Re: Running from XTerm Crashes X

2004-09-18 Thread Terry Carney
It worked. I somehow forgot that change while typing. This did a little better but xmond.log was still empty. However, it didn't crash but returned the following to the console instead: Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to 127.0.0.1:1 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). The following from stra

Re: aptitude changelog says "new upstream release" ?

2004-09-18 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:51:27PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > The changelog entry for aptitude says "new upstream release." I know > Debian is trying to be Kernel-neutral, but isn't aptitude a > Debian-native package which might happen to run on things like Redhat? It just means the source

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:42:40PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. > Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing > machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very > minimal

Re: Running from XTerm Crashes X

2004-09-18 Thread Terry
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: nohup bash -c 'xmonui | xmond > xmond.log' & # click full for the first four choosers DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1 app It worked. I somehow forgot that change while typing. This did a little better but xmond.log was still empty. However, it didn't crash but returne

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:47:00PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >It would be useful if there was a flash plugin that did nothing but > >extract URLs and present them in clickable form, so you could still > >navigate web sites that have the above problem but are spared all the > >mu

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-18 Thread Travis Crump
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:41:32AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: If you are using flash, I must warn you to only use it to make movies or games, NEVER for navigation, as it is not a highly accessible technology. Please, stay away from it for web design. Well said. It would be useful i

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-18 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:41:32AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > If you are using flash, I must warn > you to only use it to make movies or games, NEVER for > navigation, as it is not a highly accessible > technology. Please, stay away from it for web design. Well said. It would be useful if the

minimal installation questions

2004-09-18 Thread Pepper Orlando
Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card interfaced via an IDE-to-CF a

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 folder bug ?

2004-09-18 Thread Adam Felix Bogacki
Alexander Sack wrote: Adam Bogacki wrote: I am not sure if this is a Debian or Thunderbird problem so I am posting to both lists. Having apt-upgraded to Thunderbird 0.8 I find the central pane completely blank so that I can not see the contents of my inbox, or of any other box or folder. It remains

aptitude changelog says "new upstream release" ?

2004-09-18 Thread William Ballard
The changelog entry for aptitude says "new upstream release." I know Debian is trying to be Kernel-neutral, but isn't aptitude a Debian-native package which might happen to run on things like Redhat? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Travis Crump
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:10:46 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: What am I missing here, besides these .h files? Nothing. How to cope: # mkdir /usr/src/linux # mkdir /usr/src/linux/include This is on

Re: Running from XTerm Crashes X

2004-09-18 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:36:59PM -0700, Terry wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > > >>Sorry for not including it. > >> > >>>From .xsession-errors : > >> > >>xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" > >>xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or Ki

Re: Running from XTerm Crashes X

2004-09-18 Thread Terry
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: Sorry for not including it. From .xsession-errors : xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" That's normal for a server crash... What about /var/log/XFr

Re: Not optimal display

2004-09-18 Thread Pascal Bonesh
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 00:28, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:08:33 -0400, Jean-Francois Lefebvre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm using Debian since 2 weeks, and so far I'm happy with it. But there's one > > problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphic card, and st

marketing direct inter-entreprises

2004-09-18 Thread fax . express
Bonjour, Avec la rentrée en cours, la plupart des entreprises planifieront et débloqueront leurs dépenses de fonctionnement dans les prochaines semaines. Plusieurs entreprises comme la votre me font confiance actuellement pour mettre en valeur leurs services et produits auprès de ces ent

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb [for scanners]

2004-09-18 Thread Chris Purves
On Saturday 18 September 2004 19:07, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Are you sure only root has permission? Is there group read/write > permission for the group "scanner"? If I go to /proc/bus/usb/002/005 root is both the owner and group. It would appear that /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner is not cha

Re: How to connect Broadband automatically at boot

2004-09-18 Thread John Hasler
Paul Johnson writes: > ppp_on_boot isn't read, only it's filename is, IIRC. It is executed on boot if it is executable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: How to connect Broadband automatically at boot

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > Broadband - via ADSL router > Connection - requiring login and password > > Just have Debian installed with sarge-i386-netinst > booting to 'init 2' only. I need t

Re: screensaver & icewm

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > I am using ICEWM as my window manager, where should I put the > "xscreensaver &" command to activate the screensaver on graphical > logins. At a command prompt in a terminal wi

