On Thursday 22 February 2007 19:30, Don Gould wrote:
>
>
> Sorry John, but I have been so busy getting a project off the ground
> that I will be reporting back on when it's actually going that I missed
> Phil's initial query.
Understood.
>
> The prerequisite numbers have now been dialed and arra
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:39:23 +1300
Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Welcome to the list John,
Thanks, but been here for several years :-)
>
> I note with interest that my suggestions as to how to make sure that
> there are alternative (potential) solutions to this kind of problem
Steve Holdoway wrote:
hand crafting an x config file is a simple task if you can get on the machine. The output from lspci, and reading the front/back of the monitor is all the input you need, whatever the flavour of linux you prefer.
http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0405/msg0089
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:17:03 +1300
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:00:50 +1300
> Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or
> > similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article o
Sorry John, but I have been so busy getting a project off the ground
that I will be reporting back on when it's actually going that I missed
Phil's initial query.
The prerequisite numbers have now been dialed and arrangements made to
sort the problem.
I agree with those who suggest I am n
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:54:35 +1300
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:07:40 +1300
> Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Don Gould wrote:
> > > David is going to come here to 2/59 Peverel Street at 1pm on Saturday
> > > afte
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:00:50 +1300
Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or
> similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article on the wiki?
> That way, no end of us could fix this in our coffee break, and tell
Nick Rout wrote:
This whole converstion is getting pretty stupid. The man obviously has
problems with communication and with the command line. He needs a
visit, pure and simple. Why are we going off at tangents? Either
someone can go and visit him or they cannot. "Put up or shut up" I say.
I d
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Don Gould wrote:
> > I hope it's not a Winmodem. At least, not an unsupported one...
>
> I checked, the modem is an external one. I'd like to know how we set
> that up in MDV from the CLI before he visits.
wvdial is probably the best CLI configuration system and int
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:07:40 +1300
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Don Gould wrote:
> > David is going to come here to 2/59 Peverel Street at 1pm on Saturday
> > afternoon.
> >
> > We need to get his dial up modem working so that we can connect him fo
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
What sort of modem is it?
External
What sort of computer?
I didn't ask that actually, but it was running MDV2006
This might be a time for ppl. to get rid of unwanted external POTS modems, or
internals that are known to work under Linux.
I have a couple of ex
Andrew Errington wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:47, you wrote:
David is going to come here...
Great Don, now the whole world knows where he will be, or rather, where he
won't be, and when he won't be there.
That sort of information should really be kept off-list.
OFFS - I live here all d
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Don Gould wrote:
> David is going to come here to 2/59 Peverel Street at 1pm on Saturday
> afternoon.
>
> We need to get his dial up modem working so that we can connect him for
> future remote support.
Taking the points one by one.
What sort of modem is it?
What sort
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:47, you wrote:
> David is going to come here...
Great Don, now the whole world knows where he will be, or rather, where he
won't be, and when he won't be there.
That sort of information should really be kept off-list.
> We need to get his dial up modem working so that we
David is going to come here to 2/59 Peverel Street at 1pm on Saturday
afternoon.
We need to get his dial up modem working so that we can connect him for
future remote support.
I intend to connect him to my network and set up ssh so anyone else
wanting to help can ssh in to work on the proble
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:21:41 +1300
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > ... I was sort of thinking along the lines of gaim to communicate at the
> > > same time.
> >
> > Yes. good point.
> Nah!
>
> Unix codgers just write t
On Thursday 22 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > ... I was sort of thinking along the lines of gaim to communicate at the
> > same time.
>
> Yes. good point.
Nah!
Unix codgers just write to the other user, or use talk/talkd when feeling
sophisticated. X? - What a load of futz. ( As we
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:25:35 +1300 (NZDT)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> > Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip
>> or
>> > similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article on the
>> wiki?
>> > That way, no end of us could fix this in our coffee break,
you might be able to get him to install something like centericq, which is a
command-line, multi-protocol IM client... not too difficult to use either..
Steve Holdoway wrote on 22/02/07 16:29:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:25:35 +1300 (NZDT)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>> Isn't this cause for a qui
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:25:35 +1300 (NZDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or
> > similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article on the wiki?
> > That way, no end of us could fix this in our coffee break, and tell them
> Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or
> similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article on the wiki?
> That way, no end of us could fix this in our coffee break, and tell them
> what's happening ( well, once X is working! )??
>
> Steve
You don't _ne
LES is also going to be open to the public this year so anyone can bring
a machine in to have us help them work on it.
Cheers Don
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or
similar, and
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or
> similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article on the wiki?
> That way, no end of us could fix this in our coffee break, and tell them
> what's happening ( w
Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or
similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article on the wiki? That
way, no end of us could fix this in our coffee break, and tell them what's
happening ( well, once X is working! )??
Steve
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 1
John Rye wrote:
Wesley was going to contact him (on Tuesday or Wednesday I think)
Don, with respect, this needs someone who both knows Mandriva/RedHat
well as well as how to deal with X-server problems - I don't know if
you have this knowledge.
I think that David will now 'feel the love of clu
I called David,
He's busy today.
He does come into Riccarton to do shopping so I've offered him to drop
over and we'll sort it out.
With respect to ubuntu, etc, distros,...
I'm going to keep running MDV2007 as I've just introduced one of my best
mates to it as it came out on an APC mag. So
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:30 +1300
Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don Gould wrote:
> > Guess this one's mine as I'm running mdv2007?
>
> Maybe.. It's complex for people to support lots of distros, and urging
> people onto the more-used ones is but one solution for that.
>
> Someone Ma
Don Gould wrote:
Guess this one's mine as I'm running mdv2007?
Maybe.. It's complex for people to support lots of distros, and urging
people onto the more-used ones is but one solution for that.
Someone Mandriva-aware would be best to pick it up,..
I don't know anything much about x thou
Guess this one's mine as I'm running mdv2007?
I don't know anything much about x thou
I think he's out of town a bit.
Rik normally provides site visits and is closer I think, no comment from
Rik?
Do we know if the guy is expecting to at least pay petrol or is he
willing to bring his machine
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 21:26, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
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> Please post /etc/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> Could he use Winders to post/email the files?
>
> I'd be happy to talk to him over the 'phone. My number is correct in
> the book.
>
> --
> CS
David needs face to face help.
P
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:26:55 +1300
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007, John Rye wrote:
>
> > /etc/Inittab adjusted, system boots through to cli logon without
> > problems.
> >
> > Monitor is Proview 786N.
> >
> > XFdrake re-run and monitor specs updated/f
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, John Rye wrote:
> /etc/Inittab adjusted, system boots through to cli logon without
> problems.
>
> Monitor is Proview 786N.
>
> XFdrake re-run and monitor specs updated/fixed but x-server still won't
> start. (toyota!)
>
> I've also disabled APCI from being enabled by
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:22:32 +1300
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:43:53 +1300
> Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have just been on the phone to David Jarman 03 322 9811 (ChCh). He is a
> > Mandriva user who has run into problems with 2007 (2006 was
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