codecs for xine

When I get an error message from xine like: demux_avi: unknown avi format XVID what is my best bet for finding whether such a codec exists and where to get it? -- ...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing

Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:44:53PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > are there any utilities that will let me read pdf files and word > > > documents in console? >

Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hello all > > > > from a gui die-hard, i have started using console extensively. mutt, vim > > and all :) much faster - i must say. > > > > off and on, i get m

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

Il lun, 2002-12-23 alle 01:57, Adam Majer ha scritto: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: > > Hi @ all ! > > Thi is my first post on this ml And my first experience with debian > > :-) > > > > I'm trying to debian-ize a Sun Cobalt Raq2 with Paul Martin's how-to, >

Re: xD Picture Card and Debian (with OT kudos to Debian)

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 12:34, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Sunday 22 December 2002 21:21, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 09:41, Mike Mueller wrote: > > > > The Woody system does not appear to be ready for usb storage - judging > > > from the response from lsmod. Before I try anything e

Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:07:33AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 00:45, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > are there any utilities that w

Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 00:45, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > are there any utilities that will let me read pdf files and word > > > documents in console? > > > >

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

|It sounds like you just don't have sound. I confirmed that if the jack is pulled out of the Epox 8KHA+ 'speaker' jack in the manual's photo, and stuck into a radio, there is sound. |First make sure you're in the audio group (" addgroup dan |audio" - then log out and back in as "dan" -- type "gr

FIXED: ipmasq with ICQ, IRC

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:21:30PM +0100, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: > iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > (iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT) > iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Believe it or not, thi

printing files with relevant mailcap entries

hello all the question probably exposes my complete ignorance of printing system! if i do lpr somename.pdf, will it print properly? or do i have to open the file in pdf reader and then fire a print command? similarly, for other file types that have a mailcap entry. for instance, lpr somename.do

Re: apt-get

nate wrote: Richard Beri said: >When I install a program via apt-get, and it installs other support >packages along with it, and then I choose to remove this program AND the >packages that came with it. Is there anyway to automate the >removal of this program and its packages instead of removi

Re: [Fwd: Re: not work,]

Dear Bill or any linuxer: I think what I miss is port-forwarding, (if I guess is not correct please justify me) hope to see your advice and hlep again, and thanks in advance Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, eric lin wrote: www:/home/fsshl# iptables -L -nv Chain INPUT (policy AC

Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > are there any utilities that will let me read pdf files and word > > documents in console? > > Dunno about pdf, but package 'catdoc' should help with word docum

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:05:55AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > The local UBR should do that shouldn't it? > > What's a UBR? Back when I was working for @Home, I knew this. It's part of a cable network. > My ISP certainly doesn't, and I doubt that I could contact with anyone > there who knows

Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > from a gui die-hard, i have started using console extensively. mutt, vim > and all :) much faster - i must say. > > off and on, i get mail having pdf files and word documents as > attachments. i have to run x and u

text mode pdf and msword reader?

hello all from a gui die-hard, i have started using console extensively. mutt, vim and all :) much faster - i must say. off and on, i get mail having pdf files and word documents as attachments. i have to run x and use xpdf and abiword for these. are there any utilities that will let me read pdf

Re: Saving a system

nate said: > Gerald V. Livingston II said: >> I'm dumping an old P-90 so I can give the machine to a friend. >> >> When I am in single mode can I safely umount /usr and /var then link >> their >> new locations after I copy them over to one of the hard drives. This > > yes. I've done this tons of t

Re: ntpd / ntpdate on a dialup line

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:08:10AM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > Greetings: > > With all the traffic on ntp stuff recently, I thought this would be a > good time to ask: > > Is there a better solution than ntpdate on a dialup machine? > Currently, I run it from an ip-up.d script. I was looking t

Re: Ntfs Problems

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:21:34PM +0100, Pifta wrote: > Hm when the writing to an ntfs partition is so dangerous, then i think i > must to convert my partition to vfat or Ext2, but how can i do it whitout > reformatting the partition? > Is there a program what can convert it safely? Or i must refo

