Re: Gnome 2.14 display on projector.

2006-05-04 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I reboot computer while connect to project. The screen is shown on projector but not on notebook. and the area of projector screen not cover all desktop. However I will set resolution like your sugession it should be fix. Thank you. On ศ., 2006-05-05 at 16:23 +1000, Ewing Jeff wrote: > Some pro

Re: Gnome 2.14 display on projector.

2006-05-04 Thread Ewing Jeff
Some projectors have lower resolution. Try Desktop->Preferences->screen resolution at at 800x600 for example > I have notebook which have configuration below > (Linux surachai 2.6.15-1-686 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:27:08 UTC 2006 i686 > GNU/Linux) + gnome 2.1 > > I want to present display on projector.

Re-write configuration file on installation?

2006-05-04 Thread Joshua McGee
I accidentally answered "keep" to the question " ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:" That was the wrong choice, but I cannot figure out how to get that prompt again.

Re: Re: Re: Only mono sound when capturing audio thru mencoder.

2006-05-04 Thread Juanjavier Martínez
Problem solved: use the :amode suboption within the -tv input option. For instance, -tv input=1:amode=0 sets the video input from RGB composite and the audio to MONO; -tv input=1:amode=1 sets the audio mode to STEREO, -tv input=1:amode=2, sets it to LANG1, and with :amode=3 to LANG2. Cheers, J

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 04 May 2006 21:05, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Ugh. San Fran. It's like a conservative Seattle with worse weather. > > Paul, you almost owed me a new keyboard over that. (I happened to have > a mouthful of beverage when I read that line). Heh, it's funny beca

Gnome 2.14 display on projector.

2006-05-04 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I have notebook which have configuration below (Linux surachai 2.6.15-1-686 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:27:08 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) + gnome 2.1 I want to present display on projector. I press Fn + F4 but this screen doesn't show on projector. Do you know what I am wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at > least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably > trust gcc not to screw up. If gcc generally generates faster code wi

Re: (solved) automount usbdisk , hardisk or cdrom in gnome 2.14

2006-05-04 Thread Surachai Locharoen
On พ., 2006-05-03 at 09:32 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:14:27 +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > > > > On ???., 2006-05-02 at 19:28 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 23:52:41 +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > > > > I install gnome 2.14. When I

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: > > Ugh. San Fran. It's like a conservative Seattle with worse weather. > Paul, you almost owed me a new keyboard over that. (I happened to have a mouthful of beverage when I read that line). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 May 04 18:46 -0500]: > The bracketed information on the left identifies the type of boot > code found in the first sector of the partition. Thanks! I should have asked this last fall when the subject came up in an A+ class and the instructor was incorrect

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:26:45AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are other ways. Profit, however, is provably the most effective. > > Below you say charities and church would setup more schools > if they had not to compete against publi

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Toshiro wrote: > Well, that's what you say, but the fact is that all the major problems I've > ever experienced with sid were always related to x-server; their performance > looks very poor to me. This just indicates that you haven't used sid long enough. After you've used it ten years, you will

Re: kernel upgrade message

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:36:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:32:42PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:47:28PM -0700, kruton wrote: > > > Debian Unstable, running 2.6.16-1-486 on i386 > > > platform. > > > > > > These days I get the

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:18, Curt Howland wrote: > gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: eof > > On Thursday 04 May 2006 19:32, Rich Johnson was heard to say: > > You're talking to one with deep VT roots here--though raised in NY > > hard by the VT border. Folks do put food on the tabl

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:50:10PM -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 04 May 2006 12:41:11 -0300 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real > > problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts > > of Debian are roc

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi there. > > I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with > computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer > countries seem to

Re: kernel upgrade message

2006-05-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:32:42PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:47:28PM -0700, kruton wrote: > > Debian Unstable, running 2.6.16-1-486 on i386 > > platform. > > > > These days I get the following message from Debian > > Configuration when I 'apt-get upgrade'.. Any

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:15:09PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: > > > I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real > > > problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts > > > of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are > > > new/unexperien

Re: kernel upgrade message

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:47:28PM -0700, kruton wrote: > Debian Unstable, running 2.6.16-1-486 on i386 > platform. > > These days I get the following message from Debian > Configuration when I 'apt-get upgrade'.. Any idea why > its trying to install the same kernel image... It's updating the

Re: Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-04 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:16:05PM -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > Thanks for the explanations, they are rather more indepth than I was > expecting for an idle curiosity. > > Thanks for the verbosity and the need for clarification, they are > always appreciated. As with many things, it is better to c

Re: Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-04 Thread James Westby
On (04/05/06 19:16), Grant Thomas wrote: > Thanks for the explanations, they are rather more indepth than I was > expecting for an idle curiosity. > > Thanks for the verbosity and the need for clarification, they are > always appreciated. As with many things, it is better to cut too long > and adj

Non-breaking hyphen character in browsers

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Charbonnet
Hi, I'm writing a Web-based application, and it makes use of the non-breaking hyphen: ‑ . On my Gentoo box, it works fine. On Windows, either IE or Firefox, it works fine. On Debian boxes, both etch and sarge, both Firefox and Konqueror, the hex code is displayed instead of the glyph: 2011. I'

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 May 2006 19:32, Rich Johnson was heard to say: > You're talking to one with deep VT roots here--though raised in NY > hard by the VT border. Folks do put food on the table using > guns.The take on the land I hold there runs ~4-5 b

choosing double size crashes/hangs xmms in Sid

2006-05-04 Thread H.S.
Hi, If I choose Preferences->Double Size gui from xmms, the xmms windows goes black and I have to kill the xmms process to get xmms working again. And this happens no matter which skin I choose. Is somebody else experiencing this as well? The system is Debian Sid running on 2.6.16-1-686 kernel.

AHS302usb, USB audio in Etch

2006-05-04 Thread petereasthope
There is an Altec AHS302usb headset here which I want to use with Skype in Etch. modconf refuses to install /kernel/drivers/usb/audio and alsaconf reports thus. modinfo: snd: no module by that name found. Unloading sound driver modules: (none loaded). Can anyone offer a hint or two to resolve

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Toshiro
> > I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real > > problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts > > of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are > > new/unexperienced in that task? > > The Debian X Strike Force are much older, c

Re: Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-04 Thread Grant Thomas
Thanks for the explanations, they are rather more indepth than I was expecting for an idle curiosity. Thanks for the verbosity and the need for clarification, they are always appreciated. As with many things, it is better to cut too long and adjust than to start short and really mess up. I did f

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 04 May 2006 12:41:11 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real > problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts > of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are > new/unexperienced in

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-04 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 May 03 07:06 -0500]: > > > > > Well the MBR, is always in the same place. It is *always* the first 512 > > > > bytes on the physical disk. > > > > the MBR is the first 446 bytes of each partiti

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 4 May 2006 15:37:58 +0100 Mark Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just my 2 cents but I am getting a little desperate at the number of > bog ups in Unstable at the moment. I don't want to leave the platform > but if things continue like this I will have to. Like many folks > perhaps, I am

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 4, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:55, Rich Johnson was heard to say: So move to VT and live closer to your dream. You can even join the ranks of those railing against the flatlanders as you're out looking

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:55, Rich Johnson was heard to say: > So move to VT and live closer to your dream. You can even join the > ranks of those railing against the flatlanders as you're out > looking for dinner. But beware, you'll always be a "co

High Yield offer

2006-05-04 Thread hothyip
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Where are XF86VidModeQueryVersion and XF86VidModeGetModeLine?

