3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

2003-11-18 Thread Scarletdown
This may seem like a weird question, but is the 3Com EtherLink III (3c509) ISA NIC not supported under Knoppix? I just booted up my hardware testing system, which uses a 3c905, and Knoppix failed to detect the NIC. I know this card works, because I also have Win-98SE on this same system, as we

Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

2003-11-18 Thread Scarletdown
On 18 Nov 2003 at 17:57, Alexander Winston wrote: > > Just a note: Things supported in Debian might not be supported in > Knoppix and vice versa. They are very different distributions, so things > often vary between the two. > Still, it seems rather strange that the 3c509 wouldn't be supported

Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

2003-11-18 Thread Scarletdown
> After Knoppix has loaded, have you tried manually probing the 3c509 > driver(s)? > That fixed it. Had to SU to root, then run modprobe 3c509 irq=10. After that, netcardconfig detected the NIC and it was configured painlessly. Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Prot

Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-18 Thread Scarletdown
Has anyone here managed to successfully get Debian working on an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? I especially need to make sure that both on-board NICs (nVidia nForce MCP and 3Com 3C920B-EMB), and the on-board sound (nVidia nForce) will work. The nForce Drivers CD that came with my board has Red Hat

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
.. tar -xvzf *gz (since I didn't want to type in the rather lengthy file name) cd nforce make make install make and make install gave me errors which can be seen in these to screen photos (figured this was better than trying to write them down. make http://webpages.charter.

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: > >   At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. > > Frm the screen shot, it looks like a 2.2.20 kernel. > Well, I downloaded everything from here: http:/

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: > > On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: > > > > At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. > > > > Frm

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-19 Thread Scarletdown
On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: > > On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: > > > > At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. > > > > Frm

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your > current kernel source): > > cd /usr/src/linux > cp /boot/config-2-4-18- .config > make oldconfig > make dep > > After all that, it should work. That didn't work, because I can

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 17:57, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Looks like you need to install the kernel-headers package that goes > which your kernel-image package (assuming you are using a prepackaged > Debian kernel). > > # apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` > > then make a symlink to /usr/src/li

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 11:00, Alexander Rink wrote: > "apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r`" will fetch that missing files from > a debian server for you. > And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the nVidia nForce drivers installe

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
Second try at this.  Meant to send it to the list last night, but ended up going out as a private email instead... On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:44, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: > > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > > > 1. Have a

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: > No problem there - you did install from a cd right?(you must have, > as you don't have connectivity). > Use "apt-cdrom add" to put your install cd in your sources and I did that, and inserted the disk that has the kernal headers (disk 6). > >

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 19:41, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > > On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: > > Couldn't find package kernal-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 > ^^ > > Kernel is spelled with two e's and no a's.

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your > current kernel source): > > cd /usr/src/linux > cp /boot/config-2-4-18- .config > make oldconfig > make dep > > After all that, it should work. The headers are now allegedly pr

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 22:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > cd /usr/src/ > ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 linux > cd linux/ > Okay. I just gave that a try, and then running make oldconfig still gives me the "No rule to make target `oldconfig'. Stop" error. I think I'm just going to have to go ahea

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
hen did a cd /nforce, and executed the make command. Here's the results (only 1 error as far as I can tell) http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Misc/The-Fight-Goes-On-0.JPG After that, I skipped their instruction to issue the su command, since I was already logged in as root, and wen

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-21 Thread Scarletdown
On 21 Nov 2003 at 2:25, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > You probably have a compiler version mismatch (i.e., the kernel was > compiled with a slightly different version of gcc than what you have > installed. I recommend that you just get the full sources, customize, > and build your kernel, then build t

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-25 Thread Scarletdown
On 21 Nov 2003 at 11:05, John Peter wrote: > Roberto is right - don't let yourself be intimidated with it ! > Put everything on paper and follow the guide step by step, you will > succed and it's not that hard - it just seems so... > Don't forget to unninstall and clean everything you did be

Convert ext2 to ext3?

