Re: woody ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
François Woody boot disks have a udma100-ext3 kernel option. You are prompted during the install to format new partitions ext2 or ext3. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: boot-floppy

2002-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
Yang Information System Dept. Hyatt Regency Tianjin You don't need to use that package. You can download boot floppy images alrady made right from your Debian mirror.I.E. http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/ Greg Madden

Re: Debian-Progeny

2002-01-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 02:15, S.Ghosh wrote: Hello, Could someone please explain how to set up an external modem under Debian-Progeny 1.0. Also how is the printer setup carried out under Progeny. The external modem worked well under RedHat 7.0 7.1. So I am hoping it will under Progeny.

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread Greg Madden
is the version with all the features included. This is included i nthe Corel Linux Deluxe editions, which can be had at used computer stores here for a nominal price. Its a .deb file too. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

Re: dpkg error?

2002-02-03 Thread Greg Madden
if /etc/init.d/gpm stop; then return 0; fi comment or delete this line, and then, dpkg -P will work. I renamed the file ~.save and dselect worked :) -- Greg Madden

Re: dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 February 2002 11:30 am, Andreas Reislöhner wrote: Hello, anybody know the problem and would like to help me ? Server:/# apt-get install mc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra

Re: SMP kernel

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 February 2002 03:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: Hi, not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box reveals: % apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.16

Re: AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 February 2002 07:16 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya there is linuxcad.com and a gazillion more stuff to checkout ( easier to just get autocad and be 100% sure it works right ) - some can only read *.dwg files - linuxcad

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody. so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go?? My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't

Re: cdrom music

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 March 2002 10:49 am, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a music cd is because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not the format for a music cd. But what is the correct type?

update-mozilla-chrome seg fault

2002-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a woody box with KDE from Sid . When trying to install Mozilla from Woody I get the following message: updating mozilla chrome registry /usr/bin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 49: 14658 segmentation fault regxpcom /dev/null 2/dev/null any

Re: seti@home

2002-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 March 2002 11:13 am, Gary Turner wrote: I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate directory to unpack and run this little bippy? How does

Re: Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-02 Thread Greg Madden
does not get upgrqaded/replaced during an upgrade. Netscape installs to a separate dir here, I have both 476 477. You need to 'apt-get' the spellcheck package. -- Greg Madden

Re: Professional video editing for linux?

2002-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 March 2002 06:20 am, Kurt Lieber wrote: Doing some research for a friend of mine... Are there any professional video editing tools out there for linux, similar to Adobe Premiere? I've done a bit of googling, and have come up with

Re: update-mozilla-chrome seg fault

2002-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 March 2002 12:43 am, Martin Wuertele wrote: Hi Greg! On Tue, 05 Mar 2002, Greg Madden wrote: I have a woody box with KDE from Sid . When trying to install Mozilla from Woody I get the following message: updating mozilla

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 March 2002 11:11 am, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Mike Fedyk quotation: use the bf2.4 install disks. So there are now Woody install disks that support ext3? Nice. Craig That is disk # 3 of 8 for the woody Cd's. - -- Greg C.

Re: VMWare Server and Kernel?

2006-02-12 Thread Greg Madden
it needs. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Version Magic and Kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp

2006-06-13 Thread Greg Madden
in awhile. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian server support

2006-06-29 Thread Greg Madden
/services/cache/76817-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

2006-07-12 Thread Greg Madden
2.6.16 with Debian patch --- If you do 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade' it will do a dry run showing what it would do without the '-s' option. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

2006-07-14 Thread Greg Madden
the latest 2.6 kernel for amd64, same for headers. For unstable it looks like 2.6.17 is the kernel that gets installed. snip -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sun-java5-jre installed but not recognized

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Madden
to select in enabling java, along with the default installed? 1.4.2. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dma errors

2006-07-19 Thread Greg Madden
is set for the drives. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kdebase-dev removes gnome-desktop and xfce4

2006-07-21 Thread Greg Madden
filed on the package you want to use. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a 2.6.16-2-686-smp header mismatch?

