Re: New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 15:50, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: http://ballsome.com Thoughts? Perhaps I'm just dense, but what's new here? To me, Ian's plan sounds like a fairly good description of debian

FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
process for orphaning such packages. Feel free to repost this reply publicly. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-28 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: http://ballsome.com Thoughts? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my own package? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my own package? Personally, I would add a deb

Gnome Mixer 1.4 Problems

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
on a logout/login as well as a reboot. So I'm thinking there's some kind of default setting that's getting applied during system startup, but I can't imagine what it would be. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: With the recent injunction granted against 321 Studios for their DVD X Copy software for copying DVDs, I've been wondering something. Why is it necessary to break CSS encryption to make a copy? Could you not make a bit-for-bit copy of the DVD and have the contents

Preserving changes to resolv.conf?

2004-02-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
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DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
medium? I mean, copying an mp3 file from one cd to another doesn't require you to decode it first. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Taking a module from another kernel?

2004-02-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
, though. Is there some way to take i810_audio.c from the 2.4.20 kernel sources and compile it for my 2.4.18? It doesn't seem like it would be all that different from other third-party modules (like NVIDIA's), except that I don't have a Makefile ready. Any tips? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster

fsck needed with ext3?

2004-02-17 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
For some reason I had thought that fsck wasn't needed if I was running ext3. I installed Woody using ext3 for my main partition, but still, every 32nd boot, the system runs fsck. Is there some setting I'm missing that tells it that I'm running ext3 and don't need fsck? -- Joel Konkle-Parker

Re: Disable plugins in Mozilla?

2004-02-16 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Keith Willoughby wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Is it possible to disable a specific plugin (like Flash) in Mozilla without physically removing the files from the plugins directory (or renaming them)? If you only have a problem with Flash, then Flash Click To View is ideal http

Disable plugins in Mozilla?

2004-02-15 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Is it possible to disable a specific plugin (like Flash) in Mozilla without physically removing the files from the plugins directory (or renaming them)? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Sound help?

2004-02-14 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
running, so I kill esd before I run the game. Any advice, please? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound help?

2004-02-14 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: My mind is somewhat boggled when it comes to getting sound support working on my machine. I have a Dell laptop with Woody using a self-compiled 2.4.24 kernel. I have i810_audio.o and sound.o explicitly loaded, with all their respective dependencies. Sorry to reply

Re: Audio Advice

2004-02-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joel Konkle-Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Loevborg wrote: You could also use a backported kernel-image from www.backport.org That would save you the trouble of compilation and would still be quite clean. Yeah, that's what I tried first, but the OSS modules

Kernel compilation woes

2004-02-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24' make[1]: *** [real_stamp_image] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.24' # Anyone have any idea what could cause something like this? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL

Re: Audio Advice

2004-02-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
came out sped up and at a higher pitch). -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x-ttcidfont-conf help?

2004-02-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:01:49PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker said When I installed Woody, defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf were installed along with it. I assume from what I've read that x-ttcidfont-conf is designed to control my TrueType fonts, rather than X itself. Well, that's

Audio Advice

2004-02-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
. Build myself a new 2.4.2x kernel. 2. Install Woody's alsa packages and compile a corresponding module version for my 2.4.18 kernel. 3. Build myself a new ALSA system. Any advice on what would be the cleanest solution here? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail

Re: Alternative to VMware?

2004-02-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Massimiliano wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I really want to get a copy of VMware, but I don't have $140 for the student version. So I'm looking for alternatives. I just want some kind of sandbox where I can test out new software, distros, etc, without rebooting into a seperate partition

Alternative to VMware?

2004-02-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I really want to get a copy of VMware, but I don't have $140 for the student version. So I'm looking for alternatives. I just want some kind of sandbox where I can test out new software, distros, etc, without rebooting into a seperate partition. What do other people use? -- Joel Konkle-Parker

Re: Alternative to VMware?

2004-02-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Robert L. Harris wrote: Have you looked at bochs? http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ I've messed around with 1.4pre2 with Woody, but didn't get very far. I've heard it's too slow to do anything with anyway. I guess I could grab 2.1 and give it a shot. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com

x-ttcidfont-conf help?

2004-02-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
-ttcidfont-conf alternative, like debconf suggested, and I've reconfigured both x-ttcidfont-conf and msttcorefonts, but to no avail. How is this stuff supposed to work? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

plex86

2004-02-01 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
According to unstable's plex86 page http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/plex86, it has been superceded by bochs. But I thought plex86 was a virtual machine and bochs was an emulator. Isn't there a big difference? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Controlling size of printed text?

2004-01-31 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
in the Galeon window has no effect on the printed output. How do I control the size of the printed text on the page? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Esta

2004-01-30 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
My Mozilla (1.0.0, 3.0r2) always reacts badly to these kinds of messages (with the subject full of s), freezing up, running the cpu to 100% for 30 secs or so, leaking memory, etc. Anyone have any advice? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone

Adding GTK+ engines to /usr/local

2004-01-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
. Is there a way to tell GTK+ about the engine in /usr/local? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multimedia keys in Woody?

2004-01-25 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
What's the best way to get my keyboard's multimedia keys to work in Woody? I've used Gnome 2.4's media keys applet, but is there something available in 1.4 that can do the same thing? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone

Re: Multimedia keys in Woody?

2004-01-25 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
sven kissner wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: What's the best way to get my keyboard's multimedia keys to work in Woody? I've used Gnome 2.4's media keys applet, but is there something available in 1.4 that can do the same thing? you may take a look at lineak, but i don't know if it's

Catches in upgrading to backports.org kernel?

2004-01-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm considering adding a 2.4.24 kernel from backports.org to my pure Woody system to get support for my multitude of peripherals and such. Are there any catches that I should look out for before I go for it? I noticed that this will also update my initrd package. Is this safe? -- Joel Konkle

Benefit of source packages?

2004-01-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm curious: what's the benefit of source packages? Do they allow you to optimize the package for your system like Gentoo does? Are there any other reasons why they're better than regular packages? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518

Woody: Remembering Desktop Assignment?

2004-01-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
desktop I'm currently in. Is it somehow possible to assign gtm to desktop 4? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB tv tuners?

2004-01-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm looking for a good USB tv tuner for my Woody box so I can use it to basically just watch TV on my computer, nothing too fancy. Does anyone have any suggestions for something that works with Linux (preferably Woody out of the box)? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail

Mozilla fonts

2003-12-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
with 1.5, so that might have screwed things up on my end. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone [662-518-1636] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla fonts

2003-12-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:41:02PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Under Preferences Appearance Fonts, everything is set to Agfa Monotype-andale mono-iso8859-1 and Slashdot renders in full monospace. Uhhh... Andale Mono *is* a monospace font. Exactly what do you expect

Multi-word Label in LILO

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
: Label=Debian_2.4.18 What's the right way to do this? (Or is there an overriding reason I should be using GRUB instead, besides the run-lilo-after-changes bit?) -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
was for in the first place. Thoughts? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why can't Sun's j2re and mplayer be provided in non-free or contrib? I've read various things about how their legal status is incompatible with Debian's DFSG, but I thought that's what non-free

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've dabbled in Gentoo for a little while, and they have a system that prompts for download of the j2re from Sun Isn't this what blackdown from apt-get.org does? When I want to install Well, that's

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 18:00 GMT, Bijan Soleymani penned: Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've dabbled in Gentoo for a little while, and they have a system that prompts for download of the j2re from Sun I think this should

Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
drivers. I don't have any apps running while I'm playing the games, save for Gnome and its applets and such. Does anyone have any clue what could be the problem here? Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a minute of slowness

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate

hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
no reason this shouldn't work... -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
, but who knows... -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_SII=m -- -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: When I try to get dma to work with my hard drive, I get the following error: -- # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) # -- Does anyone know why

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Alvin Oga wrote: hiya joel On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: -- # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) # -- What version of hdparm are you using? What version

Re: hdparm dma not working

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Well hell, after all of that it was a simple case of `modprobe piix`. Thanks for everyone who helped. This list is great. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

twm gdm session file?

2003-11-09 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Does anyone have a twm session file for gdm? Mine doesn't seem to be working at the moment, and I can't figure out why. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: No to wine! (was:Red Hat recommends...)

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
. And yes, I know about WineX. But it's not there yet, and I don't have the funds to spend $5/month for something I may not use very often. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
- /lib/ld-2.2.5.so $ -- Running as root comes up with the same problem. Help? Is WINE really the answer? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
? Is this actually Doom, or is it an 'enhanced' version with added features the developers thought would be cool? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

a.out libraries?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
of libvga.so.1. Does anyone know where I can get old libraries like this? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No to wine! (was:Red Hat recommends...)

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Linux gaming? Pre-order Doom 3 for linux! -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
out how to use them. UT and other things try direct access to /dev/dsp, which doesn't work with esd, I guess. Any advice? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:18:21AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Bijan Soleymani wrote: If you are talking about a laptop then you might have to live with what you have. I do indeed have a laptop. Thing is, I've had no problems under Windows. And using XMMS/ESD plugin

Desktop hostname?

2003-11-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
systems, not home desktops. Although I'd really like to get it working to at least be able to send mail through it, so I don't have the personal stigma of having a 'broken mail system' anymore. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail

Miguel de Icaza on Debian

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
due to its deep community roots. Tools like apt-get help people try out the latest developments in the open source world with little effort, and their community commitment is fantastic, but is a very hard platform to support for an ISV. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662

locale not supported?

