Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-07 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 19:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - How do I allow my little sister to continue to use her windows games? > > That may be difficult. Can't you find some nice linux games for her? There > are many in the packages list. There are, as I posted, many decent kids games on l

Re: jewel for lcd users

2004-07-07 Thread Steven Yap
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 11:22, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > xset dpms force off > > This action is usually the default for some kind of screen-blanking > anyway. Interestingly, my BenQ FP231W doesn't respond to any of the "force" options even though "x

Re: new gnome file selection

2004-07-07 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 23:31, jakob bratkovic wrote: > > At the command prompt type: > > gconf-editor > > Then navigate to apps -> nautilus -> preferences > and chech the "always_use_browser" value. That actually changes the behaviour and look of the file selection dialogue? -- Steven Yap <[EM

Mach64 DRI so far

2004-07-07 Thread David Baron
I have to say it IS working. T'aint the greatest but working nevertheless. Tuxracer runs perfectly, foo-billards runs fine, quakeII runs 100% (this might auto-configure off GL if not operating), etc. Gl117, billard-GL and Cube will NOT run.Flightgear runs problematically, not really usable. The

Re: new gnome file selection

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just started using sid, and I've run into the new gnome file > selection interface. It's almost unusable: there's no way to enter > an absolute path (or any path for that matter), and no way to go up in > the file system, or to even see an

pppd authentication problem

2004-07-07 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian users, Until now, I have been accustomed to having ppp work without the need to understand a great deal. However, I have not been able to get kppp to work on my new Debian sarge/testing system in the same way it used to work on my previous RedHat 9.0 system. In the log window, I s

Re: new gnome file selection

2004-07-07 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just started using sid, and I've run into the new gnome file > selection interface. It's almost unusable: > there's no way to enter an absolute path (or any path for that matter), Ctrl-L will bring an "Location" dialog where the path can

Re: new gnome file selection

2004-07-07 Thread jakob bratkovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just started using sid, and I've run into the new gnome file selection interface. It's almost unusable: there's no way to enter an absolute path (or any path for that matter), and no way to go up in the file system, or to even see any dot files. Is there a way to chang

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:28:12PM -0500, Brad Sims wrote: > Did you build them with xft? Nope. I just installed all the build-depends packages required to build it and then built the package after adjusting the rules file to sort out postscript and xprint. It was only afterwards that I noticed t

Re: KDE freeze on sarge

2004-07-07 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 08 July 2004 06:03, Thomas Adam hurled the following on the wire: > --- Aaron Robertson-Hodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For some reason KDE seems to freeze intermittently on my new sarge > > installation. It takes ages to load up and then freezes when I load apps > > and click the

stuck on 1 shell variable, not re-updating.

2004-07-07 Thread Louie Miranda
#!/bin/bash GEN=`pwgen --no-capitalize -N1` for i in $GEN do echo "update dump set random= '$i'"|mysql -uroot insert done -- I have created this shell script, it updates a specific table on a mysql db. Now, the pwgen is a random password generator. When i run this program, it only gets 1 variable

new gnome file selection

2004-07-07 Thread dzpost
I just started using sid, and I've run into the new gnome file selection interface. It's almost unusable: there's no way to enter an absolute path (or any path for that matter), and no way to go up in the file system, or to even see any dot files. Is there a way to change all this? It's horribl

Rokon keresés

2004-07-07 Thread Victor
 Nyugat Kanadában Kelowna városban lakok.  Nejemmel jó barátságban vagyunk  Dési Markával aki Dr. Maróti özvegye. Megkért, hogy kutassam fel a Benák családot. A következő adatokat adta számomra: Három tesvér, István, János és Klári Nagyszülők, Janő és Margit Apa neve, István

network names, sortlist, & resolv.conf

2004-07-07 Thread ms419
I've looked around for a Linux resolver mailing list, but failing that, I thought I'd ask here. I'm using the sortlist statement in my resolv.conf to prevent some programs from being confused by multihomed hosts. I've also setup mnemonic names for our networks, so, for instance: --- # route Ker

Re: grub problem

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 16:27, Rodney Richison wrote: > I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. > Ahhh, for a command like sys a::) Novel idea... > > Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help > someone someday. > > How to Repair Grub bo

Re: hacking attempt on Apache?

