Sound Blaster Live 24bit Model: SB0410 Chip CA0106

2005-06-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian: Funny story here. I bought this card because I thought the onboard audio of my new mobo (EPOX EP-8VTAI) would be hard to configure. It's the other way around: the onboard is a dream, the card is junk. You have to get the latest Alsa (2.4.x) or 2.6.11 to get the CA0106 driver. Then

Re: deskjet plus margins

2005-06-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian!!! In 1990 I bought an HP deskjet plus for $500. I now build complete systems easily for that price. Anyway. I just lugged it acrosss the continent and plugged it into Sarge. Cups knows it. But it always overflows its margins. Anybody have a deskjet plus and

Re: a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On 2005-06-27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Hugo, can you describe your problem? Regards, MC Yes, I realized after I posted that the question was wrongly posed. My problem is stated in another (unanswered) post: I am using a deskjet plus HP

Re: console-tools config w. framebuffers

2004-09-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian!! Because of a quirk (vc's and displaying graphical characters to make boxes ;-) ) I got the console-tools package to show graphical characters. I put this in /etc/console-tools/config: SCREEN_FONT=default8x16.psf.gz APP_CHARSET_MAP=cp437_to_iso01.trans

Re: No console text

2004-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: I've just been working on compiling a new kernel, and now don't have any text on my console. I still have a cursor, but no text is actually printed after lilo starts the kernel booting. No text on any of my virtual consoles. Buttons 6 & 7 on my Intellimouse Explorer

Re: lm-sensors watching daemon?

2004-10-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I recently got lm-sensors to play along with my stock unstable 2.6.8 kernel. Now I'm looking for a daemon which utilizes the information read from the Mobo. I have found two which do what I want (shutting down at certain threshold values): 1) sentinelle (http://denis

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks and 1GB RAM. The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card. I downloaded the driver from nvidia, Started it with: Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-

Re: Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6

2004-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Mark Schonfeld (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I've just installed Debian Sarge via netinstall with the 2.6 kernel. The internet is horribly slow. However I've had this before in Suse 9.1 so I assumed I need to disable ipv6 support. I went to /etc/modutils and edited al

Re: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Preston Boyington (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: The Sarge installer (at least the version I used, on DVD) allowes you to choose between Grub and Lilo. Maybe you have to select expert mode to make that choice available. You have to select "expert" at boot to get the choi

Re: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Preston Boyington wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following: root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 savedefault boot after that, nothing. Why not boot CD#1 again, do expert, and sele

Re: Houston, do I have a problem?

2004-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote: Thanks Carl, I dunno why my selected search terms didn't turn that up in the debian archives ... and shame on me for not thinking of Google. As I read it, it is nothing to worry about, I'll just amuse myself and see how far it goes. Apollo, this is Houston. Nothing to

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Howorth wrote: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? I fill out the IRS PDF forms and save them. Use pstoedit and transfig to create a .fig file of the PDF, like: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig Then use xfig to edit the file. Export it to eps (what you

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Howorth wrote: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... Get xfig and transfig use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to ge

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... Get xfig and transfig use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to generate your .fig files. This generates one .fig file for eac

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Blake Swadling wrote: yikes. I thought I'd give this a shot and it saved every character in a 3 page document as a bezier curve. I'd prefer not to have to cut chars from beziers. Is this a freak or have i missed something?/ -ndt fixes it Is this an option of pstoedit? Did not find so in 3.31-

Re: What is the package to upgrade the whole distibution?

2004-09-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Get a *real* modem. Real modems don't need drivers. I strongly suggest a modem that connects to your computer's RS232 port externally, they Just Work(tm). Aunt Tillie could even install an external

Re: New Grub user?