2003-11-28 Thread Scarletdown
I'm in the process of putting Debian on my test-system, and I noticed that the filesystem defaults to ext2.  Is there an easy way to nondestructively convert to ext3? --Alt-Boundary-28214.4589691-- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-28 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, I just made another unsuccessful attempt to get an XF86 and Ethernet-enabled Debian system running.  The NIC and the video card are both pretty common, so I _thought_ that they would be supported. Looks like I was wrong yet again. Anyway, the video setup is an S3Virge (86C325) with 4M

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-28 Thread Scarletdown
etherconf > Here's s hot of what the /etc/network/interfaces file contains, as well as the results of lspci http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Misc/Screen-0.JPG The second video adapter on the list is the one I am trying to use.  The first on on the list is the on-board video, which is

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread Scarletdown
Situation Update... I went ahead and started from scratch. And _this time_ I remembered to enter bf24 at the boot prompt in order to install Kernel 2.4. Anyway, This time around, I was given the option to format the partitions as either ext2 or ext3 (last time, ext2 was the only option, meanin

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread Scarletdown
back to the command prompt. Here is the session log... http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Misc/XFree86.0.log So now, my questions are: 1: How do I make GNOME my default instead of KDE? 2: How do I get rid of that damn flickering? 3: Why did the X-Server crash

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Scarletdown
On 29 Nov 2003 at 14:58, Kent West wrote: > (By posting the solution you might also be helping somoe future aarchive > searcher.) Yes, I fully agree there. I've lost count of the number of times I've researched a problem on various newsgroups and other message forums, and the search results sh

Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Scarletdown
I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems that all I had to do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is lower the default resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running 1024x768 24- Bit color. Changing to 800x600 16-Bit color seems to have done the trick. It's kind of

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-10 Thread Scarletdown
couple Tux lapel pins and Tux keychains.  They have some stuff there with the Debian logo as well, but I prefer the penguin myself, though I may eventually order a sheet of Debian case badges too.  No reason not to have more than 1 badge on a computer afterall.  :D -- Scarletdown

Compiling a Kernel - Need ncurses

2003-12-10 Thread Scarletdown
I am once again giving a whirl at compiling a 2.4.22 kernel; this time on my test box which I am telnetted into so I don't have to keep switching back and forth via the KV switch. Anyway, I managed to unpack the tarball and create the symbolic link to it.  But when I try make menuconfig, I

Setting Up Email

2003-12-12 Thread Scarletdown
om of the screen is the notice: /var/mail/scarletdown: No such file or directory (errno = 2) (scarletdown is the name of the regular non-root user account). I did a little investigating and it seems that there should be a file (or possibly a directory) in each user's home directory called m

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-12 Thread Scarletdown
On 12 Dec 2003 at 21:05, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Scarletdown: > > I've been trying to set up POP3 email access (in text mode instead of from the > > desktop), and > > am really stumped now. I just did a little experiment and installed fetchmail, > > t

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
What the? How did that end up getting sent to this group? Anyways, please disregard that message, as It is obviously just a screw up on my part during my attempts to get outbound email working properly. On 12 Dec 2003 at 22:35, Scarletdown FeatherTail wrote: > d > q > >

Now To See If I Got It Right (sendmail stuff)

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, unlike that last one, this is intended to go to the list just to see if I finally got sendmail (exim) configured properly. I added a line to .muttrc that aliases scarletdown (the user I created on this system) to my charter email address. So here we go... :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem. It has no volume control. Anyway, I did a bit of snooping around and came across this: http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/derouler/info/workbone/index.html.en That

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote: > I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in > /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you didn't > tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file for your home directory and

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 2:09, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly > recommend 72 as a good default. > > Thank you. Done. I thought I had done that a while back; then remembered that I had switched my subscription over from my Yahoo account

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 19:39, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:18:09PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > To mention several > > packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster > > can play cd's and comes with nmixer; >

Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. 1: Every time I connect, I always get root's desktop by default. How do I configure vncse

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 22:53, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Unless you need the entire desktop for something, you might try > X11 forwarding. You can install Cygwin/X on your '98 box and then > ssh into your Debian box. Then you can run whatever X apps you want > as the user that you logged in as. I am n

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 14 Dec 2003 at 1:10, sloopy malibu wrote: > I followed these directions and now I get to login when I run vnc... > > http://trilug.org/~chrish/blog.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=130 > > And runs great > I followed those directions and it didn't change anything. I think that is because step

