Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI

Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: Etch installed the 2.6.12.1-386 (2.6.12.10) kernel. My processor is: Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2519 Mhz Intel(R) 82850/82860 Processor Should I be using the 2.6.12-1-686 kernel? That's what I would do. Thanks for the

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-12-30 15:14:29 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: >> You can get w32codecs from >> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat sid main > > This does not work: > > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/sid/Release > Unable to find expected entry > ma

Re: Getting xfree86 running

S Clement wrote: >I have been trying different things to get XFree86 running. The last message >I got was: >xfOpenConsole: command not found > >When I try vidtune, I get: >Error: Can't open display > > This is because vidtune depends on X running already. vidtune is not a tool you need

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

The strange thing is that it worked ok with 2.6.14.3 using the same .config file. In any case, I found installing initramfs-tools fixed it. Thanks for the info. Yasir Apparently, mkinitrd can no longer support a large number of configurations after kernel 2.6.12 (when devfs was droppe

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI

Chinook wrote: > Etch installed the 2.6.12.1-386 (2.6.12.10) kernel. My processor is: > > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2519 Mhz > Intel(R) 82850/82860 Processor > > Should I be using the 2.6.12-1-686 kernel? > That's what I would do. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSC

xsane apparently frozeup scanning scsi bus

Both instances of xsane are frozen up in Disk Read (/proc/.../stats) or as top reports, in kernel function scsi_bloc. Now, as far as I can recall, the kernel documentation stated a process won't actually receive its SIGKILL until after it's complete with a block read. Is there any hope in sight f

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:58:24 +1100, Yasir Assam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Today I downloaded > kernel > 2.6.14.5 from kernel.org and built it with make-kpkg as follows: > $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -xyz > --ini

Re: Getting xfree86 running

S Clement wrote: I have been trying different things to get XFree86 running. The last message I got was: xfOpenConsole: command not found When I try vidtune, I get: Error: Can't open display Again: I have Debian 3.0 running on half of a 40 Gig drive on a Toshiba Satellite A30. Boot control is

Re: subscribing to d-u on a thread basis

Gmane (which I'm using, and actually posting this message through) carries debian.user as a newsgroup. Decent newsreaders provide sophisticated features for filtering messages. For instance, I'm using gnus, which can score articles. So, I'd say: * learn a good newsreader * find debian.user as a

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

hi ya On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Matt England wrote: > Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? you "might" be able to .. but it is NOT desired > Can one run Woody-built binaries on Sarge? you "might" be able to .. but it is NOT desired -- you can usually run old binaries on newer systems

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

On 2005-12-31 18:41:37 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > I need a news server to which an external machine can connect (in > > addition to the local connection). Does leafnode support that? > > Yes. It does not support any authentication, though, so you only > want to use it

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

I'm still looking for any guidance on this topic. In summary: Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? Can one run Woody-built binaries on Sarge? In the same context, how well would Debian 2.x-built binaries work on 3.x and vice versa? For what it's worth, I soon have to establish some Deb

Re: Building postgresql 8.1.0: trouble finding readline, libz, etc

At 12/30/2005 04:37 PM, Steve Block wrote: Install the appropriate development packages for what you seem to be missing. For example, the package libreadline5-dev (or libreadline4-dev, as appropriate). Yep, after installing the "-dev" packages, the postgresql (in my case rev 8.1.1) build-from

Re: Using USB pen drive

Suggest 'fdisk /dev/sdb' to check out the partition table on the unmounted device - make a back-up first. I have a 128 MByte '3-inch' USB flash drive that occasionally ends up with a thrashed partition table - although I always unmount and eject it properly. I've tried various file-systems on i

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

Hi Chris, If you simply want to have a voice conversation with another person over the internet and if you have no preferences on the underlying protocol, then I say simply to use Skype which is easly available on www.skype.com for both windows and linux (.deb package available too), and lets yo

Getting xfree86 running

I have been trying different things to get XFree86 running. The last message I got was: xfOpenConsole: command not found When I try vidtune, I get: Error: Can't open display Again: I have Debian 3.0 running on half of a 40 Gig drive on a Toshiba Satellite A30. Boot control is lilo and

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

Vincent Lefevre writes: > I need a news server to which an external machine can connect (in > addition to the local connection). Does leafnode support that? Yes. It does not support any authentication, though, so you only want to use it on your LAN. Don't expose it to the Internet. My biggest g

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

On 2006-01-01 01:24:14 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Does wwwoffle support content negociation, CGI and Perl filtering? and I forgot: dav-svn (which was the only reason why I switched from Apache 1 to Apache 2). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% access

Re: Package conflict in SID: locals and base-config?

