Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

2004-08-30 Thread Kevin C. Smith
= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap and then modified /usr/bin/cdrecord: #!/bin/sh VERS=`uname -r` case $VERS in 2.0.*|2.2.*) exec cdrecord.shm $@ ;; *) exec sudo cdrecord.mmap $@ ;; esac Now I can burn from Gnome's Nautilus as a non-root user again. -- Kevin C. Smith

cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin C. Smith
4.638s timeout 120s Trouble flushing the cache Writing time: 180.834s Average write speed 27.7x. Min drive buffer fill was 73% Fixating... Fixating time: 30.112s cdrecord: fifo had 4342 puts and 4279 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 2179 times full, min fill was 92%. -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: OpenOffice.org and Spelling

2004-08-29 Thread Kevin C. Smith
prefer OO's look-and-feel. Any suggestions? Thanks. Ed I had to: # mkdir /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict # ln -s /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ ooo and then spellchecking worked. -- Kevin C. Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Inspiron 8200 Alsa Problems

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin C. Smith
looks like this: i8k agpgart snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97-codec snd_nm256 snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss ide-cd speedstep_ich psmouse nvidia rtc Sound should work after this. -- Kevin C. Smith

Kernel 2.6.7-1 NVIDIA Trouble

2004-07-20 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running Debian Sid Upgrade from kernel 2.4 to kernel 2.6.7-1, and recent nvidia driver. I have noted a stutter every few seconds when playing OpenGL games. So far the only thing I've noted is this: # xdpyinfo | grep GLX GLX NV-GLX I'm missing NVIDIA-GLX Thoughts? -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: Getting the same USB device?

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:42:56AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-09, Norman Walsh penned: --=-=-= I have three or four plug in devices: a firewire PCMCIA card and several USB devices. Depending on the order in which they're added to the system, they get installed in

Re: can't shut down

2004-01-27 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:25:33AM -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: I'm a newby to debian linux and feeling pretty dumb. I have managed to partition my hard drive and install Debian but I can't figure out how to get into root in order to shut down my machine. If I am in Gnome how do I close

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
contains: REGISTER ^nvidiactl PERMISSIONS root.video 0660 REGISTER ^nvidia[0-9] PERMISSIONS root.video 0660 And everything went back to normal. Kevin C. Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LKM?

2003-11-28 Thread Kevin C. Smith
? Or is this normal for SID. Maybe Devfs related? Thoughts and suggestions would be helpful. Thanks. Kevin C. Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ut2003 OpenGL

2003-11-09 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'm running Debian SID. After not running games for about a year I reinstalled UT2003, however it does not run. I've search google, but have not found a solution. I get the following error: ### Could not load OpenGL library History: Exiting due to error ## Quake3, glxgears,

Re: Re: X trouble!

2003-10-20 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:33:34AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, thanks to people on IRC, I fixed the problem. It was because of fontconfig bug 216605. The solution was to uninstall gsfonts-other, and rebuild the font cache (I used dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig). (And sorry about

X trouble!

2003-10-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I just upgraded by Sid box and now 99% of my X apps no longer work. Such as: KDM fails to start. I can start fluxbox but the majority of the X appls fail. I have not seen any errors in the logs or from the output of various applications. Anyone else experience this, or is it just me? Kevin

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:20:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:13:35 -0800 John F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at that, but the part with make-kpkg modules_image seems like it is starting to compile a new kernel. I don't know, but most of the questions I

Re: Webadmin

2003-02-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
in Webmin itself works well, and fixed various problems. This is on a box running Woody. -- Kevin C. Smith | May you hava a long life and a merry one. Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | May you have a quick death and an easy one. www.debian.org | May you have a pretty girl

Re: GTK, GTK2 Fonts

2003-02-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
to. use /root/.gtkrc for roots gtk apps. use ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and /root/.gtkrc-2.0 for gtk2 apps. -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is www.debian.org | tell them

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
this, and it does not change the scroll bar in Galeon. -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is www.debian.org | tell them they are being attacked, and denounce

