Obviously, the following line:
cp -R /big_dir /scratch/
should read:
mv /big_dir /scratch/
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Thanks to all you guys for your suggestions. I'll have to study a while
before I decide how to proceed as I tend
to get symlinks backwards even after reading man. I actually feel more
comfortable resizind partitions.
One thing I'd like to kow before closing this thread, how does one know,
or
Dear Basajaun and all,
Basajaun wrote:
[snip]
Well, you could try the old link trick. First of all locate the biggest
directory(ies) residing in /, e.g.
du -sh /*
then, move that directory and all of its contents to a bigger
partition, where space is not a problem, e.g.
cp -R /big_dir
I was running Testing Sarge 2.6.8-2-686-13 Stock and just completed
wajig distupgrading to Stable Sarge picking up a
new version of the 2.6.8-2-686 KI-16(I think). Everything went smoothly
until unpacking and installing modules.
The following is an example of the error output except that
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Leonard Chatagnier said:
tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space
left on device
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown
Leonard Chatagnier said:
tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space
left on device
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown
ChatagnierL-Home:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:19 pm, Greg Folkert wrote:
Oh, yes my child... all you haav to do is remove udev for the time being
or recompile a kernel with raid* compiled in statically.
Dear Greg,
Thanks for your support on this problem and your careful and thoughtful
advice! I am glad
Hi,
I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage array
using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk.
I have read the software raid howto and he says to use mdadm because it is
newer, more unified, (levitates, leaps over a building in a single bound),
but then
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
Hi,
I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage array
using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk.
[...]
raidtools2 == deprecated, mdadm == supercedes raidtools
Hope that helps. I have a machine that
At Thursday, 06 January 2005, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
Hi,
I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include
a storage
array
using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk.
[...]
raidtools2 == deprecated,
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:27 am, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
Hi,
I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage
array using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk.
[...]
raidtools2 == deprecated, mdadm ==
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:28 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:27 am, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
Hi,
I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage
array using raid5 with boot off a
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:27:50AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
raidtools2 == deprecated, mdadm == supercedes raidtools
According to whom are raidtools deprecated, and when was this decision
made? The last thing you want to do is hand mdadm to the clueless... it's
bad enough handing them
mount /usr on
/dev/hda1, then delete /dev/hda3? Or is my /usr data
on /dev/hda3? I guess I just don't understand
partitioning that well and I'm confused. Any
suggestions?
Here's the disk layout:
machine1:~# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available
Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1
hi ya ridge
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Ridge Chittenden wrote:
machine1:~# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available
Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 57677500 45016936 9730712
83% /
/dev/hda3 56720252618292 53220704
2% /usr
looks normal
/ is things
Hi folks.
This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I
have an off-the-shelf Debian installation provided by my ISP. When
I do a ps -ef I get
(amongst other things) the following
root 195 1 0 Oct28 ?00:00:01 /usr/sbin/cron
Now, according to the manual
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:49, Joseph wrote:
Hi folks.
This is probably very simple stuff, but I'm thoroughly confused. I
have an off-the-shelf Debian installation provided by my ISP. When
I do a ps -ef I get
(amongst other things) the following
root 195 1 0 Oct28 ?00
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:49, Joseph wrote:
I added a new line to crontab:
0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi
1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed.
9 times out of 10 when this happens to me, it's because I forgot to add an
extra blank line to the end of
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:54 -0700, Justin Guerin wrote:
0 0 * * * root /usr/lib/cgi-bin/send_hit_count.cgi
Oops. Check out the man page for cron and especially crontab(5).
