Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-16 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can somebody recommend a decent GUI front-end for writing CD audio to > CD-R? Essentially a wrapper for cdrecord and some utility to convert > MP3 to WAV. I am looking for something easy to use and reliable. > > Thanks, > > Mike. I like gcdmaster I

Firebird hangs on install (Re: Call for testers FireBird 1.0)

2002-04-25 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Here's what I see: porter:~# dpkg -i ~tibbs/Downloads/firebird-s64-server_1.0.0-3_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package firebird-s64-server. (Reading database ... 100272 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firebird-s64-server (from .../firebird-s64-server_1.0.0-3_i386

Re: Python

2002-04-23 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:09:47PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 12:50, James Hook wrote: > > G'Day, > > > > Im having dependacy problems, I want to install a package whicj requires > > Python2.1, but when I install Python2.1 a whole bunch of packages require > > pytho

Re: kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Thibodeau
l-headers-2.2.19pre17 > >>Reading Package Lists... Done > >>Building Dependency Tree... Done > >>0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to > >>remove and 0 not upgraded. > > I have tried to find the package everywhere! > > > --- Bob Thibodeau &

Re: kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Thibodeau
-i is the dkpg switch for install you want apt-get install kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 It's in the help text Bob On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:09:26AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: > Dear Debian Kernel Hackers. > I think that I must have done something wrong and > please excuse the stupid quest

SOLVED Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-07 Thread Bob Thibodeau
After sleeping on it, I realized that I needed to combine some of the solutions I had tried. I had to switch meta <-> alt AND turn off wm grabbing. I had thought I did that, but apparently not. Thanks, everybody! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Bob Thibodeau
64 and 113 On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:16:35PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write: > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: >

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > I just went back through the archives to questions I thought > > would help. They did, but for a different problem ( which > > I wasn't h

more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I just went back through the archives to questions I thought would help. They did, but for a different problem ( which I wasn't having). I used to have a 'meta' key in Emacs. I also used to do Ctrl-A, Alt-d in xterms to erase a command. Now my alt key doesn't affect the letters at all (alt-x print

Re: Removing AbiWord fonts

2002-04-04 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Since this is at least the third time you've asked and no one seems to have an answer, I'd suggest contacting the maintainer and/or filing a bug report. It sounds like maybe abiword-fonts should be a seperate package. Bob Quoting Rohan Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I was just wonderi

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Thanks for the input. I'll add it to my arsenal. As it turns out, I just had to restore the mbr and everything's good. Bob Quoting Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A neat rescue bootable cdrom: > > http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ > > I have used rip before,

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Thanks for the replies. I've got a minimal system going and I'm checking out some windows progs I've found. I'll file these for later use. Bob Quoting "Greg C. Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:16, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > Are

Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Thibodeau
This may be addressed somewhere, but my only access right now is my palm handheld. Are there any utilities in debian to attempt data recovery on a hard drive? Sometime between midnight and 10am, while powered off, the W98 box at work lost its primary partition. I'm reinstalling on a spare drive r

Re: Recording in stereo

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Verify with a mixer that line-in is selected as a recording source. Bob On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:35:27PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing some problem while recording from my tape player. My set up > is as follows: > >Kernel 2.4.18, Debian woody, >alsa 0.9beta10 >

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:58:54PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 18:03, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > The important parts for making the wheel work are > > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > Option "ZAxisMap

Re: mozilla-psm installed but not https

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Try a few different sites. I'm using mozilla-psm. One night, I went to three banking sites to check my accounts. Two worked, but one rejected me because the browser was identified as Netscape 6 and the site wouldn't believe that I could support 128-bit encryption. It allowed connections with Netsca

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Bob Thibodeau
The important parts for making the wheel work are Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Every thing else should stay to match your physical device. I set mine up on the first try after following the advice at http://www.koala.ilog.fr/ (boy was I surprised!) make s

RE: Star Office Installation -- oh oh! Another problem

2002-03-06 Thread Bob Thibodeau
rael israel 15247168 Mar 4 04:51 > sop-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin > > > Thanks alot! > -Israel Bannerman > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Thibodeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 7:28 PM > To: Bannerman, Israel > Cc: 'debian-user@lists.

