patches in deb prebuilt kernel

Where can i find a list of the patches that are included in the Debian Prebuilt kernel (specifically 2.6.9-1-k7) Cheers Blake -- Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax:+61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 23:50 +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Sorry I can't remember how I can redirect the stdout and stderr together > into a file. I can > > grep > logfile > grep 2> logfile > > but how can I redirect both together? > grep 2>&1 logfile

Re: Playing a wav

enter "apt-cache search > play". > > Would someone be so kind as to suggest a command line tool for this that's > available on Debian? apt-get install sox sox /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav -t ossdsp /dev/dsp Cheers Blake -- Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer

eclipse 3

does anyone know if eclipse 3.0.1 or 3.1 RC is available anywhere as a deb package? Cheers Blake -- Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax:+61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web:http://www.eenvoy.com.au

Re: Transport debian woody from laptop to PC

second drive. the lilo.conf was set up so that it assumed the drive was a primary master and so was not bootable until connected properly. -- chroot /mnt/clone sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.clone exit -----

Re: OpenOffice 1.1 spelling checker broken?

red on my console: > > Did you miss installing the dictionary file maybe? I had to install some > weird myspell stuff think. have you tried configuring your dictionaries with DicOOo.sxw. Run the macros and it fixes all things boned :) http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/auto_inst

Re: Editing PDF forms

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 06:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Blake Swadling wrote: > > > >> > >> yikes. I thought I'd give this a shot and it saved every character in > >> a 3 page document as a bezier curve. I'd prefer not to have to cut > >&g

Re: Editing PDF forms

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:29, Blake Swadling wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:21, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So you end up with one .fig file for each page in the doc. You edit each page the way you do by hand and create an .eps file for each also. yikes. I thought I'd

Re: Editing PDF forms

as a bezier curve. I'd prefer not to have to cut chars from beziers. Is this a freak or have i missed something? the file i was converting is at http://www.international-presence.com/media/agswmaint.pdf Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2

Re: Flash card reader

9 19:24:37 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 ... Sep 29 19:24:37 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdf at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 3 then you can mount (as root) it using mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb I have 4 slots so the slot t

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:28, Christian Leimer wrote: > > Blackdown is 1.3 and Sun SDKs are only for Intel. Ah latest PPC release is 1.3. Confused me cause the latest x86 is 1.4. bugger :( Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 624

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian/ unstable main non-free apt-get install j2sdk1.4 ant ant-doc HTH Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web: http://www.newton.com.au

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

le") && system("gdialog --msgbox \"Jar file \"$jar_file\" is not executable\n\" 100 100"); } #report usage info sub usage { system("gdialog --msgbox \"usage: run-jar.pl foo.jar\" 100 100"); } -- \|||/

Re: Run script as often as possible

, exit. > Is this the best way? yeah. Accpeted method is to write a lock file to /var/lock and exit if it exists Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web: http://www.newton.com.au signature.a

Re: windows with no decorations

y . [EMAIL PROTECTED] eenvoy]$ metacity --version metacity 2.4.34 Nasty side effects is right. I  only need to hide the borders, not start it independent of the window manager. Thanks anyway Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fa

windows with no decorations

Howdy I have a need to start certain apps (specifically mplayer)  with no window decorations. I recall that with older versions on gnome this could be done via the window menus. Does anyone know how this can be done with gnome2? TIA Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd

gnome-python-vfs

I've been having a peek at gdesklets and quite a few are non functional due to missing python bindings for gnome-vfs. anyone know where i might find this mythical beast in unstable? Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

k diagrams, circuit diagrams, logic, etc. Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web: http://www.newton.com.au <> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: bash profile does not get loaded?

SESSIONFILE done fi I am running xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and it was inserted as a default setting. check that your version of xfree86-common has this. IF it doesnt you can wither add it or run the script directly from the Xsession file Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newto

Re: bash profile does not get loaded?

