A lot of help needed with the automake process

2008-11-21 Thread Raven
Hi all. I recently coded a small GNOME applet and before sharing it with a few friends I wanted to make it "noob-proof" :) Basically I wanted to create the usual "configure" and Makefile scripts so that I can give my buddies the 3 simple commands to install the applet. After reading several (at le

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:55:59PM EST, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> no textual browser I tried allows me to view my > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail account, and in the w3m mailing list they said > >> it was because w3m doesn't handle

How to reposition the K desktop unlocking widget?

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Reid
Hi all -- I've recently set up a Debian system for a colleague with an NVidia video card that can do dual-monitors. This was spectacularly easy to set up with "TwinView", it seemed to automatically get most things right, with two exceptions. The KDM log-in widget and the kdesktop_lock

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-21 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > Try "sudo aptitude install x-window-system". "sudo tasksel" might be a better choice. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable emailaddresses

2008-11-21 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hmm..actually AOL does support server side filtering. It only seems to have problems with subfolders. Ananda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-11-21 18:12 +0100, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. = # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree R

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/21/08 14:23, Don Armstrong wrote: [snip] Because people who are subscribed to the list don't require extra copies of mails. [And since anyone who wants a copy can request it using MFT: or manually, it's perfectly fine.] MFT? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If you don't agree with

Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?

2008-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/21/08 17:16, H.S. wrote: Mike Castle wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From a little search, I have seen somebody mention NFS for which I apparently need 2.6.27 kernel (not in Testing yet, so that option is out). The other option seems to be to strea

Re: Partition for latest versions of graphic programs.

2008-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/21/08 15:40, John Culleton wrote: 1. I want to set up a Debian partition so that I can use the very latest versions of programs such as Gimp, Inkscape etc. Do I need Unstable or Sid? Unstable _is_ Sid... That would be the foundation. Then you'd have to compare what's in Sid to the l

Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >From a little search, I have seen somebody mention NFS for which I >> apparently need 2.6.27 kernel (not in Testing yet, so that option is >> out). The other option seems to be to stream video -- is this reall

Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?

2008-11-21 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From a little search, I have seen somebody mention NFS for which I > apparently need 2.6.27 kernel (not in Testing yet, so that option is > out). The other option seems to be to stream video -- is this really > necessary in this si

Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?

2008-11-21 Thread steve
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a setup to play movies and music and to browse photos > over my local home network (mostly Debian, one Ubuntu machine, sometimes > a Windows machine on the wireless network). How do I start doing that? > My objective is to have all multimedia on one disk c

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:40:16PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:35:54 -0800 > Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > > Whoops, I just checked that message again and noticed that the list > > signature wasn't added with the attached PGP signature. Sorr

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread Brian Marshall
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > It therefore made sense to set up a separate user for times when I need > to run javascript or flash on sites which I don't specifically trust > (i.e. just random surfing). Since any site I do actual transactions > with (e.g. my o

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:35:54PM -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:31:25PM -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: > > Odd. I see the list signatures with mutt, but PGP signatures are > > recognized for me. > > Whoops, I just checked that message again and noticed that the list > si

Re: Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-21 Thread shr @dslextreme.com
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob wrote: > > > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF > >> slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to > >> primary

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:35:54 -0800 Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Brian, > Whoops, I just checked that message again and noticed that the list > signature wasn't added with the attached PGP signature. Sorry. There's some weirdness that results in it not always being displayed. V

Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?

2008-11-21 Thread subscriptions
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 23:04 +0100, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a setup to play movies and music and to browse photos > over my local home network (mostly Debian, one Ubuntu machine, sometimes > a Windows machine on the wireless network). How do I start doing that? > My objective is t

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Brian Marshall
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:31:25PM -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: > Odd. I see the list signatures with mutt, but PGP signatures are > recognized for me. Whoops, I just checked that message again and noticed that the list signature wasn't added with the attached PGP signature. Sorry. -- Brian si

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Brian Marshall
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:12:39AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > -- > > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > > (Albert Einstein) > > > > [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] > > [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Encoding: 7bit,

playing multimedia over my local network - how?

