Re: some dev files disappeared, mouse doesn't work, no hostname

2003-07-10 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: The other day I shut down my Sid box and left if off for several days. Then when I came back to it tonight, I'm seeing some weird behaviour. For example, the mouse doesn't work, via gpm in console. I can't start X via "startx"; it complains about no /dev/tty0 device. And sure

Re: apt-get question

2003-07-10 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:20:37AM -0700, James LeClair wrote: > Hello all. Could someone suggest, or better yet provide an example, a way > to edit a sources.list file so as to have the most up to date debian > desktop system possible. Suppose I could just install Knoppix but that > would be to

Re: Apt-get unmet dep problem

2003-07-10 Thread steve downes
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 23:55, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:20:31PM +0100, steve downes wrote: > > Says the following new package will be installed > > > > libpisync0 > > > > it then stops with:- > > > > errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/lib

[OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have a large set of data files (>200 files), which contain data in the following format (Ignore that Win95 has a y2k problem...): File List Date: 16.06.1903Time: 13:34 File Name: C:\WINEPR\LO-JJ-XO\lo-xo-01.spc Data Point Value[G] Intensity ---

Re: Mozilla history (completion)

2003-07-10 Thread Magnus Therning
Hmm, I've been using sid all along, and noticed that version 1.4 just made it in... but despite the recent upgrade I still had no completion. However, after following your advise and first removing mozilla and the turn around and installing it again seemed to work... irritating to not know the reas

i815 Soundcard Problem

2003-07-10 Thread Ratheesh K K
Hai to the users of Debian, Problem: My motherboard is of D815EEA2 from Intel with onboard soundcard with the chip AD1885. The problem I face is that I cant boot with sound support every time I boot the system.Only at random occasions the soundcard is working. This is the case whether I in

Re: USB mouse not recognized till after gpm starts

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:00:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've got a Del Optiplex GX260 with a USB mouse. When I boot up, gpm > starts before the USB mouse driver stuff kicks in, therefore gpm doesn't > see the mouse. After I get logged in, I can then run "/etc/init.d/gpm > restart" and the m

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:52:17AM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I?m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had > > trouble using Glimpse to filter out ?wheel mouse?. I hope I?m not belabori

Re: Debian references

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:56:34PM +0200, Schulze Thomas wrote: > Where i can find the Debain references? http://qref.sf.net/. http://newbiedoc.sf.net/ is neat, too. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Commecen armed overthrow

Re: Libc6 broken -- unable to boot...

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:55:47PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:30:05PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi everybody: > > > I am getting kind of desperate with this and before trhasong all my debian > > > insta

Re: Mozilla history (completion)

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, July 10 at 10:44 AM EDT Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hmm, I've been using sid all along, and noticed that version 1.4 just >made it in... but despite the recent upgrade I still had no completion. >However, after following your advise and first removing mozilla and the >turn

Re: HELP! installing from boot floppies

2003-07-10 Thread Shaul Karl
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:12:33PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > When trying to install from floppies per instructions on Debian site, > after the first disk (made from rescue.bin), I am asked to "Insert root > floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER" > I enter the second disk (ma

Re: problem with mozilla plugins

2003-07-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > When i view a web sites with mozilla, the mozilla give me an error > message, " This page contains information of a type > (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin) that cna only be viewed with the > appropriate Plug-in." > > That sound to means that if I install the x-pn-re

OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I've got this question - a few years ago my dad bought a windows-only scanner which isn't supported at all. Now, scanners are offered for reduced prices and I'm thinking about buying one which is supported by Debian Linux :-) The list is at http://shop.powerline.nl/s/opruiming.h

Re: OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, July 10 at 2:01 AM EDT Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello everybody, > >I've got this question - a few years ago my dad bought >a windows-only scanner which isn't supported at all. > >Now, scanners are offered for reduced prices and I'm >thinking about buying one which is supp

Re: [OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030710 17:26]: > Hi everybody > > I have a large set of data files (>200 files), which contain data in the > following format (Ignore that Win95 has a y2k problem...): > > > File List Date: 16.06.1903Time: 13:34 > > File N

best imap daemon ?

