Upgrading to KDE 3.1 in Sid

2003-04-02 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: I am currently running Karolina's KDE 3.1 RC5 Packages for sid (compiled with gcc 2.95) on my system, which is a mixture of sarge/sid. After hearing so much, about the disadvantages of keeping a mix system, and now that KDE 3.1.1 is in sid, I decided to upgrade completely to sid.

Re: Problem with upgrading to KDE 3.1.1 on Debian woody

2003-04-02 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
A Dissabte 29 Març 2003 14:05, Ralf Nolden va escriure: Hi, I have a woody r0 with kde3.1.0 from ktown (I did an download and I construct a cd). On monday I did an update of my box from kde3.1.0 to kde3.1.1 After do the upgrade my kde crash every time I try to run any program of kde, kdm

AW: Upgrading to KDE 3.1 in Sid

2003-04-02 Thread Sven Kissner
Hi Aryan, just move ~/.kde out of the way (maybe to ~/.kde.old), it contains all of your settings. (you may check /etc/ for a kdm dir, also..). then purge your current kde installation. this is recommended because a straight upgrade-path is not guaranteed with unofficial repositories. after

Re: Using arts and alsa (direct) simultaneously?

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Lindgren
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:15:18 -0600 Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along with what was said earlier, the reason you probably can't use both at the same time is due to your soundcard not allowing multiopen. I am not sure if alsa has plans to do software mixing, that would be nice of

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1 in Sid

2003-04-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:57:43AM +0300, Aryan Ameri scrawled: I am currently running Karolina's KDE 3.1 RC5 Packages for sid (compiled with gcc 2.95) on my system, which is a mixture of sarge/sid. After hearing so much, about the disadvantages of keeping a mix system, and now that KDE

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1 in Sid

2003-04-02 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 April 2003 09:57, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I am currently running Karolina's KDE 3.1 RC5 Packages for sid (compiled with gcc 2.95) on my system, which is a mixture of sarge/sid. After hearing so much, about the disadvantages

Re: Using arts and alsa (direct) simultaneously?

2003-04-02 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 01:15 schrieb Chris Cheney: Along with what was said earlier, the reason you probably can't use both at the same time is due to your soundcard not allowing multiopen. I am not sure if alsa has plans to do software mixing, that would be nice of course, but most new

KPPP and PPTP/DSL

2003-04-02 Thread N M
I'd like to use KPPP just as a front-end for pppd and not as a dialler. I have a DSL connection that requires PPTP and I've properly configured pppd to invoke pptp (via a pty entry in /etc/ppp/peers/provider). Everything works quite well, except that I'd like to have a convenient gui

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1 in Sid

2003-04-02 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi: Thanks Seven, Daniel and Ralph for their prompt advices. On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:27, Sven Kissner wrote: Hi Aryan, just move ~/.kde out of the wa a ky (maybe to ~/.kde.old), it contains all of your settings. (you may check /etc/ fordm dir, also..). Aside from ~/.kde, I also have a

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1 in Sid

2003-04-02 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 02.Apr 2003 - 15:30:43, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi: Thanks Seven, Daniel and Ralph for their prompt advices. On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:27, Sven Kissner wrote: Hi Aryan, just move ~/.kde out of the wa a ky (maybe to ~/.kde.old), it contains all of your settings. (you may check

Re: Problem with upgrading to KDE 3.1.1 on Debian woody

2003-04-02 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Leo, I am sorry you have experienced the same problem that I did. Here is what I did (as I best remember it): it my help you, or crash your system entirely: so beware! Although I cannot explain precisely what caused the problem in the first place, or what solved it in he second, my system

Re: Problem with upgrading to KDE 3.1.1 on Debian woody

2003-04-02 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
A Dimecres 02 Abril 2003 17:55, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar va escriure: Dear Chandra, thank's for your long and complete mail. I am sorry you have experienced the same problem that I did. Bad luck, it's the problem to try to install software. 1. When I lost KDE, I apt-get installed the Debian

Printing Problems

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Peddemors
I looked over the threads, and either I am missing something, or this seems a little different, running Stable and latest Nolden debs From Konqueror, some web pages, including ASP and PHP generated pages when you hit print, brings up the dialog, and correctly shows printing pages to the CUPS

Re: Using arts and alsa (direct) simultaneously?

