Re: kPDF

2005-08-03 Thread Sebastian Luque
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > There is certainly no Acrobat Reader: it isn't even free enough for > non-free. There are xpdf and kpdf packages. Well, you can still get the unofficial Debian Acrobat Reader package, from e.g. Christian Marillat's repository, if your distro doesn'

Re: Windows XP won't read CDs/DVDs burned in Debian

2005-07-30 Thread Sebastian Luque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > On the DVD, yes. In fact, it has Joliet, RockRidge, and UDF. > > On the CDs, well, they're all audio CDs, so I guess they're not even > ISO9660, are they? Hopefully someone else can explain this better, but I think that's right. Your trouble may also have to do w

Re: Windows XP won't read CDs/DVDs burned in Debian

2005-07-30 Thread Sebastian Luque
Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Have you enabled joliet extensions? to be precise, you need to enable these when burning your CD. k3b has such an option for that. -- Sebastian P. Luque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: Windows XP won't read CDs/DVDs burned in Debian

2005-07-30 Thread Sebastian Luque
Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > For all I know this is a problem with the way the computers on campus have > been set up. What I'd like to know is if there is anything I might be > doing in the way I burn these discs that might be causing this sort of > behaviour. One of

Re: MS Access and .mdb files

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am confronted with a need to see what is inside a MS Access database. > I don't need to change anything, just need to off-load table contents, > and, hopefully, read the sql of cataloged queries. I really don't want > to give money to BillG, and I have s

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The non-us repository is not used any more so this is expected and you > should remove non-us from your sources.list file. You're right, I just found this out. I came across http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg00719.html that cleared that

apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi, It's been about a week since I can't solve this problem, despite trying several different mirrors. This is what I see: ,- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get update | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable Release.gpg | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable Release | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable/main

Re: pstopdf possible

2005-07-25 Thread Sebastian Luque
roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, i know that it exists a package "pdftops" to convert ps to pdf files but i > do not know if it > exists a similar tool like "pstopdf" to convert ps to pdf files. > > Do you know anything for debian? apt-get install ps2pdf -- Sebastian P. Luque --

Re: Samsung 1710 printer

2005-07-25 Thread Sebastian Luque
Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:35 pm, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Rajiv Vyas: >>> Is there an "apt-get" driver for ML 1710? If not, what's the easiest way >>> to get this working with Sarge. >> >> If you want to run CUPS you need foomatic-filters-pppd. That includes a

Re: default info browser

2005-07-18 Thread Sebastian Luque
Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > function myinfo { emacs -q -nw --eval "(info \"$1\")"; } Oops, looking at Jim's suggestion, I realized that the positional argument above should be in braces, so: function myinfo { emacs -q -nw --eval &qu

Re: default info browser

2005-07-18 Thread Sebastian Luque
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Even if I already had it running however, clicking is much too slow for > me. M-x info, m, works, but it's too many steps. Not to > mention that I have to switch to the window first. What I would LIKE to > be able to do is "info pagename" from t

Re: default info browser

2005-07-18 Thread Sebastian Luque
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > (NOTE: Off-list reply from Sebastian to my accidental off-list post, > being forwarded on his behalf for the sake of the archives.) Thanks. > So why don't you use Emacs' shell mode? With M-x shell (or eshell or term, > whichever you prefer) yo

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Sebastian Luque
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?) As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable probably needs correcting on your system. I've had similar problems before, and had to check that the MUA's settings were

Re: sn9c102 webcam driver in kernel 2.6.11.6

2005-07-15 Thread Sebastian Luque
Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I have a webcam (ID 0c45:6029 Microdia Triplex i-mini PC Camera) which > was working fine under kernel 2.6.10, in my hard disk installation of > MEPIS 3.3 (a Debian based distro). I had been using gnomemeeting with > this webc

sn9c102 webcam driver in kernel 2.6.11.6

2005-07-15 Thread Sebastian Luque
Dear List, I've previously posted this question in linuxquestions.org, but having gotten no replies, I'm posting here; apologies for those who've already read it. I have a webcam (ID 0c45:6029 Microdia Triplex i-mini PC Camera) which was working fine under kernel 2.6.10, in my hard disk installat

problem upgrading kdelibs4

2004-09-09 Thread Sebastian Luque
Dear List, I've been trying to updrade kdelibs4 from version 4:3.2.2-2 to 4:3.2.3-2 in my system. However, I'm getting: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages:   cupsys-driver-gimpprint xpdf-korean xpdf-japanese xpdf-chinese-traditional   xpdf-chinese-s

Re: problem with info command

2004-08-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi, Thanks for your help so far narrowing this down. Here is a more complete description of what I did in TeX-live's installation script ( omitted for brevity): sh install-tl.sh S B # to select the texlive-full scheme. D 1 /usr/share/TeX # to spe

problem with info command

2004-08-25 Thread Sebastian Luque
Dear List, After installing TeX-Live on my system, I seem to have ruined my access to info files. Typing "info" or "info " gives "/usr/bin/info: No such file or directory". I can't do absolutely anything with the info command. On the other hand, everything in TeX-Live works Ok. I chose to add