Re: Gnome Sound Problems Continued

2000-11-29 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Arlen Carlson wrote: Well I'm making progress on my Gnome sound problem...seems that esd is at fault. If I kill the esd process I get my sound back under Gnome. The big question is why? And how did this problem start? How do I prevent esd from running under Gnome, or do I need it? in

sound volume

2000-11-27 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I recently got sound working on my machine and I was wondering how to turn up the volume? thanks, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: html man pages, tutor?

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Does anyone know of a downloadable HTML comprehensive tutorial? Do we have one in the man pages? try the rute user's tutorial. You can find it at: http://www.linuxdoc.org I think it's in the guides section __

running X in a telnet session

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop and I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop machine and have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the desktop and switching the DISPLAY variable: export DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0.0 I get this

Re: starting gnome from kde

2000-11-25 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:22:54AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: Hi All, I'm an old-school fvwm fan but I recently decided to try gnome and kde because I told my sister I'd help her install Linux and she'll definitely want to use one or the other. Anyway

Re: sound question

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The right way to do this is to add it using modconf. But AFAIK this just adds it to /etc/modules (along with any arguments the module might need). Thanks for the info it's great to know about tools like modconf. I do

Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Stan Kaufman wrote: Since this seems to be a widespread situation, I want to figure out how to do this process. I'd be happy to write up a mini-HOWTO. But before I start, I'd like to know what I'm running into. HI Stan, looks like were in the same situation. I'm looking into building .debs

Re: I want out!

2000-11-23 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
ktb wrote: I've been on and off this list for a couple years. I just started using Debian again after about a 6 month layoff. I'm glad to see this string is still going:) Maybe it is perverse of me but I would hate to see the instructions change. It is a tradition:) I agree. Not that

Re: simple network card setup (netgear 10/100 tulip)

2000-11-23 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
HI Jeff, I've got the same card and for me it worked right out of the box. I guess that doesn't help, but: If you think the CD you have is bad look at the checksums (md5sum I think). Try a clean install and don't do anything to the modules when prompted (I left them alone and it worked).

Re: Problems wit ps/2 mouse

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Edwin Hoff wrote: I'm running debian potato on my computer. The problem is, that the system doesn't initialize my ps/2-mouse automatically. To get access to the mouse i always run gpmconfig manually as root, after this procedure the mouse works. Which settings are necessary to have the

starting gnome from kde

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I'm an old-school fvwm fan but I recently decided to try gnome and kde because I told my sister I'd help her install Linux and she'll definitely want to use one or the other. Anyway, to make a long story short, I'm using kdm right now and I'd like to be able to start gnome from it as

Re: Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Brandt Dusthimer wrote: Well, like I said, there aren't any other GL stuffs ( other than the NVidia stuffs that is) on my box. I was running Quake 3 fine and dandy (and everything else too) with Woody and the NVidia stuffs before. Then, since for some reason I had to remake the NVidia

Re: sound question

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Daniel Pittman wrote: Add the name of any modules you want loaded at startup to the file '/etc/modules'. That works beautifully. Thank you very much. later, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: Printing under Debian..

2000-11-12 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
David Z Maze wrote: Paul Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was PS Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get PS this to work. You probably want a print spooler (either lpr or lprng) and the

network printing

2000-11-12 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I'm having some trouble getting my printer to work across my network. The printer works like a champ on the local machine (sendack, 192.168.1.1). But when I try from the remote machine (derico, 192.168.1.2) nothing happens and when I run lpq I get this:

Re: remote login advice / bonehead spelling [OT]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
will trillich wrote: we're lucky that webster and his cronies didn't get their wish to start a whole new langauge after the u.s. split off from the u.k... if you wanna discuss bonehead spellings, how about calliope? enough? women? once? eye?

remote login advice

2000-11-09 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I have a small network at my home consisting of an old desktop machine and my laptop. I use the desktop for IP Masquerading and a few other things. My questionis this. How can I set up these machines so that I can log into the desktop from my laptop so I can get rid of the large monitor