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am looking for a setup to play movies and music and to browse photos over my local home network (mostly Debian, one Ubuntu machine, sometimes a Windows machine on the wireless network). How do I start doing that? My objective is to have all multimedia on one disk connected to a machine (U

Re: Partition for latest versions of graphic programs.

2008-11-21 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello John. John Culleton wrote: > 1. I want to set up a Debian partition so that I can use the very > latest versions of programs such as Gimp, Inkscape etc. Do I need > Unstable or Sid? unstable == sid > 2. I want to use some sort of netinstall. Where would I find the > netinstall image for

Partition for latest versions of graphic programs.

2008-11-21 Thread John Culleton
1. I want to set up a Debian partition so that I can use the very latest versions of programs such as Gimp, Inkscape etc. Do I need Unstable or Sid? 2. I want to use some sort of netinstall. Where would I find the netinstall image for the answer to question 1? John Culleton -- To UNSUBSC

Can't delete file on mounted CIFS share

2008-11-21 Thread Robert S
I have a script that deletes old backups on a mounted CIFS share: find /mnt/backup/* -mtime +30 -type f -exec rm {} \; The share is mounted thus in my /etc/fstab: //server/Debian /mnt/backup cifs credentials=/root/.smbmount,username=,uid=,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0 Whe

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-21 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/13 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > audio editor: ffmpeg/audacity > audio player: rhythmbox > cd-ripper: Gnome's default (sound juicer, I think) > desktop OR window manager: Gnome with Compiz > DBMS: None > development: Emacs and GNU tools > disc burner: Gnome's defa

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,21.Nov.08, 12:23:43, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,22.Nov.08, 02:45:51, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Quite right, but why discourage CCing on an open list? I can see the > > > point in not CCing on a closed list. > > > > Cc'ing on a closed

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:55:59PM EST, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> no textual browser I tried allows me to view my >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail account, and in the w3m mailing list they said >> it was because w3m doesn't handle javascript. Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if you can crea

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,22.Nov.08, 02:45:51, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Quite right, but why discourage CCing on an open list? I can see the > > point in not CCing on a closed list. > > Cc'ing on a closed list would be really stupid :) Actually, that's the one plac

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:12:55PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,22.Nov.08, 02:45:51, Chris Bannister wrote: > [snip] > New posters should read the Code of Conduct? Listmasters, would you > consider adding a link to the CoC at the bottom of list mails? do we need more stuff on the bott

Re: Subject: RFP: gyachi -- Yahoo Messenger client with webcam support

2008-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,21.Nov.08, 21:16:48, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist This should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mount problem (cifs)

2008-11-21 Thread Pol Hallen
> Please read manpage of smbmount (smbfs package) and mount (mount package). What about the man of smbmount? Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,21.Nov.08, 14:14:34, H.S. wrote: > BTW, reading your earlier post I also tried to setup PA ... and it > worked (aplay -Dpulse foo.wav worked) ! However, from PA's wiki page it > appears that it doesn't work with audacious yet and neither with audacious works (for me at least) with pulse,

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-21 Thread jidanni
OK thanks everybody. The problem was caused by the flashplayer-mozilla maintainer telling me to manually tinker with update-alternatives to fix a one time bug. update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so fixed it, and I switched to a Free Software player too while I was at it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread green
On Sat, 2008.11.22, 327, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Yes, you are right. B has resolvconf, A does not. Also worth noting is > > that B has stopped dumping my nameserver 192.168.200.1 (after a few > > daily updates to testing). I will

Re: X11 Forwarding with Lenny?

