ssh -X authentication with sudo

2022-10-04 Thread Dave Howorth
I have a machine running debian that I access using ssh. I use the -X with ssh and can successfully run e.g. xeyes on the debian machine showing the display on my local machine. But now I want to run a graphical program that needs to run as root on the debian machine while displaying on my local

Re: uvcdynctrl on bullseye?

2022-09-02 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:43:29 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2022-09-02 16:47 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > > > I'd like to use uvcdynctrl on a bullseye 64-bit system. But > > according to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uvcdynctrl > > the package is not a

Re: uvcdynctrl on bullseye?

2022-09-02 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:43:29 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2022-09-02 16:47 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > > > I'd like to use uvcdynctrl on a bullseye 64-bit system. But > > according to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uvcdynctrl > > the package is not a

Re: uvcdynctrl on bullseye?

2022-09-02 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 12:09:31 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > > > I'd like to use uvcdynctrl on a bullseye 64-bit system. But > > according to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uvcdynctrl > > the package is not available

Re: uvcdynctrl on bullseye?

2022-09-02 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 12:09:31 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > > > I'd like to use uvcdynctrl on a bullseye 64-bit system. But > > according to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uvcdynctrl > > the package is not available

uvcdynctrl on bullseye?

2022-09-02 Thread Dave Howorth
I'd like to use uvcdynctrl on a bullseye 64-bit system. But according to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uvcdynctrl the package is not available for any flavour of bullseye. It is available for both earlier (stretch and buster) and later (bookworm and sid) releases. So I'm curious

Re: FW: System set-up

2005-11-22 Thread Dave Howorth
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:39 +, marc wrote: Ed Paris said... * 320 MB of RAM Would you advise me to run GNOME or KDE instead of staying with BASH? You can do all three, if you like. ssh is the traditional way to admin a server, but you might want to run a remote KDE/Gnome session on

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:09 -0500, [KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is

Re: fhs: where to mount other PCs ?

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Howorth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to fhs, where should I mount network shares, e.g. a share for data exchange within a company ? /mnt is for temporary use only, but I don't know a better place... Historically, I've always mounted them at /nfs/machine-name/whatever. The important point is to

[OT] topfield pvr

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Howorth
Does anybody use their Debian box in conjunction with a Topfield PVR? I've just bought a TF5800PVR because of its connectivity and relative openness and am curious whether anybody has already set one up with a Linux host? Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Digital signing of printed documents

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Howorth
Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi good people, I wish to get your views on how I can implement a system that will capture text of a financial document that is to be printed, run a hash algorithm (SHA-1) over the document text, store an electronic copy of the document and its digital signature to disk

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Howorth
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:57:56PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: Siju George wrote: Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) cannot be backed up while live. This is just a fact of life, true for any backup system. It depends what guarantees of integrity you need and what

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Siju George wrote: Could some one please tell me a good backup software for Linux. snip Now I should be able to restore dir1 from backup2 with only fle1 and file2 You might want to take a look at dirvish, which can certainly do this. Every differential backup looks like a full backup.

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Siju George wrote: ome of the folders I want to backup regularly is /var/lib/mysql but http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/dirvish_backup/snapshot.html 2.3. Practical Considerations says Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) cannot be backed up while live. This is just a fact of life,

Re: decyphering spam

2005-06-03 Thread Dave Howorth
michael wrote: It seems this spam leads to trafficpro.us which is registered by somebody in UK (see below) - do you think it's worth reporting or taking legal action? I guess we could just bombard their phone number Or perhaps do a little research first? The registrant claims to be in York.

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Dave Howorth
Dave Ewart wrote: I never understand why people want 1280x1024. This is a different aspect ratio to all the other resolutions listed. Because that's what size our TFT monitors are? Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-09 Thread Dave Howorth
Eugen Leitl wrote: This is getting a bit offtopic for the list, perhaps we should take it to private mail. Please keep it on the list. It's a very interesting thread. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: running debian on graphics cards

