maximize an xterm

2006-01-28 Thread debian
Please, how can I send the xterm I am working in a signal to maximize itself, or minimize itself ? Thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:38:24PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Marty wrote: > >>Good point, although only /dev/console seems to be required by my Sarge > >>systems. > > > >I'm sure it'd be entertaining to watch your machine trying to boot w

Re: No luck getting Gallery to work on Sarge..Anyone able to??

2006-01-28 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
John W. Foster wrote: I have gallery installed from sarge, php4 and apache2 along with all the required, and suggested apps installed. So far I have not been able to get gallery to work. All are installed pretty much out of the box and php4 seems to work, both as command line or as cgi since t

Re: Promise ATA/RAID controller and a 2.6.14 kernel

2006-01-28 Thread Christophe Roux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 have a look to /boot/config-2.4... and /boot/config-2.6..., compare the options for IDE, HD, DMA, UDMA and report and adapt the config. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.9.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enig

[QMR-82908]: Re: Word file

2006-01-28 Thread ispX Information
== Please reply above this line == debian-user@lists.debian.org, Your ticket has been submitted to our Information department, one of the staff members will review it and reply accordingly. Listed below are details of this ticket, you will need to use the ticket key listed below to upda

Re: apt-get invalid signature again

2006-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > Starting last night I see > > W: GPG error: http://localhost sarge/updates Release: The following > > signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive Automatic > > Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Anyone know what's up? I d

Re: No luck getting Gallery to work on Sarge..Anyone able to??

2006-01-28 Thread Steve Block
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 06:33:21PM -0600, John W. Foster wrote: I have gallery installed from sarge, php4 and apache2 along with all the required, and suggested apps installed. So far I have not been able to get gallery to work. All are installed pretty much out of the box and php4 seems to wor

Re: apt-get invalid signature again

2006-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Ross Boylan wrote: > Starting last night I see > W: GPG error: http://localhost sarge/updates Release: The following > signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive Automatic > Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Anyone know what's up? I don't see messages about this la

Re: apt-get invalid signature again

2006-01-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:43:04PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:15:33AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Starting last night I see > > W: GPG error: http://localhost sarge/updates Release: The following > > signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archiv

Re: Sharing a directory

2006-01-28 Thread Martin OConnor
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:03 +, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:10:33AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > > > >Got a question re UNIX permissions: I've got a directory, photos, in my > >home directory, that I want the wife and kids to put digital photos. > > > >I created a

Re: syslog isn't logging messages

2006-01-28 Thread bmcnally
Thanks for your reply. I'm considering using the dpkg-deb method, if not for any other reason than to learn about how it works :). Can I use dpkg-deb to download the .deb? I've tried getting the package via ftp.debian.org, but I can't seem to find where individual packages are stored. Since packag

Debian package for Python JSON?

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
Does anyone know if there's a Debian package that offers a Python JSON implementation? (simplejson, json-py, ...) /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep

Re: Sharing a directory

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:10:33AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > >Got a question re UNIX permissions: I've got a directory, photos, in my >home directory, that I want the wife and kids to put digital photos. > >I created a group, photo, and put them all in it. I changed the group >on the dir

Re: firmware motherboard

2006-01-28 Thread mess-mate
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:00, mess-mate wrote: | >Hi, | >how can i find the firmware ( manufactor ) of my motherboard ?? | >can't find any on the motherboard hemself :( | >only a number like J6ZXAN | >thanks in advance | > | Have you tried google? I'v

Re: mutt, mutt-ng and search in hole message

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:29:04AM +, Michael Ott wrote: >Hello! > >In evolution you can search strings in messages not only in the header. >Can i do this in mutt or mutt-ng? I hit '?' in the mailbox view in my mutt-ng and found: b M /~b search in message bodies /M --

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 27 January 2006 12:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But none of the posters showed proof that with/without udev actually > makes a *difference* that makes the system run *better*, other than the > number of devices. So what? Depends on your definition of better. At least with udev, the /de

No luck getting Gallery to work on Sarge..Anyone able to??

