Xemacs info problems with testing

ption available] * Build:: [No description available] . . . etc. What could I do to fix this? It's not too bad, since I can still read the info, but it would be nice if I could see the descriptions! Or aren't there supposed to be any? Thanks Neilen -- Neilen Marais <[EMAI

Re: Jigdo Sarge templates outdated?

et recent images? I currently have a bunch of bandwidth, but soon hereafter I'll be accessing the internet through a straw, and need recent ISO images! I did find some unofficial DVD images http://www.dafuer.de/downloads but I need CD images. Thanks Neilen -- Neilen Marais <[EMAIL P

Gnome panel auto-hide + always on top

a solution. Thanks Neilen -- Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sawfish kills gnome panel keybindings

y and starting over does'nt help either. Running meta-city instead of sawfish returns the alt-f1/f2 function, but I prefer sawfish. Can anyone advise? Thanks Neilen -- Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Gnome printing is broken in unstable

me the blank text problem. Is anyone else able to reproduce this? I have CCed this to Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. See his post of 9 January: Wow, it is good to see someone with the same problem :) [My message mostly snipped] Any ideas? Should I file a bug? Thanks Neilen [End

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

Hi On 2002.01.14 22:20 Coen De Roover wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a cheap laser printer that works flawlessly under Linux. I always thought this wouldn't be hard to find, but it turns out that some problems may arise with GDI-based printers (who actually dominate the lower-end market). All sugge

Can no longer print in gnome apps using libgnomeprint

Hi Recently I have been unable to print in gnumeric. It just gives blank output, in the preview, and in the postscript output. Balsa, which also uses libgnomeprint just segfaults if I try to print something. In both gnumeric, and balsa, I get a whole bunch of the flowwing errors to stdout:

Re: OT: performance problems.

Hi On 2002.01.07 00:48 martin f krafft wrote: also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2127 +0100]: > | i even went as far as to renice xmms to -20 *and* > | rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it doesn't really help. > > Well, kernel compilation is very CPU intensive, and bzip2 can do

Re: Multiple workspaces with Sawfish and Gnome, session management and navigation

Hi On 2002.01.01 19:17 Imre Vida wrote: Hi. > 2) Keybindings to take me to each workspace directly. I can't help you with session managment but the later is very easy to do: you have to configure sawfish "Bindings" part I think for a default setup, if you left double click you get the main men

Re: vga Font in xterms

Hi! On 2001.12.22 14:07 Thomas Augenstein wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:17:10PM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ rxvt -fn vga > rxvt: can't load font "vga" > > like I used to, and see the rude reply . > $ grep vga /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/

vga Font in xterms

Hi all When I ran potato, I used to use the vga font for my xterms, due to its clarity on crappy video setups. Upgrading to woody seemed to remove the vga font, but since I inherited a slightly better video card at that time, I could read the default fixed font again, and so let it be. When my

Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config-4 don't work

Hi all The fontpath as in the subject seems to be the default for X4 setup. Anyhow, I was surprised it did not work, since xfs-xtt does run, and is afaik a font server. Upon closer investigation, it seems that xfs-xtt is running at port 7110, since: ps aux | grep xfs nobody 189 0.0 4.2

Sending faxes with efax as a normal user

Hi all. I noticed that I can not send faxes as a user. The fax command complains of the following: efax: 16:13 Error: can't open pre-lock file /var/lock/TMP..01473: Permission denied The permissions on /var/lock are: drwxr-xr-t3 root root 1024 Dec 21 17:18 /var/lock/ so,

xmame-gl slow, even with direct rendering working

Hi All! I recently (yesterday, in fact) got (finally) a vid card with some accellerated 3D support, nameley an ATI Rage 128GL, with 32MB RAM. I Managed to get DRI working without too much effort (mainly compiling the r128 and agpgart kernel modules). I know it is accelerated, since when I r

Quake2 with hardware accel

Hi all Does anyone know what is needed to get quake2 working with hardware accell in X4.1? It seems to need Mesa 2.6, while now adays we are around 3.x. Is it even possible to get this working? Or are newer binaries, etc. avail? I only tried a really old archive of quake 2 that has been l

Multiple workspaces with Sawfish and Gnome, session management and navigation

Hi. I'm running woody, with its attendand Gnome packages. I use the Sawfish window manager, with 9 workspaces, with columns and rows both set to 1, as per the workspaces configuration tab under sawfish in the gnome control center. This works fairly niceley, but there are two things I can't

Re: boot from rescue into single user or with no modules loaded

Hi Ian On 2001.11.12 06:41 Ian Thomas wrote: --- nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Thomas said: > > > >Now the system won't get past these error > > messages. It starts to boot, then these messages > just > > keep repeating over and over again. How can I > boot up > > with no modules

Re: Creating mp3's or vobis's from non CD sources?

