Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote:
|> On my system, only /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is owned by
|> the _apt user, and it's not world-readable:
|> All the regular files in /var/lib/apt/lists are owned by
|> root:root and have standard 0644 permissions
Thank
Posting here in case this might help others who may be encountering the
same problem.
I really appreciate the enhanced security provided for apt in the new
release. But one of the changes caused me a small headache in upgrading.
Following the upgrade, running `apt get update'resulted in
Hello after a long absence. Following up (in a sense) on the recent
thread about the wisdom of mixing elements from the stable and
testing/unstable distributions, I wanted to ask about how stable
current testing is.
I used to run the testing distribution as a matter of course, but have
been too
Hello. I'm responsible for a bunch of debian machines, work-stations
and servers, in an academic/research environment. They co-exist with
OsX machines. Some months ago we were able to get some new hardware
and had wheezy with gnome 3 installed on the new machines. It's been
difficult keeping
* Dave Witbrodt (dawit...@sbcglobal.net) wrote:
| But when I run glxgears, it reports 60 frames per second, which isn't
exactly the
| level of performance that I had been hoping for. And given that, it's
hardly
| surprising that applications like Google Earth are unusable.
|
|
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, I wote:
| I have a 5000-series Radeon card in my laptop:
| .
| Does anyone know if version 6.13 *should* support hardware
| acceleration for this chipset or if I simply have to be patient a little
longer?
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, hob...@poukram.net (Rémi
Hello and congratulations to all developers on the release of 6.0.
I have a 5000-series Radeon card in my laptop:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
[Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] [1002:68e0] (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: Dell
I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install
Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit
install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that
the amd64 port is now very complete, and that the principal difficulty
would probably be
| Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here
| is simply...sad.
|
| If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n
Sigh ... suppresses irritation.
But thank you very much for this advice:
|go with a 32bit kernel with PAE
| (bigmem), and
* Alessio Treglia (ales...@debian.org) wrote:
|can't play: open read /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
| [audio.c[1825] linux_audio_open_with_error]
|
| This needs investigation too. Which snd packages have you installed now?
I believe I understand now what the
* Fabian Greffrath (fab...@greffrath.com) wrote:
| Maybe you've got a wild mixture of old and new snd packages installed on
| your system. Please post the result of dpkg -l snd\*.
Sorry to be slow (work got in the way) and thank you very much for your help.
Here
is the output of dpkg -l
be documented somewhere?
Is there anyone who understands what's going on here or who has advice to offer?
Jim McCloskey
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Some time ago (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:04:58 -0800), I reported a problem
with gstreamer in Debian. The problem was that even though audio
playback under Alsa worked fine, applications (like rhythmbox, listen,
amarok and so on) that depended on gstreamer would produce only
silence. I concluded:
|
vitaminx vitam...@callistix.net wrote:
| do you have any audio managers installed? (e.g. pulseaudio, jackd,
| esd)
|
Thank you and sorry to be slow (I was away from the relevant machine).
Yes: jackd and pulseaudio are both installed; not esd, though.
| can you please post the content of
After an upgrade to Debian testing this weekend (jan 23, 2010), audio
playback on my desktop GNOME machine was left in a compromised state.
None of the following worked following the upgrade (they worked before):
VLC
audacious
exaile
listen
totem
rhythmbox
By `not work' here,
* Rick Pasotto (r...@niof.net) wrote:
| What kernel are you using? Sound didn't work for me using 2.6.30 but
| worked fine with 2.6.26 and 2.6.32.
Thank you, Rick. I'm using 2.6.32, but I don't believe it can be a
kernel issue since sound actually works very well, as long as you
stick to
Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote:
| I wish to install an alternate web browser
Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can
see). It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for
Debian/Ubuntu.
Jim
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* Charlie (aries...@clearmail.com.au) wrote:
| Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can
| see). It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for
| Debian/Ubuntu.
|
| Jim
|
| Aha - didn't know it was licensed under GNU?
No. My
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
| vga 1: even though it is deprecated, you can still use vga= in
| the linux line.
|
| vga 2: if you would rather not use vga=, you can set the
| resolution with set gfxmode=
|
| font: you need to use pf2 fonts and set them with loadfont
|
I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do.
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60P which until this evening happily ran
Debian testing, with two kernels available at the boot-menu: a version
of 2.6.29 with the rt patches applied, compiled with the Debian kernel
tools, and one stock
* Osamu Aoki (os...@debian.org) wrote:
| Hi,
Thank you very much for this very helpful message.
| I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do.
|
| Hmmm .. Read BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/grub-pc
Yes. I wanted to file a bug (and I will) but at the time I wrote
| But i still got the error about can finding vg_maingroup which i
| believe is my main filesystem.