On 2006-01-01 01:30:05 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-12-31 16:26:32 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > Let's just say I did not proceed. "base-config" is rather an important > > > package, isn't it? > > > > Nope, it's basically empty now and will be removed soon. > >

Re: Package conflict in SID: locals and base-config?

On 2005-12-31 16:26:32 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > Let's just say I did not proceed. "base-config" is rather an important > > package, isn't it? > > Nope, it's basically empty now and will be removed soon. It contains /usr/sbin/base-config, which may still be useful if one

Re: Package conflict in SID: locals and base-config?

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Curt Howland wrote: > > Let's just say I did not proceed. "base-config" is rather an important > > package, isn't it? > > Nope, it's basically empty now and will be removed soon. Excellent. Many thanks, and happy new year. -- September 11th, 2001 The p

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

On 2005-12-31 12:14:12 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Yes, precisely because this is a laptop (i.e. it is sometimes offline). > > Also, I currently have only the laptop here; so, I have the choice > > between having the news locally or read/post after ssh'ing a remote > > mac

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

On 12/31/05, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-12-30 15:14:29 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > You can get w32codecs from > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat sid main > > This does not work: > > Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/sid/Release Unable

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

On 2005-12-30 19:12:22 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > FWIW Try 'leafnode' instead - that's a much lighter 'offline news' setup. I need a news server to which an external machine can connect (in addition to the local connection). Does leafnode support that? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - We

Re: Firefox and Flash

On 2005-12-30 20:34:36 -0500, [KS] wrote: > Tried with Firefox 1.5 (vanilla) and a clean profile. Flash demos run > like a charm. I used the same plugin which firefox_1.5.dfsg-3 uses! So > the problem seems to lie in the debian package. Can anyone confirm > before I file the bug or comment on an ex

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

On 2005-12-30 15:14:29 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can get w32codecs from > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat sid main This does not work: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/sid/Release Unable to find expected entry main/binary-powerpc/Packages in Meta-index

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI

Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Deleted this one by accident. Chinook - you need to slow down on the updates. It's possible that the newer KDE (3.4) isn't installable just by apt-get install kde First things first. As root Run dpkg --pending --configure [This will configure any packages that are

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

Yesterday I also built and installed a 2.6.14-5 kernel from kernel.org and I don't have the initramfs-tools installed. What I did (as root user) was this: make xconfig ..then edited the Makefile, adding to the EXTRAVERSION string make-kpkg kernel_image dpkg --install However, I always use hard

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI

Deleted this one by accident. Chinook - you need to slow down on the updates. It's possible that the newer KDE (3.4) isn't installable just by apt-get install kde First things first. As root Run dpkg --pending --configure [This will configure any packages that are waiting on a configure step

Re: subscribing to d-u on a thread basis

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Currently on web based forums, one can request the forum software to > send an email when a particular threads gets updated. These threads > could be anything that you opted in (

Re: subscribing to d-u on a thread basis

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 16:02 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > One of my friends asked this question and I was not sure if there is a > solution. I thought I would ask here. > > Currently on web based forums, one can request the forum software to > send an email when a particular threads gets u

Re: Package conflict in SID: locals and base-config?

Curt Howland wrote: > Let's just say I did not proceed. "base-config" is rather an important > package, isn't it? Nope, it's basically empty now and will be removed soon. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Package conflict in SID: locals and base-config?

On 12/31/05, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been keeping Sid pretty much up to date. > > Just now, Dec 31 15:20 EST, "locals conflicts with base-config", and > base-config is going to be removed. > > Let's just say I did not proceed. "base-config" is rather an important > package, i

Debian, leap seconds, timezones, and zdump

The first leap second since 1998 comes today at 23:59:60 UTC (19:59:60 Eastern Standard Time). See http://www.leapsecond.com/notes/leap-watch.htm for some background and fun things to do then. See also NIST's leap-second-enabled java applet at http://nist.time.gov/ The announcement was made b

subscribing to d-u on a thread basis

One of my friends asked this question and I was not sure if there is a solution. I thought I would ask here. Currently on web based forums, one can request the forum software to send an email when a particular threads gets updated. These threads could be anything that you opted in (for example

Package conflict in SID: locals and base-config?

