Re: sarge installer ver. 03/10/2004

2004-03-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! I have reported this also in the bugreports, but I get the impression that that is a bottomless pit somehow. Using the 03/10/2004 iso image of the installer I tried to use it. If you just press enter on boot he cycles himself through the steps

Re: sarge installer ver. 03/10/2004

2004-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: On Friday 12 March 2004 23:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: on my machine i got the sarge-installer running after manually selecting a root partition __and___ defining the file-type manually. (this after ' partitioning' of course) did you

Re: Mozilla hangs on Print Preview

2004-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jack Dodds wrote: My system is Debian Woody, with Jamie Strandboge's Gnome 2.2 and Mozilla 1.4 backports, on a 1.8 GHz P4. I am able to print, e.g. from Abiword. However, when I do a Print or Print Preview in Mozilla, Mozilla hangs. A child window comes up, and stays up. If I move the child w

Re: mozilla producing invalid ps files?

2004-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Hi, When I print to a ps file from Mozilla and try to see the ps file in gv or ggv, the programs complain that it is not a valid ps file. Any idea what could be going wrong? Here is the ps files I tried to make: http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~hsaham/dock/mozilla.ps Here is what I have:

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
W. Borgert wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a nice display manager (for XFCE4). My expectations are: * good looking :-) (GTK+ 2 preferred) * small (not hundreds of dependencies on GNOME, KDE, ...) * remote capable (XDMCP support) * "system menu" (reboot/shutdown) Considered so far: gdm - best so far,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: mozilla producing invalid ps files?

2004-03-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Hugo Vanwoerkom_, on 03/13/04 10:33,typed: As indicated in previous posts, I am unsure who actually does this: mozilla or xprt. It could be xprt and then you might try xprt-xprintorg to do the printing. That did it! I just installed ~# apt-get install xprt-xprintorg G

Re: sarge installer ver. 03/10/2004

2004-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: On Friday 12 March 2004 23:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: on my machine i got the sarge-installer running after manually selecting a root partition __and___ defining the file-type manually. (this after

Re: libxft-dev problem

2004-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ken Bloom wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:10:10 +0100, quirin wrote: felix: did you have any trouble with that so far? On Saturday 13. March 2004 12:03, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I managed to get it installed properly by doing this: # dpkg --ignore-depends=libxft-dev -r libxft-dev # apt-get ins

Re: System no longer usable

2004-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Something strange happened to my system last night. When I woke up this morning, the machine was completely locked up. I cannot boot any linux kernel. I have been rolling my own kernels for a while, and the machine has a 2.6.3 and 2.6.4, neither of which will boot. It won'

Re: /etc/hotplug/blacklist

2004-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: My /etc/hotplug/blacklist is empty, so no refrence to look at. Can someone provide some example? I need to add my scanner, but don't want to play with the format. Thanks. # # Listing a module here prevents the hotplug scripts from loading it. # Usually that'd be so that so

Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called "third" world) from downloading them and will I ever see the set if I "order" them in Mexico by mail? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: System no longer usable

2004-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Something strange happened to my system last night. When I woke up this morning, the machine was completely locked up. I cannot boot any linux kernel. I have been rolling my own kernels

About: Help us make the Debian CDs even better

2004-03-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! "Help us make the Debian CDs even better" appeared in announce. It suggested to use the popularity-contest package in support of the next release. Excellent idea! Way to go! I install popularity-contest and watch cron do its weekly job of sending the data to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It u

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:58:43PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: If the packages are going to be roughly sorted through the CDs based on popularity (as the notice suggested) If you aren't already, this is why you should have popular

Re: About: Help us make the Debian CDs even better

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Hugo! On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: "Help us make the Debian CDs even better" appeared in announce. To all of you who didn't see it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0403/msg9.html I'd person

Re: svgatextmode question

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I have a question regarding svgatextmode. I installed a new HDD in my notebook and installed a fresh SID system on it. Everything works nicely except that I can't get svgatextmode working again like it did before. The notebook has a neomagic graphics chip

[OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/business/16CND-TECH.html?hp Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:56 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Colin Watson writes: No, it's not, because you very likely don't need them all. It's not as if the installer requires registration of all 13 before it lets you do anything else. Most potential users don'

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Beretta wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:00:19 +0100, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But even if we are looking at a full 13 x 700 MB = 9100 MB at a relatively slow 5 minutes per megabyte it would take you less than a week to download the entire distribution. What kinda math is that?

