Problem Understood: Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-09 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:37:50AM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > On Mar 08 2007, S Scharf wrote: > > > > > > On 3/8/07, Arlie Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >The recipe t

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > >H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > >>>I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, > >>>notably my email client mutt. Other versions of

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > 3. Make sure the relevant language fonts are installed. > > It looks like this is the problem. Not the fonts but the locales - the > only locales I have are 'C' and 'POSIX', at least on the system I use > most fre

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the detailed suggestions and explanation. I can't test this > immediately, but from what I can check, I think it's going to work. Well, I'm now at home, trying this, and it didn't quite work - the

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi, Thanks for the detailed suggestions and explanation. I can't test this imemdiatley, but from what I can check, I think it's going to work. On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote: > Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > > >I've got the same basic problem with just about ever

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, S Scharf wrote: > > On 3/8/07, Arlie Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >The recipe that *usually* works, indented here for convenient reading. > > > ># Debian User List > >:0H: > >* ^(To|Cc):.*debian-user > >

accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
french, german, and icelandic, plus a few related dead languages.) Using a windows XP box for all my non-english language work is *not* making me happy. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
Since > they decided to use iso-8859-1 throughout the document they could simply > have included > > > > in the HTML header. I see. Since I'm lazy - and unsure precisely what query to feed to a search engine - could you possibly point at a list of these tags. -- Arlie

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, jeffd wrote: > > Arlie Stephens wrote: > >I've got a strange problem with my procmail setup, and it's presently > >affecting my handling of the debian-user list. I suspect I've made > >some stupid error I just can't see. > > >

Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
than being applied to all mail received. (There's no practical difference, since it's a single user system, but I suppose the configuration might matter.) -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 02 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > > which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > > kernel's framebuffer. I

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 02 2007, Wackojacko wrote: > > Arlie Stephens wrote: > > >The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > >which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > >kernel's framebuffer. > > Have you tried manua

Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
etch immediately, if I can figure out how to do this. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf da

Solved: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > > sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot > > record - but I don't even know the

Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
ast > words) shouldn't be too onerous. Well, I'm not exactly the world's most experienced systems administrator - in fact, the term "incompetent amateur" is perhaps more like it ;-) So it might be a bit more onerous for me than for others. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephen

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > [snip] > > I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. > > Then I'l

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > > sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot > > record - but I don't even know the

sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
once while it was still on woody. Since I encountered no problems then, it's pretty clear the upgrade *is* the culprit, in spite of appearances. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

2006-12-04 Thread Arlie Stephens
man -k ', and if that provides anything, I assume that's all there is, short of an explicit pointer elsewhere. On Dec 04 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:57:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > For some bizarre reason, aptitude seems extremely fond of

Re: Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

2006-12-04 Thread Arlie Stephens
6, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:50:01 +1100, M-L wrote: > > On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:35, Florian Kulzer sent this for all our > > perusal: > > >---> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:02:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > >---> > Hi Folks, &

Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

2006-12-04 Thread Arlie Stephens
yet is doing something I don't want (perhaps using other packaging tools), but I may be completely wrong. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

2006-12-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
d with mv, some text file to be editted, or (I fear) some binary file to be modified only with some doubtless graphical tool? Also, assuming I fix whatever got misinstalled, how do I avoid having it break again every time some kde component is upgraded? -- Arlie

Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-28 Thread Arlie Stephens
kind of FAQ for coping with the large number of package management options and their confusing interrelationships. Does any such thing exist? -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-28 Thread Arlie Stephens
Thank you, everyone who offered suggestions and observations. I've got KDE working, basically by using aptitude to remove the remaining bits of gnome, and then (re)installing the kde meta-packages. On Nov 28 2006, Tim Post wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:55 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrot

Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-27 Thread Arlie Stephens
w to fix this mess? At the moment, the best thing I can think of would be to reinstall, with tasksel/kde-desktop. I'd prefer something a little less drastic. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]