> I'm using verbatim to include these files but it is giving me a lot of
> Overfull \hbox
> How to fix this?
> TIA,Paulo Henrique.
The way I usually deal with this is to use a smaller font for the verbatim
stuff. Try a \footnotesize command right before your
I'm starting to come to the conclusion that the new way that AJ is running the
sarge release cycle is leaving far more truly "unstable" packages in the
"unstable" tree, so that it probably makes more sense for me to be pulling
packages from testing rather than unstable.
So is the best way to m
> OK, stupid n00b question coming. How can I capture the screen output in my
> terminal to a file so I can show you the errors that I am getting? I tried
> outputting or piping to a file and it doesn't work. Is there some way for
> me to capture the screen output to a file?? ( You know in winbl
I'm getting tired of gnome-terminal and the other odd apps that depend
on the libgnome2 being so mind-numbingly slow. So I'm really getting
serious thoughts about snagging those "experimental" GNOME2 debs. I've
never put anything but 'official' debs on my machine (I usually just
build from s
1) Log in as a normal user,
2) Open up a terminal emulator
3) 'su' to root.
4) Run the GDM configurator (the exact name escapes me right now).
This should work.
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Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
El
Hi all. I'm still having trouble getting my cdrw to work correctly
under linux. The original post is:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200210/msg04527.html
I'm sorry to start a new thread about this, but I'm really getting a
little desperate here.
One thing that I've been
> Nope, not true. You just need ide-scsi emulation for most ripping/burning
> operations.
Good to know.
> Based on your original post, you have ide-scsi working and both drives are
> registered with it (as seen by cdrecord). Have you ever had this drive
> working? Are you able to burn any CDs
> In most cases it should. Have you tried disconnecting the DVD drive and
> connecting the CD-RW drive as the only device on the second controller?
Well, you're the second person to suggest such a thing (I ran this by a
friend after starting this thread). I'll give that a try (if not
tonight,
Is there any way to get more info from a package other than the
description that is shown by apt-cache show?
What I'd like to see is that something like apt-cache changelog foo
that shows:
foo v 1.2.3-4
This fixes the nasty little bug that some people were experiencing with
the 1.2.3-3 packag
> In most cases it should. Have you tried disconnecting the DVD drive and
> connecting the CD-RW drive as the only device on the second controller?
Okay, I've done that now. As proof:
coffee (foo)$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.11a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Lin
> I know apt-get works great for installing remote files, but how could you install a
>deb file you have installed on you local machine. Looking in the man page for
>apt-get I didn't see an option for installing a local file. Thanks in advance for
>any help you can offer.
How about using 'd
I'm having some serious issues getting my linux box to play nice with
my cdrw drive. Here's the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus':
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
Cdrecord 1.11a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
scsibus0:
0,0,0
> does cdda2wav have the same problem?
cdda2wav with the -paranoia flag spits out stuff that looks like this:
coffee (tmp)$ cdda2wav -t 3 -D /dev/sg0 -paranoia
Type: ROM, Vendor '' Model '40X12X48 CD-RW ' Revision '1.05' MMC+CDDA
724992 bytes buffer memory requested, 4 buffers, 75 sector
> Did you try '-D0,0,0' instead ? Not sure if it makes any difference.
No difference.
> 'hdparm /dev/hdX' to check the state.
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX to turn dma on '-d0' to turn it off. Can you
> mount and read data CDs on this drive without problem? ...just
> curious.
Well, I toggled the us
Oh yeah. Forgot to mention:
Ripping/burning works fine under M$ XP.
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Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington
> I've had problems with CD drives and ide-scsi - one would not mount CDs
> unless dma was turned off and my burner eats a lot of cpu unless dma is
> turned on.
> Well I guess I'd try `hdparm -u0 -d1 /dev/hdc` but I'm not too
> optimistic at this point. :) Sorry I couldn't help. If you have
> a
> Have you tried a cdrdao extraction using one of its specific drivers. I
> have one of these "generic" drives, and the driver that works for mine
> is generic-mmc. If I use others, I get very similar "scsi" errors. So
> maybe one of these drivers is worth a try.
Well, I haven't had time to try ou
Well, I'm not a networking guy myself, but I'd recommend looking at the
Linux Network Administrator's Guide
(http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Linux/LDP/LDP/nag2/index.html) for
starters. I would imagine that has most of what you're going to need
(maybe a little too much?).
As far as hardware goes,
> Is there a way to set up the .forward file to forward mail to more than
> one user?
You can set up procmail to do such things. Set your .forward to be
"|/path/to/procmail" and read the procmail docs.
Have fun.
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Stephen W.
> One more question regarding this file. Is there a way to have it just
> send a carbon copy to another user? I am pretty sure if you had it just
> forward the mail back to you again that it would go in an endless loop.
> Thanks for everybody's help.
Although this was pooh-pooh'ed in your earlie
> In .forward:
>
> \user, [EMAIL PROTECTED], anotherlocaluser
Ah, then I bow to your supreme mastery of the .forward file. :)
I just like killing flies with shotguns. It tends to make the house
messy, though.
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Stephen W. Ju
> 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your
> harddrive?
> (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg to
> uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb free.)
man apt-get (esp. the 'remove' section)
> 2.) How do I m
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