Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

> #export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8" The official form of the locale name is de_DE.UTF-8. Donât know whether that causes your problem. Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Mutt + Korn

disk file by pressing the $ key in Mutt, and that gets old quickly. So basically my question is: How can I get Mutt to automatically resynchronise in-memory mailbox and mailbox file whenever the newness status of a message in that folder changes? Cheers, Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Lan

Re: Configuring APT

agic combination of numbers and target-release setting that _will_ do what I want? I'd be willing to do without the "slight-downgrade on switching from unstable to testing version" effect, and could even forgo stable if need be (though the presence of stable doesn't seem to be th

Re: Configuring APT

htly if necessary. Shouldn't that work? Please tell me why you believe that things will break terribly if one uses more than two distributions, and what you mean by "is NOT supported". Thanks for your help, Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Wash

Configuring APT

do what I want? Thanks in advance, Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PHPPGAdmin login problem

teuser -P and tried to log in on http://localhost/phppgadmin/ but get the error message Wrong username/password. Access denied. (I put a screenshot of the login screen on http://staff.hum.ku.dk/baums/screenshot.png .) Can anybody help me with this? Many thanks, Stefan -- Stefan Bau

Re: PCMCIA in 2.4 kernels doesn't work

On Thursday, 9 August 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote: > I don't think it's worth the trouble to try and get it to work with > 2.4.x drivers if they work the other way anyhow. Using the separate package with 2.4 kernels is inconvenient because you have to compile and install two packages where one can

Re: PCMCIA in 2.4 kernels doesn't work

On Thursday, 9 August 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > For one thing you just said you were running 2.4.6. The > /lib/modules/2.4.7 is most likely not there. Sorry, I was trying it out with both 2.4.6 and 2.4.7, and mixed them up in my email. > Secondly: > Your kernel is probably not set to ac

PCMCIA in 2.4 kernels doesn't work

Hi all, I am having problems getting the PCMCIA code included in the 2.4 kernels to work. If I compile it in as modules and then reboot to the new kernel, I get the error message Starting PCMCIA services: modules/lib/modules/2.4.7/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod

Trackpoint and serial mouse simultaneously>

Dear list, I'm running an HP Omnibook 5500 laptop here, and would like to use, under X, the internal TrackPoint pointing device and an external serial mouse at the same time (i. e., without restarting X to make the switch). More generally, is it possible to have more than one Pointer device for t

Re: Trackpoint and serial mouse simultaneously>

Sorry to answer my own question, but a bit of research revealed that while Xfree86 3.3 knows only one pointer, gpm can manage multiple ones for it. My /etc/gpm.conf now has: device=/dev/psaux type=ps2 append="-M -t mman -m /dev/ttyS0" and the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config is:

Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

I found a Win98 bootdisk, ran fdisk /mbr on C:, but Win95 still did not boot. Then I booted into Linux, reran lilo with /dev/hda1 (the Win95 partition) as the thing to load, and got an error message (something about invalid partition specification). This did not bode well, I went into cfdisk to

EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

Hello all! I have a Win95 partition here with important data on it (and no recent backups, of course...) which I can no longer boot from or access from GNU/Linux. The setup is: hda1 contains what cfdisk calls "Win95 FAT32 (LBA)" (the lost Win95 partition) hda2 is Linux Swap hda

Re: xterm with utf-8

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 10:31:15AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ok (I've really only tested with Markus' font, though Juliuz seems to think > it works for his unifont as well). > > -- there's more work to be done, though (report bugs) The problem with unifont is that the characters themselv

Re: xterm with utf-8

Oops. I found out that UTF-8 support actually _is_ compiled into recent xterms. You just have to enable it with command line options / X resources, and to use am ISO-10646 font. "Unifont" from the Debian distribution for some reason does not really work, but I got myself Markus Kuhn's ISO-10646 rep

xterm with utf-8

From /usr/doc/xterm/changelog.Debian.gz: xfree86-1 (3.3.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low * (#011): Debian-specific xterm patches - disable UTF-8 support, upstream author is still working on it How can I reenable the UTF-8 support? I got myself the sources, but do not know _whe

