Re: Google Earth display problem
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 00:31 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: posted mailed -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, but the earth image does not stay put in its proper place inside the window; it often jumps to the left, becoming invisible, or sometimes half-obscured by the left edge of the window. Sometimes resizing the window will put the earth image back in its place. Solution: Install libgl1-mesa-dri from experimental (e.g. libgl1-mesa-glx 6.5.0.cvs.20060524-1). Cheers, Bernd Thanks, it works fine with my ATI Radeon 7000 now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Google Earth display problem
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 08:19 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the Bitstream Vera Sans font, although I have it installed. -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, but the earth image does not stay put in its proper place inside the window; it often jumps to the left, becoming invisible, or sometimes half-obscured by the left edge of the window. Sometimes resizing the window will put the earth image back in its place. I'm using a Radeon 9200 SE with the Linux (open-source) DRI drivers (have to, because ATI does not seem to have a proprietary driver for xorg 7.0). The openGL stuff seems to work (at least, ppracer works OK; glxinfo says direct rendering yes). Any suggestions? Regards, Jan Same here with Radeon 7000 except for the font problem. The same happens with pinball (unstable). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Google Earth display problem
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the Bitstream Vera Sans font, although I have it installed. -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, but the earth image does not stay put in its proper place inside the window; it often jumps to the left, becoming invisible, or sometimes half-obscured by the left edge of the window. Sometimes resizing the window will put the earth image back in its place. I'm using a Radeon 9200 SE with the Linux (open-source) DRI drivers (have to, because ATI does not seem to have a proprietary driver for xorg 7.0). The openGL stuff seems to work (at least, ppracer works OK; glxinfo says direct rendering yes). Any suggestions? Regards, Jan Same here with Radeon 7000 except for the font problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a user friendly Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background, on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still needs Windoze for. We'd like to replace that setup with a cron-driven shell script on his Sarge box. According to the Linux Sound HOWTO, which seems unmaintained, I can get raw samples from /dev/dsp0 with dd. This works on about half the sound cards/motherboards I've tried. I suspect the rest have some kind of mixer issue, or maybe the codecs just aren't wired right on those motherboards. But once we have that raw samples file, we don't know how to make a usable MP3 out of it. Searching with Google, I find a lot of people asking the same question, and people barking one-word answers at them, that don't lead anywhere. Is there anything in Debian that can take a raw samples file and turn it into an MP3? Has some other form of documentation replaced the collection of HOWTOs at TLDP.org? Thanks. Cameron If you use alsa sound system you can use arecord which is part of alsa-utils and lame to encode mp3. I have recorded from Internet radio stations with the command arecord -t wav -D copy -d (length of recording) -f cd | lame - -V 0 filename.mp3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 16:36 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a user friendly Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background, on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still needs Windoze for. We'd like to replace that setup with a cron-driven shell script on his Sarge box. According to the Linux Sound HOWTO, which seems unmaintained, I can get raw samples from /dev/dsp0 with dd. This works on about half the sound cards/motherboards I've tried. I suspect the rest have some kind of mixer issue, or maybe the codecs just aren't wired right on those motherboards. But once we have that raw samples file, we don't know how to make a usable MP3 out of it. Searching with Google, I find a lot of people asking the same question, and people barking one-word answers at them, that don't lead anywhere. Is there anything in Debian that can take a raw samples file and turn it into an MP3? Has some other form of documentation replaced the collection of HOWTOs at TLDP.org? Thanks. Cameron If you use alsa sound system you can use arecord which is part of alsa-utils and lame to encode mp3. I have recorded from Internet radio stations with the command arecord -t wav -D copy -d (length of recording) -f cd | lame - -V 0 filename.mp3 arecord will record what is going to the sound card. You might be better served with vlc. Check out http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:16 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: Is there anything in Debian that can take a raw samples file and turn it into an MP3? Has some other form of documentation replaced the collection of HOWTOs at TLDP.org? Thanks. Cameron If you use alsa sound system you can use arecord which is part of alsa-utils and lame to encode mp3. I have recorded from Internet radio stations with the command arecord -t wav -D copy -d (length of recording) -f cd | lame - -V 0 filename.mp3 arecord will record what is going to the sound card. You might be better served with vlc. Check out http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html . After posting this I read up on arecord and it does record from soundcard input. If you're using stable you are probably using oss and will need to switch to alsa. http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/3-arecord_and_rtmix/quick-toot-arecord_and_rtmix-1.html http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/arecord1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eterm / gnome window position
The string I have for my Eterm icon is: /usr/bin/Eterm -L 1 --colorBD yellow --select-line -g 101x25 --shade 100 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar-type next So, I am using the geometry option, but I can only set the dimensions of the terminal, since they are the same. If I set also the position (something like101x25+0+0), if I click four times over my icon I will get four terminals on top of each other. Which I do not want. I took a look at devilspie program. Correct me if I am wrong, but it cannot distinguish different instances from the same application and take different actions according to the instance number which is what I want to do - apply different position for different terminal windows, started from the same icon. If I understand correctly you want your four eterms to start up in four seperate parts of the screen or tiled. I can do this using sawfish window manager. In the matched Windows Properties match Command ^Eterm $ and set Place mode first-fit or best-fit. This is done in gnome withPreferences Windows -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sx audio stream only for windows??
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:22 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one: http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx If you put the above address in the winmedia we hear an introduction of a radio and then the music, but with mplayer or aviplay we just hear the introduction of the radio and nothing more. Please, if you can, try the above address and let me know if there are any way to listen this kind of audio streams from linux. Thank you very much in advance, Gustavo After the first clip I get: A, stream_chunck size is too small: 4 Error while parsing chunk header A: 236.5 (03:56.5) 12.2% 0% Exiting... (End of file) with MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 H Ok, so what can be the problem, I tried with options of nocache and cache-min and also not work after the first song. I also run now the mplayer in the next form: mplayer -v http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx mplayer.log 21 And then, after hear the first song I get the next error: - : 235.7 (03:55.7) of 244.0 (04:04.0) 6.8% 6% = Transfer complete MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: decode_audio Uninit audio filters... [libaf] Removing filter dummy uninit audio: ffmpeg vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited.. - Any Idea ?? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin I tried it with mplayer and it stopped after the first song with EOF. I am listening to it now with xine, into the fifth song, having an occasional problem with buffering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sx audio stream only for windows??
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:39 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: But, How ??? In my case when I run xine ( xine http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx) I also hear just the first song, how do you run Xine. Did do pass some especial option ?? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin I don't know what the problem is, every song uses the same codec - MS Windows Media Audio 2 (ffmpeg audio) according to xine. So if the first song plays the others should also. I just run xine http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx I have never set up a special config file for xine. Running the latest sid and xine-ui. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sx audio stream only for windows??
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:50 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I don't know what the problem is, every song uses the same codec - MS Windows Media Audio 2 (ffmpeg audio) according to xine. So if the first song plays the others should also. I just run xine http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx I have never set up a special config file for xine. Running the latest sid and xine-ui. that command runs OK. Goes to 2nd song OK. Running Sarge and xine-gui v0.99.3. Sad to say I can't tell you why your xine doesn't go on or why mplayer gets an eof... Except what you just said (So if the first song plays the others should also.) does not entirely seem true because of that header that gets thrown in. I got Dream about me for #2 and xine did a buffering skip at that point and mplayer got an eof. I get some buffering problems during the song playback but not until the about the third song, mplayer always stopped after the first song. Do you know of a way to increase the buffer size in xine or mplayer as I have problems when I listen to KABC? Don't know what that means :-( I only use mplayer to listen to KUSC classical music. I listen KUSC also. I built their transmitter facility on top of Mt. Harvard. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sx audio stream only for windows??
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one: http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx If you put the above address in the winmedia we hear an introduction of a radio and then the music, but with mplayer or aviplay we just hear the introduction of the radio and nothing more. Please, if you can, try the above address and let me know if there are any way to listen this kind of audio streams from linux. Thank you very much in advance, Gustavo works fine here in both mplayer and xine. sid fairly up-to-date. A Are you sure?? Are you heard more than one song ??? In my system after the first song the mplayer freeze and I don't any more. In the aviplay work in loop and I hear always the same songs. Did you really heard more than one song?? Any way, thanks , Gustavo I listened to it for about an hour. Runing most recent sid and xine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sx audio stream only for windows??
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 02:04 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Dale Hair wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one: http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx If you put the above address in the winmedia we hear an introduction of a radio and then the music, but with mplayer or aviplay we just hear the introduction of the radio and nothing more. Please, if you can, try the above address and let me know if there are any way to listen this kind of audio streams from linux. Thank you very much in advance, Gustavo works fine here in both mplayer and xine. sid fairly up-to-date. A Are you sure?? Are you heard more than one song ??? In my system after the first song the mplayer freeze and I don't any more. In the aviplay work in loop and I hear always the same songs. Did you really heard more than one song?? Any way, thanks , Gustavo I listened to it for about an hour. Runing most recent sid and xine. Are you kidding me ? I also try Xine, right now I was, and I see the same problem. I only hear the first song, Mind Trick from Jamie Cullum and after it nothing more. What can be the difference between your Xine with mine ?? What can be the problem or the solution for my media players ?? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin Do you have w32codecs installed? I believe it's available from the mplayer site add to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sx audio stream only for windows??
I listened to it for about an hour. Runing most recent sid and xine. Are you kidding me ? I also try Xine, right now I was, and I see the same problem. I only hear the first song, Mind Trick from Jamie Cullum and after it nothing more. What can be the difference between your Xine with mine ?? What can be the problem or the solution for my media players ?? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin Do you have w32codecs installed? I believe it's available from the mplayer site add to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main Yes I have the w3codecs, more over, I can play any movie/audio that need win32 codecs. But from this address I just hear always the same song and just one time. Maybe do you have another idea of what can be my problem ? Gustavo Halperin I had some few buffering problems so maybe your network speed is the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: All-in-One flash card reader.
Try /dev/sda2-5 That did not work, besides a flash card can have multiple partitions on it, I have a flash card with a win and linux partition. Does anyone know how scsi cd changers work, I have a ide cd changer and I use eject -c[0-3] to change it, but I believe that's only for atapi drives. You are correct it should be sda1, sdb1, etc. Do you have Probe all LUNS on each SCSI device enabled in the kernel. Check your config file for CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y. I remember having to make that change to get mine to work, my CF which is sdc1, SM is sdd1 with sda sdb being hard drives. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: All-in-One flash card reader.
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a flash card reader which is designed to read from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying to get working with debian. I plugged it into my linux box with a flash card with some data on it and linux detected the device being attached and loaded the usb-storage driver, lsmod and dmesg confirm this. When I tried to mount the flash card device /dev/sda1, I got an I/O Error. My assumption is that it is trying to read from some other flash chip that I have and not my compact flash card. I also tried sd[b-d] and get no device/bad address errors. Does linux not support flash cards with more then one flash bay? Try /dev/sda2-5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: mondo/mindi restore fails
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 18:12, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op di 15-07-2003, om 17:16 schreef Benedict Verheyen: Hi, i tested mondo mindi for a full backup of my system and i ran into some problems. The creation of the cd's works, as does the booting of the recovery cd (after adding initrd to the kernel config). However, after i boot from the first cd, and type interactively, it can't find the command mondo-restore. which mondo-restore on the recovery cd turns up /usr/bin/mondo-restore. There is also a /usr/bin/mondorestore. However when i try to run these commands, i get this: ./mondorestore: No such file or directory. or ./mondo-restore: No such file or directory. Weird because i can see the files. Then i did ctrl-alt-F7 and i saw this: waiting for Petris to appear blah-blah-blah: No such file or directory Then ctrl-alt-F8 has this output: ... calling post_init ... list of mount points and devices mondo-restore found; cool Turning mondo-restore from a hyperlink into an executable -- INTERACTIVE -- And then nothing happens. Anybody else know what's going on? I already wasted 9 cd's and i don't feel like burning some more. Thanks, Benedict Some more info: mondo version 1.62-2 (unstable) mindi version 0.81-1.1 (unstable) I retried several times with a cdrw (that contained a previous backup using simple mkisofs and cdrecord) to test. This is the command that i used mondoarchive -O -w 8 -s 650m -I /home/benedict -k FAILSAFE -d 0,0,0 -l GRUB -f /dev/hda I've tried using the -k FAILSAFE option and my own kernel via -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21.15072003 (which is a kernel with initrd support compiled in but no initrd image specified in grub) Nothing seems to work (1) I have to specify -l GRUB -f /dev/hda otherwise the mindi script fails with: FATAL ERROR - Please specify your boot loader and device. As you can see i use grub and it's installed on /dev/hda (windows hd) and my debian is installed on /dev/hdb I don't really understand why i have to specify this when i use the FAILSAFE kernel. Where is that FAILSAFE kernel located anyway? It always seems to take one of my kernels no matter what i specify. (1) This means that i can boot from the cd allright but the postinit script fails on creating of the dirs for lib. Also grep is not found. It seems as if only half of the commands work after booting from that cd and the other return No such file or directory even if i can see them. When i use my kernel i use the default size (4096) for my ramdisk size. Could this be a problem? Also, when i mount the cd after creation, i can see the mondorestore program and i can run it (/usr/share/mondorestore) 1) Any other stuff i could try? 2) Is there a backup program that is similar to Mondo that does full restores or selective restores of files from a bootable cdrom? That was why i wanted to try Mondo in the first place: if disaster strikes, you can restore the full system from a bootable cd. I really do not want to install a base system first and then mess around with dpkg --set-selections and copying config files. Thanks, Benedict I had these same problems and more when backing up to nfs. After some frustration I downloaded and installed http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download/stable/final/mondo-1.65.tgz and everything seems to work as I expect it to. I've tested by doing a full backup and restoring a few files. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: mondo/mindi restore fails
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:04, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Well, i tried using the latest mindi and latest mondo source code and the kernel listed for debian users at the mondo said and it still failed horribly. With the last setup writing to the CDRW even made my kernel panic so now after more some 15 hours it's enough, i give up. I think the problem lies in my custom build kernel although i enabled initrd on it. On a side note, i will try once to build a kernel with initial ram disk support. I did a quick test but that failed (something about init interrupted or something) Anyway, are there similar products out there for backups (bootable) which are less fussy about debian? Regards, Benedict Mondo really is sweet once you get the kernel config correct. Just for the record one should read http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/docs/1.6x-howto/kernelsupport.html The FAILSAFE kernel should work with most IDE systems, however it would not support my tekram scsi controller and I had problems with the -k option unless it was the last option specified. Good luck with your search. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-- kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:39, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what changes must be made. Can some point to the needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. Thanks. You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. Then you need to run lilo to update your system. Bijan You will also need to edit /etc/fstab signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: finding an iso for net-install w/ reiserfs disk support
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:48, Justin Bauer wrote: I'm setting up a new computer, and thought it would be nice to use a minimal cd rather than the normal disks. I'll be running sid, but I don't care whether the cd is for stable or testing, just as long as it will format/install onto reiserfs. Thanks, Justin http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/bootbf2.4.iso signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-- kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what changes must be made. Can some point to the needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. Thanks. You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. Then you need to run lilo to update your system. I never used lilo, I use grub. I cheked and I don't have /etc/lilo.conf Then run update-grub signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: CD-burning
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 02:18, David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I waded through the how-to-burn-knoppix-iso-700Mb-etc thread from a while back, but could not find anything solid to help me... I burned a Knoppix iso on a 700Mb CD-RW on my HP CD-Writer 8100 running Debian Woody using cdrecord. No problems there... However, when I try to burn a CD-R, I get medium errors when fixating the drive, :-( I tried to burn at 2x speed instead of 4x since my drive can only burn CD-RWs at 2x, but that didn't help. The writing is fine, the fixating not. How is this possible? Already wasted three discs with my 'experiments'... BTW: I already used two different brands, however, the speed 2x test was with only one brand, I'm out of the other one. I ran cdrecord -v dev=1,0 speed=2 KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-06-06-EN.iso. TIA, David Output: snipped Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 733317120/733317120 (358065 sectors). Writing time: 2396.919s Fixating... cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 185.695s timeout 480s cmd finished after 185.695s timeout 480s Fixating time: 185.699s cdrecord: fifo had 11551 puts and 11551 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11475 times full, min fill was 95%. I had this problem with my yamaha 6x recorder. I has 2 packs of discs that I bought at the same time, one burned fine , the other turned into coasters. I upgraded the firmware (from 1.2 to 1.8) and had no problem since. The upgrade was a windows program and the only windows on my machine was in vmware. I had to create a partition and install win2k on it. It would have been easier to buy a new recorder and if time is money, cheaper too. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Sort by Thread in Evolution?
