Re: Internet troubles

2003-01-08 Thread dave mallery
nternet on a normal day-to-day there's no > connection. The firewall is configured properly, dhcpd works fine but I > can't get a outside-connection. Ifconfig -a output is correct. I formatted > twice and installed again but it didn't help. What's going wrong? check and

Re: Booting without a monitor: No Go

2002-12-26 Thread dave mallery
hi look on the first page of the cmos setup for an option that says: stop on it probably says "any error" for sure if it says that, it will stop with no keyboard attached and never boot. fa la dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody

Re: compaq 1600r's with Debian 2.4.18-686-smp

2002-12-20 Thread dave mallery
18 19 00 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU3 good luck dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running Debian GNU/Linux no windo

Re: XF86 4.2.1 upgrade problem *solved*

2002-12-11 Thread dave mallery
remember the old adage: if it breaks when you change something, it's whatever you changed!! i swapped the memory upgrade out and problem is gone. happily running X4.2.1 when will he ever learn??? dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) P

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread dave mallery
nd then (getting bolder) into 4 cdc 9766en and then came the fuji eagle! i was the first customer to keep (cuz we debugged) the System Industries mass bus interface... oh well dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah

Re: XF86 4.2.1 upgrade problem

2002-12-11 Thread dave mallery
sible to eliminate the framebuffer, but that option does not seem to be there anymore. i'd be very grateful for a pointer or two. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no

Re: perl problem: looking for Gtk::CList

2002-12-06 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:02:17PM -0700, dave mallery wrote: > hi > > i have gathered in as many "libgtk-perl" modules as i can find. > > i need a CList for some work i am doing... can't find it. even on cpan. > > i would really appreciate some point

perl problem: looking for Gtk::CList

2002-12-05 Thread dave mallery
hi i have gathered in as many "libgtk-perl" modules as i can find. i need a CList for some work i am doing... can't find it. even on cpan. i would really appreciate some pointers. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing &

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-04 Thread dave mallery
less /var/log/dmesg -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running Debian GNU/Linux no windows! ^ _\_vfree at last! -- To UNSUBSC

Re: support for cluster maintenance?

2002-12-02 Thread dave mallery
"extreme linux" column. they are a series of python modules that provide you with ways to execute arbitrary commands on all (or a subset) the nodes of a cluster or clusters. you can combine these commands into scripts. good stuff dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testin

Re: testing - no new packages

2002-12-01 Thread dave mallery
- Richard. > -- > Richard Kimber > http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO

Re: /var/log/setuid.today wierdness in cluster *solved*

2002-11-24 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:26:18PM -0700, dave mallery wrote: > another addendum, here's the real symptom in daemon.log: > > c0n5:/var/log>> tail daemon.log > Nov 22 12:24:13 c0n5 init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > minutes > Nov 22 12:24:1

Re: /var/log/setuid.today wierdness in cluster

2002-11-22 Thread dave mallery
minutes Nov 22 12:30:55 c0n5 init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes c0n5:/var/log>> i have only seen this with dial-in lines and mgetty. but this is the root of the problem. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~

Re: /var/log/setuid.today wierdness in cluster

2002-11-22 Thread dave mallery
ny times per second. this probably accounts for the thousands of entries in wtmp that are transparant to the program last. thanks again dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no

Re: /var/log/setuid.today wierdness in cluster

2002-11-21 Thread dave mallery
2:12:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > dave mallery wrote: > > tens of thousands of entries running thru the /dev directory. these > > nodes develop 20+mb files per day. > > > > i can't find documentation on what program writes these files. man > > setuid on

/var/log/setuid.today wierdness in cluster

2002-11-21 Thread dave mallery
could please point me in the right direction thanks in advance dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running Debian GNU/Linux no windows! ^

wtmp and setuid gone mad..

2002-11-17 Thread dave mallery
ss. man setuid is talking about the system function and does not mention logging and how it is done. thanks in advance dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\

runaway wtmp and setuid on my cluster

2002-11-17 Thread dave mallery
be so thankful for a clue... thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running Debian GNU/Linux no windows! ^ _\_vfree at last!

