Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Michael Marsh wrote: I've poked around with ogg.vorbis, and I got the following: import ogg.vorbis a = ogg.vorbis.VorbisFile('./music/t_o_p/track01.cdda.ogg') print a.__methods__ ['bitrate', 'bitrate_instant', 'comment', 'info', 'pcm_seek', 'pcm_seek_page', 'pcm_tell', 'pcm_total', 'raw_see

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-15 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:43:43 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: >When I installed Debian I selected to not allow root login thinking >that would enable sudo and disable root. But when I logged into gnome >it kept asking for the root password to do admin things, so I set a >root password and it works.

Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

2006-06-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 16/06/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ctrl+ displays xterm's "VT Fonts" menu. That doesn't work for TrueType fonts in XTerm. It switches to "fixed" ot something. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Insititute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSU

Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

2006-06-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 16/06/06, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian users, I am using Sarge (3.1r2), and am trying to get the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font to work. I have installed x-ttidfont-conf and fontconfig, and set fontconfig to the "native" setting in debconf. Now, when I do xlsfonts, I se

Re: Hardware 3D Support

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, (II) I810(0): direct rendering: Enabled But the output of "$ glxinfo | grep rendering" is: direct rendering: No It seems that DRI for i810 is currently broken (something to do with the 2.6.16 kernel.) :-( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359328 do you think that the error

Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

2006-06-15 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:16:45PM EDT, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I am using Sarge (3.1r2), and am trying to get the Bitstream Vera Sans > Mono font to work. I have installed x-ttidfont-conf and fontconfig, > and set fontconfig to the "native" setting in debconf. Now, when I do

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-15 Thread Francesco Pietra
This confirms that I was right in reserving the 64bit machine for 64bit applications and the 32bit machine for 32bit applications. It is easy to communicate between the two. Because the calculations at 64bit are long lasting, I use a usb card reader to exchange files, but nothing prevents inte

Re: vim and VIMRUNTIME

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! > Since yesterday i get the following error message when starting vim: > Error detected while processing /home/michael/.vimrc: > line 12: > E484: Can't open file /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim > line 54: > E484: Can't open file /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim > Press ENT

vim and VIMRUNTIME

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! Since yesterday i get the following error message when starting vim: Error detected while processing /home/michael/.vimrc: line 12: E484: Can't open file /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim line 54: E484: Can't open file /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim Press ENTER or type comm

Re: postgresql or mysql

2006-06-15 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 6/15/06, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! As far as I know, under 3.1 sarge, MySQL has graphical tools, mysql-admin, mysql-navigator and mysql-query-browser. If you want that, take MySQL, if not, take PostgreSQL. David those are client tools, not really relevant if the "database" c

Re: DRI Broken On Recent Sid

2006-06-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:56:57 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Works just fine, for what it is worth. After changing xorg.conf to default to 16 bit color depth, googleearth does run. A bit slowly, but then I only have an Athlon Tbird. Running apt-cache policy on 'xlibmesa-dri' sugg

Re: postgresql or mysql

2006-06-15 Thread David
Hello! As far as I know, under 3.1 sarge, MySQL has graphical tools, mysql-admin, mysql-navigator and mysql-query-browser. If you want that, take MySQL, if not, take PostgreSQL. David - Original Message - From: "gustavo halperin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "users debian" Sent: Friday, June

Re: python upgrade failing on Sid

2006-06-15 Thread loos
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: * "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-16 01:39]: I just tried to upgrade a Sid system, and here is the dpkg error I get: --- [...] Setting up python2.4-minimal (2.4.3-7) ... Traceback (most rec

Re: Screen into another screen

2006-06-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > I can change Control+A combination in the screen into screen [1], but someone > uses another workaround that doesn't need ~/.screenrc changes? Just send a literal CNTL-A, (CNTL-A,a) which will get to the lower screen. So creating a screen on the 2nd level would b

Screen into another screen

2006-06-15 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Usually I open ssh sessions in one screen and when I need restart KDE, the SSH sessions are still open. I open screen in the SSH remote computers too. When the connection fails, I can enter again and restore the session. The problem is that the Control+A combination works for the first screen

Re: Debian sarge 3.1\apache2 not surpport cgi

2006-06-15 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, Add the following here and try: $ cat /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf UserDir public_html UserDir disabled root AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec

I don't know if this is the right list for this issue, but...

