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2006-07-19 Thread Redefined Horizons
My thanks to Ron and T.J. for their earlier posts about my problem. With their suggestions and a little more trouble shooting I was able to solve the problem. I wanted to post the solution to the list so others might find it when searching the archives. The original problem was that APT and Synap

RE: APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Should take a look at reprepro http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286 > -Original Message- > From: T.J. Duchene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:20 AM > To: debian-user > Subject: APT Black Magic > > Be sure to actually chec

APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Be sure to actually check the listed paths in the Packages.gz file to make sure that they are pointing to the deb files in question. It sounds like you have the Packages file written in the proper format so that it can be added to the package tree via APT or Synaptic (frontend to apt), but that

Re: APT Black Magic

2006-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redefined Horizons wrote: > It is almost 11:00 at night and I'm getting very frustrated, so please > bear with me. :] > > I'm having trouble getting APT to recognize debs on my hard drive, or > local file system. I can't understand what the problem is

APT Black Magic

2006-07-18 Thread Redefined Horizons
It is almost 11:00 at night and I'm getting very frustrated, so please bear with me. :] I'm having trouble getting APT to recognize debs on my hard drive, or local file system. I can't understand what the problem is, since I had the same repository system working on my Debian Sarge OS. (Now I'm o

Re: gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 3/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On 3/3/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a > > > year ago. I've always used just plain

Re: gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-04 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 3/3/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a > > year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA, and it's always worked great. > > For GNOME, you can use

Re: gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 3/3/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a > year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA, and it's always worked great. > For GNOME, you can use GConf to set the outputsink to use the alsasink, and > in KDE you can s

Re: gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-03 Thread Adam Porter
I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA, and it's always worked great. For GNOME, you can use GConf to set the outputsink to use the alsasink, and in KDE you can simply select it in kcontrol. I really don't know what Fi

gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, I read in the recent hullaballoo about the release of gstreamer010 that kde is "abandoning arts in favour of gstreamer." Now I don't use kde, but I do use gnome sometimes, and mostly xfce, and in both cases I route sound trhrough esd. This causes any number of incredibly frustrating

Black Magic

2000-01-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
OK, so I spoke too soon... I managed to get glide working last night, but only in software mode. I still can't get it to recognize my Voodoo2 Black Magic 3D card for hardware acceleration. Last night I was working with the rpms and raw source from linux.3dfx.com. Today I pulled the new P