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 18:19, Kent West wrote: Playing with Evolution; hopefully this goes out as plain text. Anyone know how to sort messages by thread in Evolution? I've really gotten spoiled to that feature in Mozilla Mail. Thanks! -- Kent Select View then choose threaded message list or something to that effect depending on which version your using. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Rezound deb?
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 13:01, stan wrote: I saw a reference to an application called Rezound in an aritcle about gramofile this week. Looked prety neat, and I think I would like to compare it to audacity, which is what I'm curently using for a visual audiofile editor. I looked at the home page of this project, but dd not find a .deb, and when I tried to build it from source it had some unmet depednecies. Has any gotten this to work on Debian? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin I haven't tried it but it is in debian unstable signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Silly question 3 of 3: XMMS used to come up with KPFB in the playlist, and it would work! Now after tweaking and geeking and getting XMMS to actually play CD ROMs for the first time, I've lost the radion station. I've tried searching for URLs on the web, but nothing I add to the playlist works. XMMS documentation is fairly minimal in this area. Anyone willing (perhaps off-list) to help me with this? The mp3 stream is http://aud-one.kpfa.org:8080. If you need more help with this or other radio streams I'd be glad to help. I listen to several different stations in mp3, wma, and ra. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mondo Problem
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 07:50, Radek[debian]Z. wrote: I tried to write to the mondo list but it won't let me subscribe, and since I'm on Debian, maybe you guys can help me. I want mondo to make a full back up of my stuff to iso's stored on my HD, so I can pick them up from my other computer that has the CDR (I can't swap the CDR). Everything works except mondo makes a 1.4GB iso as opposed to 2 or 3 seprate ones. Any ideas. Thanks in advance. R It's in the man page mondoarchive. Try -s 700m or -s 650m -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD processor
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 16:02, Raymond Gree wrote: Donald Spoon wrote: Kent West wrote: raymond gree wrote: Hi, I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ? Thanks Raymond I would assume there's an advantage, since the K7 variant is compiled for the Athlon/Duron. Make sure you have the line initrd=/initrd.img in your Linux stanza in /etc/lilo.conf. apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 Continue or don't Stop now. Reboot I recently upgraded my PIII-450 Motherboard to a faster Athalon MB with and AMD 1333 processor. When I did the initial boot, I still was using the 2.4.19-686 kernel and everything worked fine. I then upgraded to the 2.4.19-k7 kernel, and everything still worked fine. I can't say I found much difference...performance wise, but then I didn't do any in-depth studies. I do know that with the 2.4.19-k7 kernel all the VIA chipsets are detected and setup properly for all my IDE devices. I can't say they were not with the other kernel, though. I would echo Kent's caution about making sure the initrd=/initrd.img statement is in your /etc/lilo.conf file. It absoultely needs this to be able to boot. There is a caution about this during the install. This is especially true if you are upgrading from the 2.4.18-bf4 kernel, which doesn't have that line. That is about the only thing I have found that would cause the new kernel-image package not to work. Cheers, -Don Spoon- I have done the apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-K7 and added the initrd=/initrd.img (see below) but when I login the systel displays 2.4.18-bf24 is there a way to check which kernel I am running? Thanks Raymond image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only initrd=/initrd.img # restricted # alias=1 uname -r or uname-a for more info -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Brute force reinstall
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:04, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that flags all packages as reinst-required or something? I think 'dpkg --get-selections;' 'dpkg --set-selecections does this. I haven't used them myself so I can't say for sure. 'man dpkg' Is there a state that tells the package management to reinstall? reinstall doesn't work and the manpage doesn't really help either. -- Got Backup? If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude. Go to the line --- Installed Packages and press L. This will mark every installed package to be reinstalled. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything about this in the documentation. The hash (#) always works for me... But the hash doesn't work for me on /etc/apt/preferences ... # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: mplayer* Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 #Package: ruby* #Pin: release a=unstable #Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 # apt-get update ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by: E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header If I remove the hashes before lines in the ruby* section, I no longer get that error. This seems to imply that the hash mark is not considered to be a proper comment character in /etc/apt/preferences. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave a space between # and the line you're commenting out. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: I'd like to maintain a testing system, with only one program (and its dependencies) coming from unstable. I think I understand what to do, but I'm hoping that someone here could confirm that my guessed-at setup is correct ... before I start making lots of apt-get install runs with this configuration and then possibly mess up my system. What I want to do is always just enter apt-get install package, without having to use the -t distribution parameter. This way, I don't have to keep remembering when to use and not use -t So ... here's what I have: In /etc/apt/apt.conf ... APT::Default-Release testing; In /etc/apt/preferences ... Package: mplayer* Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 In other words, all packages come by default from testing except mplayer, which comes by default from unstable. My desired results are: apt-get install mplayer-686 = installs latest from unstable apt-get install other-package = installs latest from testing, unless other-package only exists in unstable, in which case it installs from unstable Do I have it right? Thanks. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the distributions. Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade will upgrade those from unstable and testing will follow testing. My preferences file contains Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 550 I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will happen before I actually perform the upgrade. I use gnome from unstable and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few others so I used apt-get upgrade. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:57, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] Do I have it right? [ ... ] This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the distributions. Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade will upgrade those from unstable and testing will follow testing. My preferences file contains Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 550 I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will happen before I actually perform the upgrade. I use gnome from unstable and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few others so I used apt-get upgrade. OK. So I guess a better way to do what I want is to remove the pinned packages like you said, and then simply use -t unstable when installing a package that I'd like to get from that distribution. And from that time forward (unless I do a downgrade or fool around with my apt configuration), when I do an upgrade or an install, I'll always get those packages from unstable and the others from testing. Is that correct? -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is what I do, but as I said earlier a dist-upgrade could remove some packages you want to keep so the -s option will tell you what it will do before you regret doing it. A dist-upgrade is not always a wise thing to do when you dabble in unstable. I think pinning a package is more for keeping a package from being upgraded. If you are running testing you could keep a package at stable, or you could pin it to a specific version in testing. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:12, will trillich wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:07:04PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: That still doesn't work for me ... # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: mplayer* Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 # Package: ruby* # Pin: release a=unstable # Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 You should remove at least one of those empty lines -- either before or after the comments -- or both of them. hmm. if that's the case, it looks like you might be able to ADD a has to one of the blank lines, to accomplish the same trick. no? That would work. Remember that white space does has a meaning. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Doing a mass downgrade
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 05:30, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to sarge, this seems to be the way to go, but I don't know the exact configuration of this mentioned preference ? You will have to create it yourself, it should look like this for downgrading to testing. Man apt_preferences for a better understanding. Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 550 -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Doing a mass downgrade
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 22:46, Lloyd Zusman wrote: If your /etc/apt/preferences has Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 and unstable with a priority lower than 1000, then you must not have any packages from unstable. Well then, I guess I must have just gotten lucky since I started downloading with 'unstable' having the highest priority, such that my only upgrades happened to come from the 'stable' or 'testing' categories. Thanks for your help. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] You must have stopped the upgrade before all the packages were downloaded and before the installation began. You probably have some packages from unstable in /var/cache/apt/archives. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Doing a mass downgrade
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:21, Lloyd Zusman wrote: I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of setting 'unstable' to be the highest priority, which meant that my daily upgrade runs from aptitude started bringing in a lot of 'sid' packages. Well, needless to say, my system is now unstable, and now I'd like to back out all of these 'unstable' packages. The problem is that I'm not sure which packages I have upgraded to 'unstable', and which ones are still either 'stable' or 'testing' packages. What is the recommended way to do a mass downgrade so that all my 'unstable' packages get downgraded to 'testing' versions? I have already reset the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences so that 'testing' has the highest priority, 'stable' has the next highest, and 'unstable' has the lowest (my current /etc/apt/preferences listing follows). So now what should I do to perform the mass downgrade? I apologize if this question was answered here recently. One side effect of my newly created system instability is that I lost lots of my archived email messages, including many from this mailing list. Thanks in advance for any pointers and suggestions you can offer. Current /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 5 -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Doing a mass downgrade