2008-11-21 Thread Javier Barroso
>> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 22:05 +0100, swm38 swm38 wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I can't get X11 Forwarding working with lenny as server. >>> >>> Client is Debian Lenny too, X11 Forwarding works fine with an etch server. >>> >>> The lenny Server is running with the exact same sshd_config as the etch >>

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I dug around and found the modinfo command... > > $ sudo modinfo sound > filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/sound/oss/sound.ko > author: Hannu Savolainen, et al. > description:OSS Sound subsystem > > > vs. > > $ sudo modinfo snd-pcm-oss > file

Subject: RFP: gyachi -- Yahoo Messenger client with webcam support

2008-11-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gyachi Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gyachi.sourceforge.net/ Description : Yahoo Messenger client with webcam support (Include the long description here.) -- System In

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 02:13 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > ... > > > > Both run current Lenny. A pulls it's dns from what looks like my home > > > > router. B does not. I might have put that dns info there in the past, > > > > but i

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:13:55AM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28:49PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:22:06PM EST, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Used to be true of go

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:12:55PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,22.Nov.08, 02:45:51, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > Sorry, it doesn't explain why CCing is "discouraged" on an open list. > > New posters should read the Code of Conduct? Listmasters, would you > consider adding a link to t

Re: mount problem (cifs)

2008-11-21 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:33:28PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: >> Hi folks :-) >> upgrading kernel from 2.6.22 to 2.6.27.7 and mount the share of samba.. >> >> mount //ip/share1 /home/user1/share1 -o "user=user,pass=pass" > ... >> (using konqueror smb://ip/share I can correctly wri

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:56, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/20/08 23:03, H.S. wrote: >> >> Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:58 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > > If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS.

Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-21 18:12 +0100, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg > failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' > file. > > = > # apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading

Re: mount problem (cifs)

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:33:28PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks :-) > upgrading kernel from 2.6.22 to 2.6.27.7 and mount the share of samba.. > > mount //ip/share1 /home/user1/share1 -o "user=user,pass=pass" ... > (using konqueror smb://ip/share I can correctly write on share of samba) > >

Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:42:30PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed > complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. > > = > # apt-get -f install ... > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status

Re: Gyachi : Messenger client with improved webcam support

2008-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,21.Nov.08, 17:21:42, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyone working on packaging gyachi on debian? On the website there > are some *.deb's, but only for x86, and since many people use x86_64 > nowadays, it would be nice > to have it around. I am willing to help if I can. You should

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... > > > Both run current Lenny. A pulls it's dns from what looks like my home > > > router. B does not. I might have put that dns info there in the past, > > > but if so, it does not get overwritten. I still don't know what is

Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed > complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. > > = > # apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done >

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.Nov.08, 02:45:51, Chris Bannister wrote: > Quite right, but why discourage CCing on an open list? I can see the > point in not CCing on a closed list. Cc'ing on a closed list would be really stupid :) > > It is also not really necessary to subscribe in order to read the > > replies;

dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. = # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remov

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.Nov.08, 02:47:49, Chris Bannister wrote: > > What are your settings? My father plays chess using eboard with the > > crafty engine (which is non-free BTW) and does win sometimes. > > Is he a grandmaster? What are his settings? The smallest I could get (something like 1 s/move), but f

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, Hello, > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:39:15AM -0500, H.S. wrote: >> Kelly Clowers wrote: > ... And in KDE's sound configuration gui, one of the systems to choose from is OSS. >>> Probably hardwired, and would show up in any case. > ... > this does make sense. Ho

Re: Xorg not starting fully on Thinkpad T21

2008-11-21 Thread Richard Möhn
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:12:10PM +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Morning all. > > I've got quite an intermittent problem with my laptop: > When I boot, sometimes it gets as far as starting GDM, and then the > screen goes blank as per the usual change from a text display to a > graphical one, bu

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 23:23 -0700, green wrote: > On Wed, 2008.11.19, 324, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > > On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is overwriting my > > > > resolv.conf and

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:39:15AM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: ... > >> And in KDE's sound configuration gui, one of the > >> systems to choose from is OSS. > > > > Probably hardwired, and would show up in any case. ... this does make sense. However, if I select OSS from KDE's

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices -- facts on Debian

2008-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I agree that if you have modern system (bought new last 5 years or so), you should be OK with ALSA. But let's be more precise beyond this. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:56:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... > Given that OSS has been deprecated for FIVE years, and I *VERY STRONGLY* > doubt that

