Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-19 Thread Jack Carroll
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:34:25AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > 9) Does the gentoo configurability deliver significantly better > > performance? Is the added step of compilation too much of an > > inconvenience? > >

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-19 Thread Jack Carroll
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > > > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essent

Re: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-16 Thread Jack Carroll
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:49:54AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: > Hello. > > I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I > have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb > boxes, but I would like to replace it with something more substantial. I

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-16 Thread Jack Carroll
C'mon, guys, quit snarling at each other. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge installer: unsure what images needed

2004-02-16 Thread Jack Carroll
There's a new sarge installer??? Can anybody tell me where it resides? Is there documentation with it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-10 Thread Jack Carroll
Thanks, guys for all the clues so far. Looks like the next step is to spend tomorrow evening reading the docs you suggested, then build an install kernel on one of my working machines. I have Libranet 2.7 and 2.8.1 on everything, and a bare Debian 3.0 on one machine's /dev/sdb. -- To U

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
I took a run down to the bookstore tonight to look at "Debian GNU/Linux Bible", on the strength of the recommendation on this thread. I found it rather dated, and I didn't think it went into as much useful detail as "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed". Admittedly, that's dated too, but I did

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:15:07PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > This sounds like a problem with the installation instructions. Has > > anybody successfully done an install from floppies on a system that needs > > modules to be loaded? Do I need to build a custom kernel and install that > >

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:04:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I have always wanted to do this. How do you have the 486s run an > X server without an OS? Or do they get a base Debian install? You need at least a minimum OS installed to provide an infrastructure for X. A li

Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-07 Thread Jack Carroll
Didn't find anything about this in the archives. I want to install Woody or Sarge on two older machines that have SCSI CD-ROMs and SCSI hard disks. Neither can boot from a CD. I've always booted installation programs from floppies in the past. I downloaded the boot floppy

ieee1394 on boot?

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Jack
Hi, I'm running x86 Sid (2.4.22 kernel), most everything "just works" after installing discover and hotplug. However, I use Kino to do digital video editing, and to import/export video to my MiniDV camcorder. The import/export won't work unless as root I do a manual modprobe for the video1394

Re: Woody - lpd terminates after printing one file

2004-01-01 Thread Jack Dodds
Jan Minar wrote: Not that I knew ``Running Linux'' by heart, but you seem not to have the lpd set up properly. Seems like either /etc/init.d/lpd (or what the name really is) is missing, or the /etc/init.d/rc*.d/ symlinks (or equivalent) are. Did you install lpd as a Debian package? Did it config

Woody - lpd terminates after printing one file

2003-12-28 Thread Jack Dodds
I've set up two Debian Woody systems - one was straightforward. The other, more recent, was modified by going to the 2.4 kernel, and upgrading to Gnome 2.2 and Mozilla 1.4 backport (James Strandborge's). In both cases I've manually set up printing on my Canon BJC250 following the methods outlined

Woody - lpd terminates after printing one file

2003-12-28 Thread Jack Dodds
I've set up two Debian Woody systems - one was straightforward. The other, more recent, was modified by going to the 2.4 kernel, and upgrading to Gnome 2.2 and Mozilla 1.4 backport (James Strandborge's). In both cases I've manually set up printing on my Canon BJC250 following the methods outlined

Installation upgrade errors--- HELP

2003-11-20 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Does anyone have a recommendation as to: what do I do with this error??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jack# apt-get install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 478 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to

Installing kernel 2.4 in Woody

2003-11-01 Thread Jack Dodds
sel? I would be selecting all the development tasks, the desktop environment task, and the scientific applications task. Thanks in advance to all you helpful people! Jack Dodds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB DVD movie playback

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Pistachio
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:11:46AM -0700, Jack Pistachio wrote: > Has anyone had success viewing DVD movies with a USB DVD > device? Wow, that's probably the most obscene misapplication of USB I've heard of yet... Hmm. We'll if you must, this drive is used mostly for DVD ba