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Badea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in > unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version > in sid being 1-7). snapshot.debian.n

xemacs & auctex

2004-09-18 Thread Vittorio
I've just installed xemacs21 to run latex files under kde as I'm usually doing with emacs[-21] & auctex. But differently from emacs which display a new menu when inputing a .tex file with the "command" menu xemacs21 doesn't modify the standard menu although it warns that "loading tex-mode DONE"

Re: Running from XTerm Crashes X

2004-09-18 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:22:09PM -0700, Terry wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Shaul Karl wrote: > > >>A brief, but by no means exhaustive, list: > >> > >>Runs from Windowmaker: ALL > >>Runs from command line:mozilla, gimp2, gnomesword2, xchat > >>Crashes from command line: dillo, alsaplaye

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:10:46 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > > I am trying to compile some .src.rpm files. When > > I try to do this they look for headers under the > > /usr/src/linux link. I installed linux from CD'

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-18 Thread Andrei Badea
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote: pour Monsieur)> Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in sid being 1-7). Thanks for help. Andrei Hi Andrei, Apparentl

SAMBA printer drivers?

2004-09-18 Thread Robert Harris
I've got a samba server up and sharing out my printer to my test windows machines. I just went to setup my printer on one of the windows boxes and it said the drivers aren't there for my HP 882C. Is there a place on my Samba server i can put the drivers so that the XP system will auto-install the

Re: Running from XTerm Crashes X

2004-09-18 Thread Terry
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Shaul Karl wrote: A brief, but by no means exhaustive, list: Runs from Windowmaker: ALL Runs from command line:mozilla, gimp2, gnomesword2, xchat Crashes from command line: dillo, alsaplayer, acroread, xmms Does ~/.xsession-errors have something more? Sorry for not inc

Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

2004-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition > > Why? Please elaborate. even if you can boot, you do NOT have a root fs .. ( /etc /bin /sbin /lib /dev ... ) you can always use a fd or cd or network to

Re: Not optimal display

2004-09-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:08:33 -0400, Jean-Francois Lefebvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using Debian since 2 weeks, and so far I'm happy with it. But there's one > problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphic card, and still when a GL > screensaver (like Euphoria) appears, it's very slow

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-18 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote: pour Monsieur)> Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in > unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in > sid being 1-7). > > Thanks for help. > > Andrei Hi Andrei, Apparently you can fi

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:45:11 +0200, Andrei Badea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in > unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in > sid being 1-7). > http://snapshot.debian.net/ Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-18 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote: > server-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 Hi, You will not find it in testing either, the version there being "1-4" apparently: # apt-get install -s xserver-xfree86 | grep xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86 Inst xserver-xfree86 [4.3.0-7] (4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 D

Re: Two ethernet cards [SOLVED]

2004-09-18 Thread Jason Rennie
It was annoying that dhclient would spend 60 second figuring out that eth0 was not connected to a network. Some pre-up lines fixed that problem: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up /home/jrennie/usr/bin/check-mac-address.sh eth0 00:50:8B:46:28:6F auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp

Re: Two ethernet cards [SOLVED]

2004-09-18 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:14:41PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > Now, when the laptop is docked, PCMCIA comes up as eth0, but I lied. PCMCIA still comes up as eth1 (dhclient and ifconfig confused me by showing eth0 and 00:50:8B:46:28:6F together...) I added another section to /etc/network/interfa

How to obtain older package versions?

2004-09-18 Thread Andrei Badea
Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is now in unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in sid being 1-7). Thanks for help. Andrei -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://movzx.net # ICQ: 52641547 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Two ethernet cards

2004-09-18 Thread Jason Rennie
Hello, I have a laptop with docking station. The laptop has a PCMCIA wireless card; the docking station has its own ethernet port/card. When I boot up w/o the docking station, the wireless card is recognized as eth0 and the network comes up properly. When I boot up with the docking station, the

RE: networking/permissions NEWBIE

2004-09-18 Thread Roger Creasy
Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: when you do a ps -ef | grep -i smb do you see the smbd running?   yes. it should start at boot time.   I get 3 lines. something like root 732 1 0 sep17? 00:00:00:00 smb -d   my e-mail doesn't work on the debian machine. So I can't cut and paste the line

Solved Re: Lcd4linux ./configure and make problem.

2004-09-18 Thread Rthoreau
> Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wrote: > Note that this info was found by the 'dlocate' program on the > computer of a programmer who uses Woody. If you use Sarge, Sid, > Potato, or any other Debian version, you may need different > packages. Search packages.debian.org for your version an

Java package

2004-09-18 Thread Otto Wyss
What's the name of a Java package for Mozilla? O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My Blues just go more blue

2004-09-18 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 11:21:40AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Did you notice a few months ago when it used to be dark blue, it changed > to light blue? I did. I'm glad it's changed back. I'm not sure where I would notice it other than in mutt and vim. But I'll keep looking. Now a question

Failed PPP hangs system

2004-09-18 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello! I have a very strange problem to deal with. When a ppp connections gets broken, the whole system (Sarge) hangs and I cannot do anything with it - neither through ssh, nor even through the normal keyboard. What might be the root of the problem and how to fight with it? -- -=Ro

Re: cdrecord does not work as ordinary user in kernel 2.6.8-1-686

2004-09-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 the mental interface of H. S. told: > Hi, > > I just recently mustered up some courage and started using Kernel 2.6, > 2.6.8-1-686 to be more exact. > > Since then I am having a few problems. Most can be lived with but > cdrcord is not allowing non-root users to blank a CDR

Re: Bootloader for Sarge - partitions

2004-09-18 Thread Robert Epprecht
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - /boot should NOT be a separate partition Why? Please elaborate. Robert Epprecht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: invisible mailboxes in evolution

2004-09-18 Thread Paul
I've since created a new user in Linux, logged in as that user, and launched evo. It worked. I nuked that local $home/evolution directory and copied the *problem* one from my normal home directory over, and it launched evolution again. Still worked, this time with all of my mail/settings. Back

Re: upgrade from thunderbird 0.7.x to 0.8 in unstable

2004-09-18 Thread Alexander Sack
Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: Hi, I just want to warn every unstable user, that the upgrade from 0.7.x to 0.8 is not without pain. Even if you have no plugins or extensions installed (by yourself), after the upgrade Thunderbird can't see any mails, etc. You have to move your old prefs directory away

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 folder bug ?

2004-09-18 Thread Alexander Sack
Adam Bogacki wrote: I am not sure if this is a Debian or Thunderbird problem so I am posting to both lists. Having apt-upgraded to Thunderbird 0.8 I find the central pane completely blank so that I can not see the contents of my inbox, or of any other box or folder. It remains blank. I will uplo

Zoom ADSL 5X Router,Modem,Switch error

2004-09-18 Thread Werner Otto
Hi All, I recently bout a Zoom X5 Router modem. I set it up on Windows XP Pro with no errors. I booted into Debian with no problem and worked 100%. I then logged off and a few days later logged back into Debian and did not work. I am unable to ping any hostname or localhost. I changed nothing. I m

Re: Nvidia problems in kernel 2.6.7

2004-09-18 Thread Joris Huizer
H. S. wrote: Hi, I was using Nvidia drives in 2.4.26 and they were working pretty nicely (with the necessary changes in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. But Since using 2.6.7 (now about a day) the same drivers do not work for the new kernel. In 2.4.26, there is documentatoin in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kern

Re: how to change ugly themes i.e. acroread, xcdroast and other apps

2004-09-18 Thread Pascal Bonesh
Hi Stefan, Your tips got me started and finally I got at least the gtk 1.x thing figured out. It's actually quite simple, but has a small bug (at least the way I did it, maybe there is a simpler and better way) That's the way I did it: 1. install themes that support gtk 1 (search for gtk-engin

Re: cdrecord does not work as ordinary user in kernel 2.6.8-1-686

2004-09-18 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Zachary Rizer_, on 09/17/04 15:52,typed: This is a known issue. You need to upgrade your kernel to 2.6.9-rcX, or downgrade to 2.6.7.X. Some details here: http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/news2 (under "Do not use kernel 2.6.8") or more at google.com, I'm sure. Regards, ~Zaq Hi, Okay,

Nvidia problems in kernel 2.6.7

2004-09-18 Thread H. S.
Hi, I was using Nvidia drives in 2.4.26 and they were working pretty nicely (with the necessary changes in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. But Since using 2.6.7 (now about a day) the same drivers do not work for the new kernel. In 2.4.26, there is documentatoin in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-2.4.26-1-6

Re: uname problem??