2004-07-07 Thread Lucas Albers
incidents.org discusses this. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-07-07 Thread Lucas Albers
John Summerfield said: > I don't know of any papers, but I have moved from RHL to Debian. > > My advice is do not convert. > > Instead, Replace. > If you plan on changing distro, this might be a good time to consider > consolidating hardware, even changing platform. If Apple, Sun, IBM > hardware

RE: KDE freeze on sarge

2004-07-07 Thread Aaron Robertson-Hodder
I have 256MB currently. I have more that I can put in if this is a possible cause. I will try lnx-bbc and see what happens... -Original Message- From: Thomas Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KDE freeze on sarge --- Aar

Re: grub problem

2004-07-07 Thread Rodney Richison
I attempted a repair floppy last night. It didn't work out real well. Ahhh, for a command like sys a::) Novel idea... Anyway here's what I did for future google searches. Maybe it'll help someone someday. How to Repair Grub boot loader after debian ghost restore I booted with mepis (Any live-c

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 00:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Always use find (blah) -print0 | xargs -0 > > It is safer. Very good point. I'd forgotten that. Occasionally paths with spaces catch me out, and then I go and use the -print0/-0 option, but most of the time I'm too lazy to type it

Re: Ugly firefox icon

2004-07-07 Thread Travis Crump
David P James wrote: On Wed 7 July 2004 01:26, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:21:43PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: I'm using sid and I noticed that instead of the fine firefox default icon (the fox around the globe) I have a really ugly blue globe; am I the only one with this icon or i

Re: Anyone do DV editing (Kino and Cinelerra)?

2004-07-07 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Bill Moseley_, on 07/07/04 23:13,typed: Search google for "cinelerra tutorial" -- there's only a few. I found one that explained about creating a DVD. I have tried a couple of times. Once after editingin Cinelerra and using mplex, which gave erros, and by eventually using tcmplex. No

Re: KDE freeze on sarge

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Aaron Robertson-Hodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason KDE seems to freeze intermittently on my new sarge > installation. It takes ages to load up and then freezes when I load apps > and click the menu. I have read a post that suggested the priority for > KDE might be set low on

Re: Exim3 mailq

2004-07-07 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:09:39PM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have several messages stuck in my mailq. I've been reading the Exim3 > > manpages, and under the mailq page, I couldn't find any mention of > > forcing them to be delivered -

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _God bless us all, everyone._, on 07/07/04 21:40,typed: Not sure how to delete this message from the newsgroup. BTW, since you are posting a newsgroup, your message really is dumb. > ** > This e-mail

KDE freeze on sarge

2004-07-07 Thread Aaron Robertson-Hodder
Hi,   For some reason KDE seems to freeze intermittently on my new sarge installation. It takes ages to load up and then freezes when I load apps and click the menu. I have read a post that suggested the priority for KDE might be set low on install. How do I check this and fix it?   Tha

Re: Ugly firefox icon

2004-07-07 Thread David P James
On Wed 7 July 2004 01:26, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:21:43PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: > > I'm using sid and I noticed that instead of the fine firefox > > default icon (the fox around the globe) I have a really ugly blue > > globe; am I the only one with this icon or is it pa

Re: Ugly firefox icon

2004-07-07 Thread Rob Benton
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:21:43PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: I'm using sid and I noticed that instead of the fine firefox default icon (the fox around the globe) I have a really ugly blue globe; am I the only one with this icon or is it part of debian? Anybody know how to

Re: Recompile source after error

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: First here's the real answer to the question. There is a document on the debian webpage called the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide". It describes the basics of making a deb package. The part you want is the "quick rebuild" of the "build" chapter at: http://w

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread Stephen Touset
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 21:40, God bless us all, everyone. wrote: > And, oh, btw, that disclaimer you have down there: > I am not sure I was the intended reciepient. > Not sure how to delete this message from the newsgroup. BTW, since you > are posting a newsgroup, your message really is dumb. Even

Re: Anyone do DV editing (Kino and Cinelerra)?

2004-07-07 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:48:10PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > >Ok, so I can use kino or dvgrab --format qt to export to .mov, BUT > >there's no audio. dbgrap reports: > > > > quicktime_encode_audio_stub called > > I get this too but I am not sure what this means. Here is my sample: > quicktime_delete

Re: Good unicode compatible editors under X

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:58:49PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: | Hi, | | Since the gedit is crashing in debain testing | (http://www.google.com/groups?q=+%22gedit:+undefined+symbol:+eel_input_event_box_new%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=r&selm=2bRJs-659-17%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2) | | I'm wondering

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:41:47PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: [...] | virtual machine. However, .NET has a Just in Time compilator that is [...] | performance is not really an issue, compared to Java being interpreted | thoughout the lifetime of the program, hence slower. There is much more [..

