RE: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please > > All, > I have a crappy old Compaq Presario 1210, and KDE runs like a > dog on it. > I really only need a couple of xterminals, and mouse functionality. > > What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I > dont care h

RE: Newbie Modem Q

2003-08-14 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: Newbie Modem Q > > I prefer internal modems because it limits my cable mess.  :)  I know > plenty of people who prefer external modems because they are easier to > debug. > another point is that most external modems have a power/reset switch that comes in handy when dealing with

RE: which woody-iso ?

2003-08-15 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: which woody-iso ? > I downloaded the LordSutch.com ISO image[1] which is about 10 MB, > burned, booted, and installed the rest over the net. It works great if > you've got a broadband connection. Actually it is bearable with a dialup connection also (as long as you don't mind wait

3COM PCMCIA Modem

2003-08-22 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: 3COM PCMCIA Modem I have to get a new modem for my notebook and was hoping someone had experience with the 3COM 3ccm156 56K Glob.V90 PCMCIA modem.  I have found it for roughly $25 (US) and was about to order when I thought I would ask. Although I have not ever had a problem with the co

RE: pppd and Debian...

2003-08-27 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: pppd and Debian... > I have a problem . My modem is detected by Linux, but when > I try to connect by wvdial, this message is shown on console: > > Hmm... a prompt. Sending "ppp". > ppp > PPP: Not enabled > try wvdial as root.  I don't think you have your permissions set

RE: memory not pro-actively marked free?

2003-11-20 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: memory not pro-actively marked free? > > P.S. is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one > wants just to use the humble console?  I know there is a startx > program, but no stopx. > > "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" will kill the X-server.

RE: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop > >>In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz > >>with 32 MB of RAM. I read of another choice called (if i remember correctly) XPed.  I am going to look this up myself over our holiday and see how well i

RE: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises >Though I am somewhat concerned about the following bit from the message: > > "Please understand that we cannot give away the used exploit to random > people who we don't know.  So please don't ask us about it." > > I'm afraid

Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-14 Thread Preston Boyington
I've been trying off and on to install Sarge onto a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop without great success. Each time I would complete the install, the computer would reboot, and the laptop would hang at GRUB's boot loader. Since I know that the installer is still evolving, I didn't think much of it.

RE: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-14 Thread Preston Boyington
Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Preston Boyington (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> I've been trying off and on to install Sarge onto a Gateway Solo 1150 >> laptop without great success. Each time I would complete the >> install, the computer w

RE: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-15 Thread Preston Boyington
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Preston Boyington wrote: >> Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> >> It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following: >> >> root (hd0,0) >> kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro >> initrd

RE: USB Generic Drive Storage

2004-10-04 Thread Preston Boyington
Ryan Waye wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to use a USB Flash drive on my 2.6.7 Linux box. > Debian seems to detect it, here is the entry from > /proc/bus/usb/devices file: > So it appears to have been detected, but how do I access it? > > Sincerely, > Ryan Waye maybe try as root: mount /dev

dpkg/apt question

2004-07-22 Thread Preston Boyington
i have "inherited" an existing debian box and want to change the packages to suit me and the office that it will now be used. i would like to take the installed packages listed from: dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt and edit the file to reflect what i actually want/need on the box. after i

RE: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > Is there any particular reason that you don't want to use aptitude or > dselect to interactively change the installed packages? > > -- > monique sorry, there was more to the story than i guess i led you to believe. here's a bit more information. the existing debia

RE: Resize partitions urgent help

2004-08-03 Thread Preston Boyington
David Baron wrote: > When I bought a big disk, I put in several Windows paritions and a > Linux one. No sweat, installed Knoppix and onwards. If I get around > to dividing Linux things up, I will probably use it again. I have moved to using QTParted. It's on the Knoppix cdrom and works very well

RE: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread Preston Boyington
> -Original Message- > From: James Miller > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: network install via dialup? > > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network > in

RE: mp3 file cutter

2004-01-07 Thread Preston Boyington
> -Original Message- > From: LeVA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: mp3 file cutter > > > Uh.. I have lame. I don't need Lame packages, because I've > compiled it > from sources. I just said, that this CueShee

RE: Important!

