Using new Apple displays on Debian/Intel box?

2003-02-11 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am looking at the new Apple displays (the 23 1920x1200 display). What would I need to make this work on a Intel Pentium III box with an ASUS P2B-DS MB? Am I crazy to try this? I would clearly need a new graphics card to match the display. Would this be supported by the Debian distribution?

Re: VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

2002-11-02 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 05:33, Andy Saxena wrote: Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? I run vmware all the time (with Windows2000). I have run VPN software (I don't remember the brand) to connect to a

Re: Mozilla + Galeon dependencies

2002-06-27 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Another related question -- when will Galeon be updated to work with Mozilla 1.0? Randy On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 01:31, thanhthuvu wrote: Hello, I use Woody with Galeon which depends on Mozilla. There's now an update to Moz1.0 in Woody but Galeon is not updated yet. I don't mind using

Re: SSH stopped working

2002-06-25 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
is there a sshd (the server daemon) runing at the other side? Are you sure? Thank you for the reply. Yes, I am sure sshd is running on the other side. Other computers can use ssh to attach to the machine. Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Trouble make SSH connection with OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 on Debian Woody

2002-06-25 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Greg, Thank you for the tip. I changed the /etc/hosts.deny to now not include ALL:PARANOID and then it all started to work. I very much appreciate the help! Regards, Randy On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:05:30AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

2002-06-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
pam_limits.so - On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 17:40, Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:28, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I

Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

2002-06-22 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and password, it rejects it. Why are these operating differently? Am I going through different

Woody CD for installation on IBM T20

2002-06-19 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I would like to install Woody on a T20 portable with a 3Com 589 PCMCIA network card. I have a net install-type CD dated March 2002 that I have used on all my machines to date. This does not have the right drivers for the network card, so I'm stuck. I tried a Xircom PCMCIA card that someone else

Trouble with squid configuration -- how can I get rid of all traces of squid?

2002-06-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am having trouble with the installation of Squid. I updated a Potato box to Woody and in the process something happened to the squid configuration. Now (to untangle everything), I would like to remove all trace of squid from my machine and then do a clean apt-get install squid I did apt-get

I keep loosing my panels on my desktop

2002-06-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have a Woody installation and I am using the Gnome chooser when I log-on. When I create a new session, I always get two panels (at the top and at the bottom of the desktop). This is the way I want my desktop to appear. Sometimes when I log back in to a named (already created) desktop, it

Re: I keep loosing my panels on my desktop

2002-06-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Unfortunately this is more of a gnome question. I'm personally running sawfish and gnome-panel, but not the gnome-session that chews up my RAM with IPC that I don't need. The top and bottom panel is gnome-panel. When you login and gnome-panel isn't there, look for it in the process

SSH stopped working

2002-06-04 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have been using SSH for a long time in my network (local network, through firwalls, into other supported networks, etc) without problems. Recently, I found that I cannot get a connection with some remote machines. When I try to make a connection, I get the following error:

Re: SSH stopped working

2002-06-04 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
is there a sshd (the server daemon) runing at the other side? Are you sure? Yes, I am sure that it is running. Connections can be made from other machines to that server. Thanks -- Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / control commands? Regards, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Building a module without GPL license?

2002-03-25 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
This is now working. I switched to the 2.4.18 kernel sources, configured, and compiled the new kernel and now vmware-config.pl works perfectly as does vmware 3.1 release 1732. Thank you to all those who helped. Regards, Randy On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 16:14, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have

Matrox G400 problem with Woody and X

2002-03-24 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have just installed Woody from the network install CDROMs. When I try to start X, I am told the mga_hal module can not be found. Is this an X configuration problem, compilation problem, or a kernel problem? Thanks -- Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Confused by X version 3 and version 4 being part of Woody

2002-03-24 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I'm confused by the support of both version 3.3 and 4.0 X server in Woody. I have an operational system running under (I believe) version 3.3. I would like to try to configure version 4.0. How do I specify one X server or the other? Is /etc/X11/X, as a symbolic link, the say to do this? Right

Building a module without GPL license?

