kde startup problem

2001-03-13 Thread rob
Upon using kdm to start up kde, I get the blue screen which shows me each service starting up in order, and after the startup sound plays, I get a grey screen and a mouse cursor. That is all that appears. It is rather amazing. I kill kdm, log in, and run startx. Due to my . files, I get X up,

Re: kde startup problem

2001-03-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:27:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Upon using kdm to start up kde, I get the blue screen which shows me > each service starting up in order, and after the startup sound plays, > I get a grey screen and a mouse cursor. That is all that appears. It > is rather a

Re: KwinTV?

2001-03-13 Thread Wouter de Vries
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 01:33:17AM +, John Gay wrote: > I've seen it mentioned a few times, but where is KwinTV? I've got XawTV, but > I've got a tuner issue. I'd sure like to try KwinTV . You should try to load the tuner before going into X/loading framebuffer modules.. This helped me, becau

Re: Specifying tcp ports for kdm/kdeinit

2001-03-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi, i can only talk about kdm: > The ports are always higher than 1023, so I'm not too worried about > them being root-exploitable, you should worry. if there is actually a bug in kdm, it may lead to a root exploit. anyway, the code exists for 15 or more years ... > I have no plans to access eit

How to view gzipped HTML pages in konqueror?

2001-03-13 Thread Burkhard Perkens-Golomb
How can I view gzipped HTML pages in konqueror? It's no problem in Netscape to open and view a file "index.html.gz", for example. I've played with file associations and found under "embedding" a "GZip Filter", but I can't get any useful results. And I can't find any documentation about embedding.

Re: kde startup problem

2001-03-13 Thread rob
Ivan E. Moore II writes: > you don't...it doesn't exist...it's a WARNING...KDE will always look for > a .la file when running apps... oh. ok. thanks. > hmmm...boy this sounds familiar. I'm almost willing to bet your > suffering from the same problems as everyone has been discussing on >

Re: KwinTV?

2001-03-13 Thread John Gay
>On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 01:33:17AM +, John Gay wrote: >> I've seen it mentioned a few times, but where is KwinTV? I've got XawTV, but >> I've got a tuner issue. I'd sure like to try KwinTV . > >You should try to load the tuner before going into X/loading framebuffer >modules.. This helped me

Re: kde startup problem

2001-03-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> I will be glad to try this, for grins and all, but not right now. > > I did the following command: > > bash-2.04$ pwd > /home/rob/.kde > bash-2.04$ find . | xargs grep -i alias | less > > which returned "true" where both of these lines now have "false" in > them. > > ./share/config/kdeglobals

Upgraded kdm - lost locale

2001-03-13 Thread Perttu Muurimäki
I upgraded my Potato to the latest kdm this weekend. Everything works fine (got the "Login failed"-thing cured) except for some reason my /etc/environment gets read but not implemented. I suspected it to be a PAM-related problem but there's nothing in /etc/security/pam_env that is not commented out

Re: Upgraded kdm - lost locale

2001-03-13 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Le Mardi 13 Mars 2001 14:26, Perttu Muurimäki a écrit : > I upgraded my Potato to the latest kdm this weekend. Everything works fine > (got the "Login failed"-thing cured) except for some reason my > /etc/environment gets read but not implemented. I suspected it to be a > PAM-related problem but th

Re: Upgraded kdm - lost locale

2001-03-13 Thread Ax
Dne út 13. březen 2001 14:27 Thibaut Cousin napsal(a): > Le Mardi 13 Mars 2001 14:26, Perttu Muurimäki a écrit : > > I upgraded my Potato to the latest kdm this weekend. Everything works > > fine (got the "Login failed"-thing cured) except for some reason my > > /etc/environment gets read but not i

last libfeetype6 == kde2 death in unstable

2001-03-13 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all as mentioned in previous threads the libfreetype6 in unstable is the reason for kde2 death it is amazing to see how effective it is, nothing works at all downgrading to 2.0.1-1 is the right fix I lost quite some time to figure this out :( but

Bleeding-Edge Debian?

