Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-21 Thread Otto Wyss
Robert D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been working on this for longer than I think I should have. I > have some CHM files that I need to convert for 'reading'. I would use Have you tried chmviewer (http://www.herdsoft.com/linux/themen/chmviewer.html)? O. Wyss -- Development

Font selection with XFCE

2005-09-17 Thread Otto Wyss
With XFCE3 it was possible to select the current default font but since I upgraded to XFCE4 (Debian/stable) I can't. Which package is missing? O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippets for wxWidgets: http://wxcode.sf.net How to build well-desi

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse > > is hidden? > > According to packages.debian.org, it's in the package libtimedate-perl. > Thanks a lot. It didn't occurred to me to look at packages.debian.org, I only tried "dpkg -S Pa

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse is > > hidden? > > apt-get install apt-file > apt-file update > apt-file search Pa

Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse is hidden? O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippets for wxWidgets: http://wxcode.sf.net How to build well-designed applications: http://wxguide.sf.net Desktop with a consist

Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:57:42 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > > > someone able to make screen shots showing the menu? > > Works great with File -> Acquire -> Screen Shot in Gimp. Sorry, I'm not > tha

Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > scrot is : > Nice, it only should have a -w option which captures the top window. O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippets for wxWidgets: http://wxcode.sf.net How to build well-designed applications:

Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
I tried to create a screen shot of my appliaction with import. That worked somehow when I clicked into the window. This way I can't show any menu so I added a "-delay 500" and tried to switch to the window of my app but the Alt-TAB didn't work at all until the picture was taken (of course too early

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know > whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of > CPU-boundedness for debmirror. > Why don't you use distsync from DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourc

Re: Framebuffer console - chrooted Debian install

2004-12-06 Thread Otto Wyss
cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Probably you need to install at least "fbset" package. > > > > > No, I was referring to a Debian config script. The switch to graphical > console takes place very early on in the boot process and the code has > to be a functional part of the kernel (compiled-in

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-06 Thread Otto Wyss
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > them are very nice. G5ish is a nice theme for XFCE, Metacity and Gkrellm. Not very much choices. G5ish is one of the the best but I'll stick with xfce-winter. O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippet

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-06 Thread Otto Wyss
Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'ello Otto > > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:44:59PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the > > > gtk2-

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-04 Thread Otto Wyss
Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you change it in the UI settings from the settings manager? > Yes. > That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the > gtk2-engines-xfce package too. > I have it installed (from Debian/sarge). My app is GTK 1.2 but there doesn't seems

XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-04 Thread Otto Wyss
Once my application on XFCE changed their look when I switched the theme but not anymore. Most of them still show the ugly GTK look. What's wrong? How does XFCE switch the themes so the apps show the correct scrollbars etc? What package does this? O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers:

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> but how can I redirect both together? > >> > >> > > cat foo 2>&1 > logfile > > or, to append to the file: > > cat foo 2>&1 >> logfile > > > > Should do it. > > Redirections are processed in the order they appear on the command line. > So "2>&1 >l

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Upayavira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >but how can I redirect both together? > > > > > cat foo 2>&1 > logfile > or, to append to the file: > cat foo 2>&1 >> logfile > Sorry, does not work, both still comes on the terminal. O. Wyss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > grep 2>&1 logfile > > grep 'whatever' > ./file 2>&1 > > is what you meant. > Thanks Thomas, this works. O. Wyss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Blake Swadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but how can I redirect both together? > > > > grep 2>&1 logfile > Sorry does not work, stderr comes still on the terminal. O. Wyss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-09 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry I can't remember how I can redirect the stdout and stderr together into a file. I can grep > logfile grep 2> logfile but how can I redirect both together? O. Wyss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

2004-11-06 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:38:25 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > > > It's now 2 weeks later, I've asked in 2 different newsgroups, poked > > around every possible place on the net and still don't know how to > > permanenty disable t

Re: Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

2004-11-06 Thread Otto Wyss
> Which xfce4 packages have you installed? I ask as I had the same error > message (freedesktop.org) some time ago and found I was missing a xfce4 > package. Xfce4 on my system consists the following: > Just the ordinary packages from Debian/Sarge. If I don't use the .xsesssion, it works correct

Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

2004-11-05 Thread Otto Wyss
> --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Creating the above .xsession files disables the default XFCE4 startup > > and I get only an empty X screen. So what now? > > You want to have a file such as this: > = > #!

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-21 Thread Otto Wyss
Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm starting X through startx so again I'm missing the .xsession . I > > know there is a sample somewhere but I can't find it. > > http://www.hantslug.org.uk/c

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-21 Thread Otto Wyss
> X: xset b off > > For X, add it to ~/.xsession > I'm starting X through startx so again I'm missing the .xsession . I know there is a sample somewhere but I can't find it. O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-21 Thread Otto Wyss
Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is > > so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is > > does anyone

Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Otto Wyss
In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash? There is a readline variable "bell-style" but I can't figure out how to us it. I can't find the file

Re: GCVS resets write access for user

2004-09-28 Thread Otto Wyss
> You can use 'cvs watch off' to disable the notification feature, and the > need to cvs edit files. > Yes this seems to be the right command unfortunately I can't figure out how it works with the CVS repository at sourceforge.net. Which CVSROOT is needed? I usually don't checkout it unless I have

Re: Idea

2004-09-28 Thread Otto Wyss
> Apparently, _Clive Menzies_, on 09/28/04 06:31,typed: > > . > > . > > list. Debian-user may be high maintenance but if you use a good mail > > client (such as mutt) it is fairly easy to ignore/delete threads of no > > interest. It is a forum where merely by reading the threads > > Or

cron jobs without mailing

2004-09-26 Thread Otto Wyss
To update my webpages from CVS I use a crontab with some jobs. But every time the jobs are executed at sourceforge.net I get a mail. This seems to be the default behaviour. Is there a possibility to disable this mailing? O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/";

Java package

2004-09-18 Thread Otto Wyss
What's the name of a Java package for Mozilla? O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video player package without Gnome/KDE requirements

2004-08-14 Thread Otto Wyss
> VLC at least, and Xine. Most of them actually, I guess. 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? O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "ht

Video player package without Gnome/KDE requirements

2004-08-14 Thread Otto Wyss
Is there a Video player package which allows to play videos from DVDs but don't require any Gnome or KDE packages? O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:58:57PM +0200, Patrick Donker wrote: > > > While you're at, could somebody explain to me why it is concidered to be > > lame asking for a gui installer? ... > > I don't think it is. I think it's considered lame to ask for a GUI > installer before the actual *function

Re: Loading kernel modules at startup

2004-08-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> Ooh! modconf! It wasn't installed (how would I know?). > After each install of a Debian system I always install "modconf", "vim" and "fbset" since I can't believe any sensible system is usable without them. Especially modconf is a must. Most of the time I add "most" to get rid of "more" and "les

Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-08 Thread Otto Wyss
> I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs (forever). > It outputs the information below and then suspends (and ctrl C does not kill > it). > Use cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI and then burn it with the gotten numbers cdrecord dev=ATAPI:x,x,x O. Wyss -- How to enhance

Locale LC_ALL=""

2004-08-08 Thread Otto Wyss
Within my app I get an error "Cannot set locale to ''." which is probably do to my locale LC_ALL="". LANG and all other LC_... are set to "en". Variable LANG is set in the environment file to "en". How can I set LC_ALL="en" and any other LC_... to a different value? O. Wyss -- How to enhance you

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:36:39AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Are there already any script which makes a desktop linux system more > > user friendly? > > Be careful with 'user friendly'. It is not quite clear what you mean here, but > often it means that a s

Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Otto Wyss
On my desktop system I'd like to make certain commands requiring root (i.e. halt) available to ordinary users. What choices do are there? Are there already any script which makes a desktop linux system more user friendly? O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-26 Thread Otto Wyss
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > > IMHO Metacity isn't meant to be a full-fledged window manager (as is for > > example WM or Fluxbox), but instead it has to be used with the GNOME > > environment, which provides the "addition

Metacity window manager

2004-07-26 Thread Otto Wyss
I installed Metacity to see how it looks like. Well Metacity doesn't have a popup menu, taskbar etc as it states in the doc since they have to be added as additional components. So far so good but how do I find these components? There seems to be no metacity mailing list or other docs and the packa

Re: Playing around with exec sample

2004-07-14 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:06:05PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > | I want to start a process in my app and capture its output and error > | messages. Therefore I played a little with the exec sample under Windows > | but I wasn't able to capture any process output, the window of th

Playing around with exec sample

2004-07-13 Thread Otto Wyss
I want to start a process in my app and capture its output and error messages. Therefore I played a little with the exec sample under Windows but I wasn't able to capture any process output, the window of the exec sample always stayed empty. I.e. I just called a process which prints its help. Does

Re: No CTRL-F1..F6 anymore

2004-07-11 Thread Otto Wyss
> Using the PS/2 kb, switch to F2 or so. Now test the keys (on the PS/2 > and the USB_ to see if the Ctrl and Alt keys are mapped properly. If so, > you now the problem is limited to X, in which case I'd run > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-commom" and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > to double-che

Re: [ANN] wxProportionalSplitterWindow

2004-07-11 Thread Otto Wyss
> Thanks for the comments Otto. I agree that the original > wxSplitterWindow would benefit from some attention and maybe a > complete redesign since there are some great features that could be > added to a modern splitter implementation (e.g. textured splitter > bars, min/max/restore btns on the s

Re: No CTRL-F1..F6 anymore

2004-07-11 Thread Otto Wyss
> Otto Wyss wrote: > > >Since yesterday I install a new Debian/Sarge system and it's somehow > >working but after installing x-window and xfce I've lost CTRL-ALT F1..F6 > >(resp. CTRL-F1..F2 in console). Does anyone know how that could happen, > >which pack

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-11 Thread Otto Wyss
> aptitude install configure-debian > configure-debian True, a very good tool. IMO it should be at least be priority standard if not important in an Debian distribution. O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Somehow startx is missing even if xbase-client is installed

2004-07-11 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:35:24PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > used from there but then xauth isn't found etc. Is there a path > > information missing? How can I correct this again? > > sounds like you need to add /usr/bin/X11/ to your user's path. > I think s

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
> To use etherconf, run this as root: > > dpkg-reconfigure etherconf > Thanks a lot, how nice would it be if these two lines where in a README in /usr/share/doc/etherconf. O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

No CTRL-F1..F6 anymore

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Since yesterday I install a new Debian/Sarge system and it's somehow working but after installing x-window and xfce I've lost CTRL-ALT F1..F6 (resp. CTRL-F1..F2 in console). Does anyone know how that could happen, which package does this? How can I restore CTRL-F1..F6 again? O. Wyss -- How to en

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
> --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wonder if there isn't any GUI-tool which allows to configure the > > network since I haven't found any. Does anybody know any? > > Why would you need one? $EDITOR /etc/network/interfaces, is just fine for

GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Otto Wyss
I wonder if there isn't any GUI-tool which allows to configure the network since I haven't found any. Does anybody know any? O. Wyss -- How to enhance your code, see "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide/"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Little app checks for framebuffer/DirectFB

2004-07-08 Thread Otto Wyss
I've written CheckDFB which checks if the framebuffer and DirectFB is correctly installed. It runs either from the console or from an xterm and it simply overwrites the screen but that's rather harmless. CheckDFB shows everything fine on a correctly setup system but I don't know what it shows on ot

Re: framebuffer doesn't work ?

2004-05-17 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Sat, 15 May 2004 21:45:40 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > > >BTW I've just written a similar test program but it's too early to make > >it public. > > > >O. Wyss > > > >-- > >See a huge pile of work at "htt

Re: framebuffer doesn't work ?

2004-05-15 Thread Otto Wyss
> i've a problem to run a framebuffer in console ( i think) > I've got a test prog from the web as attached. > This error occurs: > The framebuffer device was opened successfully. > Error reading fixed information. I'm not sure but you either don't have the framebuffer support enabled in the kerne

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-05 Thread Otto Wyss
> Jaap Haitsma wrote: > [] > this is the same reason as you shouldn't work as root. In GUI is much > easier to mess up the system (oh, ie drag&drop /etc into trash comes to > mind). And you can get used to work as root in GUI. So better is su or > sudo things you need than work as root all the time

Mkinitrd doesn't build

2004-04-03 Thread Otto Wyss
I've just build my new 2.6.4 kernel from the kernel sources but I can't build the initrd.img because mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.6.4.img /lib/modules/2.6.4 FATAL: Module ide_disk not found. FATAL: Module ata_piix not found. FATAL: Module sd_mod not found. I've tried to look into modconf to remove

Re: Missing QT3 qmake definitions

2004-01-02 Thread Otto Wyss
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > > /usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs/linux-g++/ on SuSe. Does anyone know where they are > > on Debian and to which package they belong? > > > > qt3-dev-tools > A "dpkg -L qt3-dev-tools" revivaled, the files are in "/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/linux-g++/". Thanks O. Wyss -- See "ht

Missing QT3 qmake definitions

2004-01-02 Thread Otto Wyss
I tried to build CUTE which depends on QT but I'm still missing the qmake definitions. According to the docs they should be in /usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs/linux-g++/ on SuSe. Does anyone know where they are on Debian and to which package they belong? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; fo

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-27 Thread Otto Wyss
> Otto Wyss wrote: > > >I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't > >allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better > >alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? > > > You should be able t

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-27 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:09:48PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't > > allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better > > alternatives to start X without installing Gome o

Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

2003-11-27 Thread Otto Wyss
Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. I've tried XDM (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), login.app (can't start my otherwise perfect running X). I won't try GDM (requires too much of gnome), KDM (requires too much of KDM). Does anyone know a simple solution? O. Wyss -- See "http:/

XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread Otto Wyss
I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't allow for a shutdown. Are there better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE (just use XFCE) or can XDM be configured to have a shutdown feature? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas

XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread Otto Wyss
I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas how to design your app. -- To UNSUBSCR

Howto reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6

2003-11-17 Thread Otto Wyss
I've installed alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 but made a mistake when selecting the driver. So I tried dpkg-reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 but this doesn't show the driver list again! Okay getting dselect out, purge the package and install it again. But now the list isn't shown either. How do

Re: Knoppix ,woody and LILO

2003-11-17 Thread Otto Wyss
eric brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I bought a used 10G hardrive and installed it in my > computer has hda (primary IDE master) and I installed > Linux on that drive. My original windows install is > now primary IDE slave. I modified LILO so I can load > XP or Linux. (see below) > A full dis

Adding a parameter to an already installed kernel driver

2003-11-16 Thread Otto Wyss
I installed the aty128fb kernel driver (with modconf) and would like to add a parameter now but don't know where. Unfortunately I can't uninstall/reinstall it since the driver is alway in use. Does anyone know where I can add it? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas how to

alsa-module kernel driver for Waveterminal 192L

2003-11-16 Thread Otto Wyss
Since alsa has a driver for the Waveterminal 192L I installed the alsa packages together with the alsa-modules package for my kernel. During installation a list of drivers are shown but I have no idea which one is for the Waveterminal 192L. Does anyone else? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.source

Re: Debian based working distribution

2003-11-16 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Since the current Debian sarge installation doesn't work (see > > "debian-boot" list) and I need an installation fast I'm looking for > > alternatives. > > Perhaps this won't work for you, but I did a minimal installation of > Woody and then did apt-get dist-upgrade (or somesuch) to bring it u

Debian sarge installation problems

2003-11-15 Thread Otto Wyss
I've 2 problems with the debian installation I need an immediate solution. First how can I reconfigure the keyboard so it uses the swiss keyboard instead of the US? Second, how can I force Debian not to use ide-scsi for reading from my CD-writer? In the current state ide-scsi isn't able to acces

Debian based working distribution

2003-11-15 Thread Otto Wyss
Since the current Debian sarge installation doesn't work (see "debian-boot" list) and I need an installation fast I'm looking for alternatives. So far I've tested Knoppix from the newspaper ct (has no root access), Morphix (doesn't run on my system). Any others? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.so

Debian based working distribution

2003-11-15 Thread Otto Wyss
Since the current Debian sarge installation doesn't work (see "debian-boot" list) and I need an installation fast I'm looking for alternatives. So far I've tested Knoppix from the newspaper ct (has no root access), Morphix (doesn't run on my system). Any others? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.so

Re: Sarge Netinstall ISO

2003-11-14 Thread Otto Wyss
> Yesterday, I downloaded the following image: > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > Burned the image to CD using Xcdroast, CD refuses to boot. The CD > will mount and read properly. Tried another self-burned bootable CD > (different image) and it boote

Why can't I access my anonymous /mirror directory

2003-11-14 Thread Otto Wyss
I haven't used proftp for almost a year but now I tried to use it again for my local debian partial mirror. But I can't access the the "/mirror" directory anymore. I always get the error "no such file or directory". Below is the relevant part of my proftp.conf. Does anyone know the base director

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread Otto Wyss
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > the password for root!?! > > > > You should have been asked to supply a password during the installation > > process. It's that one. > > > I wasn't asked. I guess I just sta

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > the password for root!?! > > You should have been asked to supply a password during the installation > process. It's that one. > I wasn't asked. I guess I just started the installed system righ

What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Otto Wyss
Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the password for root!?! Can't this password just be written on the line before t

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-11-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:32:47 +0200, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All in all, the built-in editor of Anjuta is exactly what I'm looking Tom > > Try Scite, you'll love it. Anjuta's editor is based on it. > Sorry for being late but have a look at wxGuide-Editor "http://wxguide.sourceforge.ne

Using an IDE CD-writer via scsi emulation

2003-11-09 Thread Otto Wyss
I knew I could read and write CD's on my system but I lost it during my upgrades about a year ago. I remember when I switched the system I couldn't write CD and I had documented the "hdd=ide-scsi". But after changeing lilo.conf I can't read CD's anymore. So I looked into the CD-Writing-Howto but it

Howto force X using the same resolution as the framebuffer

2003-08-10 Thread Otto Wyss
How can I force X to use the screen resolution of the configured framebuffer driver "fbdev" when I start it with startx? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas how to design your app. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

GCC for kernel compilation

2003-08-08 Thread Otto Wyss
I just upgraded to the current Sarge and also got GCC 3.3. It seems this version can't compile all the drivers in kernel 2.4.21. Which version should I use? And how do I set this version (Environment variable?) without deinstalling GCC 3.3? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for

Testing needed for debiansynch (partial mirror script)

2002-02-10 Thread Otto Wyss
I've now finished the development of debiansynch and are looking for anyone, who likes to help in testing this script. I'm using the script now for almost a year, but have extented it lately with options I don't regularly use (particularly -A). The script and more info can be found at "http://dpart

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-12 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry I just discovered, that this thread isn't relayed (?!?) to the usenet newsgroup, so I wasn't aware of theses messages. I'm replying in just one message. > > > > Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his > > > > necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-10 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his > > necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2 fs, can the [...] > Both the kernel and grub don't care about each other, in fact, both > don't no a thing about the other end [1]. So, yes, you still need > compiled-

Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-09 Thread Otto Wyss
Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2 fs, can the kernel load modules from this file system even if the ext2 fs isn't compiled into the kernel? Or since the fs in Grub probably also needs the corresponding drivers

Re: How to setup rsync system to keep copy of packages locally????

2001-06-07 Thread Otto Wyss
> Can someone help me and/or point me to a doc that describes how to setup a > local debian package mirror using rsync? I have looked at the man page for > rsync, but am still clueless as to how to do it. > Well it depends on want you want. If you want just to mirror a few known packages, the rsy

Where is kbdconfig?

2001-06-07 Thread Otto Wyss
I potato kdbconfig was in the console-tools package, in woody it seems to have disapeared. Where is kbdconfig now? O. Wyss

Bug Tracking System: Much to many bugs

2000-06-23 Thread Otto Wyss
Since I've reported a bug myself I've looked a little bit throught the Bug Tracking System. In my view the list of bugs is much to large. Something has to be done to get rid of bugs, especially old ones. So I suggest the following: 1. Anyone who ever reported a bug should check if it still applies

Re: free partition magic type thing

2000-06-05 Thread Otto Wyss
>does anyone know of a free software equivalent of partition magic? including Well I don't know if the free XFDISK does everything you are looking for but it's a rather good bootmanager/partitioner. See for yourself. "http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzsv20/";. O. Wyss

Framebuffer settings for the Matrox MGA Milenium

2000-05-12 Thread Otto Wyss
Since I couldn't use the framebuffer with my ATI Rage IIc I switched to an old Matrox MGA Milenium card. It does work perfectly but I don't know the lilo.conf values (vga=...; append=...) to get a 880x660-72 display or similar. O. Wyss