2006-01-28 Thread John W. Foster
I have gallery installed from sarge, php4 and apache2 along with all the required, and suggested apps installed. So far I have not been able to get gallery to work. All are installed pretty much out of the box and php4 seems to work, both as command line or as cgi since the various test scripts

Sharing a directory

2006-01-28 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Got a question re UNIX permissions: I've got a directory, photos, in my home directory, that I want the wife and kids to put digital photos. I created a group, photo, and put them all in it. I changed the group on the directory to be photo. I set the sgid bit on the directory so that files crea

mutt, mutt-ng and search in hole message

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! In evolution you can search strings in messages not only in the header. Can i do this in mutt or mutt-ng? Thanks in advance CU Michael -- Michael Ott, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.zolnott.de I am registered as user #275453 with the

Re: apt-get invalid signature again

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:15:33AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Starting last night I see > W: GPG error: http://localhost sarge/updates Release: The following > signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive Automatic > Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Anyone know what

Re: syslog isn't logging messages

2006-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
Brian McNally wrote: I started a post on the Arstechnica Linux forum, but I haven't yet been able to solve my problem. Here's a link to my original post that discusses some of the things I've already tried: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/755007637731 To sum

Re: Program Needs libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2006-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 28 January 2006 17:32, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Saturday 28 January 2006 15:13, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > >>On my Sid system I have the library as a symlink > >> > >>/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so > >> > >>and it c

Re: Firefox Configuration

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Layman
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:22:52 -0500 Winton Roseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks that is what I wanted. Is there any information available about > the settings in the prefs.js files? > > Winton typing - about:config in the address bar of firefox gives you a load of settings that can

sd_mod....please...

2006-01-28 Thread Eva-Lena Olsén
hi! can someone please help us with this issue? : we have installed debian 3.1 on two machines without any problems at all, and it works perfect. But we have a computer that today runs suse 10 and now we would like to run debian on that too. The annoying : " loading module sd_mod for 'scsi d

Re: mencoder

2006-01-28 Thread Christoph Nenning
Hi, If you want a nice GUI you can try avidemux. regards Christoph Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 23:42 schrieb Enrique Morfin: > Hi! > > Is possible to separate audio - video ? > > I have a video (mpg), and want a video file with no > sound (mpg?), and a sound file with no video (wav? > mp3?

Re: Program Needs libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2006-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 15:13, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] On my Sid system I have the library as a symlink /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so and it came from the package "libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". This package is available on both Et

Re: Re: Firefox Configuration

2006-01-28 Thread Winton Roseland
Thanks that is what I wanted. Is there any information available about the settings in the prefs.js files? Winton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Render acceleration ATI

2006-01-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i tried to dig more into my problem (non-functional acceleration with xorg 6.9 and EXA render acceleration on ati x600. the card seems to be recognized by the radeon kernel module. drm doesn't recognize it, as it seems, although both radeon and drm modules are loaded. AGP and AGP_A

syslog isn't logging messages

2006-01-28 Thread Brian McNally
I started a post on the Arstechnica Linux forum, but I haven't yet been able to solve my problem. Here's a link to my original post that discusses some of the things I've already tried: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/755007637731 To summarize the problem: syslo

Re: Program Needs libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2006-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 28 January 2006 15:13, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I had to upgrade my workstation recently and am using Unstable for > > several reasons. > > > > I just reinstalled RealVNC (not a .deb). The server runs fine, but when > > I try to run vncviewer, I get this: > > > >

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Stan Banash wrote: Thanks for the info it is much appreciated. Dave please send the link, I would like to review the info. Although, my situation is not exactly the same as yours. In my case the Optiplex bios disables the IDE controller on the motherboard when a second one (the Rocket 133) is ad

xfs filesystem and Debian Sarge

2006-01-28 Thread Felix Karpfen
I note the Sarge contains a package - xfslibs-dev - that makes it possible to format a partition as an xfs filesystem. Is there any that would enable a rank amateur to use an xfs-formatted partition for installing and running Sarge? Preferably with information on possible that such a venture wou

Re: Program Needs libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2006-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hal Vaughan wrote: I had to upgrade my workstation recently and am using Unstable for several reasons. I just reinstalled RealVNC (not a .deb). The server runs fine, but when I try to run vncviewer, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ vncviewer vncviewer: error while loading shared libraries: li

