Re: xprint probs

2003-09-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I finally got xprint (xprt-xprintorg + xprt-common) to work, but I had to hack /etc/init.d/xprint to make it start at all. It works now, but it prints everything in the Courier font. In August there was a thread on this list about this very problem, but the solution sugges

Re: RealPlayer 8 plugin for Moz

2003-09-20 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: I have RealPlayer8 installed, but I can't seem to get it to act as a plugin for Mozilla. I can manually run rp8 and watch realplayer files/etc, but some sites ( some new IBM Linux videos - http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/# ) seem to require the plugin functionali

Re: No Screens found

2003-09-20 Thread Donald Spoon
Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: -Original Message- From: Donald Spoon To: debian user Sent: 9/20/03 10:39 AM Subject: Re: No Screens found The above lines marked (WW) remind me of a similar error message I used to get when I was missing some key fonts packages. I would get a "No Sc

Re: No Screens found

2003-09-19 Thread Donald Spoon
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op vr 19-09-2003, om 12:18 schreef Uwe Dippel: Sorry, I cannot post to the news-group online. Yes, I did register and get everything into my mailbox. Before I send the long stuff, in the meantime I tried all suggestions (> dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low --frontend=dialog

Re: print HTML in "B" size

2003-09-18 Thread Donald Spoon
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: -SNIP- < I use cups already, so that isn't a problem. /me wonders why mozilla doesn't just query cups instead of creating yet another layer of indirection which needs to be configured and only one app actually uses it. Oh well. At least it makes mozilla work now! I n

Re: print HTML in "B" size

2003-09-17 Thread Donald Spoon
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I want to print a certain web page[1], which includes color and images, on "B" size paper (aka "Ledger", 11"x17"). My printer can handle 11x17 just fine, but I don't know how to convert the HTML to PS for the printer. Neither galeon nor mozilla allow choosing that pap

Re: XFree86 Config

2003-09-17 Thread Donald Spoon
Rishikesh wrote: I bought a new monitor and I want to reconfigure X. How can I get the debconf menus to configure X I got when I was installing debian. thank you Rishi dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 or install gkdebconf package and run it on xserver-xfree86. Cheers, -Don Spoon- -- To

Re: Can't access a site from Masqueraded host

2003-09-08 Thread Donald Spoon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to understand why I can't access a host from my NAT network. I thought my firewall must be blocking. I enabled logging of dropped packets but still didn't see what wasn't working. So I disabled it and now have a very basic masquerading setup -- no dropping (s

Re: remove Debian

2003-09-02 Thread Donald Spoon
Yu Sun wrote: Hi, everyone, Maybe this question is easy. However I cannot find answers from manuals. I have installed Debain with Windows 98 on my notebook. Now I want to remove Debian, make this notebook dedicated to Windows. How should I do it? Thanks, Denis 1. make a Windows "rescue" disk th

Re: Problem with KDE 3 upgrade

2003-09-01 Thread Donald Spoon
William Bradley wrote: -SNIP- < Hi Andreas, Tried you suggestion above and another couple of hours downloading went on. So obviously some bits were missing. When I boot to KDE now, KDE 3.1 loads and the standard icons come up on the screen but there is no panel at the bottom. When I right clic

Re: HP printer saga

2003-08-14 Thread Donald Spoon
Donald Spoon wrote: J. Zidar wrote: --SNIP-- < The package hpijs is already installed. Cups packages installed: cupsys(1.1.14-5), cupsys-bsd(1.1.14-5), cupsys-client(1.1.14-5), cupsys-pstoraster(1.1.14-5), qtcups(2.0-4), hpijs (1.3.1-1.1), a2ps(4.13b-16), apsfilter(7.2.2-3), gcc(3.3), gl

