nuxil, try and see if its enabled in the bios or if you can change its irq settings

i need help getting my com port working!! can anyone help me out?

anyone knows a tool that helps me debug or work with dhcp? the thing is, dhcp used to work, but now it kinda cant detect a DHCPOFFER. entering my internet info in a static works though…

dhcp shouldn't detect dhcpoffers

dhclient then

use wireshark to capture the packets coming into your system and look them over
packet capture is the best tool
also do you have different subnets on your network? if so ensure your dhcpd is setup to answer on them

hmm
will have a look thanks

also ensure that dhcpd is running

what is the bottom bar called exactly im having trouble searching for a solution to a problem im having with my bottom bar under Gnome
I cant see any of the stuff i add to the panel such as Window Switcher but if i connect with VNC i can see it all

can commands in crontab contain spances?

yes, make sure that you use quotes when needed

hi people
i need to set the DISPLAY variable but I dont know how

what type of quotes?

bash tutorials http://linuxcommand.org/writing_shell_scripts.php and and advanced tutorial is at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

ok i got another question
i need to start an exec from tcsh
by using "sudo ./setup" in tcsh
i started tsch from a terminal as a user
Can't open display:"
so I don't really know what to do
can u help me with this?
I've been told that the DISPLAY environment variable needs to be exported
but I don't know where, and what value shoud be assigned to that variable

Hi
The Fn keys aren't responding on my USB keyboard, but xev shows that they're generating the correct X events. How can I get Gnome to act on them?
When I try to use gnome-keybinding-properties, F1 appears as 0xf5, so I'm guessing the Fn keys aren't being interpreted as Fn keys at some point.

that is really strange
especially as xev detects them correctly
some MS keyboard have a meta key called fn lock

omg

that will make the fn keys act like normal fn keys or like special, and useless, keys

that's it

heh

I'm using a MS Ergonomic KB. Damn Fn lock!
Thank you so much!

np

heh, I was about to enter it all into xmodmap or something

you can still do that
then you don't have to care about fn lock
bbl

Heya.
I'm trying to find the command which changes the background of the root X window.
The command which will change the "wallpaper" of an unmanaged X desktop, if you will…

xsetroot

kasc, thanks.
If I wanted a nice simple desktop manager, what would you guys recommend? Something for just drawing a wallpaper, really?

window manager or desktop environment?

I just want to draw a nice wallpaper to the root window, really. I already have a WM i like.

it's not the job of a WM do draw wallpaper

actually you dont even need a window manager to put a wallpaper…

kasc… i know. I just said I have a WM I like already, and all that I'm trying to do is draw a nice wallpaper.
any idea how i can do that?

xsetroot or any other image viewer, almost all have capability to "set picture as wallpaper"

I see. xsetroot seems to work with bitmaps only… Know anything that does PNGs, in particular?

FYI PNG is a bitmap

Well I put xsetroot -bitmap /path/to/png and it says bad bitmap format file…

Is it possible to have the programs closed, not killed, when I log out from an X session? I'm using Fedora 7 with gnome.

http://biagi.miniville.fr

hi all
just wondering what is the best way to determine why a process has stopped or if there is a monitoring tool that can be implemented
like tripwire for runnign processes?

"dot" generates shapes that are too small to contain the text. Anyone knows why this may happen?

dot in graphviz?

yes

all I an suggest is messing around in the optons for the graph
options*

anyone know of software that will monitor a command/proccess and log who ran it or terminated a process?

sudo can do some of that if you change the cmd so only root can run it, then set appropriate options in 'visudo'

how about at the proccess level
anything to watch if a process starts/stops

not that I know of

ack thats a bit rough
rather mysterious when a proccess ends with no mention of it in the logs

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog-images/monkey-hoot/WorkspaceSwitching.ogg Any suggestions?

hey all, i was wondering if its easy to set up dual monitor in ubuntu with an ATI graphics card?
easy as in i don't have much linux experience
is anyone here?

Nope, just you.

haha
do you know anything about dual monitors in linux

Nope, but google might
What's the problem?

I'm the problem to he honest
i don't know much about linux

dual what?

but i do know a lot about windows, but thats not saying much
dual screens, monitors, whatever you wanna call them

and it consists on what?
wanna have 2 monitors for 1 CPU ?

