Re: Linux permissions and which(1)

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Bill Moseley wrote: I was looking at the source code to the which(1) command (apt-get source which = which-2.14 ). As you might imagine, which(1) prepends the path to a name, checks if it exists and then checks if it's executable by the current process (your uid). In the which package is a

Re: Shared library versions

2003-09-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Russell Shaw said on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000: Hi, How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library they get when run? They use whatever version they are linked against. Sometimes they are linked against libfoo.so, which is a symlink

Re: Shared library versions

2003-09-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Russell Shaw said on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000: I'm tracking down a bug in xgettext (from gettext 0.12.1): Doesn't matter now. Had old versions in /usr/local ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:39AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..2 reason diesel-electric locomotives are popular; they are about as clean as your average power utility, and they dont put

Re: Print packages.

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
David Palmer wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 21:47, Russell Shaw wrote: David Palmer wrote: Hello, Which is the more stable/ efficient Debian print package? Printtool or Cups? Regards, I've used cups with epson stylus colour inkjets and lexmark postscript laser printers. Works flawless (testing

Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... While I was considering editing the binary font file (helvB12.pcf.gz), I noticed a different font file in the same location: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz After some inspection, it would seem that many fonts default to iso10646, but

Re: Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
bob parker wrote: I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest hpijs driver (1.4.1). It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my problem is that it is doing it at maximum resolution. Because I got this little cheapie just so

/dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depends, in some cases that could work unless you have a printer like hp deskjet 710, 720 etc

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: I'm not sure if this will do what you expect (I'm not behind a Debian box now so I cannot check) but why don't u try: cat file.txt /dev/lp0 ?? That hangs the same way too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:51, Russell Shaw wrote: Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depends

Re: Voodoo Graphics still supported?

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
markus koller wrote: Hi, I've got an old Voodoo1 (Diamond Monster 3D) and I'd like to use it with X4.2. It worked without problems with X3.3 and Mesa, but I can't figure out how to get it to work again. I googled around a bit, and got only more confused, so I thought maybe I'd find help here.

Re: cups install problem

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. ... I finally got it. And it was brain dead simple. After I removed the rouge libraries

Shared library versions

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library they get when run? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Re: Stymied by missing '/mozilla/chrome.d/42checky'

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I've mostly repaired the system but further dist-upgrade is prevented by the error message below - which I don't fully understand. I've had no joy with Google ... (apologies for any hand-copy errors). --

Re: CUPS

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: I need some help. I've been posting all over the internet about a CUPS problem I have and searching the docs/google for about five days straight. Well, almost, I sleep and do other things but I think I've logged about 20 hours so far. Why is it that when there is a problem

Re: ide-scsi CDRW and a real SCSI CDROM

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running `unstable' on a system with a Samsung IDE CDRW and a Panasonic SCSI CDROM. I've followed various instructions culled from mailing lists, HOWTOs, etc., but I'm still having problems with getting the two to play nicely together. If I enable ide-scsi for the CDRW, I

Re: Some odd comments and questions for all

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Joris Lambrecht wrote: Hello, I've been re-installing Debian after an over-courages attempt at getting used to Windows, again. I'm really pleased with what has changed in the meantime. The 2.4.21 kernel is really something to keep a good eye one and Gnome2.2, slurp. Mozilla-xft package ! Greaaat!

Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I have an old X client that requests this font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-* ( /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB12.pcf.gz ) Unfortunately, iso10646 encoding causes this client to show only boxes. I've found that I can fix it by manually

Re: CUPS admin web site errors

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:23:36 -0400 Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been staring at this for a while yet and haven't found anything to help me here. google.com shows me that this happens with a lot of people out there (or has in the past) but I haven't found anything

Re: Dual Parallel Ports and a PLX 9052 chip

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Jody Grafals wrote: I just bought cheepy PCI dual Parallel Port card with a PLX 9052 chip for my home linux server so I can add a second printer and a Old school Connectix Web Cam but I can not get it working. I already have a Zip drive and a printer working with the onboard parallel port with

Re: cups install problem

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. I also ran into a wonderful conflict between hpjis (something like that) and it's foomatic-db-hpjis cousin. They appear to have a circular dependency upon each other and I

Re: Print packages.

