Re: /dev/lp0 rights and CUPS

2006-07-04 Thread Olle Eriksson
etup as well. I haven't had time to work with the udeb permissions (don't even have a udev.permissions on my etch setup), but I only got it to work when I set the permissions to 666. I do that from a startup script now. Not very nice I know but it works. Let me know if it helps. Bes

Problem loading sata_sil during installation

2006-06-15 Thread Olle Eriksson
to an IDE drive, what would I have to do afterwards to move the installation to a SATA drive? This is an HP DX2200 P4 Celeron 2.9. The Ubuntu image I have hangs when Gnome starts. An old Knoppix disk I had laying around seems to work ok. Regards Olle -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FAM (File Alteration Monitor) daemon enter in loop

2005-10-23 Thread Olle Eriksson
rted about FAM daemon ? This was discussed as late as 14 days ago here on this mailing list, on the 10th of October and on the 30th of August. -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Olle Eriksson
(Go to insert mode) #(The character of your choice) ESC (Get out from insert mode) (This needs to be part of the macro) q(Stop the macro recording) @9q (Play the macro 9 more times) Kind regards -- Olle Eri

Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-19 Thread Olle Eriksson
ovies$ sudo hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 80418240, start = 0 Kind regards -- O

Re: Howto set environment variables in Gnome?

2005-10-16 Thread Olle Eriksson
ser specific variables? Otherwise try this: http://www.google.se/search?q=environment+variables+in+gnome -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X under heavy load

2005-10-14 Thread Olle Eriksson
sponsive and should be enabled for desktop systems. Also, you want to make sure you have DMA enabled on your hard drives. Execute hdparm /dev/hdX on each hard drive and look for using_dma. The same tool can be used to activate it. When DMA is disabled, it can really affect the performanc

Re: mplayer issue

2005-10-11 Thread Olle Eriksson
ing it solves my problems. I can't find that one in any configuration file, but it's under the Video tab in Preferences. Regards -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why do I need fam?

2005-10-10 Thread Olle Eriksson
know a couple of packages that recommended famd becuase it is a more efficient way to listen for file changes than polling the files over and over again. But as far as I know it should work fine without famd too. Olle -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UN

Re: Should I try Etch?

2005-10-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
d, take it easy on the upgrades, and expect some minor problems. I don't know but I'm in it partly to learn new things and sid is the perfect place for that. :-) Have fun Olle -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automatically maintaining permissions on specific directories

2005-09-18 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02.37, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/09/05 01:39), Olle Eriksson wrote: > > Is there any way to enforce the permissions on a specific directory > > so that everything that is in it will always have the correct > > permissions? > > > > I

Automatically maintaining permissions on specific directories

2005-09-17 Thread Olle Eriksson
have these features. Best regards Olle -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help!

2005-09-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
uot; out. I'm not too familiar with the new installer, but couldn't there be a question about whether or not a GUI should be installed and have the GUI as the default option. People who know what they are doing can select the non-GUI option and the rest will probably be happy with

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-13 Thread Olle Eriksson
ion dialog box, but I > > am not able to get it on the screen. > > > > Could you help me? > > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12", > but in terminals, I seem to prefer fonts that aren't anti-aliased. xterm -fa "Bi

Re: How can I configure debian, to boot to a text mode login (new Debian user)

2005-08-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
set by changing > the default runlevel to 3, but this doesn't work with > Debian. Read the Debian Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-no-x-start It doesn't mention this, but I think I just uninstalled kdm (which I was using) with "aptitud

Re: aptitude incompatible with synaptic?

2005-07-05 Thread Olle Eriksson
s no longer around aptitude will attempt to remove them. If there is a way around this I don't know. Maybe if you go inte aptitude -> Options -> Dependency handling, and disable "Remove unused packages automatically" it will work. But if this options does what I think it does

Re: ntfs access on debian

2005-07-04 Thread Olle Eriksson
people base that on real experience or just hearing other people say so. -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Random Crashing KMail

2005-06-27 Thread Olle Eriksson
from the IMAP/Maildir directories solved the problem. Sounds weird I know but I think that's what happened. -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to reinstall without changing anything?