USB DVD movie playback

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Pistachio
Has anyone had success viewing DVD movies with a USB DVD device? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Fwd: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card

2003-10-09 Thread Jack Pistachio
What is the graphics card and how much memory does it have? Check /etc/X11/XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 if using X v4). What is the default setting there and what modes are set? I could run 16 Bit 1024x768 on an old 486 motherboard with onboard graphics card that only had 2MB memory. Wasn'

mplayer won't play dvd

2003-10-09 Thread Jack Pistachio
I have Mplayer installed and working on numerous different file formats. I also have a USB 2.0 HP DVD+RW drive working with scsi-emulation. I can do most everything with this drive, including transferring at USB 2.0 rates and burning DVD+RW/CD-RWs. However, when attempting to play LOTR dvd mplay

Broken Woody

2003-10-04 Thread Jack Dodds
request a package from a different release (e.g. unstable) - is this just a theoretical possibility or does it really work? Thanks for any comments! Jack Dodds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: exim outgoing emails always timeout

2003-07-16 Thread Jack Pistachio
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:58PM -0700, Jack Pistachio > wrote: > | exim isn't sending out any messages to other mail > servers. > | My setup is on a dialup connection, but it used to run > | great for a long time. The only messages being > delivered are local (

exim outgoing emails always timeout

2003-07-16 Thread Jack Pistachio
exim isn't sending out any messages to other mail servers. My setup is on a dialup connection, but it used to run great for a long time. The only messages being delivered are local (to AMDKing). Now every attempt returns something like the following from an output of tail -n 20 /var/log/exim/mainl

Re: apt-get can't find nvidia contributed driver package

2003-06-04 Thread Jack Dodds
;m totally new to Linux, and I really don't need to try to learn on "testing", or on a system that has a bunch of possible version incompatibilities. Thanks again for helping me out on this. Jack Dodds Kevin McKinley wrote: > The GeForce2 and GeForce2 Go are supported by the &quo

apt-get can't find nvidia contributed driver package

2003-06-03 Thread Jack Dodds
I have done a net install of Woody on my Pentium 4 1.8 GHz computer. I have a Nvidia Geforce 2 video card which is not supported by the versions of XFree86 in, even in Sid. So, I need to install the Nvidia contributed packages nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src. These are listed in the packag

Re: How to find version of XFree in Sarge?

2003-05-27 Thread Jack Dodds
Thanks for the explanation, Wim. I just did a net install of Woody on my computer, and it's no good if I can't run X! So I'm wondering what version of XFree86 is in Sarge. Is it Sarge that gives you version 4.2.1.1 ? If so, would Sid have 4.3 ? Wim De Smet wrote: The XFree86 server gives me

Re: How to find version of XFree in Sarge?

2003-05-27 Thread Jack Dodds
Thanks for the explanation, Wim. I just did a net install of Woody on my computer, and it's no good if I can't run X! So I'm wondering what version of XFree86 is in Sarge. Is it Sarge that gives you version 4.2.1.1 ? If so, would Sid have 4.3 ? Wim De Smet wrote: The XFree86 server gives me

Re: Mouse Configuration

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Pistachio
Use the ImPS/2 driver instead of the regular PS/2 driver. gpm is generally a console mouse daemon. However, I find it a better to use with some mice through the repeat protocol than the regular X driver. - jackp --- Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I have a Cordles

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Pistachio
Uninstall xdm, the x display manager which simply causes X to startup with a logon screen at boot. --- Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on > my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker

Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Pistachio
--- Sharninder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to > Debian systems > > and Linux in general, but have some experience with > RPM based > > systems. I understand some of the basics of the Debian > package > > system, but want to make sure that all

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Jack Pistachio
It just makes sense... Sid has all the broken toys, or, perhaps, the coolest toys. Ah, the experimental toys is the best way to put it. --- Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On March 22, 2003 08:27 am, Sharninder wrote: > > hi, > > anybody here has any idea when will Sarge or Sid becom

