On Friday 30 December 2005 09:24, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 22:12:26 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote:
> [...]
>> SCSI emulation is not required in v2.6.
>
> I keep reading this, but xcdroast and s
On Thursday 29 December 2005 20:56, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> For current stable kernel 2.4.27 it gives instructions on how to setup
> an ATAPI CD-RW/DVD+-RW recorder on Debian. Trouble is they include lilo
> and I'm using grub. Then below it says (I think) that
On Monday 28 November 2005 00:49, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> 1) it should be possible to view any of the bugs (to see whether they
> are related to the version i want to upgrade to). help indicates, that
> writing down the number of the bug should be enough:
>
On Thursday 10 November 2005 19:40, Mike Chandler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Since my testing system updated to gcc-4, I can no longer build a kernel
> (the
> debian way). Doing "make oldconfig" or "make xconfig" gives errors almost
> immediately and won't build.
What ver
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On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:42, pascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I did, but no driver. Use 2.6.14
I built my kernel from Debian's linux-source-2.6.14 package with the
following options among others. (I build the HPT 374 driver into the
kernel, not as
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 19:48, pascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Does someone have any experience in compiling the hpt374 driver for
> recent 2.6 kernel?
To compile the HPT code, just 'make config' (or its equivalent) and enable
the driver. In any case, the HPT 374 is
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:01, Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Hello, I'm researching sound cards. I'd like to get something cheap
> (under $50) that Debian will probably support with no problem. My first
> inclination is always sound blaster, but any ideas?
I boug
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 13:49, Iain Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:11 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote:
>
>> emacs --debug-init
>
> Still the same output, Undefined color: "black" and nothing else.
How abo
On Monday 24 October 2005 19:30, Iain Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have a problem with Emacs. After installing it, it wouldn't start so I
> tried starting it from bash but it keeps reporting
> Undefined color: "black" and dumping me back to bash.
emacs --debug-init
On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:35, Matteo Semplice
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Thanks for your reply (and all the others, which kindly pointed out docs
> on the web that sadly already sit on my machine but had already given no
> help)
> ...
> udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q pat
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 17:56, Matteo Semplice
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> is anyone willing to suggest an udev rule to SYMLINK my usb stick to
> something like "/dev/usbpen"? I know that the web is full of suggestions
> on how to do it, but I can't get
On Saturday 08 October 2005 19:30, Jeffrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> One of my Friend wants to do a project as a feature enhancement on Jikes
> RVM (http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net)
>
> can you all suggest a feature enhancement ?
No. The only thing I know about JRVM is
On Saturday 08 October 2005 11:45, anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 10:42 pm, Jules Dubois wrote:
>> On Friday 07 October 2005 12:23, anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
On Friday 07 October 2005 12:23, anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> whatever happened to PyKDE? i see python-qt3 but no pykde.
The presence in Debian of 'python-qt3' might lead one to generalize on
package-name conventions and deduce that there might exist another pack
On Sunday 02 October 2005 13:36, Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Yes, I installed the Debian package.
Just to be sure, you ran 'apt-get install ipodder' or the equivalent?
> I do not have 'python-wxgtk2.6' in my
> available list. I am running Sarge,;
I mentioned
On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:37, Stefan Salewski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> To remove old config files reinstallation of the packed
> and subsequent removing with option --purge should work.
> Is there a better way?
In addition to the other suggestions you've received, you
On Saturday 01 October 2005 20:36, Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> OK. I do get the following:
>
> basement:/usr/bin# iPodder
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "iPodderGui.py", line 22, in ?
> import wx
> ImportError: No module named wx
>
> However, this
On Friday 23 September 2005 21:55, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Friday 23 September 2005 07:57 pm, John Hasler wrote:
>>
>> Paul Johnson writes:
>> > So why do you do it? It's the first followup that starts a thread,
>> > after all.
>>
>> Read the subject lin
On Thursday 22 September 2005 19:27, Arthur H. Johnson II
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Okay, lately I've been thinking about Aptitude. Why is it that
> dist-upgrade with aptitude shows stuff to be done, while apt does not?
> Can anybody explain whats going on?
