fglrx not working for resolution above 1760 (width)

2008-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450426 am I the only one seeing that bug? fglrx seems to be broken for resolution where width is above 1760 pixels, for several releases (I filed the bug Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:14:30 -0800), just tried latest version fglrx-driver 8.45.4-1 and

fglrx: openGL broken for screen width greater than 1760 pixels (bug #450426)

2007-12-23 Thread Erik Steffl
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450426 Since fglrx-driver 8.42.3-2 most of the openGL screen (either full screen or windowed) is corrupted when the width of the openGL window is more than 1760 pixels. The way it looks: top of the window (1/4 or so) looks OK, the rest of th

Preview of cursors for X

2007-11-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Is there any way to preview the cursor themes for X? I have several cursor packages installed (e.g. chameleon-cursor-theme comixcursors crystalcursors dmz-cursor-theme etc.) and can change from one cursor theme to another using "sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme" however I canno

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-05-08 Thread Erik Steffl
jason.public wrote: On 4/9/07, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: >When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after > some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). [...] >fglrx-

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:13 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). [...] fglrx-driver 8.31.5-1 (proprietary driver) The first thing I would try to

DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Steffl
When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). When I run e.g. xset dpms 60 65 70 it works again (for some time). Only idea I have is that openGL unsets/reset/break dpms (that's about the only graphics weirdne

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds. system: debian unstable icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1 pentium 2.4

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Wim De Smet wrote: ... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ... indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing power not to mention disk I/O which I'm just not seeing. it takes few minutes to open /u

Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading files (it's probably used in other places as well). The dialog has two parts - left part has shortcut to user home dir, desktop and filesystem, right

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2007-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
David Baron wrote: ... perl discussion snipped ... With Windows, we bought a nice debugger--any one know of such a beast GPLed under Linux? Being able to watch those vairables was a life-saver. A decent IDE would be nice as well (For using .net, one has Microsoft's Visual Studion in Windows--re

SOLVED: Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-12-03 Thread Erik Steffl
file) avidemux to cut the avi (there were quite a few failed attempts, using different codes/programs etc. so hope this will help...) erik Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:42:51AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: any pointers to solutions? Programs to use? Settings? H

how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have a DVD (PAL system, not sure if it matters, no copy protection) and I'd like to convert it to something that I can upload to youtube (or just send to friends). I am using debian linux system (unstable). I tried dvdrip and cinelerra (from http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/build

pavuk: does it work for anybody? (segfaults here)

2006-09-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Just tried to use pavuk, it seems pretty unstable just trying to configure the download scenario and then reliably segfaults when starting the download (both with X frontend and commandline). There are bugs already filed (200+ days old) for this (as far as I can tell, they also mention segfaul

Re: ATI Driver Installer ATI Installer Version: 8.27.10

2006-08-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Mitch wrote: On 08/09/06 00:12 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried the new ati driver installer. Here is what I did: Well now all I get is: Mesa GLX Indirect (*). Is there a step that I am missing ? I use those drivers on two machines. I build my modules with make-kpkg,

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Wohler wrote: [SNIP] 2. The courier fonts were ugly. The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font path). I did not have to resort to the workaround p

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Bill Wohler wrote: In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well. I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a major upgrade (at le

Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:20:02 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] Is there an ATI Debian package? Yes, but only in unstable. The packages of interest are fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src. The latter can conveniently be built using module-assistant. I use t

SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:04:58 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] ... The next thing I would check is that various symlinks in /usr/lib/ point to the fglrx libraries rather than the mesa ones. You should at least look at /usr/lib/libGL.so* a

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:19:38 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:16:15 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the latest xorg

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:16:15 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the latest xorg packages? Yes. I have fglrx working with xorg and the stock Debian 686 kernel in an up-to-date sid i

Re: Determinate the directory whithin a script

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2006/6/18, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a script in something like /media/sda1/backup/script.sh since sda1 could be also sda2 or anything, I want to determintate at run-time what is the directory in which the script is located, how can I do? pwd doesn't wor

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
tware rendering is used. any ideas where to go from here? Would you (or somebody else) mind posting relevant parts of xorg.conf (and perhaps kernel but I guess I have that part working since the kernel module is loaded) TIA erik Richard wrote: On 19/06/06, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL P

xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the latest xorg packages? I installed fglrx packages (build the kernel module etc.) but it doesn't seem to accept xorg 7: (II) fglrx(0): UMM Bus area: 0xd0acb000 (size=0x07535000) (II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xd0acb000 (si

drupal package status?

