Re: dual monitor setup fails (xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default; warning: output LVDS not found; ignoring; warning: output VGA not found; ignoring)

2010-12-23 Thread Dietrich Bollmann
Hi Camaleón, Thanks for you help :) > On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 15:17 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:06:25 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > > > > Since a couple of weeks my dual monitor setup fails: > > > > # xrandr --output LVDS --output VGA --right-of LVDS --primary > > > > x

OT: emacs + psgml + console = NFG

2010-12-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I need to maintain some docbook-website sites on remote hosts to which I have only console access via ssh (no X). But even on local hosts, running emacs in the console (with '-nw') gives bad results with psgml. I can get to the 'Markup' menu via the keyboard, but if I try to insert an xml element

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:58:22 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:11:11 -0600 > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> Celejar wrote: > >>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:16 + > >>> Phil Requirements wrote: > >>> > On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerko

Re: how to get pid when I start the process

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 16:29 +, Bill Dennen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100, Zhang Weiwu scribbled: > > > Hello. I usually start amuled and kill it after a few hours, I do such > > thing once a day. Usually I do it like this: > > > > In one console: > > $ amuled > > > > In another

Re: Any kmail filtering advice?

2010-12-23 Thread Steve McCarthy
On Thursday 23 Dec 2010, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 23 December 2010 21:48:26 Steve McCarthy wrote: > > Has anyone else found a way to defer junk (not SPAM) mail in kmail? > > It can use Spamassassin. (It can integrate it.) But I don't > understand the distinction between Spam and Junk. > > To w

Re: Dell E6410, squeeze, touchpad anddddd keyboard problems

2010-12-23 Thread Doug
On 12/23/2010 08:44 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Apologies for the long post but it is along and sad story :) I have enough ram (8Gb) on this laptop. Maybe all the problems are related to my inabillity to disable the touchpad. On this syeX1

Re: Any kmail filtering advice?

2010-12-23 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 23 December 2010 21:48:26 Steve McCarthy wrote: > My GF's disk died and it seemed a perfect time to introduce her to > linux/gnu and kde as a msft substitute. I was sadly mistaken. > > I chose kmail as a substitute for her thunderbird for several reasons. My > problem now is duplicati

Re: Any kmail filtering advice?

2010-12-23 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 23 December 2010 21:48:26 Steve McCarthy wrote: > Has anyone else found a way to defer junk (not SPAM) mail in kmail? It can use Spamassassin. (It can integrate it.) But I don't understand the distinction between Spam and Junk. To which version of KMail are we referring? Or which

Re: [SOLVED] auto module loading with udev ?

2010-12-23 Thread briand
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:01:07 -0800 wrote: This will give you the /dev/pilot symlink which is very handy. I already had this, in fact it may eve be in the /lib/udev/rules.d/ SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", \ ATTRS{product}=="Palm Handheld*|Handspring Visor|palmOne Handheld", \ SYMLINK+

Any kmail filtering advice?

2010-12-23 Thread Steve McCarthy
My GF's disk died and it seemed a perfect time to introduce her to linux/gnu and kde as a msft substitute. I was sadly mistaken. I chose kmail as a substitute for her thunderbird for several reasons. My problem now is duplicating one of thunderbird/ice owl’s features: junk mail control. Sh

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:11:11 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Celejar wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:16 + Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv (snip) Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv. TiVo file

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:11:11 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:16 + > > Phil Requirements wrote: > > > >> On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv > >>> (snip) > >>> Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:16 + Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv (snip) Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv. TiVo file format detected. MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. MPEG: FATAL: EOF wh

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:16 + Phil Requirements wrote: > On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv > > (snip) > > Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv. > > TiVo file format detected. > > MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. > > MPEG: F

Re: Debian Squeeze Cannot Paste From Epiphany Browser to Evolution or Gnome Terminal

2010-12-23 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 12:10 +0800, Jackie Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using Debian Squeeze on my laptop (Upgraded from Lenny 5.0.4 to > Squeeze). I cannot paste some text from epiphany to evolution or Gnome > terminal. I too have had various problems like this for a while. One trick I've found