Re: agpgart nvagp

2002-12-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:42:19AM -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:40:58PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: I'm trying to test the nvagp, but the agpgart module continues to be autoloaded when X starts. How do I stop the autoloading of agpgart without removing

agpgart nvagp

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'm trying to test the nvagp, but the agpgart module continues to be autoloaded when X starts. How do I stop the autoloading of agpgart without removing the module or recompiling? Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid

gtk-engines-lighthouseblue

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin C. Smith
something or not. -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is www.debian.org | tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the | pacifists

cups hp5550

2002-11-02 Thread Kevin C. Smith
with is to reboot the computer, which is not acceptable. Restarting cupsd alone does not solve the problem. Anyone how what is happening here and how to fix it? -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) | of the leaders

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18 [Solved]

2002-06-21 Thread Kevin C. Smith
, and it saves some users from an initial failed kernel build. I've recently heard arguments that putting a soft link /usr/src/linux - /usr/src/kernel-sources-x.x.xx breaks things in Debian. Any comments on this? -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-20 Thread Kevin C. Smith
-- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Debian GNU/Linux (sid) |-- Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
the colours in my xterm are different in XFCE... I believe that if you use xfterm ( a wrapper script that calls xter) the xterm defaults are not read. ?? -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:06:19AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 09:27:48AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 14/06/02 Eric G. Miller did speaketh: Log out from X and edit it from a console session. My guess is your editing it from within an xfce session

powerbook lombard

2002-06-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
, and dvd. -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Debian GNU/Linux (sid) |-- Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
-session for [WM_NAME] XFce Main Panel change [GEOMETRY] Mine looks like this: [GEOMETRY] 110 722 808 46 0 0 See if that works. -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Debian GNU/Linux

apple powerbook lombard

2002-06-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'm trying to help a friend install debian on a apple powerbook lombard bronze keyboard X fails to start correctly. It becomes a runaway process taking over 99.8% of the cpu and never lets up. Anyone have a working XF86config-4 they are willing to share? -- Kevin C. Smith

webmin

2002-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Anyone know how to fix this. I get: proc::pty_process_exec failed : Undefined subroutine proc::get_new_pty called at /usr/share/webmin/proc/proc-lib.pl line 176. in several webmin modules: Linux Bootup Configuration Partitions on Local Disks -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
)? thanks alex Netgear FA310TX works great: stable and uses that tulip driver. Not sure this is still being produced. Don't know what I will do when they stop. -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
: choose the hp550 filter. It works fine. Or you can use lprngtool, and set your printcap up with that. It also work fine. Just switched to using lprngtool a week ago with the same printer. Used magicfilter before. -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL

Re: Limewire

2002-04-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
. Any pointers? Limewire uses the 1.3 runtime. Upgrade to this somehow. I use blackdowns with good results. deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED

flightgear

2002-04-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Debian sid Nvidia GeForce2 GTS - OpenGL working fine in all other games. apt-get installed flighgear It starts at about 89 fps then when moving drops to 2 fps (unplayble). Just wondered if other had this problem and have a fix. -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little

Re: Problems with Debian 3.0 and UT

2002-04-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:16:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kevin C. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My question is, is there any debian users that have got the GOTY version of UT to work on Debian Woody ? I have UT GOTY running fine with unstable. I don't remember if I had

Re: Problems with Debian 3.0 and UT

2002-04-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
trouble at first or not. Sorry I don't have any suggestions. I can work though. -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Debian GNU/Linux (sid

Re: Debian unstable / VMware panic AIO NOT_IMPLEMENTED

2002-04-02 Thread Kevin C. Smith
, if not all, the problems with VMWare and Debian sid right now. I'm also using kernel 2.4.17, but not SMP, and VMWare 3.0. -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Debian GNU/Linux (sid

Re: vim-gtk, where is gvim ?

2002-03-20 Thread Kevin C. Smith
gvim is in the vim package. I believe that vim-gtk a package for added gtk programming support. Highlighting and stuff like that; like vim-tcl, vim-perl, etc. vim should have installed with vim-gtk though ... -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
issue with similar. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

defoma

2002-03-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
What do I need to do to get defoma working properly? I believe I need to add something to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 font paths? -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU

Re: How do remove frozen messages from Exim Queue?

