GNOME Volume Manager / HAL issues

2004-09-20 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, Since a recent update of hal and or GNOME Volume manager two of my disk partitions get mounted automatically and show up on the desktop. Both these partitions I added to fstab with a noauto option so that they normally didn't get mounted. I'd prefer gnome volume manager not to mount these t

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Jaap Haitsma
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of them sends reports) Why would you assume that? I don't use popcon; it's possible that 99.9% of users don't use it. Who

How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I came across this website http://popcon.debian.org/ It shows statistics how many people have installed a certain package on what kind of system etc. etc. If you want to anonymously report what packages you are using you have to have the popularity-contest package installed. I guess many people

apt-listchanges

2004-07-29 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I installed apt-listchanges. And now see during an apt-get or in synaptic that the changelogs are being read. But I don't see see the changelogs. From the man pages I know that I have to change /etc/apt/listchanges.conf and I mucked around a bit but still do not see anything Can anybody advic

Re: Fonts in Open Office not anti aliased

2004-07-03 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, All my applications have nice anti aliased fonts except for openoffice. I suggest you check the BTS again. I see a number of possible complaints to yours [1]. I'm probably a moron but I don't see a bug similar

Internet radio in rhytmbox not working

2004-07-03 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, If I try to connect to internet radio in rhythmbox 0.8.5 I get two error message which look like this: "Could not open vfs file "http://213.73.255.244:8000"; for reading" and "Could not pause playback" Anybody knows how to get it working?? Thanks Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Fonts in Open Office not anti aliased

2004-07-03 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, All my applications have nice anti aliased fonts except for openoffice. I've been already searching the web for quite a while but haven't found the solution. I found a document though with which you can see if open office is using anti aliased fonts: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxh

Log out in Gnome 2.6 hangs PC

2004-06-01 Thread Jaap Haitsma
After running upgrading to Gnome 2.6 also X got upgraded my PC hangs after I click on logout in the gnome menu. Any ideas how to get this fixed?? Thanks Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X resolution changed by upgrading to Gnome 2.6

2004-06-01 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I just upgraded to gnome 2.6, also X got upgraded. Problem is that resolution of X changed from 1024x768 to 800x600. Running xf86config does not seem to help and in desktop preferences / screen resolution in gnome the 1024x768 resolution is not even listed. Any ideas?? Jaap I'm running SID on a

Re: gnome volume manager does not automatically mount cdrom (Solved it)

2004-04-19 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Jaap Haitsma wrote: I installed gnome-volume-manager and it mounts my memory stick automatically and also audio cd's are being played automatically when I insert an audio cd. Only data CD's do not get mounted automatically and also empty CD-R's do not startup the burner in nau

gnome volume manager does not automatically mount cdrom

2004-04-18 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I installed gnome-volume-manager and it mounts my memory stick automatically and also audio cd's are being played automatically when I insert an audio cd. Only data CD's do not get mounted automatically and also empty CD-R's do not startup the burner in nautilus. Anybody knows how to fix this?

Re: Burning CD's in nautilus (Solved it)

2004-04-18 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Jaap Haitsma wrote: I can burn CD's with tools like xcdroast but if I try it with nautilus, it recognizes my cd rom burner but if I then do a Write CD it keeps on telling me to insert a blank CD while I already have a blank CD in my CD burner. Any ideas? It works now. I had to add my

Re: No sound with Kernel 2.6.5-1 package (atiixp)

2004-04-12 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Wolfgang Lonien wrote: Jaap Haitsma wrote: [2.6.5 and maestro] Hi Jaap, since noone answered until now, I just wanted to tell you that I have the same problem with one of the companies' laptops here - that's an older ASUS L8400). It seems to be some kind of interrupt problem for m

Re: Burning CD's in nautilus

2004-04-11 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:31:57PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: I can burn CD's with tools like xcdroast but if I try it with nautilus, it recognizes my cd rom burner but if I then do a Write CD it keeps on telling me to insert a blank CD while I already have a blank CD in

Burning CD's in nautilus

2004-04-11 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I can burn CD's with tools like xcdroast but if I try it with nautilus, it recognizes my cd rom burner but if I then do a Write CD it keeps on telling me to insert a blank CD while I already have a blank CD in my CD burner. Any ideas? Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

2004-04-11 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Adam Funk wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 18:30, Bob Schlärmann wrote: GDM recently switched to a new session file format based on .desktop files. Look in /usr/share/xsessions for some example .desktop files, i've got the following in xfce.desktop: [Desktop Entry] Name=Xfce4 Comment=Xfce4 Exec=/

Re: Broken Gnome on upgrade

2004-04-11 Thread Jaap Haitsma
James Hosken wrote: I've just run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and it seams to have broken gnome. When you login at the gdm it comes up with an error of "Your prefered session type GDM_Failsafe. Gnome desktop is not installed on this machine. Do you wish to make Failsafe Gnome the default?" If

No sound with Kernel 2.6.5-1 package (atiixp)

2004-04-11 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I just installed kernel 2.6.5 but now my sound isn't working anymore. I have an ESS maestro sound card. The maestro3 sound driver still gets loaded, but no sound. During booting of the kernel (before init) I get an error message: ERROR removing atiixp: device or resource busy I don't understand t

Re: Sessions disappeared in the GDM menu!