2002-03-24 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have just installed Woody and I am trying to get VMware (RC for version 3.1) configured. When VMWare tries to build its modules (against the 2.4.17 sources), it returns an error while trying to build vmmon module. There are a bunch of unresolved symbols (such as misc_register_Rsmp_ef7d4eeb)

Re: Building a module without GPL license?

2002-03-24 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
at 11:30, David H. Askew wrote: ..not sure how to help but, I use vmware 3 on debian unstable with 2.4.18 kernel and had NO problems with the installation ... -dave On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 23:14, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have just installed Woody and I am trying to get VMware (RC

Re: What is the difference between Gnome and Ximian?

2002-03-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Yes, thank you. Very good answer(s) to the question. Thank you to everyone who replied. Regards, Randy On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 12:45, Scott Henson wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 09:45, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: If I install Woody, it appears that I get an installation of Gnome. I am also

What is the difference between Gnome and Ximian?

2002-03-22 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
If I install Woody, it appears that I get an installation of Gnome. I am also not able to get Ximian Gnome to install on Woody. (Using either of the two methods -- script and *.deb packages). What is the difference between the Woody supplied Gnome and Ximian Gnome? Randy

Re: Compacting evolution mail folders

2002-03-22 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Mike, I have this problem also. I found that Evolution does not compact the files it uses for storage. I resorted to deleting some of the files and allowing Evolution to re-create them. I have attached a script that does this... Randy On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 23:33, Michael D. Crawford wrote:

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-19 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
What about creating movies, doing MPEG-2 compression and burning DVD that will work on normal (non-computer) players. I understand that this is still an art. Randy

Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am interesting in learning what programs there are running on Linux to work with digital video recorders to create personal movies burned onto DVDs. (MPEG-2 encoding, DVD burning, etc.) I am trying to determine if Linux, Windows, or the Mac is the better environment for this work. What

OT? -- IPP print servers

2002-03-14 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
This may be a bit off-topic for the list... I have a mixed Linux (all Debian) / Windows environment and I would like to standardize on IPP for printing (Linux and Windows as clients). Are there recommendations for an IPP network print-server device? I have done some research and it looks like

Re: What is the difference between Potato and Woody?

2002-03-10 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 23:13, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 10-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have started reading details about Woody. (I am running Potato on all of my machines with the 2.4 kernel). I was surprise to see that the 2.4 kernel is optional. This leads me

Re: Woody CD ROM images?

2002-03-10 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Caleb, Thank you for this tip. It is working very well. Randy On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 17:56, Caleb Shay wrote: Well, if you've got a decent net connection, check out http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ ~30MiB iso image that downloads almost everything over the net so you don't

Woody CD ROM images?

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have found some unofficial Woody CDROM images and they are in files with names such as woody-i386-1.raw Are these ISO images ready to be burned? Also -- why eight (8) different images? From what I understand reading the information at the site, all I need is the first CDROM image. Thanks

What is the difference between Potato and Woody?

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have started reading details about Woody. (I am running Potato on all of my machines with the 2.4 kernel). I was surprise to see that the 2.4 kernel is optional. This leads me to a fundamental question... What makes Woody different? Are there structure changes (layout, etc.) that are

Using sources

2002-03-09 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have always ignored the sources for Debian. Is there some information about the source packages, how to compile them, etc.? I am assuming that the reason one would want to compile the sources is to use compiler options for a particular processor (586, 686, etc.). Is this the primary advantage

Sound newbie ... what is OSS, ALSA, etc all about?

2002-01-01 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have a workstation with potato and adrian bunk's packages supporting the 2.4.14 kernel. I am running SMP with two processors on a P2B-DS motherboard. I have a SoundBaster AWE64 card (ISA) that I would like to get working. I started researching how to get sound working on my machine and I am

Re: Sound newbie ... what is OSS, ALSA, etc all about?

