Re: Midi files S.O.S.
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 23:11 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, listers. I'm looking for a program that allows to modify midi files, i.e. adjust tone and speed and cancel traces: they're called midi sequencers, aren't they? Well, I've been trying: brahms timidity rosegarden amarok audacity muse , but none of them will help: timidity seems to work, but it's not a sequencer: it plays midi files fine but cannot modify them (is that true?); the others don't even play midi files. Anyone out there who can provide a hint? What program to use, and how to make it work? Thanks in advance, Rodolfo Rosegarden and noteedit can both import and export midi files. If the midi files were created by a performance as opposed to someone actually entering the notes in a program you probably have a lot of cleanup to do. Some midi files also don't separate the instruments into separate tracks -- these are a real pain to edit. Good luck, Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Video Card
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 01:28 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 15:01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen reports that the free nv drivers are now as good as the proprietary nvidia drivers. At lest some posters on some of the linux groups seem to think so. Now maybe that's true only for a specific model of nvidia card, and not true in general. The nv driver is also developed by nVidia. Basically it is the nvidia driver minus the stuff that nVidia cannot release (either because it is their trade secrets or it is technologies licenced from other venders). Either ways, the nv driver is very good, but basically lacs 3D. If you're not going to do any gaming, then nv is fine. The ATI driver is *not* inferior to the nVidia driver, as many believe. It's simply not as simple to install. Once installed the image quality and performance is every bit as good. Hans I suggest you go to the blender3d/elysiun web sites -- ati users have a much harder time getting there drivers to work decently -- there are many threads dedicated to their trials and tribulations. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which alsa package do i need to compile mplayer?
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 21:29 +0100, Andreas Rippl wrote: standard mplayer is a bit annoying since it is unable to resize movies, if i put them full screen i have a mini video in the center and a big black border around it... mplayer -zoom yourmovie or set the value in your mplayer.conf file RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Marillat's repository
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:06 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: Hmm, I'm not sure, but would it be an authentication problem? I have no problems with marillat's repository but of course I grabbed the gpg key for it... I'm surprised to find that what used to be marillat's web page doesn't have the gpg info: http://debian.video.free.fr However it can be found on a mirror: http://debian.udsu.ru/debian-soft/marillat Try it out, maybe that's the problem... Thanks Javier for your answer. I havent added the gpg key, so I did it. # apt-key list /etc/apt/trusted.gpg pub 1024R/1DB114E0 2004-01-15 [expired: 2005-01-27] uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2004) [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/4F368D5D 2005-01-31 [expires: 2006-01-31] uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005) [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/1F41B907 1999-10-03 uid Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] uid Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] sub 1536g/C28DCC42 1999-10-03 sub 1024D/5D3877A7 2002-08-26 But the problem has not been solved. I get the same error when I make apt-get update. I really dont know what's happenning. I always used stable, testing, unstable rather than etch, sid etc. in my apt sources list for marillat's repository (works fine here). Maybe he doesn't have the symlinks set up. Hope this helps, Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: Roy Pluschke wrote: Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system and having to add windows. Unfortunately the program I need won't play nicely with winex, vmware etc. and the linux alternatives aren't quite there yet. Thanks in advance, Roy P. Dou you want to install windows on the disk which currently installed linux ? Yes, on the same disk. I have to somehow reduce the current partition sizes and add a new partition for windows. I am also concerned that the windows installation will then screw things up (overwrite the MBR). Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:02 +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. --w.h-- Possible but not simple. E.g. you must manually set the drive and Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) path settings in Target Designer. Furthermore boot.ini settings, and drive letter issues have to be adopted. But this is not a windows-ML. Isn´t it? Florian Thank you for your responses -- I've decided the simplest solution for me is to backup up my data, reformat and install windows first -- a bit of a pain but easiest for me to comprehend. Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system
Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system and having to add windows. Unfortunately the program I need won't play nicely with winex, vmware etc. and the linux alternatives aren't quite there yet. Thanks in advance, Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lame not in the debian package repository?
On August 13, 2005 22:38, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: As Paul pointed out, it is better to use a tool that implements a patent-free algorithm. Yes, but unfortunately my car stereo only plays mp3's RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gphoto2 - permissions
On August 14, 2005 04:44, Joan Tur wrote: Es Diumenge Agost 14 2005 01:23, en Roy Pluschke va escriure: | problem: | gphoto2 -P (download all pictures) works as root | gphoto2 -P won't work as regular user -- gives following error The user has to belong to the right group... but I'm not sure if that group is camera and/or plugdev. Hope that helps ;) I have already included the user in the camera and plugdev groups but it makes no difference. I did locate this comment on linuxdevcenter.com I've found that after some Linux upgrade, the USB library used by gphoto2 was having security problems and would only run as root. I never found out why, but the next upgrade made the problem go away. Any clues ? perhaps my problem is related. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gphoto2 - permissions
Greetings,
Running debian testing (etch)
problem:
gphoto2 -P (download all pictures) works as root
gphoto2 -P won't work as regular user -- gives following error
*** Error ***
An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB device'): Could
not claim interface 0 (Operation not permitted). Make sure no other program
or kernel module (such as sdc2xx, stv680, spca50x) is using the device and
you have read/write access to the device.
*** Error (-53: 'Could not claim the USB device') ***
The x-apps gtkam and digikam won't work as either regular user or root. In
both cases they recognize the camera but I can't download the pictures.
I am a member of the camera group and gphoto -a works as both root and
regular user.
I feel that I either must put my user in another group as well as camera or
change the permissions on a usb device but I have no idea which one or what
its called.
Thanks in advance,
Roy Pluschke
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Re: lame not in the debian package repository?
On August 13, 2005 22:05, Rishi wrote: Hi Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in the debian package repository? Regards Legal reasons -- mp3 encoding is patented. Use ftp://ftp.nerim.net as a repository for lame, mplayer, audio/video codecs etc. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot mount cdrom! - a clue
On May 22, 2005 00:27, Aaron Maxwell wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:36 am, Keith Edmunds wrote: Audio CDs don't usually have an ISO9660 filesystem on them. Ah. I get it now. I was confused about the actual problem here. The issue is that I cannot access audio cds on my cdrom drive. I'd like to rip the music stored on this Groove Armada disc, and/or play it directly from the drive. I usually use xmms to play music and grip for ripping. I have not succeeded at making either of them access the music cd. xmms does not give much feedback. Grip provides a popup message: Error: Unable to initialize [/dev/cdrom]. (/dev/cdrom is indeed a symlink to /dev/hdc on my system.) In the past I have been able to easily access this drive with both of those applications, on an older system. I built a new system and just pulled this drive out of the old one. Since it works as root you probably haven't added yourself to the group cdrom Hope this helps, Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
contract bridge program
Has anyone ever found an open source contract bridge program. Thanks in advance R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xcdroast and 2.6.9 in Debian
On November 24, 2004 14:21, H. S. wrote:
I discovered today that for some reason my xcdroast had been removed. I
was a bit surprised since I never removed it myself.
Anyhow, I reinstalled it using dselect and tried to configure it. During
installation I told it NOT to use SCSI emulation and NOT to make
/dev/sg? devices.
But now it takes *ages* to detect and configure my two drives. When I
ask it to rescan it just never sees my CDROM, only the CD-RW.
And I get these in my /var/log/syslog:
kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: hdd: irq timeout: error=0x00
kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete
.
.
.
and so on.
Then I tried by allowing it to use SCSI and allowing it to make /dev/sg?
devices. Same results with similar delays.
And if I try to eject the CD from CDROM, it takes another 5 or more
minutes to open the tray,maybe even longer.
Earlier I was running the 2.6.7 kernel. Now since a few days ago, I am
running 2.6.9 kernel (vanilla) on Sarge.
Is there a problem with xcdroast or am I missing something really
important. BTW, I do not have scsi emulation enabled, use ATAPI all the
time which seems to work with cdrecord.
There appears to be a problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 kernels and cdrecord. This
problem is well documented -- see for example:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3644
You either have to apply a patch or burn cd's as root. Some people are also
having trouble burning audio cd's where the cpu usage goes through the roof.
I would recommend downgrading to the 2.6.7 kernel again until these issues are
sorted out.
R. Pluschke
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Re: xcdroast and 2.6.9 in Debian
On November 24, 2004 18:13, Adam Aube wrote: Roy Pluschke wrote: There appears to be a problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 kernels and cdrecord. This problem is well documented -- see for example: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3644 This bug existed in 2.6.8. It was fixed in 2.6.9. Adam Not in the debian kernel-source-2.6.9 package. Install my 2.6.7 kernel and it works fine, 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 don't (same kernel compile options and permission settings). I don't know about the pre-compiled kernels though. R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help: Sarge+KDE terribly slow!?
On November 14, 2004 05:16, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Mirek Stefanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But one day I decided to upgrade to Sarge - after one day battle it was done. Now I have to wait about 10 minutes to start KDE desktop, and This is normal for KDE. No its not! I have a similarly old 350 MHz system and have no where near start times like that. From following the kde list the most common problem for people with extremely slow start times is the network setup (Even if the machine is not networked). Kde is waiting for a response and the system is timing out. Make sure loopback is in /etc/network/interfaces and that the /etc/networks file is OK. Also check your /etc/host* files and that nothing strange is happening with dns. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing black white on a colour printer
On October 24, 2004 15:26, Levi Waldron wrote: I am using CUPS with the hpijs driver to print on an HP Deskjet 710C, on a Sarge/KDE workstation. I am out of colour ink and don't intend to replace it, as I only want to print in black white. Unfortunately, whenever I print something with colour, the colour portions come out blank as it tries to use the non-existent ink. I have tried: - Choosing grayscale from the options I get when sending a print job from KDE apps. This has no apparent effect. - Defining a Deskjet 600 non-colour printer to send print jobs to. There is no output when sending a job to this printer. Thanks for any ideas. I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like: 300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart. This leads me to believe that the color catridge is used for greyscale printing or it is just a ripoff by HP to get us to by more ink. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.
On October 1, 2004 20:29, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: #secure method=pgp mode=sign Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I would like to do is get an nVidia card. Mistake du jour! You'll only spend more on the nVidia for even crappier drivers. Just get a newer Radeon if you want graphics performance. I believe there's actually working open drivers for the ATI adapters. Problem is that the newer Radeon cards have even worse support in the open source drivers. It is really aggravating since I want a card that will allow me to play my games in Linux. The two that I play now are Neverwinter Nights and America's Army. I would probably get more in the future, but not if I can't my video card to perform better. Based on what I have seen by googling for the various problems that I have had, there are far fewer problems with nVidia cards than with ATi cards when it comes to Linux gaming. Anyway, how bad are the nVidia drivers? The only experience I have had with them (one high-end workstation in the Linux lab I formerly admined) was fairly positive. I have 4 computers in the house. 2 with ATI cards and 2 with NVidia cards. I've had far fewer problems with the nvidia cards under both linux and windows. I don't play many games but make heavy use of OpenGL (Maya, Blender etc). Go over to the Blender forums and you will see sticky threads devoted to getting ATI cards to work while the NVidia cards just do. I don't know much about comparative DirectX support and frankly I don't care. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Noteedit
To those that are interested I noticed that noteedit has found some people to take over the project see http://developer.berlios.de/projects/noteedit. I'm hoping this will mean that debian will continue to package it in future releases. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recording the screen
On September 9, 2004 18:56, Victor Munoz wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:18:24PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: I am preparing a presentation and I'd love to be able to make a movie out of a session at the computer, i.e. I'd like to capture the screen repetitively and then be able to play it back as a movie. Is there a ready solution for me? Have a look at xvidcap, its what I use and its excellent! Debs for stable and testing/sid are available on this site http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ Check out the instructional movies on the site to see how it works. Hope this helps, RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?
On August 26, 2004 00:21, David Wright wrote: Thanks for the tip! It works. Looking at various web pages on xmodmap, it even looks possible, via a slightly more complex syntax, to define a compose key, so that all the Windows key combinations for all the Latin-1 accented characters could be reproduced. Is there some reason the Debian standard xmodmap.us doesn't ship this way? (And, or course, all the other xmodmap.XX files with the corresponding Windows conventions for those locales?) Is it just an aversion to anything Microsoft has done, or is there some better reason not to do this? I think you would find this of interest, it is what I used to set up my keyboard http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/software/x11/xmodmap_en/ Hope this helps, RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On August 23, 2004 01:11, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Is there a Debian -- or free -- equivalent of MATLAB. try octave RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X application keyboard snooper
I'm creating some video tutorials (X screen capture movies using xvidcap) and would like to show what keys I'm currently pressing in a small window on the screen. The utility would have to handle shift-ctrl-alt-meta combinations well since the app makes heavy use of them. Does anyone know of such a utility?? Maybe even something that writes to a file -- I could tail it in a borderless xterm. Thanks in advance, RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X application keyboard snooper
On August 19, 2004 15:47, Thomas Adam wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:34:47PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: I'm creating some video tutorials (X screen capture movies using xvidcap) and would like to show what keys I'm currently pressing in a small window on the screen. The utility would have to handle shift-ctrl-alt-meta combinations % apt-cache search record X11 xmacro - Record / Play keystrokes and mouse movements in X displays Looks like something you could use. I have already looked at this, and it doesn't act at all like the name suggests it would. It sends your keypresses and mouse movements to a remote display and sends locally a text formated listing to stdout, you lose control of the local display until you press a particular key. Thanks for taking the time to reply though. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deleted root account in passwd
On August 14, 2004 22:40, s. keeling wrote: I have to say that this is one area where windows really shines -- it is much, much easier to remotely set a root/admin password in windows than in linux ;) You mean, Windows boxes are easier to root remotely? Yes Most, reasonably competent admins would not find themselves in this position (no offense meant to the OP). To easily root a box remotely is not a good thing. That Linux makes this difficult is a strength, not a weakness. It was supposed to be a joke -- note the smiley ;) with a wink RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deleted root account in passwd
On August 14, 2004 17:04, Simon Kitching wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 11:55, Simon Kitching wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 06:14, Pete Clarke wrote: Hi there, dumb modeI managed to delete the root entry in /etc/passwd whilst playing on a test box/dumb mode Is there an easy way of re-inserting, or copying the backup passwd file I have without physical access to the box? I can ssh into it, but only as a regular user - obviously I can't su to root as it doesn't exist anymore :-) Sorry, I didn't read the original email properly, and missed the bit about not having physical access to the machine. I have to say that this is one area where windows really shines -- it is much, much easier to remotely set a root/admin password in windows than in linux ;) I think your out of luck unless the test box was poorly configured. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a *console* screen capture
On August 10, 2004 00:34, Scott G. Hall wrote: I am not sure I recall an answer to this question. I too am looking for a screen capture utility for a Debian-based system. Text captures are easy -- I am a long-time UNIX user and sys-admin. In Solaris there is an xgrab utility that allows you to define the upper-left and lower-right corners, then a time countdown to capture. Options included capturing the outside or inside of the active window at the end of the countdown. I need this same functionality under Debian -- needed to provide captures for trouble reports, help and manual documentation, and design documents. I use KSnapshot which allows for window, screen or region based snapshots with a user defined delay. Its great if you run kde or a lot of kde based apps but probably has to much overhead if you don't. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange virus warning
On August 7, 2004 09:34, frank coldewe wrote: Hi, I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus trend award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com or reboot the system with a empty floppy in floppydrive.) Don`t know how to stop this message, course I never had problems with the system and no defects occurs on the system resulted by a virus. Has anybody ever seen such a message on woody and know how to disable this ?? Some bios' have rudementary bootblock virus checking built in which you can usually turn off in your bios' setup program. Google for bios virus or bootblock virus for more info. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord
I am running a 2.6 kernel (2.6.7-k7-1) which is supposed to automatically include ide-scsi without the need to load a module. I have set up udev to create /dev/hdc and also a symlink /dev/cdrw to point to it. I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs (forever). It outputs the information below and then suspends (and ctrl C does not kill it). [EMAIL PROTECTED] debcd $ cdrecord -eject speed=12 dev=/dev/cdrw sarge-i386-netinst.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. scsidev: '/dev/cdrw' devname: '/dev/cdrw' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. The new 2.6 kernels do not include ide-scsi, they don't use scsi at all unless it is a true scsi device. The 2.6 kernels support ide cdrw drives natively without the need of the scsi hack. You should be treating the drives as ide drives not scsi. I generally use a front end (k3b) for cdrecord which set the parameters automatically but by running cdrecord dev=help and reading the man pages you should be able to use the atapi interface. Hope this helps RJP
Re: sid Tetex upgrade fails
On August 6, 2004 00:53, David Baron wrote: Fmutils returns an error. This affects lyx as well. Any fix or wait for next upgrade. Not using this anyway. I have this as well, which has unfortunately also broken lilypond a program that I use a good portion of the time. The good news is that it usually only takes a day or two for problems like this to be fixed. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sid Tetex upgrade fails
On August 6, 2004 13:51, Stefan Bellon wrote: I have this as well, which has unfortunately also broken lilypond a program that I use a good portion of the time. The good news is that it usually only takes a day or two for problems like this to be fixed. You can fix it in the meantime by putting a percent sign in front of the line For use with ngerman.sty in the /etc/texmf/language.dat file and afterwards installing tetex-bin again. My language.dat file has a % sign in front of that line. The problem seems to be that fmtutil can't find fmtutil.cnf even though it exists in 3 locations on my machine: /usr/share/tetex-bin/fmtutil.cnf /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf I guess the install script needs to supply the complete path. Where are the package install scripts stored anyways once a package has been unpacked but not successfully configured? Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why Does KPackage Want to Pretty Much Wipe Out My System?
