Re: [HELP}US internaional keyboard with a '£' KEY

2005-06-23 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/23/05, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,Try the US International keyboard layout (us_intl).More here:http://www.zisman.ca/keyboard/ http://www.cs.umu.se/~hegner/Misc/Windowskb/windowsse3.htmlAll the best.--Robert "roach" SpencerPietermaritzburgSouth AfricaVery very helpful! Many thanks. --

[HELP}US internaional keyboard with a '£' KEY

2005-06-22 Thread Shidai Liu
Hi there, My laptop was bought in America. But I'm in UK and I have to use the British pound "£" often. Currently I have to use two keyboard layout uk and us. It's quite inconvenient. I'm wondering if there's a way to map a key in a us layout to British pound '£'. Say map Right_Alt -> £. Or any o

Re: How to print to file

2005-06-04 Thread Shidai Liu
Thanks.On 6/4/05, David Roguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe you should search for a postscript package or something likethat, or maybe the gnomeprint?have luck,On 6/4/05, Shidai Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there,>>  Another question, how to get the 'prin

How to print to file

2005-06-04 Thread Shidai Liu
Hi there, Another question, how to get the 'print to file' like in abiword working? I remember when I do a full install of gnome, it works already. But I can't afford a full install at the moment. Could anyone point out which package is needed for this function? Thank you. -- Shidai

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

2005-06-03 Thread Shidai Liu
ks for ac97 compatible, mine is sound blaster. I'm thinking of compiling a new kernel which enables only soudcard support without alsa and oss modules, and try installing alsa/oss manually. Do you think that would help? -- Shidai --- Shidai Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> On 6/2/05

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

2005-06-03 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/3/05, Ionut Georgescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:16:39PM +0100, Shidai Liu wrote: echo driver_you_don't_want >> /etc/hotplug/blacklistorecho driver_you_don't_want >> /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/sound This is what I want. Thank you! Ionu

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

2005-06-03 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/2/05, Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,--- Shidai Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > I try to install oss (opensound). Every time I> start the oss install> program, it complains about sound driver already > running which I removed> beforehand and &#x

Re: /etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/2/05, Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi,i'm not too clear on this... but have you even triedmanually removing the bad sound driver and try to'insmod' the other ones?  I would at least try to makesure it works before going for some kind of permanent configuration.good luck,Cameron

/etc/modprobe.d/sound does't work

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
Hi there, Linux without sound sucks. Please help me sort it out. I'm struggling to get my sound card nm256av working under kernel 2.6.11. As some searches from google tell me, the alsa driver for neomagic 2200 has problem. It can detect the souncard but can't drive it correctly. QUOTE from http

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
Thanks Elvis. It's helpful.On 6/2/05, Elvis Cehajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to list all the packages installed in the system and how to list them in> a certain order like from oldest to newest?This topic was dicussed some days ago on the german mailing list. Trythis link if you understand

Re: Debian Sarge - What happened to tasksel?

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
I didn't meet tasksel as well, but you'd be better off using apt-get combined with aptitude (cli) or synaptic (gui).On 6/2/05, Redefined Horizons < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I'm a Debian and Linux noobie, so go easy one me I successfully installed Debian Woody from CD. (I don't yet have anintern

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/1/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..What makes one package older than another one? Time since installationon your system? Logging this information is a pretty much requestedfeature and several approaches have been posted here. At least I think, I didn't bother to read all of t

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/1/05, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Shidai Liu,..dpkg --get-selectionswill get you a list of packages that are installed, but that's just inalphabetical order. Thanks for this tip. If you didn't clean your package cache the following command will l

Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-01 Thread Shidai Liu
Hi there, I'm excited about my newly installed Debian Sarge in a very old laptop thinkpad 390. The installation is very flexible. Now I have all the softwares I need within 600M harddisk. Also I met some problems. Here is one. How to list all the packages installed in the system and how to list t