Problem unmounting usb pendrive

2007-11-25 Thread Miguel J.
Hi, anytime I try to unmount a usb pendrive, I get the following message: "Device to unmount is not in /media.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by HAL" and thus it does not unmount properly. Any help? Thanks a lot... -- .---. | Miguel

Re: Screen and GPM

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 23:24, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:05:04AM +, Peter Tynan wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: > >>> >>> I'm trying to get GPM clicking to work from within screen; So far I've >>> been without luc

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 21:17, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere >>> else, but should be)... >>> >>> Drum roll, please..

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Serena Cantor shared this with us all: >--} I have used Linux for 8 years. >--} I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). >--} I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on > KDE or GNOME --} I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my l

Re: Etch mysql won't start

2007-11-25 Thread I.E.Broadbent
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:35 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > I was playing with Wordpress stuff the last few days, and got my databases > mucked up. Somehow ?? now, mysql won't start at all. Can someone help this > newbie figure out what is wrong? I know it's difficult when I can't tell > you ex

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

2007-11-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Daniel B. wrote: >Are there any instructions for proceeding from having downloaded >the source package files and _not_ having unpacked things? >(I think my current state is as if I had done > apt-get source --download-only xfree86 >(I didn't actually do --download-only, but from cleaning up a

Re: how to add module parameter in initrd?

2007-11-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I use etch's default kernel. > > I have some problem with some module in initrd. I want to pass > parameter to them. Add file to /etc/modprobe.d/ and then regenerate initramfs using update-initramfs -u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Screen and GPM

2007-11-25 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:05:04AM +, Peter Tynan wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get GPM clicking to work from within

Re: Screen and GPM

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:05:04AM +, Peter Tynan wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I'm trying to get GPM clicking to work from within screen; So far I've >> been without

Re: [solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux >>> x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The >>> previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is

Re: Screen and GPM

2007-11-25 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get GPM clicking to work from within screen; So far I've been without luck. I stumbled upon one page[0] that contained a 'patch' for GPM, but I'm hesitant to try it (First off being that I h

Screen and GPM

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get GPM clicking to work from within screen; So far I've been without luck. I stumbled upon one page[0] that contained a 'patch' for GPM, but I'm hesitant to try it (First off being that I have no clue how to even install the patch) in ca

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:17:29PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I'll take your word for that and accept it as given. I think I only > used WordStar once, or twice, so it could well have had the feature > without my knowledge of it. I still use a partial WordStar clone (jstar) as my text editor

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:03:15 -0500 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:53:00PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a > > f

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

2007-11-25 Thread Daniel B.
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Daniel B. wrote: How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local modifications? The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make local edits. I frequently do this with couple of

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere else, but should be)... Drum roll, please... View Codes Balderdash. WordStar had "show codes" from

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:53:00PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hi there, > > I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a > front end for the most common latex compile commands. Thus, if you > want to compile your latex

Exim3 With multiple domains

2007-11-25 Thread Kip Banfield
I am trying to setup Exim 3 with multiple domains and I was reading the article Handling mail for multiple domains with exim3 and in this article it mentions (we need to add these domains to the 'userforward' directive as follows) I do not have a userforward section is there another name for this i

Re: Postfix and SASL authentication

2007-11-25 Thread Mihira Fernando
Barry Samuels wrote: I have tried twice before to set up SASL authentication for Postfix and failed to get it working both times. I am now trying a third time. I have three remote mail servers to which I can send outgoing mail. I use Balsa as a mail client and, as a test, I set the value of th

how to add module parameter in initrd?

2007-11-25 Thread Serena Cantor
I use etch's default kernel. I have some problem with some module in initrd. I want to pass parameter to them. But first how to list all modules in initrd? Get easy, one-click access to your favorites.

