Sony Vaio All-In-Wonder FX series working in Debian?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi.

I was just wondering if anyone has gotten one of the Sony notebooks at:
http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/fx/

working in Debian. They're the Sony Vaio All-In-Wonder FX series. I'd
like to get one of these, but am concerned that it's not listed at the
Linux On Laptops site at:
http://www.linux-laptop.net/sony.html

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Harddrives not mounting properly

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I'm having complete trouble with mounting things and permissions in
general. Here are two lines from my /etc/fstab

/dev/hda5   /wind   vfatdefaults,rw,user,auto,exec  0   
2
/dev/hda3   /winc   vfatdefaults,rw,user,auto,exec  0   
2

On my computer I have root of course and then a normal user. If I go to
/wind as a normal user and try to delete a file, it gives me a permission
denied error. If I try creating a file, I get an error too. Given the above 
lines,
why am I having these problems? 

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Re: Monitor not remembering settings

[Bart Szyszka]

This was also one of my problems and i solved it (or i worked arround it) I
run Windows and XWindow in different resolutions. My monitor can 'remember'
14 different settings at the same time.

Hmm... I'm already running Windows and X under different resolutions.

Windows is run under 1024x768 and X under 1280x1024. I'd appreciate
any more suggestions. If I reboot from Linux to Linux, the monitor's
geometry settings will stick just fine, but if I boot to Windows and
back to Linux, the geometry settings are reset.

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Re: Monitor not remembering settings

[Bart Szyszka]

I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe 
system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my 
monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea why 
it keeps resetting? It never does that when I go back to Windows. Windows 
always sticks to the proper settings. 



Windows could be resetting your monitor.
(I've noticed that re-installing Windows 98 makes my monitor forget all
my Linux video mode settings.  As usual, Microsoft tries to take over
everything.)



Is there a way to stop this from happening? Maybe by adding something in

Linux to make it remember the settings after a Windows reset?


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Re: Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro not working with unstable

[Bart Szyszka]

runs great on my potato box with xfree 4.0.2 using the "r128" driver

Do you have the video out cable plugged in? If it's plugged in, I can't

start X, but if I unplug it then X works perfectly. Pretty sure I'm using

4.0.3 with r128 driver.


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Re: Monitor not remembering settings

[Bart Szyszka]

You should be able to run "xvidtune" in order to get the right modeline.
Set your screen as you like then click on "show."  This will kick out a
modeline.
Find the modline in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, in the appropriate
section, that starts with the same desktop size as xvidtune reports.
For example something along the lines of "1024x768."  Comment that 
line out and paste the new modeline xvidtune created into the file.

Save the file and restart X.


Well it's remembering the resolution setting. The problem is that it's 
not remembering the geometry settings like the pincusion, trapezoid, 
etc. so the screen is all bent out of shape (in the proper resolution).


- Bart

Monitor not remembering settings

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe 
system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my 
monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea why 
it keeps resetting? It never does that when I go back to Windows. Windows 
always sticks to the proper settings. I have a Proview PS-910 monitor. I'd 
appreciate some help with this.

- Bart

Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro not working with unstable

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

Is anyone else having trouble getting the Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 
graphics card working with the latest version of Debian usntable? After 
a recent dist-upgrade, it stopped working and I don't get any errors. 
When I run startx, I either get a blank screen or the monitor shuts off. 
Before, I got it working with setrage just fine, but no matter what 
options I try, I just can't get it to work. I'd appreciate some help. I 
know it's not the monitor because I tried another one that normally 
works perfectly under Linux and it wouldn't work for that one either.


- Bart

Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro AGP?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with setting up the
Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro AGP graphics card with
the latest task-x-window-system in unstable? I tried all
the ati options in xf86config without any luck. When I
run startx, all I get is a black blank screen. I know it's
the graphics card because I tried a different monitor
that works in Linux just fine and it got a blank screen too.
When I press Alt+Ctrl+F1, there aren't any errors. Any ideas?
I'm getting desperate here. Really need to get Linux working.

- Bart

Proview PS-910 monitor?

[Bart Szyszka]

Does anyone have any experience with getting Proview
monitors, and more specifically the PS-910, to work
in Debian? I have an Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro graphics
card which seems to be setup fine and when I run startx,
there doesn't appear to be any errors. Problem is that
all I get is a blank black screen. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1
and then Ctrl+C, that's where I don't see any errors. 
Everything appears to have been running right. I'm assuming 
it's just my monitor (in face I have a MAG monitor which 
uses the same settings so I'll try that with this computer
tommorow morning to be sure). Any ideas?

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Re: Outlook conversion

[Bart Szyszka]

> I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook
> file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can
> read.  I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing
> because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the past
> couple months.

Is it possible to export Outlook mail to Netscape? What if you did that,
opened it in Netscape under Linux and went on from then?

- Bart

Re: GNOME apps not using KDE2 colors

[Bart Szyszka]

> Interesting ... ,  I wonder how it tells the non-KDE apps.  Must be in
> some way that the GNOME apps aren't understanding.  Has it ever worked
> before?
Yes, it has worked for a very long time. Only recently has it stopped
working. I did a fresh install of Debian/KDE and then the GNOME
programs, but they don't take on KDE2's colors like they used to.

> What I meant was: I would expect KDE apps not to see my GNOME
> preferences, just as your GNOME apps aren't seeing your KDE
> preferences.
Why? It's not like KDE/GNOME have any special permissions that
don't allow each other to read each other's config files. This is
why they're all getting closer to WM/UI standards, so that it's easier
(and better for the consumer) for KDE and GNOME programs to
cooperate together. This is a *good* thing. I *want* GNOME programs
to take on my KDE2 preferences (which is why I have "Apply KDE
fonts and colors to non-KDE programs" enabled) so that I don't have
to try to set everything up twice.

- Bart

Re: GNOME apps not using KDE2 colors

[Bart Szyszka]

> Ok, so you have set KDE's options, and GNOME isn't looking for them.
> Is this really odd?  If you want to affect the GNOME apps, you'll have
> to set /GNOME/ options.  (or make KDE emulate GNOME so that the GNOME
> apps get the expected information)
No no no. There's an option in KDE2 under the 'Style' section that says
"Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps". This used to apply my KDE2
colors and fonts to  GNOME programs.

