dependency troubles in sid

2003-01-22 Thread James Hughes
Hi, I can't install or remove any packages with apt-get. Installing produces errors along the lines of the following: Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 74553 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gftp-gtk 2.0.13-1 (using .../gftp-gtk_2.0.14-1_i386.deb) .

Mozilla won't start

2003-01-22 Thread James Hughes
This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the command line generates no output. I can see several instances of mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before just dying. I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same results. Nothing shows up in

Re: Mozilla won't start

2003-01-23 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:19:41PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > James Hughes wrote: > > >This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the > >command line generates no output. I can see several instances of > >mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out

Re: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

2003-01-23 Thread James Hughes
fined($file = readdir(DIR))) { $newfile = $file . ".mp3"; $newfile =~ s/\.wav//; `lame $dirname/$file $dirname/$newfile`; } closedir(DIR); > > And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ? > Use a pipe? -- James Hughes msg25755/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mozilla won't start

2003-01-24 Thread James Hughes
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:17:36PM +0100, A. Ensle wrote: > James Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: > > > This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the > > command line generates no output. I can see several instances of > > mozilla-bin in top,

Re: alsa and saving mixer settings

2003-01-30 Thread James Hughes
my mixer settings aren't > staying between boots. > [SNIP] > Anybody else experience this or know of a way around it? I've had similar troubles. I'm using the gnome mixer applet, as well as using gmix and sometimes alsamixer. I'm thinking maybe the applet is undoin

sudden sound troubles

2003-02-05 Thread James Hughes
I'm going to go back a bit further in syslog to see if I can isolate when those modprobe messages started appearing, but I was wondering if anybody out there might have some thoughts. Thanks! -- James Hughes msg28809/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-06 Thread James Hughes
7;re talking about audio degradation issues, one thing I've always wondered is how much and what kind of loss is there (if any) when unencoding from [.ogg]|[.mp3] to .wav? -- James Hughes msg29046/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sudden sound troubles

2003-02-06 Thread James Hughes
0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:36, James Hughes wrote

Re: sndfile.pc ?

2003-02-09 Thread James Hughes
kage description says, 'Please build-depend on this package if you need ladspa.h' Can someone give me a quick run-down on how to do this? -- James Hughes msg29734/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ardour debs?

2003-02-09 Thread James Hughes
day. CVS lets people easily, quickly, cheaply get the latest changes and build a completely up-to-date version. -- James Hughes msg29735/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sndfile.pc ?

2003-02-09 Thread James Hughes
nd quite useful for getting rid of pops and scratches. Gramofile sounds interesting though, especially the feature that detects where tracks start and end and splits the .wav file accordingly. > Thanks for the info. np, thanks for the gramofile tip! -- James Hughes msg29758/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sndfile.pc ?

2003-02-10 Thread James Hughes
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:57:49PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:41:57PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: > > > > > > I'd be interested in hearing if you get this working. It appears that the > > > devloper of Ardour has suceded in upseting the Debia

Re: DWL-650 Wireless PCMCIA Card

2002-10-15 Thread James Hughes
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:54:09PM -0400, James Hughes wrote: > > > I have PCIC=i82365, which, again, works. Can you explain why > > yenta_socket is the better option? > > Based on your previously sup

Re: php not working

2002-10-16 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:08:25PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:52:00PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hey htere everyone, > > > > trying to get php4 installed on my woody server and don't seem to have > > it figured out right. I've downloaded a package (SPIP) that runs on >

Re: DWL-650 Wireless PCMCIA Card

2002-10-16 Thread James Hughes
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:10:16AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > It may be that the system is trying to load the prism2_cs module to bring > up the interface, which in turn trys to load the ds module, prior to > pcmcia service being started. Do you have wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces > con

Re: PHP Problem - /libraries/grab_globals.lib.php

2002-10-23 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:09:55AM -0400, Chip Rose wrote: > > > However, nothing else with .php, .php4, .php3 works at all. They fail with > various errors, one of which is the following: > Fatal error: Failed opening required './libraries/grab_globals.lib.php' > (include_path='.:/usr/share/p

