ksh core dumps

1998-05-19 Thread Francois Gouget
pdksh 5.2.13-3 A public domain version of the Korn shell - pdksh_5.2.13.orig.tar.gz -> the source code - pdksh_5.2.13-3.diff.gz -> the debian patches -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

some scripts cause ksh to core dump

1998-05-19 Thread Francois Gouget
installation (less than 1 week old) - ii pdksh 5.2.13-3 A public domain version of the Korn shell - pdksh_5.2.13.orig.tar.gz -> the source code - pdksh_5.2.13-3.diff.gz -> the debian patches -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- To UNS

Some scripts cause ksh to core dump

1998-05-21 Thread Francois Gouget
installation (less than 1 week old) - ii pdksh 5.2.13-3 A public domain version of the Korn shell - pdksh_5.2.13.orig.tar.gz -> the source code - pdksh_5.2.13-3.diff.gz -> the debian patches -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- To UNS

[Hamm Install] Dselect/ftp, what is this error message ?

1998-06-10 Thread Francois Gouget
displayed above ? Does the ftp method support reget ? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Hamm Install] package dependency problems

1998-06-10 Thread Francois Gouget
ne were there is no perl. Sometimes when doing a first install it feels like every other package requires some other package that you (I) have not yet installed (and don't really want to install but...). This is typically things like perl, perl extensions, tcl, tk... * These problems seem

RE: [Hamm Install] package dependency problems

1998-06-11 Thread Francois Gouget
On Wednesday, June 10, 1998 3:49 PM, Johnie Ingram [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Francois" == Francois Gouget?= writes: > > Francois> 5.004.04-2)'. I tried to find another package > Francois> that would provide 'perl' but did not find > >

Hamm installation problems

1998-04-25 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, I just got a new computer and I'm trying to install Debian on it. The computer is a Gateway E3110-333 with an Adaptec 2940UW controller and all SCSI devices. I currently have two problems: - I took the hamm install floppies but when I boot the root.bin floppy I get the

RE: Hamm installation problems

1998-04-26 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 To follow up on my previous message I have found the solution to the first problem. The message "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00" was in fact caused by a memory detection problem. I h

RE: Hamm installation problems (fdisk bug)

1998-04-27 Thread Francois Gouget
You're right. I used Win95's OSR2 fdisk tool. Now since my last message I have found a tool, partinfo, which is made by Power Quest, the guys that do Partition Magic. When I ran this tool on my partition table it told me this: C:WIN95FAT16B Pri,Boot 509.8 0 0 63 1044162

Re: Hanging diald connections

1997-05-12 Thread Francois Gouget
dress being that of the serial device and not the address that was assigned to the PPP link when it came up. I currently consider this to be a diald bug or at least a severe limitation. Maybe someone knows how to deal with it ? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.

INN 1.5.1 problem

1997-05-18 Thread Francois Gouget
of testhost into "-S /dev/null" (was the same with the suck that came from debian 1.2.14). - Now that I can no longer post suck sees that it fails but never retries to post the articles. So they will never be posted. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.myg

Re: INN 1.5.1 problem

1997-05-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 18 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 1997, Francois Gouget wrote: [...] > > 441 Can't set system "NNTP-Posting-Host" header [...] > You're getting these errors because the NNTP-Posting-Host header isn't > filtered out. > Just w

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread Francois Gouget
with the wrong source IP address, i.e. that of the fake serial device instead of the one of the fresh new PPP connection. Consequence the connection will never make it, you have to abort ftp and restart it. This effectively prevents me from using diald with the DES client. -- Francois Gouget [EMA

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-21 Thread Francois Gouget
On 21 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have the same setup as Benjamin T except that I have two Linux > > machines. I could not prove it right now because I have installed a DNS > > server on the Linux d

where should examples go ?

