RE: PCI Wireless NIC question.

2003-08-21 Thread Percival, Ray
support for Centrino... Regards, Jeremy On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:03:50AM -0700, Percival, Ray wrote: > I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520 thinking > it was a prisim2 chipset. Well it turned out that when I got it it is not a > prisim2 but rath

RE: PCI Wireless NIC question.

2003-08-21 Thread Percival, Ray
: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCI Wireless NIC question. On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:03:50 -0700, "Percival, Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlin

RE: Nvidia driver install

2003-08-21 Thread Percival, Ray
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src wget The docs are under /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src and /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-src. It tends to work well the only problem I've ever had is having to reset some permissions on a couple of files afterwards. You will have to recompile wheneve

PCI Wireless NIC question.

2003-08-21 Thread Percival, Ray
I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520 thinking it was a prisim2 chipset. Well it turned out that when I got it it is not a prisim2 but rather a realtek. No problem they seem to have drivers. http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?software=True&compamod

Pam permissions

2002-10-30 Thread Ray Percival
I'm having problems with Nvidia drivers it would appear from their docs that I need to make PAM not reset permissions on a device. The two files they refer to in their docs do not exist under Debian. So how do I keep pam from resetting permissions on a given device? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Exim issue

2001-04-17 Thread Ray Percival
After setting up exim I can send mail using Mutt it appears to send fine and there are no errors in the logs. When I send to one of my addresses from my ISP it sends it I can go out and look at the mail on the ISP's server. But no messages are getting sent to 3rd parties. I set up exim as a sma

Re: what i've learned, and explanation.

2001-04-12 Thread Ray Percival
Having dealt with Lusers for far longer than I care to think about I'm going to go ahead and give some opnions on the subject. >Other important questions are: > >* Specifically, _what_ are people entitled to? Are they entitled to > demand that I spend my time catering to their needs? Are th

K-Jofol plugin for XMMS

2001-04-05 Thread Ray Percival
I can not get this to compile I have xmms-dev but it is still complaing about missing files. I'm trying it with .95 and am going to try .94. If any one has it working or better yet know where to get debs for it please let me know how. Thanks Ray.

Re: oops..missed a module

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
Use modconf to add it. -- Original Message -- From: "Jake R. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:38:12 -0600 (CST) >I recently installed debian and I missed a module es1688 for my latitude >lm sound support. Is there a way that I can ad

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
I don't know about the lilo isssue but yes the X issue is a well known problem. Do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients (that one might be xclients-base) xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and run xf86config to create a xf86config file and you should be fine. -- Original

Kernel panic after upgrade to 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
Thanks in advance for your help. I decided to go to kernel 2.4.2 on my testing box. Did a apt-get install to get the source. Got my old config file from /boot and put it in the source and did a make oldconfig. I then did a make xconfig and made sure that I had ext2 support and elf and a.out all

Re: no opengl after woody update

2001-03-26 Thread Ray Percival
If you installed from the tarballs just do a quick make install agian and it should work fine. Before the last one when was the last time you did a upgrade? In the past month or so it has broken twice on me but a quick reinstall has fixed it. -- Original Message

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-21 Thread Ray Percival
I've always said that a little research before a purchase will save one grief. In any case. I have a BJC 4400 (which also emulates a 600) working fine. What I did is grab pdq and xpdq. I got the debs from unstable but I'm running woody. Install them then go to www.linuxprinting.org and get the pdq

Re: Ximian packages

2001-03-20 Thread Ray Percival
Go to www.debianplanet.org look at the unofficial apt sources list and search on ximian. It will give you all the lines. -- Original Message -- From: "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:04:09 -0600 >Hello, > >Someone kn

Apt, Debconf, and Perl.

2001-03-19 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone know how to fix this. I have tried a reinstall of deboconf and it did not work. Once again thanks. Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Ray Percival
Not knowing about *BSD's jails I'm not sure if you want to restrict a user to only one part of the filesystem why not use chroot? -- Original Message -- From: Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Mar 2001 17:03:16 +0300 > >Hi, > >I'm interested if the

A SSH question.

2001-03-14 Thread Ray Percival
I understand that this is not a Debian specific question but I'm hoping someone out there will be kind and explain this one in short easy to understand words. :) I'm trying to ssh into my Debian box on a DSL line setting behind a floppyfw based firewall. When I am at home I can SSH into that bo

Re: installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Ray Percival
Go to the package search page and do a search it will give you the righ name. apt-get install netscape will work but might give you more than you want. -- Original Message -- From: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:16:46 -0700 >

Re: licq broken in woody?

2001-03-07 Thread Ray Percival
I've noticed this also looks like a bug to me. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:19:46 +1030 (CST) > >Hi, ever since I upgraded to woody, licq hasn't worked. I'm using >gnomeicu, but I don't like it as mu

Re: Installing Debian

2001-03-05 Thread Ray Percival
Well first of all IMHO most of the defaults make sense. The problem here is you trade off power for ease of use. And I have yet to see a really good way around this. Maybe the best way would be to make "levels" of install like RH has. Novice-Deity or something like that but I can see how that would

Package quality

2001-03-05 Thread Ray Percival
When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this has a percentage in it. What does that mean? I've just wondered about this for awhile and just thought I'd ask. Thanks very much.

RE: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Ray Percival
I have noticed that with .7 that when you closed one Mozilla window (be it a browser or mail client window) that it would close all of the other Mozilla windows open. I think this is what you are talking about. This seems to have been fixed in .8 which I have been using for about a week now. -

Re: Xfree86 4.0.2 problems when using XF86Setup on testing distribution

2001-02-27 Thread Ray Percival
Don't use XF86Setup to setup X 4. Use xf86config instead. The graphical tools have never worked very well with X 4. You might want to take a look at http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/RELNOTES1.html#1. While they no longer say that the graphical tools won't work you will notice that XF86setup is *not* l

Mozilla .8

2001-02-20 Thread Ray Percival
Does anybody know of a deb for Mozilla .8 or failing that how easy is it to create one that "just works" using alien? What I am looking for here is something that works as well as the Progeny .7 debs. I installed it a entry showed up under Debian and net in my menus it launche ran and does what

Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x

2001-02-16 Thread Ray Percival
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performance

Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x

2001-02-16 Thread Ray Percival
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performa

Re: lower res in X4 than X 3.3.6

2001-02-15 Thread Ray Percival
Have you created a new config file XF86Config-4 should be its name if not I would suggest that you run through xf86config one time. I got *much* better modlines this way. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 2

Re: DSL

2001-02-06 Thread Ray Percival
I assume you mean Linux :). DSL is easy. Get a external DSL router (The Cisco 675 works *very* well) Your provider may want to push a internal card on you don't go there. The external is worth the extra money. Get a good supported NIC. (Most providers will give you one insist on PCI and a good

After Monday's little X issue....

2001-01-31 Thread Ray Percival
I'm going to start waiting till the evening to do apt-get dist-upgrade on my testing boxen. So did anything break today? Thanks very much for any info.

Boot disks for testing

2001-01-30 Thread Ray Percival
Where would one get boot/driver disks for testing on the ftp sites there does not appear to be anything under disksi386 under testing. Thanks much for any info.

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Ray Percival
st of packages. -- Original Message -- From: "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:52:28 -0700 >I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going >to 4.0.2 :

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Ray Percival
I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work. On a releated note does anyone know of where one could maybe get .debs of the Nvidia drivers and if not any advice from anyone who has installed them? Thanks much. -- Or

Re: About apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-01-27 Thread Ray Percival
I agree the ,helixcode stuff needs to be unstable, for everything else you will be much better in the long run if you track one thing and going by stable testing or unstable is better IMHO because when a new version goes stable you will then get that without having to mess with your sources. Also k

Re: need help installing unstable

2001-01-27 Thread Ray Percival
And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke toys... :) -- Original Message -- From: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:30:12 +0200 >On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: >> Setting

