Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-06 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:51:30AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > > From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >=20 > > > > > Try mdetect. > > =20 > > > I've only ever used it once... just ran it from the command line and > > > it told me what the mouse was. No front en

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:51:30AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Try mdetect. > > > I've only ever used it once... just ran it from the command line and > > it told me what the mouse was. No front end required. > > That was what I was hoping. Seems harm

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-06 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Try mdetect. > I've only ever used it once... just ran it from the command line and > it told me what the mouse was. No front end required. That was what I was hoping. Seems harmless and I'll have to try it (once I can get recover access to X server, tha

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:43:15PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > I suspect as much. I find that I have two mouse sections in my X > > > configuration, and their Protocol is "PS/2",

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I suspect as much. I find that I have two mouse sections in my X > > configuration, and their Protocol is "PS/2", while my Microsoft mouse > > is an IntelliMouse, which has its own "Intelli

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > From: Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > If you re-run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", you can change this. > > >

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > But the wheel/button is irrelevant in any case, for I was trying to > paste with the keyboard the material I had previously highlited in > xterm. Maybe that simply can't be done. Maybe it can with gterm (?) > and I've got a dim recolle

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > From: Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If you re-run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", you can change this. > > > > Yes, but why do I need to emulate 3-button when I have a middle > >

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > From: Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you re-run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", you can change this. > > Yes, but why do I need to emulate 3-button when I have a middle > scroll-button on the mouse? Sounds like you might hav

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > From: Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > To copy from xterm, highlight the region you want to copy with the > > > > left mouse button. To paste somewhere else, middle-click. > > >=20 > > > Sorry - not working (with middle mousebut

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 15.23, Haines Brown wrote: > > Somethine like this should work: > > > > $ apt-get -y install blah > /tmp/log 2>&1 > > That's not quite what I meant. [...] I am not absolutely sure what you are trying to do but if you want to copy the output of some command to a file

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To copy from xterm, highlight the region you want to copy with the > > > left mouse button. To paste somewhere else, middle-click. > >=20 > > Sorry - not working (with middle mousebutton; I don't expect span to > > work because I didn't say to emulate thr

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:36:46PM -0500, Haines Brown said > > To copy from xterm, highlight the region you want to copy with the > > left mouse button. To paste somewhere else, middle-click. > > Sorry - not working (with middle mousebutton; I don't expect span to > work because I didn't say to e

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-04 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [Could you attribute the person whom you're quoting, please?] Sorry - this not working yet, and it sometimes slips my mind to copy a line from from the header. > To copy from xterm, highlight the region you want to copy with the > left mouse button.

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:58:01PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: [Could you attribute the person whom you're quoting, please?] > > In future, it would be a *massive* help to us if you could include the > > full error that you see. Ideally without wrapping, without > > indentation, etc. > > I under

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-04 Thread Haines Brown
> In future, it would be a *massive* help to us if you could include the > full error that you see. Ideally without wrapping, without > indentation, etc. I understand, but since I can't copy from xterm (don't know if it is broken or I'm expecting too much of it), I have to pipe output, etc. So in

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:30:29AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:43:27PM -0500, Haines Brown said > > > I have the following lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list > > >=20 > > > deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free > > > deb http://security.debian

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-04 Thread Haines Brown
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:43:27PM -0500, Haines Brown said > > I have the following lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list > >=20 > > deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > deb http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan