XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Fluch
Hello! I'm trying to configure an ATI Technologies M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) graphics card with 64MB of RAM on my T60. I have problem with getting the acceleration set up correctly (glxgears runs with about 110fps). I notice the following error messsage log file of the xserver: (EE)

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Fluch
; this is the driver which the xserver chooses by default if one leaves it out from the xorg.conf file.) With best wishes, - Martin Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:26 +0100, Martin Fluch wrote: I'm trying to configure an ATI Technologies M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) graphics card with 64MB

Right ALT key drives me crazy under X

2006-04-03 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Since a while I have a problem which drives me crazy: under X (xorg 6.9.0 from unstables). I have no idea how solve the problem. The issue is that the right ALT key (AltGr) starts to behave like the left one. It works fine on the console, but not under X. Regardless how I start X: from KDM

Trying to access microdrive through PCMCIA adapter

2006-01-14 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I am running a 2.6.15 kernel on my IBM ThinkPad T30. I have a compact flash adapter for my microdrive (Magicstor 2.2GB) and I try to get it work. I seems to be possible under Linux (http://linux.highsphere.net/howtos/magicstor2GB.php) but when I insert the PCMCIA adapter together with the

Re: PCMCIA USB cards under linux?

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Fluch
Thanks for the info. I was indeed not looking for a card which expressly states that it works with linux, but rather just one which I could get work. Thanks for your answer and your link. It indeed suggests that my search might not be in vain. :-) I will contact my local dealer and talk about it

Re: PCMCIA USB cards under linux (success!)

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Fluch
The USB 2.0 via PCMCIA card continues. My search was not in vain. :-) Just for the record: I bought now a 2 Port USB 2.0 CardBus card from Transcend. And the ehci/ohci driver compiled into the kernel recognized the card imediately (running a custom compiled 2.6.14.3 kernel). There seems to be no

PCMCIA USB cards under linux?

2005-12-01 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! From my search sofar the result doesn't look promissing. But is there any PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which works under Linux. My IBM T30 has only an USB 1.1 port and it would be nice to a USB 2.0 adapter to transfer faster data between my T30 and my iPod. Can anybody maybe proove my observation

replacement for gcdmaster

2005-11-19 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Already some time ago there existed a program called gcdmaster which came along the cdrdao package. I used it to make audio CDs from my records. I used the nice graphics interface to spot the exact position of tracks where gramofile did not work properly. Now gcdmaster is not anymore included

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-08 Thread Martin Fluch
It will be a 2.6.13.x kernel (since vmware has problems on the 2.6.14 kernel). It is strange that there is so little known about how the current wireless cards awailable at Verkkokauppa or Tietoasema (thanks for this hint, I didn't know the shop before) can be used under linux. I think we will

Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi Finnish friends! A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit problem to decide which wireless PCI cards offered at Verkokauppa are supported by the most current linux kernels. Anyone with experience?

Re: xcdroast

2004-12-31 Thread Martin Fluch
There is some problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.8.1 kernels and cd/dvd burning. it's solved in 2.6.9... - Martin On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Dave Ewart wrote: On Friday, 31.12.2004 at 08:03 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I'm using the Kernel 2.6.8 I do not have SCSI emulation configured for this because I was

Re: xcdroast

2004-12-31 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Tom Allison wrote: Martin Fluch wrote: There is some problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.8.1 kernels and cd/dvd burning. it's solved in 2.6.9... Unfortunately what is not solved in kernel 2.6.9 is my NVIDIA drivers won't install. why? I don't know.. But this is getting just silly

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-07 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] No command-line tools? Is k3b a frontend to something? k3b is a front end to various commandline tools, among others: cdrecord, cdrado, growisofs Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, newbin shang wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:55:15 +, Joao Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was testing some stuff that needed rebooting my sarge installation an I tought to myself that it was a waste of time to startup X at every boot So I headed to /etc/inittab to

Re: mounting on /mnt is failing

2004-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
Actually the message tells, that the mount point /mnt/point does not exists. If this directory does not exists at the time the mount command is issued, then mount fails. Create the directory with mkdir /mnt/point and then mount the file system as before. - Martin On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Robert