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, I have been trying to install Etch using a variety of methods for some time now - always a full clean install. Almost everything goes fine until it comes time to "Finish the Installation". The part that does not go fine is that, some

Backup server SCSI setup problem

2006-06-15 Thread michael
I have been asked to set up a backup server using a "hand-me-down" HP SureStore DAT24X6 tape drive. The SCSI Card is an Adaptec 1944UW I installed debian stable on the computer, which has an IDE drive. I had to leave the SCSI card out during the initial install, as the installer kept want

Re: python upgrade failing on Sid

2006-06-15 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-16 01:39]: > > I just tried to upgrade a Sid system, and here is the dpkg error I get: > --- [...] > Setting up python2.4-minimal (2.4.3-7) ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/

Re: don't like the fonts from xorg-xserver

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:11:20AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > i recently installed xorg-xserver on my debian box (kernel 2.6.16.4). I don't > like the fonts. Is there anything I can do about this? Unfortunately, installing the current Xorg from unstable gifts you with the profoundly broken freet

Re: postgresql or mysql

2006-06-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:17:19AM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: } I'm starting to work with DB, and I have a doubt about if learn and use } postgresql or mysql. From the links: } http://linas.org/linux/db.html } http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.htm } I understand

Problem loading sata_sil during installation

2006-06-15 Thread Olle Eriksson
Hi I am having trouble installing Debian (any version) on a SATA disk drive. I have downloaded 6 iso images in total and none of them work, netinst, testing and unstable. The problem is it can't load the sata_sil kernel module, and once it has failed it seems to have problems reading from the

Re: Can't write DVDs under Sarge

2006-06-15 Thread Jack Dodds
I'm replying to myself. This turned out to be a hardware problem. The DVD-R was connected with a 40-wire IDE cable. I replaced it with an 80-wire IDE cable at it worked fine. Jack Dodds > Speed set to 5540 KB/s > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in dummy force SAO mode for > single ses

postgresql or mysql

2006-06-15 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I'm starting to work with DB, and I have a doubt about if learn and use postgresql or mysql. From the links: http://linas.org/linux/db.html http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.htm I understand that postgresql is better, but if I'm right why SQL looks more p

Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

2006-06-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, I am using Sarge (3.1r2), and am trying to get the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font to work. I have installed x-ttidfont-conf and fontconfig, and set fontconfig to the "native" setting in debconf. Now, when I do xlsfonts, I see the vera fonts, and xterm -fn "" allows me to use the

XMMS can no longer play CDs

2006-06-15 Thread Bill Wohler
As of the last update or two ago (etch), XMMS no longer plays CDs. XMMS sends tons of messages like the following to the syslog if I click on the ^ button, enter /dev/cdrom, and click Play. kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } kernel: hdc: command error: er

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Patrick Rittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the w32codecs installed, don't know if the site requires them. > > Also, how long do you give the site to show the video? I had to wait > over 2 minutes before anything displayed. Mplayer just send > "connecting to site:" for a long time. W

Re: network: how to name interfaces ?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Biebl
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> how to name network interfaces ? My unique wireless card contines to >> receive changing interface names like eth1 or eth2 ..etc.. : how to >> fix it ? > > If you are using udev, you can also use the rules to redefine th

Re: native 32 bit binaries on amd64

2006-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment some > recommend that AMD64 users set up a chrooted environment, I would like > to know: > > 1. The practical disadvantages of installing the ia-32 libraries to > run, for example, open office Ia32

