Re: visual c

2001-12-28 Thread Erik Steffl
not entirely native application and use wine (kinda ugly but it might help the transition). erik

Re: usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-27 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:32:08AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: I realize that this is not strictly debian-devel question but it is related to both debian and development so while I don't expect big discussion I would appreciate RT _specify_which_one_ FM. The appropriate list for USB problems

Re: usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: On Monday 24 December 2001 13:32, Erik Steffl wrote: I am trying to make the USB work on my debian unstable system, using kernel 2.4.14 and it just doesn't work. the specific problem is that the function 'probe' (specified when registering driver) is NEVER called

usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-24 Thread Erik Steffl
/erik# lsmod | egrep '(usb)|(cpqpjb)' cpqpjb 2688 0 usb-uhci 20932 0 (unused) usbcore50848 1 [cpqpjb usb-uhci] jojda:/home/erik# lspci|grep -i usb 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA

Re: usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:32:08AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: any ideas? TIA If the device isn't showing up in lsusb and so on you've got bigger problems than finding a driver for it. Until you can get the system to talk to it as a generic USB device (just showing

xconsole eats up memory

2001-09-13 Thread Erik Steffl
I noticed that xconsole eats up a lot of ram: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 4725 root 14 -10 105M 13M 11244 S0.0 11.2 2208m XFree86 10873 erik 10 0 18224 11M 5800 S 0.0 9.4 0:27 communicator-sm 4753 root 9 0 8564

openGL problems: how is it supposed to work?

2001-09-03 Thread Erik Steffl
4.1.0-2XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library ii xserver-common 4.1.0-2files and utilities common to all X servers any pointers to more detialed info? TIA erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: openGL problems: how is it supposed to work?

2001-09-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xscreensaver: openGL demo hacsk are running in software mode when run by xscreensaver but run accelerated when run from xterm. IIRC, this is a xscreensaver FAQ (alas! I'm not sure) yes it was. didn't occur to me

updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-24 Thread Erik Hollensbe
on my workstation, where I may only want mysqld up for a few hours while I check something, for example. Thanks, -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer, Powells Internet Division You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-24 Thread Erik Hollensbe
as you leave at least one. if you find a package that does otherwise thats a bug. spectacular! thank you very much. -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer, Powells Internet Division You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Erik Hollensbe
, or perhaps some without the interspersement of flames, would be a fresh change. I have a hard time finding the logic in wasting your time complaing about how your time is being wasted. What does this solve? -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer, Powells Internet Division I respect a man

Re: What is wrong with kde2.1 and unstable ?

2001-01-06 Thread Erik
of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln pgp4mh3SDl2nc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Erik Hollensbe
THANK YOU. Finally, an answer that I can use. I will look into contributing towards this package. -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer, Powells Internet Division I respect a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he is wrong. - Malcolm X On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Erik
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:53:23AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:06:18PM -0800, Erik Hollensbe wrote: And why are packages being REMOVED (lib-pg-perl for example) when I dist upgrade? Because thats what dist- stands for. If you dont want to remove conflicting

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Erik Hollensbe
of apt worked, but I may be incorrect. I'm sorry to sound so arrogant when it comes to this, but I just can't believe there aren't mroe safeguards built into the package system that prevent stuff like this from happening. -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer, Powells Internet Division I

bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Erik Hollensbe
and stupid human error even in the worst mess of unstable upgrades (which happens, and is understandable). Almost all of this is due to a significant lack of adequate testing by package maintainers. My apologies for anyone I offended. -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer, Powells Internet

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Erik
! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln

Need to clone machines efficiently - help?

2000-12-25 Thread Erik Winn
personally if you like. Thanks very much in advance! I hope we can get this to happen. Erik Winn

Re: Need to clone machines efficiently - help?

