Re: windings and acroread

Ulrich Scholz: > Dear all, > > I'm using Acrobat Reader 7.0 with Debian testing. On viewing a > document, I get the error > > Cannot find or create the font 'Windings'. Some characters may not > display or print > correctly. It's probably "Wingdings" and you should get it when installing mst

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

Amit Uttamchandani: > > I am curious, do you think this is done in LaTeX? -- snip > http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/820-0176/820-0176.pdf It doesn't look like it is: $ pdfinfo 820-0176.pdf Title: Subject: Keywords: Author: Creator:XPP Producer: Acrobat Dis

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

Sunnz: > > The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I > am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? > Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be > downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux > distros,

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

andy: > > My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny > can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involves telling the kernel how

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

andy: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny >>> can operate with? >> >> No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards >> that I have read about a few time

Re: apt-get update on ftp.uk.debian.org

Alle Meije Wink: > > Err ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable Release.gpg > Could not connect data socket, connection timed out The mirror is either temporarily broken or down for good, Just use another one, there's nothing else you can do. J. -- I frequently find myself at the top of the stairs wi

Re: Newsreader question

John Hasler: > Zoho writes: > >> I follow debian-user by reading it from Pan (a newsgroup reader). I am >> wondering if anyone knows of software that I can run on my server that >> makes all my subscribed newsgroups available through a web interface? > > Install Leafnode and you will be able to re

Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

andy: > > What is the best tweak to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file in order to > enable my kernel to recognise and utilise the additional RAM? Looking > through this file, the relevant section appears to be this commented > part: > > ## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option > ##

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

andy: > > I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M > > And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. > > It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm > screen, so I am at a complete loss now. Try a fe

Re: Newsreader question

Ron Johnson: > On 02/29/08 14:43, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Which still leaves the question how to synchronize messages status >> (read/unread) across multiple computers. Some time ago I used slrnpull >> for offline reading and copied my .newsrc back and forth,

Re: Newsreader question

Kevin Coyner: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote.. > >>> And I am still searching for a decent console newsreader that >>> supports UTF-8, so if anybody can recommend one... > > Not sure if it supports UTF-8 or not, but have a look at newsbeuter. Newsbeuter is an R

Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

Jeff D: > > You really shouldn't have to add anything to see 2G of ram. If you > aren't I suspect that there is something else going on with your system. It's a hardware and/or Linux bug. J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble comprehending a nuclear apocalypse. [Ag

Re: Newsreader question

Ron Johnson: > On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Ron Johnson: >>> >>> Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on >>> node_a, and display it on current_node? >> >> *Offline* reading. > > Irrelevant to the p

Re: what is where in the iso-images

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > The Debian-Website is embarassing! That's not exactly the word I would have used, but I tend to agree. > Where are the hints that if you want a debian with kde, you should > download this file: [filename]? What gives you the impression that you need a specific image to in

Re: sensors

Jan Willem Stumpel: > > -12V:+1.70 V (min = -13.76 V, max = -14.91 V) > V5SB:+5.05 V (min = +0.27 V, max = +3.44 V) > VBat:+0.16 V (min = +0.59 V, max = +3.20 V) > fan1: 0 RPM (min = 164 RPM, div = 128) > CPU Fan:1854 RPM (min = -1 RPM, div = 4) > f

Re: /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > After recent Exim4 setup on a new Debian 4.0r3 installed mail server I'm > seeing this error; > > '/var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size' This logfile contains the info you need. If you don't understand it, post it here. J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas b

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

Jan Brosius: > > I installed debian 4.0 r3 amd64 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 9920. The > graphic card is Nvidia 8600M. > The installation went well until after the reboot. Then the X server > didn't start. I installed then with apt the debian package n"vidia-glx". > But when I then start X I

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

Ron Johnson: > On 03/13/08 01:23, Jan Brosius wrote: >> >> I there nothing I can do to install debian on my laptop. > > Sure. People do it all the time. People install Debian on his laptop all the time? :) > Since you can't get in via a normal boot, I suggest that you use a > LiveCD and disabl

