Re: One-shot command-line sound player that can handle wav, ogg and mp3?

2004-05-18 Thread Joseph Jones
In the end I just did the smart thing and installed alsaplayer and alsaplayer-text :) Joe Joseph Jones wrote: I'm looking to replace the way KDE handles notification sounds... That is, rather than using it's own sound system to noify me using it's sounds, using a command-li

One-shot command-line sound player that can handle wav, ogg and mp3?

2004-05-17 Thread Joseph Jones
I'm looking to replace the way KDE handles notification sounds... That is, rather than using it's own sound system to noify me using it's sounds, using a command-line audio player! Anybody have any recommendations? Having gotten ALSA working this would really tighten my system up a fair bit. J

Re: A better sound system than esd and arts?

2004-05-17 Thread Joseph Jones
Steven Yap wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 19:03, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:42:57AM +0100, Joseph Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: One thing I would like is Quake 3 compatibility. Sound is the only problem I currently have with Quake 3. I can only get it to work by using

A better sound system than esd and arts?

2004-05-16 Thread Joseph Jones
Does such a beast exist? Basically I'm looking for something that does mmap whilst still being fast, as opposed to arts which delays all sound by .1 of a second or something. One thing I would like is Quake 3 compatibility. Sound is the only problem I currently have with Quake 3. I can only get

Setting WebCollage up with a dictionary under Sid?

2004-05-02 Thread Joseph Jones
Can anyone suggest what packages will provide an appropriate dictionary, and how to have WebCollage use them? Please CC remarks to my addy. Many thanks. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need a working /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file, mine got hosed when apt-get updated (Sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Joseph Jones
Michael Biebl wrote: Joseph Jones wrote: If anyone can paste their KDE Session file for Sid into an e-mail, I'd much appreciate it. Mine exists, but GDM is conveniently ignoring it for some reason. Joe Hi Joe, there was already a discussion on the german debian user mailinglist rega

Need a working /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file, mine got hosed when apt-get updated (Sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Joseph Jones
If anyone can paste their KDE Session file for Sid into an e-mail, I'd much appreciate it. Mine exists, but GDM is conveniently ignoring it for some reason. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Firefox and esd

2004-03-29 Thread Joseph Jones
Is there *any* way of getting this to work? If esd is running, sound will not work in Firefox. Is there any way of solving this? I think I once remember some kind of sound setup screen when I was installing a Mozilla package. Can't remember, it's so long ago. Does Firefox have such a thing and

A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?

2004-03-27 Thread Joseph Jones
My router, which is not a computer, but rather an unbranded little plastic box, will only allow ports to be "forwarded" to one IP on the LAN's Class C subnet. This causes a problem when trying to use ident, which uses port 113, as it means that only one computer in the house may use ident witho

Re: Graphical version of aptitude

2004-03-15 Thread Joseph Jones
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:20:05PM +0100, Andreas Bach Aaen wrote: I guess that this allready exists. Can you provide me with the name of a graphical frontend to apt? Sorry to say but I find the aptitude console application difficult to navigate. Install synaptic. Gustavo from

Replacement for arts that will work with KDE?

2004-03-13 Thread Joseph Jones
Since a recent upgrade, I have noticed artsd's resource use spiking unexpectedly, causing major system slow-down. Does anyone know of a way of using esd or anything else with KDE instead of arts? Many thanks Joe PS. For anyone who remembers, I did finally get 2.6.3 working :) Still don't hav

/dev/hdb1's permissions getting messed up?

2004-02-20 Thread Joseph Jones
/dev/hdb1 gets set to read-only when I do any of these: Any kind of chmod command on anything in the mountpoint. And kind of deletion with KDE. I'm running Sid. Please help! Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian does not have NIC driver

2004-02-12 Thread Joseph Jones
Anil Gupte wrote: I am relatively new to Debian, so please forgive me if the dumb factor is high. I am trying to install debian from disks (rescue.bin, root.bin, driver-x.bin) and I cannot get it to install the Network drivers. The Network card is an Intel Pro1000 and the driver does not appe

Re: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

2004-02-09 Thread Joseph Jones
Olle Eriksson wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 02:24, Joseph Jones wrote: Anyone have a clue as to how to fix that? This is what happens when I try to run a game called Legends: http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/ Many thanks Joe Make sure you have Load "glx" in the Module

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

2004-02-08 Thread Joseph Jones
Anyone have a clue as to how to fix that? This is what happens when I try to run a game called Legends: http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/ Many thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OpenAL stopped recognising artsd...

