Knoppix & Swap

2004-12-10 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Hi List, I have installed knoppix with knx2hd but it doesn't seem to be using swap. I was wondering: - What tool can I use to make sure the swap partition exists? - What do I need to do to "mount" the swap, or rather let linux know that it should use the swap partition? Cheers, Jean-Michel. --

DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
I have an NEC ND-3500AG DVD burner. The mfr specs say it can burn single layer DVDs (-R, +R) at 16x, and dual layer DVDs at 4x. But so far I can't get any burn speed above 4x, and I can't burn dual layer at all. I mainly use K3b for burning, but have fooled around a bit with cdrecord and growiso

(To: Debian Mailing List) Some messages bounced to a new email by Mutt gives subject: None

2004-12-10 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
anyone ever experienced that ? Instead of the original subject, the message has the new subject as None. The original contents are still preserved well. = ThanhVu H. Nguyen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Saturday, December 11, 2004 01:46 -0500 Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> (1) Is the burn speed restriction a limitation of the current ATA implementation (libata?)? Related to the "no DMA" warning? Yes. In PIO mode you'll be lucky to push more than 1800kbyte/sec, and your

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 10 2004, Dave Ewart wrote: > Apart from anything else, 1280x960 should work faster than 1280x1024: > less to redraw for each screen refresh! For that very reason I'm using 1280x960 at 86Hz of refresh rate for quite some time (thanks to the Colas Modeline Generator [*] for generating good mo

Re: About to take the plunge, one last nit

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Anyone know of something simple like Nero which takes in videos, decodes > 'em > and spits em onto a CD? http://k3b.sourceforge.net http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ plus many other backend tools that these call, e.g. cdrecord, transcode, mkisofs, growisofs, sox, dvdbackup, All the power you c

Re: About to take the plunge, one last nit

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 21:11 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Well in a mass of recent Linux installs to get City of Heroes working > under Cedega I ended up pooching my Win2k install. The data is still there > but it just won't boot in spite of all my recovery attempts. Of course I was > workin

About to take the plunge, one last nit

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Well in a mass of recent Linux installs to get City of Heroes working under Cedega I ended up pooching my Win2k install. The data is still there but it just won't boot in spite of all my recovery attempts. Of course I was working on CoH under Cedega so I could consider dropping Win2k from

Re: Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed [solved]

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: > Try Googling for "egg_desktop_entries_add_group assertion". Ah, thank you! For anyone else having this problem, the cause appears to be a botched mplayer.desktop file in the unofficial mplayer- packages; to fix the problem, edit /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop so th

Re: mtab question

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Aube
Manu wrote: > I have a question concerning my mtab > I see the following line : > proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 These are virtual filesystems that provide a simple way to get info from the kernel using user-space tools. sysfs is new in 2.6-series kernels. > devpts /dev/pts

Re: which mouse?

2004-12-10 Thread Icebiker
'm using a Logitech 2 button + wheel mouse, it must be 2-3 years old. Seriously, I'd try a different KVM if you can lay your hands on one. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "todag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:34 Subject: which mouse?

Re: Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 22:55 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi list, > > Since a few days ago I've been getting strange error messages when > various Gnome-based applications are installed. During today's > install > from unstable: > > Setting up gnome-games (2.8.1-3) ... > > ** (process:10974

Re: GNOME File Association

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 22:40 -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > I am currently using the unstable version of Debian. Prior to this, I was > using > testing (Sarge) and I noticed that a serious problem had occurred after an > dist-upgrade. > > Basically, all my file associations

mtab question

2004-12-10 Thread Manu
Hi Everyone I have a question concerning my mtab I see the following line : proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 /dev /.dev unknown rw,bind 0 0 none /dev tmpfs rw,size=5M,mode=0755

Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi list, Since a few days ago I've been getting strange error messages when various Gnome-based applications are installed. During today's install from unstable: Setting up gnome-games (2.8.1-3) ... ** (process:10974): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_gr

Re: Forward all mail in mbox to new email address

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 19:12 -0800, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > In respond to suggestions about moving the mbox file > to another machine: I plan to store these mails from > my local machine to a web-based location such as > Yahoo. Therefore I cannot do as suggested, I have to > email those to myself.

GNOME File Association

2004-12-10 Thread Bruce Park
Hello Debian Users, I am currently using the unstable version of Debian. Prior to this, I was using testing (Sarge) and I noticed that a serious problem had occurred after an dist-upgrade. Basically, all my file associations seem to have dissapeared. While using testing, I was able to at least o

Re: Forward all mail in mbox to new email address

2004-12-10 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
In respond to suggestions about moving the mbox file to another machine: I plan to store these mails from my local machine to a web-based location such as Yahoo. Therefore I cannot do as suggested, I have to email those to myself. Thanks for the tip on the the bounce feature in mutt. It is wha

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:03:19PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 10 December 2004 1:53 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > > > OK, now we've got some focus. I'd argue that what probably makes your > > firm successful and valued by your customers is not the hardware you > > deliver, but the compete

Re: Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 December 2004 17:36, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Because of unpleasant requirements at work, I am producing diagrams in a > Windows program that has no export capabilities at all. I can print, > however, and I am using the free PDFCreator project from sourceforge to > generate PDFs. This

Re: Woody on Compaq Prolinea 575

2004-12-10 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:27:33 -0500, red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am attempting to install Woody 3.0r3 on a Compaq Prolinea 575 > (pentium 1) 75Mhz with 98Mb ram and 1.5Gb HD. I am always getting a > problem with the base installation failing with a return code 1. > > I then tried installing

Re: woody support

2004-12-10 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:29:58AM +, Al Lelopath wrote: > I am considering installing Debian 3.0 r3 "Woody". Woody is very old. Sarge is about ready. I guess in the spring. > I use Eclipse (3.1M2), MySQL4.1 (and administrator and query browser), > PHP5, and Java1.4.x to develop applicatio

Re: Forward all mail in mbox to new email address

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 16:45 -0800, ThanhVu Nguyen (Yahoo) wrote: > I have a large number of emails stored in a mbox file > and I read these mails from mutt. I'd like to forward > *each* one of them to a new email address (not as a > big attachment). I can forward one by one manually > but I am lo

Forward all mail in mbox to new email address

2004-12-10 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen (Yahoo)
I have a large number of emails stored in a mbox file and I read these mails from mutt. I'd like to forward *each* one of them to a new email address (not as a big attachment). I can forward one by one manually but I am looking for a way that automates this process. Anyone can help me out here ?

Re: Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 18:36 -0500 Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because of unpleasant requirements at work, I am producing diagrams in a Windows program that has no export capabilities at all. I can print, however, and I am using the free PDFCreator project from sourceforge

Forward all mail in mbox to new email address

2004-12-10 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
I have a large number of emails stored in a mbox file and I read these mails from mutt. I'd like to forward *each* one of them to a new email address (not as a big attachment). I can forward one by one manually but I am looking for a way that automates this process. Anyone can help me out here ?

Re: Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-10 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:36:26PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Because of unpleasant requirements at work, I am producing diagrams in a > Windows program that has no export capabilities at all. I can print, > however, and I am using the free PDFCreator project from sourceforge to > generate PDF

woody support

2004-12-10 Thread Al Lelopath
I am considering installing Debian 3.0 r3 "Woody". I looked in the packages and didn't see a number of things I need to work. Perhaps someone can confirm/deny that debian would work for me. I use Eclipse (3.1M2), MySQL4.1 (and administrator and query browser), PHP5, and Java1.4.x to develop app

Re: KVM recommendation (with USB keyboard and mouse)

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 13:29 -0800 ThanhVu Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, anyone using USB Keyboard and mouse for 2 computers using a KVM switch (one of my computer is a laptop so no ps/2)? I use units by Belkin. Rose, Raritan, anc Cybex also make good units tho they are far mor

Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-10 Thread Gregory Seidman
Because of unpleasant requirements at work, I am producing diagrams in a Windows program that has no export capabilities at all. I can print, however, and I am using the free PDFCreator project from sourceforge to generate PDFs. This is all well and good, but I now need to insert these diagrams in

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 10 December 2004 1:53 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > OK, now we've got some focus. I'd argue that what probably makes your > firm successful and valued by your customers is not the hardware you > deliver, but the competence, expertise and dependability by which you > provide it. It's impor

Re: Debian's at(1) is so bad, what does GNU use?

