Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:17:41PM EDT, Carl Fink wrote: [..] > > So what the heck is going on? Never had any problems printing .gov forms on a linux system with cups and a native ps printer so I thought I'd give it a shot: . gpdf never displays the document.. 100% cpu.. had to issue a kill . gv

Re: pine

2006-07-27 Thread Wulfy
Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't find it... If you know where it is, let me know! Anton Hi, Anton! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy pine pine: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.64-1duo+sarge1 Version table: 4.64-1duo+sarge1 0 500 http://ftp

Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I was a little shy about asking before, because I felt I hadn't done enough digging on my own, but this info is incredibly hard to find. How do I set up what programs start at startup? I'm using Gnome on AGNULA 1.3.0. In other news, my keyboard keys no longer repeat when held down. I can't imag

Re: X11R7.1 for Debian?

2006-07-27 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:04 -0400, Kit Peters wrote: > I'd like to try out X11R7.1, in the hope that it will fix the dualhead > issues I'm having (Bug #378081 [1]). I'd rather not go to the > trouble of compiling it myself if there are .debs available. Does > anyone know where I might find such?

Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread R A L Carter
Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize my

Re: Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread Derek
lsmod | grep usb-storageis that module loaded?if notmodprobe usb-storagethen mount it,something likemount /dev/sda1 /mnt/if that doesn't work try reloading the modulermmod usb-storagemodprobe usb-storage On 7/27/06, R A L Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debi

Re: Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread Derek
EDIT:lsmod | grep usb_storageis that module loaded?if notmodprobe usb_storagethen mount it,something likemount /dev/sda1 /mnt/if that doesn't work try reloading the modulermmod usb_storagemodprobe usb_storage On 7/27/06, Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: lsmod | grep usb-storageis that module loaded

Can't access usb

2006-07-27 Thread R A L Carter
Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize my

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:24:44PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > What is your goal? To get a copy of the form, or to get your > printer working? I mean your immediate goal. Eventually, of > course, you want to be able to print anything. If your goal > is just to get the form, then I suggest using o

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Pure gnome way: run gnome-session-properties The other way: cd ~/.config/autostart/ and create there file with extension `desktop` i.e. `gaim.desktop` than open this file in text editor and write: ---start gaim.desktop listing- [Desktop Entry] Name=Some name which you like Enc

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:46:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Did you try purging all cupsys packages and reinstalling them? I think > there were a few cases recently where old cups config files screwed up > the new version of CUPS. Of course, purging "all" CUPS files will also remove (and I

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
Okay, purging and reinstalling CUPS let me print again. This makes the third time I've had to do that in a month. Not a good record. Installing msttcorefonts had no effect on printing from Acrobat Reader, but it DID allow me to print the page correctly from xpdf. Apparently xpdf silently substi

Re: printer recommendations

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:11:27PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I phoned HP and was told that I could not speak with a technician, > because no technicians were assigned to non-supported printers such as > the HP5. And without authorization from a technician, the customer is > not authorized

Re: Bringing up eth0 NIC without logging in

2006-07-27 Thread marc
Bill Marcum said... > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:12:48PM +0100, marc wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have a couple of Debian installs on my laptop, on one the eth0 NIC > > comes up during the boot process, but on the other it doesn't, although > > it's identified and there in dmesg. I'm using the same

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 13:53:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:40, Matej Cepl wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> > I've looked through the Debian reference as mentioned elsethread and >> > discovered dh-make, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how >> > dh_make >> >

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Thanks, Vitaliy. gnome-session-properties says 'authentication rejected' etc. I did this other method, and now when I start up, it brings up my program's icon (firestarter), but I can't find the program open. I select run, and it asks for root password and then runs. Is there something special I

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Come to think of it, I get a similar authentication message running gedit from the command line, but it still runs... On 7/27/06, Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Vitaliy. gnome-session-properties says 'authentication rejected' etc. I did this other method, and now when I start

