Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread Kent West
Gruessle wrote: GPM is working fine now but I don't understand what you mean with "Configure it to "write" properly the raw data" Excellent. What I mean is to set the repeat type to "raw". This can be done via running "gpmconfig" or by editing /etc/gpm.conf, like so: device=/dev/psaux repe

Re: display in X

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:52:10PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > Hi > How do I change my display in X for lets say 800 X 600? > Can't find that anywhere. > > -- > Gruessle Hi G, there are a few ways. X has a key combo alt-control-KEYPAD + alt-control-KEYPAD - Also you can edit your /etc/X11/XF86Co

Is a hot NIC normal?

2003-12-18 Thread Kent West
I've been having lockups lately; definitely hardware (even Knoppix locked up). At first I thought I had cooked my CPU (AMD). Then after swapping it out, I decided it was the mobo. Then I found a jumper on the mobo for 100/133MHz, and I moved it from 133 to 100 and the machine got stable again (

Re: console login fails

2003-12-18 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. > > I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then > it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, > and brings up another login prompt. Having done a bit more rese

Re: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:55:33PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: > I remember some news about elektrostore.se had stolen the Debian logo. > Since they are still using it, did nothing happen? I think it's different enough (even though a pretty obvio

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:18:12PM -0500, mmissett wrote: > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid > question, but I have not managed to find > anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. > I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) > and have

Re: [OT] Latex Q - page number appears on pg 1 with empty pagestyle

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:03:25AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | I am writing a document with latex using the article document | class. The problem is that when setting \pagestyle{empty} either in | the preamble or after the \begin{document} I still get a page number on | the first page. Odd, isn't

Re: mutt very slow to send mail when not connected to net

2003-12-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Micha Feigin: > When I send mail in mutt when I am not connected to the internet (to be > sent later by exim4 when I connect), mutt hangs for something like 30 > sec before it decides that the can't be sent at this moment. This is > very annoying when I read mail on the train and I ha

Re: make gnome use alsa

2003-12-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Bijan Soleymani: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:46:59AM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > > Is it possible to make gnome use also instead of esound? > > Gnome uses esd, so you have to get esd to use alsa. Apparently there > is such a package. > > apt-get search alsa | grep esd s/get/

Re: [OT] Latex Q - page number appears on pg 1 with empty pagestyle

2003-12-18 Thread Le Hoang Anh
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:03:25AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am writing a document with latex using the article document > class. The problem is that when setting \pagestyle{empty} either in > the preamble or after the \begin{document} I still get a page number on > the first page. Since there

Re: install debian woody over serial console

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:23:50PM -0500, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to follow the instructions at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200311/msg04005.html > Rescue floppy loads OK, but when I insert root floppy, the drive makes > noisy read attempts an

[OT] Latex Q - page number appears on pg 1 with empty pagestyle

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I am writing a document with latex using the article document class. The problem is that when setting \pagestyle{empty} either in the preamble or after the \begin{document} I still get a page number on the first page. Since there are guidelines for submitting this one this is a big no no. Any idea

Re: aic7xxx kernel freeze...

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:44:18PM +0100, Ignacio Más Ivars wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I am trying install a custom > version of the 2.4.22 kernel no matter what I do it freezes dead when > trying to load the aic7xxx driver. I have tried to compile the drive

Re: shell prompt for xwindows

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:51:34AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > What is the shell prompt for xwindows? > The windowing system in Linux is mult-layered. under everything is the libraries. There are libraries for X, for kde and gnome the next layer is X itself which uses X libraries X itself just

mutt very slow to send mail when not connected to net

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
When I send mail in mutt when I am not connected to the internet (to be sent later by exim4 when I connect), mutt hangs for something like 30 sec before it decides that the can't be sent at this moment. This is very annoying when I read mail on the train and I have to sit and wait for each mail I w

Re: gphoto2 and Polaroid PDC700 Camera - How?

2003-12-18 Thread Scarletdown
Vineet Kumar wrote: Polaroid PDC-700, which connects to a serial port (COM1 in M$ terms, ttys0 in *nix terms). That's /dev/ttyS0 . Note the capital 'S'. Okay, so it is ttyS0. Now, how do I get the camera working with gphoto2? And while I'm at it, I also have a cheapo USB camera called the C

Highpoint RocketRaid

2003-12-18 Thread Cedric
Hi, does anyone know hot get a Highpoint RocketRaid 1520 card to work ?   Cedric  

console login fails

2003-12-18 Thread Patrick Lesslie
Hi, I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, and brings up another login prompt. Has anyone seen this? I'm having trouble finding relevant hits. thx, Patrick Lesslie -- To

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?

