X doesn't react to keyboard commands

Since a while ago, X doesn't react to keyboard commands (such as ctrl+alt+backspace to kill it, or ctrl+alt+1 to switch to the console). Nothing happens when I press these keyboard combinations. Does anyone know what might be the problem? I'm using testing/unstable, with this version of X: xfree8

distutils lacking from my Python installation

I have python2.3 (as well as python2.2) installed on my system, but today I realized that the distutils module is not present, so I can't use it (I would expected it to be present in /usr/lib/python2.3). Why is this, I thought distutils was part of the standard Python library? Jesper -- To U

Tunneling smtp with exim4

I normally use exim4 with the "smarthost-configuration", i.e. I relay all email to the mail server of my ISP. In the file /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf i thus have a line saying: dc_smarthost='mail.my.isp.se' Now I would like to tunnel my outgoing email over ssh, and I have started up an ssh

Re: Troubles with pcmcia modules

* On Tue Jan 28, Jean-Luc On my DELL INSPIRON 8100 when I try woody, I must use yenta.o because > i82365.o doesn't work. Merci beaucoup, Jean-Luc. That worked just fine. Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | EN

Troubles with pcmcia modules

I recently installed Woody on a new box on a Dell Latitude. It uses a standard D-Link pcmcia network card, and worked fine after installation. However, last night I upgraded to Testing, including an upgrade to kernel-image-2.4.20, and kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.20, and now I can't get my network up

Re: Java problem

is loading. Happens every time. Suggestions? Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone?" | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

What's the name of eth0?

Doing an "ifconfig" shows me (among other things) this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:8D:C6:50 inet addr:10.11.165.13 Bcast:10.11.165.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 However, when I try "ifup eth0" or "ifdown eth0" (as root) I get the error: Ignoring unknown interface eth0

Re: Suspending laptop screws up servers

Thanks for your suggestions, Sean. * On Sat Apr 20, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > the sound modules may be getting unloaded and reloaded, don't know if > that will make a difference. An lsmod before and after a suspend/resume shows no differences, so it seems to me this was not it. > if you are u

Suspending laptop screws up servers

I usually run my old Dell laptop all-day, and then suspend it during nights. Unfortunately, the last couple of months, this gives me some side-effects: 1. The general "volume" of the sound goes down to zero, shutting off sound, after I wake the computer up, although this is not the way it's

Re: Weird e-mail headers

to retreive your e-mail, you might have to fiddle with the "stripcr" parameter. Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone?" |

Kernel modules and usb

modules probed when a usb mouse is detected? TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone?" |

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

* On Mon Oct 22, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it > gets pressed? What signal it sends, I don't know. But to disable it, press ^Q. HTH, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But ho

Xnest refuses connections

e issue with the privileges, but how should I go about solving this? TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone?" |

Re: Python versioning

opment version, or just the next release after 2.0? TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone?" |

Python versioning

reasoning behind these four groups, or provide some friendly pointers to where to learn more. TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone?" |

Re: ls sort

; display contents with > directories listed first, sorted alphabetically, then all > other files, also sorted alphabetically? None of the sort > options (cftuSUX) seem to include the ability to sort by > whether or not the file is a directory. > > -- Jesper Holmberg

Re: Realplayer installer broken in sid?

* On Fri Oct 05, Nick Hastings wrote: >after a harddisk failure I reinstalled sid on one of my pcs. There were > no big problems. However the it seems that the realplayer installer may now > be broken. Exactly the same thing happens over here on Woody. Jesper -- Jesper

Non-ascii chars in GTK+ programs

Hi all, I don't know if this is a new problem on my machine, or if it's just that I recently found it, but all my GTK+ programs (gimp, abiword, gcorr101, etc) have problems with file names including non-ascii characters. They show up in listings with very strange characters substituted for the off

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

* On Fri Sep 28, dman wrote: > Check out the frame buffer stuff. I found it to be really cool. How do I get this frame buffer stuff to work? I compiled the kernel with support for frame buffer, but obviously something else need to be configured for it to start? Where should I look? TIA Jesper

X sluggish after upgrade to 4.1

After a short vacation, I yesterday did an upgrade of my Testing system, bringing me the xfree86 4.1. Now, my X seems quite sluggish, especially noticeable when scrolling in a web browser (I've tried several). I first suspected this could have something to do with the frame buffer, but I have trie

Setting $PATH

I might have misunderstood something here, but my bash{profile,rc} files don't work as I expect. In my .bash_profile, I have this: PATH="~/bin:${PATH}" export PATH This works as expected after I have logged in, I do have ~/bin in my path. However, when I start X, my ~/bin is gone from the path.

Converting ps-file

I have a couple of postscript files that are made for letter-size paper, and I would like to convert these into a4 format before printing them. How would I best go about to do this? TIA Jesper

Re: [OT] BibTeX style

* On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I don't know of a specific style, but I generally do: > > NOTE="Avail: \url{http://foo.bar.baz/foobar.pdf}"; Thanks, this works great. I thought it required something more complicated. Jesper

[OT] BibTeX style

I am writing a scientific report in LaTeX, using BibTeX. I don't have very particular demands on how the references should be given, and I can therefore use any of the standard styles (ex. plain.bst). However, since many of my references are available (mainly as PDF documents) on the Web, I'd like

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

Hi Mark, I use this in my ~/.mailcap file: application/msword; ~/viewDoc %s; copiousoutput which calls the small script viewDoc, residing in my PATH: #!/bin/sh wvHtml $1 $1.html w3m -dump -T text/html $1.html rm $1.html This converts the doc file to html using wvHtml, and then converts the htm

Re: Real Player

Hi Vineet, thank you for your answer. The install process dies right after the first screen, and I never get a chance to enter the file name of the Real Player package, which I have downloaded. So there seems to be a problem before it starts looking for the package. Jesper * On Thu, Jul 19, 20

Real Player

I am trying to install Real Player, and I have downloaded the package from real.com. However, as I install the realplayer deb with: apt-get install realplayer it crashes after the first dialogue with this message: dpkg: error processing realplayer (--configure): subprocess post-installation sc

no network in kernel 2.2.19

I installed kernel-image-2 2.2.19-8, but when I boot it, PCMCIA doesn't work. I see there are packages for PCMCIA kernel-modules, but there doesn't seem to be any for 2.2.19. What should I do? TIA Jesper

[OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, but is there any way of extracting information such as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other things than view them, and occasionally print them, using xpdf, but now I need to cut and

LC_*

In which file should I put my LC_* statements (e.g. LC_CTYPE=se_SV) so that they are globally valid? TIA Jesper

Scroll Wheel

What is the recommended way of adding support for the scroll wheel (Logitech mouse) under X4.0.3 and Woody? TIA Jesper

kernel-image

I recently installed Potato from discs, and then dist-upgraded to Woody. Now, I was looking into the subject of kernels, and I find I have no package named kernel-image, although of course there exists one (2.2.17 it seems) in /boot. Now, what would I do if I wanted to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.X

Can't get exim to work

When I try to use fetchmail on my newly installed testing/unstable system, with an .fetchmailrc I've used before on another system, I get these errors: reading message 2 of 367 (2998 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to $sendmai