On August 4, 2004 21:41, Scarletdown wrote: export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt, I went ahead and did a export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt and tried .configure again, but got the same error. I also tried export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3, and again got the same error when I did ./configure even though qt and qt3 are actually there. So, what else needs to be done for knewspost to install correctly? type ./configure --help It should give options to configure. To the one for the qt libs give the path to the qt libs (on sid its /usr/share/qt3). I'm sorry I can't remember the exact name of the option as I'm not on my home computer. then configure with ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3 (note the --with-qt3-dir is just a guess) I've found that I had to do this to compile any qt app on debian since we tend to put the qt libs in different places than other distributions Hope this helps, RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blopping
On July 30, 2004 13:45, Tim Raats wrote: Everytime I play a song in programs like Noatun, JuK, Amarok I hear a strange 'blopping' sound. With is the cause if this problem and how to solve it ? I don't know exactly what you mean by blopping but about a month ago after an update (I'm using sid) Juk started sounding distorted, not really bad, but quite noticeable when compared to the same file played under xmms or gqmpeg. Kaboodle also has the distortion (I don't use amarok or noatun). These are all KDE apps so I assumed it was a problem with some kde library or arts. If I set Juk to use gstreamer rather than arts I get no sound at all even though other programs using gstreamer work correctly. I have found no solution other than using non-kde mp3 players -- I miss my Juk. Just to let you know you are not alone with this problem. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron
On July 28, 2004 20:19, Aaron B wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I've recently had problems installing / upgrading cron from apt-get. It seemed to be a problem with not being able to find /usr/bin/crontab while upgrading - so I removed cron, and then attempted to install it. Here is the output: I gather that you are running unstable as I am. Just wait a day or two and a new fixed cron package will magically appear. Running unstable will have the odd bump in the road. If it really has to be fixed right now I would suggest examining the install script and see what its doing wrong (perhaps it should be /etc/crontab rather than /usr/bin/crontab -- just a guess). RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems using JACK
On July 16, 2004 10:33, rich lott wrote: First, is it right that you pretty much have to run jack (and therefore all audio apps) as root? I can't get it started as any other user - it starts but the clients can't find it. Second, is there anyway to get Arts to use Jack? (and then, any way to get ESD to use it?) Call me radical, but I thought it would be really good if all my apps which make sounds could...well, make sounds, without interfering with/blocking eachother. I like jack because I play with hydrogen and audacity and so I appreciate the low latency. There doesn't seem to be much on the net about jack, perhaps it's too young yet? For non-root applications to connect to jackd you will have to patch your 2.4 kernel (adds some security risk). The file include/linux/capability.h requires a small change. If you are using a 2.6 kernel you can use the new Linux Realtime Security module. This is all explained in the jack faq http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php -- not very hard to find RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Different sized gnome fonts in KDE
Sorry about starting a new thread but I deleted the mail and now remebered how I fixed this problem. Gnome fonts where using a different dpi than kde was. Under gnome-font-properties there is a details or advanced button, I forget which. Press this and the new dialog will allow you to set the dpi for gnome fonts. I made sure this was the same as I was starting kde with and all was well. Hope this helps, RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent alsa midi problem
On July 7, 2004 19:14, Erik Steffl wrote: Silvan wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:47 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote: After a recent dist-upgrade on my sid system midi has stopped working. Which leads me to believe that snd-emu10k1 and snd-emu10k1-synth have been loaded correctly. is it anything similar to my problem? my email to debian-user is not in archives (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/07/threads.html) yet (archives are up to 2004/07/04, my email is from 2004/07/05 :-) so here the quote. Subject: modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes (sb live! kernel 2.6.5) alsa used to work on my system, I didn't change anything I think might be related and suddenly the modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes. system: debian unstable kernel 2.6.5 (with alsa) I did not change kernel or modules (I checked and there are no new/changed files under /lib/modules/2.6.5) yet suddenly (after reboot) the oss sequencer cannot be loaded. There are no (related) messages in /var/log/syslog. jojda:/home/erik# modprobe -v snd-seq-oss insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-midi-event.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko and the modprobe does not exit, it just sits there. udev creates devices (see below) but there are not usable, e.g.: jojda:/var/log# sfxload /data/music/soundfont/creative/8MBGMSFX.SF2 /dev/sequencer: No such device I am using 2.6.3 at the moment and while my symptoms are somewhat different I believe the problems are related. Using sfxload for a sound font I would get the /dev/sequencer: No such device message and sometimes the command would just hang. My modules always seemed to load correctly though. I have found a somewhat unsatisfactory solution -- If I boot into my windows partition and use the soundblaster utility to reset to factory defaults all is fine again when booting back into linux. It appears that alsa can occasionally screw up the synth portion of the sound card to the point that even a cold reboot doesn't solve the problem. I have no idea how I would have recovered without a windows partition still hanging around. I may just revert to a 2.4 kernel with low latency patches and a 0.9 alsa -- this combination worked for me for the longest time without any problems. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recent alsa midi problem
After a recent dist-upgrade on my sid system midi has stopped working. Both soundfonts loaded with sfxload and timidity started as a soft synth (timidity -iA -Os -B2,8 ) have stopped functioning. Starting noteedit and attempting to config a synth says that no sequencer is available. Sound other than midi is working fine. lsmod gives the following output: -- Module Size Used by snd_seq_midi6464 0 snd_seq_oss33761 1 snd_emu10k1_synth 6720 0 snd_emux_synth 36640 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 5760 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_event 6112 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul 7008 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq52784 6 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul snd_emu10k166756 2 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi20608 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm_oss49604 0 snd_mixer_oss 17696 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm88928 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 22176 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_seq_device 6404 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 60868 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 9412 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem3200 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 7392 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd47204 18 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep nvidia 4812960 12 -- Which leads me to believe that snd-emu10k1 and snd-emu10k1-synth have been loaded correctly. Below is the relevent portion of my modules.conf file ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa ### DEBCONF MAGIC # This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore options snd major=116 cards_limit=4 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0 ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-base above snd-pcm snd-pcm-oss ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa-base The output of cat /dev/sndstat gives -- config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: Sound Blaster Live! (rev.7) at 0xe800, irq 9 Audio devices: 0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: 0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: 0: SigmaTel STAC9708/11 --- Here we see that the synth devices are not configured anymore :( Where and how do I enable synth devices in config?? Thanks in advance RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arts problems
Hi, I'm running sid with a 2.6 kernel and recently have noticed that the sound quality through juk is horrible. I investigated further and it seems to be an arts problem (all other apps which don't use arts sound fine). I've tried modifying everything possible in the kde sound configuration panel without any success. Is anyone else having this problem? I sure miss juk. thanks in advance RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stopping resolution switching with xdm, gdm etc.