2004-09-18 Thread Eddy Parris
Ah ok, sorted dunno wat it was but i dl'ed the coreutils deb file and reinstalled it with dpkg, seems to have fixed the problem... i wonder wat it was though? very odd! nevermind.. its sorted now and im happy :P = .'' ` . Edward Parris : :' : Debian Linux : http://www.debian.org : How

Re: How to connect Broadband automatically at boot

2004-09-18 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Stephen Liu_, on 09/18/04 09:05,typed: booting to 'init 2' only. I need to have the Debian box connected to broadband automatically at boot instead of running; # pon dsl-provider after booting up the box. Have you run pppoeconf first? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Lcd4linux ./configure and make problem.

2004-09-18 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:57:59AM -0500, Rthoreau wrote: > Dear: Fellow Debian Users; > > I am having problems trying to get ./configure to generate a make file > for Lcd4linux. Below is the output for the program. It stops with an > error message "configure: error: X11 headers or libraries no

Re: Lcd4linux ./configure and make problem.

2004-09-18 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:57:59 -0500 Rthoreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear: Fellow Debian Users; > > I am having problems trying to get ./configure to generate a make file > for Lcd4linux. Below is the output for the program. It stops with an > error message "configure: error: X11 headers o

RE: networking/permissions NEWBIE

2004-09-18 Thread Roger Creasy
Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Do you have samba running?   As far as I know. Should it not start at boot? Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.

Lcd4linux ./configure and make problem.

2004-09-18 Thread Rthoreau
Dear: Fellow Debian Users; I am having problems trying to get ./configure to generate a make file for Lcd4linux. Below is the output for the program. It stops with an error message "configure: error: X11 headers or libraries not available: X11 driver disabled". This of course is taken from th

Re: how to change ugly themes i.e. acroread, xcdroast and other apps

2004-09-18 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:30:17PM +0200, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > Hi, > > I just wondered why some apps turn out to look ugly/oldfashioned. > > I.e. gktalog, nmapfe, xcdroast and acroread. Are they plain X-11 apps or > are they using some old gtk 1.x toolkit? > > I would like to change the look

Re: Error mkswap

2004-09-18 Thread Fernando
Hi. I find a solution. When i charge Knoppix, and this take swap space on HDD if you want to do mkswaps in other partition its say this error. Now, i install debian sarge from a woody and works perfect :D Thans all :D El sáb, 18-09-2004 a las 12:46, Fernando escribió: > Hi all. I want to instal

how to change ugly themes i.e. acroread, xcdroast and other apps

2004-09-18 Thread Pascal Bonesh
Hi, I just wondered why some apps turn out to look ugly/oldfashioned. I.e. gktalog, nmapfe, xcdroast and acroread. Are they plain X-11 apps or are they using some old gtk 1.x toolkit? I would like to change the look of these apps so that they closer match my gnome 2.6 Simple theme. Does somebo

RE: networking/permissions NEWBIE

2004-09-18 Thread Roger Creasy
Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: smbuser add {username}   I get command not found     Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

RE: networking/permissions NEWBIE

2004-09-18 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
smbuser add {username}   Tony UcedaVélez Security Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877.884.1110 -- SecureWorks. Rock-solid Internet security. No hassles. No headcount.  No capital outlay. -- http://www.secureworks.com -Original Message-From: Roger Creasy [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: networking/permissions NEWBIE

2004-09-18 Thread Roger Creasy
Tony Uceda Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make sure you've created a smbuser on the Linux box.  Update your /etc/hosts file and your /etc/allow file as well with the hostname and workgroup/ domain.  Make sure in your smb.conf file you've associated the computer with the right Workgroup or Dom

RE: networking/permissions NEWBIE

2004-09-18 Thread Tony Uceda Velez
Make sure you've created a smbuser on the Linux box.  Update your /etc/hosts file and your /etc/allow file as well with the hostname and workgroup/ domain.  Make sure in your smb.conf file you've associated the computer with the right Workgroup or Domain.  If all this has been done, write b

networking/permissions NEWBIE

2004-09-18 Thread Roger Creasy
I have a home network set up, sort of... My awesome, incrediable, debian box has sarge, KDE, Samba. My problem box has winXP home.   From the linux box I can see everything on the network, can open shared folders, etc. However, from the windose box I can see the linux computer, but cannot see or a

Re: Error mkswap

2004-09-18 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:46:01PM +0200, Fernando wrote: > Hi all. I want to install debian in a old pc. Its a > PII 333, 64Ram,3Gb HD. I want to install sarge using > knoppix and debootstrap. Ok, i make all partitions > with fdisk and there isnt problems. > But when i do mkswap /dev/hda2, i get

Not optimal display

2004-09-18 Thread Jean-Francois Lefebvre
Hi. I'm using Debian since 2 weeks, and so far I'm happy with it. But there's one problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphic card, and still when a GL screensaver (like Euphoria) appears, it's very slow. How do I ensure that my display is optimal for my graphic card. How can I install the latest

Re: uname problem??