2003-07-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: Important! > > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 23:59, rayhab wrote: > > I need to get an operating system to fit on one rw cd. > You can try knoppix. It's based on debian. For more > information look at > http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html > > There you will also find informa

RE: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-25 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system > I have Woody installed on an IBM 340CSE laptop with a 486/50, > 12MB of RAM, > and a 10GB drive.  It currently boots, but hits swap the > instant I start the > PCMCIA card services to bring up wireless networking; even a > "ps axw" st

RE: books-manuals

2003-07-25 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: books-manuals Hy debian users A question from a beginner. Any recomendations on a good Debian-linux guide, with administration tools and basic setups?? Thanks Tiago Cunha you may also want to check: http://www.debianuniverse.com/ Preston

RE: kernel compilation question

2003-07-28 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: kernel compilation question > Now that I'm fully moved over to Debian :-), I'm looking at start > tinkering with kernel compilation. > > I would "assume" I'd need the kernel-source package of my > choice? But it > are there any other package(s) I'd need to download to get started?

RE: CD Boot Problem

2003-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
sounds like the cd media you burned has an error.  this can be caused by a manufacturing error on the cd.  burn another cdrom and give it a try.  also, try not burning at full speed.  sometimes people burn disks that are rated 12x at 30x+ and will make cd's that behave like you describe.  

video card, dvd/vcd

2003-07-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: video card, dvd/vcd I am thinking about buying an all-in-wonder card to convert some old vhs tapes to vcd/dvd.  I would like some suggestions/experiences from the group for software or hardware. I don't care if it is command line or gui, I just want good results (baby's first birthday,

RE: Console only box?

2004-06-11 Thread Preston Boyington
David Haughton wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >> David Haughton wrote: >> >>> Then you have "elm" and "lynx" for email and web and that's pretty >>> much all you need, eh? >> >> >> s/elmg/mutt/ >> s/lynx/links/ >> > > I still prefer lynx over links (or links2 or whatever). agreed. and

sources url wanted

2004-06-18 Thread Preston Boyington
recently there was a post in which someone posted a url to their apt sources.list. the one i saw began as such: # # My source.list that covers all versions of Debian # usually uptodate, some backups are present if some fail # which do on occasion. Usually a 3rd party site. # would someone mind

Home Debian "Mirror"

2004-08-17 Thread Preston Boyington
I would like to set up a home "mirror" (i386 archive) to run my installs from. I am on dial-up and a friend has offered to download the 13 CDs of Sarge for me to help get started. What is the best way to take the CDs and "convert" them into a working APT archive? Is this something I would use

RE: Best iso image for unstable

2004-08-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Joris Huizer wrote: > > As far as I know, there are *no* debian/unstable iso images (it'd be a > nightmare to keep those updated... ) Sarge has (currently) 13 disks. Look on Debian.org for links to the images (I think under "CD Images" or some such). I've had to go this route only because I do

RE: LAN APT-GET ?

2004-08-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Grant wrote: > Hey, > > Just wondering if i was to download all debian woody cd's > could i copy > the contents to a folder on my Intranet server and use that as an > apt-get source... as every UK apt-get source seems to give me errors > or is missing parts. > > It would only be for LAN access an

Real Debian LiveCD?

2004-09-01 Thread Preston Boyington
I am involved with a project that is (currently) using Knoppix as a base for a LiveCD. The end result of the project is having a "trial" cdrom that can then be installed as a real Debian system. I know that there are projects like Morphix (which is what the Debian Non-Profit is based on) and t

RE: Real Debian LiveCD?

2004-09-01 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul Johnson wrote: > > Since when is Debian based on Morphix? not Debian. Debian-NP. it's a Custom Debian Distribution (CCD) for non-profits. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/ information on the Bootable CD is here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/News/2003/20031129

Sarge install hangs on reboot

2004-09-07 Thread Preston Boyington
I am trying to install Sarge on a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop and it is hanging after I reboot. Specifically it hangs on bootup when I see "boot" on the screen. I am using the Sarge disks (downloaded iso's) from debian.org and there doesn't seem to be a problem with the initial base install or ha

What is the minimum RAM needed for 2.4?

2004-03-09 Thread Preston Boyington
I haven't seen a minimum, but I was wondering since there are a couple of 133's here with 32meg of ram that I want to update. They are currently running kernel 2.2.20 which I want to upgrade to whatever is the latest kernel-image available (adding a wireless card to one and it was suggested I u

RE: What is the minimum RAM needed for 2.4?