2003-04-02 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2003 11:45 schrieb Robert Lindgren: Well not many of the drivers support multiopen in linux. Only sb live and upwards. At least with oss/kernel drivers. Not sure about alsa drivers? Most of them are supposed to handle two

Re: Using arts and alsa (direct) simultaneously?

2003-04-02 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2003 12:57 schrieb Olaf Stetzer: Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 01:15 schrieb Chris Cheney: Along with what was said earlier, the reason you probably can't use both at the same time is due to your soundcard not allowing

Re: Printing Problems

2003-04-02 Thread Fred K Ollinger
I looked over the threads, and either I am missing something, or this seems a little different, running Stable and latest Nolden debs From Konqueror, some web pages, including ASP and PHP generated pages when you hit print, brings up the dialog, and correctly shows printing pages to the

Re: Printing Problems

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Peddemors
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 09:49, Fred K Ollinger wrote: From Konqueror, some web pages, including ASP and PHP generated pages when you hit print, brings up the dialog, and correctly shows printing pages to the CUPS defined printers, but absolutely no output. Works on static pages..

which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Achim Bohnet
Hi, I would like to startup digikam, when the camera is plugged in. libgphoto2 comes with the example usbcam.x11-app hotplug script, but it has two limitations: o fixed user o fixed display (new complication du to the great 'New Session' feature) 'last' is one way to find out

Re: Printing Problems

2003-04-02 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 18:58, Michael Peddemors wrote: I looked over the threads, and either I am missing something, or this seems a little different, running Stable and latest Nolden debs From Konqueror, some web pages, including ASP and PHP generated pages when you hit print,

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:12:54PM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: Is there a kdm setting to turn on to find out what display is the active one and if/what user is logged in there? try who. this requires that sessreg is used in Xstartup/Xreset, though. Other ways to get this info? none i'd

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread David Pye
Hmm... Good question! who tells you who's logged in... bash-2.05b$ who dmp :0 Mar 23 18:35 and the display/terminal is the middle column. However, I'm not sure how you can find out which one is currently being displayed. Perhaps you could annoy ALL the users by running

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread David Pye
Hi there, Sorry - I have now copied my original reply to the list - I have no interest in being secretive, I simply thought I'd pressed reply-to-all! bash-2.05b$ ls -la wtmp* -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 768 2003-04-02 11:31 wtmp -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 147072 2003-03-27

Re: kdm restarts the x server twice and then gives up

2003-04-02 Thread Daniel Rolls
This looks like a xft2/fontconfig issue, you may want to try upgrading to the version of libxft2, libfontconfig1, and fontconfig to the ones in sid. libxft2, libfontconfig1, and fontconfig were all up to date but I found libqt3c102-mt depended on libxft2. Upgrading libqt3c102-mt to the version

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:29:16PM +, David Pye wrote: However, I'm not sure how you can find out which one is currently being displayed. oh, right, i forgot that part. fgconsole. but this works only as root, so you need to define a sudo rule if a regular user should be able to execute

a few random kde311 problems

2003-04-02 Thread Jordan Lederman
Hi, I'm running sarge with kde 3.1.1 from Ralf's repository and I keep running into some strange issues. Some of them may be actual kde bugs, but I don't know if the packaging/enviorment is causing them: 1) When in konsole, going to Settings - Font - Custom brings up a list of about

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 23:45, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:29:16PM +, David Pye wrote: However, I'm not sure how you can find out which one is currently being displayed. oh, right, i forgot that part. fgconsole. but this works only as root, so you need to

Re: which display is active and which user is logged in? (kdm?)

2003-04-02 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:35:48AM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: Great one peace more of the puzzle. Here fgconsole works also for normal user: [...] It this a (security) bug? no, that's a bit permission magic done by PAM and/or the Xstartup script. every system does something different here