2004-04-11 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Adam Funk wrote: I just did an apt-get upgrade and now the GDM sessions menu has been cut down to Default (which is KDM), Failsafe GNOME and Failsafe something else. /etc/gdm/Sessions still contains all the previous launch scripts: /etc/gdm/Sessions $ ls -l total 24 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root

Re: Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

2004-04-11 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Bob Schlärmann wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:07:41 +0200 Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... What I cannot find out where gdm gets the info about the available sessions. For example I first had also KDE installed and it was in the GDM recently switched to a new session file

Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

2004-04-10 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, Up till now I was always running Gnome, but yesterday I decided to have a go at Xfce4 so installed the Xfce4 packages. This seemed to go OK, but I'm still not able to get it listed in the GDM sessions menu. I already did quite some googling but still no luck. In /etc/gdm/Sessions there is

Re: Hotplug: The Continuing Saga

2004-04-09 Thread Jaap Haitsma
David Baron wrote: I think this module is getting crazier with every update. Last two versions on bootup, "unknown interface sit0:-hotplug" Last version: More repeated module loads AND repeated listings of blacklisted modules (some of which were blacklisted to clean up the repeated listings) :-

Re: apt-get in a webbrowser

2004-04-08 Thread Jaap Haitsma
> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 11:29 am, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > -STUFF SNIPPED--- >> However it's not exactly what I was thinking of. Webmin-software doesn't >> really bring something new to tools like synaptic or aptitude

Re: apt-get in a webbrowser

2004-04-07 Thread Jaap Haitsma
S.D.A. wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:52:43PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jaap Haitsma wrote: S.D.A. wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Are people working on this? I dunno if they are, but this capability exits already, with a plug-in for Webmin

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-06 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Is there a command to see everything? In initscripts_2.85-9 there's bootlogd, which logs all the stuff that comes from running the init.d scripts. You have to stick "BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes" in /etc/default/bootlogd. Thanks a lot this is great :-). Everything just get's logged in /var/log/boot Jaap

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: Hi, I have the same thing happening. The display dims at some point during booting. I don't think it has anything to do with hotplug though, because removing it didn't change anything on my system. Anyone else know what might be causing this? I'm using a 2.6.3 ke

Re: apt-get in a webbrowser

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
S.D.A. wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, When installing new apps I find myself searching on packages.debian.org and then look at changelogs descriptions and maybe go to the site where the development to read something about the app and

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Clive Menzies wrote: On (05/04/04 10:24), Mike Chandler wrote: I understand what I need to do now, putting stuff in /etc/hotplug/"blacklist", but the problem is that while booting, the stuff goes by so fast, I can't actually pick out any names...I just can't see that fast! I guess I can live wit

apt-get in a webbrowser

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, When installing new apps I find myself searching on packages.debian.org and then look at changelogs descriptions and maybe go to the site where the development to read something about the app and then finally do an apt-install or I run synaptic. I think it would be fantastic if the whole t

Re: GTK and antialias

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Kaj Wiik wrote: It looks like gtk disables antialiasing between font sizes 8-16 pt, changing /etc/XftConfig has absolutely no effect. So, can anyone tell where this can be adjusted? I have latest gtk/gnome packages from testing, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 10' works perfectly so my se

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Jaap Haitsma
>> > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I >> try >> > to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. >> I >> > don't have any problem using a normal user. >> > >> > Anybody know what's the problem? >> >> Problem exists between keyboard and chai

Unable to unmount /initrd during startup

2004-04-02 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, I get a message during init that it is unable to unmount /initrd This is being called in initrd-tools.sh Also after booting I'm unable to unmount it manually. Anybody an idea what could be wrong? I'm running sid (fully up2date) with the 2.6.4 kernel Thanks Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: debian, gnome and shutdown again...