2002-03-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to confirm deletion of each message - or just a way to remove all frozen messages? as root: # exim -Mrm message-id See man exim for further details. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: defoma

2002-03-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:58:31PM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: And I heard Kevin C. Smith exclaim: What do I need to do to get defoma working properly? Check out /usr/share/doc/x-ttcidfont-conf/README.Debian HTH --Daniel F. T. Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: How do remove frozen messages from Exim Queue?

2002-03-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
to deliver frozen messages. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: xfce

2002-03-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:23:24PM -0800, Craig wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:25:52PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Anyone running XFce and Unstable. Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian menu (xfmenu). Anyone know how to get this back? maybe update-menus try man update

xfce

2002-03-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Anyone running XFce and Unstable. Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian menu (xfmenu). Anyone know how to get this back? -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
. an exit 0 thrown in to stop the script. Indeed check that /etc/init.d/gpm is sane. Do I remeber correctly that without gpm and X config pointing to /dev/psaux you had a working mouse in X? You should have. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain

Re: 3d with nvidia

2002-03-02 Thread Kevin C. Smith
, and it took a few tests. Suggest you compile agpart as a module, then experiment with using agpart and nvagp (Option NvAGP 0,1, or 2 I believe). I have a Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset and 4x works fine, but the above poster is correct there have been problems reported. -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: 3d with nvidia

2002-03-01 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

dpkg system messed up

2002-02-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
suggestions? How do I rebuild the Tree? -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
magic bytes at the start. ldconfig: /usr/lib/libmoz_art_lgpl.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgkgfx.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. Any suggestions? -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up

Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:01:35PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:32, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Running SID. Did apt-get upgrade on 2/10 and mozilla failed to upgrade. Not sure if this is a packaging problem or my system got hosed in some way. Now I am unable to install

Re: UrlView strangeness

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
blank line it fires up lynx and takes me where I want to go. Has anyone else experienced this? Had this problem for a time. But it just went alway. Running Sid. Maybe it was corrected during an upgrade. -- Kevin C. Smith | Guns don't kill people, bullets do! [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Quake III

2002-01-27 Thread Kevin C. Smith
about the FSF? Can I get Tribes 2 from them? :) I did! -- Kevin C. Smith | Guns don't kill people, bullets do! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Guns just make them go real fast.

dumb icon question

2002-01-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
/include/X11/pixmaps/ /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/ /usr/share/xfce/icons/ /usr/share/pixmaps/ /usr/share/icons/ and more Anyone know where they could be? -- Kevin C. Smith | I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pilots wore helmets. -- Dave Edison

Re: dumb icon question

2002-01-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:32:24PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: | Help ... I'm about to go insane. | | Running XFCE, love it, and want to find icons for guiTAR and gps (the | process manager). When I iconify a window the correct icon appears, so | I

Re: Hardware Question

2002-01-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
or other sound howto documents. 2. Read about compiling your own kernel, if you have not done so before. Use kernel-package and the debian method for the kernel compile. -- Kevin C. Smith | I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pilots wore

Re: Update to X 4.1.0-10 overwrote my XF86Config-4

2001-12-09 Thread Kevin C. Smith
/XF86Config-4.dex* or something like that. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: File Manager

2001-12-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
a suggestion If you can spare the memory, try Nautilus :). I like emelfm. I would suggest giving more than one a try to see what suits you. I did notice that xfm looks a like dfm (this also produces icons on your desktop if you want them). -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up

Re: startx problems

2001-11-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
-clients package. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

menu trouble

2001-10-31 Thread Kevin C. Smith
it appears to be down. Anyone else having this one? How did you fix it? -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

/dev/snd help

2001-10-25 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I once was using ASLA. I no longer doing so, but the following remains: /dev/snd - /proc/asound/dev I am using the emu10k1 module from the 2.4.12 kernel. What should this link point to know? Or should I just delete it? Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential

webmin install failure

2001-10-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
being defined as a user first. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa

2001-10-11 Thread Kevin C. Smith
with the emu10k1 driver, and would like to get ALSA working. (unstable, 2.4.10) -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
AGPGART rather then nvidia's AGP, and in: /etc/modutils/aliases added under alias char-major-10-175 agpgart options agp_try_unsupported=1 Works anyway on the ASUS A7V133 motherboard. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little

sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
won the match. Penguin Command also produces distortions when there are more than one explosion at a time. Any ideas? I've search, but no luck so far. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither

Re: sound distortion

2001-10-06 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:59:49PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 18:46, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Installed kernel 2.4.10. Built emu10k1 as a module. Before this I was running 2.2.17 and ALSA without trouble. I am now experiencing sound distortions in some instances

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
to use the tarballs from nVidia and use their make install I second this, which worked for me. -- Kevin C. Smith | They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor Debian GNU/Linux | safety. -- Benjamin

Re: problems with intellimouse explorer USB

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Buttons 7 Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 EndSection My /etc/X11/Xsession I added: xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 The above stuff got my wheel working in X. -- Kevin C. Smith| Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
nobody gave you some lessons in manners. ask a preschooler for help. harsha I recently saw a list become almost useless because of name calling, snipes, and such. Just let it pass, please. Just wanted to plead for the turning of the cheak strategy. Thanks. -- Kevin C. Smith| Debian

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
1 seem to have xdm. Should I just pick a runlevel and delete the xdm in the corresponding rc.x directory? As root do: # update-rc.d -f remove xdm -- Kevin C. Smith| Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

reiserfs question

2001-07-29 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Maybe this is a stupid question but: I plan to try the reiserfs, but an curious about the fsck. In particular, about when it runs after so many boots. Do I have to disable this somehow. I suspect a e2fsck on a reiserfs would be bad. -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn't

Re: Browser Problem

2001-07-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
. It was show, but worked. I would think wine IE would be fine for just checking to see how a page would look, but not for regular browsing. It's been over a year though, so it may now work better, or worse, I don't know. -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough

logrotate error: unexpected text

2001-07-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Anyone know how to fix this? Logrotate produces the following error message. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate error: /etc/logrotate.conf:9 unexpected text. I haven't touched the logrotate.conf, so it's the standard one. -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough

Re: kde2

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:15:57AM +0800, csj wrote: On Saturday 14 July 2001 02:49, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. What

Missing libpanel_applet.so.0

2001-07-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running sid/unstable and trying to install galeon. error reads: libpanel_applet.so.0 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. This file not installed. BTW the gnome panel also does not work due to this. What package has this file? -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody

kde2

2001-07-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. What happened? How do I fix this? -- Kevin C. Smith | I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough

/proc/pci incorrect

2001-06-24 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Changed the NIC months ago, but noted that the /proc/pci continues to show the old NIC. Why would this be? How do I correct it? -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation

Re: Problem with cdrecord

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin C. Smith
: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero. apt-get -b source cdrecord then install the resulting debs. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation

mozilla-browser-0.9.1-2

2001-06-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
mozilla-browser (--cofigure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: mozilla-browser E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL

Re: icewm and WM apps

2001-06-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: Does anyone know of a convenient way to run wm dockapps in icewm? I don't want mine floating around, nor do I want them displayed on the taskbar. Check out icedock at www.maol.yi.org/icewm/icedock/ -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
.xpm and freeamp_32x32.xpm it will look like: prog freeamp freeamp freeamp then save and restart icewm. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them

Re: how to add application to icewm menu bar *n

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
a Windows icon as a bitmap and then move to Linux and use Gimp to play with it (change to xpm). I would check out the Windows icon editing/making programs out there, such as IconCool. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading

Re: grub dual boot with 2 hd

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
? It did not work for me, so I ended up with this: title Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.17 root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 hdd=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdb1 Which works fine. Before it didn't seemed unable to use: kernel /vmlinuz because it is a symlink? Also root (hd1,1) failed to work. -- Kevin C

Re: IceWM + dockapps

2001-06-01 Thread Kevin C. Smith
, and it works fine for me. Yes you can remove the taskbar. Try apt-get install icepref It's a icewm configuration tool that works well, and in it is an option to remove the taskbar. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few

startx not working

2001-04-11 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running Debian unstable. Just did an upgrade and now startx does not work. Can start xdm, but will now go further then the login screen. This happen to anyone else, and what is causing it? -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
. This is correct on mine, yet still not able to ping the gateway. Cameron: Does this sound like your situation also? -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation

Re: The following packages have been held back...

