[SLUG] Fwd: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer' ?

2005-10-18 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sluggers, having lost cursor function and sound, Google led me to someone who solved a similar problem via 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and adding psmouse and mousedev to /etc/modules .. strictly in that order. I tried the same, but with less success .. Initially, an error message told me

Re: [SLUG] ISP

2005-10-18 Thread Juergen Busam
Does anyone has a recommendation for business ISP's? Some good experience regarding reliability and service? Juergen DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Juergen Busam wrote: Can anyone recommend a reliable ISP (with good Overseas connection) with at least the possibility to have 3M down and

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer' ?

2005-10-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Adam Bogacki wrote: Sluggers, having lost cursor function and sound, Google led me to someone who solved a similar problem via 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and adding psmouse and mousedev to /etc/modules .. strictly in that order. So, do you have a PS/2 mouse or a

Re: [SLUG] Sydney Open Solaris User Group - Meeting Oct 17th 6:30pm

2005-10-18 Thread Ken Wilson
Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:40:58AM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote: I have a problem with the original 'kissed a girl' posting. Superficially it looks amusing. In fact it is an ad hominem attack on Dave Miller. I thought it was hilarious. It never occurred to me think

[SLUG] SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday, October 21st.

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Deigan
When: Friday, October 21, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Room 2.4.11 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 11), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of UTS availible at

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer' ?

2005-10-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 21:12 +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote: Someone suggested changing /dev/mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /dev/input/mice .. so I did. ... One complication may be that I originally configured /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on an MS IntelliMouse but have since switched to an A4TECH

[SLUG] mixing ip6 with ip4

2005-10-18 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, I have been playing with Asterisk and with the known problems of SIP using NAT I wonder what happens if I only used IP6. There is talk of using a large number (several thousand) Asterisk boxen connected via wifi / wimax in a mesh only using IP6. What happens when the Voice calls

RE: [SLUG] ISP

2005-10-18 Thread Simon
Have been using EXL for a number of years (formerly Webfasttrack) great service, very knowledgabale. We currently run 2mBSDSL with a fully managed firewall etc - our cap is 60GB per month we normally use about 30GB Contact Stuart Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exl.com.au Have even had

[SLUG] Re: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer'

2005-10-18 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi Jamie, So, do you have a PS/2 mouse or a USB mouse? .. it is a USB mouse using a PS/2 adapter which has always been sucessfully configured as PS/2. Is your CorePointer now /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice? /dev/input/mice If it's USB mouse, does dmesg show the kernel recognising it

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 31, Issue 35

2005-10-18 Thread James Neale
Hey Sluggers First time post, on recommendation from a karting buddy (hi mal) We're a digital animation studio, so mostly we run 3dsMax and Photoshop on Win XP but we have a central server which I built with Mepis 3.3.1 (a Debian deriv). If it matters, it's a P4 2.5Ghz w/ 2gb RAM, 15Gb root,

Re: [SLUG] Re: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer'

2005-10-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Adam Bogacki wrote: In tty1 text mode it flashes by too quickly .. is there an appropriate log file where I can use vi ? dmesg | less less /var/log/messages less /var/log/syslog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Panic since USN-199-1

2005-10-18 Thread James Gray
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 15:06, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Gray This is a great report, you should definitely file a bug. :-) Cool.where? Does Ubuntu/Kubuntu have a Bugzilla site or something? Whoa, dude: bugzilla.ubuntu.com - Jeff I'll log a bug once I've finished

[SLUG] Debian server issues with WinXP

2005-10-18 Thread James Neale
Hey Sluggers First time post, on recommendation from a karting buddy (hi mal) We're a digital animation studio, so mostly we run 3dsMax and Photoshop on Win XP but we have a central server which I built with Mepis 3.3.1 (a Debian deriv). If it matters, it's a P4 2.5Ghz w/ 2gb RAM, 15Gb root,

[SLUG] rdiff-backup - does it work as advertised?

2005-10-18 Thread David
I've been advised to use rdiff-backup for backing up (!) and it looks very nice. Has anyone any experience with this tool? If so, how do you test it's integrity and what if any problems did you encounter? I've spot checked the mirrors that it creates and they look perfect (correct byte

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Panic since USN-199-1

2005-10-18 Thread James Gray
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 15:06, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Gray This is a great report, you should definitely file a bug. :-) Cool.where? Does Ubuntu/Kubuntu have a Bugzilla site or something? Whoa, dude: bugzilla.ubuntu.com - Jeff The plot thickens. This whole debacle

[SLUG] server-status denied by config (but which one?)

2005-10-18 Thread Voytek
I'm trying to re-enable /server-status on my Apache 1.3x, but I obviously have something I don't understand in my conf (so what else is knew, you might ask...) browser says: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /server-status on this server. error logs says: client denied by server

Re: [SLUG] server-status denied by config (but which one?)

2005-10-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
when playing silly games with apache. i like to peel everything back and then work from there ie. allow from all, deny from none make sure that works then flip stuff around etc Dean Voytek wrote: I'm trying to re-enable /server-status on my Apache 1.3x, but I obviously have something I don't

Re: [SLUG] Debian server issues with WinXP

2005-10-18 Thread Terry Collins
James Neale wrote: I have run into several issues when reading/writing files from WinXP machines. Anyone got any clues that could help? the save as sounds like permissions on the linux server. Does the user that you attach/logon to the linux server have permission to write to the