User unable to startx

Hello. I recently have run upon a very annoying problem. For reasons unknown, I can no longer start X from a standard user account. Root can startx fine. A user can change to su and startx X fine. But whenever a standard user attempts to startx, they get a long list of errors culminating w

Re: Display Set-Up

s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Beans: Vijaya S wrote: You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that.. stop X server and then type # dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Follow the wizard and enter the correct value. As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file (/etc/X11/XFree86-

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:59:20PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:22:13 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I got an official "woody" set and am now setting it up, and am > > wondering if this "bright" idea of mine is actually advisab

Re: Installing the xfree86

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:31:32PM +0500, Asim Jamshed wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed xfree86 and kde in my computer. On booting the > machine, it failed to start the xserver and hence xdm/kdm. I have > changed the init level to 5 from /etc/inittab but I cant figure out > which soft links I

Re: sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:41:40 -0400 (EDT) Arjen Dragt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to determine the best category under which > to file a Debian bug report. > The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying > to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not > work, insteat cau

Re: strange disk corruption - cables

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The discussion concerning this thread tells me that my own > understanding of the issues at play is far below that of certain other > posters. However, I will humbly wonder aloud if the IDE cable is firmly > seated in the connectors at both

Re: Display Set-Up

Incoming from Beans: > Vijaya S wrote: > > > >You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that.. > >stop X server and then type > ># dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > >Follow the wizard and enter the correct value. > > As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file > (/etc/X11/XFree86-4)

Re: sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

Incoming from Arjen Dragt: > I am trying to determine the best category under which > to file a Debian bug report. > The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying > to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not > work, insteat causes my screen (console - Gnome > session) to go reall

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

Jeff Golden wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:06:06 -0700, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plu

sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

I am trying to determine the best category under which to file a Debian bug report. The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not work, insteat causes my screen (console - Gnome session) to go really wierd.command line starts scrolli

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

> Don't have one personally so I dont know but: > > http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/oss/avision/ > > was produced, as the first result, to the following google search: > parallel port scanners linux avision > I apologize I read that wrong apparently they haven't been succesful at a paralell

Re: Display Set-Up

Vijaya S wrote: Hi, You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that.. stop X server and then type # dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Follow the wizard and enter the correct value. As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file (/etc/X11/XFree86-4) insteead of 'dpkg-reconfigure'. After all,

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 23:06, Scarletdown wrote: > I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of > actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, > powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for > GIMP. However, xsane is not a

Re: Display Set-Up

Vijaya S wrote: Hi, You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that.. stop X server and then type # dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Follow the wizard and enter the correct value. As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file insteead of 'dpkg-reconfigure'. After all, this way need more bra

Samba, part duex..

I am still having difficulty using samba on sarge. Samba 3.0.7 As a reference, here is my smb.conf # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 192.168.0.104 (192.168.0.104) # Date: 2004/10/08 22:05:09 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MSHOME server string = %h server (S

Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:06:06 -0700, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of > actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, > powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for > GIMP.

Parallel Port Scanner Support?

I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of actually being able to use it. It is connected to the parallel port, powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for GIMP. However, xsane is not able to see the scanner. I just get a less than helpful

Re: Grub won't timeout

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:23:51 +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:00:38AM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: >> >> (I would have sword GRUB started numbering at 1, not 0, but perhaps I'm >> mistaken. > > I believe you are wrong. It starts at 0. This should be documented. I would have

Re: CUPS to USB printing no longer working

> I should check, but yes, probably you'll find a > kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k6 on Woody. > Should I use kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 or kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k6? Sorry about basic questions. I'm quite new to debian. Also - my life would not be worth living if I screwed up the office system. --

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

At 08:07 AM 10/8/2004, you wrote: The point is, did you ever use a Dos / Windows utility to partition the disk, or did you buy it new and partition it with the installer? No, no windows or other non-linux partitioning tool should have been used on this disk. Linux is the only thing thats been on t

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:59:21 -0700 (PDT), "Sergio Basurto" wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:21:51 -0700, Andrew Carter wrote: > > > > > I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and > > I'm hoping > > someone might be able to explain what is going on. My > > home network > > has an Ac

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

On Friday 08 October 2004 03:22 am, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Hello, > I got an official "woody" set and am now setting it up, and am > wondering if this "bright" idea of mine is actually advisable. > I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as > the /home directory, as well as