2006-05-04 Thread hendrik
I hace compiled a program many times on an a386 etch system using the command: gcc -g -L/usr/lib/ -lglut -lGLU -lGL -ljpeg rj.c jp.c -o i686/jp Now, however, I am compiling it on an AMD64 machine, also running etch. The command I used is gcc -g -L/usr/lib/ -lglut -lGLU -lGL -ljpeg rj.c jp.c

kernel upgrade message

2006-05-04 Thread kruton
Debian Unstable, running 2.6.16-1-486 on i386 platform. These days I get the following message from Debian Configuration when I 'apt-get upgrade'.. Any idea why its trying to install the same kernel image... The kernel version running is the sam

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Matthias Julius
Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:54, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> Isn't better to support a child to live with his/her parents in a >> stable home environment instead of foster care? > > No one is arguing with you about such "bett

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 4, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Matthias Julius wrote: Isn't better to support a child to live with his/her parents in a stable home environment instead of foster care? Usually, but not always. You might be dealing with an abusive ''stable'' home environment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Michael M.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just my 2 cents but I am getting a little desperate at the number of bog ups in Unstable at the moment. I don't want to leave the platform but if things continue like this I will have to. Like many folks perhaps, I am completely baffled by Debian's reluctance to get t

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 5/4/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First of all, I have now looked into this a bit more; I also read the bug reports which I mentioned in my earlier post in more detail. There are two nicer ways to fix this problem: a) /etc/X11/Xsession.xfree86 is in fact /etc/X11/Xsession fro

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 May 03 07:06 -0500]: > > > Well the MBR, is always in the same place. It is *always* the first 512 > > > bytes on the physical disk. > > the MBR is the first 446 bytes of each partition > 16 bytes for each of the 4 primary partition >2 byt

Bluetooth Mouse

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! I want to buy a new mouse, for example - NGS Wireless Optical Mini Mouse With Bluetooth Technology or - Anycom CC3141 BTM-100 Bluetooth MINI Mouse Does anybody work with this mouses or know other ones which work with SID and Gnome Bluetooth works (a few month ago). I download a picture fr

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 04 May 2006 22:25, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:39:29 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > On 5/4/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:55 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > > >> I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a

Re: Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:15:05PM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > On (04/05/06 10:37), Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:28:18AM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > > On (03/05/06 20:29), Grant Thomas wrote: > > > > When large buildings are keyed for locks, locks can be keyed for > >

Re: Stuck after upgrade (Unstable)

2006-05-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 20:30:25 +0200, Mohammad Halawah wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Yesterday I made update|upgrade and got stuck with > libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 > > The error message says: > > # apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 [...] > Unpacking libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 > (from ..

SOLVED Re: Sid: How to clear locales = posix

2006-05-04 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I did the dpkg-reconfigure, and this time set the system-wide locale toggle to "yes" from "none". I've been loath to set such system-wide things, rather leaving it to "as needed". That makes everything equal to "en_US", and the alphabetic order

Re: nautilus surfaces

2006-05-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:55:57PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:13:13 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have this problem on bothe sarge and etch. > > I use icewm. I do not use nautilus or KDO or gnome. > > Every now and them some program seems to start up nautilus. >

Re: UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 tool

2006-05-04 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-05-04, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Adam! iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-15 chikung.txt > > chikung.converted.txt does the ticket. > > I don't print html pages with a2ps because it uses too much ink + paper: > > iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-15 chikung.txt | a2ps --medium=

Re: etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound? WAS Re: upgrading gnome-desktop-environment broke via82xx sound

2006-05-04 Thread B. Bogart
Hi, According to that very document: "Writing rules is not a workaround for the problem where no device nodes for your particular device exist. If no matching rules exist, udev will create the node anyway, using the name that was supplied by the kernel." Note the kernel is the same and indeed sy

Uninstalling a broken Staroffice 6.0 install

2006-05-04 Thread George Langford
Impatient readers can skip to the last line of this message. In my ongoing quest for a non-MS word-processing package that can handle such mundane issues as image placement, page numbers, and browser-like navigation, I dragged a Staroffice 6.0 CD out of storage and installed it on a legacy W98SE b

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:54, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Isn't better to support a child to live with his/her parents in a > stable home environment instead of foster care? No one is arguing with you about such "better"

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:39:29 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 5/4/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:55 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > >> I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg > >packages > >> were available to be upgraded.