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
and discovered there is no Xvnc. Is it named something else on a Debian system or what? On 14 Dec 2003 at 0:02, Scarletdown wrote: > On 14 Dec 2003 at 1:10, sloopy malibu wrote: > > > > I followed these directions and now I get to login when I run vnc... > > > > h

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 14 Dec 2003 at 11:28, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > You need to run vncserver as that user. > > > > > 2: The VNC session always gives me the KDE desktop. However, I would > > like to run other desktops as well (GNOME

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 1:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:04:23 -0800, > "Scarletdown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So I am making some headway on this project. Now, here is what I am > > ultimately sho

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 3:24, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:59:58PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > > Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE > > desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly > > enamored

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 14 Dec 2003 at 23:14, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:56 pm, Scarletdown wrote: > > > Oh, and after looking at everything I posted above here, I am now > > wondering... Since the lines added to /etc/inetd.conf call Xvnc, is it > > possible that I

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-15 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 0:47, Nate Duehr wrote: > No, I believe you should be using Xvnc :x -- single digit. Look up how VNC > assigns port numbers to their "server numbers". > > This post from long ago from the VNC site should be useful... > > http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2001-April/02

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-15 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 0:46, Gruessle wrote: > > Where can I find gpm (Setting Up Mouse) > > I have not figured out how to find stuff jet. > I know about dselect - but can't find anything I am looking for in there. apt-get install gpm should do the trick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Proxy and Firewall Recommendations?

2003-12-15 Thread Scarletdown
I'm about to embark on my next project, getting a Debian system set up as a proxy and firewall. This is going to be the system that my roommate will be connecting to as his gateway to the Internet. He is running Windows-98SE, and the system that he is currently connecting through (the same one

Re: Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 19:48, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I tryed it a couple of hours ago and it was still down. Seems to be up now. (21:35 PDT) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT-Make more noise.

2003-12-16 Thread Scarletdown
On 16 Dec 2003 at 9:26, Geoff Bagley wrote: > The problem I face with my local dealer (Evesham) is not compatibility. > That is already there. The problem is that I don't want Windows, and > don't want to pay for it since I won't sign the EALA, and don't want to > support Big Bill's pension f

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

2003-12-16 Thread Scarletdown
Quite some time ago, I was trying to get Debian working properly on my primary workstation, an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with 512MB RAM, Athlon 2500 Barton, and GeForce 5600FX 256MB AGP Video Card. Back then, I was having all sorts of problems getting anything on the MB to work and getting the nForce

Re: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

2003-12-16 Thread Scarletdown
On 16 Dec 2003 at 22:56, Josh McKinney wrote: > > http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html > That worked quite well. Only thing that isn't working now is the on- board nVidia NIC, which is what the cable modem is connected to. The on- board 3COM NIC works fine though. So it looks

Re: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

2003-12-17 Thread Scarletdown
On 17 Dec 2003 at 14:15, Arne Goetje wrote: > Can't help you with the tuner card, but for the nvidia nic: if you don't > want to compile the manufacturer's drivers (which I can understand), > slip in a cheap realtek card and off you go. That's what I did, mainly > because I had one lying aroun

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
Michael Madden wrote: Alex Barylo wrote: I second that - I use my old AMD-K6 box with Sarge as a firewall. I use and _highly_ recommend FIAIF firewall (http://www.fiaif.net/) - I picked it up from securityfocus.com top tools. HTH, Alex. Thanks for all the advice. I guess something like LRP appeal

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
RRPotratz wrote: Mepis www.mepis.org . "Just Works" on 2 different laptops I've tried. USB external drives, thumbdrives, ethernet, modem ( lucent winmodem ), sound, video, even wireless nic! Nice choice of applications for a 1 cdrom distro. Easy install from the live cd. I heartily second

Old Annoyance Revisited (console cluttered with iptables noise)

2004-12-17 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, I've dealt with this little annoyance before on another system, and managed to resolve it. Unfortunately, that was so long ago, I don't remember how I did it. When I am working from the console, I keep getting messages like this: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:6e:93:e5:7f:00:03:6c:07:b8:54:08:00