I've been keeping Sid pretty much up to date. Just now, Dec 31 15:20 EST, "locals conflicts with base-config", and base-config is going to be removed. Let's just say I did not proceed. "base-config" is rather an important package, isn't it? Anyone else see this problem? Did I miss a discussi

Re: recover ext3 deletion

On Dec 30 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:43:12PM +0400, Danielyan, Ashot > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've run rm /*/* as root > > Can I recover all deleted files? > > Yes. > From your regular, updated, comprehensive system backups. Indeed. I've saved my life once i

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

Nate Bargmann wrote: > Even more nails in the old "Qt is non-free" coffin. Good! Also more nails in Gnome's coffin IMHO. I never liked Gnome for a very solid philosophical reason. KDE was started to build a first-rate desktop on the unix and unix-like platforms. Gnome was started to kill K

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Yes, precisely because this is a laptop (i.e. it is sometimes offline). > Also, I currently have only the laptop here; so, I have the choice > between having the news locally or read/post after ssh'ing a remote > machine. I prefer the former solution. Again, do you NEE

Re: Access to ntfs partition for users

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:55:59PM +0200, Yuri Pakhomov wrote: > I tried to add lines to fstab to mount my ntfs partitions: > /* > /dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs > ro,users,gid=users,uid=nobody,iocharset=koi8-r 0 > 0 > /dev/hda2 /mnt/d ntfs > ro,users,gid=users,uid=nobody,

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 10:14 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 12/31/2005 03:40 AM, Chris Howie wrote: > > Ah, I should have mentioned this. I am specifically looking for something > > that > > is *not* Skype, because (a) Skype has no ALSA support and very bad OSS > > support, > > making it a chore t

Re: Should installation process fix firefox, thunderbird mailto problem?

On 12/31/05, Edward C. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I install the firefox and mozilla-thunderbird package, mailto > links in firefox and http links in thunderbird do not work. The > well-known fix is > [...] > > Should (Can) this be done automatically by the installer for the packages?

Re: Can I install a package and restrict its use to only one other package?

W. Paul Mills wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward C. Jones wrote: The unofficial packages for the image viewer "XV" are getting old. When I try to install them it fails because XV requires libtiff3g which cannot be installed because of conflicts. Is there some way of in

Re: install entire system with lvm.

Raquel Rice wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:23:31 +0100 Mauro Sanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. Is there anyone that has installed an entire debian system using lvm or evms? I want to install it assigning the entire disk to evms. Is there anyone that has tried it? I just installed a

Re: Can I install a package and restrict its use to only one other package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward C. Jones wrote: > The unofficial packages for the image viewer "XV" are getting old. When > I try to install them it fails because XV requires libtiff3g which > cannot be installed because of conflicts. Is there some way of > installing XV and l

Should installation process fix firefox, thunderbird mailto problem?

After I install the firefox and mozilla-thunderbird package, mailto links in firefox and http links in thunderbird do not work. The well-known fix is In the "prefs.js" file for firefox put the line: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "mozilla-firefox"); and in the "prefs.js" file

Can I install a package and restrict its use to only one other package?

The unofficial packages for the image viewer "XV" are getting old. When I try to install them it fails because XV requires libtiff3g which cannot be installed because of conflicts. Is there some way of installing XV and libtiff3g so that only XV sees libtiff3g? Some sort of renaming or encapsul

Re: Installing testing: can't get cable Internet after reboot

My problem with the bad cable broadband connection went away when I installed with the Dec 19 testing Net Install instead of the Dec 12 testing CD set. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Udev and storage devices

On 12/31/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would agree with you, except I found autofs wouldn't work with > symlinks. It wanted to be pointed at the real device. So I put the name > and symlink params to their current values. > > I also would have avoided autofs, except that I couldn't

Re: install entire system with lvm.

