sudden death of mozilla firebird + gnome-sound-recorder hang

2003-10-27 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello all, Since approx two weeks, mainly two applications make enourmous problems: mozilla-firebird and gnome-sound-recorder. All this happended just after an apt-get upgrade. I do think that the reason is to be found in some base libs (gtk or so?). I think i can exlude defect versions of the n

Connecting to a WinCE based PDA

2003-06-06 Thread Timo -Blazko- Boewing
Hello together, I have been searcing the web a long time, but could not find much information. I was given a Windows CE based pocket pc (why not an ipaq?!?). Although it has got a card slot (MMC / SD), i wonder if i can communicate with this device via USB. I mean, it must not be data sync with my

GTK apps: overriding global theme

2003-01-30 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello List! I am currently using GNOME2 from sid and use a custom theme for all my GTK2/GNOME2 apps. However, one app crashes (Eclipse) when using this theme. Are there any options to override the system-wide theme for an app? I know that GTK1 supported this, however, no app lists this param in th

Re: gnome2 hang (solved)

2003-01-26 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Ron Jones wrote: > Hi Timo, Hello Ron, Sorry for the late reply. > > Saw your post on debian-user about hanging at splash screen. I have the > same problem, did you get anywhere with fixing this? > Yes, the problem on my side was caused by the name scheme change in Debians GNOME2 packages. To

GNOME2 startup hang

2003-01-18 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, Yes, I know that one shall no use dist-upgrade... However, after this, GNOME2 does not work any longer. It starts up X, then comes the splash screen, but no icons and text. When launching e.g. XFCE (actual 3.x one, gtk1 thus) and then running apps, half of all apps work. I.e. most apps bei

GNOME2 startup hang

2003-01-18 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, Yes, I know that one shall no use dist-upgrade... However, after this, GNOME2 does not work any longer. It starts up X, then comes the splash screen, but no icons and text. When launching e.g. XFCE (actual 3.x one, gtk1 thus) and then running apps, half of all apps work. I.e. most apps bei

Re: OT: what BIOS options are accessible (r/w) from the OS?

2002-12-23 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Rob Weir wrote: > > Why do you want to disable it? To prevent people accessing it? Well, initially, this was the idea (of course, besides doing the usual iptables etc. stuff). > I'm fairly sure that the kernel ignores what the BIOS thinks about disk > drives, i.e. disabling it in the BIOS will n

OT: what BIOS options are accessible (r/w) from the OS?

2002-12-22 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello Debian users! I marked this posting as OT cos i do not know if it right here. What i want to do: i have a gateway already and plan to do weekly backups of my client PCs on a dedicated hard drive. Due to a question of price, i ask myself if it is okay to plug just a second HDD into the gatewa

Re: T.120 client?

2002-04-05 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 00:53, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > the actual version, but got the well-gnown "GnomeConf not found" error > > What's the actual error message you're getting? It sounds to me like > it's a simple matter of installing libgnome-dev . > yepp, you are right, installing it solved the

Re: toshiba laptop support

2002-04-02 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:11, chris Parker wrote: > Has anyone gotten a toshiba satellite 1005-S157 to work under potato? I > haven't been able to get it to even boot---pci unsupported(unknown pci). i have a toshi sat 3000-100 and hat the same probs: any debian version i had did not boot although

Re: T.120 client?

2002-04-02 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 06:00, Nick Hastings wrote: > >I've just started using gnomemeeting as an H.323 client. I quite like > it, but its lack of H.120 support is making life difficult. Hello Nick, I recently got into gnomemeeting (had much trouble with firewalling, but it finally works). i a

Re: executables in /xyz

2002-03-24 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Thanks! Yes, the mount options are the cause. RTFM: well, normally i read a lot but the mount idea came while finishing the mail, thus forgive me :-). Thanks again and see you. p.s. no one knows the bach shell??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

executables in /xyz

2002-03-23 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello everyone, i have a funny thing in my current sid (2 months old, but last update yesterday [dist-upgrade]) but also in the previous installation (also sid): whenever i am developing in C/C++ or bash, i cannot execute the files. they reside in a custom folder /data/devel/[xyz]. Having control

TV over LAN?

