Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-07 Thread Andrew Hurt
Carla Schroder wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:54 pm, Andrew Hurt wrote: I'm still trying to diagnose the lack of pressure/eraser support http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/ "If you say it, they will come." Thanks. Happy scribelling ;-) -- ah -- To UNSUBS

Re: no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Hurt
praveen kallakuri wrote: hello i tried this on debian laptops but dint get any useful responses. hopefully someone here can help me. here's my setup; woody -- 2.4.17 customized for acpi - gnome2 - gdm2 i recently upgraded to gnome2 and things were fine except that my fonts were smudgy. the font-H

Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Hurt
Dave Selby wrote: I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody ? If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? I compiled Wacom and USB into the kernel, and my Wacom 6x8 USB does the job.

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-26 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/23/02 19:46, Nathan E Norman wrote: 'man mount' tells you what the options _are_ ... finding out what the options _do_ is a bit more work :) I haven't actually found a great reference for ext3 yet. Thank you. So, 'data=ordered' (default) means that the data is written to the file system

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-23 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/23/02 18:57, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:31:30PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: How do I tell what type of mode I currently have Look in your fstab (or vgrep the output of 'mount') and look at the options in parens after the "type ext3" bit: if

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-23 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/21/02 20:52, Craig Dickson wrote: Frank Copeland wrote: AIUI, the problem with ext3 filesystems applies only if they are in journal mode, which isn't the default. I've also seen suggestions that the bug exists in several versions of the 2.4.x kernels prior to 2.4.20. You mean "data journ

Re: how to build mozilla .deb's from sources?

2002-12-20 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/20/02 10:20, Osamu Aoki wrote: [Andrew Hurt] >-> Here goes my way--not necessarily the _proper_ way I agree but I would do this a bit differently If I had to (I did not do this.) After adding deb-src for unstable and in testing environment (or in woody if you are lucky) So if you

Re: how to build mozilla .deb's from sources?

2002-12-19 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/19/02 09:05, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote: HEllo, I'd like to compile mozilla distribution directly from source/CVS. Is there any 'easy' way to do it? I see there is already build/packages/debian directory in sources from mozilla.org; however i was not able to compile mozilla using it. Ca

external router [was: Re: getting networking to work]

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/18/02 16:12, Adam Majer wrote: :) With Linux you don't even need a router or most of the other things. The only thing that is useful on a "normal" network with "linux-aware admins" are switches and hubs. Linux can do all the routing (hence the routing tables in Linux), NAT, bandwidth manag

Re: New Pppconfig --Please Test

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/18/02 17:21, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:24:09AM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: On 12/17/02 23:40, John Hasler wrote: I've just uploaded pppconfig 2.1 to Unstable. It contains few user visible changes but substantial internal ones. I would appreciate tests and bug re

Re: getting networking to work [was Re: ethernet card]

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/16/02 23:40, Andrew Hurt wrote: On 12/16/02 15:32, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Once I connect (using the PPPoE interface within the router), I get access to the outside! My connection was turned-on today and I'm getting about 84kB/s (much better than my old 53.2k dial

Re: New Pppconfig --Please Test

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/17/02 23:40, John Hasler wrote: I've just uploaded pppconfig 2.1 to Unstable. It contains few user visible changes but substantial internal ones. I would appreciate tests and bug reports. Dynamic-dns should work properly now: please test it. I can only find 2.0.15 (June)--am I missing s

Re: getting networking to work [was Re: ethernet card]

2002-12-16 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/16/02 15:32, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:41:11AM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: | I can't get to the http://192.168.254.254/ in the router ^^^ | #ifconfig -v eth0 > | | Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:F1:3F

getting networking to work [was Re: ethernet card]

2002-12-16 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/13/02 21:14, Andrew Hurt wrote: Greetings. Going to be getting DSL, soon, and I just don't know what make/model of ethernet card I should get. Thanks, all. I got a tulip-esque card (Accton EN1207F-TX based) "SpeedStream 1020", and finally got it up with a new kernel.

Re: Once in a while 'pon' just hangs without connecting

2002-12-16 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/16/02 03:16, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:40:14PM -0500, Andrew Hurt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Any thoughts on the matter are appreciated Try using / setting 'poff -a' as your modem disconnect setting. This should clear any other pppd sessions which a

ethernet card

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Hurt
Greetings. Going to be getting DSL, soon, and I just don't know what make/model of ethernet card I should get. PCI is a given, but I need something that goes well with >=2.4.19 kernels and Debian 3.0 I've heard Intel and 3-Com, but . . . . Thanks for the thoughts. -- andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Once in a while 'pon' just hangs without connecting

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/13/02 11:19, John Hasler wrote: Andrew writes: Once in a while (3-5 times a month, at most), doing a 'pon' will just hang--the modem shows 'CS' then 'TD', but that's it. What do your logs show? Only thing relevant I could find is this (/var/log/messages): Dec 8 07:47:55 HaPPy pppd[30

Once in a while 'pon' just hangs without connecting

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Hurt
Greetings. Once in a while (3-5 times a month, at most), doing a 'pon' will just hang--the modem shows 'CS' then 'TD', but that's it. Running pppconfig, and creating a new 'provider' (or just deleting an old one, and re-creating it) rectifies the situation--as does rebooting. Any thoughts on t

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/12/02 22:17, Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own? Works like a

Re: apt-get / dpkg gives signature error

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/12/02 14:50, Andrew M. Lindley wrote: After the usual 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' 3 security fixes were not applied. An 'apt-get clean' and 'apt-get upgrade' does not resolve the problem. How do I rid myself of the following messages and get the fixes on my system? TIA - Andrew g

Console characters are garbled after X initialization

2001-11-25 Thread Andrew Hurt
Hello all. Have pretty much had a successful transition from Progeny -> Woody. I am beginning to see, now ;-) My only real problem lies with the console display after I initialize X. When I Ctrl-AltF1-F5 (with X on F7), the characters on 1-5 are misdisplayed (some as blanks, and others as blo