excessive periodic scsi disk seeks

2006-11-16 Thread Carl Greco
Upgrade from previous (3.0) to current Debian stable (3.1r3) resulted in periodic scsi disk seeks (approximately 1/sec) on a PIII with default kernel Linux version 2.6.8-3-686 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Thu Sep 7 03:38:22 UTC 2006 and with Adaptec 2940U2W

Keyboard Shortcuts in Gnome

2006-10-18 Thread Carl Greco
Has anyone got the keyboard shortcut (Applications->Desktop Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts) assigned to "Take a screenshot" or "Take a screenshot of a window" to work for Sarge distribution (latest release with 2.6.8 kernel, gnome 2.8 and keyboard: pc104, us, xfree86)? Default setting has the

umount(ing) usbdrive mounted via gnome-volume-manager

2005-12-02 Thread Carl Greco
I cannot umount a usb memory stick that was mounted with gnome-volume-manager while the file browser, Nautilus 2.8.2, is running either by right clicking the desktop usbdisk icon or the folder in the file browser. Error message: "umount: /media/usbdisk: device is busy". The following is the attem

re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread Carl Greco
Alternatively, you could just download your favorite non-free JDK (as long as it is Sun's) and OOo from their home page and install it yourself from the upstream RPMs. -Roberto I did this, and it works quite well. But it took up a huge amount of space on my harddrive. -Mark I doubt th

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Carl Greco
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: --- Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edit your sources.list file (usually in /etc/apt). Add the following > line: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > Once you've done that, run apt-

Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Carl Greco
Sebastian Kayser wrote: Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. What's the option to provide to display the full name? a) You may try

CD burner and automount experiences/misadventures w/ kernel 2.6.8 on sarge

2005-07-02 Thread Carl Greco
I just recently upgraded from woody to sarge and struggled to get my CD burner (SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B, ATAPI) and automount to work. Since I could not find a cogent and concise description in any one document, thought I would share with the list how I finally succeeded with the kernel 2.6.8

Re: dh_clean error with apt-get source build

2001-11-14 Thread Carl Greco
nate said on November 13, 2001 at 22:15 (-0800) >Carl Greco said: >> I get the following error with the command > >> I'm running 2.2r4. dh_clean is part of the debhelper (2.0.86) >> package. dpkg is version 1.6.15 as is dpkg-dev where >> dpkg-buildpackag

dh_clean error with apt-get source build

2001-11-13 Thread Carl Greco
I get the following error with the command --- apt-get -b source fetchmail . . dh_clean dh_clean: Sorry, but 2 is the highest compatability level of debhelper currently supported. make: *** [clean] Error 1 -- dh_clean executes ok from command line. I'm running 2.2r4.

HP DeskJet driver (hpijs)

2001-08-19 Thread Carl Greco
Has the HP DeskJet driver, hpijs, been included in gs, or gs-aladdin in testing or unstable? I'm attempting to install lprng with magicfilter to serve a 895Cse printer under stable (potato). If not, what would be the best alternate solution? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hostname with dhcp-client

2001-08-11 Thread Carl Greco
following message when I attempt to read one of the messages: "The requested URL /www/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html was not found on this server." -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building SPICE3 deb packages.

2001-05-09 Thread Carl Greco
t;Stef Take a look at SPICE OPUS ``SPICE with integrated OPtimization UtilitieS'' [http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alsa Sound in Potato stable - question

2001-05-01 Thread Carl Greco
up to version 0.5.10b there, compared to >version >0.4.1 that's on the debian site. Normally I just compile a new >kernel >and toss in OSS from 4Front, but throught I would try something >new >since I got bit twice now on the Woody dist, and really need a >stable >box for home. > >Thanks! > >Dana -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)

2001-04-14 Thread Carl Greco
nstall): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: gnucash -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem compiling openssh

2001-04-13 Thread Carl Greco
ibrary. This failed saying it could not find libwrap. >However, when I checked for libwrap, it was there. Does anyone know >what is going on here or what to do? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Carl Greco
Setting DefaultColorDepth to 32 seems to solve the problem. Thanks Erik. Erik Steffl said on April 5, 2001 at 09:57 (-0700) >Carl Greco wrote: >> >> Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and >> netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white

DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Carl Greco
G400 -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Carl Greco
++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ >!K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+ > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Carl Greco
s a free powerpoint >presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should >try to get this to work with WINE. > >-Original Message- >From: Gavin Hamill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: maandag 12 maart 2001 17:06 >To: Carl Greco >Cc: Knud Sørensen; debia

Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Carl Greco
rpoint players for Linux. > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Carl Greco
E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + >+ http://www.aokiconsulting.com/pc/ Cupertino, CA USA + > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where should top-level info menu (dir) for emacs be?

2001-03-07 Thread Carl Greco
hare/info, but the dir file there is not updated. > >Thanks for your suggestions, > >Will > >-- >William F. Dowling >ISI/Thomson Scientific (www.isinet.com) >215-386-0100 x-1156 > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sblive

2001-02-26 Thread Carl Greco
doing wrong? > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *.gz

2001-02-23 Thread Carl Greco
t; >The next place for you to look for information is in the document >directories: > >/usr/share/doc/ > >So go look there for stuff on: gzip, more, less, bash, etc... > >Have fun! > >-- >Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | a.k.a. ^chewie >http://www.wookimus.net/| s.k.a. gunnarr >Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD > lesspipe Description: lesspipe -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is going on with the digest?