Hi 'Yall On 2001.11.12 00:31 Andras BALI wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Next, I would like to read in non CD sources, tapes, LP's et all. I > recognize I will hev to enter all teh artist/Album/Track data by hand (big > task), and I'm willing to invest the t

Re: My printer won't print.

Hi Paolo On 2001.11.08 15:49 Paolo Falcone wrote: Stephen W. Juranich wrote: >For whatever reason, my printer died. I replaced lpd with lprng. After >fiddling around with magicfilter and magicfilterconfig --force several times >and a couple of reboots, the best I can manage is a single piece

Re: sid mp3 woes

Hi Anthony On 2001.11.05 17:39 Anthony Liu wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:56:03PM -0600, David Rose wrote: > I just installed sid on my IBM Thinkpad 560X, and had a hard time getting > sound to work. I've got it working now, but using XMMS or plaympeg, I get > a horrible static hiss rather th

/usr/share/wallpaper, where to!?

Hi all To which package has/did that directory belong? I while ago, after I did a apt-get upgrade, all my wallpapers in helixgnome disappeared. I thaught that my config files got mangled, or summin, but today I checked it out, and the wallpaper dir has vanished! Ideally, I'd like to get it back

Re: wav --> audio cd

Hi all I find that for audio CDs, cdrdao works the best for met. Cdrecord forces a 2 second pause between each track. Cdrdao can make an exact copy of a cd, that will even cause the correct CDDA entry to be loaded. Furthmore, it has an automagic copy command, where you just feed it the original

Creative Flash 56 V.90 Modemblaster (ISA bus) in Linux

HI all I have baught said modem, in the seemingly mistaken belief that it is a normal internal serial modem, usable with no extra tricks, besides sorting the PnP out. With the arrival of kernel 2.4.0, the PnP turned out not to be a problem, (I can see that the device is active by looking at /pr

Print accounting

#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs: the file /var/log/lp-acct is always empty. Any ideas? Permissions possibly, and if so, which? Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EM

dwww errors

Thanks Neilens -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04-Aug-2000 Time: 21:12:31 This message was sent by XFMail --

xrdb preproccessing linux

Hi all I'm resending this messages, as before I seemed to get no reply... Perhaps soneone can help me now? --cut- Hello I use the VGA font with rxvt, and to get the high-ascii type chars to be handled properly, I need to set my termtype to linux. But it seems that xrdb transl

Re: Mail & PGP, Specially gpg and xfmail

ctually managed to get gpg and xfmail to work together? If you have, I'd really like to know how you did it. Thanks Neilen ------ E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10-Feb-2000 Time: 19:14:50 This message was sent by XFMail --

Re: LaTeX Package documents?

e elsewhere either. For instance, the exscale package gives me the following results if I do a locate: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/docs/tex/ont344$ locate exscale /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/exscale.sty Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10-Feb-2000 Time: 19:33:07 This message was sent by XFMail --

xrdb preproccessing linux

global X setup to use the -nocpp option, or do other things depend on this? If so, how could I get xrdb not to translate linux to 1? Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08-Feb-2000 Time: 19:40:46 This message was sent by XFMail --

LaTeX Package documents?

ith the Debian LaTeX installation... Where could I find thes files, or at least the documentation for them? BTW, what other freely avaliable documentation would be recommended for new LaTeX users? -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 07-Feb-2000

Tex permissions?

time Thanks neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Feb-2000 Time: 20:59:55 This message was sent by XFMail --

Potato Module Maddness

just like to know exactly what files are now of import, and more or less what should be in them? Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04-Feb-2000 Time: 15:42:04 This message was sent by XFMail --

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

Hello On 17-Jan-2000 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > >> If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the >> following problem after the package files have been downloaded: > > 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf'

GnuPG/XFMAIL integration?

ut it seems not to be that simple. The documentation of xfmail is rather scetchy on details, so if anyone has an idea? Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 18-Jan-2000 Time: 15:06:38 This message was sent by XFMail --

dselect/APT problems on potato

Press RETURN to continue. I'm not sure if dselect's idea of packages are getting updated or not? If I run apt-get update I don't see any error messages. Does this also update dselect? Thanks Neilen ------ E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ICE-WM middle mouse task list + gnome

middle menu back, but it interferes with too much of the rest of Gnome So what I want to know, is if possible, how can I get the middle mouse button menu back? Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13-Jan-2000 Time: 15:54:24 This messa

Potato Gnome upgrade non-happening?

. Cheers Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 18-Jun-99 Time: 03:22:56 This message was sent by XFMail --

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

columns, which is normally 1, will be 2 or more, meaning that 2 or more filenames are hardlinked to the same file... >regards > >OK Cheers Neilen ---------- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29-Jan-98 Time

RE: adduser in hamm dumps core !

r/bin/perl. If you see any mention of libc5, you know something is causing perl to be linked to the worng library Cheers Neilen ------ E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-Jan-98 Time: 14:27:41 This message was sent by XFMail --

New Smail, how to use offline?

