Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello. When I installed Etch, I had trouble connecting to the
> internet. I tried to run pppoeconf, but it reported:
>
> debian:/home/mark# pppoeconf
> This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.
>
> So, I uninstalled it,
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Actually, I use fvwm2.
I see ... you are one of those ... ;-)
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Matej Cepl wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
I am working on removing the last vestiges of KDE from my box, which will
eliminate Konqueror, as well.
Just curious (really -- no flame intended), why do you switch from KDE and
where (Gnome?)?
Actually, I use fvwm2. I have never really liked
Hello. When I installed Etch, I had trouble connecting to the
internet. I tried to run pppoeconf, but it reported:
debian:/home/mark# pppoeconf
This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.
So, I uninstalled it, wrote a preferences file locking the program at
the
I couldn't get mozilla to open in the same window, so
I switched to firefox:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/alternatives# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 3 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.
SelectionAlternative
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:52:58 -0400
"H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > $ apt-cache show digikam
>
> I am using digikam in KDE and have successfully used Canon A520 and G5
> with it. I think I might have used Sony Cybershot S40 with it, but I
> cannot be sure about
Bill Moseley wrote:
> Any tips where to go from here?
>
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> flightgear: Depends: libalut0 but
Any tips where to go from here?
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
flightgear: Depends: libalut0 but it is not installed
D
Nick Lidakis wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain
package called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or
force its removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked
e
Pollywog wrote:
On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:17, Nick Lidakis wrote:
There was no old package. The .deb was downloaded (Sourceforge?) from a
site to be used with Debian Sid, which I am running. Something happened
when I tried to install it; can't remember the original error message.
So that is
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> In my house, I have two linux machines, both running debian.
>
> One, a server, acts as the firewall /gateway between my internal network and
> the external internet and runs sshd. I have a logon account on this machine.
>
> The other is
On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:17, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> There was no old package. The .deb was downloaded (Sourceforge?) from a
> site to be used with Debian Sid, which I am running. Something happened
> when I tried to install it; can't remember the original error message.
>
> So that is why I'm stuc
Carl Fink wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Aha!
and when trying to remove:
dpkg: error processing gtkwifi (--purge):
Pack
On 7/24/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My suggestion would be to google for some recent and more Debian-specific
kernel-compile how-to's; for example, using make-kpkg makes it a lot simpler
by making a .deb kernel package you can then install just like a regular
package. You do have
Is anyone else running Etch seeing a problem with GTK apps, in which one
clicks on a control (could be anything from a link in a Firefox web page to
a button) and ... nothing happens. The focus changes to the application, if
it wasn't there already, but no action takes place. A second click almos
Hi list,
first let me apologise for the huge amount of bounced messages a
recently barfed out of my system. I had quite a lot of queued up mail
on my server (1200+ messages) that hit my improperly configured local
exim and got rejected all over the place. so, sorry 'bout that.
so why was my exim
Hello,
I am encountering a serious problem with firefox under
debian etch. The text doesn t appear as it should be
in my navigator. Links are underlined, and a lot of
words are hidden until I move the cursor on it.
I have heard it is due to the libcairo2 anti-aliasing
librairy in the debian French
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Aha!
> and when trying to remove:
> dpkg: error processing gtkwifi (--purge):
> Package is in a very bad in
Carl Fink wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package
called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its
removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:08:27 -0400, Joey Hess wrote
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
> Felix Karpfen wrote:
>> This posting is an advance-request to include "update from Debian 3.1"
>> instructions in the proposed release of Debian 4.0. If existing
>> documentation applies, a relevant URL would suffice.
>
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package
> called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its
> removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying
> to reinstall
OK, thank you, that is the problem..
First I down the version of the thunderbird to 1.5.0.4-2bpo1 and
everythink back to work.
Second, I have some sources in my /etc/apt/sources.list not official,
but I also have a file /etc/apt/preferences. So maybe I'm using bad the
"Pin: release" option
Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package
called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its
removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying
to reinstall via dpk it keeps complaining: "The package gtkwifi needs to
be reinst
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 13:05:54 +0200, T wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone successfully installed firefox extensions globally? I don't
> want the firefox extensions installed into my local profile. The benefits
> are:
>
> - so that I don't need to install them over and over for different local
> users.
Obvious noob question - What is the difference for a Sarge user, between
Debian volatile vs backports for things like clamav and spamassassin? My
sources.list includes volatile for these things, but reading the backports
site, it sounds like a similar idea...?? Tnx - John
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 21:03:17 +, Pollywog wrote:
> I am unable to read the user tips that appear when GIMP is started. only the
> words at the left of the user tips box appear, the rest are missing. Has
> anyone else had this problem in Etch? If so, I will submit a bug report.
There is
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:17:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:35:58PM +, s. keeling wrote:
> > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You know when you install debian and debconf a scree
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 21:04:16 -0500, Harold D. Skank wrote:
> People,
>
> I have Debian, 3.1r2 up and running on a Dell Optiplex machine with a
> Radeon 7000 graphics chip driving a Westinghouse, liquid x-tal, flat
> panel display.
>
> I need for it to run 1280 X 1024 resolution. What driver
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 17:58:32 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
[...]
> >> Is that really supposed to happen?
> >> I previously tried to install pmount and hal, and in so doing
> >> uninstalled hotplug. Don't ask me, that's what apt-get says. Well
> >> this wrecked my xwindows, so I undid it. I'
Another fairly easy approach I forgot to mention would be VNC, but in that
would involve opening the appropriate port on your router, and replacing
cygwin/X with a vncviewer on the laptop.
Regards,
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> In my house, I have two linux machines, both running debian.
>
> One, a server, acts as the firewall /gateway between my internal network and
> the external internet and runs sshd. I have a logon account on this machine.
>
> The o
In my house, I have two linux machines, both running debian.
One, a server, acts as the firewall /gateway between my internal network and
the external internet and runs sshd. I have a logon account on this machine.
The other is my workstation, and runs KDM to allow me to logon and run KDE.
I a
> I favor Seamonkey (Mozilla suite replacement):
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
I did a search for Seamonkey in aptitude and it did not show
any packages. Is it not in Debian.org ftp for aptitude yet?
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:14:35PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> is there any way, to send files over a device greater than eth0 ?
>
> If eth0 is online, ssh, scp and rsync always wants to send over eth0. In the
> manpages I found no way to change it.
>
> (Background: I have wi
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I am working on removing the last vestiges of KDE from my box, which will
> eliminate Konqueror, as well.
Just curious (really -- no flame intended), why do you switch from KDE and
where (Gnome?)?
Matěj
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Hi
Has anyone successfully installed firefox extensions globally? I don't
want the firefox extensions installed into my local profile. The benefits
are:
- so that I don't need to install them over and over for different local
users.
- I can switching between my Debian Sarge and Etch back and fo
Pollywog wrote:
I have found that I need three browsers to be able to view/play the most
content.
Most sites render well in Firefox and Konqueror but Konqueror sometimes will
not play video or sound clips when Firefox 'knows' how to bring up the app
that plays the media. I have Opera and I
I've installed http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp in order to use
http://revelado.ya.com and today I've seen one 27 GB (yes, 27 GB) ~/java0.log
file ===:((
The http://revelado.ya.com/revelar-online applet load only:
$ ls -lh java0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 benjami benjami 5,3M 2006-07-29 18:36 jav
On Saturday 29 July 2006 14:02, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> J F wrote:
> > Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?
> >
> > I guess I'm a little confused about which one is better/newer or
> > the one to use?
>
> I favor Seamonkey (Mozilla suite replacement):
> http://www.mozilla.org/project
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> J F wrote:
>
>> Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?
>>
>> I guess I'm a little confused about which one is better/newer or
>> the one to use?
>>
>
> I favor Seamonkey (Mozilla suite replacement):
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
> over Firefox f
Hi,
There finally is a multiuser Debian-based live CD out:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=28304174&forum_id=5379
H
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J F wrote:
Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?
I guess I'm a little confused about which one is better/newer or
the one to use?
I favor Seamonkey (Mozilla suite replacement):
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
over Firefox for one reason:
When you use a login page to s
Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks,
Debian-Testing-amd64-netinst.iso
How to make ADSL broadband connnection.
[ ... ]
There is a NewbieDOC article that may help:
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Broadband_-_setting_up_an_ethernet_ADSL_modem/router
Chris.
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:35:58PM +, s. keeling wrote:
> Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> > >
> > > You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can add
> > > more sources to the sources.list file etc.
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> >
> > You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can add
> > more sources to the sources.list file etc.
> >
> > Is there a dpkg-reconfigure option for that.
Try running "a
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:24:29AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> At 2006/06/10 a security-update of libfreetype6 was publiced what
> generates a big problem in OpenOffice. See:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372719
Yep, lots of discussion there, obviously being actively wor
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:53:38AM -0700, michael bailey wrote:
>
> Has anyone successfully used an Athlon64 on a socket
> AM2 motherboard with Linux ? If so, which motherboard
> did they use ?
>
> I am interested in the possibility of using the above
> with Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686).
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> Hi
>
> You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can add
> more sources to the sources.list file etc.
>
> Is there a dpkg-reconfigure option for that.
>
If you want to add or edit your /etc/apt/source.list ,
Has anyone successfully used an Athlon64 on a socket
AM2 motherboard with Linux ? If so, which motherboard
did they use ?
I am interested in the possibility of using the above
with Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686).
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Has anyone successfully used an Athlon64 on a socket
AM2 motherboard with Linux ? If so, which motherboard
did they use ?
I am interested in the possibility of using the above
with Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686).
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:54:33PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote:
> Today I made 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after well.
> The system ask for upgrade the next packages:
>libnspr4 libnss3 mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-calendar
> mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm thunderbird
>
> I
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
> djhack wrote:
> > Kmail - Configured it, and got test messages in and out then it started
> > to complain the POP3 was broken. Never got any messages from the list.
> > Could not get it going again.
>
> This is not good attitude -- try
Hi there,
I am running Debian3.1 with kernel 2.6.8-2-386 on a Dell Laptop. I am using it
as a remotely accessed always-on server. It seems to run quite well, but
sometimes after a few months, I get a "dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20"
error the file system (reiserFS) resets itself into rea
Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
On 7/22/06, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.
it seems to me that there must be some lack of interest in this project.
Except for that, I don't see why such a program would be too hard to
write. All the pieces are there, already: v4l2 supplies the video
strea
Rob Sims wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:06:11AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Eckhard Kosin wrote:
The cp -rv showed up a file name with an unprintable character (the file
originated from DOS, long time ago). Thanks. I renamed the file and
now the system doesn't freeze, but the writer
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I would suggest you to use better objects for your posts...
Anyway, usually it is not a driver matter.
1) You have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf some lines that starts with
ModeLine, they te
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