Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Lynn Kilroy
From: Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrei Popescu wrote: > But your message doesn't have it! Yes it does. Please stop spreading misinformation. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchbo

Re: SATA RAID 0 in Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Lynn Kilroy
From: Michael Schurter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Schurter wrote: I've never worked with SATA RAID's in Debian (or Linux in general), so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. Let me rephrase: how do I setup SATA RAID 0 in Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Fwd: Can't launch Synaptic on Xandros [Was: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole]

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:50:25 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > I can launch it under system console if I login as a > root , but the screen is not graphical though and the > function would be no difference to apt-get under > console terminal window, I guess. >

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:23:50 -0500 "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally have a > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, that's supposed to be the fun part

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 08:23 +0200, steef wrote: > < snip > > > > but: i could tell you a lot about potatoes; especially the older very > > > tasty potato-races from the dutch clay. ask me - offline - what you want > > > to know about p.e. redstar, bildstar, irene etc.: you are wellcome. > > > > > >

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:01:58 -0700 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My files section as follows > Section "Files" > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"

Re: SATA RAID 0 in Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Lynn Kilroy
From: Michael Schurter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chris roddy wrote: Michael Schurter wrote: Let me rephrase: how do I setup SATA RAID 0 in Debian? Were these set up using a hardware RAID controller? You may need to plug them into a controller of the exact same model to get to the data. The on-disk f

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread steef
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:37, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 08:23 +0200, steef wrote: > > < snip > > > > > > > but: i could tell you a lot about potatoes; especially the older very > > > > tasty potato-races from the dutch clay. ask me - offline - what you > > > > want to know about p

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:27:06 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The package xfree86-common (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1) > [security] is not relavant to the fact sheet at > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xfree86-common > > When I was trying to do installation under Xandros

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread steef
On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:44, David R. Litwin wrote: > On 15/04/06, Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour? > > That is, in fact, a lower-case letter gamma. The word is dialogue in Greek, > "dialogos" from (approximately) dia, two and logos, kno

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Scott
steef wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:37, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 08:23 +0200, steef wrote: < snip > but: i could tell you a lot about potatoes; especially the older very tasty potato-races from the dutch clay. ask me - offline - what you want to know about p

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Toshiro
> > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally have a > > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) > > This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, that's > supposed to be the fun part :) Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state

Re: New user config questions

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Lale
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Saturday 15 April 2006 17:56, Randy wrote: My main two starter questions are: 1. How can I change the video driver information and/or settings? I can only set it for 800 x 600 right now and it can do more. I don't know how to change what card it thinks is there

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread steef
< snip> Velveeta. There's nothing like broccoli smothered in Velveeta. > > what on earth is velveeta? > It's a very plastic processed cheese spread made by Kraft. mmm...this could work with roquefort or danish blue as well. stop this thread now. rain stopped. go cycling around re

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Lale
Ron Johnson wrote: And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k in school/skool). Don't forget that the non-US pronunciation of "schedule" is soft (sh-edule), not hard (sk-edule). So, doing without "c" would lead to a further fragmentation of the language. As I understa

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Lynn Kilroy
From: Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:28:25 -0400 On Friday 14 April 2006 21:57, Ken Irving wrote: >On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:11:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:33:35AM

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Toshiro wrote: > >> > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally >have a > >> > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) > >> > >> This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, >that's > >> supposed to be the fun

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:17, Lynn Kilroy wrote: > It seems to me, that if your client removes everything below > > -- > > then that is a bug. Please correct me if I'm wrong? That's not a bug, but a feature one should be aware of. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROT

Re: udev, lm-sensors and esd

2006-04-16 Thread Adam Hardy
Felipe Sateler on 15/04/06 22:30, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I have been researching the issues. It looks like the appropriate drivers have not been created - for instance, the following paths are empty or non-existent: /sys/bus/i2c/devices /proc/sys/dev/sensors /proc/acpi/thermal Seems like you

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:05:11 -0300 Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally have a > > > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) > > > > This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, that's > > supposed to be the fun