2006-05-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Any ideas what's the status of drupal package in debian? drupal 4.6.x is tagged pending (for about a year), maintainer said he has no time, drupal version 4.7.0 is out now but if there's no update it's going to be hard to update (drupal site recommends to upgrade to 4.7 only from 4.6)

Re: Otazka

2006-02-07 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dobry den. Mam zaujem si nainstalovat Debian do pocitaca ale chcem tam mat aj windows xp profesional ktory mam taktiez uz zakupeny. Akym stylom to treba instalovat tak aby tam boli obidva systemy? ktory prvy a ktory druhy? ja mam uz v notebooku nainstalovanu verziu debian

Re: mouse

2005-09-16 Thread Erik Steffl
sela wrote: I am going to sound like a goof ball but, my mouse roller working in the wrong direction mean scrolling up will take down and vice verse. here is my debian XF86Config-4 , which work wrong: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver

Re: weirdest network problems of my ilfe

2005-09-15 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ok after installing the new router that came w/ my dsl i'm having the most mind-boggling internet problems of my life. Here's some background on my network: +Linux box |Linux laptop (wireless) W

SOLVED: Re: cyrus21: Address family not supported by protocol

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Erik Steffl wrote: Sep 13 03:06:40 jojda cyrus/master[9483]: unable to create imaps listener socket: Address family not supported by protocol Something gone wrong in your IPV6 (or lack thereof) setup? Tell cyrus to bind explicitly to

cyrus21: Address family not supported by protocol

2005-09-13 Thread Erik Steffl
got the following error message from cyrus after reboot: Sep 13 03:06:40 jojda cyrus/master[9483]: unable to create imaps listener socket: Address family not supported by protocol and cyrus imapd does not listen on 993 (MUAs cannot connect to it). It was working fine before reboot. Other

Re: installation problems with SATA drives

2005-09-05 Thread Erik Steffl
SALAH NOURI wrote: Hi, did anybody figure out how to install debian on a machine with 2 or more SATA drives? i get the error "no partitionable media" when booting the installer with the default parameters. and booting with expert26 gives me "no common cd-rom drive was detected". - make sur

Re: gaim/gtk themes

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Wayne Sitton wrote: I'm running etch,KDE, and Gaim. Problem is the incomming messages window, the text is too small to read. I've changed the type of gtk theme, and even increased the font size. But it increases the font size for everything but the incoming messages window. does anyone know h

drupal error: cannot instantiate xmlrpc_client (cron)

2005-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
since latest upgrade of drupal I get the following error from Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ -x /usr/share/drupal/scripts/cron.sh ] && /usr/share/drupal/scripts/cron.sh: Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: xmlrpc_client in /usr/share/drupal/modules/drupal.module on line 1

Re: xorg in sid

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul Scott wrote: I see that some xorg packages are now in sid. Are there enough packages to switch from xfree86? Are there any problems? the new open gl packages remove the old ones and thus whole bunch of programs: apt-get install libglu1-xorg (or x-window-system-core wich installs li

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-17 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday June 17 2005 12:19 pm, Aarre Laakso wrote: Hello, I run Debian unstable. I noticed today that I don't have a 'rename' command in /usr/bin anymore, I can't recall 'rename' being a command anywhere but MS-DOS. You probably meant 'mv'. there's a fancy rename

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Lamb wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: are you talking about pre-2k times only? I mean during last four years imap support seems to be pretty good (and improving). Thunderbird definitely isn't the first usable MUA, as far as imap support goes. Nope. In the past few years I

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Lamb wrote: Rogério Brito wrote: Not only Thunderbird, but other MUAs, independently of what platform you're confined to use. That's the beauty of IMAP, IMVHO. That's the beauty of properly implemented IMAP on the client side. I remember back in my PMMail/2 beta test days ('94-'95

ATI driver errors after last dist-upgrade ([fglrx:firegl_rmmap] *ERROR* map 0xde28ff10 still in use)

2005-05-18 Thread Erik Steffl
after last aptitude ugg (upgrade of everything) I suddenly see huge number of error message like this in /var/log/syslog: May 17 22:02:37 jojda kernel: [fglrx:firegl_rmmap] *ERROR* map 0xde28ff10 still in use (map_count=1) there is huge number of them (436 between May 18 07:45:31 and May 18

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2005-01-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... I know nothing about digital cameras. My daughter suddenly shows up with one and I google for the brand (I forget it now) and the site shows only XP info, I tell her: no support for your camera. Was I wrong? You mean I plug it in anyway and it might work? it's fairly