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

On Friday 08 October 2004 04:21 pm, Andrew Carter wrote: > I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping > someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network > has an ActionTec wireless DSL modem/router running as the DHCP. Qwest > is my DSL provider. I have t

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

> Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. I'm sure my "client" thanks > you too. Linux, Debian, and all the others who contributed to open source > software have given this lady her "window to the world" in her meager > mobile home in the backwoods environment. Kind of nice timing coming b

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

On Friday 08 October 2004 12:18 pm, Eric Dickner wrote: > For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous > download, some 500 Meg... Painful, innit? I did that when I upgraded from Woody to Sarge. > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the

Re: Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

"Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I started learning how to use GPG for signing and encrypting my > mail, and today noticed that the outgoing encrypted messages are copied > into $record folder *after* the encryption; as you can imagine, this > makes them quite usele

Re: Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

Hello Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Recently I started learning how to use GPG for signing and encrypting > my mail, and today noticed that the outgoing encrypted messages are > copied into $record folder *after* the encryption; as you can imagine, > this makes them quite

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

On Friday 08 October 2004 23:21, Andrew Carter wrote: > > So, I have three questions: I make it 4 > > 1. Should my router's ip address be in the resolv.conf file? You should be running dhclient - it will put it there when the dhcp server in your dsl router/modem answers the request. But if yo

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

On Friday 08 October 2004 21:18, JW wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to > understand the entire Debian environment and need a little advise. > > I have been using SuSE for a long time but recently my job has required me > to start administrating

Re: how to recover data even when unable to mount?

I suggest that you first remove the old hard disk. Then do a complete new install of Sarge on the new hard disk. In Debian, dd-rescue is in the ddrescue package. Don't try to operate from knoppix, if you have a brand new HD on which you can install quickly all the packages that you need. Once

Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

Hello. Recently I started learning how to use GPG for signing and encrypting my mail, and today noticed that the outgoing encrypted messages are copied into $record folder *after* the encryption; as you can imagine, this makes them quite useless for me, as I don't have the recipient's private key.

Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network has an ActionTec wireless DSL modem/router running as the DHCP. Qwest is my DSL provider. I have three Macintoshes, an XP box, and a Debian/FreeBSD dual boot box.

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

On Sunday 26 September 2004 09:11 am, Don Jackson wrote: > On Saturday 25 September 2004 09:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote: > > I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path > > before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine > > with 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB

Re: how to recover data even when unable to mount?

Take a look at e2salvage . It worked well for me in similar situations. John On Friday 08 October 2004 03:04 pm, tripolar wrote: > It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a > knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks. > my hard

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:13:15 +0200 "Dan Roozemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only thing that might cause a problem would be if it > > updates a large > > package (say Apache or Perl) and has a small configuration bug that > > makes you run around and pull your hair out trying to figure

RE: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

> The only thing that might cause a problem would be if it > updates a large > package (say Apache or Perl) and has a small configuration bug that > makes you run around and pull your hair out trying to figure > out what's > changed and how to fix it. This is when reading the Debian-user list >

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

DR >> If anyone has advise on how to keep a Testing system secure, DR >> I'd really like to hear it. DR > DR >If security is really an issue to you: lots of websites exist on how to make DR >a linux system secure, involving very strict SSH settings, firewalls, etc. DR > DR >For the average user

how to recover data even when unable to mount?

It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks. my hard drive 3 partitions I wish to make backups of. After googling I have found several options- one being dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb conv=noerror,sync I have a new 160G hard

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was reading the security FAQ and am somewhat alarmed to find (if I > understand correctly) that Testing is not actively supported by the > security team. Youch. If I could put stable on it I would, but for the > reasons stated

RE: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

Hi, > I am wondering what the best way is to go about staying up to > date. If I run > apt-get -s upgrade I'm told that apt wants to upgrade about > 15 packages, most > of which seem to be related to X (we won't ever be using X on > this server. it > wasn't originally installed and I"d like

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

-- Original Message - Subject: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"? Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 From: JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to understand the entire Deb

Re: opengl, ati radeon mobility m7

I took a quick look at the dri troubleshooting and I couldn't find anything specific to the Mobility series. The dri pages made me think, though ... should the kernel be loading any particular modules as opposed to XFree? Looking at lsmod, I have: radeon intel_agp agpgart There is no drm kernel

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Not really, no. > Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the > packcages it already g

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "jano kupec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin >> the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again >> and will it recognize the packcages it already got? > > apt keep

New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on "testing"?

Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to understand the entire Debian environment and need a little advise. I have been using SuSE for a long time but recently my job has required me to start administrating a Debian server that was set up with 3.1/Sarge/Testi

Re: Compaq LTE 5400/Debian stable - Xfree86 configuration.

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:26:05PM +0100, Ian McCall wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Compaq LTE 5400 on stable (Woody), and as ever the > dreaded XFree86 set-up is driving me up the wall. It's a Cirrus Logic > CL5478 card apparently, and has an LCD with 16bit colour 800x600 native > display. Car

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

Olle wrote: > BTW, I don't really see how backing up the home directory would be > enough, at least for me. I tend to make lots of changes system wide so > that I get the same settings for root as my ordinary user account, and > half the time it is just easier to make the changes in the existing >

Re: 3c575_cb missing from debian install

Ketil Froyn wrote: > I'm trying to install debian testing on my laptop, but I need the > 3c575_cb for my PCMCIA network adapter, and for some reason it is not > included on the boot, root, net-drivers or even cd-drivers images. I > don't know why, the net-drivers has over 200kb free space. It's > d

Re: strange disk corruption

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:57:05AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's possible. > > I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot. > > And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file > system e

Re: opengl, ati radeon mobility m7

Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:54:10 -0700 (PDT), Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What does it take to get hardware accelerated open gl working? Try using the "radeon" driver instead of the "ati" driver and see what happens. I believe that the Mobility series of Radeons

[SOLVED] Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK separate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 19:46 schrieb gerhard: > Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 18:43 schrieb gerhard: > > Now I started a download of an rpm which contains > > libgimpcolor-1.3.so.24 > > http://lisas.de/~nils/yum/fedora/0.95/i386/extras/RPMS/gimp-beta-2. > >0- 0.pre2.1.i386.rpm 20-Jan-2004 09:28  8

Re: How to get the 2nd CPU to work?

On Friday 08 October 2004 12:18, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Why not just run top, then hit 1 to show both procs? > > You will see if one or both are being utilized. > > Good trick ;) Yoda said it best: "Pass on what you have learned." And then he said something about there being another Sky Floater

appendix Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK separate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 18:43 schrieb gerhard: > Now I started a download of an rpm which contains > libgimpcolor-1.3.so.24 > http://lisas.de/~nils/yum/fedora/0.95/i386/extras/RPMS/gimp-beta-2.0- >0.pre2.1.i386.rpm 20-Jan-2004 09:28  8.8M > > I don't know how to handle that, because I already go

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

On Friday 08 October 2004 13.22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as > the /home directory, as well as using the same partition for storing > documents and user files from my Windows 2000 Pro (the other side of > my dual boot system,) that I co

Reverse ip lookup does not use /etc/hosts

I am investigating a problem on my LAN - some operations seemed very slow. There are 3 machines on the LAN. Two (leo.galaxy and orion.galaxy) are only connected to the LAN. The third (ursa.galaxy) is the firewall/gateway and also has a connection thru a cable modem to the internet. The test: on ori

Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK seperate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

Am Freitag 08 Oktober 2004 14:22 schrieb Tim Kelley: > On Friday 08 October 2004 02:50, Gerhard Gaussling wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running Sarge/SID. > > > > I want to build and package the gimp plugin Seperate [3], > > which relies on the CMM of the little-cms [5] and seems to > > make a firs

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Compaq LTE 5400/Debian stable - Xfree86 configuration.

I'm trying to set up a Compaq LTE 5400 on stable (Woody), and as ever the dreaded XFree86 set-up is driving me up the wall. It's a Cirrus Logic CL5478 card apparently, and has an LCD with 16bit colour 800x600 native display. Card is just a 1 meg video card. I can get a normal'ish looking session

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:18:17 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous > download, some 500 Meg... > > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Usually not, eventually you'll find them in /va

RE: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

> Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again > and will it recognize the packcages it already got? apt keeps downloaded packages (usually) in /var/cache/apt/archives, untill you decide to remove them with apt-get clean, so the are no

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again > and will it recognize the packcages it already got? If apt-get is interrupted, it'll continue from where it left off. Note that you might f

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous > download, some 500 Meg... > > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again > and will it

Re: installing on an older machine

On Friday 08 October 2004 13:52, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I am trying to install debian on an old hp vectra. The (testing) install > goes along fine, finding the nic and downloading stuff from the network > but then it reports that it can't find any partitionable media. Well, > there is a 1.7 gig hard

Re: How to get the 2nd CPU to work?