2000-12-25 Thread Erik Winn
Hi Aaron, Thanks very much for the pointer - I'm reading the docs for it and it looks very promising. Might even be worth building a couple of debs from it ... no promises on that right now though :). Happy whicheveryouprefer! Erik Winn On Monday 25 December 2000 01:08, Aaron Lehmann wrote

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
of them but receive email from list only in one account. erik

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
, I do not have debian handy at the moment but I think it might do what you want. erik

KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
- or was it? Think about it. And try not to prove my point with condescending flames - its not attractive. /CRITIQUE -- Erik Winn -- Never underestimate. Period. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote: You _do_ realize that the same guy who packaged it for kde.tdyc _is_ the same guy who is packaging it for Debian proper? Yep, I do -and it worked great before he had to repackage it. You could have simply copied them from

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
it. Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: BTW, the rant has been a long time coming - this just keyed it. Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Hey erik, grow up. Debian has enough flamewars without you stirring the coals intentionally. Yes, it does - I still think the points were

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
/rules and see if anything sticks out. Well, I thank you for the high blood pressure and the doctors visit. :) Sorry about all the racket - I just really had to get it off my chest, and, hey, its good for the circulation ;-]. Erik PS. I have offered to help with KDE before and the offer still

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
to bed now ... Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-11 Thread Erik
for you, but its a start :) Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln pgpHlRlsYNMgQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-21 Thread Erik Andersen
space might be saved if the two were combined. On the other hand, Erik Anderson might want to put microdpkg-deb in busybox -- Erik? I'm very open to the idea, after we agree on how to approach it. Maybe I'm missing something though (I almost certainly am), but do we really need a 'microdpkg-deb

Re: Embedded Debian (was: compaq iPaq)

2000-08-16 Thread Erik Andersen
will be there. The source code in the boot floppies CVS tree is out of date, since we froze it quite a while ago, and has a number of bugs (none release critical, but some a bit annoying) that are fixed in the latest and greatest... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.xmission.com/~andersen

Re: Novell: NDS eDirectory for Linux

2000-03-21 Thread Erik
in the kernel for it, but i've never used it (and like samba it probably needs some help from userland applications). Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain pgp0Z1Lc3pXJH.pgp Description

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Erik
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Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-15 Thread Erik
, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.iki.fi/hauva/ use strict;my $s='I am just a poor bear with a startling lack of brain.';my $t= crypt($s,substr($s,0,2));$t=~y#IEK65c4qx AR#J o srtahuet#;$t=~s/hot/not/;my @v=split(//,$t);push(@v,split(//,reverse('rekcah lreP')));foreach(@v){print;} Erik

Re: New LILO for 1024 cylinders in potato, PLEASE!

2000-03-10 Thread Erik
is great, but what if there is a fatal bug that we dont notice imidiatly ... I think this should go in, but should have extensive testing first, in a short time if possible. Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Erik
system installed, so this is probably too long for a company like VA, but it should be entirely possible to mass install debian, if debian would put some work twords it. Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [T]he last thing I want to do is spread fear, uncertainty and doubt in [the users'] minds

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-18 Thread Erik
, something just a little better, to make things just a little easier. Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [T]he last thing I want to do is spread fear, uncertainty and doubt in [the users'] minds. - Don Jones, Microsoft's Y2K Product Manager pgpUKZrgmaOeR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

1999-05-09 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: I think this is a very difficult point, how do you plan to solve this, c hoose the right Xserver and XF86Config file for the users system ? Or do you p lan to use the fbdev server ? i

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-25 Thread Erik Troan
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote: New systems would need to have a /var/spool/mail - /var/mail symbolic link for about two years. No, forever. Red Hat is promising an upgrade path for a lot longer then two years -- we've already provided upgradeable distributions for 3.5. Erik

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-25 Thread Erik Troan
. Allowing in-place upgrades necessetates /var/spool/mail to exist in some form. Erik --- | For the next two hours, VH1 will be filled with foul-mouthed,| | crossdressing Australians. Viewer discretion