2004-03-09 Thread Preston Boyington
> > Seems the 2.4.18-1.586tsc or maybe 2.4.18-1.686 packages are what you > need (if you use Woody). > how up to date are the patches in the kernel from debian.org? i've never patched a kernel, so it will be something new/fun to do. i am planning on compiling a kernel next, wish me luck. Pres

PPP config with external modem

2004-03-22 Thread Preston Boyington
This weekend I installed a base Debian system using the new installer. My only "problem" is after using pppconfig to setup my external modem it will activate the modem (dial and apparently connect) but I can't get apt-setup to connect to any sources to download programs. I "su" in to "pon" my

RE: PPP config with external modem

2004-03-22 Thread Preston Boyington
John Hasler wrote: : Preston writes: :: This weekend I installed a base Debian system using the new :: installer. My only "problem" is after using pppconfig to setup my :: external modem it will activate the modem (dial and apparently :: connect) but I can't get apt-setup to connect to any sources

RE: Cloning

2004-01-29 Thread Preston Boyington
> Subject: Cloning > > > Hello all! > > I'm about to install Debian on 12 computers (i*86). They will use the > same setup regarding software, but the hardware differs somewhat > between them. > > I would like to know if there is possible to, for example, install and > configure one box and th

RE: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-16 Thread Preston Boyington
> -Original Message- > From: David Clymer > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:41 PM > > > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:49, Bojan Baros wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I > > have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects m

netgear/linksys/microsoft wireless pcmcia card? (also a quick apt .conf question...)

2004-02-16 Thread Preston Boyington
i am in need of a wireless card for an older laptop running woody 3.0. i have three different brands available in my area (netgear, linksys, microsoft), although i possibly could order a card in the two week's time available to me before i _have_ to have it. i currently use a cabled 10/100 netgea

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > What changed is the name and logo in compilation time, nothing else also be aware that some extensions don't like Iceweasel as opposed to FireFox or SwiftFox. this will hopefully change in the near future since i suspect that it is looking for some type of "sig

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-27 Thread Preston Boyington
Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try: > > fluxbox > icewm > pekwm > fvwm2 > > You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of > fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with > 512M main, and 64M ati-rage is performing

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Preston Boyington
didier gaumet wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > > [...] >> and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D > > Hello Preston, > > what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Preston Boyington
Kent West wrote: > > Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better > before Debian came along ) > ...that lives in another town and can't come to dance (prom, graduation, party) because she always seems to get sick or help her parents. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-29 Thread Preston Boyington
Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Identical behavior to apt-get has never been a goal for me, so the > answer is almost certainly "yes". (not that I gratuitously break > apt-get compatibility; it's just not something I track one way or the > other unless I get bug reports) > one thing i noticed from

Re: Inspiron b120 wireless

2008-03-07 Thread Preston Boyington
Celejar wrote: What's the chipset (appropriate excerpt of 'lspci')?... If nothing shows with 'lspci' then also try 'lsusb'. I have found that some cards show up as a USB device (Realtek nics on some Toshiba laptops comes to mind). -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.a

Re: Debian Installation Process ?s

2008-03-19 Thread Preston Boyington
Rick Kalkowski wrote: I've got an old WinXP lap-top I'd like to resurrect for my son to use What is the brand and model of the laptop? places like: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ are usually a good place to start. > When I crank up the PC now, it's asking me for an admin password (that's

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: xfce used to use gtk1. It now uses gtk2 which is far more bloated which makes it slower. It also uses more memory... Icewm does not, and OpenBox may not either. You could try those. currently i use FVWM-Crystal as my default desktop environment with Fluxbox as

Re: [Solved] Re: Unable to remove trousers (package!!!)

2008-07-09 Thread Preston Boyington
jpk wrote: I really hate this thread... Now I am sitting in a corner, crying like a little girl... ;) -- Julian Knauer yes, but it has brought so much joy to others. i even forwarded it to people not on list. :D Preston -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.arra

auto update headers

2008-07-16 Thread Preston Boyington
why is it that after a round of updates via aptitude i have to go in and install things like linux-headers afterwards? how can i tell it to automatically update them along with the kernel? i was under the impression that if i had them installed then aptitude would update them as it does any o

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-22 Thread Preston Boyington
Bruno Voigt wrote: I just found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc # which /dev/dsp wrapper to use ICEWEASEL_DSP="auto" I changed it to none and everything is fine now :-) lol, mine was different. for me i had to use: ICEWEASEL_SDP="auto" i think my problem was that Icewe