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
David Palmer wrote: Hello, Which is the more stable/ efficient Debian print package? Printtool or Cups? Regards, I've used cups with epson stylus colour inkjets and lexmark postscript laser printers. Works flawless (testing distro). http://www.linuxprinting.org/ http://www.cups.org/ -- To

Re: cups install problem

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. I also ran into a wonderful conflict between hpjis (something like that) and it's foomatic-db-hpjis cousin. They appear to have

Re: ide-scsi CDRW and a real SCSI CDROM

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-09-01T11:12:07Z, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The real scsi will appear under sdxx such as sda1. Except that it doesn't. In fact, it's not even detected in dmesg. What I've done so far: 1) Added this to my grub boot parameters: hde=scsi ignore=hde 2

Re: Mozilla and Print

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:09, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:54:11AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian 3.0r1 and Mozilla 1.4, but when I

Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Iain Georgeson wrote: Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Iain Georgeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I would prefer it each device was always mounted in the same place - /camera for the camera and /keychain for the keychain, for example. Is there any way of doing this with usbmgr or

Re: X problems with unstable

2003-08-31 Thread Russell Shaw
R Ransbottom wrote: In installing xserver-common (4.2.1-10) on unstable I get a note: Note: not updating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; file does not exist. This is followed by xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) noting: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating

Re: Sound Blaster Audigy and ati radeon 9800 not seen by kernel 2.4.18

2003-08-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a sound blaster audigy card and an ati radeon 9800, none of them seem to be visible to the kernel 2.4.18 (woody source) that I compiled. According to what I have seen, emu10k1 should work with this card, but insmod is not working for the reason that the

Re: new bie

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Chorn Sokun wrote: Sjoerd Site is on strike where can I get the source packages? http://www.gtk.org/download/ http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ ___ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list

deb from source

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source. I downloaded: gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz then: tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz gunzipgtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz patch -p0 gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff cd gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig

Re: deb from source

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:26:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source. I downloaded: gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz then: tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz gunzipgtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
David Z Maze wrote: Jon Haugsand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for my Woody laptop. IMHO, you'll run into too many problems if you try to go the backport route; lots of things depend on the X libraries (which, fundamentally, haven't

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw # XFree86 4.3: deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/experimental/ ./ (i have sources for testing distro too) apt-get update apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs xserver-xfree86 xlibs Reading Package Lists

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Jon Haugsand wrote: ... E: Sorry, broken packages I think by setting up apt-get pinning or something, these dependancies can be downloaded and installed automatically. However, i haven't figured that out, so i resolve these problems manually (it doesn't happen very often

Re: deb from source

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:19:42AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package. Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc I thought

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:18, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:08:56PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Ron Johnson said on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:16:22PM -0500: With tight budgets and tight schedules, I've *never* seen a project rewritten. Rewriting from scratch is

Re: [OT] open source distribution

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Hopefully a (quick) question...if I make a product which is open source I don't have to *distribute* the product, do I? If GPL code is *in* your program, you need to make the source available to whoever buys your product. With less restrictive (LGPL) licences and shared

Re: Dia internals

2003-08-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Lars Clausen wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I'm trying to see how dia works using gdb/ddd to learn something about graphics programming... ... Note that since the plug-ins (a goodly chunk of the code) is dynamically linked, you can't set breakpoints for those parts before

Re: Dia internals

2003-08-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Lars Clausen wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: ... Hi, In menus.c (dia 0.91), i looked for the creation of the create line toolbox button... uh, found it. interface.c. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Create line

2003-08-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i click the Create Line toolbox button, then gdb shows that interface.c:tool_button_press() is called. However, this function doesn't do much. What other callbacks are called? ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gthread linking

2003-08-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In configure.am, i have: AM_PATH_GTK_2_0(2.0.0,,,gthread) AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0,,,gthread) but i still get linker errors: gcc -g -O2 -o iongen main.o gui.o eventfifo.o event.o xmalloc.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm

gthread linking

2003-08-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In configure.am, i have: AM_PATH_GTK_2_0(2.0.0,,,gthread) AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0,,,gthread) but i still get linker errors: gcc -g -O2 -o iongen main.o gui.o eventfifo.o event.o xmalloc.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm

Re: text looks different on different displays

2003-08-14 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:53:49 EDT, Jeff Abrahamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks, I was thinking something like this, but it seems the metric information is wrong on one. That is, buttons displayed on one machine look like normal, +--+ | button |

[XFree86] Can't get simultaneous display on both heads

2003-08-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using XFree86 4.3 on debian with an nvidia FX5200EP dual-head agp-slot video card (has two outputs). With this, i can get the left monitor to work: Section ServerLayout Identifier Dual-Head Screen Screen_Philips InputDeviceMS Wheel Mouse CorePointer