Re: HP printer saga

2003-08-11 Thread Donald Spoon
J. Zidar wrote: After realizing that I must enable loopback device, I configured Cups to use my HP 656c printer. From www.linuxprinting.org I have downloaded the ppd file and copied it to the /usr/share/cups/model/. The configuration went without any problems. I set up KDE to use Cups but when

Re: HP printer saga

2003-08-09 Thread Donald Spoon
J. Zidar wrote: --SNIP-- < The package hpijs is already installed. Cups packages installed: cupsys(1.1.14-5), cupsys-bsd(1.1.14-5), cupsys-client(1.1.14-5), cupsys-pstoraster(1.1.14-5), qtcups(2.0-4), hpijs (1.3.1-1.1), a2ps(4.13b-16), apsfilter(7.2.2-3), gcc(3.3), glibc(didn't find). The ppd

Re: RealTek 8139 Problems

2003-08-02 Thread Donald Spoon
Robert Tilley wrote: When I installed my system with the Debian 3.0 CD, kernel 2.2.0 was installed. I selected to install the RealTek 8139 drivers and my NIC has been functioning perfectly. I've attempted to install 2.4.19, 2.4.21, and 2.6.0-test2. During a menuconfig, I specify the RealTek 8

Re: Old Stable Distribution

2003-07-29 Thread Donald Spoon
Shashank Bhide wrote: Hello Folks, Where could I find the distribution for the Old Stable (Potato)? I searched debian.org but could not find it at all. TIA Shashank Try this: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/ I see "Potato" listed there. There also used to be an archive site for debi

Re: Static IP config

2003-07-06 Thread Donald Spoon
Kelley Hilborn wrote: Okay, with the /etc/network/interfaces file looking like this: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 This looks OK. Your card should be setup automatically upon bootu

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 [SOLVED]

2003-06-23 Thread Donald Spoon
Josh Metzler wrote: -SNIP- < So, it seems to me that linux thinks the sound chip is a VT8233. I'm satisfied now that sound works, but I'll do any more probing you want if you are still curious. Thanks so much, Josh No need for anything else on this end! After all it is YOUR MB & not mine ;)

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Donald Spoon
Josh Metzler wrote: -SNIP- < Ok, before writing the above, I had installed the stock debian kernel-image-2.4.20-3-686, along with alsa-modules-2.4.20-3-686, alsa-base, alsa-headers, and alsa-utils. I had not run alsamixer to unmute the sound. I have now done so, but still no luck. alsamixer s

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Ric Otte wrote: Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't w

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Josh Metzler wrote: I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound working on my new box. The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 sound. I have been testing with cat reflect.au > /dev/dsp. (reflect.au is a sound that comes with kbounce

Re: Samba Access

2003-06-15 Thread Donald Spoon
Shawn Lamson wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:07:05 -0500 Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I struggled getting the Windows ---> Samba ---> CUPS ---> HP printer route going here. The solution I finally wound up using was to use a "Post Script" driver on the Win

Re: Compile options for standard debian kernel?

2003-06-02 Thread Donald Spoon
Neal Lippman wrote: Is there a way to find out the config options that were used for compiling the standard 2.4.19 kernel that comes with stable or testing? I need to compile a new kernel as the stock kernel does not seem to have the udf file system support enabled, but it would be handy to know wh

Re: How do I install KMess?

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
peted wrote: I am trying to install kmess_1.2.1-1_i386.deb. How do I install it? When I try apt-get install Kmess, I get a message about it being in the database but no available version and that it may have been mentioned in a dependecy... etc.. I downloaded it from SourceForge.net and saved

Re: FW: going from ethernet to ppp only

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
drew cohan wrote: Sorry about the HTML email from before. -Original Message- From: Drew Cohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: going from ethernet to ppp only Hi, I’ve set up a machine with woody using an ethernet card and now

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I don't know wether this is important so to be sure I send this. In an old email I found somebody suggesting lspci; Here is the output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C701 [FireStar Plus] (rev 32) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C700 (rev 31) 00:0a.0 CardBus

Re: Test the network

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Piero wrote: I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have not installed X window. How can I test if it works? (My box is connected to my Isp line through a Nat box that cotains a dhcp server). Thanks, Piero. Ping some sites outside your local network. This will probabl

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Donald Spoon
Jeremy Petzold wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:08 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Jeremy Petzold wrote: how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Donald Spoon
Jeremy Petzold wrote: how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had an experience with this. thanks, Jeremy If you have the "cupsys-bsd" pa

Re: Mozilla idealab link

2003-03-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Paul M Foster wrote: I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter, before I do anything else, it jumps to http://find.idealab.com. This is pretty obnoxious

Re: Need this scanner working for a report!

2003-03-19 Thread Donald Spoon
Paladin wrote: Hi guys! I have a HP ScanJet 3200C. I've read about this online and installed sane and configured the umax_pp backend. I've selected the EPP mode in the bios and compiled the parport, parport_pc, ppdev and lp modules. Even so, in /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/active there's no acti

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-19 Thread Donald Spoon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:35:41 -0500 John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Once again, a million thanks for all your help. Despite my continuing inability to install, everyone's help is really quite appreciated, and is truly making me feel I've made the right choice in dist

Re: (OT) low-power home server

2003-03-16 Thread Donald Spoon
Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:20, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [...] I should have thought that there must be a market for such a thing, with so many people running home networks, but so far I haven't found any suppliers of things like this. Maybe I haven't been looking in the right p

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-14 Thread Donald Spoon
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I seem to have a small problem that maybe someone on the list can help with. I belong to a small organization on campus. We currently have some very old (circa 1995-1996) PCs running Win95. These machines have Pentium 150-166 CPUs and 32 MB RAM. They are in need of rep

Re: Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Adam Stroud wrote: Where can I get the kernel modules to load at install time so that Deb can see my harddrives on my ATA controllers?? I am new to debian so be nice :) Cheers Are you talking about the Promise ATA RAID controller (Fastrack100 TX2), or just their "Ultra100 TX2" controller

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Kris wrote: Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like It loads the kernel in msdos.sys and io.sys then it loads the

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Abdul Latip wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, D. wrote: Use Mandrake GNU/Linux installation CD :-) Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586 Well, unfortunately, I am trying to sell "Debian" through "Knoppix"; not "Mandrake" :^). I believe that he was giving you another option that would part

Re: Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel, pleasehelp

2003-03-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Jonathan Matthews wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, [snip rtl8139 problems] No idea if this is feasible here, but my favourite way of solving 8139 problems is to put a decent nic in the box (Intel EtherExpress, Tulip, LinkSys - maybe, etc.) and ignore

Re: gimp & gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print & CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions & colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select post

Re: Where to put local .debs?

2003-03-10 Thread Donald Spoon
Abdul Latip wrote: Hi, I am just wondering where others put the local .debs (e.g. the kernel-image). Or is it usual just to keep it in /usr/src/ after "dpkg -i kernel..." ? /usr/local/ is free for your personal use. Regular debs will NOT touch anything in this directory. You can keep them prett

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Donald Spoon
Marlin Unruh wrote: I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact I installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM form.

Re: Howto find the Agfa SnapScan 1212p

2003-03-08 Thread Donald Spoon
Joris Huizer wrote: Hello Everybody, I have got this problem: I have an Agfa SnapScan 1212p scanner - but I don't know how to make Debian woody see and communicate with it. I did a small search on "Linux Agfa SnapScan 1212" with few results. Can anybody tell me what I should do to get Linux to w

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-07 Thread Donald Spoon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Abdul "Abdul" == Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Abdul> Second, I am wondering if there exists a "PARTITION Abdul> MAGIC"-like software in Debian (better than fips?). How Abdul> easy is it to split a VFAT/ You-Know-What-Os partition on Abdul>