Omnibook 6000 and kernel config (2.6.9)

2004-11-12 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Does anybody have a working kernel .config file for a custom kernel running on an HP Omnibook 6000? Thanxs a lot! :) - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: su : must be run from a terminal

2004-11-03 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! From what it looks to me you should consider using sudo for your task. There you can allow in a very detailed way certain commands to be executed without giving a password. Hardcoding the root password into a script as you try seems to me very risky... - Martin On Wed, 3 Nov 2004,

Re: cdrecord cdwriter

2004-11-03 Thread Martin Fluch
P.S. I use the kernel 2.6.8-1-386 version 2.6.8-4 There is some issue with the 2.6.8.1 kernel and cdwriting. The only infromation I have about this is from k3b.org (in the news section): Do not use Kernel 2.6.8 A patch that was introduced into the kernel shortly before the 2.6.8

Backup solution with DVDs

2004-11-02 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Is there any easy backup solution such that I can easily backup my home directory with my DVD burner? (I have more then 4,7GB in my home dir.) Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Periodic HD acctivity

2004-08-31 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, martin f krafft wrote: try installing noflushd. I'd assume it to be syslog. Doesn't really help. It logs the hd activity, but still there is _some_ process running, which forces every 60 seconds the HD to spin up: Aug 31 11:44:36 localhost noflushd[3549]: Spinning down

SOLVED: Re: Periodic HD acctivity

2004-08-31 Thread Martin Fluch
I managed to track the offending process down with top and a sharp look at the right moment and spotted the korganizer applet being active at the moment the HD spun up. Now that I removed the applet everything is back to normal again :) Thanxs for your comments! - Martin On Tue, 31 Aug 2004,

Anybody Edimax EW-7128g with 2.6?

2004-08-25 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Has anybody got the Edimax EW-7128g wireless PCI card working with a 2.6 kernel? (802.11g Wireless LAN PCI Card). lspci identifies the card as RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01). I tried to google for some information, but couldn't find any. Is there any chance to

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Sudo is your friend here... - Martin On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: On my desktop system I'd like to make certain commands requiring root (i.e. halt) available to ordinary users. What choices do are there? Are there already any script which makes a desktop linux system more user friendly?

Re: What's this mounted temporary drectory? /tmp/autoKVio9R

2004-07-23 Thread Martin Fluch
Looks like something KDE related. Did you access some mountable media with Konqueror? - Martin On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Ryo Furue wrote: Hello all, I recently found the following: $ df -k [...] /tmp/autol8wP90 37483560 2742148 32837312 8% /tmp/autoKVio9R $ which I'd never seen

Re: What's this mounted temporary drectory? /tmp/autoKVio9R

2004-07-23 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Tim Connors wrote: Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:41:36 +0300 (EEST): $ df -k [...] /tmp/autol8wP90 37483560 2742148 32837312 8% /tmp/autoKVio9R $ which I'd never seen before. I'm the sole user and the admin of the machine. Looks

Re: Debian DVD creation

2004-07-20 Thread Martin Fluch
Isn't there a DVD image existing for testing? See http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/index.en-gb.html#which - Martin On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Marcus wrote: We'd like to create a Debian DVD (unstable or testing) for our Linux store. Is there a how-to anywhere for that (google didn't help)?

DVD Problem

2004-07-14 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I have a small problem with my newly aquired DVD/CDRW combo drive. I tried to google for it already but despite getting lots of hits I did not find any usefull answer sofar. Reading/writing CD's works fine, but as soon as I insert a DVD into the drive, the kernel starts right away (even

XConsole in Root Window with KDE

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Is there a possibility to get the messages send to /dev/xconsole vissible on the root window whilest running KDE (in my case the latest version comming with Debian unstable)? Or alternatively, is there a KDE application which replaces the xconsole application which comes along with the

Re: XConsole in Root Window with KDE

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Fluch
Basicaly xconsole is alright (beside that it takes space from the task bar), I thought maybe there is some programm which integrates just a little bit better to KDE (like docking to the panel)... - Martin On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, s. keeling wrote: Why do you need a kde app which replaces xconsole?

Re: Warning: Sid upgrade loses most KDE Styles

2004-06-12 Thread Martin Fluch
I had no problems, neither on ppc nor on i386 ;-) Now close your KDE session and log back in. Welcome to our world. :) ...happened to me the same way, didn't read the thread to closely, was wondering what the problem was and sudenly after a re-login I was puzzled. But installing an older

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-12 Thread Martin Fluch
Had so far three IBM laptops (Thinkpad 770, Thinkpad 600, Thinkpad T20) of which I bought the last two used at e-Bay. All worked great with Linux and anyways they are an good investment, great working machines which keep their value. - Martin On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Cecil wrote: I will be

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-12 Thread Martin Fluch
That's true, maybe I have then choosen the worng words. More what I wanted to say is, that the value the ThinkPads had to me was never decreasing much. They are good working tools and they stay it. Battery lifetime usually sucks at some point, but that is more or less all. On the other hand,

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: ... I am wanting to use a graphical login Why? That is, why have a login at all? Let root use the real VT console and startx from a VT to start X. But please change the user id to something else then root before launching X. But definitly there is

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:38:33PM -0700, Ping Wing wrote: frankly, the fact that debian puts 'stable' in source.list automatically is littlebit scaring. For example when sarge is new stable one day, and im doing another (semi-)automatic apt-get upgrade, theres good chance that this messes

e-mail notification to syslog

2004-05-18 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Is there mail notification program which can check POP3/IMAP/... email accounts for new mails and send the result to syslog? - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! So now I have _some_ success with the 40bit key. :) After Shyamal told about problems with the s:password I tried to set key via its hex value. I tried something similar to iwconfig eth0 essid the networks essid iwconfig eth0 mode managed iwconfig eth0 key 5432154321 Afterwards

Re: Solved. Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! So I got the 40bit key working (using hex key instead of ascii passwords). The strange behavior with certain keys disapeared (don't know why I had it in the first hand). Thanxs again for your help! :-) Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem to use it under Windows, but it doesn't work with Linux. I have Debian Unstable on my laptop, a recent 2.4.20-ac2 kernel, iwconfig version 25 and

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Keith Winston wrote: I have that card working. You need to add your encryption key to the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file, something like this: [...] I had the settings there (I checked with iwconfig, how the card was configured) and also did configure the card manualy

perl script to replace html login?

2002-02-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Is there a easy way to make a perl skript to send an http post request produced by the following html form? FORM METHOD=post ENCTYPE=application/x-www-form-urlencoded INPUT TYPE=text NAME=login INPUT TYPE=password NAME=pass INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=Login VALUE=Login /FORM The reply of the

Re: GNU parted and ext3

2002-01-12 Thread Martin Fluch
I know how to put the journal back on but anyone knows how to remove the journal safely? mount the partition as ext2 (!) at /some/mount/point and then rm /some/mount/point/.journal That should do the trick. Martin

Re: Permission probs with apt/dpkg (was: Cannot remove cocoon-lib and gtk-engines-*)

2001-12-30 Thread Martin Fluch
Hei! What does ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/cocoon-lib.prerm show for an output? Martin On 30 Dec 2001, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Sorry for this fullquote followup to my own message. Maybe a hint. I moved /var/lib to an other partition and made a symlink to /var Did I something wrong?

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Ian Balchin wrote: HI, dman, Pietro, Jo-el, Sam, I definitely did not do a sync. Maybe I did a umount, but probably not. A umount does sync the floppy or any disc... Why, when one shuts down via, say, poweroff, can unix not do that for you in the course of

Matrox G450 and Unstable

2001-12-09 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I'm trying to get the a Matrox G450 running under a quite up to date unstable system (XFree86 version 4.1.0.1, debian package version 4.1.0-9) of a friend of mine. Is this card already supported with this version of X (with the 4.1.0 it was/should have been)? So far I have the idea, that I

Re: dpkg -P emacs21

2001-10-25 Thread Martin Fluch
Hmm, debug the post-removal script /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs21.postrm There must be some typing error where the suidunregister is called. Then try to purge the package again. Martin On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Igor Mozetic wrote: I recompiled emacs21 for potato, but wasn't able to install it since

Re: loopfs ?