2003-07-10 Thread juan
i need an mbox imap serveur, which one should i use ? imap, uw-imapd, mailutils-imap4d ? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:05, Nick Hastings wrote: > Gnuplot should be able to deal with this if you specify which columns > to use. Exactly what command are you passing gnuplot? > > I just tried it and it works fine with > G N U P L O T > Version 3.7 patchlevel 3 > > plot 'filena

Re: best imap daemon ?

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Stroh
On Don, 2003-07-10 at 11:31, juan wrote: > i need an mbox imap serveur, which one should i use ? > imap, uw-imapd, mailutils-imap4d ? courier-imap or cyrus-imapd, depends on which type of mailboxes you prefer. courier-imap can handle Maildirs, cyrus-imapd has it's own custom mailbox format. HTH,

Re: OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, July 10 at 2:01 AM EDT > Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello everybody, > > > >I've got this question - a few years ago my dad > bought > >a windows-only scanner which isn't supported at > all. > > > >Now, scanners are offered

Re: OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Lukas Ruf
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-10 12:27]: > I'm thinking, how is a scsi scanner plugged in, I > don't really see how that works; I know how the > windows only agfa snapscan 1212p is done, but... that > p is for paralell right? The HP Scanjet 5100C paralell > A4 might be an alternative ri

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron
On -3389-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-10 Thread cr
On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:28, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:19:59PM +1200, cr wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:08, Daniel Teichert wrote: > > > I apologize since this is probably either redundant, wrong or > > > both--I've deleted the rest of the thread. I just discovered > > >

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-10 Thread cr
On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:17, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:10:04PM +1200, cr wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 01:33, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:23:25PM +1200, cr wrote: > > > > I believe I also probably need sg and sr_mod. Can they also be > > > > loaded via

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-10 Thread cr
On Thursday 10 July 2003 00:37, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > cr wrote: > > However, I can't find anything on the CD-ROM called > > vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci > > (which is the kernel in /boot that GRUB calls), or vmlinuz-2.2.20-* > > > > I note also that /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci and > >

what plugins i needed?

2003-07-10 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
What plugins i need to download when i viewed a web sites with mozilla with the following error message? "This page contains information of a type (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin) that can only be viewed with teh appropriate Plug-in." Regards, James Ng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How to play CD and video in debian?

2003-07-10 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Nick Hastings wrote: Hi, * James Ng Yuen Sum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030708 12:41]: I am using kde3.1.2, but the system cannot play CD and video CD. when i insert a CD in the cdrom, and doing "mount /dev/cdrom" there is some error, mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, o

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-10 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > What plugins i need to download when i viewed a web sites with mozilla > with the following error message? > > "This page contains information of a type (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin) > that can only be viewed with teh appropriate Plug-in." You will

diacritic symbols in X

2003-07-10 Thread Martin F Krafft
Can someone think of a reason why I can enter diacritic symbols (e.g. ä [adiearesis, or A-Umlaut) on one machine straight into the aterm 0.4.2-5 window, but it won't work on another machine with the same aterm? The keysym is generated (verified with xev), but it simply doesn't show up. However, it

Re: pdf creator (OpenOffice.org 1.1 beta does it)

2003-07-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Zhao YouBing([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: <-- snipped previous posts --> > > > I mean the quality of images really sucks, to much compression. Check the OpenOffice user mailing list archive. I recall reading a fix for the graphics. Something about selecting a different graphic fo

Re: User cannot use usb camera

2003-07-10 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 10 Juliol 2003 05:34, en Bret Comstock Waldow va escriure: > There are at least two fundamentally different camera-to-computer > systems, and thus at least two fundamentally different systems to figure > out. You're right, I've gave you too f

Mouse out of control under X and cursor become a big mottled blockafter X(framebuffer console)

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
I don't how to solve this problem, I just installed NVidia driver and now totally lost by that Anyone who has met similar problems can drop me a note?? Thank u very much. -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China Tel : 0571-87951045(

Re: Mouse out of control under X and cursor become a big mottled block after X(framebuffer console)

2003-07-10 Thread Alan Thompson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:29:09PM +0800, Zhao YouBing wrote: > I don't how to solve this problem, I just installed NVidia driver and > now totally lost by that I ran into something similar recently, which was solved by adding the following line to the device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: O

Re: OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Yifang Dai
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:24:31AM -0700, Joris Huizer wrote: > > I'm thinking, how is a scsi scanner plugged in, I > don't really see how that works; I know how the For the scsi scanner, you'll need to find out what connector it, and note the connector on your scsi card in the pc, then you'll n

Re: best imap daemon ?

