Re: UT2003/OpenGL/unstable Issues

2004-01-29 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:57:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: Just curious... a patched v5328, or a patched v5336? I'd be interested in this patch in either case, but v5336 was supposedly released to fix AGP issues. I aint to sure, i renamed the file and it aint on ma comp atm so

Re: Get a load of this!

2004-01-28 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:28:24PM +0100, David Baron wrote: http://www.lionstracs.com/index.php?module=Static_Docsfunc=view OK, it's RedHat, but ... :-) *sniff* Almost brings a tear to the eye :) *sniff* -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

UT2003/OpenGL/unstable Issues

2004-01-28 Thread Ryan Mackay
Hi, I get the following error whenever i try to run Unreal Tournament 2003 on my Debian unstable system: --CUT-- Could not load OpenGL library History: Exiting due to error --CUT-- Talk about verbose, my video card is an nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4400 and im running a patched version of the latest

Re: Hard Drive Seek Errors

2004-01-27 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:44:52PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Since installing smartsuite I am getting many reports of hard drive seek errors. One of the drives is brand new, just installed two weeks ago. I don't understand this. Tom Run dmesg and show us the errors, eg

Re: sound blaster live support

2004-01-27 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:02:51PM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:16:12PM -0500, walt wrote: Any easy way to get a sound blaster live working in debian testing? I am googling right now but would really appreciate any hints. I personally just use the

Re: Installation

2004-01-25 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:58:44AM -0600, Nick Kirchner wrote: I'm trying to install the stable version of Debian on my computer. The computer has a 300 MHz Pentium, 48 MB RAM, and a DVD player. I'm installing from CD. During install I partition the 6GB hard drive into a 100 MB

Re: no hard disk drive detected on installation

2004-01-25 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:37:27AM -0600, Frank Fuller wrote: Hello, I'm new to Debian, and although I've used Red Hat in the past I'm basically a Linux newbie. My problem is I can't install Debian because I get the message No hard disk drives were detected. You need to load

Re: sarge

2004-01-24 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:29:14PM +0100, knoppix wrote: HI Where can I find a sarge iso please thx google -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables generates unwanted output

2004-01-24 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:40:49AM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello, I recently set up iptables (that is, I replaced /etc/init.d/iptables with the script I got). Now, when I'm on one of the tty' terminals, I get this message each time: INPUT packet died: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=

Re: ftp get to stdout

2004-01-23 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: Hello all, Is there any way to use the 'standard' ftp in this sort of way? ncftpget -c [options] remote-host remote-file stdout I want to be able to pipe a download thru dd, but I don't have ncftp installed on

Re: Formatting Floppy

2004-01-23 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:13:51PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: I have formatted a floppy disk with the following command: # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 However, I am unable to mount it with the following command: # mount -f auto /dev/fd0 /mnt I receive an error message that it

Re: batch modify user config files

2004-01-22 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:22PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: In my setup each user has a configuration file in their home directory. * Is there a way to write a bash script to append a line of text to each user's config file in their home directory? Thanks, -Rick Could

Re: [OT] Googling...

2004-01-22 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:34:17AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi World! I read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22goog.html a NYT report on Google's search engine. The report says two months ago but it is true now: searching for miserable

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

2004-01-22 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:39:36AM -0500, Mauricio wrote: Could anyone post/send me a copy of an umodified /etc/nsswitch.conf (as in you just finished the installation or has not touched it yet)? Thanks! I myself havent touched it, its from a debian woody stable HTH --

Re: wanted: postfix incoming mail server HOWTO

2004-01-22 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:56:36PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Hey everyone, I need to set up a box that will accept mail for some domain names. I need a HOWTO to help me through it though. (I'm already sending mail nicely from the box.) Right now I'm reading through:

Re: kill process by name

2004-01-22 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:47:38PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: Is there a way to use the kill command to kill a process by name? * For example: kill inetd I have to look up the pid number every time using 'ps aux' then I can kill it with 'kill pid#' check out `killall` --

Re: question on chat program...

2004-01-21 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0800, enantiomer wrote: what is the best chat program to use for debian/linux? I tried the new version of gaim, which is supposed to rock, but it doesn't display any text on any of the windows. Is there any other one out there that allows you to

Re: Log a user out

2004-01-21 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:03:57PM +0100, Allan Kok wrote: Can I as root log another user out? And can I get i list of all users logged on to my server? `who` should give a list of the users logged in. As for killing someone, the way i usualy go about it is to run `id user` and

Re: Log a user out

2004-01-21 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:36:44PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: I don't know if there's a more standard way. Killing their login shell is the way I've always done it. woohoo i been doing it the right way it seems so far :D -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: a trojan is on your computer!