2004-09-18 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 02:54:43PM +0100, Eddy Parris wrote: > Hallo > > I am having terrible problems with my system, I think coreutils was upgraded in my > last apt-get > update/upgrade and now uname does not seem to function like it should, it behave > rather like > fsck... thus rendering man

uname problem??

2004-09-18 Thread Eddy Parris
Hallo I am having terrible problems with my system, I think coreutils was upgraded in my last apt-get update/upgrade and now uname does not seem to function like it should, it behave rather like fsck... thus rendering many start up scripts useless and making my computer not boot properly. unam

Re: Running from XTerm Crashes X

2004-09-18 Thread Shaul Karl
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:50:20PM -0700, Terry wrote: > Hi. > > I am running the current Testing and am using WindowMaker as my window > manager. > > For some time now (a year?) trying to run an X program from the command > line in an XTerm often causes the X server to unceremoniously crash an

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

2004-09-18 Thread John Summerfield
Anthony Campbell wrote: Anthony Sorry for this follow-up, but I've now discovered what the original problem with the passwords was. The console keymap has somehow gone wrong and is not generating the correct UK symbols for # ~ @ . This may have happened in today's update from Sid - I'm not sur

Re: Noteedit

2004-09-18 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 18 September 2004 08:46 am, Silvan wrote: > On Saturday 18 September 2004 06:39 am, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > 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

Re: gconf schemas in /etc

2004-09-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 13:21:34 +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Why is this in /etc? Historic reasons. > Shouldn't it belong in /usr/share? Yes. A migration to /usr/share/gconf/schemas is in progress. 61 packages in sid have already migrated; 41 still use /etc/gconf/schemas. HTH, Ray -- Wh

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nothing. > > How to cope: > > > # mkdir /usr/src/linux > # mkdir /usr/src/linux/include > > Now the apps -I/usr/src/linux/include won't do > anything, but they will > still find the kernel headers because a set of > known-good kernel > headers

Re: Papersize in Gnumeric/Abiword

2004-09-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 14:30:25 +0200, Hans Gubitz wrote: > how can I manage to make A4 the papersize in gnumeric or abiword? > - As a single user? In gnumeric, it's supposed to work like this: File -> Page Setup -> Paper size -> pick A4 and then select the Save as default setti

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > I am trying to compile some .src.rpm files. When > I try to do this they look for headers under the > /usr/src/linux link. I installed linux from CD's > originally and they didn't put anything there...I > don't even have that link. >

Problems with .deb signatures

2004-09-18 Thread David A. Cobb
Well ! After 3 months of tweaking this then tweaking that I suddenly got the right combination and my internet connection is now working from Debian. I did several updates, couldn't get things quite stable. That's stable only in the sense that aptitude actually completes its list of things t

Re: screensaver & icewm

2004-09-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:39:44AM -0400, mike wrote: > Hi. > > I am using ICEWM as my window manager, where should I put the > "xscreensaver &" command to activate the screensaver on graphical logins. > > Thanks in advance, > Mike > In /home/mike/.xsession -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon?

2004-09-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:19:18PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > > --- Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unstable means that the packages actually get > > upgraded. With stable, all > > you get is security fixes. > > > > Well, that's good to know. The word has many bad > connotations

How to connect Broadband automatically at boot

2004-09-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Broadband - via ADSL router Connection - requiring login and password Just have Debian installed with sarge-i386-netinst booting to 'init 2' only. I need to have the Debian box connected to broadband automatically at boot instead of running; # pon dsl-provider after booting up the bo

I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Eric Dickner
I am trying to compile some .src.rpm files. When I try to do this they look for headers under the /usr/src/linux link. I installed linux from CD's originally and they didn't put anything there...I don't even have that link. I downloaded a source kernel from kernel.org and many of the instructions

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-18 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Tim Kelley wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:35:08AM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > For the benefit of anyone else trying this, you don't have to touch > > anything on the client machine(s). Just the default install of the basic > > CUPS packages is needed on the client. The CUPS daemon running