2001-04-08 Thread Kevin C. Smith
of the packages that was in the list. It upgraded without a problem. -- Stephen Do apt-get install on each package that was held back. The reason for holding back some packages is explained I the Apt User's Guide. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns

Re: Kernel in what package?

2001-04-08 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'd like to try one that a package maintainer has compiled. -- Stephen kernel-image-2.2.18 and so on. You will not find a package fore 2.4 yet. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation

Re: [OT] AMD Athlon fan

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
and Temputure is within acceptable limits. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence

Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
will accompany book. Thanks. It will come with the current release of Potato. I've been keeping an I out for it, but it is still yet to be published. Don't know what the hold up is. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few

Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
just like Borders. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves

Re: XDM

2001-04-03 Thread Kevin C. Smith
. In .xsession put: exec startkde Probably needs it to be executable so, $ chmod 755 .xsession. Should work. -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest

Re: networking prob

2001-04-01 Thread Kevin C. Smith
, Kevin C. Smith wrote: I installed Debian 2.2_R2 today on my second computer. It was running Redhat then Progeny RC1 just fine. After installing Debian I am unable to reach (ping) my gateway. #ifconfig (results are fine). #route (takes a long time to finish, taking time with default

networking prob

2001-03-31 Thread Kevin C. Smith
. The lights on my Linksys Etherfast Cable router show the connection to this computer is failing every 10-15 seconds. Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who learn by observation

Re: Win4Lin

2001-03-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
used alien to convert the rpm and installed that, but everything after than has failed miserably. Thanks! -- steve Try: http://zeolites.cqe.nwu.edu/marty/tips1.html -- Kevin C. Smith There are three kinds of men. The one that learns [EMAIL PROTECTED]by reading. The few who

Re: Is it possible...

2001-03-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:28:09PM +0100, Marcin Landowski wrote: ...to start Linux (DemoLinux - CD distribution) on NT-workstation? I haven't admin privilages, boot possible only from HDD (BIOS settings), I can't open box (plombs). Check out their web site. I remember reading something

Re: Is it possible...

2001-03-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:13:38PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Kevin C. Smith (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:19:01PM -0600): Check out their web site. I remember reading something about booting demolinux from Windows (not sure which Windows). (surely not windows nt). Most likely

new hard drive

2001-03-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Looking for some intial advice. I admit I have done no research on this yet. Just purchased a new 40 GB ATA 100 hard drive. I would like to avoid reinstalling debian, which is currently on a 10 GB ATA 66 hard drive. Will there be a problem moving the OS from the 10 GB to the 40 GB? I plan to

Re: your mail

2001-02-18 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:43:59PM -0600, laurence wilson wrote: where can i get a cd with the linux program on it.. to install on my computer?? thanks laurence If you have a CD burner download an image from www.linuxiso.org. You will find plenty of linux distros to choose from. Kevin

Re: Installing Debian with ATA100

2001-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0800, Stephen Keller wrote: (I apologize if this post is breaking any etiquette or anything -- I haven't had time to really lurk as I'm excited about trying to get Debian installed). My setup is as follows: I'm using an Asus A7V motherboard with an

Re: IDE CD-RW

2001-01-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:42:22PM +, john gennard wrote: I've purchased a Traxdata 8x4x32 CD-RW, and can only install it on my main box. Unfortunately, this has two Hard Disks (both on the Primary IDE channel) and a normal CD Drive as Master on the second channel. The literature with

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:50:32PM -0500, Terry Warner wrote: If I remember correctly when I was out there .. what prevents them from open sourcing it, is the OpenGL code they use in their drivers. Something with the OpenGL code, and something with SGI (If memory serves me right). I have a

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