Re: make-kpkg, stock kernel, and alsa

2003-03-06 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: I've compiled a kernel or few, but mostly just stumbled through the process. Question 1: -SNIP- < Near as I can tell, there are no binary alsa drivers; I have to download the source and compile. However, apparently I can't compile the alsa modules without having the f

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-06 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: Donald Spoon wrote: That said, you can install a perfectly workable version of ALSA using apt-get on the pre-compiled debs in the Debian package repository. All you have to do is match the pre-compiled ALSA version with your kernel. Not all available kernels have matching

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Donald Spoon
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4? I've checked in Debian's archives, as well as kerne

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives directory

2003-03-02 Thread Donald Spoon
Sharninder wrote: hi, It's a silly question but i don't know where to ask. What's the use of all the files in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. They all seem to be debs of any package that i have installed in my comp. ever. Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management Calcutta Building No

Re: apt-get, KDE, and gnomemeeting

2003-03-01 Thread Donald Spoon
sport woman wrote: Hi Donald, Thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one having this problem! Your solution of trying to compile the application from the source myself is one I'll try. You have more courage than I! I am not as comfortable with "back-porting" as others. I generally

Re: apt-get, KDE, and gnomemeeting

2003-03-01 Thread Donald Spoon
sport woman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to run gnomemeeting(version greater than 0.12) and Debian KDE at the same time, but when I try to upgrade gnomemeeting (I only find upgrades from USA/unstable), I get (from apt-get install) a message saying that in order to do this, it has to get rid of KDE. (I'm

Re: New Cups printer problem

2003-03-01 Thread Donald Spoon
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: Printer is an HP DeckJet 940C Driver is Foomatic-hpijs downloaded from www.linuxprinting.org A print test from localhost:631 or from kde prints nothing. cat printtest.txt > /dev/lp0 prints the simple text file though it must be manually ejected. less /var/log/cups/erro

Re: pppd problem...

2003-03-01 Thread Donald Spoon
Christof Hurschler wrote: Hi, I've tried, but can't seem to figure out how to get this working. Yes, I'm a newbie. I'm running Woody, and made the following config file with pppconfig # This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.10. # # hide-password noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/

Re: Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Donald Spoon
Jeff Elkins wrote: I'm trying to set the parameter: 'hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc' upon boot. I created a script 'hdcparm' in init.d and attempted using update-rc.d to create a S99hdcparm script in my runlevels, and while it creates the link, it doesn't seem to 'take.' I still have to apply it manuall

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-28 Thread Donald Spoon
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: As I mentioned, the only problem I had initially was with sound on QuickTime, and that was fixed when I copied over the QT stuff from my previous experiments to the /usr/lib/win31/ directory. This might be fixed in

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Donald Spoon
Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: The only problem was that I had to grab the Quicktime win32 audio dlls to get sound going. I've fiddled and fiddled and gotten nowhere with doing this. All I was ever able to make mplayer do was segfau

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-27 Thread Donald Spoon
klaus imgrund wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:04 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Klaus Imgrund wrote: Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. Both show that

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. Both show that they burn 38 mb but they don't. If I burn the boot.iso instead of the bootbf2.4.iso

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Donald Spoon
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:44, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: > -SNIP- < With the testing CD's it boots fine.Everything works ok there until I try to find my NIC. With every ISO I tried (bout 5) with bf-2.4 it starts to load the kernel.The screen comes up and then I get an error about wrong magic followed by the reiserfs superblocks it ca

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: > -SNIP- < There is obviously some problem with either my reiser partitions although they work fine or with the cd's. The 'testing' cd's boot but don't recognise my NIC. Funny thing is that a old potato cd boots just fine w/o complaining about superblocks. Klaus That is reall

Re: Adding Canon BJC 8200 to cupsys (Solved, sort of)

