Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

map to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (Tanks for your effort. I must be pretty h

Re: NFS share: cannot write

-t nfs localhost:/Dades /mnt cd /mnt ... .. (You may need to insert localhost into /etc/exports.) -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IRC protocol blocked

ling, and everything is plain sailing: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xapplication -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

ting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-586tsc i686 [ELF] Module Loader present -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

apt.conf? (was: Re: Getting XFree 4.3?)

.conf, or should I put the above two lines into a file in the given directory? (Which name?) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Sub-process gzip returned an error code

returned an error code (1) Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/non-free Packages [202B] 9 .. and so on. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot compile the kernel

ddef.h:213: error: syntax error before "typedef" Probably wrong packet or something? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

startx fails: device dri/card0 missing

-1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "i830" (II) I810(0): [drm] drmOpen failed The module itself seems to be there. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mai

Re: Cannot compile the kernel

iding on /usr/src, so this was obviously wrong. In Redhat and SuSE the kernel just is there. But in Debian it is nowhere. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

uot;.bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0 Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

4f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1 I'll try the mailing list. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNS

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

, Gnome?) or Displaymanager (GDM, > XDM, KDM etc.) Aww. Thanks. It somewhat worked. Ok, then I am closer. No mouse, but the screen came up. No xterm was there, I just have to install one. Need a displaymanager and a windowmanager I guess. (Haven't got acquainted with Debian

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

e proper mouse configuration when recompiling the kernel. 3. I miss xdm, gdm and kdm. Which one should I choose? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

dselect conflicts (was: Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400)

gure out thise things? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect conflicts

* Joachim Fahnenmueller > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > > and a new testing version of XFree 3.2. > > 3.2 isn't _very_ new, is it? Did you install it as a deb package? Yes, but from some non official looking http address. The downloading p

Installing on a Dell Latitude C400

, and of course no XFree yet. (The problem started almost immediately after I chose "install" on the first menu.) I never thought it was even possible to do something with the video timing in console mode, but now I find it is not true. Anyone know what is happening? -- Jon Haug

Re: Turn on the service

nable lazy windowists to connect to the computer if they need. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help me please with TAR

with " tar xjf ... " I get such a message: > > tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting no > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous error You need the bzip2 package. Try:

Re: Installing on a Dell Latitude C400

me on > my dell inspiron 8000[1]. You're shooting pretty well. This made it! (You should do well in biathleton or something. :-) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCR

Getting XFree 4.3?

ttp://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ (And I did do an 'apt-get update'.) Any suggestions? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.ui

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

* Nick Hastings > apt-get install xserver-xfree86 Why did it work to write: apt-get install x-window-system -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

* Paul Johnson > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:55:21AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: >> My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for >> my Woody laptop. Trying: > > Look for a backport on apt-get.org or upgrade to sid. That's what I did: deb htt

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

* Colin Watson > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:55:21AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: >> My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for >> my Woody laptop. Trying: >> >> apt-get install x-window-system=4.3 > > You can't make up version

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

ntconfig1 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.4-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 --

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

anually (it doesn't happen very > > often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf: > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > APT::Cache-Limit 1000; > > Also, put an official "testing" source into sources.list too. How?

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

) ... Looking for keymap to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of

Re: CVSROOT permissions

istory file not > writable by normal users (or if it should or shouldn't be). Well, what permission is set on the CVSROOT directory in the reposotory? I guess that the individual file permissions is not that important as the files are not updated, but new files are made. -- Jon Haug

apt-file update --> error

ts-i386.gz not found Error: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice//dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz not found Error: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/OpenOffice.deb//dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz not found But maybe I just can ignore these messages? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ssh setup

* Jeff Elkins > Yep, X11Forwarding is set to yes in /etc/ssh_config for both the client and > the server. SSH seems to function normally in all other respects... On the server side, it is the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no