On (08/10/04 09:42), Brendan wrote: > On Thursday 07 October 2004 13:16, Jason Rennie wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:06:41AM +0530, Rishi wrote: > > > The output of dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo appears to have recognized the > > > 2nd CPU. Any ideas if > > > (a) the 2nd CPU is being used OR > > >

"apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

Hello, For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous download, some 500 Meg... Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got? Will it check these downloads for errors with an md5 or

solved debconf corruption problem

My previous google/groups attempts just didn't have the right keywords: And the answer is : /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl Worked ! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

On Friday 08 October 2004 13:53, Riccardo Tortorici wrote: > You're right, I'm sorry... > With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP > performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower with debian, > let's say less reactive to the user... > Is there a way to optimize

Re: Switching between two network cards

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > ... > I've got two network cards: one integrated on my motherboard > (uses the sk98lin driver) and a PCI card (fealnx driver). Both drivers are > compiled as modules and upon startup I'm loading only fealnx via > /etc/modules (I'm n

Re: installing on an older machine

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:52:06 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I am trying to install debian on an old hp vectra. What version and distribution are you trying to install Debian??? > The > (testing) install > goes along fine, finding the nic and downloading stuff > from the network > but then it rep

lockd: cannot unmonitor

Hi, I've an NFS client running an up-to-date Debian sid, kernel 2.4.27 (not vanilla, but supplied by Debian). If someone tries to shut down this machine, the machine doesn't power-off! These are the last fews messages printed to the console: 1 lockd_down: lockd failed to exit, clearing pid 2 fl

Re: 3c575_cb missing from debian install

On Fri, 2004-10-08, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Mmh, don't know if can help, anyway try to look here > (http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html) if you find a > Debian netinstaller that "seems" good enough for your laptop. Thanks for the tip, but I had a look, and I couldn't find any flop

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

On Thursday 07 October 2004 17:09, Ian L wrote: > At 10:43 AM 10/7/2004, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 06 October 2004 16:33, Ian Lipsky wrote: [snip] > > > >Hi Ian, > > > >This link may prove useful. > >http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/f10errors.html > > > >"After reading the man page on fdisk fo

Re: woody: boot fail after upgrade

On Friday 08 October 2004 02:40, Howard Chin wrote: > I installed woody using the stable distribution a few weeks ago. Recently > I decided to upgrade to the testing distribution because the packages are > more up-to-date in that distribution. > So I changed the apt source in /etc/apt/source.list a

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:34:48 +0200, Riccardo Tortorici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > The prelink command will "only" try to reduce loading time of programs > > (for details look in the prelink documentation). > > I read the documentation and it will be sufficient to

Re: Switching between two network cards

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > After my system starts, I want to switch to the other network card (the > sk98lin one), but I only want its module loaded, so I do: > > ifdown eth0 > rmmod fealnx > modprobe sk98lin > ifup eth0 I'm no expert in networking. Might be

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

Andrea Vettorello wrote: The prelink command will "only" try to reduce loading time of programs (for details look in the prelink documentation). I read the documentation and it will be sufficient to reduce te start time of any application (just a first goal, let's say..), unfortunately i didn't n

Re: SCP problem

I figured the problem out. I had bashrc execute 'date', whenever i opened a new shell, somehow scp woud read the bashrc, execute date and quite. not sure why it didn't copy. -JSS Nate Duehr wrote: Jule Slootbeek wrote: Yes, there is enough space, all the other users i talk to have no problem sc

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:53:10 +0200, Riccardo Tortorici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right, I'm sorry... > With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP > performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower with debian, > let's say less reactive to the user... > Is t

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

It was an answer to another user on another debian ML (as I said), i forwarded my question also here cause i wasn't able to find the solution... Unfortunately I already configured my video card, i don't use a generic driver... Someone told me to upgrade from XFree 4.3.0.1 to Xorg and do not use

Re: 3c575_cb missing from debian install

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:53:53 +0100, Ketil Froyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install debian testing on my laptop, but I need the > 3c575_cb for my PCMCIA network adapter, and for some reason it is not > included on the boot, root, net-drivers or even cd-drivers images. I > do

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

Riccardo Tortorici wrote: You're right, I'm sorry... It sounds like you are responding to something, but there doesn't seem to be any clue as to what in your mail headers. With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower

Re: How to get the 2nd CPU to work?