2004-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:31:28AM -0400, Robert Harris wrote: Try this link. It was just the thing for me. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php$sid=4622 Linux Journal: File Not Found Kenward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(l

Re: Kooka/xsane only see scanner as root

2004-10-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jonathan Byrne wrote: I'm running Sid, 2.6.8-1 kernel. I don't often use my scanner, and today was the first time since I moved to the 2.6 kernel. Running as root, scanimage -L correctly shows: device `epson:libusb:002:004' is a Epson GT-8200 flatbed scanner sane-find-scanner correctly shows: foun

DWI (Date With Interaction) user(s)?

2004-10-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Any DWI users out there? The homepage http://www.linas.org/linux/dwi/ does not indicate a mailinglist. I have some questions on getting it(them) to run... It seems such a neat idea. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Unusual function problem with Synaptic, apt-get, j2re1.3

2004-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Attempting to install j2re1.3, the JAVA runtime environment, into Sid, I am faced with a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement to which I must agree, but there is no way to agree. Faced with no buttons (when it says they will be there) I have attempted, "yes,"

losing vc cursor

2004-10-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! At times I lose my cursor in a vc. Is there a way to try to get it back? This is probably related to the fact that I use 2.6.7-Ruby multi-user Linux. I'll ask there... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

[OT] hardware problem

2004-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I have a problem and would like suggestions on how to isolate what is wrong. 1. I am running a Abit KT7A with 2 Maxtor HDD's 80GB + 40GB Model=Maxtor 6Y080P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y2FAZ3HE hda Model=Maxtor 6E040L0, FwRev=NAR61590, SerialNo=E1FS8RWE hdb and 3 256MB 168 pin memory card

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At times I lose my cursor in a vc. What do you mean "lose"? What happens? What are you doign at the VC usually before it disappears? Is there a pattern that you can see? Are you using framebuffers? "

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wayne Topa wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi Debian! At times I lose my cursor in a vc. Is there a way to try to get it back? This is probably related to the fact that I use 2.6.7-Ruby multi-user Linux. I'll ask there... Hugo I also am experiencing that

Re: [OT] hardware problem

2004-10-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 07:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I have a problem and would like suggestions on how to isolate what is wrong. 1. I am running a Abit KT7A with 2 Maxtor HDD's 80GB + 40GB Model=Maxtor 6Y080P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y2FAZ3HE hda

Re: [OT] kudos to the debian-installer team!

2004-10-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pim Bliek wrote: Just a short note to congratulate the debian-installer team on their excellent work! I second that. Joey Hess and his team are on the ball. It is a fantastic product that they are coming up with. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: A Very Strange Error Message When Installing Debian 3.0

2004-10-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
heyboy wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new user of debian. Recently, I installed > debian 3.0 in my computer. However, I encounter a very > strange error. I don't use Woody anymore. If possible you might try the new Sarge Installer. Sarge will be the new Debian stable soon. That will not have the error

page allocation failure

2004-10-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! In 2.6.9 I am seeing for the first time: debian kernel: realplay.bin: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21 Followed by more messages mentioning modules. It does not seem to cause any noticable problem: realplay plays as usual. What is it? Anybody knows some details? Hugo -- To UNS

Re: page allocation failure

2004-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! In 2.6.9 I am seeing for the first time: debian kernel: realplay.bin: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21 Followed by more messages mentioning modules. It does not seem to cause any noticable problem

Re: Debian and User Mode Linux

2004-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ronald van den Blink wrote: Hi there, I have an Ahtlon Classic (800 mhz) with 384 MB memory. I installed Debian Unstable on it and want to try to install user-mode-linux. I'am able to load root_fs'es made by the user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net guys, except the debian root_fs. That looks strange

Re: page allocation failure

2004-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 07:35 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! In 2.6.9 I am seeing for the first time: debian kernel: realplay.bin: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21 Followed by more

Re: page allocation failure

2004-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 07:35 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: 2 Yea there were a few more posts this morning (LKML) so definitely check out those archives. I applied the patch that was in LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/23/75 The errors have disappeared using

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

Re: page allocation failure

2004-10-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 07:35 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: 2 Yea there were a few more posts this morning (LKML) so definitely check out those archives. I applied the patch that was in LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/23/75 The errors