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgrade? When I go into `aptitude', I don't see anything obvious which shows me that I can perform a downgrade (everything looks the same as it did before I changed the `testing' priority to 1001). Thanks again, in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get dist-upgrade -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Doing a mass downgrade
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgrade? [ ... ] apt-get dist-upgrade I did this, but nothing happened. The command session is shown below. I know that a number of unstable packages had been previously installed. Any ideas? Thanks. # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your /etc/apt/preferences has Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 and unstable with a priority lower than 1000, then you must not have any packages from unstable. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon
I upgraded to gnome2 yesterday and the fonts look great, except now galeon and mozilla no longer see any truetype fonts. I had nice anti aliased truetype fonts before when I was running testing with galeon evolution, and dependencies from unstable. I installed gnome, gnome-control-center, etc. using aptitude after editing /etc/apt/preferences and giving unstable a higher priority. Openoffice finds all of my trutype fonts. I ran dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser and enabled freetype2 support. /etc/mozilla/prefs.js has these lines // TryeType pref(font.FreeType2.enable, true); pref(font.freetype2.shared-library, libfreetype.so.6); pref(font.FreeType2.autohinted, false); pref(font.FreeType2.unhinted, false); pref(font.antialias.min,10); pref(font.directory.truetype.1, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType); pref(font.directory.truetype.2, /usr/share/fonts/truetype); pref(font.directory.truetype.3, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice); // AA with Bitmap scaling. pref(font.scale.aa_bitmap.enable, true; pref(font.scale.aa_bitmap.always, false); pref(font.scale.aa_bitmap.min, 6); // Default western font //pref(font.name.cursive.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.fantasy.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.serif.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.monospace.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.sans-serif.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); Any idea what might be the problem? -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:37, Dale Hair wrote: I upgraded to gnome2 yesterday and the fonts look great, except now galeon and mozilla no longer see any truetype fonts. I had nice anti aliased truetype fonts before when I was running testing with galeon evolution, and dependencies from unstable. I installed gnome, gnome-control-center, etc. using aptitude after editing /etc/apt/preferences and giving unstable a higher priority. Openoffice finds all of my trutype fonts. I ran dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser and enabled freetype2 support. /etc/mozilla/prefs.js has these lines // TryeType pref(font.FreeType2.enable, true); pref(font.freetype2.shared-library, libfreetype.so.6); pref(font.FreeType2.autohinted, false); pref(font.FreeType2.unhinted, false); pref(font.antialias.min,10); pref(font.directory.truetype.1, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType); pref(font.directory.truetype.2, /usr/share/fonts/truetype); pref(font.directory.truetype.3, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice); // AA with Bitmap scaling. pref(font.scale.aa_bitmap.enable, true; pref(font.scale.aa_bitmap.always, false); pref(font.scale.aa_bitmap.min, 6); // Default western font //pref(font.name.cursive.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.fantasy.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.serif.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.monospace.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.sans-serif.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); Any idea what might be the problem? I installed mozilla-xft and have good looking anti aliased fonts in galeon but no truetype fonts show up in the font preferences and the font stays the same regardless of the font I choose. Mozilla however, now finds truetype fonts. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Office under testing
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote: As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing... Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball. -- You might try adding this to your sources.list. I believe it is 1.0.1-5+woody6, at least it shows up in aptitude as an available version. I'm currently running an unstable version but still have this line in my sources.list. # OpenOffice deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Office under testing
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 21:14, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote: As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing... Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball. -- You might try adding this to your sources.list. I believe it is 1.0.1-5+woody6, at least it shows up in aptitude as an available version. I'm currently running an unstable version but still have this line in my sources.list. # OpenOffice deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib Thanks, but this doesn't work either! Everything appeasr to install OK, when I try to run the setup fails: firstly it complained that it couldn't find setup - and indeed it wasn't there, but setup.bin was. So I hardlinked setup to setup.bin, ditto the other.bin files in the directory. Now when I try it it says that it can't find libcomphelp2.so - which also exists. I'm starting to tear my hair out over this: I *must* have OO running on my new machine before I can hand the old one over to my wife as promised... I installed this version on a woody machine a couple months ago with no problem, however there is a big difference between woody, testing and unstable. At this time oo is only available in unstable. If you really need oo you will probably need to install openoffice.org-bin from unstable along with all dependencies. That's what I'm running now. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 03:41, Chris Halls wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:21:03PM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType fonts. If I run it as su everything is fine. If I run it as sudo it is the same as running as user. What's wrong and how can I fix this? See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=172448 Chris I read this and everything else I found on google, everything on my system seems to be correct. I also reinstalled msttcorefonts and x-ttcidfont-conf. What I don't understand is that it works fine when run as root, which is what I had to resort to in order to print a document I needed. When run as user or sudo I have no menu fonts. So is this an environment issue or what? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts (it works now)
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:46, Chris Halls wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: I read this and everything else I found on google, everything on my system seems to be correct. I also reinstalled msttcorefonts and x-ttcidfont-conf. Did you downgrade libfreetype6 to the version in Woody? What I don't understand is that it works fine when run as root, which is what I had to resort to in order to print a document I needed. When run as user or sudo I have no menu fonts. So is this an environment issue or what? I don't really know since I can't see your system. There are a few things that could be different on your system - OOo creates caches of fonts and maybe there is something different there (see pspfontcache files), or maybe you have some fonts which are only readable by root. Chris It seems that after reinstalling msttcorefonts some of them were readable only by root, I checked them before reinstalling and they were world readable. Anyway, after changing permissions I could not even start oo as user, even after restarting X. So I rebooted and now it works OK. Thanks for your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts
After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType fonts. If I run it as su everything is fine. If I run it as sudo it is the same as running as user. What's wrong and how can I fix this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheap CDs
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 12:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple extra copies of the Woody CDs, and with both a burner and a CD-ROM on my box, I'd like to be able to just load both up and *copy*, but nothing seems to handle it all that well. I know that Xcdroast will clone audio CDs, but that is not my goal. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried eroaster? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT pinning and downgrading
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 08:21, Gregory Seidman wrote: I read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html (particularly section 3.10), and came up with the following process to downgrade from unstable to testing: 1) in my /etc/apt/preferences (which didn't exist until I created it): Package: * Pin: release a=testing Priority: 1001 This should be Pin-Priority: 1001 -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choice of software
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:14, Levi Waldron wrote: On November 4, 2002 04:19 pm, Johannes Zarl wrote: +xmms -- a winamp lookalike I find xmms impossibly hard to read with its blue-on-black and small font, so have been using noatun instead. Has anyone found a way to make xmms a little more readable? -Levi http://xmms.org/skins.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE still won't load completly
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 07:04, Daniel Fabian wrote: Hi List, Sorry if I'm a pain in the neck, but on my laptop, KDE still won't load completly. I have removed the .kde directory and tried to login both as root and as not priviledged user, but it just won't work. Whenever it's at the keyboard symbol of the splash screen, it returns back to the loginmanager. I also tried another loginmanager (kdm instead of xkd, that's better for the eye :), no success. I had the same problem when I upgraded to kde3, only I use gdm. During the install a symlink to /etc/kde3/debian/kde-gdm-session was placed in /etc/gdm/Sessions. I removed the symlink and copied the file over and it worked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:53, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: Hi I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. - What software to use (ripping, coding) - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database? which?) - What hardware to use (I have a cdda capable cdrecorder) - How to store the files (on disk I guess, but in some kind of hierarchy with category etc?) I'm just wondering if any of you have some experience on this? Perhaps undertaken such a task yourself? I am going to do this to about 500 CDs and want to do it right from the start. ;) I use abcde. I store them /artist/album/trackname unless the cd is multi-artist, then /album/artist/trackname. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gdm, log in as root?