2003-02-24 Thread Donald Spoon
Feng Tian wrote: Hi, After gunzip C/bjc-8200.ppd.gz can put bjc-8200.ppd in /usr/share/cups/model (restart cupsys), I am able to install the printer and printed a test page !!! I still don't know if gunzip helps or simply restart works. Now my question is which the two ppd files should I use? bjc

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-24 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:51:13 -0800 "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Klaus Imgrund said: Well, I downloaded a netinstall iso with bf2.4 kernel and threw it in - kernel panic with error about reiserfs modules. - Ok try the next one Downloaded the businesscard.iso for a testin

Re: ftp

2003-02-22 Thread Donald Spoon
Noll, Ralph wrote: below is what i am getting zvmlinx5:/etc/apt# apt-get update Hit http://10.38.1.45 stable/main Packages Hit http://10.38.1.45 stable/main Release Hit http://10.38.1.45 stable/contrib Packages Hit http://10.38.1.45 stable/contrib Release Hit http://10.38.1.45 stable/main Packages

Re: ftp

2003-02-22 Thread Donald Spoon
Noll, Ralph wrote: how can i get ftp installed.. and why would it not come installed as base system is this a list that i need to subscribe to Ralph I believe the ftp "client" is installed by default... much the same as in Windows. The daemon needed to make the machine a ftp "server" is

Re: CUPS Stable & Testing

2003-02-21 Thread Donald Spoon
sdownes wrote: - SNIP- < I've got the deb stable packages installed with default settings at present but had the same problem with the testing version & played about with a lot of settings in that before purging it & starting again. I do have cupsys cupsys-client & cupsys-bsd installed but no

Re: CUPS Stable & Testing

2003-02-21 Thread Donald Spoon
sdownes wrote: Cannot get anything to print direct to lp or lpr. I can get it to print to lp -d lp@host no problem. I appear to have the default printer set to lp & am working (initially) from that host. I can move the default to another printer but this makes no difference. As some of my sof

Re: xdmcp and gdm -- missing something ?

2003-02-18 Thread Donald Spoon
David Woyciesjes wrote: -SNIP- < Hmmm... this is the kind of info I've been waiting for. But one question. On my SUn Ultra1, running Solaris 9, the login box comes up, to login locally, and there is a menu option to flip to a chooser to login to a remote machine. I can login to my Debian/x86 box

Re: xdmcp and gdm -- missing something ?

2003-02-16 Thread Donald Spoon
J.F.Gratton wrote: Don, Thank you so much, this is exactly what I looked for. I am stuck in the same position as you are, trying to automate the procedure. A temporary hack for now is to add the line you mentionned (X :1 vt8 etc etc) into my /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. This is ugly, but hey.. it wor

Re: xdmcp and gdm -- missing something ?

2003-02-15 Thread Donald Spoon
J.F.Gratton wrote: Hello all, I have two computers (networked, 'f course) both with the same setup, gdm + gnome 2.2 latest versions (I apt-get dist-upgrade every day on the unstable branch). The way I understood the Chooser is that I'd be able to get the gdm login screen of PC #2 on PC #1 . I'

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Donald Spoon
GSO wrote: Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a parallel port scanner (UK). GSO I don't think anyone makes a Linux-only parallel port scanner. You will probably have to get one of the standard scanners made for other OSes and make it work under Linux. The SAN

Re: voodoo3 troubles

2003-02-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my voodoo3 working but i am having some serious problems... The computer boots up fine w/ the card in, and X works great w/ the "vesa" driver (other than no acceleration of course). If i try the "tdfx" driver, however, X goes crazy (the screen is br

Re: Windows XP to Woody/Cups Printer? How?

2003-02-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > -SNIP- < Option 2) Use the CUPS thin-client architecture, letting the driver on the debian system control specifically how the result will appear. To do this change the driver on the Windows client to one that generates data CUPS knows how to handle.