Smail queue

Hi all. Running recent potato, using fetchmail to get my mail. When fetchmail has done its job, mail is stuck in smail's input queue (the one you see with mailq) and not immediately forwarded to /var/spool/mail/myname, which is the behaviour I would like in combination with fetchmail. How can I ge

Re: autofs for all users

Thanks, Brian! That worked. pgpwdbDKlpoJw.pgp Description: PGP signature

autofs for all users

Hi all, I am using autofs. My /etc/auto.master is: /mnt/amnt /etc/auto.amnt --timeout 1 and my /etc/auto.amnt is: cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,user :/dev/hdc floppy -fstype=auto,rw,user:/dev/fd0 If I access /mnt/amnt/floppy for

Title change in rxvt

Hi all, I am running tcsh in rxvt. Is there any way to have the title of the rxvt window change according to the program running in it? (There must be one, as right now as I am typing this I notice that vim has changed the title to "VIM - /tmp/mutt-sb51-12020-0".) TIA, Stefan pgp2z8kBWk7Mz.pgp

Remove occurences of from file

Hi all. I use Emacs/MULE and write the following document: Hall� KuryLowicz where (this is the important bit!) the L of this iso-latin-1 email is actually the Polish l (l with a bar through it). Then I save it in the encoding "emacs-mule". According to less in an iso-latin-1 terminal the fil

Metafont and X: the solution

Dear Nils, and all you other attentive followers of this thread: I finally got the solution to the MF + X problem. I was already recompiling the sources, but the strange thing was that "--with-x" actually does appear in debian/rules. So I took a close look at the configure files, and there I fou

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

awdot (20,20); ? x Transcript written on mfput.log. /home/stefan> I don't understand these error messages. At a loss, Stefan On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 09:42:28AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 01:08:47AM +0100, Stefan Baums

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

Well, it's just not working. No dots in sight. Nils, what version of Debian and teTeX are you using? Does the output appear in the same window where you type the commands, or does another xterm pop up? Puzzled, Stefan pgpUmOHv6V910.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

What is your TERM variable set to (I tried rxvt, xterm and xterm-debian), and do you use MFTERM (according to "man mf" not necessary if TERM is set)? What shell do you use ("export" sounds like bash; I use tcsh)? Finally, what sort of output can I expect? A large fat dot, or a tiny one I could easi

Online Metafont graphics?

Hi all! I'm trying to teach myself Metafont (using Debian 2.1, tetex from unstable; same problem with stable tetex, though). According to the documentation, mf can do "online graphics" when compiled "--with-x"; I checked the debian/rules in the source package, and it is indeed compiled this way. $

Re: Problem with MPEG3s

I just rechecked the situation: In fact, "simply" killing my sound apps, removing the modules, going into suspend, coming back, reinserting the modules, restarting the sound-apps does the trick. But still, you wouldn't want to do that after every MPEG3 title you play... (BTW, even if I start, say,

Problem with MPEG3s

Hi all! My system is an HP Omnibook 5500 CT running Debian Slink and the Linux 2.2.2 kernel. The following are the sound modules I use (inserted by "modprobe cs4232") Module Size Used by cs4232 2408 0 uart401 5904 0 [cs4232] ad1848

Do you still need screensavers these days?

Hi all, I remember reading somewhere that you don't really need screensavers anymore with modern monitors to prevent damage to them, and that the only reason to run them is to show off to your colleagues or whoever. Now I'm wondering if that is true, and if it applies to (TFT) LCD diplays as well

dpkg broken?

