Scanner Recommendations

2003-02-07 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello, I was wondering if anybody could recommend a scanner to work with Linux. I would like one that would be used in a small office with medium load (may be 50-100 pages / day). Obviously I need one with an auto feeder. thanks Ayman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Printing True Type Fonts

2003-02-05 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello, I have been trying to solve this problem for few days.. I cannot print anything with True Type Fonts. I have cups installed with gs and gs-esp. I have tried to add true type fonts to Fontmap in gs using xfstt, with no avail. I even copied the Fontmap from a mandrake partition to

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-21 Thread Ayman Haidar
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:48 am, Jack wrote: Thanks for the hints. I have almost the same configure as yours. Would you try this for me when you by chance reboot your machine? Unplug the USB mouse, boot OS, startx, plugin the USB mouse. Does the USB mouse work right away? In my

Re: Trying to setup X

2003-01-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
On Monday 20 January 2003 09:06 pm, CM Miller wrote: Having a challenge trying to set up X under Debian 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator +3D (rev 31) at the xfree86.org web site it seems that your card is supported, accelaration is

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello John, Although Debian is my favorite distribution for several years, and although for me installation of debian is only a snap (me only), I would still recommend going with another distribution to start with. here is my recommendations: 1. have at least one day or one weekend devoted to

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: -- Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device

Re: Is the network setup incorrect?

2002-03-04 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time LPH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, Please pardon my ignorance, I've only been using Libranet 2.0 for only a few weeks ... and just starting to feel comfortable with my ignorance :-) I set up the box so that it has an IP address (192.168.x.x) and subnet.

Re: Connecting to Port 631

2002-02-23 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Bob Underwood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I installed cups and kprint on a different machine and can't connect to localhost:631. The error message says: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) /etc/services has these lines: ipp

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-23 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Stephen Nosal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Folks - I recently got Time Warner Road Runner installed. It seems to be a straight forward dhcp install but I'm having a problem getting dh-client running. I've manageed to make it work with the same box running NT, as well

Re: After upgrading to Woody

2002-02-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Curtis Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect: Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install: The following NEW packages will be installed:

Re: Downloading deb's

2002-02-19 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'd like to download deb files during the nights. Unfortunately, I don't have the script for doing just exactly that; eg: have a file of a pile of URL's, and then do something like: dl-force my-urls in which how

NFS behind a firewall

2002-02-19 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello, I was wondering how to setup NFS behind a firewall. I am trying to access my office linux box which is behind a DSL router from home where I have a cable modem. the issue is I need to know what ports I need to open on the office router so I can mount a folder from my linux box. the other

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Ayman Haidar
I haven't used .forward file for a long time. if you use fetchmail and procmail (of course I do) you can add this line to .fetchmailrc mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %s I hope this helps Once upon a time Adam Read ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm looking for a doc on how to write .forward

Re: help..kernel compile

2001-01-15 Thread Ayman Haidar
help though... Once upon a time Ayman Haidar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I am a new convert from Mandrake to Debian and so far I love it. I am having a problem compiling my kernel though. I have done it in the past with no problems. I tried initially

Re: can't locate module char-major-5

2001-01-15 Thread Ayman Haidar
this. It popped up when I did a dist-upgrade to potato, same kernel. I compiled a 2.2.17 kernel (with 'enhanced rtc' to get rid of char-major-10-135 messages), and I still get this one. Any ideas? -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- |Ayman

Re: [OT] Bash Script won't work in fvwm menu.

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
I think the problem is with the $HOME , since the script is run as root, $HOME is for /root not the user home directory. try to give it the absolute directory and see. or try to make the script owned by the user. good luck Ayman Once upon a time ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've

help..kernel compile

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux) latest binutils from potato and bin86 thanks -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- | Ayman Haidar| | [EMAIL

Re: help..kernel compile

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
I am sorry if the message got sent many times. I am not sure if it's my fault or not, I got the same responses twice too. Once upon a time Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmm, really strange. Have you installed all packages needed? kernel-package libc6-dev bin86

Re: mozilla 0.7 rpms

2001-01-13 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Eray Ozkural (exa) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please cc: to me since I'm not on the list Hi people, Since the debian package is out of date, I wanted to use the mozilla 0.7 rpms at http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RH7/RPMS/ I

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Romain Lerallut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Brian May wrote: Romain == Romain Lerallut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Romain I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner, Romain and I had no problem installing, none at all :-)