> I would also expect to see an effect like this if KDE apps are used in
> the GNOME environment.
I wouldn't because GNOME doesn't have an option to apply its color/font
settings to KDE/non-GNOME programs.

- Bart

GNOME apps not using KDE2 colors

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I have the latest version of KDE2 from unstable and none of
my GNOME programs are taking on KDE2's colors and fonts
even though I have that option enabled in Kcontrol. Is there
a config file I can edit manually to check for this? It's especially
bugging me since all the fonts in my GNOME programs are
larger than they should be. I have used GNOME programs
from Debian unstable and also just upgraded them to the
programs in Ximian's (Helix's) apt source without any luck.

- Bart

QuarkXpress files in Linux?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

Is there any program that'll allow me to open QuarkXpress
files (layout doesn't need to be exact, I just need to be able
to select and copy the text) in Linux or convert them to a
format that Linux can read?

- Bart

Re: Problems with dist-upgrade and XFree86

[Bart Szyszka]

On Tuesday 30 January 2001 20:13, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > Here's the deal:
> > I have 4 XF86Config files:
> > XF86Config-4 is located in /etc/ and has instructions for XFree86 4
> > XF86Config is located in /etc/ Another is located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
> > Both contain the old configuration.
> > If I run startx tries to load modules for XFree3.3.6 indicated at
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (These include PEX and XIE). I've already
> > reinstalled the latest version of xbase-clients (for testing and
> > unstable), with no effect.
> I'm having the exact same problem (except I formatted to potato). 

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I had the exact same problem when
I was trying to get unstable working, but now I formatted to potato and potato
works fine. I'd just rather be using unstable (well testing if it actually had
KDE2 in it), but can't get it to work because of the startx problems and
the issues with Perl/debconf.

- Bart

Re: Problems with dist-upgrade and XFree86

[Bart Szyszka]

> Here's the deal:
> I have 4 XF86Config files:
> XF86Config-4 is located in /etc/ and has instructions for XFree86 4
> XF86Config is located in /etc/ Another is located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
> Both contain the old configuration.
> If I run startx tries to load modules for XFree3.3.6 indicated at
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (These include PEX and XIE). I've already
> reinstalled the latest version of xbase-clients (for testing and unstable),
> with no effect.

I'm having the exact same problem (except I formatted to potato). I just
can't get it to work. startx looks for the file in .usr/X11R6/... and X won't
start with that command, *but* if I run "XFree86" (the command), it does
work. What's confusing me is that normally I need the xserver-svga
package, which has a 3.x version number, so I don't even know what 
it's doing with all these XF86Config/XF86Config-4 files although normally
I've never had a problem with any of this.

- Bart

Re: apt-get install debconf problem

[Bart Szyszka]

> I am having some trouble installing/upgrading debconf from unstable...is
> anybody having a similar problem?

Yeah, I got several errors related to Perl and installing Perl 5.6 (which
it did, since it or whatever depended on it also depended on Perl
5.6) didn't help. I ended up formatting and installing potato instead.
I'd be nice if there was some way of finding out whether or not
it's safe to upgrade to testing/unstable.

- Bart

xutils broken in unstable?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

It's been days since I've been able to install xutils. Is that
packages broken? I'm using ftp://ftp.debian.org or something
like that as my apt source.

- Bart

KDE2 in Debian testing/unstable not working?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

What's the status of KDE2 in testing and unstable? I tried
doing an apt-cache search for 'task-kde' in testing and got
nothing, but under unstable all I got was task-kde and
task-kde-devel. When I did a dist-upgrade from testing to
unstable, some X-related packages had unmet dependencies
and doing an apt-get install for task-kde just gave me a
long list of packages it wouldn't download. Is there currently
a way for me to be able to get a decent testing/unstable
system working with KDE2? What's going on with testing/
unstable anyway? It's been several days since I've been able
to do anything with apt (mostly dist-upgrades) without getting
some dependency problems or just broken packages.

- Bart

Re: adding Windoze

[Bart Szyszka]

> Is there ANY relatively headacheless way to add Windows to my machine,
> making it a dual boot box, without first removing the Debian setup I have
> lovingly constructed? :-) I've heard that installing Windows kind of
> commandeers the MBR ...
> I am running a part-stable, part-testing Debian setup on a Dell PIII (I am
> not at home or I'd be more specific, sorry).

Do you have a boot disk for your Debian system? If not, figure out
how to make one. Then install Windows on a separate partition, it'll
kill the MBR, but you can go back to Debian with the boot disk and
configure LILO for both OSes.

- Bart

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

[Bart Szyszka]

> What's that "because..."
> There are dozens of options for retrieving  and reading mail in Linux
> .. not only kmail
> Monolithic (all-in-one) and gui-solutions are sylpheed, xfmail,
> pronto...IIRC
I've tried tons of these options and when I use them I'd feel like I'd be 
using more of a workaround than just getting my e-mail. I love Kmail. It's so 
useful with a decent interface (KDE). If I didn't have Kmail, then I'd just 
have this feeling that my Linux system isn't complete and I'd be itching to 
reboot to Windows. I get that all the time when I'm using a program and it 
doesn't work quite as well as its Windows counter-part.

> You should get the exact error message from the message log; without it
> there is no way ...
For future reference, where's the message log? I removed Kmail with dpkg 
--purge and deleted all the related configuration files, reinstalled Kmail, 
reconfigured it, and not it works like a charm. Back to Linux it is. I'm home 
for two weeks so I really can't bother with these types of inconveniences. If 
I were on my regular computer, I'd definitly be trying hard to get Kmail 
working if it broke.

- Bart

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

[Bart Szyszka]

> use fetchmail to fetch your mail and deliver it to your local MTA
> which delivers it to your local mail spool.  then have kmail just use
> that instead of using pop3 itself.  perhaps not the solution your
> looking for but its far better then using MS Outhouse.
Why would I need to do that? Is Kmail's support of POP3 buggy
or something? I've never had problems with it before and it did work
in this particular installation of Kmail once before it stopped working.

- Bart

Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped
functioning. When I go to check my e-mail, it gives me "Internal
Error" followed by a line about submitting a bug report, then a
line that says "Unexpected response from POP3 server". It
keeps on doing this on the second message, no matter what the
message is. Everywhere else, including Outlook Express, I can
retrieve my mail just fine. Any ideas?

- Bart

Re: Installing KDE 2 using apt-get

[Bart Szyszka]

> > Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get?
>If you go to  you'll find details on adding a
> line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file which will allow you to install
> KDE2 in *.deb format.

You only need kde.tdyc.com if you use potato or something older.
Otherwise, KDE2 is included in Debian unstable.

- Bart

Non-KDE2 programs aren't taking on color scheme

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I have KDE2.1 installed and am having trouble with the color scheme being 
applied to other programs. This is how my computer currently looks:
http://gigabee.com/linuxextras/kde2.1-koverse.png

, but when I run GImp, for example, it is showing up as light gray with large 
fonts. Before, it was blue like everything else is in KDE 2.1 and the fonts 
were the same size as the fonts I have in native KDE programs. Then I decided 
to install GAIM because I wanted to see its icons (I'm making new icons for 
Konverse and someone said Konverse's current icons look like GAIM's) and ever 
since I installed it, GNOME programs aren't taking on KDE2's colors. Any 
ideas what might have gone wrong?

- Bart

https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian 
unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to 
why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and 
other distros do https://, but not Debian.

- Bart

Re: Mouse freezes in KDE 2.1 under unstable

[Bart Szyszka]

> > > All you have to do os stop gpm, the console pointer
> > > /etc/init.d/gpm stop
> > Each time the mouse freezes or altogether? You mean I should just
> > dpkg --purge gpm? Come to think of it I don't remember having used
> > it before.
> > Each time the mouse freezes or altogether? You mean I should just
> > dpkg --purge gpm? Come to think of it I don't remember having used
> > it before.
> You could just remove the symlink in /etc/rc2.d to start it, so it
> will not start up next time you boot.

Thank you! I stopped gpm and that fixed the problem so I ended up
removing it altogether with dpkg --purge. This is so awesome. Linux is 
comletely useable to me now.   : )

- Bart

Re: Mouse freezes in KDE 2.1 under unstable

[Bart Szyszka]

> All you have to do os stop gpm, the console pointer
> /etc/init.d/gpm stop

Each time the mouse freezes or altogether? You mean I should just
dpkg --purge gpm? Come to think of it I don't remember having used
it before.

- Bart

Configuring PS/2 mouse in XF86Config-4

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

I'm having trouble getting my PS/2 two-button mouse to work
under XF86 4.0.2 (or whatever is the latest in Debian unstable). I'd
appreciate it if people could send me some examples of how they
have theirs setup. Mine jumps to the upper-right corner during KDE2's
startup and then it freezes a few seconds later. When it does work
for a few seconds afterwords, the right mouse button doesn't work.
Did anyone use the "Buttons" option? What about some options for
mapping the first/second buttons properly? I have "/dev/psaux" as
my Device. Would it make a difference if I set that up with /dev/mouse
(if so, how do I do that? ls command?)? I've never had problems with
mice in Linux before, but I've also never setup a PS/2 mouse (or anything
else PS/2-related... my own computer doesn't have a PS/2 port).

- Bart

Mouse freezes in KDE 2.1 under unstable

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

I've finally gotten my X server working on this computer with an Ati Rage
128 All-InWonder Pro graphics card, but am having trouble with the mouse.
It's a generic two-button mouse hooked up to the PS/2 port. When I get
into KDE 2.1 under Debian unstable, the mouse jumps around to a few
places while Ksplash is loading things and I'm able to use it for a few
seconds, but then it freezes. If I open some programs by using my keyboard
and I close them, then sometimes the mouse will work again, but then it'll
freeze again. When it's working and I move it over some things, sometimes
it's as if it puts focus on something without me clicking on any buttons.
I'd
appreciate any help with this. I've uploaded a copy of my XF86Config-4 file
to:
http://www.gigabee.com/linuxextras/xf86config-4.txt

I have the latest stuff from Debian unstable. Is there anything I need to
add or
delete from this file? Any other files or programs that I should be looking
at?
It took me a while to get this X server up and running and I'm not even sure
what finally did it so I'm afraid of running anymore X configuraiton
programs
that could mess things up.

Happy New Year everyone!

- Bart

Can't get X server working in unstable with Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro

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I'm trying to setup my X server on a different computer and am having
trouble getting it to work. I have an Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro
graphics card with 32MB and have gotten the latest XFree86 stuff
from the unstable branch, but it just won't work. All the X11 messages
that I get when it doesn't work just say something to the effect that I
didn't select the right graphics card. There are several that seem to
be able to fit both on the SVGA server and Mach64. In Windows
when I view info on the card, it says some things about it being
Ati Rage 128 Pro so I tried the 'Ati Rage 128 (generic)' option and
that didn't work. I've also tried 'Ati All-In-Wonder' and 'Ati
All-In-Wonder Pro' without any success.

I'd appreciate some help with this. Is the problem on my end or the
packages in the unstbale branch? I want to setup KDE 2.1 since
I'm at home on vacation from my university and my dad has an
800mhz computer.   : )

- Bart

Install Debian 2.2 from one floppy and one harddrive folder

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I'm having trouble figuring out how to install Debian 2.2 with just a Rescue 
disk and with the rest of the files needed
for a base system to be put in one folder on a DOS partition. This is how I've 
always installed Debian slink, but would
like to start out with Debian potato on a different computer. I'm reading 
through the install guide at debian.org, but
all I'm finding is multi-floppy installations or installations that make you 
retain a multi-folder directory structure.
I'd appreciate some help with this. I tried getting most of the folder that has 
'images-1.44' in it and I tried making
a Rescue fisk from the rescue.bin in images-1.44, but when I try the disk and 
have it boot the installation, it asks
me for a Root disk afterwords. I just want a single floppy to kickstart the 
install and have it grab everything else
from my harddrive. Is that possible with Debian potato? Or what about woody?

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kdelibs3 in latest KDE2 builds working?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

Has anyone else been having trouble getting the latest kdelibs3
for KDE2 in kde.tdyc.com working? It looks like the July 2-3 builds
are still the latest ones and I haven't been able to get them working
because it can't install kdelibs3. Keeps saying something about
subprocess returning an error... 1.

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Building KDE2 from CVS

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I'm having trouble finding some simple, step-by-step instruction on building
KDE2 from CVS. Does it by any chance have the "debian/rules binary-arch"
thing so I could have it make DEBs? I'd really like to know how to do this
myself instead of needing to rely on someone else to make DEBs for me.
Anyone on Jabber/ICQ (or some other IM system?)?

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Re: rpm's

[Bart Szyszka]

> Just installed debian for the first time and I'm a little green.  I have
> two questions.
> 1.  For some reason the package didn't contain ftpd.  Where can I find a
> .deb binary?
Type:
apt-cache search ftpd

And that'll give you the names of all the packages and descriptions that
have the 'ftpd' in them. Then run:
apt-get install PACKAGE_NAME

And Debian will start downloading and installing that package and any
other packages it might depend on.

> 2.  Is there a way to make debian understand rpm's?  If so, where can I
> find info on how to do it?
The 'alien' program has worked pretty well for me although lately it just
hasn't come in handy that much since people have been doing a good
job of making DEBs (especially the Helix GNOME people).

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Non-OpenGL online games for Linux?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

I'm having trouble finding some action/adventure games for
Linux that don't require an OpenGL-able graphics card where
I could play against at least one other person online. Can
anyone recommend any?

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Licq from KDE2?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

Has anyone had luck getting the latest Licq to work with the latest KDE2
version from kde.tdyc.com ? When I try installing licq-plugin-qt2 it wants to 
remove all the KDE2 packages, including libqt2.1 (and do libqt2 instead). 
That licq-plugin-qt2 isn't actually a dependency, from the looks of things, 
of Licq, but when I run Licq without it, I get:
23:41:39: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt-gui): /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.   

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Re: Downloadable archive of the list?

[Bart Szyszka]

> Is this list archived in a downloadable form? I know there is the web
> interface, but I'd like to download a month or two's postings for offline
> browsing...

You might want to try the linux.debian.user newsgroup from your
ISP's national newsgroup server. There's a couple others and they
all let you view posts from there. I'm not sure how far back they go,
but your newsgroup reader should have the option to download the
messages for offline viewing.

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Re: yahoo messenger

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> Has anybody tried the java version offered by the yahoo site? Do we have
> any similar clone debianised?

No particularly Yahoo Messenger-specific, but you might want to look into
a Jabber client like Gabber:
http://gabber.sourceforge.net

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Re: naming kernel images (potato)

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> Whenever I've built a kernel I've used the following syntax:
> # make-kpkg --rev tux.1.0 kernel_image
> where "tux" identifies the machine to me and "1.0" identifies which of
> my revisions of the kernel I'm dealing with.
> I install the resulting kernel-image-...-.deb with dpkg -i.
> I recently upgraded a box to potato, grabbed the source for
> kernel-2.2.15, and built and installed a kernel. No worries.
> # apt-get update ; apt-get -s upgrade
> offered to upgrade kernel-image-2.2.15 for me.  :-(

I had the same problem and ended up putting the kernel-image...
package on hold using dselect. Now I'll just get new versions of
kernel-source-...

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Re: Best hardware?

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> Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly
> even in Win9x
Not from my experiences. Printers generally work well. Monitors generally
work well. Mice/keyboards generally work well. Now I need to know how they
work on the Linux end. I love trackballs and Logitech's Trackman Marble FX
is just perfect for me, but unfortunately there isn't much support for it on 
Linux
besides left/right click and using one of the two extra buttons as a "third" 
button.
It wouldn't make sense for me to buy that trackball specifically for a Linux
desktop when I can't even have the benefits of its four buttons. That's why it'd
be nice to see a site with a general overview of this type of stuff so I know 
what
my options are in terms of multi-button trackballs with configurable extra 
buttons
along with the same type of thing for printers, scanners, etc.

> I've never been very impressed with those types of sites and certainly
> wouldn't take their recomendataions too seriously even if I were only
> interested in Windows.   
I wouldn't use them as a definite source, but they're certainly a great starting
point. Another good thing is www.epinions.com . I wouldn't mind seeing a
central place where I could turn to to look up hardware on Linux. Right now
there's a scatter of sites and howtos and manuals.

> latest Abit motherboard (for example) than any reviewer Cnet has to offer.
I'm sure someone reviewing Linux hardware would be much less superficial
than people like CNet's reviewers who do Windows hardware.

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Re: Best hardware?

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> For the most part, good hardware is good hardware reguardless of the OS.  If
> you look at the Windows NT or OS/2 newsgroups you'll find that the hardware
> recomendations are surprisingly similar.   Stuff that only works on Win9x
> is generally a PITA even there.  If you are looking for something specific
> then your best off finding people/sites dealing with that particular topic. 
> For example if you are looking for a scanner, have a look at the SANE
> mailing list and web site and find out what those people are using.

Well see, that's what I mean. There's hardware that is great on Windows, but
there just aren't any drivers for it in Linux. Or sometimes the second best
hardware for Windows ends up being the best option for Linux simply because
the drivers are more complete. I'm looking for a site that specifically seeks
out the best hardware for Linux just like CNet's Computers.com attempts to
seek out the best hardware for Windows. I'd rather not have to sign up to a
mailing list for each type of hardware just to find out what my best buying
options are. Of course it's very possible that I'm just dreaming and such a
site doesn't exist yet.

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Best hardware?

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Hello,

Can anyone recommend some sites with good reviews of hardware for
Linux? I'm looking for something like www.computers.com , except
that they'd recommend the best graphics cards, monitors, etc. for
Linux instead of for Windows.

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Closing Kasbar in KDE2

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Hi,

I'm having problems in the latest KDE2 from kde.tdyc.com and it's
all centered around me not being able to close/kill the Kasbar
applet. Any ideas how I can get rid of it?

When it's running there's a big empty gap on my panel. If I try to
move one of the applets that are on the panel to that gap, it
freezes and I can't use my mouse (I get a crosshair cursor
and can move it, but clicking or dragging doesn't work). What I need
to do to get out is Alt+Ctrl+F1 out of there and kill ksmserver to
crash KDE2 and have it go back to gdm so I can log back in.

I don't like Kasbar. It's evil. I'd appreciate getting help with
removing it.  : )   Thanks.

