Re: How to get hardware info

2008-01-13 Thread David
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I want to know the name of my network card, it is detected by the system, I just want name of the driver used and other info? Is there a program which gives the info of hardware? ( included network card) thanks bela Lshw ...if you have it installed. lspci and

How to get hardware info

2008-01-13 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to know the name of my network card, it is detected by the system, I just want name of the driver used and other info? Is there a program which gives the info of hardware? ( included network card) thanks bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Sound problem on Lenny PPC: can't find /dev/dsp

2008-01-13 Thread J . T . Chittleborough
Hey, all. The sound abruptly stopped working on a Lenny KDE installation on my PowerBook G4 12"; I dual-boot with Mac OS X, which it's still working fine with. I'm running a stock Lenny PowerPC kernel, and can't find anything in the APT logs about software changes which might have affected th

Re: Scim in sid [solved] --> General guide for SCIM under English

2008-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:18:50PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:52:46PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:47:26PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:16:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote: >>>> >>

Re: problems with mrxvt

2008-01-13 Thread Nick Lidakis
Micha wrote: for some reason it's redicoulously slugish to resize on my machine (core 2 duo 2Ghz, so it's not a cpu issue and with xfce4 desktop so it shouldn't be a desktop issue). Up to a point that it can lock the machine if I try to maximize/minimize it too many times (without realizing tha

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:23:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/13/08 19:42, David wrote: > > > >> > >> Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb > >> couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. > > > > They should get the Canadians to sho

Re: NetworkManager and XFCE

2008-01-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:13:35PM -0800, Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: > I would like to know if there is any NetworkManager frontend to the > XFCE environment. Or if there is any software that I could use > instead. Just use the standard debian networking setup. What did you want NetworkManager

Iceweasel window control button and beryl problem

2008-01-13 Thread ad
Hi! I'm having strange problem with Iceweasel and beryl. I've installed beryl with Gnome. When I run iceweasel browser and make the mouse pointer wait over any window control button(miniminze, maximize or close button) the button doesn't glow properly. I see a box with distorted images instead of

NetworkManager and XFCE

2008-01-13 Thread Eduardo B. V. Pereira
Hi, I would like to know if there is any NetworkManager frontend to the XFCE environment. Or if there is any software that I could use instead. Thanks in advance. Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-13 Thread KS
Henry Luciano wrote: > > *sigh*, multiple times. The hardest thing is removing the old caps and > desoldering the holes, but all in all it's not that bad. Keep the iron > hot enough to melt the solder but not hot enough to damage the trace. > Practicing on an old board first would be a good ide

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/08 19:42, David wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb >> couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. > > They should get the Canadians to show them

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread David
Ron Johnson wrote: Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. They should get the Canadians to show them what they don't know how. Regards, -- David Palmer Linux User - #352034 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun January 13 2008 17:18:42 Ron Johnson wrote: > Here in the US, 99.5% of the people who regularly use the intarweb > couldn't secure their computer with a map, both hands and a flashlight. How about with a Debian installation CD? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/08 17:07, David wrote: > Hal Finney wrote: [snip] > > There is no critique of open source formats here (I've been meaning to > check back on the Open Bios project for a while), but I do endorse full > control being in the hands of the enduser

Re: playing a midi

2008-01-13 Thread peasthope
Justin & others, jp> # apt-get install -y mozplugger timidity Oops. Neither of these was installed until now. A goofy blunder. iceweasel now lists mozplugger as responsible for the MID File Type and a midi stream produces sound automatically. Have you found a software volume control which w

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun January 13 2008 10:59:52 Andreas Berglund wrote: > I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains > brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evaluated in the script, > not before it gets passed along. Does annyone know how to do that? Have you tried eval?

