Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Any chance to use the mouse in Links, or Aptitude ? or... maybe in Emacs ?? As for Emacs, check out xterm-mouse-mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop choice, first boot issues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> AFAIK, ntfs partitions can be resized. Maybe not all partition >> editors can do it, but I think Knoppix's can. Ubuntu can't right now, >> be it is on the roadmap. > > It's safest to use native tools to repartition. Well, not in my experience. I used to think that way, but Windows partitioning tools screwed my disks too many times to my taste. YMMV. > Borrow a PartitionMagic CD, if you can. I have no experience with > cfdisk or QTParted making partitions for Windows. In any event, > make TWO partitions: the first for NTFS at whatever size you want > for Windows. (9GB will hold basic stuff plus one game.) Two data points : My home windows machine is OS plus basic tools, but nothing big (no Office suite, no Visual Studio). It tops at 4.5 GB. My work machine has Office, Visual Studio, and a couple of other things. It uses 9.8 GB. > The second can be very small (~300 MB), and is insurance in case you > ever need to reinstall Windows. So, I just had a look at the default partitionning: /dev/hda1 is 55GB FAT32 -> NTFS, /dev/hda2 is 4.6GB FAT32 flagged bootable. Is a 300MB partition enough ? I have no idea how IBM's recovery system uses it. Also, does anybody know why does IBM ships a FAT32 fs just to convert it to NTFS first thing when the machine comes to life - as opposed to shipping NTFS directly ? > Simpler for sure: you don't have to think about all this. But if you > want to use dial-up when you travel with a strange new provider (like > Roadrunner's, not to mention Europe), or play Windows-world games, or > get IBM automatic updates, or various other things, dual boot is > relatively painless. GRUB rules! As a side note: Is Europe much worse about strange ISP setups ? This is an honest question; I personally never saw much difference between EU/US regarding weird network setups. I wonder what makes you say this. As for dial-up, the modem is reported to work with resp. FC3, SuSE9.1 and Sarge: http://pmw.org/~gardnerj/Thinkpad/Install.html#Modem http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/22-IBM-Thinkpad-T42p.html http://norman.walsh.name/2004/09/20/newLaptop >> > Any horror stories out there? > > One horror story: if you install Debian starting on the second > partition, then someday your XP system will lock up so that you have > to reinstall. Not only will the %^$&[EMAIL PROTECTED] hidden recovery write > over > the MBR on the first partition, but it will put junk on that second > partition so that you have to reinstall Debian! Good to know. Thanks for your valuable input. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop choice, first boot issues
Victor Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently I'm considering R50, T41, T42 models, but I'm open to suggestions! I had the opportunity to play with a T42p just yesterday. h/w-wise, I am impressed. I still have the machine available for some time, so if there are specific points worrying you, I can play with it a bit more - e.g. lspci output, default partitions layout, stuff like that. > It will probably not be possible to buy a laptop without XP installed. In the package I got, there was a paper stating that if I didn't want to use some of the pre-installed software, I could write to IBM and get a refund. It wasn't clear if the offer applied to the pre-installed OS or only to the pre-installed extra s/w. Maybe this is a French specific disposition. Also, maybe it is theorically possible but practically undoable. > I've read that one has to be very careful when first booting, > because Windows XP converts the file system from VFAT to > NTFS. It does. Careful, as in, I guess pulling the plug during the conversion might screw up things. Or as in, insert the install CD soon enough so you don't boot XP at all - It all depends on what you want to achieve. > 1. If I naively do a normal boot, then filesystem conversion will take > place, and I will not be able to (easily) resize partitions to make room for > Linux later? AFAIK, ntfs partitions can be resized. Maybe not all partition editors can do it, but I think Knoppix's can. Ubuntu can't right now, be it is on the roadmap. > Or the only problem with NTFS is that they're read-only? Linux's NTFS support is read-only (or read-write, if you are prepared to jumps through hoops). General piece of advice for dual-boot linux/windows machines: keep a VFAT partition somewhere. > 2. If I keep XP, then I also have to keep the "recovery" partition. Right? If you want to be able to "recover", I guess it's necessary. Otherwise, just wipe out the thing. > 3. If I keep XP, what would be a suitable partition size for it? I will not > really use it, just a backup in case I need to know about some hardware, > until I'm sure sid is working properly with all hardware. In my experience, 2/3 Go is about the least viable minimum size for XP these days. > 4. A simpler alternative would be to boot first time with Knoppix, which > seems to do a very good job detecting hardware. Learn all I have to learn > with Knoppix, and then delete all partitions and start with a pure Debian > system. If anything, that should be simpler than going the dual-boot road. > Any horror stories out there? Have a look at http://modular.fas.harvard.edu/t42/ (linked from http://www.linux-on-laptops.com) to get more info. > 5. This recovery partition, is of use only to Windows? The "delete all > partitions" part above is safe if I intend to have Debian only? Definitively yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian
Sorry for the late answer, hollidays kicking in. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphaël Berbain) writes: > >> Second, ISTR that PGP/MIME is recommended over inline PGP. > > Unfortunately, Outlook Express doesn't handle MIME properly, so > PGP/MIME is out No matter how many times I read this last sentence of yours, I keep finding this reasoning wrong. Anyways, let's move on, both those arguments have already been beaten to death numerous times. Peace. > unless I can get gnus to automatically sign messages From more > clueful venues differently. Maybe there is a way to fetch correspondants' user agents and store that info in the BBDB, then use that for signing method decision ? There should at least be some way to distinguish mailing lists and newsgroups from private correspondance, either by a careful group naming scheme, or by using group parameters. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian
Thomas Stivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 04 2004 at 05:54:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > > Just out of curiosity what is the purpose of the line above? I have seen > it only on Paul's messages and it seems unnecessary. It's an mml (MIME Meta Language) tag. Paul uses Gnus, which in turn uses Emacs' Message mode to compose messages. mml is a tagging language mecanism used by Emacs' message mode to convey meta-information internally to the MUA, mainly to compose mime messages. AFAICT, it shouldn't actually appear in the resulting message, instead it should be rewritten as some MIME stanzas - or, in this case, as an inline PGP sig I guess. To give you an idea of what use they are, if I want to encrypt a message I add an mml tag to it. The message only actually gets encrypted at the time I send it. This way, I can edit it without breaking the crypto. You can see it as a way to say "hey, MUA - remember to encrypt just before sending - but not now, it is too early". Signing, encrypting, attaching some file work this way in Gnus world. So what you see in Paul's messages looks to me like a leftover of a Gnus missetup[1]. Paul: You might want to investigate that. There are two issues that I can see: First, this mml tag shouldn't end up in the final message, should it ? Second, ISTR that PGP/MIME is recommended over inline PGP. The reason is that mail systems can handle reliably & automatically PGP/MIME signatures (handling being verify, strip, whatever). OTOH, they cannot with inline PGP. Regards, Footnotes: [1] Or, maybe, just maybe, some bug in Gnus. But as we all know, this fine piece of software is bug free, isn't it ?[2] [2] But then, with Gnus the difference between core Gnus code and personal configuration sometimes dims. That's half the fun with this MUA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems using JACK
rich lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > related question, ALSA : can 2+ apps play through it at once? I understand the > answer is no, that's what you need jack/arts/esd for, but then some comments > seemed to hint otherwise. It certainly doesn't seem to work that way. http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaSharing basically says that ALSA allows sound mixing, with more or less setup involved depending on wether h/w supports mixing, apps use the ALSA or OSS api, a sound server is involved... Disclaimer: It's been a long time since I toyed with sound, which means I didn't try any sound-related stunts recently. One can hope the link is accurate: The page's history says it was created on July 16th. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86 4.3.0-3 uninstallable
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not only is it not installable, but I'm entirely stumped about how to > proceed, so I'll let the transcript speak for itself and see if > anybody else can make heads or tails of what's going on... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=235772 says that XFree doesn't install when sh actually is dash instead of bash. Recovery procedure until this is fixed: point /bin/sh to /bin/bash, install or upgrade XFree, and point /bin/sh back to /bin/dash. -- Raphaël GPG key ID: Ox564D67FD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get rollback !?!
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It can happen, even to the best, even from "stable"--an upgrade is > done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with > X. [...] > I propose a rollback capability in apt-get. Assuming that this could > not be done over the internet at present, it would involve > maintaining an archive of replaced items and the dependancies. Maybe http://snapshot.debian.net/ is what you are looking for ? -- Entropy isn't what it used to be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MPC decoder
Jose Luis Ayala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi guys!
>
> I've just found a new sound format for me :) MPC (what seems to come
> from "Mousetrack").
>
> I'd like to convert this to something more useful for me, like mp3 or
> so. I've tried with lame, xmms, madplay... but I wasn't able.
>
> Does anybody have any idea of what I can use for decoding this sound
> format?
Check out http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/debian.html for Debian
audio stuff [1]. In particular, the package
musepack-decoder-{386|k7|686} provides mppdec, to convert mpc to wav.
The package xmms-musepack gives you a musepack plugin for xmms.
As always with lossy compression, avoid transcoding from one lossy
codec to another (e.g. mpc to mp3) when possible: The result will
combine artifacts from both compression formats.
[1] sources.list entries are available on this page.
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Re: Latest MPlayer
Trey Sizemore wrote: > What do I add to my sources list to get the latest MPlayer? One solution is to add this in your sources.list: deb http://okki666.nerim.net/debian ./ then install the 'mplayer-update' package. It provides the 'mplayer-update' script, which pulls mplayer cvs code, handles the build and creates a Debian package from it. This way, you get cvs-current code and .debs. I haven't used it extensively nor am I a mplayer/Debian/scripting guru so I can't guaranty the script quality, but it worked fine for me each time I used it. This repository also contains packages for codecs, skins and fonts used by mplayer. -- Raphaël -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?
Sandip P. Deshmukh wrote: > i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and > fast window manager for some occasional work there. > > aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter much. speed and overheads > matter a lot. > > i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any feedback from > actual users is welcome. i am currently using windowmaker. I like Ion. Ion is different from the zillion other window managers around: The basic idea is windows don't partially overlap, instead they tile or totally overlap (have a look at the screnshots if you can't imagine what I am talking about, it will become much clearer). Feels like screen-on-steroids, quite console-ish - some people love it, other despise it. I wouldn't try to give a definitive description of it, though, since there was just a few days ago quite a big thread on the Ion ML to find what would be the right Freshmeat entry for it . There are currently 2 branches: Ion-stable and ion-devel. I would suggest the ion-devel road. Ion-stable is in Debian ; As for ion-devel, unofficial Debian packages exist, but I don't know about them since I don't use them. home page: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ http://kanin.dsv.su.se/ion-devel/ for Debian packages. -- Raphaël -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