2002-03-07 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello everyone. This question is not meant that serious, but nevertheless with interest: in my LAN i have running a gateway, a workstation and a laptop. The workstation is equipped with a TV card (BT878) and works just fine. Is there a way to view TV on my laptop by using the PC and the LAN? I kn

Re: 3d with nvidia

2002-03-01 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 20:34, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi, > > Section "Module" > Load"GLcore" > Load"bitmap" > Load"dbe" > Load"ddc" > Load"dri" > Load"extmod" > Load"freetype" > Load"glx" > Load"int10" >

Re: some problems with gnome

2002-03-01 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 19:52, Raphaël Scateni wrote: Hello Raphaël, > > Desk guide alert >gnome desktop guide >you are running a gnome compliant window manager > gnome support by the window manager is strongly recommended for proper > desk guide operation. GNOME users often tend to use

mountd: forcing static port

2002-03-01 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, I have just successfully configured my NFS shares for OpenSSH tunneling (that rocks!), but i have one "problem": On system start i execute a custom init script that (beside other things) creates a mountd tunnel to a remote machine. But on each system reboot (remote one), its mountd port ch

scp shall only copy newer files

2002-02-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, Right now I am doing a backup from my laptop to my workstation using OpenSSH's secure copy. The problem is that i would like to copy only newer files, cos it also transports my Ogg/Vorbis files (quite some gigabytes) over net -quite not wanted. Is there a way like in normal cp to tell scp t

OT: RFC telling allowed/forbidden chars in URIs / email addrs

2002-02-19 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello everyone, sorry for that "slightly" off-topic posting, but for a project i am currently developing under my sid/unstable, i am on the search on rfc-editor.org to find the FTY or RFC etc. telling me what characters are allowed (or forbidden) in URIs and email addresses. I cannot get it in the

Re: System hangs during installation

2002-01-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello Juergen, On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:23, Juergen Striegel wrote: (BTW: why does debian installs the ispell stuff for a minimal system?) > Are there any suggestions/ideas? That's what i hated 'bout SuSE: they installed to much on a minimal system, and debian is sometimes going the same way :-(.

Re: kernel compile question

2002-01-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello Willi, On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:34, Willi Dyck wrote: > as far as i know, hot-pluggable device support is only needed with > PCMCIA cards. i don't have such cards, so i keep that support out of the if i am right, USB also needs id > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.5'

Re: using xfwm as gnome's wm

2002-01-17 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 04:09, csj wrote: > > [...] Have your tried IceWM?[...] > Hello! Yes, i tried IceWM some time ago, but did not knew that it has GNOME support... wait, let me do a apt-get... :-) Thank you so far, will report in some time. Timo

Re: problem with executing binaries in bash

2002-01-17 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:40, Benjamin Sommerfeld wrote: > bash: ./pine-bin.linux: Permission denied Hello Benjamin, sorry that i cannot help you, but i have the same problem with self-coded stuff. Even when running'em as root, i get the permission denied error. Maybe some libs aren't there but ca

using xfwm as gnome's wm

2002-01-15 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, i am a GNOME user and mostly used sawfish and enlightenment as window managers so far. However, i am still quite disatisfied with them, cos they have little but disturbing behaviours. They often place windows out of the screen some bit or do not remeber them right, especially for non-gnome

gtk theming documentation?

2002-01-13 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, I plan to create an own gtk theme, but i cannot find any documents on how to do this, except for taking existing gtkrcs, but in some details this doesn't also help. I did not find any local manpages and no info on these sites: gtk.org, themes.org, linuxdoc.org Any hints for gtkrc hacking

OpenGL header files: as .deb?

2002-01-02 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, while - after a long time - being back in OpenGL devel, i was wondering where the include files are. From the nVidia modules, i have these files: /usr/include/GL/gl.h(main header?) /usr/include/GL/glx.h (extensions?) /usr/include/GL/glxtokens.h (???) I remember t

ps2dvi / pdf2dvi ???