Re: Think I've messed up X :(

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Ingram wrote: Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told that: The following packages have been kept back: x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the packages so that apt then tells me it c

Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-03-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:25:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/business/16CND-TECH.html?hp Arrgh. www.nytimes.com is one of those FOUL sites which requires you to enter full details of any motoring convictions you have, your family tree back to

Re: printing problem (mozilla 100% CPU)

2004-03-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Arthur H. Edwards wrote: Just FYI, Netscape does not have the same problem. This is surprising, as they come from the same code tree. Has there been any progress here? Art Edwards On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:16:55PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: Patrick, It's a bug. #213004: Mozilla runs away with CP

Re: Could you test printing this page ?

2004-03-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Christophe Combelles wrote: Hello, When I print this page (in greek): http://dim.gr/gr/index.htm I can get no greek character. Could someone (using Sid or Sarge) try to print it into a file, watch the generated ps file, and tell me if it is good or not? thanks Christophe Combelles (The problem o

jigdo-lite: does it restart OK?

2004-03-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Having been convinced that jigdo is the way to go, I am jigdoing the first of the Sarge's iso's. The documentation states that you can interrupt a jigdo-lite run and restart it with just hitting enter, i.e. you restart it with the same jigdo file parm, get a warning that he is about

Re: community internet cafe with gnome

2004-03-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andy M wrote: Hi, I'm running a free community Internet cafe with a bunch of debian machines with gnome installed. Visitors log in to a special 'cafe' account that doesn't have password. Ideally, every time they log in the 'cafe' home directory gets restored from clean backup. This is to preve

Re: jigdo-lite: does it restart OK?

2004-03-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! Other question: I find udebs in that iso. What are udebs? (RTFM where?) A udeb (with the u representing micro I suppose) is just a stripped down .deb for use with the new Debian installer being developed for sarge. As space is at a premium in installation

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bob parker wrote: Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso images. When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom #x to be inserted. Wha

Re: community internet cafe with gnome

2004-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andy M wrote: I plan to put up a small webpage dedicated for this community effort. Is there a place to post 'linux success stories' somewhere? Andy I am slow on the draw with these things but as for now the only place I know to post for free is http://www.livejournal.com/ and that is limited 5

Re: jigdo-lite: does it restart OK?

2004-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Question: is it indeed true that everything is preserved restarting with the above sequence, if so why can't I find that file? Who knows, but I restarted this iso 3 times and once to change mirrors, to change to the Dutch mirror I like and after 41 hours it gave me a success message and an 1.iso

Re: Reading output of 'dpkg -l'

2004-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +, john gennard wrote: I can't read the full descriptions of certain packages in the above output. I had the same problem some time ago and Colin Watson gave me a command to change the column width of the output. Now I'm embarrassed to sa

Re: Could you test printing this page ?

2004-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: On 16 Mar 2004, Christophe Combelles wrote: When I print this page (in greek): http://dim.gr/gr/index.htm I can get no greek character. Could someone (using Sid or Sarge) try to print it into a file, watch the generated ps file, and tell me if it is good or not? It work

Re: Reading output of 'dpkg -l'

2004-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:31:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +, john gennard wrote: I can't read the full descriptions of certain packages in the above output. I had the same problem some time ago and

Re: x window?$B$,N)>e$j$^$;$s!#

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello 'wadaminoru'! His 'x window' doesn't boot up and he asks for guidance. He already tried 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' but this didn't help. He feels sorry for asking, but does anyone have a hint for him. He uses a NVidia 'G-fource3' graphics card. wadaminoru, please

What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I normally use Mozilla to retrieve mail from my ISP mailserver. Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2Mb jpeg file that mozilla chokes on, meaning he keeps trying to get it off the server, which fails after a while, who knows why. So I want to delete that f

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thank you guys!! I got rid of it. I tried 2 webmailer accounts I have, Yahoo! said that the server did not support LAST, and care2 that my mailbox was not big enough. So next I installed fetchmail and fetchmailconf, through my super-duper 7 woody CD's all loopmo

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
dragon wrote: hello, i do such things with popcheck on the console ;) greetz This suits my purposes. But popcheck isn't clear (to me ;-)) as to what to do after marking a message with D, you hit S, or does hitting D take effect immediately? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joseph wrote: Is anybody using mondo with Debian? I'm trying to test "mindi" (ver. 0.86) and I get an error message "Where is liblvm?" Could it be because I'm using Knoppix Debian installation? -- Joseph I do not know what that means. But this what I do: I am using mondo with Debian but I don't

Re: mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joseph wrote: I got the same impression the author if the Mondo Rescue is not a Debian user and not very receptive to this distro. I was trying to test mindi and here is what I got: = quote == # mindi Warning! You are a Debian user. If mindi doesn't generate a good mou

Re: how can I recover the file I've deleted?