Re: Re: 783/tcp hp-alarm-mgr

2006-01-28 Thread Julio Ballesta
Spamassesin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:19:27 -0800 "Stan Banash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hendrik and Dave, > > Thanks for the info it is much appreciated. Dave please send the link, I > would like to review the info. Although, my situation is not exactly the > same as yours. In my case the Optiplex bios di

Re: apt-get failure: "no script in the new version of the package"

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On 28 Jan 2006 00:18:28 -0800 "Ron Hale-Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I fixed it. I manually downloaded an earlier, more robust version > of esound-common from ftp.debian.org and did a "dpkg -i". After that I > ran "apt-get -f install" and now it's whistling clean: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No init found

2006-01-28 Thread polonez
Hello! Im trying to make a root floppy and got the messages: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory x kb kernel panic: No init found But there is an init in /sbin. Thanks for advance Robert __

Re: Jerky PS/2 Mouse W/ 2.6 Kernel (Again)

2006-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:37, Adam Porter wrote: > > Actually, I just posted. Within the past hour I just got it going with > > 2.6.15. But now I can't get sound to work (it seems to see the onboard > > audio and not the Soundblaster I was using) and I'm having problems with > > the scroll w

Program Needs libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2006-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
I had to upgrade my workstation recently and am using Unstable for several reasons. I just reinstalled RealVNC (not a .deb).  The server runs fine, but when I try to run vncviewer, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ vncviewer vncviewer: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.s

Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: 2.6.15 alsa proble

2006-01-28 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 26 January 2006 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Newer kernels boot with many undefines. They seem to correspond to stuff > > > in the sound core modules. Do I now need to explicitely load these or > > > soundcore.ko on boot up (i.e. placing them in /etc/modules--somewhere > > > al

Re: apt-get invalid signature again

2006-01-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Ross Boylan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Starting last night I see > W: GPG error: http://localhost sarge/updates Release: The following > signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive > Automatic Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The old 2005 key has been replaced

apt-get invalid signature again

2006-01-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Starting last night I see W: GPG error: http://localhost sarge/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anyone know what's up? I don't see messages about this latest occurrence. I'm a little

Re: poweroff can't power off the power

2006-01-28 Thread Piers Kittel
modprobe apm if that works, edit your /etc/modules file and add in apm. Sorted Cheers - Piers linux china wrote: Hi, My debian 3.1 celeron machine can't be powered off when I run the poweroff command, I had the same issue when I use other old distrubution Linux system many years ago but fix

Re: KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-28 Thread N . Pauli
On Fri, 27 Jan, Andrew M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:33:27AM +, N.Pauli wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jan, Andrew M.A. wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:56:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:03 + (GMT) > > > > N.Pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Running a remote graphic program

2006-01-28 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/27/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *) instead tunnel everything through ssh >i turn that on by default for my ssh server: > >$ grep X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config >X11Forwarding yes >(restart the server for this to take affect, > /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Re: poweroff can't power off the power

2006-01-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello linux china (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My debian 3.1 celeron machine can't be powered off when I run the > poweroff command, I had the same issue when I use other old > distrubution Linux system many years ago but fixed by system update. > Now I switched to Debian 3.1yesterday, and have

Re: Package repositories?

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Lale wrote: Chris Lale wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: I'm pretty new to this Debian adventure, and I am only currently set up with the default package sources. Where is the best place to find others to use? I would love to find the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a JVM package and a source like

Re: firmware motherboard

2006-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:00, mess-mate wrote: >Hi, >how can i find the firmware ( manufactor ) of my motherboard ?? >can't find any on the motherboard hemself :( >only a number like J6ZXAN >thanks in advance > Have you tried google? I've been able to connect model to maker a few times that

poweroff can't power off the power

2006-01-28 Thread linux china
Hi, My debian 3.1 celeron machine can't be powered off when I run the poweroff command, I had the same issue when I use other old distrubution Linux system many years ago but fixed by system update. Now I switched to Debian 3.1 yesterday, and have the same very old issue again. But I don't know wh

Re: Package repositories?