Re: firewall options

2002-10-18 Thread James Hughes
> I've managed to find a very comprehensive write-up on how to > configure the Debian box as a dedicated firewall and router > (prints out at 74 pages) - I've no doubt I'll get stuck somewhere, > but as you say I've always the list to fall back on. > Sounds interesting. Care to post a link? ;

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-21 Thread James Hughes
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:46:49AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:24:53 -0500 Gianfranco Berardi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree. Debian and Linux in general sorely needs a decent Pacman game > > Yea... but can we do so without infringing on some copyright? *s

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-22 Thread James Hughes
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:55:52PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > And now for some nice stuff that I once heard in a lecture. The prof. > said - and we asked rather specificaly - that you could even take > proprietary software like Windows, strip it of all "artistic" content > like image, text

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-25 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:29:13PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 > Go to opensecrets.org. In the "Find a Politician:" search box, type "Smith". At Rep. Smith's page, click "Top Contributors

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-25 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:29:13PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 /. has covered this. To save you all some time, they point to stories here: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/17

galeon: infinite instances; mozilla: won't even start

2003-01-18 Thread James Hughes
Hi, On a fresh install of Woody, galeon worked once, but now just starts firing up new windows about 1/sec. Mozilla won't even start at all. I've tried ditching .galeon and starting over, to no avail. Any ideas what I might try? Thanks, James msg24832/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-15 Thread James Hughes
Hi: cdrecord is not functioning. cdrecord -scanbus (as root) says the following: cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root cdrecord output via gcombust says (as root): /usr/bin/cdrecord: Bad file

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-16 Thread James Hughes
Sorry, should have hit "reply-all" Dave Price wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:34:37PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: However, /sbin/lsmod says: sr_mod 12560 0 (autoclean) (unused) sg 21408 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-scsi8016

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-16 Thread James Hughes
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include James Hughes wrote on Fri Feb 15, 2002 um 10:34:37PM: And, following some instructions I found at http://linuxgazette.com/issue57/stoddard.html, I added alias scd0 srmod alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi options ide-cd ignore=hdc If your

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-17 Thread James Hughes
Adam Majer wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:27:08PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: Kernel command line: Shouldn't the value of append show up there? My next course of action, (and I'm running out of courses [:)] , is to recompile the kernel without IDE/ATAPI support. Any other idea

lilo wierdness

2002-03-06 Thread James Hughes
Hello: I have a system dual-booting win98(for kid's games) and debian. The debian install basically went over top of a Red Hat install, but something wierd happened with lilo. The prompt is truncated: LILboot: and no keyboard input is accepted (no "dos", no tab) although if I hold down the

font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread James Hughes
Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in galeon where displaying as rectangles. I managed to fix this through trial and error in the galeon preferences, and life went on, though I did notice that the same rectangles were being used to display the xmms playlist. I decided t

Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread James Hughes
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:04:06PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "James" == James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James> Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in > James> galeon where displaying as rectangles. .

Re: Galeon submits empty forms

2002-05-25 Thread James Hughes
Hi, I was having this problem. The solution I found was to delete ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It just worked. James On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:15:10PM +0200, Matthias Papesch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a woody system with galeon (and mozilla) pulled

Real Player

2002-06-28 Thread James Hughes
Hello, My new favourite online radio station, WFMU, has their archives in real audio format. I know there is a debian package that converts an .rpm of rp8, but this particular file doesn't seem to be available anywhere at Real's site anymore. Any suggestions on how to run this on sid? James

rescheduling updatedb?

2002-06-28 Thread James Hughes
Hi, Every morning around 7:30, a cron job kicks off that brings my computer to it's knees. (Yes, my computer has knees...:). I'm pretty sure it's updatedb updating the locate database. Unfortunately, 7:30 am is when I do work on this computer. I tried 'crontab -l' as root, but it says there's no