Re: How to deal with package broken dependencies

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:45:32AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I had also install Aspell 0.50.3 from source -- I have some code that > depends on the New Aspell. [snip] > That on is probably my fault due to installing the New Aspell from source, > but I'm not sure. apt-get install equivs and ge

Re: aptitude segfaults

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:14:58PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > on one of my machines, aptitude segfaults since this morning. the > strace shows some weird events: > > after the preloading and .so binding finished, aptitude call > gettimeofday() 14315 times, most of the time just one after the

Re: not work

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:53:47AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 08:00, eric lin wrote: > > > The URL in the quote if be replaced by just case.jpg then it can show photo > > in my website page(I have case0.jpg in both my \C:Apache2\htdocs or > > /var/www) > > I have no idea

Re: swap not being used

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:40:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I just put a new harddisk into one of the workstations here, remade > partitions, rsync'd the system over, then created the swap space, then > booted, and it all worked - except for swap. > > here's what i did: > > mother:~# gre

Re: apt-get

Richard Beri said: > When I install a program via apt-get, and it installs other support > packages along with it, and then I choose to remove this program AND the > packages that came with it. Is there anyway to automate the > removal of this program and its packages instead of removing the > pa

Re: Saving a system

Gerald V. Livingston II said: > I'm dumping an old P-90 so I can give the machine to a friend. > > When I am in single mode can I safely umount /usr and /var then link their > new locations after I copy them over to one of the hard drives. This yes. I've done this tons of times, never had a proble

Re: Open Office under testing

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 21:14, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found > > > at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries > > >

calendar printing revisited

Hi, Some time ago, someone was enquiring about software that will make a pretty calendar complete with certain events. I forget the ultimate outcome of that exchange, but in case anyone is still interested, there is the 'pcal' program: Package: pcal Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-

apt-get

When I install a program via apt-get, and it installs other support packages along with it, and then I choose to remove this program AND the packages that came with it. Is there anyway to automate the removal of this program and its packages instead of removing the packages by hand typing them

Re: Help setting up NetSaint on Debian 3.0

Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Mon, 2002-12-23 um 04.54 schrieb Ken McCord: The older "netsaint" is just an alias to some folder on your HD which is not inside the apache document-root. Try http://localhost/netsaint/ instead. ^ Not Found The requested URL /nets

Re: xD Picture Card and Debian

On Sunday 22 December 2002 21:21, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 09:41, Mike Mueller wrote: > > The Woody system does not appear to be ready for usb storage - judging > > from the response from lsmod. Before I try anything else, I'd like to > > ask if anyone on the list is using Deb

Re: Help setting up NetSaint on Debian 3.0

Am Mon, 2002-12-23 um 04.54 schrieb Ken McCord: > Trying to set up NetSaint on a freshly installed box running Debian 3.0. > After getting the base system, X Windows and Mozilla loaded, I > installed Apache and NetSaint. During the NetSaint install, I had the > package automatically configure

Help setting up NetSaint on Debian 3.0

Trying to set up NetSaint on a freshly installed box running Debian 3.0. After getting the base system, X Windows and Mozilla loaded, I installed Apache and NetSaint. During the NetSaint install, I had the package automatically configure Apahce, add the netsaintadmin user and enable NetSaint e

Re: Open Office under testing

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:14:18PM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: | Thanks, but this doesn't work either! | I'm starting to tear my hair out over this: I *must* have OO running | on my new machine before I can hand the old one over to my wife as | promised... Want to try "unstable"? It's really qu

Re: Open Office under testing

Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > OK, when I try to run the setup fails: firstly it complained that it > couldn't find setup - and indeed it wasn't there, but setup.bin > was. So I hardlinked setup to setup.bin, ditto the other.bin files in > the directory. > > Now when I try it

Re: swap not being used

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:22:13 -0600 Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:40:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > mother:~# cat /proc/swaps > > FilenameTypeSizeUsed > > Priority/dev/hda2 partition

