Re: ZDNet article on GPL is wrong and misleading. PJ (paralegal) does not fully understand the law she's spoke about.

2019-01-04 Thread Jason C. Wells
Please CC trim the freebsd lists. This is not our jam. BTW, cross posting was never socially acceptable so please don't. Suddenly, I feel sorry for Mr. Moglen and Mr. Raymond. I can image 20 years of this sort of nonsense in your mailboxes. Cheers for all the good stuff you've done for FOSS.

Audigy 2 Value

2009-09-23 Thread Jason C. Wells
Can anyone help me get my SB Audigy 2 Value working? Alsaconf probes this as an emu10k card. There is a Wikipedia article that states that is uses snd-ca0106 instead. How can a force alsaconf to find snd-ca0106 instead? Rather than use alsaconf, how do I manually configure a sound card?

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Jason C. Wells
Gosh you would think that I said micro-kernels are a waste of time or that vi is the one true editor. Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Install Aspell without Removing Openoffice

2009-08-29 Thread Jason C. Wells
When I attempt to install aspell synaptic reports that openoffice will be removed. How do I install aspell without removing openoffice? Thanks, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Install Aspell without Removing Openoffice

2009-08-29 Thread Jason C. Wells
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-29 14:39, Jason C. Wells wrote: When I attempt to install aspell synaptic reports that openoffice will be removed. How do I install aspell without removing openoffice? What branch? Lenny. In Sid, I have OO.o 3.1 3.1.0-5 (using libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.8-4

List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Jason C. Wells
Is it customary here to CC both respondents and the list, or just the list? In BSD-land we CC every individual in a discussion plus the list. Regards, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: AFS

2008-12-06 Thread Jason C. Wells
Jesus arteche wrote: hey, someone knows if there are something to create web access to my OpenAFS cell? You might try the openafs-info mailing list. They are pretty helpful. Later, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Trouble with DRI

2008-11-08 Thread Jason C. Wells
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 19:41:38 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: I'm having trouble with DRI on my Radeon 9600 Pro. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Mode 0x1f000207 [AGP 0x1002/0x5833; Card 0x1002/0x4150] (II) RADEON(0): [agp] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0x0001 (II) RADEON(0

Trouble with DRI

2008-11-07 Thread Jason C. Wells
I'm having trouble with DRI on my Radeon 9600 Pro. From everything that I have read, it should be working. I don't really know what to ask, except to ask, Can you help me? These are the errors from Xorg.0.log (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] Could not map ring (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to

Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-18 Thread Jason C. Wells
Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages? For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made their way to lenny yet. It seems like the Sun provided .deb files aren't quite so slick with handling dependencies. That or I am missing some important bit of

Re: Feature Set Docs

2008-10-07 Thread Jason C. Wells
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:34:01PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: I am coming the the understanding that each of the packages that comprises a debian release is documented independently. It seems that the bulk of debian documentation is 1) installation and 2) package

Re: [OT] where is XextFindDisplay?

2008-10-06 Thread Jason C. Wells
Ron Johnson wrote: Google is your friend! http://www.google.com/search?q=XextFindDisplay The first result from this query shows that it's in libXext, package libxext-dev. Don't forget our old friends find and grep. find /sources_dir -type f -exec grep -l XextFindDisplay {} \; Regards,

Feature Set Docs

2008-10-05 Thread Jason C. Wells
I am trying to find a document that lists the features of lenny. I see some new features but not a total list. For example, what network protocols, file systems, encryption, and hardware support are available. The Debian release notes are sparse in this respect. Thanks, Jason -- To

Re: Feature Set Docs

2008-10-05 Thread Jason C. Wells
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,05.Oct.08, 12:05:18, Jason C. Wells wrote: I am trying to find a document that lists the features of lenny. I see some new features but not a total list. For example, what network protocols, file systems, encryption, and hardware support are available

Re: Feature Set Docs

2008-10-05 Thread Jason C. Wells
Jason C. Wells wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Package specific documentation is either found in the package itself or in a package named packagename-doc, if the size is significant enough to warrant the split. In general the README.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/packagename/ should be the first

Heimdal Kerberos XDM and Login

2008-10-04 Thread Jason C. Wells
Does anyone know of a package for kerberized login and XDM, preferably heimdal? I wasn't able to scare one up. Regards, Jason C. Wells (who has Debian on the desktop for the first time after many years with FreeBSD) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject