Jessie gnome-settings vs. big-endian 16-bit color

I recently upgraded my 2001 Quicksilver Power Mac from Wheezy to Jessie. I have a Radeon 9800 Pro Studio Edition in the AGP slot. There’s an endian bug in Mesa that forces me to run GNOME in 16-bit color. But if I try to open the settings panel, GNOME crashes. CoGL says it can’t find a pixel

PPC apt-get upgrade failed

Unpacking konqueror failed because it was unpacked before kdebase-libs, and the old kdebase-libs (2.2.2-14) shares a file with the new konqueror package (2.2.2-14.2). I imagine this is a bug in the dependency information for the security updates rather than a bug in apt and/or dpkg. I fixed my sys

SB Live!/ALSA wavetable synth?

I'd like to get wavetable synthesis working on my SB Live!. PCM works fine. FM synth works as well as can be expected. I'm using kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 and the matching alsa-modules. I use devfs. Do I need to do something with the snd-emu10k1-synth module in /etc/modutils/alsa? I saw some

Re: Upgrade potato -> woody

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:41:04AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > (xbase-clients, rather - your reply just went to me, sorry I didn't get > round to responding.) Oops, hit the wrong key. > I *think* the problem is in apt, not xbase-clients. If you had startx > before the upgrade, you had xbase-

potato->woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)

apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3. attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message. I installed libc6 from /var/cache/apt using dpkg and 'apt-get -f install' worked again. I set up m

gimp1.1 printing solution

I got the plugin source from sourceforge and found that I needed to put something like lp,lpr,ps2,,, in .gimp1.1/printrc to get things started. The plugin has a get_printers() function, but lprng's lpstat command doesn't list the printers in the expected format so the function fails

Microtek ScanMaker V310

I have potato, kernel 2.2.13, ppSCSI driver patch. I typed 'xscanimage' and tried to do a preview scan. What a noise! I opened the scanner and the light bar was shaking back and forth like it had Parkinson's. I'm concerned this could damage my scanner. Yes, I have done preview scans under another

Re: KMail and tkrat truncate debian-user-digest

# /etc/init.d/brain restart OK, let's try that again. What do I need to add to .mailcap? Is shownonascii the standard interface for displaying text into a mail program? Thanks, John

KMail and tkrat truncate debian-user-digest

I started using KMail recently. I prefer the "inline attachments" format. I noticed that (a) KMail goes into an infinite loop when I click the previous message in the list and (b) it tends to show only part of debian-user-digest messages. I tried tkrat just now and it also truncates debian-user-d

Re: Last chance: unresolved symbols and depmod weirdness

> On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:36:35PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > Please tell me I'm a moron and I'm clearly not running *command x*. Please > > tell me something... It's getting so blowing the thing away and > > reinstalling takes less time and frustration. The depmod weirdness is a bug

/etc/network/interfaces

For those converting existing potato systems: Make sure you uncomment the loopback interface in this file! Both inetd and KDE hung for a long time when I didn't uncomment it. Also ifconfig did not show the interface when it was commented out. John

-:0 (was: empty .ssh directory)

ps afuwx shows that -:0 spawns the X session (window manager, etc.) and it runs as root, so you have to be root to kill it and then you will kick yourself out of X. John

RealPlayer .deb

Just apt-get removed realplayer because it was causing a bus error in Netscape. The maintainer may want to read the fine print on real.com: RealPlayer 7 for RedHat is a beta version. Do beta versions belong in a frozen distribution? John

Re: Does ssh support nonRSA PKC?

> all patent-encumbered algorithms removed (to external libraries), all ^^^=libssl09 /usr/doc/libssl09/copyright: This version of openssl is NOT linked againts RSAREF, so it can not be used in the US without violating the RSA patent. The man page suggest

Does ssh support nonRSA PKC?

Does the ssh package (OpenSSH) support an unpatented public-key cryptographic algorithm? I live in the US and the RSA patent doesn't expire for another 6 months. TIA, John

groff version error

I just apt-get upgraded from potato groff to slink groff! 1.15-3 < 1.15.1.11a.7.Y2K-1 John

Could not find the GIMP Help Browser procedure

How do I get help to work in GIMP? I've already installed libgtkxmhtml1. The message says "it probably was not compiled because you don't have GtkXmHtml installed." Do I need to install something else? I'm using KDE. Does GIMP require GNOME? Also, why don't my printers show up in the Print dialo

Re: Can't print to print queue in GIMP

> > > When I bring up the Print dialog I see > > Printer: File > > Clicking on the drop down menu reveals no other options. > > How do I set this up? The manual was no help. > > I'm no GIMP expert, but wouldn't putting "| lp" in the file name > field end up printing? No, it creates a file named

Can't print to print queue in GIMP

When I bring up the Print dialog I see Printer: File Clicking on the drop down menu reveals no other options. How do I set this up? The manual was no help. TIA, John

xserver-svga and PEX5 possible?

