Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:38:52AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > As Paul pointed out, it is better to use a tool that implements a > patent-free algorithm. Paul did not point out that it was better to use a tool that implements a patent-free algorithm. He merely made the usual "use Vorbis!"

Re: probelm upgrading x-window-system-core

2005-08-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:03:46AM +0100, Adam Mercer wrote: > I'm tracking side and for the past month or so, aptitude and refused > to upgrade the "x-window-system-core" package saying that it is > broken... Where in what you pasted does it say that anything is broken? All I see is a held-bac

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-13 Thread Rishi
> As Paul pointed out, it is better to use a tool that implements a > patent-free algorithm. Hmm. Then I guess I screwed up when I bought the Sony USB NS-11 MP3 Player (512 MB). I tried to play an OGG file on the device, but no joy. Does anyone know of hardware ogg players (usb) that I can buy?

Problem configuring a local .deb repository -- SOLVED!

2005-08-13 Thread Harold Crouch
Problem solved! I changed the apt-ftparchive command to apt-ftparchive packages . | gzip > Packages.gz and executed the command from within the directory containing the debs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem with Korean involving fonts and fontconfig

2005-08-13 Thread Chuck Williams
Arne Götje (高盛華) wrote: On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:27, Chuck Williams wrote: I'm new to i18n and font issues in Debain. I've loaded xfonts-baekmuk package to get Korean fonts, along with the relevant scim and uim packages for a Korean input method. The font files are properly in

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-13 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 13, 2005 22:38, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > As Paul pointed out, it is better to use a tool that implements a > patent-free algorithm. Yes, but unfortunately my car stereo only plays mp3's RJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Problem configuring a local .deb repository

2005-08-13 Thread Harold Crouch
Found a typo. Sorry! --- SNIP --- > I then did: > > apt-ftparchive packages /local_debs/ | gzip > Packages.gz > --- SNIP --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

2005-08-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 13 August 2005 11:00 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2005 01:18, Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:08 pm, Rishi wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Is there any program on Debian that can convert a wave file into > >> mp3? > > > >No, because of BMG Music's patent o

Problem configuring a local .deb repository

2005-08-13 Thread Harold Crouch
I downloaded the latest openoffice.org2 tarball from ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/ into /local_debs/ on my hard drive. Untarring the tarball gave me a directory full of .deb files. I then did: apt-ftparchive packages /local_debs/ | gzip Packages.gz I examined Pack

Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

2005-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 14 August 2005 01:18, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:08 pm, Rishi wrote: >> Hi >> >> Is there any program on Debian that can convert a wave file into >> mp3? > >No, because of BMG Music's patent on MPEG Layer 3 encoders. There are >unofficial packages for encoders (li

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:22:52PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > On August 13, 2005 22:05, Rishi wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in > > the debian package repository? > > > > Regards > > Legal reasons -- mp3 encoding is patented. Use ftp://ftp

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-13 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 13, 2005 22:05, Rishi wrote: > Hi > > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in > the debian package repository? > > Regards Legal reasons -- mp3 encoding is patented. Use ftp://ftp.nerim.net as a repository for lame, mplayer, audio/video codecs etc. RJP --

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:05 pm, Rishi wrote: > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in > the debian package repository? Thanks to BMG Music, all MP3 encoders are non-free. Try a patent-unencumbered format like Ogg Vorbis instead. pgpdv1anmYE7R.pgp Description:

Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

2005-08-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:08 pm, Rishi wrote: > Hi > > Is there any program on Debian that can convert a wave file into > mp3? No, because of BMG Music's patent on MPEG Layer 3 encoders. There are unofficial packages for encoders (like lame) available from sources that can be readily found

Re: image partition of 30G to 20G ?