Re: Open Office under testing

Thus spake Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote: > > As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found > > at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries > > (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing... > > > > A

Re: After upgrade to testing, ?zinf problem

On 21 Dec 2002 22:26:27 -0500 Neal Lippman wrote: > ... I also could not get ogg123 to work, since it > demanded libvorbisfile.so.0, and after the upgrade I only seem to have > libvorbisfile.so.3. (...) > And, is ogg123 still > supposed to work,and if so, why didn't it upgrade to understand the >

Re: DON'T UPGRADE UNSTABLE

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:35:27PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I just upgraded Unstable with a dist upgrade. It upgraded > libfontconfig1 which seems to be missing the actual lib files according > to dpkg -L and alien -t. Yeah, I noticed this earlier today, this is in last night's upgrade.

DON'T UPGRADE UNSTABLE

I just upgraded Unstable with a dist upgrade. It upgraded libfontconfig1 which seems to be missing the actual lib files according to dpkg -L and alien -t. A number of KDE packages refuse to load without these and apt-file lists this package as the only source of libfontconfig.so. :wq! -

Re: [Fwd: Re: not work,]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, eric lin wrote: > > > > www:/home/fsshl# iptables -L -nv > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) >pkts bytes target prot opt in out source > destination > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) >pkts bytes target prot opt in

Re: xD Picture Card and Debian

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 09:41, Mike Mueller wrote: > I got a Fuji Finepix 3800 digital camera that uses xD Picture Card flash > memory. I am trying to access the camera's flash memory as a usb storage > device. It did not work on a Mandrake 8.1 system (kernel 2.4.8). I Googled > and found that

Re: Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help

I am haing identical probs. Have tried various kernel options, including the support for booting on off-board cards; ide=reverse; various bios configs such as dis/en-abling pnp etc... No luck. I've followed mini-howto on ultra66 - nothing seems to work. I also have winblows installed on a separate

Whose bug(s)? tetex-base, tetex-extra, lilypond

I was upgrading sid from the techworld.rfa.org mirror as of yesterday evening and ran into the following: Preparing to replace tetex-base 1.0.2+20011202-3 (using .../tetex-base_1.0.2+20021025-3_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tetex-base ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-

Re: swap not being used

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:40:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > mother:~# cat /proc/swaps > FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority > /dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1 > > now say i'll start openoffice and mozilla and a cou

xD Picture Card and Debian

I got a Fuji Finepix 3800 digital camera that uses xD Picture Card flash memory.  I am trying to access the camera's flash memory as a usb storage device. It did not work on a Mandrake 8.1 system (kernel 2.4.8). I Googled and found that Mandrake 9 might work with the new xD flash card. The u

is there any mpeg tool in Linux

is there any mpeg tool that convert mpeg1 or mpeg2 to mpeg4 or other format (such as rm) to achieve better compression? pls reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], i'll leave the list soon. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: > Hi @ all ! > Thi is my first post on this ml And my first experience with debian > :-) > > I'm trying to debian-ize a Sun Cobalt Raq2 with Paul Martin's how-to, > that seem the easiest way to do it > > So, i've installed m

Re: Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:55:38AM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard. > Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats > the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :) > > In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C run

[Fwd: Re: not work,]

www:/home/fsshl# iptables -L -nv Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 p

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > date; burn-cd.sh; date > > > > > > and burning the CD using cdrdao (48x drive -- about 4 minutes to burn a > > > CD) caused the system clock to fall behind about *50* seconds. > > >

stv680 module sucks how do i unload it when it does crash?