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-12-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike wrote: I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use in a linux world. apt-get install gtkpod works fairly well, it's only for managing your iPod, not a general music/media management program. you also need kernel support for mac style paritions and hfs+ (if y

Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

2004-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Wayne Topa wrote: Jules Dubois([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I just ran aptitude and it got "The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED". There are 8 packages it wants to remove, one of which is bluefish, which I am us

Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

2004-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:10 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think you are confusing the two. Alsa is a sound architecture but esound is a sound daemon. Alsa makes sounds where as esound plays more of a traffic cop role. Bottom line is tha

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Steffl
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(l

Re: usb storage kernel module with 2.4 kernel

2004-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:00:19PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: i'm trying to mount my new iPod on my home computer now. at work, running the 2.6.6 kernel, the only kernel module i needed to modprobe was usb-storage. here, running the 2.4.26 kernel, i don't seem to have a m

Re: vfat iPod suddenly fails to write [was: Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB]

2004-09-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:02:31AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: ... /dev/sda /mnt/ipod hfsplus rw,user,noauto,noatime 0 0 ), /var/log/syslog gives the error: Sep 27 16:12:48 homeruns kernel: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted

Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB

2004-09-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: ... /dev/sda /mnt/ipod hfsplus rw,user,noauto,noatime 0 0 ), /var/log/syslog gives the error: Sep 27 16:12:48 homeruns kernel: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. mounting read-only. and then it mounts it read-

Re: mousewheels in 2.4.26 vs 2.6.7

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Steffl
John Summerfield wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I use the same X Debian package + XF86Config-4 in the 2 kernel versions and the same Sarge release. But... in 2.6.7 my 2 mousewheel A4Tech optical mouse has only the upper wheel active and in 2.4.26 both. So since the only difference is

Re: xcdroast

2004-09-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Micha Feigin wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:24:09PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I have the 2.6 kernel. using this I've assumed I can run ATAPI burners, but XCDroast has heart burn itself... I have 2.6.5 kernel, debian unstable xcdroast warns me tht I should be using scsi devices but other tha

Re: Executing script on X login

2004-09-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:47:38PM -0700, Matt Perry wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Erik Steffl wrote: problem 1 (that's just something to be careful about): if you just have the default x-window-manager it can be replaced during update and when you restart WM the

Re: Executing script on X login

2004-09-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Wim De Smet wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:18:46 -0700 (PDT), Matt Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a file where I can put programs to be run when I log into X via XDM? I tried .Xsession but that just dumps me back out to XDM. That's logical. The .xsession is run as a script. So it starts a

famd eating 100% CPU?

2004-08-27 Thread Erik Steffl
I just noticed that famd is eating (almost) 100% CPU, before that I didn't even know such a thing existed. Anybody has any ideas why would it go crazy? top says: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 19629 erik 25 0 3616 1364 2572 R 87.4 0.2 510:36.14

Re: copying text from console to X with gpmdata?

2004-08-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:20:30PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: gpmdata only carries mouse clicks, it doesn't do anything with selections. My advice: Use XTerm. I like my 212x78 console. (And I don't need GPM!) I use xterm, but I can't copy from an xterm into a "fully" graphical a

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

2004-08-12 Thread Erik Steffl
John Summerfield wrote: Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via freshmeat the other day: configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20); sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",geten

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-08-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [. . .] My point is that it's really is a choice. The fact is that in majority of cases the heap is the better choise. But, I don't see any inherent reason why you shouldn't u

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-08-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Ryo Furue wrote: [. . .] That's a good question. In fact, most modern Unix/Linux systems allow you to use as large stacksize as you like, roughly speaking. Although the default stakesi

Re: Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO for Debian

2004-08-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: Those of you who installed Postfix and Cyrus. Did you follow this howto? http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/index.html Can I see your config files? I am using debian packages (unstable) for both cyrus2 and postfix, here are the relevant parts

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-08-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [...] It's interesting that some of the new features are (or seem to me to be) mainly for numerical computations, such as the "restrict" keyword and the builtin complex numbers. Possibly, but isn't this

Re: Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO for Debian

2004-08-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: Those of you who installed Postfix and Cyrus. Did you follow this howto? http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/index.html Any tips? I am using lmtp for delivery, I think it is required if you want to use sieve. erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Migration: Mozilla Mail to Mozilla Thunderbird

2004-08-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Aaron B wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 August 2004 11:16 am, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, is there a secure (and easy) to migrate from Mozilla Mail to Mozilla Thunderbird ? Thanks in advance, Jerome Yes, in fact, Mozilla Mail and Mozilla Firefox use the sa

postfix aliases ignored

2004-08-02 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks like postfix (for a long time, it's not a new problem) aliases are not working on my system, all aliases are ingored, any pointers appreciated, here are the details: debian unstable postfix 2.1.4-4 relevant lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_data