2004-01-20 Thread Ryan Mackay
Since when has MS support opperated behind nyx.net aswell :\, You could have atleast faked the source address if this was an attempt to fool people, shame on you. Also i belive you'l get more of a positive response if you post it on the aol-user list, if there is such a thing :P. -- Cheers,

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Ryan Mackay
David Baron wrote: # apt-get install msttcorefonts I found this didnt install xfstt, just placed the fonts in the right place and did what it had to do to make them usable. If it isnt workin for ya try $ apt-get install xfstt $ /etc/init.d/xfstt restart And add this line in the Files

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-20 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:45:08PM +, M. Kirchhoff wrote: I'm in the market for a new video card, so I'm fishing for suggestions. I will mostly be working in 2D apps (mainly internet, office apps). I do *not* intend to play any taxing 3D games such as Quake or Counter-Strike;

Re: NEED HELP: ...installing SoundBlaster Live! DRIVER

2004-01-19 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:01:30AM -0500, r o b wrote: Hi, I just installed 3.0 (woody), and my sound driver is not working. I have a SB Live! card. When I do an 'lspci'...the sound card shows up as EMU10k1. Does this mean the driver is there..just not configured properly?

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:51:18AM +0100, konf wrote: hello, when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big console fonts.how could i reduce font size ? thanks in advance At the lilo boot: prompt Find out the name of your Linux kernel image (Linux by default)

Re: ethernet not working right

2004-01-18 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:12:55PM -0500, Forest Fisher wrote: I just installed Debian (Woody) on my new laptop with the 2.4.18 kernel. My laptop is a hp pavilion ze4560us and the ethernet card is National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815. I set the ethernet up by editing

Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
When you first boot the install cd at the boot: prompt type 'bf24'. Now you can choose ext2/3 reiserfs, more choices that redhat gives now aint it? Please before you explode again, ask nicely. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: DNS Question (maybe?)

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:23:12AM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: Hey Folks, What do I need to do to get a new site to show up in DNS? This is the scenario: I've just connected a pc via satalite to the net, now I want it to show up as a sub-part (is that the right term?) on our

Re: need HELP configuring new Debian 3.0(woody) install...

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:34:43AM -0500, r o b wrote: Hi, Here are some problems I'm having: 1) upon installing the system, I set the clock time to GTM, rather than local time. Now when it displays the time, it's -5 hours behind my local time. How can I reconfigure this?

Re: DNS Question (maybe?)

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
Ahh, well if you get stuck then i recommend you check out http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/DNS-HOWTO.html -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unacceptable HDD performance

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
hdparm - a miracle of a program man hdparm will tell all aswell. Enabling DMA would be a good place to start (hdparm -d 1 device). To test the throughput your hard drives are getting try hdparm -Tt device I assume device will be /dev/hda in this case -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: wtmp backup script - howto change how often

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:14:22PM +0100, Peto V. wrote: Hello. I'm using unstable I don't like settings of logrotate-I mean backing up of /var/log. For example: I wanna wtmp to be backed up 1/year (or 1/month), but (!) I wanna have only_one wtmp for all year (eg 2004). I think,

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

2004-01-15 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:57PM -0500, alex wrote: If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard drive is

Re: Hard Drive Problems

2004-01-15 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:42:43PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr:

Re: Problem with Startx - Intel 8284 5G

2004-01-15 Thread Ryan Mackay
The messages at the end of the log are the ones of intrest. From them i can see that. 1. X cannot find your mouse 2. X cant connect to the font server With the mouse it looks like you have chosen the most logical device name for the mouse :). However if your mouse is a PS/2 mouse using

Re: hdparm questions

2004-01-14 Thread Ryan Mackay
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:47:37AM +0100, David Baron wrote: No, this is not being run on Debian startup. Editing either /etc/default/ hdparm or (I made a) /etc/hdparm.conf has not effect. Where does one fine hwtools? apt-get did not work. How might one add and a script /etc/rc#/hdparm?

Re: how to install testing/unstable packages

2004-01-14 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:12:35PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: the stable release seems rock solid. but packages like kde are very outdated. how do i upgrade the kde packages (testing release). what lines do i need to add into my /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: dhcpd,conf error - dhpcd won't start

2004-01-14 Thread Ryan Mackay
192.168.0.20 is not a subnet, i think what you are after is 192.168.0.0 -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: startup scripting

2004-01-14 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:34:22PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: Is this proper way to add my script to startup? Will this gracefully shutdown any apps my script calls if I do a cntrl-alt-del at the keyboard? Sure is, however for your script to unload itself it needs to accept the