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread ariestao
> Jimmy Wu wrote: >> I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system >> properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed >> it included "Trusted Platform Module 1.2". Now, this raised a red >> flag for me, as my first impressions of "trusted computing" were >> fr

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:04:59PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > > Ken Irving wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > >>> Hi! > >>> I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread David
Hal Finney wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed it included "Trusted Platform Module 1.2". Now, this raised a red flag for me, as my first impressions of "trusted computing" wer

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jan 13 14:58 -0600]: >> This is a waste of time. > > Am I the only one who's noticed that Schilling's mail/news reader > doesn't thread? Mutt has been keeping his posts in the thread here. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best

Re: packages broken

2008-01-13 Thread Zach
Florian wrote: >The command itself seems to use only about 2.6 seconds of CPU time >(user+sys) and spends the rest of the 1m19s waiting for something, most >probably data transfer from the hard drive. You see the CPU at 90-100% >during the whole time, so maybe DMA is not working. You can use "hdpa

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: >>> Hi! >>> I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that >>> contains brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evalua

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: >>> Hi! >>> I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains >>> brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evalua

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Jochen Schulz: > Ron Johnson: > > Am I the only one who's noticed that Schilling's mail/news reader > > doesn't thread? > > No, and that's the way he prefers to take part in mailing lists. Am I the only one who dislikes this kind of gossip? It certainly does not comply with Debian's moral standar

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Andreas Berglund
Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: Hi! I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evaluated in the script, not before it gets passed along. Does annyone know how to d

[OT]FF beta2: not so good...

2008-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, With FF beta2 my use of FF instead of Iceweasel ends. Beta2 is a major pain: it dies while trying to use backspace on the URL bar and can't submit the crash report. Then going back to beta1 my bookmarks toolbar got wiped out + no fiddling would restore it. Using Iceweasel everything is b

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-13 Thread Hal Finney
Jimmy Wu wrote: > I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system > properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed > it included "Trusted Platform Module 1.2". Now, this raised a red > flag for me, as my first impressions of "trusted computing" were > framed by

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: > > Am I the only one who's noticed that Schilling's mail/news reader doesn't > thread? No, and that's the way he prefers to take part in mailing lists. Earlier attempts to discuss this matter have been, erm, just another waste of time. J. -- Watching television is more hip than a

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Florian Kulzer: > > I get the impression that you have a problem with the "cdrkit" package > from Ubuntu. (No package with this name exists in Debian.) cdrkit is the source package for wodim and related tools. So yes, there is a Debian package with that name. > I hope this helps you with your is

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-13 Thread Angus Auld
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 10/01/2008, Michelle Konzack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Am 2008-01-08 08:09:58, schrieb Joel Roberts: > >>> I've gotten a lot of good information from this > list, and hopefully > >>> supplied some as well, but I'm

Re: capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-13 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> Steve, |> |> sr> I can almost guarantee the capacitors are oozing onto the motherboard. |> |> Sure enough, six of the capacitors alongside the |> cpu are bulging. All are from the same manufacturer. |> |> The p

Re: playing a midi

2008-01-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folk, timidity is installed. Yet when iceweasel opens http://www.contemplator.com/ and when VLC opens a local midi file, there is silence. Is there a way for VLC to recognize and play a midi? How should iceweasel play a midi? iceweasel> Edit>P

Re: capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-13 Thread Henry Luciano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sr> I can almost guarantee the capacitors are oozing onto the motherboard. Sure enough, six of the capacitors alongside the cpu are bulging. All are from the same manufacturer. The problem is well documented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I'm tempted

playing a midi

2008-01-13 Thread peasthope
Folk, timidity is installed. Yet when iceweasel opens http://www.contemplator.com/ and when VLC opens a local midi file, there is silence. Is there a way for VLC to recognize and play a midi? How should iceweasel play a midi? iceweasel> Edit>Preferences>Content>File Types>Manage has buttons

Re: capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-13 Thread KS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve, > > sr> I can almost guarantee the capacitors are oozing onto the motherboard. > > Sure enough, six of the capacitors alongside the > cpu are bulging. All are from the same manufacturer. > > The problem is well documented. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capaci

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 20:07:01 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: [...] > Sometimes it is hard to stay quiet, in special if someone publishes incorrect > claims about free software. I believe it is important to post real numbers > after someone tried to lower the number of bug reports for "cdrkit" i

Re: Playing .amr files from Nokia

2008-01-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 25/12/2007, Steve Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > My Nokia 6288 saves audio files in .amr format. What can play these > > files on Debian? Thanks in advance. > > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.misc/2007-09/msg01329.html > For whatever reason, so

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/13/08 14:09, s. keeling wrote: Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sometimes it is hard to stay quiet, in special if someone publishes incorrect Oh, did I post the wrong link? Here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=wodim&archive=no&version=&dist=unstabl