Re: Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-04 Thread James Westby
On (04/05/06 10:37), Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:28:18AM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > On (03/05/06 20:29), Grant Thomas wrote: > > > When large buildings are keyed for locks, locks can be keyed for > > > different layers of security. > > > > > > So, there might be the high

Stuck after upgrade (Unstable)

2006-05-04 Thread Mohammad Halawah
Hi everyone, Yesterday I made update|upgrade and got stuck with libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 The error message says: # apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libavahi-compat-libdnssd1

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-04 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:05:37PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Digby Tarvin on 04/05/06 02:40, wrote: > >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > >>>I have now adopted it for my Linux systems, and was p

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 5/4/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:55 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg packages > were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the upgrades. > > I use kdm as my login displa

Re: daylight saving time

2006-05-04 Thread Matthias Julius
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Friday 28 April 2006 11:19, Joris Huizer wrote: >> >>>How does one setup debian to automatically account for "daylight saving >>>time"? >> Debian does this automatically by default. Make sure you answer the >> questions regardin

Re: UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 tool

2006-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-05-04, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What editor can change UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1? Running Debian Sarge. Oo doesn't seem to. MC doesn't know what's what. Who? $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 foo.html >foo.latin1.html You could do the conversion with emacs,

Re: screwed console [help, please]

2006-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Anton Piatek wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Kent West wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Question is: How can I reset /dev/tty1 from another virtual console (other consoles work ok). How about killing the getty process on tty1? It should restart automagically I believe.

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-05-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/26/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The thing about KDE that I've never been a big fan of is their DCOP > system. It takes time to get those processes started. That's not such > a big deal if you use KDE as your environment because that's

Re: KDE country region and language

2006-05-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Jonathan Kaye on 04/05/06 15:24, wrote: Adam Hardy ha escrit el 04/05/06 14:17: In KDE, I have a problem configured the country/region and language settings. [snip] Any Brits out there running KDE with UK English? Hi Adam, Yes and yes. Do you have the kde-i18n-engb package? That will give yo

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Digby Tarvin on 04/05/06 02:40, wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: I have now adopted it for my Linux systems, and was pleasantly surprised with the functionality provided. The 'on demand' a

Re: Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:28:18AM +0100, James Westby wrote: > On (03/05/06 20:29), Grant Thomas wrote: > > When large buildings are keyed for locks, locks can be keyed for > > different layers of security. > > > > So, there might be the highest key, or skeleton key's used in old > > houses that

Re: undesired Volume icons on Gnome desktop

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Beach
Hello, I've also got this problem, partitions on my hard drive are showing up on my desktop and in the "Computer" nautilus window after a recent etch upgrade. This happens when I am logged in as a normal user. For reference, my fstab hard drive information is: # /etc/fstab: static file syste

Sid: How to clear locales = posix

2006-05-04 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I'm stuck with everything equalling "POSIX". I looked through the archives and cannot find how to clear the problem. I recall it was something like "delete this file and reconfigure locales", but as I said I cannot find the references anywhere.

Re: nautilus surfaces

2006-05-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:13:13 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have this problem on bothe sarge and etch. > I use icewm. I do not use nautilus or KDO or gnome. > Every now and them some program seems to start up nautilus. > It surfaces when I close my windows. > Then the background has changed co

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Joris Huizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are new/unexperienced in that task? Managing something as

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread toshiro
> I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg > packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the > upgrades. > > I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine. > However, when any user would try to login, the screen would go bl

nautilus surfaces

2006-05-04 Thread hendrik
I have this problem on bothe sarge and etch. I use icewm. I do not use nautilus or KDO or gnome. Every now and them some program seems to start up nautilus. It surfaces when I close my windows. Then the background has changed colour and there are a lot of icons scattered about the screen apparent

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Matthias Julius
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wulfy wrote: >> >> Hmm... and who pays for this "foster-schooling"? The state? >> > Just like they do now with food and clothes. I had a friend who was a > foster parent for several years. He and his wife have taken in many > kids over the y

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Matthias Julius
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthias Julius wrote: >> >> Is there no other way to create a motive other than money? >> > There are other ways. Profit, however, is provably the most effective. Below you say charities and church would setup more schools if they had not to

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:37:58PM +0100, Mark Crean wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, Rick Friedman wrote: > > I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg > > packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the > > upgrades. > > > > I use kdm as my lo

Re: screwed console [help, please]

2006-05-04 Thread Anton Piatek
Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Mauro Condarelli wrote: >> >> >>> Question is: >>> How can I reset /dev/tty1 from another virtual console (other >>> consoles work ok). >> >> How about killing the getty process on tty1? It should resta

Re: moving the boot harddrive to a different IDE cable/position

2006-05-04 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:24:47AM -0500, Mitch Marks wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an installation of Sarge, being used as a web server primarily, on > hardware originally designed as a Windows desktop machine. This was > installed on a spare disk we had sitting around, after some sort of drive

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:01:14 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > On Thu May 4 2006 10:01, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I had the same problem this morning. I could not spend too much time on > > investigating it, but it seems to me that there is some sort of > > dependency loop which screws up the insta

Re: [Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:24:08AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [...] > - I do have 3 drives plugged in to this system, and 768 Megs of RAM, > but on the other hand it's a 400W power source. Unfortunately the > "mirror test" doesn't work that well for me since I don't know what to > look for! -- bu

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-04 Thread Matthias Julius
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthias Julius wrote: >> >> Excuse me, but there is no provision to provide basic needs like food >> and medical care for poor people in the US? >> > > There is. However, the majority of it is handled through private > donations. Rescue missi

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Rick Friedman
On Thu May 4 2006 10:01, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I had the same problem this morning. I could not spend too much time on > investigating it, but it seems to me that there is some sort of > dependency loop which screws up the installation of the new version of > x11-common. I extracted /etc/X11/Xses

Re: [Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/4/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - I do have 3 drives plugged in to this system, and 768 Megs of RAM, but on the other hand it's a 400W power source. Unfortunately the "mirror test" doesn't work that well for me since I don't know what to look for! -- but I'd be surprisedi f t

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/05/06 15:37), Mark Crean wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, Rick Friedman wrote: > > I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg > > packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the > > upgrades. > > > > I use kdm as my login display manager.

Re: KDE country region and language

2006-05-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Adam Hardy ha escrit el 04/05/06 14:17: > In KDE, I have a problem configured the country/region and language > settings. > > KDE is obstinately using US English as the language, even though my > region says United Kingdom. After all the debate about whether colour or > color is correct, I thought

Re: daylight saving time

2006-05-04 Thread Joris Huizer
Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 11:19, Joris Huizer wrote: How does one setup debian to automatically account for "daylight saving time"? Debian does this automatically by default. Make sure you answer the questions regarding how your clock is set and where you are located duri

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Crean
On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, Rick Friedman wrote: > I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg > packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the > upgrades. > > I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine. > However, when

Re: screwed console [help, please]

2006-05-04 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Kent West wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Question is: How can I reset /dev/tty1 from another virtual console (other consoles work ok). How about killing the getty process on tty1? It should restart automagically I believe. No way. It restarts, but the console remai

Re: Accessing mail from remote

2006-05-04 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:06:36PM +0200, Mauro Condarelli wrote: >Hi, >I use Mozilla to read my mail. >I have full control of my MTA. >I do receive mail either via smtp or via fetchmail. >Mail is then moved from system mailbox to local folder by Mozilla Thunderbird. >Mozilla Thunderbird uses mailb