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Re: Kernel Config

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> Actually, /usr/src/linux is the default -- Linus ships the tree in a
> format to go in a directory called linux.
I don't use any "shipping" version of Linux. Prefer getting a base
Debian system and them building up on it. No /usr/src/linux there.

> In general, you want to symlink /usr/src/linux to the actual location of
> your kernel sources.
Why?

> If you use a .deb of the source, then you'd end up with 
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15 
> or similar.
Or if you get the source, bunzip2 it and the tar -xvf it.

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Re: Kernel Config

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> When I cd to /usr/src there is no linux in there. So it looks like I dont
> have the source tree needed to run make menuconfig. What would I need to do
> from here?

I don't think it's really supposed to be 'linux'. Just a folder that the kernel
source was bunzip2 and tar -xvf into. Mine's usually /usr/src/kernel-source-...

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Re: KDE2 in tree or not?

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> Simple, neither KDE 1.2. nor 2.0 are integrated in
> Debian 2.2 aka potato. The distribution is in a frozen
> state for some time. Nothing thats not there now won't
> be added in the future.
Well no, of course not. KDE2 is just on its first beta. I was
more concerned about whatever Debian version we'll be on
when KDE2 will be out. Have the licensing issues been 
resolved? Again, I keep hearing two different answers without
any URLs I could look to for proof.

> You add the resource to /etc/apt/sources.list and apt
> will do the rest
> For KDE on Debian look at:
> http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/
Right. I know about the KLPP portion that deals with Debian.
The "officialness" (i.e. a final OK from the Debian project for
KDE2) and the mirroring (the entire Debian distributions obviously
has more mirrors than KLPP does) are more important to me.

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KDE2 in tree or not?

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Hello,

I'm very confused about KDE2's stance within the Debian tree? One set
of people say that it'll definitely be included in there (if so, when?), while
another set insist that it won't because of the licensing issues. Can anyone
provide a definite answer (with proof? A link to a web site with info on that?)?

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Re: Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

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> > Any word yet on DEBs of Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)? When is something going to
> > be done about the fact that there are always RPMs of something released
> > before
> > there are DEBs?
> most KDE people are not debian users or developers.  So they make packages for
> what they use.

Of all the GNOME and KDE programs I've kept track of, I can't personally name 
any
where the DEBs were made before RPM.

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Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

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Hello,

Any word yet on DEBs of Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)? When is something going to
be done about the fact that there are always RPMs of something released before
there are DEBs?

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RE: new computer ??

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> > Doesn't VALinux sell their machines with Debian on them?
> They did a year or more ago but not anymore. They went to Red Hat only and
> then to their own RPM based distro.

Why are they still advertising Debian on their site, then?

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RE: new computer ??

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> It is hard to find Debian pre-installed. I know Dell will not sell certain
> hardware configurations with Linux (Red Hat only). VALinux sells their own
> version based on Red Hat.
Doesn't VALinux sell their machines with Debian on them?

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RE: Su && Development Packages

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> Why don't you get the package tasksel (for potato) and look for
> yourself?
> Besides, this is what the task-devel-* packages (again from potato) are
> for; they're probably the best answer to your question.
Thanks! That sounds like exactly what I needed.

> >And please don't give me ridiculous answers like "download the packages
> >the app requires".
> For most people this isn't a ridiculous answer; if you're compiling a
> program then (assuming some development experience) it's *common*
> *sense* to have the development packages associated with whatever that
> program depends on.
Right, but what we're not talking about compiling one specific program in
general. We're talking about compiling programs. One FAQ I saw actually
only said something to the effect of "get gcc" for "What do I need to 
compile programs"? That's horrendously absurd! gcc is not the only thing
you need to "compile programs".

> *ridiculous* (your word) to download all the development packages in
> Debian (grep-available lists 358 here) on the off-chance that someday
> they might want to compile code for a Beowulf cluster or a voxel
> renderer or what have you. You don't install everything: this is what
> dependencies are all about, and people writing their own software are
> expected to be intelligent enough to figure out what they need (see my
> next paragraph before you blow up).
Well Linux people tend to make too many assumptions about what the
user has on their system. I'd imagine it to be more likely with developers
who assume people are installing packaged versions that automatically
installs a basic set of development packages.

> Eventually (for woody, I believe) all packages will have to have
> Build-Depends: fields to pull in specialist development packages; in
> fact, this is in the current version of policy.
OK, but what about the software that isn't put up on Debian's site?

> You don't know much about development, do you? At least not if you mean
> "any program" as opposed to "any Debian source package".
I meant *most* programs. Just like the boxed sets of Linux will install
the packages you need for compiling most programs.

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RE: Su && Development Packages

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> a).
> This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find anything in 
> the archives related to this topic: What packages do I need to fetch to be 
> able to compile most software (i.e. Apache, X apps, etc.)?

Can we *please* get a serious answer to this question? I've tried to find it
numerous times without any luck and it's ridiculous. The beauty of Debian
is that you can install a clean, unbloated system that's easy to maintain.
However, one thing that's always been keeping me down is compiling programs.
Packaged versions easily set up all the packages you need for that, but if
you're installing a base system, then how are you supposed to get it to
compile programs properly? How about a list of *all* the packages that are
installed when you enable the C development/compiling environment (or whatever
it's called) in a packaged (i.e. store bought bundle) version of Debian or any
other flavor of Linux? And please don't give me ridiculous answers like 
"download
the packages the app requires". I'm talking about having all the packages needed
so that it'll be a sure bet that most, if not all, of the times that I try to 
compile a
program (*any* program), it'll work. Don't people on this list compile 
programs?!?
Geesh!

> All of a sudden, su has starting to behave very strange.
> When I login with my normal user account then try to su to root, I get:
> % su
> su: Authentication failure
> Sorry
> %
Hmm, I always used 'su root' to su into root.

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RE: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

[Bart Szyszka]

> Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software?

If you want to create something like Hotmail, have you tried IMP:
http://www.horde.org/imp/

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RE: KDE (was Re: alternatives to gnotepad+)

[Bart Szyszka]

> BTW, are there .debs for KDE in Debian?  I tried GNOME,
> but it wasn't really my kind of desktop, and KDE looks
> good.

Yep, take a look at:
http://kde.tdyc.com

Unless I'm mistaken, KDE2 will be included in Debian's site because of
all the licensing changes, but for noe kde.tdyc.com is where you can get
KDE1 from.