I cant get the stv680 module to work , does anyone know how to? its a). got a very blue color showing b).keeps crashing, im using 0.25, how do i load and unload the module too? Regards, Dean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

I wrote: > What's a UBR? Richard Kimber writes: > The local router that acts as your gateway. No ntp service available there. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: not work, plese help

Bill Moseley said: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, eric lin wrote: > >> I suspect my system setting or isp level have problem > > Have you taken the good advice of all the people that have recommended > you > read some introductions to HTML and CGI? > > You are posting on four lists that I read -- how man

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

On 22 Dec 2002 08:05:55 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's a UBR? > > > I'm pretty sure it does with the NTL cable system I'm on. > > My ISP certainly doesn't, and I doubt that I could contact with anyone > there who knows what a time server is. The local router that acts as

Saving a system

I'm dumping an old P-90 so I can give the machine to a friend. When I am in single mode can I safely umount /usr and /var then link their new locations after I copy them over to one of the hard drives. This machine is not net connected and I'm trying to squeeze all the files onto a single drive so

Re: not work, plese help

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, eric lin wrote: > Dear Adam: > >I am using Debain progeny on 2.4.20, my question in hyper link to > access my site 's photo or file work, but directly show pic by putting > a code > http://ippath/photo.jpg";> not work, > so I have to took off the http://ippath/ > and c

not work, plese help

Dear Adam: I am using Debain progeny on 2.4.20, my question in hyper link to access my site 's photo or file work, but directly show pic by putting a code http://ippath/photo.jpg";> not work, so I have to took off the http://ippath/ and copy my photo.jpg to /var/www/ directory that restrict

Re: Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:07:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I downloaded the 2.4.20 source from ftp.debian.org, uncompressed it, > un-tarred it. Then I downloaded patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 from the same > site, and tried: > > patch -p1 < patch-2.4.20-pre10-ac2 > > at the top of the /usr/src/l

[solved] aptitude segfaults

also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.22.1714 +0100]: > on one of my machines, aptitude segfaults since this morning. the > strace shows some weird events: this was fixed by a call to `aptitude update`. weird. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automat

Re: swap not being used

also sprach David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.22.1952 +0100]: > >total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem:516580 475844 40736 0 170540 224736 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 80568 436012 > > Swap: 9960

Re: Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:07:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I want/need to compile one of the Alan Cox variants of the 2.4.20 > kernel (it apparently has better support for the particular Asus > motherboard that I have). I've routinely hand-compiled kernels for > some years, but I've never

Alan Cox patches [probably stupid question]

I want/need to compile one of the Alan Cox variants of the 2.4.20 kernel (it apparently has better support for the particular Asus motherboard that I have). I've routinely hand-compiled kernels for some years, but I've never tried any of the non-standard kernel branches before. I downloaded the 2

Re: wall command only broadcasts to gnome-terminal?

> > Why does wall only broadcast to a gnome-terminal and why won't > > it broadcast to my KDE desktop? > > because that's all it was designed to do, broadcast to the terminals. > to broadcast to the X server it would need authorization to connect to > it. So wall does not have this functionality.

Re: sound problem -ES1869

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:36:42PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Thanks! IRQ 5 works. I can now play wav and mp3 files with XMMS. > Confused as to why the /proc/interrups file didn't help me. It helped me. I looked at an interrupt level table (the table that I showed in my previous response) and you

Re: Happy XMAS O.T.

Shawn Lamson wrote: >On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:46:42 +0100 >Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> HoHoHoHo to all girls and boys on the list, >> >> wish you a Happy XMAS, a lot of snow and what ever you want. >> You are all great and because of this I like to invite all members >> of this lis

Re: Open Office under testing

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote: > As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found > at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries > (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing... > > Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball. > -- You might

Re: Open Office under testing

Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found > at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries > (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing... > > Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball. Unfortunately, afte

OT: what BIOS options are accessible (r/w) from the OS?

Hello Debian users! I marked this posting as OT cos i do not know if it right here. What i want to do: i have a gateway already and plan to do weekly backups of my client PCs on a dedicated hard drive. Due to a question of price, i ask myself if it is okay to plug just a second HDD into the gatewa

Re: wall command only broadcasts to gnome-terminal?

Andy said: > Why does wall only broadcast to a gnome-terminal and why won't > it broadcast to my KDE desktop? because that's all it was designed to do, broadcast to the terminals. to broadcast to the X server it would need authorization to connect to it. So wall does not have this functionality.