Re: New

2003-03-22 Thread Jack Pistachio
The one I began with is very good for newbies. Got it from a Linux expo in San Jose: Learning Debian GNU/Linux Bill McCarty O'Reilly -jackp --- Jerome Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am very new to Debian Linux Can anyone help me by > giving me a good online reference and pointing me on

Re: Problem with startx

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
addgroup username video --- Isuru Binduhewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am using debian.When I loged in as the root I can go > to Xwindows using startx at the prompt.But when I > logged in as a normal user I can go to Xwindow. > > Please help me. > > Isuru.. > >

Re: CD burning question

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
I did something like this on accident. I appended to a CD but wrote over its fixation. Got back to the needed data previously on it by ripping a CD image and then mounting it with the loopback interface. Probably not what you want to do though. -jackp > I burned a CD-R in DAO mode (I used the late

RE: Offtopic : MS Linux :)

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
Note the bottome of the page: How do I get MS Linux? We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order before it ships. MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means yo

Re: (SOLVED) exim dynamic confiuration

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
believe gets past some mail servers that do a DNS lookup. Anyhow, it works, although it is true that noone will send mail to this machine unless they know the given IP. -jackp --- Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:04:18PM -0800, Ja

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
line options at boot (you can reintall LILO or whatever boot loader you are using with these options to avoid needing to enter them in at each boot): ide-cd ignore=hdd Then try the below again with the line "pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd" removed (since ide-cd isn't

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-18 Thread Jack Pistachio
Er, yes. The file /etc/modutils/ide-cd passes the parameters to the module when it is loaded. Try the following now (per the CD-Writing-HOWTO), add the following lines to /etc/modules/actions: pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-18 Thread Jack Pistachio
What does cdrecord -scanbus give you? Make sure that the ide-cd modules isn't already controlling that drive. A way to prevent this is to create a file ide-cd in /etc/modutils with the following line: options ide-cd ignore=hdd -jackp --- Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Lidakis

Re: USB printer: no such device

2003-03-17 Thread Jack Pistachio
Does it show up in /proc/bus/usb/devices? What does /proc/bus/usb/drivers say? --- Florian Sukup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've read HOWTOs and asked Google but I can't find the > solution: > > I've a postscript-usb printer. And I am running Debian, > 2.4.18 kernel > (selfcompiled b

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
info correctly? -jackp --- Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:05:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0800, Jack > Pistachio wrote: > > > Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? >

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are users on your system. -jackp --- ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

wma in linux

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? Or howabout a way to convert this proprietary madness to ogg format? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
> > Boy, that many files I would prefer writing a shell > script > > or two, that is, if there is any consistency at all in > the > > filenames / current orginization. Maybe I'd organize > > really old files by date stamp. There are a number of > > possible options here, but I wouldn't be incline

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
This is what I mostly use: wget -r -np -nH --convert-links http://www.domain.edu/page the -r recursively retrieves subdirectories and referencing pages -np = -no-parent makes sure it doesn't go all over the entire web. -nH = no host directories --convert-links makes sure the page works off the fil

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
If you don't want to pass these options each time you reboot (and ide-cd is compiled as a module) add a file ide-cd to /etc/modutils with the following line: options ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd' Is there any reason to not use scsi emulation for the DVD too? --- Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qu

Re: Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
Exactly what type of Promise controller do you have? Is it a PCI card or an onboard chip? If its an onboard chip, what is the chipset for you're motherboard? The bf2.4 flavor kernel should have what you desire. -jackp --- Adam Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where can I get the kernel module

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
Boy, that many files I would prefer writing a shell script or two, that is, if there is any consistency at all in the filenames / current orginization. Maybe I'd organize really old files by date stamp. There are a number of possible options here, but I wouldn't be inclined to mousing around for