[SOLVED] Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-21 Thread x03
ok now is all ok! Thanks everyone! Jochen Schulz wrote: x03: I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced with the image. If you have working OpenGL support for your nvidia hardware, you should try other video output drivers, especially '-vo gl' and '-vo gl

Re: 2.6.26-686 kernel problem in Lenny installer

2008-11-21 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has run across this problem before. I'm rebuilding a server based on an Asus M2N-LR AM2 motherboard with a 2.8 ghz dual core Opteron. At boot the boot process is hanging at "pci :00:00:0 Enabling HT MSI Mapping". This same machine

mount problem (cifs)

2008-11-21 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks :-) upgrading kernel from 2.6.22 to 2.6.27.7 and mount the share of samba.. mount //ip/share1 /home/user1/share1 -o "user=user,pass=pass" I tried: touch /home/user1/share1/tmp touch: setting times of `/home/user1/share1/tmp': No such file or directory or: echo "tmp" > /home/user1/share1

2.6.26-686 kernel problem in Lenny installer

2008-11-21 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has run across this problem before. I'm rebuilding a server based on an Asus M2N-LR AM2 motherboard with a 2.8 ghz dual core Opteron. At boot the boot process is hanging at "pci :00:00:0 Enabling HT MSI Mapping". This same machine worked fine with both

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I believe that is "provides" in the package dependency sense, and is > for compatibility and because of alsa oss emulation. AFAIK, oss has > no userspace component, so nothing would show up in apt. Yes, that is what first did before starting this thread. It gave nothing.

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-21 Thread Neil
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:38 PM, x03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi list! > > I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced with > the image. > > With mplayer i have this: > > $ mplayer file.mkv > MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GH

Gyachi : Messenger client with improved webcam support

2008-11-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
Hi, Is there anyone working on packaging gyachi on debian? On the website there are some *.deb's, but only for x86, and since many people use x86_64 nowadays, it would be nice to have it around. I am willing to help if I can. Regards.

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/21/08 09:16, H.S. wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: I think you do have it, but I doubt it is in use. You could look at lsmod output and compare it to the modules in /lib/modules/2.6.xxx/kernel/sound/oss. I have a bunch of modules there. I will check if any of those are loaded. Which brings me

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > You have linux-sound-base. Well, so do I. Good. But I recommend another post in this thread which gives useful information about this. > But there are only 2 OSS drivers in "recent" (going back to st least st? > 2.6.16) kernels, so even though you have linux-sound-bas

Re: eximstats: What happened to it, is there a replacement?

2008-11-21 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:45:25AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:09:56AM -0600, lee wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > what happened to the package "eximstats"? It doesn't seem to exist > > anymore, is there a replacement for it? > > dpkg -S eximstats > exim4-base: /usr/sbin/ex

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I think you do have it, but I doubt it is in use. You could look at > lsmod output and compare it to the modules in > /lib/modules/2.6.xxx/kernel/sound/oss. I have a bunch of modules there. I will check if any of those are loaded. Which brings me to this point: check for

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/21/08 08:52, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Here's a slightly different question: what makes you think that you *do* have OSS? Please see my other recent posts. You have linux-sound-base. Well, so do I. But there are only 2 OSS drivers in "recent" (going back to st least 2.6.16) ke

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Here's a slightly different question: what makes you think that you *do* > have OSS? Please see my other recent posts. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:27:47AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:30:04AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > > > makes this mistake, though. And I seem to remember a few posts where it > > > was brought up that some users who post are not

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:15:58PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > It makes more sense to either not allow posting unless subscribed or > > have an open list but cc unless they explicitly request not be cc'd. > > > > Can anyone explain why the current policy is sane?

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:48:57AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > On the other hand, there's a world full of Windows users out there who > know that top-posting is the right way to reply. It's normally the minority of people which get it right, therefore if you are in the majority you are probably wro

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:10:10AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,17.Nov.08, 09:14:17, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > The only computer game I ever play. I just wish I could win against > > Crafty one day. Have a look a dreamchess -- a lot easier to beat. > What are your settings? My fath

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-21 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,20.Nov.08, 19:35:30, Kent West wrote: > > >> Try "sudo aptitude install x-window-system". >> > > Am I missing something here? AFAIR sudo is *not* configured unless you > choose so in the /expert/ install. Why recommend it to a newcomer? > > Habitual use.