MS Intellimouse Explorer

I liked the idea of Knoppix and downloaded it to try. I noticed that my Intellimouse Explorer (USB/optical) does not work however. Side to side motion moves the mouse up and down (up and down does nothing) and clicking the mouse buttons moves the cursor to the right incrementally. The mouse works

wall command only broadcasts to gnome-terminal?

When I do this command: ~# echo "hello" | wall nothing happens. The wall manpage is very short. mesg is y for root and all users. When I open a up gnome-terminal I then can see the message and I hear a little beep from my computer. Using KDE 2.2.2 on Woody. Why does wall only broadcast to a gno

Re: Open Office 1.0.1 problem under testing

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:20:31 -0800 Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 20:11, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > AS I am building a new system, it seemed a good idea to download > > > the latest Open Office (1.0.1) rather than

Re: Open Office 1.0.1 problem under testing

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:20:31PM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 20:11, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > AS I am building a new system, it seemed a good idea to download the > > > latest Open Office (1.0.1) rather than simply copy 1.0 a

Open Office under testing

As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing... Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be unders

Re: Open Office 1.0.1 problem under testing

Thus spake Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 20:11, Deryk Barker wrote: > > AS I am building a new system, it seemed a good idea to download the > > latest Open Office (1.0.1) rather than simply copy 1.0 across from > > my old system. > > > > I am running (new system) test

Re: Happy XMAS O.T.

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:46:42 +0100 Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HoHoHoHo to all girls and boys on the list, > > wish you a Happy XMAS, a lot of snow and what ever you want. > You are all great and because of this I like to invite all members > of this list to one beer - hey, listen,

Re: Open Office 1.0.1 problem under testing

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 20:11, Deryk Barker wrote: > AS I am building a new system, it seemed a good idea to download the > latest Open Office (1.0.1) rather than simply copy 1.0 across from > my old system. > > I am running (new system) testing, BTW. Just install the openoffice package that is in

Re: sound problem -ES1869

Thanks! IRQ 5 works. I can now play wav and mp3 files with XMMS. Confused as to why the /proc/interrups file didn't help me. Can you now tell me how to get midi file capability? xmms does not play my midi files. neither does playmidi or mpg123. I get the error: open /dev/sequencer: No such de

Open Office 1.0.1 problem under testing

AS I am building a new system, it seemed a good idea to download the latest Open Office (1.0.1) rather than simply copy 1.0 across from my old system. I am running (new system) testing, BTW. So, I download the tarball, untar, install as root, change to a non-root window and run setup (as per inst

Re: sound problem -ES1869

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:15:59PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Thanks for the tip. I tried setting the IRQ to 10, as suggested with > modprobe sb esstype=1869 irq=10 > I then got the error: > kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ10 failed - Probable IRQ conflict > > looking at /proc/interrupts shows: >

Re: need some readline tricks

andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-20 19:26:16 -0200]: > But if I add sequences that already have a meaning (like "\C-s") > it's still the old value that's in effect. Besides, how do I > represent function keys? At one time an example .inputrc file in the bash package contained this templ

Re: swap not being used

martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mother:~# cat /proc/swaps > FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority > /dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1 > > mother:~> free >total used free shared

Re: No ip-masquerade after upgrade 2.2.19 to 2.4.20

On 2002.12.22 15:21 Russ Cook wrote: I have a home network of 5 machines running Linux (for me) and Windows (for wife and son). I have a masquerading gateway machine for internet access. I update this machine rarely, as problems encountered affect the whole family. I recently took the plunge an

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > date; burn-cd.sh; date > > > > and burning the CD using cdrdao (48x drive -- about 4 minutes to burn a > > CD) caused the system clock to fall behind about *50* seconds. > > > > Maybe it's because the CD-R is so fast? "Let's do the time warp again!