Re: Just got a wonderful message

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Shawn Robinson wrote: Linux newbie, tried to upgrade the kernal to the 2.4 version that comes with the cds, guess i missed a direction somewhere, but i got a real nice message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05\ Guess it's time to reinstall. Only took 7 hours last time o

nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former I cannot get glx to work. Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Sid: Mplayer ratio question

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Curt Howland wrote: 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

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jim Hall wrote: on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two systems. Jim I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you everything that is installed, including the libs. The only way of knowing "w

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:23:08 +0200, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In case you don't need to run 3d programs, using nv will be fine for you ...provided you have a reasonably modern computer or a small resolution display. On my AMD K6-2 450mhz, the nv driver is unbearab

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former I cannot get glx to work. Thanks. Hugo The

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Jon Dowland [Thu, Oct 28 2004, 12:33:47PM]: In case you don't need to run 3d programs, using nv will be fine for you ...provided you have a reasonably modern computer or a small resolution display. On my AMD K6-2 450mhz, the nv driver is unbearably slow at 1280x1024

Re: Knoppix boot vs debian boot

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Jerome Lacoste wrote: Hi, long time Debian user, I often use Knoppix for rescue and test operations. There are things that makes the Knoppix boot lean and clean, e.g. the hardware autodetection, etc... But I don't have that on my unstable boxes. So I am wondering if it'

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The difference I noticed is in the XF86Config-4.conf: 1. I had to use modes to use 1280x1024, with Nvidia I don't. modes are predefined in the X driver you might need to fiddle/define the modelines if you want 1400x1024 et

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The only errors I see: Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! those seem

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For me, it's simple. If you're not doing design work, or gaming, that require 3D, stay with the free option. For me, it's not quite so simple. I want to game, but I'm cursed with nVidia's semi-b

shadows on Samsung SyncMaster 753dfx

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I thought I was smart and since I was satisfied with my Samsung SyncMaster 750s I bought a flatscreen 753dfx. Terrible decision. The 753dfx has shadows. It is the monitor because if I swap the videocards the shadows follow this monitor. Everything shown is duplicated in shadowformat,

Re: nv vs. nvidia - dual

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: 2. I run two X servers for 2 displays, one on AGP TNT2 and one on PCI MX-440. If I restart the second server, the character sizes change, from "normal" to tiny. I can get them back to normal by restarting gdm. how do you &q

Re: nv vs. nvidia - glx

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! those seem to be non-critical warnings

Re: nv vs. nvidia - dual

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I use a patch to the kernel to have it separate keyboards by vt's and gdm to start 2 servers and in the start up: huh ??? kernel patches is not needed for dual display or dual keyboards but guess there's reasons for it ...

Re: nv vs. nvidia - glx - today

2004-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: # watch out for libglut*.a vs libglut.so.* too I got this: 733249 496 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500480 Sep 28 07:09 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3 733038 656 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666440 Sep 28 07:09

Re: nv vs. nvidia - glx - today

2004-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Right. So I installed libglut, but with the nv driver I still get: what is the output of "find /lib /usr -name libglut\* -ls" Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't get

chrony did it

2004-10-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Chrony beautifully adjusted the local time to match the timechange. Though why we have it at 17 degree latitude is anotherquestion. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Migrated from OSS to ALSA on 2.6.9 and lived to tell about it...

2004-10-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! To see whether fbxine would play any better with ALSA ( it does not :-( regardless what the FAQ says ) I migrated. 1. I recompiled the kernel with (NO MODULES!): * Soundcard support * ALSA * OSS Mixer API * OSS PCM API * Verbose printk * Debug * Debug Detect

no cdaudio with alsa but ok with oss

2004-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I spoke to soon, saying that the migration to alsa was a piece of cake. I have all sound, but no cd audio. I did have that with oss. The cd slider does not show up in aumix nor alsamixer. I googled for a clue. libcdaudio is installed of course. Anybody give me a hint? To install alsa: 1.