I strongly suspect that you are trying to boot a kernel which does not
include LVM support. (Partly because I had very similar problems in
upgrading to 2.6.29 from 2.6.22 and this was the
I am about to migrate a small server to a new box. Some weeks ago I
installed Lenny (amd64) on the new box and used a temporary hostname
for it, planning on changing the hostname after the system had been
tested and was ready to take the place of the existing machine. The
installation used LVM2
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Does this infer that you need a graphical console, DRM or a kernel
| frame buffer?
Not as far as I can tell. The script checks for various dependencies (git,
headers for
the running kernel, the kernel building packages and so on) but I can't see
that it
Recently, I have posted to both of these lists:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg02029.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2008/07/msg00012.html
about the struggles I've had with the ATI graphics adapter (Mobility
FireGL V5200) in my Thinkpad T60p. The proprietary
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
An upgrade to testing this afternoon unexpectedly brought me
Firefox/Iceweasel 3.0, which was fairly exciting. Here, though, it is
just agonizingly slow---10-12 seconds between clicking `Bookmarks' in
the Toolbar
An upgrade to testing this afternoon unexpectedly brought me
Firefox/Iceweasel 3.0, which was fairly exciting. Here, though, it is
just agonizingly slow---10-12 seconds between clicking `Bookmarks' in
the Toolbar and the display of the menu. Scrolling through:
* Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| But these are details, and mostly the problem is solved, and I'm
| grateful for your help,
|
| There might be a problem with pdftex.map. Look at the output of
|
| kpsewhich pdftex.map
|
| and check if this files contains
and TeXLive about how locally installed fonts are handled?
Thanks very much,
Jim McCloskey
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* Douglas A. Tutty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| TeXLive is in Etch, you didn't have to go to Lenny...
Sigh ... well, thank you. This is good to know.
* Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| Run the following two commands and post the output:
| find /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that off (Note: but in
| that case I had hard hangs in qemu!) *or* use the descriptions
| in that page to rebuild the kbuild .deb and install nvidia so it does
| not mind paravirt.
Just to close out the
Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On 7/8/07, Graham Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
|tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically
|and seamlessly
|
| Hi Graham,
|
| Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong
| just 1-2 years ago. Did all
Hello.
I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia
graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia
kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all
worked fine.
A few days later, I upgraded to kernel package 2.6.18.2-686 (from
lenny) to
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Extensively discussed here:
| http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=90214
|
| The problem is that post 2.6.18 Debian kernels have PARAVIRT_CONFIG
| and nvidia does not like that.
|
| You can either rebuild the kernel and turn that off
Does anyone know how this motherboard:
Intel Core 2 Duo mATX Part Number: BOXD946GZISSL
might fare under an install of Debian etch?
Any experiences to report?
Thanks very much indeed for any advice or pointers to useful
information.
Jim
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Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile
| (because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ):
|
| if test -z $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ; then
| ## if not found, launch a new one
| eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)
|
Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile
| (because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ):
|
| if test -z $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ; then
| ## if not found, launch a new one
| eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)
|
Following a recent upgrade (sorry, I can't be more precise), I'm
getting the dbus error:
Unable to determine the address of the message bus
from a number of applications at start-up, including at least:
f-spot (which fails to start as a consequence)
rhythmbox
epiphany-browser
I'm not
Hello. I spent several hours this evening dealing with the
consequences of an unintended Xorg upgrade, and I thought it might be
worth reporting here in case others could learn from my experience.
The upgrade was unintended only in the sense that all I really wanted
to do was upgrade k3b:
* Justin Piszcz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| did you add the new ones?
|
| Section Files
| # Per Xorg.
| FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/
| FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/
| FontPath /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/
|
Zbigniew Wiech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I just created directories media/usb0 etc and pointed to them in
| fstab. Works fine.
Thank you for this. I found I had to do one more thing---I added
GROUP=hal
to the end of each of the relevant udev rules. Then when I added entries
to /etc/fstab
Hello. I'm using the combination of hal, udev, and pmount on my laptop
so that removable devices (usb sticks, an audio player, a camera) will
be automatically detected and mounted when inserted.