2001-12-22 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, is there no PostScript to TeX / PDF to Tex converter available? Locally, i cannot find one, and search on debian packages did not reveal any hits. Maybe they are inside a larger package? I can find e.g. html2ps as a single package. Thank you for any hints; greetings, Timo

OT: try Mozilla 0.97

2001-12-21 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello all, the new mozilla is just out, give it a try cos it again gained performance. also interesting: you can toggle javascript features for more things than window.open() finally, e.g. resize, leveling, cookie request etcetera. Favicons are now completely supported. More on mozilla.org. greet

theory: binary vs. source

2001-12-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hi again, i got a somewhat theoretical question: in /etc/apt/sources.list there is a destinction between deb abd deb-src packages. Are the deb-src packs "make'able" packages? *** core question *** :^) But the question of interest: on nowadays PCs - assuming a "every user" system with e.g. X-Windo

Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts

2001-12-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:06, Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote: Hello, thank you all for your replies! Yes, it was due to runlevel 2!!! I used update-rs.d wich reinstalled the correct symlinks, thanx to MH. In former years i used SuSE Linux, there have been these runlevels: 0: halt 1

Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts

2001-12-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:03, Greg Wiley wrote: > You've probably checked, but is your default runlevel, indeed, 3? Hello Greg, it should be :-) Well, it is an x-less station and but to go shure i also put the symlinks to runlevels 4,5 and 6 too. Timo

init.d: writing custom init-scripts

2001-12-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello everyone, i got a simple problem but cannot fint the cause: i have written a custom bash script (a very simple one) that should be run on machine startup. I put it under the common place /etc/init.d/myscript Then, i placed a symlink called S99myscript pointing to the script under /etc/rc3.d

Re: nVidia: *better* TV out quality?

2001-12-19 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 22:31, Steffen Evers wrote: > Can you hint to a document > or anything how I can use the TV out. What do I need to get the DRI > working? Hi Steffen, DRI: mh, isn't it on by default? I just had to set DGA (loadmodule) once for a TV card (ALDI, die Monokarte :-)) had to be ru

Re: Fish swimming over my Desktop and ... system locked ?!?

2001-12-19 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:21, Martin Emrich wrote: Hello Martin, yesterday i had the same thing. Also using the same GNOME; as far as i can remember i had this only twice in the past two years that i use GNOME. I think this is maybe a date-ridden gag of the GNOME folks. However, i think we can exc

Re: nVidia: *better* TV out quality?

2001-12-19 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:11, Jake Di Toro wrote: Hello Jake > This is not a Debian/Linux thing. Is e.g. Mozilla a Debian/Linux thing as often discussed here??? :0) Okay, let us get serious here: I was wondering if maybe a free software package oriented to this "problem" is out there that maybe h

Re: nVidia: *better* TV out quality?

2001-12-19 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Should have added that i use PAL (germany), i dunno the exact chip, should be a Chrontel 7001 or 7002. Timo

nVidia: *better* TV out quality?

2001-12-19 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello all, I am using sid w/ X 4.1 and use the latest nVidia dirvers and kernel module interfaces. I use a Toshi 3000-100 laptop with a Geforce2Go w/ a Chrontel TV out chipset. TV-out works fine so far, but i would like to get to know your experiences. What is disturbing is this (on the TV device)

Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:30, Aniartia wrote: > > I duno about tablets but in mice > Option "Resolution" "{number}" > works well for me, T-ball at 255 & mouse at 130.. T-ball nice n' fast, mouse > nice n' slow ;) > > Ani Hello Ani, this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my P

2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello, Today I installed an USB graphic tablet under Sid w/ XF86 v4. I installed the tablet as second USB mouse device and it works well in X so far (okay, with no pressure sensitivity, but anyhow...). The problem ist that the pen is slightly too fast. I use GNOME and there I can set the speed of

variable ramdisk greater than 4megs

2001-10-25 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello, I am using XMMS for playing my ogg/mp3 audio. The thing is that XMMS very often accesses my hard drive (approx. all three seconds). On my laptop this is not really wanted... Thus my idea: why not creating a ramdisk, loading an album to it and playing from the mounted ramdisk (automatized w