Etch mysql won't start

2007-11-25 Thread John Fleming
I was playing with Wordpress stuff the last few days, and got my databases mucked up. Somehow ?? now, mysql won't start at all. Can someone help this newbie figure out what is wrong? I know it's difficult when I can't tell you exactly what was going on when it stopped working, but I don't kno

Re: small service

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 19:12, hce wrote: > On Nov 24, 2007 10:55 AM, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim writes: >>> I need a small service like SAMBA. Does anyone know if there is an open >>> source similar to SAMBA, but much small size? >> What proble

Re: magiciso .uif files

2007-11-25 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:26:05PM +, rex pemberton wrote: > hi people. > my question is very simple: is there a way to get into a .uif file from > linux. > i have tried installing magicdisc under wine. the install fails. > can a native linux prog do the job? > thanks for your answers, I have

Re: small service

2007-11-25 Thread hce
On Nov 24, 2007 10:55 AM, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim writes: > > I need a small service like SAMBA. Does anyone know if there is an open > > source similar to SAMBA, but much small size? > > What problem are you trying to solve? Install it to a handset device. SAMBA is too big.

Re: ipod

2007-11-25 Thread David Fox
following up to myself ;( On 11/25/07, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > device with Amarok, and it appears in a separate playlist, and I can > see some of the files on the device itself, but most are missing or > blank, as far as Amarok is concerned. The device is OK otherwise. Probably pi

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread David Fox
On 11/25/07, Robert Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes a lot. I haven't at least not today. I got a few yesterday, 2 even in Chinese. I also saw a relative large spike in 409 spam from a number of different people (who knows, they could all be the same person masquerading under different na

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:59:53 -0600, Sidarth Dasari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > >> Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? > > Spam? The last Spam message I saw was in late October -- or was > it early November? This is what filteri

Re: ipod

2007-11-25 Thread David Fox
On 11/25/07, Davide Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amarok works quite well for me, it can transfer songs, podcasts, album > covers and even submit the listened tracks to last.fm. The catch is that I use Amarok as well. I don't have it up that often because it takes quite a bit of memor

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Sidarth Dasari wrote: > Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? Yes. I am receiving a lot of spam emails. Most of it is sent to bugs.debian.org of which some get forwarded to debian mailing lists. Currently, I am forwarding the spam emails to knujon project who seem t

Re: (Continued)Re: really crazy: firefox become unusable

2007-11-25 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! I modify userChrome.css: * {font-size:1pt !important } I can use firefox now, but its look and feel(fonts) is not as good as before. --- Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 25, 2007 2:37 PM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find the cause. It's ttf-arphic-g

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

2007-11-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Daniel B. wrote: > How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local > modifications? > > The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus > patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make > local edits. I frequently do this with couple of packages. For example

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Manu Hack
On Nov 25, 2007 1:39 PM, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I > > entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

2007-11-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel B. wrote: How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local modifications? The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make local edits. apt-get source will download the package source and the debian s

Re: mplayer seg fault

2007-11-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Paul Cartwright wrote: > $ mplayer > Segmentation fault > > > ok, this just started, and I have no idea why. nothing in any logs files I > could find, and I did a > aptitude mplayer reinstall > > what next? > running Debian lenny > Segmentation fault is almost always a bug in that package or

Re: ipod

2007-11-25 Thread Davide Mancusi
Mark Grieveson ha scritto: Hello. I'm trying to get an Etch box to read, open, or sync with an ipod. I searched aptitude for ipod stuff, and blindly installed a few things (libraries, a program called gtkpod), but, using gtkpod, was unable to connect to it. Amarok works quite well for me, it

Re: (solved)Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 16:54, Serena Cantor wrote: > Thanks to all those who reply! > I have received so many replies I can't respond one by one. > I will try gentoo. Big drawback to gentoo: it still uses Gtk+ 1.2. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYS

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Roberts
At 11:59 PM 11/24/2007, Sidarth Dasari wrote: Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes a lot. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Check

(solved)Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks to all those who reply! I have received so many replies I can't respond one by one. I will try gentoo. --- Joe Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13:05 Sun 25 Nov , Ron Johnson wrote: > > apt-cache is your friend. > > > Agreed, but sometimes you need personal recommendations to

