Re: OT: does reporting to spamcop do any good?

2006-06-17 Thread John Kelly
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:10:21 -0400, you wrote: >Has anyone on the list used spamcop ( http://www.spamcop.net/ ) to report >spam? It takes sometime to report the spam. Is it worth investing that much >time? What are your experiences? Are there any better alternatives? I don't report any spam to

Re: procmail postprocess directory in Maildir format howto?

2006-06-17 Thread mlaks
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:24, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1149817191 past the epoch, mlaks wrote: > > How do I run procmail on [a Maildir] to separate out the > > files to other subdirectories. > > ... > > > the crucial line is formail -s procmail <.newmail && > > the -s flag to formail splits the inpu

sid dist-upgrade emacs fonts boxes Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

2006-06-17 Thread mlaks
Hi, after my last SID apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade :) emacs fonts are not working. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs filename Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-

Re: Can I update unstable from USB memory stick?

2006-06-17 Thread Arafangion
On Sunday 18 June 2006 14:37, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Is there a way I could download all the daily uploads for Unstable onto a > memory stick, take that memory stick home and update my computer from my > memory stick? I have a very complicated computer situation right now and > it would be easiest

can't boot sarge after installation

2006-06-17 Thread Serena Cantor
My scsi is an old ISA, use jumper to set irq, and use aha152x module. During sarge installation, it fails to find my disk automatically. I enter the command on the console: modprobe aha152x io=0x340 irq=10 The installation proceed, every thing seems OK except the disk speed is slow. After reboot,

Can I update unstable from USB memory stick?

2006-06-17 Thread Joseph Smidt
Is there a way I could download all the daily uploads for Unstable onto a memory stick, take that memory stick home and update my computer from my memory stick?  I have a very complicated computer situation right now and it would be easiest if I could put all the daily uploads onto my stick and upd

sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-06-17 Thread mlaks
Hi Debian team, I run sid. I love to deal with issues! I do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Please do not write me "if you want a stable system run stable". I want to have fun and thats why I run sid! Now on to business! Overview: Up to date SID! 1) kde printing system will not talk

OT: does reporting to spamcop do any good?

2006-06-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Has anyone on the list used spamcop ( http://www.spamcop.net/ ) to report spam? It takes sometime to report the spam. Is it worth investing that much time? What are your experiences? Are there any better alternatives? thanks raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups

module "lp" not loaded when parallel port detected

2006-06-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've reported the following as bug #374145, and wondered if anyone else has experienced it? On boot-up, the on-board parallel port is detected, but the last stage which includes loading the module "lp" doesn't happen until later. Initial detection: Jun 17 22:24:05 localhost kernel: parpo

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B.Hoffmann wrote: > Have changed it to > > /dev/sda /media/usbkey ext2 rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > still won't mount. The error I'm getting is > > mount: mount point /media/usbkey does not exist > Error: could not execute pmount $ sudo mkdir -p /media/u

Re: can't access CUPS through browser

2006-06-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/06/06 18:47), José Dimas wrote: > Hi, i just installed cups, and it's working ok, except for the fact I > can't access it through my browser. > I googled and didn't find a reason, maybe is in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, > my /etc/hosts seems ok. also, /etc/cups/cups.d/browser.conf and > ports.conf

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread B.Hoffmann
Have changed it to /dev/sda /media/usbkey ext2 rw,user,noauto 0 0 still won't mount. The error I'm getting is mount: mount point /media/usbkey does not exist Error: could not execute pmount Kind Regards, B.Hoffmann Linux User #398054 -Zenwalk- -Ubuntu- -Debian (Sarge)- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images-SOLVED

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: --- Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: snip Looks like you still want a mechanism for keeping specific versions of specific packages in cache. What I do is copy the .debs elsewhere, su

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:55:35 +0200 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. > > I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: > > -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the >Bitstream

Re: OpenOffice Calc interface uses huge font size

2006-06-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, George Borisov wrote: > I've just installed OpenOffice Calc on Debian (unstable) for the first time. > > The problem is that the interface font used it simply huge! > > I am running Xfce4. I have checked my DPI settings and these are set to > 96x96. I have also tried the font replacement thi

Re: Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Allen wrote: Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have apt-cache installed, then you use `apt-cache search $package` to find $package_regex, and if you use aptitude, you can do this to download but install it: `aptitide -d install $package_name` (latter need to be as root). Not to

Re: Need help with MBR.

2006-06-17 Thread Zach
On 6/17/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You need to mount your root partition and chroot into it. An example for using Knoppix as a rescue CD: http://tinyurl.com/ldwn8 (This points to the relevant section of the wiki on www.knoppix.net; I used tinyurl.com since the original link

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images-SOLVED

2006-06-17 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > --- Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > This should be an easy one but still no replys. > > Please > > > someone help me out on this. > > > > > > --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Need help with MBR.

2006-06-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 17:41:47 -0400, Zach wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a dual boot system (Debian "testing" with 2.4.27 kernel > and Windows 98 SE) and I was using LILO to give me a boot menu. Well > recently I had to reinstall Windows 98 and it installed it's loader > into the MBR so my Linux

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread H.S.
B.Hoffmann wrote: B.Hoffmann wrote: Hi all, after some experimenting my fstab entry for mounting a pendrive now looks like this dev/sda/media/usbdrive autorw,user,noauto 0 0 but it still doesn't work (obviously or would not post). Before wasting more time on trying to figu

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 11:38]: > > > Historically in UNIX the group wheel has GID 0, in Debian that's > > > the root group. > > > > Do you know where the name `wheel' comes from? > > No I don't. I couldn't find anything on Google either (10 minute > search only). One int

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* "B.Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 22:00]: > After some experimenting my fstab entry for mounting a pendrive now > looks like this > > dev/sda/media/usbdrive autorw,user,noauto 0 0 ^ are you missing a '/' or was that a typo in your e-mail? > but it still doesn't

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images-SOLVED

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
--- Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > This should be an easy one but still no replys. > Please > > someone help me out on this. > > > > --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) > >> From: Leonar

can't access CUPS through browser

2006-06-17 Thread José Dimas
Hi, i just installed cups, and it's working ok, except for the fact I can't access it through my browser. I googled and didn't find a reason, maybe is in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, my /etc/hosts seems ok. also, /etc/cups/cups.d/browser.conf and ports.conf are ok (the first allows browser and the second

Re: Installation Python 2.3 with Debian Testing

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 06:11]: > On 17/06/06, Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Debian BTS != bugzilla. ;-) > > Acknowledged. Realized that the difference is more than subtle! > Actually, it is *very* wrong to call Debian BTS bugzilla! > Thanks for the tip.

Need help with MBR.

2006-06-17 Thread Zach
Hi, I am running a dual boot system (Debian "testing" with 2.4.27 kernel and Windows 98 SE) and I was using LILO to give me a boot menu. Well recently I had to reinstall Windows 98 and it installed it's loader into the MBR so my Linux boot block in the MBR was wiped out and now LILO menu doesn't

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread B.Hoffmann
B.Hoffmann wrote: > Hi all, > > after some experimenting my fstab entry for mounting a pendrive now > looks like this > > dev/sda/media/usbdrive autorw,user,noauto 0 0 > > but it still doesn't work (obviously or would not post). > Before wasting more time on trying to figure o

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread H.S.
B.Hoffmann wrote: Hi all, after some experimenting my fstab entry for mounting a pendrive now looks like this dev/sda/media/usbdrive autorw,user,noauto 0 0 but it still doesn't work (obviously or would not post). Before wasting more time on trying to figure out this relative

Unmount a busy NFS share

2006-06-17 Thread Frank Blendinger
Hello, I want to unmount a busy NFS share, but failed to do so, even with a umount -f. $ mount | grep mothermole blackbox.l33t.lan:/mothermole on /mothermole type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,hard,intr,addr=192.168.0.3) $ umount /mothermole umount: /mothermole: device is busy umount: /mothermole: device

mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-17 Thread B.Hoffmann
Hi all, after some experimenting my fstab entry for mounting a pendrive now looks like this dev/sda/media/usbdrive autorw,user,noauto 0 0 but it still doesn't work (obviously or would not post). Before wasting more time on trying to figure out this relatively simple issue I th