2004-03-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, blue_stone wrote: I use ext3 fs, and i've deleted some important file ,hao can I recover them ? see the list of apps for "undeleting" http://linux-sec.net/Txt/erase.txt I did not see mc in there. It has an undelete function that is painless (but only fo

Re: how can I recover the file I've deleted?

2004-03-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Funk wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 16:50, Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:19:01 +0800 blue_stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use ext3 fs, and i've deleted some important file ,hao can I recover them ? Unfortunately, you can't. See about halfway through the ext3 FAQ, at: http:

03/20/04 version of new installer with Lilo?

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I tried sarge's #1 CD with the new installer, version of 03/20/2004. With bootparm "linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium" you can select which bootloader you want, but... selecting "lilo" results in him still insisting to install grub. For which I filed bug #239494. When you use the insta

Re: Driver needed for dial-up?

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David wrote: Does anyone have a driver that I can use for my 3com Noteworthy PC Card Modem (3CXM056-BNW) on my Toshiba laptop? I had it working in RH6.2 but since upgrading to Debian 3.0r1 I can't seem to get dial up working. I have a post here stating what I have tried and some log files. ht

Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Number Six wrote: Even though I still have a bunch of stock, and I'm a linux lover now, so I cheer if it goes up and I cheer if it goes down, I was expecting Europe to really nail Microsoft to the wall. I dunno, I expected some surrogate America-bashing, or just a really f-you to an American c

Re: 03/20/04 version of new installer with Lilo?

2004-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joey Hess wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I tried sarge's #1 CD with the new installer, version of 03/20/2004. Without the URL to the image you used, I cannot really help you, as you could be describing any of 5 different CDs. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area

Re: weather reporting program in debian

2004-03-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lorenzo Prince wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The weather program is a demo stript that gives an example of how to use expect. In Red Hat and Fedora, this example program is either placed or linked in /usr/bin. Careful examination of my system which has expect installed sho

GUI for nvidia4620

2004-03-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian: It is reported that the 4620 version of the nvidia closed-source installer a GUI interface has. Anybody knows about that? How to get to it? Thanks. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Latest Sarge CD's and loopback prob.

2004-03-25 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I am jigdoing the latest Sarge CD's, the first few anyway. So I installed Sarge with the new installer (lilo is broke). Went uneventful but for one funny problem: I could not install a CUPS printer via localhost:631, got "Connection refused". So I googled for that and what do you kno

Re: SVG display in Debian

2004-03-25 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Peter Samek wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:22:53PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: Yeah, I did wonder today, too. I tried it in Konqueror, but could not see any pictures. But if I used svgdisplay, then the picture was shown. And if I was in a directory in Konqueror and held the mouse pointer o

Re: gdm login problem

2004-03-25 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: Suddenly I can no longer login to gdm. When I enter my user name the screen goes blank then returns to the login screen. I created an new user and when I tried to log in as this user the screen went blank after I entered the new user's password. I still can login at any o

Rewriting XF86Config-4 with dpkg-reconfigure

2004-03-25 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! If you make changes to XF86Config-4 then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 refuses to touch it. How can one change that behavior? I want him to rewrite the file. Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Install stalling with sarge.

2004-03-25 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Ruben Lopez wrote: I am trying to install sarge, but the installation doesn't seem to be able to detect my hard drive. When I select the "Partition a Hard Drive" option, nothing happens except the installation menu just returns to the "Partition..." option. When I start cfdisk in ash I get "FATA

Re: Install stalling with sarge.

2004-03-25 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Ruben Lopez wrote: hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to install sarge, but the installation doesn't seem to be able to detect my hard drive. When I select the "Partition a Hard Drive" option, nothing happens except the installation menu just retu

Re: Rewriting XF86Config-4 with dpkg-reconfigure

2004-03-25 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If you make changes to XF86Config-4 then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 refuses to touch it. How can one change that behavior? I want him to rewrite the file. The following text is put in the preambles of an automat

Re: x-crash (please decipher my log file)

2004-03-26 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: I recently updated my xfree from 4.0 to 4.3 (sarge). Suddenly my x stopped working. I would be grateful if someone could help me decipher my log file. My XF86Conf-4 is almost directly created by dpkg-reconfigure. However I removed the part about the generic mouse because

Re: apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Pete RedHair wrote: Hi, i'm running a linux box with debeian stable. Because of some needed features i've upgrade my postfix and spamassasin packages to testing and along with it apt upgraded a lot of other packages. You mean you upgraded your system from woody to sarge. Everything i tested is

Re: nVidia console terminals blank.

2004-01-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rajesh Menon wrote: Hi, again. I have the 4496 nVidia drivers installed on my debian sid running XF86 version 4.2.1.1 After startx, all the console terms from F1..6 are just blank (well, a nice glow is there at the bottom, but blank nonetheless). Anyone had a similar problem here, and found out a

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Bojan Baros wrote: Hello deb users. The entire list have been subjected to the inflow of spam, viruses, auto-responders finding virus or spam, clueless users or someone who just wants to mess around with the list. I think there is a nice practical rea

Re: flash plugin

2004-01-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-01-27, Pigeon penned: --+KJYzRxRHjYqLGl5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:59:22PM -0200, Daniel Ferreira wrote: Hi, =20 I'm trying to install the flash plu

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dan Lawrence wrote: On 28 Jan 2004, "Bojan Baros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in linux.debian.user: If (wo)manpwer is the issue, I'd be happy to help with the admin process. List admin, please feel free to email me directly to discuss this. -Dan I would also be happy to volunteer with the admi

Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian List! I am looking for a mobo that has controls on for all its fans so they can be turned off or down when not needed, like the laptops do. Googling and searching the hardware vendors/reviewers I am having trouble searching for that specific feature and did not find it. Anybody knows

Re: Esta

2004-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: My Mozilla (1.0.0, 3.0r2) always reacts badly to these kinds of messages (with the subject full of s), freezing up, running the cpu to 100% for 30 secs or so, leaking memory, etc. Anyone have any advice? Download a Mozilla 1.6 binary from: http://www.mozilla.org/

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Hugo Vanwoerkom: I am looking for a mobo that has controls on for all its fans so they can be turned off or down when not needed, like the laptops do. I have never understood you guys who want to do this with finesse. It's in the, what?, brain, soul, char

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
M.Kirchhoff wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom care2.com> writes: I am looking for a mobo that has controls on for all its fans so they can be turned off or down when not needed, like the laptops do. You'd be better off with a separate fan-control system. Something like the followi

Failed to load module "xft"

2004-01-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I keep getting "Failed to load module 'xft'" in my X log. ls -1 libXft* in /usr/X11R6/lib gets: libXfont.a libXfontcache.a libXft.so libXft.so.1 libXft.so.1.1 libXft.so.2 libXft.so.2.0 libXft.so.2.1 libXft1.a libXft1.so Does anyone know what he is looking for and can't find it? Or a p

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Morgan wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:42:22 -0800, Day Brown wrote: One other reminder that PCs were designed for the corporate environment. People at home open the windows. And after being a home a few years, the fans have clogged the heat sinks with dust, and the system fries. I run with th

Re: one machine - multiple users, monitors, keyboards, mice ...

2004-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Morse wrote: I would like to take my rediculously over-powered computer, and have it usable by two people at the same time. I'd like to hook up two monitors, two keyboards, and two mice, and run a display manager like xdm on each monitor. I vaguely recall some hooks for this in X, like

Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride

2004-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:25:25AM -0800, Ivan Torres Jimenez wrote: Mr. Darl McBride President & CEO The SCO Group, inc. A Parable: Nicely done Nano, well written. Thanks. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Son, 2004-02-01 at 04:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: carpeted floor. It's a simple matter to make filters for case fans and to install in such a way that there's always positive air pressure in the case. ..before re-assembly, rip open vacuum cleaner bags and use the filter

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Christian Schnobrich wrote: Paul (was it Paul?) made an important statement: maintain a positive air pressure in the case. That's my (current, and working) approach: have a set of fans gather their air through a filter and blow it into the housing. There's a few hints and tips I'd gladly pass on

nyt article: computer litteracy

2004-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi world! Interesting article on growing distance between the computer-savvy and the illiterates with fancy systems: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/technology/05VIRU.html Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SANE not installing properly

2004-03-27 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Tom Simnett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Im running Debian/sid and have just installed sane, xsane, scanimage, and xscanimage. This may not help you, because I have Sarge or because of what I do. Anyway: I have an epson perfection 1250 scanner. With sarge the sane-ba

Re: nvidia bzflag

2004-03-27 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Captain Jack Sparrow wrote: My brother and I both have the same problem under Debian testing, bzflag freezes as soon as it comes up in fullscreen mode. Bringing it up in window mode works fine. We both have nvidia ge-force II cards, but totally different architecture other wise...AMD-XP 2000/Inte

sarge qt printing prob

2004-03-28 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I have a prob that is stumping me. Installed sarge's libqt3c103-mt, which is Qt threaded version 3.2. Also installed the examples. Nothing prints. E.g example "drawdemo" has a print button, shows print menu, but does not print. Put CUPS loglevel to "debug". All it shows is "print-job

how to find dev. of fs root?

2004-03-28 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! How do I find inside a script what the device is of the filesystem root? Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks! Was: how to find dev. of fs root?

2004-03-29 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! How do I find inside a script what the device is of the filesystem root? Thanks! Hugo Thanks guys! I did not know mount w/o args, but I use df all the time, just paid no attention that it display / also... Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mozilla and new XFree86

2004-03-31 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:11:41PM -0500, H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Rick Pasotto_, on 03/29/04 17:58,typed: XFree86 got updated to 4.3 in testing today and now mozilla won't run. Firefox does run. Has anyone else had this problem or do I have something wrong on my system? Just

automated installation

2004-03-31 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I would like to install "my" Sarge installation automatically. Sarge's sources.list has 6 loopmounted uptodate CD's Looking at fai it appears that this does not emphasize the package installation process and wants nfs and a debian mirror. So I am looking at expect. First question I

Where is contrib?

2004-04-01 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I jigdoed the first 6 Sarge CD's, so they are uptodate. In e.g. the last one, #6, I can see contrib packages: /dists/sarge/contrib/binary-1386/Packages /pool/contrib/b/batik both have "batik". But when I do synaptic, none are listed. Nor in aptitude. And apt-get install batik gets "Cou

Re: Where is contrib?

2004-04-01 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Hugo! On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:03:07AM -0600, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: I jigdoed the first 6 Sarge CD's, so they are uptodate. In e.g. the last one, #6, I can see contrib packages: /dists/sarge/contrib/binary-1386/Packages /pool/contrib/b/batik both have &

Qt-3.3.1

2004-04-01 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian: A month ago Trolltech released Qt-3.3.1. Because I have problems printing from the Sarge Qt 3.2 I installed the X11 version. If you install it with Xft enabled you get super-looking graphics. The only thing is I could not find an easy way to do an incremental install, i.e. w/o examp

Re: file import into body of an email message created on mozilla debian 1.0.0.woody.1

2004-04-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
robert fernando wrote: Hi all, Q1 Please could somebody tell me how I can import the contents of a text file into a new message being composed on mozilla debian 1.0.0.woody.1 In bowser: file->open file>select some text right click>copy In new message: ctrl-v or rightclick> paste If there is no i

Re: Problem installing Sarge from ISO images

2004-04-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Galicic, Joseph R. wrote: I'm having a problem installing Sarge with ISO images. I get the base system installed ok. After the first reboot I am presented with a configuration menu. I get as far as configuring apt by letting it scan 5 of my iso images. I have no net connection. It scans my cd'

Re: Problem installing Sarge from ISO images

2004-04-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Galicic, Joseph R. wrote: Hi Hugo, Here are my exact steps I boot from iso disk 1 to start the install process. The base system installs ok and reboots After reboot I get the configuration menu screen. I set time, configure apt and such... Then I choose "select packages to install" and tha

"cant't synthesize" usb msgs in Sarge

2004-04-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian: Current Sarge users that have hotplug enabled will always be greated by 2 "can't synthesize" message at boot-up from pci.rc and usb.rc. The reason is that pci_boot_events and usb_boot_events check for a non-existing module, pop up the "can't synchronize" message and return. I don't

Re: Problem installing Sarge from ISO images

2004-04-03 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Galicic, Joseph R. wrote: Hi Hugo, Here are my exact steps I boot from iso disk 1 to start the install process. The base system installs ok and reboots After reboot I get the configuration menu screen. I set time, configure apt and such... Then I choose "select packages to install" and tha

Re: Qt-3.3.1

2004-04-03 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian: A month ago Trolltech released Qt-3.3.1. Because I have problems printing from the Sarge Qt 3.2 I installed the X11 version. If you install it with Xft enabled you get super-looking graphics. The only thing is I could not find an easy way to do an incremental

mc with ext2undel on sarge?