Re: 2 3com905b network cards - not recognized

2002-11-07 Thread dave mallery
ystem is assigning the same irq to the network cards (really > not sure about what i'm saying) > > Also, how can i do the irq setup manually ? > > Thanx -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321

Re: deleting directory

2002-11-02 Thread dave mallery
ifferent on mutt (same config file) and right clicking urls in mail no longer works! dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running Debian GNU/

Re: which half are you in?

2002-10-21 Thread dave mallery
k when i was publishing magazines, we had a vax... in fact an 8800 cluster. it was robust because no one got near a priviledged account. my other low point was in the late '60s when i ended a job on a spectra-70 just after they had read in the 13th reel of input (tape)... dave -- D

routing problem

2002-10-05 Thread dave mallery
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:30:58PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 04 Oct 2002, 19:35:14, Kourosh wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:24:51PM -0600, dave mallery wrote: > > Have you enabled IP forwarding on buster? Do you have firewalling enabled > > on buster? >

routing problem

2002-10-04 Thread dave mallery
ndlessly in the wrong place? i am at a dead stop. i would so appreciate some pointers. thanks in advance. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\

print problem on sarge

2002-09-24 Thread dave mallery
rdm 3/17/2 # lp|lp0:\ :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :rp=raw:\ :ml=0:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh: i have several other printers and get the same message from all. thanks in advance for any help. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian test

Re: Mondo Archive

2002-06-08 Thread dave mallery
ne a compare after the backup. i just installed the package. it is fairly time consuming, but very well thought out. -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian testing) PO Box 520 .~. Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ no gates... /( )\ running G

Re: Java plugins

2002-05-09 Thread dave mallery
o get the install done... dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian testing) PO Box 520Ramah, NM 87321 .~. no gates.. /V\running GNU/Linux no windows! /( )\free at last! ^^ ^^ -- To UN

Re: Printing

2002-05-09 Thread dave mallery
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:39:01PM +0100, steve downes wrote: > > lp|epson inkjet:\ is the above "epson inkjet" valid? (spaces, etc) dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian testing) PO Box 520Ramah, NM 87321 .~. no ga

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-07 Thread dave mallery
java etc) and kept current with links into the archive. how many posts about the installer loop have there been in the last week? anyway, my two cents... dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian testing) PO Box 520Ramah, NM 87321 .~

Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels

2002-05-04 Thread dave mallery
problems with her Mandrake box running a > 2.4.8 kernel. Are there issues with usb in 2.4? I read everything I > could find about usb in /usr/src/linux/Documentation and poked around > the archives a bit, but didn't find anything specific. > try www.linux-usb.org -- Dave

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread dave mallery
ENTER. > > mkboot -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds) free at last! -- To UN

Re: java plugin for mozilla?

2002-05-02 Thread dave mallery
nce between the sun plugin and a normal java > plugin? > > thanks, > > mg > > > -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running

Re: which pkg contains that file

2002-05-01 Thread dave mallery
alan > apt-get install nano alias pico="nano" dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM

Re: 2.2.20 -> 2.4.18 kernel-image -> X hangs machine

2002-05-01 Thread dave mallery
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:09:04PM -0600, dave mallery wrote: > > i just tried startx with the FB option uncommented. the machine did not > > freeze, however, i am back to the "no screens found" error which led me to &g

Re: 2.2.20 -> 2.4.18 kernel-image -> X hangs machine

2002-04-30 Thread dave mallery
hi scott victory! a friend suggested that i comment out the load for dri in the XF86config-4 file. itsa works now maybe i can come up with a post-mortem that will explain this thanks so much for your ear and your help. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO

Re: 2.2.20 -> 2.4.18 kernel-image -> X hangs machine

2002-04-30 Thread dave mallery
On 30 Apr 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 10:12, dave mallery wrote: > > > hi scott > > > > hardware: pIII-550E 256mb parity aha2940uw G200-16mb > > Is this a laptop? > Other than it being a laptop it looks like very normal and well &g

Re: 2.2.20 -> 2.4.18 kernel-image -> X hangs machine

2002-04-30 Thread dave mallery
On 29 Apr 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:58, dave mallery wrote: > > hi > > > > i posted this the other day, but no response. > > > > X was perfect under woody and 2.2.20. after installing both a custom > > 2.4.18 and the two