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Lale wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: I'm pretty new to this Debian adventure, and I am only currently set up with the default package sources. Where is the best place to find others to use? I would love to find the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a JVM package and a source like the Penguin Liberation

Re: no network access to or from server

2006-01-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:57:45 -0800 "Brian Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm faced with an issue that I don't understand; I hope someone can help me. > > I have a dedicated server at 1and1.com that will be our company's new web > and mail server running Debian 3.1. > >

Re: Post-install issues with SATA hardware

2006-01-28 Thread Thomas Wright
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:49, Clive Menzies wrote: > I found a similar problem with a software RAID (sata) data array not > being assembled before an attempt to mount it; to ensure the sata drives > are recognised at boot, include the modules in /etc/modules. In my case: > > libata > ata_piix

Re: Xvnc giving errors after kernel upgrade

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Howie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Chris Howie said: >>Fatal server error: >>could not open default font 'fixed' > > Well, obvious question; is the fixed font somewhere on your system? If > so, can Xvnc find it? I mean if the server's giving a clear indication > of the problem like that it would be t

Re: Xvnc giving errors after kernel upgrade

2006-01-28 Thread grey
Chris Howie said: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' Well, obvious question; is the fixed font somewhere on your system? If so, can Xvnc find it? I mean if the server's giving a clear indication of the problem like that it would be the first place to look. :D -- S

Re: Cups printing problem

2006-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 03:41, Marty wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently ESP Ghostscript is normally in a package called espgs, but there is nothing to be found with apt-get. Can some one dig me out of this pickle? Rob Try gs-esp. Oh cute! Was there a valid

Xvnc giving errors after kernel upgrade

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Howie
I recently upgraded from kernel 2.6.12 to kernel 2.6.15. My system does run etch, but between 2.6.12 and 2.6.15 support was added for my TV tuner card. Now Xvnc fails to start, and for the life of me I can't think of why. I deed need to adjust my xorg.conf after the upgrade as the nVidia driver

firmware motherboard

2006-01-28 Thread mess-mate
Hi, how can i find the firmware ( manufactor ) of my motherboard ?? can't find any on the motherboard hemself :( only a number like J6ZXAN thanks in advance mess-mate -- You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Post-install issues with SATA hardware

2006-01-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/01/06 00:20), Tom Wright wrote: > Apologies for the cross-post to those who read forums.debian.net > > I've just used the Etch installer (2.6.12) from the netboot cd to install > Debian on my new computer. It's got an ASUS A8N-VM CSM motherboard, and a > Seagate SATA 7200.9 hard disk driv

Re: Help! Bad looking fonts

2006-01-28 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/1/28, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I have MS core fonts packages (arial, times new roman, etc.) taht > usually looks good without anti-aliasing. Now, after installing kde > and upgrading some few packages, fonts without anti-aliasing looks > very bad, with some nasty non align

Help! Bad looking fonts

2006-01-28 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, I have MS core fonts packages (arial, times new roman, etc.) taht usually looks good without anti-aliasing. Now, after installing kde and upgrading some few packages, fonts without anti-aliasing looks very bad, with some nasty non aligned pixel. How can I solve this? Thnx PAolo -- if you hav

Re: Running a remote graphic program - correction

2006-01-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jan 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Jan 2006, Yani Copas wrote: > > > > > > Alejandro Salas wrote: > > >Hi everyone.. > > > > > >Can someone tell me or point me in the right direction > > >of what I have to do in order to run a remote program > > >with graphics?. I have ssh access and

Re: Package repositories?

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Lale
Rob Blomquist wrote: I'm pretty new to this Debian adventure, and I am only currently set up with the default package sources. Where is the best place to find others to use? I would love to find the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a JVM package and a source like the Penguin Liberation Front (plf.zarb.org

Re: [OT] Mutt -- how to send tagged msgs. as bcc's ?

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:16:05PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: >On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:00:26AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:55:09AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: >> > Is there some key to do this that is flying by my face, or can a hook >> > be created for it?

Re: An email for you contains VIRUSES

2006-01-28 Thread steef
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: SpiderWall wrote: The SpiderWall (spiderwall.ospedale.varese.it) has found potentially malicious code in the email message addressed to you. Delivery has been stopped. The sender of the message was "debian-devel-announce" The email was quarantined as "email_261

Re: Package repositories?