2001-10-25 Thread Martin Fluch
To be sure just display the content of /proc/devices: If there is a loop device registered (among the block devices listed), then you kernel has the loopfs... Martin On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I'm trying to use mindi to build some rescue disks (headed twoard a recovery CD with

Re: XFree86 version?

2001-10-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: I need to know which XFree version I have. Does anybody know? I don't know, but if you execute X -version (maybe as root) then it will tell you... Martin

Re: # terminals

2001-09-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Hans Gubitz wrote: How can I change the number of terminals in textmode? Edit /etc/inittab (see man inittab) Martin

Re: simple scripts made difficult? :)

2001-09-07 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, andrej hocevar wrote: i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at the same time see it as usual on screen? man tee Martin

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: My questions are: 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from updating other packages that have nothing to do with these? apt-get will tell you why, if you force it to install it with apt-get install 2. Why isn't smbfs

RE: Preventing logins /bin/false ?

2001-08-20 Thread Martin Fluch
I would rather give people as little information about the system as possible. There is also a risk (however slight) that /bin/false could be replaced with a bash program. I don't believe that this could be done with /dev/null (or could it ?) It's not a problem at all to replace /dev/null

Filesystem export...

2001-08-17 Thread Martin Fluch
Heips! Is there a network filesystem existing for which a user space server exists, which doesn't need root privileges to run, and which uses the TCP protocol (and not the UDP)? The situation is, that I want to mount parts of a filesystem on my personal linux box. The filesystem I want to mount

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like The file is /etc/modules.conf On a Debian system you should _not_

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Martin Fluch
if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well... we all learn and remember the hard way... :-) shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.* NO. ~/.* includes .. ~/.. too, if expanded by the shell. In this case this would be /root/.. which is nothing els but / ... the same mess again

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread Martin Fluch
Hejsan! Okay, so what you're saying is that you prefer efficient parsing of a script, while I prefer the aestheticy (sp?) provided by spaces. Obviously, there's a trade-off between the two, and we emphasize different aspects. So there are some points to the arguement that Spaces In

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Martin Fluch
Several folks have already suggested, that you just need to get rid of the '' quotes. However, if some files have spaces in their file name, you actually do need quotes, like this. for i in *; do ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i; done This makes sure that the filename $i and the new

Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Hello, I have two unstable boxes connected via ethernet (bilbo and seneca). When I ssh from seneca to bilbo with ssh -X bilbo and start for example xterm I get the result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ xterm channel 0: istate 4 != open channel 0: ostate 64 != open X connection to bilbo:10.0 broken

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ xterm debug1: Received X11 open request. debug1: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: fd 4 IS O_NONBLOCK debug1: channel 0: new [X11 connection from 192.168.0.2 port 1024] debug1: X11 connection uses different authentication protocol. debug1: X11 rejected 0 i1/o16 debug1:

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi Ilya, MF Hi! MF [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ xterm MF debug1: Received X11 open request. MF debug1: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK MF [..skip..] MF debug1: channel 0: input wait_oclose - closed MF X connection to bilbo:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). MF [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ Sorry I

Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

2001-03-25 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: * Brendan O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010325 22:14]: Is this a consequence of security? Is there some cheap way around it? I'm willing to forgo some security on my home desktop to do run things like qtcups. Thanks! A cheap way: xhost

Re: libxaw7 - undefined symbol?

2001-03-24 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi all, this problems seems to be due to a bug in the xlib6 package (see http://bugs.debian.org/90658). Martin On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Toens Bueker wrote: Hi *, Hi Toens, after a recent dist-upgrade I get this error-message when I try to

Re: .Xdefaults not read?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Fluch
I have set a .Xdefaults file in my home dir.However it seems to me it does not get read, should I set what I need in a different file? Rename it to .Xresources ... Martin

XFree86 4.0.2 and anti-aliased fonts?

2001-03-10 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, I've heard that it might be possible to use anti-aliased fonts with XFree86 4.0.2, but I couldn't find more information about it. Can somebody point me into the right direction? Martin

Re: help with X

2001-03-05 Thread Martin Fluch
Have you installed the xserver-xfree86 package which contains the xserver 4.0.2? If not, do it, and the install script will (should) ask you about the configuration. If you have the package already installed you can reconfigure the server by issuing dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Martin

setgid: Operation not permitted

2001-03-05 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, since the last update of unstable I've problems with some programs (cron, sshd till now). For example I'm not able to remotely login to my box, I just get the error message: setgid: Operation not permitted. Cron produces this output at some intervals in the logs. Anybody else with this

Re: setgid: Operation not permitted

2001-03-05 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! Hm, the mail you mentioned must have been read by the quickread key D (as delete). Commenting out the pam_limits.so in /etc/pam.d/cron and /etc/pam.d/ssh did the trick. Thanx, Martin On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote: Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since the last update

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Martin Fluch
Try as root: find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -s | sort -nr | less And you will see all files sorted by size (in blocks, bigest first) on your root partition... Martin On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, jdls wrote: Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's

Re: AARGGGHHHH! no X in Woody

2001-03-01 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: Hey, I can't get X windows to work in Woody. xdm doesn't start on its own, and if I try 'startx', it says: X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (N such file or directory), Is the file /etc/X11/X present? It sould be a link to an Xserver, in my case it

Re: Random hard disk activity.

2001-02-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:01:23AM +0100, Hans wrote: I have an old box which acts as radio/cd-player/mp3-player. When I play mp3s, every few minutes (2-6 min, no particular time) there is hard disk activity which brings the mp3 player to a halt for a few seconds after which it continues (too

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: if [ ! $LOGNAME = root ] ; then export XAUTHORITY=/home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority fi This

Re: Latest Kernel

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Fluch
I was looking around debian.org for the latest kernel. Am correct that it is currently 2.2.17? I thought there was a new kernel out? 2.2.18 and 2.2.19pre.xx in unstable at least... Martin

Re: woody packages broken

2001-01-29 Thread Martin Fluch
I have noticed that I cannot update freetype2 package on Debian woody (testing), and libguile6 also: sudo apt-get install freetype2 ghostview gs gv mgp pstoedi t vflib2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- by-package examination, what can be done to detect this

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: Martin Fluch wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. Short of running dselect (or storm

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: In my grub I have: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 root=/dev/hda1 video=0x319 But you can't modify those options before you actually log in, can you ? If I remember right (I don't want to break my uptime :-), pressing the 'e' key lets you

TP 770, 2.2.18, USB ... any experiances?

2000-12-14 Thread Martin Fluch
Hello! Finaly the USB support has been backported with the 2.2.18 kernel to the recent stable 2.2 kernel series. An USB graphic table (I not sure if it's the right word) would be interesting for me together with GIMP 1.1 (which I allready use quite for a while). I have a ThinkPad 770 and the

SOLVED: Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:15:48AM +0200, thus spake Martin Fluch: On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. I don't think your

Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-10 Thread Martin Fluch
Hello! since a few days I experience a quite strange problem with fetchmail on my woody system. It started with the following messages in the log files: Dec 9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: 15 messages for fluch at rock.helsinki.fi (39776 octets). Dec 9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]:

Re: Very strange fetchmail problem

2000-12-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the problem. The firewall was up already for one

Re: apt questions?