RE: Star Office Installation

2002-03-06 Thread Bob Thibodeau
compare the error messages to the file names cd /usr/local/soffice mv so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en-000.bin so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-000.bin ---^^^ etc... Bob Quoting "Bannerman, Israel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here is the output: > > -wee:~$ ls -l /usr/local/soffice > total 42304 > -rw-

Re: Star Office Installation

2002-03-05 Thread Bob Thibodeau
What's the output of ls -l /usr/local/soffice ? Bob On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: > > To all: > > I just downloaded Star Office and I am trying to install the application. > > Before downloading the file I did: > > mkdir -m 0755 /usr/local/soffice > chown

Re: Gnome doesn't save session

2002-03-05 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Make sure that gdm is starting you in a Gnome session Menu item Session -> Gnome On my system the default is something else, so I don't see the changes in gnomecc unless I explicitly start a gnome session. It will ask if it should change the default for you. Bob Quoting Axel Minck <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: New xawtv system wide config file lives where?

2002-03-05 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:34:17AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:21:34PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Just did my daily update of my woody machine, and BOOM framebuffer TV > > > quit worki

Re: New xawtv system wide config file lives where?

2002-03-04 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:21:34PM -0500, stan wrote: > Just did my daily update of my woody machine, and BOOM framebuffer TV > quit working. > > I strongly suspect this is because I let the installer create the > "new systemwide xawtv file". Silly me, dpkg -L xawtv /. /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/xaw

Re: RealyPlayer installer broken> (flashing blue screen)

2002-03-03 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:06:50AM -0500, stan wrote: > I just tried to use dselect to install RealPlayer on my woody > system. > > When I pressed return to install the selected packages (and I > had selected _only_ the RealPlayer installer). I got a flashing > blue screen. I was in console mode,

Re: 3d with nvidia ( follow-up)

2002-03-02 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I forgot to mention that I have a PCI card. Maybe you need to check your AGP BIOS settings. (never used AGP, haven't a clue) Bob

Re: 3d with nvidia

2002-03-02 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I have essentially the same setup, and I get 300-340FPS I just found out from glxgears. I don't know if module order matters, here's mine: Section "Module" Load"ddc" Load"dbe" Load"extmod" Load"glx" Load"pex5" Load"record"

Re: Nautilus broke?

2002-03-02 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I don't know what causes that error, but it's not what stopping Nautilus. If you check, you'll probably see that you get that error with a lot of programs. I just installed the version in testing and it's working for me so far. Are you sure that's the only output? try running it from a terminal i

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-02 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:23:24PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few > > rinkles. > > 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. > > Whee, got lots of help on that one.

Re: dpkg - the letter prefixes.. what do they mean

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:33:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Not quite. 'un' means that it's no longer available ("unknown") and not > installed, but since it's listed at all it was available once and the > system hasn't forgotten about it yet. > > Packages that are available but that were n

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Which display manager is coming up? On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:32:50AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few > rinkles. > 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx. > > Currently, I get popped right into X. > I thought th

Re: dpkg - the letter prefixes.. what do they mean

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
This isn't the official word. first column = what to do i = install u =uninstall r = remove p = purge second column = actual state i = installed n = not installed ii = installed and will stay installed un = not installed and won't be [rp]n = was installed but removed or purged On Thu, Feb 28,

Re: Exim config question

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
There is a way to make it go through your smarthost, but I forget what it is. I had the opposite problem. Messages being sent locally weren't being delivered until I logged on to my ISP. All this to say that if you really want that behavior, it's available. I just can't tell you how. Bob On Thu,

Re: Retry.. no more crybaby bs

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step > back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on') > > A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have > $40 dollars worth of cds setting here.

lag (Re: Enough time wasted, moving on)

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How much did you post to the list? I can only find the following > > threads: > > Fresh install no network > > Neighbor table overflow.. what does it mean > > Configuring locales > >

Re: Debian

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Mitch Headline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I Have One Question How do i send e-mail in debian using Mutt? > from the main list window: m will ask for subject: and should bring up your editor after writing the message and exiting the editor, y sends it off Bob

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bob Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are we to understand that you bought cds of a version that is still > > changeing constantly? Why? From whom? Why? > > >From the links on Debian ho

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Are we to understand that you bought cds of a version that is still changeing constantly? Why? From whom? Why? Bob On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0 > Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox w

Re: woody - no installation candidate..

2002-02-28 Thread Bob Thibodeau
try mysql-server and mysql-client use apt-cache search mysql to see the possibilities Bob On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:04:11PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: >Hi all, > >I've noticed that ever since I have upgraded to woody, a lot of packages >aren't available to be installed. >Suc

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I also like vlc. Some files will play better in one program while others work in another. I keep vlc, mplayer, xanim and xine around. BTW, keep in mind that many mov files you find will be encoded in a quicktime format that is proprietary and unavailable on Linux. Unless somebody else knows someth

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I switched from Eudora and Pegasus in Windows to Elm and now mutt in Linux. I found the transition to be painless, although I did miss the folder handling in the early days. I did run Pegasus with WINE for a while, but made the final switch because I wanted to get away from the non-standard mailbox

Re: lilo problem

2002-02-22 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I'm just coming into the thread, but if you had your initrd= in the main section of lilo.conf, try putting it in the image section of your Sid kernel. That way, no other kernel will try to use it. Bob On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:47:53PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > Due to some workloa

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-16 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I'm not using gpm. My XF86Config-4 has this Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" #

Re: nvidia and 2.4.17 kernel

2002-02-16 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I didn't know there were debian packages. I downloaded from nvidia's site yesterday, and they're working fine. I needed the *kernel* and the *GLX* tarball from them. To load switch Driver "nv" for Driver "nvidia" in XF86Config-4 HTH Bob

Re: Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine with the same version, right? Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy? If different files, do they match? If not, try sneaker net. If those ideas don't work, you can try rebuilding by hand just to ge

Re: Where To Get Modules (Drivers) For Each Device On My Computer.

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
We will need to know first of all what _are_ all the different types of devices that you have got attached to your computer. You should also read the hardware compatibility HOWTO. Bob On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:26:13PM -, kevincrookes wrote: >Hi all. I got another question for you all n

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
In my experience, apt-get knows to set up the next versions packaging tools first, even in a full dist-upgrade. Has someone actually gotten burnt by this (lately)? Of course being safe when you do a big upgrade does no harm. Bob On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:52:11AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > Le 2002.02.15 02:29, Bob Thibodeau a ?crit : > >It's more secure than suid, but anyone with physical access to the > >machine can stop it. > > Anyway, someone with physical access can poweroff the mach

kernel's working

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
All I could do when I got back was another round of make clean; ... install fortunately it worked this time now if I can the win4lin patch to work... Thanks to both of you who tried to help, Bob

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-14 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have ctrl-alt-del set up for shutdown (reboot) and ctrl-alt-end for halt I think that's done in /etc/inittab When I get home I'll cut it out and send it if no one lese has It's more secure than suid, but anyone with physical access to the machine can s

kernel: TNG

2002-02-14 Thread Bob Thibodeau
After spending a couple of hours tweaking my initrd image and Google searching, I discovered that make oldconfig, while presenting me with enough options to lull me into security, was quietly leaving all of my IDE options unset. Here's the new problem: the root mounts but during the boot I get km

Re: kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:33:37 -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > >I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I've seen offered > >haven't worked for me. > > > >I'm trying to upgrade to

