Shane,
If you are slightly sighted, then you may want to consider KDE. Almost
all KDE applications have integrated text-to-speech functions. You
only need to install festival and KDE takes care of the integration.
You will then have a speech-enabled GUI environment, including web
browser. I use it
phillinux wrote:
At 11:31 PM 1/5/2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
So back up. what allows Oo.o to run on your linux box now? An
X-windows system. You don't even need a window manager.
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:34:30PM +1100, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to mount a dvd drive and got an error, is it correct file
> sytem type? what is wrong to the mount command?
>
> $ mount -t udf /dev/hdc /media/disk
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount
At 11:31 PM 1/5/2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
>
> I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for secondary
> school students. I would need to get a lightweight version of
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:48:24PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: [that's me]
> >You can buy the Asus EEE PC for $299, and it already comes with
> >OpenOffice.org.
> >
> >It isn't as cool--no portable charger, no sunlight mode, and so forth, but
> >it's closer to what
Hi,
I tried to mount a dvd drive and got an error, is it correct file
sytem type? what is wrong to the mount command?
$ mount -t udf /dev/hdc /media/disk
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missi
Scott Gifford wrote:
phillinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
You can get images of XO to run in a virtual machine to check it out
and hack on yourself. I don't remember where I got mine, but I found
it easily from their Web site.
If you're looki
phillinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
You can get images of XO to run in a virtual machine to check it out
and hack on yourself. I don't remember where I got mine, but I found
it easily from their Web site.
Good luck,
-Scott.
--
To UNSUBS
phillinux wrote:
At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
>
> I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for
> secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version
>
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
>
> I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for secondary
> school students. I would need to get a lightweight version of open office
> running on that machine.
>
> Is the
At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
>
> I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for
> secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version
> of open office run
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
>
> I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for
> secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version
> of open office running on that machine.
>
> Is th
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:27:18PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine.
>
> My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get
> something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open.
I don't understand. From a command line, you ss
Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for
secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version
of open office running on that machine.
Is the XO GUI Python based??
Could Open Office run on it??
DSL uses a lightw
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:30:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/05/08 15:16, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >My wife keeps insisting that my Windows95 on those IBM floppies are
> >still good. Let me give it a try. They are from 1990.
>
> Windows95 on 1990 floppies???
>
Ain't quantum computing g
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:12:31PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> >>As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD-
> >>Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:18:16AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid
> >500 and gid 500.
> >
> >Now under Debian the same user name and password I'd previously had
> >are uid 1000 and gid 10
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 15:22:13 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Florian Kulzer writes:
>
> > Maybe the locale variables are not properly defined for root. What do
> > you get if you run
> >
> > su - -c locale
> >
> > (Or log in as root on the console and check the "locale" output then. If
> > you
On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/05/08 15:00, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I started this thread on debian-user after a thread on OpenBSD
berated
someone for relying on CD/DVDs for backups and archives because they
fade over t
dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid
>500 and gid 500.
>
>Now under Debian the same user name and password I'd previously had
>are uid 1000 and gid 1000. Though I can access the files on the drive
>I can't do anything with them exc
I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine.
My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get
something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open.
Thanks.
---
Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ICQ#: AIM#:YAHOO:
18002350 mailman452 m
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:40:17PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little
> > > arro
On Jan 5, 2008 1:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My wife keeps insisting that my Windows95 on those IBM floppies are
> still good. Let me give it a try. They are from 1990.
Uuuh, is that so? Windows95 was released on August 24, 1995. I
remember the hype so much from that summ
On 01/05/08 15:45, David Brodbeck wrote:
[snip]
My personal experience suggests the old 720K floppies were a lot more
reliable than the 1.44 megabyte ones.
I don't remember seeing many 720K drives or disks. Had a couple in
a cheap NEC laptop from 1987, though.
On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:46:11AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Interestingly enough, I can still use the IBM floppies that an old
version of OS/2 came on in 1988. I've had new floppies fail but not
those old IBM on
On 01/05/2008 11:57 AM, Shane D wrote:
> Hello Debian Users,
>
> My name is Shane. I am new to the list. I am trying to install Debian
> on an older laptop of mine so that I can use it for an Asterisk box. I
> run a couple of radioshows, and need to take calls.
>
> Anyway, I am questing a way to
On 01/05/08 15:16, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
Interestingly enough, I can still use the IBM floppies that an old
version of OS/2 came on in 1988. I've had new floppies fail but not
those old IBM ones. Go figure.
My wife keeps insisting that my Windows95 on t
On 01/05/08 15:00, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I started this thread on debian-user after a thread on OpenBSD berated
someone for relying on CD/DVDs for backups and archives because they
fade over time.
If that's the concern, why not copy the arch
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:46:11AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Why do you think DLTs are more reliable than optical media or hard
drives? My experience with tapes in general (not DLTs) certainly does
not predispose me towards that view, but I suppose DLTs could be
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD-
Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try a bunch
more, just for fun...