Re: ping

2008-07-22 Thread Preston Boyington
Ron Johnson wrote: It appears that something blocked my l.d.o email for about 16 hours. It's all flowing now, though. maybe you need a gmail account... :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiled madwifi module, how to 'reload' without rebooting

2008-08-01 Thread Preston Boyington
H.S. wrote: On a Debian Testing I just compiled the new module from madwifi-source. I've got to where I am using Module Assistant for this stuff. It is super easy and if you open a terminal and type "sudo m-a" you will be able to do everything you need in just a few minutes. check it ou

Re: --

2008-08-01 Thread Preston Boyington
Frank McCormick wrote: well said, Frank. well said... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Preston Boyington
Damon L. Chesser wrote: I think I will once more look it over, if for no other reason then Ron Johnson will not snicker at me. well i don't "know" Ron but given what i have read i wouldn't bet on that. :D I moved from apt-get to aptitude and now I don't even think about it anymore. This

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Preston Boyington
Daniel Burrows wrote: If you just mean that you have to learn the keystrokes ... that's probably not going to change; with the limited screen real estate on a terminal, I can't afford to put in buttons on everything. Although I haven't delved into aptitude as deeply as I probably should, I wou

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Preston Boyington
Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:11:06 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Preston Boyington wrote: As it stands, I press "/" enter my search criteria and then press "enter" to access the packages. Then I press "/" again and "

Re: how th generate like oficial site from packages (or CD's)

2008-04-11 Thread Preston Boyington
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Indeed, reprepro is a lot better, I tried it yesterday, and faster too. I invoke reprepro from a C++ program to generate a local mirror of all the packages that a system contains, generated by dpkg-repack, if anybody is interested. Hugo I am very interested. How can

Re: difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/15/2008 07:29 PM, Celejar wrote: Nitpick - the apt-get command doesn't need to be run as superuser if it's just printing uris. :-O Why you're right! Now I might be able to use apt-get to experiment with potential changes without damaging the system. Thanks. actu

Re: difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: actually you can do: apt-get --dry-run and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started using aptitude for my package manager i now try

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Manu Hack wrote: Hi, I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. Thanks a lot. Manu i wonder if you could do this: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-19 Thread Preston Boyington
Uwe Bugla wrote: I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted to adjust a workstation to another monitor. Traditionallly that works by the following command: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. If I run that command, the script ends up with the question whether to emulate a 3-

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Preston Boyington
Javier Vasquez wrote: I have an old laptop with a 10G HD...and changing the HD on the only IDE slot is getting less fun each time i really like using a livecd for these things and my current favorite is the gparted-clonezilla livecd. couple that with a usb laptop drive enclosure and things

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Preston Boyington
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Wine is fermented from fruit. Distilled wine is brandy. Beer is fermented from grain. Distilled beer is whiskey. Corn beer? Technical

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-05 Thread Preston Boyington
Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 11:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote

Re: How to install a small graphic manager

2008-06-10 Thread Preston Boyington
abelahcene wrote: Hi, I have a miniPc, can't install the heavy gnome or kde on it . I want to install a just graphic , in fact I want to use it , just to display a window . Any small WM will be OK. i have Fluxbox running on a 133mhz/16mb compaq laptop. with gKrellm and a few scripts i us

rhythmbox issue

2009-07-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Hello all, I did an upgrade the other day and now rhythmbox throws an error when it opens an mp3 (can't find codec?) then WILL eventually play. Also it takes quite a while for it to start a new song after the previous is finished. All other system sounds, videos, game sounds play just fine. I'm

Re: [SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Mark wrote: > Thanks J. Found an 8 GB drive for $16 so I'm moving forward with this, > I figure it's worth a try. > Just curious but have you tried UNetbootin? http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ it's also available in Debian: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&keywords=unetbootin --

Re: wi-fi security?

2009-08-05 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul E Condon wrote: > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is > installed on my Acer Aspire one... Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the update-manager because I

Re: wi-fi security?