I recently tried installing a graphical login screen after years of just typing startx. Is there a way of stopping the ?dm family of display managers from resetting the display resolution as it goes from the login screen to the persons desktop and back. On my box it shows a jumbled graphics screen in between switches and look rather unproffesional -- whats worse is that it occasionally hangs the system (1 out of 50 times). Thanks in advance RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading windoze partition
Currently running a dual boot system win98 and sid (lilo is my boot manager). I have to update my little used windows partition to windows 2000 for a particular program but I am afraid this will cause problems with lilo by over-writing something. What's the best way of doing this safely and not losing my sid partition? Thanks in advance, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ever heard of Brief?
On March 22, 2004 01:35, Shot wrote: Hello. Please don't start a new thread by replaying to a previous message from list, or at least delete the In-Reply-To: headers; it's messing up threading. Anil Gupte: One particularly neat feature was the ability to cut and paste columns. I have never since found an editor that does that on either Windows or Linux. Can anyone point me to such an editor? Vim does this - when you press Ctrl-V in normal mode you can select rectangles. Kwrite, Kate and nedit (my personal favourite) all can select rectangles. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.3
On March 10, 2004 12:56 pm, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: la2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I compiled subject. Now i cannot install and compile NVIDIA drivers 1.5336, it says: I cannot find nvidia.ko. Also I cannot compile alsa-drivers for my AC'97 codec (I always use Intel810): at first I configure them, the write make install and the compiler prints that there is a great number of error during compiling process. I don't know if the following answers a question of yours, but in alsa as become part of the 2.6 kernel. So from now on, you have to select alsa from make xconfig. (while preparing to compile the kernel) I also got the I cannot find nvidia.ko message. I found out that I was trying to compile the drivers with a different version of gcc that my kernel was compiled with. Making sure that that both the nvidia drivers and kernel were compiled with the same version of gcc made the problem go away. Hope this helps, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkisofs - unstable
Hi, I am running unstable with a 2.62 kernel using the native ATAPI support in favour of the deprecated ide-scsi for my cd writer. All works fine using k3b to make music cd's but I get the following error when trying to burn a data cd: /usr/bin/mkisofs: Resource temporarily unavailable. cannot fwrite 2048*1 The above is from the k3b's error log. In k3b's progress window the following error is written mkisofs returned an unknown error (code 11). Is the mkisofs currently in unstable incompatible with the native ATAPI support? or are others having success? Thanks in advance, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.6 shuts down in composer
On March 8, 2004 07:26 pm, Ben Wehrspann wrote: Am using Mozilla 1.6-1.he-1. When I go to Composer and start to type it completely shuts down mozilla. Not sure whether this is known or not, or whether its just local to me, but perhaps somebody else would like to try this and verify on their machine. The composer in Mozilla (1.6-1) in unstable works fine here, dselect does not show the .he-1 version extension, so I'm not sure if it's the same version. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde3.2 and startx
Now that kde3.2 is coming into sid I have been unable to start kde from the command line with startx. X starts up and then just quits back to the command line. My .xsession file contains the line exec kde3 which worked for kde 3.15 but not now. Note that exec gnome-session and exec wmaker both work fine from my .xsession file as does starting kde3.2 from kdm so it is not an X problem. Does anybody know the magic incantation to place in my .xsession file to start kde3.2 with startx? thanks in advance R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to linux 2.6.3 causing strange behaviour
On February 28, 2004 10:36 am, Alan Chandler wrote: I just installed the standard debian package kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 and booted from it, after previously running 2.6.1 For the first few minutes it seems to have real problems with cpu loading. Starting up KDE causes the soundserver to fail because of to high a CPU loading, but even after this has failed the mouse is very jittery. I does eventually settle down, and now - some 5 mins after booting I seem to have a working system Anyone else see this, and is it a feature of linux 2.6.3, or a debian problem? -- I also had the cpu loading problem with the kde soundserver but with 2.6.3 debian intel kernel. I assumed that the newer alsa in the 2.6.3 kernel was the problem. The 2.6.2 kernel works fine here. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?
On February 9, 2004 11:35 pm, Conrad Newton wrote: From Roy Pluschke on Monday, 2004-02-09 at 18:50:36 -0800: On February 9, 2004 05:53 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: Roy - thanks for all the info! I've had timidity installed and working for years, but I gather it does more than I thought. I might be able to get by with it after all. Am I correct in assuming that with ALSA my MIDI H/W ports are probably working now? I haven't had a chance to test yet. From what I can tell from here, yes. I'm not sure what timidity sound patches, if any, debian currently has. The package is called timidity-patches. Conrad The package only exists in stable and is missing from testing and unstable -- don't know why perhaps some licencing issues. The timidity-patches are not of the same quality as the eawpats. 10mb as opposed to 24mb, the difference is quite audible. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Music Mixing
On February 10, 2004 02:22 am, David Baron wrote: Audacity, Muse, Rosegarden, Ardour, others. Try 'em and see which one you like best. Ardour looks exciting but you may need to compile it and I have not succeded--a load of libraries and dependencies. Most of the others can be apt-getted. You will not have all those DX and VST plugins you are used to. ardour is in unstable R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?
On February 9, 2004 04:42 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: On Mon, 09 Feb 2004, Rick Macdonald wrote: Searching the web and Debian site uncovered that I may need to load sound fonts with sfxload, but it's not clear to me if this is still required or not. Also, the awesfx package no longer exists. What do I need to do next? You can either use timidity (software synthesis), or you need to find something to upload the soundfonts to the wavetable synthesizer in your Live card. And the soundfonts as well, of course. timidity is installed and works but I need true midi now. Any idea why awesfx was removed from the Debian packages? I found one on the web (awesfx_0.4.4-5_i386.deb). I found some SF2 files (CT4MGM.SF2 CT8MGM.SF2) from my Windows machine with an SB Extigy. Will they work? Somewhere I have the CDs from the SBLive card if I need them. Can I mess up the SBLive card running sfxload? I use the awesfx package on my debian box without any problems (soundblaster live card). The sound fonts that come with the soundcard are called 2gmgsmt.sf2, 4gmgsmt.sf2 and 8mbgmsfx.sf2 which I'm sure you can find with a quick google. Note that using the cards wave synth under alsa drops an occasional note. See the alsa home page about this bug. timidity is installed and works but I need true midi now. I don't understand the above statement. Timidity is/has true midi. To run timidity as a alsa synth start up timidity like this: timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 Its best to have timidity suid root so that it can use the real time scheduler/clock or whatever it is called. In your application i.e. rosegarden or noteedit just select the timidity synth instead of the soundcard synth. The timidity samples are much better that the 8mb sound fonts that come by default with the soundblaster cards. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?