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-17 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:16, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See > > if this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, > > burn it while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and > > continue unt

Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Wackojacko
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please someone help me out on this. --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linu

Re: Fw: Funny :)

2006-06-17 Thread debian-security-announce-request
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Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Allan Wind
Leonard, On 2006-06-17T10:06:42-0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > Would appreciate anyone telling me how to get all the > > kernel/linux-images back int my cache files so I can pick the one I > > want instaled. Plz copy my email-not subscribed. Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you

Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
This should be an easy one but still no replys. Please someone help me out on this. --- Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) > From: Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Another APT Issue-Where Are The > Linux-Images > To: debian

Repost-No Reply-Fwd: MPlayer Wont Work Under Sid-2.6.16-1-686

2006-06-17 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Reposting because need help and haven't gotten a response. Thanks for any help. Since the orig. post I have also copied all the mplayerplug-in-*.so files to my .mozilla/plugin dir including the totem and mozplugger plug-ins which got rid of the teal green double cross but the videos still wont play

Re: troubles with aptitude [solved]

2006-06-17 Thread Søren Christensen
I'm not sure if I can explain how things were fixed. inside aptitude I kept dvipdfmx forced it to be broken then reinstalled tetex. Thanks. On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:17:12PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:59:03AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 200

Re: troubles with aptitude

2006-06-17 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 18:17:12 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: >On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:59:03AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 >> Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: >> > >I ha

Re: troubles with aptitude

2006-06-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 18:17:12 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:59:03AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 > > Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > >

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread LeVA
2006. június 17. 18:12, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > > > I have googleearth running OK with an nvidia card, but I am having the > > font issue too; obviously it has nothing to do with graphics cards. > > I don't know anything about the specific needs of G

Re: troubles with aptitude

2006-06-17 Thread Søren Christensen
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:59:03AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 > Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > >I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well, > > >u

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 15:17:31 +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2006. június 17. 14:48, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. > > > > > > I tried it on my Sid system and fou

Re: troubles with aptitude

2006-06-17 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > >I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well, > >until an upgrade. > > > >So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tete

Re: troubles with aptitude

2006-06-17 Thread Raquel Rice
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > >I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked > >well, until an upgrade. > > > >So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tete

Re: setting firefox as default kde webbrowser

2006-06-17 Thread Andreas Berglund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: > Andreas Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>In the controlcenter I went to KDE Components/Component Chooser and I >>set Web browser to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox. > > > Check what the /usr/bin/x-www-browser is set to.

Re: troubles with aptitude

2006-06-17 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: >I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well, >until an upgrade. > >So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tetex, but now aptitude >seems to be caught in a trap. How do I get aptitude free? > >This i

Mount without /proc/mounts entry

2006-06-17 Thread Tom Lobato
Hi, How to mount a filesystem (specificly smbfs, if it matter) without add a entry in /proc/mounts? I just want (at most possible) to hide a remote mounted smbfs. Remove from fstab/mtab is easy, but from /proc/mounts... Thank you Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Mplayer won't play dvd! (was: dvd movie playing)

2006-06-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
It seems that mplayer's installation was successful on my Debian Sarge, I can also launch it with: $ gmplayer , but when I try to play a dvd, a window opens up saying: Failed to open dvd://1. , and on the terminal there is: Playing dvd://1. libdvdread: Couldn't find device name. Reading d

Re: Screen into another screen

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Divendres 16 Juny 2006 05:39, Steve Lamb va escriure: > Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > > I can change Control+A combination in the screen into screen [1], but > > someone uses another workaround that doesn't need ~/.screenrc changes? > > Just send a literal CNTL-A, (CNTL-A,a) which will get to t

troubles with aptitude

2006-06-17 Thread Søren Christensen
I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well, until an upgrade. So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tetex, but now aptitude seems to be caught in a trap. How do I get aptitude free? This is the output from aptitude: Extracting templates from packages: 100% Pre