2006-07-23 Thread Greg Madden
wrong, or is there a mismatch between the headers and the kernel? I just tested it on a test box, same message. I also tested the path '/lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686-smp/build/include/' , which is also in Vmwares search path. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is there a 2.6.16-2-686-smp header mismatch?

2006-07-23 Thread Greg Madden
wrong, or is there a mismatch between the headers and the kernel? Thanks for the heads up. In my previous post I did not realize that testing had migrated to the new kernel. Vmware users be aware. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Is there a 2.6.16-2-686-smp header mismatch?

2006-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
after fooling around with Vmware new kernel, the Debian 2.6.15-k7-smp shows the same error. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Net-install CD: What it does to existing partitions and installations

2006-08-02 Thread Greg Madden
select grub as your boot loader you will be asked if you want to add exist installs to the grub menu.lst. I am using the daily build, not sure if resize is on the beta2 cd. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: why sarge's default kernel does not support scsi disk?

2006-08-04 Thread Greg Madden
, you should see a prompt during the boot sequence showing which key to press. Once in the bios you can see what is connected to the card and some other utilities. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory card reader on Etch

2006-08-16 Thread Greg Madden
Inc: msb01:~# ... The last four lines seems to indicate that the card reader is working. Mybe I'm doing something wrong. lspci does not indicate that the device is working, it just reports what devices on the pci bus report. The devices still need drivers/modules. -- Greg Madden

Re: how can run linux (kernel and gui from ram)

2006-08-17 Thread Greg Madden
loaded kernal path : after boot remount it from other place. will Kde (or Xfce ) run faster if i run it from mem? (no read/write needed time). Knoppix has a 'toram' option, it will run in 1gb of ram. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: VMWare, how to access host share?

2006-08-19 Thread Greg Madden
the request to add the user will fail. This option is only available when running smbpasswd as root. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade process. Anyone able to advise? pinecone Older versions are available, I think d-i for Sarge requires more than 32 mb of memory. Potato might be useful. http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Greg Madden
power supplies..etc. I went the other way, a smp box , and run all local lan services/apps from there. I do run Vmware and dual monitors, lots of virtual installs. You could substitute a Free virtualization app for vmware. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-13 Thread Greg Madden
it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! this works well on low resource boxes. The DSL people do more than just use light apps, they config the apps to use fewer resources so you can't duplicate it by installing Debian and the same Debian ver of the apps. -- Greg Madden

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
is megaraid is compiled as a module, I don't have Sarge installed to check, but it is a driver that has been around awhile..Woody, If this is happening during an install switch to another tty, an modprobe the megaraid module, you need to know the actual name, I just used the generic name. -- Greg

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:40, Hex Star wrote: Ah, yeah I tried doing modprobe megaraid and it said module not found...how would I go about finding out if the module is included in the installer CD and if so what it's called so I can modprobe it? Thanks! :-) On 3/19/06, Greg Madden [EMAIL

Re: scsi probe delay on linux-kernel-2.6.15-1-k7-smp

2006-03-30 Thread Greg Madden
accurately the disk/system performance use bonnie++. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install sid NVU package on Sarge system

2006-04-04 Thread Greg Madden
fine from there. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install sid NVU package on Sarge system

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:33, HEHO wrote: Greg Madden a écrit, le 05.04.2006 04:21 : On Tuesday 04 April 2006 17:29, Rocky Ou wrote: [...] I want to install NVU into my box [...] [...] It is in Etch [...] hello, sorry for intruding but I'm using debian etch and here's my /etc/apt

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Madden
by regular users. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Madden
at all -- just to help keep Debian fat and happy. Hey there's nothing wrong with making donations :) You can do this through SPI, : http://www.debian.org/donations -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 2 monitors on Nvidia GeForce 5700LE using x.org

2005-07-23 Thread Greg Madden
is the Xinerama feature, turn it 'off' to have two separate screens. Option Xinerama on -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD64 question...

2005-07-28 Thread Greg Madden
from a k7 will work with the k8, I would give it a try though. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: canceling apt-get install

2005-09-04 Thread Greg Madden
, after closing any open docs..etc.in VT7. 2.)Put the existing libc6 package on hold, anything depending on the new libc6 won't be upgraded though. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is NTFS file system (Win2k) stable and usable with debian sarge?