I wonder what cdck would show. It tests not
On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I started this thread on debian-user after a thread on OpenBSD berated
someone for relying on CD/DVDs for backups and archives because they
fade over time.
If that's the concern, why not copy the archived material to new media
every five ye
On 01/05/2008 02:04 PM, David Jantzen wrote:
After reboot, my only usable resolution (1600x1050) is unavailable.
Perhaps this item from the release notes:
Known Issues
- Connecting a display device that supports 1680x1050 to a system
running Linux may result in a maximum display resolution of
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:16 +, michael wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:51 +, michael wrote:
> > I've not managed to define precisely when I get problems but I'm
> > noticing
> > the following symptoms and was wondering if some kind soul would help me
> > debug what's going on in order t
Is there a tool that will o/p the current X application that is
accepting input ('focus')? It appears my problem with (intermittently)
un-responding USB mouse/keyboard (see 18 Dec 2007 posts) may be due to
loss of focus [1] and I wish to investigate this further.
[1] I come to this conclusion sinc
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/05/08 06:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Really?
I've been using the "native" ftp.nvidia.com driver with Debian for
3-4 years, without any breakage.
but I get:
The server at ftp.nvidia.com is taking too long to respond.
repeatedly. Normal?
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe the locale variables are not properly defined for root. What do
> you get if you run
>
> su - -c locale
>
> (Or log in as root on the console and check the "locale" output then. If
> you normally use "su" without the "-" option or "sudo" to do yo
Hey All,
I installed some upgrades yesterday to my testing/unstable installation.
The relevant packages changed (as far as I understand) were:
fglrx-control
fglrx-driver
fglrx-kernel-src
Apt uninstalled my kernel module compiled for 3D support, and so I
recompiled and installed again from
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:55:27 -0800
"Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2008 5:45 AM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:55:27 +0200
> > Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I am having a couple of serious problems with mrxvt which I was wondering
> >
On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD-
Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try a bunch
more, just for fun...
I wonder what cdc
S> Try dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config. The questions are quite simple...
It just asks three questions, non having to do with sizes.
I'm saying I what I want to do is like first issuing
$ xrandr -s 1024x768
$ #and then now do what to make my monitor look just like I then issued
$ #xrandr -s 800
Hello,
using KDE where can I change the login screen to display all available users ?
I used to have such a login/password screen where also all users are display
but lost this setup (sorry don't why / when this happens) and currently only
have the latest logged user name displayed.
Thanks for
On Jan 5, 2008 5:45 AM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:55:27 +0200
> Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am having a couple of serious problems with mrxvt which I was wondering if
> > someone knows how to fix.
> >
> > 1. With aptitude, when going between lines with th
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
So I guess, for me, only from personal experience, I'd have to say that
the most reliable, longest lived, backup media has to be IBM floppies.
Of course, the 7 GB backup would take 5120 floppies which would more
than pay for a new LTO drive.
Progress.
Yep! And I t
s. keeling wrote:
David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
s. keeling wrote:
I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few
old ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's
Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD-
> Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try a bunch
> more, just for fun...
I wonder what cdck would show. It tests not only ability to read
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:43:00AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for
> the obvious reasons -- smaller physical bit representations, packed
> tighter. Also we don't have as much experience with it, so I take what
> informat
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:07:40PM -0800, wathavy wathavy wrote:
[snip problems burning DVD image to DVD]
> Do you have any suggestion on obtaining 4.0r2 DVD-1 iso image file?
> Especially for free ISO image extractor, other than CDBurnerXP? Thank
> you for your patience and your attention.
To
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:46:11AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Why do you think DLTs are more reliable than optical media or hard
> drives? My experience with tapes in general (not DLTs) certainly does
> not predispose me towards that view, but I suppose DLTs could be
> "different".
> I
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:44:47AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I tried out Enlightenment yesterday out of curiosity but the menu size
> on my 1600x1200 display was so small it was unusable. Googling didn't
> reveal any way to enlarge it. Is there one?
>
> I expect I'll go back to Icewm anyway
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:11:41PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote:
> --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ?crit
> > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David
> > MAGNY wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch.
> > >
> > > On this machine, I have 3 netwo
Hello Debian Users,
My name is Shane. I am new to the list. I am trying to install Debian
on an older laptop of mine so that I can use it for an Asterisk box. I
run a couple of radioshows, and need to take calls.
Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not
have a hardware
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:42:48AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:17:32AM +0100, Arnau Rebassa i Villalonga wrote:
> > I've been searching some info about the different Debian's branches
> > and the policy followed to move one package from SID->testing->stable
> > b
David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few
> > old ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's
>
> Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for
> the obvious reasons
Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Jan 5, 2008 6:54 AM, dave N <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid 500
and gid 500.
As root I've set the permissions for the drive (loaded under /share/other) to
be owned by root but
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I have a sid box with 2 videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice.
from gdm.conf:
...
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X1 :0 -layout X1 -dpi 110 -deferglyphs 16
-isolateDevice \"PCI:0:10:0\" vt7
# Definition of the second X server.
[server-2nd]
nam
Kelly Anderson 16:38 Fri 04 Jan
Thought I'd throw in a suggestion that you look into the iwlwifi driver.
Intel has moved on to the next "best thing". The iwl driver doesn't
require the stupid daemon (a big step). And my initial impression is that
it will probably supp
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:31:04 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Florian Kulzer writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 15:05:10 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Hi, I too have some issue with UTF-8, although I can install and remove
> >> software without a problem, my logs get filled w
(Sorry if you get this twice Dave, I didn't reply to the list. Second time
I've done that today... sigh...)
On Jan 5, 2008 6:54 AM, dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid 500
> and gid 500.
>
> As root I've set the permissions for
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:57:45PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008 12:24 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well, I feel a little better seing as its related to HP, but why was it
> > fw2net?
> >
> > I don't know how the internals of browsers work and the download did
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I am getting an X server crash after upgrading xorg on Sid to 7.3:
Just to report back: I resolved this by installing:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.01/
I had to change 1 item to enable running it on 2.6.23-1-686:
line
On 01/05/08 08:40, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I am getting an X server crash after upgrading xorg on Sid to 7.3:
Just to report back: I resolved this by installing:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.01/
I had to change 1 item to enable running it on
On 01/05/08 06:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Really?
I've been using the "native" ftp.nvidia.com driver with Debian for 3-4
years, without any breakage.
but I get:
The server at ftp.nvidia.com is taking too long to respond.
repeatedly. Normal?
My bad. It's ftp:/
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I am getting an X server crash after upgrading xorg on Sid to 7.3:
Just to report back: I resolved this by installing:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.01/
I had to change 1 item to enable running it on 2.6.23-1-686:
line 529 should be:
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 15:05:10 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Hi, I too have some issue with UTF-8, although I can install and remove
>> software without a problem, my logs get filled with perl warnings about
>> locales.
>
> If you want he
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:55:27 +0200
Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having a couple of serious problems with mrxvt which I was wondering if
> someone knows how to fix.
>
> 1. With aptitude, when going between lines with the arrow keys, it seems to
> mix up drawing the lines, so the highligh
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
Hi,
On Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 13:06:25 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
Hello, I have 2 servers :
Debian i386 Etch
Debian i386 Lenny
and both use ntp to synchronize time and configured on the same timezone
Europe/Roma and use same time servers, but on Etch the time is
I am having a couple of serious problems with mrxvt which I was wondering if
someone knows how to fix.
1. With aptitude, when going between lines with the arrow keys, it seems to mix
up drawing the lines, so the highlighted line show one package and the bottom
window shows the description of anoth
On Friday 04 January 2008 09:16, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 00:31:26 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 02:44, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 23:25:47 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to have a PREEMPT kernel
Here is some more data.
I attached the output of
"udevtest /class/input/mice"
from a box that shows this error, and from a box that does not.
(The configurations are completely different, but the package
versions and the relevant udev rules are the same.)
The relevant difference seems
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/04/08 10:12, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 06:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I conclude that this is perhaps due to the DRI being loaded and/or
running the latest bi
Hi,
On Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 13:06:25 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> Hello, I have 2 servers :
>
> Debian i386 Etch
> Debian i386 Lenny
>
> and both use ntp to synchronize time and configured on the same timezone
> Europe/Roma and use same time servers, but on Etch the time is 7 minutes
> be
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit
:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David
> MAGNY wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch.
> >
> > On this machine, I have 3 network cards.
> >
> > 2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network
> >
Hello, I have 2 servers :
Debian i386 Etch
Debian i386 Lenny
and both use ntp to synchronize time and configured on the same timezone
Europe/Roma and use same time servers, but on Etch the time is 7 minutes
behind server with Lenny.
On the server with Lenny time is correct.
Where is the pro
Dear all,
On some of my machines, udev started to act strangely lately.
It created all the device files in the root of the /dev directory,
instead of the normal places.
(Instead of /dev/input/mice, I get /dev/mice; instead of /dev/snd/* I
get /dev/*, etc.)
Of course, this breaks a lot of t
I have a server running Lenny and have a problem in that users are
unable to send mail from scripts or the cl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected
Aborted
Adding a user to the sudoers with permission to x /usr/bin/mail and then
running
I tried out Enlightenment yesterday out of curiosity but the menu size
on my 1600x1200 display was so small it was unusable. Googling didn't
reveal any way to enlarge it. Is there one?
I expect I'll go back to Icewm anyway, as I always do, but I thought I;d
ask ...
Anthony
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