2001-03-13 Thread Robert Tilley
Which is a better choice for a person who prefers stability but can live without KDE being rock-solid? (I've used Windows ... fill in the rest!) Is it testing or unstable? I wish to benefit from all of the interim improvements to KDE and don't want to wait until the 2.3 release. -- Robert Til

Re: Bleeding-Edge Debian?

2001-03-13 Thread Jerome Zago
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:35:25AM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: > Which is a better choice for a person who prefers stability but can live > without KDE being rock-solid? (I've used Windows ... fill in the rest!) > > Is it testing or unstable? stable with the following extra lines in /etc/apt/so

Re: KMail under BlackBox

2001-03-13 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hey, This is a problem. I would file a bug report if it hasn't already been filed. As a work around (faster then killing bb and starting kde), use mpack/munpack. Just save the email in a temp directory, then in an xterm, 'munpack filename'.. Tada, there is your attachment(s) cleanly sepera

Re: kde startup problem

2001-03-13 Thread rob
Ivan E. Moore II writes: > thank you for the response...this pretty much confirms about 99% of > the bug reports like this over the past week. I'll be s glad when > the Xft module is a shared library. :) Another thing. A friend at work pointed me to a web page on www.xfree86.org where t

Re: kde startup problem

2001-03-13 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Le Mardi 13 Mars 2001 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Ivan E. Moore II writes: > > thank you for the response...this pretty much confirms about 99% of > > the bug reports like this over the past week. I'll be s glad when > > the Xft module is a shared library. :) > > Another thing. A

problems with sound kde2.1 + potato + arts

2001-03-13 Thread Serge Robyns
Hi, Since recently I not having sound anymore on my KDE box. In my .xsession-errors file I found the following errormessage (amongst others) WARNING: library=artsd.la: No file names artsd.la found in paths. Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property

Re: KMail under BlackBox

2001-03-13 Thread William Leese
> This is a problem. I would file a bug report if it hasn't already been > filed. > > As a work around (faster then killing bb and starting kde), use > mpack/munpack. Just save the email in a temp directory, then in an xterm, > 'munpack filename'.. Tada, there is your attachment(s) cleanly seperat

Re: Kmail can't open attachments

2001-03-13 Thread Hendrik Naumann
I installed debian potato an an other system, same kde packages, same gui. There it works :(. So I'm afraid I have to redo some things on my system also. Hendrik

Re: Upgraded kdm - lost locale

2001-03-13 Thread Perttu Muurimäki
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Ax wrote: > I've mailed about this issue to Ivan last year, but got no response (didnt > know about this list). I've solved this by adding export LANG=czech to > /usr/bin/kde2, but that's not elegant :-) No it's not 8) and it didn't solve my problem either 8( > > someone can

Re: problems with sound kde2.1 + potato + arts

2001-03-13 Thread Serge Robyns
Ooops, this is really stupid of my part While reinstalling I messed up some of my sound dma configs. Found this out by digging seriously around without aRTS running. Sorry for this stupid question. On Tuesday 13 March 2001 18:15, Serge Robyns wrote: > Hi, > > Since recently I not having so

Potato stuff

2001-03-13 Thread Bruce Sass
Hello Ivan, Did anyone take over what you were doing at kde.tdyc.com? (connections are timing out, so I guess it is now gone) I figured it I may see/hear-about the stuff appearing at http://people.debian.org/~rkrusty/ but not so far... - Bruce

invalid domain (with kmail)

2001-03-13 Thread David Bishop
So, I'm trying to send email to a domain that uses exim with kmail, and it consistenly rejects my email saying that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an invalid domain. Since this is the only email address that I have this problem with, I assume they turned on some sort of spam protection that looks at an

Re: invalid domain (with kmail)

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 14:04, David Bishop wrote: It's an issue with your smtp relay on your machine. It can be a bit tricky to setup, but if you are running debian and just need a simple smtp relay on your machine (i.e., to use with mutt, pine, or kmail etc.) then just install ssmtp (it wil