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
"David Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Nov 2007 10:59:25 -0500, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > desperation I deleted the multiple instances from /etc/mtab. I > > should have consulted first, but didn't want to be pain. ... > Yes, that's correct. Filesystems are mounted per

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
Well, xfe is small, light, and remarkably (consciously) like Windows Explorer. I find it clunky in many spots, but then I only want a graphical FM once a year or so. At that pace I'm just not willing to learn a new interface. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rea

Re: Postfix and SASL authentication

2007-11-25 Thread Sam Leon
Barry Samuels wrote: I have tried twice before to set up SASL authentication for Postfix and failed to get it working both times. I am now trying a third time. I have three remote mail servers to which I can send outgoing mail. I use Balsa as a mail client and, as a test, I set the value of th

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 13:42 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > So far I've used the latex command to compile a .dvi file for > viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? I typically run the commands dvips file.dvi -o ps2pdf file.ps once the dvi file has been created. The fir

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a front end for the most common latex compile commands. Thus, if you want to compile your latex file into pdf simply run rubber --pdf .tex It takes care of everything. It is available in the debian packages. Amit

Re: ipod

2007-11-25 Thread Joe Masters
On 15:40 Sun 25 Nov , Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to get an Etch box to read, open, or sync with an > ipod. I searched aptitude for ipod stuff, and blindly installed a few > things (libraries, a program called gtkpod), but, using gtkpod, was > unable to connect to it. > > Mark

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Joe Masters
On 13:05 Sun 25 Nov , Ron Johnson wrote: > apt-cache is your friend. > Agreed, but sometimes you need personal recommendations to narrow down the field. Joe. -- Advice,n. The smallest current coin. (C) Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

2007-11-25 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 19:28 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:12:41 +0200 > "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 22/11/2007, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > 0In an advanced Calculus course, we are dealing with functions wit

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:12:38 -0500 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello DU > > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite > package, but

ipod

2007-11-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I'm trying to get an Etch box to read, open, or sync with an ipod. I searched aptitude for ipod stuff, and blindly installed a few things (libraries, a program called gtkpod), but, using gtkpod, was unable to connect to it. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:10:06 -0800 (PST) Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE > or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI

Re: Postfix and SASL authentication

2007-11-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:46:51PM +, Barry Samuels wrote: > I have tried twice before to set up SASL authentication for Postfix and > failed to get it working both times. I am now trying a third time. > > I have three remote mail servers to which I can send outgoing mail. I > use Balsa as a

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Kaye writes: > I'm using a newsreader (knode) and it's pretty easy to lose authentic > messages in the crowd, but I really feel for the people who get this list > via email. I use Spamassassin and have Mailagent configured to delete messages with spam scores over ten. There were three me

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 11:12 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite > package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages > are both missing), and I ha

Konqueror trouble...

2007-11-25 Thread Shamail Tayyab
Hi.. I am using Debian etch, my problem is that i konqueror does not saves the previous state. e.g if i run the terminal emulator in some window, the changes doesn't appear the next time. How can i do this? Regards.. -- Shamail Tayyab shamail [at] inbox [dot] com 4 2 3 2 4 9 9 9 9 9 - 1 9 +

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:31:07 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have used Linux for 8 years. > > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM > > based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI > > FM s

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 05:10, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. I have not found any suitable file > manager(FM). I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't > recommend any FM based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. > I will prefer

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:39:39PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I > > entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter > > 'vim-addons show'

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 12:42, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] > > > Thus far all I know is LaTeX is some sort of a graphical language (Ala > HTML) for text and image control to create documents. Officially, tex is a "typesetting system". But yes, tex *is* a mark

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > So far I've used the latex command to compile a .dvi file for > viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? You can either run dvipdf on the dvi file, or pdflatex on the tex file. IIRC there's some situations w