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:22:39 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:17, Lynn Kilroy wrote: > > > It seems to me, that if your client removes everything below > > > > -- > > > > then that is a bug. Please correct me if I'm wrong? > > That's not a bug, but a fe

Re: gnome-cups-manager and Canon BJC-250

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Lale
Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: Fellows, I have recently installed Debian on my PC. I have migrated from Mandriva 2006, so much of the configuration concerning peripherals were ignored by me. Now I regret. I chose the net-installation, method, with only Desktop option in packages selection. Th

Old Software

2006-04-16 Thread Lynn Kilroy
Someone mentioned that newbies should go right to unstable, because newbies shouldn't have to play with old software. Hon, I would go with stable because I don't want anymore headache than I absolutely need when dealing with my computer. Windows is a pain in the arse, but it works, and the on

Re: Old Software

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:44:00 + "Lynn Kilroy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone mentioned that newbies should go right to unstable, because newbies > shouldn't have to play with old software. I don't remember anyone suggesting that here, quite the contrary. > Hon, I would go with stable

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 00:57 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > steef wrote: > > On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:37, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 08:23 +0200, steef wrote: > >> > >>> < snip > [snip] > >>> > >> Velveeta. There's nothing like broccoli smothered in Velveeta. > >

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
This package is the stable version but has got this kind of bug. Has anyone else tried on that to see if it comes with the same problem that I have got? --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:27:06 -0700 (PDT) > formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k > >in school/skool). > > > > > > > Don't forget that the non-US pronunciation of "schedule" is soft > (sh-edule), Well, then pronounce it properly! :)

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:56 +0200, steef wrote: > On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:44, David R. Litwin wrote: > > On 15/04/06, Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour? > > > > That is, in fact, a lower-case letter gamma. The word is dialogue in Greek,

RE: Best Video Card

2006-04-16 Thread Lynn Kilroy
From: "Manaen Schlabach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500. I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must protect some of their trade secrets but I would l

Re: Big fonts (audacity and xmms)

2006-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:25:44 +0200 Benjamí Villoslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Audacity and XMMS shows big and ugly not anti-aliasing fonts ( > http://bitassa.com/stuff/audacitybigfonts.png ). Other GTK programs > such as Gimp have fine fonts > ( http://bitassa.com/stuff/gimpfonts.png ). > >

Re: apt-get source questions

2006-04-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:13:48AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: >1. How do I do the equivalent of the usual gnu ./configure when I >install from source..? This is all done from inside the debian/rules file. I'd suggest reading the New Maintainer's Guide for a gentle introduction to Debian packaging.

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:09:49 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:56 +0200, steef wrote: > > On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:44, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > On 15/04/06, Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour?

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:06:45 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This package is the stable version but has got this > kind of bug. Has anyone else tried on that to see if > it comes with the same problem that I have got? It is stable but it was *not* meant to be installed on

Re: Best Video Card

2006-04-16 Thread Mark
Manaen Schlabach wrote: > Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500. > I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers > are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must > protect some of their trade secrets but I would like very much

Re: Help with Hardware {Not Debian Specific}

2006-04-16 Thread Lynn Kilroy
From: "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:22:47AM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: > The drives are brand new. 160GB SATA RAID Drives, Western Digital Caviar > Drives. When they get hot, they seem to shut down, and the OS, in it's > efforts to work with the data on th

Apache::ASP problem

2006-04-16 Thread LUK ShunTim
Hello, I'm testing the Apache::ASP on a debian/sid box. System info: apache2-mpm-worker 2.0.55-4, libapache2-mod-perl2 2.0.2-2, libapache-asp-perl 2.59-2. By itself, apache2+mod_perl seems to be working well. However, I got error messages like these [Sun Apr 16 18:12:02 2006] [error] [client 1

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > >And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k > > >in school/skool). > > > > > > > > > > > Don't forget that the non-US pronuncia

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
Xandros has the reputation of 2006 award winning from Linux World and this is true if you google it http://www.xandros.com/news/press/release56.html Have a look at the comment at http://forum.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=22532&sid=1751ea601e936cda0b5089f65de3defe and they suggest that Debian nee