Hi … I fund on a forum that I have to "allowing inbound tcp port 990 in my iptables configuration." .. anyone know how I would approach?

i just want to get dual monitors, like you move your mouse across one, then it moves to the next
and i don't know where to start

is there anyway to install an hp bios update (they only make windows exe to be run from within windows) though I only have linux installed on this lappy?

the mouse perhaps
xD
well I don't have any mouse sorry
just a touchpad lol

are you talking to me

gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors
no I'm talking to me

i have ubuntu, will that still owrk

It depends on how your distro deal with your video cards,just try out

argh, if i screw up xorg.conf, im in trouble, aren't i?

I don't know,i hope that the folk around may help ,gd luck

haha, ill mess around iwth it some other time
i don't truse my self
trust*

metguru_ are u using mIRC to get here?

no
X-chat
y

mIRC,it's a windows IRC client

i know that
i use it when im in windows
im in ubuntu at the moment

metguru_ X-chat is good?

farrel, X-Chat is dope.

yes, I perfer it just a smidge over mIRC
but similar
they're*
whats wrong with Xchat?

Jivedue what client are u using?

farrel, X-Chat, I'm saying it's good.

Jivedue ok grr my poor english xD

haha, I thought you were saying it sucked

tought same thinf haha
is it possible to connect to an IRC server from the command line (on linux)
?
i mean from a linux console

farrel, Yes, there are command-line IRC clients.
farrel, You could search and find some I'm sure.

k i'm looking to build my own
from scratch

#gnusol

?

can someone tell me howto change my color depth in ubuntu 7.04 in gnome i think
?

is there a way to change the program that gnome calls when you pick the "Suspend" option?

iptables .. what ports does MSN Messenger use, i block outgoing - but may need to alow MSN ?

where can i find a livecd based on kernel version 2.4.7

hi there
does anyone knows a way to get a sidewinder gamepad back to work with fedora 7?

where can i find a livecd based on kernel version 2.4.7

uhmm, why such ancient kernel?

because it's the kernel that the driver for my raid controller works with

good luck. back around 2.4.7 there weren't many 'live cd' distros
if google doesn't turn up anything for '2.4.7 livecd', then you may be SOL

yeah everyone wants the newest and baddest.

uhmm, that wasn't the point
however, since you decided to bring it up, not everybody wants an unsupported old junk

seems like promise was good at supporting linux with their drivers back in 2.4

what exactly are you trying to accomplish?

trying to get data off of a four disk stripe that windows
doesn't like anymore

i'd stick with windows for this

i would too, if i had any remote hope that it would work.

well, the issue is simple - if it doesn't work under windows [which has most likely better drivers], then using linux will be a lost cause

i'm sure t

hello, does anyone konws if there a way to dump everything that's going on lynx? or using tcpflow (or similar) is the only way?

ni idea

im having trouble deleting some files that have no file information ( file date, permissions, owner etc show up as single "?")

http://pastebin.ca/609732

strange
and what happens when you try rm 1200_20070418170000.mpg.png ?

permission denied . as root

what does stat say about the file ?

same thing permission denied

is it possible to chmod it ?

no same result. chmod , chown

did you have a hard reset or something that would lead to file coruption ?

not sure .. some of them have been around for quite a while.
june of last year .. looks like

dunno really, might be worth rebooting with a fsck, or just umount'ing the one partition and doing it

i just added another drive to the LVM and had it booted with knoppix. i did a fsck then

ah, never used LVM myself

thanks anyway

np

I'm trying to migrate / to LVM on Raid where it was just on Raid before (/dev/md2 where now it's /dev/VG_foo/LV_foo which is on /dev/md2). I rsynced the files off, repartitioned, rsynced on, edited /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst. Now I'm getting "mdadm: no devices for for /dev/md2" and
subsequent errors as a result. What now?

hey, I'm trying to use 7z to extract an entire directory of .7z files. Can anyone tell me the proper way of doing this? 7z x *.7z doesn't work

is there a way to wget a whole directory?

man wget, wget -r
Basically, no, only referenced files.

I'm trying to migrate / to LVM on Raid where it was just on Raid before (/dev/md2 where now it's /dev/VG_foo/LV_foo which is on /dev/md2). I rsynced the files off, repartitioned, rsynced on, edited /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst. Now I'm getting "mdadm: no devices for for /dev/md2" and
subsequent errors as a result. What now?

Is there a way to change sda2 to sda1?

where could the output from udev be logged?