Re: Compaq Presario 1255 sound and touchpad under Debian?

2005-12-04 Thread Matej Cepl
high_desert wrote: > Part of the problem is I am not sure what the sound hardware is. What is response from lspci? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Just remember, brothers and sisters--their skins may

Re: Trying Debian?

2005-11-28 Thread Matej Cepl
, I am not sure what is the situation now in RedHat world, but compilation of kernel is in Debian not that big deal, because of make-kpkg. I mean, I do not want to say, that you cannot compile kernel in FC*, but in Debian (and *ubuntu, etc.) it is so easy! Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplov

RE: Re: Software and kernel modules for Linksys WPC54G / WPC54GS

2005-11-25 Thread Matej Cepl
ferent -- my wifi on-desk card from Dell (:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)) was originally not even recognized by lspci, but it alaways worked like a charm with ndiswrapper. Just try it. Matej -- Matej Cepl, h

Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Marvin Renich wrote: > Matej: Can you modify your script to only remove not-installed .debs, > leaving .debs for removed-but-not-purged and not-configured packages > alone? Accept my thanks in advance if you feel like doing it. I don't know how to get not-configured packages from

Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-23 Thread Matej Cepl
1405-times in my case). The attached version does the same, but is IMHO much better (and yes, I prefer Python to complicated bash :-)). Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC They never open their mouths

Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-23 Thread Matej Cepl
.. > # rm $deb > fi Thanks. There is now wish for this in BTS (bug# 340444). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. -- Mae West -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl wrote: > If I won't find something better, I will hack something > together in Python. OK, rather than explain what I mean, I wrote it myself (see attached). Can anybody comment on this script and whether I could somehow sneak in sets (I haven't found a way how to

RE: Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-22 Thread Matej Cepl
in packagesStoredNames \ if not(x in currentlyInstalled)] for file in storedNotInstalled: remove(file) Actually, when I am looking at it, it is almost whole script :-). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC I

Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-22 Thread Matej Cepl
. I would love to have something in between -- something less aggressive than clean and more aggressive than autoclean. If I won't find something better, I will hack something together in Python. Do you know about something better, please? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/

Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

2005-11-22 Thread Matej Cepl
this with little scripting of 'aptitude search', but call me lazy I would love to have already done solution. Thanks a lot for any response, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC This message has been compo

Re: 16 mb problem

2005-11-02 Thread Matej Cepl
age=kicking#486 Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC [...] sleep is no substitute for caffeine. -- Robert Storey in review of Debian (when describing re-compilation of kernel :-) -- To UNSUBS

Re: 16 mb problem

2005-11-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Sebastian Tennant wrote: > What are you on Matej? Even if were worth considering, where can you find > a copy of Windows 98 easily? You definitely can't download one!!! Did anybody actually tried to *work* with X-Window on 16MB RAM? And to run some useful applications on that? I am

Re: 16 mb problem

2005-11-02 Thread Matej Cepl
much less requirements for hardware, I believe). Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC We are told that [St. Anthony] once fell into dejection, finding uninterrupted contemplation above his strength; but was tau

Re: APM: It does not turn the laptop off [sarge & Compaq Presario 1200]

2005-09-26 Thread Matej Cepl
e (see above). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Las cosas claras y el chocolate espreso. (Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick.) -- Spanish proverb % -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Toshiba Sat. Laptop c2002 CE

2005-09-24 Thread Matej Cepl
the Boston area (specifically in Somerville and study at Northeastern) and looking for a job. If you would like to spend that $70 on me, I would gladly took one afternoon and do what I am able to do (and no I am not a CS professional, so I cannot promise anything). Looking forward to he

Re: Moving KDE on etch from 3.3.2 to 3.4.1

2005-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Bob Alexander wrote: > Must have goofed somewhere since aptitude update ; aptitude upgrade does > not propose ANY upgrades. aptitude dist-upgrade ??? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC As a rule of thum

