Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Harry Putnam wrote: [ . . . ] > Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input > box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key > presses aimed at the base window and print them in that small input > window. [ . . . ] > I wasn't able

Re: MTP and Android phones

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Wait, so explain how i can get my phone connected to my computer? > There have now been several different and contradicting explanations > :-( I have used go-mtpfs with my nexus4, nexus5, and nexus10 under wheezy and it works well. -- Brad --

Re: MTP and Android phones

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Ive Googled and tried to read up about MTP, but im still not sure how > to get things working--different sites have you download and compile > things from scratch, which seems crazy that you can't just plug your > phone in. I did install mtp-tool

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, paul condon wrote: > I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from > different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here > in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, > excepting if someone on this list can give a reason otherwi

Re: disable sleep mode hdd usb

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Greg Madden wrote: > > > The original poster doesn't mention the verson of Debian, Squeeze uses > > > uuid's, and if you are using external usb devices, uuid's are a great > > > way to make sure the same file system gets mounted appropriately each > > > time. > > > > Maybe t

Re: gspca driver on debian sid (amd64)

On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 22:00:47 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:25:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:30:50 +0200, Raven wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > I am trying to install the 'gspca' driver for

Re: Cannot compile gspca

On Sat, 07 Feb 2009, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I have installed linux-image-2.6.28-1-686 from the kernel trunk and the > corresponding header files (after building linux-kbuild from source). > Everything works fine except my webcam. The webcam works perfectly under > the kernel 2.6.26-1-686 from debia

Re: Use of Swap Space

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009, Aneurin Price wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/03/2009 05:01 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote: > > > > That's a design issue (I think) specific to Windows. Has to do with the > > decision to map video card RAM into regular address space (even on

Re: Network management, both ethernet and wireless

#x27;lo' - add relevant users to the 'netdev' group As an aside, anyone know how to disable the Windows'ish balloon pop-up when you connect/disconnect from a network? I hate that thing. -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -<>- Jefferson Lab / Te

Re: Maxime a window from CLI.

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, ccostin wrote: > There is a possibility to maximize or minimize a window from CLI, > (command which will tell to GNOME or KDE to maximize/minimize a given > window similar to Ctrl+F10/F5). > > Or to tell to a window manager the width and the height, to resize > the window, a

Re: [FIXED] Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:04:28AM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Greg Vickers wrote: > > > > > OK, I found out that Debian Etch uses a new input layer, and that the IR > > > inputs

Re: [FIXED] Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Greg Vickers wrote: > OK, I found out that Debian Etch uses a new input layer, and that the IR > inputs are in /dev/input/eventX where X corresponds the event number of > your input devices in 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices' > > So my IR device is /dev/input/event1, instead of

Re: ATI or Nvidia

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Guillermo Garron wrote: > I have my system as dual boot, Debian Etch and ubuntu Gutsy, I am > asking on the Ubuntu list, which is my best option nVidia or ATI, > actually I have an ATI Radeon X300, and I want to change it. > > In your Debian experience which has better suppor

Re: amd64 vs i386

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:50:20PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > To use flash in amd64 in Etch you need an i386 chroot. In Lenny, there > is a pluginwrapper that solves it but it depends on a different libc > than Etch and the maintain

Re: photo album or photo viewer in xfce

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:46:21PM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > >Can anyone recommend a package or application for >efficient viewing of photos in xfce? I installed showfoto >in one system; it invokes many dependencies. For quick viewing I've been using 'feh'. The big win in my book is that

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Hi Francois, On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: > On 2.4.27, I get the CRC errors (not at boot time, later, and all the > time thereafter), and I've been having them for many years. I mentionned > just in case there might be a link with my problem. Otherwise, I am not > trying to solv

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Hi Douglas, On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:28:58PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: > > [ . . . ] > > > Now, when I boot my computer using the new kernel, I get an error > &g

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007, Francois Duranleau wrote: [ . . . ] > Now, when I boot my computer using the new kernel, I get an error > message during filesystem check saying it contains errors (sorry, I > don't have a more precise error message, and I have no logs) and > it then mounts the filesystem read

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

On Mon, 21 May 2007, nick lidakis wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement sed ... > dpkg: error proc

Re: Procmail recipe problems

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 08 2007, jeffd wrote: > > > > Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > >I've got a strange problem with my procmail setup, and it's presently > > >affecting my handling of the debian-user list. I suspect I've made > > >some stupid error I just can't see. >

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I'm gradually getting Etch installed on my new box and I'm ready to get > sound working. I figure I'll try out vlc as an all-singing-all-dancing > media player. However, looking through the package lists none of the > media players depend on alsa. > >

Re: What's the difference between updatedb and /etc/cron.daily/find?

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, michael wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:03:49 -0700, Chris Purves wrote > > I am seeing different results from /etc/cron.daily/find and running > > updatedb from the command line: [ . . . ] > > What are the differences between these and why does the daily cron job > > find les

Re: Smoothing disk I/O

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:00 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using > > nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks > > put the system into high wait-state load

Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"

Deephay wrote: > I have a problem with my .xsession-errors file, this file will grow > tremendous size each day (956 MB today, cleared yesterday, with a 4 GB > size). > The major source of errors comes from gnash (I am using the amd64 port > which adobe flash player won't work), gnash is not matur

Re: Etch apt-get "dependency trap"

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in serious trouble here. I was upgrading from xorg 6.9 to 7 but my > problem is the usual one. Everything was fine until wajig reported that > the /usr/X11R6/bin directory wasn't empty. It suggested moving the files > somewhere else and then rest

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > } Stefan Monnier wrote: > } >What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > } >In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > } >saved as a bitmap,

Re: unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

itting return after your selection (doubling your productivity!). apt-get install libterm-readkey-perl -- Brad ---> START: bin/pum < #! /usr/bin/perl -w # This is licensed under the Gnu Public License (GPL). # On Debian systems the text of the license can be found at # /usr/share/commo

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Thanks a lot. > I need some other help. > > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > >> I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. > >> How can I do this? [ ... ] &

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. > How can I do this? > > If you ask why, because oo impress chrashes when you try to add 2 > clipart from gallery (I've sent a message to the package mantainers) With luck it is as simple as (for

Re: xfce4 and automount usb stick icons on desktop

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, H.S. wrote: > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > > I would check the following: [ . . . ] > > - that 'gnome-volume-manager' is running, and > > Aha. Did not install gnome* packages at all. Maybe this is the problem. > I hope I do not

Re: xfce4 and automount usb stick icons on desktop

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, H.S. wrote: > I was wondering if automounting of USB sticks works in xfce4 in Debian� > Etch. I tried it yesterday and couldn't figure out how to do this.� > Automounting of a CD works when inserted in the drive though. It's been working for me (etch, same kernel version).

Re: Webcam users with debian

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Dimitri Chausson wrote: > I want to use a Webcam with debian. Have been looking for documentation > yesterday. I found the howto and some user reports very useful. However, > going to the store, I noticed that there is a plenty of different models > who are not reported to wor

Re: PalmOS devices conflict with the kernel image?

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:22:54PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > > Are you sure the visor and usbserial modules are available to the kernel? > > They're already *loaded*, but no /dev/ttyUSB* appears. > > > The releva

Re: PalmOS devices conflict with the kernel image?

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:40:38AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > However: syncing my Palm Tungsten T3 only works if hotplug is installed. > Hotplug conflicts with udev (which does not recognize the Palm device). > Removing udev would also remove the kernel (linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7). udev *does* recog

Re: USB not accepting new address

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Edson Marco Ferrari Junior wrote: > On 5/29/06, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, 28 May 2006, Edson Marco Ferrari Junior wrote: > > > >> Im try connect a webcam Genius in Debian Sarge. > >> > >> I install the

Re: USB not accepting new address

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Edson Marco Ferrari Junior wrote: > Hi all! > > Im try connect a webcam Genius in Debian Sarge. > > I install the module spca52xxx and quickcam, but when connect the > webcam in USB (2.0) in dmesg returns this message: > > usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd a

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > > without hosing

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > >On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Ali Milis wrote: > >> > >>>Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >>> > >>>>The debian default of my sarge installa

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ali Milis wrote: > >Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > >>The debian default of my sarge installations is that the ext3-FS are > >>fsck'ed about every 30 mounts or 180 days (whatever comes first). > > > >This is just my Euro 0.01 opinion: > > > >180 days is

Re: CUPS/foomatic/gs printing problem - plain text - first line too high,gets cut off

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Rick Reynolds wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > >On 3/12/06, *Daniel B.* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > >I'm having trouble with printing after switching to using CUPS, > >foomatic, and gs (gs-esp) in Sarge: > > > >When I try to prin

Re: chkrootkit response (OT)

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 07:27, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:46:48AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > >> Is this a valid response or false positive ? > >> > >> /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: > >> eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient[1102])

Re: DVD burner optimization (or how to avoid crappy burns)

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Eric P wrote: > I've been burning for about a year with my ultra cheapy > MicroAdvantage DVD burner. > > It seems to work, but I've noticed on a majority of the disks I've > burned, somewhere midway in the disc it'll kinda crap out and show > compression artifacts, get jerky

Re: (solved)Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Serena Cantor wrote: > Thank Brad Sawatzky, > Star King of the Grape Trees, > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] No problem. I'm glad I could help. > Does Linux have to be so hard to use?(The user has to > be able to program in shell script or C or other) > W

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Serena Cantor wrote: > I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in > batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! This shell script should do it: for f in *.bmp; do nf=`basename "$f" .bmp`; convert -verb

Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > > > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to > > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... > > I just trie

Re: sane access for non-root user

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:28:18 -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > Installed xsane > > > > and can only access it as root. Add

Re: sane access for non-root user

> On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just spent over an hour googling in vain. And I am sure I should > > know the answer to this... > > > > New sid install (on a not-new Dell Inspiron 8200 FWIW). Installed xsane > > and can only access it as root. Added myself to sca

Re: screen blanking

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time. > > Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a screen > saver. Just plain XFree86 under Sarge with the Nvidia closed source driver. > > I would like to disabl

Re: Request to remove Information

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Weissgerber, Tom L wrote: > The following information should not have been made available to the > entire public domain. Please remove the following links/files at your > earliest convenience. > > * Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:57:42 -0700 > * Message-id: > <[EMAIL PRO

Re: finding files by content from the command-line

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Matt Price wrote: > Having checked out beagle and quite liked it, I seet here ae also > various graphical file-finding tools outthere, e.g. the gnome "search > for files" program, that allow content searches (e.g., "contains the > text"-type searhcing). In many cases similar

Re: Debian and webcams

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Bernard Fay wrote: > I will need a webcam in a near future. > > I would like to know about successes and failures with different webcams. > Are there models with official Linux drivers available? Does someone can > give me some suggestions? This

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Albert wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > > >I don't think there was any need for a personal insult, just because you > >didn't read the documentation, which, especially if you are so > >experienced with Linux, you should have thought read. > > > >In your original post, you ask

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Environment: Matrox G550 on xorg from unstable on a (mostly) sarge > installation. 2 analog screens. Xinerama is used, bare xorg - no mga_hal > etc.; kernel linux-image-2.6.12 or kernel-image-2.6.8 doesn't matter; > 686-smp in both cases. DRM lo

Re: OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by another program

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005, Jon D. Irish wrote: > I just finished compiling a 2.6.12.4 kernel to support the sound card in > my Dell Optiplex GX270; however, when I try to play audio via Music > Player, I keep getting a "OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by > another program" error. I have verified

Re: openssl has 2gb limit ?

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > today I tried to encrypt a 3.2Gb file with openssl: > > openssl enc -aes256 -e -salt -pass file:filename.pwd -in filename -out > filename.openssl > > It aborted with the error: > "Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten" = "Maximum file size is

Re: removing exim also removes mysql-server-4.1

n turn requires an MTA (like exim) to be installed. You will have to have some MTA (exim, sendmail, ...) installed, even if it only handles mail between users on the local machine. -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -<>- Jefferson Lab / Temple University Phone: (757) 269-594

Re: Chkrootkit reports infection

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Robert S wrote: > > Newer versions of chkrootkit (0.45, for example) allow you to run in a > > "diff mode" that suppresses day-to-day duplicate hits. You can turn > > this option on with 'dpkg-reconfigure chkrootkit'. > > > The Sarge version is 0.44-2. The "diff" mode sound

Re: Chkrootkit reports infection

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > I've recently updated to sarge. > > > > When chkrootkit runs daily, I get a (presumed) false positive: > > > > # chkrootkit -q > > > > /usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/proc/.keep /usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/root/.profile > > > > I assume that this is due to

Re: udev how to set up automatic /media/cdrom0

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 08:49 am, LeVA wrote: > > > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > > Hi, > > > are there any knowledgeable users of udev who can tell us how to > > > configure udev scripts to automatically create > > > /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdro

Re: Firefox 1.0, mailto, and mutt

over to my maildrop machine. Perhaps it will make a useful template for others. #! /usr/bin/perl # Helper program for mozilla and mutt. # Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # This is for use with the 'Launchy' extension. Create a file named # &

Re: USB Mass Storage - Kernel Bug?

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:43:48 +1000, Damien Solley > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I am having trouble using an external USB 2.0 to IDE converter box with > > recent 2.6 kernels. The box houses a 200GB IDE drive. When I try to

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

7;t been following this thread, so forgive me if I'm missing some assumed condition that makes that invalid.) -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Department Ph: (434) 924-6580Fax: (434) 924-7909 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PostScripts suddenly too big -- help me diagnose

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Hello all, > > After returning from a long vacation a few weeks ago, I discovered that > converting a text file to PostScript used fonts that were too large > (widthwise; heightwise they are OK though the spacing seems a little > cramped). For exampl

Re: a2ps -> gv font (deeper problem!)

thers) against the newest gsfonts that cover this problem (2-3 weeks old now). Hopefully things will be fixed soon. -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Department Ph: (434) 924-6580Fax: (434) 924-7909 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: a2ps -> gv font (deeper problem!)