Re: syslog-ng[3946]: STATS: dropped 0

Sam Varghese, 2002-Dec-23 00:01 +1100: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've got a system that has started to produce many messages in > the system logs that say "syslog-ng[3946]: STATS: dropped 0". > > I've looked over the syslog-ng docs, but I've been unable to > figure out

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #970

Subject: Re: Help needed... From: "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:50:04 -0600 To: Debian-Users-List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:40:56AM -0600, Larry Shields wrote: Second, now when I bootup in Linux, it boots up just fine to a point, meani

Re: sound problem -ES1869

Thanks for the tip. I tried setting the IRQ to 10, as suggested with modprobe sb esstype=1869 irq=10 I then got the error: kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ10 failed - Probable IRQ conflict looking at /proc/interrupts shows: 0: timer 1: keyboard 2: cascade 10: soundblaster 11:

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:46:34 -0800 (PST) Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had somene run: > > date; burn-cd.sh; date > > and burning the CD using cdrdao (48x drive -- about 4 minutes to burn a > CD) caused the system clock to fall behind about *50* seconds. > > Maybe it's becaus

Re: ugly failure apt-get

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 09:48:23PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote: > Fair enough, I was sketchy -- > > This is sid -- last update was 10/30 (it's been a while) > > The failure was "rm: reading directory `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/.': > Function not implmented" > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subproc

Re: Auto completion on Galeon - SOLVED

I had just to use gconf-editor and edit the Browsing folder of the galeon-snapshot entry, setting completion to true. Bruno. On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 22:39, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Hi all, > > does anyone know why in the latest versions of Galeon (galeon-snapshot - > 1.3.1) the URI auto compl

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside ofKDE)?

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Did you right click on "Mailbox (MH)" folder and "rebuild folder tree" ? No, but that does seem to fix it. I wonder why it keeps getting off in its counts. > >http://hank.org/images/sylpheed.png > That image looks just like mine - it looks lik

RE:OT, "not subscribed" (was: Re: Outlook calendar sharing?)

thats what I told the moron. :) Regards, Dean. On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:10:30 +0100 Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 December 2002 03:22, Frank Copeland wrote: > On 20 Dec 02 21:47:52 GMT, Andrew M. A. Cater

How to deal with package broken dependencies

I installed kdebase-libs today to get Kmail working. It seems to have broken a few things, so I'm wonder how best to deal with it. First, I had gkrellm2 installed. Now dpkg shows: rc gkrellm1.2.12-2 Multiple stacked system monitors: 1 process. rc gkrellm2 2.0.3-1M

Re: [OT] Best MP3 player used with Debian

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 11:57:28PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, thanks > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 11:45:31PM -0800, nate wrote: > > Osamu Aoki said: > > > I was thinking to use Samba share to get files from vender provided > > > windows MP3 encoder software to be legitimate :) Do they include thes

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT! - more

Bob writes: > How does rdate compare to chrony and nptd? Rdate uses the RFC868 protocol while Chrony and Ntp use the RFC1305 (NTP) protocol. Look here for a comparison. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwoo

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside ofKDE)?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:12:41 -0800 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:31 AM 12/18/02 +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > Sorry for taking so long to get back to this -- it's been one of those weeks. > > >On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:00:25 -0800 Bill Moseley wrote: > >> That version of Sylpheed

Re: No ip-masquerade after upgrade 2.2.19 to 2.4.20

Russ Cook wrote: I have a home network of 5 machines running Linux (for me) and Windows (for wife and son). I have a masquerading gateway machine for internet access. I update this machine rarely, as problems encountered affect the whole family. I recently took the plunge and upgraded the kerne

Re: Error upgrading console-data

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:56:02PM +, Paul Worrall wrote: > On applying the recent upgrade of the console-data package I got the > message: > Can't use string ("hebrew") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at > /tmp/config.6071 line 797, line 326 > console-data failed to preconfigur

Re: can't mount or su

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:32:50PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:13:18PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, M

Re: not work

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 08:00, eric lin wrote: > The URL in the quote if be replaced by just case.jpg then it can show photo > in my website page(I have case0.jpg in both my \C:Apache2\htdocs or > /var/www) I have no idea what you just said. >Actually in the start apache2 in dos mode, I get s

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