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

Ron Johnson: > On 03/13/08 15:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> At least with gdm, if X doesn't come up after three attempts, it offers >> you to view the X log file and then drops you into console login. > > Well that's interesting. Does it mean that you&#

Re: DVD life-cycle

Nuno Magalhães: > > - rip a DVD into a suitable format: divX, whatever. I'd like to make > sure the ripped version is an exact bit-by-bit copy of the original - > for backup purposes mom! - but that's not reeelly necessary. As > long as i have the video, audio and subtitle tracks well-defined

Re: Apt Database Recovery

David Baron: > I have been getting this when upgrading: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 227, in ? > main() > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 148, in main > seen.close() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/__init__.py", line 237, in cl

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

Patrick Wiseman: > > rm /etc/alternatives/acroread > ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use update-alternatives. J. -- Whenever I hear the word 'art' I reach for my visa card. [Agree] [Disagr

Re: Addons and Iceweasel

Walt L. Williams: > > How can I get my favorite firefox addons to work with iceweasel> The same way you do it with Firefox. Additionally, some addons are available as Debian packages and can be installed system-wide. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised land

Re: AT Package Requires Courier MTA

Andrei Popescu: > > at depends on mail-transport-agent provided by courier-mta. Just pick > your favorite and install it along with at like: > > aptitude install at postfix Or to get a list of all packages providing mail-transport-agent: $ aptitude search ~Pmail-transport-agent p bongoprojec

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

Russell L. Harris: > > Such remote maintenance of the server from a machine in the LAN > becomes tedious unless there is on each machine an account with > the same username, password, and passphrase. Not true. You can log into another machine with any username you want. Either you pro

Re: Wireless

Jonathan Smith: > > What is the best way to obtain wireless internet on Debian. I have version > 4.0. Get supported hardware, install wireless-tools and configure the new ethernet device. In other words: be more specific. What's your current state concerning your problem, what did you try alread

Re: Partition not mounting

Frank: > > Recently my Debian Sid installation has stopped mounting second partition > (/dev/hda3) on boot. As far as I know nothing has changed. What does 'mount /dev/hda3' print when executed as root? If it looks like an error, what are the last few lines from 'dmesg'? J. -- Thy lyrics in pop

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

Rick Reynolds: > > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising > aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about > mixing the two. Mixing the two is generally a bad idea since aptitude tracks which packages you really wanted to install and which ones ju

Re: Best way to boot between debian and suse?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE and > Debian? > I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w drive. > Is it best to put both systems on different partitions of the same hard drive > or > one on each drive? I don't think that

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

Ron Johnson: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long > > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost > > several hundred MB worth of k* applic

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

Ed: > > I'm trying to install jdk1.5 on my Sarge system. I ran the I did a > search for jdk in Debian space and found very little. This JDK as in the unstable non-free archive since a few days ago because Sun changed their licence a bit. But I don't know how well the new sun-java5-* packages inte

Re: OpenVPN hardware requirements

Dexter: > > we have 1Mbps/1Mbps internet connection. We have firewall with hardware: > Pentium 400MHz, Ram 192 MB. We use it as firewall, proxy (squid) and > OpenVPN server. Is this hardware enough? It depends. :) I don't have that much experience with OpenVPN on different machines, but I once tr

Re: cpufreqd init script not shutting down

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > > BTW, ondemand is never a good idea IMHO, it is very hard on the power > electronics in the motherboard and generates a lot of electric noise (and > sometimes, acoustic noise). Do you really think this affects the hardware significantly? I have never heard of this.