2003-07-10 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I've actually been using cyrus-imapd for some time now... But for my environment the custom mailbox format it uses is fine as I have it installed on a server that has no user accounts except the administrator accounts. All email user accounts are handled by cyrus-imapd itself... Also was a

Re: OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, July 10 at 3:24 AM EDT Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I didn't really find that resolution to be honest >where is a link to such product info? Here it says 300 dpi optical with 1200 dpi "enhanced". You can look online for user reviews, too (google). http://www.hp.com/cposuppor

Re: Mouse out of control under X and cursor become a big mottledblock after X(framebuffer console)

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
Alan Thompson wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:29:09PM +0800, Zhao YouBing wrote: I don't how to solve this problem, I just installed NVidia driver and now totally lost by that I ran into something similar recently, which was solved by adding the following line to the device section of

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Rus Foster wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > >> What plugins i need to download when i viewed a web sites with mozilla >> with the following error message? >> >> "This page contains information of a type (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin) >> that can only be viewed with t

Re: How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread David Z Maze
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought that the text and the dashed line would confuse gnuplot, but > they are just ignored. Thanks, Nick, and sorry for the noise... > (Anyway, it would still be interesting how to just comment out the first > six lines of text...) I'd use "sed -

using the debianlogo kernel patch fails. (sollution provided)

2003-07-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, I have built some kernels before and now i wanted once to experiment with a kernel patch.Therefore i choose to try and install the debianlogo kernel patch. I use unstable and testing. These are the steps that i did: (i also build the nvidia module) cd /usr/src apt-get install kernel-source

Re: uw-imapd logindisabled

2003-07-10 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > It really annoys me when software tries to push security down my throat. > Often I'm going to be running insecure programs on my lan at home which > doesn't bother me at all, etc. > In this case it is because the IETF now deprecate plaintext logins. (T

Re: best imap daemon ?

2003-07-10 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, juan wrote: > i need an mbox imap serveur, which one should i use ? > imap, uw-imapd, mailutils-imap4d ? > dovecot-imapd * designed with security in mind * supports mbox and maildir * sane configuration * Also has POP3 server (dovecot-pop3d) * woody backport also available f

Re: Recommend site for debian lan topology

2003-07-10 Thread lists1
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 17:27, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jul 2003, Stephen Patterson wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:30:28 +0200, lists1 wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a non-registration site that clearly explains what > > > services normally run on a small company lan? Say 25-100 use

Re: [OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: > For plotting those files with gnuplot, I have to comment out the first 6 > lines with a # sign. I know it must be possible writing a quick sed/awk > script for batch-processing this heap of data. Any experts around? Someone else answered this problem

Spamassassin & SA Proxy

2003-07-10 Thread Jernej Zidar
Can Spamassassin be made into a fictious proxy server to whom one could point his email client? thanks Jernej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-10 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hello Michel Thanks a lot for your answer! On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 23:01:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:23, Andreas Wüst wrote: >> >> On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 22:30:19, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:47, Andreas Wüst wrote: >>> >>> I've installed

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-10 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 16:23, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:52:52AM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > >a P4 should be running at about 30-35C ... in idle > > > > Yes, you are correct. It runs 30-35C at idle. At 100% utlisation for a > > while, it pops

Re: Install Problems

2003-07-10 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:17:50PM -0500, Mark Rinaudo wrote: > I'm trying to install debian 3.0 woody on a Dell PE1400 with a MegaRaid > Pci card installed. I get the install to load the module (megaraid.o) > off of a floppy and then it partitioned the drive and installed > everything. Great!! no