2004-02-08 Thread Joseph Jones
Sound in UT2003 no longer works when I've got artsd running. It happened with no provocation at all. Can anyone provide any assistance? Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Plustek 9636P and SANE on Debian Unstable?

2004-02-07 Thread Joseph Jones
Could anyone give me any help with this? I've cursed myself with a parallel port scaner, it seems, and I have to go about creating devices and all sorts of stuff. Basically, I'm very very lost and also it looks as though I'm supposed to be using some kinda kernel module, but I'm not sure. Some

Re: Need help, dual NICs, don't know whether this /etc/network/interfaces file is correct

2004-02-06 Thread Joseph Jones
Kent West wrote: Joseph Jones wrote: Adam Aube wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 12:06 pm, Joseph Jones wrote: I try to get [the network] working by starting up my PC. I was under the impression that that was all was requied after installing the kernel (it's all my Via Rhine based

Re: Need help, dual NICs, don't know whether this /etc/network/interfaces file is correct

2004-02-06 Thread Joseph Jones
Adam Aube wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 12:06 pm, Joseph Jones wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Your interfaces file looks fine. Exactly what happens when you try to get your network interface working, and how do you try to do it? I try to get it working by starting up my PC. I was under the

Re: people with forcedeth issues

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Subject: Re: people with forcedeth issues Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:25:19 + From: Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Monique Y. Herman wrote: Debian's 2.4.24-2 (unstable) added an experimental forced

Anyone had any luck with gift-fasttrack on unstable?

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Somebody pointed me at a port that seemed to be for woody (deb http://hal.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/debian/ gift/), however, it doesn't quite work because of a dependency on libvorbis0, which has been replaced by libvorbis0a. Anyone else seen any better offers? Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Tevion/Aldi 6-in-1 card reader/writer: What kernel option in 2.4.22?

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
I've seen it mentioned in mailing list archives online, but none of them mention what kernel option(s) it uses. Anyone know what the options are? Many thanks. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:58:59PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: It really bugs me. I know this may seem unnecessary to some people, but it wouldn't require much. All the other mailing lists I'm on set the reply-to to the address of the mailing list, apart from

Re: America's Army - OpenGL Error

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Scarletdown wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:35:06PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: So, what do I need to do to get OpenGL working? In other words, what file do I ask for when I do apt-get install? This varies wildly by setup. Wha

Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
It really bugs me. I know this may seem unnecessary to some people, but it wouldn't require much. All the other mailing lists I'm on set the reply-to to the address of the mailing list, apart from this list. Joe (forever the newbie) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Need help, dual NICs, don't know whether this /etc/network/interfaces file is correct (sorry I accidentally replied to you, Adam)

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Kent West wrote: Joseph Jones wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:39 pm, Joseph Jones wrote: Could someone just check over this for me please? I'm having no end of trouble trying to get my nforce's onboard interface working. I try to get it working by starting up my PC. I was

Re: Need help, dual NICs, don't know whether this /etc/network/interfaces file is correct (sorry I accidentally replied to you, Adam)

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Adam Aube wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:39 pm, Joseph Jones wrote: Could someone just check over this for me please? I'm having no end of trouble trying to get my nforce's onboard interface working. If this isn't the problem, could someone suggest what is? The forcedeth

Need help, dual NICs, don't know whether this /etc/network/interfaces file is correct

2004-02-04 Thread Joseph Jones
Could someone just check over this for me please? I'm having no end of trouble trying to get my nforce's onboard interface working. If this isn't the problem, could someone suggest what is? The forcedeth patch installed cleanly, and appears to be trying to work. Many thanks Joe. /etc/network/

dmesg not working? unstable with 2.4.22

2004-02-04 Thread Joseph Jones
My dmesg has stopped working :/ I first noticed it when I ran dmesg and realised it still had my old kernel at the top of the log. Can anyone provide any clues as to why this should be the case? Many thanks. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Gaim currently broken in unstable?

