quitting the boxed 2.4.18-bf24. Now at boot time I don't have that nice graphical penguin and a graphical display any longer as with the previous kernel. How could I set lilo (or the kernel?) to have that penguin at boot time? Ciao Vittorio Easiest wa

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Gilles Missonnier wrote: ->Easiest way to do this is to copy the config file from the bf24 kernel ->to /usr/src/linux/.config, then make oldconfig before you start ->configuring your new kernel. That way you get all the options that were ->set in the bf24 kernel, and can start turning off the ones

Re: Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Bill K wrote: Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with gnome (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root user. This is the normal default behaviour, as you would normally never need to do this. If you feel you must, there is a setting in the gdm con

Re: CUPS in woody, question about page margin

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
David Fokkema wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:47:30PM +0200, Qian Gong wrote: Hi, I installed CUPS to send jobs to a Infotec 4182 MF printer, using HP LaserJet Series CUPS driver. It's working almost perfectly. But one problem is about the page margin. If I send a ps file, e.g., created by "

Re: apm power_off hangs system

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I have some more info regarding this most interesting problem. I know I can be a bit verbose (I am never sure what might be important), so I will not quote my whole original post, just a link to it in case anyone missed it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg03355.ht

Attach "Post-It" notes to .PDF files

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
In Acrobat Exchange for Windoze, there is the capability to add small yellow "Post-It" notes to annotate the document you are reading. This is a very useful way to review and correct almost finished documents without changing any of the original content. Does anyone know of a way to achieve the

initscripts

2003-07-28 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Still no responses to my apm question ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg03355.html ), so I've started investigating a bit, to see if I can figure this out for myself. I have found the following page that describes, amoung other things, the initscripts that are ru

Re: initscripts

2003-07-28 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Wim De Smet wrote: I can't really help, but if apm is causing you problems, and you have a fairly new motherboard, you might wanna check out if it supports acpi. I switched to acpi resently and it works like a charm (much better than apm ever did). mvg, Wim My guess is it wouldn't work, as my m

Re: how to subscribe

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Joydeep Bakshi wrote: Hi listadmin, I am interested to subscribe my self in ur mailing list. please tell me how to subscribe by email request & where to mail that email request . thanks in advanced. Well, that's a new one! Usually this list gets flooded with mails from people trying to UNsubs

Trust 610 Cardreader USB

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I am trying to get the above USB card reader to work under woody with a 2.4.18 kernel. Before I purchased the device, I did some searching on the web, and came up with this promising page: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1729&PHPSESSID=1568bb227d93770694b5b436529bbe33 Where a certain

Re: Trust 610 Cardreader USB

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Cath wrote: 2003. augusztus 1. 11:19 dátummal Peter Hugosson-Miller ezt írta: I am trying to get the above USB card reader to work under woody with a 2.4.18 kernel. Before I purchased the device, I did some searching on the web, and came up with this promising page: Hello! U have 2 download and

Re: Howto: CUPS Printing from OpenOffice.org -- Why the Huge Delay?

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
ks the printer is running, and restart it if it isn't. I have found that occasionally CUPS tends to stop printers without any action from me, but they can always be restarted via this admin web page. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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