Jason D. Clinton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
4. Since no subscriber, such as me, has access to this list, and since
the list manager of one of the effected lists, debian-user is just one
of many similarly effected, has already tried this WITHOUT getting a
her tonight.. so
I can't be sure the above is relevant.
Here's what lspci tells me about my g-card:
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage
Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
Let me know if it's the same as yours.
-- cga
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Abhishek Verma wrote:
Hi,
I am using a Compaq Presario System.
Don't know this machine
It has a 915 Chipset.
.. or the chipset..
Direct rendering is not working on my system, even though it was
working earlier when I had Fedore Core 3 installed on my system.
good news.. so it's possi
Brian Clark wrote:
[...]
What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a
key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor
position in my aterm when connected to a remote host.
Is there something that will do this?
[...]
Hi the
Brian Clark wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a
key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor
positio
did it as root w/o thinking.. since this is not a multi-user machine..
Maybe it would be nice if whatever it does is done as root the result
would be a system-wide reconfig .. on the contrary if you do it under
your own id only your personal font environment is affected..? No idea..
- cga
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98
.. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in
/etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and
did and $ fc-l
I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98
.. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in
/etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and
did and $ fc-list to verify all this magic had worked.. and now I'm
getting somewha
Lei Kong wrote:
[...]
Thanks for your advice, but misteriously, it is back to normal now.
I swear to god I didn't do anything, oh, wait, maybe I did an
aptitude upgrade
without even knowing about it.
maybe your bash history was accidentally reset.. or lost its cd*
commands .. maybe the key
Lei Kong wrote:
Hi all,
I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5.
I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history
search:
bind '"\M-[A":history-search-backward'
bind '"\M-[B":history-search-forward'
what does
$ bind -P | grep history
say?
It
Baron Christophe wrote:
Hi
I am trying to use the list: linux.debian.user
Maybe I did not read the "things" carefuly enough,
but I havent manage very well so far trying to send post.
So this post is only a test.
Well I sure got this one.. :-(
Personally when I first subscribe to a lis
Alex Nordstrom wrote:
Monday, 13 February 2006 10:06, cga wrote:
But thanks anyway for correcting me re: the r128 driver.. of course
since the OP appears to be using xfree86 I'm not sure why direct
rendering is not enabled out-of-the-box..
Experience tells me that DRI for so
Tim Connors wrote:
cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:59:39 -0500:
Brent Bailey wrote:
ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X
I seem to have two xservers on my system (apt-cache showpkg xserver-XFree86):
6.8.2.dfsg.1-11
4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
Brent Bailey wrote:
I love my Debian system, but the only complaint I have is with the time it
takes for the graphics to appear. I can see the background get repainted
everytime I log in. I think that this might be related to the video driver
not having direct rendering enabled.
I doubt it. S
Juanjavier MartÃnez wrote:
Got xfonts-base-transcoded, xfonts-75dpi-transcoded and
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded all installed in the system.
Checked from top to bottom .blackboxrc file: didn't find where to
specify the size of the fonts :-(
Had a go on documentation on configuration can be foun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Quite brave to install debian from the INET with a laptop IMHO.
one's mvv.. new to debian and yet I got sarge net-installed w/o a
glitch in about ten minutes - needless to say this is an old machine and
I stay away from the gnome/kde behemoths..
everythin
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:06:43 -0500
dafydd hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks
I'm new here, so please point me in the right direction if this
question's answered elsewhere.
This is my first attempt at installing debian via internet - I've
been using the Ag
cga wrote:
I tried a net install with the current etch iso image and the
installer seems to have trouble recognizing my 3com PC card (LAN +
56K). It asks me whether I would like to do the install through the
firewire interface, which sounds like a "last resort" attempt and is
pr
Digby Tarvin wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:11:29AM -0200, Eduardo wrote:
Please do not CC me! Get a proper mailer instead: www.mutt.org
Ok, since someone has brought this up
Why is it that on the other lists I subscribe to a 'reply' to
a posting by default goes to the list, b
Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
Not Sigh. The question as I see it, must be 'how do we adjust this hey
I'm bored interval' to something a little bit less distracting, like
maybe once a day at midnight or some such sillyness? I'd much druther
have real data in MY logs thank you. :)
man syslog
I tried a net install with the current etch iso image and the installer
seems to have trouble recognizing my 3com PC card (LAN + 56K). It asks
me whether I would like to do the install through the firewire
interface, which sounds like a "last resort" attempt and is probably not
relevant. The la
I have a sarge system where I initially installed gnome. Apparently
some fonts were installed at that stage and seem to be the only ones
available even after I removed gnome, at least to some applications.
Now these fonts are apparently suitable for all occasions - you have
the usual serif
I initially installed the gnome desktop on this new sarge system but I
have since removed it. The trouble is that a few applications that I
installed "on top of gnome" or in other words: when gnome was still
installed.. still use the fonts that "came with" gnome to display their
menus & panels, eg.
I initially installed the gnome desktop on this new sarge system but I
have since removed it. The trouble is that a few applications that I
installed "on top of gnome" or in other words: when gnome was still
installed.. still use the fonts that "came with" gnome to display their
menus & panels, eg.
Steve Lamb wrote:
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
From:
Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Somewhat related: with CONTROL-R you can search backwards in your
history when on the command line. It can be quite a time saver. I
think that's only when you're in emacs-compatible mode.
This is a feature of ba
Jim McCloskey wrote:
cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities,
|> wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall
|> on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available
|> as .deb
I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities,
wmaker applets,
etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall on the new system.
Unfortunately
a number of these are not available as .deb's.
As I see it I can either copy them to /usr/local/tarballs & do the usual
./co
The new net install system is currently the best Debian has for install
over small pipes. If you can get the iso image of net install downloaded
and burnt to CD, you can get the rest of the stuff you need by using it.
Even if you can't get it downloaded over your pipe, I recommend that you
try to p
Tried with 2.4.18 - seems to be the most recent kernel w/ woody (?) -
same difference.. Then I took a look at the .config file in /boot and
sure enough the VESA VGA option is unchecked. So the woody kernels
apparently ship with the graphical console disabled. I googled a bit
more and found a c
Andrea Vettorello wrote:
Ah ok, so no configuration script that i'm aware of.
I mean, you can configure your boot loader (Grub or Lilo) to pass the
needed option to the kernel to enable the framebuffer with resolution,
depth, draw strategies and so on, or if 60 Hz refresh rate is enough
for you, yo
Andrea Vettorello wrote:
Thanks much for your reply.
In /boot you should find the config used to compile the kernel, i'm
not quite sure if is the same for Woody, anyway you can look in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-image-2.4-X where you should find all the info
you need.
About the only place I didn't thin
I followed the directions in the Debian installation manual (section
3.7) to install woody from an existing RedHat system and everything went
very smoothly. The only annoyance is that the graphical console was not
enabled by default. This is a major problem in my case since I do not
plan to install
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