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread KS
Gerard Robin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:02:18AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: >> From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Burn CD >> X-Spam-Virus: No >> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on >> liszt.debian.org >> X-Spam-Lev

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread KS
s. keeling wrote: > Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Sometimes it is hard to stay quiet, in special if someone publishes >> incorrect > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=wodim&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable > > >> claims about free software. I believe it is

capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-13 Thread peasthope
Steve, sr> I can almost guarantee the capacitors are oozing onto the motherboard. Sure enough, six of the capacitors alongside the cpu are bulging. All are from the same manufacturer. The problem is well documented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I'm tempted to try to replace t

[OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread s. keeling
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sometimes it is hard to stay quiet, in special if someone publishes incorrect Oh, did I post the wrong link? Here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=wodim&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable At the top of the page I see:

Re: How to add a new language layout to keyboard?

2008-01-13 Thread Jozef Peterka
Hi, first of all, you should read some of these links: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html secondly, you probably solved your problem already thirdly, If not, try to REask your questions under those basic rules Best wishes KaiSVK On Sun

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > Hi! > I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains > brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evaluated in the script, > not before it gets passed along. Does annyone know how to do that? Gene

Re: Is it possible to get Nvidia 8500GT Vid. card to work with debian stable?

2008-01-13 Thread R. Ramesh
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:24:18AM -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: > Per debian package search and apt-cache info the version of Xorg in stable > is 7.1. Open source nv driver in Xorg 7.1 seem to support only upto > Geforce 7xxx. I want to buy nvidia 8500GT cart and it is based on Geforce > 8xxx. My

Re: Syncing mail with a PalmOs device

2008-01-13 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:20:12 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:45:24PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:35:58 -0500 > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fine). Does kpilot contain a mail conduit? I don't use KDE, but a

Re: Syncing mail with a PalmOs device

2008-01-13 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:20:12 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:45:24PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:35:58 -0500 > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fine). Does kpilot contain a mail conduit? I don't use KDE, but a

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-13 Thread Manon Metten
On 1/12/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:53:28PM +0100, Manon Metten wrote: > > On 1/11/08, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash > > > card, all the bits slide to

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Steve Kemp wrote: > Please stop feeding the troll. Well, it seems that you did also feed this troll. Sometimes it is hard to stay quiet, in special if someone publishes incorrect claims about free software. I believe it is important to post real numbers after someone tried to lower the number o

passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Andreas Berglund
Hi! I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evaluated in the script, not before it gets passed along. Does annyone know how to do that? TIA Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: problems with mrxvt

2008-01-13 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:18:49 +0200 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:41:11 -0500 > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:06:35 +0200 > > Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > it is missing a proper scrollbar). Couldn't fi

Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?

2008-01-13 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
I forgot to mention that I use Debian AMD 64 bit. Is this the cause of the problem? On Jan 8, 2008 3:06 AM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:23:04 +0100 > Dal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > > > How can I install the Sun Java plugin for

No sound from xine, vlc, etc.

2008-01-13 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
I am having sound problem. Only video is playing. No sound when I play them with xine, vlc, etc. Here is all the output to troubleshoot. Please help me. Sound works fine with Windows and Ubuntu. It used to work fine with Debian too. But after I watched a movie and rebooted, it stopped working. Sou

Re: ifconfig don't list interfaces

2008-01-13 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/13, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:56:12PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > I have changed my ethernet cards today and have > > difficulties with my interfaces because of udev. > Anyway, did you adjusted /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > after changing

Re: video descriptor

2008-01-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 14:33:50 -0300, gusti wrote: > Hello, > > Do you know the best way to know how one video was encoder? mplayer -frames 0 -identify videofile will give you information about the video and audio codecs, bitrate, etc. used in "videofile". > Mi problem is that I have videos th

Re: packages broken

2008-01-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 21:27:31 -0500, Zach wrote: > Florian wrote: [...] > >Make sure that you have the correct version of libglib2.0-0 installed. > >On an up-to-date Lenny system "dpkg -l libglib2.0-0" should show version > >2.14.3-1. Most likely you will find that you have the current version

Re: .bash_profile and .bashrc not executing

2008-01-13 Thread s. keeling
John Salmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:50 John Salmon wrote: > > > >> I'm a new user to Debian Linux. I have the latest version loaded on a > >> dedicated PC with all the default settings. I

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread s. keeling
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun Jan 13, 2008 at 13:42:51 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > Yes, I can see that the Debian community is having an absolutely=20 > > > terrible time trying to get wodim to work. Six "Important bugs."=20 > > > > Nice trolling attempt > >Plea

Re: 2 wheel mouse in sid with mouse driver?

2008-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 6:06 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have 2 mice both with 2 wheels. One for up-down, one for forward-back. I also run the latest Sid and Xorg. Normally I use the evdev driver for my 2 wheels, but there is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi

Re: 2 wheel mouse in sid with mouse driver?

2008-01-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Jan 13, 2008 6:06 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 mice both with 2 wheels. One for up-down, one for forward-back. > > I also run the latest Sid and Xorg. > > Normally I use the evdev driver for my 2 wheels, but there is > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Re: problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread charlie derr
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-01-13 17:23 +0100, charlie derr wrote: I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years probably). Generally speaking, this is risky business, but you probably know that. Leaping over the last stable release is not supported. Thanks for that hint.

Re: problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread charlie derr
Replying to myself, I've found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454426 that this bug (which seems like the problem I'm having) has been closed with: the last releases of texlive-base and texlive-bin both resurrect the missing modes.mf (etc) files which caused the breakage in t

Re: Scim in sid [solved]

2008-01-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:52:46PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:47:26PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:16:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote: >>> >>> My .xsession file contains the following entries to enable >>

Re: problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-13 17:23 +0100, charlie derr wrote: > I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years > probably). Generally speaking, this is risky business, but you probably know that. Leaping over the last stable release is not supported. > Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007.dfsg.1-

Re: Can not login to Gnome

2008-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/13/08 08:04, Davide Mancusi wrote: Pantor ha scritto: Login as root OK, login KDE as root and user OK. Login as root --- very bad idea. Oh get real. If you can't log in as $USER, who else are you going to log in as? Santa Claus? Anybody but him. Her? --

video descriptor

2008-01-13 Thread gusti
Hello, Do you know the best way to know how one video was encoder? Mi problem is that I have videos that I can see in my dvd-player and others that I can't see. So I want to know which encoder use the good videos and then encoder new videos with the same formats. Thank you in advance,

problems upgrading texlive-base-bin in unstable

2008-01-13 Thread charlie derr
I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years probably). Over the last 18 hours (it's a pretty slow old beast) I've gotten most of the way towards an updated system, but ran into a problem late that I'm unsure how to address. I'm trying to avoid uninstalling texlive-base-bin (

Re: Scim in sid

2008-01-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:47:26PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:16:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote: >> >> My .xsession file contains the following entries to enable >> me to use scim for Japanese input. >> >> export XMODIFIERS="@i

Re: lynx configuration

2008-01-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:02:38PM +1100, hce wrote: > I've just installed lynx. I am a vim user and I like to use vim key > map on lynx and use the same terminal background color (black) in lynx > (lynx uses gray background by default) when I start the lynx. > > After reading the lynx manual, I s

Re: A problem with package dependences

2008-01-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 03:54:11PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I want to install the auctex package, and Etch won't do it before installing > the emacs21 and related packages: > > emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common emacsen-common gs-common gs-gpl > gsfonts preview-latex-style > > . Now

Re: Scim in sid

2008-01-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:16:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote: > > My .xsession file contains the following entries to enable > me to use scim for Japanese input. > >export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM" >export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" >export QT_IM_MODULE="scim" >export L

Re: .bash_profile and .bashrc not executing

2008-01-13 Thread John Salmon
Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:50 John Salmon wrote: > >> I'm a new user to Debian Linux. I have the latest version loaded on a >> dedicated PC with all the default settings. I have added a ~/bin >> directory to my system. My

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Jan 13, 2008 at 13:42:51 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Yes, I can see that the Debian community is having an absolutely > > terrible time trying to get wodim to work. Six "Important bugs." > > Nice trolling attempt Please stop feeding the troll. Joerg Schilling will never ch

Re: Can not login to Gnome

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/13/08 08:04, Davide Mancusi wrote: Pantor ha scritto: Login as root OK, login KDE as root and user OK. Login as root --- very bad idea. Oh get real. If you can't log in as $USER, who else are you going to log in as? Santa Claus? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not