Re: Accessing mail from remote

2006-05-04 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:06 +0200, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Hi, > I use Mozilla to read my mail. > I have full control of my MTA. > I do receive mail either via smtp or via fetchmail. > Mail is then moved from system mailbox to local folder by Mozilla > Thunderbird. > Mozilla Thunderbird uses mai

Re: thunderbird

2006-05-04 Thread Anton Piatek
Why is it that the time is set by the sender of email anyway? It really annoys me when I find that a dozen or so spam have slipped through my spam filter from 1905... Anton Jon Dowland wrote: >At 1165531196 past the epoch, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > >Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:55 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg packages > were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the upgrades. > > I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine. > Howe

Accessing mail from remote

2006-05-04 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi, I use Mozilla to read my mail. I have full control of my MTA. I do receive mail either via smtp or via fetchmail. Mail is then moved from system mailbox to local folder by Mozilla Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird uses mailbox formatted files. So far so good. The problem: I would like to acc

Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/4/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3013 RPM, div = 8) [ALARM] > Fan2 is the CPU fan in most instances. Does it turn? Did it ever turn? H the CPU fan is turning, and I

Re: screwed console [help, please]

2006-05-04 Thread Kent West
Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Question is: > How can I reset /dev/tty1 from another virtual console (other > consoles work ok). > How about killing the getty process on tty1? It should restart automagically I believe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Rick Friedman
I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the upgrades. I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine. However, when any user would try to login, the screen would go black momen

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-05-04 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:56:27PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output > > of > > uname -m > > > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > > > didn't seem to work. It defi

moving the boot harddrive to a different IDE cable/position

2006-05-04 Thread Mitch Marks
Hello all, I have an installation of Sarge, being used as a web server primarily, on hardware originally designed as a Windows desktop machine. This was installed on a spare disk we had sitting around, after some sort of drive failure on the previous running system. So we left the bad disk in pl

Re: UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 tool

2006-05-04 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-05-04, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What editor can change UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1? > Running Debian Sarge. Oo doesn't seem to. MC doesn't know what's what. > Who? $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 foo.html >foo.latin1.html You could do the conversion with emacs, but the above

acid doesn't display graphs

2006-05-04 Thread listrcv
Hi, I've set up snort with acid on a testing box. It works fine so far except that acid doesn't draw visible graphs. Graphs on the main page are visible, but when I click on 'Graph Alert Data' and set up some graph to be displayed, an icon appears instead of a graph. Google did't yield go

Re: x11-common conflicts with xfs-xtt (<= 1.4.1.xf430-6)

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 21:17 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > If I try to upgrade x11-common in Debian Sid, I get this message: > x11-common conflicts with xfs-xtt (<= 1.4.1.xf430-6) > > and xfs-xtt is to be removed. I was wondering, is this something that is > going to be resolved with a newer ver

[Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm > having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord > and lm-sensors and find that, even when my system appears to be > worki

Re: UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 tool

2006-05-04 Thread jmt
On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > What editor can change UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1? > Running Debian Sarge. Oo doesn't seem to. MC doesn't know what's what. > Who? > > Rationale: I change html pages to text to print with a2ps. But then all > accents show up as "garbage" utf-

KDE country region and language

2006-05-04 Thread Adam Hardy
In KDE, I have a problem configured the country/region and language settings. KDE is obstinately using US English as the language, even though my region says United Kingdom. After all the debate about whether colour or color is correct, I thought I should be able to configure it. There is an

UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 tool

2006-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, What editor can change UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1? Running Debian Sarge. Oo doesn't seem to. MC doesn't know what's what. Who? Rationale: I change html pages to text to print with a2ps. But then all accents show up as "garbage" utf-8 sequences. It seems to "know" ISO 8859-1. Thanks! H -- To

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