> > OK for people with the spare cash for a DVD player and
> > 29" TV, how about you shell out for one for all of the rest
> > of us?
>
> A DVD player and 29" TV can probably be had for less money
> than many people spend on 'upgrades' of their computers every
> year !!
It's a specious argument.
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I
> > am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something
> > packaged.
>
> VideoLAN is great (www.videolan.org) and Xine works well too
> (xine.sourceforge.net).
VideoLan was the only one I
I have one guess: check and see if you have font anti-aliasing enabled
in the KDE control panel. If you do, turn it off and restart- you
should now get a list of all available fonts. Enabling AA disables all
bitmapped fonts.
> I seem to be having a problem with fonts in kde.
>
> I had a certain
> > Dude, the Debs are just a packaged version of the Nvidia drivers, and
> > auto-download from Nividia's site, so it makes no difference.
>
> It certainly does make a difference. I was not criticising Debian
> packages/maintainers, merely the nature of the Nvidia drviers.
As far as supporting
> On 02 Sep 2001 21:29:56 +0100, David wrote:
>
> > Just use the drivers from nVidia.
>
> ...and encourage a company to continue releasing non-Free software.
Dude, the Debs are just a packaged version of the Nvidia drivers, and
auto-download from Nividia's site, so it makes no difference.
And,
> I'm a GPL advocate, but I work for a company who doesn't feel quite the
> same way as me.
> I recently edited WinVNC (yes I know it's windows, but I couldn't find a
> GPL mailing list). This edited WinVNC was meant to be absolutely invisible
> to the user of the workstation. There i
> Does this imply that you don't need GNOME or KDE in order to run programs
> that were "written for" one of those desktop environments? For example,
> the GNOME terminal, or some other program that has 'gnome' in its title?
> How about Konqueror, or other "KDE" apps? Can I run these programs wi
Your question is sort of unclear. First of all, I should clarify
something- Qt is just a GUI toolkit- a library which programs can, if
they chose, link against in order to provide the widgets which Qt
provides. Since it's just a library, no 'switching' is involved- just
run a program which uses Qt
The lpr package has a rather silly bug whereby it fails with a usage message
when given the (legitimate) -#n option. Not really a problem (I can just
print however many copies I need one at a time), except that the KDE print
routines insist upon supplying the -#n argument to lpr, even in the dege
Put a file in your home directory called .xinitrc containing the single line:
exec wmaker
> I now have what appears to be a X screen coming up. I get a gray screen
> with a functioning mouse. I do not have a WindowManager even though I
> set WindowMaker as the primary manager with update-alter
> I am having problems setting up XFree86 v4 with my NVidia GeForce2 MX.
> I am using kernel 2.4.5 on Woody.
>
> Has anyone gotten this card to work? Any tips on what I can try?
>
> If I type XFree86 -configure
>
> I get an -Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices
>
Two (hopefully) simple questions about using kdm:
First, is there any simple way of specifying a program (or programs) to be
run, regardless of what sort of session is started? I want xscreensaver
started, whether I'm running a Gnome session, a KDE session, or whatever,
and it seems easier to spe
It is my understanding that DRI support in the kernel is not needed, because
the nvidia driver does its own thing with DRI. Nvidia's website should have
details.
If you only want a good-quality X setup, simply install the latest version of
XFree86 (currently 4.1.0). The 'nv' driver which comes wi
> Weird. I thought using hardware acceleration would decrease it, not
> increase it...
Not really. Among other things, I think the video card's on-board memory
shows up as system memory in some situations (including, apparently, this
one).
> Is the any chance in a future of an open source drive
I'm trying to get my Debian box to run a vnc server. I'm running a pretty
generic sid install, with the vnc-server and vnc-java packages installed.
When I run the 'vncserver' command, everything seems to work fine, but when
I try to connect to the server, I get errors such as the following:
---sn
> Question: I have a RIVATNT2 card with 32Megs RAM, and I tried for the
> first time to use 3d graphics acceleration.
>
> It sort of works, but:
>
> a) I got this thick yellow (with black stripes) vertical line that
> appears in the bottom right hand of the screen.
That's odd... I don't recogni
> I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with this
> God forsaken nVidia card.