2004-04-03 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Perusing the choices for ext2 undelete programs, it appears that midnight commander is by far the best. But :-( it does not compile (mc-4.6.0) under the latest sarge. You install e2fslibs-dev and ./configure --with-ext2undel and you get weird errors. First he cannot find some machin

Re: mc with ext2undel on sarge?

2004-04-04 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! Perusing the choices for ext2 undelete programs, it appears that midnight commander is by far the best. mc-4.6.1-pre1 DOES compile: install libgpm1-dev install e2fslibs-dev untar the source into in ./configure --with-gpm-mouse --with-ext2undel make make

offline apt howto

2004-04-04 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I find references to such document, but cannot find it. Anyone knows where it might exist? Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling kernel

2004-04-04 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been looking at the documentation for compiling the kernel, and something seems missing to me. There is ample documentation on configuring the kernel, but I don't see the issue of the starting point addressed anywhere.

Re: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable

2004-04-04 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote: Hello, When trying to upgrade my system today, I got this error when installing libgimp2.0 (output from apt-get -f dist-install follows) alpha:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done Calcu

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I have a minor but annoying problem with lokkit. It does not start at bootup. The runlevel look normal eg. etc/rc0.d/K99lokkit etc/rc1.d/K99lokkit etc/rc2.d/S01lokkit etc/rc3.d/S01lokkit etc/rc4.d/S01lokkit etc/rc5.d/S01lokkit etc/rc6.d/K99lokkit but I get errors a

Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-04-05 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:22:52PM +, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:25:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/business/16CND-TECH.html?hp Arrgh. www.nytimes.com is one of those FOUL sites which requires you

iptables question: no chain/target/match by that name...

2004-04-05 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi World! The lokkit question yesterday by Faheem Mitha prompted me to install lokkit on Sarge. As Dircha pointed out: it don't work. All lokkit does is create a little iptables script that sits in /etc/default/lokkit. Then upon boot lokkit in /etc/init.d executes that script. As Dircha also

Re: iptables question: no chain/target/match by that name...

2004-04-05 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi World! The lokkit question yesterday by Faheem Mitha prompted me to install lokkit on Sarge. As Dircha pointed out: it don't work. All lokkit does is create a little iptables script that sits in /etc/default/lokkit. Then upon boot lokkit in /etc/init.d executes

Re: apt-get in a webbrowser

2004-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jaap Haitsma wrote: S.D.A. wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, When installing new apps I find myself searching on packages.debian.org and then look at changelogs descriptions and maybe go to the site where the development to read something

Re: automaticaly collecting email using mozilla -- debin version

2004-04-05 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
robert fernando wrote: HI all, Is it possible to setup gnome so that on loging in (user /password entered) mail from my isp gets automaticaly downloaded into mozilla, as supplied with debian Woody R3.,and then any new msgs get downloaded every X minutes. thanks I find it not a good idea to ha

Re: Warning: Do not use gcc-3.3.3-5 in testing

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
MrVanes wrote: Hi, I recently apt-get updated my debian-testing machine and received g[cc ++]-3.3.3-5. After this for some reason I (re)compiled Qt 3.3.1 and got stuck with a broken KDE i.e. I could no longer start KDE through KDM. Starting KDE from xdm, or from a bare xsession was possible, but f

Re: Test print OK, can't otherwise print!

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Steve Freitas wrote: Hi all, So, any idea what might cause a test page to go fine and everything else to fail quietly? Any idea what is different between a test page and a regular print job? Set the logging level to debug in the cups config file. Then find out what's bugging him. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Sarge ISO image.

2004-04-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Jansen Carlo Sena wrote: Hi all, where can I get a installable ISO image from sarge? Can I do this just with jigdo? Regards, Jansen. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/jigdotemplates/sarge-i386-1.template http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i

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