2004-12-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
A> nohup sh -c "(sleep 100h; move-my-toes)" & Yeah, never rebooted where you live. Out with it, what at(1) command do they use at GNU? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Block
Jon Dowland wrote: I just did some measuring in my office: My 17" TFT has a width of 13 1/4 inch, height 10 3/4 My co-worker's 17" (viewable) CRT (so I guess thats a 19" CRT) has width 14 1/3, height 10 2/3 LCD displays these days are often running far stranger resolutions than 1280x1024. If the

Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-10 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
User H. S. wrote:: Mateusz Łoskot wrote: "Don't regret and use command line!!!" ;-))) However, I believe that the GUI that MS has given to the masses has played a very beneficial role in the GUI development in Unix/Linux world. Certainly, I agree. Simply, I can not understand why Microsoft does

webmin sendmail not working Debian Woody

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Hailey
Hi I've installed various webmin packages on Debian Woody successfully but both webmin-sendmail and webmin-fetchmail do not yet appear on the webmin page used remotely from a client browser sourced from the server. Has anyone come across this non-appearance of webmin-sendmail? webmin-sendmail was

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Block wrote: As far as to the 1280x1024 question, I don't know. What I do know is that when I run my 19" Trinitron on 1280x1024 everything looks great, and when I run it at 1280x960 things look strange. Maybe I just got used to the aspect over time. Because of this discussion I decided

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be > verbose ;-) > > Does anybody have experience with the following? > > 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes > smaller and slower laptop parts? If I we

Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-10 Thread H. S.
Mateusz Łoskot wrote: User Micha Feigin wrote:: And if you are interested even Microsoft themselves don't use visual. The whole tool chain for windows is command line (I think it is proprietary though). Yeah, right, but Microsoft thinks that people/developers are idiots and will use mouse-clicks

Re: Debian's at(1) is so bad, what does GNU use?

2004-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
A> nohup sh -c "(sleep 100h; move-my-toes)" & Yeah, never rebooted where you live. Does at survive a reboot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KVM recommendation (with USB keyboard and mouse)

2004-12-10 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hi, anyone using USB Keyboard and mouse for 2 computers using a KVM switch (one of my computer is a laptop so no ps/2)? What do you recommend ? I never had any KVM switch before especially the USB keyboard and mouse so I would appreciate any experience you might have with them. I intend to sw

Driver for Motherboard with SiS 620 video chipset and HT8338A/PCI sound

2004-12-10 Thread lestera . mtz
Hi I've got a PC with a fairly recent motherboard: a Slot 1 M748mr. This MB is a real pizza with everything on it, which is my problem. I have installed slink without too much trouble except two difficulties for which, after over a week of tentatives, I would like some guidance: video and

Re: Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/09/2004 10:20 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: [snipping liberally] Looking to convert customers to Linux. Our main business is hardware. Repair and hardware is where the money's at, not this software stuff. Our customers trust us OK, now we've got some focus. I'd argue that what probably makes

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:00:29PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > *snip* > > > >Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure > a > >client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot > >workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware co

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be verbose ;-) Does anybody have experience with the following? 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes smaller and slower laptop parts?

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-10 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
On Thursday 09 December 2004 07:48 am, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: > On Thu 9 December 2004 14:15, Vinu Jacob wrote: > > Anxiously awaiting inclusion of xorg to sid. (Hence awaiting a sarge > > release as well ;-/) > > You could also use the packages from Ubuntu Linux. > > I added these lines to /etc/

Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-10 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
User Micha Feigin wrote:: And if you are interested even Microsoft themselves don't use visual. The whole tool chain for windows is command line (I think it is proprietary though). Yeah, right, but Microsoft thinks that people/developers are idiots and will use mouse-clicks as the best computer us

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Barrett Dillow
I may have missed it but has anyone mentioned the Audrey for a "nightstand" solution? It runs QNX, ethernet or wifi connectivity, small, (pen) touchscreen, infrared keyboard, no hard drive, 200MHz or 333MHz processor, palmpilot syncing, email, blah blah blah they're neat. AudreyUpgrade store ht

Re: urxvt cannot scroll when using with 'screen'

2004-12-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Vin Jacob wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:41:54AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:29:56PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: Anyone else faces this problem ? the scroll button or the scroller doesn't work when run screen. Have you trie

Possibly OT: Postfix stopped working (firestarter problem???)