2004-01-31 Thread Joseph Jones
I can't get gaim to log into MSN at all, even though the current version is supposed to be able to (I was using a backport when I was on woody a day or so ago). Anybody else having this problem, or know a solution? According to Gnome-Apt, the gaim-common package isn't available and is required

iiswish@lists.debian.org - anyone shed any light?

2004-01-28 Thread Joseph Jones
I keep getting stupid e-mails from here. Anyone have any information on it? I'll fwd the message source if anyone's interested. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

drivers/built-in.o, cmpxchg, 2.6.1-mm5 and make-kpkg --revision

2004-01-25 Thread Joseph Jones
Having heard of people having problems with --append to version and 2.6, I decided to try with --revision. However, I get undefined references to cmpxchg in functions tdfx_lock_transfer, tdfx_lock_take, tdfx_lock_free, tdfx_notifier, radeon_lock_take. I then get error 1 (something to do with .t

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-15 Thread Joseph Jones
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 16:41, Joseph Jones wrote: Original Message Subject: Preliminary investigation were started Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:40:49 -0600 (CST) <---Snip---> Anybody else got this crap? Send the FUll Headers and such... that mea

[Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-14 Thread Joseph Jones
Original Message Subject: Preliminary investigation were started Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:40:49 -0600 (CST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:35:00 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ladies and Gentlemen, Downloading of Movies,

KDM not allowing root to access the default screen for x-apps

2004-01-10 Thread Joseph Jones
KDM wont allow me to use Gnome-Apt because it wont allow root access to the default screen. I am logged in as a regular user, open a terminal, su into root, try and load gnome-apt, but it wont allow root access to the screen. This only happens when I use KDM, GDM does not have this problem. An

Joining the 2.6.1-mm2 worry-ranks: modversions.h

2004-01-10 Thread Joseph Jones
I now finally have 2.6.1-mm2 installed and running. However, I'm having major problems. The forcedeth driver appears not be working. I upgraded from 2.4.20 to get this driver. It says this in dmesg: eth1: forcedeth.c: subsystem 01043:0c11 bound to :00:04.0 I added an entry for it as eth1 in i

Re: 2.6.1-mm1: Still can't find forcedeth!

2004-01-09 Thread Joseph Jones
Johann Koenig wrote: On Friday January 9 at 01:14pm Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: oseph Jones wrote: I've installed 2.6.1 and patched up to mm1, no errors occurred in either operation, but forcedeth *still* isn't showing up in menuconfig. What am I doing wrong? Have a displea

2.6.1-mm1: Still can't find forcedeth!

2004-01-09 Thread Joseph Jones
I've installed 2.6.1 and patched up to mm1, no errors occurred in either operation, but forcedeth *still* isn't showing up in menuconfig. What am I doing wrong? Have a displeased Tux? Is this his wrath? Am I looking in the wrong place? Where should I be looking. What should I be looking for? A

Forcedeth in the 2.6 kernel?

2004-01-08 Thread Joseph Jones
I jumped in the deep end and d/l'd the 2.6 from kernel.org I'm attempting to use the forcedeth patch (v20), but it isn't showing up in menuconfig. Is it supposed to be in Device Drivers --> Networking support --> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) ? Many thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Applying the forcedeth patch to the 2.4.24 source from kernel.org?

2004-01-07 Thread Joseph Jones
Could anyone tell me how to achieve this lofty goal? I've never applied a patch before in my life, so if somebody could tell me how this is done, I'd be very grateful :) I could do with being pointed at the correct patch (amongst other instructions), since I don't have a clue what I'm supposed

Installing a different windows manager in KDE on Woody? (QVWM if possible)

2004-01-07 Thread Joseph Jones
I'm not quite digging what KDE's window manager looks like with the Redmond theme, I think I'd just prefer to install QVWM and use that if possible. Anyone here know anything about carrying this out? Many thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

nForce 2 and Woody: How can I achieve a network install and what functionality is available without the nVidia drivers?