Search the de
On Thursday 15 September 2005 13:58, Roberto C. Sanchez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:29:41PM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote:
>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>>
>> Media contact: Patricia Witkin
>> [EMAIL PROTECTE
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On Sunday 11 September 2005 02:36, Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Greetings,
> I wish, when the mail.log is rotated, that it is first grep'ed for the
> string "reject" and the results of that grep to be mailed to a specific
> user.
man logrotate ?
postrotate/endscri
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:13, Mark Farnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have a computer already installed with Debian Sarge. I wish to
>
> - install XEN kernel into the computer
Have you read the "Xen User Manual"?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
On Friday 26 August 2005 19:50, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Did you have your sudo pre-configured?
I configured it myself manually -- after an RTFM or two.
> Mine does not work; my user was not a sudoer. When I went to add david
> ALL=ALL (so I don't need t
On Friday 19 August 2005 16:08, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Since for the past quite a few days, when I upgrade my Testing based
> machine running 2.6.11, apt-listbugs cannot find any bugs.
I've been seeing this for several weeks; apt-listbugs just (sort-of) hangs
and
On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:49, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> This is for info in case anybody googles for this motherboard, by chance.
It's not very good information, except that you have what appear to be
hardware problems. What you said was insufficient
On Friday 05 August 2005 06:03, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> * Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Aug 05 01:15 -0500]:
>
>> When I first installed it, I didn't do any sort of configuration. I
>> didn't see a
On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:19, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I am trying to compile PSPP from CVS and it says something
>
> If you checked Gnulib out in a directory named `gnulib' at the same
> level as PSPP, then this is sufficient. Otherwise, provide the
On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:37, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> * Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Aug 03 20:04 -0500]:
>> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:24, Jules Dubois
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROT
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:24, Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I've skimmed some official documents and some Apple developer documents,
> [snip]
Sorry to follow-up to my own message, but ignore the original please.
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On Tuesday 02 August 2005 18:07, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:37:36 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote
>
>> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="NEC USB UF000x", NAME="%k",
>>SYMLINK=&q
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 18:07, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:37:36 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote
>
>> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="NEC USB UF000x", NAME="%k",
>>SYMLINK=&q
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 06:07, sYs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Dave Ewart wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday, 02.08.2005 at 13:06 +0200, sYs wrote:
>>
>>>After changing my OS (Debian Etch), it sees only 884 MB of the physical
>>>
>>Can you be sure that this config really relates to yo
On Monday 01 August 2005 06:19, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On (01/08/05 12:32), Adam Funk wrote:
>> Inspired by the advice on this group and the -s option, I'm trying out
>> aptitude. But I'm surprised by this:
>>
>> followed by a long list of packages, some
On Monday 01 August 2005 04:58, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have one ide disk, which has 5 partitions:
>
> boot [ root | home | work | swap ]
> | | | | |
> hda1 hda5 hda6 hda8 hda7
>
> Is there a way, to change the number of tho
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 04:13, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:52:46 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote:
>
>> Mount your devices as you've done previously, so that they're sda1 and
>> sdi1. Then run
>>
On Sunday 31 July 2005 21:15, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Hi, and yes, I read the great source written by Dan:
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
That's some good documentation.
> Only, it is too difficult for me to understand, and I read it a
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 21:53, Fred OGrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have a small question, (as a newbe).
> Just how "Unstable" is Unstable?
I'm not Paul, but here's my opinion; I've been running Sid exclusively for
nearly two years. Usually, I've found it to be mo
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 07:16, Paras pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> i am using debian sid using kernel 2.6.11. i want to build the custom
> compile using make-kpkg.
>
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-2)
> g++ (GCC) 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-2)
Try this. Edit the top-level
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 23:59, Jason Edson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I've tried to get it a couple times but keep getting the same error.
> The mirror I'm using is http://debian.osuosl.org but I've tried others.
I got a valid linux-source-2.6.12 package from
ftp.debian
On Monday 25 July 2005 23:43, Xiaoyang Gu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have installed linux-source-2.6.12. But after compiling the
> source, I get a package named kernel-image-2.6.12**.deb. But in sid,
> kernel-image has been renamed to linux-image since 2.6.12. Then h
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 01:03, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> With this line or the same line with ftp protocol I have seen no new
> upgradeable packages for the last several days. Is that the way it is?