2001-02-19 Thread Carl Greco
or the present. Too bad - I prefer the digest version. > > >Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com >Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: library's hiding?

2001-02-17 Thread Carl Greco
there is a problem because the program is 'old' (<1998) and uses >the old >binary format (cannot remember which). > >Thanks, >Sebastiaan > >On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Carl Greco wrote: > >> Run the following command and check for errors: >> ldconfig -

Re: library's hiding?

2001-02-17 Thread Carl Greco
>How do I solve this properly (in stead of copying them to /lib)? > >Thanks in advance, >Sebastiaan > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Why do emacs' info files not show up in info?

2000-10-09 Thread Carl Greco
/usr/info" "/usr/share/info") This is the list of directories searched by emacs for info files. Make sure your info file directory is included in this list. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Emacs-20.5a & info path

2000-03-04 Thread Carl Greco
The search of the info-directory-list variable is corrupted when the auto-compression-mode is activated in the latest release of emacs for slink, i.e.: http://http.us.debian.org stable/main emacs20-el 20.5a-1.99 [5729kB] http://http.us.debian.org stable/main emacs20 20.5a-1.99 [8971kB] The info-di

Debian Hardware Certification??

2000-01-15 Thread Carl Greco
has a hardware certification program [http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware]. It would be helpful to have such a database for Debian to encourage commerical utilization. Is there one that I have overlooked? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer

1999-11-20 Thread Carl Greco
but this version of magicfilter does not include a pre-defined filter for hpdj. Are you using a later version of magicfilter with a pre-defined filter (or filters) for hpdj or did you created your own? If you developed your own hpdj filter(s) can we get a copy? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emacs20 install error

1999-10-19 Thread Carl Greco
and 20 and start over. > On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:55:41PM -0500, Carl Greco wrote: > > I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink > > system with the following steps: > > > > 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 > >[leaving emacsen-com

Emacs20 install error

1999-10-16 Thread Carl Greco
I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink system with the following steps: 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 [leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed] 2) Install emacs: apt-get install emacs20 Emacs installs but fails to configure with the following error mes

StarOffice 5.1

1999-08-28 Thread Carl Greco
ing SO 5.1 will be even slower. Other than that, what problems might I expect? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Porting Fortran apps to Debian

1999-07-04 Thread Carl Greco
ution). o estimate of man-hours to convert per lines of code. o references to web sites or journal articles if available. TIA. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-16 Thread Carl Greco
-s /usr2/share /usr/share etc. Just make sure that all the information in these /usr subdirectories are moved to the corresponding /usr2 prior to the symlinks. For that reason be VERY careful about applying this to /usr/lib or /usr/bin. This is also useful if you out grow your original /usr partition. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Super disk drive

1998-07-11 Thread Carl Greco
Has anyone successfully integrated the 120MB Super Disk drive (by Digital Research) in their Debian system? Is it recognized by the linux floppy driver? The linux/drivers/block/README.fd (and driver software) in linux-2.0.32 does not have any information about this drive. There is a floppy drive

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Carl Greco
eral other "free" unix os's is its extensive documentation. Please RT(very Fine)M. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \===

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-20 Thread Carl Greco
s a CD-ROM. (Mine did not.) However, IMO it is not necessary nor productive to require that MS-DOS be available for Debian installation. I would like to build a Linux system w/o having to pay MS a license fee for DOS. Although, perhaps MS should require Linux as a prerequisite to install NT ;-).

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-19 Thread Carl Greco
ree. As it > stands now, we still need DOS to use "rawrite.exe" anyway. > rawrite.exe is not necessary. You can use dd from an existing Linux/unix system. -- \====/ \ Carl Greco

Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

1997-01-13 Thread Carl Greco
oblems with the Cyrix CPU and what were the reported problems? Also, does anyone have a copy of a later version of the Hardware-HOWTO? Just checked tsx-11 and this was the latest from there. -- \====/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (4

dpkg package database error

1996-12-27 Thread Carl Greco
s happen? - Carl ===== Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: virtual mail domains... long-winded response

1996-12-19 Thread Carl Greco
IL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect that the proper MX record at the ISP would fix this. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UN

Re: how to print dvi files??

1996-12-12 Thread Carl Greco
t;magic" filters available to allow printing dvi files directly. Actually, they convert the dvi file to ps (or whatever is required for your printer). I use magicfilter with a HP DeskJet 660C. Also, look at apsfilter. -- \====/ \ Carl Gre

Re: DOS <--> Linux

1996-11-28 Thread Carl Greco
PT=10 DriverName=MS2000$ [protman] DriverName=PROTMAN$ PRIORITY=MS$NDISHLP [MS$NDISHLP] DriverName=ndishlp$ BINDINGS=MS$NE2CLONE Maybe it was not very optimized but it works ( in a 386, with 4Mb RAM, whitout HD ) ----- End of MSCLIENT Message -

UUCP lib/distribution mismatch

1996-11-17 Thread Carl Greco
? -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Mail server for MIME supported MUA's

1996-11-13 Thread Carl Greco
only one that I have found that provides MIME capability in this setting. Am I overlooking others? -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROT