Help: gdm from Testing/Lenny ignoring custom server config

I recently upgraded to GDM 2.20.2 via Tesing/Lenny. I now notice that my custom [server-foo] instances are being ignored without any warning messages (I turned on debug to look for a problem). E.g gdmflexiserver -c GET_SERVER_LIST OK Standard but my /etc/gdm/gdm.conf has: [server-Standard]

A strange problem with iceweasel gnome themes

After the final update to etch as stable I noticed the following behavior: whenever I try to save a file, print a file with iceweasel (anything that tries to bring up the file dialog), the browser crashes. After some trial and error and use of strace, it appears to be correlated

Re: Etch Gnome Acroread -- full screen behavior

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CNN video with Sarge Firefox???

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Re: Missing Disks entry in Gnome desktop menu

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 11:08:01AM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:27:48 -0400, Martin Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm running Gnome 2.6 from sarge. I'd very much like to have a Disks entry in my desktop menu so I can mount and unmount usb

Missing Disks entry in Gnome desktop menu

Hi folks, I'm running Gnome 2.6 from sarge. I'd very much like to have a Disks entry in my desktop menu so I can mount and unmount usb storage. I'm not sure if this is a Gnome issue or a Debian issue or (more likely) that I'm missing something about Gnome 2.6. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Re: Mozilla 1.5 from testing and Java

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:44:34PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Martin D. Weinberg wrote: Folks, I followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mozilla-browser/README.Debian on intalling the 1.4 java plugin but whenever I attempt to do anything in java, even bring up the java console,

Help using Linux box as Mac print server

Folks, I've been trying to use my woody box as print server for a Mac. I've tried two approaches and I can't get either to work. I've played around on and off for several days. Any help appreciated! The set up is: 1) Dual interface box * eth0 connected to cable modem * eth1

Gnome menu panel fullscreen Acroread in Woody

I use Acroread for pdf presentations and use Gnome. After upgrading to Woody, I notice that Acroread in full screen mode now sits below the menu panel. I know this is obscure but if anyone has any suggestions or fixes . . . --Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Nvidia, Debian's Woody, kernel 2.4.18, and xfree86

I've been using an GeForce2 MX400 (from MSI) on Potato and now Woody with XFree86-4.1. It's a great card for the price, the hardware acceleration works well with my OpenGL visualization applicatons based on VTK. I've had no problems. We also have some high end NVidia cards that we use for

Re: Gnome menu panel fullscreen Acroread in Woody

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05 May 2002 07:37:20 +0900 Martin == Martin Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin I use Acroread for pdf presentations and use Gnome. After Martin upgrading to Woody, I notice that Acroread in full screen Martin mode now sits below the menu panel. I

LFS question with testing

Quick large file system question: if I upgrade to woody and use a 2.4.x kernel, will I have large file support without recompiling glibc? Thanks!

Re: Wireless Network

I have been using a Debian 2.2 box with Lucent pc cards to host a point-to-point local network and route to broadband with great success. All of the necessary utilities are Debian packages. I have 3 networked machines including a Linux laptop and a Mac. See:

Resource limit question

I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. For example, with the limit set the following bit of code /* Name: tst.c */ #include sys/time.h #include

Re: Resource limit question

Ethan Benson wrote on Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:32:44 -0900 I have set a hard limit on memoryuse to 1 (10M). limits (or ulimit -a) shows the limit but, it doesn't seem to be working. For example, with the limit set the following bit of code [sniped code] compiled as follows: cc tst.c

Thread safety in C++ (new/delete) in Potato?

to be thread safe. I checked the Debian diff for the package (gcc_2.95.2-13.1.diff) and this is defined. Anybody have a clue? --Martin P.S. Perhaps this is a memory management problem in Linux? === Martin Weinberg

Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit any user menu with the latest Helix version. The system is Helix + up-to-date Potato. Has anyone else seen this and/or know a fix? TIA, --Martin

Re: October GNOME for slink.

Vincent Renardias wrote on Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:18:10 - I've just compiled the lastest GNOME release (October GNOME) for slink (i386) and uploaded it on www.debian.org. The corresponding apt line is: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ unstable main It's been somewhat tested. Comments,

multiple volume tape utility?

I have a very long (e.g. 80GB) input stream that I want to dd onto a tape (DLT). I'm in a quandry on how to do this. Sounds like an FAQ but can't find a pointer anywhere.n Is there a utility that will accept data from a pipe and pause at EOT and let me change volumes? Any suggestions?

Re: AGP Suppot

don't have an XF86Config or this card, but this should get you most of the way here. Hope this helps, --Martin === Martin Weinberg Phone: (413) 545-3821 Dept. of Physics and Astronomy FAX: (413

Re: Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

debian 2.0 is glibc 2.0 (a.k.a libc 6.0 ) . You need to remove all #includelinux/xxx.h because they now belong to the kernels and therefore should not be included by developers to maintain portability issues . On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Martin Weinberg wrote: Folks, I recently

Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

Folks, I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0. I need to recompile the pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the LAM MPI implementation. This worked fine under 1.3.1. However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions ending in failure to compile even

Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

the first object. I'm using the original source from the source directory. I'm sure I'm making some sort of newbie mistake. Can anyone give me a clue? Thanks! --Martin === Martin Weinberg Phone: (413

Re: HP DeskJet 890C: poor performance on Linux vs. Windows

Martin Weinberg wrote: I have benchmarked the performance of both the cdj550, hp850, and hpdj drivers in gs on my Debian box and the HP provided Windows driver. I used both photographs and scientific visualized data. I'm using magicfilter and the parameters to gs were set as recommended

HP DeskJet 890C: poor performance on Linux vs. Windows

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Suspect daily,weekly cron causing hangs

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FYI: new default behavior with XFree86 3.3 (was: Problem with X after upgrading to 1.3.1)

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2.0.25 and Lilo

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Re: Corrupt kernel-source package?

Guy Maor's message dated: 14 Nov 1996 00:56:11 CST Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb today and found that dselect/dpkg wa s unable to install it. I tried to extract the copy on the master site, and it's fine. Maybe your download got corrupted?

Other problems with libc5.4.7

I have found three things broken using libc5.4.7 (before I downgraded to 5.2.x!): gimp: dies in attempting to call xlib. xpaint: dies in attempting to call xlib. octave: core dumps with a segmentation fault on invocation.