Re: kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I wish it were that simple. Thanks for the input, though. (yes, I did just double-check) Bob On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:41:30PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > > I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I&

kernel again

2002-02-13 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I know this has been coming up, but the solutions I've seen offered haven't worked for me. I'm trying to upgrade to 2.4.17 and getting the "vfs: cannot mount root" error. I've tried with and without initrd support. The only difference being whether the kernel can't mount root at 1:x or 3:x I've

Re: cdrecord, 4416, tekram, recorded cds unreadable

2002-02-11 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Why are you mounting audio cd's? What happens if you try to play them without mounting first? Bob On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:08:11AM -0600, Michael Stroucken wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using cdrecord 1.10 on a DEC Alpha LX164 with a Tekram 53c875 based > SCSI card driving a Yamaha 4416 CD burner. >

Re: cdrecord & xcdroast

2002-02-10 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I just reinstalled the newer version so I could see the message. The source is downloading now. that's one down... thanks, Bob On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:50:04PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 20:23, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > I just fired up my cd writer a

cdrecord & xcdroast

2002-02-09 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I just fired up my cd writer after a year or so, and some issues came up. 1. xcdroast now set suid, making gtk refuse to start as user What happened to setting up as root and running later as non-root? Am I forgetting something? Is there a better program for creating data cd's? I made some audio

Re: Yahoo Groups like mailing list interface?

2002-02-07 Thread Bob Thibodeau
maybe twig? (apt-cache search) from the description it might do what you want HTH Bob On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:53:45AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Is there anything out there that will do a webboard that sends and > recieves its messages on a mailing list, ala Yahoo! Groups? > > Mysel

Re: .xsession fatal to X...?

2002-02-07 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Also make sure that the last item in your .xsession isn't backgrounded. It may be that X is running perfectly, but exits when there's nothing keeping it alive in the script. Two popular choices are to end with either your window manager or a terminal. Is there a .xsession-errors in your home dir?

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-05 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts > under X ? > I installed xfstt and read the docs. Bob

Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody

2002-02-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:13:53AM -0800, Terry Carney wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Kuhn wrote: > > > The original line 33 of access.conf was "order allow,deny". I tried > > changing this to "Order Allow,Deny" and "Order allow,deny". All > > variations that I tried resulted in a syntax err

Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody

2002-01-31 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:27:44PM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: > > I don't have a solution to the second bug (#131104) yet. It is a problem > when you upgrade from apache 1.3.9 (stable) to 1.3.22. The solution does > not seem to be as simple as correcting the capitalization in the config > file to t

Re: Fetchmail locking up

2002-01-30 Thread Bob Thibodeau
It sounds like you're set to download only unread messages and these 11 have been marked as read even though the initial download didn't complete. Try running a session explicitly telling fetchmail to get all messages. I'm in Windows hell right now, so I can't tell you how to do that. HTH Bob Q

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-25 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Quoting Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 23 January 2002 19:51, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape > and > > convert it to an audio file on my computer. > > Thanks. > > This thread intrigued me, so I'm trying to reco

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I just tried gramophile and it's great. I did have a file lying around that was the whole side of a cassette, and I just split it into 5 songs. It only took a minute or so. I've played with xwave and sweep for editing. I have hopes that sweep will grow into a cooledit-capable program. They're maki

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Here's a script I use. #!/bin/sh sound-recorder -c 2 -b 16 -s 44100 $1 I forget why I chose sound-recorder over the other available programs. Take care, Bob On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:11:06PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Thanks for those two suggestions; I _REALLY_ appreciate them. Will > rese

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Bob Thibodeau
gt; > On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 01:38 , Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > >What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? > > I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I > need on the command line, I don't need one. > > > -Ken >

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Bob Thibodeau
What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? Bob On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:16:14AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 12:54 , ben wrote: > > >if you use x, you should try fetchmailconf. run it as a user, not as > >root. it > >has a gui interface that is pretty easy to underst