Re: Sharing a printer with SAMBA

2003-02-09 Thread Donald Spoon
Chris wrote: Gday y'all, Im trying to share a CUPS printer over samba. I can see the printer, but when i try to print to it from a windows box i get the message "Access Denied, Cannot connect.". I seem to be able to print a test page from the http config tool. This same problem hapened with lpd.

Re: Upgrade to 2.4.18 and lose network

2003-02-08 Thread Donald Spoon
Dave Leckie wrote: Apologies if this comes across as a newbie question... I've been trying to sort through the Debian install and have had nothing but headaches... but I'm still trying... sooner or later this will work out nicely... Alright. I'm setting up for a firewall-box on an old P75 via 1

Re: Network Printer Offline?

2003-02-07 Thread Donald Spoon
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: Main computer is Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel connected through a Linksys Wireless Point Router to a DSL modem. Printer is HP Deskjet 940c installed with CUPS. KDE System print manager says its URI is ipp://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. (Phoenix has nothing to do with so

Re: openoffice

2003-02-07 Thread Donald Spoon
Calber Chainy wrote: And in Woody??? Thanks. Chainy El vie, 07-02-2003 a las 21:32, florin gheorghiu escribió: Hi, How can I make the truetypes fonts avaible in openoffice 1.0.2 in my box sid ? Thanks ! The "key" for me was to use the OpenOffice.org "Printer Administration" tool and selec

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Donald Spoon
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my daughter) Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with Brot

Re: Demand PPP

2003-02-05 Thread Donald Spoon
David Raeker-Jordan wrote: I am using iptables and ipmasq; might that be preventing pppd from dialing out? I got ipmasq working, but I am not very conversant with it. To answer my own question -- yes, ipmasq was preventing pppd from dialing out in demand mode. If I turn ipmasq off, then pppd w

Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Donald Spoon
Dave Selby wrote: > - SNIP - < Hi mate, Under windows 98, yuk !!, the pucker epson driver gets the info on ink levels etc AOK, so I guess the cable is AOK The computer is 3 yr old, ie obsolete !!, the printer 1 year old. ls -al /dev/lp0 gives debian:/home/test# ls -al /dev/lp0 crw-rw1

Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Donald Spoon
Dave Selby wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:47 pm, you wrote: Thus spake Dave Selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it works great but I also need to check the ink level, apparently I need to access the printer directly by defining the

Re: Help with Coldfusion Server

2003-02-03 Thread Donald Spoon
Chris Hoover wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm trying to get Coldfusion server version 5 to install on my debian system (unstable). However, the install is abending with the following error: /opt/coldfusion/bin/cfexec: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open share

Re: /etc/chatscripts/provider

2003-02-03 Thread Donald Spoon
alex wrote: I had no problem configuring /etc/chatscripts/provider in Progeny Debian but the one in Debian Woody has a different format that gives me a problem. I can't figure out what kind of data should be entered and how it should be entered. I couldn't find any info about this. 1. What dat

Re: libfam0c102 kills 182 KDE3 packages

2003-02-03 Thread Donald Spoon
Victor Torrico wrote: Running KDE3 woody debian packages downloaded from kde site. Works great. In order to run nautilus and yelp in gnome2 I need libgnomevfs2-0 and libgnomevfs2-common which depends on libfam0c102. When I execute "apt-get install libfam0c102 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-commo

Re: Error with dpkg...???

2003-02-02 Thread Donald Spoon
Larry Shields wrote: Not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but here's what I am now getting when I use synaptic to install a package... /var/lib/dpkg/status near line 2873 package wine-utils missing version... According to synaptic of installed packages, I do not have 'wine-utils' inst

Re: Helvetica Printer Fonts & HP 1100 (again)

2003-02-01 Thread Donald Spoon
Bill Moseley wrote: [Sending again -- in hope someone can help] I have a testing/unstable machine with CUPS and a non-postscript printer (HP LaserJet 1100). When I print a calendar with Jpilot the fonts are really poor quality. The fonts look like an old dot matrix -- like it's about 50dpi.