2004-04-02 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Sven Arvidsson wrote: * Michal R. Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-02 13:01:08]: hello, I have googled, but cannot find answer. Is any package which enable to "save-session-and-then-shutdown-computer"? Preferrably ordinary-user allowed, but this can be done with sudo. Perhaps this can be

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-02 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Jaap Haitsma wrote: Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:32:11 +0200 Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4. I still have a couple of minor problems. 2. Just after loading all the modules the screen dims and char

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-01 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:32:11 +0200 Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4. I still have a couple of minor problems. 2. Just after loading all the modules the screen dims and characters turn from white t

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-03-31 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Ken Bloom wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:50:16 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4. I still have a couple of minor problems. 1. After the kernel has booted and init is running when modprobe is trying to insert drivers it is complaining all

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-03-31 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:32:11 +0200 Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4. I still have a couple of minor problems. 2. Just after loading all the modules the screen dims and characters turn from white t

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-03-31 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:05:09AM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Joan Tur wrote: Es Dimarts Mar? 30 2004 23:32, en Jaap Haitsma va escriure: 1. After the kernel has booted and init is running when modprobe is trying to insert drivers it is complaining all the time about a whole list

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-03-30 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Joan Tur wrote: Es Dimarts Març 30 2004 23:32, en Jaap Haitsma va escriure: 1. After the kernel has booted and init is running when modprobe is trying to insert drivers it is complaining all the time about a whole list of drivers which already have been loaded Do you have module-init-tools

Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-03-30 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4. I still have a couple of minor problems. 1. After the kernel has booted and init is running when modprobe is trying to insert drivers it is complaining all the time about a whole list of drivers which already have been loaded. This i

Re: How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Jaap Haitsma: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Jaap Haitsma: Jaap Haitsma wrote: I have the problem that anti aliasing does not seem to work. See for example the font in the attachment. I already browsed quite a bit on the web but didn't find the sol

Getting flash to work in firefox (solved it)

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Just in case somebody runs into the same problem I needed to install the package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 Jaap --- Hi, I installed the flash plugin from macromedia for firefox/mozilla, but I get an error during startup. LoadPlugin

Re: How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Jaap Haitsma: Jaap Haitsma wrote: I have the problem that anti aliasing does not seem to work. See for example the font in the attachment. I already browsed quite a bit on the web but didn't find the solution. BTW My system is a fresh install of Debian uns

Re: How to get multimedia keys (volume up /down) working

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
You're right. Any key combo involving Fn isn't going to get picked up by software I'm 100% sure it's a setting. It works fine in Gnoppix, which is based on Knoppix/Debian If I run showkey -s on a console in Gnoppix I see the keycodes of the Fn combos involving the Fn key. And also acme works ove

Re: How to get multimedia keys (volume up /down) working

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I made mine (Logitech itouch-like) work using the hotkeys package. Thanks but my laptop isn't listed overthere. :(. I've had it working in Gnoppix (Knoppix for Gnome), so I guess I need to change my keyboard configuration, but I don't know how to do that :( Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

How to get multimedia keys (volume up /down) working

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, I'd like to to use the volume up and volume down keys of my dell laptop in Gnome. However if I go to Desktop Preferences / Multimedia Keys I cannot attach Fn-VolumeUp(PageUp) or Fn-VolumeDown(PageDown) to the appropriate events. It simply doesn't notice that I pushed those keys. With other

Re: How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Forgot the attachment Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, I have the problem that anti aliasing does not seem to work. See for example the font in the attachment. I already browsed quite a bit on the web but didn't find the solution. Jaap BTW My system is a fresh install of Debian unstable usin

How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?

2004-03-27 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, I have the problem that anti aliasing does not seem to work. See for example the font in the attachment. I already browsed quite a bit on the web but didn't find the solution. Jaap BTW My system is a fresh install of Debian unstable using the Debian installer and then selecting Desktop for

Re: Which files contain monospace and sans font?

2004-03-26 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hamilton Coutinho wrote: On 03/26/2004 01:59 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: I'm trying to find out which files contain the monospace and sans font. If in nautilus I show all the fonts by going to fonts:/// these two fonts are not listed, but if I go and select for example fonts in the desktop preferen

Getting flash to work in firefox

2004-03-22 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, I installed the flash plugin from macromedia for firefox/mozilla, but I get an error during startup. LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] I'

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-22 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Chris Metzler wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:53:23 +0100 Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remaining problem that I have is that if I enable the Gnome Sound Server to get sound working under gnome that Rhythmbox is refusing to play because /dev/dsp is busy. If I disable the Gnome

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Remaining problem that I have is that if I enable the Gnome Sound Server to get sound working under gnome that Rhythmbox is refusing to play because /dev/dsp is busy. If I disable the Gnome Sound server, Rhythmbox plays fine. However if I start up xmms and also play a file there it doesn't work

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
> Nope; not what you want to do. Instead, add your user to the audio > group, like so: >adduser jaap audio >> >> What I first tried is adding the audio group to my group but that >> didn't work. > > After adding your user to the audio group, you'll need to logout and > back in. Thanks, forgot t

Re: Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, Yesterday I installed Debian Unstable (hoping to become a very happy Debian user) by running the netinstaller and then selecting "desktop" in tasksel. I had the problem that sound and volume control weren't working. When I wanted to play an au

Sound not working

2004-03-21 Thread Jaap Haitsma
Hi, Yesterday I installed Debian Unstable (hoping to become a very happy Debian user) by running the netinstaller and then selecting "desktop" in tasksel. I had the problem that sound and volume control weren't working. When I wanted to play an audio file it was complaining taht it cannot ope