Re: Network-manager applet with multiple users

2010-12-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 12. 2010 17:10:27 je Arthur Machlas napisal(a): So, just to be clear, if you log in to your gnome desktop as user 1, then switch users, not logging out the first one, user2 has the nm-applet in their panel and can change networks, and when you switch back to user 1, they still have the

Re: Strange error message when compiling svn package

2010-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 02:48:43PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: When compiling Mplayer svn with `make', I got the following: The one that is missing has the definiton of HAVE_MMAP. I just install mplayer with apt-get. But you are compiling it. Why

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv (snip) Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv. TiVo file format detected. MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. Video: Cannot read

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv > (snip) > Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv. > TiVo file format detected. > MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. > MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. > Video: Cannot read properties

Re: configuring packages from script

2010-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
George Shuklin wrote: > Now I need to do same thing from script. I know I can change > configuration file directly, but will it right solution? > > Is any way to supply replies to debconf during some package > reconfiguration? There are several ways. I like setting the EDITOR variable to a perl

configuring packages from script

2010-12-23 Thread George Shuklin
Good day. I know how to configure some package interactively with dpkg-reconfigure. Now I need to do same thing from script. I know I can change configuration file directly, but will it right solution? Is any way to supply replies to debconf during some package reconfiguration? --- wBR, George

Re: how to get pid when I start the process

2010-12-23 Thread Bill Dennen
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100, Zhang Weiwu scribbled: > Hello. I usually start amuled and kill it after a few hours, I do such > thing once a day. Usually I do it like this: > > In one console: > $ amuled > > In another: > > zhangwe...@mesopotamia:~$ ps ax | grep mule 13595 zhangwei 14080

Re: Dell E6410, squeeze, touchpad anddddd keyboard problems

2010-12-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 12/23/2010 09:46 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Thanks Gilbert. That has disabled the touchpad. Now let us hope the other keyboard-problems will come to an end. Immediately as I type this, it feels if the keyboard reaction is faster and so far I did not miss a character. I'll keep my fingers cro

Re: Nautilus and/or ext4 killed three folders!

2010-12-23 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: >> I'm not quite sure how to debug or report this one which is why I'm >> mentioning it here.  I was moving to a new hard drive and copying >> /home/ files from my old hard drive to my

Re: Network-manager applet with multiple users

2010-12-23 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 22. 12. 2010 20:55:14 je Arthur Machlas napisal(a): >> >> It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1, >> user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though >> I'd like all three to be able to control it

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't quite succeed. So I then read some web pages that said gnash could read swf files and so you in theory download a youtube video and then watch it using gnash. I found youtube

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Celejar wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 + Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't quite succeed. So I then read some web pages that said gnash could read swf files and so you in theory

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Celejar wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 + Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't quite succeed. So I then read some web pages that said gnash could read swf files and so you in theory download a youtube vide

Re: Dell E6410, squeeze, touchpad anddddd keyboard problems

2010-12-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:54:36PM +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > I had the same sort of issue with a Dell Precision M70 laptop. The > answer was to change the touchpad setting in the BIOS setup program. The > wording on this one (which is actually a Lat. D810 or somesuch > motherboard / BIOS)

Re: Debian Squeeze Cannot Paste From Epiphany Browser to Evolution or Gnome Terminal

2010-12-23 Thread rudu
Le 23/12/2010 05:10, Jackie Wang a écrit : Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze on my laptop (Upgraded from Lenny 5.0.4 to Squeeze). I cannot paste some text from epiphany to evolution or Gnome terminal. I first select some text from the browser then use right-click and select command copy and then

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:24:25 +1000 Adrian Levi wrote: > On 23 December 2010 21:20, Andrew McGlashan > wrote: > > I think you will find that the kernel will advance as I understand it, > > the 2.6 is the current "normal" branch and 2.7 is development, once 2.7 > > makes it to 2.8, then 2.9 w

Re: how to get pid when I start the process

2010-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Zhang Weiwu writes: > Question is, how do I script-lize this? The only difficulty is to get > the pid in script. I could use an one-liner awk script to analyses the > output of ps, but that sounds overkill. Is there a better way? man killall man pidof -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problems with /etc/modprobe.conf