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
You need to use scsi emulation to enable cdwritind. cdrecord -scanbus scans the scsi bus. See the CDWriting HOWTO. -jackp --- Conrad Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to set things up with a DVD on hdc and > > a CD-burner on hdd using modules, but without success. > > I a

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Pistachio
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2003.03.11.1909 +0100]: > > I get the same error he mentioned previously and have > also > > excecuted the script install-css.sh > > can you please send me the install-css.sh script? >

Re: PPP failling to connect to ISP

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Pistachio
Make sure you have at least the following modules installed: ppp_generic ppp_async ppp_deflate (zlib_inflate and deflate are good too) bsd_comp -jackp --- Aedificator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After successfully turning a Winmodem into a Linmodem I > am not able to setup > a dial-up connection

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Pistachio
I get the same error he mentioned previously and have also excecuted the script install-css.sh What's the deal? -jackp --- debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:32:58 +0100 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat at his keyboard > and wrote: > > > also sprach John

Re: Sound Card Configuration

2003-03-10 Thread Jack Pistachio
What card is this? Is it a non-pnp 8-bit soundblaster? Looks like it might be, considering its an ISA. Believe it or not I actually tried one of these throw-backs out recently and got it to work well with the alsa drivers (well is relative considering its only 8-bit). If the ioport/dma/irq are

exim dynamic confiuration

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
This is for a dialup using exim. Is there anyway to dynamically configure exim so that it uses the IP address provided by the dialup ISP? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UN

Re: Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
yes, thanks. err should have probably skimmed man exim first. mainlog gave the following info: 18r7I2-A7-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=1533 18r7I2-A7-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spoo l/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8) 18r7I2-00

Outgoing mail

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
I just set up exim for my outgoing mail server using eximconfig. I gave the following responses: Select a number...2 Visible mail name...Enter Other system names...Enter Domains for relay...Enter Local machines for relay...Enter RBL...Enter Smart host...smtp.myisp.com User...myuser Then I tried (

RE: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Pistachio
Just comment out the corresponding line for GLcore and dri. ie: # Load"GLcore" # Load"dri" Then change the driver line in Section "Device" to: Driver "nvidia" Also, make sure you have the NVIDIA-GLX package installed to. That should work for you. -jackp >

RE: Working with WAV files

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
>Before I go off experimenting with modconf, I wonder > if anyone has >been over this ground. If I add a driver using modconf > and get no >result, how do I remove it? >-- >David That's an easy one... remove it the same way you added it. You could also do: bash$ rmmod MODNAME

USB device detection problem

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
After either rebooting from windoze to linux, or even with a complete shutdown/poweroff, my two usb mass-storage devices aren't detected unless I boot Linux twice! Loading and unloading modules doesn't help. Everything USB works fine in linux afterwards (and beforewards). There are no error messa

Re: SOLVED User dialup access

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Problem solved. Looks like I had a bad default route and simple file permission issues from messing with this long ago. - jackp --- John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jackp writes: > > What is missing here? > > What happens when you configure with pppconfig and have > the users start ppp >

Re: strange problem

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Hmm, looks like either a driver issue, or a corrupted fs. Possibly the drivers are trying to overoptimize the dma interface. I got similar errors before when fiddling with hdparm... didn't really pay attention to all the warnings in man hdparm until afterwards... -jackp --- Cristi Banciu <[EMAIL

Re: Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Not sure about the keyboard error, but the LSR safety check messages are because setserial is trying to load your autosaved seriel port settings, which are now different. To update it (and thus fix the error message) do the following: man setserial setserial /dev/ttyS0 autoconfig setserial /dev/t

DVD player

2003-03-04 Thread Jack Pistachio
I have an USB HP DVD+RW which is working well so far. I have yet to be able to view any commercial DVDs with it yet. Tried xine from 3.0r0 with dvdnav, which I believed includes css abilities. I get the following errors: libdvdcss error: css error: ioctl_ReadCopyright failed, make sure DVD ioct