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:00:18AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/20/08 23:13, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > >I don't have javascript enabled on my normal user account's browsers > >(Konq or Iceweasel) yet the advanced search page works just fine. (I > >have a separate user for use wit

Re: Xorg not starting fully on Thinkpad T21

2008-11-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Avi Greenbury < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Morning all. > > I've got quite an intermittent problem with my laptop: > When I boot, sometimes it gets as far as starting GDM, and then the screen > goes blank as per the usual change from a text display to a graphical

Re: Xorg not starting fully on Thinkpad T21

2008-11-21 Thread subscriptions
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 13:12 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Morning all. > > I've got quite an intermittent problem with my laptop: > When I boot, sometimes it gets as far as starting GDM, and then the > screen goes blank as per the usual change from a text display to a > graphical one, but the grah

Xorg not starting fully on Thinkpad T21

2008-11-21 Thread Avi Greenbury
Morning all. I've got quite an intermittent problem with my laptop: When I boot, sometimes it gets as far as starting GDM, and then the screen goes blank as per the usual change from a text display to a graphical one, but the grahical one doesn't appear - I'm left with a blank screen that is d

Re: Strange error in a new user bash session (tab keys tells '/dev/fd/62: no such file') [ SOLVED

2008-11-21 Thread Javier Barroso
I installed udev, and the problem was solved. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Javier Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm having trouble inside a new user bash session > ( [[TAB]] == I type tab key ): > > > $ ls /e[[TAB]] -bash: /dev/fd/62: Not such file or directory > -bash: /d

Re: Sound starts only sometimes after boot

2008-11-21 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi Anhony, My .asoundrc: pcm.snd_card { type hw card 1 } pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave.pcm "snd_card" slave { period_size 256 buffer_size 2048 rate 44100 } } pcm.dsnooper {

Strange error in a new user bash session (tab keys tells '/dev/fd/62: no such file')

2008-11-21 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi list, I'm having trouble inside a new user bash session ( [[TAB]] == I type tab key ): $ ls /e[[TAB]] -bash: /dev/fd/62: Not such file or directory -bash: /dev/fd/60: Not such file or directory [[TAB]] -bash: /dev/fd/58: Not such file or directory -bash: /dev/fd/56: Not such file or directory

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/20/08 23:13, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] I don't have javascript enabled on my normal user account's browsers (Konq or Iceweasel) yet the advanced search page works just fine. (I have a separate user for use with javascript and flash). *Why?* -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/20/08 23:03, H.S. wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:58 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS. lsmod will list your loaded modules. snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss, and snd_seq_oss, are all part of t

Re: Sound starts only sometimes after boot

2008-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Nov 2008, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi Anthony, > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > The modules loaded seem to be the same whether sound works or not. I > > get: > > > > snd_pcm_oss41760 0 > > snd_mixer_oss 18816 1 snd_

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:55:59PM EST, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > [..] > > > I mean that no textual browser I tried allows me to view my > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail account, and in the w3m mailing list they > said it > > was

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-21 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 21 novembre 2008 02:10, Ding Honghui a écrit :.jpg > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/jpg$ ls | awk -F_ '{print $2}' > 3563 > 3616 > 3620 IMHO, awk is quite oversized just to cut fields... It is typically a cut job : "cut -d_ -f2" ;-) Fanfan -- http://www.cerbelle.net - http://www.afdm-idf.org

Help needed

2008-11-21 Thread lakshmi pathi
Hi, My ext3 undelete tool works well with Redhat/Fedora/Ubuntu. I would like to get feedback on it on debian distro. (Are you able to install the tool? Whether it is working ? etc...) The undelete tool can downloaded from here www.giis.co.in or from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/giis Pl