Setting up gdm output display in stretch

Hi all, I've recently acquired a new Dell desktop, featuring a display card with both VGA and HDMI output. The monitor can also take both as input. As HDMI has better quality I naturally want to get the output there. The problem is, X consider the two as separated displays, and gdm3 would alway

Re: failure to start gnome settings daemon

ething to do with the fact that some of the packages in unstable are still at 2.4. E.g., gnome-games-data, gnome-applets, gnome-applets-data, gnome-common, gnome-games, gnome-media, gnome-mime-data, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-utils, etc., all have the version with "2.4" as part of it.

Re: fat32 write access for user

what you're doing - that's why I suggested 004 Adam> instead. Then you'd want 007 or 002, not 004. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

or my home server, and stable for a computer that I don't care much anyway. For desktop (and laptop) I use unstable, ever since the first time I have the gust to try---and find that it is not *that* unstable, after all. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use udev

the sysconf interface, net directory, sysvipc information, and files in the root directory of the /proc fs, are still only found in /proc. Anyone has any idea about whether they will eventually be moved as well? Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC

ine any rdbuf for its iostream and you'll see it is a nightmare. So sad that the acm.uva.es judge (which is one of the primary reason that I write C++) is still using that particular version. :( Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC

ars from now they will probably tell you not to use export at all because it is non-standard. http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1426.pdf Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

of the project, layered in a way that reflects how the users will perceive the software, etc. In other words, they should be self-documenting. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

ood part of the documentation, especially when the source code is written by competent programmers. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg

worrying about somebody boot to Windows and trash your Linux partition (because only you, knowing the password, can boot to Windows), and at the same time allow anybody to boot the Linux partition and login there. And I don't consider Grub to be much less documented than LILO. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

in the core servers (e.g., the authentication server, the filesystem server or the Unix API server) can easily give out arbitrary power to the user, so it is important to make sure core servers are bug-free in any case. The only question is "how many code are in the core servers". Regar

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

rvers with completely different passwords, keys, etc. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

>>>>> "Isaac" == Isaac To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> With regard to your question 3, a buffer overflow exploit is Paul> always a stack exploit and is de

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

rite to all the memory of the computer directly, skipping all the protection mechanism of the kernel. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

to include .. Karsten> rm -rf .[^.]* # seems right. mkdir temp # Add * to the following if one would like to nuke everything mv .* temp # Check to see whether temp contain anything wrong \rm -rf temp Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Laptop with new X server

have the same experience, and know how to deal with the problem? Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.6

when you use it. So if you have "alias eth0 8139too" in your /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modprobe.conf for new kernels), it will load it automatically. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rms on debian

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: >> ... Different people have different opinions, and the fact that >> www.gnu.org decided not to have a link to Deb

Re: rms on debian

d and necessary---even the software distribution promoted by primary proponents like FSF suggests the use of them). Frankly, I don't find anything wrong or sad about it, and I don't find it difficult to continue to use Debian as a result of that. Of course, moving non-free software ou

Re: Error when setting path

atter much. Remember that the shell language is strange enough that variables declaration syntax and usage syntax are different. As variable name to be assigned, *don't* put the $. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

n your C++ compiler depends pretty much on platform, but it can be expected that before too long it will. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

archy. If the programmer expects a dynamic cast he should write dynamic_cast(&d) so that you understand you are doing something that the compiler has no control of, and dereferencing the result will probably be a programming error. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

be reminded that an apt upgrade is about to start, and aptitude is currently uninstallable in sid. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

minimize the wastage on filesystem space, I use reiserfs on my mail partition, although an ext3 partition with tail files enabled should have similar effect. The other "unprocessed" copy are kept in mbox format for months or even years, just in case when I accidentally delete a mai

Re: Content-Length header (Was: Some myths regarding apt pinning)

I can't find it. Bob> Negative. Why do you insist that mail will be stored first in a Bob> berkeley mbox file and then split? Don't do that. Basically, because I'm so ignorant about the capability of procmail to generate maildir files, and about the capabil

Re: Content-Length header (Was: Some myths regarding apt pinning)

nux/software/safecat.html The only real problem is that the mail will actually be stored *first* in a V7 mailbox by procmail or sendmail or exim or whatever, when the damage is done. Later when you try to split it into many files, you can't undo the damage. Anyway, thanks very much for your response. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory usage on debian

swap, so nothing can migrate there. Perhaps some clean mmapped pages are simply removed from memory? (Does Linux do that?) I simply can't tell for sure. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Content-Length header (Was: Some myths regarding apt pinning)

dd a correct Content-Length header into the mail even if that has not been there before? ("filter" put in quote because I know they can't be "real" filter, but must instead store the whole message somewhere in order to count the number of bytes there before going back and rewrite the Content-Length header.) Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

l I just killed eats up another 30M. After being killed that now sit at 8M and 13M respectively. Of course some of the apps simply shouldn't need that amount of memory, like gnome-terminal. I don't use it, and stay with rxvt, though. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

>>>>> "Dai" == Dai Yuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dai> Hi, Dear All I find xmms conflics with esd. Unless I kill esd can Dai> xmms play MP3s. I use woody and gnome1.4. Any advise? Go to the output plugins preference of xmms and choose esd.

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

>>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vincent> Then, why is fsck necessary with ext3? In a perfect world where there is no filesystem code bug, it is not needed. Now come to the real world again. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

with luck it will get into Linux kernel 2.6/3.0. They say performance doubles with this FS (they achieve this by delayed allocation of blocks to minimize fragmentation), and perhaps that will be a better time to switch FS. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: XMMS goes silent when moving windows

ead somehow needs to synchronize to (i.e., wait for) the GUI (or something locked by it) rather than the other way round. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BS changed to give ^? instead of ^H?

changed in the rxvt/xterm builds? I checked all the Paul> app-defaults and couldn't find anything. Do I have to recompile Paul> them locally? Look for the /etc/X11/Xmodmap files if you REALLY want BackSpace to give you ^H rather than DEL. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BS changed to give ^? instead of ^H?

misconfigured environment.) There is an exception. Until recently, the gnome-terminal incorrectly sends ^H rather than DEL on receiving BackSpace. If you want to get back the broken environment, you can go to the Profile menu, go to compatibility menu, and say you want BS instead of DEL when

Re: Gnome and Sound

e fact that there are allowed Jerome> via the Gnome control center). I guess I have missed something. Jerome> Any idea ? Try to disable it once and then re-enable it and see whether it works then. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

is about the Gerard> same as before. Thanks to all who responded to me. Most likely your kernel does not have ext3 compiled to it. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla too many process

physical memory, it does not add up. All of them are sharing the same memory, so in total, "only" 54M of swap (actually, "Virtual memory") and 36M of physical memory is used. BTW, I don't know how the original poster comes up with the magic number "80". Even if

Re: is it reiserfs?

guaranteed. You can still need your backup copy of available, or a UPS. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

>>>>> "Isaac" == Isaac To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> No conditions have been imposed on Debian. Until a registered John> letter from Thomson's lawyers arrives GPLd mp3 stuff can go in John> non-free. Isaac> The program d

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

y DFSG (it cannot be sold at a fee), so there is no place in main for it, *now*. The only thing that is up to interpretation is whether it can stay in non-free. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

ely from distribution of the Program". Well, perhaps Thomson didn't have made the "allegation" yet, but that's the idea. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

ving the xmms mpg123 module and the mpg321 out of its archive. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 01:25:39PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: >> Hm... then we can make everybody "happy" (sort-of) by moving xmms >> mpg123 module, mpg123 p

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

of debian's non-free archive. Hm... then we can make everybody "happy" (sort-of) by moving xmms mpg123 module, mpg123 package and mpg321 package into non-free? Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

y not forcing them to either pay Thomson or render their distribution less competitive by pruning those software. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]