2005-08-13 Thread Joe Smith
Hello, 1) Exact copy of hda1, hda2, hda3 onto hdb1, hdb2, hdb3 the problem here is that I am shinking the partition sizes beacuse 1) I don't need all the space and 2) I trying to make room to create a test AMD64 system setup. I only use WinXP for games and don't need all that space/ W

Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

2005-08-13 Thread Rishi
Hi Is there any program on Debian that can convert a wave file into mp3? I have a file in the following wave format. rec02.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz I'm trying to convert it into an mp3. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Regards -- Rishi

lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-13 Thread Rishi
Hi Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in the debian package repository? Regards -- Rishi

Re: upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread H. S.
John Fleming wrote: Sure sounds like a lot of work compared with apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade. Actually it is. Apt-get in Debian is waaay much easier and more convenient than either the upgrading Fedora from CDs or through yum. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Ndiswrapper

2005-08-13 Thread Teilhard Knight
Hello: I am a newbie in Debian with a tiny experience in Mandrake. I have been trying to put my wireless adapter at work in Debian. Compilation of the binary drivers was impossible, so I am trying to install ndiswrapper. For that I need the kernel-source which matches my kernel and a symbolic l

On the use of DVD recordable media (was: Re: DVD+R writing problems)

2005-08-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 14 2005, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote (Wednesday 10 August 2005 10:50 am): > > Do note that the problem only seems to be with DVD+R discs. CD-R, > > CD-RW, and DVD+RW writing is fine (although consistently slower than > > advertised, this is probably a different

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Everything below occurred after a fresh reboot. On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:23:35PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am going to add the following, which may be relevant: > > tail -f /var/log/messages > Aug 13 23:16:56 localhost gconfd (trc-4692): Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gco

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am going to add the following, which may be relevant: tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 13 23:16:56 localhost gconfd (trc-4692): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 Aug 13 23:17:00 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: control timeout

reprogramming individual keyboards in a multiple usb keyboard setup

2005-08-13 Thread Jason Lewis
Hi, I am setting up a debian box to act as my mythtv front end. As such, I'm using a Twinhand Visionplus DVB-t card which comes with a usb infra-red receiver and a nice little remote control. The reciver plugs into the usb port and just acts as another keyboards and puts its key strokes into

Re: debian 3..1 sarge

2005-08-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:40:30AM +0200, matt wrote: > name & configuration of notebook > aver travelmate 2300 Averatec? I have the Averatec 3120V, and it was slightly tricky to install Sarge on it. I did it, though. Here's my installation report: http://snipurl.com/gxfs Essentially

RESOLVED (downgrade usbmgr) Re: USB Mouse, /dev/input/mice: No such device

2005-08-13 Thread Ryan King
So I futzed around with a hundred things, and eventually had this idea: dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archive/usbmgr_1.0.0-3_i386.deb (the current version is 1.0.0-4) And boom - /dev/input/mice is working again. Thanks for everyone who read this and was as puzzled as me. -rjk On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 a

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 07:59:17PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: > Hi, > > AR> I'm having some issues with my usb system in my fresh sarge > AR> installation, the scanner's are permission issues, > > When looking in /proc/bus/usb, if found that my scanner is owned by > root.scanner. At your system, thi

Re: Problem with Korean involving fonts and fontconfig

2005-08-13 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:27, Chuck Williams wrote: > I'm new to i18n and font issues in Debain. I've loaded > xfonts-baekmuk package to get Korean fonts, along with the relevant > scim and uim packages for a Korean input method. The font files are > properly installed into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/f

Re: upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 7:00 PM Subject: upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully Hi, This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs. Before I starte

Re: DVD+R writing problems

2005-08-13 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote (Wednesday 10 August 2005 10:50 am): > Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual Format > Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but I've run into problems > trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or so tries so far (many with > different di

Re: upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
> > This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 Blasphemer! J/K ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unsuscribe

2005-08-13 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:29:52 -0300 Bernardo Alvez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry, you can't get out with that spelling. Cybe R. Wizard -- "Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'". Bruce Perens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-13 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote: > [13/08/2005 -- 20:27u] Kumar Appaiah: > > The Bitstreat Vera fonts work pretty well in all graphical > > applications, but I am not able to get it on my konsole or XTerm. In > > Konsole, it displays the sampkle in the selection dialog box, but I > > am

Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

2005-08-13 Thread tigergutt
tor, 11,.08.2005 kl. 18.59 +0100, skrev Chris Boot: > Hi all, > > I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives > and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my > motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the > hard drives to

Re: upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread H. S.
Wrong newsgroup selected in Mozilla reader :( Please ignore this message. Terribly sorry for posting this off topic here. It was unintentional. ->HS H. S. wrote: Hi, This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs. Before

g++ 4 and segfaults with STL

2005-08-13 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi today I did an apt-get upgrade and found that g++ now points to g++-4 $ g++ --version g++ (GCC) 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-2) I compiled my programs with this new version (they make use of stl) and found that these programs segfaults (e.g., when iterating over a list). should I upgrade also the

Re: debian 3..1 sarge

2005-08-13 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:40:30AM +0200, matt wrote: > dear friends > > i hadnt luck install above mentioned distribution on my notebook. i had > succes by standard install but after reboot ing it hangs. it hangs by > the kernel 2.6 too. it is anything in coherence to the search by system > fo

upgraded from FC2 --> FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread H. S.
Hi, This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs. Before I started the process, I by chance noted that my FC2 installation has some packages installed twice. I got a list by using the following command (found on google): rpm

gphoto2 - permissions

2005-08-13 Thread Roy Pluschke
Greetings, Running debian testing (etch) problem: "gphoto2 -P" (download all pictures) works as root "gphoto2 -P" won't work as regular user -- gives following error *** Error *** An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Operation not p

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2005-08-13 Thread Bernardo Alvez
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debian 3..1 sarge

2005-08-13 Thread matt
dear friends i hadnt luck install above mentioned distribution on my notebook. i had succes by standard install but after reboot ing it hangs. it hangs by the kernel 2.6 too. it is anything in coherence to the search by system for usb ports. i had reject this option while i had performed the

Re: apt-get upgrade message problem

2005-08-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:12:38AM +0200, Han Klaasz wrote: > Hi, > > I've got the following simple problem with apt-get: > > I ran "apt-get upgrade" but i get messages about the software, > something about versions, no error messages. How do I continue > upgrading? Learn to ask smarter question

Re: apt-get upgrade message problem

2005-08-13 Thread Han Klaasz
Found it typing ":q" made it possible to continue Han 2005/8/14, Han Klaasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I've got the following simple problem with apt-get: > > I ran "apt-get upgrade" but i get messages about the software, > something about versions, no error messages. How do I continue > u

apt-get upgrade message problem

2005-08-13 Thread Han Klaasz
Hi, I've got the following simple problem with apt-get: I ran "apt-get upgrade" but i get messages about the software, something about versions, no error messages. How do I continue upgrading? tnx, Han Klaasz (Holland)

Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:54 +0800, phyrster wrote: > Hi debianers, > > Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up? > > The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other > remote control sort of things. For the convenience of a local user (non >

cpandpkg (Was: Re: Gaim lost spell check)

2005-08-13 Thread Ryan King
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:04:24AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > BTW - checkinstall. > > Nice tool. It would be nice to have that linked into > > perl -MCPAN intall Foo:Baz > > My poor system is a mix of debian perl packages, packages I've created > with whatever tool that is to build packa

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE confirm

2005-08-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-08-13 23:50:08, schrieb ChPh: > Manuel García > a.k.a mannyto > Debian user #379718 kernel 2.6.12.2-x86 Hey, your VISA Card number and Expiration Date is missing ;-) Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917

grub-install strange error

2005-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
I boot a disk (2.6.8-2-686) in order to install the grub bootloader, and do: # grub-install hd3,0 and get: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly # li -l /boot/grub/stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 ... If I try: # grub grub> find Error15: File not found Note that the grub

gnus sources.list: ambivalent results for security updates

2005-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
I have a system which has the following in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free It works fine. However, am I correct to assume that the "contrib" and "non-free" directories are superfluous in this case and can or ought to be removed? I mou