2004-12-07 Thread Dave Howorth
Andrea Vettorello wrote: I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? If you look on google you should find a project to do math on your GPU, IIRC was someting like GPGPU... Thanks Andrea, that was a good link. the site is

running debian on graphics cards

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Howorth
I was just reading about how powerful GPUs are getting and I wondered whether anybody has got Debian to run on one? There, that's a wacky question for today! I don't even know whether the question makes sense. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-22 Thread Dave Howorth
Eduard Pauna wrote: Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on debian? I have eclipse-SDK-3.0.1-linux-gtk.zip running on woody with a bunch of backports. So there's light at the end of the tunnel. I got the eclipse-platform-SDK-3.0-linux-gtk.zip package, unzip it and when I run eclipse I obtain

mozilla 1.6 backport issues

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Howorth
I run Woody and just upgraded my mozilla from Adrian Bunk's 1.2.1 to the 1.6 from backports.org. Sadly, it seems to have made things worse. Does anybody know how to fix any of the following: font sizes -- I've always had problems with fonts in Mozilla but had something that was just

Re: mozilla 1.6 backport issues

2004-11-12 Thread Dave Howorth
Dave Howorth wrote: I run Woody and just upgraded my mozilla from Adrian Bunk's 1.2.1 to the 1.6 from backports.org. Sadly, it seems to have made things worse. Does anybody know how to fix any of the following: Let me add two more issues I've discovered in the past five minutes: composer crashes

Re: new colour printer only uses black and white

2004-11-04 Thread Dave Howorth
It's working at last! Thanks, Jeff. Details below for anybody with the same problem. Jeff Self wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 17:02 +, Dave Howorth wrote: I'm running woody. synaptic says I have cupsys 1.1.14-5 but no cupsys-driver-gimpprint or, interestingly, foomatic-bin or foomatic-db

new colour printer only uses black and white

2004-11-03 Thread Dave Howorth
I'm a lucky boy! We just installed a new HP4650dn colour laserjet. Almost everything seems good but it is printing in monochrome from my Debian box (mostly!). It's a network printer that replaces a previous one (a QMS magicolor 2200). I use CUPS and I've added the HP. I can still print as

Re: new colour printer only uses black and white

2004-11-03 Thread Dave Howorth
Jeff Self wrote: We've got an HP Color Laser 4650dn as well. I can print in color from my Debian desktop system. What driver are you using? I'm using the HP Color LaserJet 4600 Foomatic/Postscript (recommended) driver. Thanks for this. Where does that appear? I just added the printer again

Re: HardWare: wireless router for Debian ?

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Howorth
I am envisaging to buy a (cheap) wireless router (at least b compatible) which can run (Debian) Linux ? You might want to consider the Linksys WRT54G: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: IBM Rack Server recommendation

2004-11-01 Thread Dave Howorth
Douglas G. Phillips wrote: We use Dell Servers here with great success, and there's a dell linux support site with a debian section. I quote from http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml: * Debian o Woody (testing) Not sure how much I'd value that support :) Versions of the other distros are

eclipse 3.0.1 install problem

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Howorth
I just downloaded eclipse 3.0.1 but can't get it to run. It produces a log that I've included below. I can't see anything in the download or on the eclipse site that explains how to install it and all the newsgroups or mailing lists seem to deal with developer issues. I'm running woody. I have

vmware cut and paste

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Howorth
I'm running VMware (4.5.2 build 8848) on Woody, with a Win2K guest. Everything I've tried works fine except for cut and paste between host and guest. If I make a primary X selection in an xterm, all the VMware Edit menu items stay grey. If I make a selection in Windows (CTRL-C or using a menu

Re: vmware cut and paste

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Howorth
Douglas G. Phillips wrote: I'm running VMware (4.5.2 build 8848) on Woody, with a Win2K guest. Everything I've tried works fine except for cut and paste between host and guest. If I make a primary X selection in an xterm, all the VMware Edit menu items stay grey. If I make a selection in Windows

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-10-25 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? Our accounts/systems departments in their wisdom have decided that to make a purchase we must now fill out a PDF form. I can do that using acroread but it won't let me save the result (you have to buy Acrobat for that

gps radio modem

2004-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
I want to use a GPS (PCI card i/f, not serial) and a radio modem with Debian. Does anybody know of a good place to look for advice about the practicalities and gotchas? Thanks and regards, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

D-Link DGE 550T gigabit network card

2004-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Does anybody have any experience, positive or negative, with a D-Link DGE 550T NIC? Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySQL Administrator - segmentation fault

2004-10-18 Thread Dave Howorth
Mateusz oskot wrote: I've just installed the newest MySQL Administration GUI (mysql-admin) and I noticed that every time I try to Apply some changes I make i.e. after I add new database user this program exits with segmentation fault error message. I have no idea what is the reason. I use Sarge

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Dave Howorth
In reply to: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... use: pstoedit -f fig:-startdepth 999 in out%d.fig to

Re: All these open ports

2004-09-22 Thread Dave Howorth
Tom Allison wrote: More importantly today is to understand how 99.9% of the virus and malware is transmitted today. It's not through unfiltered ports and such as described in your original email, but through the email mechanism (or http) itself. And while I don't have any hard numbers at my

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Matt Price wrote: thanks to stefan for that answer! works great. though for fun, I'd still ike to know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it's REALLY running The simplest way to me is to write an X client program that just makes a connection, then

Re: installation dies on ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Howorth
FireBright, Inc. wrote: Howdy list! Howdy and welcome. I'm trying to get Debian to install The installation dies on both the image of cd1 and the netboot Now, I have an Intel d865gbf motherboard with a 3.2 1 meg p4 in it, and about a gig of ram. I've got an OEM Dell DVD+ drive in there, and a

Re: programming in c a window problem

2004-09-09 Thread Dave Howorth
Paul Akkermans wrote: I am trying to program (in c) a simple window/Form in my X Windows environment in Debian. The trouble is that I can't find a good example which draws such a window or form on my screen. Does anybody know a good example? Try typing 'X11 tutorial' into Google. The first hit

Re: split large pdf to A4?

2004-08-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Brad Sawatzky wrote: Is there some way to split a large-format PDF file into several A4-sized pieces to print it? I have used a package called 'poster' that does exactly this with PS files. A combination of pdf2ps and poster should get you what you need. Thanks Brad and thanks also to Sridhar

split large pdf to A4?

2004-08-13 Thread Dave Howorth
Is there some way to split a large-format PDF file into several A4-sized pieces to print it? Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: split large pdf to A4?

2004-08-13 Thread Dave Howorth
Thomas Adam wrote: Is there some way to split a large-format PDF file into several A4-sized pieces to print it? Several ways. pdftotext pdftohtml pdftops convert (from imagemagick) Thanks for the very swift answer Adam. I'm still confused. I should have been more specific and said that the PDF

Re: enable duplex / Ethernet bonding

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Howorth
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: I have a HP ProLiant DL140 with Integrated Dual Broadcom 10/100/1000 NICs. Am I correct that duplex means that I can use the two jacks as one? Duplex means that the interface can send and receive information at the same time. It can be used on switched networks. It

Re: Grid: Globus in Debian

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Howorth
Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: is there a kind of Globus packet to Debian? http://apt-get.org./ I can't find any reference to globus at that site. Could you be more specific with the link, please? Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

openoffice won't import eps postscript graphic

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Howorth
I'm trying to import an EPS file into OOo Writer. I choose Insert/Graphics/FromFile... then select EPS as the file type and click on my eps file But when I press the open button, it says 'Unknown graphic format'. I haven't been able to find anything in the help or on this list. I'm running

Re: openoffice won't import eps postscript graphic

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote I'm trying to import an EPS file into OOo Writer. I choose Insert/Graphics/FromFile... then select EPS as the file type and click on my eps file But when I press the open button, it says 'Unknown graphic format'. I haven't been able to find anything in the help or on this list. I'm

Re: openoffice won't import eps postscript graphic

2004-07-09 Thread Dave Howorth
Dean Allen Provins wrote: IS it actually an EPS graphic? or a PS graphic that was just saved with an EPS extension? Try opening it in the GIMP and resaving it. You can check the file format via: 'file name_of_file'. I think all file does is check whether the file contains 'EPSF', whereas GIMP

perl java jpl in woody

2004-06-02 Thread Dave Howorth
on the Debian site. Does anybody know anything about how to get JPL working on a Debian Woody system? Any hints about whether it actually does what I want or whether there are other ways to call Perl from Java would also be helpful. Thanks and regards, Dave Howorth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I should have been more specific. What are the alternatives to PayPal which do not require US/[insert other country name here] bank accounts. Because PayPal is credit card based there's far less hassle for both those paying and those receiving money. And as far as I know,

XML Tool Support

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Howorth
Recently, Debian News announced that Debian adds integrated XML Support http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040506 What I didn't find there was an indication of what tools there are in Debian for working with XML (viewers, editors, validators, transformers, formatters etc) and how they fit

mouse suddenly behaving strangely

2004-04-23 Thread Dave Howorth
Hello, My mouse just started behaving strangely, although I haven't done anything, to the best of my knowledge. Hopefully somebody will have an idea what to try! I was using my system (woody) as I have for the past many months when the mouse suddenly froze. It's a Logitech cordless M-RN66,

Re: Intel Pro/100 VE

2004-04-15 Thread Dave Howorth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now with that all said and done, I simply am running into so many hardware issues due to the my new laptop. And so instead of using stable debian, I am going to test the sid version because I have read of success with it. I'd suggest trying Knoppix as a starting point,

chgrp not permitted

2004-02-24 Thread Dave Howorth
I'm having trouble changing the group of a directory. I'm sure I'm doing something dumb, but I can't spot it :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chgrp www-data tmp chgrp: changing group of `tmp': Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups dhoworth dhoworth : dhoworth root adm www-data staff [EMAIL

Re: Debian on a SUSE computer

2004-02-18 Thread Dave Howorth
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:23:45PM +0100, Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * . wrote (2004-02-17 23:17): What is the likelyhood that the hardware in these computers is 100% compatible with Debian Very high. Agreed. and all it takes is the regular Debian

[Fwd: Re: librrds-perl]

2004-02-17 Thread Dave Howorth
Oops, forgot to send to the list ... Stefan Vunckx wrote: I want to install librdds-perl on my server but: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: librrds-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 Sounds like you're trying to install the package from stable. I have perl-5.8.2 installed

Re: [Fwd: Re: librrds-perl]

2004-02-17 Thread Dave Howorth
Stefan Vunckx wrote: But I still have a question. Is there actually a safe way to downgrade a package (like say perl) without losing so many packages that depend on perl ?? Makes me want to think 3 times instead of the usual 2 before upgrading important packages ... I'll leave that question for

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-12 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in the UK? Many thanks to all who made suggestions. I'll check them out and pick one. I'm sure I won't go wrong with one from the list: Andrews Arnold (AAISP) Demon Eclipse Freedom to Surf Nildram Pipex PlusNet UK Free

ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-11 Thread Dave Howorth
Hi, Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in the UK? I will also need (perhaps as part of the package) a mail address. (I'm currently with BTO but their refusal to support anything other than Outlook Express has finally stung me into action.). Thanks, Dave -- To

Re: Can't find SATA driver

2004-02-02 Thread Dave Howorth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Soltek FRN2 motherboard with integrated Promise Fasttrak SATA RAID. In the reatil pack, there have been drivers for Win XXX included, but no LINUX drivers. ;-( NOONE - neither Soltek, nor Promise were able to send me drivers for my HDD. I do not know much about

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

2004-01-15 Thread Dave Howorth
alex wrote: If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard drive is properly partitioned? Depends on the model of computer and

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Dave Howorth
Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway. I spent

mozilla lockup

2004-01-09 Thread Dave Howorth
I've been running mozilla on woody for quite a while now without any problems, but it's just started locking up for no apparent reason and I'm looking for help to fix it. It starts normally and I can browse web pages or view mail but when I try to view the source of a page or to compose a mail,

Re: mozilla lockup [SOLVED]

2004-01-09 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: I've been running mozilla on woody for quite a while now without any problems, but it's just started locking up for no apparent reason and I'm looking for help to fix it. It starts normally and I can browse web pages or view mail but when I try to view the source of a page or to compose a

Re: S-ATA med Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Dave Howorth
Bjorn Johansson wrote: Funkar S-ATA diskar med Debian woody? Not with the standard kernel. I'd suggest getting a copy of Knoppix, which hopefully will work, and then use the settings it deduces to figure out what you need to change in Woody. Please use English on the list! Cheers, Dave -- To

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread Dave Howorth
I disagree with this request. See below for my reasons. Hereon wrote: Request For Comment on: Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, and deactivating debian-user. Summary: 1) The Debian user community is substantially

Re: building a tivo?