That's the way it is here.
> I see there was just a develope
[edited for brevity]
On Saturday 23 July 2005 15:39, Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Do the Debian kernel source packages use a new naming convention or
>> is this new pa
On Sunday 24 July 2005 12:15, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I read on "Debian Reference" how you can update a debian installation
> along the path:
> stable->testing->unstable
>
> 1) can i do it?
Yes. Before you do, read about security update policies for 'te
On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:54, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Adam Aube wrote:
>
>> After switching from XFree86 to X.Org on Sid recently, I discovered that
>> everytime I used Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to switch between the console and X, the
>> background and text color on th
I'm running Sid -- up-to-date except for a small number of held and broken
packages -- and have two questions about kernel source and compiling.
1) I have previously gotten, built, and used Debian's kernel source
packages, such as kernel-source-2.6.10 and kernel-source-2.6.11.
In the last fe
On Friday 22 July 2005 16:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I just checked out VMware's site and it did not list Debian as a distro
> that it supports. Has anyone had any problems with this? The cost is
> $189.00 for the download. If there is a problem wit
On Friday 22 July 2005 17:22, Philip Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I may be getting myself confused as there is also reference
> to Sid which may or may not be Etch before it is officially made stable.
I can't answer the first question (which I've deleted) but Sid is
On Friday 22 July 2005 10:47, Edward Dunagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> i tried to post this before subscribing to the list.
You don't need to subscribe in order to post.
> when i run aptitude update i get a response that tells
> me that 78 files are to be removed. lots o
On Saturday 16 July 2005 21:18, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>> Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no
>> security. Thats a major issue in my mind.
>
> Could you explain that in newbie-ease?
Sure.
> I seem to be getting updates for sarge from se
On Friday 15 July 2005 07:26, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
> How come udev package has been upgraded in Sid without any warning that
> 2.6.12 is required for the new version?
The package description says "requires a kernel not older than 2.6.12."
> We upgraded a Sid
On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:39, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:48:38PM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote:
>> Obstinate trolls lacking the ability to learn or even RTFM.
>
> something stupid it does is obviously a
On Thursday 14 July 2005 02:05, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
>
>>Yes, but we all know aptitude is crap,
>>
> Who is this "we all?"
Obstinate trolls lacking the ability to learn or even RTFM.
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On Wednesday 13 July 2005 12:27, Adam Siade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew how to place a table next to a figure in a
> LaTeX document.
Try http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
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On Tuesday 12 July 2005 15:36, linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has successfully built a 2.6.x kernel on an
> Athlon chip?
Yes, I built one from Debian's 2.6.11-7 sources about three weeks ago, on
and for my Athlon. Since that time, a GCC upgrad
On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:14, Martin Henne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I upgraded my sid today and kmail crashes when started.
> The debugger says, there's a segfault in QString in
> libqt-mt.so.3
> [...]
> Does anyone else have this problem?
Yes: http://bugs.debian.org/c
On Thursday 07 July 2005 10:57, Meistro Master <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Is GNUstep still a useful platform;
Yes.
> is it popular?
Not really.
> I really do enjoy the NeXT/OPEN/AFTER/step environment, but don't want
> to get reacquainted with something that's dying a
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 21:42, Elmer E. Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I'm leaning toward using apt (and maybe occasionally using Synaptic)
> rather then Aptitude.
ITYM: "apt-get". apt-get (and its cohorts), Synaptic, and aptitude are all
based on the Advanced Package T
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 20:14, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> It just occurred to me that using the U command from within the aptitude
> UI does the same thing as dist-upgrade.
>From the "aptitude user's guide":
Actions->Mark Upgradable (U) flags every package w
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 17:26, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I've been sitting on the list for a while now and am interested in
> creating a series of deb packages for perl modules. But I think I need
> a mentor to introduce me to how things work and what my first
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 12:43, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> How does one know when to use dist-upgrade?
That's a good question, one which I can't really answer. I switched to
aptitude without bothering to read any documentation. Since then, I've
been constructi
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 16:38, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I think Jules' message above is pretty clear and straightforward. I
> suppose some of the ramifications of this choice might not be
> immediately clear though.