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:27, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 23:01:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:23, Andreas Wüst wrote: > >> > >> On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 22:30:19, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:47, Andreas Wüst wrote: >

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-10 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:19:36AM +1200, cr wrote: > It looks as if the kernels on the Woody CD-ROMS aren't actually in the form > of packages, since 'apt-cache search vanilla' (or compact, or idepci) brings > up lists of other programs but nothing kernel-like.apt-cache search > vmlinuz

Re: [OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:30:51AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > (Anyway, it would still be interesting how to just comment out the first > six lines of text...) Pipe it through sed -e '1,6s/^/#/' or to get rid of the first 6 lines entirely pipe it through tail -n +7 -- Pigeon Be kin

Kernel/lilo/initrd upgrade issue

2003-07-10 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something I noticed installing a kernel I compiled without using the initrd stuff. I have been using the kernels provided by Debians archives. They do the prompt to add 'initrd=/initrd.img' to lilo.conf. The prompt suggests adding to the actual sta

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread David selby
Vineet Kumar wrote: * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit. stat -c "%y" $

Re: best imap daemon ?

2003-07-10 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:31:43AM +0200, juan wrote: > i need an mbox imap serveur, which one should i use ? > imap, uw-imapd, mailutils-imap4d ? I'm using uw-imapd and it works great. If you're just looking for something mbox compatible, that's the one. It also has ssl built in for security.

netastat errors

2003-07-10 Thread Gabriel Jeffrey
if anyone has deal with this particular error before, i would greatly appreciate any sort of guidance. i have not had this problem with other debian machines. regards, gabe /etc/init.d/netatalk restart Restarting AppleTalk Daemons (this will take a while)Stopping AppleTalk Daemons: afpd papd

Re: using the debianlogo kernel patch fails. (sollution provided)

2003-07-10 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 10 Jul 2003 16:50:52 +0200 Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install tk8.4/unstable (-> i removed it prior to the kernelbuild > so i reinstalled it. This could be useful to add to newbie kernel >procedure doc of Kevin McKinley) What would need to be added to the new

Re: Recommend site for debian lan topology

2003-07-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:19:22PM +0200, lists1 wrote: > For Debian, which will be woody on the mail/dns/ntp server, and a mix > of woody/testing/unstable (basically the knoppix install, plus some > customization) for the desktops and internal servers, what would be > the easiest combination in t

Problem installing soft modem drivers.

2003-07-10 Thread Ben Edwards
Trying to compile softmodem drivers on Debian stable. Have got kernel source at /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 In common.mk set KERNELSRC=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 When I try to 'make install' I get an error that 'KERNELSRC douse not point to a proper directory'. Any ideas? Ben **

utopia.sty missing from Debian teTeX 2.0.2 unstable packages

2003-07-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have recently upgraded to the unstable Debian teTeX 2.0.2-4 packages and cannot seem to find utopia.sty. Is this a feature of the teTeX release or a bug in the Debian packaging? --Chandra 11 Jul 03 -- Dr R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar Australian Research Centre for Medical Enginee

kdvi fonts ragged but xdvi is OK

2003-07-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Folks, I have upgraded to Debian unstable KDE 3.1.2-1 and teTeX 2.0.2-4. A DVI file using default cmr fonts looks ragged and unreadable in kdvi while it dislays clearly and readably with anti-aliasing under xdvi. I installed fonts using the KDE Control Centre font installer before this problem

Re: Problem installing soft modem drivers.

2003-07-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:31:36PM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote: > Trying to compile softmodem drivers on Debian stable. > > Have got kernel source at /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 > > In common.mk set KERNELSRC=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 > > When I try to 'make install' I get an error that 'KERN

Re: netastat errors

2003-07-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Please do not start new threads by replying to messages from existing threads. On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 13:06:29 -0400, Gabriel Jeffrey wrote: > ..Starting AppleTalk services (this will take a while): socket: Address > family not supported by protocol This typically means that the kernel you're r