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
dency to be sometimes broken as well and then the situation is even worse than with unstable, because it takes much more time to fix it, but it has not happened to me so far). YMMV, of course. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Luca Pireddu wrote: > Actually, KDE 3.4 is already in Debian unstable. You don't need to > include unofficial package repositories. Except that this one is compiled for etch (with gcc-3.*). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Bob Alexander wrote: > What is the proper way of including some packages from other (e.g. > unstable) sources to upgrade to kde 3.4 ? For KDE 3.4.1 you do not need pinning at all. This is the line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./ Matej -- Mate

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
urrent X system to the latest > Xorg versions. > > What would be the reccomended way of doing so ? install xserver-xorg package (before that just to be sure backup /etc/X11). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D

Re: dpkg database rebuild

2005-09-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Derek Broughton wrote: > aptitude install `cat installed.txt` > > Nice, Matej. I think I'll just cron that command on a weekly basis. ??? What is it good for to run this in cron? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: Pointers to a Debian cum XOrg installation

2005-09-14 Thread Matej Cepl
distribution is "sarge" not "woody". Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. -- Frederick Ba

Re: KDE vs Gnome

2005-09-13 Thread Matej Cepl
by this and remove them. Repeat as long as everything you think should be gone already is. What about this? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Don't come crying to me about your "30 minute compiles"

Re: dpkg database rebuild

2005-09-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Derek Broughton wrote: > Cute, but why is it "preferred"? The dpkg method (which I've used) is > pretty simple. Cause aptitude keeps what was installed just to satisfy dependencies. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43

Re: dpkg database rebuild

2005-09-12 Thread Matej Cepl
ich is my preferred way): aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' > installed.txt Then simple editing of installed.txt will make you script to install the same packages on new computer. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG F

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Daniel Pittman wrote: > Sure, that programs a WEP key and refuses to accept packets from the > network that are not WEP encrypted. > > That should be enough to discourage *most* people from breaking in. Thanks a lot, that was the answer I was looking for. Matej -- Mate

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-21 Thread Matej Cepl
in /etc/networks/interfaces? Does it do anything to my Windows-using neighbor? Thanks a lot for the help, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for

Re: home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-20 Thread Matej Cepl
e (i.e., in foreground), should I ifup the interface or only after wpa_supplicant succeeds (which hasn't happened yet :-))? Thanks for any light thrown on this. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964

home WPA-secured network -- as simple as possible

2005-08-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I have decided that I would like to switch home network (just our two notebooks) to wireless and I would like to make it WPA-secured. Can anybody suggest the most simple WPA configuration using wpasupplicant, please? Thanks a lot, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG

USB drive destroyed by Linux?

2005-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
ppen often to USB drives? Thanks for any reply, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support, rather than illumination. -- Andrew Lang -- To U

Re: Best "network manager"

2005-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Would this simple script help (consider it released under MIT/X license and it expects exim4)? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Just remember, brothers and sisters--their skins may be white, but their souls are just

Re: Problems booting Debian 3.1 on Acer 4100

2005-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
bian installation :-) Just a thought -- problems with hotplug are these days mostly problems with ACPI. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Re: gnome-terminal

2005-07-17 Thread Matej Cepl
ording to which URL it is (e.g., for http:// it offers all installed browsers, for mailto: kmail or mutt). Of course all that is configurable to the smallest detail in klipper's settings. All that available at least since KDE 2.[12]. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/mate

Re: failed ifup leaves device up

2005-07-17 Thread Matej Cepl
#x27;s README), you can get there very easily as well. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. -

failed ifup leaves device up

2005-07-15 Thread Matej Cepl
ug in ifplugd, ifupdown, or my misconfiguration? Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible t

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-12 Thread Matej Cepl
kcontrol and many other KDE packages, which I would love to have installed (like kscreensaver, python2.3-qt3, grass, etc.). Does anybody know about the solution for this problem, please? Thanks a lot for any reply, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ G

Cascading configuration of ifupdown [Was: Re: ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, ...]

2005-07-05 Thread Matej Cepl
anytime, but when it was on, then it was certainly much faster than my regular dial-up connection. How could I sent my network like "use wlan0 for the Internet connection, but when it is not available then go for eth0 (where was the server connecting us to the Internet via modem)"? Any id

Re: Batch Resize, how to?

2005-07-02 Thread Matej Cepl
25 \ | pnmtojpeg -exif=${TMPEXIF} > $TMPJPEG \ && mv $TMPJPEG $1 chmod a+r $1 rm -f $TMPEXIF Use it like for img in *.jpg ; do scalejpeg $img; done Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1B

Re: Debian and Atheros Wireless card

2005-06-14 Thread Matej Cepl
you really know why you need it (and it is not just a remain from the original Debian kernel configuration), then you would be much better just to switch initrd from the kernel configuration (that is the make menuconfig step). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 2

Re: Debian and Atheros Wireless card

2005-06-12 Thread Matej Cepl
make-kpkg 5. make-kpkg --revision somename.1 --rootcmd fakeroot kernel-image (it makes distinct name of the kernel-image .deb package for the current computer) > 6. dpkg -i /usr/src/ > 7. reboot Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC

Re: ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, netscript, whereami, ... -- what should I use?

2005-06-10 Thread Matej Cepl
Vincent Bernat wrote: > Not sure, but you have also the problems with domain name servers in > /etc/resolv.conf for example. Most users here have problem when > switching from wire to wireless because of duplicate default routes. resolvconf seems to work for me pretty wel

Re: Which laptop?

2005-06-10 Thread Matej Cepl
ly speaking I am quite satisfied. BTW, the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list for Xorg drivers is deb http://neo.wh-stuttgart.de/debian testing xorg deb-src http://neo.wh-stuttgart.de/debian testing xorg Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89E

Re: ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, netscript, whereami, ... -- what should I use?

2005-06-09 Thread Matej Cepl
it simply wasn't going to work in Debian (wrong > Gnome version or something - I don't recall exactly) but that probably > isn't the case now. Well, this is KDE-prefering computer, so I will wait until all this beauty will be ported to KDE. And yes, I will have to probably wait on K

Re: ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, netscript, whereami, ... -- what should I use?

2005-06-09 Thread Matej Cepl
ut Debian package in the official repository) solution. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, netscript, whereami, ... -- what should I use?

2005-06-09 Thread Matej Cepl
all additional settings (like for example setting of mail server) via debconf configuration? Why cannot I do dpkg-reconfigure ifupdown-laptop ? Oh well. In meantime, can you suggest which utilities I could use so I do not have to write everything myself? Thanks, Matej -- M

Re: Debian router/firewall?

2005-06-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Michael 'DayWalker' Klug wrote: > What i want is a slim firewall that works as a router. Further i need a > small > webserver for different documents. I use as a router/firewall/dns server/mail server/web server/etc. old Debian/woody based server with ipmasq/dnsmasq/e

Re: wireless card

2005-06-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Emmanuele Salvati wrote: > i installed sarge debian on a toshiba satellite a65-s1067. > i need to buy a wireless card. > can anybody give me an advice (or a list) about which ones work in debian? I have here Orinoco Silver 11 Mbit/s and it works pretty well with hermes driver in kerne

Re: Standby/Resume works only during Grub

2005-06-04 Thread Matej Cepl
w, having ACPI not really > working and no APM in a 64 bit kernel I won't be able to suspend. :-( Of course, you can always try suspend2 <http://swsuspend.sf.net>, which IIRC works with 64bit kernel and multiprocessors, etc. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 8

Re: Standby/Resume works only during Grub

2005-06-03 Thread Matej Cepl
boot option pci=noacpi. But this does not > seem to help under Debian? Are you sure about that? Moreover, are you really sure that you have no running acpid (its settings can be changed in /etc/acpid)? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E

Re: Colored anti-aliasing. How do I stop it?

2005-06-01 Thread Matej Cepl
west hinting and no antialiasing at all, but not that much among different levels of hinting). Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 ..every Man

Re: *** bluber *** Re: Male xxxxxx enhancement formula^

2005-05-28 Thread Matej Cepl
y I like them. Except that there are some people (like me) who are reading many lists (actually as many as possible) via gmane.org, so additional email message is just plainly annoying. And the fact that Cc: to you fixes some of your problems doesn't mean, that you should annoy us.

Re: Laptop Network Card and X-windows Issues...

2005-05-26 Thread Matej Cepl
s.mit.edu testing/main Packages 4.1.0-16woody6 0 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages chelcicky:matej$ (do the same with /etc/init.d/kdm -- that's what starts KDE). Good luck! Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BA

Re: Not able to make Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express (rev 03) work with X 6.8.2

2005-05-21 Thread Matej Cepl
Andreas Schildbach wrote: > news://news.gmane.org:119/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it would be better to use http://mid.gmane.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED], but it doesn't work either (gmane.org claims that there is no such group as gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg :-). Matej -- Matej Ce

Re: Not able to make Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express (rev 03) work with X 6.8.2

2005-05-20 Thread Matej Cepl
Thanks for the help, but I will then rather stay with VESA driver, until this snapshot will be released and debianized -- do you have any idea when it could happen (I mean releasing, you have no word over Debianization, I suppose)? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF

Not able to make Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express (rev 03) work with X 6.8.2

2005-05-20 Thread Matej Cepl
not have DRI (why, I have compiled in the kernel all required modules and it seems that they are correctly loaded; see also attached), but it shouldn't be fatal, should it? Does anybody see what I am doing wrong? Did anybody make Dell Inspiron 2200 work with Xorg? Thanks a lot for any advice,

Re: Troubles with Intel graphics card and XFree86

2005-05-20 Thread Matej Cepl
have any idea, how to make these DRM modules work? > BTW DRI is not essential for making X work, so these are only warnings > IMHO. OK, so what I am doing wrong that X doesn't want to start up with i810 driver? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 2

Re: Troubles with Intel graphics card and XFree86

2005-05-19 Thread Matej Cepl
and /boot/config-`uname -r`. Thanks a lot, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a light bulb? Th

Troubles with Intel graphics card and XFree86

2005-05-19 Thread Matej Cepl
, even after a lot of trying, I have not managed to make it work, so I have still that abysmally ugly blinking VESA mode. My kernel config (vanilla 2.6.11.7) and xfree86 setup are available on http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/tmp/X11.tar.bz2. Can anybody help me to make this work, please? Thanks a lot

Re: problems upgrading to kde 3.2 on woody

2004-02-04 Thread Matej Cepl
had to reselect some packages and make some order in that, but now I can send you this email from KMail 1.6 (with Disconnected IMAP -- yay!!!). Thanks to all developers! Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D

Re: problems upgrading to kde 3.2 on woody

2004-02-04 Thread Matej Cepl
had to reselect some packages and make some order in that, but now I can send you this email from KMail 1.6 (with Disconnected IMAP -- yay!!!). Thanks to all developers! Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D

Re: KDE, Dell, and XFree crashes

2003-07-02 Thread Matej Cepl
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:36:53PM -0500, xuare wrote: Matej hit the nail on the head! I have no clue how you originally determined turning off DPMS was the correct item, but it works! Well, we spend couple of hours fighting with that (ehm, I was installing Debian on my wife's notebook

Re: KDE, Dell, and XFree crashes

2003-07-02 Thread Matej Cepl
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:36:53PM -0500, xuare wrote: Matej hit the nail on the head! I have no clue how you originally determined turning off DPMS was the correct item, but it works! Well, we spend couple of hours fighting with that (ehm, I was installing Debian on my wife's notebook aft

Re: runlevels question

2003-07-01 Thread Matej Cepl
was possible, and >> I'd be interested to know how to do it. update-rc.d -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: runlevels question

2003-07-01 Thread Matej Cepl
was possible, and >> I'd be interested to know how to do it. update-rc.d -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE, Dell, and XFree crashes

2003-07-01 Thread Matej Cepl
h woody -- what helped was to switch off DPMS in Monitor section (Option "DPMS" "false" in active Monitor section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4). Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: KDE, Dell, and XFree crashes

2003-07-01 Thread Matej Cepl
h woody -- what helped was to switch off DPMS in Monitor section (Option "DPMS" "false" in active Monitor section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4). Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (61