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
More news- I replaced the line "Exec=firestarter" with "Exec=sudo firestarter." Now when I start up, firestarter is open, but somehow the Gnome splash screen stays on until I click it. I don't know if it is the .desktop file that is opening firestarter, or Gnome's attempt to preserve the previous

System Performances

2006-07-27 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I have some questions about system performances. By now I have the current 'hdparm' settings: -m16 -c3 -u1 -Xudma5 Then the 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' show the next results: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1376 MB in 2.00 seconds = 686.58 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 50 MB in

Re: Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread shell
R A L Carter wrote: Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but i

Re: pine

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Anton Piatek wrote: > Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't find it... > If you know where it is, let me know! It is not. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-software.en.html#s-pine Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jab

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Carl Fink wrote: > Should I file a wishlist bug, requesting that xpdf suggest msttcorefonts, > given that PDF creators including the US government assume everyone uses > Windows and has Arial? No, you should read xpdf(5) (that's not xpdf(1)). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Magnus Therning wrote: > If you want to package software for Debian then the maintainer's guide > is required reading (IMNSHO). Read the whole thing, then package > something, then read it again :-) Then run it through lintian and linda and you have couple of hours of good works ahead of you ;-).

More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
=== vlc: Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2) Depends: libflac6 but it is not installable Depends: libmodplug0 (>=1:0.7-1) but it is not installable Depends: slang1 (>1.4.9dbs-4) but it is not installable Depends: wxvlc but it is not going to be installed === Now, aalib is not available in m

Re: about kde

2006-07-27 Thread Limin Wang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try with CUPS, I can print from kde without any issue. Thanks, Limin * Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-27 14:39:40 +0200]: > On my i386 (debian etch) kde is in poor conditions since the last few days, > in > deep crisis as soon as mo

Re: System Performances

2006-07-27 Thread shell
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have some questions about system performances. By now I have the current 'hdparm' settings: -m16 -c3 -u1 -Xudma5 Then the 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' show the next results: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1376 MB in 2.00 seconds = 686.58 MB/sec Timing buffer

Password protected EXCEL files and Openoffice

2006-07-27 Thread L . V . Gandhi
Is there a way to open password protected excel files in oipenoffice in sarge?-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/linux user No.205042

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-27 Thread Chris Mattern
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Once upon a time, I spent many a long workday hauling tapes to 3420 tape drives (the big ones, with the 5-foot tall vacuum columns-- my exercise was the

crontab problem: multiple processes at the same time

2006-07-27 Thread Luis P. Mendes
Hi, I scheduled a job to run a script each two minutes that verifies if a process (python script) is running or not. If it's not running, it should start a new process of the same python script. The problem is that crond sometimes starts three or more processes within seconds of each other. Why

Re: System Performances

2006-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
gustavo halperin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello I have some questions about system performances. > > By now I have the current 'hdparm' settings: -m16 -c3 -u1 -Xudma5 > Then the 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' show the next results: >/dev/hda: >Timing cached reads: 1376 MB i

Postgresql socket missing after a reboot

2006-07-27 Thread Bill Moseley
I have a Debian Stable machine that's doing two odd things when rebooting. Namely, Apache2 isn't coming up and Postgresql's domain socket is missing. First the Postgresql problem. I post separately about apache. After a reboot I get this: $ psql template1 psql: could not connect to ser

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:24:22PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > Should I file a wishlist bug, requesting that xpdf suggest msttcorefonts, > > given that PDF creators including the US government assume everyone uses > > Windows and has Arial? > > No, you should read xpdf(5) (that

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:39:07PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Any way to solve these problems?... Yell at the maintainers, which won't work. >... Or is there something else I can use to play .mov files? Add www.debian-multimedia.org to your sources.list and then install mplayer, totem, or a

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/27/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 17:38:36 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: [...] > Never fear, within a few generations software barons will be a thing > of the past. And a certain software robber baron of today will be remembered as a selfless guy who