Re: utopia.sty missing from Debian teTeX 2.0.2 unstable packages

2003-07-10 Thread Thomas Esser
> I have recently upgraded to the unstable Debian teTeX 2.0.2-4 packages > and cannot seem to find utopia.sty. > > Is this a feature of the teTeX release or a bug in the Debian packaging? That's part of the feature of teTeX being free software. The utopia fonts are not free. Thomas -- To UNS

Re: HELP! installing from boot floppies

2003-07-10 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Actually, I did try that. Same error. Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:12:33PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: When trying to install from floppies per instructions on Debian site, after the first disk (made from rescue.bin), I am asked to "Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into

Re: USB mouse not recognized till after gpm starts

2003-07-10 Thread Kent West
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:00:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've got a Del Optiplex GX260 with a USB mouse. When I boot up, gpm starts before the USB mouse driver stuff kicks in, therefore gpm doesn't see the mouse. After I get logged in, I can then run "/etc/init.d/gpm restar

Installing a package without overwriting files

2003-07-10 Thread Johan Parin
Hi all, I have the following problem: I'm using the "fglrx" driver for my ATI Radeon. The driver came as an rpm which I converted to a debian package using alien. The package installs /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2. This file is also installed by xlibmesa3-gl. I'm not sure if the fglrx package compl

Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I could use dosemu; as people say doom runs in it, but I've had no luck;

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Ian Melnick: > Hello, all > > For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an > ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older > libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I > could use dosemu; as people say doo

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron
Just an update on this font thing... First I found out that RedHat 7.x uses a hacked version of xft that includes TTF support from xfstt (yes, I use RedHat on one of my machines, forgive me). I finally did get TTF files to become available to X, and I can browse them in xfontsel, but they all look

color picker

2003-07-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
I remember using a color picker tool a while back that allowed you to select any color on the desktop (or in windows etc). I have a feeling it was a KDE application. Does anyone know what it might have been off hand? I tried doing apt-cache search color picker, but didn't see anything obvious. tha

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:34:49PM -0500, Ian Melnick wrote: > Hello, all > > For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an > ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older > libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I

Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hello! When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get the following error message cat: okänd flagga "--exclude" Försök med "cat --help" för mer information. In english something like cat: unknow flag "--exclude" Try "cat --help" for more information. If I "cd .." and "cat mydir/*" it works and th

Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
I just purchased a Radeon 9700 Pro (new MB also, Intel 875PBZ)so I could play America's Army in Linux. I used to play with a Radeon 8500LE, debian testing, a custom kernel and ATI's drivers for 3d acceleration. At this time last year ,IIRC, Debian testing had Libc 6.2, which according to the ATI

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nils-Erik Svangård ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030710 15:21]: > Hello! > > When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get > the following error message > > cat: okänd flagga "--exclude" > Försök med "cat --help" för mer information. 20 bucks says you have a file called '--exclude' in that directory! =)

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Ian Melnick
> Not really. Not if you're actually thinking that you can *play quake* > over an ssh session. On a local lan, you *might* be able to do it (with > a very low framerate), but there's no way you're going to be able to: > - shove 30fps or so across an ssh connection > - do any sort of serious graph

Re: using the debianlogo kernel patch fails. (sollution provided)

2003-07-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 10-07-2003, om 19:15 schreef Kevin McKinley: > On 10 Jul 2003 16:50:52 +0200 > Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > apt-get install tk8.4/unstable (-> i removed it prior to the kernelbuild > > so i reinstalled it. This could be useful to add to newbie kernel > >procedure

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Hello! When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get the following error message cat: okänd flagga "--exclude" Försök med "cat --help" för mer information. In english something like cat: unknow flag "--exclude" Try "cat --help" for more information. If I "cd .." and "cat

Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread David Corbin
Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.d/init.d directories. For reason I can't fathom (yet), my DSL connection doesn't come up on boot, but running the init.d later does work. It's currently set up as S95adsl in rc2.d. I knwow I could do something by modifying the script

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread Robin Gerard
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: > > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls > > -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the > > file size varies I cannot us

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:59:33PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: > When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get > the following error message > > cat: ok?nd flagga "--exclude" > F?rs?k med "cat --help" f?r mer information. You've got a file called "--exclude" in your home directory. Try: cat

[OT] Is there a HOWTO for HOWTO's

2003-07-10 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
What is a good source of information about writing properly formatted HOWTOs? I googled for it, but I couldn't find anything really concrete. Do I just imitate how other HOWTO's are written?? TIA, -- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University, UT-84602 -- To UNS

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:40:09 +0200, Ian Melnick wrote: > What about Doom in Dosemu? How do I get that to work? It locks up right > before the main game screen comes up. Is there a HowTo somewhere? I > couldn't find a good one...but I did find screenshots! The best thing for doom is (rather then fs

Re: [OT] Is there a HOWTO for HOWTO's

2003-07-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:11:57PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > What is a good source of information about writing properly formatted > HOWTOs? I googled for it, but I couldn't find anything really concrete. > Do I just imitate how other HOWTO's are written?? Here are a few that I know

Re: Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: I just purchased a Radeon 9700 Pro (new MB also, Intel 875PBZ)so I could play America's Army in Linux. I used to play with a Radeon 8500LE, debian testing, a custom kernel and ATI's drivers for 3d acceleration. At this time last year ,IIRC, Debi

Re: color picker

2003-07-10 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I remember using a color picker tool a while back that allowed you to select any color on the desktop (or in windows etc). I have a feeling it was a KDE application. Does anyone know what it might have been off hand? I tried doing apt-cache sea

vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Jake Johnson
I used to be able to use the arrow keys to move around with out any problems, but know when I move (with the arrow keys after pressing "i") to the beginning of the line I have to press I again. How do I change it so that I don't always have to press "i"? I hope that wasn't too confusing. example

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 11 July 2003 01:25, Jake Johnson wrote: > I used to be able to use the arrow keys to move around with out any > problems, but know when I move (with the arrow keys after pressing "i") to > the beginning of the line I have to press I again. How do I change it so > that I don't always have

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: > > > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls > > > -l & sed ? I have a bash script tha

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:59:33PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get > the following error message > > In english something like > cat: unknow flag "--exclude" > Try "cat --help" for more information. You have a file called "--exclude" in your home d

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Jake Johnson
Thanks Nicos, This has been bugging me for a while now. I just installed vim and it works perfectly. Thanks again, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.d/init.d > directories. I'm afraid not. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: kdvi fonts ragged but xdvi is OK]]

2003-07-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
--- Begin Message --- H, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 10.07.03 R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Folks, I have upgraded to Debian unstable KDE 3.1.2-1 and teTeX 2.0.2-4. A DVI file using default cmr fonts looks ragged and unreadable in kdvi while it dislays clearly and readably

Extracting fields (was bash: get file modification time query)

2003-07-10 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 9 Jul 2003 19:53:05 +(+0100), David selby wrote: > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls > -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the > file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit. Dave, Firstly I don't me

Re: Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: I was able to accomplish this by following ATI's well-enough written HOWTO (it is the "Release Notes" link). Their driver is compatible with the newer version of libc in unstable. I am currently running this setup right now. Just use their Xfree4.2.x and libc dri

syncing with a palm using evolution from kde

2003-07-10 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi folks, I recently got presented a sony clie which I have managed to work under linux - coldsync recognises and communicates with it just fine. I would however, like to sync it with Evolution. I have installed gnome-pilot and its other dependencies but I am running kde and cant installed the ne

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
Jake Johnson wrote: Thanks Nicos, This has been bugging me for a while now. I just installed vim and it works perfectly. Thanks again, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
Robin Gerard wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the file size var

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 10 July 2003 19:27, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > > Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.d/init.d > > directories. > > I'm afraid not. > While we're on the subject, any reason debian doesn't use a standardized

PHP + GD + Type 1 Fonts

2003-07-10 Thread Sam Minnee
Hi, I've been trying to get PHP's GD functions (imagecreate etc) to draw text using type 1 fonts, without much success. I've tried both the stable and unstable releases of the php4 + php4-gd2 packages, and i've tried i. The symptoms vary, between one of the 3 options: * PHP crashes with a segme

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:08:55PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 19:27, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > > > Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.

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