Sharing a console session with Screen

2005-01-09 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Hi there, I need to share a console session with screen on a development server with a collegae (we are both on remote locations). It works when one of us is root. Problem is: how can I make it work for a non-root account? I follow the procedures as depicted in http://cosmic.homeunix.net/blog/o

Documentation about module loading in sarge/kernel2.6?

2004-12-05 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Hi there, I just got a new laptop, an Acer Aspire 1522WLMi. After installing Sarge (kernel 2.6) with the rc of the debian installer, essentials parts of the system work flawlessly and I can get my work done. However, looking at /etc/modules, I findthat it's nearly empty. But modules like r8169

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-16 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Brad Sawatzky wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Teuchteu wrote: I created a user with root privileges who just makes a shutdown -h now (Well i edit the /etc/passwd file to launch a script that shut down the computer). We wave the same at work on Unix platform (we don't have root privelege :(( I'm s

Apache2 (testing) cgi-bin doesn't execute?

2004-09-16 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Hi there, I've got a test server running testing with both apache (1.3) and apache2 for some experiments with htdig. htdig uses the htsearch cgi-script in /cgi-bin (which is mapped to /usr/lib/cgi-bin). Curiously, when running apache everything works fine, the script is correctly executed, bu

Re: error while processing console-common_0.7.41_all.deb

2004-05-13 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Xavier Pitz wrote: Thank you verry much for this tip. I hope that this package will be updated and fixed soon. Hi there, Got the same problem today and I found a working solution through Google: move or remove /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz (I moved it to /root just to be sure, so I could have

Re: google type of search for a desktop

2004-05-07 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I am wondering if there is a software which performs google's search on (and only on) the files of a desktop running debian linux? I am aware of utilities such as grep, find, locate etc, but prefer a google's interface. For ex, I can seach for a string, and then cli

Fluxbox and anti-aliased font

2004-01-26 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Hi there, How can I get a proper anti-alisaed font in fluxbox (v 0.1.14 from unstable)? I can propery change font/size/style etc in my own custom theme in "normal" mode. However, I get an ugly courier font when selecting "anti-alias" in "Configuration". Context: Fontpaths in /etx/X11/XFConf86-

Re: Sortof-OT: RE: Programs with colourful, moving, images???

2004-01-20 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Alex Bartok wrote: I'm not sure if it's healthy to have her stare into a computer screen for an extended period of time, with her being so young. Seriously, maybe youshould check with a doc first. Well, I did :-) and if you keep it restricted to a few minutes, say 5 to 10, then there no reaso

Programs with colourful, moving, images???

2004-01-20 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Well, that subject-line sounds delirious :-) My three month old daughter loves to watch glxgears running maximized on one of my monitors while I work at the other. The big, revolving and colourful wheels seem to attrect her attention like a magnet. So therefore my question. Are there any othe

SB Audigy 5.1 on Debian

2003-02-10 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Hi there, I've been trying, in vain, to get my SoundBlaster Audigy (5.1) working on Debian 3.0. This seems to be a case of RTFM. But I did, upggraded to a newer kernel, compiled the emu10k1 module etc etc,, but no solution which I encountered really helped. Loading the emu10k1 module results in