On Thursday 07 October 2004 13:16, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:06:41AM +0530, Rishi wrote: > > The output of dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo appears to have recognized the > > 2nd CPU. Any ideas if > > (a) the 2nd CPU is being used OR > > (b) it's not being used > > This is the test th

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

On Friday 08 October 2004 07:22, gimmy tang wrote: > Just like solaris. > gimmy from one desktop to another - function of the wnidow manager from one display to another - use xmove utility -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

gimmy tang wrote: > > Just like solaris. > gimmy > > _ > This function is depended on your window manager. You could identify your window mananger and others can tell you how to do case by case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:59 schreef Andrea Vettorello: > On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:22:13 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I got an official "woody" set and am now setting it up, and am > > wondering if this "bright" idea of mine is actually advisable. > >

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:22 schreef Scotty Fitzgerald: > Hello, > I got an official "woody" set and am now setting it up, and am > wondering if this "bright" idea of mine is actually advisable. > I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as > the /home directory, as wel

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I am trying to install debian on an old hp vectra. The (testing) install goes along fine, finding the nic and downloading stuff from the network but then it reports that it can't find any partitionable media. Well, there is a 1.7 gig hard drive that currently has a stripted win95 on it. Could ther

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You're right, I'm sorry... With the same hardware (an IBM Thinkpad R40e) comparing windoze XP performance and the debian/kde3.3 ones it results slower with debian, let's say less reactive to the user... Is there a way to optimize the performance of the graphical environment (i.e. high priority to

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

gimmy tang wrote: > Just like solaris. > gimmy Most window managers have a control on each Window that will allow this. For example, in KDE, just left-click on the top-left corner of any window, and a pull-down menu will appear. On this menu is the option "To Desktop", which will let you move the

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:59:20 +0200, Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC FAT32 lacks user/group and the default attributes (rwx, correct > me if i'm wrong), so IMHO not a good idea to use for home... > > You should find some windos programs to read (only?) ext2 partitions > (never us

RE: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

> Subject: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another? > > > Just like solaris. > gimmy > it depends on what display manager you are using (gnome, kde, windowmaker, ...) and how it is set up - some of them can be set so you can just drag the window between workspaces with your mouse j

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

--- gimmy tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just like solaris. If I told you to go and assemble a 20-ft greenhouse, and only gave you a hammer... do you think you could do it? I doubt it. Similarly, you have provided _nothing_ by way of information as to: * Which Window Manager/Desktop Environm

Re: HOW to change the theme of the window?

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:03:04 +0800, gimmy tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am a new ueser. I am currently using the Apple style of windows. How can > I change it into Windows or other styles? > gimmy You'll need to let us know which window manager you are using. Or, which graphical enviro

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:22:59 +0800, gimmy tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just like solaris. > gimmy Which window manager? In ion, its MOD1+t to tag, MOD1+k a to attach tagged, by default. I bet you're not using ion, though. :P -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

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Asim Jamshed wrote: Hi, I recently installed xfree86 and kde in my computer. On booting the machine, it failed to start the xserver and hence xdm/kdm. I have changed the init level to 5 from /etc/inittab but I cant figure out which soft links I have to add in the rc5.d directory in order to start t

Re: overiding KDE graphical login

On Friday 08 October 2004 12:22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Setting up woody on my system, wondering if you all could point me to > a faq or howto to try the following things. > > Make KDE graphical login allow logins to root Control Centre, System Administration, Login Manager > > Come up on norma

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:16:17 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem with gallery is that it requires Apache; not all of us want to run a web server just to edit some pix. Of course - but OP has said he is running one. Ah; missed that. -- Kent -- To UNS

HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

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Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK seperate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

On Friday 08 October 2004 02:50, Gerhard Gaussling wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Sarge/SID. > > I want to build and package the gimp plugin Seperate [3], > which relies on the CMM of the little-cms [5] and seems to > make a first step toward the needed CMYK seperation in > the GIMP. To compile g

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Hi, I'm trying to install debian testing on my laptop, but I need the 3c575_cb for my PCMCIA network adapter, and for some reason it is not included on the boot, root, net-drivers or even cd-drivers images. I don't know why, the net-drivers has over 200kb free space. It's difficult to install with

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