Re: Novell Linux Resource Kit Offer

2004-07-15 Thread adcarlson
I jumped right on the bandwagon the first email I heard of this thing (about a month ago). I emailed a friend at the same time, and with the lag of about a day or so, the site blocked up with people trying to sign up for it. Nevertheless mine came in late last week...3 nice DVDs...Now I can

Gnome Crash

2004-03-10 Thread adcarlson
It seems that I have caused Gnome to crash permanently. I had inadvertently dragged a copy of an item from the menu, and put it into the TRASH and then emptied it. At that point Gnome crashed. Any reattepts to login to a Gnome (2.4) setup bringing up a Gnome-panel crash. I've had to resort to

Re: ieee1394 ethernet

2004-01-21 Thread adcarlson
To add my bit to the matter: When setting up a friend's Win XP machine, I stumbled across the fact that IEEE1394 can actually be used in networking. So obviously this applies to all OSes as well. Never tried it yet though. On 20-Jan-2004 Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-21 Thread adcarlson
For awhile ATI was not supporting Linux. They've improved significantly as of late. I highly recommend Nvidia stuff. Excellent Linux support. Matrox is good for 2D stuff. On 20-Jan-2004 Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: If you dont choose this

Test

2003-11-24 Thread adcarlson
I haven't been receiving msgs from the Debian list since Saturday the 22nd. Was the lists shut down to problems with the apt-get sources? --- Prizes are for children. -- Charles Ives, upon being given, but refusing, the

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

2003-11-15 Thread adcarlson
I was an avid OS/2 user at one time, until technology moved on and the logical switch for most OS/2 users was Linux. Your thoughts on using Win3.1 and OS/2 are interesting...except that Win3.1 was known to run better under OS/2. The reason was problem because IBM did a work-around for the bugs

Apt problem

2003-10-01 Thread adcarlson
After upgrading my Libranet (Sarge-based) system, I now end up with the following messages after doing anything apt-get based (including Synaptic): W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin However the apt-get commands and apps work. How do I solve

RE: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-26 Thread adcarlson
Why switch? SuSE is a great product, and easy to support. I would probably recommend a business go with a commercial distro like SuSE as opposed to a devout hobbyist/community based distro like Debian. On 26-Feb-2003 Robert Waldner wrote: One of our customers runs his firewall on SuSE. This

Re: SIIG SCSI Card

2002-06-24 Thread adcarlson
Interesting thing is that the module is there...so my problem must be a parameter that needs to be passed to it... On 23-Jun-2002 Greg C. Madden wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recenctly purchased a SIIG Fast SCSI Pro (PCI) card. It claims it has Linux

SIIG SCSI Card

2002-06-23 Thread adcarlson
I just recenctly purchased a SIIG Fast SCSI Pro (PCI) card. It claims it has Linux support, in the manual and on SIIG's website. Apparently either Advansys or Initio chipsets are used in these cards. Trying to install the kernel module for either of these SCSI chipsets has been unsuccessful.

Re: Converting mbox - maildir

2002-05-06 Thread adcarlson
Sounds like you might be wanting to do a change of mail clients (apps)...Although I haven't tried it, Sylpheed is a mail app that is known to be able to convert between the two formats. On 29-Apr-2002 Vineet Kumar wrote: * Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 02:57]: On Sun, 28 Apr

Re: Linksys Wireless WDT11 w/ Woody

2002-04-06 Thread adcarlson
Although I don't own these products I had them under serious consideration to buy and may still buy them. Any research that I've done on their use on Linux indicates that their support is fair to excellent, and probably even so under a 2.2 kernel. I would recommend doing a bit of research on

Re: Browsers won't connect to modem

2002-02-16 Thread adcarlson
Sounds to me like you may have a problem with a gateway IP # being set up...at least that's one possibility. As an example, I have this problem on my notebook; when my notebook is connected to the small network I have set up, I use my desktop machine as a gateway (its IP). But if I use the

Re: MainActor or Broadcast 2000c with Potato?

2002-01-07 Thread adcarlson
I got it working on my system using Alien...although probably after I upgraded to Woody/Testing. On 06-Jan-2002 Carl Fink wrote: Some may remember that I'm trying to create VCDs using Debian Potato (i386 Linux). None of the various methods posted here have worked for me, mostly because no one

Re: Evolution error

2002-01-07 Thread adcarlson
No, my hostname is not wombat...wombat is a program w/ a lib that's somehow related to evolution (and maybe other apps too?). Not sure what its purpose is. On 07-Jan-2002 Caleb Shay wrote: On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 07:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that I still have been unsuccessful in

Evolution error

2002-01-06 Thread adcarlson
It seems that I still have been unsuccessful in getting Evolution to work after several weeks since its initial release. The error I keep getting is: evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0) I know I have bonobo and bonobo-conf

Re: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 ...

