On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:35:07PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> It sure would be neat if apt-get could just fetch the diffs. I'm sure
> that 10MB mozilla package I just downloaded has a 1-line change in the
> preferences file.
>
> Is there an outstanding fundamental reason why I shouldn't loo
On 16 Oct 2001, Avdi B. Grimm wrote:
> I'm using Python on a Debian machine, and I've installed both the
> python-1.5 and the python2 packages. I prefer to use python2.
> Unfortunately, the way the Debian packages are arranged, many of the
> additional libraries available for python (such as PyGT
In my high school classroom we have a small network of four linux boxen, with
private block ip addresses (our Public School System domain is in a private
block), with one printer. I have been able to ftp/telnet between my own boxen,
but I am unskilled so don't know how much I can do with/among
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:22:10PM -0400, Avdi B. Grimm wrote:
> Now, as I understand it, Python2 shouldn't have any difficulty using the
> python1.5 versions of PyGTK, wxPython, and other such libs. (Correct me
> if I'm wrong). My question is, how can I make the python2 executable
> "see" the pyth
On 16 Oct 2001 16:19:40 -0600, "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> That almost works. First I had to hunt down mpeg2encode because it's
> used by convert and not included in any Debian package (as far as I
> could tell). After I did that I tried the command
>
> convert *.pn
dman muttered:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:40:07PM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote:
> | Since last night's Woody upgrade, startx no longer
> | works as before.
>
> Yeah, there is a bug. Edit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start
> and change
>
> exec "$REALSTARTUP"
>
> to
>
> exec $REALSTARTUP
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5
> package built with stp support?
It's in unstable (don't know about stp). Look for gs-alladin. If you
want potato packages, I dunno -- you might b
I have a kernel panic:
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or 03:06
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06.
Now I've tried different root options to cover all of them including what was
once /.
Nothing works.
I was building a custom kerne
Hi,
I've just installed SID and compiled Kernel 2.4.12 - but - I havn't any
/dev/input/mice device. I activated USB Support-> UHCI and Input core
support->Mouse Support.
My USB Mouse (Logitech MouseMan USB) is correctly connected. Any ideas?
TIA
Patrick
Linux Cookbook
http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/11/2001/119.html
ramsubs wrote:
> > > > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly
> for
> > > > Debian instead of just general linux?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Alth
I am trying to set up a new ppp connection with pppconfig. I know the
basics of this and have set up ones through bigpond and ozemail and can
connect to each with pon bigpond / pon ozemail.
Now this time I am trying to connect through my local university (QUT).
I went through the same process in
shöck wrote:
What do i need to do in order to ensure that apt-get upgrade doesn't
upgrade X-Windows? I have a fairly customized X-Windows set up, so I
usually upgrade X myself.
I've tried messing with dselect, but it's greek to me. I know it's fairly
straightforward for 99% of planet earth, bu
"Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> er.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5
> > package built with stp support?
>
> It's in unstable (don't know about stp). Look for gs-alladin.
g
Hi all,
I am using sendmail for mail distribution. I am
planning to add one more mail server so that some
users are in the first mail server and the rest in the
new one (For the same domain). Internet mails arrive
directly on the first mail server.
Can I configure sendmail so that if a user is f
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 01:02, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> ucbmpeg works (more or less). You have to write a control file and
> it takes a bit of tweaking to get good results, but it's doable. It
> likes pnm files (though I think it will use png directly as well).
ucbmpeg uses mpeg_encode. it
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:45:15AM +, Yuwen Dai wrote:
> Hi, ALL
>
> For the sake of security, how to disable the `single' parameter when
> booting?
just out of curiosity, do you also have the case inaccesible, and boot
media disabled and the bios protected?
I have always been of the impres
On every Linux box I've ever used, uname -p prints 'unknown'. This has
never affected me in the slightest, but every once in a while it occurs
to me that I still have no idea what it means. I assume I could somehow
make it print something i686 or something, although this is what's
printed by unam
Tom Allison wrote:
I have a kernel panic:
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or 03:06
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06.
Now I've tried different root options to cover all of them including what was
once /.
Nothing works.