Re: [XFree86] Can't get simultaneous display on both heads

2003-08-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Mark Vojkovich wrote: The nv driver does not support dual head. You have to use NVIDIA's binary Linux drivers if you want to use both heads. As i discovered reading thru some previous posts. I've been trying the binary drivers over the last couple of months, but it causes

Using XFree86 4.3 server in /usr/local

2003-08-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using mostly testing and have XFree86 4.2.1 installed via apt-get. If i compile XFree86 4.3 from source, what's the easiest way to find all the compile options suitable for it to work well in a debian system, yet have it installed in /usr/local? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: bindings

2003-07-30 Thread Russell Shaw
johnny wrote: Hello, Does anyone have a proper config file (bindings) for mc? I wanna be able to associate some common used file extensions to the following apps: _ xcf psd| gimp| sxw doc rtf xls ppt |

What to run when config changed

2003-07-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I've just got autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7 to compile a gtk 2.2.2 program. When i change configure.ac or Makefile.am, are you supposed to run autoreconf, or just run the appropriate autoheader/aclocal/autoconf/automake separately?

Autoconf hello world

2003-07-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm looking for a GTK+ hello-world example that uses configure.in and automake.am (autoconf and automake). ___ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list

Re: Autoconf hello world

2003-07-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a GTK+ hello-world example that uses configure.in and automake.am (autoconf and automake). Ok, i found a faq: http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN412 ___ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org

Printer friendly docs

2003-07-21 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I downloaded the gtk+ and glib 2.2.2 packages. The documentation gets built as html (from sgml/xml) to be viewed online. Because i'm learning the package, it's too tedious to read all the documentation on the monitor. What's the best way to get a printable output preferably with a table of

Mozilla on local server

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using mozilla to get email from the ISP pop3 account and make posts using its own smtp. Now i set up fetchmail, exim, and procmail to deliver to the mozilla ~/Mail/Inbox, but mozilla doesn't show when mail has arrived. What's a good way for setting up mozilla like this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:37:45 -0400 The default setting for 'background' is light. If you use a terminal with a dark background, also run :set bg=dark Now if only there was a way to get the same color set between vim and gvim. That always boggled me. I haven't installed

Re: release source code

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: Hi, I would like to know Where Can I get the linux debian source code? All I can see are binaries. I need the full directory in a ftp serfver (ej: ftp.debian.org) apt-cache search kernel-source By the way, I have found Linux instalation annoy, so much warning and

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
David selby wrote: Hello, I am writing bash a bash sed script, it has been going suprisingly well. I need a loop to count 9 times the variable n to the count .. for n=1 to 9 next kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !! My best guess is declare -i n=1 while [ $n 9 ]; do .

Re: gEDA-user: PCB for veroboard layout?y

2003-06-12 Thread Russell Shaw
DJ Delorie wrote: Everything about home-brew PCBs and plating holes is at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jackpot! Thanks! FYI, this is the first site I found: http://www.myhome.ch/mzingg/pcbstuff/tps/ The builder of this contraption has been discussing and fixing it on Homebrew_PCBs in the last week;)

Re: PCMCIA Failure on Kernel Recompile

2003-05-05 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that. The laptop beeps when I insert and remove the card, implying that at least some feature of CardManager is working, but I still cannot bring up the interface. Does the card manager show any messages when it beeps? I am sure this has to do with my

Re: PCMCIA Failure on Kernel Recompile

2003-05-05 Thread Russell Shaw
N407ER wrote: As for messages from the card manager, would this be in syslog or where? When i insert the pcmcia card on my laptop, it beeps and puts some messages onto the screen.

Re: PCMCIA Failure on Kernel Recompile

2003-05-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Marco Menchise wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 07:05:42PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: N407ER wrote: As for messages from the card manager, would this be in syslog or where? When i insert the pcmcia card on my laptop, it beeps and puts some messages onto the screen. How many beeps? 2

Re: PCMCIA Failure on Kernel Recompile

2003-05-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Marco Menchise wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 10:51:57PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Marco Menchise wrote: Could you please paste what is in /proc/interrupts after card insertion? CPU0 0: 337359 XT-PIC timer 1:308 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0

Re: PCMCIA Failure on Kernel Recompile

2003-05-04 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm running Debian Woody with a 2.4.18 kernel on a Compaq Armada E500. It's been working great with my custom kernel up until I did a recompile to add SCSI and USB support, neither of which should effect PCMCIA functionality. However, when I installed the new

Re: PCMCIA Failure on Kernel Recompile

2003-05-04 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have clarified, I used the same kernel config file as I was using successfully, save for adding SCSI support and a few USB options. So the PCMCIA cardbus support is in and the relevent option for the 3com card is also in. Any other ideas? Eject and insert