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 14:41, Paul Tsai wrote: > C# is similar to Java than it is to C, and some people may argue that in > the future, C# may replace Java. Since C# is .NET, it requires a CLR > (or CLI, etc) to run its programs much in the same way Java requires a > virtual machine. However, .

Re: multiple exim4 processes

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:31:41AM -0700, vadik wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:24:17AM -0700, Vadik wrote: | >| I am running exim4, and it runs in multiple processes: | > | >This is normal. | > | >| and this is after I stoped the server. Is this normal? | >

Re: nvidia-source - problems

2004-07-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:52:58AM +1000, glenn wrote: > I've just dist-upgraded and installed 2.6.7-1 kernel image and the > latest nvidia packages. I've then done make install in > /usr/src/modules/nvidia*/nv. So, you invented your own installation procedure rather than following the instruction

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Tsai
God bless us all, everyone. wrote: I had wished to ask what C# (C sharp) is supposed to mean, does it supplant or make C++ obsolete, and whether C and C++ are soon to be "on the outs." C# is a higher-level, object oriented language that is part of the .NET Framework. As you learn more about

Re: APT Removing Packages *With Met* Dependancies?

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as I understand, these packages' dependancies should be met ... > Can someone spot what I'm doing wrong? Put the package in question on hold. i,e,: echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgaze

APT Removing Packages *With Met* Dependancies?

2004-07-07 Thread ms419
Why must libgle3 and xscreensaver-gl be removed when I try to install a package which conflicts with, but provides xlibmesa-gl? I'm experimenting with some (ugly) video drivers. I need to remove xlibmesa-gl and install a different libGL.so, so I used the following "control" file and equivs to b

Re: Recent alsa midi problem

2004-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Silvan wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:47 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote: After a recent dist-upgrade on my "sid" system midi has stopped working. Which leads me to believe that snd-emu10k1 and snd-emu10k1-synth have been loaded correctly. is it anything similar to my problem? my email to debian-u

Re: Recompile source after error

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to compile the emacs from source deb package. The > compilation > stopped in the middle because of some error. Well, let' see: a) Why on earth are you doing this? What could "the kitchen sink" of all editors possible *not* have pre

Re: A small difficulty with Net::IMAP, encore

2004-07-07 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > > John Summerfield wrote: > > > >> I installed libnet-imap-perl on Sarge so I could chat up an imap > >> server, did a quick cut and paste from the two samples provided and > >> it does not Work For Me. > >> John, I respon

Re: Cannot login or su

2004-07-07 Thread CN
Hello! > > As I said before, this is a PAM issue. Install the package > > 'libpam-runtime' > > > > -- Thomas Adam > > My problem persists after "dpkg -i libpam-runtime_0.76-22_all.deb". > This deb (unstable) version should be the same as that was installed in > my another running hardware as I f

Recompile source after error

2004-07-07 Thread * Tong*
Hi, I was trying to compile the emacs from source deb package. The compilation stopped in the middle because of some error. If I use dpkg-buildpackage, everything will be started all over again. Which command I can use to start from where I was left? I want to duplicate the error, fix it and

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:58:13 -0700 Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> I know this won't help you much now, but in the future, you can > |> find where config files are by trying "dpkg -L packagename | grep > |> etc" (since all Debian packages pu

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I actually have a postscript printer, and would like to continue to use it. > However, I guess I need to throw my laserjet out now that uber-devel got a > bug up his butt. (How it got past his head is beyond me.) Well I believe that xprint outputs postscri

Re: Debian on a laptop....

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"Bill Gladney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello...I'm trying to remove the remnants of Debianbut it is password > protected... Can the laptop boot from a cd or floppy? If so just boot from a windows CD or floppy and run: fdisk /mbr c: and it should wipe everything off. Heck just installin

Re: Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Ian Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks Bijan. I double-checked, and yes, I have all the various > codepages that come as options in linux are compiled in as *modules*. > So, do I maybe need to configure the module loading for the codepages? > Or should smbmount handle this for me autom

Re: Debian on a laptop....