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

Adam Hardy: > > Can I do anything to globally affect all font sizes in X, not just in the > bits that KDE controls? There is a quite clean way to do this. At least it works for me. Preface: Your problem may be that your X makes wrong assumptions about your screen resolution. Not in absolute n

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

CRASSlogic: > > My question is; is there a way (here in Debian, Sarge) to convert my > iTunes library (currently 20.8GB) to Ogg Vorbis? I can't find a batch > encoder or similar myself, having spent quite some time on google. While there surely is a way to do that, I don't think this is the right

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

(sorry for screwing your From:) ??? ??: > > Don't forget about Metadata ;) > You will loose all your tags stored in aac files while decoding 2 wav Another reason to use FLAC: it uses the same tag structure as Ogg Vorbis. And when using oggenc to convert FLAC to Vorbis, all tags are preserv

Re: How to install anjuta2 by apt?

rosetta: > > I used apt-get update to update my apt database. But I can not find > the anjuta2, there is just anjuta 1.2. > > Where could I get the anjuta2 by apt? $ apt-cache policy anjuta anjuta: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.0.2-2 Version table: 2.0.2-2 0 500 http://ftp2.

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

Richard van der Veen: > > i am normaly using KDE, but was curious about the status of Gnome in Debian > Sid. I did see they are already on 2.14 but now i have everything installed i > found out i can not use it at all. The strange thing is, when i search on the > web i don't find any messages a

Re: config file for bittornado command-line options?

Anonyma: > > I've been using the bittornado command-line clients on linux and I > want to know how to set --max_upload_rate --max_download_rate > --minport and --maxport somewhere like a home-directory dotfile so I > don't have to remember to set them every time I run the command. The easiest way

Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?

Roberto C. Sanchez: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > Search for a word or an expression in the whole terminal `history'. > > This is very useful, almost indispensable in some cases. > > I used to use that quite often with KDE graphical environment, > > before switching to Gnome. > > Assuming you a

Re: No sound on flash movies

Iván Alemán: > > While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. Since I am not using a sound daemon (I don't use Gnome or KDE), I put "aoss" in there. > I have tried the following solution with no luc

Re: ~/.xsession crashes xserver

Haines Brown: > > I find it difficult to interpret ~/user/.xsession-errors, but it does > contain the line: "g_object_ref: assertion 'object->refcount > 0' > failed". I needed the .xsession file to hold the lines: > > xset s off > xset -dpms I had difficulties with xset a few weeks

Re: No sound on flash movies

Wulfy: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Iván Alemán: >> >>> While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, >> >> I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. >> Since I am not using a sound daemon (I do

Re: lynx and mutt

Daniel Dalton: > > Does anyone know how to make mutt use lynx when I enter on a url? aptitude install urlview. J. -- I throw away plastics and think about the discoveries of future archeologists. [Agree] [Disagree] sig

Re: Warning in syslog

Frank McCormick: > > I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs updating - > please use > bus type methods mean ??? I think that's the kernel telling you that the driver you are using for device sda needs an update (to use a new API or something to that effect). I would eit

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

Mark Allums: > > More than you wanted or needed to know, but Rockbox is IMO probably your > best bet for ogg support. I second this. I bought an Iriver H120 two years ago, installed Rockbox on the very first day and have never regretted it. Take a look at their website, buy any player Rockbox s

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

Please don't top-post. Thanks. David Barrett: > > Well, debootstrap is great (totally awesome, really) for setting up a > chroot, but I'm not super sure how to pull the rug out from underneath > the old bootable OS installation and insert the new bootable chroot, > swap in the new kernel, et

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

David Barrett: > > Toward this end, do you know if I can just unpack the businesscard ISO > into this new filesystem (instead of using debootstrap) and configure it > with a preseed file? This seems sensible, but I don't see how to avoid > deleting itself midway when I do the full-drive for

Re: Trouble adding SATA HDDs to Etch box (ProLiant ML110 G4) that boots from USB flash drive

Sam Kuper: > > Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev > Alert! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! I guess one of your new drives uses /dev/sda which was previously used by your flash drive. You probably need to fi

Re: large HD partition plan

gary turner: > > Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, > Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home > Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox). I suspect that large swap and > temp partitions will be helpful, as I tend to leave my app

Re: Mailbox conversion

Jan Willem Stumpel: > > After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of > old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx, > out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the > messages inside the .dbx files are mostly Japanese). I searched > the web for "conv

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

Simon Jolle sjolle: > > 1) Its very generic command line to convert videos. What would you > improve? The size is much bigger than the original FLV :( Why do you convert in the first place? Re-encoding files with a lossy codec can only degrade their quality, no matter what bitrate you are using.