2001-12-29 Thread adcarlson
Hmm...I've noticed this error too in instances when its been time for e2fsck to run during boot-up. IIRC, it even predates my 2.4 series kernel use...i.e. I think it occurred under 2.2.17. LILO version related?--not sure of that either. But what I can say is that I've never seemed to have the

Re: evolution and debian

2001-12-04 Thread adcarlson
As a suggestion, after having the experience of trying to get evolution up and working last night (stil not quite successful), there are a number of dependencies to the evolution DEB file (which is supposed to be for Potato?) that appear only in Testing/Woody and Unstable/Sid. In short, you'll

RealPlayer

2001-12-01 Thread adcarlson
A strange phenomenon I just came across after upgrading to the 2.4 series (version 12) from having used 2.2.17 for the longest time...my sound incluing user of RealPlayer w/ Netscape had worked fine. Now it doesn't...or more correctly RealPlayer sound has stopped working. All the other aspects

RE: /bin/sh broken - now what?

2001-11-25 Thread adcarlson
Try to find out if your /bin/sh is symbolically linked to bash, ash, korn, or whatever other shell. /bin/sh should be just a symbolic link...if it isn't linked, link it to something like bash. I had a problem when I upgraded to the 2.4.12 kernel and the update asked whether I wanted to go with

Re: working icq client for debian?

2001-11-20 Thread adcarlson
Its interesting that I've observed a lot complain about this...to my knowledge there are often problems in sending through the ICQ server as opposed to directly (when using LICQ for instance). I've never heard of any problems where a Windows client totally refuses messages from a Linux ICQ client

Kernel version in Debian FTP

2001-11-17 Thread adcarlson
With kernel 2.4.15 on the verge or release (if it hasn't been already) and its inherent attractiveness of having ext3 I'm finally tempted to install a 2.4.x kernel (yes I sheepishly admit I'm still running a 2.2.x kernel). However I've noticed that the Debian FTP site (Woody version) only seems

Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

2001-11-17 Thread adcarlson
I experienced the same problem, and to make WP8 work again I, apt-get delete xlib6 and then... dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlib6_3.3.6-38_i386.deb NOTE: The defective version of the above file seems to be version 39. Basically I had to roll back to the previous version. Now WP8 is back

RE: kdelibs3

2001-11-11 Thread adcarlson
For me the attempted install of kdelibs3 was prevented by libkmid...so I did a dpkg -r to that and had to also do the same to kmid... Then my apt-get upgrade seemed ready to continue...I'll let you know tomorrow if I come across any other problems...I have 10MB more updates to dload first... On

Re: Broadcast 2000

2001-11-04 Thread adcarlson
Thanks very much...this did the trick, although I also had to drag a copy of the so file over to the Broadcast directory as well. So far its a bit unstable on my system...but it might be OE (operator error) right now, as I start getting used to playing with video editing. On 04-Nov-2001 csj

Broadcast 2000

2001-11-03 Thread adcarlson
Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to run Broadcast 2000 under a Debian system. I've attempted to convert an RPM of this app via Alien. However I hit a roadblock with reference to an item called libXv.so.1 Apparently this file is nonexistent. The closest I can find under my Debian

Re: Progeny-Woody Upgrade Alternatives?

2001-10-22 Thread adcarlson
Looking at the recommendations for the upgrade on the Progeny site, I wonder if the noted specific install of modutils/modconf is what is necessary to correct this PCMCIA problem (i.e. at which point you would have to run modconf and specifically make sure the module for PCMCIA is getting loaded

Re: kylix open edition and Debian 2.2

2001-10-08 Thread adcarlson
Why don't you upgrade from Potato to Woody (aka presently Testing). Then that will resolve your library problem without the workaround. Interestingly I've successfully installed Kylix under Progeny, on my notebook, and Progeny is supposed to be a cross between Potato and Woody in certain

Re: testing

2001-09-17 Thread adcarlson
On 12-Sep-2001 Martin F Krafft wrote: also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:12:32PM -0500): how stable is testing? would it be too risky to upgrade from stable to testing? furthermore, the apache transition does not work quite well, you'll have to edit some config files.

Re: Debian and Kylix open edition

2001-08-31 Thread adcarlson
I concur with the rest of the comments... The LC thing being set to C has to be changed. As well, I found I could not install on my Potato-based desktop system (which I've just upgraded to Woody...and therefore have to try a Kylix install on again). But it installed fine on my Progeny

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-15 Thread adcarlson
I'd say go with Woody (compared to Slack), provided you can do a boot off of CD...I wasn't aware of the boot-disk issue. I started with Potato about 8 months ago, and just apt-get updated to Woody in the last few weeks. Tried Slack way back (a number of years ago) and found it more difficult for

RE: A problem

2001-08-08 Thread adcarlson
I'm in the process of trying to apt-get dist-upgrade by Debian system from Potato to Woody-Testing, and seem to have stumbled across the roadblock shown below that has limited my progress... If anyone has any suggestions on how this matter might be resolved it would be much appreciated.