Re: reporting problems with unstable

2007-04-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:42:03AM +0200, Arnfinn Ringvold wrote: > Could anyone please advise me on reporting upgrade problems with the > unstable distribution (sid). I have not found any place to adress such > information. Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such > problems and woul

reporting problems with unstable

2007-04-29 Thread Arnfinn Ringvold
Could anyone please advise me on reporting upgrade problems with the unstable distribution (sid). I have not found any place to adress such information. Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users sending in reports? Regar

Re: Search certain string in a directory

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:54:44PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > >I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within > >it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the > >certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please? > find ~/tmp/ -type f -exec grep -l mys

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> crash, given this, what would be really cool would be to partition the > system at install time using a slightly mean, but granular, best guess > layout [0] so things should fit in their partitions without too much wasted > space, then configure each partition as one mount point on one logical >

Re: Search certain string in a directory

2007-04-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, rocky wrote: Hey, I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please? Thanks a lot in advance! Rocky find ~/tmp/ -type f -exec g

ibm T40 and xorg.conf

2007-04-29 Thread debian
Please, I am trying to do a fresh install of etch on an IBM T40. Startx reports: could not open default font 'fixed' grep "(EE)" of the /var/log/xorg files gives: (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable Where can I get

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Wayne Topa wrote: Jude DaShiell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: pen drives if I'm not mistaken need sg and sr-mod in your /etc/modules file. Those need the scsi drivers installed. Right you are. VT1 root-3-TESTING:~# lsmod |grep sg sg 31836 0 scsi_mo

Re: wx2.6-examples

2007-04-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:49:09AM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello, apparently the wxWidget packages from debian are compiled only for > work with Unicode versions, I really don't agree with this because I have a Would it solve your problem if you rebuilt the package with this option disab

Re: Search certain string in a directory

2007-04-29 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 29 Apr 2007 20:04:03 -0700, rocky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please? From the manpage of grep(1):

Re: windows download

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 19:26, Tim Casey wrote: > how do you get into grub to add another hard drive to the boot list or do > ineed to add lilo or something? Ps the drive is a seperate drive with > windows on it /boot/grub/menu.lst is where your grub config is, lots of comments in there. Don't me

Re: PRISM 2/2.5/3 wifi driver for Debian?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Default User wrote: > Is there a PRISM 2/2.5/3 wifi driver for Debian? I have a Netgear MA111 > v1 USB wireless adapter that works on OpenBSD using their "wi" driver, > without any setup needed. OpenBSD dmesg output lists it as a PRISM 3 > device. So d

PRISM 2/2.5/3 wifi driver for Debian?

2007-04-29 Thread Default User
Is there a PRISM 2/2.5/3 wifi driver for Debian? I have a Netgear MA111 v1 USB wireless adapter that works on OpenBSD using their "wi" driver, without any setup needed. OpenBSD dmesg output lists it as a PRISM 3 device. So does Debian have a PRISM driver? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

wx2.6-examples

2007-04-29 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello, apparently the wxWidget packages from debian are compiled only for work with Unicode versions, I really don't agree with this because I have a lot of code wrote that doesn't work with Unicode. But the are another problem, I can show the problem with the "db" example from the debian packa

Search certain string in a directory

2007-04-29 Thread rocky
Hey, I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please? Thanks a lot in advance! Rocky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Encryption + LVM + multiple PVs...Possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Bradley Alexander
Just trying out my first etch install. Kudos to the Release team and everyone involved in getting this out the door. I'm trying to rebuild my system with a pair of 120 GB drives and a 160GB drives. In the partitioner, I configured hda with hda1 1.5GB encrypted swap hda2 500MB /boot hda3 500

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:30 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:08:21PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >I am curious about your sluggishness though, as I've had xfce running > > >for days with multiple apps open and problems. Currently

Re: windows download

2007-04-29 Thread Tim Casey
how do you get into grub to add another hard drive to the boot list or do ineed to add lilo or something? Ps the drive is a seperate drive with windows on it maranatha On 4/18/07, Tim Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks and your right about the verse. On 4/18/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAI

Re: windows download

2007-04-29 Thread Tim Casey
another questioncan another hard drive be loaded into he grubloader and how is it done? I checked the man pages and the manual and could find nothing. maranatha On 4/18/07, Tim Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks and your right about the verse. On 4/18/07, Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Default User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 11:26 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Default User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:36 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > <> > > > > > > To find out which chipset your d

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 29-04-2007 a las 21:26 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty escribió: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:32:17PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Roberto C. Sánchez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:07:35PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > >> > > >> But it isn't handling the me

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:47:39PM +1000, M-L wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:38, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: > >--} On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: > >--} > On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with > > us all: --} > >--} On Sat

Re: Host's IP address can't be found

2007-04-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:03:21AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 4/29/07, Gloria Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:25 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote: > >> > > > I installed Etch on a stand-alone workstation

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:28:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > > > that is a good idea. however, i have another thread about making a > symlink, but all the responses involve real 1980s command solutions. > which, while fully capable of doing, i refuse to. when my friends see > this, they w

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:32:17PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:07:35PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > >> > >> But it isn't handling the memory well. Everything is rubbish and > >> sluggish right from start-up. Someth

Re: I2C bus can not find sensors since kernel 2.6.18

2007-04-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:59:33PM +0800, Wang Xu wrote: > Anyone met similar case? > > I have a ASUS M2Ne Laptop, which has Intel ICH4 (i2c-i801) SMBus. > > With 2.6.16 and earlier 2.6 kernel, it could find max6657 sensor > and install lm90 module. the sensor result are: [snip good result] > Bu

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-29 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Brockway wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > >>> One more thing: There is a reported but unfixded bug in kdm in >>> Debian/Ubuntu going back a long way which is causing some xdmcp >>> configurations to fail when they really a

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-29 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:51:13PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 14:10:14 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:10:22PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > It would be interesting to see which keycodes and keysyms are reported > > > if you run "xev",

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-29 Thread David Claughton
David Claughton wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: It would be interesting to see which keycodes and keysyms are reported if you run "xev", press (and hold) both CTRL and ALT, and then press F1, F2, etc. Does xev really display the keycodes for the Fn keys and the keysyms "XF86_Switch_VT_n"? Are the

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is documented in the make info page, under section 6.5 "How to use > variables/Setting". I don't know if this is specific to gnu make or not. Thanks. I really appreciate the explaination (I looked it up in my make book, it the book I have was m

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 20:32:59 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; ^ I'd still like to see the output of the above command just to be sure. Oops, sorry thought I'd checked this

[Fwd: Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap]

2007-04-29 Thread David Claughton
Florian Kulzer wrote: It would be interesting to see which keycodes and keysyms are reported if you run "xev", press (and hold) both CTRL and ALT, and then press F1, F2, etc. Does xev really display the keycodes for the Fn keys and the keysyms "XF86_Switch_VT_n"? Are the hexadecimal keysym value

Re: Setting module parameters?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM -0700, Colin Andrews wrote: > I just did a clean install of etch (congrats and thanks to all those who > made etch happen) > > but I seem to have this problem: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/06/msg02838.html > For the ISA 3C509 - you need a DOS boot

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 13:23, Default User wrote: > So far, two wireless adapters have been mentioned as working with Etch, > (assembly required): > > Netgear WG511U V2 pcmcia card > Netgear WG511T pcmcia card > > Is anyone out there using any other currently available wireless > adapters with Et

Re: Setting module parameters?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM -0700, Colin Andrews wrote: > I just did a clean install of etch (congrats and thanks to all those who > made etch happen) > > but I seem to have this problem: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/06/msg02838.html > > I have a 3Com 3c905B that is using the

Re: xmms (1.2.10+20070401-1) segfaults

2007-04-29 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2007-04-29, 06:16:55 (-0500) skrifaði Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > In Sid xmms latest version segfaults. This version runs fine on my system, so I dont think it is xmms that is causing the segfault. Does is segfault every single time? On some specific files? If you know how to use strace then

Setting module parameters?

2007-04-29 Thread Colin Andrews
I just did a clean install of etch (congrats and thanks to all those who made etch happen) but I seem to have this problem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/06/msg02838.html I have a 3Com 3c905B that is using the 3c59x driver module, but it will only come up at 10 Mb/s instead of 100. I t

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: One more thing: There is a reported but unfixded bug in kdm in Debian/Ubuntu going back a long way which is causing some xdmcp configurations to fail when they really are ok. If you look in your logs you'll see reports of kdm_greet getting memory corr

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:08:21PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >I am curious about your sluggishness though, as I've had xfce running > >for days with multiple apps open and problems. Currently I've got 2 or > >3 terminals, iceweasel, openoffice, xfmedia and gnu

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:06:14PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), I asked > what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having been > using it for the last few days? Your original post: > not using Gnome or KDE, I s

Re: KDE bug

2007-04-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:21 +0200, Robert Heel wrote: > I would like to write a bugreport, but I don't know which package is > responsible for. > > If you have configured a large background image in KDE (Debian etch), on > slow machines the error message(s) "The process for the ... protocol > died

Re: an't create VMware XP client on Etch host (keymap problem?)

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 15:45:42 -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:28:07 -0400, I wrote: > > > But I have no evidence that the fkeys are ever seen with X running. > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:19:10 +0200, Florian Kulzer replied: > > > Run "xev" and check the keysyms for CRTL, ALT

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose > link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, e

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Default User
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 11:26 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Default User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:36 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > <> > > > > To find out which chipset your dongles use, try Googleing with > > > " linux WG111". You should have th

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 20:32:59 +0100, graham wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; >>^ >> I'd still like to see the output of the above command just to be sure. > > Oops, sorry thought I'd checked this but I had

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 13:06, somethin2cool wrote: > > man mount > No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), Says who!? ;) > I asked what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having > been using it for the last few days? This group is more annoying than > he

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread steef
somethin2cool wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like search). One of th

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > not using Gnome or KDE, I s

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Roberto C. Sánchez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:07:35PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: >> >> But it isn't handling the memory well. Everything is rubbish and >> sluggish right from start-up. Something is wrong >> > well, how much total physical RAM do you have? How much

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:00:45PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote: even though i'm not running anything. in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies. in resources,

Re: aptitude + dpkg

2007-04-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:26:38AM +0100, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing > from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and > dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they hav

Re: Extracting WAD files from Ultimate_Doom.exe under Linux

2007-04-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/29/2007 09:16 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 04:16 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: I just purchased the registered version of Doom (Ultimate_Doom.exe), and I want to start playing the game, but there is a problem--I'm a Linux user. I was able to play the shareware Doom episode u

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:07:35PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > But it isn't handling the memory well. Everything is rubbish and > sluggish right from start-up. Something is wrong > well, how much total physical RAM do you have? How much swap? How much swap is being used? Regards, -Robert

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:00:38PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > I know. symlinks are way better. in windows they're called... um.. well > something else and are a real pain to create. Before anyone says I'm > wrong and windows cannot do symlinks... I am not. I know alot about that > OS, and

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like search). One of these is the ability to

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:03:33PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > and that is exaclty why the interface is underdeveloped. because you > take any criticism to heart and chose to ignore / forget it, rather than > do something about it. > > The fact is that I will fix all these things myself as

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: On 29/04/07, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: even though i'm not running anything. [snip] This is a paste from my laptop, running with a good 2gb of RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cach

Re: an't create VMware XP client on Etch host (keymap problem?)

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:45:42PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:28:07 -0400, I wrote: > > > But I have no evidence that the fkeys are ever seen with X running. > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:19:10 +0200, Florian Kulzer replied: > > > Run "xev" and check the keysyms for CRTL, A

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call it a shortcut. Actua

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call it a shortcut. Actually, the windows "shortcut" is *not* a symlink. It is something

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose >> link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call it a shortcut. >> > Actually, the

Re: an't create VMware XP client on Etch host (keymap problem?)