1997-07-15 Thread Francois Gouget
1.11.8-5 fwtk1.3-1 mount 2.5l-1 procmail3.10-4 wu-ftpd 2.4-27 Some other packages make symbolic links to the /usr/doc//example directories (apache, cgi-scripts, libpaper). On my system bing still stores its Readme file in the file /usr/doc/bing ! -- Francois

Re: ip-up question

1997-07-15 Thread Francois Gouget
m though: if [ -e "/home/$6/.ip-up" ]; then cd /home/"$6" su $6 -c .ip-up fi -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: bind

1997-07-28 Thread Francois Gouget
least that's what happened to me. Solutions: - Stop using bind. - Change the named.boot file depending on whether you are connected or not. When not connected don't use forwarders. - Set up dial on demand AND arrange for the DNS resolution packets to trigger the connection

Re: Colored ls output

1997-08-06 Thread Francois Gouget
If all above does not work then maybe your problem is with your Xresources file (/etc/X11/Xresources). Try adding the line below: *customization: -color -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Daniel Jones wrote: [...] > And, as has already been pointed out, get > security.debian.org added as well. Yes, except that the given line was wrong and that, AFAIK, there is no security updates for testing anyway! -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ARP problems

2001-02-27 Thread Francois Gouget
2.4.0test9 / windows 98, it happens with both currently with a 3c589_cs but I had the same problem with a linksys PCMPC100 (now dead, broken dongle) Does anyone know what could be wrong? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

Re: libwine will not upgrade (unstable)

2001-03-02 Thread Francois Gouget
control file in libwine anymore. It seems maybe apt have > problems upgrading if config is removed from a package? Removing and > reinstalling libwine might help, but the user should probably file a bug > against apt. Did you try that and did it solve the problem? -- Francois Go

X errors while running make xconfig

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Gouget
e display goes to my desktop, so it goes through my local ethernet network. This ethernet network has an MTU of 1460 (because of a bad PPP/masquerading interaction). I have: Debian 2.2 kernel 2.2.17 XFree86 3.3.6 -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/

X errors while running make xconfig (fwd)

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Gouget
Ok, I'm retrying to post this message because it seems it did not make it through the first time (and I did not get any email indicating there was an error). -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Nouvelle version : les anciens bogues on

Re: X errors while running make xconfig (fwd)

2000-10-12 Thread Francois Gouget
er had any problem. Does it mean there is a bug in Tcl/Tk? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

Re: whence "ping -w"?

2000-11-03 Thread Francois Gouget
dle packets that come back out of order. I was really confused by ping's code until I realized that. Then I thought it was pretty cool. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice they're different.

dwww rebuilding the menus daily!

2000-11-03 Thread Francois Gouget
/dwww-build which in turn invokes /usr/bin/update-menus: if [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ]; then echo -n " g) document index (by menu package)... " update-menus echo "done" fi What is this "document index (by menu package)" and why does it implies rebuildin

Re: To setup display for NeoMagic 256XL on Sony VAIO PCG-XG29

2000-11-07 Thread Francois Gouget
0, and the XG28 got things wrong. A laptop/desktop is nothing but a collection of hardware components, so just point to the proper page for that component. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ In a world without fences who needs Gates?

Re: hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-10 Thread Francois Gouget
ontinue to work while you're accessing the disk. I've seen the usage drop from 75-90% while doing a 'dd if=/dev/null of=foo', which made the machine very unusable, to less than 5%, which made the machine usable again. Of course it depends on your particular situation

Re: hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-12 Thread Francois Gouget
be doing something wrong ;-) If it doesn't then it must be that the accesses are dominated by seeks. Fragmentation? This should not happen with ext2fs. Maybe random disk accesses (for checking the cache?) Here once it's in the cache it starts in 3.4s (I don't know how it is when i

smbfs: inaccessible, un-unmountable directory

2000-12-03 Thread Francois Gouget
;t even see smb anymore. So what should I do? Surely I must have some other way of getting out of this situation than rebooting (rmmod smbfs does not work). Kernel: Linux version 2.2.17 smbfs: 2.0.7-3 -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/

Re: smbfs: inaccessible, un-unmountable directory

2000-12-03 Thread Francois Gouget
nsfer files from Windows machines to my Linux box. I'm (a bit more) disgusted by smbfs but very grateful for your help. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

Keyboard randomly generates a `

2000-12-08 Thread Francois Gouget
out) So if anyone knows what could be wrong with it let me know. The second feature of this keyboard is that sometimes it freezes. And this time I know it's the model because it also happens on NT4 and Win2000 machines. Doing a cold keyboard reboot (unpluging and replugging it)

Re: Keyboard randomly generates a `

2000-12-11 Thread Francois Gouget
s on Windows or only Linux? Do you have instances where a keyboard does it while another one of the same brand and model does not?` ^ here it goes again! [...] >Anyone know what is causing the ` to be generated (bash really likes > those chars tossed in here or there!:-). Yes