2004-12-10 Thread Juha
Hello, This might no be debian specific, but I'm not sure, since I think it started after doing a dist-upgrade on my (mostly) debian testing installation with custom a 2.6.9 kernel. I have this strange problem that Postfix stopped working all of a sudden. Actually, it does work locally but remote

Woody on Compaq Prolinea 575

2004-12-10 Thread red
I am attempting to install Woody 3.0r3 on a Compaq Prolinea 575 (pentium 1) 75Mhz with 98Mb ram and 1.5Gb HD. I am always getting a problem with the base installation failing with a return code 1. I then tried installing Sarge, and Sid. All installs failed. Segmentation faults, etc. I am installi

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Invest in LTSP.org >> >> It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower >> of >> your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients. The >> hard drive is not running so there's zero noise and

Re: Conexant Accessrunner

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 22:54 +, John Talbut wrote: > Hi again > > Is there any chance I might get some answers to this? If not, any > suggestions as to how I might get some help? > > John > > Hi > > I have managed to install Woody 3.0r3, and otherwise I am new to Linux. > > I am trying to

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> *snip* >> >>Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure > a >>client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot >>workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware could be >>configured in the BIOS to run without the hard drive or to spin > do

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Harland Christofferson
*snip* > >Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure a >client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot >workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware could be >configured in the BIOS to run without the hard drive or to spin down the >h

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-10 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:59:39 -0500, John Covici wrote: > > What is S3 sleep and where do I get such a thing? > S1 and S3 states are two levels of suspend to ram. Most manufacturers provide S3 support in bios far fiewer provide S1. The problem with ACPI is that most of the work is done with the s

Re: problem running xmms on sid

2004-12-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Frederico Rodrigues Abraham (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi. I am having problems running xmms on sid, using kernel 2.6.8. If you use Sid, you should know hot to use the bug tracking system on . This is a known problem. > [rivera:~] xmms > libmikmod.so.2: can

Re: changing email address for list

2004-12-10 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:24:49PM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Does anybody know the easiest way to change the email address I > subscribed to the list with? $grep subs ~/.muttrc subscribe debian-user debian-devel debian-qa debian-gtk-gnome debian-curiosa debian-announce debian-devel-announce deb

Re: problem running xmms on sid

2004-12-10 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:17:32PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > Hi. I am having problems running xmms on sid, using kernel 2.6.8. > > [rivera:~] xmms > libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > [snip] >> >> Very compatable. >> Very easy to set up. >> I think the entire learning curve is a good Sunday. >> Assumption: It requires the following: >> DHCP >> DNS (opt

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Invest in LTSP.org > > It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower of > your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients. The > hard drive is not running so there's zero noise and the power

Nautilus Gnome-vfs problem

2004-12-10 Thread Barrett Dillow
Hi, I'm running Debian unstable, with the gnome environment. Last night I tried to create a mounted gnome-vfs volume by the "connect to server" option from the file menu in Nautilus. The connection type was SSH. I tried an smb connection to the same machine, but I wanted to try ssh connections

Re: IDE Controllers Order

2004-12-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Andrey Shuvikov wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install testing release of Debian to a > new machine. It has on-board IDE controller with one > disk on it, which I intend to use for the system, and > a secondary I/O Flex (I believe Silicon Image based) > PCI IDE card with

problem running xmms on sid

2004-12-10 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Hi. I am having problems running xmms on sid, using kernel 2.6.8. [rivera:~] xmms libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/generic/dl-tls.c: 72: _dl_next_tls_modid: Assertion `result <= _rtld_local._dl_tls_max_dtv_idx

Re: postfix logrotate

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> On Friday 10 December 2004 05:07, Tom Allison wrote: >> I would like to be able to rotate my logs on a daily (midnight) basis. >> Currently they are rotating at 6:23AM daily. >> >> I didn't see anything that would specify the time of day to do a >> daily/weekly rotation. > > You can change the ti

IDE Controllers Order

2004-12-10 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
Hello, I'm trying to install testing release of Debian to a new machine. It has on-board IDE controller with one disk on it, which I intend to use for the system, and a secondary I/O Flex (I believe Silicon Image based) PCI IDE card with two disks, which is going to be RAID for important data. Th

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: [snip] > > Very compatable. > Very easy to set up. > I think the entire learning curve is a good Sunday. > Assumption: It requires the following: > DHCP > DNS (optional) > tf

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: >> Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be >> verbose ;-) >> >> Does anybody have experience with the following? >> >> 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes >> smaller and slower laptop parts? >

Re: Kaffe complains I'm using the wrong language

2004-12-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hendrik Boom pooq.com> writes: > > Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a problem with the way kaffe has been set up for Debain? > > When I try to compile a bunch of .java files, it tells me > > javac -classpath classes -sourcepath server:tactics -d classes > server/Game.java > server/Gam

Re: which mouse?

