Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread David Sanders
I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3, you just want to shut down your x server. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - if that doesn't work, or it keeps restarting... # /etc/init.d/kdm stop (or gdm if gnome, or whatever you dm is) I'd definitely say that using gdm or kdm is a better option -

Terrible Compiz performance with radeon or fglrx + Radeon HD 4500

2011-05-31 Thread David Sanders
Hi All, I've just replaced my old Dell Studio 1735 with a newer Dell Studio 1745. This comes with a Radeon HD 4500, and I'm having problems with both radeon and fglrx drivers. Now using Debian Testing, which is up-to-date. Using radeon I get perfectly adequate Compiz performance (benchmarks at

Terrible Compiz performance with radeon or fglrx + Radeon HD 4500

2011-05-31 Thread David Sanders
Hi All, I've just replaced my old Dell Studio 1735 with a newer Dell Studio 1745. This comes with a Radeon HD 4500, and I'm having problems with both radeon and fglrx drivers. Now using Debian Testing, which is up-to-date. Using radeon I get perfectly adequate Compiz performance (benchmarks at

Re: mobi files reader

2011-05-25 Thread David Sanders
how can I read e-books in .mobi format in linux ? thanks Joao sudo apt-get install okular -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Poll Summary Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread David Sanders
(Yes, Sweden has a cell carrier named 3.  No, I have no idea how they managed to get that approved as a company name.) They are actually an English company called Hutchinson 3G Telecoms, but the carrier name is 3. FWIW: HTC Hero, Android 2.3 (Cyanogen Mod 7 Stable), 3, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Poll Summary Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread David Sanders
They are actually an English company called Hutchinson 3G Telecoms, but the carrier name is 3. And to contradict myself, they're not English at all by the look of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchison_3G I really should check my facts before opening mutt! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread David Sanders
On May 5, 2011 10:15 PM, George pinkisntw...@gmail.com wrote: I have a computer at home that I'm doing some research on and I set up an SSH server on it so I can access it from other computers at home. I haven't opened up the network to the internet yet though, as I'm not confident enough

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-23 Thread David Sanders
On 23 April 2011 04:24, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: George Standish said: Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now you expect it to upgrade to a new distro...  This idea doesn't seem like a good idea to me. In fairness to Ubuntu, I've been

Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread David Sanders
Hello List, I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land. The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led distro where, I hope, one man's pride isn't

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread David Sanders
Really I think you'll have to bite the bullet and take it as it comes. But I'm not an expert by any means That appears to be the case :-) You may hear my screams on the list later today! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How do I prevent Grub from getting automagically updated?

2008-10-07 Thread David Sanders
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 05:09:28 pm Aniruddha wrote: Every time a new kernel gets installed, my menu.lst gets updated. Problem is, that it always points to the wrong hard drive. Therefor I would like to stop Grub from updating automagically. How can I achieve this? -- Regards,

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread David Sanders
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: @dam-main:~$ uname -r 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware ii vmware-workstation6.5.0-110069 VMware Workstation ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:10.16.2-1 X.Org X server -- VMware

Re: Debian Display on Virtual PC 2004

2004-08-31 Thread David Sanders
Monitor HorizSync 30-54 VertRefresh 50-85 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Video Card Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection snip -- David Sanders

Re: a2ps - gv font (deeper problem!)

2004-08-30 Thread David Sanders
Fax: (434) 924-7909 I have: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (2004-01-30) Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. same problem: -- David Sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-26 Thread David Sanders
On Sunday 25 July 2004 06:18 am, John Summerfield wrote: David Sanders wrote: 10. Reboot and have fun This results in a broken system. Broken in that it will probably not run with the 2.6 kernel, though the 2.2 kernel ought still work. Works for me... You will learn a lot more about Linux

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-24 Thread David Sanders
to the new kernel image For lilo you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a stanza like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 label=2.6.7 alias=linux 9. Run lilo to update the boot record lilo 10. Reboot and have fun -- David Sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Help with samba 3

2004-07-24 Thread David Sanders
On Saturday 24 July 2004 03:25 pm, Aaron B wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 02:52 pm, David Sanders wrote: You may need to add the following to /etc/samba/smb.conf encrypt passwords = true I already have that set. Sorry it didn't help. Just out of curoisity, can you access a samba share's

Re: 2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)

2004-06-14 Thread David Sanders
the card appears to be recognised, and everything looks like it's been initialised correctly. However, I never see any data packets. Ideas, anyone, before I report a formal bug? Thanks, Chris Are you using DHCP with woody? If so, edit /sbin/dhclient to include 2.6.x kernels. -- David

Re: woody kde fonts

2004-06-09 Thread David Sanders
. useful ;) Regards Clive also look at: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to make a2ps -P display in Sid work