Re: USB serial adapters - resolution

2006-07-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:10:54AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I have just tried connecting a USB serial adapter to my Debian Etch > system, and happily it seems to have been recognised and worked right > out of the box > > But these things seem to come with very little documentation, and wha

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > === > vlc: > Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2) > Depends: libflac6 but it is not installable > Depends: libmodplug0 (>=1:0.7-1) but it is not installable > Depends: slang1 (>1.4.9dbs-4) but it is not installable > Depends: wxvlc but it is not going to be installed >

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/27/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > === > vlc: > Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2) > Depends: libflac6 but it is not installable > Depends: libmodplug0 (>=1:0.7-1) but it is not installable > Depends: slang1 (>1.4.9dbs-4) but it is not installable > Depends: w

Re: NFS + iptables: (re)boot sequence

2006-07-27 Thread Brad Brock
Try to use the old way. In /etc directory you'll find subdirectories rcx.d where x is number between 0 to 6. These directories (rcx.d) contain symlinks to related startup scripts in /etc/init.d. If you use window manager, please pay attention to rc5.d. In rc5.d, you'll see something like S22sshd or

Problems Installing R

2006-07-27 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi list, I am running a generally quite stable unstable system, but recently have had troubles installing R 2.3. Although I can get aptitude to install r-base and r-base-core without any noticeable problems, when I then try to start R, I get the warning message Error in options(...) : invalid

Re: System Quits Responding-Swap Issue Or What?

2006-07-27 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
--- Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:13:03 -0700, Leonard > Chatagnier wrote: > > > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > > > Runing unstable on a Dell dimensions XPS T450 > with 128 > > > > Mb Ram and 384 Mb Swap

What's blocking port 1443 during boot?

2006-07-27 Thread Bill Moseley
I have an init.d script that starts two instances of Apache2. It's a front-end/back-end server setup. For testing the front-end Apache2 listens on port 82 and 1443 (SSL). The front end is a reverse proxy and proxies requests the back-end Apache2 on listening on ports 10082 and 11433. During boo

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:44:34 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You have to install cdparanoia and libcdparanoia0-dev and then install > mplayer again, and then do: > > $ mplayer cdda:// Um, that didn't work. I have 1.0-cvs currently, as reported by dpkg -l. I have cdparanoia a

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:26 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Marcum) writes: > > > You've compiled MPlayer without cdparanoia. Install that (and it's > > -dev packages) and then recompile mplayer. I didn't notice when I built 1.0cvs from source package any references to cdparanoia. So I went ah

Help with udev rule

2006-07-27 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi, Further to my earlier post "Mouse devices gone after suspend-to-ram" a couple of days ago, I'm trying the tack of writing a udev rule to create the missing device after a suspend. In local.rules I have: BUS=="serio", SYSFS{protocol}=="SynPS/2", SYSFS{description}=="i8042 Aux-3 Port", NAME=

Re: where's gksuexec in Etch

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:38:14 -0400 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I recently switched from Sarge to Etch. I used to use the > command "gksuexec" to run things as a different user (run as root). > In particular, I used it to open "nautilus --no-desktop --browser". > I'v

Re: Can't access usb

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Grieveson
Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Solved- I watched it in Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's blocking port 1443 during boot?

2006-07-27 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:20:32 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have an init.d script that starts two instances of Apache2. It's a > front-end/back-end server setup. For testing the front-end Apache2 > listens on port 82 and 1443 (SSL). The front end is a reverse proxy > and prox

Gaim not stable

2006-07-27 Thread shell
Hello everyone: I just update gaim 2 1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-5, then gaim disappeared again & again. Then I start it from term, it show the follow word & disappeared again. Gaim has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file. This is a bug in the software and has happened through no fault o

Debian doesn't detect my DVD-Burner on my new Laptop

2006-07-27 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen
Hi all. I recently had the misfortune of having to replace my old laptop because the costs of repairing it were too great to warrent it and purchased a new Toshiba A105-S4074. Everything works well with one exception---debian doesn't detect my DVD-Burner. I tried using 'discover' 'lshw', 'report

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