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Gnome 1.1.14 DEBs?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

Does anyone know of any DEBs of development versions of Gnome
like 1.1.14 or something around here?

- Bart

Re: creating a bootdisk

[Bart Szyszka]

> How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the 
> installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only 
> because I see some syslinux related files. 

Hmm... I haven't seen this mentioned yet:
/usr/sbin/mkboot /vmlinuz

Would that work? I do it whenever I finish compiling a new
kernel.

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Re: Scanners in Debian

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> I  just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp.  That's
> all I had to do and this scanner was running.
Do you install sane-gimp1.1? Because if I install gimp1.1, then sane
gets removed and if I install sane then gimp1.1 gets removed. Is there
a configuration utility that comes with their one of them? An X-based 
one?

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Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

[Bart Szyszka]

> Go to www.mostang.com/sane
> There you will find a link to supported scanners. I know there is a Mustek
> back-end, but I don't know if it supports the 1200 LS scanner.
> This will give you just about as much info there is for scanners.

That's what I was afraid of because there doesn't seem to be enough
info there.

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Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

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> First question: is this a parallel port scanner?

Nope. SCSI. The 'S' in 1200 LS stands for that. The Parallel Port
version would be (is?) called 1200 LP.

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Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

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Hello,

I've needed to upgrade Win98 to Win2000 Pro yesterday, but a side
effect of that is that my Mustek scanner won't work. Apparently
Mustek has refused to develop drivers for Windows 2000 because
they sell to home users and Windows 2000 is a business OS. My
only hope right now is that I can get this scanner working in Debian
Linux (which Windows2000 has thankfully not ruined), but I'm having
trouble finding good info on scanners and Linux. Isn't there a database
like the one for printers which tries to get nearly all of them listed and
offers info on their current support in Linux (perfect, partial, beta,
paperweight, etc...)? I haven't been able to find any info on my Mustek
12000 LS scanner's support in Linux. I might try the mustek driver
for sane if I can figure out how to setup sane-gimp1.1 (it doesn't have
a manpage).

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Re: /opt ?

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> You could try using the -g (or --generate) option to alien; see the man
> page for full instructions, but this will allow you to move files around
> in the package before you actually build it. 'debian/rules binary' in
> the directory it produces will build the .deb itself when you're
> finished.

What about something like the --prefix=/usr switch for ./configure? Is
there something like that for alien? I'll look up -g as soon as I get
man working.

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Re: how to mark package "hold"

[Bart Szyszka]

> How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool
> than dselect)
> Can it be done using dpkg?

You can probably use gnome-apt for doing that (does anyone know if a
KDE equivalent is being worked on?), but other than that I've been wondering
the same thing.

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/opt ?

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Hello,

A couple KDE-based programs that I tried converting from RPM to 
DEB recently have been installing themselves in something like
/opt/kde/bin or /opt/kde2/bin (this was yesterday when I tried setting
up kdealpha). Is there a way to do the conversion for alien so that
the DEBs install the programs into the right directories? Like instead
of /opt/kde2/bin they should put the stuff in /usr/bin and likewise for
/opt/kde2/lib , /opt/kde2/include , etc. What I'm thinking that I should
try is to backup those directories in /usr and then copy the files from
the /opt/kde2 folders into the /usr equivalents, but I think that the backup
will probably come in handy.

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Re: [*] rpm to deb

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> i saw a litter form this list, it said there are some tools can conver the 
> rpm 
> pakage to deb pakage. but can it work well?
I'm very impressed with the 'alien' package (apt-get install alien). A couple
people who suggested that I try it told me that it isn't entirely reliable, but
so far I've only had two or three RPMs that didn't convert perfectly and two
of those I was able to get working anyway (they just installed the programs
in a different folder than the bin one so all I had to do was move it to 
/usr/bin
or something like that). One program not working out of a buttload is nothing.
Alien is very good.

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Re: Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

[Bart Szyszka]

> So, yes there are tools out there for the Palm.  I don't know
> about the Visor or any others.

Handspring Visor (Deluxe is the one I want to get) has PalmOS
on it and I even think that the same people who made the original
Palm Pilot where the ones to make the Handspring Visor, so I'm
assuming that they work in the same way. I'm pretty sure most of
the software in the Visor is the same too.

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Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has come up with any tools for Debian to
be able to sync with a Palm or Handspring Visor handheld. Are
there any handhelds that Linux is able to work with?

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Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment

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> I want to use the KDE Settings in Enlightenment to utilize the KDE apps.
You mean you want to adjust the setting in KDE Control Center for the
programs you use withine Ice-Gnome/Enlightenment? Have you tried
running something like kcontrol or kcontrolcenter? Something similar
out to do it.

> I do NOT want to use the KDE display manager or the Kde Desktop. I want
> to keep xdm as my display manager and the hybrid ice-gnome/Enlightenment
> Desktop that I am currently using. I think this is possible, but would
> like to hear from someone using this combination.
It sounds like you want nothing from KDE, then, except to possibly be able
to run KDE programs? What happens when you try to run them?

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Re: graphical login

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> The graphical login in run by xdm.  Either remove /etc/rc2.d/xdm,
> or edit the xdm conf to turn off xdm for the local host 
> (comment out the final line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers)

A couple people have suggested that, but isn't it just easier to
do a dpkg --purge xdm?

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Re: pronunciation of daemon

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> ahhh, it's humour I believe:
> "Day-bee-enne" is spelled GNU/Debian.

I called my Debian system "Debby Anne".   : )  I do pronounce it as
debby-in, though.   : )

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Re: pronunciation of daemon

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> Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux.
> If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers
> would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong.

It is pronounced as Leenus in his native country (in many European
languages, i's have ee sounds almost exclusively). The Peanuts 
character, Linus, is pronounced 'Line-us', though, so that's probably
why I say "Line-ux". I'm pretty sure I read something by Linus where
he mentioned the fact that name pronunciations do get translated
over in other languages and he was perfectly fine with it. And as has
been mentioned here before, it was originally Line-ux and only became 
Lynn-us because of the press.

Personally I don't find this conversation annoying at all as long as
people don't insist on a pronunciation when even the ones who grew
up in the same city can't agree on how to say 'bagel'.   : )

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Re: Installing KDE in unstable using apt?