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:28:07 -0400, I wrote: > But I have no evidence that the fkeys are ever seen with X running. On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:19:10 +0200, Florian Kulzer replied: > Run "xev" and check the keysyms for CRTL, ALT, F1, etc. It would be > especially interesting to see what you get for th

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le dimanche 29 avril 2007 19:40, John L Fjellstad a écrit : > "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If I'm using GNU make, I hardly ever use "=" instead of ":=", unless I > > really want to define a macro. You're a lot more likely to get what > > you expect most of the time, and you can

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; ^ I'd still like to see the output of the above command just to be sure. Oops, sorry thought I'd checked this but I hadn't. /dev/usblp0 does not exist. There is a /dev/usb/lp0, however.

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > > Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose > link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call it a shortcut. > Actually, the windows "shortcut" is *not* a symlink. It is something completely differe

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:28:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > that is a good idea. however, i have another thread about making a > symlink, but all the responses involve real 1980s command solutions. > which, while fully capable of doing, i refuse to. when my friends see > this, they will lau

Re: install with dmraid

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:04:28PM +0200, Laszlo T. wrote: > > Why? The fakeraid on many newer motherboards is the worst of all worlds. Most don't have a battery backup (which means that if you suddenly lose power in addition to the possibility of your data getting screwed up by all the normal me

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 14:10:14 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:10:22PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > It would be interesting to see which keycodes and keysyms are reported > > if you run "xev", press (and hold) both CTRL and ALT, and then press F1, > > F2, etc. Does xe

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:00:45PM EDT, somethin2cool wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > >On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote: > >>even though i'm not running anything. > >> > >>in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc > >>dependencies. > >> > >>in resources, it says

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:10:14PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:10:22PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:12:23 -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > maybe you could wrap it in a script that was suid root, > > > > but I

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > >>not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like > >>search). One of these is the ability to make links to files.

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:30:46PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > >Try > > > > apt-get sources list debian format > > > >into google: first hit is APT Howto, second is the Debian tutorial, both > >on www.debian.org or its mirrors. > > > > Yeah, you cheated b

Re: can't create VMware XP client on Etch host (keymap problem?)

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 13:28:07 -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > I've successfully installed VMware-1.0.2-39867 on my Etch machine with the > help of the any-any-update109 patch. I am now unable to set up an XP client > on the same box. I bring up the VMware Server Console and call "Create a new > v

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:57:22AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:13 +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > Amy Templeton wrote: > > > somethin2cool wrote: > > >> Well, If I type "lynx" into I expect > > >> it to launch lynx. ie, launch a terminal with command > > >> lynx. > > > > >

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:00:45PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > >On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote: > >>even though i'm not running anything. > >> > >>in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc > >>dependencies. > >> > >>in resources, it sa

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-29 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:10:22PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:12:23 -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > maybe you could wrap it in a script that was suid root, > > > but I don't know about those things either. > > > > Fair enough. I guess

Re: Black screen before login

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:16:44AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:18:41 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:18:54PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:42:57 -0700 > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PRO

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I'm using GNU make, I hardly ever use "=" instead of ":=", unless I > really want to define a macro. You're a lot more likely to get what > you expect most of the time, and you can use "+=". What's the difference? My book on Make mentions "=", bu

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
On 29/04/07, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: even though i'm not running anything. [snip] This is a paste from my laptop, running with a good 2gb of RAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 2028 197

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] >> >> >> Can't you just alias the command as above, so that when you execute >> 'lynx' it launches 'xterm -e lynx'? >> >> Do you have more than one terminal app installed? How would it know >> which terminal you want to use

an't create VMware XP client on Etch host (keymap problem?)