2004-07-07 Thread Kent West
Bill Gladney wrote: hello...I'm trying to remove the remnants of Debianbut it is password protectednot my machine...a friend of mine asked me to get it all offor format it .and install a copy of Win XP that she could use and understandshe bought this computer from another pe

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-07 Thread Jim McCloskey
"Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I know this won't help you much now, but in the future, you can |> find where config files are by trying "dpkg -L packagename | grep |> etc" (since all Debian packages put the config files _somewhere_ in |> /etc). Thank you for this. In fact, though, that

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread God bless us all, everyone.
Apparently, _Sanjay Kaushal_, on 07/06/04 20:29,typed:> can you tell me how to use the command line arguement with c program??Starting C programming, eh? :DWelcome.Very soon you will realize using makefiles is a better option, so here is some useful resource:http://www.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/tu

Re: Copying a file from a floppy (diff formats)?

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- disciple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it in debian which showed it as .gz. It's probably a tar and a gzipped image. The "file" command can help you there. > Since I can see the file in debian, I should be able to extract and > install right? How do I get the file from the floppy disk

Copying a file from a floppy (diff formats)?

2004-07-07 Thread disciple
I'm installing debian on my laptop. The laptop uses a winmodem. Downloaded the driver for it on my Windows box... XP (NTFS); ... The file that I downloaded is a linux compressed file extension is .gz. The exact file name is pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-3.tar. This is interesting because in wind

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread disciple
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Re: Where should I start ?

2004-07-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:58:50AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Woody CDs amount to about 4.5GB. Sarge doesn't have a CD set yet (I > > think), but does have a new net install CD image (ie one CD only). > > ISOs do exist, but they're unofficial.

Re: Very strange error setting up my cups printer

2004-07-07 Thread * Tong*
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:35:21 -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: >> I switched from RH9 and installed Debian just recently. Previously >> my printer was working fine, now I just can't use it: > > Check to see where your lpq came from. You need to be using the > versions in the cupsys-bsd package. From t

Debian on a laptop....

2004-07-07 Thread Bill Gladney
hello...I'm trying to remove the remnants of Debianbut it is password protectednot my machine...a friend of mine asked me to get it all offor format it .and install a copy of Win XP that she could use and understandshe bought this computer from another person...who lost t

Re: Exim3 mailq

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
"S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have several messages stuck in my mailq. I've been reading the Exim3 > manpages, and under the mailq page, I couldn't find any mention of > forcing them to be delivered -- I had problems off and on to-day with my > ISP. Now that the connection is a little m

Re: new user

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrea Zabala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I subscribe to a Rational usergroup ? Can you restate your question more descriptively? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html pgpgiVa4gomq2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where should I start ?

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Woody CDs amount to about 4.5GB. Sarge doesn't have a CD set yet (I > think), but does have a new net install CD image (ie one CD only). ISOs do exist, but they're unofficial. > 12 GB per month seems to me to be not an important issue. Also, > for

Re: How to get dependent report

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I tried that. It does list what packagename depends on, but only > that, nothing more. Comparing to what's in my OP, it is not enough. Eg: I missed your original post, but are you not after: % dpkg --status -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend

Re: Samba and Codepages question (smbmount)

2004-07-07 Thread Ian Macdonald
Bijan writes: >>Now, I believe that the problem is with the last option, "codepage". I >>have tried with codepage=cp437, codepage=cp850, codepage=cp1252, and >>also just the raw numbers, i.e. codepage=437, codepage=850 . However, >>in all of these cases, the filename charset conversion seems to be

Re: acme (solved, more of less)

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Yeatman
Travis points out that "Applications" -> "Desktop Preferences" -> "Keyboard Shortcuts" essentially provides what acme does. I can find the "shortcuts" I want here and am happy with this. Thanks much for everyone's input. I agree that something is not quite right in the package inter-relations bet

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Bijan Soleymani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Installed woody. My system boots to a prompt. I then do startx to run xserver. I then run mozilla to surf. What I would like to do is copy some text from the browser and paste it into the vi editor. How can this be done? Select the text in the

Re: Where should I start ?