ts reserved. So, is there some font handling layer below ghostscript that could be screwing this up, or is there a bug in the ESP flavor of gs? -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Department Ph: (434) 924-6580Fax: (434) 924-7909 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: chkrootkit...lkm trojan?... only from gnome

es (or perhaps uses a threading model?) that KDE doesn't, and that is triggering the LKM test. So, you're probably fine, but keep an eye out for bogus activity on your machine (ie. normal sys-admin mode). -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Depar

Re: split large pdf to A4?

u need. -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Department Ph: (434) 924-6580Fax: (434) 924-7909 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

Hi John, On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote: > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > >On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote: > >>Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many > >>websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

re will be an old version or two in /var/cache/apt/archives/ that you can use. (Copy the .deb somewhere so it don't get purged before you need it again.) -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Department Ph: (434) 924-6580Fax: (434) 924-7909 -

Re: APC UPS with USB on Woody

d. Follow the example files and instructions in /usr/share/doc/nut/. Useful URLs: <http://us1.networkupstools.org/compat/> <http://vesuvio.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~herrj/doc/UPS/NUT_UPS.html> -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Department

Re: Best UPS for Linux?

doesn't support this model out of the box (there is an upgrade wishlist item in the bts). NOTE, the CyberPower 1500VAR-HO is NOT the CyberPower 1500VAR. They in fact use different drivers. Took me a while to work that one out...stupid naming schemes... -- Brad -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL

Re: Tape backup woes (mt)... should I file a bug report?

cpio package, and there's another package mt-st one may install. I don't > notice any significant difference between the two, so where's the point? > Under what circumstances would I want or prefer mt-st over mt? FWIW, I tried both the cpio-mt binary and the mt-st binary

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

0102011005%245fe9%40added-at.bofh.it&rnum=3 > > Can anyone shed some light on this? I'm really struggling to use my > machine productively given this restriction and I have work to do :( > > Debian Unstable (Sid), Linux 2.4.20, Gnome 2.4.1 > > ii xserver-common 4.3.0-3 files a

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

lence. > > The streams are visible at > <http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/Audio/200408/wms/CT0408-SHOW.asx>. > > Any suggestions? > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading > http://www.jabootu.com >

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

GUI applications, like the browser, > jpilot, and a mail reader. Furthermore, I want multiple desktops. > Running X with Xinerama means that a desktop change affects both > screens, which is not what I want. Thus, I want to go without > Xinerama. [ . . . ] -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL

Re: Mozilla printer problems

Z_PRINTER_NAME}) > > I have found this mentioned a few times on Debian and Suse lists from > google-ing, but I don't seem to find anyone who has resolved the matter. > > Can anyone help? > > this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla. > lpr ${MOZ_PRINTE

Re: Gvim and Xinerama

will not work under xinerama. The window comes up, but > gvim hangs and needs to be killed. I have tried this with the gvim from > apt, and from sources and it's the same each time. I'm using a sid > system btw. Does anyone have any advice or a solution for this? > >

Re: VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

with the > sound card's buffer - perhaps it's not getting flushed properly, but > that's just a guess. > > I have tried using both the VIA82cxxx sound module that comes with the > Linux kernel, and the ALSA snd-via82xx driver. This is my story. [snip] -- Brad Sa

Re: kensington expert mouse pro

tion. Based on a recent post to the list, I loaded the > evdev module and did a cat /dev/input/event0. It worked! I get output from > the device when I press the multimedia buttons on the trackball. > > Now the question is how to make X usefully aware of /dev/input/event0. Maybe > wi

Re: Integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Bridge

Hi Denis, I've found the newest ALSA <http://www.alsa-project.org/> driver works quite well. -- Brad On Fri, 06 Jun 2003, Denis Pihulya wrote: > Hello! > Please inform me about support in debian voody 3.0 and kernel 2.4.x for > integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Br

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

one of the > > other two. > > Well, I tried fvwm2 (one that I had installed) and also tried without > xinerama, and mozilla is always opening new windows to the size of the > screen. Even if I resize it smaller, exit, and reopen it still goes to > the edge of the screen.

Re: Matrox G550 and Dual Head

ode also broke openGL apps for me... maybe a bad interaction with my kernel (2.4.21pre4ac7). Anyone know what the advantage(s) of merged mode are supposed to be? FWIW, I use xfce as my window manager. It is fast, gnome-aware, and handles multiple screens of different sizes better than sawfish a

Re: How to use many(>6) button mouse devices

Hi Travis, Thanks for the reply, but no dice. 'xev' reports button11 and button12 events when I use the scroll wheel but the actual scrolling is broken. No change wrt the other buttons. -- Brad On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote: > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > >I've

How to use many(>6) button mouse devices

x27;t find a working mouse (or something to that effect). I've googled usenet and the web for a couple days now without any success. There is a sourceforge project called jamd <http://jamd.sourceforge.net/> that looks like it might work but it looks like its been idle for quite a while