Re: Hotkeys при русской раскладке в X

2004-07-09 Thread J. Preiss
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Re: Locale and Umlauts again

2004-06-18 Thread J. Preiss
Am Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 18:53 schrieb richard lyons: > On Friday 18 June 2004 08:29, J. Preiss wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 19:32 schrieb Leandro Guimaraens Faria > > Corsetti > > > > Dutra: > > > Em Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:50:26 +0200, J. Preiss esc

Strange kde errors

2004-06-18 Thread J. Preiss
Hi all, I dont know if this has something to do with debian or kde itself... some applications behave strange. - Working with juk, it hangs up sometimes. When I kill and start it again, I see the "loaded..." window, and thats all. I have to reboot. Removing the cache does not help. - Sometimes

Re: fam - what is it?

2004-06-18 Thread J. Preiss
Am Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 14:31 schrieb Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra: > Em Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:30:08 +0200, richard lyons escreveu: > > a file alteration monitor. but why? > > So that applications â including file managers in particular > and desktop environments in general â get

Re: Locale and Umlauts again

2004-06-18 Thread J. Preiss
Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 19:32 schrieb Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra: > Em Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:50:26 +0200, J. Preiss escreveu: > > locales was installed, localconf not. After installing, it wanted to > > overwrite the existing files, and I said no (praying th

Re: Kernel update problems

2004-06-18 Thread J. Preiss
Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 15:03 schrieb Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra: > Em Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:00:11 +0200, J. Preiss escreveu: > > I wanted to change from kernel 2.2 (Boot-Disks-Download) to kernel 2.4 or > > better 2.6. Now I've been toold to modify manu

Re: Locale and Umlauts again

2004-06-16 Thread J. Preiss
Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 15:37 schrieb Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra: > Em Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:10:07 +0200, J. Preiss escreveu: > > I still have problems with it, at least on one pc. I used > > dpkg-reconfigure console-common > > ÂDid you do aptitude insta

Re: Keyboard map probs

2004-06-16 Thread J. Preiss
When I call this, I get an error: Bareword "previous_module" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config line 1045. My version is unstable, updated yesterday in the evening. Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 12:14 schrieb Brendan Halpin: > I had the same problem re

Locale and Umlauts again

2004-06-16 Thread J. Preiss
I am sorry to ask questions about that again... I still have problems with it, at least on one pc. I used dpkg-reconfigure console-common, installed cyrillic fonts, checked with xfontsel for there presence (even in kde center). So the current locales are [EMAIL PROTECTED], and (as examples) in

Problems with DISPLAY and X

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
Hi, I got the old problem with authentication, X-forwarding, setting Display and so on... what I tried: first, I exchanged my ssh public keys (dsa) on both pcs, just to be sure (I did it by scp and ssh, but there was a one-line-command to do that, can someone tell me?) when I call xterm with

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
> Here are some of the lines from my lilo.conf: > --- > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda7 > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-686 > label=2.4.26-1-686 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.26-1-686 > read-only > --- > Mmmh... and here starts my problem: I do not have such entries in /b

Kernel update problems

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
Hi all, I wanted to change from kernel 2.2 (Boot-Disks-Download) to kernel 2.4 or better 2.6. Now I've been toold to modify manually my lilo.conf by debconf. But I'm quite sure that if I'd update from a woody-cd to a newer kernel, all these changes are made automatically. So I'm wondering: where

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
Sorry, but you'll get always this problem if you change to another kernel image. Currently I wanted to update from 2.2.20 (boot disks from internet) to 2.4, and the message is the same. Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 21:09 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:01, J. Prei

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-14 Thread J. Preiss
I have exactly the same message on the screen. I think it has something todo with this initrd-option (which I ignored of course...). My device is 305 (3,5). Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 09:10 schrieb Jinzhi Lei: > Dear all, > While I update the the kernel from 2.2 to 2.6.6, I had the following

Re: Cobalt

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
Well I tried it. I installed the debootstrap on Mandrake 9.[0][1], dont know exactly. I changed the partition table before, but somehow it booted anyway. Cool. I mounted the partition of mandrake's root to /mnt/debinst. Maybe that was the fault. Then I called debootstrap and it downloaded m

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> For example either of the following > aptitude search console > apt-cache search console config > > produces among other things: > > console-common - Basic infrastructure for text console configuration > Nice hint, thanks. But "network config" shows too many entries... anyway, edit the int

Re: Cobalt

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> Here you go (for i386, it should be ok): > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upg >rade > Thank you. I tried to reconfigure my partitions as mentioned there, unfortunately I had to remove one, now I cant make a fs because its already mounted, and if I reb

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> "not plausible" (apt-get install translate) tststs... :-) Great tool! But not useful until I cope with umlauts :-( (Dont reply,its another thread). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you select 'graphical environment' (or > what's it called) during setup (in tasksel) Debian installs both Gnome and > KDE. > I can see we don't ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Debian doesn't want to favor anyone, so Yes, thats ok. But a checkbox would not favor something :-)

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> us something to which we are entitled. While I wouldn't have > added the "wah wah wah!" part, I, too, found the post to which > Jaldhar Vyas replied to be a bit selfish in tone; and I know > that if I was putting tons of time into developing Debian and > then read something like that, I'd be pre

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 20:01 schrieb Nicos Gollan: > > Seems that I found a bit more infos on my system: I cannot enter > > cyrillic chars neither in konqi nor in kate. So I installed > > xfree-cyrillic (a really good idea, but I bet I selected this by first > > install... anyway). > > I guess y

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Try something other than KDE to get started. > > "apt-get install icewm" > then create/edit ~/.xinitrc and put the single line "icewm" in and then > "startx". > > If that doesn't work, the problem is with X, not KDE. > > If that does work, then try installing KDE; "apt-get install kde". The probl

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Well, depending on what encoding the filenames (I suppose we're still > talking about filenames?) were before, you'll first have to convert them > to UTF8. There is a script somewhere that will do this similar to the > recode utility, but I can't find it right now. I found something called konver

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> So I'd "apt-get --purge remove kdm" to clear out any corrupt kdm-related > files, then reinstall it with "apt-get install kdm". Wanst purge the command to remove everything, even my configurations? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Hi, > here may be a hint: > what is in the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager > it should be /usr/bin/kdm. *nod* yes, that is true :-D next hint? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> X, DM, KDE: needs proper fonts > KDE: needs locale set > mount: as mentioned, the FS doesn't care what encoding you're using :-) > console: good luck Seems that I found a bit more infos on my system: I cannot enter cyrillic chars neither in konqi nor in kate. So I installed xfree-cyrillic (a re

Re: ext3 and charsets

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Is it the iocharset option for the iso9660 filesystem that you need > (when you read the CD's)? Not cd problem (audio cd), I have to enter cyrillic into kaudiocreator, because russion cds are not in cddb. > Just to clarify...you have the filenames on an ext3 and the charset has > already been g

Re: Cobalt

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> If the hardware supports it, you should be able to boot it from a tftp > server. The process is described in the install manual: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > > There's also a procedure described to install from an existing unix/linux > installation. I guess you could

Re: gui basically ok

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
The problem is discussed in Changing Default Display Mgr or trouble installing kde... Am Samstag, 5. Juni 2004 15:55 schrieb jack kinnon: > Hi folks, > > After a 'base-config' and selecting kdm as the display manager, I can enter > kde by running 'startx' from command-line. Another words the syst

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> No, but filing a software patent will earn you the enmity of the Debian > developers. Not only developers... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debconf on kde

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
I always get the message: cannot initialize frontend (kde). Is this a feature or is there only a package missing? I did not find any Qt.pm with apt-cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3 and charsets

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
Am Sonntag, 6. Juni 2004 21:08 schrieb Adam Aube: > J. Preiss wrote: > > I just "updated" from Suse 9.1 to debian testing, therefore I'm wondering > > how to change the mount charset of ext3 devices. I tried to use the suse > > feature "charset=utf8"

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> dpgk-reconfigure is only required if you want to reconfigure a > package. Packages remember the initial configurations so you need to > configure them on upgrade only if a configuration option changed. The problem is that everything is within a package, but the relations are not always clear (c

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> > don't want Gnome... Now I see that it would have been easier to do it > > all with aptitude or tasksel and then simply remove Gnome if I indeed > > did not want it... > > Got it. You are right, it will do that.:) > You taught me something, thanks. I dont know what you both are doing all over t