Re: I need help.

2004-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mole lord wrote: Hello all, My name is Cameron Ball, and i've recently had an interest in linux. I've downloaded the Debian distro image. And i've made a clean partition on my main hard drive. So, i then burnt the image onto a disk, and attempted to boot it. Nothing happened. So i thought it m

Re: no cdaudio with alsa but ok with oss

2004-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:02 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I spoke to soon, saying that the migration to alsa was a piece of cake. I have all sound, but no cd audio. I did have that with oss. The cd slider does not show up in aumix nor alsamixer. I googled for a clue

Re: Backup solution with DVDs

2004-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Martin Fluch wrote: Hi! Is there any easy backup solution such that I can easily backup my home directory with my DVD burner? (I have more then 4,7GB in my home dir.) Cheers, - Martin Mondo Is described here: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp14admin/linux-server/mondorescue/dvd_mondo.html Hugo PS. Jeal

Re: no cdaudio with alsa but ok with oss

2004-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
to Alsa to try if fbxine would work better. (It does not). So all that stuff is still around. Do you only have one soundcard? Yes. Do you only have one CD player? Yes Lance On Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 10:02:50AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EM

Re: no cdaudio with alsa but ok with oss

2004-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wim De Smet wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:02:50 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Debian! I spoke to soon, saying that the migration to alsa was a piece of cake. I have all sound, but no cd audio. I did have that with oss. The cd slider does not show up in aumix nor alsami

Re: Problem with QT-applications

2004-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephan Palmer wrote: Hi Justin, thank you very much for your hint! A strace output of a crashing kwrite-application can be found at: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~stpalmer/kwrite_strace.txt A strace output of non-crashing kwrite after "export LC_CTYPE=C" can be found at: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~st

Re: no cdaudio with alsa but ok with oss

2004-11-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: So, you can play mp3 and ogg files with mpg123 and ogg123? You can play files with mplayer? Yes. WHen you compiled the kernel with ALSA support, there should have been a checkbox that said "OSS emulation". This is not the same as OSS sound. It is OSS emulation via ALSA.

Re: no cdaudio with alsa but ok with oss

2004-11-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 12:05 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:02 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I spoke to soon, saying that the migration to alsa was a piece of cake. I have all sound, but no cd audio. I did have that with

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 18:57 +0100, Mark Maas wrote: Hello All, After tinkering with Linux for a few years now I feel i'm getting to a point that I can say: I can use Linux for everything. Except for games... I've got good video cards, but I just can't get the quality out of th

Re: playing cds

2004-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sean wrote: Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays. What am I missing here? Where should I look for any error messages. Sean A few days

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nick Lidakis wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: That's right: MX-440 + Nvidia driver 1120.200 FPS TNT2 - 440.800 FPS Running 2 cards with two monitors, two kbds, two mice for two users, and 2 X servers from Sarge and the Nvidia driver. Hugo May I ask if that video card has a fan or if it

Re: playing cds

2004-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:56:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sean wrote: Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound works but cd's do not. I am a member of groups audio and disk. cdcd doesn't give me any err

Re: Oh, NO! Not that same "No Sound" question again...

2004-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that same "No Sound" question again. But I can't find an answer that's gotten my sound working anywhere, so I'll give this list a try. I have an Intel 82820 (Camino 2) chipset and a stable Woody. I've installed the "i810_audio" driver (via "/etc/modules"). "lspci" ou

Re: how to debug a random freezing problem?

2004-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Butler wrote: Hi, I installed Ubuntu[1] (Debian w/ 2.6.8 kernel) on my Toshiba Satellite M30 Centrino laptop last week, and it's great, apart from the fact that the computer freezes up randomly. From what I can see, there is *no* pattern, but it usually takes about 3 hours' use, and then s

Followup: No CD sound with Alsa

2004-11-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! A note was added to my bugreport that Alsa did not have CDaudio with my cs4232 isa card: "I Failed to turn on CD Playback switch": https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=625 I think that switch refers to the slider on alsamixer. But if the slider is not present you can

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ken keanon wrote: Hi, There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian should be the preferred choice? Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. Cheers Ken --

Re: mysql db creation: HELP!