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: Scarletdown escribió: The really great thing about Knoppix and its descendants is its portability due to the great hardware detection. In most cases, you can install one of these on one system, then transfer the drive to another system fairly seamlessly. That

Re: Old Annoyance Revisited (console cluttered with iptables noise)

2004-12-18 Thread Scarletdown
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Robert Vangel wrote: I know it is caused by iptables, but I can't seem to figure out how to AND by the (IMHO completely braindead) default console level set by klogd. them going to /var/log/messages and not the console. Edit

Re: Old Annoyance Revisited (console cluttered with iptables noise)

2004-12-18 Thread Scarletdown
Wayne Topa wrote: Scarletdown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Edit /etc/init.d/klogd, and add "-c 4" to the klogd options. That didn't fix it, unfortunately. Here's what /etc/init.d/klogd looks like: Just a thou

nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
I just recently did a fresh install of Debian (Sarge - Net Install and dist-upgraded to Sid) with Kernel 2.6.9-1-K7. After a bit of hair pulling, I managed to get the latest nVidia GeForce drivers installed. However, every time I reboot I have to reinstall the drivers, and then manually run g

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Ben Bettin wrote: I think I've always found Xchat to be the best GUI, especially in terms of it's similarity to mIRC. I'd be curious to see what everyone's favorite CLI client is. I've heard a few mentions of irssi in the past, but I've never tried it. Ben On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:02:21 -0400, Shai

TV Tuner Not Working - scantv Finds No Channels

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Here is another problem that had been resolved at one time, but it has been so long, I don't remember how it was achieved. I am trying to get my TV Tuner card working with either xawtv or TVTime. The card is a bt878 type, and connected to the TV cable (us-cable, NTSC). However, neither scantv

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Pau Capdevila wrote: I just solved this issue removing the package nvidia-glx. Firstly chek the nvidia kernel module loading in /etc/modules That problem has been solved. As per someone else's suggestion in this thread, a simple modprobe nvidia installed the drivers without having to run the

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: That problem has been solved. As per someone else's suggestion in this thread, a simple modprobe nvidia installed the drivers without having to run the nVidia installer. After that, I added nvidia to /etc/modules, and now the drivers load automatically. So that is one

And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

2004-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Since I am still stumped on the TV Tuner problem that I posted about earlier, I decided to start working on getting the printer up and running. I really thought that this would be a fairly easy one too, since it's just a simple old parallel port HP OfficeJet, which worked beautifully with CUPs

Re: And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

2004-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
William Ballard wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:14:30AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: When I do a test page (this is from the KDE Control Panel), a message pops up saying that the page was successfully sent to the printer. But, that is obviously false, as the printer does nothing at all. Is

Re: Moving from single to multipartition

2004-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Bob Alexander wrote: Dear Debian-friends, I am moving my fully updated Debian sid from a single partition to a multipartition scheme. My old "monopartition" which is currently alive is now on /dev/hda12 and is around 3.5 GB. The doubt I am having is how to properly move the / data to the new 7

Re: GUI

2004-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
David Ryan wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:56:52 -0800 (PST) alireza faryar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am new to debian. I installed on a 100 MHz dell with about 82 Meg of RAM and two disks, one is 1 G and the other is 2 G. I could not install all packages that come with the distribution CDs. I

Re: And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

2004-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
William Ballard wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:32:44AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: I've done all of that. This model is supported, and it still isn't working. So you can print from every application except KDE applications? Maybe you should check the bug reports. I can&#x

Re: Moving from single to multipartition

2004-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Bob Alexander wrote: Scarletdown wrote: 2) Copy the old /var, /tmp, /usr and /home data onto the new partitions, delete them, copy the rest on the new / (... snip ...) 7: Update your /etc/fstab file to mount those new partitions And that is really all there is to it. Repeat the process with

Re: And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

2004-12-22 Thread Scarletdown
Clive Menzies wrote: Whenever, I've tried to set up printing through KDE, it hasn't worked - similar problems to yours. However, what seems pretty bullet proof is setting up the printers through the web interface (localhost:631/admin - as William suggested). Log into CUPS. Delete any printers you'

OT - The Latest OS Offering from Microsoft

2004-12-26 Thread Scarletdown
http://internet.ls-la.net/pictures/images/Computer/Windows-Cement.png Just had to share that with everyone. At least, I thought it was rather amusing. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

2004-12-21 Thread Scarletdown
Matt Weber wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 00:14 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Since I am still stumped on the TV Tuner problem that I posted about earlier, I decided to start working on getting the printer up and running. I really thought that this would be a fairly easy one too, since it's j

Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?