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-21 Thread Erik Troan
it on running systems is an nightmare, and there is simply no compelling reason to do so, imho. Erik --- | For the next two hours, VH1 will be filled with foul-mouthed,| | crossdressing Australians. Viewer

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-20 Thread Erik Troan
to it 4. allow either /var/spool/mail or /var/mail to be a directory, provided that the other is a symbolic link to it. Who will #1 affect? Does anyone use /var/mail? Erik --- | For the next two hours, VH1

Twin v3.1.5

1998-04-18 Thread Erik Andersen
feel free. See http://www.willows.com for details. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian Policy based on the wrong technical assumptions

1997-06-30 Thread Erik Andersen
, Fernando. Elvis (the vi clone) reads man pages and html, and formats them and displays them in color (unless you don't want that). In the latest beta version, which I havn't packaged up, it even will browse the web (the stable version only reads local files). -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen

Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-28 Thread Erik Andersen
On Jun 28, Carey Evans wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik B. Andersen) writes: [snip] For most math, expr works just fine. Of course, expr is limited to integer math, but it works and is portable. Actually, for integer math, bash or ksh works quite well. bash$ a=41 bash$ let a+=1

Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-27 Thread Erik B. Andersen
, please realize that bc/dc are ideal for doing arithmetic in shell scripts. [Sure, you can use awk, just as you can use awk to replace grep -- but it's awkward.] -- Raul For most math, expr works just fine. Of course, expr is limited to integer math, but it works and is portable. -Erik

Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard

1997-06-24 Thread Erik B. Andersen
attest to the fact that this is one piece of software that passes the wife test! -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-24 Thread Erik B. Andersen
be modified to provide motif12. For other people that have commercial Motif, we need to have TWO motif dummy packages. Or one that provides both virtual packages... Just my $0.02, -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
. Lesstif provides a Motif 1.2 lib. When I compiled nedit, I used a Motif 2.0 library. I agree with Chris that we should have both a motif12 and a motif20 virtual package. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
should also add a Copyright field, a upstream source location field, and a few others. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Editor wars considered harmful

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
with 1.3, but that doesn't have ANY source and won't boot. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
file similar to the suidmanager approach. If we did this, we could also have a global security policy setting that could, using only dpkg, find all suid programs. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message

Plans for Debian 1.3.1?

1997-06-22 Thread Erik B. Andersen
... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Erik B. Andersen
This sounds good to me. When finished, we should announce this on c.o.l.a. and try to see if the Red Had folks will adopt it as well. If we both adopt it as policy, then it will live on forever! -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Erik B. Andersen
I cannot agree more. We should definatly add these fields to the .deb package format! This will involve a bit of work, but will be VERY worth it. No more licensing surprises, for instance. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email

Re: S: workaround for dpkg replaces bug

1997-06-15 Thread Erik B. Andersen
package, but marked a lot of non-existant files as part of the new package. I couldn't think of anything else that worked (except to conflict with all the old stuff). The right thing is to get dpkg fixed. I submitted a bug on this one a LONG time ago. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http

Re: booting bzImage with chos

1997-06-14 Thread Erik B. Andersen
of us should probably take a look. (sound of ftping source in background). -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Erik B. Andersen
/chos.conf I fully agree, except for one thing... Last I looked, chos did not include any source code, and was in non-free. Has this changed? If it has, I completely agree, it should be the standard. It is VERY easy to use, and works VERY well. I like it. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web

Re: Tri-Linux's discription

1997-06-10 Thread Erik B. Andersen
Do you know if they will be selling the Official 1.3.0 CD or the Official 1.3.1 CD with the new XFree86 3.3 release? -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons

Bug#4265: util-linux_2.5-5.deb: /sbin/clock Seg. faults

1996-08-25 Thread Erik B Andersen
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Re: Building ncurses...a couple of questions...

1995-12-06 Thread Erik Talvola
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