1. send_hit_count.cgi apparently is not being executed. It works
interactively, but there are no messages that
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:20:09 +0200, s. keeling wrote:
Otherwise, dump *dm and hack your style file:
~/.fluxbox/styles/TDF:
rootCommand: /usr/bin/feh --bg-center /home/keeling/grf/omega_nebula.jpg
Or you could use ~/.fluxbox/init which overrides all style files,
anyhow the simplest
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0700, Sergio Basurto wrote:
On the inittab you must change your init runlevel, try
with a value of 3 if you are on SuSE or 2 if you are
under Debian
Wrong. Changing the runlevel won't do anything in Debian, unless you
create a custom runlevel by changing
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:36:07PM -0400, John Lowell wrote:
A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window
manager like fluxbox.
The window manager doesn't have anything to do with it. The display
manager you install does.
In the past, I've always started the X window
A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window
manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window
system after a console login and startx after having first written an
~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian installation and
the addition of X
confused by the Debian login process when
using a window
manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started
the X window
system after a console login and startx after having
first written an
~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian
installation and
the addition of X window
Incoming from John Lowell:
A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window
manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window
system after a console login and startx after having first written an
~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 10:17, Steven Jones wrote:
try typing modconf and pic the module to install it.
regards
Steven
I did try modconf and did not find 'apm', however echo apm /etc/modules as
shown in another post has done the trick.
Thanks
Bob
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On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:08, Pigeon wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:16:53AM +1000, Robert Parker wrote:
As root
On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel.
modprobe apm
the module installs and is in the lsmod list but does not persist through
a boot.
insmod apm
same story.
Robert Parker wrote:
That's dealt with the actual problem, but I notice that lsmod gives me 27
lines of modules, there are just 2 modules in my /etc/modules. Where/when/how
do the other 25 modules get installed? Only 1 of the first 5 appears in
/etc/modules.conf.
Tools like hotplug and
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 00:19, Kent West wrote:
Robert Parker wrote:
That's dealt with the actual problem, but I notice that lsmod gives me 27
lines of modules, there are just 2 modules in my /etc/modules.
Where/when/how do the other 25 modules get installed? Only 1 of the first
5
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:19:33AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Tools like hotplug and discover automatically load modules as necessary.
It's just that sometimes they miss a needed module, and that's why you
need to add them to /etc/modules to get them loaded.
In addition, if modprobe loads a
As root
On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel.
modprobe apm
the module installs and is in the lsmod list but does not persist through a
boot.
insmod apm
same story.
So what command should I use to have apm installed on boot?
I guess a second question is why have 2 commands doing the same thing?
try typing modconf and pic the module to install it.
regards
Steven
-Original Message-
From: Robert Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:17 p.m.
To: Debian User
Subject: Confused about modules
As root
On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel.
modprobe apm
Robert Parker wrote:
I guess a second question is why have 2 commands doing the same thing?
They don't - modprobe will resolve dependencies; insmod won't. IIRC,
modprobe uses insmod to actually load the modules.
Adam
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Robert Parker wrote:
As root
On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel.
modprobe apm
the module installs and is in the lsmod list but does not persist through a
boot.
insmod apm
same story.
So what command should I use to have apm installed on boot?
I guess a second question is why have 2 commands
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:16:53AM +1000, Robert Parker wrote:
As root
On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel.
modprobe apm
the module installs and is in the lsmod list but does not persist through a
boot.
insmod apm
same story.
So what command should I use to have apm installed on
hi ya silvan
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Silvan wrote:
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:06 pm, Alvin Oga wrote:
That's 'cuz it's fsck, not fdisk. :P
aint it fun, dumb of me, to look at the man pages of fdisk and talk about
e2fsck :-) .. had a good night sleep afterward tho
So I should swap fsck
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 10:59 am, Alvin Oga wrote:
It isn't mounted normally. It isn't mounted before fscking it.
good... but i'd add the umount to the script, just to make sure
nothing breaks
We, I guess yes, that's not a bad plan, just in case. Instead of relying
on the previous
Running unstable - with an intel8x0 based card and a logitech webcam
with inbuilt mic.
On startup - alsa sees the webcam - so in alsamixer I get one mixer -
the mic.
If I stop ALSA, drop all the sound modules, load the intel8x0 module
then restart alsa I get the inten8x0 soundcard and sounds
I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and
Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows.
(1) Which of the following should I have installed?
$ apt-cache search sensors|i2c
i2c-source - sources for drivers for the i2c bus
libsensors2 -
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:08:40 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and
Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows.
I have successfully installed lmsensors, (using 2.2.23 and 2.4.24
kernels) and it works great,
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:40:26AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:08:40 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and
Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows.
[snip]
The first thing you
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:04:21 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
Nano, I don't know anything about compiling the 2.6 kernel, I'm sticking
with 2.4 series for now. The only problem I had with compiling the
lmsensors modules was that there were two author-related macros which
needed fixing for the
Dear friends:
Just for the fun of it, I downloaded and installed Aptitude, At the top on
the menu it says:
Aptitude 0.2.13 #Broken: 4 Will free 9375kb DL size: 13.9
This appears on the third line of the menu BEFORE I actually use it in any
way. Does this really mean that I have four broken
On (02/02/04 15:54), Benjamin Sher wrote:
Just for the fun of it, I downloaded and installed Aptitude, At the top on
the menu it says:
Aptitude 0.2.13 #Broken: 4 Will free 9375kb DL size: 13.9
This appears on the third line of the menu BEFORE I actually use it in any
way. Does this
Am Mo Feb 02, 2004 at 10:3202 + gab Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] von sich:
On (02/02/04 15:54), Benjamin Sher wrote:
Just for the fun of it, I downloaded and installed Aptitude, At the top on
the menu it says:
Aptitude 0.2.13 #Broken: 4 Will free 9375kb DL size: 13.9
What you
On (03/02/04 00:02), Martin Helas wrote:
Am Mo Feb 02, 2004 at 10:3202 + gab Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] von sich:
On (02/02/04 15:54), Benjamin Sher wrote:
Just for the fun of it, I downloaded and installed Aptitude, At the top on
the menu it says:
Aptitude 0.2.13
Hello Martin!
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:02:21AM +0100, Martin Helas wrote:
Am Mo Feb 02, 2004 at 10:3202 + gab Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] von sich:
What you need to do is search through the installed packages and
identify those that are broken. The reason may be that they are missing
On Saturday 17 January 2004 06:15 pm, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:02:58PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:42 pm, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote:
This worked out almost perfect.
First of all I have
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:08:38AM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2004 06:15 pm, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:02:58PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:42 pm, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Dennis
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:40:54AM +0100, David Baron wrote:
I, too, have a knoppix install which has an image of 2.4.22-xfs. I installed
this on ext2 partition originally, want to go over to ext3, need an initrd to
do so since the that image does not have ext3 compiled in. I made an initird
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:47:41 -0500,
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:40:54AM +0100, David Baron wrote:
I, too, have a knoppix install which has an image of 2.4.22-xfs. I
installed this on ext2 partition originally, want to go over
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:08:38AM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote:
My mouse does not work with the new kernel for same reason.
It is a stone age regular serial mouse nothing fancy - I used to run the gpm
driver and it was working or lets say it is still working with the old kernel
but it does
CONFIRMED WITH YES.
I DON'T SEE THE LINKS AND initrd.gz VERSES initrd.img TOTALLY GET ME CONFUSED
System.map - System.map-2.4.22-xfs
System.map-2.4.22-xfs
System.map-2.6.0-1-686
boot.0340
config-2.4.22-xfs
config-2.6.0-1-686
debian.bmp - /usr/share/lilo/contrib/debian.bmp
debianlilo.bmp - /usr/share
INSTALLING KERNEL2.6.01-686
THE INSTALL ASKED IF I LIKE TO HAVE THE LINKS MADE AND i CONFIRMED WITH YES.