All is working well, and I'm pleased with the improvement, but there
is one way in which I'd like
| What is it about the iAudio that makes it not work, when the sandisks
| and the camera work perfectly? Is there some funky kernel config
| option that I don't know about but which is necessary? Is there anyone
| who has one of these working?
Replying to my own post, in case it might help others
I recently bought an iAudio M5 digital audio player---because of the
range of file-formats it supports and because the manufucterer claims
that it works fine under Linux. In fact, Google reveals scores of
reports of these players `just working' under Linux.
Not for me, though. It is supposed to
David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I note that any attempt to place CONFIG_DEVFS=y (or CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
| as implied
| in the Makefile by the devfs sources!!) produces an undefined symbol
error. I
| did, however, notice some errors dealing with devfs elsewhere. In any
event,
| this
| Plain old static device files can still work, udev is just a nice
| convenience that makes life easier.
|
| ... or would be if it actually worked.
What have you had trouble with?
I have 2.6.14.4 and udev 076 from testing and everything just worked (on
2 desktops and a laptop) with no
* David Baron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| On Monday 28 November 2005 01:55, Jim McCloskey wrote:
| What version of udev are you running? The standard kernel documentation
| says that you should use nothing earlier and 058. Stable has 056,
|
| Jim
|
| I have not made
| This is not true. I'm happily running 2.6.14.3, on an FC2 box, which
| pre-dates udev. And its no problem at all. Everything Just Works
| (TM).
|
| One thing you _cannot_ do is run devfs though, it's udev or
| statically managed /dev. devfs was removed in 2.6.13 I think.
Yes, sorry, I should
| o printing to one of the machines running CUPS ... again, I must
| specify the addr of the print server machine
This was why I wanted to assign a fixed address to my desktop machine at home---
it has a printer on the parallel port and it serves as printserver for all of
the other
| I wonder if the stock kernels are having the same problems?
|
| I'm running stock 2.6.14 on a couple of machines, works perfectly well
| on both Debian stable and testing...
Same here, on 3 different machines (one with the ck6 patch-set).
| Did you compile it yourself or take it off Sid?
H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| and the DHCP server in the Linksys router (a Wireless-B) is happy
| to always assign the 192.168.1.100 address to the machine in
| question.
|
| No, DHCP is doing nothing in this. You have given your machine a fixed
| IP address in your LAN and it works
giv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| When in Xorg's GUI,I can't switch to virtual terminal by pressing ctrl
| +alt+f1-f6,although there are 6 getty processes running.
This sounds like the same problem that I reported on in:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00644.html
If it is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After upgrading from XFree86 to X.Org bad, bad things
happened
to me.
More specifically:
1) I cannot switch to the consoles with Alt-F1 - F8.
Perhaps my post from a while ago:
Hello. For a variety of reasons, I want to install a hand-compiled
(and patched) 2.6.14 kernel. I have two questions concerning that.
[1] At present, I have udev version 056 from stable, but the Changes
file in the kernel documentation recommends at least udev 058. Testing
and Unstable both have
Is anyone using the TeTeX 3 packages in experimental? How functional
are they?
I really want/need a newer version of fontinst, but the version I need
(1.92) is, as far as I can tell, only available (for Debian) in those
experimental packages. Backports.org only has a version 2 TeTeX.
I'd very
Maciek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I've recently installed xserver-xorg that is in unstable. Everything
| went smoothly, and everything runs fine. I just have one small, but
| terribly annoying problem now: non-antialiased fonts, possibly only
| TrueType ones, like arial, now look ugly.
Are
* Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| Did you try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and still got what you
| mentioned? I had some issues with previous XF86Config-4 at 1st, but
| after performing the reconfiguration of the package I got everything
| set correctly...
Not so long ago, I upgraded to the X.org 6.8.2 packages in
unstable. The upgrade was very smooth and easy, and produced a working
configuration right away (creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the old
XF86Config-4 file). It looks like the X Strike Force has done a really
great job.
However, there
* Lubos Vrbka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| ok, this seems to be clear now. none of alsa-native applications work
| for me - they give different sorts of errors, similar to one given
| above. the problem with permissions was my mistake - i added myself to
| the audio group but
Thomas Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I recently discovered that I can greatly improve my harddrive
| performance by customizing a few settings using hdparm on the
| command-line. I'd like to make the changes permanent, but I'm not sure
| where to do that. Is there an /etc/init.d/hdparm
rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan,
| loopback firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my
| interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan
| being eth0, it's now eth1 the firewire is eth0.
| What would be steps after that ? I understand that I am supposed to
| install a newer kernal but not sure what to do about getting my sound
| going.
Once you have a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel installed, run (as root)
alsaconf. This should detect your sound card and do some of the basic
setup. With a
Another thing you might check is this.
/dev/dsp is the device-node used by the OSS system. `play' uses this
device (as does wavp and realplayer and many other sound
applications). To access hardware via /dev/dsp under Alsa, then, you
need to make sure that you have oss-emulation set up. The
cga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities,
| wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall
| on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available
| as .deb's.
|
| As I see it I can either copy them to
| Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second IDE
| and a CD-ROM as secondary.
Two suggestions:
[1] Maybe this is related to the problem reported as Bug #287225
against udev at http://bugs.debian.org
If your problem is (in part) the same, you'll find a workaround
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second
| IDE and a CD-ROM as secondary.
Two suggestions:
[1] Maybe this is related to the problem reported as Bug #287225
against udev at http://bugs.debian.org.
If your problem is (in part) the
Lei Yu wrote:
| I have tried what you said below for the mouse, but I can only use
| the touch pad, the ps2 mouse is disabled, I could use both on Suse
| 9.1 before, do you know a way to do this?
Well, I'm glad that the touchpad is working. To use the PS2 mouse in
addition, you need to include
Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote:
| To use a Sony digital camera with my Debian laptop, all I had to do
| was to include this line in /etc/udev/udev.rules:
|
|BUS=scsi, SYSFS_vendor=Sony, NAME=camera
|
| If you ever get another hot-pluggable Sony device, your rule
| will fail. Better to be a bit
Christian Convey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I'm curious about the way a USB camera gets set up when plugged into
| a Sarge / 2.6.9 system. I'm also using 'udev'. Anyone know the
| following?
|
| When I plug in the camera, I assume there are three devices that must
| be created in the /dev
I asked earlier:
| I used mozex with earlier versions of Firefox to bring up mutt in
| response to clicking on mailto links.
|
| Does anyone know of a way of doing this also with Firefox 1.0?
Thanks very much indeed to all who responded. I ended up using the
`launchy' extension. This proved
Very nice to have Firefox 1.0 in sarge now.
But the mozex extension no longer works, it seems (and judging
from the web-site hasn't been updated since September 2003).
I used mozex with earlier versions of Firefox to bring up mutt in
response to clicking on mailto links.
Does anyone know
William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| When I plug in my USB hard drive with Kernel 2.6.9 it is now
| assigned to /dev/uba instead of /dev/sda.
|
| Google says this is because of the new usb module in 2.6.9.
| But I don't have any /dev/ub?? files on my filesystem and
| I don't think they are
Eike Herzbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
| after upgrading from 2.4.20 to 2.6.9 i can no longer login via
| ssh.
Are you using udev or devfs? With 2.6.9, devfs is deprecated and it is
strongly recommended that you use udev (which, in my experience, is
really great). To use it, you need to
Cameron Hutchison wrote:
| What I'd do is boot the system with 'init=/bin/sh' on the boot command
| line. This will get you into your system without any /etc/init.d
| scripts
| running. Then remount root as read/write:
|
| # mount -o remount,rw /
|
| Then delete /dev/.udev.tdb
|
| # rm -f
| FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/
I've been banging my head against this problem for a week and a half
now. I get the error message at boot time, but udev (as far as I can
tell) seems to work as it is supposed to.
For me, the error-message began appearing only after a hard shutdown
Kenneth Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Does 'k3b' allow multiple CD and/or compressed backups?
I'm not sure. I know it allows the use of multiple CDs for CD cloning,
but something I read on the home page suggested that support for
multiple CDs in all burning tasks will come in version 0.12
Brian Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I've compiled from each kernel-source-2.6.8-* that has come through in
| the last week. With 2.6.8-2, the memory leak has apparently been
| fixed, so I can run as root and burn audio CDs, but as of last night's
| 2.6.8-5 package, I still cannot burn as a
hanasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| what is a good gui front end for writting cds/dvds that supports
| atapi and the 2.6 kernels?
k3b is the best I know of,
Jim
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| should work, but it is better to write
|
| cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 etc
|
| why is it better than dev=/dev/hdc?
There was a huge to-do about this on the kernel mailing list not so
long ago (between the kernel developers and the author of
cdrecord)[1]. The consensus among the kernel
I wrote:
| One of the machines I use regularly has a nasty habit of suddenly
| locking completely .
|
| But does anyone know of ways to work on a
| problem such as this?
|
| I'd be really grateful for any tips or pointers.
Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Larry Holish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| It looks like modules are being blacklisted, whatever that
| means. Can any one nudge me in the right direction so I can get
| this fixed?
By default, the hotplug system probes all the hardware that it can
find at boot-time and tries to load the necessary
Mingzhai Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I am looking for some method to backup my data to CD. I am doing
| experiments, every day there are new data folders. Let's say I put
| all my experiments in /home/experiments. It is increasing every
| day. Also sometimes I may change a certain file in that
One of the machines I use regularly has a nasty habit of suddenly
locking completely (it happens maybe a couple of times a month). It's
always when X is running, and, I am nearly sure, always when a browser
is being used. This is a Debian testing system, running kernel 2.4.23.
Mozilla-Firefox is
John Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| During my installation a couple of weeks ago, after having chosen to
| install packages from testing, I installed fluxbox as my window
| manager and got a very recent version, 0.9.9. There are a number of
| differences between this iteration of fluxbox and
| Xine looks rather nice and doesn't have that many dependencies as
| VLC. Now I only need to know how I get the /dev/dvd device. Is
| there a package for that as well or is it somewhere documented?
Xine is really excellent as an all-purpose multimedia player. Some of
its core developers are
Tong Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
| system?
|
| Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
| would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
Two of the most useful Debian tools in this regard are `deborphan' and
`debfoster' (both
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Here's what I do. I download the appropriate bin from blackdown.org
| (although Sun should work fine also).
|
| I then run the file in my home directory as a normal user.
|
| I then move the entire newly created j2sdk1.4.2 directory to /usr/local.
|
| I then
Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Several others, myself included, have seen this same behavior. Like
| you, I don't find printing important enough to have followed the
| revelant threads to a solution, but I'm thinking it may have something
| to do with the dropping of postscript
Responding to my own message, in case it helps others with the same
problem. On Thursday July 15th, I wrote:
| I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as
| its printer spooler.
|
| I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this
| box will handle
Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| No need for that complexity. Just 's'ave the individual mime
| sections.
Ah bugger, of course---since even the main text is, strictly speaking,
in most cases, an attachment.
Thank you!!
Jim
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On a related matter, though ...
I switched from Emacs RMAIL to Mutt a couple of months ago, and there
is just one thing that I miss from RMAIL. The command
rmail-output-body-to-file (bound by default to `w') saves only the
body of the mail-message, eliminating all headers.
I often want to do
| And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac.
Well, it's not *my* Mac . More seriously, I've configured CUPS
before on a different system, and that experience was as horrific as
Eric Raymond's[1]. And using CUPS to solve this tiny problem seems
like overkill in the extreme,
Jim
|I noticed that if i open a
| terminal session, check the umask, it will not be set according to
| what i put in /etc/profile or /etc/login.defs. If, however, i su -
| into the same user, i see th correct umask. That leads me to the
| guess that kde sets a
I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as its
printer spooler.
I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this box
will handle print-requests from the laptops that are also part of the
home network (the printer is connected to the parallel port of the
Michael B Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Right the choices are A) not print, B) downgrade or C) install
| xprt-xprintorg. Personally I think people should try C before
| bitching too much.
Option C) was the one that I tried, and I've had all the problems
reported here. First no printing at
Jacob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I know this won't help you much now, but in the future, you can
| find where config files are by trying dpkg -L packagename | grep
| etc (since all Debian packages put the config files _somewhere_ in
| /etc).
Thank you for this. In fact, though, that was the
* hanasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| My nvidia is due in the mail soon. The nvidia packages from
| apt-cache search seem to depend on the 2.4 kernels. Could you walk
| me through the steps to get get the nvidia drivers built/installed
| on kernel 2.6.x? I have built the kernel with make-kpkg.
I've been happily using the Debian nvidia packages for some time
(nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx). Currently, I have the versions
from unstable. However, I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.6 and so had
to re-compile the kernel modules provided by the package. Compilation
and installation
| I want to mount an 128Mb USB pen drive IBM on my woody 3.0_r1.
| The kernel version is 2.4.18 and it has disabled USB support, so I
| have to recompile it. Which options should I have to enable in the
| kernel to mount the pen drive (in adition to USB support)?
|You didn't search too hard, did
I've recently been getting the following error-message (a mail message
from cron):
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
/tmp/logrotate.vp0xft: line 4: xferstats: command not found
error running postrotate script
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
I don't have xferstats
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