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

Simon Jolle sjolle: > On 06/28/2008 08:28 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Why do you convert in the first place? Re-encoding files with a lossy >> codec can only degrade their quality, no matter what bitrate you are >> using. > > I know that re-encoding degrades the quality

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

Simon Jolle sjolle: > > It means AVI is the best choice for out-of-the-box playing on all > platforms and devices? AVI is only a container for audio and video content. It can contain video encoded in many formats (MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 etc). Just because a player knows the container format doesn't

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

Jochen Schulz: > Simon Jolle sjolle: > >> How accepted is Ogg Theora in Non-Geek environments? > > Not at all. It is even quite uncommon in non-geek environments. Of course I meant to write "even quite uncommon on geek environments". J. -- When I am at nightcl

Re: wireless with atheros

Daniel Dalton: > > So could someone please see if they could show me an online add of an > atheros pcmcia card supported by linux? Madiwif cards: http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility J. -- I am no longer prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: CPU Frequencies Don't scale independently

Hakan BAYINDIR: > > P.S. I cannot send a config.gz since the kernel is prepackaged. You'll find the configuration of the currently running kernel in /proc/config.gz. At least Debian kernels have that feature enabled by default. J. -- Looking into my eyes is the only way you'll know I'm telling

Re: CPU Frequencies Don't scale independently

Hakan BAYINDIR: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Hakan BAYINDIR: >> >>> P.S. I cannot send a config.gz since the kernel is prepackaged. >> >> You'll find the configuration of the currently running kernel in >> /proc/config.gz. At least Debian

Re: {SOLVED} Re: CPU Frequencies Don't scale independently

Hakan BAYINDIR: > > After subscribing to cpu-freq mailing list and asking the same question here, > Venkatesh Pallipadi from intel answered my question. He said that since > voltages > in a CPU package is constant across cores, keeping frequencies low on other > cores while clocking one up doesn'

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

Jonas Meurer: > > But I discovered something really strange. If I compare the output of > 'ls -al /' on my system and in the chroot, several directory sizes seem > to be different. I thought that directorys always have a size of > 4069 bytes, but apparently this is not the case: No, it's not and

Re: Report a bug relative ssh key exchange.

By the way, bugs are usually reported using the tool reportbug. That way your message ends up in the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS). You sent your mail to a mailing list for users of Debian. Maintainers of Debian packages (who are responsible for dealing with their packages' problems) don't neces

Re: Linksys Router

Mark Neidorff: > > Why would I want to replace the software in the router with openwrt/X-Wrt? Because after flashing you have full access to all of the operating system's features instead of what the original firmware's web interface offers to you. Essentially, you have a full-fledged linux sy

Maildir vs mbox again (was: IMAP is teh r0x0rz!)

Steve Lamb: > > Right now my trash is 2000 messages at 14Mb. 50,000 messages would be > ~350Mb. Certainly doesn't take me 20 minutes to begin to work with a 350Mb > flat file. Hell, at work I've opened larger flat files over the network in > shorter time. I don't see a problem with several

Re: debian no client name??

Lóránd Erik: > > I don't know what's the problem, i just can't figure it out: > > I install standard debian etch without gui, i give hostname at install, etc, > and when i log in the console, and i install ssh [apt-get install ssh > openssh-server] i just can't ssh from an ubuntu, For some reaso

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

Javier Vasquez: > > Is there a configuration file I can create by hand under > ~/. which would help me accomplish getting the fonts I'd > like to see? IIRC ~/.gtkrc-2.0. I don't have an example at hand but you will find examples when googling for that filename. J. -- I want to look younger than

Re: network not starting at boot

michael: > > I've had a quick look around but can't see why my network's not starting > at boot, but works okay if I run 'sudo dhclient'... this is with > 2.6.25-2-amd64 kernel from backports (build by debootstrap and then > apt-get from backports)... I've copied over various /etc files such that >

Re: network not starting at boot

michael: > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Plaese post the contents of the interfaces file. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/network$ cat interfaces > # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or > # /usr/share/doc

Re: network not starting at boot

michael: > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:32 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Are you using Gnome? If yes, do you have Network Manager installed >> (package network-manager). This has messed up a lot of users' networking >> setups. > > I'm trying xcfe Netwo

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

Santanu Chatterjee: > > This might be a bit off-topic. Anyway, I am looking for a Debian based > Linux distribution (liveCD or something that can be installed on a > pendrive) that is mostly command line oriented (just a fluxbox like > WM maybe, but most of the things done via command prompt, also

Re: Which graph tool is used for the release-critical bugs graph?