Re: Sarge and Burning with TEAC DW-552G

2006-04-16 Thread Rafael Ortega
Hello clint I am having the exact same problem but with an lg cdwriter, it happened to me in suse 9.3 and I moved to kubuntu to find out that it wasnt suse's issue. Both distros were burning cds happily till they stopped working, i don't post any of my system logs or outputs because they are a c

Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
Andrei, Your message is voicing like "Do not use other Operating System than Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Windows is perfect and only Microsoft Developers outsie are pathetic" Hah hah ... Am I right? ^___^ Note: forwarded message attached. __

Re: gnome-cups-manager and Canon BJC-250

2006-04-16 Thread Fernando Augusto Bender
Fellow, Thank you for your answer. I followed your suggestion. The web interface was easy to use. I deleted previous printer configuration. Added it once again. This time the device was properly pointed to /dev/lp0. I printed a test page. The job appeared in job list as cancelled. When I restare

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Lale
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k in school/skool). Don't forget that the non-US

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Linas Žvirblis
formless void wrote: > Xandros has the reputation of 2006 award winning from > Linux World and this is true if you google it How this is relevant? > and they suggest that Debian need to issue an digital > signature to its developer to make sure that their > packages are authentic They do not su

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:36:44 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xandros has the reputation of 2006 award winning from > Linux World and this is true if you google it > > http://www.xandros.com/news/press/release56.html What is that Linux World. Googeling for it shows a few si

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Linas Žvirblis
formless void wrote: > Hah hah ... Am I right? ^___^ No you are not. That is not what he is saying. Please stop this pointless discussion as you clearly lack the knowledge to understand what is being said. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:49:06 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei, > > Your message is voicing like > > "Do not use other Operating System than Microsoft > Windows" > > "Microsoft Windows is perfect and only Microsoft > Developers outsie are pathetic" > > Hah hah ... A

Xorg

2006-04-16 Thread David Baron
Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to come in. What is safe to upgrade at this point or should on wait on this. Please CC off-list since I still do not get digests! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Doofus
steef wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:37, Ron Johnson wrote: Velveeta. There's nothing like broccoli smothered in Velveeta. what on earth is velveeta? * The product of a chemistry set. Seems to be: American cheddar [I wonder what percentage], colby [no idea what this is - the

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Doofus
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k in school/skool). Don't forget that the non-US

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Doofus wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > >* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: > >>On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > >>>Ron Johnson wrote: > And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k > >>

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
--- Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > formless void wrote: > > > Xandros has the reputation of 2006 award winning > from > > Linux World and this is true if you google it > > How this is relevant? Well, it is a proof of their credibility, isn't it? > > There is nothing Debian pe

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Then why do I hear Aussies (and some others) pronounce 'idea' as > >'ide'er', or 'Daytona' as 'Daytoner'? > > > >If 'schedule' wasn't meant to be pronounced 'skedule', then there would > >be no 'c' in it. Don't want to waste a consonant, dontcha know! :) > >

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Doofus
CaT wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Doofus wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: And "c" will still be needed for "c

Re: Fwd: Can't launch Synaptic on Xandros [Was: Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole]

2006-04-16 Thread Joe
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:50:25 -0700 (PDT) formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Andrei, I can launch it under system console if I login as a root , but the screen is not graphical though and the function would be no difference to apt-get under console terminal window

Xorg upgrade with closed drivers

2006-04-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx drivers. Both upgrades failed miserably. On the nVidia workstation, it gives me the following: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Doofus
Andrei Popescu wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then why do I hear Aussies (and some others) pronounce 'idea' as 'ide'er', or 'Daytona' as 'Daytoner'? If 'schedule' wasn't meant to be pronounced 'skedule', then there would be no 'c' in it. Don't want to waste a consonant, dontcha

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-16 Thread Michael M.
Doofus wrote: steef wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:37, Ron Johnson wrote: Velveeta. There's nothing like broccoli smothered in Velveeta. what on earth is velveeta? * The product of a chemistry set. Seems to be: American cheddar [I wonder what percentage], colby [no idea what thi

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:36:44 -0700 (PDT) > formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Xandros has the reputation of 2006 award winning > from > > Linux World and this is true if you google it > > > > http://www.xandros.com/news/press/release5

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Jan Schledermann
Ian Kester-Haney wrote: > I fixed this by installing xfonts-base for 7.0 and it fixed it > no idea why they were not included with package > > > On 4/15/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread formless void
Again, it's a logical puzzle If both are credible, it won't mess up the system, would it? In any computer language A = false, B = false, A + B = false A = false, B = true, A + B = false A = true, B = false, A + B = false A = true, B = true, A + B = true Who doesn't know what he/she is doing?