2010-12-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Lisi writes: > On Thursday 11 November 2010 15:55:47 Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Installing the driver for my new printer Samsung ML-1915 (the official >> Samsung driver) created the file /etc/modprobe.conf, containing the >> following stuff: > I have splix for my Samsung, and I have no /etc/modpro

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d13308c.2060...@affinityvision.com.au>, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Both the Linux kernel and Postfix follow the same trend. Both have been >> on major revision 2 for---ever now. Considering the way the versioning >> is done on both Linux and Postfix, there will never be

Re: Dell E6410, squeeze, touchpad anddddd keyboard problems

2010-12-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 12/23/2010 08:44 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Apologies for the long post but it is along and sad story :) I have been made sad by a Dell laptop or two. ;-) ... Maybe all the problems are related to my inabillity to disable the touchpad. On this syeX

[solved] Re: Strange error message when compiling svn package

2010-12-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When compiling Mplayer svn with `make', I got the following: > > > [...] > file.c:23:5: warning: "HAVE_MMAP" is not defined > file.c: In function 'av_file_map': > file.c:47: error: 'HAVE_MMAP' undeclared (first use in this function) > file.c:47: error: (Each undeclared iden

Dell E6410, squeeze, touchpad anddddd keyboard problems

2010-12-23 Thread Johann Spies
Apologies for the long post but it is along and sad story :) I have enough ram (8Gb) on this laptop. Maybe all the problems are related to my inabillity to disable the touchpad. On this syeX1 (I

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Adrian Levi
On 23 December 2010 21:20, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I think you will find that the kernel will advance as I understand it, > the 2.6 is the current "normal" branch and 2.7 is development, once 2.7 > makes it to 2.8, then 2.9 will be dev . 3.0 / 3.1 and so on. > > It's just that we have l

Re: Strange error message when compiling svn package

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 02:48:43PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>>When compiling Mplayer svn with `make', I got the following: > > >>The one that is missing has the definiton of HAVE_MMAP. > > I just install mplayer with apt-get. But you are compiling it. Why? If yo

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Both the Linux kernel and Postfix follow the same trend. Both have been on major revision 2 for---ever now. Considering the way the versioning is done on both Linux and Postfix, there will never be a 3.x release of either, as the core architecture will never undergo another

Re: how to get pid when I start the process

2010-12-23 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I usually start amuled and kill it after a few hours, I do such thing once a day. Usually I do it like this: In one console: $ amuled In another: zhangwe...@mesopotamia:~$ ps ax | grep mule 13595 zhangwei 14080 R N amuled 13598 zhangwei 14080 S N amuled 13600 zhangw

Re: how to get pid when I start the process

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Davies
Zhang Weiwu wrote: > zhangwe...@mesopotamia:~$ ps ax | grep mule > 13595 zhangwei 14080 R N amuled > 13598 zhangwei 14080 S N amuled > 13600 zhangwei 14080 S N amuled > 13603 zhangwei 14080 S N amuled > 13612 zhangwei 1352 Sgrep mule > zhangwe...@mesopotamia:~$ kill 13595 > Note that I s

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Darac Marjal put forth on 12/22/2010 3:14 PM: > On 22/12/10 16:47, John Hasler wrote: >>> Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count? >> >> The companies spend billions hammering the code name/number for the next >> version into everyone's head before releasing it. Despite never having >> us

Re: Network-manager applet with multiple users

2010-12-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 22. 12. 2010 20:55:14 je Arthur Machlas napisal(a): It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1, user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though I'd like all three to be able to control it. This must be on Squeeze, right? Because on my Lenny system

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 22. 12. 2010 17:30:33 je John Hasler napisal(a): Petrus Validus writes: > The Toy Story movies are good, I would recommend them. I have not seen a movie in more than twenty years and probably never will see one again. I find the entire entertainment industry and everyone associated with it

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 12/22/2010 10:35 AM: > Lisi writes: >> But I don't see how that is supposed to make it easy to remember them! > > You are supposed to have seen the movie nine times and been so thrilled > with the special effects that you memorized the list of characters. The number of ch