Re: ssh or VPN

any application on remote host and all traffic is encrypted. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Password discrepancies

character encoding mismatch. This is a pain in the ... for all non-English setups in many situations. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hot keys under fvwm

n them and emacs's definition, how can I > make it? I don't think this is possible. Better to keep them apart, or use som tricks with num lock. But I have been wrong before... -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Xvidtune

In my debian, the file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in debian. Why is that? Should think that clock synchronization is needed. Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5 second every day. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To

cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver

e sure you are root. Well, maybe my kernel isn't configured for my cd writer, but how do I do just that? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

uded into cron.hourly was entirely my own. Chrony accesses the Internet, but I am confined behind a restrictive firewall. We have our own ntp server running somewhere. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

n 'ntpdate -u SERVER; hwclock --systohw' every hour. > If you want to avoid computer clocks drift, you should consider proper > solution such as the one provided by ntp (see the ntp-simple package). Or 'chrony' as someone else told me. But thanks anyway. -- Jon Haugsand

Re: cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver

responding to 'cdrecord -scanbus'. There is a slight problem, though. Nothing happened after a reboot, I had to perform a 'modprobe ide-scsi' manually. Thus, I guess I need this to be performed at each boot, but where to put it? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.n

Re: i have 2 problems

use the > comand "poweroff". most of the times it works but > sometimes my sistem crashes(the screen turns black and > i can't use my keyboard to enter in text mode with > C-A-F1 for example) > i've tried with "shutdown -h now" and it is the same &g

Re: nfs mount error

s would be greatly appreciated. Do you have debian on both machines? The setup in /etc/init.d is slightly different on debian and redhat. Check portmap, rpc and nfs on both machines: ps aux | grep -E 'portmap|nfs|rpc' | grep -v grep -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.n

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

Reboot is the only way... (Perhaps not, because some tricks can still be applied, but it is annoying.) -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

d duplicated n-times elsewhere Thanks. Does this apply to smbfs too? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: command for disk free ?

sk... Furter, we have to hope that df's output is stable for your script's life time. A slightly more robust approach would be: df | grep /dev/hdb1 | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//' -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: bash: how to split a $var ?

variable is excactly like that, i.e. the first four characters are to be taken. But regular expressions can also be picked out: echo ${var1%t*} If you need a reasonable portal solution, sed is a choice: echo $var1 | sed 's/[^0-9].*//' -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion

* Levi Waldron > I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by > web browsers, ie png or jpg. Have you tried convert? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: need help with NFS setup

is a few things to consider: Do you have firewall (iptables, ipchain, etc) between the computers? Is portmap running? (Try: 'ps aux | grep portmap' on both computers.) Try to mount an nfs partition locally. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To

Re: why is the access time of dirs not chaged?

27;s access > time be changed. Maybe it is on purpose to avoid too much disk > access. In version 7 Unix did they do that too? Maybe because it isn't read as per policy. I mean, you can have access to the file with only access bit x set on the directory. -- Jon Haugsand, [E

Re: Bash question

s`, but *: for file in * do mpg123 "$file" done Note also that you need to quote $file. However, you get anyway into all sorts of trouble if there are other files, not to say directories in your directory. A very failsafe variant is to use find: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 m

Re: Bash question

* Shawn Lamson > > for file in `ls` > do mpg123 "$file" > done Really? $ touch "aa aa" $ touch bb $ for file in `ls`; do echo "$file"; done aa aa bb -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Kernel to a laptop?

oot, I get several errors (flashing off the screen) and then kernel panic. Is there some special kernel I have to choose for my laptop? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: LaTeX vs. lout

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the interesting answers. In the end I'm going to stick to LaTeX. I cannot find a single message discussion lout in the debian-user mailing list. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: LaTeX vs. lout

* David Fokkema > Well, there has been some discussion, for sure. > > See: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg02025 Cannot find this one at all. (404 Not found). I may have had some email problems, so that I have lost the messages in question. --

Re: startx VS xdm?

* Steve Lamb > Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory (which KDE suggests you're > not) I'd say just install kdm. It is based on xdm but you can configure it > nicely from within KDE itself. Can you also do this from, say, fvwm? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informa