I DON'T SEE THE LINKS AND initrd.gz VERSES initrd.img TOTALLY GET ME CONFUSED
System.map - System.map-2.4.22-xfs
System.map-2.4.22-xfs
System.map-2.6.0-1-686
boot.0340
config-2.4.22-xfs
need initrd.
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE IN MY BOOT FOLDER AFTER INSTALLING KERNEL2.6.01-686
THE INSTALL ASKED IF I LIKE TO HAVE THE LINKS MADE AND i CONFIRMED WITH
YES. I DON'T SEE THE LINKS AND initrd.gz VERSES initrd.img TOTALLY GET ME
CONFUSED
System.map - System.map-2.4.22-xfs
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:02:58PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:42 pm, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote:
Hello everybody,
Sorry for using caps I did it to disdingush between the code
THIS IS WHAT MY
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:16:23PM -0700, s. keeling said
Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've
updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is:
(i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686
(ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build.
I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18
Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've
updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is:
(i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686
(ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build.
I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18 and:
kernel-headers-2.4.18 - Header files related to Linux
s. keeling wrote:
Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've
updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is:
(i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686
(ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build.
I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18 and:
kernel-headers-2.4.18 - Header files
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, David wrote:
Why not run your router with linux? This is one of the biggest uses of
linux. THere is a lot of documentation available free on the internet.
I was actually going to do that. Especially since I only have two
machines right now.
Thing is, I bought a
://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/, but
I couldn't find any packages, only lists of packages.
Needless to say I'm confused as to what servers I can put in sources.list
at this time.
Is
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
still up?
Could someone provide for me a line like
different
servers? Are they mirrored?
I was looking through the US server http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/,
but
I couldn't find any packages, only lists of packages.
Needless to say I'm confused as to what servers I can put in sources.
list
at this time.
Is
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:04:21 -0500 (EST)
Russ Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alright, I just started using Debian after being mainly a Mandrake
user.
Installed Woody and I know most of the packages like Apache, etc. need
upgrades.
But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get upgrade
://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/, but
I couldn't find any packages, only lists of packages.
Needless to say I'm confused as to what servers I can put in sources.list
at this time.
Is
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
still up?
Could someone provide for me a line like that for updated packages
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Adam Barton wrote:
Let us know how it goes!
Thanks all. So far this list has been VERY helpful. :)
I think I understand now, and once my router gets here (c'mon UPS!) I can
put this all to use.
That is, once I figure out how to use a router (but that's for another
at the actual packages. As others have said, use
apt-setup to set up to point to this, or one of the other mirrors.
Needless to say I'm confused as to what servers I can put in sources.list
at this time.
Is
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
still up?
Don't know - probably
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:53:54PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Adam Barton wrote:
Let us know how it goes!
Thanks all. So far this list has been VERY helpful. :)
I think I understand now, and once my router gets here (c'mon UPS!) I can
put this all to use.
Why
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:04:21PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote:
But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get upgrade use different
servers? Are they mirrored?
Yes. Ad-nauseum. Visiting ftp://ftp.xx.debian.org/ (replace xx with
your ISO country
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 02:17:47 +1100,
Rob Weir wrote:
csj wrote:
Real world case: scribus (probably the best GPL'ed or better
DTP app).
I never did find out about this. If it doesn't work, perhaps
you should file a wishlist bug on the package asking for
support.
Apparently fixed in
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:19:48PM -0800, Daniel L. Miller said
csj wrote:
Real world case: scribus (probably the best GPL'ed or better DTP
app).
I never did find out about this. If it doesn't work, perhaps you should
file a wishlist bug on the package asking for support.
But doing this
csj wrote:
At Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:46:15 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a
new font, it handles setting up symlinks and such so that
you can just
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:28:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more than one
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:23:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use.
I
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:23:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use.