Re: armada 100s

2003-05-02 Thread Russell Shaw
jhormax wrote: I have a compaq armada 100s with debian 3.0r0 and a 2.2 kernel installed. the problem with it is that it constantly hangs for reasons unknown. anyone know if the problem is with the kernel? I've tried compiling a 2.4.20 kernel but it keeps hanging during the compile and when

Pcmcia network card startup

2003-05-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I've installed and used the pcmcia-cs package on debian. When i plug a 3com 3c589c pcmcia NIC in, then the card is detected and started, but to get it to appear as eth0 in ifconfig, i need to do /etc/init.d/networking restart. Is there a standard way of making this happen automatically?

Re: Pcmcia network card startup

2003-05-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, I've installed and used the pcmcia-cs package on debian. When i plug a 3com 3c589c pcmcia NIC in, then the card is detected and started, but to get it to appear as eth0 in ifconfig, i need to do /etc/init.d/networking

Re: sound on armada e500 w/debian

2003-05-01 Thread Russell Shaw
R. Potter wrote: I am new to this mail list, so forgive me if I don't provide enough details for every one. I hope this is the right list for my msg. I have an Armada E500 (PIII 600, 128mb ram, 12 gig). I finally got Debian 3.0 installed but unable to get sound. I know SUSE will work, but

Re: Toshiba 2430-S255 wireless networking...

2003-04-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I just received the above laptop yesterday from work. I've installed Debian and was able to upgrade to Sarge via the built-in ethernet port. But, I can't get the system to recognize the wireless networking built into the laptop. I've been able to (for now) use my D-Link

Re: Dell TrueMobile 1180

2003-04-29 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Did anyone get this networkcard working yet? http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linuxmessage.id=2956

Re: Screens Not Found

2003-04-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Frank wrote: I previously tried to install debian and I got the screens not found error. I know its either from my monitor setting or my driver for the graphics card. I have a HP ze5250 which has a 1024x768 (14) lcd screen and an ATI IGP 345M (RADEON) card. I should choose ATI for my driver

Re: Screens Not Found

2003-04-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Frank wrote: Well I just installed debian and I got the same error. I tried XFree86 -configure but I got errors about loading the shared library for glide. Im lost at how to configure XFree86? man glide Has XF86Config-4 got a glide video card in it? Remove it if you don't need it. The man

Re: Screens Not Found

2003-04-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Frank wrote: From: Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/04/26 Sat AM 02:50:40 EDT To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screens Not Found Frank wrote: Well I just installed debian and I got the same error. I tried XFree86 -configure but I got

Re: thinkpad 755c

2003-04-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Albrightson wrote: I am trying to get debian up on a thinkpad 755c. First off, I know, I know, it is a very old machine and would be put to better use as a boat anchor. It's not mine. I belongs to a friend and he is simply trying to extend the life of this machine. With that out of the

Diagnostics partition

2003-04-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I've got a compaq armada 1120T with P-100, 850MB HDD and 16MB ram. The HDD has a diagnostics partition with some dos utilites. Is it ok if i lose it?

Re: Diagnostics partition

2003-04-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Bernhard Kleine wrote: Russell Shaw schrieb: Hi, I've got a compaq armada 1120T with P-100, 850MB HDD and 16MB ram. The HDD has a diagnostics partition with some dos utilites. Is it ok if i lose it? If you want a boot password, this partition is indispensable. You might even have to keep

Re: display manager question

2003-04-25 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, i've got a laptop with a SiS650 onboard graphic chipset. I'm trying to install the Debian Woody r... version(the last one!)and i like to know the difference betwen the gdm,kdm and xdm display managers in order to choose the best one that fits my graphics chipset.can

Re: Exiting into current directory

2003-04-05 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When you browse directories in mc then exit, is there a way to exit into the directory you were looking at instead of where mc was started? many linux distrubutions do something like that, where you have to modify the path of mc and maybe the temporary dir.