2003-12-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 at 22:04 GMT, Gruessle penned: > > > The 2.6 is not in the list when I check dselect or is it that I can't > find it > > Gruessle < Please do not delete this > The linux kernel has been released. Debian developers have not yet packaged it. (Watch me be wrong about that o

soundless in kazaa

2003-12-18 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
I installed Debian Woody about 6 months ago and to my knowledge have not experienced sound since then, with one exception: In using either isapnptools or ALSA a test responded with a sound. I have tried from time to time to resurrect sound so that I could listen to music CDs on my CD-Rom etc. but

display in X

2003-12-18 Thread Gruessle
Hi How do I change my display in X for lets say 800 X 600? Can't find that anywhere. -- Gruessle http://VMCLinks.com http://GuyScope.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CDs misplaced

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:17:56PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > What is the point of having an Audio-CD item on the > desktop if clicking will produce an error message every time!? Oh, your issue is with some desktop environment's way of dealing w

Re: Dlink DI-604 router

2003-12-18 Thread W. Paul Mills
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:32:00 +, Robert Storey wrote: > Being paranoid, I'm considering purchasing a cheap hardware router to use > as a firewall on an ADSL line. > > I've looked around, and I'm leaning towards buying the Dlink DI-604 which > is priced at around US$50. > > I'm wondering if an

Re: Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-18 Thread Raiz_mpx
From: Keith Goettert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Today 11:17:18 >My support of cramfs was complied into the kernel, but it still would >not work.  A very telling sign that it was compiled in was its >complaint >that it couldn't find a valid filesystem in the boot messages (which >according to m

Re: Problems with Debian merchandise vendors

2003-12-18 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:16:19PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to buy some simple Debian stickers for a laptop, and going > down the list of vendors on http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise has > been a disappointing experience. You should consider removing three of > these vendors. I

Re: make gnome use alsa

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:46:59AM +1300, Paul William wrote: > Hi all > > Is it possible to make gnome use also instead of esound? Gnome uses esd, so you have to get esd to use alsa. Apparently there is such a package. apt-get search alsa | grep esd Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB Device mounting

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:17:10PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy wrote: > Slightly off topic but I have a similar problem with a USB Digital Voice > Recorder from Radio Shack. It recognizes that it's hooked up to the > comp, but that's as far as I can tell that anything is going on. Will > Debian have r

Re: Eclipse and CVS

2003-12-18 Thread johannes . zarl
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:17:34PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:28:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > pserver or ssh? > pserver > | The problem now is, that he can't browse the repository (no CVSROOT or > | any other module is shown). > > Ahh, I ran

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-18 Thread John
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:42:00PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > My mom would like to get my dad a photo-quality printer for Christmas. > Thus she has asked me to look around and give her some ideas as to > what is good. I haven't followed current printer technology in many > years, so I r

Re: Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 03:08:32AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:43:46AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100, > > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, > > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:43:46AM +0800, csj wrote: > On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100, > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [...] > > > > AFAIK, 2.6 is

Re: gphoto2 and Polaroid PDC700 Camera - How?

2003-12-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031218 17:36]: > Okay. Now that I am up and running with Debian, I need to get my camera > configured, so I can resume selling stuff on eBay. My camera is an old > Polaroid PDC-700, which connects to a serial port (COM1 in M$ terms, > ttys0 in *nix terms). T

Re: Need to know how to connect New Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share Dock

2003-12-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031218 17:47]: > I need to know how to connect new Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share > Dock. I just got this neat camera & I hate to have to resort to Windows > to use it as That would be the ONLY thing I would need Windows for. Is it USB? Most of digicams jus

Need to know how to connect New Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share Dock

2003-12-18 Thread John Foster
I need to know how to connect new Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share Dock. I just got this neat camera & I hate to have to resort to Windows to use it as That would be the ONLY thing I would need Windows for. -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

gphoto2 and Polaroid PDC700 Camera - How?

2003-12-18 Thread Scarletdown
Okay. Now that I am up and running with Debian, I need to get my camera configured, so I can resume selling stuff on eBay. My camera is an old Polaroid PDC-700, which connects to a serial port (COM1 in M$ terms, ttys0 in *nix terms). I took a look at what cameras are supported by gphoto2, and

Re: Bootlog daemon hanging machine?

2003-12-18 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 18, 2003, at 4:29 PM, Bob McElrath wrote: After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bootup right after the line: Starting Bootlog daemon: which is followed by the "adding swap space" on the same line. (This is from memory

weird xterm crashes

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Just recently xterm has started crashing when I view certain emails. I notice that all of these messages have a non-ascii character (or more) in them. Not all non-ascii messages cause a crash, though. (Interesting, I just tried to read uxterm(1) (with PAGER=less) and xterm crashes) This occurs wi

Re: Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]

2003-12-18 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 csj wrote: | On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100, | Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |>On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, |>"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message |><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | My main concerns revolve around

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-18 Thread Allan Wind
In the hobby/semi-pro photo camp, the current choice is Epson 2200 followed by either Epson 1280 or Canon S9000 (or I9100). The Canon is apparently quite a bit faster than the Epson 1280. No idea how Linux support is for these, and this is data gathered by lurking and not personal experience. /

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:05:04PM -0600, James Miller wrote: > | > | Hey, I just noticed somethin skwerky. I've got TWO 'Section "InputDevice' > | stanzas in my XF86Config4 - like so: > > Ok. > > ... > | Option "Device"

photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
My mom would like to get my dad a photo-quality printer for Christmas. Thus she has asked me to look around and give her some ideas as to what is good. I haven't followed current printer technology in many years, so I really don't know what is out there and what is good and what isn't. Any recomm

double-sensitivity (was: Re: GPM for mouse)

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:01:52PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | Under 2.6 all mice go to /dev/input/mice, the ps2 one also goes to | /dev/psaux (you could get a hyper sensitive mouse this way, drove me | crazy with the touchpad). I did this, intentionally, for a while. The problem is that the la

Re: debian sid (unstable) with 2.6.0 and alsa sound with a i826 soundcard

2003-12-18 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: | On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:42:58PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: | |>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |> |>Hi, |> |>I just installed a fresh debian (sid) with 2.6.0 and alsa. The problem |>is that whenever I t

Re: OT-Make more noise.

2003-12-18 Thread alex
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:01:49AM -0500, alex wrote: All you guys who complain about not being able to purchase computers that can run Linux. Why are you complaining to each other? You send an occasional complaint to a

Re: Bootlog daemon hanging machine?

2003-12-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:08:42, Bob McElrath wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and > > >sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bo

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, David Palmer. wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:52:06 -0700 > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Incoming from James Miller: > > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > > > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network instal

Re: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-18 Thread BruceG
> They probably do. damn now i have to think of an excuse to not have to hit anybody. i will probably be beaten up Nah - just start a rumor that Osama shops there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: web browser

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:28:54 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Paul Morgan wrote: > >>One thing to watch out for, which is a petty annoyance with Firebird: if >>you are using Mozilla Mail for email, start Firebird before you start >>Mozilla Mail, otherwise you'll get Mozilla, not Firebird, when you exec

RE: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-18 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:33:40 +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Ken Gilmour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 >> December 2003 10:22 AM To: Debian User Mailinglist Subject: Re: >> Debian logo stolen. >> >> >> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:55:33 +0100, Nils-Erik Sv

Re: New question in = dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2003-12-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Gruessle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I had this done before but wasn't ask this question > Might have something to do with the new kernel. > > Here it goes: > BusID of the Video Card in the format: > PCI:nn:nn:nn > > where each nn is a decimal number. > > I ran the lspci and got the h

dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread mmissett
Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed the computer from dial-up to cable internet. The conn

RE: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Ken Gilmour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 19 December 2003 10:22 AM > To: Debian User Mailinglist > Subject: Re: Debian logo stolen. > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:55:33 +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > I remember some news about

Re: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-18 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:55:33 +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi! > > > I remember some news about elektrostore.se had stolen the Debian > logo. Since they are still using it, did nothing happen? > > /nisse Those bastards... Id kick ass if they could speak english! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/12/03 17:22), mmissett wrote: > > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid > question, but I have not managed to find > anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. > I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) > and have just changed the

Re: USB Device mounting

2003-12-18 Thread Joseph A. Nagy
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:52 pm, Tom Badran wrote: > Is there anyway i can get usb (and firewire if possible) mass storage > devices to automount and put an icon on the users kde desktop when a > device is plugged in? If i could do this without some prior knowlege > in the fstab about the de

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed the computer from dial-up to cable int

Re: New question in = dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2003-12-18 Thread Kent West
Gruessle wrote: I had this done before but wasn't ask this question Might have something to do with the new kernel. Here it goes: BusID of the Video Card in the format: PCI:nn:nn:nn where each nn is a decimal number. I ran the lspci and got the hexadecimal numbers: 01:05.0 AGP Now what is th

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:09:26PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 02:56: > > In practice, most "dynamic" IPs are in use by 24/7 connections which > > will hold that IP for days, weeks, or months at a time. > > Inco

Re: Bootlog daemon hanging machine?