2005-06-20 Thread Olle Eriksson
way: #~/.kde/share/ #~/.xfce4/ --- What it would come down to for me is to save the modified files, then do: dpkg --get-selections > package-list-backup.list Reinstall, and do: dpkg --set-selections < package-list-backup.list I have included modified.sh

Re: no DEL or HOME/END keys in ncftp

2005-06-19 Thread Olle Eriksson
tion for this? Not a solution perhaps, but Ctrl A and Ctrl E always works. They always seem to work even in the programs where HOME/END doesn't. Make the Caps Lock key act as another Control key and suddenly it becomes very easy to use Ctrl A and E. Best regards -- Olle Eriksson

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-14 Thread Olle Eriksson
t postscript but still some pages fail to print. I get a Syntax error message printed. Anyone with similar experiences? -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-13 Thread Olle Eriksson
gt; > > How to capture them? > > man bootlogd Have a look in /etc/default/bootlogd. -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-11 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Saturday 11 June 2005 03.39, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday June 10 2005 2:45 pm, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > More importantly, I think it would be difficult to use > > bottom-posting with html mail or rtf text or whatever it is called. > > Only in inadequate mailers.

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Olle Eriksson
ical solution that allows that to be combined with bottom-posting would probably be difficult to implement, although I would love to see it. Sadly Lotus Notes doesn't seem to handle it very well, same as Outlook and the like. -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com --

Re: apt or aptitude on sarge

2005-06-08 Thread Olle Eriksson
by the apt-get package management tool." Why that would be so I don't know. -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt or aptitude on sarge

2005-06-08 Thread Olle Eriksson
ot; of stray package before. Best regards -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: friendly scp (help)

2005-05-16 Thread Olle Eriksson
you know any nice solution? I have been looking for the same thing, but I would prefer something with a text GUI (like midnight commander or similar). Anything like that out there? Regards -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-17 Thread Olle Eriksson
ash images for. > (That one looks fun.) What exactly is the problem with the wireless routers? I was just about to buy one and would like to know more about you experiences. Loose settings, crash? That doesn't sound good. I was hoping to make it easier for myself by having all that stuff separated from my linux machine. Should I not? Best regards Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple Email Server?

2004-12-15 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12.10, David Baron wrote: > What need I set to get exim4 to receive messages to my domain (dynamic) > directly? Basically just 'apt-get install exim4'. Have a look at this article: http://www.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/exim4.html (It's a bit of text b

Re: kde sid: freezes on logout

2004-12-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 09.50, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I upgraded most of the kde related packages from > sarge to sid (want to use kmail 3.3 S/MIME features). The > transition was fairly smooth except that the system freezes > (mouse pointer freezes, sound stops suddenly, sy

Re: subversion-server package?

2004-11-28 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sunday 28 November 2004 12.37, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:42:10AM +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > [...] > > Exactly, so where is the server version? Thw package "subversion" > > which I have installed claims to be only the client. > &g

Re: subversion-server package?

2004-11-28 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sunday 28 November 2004 10.34, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:29:40AM +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > Hi > > > > Where do I find the subversion-server package mentioned in the Debian > > Reference? Is there any other way to install the server par

subversion-server package?

2004-11-27 Thread Olle Eriksson
Hi Where do I find the subversion-server package mentioned in the Debian Reference? Is there any other way to install the server part of svn in Debian (Sid)? The packages seem to have changed names, I can't find any subversion-client package either, only just subversion. Thanks Olle Eri

Rotating JPEGs in Konqueror

2004-11-22 Thread Olle Eriksson
Here is a little tip on how to perform lossless jpeg rotation via a service menu in Konqueror. apt-get install libjpeg-progs Then create a new desktop entry file in /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus. Call it whatever you like but with the *.desktop extension and add this to the file: ---

Re: How can i get package dependents?

2004-10-20 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 14.36, nx13372a wrote: > How can i get this: > > Versions of packages x depends on: > ii y 0.75.1-4 Base package for > > thanks. aptitude can do that. /Olle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Lesson learned / file permissions

2004-10-20 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 13.27, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Olle Eriksson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/* > > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/.* > > All files in your /home should be yours, so it should be sufficient to > run

Re: Lesson learned / file permissions

2004-10-20 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 13.03, Alexis Huxley wrote: > On 2004-10-20, Olle Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it was the fact that /home lost all world-permissions that > > caused all the problems. Would you agree? > > The problem is the '.*'

Lesson learned / file permissions

2004-10-20 Thread Olle Eriksson
less and the umask is set to 027. Is that ok for security? Best regards Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reading input piped to a bash script

2004-10-18 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Monday 18 October 2004 22.07, Sergio Basurto wrote: > > Can anyone explain how I can read input to a bash > > script through a pipe? > > You should use exec like the following simple example: > > #!/bin/bash > > exec 6<&0 # Link file descriptor #6 with stdin. > > read a1 # read if

Reading input piped to a bash script

2004-10-18 Thread Olle Eriksson
Hi Can anyone explain how I can read input to a bash script through a pipe? I want to be able to receive input both through a pipe, and through parameters to the script. For example: echo "blabla" | myscript.sh and myscript.sh "blabla" The script should be able to check whether or not any

Re: where do I download Unstable from?

2004-10-14 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Thursday 14 October 2004 06.27, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Jeff Golden_, on 10/14/04 00:23,typed: > > When I installed unstable I couldn't find a way to do it directly > > either. I ended up suing the sarge install business card iso and > > doing a dist-upgrade after a minimal sarge install.

Preferred way of adding truetype fonts in debian?

2004-10-13 Thread Olle Eriksson
m not sure what the preferred debian way of installing them is. I have defoma installed, as well as msttcorefonts. I just now saw that the KDE tool KFontView has an option to install fonts. Will that make fonts available only to KDE? How should I do? Thanks Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Avoiding pattern expansion in bash?

2004-10-09 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sunday 10 October 2004 05.24, Travis Crump wrote: > Olle Eriksson wrote: > > This might be a little off topic but here it goes anyway. > > > > I am writing a bash script that takes as input a file expression such > > as "/etc/lilo.conf" or "/boot/conf

Avoiding pattern expansion in bash?

2004-10-09 Thread Olle Eriksson
hat match the expression. I want none of this. Any ideas? Regards Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Friday 08 October 2004 13.22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as > the /home directory, as well as using the same partition for storing > documents and user files from my Windows 2000 Pro (the other side of > my dual boot system,) that I co

Re: Transport debian woody from laptop to PC

2004-10-05 Thread Olle Eriksson
; real problems you can't work around, however. How about the other way around? To copy a partition from a desktop computer to a laptop via cp. Are there any questions asked during a Debian install about whether it is on a desktop or laptop computer and what things are differently on a lapt

AE_NOT_EXIST error messages with hotplug package

2004-10-04 Thread Olle Eriksson
0:02:0c.0 to 64 ---- Regards Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA card with sound problem

2004-05-03 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sunday 02 May 2004 17.58, cantona wrote: > I have a problem hope someone can spare a time to help. > My sound card volume is mute each time I boot to linux, > how to set it to a default value so that I dont need to unmute (change > valume) again each time after i boot? Run 'alsamixer' and set u

Re: printing

2004-04-23 Thread Olle Eriksson
> > /dev/lp0 have: > > > > crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 mar 14 2002 /dev/lp0 > > Because you're trying to pipe the output of "ls -all" to /dev/lp0, and > unless you're root or in the lp group, you don't have write access. So, make yourself a member of the lp group with 'addgroup

Re: Audio HOWTO?

2004-04-16 Thread Olle Eriksson
> >>I was wondering if someone could pinpoint me to some (easy) guide for > >>getting the audio to work in Debian. I'm currently running Sarge, and > >>have a SBLive card (should use the emu10k1 module). I need to know > >> what packages are needed and so on, because I have no idea where to > >> be

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12.44, martin f krafft wrote: > I am a huge fan of AMD, not only because their processors are > cheaper. > > Recently, however, I have experienced random crashes on two machines > that run AMDs. The crashes seem to be related to IO and happen > usually when there is a lot

Re: Keyboard problems since last upgrade

2004-04-06 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 16.20, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > Last friday I upgraded my system (sid) and since then, I cannot type > the "less than" and "greater than" signs anymore. When I press this key > (It is a german keyboard, the key is just beside the left "shift" key), > nothing

Re: PLEASE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO TURN MY DMA ON?

2004-04-01 Thread Olle Eriksson
>Re: PLEASE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO TURN MY DMA ON? Perhaps you should try to figure out first if your drive supports DMA since enabling it without support apparently can cause damage to the drive. To turn on DMA then you do this: hdparm -d1 /dev/hda# or whatever the name of your hard

Re: Showing log messages on desktop

2004-03-30 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:43, E&Erdem wrote: > Hi, > I want to see /var/log/messages on a small part of my desktop. Is this > possible? I've heard something like this. 1. apt-get install xosd 2. addgroup adm # to be able to read logs as a user 3. Execute something like this everytime X starts:

Re: 2.6 kernel being less responsive than 2.4

2004-03-26 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:25, Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I've been upgraded to the 2.6 kernel a little while now, but > I must not have things configured properly because the > performance I get is terrible. > > Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse becomes > unresponsive, my

Re: apt-get segmentation fault

2004-03-26 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:38, abhijit Brahme wrote: > When I run the apt-get tool or for that matter of fact apt-* I get > segmentation fault. Is there any way to repaire this. I have had that a few times and I have solved it with the command "rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin". Not sure why it does work t

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 20:33, John Hasler wrote: > monique writes: > > That sounds like a problem of inaccurate reporting. > > The usual kind. > > > It's simply not true that it requires 13 CDs. > > "The complete distribution occupies 13 CDs" will be turned into "Debian > requires 13 CDs". Afte

Re: CVS

2004-02-21 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 04:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a stable/testing/unstable mix of a woody system running with the > 2.4.24 kernel. I have installed cvs version 1.11.1p1debian-9. For local > users cvs seems to function fully including remotely through pserver. I > am trying to add

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-20 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 01:15, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Olle Eriksson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and > > the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about > > that is some discussio

kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Olle Eriksson
source for 2.6.3 from kernel.org and install it on my unstable system. Thanks Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailto in mozilla-firebird

2004-02-16 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 15:59, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 08:02, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Is it possible to tell mozilla-firebird how to handle mailto links? > > > I am using exim4

Re: mailto in mozilla-firebird

2004-02-16 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 08:02, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to tell mozilla-firebird how to handle mailto links? > I am using exim4 + mutt for mail. A quick Google search tells me you need the Mozex extension to get it to work. Homepage: http://mozex.mozdev.org Olle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: EXTRAVERSION problem with nvidia kernel module

2004-02-11 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 02:43, Olle Eriksson wrote: > I am using Sid and I just compiled and installed the 2.6.0 kernel from > the source package. I am using the Debian way and added > --append_to_version -040207 to the call to make-kpkg. The problem is > when I am trying to instal

EXTRAVERSION problem with nvidia kernel module

2004-02-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
format kernel: nvidia: version magic '2.6.0 PENTIUMIII gcc-3.3' should be '2.6.0-040207 PENTIUMIII gcc-3.3' modprobe -f nvidia works, but I don't want to do that every time. Is there any solution to the problem with EXTRAVERSION or can I force nvidia to be loaded automatica

Re: Backports.org

2003-12-08 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Monday 08 December 2003 21.35, Mike Dresser wrote: > Anyone know what is going on with www.backports.org? I was desperately trying to access it for a few days and then I found http://www.nl.backports.org/ which seems to work. I don't know if there are more mirrors out there but if it helps so

[OT] Posting unnecessary quotes! (was: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy)

2003-12-01 Thread Olle Eriksson
First off, sorry for top-posting. Look at the e-mail below. Is it necessary to include 85 lines of quotes just to say one sentence? This happens all too often in my opinion. Olle On Monday 01 December 2003 15.41, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:21:25AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Olle Eriksson
#x27;t expect that. Is this a viable solution to this task, anyone else? Regards Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]