Exiting into current directory

2003-04-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When you browse directories in mc then exit, is there a way to exit into the directory you were looking at instead of where mc was started? ___ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

CUPS print scaling

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do: lp vimqrc.pdf then the text is cut off around the margins (a two page pdf file). The CUPS ppd is set up for A4 pages on an epson stylus 400 colour printer. The file is from here: http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vimqrc.pdf Is there a way to adjust the margins or scale a job

Re: Installing default printer

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Lindsay Yardley wrote: G'day All, I would like to install my printer using the default debian utilities (lpr, lpd) without using tasksel as this installs 100Mbs+ of stuff. Would some kind soul point me in the right direction please as I'm googled out. Printing is a bigger area than it should be;)

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:56:15 -0600 Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 -- network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.252 broadcast 192.168.1.3 auto eth2 iface eth2 inet static address

Re: Font problem after updating to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Terry Milnes wrote: I can no longer use XFree86 as the fonts are rendered as long non readable fonts. I have tried to just use TrueType fonts but X complains about font fixed. This font is located in the misc fon directory. Is there anyway to get XFT2 to alias fixed as Courier New? If not, how

Dia internals

2003-03-21 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm trying to see how dia works using gdb/ddd to learn something about graphics programming and object-oriented techniques in C. I compiled it with CFLAGS=-ggdb and can step thru the source code with ddd. How do i get dia into synchronous mode when using ddd? Where is the call-back function

Re: Why use COPS?

2003-03-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Conrad Newton wrote: From Russell Shaw on Wednesday, 2003-03-19 at 14:59:01 +1100: Conrad Newton wrote: From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: ... But I half suspect that the Epson Stylus Color 800 is less well supported because it is an older printer. The 850 and the C82

Re: font size

2003-03-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Ruediger Noack wrote: Hi all I'm using woody, Gnome 1.4, Mozilla 1.2.1, ... with X resolution of 1280x1024. All seems well, but... Currently I'm using a locale with latin-1 (de_DE). But if I change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) all my fonts in X are very small (gdm greeter,

Re: Why use COPS?

2003-03-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Conrad Newton wrote: From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: ... But I half suspect that the Epson Stylus Color 800 is less well supported because it is an older printer. The 850 and the C82 are more recent, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are less problematic. The

Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin Segmentation fault I am in the audio group. What sound infrastructure

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search

make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi all, In the kernel source, when i do make menuconfig i get the error: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/russell/Kernels/2.4.20-win4lin-ipmasq/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses

Re: Selection with mouse is bodged up on one machine

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan E. Davis wrote: I am stumped on this one: X selection (cut and pasting with the mouse) has been working, so that I can select a URL from an email, and middle click on galeon to follow the url. But on one machine, this isn't working, on any account. This is a sid machine, up to date,

Re: Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Proulx wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: In the kernel source, when i do make menuconfig i get the error: Common problem. But most people just have not installed it yet. You look to have a corrupted library or something. Thanks. It must have got uninstalled when i was fixing broken package

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4? I've checked in Debian's archives, as well as

Re: Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same error message, something to the effect of cannot modprobe switch switch switch binfmt###c; error=8. That's from memory, so

Installing second gcc

2003-03-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, On woody, i got gcc-2.95.4 that came with the initial install. I just apt-got gcc-3.2, but gcc --version still says 2.95.4. Is there a debian way to make the system use 3.2, or do i just rename gcc-3.2 to gcc and apt-remove the old gcc? Is it safe to build kernels with 3.2? update-alternatives

Re: Firewalling under Debian

2003-03-03 Thread Russell Shaw
bob parker wrote: My son's proposed network is to be this: Firewall / NAT / Gateway machine connected to cable using 1 nic. Connects to hardware router / switch using 2nd nic. He has the switch and will be buying a PIII 400 2nd hand for the fw. We both know it's overkill but spares for PIIIs are

Re: Installing second gcc

2003-03-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:18:45PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Is there a debian way to make the system use 3.2, or do i just rename gcc-3.2 to gcc and apt-remove the old gcc? See /usr/share/doc/gcc-3.2/README.Debian.gz. update-alternatives --display gcc says there's

Re: Two ISA NICs

2003-03-02 Thread Russell Shaw
mike wrote: Hello I've got a Debian Woody. I've got two ISA NICs (3com EtherLink III I guess). And I've got a problem :) A fragment of dmesg: eth0 : 3c5x9 at 0x220, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a dc ee bc, IRQ 5 eth1 : 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 57 4d 4e, IRQ 10 Both of the

Re: adding eth1

2003-03-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 21:53, Nathan E Norman wrote: First, I have to mention that I hate rtl8139 cards :-) Would you care to tell why? I want to buy one... I had one that wouldn't work in win98, but works in debian:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-01 Thread Russell Shaw
debian_newbie wrote: Hello Everybody, How do I change the number of times I can boot up before fsck does a complete file system check? It does it on my Woody machine every 20 times. Also, I'm using ext3 filesystem. isn't it a journalized fs? I thought journalized filesystems didn't have to be

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