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [. . .] it's [1]. debian has very slow release cycles, but unstable is much better quality than you'd expect from name. In general I see unstable being equal to latest releases

Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

2004-07-27 Thread Erik Steffl
John Summerfield wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: The 2.6 kernel I'm running here looks like it will work. THere's a 2.6 kernel there too, but it's in a different box. If I have to go onsite, I might as well use OSX on the powerbook. However,

Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

2004-07-27 Thread Erik Steffl
John Summerfield wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: The 2.6 kernel I'm running here looks like it will work. THere's a 2.6 kernel there too, but it's in a different box. If I have to go onsite, I might as well use OSX on the powerbook. However, I _can_ build a Sarge 2.4 kernel. Maybe.

Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

2004-07-26 Thread Erik Steffl
John Summerfield wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: John Summerfield wrote: I have an external (USB) disk that has Linux files iin a Mac HFS+ disk. It's connected to my IA32 peecee: Parted sees it thus: Echidna:~# parted /dev/sda GNU Parted 1.4.24 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Sof

Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

2004-07-26 Thread Erik Steffl
John Summerfield wrote: I have an external (USB) disk that has Linux files iin a Mac HFS+ disk. It's connected to my IA32 peecee: Parted sees it thus: Echidna:~# parted /dev/sda GNU Parted 1.4.24 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free softwar

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Ryo Furue wrote: [...] In fact I looked at the homepage of nptl. That was kind of scary to me :) The page says that you need to use a rather new kernel and libc. [...] I don't think

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news: [...] I'm using the Intel Fortran Compiler (IFC). Its version 7 runs on Debian without any problem whatsoever, although Intel doesn't support Debian. But, last year Intel released a total rewrite of the compiler, version 8,

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Kent West wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: Kent West wrote: The result is that the vendor chooses not to go down that path, and Linux remains a niche product rather let's see another example. so there you go, windows will remain a niche product blah blah blah... Calling a product that has

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Hi, Since Kent West has kindly clarified what I wanted to say, I'm not going to repeat my main point. Only the following: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [...] about particular software (nptl thread library) not bei

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Kent West wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: Ryo Furue wrote: I think one of the biggest problems for developers of commercial software for Linux is that there's no such thing as "the" Linux OS. There are simply too many combinations of the kernel version, libc version, pthreads version,

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Working in a MS, Solaris, Linux, Tru64 shop, I find that for the vast majority of our servers the usability of Linux is as good as Unix if not better. While Unix might have high end bits Linux lacks f

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-07-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 03:41:13AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: mount -t hfsplus -w /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod Same thing...it's still read-only. any errors? what if yo

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-07-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Ok, this worked (yay!!) but it is read-only. I found a document which said the partition may need to be cleaned first on a Mac, but I tried this and it didn't help. I didn't hav

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-07-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:06:41PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: what about sda3? This is what works for me (that's without relying on /etc/fstab): mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod Ok, this worked (yay!!) but it is read-only. I found a document which said the part

Re: Recent alsa midi problem

2004-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Silvan wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:47 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote: After a recent dist-upgrade on my "sid" system midi has stopped working. Which leads me to believe that snd-emu10k1 and snd-emu10k1-synth have been loaded correctly. is it anything similar to my problem? my email to debian-u

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Bijan Soleymani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Installed woody. My system boots to a prompt. I then do startx to run xserver. I then run mozilla to surf. What I would like to do is copy some text from the browser and paste it into the vi editor. How can this be done? Select the text in the

modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes (sb live! kernel 2.6.5)

2004-07-05 Thread Erik Steffl
alsa used to work on my system, I didn't change anything I think might be related and suddenly the modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes. system: debian unstable kernel 2.6.5 (with alsa) I did not change kernel or modules (I checked and there are no new/changed files under /lib/modules/2.6.5

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. [1] -- ... has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? usually the yahoo web messenger works, good as an emergency until the oth

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:21:42AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: ... smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, or too many mounted file systems what about sda3? This is what

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: ... smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, or too many mounted file systems what about sda3? This is what works for me (that's without relying on /etc/fstab): mount -t hfsplus

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: ... smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, or too many mounted file systems what about sda3? This is what works for me (that's without relying on /etc/fstab): mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod what

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:20:45AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: are you sure you didn't do any other changes? it looks like you don't have support for PC partitions. I just checked, the partition support cannot be compiled as a module (I use 2.6.5), here's

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:23:18PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: that's not it, those are both file systems (in .config: # Miscellaneous filesystems), you need support for mac style partitions: # Partition Types Ouch. Bad idea. I get kernel panics when I try to boot

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:23:18PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: that's not it, those are both file systems (in .config: # Miscellaneous filesystems), you need support for mac style partitions: # Partition Types Ahh! Recompiling... Does it really matter for the 2.6.x ke

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:05:39PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: note that you need both HFS+ filesytem AND mac style partitions kernel support to be able to work with the iPod. I have both... From File Systems -> Miscellaneous filesystems: x x<*&

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:44:58PM -0500, James Abella wrote: When sbp2 can log in, use fdisk to get basic partition info of /dev/sda. If there are only sda1 and sda2, it's Win mode. If not, the easiest way to convert it to Win mode is to install iTune on one Windows box.

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Esteban Martinez wrote: Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I no need to consider:-) you can just try different WMs, most of them even without restarting X (last time I tried it KD

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Erik Steffl
LeVA wrote: Hi! I want to download the pictures from a fuji digital camera. ... there was a lot of discussion about using the camera in usb mass storage mode. Did anybody try to use it in PC cam mode? I googled for it (even read the webcam howto) but it's hard to figure out what does it mean -

postfix: /etc/aliases ignored?

2004-06-15 Thread Erik Steffl
system: debian unstable, postfix 2.1.1-8 I have /etc/aliases, recreated /etc/aliases.db using newaliases even though I am not sure it matter because here's what I have in main.cf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases the problemn is that aliases are ignored, e.g

Re: Solved with a modeline: Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:26:25PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: if you set the frequencies right it should work without edid (and without modelines). it's possible you will need modeline though, I don't know the details of your situation... You sir are my hero!

Re: Solved with a modeline: Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:32:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: didn't catch the beginning but if you are sure that monitor supports it you can include the following in Section "Device": Option "UseEdidFreqs" "false"

Re: Solved with a modeline: Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:09, William Ballard wrote: From this snippet of XFree86.0.log, can anyone construct a modeline which will come up at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The monitor is NEC LCD1850E with a Radeon 9800XT. (II) fglrx(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) fglrx(0):

Re: Multimedia Optimisation

2004-06-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Simon L wrote: Do you know where I could find informations on how to make my Debian computer go faster for all the media things? I know that my computer can go much more faster than now, because it does on Windows and I would like to do the same on linux. depends on what you want and what is t

Re: X Server Crashing on DPMS Event

2004-06-06 Thread Erik Steffl
effect of the -dpms option. I did not see that option documented. Barry On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 04:30:22PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Barry Skidmore wrote: I believe I am having a problem with the xserver failing whenever my monitor's DPMS kicks in. After either windowmaker or enlightenmen

Re: X Server Crashing on DPMS Event

2004-06-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Barry Skidmore wrote: I believe I am having a problem with the xserver failing whenever my monitor's DPMS kicks in. After either windowmaker or enlightenment have run for 15 minutes, the window manager quits and I am put back into the console with the following errors: Fatal server error: Cau

Re: Strange lockups in X

2004-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Nate Bargmann wrote: Hi. About two weeks ago I updated both of my machines to the then latest versions in Testing. At the same time the xfree packages of version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1. Shortly after that I began to experience instant freezes on both the laptop and the desktop which are two very differe

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Ignatz Sol wrote: I'm fairly new at Linux, but I really enjoy using Debian. I'm looking to install a desktop Linux at home in a dual-boot mode. As the Debian desktop still has a ways to go, can ya'll recommend a distro for me? It needs to be slick to please my wife, but I love the Debian spirit.

Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

2004-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Aldous Huxley wrote: Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to play mp3s using console-based players like "splay". So I'd like to be able to boot into X login, then back out of X when I'm through "working"

Re: please help- I can't even figure my mailer

2004-05-07 Thread Erik Steffl
chuck boothe wrote: ... Could you, would you plleeeaaae look down from your mount of knowledge just long enough to give me- line by line (VERBATIM)- the directions that I need to access root through a terminal (yes, I do you need to provide more info about what problem you have. Generally o

mouse wheel problems after upgrade to 2.6.5 kernel

2004-04-20 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks that after update to 2.6.5 kernel (debian source package) the mouse wheel does not work very well. *It doesn't seem to be X related* Here's the most basic/simple situation/symptoms: I stop X, read bytes from /dev/psaux (c program, using open and read). for each mouse action there

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