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:30, David Pastern wrote: Mark said: Subject: RE: gdm, log in as root? understand that sudo or fakeroot would be an even better solution, as sudo use is logged as security concerns. Dave : I know that Mark. It more annoys me not having the ability there. Even if I had it there i'd very rarely log on as root, but use fakeroot. That's the common sense thing to do. Sometimes though...since updating to kde 3.0.3 I can't su to fakeroot and start applications...I get an Xlib error message : can't send to server, no permissions. Or something similar to that. I did a bit of research to that the other nite, but didn't find much. Was only a brief search. I got the suspicion (after todays thread on GDM) that I might need to reconfigure kdm to allow fake root. I'll pursue that path later. In the meantime i've been lazy, and logging out and going in as root to perform system maintenance etc. Upgrading to gnome2 set esd as the default sound daemon (even when logging onto kde) rather than oss. I haven't sat down and investigated yet how to change it back. I had issues on base install of woody getting audio to play when logged on as normal user. That fixed itself when i got kde 3 running, but gnome 2 just stuffed that all up by setting esd as default. And yes I added myself to audio group, did chmod u+x on /dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp I had a play with gnome2 control panels etc but they are very unintuitive I find. I presume resetting default sound daemon back to oss will fix things and return them to normal in kde. *fingers crossed*. Dave That's quite a rant. Did you ever get gdm set to allow root login, there is an option in gdmconfig? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdparanoia cdrom as user
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 22:50, Hubert Chan wrote: Dale == Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale I forgot to list that one. Dale dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 Dale crwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sg0 Hmm. OK, you say that cdparanoia works as root, so can you run, as root, cdparanoia -v 1 1.wav and see what the output is? I get the same error message. I realize now the reason I can mount a data cdrom is that fstab has option of user for /dev/cdrom. When I changed it to defaults I could not mount it. I had woody on this machine before and had no problem, I copied fstab from backup, so I must have had a problem mounting cdrom with the previous install but had no problem with audio. Am I wrong or should I be able to mount cdrom with defaults if I am in group cdrom as long as /cdrom, /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, etc are group cdrom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdparanoia cdrom as user
I have a problem on a new installation trying to use abcde or XMMS. It seems that cdparanoia cannot access cdrom as user but can as root. I'm baffled because I can mount a data cdrom OK. My device is a scsi CDRW. I installed with 2.4.18bf2.4 and network install. dale@meridian:~$ cdparanoia 1 1.wav (snip) /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here. Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense of the machine. More information about /dev/cdrom: Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd0 dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom9 Oct 6 10:38 /dev/cdrom - /dev/scd0 dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/scd0 brwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 11, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/scd0 dale@meridian:~$ groups dale dale : dale disk cdrom audio What am I missing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdparanoia cdrom as user
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:53, Hubert Chan wrote: I found that cdparanoia wants to access /dev/sg0 as well as /dev/scd0, so make sure that you have permissions for that too. I forgot to list that one. dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 crwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sg0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 20:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, I am going over ML for the next Debian Reference over the mouse configuration. I found a thread with your names quite interesting. In order to refresh all, I put all participants in TO list. Excuse me. I have 3 questions: 1. imps2 issue Is imps2 really needed for woody gpm? Woody gpm default seems to have moved to autops2. I thought autops2 will take care both. FYI:gpm -t help|less command in woody/sarge should provide. autops2- For PS/2 type mouse, specific protocol will be auto detected ms3- For the Microsoft IntelliMouse (serial), 3 buttons (wheel is repeated). imps2 - For the Microsoft IntelliMouse on a PS/2 port (round connector with 6 pins), 3 buttons (wheel is repeated). exps2 (ExplorerPS/2) - IntelliMouse Explorer (ps2) - 3 buttons (wheel is repeated). 2. What do you think of Debian Reference description? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ Chapter 3.3 Mouse configuration I think there should also be an example for a generic 2-button mouse and maybe not reference XF86Config since anyone referring to this would probably be using stable woody and XFree86 4. Something like the following might be easier for a newbie to understand. Note that I have never used a Logitech 3-button mouse so I'm not certain that section is correct. To get the mouse to work properly in both console and X, configure the following files. For a generic 2-button PS/2 mouse or trackball /etc/gpm.conf /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 device=/dev/psaux Section InputDevice responsiveness= Identifier Mouse0 repeat_type=raw Driver mouse type=autops2Option Protocol PS/2 append= Option Device /dev/gpmdata Option CorePointer Option Emulate3Buttons For a Logitech 3-button PS2 mouse /etc/gpm.conf /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 device=/dev/psaux Section InputDevice responsiveness= Identifier Mouse0 repeat_type=ms3 (or raw)Driver mouse type=autops2Option Protocol Intellimouse append= Option Device /dev/gpmdata Option CorePointer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting Sawfish
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:51, Phil wrote: I updated and now have problems with Gnome. It seems I don't have a Gnome compliant window manager. is there an apt-get method to get sawfish? try sawfish-gnome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up system using mondo ?
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 19:41, D. J. Bolderman wrote: Is anyone here using mondo to backup their server ? I'm looking for a solution to backup the critical files/dirs of my server, including the maildirs. I read that mondo creates bootable rescue cd's, so it sounds good. But before I'm diving into another experience I would like to hear some opinions of you first. I've used it successfully to restore a laptop. I strongly recommend man mondoarchive and the HOWTO at www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download/new/Mondo-Rescue-Mindi-Linux-HOWTO-9.html If you back up to nfs like I do, make the boot floppies at backup time. Once you understand it, it's pretty slick. Attached is a copy of en email I sent someone else about my one restore experience. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jun 22 16:22:49 2002 Subject: Re: Mondo From: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: 20020615210240.A254@perelandra References: 20020430190243.L270@perelandra 1020261202.1189.71.camel@meridian 20020615210240.A254@perelandra Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 22 Jun 2002 16:22:49 -0500 Message-Id: 1024780970.613.3133.camel@meridian Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Evolution-Transport: smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Evolution-Account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Evolution-Fcc: file:///home/dad/evolution/local/Sent X-Evolution-Format: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sorry it took so long to get back to you but I've been extremely busy and had plans to restore a laptop that was corrupted, so I wanted to finish that first. Good news, it restored OK. Bad news, being a laptop with pcmcia nic and backup to nfs, things did not go smoothly. I believe if I backed up to cdrom or had a pci nic I may not have had a problem. Also I should have written the boot/rescue floppies at backup time. I tried to write the boot floppy later with dd and cat, and neither would boot however the data disks worked OK. Also the CD created form the mindi.iso image would not boot, L80 80. I managed to boot the laptop and run mindi to create the boot floppy and that worked, along with the original data floppies created with dd. Then from another computer I made cdrom disk from the iso image on nfs. So lesson learned, create cdrom disks and/or boot floppies at backup. I use a custom kernel so I recompiled with mondo's requirements and had to use -k vmlinuz-2.4.18 since I had multiple kernel images to boot from. Also -s 700m helps since 650m is the default for for image size. I strongly suggest you test it somehow, before you need to restore like I did. Overall I'm pleased with mondo and will continue using it.On
Re: OGG wont do
I'm generally a GUI person but I found abcde much easier. You might want to edit etc/abcde.config to suit your preferences or copy it to your home directory and modify it. Hi yep no problem anymore my latest problem was that i lost my xmms config and i forgot that i need to use /dev/dsp1 instead of dsp =) *stupid* I tryed oggenc using the comandline tool abcde (nice) im not gonna do grip at all its more comfortable to use one comand to rip the whole shebang =). Thanx for all help Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OGG wont do
Yep did that allready but i cant figure out yet how to name that file i tried to put it into my home dir with the names .abcde and .abcde.config and both times it used the default configs so i always start it with the -c option. When I first tried it I would get an error message and it would use the default. I found an error in my config file, now it works fine. How do you name it? .abcde.config Well anyhow nice proggy =) Cheers Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS
I use this line but there may be a better way. /dev/sda1/win2k ntfsdefaults,users,ro,umask=0,gid=6 0 0 On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 16:39, Steve Juranich wrote: I have the following /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda2 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda3 noneswapsw 0 0 proc /proc procdefaults00 /dev/fd0 /floppy autodefaults,user,noauto00 /dev/sr0 /dvdiso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 00 /dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 00 /dev/sr1 /cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 00 /dev/hda1 /windowsntfsdefaults,ro,user,noauto 00 For my user accounts, I am able to mount /cdrom and /cdrw just fine. However, I can't get my user accounts to read the /windows directory, even if I mount it as a user. I've tried several different options in the fstab for /dev/ hda1, but I still can't let my user account read the device. Once the device is mounted, I get the following: coffee (steve)$ ll -d /windows/ dr-x--1 root root 8192 Jun 17 09:03 /windows/ but mounted under the same options in /etc/fstab, /cdrom looks like this: coffee (steve)$ ll -d /cdrom/ dr-xr-xr-x2 root root 2048 Apr 12 23:28 /cdrom/ Can somebody please tell me what's going on, and better yet, how to fix it? Thanks. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS
Wouldn't umask=007 be better? Otherwise the gid part is redundant since the group really doesn't matter if other has the same permissions as group... I don't remember how I came up with this line, it was several months ago, looking at it now what you say makes sense. I think I tried umask=0 without gid=6 without luck, I will try umask=007 gid=6. I'm learning this with the help of debian-user, man pages, and google searches. I've been using OS/2 since '93, tried various rpm distros for a few years and fell for debian about 8 months ago, I'm hooked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OGG wont do
Does lame even encode in ogg format, I believe it only does mp3. Try abcde, it's a debian package and encodes ogg by default. On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 15:39, Florian Struck wrote: Hi i have just tried grip using cdparanoia ripps ok encodes with lame (from merillat) or gogo but oggs that result are not playable (wav`s play ok) what do i need to play them? (got libogg installed also the ogg plugin for xmms) mp3 no problemo ... getting mad ... lalaaal pheeew *help me* pheeew Thanks for suggestions. btw: no errors at all they just dont play. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...