2004-01-06 Thread Joseph Jones
I am very much a newbie, I'm at about the level where I'm starting to mess with backports and can compile my own kernel as per the instructions in the newbiedoc (just). I've had an nForce 2 mobo for a couple of months new and simply haven't gotten around to installing it, since it seemed like s

Software in apt that can scale video files down in resolution?

2003-12-18 Thread Joseph Jones
Is there such an animal? Many thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with Toshiba 400CS laptop + etherlink 589

2003-12-18 Thread Joseph Jones
I've built a new kernel for my Toshiba 400cs, cutting out a lot of unnecessary junk, whilst making sure everything's in place that I need for the laptop. Anyhow, after compiling the kernel on my main box, I've ftp'd it over to my laptop and installed it. During startup, the network card's dongl

Firebird 0.7 being exceedinly slow closing tabs

2003-12-10 Thread Joseph Jones
I installed Firebird 0.7. It worked fine for a good time, but now it's very very slow closing down tabs that have had pages in them, it's become progressively worse. The same goes for shutting down the whole program if there are tabs that have had pages in them. Tabs that have had no pages open

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread Joseph Jones
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 16:02 GMT, John Foster penned: Joseph Jones wrote: I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network in

Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-09 Thread Joseph Jones
I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install from. Could anyone advise me as to how I do this, if possible in relation to the instructions in the newb

Screenshots in Linux?

2003-11-18 Thread Joseph Jones
How do you take a screenshot in Linux? Preferably from the terminal and of the whole screen. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Joseph Jones
Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites the MSIE identification, while for others Netscape 4.7. Can I do this with Mozilla Firebird? And how? Thanks for any help! wbr, Lukas

xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-26 Thread Joseph Jones
How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-26 Thread Joseph Jones
installed is so dire ;) Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joseph Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mpla

xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?

2003-10-25 Thread Joseph Jones
How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Using apt-get/dselect to download from a un-official repository.

2003-10-22 Thread Joseph Jones
Nick Hastings wrote: Hi, * Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]: I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned in a mailing list arc

Using apt-get/dselect to download from a un-official repository.

2003-10-21 Thread Joseph Jones
I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I would go about installing from this repository (so I can pl

Konqueror and Firebird under gnome/gmc

2003-10-20 Thread Joseph Jones
I have Firebird and Konqueror on the same system with gnome/gmc. In gnomecc, under Document Handlers/Default Applications, I have Konqueror set. However, if I happen to have Firebird open when I actually open a url with gnome, it sends it to Firebird instead of Konqueror. Do I need to change so

Re: Problem with apt-get/dselect/aptitude and unstable/stable packages

2003-10-18 Thread Joseph Jones
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 14:51 GMT, Joseph Jones penned: I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the unstable packages without having to mess around fixing dependancies. As i

Problem with apt-get/dselect/aptitude and unstable/stable packages

2003-10-18 Thread Joseph Jones
I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the unstable packages without having to mess around fixing dependancies. As in, I don't want it to do anything but un-install all the unstable packages. My apt-get has bee

Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Joseph Jones
While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the industry uses? *sigh*). I've tried Konqueror and found it lacking extremely (yes, I love it as a file manager when combined with qvwm, but it simply isn't

Small Debian-based distro suitable for 586? Support for large hard drives without additional hardware?

2003-10-09 Thread Joseph Jones
Does such an animal exist? I'm thinking of setting an older box up as a fileserver, but I need to know whether there're any kernel patches or modules that allow the use of large HDDs (60GB) on older machines *without* additonal hardware. Thanks :) Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Err, I'm with Klaus on this. I'm not gonna tell ya how to bring your kid up, but I was in front of screens that young and I have myopia. When kids're young they sit a few inchs away from a screen because their eyes can at that age. The problem is when you get older and you subconsciously force

Problem Installing Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003.

2003-10-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Hi, this is my first post to the mailing list as a subscriber. I've been having problems installing Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003 under Linux. Everything goes fine until it asks me to mount the play disk. I already have it mounted, but it refuses to recognise it. I read this: ht