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While the chroot has relieved several problems with amd64, two issues > should be raised: > > 1. Using the 32-bit firefox is problematic because it will not serve > as a useful directory viewer unless one does some significant > binding. a chrooted applicatio

python upgrade failing on Sid

2006-06-15 Thread H.S.
I just tried to upgrade a Sid system, and here is the dpkg error I get: --- $> sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. 9 n

ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-15 Thread edwardsa
While the chroot has relieved several problems with amd64, two issues should be raised: 1. Using the 32-bit firefox is problematic because it will not serve as a useful directory viewer unless one does some significant binding. a chrooted application only views the files within the chroot. So,

Re: emacspeak : stty problem

2006-06-15 Thread Robert D. Crawford
gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just another question, Do you know how to work with emacspeak > together with "esd" ? I tried "esddps emacspeak" but this doesn't work, > the only way to make the emacspeak work is first kill the esd server. Not sure, as I never to my knowle

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Marsh
Following up to myself: On 6/15/06, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/Python$ ogg123.py --device=oss cues/MayTheWords.ogg > Module choice: ao > Playing cues/MayTheWords.ogg > > Traceback (most recent call

Re: The right location for userdefined global config files?

2006-06-15 Thread Frank Blendinger
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Waldemar la Tendresse wrote: > Assume more than 1 user needs to have the same config for program > . My idea was to create the "global" config file and symlink from > the user's homedir to the "global" file. Is there something wrong about > that and where w

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John -
On (15/06/06 17:07), H.S. wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:07:53 -0400 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no > version=3.1.3 > >

The right location for userdefined global config files?

2006-06-15 Thread Waldemar la Tendresse
Hi, following problem: Assume more than 1 user needs to have the same config for program . My idea was to create the "global" config file and symlink from the user's homedir to the "global" file. Is there something wrong about that and where would be the best place to put those "global" config fi

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Patrick Rittich
Liam O'Toole wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. Not firefox, but it works in mozilla with the m-player plug-in. Just works for me in Firefox: 2.6.16,

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps they require w32codecs from the Marillat repository. Could > Patrick and John (Fjellstad) confirm? Well, looking at the URL, it looks like a WMV file, so probably -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread H.S.
John - wrote: On (15/06/06 10:02), Patrick Rittich wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Patrick Rittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:02:27 -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Katipo
Kent West wrote: H.S. wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. Noticed this in passing, which is probably the next best thing... http://blog.wired.com/monkey

Re: emacspeak : stty problem

2006-06-15 Thread gustavo halperin
Thank you, I try the server "eflite". This server looks like the only one that work, but is OK. I have just another question, Do you know how to work with emacspeak together with "esd" ? I tried "esddps emacspeak" but this doesn't work, the only way to make the emacspeak work is first kill the e

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga - Yahoo! & Thanks

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I added wacom in the module section but this did nothing (lsmod always showed the module loaded). I changed from /dev/input/event0 to /dev/input/wacom and the mouse worked! I knew there was an entry wacom in /dev/input but it is a soft link to event2 so I never thought to try it. fine to know t

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:29:00 -0400 John - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (15/06/06 10:02), Patrick Rittich wrote: > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > From: Patrick Rittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox > > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:02:27 -0700 > > X

Re: selinux: audit2allow missing module

2006-06-15 Thread Bruno Costacurta
>> Hello, >> audit2allow (from package policycoreutils) returns the following error: >> >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/audit2allow", line 27, in ? >> import commands, sys, os, pwd, string, getopt, re, selinux >> ImportError: No module named selinux >> >> >> Where can I g

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga - Yahoo! & Thanks

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi, > > it seems that my wacom graphire4 works fine with both mouse and stylus > on etch/xorg7/i386. > > >I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 > >tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I

Re: Beginner Help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:58, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Note: press enter after each command.(I know this is obvious, but just > in case you are *really* a beginner) Also, you may have to reboot after > installing kde and kdm, I can't remember. I hope this works for you. Please dont post incorrec

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
"H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips > (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on > Windows XP nor on Linux. > > Only IE played the clips in XP. This really sucks. Works here. Firefox and Mozilla (plugi

screen blank time setting

2006-06-15 Thread Ishwar Rattan
How can I set/change the scenn blan time under KDE-3.x? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: difference between .xinitrc and .xsession files

2006-06-15 Thread Derek
.xsession gets used by startx too.On 6/15/06, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Þann 2006-06-15, 11:54:02 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju Kusumanchi:> Is there any document/wiki which explains the file name conventions of the> various .[xX]* files in Debian system? In particular I am look

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John -
On (15/06/06 10:02), Patrick Rittich wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Patrick Rittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:02:27 -0700 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no >

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/Python$ ogg123.py --device=oss cues/MayTheWords.ogg Module choice: ao Playing cues/MayTheWords.ogg Traceback (most recent call last): File "./ogg123.py", line 221, in ? main() File "./ogg123.py", line 218, i

Sound with ATI IXP150 AC'97

2006-06-15 Thread Nicolas Sabouret
Derek wrote : > You need to install alsa-oss Please let me be more precise : I installed alsa packages, including alsa-oss. The sound card works with some applications (like gcompris) but others (e.g. esd) don't. It appears that the system has no /dev/dsp or /dev/audio device (even after a MAKEDEV

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:00 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > > That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When > > I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is > > configured to only let me run one or two commands. > > By default it's not configured t

don't like the fonts from xorg-xserver

2006-06-15 Thread tom arnall
i recently installed xorg-xserver on my debian box (kernel 2.6.16.4). I don't like the fonts. Is there anything I can do about this? Tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xserver-xorg detects graphics card?

2006-06-15 Thread tom arnall
i just installed xserver-xorg. the installer never asked if i wanted it to try to detect the graphics card. is this normal? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:59 -0700, Mike Hill wrote: > I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to > ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to > have Gnome Desktop running. [...] 3. How can I close down Gnome and start up KDE? > > Thanks for he

Re: native 32 bit binaries on amd64

2006-06-15 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Thursday 15 June 2006 19:18, edwardsa wrote: > While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment to this concern, what about the lib32 installed on base-system amd64 etch installation? And what is their purpose? (X-system?) francesco pietra > some > recommend that AMD64 users set

get no sound with xmms/xine

2006-06-15 Thread tom arnall
i'm trying to play a cd with xmms but get no sound. nor can i get sound with xine. as far as i can remember, the only change to the sys' which might be related is that i recently recompiled my kernel. also, when i run alsamixer i get: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such de

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Michael Marsh wrote: On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: >I would take a look at the source for the 'ogginfo' command, or if >performance is not important, just parse its output: I am hoping for a pure python method of doing this, so parsing the output of og

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: >I would take a look at the source for the 'ogginfo' command, or if >performance is not important, just parse its output: I am hoping for a pure python method of doing this, so parsing the output of ogginfo is not my prefered

native 32 bit binaries on amd64

2006-06-15 Thread edwardsa
While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment some recommend that AMD64 users set up a chrooted environment, I would like to know: 1. The practical disadvantages of installing the ia-32 libraries to run, for example, open office 2. After I have installed the ia-32 libraries, h

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:25:58AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel > > Where do I start to look for the 8756 stuff that it finds but I can't? > > Look for older versions of /usr/lib/lib{GL,GLcore,nvidia-tls}.so*, and > anything in /usr/

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Digby Tarvin wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed python

Re: Strange cdrw behavior

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Patterson
Erm, The drive was toast. Apt-get install new drive fixed the problem. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware 3D Support

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Max Velasques wrote: > > (II) I810(0): direct rendering: Enabled > > But the output of "$ glxinfo | grep rendering" is: > > direct rendering: No It seems that DRI for i810 is currently broken (something to do with the 2.6.16 kernel.) :-( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359328

