Re: Gnome swallowing F7, F8?

2008-03-21 Thread Steve Freitas
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 01:07 -0700, Steve Freitas wrote: > Hi. I'm on Debian Sid, and up until an apt-get upgrade within the last > week or so, everything was working fine. Ha! Never mind. I've got a funky ergo keyboard, and resetting its internal memory to factory defaults di

Gnome swallowing F7, F8?

2008-03-21 Thread Steve Freitas
Hi. I'm on Debian Sid, and up until an apt-get upgrade within the last week or so, everything was working fine. I'm often in VMware, developing software using an IDE which accepts F7 to start a build. Recently, that stopped working. Other f-keys like F5 continue to work, but F7 is MIA. I figured m

Re: Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

2007-11-26 Thread Steve Freitas
Hi all, I had this problem today as well, a new Sid install on a Thinkpad T42. It turns out that one of the xserver-xorg packages at some point creates this not-very-helpful symlink: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-11-25 23:43 /etc/X11/X -> /bin/true Quite irritating, but at least the fix is simp

Re: Test print OK, can't otherwise print!

2004-04-06 Thread Steve Freitas
ageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0 D [06/Apr/2004:08:38:30 -0700] [Job 8] PageTop = 756.0, PageBottom = 36.0 D [06/Apr/2004:08:38:30 -0700] [Job 8] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0 D [06/Apr/2004:08:38:30 -0700] [Job 8] 0 %%EOF D [06/Apr/2004:08:38:30 -0700] [Job 8] Saw EOF! D [06/Apr/2004:08:38

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-06 Thread Steve Freitas
> How is ATI support better than Nvidia ? As far as I know, both provide > binary drivers, and nvidia was at this game much earlier than ati. I had nothing but bad experience with Nvidia's binary drivers. They kept locking up my machine completely. The open-source alternative, XFree86's nv drive

Test print OK, can't otherwise print!

2004-04-06 Thread Steve Freitas
root'. I [05/Apr/2004:15:07:26 -0700] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1994) for job 6. I [05/Apr/2004:15:07:26 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 1995) for job 6. So, any idea what might cause a test page to go fine and everything else to fail quietly? A