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 25, 2007 7:04 PM, Sidarth Dasari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usually gmail filters it out pretty well, but I think perhaps it white > listed the debian-user address. I hope it can catch the right stuff > without blocking the real questions. I had that problem yesterday. Today's much bette

Re: really crazy: firefox become unusable

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/07 08:05, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >> I use sarge, firefox went wrong today, font used by its menu and status >> bar are so big that most of screen space are occupied by status bar and >> menu. I can't find anyway to config it. > > Mos

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > So far I've used the latex command to compile a .dvi file for > viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? At least two ways: latex to make a dvi (device independant format) dvipdf to turn it into a

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Sidarth Dasari
Usually gmail filters it out pretty well, but I think perhaps it white listed the debian-user address. I hope it can catch the right stuff without blocking the real questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Postfix and SASL authentication

2007-11-25 Thread Barry Samuels
I have tried twice before to set up SASL authentication for Postfix and failed to get it working both times. I am now trying a third time. I have three remote mail servers to which I can send outgoing mail. I use Balsa as a mail client and, as a test, I set the value of the Remote Server, in th

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread David Fox
On 25 Nov 2007 10:59:25 -0500, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > desperation I deleted the multiple instances from /etc/mtab. I should > have consulted first, but didn't want to be pain. That might have been the first problem. /etc/mtab is a dynamically-created file - it is a file of all

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:59:53 -0600, Sidarth Dasari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? Spam? The last Spam message I saw was in late October -- or was it early November? This is what filtering is for: http://www.golden-grypho

Konqueror trouble...

2007-11-25 Thread Shamail Tayyab
Hi.. I am using Debian etch, my problem is that i konqueror does not saves the previous state. e.g if i run the terminal emulator in some window, the changes doesn't appear the next time. How can i do this? Regards.. -- Shamail Tayyab shamail [at] inbox [dot] com 4 2 3 2 4 9 9 9 9 9 - 1 9 +

Keyboard /moousee sccrolllwheel misbehavingg

2007-11-25 Thread Robin
Before update yesterday (24/11/2007) everything was working. The following packages were upgraded and since then my keyboard and scrollwheel on mouse have a slow response and I'm getting muultiple lettterss wiith a sinngle keypress. Applies to X and consoole Upgraded the following packages: b

how to build from _modified_ source package

2007-11-25 Thread Daniel B.
How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local modifications? The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make local edits. Thanks. Daniel -- Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?

2007-11-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATE

Re: cupsd, hplip on demand?

2007-11-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 24, 2007 9:41 AM, André Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on an Etch system with limited memory and CPU power, which I'm > trying to optimize in terms of software. The box acts a CUPS print > server with two queues, one raw queue and one HP PSC-1110 queue. The > HP AIO needs HPLIP to f

Re: wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I created ~/.wgetrc and put into it simple options such as: > > > >--mirror > You need to man wget and learn what rc file option does what you > want, if wget can be used that way. "--mirror" is for the comma

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:25:14AM -0700, Robert Jerrard wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 11:12 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > > no clue where to start. I began by installing t

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I > entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter > 'vim-addons show' I get: > > Addon: latex-

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
As others have said, the not-so-short guide it good. If you want something short and quick, there's plenty on the net such as: http://polishlinux.org/tex/latex-the-basics-part-i/ http://www.electronics.oulu.fi/latex/index.html I usually process it with pdftex and view with a pdf viewer. -- swk

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter 'vim-addons show' I get: Addon: latex-suite Status: broken Description: comprehensive set of tools to view, edit, and compile LaTeX documents What is it th

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, `lshort.pdf' is very good starting point to learn LaTeX. Good LaTeXing, Jerome Michael Marsh wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 4:12 PM, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the v

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Hello DU > > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite > package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages > are bot

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:51:20 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have used Linux for 8 years. > > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM > > based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI > > FM s

[solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi all, > ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux > x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The > previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going > backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATEST driver? > T

