Re: Dual Head Issues in Squeeze

2011-02-11 Thread Dancing Fingers
The answer for xawtv is to run it with the following command: xawtv -nodga -device /dev/video0 I'm still working on the flickering. There's no X11/xorg.conf so I'm not sure where to start. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Dual Head Issues in Squeeze

2011-02-10 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys I was running dual monitors in Lenny with the ATI driver and everything worked okay. I upgraded to Squeeze and I was pleasantly surprised how easy dual heads were to activate and configure. But I'm having 2 issues: - the DVI head flickers every second and - the dual head configuration

ffmpeg not support swf video in Lenny?

2009-04-17 Thread Dancing Fingers
I'm trying to convert an avi video to a swf video in Lenny. So I download swftools, and look under the FAQ's, you find that avi2swf is no longer supported. They actually give an ffmpeg example: ffmpeg -i video.mpg -b bitrate -s XyY -pass 1 -passlogfile log_file video.flv How this relates to swf

ffmpeg, swf and flv files

2009-04-14 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I've been experimenting with ffmpeg to create Flash videos. I can create a .flv (and .swf) video this way: ffmpeg -i myVideo.avi myVideo.flv This .flv file works great in linux but if I plug it into an html object I get squwat -- in Windows. Has anyone else got ffmpeg to produce

Re: More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-09 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Apr 8, 12:00 pm, Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Many thanks Nigel for your eply. On Wednesday 08 April 2009 14:56, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hi guys, I'm also having an ALSA problem.  I put a SoundBlaster card in my Lenny box.  If I run alsaconf every time I boot

Re: More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-09 Thread Dancing Fingers
Nigel, you are genius. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-08 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I'm also having an ALSA problem. I put a SoundBlaster card in my Lenny box. If I run alsaconf every time I boot and everything works fine. What I don't understand is why the system resets the conf files every time it boots? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

2009-03-21 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Mar 21, 1:10 pm, Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote: Antonio Diaz wrote:    Sorry, now I configured my client not to post in html anymore.    The xinerama option is off.  I have also been posting to the KDE forum but I don't achieve to get it working. The point is that I haven't

Linux and Assistive Technology

2009-03-02 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I kind of volunteered myself to help do a presentation on Assistive Technology, for people with disabilities, and Linux. Does any body know of good linux-specific resources that would help with my research? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Postgresql 8.3 Question

2009-02-17 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I'm used to Postgresql 7.4 but when Debian 5 came out I had to try it. Everything was okay except the ATI driver killed my tvtime but I can live with that (dual monitors are more important). The part I can't live without is Postgresql -8.3. I've supposedly installed postfesql-8.3,

avi to swf format conversion in Etch?

2009-02-15 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, My ultimate goal is to convert an .avi to a .swf video file. ffmpeg does't support the swf format and the standard version of swftools, in etch, doesn't include avi2swf. So I tried to compile the swftools source, after installing zlib1g-dev, but I get make making all in m4... cd

Re: Typing Shorthand Programs in Linux?

2009-02-11 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Feb 10, 12:10 pm, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:53:59AM -0800, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hey guys, I'm a Debian user who has cerebral palsy.  One thing that I miss from the Windows world is a typing shorthand program to help with typing. set alias in shell

Typing Shorthand Programs in Linux?

2009-02-10 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hey guys, I'm a Debian user who has cerebral palsy. One thing that I miss from the Windows world is a typing shorthand program to help with typing. Word prediction would be good too. Does anyone know of a similar program(s) in the Linux world? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: fox.com abc.com video players

2009-01-27 Thread Dancing Fingers
try doing apt-get update apt-get install libflash-mozplugin Chris On Jan 26, 11:40 pm, David Fox dfox94...@gmail.com wrote: Oops wanted this to go to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fox dfox94...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:33 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Dec 17, 3:40 pm, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:03:15AM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni gir...@hri.res.in: 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment?  And the Java Development Kit? The JRE includes a virtual machine for

Re: how to install eclipse 3.4 on debian sid?

2008-09-18 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 17, 4:30 am, Jaime Tarrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Star Liu wrote: the eclipse package for debian sid is now 3.2, it makes the web tools unavailable, which needs eclipse 3.4, does anyone has a tutorial on how to install eclipse 3.4 on debian sid? thanks You

Can't Click OK in QEMU

2008-01-16 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi Guys, I'm trying to install Windows XP, for a second time, with qemu. I keep betting stuck with a Display Settings dialog box at the end of the install process. QEMU won't let me click OK and the last time I quit here when I ran windows it would continually cycle through the reboot process

Tomcat5.5 postgresql, security oh my

2007-12-02 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi all, I'm trying to get Tomcat5.5 working with Poestgresql. I know I got everything configured right because if I turn Tomcat security off, in / etc/default/tomcat, everything works fine. My application directory is at /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps/ROOT/myapp. I want security on so this is my

Re: Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel

2007-10-17 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Oct 17, 3:50 am, Sjoerd Hardeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West schreef: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:43:44AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote: On Oct 16, 10:40 am, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:15:50AM -0700, Dancing Fingers

Re: Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel

2007-10-17 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Oct 17, 6:30 am, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 3:50 am, Sjoerd Hardeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West schreef: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:43:44AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote: On Oct 16, 10:40 am, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED

Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel

2007-10-16 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I have an dual-head ATI AGP card that I had working great on my AMD64 box, except for a square mouse one side (which I could live with. But I wanted to view Flash stuff which isn't supported in AMD64 yet so I put the card in my Athlon box. I copied over the same xorg.conf file but all I

Re: Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel

2007-10-16 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Oct 16, 10:40 am, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:15:50AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hi guys, I have an dual-head ATI AGP card that I had working great on my AMD64 box, except for a square mouse one side (which I could live with. But I

Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

2007-10-06 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Oct 5, 8:10 pm, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks to everyone for contributing several tips. I am looking forward to a highly educating weekend :) Here is a summary of packages that were suggested in the various replies: aide: Advanced Intrusion Detection

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-10-03 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 30, 1:40 am, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps without much luck. Cchris On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-29 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps without much luck. Cchris On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 Dancing

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-29 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps without much luck. Cchris On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 Dancing

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-29 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps without much luck. Cchris On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 Dancing

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-26 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps without much luck. Cchris On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 Dancing

Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-21 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I finally got Tomcat5.5 going on Etch AMD and I start studying the JSP developers guide but I get stuck in the beginning. The book says to create a new directory under ROOT but I don't have permission in my default account. The last install I did a chgrp /

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-21 Thread Dancing Fingers
Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps without much luck. Cchris On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I finally got Tomcat5.5

Square mouse with dual monitors - huh?

2007-09-17 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I got my 2 monitors working on a dual head ati/radeon system but I have an my unusual problem: my mouse becomes square on my primary monitor. It's fine on the secondary monitor. Any ideas? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Tomcat5, postgres.jar agh

2007-09-05 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi Guys, I'm trying to access psql from Tomcat5. I got the correct driver because my command-lind test program works fine. So I copied the driver into /usr/share/tomcat5/common/lib, like the documentation says. Then I kept getting Error occurred: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Something

Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi all, Has anyone built mod_jk for sid? I downloaded the source from jakarta but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pppd and ethernet error (dialup)

1997-02-19 Thread Fingers
Hi, I'm trying to get my new debian system fully configured, i've setup everything fine so far. I thought everything was going fine till i tried to dialup my isp to run dselect to update some things this is what i got out of the log file. Feb 18 20:46:36 uk pppd[1065]: Serial connection

Re: DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-18 Thread Fingers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Meder) Subject: Re: DIP to PPP ? To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:54:48 -0500 (EST) The /etc/ppp/chatscript: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ATZ OK

DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-17 Thread Fingers
Hi, I'm trying to convert the following dip script to /etc/ppp/chatscript so i can use pppd to dial in, but i've not had much luck. Can someone help me please. Thanks, Chris. // Begin ZetnetPPP.Dip \\ #!/usr/sbin/dip netmask 255.255.255.0 get $mtu 1006 get $remote 194.73.161.1 port

Re: ifmail for debian

1996-12-17 Thread Fingers
From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ifmail for debian To:debian-user@lists.debian.org (debian mailing list) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:47:19 +1100 (EST) Anyone working on an ifmail package for Debian? ifmail is a fidonet mailer for Unix. Not

Mgetty

1996-11-20 Thread Fingers
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Windows NTFS 4 Partitions

1996-11-20 Thread Fingers
Does anybody know if its possible to mount a Windows NT NTFS 4 partition on your Linux drive, baring in mind its on the same machine so i can't use samba. Chris. Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e