Re: X is slow on 2.6-test6 kernel

2003-09-29 Thread Nathan Weston
Stephen Cormier wrote: >On September 28, 2003 10:04 pm, Nathan Weston wrote: >> I just installed 2.6.0-test6, and X is incredibly slow -- if I minimize a >> window which covers most of the screen, I can watch the redraw creep down >> the screen, taking about 1 second to fini

X is slow on 2.6-test6 kernel

2003-09-28 Thread Nathan Weston
I just installed 2.6.0-test6, and X is incredibly slow -- if I minimize a window which covers most of the screen, I can watch the redraw creep down the screen, taking about 1 second to finish. I'm using a PCI GeForce2 MX with the 4496 driver from NVidia. Under 2.4.21, the same driver produces g

WINE fonts

2002-12-16 Thread Nathan Weston
Whenever I run a program in WINE, the fonts are screwed up so that all characters are replaced by little rectangles. I am running stable, and have basic X fonts, plus the MS web fonts installed. Any suggestions? Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Netscape Browser Masquerade

2002-05-14 Thread Nathan Weston
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 09:05 am, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > My bank's online account program only works with netscape classic, but > recently they decided to only allow Red Hat 6.1 machines to access the > program because they can "support" that version of Linux. In other words, > instead of su

Re: Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

2002-05-14 Thread Nathan Weston
On Monday 13 May 2002 11:40 pm, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I don't know, but I would very much like to recompile glibc, the Xlib, and > the gnome libraries to be optimized for the different processors I'm > running. > > Recompiling the kernel to optimize for a particular processor is a > signific

Re: Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

2002-05-14 Thread Nathan Weston
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 01:50 am, dman wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:04PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > | Is there a way to compile with different options, CFLAGS, etc, when using > | apt-get source? > > Not that I know of -- apt-get doesn't actually do compilation, tha

Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

2002-05-13 Thread Nathan Weston
Is there a way to compile with different options, CFLAGS, etc, when using apt-get source? Can I specify a default CFLAGS to use? Thanks, Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel lockups - how do I troubleshoot?

2001-12-05 Thread Nathan Weston
You _might_ have a buggy APM BIOS. Try turning on "Allow Interrupts during APM BIOS Calls" in your kernel configuration, under General Setup Nathan On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:49 am, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > I am running testing / unstable on a dual CPU Tyan Tiger 100 > motherboard wit

Mail client with SMTP AUTH?

2001-12-04 Thread Nathan Weston
Hello, My school just switched to a new mail server, and without warning began requiring SMTP authentication to send mail off campus. I've been using KMail which doesn't seem to support this. At the moment I have Sylpheed installed, but it's even uglier than most GTK programs (dons flame suit).

Mail client with SMTP AUTH?

2001-12-04 Thread Nathan Weston
Hello, My school just switched to a new mail server, and without warning began requiring SMTP authentication to send mail off campus. I've been using KMail which doesn't seem to support this. At the moment I have Sylpheed installed, but it's even uglier than most GTK programs (dons flame suit).

Re: Only three fonts available in KDE ?

2001-12-03 Thread Nathan Weston
You probably have font anti-aliasing turned on... I believe this limits your selection of fonts to those for which AA works. Or, you may not have specified all of your font directories in your /etc/X11/XftConfig Try adding "dir" lines to XftConfig, turning off AA (Control Center->Look&Feel->Fo

ASpell in KWord?

2001-12-01 Thread Nathan Weston
I am running debian unstable. For spellchecking in kword, I can choose between Ispell and Aspell... My experience is that ispell works terribly, and aspell is pretty good... but recently when I try to use it, kword complains that "ISpell could not be started". It runs ispell just fine, but the q

Re: Uprading just one package

2001-12-01 Thread Nathan Weston
apt-get install will upgrade if there is a newer version available. So point your sources.list to unstable, then "apt get update && apt-get install gnome-pilot". Then point your sources.list back and update again. Be warned, though, that any gnome program is going to have a _lot_ of dependenc

Re: Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-01 Thread Nathan Weston
If you run 'mount' with no arguments, it tells what type each partition is mounted at. You can also do 'dmesg | grep -i ext3' to show all the ext3-related messages from startup, although it doesn't mention the device names of the partitions it's mounting. Nathan On Saturday 01 December 2001 02

Parallel port printer problems

2001-11-26 Thread Nathan Weston
I have a parallel port printer that used to work just fine... however, I recently reinstalled after a drive failure, and now it's not working. I have parallel port support in the kernel. At boot-time, I get the messages: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(

Re: where does konqueror store its cookies?

2001-11-20 Thread Nathan Weston
~/.kde/share/apps/kcookiejar/cookies Nathan On Tuesday 20 November 2001 08:47 am, Jörg Johannes wrote: > Hello List > > Where does konqueror store ist cookies? > I'd like to redirect the cookie file to /dev/null. > Reason: On windows with netscape, I have marked the file cookies.txt > read-only,

Re: Printing in KDE

2001-11-19 Thread Nathan Weston
ay 19 November 2001 05:24 pm, Nathan Weston wrote: > I am running debian unstable, and I have a local printer that is working > with lpr. However, when I try to print from KDE, it calls lpr with the > -#num option to indicate the number of copies. lpr does not recognize this > option and p

Printing in KDE

2001-11-19 Thread Nathan Weston
I am running debian unstable, and I have a local printer that is working with lpr. However, when I try to print from KDE, it calls lpr with the -#num option to indicate the number of copies. lpr does not recognize this option and prints out a usage message. According to both the man page and th

kdm/KDE problems

2001-11-03 Thread Nathan Weston
I'm running debian unstable and I've been having two minor problems for a while. 1) When I logout of KDE, instead of bringing me back to KDM, it immediately logs back in again, as the same user. This persists even when I turn off all of kdm's auto-login stuff. 2) Kdm doesn't show boot options f

Can't make [b]zImage

2001-10-21 Thread Nathan Weston
Hi, I'm running debian unstable, and all of a sudden I can't compile a kernel. The actual compilation seems to go ok (and leaves a vmlinux in the root of the kernel source tree), but when trynig to make a zImage or bzImage I get the error: ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x1000 -e startup_32 -o vmlinux h

Strange KDE Problems

2001-10-14 Thread Nathan Weston
I am running debian unstable. I just dist-upgraded tonight, and all of a sudden KDE won't start. KDM comes up fine, I login, and then X crashes and I end up back at the KDM login. My .x-session-errors contains something along the lines of: /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession: /usr/bin/ssh-agent kde2: no suc

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-22 Thread Nathan Weston
Debian unstable should be able to give you all of the end results you are looking for. However, you also want to get these things easily -- ie, good hardware detection, ReiserFS by default during the install, etc. This you probably won't be able to do. I was recently in a similar situation to yo

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread Nathan Weston
Does your sources.list include non-us? The crypto stuff (including libssl) is hosted on server outside of the US for legal reasons. So, you may need to add a line like this: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free Nathan On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:57 p

Abiword font problem

2001-08-19 Thread Nathan Weston
I am running debian unstable, and can't seem to get abiword to work. It complains that it can't find it's fonts -- specifically, Times New Roman. I checked the shell script that runs abiword, and it adds the abiword font directory to the fontpath with 'xset +fp $ABISUITE_FONT_HOME'. I tried run

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Nathan Weston
On Monday 16 July 2001 09:47 pm, Rebecca Dridan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > > Done, thanks. > > But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp > > audio' or 'sg audio -c [command]', and

Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Nathan Weston
How do I add a user to a group? I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing chmod a+rw on the relevant files. Thanks, Nathan

Re: GUI for GCC

2001-07-16 Thread Nathan Weston
On Monday 16 July 2001 11:52 am, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:56:34PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: > | Hello Matthias, > | > | Thanks for the reply. > | > | Might be I'm looking for an ADE. I used to work with an Atari-ST, which > | had a nice integrated editor/compiler/linker/debugge

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-16 Thread Nathan Weston
On Friday 13 July 2001 05:53 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > D-Man wrote: > > Sure it's a "flaw" : suppose someone creates an executable trojan in > > "the current directory" named 'cd'. If '.' is the first thing in the > > path you will execute the trojan rather than the usual /bin/cd. > > s/cd/ls/g

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-14 Thread Nathan Weston
You might want to check out linuxnewbie.org. It has a lot of newbie-oriented howtos. It's not as fine granularity as manpages, but will help with a lot of basic tasks, and has some great forums. I would also suggest the book "Linux in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly. This is actually very close to wh

Re: Summary: MUA clients similar to Outlook

2001-07-12 Thread Nathan Weston
On Thursday 12 July 2001 03:14 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote: > KDE2.2/Kmailer -- http://www.kde.org/ > Screenshot: http://www.kde.org/screenshots/large/kde2b3_2.png > > Looks promising. However, as I mentioned in my previous message, I'm > brand-new to Linux so I'm going to stick with Gnome for now unt

Can't play audio CDs

2001-07-12 Thread Nathan Weston
I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative Dxr2 DVD drive), which I can't get to play audio CDs under debian. I am new to debian, but have a fair amount of experience wi/ Redhat. I am currently migrating my system from redhat to debian, dual-booting so I can keep the useable rh system aro

Re: another mouse problem ;-(

2001-07-12 Thread Nathan Weston
Try using /dev/gpmdata as your mouse device. This will cause X to get its mouse input from gpm, and since gpm seems to be working this may solve your problem. There may also be good reasons not to do this... I'm not sure. Oh, another thing -- if it's a PS/2 mouse, under redhat it would be /dev/m

Re: mp3 players

2001-07-11 Thread Nathan Weston
I'm a fan of noatun, the kde media player. It has a nice tray interface, and a plugin for global key shortcuts. It is also very convenient if you are running kde, because it works through the normal kde sound server (which xmms can do too, iirc, but it requires a plugin). I also personally like

Can't install qt2-dev

2001-07-10 Thread Nathan Weston
I am running unstable, and tried to install qt2-dev using apt-get. dpkg gives an error, that the post-install script failed. I tried pointing apt at unstable, testing, and stable, and got this error with all three versions of qt2-dev. Any suggestions? TIA, Nathan