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:23:31 +0100 Mauro Sanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > Is there anyone that has installed an entire debian system using > lvm or evms? > I want to install it assigning the entire disk to evms. > Is there anyone that has tried it? > I just installed a "new" system

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

On Friday 30 December 2005 09:24, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 22:12:26 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: > [...] >> SCSI emulation is not required in v2.6. > > I keep reading this, but xcdroast and so on still complain every time > th

install entire system with lvm.

Hello. Is there anyone that has installed an entire debian system using lvm or evms? I want to install it assigning the entire disk to evms. Is there anyone that has tried it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nos voeux pour la nouvelle année

Chers clients , partenaires , intervenants d'AEGIS et particuliers extérieurs, toute l'équipe d'AEGIS vous souhaite une trés bonne et heureuse année 2006 Avec toute notre sincèrité, Thomas "Anyrial" VIDOT ( Direction Aegis EI FRANCE ) Mike " Lkow " DELBERYNN ( Direction Aegis SW SWEDEN ) Tony D

Re: apt-get update gives failed to fetch error

Andrew Vaughan wrote: Hi On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:55, Oz wrote: I just installed Debian from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/beta1/amd64/iso-c d/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso and now want to update the list of packages because the image has only the basic set of p

Gdesklets and shutdown

I'm running IceWM and Gdesklets. When I log-out of IceWM, Gdesklets alerts me if I want to delete the current running desklets before it'll let me log out. I.e., what this'll do is remove any running desklets so that they won't appear next time I log in - not what I want to happen. Supposedly, I

Re: Udev and storage devices

* Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 31 09:46 -0600]: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:26:28 -0500 > Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jacob S wrote: > > > It took a lot of experimentation and playing around, but I finally > > > got a working combination. My /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules > > >

Re: php4.so, undefined symbol: RAND_load_file (Apache 1.3)

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:12:20PM -0500, Julien Lamarche wrote: > > For MapTools' FGS base with Chamelon, I used it's own install script. Did you run the install script as root, or as your normal user? Which destination directory did you specify when asked? I haven't really used FGS myself so

Font corruption in GTK2 apps

You can see what I mean here: http://img500.imageshack.us/my.php?image=debianfontcorruption4vr.png I'm running unstable. It happens only in GTK2 apps (not GTK1, not Qt), with the notable exception of Firefox (1.5), although I was under the impression that one is also based on GTK2; however, neit

Re: Udev and storage devices

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:26:28 -0500 Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > It took a lot of experimentation and playing around, but I finally > > got a working combination. My /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules > > file now looks like this: > > > > BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="OLYMPUS

Re: Udev and storage devices

Jacob S wrote: > It took a lot of experimentation and playing around, but I finally got > a working combination. My /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules file now > looks like this: > > BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="OLYMPUS ", KERNEL="sd*", NAME="camera%n", > SYMLINK="%k", OWNER="user", GROUP="mygroup" >

x-window-system-core 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 pulls dependencies 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1

Hi, Keyboard stopped working properly after last X upgrade (6.9.0.dfsg.1-1). I have dependency package x-window-system-core installed, so I tried to downgrade it from 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11. To my surprise, it pulled the dependencies 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 and not 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11, as I expec

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

On 12/31/2005 03:40 AM, Chris Howie wrote: > Ah, I should have mentioned this. I am specifically looking for something > that > is *not* Skype, because (a) Skype has no ALSA support and very bad OSS > support, > making it a chore to use, and (b) it cannot be installed alongside KDE 3.4, > which

Access to ntfs partition for users

I tried to add lines to fstab to mount my ntfs partitions: /* /dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs ro,users,gid=users,uid=nobody,iocharset=koi8-r 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/d ntfs ro,users,gid=users,uid=nobody,iocharset=koi8-r 0 0 */ But cannot access mounted volume as users

Re: config debain from a laptop

>HI all > >i like to login to my debian server from a laptop, i got com cabel >already connect from laptop's com port to my server's com port, and >laptop running powerterm > >but seem nothing had happen, do i need any setup or config , please >guide me detail > >thks Hi John, if you like to log

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian [SOLVED]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juergen Fiedler wrote: > I don't know about OpenWengo, but would Gizmo (www.gizmoproject.com) > work for you? Beware, though, that it is only free as in beer. This actually isn't bad. I tried OpenWengo, and while the free-ness appeals to me, the Linu