2004-07-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:00:10AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a simple question (well maybe two). > > Which version of Debian should I download, sarge > or woody ? (I am limited to 12Gb download a month) > > If I do download the CDROM images is it possible > to convert

Re: How to get dependent report

2004-07-07 Thread * Tong*
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:18:08 -0500, Jacob S. wrote: >> How can I get a list of dependent packages and their versions without >> going through the reportbug? > > Have you tried "apt-cache show packagename"? Part of its ouput is a line > telling what packagename depends on. Yes, I tried that. It

Re: udev question

2004-07-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You don't. In X, what you do is make one your primary mouse device, >> and the other just sends mouse events to the primary mouse device. So, >> at my place, the touchpad is the primary mouse device, and the usbmouse, >> when plugged in, sends mouse e

Re: acme

2004-07-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This often isn't practical, because the problem isn't a "Conflicts" > with the package of interest, but with a dependancy of a dependancy > of . . .etc. "apt-cache show"ing a package, followed by all of its > dependancies, followed by all of those pa

lost "disks" option in nautilus menu

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I'm running Gnome in Sarge (thus Gnome2) which I believe also implies nautilus. I believe it is nautilus that provides a desktop menu when one uses a right, mouse click on the desktop. There used to be an opion in this menu that read 'disks' with an arrow implying a sub-menu (maybe it said 'd

Re: acme

2004-07-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:40:34 +0100 Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:47:21 -0400, Chris Metzler ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can usually figure [conflicts] out yourself with a little >> iterative use of apt-get. > > If you want to find out what packages a given p

Re: acme

2004-07-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:47:21 -0400, Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can usually figure [conflicts] out yourself with a little iterative use > of apt-get. If you want to find out what packages a given package conflicts with; use apt-cache show . If you are more interested in what ch

Lag, Synaptics and sticky keys, and other issues

2004-07-07 Thread Paul Tsai
I finally got debian in a semi-workable state on my laptop. Yah! I will work on a howto and post it soon. In the mean time I still have a couple of issues. My laptop is a Toshiba M35 s320 series with a Centrino processor, synaptics touchpad, and nvidia Geforce fx 5200. I installed sid with a

Re: Recent alsa midi problem

2004-07-07 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:47 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote: > After a recent dist-upgrade on my "sid" system midi has stopped working. > Which leads me to believe that snd-emu10k1 and snd-emu10k1-synth have been > loaded correctly. Puzzling. How recently did you update? Maybe I'm in for a shock m

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-07 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 4:58 am, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > If anyone needs mozilla 1.7 debs with postscript re-enabled and > xprint removed, I've just built some here: > > deb http://apt.leapster.org sid mozilla Did you build them with xft? -- Cow-orker> "But can you see where I'm coming from

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-07 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:36 am, Michael B Allen wrote: > Right the choices are A) not print, B) downgrade or C) install > xprt-xprintorg. Personally I think people should try C before bitching too > much. Actually I and quite a few people tried C), and it didn't work properly when it even work

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 04:44 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Select the text in the browser (highlight it) and then switch to vi > and middle click (of course have to be in insert mode). If your mouse > doesn't have a middle button you might be able to click both button

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well i could easily use aptitude to purge packages... but since that is a pain > if i have more than 5 packages which i uninstalled, i'd prefer to use a scripted > approach. Start aptitude, move the cursor down to "Not Installed Packages", type "_", and

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Installed woody. My system boots to a prompt. I then do startx to run > xserver. I then run mozilla to surf. What I would like to do is copy > some text from the browser and paste it into the vi editor. How can this > be done? Select the text in the browser (highl

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
> xserver. I then run mozilla to surf. What I would like to do is copy > some text from the browser and paste it into the vi editor. How can this be done? > > Thanks, > > Carlos... Ctrl-C to copy from browser "*p to paste in vim. Patrick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is gedit crashing in sid?

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:12:26PM +0200, Arthur Buijs wrote: > * Tong* wrote: > > [...] > > >I'm wondering if it is crashing in SID? > > In Sid you can open and edit documents as usual. > > In Testing the document opens and closes immediately. It was on the "FUCKED" list some time ago (a week

Re: Where should I start ?

2004-07-07 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a simple question (well maybe two). Which version of Debian should I download, sarge or woody ? (I am limited to 12Gb download a month) Depends. Is this for a server or a workstation? Does it need 24x7 reliability (woody), or does it need to have usably r

Re: backing up to ftp server

2004-07-07 Thread Vadim Kutsyy, Ph.D.
I want to start backing up to ftp server and I was not able to find package which does that. tar zcvf today.tgz `find /etc /home -mtime -7 ( -type f -o -type l ) -print scp today.tgz ftp-backup:/pub/Backups - add your host key for passwd-less backups Just in case if some one needs si