Re: [UNVERIFIED SENDER] Re: can't boot win2k after re-installing sarge

2006-06-17 Thread Kent West
Serena Cantor wrote: > Sorry for replying so late. I'm not taking you advice. > I decide to install win98 over win2k for other > reasons. Eek! Win98?! ;-) > I wish I could find out the reason why grub > fails. I study Linux+winnt howto, didn't find much > useful info. My hard disk is quite small

Re: upgrading x11-common_7.0.22

2006-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixed, thanks! Sincerely, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Begin Message --- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 07:00:54 +0300]: > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package xgl apt-get remove --purge xgl apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install xg

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. > > I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: > > -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the >Bitstream Vera Sans font, altho

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread LeVA
2006. június 17. 14:48, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. > > > > I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: > > > > -- when the programs starts, it

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Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. > > I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: > > -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the >Bitstream Vera Sans

Re: upgrading x11-common_7.0.22

2006-06-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:00:54AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package xgl Since there is no package named 'xgl' in any version of Debian, this is in no way a Debian problem. Remove your third-party packages and you should have no furt

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Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Bernd Schubert
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, >but the "earth" image does not stay put in its proper place >inside the window; it often "jumps" to the left, becoming >invisible, or sometimes half-obscured by the left edge of the >window.

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Kernel Panic with Sarge

2006-06-17 Thread michael bailey
In October last year, I sent the following message to Debian-User mailing list :- When just about to open a LaTeX file for editing, the screen beeped, the following syslogd messages appeared in xterm and then the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights started flashing in unison with the screen

modules.ofmap not in a package?

2006-06-17 Thread hendrik
I'm running tiger. Aside fron vast numbers of messages about files in /usrX11R6/bin (which I imagine will go away when the xorg transition is complete) there is one other: > --WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/modules/2.6.12-1-amd64-generic/modules.ofmap' > does not belong to any package. Is this c

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Dave Patterson
* Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 11:55:35 +0200]: I'm using a Radeon 9200 SE with the Linux (open-source) DRI > drivers (have to, because ATI does not seem to have a > proprietary driver for xorg 7.0). > Try the proprietary ATI Driver. They claim it builds packages for xorg 7

Login on XDM/KDM/GDM doesn't work properly

2006-06-17 Thread Alain M. Lafon
Hello List, My problem is that when I try to log in using a desktop manager like XDM/KDM/GDM some keys won't work while some others work just fine. When starting X11 using "startx" the problem won't occur. I put the Xorg log file and my xorg.conf file on my server. If anyone finds problem, I'd be

[FIX] 2.6.16.17 + mobo w. VIA chipset = sound probs.

2006-06-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I don't know what the Debian maintainers of the latest stable kernel will do, but if you have a mobo with a VIA cipset *and* use the 2.6.16.17 kernel *then* you will have sound problems. Apply the 2 patches attached in this order: 1) PCI-VIA-quirk-fixup-additional-PCI-IDs.patch 2) PCI-q

Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the Bitstream Vera Sans font, although I have it installed. -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficu

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-17 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:45:52 +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: >* Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 01:24]: >> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 21:50:39 +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: >> [..] >> >> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL >> >> >> >> should do ... as they have in ubuntu >> > >> >What about

Re: setting firefox as default kde webbrowser

2006-06-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andreas Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the controlcenter I went to KDE Components/Component Chooser and I > set Web browser to /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox. Check what the /usr/bin/x-www-browser is set to. You can change it using update-alternatives To check which browser has priority, ty

fixed - Re: video acceleration works for root, not normal users

2006-06-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Turns out it was something completely different: in the ~/.mplayer/config file for the normal user, I had the line "vo=gl2" (which directs MPlayer to use the GL2 video output method; this was needed by the previous video card driver.) Root's MPlayer config file did not have this directive. A

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-17 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 01:24]: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 21:50:39 +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > [..] > >> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL > >> > >> should do ... as they have in ubuntu > > > >What about group `wheel' ? > > Historically in UNIX the group wheel has GID 0, in De