2002-01-01 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 12:33, csj wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 01:53, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I started researching how to get sound working on my machine and I am confused about the following: * ALSA * OSS You probably know what the letters stands for. The practical

Install with some packages from stable and some from testing

2001-12-11 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am running the stable release on my machines. I would like to run the more recent version of Samba (as found on testing). Is it possible to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and use apt-get to install just samba from testing and leave the rest of the packages at the stable release? What

IPTABLES and DHCP

2001-12-06 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am configuring a firewall that will run dhcpcd on eth0 (it is connected to a cable modem). I have a firewall rule set (for IPTABLES) that is working on another machine with a fixed IP for eth0 In the rule set I have statements such as IF_INTERNET=eth0 IP_INTERNET=24.27.45.111 I use the

Network not working, but card seems fine

2001-11-20 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have installed Debian on at least a dozen systems now (I guess I'm not a total newbie now...) Anyway -- this is the first time I have had a system with a 905c 3Com card not be able to get out on the network. (All but one of my systems us 905x cards)... System sets up fine, ifconfig reports

Re: vmware express - which kernel?

2001-11-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 05:04, Karsten Heymann wrote: Hello, this isn't especially debian specific but since I run (only) debian I ask anyway. Rescently i bought vmware express at a local store in germany. It worked fine until i upgraded my kernel (now 2.4.13). Unfortunately I forgot with

Re: OT: PCI video recommendations

2001-11-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 09:32, dman wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:00:54AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: [ wants PCI video card ] I've heard that Matrox cards are really good -- they're cheap and work well. I think the G200 is a PCI card, but I don't think PCI cards are manufacturd

Auto ifup for network

2001-11-05 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am trying to help a friend who has a Debian 2.2r3 installation on a T22 and the network is not coming up automatically on reboot. He has to ifup eth0 and then everything works fine. Why would an interface not come up automatically on reboot? Randy

Kernel updates for Adrian Bunk's packages?

2001-10-12 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have been using Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages. The last kernel update is 2.4.9. I am wondering if there will be further updates. I tried sending him email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (as indicated on his page), but that was rejected. Does anyone know if these packages will be updated as new

Re: Very strange network issue

2001-10-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
You probably have the ECN bit set in your networking. I ran into a similar problem when I switched to 2.4 kernel. See http://urchin.earth.li/ecn/ for more information. Randy On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 04:22, Jean-Paul Smets wrote: Hi, I have a debian/woody + some sid packages which includes a

kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-09-30 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. It seems that there are two VMs that are going to fight it out moving forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the main line of code). Before this became clear, I was planning to move up to 2.4.10 from 2.4.4 as it

What 3com driver do I need for 3c3fe575ct?

2001-09-29 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I would like to use the 3c3fe575ct pccard network card from 3Com on a 2.2.18 kernel. Which driver should I select when I go to recompile the kernel? Regards, Randy

Re: What 3com driver do I need for 3c3fe575ct?

2001-09-29 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 10:37, dman wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:30:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: | I would like to use the 3c3fe575ct pccard network card from 3Com on a | 2.2.18 kernel. This is a PCMCIA card, right? You need the 3c575_cb module and maybe the 3c59x too. The menu

How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet access. Everything is running fine - I can dial the ISP, authenticate, get an IP address, etc. Now I am trying to write firewall rules that will adapt to whatever IP I am assigned. I think I am two questions away from getting this to

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
at 08:16:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: | | I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet access. | | Everything is running fine - I can dial the ISP, authenticate, get an IP | address, etc. | | Now I am trying to write firewall rules that will adapt to whatever IP I

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On 28 Jul 2001 19:01:07 +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy writes: The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from user level security and install

Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
On 28 Jul 2001 11:11:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Randy writes: The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from user level security and install the firewall rules. How do I do this? The scripts

Re: [SOLUTION!] How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?

2001-07-28 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
of ipchain rule files, so this is the only link I need to my previous work). I made the corresponding links, etc for ip-down.d Very slick! Thanks again. Regards, Randy On 28 Jul 2001 08:16:05 -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-27 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
John, I hope you don't mind if I jump on this thread. I made the same mistakes and now I need help! I followed RunningLinux... I also used wvdial (and that works, dialing up to ATT here in Tucson, AZ). However, I need to dial other ISPs (this is a portable). And they did not work with wvdial.

