Re: Control another Linux box to play mp3s....

2004-10-25 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 25 October 2004 15:06, Kevin Wang wrote: > Hello, list, > > I'm thinking about if it is possible to let another Linux box to sound > remotely. > > Any thought? > > Kevin Hi Kevin, If you use KDE, open the Control Center, open the Sound and Multimedia section, and select the Sound Syste

Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module

2004-10-25 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 25 October 2004 16:09, Brian White wrote: > When I try to install a stock Debian kernel (2.6-386) on my system, it > won't boot any longer (VFS: Unable to mount root fs). The stock 2.2 > kernel that comes with Woody rescue disk boots fine. > > As far as I can tell, it's because the 2.6 k

reconfiguring exim4

2004-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I am trying to go beyond local delivery only with a mail server. I remember setting it at installation time, but dpg-reconfigure exim4 does nothing. Anyone knows how to change the exim4 configuration? The php programs send email and the exim4 log shows that he has no clue as to how to

Sid: Mplayer ratio question

2004-10-25 Thread Curt Howland
Hi. Running Sid, using Mplayer to view a DVD. The problem is that the video out is being scaled and I cannot stop it. This is happening with every DVD I own. When playing back, these seem to indicate the problem. The movies are requesting 854x480, mplayer is overriding even though I have not t

Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

2004-10-25 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:54 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Alsa cannot play multiple audio streams simultaneously. From what I > > understand, this is more of a hardware limitation than an alsa > > limitation. They claim that some sound cards can do

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Vincent Lefevre([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 2004-10-19 12:45:32 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > I also am experiencing that Hugo. I 'think' I have narrowed it down > > to running either rxvt or xterm. If I don't have X running I never > > lose the cursor, but with a term runnin

is the list broken?

2004-10-25 Thread Mark Schonfeld
Why is the list not relaying my emails? I'll send an email, but never see it show up on the list. It seems like 30% work.. the other 70% don't. Is there something I don't know about? Sorry about the spam-like content of this. :( I didn't know where else to send this. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Orinoco Driver Patch - Question

2004-10-25 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:39:05PM +0100, Werner Otto wrote: > I pretty much went through your systematic approach. I got stuck at > point 5, and my errors are listed below. Which patch and kernel version are you using, and what errors are you getting because the messages didn't seem to make it th

Re: Playing a wav

2004-10-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:26:58 -0500, Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "play file" from the > command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed > by default, and there are hundreds of hits if I enter "a

Re: WiFi

2004-10-25 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 25 October 2004 03:43 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ > > > > I haven't had a chance to work with it yet. Has anyone else done > > anything with this driver wrapper? > > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net does t

Setting encoding for application

2004-10-25 Thread Jean-Francois Lefebvre
Hi everyone. I installed Debian two weeks ago, and everything is going good. But when I use LaTeX, the output is erronous, in the sense that all my french accents are gone, or misrepresented. What I want is the latin1 (or ISO-8859-1) encoding, but I don't know how to change that. Anybody can help?

Detect and crop borders of scanned image from command line

2004-10-25 Thread William Ballard
I scan *lots* of paper, including small receipts and damaged paper, so an ADF isn't practical. It takes hours to do stuff by hand and is very manual. I could optimize the process by leaving the lid open and always doing a full scan, which would result in a trapezoidal white image with a large

Re: Playing a wav

2004-10-25 Thread Blake Swadling
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:26 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "play file" from the > command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed > by default, and there are hundreds of hits if I enter "apt-cache search >

MMap problem with "apt" -v 0.5.4

2004-10-25 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello, I am able to download the Packages file from "http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free" but it is large, about 3.1 Meg I think. When my version of apt tries to process this list it gives this error: "Out of MMap memory" or something like that. Of course, I tried to get a

Re: Playing a wav

2004-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:07 +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: > The wavtools package has wavp, which will do what you ask. > > It seems to be strangely missing from unstable though. *shrugs* Not in sarge either; it was orphaned, > Edward > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/wavtools > > On M

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-10-25 20:09:43 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > I wasn't losing the curson in xterm or rxvt, it was on any og the > consoles (F1-7 in my case). Reset had no effect on it but doing > echo -e '\033[?86c' > as suggested in this thread, did. IMHO, this sequence should be added to rs1 in the terminf

Re: Find out what process is accessing the network

2004-10-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:17:40 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 11:16 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > Is there any way to find out what processes are causing a transfer of > > data across the network card? > > > > Netspeed applet shows a conti

Re: MMap problem with "apt" -v 0.5.4

2004-10-25 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:45:21PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > I am able to download the Packages file from > "http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib > non-free" but it is large, about 3.1 Meg I think. > When my version of apt tries to process this list it > gives this error: > > "Out of

Forms data entry software recommendations needed

2004-10-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I am working with a volunteer organization. The organization does community outreach by sending volunteers to knock on doors and ask questions. Currently the volunteers have printed forms on which they record the answers that they get. But they have no realistic way of entering these answers into a

Re: MMap problem with "apt" -v 0.5.4

2004-10-25 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 21:45, Eric Dickner wrote: > Hello, > > I am able to download the Packages file from > "http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib > non-free" but it is large, about 3.1 Meg I think. > When my version of apt tries to process this list it > gives this error: > > "Out of

Re: squid async-io with debian-unstable problem

2004-10-25 Thread Ling-En Kao
Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > --- Ling-En Kao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there something I omitted? > > I don't see what your problem is. That's the default behaviour for squid: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ ps auxH | grep [s]quid > root

Re: SourceForge.net moving to Fedora Core from Debian [SourceForge.net PR-Web Upgrade Notice.]

2004-10-25 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 13:49, ROBERTOJIMENOCA wrote: > SourceForge.net is moving to Fedora Core from Debian!!! > This is a huge backoff for the Debian community. > Please do something to help SourceForge.net not take this step!!! > We need to hear why they are moving to Fedora Core and what problems

Re: Detect and crop borders of scanned image from command line

2004-10-25 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:02:56PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > How can I detect and crop this border from the command line? Wrote my own thing using the Imagemagick C api. Load image using MagickReadImage, get 100x100 blocks of pixels using MagickGetImagePixels as "Intensity" values 0-255, lo

Need direction on alsa/oss sound.

2004-10-25 Thread Randall Smith
I'm running Debian Unstable and am very confused about how to set up the sound properly. Sound generally works, but it seems a mess with OSS this and ALSA that and esd and arts and so on. When I pull up the gnome mixer, it has an oss tab and an alsa tab. Do I need both? Both of them change

Sound card troubles

2004-10-25 Thread Philippe_Dhont__(Sea-ro)
Hello, Sound or no sound, that's the question! I have a computer :) with debian and kernel 2.6.9 There is also a SB PCI64 in the computer so i compiled the kernel for that card. (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 When my computer boots i see this with dmesg: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Oct 21, 09:56, Paul Johnson wrote: >> WARNING: Unsanitized content follows. >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Is ther

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