Hi all. OK, so yesterday, in the process of updating my system to the newest slink, I broke dpkg. I cannot install packages anymore. The error messages are as follows: Preparing to replace modconf 0.2.23 (using modconf_0.2.24.deb) ... Unpacking replacement modconf ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe d

DPI

Hi, I just read your dpi request on the Debian mailing list archives. In case you don't have an answer yet: I change my X dpi setting with the command-line option "-dpi" (startx -dpi 96); if you have learned of any more elegant way to do this, please tell me. Another thing seems to be the default

Re: Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 09:46:43AM +, David Stern wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:17:17 GMT, Stefan Baums wrote: > > OK, so I download this true type font pack which turns out to be > > Mac compressed. The filename is > > > > STEDTpack50.sea.Hqx > > >

Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

Hi all! OK, so I download this true type font pack which turns out to be Mac compressed. The filename is STEDTpack50.sea.Hqx Does anyone know how to get at its contents under GNU/Linux? Is there even a Debian package for this? Or do I have to mail the site maintainers and beg them to ma

What's using my harddisk? or, how to silence my computer

Hi all! I'm using Debian (the most recent packages) on a laptop with a pretty noisy harddisk (a Toshiba harddisk inside an HP Omnibook), and I'm sick to death of hearing it all the time I'm using my computer (and, of course, it's draining the battery as well). So I set my harddisk timeout to 30 se

libstdc++2.9 2.91.58-5 broken??

Hi all! I just tried to upgrade my system to the packages in slink, and now my libstdc++2.9 (2.91.58-5) seems to be broken. Whenever I try to do things like man any_program or apt-get install some_package or dselect I get the error message /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc

Re: Toshiba and HP's GNU/Linux compatibility

On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 11:47:24AM -0500, robert havoc pennington wrote: > > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Stefan Baums wrote: > > > > I'll buy a notebook computer shortly, and one of my prime concerns is > > that GNU/Linux will not only run on it somehow, but actually u

Toshiba and HP's GNU/Linux compatibility

Hi all! I'll buy a notebook computer shortly, and one of my prime concerns is that GNU/Linux will not only run on it somehow, but actually use the available hardware features. At the moment, I'm considering the Toshiba Satellite 300 CDT and the HP Omnibook 2000 (+ internal CDROM for its accessory

HP Laserjet 6L

Hi all, is anyone running the HP Laserjet 6L with Debian GNU/Linux? I'm using magicfilter 1.2-20, and the 6L is not in magicfilterconfig's list of supported printers. Can I use another filter (say, for the 4L) and will I be able to get 600x600 dpi with that? Thanks for your help, Stefan pgpzwn

xfmail 1.2p0-1 seg-faults

Hi all, I'm running xfmail 1.2p0-1 under hamm (i.e., I think all the other packages which I think _might_ be relevant to this problem are from hamm). When xfmail has to deal with new mail (in this new version marked in pink) on startup (or even folder change (?)) it crashes with a Segmentation fau

scwm 0.5-3 / menu 1.5-7 incompatible? (was: SCWM 0.5-3 broken?)

On 08-Feb-98 Stefan Baums wrote: > my system is Debian 1.3 (manually updated to libc6 and using many other 20 > packages as well). I have installed SCWM 0.5-3 and tried to start it, > but then it crashed and I was back at xdm. I could pin this down to a problem with /etc/X11/scwm/s

Emacs Menu/Scrollbar Color

Hi all, I'd like to use GNU Emacs under X with a black background and white foreground. The problem is, this should be true of the menubar as well, but Xresources background & foreground don't do the job. (It's possible, though: I saw a screenshot.) And can I set the scrollbar color separately? (T

SCWM 0.5-3 broken?

Hi all, my system is Debian 1.3 (manually updated to libc6 and using many other 2.0 packages as well). I have installed SCWM 0.5-3 and tried to start it using the Afterstep (my current WM) menu and $HOME/.xsession. In either case, initially it seemed to start up (though I didn't get as far as seei

Re: xlib6 3.3.1-2 + emacs 19.34-11 problem (?)

Hi again, I did what James recommended for gv and it worked (thanks). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xlib6 3.3.1-2 + emacs 19.34-11 problem (?)

On 18-Jan-98 James Troup wrote: > Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> When I try to start emacs now I get a segmentation fault (this >> happens under X _and_ tty), and gv doesn't start either but produces >> the error message "gv: No message tex

xlib6 3.3.1-2 + emacs 19.34-11 problem (?)