User dialup access

2003-03-04 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'm trying to allow certain users to have dialup priveledges from debian. I use wvdial to connect as root. I've tried addgroup dialout USERNAME. The user can successfully dialout with wvdial, but once pppd is started it exits with error code #2. From man pppd this code corresponds to mutually e

mouse sensitivity under X

2003-02-25 Thread Jack Pistachio
How do I increase the sensitivity of my mouse in X windows? I just got a new mouse, but it requires a lot more travel than my old one to do what I want to do. - jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
udio exactly as described in the ogg file. jackp --- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:28:53 -0800 (PST) > Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Encoding to either ogg or mp3 is lossy, but when > converting > > back to wav the in

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
. Hence, when I converted ogg to mp3, I set the mp3 encoder to nearly cd audio quality to reduce that second loss. It still sounded crisp when played back. jack --- James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:22:03AM -0800, Craig Dickson > wrote: > > Ja

Re: OGG para MP3

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
Se voce queira um script para convertar OGG para MP3, veja minha posta (en engles)... Vou escrever um pouco aqui: Utilizando ogg vorbis e um lame encordante, pode convertar ogg para mp3 e tocar no carro. Posso mandar um script simples por email se voce (ou sergio) queiram. Faz tempo que nao escr

Re: SOLVED ogg to mp3 audio (SOLVED also via 8233a question)

2003-02-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
nks, jackp --- Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg > vorbis > audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the info > in > the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of > course. > > - jackp >

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg > vorbis > > audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the > info in > > the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of > course. > > Such a

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a cd for my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I assumed that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg encoded files. Perhaps I'm wrong? --- Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2003-02

ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg vorbis audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the info in the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of course. - jackp by the way, has anyone else had a lot of difficulty ripping audio cd's with a via8233 chipset? I understand

Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened)

2003-02-04 Thread Jack Nguy
Why is this on this mailing list again? -Jack - Original Message - From: "Sean Burlington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really ha

Re: Mozilla attachments

2003-02-03 Thread Jack Nguy
File Extension? - Original Message - From: "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:58 PM Subject: Mozilla attachments > I don't know how to view attachments from mozilla that are labelled > 'Part 1.2' and are of significant size eg 300KB. I kno

Re: Fun sound problem

2003-01-30 Thread Jack O'Quin
matching alsa-modules package already available. If you build your own kernel from source, then you will need to compile the drivers, too. Not Trivial, but hardly rocket science. Here's a good Debian ALSA HOWTO... http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=i

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Jack O'Quin
> > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > These seems to be coming up about once a day on the list, isn't *anyone* > > > searching the archives or at least googling? > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Perhap

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Jack O'Quin
g the archives or at least googling? Perhaps the default is set too low, and many people are seeing this problem for the first time? Regards, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this normal with USB mice? (solved)

2003-01-21 Thread Jack
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:10:24AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Jack [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 11:48:16PM]: > > 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 >

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Jack
n) usb-uhci 23436 0 (unused) BTW, I'm using customized 2.4.20 kernel. Thanks, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Jack
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: > you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: > -- > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver

Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread Jack
for USB mouse without restart? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS hosting

2003-01-15 Thread Jack O'Quin
Figure on waiting several days before their servers know your name. Regards, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Jack O'Quin
useful. Some applications really benefit from having multiple windows on multiple monitors. Xemacs, galeon, and ardour (a multitrack audio recorder) are good examples. I'm reading this mailing list using xemacs and gnus with the *Summary* buffer on one monitor and the *Article* buffer on the oth

Chinese Big5

2003-01-09 Thread Jack Chang\(張勝誡\)
hi dear  Where can I download the Dedian Chinese Traditional installing manual ? thanks

Re: ALSA and kernel 2.4.19

2003-01-06 Thread Jack O'Quin
device_gid=29 device_uid=0 That's probably all, good luck! -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Crypto issues

2002-12-31 Thread Jack O'Quin
Stefan Radomski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that Jack managed to get cryptoloop working without > recompiling the kernel, he did it 'the debian way', as reported here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200212/msg05110.html I

Re: Loopback file system encryption with kernel-source-2.4.19?