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:34:13 +0200, Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Select text in Mozilla with your mouse. > - Go to the Terminal window with your shell in there and vi opened > - Don't forget to put vi into insert mode! (press i) > - Press the middle button of your mouse or if you have tw

restarting courier opens exim4 relay

2004-07-07 Thread vadik
I would appreciate some insight on this. I run exim/procmail/courier combination but I am not using smtp for outmail. With courier I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to 6 accounts at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. Yesterday, I started to have "server disconnect" errors, bu

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Pim Bliek
- Select text in Mozilla with your mouse. - Go to the Terminal window with your shell in there and vi opened - Don't forget to put vi into insert mode! (press i) - Press the middle button of your mouse or if you have two button mouse, press button 1 + 2 simultanously. Good luck. Pim On Wed, 7 J

Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread disciple
Installed woody. My system boots to a prompt. I then do startx to run xserver. I then run mozilla to surf. What I would like to do is copy some text from the browser and paste it into the vi editor. How can this be done? Thanks, Carlos... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Patching a source package

2004-07-07 Thread Mikael Magnusson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:55:17PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone have a pointer or notes on patching a debian source package and > rebuiding? > > I want to fix a broken package. I have notes from patching a source > package in the past, but they don't agree with what I'm seeing when I > try

Re: new user

2004-07-07 Thread Pim Bliek
I guess he/she was referring to Rational Software, which are in turn bought by IBM two years ago or so. Rational makes software, like the ClearCase version control system which is a pain in the *** to setup :). Try www.rational.com or www.google.com ;) If you indeed have a question about Debian G

Re: new user

2004-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Andrea Zabala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How can I subscribe to a Rational usergroup ? > > Are you suggesting that debian-user is irrational? I believe Rational is a set of programming tools (that I have no experience with

sa-stats -u only showing for root

2004-07-07 Thread John Fleming
When I run sa-stats.pl and ask for breakdown by users (-u), I'm only showing data for one user, and that is root.  Consistent with this, the mail.log file shows messages being received for root, at least as seen by spamd.   I guess I'm running spamc/spamd as root as judged by other entries

Re: detect wlan networks

2004-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:11:20PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a Debian tool which indicates the > availibility of other wlan networks in the range of > my wlan card. > > And suggestions? Install the 'wireless-tools' package. Then do the following: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-07 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:04:34PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Jamin W. Collins([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:49:10AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:19:14 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Can't surf with Mozilla

2004-07-07 Thread Kent West
Bijan Soleymani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently installed installed "Woody". The system is real basic at this point, not many programs. I then installed Mozilla. When I startx, I can surf using Mozilla. By the way, I'm somewhat new to linux, BUT THIS IS AWESOME!!! :O) I now have

Patching a source package

2004-07-07 Thread Bill Moseley
Anyone have a pointer or notes on patching a debian source package and rebuiding? I want to fix a broken package. I have notes from patching a source package in the past, but they don't agree with what I'm seeing when I try it now or from what I can find on google. Can my google skills be that b

Re: ok, here goes nothing...

2004-07-07 Thread tripolar
One more link that was helpful to me http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy Cecil wrote: Ok, I got my toshiba libretto. No cdrom. What do I need to do to be able to install this thing? I am guessing I could wipe the system and just install dos. But I

Re: ok, here goes nothing...

2004-07-07 Thread tripolar
Hi Cecil, A few months back I installed Debian on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a trashed dvd-rom. I used floppies from here- http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ I actually chose the bf2.4 floppies and all went well with network install. I changed

Re: new user

2004-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Andrea Zabala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I subscribe to a Rational usergroup ? Are you suggesting that debian-user is irrational? Although this list can get pretty crazy sometimes, as long as you EXPLAIN YOUR PROBLEM IN DETAIL, you shouldn't have any problems. If you don't do that...

Re: excellent advice for x-server driver [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

2004-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:19:50AM +, p wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > __deletia__ > > > to configure your graphics card, which can > > be tricky if you have newer hardware. If you are unsure, select the > > 'vesa' server, that will give you the be

detect wlan networks

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I am looking for a Debian tool which indicates the availibility of other wlan networks in the range of my wlan card. And suggestions? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian based dtstro that's designed for flash USB sticks > 64Mb

2004-07-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, may be you can start here: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/index.html hth, Jerome Nick Lidakis wrote: Have been searching on Google and on linux.org for a debain based linux distribution that is bootable from usb flash memory but will also allow you to apt-ge

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