On February 9, 2004 05:53 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: Roy - thanks for all the info! I've had timidity installed and working for years, but I gather it does more than I thought. I might be able to get by with it after all. Am I correct in assuming that with ALSA my MIDI H/W ports are probably working now? I haven't had a chance to test yet. From what I can tell from here, yes. I'm not sure what timidity sound patches, if any, debian currently has. I would highly recommend the eawpats which are available here http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/eawpats12_full.rar You will need to unrar them (apt-get install unrar) unrar e -y whatever.rar I placed them in /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ my timidity.cfg file looks as follows # start dir /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ source gravis.cfg source gsdrums.cfg source gssfx.cfg source xgmap2.cfg # end -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music mixing
On February 9, 2004 07:10 pm, techlists wrote: Hey guys, I'm looking for something I can use to edit and mix music. Under Winblows I used Reason. But I have yet to find a linux equivalent. I looked on freshmeat, and found a program called Veejay, but I can't seem to get it to compile under SID. So, I'm wondering if any of you guys have experience with a descent software package, and if it's apt-get'ableall the better. Jack Look at http://ardour.org/ It is avaialble in sid, don't know about testing, unstable. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with X
On February 7, 2004 11:45 am, Bytor the Destroyer wrote: I have done some reading and I have commented out the lines in my XF86Config file load GLcore and load dri. It solved the problem with the errors I got in my XFree86 log. I am still having a problem with getting X up and running. I can get the Nvidia spash screen and then I get a black and white screen with a lot of dots on it and a black x for the mouse pointer. Then after a quick second it goes back to text mode. Here is my XFree86 log. I can not see what the problem is. Hopefully someone can give me a clue. Thanks Clyde The white screen with a lot of dots means that you do indeed have X up and running. X is looking for a window manager or program to run and when it doesn't find one exits. Make sure you have KDE or Gnome or whatever window manager installed and then edit/create the .xsession file in your home directory. Mine looks as follows: exec wmaker # exec gnome-session # exec kde3 I uncomment what I feel like using that day. Some people prefer to use a display mamnager like kdm/gdm/xdm that logs you in and lets you select from a variety of installed window/session managers. hope this helps, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: k3b and wav files
On February 4, 2004 07:46 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote: Hi, I am running unstable and I have several wav files that I would like to burn to an audio cd. According to the k3b documentation this should just be a drag and drop process however I am getting an unspported format error. Note that I can drag and drop ogg and mp3's without any problem. I have tried other wav files on my system i.e. system sounds with the same unfortuate result. The wav plugin for k3b is loaded. Other cd burning operations work fine so I don't believe it is permissions issue. Anybody have any suggestions how I can get this to work? Thanks in advance, R.J.P. Jan Suchy sent me a personal email rather than replying to the list, probably by mistake. Anyway his suggestion was correct -- I had to convert my wav file to a frequency of 44100 first. Thanks Jan :) R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
k3b and wav files
Hi, I am running unstable and I have several wav files that I would like to burn to an audio cd. According to the k3b documentation this should just be a drag and drop process however I am getting an unspported format error. Note that I can drag and drop ogg and mp3's without any problem. I have tried other wav files on my system i.e. system sounds with the same unfortuate result. The wav plugin for k3b is loaded. Other cd burning operations work fine so I don't believe it is permissions issue. Anybody have any suggestions how I can get this to work? Thanks in advance, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 29, 2004 06:05 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi R.J.P, Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should i do next? Read the man page!! From man unrar After the program name comes a command and then optional switches with dashes before them. A summary of commands is included below. For a complete description, run unrar without options. therefore the command would be: unrar e -y whatever.rar the e being a command, the -y is a switch. It looks like whatever you downloaded eaqpats12_fullxyz with might have stripped the .rar extension. You might have to tack it back on. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 28, 2004 02:58 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi guys, I have search the debian webpage. Not completely, as there is a load of stuff. I am looking for a program, for debian. To make music, without the need to have some kind of input device for sounds. Is there such a thing? If so, could you recommend a easy to use one? Many Thanks noteedit - to graphically enter notes on a staff and playback with midi rosegarden4 0.96 - sequencer / notation editor (Cubase clone) soundtracker - the best tracker for linux IMHO timidity - for midi if you don't have a hardware synth for playback Noteedit is probably the easiest to use. Start timidity in server mode (timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 ) and then configure noteedit to use the softsynth and you are set. Good luck R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any wink or qarbon clones?
Are there any open source equivalents to wink or qarbon for creating animated tutorials ? Thanks in advance, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 28, 2004 04:31 am, Stephen Turner wrote: i tried the options ( timidity -0s -iA -B2,8 ) but it doesn't work. That i should check the timidety.cfg file. I read the file, but it does not make anything clear. How do i start imidity in server mode? That is the letter O not a zero in -Os as you have typed :) the output from ( timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 ) should look something like this: ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 2048, period size 1024 bytes TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode can't set sched_setscheduler - using normal priority Opening sequencer port: 129:0 129:1 Note that you must be using alsa for this to work -- see the noteedit website. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 28, 2004 09:12 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi R.J.P, I got the message:- midia.cfg no such file or directory timidity can't read any configuration file pleae check /etc/timidity.cfg I have alsa installed. I shall read the noteedit website in the meantime. It seems that in testing/unstable the timidity-patches are missing, perhaps there was some licencing issue. I installed timidity a long time ago -- probably on Ham. At that time the patches that came with timidity weren't very good so I installed the eawpats myself. They are available here http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/eawpats12_full.rar You will need to unrar them (apt-get install unrar) I placed them in /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ my timidity.cfg file looks as follows # start dir /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ source gravis.cfg source gsdrums.cfg source gssfx.cfg source xgmap2.cfg # end That should get you running :) R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Konqueror and mp3
Is there a way of configuring konqueror so that mp3's can be ripped like ogg files currently can via audiocd:/ -- the mp3 player in my car can't handle ogg. (I am using sid - if that matters) Thanks in advance, R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Konqueror and mp3
On January 26, 2004 07:29 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yup. You need lame installed. Go check out http://www.apt-get.org/ to find a source for it. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have lame 3.93 installed from deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main any other ideas? Thanks in advance R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Konqueror and mp3
On January 26, 2004 10:28 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: # KDE deb http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aschultz/debian/ unstable/ - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul, thanks for all your help R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?
On November 25, 2003 12:54 pm, Norman Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In a recent apt-get update/upgrade cycle on a machine running unstable, I seem to have stumbled over an inconsistency. # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded python python2.3 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2897kB of archives. After unpacking 16.4kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main python 2.3.2-6 [153kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main python2.3 2.3.2-6 [2744kB] Fetched 2635kB in 3m16s (13.4kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 73727 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python 2.3.2-2 (using .../python_2.3.2-6_all.deb) ... Document `python-policy' is not installed, cannot remove. Unpacking replacement python ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html', which is also in package python2.3 dpkg: considering removing python in favour of python2.3 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove python (--auto-deconfigure will help): python-gdk-imlib-1.2 depends on python ( 2.4) python is to be removed. dpkg: regarding .../python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb containing python2.3: python2.3 conflicts with python (= 2.3.2-5) python (version 2.3.2-2) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing python2.3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Is this a known inconsistency, or have I mangled something on my machine? Be seeing you, norm I also noticed this problem. You have not mangled anything on your machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UI font size in OpenOffice
On November 11, 2003 06:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:19:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a sid upgrade the font is larger than I would like. See bug #218585. So there's no resolution yet. Correct? Try Tools-Option-OpenOffice.og-View and adjust the Scale value. Hope this helps :) Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Searching for an editor...
On October 19, 2003 10:43 am, Tom wrote: [Sunday 19 October 2003 19:09] John Hasler: To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like are no option to me... What do you mean by graphical? Emacs has menus, icons, cutpaste with the mouse, mouse control of the cursor, etc. What is it that people mean by a graphical editor? Well... Built with widgets? :-s Somehow, I expected this reply. It's more of a look-n-feel thing. I don't mind console apps, but for some purposes, I like the graphical approach better. It's not (only) about being able to control things using the mouse etc. I understand the point about Emacs being as graphical as anything else in a certain way, but I can't believe *you* don't understand what I meant with graphical. :-) Greets, Tom I think nedit will fill your needs. Simple enough to be productive right away yet powerfull enough that you won't outgrow it. see www.nedit.org RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps
On September 20, 2003 02:15 am, Thomas Baumann wrote:
Hi there,
I'm tring to install my new Debian-System (my first one). Everything is
going quite fine, except that I am not able to compile any QT-Application
(KDE as well). I searched the web all over for a couple of times, but I
cannot find any solution ;((
My system's state is testing and I took KDE and Qt from download.kde.org.
I've also installed the devel-packs.
Here's my dpkg -l | grep qt:
ii libqt3 3.1.2-0woody1 Qt Library
ii libqt3-headers 3.1.2-0woody1 Qt3 header files
ii libqt3-mt 3.1.2-0woody1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime version)
ii libqt3-mt-dev 3.1.2-0woody1 Qt development files (Threaded)
ii qt3-dev-tools 3.1.2-0woody1 Qt3 development tools
ii qt3-doc3.1.2-0woody1 Qt3 API documentation
When I run configure on any Qt-Application, it always complains about not
finding Qt.
