gnome panel is back! was; Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

2005-06-11 Thread James Miller
.) Unpacking gnome-applets (from .../gnome-applets_2.8.2-3_i386.deb) ... Setting up gnome-applets (2.8.2-3) ... mymachine:/home/user# It all woiks! Just like before the infamous dist-upgrade! On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Tom wrote: [Thursday 09 June 2005 20:33] James Miller (Re: gnome-panel .. gone

Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Mike Ward wrote: If there was ever a thing that taught me to not get relaxed and take it for granted that apt-get would handle everything nicely for me, this is it. /me grumbles and goes back to his panel-less desktop. This amounts to more or less and inconvenience for me.

Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, alan bonard wrote: Hi, I logged into a seldom-used account to satisfy an 80 yr. old lady's wish to send an urgent email and found two panels giving me a choice between 'X-settings' and 'Gnome-session', choosing the latter out of long-term habit. I then found gnome-panels to b

Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

2005-06-09 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, alan bonard wrote: Hi, I logged into a seldom-used account to satisfy an 80 yr. old lady's wish to send an urgent email and found two panels giving me a choice between 'X-settings' and 'Gnome-session', choosing the latter out of long-term habit. I then found gnome-panels to b

Re: unicode input in X apps: how to?

2004-09-30 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Tony Harlequin wrote: > As for X the keyboards, they are all in /etc/X11/xkbd > > The ones I have listed are ru, ge_ru and ru_yawerty. > You might find more if you do apt-cache search. I think I might have found why I get an error trying to enter ru_yawerty into setxkbmap. T

Re: unicode input in X apps: how to?

2004-09-30 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Tony Harlequin wrote: > Then you'll need the cyrillic fonts, I don't use > cyrillic myself, but try searching for cyrillic fonts > and install: > > apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode > apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode-ib I did install some Cyrillic console fonts and got

Re: unicode input in X apps: how to?

2004-09-30 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Arne [utf-8] Götje ([utf-8] é«^Xç^[^[è^O¯) wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 13:33, James Miller wrote: > > Methods? The method, as I foresee it, involves pecking away at a > > keyboard with my fingers while strange and wonderful characters > >

Re: unicode input in X apps: how to?

2004-09-29 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Arne [utf-8] Götje ([utf-8] é«^Xç^[^[è^O¯) wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 00:03, James Miller wrote: > > term) fonts to make foreign languages appear in OOo. But I'm trying > > to keep with the times and use the latest and greatest unicode >

unicode input in X apps: how to?

2004-09-29 Thread James Miller
I can't seem to puzzle out how to input unicode into X apps: specifically, I need to do this in OpenOffice.org. My Windows "friends" all have keyboard switching programs that allow them to select different unicode fonts so that they can write their friends in Urdu, Byelorussian and Mandarin. Mean

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid RESOLVED

2004-07-30 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, JMS wrote: > It certainly shouldn't segfault - that's a pretty serious problem. What > architecture is this on? > > You might try setting up a new user and seeing if it runs better then. Thanks for your reply, Jonathan. Someone contacted me offlist, saying they'd had a simi

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid

2004-07-29 Thread James Miller
This refers to Mozilla 1.7.1-4 (have had problems with all 1.7.1) and Firefox 0.9.1-5. When I start them from a console, the try to go to the problem page (e.g., Google), the browser crashes. In the console appears: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla selected UILocale: en-US selected ContentLocale: US

xserver-tinyx-fbdev

2004-05-26 Thread James Miller
I got ahold of an older laptop to which I've installed Debian Sid. Since it's a low memory setup, I'd like to use one of those xvesa thingies rather than a full-blown Xwindows. I've noted that there seems to be something like this in Debian unstable: it's called xserver-tinyx-fbdev. So, I apt-get

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:46:26AM -0500, James Miller wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > > > > > In /etc/modules add the line: > > > > > > psmouse > > > > > > Then restart

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
6Config-4 again? I don't really see how that could apply though, since it's not a USB mouse (unless my understanding of the generic mouse stanza as referring to USB mice is mistaken). Thanks, James > > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 08:36 am, James Miller wrote: > > I've

lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
I've tried upgrading to the 2.6.x kernel on my Debian Sid system a couple of times now, but each time I boot into the gui with the new kernel, I lose all mouse functionality. In other words, no matter what I do to the physical mouse, the cursor on the screen will not move: it just stays stuck ther

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-06 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:16:25AM -0600, James Miller wrote: > > I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a > > multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) > > multipage tables

will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread James Miller
I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until version 2.0. This kind of stinks, but now I'm looking at alternatives. I've heard some people rave about the ol

Re: using old isa bus ethernet cards

2003-12-22 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Debian User wrote: > >> one chip number is LG82000 ... the other is S82595FX L7093628. I > >> searched Debian for a previous post and even googled but have not > >> found any information on which modules to load when using antiques. > >> > >I had one of the latter (82595FX) bu

Re: using old isa bus ethernet cards

2003-12-22 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Debian User wrote: > i have two isa ethernet cards that i have that i wish to use in a > test machine here at work. i think one is an intel chip and the > other ... who knows. > > one chip number is LG82000 ... the other is S82595FX L7093628. I > searched Debian for a previou

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-20 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:37AM -0600, James Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install wou

Re: 4MB s3 video card (was QuickTime for Linux?)

2003-12-20 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: > James Miller wrote: > > > > Be interested to know if that 4MB s3 video card is a Virge VX PCI? I > > installed Sid recently on a machine with the s3 Virge/VX 4MB video > > card and was unable to get a display out of it. I tr

4MB s3 video card (was QuickTime for Linux?)

2003-12-20 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: > I'll give it a try on my testing station later to see if I can get it to > run on older hardware. The testing station is a Packard Bell Multimedia > C115 with a Pentium-200. 96MB RAM, 4MB S3 video card, and some sort of > Be interested to know if that 4MB

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-18 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:05:04PM -0600, James Miller wrote: > | > | Hey, I just noticed somethin skwerky. I've got TWO 'Section "InputDevice' > | stanzas in my XF86Config4 - like so: > >

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, David Palmer. wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:52:06 -0700 > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Incoming from James Miller: > > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > > > c

network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread James Miller
I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be the best option for them. Is it reasonable to expect them to be able to do a network install over dialup? I should also explain that this will be a fairly

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread James Miller
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Kent West wrote: > James Miller wrote: > > >normal behavior under X was killall gpm. So, what was I doing wrong? I'd > >be delighted if I could get gpm to cooperate with the mouse cursor under > >X. > > and your /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 f

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread James Miller
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > | > [...] > | > | gpm is a massive pain

is this the list for me?

2003-12-15 Thread James Miller
I'm a fairly recent "convert" to Linux (been using it for about 2 yrs full time) who has finally settled on Debian as his distro of choice. I often need to ask some pretty stupid questions about setting up, using and administering Debian. So, my first stupid question is: is this the right forum f

RE: Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-01-22 Thread James Miller
The CD-Writing-HOWTO helped me out alot. Snippet from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/CD-Wri ting-HOWTO.html Sect. Description Module SCSI IDE PP BLOCK Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL...

RE: mkinitrd trouble

2003-01-21 Thread James Miller
, January 21, 2003 2:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mkinitrd trouble _I_AM_NO_EXPERT_ Did you compile the kernel with cramfs, also? You didn't mention it. -Original Message----- From: James Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21,

mkinitrd trouble

2003-01-21 Thread James Miller
read-only # restricted # alias=1 I'm sure there's some simple step that I'm missing and I sure would appreciate any help. Thanks, Jim James Miller Network Administrator Simutronics Corporation www.play.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]