Re: kernel 2.6.4 report, further assistance requests

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, joy wrote: > the modules for the 2.4 style kernels are different from the 2.6 ones > and I don't think they are > compatible ,i.e, if they compile on a 2.4 they wouldn't compile on a > 2.6. better check for a 2.6 > compatible version of vmware. also could you tell me where you

Re: kernel 2.6.4 report, further assistance requests

2004-04-13 Thread joy
James Miller wrote: Though I'd like to keep using this kernel, there are a couple of things that stand in the way: one somewhat minor, but the other a real show-stopper. The show-stopper is vmware: for some reason, I can't get its modules to compile under this kernel. I've done these vmware t

fedora and how to get mass storage devices (memory card readers) to work

2004-04-13 Thread Rei Shinozuka
well, lsmod did show: Module Size Used byTainted: P usb-storage75136 0 and interestingly, usbview showed the the card reader is recognized: http://www.shinozuka-family.com/USBViewer.jpg but the last 2 commands return errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

Incoming Dial-up error

2004-04-13 Thread Bhikkhu Mettavihari
Dear All, I have a problem that has come up in my server. I provide a small free popserver in Sri Lanka. To give you a bit more details, My server crassed with bad power supply. I reinstalled on a new hard disk with the same version, recovered data on the old hard disk copied over /home/* /etc/p

kernel 2.6.4 report, further assistance requests

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
I'll make this post a sort of follow-up and report of the 2.6.4 kernel I've been asking help with over the last day or so. I'll also ask for some further help/suggestions. As you may be aware, I finally got my mouse cursor to respond to physical mouse movement by loading a couple of modules and b

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-13 Thread caszonyi
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, James Miller wrote: > Moral of the story: man with 2 kernels kills one mouse (an ancient Incan > proverb :) ). At least for now, it is not possible for me to boot between > 2 kernels and have a working mouse: I must use either one or the other. > And I'll have to determine wh

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
I've hacked together a pseudo solution to the 2.6.4 kernel/mouse problem, but created others in the process. The particulars of why things are the way they are and why what I did resolved something largely escape me. But while I still retain some scraps of insight into it, I think I'll make a pos

RE: Remote X

2004-04-13 Thread Little, Chris
perhaps even better is http://www.realvnc.com depending on your distribution, you probably already have the server installed. at your linux box just type "vncserver" it'll ask you for a password for the session. then from your webbrowser, http://your.linux.ip.address:580x where "x" is the displ

Re: Remote X

2004-04-13 Thread Beolach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've never done this, so I don't have much info for you. But the one thing I can think of, is you might want to make sure you are using cygwin/X, not just cygwin. cygwin is just a port of the standard *nix console commands (ls, cp, cat, dd, etc.), wh

Re: fedora and how to get mass storage devices (memory card readers) to work

2004-04-13 Thread John Kelly
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:59:03 -0400 Rei Shinozuka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also, /var/log/messages reports: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shino]# tail -f /var/log/messages > Apr 12 22:36:57 tuxedo kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any > tracks I recognize! Apr 12 22:37:01 tuxedo kernel: cdrom: Thi

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Beolach wrote: > > I installed gpm (gives mouse cursor/action in console mode) since I've > > used virtual terminals alot on other machines. On this one, I don't use > > them much, so maybe I should just uninstall gpm? I did work on this 2.6.x > > cursor problem a couple of

RE: Remote X

2004-04-13 Thread Juan Facundo Suárez
Hi, i could do it. I am really happy about that. Now, what i need is to connect a window$ machine, as an X server, to a session / window manager on a remote linux machine. I have heared about cygwin / winx32. I am trying cygwin, but i dont understand how to set it up, to use it, as an X server. R