2004-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Francisco Borges wrote: Hello, Running sarge here. I want to have a b2evolution blog running here and for that I need a mysql database... So I installed mysql-server and mysql-client The mysql-server says I need a numeric IP associated with localhost in /etc/hosts. I have that. And it also says tha

mozilla never starts maximized

2004-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! On Sarge I installed Mozilla 1.8a4 from source. I also have mozilla 1.5 from source. Windowmanager is fvwm. Use Nvidia as XFree86 driver. I once experimented with nv. Had to use modelines which I don't with Nvidia. Went back to using Nvidia. Since then mozilla never starts maximized. Not

Re: mysql db creation: SOLVED

2004-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Francisco Borges wrote: » On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:25:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: It says in my README.Debian to do this: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'enter-your-good-new-password-here' Did u do that? Hum, I guess the right answer was I thought I had... After nullman

trapping kernel messages

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I get lots of these: Nov 13 11:30:01 debian kernel: nasd: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21 Nov 13 11:30:01 debian kernel: [__alloc_pages+449/848] __alloc_pages+0x1c1/0x350 Nov 13 11:30:01 debian kernel: [__get_free_pages+31/64] __get_free_pages+0x1f/0x40 They are page a

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David wrote: I know this has nothing to do with Debian, but, really, I don't know exactly where to ask this question anyway. I have a program for my personal use, written in C. It's a records-keeping application. So far, for my hardcopy, I simply fopen /dev/lp0 and talk straight to the printer.

Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:11 -0500, William Ballard wrote: --snip-- The two only time I ever got a virus were (1) a floppy at the university in 1993 and (2) Code Red when my machine was on CorpNet at Microsoft. Come to think of it, the only time I've ever had a virus or spywa

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:33:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: David wrote: I know this has nothing to do with Debian, but, really, I don't know exactly where to ask this question anyway. I have a program for my personal use, written in C. It's a records-keeping applic

Re: weird Mozilla progress report

2004-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
stephen parkinson wrote: libranet 2.8.1 + upgrades as per repositries Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 downloading a 2.4Gb dvd iso image download manager reports time left as 0-47:0-36:0-30 transferred as -2044276kb of 2097152kb at -24.1kb/s That may

Re: files always corrupt

2004-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Dan McCullough wrote: I'm rebuilding a server that is in my home office, yes I built it myself. I'm at my wits end. When I download, load from a cd the files are always corrupt. If I take the har drives out and install in another machine I c

new installer freeze

2004-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Since Oct. 18th attempts to use the new installer with the linux26 or expert26 option cause a hang and a frozen keyboard at "Installing Base-system". I filed a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278254 It could be my machine: KT7A Abit mobo, 3 strips of 168pin 256M

Re: Sarge: nVidia proprietary driver vs. udev

2004-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Christian Convey wrote: Figured this thread might interest y'all. Sorry to post it mid-conversation... Who knows where that thread goes: can't follow it, no time. Anyway: In installing gnome-volume-manager I also lost the Nvidia proprietary driver. Reason is that the former installs hal and udev

Re: Woody -> Sarge with apt-cdrom

2004-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Felixk Karpfen wrote: Although this query may already have been answered several times in recent postings, as a new arrival to Debian, I venture to check that I have understood the docs correctly before plunging into an upgrade via "apt-cdrom". I have used this routine successfully to add the "Debi

Re: install package - dependies

2004-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mariusz Antonik wrote: Hi. I want try to build a kernel 2.6.9 To do this I nead install qt develop package. Why not just get the Debian 2.6.9 kernel-source package or get the Linux 2.6.9 kernel, get you favorite .config, use make menuconfig to tune it, run make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel_image or