Re: Netscape Woes

2001-01-25 Thread Ray Percival
apt-get install netscape Also works well and get all the depends right. I do agree though that three or four installs are about right for learning. I would suggest that you try to apt-get everything you can things IMHO just work better that way. -- Original Message --

Re: certification

2001-01-23 Thread Ray Percival
IMHO, If you have the knowledge and are doing the certs to impress employers do the Red Hat cert. I say this because that is the name most of them are going to know. Then get the job and do whatever you want to because most of them won't know a Debian box from a Red Hat box. At work now I have

Can't use X as root

2001-01-18 Thread Ray Percival
When I try to launch a X application as root it tells me the client can not connect to the server. It is a stock 2.2 X install does anyone have any thoughts on the subject? Thanks Ray

Re: USB and Potato 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-11 Thread Ray Percival
My Logitech trackball also works like a dream. THis was the doc that got me over the hump. http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html -- Original Message -- From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:00:50 -0600 >On Wednesday 10 Janua

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Ray Percival
It was a hacked kernel that VA put together. This is the only O'Reilly book I've ever been sorry for buying. Read the online version buy Running Linux and get a cd from someplace else. -- Original Message -- From: "Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To

Linux related employment

2001-01-08 Thread Ray Percival
This is a general question for some of you who may be lucky enough to be able to use Linux in your jobs. Besides coding what skillsets would really set someone apart as a person looking for a Linux job? I'm currently thinking about what to start learning next and thought I'd ask. Sorry if this of

Re: Some refreshing news

2001-01-06 Thread Ray Percival
Wine works well with some of them use the cvs builds. -- Original Message -- From: "Gary Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:08:48 +0100 >On 5 Jan 2001, you wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > upgraded my motherboard and CPU last n

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
I can't get to linux.com just now to find the article but basically it is Microshaft's fault. It seems that had Intel used the same versioning for cpuid that they have used up untill now it would have broken NT/2000 in a very bad way. (All the details are in the linux.com article I can't seem to ge

X 4.x in testing

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
I just noticed the Glibc 2.2 is now in testing. As I understood it this was one of the things that needed to happen before X 4.x went in. Does anyone know how soon this might happen? Thanks for any info.

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
If you are printing locally I would suggest pdq and xpdq. Read about them on www.linuxprinting.org You can apt-get them from unstable and I think testing. If you just make a sym link called lpd pointing to pdq alot of things work very well. -- Original Message -

Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread Ray Percival
I had not heard that they where tracking kernel numbers but it would make sense to do it that way. -- Original Message -- From: John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:26:51 +1100 >At 08:13 PM 1/4/2001 -0700, Ray Percival w

Re: X window too big

2001-01-04 Thread Ray Percival
>From a xterm run xwininfo and click on the main window, this will give you the resolution that it is running at. Try ctrl-alt-numpad- till you get to the resolution that you want to be at. Odds are it will still look bad not to worry. From the xterm run xvidtune click OK on the scary message. Cli

Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread Ray Percival
I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should see it in Woody in the pretty near future. No the next version of Potato will be 2.2r3. Won't get a new version number till Woody goes stable. IMHO Woody should be 3.0 think about it a new major version of X and a new major version o

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on the O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
I assume you mean the O'Reilly Debian book. It is worth reading online the website not worth buying. There are a couple of books on the kernel one has all the source and comments (INAC so I have not looked at it) I also noticed that O'Reilly has a kernel book. -- Original Message ---

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
It would be quite a wait for Woody as they are now talking about it going frozen about May and then several months after that before it goes stable. -- Original Message -- From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:26:12 -0500 > >Potato is the

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
Me again, try www.cheapbytes.com for the cds they also have a book pack at the moment. Also for sure check out the online version of the O'Reilly Debian book but spend your money on Running Linux. -- Original Message -- From: "Holp, John Mr." <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
I had some problems with 2.2 and the emu10k1 module with volume but they went away when I went to the 2.2.18 kernel and just compilied it in. -- Original Message -- From: Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:32:44 + (GMT) >I have

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
This is the only O'Reilly book I regret having bought but the full text is online and has helped me a couple of times. All in all though a copy of Running Linux and a 2.2r2 cd would be the ideal solution. -- Original Message -- From: "Michael P. Soulier" <

USB Trackball

2000-12-25 Thread Ray Percival
Does anybody have a logitech Trackman Marble wheel working under X? And if so what do the xf86config entry look like for it? Thanks very much. (It is USB and it looks like the kernel is finding it right any advice please?

The Debian way (kernel)

2000-12-18 Thread Ray Percival
I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run into anything to be aware of with this one. I'm doing it mostly for the USB backports (thin

Re: Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Ray Percival
You need to get the 2.2.18 kernel to get the USB backports after that your best hope is apt-get install gphoto and hope that they have it right now. -- Original Message -- From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:44:25 +

A couple of questions

2000-12-14 Thread Ray Percival
Hi all, Does anybody have a nice recipe for ssh to a machine behind a ipchains firewall with ipmasq? (It is floppyfw) I only have two machines behind the firewall and only want to connect to one of them. Also I can use xvidtune to fix my "rolling" problem (modline stuff) now how do I get X to us

Re: New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-13 Thread Ray Percival
Not a very free license. Have you thought about using something like the Open Publication License with perhaps one of the optional clauses? I would contribute to something like that as it is I can't really see myself or alot of Debian users helping. Or am I just being anal? -- Original

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-12 Thread Ray Percival
What soundcard? -- Original Message -- From: Clayton Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:38:19 -0700 >Yes! Debian is not for me. It does not recognize my sound card even though >two other OS do (Win98 and SuSe

Re: why does xmms take so long to start playing?

2000-12-11 Thread Ray Percival
It sounds odd but tweaking my HD with hdparm made alot of my mp3 problems go away to understand why try playing a mp3 off of a parallel port zip drive. :) -- Original Message -- From: Thomas Halahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun,

Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-07 Thread Ray Percival
Have you checked Woody? With many,but not all, packages it is really easy to just add unstable line to your apt sources run apt-get update and then grab the package take the line out run update again and you should be on your way. It has worked for me for a couple of packages that I just could n

Re: instalation of 'potato'

2000-12-06 Thread Ray Percival
On any newer machine you should be able to just boot from the CD. -- Original Message -- From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:54:02 -0200 >Hi > >Now, I`m using Windows 95 (with MSDOS), but I yet have the Debian2.2 CD for >instalation. >B

Xmas shopping (will this bit of HW work)

2000-12-04 Thread Ray Percival
I'm going to be getting a new mouse/trackball for xmas. Before I start telling people what I want though I thought I'd check with you all. So have any of you used the logitech Trackman Marble Wheel and in particular does it work with USB under a straight up 2.2 install? Thanks for any info.

Re: Creative Labs sound card

2000-12-01 Thread Ray Percival
Go to www.creative.com and search on those numbers (You might also try google) This will give you a card name at that point the best source of info for Linux drivers is opensource.creative.com. -- Original Message -- From: "Andrew Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sound Card

2000-12-01 Thread Ray Percival
With the sblive you go to creative.opensource.com get the latest source snapshot compile and install like you would any other module the readme has good Debian instructions (read the *whole* thing first :)) Very easy and a very sweet card. -- Original Message --

Re: Sound Card

2000-12-01 Thread Ray Percival
IMHO the SoundBlaster Live is a great card and very easy to set up. -- Original Message -- From: Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 01 Dec 2000 15:55:23 -0600 >Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would b

Re: Netscape4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Ray Percival
This is not a flame but it is strongly worded. First of all Why in the world are you trying to run Netscape as root security matters and that is very insecure that is why by default you can not do it. Now seems like you are pretty new so a few security pointers. First of all DO NOT log in as root

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread Ray Percival
xwinvid -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Date: 30 Nov 2000 17:26:02 -0500 > Is there a command available in Debian to determine what >resolution is being used in an X session? > > Please Cc: me on any replies. > >B

hdparm

2000-11-30 Thread Ray Percival
Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help of a couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable setup for it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no problems and a great increase in performance) but now I want to add it to a startup script so my question is whe

Monitor "rolling" in X

2000-11-27 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone know of a larger X monitor database or source of info rather than the list that install with X? I'm looking for info on a proview monitor that is "rolling" in X. Right now I have it running at 1280X1024 at 60? Any hints or suggestions please?

Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)

2000-11-27 Thread Ray Percival
Good luck :) Ahh how I hate spammers. -- Original Message -- From: Frodo Baggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:36:07 +0100 (MET) >urbanyon scripsit: >>isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really >>complaining... >> >

Re: Sound config

2000-11-25 Thread Ray Percival
Do this and be very carefull. Take a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list add a line for unstable. Do a apt-get update then do a apt-get install sndconfig. Then do not wait do not pass go do not collect $200 comment out the unstable line from your sources. Then do a apt-get update and press on. Ye

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-11-22 Thread Ray Percival
Try opensource.creative.com for drivers. -- Original Message -- From: "Fran Argiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:09:20 +0100 >I am unable to configure my soundblaster pci 128. With "make >modules " I select sound suport-> ensoniq pci97 (es1

Re: sblive; kernel 2.2.12?

2000-11-22 Thread Ray Percival
Just get the latest source snapshot off of opensource.creative.com it is towards the bottom of the page should work fine. -- Original Message -- From: Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:47:19 -0800 (PST) >Hi, all... > >I'm trying to

Re: good sound cards?

2000-11-22 Thread Ray Percival
The SBLive is a great card with *really* good support. I got mine well over a year ago I have no idea what they cost now but they are sweet cards. -- Original Message -- From: Kevin Krafthefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:56:42 -0600 >Hell

Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI238 and kernel

2000-11-17 Thread Ray Percival
opensource.creative.com -- Original Message -- From: Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:21:19 -0800 >In 2.4.0-test10, it´s Creative Ensoniq AudiioPCI 97 (ES1371). I have >heard that some older PCI128´s might be ES1370, which is al

Re: X for windows...

2000-11-16 Thread Ray Percival
Try www.microimages.com/mix . It is pretty good and of course free. Then IMHO once you get them to the point they want to pay for a pretty darned sweet package look at exceed. -- Original Message -- From: Dominic Blythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 16 N

X color depth question

2000-11-16 Thread Ray Percival
When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp color depth but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have tried commenting out everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get errors. I think the problem is the x server. I am using the SVGA server with a Viper 770 (TNT2) is

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Ray Percival
What kind of mouse is it? Is it by chance an Intellimouse? -- Original Message -- From: Virginie-ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:04:31 +0100 >On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I looked in the archives and

Re: Who is this virus sender????

2000-11-15 Thread Ray Percival
He is stupid but most likely not out to get anyone. This is a melissa variant basically reads a MicroShaft address book and mails itself out over and over again. -- Original Message -- From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:1

Re: soundcard log messages

2000-11-14 Thread Ray Percival
The Ensoniq message refers to the chipset for the SBLive. Looks like your driver has gone the way of all the world. -- Original Message -- From: Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:44:08 -0500

Re: SB Live! (XGamer)...

2000-11-06 Thread Ray Percival
Or if you don't want to rebuild your kernel go to opensource.creative.com. -- Original Message -- From: S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:45:53 -0500 >> "RM" == Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: soundblaster PCI 128 driver

2000-11-06 Thread Ray Percival
Tyr opensource.creative.com. The drivers are IMHO really good and although it is a bit hard to get them to work with Debian once you get them set up they work great. -- Original Message -- From: Danny Lathouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 1

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-03 Thread Ray Percival
Of course since the .debs are apt-getable now would someone please explain to me the advantage of doing it by hand? -- Original Message -- From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03 Nov 2000 10:16:59 -0800 >Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: Windowmaker themes?