Re: wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread s. keeling
Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I created ~/.wgetrc and put into it simple options such as: > >--mirror That's not how my .wgetrc looks. I have (eg.): passive_ftp = on You need to man wget and learn what rc file option does what you want, if wget can be used that way. "--mirror"

ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATEST driver? TIA, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux u

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Hello DU > > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite > package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages > are bot

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 25, 2007 4:12 PM, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite > package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages > are both missing),

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:10:06AM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE > or GNOME > I still use co

[OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello DU I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages are both missing), and I have no clu

mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
I had a problem of multiple mountings of /media/usb-key, and I was struggling without success to umount them. (tried -f option for umount, tried to find mount PID to delete it, tried fuser), and in desperation I deleted the multiple instances from /etc/mtab. I should have consulted first, but didn'

Re: (Continued)Re: really crazy: firefox become unusable

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 25, 2007 2:37 PM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find the cause. It's ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp. It's a Chinese fonts package. > After removing and > purging it, the firefox is OK. > > Could anyone explain it? I have used the fonts package for a long time. It > has been OK, but why

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Patricia Fraser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Serena, > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based > on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my > life can be a

Re: New Motherboard/CPU/net ports/etc/etc. How to transfer packages?

2007-11-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi, > > I have installed etch using an older cpu/motherboard. Now I've gotten a > new > cpu/motherboard and my thinking is to re-install etch. Is there a way to > get the list of packages that are installed on the etch system into a > file? I would then want to reinstall etch and havesomethi

Re: really crazy: firefox become unusable

2007-11-25 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I use sarge, firefox went wrong today, font used by its menu and status > bar are so big that most of screen space are occupied by status bar and > menu. I can't find anyway to config it. Most likely, this means that something has messed system dpi setting. > So I reinstall sarge. And the pro

(Continued)Re: really crazy: firefox become unusable

2007-11-25 Thread Serena Cantor
I find the cause. It's ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp. It's a Chinese fonts package. After removing and purging it, the firefox is OK. Could anyone explain it? I have used the fonts package for a long time. It has been OK, but why does it cause problem NOW? --- Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Re: problem compiling C++

2007-11-25 Thread Lowell Thomas
On November 21, 2007 "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The various gcc compilers are packaged separately. You probably want > to install the package "g++". Thanks for the tip. “apt-get install g++” did the job. Lowell Thomas www.coasttocoastresearch.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Paul Chiorean
On 1:10:06 pm 25/11/2007 Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on > KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my life > c

wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
I created ~/.wgetrc and put into it simple options such as: --mirror but when I run $ wget on a target, I get a syntax error for every option in that file for the line following the option line. The debug option apparently only works if the rc file syntax is correct. For example, with no unco

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 25 06:57 -0600]: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > I have used Linux for 8 years. > > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based > > on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I wil

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Serena Cantor
Thank Paul Cartwright, Joe Masters, and Chris G!! I am quite comfortable with Explorer in Windows. I'll prefer Explorer-style file manager for Linux. I'more interested in the other question I raise. It's about very strange problem with firefox. My faith with Linux nearly shake by it.

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Serena Cantor wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based > on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my > life can be a little easier. I use sarge and etch.

Re: epson perfection 4180 scanner

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun November 25 2007, Chris G wrote: > > Sane *always* does this to me too!  sane-find-scanner finds a scanner > > but nothing actually sees it.  I just got my Epson V700 working, what > > I had to to was add the following line t

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Joe Masters
On 03:10 Sun 25 Nov , Serena Cantor wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE > or GNOME > I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my life can be a little >

Re: epson perfection 4180 scanner

2007-11-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun November 25 2007, Chris G wrote: > Sane *always* does this to me too!  sane-find-scanner finds a scanner > but nothing actually sees it.  I just got my Epson V700 working, what > I had to to was add the following line to /etc/sane.d/epson.conf:- > >     usb 0x04b8 0x012c > > ... and comment

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