Re: Noteedit

2004-09-18 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 18 September 2004 06:39 am, Roy Pluschke wrote: > 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 > rele

Re: My Blues just go more blue

2004-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This changelog entry from xterm explains: >> >> + Change resource settings for color4 and color12; add some >> discussion in XTerm-col.ad. (Closes: #255070) > Interesting discussion. Not sure I follow all of it, though. > Something else to l

Re: waproamd usb interface: hotplug versus coldplug

2004-09-18 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 09:50:08 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have an USB wireless gear which works fine with ndiswrapper. > On the other hand I use waproamd to configure on the fly my wireless > connection: since a while I have noticed that this configuration works > only when my USB wireless stic

Re: Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon?

2004-09-18 Thread Joris Huizer
Eric Dickner wrote: --- Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unstable means that the packages actually get upgraded. With stable, all you get is security fixes. Well, that's good to know. The word has many bad connotations in spite of its official definition. But stable _does_ have libstdc++

Re: Bootloader for Sarge

2004-09-18 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> Matthew Jackson wrote: > > I just downloaded the weekly build for Sarge and burnt the first iso. > The install goes great but when asked to install GRUB, I decide not to > install to the MBR so it asks me where to install it to. The reason is > I have XP on one hard disk and Linux on the other h

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb

2004-09-18 Thread Martin Spasov
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 18:13 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems. > The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but only root has > read/write permissions. What I have been doing is manually changing the > permissions acc

screensaver & icewm

2004-09-18 Thread mike
Hi. I am using ICEWM as my window manager, where should I put the "xscreensaver &" command to activate the screensaver on graphical logins. Thanks in advance, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb

2004-09-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:22:16 +0200, Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:13:06 +0800, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems. > > The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb [for scanners]

2004-09-18 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Chris Purves said... > I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems. > The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but only root has > read/write permissions. What I have been doing is manually changing the > permissions access every time I

Re: Error mkswap

2004-09-18 Thread Fernando
Hi all. I want to install debian in a old pc. Its a PII 333, 64Ram,3Gb HD. I want to install sarge using knoppix and debootstrap. Ok, i make all partitions with fdisk and there isnt problems. But when i do mkswap /dev/hda2, i get this error: mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB Us

Noteedit

2004-09-18 Thread Roy Pluschke
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] w

Re: Bootloader for Sarge

2004-09-18 Thread Shaul Karl
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:33:16PM -0700, Matthew Jackson wrote: > I have no floppy drive > There is probably a way to boot a CD in a similar manner. You also might want to explore the following GRUB configuration: title XP root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloade

Re: Apache2 (testing) cgi-bin doesn't execute?

2004-09-18 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:10:05 +0200, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ > You want a slash here^ > AllowOverride None > Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > > > > > -- Stephen Patters

Re: write access to /proc/bus/usb

2004-09-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:13:06 +0800, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems. > The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but only root has > read/write permissions. What I have been doing is manually changing the

Re: Firefox with flash and sound

2004-09-18 Thread Caveman
Well thats interesting, because the sound with flash works fine in the normal mozilla... So I can't see how even if the two are related. Caveman On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:17:32 +0200, Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:36:32 +1000, Caveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

write access to /proc/bus/usb

2004-09-18 Thread Chris Purves
I've set up an usb scanner recently, but I am having permissions problems. The scanner generally resides in /proc/bus/usb/003 but only root has read/write permissions. What I have been doing is manually changing the permissions access every time I want to run the scanner. (using xsane) Does

Re: IDE zip, udev: partition 4 is not created

2004-09-18 Thread Alban Browaeys
Le Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:30:04 +0200, Cyril Humbert a écrit : > [Please, CC me, I don't subscribe to the list] > > Hello, > > I experience problems to use IDE zip drive with udev: the > fourth partition is not created at boot time. It seems to > be a known problem. For Debian there's a (closed) b

Re: nvidia-kernel-common problem

2004-09-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
> /home/ed0n# apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package nvidia-kernel-common is not available, but is referred to by > another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available fro

invisible mailboxes in evolution

2004-09-18 Thread Paul W.
I'm using Debian Testing, and it's been working for about the last eight months w/o too much issue. I have a sudden problem now though, that being that I can open Evolution and see the summary, calendar, and task pages, but nothing with an email in it (drafts/sent/trash/inbox/etc.). Clicking on

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