2003-11-25 Thread Dave Howorth
Matt Price wrote: Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? You could look at http://www.mythtv.org/ Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT mail system configuration

2003-11-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I use a mail forwarding address at the ACM. There's a problem with their mail system in that when they have temporary systems problem their mail system returns a permanent 550 5.1.1 error to the sender. They claim they can't fix the problem! I'm not a mail expert, so I'm hoping that somebody

gv and filenames with spaces

2003-11-21 Thread Dave Howorth
There seems to be a problem with gv and filenames with spaces in them. I don't use it regularly but when I open a file whose name contains a space (e.g. 'junk space.pdf') and then try to print it, I see an error dialog: Failed to scan file /tmp/gv_whatever_junk space.ps.tmp (why do programs

SVG graphics and mozilla

2003-11-19 Thread Dave Howorth
Mozilla crashes whenever I try to display an SVG graphic :( so I'm trying to work out how to display the graphic instead :) I'm running Woody with mozilla 1.2.1 (Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-2.bunk - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk). As far

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-27 Thread Dave Howorth
L.F. wrote: I have a file with words in English with the phonetic transcription but Openoffice or KWord of Debian-Linux doesn't convert some of the symbols:the schwa, the symbol for sh in ship, snip I have downloaded the tippa fonts and all the others from Debian and they are available in my

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: I need wxWindows to be able to build a specific non-Debian application. wxWindows is not supported on Woody, which is what I run. Hence, I need to compile it. Mark Roach replied: That being the case, you could just grab the backport from this source deb

[SOLVED] Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: I need wxWindows to be able to build a specific non-Debian application. wxWindows is not supported on Woody, which is what I run. Hence, I need to compile it. Roberto Sanchez suggested: I've been thinking about it, and in your case it iw probably easier build it from upstream and

Re: wxWindows

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: (As an aside, it would be nice if there was a single page linked to from the docs of all such related packages that summarised them all together, along with the interrelationship dependencies) and Roberto responded: There is. At the very bottom of each page for the individual packages,

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
On Friday 17 October 2003 16:13, I wrote: | I need to install wxWindows 2.4 on a Woody system so I can build | another application (TreeView X). Does anybody have any idea of the | best way to do this, and what steps are involved? I haven't built Debian-ised software from source before (except a

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Mark Roach wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 07:06, Dave Howorth wrote: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgtk1.2-dev, python (=2.3), python2.3-dev, libpng2-dev, libtiff3g-dev, xlibmesa-gl-dev | libgl-dev, xlibmesa-glu-dev | libglu-dev, libesd0-dev dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies

wxWindows

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Howorth
I need to install wxWindows 2.4 on a Woody system so I can build another application (TreeView X). Does anybody have any idea of the best way to do this, and what steps are involved? Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: wxWindows

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Howorth
Joerg Johannes wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 16:13, Dave Howorth wrote: I need to install wxWindows 2.4 on a Woody system so I can build another application (TreeView X). Does anybody have any idea of the best way to do this, and what steps are involved? Maybe apt-get install wxwin2.4-doc

Re: wxWindows

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Howorth
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: $ apt-get source libwxgtk2.4 snip Thanks for the instructions Derrick. I don't know how you came up with 11 packages. 11 comes from doing a search at Debian: testing wxwin2.4-examples 2.4.1.2 (2391.3k) wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (examples)

Re: HELP!Problems with 160GB SATA drive

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Howorth
Rob Weir wrote: I don't think any SATA controllers are supported under 2.4.18 at all. Yah, you'll need a newer kernel version. Try looking at http://people.debian.org/~blade/ for newer boot floppies, or even try out debian-installer (http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/). Another option (which I

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Howorth
Andrew Ingram wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an Intel P4 processor with HyperThreading? Just realised my kernel has SMP disabled which might have been a mistake, but I can't find a

[OT] slashapp rss

2003-09-23 Thread Dave Howorth
Is there any way to persuade the gnome slash_applet to show headlines from another rss source? Or alternatively, is there another application that provides this functionality? Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

gnome-terminal title

2003-09-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Is there a way to change the title of a gnome-terminal window? I see that some programs (e.g. vim) do it but others (e.g. mysql) do not and it would be nice to know which was which in a list of icons. Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: gnome-terminal title