Re: 2.4 Kernel Stability

2003-07-01 Thread Matej Cepl
an? 2.4.* is part of the Debian at least a year (if not more). > I also want to add xawtv and many other MPEG4 packages, but, they only > seem to run on a 2.4 kernel. No experience with these. Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highl

Re: 2.4 Kernel Stability

2003-07-01 Thread Matej Cepl
an? 2.4.* is part of the Debian at least a year (if not more). > I also want to add xawtv and many other MPEG4 packages, but, they only > seem to run on a 2.4 kernel. No experience with these. Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highl

Re: thinkpad R40 sarge install PCI_IDE unknown

2003-06-25 Thread Matej Cepl
l anyway (APM), so why not to get newer kernel? Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: thinkpad R40 sarge install PCI_IDE unknown

2003-06-25 Thread Matej Cepl
l anyway (APM), so why not to get newer kernel? Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I want coredumps!

2003-06-19 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-19, 14:47 GMT, Matej Cepl wrote: > Hmmm. I tried both of these: > > 1) I uncommented the line in /etc/security/limits.conf > >* hardcore1 > >restarted computer, but nothing happened (ulimit -a in konsole still >

Re: I want coredumps!

2003-06-19 Thread Matej Cepl
hat I got this in /var/log/kdm.log: /etc/X11/Xsession: ulimit: cannot modify core file size limit: \ Operace není povolena (``Operace není povolena'' is ``Action is not permitted'' in Czech). Any thoughts anybody? Thanks, Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger:

Re: I want coredumps!

2003-06-19 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-19, 14:47 GMT, Matej Cepl wrote: > Hmmm. I tried both of these: > > 1) I uncommented the line in /etc/security/limits.conf > >* hardcore1 > >restarted computer, but nothing happened (ulimit -a in konsole still >

Re: I want coredumps!

2003-06-19 Thread Matej Cepl
hat I got this in /var/log/kdm.log: /etc/X11/Xsession: ulimit: cannot modify core file size limit: \ Operace není povolena (``Operace není povolena'' is ``Action is not permitted'' in Czech). Any thoughts anybody? Thanks, Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger:

Re: I want coredumps!

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-18, 21:48 GMT, Didier Dubois wrote: > In your .bashrc this could be nice... Does kdm when starting read my ~/.bashrc? The application I have problems with is LyX. Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somervi

Re: I want coredumps!

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-06-18, 21:48 GMT, Didier Dubois wrote: > In your .bashrc this could be nice... Does kdm when starting read my ~/.bashrc? The application I have problems with is LyX. Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somervi

I want coredumps!

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, Debian/woody in its default configuration has ulimit -c set to 0. However, I want my programs to produce coredump when they fall down. Is there any canonical place where I put the configuration command to such effect (ulimit -c unlimited, I suppose)? Thanks, Matej -- Matej

I want coredumps!

2003-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, Debian/woody in its default configuration has ulimit -c set to 0. However, I want my programs to produce coredump when they fall down. Is there any canonical place where I put the configuration command to such effect (ulimit -c unlimited, I suppose)? Thanks, Matej -- Matej

Re: How many of you?

2003-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
on how did you do it? After fighting with the mess of incompatible packages (alsa-base 0.9+0beta12-3 v. alsa-source 0.5.12a-2), I gave up and stick with kernel modules (which fortunately works with my VIA AC97 chip on Compaq Presario 1200). Have a nice day, Matej -- Matej Cepl, GP

Re: help install toshiba satellite 2435/S255

2003-03-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > You can also use GNU parted, which is free (as in beer and speech). > However, GNU parted cannot resize an NTFS partition (but works fine for > FAT32). There is also an utility bootitng (use Google to find it), which can actually do this. Matej -- Matej Cep

Re: help install toshiba satellite 2435/S255

2003-03-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > You can also use GNU parted, which is free (as in beer and speech). > However, GNU parted cannot resize an NTFS partition (but works fine for > FAT32). There is also an utility bootitng (use Google to find it), which can actually do this. Matej -- Matej Cep

Re: OT: was: Subject: led.led solar lamp.cd vcd dvd mp3.car cd vcd dvd mp3.grease gun