Re: es1370 sound stopped working

2000-12-14 Thread Francois Gouget
d does not exit cleanly. The (bad) solution I use is rmmod es1370;insmod es1370. Normally this works. I believe the right solution would be to try and debug this module. Or maybe first check if it has changed in 2.4. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/

Dependency problems in testing

2000-12-28 Thread Francois Gouget
trl-C worked (badly of course) and then the display had a case of staircase :-(((. A logout, re-dselect, re-install solved it fortunately (shows the installation process is quite resilient, that's good). -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Advice is

Re: Difference Dependency-Recommendation

2000-12-28 Thread Francois Gouget
ll pop-up the conflict resolution window, if you override it it will do so again once you exit select mode, ... From where I stand it looks like 'suggest' is equivalent to 'depends'. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ We are Pentium of Borg. You will be approximated. Division is futile.

kapmd *not* taking all the CPU

2000-12-28 Thread Francois Gouget
E=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Linux: the choice of a GNU generation

Re: Some refreshing news

2001-01-06 Thread Francois Gouget
gh it is probably not quite ready yet. Of course my personal preference would be Wine but I'm biased since I'm a Wine developper. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ May your Tongue stick to the Roof of your Mouth with the Force of a Thousand Caramels.

Ad blocking with Squid

2001-01-06 Thread Francois Gouget
ould anyone be interested in such a package? Even better, interested enough to do it? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Dieu dit: "M-x Lumi?re". Et la lumi?re fut.

What does it mean: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol

2001-01-11 Thread Francois Gouget
o I'm getting them? Is my configuration wrong or is it someone trying to probe my computer in some way? Or yet something else? pppoe: 1.7-1 pppd: 2.4.0f-1 -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Nouvelle version : les anciens bogues ont ?t? rempla

console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /usr/share/console/getkmapchoice.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/console/getkmapchoice.pl line 3. Is this a bug in console-data or debconf or neither? console-data: 1999.08.29-14 debconf: 0.2.80.17 -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Francois Gouget wrote: > >I got the following message when upgrading to today's testing: > > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-14) ... > Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
not available in testing. If the dependencies of console-data and console-tools had been correct then they would never have made it to testing. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing q

Re: console-data or debconf bug?

2001-02-10 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Francois Gouget wrote: > >Is this a bug in console-data or debconf or neither? > > It's a known bug in console data, it depends on a version of debconf > that is not in testing. (One of the types of things that testing's

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread Francois Gouget
.Xauthority file will belong to root, which means foo won't have access to *his* X display anymore!!! Oh, and if you played tricks with xhost, remove them they won't be necessary anymore, and fix the permissions on that 'video device', 0666, ksss! -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-03 Thread Francois Gouget
> 2nd Problem: I tried today to run a second instance of startx with -- :1 to > run it as root. today it didn't work anymore... I'm using unstable. Maybe that because the vt is missing: $ startx -- vt8 :1 or maybe it is $ startx -- :1 vt8 -- Francois Gouget

Re: how to run X apps as root?

2001-07-03 Thread Francois Gouget
r via an encrypted communication channel, it's pretty sweet. Of course, on the remote end, access to this "remote.com:15" is subject to an xauth-style authentication mechanism. So here too sux can come in handy. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.fr

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Francois Gouget
ropping packets. Especially if multiple streams converge there. And once you start dropping packets performance degrades very significantly. I believe that's why NFS is bad if there are multiple hops (I get it from a very reliable source that this is also why it's very bad if the

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-20 Thread Francois Gouget
f the 4.4BSD Operating System" by McKusik, Bostic, Karels and Quarterman. Chapter 9 (about 25 pages) is about NFS and should give you a feel for it. And the book as a whole is just awsome. Definitely a must have if you're interested in operating system design. I'm definitely going to re-read this chapter... -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ 1 + e ^ ( i * pi ) = 0

konqueror config error

2001-08-29 Thread Francois Gouget
Qt GUI Library (runtime version). ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01042 The GNU stdc++ library ii xlibs 4.0.3-4X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1.1.3-15 compression library - runtime -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.

Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(

2001-12-11 Thread Francois Gouget
I installed KDE on my box, x-window-manager was not used anymore so I deleted the x-session-manager symlink. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux

Logcheck enhancement needs a volunteer

2001-04-26 Thread Francois Gouget
TMPDIR/checkreport.$$ cat $TMPDIR/checkoutput.$$ >> $TMPDIR/checkreport.$$ FOUND=1 fi # Do reverse grep on patterns we want to ignore make_pattern_file "$IGNORE_FILE" "$IGNORE_DIR" >"$TMPDIR/pat_ignore.$$" if filter_log "$TMPDIR/check.$$&

Dead links in sendmail package

2001-04-29 Thread Francois Gouget
also complains that the following files are 'unexplained: /'. I guess it needs a '/usr/lib/cruft/filters/sendmail' file. /var/lib/sendmail/dead.letter /var/lib/sendmail/host_status /var/run/sendmail /var/run/sendmail/sendmail.pid /var/run/sendmail/smcontrol -- Francois Gou

Re: QuickTime

2001-10-13 Thread Francois Gouget
will let you view Sorenson movies too. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ You will also be able to use other Windows plugins like Shockwave and the Word/Excel and Powerpoint viewers. (disclaimer: I work for CodeWeavers) -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]h

Re: X-forwarding lazy

2001-11-04 Thread Francois Gouget
ux/sux-readme.shtml http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- from some indian guy

Re: konqueror config error

2001-08-31 Thread Francois Gouget
g report about this problem (I mention it here to avoid duplicate bug reports). I don't know yet the bug number but the subject is 'konqueror depends on kdebase...'. I'm sure this will be resolved in due time. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.f

Re: Looking for a wireless ethernet solution...

2001-08-31 Thread Francois Gouget
would use the wireless network in unencrypted mode so that anyone can access it (and since the 802.11 encryption is relatively useless anyway), but only allow access to the internet (firewalled to prevent too nasty things from happening). Then I would use a VPN between the laptop and the linux box,

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Francois Gouget
I which there was an ssu so that I could do 'ssu -A -X - foo' and have ssu login into my foo account (using a public key for instance), set up the xauth stuff and forward the ssh-aget connection. But not go through the encryption/decryption of each X packet! Well, I ho

net-pf-10 modprobes in /var/log/ksymoops/???

2001-05-04 Thread Francois Gouget
es one has the above line commented out and the other not). -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the *&^%$#@ thing ever since.

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Francois Gouget
harder to add a new bookmark. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ Stolen from an Internet user: "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng !"

Re: Snort config

2001-05-18 Thread Francois Gouget
and, again, point these to the appropriate physical person in the aliases file. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ RFC 2549: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

Re: logcheck gaps in time

2001-06-07 Thread Francois Gouget
hange something to the default configuration? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://fgouget.free.fr/ La terre est une bĂȘta...

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-07 Thread Francois Gouget
odem? Is it an 8250 or a 16650? I seem to remember that the 8250 were not very good but I don't remember when they stopped using them. * check the serial port configuration. What is its baud rate? * what is the CPU usage? To see if it's really CPU bound? Do the system/user values look od

Re: [OT] Minimum CPU speed for playing DIVX avis?

2001-06-09 Thread Francois Gouget
bly it's possible to make up for the graphics card by going to a much faster processor but it does not seem like a good solution. (If you have an ATI card, look for project Gatos, I'm told they have XFree drivers for all ATI graphics cards) -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AVI Player (mplayer)

2001-06-12 Thread Francois Gouget
y laptop (ALSA snd-ymfpci driver) and I have no idea what to do, except upgrade to a more recent release of ALSA one of these days. On my machine this also causes video choppiness: if I run 'mplayer -nosound' the video is fine, otherwise it's choppy and the sound is interrupted every

No DNS in Fedora Podman image on Debian 11

2021-11-05 Thread Francois Gouget
ally test whever DNS lookups go through systemd-resolved though. Does anyone know what's up? Can anyone reproduce this issue? -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ Un western sans indien c'est comme une police sans serif. -- John Wayne

Re: No DNS in Fedora Podman image on Debian 11

2021-11-09 Thread Francois Gouget
will be quite useful. So thanks again. -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ Hell is empty and all the devils are here. -- Wm. Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

No middle-click on GNOME app title bar in KDE

2022-07-26 Thread Francois Gouget
he default behavior) But this only works on real window manager-controlled title bars. So it works on KDE's Konsole for instance, but not on GNOME's own GNOME Terminal or Gedit! -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ You don't liberate a people. A people liberates itself. Youssoupha

Trouble getting net-snmp to return lm-sensors data

2013-05-31 Thread Francois Gouget
ess udp:127.0.0.1:161 view systemonly included .1.3.6.1.2.1.1 view systemonly included .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1 rocommunity public default-V systemonly rouser authOnlyUser sysLocationSitting on the Dock of the Bay sysContact Francois Gouget sysServices