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Patrick Rittich
Kent West wrote: H.S. wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. Not firefox, but it works in mozilla with the m-player plug-in. -- Patrick Rittich -- To UNSU

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
anthony wrote: > > I am running Debian Etch Kernel 2.6.15-1-486 on an x22 thinkpad > > 'MPPE (Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption) support requires an additionnal > kernel module, provided by package kernel-patch-mppe or in linux kernel > version 2.6.15 and above.' > > The support should be buil

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 15 June 2006 03:57, Daniel Johnson wrote: > On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a > > >hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. > > > > > >DAR: > > >http://dar.linux.free.fr/ > > > > > >DARomizer: > > >ht

Re: Beginner Help

2006-06-15 Thread Joseph Smidt
1.) I think it is a permissions problem. Go into the administration section in the gnome menu and find user/groups. Click on it, type in the root password, then when it opens click on the user you like to edit. Edit that user and go to permissions, enable the permissions you want. 2.)I just po

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:59, Mike Hill wrote: > I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, > then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have > Gnome Desktop running. > > > I have a few questions. > 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they

Re: Directory for bash profile snippets?

2006-06-15 Thread Waldemar la Tendresse
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:55:38AM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-06-15, 07:59:18 (+0200) skrifaði Waldemar la Tendresse: [...snip...] > > Do you want to do something like check if a package is installed and > if it is then set some alias, then this should work: > > if(dpkg -s p

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread Bob McGowan
This may mean you need to run: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade I have seen similar errors when my local copies of Package files get out of date with respect to the repository. Bob anthony wrote: Ok, that makes sense from what I've been reading. I've not re-compiled my kernel before ,

Re: difference between .xinitrc and .xsession files

2006-06-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-15, 11:54:02 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > Is there any document/wiki which explains the file name conventions of the > various .[xX]* files in Debian system? In particular I am looking for the > differences between .xinitrc, .xsession files. My understanding is the .xinit

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Alle 16:12, giovedì 15 giugno 2006, Roberto Bernetti ha scritto: > Alle 16:30, giovedì 15 giugno 2006, Lubos Vrbka ha scritto: > > another thing is coming to my mind - did you try the 915resolution > > package? it should serve for exactly such cases... Using 915resolution I'm able to know the mode

How to use sudo not root

2006-06-15 Thread Joseph Smidt
When I installed Debian I selected to not allow root login thinking that would enable sudo and disable root. But when I logged into gnome it kept asking for the root password to do admin things, so I set a root password and it works. However, I would like to disable root and have it so my sudo

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel > Where do I start to look for the 8756 stuff that it finds but I can't? Look for older versions of /usr/lib/lib{GL,GLcore,nvidia-tls}.so*, and anything in /usr/lib/tls, /usr/lib/nvidia, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, and /usr/lib/xorg/

dpms keeps turning off

2006-06-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
I just installed etch on a new destop. "xset -q" shows dpms is off. If I enable it with xset +dpms dpms 300 600 900 it somehow gets turned off some while later. How do I get the setting to stick? Running "xset dpms off" will put the monitor into the off state. I have DPMS in my xorg.conf fil

difference between .xinitrc and .xsession files

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Is there any document/wiki which explains the file name conventions of the various .[xX]* files in Debian system? In particular I am looking for the differences between .xinitrc, .xsession files. thanks raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/corne

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Kent West
Mike Hill wrote: 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but where do I start? As root, "adduser audio". Log that user out/in. 2. I created a user, but SUDO seems to only work from ROOT and not from my user. As root, "visudo"; add t

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Kent West
H.S. wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga Continued

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, it seems that my wacom graphire4 works fine with both mouse and stylus on etch/xorg7/i386. I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I get the following output from xidump -l: Configured Mouse di

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi Mike, On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:59, Mike Hill wrote: > I have a few questions. > 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I > think it is permissions, but where do I start? Add this user to the group audio. > 2. I created a user, but SUDO seems to only work