2003-03-02 Thread Matej Cepl
. > (yes, it's a typo, but exactly true ;-) You really don't have to (unless you are really heavily addicted to Emacs -- then there is no hope :-). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30)

Re: OT: was: Subject: led.led solar lamp.cd vcd dvd mp3.car cd vcd dvd mp3.grease gun

2003-03-02 Thread Matej Cepl
. > (yes, it's a typo, but exactly true ;-) You really don't have to (unless you are really heavily addicted to Emacs -- then there is no hope :-). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 6

Re: Subject: led.led solar lamp.cd vcd dvd mp3.car cd vcd dvd mp3.grease gun

2003-03-01 Thread Matej Cepl
ou want to know what to do with KMail, then you can set kmail not to show HTML primarily (note though, that probably there was no real of any danger, because JavaScript is switched off on Default so no active code would be downloaded anyway). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Subject: led.led solar lamp.cd vcd dvd mp3.car cd vcd dvd mp3.grease gun

2003-03-01 Thread Matej Cepl
ou want to know what to do with KMail, then you can set kmail not to show HTML primarily (note though, that probably there was no real of any danger, because JavaScript is switched off on Default so no active code would be downloaded anyway). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: An hopefully simple question about acpi and debian kernel

2003-02-27 Thread Matej Cepl
om Debian should be vanilla kernel.org sources, so > the acpi patches should apply straight up. They're not -- they are patched even in parts related to ACPI, so you have to get the real vanilla sources from kernel.org (or rip off the Debian patches). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A

Re: An hopefully simple question about acpi and debian kernel

2003-02-27 Thread Matej Cepl
om Debian should be vanilla kernel.org sources, so > the acpi patches should apply straight up. They're not -- they are patched even in parts related to ACPI, so you have to get the real vanilla sources from kernel.org (or rip off the Debian patches). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' YOu must have ncurses5-dev too. Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' YOu must have ncurses5-dev too. Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Hi again. How to boot into gdm?

2003-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
ferably (which is an equivalent of chkconfig from RedHat). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are

Re: Hi again. How to boot into gdm?

2003-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
ferably (which is an equivalent of chkconfig from RedHat). Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are

Re: Anti-aliasing: xfstt or xfs-xtt ?!?

2003-02-25 Thread Matej Cepl
5dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" EndSection (and do not check, that you have line Load "freetype" in Module Section). Ma

Re: Anti-aliasing: xfstt or xfs-xtt ?!?

2003-02-25 Thread Matej Cepl
5dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" EndSection (and do not check, that you have line Load "freetype" in Module Section). Ma

Re: Compaq 1200 xl 106

2003-02-25 Thread Matej Cepl
n http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/. Have a nice day, Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30)

Re: Compaq 1200 xl 106

2003-02-25 Thread Matej Cepl
n http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/. Have a nice day, Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Whereami with PPP?

2003-02-24 Thread Matej Cepl
mi wrote: > Hi Matej. > ppp seems to exchange /etc/resolv.conf in some cases, when establishing the > connection. Could that cause any trouble in your chain ? Probably, but the problems occur even when running whereami with nothing to be done defined in whereami.conf. Matej -- M

Re: Where can I find a boot disk with 2.4.4?

2003-02-24 Thread Matej Cepl
rnal and higher. So anybody know where I can get > a bootdisk with this kernal in it? I'm a newbie so compiling Fourth or so CD from Debian package has kernel 2.4.16. Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 0214

Re: Whereami with PPP?

2003-02-24 Thread Matej Cepl
mi wrote: > Hi Matej. > ppp seems to exchange /etc/resolv.conf in some cases, when establishing the > connection. Could that cause any trouble in your chain ? Probably, but the problems occur even when running whereami with nothing to be done defined in whereami.conf. Matej -- M

Re: Where can I find a boot disk with 2.4.4?

2003-02-24 Thread Matej Cepl
rnal and higher. So anybody know where I can get > a bootdisk with this kernal in it? I'm a newbie so compiling Fourth or so CD from Debian package has kernel 2.4.16. Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 0214

Re: Whereami with PPP?

2003-02-24 Thread Matej Cepl
es are also attached. Any thoughts? Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as

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