Re: Trouble getting net-snmp to return lm-sensors data (solved)

2013-06-11 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 31 May 2013, Francois Gouget wrote: > > So I'm trying to get net-snmp to return lm_sensors data so I can monitor > the temperature and fan speed of my PC. But currently it won't return > any data: > > $ snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost lmSensors > LM-S

DNS server won't talk to me

2018-04-19 Thread Francois Gouget
e DNS servers banning queries from some residential addresses or something like this? Anyone else seeing the same issue? -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ Hell is empty and all the devils are here. -- Wm. Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

Re: DNS server won't talk to me

2018-04-20 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:44 PM, Francois Gouget wrote: > > > Are DNS servers banning queries from some residential addresses or > > something like this? > > I'm banning some, off and on, (I see massive hits from a

Re: DNS server won't talk to me

2018-04-25 Thread Francois Gouget
ed things to go through a public resolver (but not Google). And while I was at it I installed dnscrypt-proxy (which was in the news recently and which Bob Weber also mentioned). -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ 145 = 1! + 4! + 5!

GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread Francois Gouget
following command with values 1 through 12 with no result: xinput set-prop "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 1 ('ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' is the name of my touchpad btw) * I did not find anything related to tap-to-click in gnome-twea

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-02 Thread Francois Gouget
not seem to be needed anymore. -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape around here somewhere...

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-06-30 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Michael Biebl wrote: > [...] > > Unfortunately the synaptics package in Debian was changed to have a > > higher priority then libinput [2]. So if you have > > xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed you can&#

No PTP camera support in KDE

2016-06-30 Thread Francois Gouget
yping that address in Dolphin gets me an icon for the camera but double-clicking on it ends up with an error saying it cannot communicate with the USB peripheral. Has anyone managed to access PTP devices in KDE on Debian? -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread Francois Gouget
e to see the video and then mark a point after > which everything will be deleted - in other words, a very SIMPLE video > editor. I usually use avidemux for that, telling it to copy the audio and video rather then reencode them. Then I do the transcoding with handbrake. -- Franco

Re: No PTP camera support in KDE

2016-07-06 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Francois Gouget wrote: [...] > So every time I plug in either the Canon EOS 600 or Canon Ixus 970 IS > cameras via USB on my desktop computer I get a notification with a green > button to open the camera in the file browser. But clicking on that > button h

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-08-01 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Francois Gouget wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Michael Biebl wrote: > > [...] > > > Unfortunately the synaptics package in Debian was changed to have a > > > higher priority then libinput [2

Re: GNOME 3.20 dropped support for tap-to-click?

2016-08-02 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Francois Gouget wrote: [...] > I tried some more mouse/touchpad drivers to no avail. To summarize: > * xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: tap-to-click but no right click > * xserver-xorg-input-libinput: right click but no tap-to-click That should have been the

Re: Status of repository debian/testing?

2015-10-29 Thread Francois Gouget
my user account got removed from the audio group but adding it back and a logout+login did not solve the issue. I still have not figured that one out yet. But at least I should now be able to apply updates normally. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/ https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/MultiArch -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke

Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2015-12-07 Thread Francois Gouget
Does anyone know how to set up tap-to-click in gdm3? The goal is to be able to tap on the trackpad to perform the swipe gesture that's now required to get the list of users, and tap again to to pick the user to log in as. -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ Advi

Re: Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2015-12-14 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 10:36 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > > Does anyone know how to set up tap-to-click in gdm3? > > > > The goal is to be able to tap on the trackpad to perform the swipe > > gesture that's now requir

Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-18 Thread Francois Gouget
debian.org/developer.php?login=Paul+Wise Having that having out of date or missing virus signatures has security implications (more for some users that others, I'll grant you), getting a handle on these bugs seems quite important. So what's the proper way to report this issue?

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause > >> it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron &g

Re: Setting up tap-to-click in gdm3

2016-01-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: [...] > Try this: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=347944 I finally got time to test this but none of the recommendations on that post worked. I finally found GNOME bug 747811 which indicates that this should really be configured through gset

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-25 Thread Francois Gouget
27;m not so sure about bug reports where I just sent additional information. I think for those one has to explicitly subscribe to the bug which seems like a good idea. -- Francois Gouget http://fgouget.free.fr/ La terre est une bĂȘta...