Re: Problems using hal, pmount and gvm

2005-10-24 Thread Jules Bean
Hi Christian, Did you solve this problem? I see no followups on debian-user... I have it working on my unstable system here. The key points are: You need HAL, pmount, gnome-volume-manager installed. You do not need to configure anything. It should work 'out-of-the-box' on recent kernel versio

Re: Large Debiandoc SGML and PS/PDF problem

2002-02-19 Thread Jules Bean
I know little about sgml, but something about TeX On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:42:13AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Appendix A. > [149] [150] > Appendix B. > [151] > Overfull \hbox (142.97896pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7339--7341 > []\T1/ptm/m/n/10.95 The orig-i-nal SGML files used to cre-at

Re: lseek error / LFS support with potato

2001-11-20 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:44:01PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Yes, I found after sending the letter. But since this only works when > you compile the program yourself, and the database acording to the > support should not suffer from this limit, I thought maybe there was > some magic flip I

Re: cannot login 2 X since upgrade 2 woody

2001-09-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:08:11PM +0200, Mayer, Christian (Dregis) wrote: > Hi, > > i cannot login to X anymore since upgrade from potato to woody. Does anybody > have an idea. the login-screen (kdm) appears, i give in login and pw it > seems as if it wanted to start my kde-session but then falls

Re: ethernet hookup

1999-11-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, raymond ferrari wrote: > I have a 3com 3C905-TX card(Parellel Tasking chip) with a Lucent > 40-0336-004chipset. At bootup eth0 is not being recognized. Please > explain to me what I need to do to connect up to my isp. I am using a > COM21 cable modem to connect to my isp by P

Re: imlib against gtk1.2?

1999-03-06 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > I've gotten a number of requests for imlib packages that are linked > against gtk/glib 1.2. The imlib packages linked against gtk/glib 1.2 have > been ready for some time. However, they will not be released until the > gnome/gtk/imlib coordinat

Re: enlightenment-cvs bug: Enlightenment is removed from the menu system

1999-03-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > > Just to reassure everyone, I am quite happy to support the > > enlightenment-cvs package. > > I've just installed it, and it removed the Enlightenment option from the > Menu/WindowManagers that enlightenment_0.14 put there. Yeah. I haven't integrat

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

1999-03-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:21:21PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: > > > > when I run cvs enlightenment as a

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

1999-02-27 Thread Jules Bean
the convience of users. I am closing this bug report, > as it has no relevance to the package in the distribution. If you are > having difficulties with the CVS debs, please contact Jules Bean, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to reassure everyone, I am quite happy to support the enlightenment-c

Re: XDM on 2.0

1998-09-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > When I start X with XDM and log in the 'debian banner' stays in the > background of my desktop. I have to drag the xterm window around to > erase it. This did not happen in 1.3.1. (the banner was cleared > before the window manager started). It does n

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Keita Maehara wrote: > From: "G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:38:26 +0100 (BST) > > > mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib >= 2.22 > > I can't seem to find vflib > > Can anyone help ? > > Sorry,

GIMP 0.99.31

1998-05-25 Thread Jules Bean
Hullo everyone, Che seems to be absent so I've compiled up Gimp 0.99.31. It required zero work (although a lot of CPU time) since Che hasn't done any patching, so I just copied the debian directory and built. I don't plan to make an NMU since, AFAICS there's nothing very special about .31. Anyo

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-13 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, May 12, 1998 9:26 am -0500 "Nathan E Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > : Hi there... > > [ snip ] > > : Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take > : 10-15 *minutes* t

perl package/CPAN integration questionable

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
rsion structures - a hard problem. I suspect that altering the @INC priorities will solve most problems, though... Yours, Jules Bean /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > : Hi there... > > [ snip ] > > : Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take > : 10-15 *minutes* to complete an ssl-telnet connection. It gets as far as

ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
ssl libraries in 586 mode (but surely then it wouldn't work at all, rather than taking forever?) Any ideas? Jules Bean [Cc:s appreciated - I read debian-user through the mail-list browser, I don't subscribe...] /+---+-\ | J

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
[Initial message wasn't sent to debian-users, but I am quoting it in full, and annotating it]. On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > The problem with mySQL is you can't do "transactions" (rollback if > something went wrong...)... It's not for our busines... Obviously you understand your co

Re: >8bpp?

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > Yo- > > How to I get xdm to start with 16bpp or 24bpp? It is currently starting > in 8bpp so AfterStep looks terrible. > Best method, probably, is to go into your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, go down to the section in your XF86Config that looks li

(RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
Hi! Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users. On the other hand, it also serves to monitor the status of the frozen and unstable distributions

Re: grep broken?

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
the problem down to grep. > > Thanks, > -Ossama Yes. It is a reported bug. If you are using hamm, you would be advised to subscribe to debian-devel. The new version has already been uploaded to master - expect it on ftp.debian.org lat

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > I forwarded [EMAIL PROTECTED] some of the spam the list has been getting. I > thought that posting what AOL has to say about spam might be interesting. > They also mention spam from Compuserve since AOL recently acquired > Compuserve. The follo

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: > > > > I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run > > > > PostgreSQL is as close to ANSI SQL 92 as you can get, and it is still > > You might want to check out mySQL too. I do not know

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > > Actually, if you have a decent MIME-configured email reader, HTML mail > > shouldn't give you a problem. > > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > At some companies (like

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hey, > > Question: is a S3/Virge DX-3D videocard also supported by the > xserver-s3v-3.3.2 package? > > > Thanks for your help, Yes. I'm using one right now, with 4MB. Does 640x480x24bpp nicely. Can't test higher res, my monitor is broken :(

Re: swap space

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I asked earlier on this list about why memory is sucked up into buffers. I > appreciate the answers and thank everyone who responded. Now I have a new > question: why won't the kernel release the swap space that it apparently > needed sometime earlier?

Re: ftp.debian.org mirroring at Sunsite

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anybody of you know the reason why hamm/frozen is not > mirrored at the mother-Sunsite and countless mirrors? It will > be so much easier for European people to download the rought > 300-350 MB of the distribution. > > Have wr

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote: > >Hey, I don't like html mail either, but that was too hard. > >Dont you think so? > > > >Alex Y. > > not really. i usually delete such mail right away without even reading > it. and i don't care where it comes from: my boss or from somebody off > the net

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote: > >You might want to tell everyone that it comes _without_ the news and > >mail readers. > > > look at this as an added bonus. no more unreadable html mail from > clueless newbies (or seasoned morons). > > --alex-- > Actually, if you have a

XFree86 gamma correction

1998-03-31 Thread Jules Bean
My XFree86 stuff looks much darker than on PCs or Macs... sounds like a gamma problem to me. Anyone have any pointers to docs on setting up gamma on XFree86? Doesn't seem to be a how-to on it. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMA

FAQ suggestion - mem > 64M

1998-03-31 Thread Jules Bean
It seems to me that as more powerful systems are becoming common, this 64M limit will be hit by more and more 'newbies' - perhaps it should be in a FAQ? Or, I wonder, perhaps mentioned in the lilo.conf manpage - although it is a boot param, lilo.conf is where I first thought of looking, having som

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > Well.. I'm only at 3.3.2-1. I guess I'l give it a day to see if the new > > version appears on the debian mirrors, and live without netscape till > > then.. > > > It can be downloaded from > http://master.debian.org/~branden/xlib6_3.3.2-2_i

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > > > > And, perhaps it's only me who is unable to find ANYTHING > > on ftp.debian.org? It's completely EMPTY!!! > > > > Yes. /debian/dists/unstable/ seems to be empty. I refer the g

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > On 01:04 PM 98.03.26 +0000, Jules Bean wrote (and I quoted): > >If I understand correctly: > > > >bo is dead. bo is frozen. > > > >Replace bo with frozen. > > > >Or better, still use URLs like debian/d

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Aren't all of your problems related to the poorly built xlib6 that was > just discussed on this list yesterday and earlier today? The xlib6 > maintainer stated that he has built a version without the bugs you > mentioned. The new package should be post

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > pear# ls /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX* > > > > So what's going on? Why can't it find these libraries? I've installed > > the new xlib6 (my machine is up to date on frozen). In fact, I > > de-installed xbase, xlib6, and the oldlibs xpm, and

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > On 01:38 PM 98.03.26 +0100, Joseph Noelmans wrote (and I quoted): > >hello, > > > >I'm trying to download the debian distribution. > >Could you please explain me how I should do this? I don't even know > >which files I have to pick from your ftp-serve

Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
Can anyone explain this to me? I suspect it has something to do with libc5/6 issues, but I'm confused... pear# ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape libXt.so.6 => not found libSM.so.6 => not found libICE.so.6 => not found libXmu.so.6 => not found libXpm.so.4 =>