2003-09-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Dave Howorth wrote: Is there a way to change the title of a gnome-terminal window? Ashish Ariga replied: Depends on your terminal (echo $TERM). Commonly it is Esc]0;YourTextCtrl-G eg. printf ^[]0;MyTitle^G Torsten Reuss replied: Have a look at the XTerm title mini howto $ apt-get install doc

Re: i865 based systems

2003-09-05 Thread Dave Howorth
Neal Lippman wrote: Has anyone installed a 2.4 series kernel on a system based on the intel I865 chipset? If so, I am wondering if there are any recommendations re: motherboards that seem to work well. From a quick grep through the 2.4.21 source (latest kernel available for testing) is appears

Re: TrueType fonts (again)

2003-08-28 Thread Dave Howorth
of a single reliable statement of all the issues and a consistent solution that results in perfect fonts for all applications under Debian/Woody, they would be a hero(ine)... Cheers -- Dave Howorth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Howorth
Unfortunately, nowadays s/C /Perl /. Wouldn't it be easier to read if you wrote it s/C/Perl/ ? So that it wouldn't change Choo-choo to Perlhoo-choo. When I saw the question, I thought the obvious counter-example was so that it doesn't change C# to Perl# :) Now that's a frightening thought.

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Dave Howorth
cr wrote: Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism. Mark wrote: Whinge has been in common usage for as long as I can recall here (UK). Probably the thing to do is

Re: net install with eepro100 / 845G

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Howorth
I'm attempting a network installation. Either woody or sarge would be fine. The motherboard has an Intel 845G chipset, which includes an ethernet controller that uses the eepro100.o driver. This driver doesn't seem to be easily loaded. I've tried: jigdo cd for woody bf2.4 diskette for woody

Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I thought that the command lsattrib would display all this information, but apparently no such command or utility exists. Is there something that will display all the information about a file, going beyond the ls -l command? 'stat' (in the stat package) shows you all the metadata. 'ls' can be

Re: Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-03 Thread Dave Howorth
? (or they could see SATA drives with no DMA, no Ethernet and no video!) They don't mention ECC at all. So I'm still curious as to whether anybody has first hand success with either of these boards? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Howorth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-02 Thread Dave Howorth
flavour). Specifcally I'm concerned about: - ECC memory support and 2 GB or more of memory. - the serial ATA disks on both boards and the Promise 20378 controllers on the MSI board with RAID 1. - the gigabit ethernet (or even 100 :-). Any pointers would be useful. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Howorth

Re: Amaya

2003-06-11 Thread Dave Howorth
. *** Amaya: Irrecoverable error *** At least this gives a hint that there might be a problem with fonts, so there's some chance I might be able to track it down. Thanks for your help, Emma. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Howorth MRC Centre for Protein Engineering Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH 01223 252960

font selection errors

2003-06-11 Thread Dave Howorth
that other applications have difficulty with. Does anybody have any idea what the problem is? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Howorth MRC Centre for Protein Engineering Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH 01223 252960 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Amaya

2003-06-10 Thread Dave Howorth
troubleshooting on the amaya web site either. I'm running Woody. Anybody know how to start to diagnose the problem? Or is this another case where it's easier to get the current version direct from upstream (V8 instead of two-year old V5.1). Thanks -- Dave Howorth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Amaya

2003-06-10 Thread Dave Howorth
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I think I get a little further than that...Do you remember what packages were installed? It installed just the amaya package. I removed it and installed it again to be sure but the result was the same. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Howorth MRC Centre for Protein Engineering Hills

Re: Speeding up debian ... ?

2003-06-09 Thread Dave Howorth
Colin Watson wrote: Audio encoding and decoding are indeed fine examples of CPU-dependent tasks. Hmm, they'd probably run faster on a graphics chip. Has anybody built audio codecs to run on a graphics card? Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: New

2003-03-21 Thread Dave Howorth
Jerome Johnson wrote: I am very new to Debian Linux Can anyone help me by giving me a good online reference and pointing me on what good books to get regarding this OS. Paul Johnson replied: Running Debian Linux by O'Reilley and Associates is good. Sometimes referred to as the Mountie book

slow network name resolution?

2003-03-03 Thread Dave Howorth
with other machines on the network (including an identical PC installed with Suse Linux) so I suspect some quirk of Debian's network configuration (3.0r1 stable). Does anybody recognize this problem? Or perhaps can point me to the appropriate documentation to investigate it. Thanks and regards, Dave