2.2.20 -> 2.4.18 kernel-image -> X hangs machine

2002-04-29 Thread dave mallery
r pcmcia... message comes from /etc/init.d/pcmcia so i don't think it is relevant.. clueless in new mexico dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ runn

starting X hangs system kernel-image 2.4.18.4 and .5

2002-04-27 Thread dave mallery
after startx, you see a flash of startup go by and then the screen goes to black. both mga and agpgart are installed. any clues or suggestion would be most welcome. thank you dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-24 Thread dave mallery
i was bracing myself for a long and painful transition to star office 6 next month. is that deb anywhere other than on your cd??? thank you dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates

"mirror"

2002-04-22 Thread dave mallery
so it can go ahead and install? apt-get update does not do it. thank you dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux

make-kpkg more mess

2002-04-19 Thread dave mallery
? thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds) free at last! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

make-kpkg continued

2002-04-19 Thread dave mallery
ccessful 2.2.20 one. any sugestions? i think i will download the 2.4.18 kernel-image package from testing and see if that will start. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows...

make-kpkg

2002-04-18 Thread dave mallery
obliterated, since it can't use the monitor. will the above -r also re-arrange my /etc/lilo.conf? or do i have to do that by hand? whatever happens, i don't want the existing 2.4.18_custom1.0 to be a lilo boot option. thank you dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian

Re: Gnome-terminal problems.

2002-04-17 Thread dave mallery
ut the ximian line in my sources.list and got the right one from the testing release. -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux

make-kpkg

2002-04-17 Thread dave mallery
d root priviledges make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1 > yes, i am in src group. and i used --append-to-version because the man says --flavour is depreciated. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. n

Re: scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread dave mallery
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > hi > > > > i posted a long-winded situation report on the sudden demise of my scanner > > last night. > > > > i think the real symptom is that the epson 1

scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread dave mallery
ernel sources. any suggestions? thank you dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds) fr

scanner gone again....

2002-04-09 Thread dave mallery
ve. i left r/h because of the above... thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds)

module: xfree or kernel?

2002-04-09 Thread dave mallery
Load"xie" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "mga" # Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection if i add Load "agpgart" to the modul

Re: fatal error: no screens found

2002-04-07 Thread dave mallery
; > > Comment out this line: > ># Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > > Videoram32768 > > EndSection > thank you so very much for the above... i'd been stuck all day. a sorta wierd window, with panels

Re: SOLVED: X broken after sid update, Matrox driver error

2002-04-07 Thread dave mallery
custom beta mga drivers I got from the Matrox website > and well (blush) all is OK. doh! Paul: the only custom drivers i can find on the matrox site have to be compiled from source along with X and under a 2.4 kernel. is that the only way to get em?? thanks dave -- Da

Re: re-post: gnome terminal woe

2002-04-06 Thread dave mallery
was mastered on 3/15/02. it seems pretty nice. i will give it the woody net sources and see how she runs. it's a shame to abandon all the work and bandwidth, but i think i will just start over on this machine with the woody cds. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian wo

re-post: gnome terminal woe

2002-04-05 Thread dave mallery
hi there was a new gnome-terminal in this morning's 20mb of apt-get. however, it is still broken: prompt>gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: relocation error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: zvt_term_set_meta_use_high_bit that's all she wrote dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2

Re: SOLVED IT! Permissions and scsi cdrom?

2002-04-05 Thread dave mallery
chmodded it to 666 and made sure to change the generic scsi device name in grip: config:rip. thanks -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ run

more on cdrecord

2002-04-04 Thread dave mallery
24x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 btw, i have burned with this drive before, but on r/h. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows...

cdrecord glitch

2002-04-04 Thread dave mallery
e suddenly working on this machine that i don't know where to start! (including my scanner!) thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\

gnome terminal problem

2002-04-03 Thread dave mallery
hi been working on my neat woody-gnome system today... (it finally is unstuck) prompt>gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: relocation error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: zvt_term_set_meta_use_high_bit that's all she wrote dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian

Re: not so stuck

2002-04-03 Thread dave mallery
hi again i have finally slashed my way back to a gnome desktop. many thanks for your patient understanding. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V