Hi all, my Debian system is basically bo. Some time ago I upgraded to libc6 2.0.6-2 and libc5 5.4.38-0.1 and didn't experience any problems with my old libc5 programs. But then I upgraded xlib6 to 3.3.1-2 and installed xlib6g 3.3.1-2 in order to use the new libc6 xfmail 1.2, and things took a bad

Splitting up Debian-User

Ooops, my "Unidentified Subject" mail is about the above... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Unidentified subject!

Hi all, would it be feasible to provide a WWW gateway to debian-user? Take your mailing archive: One would have to add the option to only read the messages of, say, the last three days, or even, if that's possible, to let the user decide which selection of messages to read. For me, the main pro

Re: mail encrypting/pgp

n incoming messages to your keyring. Greetings, Stefan PS. Just to test your setup, this message is pgp signed and my public key is included. 0.insertkeys.1591.exmh Description: keys of Stefan Baums Stefan Baums Universitaet Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpa9IBBVPtbb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: bo and hamm-packages

> I have installed bo and would like to add some hamm-packages (which not > exist in bo) without upgrading to hamm. Is this possible -- provided that > there are no dependency problems? Yes. -- Stefan Baums Universitaet Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

reetings, Stefan -- Stefan Baums Universitaet Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpxs9uKuwY1f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

Alexander Koch wrote: > You surely want to put something like > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums) > > in your ~/.muttrc - internally Mutt will do the "Name <>" change. Nope. No effect. (I tried "localsite stud.uni-goettingen.de": no effe

Re: "From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

On Jul 28, Alexander Koch wrote > Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > You surely want to put something like > > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums) > > > in your ~/.muttrc - internally Mutt will do the "Name <>" change. >

"From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

gen.de" as smarthost. I set up fetchmail to get my mail once on startup. My problem lies in getting my mail system to put "From: Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" at the top of my outgoing mail. ("sbaums" is the name of my POP3 account.) Now, Netscape (internal movem

Re: XF86 3.3-3

(of xdm repeatedly trying to start?)) was quite nasty, so I quickly rebooted with the rescue disk, deleted /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm, rebooted from the harddisk, and downgraded. Is 3.3 choking on my old configs? Or could it have been the S3 server? Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Baums Universitaet Goetting

Re: Watchdog Trouble

d the rest, rebooted, et voila, it works. 5 minutes from submitting a problem to receiving the answer that solves it is what I call support. Thanks a lot. This is one great mailing list. Stefan -- Stefan Baums Universitaet Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Watchdog Trouble

6]: cannot open /dev/watchdog watchdog[106]: stopping daemon (2.1) Please note that I _can_ start it manually: watchdog[251]: starting daemon (2.1): 10s mla=12 kernel: Software Watchdog Timer: 0.04, timer margin: 60 sec Any ideas? Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Bau

nethack lock file

! Hit space to continue: $ ls -l /var/lib/games/nethack/perm -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 May 27 09:02 /var/lib/games/nethack/perm So what am I to do (chmod o+w perm as root has no effect; deleting perm results in "couldn't find lock file perm" plus abort)? Greetings, St

Re: [tex] Re: babel and 8-bit files

ge[latin1]{inputenc} as well, you'll get `SS' instead of the German ß (sz). --  - Stefan Baums Universitaet Goettingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem getting German Umlaute

Paul Seelig wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums) writes: > > > It works all right for bash (thanks so far), but not for emacs, or > > tcsh (which I'd like to use), where the effect is nil. > > > Make su

Re: Problem getting German Umlaute

Christian Meder wrote: > > On Jun 8, Stefan Baums wrote > > > I recently installed Debian ... I seem to fail in the > > task of getting it to display German Umlaute ("a, "o, "u, sz (if > > your mailer can handle them, they should look like this: ä, ö, ü,

Problem getting German Umlaute

and yes, I did add the German-HOWTOs lines to my .emacs-file). Updating to Debian-1.3-development (from March) didn't do any good, either. Any help out there? PS. My Umlaute are rendered as follows: pressing "a results in d, "o in v, "u in |, sz in _, ´e in i, etc. At a loss, Stef