Re: Getting PostgreSQL to work with PHP

2006-06-15 Thread Xavier Elizalde
Thanks for the assist. The PostgreSQL commands seem to work now. Curious thing, though- the phpinfo() command still says '--without- pqsql' in the Configure Command section. What does that mean? I thought it would say '--with-pgsql' now. On 15/06/2006, at 10:29 AM, John Miller wrote: apt-g

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > Do you mean that by default, people aren't sudoers? That's > certainly correct. But if you're not a sudoer, then you > probably don't have the root password either -- in which > case it will be impossible for you to run any command > featuring 'find /'. What I mean is

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Only IE played the clips in XP. This really sucks. regards, ->HS Forgot to mention, it didn't work in the following

Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Hill
I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have Gnome Desktop running.I have a few questions. 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but wh

Re: totem & mms://

2006-06-15 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 15:38:01 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: hi i'm using sid on a celeron until today, i used totem to play microsoft's mms://wmv streams to do that, i had totem-xine installed and mplayer codec pack unzipped in ~/.gnome2/totem-addons but today

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Alle 16:30, giovedì 15 giugno 2006, Lubos Vrbka ha scritto: > > another thing is coming to my mind - did you try the 915resolution > package? it should serve for exactly such cases... > Right it works thank you very mach for the hint. Now I try to make the dual monitor working on the intel site th

FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread H.S.
Hello, Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Only IE played the clips in XP. This really sucks. regards, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:00:49PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > By default it's not configured to allow you to run any at all, which is > what I originally meant. Do you mean that by default, people aren't sudoers? That's certainly correct. But if you're not a sudoer, then you probably don't hav

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When > I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is > configured to only let me run one or two commands. By default it's not configured to allow you to run any at all, which is what I originally meant. --

Re: emacspeak : stty problem

2006-06-15 Thread Robert D. Crawford
gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed the emacspeak, but all the servers have the same error. What server do you need to run? Do you have a hardware synth? If not, which software synth do you want to use? If you are looking to use a free synth, did you install flite and a

occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread hendrik
I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic. It works fine with vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic. Both kernels are stock Debian kernels, installed from Debian etch mirrors, or from Len Sorenson's installation CD. 2.6.15-1 was definitely from the De

Re: totem & mms://

2006-06-15 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 15:38:01 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: hi i'm using sid on a celeron until today, i used totem to play microsoft's mms://wmv streams to do that, i had totem-xine installed and mplayer codec pack unzipped in ~/.gnome2/totem-addons but today

Wacom Mouse Saga Continued

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas H. George
I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I get the following output from xidump -l: Configured Mouse disabled Generic Keyboard keyboard stylus extension eraser

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
VideoRam16384 to the device section corresponding to the graphics card in your xorg.conf. that did the trick on my laptop. I tryed, but in the Xorg.0.log file the section about video mode reported: maximum space for video modes is 12288 kB. ooops, it seems that i made one big mistake - i

Re: totem & mms://

2006-06-15 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 15:38:01 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: >hi > >i'm using sid on a celeron > >until today, i used totem to play microsoft's mms://wmv streams > >to do that, i had totem-xine installed and mplayer codec pack unzipped in >~/.gnome2/totem-addons > >but today : >(...) >There

Re: dvdrip: transcode failiure

2006-06-15 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
xvid seemed to do the trick. thanks for the help, cheers, VegardOn 14/06/06, Keith Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 6/14/06, Vegard L. Rekaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to rip my first dvd, with the debian-etch package "dvdrip". Dvdrip uses transcode, wich halts and gives t

Re: How to share the apt cache

2006-06-15 Thread Joris
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:02 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hi. We use Debian on a number of machines, and, to avoid downloading > the same packages multiple times, we download debian cd images (which > are kept updated with jigdo) to a server and set sources.list to point > (only) to

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