2000-11-02 Thread Ray Percival
Since installing a theme just consists of copying files into the right spots there is no need to have .debs just go to www.themes.org and find something you like and do what it says. -- Original Message -- From: Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To

Re: dead hoarse, crawling away.

2000-11-02 Thread Ray Percival
Did this make sense to anyone? Cause I sure as hell did not get it. -- Original Message -- From: guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:05:25 + >Hi > >I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was >mainly abo

Re: XFree 4.0.1

2000-11-01 Thread Ray Percival
Go to debian.org/~branden Or if you are up with netscape under Debian go to the Debian entry in netscape and the X page it has all the info you need. -- Original Message -- From: "Tom Frey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:19:02 +0100 >Hi, > >i

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie

2000-10-30 Thread Ray Percival
I think the reason it is doing this is because XDM is running and putting you right into X Try ctrlaltf10 that should drop you out to a command prompt. My suggestion would be to remove XDM which you could do my running apt-get remove xdm. This is will let you play with various configs and boot y

Re: Boot Problem

2000-10-28 Thread Ray Percival
I would try reinstalling Lilo just off the top of my head that is what it looks like to me. -- Original Message -- From: "Janos Kramar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:52:14 -0400 >After installing Debian without any apparent problems and reb

Re: Getting gnome helix running on potato

2000-10-25 Thread Ray Percival
Add deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distiributions/debian unstable main to /etc/apt/sources.list run apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade This will grab the helix stuff for you and leave everything else alone just to make sure read what packages it is going to upgrade before you say yes. I'

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than

2000-10-25 Thread Ray Percival
I have the same problem after installing the Sblive drivers. depmod -a does not work though. Any other thought please? -- Original Message -- From: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:58:32 -0700 >Philipp Schulte wrote: >> >> On Wed,

Changing background wiht gnome+e

2000-10-21 Thread Ray Percival
I am trying to change my background in E. The .jpg does not show up in the e background panel. I can change it with the gnome controls but when I switch desktops it reverts back to the background that is under the e panel. Any thoughts on how to solve this. Thanks. BTW to everyone who helped me

Installing kernel sources

2000-10-19 Thread Ray Percival
Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel sources on 2.2. Thanks very much

PGP

2000-10-19 Thread Ray Percival
When trying to create a new pgp key using pgp -kg it goes through the process and then tries to create the key I get the error. Can't create output file '/home/ray/.pgp/secring.pgp Keygen error. Any thoughts?

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-19 Thread Ray Percival
What kind of mouse is it? -- Original Message -- From: Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT) >> >> - Original Message - >> From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:5

Re: xdm

2000-10-16 Thread Ray Percival
apt-get remove xdm should do the job. -- Original Message -- From: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:40:17 -0400 >Hi, > >How do I stop debian booting into xwindows? I stupidly must have set it to >that. > >Thanks > > >Eileen Orbe

Crypto

2000-10-14 Thread Ray Percival
I'm looking for a good command line tool to encrypt /home with I need something that can handle large (4096 bit) keys. Any suggestions? Thanks very much.

Re: xdm

2000-10-14 Thread Ray Percival
apt-get remove xdm will work and you should not lose anything at least I have not noticed. -- Original Message -- From: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:13:07 -0400 >Hi, > >I have been trying to configure XF86 setup. Some how I

Re: Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Ray Percival
I have not looked in the recent past but have they cleared up the buffer overflow problems with Pine? If not you might be better off with something else. To try and answer the question have you tried apt-get install pine ? Should work like a charm. -- Original Message ---

Dialpad

2000-10-11 Thread Ray Percival
Has anyone been able to make dialpad work under Linux? This is my last step to getting rid of winders once and for all. Thanks for any info.

Re: Processor

2000-10-11 Thread Ray Percival
Either one CPU should work well. Just pick your mobo well. What I have done in the past is look at the system specs on VA's and penguincomputing's pages and try to find out what they put in their systems. I have also emailed their sales people and have been given the mobos that they use that way

  1   2   >