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:08, Arne Götje (=?utf-8?q?=E9=AB=98=E7=9B=9B=E8=8F=AF?=) wrote: > On Thursday 23 September 2004 17:58, Blake Swadling wrote: > > try calling it /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xfree86-common_xim. It is very > > picky about the name format as i mentioned previously

Re: xscreensaver

on bit means it gets run for all WMs (i think) and the bit after the underscore can be whatever you like (hopefully describes what the script does :)). Hope that helps Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61

Re: bash profile does not get loaded?

/Xsession.d/45_xim, > also no success. > try calling it /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xfree86-common_xim. It is very picky about the name format as i mentioned previously > Cheers > Arne -- \|||/ ( / \ ) ( O O ) ___

Re: Setting the environment before Gnome starts up

ime i log in regardless of which WM i choose. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2004-09-21 21:07 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_profile -> /etc/profile HTH Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Tel

Re: How to have X not start at boot?

n if you decide you want to fire up a graphical login, as root run telinit 3 then to go back to colsole only telinit 2 uninstalling also works, but then you dont have the graphical option later cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +

bash profile does not get loaded?

Howdy folks when i log into X ~/.bash_profile and /etc/profile do not get automagically loaded. however if I log in from the console it load fine. any ideas? I am running unstable with xserver-xfree8 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and bash 3.0-6. tia Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd

raid barfs at startup with 2.6 kernel

after logging in then all is fine.  mdadm-raid always fails hence the use of raidtools. All packages are up to date. It appears to me that the raid as trying to start before the modules are present. Has anyone seen this?   how do i get it to load correctly now. Cheers Blake Blake Swadling Senior

Re: change hostname

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 16:40, Afsin Taskiran wrote: > # vi /etc/hosts This might not have quite the effect that you are after. this will only allow you to add an alias for your host. the hostname must be configured separately using the hostname command try #man hostname Blake Swadling Sen

Re: Mplayer: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.

ecking out http://www.mplayerhq.hu. i believe you can get the file there, or at least there is a link there. > Thanks Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web: http://www.newton.com.au signature.asc Desc

who has the file open?

I know there is a command out there somewhere that can tell me which process has opened a particular file but I'm having a senior moment and I cant remember. Goolgle aint helping either Can someone help me out pls Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone:

Re: Soundcard Support???

iling that maybe some logs might help Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mobile: +61 407 026277 Web: http://www.newton.com.au signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: CAN'T SUBSCRIBE

om this list. I can read it in the > archives or using gmane, but I'd much prefer to receive standard email from > the list. > > If someone would help or could forward this email to someone that can, I > would gretly appreciate it. > > Thanks! - John > Preferred email:

Re: dead X install

I have sorted the problem. I disassembled the damn PC and there is a distinct odour of the magic smoke inside the case. Cant see what went pop but I'm guessing it was related to the GPU. Thanks for the help -- Blake Swadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.s

Re: dead X install

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Re: Recording the screen

and then be able to play it back as a movie. > > Is there a ready solution for me? you can also use "import" to capture either the screen or a single widow. gimp has screen cap facilities too Cheers     -- Blake Swadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.swadling.co

Re: dead X install

input is ignored. this was the first thing i tried Oh, and try disabling DPMS. DPMS allows for monitor powersaving, but it crashes the Xserver for some reason on my system... -- \|||/ ( / \ ) ( O O ) ___oOOo-( )-oOOo__

dead X install

10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 2 Sep 10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x40) is not claimed by any active driver. Sep 10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev Sep 10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid Sep 10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical] on usb1:2.0 Sep 10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sep 10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers Sep 10 10:59:14 localhost kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Sep 10 10:59:15 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] Sep 10 10:59:15 localhost kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected Sep 10 10:59:15 localhost kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). Sep 10 10:59:18 localhost kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0 Sep 10 10:59:57 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. Sep 10 11:00:02 localhost papd[950]: [main.c:278]: I:PAPDaemon: restart (1.6.4) -- Blake Swadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.swadling.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part