[Bart Szyszka]

> what do I put in sources.list to be able to install KDE using
> apt/dselect?
Take a look at this site:
http://kde.tdyc.com

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libc6 broken?

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Hello,

I tried doing an apt-get dist-upgrade at 8/9pm-ish today and am getting
some problems. libc6 won't go through the configuration and it sits
there when I try apt-getting something else. I tried doing apt-get
autoclean and then apt-get clean and dpkg --clean-avail and all
kinds of stuff, but no matter what I do, why does it keep trying to
configure libc6 and install the other stuff that didn't install because of it?
I want it to stop doing it so I can install something else that doesn't even
need libc6. I've had this problem before where a package just sits
there and gets in the way when I try to install something completely
unrelated.   

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Fonts too big after getting xfs-xtt to work

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

I got xfs-xtt working (thanks!), but I'm having some related problems. Now in
some programs, the fonts are too big and I can't change them. My Kpanel's
taskbar and menu text fontsize is too big. Changing it to some huge size or
some small size or even a completely different font does nothing. It stays
at what looks like a 14px Arial/Helvetica no matter what. Any ideas?

- Bart

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

[Bart Szyszka]

> Try xset +fp unix/:7100 or something similar. xfs-xtt use port 7100, same as
> xfs.

I really have no idea what I'm doing so I'd appreciate it if you guys would
be more specific. What's "similar" What should I do same as xfs? Like I said,
I installed xfs-xtt. I don't have xfs (it asks me to remove xfs-xtt if I try to
install xfs). Don't I need to do something like this:
xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype   

When I do I get this:
xset:  bad font path element (#38), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax 

- Bart

Getting xfs-xtt to work

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

Someone here suggested getting xfs-xtt to add True Type font support
to Linux. I did that and am getting trouble setting it up. Here are the
steps I've followed so far after installing xfs-xtt and also fttools:
mkdir /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
cp /mnt/c/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
cd /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
mkfttdir
nano /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
  (added a pointer to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype)

That's where I am right now. What do I do after (or before?)? Isn't there
some xset command I need to run? Do I need to kill the x-server stuff
(and if I do, mind telling me how?). Please be specific. Thanks!

- Bart

Re: K-Jofol plugin for XMMS?

[Bart Szyszka]

> Has anyone been able to get the K-Jofol plugin for XMMS working? I 
> downloaded the 0.94 verson from:
> http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~timf/xmms/
> , but the directions are just about useless. Very incomplete and vague.
> I would appreciate some advice, aprticularly just step-by-step directions
> on how to get it working.
Nevermind about this one. After installing xmms-dev, I was able to
get K-Jofol working without much effort.

- Bart

K-Jofol plugin for XMMS?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

Has anyone been able to get the K-Jofol plugin for XMMS working? I 
downloaded the 0.94 verson from:
http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~timf/xmms/

, but the directions are just about useless. Very incomplete and vague.
I would appreciate some advice, aprticularly just step-by-step directions
on how to get it working.

- Bart

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

[Bart Szyszka]

> Exactly, who really cares HOW you say Debian Gnu/Linux ? getting bent over
> the pronunciation of a couple of words is, quite frankly, stupid. 

I don't think anyone was doing that in this thread specifically, but I was
just wondering if the pronunciations are an issue in the Linux community
in general because the article I posted an URL for made it sound that way.

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Pronounciation of Linux that important?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I just read this article and thought the beginning was rather harsh:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34079,00.html

Is the pronunciation of the word 'Linux' that much of an issue? So
what if we don't pronounce it like Linus pronounces it? Words are
adapted differently in each language. In some, 'Debian' might be
Debby-In while in others it might be Debby-On and in others the
Debby might be replaced with the 'Debi' in Debit. I don't see anything
wrong with people adapting words like that to their languages and it
seems rather petty of people to bicker about that. Some people 
pronounce GIF with a soft G and others with a hard one. Why is
this bothering people?

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Re: Colour changes in Netscape/Motif

[Bart Szyszka]

> I can set the background to gray80 (using the Netscape*background X
> resource), but I can't see any way to set Motif's 3D colours. Is there
> documentation on this anywhere? Has anyone managed it?

Do you mean the background of the application window or the background
in the frame where web sites are loaded? If it's the former I'd like to know
how you did it so that I could make NSN more uniform with my other
programs too.

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Re: printers

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> I am considering the Lexmark Optra E310.
> I did not finally decided about it.
> Please post if you know that it is not a reasonable choice.

According to this page:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=72736

Your printer seems to be supported by Linux perfectly.

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Re: My Netscape Woes

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> I am having the worst time with netscape.  It worked beautifully for a
> while, but now the toolbars are all monochrome.  The Webpages look fine,
> but the toolbars are monochrome.  Quake is also monochrome.  The Debian
> Online Help is monochrome too.  Everything else is fine (colorful).  I
> have no idea what I would have done to mess this up, but I'm not very
> pleased.  Please help,

Did you by any chance change your color depth to 24-bit? That happened
for me too. Changed it to 24-bit after getting a graphics card that could handle
it and then Netscape went bad. I don't think there's any other solution except
to go to 16-bit or 32-bit.

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Woody continuation of Potato?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

I'm wondering about how things are with Woody. Is it a continuation
of Potato, like Potato has been changed for the past couple months
or is it a lot less stable and a lot more new stuff than what Potato
was like before it was moved to frozen? If I just keep unstable in my
apt sources, is it just as if no freeze happened at all and things are
continuing at the same pace?

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Compiling KDE programs

[Bart Szyszka]

Hello,

I keep having the same problem when compiling KDE-based
programs. The ./configure command stops at:
--
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will
fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix! 
--

KDE is in /usr/bin/kde and I've tried adding --prefix=/usr/bin/kde to the
end of the command without much luck. Any ideas?

- Bart

Re: new to debian...

[Bart Szyszka]

> I would suggest using xf86config as opposed to XF86Setup
Is there anything in between? I find xf86config unbearable because it 
forces you to set everything up all over again where XF86Setup can
use the existing setup.

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Licq 0.75.x packages working yet?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I tried apt-getting Licq 0.75.x a couple days ago and it wouldn't run.
I'm pretty sure I've heard of people here having similar experiences.
Does anyone know if it has been fixed yet? The Debian unstable
tree has 0.75.2 while 0.75.3 is out.