Cirrus CLGD5446 X 3.3.6-3 I installed xext using apt-get. I restarted the X server (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace). How do I get the PEX5 extension to load? Can I? TIA, John

Newbie ?: setgid /home

I just noticed that my /home partition has the setgid permission bit. Is this normal for Debian? Security problem? Hacked system? TIA, John

Re: AOpen video card question

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an > 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried > autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In > almost all cases,

Possible workaround for bad timestamp on modules.dep

I got a good timestamp on modules.dep by renaming /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh to /etc/rcS.d/S20hwclock.sh. Is this safe? I rebooted and nothing appears broken yet. (I have my Hardware Clock on local time (EST) to satisfy another OS.) John

Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep

>*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Wrong timestamp on modules.dep" >> My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy. >> /etc/rcS.d has >> S20modutils >> S50hwclock.sh >> (among others) >> so modules.dep is timestamped as tho

Wrong timestamp on modules.dep

My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy. /etc/rcS.d has S20modutils S50hwclock.sh (among others) so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT. I have kernel 2.2.13 and "RTC stores time in GMT" set to "no" under APM. Did I forget to set "thip cri

setterm -powersave

How does this work? Do I need "console blanking" selected in the kernel? Do I need to "setterm -powerdown ##"? TIA, John

DPMS problem

d that didn't help. Any ideas? TIA, John Dalbec

DPMS problem (maybe) solved

I got libc6 2.1.2-11 in the latest apt-get upgrade. This appears to have fixed the xpuzzles/DPMS problem I mentioned. Thanks, John

DPMS problem

When I click on any of the xpuzzles programs (xhexagons usually, but I just tried it with xrubik) DPMS kicks in and blanks the screen. Attempted fixes: xset -dpms (works, but not helpful) Option "noaccel" (doesn't work) Option "sw_cursor" (doesn't work) Disable APM in BIOS (doesn't work, or the ke

Why does timidity depend on ALSA?

I'm using OSS/Free sound modules. When I try to remove alsa-base, apt wants to remove timidity also. Why is this? John

SoftOSS Kernel Module?

Here is the relevant section of /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/README.OSS: Does this mean I need to buy OSS/Linux? >4Front Technologies SoftOSS > > SoftOSS is a software based wave table emulation which works with > any 16 bit stereo sound card. Due to its nature a fast CPU is >

SoftOSS Kernel Module?

How do I use this module? Do I need to buy additional software? Where can I find a patchset? TIA, John

Kernel 2.2.13 dumps AX/BX/CX/DX booting

I thought I remembered seeing something about this problem before. When I boot from floppy to Kernel 2.2.13 I get 0400 AX:0212 BX:7000 CX:5001 DX:. over and over again. I tried searching the list archives but I kept getting "no articles found." What's the problem here? Thanks, John

XFree86 3.3.5-1.99.slink

I upgraded to XFree86 3.3.5-1.99.slink yesterday from deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main My old version was also 3.3.5-something from the same URI. Kernel 2.0.36-custom (sound card & APM/console blanking) I added APM support because my clock was drifting. I enabled APM in the BIO

"Get a Potato CD"

Where does one do this?? Or does it require a friend with a fast connection and CD burner? John

Masquerade-envelope with exim?

How do I do the equivalent of FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) in exim? How do I masquerade the "sender" name? I'm using the sample rewrite with bcrfF. Thanks, John

DPMS problem solved

The problem where clicking on a tile in xhexagons would cause DPMS to shut off the monitor was fixed when I upgraded XFree86 to 3.3.3.1-2 (from netgod). Thanks for your help. John

Re: X window!!!/DPMS problem

Environment: Slink XFree86 3.3.2.3a-11 xpuzzles 5.4.4-2 AMD K6/266 PS/2 mouse Cirrus CLGD5446 2MB 1280x1024x8 interlace Description: When I click on a tile in xhexagons/xtriangles the screen blanks. If I hold the mouse button down long enough the monitor goes into powersave mode. Moving the mouse

Re: X Window!!!

I get the same message about the keyboard compiler but it is always followed by "grep: /etc/X11/config: no such file or directory". I don't know why it would be looking for this file. Is this supposed to be /etc/X11/XF86Config? John

DPMS problem

Environment: Slink XFree86 3.3.2.3a-11 Cirrus GD5446 2 MB 1280x1024x8 interlaced KDE 1.1.2 PS/2 mouse DPMS 5/10/15 min. timeouts Problem: When I run xhexagons or xtriangles and press the left mouse button over a game piece DPMS kicks in and blanks the screen for as long as I hold the button down.