Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

2006-05-24 Thread Andrey Andreev
Hello Colin, Colin Finck wrote: I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a script or program. On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X server and then use "startx" to start it again, but on my Debian system this does not work. Additio

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-09 Thread Andrey Andreev
or 1 year worth of CS books? How about college libraries and copy machines? 1200 sounds completely out off the range of what I would pay for CS books per year, and, thrust me, they are even more expensive around here. Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science --

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-12-07 Thread Andrey Andreev
Arafangion wrote: > On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:43, Andrey S Andreev wrote: >>I think (g)vi(m) should have made the list with 10 votes , as, at least >>in Debian vi and vim refer to the same thing, and gvim is still mostly >>just vim. > Careful when you say this to those who use vi or vim alot

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-10 Thread Andrey Andreev
Ricardo Teixeira wrote: > Andrey Andreev wrote: >> Ricardo Teixeira wrote: >>> Since I updated to 2.6.14-1-686, hda is in PIO mode, and when I do >>> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda i get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not >>> permitted". >>> Im

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Andrey Andreev
e had no problems with DMA up until 2.6.14. Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Andrey Andreev
try it ... I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module tainting my kernel. Thanks anyway, Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-04 Thread Andrey Andreev
Sid has refused to cope with hardware automatically without hotplug. Good luck, Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Andrey Andreev
ng. The controller and drive have been working fine for 2 years with all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels I have tried. I bet there is a new and quite generic bug somewhere. Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-03 Thread Andrey Andreev
3D animation [ blender ] audio editor [ audacity ] audio player [ amarok ] dbms [ postgresql ] disc burner [ k3b ] e-mail client [ thunderbird ] file manager [ mc ] image editor [ gimp ] image viewer [ kuickshow ] mathematics [ octave, maxima, latex, texmacs ] misc utilities [

[SOLVED] Broken install (files list file for package `x11-common' missing)

2005-08-18 Thread Andrey Andreev
Andrey Andreev wrote: > Some time ago I installed X.org from debian.linux-systeme.com on my > Debian Sid. > Yesterday I decided to switch to the X.org, now provided unstable so I > lowered the priority of debian.linux-systeme.com in /etc/apt/preferences > I ran dist-upgrade with apt

Broken install (files list file for package `x11-common' missing)

2005-08-18 Thread Andrey Andreev
ev xfonts-75dpi xlibmesa-gl-dev libxmuu-dev xbase-clients xlibosmesa-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Andrey Andreev University of

Re: Sun JRE, JSDK and J2EE on debian

2005-06-30 Thread Andrey Andreev
re-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.bin > And here's some step by step instructions: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142 Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-06-29 Thread Andrey Andreev
video support and no visualisations :) Some time ago I switched (after many years of using xmms) to amaroK. It's not exactly minimalistic at all, but it is a purpose-built and very capable audio player. It is the only player that I've tried that fits my use patterns from xmms and winamp. I rec

Re: SUN JavaVM & debian

2005-06-28 Thread Andrey Andreev
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I noticed this problem: > > if one install the SUN JVM (and SDK) debian doesn't notice it (ok normal...). Check: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142 Regards, Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science --

Re: A direct way to find hard links?

2005-06-22 Thread Andrey Andreev
x Oh, I see. Well, no idea. I tried ncheck in debugfs but that is slow too and didn't even return all the hardlinks. > I strongly suspect that using something based on this > $ ls -li /path/to/x > $ find /try/this/path -inum 1234 > is the only way. I guess so too. Andro --

Re: A direct way to find hard links?

2005-06-22 Thread Andrey Andreev
Andrey Andreev wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: >>When I see in a listing that a file has one or more other hard links, for >>example: >>is there any direct way to find the other /path/to/files that point to the >>same inodes? > Something like in bash: > > for (( i=

Re: A direct way to find hard links?

2005-06-22 Thread Andrey Andreev
assume my bash is dreadful, so if you have a prettier solution just tell me. Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Andrey Andreev
; spending money on? Sun JDK is not open source at all. That's quite a lot. It is not freely redistributable. Either way, I use it too. Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disable power button in Linux

2005-06-13 Thread Andrey Andreev
quick way to do it? How about configuring your computer to "power on keyboard", and then unplugging the power button from your motherboard?. That would surely do it. Pozdrawi, ;) Andrey -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: XFree86 packages mess, Xkb broken, how to clean up

2005-06-13 Thread Andrey Andreev
Johan Kullstam wrote: > Andrey Andreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >>A month later, after some upgrades of X my xkb stopped working. I >>noticed that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb does not exist, so I made a >>symlinked it to /etc/X11/xkb/. Now, to my surprise X would

Re: XFree86 packages mess, Xkb broken, how to clean up

2005-06-09 Thread Andrey Andreev
g the Debian unstable packages, so I don't want to build a vanilla XFree86 or xorg. I was considering installing Xorg from some place (was it Alioth...), but I'd rather wait until it gets into Sid. X is available, just xkb fails. Thanks for responding, Andro -- Andrey Andreev Unive

Re: mouse wheel doesn't work after sarge upgrade

2005-06-09 Thread Andrey Andreev
gt; Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" The file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 if we're talking plain Sarge. Regards, Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XFree86 packages mess, Xkb broken, how to clean up

2005-06-09 Thread Andrey Andreev
o easy, I would prefer not to do it). So, all ideas are very welcome. Regards, Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-03 Thread Andrey Andreev
Radu Brumariu wrote: > Andrey Andreev wrote: >>Radu Brumariu wrote: >>>Andrey Andreev wrote: >>>>>-- >>>>>Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp' >>>>> ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since ins

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-02 Thread Andrey Andreev
Radu Brumariu wrote: Andrey Andreev wrote: -- Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-02 Thread Andrey Andreev
Lars Roland wrote: [snip] -- Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package m