Gerhard Horecky: > > I want to produce charts from time series like the rc bug graph in > http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/. > I think the same tool is used for the popcon graphics. > > Can anybody give me please a hint which debian package is used for that? It's most probably gnuplot. J

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

Nick Lidakis: > > I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server > since early last year for my dedicated listening room. There were > several ready to go retail (Sonos, Slim Devices, McIntosh, etc.) I don't know whether it suits audiophile needs, but this is my set

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

Adam Hardy: > > I use mt-daapd but it snips the last 2 seconds off the end of every song. I haven't seen that behaviour yet. It may be a bug in the package in etch, I am using the latest build fireflymediaserver.org. > What does the Soundbridge do? It's nothing but a client for audio streaming

Re: Debian Etch cdrom is not showing all mp3's

Ron Johnson: > > Have you tried Sound Juicer, or ripping it with abcde? If it contains MP3s, it's obviously not an audio disc and there's no point in trying to rip it. J. -- I am getting worse rather than better. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: display on remote machines?

abdelkader belahcene: > > I have a serveur running an application, to be simpler gnome-terminal, I > want to run on my serveur gnome-terminal and receive on a remote machine the > display, in other word I want to redirect the omage to remote machine. You realize that this is a ridiculous exercis

Re: error messages from apt-get

Vwaju: > Here's the output: > > Reading package lists...Done > Building dependence tree...Done > wget is already the newest version > Package xlispstat is not available, but is referred to by another > package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is > only available

Re: error messages from apt-get

Vwaju: > > Couldn't I add http://packages.debian.org/sarge to /etc/apt/ > sources.list and then say: > > # apt-get install xlispstat You could try that but then you'd have to make sure that you don't install other things from sarge as well without you noticing it. And you might get dependency p

Re: error messages from apt-get

Jochen Schulz: > > You could try that but then you'd have to make sure that you don't > install other things from sarge as well without you noticing it. And you > might get dependency problems when packages from etch with packages from > sarge. I meant to write: .

Re: i want to make an image copy of my system

darren naidoo: > > Hi there i want to do the above but the partition is a boot partition > and when i boot from a disk it says i cannot because i am not root but > i am root user. What a pity. I hope you'll get it fixed somehow. ;-) Seriously, just in case you actually wanted to receive help here

Re: error messages from apt-get

Vwaju: > > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is > only for training (to learn Debian and networking). If it's not publicly available, you could do that. But since lenny is already on its way, I re

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

Andrew Sackville-West: > > [...] Maybe you could just run multiple kernel compiles > simultaneously, including one or two that are reading/writing to a > network share and see what happens that way? To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to run several compilation job

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

Please don't CC people unless requested. Thanks. Account for Debian group mail: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> >> To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to >> run several compilation jobs at the same time. Just s

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

Account for Debian group mail: >> Andrew Sackville-West: >> >> To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to >> run several compilation jobs at the same time. Just set >> CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to the number of cores you have. > > > I looks like both CPUs are doing their thing

Re: Debian Sid first time user

Rodolfo Medina: > > Please can anybody indicate how to fetch and install a Debian Sid distribution You have been using Debian and don't know how to do that? -Interesting. :) You only have to add sid to your sources.list (copy existing lines and replace etch/stable with sid) and then run aptitude

Re: Official Release Update Method

freeman: > > I mean, is there a standard operating procedure for updating from one > release to the new stable? Or is it only a matter of what the release notes > say for each update? The standard procedure is always more or less the same. Edit sources.list if it doesn't contain the new release ye