I was b
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:25:02AM +0200, Morbo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I didn't realize that there was anyone else running a shuttle
> > mainboard. Cool. On an unrelated topic, do you get some garbage on the
> side of
> > your screen that seems to be caused by interence from something? My board
> > ha
I wrote:
> "Eric G. Miller" wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> tt
> > er.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5
> > > package built with stp support?
> >
> > It's in unstable (don't know ab
Now, why would my CPU be pegged at 100% ever since upgrading to Sawfish
1.0.1 in Sid tonight? Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this by
some configuration option (probably not as obvious as "Use All CPU=No"),
or is a downgrade to Sawfish 1.0 the only option? Is anyone else even
seeing this pr
I posted previously about not being able to get xdm to work so a user
other than root could use X. I've basically given up on that route because
it seemed that the problem I was having with xdm was to difficult to solve.
Now I would just like to get X usable by another user perhaps through
Craig Dickson wrote:
> Now, why would my CPU be pegged at 100% ever since upgrading to Sawfish
> 1.0.1 in Sid tonight?
Sorry about that, looks like the old Sawfish failed to terminate, and
that was what was using up all the CPU. With that killed, everything's
fine.
HOWEVER -- change of subject h
on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:45:06AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't
> seem to be respecting font sizes. For example,
> Shows up with all fonts being the same size except the last two lines,
> whic
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:51:28AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to set up a new ppp connection with pppconfig. I know the
> basics of this and have set up ones through bigpond and ozemail and can
> connect to each with pon bigpond / pon ozemail.
>
> Now this time I am trying to c
Did you enable Event Interface Support in the Input Core section?
Did you enable HID support (either full or basic) in the USB Support
section? You didn't mention either of these...
If that's all ok, you might need to create the /dev/input directory
yourself. I remember having to do at least
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:45:06AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't
> > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example,
>
> Frankly, this IMO is a feat
I wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > "Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ro
> > tt
> > > er.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5
> > > > package built with stp support?
> >
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:45:08PM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires
> Python. However, the author states that it is "illegal" to link against
> versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? And if,
The newest gs 6 packages are at http://incoming.debian.org. hopefully
they should be in unstable tomorrow.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:09:45PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > The gs package is terribly ou
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:19:35PM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> lately i've inherited my brother's rockwell modem, which is a hsf,
> meaning, as far as i know, it's a winmodem. so i took a look a
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO/hsf.html
> the ins
I now have a Canon BJC-610 (color inkjet) working with CUPS through a
custom "filter" script that invokes gs to generate the bjc610 data
stream. This works great from my machine, and also allows the
connected win95 and win98 machines to use it via samba. However, from
the win* machines an extra
I know that Unix has 2 main printing systems : SysV and BSD. One has
'lpr' (and others) and the other has 'lp' (and others). IIRC 'lpr' is
the BSD-style. What is the real difference between these two systems?
I have CUPS as my printing system and (at least for a while) only the
SysV commands we
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:30:36PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Typespeed is a good typing tutoring program.
>
> We have used it a little bit here at our school. My students were
> quite surprised to see words like whore, suck, prophylactic and hooker
> for words for them to typ
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:55:06PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:45:06AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed th
on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:54:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> The web site of the San Francisco library has a feature where you can
> look at your record and renew books. It uses java, I believe.
> Unfortunately, I can't get it to work from Linux.
Complain.
http://kmself
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On my desktop machine (running woody) I enable X server access via
> "xhost +" before I telnet into another machine. I then redirect that
> machine's display via DISPLAY variable back to my desktop and try to
>
on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:33:21PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have just updated to galeon, and everytime I try to use any plugin
Version? Java VM?
--
Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
I cannot login with GDM with normal account, though root can. X server
aborts with the following message:
Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
I'm using woody with kernel 2.4.9 and Xfree86 4.1.0.
Another problem is after editin
After dist-upgrading after Oct. 8, I have a problem with dipslaying in X
except with GNOME applications. I'm using unstable.
The problem is fonts in X is too small, especially the Chinese
characters in chinput. That's not the case before Oct. 1.
I guess the problem can be due to the X system
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> To this extent, the CSS spec is severely flawed in that it grants
> precedence to website author, not reader. This is bass ackwards.
One major point of CSS was explicitly to grant precedence to reader to
override things. It's browser vendors/authors who have been un
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