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Kleene
I've successfully installed VMware-1.0.2-39867 on my Etch machine with the help of the any-any-update109 patch. I am now unable to set up an XP client on the same box. I bring up the VMware Server Console and call "Create a new virtual machine". It sets up the virtual hard disk, and I put in the

Re: XDMCP

2007-04-29 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Saturday 28 April 2007 15:23, Robert Brockway wrote: Thanks for the response. > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Running unstable. Trying to get XDMCP working via KDM. On the local > > host, everything works. KDM gives me a graphical login prompt, and KDE > > loads when I log

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:12:23 -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > maybe you could wrap it in a script that was suid root, > > but I don't know about those things either. > > Fair enough. I guess I should probably find some time to > read up on this (I know relevant in

Re: Black screen before login

2007-04-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:15:47 -0300 (ART) Renato Gondim Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry about my ignorance, some conventions I don't know well (yeat), > but "virtual console" means a command line in Terminal? If it´s > correct, I should do this: > > tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Thanks

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
Andreas Janssen wrote: somethin2cool (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: even though i'm not running anything. in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies. in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally minimal system i believe the later. however, ev

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
somethin2cool wrote: > Typing seamonkey in terminal does nothing: > > bash: seamonkey: command not found The Debian version of seamonkey is called 'iceape'. You should install iceape-browser, e.g. with synaptic. A symlink will not be required, since /usr/bin/iceape will be there. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
Nigel Henry wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote: even though i'm not running anything. in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies. in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally minimal system i believe the later. however

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Default User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:36 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > <> > > To find out which chipset your dongles use, try Googleing with > > " linux WG111". You should have the chipset in the 1st or 2nd page. > > > > > > Take a look at

Re: ams.sty not found after updating to texlive

2007-04-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, `ams.sty' can be found in `texlive-latex-extra' Debain Lenny Package Jerome Peter Robinson wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 29 April 2007 16:19, somethin2cool wrote: > even though i'm not running anything. > > in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies. > > in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally minimal > system i believe the later. > > however, even if

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

2007-04-29 Thread Amy Templeton
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > maybe you could wrap it in a script that was suid root, > but I don't know about those things either. Fair enough. I guess I should probably find some time to read up on this (I know relevant info. can be found in some manpage I doubtless have installed, and I've see

Re: ams.sty not found after updating to texlive

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 15:47:45 +0200, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Dear Debianers, > > I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC > (2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex > working after I updated some packages to day. I removed the tetex > packages and i

Re: ams.sty not found after updating to texlive

2007-04-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 > >#1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated > >some packages to day

Re: ams.sty not found after updating to texlive

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive (initially includi

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/29/07, Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le dimanche 29 avril 2007 04:56, Micha Feigin a écrit: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:20:08 -0300 > "Iuri Sampaio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $(BIN): $(OBJS) > > > > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(BIN) $(OBJS) $(LIBS) > > Not really an answe

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
somethin2cool (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > even though i'm not running anything. > > in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc > dependencies. > > in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally > minimal system i believe the later. > > however, even if i

RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread somethin2cool
even though i'm not running anything. in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc dependencies. in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally minimal system i believe the later. however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that much. what

Re: Extracting WAD files from Ultimate_Doom.exe under Linux

2007-04-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 04:16 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > I just purchased the registered version of Doom (Ultimate_Doom.exe), and > I want to start playing the game, but there is a problem--I'm a Linux user. > > I was able to play the shareware Doom episode using prboom and freedoom, > so I know Do

use camera on debian (was: ...)

2007-04-29 Thread Simon Paillard
Hello Jb, On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:47:24AM +0100, joe bloggs JB wrote: > Photos: I have been trying to dl my Kodak digi camera on to my Debian flavour > but, to my absolute surprise, have found it an > impossible task, please can you advise me? You should : - use the appropriate mailing list

Re: Black screen before login

2007-04-29 Thread Renato Gondim Filho
Sorry about my ignorance, some conventions I don't know well (yeat), but "virtual console" means a command line in Terminal? If it´s correct, I should do this: tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log Thanks. Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:41:57 -0300 (ART) Renato Gondim

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 14:31:24 +0100, graham wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 23:08:39 +0100, graham wrote: > >> Just to be sure: Run >> apt-get --purge remove hotplug >> (Plain "remove" leaves configuration files on the system; "--purge" gets >> rid of them.) > > OK, do

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