2005-05-01 Thread Scarletdown
This is the one I have been contentedly using for the past year or so: http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817107953 It's a 4-port PS/2 KVM switch. In addition to using the button on the switch, you can switch systems by hitting Scroll Lock twice, followed by 1, 2, 3, or 4. An

Re: IM

2005-05-07 Thread Scarletdown
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote: > > >>What Paul (I think it was Paul; I'm going on memory) means is that >>you can post the image on your own personal web site, and then post >>a link to that website in IRC or in IM. Many ISPs provide 10MB or >>so of web space

How To Install Missing Libraries for Cinelerra?

2005-05-19 Thread Scarletdown
I'm trying to get Cinelerra installed. However, there's several libraries missing, that do not appear to be available via apt-get (sid). here's the error that I get when I attempt to install Cinelerra via dpkg: The following packages have unmet dependencies: cinelerra: Depends: libavcodec1 (>

Re: How To Install Missing Libraries for Cinelerra?

2005-05-19 Thread Scarletdown
Lee Braiden wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 22:09, Scarletdown wrote: cinelerra: Depends: libavcodec1 (>= 1:0.4.8) but it is not installable Depends: libguicast (>= 1:1.2.2) but it is not installable Depends: liblame0 (>= 3.96.1-1) but it is not installable

OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-19 Thread Scarletdown
I'm in the process of learning how to create video files in OGM format, and have had some moderate success so far. First, I created an AVI file and added music to it using AVIDemux. Then, I used mencoder to convert to OGM, since AVIDemux seems to choke when I try to save my file as OGM. Now,

Re: OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-20 Thread Scarletdown
Sven Arvidsson wrote: Scarletdown wrote: I'm in the process of learning how to create video files in OGM format, and have had some moderate success so far. First, I created an AVI file and added music to it using AVIDemux. Then, I used mencoder to convert to OGM, since AVIDemux seems to

Re: OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-20 Thread Scarletdown
Sven Arvidsson wrote: Scarletdown wrote: I just figured that since the size of the new file was considerably smaller than the original (2.07MB vs. 27.94MB), and that it did play in MPlayer, then it must have worked. Apparently I was wrong...again. You re-encoded the file with a more effective

Re: OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-20 Thread Scarletdown
Sven Arvidsson wrote: Scarletdown wrote: That was somewhat helpful. The relevant bit on that page was right near the end: ogmmerge -o My_Video.ogm video.avi audio.ogg Additionally, the ogm file seems a little too large: 25.26MB, which is only a couple MB smaller than the original AVI. Is

3 unrelated Questions (ipmasq, vncserver, and IceWM)

2005-05-29 Thread Scarletdown
As per the subject line, the following three questions are unrelated to each other. However, I felt it best to put them all in one post instead of doing 3 seperate posts. 1: I'm having some minor problems with ipmasq on a router I just built (Deabian Sid). After the network interfaces are b

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Scarletdown
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Or maybe some other source. I have just not heard of the term "fine manual" before. But, you obviously know more about this than I do. That is the "polite" definition of RTFM. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Mondo Frustration

2005-06-17 Thread Scarletdown
Can someone here possibly help me with a little problem I am having with Mondo Archive? First of all, here is the message that I am getting when it fails: ---FATALERROR--- The de facto standard location for your boot loader's config file is /etc/lilo.conf but I cannot find it there. What is

Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Scarletdown
I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for GIMP. However, xsane is not able to see the scanner. I just get a less than helpful

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Scarletdown
Jeff Golden wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:06:06 -0700, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as th

Somewhat OT - Uptime Girl

2004-10-19 Thread Scarletdown
Just recently posted to comp.os.linux.advocacy http://home.student.utwente.nl/r.j.audenaerde/uptimegirl/ A nice little spoof of the ol' tune, Uptown girl. I think the folks who recorded this did a pretty admirable job of it. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Dual Monitor Configuration - What Am I Missing?