I would love to see a trouble shooting section. I'm
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:43:40PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
Since it is a small topic, if you wish, I will be grad to make it a part
of Debian Reference. Rewite around:
At Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:46:15 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a
new font, it handles setting up symlinks and such so that
you can just
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:33:15PM -0700, Ross Boylan said
Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they
look like this
FontPath
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
Rob,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on
the list a couple of times. It's available from
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
Rob,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:07:52PM -0700, Paul Yeatman said
The debconf message for defoma told me to put
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType as a FontPath in
XF86Config-4 but my /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfon t-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/
directory contains nothing but the file,
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a new font,
it handles setting up symlinks and such so that you can just point X
at /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
-In response to your message-
--received from Rob Weir--
Determining which true type font package to install myself
isn't so obvious. Looks like any package starting with ttf- are true
type font packages. The only three that don't seem to be for another
language are the non-free
-In response to your message-
--received from Rob Weir--
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:05:21PM -0700, Paul Yeatman said
So, for the sake of clarification as some conflicting statements have
been made, as long as the FontPath to
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType is given in
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:50AM +0800, csj said
[...]
Your detailed tips have me wondering if there's really an
official(tm) Debian way of managing fonts, something
relatively easy like dpkg-reconfigure.
Yes, defoma aka Debian
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
[...]
For GNOME2 and KDE3, you need to setup fontconfig which Xft2
uses to find fonts. I'll get to that in a minute.
I didn't have to do anything to get my fonts available to GNOME2
and KDE3. I've always been puzzled tho why my GTK1 apps
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:50AM +0800, csj said
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
[...]
For GNOME2 and KDE3, you need to setup fontconfig which Xft2
uses to find fonts. I'll get to that in a minute.
I didn't have to do anything to get my fonts available to
Quoting Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For some apocryphal reason I think I need it for fluxbox to be pretty.
But I might need to rexamine my assumptions :-)
Or perhaps I'm getting confused when I messed around with xterm's XFT
ability.
Depends on what version of fluxbox you're using. Version
-In response to your message-
--received from Rob Weir--
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a new font, it
handles setting up symlinks and such so that you can just point X at
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, and leave it alone.
Without defoma, you'd
I just did a clean reinstall of SID (I keep a local mirror and have it
scripted down to 30 minutes :-)).
My /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/fonts.alias is
an empty file.
Here's the the contents of that directory:
# ls /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:05:21PM -0700, Paul Yeatman said
So, for the sake of clarification as some conflicting statements have
been made, as long as the FontPath to
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType is given in
XF86Config-4, the order of the FontPaths doesn't matter, ie. even
(4) requires a working (1) and moreover requires modifying
/etc/X11/XftConfig; in particular enabling anti-aliasing (match edit
rgba = rgb) and pointing to TrueType (dir ..path..to..bitstream-vera).
(4) is representive of all Xft v1 apps. (4) also takes care of old GTK1
apps.
I am
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:25, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I
discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts
under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on, results in myriad yet
often
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:34:05PM +1300, Paul William wrote:
(4) requires a working (1) and moreover requires modifying
/etc/X11/XftConfig; in particular enabling anti-aliasing (match edit
rgba = rgb) and pointing to TrueType (dir ..path..to..bitstream-vera).
(4) is representive of
Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on
the list a couple of times. It's available from
http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt and is reproduced below so
people can criticies it more easily :)
By jove, you've got it!!!
Quoting Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Personally, I think restricting the focus to stable, or just certain
aspects of it, is a bit limiting, but it's your call.
I'm the rare breed that actually runs Stable on my production, every-day-use
desktop. I'm not a programmer, and I do very little
[erk, to the list now]
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:25:30PM -0700, M. Kirchhoff said
While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I
discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts
under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on,
-Original Message-
From: M. Kirchhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused
Quoting Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Personally, I think restricting the focus to stable
Rob Weir, great guide, thanks!
Two questions though from someone with no fonts understanding. It
seems assumed that:
FontPath unix/:7100# local font server
is right out? (I think someone in this thread mentioned a font server
not being necessary for most users)
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