That may stops mozilla from crashing x by rendering huge fonts, but I'm wondering if it breaks the page layout. I think the latest mozilla from unstable fixed this problem with huge fonts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I downgrade from unstable to woody?
Thanks - that worked, but for a dependency problem with groff which was solved (as apt-get advised) by apt-get -f install. Can I now safely remove the preferences file and put 'stable' in my sources.list in anticipation of woody's becoming stable? Yes and you can use 'woody' instead of stable or testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I downgrade from unstable to woody?
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 10:19, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi, all: I think I may have made something of a mistake! I needed to upgrade from potato, having need of a more recent lib. So I replaced 'stable' with 'unstable' in sources.list and upgraded. I really don't need to be on the bleeding edge (although I've had no difficulty with anything so far) and so I'd like to back down to woody. Can I safely replace 'unstable' with 'woody' or am I stuck in this sort of post-woody situation? Create the file /etc/apt/preferences. This file should contain Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Your sources.list must include testing. Thenapt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Force password change on first logon on Debian Box
Is there a PAM module that enforces good passwords? ie. won't allow passwords easily crackable by john the ripper? Mike Install cracklib2 and uncomment this line in /etc/pam.d/passwd password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mondo Archive
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 16:40, Brian Rose wrote: Has anyone gotten the mondoarchive to work in Debian? I tried it before it was added as a package, but it didn't restore correctly. Problems with Lilo is all I remember now though. I've backed up two systems to a nfs partition but I haven't tried to restore yet. I really should test out the restore, I need to dig up another hard drive to try it out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GNOME 2.x debs?
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 21:56, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:42:53PM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: | I have been running GNOME 2.x on RedHat for a few weeks now and it seems | to work pretty well. Huh. Is that like gcc 2.96 -- grab a cvs snapshot and call it stable? Or are they labeled as pre-release? That bastard gcc 2.96 is why I'm now using debian after going round and round with various rpm distros. I will consider gnome2 when it gets into testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Abiword
Reading the hint, it seems to indicate all that's needed are the two files (fonts.dir and fonts.scale) be in /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts and it should fly. They are already in place. But Abi complains that it can't add its fonts to the X fontpath. Which is strange, because I'd expect X to be complaining, not Abiword. Maybe Abi is trying to add the fonts, again? If I remember right I added to my XF86Config-4 file, in the appropriate sections, FONTPATH /usr/share/fonts/type1 Load type1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?
There is a web based calendar called WebCal, GPL license, there is a demo on their site. It has public and private calendars. I've been meaning to try it out. http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html The issue with calendaring seems to be less finding single-user calendar software (there's scads for GNU/Linux), but finding a way to distribute calendar information among users -- department and project orientations being most useful. This is where I see peer-level sharing as the real issue. It's not a question of finding some place to write your own appointments (hell, I use 'calendar', to email myself reminders), but to share this data with other users. None of the many pages I've read on this topic gives details on how peer-based calendaring can be shared effectively in an organization. This might be a good topic for a writeup from anyone who's done something similar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kills Linux hdd's?
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:10, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:18:49PM -0700, ben wrote: location throughout the history of the equipment failure. also check for cell phone antennas in the immediate surrounding area. So on top of the computer behind the fan hump (Koolance case) isn't a good place to leave my phone charging? If the fan is working properly it should blow the RF away from the case, I'm not sure about the EMF. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kills Linux hdd's?
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:35, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant the transformer had a problem and they would send someone to look at it. Two years later I moved and the transformer still had that red light. Actually, I think that's a power light. I always see them glowing when power is available, and never when it's not. You got schwinged.[1] For those two years I had two cheap UPS that would beep at the same time several times a day. So I say a power conditioner ahead of the UPS or built-in is the best. Wow, remarkably craptastic power there... [1] [Telephone tech support] The sound a call makes after you've blown off a customer you don't want to deal with or mislead an idiot for the sake of the rest of humanity. Compare plonk, see also permahold. The power lines feeding the all the houses on the street are fed from the same line, powered from multiple transformers in parallel , one for every four houses. Only one transformer had a red light and I was setting outside when I saw it come on. I am a master electrician and a consultant to many companies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kills Linux hdd's?
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:38, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:03:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote: My co-workers and I have seen (or actually heard) a lot of this over the past four or five years. The Gateway computers we purchased came with Western Digital drives. Accordingly, we've pretty much developed an attitude against this brand. (NOTE: We haven't seen the problems so much I've never had a problem with WD's Caviar line. I still have a Caviar 200M drive in the original 486-33/VLB system, it was very heavily use as a cad system for a few years with OS/2. Now it serves as a BSD router/firewall. I would guess it has surpassed it's MTBF by now. I wish all drives and MBs would last this long. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kills Linux hdd's?
are you buying all this equipment from the same vendor? maybe the drives are being stressed in some prior environment. even if different vendors are involved, they might use the same wholesale supplier. My second thought on this. what version(s) of linux are you using? the only other thing that i can think of--and this is really far-fetched--is that you've got some wildly mangled application going medieval on your drives. actually, one more thing comes to mind: the local power system and/or the power outlet your computer is attached to. is it possible that there are dramatic surges on the power line? My first first idea, seeing as he is buying motherboards also. I would suggest a good power conditioner. My third thought is maybe he is taking out his frustrations on his computer. I know I want to kick mine sometimes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kills Linux hdd's?