2003-12-18 Thread Bob McElrath
Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and > >sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bootup right after the line: > >Starting Bootlog daemon: >

Re: yanvp

2003-12-18 Thread David Z Maze
Dobai-Pataky Balint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yet another nvidia problem. > i got a 2.4.22-1-686, and the kernel headers for it, for wich > nvidia-linux-1.0-4496-pkg2.run said that there is no file in > include... >From just recently running the NVidia installer, it does have a prompt for whe

Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-18 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi! I remember some news about elektrostore.se had stolen the Debian logo. Since they are still using it, did nothing happen? /nisse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bootlog daemon hanging machine?

2003-12-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and >sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bootup right after the line: >Starting Bootlog daemon: >which is followed by the "adding swap space" on the same l

Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]

2003-12-18 Thread csj
On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > AFAIK, 2.6 is still being tested. It's not a "production" release, > > ..the truth j

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:14:23AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > > From: Joseph A. Nagy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:06 AM > > > > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 11:38 am, Kent West wrote: > > > James Miller wrote: > > > >Ok. This thread has piqued (not to be

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:05:04PM -0600, James Miller wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Kent West wrote: > > > James Miller wrote: > > > > >normal behavior under X was killall gpm. So, what was I doing wrong? I'd > > >be delighted if I could get gpm to cooperate with the mouse cursor under > > >X.

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:07:19PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > | On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:14:21AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:31PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > | > | On Tue, Dec 1

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:39:51PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 21:36, ScruLoose wrote: > > And, given the popularity of online blacklists that track IPs that > > are _actually__used_ by spammers, how does it make any sense to > >

Re: Dlink DI-604 router

2003-12-18 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:32 am, Robert Storey wrote: > Being paranoid, I'm considering purchasing a cheap hardware router to > use as a firewall on an ADSL line. > > I've looked around, and I'm leaning towards buying the Dlink DI-604 > which is

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-18 Thread Joris Huizer
Jason Norment wrote: I think that there is a how-to to get truetype fonts working in Debian: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian.html . As far as the email client goes... have you tried Thunderbird? It includes message filtering... I'm pretty happy with it so far... (Had to do some major confi

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:22:51 -0500, mmissett wrote: > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but > I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a > powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed th

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
What Kent said (quoted below). I can't emphasize it enough: 1) stop X, get gpm working 1.a)pick the right device (usually /dev/psaux) 1.b)pick the right protocol (usually ps2 or imps2) 1.c)repeat_type=raw 1.d)start gpm, move mouse 1.e)

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:05:04PM -0600, James Miller wrote: | | Hey, I just noticed somethin skwerky. I've got TWO 'Section "InputDevice' | stanzas in my XF86Config4 - like so: Ok. ... | Option "Device""/dev/psaux" | Option "Protocol"

dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread mmissett
Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed the computer from dial-up to cable internet. The conn

Re: Eclipse and CVS

2003-12-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:28:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | Anyone got Eclipse and CVS playing nicely together? Yes. | A friend of mine uses Eclipse (the windows-version) for developing a | small project, and would like to use cvs for versionning. No problem, I | thought, Rig

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:56:37AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > The only thing close to this is "esd -terminate" that kills the server after > > the last client exits. However that's not very useful for gnome, since > > it only plays a little

RE: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?

2003-12-18 Thread Gruessle
> From: Arnt Karlsen > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 at 02:10 GMT, tripolar penned: > > > I just posted about compiling error with 2.6.0-test11 which got me > > > thinking if 2.4.22

Re: How do I get sound?

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Healey
On 13 Dec 2003 10:11:45 +0200, Dobai-Pataky Balint wrote: >On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 06:06, Mark Healey wrote: >> Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it? >try apt-get install sndconfig, you will like it, it's redhat style >automated pnp sound detector. Tried that. It detected the correct card

Software in apt that can scale video files down in resolution?

2003-12-18 Thread Joseph Jones
Is there such an animal? Many thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

make gnome use alsa

2003-12-18 Thread Paul William
Hi all Is it possible to make gnome use also instead of esound? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

2003-12-18 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 03:11: > on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:37:09PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > Am Mi, den 17.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 01:21: > > > - There are highly specific filters and methods which can effectively > > > discriminate betwe

Re: fortran 90 for debian

2003-12-18 Thread Lucas Albers
> TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ > I'm doing the latter. There are various fortran 90 projects around - > such as g95 and something else. It looks like g95 wont be integrated > with gcc until 2005 or so. > > > The ifc compiler is quite nice. It's diagnostics and error and war

Bootlog daemon hanging machine?