2004-10-21 Thread Scarletdown
I am trying to get my system set up to be able to output to the TV (an old Amiga monitor connected to a VCR). Yesterday, I went ahead and purchased an S-Video to composite adapter and ran a cable from the S-Video Out port on my video card (NVidia Geforce 5600FX) to the video in port on the VCR

Re: swap space size

2004-10-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:55 pm, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > Hi all, > > There is an issue that I do not fully understand that I have always > kind of taken for rote. I was told back when I first started working > with Unix that the swap space needed to be at least twice the size of > physical m

streamer Captures Video But No Sound

2004-10-30 Thread Scarletdown
I'm having problems with an app called streamer. It is a part of xawtv, and it is supposed to allow for the capture of video and audio streams through a TV tuner card. I can get video captured and saved just fine, but I can't get sound. My capture card (Mach-TV) uses the bt878 chipset. Here

Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

2004-07-17 Thread Scarletdown
ly expand to my part of Kitsap County and assimilate Wave Broadband. :D -- Scarletdown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Suppressing "Document Contains No Data" Errors

2004-07-17 Thread Scarletdown
Quite some time ago, I made a whole bunch of entries in my hosts file to effectively block ad servers and other undesirable stuff, using the instructions found here: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ This has worked quite well, except I frequently get "Document Contains No Data" messages when o

Re: Suppressing "Document Contains No Data" Errors

2004-07-18 Thread Scarletdown
Frederik Dannemare wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 17 July 2004 20:34, Scarletdown wrote: > > >> Hello, hello! I've been rather quiet for a while here due to being >> busy with other projects. But now, I am needin

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

2004-07-18 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, trying this post once more. First time, I sent it to the fellow who responded instead of the list. Second time, I posted in the wrong thread. :/ Frederik Dannemare wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 17 July 2004 20:34, Scarl

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

2004-07-21 Thread Scarletdown
For some reason, this isn't showing up on lists.debian.user, so I will go ahead and repost it here... David Purton wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:29:06PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: -bash-2.05b# ifup eth1 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK an

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Scarletdown
Paul Stolp wrote: I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my I'm not sure the July 19 log snippet is related, but seems likely. Anyways, I've re-downloaded the files the attacker used and removed (for posterity.) I changed all passwords, IP Address, I found the evidence at

Connection Timeouts with Polaroid DC700 - Serial

2004-07-22 Thread Scarletdown
Up until a few months ago, gphoto2 worked great with my Polaroid PDC700 camera, which is connected to the first serial port (/dev/ttyS0). After doing a dist-upgrade, I can no longer download pictures out of my camera. I know the port is good, as I can reboot to the Windows-98 side of my syste

How Do I Get the Java Plugin To Work with Firefox and Mozilla?

2004-08-02 Thread Scarletdown
I've installed Java and made a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to where javaplugin.so is located, but whenever I try to access a dite that uses Java (such as the EZ-Board chat feature), I get "This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed w

Re: How Do I Get the Java Plugin To Work with Firefox and Mozilla?

2004-08-03 Thread Scarletdown
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 03 Aug 2004, Kent West wrote: Alejandro Matos wrote: I've installed Java and made a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to where javaplugin.so is located Which folder? i think there is 2 folders inside "plugins"... Saludos Alejandro Also, what are the permiss

Why Does KPackage Want to Pretty Much Wipe Out My System?

2004-08-04 Thread Scarletdown
I'm needing to get the qt libraries properly installed so I can install knewspost. In KPackage, I selected libqt3 and libqt3-mt, then clicked Install Marked. Thankfully, I also selected "Test" as well, because this is the output that I got from the test install... Reading Package Lists... Do

Re: Why Does KPackage Want to Pretty Much Wipe Out My System?

2004-08-04 Thread Scarletdown
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 21:20, Travis Crump wrote: > You already have the qt libraries properly installed, after all > everything in KDE depends on them so how could you not[if you have > KDE installed]. They are called libqt3c102-mt. libqt3 is the > gcc2.95 version which isn't what you want

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