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 20:59, Frank Brodbeck wrote: I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) Later on I will go and check my box power supply. I doubt the power supply is the culprit. Most machines with one hard drive and one cdrom should work fine on 250w supply, don't know about dual processor. I never buy less than 300w. I think your best bet is an UPS with built-in power conditioner. The cheap ones just monitor the power and revert to battery when line conditions are not right. I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant the transformer had a problem and they would send someone to look at it. Two years later I moved and the transformer still had that red light. For those two years I had two cheap UPS that would beep at the same time several times a day. So I say a power conditioner ahead of the UPS or built-in is the best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])
This contradiction is only apparent. While it's perhaps true that most citizen of the USA (*) are pacifist, most of them are also unaware of what their government _actually_ do in the matter of foriegn affairs. This is true, but I think most US citizens prefer to not know these things, just let the government do what they think best. CIA's School of the Americas trained military men from most countries in South America in torturing and dirty war techniques. US supported economically and politically all of the coups d'etat during the '70s, mainly to stop the lefty political movements and guerrillas. But is life there better now than it was then? (probably) What would life be like in those countries now if the communist dictators were still in power. War and conflicts are hell, but it's sometimes necessary for a better future. Some 3 souls were tortured and killed or dissapeared only in Argentina. It was easier, cheaper and cleaner that an open invasion. Some friends of mine who traveled to the US were surprised nobody knew about that, and in fact, many got offended at the sole mention. We don't really want to know about it, just let us live our normal, happy lives. (sad) In fact, I believe US is not an hostile nation, but it has an hostile government, and certainly, and isolationistic population. I find very hard to believe that the common US citizen would be proud of what US government does in / with foreing countries if they _actually knew_ what it happens outside. If we knew, we would not be so proud. But maybe these things the government does, that we don't want to know about, is best for the future. I know they have made many mistakes, and I think we should know and understand what's going on in the world and why. Then we would stand a better chance of electing better representatives to our government. In a visit to Argentina in early '80s, US musician and geek Laurie Anderson said in an interview that US people is like a huge baby, sleeping the American dream. I hope that the huge baby (and not the military power) wake up before it's too late. (*) I'm american too, but from a southern country, so I used the more specific US citizen. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running Debian Sid version 3.0 with Linux 2.4.13 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])
You're right, I forgot how I got into this thread, I think it was the beer. I just poured myself a shot of Bushmills, an Irish whisky. Memorial Day weekend is over and I'm facing the alligators again in the morning. I've pointed this out off-list to several participants. This discussion is _thoroughly_ off topic. Programmers may need beer, but war is a decidedly optional peripheral. May I suggest Slashdot or Kuro5hin as appropriate forums? My killfile is craving for some fresh blood Thank you. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? zIWETHEY: Provocative, super smart, and oh yeah, just a little sexy. http://z.iwethey.org/forums/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])
Actually, the USA was asked to help Australia in 1939. We had the crap bombed out of us. After Pearl Harbour the USA decided that Oz was a great place to base a lot of Operations. Most Americans tend to be isolationists and pacifists, it took Pearl Harbor to awaken the sleeping giant. It actually created a giant superpower as we like to refer to ourselves. Then on Sept. 11 the giant awoke again. If something like 1939 were to happen again, we will be there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])
There's just not a lot you can do with an American standard or a lager beer to make it better. Agreed on the American lager, but are you throwing German lagers in there also. I really enjoy ales, especially dark ales, I'm in unison with Craig Dickson's opinions posted on his site. However the lighter and cleaner lagers are better in summertime, especially after 8+ hours in 100+ degree days. Have you tried Warsteiner or Warsteiner Dark, I think their dark is about the best dark lager there is. I also like Becks and Bitburger. I like different beers in different seasons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])
Oh boy, here comes a flame war... opinion source=what I've tasted The Irish, without a shadow of a doubt, make the best beer in the world. They are just damn good at it. After them, and I am trying to be impartial here, we Australians do a damn good beer. It's not exotic, it doesn't have bits floating in it, it's just cold, clean, smooth and refreshing. Next, the Germans are very capable beer makers. After that the whole world really goes to hell, with the French-speakers only not coming last because the Americans do. As a certain comedy team pointed out, it's like making love in a canoe... /opinion Can you give me an example of good Aussie beer that might be available in the US. The only one I can think of is Fosters, I wasn't overly impressed with it (as in I will drink one, but I won't buy one). You're right about American beers, especially the three largest brewers. Are we the only ones that produce a light beer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])
I'm told by natives that Fosters isn't Australian for Beer, it's Australian for Budwiser. After a hard day in the Texas heat the first budweiser actually tastes good, probably the same goes for Fosters in Australia. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon quit working
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:05, Dale Hair wrote: After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. When I try to run it from xterm I get /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString I did another google search and found in a FAQ Note that certain openoffice Distributions contain an old version of mozilla. Check if you have set some LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables to a direcotry containing the openoffice mozilla libraries, and try uninstalling openoffice, this has often helped. After apt-get remove --purge openoffice.org, galeon works. I've now installed from OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz and galeon works fine. Is this a bug in the debian package or has no one else had this problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts and XFree86
I've removed xfs, xfstt and xfs-xtt, all three of which were running. I've verified that the correct path is in XF86Config-4, checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log to ensure that the path is not being barfed out and that the freetype module is being loaded, verified the presence of fonts.dir and fonts.scale. Still the same seven basic fonts and nothing else. I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section. My X11Config-4 is probably not ideal but I'm satisfied with it for now. I'm open to critique. Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-config.d/dirs/CID FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-config.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ : unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ : unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ : unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/type1/ FontPath /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ EndSection Section Module Load pex5 Load record Load extmod Load dbe Load dri Load glx Load xie Load TrueType Load truetype Load freetype Load Type1 Load adobe Load type1 Load Times_New_Roman EndSection -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:36, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. The deb package is eroaster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xscreensaver
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote: I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: --enable xscreensaver (w/ w/o password) --set my monitor to standby/suspend/shutoff Run xscreensaver-demo then choose screensaver options tab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution has no help or email properties
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 07:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of the Help topics, nothing is happens. I can go to /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or enter it manually in the browser's path and it opens fine. But selecting any Help menu item does nothing. It used to display in galeon for me until galeon quit working, error message /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString. Anyway, using Gnome, in the Control Center I changed Document Handlers URL Handlers to ghelp gnome-moz-remote --newwin %s Now it displays in mozilla. It is probably similar in KDE. The same thing (which is absolutely nothing) happens if I open an email and select the Properties item under the Edit menu. I'm not sure if these problems are related or not. I'm sure this is the same thing, mine displays Control Center HTML Viewer Fonts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Galeon quit working
After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. When I try to run it from xterm I get /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString I hope there is a fix for this. Now I'm using opera, pretty nice and there is even a deb package, but I miss galeon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon quit working
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:14, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:05, Dale Hair wrote: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString Did you upgrade mozilla? I relied on apt-get dist-upgrade to handle dependences. I just tried galeon again on the testing only box and it works today, I got the same error message on it yesterday. So now I downgraded the testing/unstable box to testing. I'm not sure the proper/best way to do this, but I apt-get remove galeon mozilla mozilla-psm libnss3 libnspr4 ( I think that was all) and apt-get install the same with -t testing. I am now at the testing versions and still get the same error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution has no help or email properties
Under KDE Control Center/File Browsing/File Associations I don't find any mention of ghelp. It does list HTML files, which are associated with my browser. I've looked through the list and compared it to my laptop, which is also running Debian testing, and I find no difference. Am I looking in the wrong place? I don't know much about KDE. I expect ghelp to be part of the gnome desktop. You might try the ximian evolution list, evolution@ximian.com if you don't want to subscribe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openoffice lib
I tried running spadmin after installing the latest openoffice 1.0.0-3 with apt-get. It seems the library path needed to be added to /etc/ld.so.conf for it to run. Could this be done in the installation process. Now I think I had my HP LaserJet 1100 installed with openoffice641d but it is not an option now. Which is the best printer driver to use for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice.org Woody
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:07, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:45, Tinus Kotze wrote: Hi On the OpenOffice 1.0 topic, I used the binary to install OpenOffice 1.0 on my Debian(3.0)(kernel 2.4.18). I installed as root and would just like to know how I can install it so that normal users can use OpenOffice. I hear something about a paramater sent to installation? Is this correct? If so, do anyone know what the paramater is? If not, how do I go about this? To create a multiuser install: 1.) run setup -net as root. Install to, say, /opt/openoffice It seems to me it was setup /net, however either may work. 2.) Every single user now runs /opt/openoffice/setup (without the -net parameter; I may have got the location under /opt/openoffice wrong) 3.) IIRC the installing user is then asked if he wants to create a full local install (able to run without /opt/openoffice available) or a (traditional unix-style) install, were only some files are put into $HOME -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RealPlayer
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 22:39, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya dennis you probably need to do something like root# mv rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm note the *.rpm extension root# rpm -ivh --test --force --nodeps rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm - when you are ready to install ... remove --test I've never used rpm in debian. Would it not be better to convert it with alien and install with dpkg. This is how I installed the rpm version I had. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help request with XF86Config
In XF86Config-4 Section InputDevice # Identifier and driver Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolMicrosoft try changing this to PS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Change this to /dev/psaux unless you are using gpm, then change it to /dev/gpmdata and setup /etc/gpm.conf to device=/dev/psaux, repeat type=raw type=PS/2 That should get you past the error in XFree86.0.log For your screen resolution add SubSection Display Depth 32 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 and change DefaultDepth 8 to DefaultDepth 32 I think this should get it working. You could also add 1024x768 800x600 to the other depth modes. On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 15:11, justin cunningham wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get the xerver to start gnome but keep getting errors. This is a current woody laptop. All I've done so far is install the base system and run tasksel; chose laptop, and x windows system, installed the packages, said no to debconf controlling x and built the XFree86Config file but it's not working. Attached are relevant files-- please help. Regards, Justin Vid card: ATI Mobility 128 AGP 16.0mb memory. Chip type M3 33MHz. Internal 250MHz DAC. Mouse: PS2 who knows? Armnotebook Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (EIO mode) Monitor: ?: 14 LCD running at 1024x768 32bit 60Hz /etc/X11/XF86Config # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod :q! deblaptop:/etc/X11# cat XF86Config # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the #
Re: gdm login problem
There is nothing in /etc/pam.d/gdm about cracklib. Also lib-cracklib isn't installed anyway. In the files gdm password required pam_unix_passwd.so shadow login password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 ssh password required pam_unix.so pam_unix_password.so is a link to pam_unix.so It's puzzling why gdm is doing this, but now the user has a better password. On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:34, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020502 17:54]: On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:01, Dale Hair wrote: I have a system with two users, one can't login with gdm but can from the console. The other user and root can login ok. Any ideas? It seems the problem is the password is a dictionary word. Changing the password allows login. When I add another user with the same password or another password that's in the dictionary I cannot login. However this same user with the same password can login on another computer, both running woody with dist-upgrade today. Why does gdm refuse this password when login from console, ftp, and ssh accepts it. Is there a line containing something about cracklib in /etc/pam.d/gdm but not in the pam configs for those other services? Still, I'd expect it to be set up to disallow changing the password *to* a weak one, but not disallow login with a weak password. Depends on the setup, I suppose, but it sounds strange to me, still. good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice 1.0 ,debs?