2002-12-29 Thread Jack O'Quin
mount(1) mentions that keybits parameter under its "-o" options, but I can't figure out how to make it work. Thanks, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loopback file system encryption with kernel-source-2.4.19?

2002-12-29 Thread Jack O'Quin
ce and ran make-kpkg. The loop-jari patch said it applied correctly, despite the version mismatch between my 2.4.19 kernel and the 2.4.18 patch version. The bug was simple: I hadn't unpacked the module source in /usr/src/cryptoloop.tar.gz, so the cryptoloop module wasn't compiled. Easily

Loopback file system encryption with kernel-source-2.4.19?

2002-12-25 Thread Jack O'Quin
nel-patches/all/loop-jari/loop-jari-2.4.18.gz /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/loop-jari/loop-jari-2.4.16.gz Is this package still needed? The /usr/share/doc files seem to indicate that it is. So, how do I build a patch for 2.4.19? What am I missing, here? -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA

Re: working alsa modules for kernel-image-2.4.19-k7??

2002-12-04 Thread Jack O'Quin
(I am sending a copy of this reply to the debian-user list. It'll probably be useful for others. That way, the information shows up in web searches. I hope alsa-modules-2.4.19-* binaries will be released soon, so all this becomes moot.) > "Jack O'Quin" &l

Re: Getting sound to work

2002-12-04 Thread Jack O'Quin
e ALSA interfaces work, try: aplay /usr/share/sounds/card_shuffle.wav# (or any other sound file) You'll probably need to set output levels with amixer or alsamixer, if you haven't done that already. Good luck, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: working alsa modules for kernel-image-2.4.19-k7??

2002-12-03 Thread Jack O'Quin
Jack O'Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ended up downloading kernel-source-2.4.19, building that (using > kpkg), downloading alsa-source, building it with kpkg, and installing > the resulting images. Oops! Please excuse the typo. By "kpkg", I meant th

Re: working alsa modules for kernel-image-2.4.19-k7??

2002-12-03 Thread Jack O'Quin
oo. Meanwhile, it would be *really wonderful* for someone to upload a set of binary packages for alsa-modules-2.4.19-*. Regards, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA8233 audio

2002-11-30 Thread Jack O'Quin
n able to get mine working either. After compiling several kernels and many drivers I finally gave up and bought an M-Audio Delta 66 card, which works very well. Hope you have better luck than I did... -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?

2002-11-14 Thread Jack O'Quin
,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Regards, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA http://www.stellajazz.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alsa: no device

2002-11-13 Thread Jack O'Quin
amixer, if you haven't already. You should be able to run OSS applications, too, like xmms and gqmeg. Regards, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recompiling alsa

2002-11-12 Thread Jack O'Quin
ed as > when I ran /etc/init.d/also modprobe said no module found. Can someone > give me some guidance at all about how to recompile also withouth doing > a delete + reinstall Start here... http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=826&mode=th

Re: alsa: no device

2002-11-12 Thread Jack O'Quin
> Am Fre, 2002-11-08 um 17.43 schrieb Jack O'Quin: > > What happens if you run (as root) "modprobe snd-cmipci"? Thaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > aha! there seems to be some relevant information here, although i don't > know what to do with it: > &

Re: Why does gdm override umask setting?

2002-11-09 Thread Jack O'Quin
e in Debian do I need to perform any special configuration magic to login with user groups working smoothly and transparently. Is this problem specific to Gnome and gdm, or do all the X session startups behave this way? -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Why does gdm override umask setting?

2002-11-08 Thread Jack O'Quin
ames and numbers are both the same, so 002 should be the correct umask value. Is this just a bug, or did I misconfigure something somewhere? I don't see this listed as a gdm bug. Should I report it? -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

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