2000-12-04 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Eric Richardson wrote: I have a laptop running SuSE 6.4 that works pretty good. I am very interested in trying out apt and eventually moving to debian. Does using apt make sense if I'm not using debian? No, it doesn't make sense. Martin -- This is Linux Country. In a

Re: problems with last dist-upgrade (woody)

2000-12-03 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Olaf Foellinger wrote: Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-5 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-9_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-9_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jeffrey A Schoolcraft wrote: * Martin Fluch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (this will update not all of your system, but only the part needed by the dependencies) Then fidle around until you get it running, you might need

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if i don't upgrade to woody, would it be better to do this from source packages? i'm wondering if X will be linked against woody libraries... In my opinion it should be much more less truble to upgrade only some packages to woody. Then at least

Re: XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unpacking replacement xutils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xutils_4.0.1- 8_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf', which is also in package xbase-clients dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: - dselect's update is (or wasn't) quite synched with apt, which means/meant that a seperate [U]pdate step is/was required. This can be time-consuming on a = 56K line. I've configured dselect to use apt-get. I update both databases

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-27 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I think you want to stick to the package system. If you use apt-get, change the /etc/apt/sources.list so that it points to unstable, then make an apt-get update then a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (this will update not all of your system, but only the part needed by the

Re: Off-Topic Kinda .........

2000-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
On 22 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking for someone or someplace that does clothing with a Debian logo or Linux theme. Sweatshirt specifically. http://www.copyleft.net Martin -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public

Re: add new Tex packages!?

2000-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: can anyone tell me how to add new texpackages, for example the package letter. I coppied it in the Texpath, where all the other .sty and .cls files are, but this didn't work. Latex said it can't find the package and asks for the path, when I insert

Re: which kernel option provide char-major-100 modules

2000-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after i recompiled my new kernel,some of my applications tell me that cannt find the module of char-major-100(maybe this name),maybe i erase some options of the kernel that provide this module,does anyone know which options provide this

Re: X 4.0 and port 6000

2000-11-12 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Rob wrote: I am using the XFree86 4 packages in Woody, and it works great besides the fact that my X server no longer listens on port 6000 for remote connections. Hmm ... if you use xdm to start the xserver, have you checked the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers? In mine it

Re: X 4.0 and port 6000

2000-11-12 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Rob wrote: Thanks, but I use startx. And how about /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc ? Martin -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. For public GnuPG-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X 4.0 and port 6000

2000-11-12 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Martin Fluch wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Rob wrote: Thanks, but I use startx. And how about /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc ? Oh, and if you don't want to change it globaly on your system, you can copy it to $HOME/.xserverrc and alter it acording to your needs. Martin

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote: Now when I boot up Linux, it says Starting xdm... and then it drops me to the command prompt. (I had been using gdm, but I'm using xdm just until I get everything working). This never happened before. It used to be that it would say Starting

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

2000-11-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is there I way to rename them all at once? I remember from my DOS days a command like ren (or is it rename?) that would do the trick. Something like: ren *.html *.htm What's the

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: Indeed, still not able to change to tty5, pid changed but that's all... (btw, this happens directly after reboot, so it's not some left over process or anything I believe) Any problems with the F5 key? Seems like a silly question, but I've

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: This is indeed possible! Very strange, so my F5 key probably is bound to something else. Is there a way for me to check this? I just did the following: login on some tty, e.g. tty2, and then [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ hexdump /dev/tty2 Then I

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote: Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error message saying something about this program requires dialog. Can some kind soul tell me how to fix this? As root: apt-get install dialog Martin -- Linux - the last service

Re: Halt / Reboot: other user

2000-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Sebastian Padó wrote: Hi all, I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it). I've created the script /usr/local/sbin/tkmgr: #!/usr/bin/wishx # Init stuff wm title . Chooser wm protocol . WM_DELETE_WINDOW

Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, I have the folowing, quite urgent problem. Our ISP of our students dormitory changes to the end of this month (this is: on Thuesday) and I was just lucky to get this morning the information, that this will lead to a DHCP network. Hmm ... I'm even more luck, since originaly they wanted to

Re: Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Fluch
Re: Hi, I forgot to say, that I use a PCMCIA card to connect to the internet... Martin On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Martin Fluch wrote: Hi, [...] And thats the problem I have: I have no experience with that, I never played around with it and now I should get it working till Thuesday :-) Has

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