Here's a cut of my config.log:
configure:21977: checking for Qt
configure: 22045: /usr/share/qt3/include/qstyle.h
taking that
tried NO
configure:22154: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -Wnon-virtual-dtor
-Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer
-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
-D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions
-fno-check-new -I/usr/share/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
-DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -L/usr/share/qt3/lib
-L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.cc -lqt-mt -lpng -lz
-lm -ljpeg -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread 15
/tmp/ccZhliVQ.o(.text+0xe): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QString::null'
/tmp/ccZhliVQ.o(.text+0x13): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QStyleFactory::create(QString const)'
/tmp/ccZhliVQ.o(.text+0x20): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QCursor::QCursor[in-charge](int)'
/tmp/ccZhliVQ.o(.text+0x28): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QCursor::~QCursor [in-charge]()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:22157: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#include confdefs.h
#include qglobal.h
#include qapplication.h
#include qcursor.h
#include qstylefactory.h
#include private/qucomextra_p.h
#if ! (QT_VERSION = 0x030100)
#error 1
#endif
int main() {
(void)QStyleFactory::create(QString::null);
QCursor c(Qt::WhatsThisCursor);
return 0;
}
configure:22197: error: Qt (= Qt 3.1.0) (library qt-mt) not found.
Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!
I added /usr/share/qt3/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig, but the
result is the same ;((
When I try to compile the conftest.cc on my own, I get the following:
g++ -o conftest -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic
-W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
-D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new
-I/usr/share/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT
-D_REENTRANT -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
conftest.cc -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE
-lpthread
conftest.cc:1:22: confdefs.h: No such file or directory
I couldn't find confdefs.h on my system, so i asked apt-file, which told me
that pike-7.4.21 would bring that file. So I gave that a try too, which
results with:
g++ -o conftest -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic
-W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
-D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new
-I/usr/share/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/pike/7.4.21
-DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -L/usr/share/qt3/lib
-L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.cc -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm
-ljpeg -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread
/tmp/ccPogQN9.o(.text+0xe): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QString::null'
/tmp/ccPogQN9.o(.text+0x13): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QStyleFactory::create(QString const)'
/tmp/ccPogQN9.o(.text+0x20): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QCursor::QCursor[in-charge](int)'
/tmp/ccPogQN9.o(.text+0x28): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `QCursor::~QCursor [in-charge]()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Now I really do not have a clue of what's wrong. Maybe one of you can help
me. I even wondered that there seems no one else to be, having this
problem, as it is very common to compile Qt-Apps. Actually there are many
problems with Qt, but ever single case could be fixed by installing some
devel-deb's or finetuning ld... did I miss something
So _please_ help me, because I am starting to lose fun installing my very
new Debian ;((
Hi,
try./configure
Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps
On September 20, 2003 04:23 am, Thomas Baumann wrote: I did try --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3, --with-qt-includes=/usr/share/qt3/include, --with-qt-libraries=/usr/share/qt3/lib in any combination, but without success ;(( I am not new to comiling stuff. I did it a thousand times (on RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and even Slackware), but this problem makes me just crazy... I don't think that the configure-script or -options are wrong, because I tried to compile the testconf.cc on my own, without any configure around it. Doing this, I get the following error (as mentioned above (now below)): confdefs.h couldn't been found Maybe this is a hint to the problem??? Hi, I am running unstable and am not familiar with what is currently in testing. Do you have the testing version (from the debian sources) also installed? If so, perhaps configure is finding an older version?? I have never installed qt from download.kde.org -- maybe it installs the libs and headers in the opt directory as is done in some other distributions?? Six months ago I switched from testing to unstable because gnome2 in testing was pretty broken at the time. I have found unstable to be be more stable than testing was -- if that makes sense :) The versions of qt and kde in unstable had no problems compiling the 1.1 beta of Scribus (a desktop publishing program) two days ago. If nothing else works maybe a switch to unstable is in order. If you tell me the name of the program I will confirm if unstable will compile it here. Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
open office spell checking
Hi, I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even let me select the spell checker under Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids. I'm running unstable. Anybody have any ideas? thanks in advance R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: open office spell checking
On August 29, 2003 10:32 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 22:12, Roy Pluschke wrote: Hi, I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even let me select the spell checker under Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids. I'm running unstable. Anybody have any ideas? What version of OOo are you running, and where did you get it? I.e., from www.openoffice.org, or Debian, etc? Version 1.1.0 from debian unstable -- updated today R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: open office spell checking
On August 30, 2003 01:56 am, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even let me select the spell checker under Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids. I'm running unstable. Anybody have any ideas? Use koffice instead. koffice is more stable and the next version the default file format changes to OpenOffice. I for myself won't be using KOffice untill it is able to save in MsWord format, Excel format etc. Unfortunately I have friends, colleagues and clients who do use M$ crap still ;). Pity nobody knows how to get the spellcheck in OO fixed, I am having the same issue here... Pim I just installed OOo. Debian Unstable using dselect. KDE desktop - trying it out at a friends insistance. I didn't have OOo installed because a I hadn't needed more than a notepad on this system yet. I only installed it now because the use X program instead response didn't seem like an answer to the question even if it did prompt some thought and comment on the idea. Heres what I installed: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gcc-3.0-base kdebase libstdc++3 myspell-en-us oooqs-kde openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-crashrep openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-help-en openoffice.org-l10n-en openoffice.org-mimelnk 0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 71.6MB of archives. After unpacking 202MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] After installing I fire up OOo and start typing. I type my last name. It gets underlined. I type compalning and it gets underlined. I right-click compalning and I have complaining in the drop down. I select it and the word is corrected. I undo and choose tools spellcheck check. compalning turns into complaining again. I think either something wasn't installed right or at all (maybe myspell-en-us) or you're not using english and there is an issue with another language, or something is failing on the update/install so the spell check fails or you are seeing a different problem with the spelling checker. If it's some other use of the spelling checker, let me know and I'll try on my system. Jacob thank you for posting the list of new packages to be installed. I installed OOo along time ago and have just been updating and upgrading since then. My problem was the package myspell-en-us was not installed - I guess a dependancy got lost somewhere during upgrading. Everything is working fine now:) thanks again R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sylpheed spellchecking help
On August 21, 2003 10:11 pm, Russ Pitman wrote: I tried for several times to sub to the sylpheed mail list to ask this but no go so far, probably my error, however perhaps someone using sylpheed can help. Briefly I installed a debian woody system for a elderly friend to use as a browser and email and 'learn about computers'. He can manage both fine now using mozilla and sylpheed but has problems with spelling. I've been through both the FAQ and the sylpheed-doc manual and can't even find a mention of spellchecking anywhere. Using an external editor is not a satisfactory solution. My friends son uses yahoo and his mailer has a spellchecking button. So,failing a simple spellcheck for sylpheed, I suppose that my question really becomes,can anyone suggest a Debian alternative to the Yahoo mailer. I am about to setup a separate Woody box to use to test any suggestions Sylpheed doen't have spell checking -- use sylpheed-claws instead they call it a bleeding edge version but I have always found it stable enough for day to day use. Hope this helps R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound recording - sid
Greetings, I recently installed gnome-meeting in sid and noticed that in the installation wizard I wasn't getting the delayed recording played back. I have since tried to record with other applications (gnome-sound-recorder, audacity, krec) also without luck or useful error messages. I am running a 2.4.20 kernel with alsa 0.9 and a soundblaster live. Sound works perfectly in every other way ie. the tv card, cd, xmms, midi with sxfload or timidity in alsa server mode. I can speak into my mike and hear my voice through the speakers with the mixer adjusting the volume correctly. It does not matter which recording source I pick - none work :( I am a menber of the group audio and have attempted recording both with and without soundservers running. My permissions on dsp are as follows lrwxrwxrwx1 root root9 2002-07-29 22:05 dsp - /dev/dsp0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 2002-07-29 22:05 dsp0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 19 2002-07-29 22:05 dsp1 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 35 2002-07-29 22:05 dsp2 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 51 2002-07-29 22:05 dsp3 I did change the link 'dsp' to the group audio as well, but that didn't help so I change it back. Does anyone know whats going on here?? I know recording was working before (severl months ago) as I recorded some old 78's for a friend to CD. Thanks in advance Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MIDI Converter
On July 4, 2003 05:17 pm, Bill Webster wrote: I have a need to convert several songs that are currently in the midi format and I need to ultimately put them onto a music CD. Can someone give me a clue as to how I can go about this? timidity can covert from midi to wav which can then be burnt to CD R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kate kwrite printing problems
Hi, I recently upgraded from testing to unstable and after a few minor glitches got everything working well except printing from kate and kwrite. They both hang on a dialog box saying generating print data. Printing from other kde based apps that I have tried ie. konqueror and kmail works fine. Has anybody else running kde in unstable encountered similar problems? thanks in advance [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: via-rhine dhclient
On July 1, 2003 04:17 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 20:56:48 -0700 Piero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each time I turn onmy computer, I have to give commands: modprobe via-rhine dhclient How can I have them authomatically executed at every boot? I guess it's simple, but I cannot find the solution in any handbook or any man page. Thanks. Add them to the /etc/modules file. actually drop the modprobe for the via-rhine. Not sure about dhclient I just added the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces and my cable modem works automagically after turning on my computer :) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp note that you may have to change the eth0 to eth(whatever) if you have more that one nic. Hope this helps Roy Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does anyone use an All-in-One Printer?