> I initially installed 2.2r0 and upgraded the system to 2.2r3 followed by a
> dist-upgrade to Woody (for Xfree4.0.3). When I enter the command xf86cfg the
> command is unrecognized. I have ne
I'm trying to build a software package from CVS, and I'm getting the following
errors when I try to run autoconf:
---snip---
autoconf: Undefined macros:
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_LANG_PUSH
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_LANG_POP
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_LANG_P
> > I've tried msttcorefonts, but KDE doesn't appear to offer those fonts when
> > in Anti-aliasing mode.
>
> Are those fonts in a directory listed in /etc/X11/XftConfig? If not,
Yes, they are. It's actually a symlink, but I wouldn't expect that to make
a difference. There's also a fonts.dir a
What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g.
kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from
/etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and things like that
will just restore them. I'd prefer not to uninstall the package entirely,
be
> > The optimal solution would seem to be to get anti-aliasable versions
> > of Helvetica and Courier. Is this possible?
>
> Yes. Any Postscript Type 1 or TrueType fonts will work. Therefore,
> you can buy fonts from a number of places, use fonts from (say) an old
> version of Adobe Type Manage
This comes from a previous question, but I've spun it off as a new
thread because the topic has changed significantly.
I've had some trouble switching to anti-aliased fonts in KDE. Enabling
anti-aliasing disables a large number of nice X fonts, and the
remaining selection is meager, including few
> Did you enable anti-aliasing in KDE? Is helvetica not the only font
> you're missing?
Yeah, there's the problem. Turning off AA fixed it.
> I haven't had time to solve that issue yet, so for now I'm just using
> KDE without anti-aliasing. Try turning anti-aliasing off and restart
> KDE, and
I was in the process of trying out some new desktop environments. I had been
playing with KDE for a while with no ill effects, and then logged out to
try Gnome. Due to the awful performance of nautilus, which started by default,
I uninstalled nautilus (apt-get uninstall nautilus). This took
task-
This is a bug that just appeared in the latest version of libguile9, whereby
libqthreads (Which GnuCash needs) was accidentally not included. I've
submitted a bug and it has been acknowledged. A corrected version of
libguile should be forthcoming, hopefully within a day. In the meantime, you'll
> > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading
> > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other
> > workarounds?
> >
> >
> One work around is to make sure that you have a swap partition at least
> twice as big as physical memory. This ha
My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never seems
to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out,
the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion
of rebooting a system to fix a problem is giving me Windows flash
The xscreensaver-gl screensavers have stopped working for me, apparently
with the upgrade to 3.33-1. The recent upgrade to 3.33-2 has not fixed it.
The problem, specifically, is that whenever a GL screenaver runs, the
screen displays an error message such as
xscreensaver: child pid 9128 (gears) te
> I downloaded and compiled nvidia-glx-src (1.0.1251-2) and nvidia-kernel-src
> (1.0.1251-2). When I installed the nvidia-glx_1.0.1251-2_i386.deb I got the
> following message:
>
> ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.dpkg-devert.tmp is too small, not checked.
> ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
I have an identical mouse to yours, and an identical setup, except that I
am running the mouse through the USB port directly. I have had the same
problem, of having no wheel support enabled. I have exactly duplicated
the configuration you give below, but it does not work for me. In particular,
my m
I've been trying to get anti-aliased fonts working in X, and as part of that
effort, I've installed the msttcorefonts package, containing a selection of
handy TrueType fonts. Unfortunately, msttcorefonts doesn't use defoma
(there's a bug open on that, tho), and consequently I can't seem to
access t
> 'usbmouse' myself just to let you know. My mouse is the same as the one
> you have. So, you'll need to make sure you have those modules in your
> kernel config. Here's my relevent modules listing for you...
>
> lsmod
>
> mousedev
> hid
> input
> usb-uhci
> usbcore
Your solution worked (thanks
I've been having some trouble setting up a friend with a Debian system.
First, I installed Debian 2.2 (stable) from CD, using the normal install
methods. The mouse (a USB mouse) worked fine under X, using /dev/psaux (I
think). The keyboard (a PS/2 keybaord) worked at the console, but not under
X
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