Very OT: Mixing Xandros and Debian [WAS: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue]

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Please take the conversation off list. This is OT for this list. formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > formless void wrote: > > > > > Xandros has the reputation of 2006 award winning > > from > > > Linux World and this is true if you goo

Re: udev, lm-sensors and esd

2006-04-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:24:48 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felipe Sateler on 15/04/06 22:30, wrote: > > Adam Hardy wrote: > >> I have been researching the issues. It looks like the appropriate > >> drivers have not been created - for instance, the following paths are > >> empty or

Re: Big fonts (audacity and xmms)

2006-04-16 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/16/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Audacity and XMMS are both GTK1 applications (directly or indirectly), > whereas the GIMP uses GTK2. There are big differences in font rendering > and configuration between the two toolkits. > > You can customise fonts in GTK1 applications by cr

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:36:44 -0700 (PDT) > > formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Xandros has the reputation of 2006 award winning > > from > > > Linux World and this is true if you

Re: udev, lm-sensors and esd

2006-04-16 Thread John O'Hagan
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:24 pm, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Hmm. I have installed all the appropriate alsa packages I could find in > synaptic, but I don't have the command alsaconfig on my system. > > Where does it come from? > The command you're after is alsaconf. HTH, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:19, formless void wrote: > I can pretty know who is LinuxWorld, but I can't tell > who is Distrowatch which even doesn't have a physical > address to contact Web Credibility (google it) DistroWatch has a contact email address listed on every single page and a full

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 16 April 2006 07:29, formless void wrote: > If both are credible, it won't mess up the system, > would it? Sorry, this thread has been painful to read, but I can't let this one pass: > In any computer language > > A = false, B = false, A + B = false > A = false, B = true, A + B = false

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, it's a logical puzzle > > If both are credible, it won't mess up the system, > would it? It has nothing to do with credibility. Xandros is not pure Debian. They have made significant modifications to their packages. And I don't mean this as a bad

Re: Best Video Card

2006-04-16 Thread John Carline
Manaen Schlabach wrote: Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500. I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must protect some of their trade secrets but I would like very much to

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread John Fry
Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: > I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. > In order to get the resolution right though, I had to > (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get a > fresh configurat

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 16:49 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:36:44 -0700 (PDT) > > > formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Xandros has the reputa

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:01:58 -0700 > L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My files section as follows > > Section "Files" > > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic

Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 06:03, formless void wrote: > I believe that the parent has to be validated before > child is done. This is a logical approach. Until the > debian pakckage is approved to be inocent, there is > always a suspect of a guilty Yes Formless One. You are exactly right. Please r

Re: Big fonts (audacity and xmms)

2006-04-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:48:49 -0700 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/16/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Audacity and XMMS are both GTK1 applications (directly or > > indirectly), whereas the GIMP uses GTK2. There are big differences > > in font rendering and configuratio

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread John Fry
John Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: >> I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. >> In order to get the resolution right though, I had to >> (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfi

Re: Big fonts (audacity and xmms)

2006-04-16 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Diumenge 16 Abril 2006 11:30, Liam O'Toole va escriure: > where represents a font specification in the style > used by traditional X applications, such as > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*") Thanks! This works for me: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Sel

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:47:23 -0700, John Fry wrote: [...] > Oh, and in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf I commented out Syntaptics, since > that driver was giving X trouble: > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputD

GRUB error 18

2006-04-16 Thread bthepixwiz
    I just got Debian installed on my extra computer, but whenever I start it, it goes to stage 1.5, then gives me error 18, and stops. I have found out that error 18 has something to do with the boot loader and 8 gigs, but I'm not sure. I have a 30 gigabyte Seagate Barracuda, and I installed

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:32:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:07:25 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 12:48 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > We should have gone all the way to simplified spelling. > > > >

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:12:12PM +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: > > > > > >>On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > And "c" will stil

Re: LVM2 and custom kernel

2006-04-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 14 Apr 2006, Morten O. Hansen wrote: > I tried to recreate the initrd-image using mkinitrd (it says that > volume group "main" is found), but still it doesn't boot. > > Any more suggestions? my initrd-file is about half the size of the > 2.6.16 one, but i guess thats just because I have less mo

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Chris
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 07:39 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > yes. I did dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig also. > When I comment out misc line in xorg.conf, I get > could not open default font 'fixed' > when I keep misc line, I get another error. > Anyone with working x can post the fonts they have installe

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 15, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:17:33AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:33:58PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:28:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: And, how much screwing around would it be to make the listserv

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 08:17:59AM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: > It seems to me, that if your client removes everything below > -- > then that is a bug. Please correct me if I'm wrong? You are. Often times the hiding (not removal, removal implies that the data is forever lost) of anything

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread Magnus Therning
I can't believe I'm jumping into this. On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:28:54AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: >* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: >> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: >> > Ron Johnson wrote: >> > >> > >And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Toshiro
> >Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state > >of chaos before; I had to uninstall all xorg related packages and > >install them again (I'm happy to have one local machine with > >apt-proxy, so I haven't wasted time downloading everything again :) ). > >

Re: Xorg

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling > equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to come > in. What is safe to upgrade at this point or should on wait on this. > > Please CC off-list since I still do not

Re: Xorg upgrade with closed drivers

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop > running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx > drivers. > > Both upgrades failed miserably. > > On the nVidia workstation, it gives me the following: >

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Toshiro wrote: > > >Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state > > >of chaos before; I had to uninstall all xorg related packages and > > >install them again (I'm happy to have one local machine with > > >apt-proxy, so I haven't wasted time

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-16 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:39:25AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:17:33AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > >>>On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:28:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And, how much screwing around would it be to make the listserver actualy > wrap it with

Re: GRUB error 18

2006-04-16 Thread Linas Žvirblis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just got Debian installed on my extra computer, but whenever I start > it, it goes to stage 1.5, then gives me error 18, and stops. I have found out > that error 18 has something to do with the boot loader and 8 gigs, but I'm > not sure. I have a 30 gigabyte Sea

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:39:55AM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Anyone with working x can post the fonts they have installed. A 'dpkg -l *fonts* |grep ii' gave me: xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable xfonts-utils and the fonts section of my xorg.conf: Section

Re: How to install .deb package as non-root user?

2006-04-16 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:43:57PM -0500, Matt England wrote: > How can one install .deb package as non-root user? I see a 'dpkg --root' > parameter, but it doesn't seem to help (as per below). > > Redhat's rpm can install with an non-root account; why not > dpkg/apt/wajig...or maybe one of the

Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager instead of KDE. An article in debian-user suggested that X was using /usr/lib/x11/x

Re: packages: apache, gd, mysql...

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:20:00AM -0300, BTP wrote: > I tried doing an "apt-get install php4-mysql" but got the following > error message... > > --- > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be

Re: How to Configure X

2006-04-16 Thread Joseph Smidt
Thanks allot, everything in this area now works great.  -- -   Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to detect SATA cdrom

2006-04-16 Thread Joseph Smidt
When I first tried to install Debian the install cd wouldn't detect my cdrom.  Frans pop emailed me and showed me how to fix the problem: >Is this a SATA cdrom drive? In that case see: >http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto Now that everything is installed Debian doesn't detect th

Re: GRUB error 18

2006-04-16 Thread bthepixwiz
- Original Message - From: "Linas Žvirblis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: Re: GRUB error 18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got Debian installed on my extra computer, but whenever I start it, it goes to stage 1.5, then gives me error 18

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of KDE. An article in

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:46:57AM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of

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