Re: rescue floppy

2002-04-02 Thread dave mallery
38mb available.How can a 1.4mb-size file fit into a 1.38mb-size > floppy? I think I need help on this. > > Cong Xing > you copy the image to the floppy via dd. (man dd) dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no ga

Re: still stuck

2002-03-31 Thread dave mallery
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote: > dave mallery wrote: > > > i did an apt-get -f install and exerpt the following problem: > > > > Unpacking libgnome-vfs-common (from > > .../libgnome-vfs-common_1.0.5-1_i386.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing >

still stuck

2002-03-31 Thread dave mallery
-move: bilbo:~>> man apt-move No manual entry for apt-move bilbo:~>> apt-move -v bash: apt-move: command not found does this mean i am missing some big pieces? thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates

Re: Permissions and scsi cdrom?

2002-03-30 Thread dave mallery
dev/cdrom is the symlink to /dev/scd1 and /dev/cdrecord is the symlink to > /dev/scd0. I am also a member of the cdrom group. I didn't have any trouble > with > these programs before converting to scsi. > Can anybody see what I need to change here? ^

Re: Logging transactions

2002-03-30 Thread dave mallery
e installation (15 screens full of information that scrolls by pretty > quickly), before I > run into an error. > Is there some way for me to write this info to a log file for > troubleshooting, and still be > able to see it on the screen? > Thanks, > Tony. man script -- Da

Re: success story

2002-03-30 Thread dave mallery
hat ill become a LINUX > administrator > had this experience so thaught should share it with > you guys > > take care > Faisal perhaps we should change the old saw: you get what you pay for -> you get what you work on. -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian

Re: Wheel Mouse

2002-03-29 Thread dave mallery
t X and all should be good but all is not good! does the above imply any changes to XF86Config?? like ZaxisMapping "4 5" and does it imply xf86 v3 or v4?? thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread dave mallery
It seems that > if someone really has millions of dollars they wouldn't need to be > spamming a debian user group looking for help. > > Elizabeth > this is a giant scam they get your bank account number and byebye -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread dave mallery
ot;open". > > > >OTOH, RTF is substantially better than doc simply be virtue of not > >being able to host viruses/worms/trojans. > > > I though RTF was actually an IBM invention, and was a response to > Adobe's PostScript. > > I could well be wrong

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-26 Thread dave mallery
ete all these packages from the archive and then burn what little bandwidth there is in northern new mexico to re-load them later??? should i just shuffle them off to another directory? still stuck and no gnome... dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 52

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
wanting to be re-installed. so i guess they are still in deb form in /var/apt... think i need a night's sleep. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
all it E! i'm gonna go ponder this for a while as always, thank you dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > dave mallery wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > > > > so getting them is not the problem, as they are there! > > That's why I use dselect over apt. None of the front-ends are up to > part

Re: Help -- Scanner problem with MAKEDEV

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
hi you also should look at: http://www.eugeneteo.net/?fuseaction=linuxusbscanner dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
't believe they have a 'testing') i know that he is successfully running ximian on his woody. thanks so much dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows...

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
ts the gdm login box on the target machine, but that just continues as usual: box -> login -> flash -> box. i no longer get the "starting gnome" box (the one with the parade) > > Advise if patient requires further hackery :-) > > i am s

Re: login via serial console

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
essages, you need to change > /etc/lilo.conf to pass the options for console. > don't you need a null modem cable as well? that's rx -> tx and vice versa. > > > -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no

Re: Help -- Scanner problem with MAKEDEV

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
t a bug to the author of scanner.o... however, i am not famailiar with the process in the next few days, i will move the scanner over to the woody machine and see if the problem is still there. right now, i am embroiled with gnome/ximian problems btw: you also need to edit /etc/sane.d/epson. co

Re: Help -- Scanner problem with MAKEDEV

2002-03-24 Thread dave mallery
et. i will get back to this problem as soon as i have woody stabilized. keep in touch dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
pe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) bilbo:/home/dmallery>> so there is some kind of interlocking relationship between gnome-core and gnome-help=data... perhaps do them both at

stuck

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
nal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) bilbo:/home/dmallery>> looks like the process is stuck on a broken gnome-core upgrade. how do i break out?? thanks dave