His comments are, I believe, correct but no
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 10:09, Matthias Kaeppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Looks like those two programs don't really know what each other is
> doing.
apt-get and Synaptic (and probably dselect, which I haven't used) don't know
about aptitude's "automatically/manually in
On Sunday 03 July 2005 22:07, Khanh Cao Van <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I' tried change the run level in /etc/inittab to 5 but my PC did not
> boot in X at boot time . Ofcause I've install all gnome and x windows
> and could startx by hand .
Did you install 'gdm'? (Or 'kd
On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:14, R. Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I feel like answering RTFM again, but you've been reasonable and polite.
> Thank you for your courtesy.
>
> 'apt-get upgrade' is restricted (and therefore safer) in that:
>
> under no circumsta
On Sunday 03 July 2005 17:09, R. Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> That may be true for apt-get (the apt-get man page entries for upgrade
> and dist-upgrade mention nothing about installation state), but it
> doesn't seem to be true for aptitude [...]
It is true.
On Saturday 02 July 2005 09:40, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> You're misinterpreting what 'dist-upgrade' does.
>
> If I am, you haven't answered my original
On Friday 01 July 2005 17:03, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Jason Edson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I just did a dist-upgrade on my unstable box
>
> Why would you want to use dist-upgrade on unstable?
man apt-get
man aptitude
> You aren't changing distribu
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 06:40, Jason Edson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I just did a dist-upgrade on my unstable box and for some reason apt
> wanted to remove gnome, synaptic, aptitude and I think one other. Has
> any one else had this problem [...]
Yes.
> [...] or can som
On Saturday 25 June 2005 18:13, Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> My isp doesn't provide news server and reading/managing debian-* lists
> in evolution is killing me... I really need to switch to a news reader
> so I can ignore/follow threads and all that good stuff...
S
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 07:03, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> 'Autoclean' doesn't seem to be quite what I used in the past.
autoclean: remove obsolete packages from the cache.
clean: remove all packages from the cache.
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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:22, Fernando Cacciola
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Are there alternative mirrors? (trying the get kdevelop3)
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
If you install and use the 'netselect-apt' package, it will time
transmissions to the various mirrors
On Thursday 26 May 2005 09:07, rich lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to
> search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed
> (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages.
That's also my expe
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 17:38, Ian Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Is it possible to subscribe to the list, yet no receive it via e-mail?
Not exactly; "subscribing" means email.
> I'd much prefer to read it via Usenet, but if I'm not subscribed, I can't
> post.
See:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:58:21 +0200, George Iordanou wrote:
> Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any
> ideas how to restore it?
The drive's filesystem may be toast but the firmware is intact. I think
the iPod manual-ettes come with instructions to reset the device.
I
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:59:43 -0500, tech wrote:
> I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel
> Trackball.
> As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work.
> Any help would be appretiated.
In this section of your X11 configuration file:
Sec
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:01:39 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool to convert
> from mdir to mbox format?
KMail?
Create an (mbox) mail folder in KMail and copy all the messages from your
maildir message folder into it. Copy the resulting mbox file to a place
where your
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:46:46 +0200, ocl wrote:
> I am trying to create a hardlink to a remote directory
> but it gets rejected
Hard links must be on the same filesystem as the target. Hard links to
directories are (almost certainly) rejected.
> What am I doing wrong?
You can't do that. If you
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:06:05 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote:
> Runs fine here on Sid. I also compiled a PPC/GTK version that works fine
> on my PPC. In fact the version I built has more features than the x86
> version I downloaded.
Windows users report that there are numerous nice features which are
si
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:56:38 +0100, Eduard Pauna wrote:
> Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on debian?
Yes: Eclispe 3.0M8, 3.0M9, and 3.0 work for me. I haven't tried 3.1.
> I got the eclipse-platform-SDK-3.0-linux-gtk.zip package, unzip it and
> when I run eclipse I obtain this error
>
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:19:06 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:29 -0800, Steven Yap wrote:
>>
>> BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Zynet*",SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-CFC*",
>> NAME{all_partitions}="compact_flash"
>
> Where does this go? /etc/udev/udev.rules?
It could, but I think it'
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:43:31 -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse?
udev is, conceptually, a much better naming scheme than is devfs. This
purported goodness comes at a price: udev is not able to do directly some
of the things
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote:
> 2. My desktop went from KDE to Gnome. Is this normal? Where do I set the
> default desktop?
When you boot, do you get a graphical login screen? Is there a session
icon or menu item? If there is, you should be able to choose a KDE
"
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:41:32 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote:
> What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver?
Apparently -- I don't buy closed hardware -- udev is not able to create
the device nodes needed by X quickly enough to satisfy the NVidia server.
So, as others have point
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:55:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
>> Don't know about a "general concensus" but I'm quite happy with udev's
>> operation and having consistent device names for my USB and Firewire
>> devices.
>
> What kind of names
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:21:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
>> in udev.rules I have:
>> BUS="usb" , KERNEL="sd?1",SYSFS_serial="07381C501259, NAME="usbkey"
>> I then can:
>> mount /dev/usbkey /mnt/usbkey
>> or some other magic for automounting.
>
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:12:07 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's packages.
Download one into a good parent directory. chmod u+x on the file.
execute it. Add its bin directory to your path.
> Too bad they don't have enough sense to put deb's out th
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:11:22 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> i just ended up restoring the thing
How unfortunate.
> i tried using ephpod on a windows machine to restore the database, but
> when i did, it would prompt me for each mp3 as it was stored in the
It could have used some mangling of the
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:22:15 -0600, Chad Davis wrote:
Can you get things like system sounds and perhaps Ogg to work? Did CD
audio (or all audio) work at one time and then break?
> Kernel 2.6.9, custom built.
>
> snd46052 10
> snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixe
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:10:03 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote:
> VSJ escribió:
>
>>Read these instructions:
>>http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php
>>to build you own up to date Debian Java packages.
>>
> So we would find a single step package that would install Java in Debian
> and in th
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:59:49 -0600, Chad Davis wrote:
> So the conclusion to this is it's a alsa bug that I can not play audio
> cds?
I don't think anything was concluded either way. (I was being pedantic
about some CMI chip not being a VIA chip. We concluded, I think, two or
three of us, that w
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:09:51 -0500, Tong wrote:
> I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the
> current directory in RH:
>
> ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57-
find . -type d -name -print
> but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed.
Using 'ls', if the direc
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:07:11 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote:
> But I like blackdown, becuase making an apt-get install, it installs
> automatically in Mozilla (in a similar way to Macromedia Flash Debian
> Package ).
I think that's what the 'java-package' package is designed to do: Make a
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:47:37 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:29:34 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays mp3 files so I do have sound.
>> What I ultimately want to get working is gnomemeeting and evidently I
>> need a
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:01:19 +0800, ms linux wrote:
> sorry for another trivial question about alsa.
> i use sid 2.4.27 and gnome for desktop.
> recently if i want xmms play my mp3s, i have to kill
> esd first :-(
Try opening the XMMS preferences and at the bottom of the "Audio I/O
Plugins" t
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:09:08 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:05:10 -0600, Chad Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> My sound card is:
>> :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
>>
>
> I've one
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:44:52 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote:
> I cannot apt-get blackdown JRE. The program says: report the problem to
> solve it.
What is the actual error message?
> I do so.
This is basically a mailing list for discussions by users; your message,
although lacking essenti
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 04:05:10 -0600, Chad Davis wrote:
> I too have not been able to play audio cds with alsa. I have not tried
> with OSS however.
Neither ALSA nor OSS are CD players.
What application are you trying to use? What happens when you try to use
it? Where have you told this applica
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:29:34 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I have installed libasound1, alsa-base, alsa-utils. When I run alsaconf
> it says it can't find any PCI sound cards even though I have an Ensoniq
> AudioPCI (ES1371) that is detected on startup.
>
> I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:20:11 -0800, mamas wrote:
> I installed Debian testing (2.4.27-1-386) with all of its Alsa packages
> (apt-get install...) so, afaik, I should get full support of my audio
> card (Terratec EWX24/96 i.e. ice1712).
It looks like you have a pre-built kernel package, which I ne
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