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:59:15AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:34:11 +0100, todag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a utility I can run to reinitialize the mouse/mouse driver? I can > > live without the mouse wheel, but it would be nice if I could get it back > > with

anyone managed to get an Epson aculaser C4100 working with debian?

2004-12-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! its now a week i try without success to get an epson aculaser C4100 working. The thing written on linuxprinting.org that this printer works perfectly is utter bullshit... want to know if at least one person really got this thing printing something that has a even just readable result

Re: Regex help

2004-12-10 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:15:50AM -0800, Alex Barylo ecrit : > #!/usr/bin/perl > for (<>) { > s!\{_(Start|End)Range_\}!!; > while (s!\{_Index\s+([^}]+)\s+_\}!!) { print "%s/$1//g\n" } > } ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- I already had something similar on another list. But thanks you for h

gaim-vv packages for PowerPC?

2004-12-10 Thread Ivo Marino
Hello folks, I have recently found Samuel Mimram's Debian repository[1] which provides gaim-vv packages for i386 architectures. As far as I'm also a PowerPC user I'm interested in gaim-vv packages for this kind of architecture. At this point I would like to ask if anyone in here has already creat

Re: Regex help

2004-12-10 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:47:56PM +0100, Maurits van Rees ecrit : > > I've never been called a regex expert, but I hope this code does the > trick. ---end quoted text / fin de citation--- Thanks a lot, I had another answer with a perl program which fits my needs. Anyway, I'll keep your code, it

Kaffe complains I'm using the wrong language

2004-12-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a problem with the way kaffe has been set up for Debain? When I try to compile a bunch of .java files, it tells me javac -classpath classes -sourcepath server:tactics -d classes server/Game.java server/GameFactory.java GamePort.java GameClient.java serve

Re: which mouse?

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:34:11 +0100, todag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a utility I can run to reinitialize the mouse/mouse driver? I can > live without the mouse wheel, but it would be nice if I could get it back > without bouncing X. I have problems with the pointer device on my laptop w

Re: urxvt cannot scroll when using with 'screen'

2004-12-10 Thread Vin Jacob
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:41:54AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:29:56PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > > > >Anyone else faces this problem ? the scroll button > > >or the scroller doesn't work when run screen. > > > > Have you tried with anoth

which mouse?

2004-12-10 Thread todag
Hi quick question if you have time I have kvm 4 switch and use trust mouse 2 wheels after swithcing mouse gets a bit funnyslow and not precise which mouse do you use ? Any idea best mouse to buy for d-link thanks a lot in advance! tommy I've got an XP and a Debian sarge system sha

Re: Regex help

2004-12-10 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:58:04PM +0100, Francois Cerbelle wrote: > My source file looks like : > > Text {_Index blabla:we _} bla {_Index {_StartRange_} bla _} bla > vla > stuff > bbgfd {_Index {_EndRange_} bla _} > -

Re: urxvt cannot scroll when using with 'screen'

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:29:56PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > >Anyone else faces this problem ? the scroll button > >or the scroller doesn't work when run screen. > > Have you tried with another terminal? You usually can't scroll when > using screen, afaik. screen

Re: Regex help

2004-12-10 Thread Alex Barylo
Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl for (<>) { s!\{_(Start|End)Range_\}!!; while (s!\{_Index\s+([^}]+)\s+_\}!!) { print "%s/$1//g\n" } } HTH, Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: urxvt cannot scroll when using with 'screen'

2004-12-10 Thread Jon Dowland
ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: Anyone else faces this problem ? the scroll button or the scroller doesn't work when run screen. Have you tried with another terminal? You usually can't scroll when using screen, afaik. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Mirroring a remote server on a local server (Debian Woody and Sarge)

2004-12-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> - create a mount point (for example : /mnt/server) > - mount the root partition on this (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/server) > - create the mount points for every sub partition like on the original > server (look the original /etc/fstab file) > - manually mount every sub-filesystem on each directory

Re: /etc/hosts ignored

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 18:03 -0500, Justin Pogrob wrote: > did you find a solution to you hosts file problem. My host file seems > to have no effect on my xp system. any ideas? Is you hosts file for WindowsXP as: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts If not, it'll be ignored. Previously,

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:45:25PM +0100, Andreas Ehn wrote: > I used debconf to configure ddclient and did not change the delay, which > defaults to one minute. There is no "daemon=1m" line > in /etc/ddclient.conf, but /etc/init.d/ddclient runs ddclient with this > command line, which should do it

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 16:32 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:02:41PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > ... which is annoying since this means that some new machines are > > not supported by the official Debian release. > > I've already posted my "Debian should release far mo

Re: problem compiling ghostscript?