On July 1, 2003 05:18 pm, Jake Johnson wrote: I am in the market for a printer and was wondering what people are happy with. Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts. I bought a hp psc 2110 printer/scanner about 6 months ago and both the printer and scanner work great. When I was looking to buy the fax functions of the all-in-ones were unsupported under linux so I bought the cheaper model without the fax and just use my modem for faxing after scanning in the document. R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openoffice in testing
Hi, I just installed openoffice 1.03 in testing and get the following error: openoffice.org: Damnit! I can't find OpenOffice's user files. Did you break the /etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf file manually ? This file should contain DESTINATIONPATH Inspecting /etc/openoffice/ I find that it is completely empty!! I will file a bug report but in the mean time would some please send me the contents of their /etc/openoffice/ Thanks in advance Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Controlling swapping
Hi, Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left open. If the computer is not used for a while it takes an annoying long amount of time to reload the open applications from swap (I may as well reload the program form scratch). Is there a way to tell the kernel not to swap unless required? I'm using 2.4.20 on a much modified testing system. The box is only used for desktop purposes. Thanks in advance. R.J. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explorer-type file manager
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:57:09 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, my machine has better uses for its time than a DE -- so I utilize blackbox, have ROX-Filer throw some icons on my workspace, and try and utilize applications that don't require KDE or GNOME (there are a lot of GTK+ apps that don't require GNOME, for instance, and QT apps that don't require KDE). For this reason, I've really liked browsers like Phoenix and Skipstone (which utilize GTK+). But I have yet to utilize a good *graphical* file manager that didn't come with a DE; for the most part, I've been doing without one, but I can also see your reasons for wanting one (making the machine easier for others to use). The most windows like file manager that I have seen is called Endeavour. Search google for Endeavour Mark II -- which is the latest version. You will probably have to compile it yourself but some people I know use it extensively. Personally I generally use emelfm a simple 2-pane gtk based file manager - very light weight! Hope this helps, R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Controlling swapping
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0800 Charlie Reiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left open. If the computer is not used for a while it takes an annoying long amount of time to reload the open applications from swap (I may as well reload the program form scratch). Is there a way to tell the kernel not to swap unless required? I'm using 2.4.20 on a much modified testing system. The box is only used for desktop purposes. Thanks in advance. R.J. Pluschke I'm no kernel expert here but I've never seen linx swap out things unless it needed to. I suspect you've got a periodic task that wakes up and demands memory. Likely culrpits are cron tasks or a screen saver. If you have enough memory, you can disable the swap file completely and run with just RAM. I've done this on my laptop and it works fine. As a bonus, this may force the culprit process to log an error when it cannot allocate enough memory. Good luck. Charlie. No unusual periodic tasks, don't use a screen saver (just blanking). It appears to be a function of time, if an open program is not used for a while it gets swapped to disk even if no other program is requesting memory. I suppose the kernel is anticipating -- this process hasn't been used for a while, swap it out, be ready for a new process. I would try to run without swap but editing the odd large graphic file requires it. The newer the kernel is the more I notice this. It didn't happen with kernel 0.99 pl 14 :) Thanks R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Controlling swapping
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:53:17 -0800 Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0On February 18, 2003 11:25 am, Jeetu Golani wrote: Hi, What's your machine configuration? I've used Linux with Kernels 2.4.18 and 2.2.17 on a Pentium 133MHz machine with 48MB RAM (and before that 32MB) and 128MB Swap (and before that it had 64MB Swap) and I've used KDE and other WindowManagers and memory monsters such as StarOffice and multiple instances of Netscape and I've never noticed this problem. Apps such as StarOffice were slow to load, however they wouldn't take an absolute absurd time to come outta swap. It would help if you could give me your machine config along with the apps u typically use. Also if you could provide info on which apps seem to take longer getting outta swap and stuff like that it'll give a clue as to where the prob lies. Pentium III 450 with 128MB ram, kernel 2.4.20, 128MB swap. I generally run Windowmaker and have open office, sylpheed, and gmt (terminal prog) running continuously. I'm in and out of nedit. While I'm using these programs and switching between them everything works OK with no or very little swapping. Leave the computer alone for a half hour and try to resume working and a bunch of swapping occours. Note the programs do not take an an absolute absurd time to come outta swap just enough to be annoying. I was hoping there was a method of some how tuning swapping/caching parameters to not do any swapping/caching while the machine was left idle. Thanks, R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0100 Rohan Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for about 3-5 minutes slowing everything down, and I was wondering if anyone has any idea what might be causing it. I run, kdm, rox session with sawfish, but this has been consistent since I installed the system and then I was running gnome and/or kde. I have uninstalled everything kde except the libraries needed for kdm. Any ideas would be most appreciated, as it drives me a little crazy, especially as I have no idea what is causing it. I have this also and believe that it is updatedb (used by locate) running in the background. I hardly ever turn my box off but if I do the next day after I boot the computer is almost unusable for 3 to 5 minutes due to disk activity. If the computer is left on the same thing occours at around 7:00 am. Check your /etc/cron.daily dir to see what is being run. Hope this helps. R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound problems
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:25:37 +0100 Willem-Jan Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kdemultimedia packages weren't installed yet, I thougt this was a standard package, Set aRts soundserver, sound runs well now and indeed, XMMS crashses :( That's a pity, it looks better than noatun. Is there a way to use XMMS and sound in KDE? You can try using the aRts output plugin in xmms -- xmmsarts.deb R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDRW UDF file system scripts
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:02:57 +0300 Andrei Smirnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:38:14PM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: Greetings, I recently patched my kernel so that I could use a CDRW as a regular file system for backup purposes. Right know I manually Where did you found it? Thanx in advance Please send through the list rather than me personally so that all may benefit. look at http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt; for a howto -- I used the already packaged udftools deb rather than building then myself. The only problem is shutting down without unmounting -- the packet-CD driver process is terminated before the attempt to umount the drive and so the shutdown just hangs. I don't know how to change the shutdown scripts in a debian friendly way so that the driver persists until umount is called. Solutions that I have come up with will be over-written when the boot/shutdown scripts deb (whatever it is) is updated. R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CDRW UDF file system scripts
Greetings, I recently patched my kernel so that I could use a CDRW as a regular file system for backup purposes. Right know I manually run: pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/scd1 and then mount the drive with the following options in fstab: rw,user,noatime,noauto everything works well but if I shutdown and forget to manually unmount the cdrw the system hangs when trying to unmount the local filesystems. Which script(s) do I have to modify to run pktsetup on bootup automatically and also be able to shutdown properly. Thanks in advance Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla Font Madness
Hi, I'm having a strange problem with mozilla fonts in testing. I have two users on a particular machine. One uses windowmaker and one uses gnome(1.4). The fonts in mozilla for the windowmaker user look relatively good whereas the gnome user's fonts look horrible!! Both users have exactly the same fonts selected in their font preferences in mozilla and both are obviously using the same X configuration (using Xfree's builtin truetype font server). The truetype fonts in other applications (konqueror, gimp etc) work well for both users. I have deleted both users .netscape .mozilla directories and reconfigured both with the same results!! Does mozilla read some settings/preferences from the gnome desktop ?? Has anyone else noticed this ?? Thanks in advance, Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xauth or xhost no longer required?