2005-09-04 Thread Greg Madden
approach, if you need to rw 2gb files. Don't dual boot, run Windows in Vmware or equal and use Samba to transfer the files. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation problems with SATA drives

2005-09-04 Thread Greg Madden
and 'modprobe module', then back to the partitioner, if you know the sata chipset and the module it uses and it is in the kernel you are using. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wireless on Thinkpad X31

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Madden
. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Caught half-way through xorg 7 upgrade, errors in installation of x11-common

2006-06-07 Thread Greg Madden
It also seems really to want /usr/include/X11 to be a symbolic link =(. -- Greg Madden

Re: two external HD

2006-06-07 Thread Greg Madden
card reader though. I run internal scsi drives also so their are multiple scsi buses and devices with no issues. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-03 Thread Greg Madden
the following command from a command prompt on a home directory will make the dir accessible to the user only. 'chmod -R 754 /home/user name/' -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-2.6.11.8 and vmware-4.5.1 question?

2005-07-08 Thread Greg Madden
, if they match the kernel. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?

2005-07-08 Thread Greg Madden
/packages#search_packages, and dl the kernel source for whatever version you need and build your own. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba setup tips?

2005-07-09 Thread Greg Madden
to # create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. directory mask = 0700 change as needed. Restart Samba. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smp Kernel for Debian Unstable

2005-07-11 Thread Greg Madden
. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smp Kernel for Debian Unstable

2005-07-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 11 July 2005 03:47 pm, Angelo R. Rossi wrote: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ packages Sorry, There shouldn't any spaces in the URL. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: epson R300 w/ cups

2005-07-12 Thread Greg Madden
knows more about Debian Gutenprint, any info would be appreciated. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Greg Madden
is diverging from Debian at, to me , a fast pace, it just used the .deb package system. It wouldn't suprise me if they stoped supporting dselect ;-) -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there some openoffice2 packages for Sarge somewhere ?

2005-10-01 Thread Greg Madden
for converting the enclosed rpm's to .deb files, use 'alien'. These have worked great on my Sarge box. Install to /usr/local and do symlinks to /usr/local/bin. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running 4GB of Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Greg Madden
a VM session to a cpu but I haven't tried this. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange problem of /dev/cdrom disappearing under sid

2005-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
not subscribed to this list. Regards. -- Alexis Sukrieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did udev get upgraded?, installing with Sarge/kernel won't allow the version of udev in sid to install, should show an error message. Install udev when you have a 2.6.12+ kernel running. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 considered harmful

2005-11-19 Thread Greg Madden
comes in. Most of us are well aware of the path UNIX took once Novell sold it. Can't find the info now, but there may have been a connection between Corel the Canopy Group, the Canopy group had/has SCO in its portfolio. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Controlling volume levels from command line

2005-12-08 Thread Greg Madden
, but it's less friendly in my opinion Seb I though you did a typo, I use aumix, close. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i cant use hdparm to configure my hard disk drive

2005-12-14 Thread Greg Madden
= 12289788 -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev and usb

2005-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
the wrong USB module was being installed, UHCI or OHCI. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
with the header files for your running kernel. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge kernel update, using newer kernel, should I update older kernel?

2005-12-22 Thread Greg Madden
the kernel flags again, the modules and recompile? It will upgrade the Sarge version, security update probably, just make sure that it does not offer to delete, what it thinks, is an obsolete kernel..though there will be plenty of warnings trying to remove a running kernel. -- Greg Madden

Re: KDE 3.5

2005-12-23 Thread Greg Madden
-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0 ./ -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

2009-07-24 Thread Greg Madden
removable media. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

etch kernel version 2.6.18

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Madden
; it shows kernel version 2.6.18-6. I am using dselect, and I am wondering why the differences in kernel version. -- TIA Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: etch kernel version 2.6.18

2009-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 01 September 2009, Greg Madden wrote: I have a Lenny box running the 2.6.18 kernel. I have the following sources added to the Lenny ones: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib. This gives me kernel

Re: Inquiry:Where to find Debian GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.8-4-686 iso image ?

2009-09-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 12 September 2009, hadi motamedi wrote: kernel 2.6.8-4-686 http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/ I think that was the release kernel for Sarge, aka Debian 3.1 -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Madden
that component working? Any other suggestions welcome, but don't talk computerese, please! hardware prolems can be diagnosed with a disc such as; http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

2009-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
to remove package openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome, but none of those efforts works. Any ideas? Thanks! Best Regards, Wang Long Sometimes starting an app from a terminal, cli, will have relevant output. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Netinstall and ADSL

2009-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: aumix not working

2010-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
card, rebooting fixed the issue, no reason why though. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003061314.02927.gomadtr

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
that have been installed as recommends and will prompt you to offer to remove them. 'deborphan' can help find remove orphaned libraries. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
out various (which may include Apache, Samba, whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan to keep better track of what I have installed so that the packages can be purged easily when I am finished with the application. Rogerio 2010/3/19 Greg Madden gomadtr

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-27 Thread Greg Madden
way is all manual not sure of the automagic way, either way 'UUID=' is useful. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003271019.13730

Re: dvd and cd burning and ripping

2008-06-28 Thread Greg Madden
, it rips the dvd then uses transcode to create a file, mpeg, avi, ogg. I store them on a hard drive, mythtv box, to view so I haven't burned to dvd any of them. xine is my current favorite movie viewer. -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: need a browser that can stream video well

2009-04-18 Thread Greg Madden
. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread Greg Madden
/gcc' -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread Greg Madden
know what to search for. Search on desktop publishing apps, Scribus is one, Klyx is a KDE app. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-16 Thread Greg Madden
out the 'xhost' command. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: connecting to WPA wireless network with ipw2100

2010-04-01 Thread Greg Madden
had trouble with getting WAP to work, but MAC filtering worked. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003312335.54802.gomadtr

Re: problem with ooffice from backports

2010-04-01 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Greg Madden
with specs like that Don't install anything with 'Gnome' in the package name, or K/KDE'. Apps that use GTK libraries without the Gnome stuff maybe. 'Damn Small Linux' does minimal installs., which are hard to duplicate with more mainstream distro's. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-09 Thread Greg Madden
used 'smartmontools' AFAIKT, lots of drives have errors, errors get re-mapped by the hd firmware, some drives are more accurate than others. Never did get straight, but the drives keep working. smartmontools uses badblocks , if memory serves. -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:35:29 pm Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from the Lenny repos? (Gnome,

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Greg Madden
live system (otherwise I'd be able to use a kernel from backports.org). -Rob Can you use one of these ? http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 29 May 2010 09:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: Hi, How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? [OT] Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use sys A: to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying ntldr, ntdetect.com and

Re: how to start and run a command during boot

2010-06-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 14 June 2010 01:17:27 pm H.S. wrote: On 14/06/10 04:38 PM, Long Wind wrote: I have etch and a ppp connection I want to make ppp connection every time Debian boot That is, run pon during boot What is the proper way to do that? Thanks! When you do pppoeconf to configure the

Re: Kernel update includes nouveau module that clobbers nVidia drivers

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 22:53:57 AG wrote: On 17/06/10 07:26, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-17 00:35 +0200, AG wrote: Since the last testing update I have rebooted and found myself being ensnarled in what seems to be a kernel issue, whereby a module nouveau by default seizes control of

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was

Re: UUID in fstab?

2010-06-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 18 June 2010 09:15:48 Thomas H. George wrote: I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the rest of the line unchanged as /bkups ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 2 Next I rebooted the system,

Re: virtualbox: Install from backup DVD HP Pavilion

2009-10-17 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: Need advice analyzing S.M.A.R.T data of HDD in Imminent disk failure.

2009-11-03 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: Dmesg gives ata1.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80002 action 0x6 frozen

2009-11-15 Thread Greg Madden
enabled drives. It reports errors, something hdparm doesnt do.. afaik. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Madden
. Search for 'white screen of death' , ATI -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-28 Thread Greg Madden
writer? My WP files were created with WP8, OO works with them. I know WP's file format has been the same for years, though I think there was change after 5.2 ? -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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