2004-12-10 Thread michael
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 11:35, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello > > ghostscript mailing list seems utterly dead, or my problem terribly > stupid... > > i am still trying to get the aculaser C4100 (Epson) running, and since > default debian ghostscripts don't support it directly i tryed to compile > a

Re: how to tell if raid1 array is REALLY working?

2004-12-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: .. > >i forgot if you can mount a disk that is part of a raid1 array > >separately > > hc -- i have another machine w/ raid1 and i can mount /dev/hdc partitions > .. even can see data i put only on /dev/hda is mirrored. good... > hc -- aft

urxvt cannot scroll when using with 'screen'

2004-12-10 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Anyone else faces this problem ? the scroll button or the scroller doesn't work when run screen. TIA = ThanhVu H. Nguyen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 3.3 and AHA2940UW?

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Aube
John Conover wrote: > I'm installing Debian 3.3 on a SCSI system with an Adaptec AHA2940UW. Hmm - Woody (the last stable release) was 3.0, and Sarge (the upcoming stable release) will be 3.1. Where did you get 3.3? I'm guessing you mean 3.0r3 (the most recent update to Woody). > When I boot to

Re: how to tell if raid1 array is REALLY working?

2004-12-10 Thread Harland Christofferson
Hey Alvin, My responses follow yours in the body. At Friday, 10 December 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >hi ya harland > >On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> # mount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/hdc6 >> >> the response I receive was: >> >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option

Re: Error apt-getting new EM64T kernel

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Aube
Simon Buchanan wrote: > Hi There, I have just completed install of debian testing on my new SMP > server (xeon nocona processors) and went to install a new SMP-aware > kernel and got this message: > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp_2.6.8-5_i386.de

Re: how to tell if raid1 array is REALLY working?

2004-12-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya harland On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > # mount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/hdc6 > > the response I receive was: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc6, >or too many mounted file systems i forgot if you can mount a disk that is part of a raid1

how to tell if raid1 array is REALLY working?

2004-12-10 Thread Harland Christofferson
Hi all, On one machine, I have a raid1 array consisting of /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. A few days ago, just for fun, I tried to mount a partition of /dev/hdc to /mnt # mount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/hdc6 the response I receive was: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc6, or too

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Dec 2004, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Friday, 10.12.2004 at 12:13 +0200, Alejandro Matos wrote: > > > Well, if I use 1280x960 I see the pictures 'squashed' when I go back > > to 1280x1024 it's ok :-\ > > Hmmm, OK. You got a TFT with native resolution 1280x1024, then? > > Dave. > -- Just trie

Re: postfix logrotate

2004-12-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 December 2004 05:07, Tom Allison wrote: > I would like to be able to rotate my logs on a daily (midnight) basis. > Currently they are rotating at 6:23AM daily. > > I didn't see anything that would specify the time of day to do a > daily/weekly rotation. You can change the time scripts

Regex help

2004-12-10 Thread Francois Cerbelle
--- Begin Message --- Hi debian-users, I am translating an O'Reilly book to French and the source code is in FrameMaker format. The textual part is already translated but I still have to translate the index entries. I have to be consistent and to always use the same words across the document. As t

chkrootkit and /usr/lib/kaffe/.system

2004-12-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
When running "chkrootkit -q", I get: /usr/lib/kaffe/.system Is it normal to have such a file (it is a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/kaffe-system)? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 10.12.2004 at 11:18 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > I just did some measuring in my office: > > My 17" TFT has a width of 13 1/4 inch, height 10 3/4 > My co-worker's 17" (viewable) CRT (so I guess thats a 19" CRT) has > width 14 1/3, height 10 2/3 OK, so we have: 17" TFT: 13.25 x 10.75

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 11:27 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:05 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > > > >>On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:40:53PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> > >> > >>>The three points I know of why X.Org is better: > >>> > >>> > >>>2. X

problem compiling ghostscript?

2004-12-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello ghostscript mailing list seems utterly dead, or my problem terribly stupid... i am still trying to get the aculaser C4100 (Epson) running, and since default debian ghostscripts don't support it directly i tryed to compile a ghostscript myself... unfortunately it stops with the error: ./obj

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