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:04, Addis Perez wrote: -- Original Message -- Which java version? Where can I get those .debs ? There are no *.deb's for the recent versions of Java. I have yet to install OpenOffice, so I do not know which Java version it requires. Just go to java.sun.com and download the latest Linux (for there is no Debian) package and set the paths and that should be it. Addis It works fine with the blackdown version 1.3.1 ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gdm login problem
I have a system with two users, one can't login with gdm but can from the console. The other user and root can login ok. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gdm login problem
What happens? Does it just say something to the effect of login denied or does it start to go and then return to the gdm greeter screen after a few seconds? The screen shakes and I get incorrect username or password. If gdm is stopped, can the user run startx after logging in from the console? Yes and kde starts. If it's gdm denying the login, check gdm's config file for options that may exclude certain users or allow only certain users. I haven't used gdm in a long while and can't give the exact config directives you're looking for. Nothing I can see to be a problem. In all other cases, look at the user's ~/.xsession-errors file. Is the user specifying something in ~/.Xsession that isn't working correctly? Is that file in any way different from the successful user's file? Neither user has a .Xsession or .xsession file. You might also want to have a look at /var/log/XFree86.log and /var/log/auth.log to look for error messages relating to your failed logins. /var/log/auth.log May 2 18:06:09 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: authentication failure; (uid=0) - pamela for gdm service May 2 18:06:11 meridian1 gdm[1331]: Couldn't authenticate user May 2 18:06:14 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: bad username [] May 2 18:06:14 meridian1 gdm[1331]: Couldn't authenticate user May 2 18:06:21 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: (gdm) session opened for user root by (uid=0) May 2 18:08:01 meridian1 PAM_unix[1421]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) May 2 18:08:02 meridian1 PAM_unix[1421]: (cron) session closed for user mail May 2 18:08:03 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: (gdm) session closed for user root May 2 18:08:23 meridian1 PAM_unix[1434]: (login) session opened for user pamela by LOGIN(uid=0) May 2 18:23:01 meridian1 PAM_unix[1549]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) May 2 18:23:02 meridian1 PAM_unix[1549]: (cron) session closed for user mail May 2 18:26:42 meridian1 PAM_unix[1562]: (ftp) session opened for user pamela by (uid=0) May 2 18:27:10 meridian1 PAM_unix[1562]: (ftp) session closed for user pamela May 2 18:27:49 meridian1 PAM_unix[1054]: (ssh) session closed for user root May 2 18:27:49 meridian1 sshd[1054]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; MAIL May 2 18:28:33 meridian1 sshd[1565]: Accepted keyboard-interactive for pamela from 192.168.0.2 port 34109 ssh2 May 2 18:28:33 meridian1 PAM_unix[1565]: (ssh) session opened for user pamela by (uid=0) May 2 18:28:39 meridian1 PAM_unix[1565]: (ssh) session closed for user pamela As you can see pamela can login by console, ssh, and ftp, just not from gdm. good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gdm login problem
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:01, Dale Hair wrote: I have a system with two users, one can't login with gdm but can from the console. The other user and root can login ok. Any ideas? It seems the problem is the password is a dictionary word. Changing the password allows login. When I add another user with the same password or another password that's in the dictionary I cannot login. However this same user with the same password can login on another computer, both running woody with dist-upgrade today. Why does gdm refuse this password when login from console, ftp, and ssh accepts it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mondo, needs ramdisk support
It must be compiled into the kernel, there are other requirements also. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download/layout.html I've used mondo for backup and will be testing the restore on a new laptop this weekend. On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:02, Richard Otte wrote: I have kernel 2.4.16 and have downloaded mondo 1.41.1-1. When I type: mondoarchive -Ow 16 I get the following error message: Mondo Archive v1.41 --- http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Found CDRW device - 0,0,0 Switches:- -O -d 0,0,0 -w 16 See /var/log/mondo-archive.log for details of backup run. Checking sanity of your Linux distribution Checking sanity of your Linux distribution --- cat /proc/devices | grep ramdisk --- end of output-- ...ran with errors. Please recompile your kernel to include ramdisk support. Failed. I am assuming I need to put randisk support into my kernel. Can this be done with a module, or do I need to recompile the kernel? Thanks for any suggestions on how to get mondo to work. Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: controlling screen dimming, sleep
Is xscreensaver running. Try running xscreensaver-demo to change the settings. I don't know why you would not be able to ping unless maybe the hard drive was powering down, but that should be controlled in the bios. On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 10:52, Richard Otte wrote: What controls whether or not my screen dims (goes to sleep) when I don't use the machine for a while? I have the power saver features disabled in the bios, and still get the screen dimming on inactivity. I'd like to find out how to disable this, because I think it is also not allowing my machine to be reached on the network. When the machine is inactive, I can't ping it. Any suggestions on where the screen dimming and network inaccessibility are coming from would be appreciated. Thanks, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Abiword font problem
I had this problem and I had '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/' in the Files section XF86Config-4, but to get it to work I had to add '/usr/share/fonts/type1/'. Also if I added it to the beginning of the Files section most of my desktop fonts looked ugly, putting it at the end fixed that. On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:17, Lars Jensen wrote: Abiword crashes due to a font problem whenever I start it up. It complains that it is unable to add to the font path. I don't understand this because I have type 1 fonts, and they are loaded in my XF86Config-4. How do I fix this problem? Thanks, Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java problem
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 23:39, sda wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:47:04PM -0500, dman wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:59:05PM -0400, sda wrote: | Hello: | | Just installed java blackdown, How? Did you apt-get or did you use a tarball? If you apt-get it from one of their mirros you'll have no problems whatsoever. (well, if you did it a few months ago you won't have problems, I presume nothing has changed since then). Installed it using dpkg the file name was `j2re1.3_1.3.0-2_i386.deb'. You might try the latest version. I'm using j2re1.3_1.3.1_i386.deb with no problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