A problem with package dependences

2008-01-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, Debian users. I want to install the auctex package, and Etch won't do it before installing the emacs21 and related packages: emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common emacsen-common gs-common gs-gpl gsfonts preview-latex-style . Now, my problem is that I already installed a cvs version of E

[solved] Re: Error in `make' step

2008-01-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
>> >> I'm trying to install the package slmodem-2.9.11-20070813.tar.gz in my >> >> Etch >> >> system but in the `make' step I get the following error message: >> >> >> >> kernel-ver.c:9:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory >> >> >> >> . Previously I had done `make mrproper'

Re: problems with mrxvt

2008-01-13 Thread Micha
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:41:11 -0500 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:06:35 +0200 > Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > it is missing a proper scrollbar). Couldn't find a good tabbed terminal. > > They are either way to heavy and kde/gnome relient (kterm,

2 wheel mouse in sid with mouse driver?

2008-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have 2 mice both with 2 wheels. One for up-down, one for forward-back. I also run the latest Sid and Xorg. Normally I use the evdev driver for my 2 wheels, but there is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450851 that makes for difficulties with evdev and the problem still e

Re: Can not login to Gnome

2008-01-13 Thread Davide Mancusi
Pantor ha scritto: Login as root OK, login KDE as root and user OK. Login as root --- very bad idea. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: chown all files on a data drive

2008-01-13 Thread drn_temp2
- Original Message - From: "Alex Samad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:19 PM On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:18:16AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid >500 and gid

How to add a new language layout to keyboard?

2008-01-13 Thread Pantor
Hi lads, can anybody advice how to add a new language layout to keyboard, please? Thank you! Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Scim in sid

2008-01-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I am currently running sid. The machine is update as of today. What I noticed since a couple of days is that scim no longer works. I tried looking up the list archives and saw reports of random (or not) system lock up with scim. But, my system(s) do(es) not lock up. The program does not function. I

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 10/01/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2008-01-08 08:09:58, schrieb Joel Roberts: I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed through hundreds of spam e-mails weekly to pursue this

Re: Can not login to Gnome

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/13/08 03:50, Pantor wrote: Hi, something has happened and now impossible to login Gnome as user. The last setting made by mine was Gnome panel settings change to autohide. But maybe this is not a reason. Login as root OK, login KDE as root and user OK. What is gonna to do now? Please b

Can not login to Gnome

2008-01-13 Thread Pantor
Hi, something has happened and now impossible to login Gnome as user. The last setting made by mine was Gnome panel settings change to autohide. But maybe this is not a reason. Login as root OK, login KDE as root and user OK. What is gonna to do now? Thank you, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

2008-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/13/08 06:37, Martin Marcher wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008 23:38 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: Hi, is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something else that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be installed? Not that I can see. You can query the disk geom

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
> Yes, I can see that the Debian community is having an absolutely > terrible time trying to get wodim to work. Six "Important bugs." Nice trolling attempt let me forward _unedited_ real numbers instead of your fake: Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Patch Available (1 bug) Ou

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Marcher
On Saturday 12 January 2008 23:38 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi, > >> > is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something >> > else that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be >> > installed? >> >> Not that I can see. You can query the disk geometry, but proc is to

Re: azureus

2008-01-13 Thread Peter Greff
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:22:58 -0500 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > $ java -version > java version "1.4.2-03" > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build > Blackdown-1.4.2-03) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build > Blackdown-1.4.2-03, mixed mode) > Please try to install

Re: C++ SQL interface

2008-01-13 Thread baldyeti
Have you looked at OTL? http://otl.sourceforge.net/ In any case you'll need Oracle connectivity middleware; their so-called "Instant Client" is the easiest to install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Job opportunity

2008-01-13 Thread ALLARABIA
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Strange behaviour of K3B

2008-01-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R When I load a blank DVD into the drive, it pops up a dialog asking me what I want to do. When I have a blank DVD in the drive the left hand top pane in k3b shows the drive with the media loaded (and when I have no media loaded it says teh drive is empty - so me

Re: ifconfig don't list interfaces

2008-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:56:12PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Hello! > > ifconfig don't list interfaces on my Debian Etch system. > > sudo ifconfig sudo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:FC:1A:B2 > inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 M