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-27 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Newbie error... Sorry I should have entered pon tucson-att ... using the name of the provider! On 07 Jul 2001 11:31:32 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Glenn Becker writes: I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs,... Actually, you already had them installed. ...and was

CUPS with Samba question

2001-07-26 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am running CUPS 1.1.9 with Samba 2.0.7-34 (from stable). CUPS runs fine with an HP5MP printer. I can lp file and it prints. Samba is running fine. I can go to a Windows2000 box and share directories, etc. Samba and CUPS together are not working. I have the following in my smb.conf file:

CUPS setup, but no /etc/printcap.cups file?

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I set up CUPS for the first time and I do not see a file /etc/printcap.cups I understand that CUPS is supposed to generate entries each time I add a printer. I have used the lpadmin command to add a printer (it works from lp), but I cannot see the printing system from any applications. I

Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I may have messed up my package database... I installed CUPS (1.0.4-9) via Ximian RedCarpet. That went fine. Then I realized that I needed a new version. I downloaded release 1.1.9 from the http://www.cups.org site (the Linux 2.2 deb file) and did an install. That did not go fine - there were

Re: Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Thank you! This worked perfectly. I'm now back to a clean installation of CUPS. Regards, Randy On 23 Jul 2001 10:42:56 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I may have messed up my package database... ximian may have messed it up too. I find that it's a good idea

CUPS is asking for glibc - how do I get it?

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I just installed CUPS 1.1.9 on a machine running 2.2r3 (2.2.18pre21 kernel). It is working fine. Next, I installed it (with the 2.4.* deb file from http://www.cups.org) on a machine running 2.2r3 with the 2.4 support packages and with the 2.4 kernel. CUPS installs okay, but when I try to start

Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am converting my firewall machine to a Debian installation. I am in the process of removing unwanted services so as to lock down the machine against intrusions. I am trying to remove portmap, but this program does not seem to follow the pattern for other programs. With other program I simply

How do I create a boot floppy for an installation?

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
If I want to create a floppy to boot a system (so that I can burn it into a bootable CDROM during a subsequent step), do I use the mkboot utility? The documentation on mkboot is a little sparse and it is not clear if it used for the hd or for floppies. Thanks -- Randy

cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have recently switched from Debian to RedHat and I am having some configuration problems. I am trying to get cdrecord to work. It is asking for a /dev/sg? driver and it is not present on my Debian installation. How do I get a /dev/sg? driver? Thanks -- Randy

cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver - repost

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Sorry for the reposting... I have recently switched from RedHat to Debian and I am having troubling running cdrecord. cdrecord worked fine on RedHat on the same machine. When I run cdrecord it says that it cannot open the SCSI driver. When I read the cdrecord home page it talks about the Linux

Re: cdrecord problem solved

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Thank you to all of you who replied to my question. The problem was my removal of the Standard Generic SCSI driver from the kernel. When I recompiled and added that back, all worked fine. Thank you for the help! Regards, Randy

Cannot log into any account other than root

2001-03-15 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
When I installed Debian, I selected shadow password and MD5. I can adduser and the entries appear in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files as I expect to see them. However, when I try to log in as that user, the system pauses (for a few seconds) after I enter the password and then tells me

Selecting i686 for compiled code?

2001-03-14 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am compiling my first set of code under Debian and the Debian package management system. I downloaded the source for bash and I want to try to compile it for the i686 instruction set and with O3 optimization level. I am using the debian/rules build method and I am not able to figure out

startx initiates AfterStep. I would like GNOME/Enlightenment

2001-03-13 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am continuing my first installation of Debian and I am stuck at the point of configuring my desktop environment. When I run startx I get the AfterStep (?) environment. I would like GNOME. Can someone tell me which files I need to modify to make this change? (I think I have downloaded and

New installation from floppy and I have no network

2001-03-12 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I was forced to install Debian from floppy images (base 1 - 11). I went through the steps and I did not have a chance to configure a network. Did I miss a step? If I have only a floppy drive to get in new code, what are my options? Thanks -- Randy

VMware work on Debian

2001-03-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am assessing Debian as a replacement for RedHat on all of my machines. One critical requirement is support for VMware. Can someone tell me if they have had success running VMware on Debian 2.2(r2)? Thanks and regards, Randy