Hi, Since the upgrade of X in testing I have noticed that I don't have to use xhost or xauth to run X programs after I su to root. Is this the way its now supposed to be, or has something been set incorrectly during the upgrade? Thanks in advance RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xauth or xhost no longer required?
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:20:25 + Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:27:38AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: Hi, Since the upgrade of X in testing I have noticed that I don't have to use xhost or xauth to run X programs after I su to root. Is this the way its now supposed to be, or has something been set incorrectly during the upgrade? How do you su to root? $ su or $ su - ? The first one will make you root while preserving your environment (including XAUTHORITY), the latter will give you a clean root environment (probably without XAUTHORITY). I just type su return password return which is what I've always done, however I used to have to use xhost or xauth which is now not required. I'm just curious if some major security hole has been opened. What a speedy reply :) P.S. Oops!! I must apologize to Karl I hit the Reply button instead of the Reply to list button and by accident sent my reply to him personally. RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X priority warning
Hi, I'm getting the following warning on starting X: X warning: process set to priority 0 instead of the the requested priority -10 I start X using the 'startx' command and while everything works fine messages like this really bug me. How do I get X to start at the proper priority or failing that how do I set the requested priority to 0 ?? Another nitpick -- when exiting X I get the following message: waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/lib/fonts/misc refcount is 2, should be 1, fixing Does anybody know what this is about and how to correct it?? I am running testing if that matters. Thanks in advance Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nedit troubles
Hi, I am having problems with 'nedit' behaving strangely lately :( When I open a second file the window created does not accept keyboard or mouse input except for the window manager decorations. Could this be caused by the debian practice of renaming nc to nedit-nc to avoid a name conflict with another package? Is anyone else experiencing this and found a work-around? I am running testing if it matters. Thanks in advance rjplus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X depth and truetype font sizes
Hi, Has anyone else noticed that when you change the color depth of XFree86 ie. from 16 to 32 bpp that the truetype font sizes in gnome and KDE apps change? Is there any way to fix this !! When I edit graphics I generally am in 32bpp and the rest of the time in 16bpp as it is faster on my aging hardware. I know I could create different users for different color depths but what a pain to create multiple configurations for all my apps. By the way the msttcorefonts package that was added to testing today(yesterday) is broken -- beware -- . After a apt-get upgrade I lost those fonts and had to add symlinks manually to get them back. Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[offtopic] esdl
Greetings,
I'm trying to compile esdl the erlange binding for the SDL library
in order to get wings3d (a 3d modeler to work) to work.
No Debian Packages :(
The compile always barfs at this point:
gcc -c -g -O2 -funroll-loops -Wall -ffast-math -fpic -DSHM -DPTHREADS
-I/usr/include/ -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT esdl_opengl.c
gcc -c -g -O2 -funroll-loops -Wall -ffast-math -fpic -DSHM -DPTHREADS
-I/usr/include/ -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT esdl_glu.c
esdl_glu.c:32: parse error before `GLUtesselator'
esdl_glu.c:32: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
esdl_glu.c:34: parse error before `}'
esdl_glu.c:34: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`eglu_tessobj'
esdl_glu.c:34: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
here's the relevant part of the program
#ifdef _OSX_COCOA
#include OpenGL/glu.h
#else
#include GL/glu.h
#endif
typedef struct _tessdata3 * eglu_tessdata_ptr;
typedef struct _tessdata3 {
eglu_tessdata_ptr next;
GLdouble data[3];
} eglu_tessdata;
typedef struct _tessobj {
GLUtesselator *tess;
eglu_tessdata *data;
} eglu_tessobj;
I don't see anything wrong here!! and its been driving me nuts.
Anybody have any suggestions??
Thanks in advance,
Roy Pluschke
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Re: Can't read my Audio CD
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:10:29 +0800 csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:03:15 +0800 Mike Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a problem reading my audio cd's in linux. i can play them directly with xmms but i cant read through it. what should I do? am i missin something? tia Yes, probably the cdfs module. It's not a part of the official kernel.org kernel. So you have to build it yourself. There's a debian package though which makes things a bit easier. apt-get install cdfs Be forewarned, cdfs is a bit finicky when it comes to bad disks and the like. It could lock your cdrom drive. If by reading the audio cd you mean creating a .wav file from a track then in xmms go to preferences and set your output plugin to disk writer. I hope this helps. Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ggv in testing
My gnome-gv (testing branch) seems broken after this weekends dist-upgrade!! It renders very slowly - you can see the individual lines being drawn to the screen at sort of like triple reading speed. It also crashes when I change the zoom level with the following message in a pop-up dialog X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) Serial number of failed request: 34 Current serial number in output stream: 34 The old stand-by gv still works the way it used to so I don't think its the gs packages. Has anyone else noticed this or am I alone ?? Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ggv in testing
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:50:49 +0700 Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/22 15:32 Roy Pluschke wrote: My gnome-gv (testing branch) seems broken after this weekends dist-upgrade!! It renders very slowly - you can see the individual lines being drawn to the screen at sort of like triple reading speed. It also crashes when I change the zoom level with the following message in a pop-up dialog X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) Serial number of failed request: 34 Current serial number in output stream: 34 The old stand-by gv still works the way it used to so I don't think its the gs packages. Has anyone else noticed this or am I alone ?? Yes, it's amazingly slower. But I'm not sure whether the readings need three times longer. Did you time it? Oki Perhaps my machine is faster or my mind is slower than yours :) atleast I know i'm not alone. Thanks, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache libphp4.so
Hi there, I am having a hard time loading the php4 module into apache. This is a portion of my edited httpd.conf # LoadModule usertrack_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_usertrack.so LoadModule unique_id_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_unique_id.so LoadModule setenvif_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_setenvif.so # LoadModule sys_auth_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth_sys.so # LoadModule put_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_put.so # LoadModule throttle_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_throttle.so # LoadModule allowdev_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_allowdev.so # LoadModule eaccess_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_eaccess.so LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so # LoadModule roaming_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_roaming.so I have confirmed that libphp4.so exists in this location however, when I run apacheconfig, part of the output looks like this # LoadModule usertrack_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_usertrack.so LoadModule unique_id_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_unique_id.so LoadModule setenvif_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_setenvif.so # LoadModule sys_auth_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth_sys.so # LoadModule put_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_put.so # LoadModule throttle_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_throttle.so # LoadModule allowdev_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_allowdev.so # LoadModule eaccess_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_eaccess.so # LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so # LoadModule roaming_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_roaming.so Pondering done. Save these changes to the configuration files? [Y/n] The libphp4.so is again commented out !! Where is apacheconfig reading the above from if not httpd.conf ?? I have tried apacheconfig --update and the apacheconfig --force-modules options and attempted loading the modules in various orders all without success. What am I doing wrong ?? p.s. access.conf and srm.conf are empty Thanks in advance, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache libphp4.so
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:19:57 -0400 Kurc, Marcin A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why don't you just uncomment the line an restart apache? Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive That was the first thing that I tried but when it didn't work I thought you may have to use apacheconfig. Note that I am running woody and also have the following lines uncommented in httpd.conf # And for PHP 4.x, use: # AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Plain html files render fine from my public_html directory but the following doesn't work html head titleExample/title /head body ?php echo Hi, I'm a PHP script!; ? /body /html Is the a way to query apache as to what modules are loaded?? perhaps a permissions problem or something else which must be configured ? Thanks in advance, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nautilus in sid
Does anybody know if the nautilus in sid has the html rendering of the help files etc. enabled ? Thanks in advance, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evolution - Spell Checking
Anybody know how to get spell checking working in evolution ? Thanks in advance Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