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Select kdm (the above step should have asked, or you can run > "dpkg-reconfigure kdm"; sometimes I've found that you have to select a > different display manager, such as gdm, then rerun the command again and > select kdm). > > Start kdm (either by rebooting, or by running "/etc/init.d/kdm start"

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
Thank you for these guidelines. I just wanted to mention how difficult it is to have all these commands in mind. At least for a beginner. Am Montag, 7. Juni 2004 17:17 schrieb Andreas Janssen: > Hello > > J. Preiss (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > dpkg-reconfigure locales

Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
It is great what you are doing. But the usability of debian itself... I get the feeling that I'm too stupid to use it. I do understand the installation stuff with apt-get, ok. If the package configures itself, it may works. But when I have to use dpk-reconfigure, I always wonder what the correc

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
Hi all, currently it seems that I have a similar problem: I wanted to have kdm as display manager (please! no hints aboutdisplay and windowmanagers, ok?). I selected it with dpkg-reconfigure kdm... and it does not work. I only can start kde by calling startx, not as runlevel default login. Is th

Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
It is great what you are doing. But the usability of debian itself... I get the feeling that I'm too stupid to use it. I do understand the installation stuff with apt-get, ok. If the package configures itself, it may works. But when I have to use dpk-reconfigure, I always wonder what the correc

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
Just got a lockup: put usb drive in, everything was dead. If someone is interested in logs or something like that... my /var/log is yours... (I was reading four scsi drives with audio cds at that time, transforming them to ogg... so my two processors were a little bit under pressure). -- To U

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
> Please don't post new questions as replies to old threads. I'll never do this, sorry. Now I know why some messages are sorted strange :-) > > Using UTF-8 characters ist not really a filesystem problem, the FS > doesn't care too much what characters you use as long as there are no > control chara

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
> "apt-get install kde kdm" > If kdm is already installed, then do "dpkg-reconfigure kdm". > Select "kdm" as your default display manager. (If it doesn't take, try > again, select one of the other managers, then repeat the process a final > time and select kdm.) > > If kdm doesn't start, either reb

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

2004-06-03 Thread J. Preiss
exactly remember. But I would suggest to may have a look for interrupt sharing and acpi, that would include both, usb and xfree/graphic drivers, wouldn't it? Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2004 16:00 schrieb Nate Bargmann: > * J. Preiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 03 08:03 -0500]: &

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

2004-06-03 Thread J. Preiss
I know this problem, too. At least at home everything freezes with a chance of 50% when I put in an USB drive. This was with kernel 2.4 (with backported usb modules from Suse I think) and kernel 2.6 (suse and debian), and usb 1.1. With usb 2 it seems to work now . Nevertheless, when I copy more

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
> What are you trying to do with kwin? I don't understand the problem. The main problem is, that I only had the choice between xdm and gdm. And I think I want to use kwm, because I think it is the [xyz] manager which is responsible for the login process. But, as I looked for kwm (apt-cache), I

charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
Isnt there a way to use utf-8 encoding for ext3 partitions? I urgently need umlauts and cyrillic characters, so utf 8 would be the best choice. Now I run in trouble when I try to create m3u playlist. The filesnames dont match. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2004 17:15 schrieb richard lyons: > On Wednesday 02 June 2004 07:58, J. Preiss wrote: > > Hi, > > may there is a harder way? I tried dpkg-reconfigure kwin, the > > answer is "could not init kde". Isn't it simply change a config > > f

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread J. Preiss
Hi, may there is a harder way? I tried dpkg-reconfigure kwin, the answer is "could not init kde". Isn't it simply change a config file? > First ensure that you have two or more installed. Then run > dpkg-reconfigure on one of the packages. For example have both xdm > and gdm installed and run '

ext3 and charsets

2004-06-01 Thread J. Preiss
Hi, I just "updated" from Suse 9.1 to debian testing, therefore I'm wondering how to change the mount charset of ext3 devices. I tried to use the suse feature "charset=utf8" in fstab, but this seems not to be recognized. The problem is, that I read about 200 cds with kaudiocreator and sorted the