Re: ppp on demand trouble

2003-02-01 Thread Donald Spoon
Sigmund Svertingsson wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Here is a bit more detail: Machine "Return" (it lives in my air conditioning return ducting at the end of the hallway) is my gateway to the outside world (via my dial-up ISP). My ISP gives me a dynamic IP address. I'm pretty

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: John Hasler wrote: Donald Spoon writes: -Snip- < It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. No.

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
John Hasler wrote: Donald Spoon writes: -Snip- < It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. No. It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Sigmund Svertingsson wrote: Greetings, all. I'm running Woody on an old Pentium box as my gateway/firewall/fileserver for my LAN here at Castillo del Lago (my home). Life is good here, and I'm really enjoying Debian, but I'm kind of stuck with the demand dialing thing. If I comment out the "

Re: How to run KDM on VNC but not on console

2003-01-29 Thread Donald Spoon
Rich wrote: Howdy, I have a server on which I want to grant some users access via VNC. I the README.inetd file showed how to run KDM on VNC. It's pretty slick! But whenever I start kdm, it starts X and displays It's prompt on tty1. I don't want KDM to run on the console. This is a server, and

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread Donald Spoon
will trillich wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0800, nate wrote: will trillich said: ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to use it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody server...) what does e2fsck say for those drives you cannot mount? Try running a read

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: raymond gree wrote: Hi, I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ? Thanks Raymond I would assume there's an advantage,

Re: External serial modem advice ?

2003-01-25 Thread Donald Spoon
Dave Selby wrote: Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... I am going to buy a full hardware modem. I have been advised that external serial modems are the best for linux. Does anyone know if the Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro 56K V90/V92 External Serial Modem Is OK with

Re: [HELP] ALSA won't work though installed properly

2003-01-24 Thread Donald Spoon
J. L. wrote: Hello People, Recently i re-installed my linux-system to stable and upgraded to kernel-2.4.20, since i'm using an ABIT-AT7-MAX motherboard i had to install ALSA-SOURCE 0.9 wich is the only package supporting the Realtek ALC650 (VIA8233A) Chipset. I have installed ALSA and configured

Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-23 Thread Donald Spoon
Ray wrote: i'm using 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21) and for some reason the tulip module that runs it wont load by default. durning the base install (via network) i didn't find it in the list of drivers to add, so just to try something, i dropped into a

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Donald Spoon
debian parisc wrote: Hello, although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to ensure that my wife doesn't divorce me I need to make

Re: Lilo warning causing problems

2003-01-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Felipe Martínez Hermo wrote: Hi all! I have just installed a new Debain box and configured a new kernel. I run Lilo and it says: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 (also for drive 0x81) This is usually caused by your

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Donald Spoon
Al Davis wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE disks. On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that VIA chipset support is included in t

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Donald Spoon
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: Steve Juranich said: I eventually converted to Mandrake, since it was easier to maintain (they had that rudimentary up2date-like system a couple of years before RH). I then met another friend who basically called me a little girl for running Mandrake, and he in

Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-13 Thread Donald Spoon
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 12 Jan 2003, Sven Bornemann wrote: John Hasler wrote: Sven writes: I think somehow I must make the ISP server belief that I just logged on, while I'm online for one and a half our or so... Or just add the 'persist' option so that pppd dials up again whenever

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Chris Owen wrote: Hi, I'm doing an install of Debian 3.0 and have a probably dumb question. After the installation, how do I re-configure some of the things that I set up right at the start of the installation: specifically, the keyboard map and the network setup? I presume there are scripts

Re: openoffice.org slow?

2003-01-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Pieter Laeremans wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 20:34, pasha wrote: Hello, I have compared the experience using openoffice.org when installed from debs (via apt) and when installed with the installation system provided by openoffice.org. For some strange reasons, in the former case, openoffice ta

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