2003-12-18 Thread Bob McElrath
After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bootup right after the line: Starting Bootlog daemon: which is followed by the "adding swap space" on the same line. (This is from memory -- the machine won't boot past this point) The ma

New question in = dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2003-12-18 Thread Gruessle
I had this done before but wasn't ask this question Might have something to do with the new kernel. Here it goes: BusID of the Video Card in the format: PCI:nn:nn:nn where each nn is a decimal number. I ran the lspci and got the hexadecimal numbers: 01:05.0 AGP Now what is that in decimal

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-18 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 02:56: > In practice, most "dynamic" IPs are in use by 24/7 connections which > will hold that IP for days, weeks, or months at a time. Incorrect. Most german providers cancel the connection every 24 hours to force a new DynIP on the machine.

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Palmer. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031218 11:39]: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:52:06 -0700 > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Incoming from James Miller: > > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > > > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a netw

Re: Alsa+xmms+kde

2003-12-18 Thread uGAH man!
> Hi. > I have a Creative Live Value (driver emu10k1) and am using debian unstable and kernel 2.4.22-k7-1. > I've been using the OSS output plugin for XMMS on KDE and have been able to play music, although having low quality decoding... (it's noticeable) > I've tried to install and use the ALSA

Problem with Toshiba 400CS laptop + etherlink 589

2003-12-18 Thread Joseph Jones
I've built a new kernel for my Toshiba 400cs, cutting out a lot of unnecessary junk, whilst making sure everything's in place that I need for the laptop. Anyhow, after compiling the kernel on my main box, I've ftp'd it over to my laptop and installed it. During startup, the network card's dongl

Most recent Mozilla with Xft on Woody

2003-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi List! You can easily get a most recent Mozilla on Woody by downloading the tarball: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6b/src/mozilla-source-1.6b.tar.bz2 putting this in your sources.list: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/bac

Re: CDs misplaced

2003-12-18 Thread David Baron
<< Duh! It's not a data CD. > The file system is set as iso660 or something like that. Audio CDs do not have a filesystem, per-se. It's more like a record with tracks than a filesystem. What is it you're trying to achieve by mounting it? <<< Simply trying to get/confirm everything is

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:52:06 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from James Miller: > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be > > Isn't cheapbytes still out there? The

Re: Mainline journalist finds success with old Debian Install

2003-12-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:38:08PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 at 04:30 GMT, Paul Johnson penned: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:58:30AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> Today, in the Wall Street Journal, Charles Forel

Re: Bitmap editor

2003-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gregory Seidman wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:01:09AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: } I am looking for a bitmap editor in woody. (You know, to edit the mini } button xpm bitmaps) } I have used it and I thought it was called "bitmap", apparently not. There is an xbm (not xpm) editor named bitm

RE: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread Preston Boyington
> -Original Message- > From: James Miller > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: network install via dialup? > > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network > in

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from James Miller: > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be Isn't cheapbytes still out there? The last time I bought from them, shipping cost more than the disks. Alternatively, can'

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2003-12-18 Thread jp
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Eclipse and CVS

2003-12-18 Thread johannes . zarl
Hi, Anyone got Eclipse and CVS playing nicely together? A friend of mine uses Eclipse (the windows-version) for developing a small project, and would like to use cvs for versionning. No problem, I thought, and set up a cvs-server for him to put his project on. The problem now is, that he can't

kscd in sid working?

2003-12-18 Thread Richard Lyons
Is it just my mess of a system, or is kscd not working in sid? I did an update in case it was something temporary from whenever I last updated, but it still doesn't work. It starts a process, but no window. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: sound volume too low (now solved!)

2003-12-18 Thread Le Hoang Anh
Hi, On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:55:29AM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 18:28, Le Hoang Anh wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I have a trouble with sound volume in my woody box > > > > The volume is too low though I have 'cdvolume' to > > the maximum level (255), I `cdplay` the volum

network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread James Miller
I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be the best option for them. Is it reasonable to expect them to be able to do a network install over dialup? I should also explain that this will be a fairly

Re: Bitmap editor

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:01:09AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi! > > I am looking for a bitmap editor in woody. (You know, to edit the mini > button xpm bitmaps) > I have used it and I thought it was called "bitmap", apparently not. Maybe you are referring to pixmap. In these situations

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