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:40:25PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: >I'm pretty new to this Debian adventure, and I am only currently set up >with the default package sources. Where is the best place to find >others to use? > >I would love to find the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a JVM package and a >source li

Re: Problem with apt-get after upgrade to debian sid

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 02:17:09PM +0800, Chong Zan Kai wrote: >And some more, my base-config i missing again... > >The output: >debian:/# su >debian:/# base-config >bash: base-config: command not found My base-config was removed due to dependencies/conflicts when updating to Sid. Just try install

Re: Problem with apt-get after upgrade to debian sid

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 02:00:28PM +0800, Chong Zan Kai wrote: >Hi, > >Recently I have upgraded my Debian from sarge to Sid. However, i found that >apt-get does not work anymore. Any one can tell me what to do? Does your network work at all? /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0x

Re: Problem with X.org in Sid (sis card)

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:35:30PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: >My X freezes up every now and then, forcing me to power-cycle. I'm >suspecting a problem with X, but I'm not sure. > >Hardware: > > % lspci|grep VGA > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 661/74

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 01:08:48AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: >Marty wrote: >>Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>>But none of the posters showed proof that with/without udev actually >>>makes a *difference* that makes the system run *better*, other than >>>the number of devices. So what? >>I could be wrong

Re: Package repositories?

2006-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 January 2006 01:40, Rob Blomquist wrote: >I'm pretty new to this Debian adventure, and I am only currently set > up with the default package sources. Where is the best place to find > others to use? > >I would love to find the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a JVM package and a >source like th

Re: Cups printing problem

2006-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 January 2006 03:41, Marty wrote: >Rob Blomquist wrote: >> Apparently ESP Ghostscript is normally in a package called espgs, >> but there is nothing to be found with apt-get. >> >> Can some one dig me out of this pickle? >> >> Rob > >Try gs-esp. Oh cute! Was there a valid reason to

Re: Running a remote graphic program

2006-01-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jan 2006, Yani Copas wrote: > > > Alejandro Salas wrote: > >Hi everyone.. > > > >Can someone tell me or point me in the right direction > >of what I have to do in order to run a remote program > >with graphics?. I have ssh access and everything, I > >suppose it has something to do with the

Re: Cups printing problem

2006-01-28 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:34:26PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am having trouble with my linux approved printer, an Epson C80. > > The printer is configured by using the cups HTML interface, and is > supposed to run, but nothing prints, and I find this error > in /var/log/cups/error_log: > >

Re: Cups printing problem

2006-01-28 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:18:28 -0800 > From: Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian > Subject: Cups printing problem > Resent-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:30:20 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > I am having trouble with m

Re: Cups printing problem

2006-01-28 Thread Marty
Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently ESP Ghostscript is normally in a package called espgs, but there is nothing to be found with apt-get. Can some one dig me out of this pickle? Rob Try gs-esp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: apt-get failure: "no script in the new version of the package"

2006-01-28 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
OK, I fixed it. I manually downloaded an earlier, more robust version of esound-common from ftp.debian.org and did a "dpkg -i". After that I ran "apt-get -f install" and now it's whistling clean: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -i esound-common_0.2.35-2_all.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading esound-common

Re: 2.6.8 Kernel Problem with Stable

2006-01-28 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:46:21PM -0600, D wrote: > The system has an onboard ATI RAGE card. > > I'd like to to use the atyfb for the console. > > The one problem I'm hacing I can't send the options for resolution > to the driver. > > I can't seem to be able to send options to the driver. > >

RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Jon Miller
Stan, What I would do is the following: As you've stated run the primary IDE on the 20GB drive and remove the secondary drive. Compile the kernel (2.6) with the correct driver. When completed, add the 250G drive back and try to access that drive. I didn't have the same problem but a similar pro

Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN implementation write-up

2006-01-28 Thread Chinook
Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN implementation write-up - I have put up a zeroconf (zero configuration a.k.a. Bonjour and Rendezvous) LAN involving Macs and Linux boxes and have written up my notes with a view towards hel