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I keep getting warnings along the lines of Gdk-warning: local not supported by C library when I install packages in gnome-terminal. I'm using en-US.utf8. Is there something I can change to make this go away? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail

Re: i810_audio.o

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
it will have some 'define' statements with some pci ids. If yours isn't there, it's not supported. Try a new kernel. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Alfredo Valles wrote: Is there a template or guideline to follow in debian for making init scripts? Take a look at the Debian Reference section on the boot process: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-boot -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone

Community-oriented distros

2003-11-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
? Are there other philosophical differences between them that I should know about (besides Gentoo's source-only approach)? Thanks for the opinions, guys. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
, though. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing my own Apache?

2003-10-19 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
other people do? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing my own Apache?

2003-10-19 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
` and be done with it? Do I build my own package and install it that way? What do other people usually do when they want to add some external software to their Woody system? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they really not used? If not, why? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Why is ide-scsi necessary?

2003-06-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
This sounds like a FAQ, but I can't find the answer... maybe I'm not googling the right keywords. Why is SCSI emulation necessary for cd-r/w drives? Why can't I use them as the IDE/ATAPI drives that they are? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail

Re: Creative Audigy

2003-06-23 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
module installed. Thnaks! Get and install the drivers from http://opensource.creative.com Worked perfectly for me. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Karsten M. Self wrote: ...and you want to do...? I want to test debian-installer. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
don't want to recompile my kernel Are there any other ways of doing this I'm not aware of? I have 1 hard drive with a windows partition, and one each of /, /boot, and scratch partitions, running Woody on the linux side. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone

Easy firewall advice

2003-06-19 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
? I'm used to ZoneAlarm for Windows, so that gives somewhat of an idea of how much I know about firewalls. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: eth0: error -110 failure writing Tx descriptor to BAP

2003-06-18 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
/ You'll need to have your kernel sources present to compile them. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
How do I get a nice little penguin logo during kernel boot? Is that a kernel option that must be set at compile time? I noticed kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 has it, while kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 doesn't. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL

Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
and Documentation\svga.txt. That must be the problem. /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 shows CONFIG_FB_VESA=y, while /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 shows # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
is the ID of mark. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wifi

2003-06-09 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
PCI or PCMCIA? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gnome meltdown

2003-06-07 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I had somewhat of a Gnome meltdown last night, and I'm trying to pick up the pieces. I'm using a generic clean tasksel desktop system install of Gnome 1.4 on Woody. Here's what happened: 1. I ejected my pcmcia 802.11b card, since it was causing some problems (ksoftirqd_CPU0 using 100% cpu, it

xscreensaver not starting with Gnome

2003-06-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
How do I make xscreensaver start when I log into Gnome? Currently I have to right click on the lock applet Restart Daemon before I can lock my screen. I have xscreensaver-gnome 3.34 with Gnome 1.4 on Woody. -- Joel Konkle-Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

How to turn off scsi emulation?

2003-05-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
disable ide-scsi altogether. Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Seneca wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:25:41PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of sound

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
adduser foo audio, where foo is your username. You might want to take a look at the adduser manpage. -- # cat di604_firmware_218.zip /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device Were you doing that as root or as an ordinary user? If you are doing something as an ordinary user,

Re: Sound

2003-03-06 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
For sound blaster audigy you have to visit http://opensource.creative.com/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 and download the source to the driver that supports sb audigy plus the tools. You then do a make, make, make install, make tools, and make install-tools and you should be

Sound

2003-03-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of sound infrastructure or something? I have a soundblaster audigy. - Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Sound solutions for Woody

2003-03-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I have a Debian stable (Woody) box with a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer running on the standard 2.2.20 kernel. What sound solutions do I have available to me? I can get by with just hearing a cd or some mp3s or something through it, for now. - Joel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Sound solutions for Woody

2003-03-03 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I have a Debian stable (Woody) box with a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer running on the standard 2.2.20 kernel. What sound solutions do I have available to me? I can get by with just hearing a cd or some mp3s or something through it, for now. - Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: GNOME 1.4 Time [SOLVED]

2003-03-01 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Here's what I did to get the correct time to show on my GNOME 1.4 clock applet (at least during the current session, I haven't tried rebooting): -- # mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.backup # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime # ntpdate time.ucla.edu -- Thanks

CUPS - HP Deskjet 952C

2003-03-01 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I have an HP Deskjet 952C attached to my USB on a Debian stable (Woody) box. I'm trying to set up my printer using the browser interface. First question: should I be using the HP DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) model or the HP New DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) model? Second question: when I specify

GNOME 1.4 Time

2003-02-28 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
When I installed Woody, I set up the hardware clock to GMT, then specified US/Eastern as my time zone. The GNOME 1.4 time applet, though, shows a time of 4:52 pm, when the actual local time is 9:52 pm. 'hwclock' shows 16:52. What gives? - Joel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

GNOME 1.4 on Woody

2003-02-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm doing a baseline netinstall of Debian, and I want to add the GNOME 1.4 desktop to it. Is there some specific meta-package I should be installing? How do I know I'm getting the full desktop? A specific order of apt-get commands or something? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Multidisciplinary