Re: Debian Installation Prob -> DSelect

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:20, Karl wrote: > > [...] > How can I get all the packages from the net? (I have to install PPP and > PPPOE for DSL first but I don't manage to de-select everything new...) > Any other ideas? > try apt-[tab] and you might get something like apt-setup or apt-config. Ther

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:44, Craig Dickson wrote: > As for "how could it be changed"... the copyright owner can change the > license for a new version if they like. The copyright owner is not bound > by the GPL; the GPL defines how everyone else can use the software. Hello Craig, a new version is

Re: offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 18:16, Colin Watson wrote: > Try pod2html. Ah, yes! Completely forgot a) not all docs reside in /usr/share/doc b) pod2html is on my system thank you for the help, Timo

RE: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:31, Justin Hahn wrote: > I believe this is out of date. Python 2.1.1 (and some versions or other of > 2.0.x) resolve the GPL issue. This is why python2 in debian did not contain > readline, but 2.1 does. > > --jeh > Ah, that's it! I was sure having read somewhere that py

illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-16 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires Python. However, the author states that it is "illegal" to link against versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? And if, how could it be changed if versions <2.x where? I cannot find any license hints on python.org, s

Re: offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-15 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 22:28, Thomas Hallaran wrote: > You need to 'apt-get install perl-doc'. > If you are having trouble finding package names to update you need to > get to know the packages.debian.org website. > > Tom > Yepp, I already hav'em (dselect) and did a apt-get right now on perl-d

offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-15 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
Hello everyone, My question may come from stupidness, so be warned :-) I am trying to get the perl core documentation, as found on http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/ It is nice, there I can see the online docs, but no ways to get the offline version as an tarball etc. Either, wget won't also

mySAP.com WebApp Server on Debian?

2001-10-11 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
Hello, some months ago [when I was a SuSE user], I tried to install the SAP WebApplication Server w/ a basic R/3 onto my SuSE 7.2. Well, finally it did not run due to an incompatible glibc, it was only certified for SuSE 7.0 (or 7.1?) and RedHat 7.1 Enterprise (am I right?). My question: has anyon

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 21:06, Benjamin Diedrich wrote: > Thank you all for the fast reply on my problem. I finally figured it out > when I looked at the system log. The NVdriver kernel module was > complaining that an IRQ was not set for the VGA adapter. So, I rebooted, > enabled the IRQ for my vide

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 19:26, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > I had a similar problem, i could almost anything, ping, ICQ, dns > lookups. BUT i could not browse, fetch pop3 mail, i could browse an > ftp but not fetch. Regarding ftp I have similar probs; but - as with http - only some sites seem to be af

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-06 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 05:21, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > Please do note that the ping derived from netkit-ping_0.10-8_i386.deb is > broken. But for me, ping from iputils-ping_0ss010824-1_i386.deb works > without any hitch. So do look out well, actually the problem is not about ping itself. t

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:45, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I loaded the latest drivers from the NVIDIA web site and tried them and they > kept the xserver from starting. Fortunately I kept the old version (1251) > and they worked fine so I reverte

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:29, James D Strandboge wrote: > I know there is an option to have it active. My was set to having it > active, and now I just manually set it to 0 (well, in a script at > boot). Okay, I will try setting this option from scratch. > > > actually, sun.com works (Star Office

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my > Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my > Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with 32 MB of > SDRAM

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
Hello, thx for your quick answer. On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:04, James D Strandboge wrote: > I had the same problem until I realized it might be ecn related. If > you are running kernel 2.4.x, then do: yes, I have kernel 2.4.9 > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > and see if it shows '1'. If

ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
Hello everyone, I have a strange problem: I am using german DSL (T-DSL) and can reach almost all sites. However, some sites cannot really be contacted from my station. DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when pinging as well as the real hostname of a destination machine. I know fro

Re: System hang via SSH/scp and NFS]

2001-09-21 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
Did not want to post anonymous here, just saw my entry and corrected it in my mua.thus... Timo

[Fwd: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)]

2001-09-21 Thread Timo \&quot;Blazko\&quot; Boewing
-Forwarded Message- From: "Timo Blazko Boewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2) Hi, I am using Moz 0.94 on woody and sid. Cos there is only Milestone 18 as .deb, I installed Mozilla onli