Re: XFS-XTT won't (un)install

2001-10-08 Thread John Toon
On Monday 08 October 2001 21:56 pm, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > I've hit some weird nexus of realities here. I am unable to complete an > installation of XFS-XTT. But, whenever I try to do anything else from > dselect it tries to finish installing XFS-XTT. So, I selected to uninstall > it since it's

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread John Toon
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put > watches on variables etc. > > I am doing an assignment for Uni, and have been just ad

Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels

2001-09-08 Thread John Toon
On Saturday 08 September 2001 10:05 am, Ross Burton wrote: > Yes, it's me again. > > Once this is sorted I'll stop bugging you, I promise! > > Does the kernel-image for 2.4.x from unstable come with devfsd on? I > tried mounting a zip disk (external ppa) and the device was > /dev/scsi/0/... not /

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread John Toon
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 4:07 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a > > .deb file? Thanks. > > $ apt-cache search "mpeg layer.*3" | grep play > xmms - Versatile X au

Re: Xwindows

2001-08-26 Thread John Toon
On Sunday 26 August 2001 9:37 am, Ron Sanders wrote: > Hellos there. I'm trying to get XWindows to run, but it won't for some > strange reason. after i run XF86Setup as root, and get it all rolling, i > get this error _XIITransSocketUNIXConnet : can't connect errano 111 > > I just got Debian, and j

Infuriating font issues with KDE 2.2

2001-08-17 Thread John Toon
Hi, I've just installed KDE 2.2 on my Sid system, but am getting some bizarre and frustrating font problems The first time I log on, everything is perfect. All my fonts look nice, everything is working.KDE apps all detect my full range of fonts. However, the next time I log on, KDE insists on us

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread John Toon
On 12 Aug 2001 18:43:34 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 18:37:38 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > This I can confirm by running gnome-font-install -d : > > > What is gnome-font-install missing? Any ideas? > > Does running /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnom

Re: kernel troubles?

2001-08-12 Thread John Toon
On 12 Aug 2001 10:30:12 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > For some months I have been trying to compile kernels from 2.4.5 to 2.4.8, > but I still get the same errors and they does not seem to be solved in > later versions. Today I build a new config file from scratch, but still > unsuccesfull. T

Re: CGI script using perl

2001-08-12 Thread John Toon
On 12 Aug 2001 15:27:37 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Suppose I am having an HTML form that calls a CGI script wriiten in Perl (hosted by a > Linux Server) : > 1. Does the fresh program I have written and labelled as , say, action.pl > ... Yes, it's generally a good idea to append the

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread John Toon
On 12 Aug 2001 02:10:26 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've updated to a recent Mozilla under Woody/testing: > > Version: 2:0.9.3-1 > > Problem: the menu fonts are all rather larger than I'd like -- appear > to be Helvetica or Arial, roughly 16 points. I prefer fixed fonts for > all menus, at

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-12 Thread John Toon
On 11 Aug 2001 21:06:52 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > VIA. It's a KT133 chipset on a Asus A7V. The drives are on the ATA100 > promise controller. That's very similar to mine (Abit KA7-100, with a VIA chipset, Highpoint hard disk controller). If you build a correctly configured 2.4.[3-8] kernel

Gnumeric in Sid complains about default font

2001-08-11 Thread John Toon
Hi, I've installed Gnumeric under Sid/unstable via apt-get, but unfortunately when the progam starts up it issues an error: Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font. Your gnome-print installation is likely incomplete. Please try reinstalling gnome-print. Your fontmap file does not have a

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-11 Thread John Toon
On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > * hdparm options: -m16 -d1 > * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external >access > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using