PROTECTED], this can't be done when I'm offline. So if I can get this fixed I think I can use the newest smail again... Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22-Jan-98 Time: 20:51:00 This mes

Cron error messages

ers Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22-Jan-98 Time: 20:56:51 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

smail 3.2.0.100-4, won't accept mail form port25 no more

to use my ISP's smtp server (I am a dialup user, BTW), and to use it for all mail. Ideally I'd like to know how to fix my smail problem, but in the mean time, knowing how to set fetchmail up to work in mda mode would be useful too. ---------- E-Mail: Neilen Marais

Perl 5.004.04-3 Coredump problem SOLVED!!!

of, and solution to this problem to it? Cheers Neilen (Happier Debian user than ever :) ---------- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Jan-98 Time: 23:34:29 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

the correct libraries in >/usr/lib/libc5-compat I see... So is there no permanent solution to the problem allowing libc5 dependant stuff like the setup program to find the right libs? And out of curiosity. why don't the actual apps (swriter for example) not have this problem? Cheers Ne

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

nyway, thanks for the quick, correct answer :) > >-- >Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://www.gate.net/~storm/ > Cheers Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15-Jan-98 Time: 02:07:55 This messag

Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

ers Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14-Jan-98 Time: 21:27:28 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Unidentified subject!

Hi I'm trying to install slrn with slrnpull working, but the slrnpull.conf file that the readme says I must use as an example for writing my own is no-where to be found, and slrnpull don't seem to do anything w/o this file... Thanks Neilen -- E-Ma

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

omething similar to lredir drives? Would be slightly sad, since dosemu is a bit useless to me w/o the lredir functionality... -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-Jan-98 Time: 16:49:26 This message was sent by XFMail

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

makes sense to always use your current kernel's headers... But I digress, that seems to be a debian policy that other ppl seem to like... Cheers Neilen ------ E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-Jan-98 Time: 02:13:44 This mes

Re: EQL - all traffic is via ppp1

>Now, if I go to dual modems (or even three), is the box going to be >able >to keep up when servicing three 33K modems and doing DNS lookups and >running apache, squid, etc all at the same time? Oh yeah, it will certianly keep up. A local ISP used to run their whole ISP on a 486dx4/100, with 32mb,

Dosemu lredir problem

the other hand I have device=C:\EMUFS /dos in the config.sys, I get a d: drive, but it does not contain any data... I can access /dos perfectly fine in linux otherwise... Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08-Jan-98 Time: 23:48:

Re: Perl 5.004.04-3 causes core dumps...

idea? Cheers Neilen ------ E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08-Jan-98 Time: 23:43:59 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Off-Line NNTP?

Hi... I'm looking for a simple solution allowing me to fetch only the newsgroups I want through a PPP link, and then having it served locally as NNTP so that I can use any reader. In fact, I'm looking for leafnode. I did use leafnode before, and it suited my needs perfectly, but I had to change

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

Hello >On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote: > >> I have upgraded to 5.004.04-3, and the problem still persists! >> >Did you install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and then perl 5.004.04-3 ? > >There should be a predepends line in perl 5.004.04-3, but I have heard >that

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

ng that came with debian 1.3, and everything works again, besides I get moaned at in dselect any ideas? This is driving my quite insane. Cheers Neilen ------ E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Dec-97 Time: 00:23:47 This message was sent by

RE: Are 120 MB diskspace enough?

of weird stuff (like emacs, which is BIG). After just deselecting some unneeded things in dselect we cut the default installation down from 90MB to about 50... Could do even more if we wanted >What size are the needed components? > >I hope someone can help me with his opinion! > >

Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

etc... Am at my wits end as to how to hanlde this Could someone PLEASE help? BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2. Thanks in advance Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-Dec-97 Time: 23:30:20 This

Re: diald & cached webpages

help of the debian install scripts. Hope this helps Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30-Nov-97 Time: 16:07:09 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: free backup tailored for removable disks

gt;Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] >"With some technology, you get the feeling that the designers weren't >fully >considering ease of use. With ISDN, you get the feeling that the >designers >hate your friggin' guts." -Scott Adams > > >-- Che

Re: simple questions

on my machine And BTW, what do you mean sacrifice MBR? I don't use mine for much but booting, and the loadlin route is a pretty good one for newbies specially who might get lilo wrong... -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27-Nov-97 Time

Re: elf-x11r6lib

#x27;t paid much >attention. > >It's xforms.86, by the way. Have the same problem here with the same package Seems we have a little bug :) -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27-Nov-97 Time: 14:46:05 This message was sent by X

Dpkg-FTP problem

Thanks in advance Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27-Nov-97 Time: 01:08:39 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL