Hiding the X Cursor

There is a daemon that can be executed from a terminal window that will hide the mouse cursor after a certain number of seconds. Problem? I forget the name of it, so apt-get is useless to me. Help??? Thanks, Bob -- Q: Where's the Lone Ranger take his garbage? A: To the dump, to

What is the progress of Blender 2.35 into the tree?

Can anyone provide information on when the recent (and improved!) Blender 2.35 will be entering the Debian tree? Thanks, Bob -- Last guys don't finish nice. -- Stanley Kelley, on the cult of victory at all costs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

apt-get Failure

The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libqt3c102-mt qt3-dev-tools The following

Deciphering the output from tcpflow?

To discover the identity of the process sending unknown traffic on eth0, it was suggested that I run tcpflow. The result and another question follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tilleyrw/tcpflow-dumps# ls -S 065.032.005.052.00110-192.168.001.103.33847 065.032.005.052.00110-192.168.001.103.33846

Ether-what? Where is the coming from?

GKrellm indicates that something is pumping data through my ethernet pipe. How can I discover the culprit? This is affecting my CPU usage... Bob -- WE'RE GOING TO THROW THE MX AWAY AFTER WE BUILD IT. The MX is really [Don't tell anybody!] just a bargaining chip in the nuclear-arms- reduction

Re: make xconfig xfree???

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 11:40 pm, Jeremy Brown wrote: SNIP Might want to try doing: bash$ xhost + as a regular user, before attempting to connect to the X server as root. Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1# xhost + xhost: unable to open display ??? Thanks, Bob --

Latest X-Windows???

What's the status of moving the latest X Windows into Debian? At least into the unstable branch? -- BOFH excuse #352: The cables are not the same length. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

make xconfig xfree???

Make was issued as root. Why can't root connect to the xserver? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1# make xconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o

Mozilla Firefox Java -- WTF???

Why is Mozilla Firefox dependent an Java? I thought it was an independent application? Help! Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox Error: No running window found auto selected locale: en-US Spawned gcjappletviewer successfully. Exception in thread main java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT

Installing Java

I want to run Azureus, which requires the JRE from SUN to be installed. I install the j2re1.4.2 and hope that Azureus runs. The message returns that something is wrong with my java installation. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tilleyrw/downloads/azureus# ./azureus Starting Azureus... Java exec found

Re: Installing Java

On Thursday 10 June 2004 07:07 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: SNIP Thank you for your rapid response! I tried your former recommendation (PATH=/home/tilleyrw/downloads/j2re1.4.2_04/bin:$PATH ./azureus) and all was good. Thanks again! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Increasing Screen Resolution

My screen resolution is currently 1024x768. The desired resolution is 1280x1024. I have dpkg-reconfigure'd xserver-xfree86, edited /etc/X11/XF86Config, edited /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, and experimented with KRandR. The only mode that is still present is 1280x1024, however 1024x768 is still

Help -- Screen Scraping with Mechanize

I have libwww-mechanize-perl and libwww-perl installed. Is there some debian-specific configuration I'm overlooking that can cause the errors below? I don't know what's happening but something is not being found in some search path. Help? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./scrape_test.pl 'Demolition

What's Wrong With My Perl Install?

Attempting to execute a perl script, I received errors the meaning of which I need explained. debian-rtg:/home/tilleyrw# ./scrape_test.pl 'Demolition Man' Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5

Perl Help

How do I install the Perl XML libraries to prevent the following errors? debian-rtg:/home/tilleyrw# ./scrape_test.pl Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8

Hotplug and Udev

I wish to use a combination of kernel 2.6.4 with udev. The udev documentation specifies using a kernel with the HOTPLUG configuration option TRUE. Where can I find this option? Half-an-hour with menuconfig is too much time. -- Comments are appreciated, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: kde3.2 and startx

On Sunday 07 March 2004 03:39 am, Roy Pluschke wrote: Now that kde3.2 is coming into sid I have been unable to start kde from the command line with startx. X starts up and then just quits back to the command line. My .xsession file contains the line exec kde3 which worked for kde 3.15 but

Re: Pipe Symbol

On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:25 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:55:10PM +, Thomas Sommer wrote: Since yesterday i'm not able to type a pipe or a bigger than smaller than symbol. I cannot determine where this comes from. I'm using Debian unstable with 2.4.24 Kernel

Kernel Compile Problems

A make menuconfig fails in checklist.c with the following: debian-rtg:/usr/src/linux-2.6.3# make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/fixdep SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED

How do I use xfce with Debian?

I have apt-get'ted all parts of xfce4 and when I edit the login manager in KDE 3.1.4, the option xfce4 invokes xfwm4. When I select xfce4 from the login manager, the login manager disappears and then I'm left with a blank screen. None of the mouse buttons bring up any menus as they would in a

Installation via HTTP?

How can Debian be installed via HTTP? When I install Debian, I get to the point where it asks if I wish to continue installing via PPP. To my knowledge, PPP is for use with a modem. How do I continue installation using TCP/IP once my network card has been recognized? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

OpenOffice.org Margins?

I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I wish to have a document-wide left and right margin of one (1)

Adding New Kernel

What is the meaning of the following LILO response? debian-rti:/# lilo Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' - '/dev/hda' The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted as a

RealTek 8139 and Kernel 2.4.21

All of the helpful comments were most appreciated. I solved my problem by apt-get'ing kernel-image-2.4.21-3-686. For some reason, kernel images are different from a kernel compiled from source. Go figure. -- Comments are most appreciated, Robert Tilley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

RealTex 8139 Problem -- Dmesg output

: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 41e1. -- Comments are most appreciated, Robert Tilley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RealTek 8139 Problems

appreciated, Robert Tilley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian 2.2 Installation

'friendly' installer such as Mandrake uses?. Thank you, Robert Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Tillarium -- Consulting in MAXIMO, ORACLE, and Internet Programming