Re: State of 64bit desktop

kj: > > What I'm worried about is the tools I use. In particular, I need a > browser with all the usual suspects working properly: flash and java > (unfortunately some of the tools I need to use at work are written in > these abominable languages). Does anyone do heavy java and flash usage

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

Aniruddha: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871-highlight-ext3+optimize > +optimize.html ITYM http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=305871 J. -- No-one appears to be able to help me. [Agree] [Disagree] si

Re: Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

Thierry Chatelet: > > Anyway, there is a line command to use to change the amount of reserved space > on the partition. I have used it some time ago, but forgot what it is. If > some one could refresh my memory You are looking for tune2fs (if you are using ext2/ext3). J. -- People talking

Re: sarge for i386

mike williams: > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > browse webpages and download programs etc... Sure it is! I am not sure what you mean by "downloading programs". With Debian, you will usually be installing software from (semi-) official repositories. The t

Re: How do you get vim-latexsuite to work?

Joseph Smidt: > > I installed Debian's vim-latexsuite package. It seemed to install fine, > but when I open a .tex document none of the commands seem to work. My guess is that you don't have filetype plugins enabled. Try this in your .vimrc: filetype plugin on filetype indent on J. -- If you

Re: debian

Bharath Suresh: > > i want to download debian from your site for a intel machine.there are > about 10 files in ur site for intel.can u please help me with what files to > download debian for my machine. What you have to download depends on two factors: - The exact architecture of the computer

Re: debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:34:35PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > - The exact architecture of the computer you are planning to use with > > Debian. If you are not sure what "architecture" means, you most > > probably want the

Re: mp3 players with Debian (samsung and iriver)

H.S.: > > Thinking of getting an mp3 portable player. Options are iRiver t30 and > Samsung YP-C1Z. The latter also a radio tuner in it so this appears to > be the preferred one. The main deciding factor for these was that they > play OGG files. I don't know these models, but a quick suggestion

Re: terminal true type fonts

Dimitar Vukman: > > I'd like to use M$ "Comic Sans" font in aterm. I am aware that you solved this already and I don't mean to offend you, but I have to say: this is an absolutely disgusting idea. Really, I mean it. Oh my $deity. I can't tell how much I would hate this. But wait, I can:

Re: terminal true type fonts

cga2000: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:06:07AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > can: <http://wasteland.homelinux.net/~jrschulz/gfx/terminal-comic.png> > > > How do you do that? I was surprised myself that this "worked". Earlier attempts of using a proportiona

Re: terminal true type fonts

cga2000: > > I mean .. it's nice to impress your friends and stuff .. but even in > your improved version .. I wouldn't want to use that on a daily basis. Agreed. Although one should note that the MS fonts look horrible when used with fontconfig's anti-aliasing and hinting. This would probably lo

Re: terminal true type fonts

cga2000: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:35:53PM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > Agreed. Although one should note that the MS fonts look horrible when > > used with fontconfig's anti-aliasing and hinting. This would probably > > look a lot better on Windows. >

Re: Xorg and fonts problem :-(

Marco: > > I have installed Debian Etch on my notebook. Using the Etch installer beta? Then you should probably file a bug report. > When I run my X server I have these following error messages: > Could not init font pathelement /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF, removing from > list! > Could not init fo

Re: Xorg and fonts problem :-(

Marco: > > No, I have first installed Sarge and after I have upgraded my linux box > to Etch with > apt-get dist-upgrade command It probably would have been better if you had uses aptitude (it's the recommended way for upgrades since woody->sarge), but I don't know whether that would have saved y

Re: Xorg and fonts problem :-(

Marco: > Jochen Schulz ha scritto: > > >Which problem exactly? Is it just some error messages in your log file > >without any apparent effect? > > Yes I have just some error messege on my screen and in my log file, > but I would want a clean installation. Then I sugges

Re: uptimes > 50.0, dmesg says 'race' a lot...?

will trillich: > > Out of Memory: Killed process 24136 (rc). This line shows your problem. Either a process with the name 'rc' (whatever that is) has gone wild and eaten up all your memory, or it was another one, or you have a strange configuration issue. I had that a few times in the past because

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