Re: invalid domain (with kmail)

2001-03-13 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote: > So, I'm trying to send email to a domain that uses exim with kmail, and it > consistenly rejects my email saying that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an invalid > domain. > Since this is the only email address that I have this problem with, I assume > they turn

Re: Potato stuff

2001-03-13 Thread John Gay
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 18:59, Bruce Sass wrote: > Hello Ivan, > > Did anyone take over what you were doing at kde.tdyc.com? > (connections are timing out, so I guess it is now gone) > > I figured it I may see/hear-about the stuff appearing at > > http://people.debian.org/~rkrusty/ > > but n

Re: Upgraded kdm - lost locale

2001-03-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:26:22PM +0200, Perttu Muurim?ki wrote: > I upgraded my Potato to the latest kdm this weekend. Everything works fine > (got the "Login failed"-thing cured) except for some reason my > /etc/environment gets read but not implemented. I suspected it to be a > PAM-related prob

Re: invalid domain (with kmail)

2001-03-13 Thread David Bishop
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 13:39, Bart Oldeman wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote: > > So, I'm trying to send email to a domain that uses exim with kmail, and > > it consistenly rejects my email saying that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an invalid > > domain. Since this is the only email address

Re: Little advice for AA

2001-03-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Mar 09 2001, Malte Cornils wrote: > The Debian sid (unstable) Xfree4.0.2 version does not offer the > Render extension (which is necessary for AA) when you use a > non-Radeon non-Rage128 card (like all Mach64-based cards). Uh, oh! I'm using a Matrox here and I *can* get AA output. :-)

kde.tdyc.com down?

2001-03-13 Thread Bud Rogers
I just did an to apt-get update. It doesn't seem to be responding. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.

Re: Little advice for AA

2001-03-13 Thread David Bishop
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 16:54, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Mar 09 2001, Malte Cornils wrote: > > The Debian sid (unstable) Xfree4.0.2 version does not offer the > > Render extension (which is necessary for AA) when you use a > > non-Radeon non-Rage128 card (like all Mach64-based cards). > > Uh

Re: kde.tdyc.com down?

2001-03-13 Thread Ben Burton
> I just did an to apt-get update. It doesn't seem to be responding. The following message was posted to this list a few days ago: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: kde.debian.net and mirroring Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:05:30 -0700 From: "Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: kde.tdyc.com down?

2001-03-13 Thread Bud Rogers
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 18:43, Ben Burton wrote: > > I just did an to apt-get update. It doesn't seem to be > > responding. > > The following message was posted to this list a few days ago: Ack. I was in a flaming hurry when I read that and it didn't stick. Thanks for reminding me... -- Bu

audiocd ioslave

2001-03-13 Thread Scott L . Patterson
Hello, I was hoping someone could help me getting the audiocd ioslave working. Here's what I have so far... I've got a IDE CD Burner, so, I have the ide-scsi and sg modules loaded. I've got kscd working with CDDB support using this configuration. However, when I type in "audiocd:/" in konquer

disabling the render extension

2001-03-13 Thread David Bishop
Digging around on bugs.kde.org, I found out that the problems I'm having with my xinerama setup are due to a bug in my xserver, specifically the render extension. The (terse) reply is "disable the render extention". So. How in the heck do I do that without uninstalling the entire xfree packag

Re: disabling the render extension

2001-03-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:08:45PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > Digging around on bugs.kde.org, I found out that the problems I'm having with > my xinerama setup are due to a bug in my xserver, specifically the render > extension. The (terse) reply is "disable the render extention". So. How in

sid + 2.1 broken?

2001-03-13 Thread Daniel Franklin
Hi all, I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade (mainly to get the new QT 2.3-final) and kde2 is now totally non-functional, konq dies horribly, kmail is ... strange (lots of mail but most has apparently no content, though the mailbox seems fine). Removing .kde and logging in again just results in