Re: undo the command "apt-get clean"

В Птн, 30/12/2005 в 18:11 +0530, Srinidhi B S пишет: > Hi, > > On 30 Dec 2005 02:44:46 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I download these files again? > > (I want to set up a second linux box, without internet connection. > > Therefore I want to reuse these cached fil

config debain from a laptop

HI all i like to login to my debian server from a laptop, i got com cabel already connect from laptop's com port to my server's com port, and laptop running powerterm but seem nothing had happen, do i need any setup or config , please guide me detail thks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

* Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 31 04:16 -0600]: > 2005/12/30, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 29 23:44 -0600]: > > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/ > > > > > > The problem was that the Windows version was not fre

Re: webcam trust WB-3100p.

none use my cam here? :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

Hi On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:08, Orange wrote: > Hello. > I run Debian Linux, and use dselect to select and install packages. > I have a collection of about 1300 MB of my favorite required and > desired packages in a subdirectory -- everything needed for a full > system installation and then some, an

Re: mini-dinstall

Hi On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:06, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > Is mini-dinstall supoused to copy/move the incoming packages from the > incoming directory to the repository/archive ? Yes, but unless your running in daemon mode, it doesn't do it automatically. I don't use the daemon mode, a

Re: packages .udeb and packages .deb

Hi On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:29, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I am using Debian but I would like to know if it is possible to install > the packages .udeb in my box, and if I install ubuntu in an other box, > can I install the packages .deb in that box ? > > Thanks in advance for your reply. > > (p

Re: apt-get update gives failed to fetch error

Hi On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:55, Oz wrote: > I just installed Debian from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/beta1/amd64/iso-c >d/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso and now want to update the list of > packages because the image has only the basic set of packages. I edited > t

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005/12/30, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 29 23:44 -0600]: > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/ > > > > The problem was that the Windows version was not free while the Linux > > version was. > > I believe the Windows versio

installing new fonts makes emacs unusable

I installed a bunch of fonts and now emacs (21) is unusable in X on my sid system. All characters show up as squares. I can't even be sure that is what caused the problem. I have removed most fonts I can find. Any ideas as to how to diagnose this would be appreciated. TIA, Paul Scott --

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

On Dec 29 2005, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Xine seems to actually be doing the job, at least with the w32codec > installed. (I will try it w/o the codec tomorrow.) So far it is the > only player that is playing a .mov file. How does it do on other file > types (RealAudio, MPEG, mp3, OGG, other Quickt

Re: Firefox and Flash

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [KS] wrote: > Tried with Firefox 1.5 (vanilla) and a clean profile. Flash demos run > like a charm. I used the same plugin which firefox_1.5.dfsg-3 uses! So > the problem seems to lie in the debian package. Can anyone confirm > before I file the bug o

Re: Using USB pen drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: > That didn't work, which I tried first (mount /dev/sdb1). mount told me to > specify file system type. I said /dev/sdb, not /dev/sdb1. > Besides, merely mount /dev/sdb will definately won't work, since there are > apparently partitions in

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chinook wrote: > Yea, I had that in my Debian ref notes (6.4.4), but it doesn't seem to > work (I didn't remember till you mentioned it). After using the cli I > shutdown and rebooted. Came back up in dialog mode :-( Wondering if > there was some pro

Re: Unable to install custom kernel

Hi again, I managed to fix it by installing initramfs-tools, though I don't pretend to understand why it happened. Any explanations would be much appreciated. Thanks, Yasir Hi, I recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Today I downloaded kernel 2.6.14.5 from kernel.org and built it with mak

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alessandro Ciorcalo wrote: > If you simply want to have a voice conversation with another person > over the internet and if you have no preferences on the underlying > protocol, then I say simply to use Skype which is easly available on > www.skype.com

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

Chinook wrote: Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: I've moved up to etch and the 2.6 kernel. In the upgrade I remember selecting "dialog" as such was the best at the time. Now though, I'd like to get back to KDE (login and sessions). I was using KDE before I started the upgrade. I'm sure it's s

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

Chinook wrote: > I remember during the upgrade to etch that I selected Xfree86 where > I'm not sure I did back with stable. Could that have anything to do > with the problem, and if so how do I go about reversing that decision??? You probably want to run X.org now rather than XFree86. I'm not