Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Dec 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Recently there was a post mentioning tesseract. > > Turns out that is an award winning opensource OCR that works! > > I tried it out: > > 1. apt-get install tesseract-ocr > 2. apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng > 3. use xsane to scan a page at dpi 300

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Dec 2008, Cassiel wrote: >There's also [1]http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html >just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir >regards > When I do this and try to run BBC iPlayer fullscreen, Firefox locks up completely. Perhaps not surprising since it is

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-28 Thread Daryl Styrk
Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 28 Dec 2008, Cassiel wrote: >>There's also [1]http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html >>just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir >>regards >> > > When I do this and try to run BBC iPlayer fullscreen, Firefox locks up > completely.

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Dec 2008, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 28 Dec 2008, Cassiel wrote: > >>There's also [1]http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > >>just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir > >>regards > >> > > > > When I do this and try to run BBC

Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Nishita Desai
Hello, I have just installed Debian 4.0r4 on a Dell Vostro 1200. My graphics card is Intel GM965. I want to use the 1200x800 resolution that my screen allows however vesa only allows 1024x768. I installed xserver-xorg-video-intel driver from synaptic. The driver's readme file recommends that I add

Re: Printer in Linux?

2008-12-28 Thread Tommy Bongaerts
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 02:26:56AM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Zach Uram wrote: > > I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set > > it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux > > before. What should I do? > > For a beginner, one of the easiest way

USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-28 Thread Daniel Cliff
Hello everyone, I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old system. So I would like to ask for your advice. I use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse that I

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Cliff wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old system. So I would like to ask for your advice. I use a PS/2 keyboard

keyboard becomes inactive

2008-12-28 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, when I leave my laptop inactive a long time, more than one hour, the keyboard becomes inactive, whereas the mouse continues to run correctly thanks for help bela

Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I have just installed Debian 4.0r4 on a Dell Vostro 1200. My graphics card is Intel GM965. I want to use the 1200x800 resolution that my screen allows however vesa only allows 1024x768. I installed xserver-xorg-video-intel driver from synaptic.

Re: "CTRL + T" not working

2008-12-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > Recently my CTRL + T is not working any more, so I cannot use this > shortcut to open new tabs in apps like Firefox and gnome-terminal, > does anyone having the same problem or any suggestions? Thanks a lot! Do you run Gnome an

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-28 Thread andmalc
On Dec 28, 5:10 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 21 Dec 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [snip] > Yes, tesseract does work well. Here, xsane gives depth 24, but conversion > to depth 8 is neither possible nor necessary. Following the docs, I did There is an option at the top of the Preferences/Fil

Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Nishita Desai
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Try "i810" Thank you for your reply Justin. But i810 does not work. It gives me an error saying "No matching Device for instance (BusID :0:2:1) found" I get the same error for "intel" driver along with: (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Dec 2008, andmalc wrote: > On Dec 28, 5:10 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 21 Dec 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Yes, tesseract does work well. Here, xsane gives depth 24, but conversion > > to depth 8 is neither possible nor necessary. Following the docs, I did > > The

Re: Printer in Linux?

2008-12-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:10:20 +0100 Tommy Bongaerts wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 02:26:56AM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Zach Uram wrote: > > > I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set > > > it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux > > >

Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Nishita Desai wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Justin Piszcz > wrote: > > Try "i810" > > Thank you for your reply Justin. But i810 does not work. It gives me > an error saying "No matching Device for instance (BusID :0:2:1) found" > > I get the same error for "inte

Re: Xming usage

2008-12-28 Thread Engi Zoltán
Sam Kuper wrote: 2008/12/27 Engi Zoltán : I try to connect to debian system with xming. I use Windows Vista 64bit. Unfortunately the connecting isn't succesful. I see grey window, and I can move the the mouse on the screen, no more. [...] What is the problem? I'd try connecting to a di

Re: Xming usage

2008-12-28 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/12/28 Engi Zoltán : > The next problem is the speed. It is very slow, almost non usable. Is it > normally? Depends on the speeds of the X client machine, the X server machine, the connection between them, and the amount of data being transferred (so using gvim to edit a small text file will b

Epson EPL-6100L

2008-12-28 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Dear all My box is using, or rather, unable to use an USB printer Epson EPL-6100L. Searching for the driver led me to the epsonepl Project. As there is .rpm but no .deb available, I tried to install using alien but the printer, though detected, failed to print at all. Anyone has luck with this pri

Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Winston Smith
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:51:46PM +0530, Nishita Desai wrote: > Thank you for your reply Justin. But i810 does not work. It gives me > an error saying "No matching Device for instance (BusID :0:2:1) found" You might need the line: BusID "PCI:0:2:1" instead of: BusID

Re: Epson EPL-6100L

2008-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/28/08 14:48, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all My box is using, or rather, unable to use an USB printer Epson EPL-6100L. Searching for the driver led me to the epsonepl Project. As there is .rpm but no .deb available, I tried to install using alien but the printer, though detected, failed to p

Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread paragasu
i have the same problem as you last time. the xserver-xorg-video-intel do not work with etch kernel. after i upgrade the kernel to lenny linux-image-2.6.26-1-686, it works! just upgrade to new kernel it wil be ok On 12/28/08, Winston Smith wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:51:46PM +0530, Nishi

k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does

2008-12-28 Thread Paul Cartwright
I've been having problems burning DVDs using K3B recently. I know I used to do this, not too long ago, maybe 2-3 months.. Now I'm getting errors, and K3B says it burns the DVD, then ejects it, but it is empty. Or it stops about 30% of the way and errors out. I've tried slowing down the burn rate

Bug#474033: Info received (But I don't use parport, so don't load it)

2008-12-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this Bug report. This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message has been received. Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other interested parties for their attention; they will re

extract date information from nef file (nikon raw)

2008-12-28 Thread Micha Feigin
is it possible with linux tools to extract the date information from a nef file? I know it's there because head file.nef shows it and ufraw has the ability to store it in the converted jpg, but I couldn't find an option to ufraw to just print it to the command line (I'm trying to sort the files to

Fonts messed after using old xorg.conf. Clear cache? How?

2008-12-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I'm now fine tuning a brand new Lenny install on a clean disk. It came up great out of the original installation with the non-accelerated nvidia driver: it just worked with the WUXGA (1920 X 1200) display. In previous releases the config files (XFree and xorg) required tweaking. I then instal

Re: Fonts messed after using old xorg.conf. Clear cache? How?

2008-12-28 Thread Daryl Styrk
A. F. Cano wrote: > Hi, > > I'm now fine tuning a brand new Lenny install on a clean disk. It > came up great out of the original installation with the non-accelerated > nvidia driver: it just worked with the WUXGA (1920 X 1200) display. > In previous releases the config files (XFree and xorg) re

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-28 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Cassiel wrote: > There's also http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir This doesn't work on Etch. Can you confirm? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUB

Re: Epson EPL-6100L

2008-12-28 Thread Koh Choon Lin
>> My box is using, or rather, unable to use an USB printer Epson >> EPL-6100L. Searching for the driver led me to the epsonepl Project. As >> there is .rpm but no .deb available, I tried to install using alien >> but the printer, though detected, failed to print at all. Anyone has >> luck with thi

Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,28.Dec.08, 15:48:19, paragasu wrote: > i have the same problem as you last time. the xserver-xorg-video-intel > do not work with etch kernel. after i upgrade the kernel to lenny > linux-image-2.6.26-1-686, it works! Did you also try the etchnhalf (2.6.24) kernel? Regards, Andrei -- If you