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
... no X, only the login box also tried the above with gnome-help-data, but no cigar. am now profoundly lost. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\

still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
ry to remove gnome-help-data, it fails likewise. gnome is gone. i am in sort of a double bind and removing any one is impossible. at a full stop dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no wi

RE: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread dave mallery
floppy-only firewall on an old pentium... called floppyfw. it that is all the machine is going to do, it is a great solution... uses late model kernel and is actively maintained. no disk and just two 3c905s dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
IDE driver even in the 2.2 kernel. > > > > Would you then use LAME to convert to MP3? > > gogo! have you looked at grip (gnome)? it fronts the whole deal and gives you choices... imho, you should use oggenc and go to ogg vorbis cuz it's free and good! dave mallery no gates

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
lso much slower... but worth it dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds) free at last!

Re: cdrw

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
ev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 and cdparanoia announces that the generic device is /dev/sg1 which is nowhere in the chain! cdparanoia needs the generic device apparantly. all help/pointers appreciated! dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 873

Re: Window Manager Probs *sigh*

2002-03-21 Thread dave mallery
to "testing" (woody) and got all the ximian stuff with the upgrade... worlds of difference. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\

Re: An evangelism success -- new Debian convert

2002-03-20 Thread dave mallery
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Alan James wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:12:00PM -0700, dave mallery wrote: > > > could you please tell me where to find the "genlocal" thingie he mentions. > > i have the perl local problem since my woody upgrade last nite. > > he

Re: An evangelism success -- new Debian convert

2002-03-20 Thread dave mallery
tell me where to find the "genlocal" thingie he mentions. i have the perl local problem since my woody upgrade last nite. ... it's not an installed program ... and not an apt-gettable package. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah,

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread dave mallery
the kernel and that was the end of scanning. i realized i needed more control over what went into my machines. so to answer your original question: i can keep this machine up to date by doing apg-get update&& apt-get upgrade every few days and using dselect to find and install other n

directPC vs Starband (slightly off topic)

2002-03-15 Thread dave mallery
dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (2.2r5 potato) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running Debian GNU/Linux^^-^^ (Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds) free at last!

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/\s 2.2 \n \l > > &g

Re: OT: ping puzzler

2002-03-05 Thread dave mallery
e that some card is replying on more than one address or > do I need to get out there and find who or what is stealing my > bandwidth? > > Nigel > I'd start one of those pings and then go look at my hub... -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (2.2r5 potato

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

2002-03-04 Thread dave mallery
ownloaded from SourceForge. I tried playing > with various mixer settings, but that didn't help. The only way I could > get rid of the hissing was by turning the volume all the way down. did you mute all the other inputs on the mixer? > Any suggestions would be appreciated, > &

Re: USB floppy problem

2002-03-03 Thread dave mallery
n this started with a kernel upgrade from krud. it sent me back to debian where i can have some more control. hopefully someone can point us in the right direction. it seems to be a driver module problem. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates no windows... running

previous posting

2002-03-02 Thread dave mallery
... thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates no windows... running GNU/Linux free at last! Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds

network setup problem

2002-03-02 Thread dave mallery
where to look. thank you dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates no windows... running GNU/Linux free at last! Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds

Re: WodPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

2002-03-02 Thread dave mallery
going to wait for star office. the beta worked very well (but is no longer available.) dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates no windows... running GNU/Linux free at last! Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds

pdf files..

1998-04-25 Thread Dave Mallery
hi a friend has been shipping me pdf files. is there a viewer available (bo...) thanx dave -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN po box 520; ramah nm 87321 505-783-4784 running Debian GNU/Linux."Free at last" winNT: from the people who brough

netscape 4.04

1998-03-22 Thread Dave Mallery
boy is my face red... the cache option in the preferences menu requires you to click the little rh-pointing arrow pointing at 'advanced' which uncovers the cache and other options... duhh thanks, guys d -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN po box 520

netscape 4.04

1998-03-22 Thread Dave Mallery
hi is there a way to clear the cache of pages and images? i've searched the menus... i have a cached page that seems to only reload from cache, and not from the server. other pages load from the server just fine. thanx d -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery,

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