Re: mozilla hangs when printing to ps file

2003-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Hi, I am using Debain Sarge with mozilla: $> COLUMNS=50 dpkg -l mozilla Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

Bitmap editor

2003-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! I am looking for a bitmap editor in woody. (You know, to edit the mini button xpm bitmaps) I have used it and I thought it was called "bitmap", apparently not. My apt-file search bitmap currently provides this gem: Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps you

Re: Bitmap editor

2003-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gregory Seidman wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:01:09AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: } I am looking for a bitmap editor in woody. (You know, to edit the mini } button xpm bitmaps) } I have used it and I thought it was called "bitmap", apparently not. There is an xbm (not xpm) ed

Most recent Mozilla with Xft on Woody

2003-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi List! You can easily get a most recent Mozilla on Woody by downloading the tarball: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6b/src/mozilla-source-1.6b.tar.bz2 putting this in your sources.list: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/bac

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bob parker wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:42, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: My mom would like to get my dad a photo-quality printer for Christmas. Thus she has asked me to look around and give her some ideas as to what is good. I haven't followed current printer technology in many years, so I reall

Re: weird xterm crashes

2003-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Just recently xterm has started crashing when I view certain emails. I notice that all of these messages have a non-ascii character (or more) in them. Not all non-ascii messages cause a crash, though. (Interesting, I just tried to read uxterm(1) (with PAGER=less) and x

Re: kill mozilla after idle time

2003-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Gall wrote: Hi there, i´m not (yet) too familiar with linux but would like to exchange the os of several computers in our school from windows xp to linux (knoppix hd-install). Beforehand i want to make sure if (and how) i can accomplish that a program (i.e. Mozilla) will be killed after a c

Re: kill mozilla after idle time

2003-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Gall wrote: Hi there, i´m not (yet) too familiar with linux but would like to exchange the os of several computers in our school from windows xp to linux (knoppix hd-install). Beforehand i want to make sure if (and how) i can accomplish that a program (i.e. Mozilla) will be killed after a c

Monitor has shadows

2003-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! I run Backstreet Ruby on Debian Woody: 2 monitors, each with keyboard and mouse. I recompiled X 4.3.0 for it because you have to patch X to only listen/talk to one videocard/XFree86 server. On the one card: RIVA TNT2 Model 64 I have a Samsung SyncMaster 750S. On the other one: GeForce4 MX 4

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:12:21PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Is there any way to get XMMS to play Quicktime .MOV files? Or if not, how about a stand-alone QuickTime player? I tried apt-get install xanim, but all I got was the following error: You should get mplayer. Mp

Re: kazaa

2003-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:41:50AM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: Hello, Last night I was at a friends house and he showed me Kazaa lite. I found this morning it is possible to run it on my Debian machine using wine. Can anyone tell me how to do this, pls? Unless you real

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi D-U list folks, there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net) http://lwn.net/Articles/63933/ "LinuxCertified Announces Debian Certified Lapt

Re: floating screen

2003-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gruessle wrote: I did goggle for floating screen and floating display I don't know what else to look for you tell me what you would call this. If I change resolution with "Ctrl Alt + or -" to a smaller resolution I do get bigger everything, but my display bust out of the screen boundaries and when

AT&T Internet Runner?

2003-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi World! Having recently switched to Mexican AT&T ISP, they sent me a CD with something called Internet Runner on it. I did not open it because I threw out my XP Professional. It claims "speeds up to 4 times faster". Faster than what? Anybody have a clue what that that thing might actually do

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wilko Fokken wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:11:37PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: From: Paul Johnson ... You want mc. I got mc :) But I think xTree Gold was better :)) -- Gruessle searching http://de.vivisimo.com for Linux ytree: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/pool/mai

apt-file in Woody with CD's fails with "URI::_foreign" error

2003-12-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi World! Woody apt-file when sources.list contains CD's fails with: Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 189. If you take the CD's out it's fine. But I want to search for files in the Woody CD's.

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