2004-06-07 Thread David Sanders
? Also uncomment: Variable: ghostview gv -antialias -arguments -dNOPLATFONTS -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fonts in unstable

2004-05-25 Thread David Sanders
On Monday 24 May 2004 10:39 pm, David Sanders wrote: I upgraded a stable box to unstable. All the Truetype fonts that were previously visible with stable disappeared in unstable. The XF86Config-4 and XftConfig have the correct font paths. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Both

fonts in unstable

2004-05-24 Thread David Sanders
I upgraded a stable box to unstable. All the Truetype fonts that were previously visible with stable disappeared in unstable. The XF86Config-4 and XftConfig have the correct font paths. Any ideas on what could be wrong? -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chkrootkit

2004-01-22 Thread David Sanders
On Thursday 22 January 2004 05:05 pm, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:09:08PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: On Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004, at 16:38 America/Denver, David Sanders wrote: I just ran chkrootkit for the first time on a woody machine and got

chkrootkit

2004-01-21 Thread David Sanders
do? -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread David Sanders
On Thursday 25 December 2003 04:20 am, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: David, Where should I put it, to lilo.conf? The respond is Oh, sorry, in lilo.conf: append=video=vga16:off -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread David Sanders
after changing lilo.conf ? You might also try entering video=vga16:off at the boot prompt after the name of your kernel. I can send you my lilo.conf if you think it will help. HTH, David On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, David Sanders wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 04:20 am, Alexey Koptsevich

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-24 Thread David Sanders
image which appears during the boot process. I have looked through boot mans (such as lilo.conf) but have not found any way to disable it. How to make Linux boot in text only mode, without fancy stuuf like images and colored text? Thanks, Alex Try video=vga16:off -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED

2.6.0 kernel, dhclient

2003-12-20 Thread David Sanders
do? -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.0 kernel, dhclient

2003-12-20 Thread David Sanders
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:16 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: * David Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 23:05]: I compiled a 2.6.0 kernel for a woody machine. The DHCP client quit working and I was unable to access the network. Script /sbin/dhclient checks the version of your kernel

Printing fonts from browser

2002-10-16 Thread David Sanders
I successfully installed truetype fonts for X. They appear on the screen fine and I can print them via ghostscript. But when I print a web page containing the fonts from Mozilla/Galeon, generic fonts are substituted. Surely it must be possible. How do I enable it? -- David Sanders [EMAIL

Re: how to control console's resolution?

2002-10-14 Thread David Sanders
:off -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net/david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question

2002-10-14 Thread David Sanders
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 19:13, Ramses Gonzalez wrote: how to configure a network adpater so it can see a windows 2k machine... Use samba (http://www.samba.org/) to see Win 2K shares/printers. -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net/david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: printer

2002-10-10 Thread David Sanders
with Debian, but some setup is needed. -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net/david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gdk-WARNING

2002-10-09 Thread David Sanders
I have the following warning littering my .xssesion-errors file: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library How do I fix that? David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

RE: smb.conf on Debian

2002-09-29 Thread David Sanders
-Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 6:32 AM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: smb.conf on Debian On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:30:15PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: When I try to access the share from Windows XP, I get

RE: G550 / XFree86

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
Mouse David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net -Original Message- From: Tom Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: G550 / XFree86 I found a volume of information, but seem to be missing something. I

RE: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
If Win98 is on hda and Linux on hdb and you can successfully boot into Win98, you are halfway there. Now boot from a rescue disk and run lilo with boot=/dev/hda as below. David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net -Original Message- From: Anand Parikh [mailto:[EMAIL

smb.conf on Debian

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
I set up a SMB share on a Debian 3.0 machine with this config: /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = SANDERS [test] comment = For testing only path = /data/test browseable = yes read only = no guest ok = yes When I try to access the share from

RE: smb.conf on Debian

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
Message- From: David Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:30 PM To: Debian Users Subject: smb.conf on Debian I set up a SMB share on a Debian 3.0 machine with this config: /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = SANDERS [test] comment

RE: smb.conf on Debian

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
I added the lines you suggested, and it works now. Thanks!! David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net -Original Message- From: deFreese, Barry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:24 PM To: Debian Users Subject: RE: smb.conf on Debian

Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
-ALT-DEL Any suggested remedy? David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
, if it can be done from Redhat. David -Original Message- From: Jamin W.Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Woody on a 486/50 On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:14:23 -0400 David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install

RE: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
machine. Besides WALMART is supposedly coming out with a $199 computer running Lindows in the near future. -Original Message- From: Donald R. Spoon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:31 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Woody on a 486/50 David Sanders wrote: I'm