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Anyone have luck with Krash (KDE2)?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

Has anyone here had any luck with getting Krash/KDE2 to work? I'm
looking for someone who can stay with me for an hour or two on ICQ
and help me try to get it working. I've been planning on developing KDE2
themes for a while and will have some extra time for the next week or
so. Any takers? My ICQ number is 4982727. 

If you're very good with Debian or KDE (i.e. you might know a little
more about KDE development than someone who just looks up the
news at www.kde.org ) or both I wouldn't mind receiving a message
from you either.: )

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Re: All Gnome packages are broken?

[Bart Szyszka]

> I reinstalled Debian and want to go with Gnome instead of KDE, but
> am having trouble apt-getting it. All the Gnome stuff seems to be
> missing or broken on the frozen and potato and unstable trees of
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian (I've tried all three). Whenever I try to
> install any of the packages, I get some paragraphs about why it might
> be missing or it might have been moved and stuff like that, and then
> the dependences are listed like this:
> Depends: NAME_OF_PACKAGE but it is not going to be installed
> Is it just http.us.debian.org or are all the mirrors like this? It's been
> happening since around 10pm yesterday (Friday).

Should I report this somewhere? It's starting to be a while since I've
first had this problem and it doesn't seem to be fixed with other mirrors
(I've made sure to pick one that definitely has the packages I want). Usually
these types of problems are fixed rather quickly. Much quicker than this
one.

I've tried http://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/debian/ with potato and the 
task-gnome-apps package is definitely at:
http://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/

So what's the problem? Is there something I can do on my end? Here's
the whole line that I'm using:
deb http://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/debian/ potato main contrib non-free

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All Gnome packages are broken?

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I reinstalled Debian and want to go with Gnome instead of KDE, but
am having trouble apt-getting it. All the Gnome stuff seems to be
missing or broken on the frozen and potato and unstable trees of
http://http.us.debian.org/debian (I've tried all three). Whenever I try to
install any of the packages, I get some paragraphs about why it might
be missing or it might have been moved and stuff like that, and then
the dependences are listed like this:
Depends: NAME_OF_PACKAGE but it is not going to be installed

Is it just http.us.debian.org or are all the mirrors like this? It's been
happening since around 10pm yesterday (Friday).

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Re: Rescue Floppy Freezes on SCSI

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> I am trying to install Debian 2.1r2 on an x86 machine. I made a Rescue
> Floppy from the image provided and was able to boot, but then the
> system freezes when apparently doing SCSI stuff. It appears to
> correctly detect my SCSI card--Adaptec AHA-2940--but then outputs a
> line like this:
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded.

If this is an aic7xxx type of SCSI card, then you'll need to use the modified
Rescue and Driver floppy images from:
http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/

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Re: Time problems AGAIN!

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> This is a known bug in the current potato boot-floppies.  I and others have
> reported it.  It seems to be a little harder than expected to stamp it out.
Hmm... I haven't used any potato boot-floppies, though. I installed
slink by putting in an slink Rescue disk and then having it get the rest from
slink files off my Windows partition. Then I did a apt-get dist-upgrade to get 
potato up. When I booted into Windows after that, the time was offset.

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Re: Time problems AGAIN!

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> I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is
> completely insane. 

Some thing I forgot to mention is that I install Debian slink, but then
upgrade to potato. After the whole process of installing and then upgrading
is finished, I have been getting the time difference glitch.

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Time problems AGAIN!

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is
completely insane. While installing Debian, it asks you about your
hardware clock being set to GMT or local. The question asks if it's
OK to set the clock to GMT. The last time I did this I picked 'No' for
absolutely sure and the time between Windows and Debian was
just right (when I had selected Yes previous times they became 5
hours apart). Now I used the same Rescue disk and installed the
same stuff off my harddrive, had picked 'No' for that question *for sure*
and my time in Windows was offset by 5 hours AGAIN! This is
completely insane! I am about to shoot myself because this time stuff
between Debian and Windows and the hardware clock is incredibly
annoying. I had finally got it to work last time I reinstalled Debian,
*made sure* I followed the same steps, and here we go again! Please
tell me there is some very simple thing I can do (and it *better* be
simple) to do the equivalent of selecting 'No' for that question. *Please*
or else I might just have to pull that trigger. This is very very very
frustrating.

Thanks.   : )

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Re: glitch with "frozen"?

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> I am a little confused here.  I only have potato sources (not "unstable") in
> my sources.list but when I ran apt-get I got these errors:

I've been getting similar errors here for the past hour or so while trying
to get Gnome packages. Hopefully they'll be fixed ASAP. I have it set to
potato too instead of unstable.

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Netscape's icons in 24-bit mode

[Bart Szyszka]

Hi,

I seem to remember a discussion about Netscape's icons while in
24-bit mode, but it looks like there were problems with the archives'
search engine. Is there a way to fix the problem where all of Netscape's
icons are displaying only in two colors (black and gray) while in 24-bit
color mode without actually changing to 16-bit or 32-bit? I got the Pro
version of my graphics card and finally can go into 24-bit, but am having
this one problem.

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Re: Installin' X...

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> Hi! Is there anyway somone could give me step-by-step directions on
> installing a working x windows system with gnome and enlightenment? I
> need to know what packages I should apt-get, and then what commands to
> run after I apt-get them and install them. I would greatly appreciate
> it. Thanks a lot. Bye.

This is what I do for X11:
apt-get install xf86setup xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base 
xfonts-scalable xfree86-common xfstt
xserver-common xserver-svga;

For enlightenment:
apt-get install enlightenment enlightenment-data

You can add enlightenment-theme-bluesteel enlightenment-theme-brushedmetal 
enlightenment-theme-shinymetal

For Gnome, go to:
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/allpackages.html

Search for gnome-admin on that page and then see which one of the gnome-*
packages you want and do an apt-get install; for them.

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Source code to DEB?

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Hi,

Is there a package similar to alien which can convert a
.tar.gz source code file into a DEB package? I've tried doing
it with alien and it tells me it created the DEB OK, but when I
try dpkg -i, there doesn't seem to be a file I can run to launch
the program. Typing the command doesn't work and I tried
a search for it on the harddrive too without much luck.

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