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE confirm

2005-08-13 Thread James Burke
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Re: UNSUBSCRIBE confirm

2005-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
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standby problems

2005-08-13 Thread johnp
I'm running sarge on a toshiba tecra T8000 laptop and I can't get it to go on standby except when the battery runs flat, and then when it comes back the sound doesn't work. Anyone able to give me some pointers please? Slainte, JohnP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE confirm

2005-08-13 Thread ke6isf
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Problem with Korean involving fonts and fontconfig

2005-08-13 Thread Chuck Williams
I'm new to i18n and font issues in Debain. I've loaded xfonts-baekmuk package to get Korean fonts, along with the relevant scim and uim packages for a Korean input method. The font files are properly installed into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/. dfontmgr verifies that they are installed accord

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Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-13 Thread Tom
[13/08/2005 -- 20:27u] Kumar Appaiah: > The Bitstreat Vera fonts work pretty well in all graphical > applications, but I am not able to get it on my konsole or XTerm. In > Konsole, it displays the sampkle in the selection dialog box, but I am > not able to get it on the screen. > > Could you help

Re: mutt + thunderbird

2005-08-13 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > is there any way to deal my imap mailbox between mutt and > thunderbird ? > Thunderbird doen't see the messages in my folders, also when > subscribed to. > The permissions seems ok. > > Using fetchmail, courier-imap, postfix a

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2005-08-13 Thread Vi Arguelles
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XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
The Bitstreat Vera fonts work pretty well in all graphical applications, but I am not able to get it on my konsole or XTerm. In Konsole, it displays the sampkle in the selection dialog box, but I am not able to get it on the screen. Could you help me? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna

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image partition of 30G to 20G ?

2005-08-13 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, Have a question, I currently HDA that I am using Unusable 8.23 hda1 Primary Linux ReiserFS98.71 hda2 Boot Primary NTFS [] 41940.71 Unusable 31881.19 h

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim MacBaine wrote: > Short question: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs? Those > files contains German quotation marks, Umlauts and other interesting > things. I am using GNU Emacs right now and don't appear to me to be having any trouble editing UTF-8 encoded files. The only special c

Re: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

2005-08-13 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi, BM> Any ideas about how to fix? What about /var/lib/dpkg/available-old? Is it corrupted also? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi, AR> I'm having some issues with my usb system in my fresh sarge AR> installation, the scanner's are permission issues, When looking in /proc/bus/usb, if found that my scanner is owned by root.scanner. At your system, things will probably be the same, so, putting yourself in group "scanner" sh

Re: Colors is Firefox

2005-08-13 Thread Vi Arguelles
Dave Ewart wrote: OK, I understand. Given that you don't want to force *every* page to follow your own choice, perhaps you should define your own basic CSS and then use it for sites you deem 'poorly designed' by using the WebDeveloper extension? https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.p

USB Mouse, /dev/input/mice: No such device

2005-08-13 Thread Ryan King
Howdy, X is not starting up for lack of a mouse, and sure enough, cat /dev/input/mice gives: /dev/input/mice: no such device. This mouse was working 2 minutes before I rebooted, and it came back up like this. It has been a while since I've rebooted, so there's the chance that something is differ

Re: Touchpad problem after upgrading to 2.6.12

2005-08-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
ctrlER wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with double tap on my touchpad since i upgraded from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12. I'n 2.6.8 i could double tap and i could single tap just fine, now, if I single tap in something, it opens two apps, so I'm figuring that it's assuming double tapping when I'm just si

Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-13 Thread Ryan King
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:48:42PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > This would be done by editing /etc/inittab to have a line like > > > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -l /bin/bash -n 38400 tty1 > > > What user will own /bin/bash? Isn't it root? Yep, unless you did something like: 1:2345:respawn:/s

mutt + thunderbird

2005-08-13 Thread mess-mate
Hi, is there any way to deal my imap mailbox between mutt and thunderbird ? Thunderbird doen't see the messages in my folders, also when subscribed to. The permissions seems ok. Using fetchmail, courier-imap, postfix and mutt. mess-mate -- The abuse of greatness is

Re: probelm upgrading x-window-system-core

2005-08-13 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:03:46AM +0100, Adam Mercer wrote: > Hi > > I'm tracking side and for the past month or so, aptitude and refused > to upgrade the "x-window-system-core" package saying that it is > broken, at first I thought that this was due to the ongoing change > from xfree86 to xorg.

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

2005-08-13 Thread Bill Moseley
Any ideas about how to fix? laptop:/home/moseley# apt-get update Get:1 http://bumby unstable/main Packages [3755kB] [...] Fetched 5384kB in 1m14s (72.0kB/s) E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to

Re: Colors is Firefox

2005-08-13 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paolo Pantaleo wrote: Just out of curiosity, have you set: Edit > Preferences > General > Font & Colors... > Always use my: [x] Colors >>> >>>No i didn't, but it is not exacly what i want >> >>Can you explain why this is not exactly what y

Re: Colors is Firefox

2005-08-13 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/8/13, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > 2005/8/12, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Just out of curiosity, have you set: > >> > >>Edit > Preferences > General > Font & Colors... > Always use my: [x] Colors > > > > No

Xinerama in Unstable

2005-08-13 Thread Bill Moseley
I have not follow the xorg transition that well. I have a problem[1] running xinerama since a recent dist-upgrade on Unstable and I'm wondering which package I might report the bug in. [1] The bug, noted in another thread, is in Gaim the underline that indicates misspelled words only displays in

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-13 Thread linux
At 11:33 13/08/2005, you wrote: At 12:22 12/08/2005, you wrote: On Friday 12 Aug 2005 12:03, TreeBoy wrote: > The instructions I followed were: > > http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/docs/sargehowto.html > > However, you do *not* need to do configure the kernel. > > You *do* need to "

Alt+Tab not displaying pop up menu in Enlightenment16

2005-08-13 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hello everyone, I just installed debian sarge with E16, and had some problems with the pop up menu that appears when one clicks Alt+Tab to switch windows. I talked it over the E mailing list, and here's one of the responses: > Normally you should be able to enable/configure the > focus list in th

usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I'm having some issues with my usb system in my fresh sarge installation, the scanner's are permission issues, multicard doesn't even make the kernel blink. As root, xsane has no problems. I am using a 2.6.x stock debian kernel, the one in sarge. Here is some about my system: uname -a Linux hpd 2.

Re: Colors is Firefox

2005-08-13 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 2005/8/12, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>Just out of curiosity, have you set: >> >>Edit > Preferences > General > Font & Colors... > Always use my: [x] Colors > > No i didn't, but it is not exacly what i want Can you explain wh

Re: Colors is Firefox

2005-08-13 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/8/12, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Just out of curiosity, have you set: > > Edit > Preferences > General > Font & Colors... > Always use my: [x] Colors > > -- > Robert "roach" Spencer > Pietermaritzburg > South Africa No i didn't, but it is not exacly what i want

Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

2005-08-13 Thread linux
At 12:22 12/08/2005, you wrote: On Friday 12 Aug 2005 12:03, TreeBoy wrote: > The instructions I followed were: > > http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/docs/sargehowto.html > > However, you do *not* need to do configure the kernel. > > You *do* need to "apt-get install speedtouch"! > > Y

Re: An exim cough.

2005-08-13 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:42:25PM -0400, R. Clayton wrote: > The permissions were > > ul ls -l /etc/exim4/passwd.client > -rw-r- 1 root root 241 2005-05-02 18:32 /etc/exim4/passwd.client > > and changing them to > > ul ls -l /etc/exim4/passwd.client > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 241 2