2009-08-06 Thread Preston Boyington
Manon Metten wrote: > ...when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove > 'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless, > I cancelled the installation. > yes, this will also happen if you are running the gnome network manager. it's sort of 'all or nothing'. anoth

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul E Condon wrote: > I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it > mounted automatically within a few seconds. I expecially like the way > a device that has a label given to it is mounted on a mount-point that > is named with that label, and when I un-mount the device t

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Lisi Reisz wrote: > XFCE is currently looking like the front runner, but I fear that it may be en > route to getting bloated. Opinions, please. well, it's going to be a little bit of a trade off since I'm seeing more GNOME libs and such. still it will be faster and less bloated than GNOME. >

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to > ask, but how do I install Debian? > > I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can > boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and > then boot from it. But I pr

Re: Starting MTA:

2009-09-17 Thread Preston Boyington
Dale wrote: > 2009/9/17 K. Jantzen : >> Hello >> >> in the booting sequence of Debian lenny I see a line saying >> >> Starting MTA: >> >> It "takes ages" until Debian comes up with "exim4". Thus booting takes >> quite some time. >> >> What does that mean? >> Do I have to have that? >> If not, ho

pinning question

2009-09-17 Thread Preston Boyington
I have a laptop that functions 'just right' hardware wise so I have no interest in upgrading the compiled kernel (2.6.26 I believe), xorg, or rhythmbox (11.6). Newer kernels seem to break my fglrx and madwifi setups along with the newer rhythmbox giving me grief. I am looking into apt pinning for

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Preston Boyington
Kevin Ross wrote: > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to > autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put > whatever window manager you want into ~/.xinitrc

Re: Anyone using the CAD packages?

2009-04-28 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul Johnson wrote: > Alan Shutko wrote: >> Aryan Ameri writes: >> >>> Well, I always thought that AutoCAD was the equivalent of Windows in the >>> CAD world. And I thought that for more professinal stuff ( i.e >>> designing BMW cars) businesses use more sophisticated products (which >>> again

Re: Anyone using the CAD packages?

2009-04-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Paul Johnson wrote: > Preston Boyington wrote: > >> IF there were more of a push for Linux at the workplace (desktops not >> just server room) then the "money factor" would help bring the >> businesses around. As it is, there's no real incentive to prod

Re: no sound

2009-06-10 Thread Preston Boyington
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > HI, > on my new laptop HP, > I tryed debian 5.0, ubuntu 9.04 , linuxMint 7, > > the sound is not running on all, while the hardware is detected , the > sound indicator is green correct, When I play a sound file, it plays > normally, but no* sound is heard.* > > here

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Preston Boyington
H.S. wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> >> Right up until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's a severe pain to fix. > > I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when > the processor was quite busy (updating and installing stuff using yum). > This was a surprise to me

Re: Mounting an old external USB drive

2008-10-30 Thread Preston Boyington
S D wrote: > > Am trying to mount an old BusLink USB drive but can't determine what device > the USB drive is connected to, that is, the device that I'd pass to the mount > command. I tried "fdisk -l" but it only appears to show my other internal HDs. > check your dmesg output also. -- To

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Preston Boyington
Dean Chester wrote: > Hi > Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that > Vista boots up quicker than debian. > Dean I use nullmailer instead of Exim since I don't need/want to run a mail server and I bring up my networks (wi-fi, lan) manually when I want them. I used b

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Preston Boyington
Micha Feigin wrote: > > My two problems with wicd (one of them is not an issue at the moment, but it > was) > > 1. the memory overhead of the client (why python? it's very good for daemons > and such, not very memory efficient) > root 4634 0.2 0.3 89776 7776 ?S00:51 3:23 py

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-02-02 Thread Preston Boyington
Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Can i have a regular desktop Debian without an MTA? > yes. install 'nullmailer' via aptitude. i use it on my laptops. (haven't read all the posts yet, so someone might have already suggested this) Preston -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.arr

Re: Cloning methods

2009-02-10 Thread Preston Boyington
Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/2/8 Stefan Monnier: >>> What's the best method for cloning a partition? [searching for an >>> open-source software alternateive for it :P] > > If you use XFS the xfsdump/xfsrestore programs are very good. > > Theres also clonezilla which should do the job. > I've had

Re: recommended webcam?

2007-11-21 Thread Preston Boyington
steve wrote: > Bruno Boettcher wrote: >> i want to play around with ip-telephony and thus need a webcam... >> so what webcam are there that are easy to get working under debian? > > http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ > > drivers for logitech, well known, well supported, and widely available > hardwa

Re: recommended webcam?

2007-11-21 Thread Preston Boyington
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > so what webcam are > there that are easy to get working under debian with more appropriate > resolution and framerate? as a quick update i have just got a Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks working with ekiga and luvcview. the beta of Skype is giving me some video error

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-26 Thread Preston Boyington
Serena Cantor wrote: I have used Linux for 8 years. I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my life can be a little easier. I use s

acidrip not showing status

2007-11-27 Thread Preston Boyington
i run debian testing and noticed today that acidrip is not showing any status / progress in either the "full" or "compact" views. since it seems to work very well otherwise i am wondering if it is a permission issue or something relatively simple to fix. any help will be appreciated. -- Arrant

external drive as partial mirror

2008-01-16 Thread Preston Boyington
I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32? Has anyone done this from a Windows machine and could maybe give me some examples? Thanks,

indefinitely hold a package

2008-01-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Since I have been having an issue with the current xorg blowing the display on this HP dv5000 laptop, I wanted to keep the currently installed (stable) version. Is there a way that I can let aptitude update everything else without having to worry about it automatically selecting xorg packages

Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-26 Thread Preston Boyington
I have Debian Testing with the Gnome environment setup on a friends' laptop. In an effort to make things easier to use I'm trying to stick with Network Manager because of the PPP support for the USB cellular broadband. Each time the computer is started (GDM auto logins to user) NM asks to access

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-26 Thread Preston Boyington
(commented in-line) On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > You are using Debian testing, so I guess you use NM 0.7. specifically 0.7.1-1 > If so, you have two options: > > Mark the connection as system connection in nm-connection-editor ("Available > to > all users"). This wa

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-27 Thread Preston Boyington
Mr. Wang Long wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:05, Preston Boyington > wrote: >> (commented in-line) >> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> >> >> I've re-created my keyring and made sure that the libpam files are >

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-27 Thread Preston Boyington
Michael Biebl wrote: > As already said, setting gdm to autologin will of course not work. you > actually > have to type your password once. > If you are using autologin, you might just as well use a blank password for > your > gnome-keyring (not that i recommend that). > hmm, haven't thought

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread Preston Boyington
Zachary Uram wrote: > But when I try to sudo as that user to root I get error: > > $ sudo su root I think there is some confusion. I don't know of any reason to use both 'su' and 'sudo' in a command. either you would 'su' to root or you would 'sudo' to run a singular command. 'su' is to chang

Re: Problem in Debian 5 Installation

2009-12-10 Thread Preston Boyington
Anirban Patra wrote: > HiI 've tried to install Debian 5 version but the problem is that* > DVD is not detected by my PC.* I 've tried in other PCs , there it is > running ok. But in my PC, other linux version (*SUSE 10,FEDORA 10) are > running fine*.What should I do? My PC configuration is : I

Re: QCAD Pro in Squeeze

2011-06-21 Thread Preston Boyington
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:45:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: RibbonSoft notes that QCAD Pro worked in Debian 3.1 and 4.0. Is anyone using it in 6, Squeeze? I'm wondering whether to stick with Generic CADD 6.1 purchased years ago or switch to QCAD Pro 2.2. Recommendations appreciated.

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-06-28 Thread Preston Boyington
William Hopkins wrote: On 06/28/11 at 08:39am, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems tha

Re: Game for toddlers

2011-07-05 Thread Preston Boyington
T o n g wrote: Hi, Do you have any *first hand experiences* of games available in Debian that toddlers of 2 to 4 can enjoy? while not exactly a game, my daughter enjoyed playing with TuxPaint. there are plenty of stamps, colors, and sounds that kept her entertained while getting her used

Re: Game for toddlers

2011-07-06 Thread Preston Boyington
Ralf Mardorf wrote: P.S. Be sure to give the kids their own accounts, because they will drag panels all over the screen, add countless "Untitled Folder"s to the desktop, etc. My kids also liked the idea of having a secret password to log in. I used our last name, so they could practice spelli

Re: Wheezy: Ctrl+F (find file) doesn't work in Konqueror?

2011-07-06 Thread Preston Boyington
lee wrote: T Elcor writes: KDE 4.x.x looks like a horrible disaster that never ends. Time to start looking for another desktop. fvwm-crystal is pretty awesome I used fvwm-crystal a good bit a few years back: http://prestonboyington.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/crystal-clear/ I still play wi

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