HotSync Hangs: Binding to path /dev/ttyUSB0

2002-11-10 Thread Jules
matilda:~$ pilot-xfer -L No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p given. Defaulting to '/dev/pilot' Listening to port: /dev/pilot Please press the HotSync button now... (hangs) The hotsync to my m515 was working 2 weeks ago, but has now mysteriously stopped. The syslog indicates that the visor

Re: Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

2002-03-17 Thread Jules
use to kill the xserver and start debugging from the error messages. If you want to use the mouse under gpm, run (or kill and restart if it is already running) gpm with the following options. gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 -- Jules Petroff +6 (0)7 3350 8111 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.bigpond.net.au/aptqld/matilda.html

Re: Writing on Windows partition

2003-06-17 Thread Jules Agee
Piero wrote: Is it possible to put the option gid=winusers in /etc/fstab ? I couldn't figure out from man. Thanks - Piero. Yes, replace the word "defaults" with the options you want, i.e. gid=winusers -- Jules Agee System Administrator Pacific Coast Feather Co. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: XDM on 2.0

1998-09-01 Thread Jules Bean
t to -devel. -devel is intended for discussion of development issues, or problems with the cutting-edge (slink) distribution. Best wishes, Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules ak

ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
ssl libraries in 586 mode (but surely then it wouldn't work at all, rather than taking forever?) Any ideas? Jules Bean [Cc:s appreciated - I read debian-user through the mail-list browser, I don't subscribe...] /+---+-\ | J

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > : Hi there... > > [ snip ] > > : Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take > : 10-15 *minutes* to complete an ssl-telnet connection. It gets as far as

perl package/CPAN integration questionable

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
rsion structures - a hard problem. I suspect that altering the @INC priorities will solve most problems, though... Yours, Jules Bean /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-13 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, May 12, 1998 9:26 am -0500 "Nathan E Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > : Hi there... > > [ snip ] > > : Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take > : 10-15 *minutes* t

GIMP 0.99.31

1998-05-25 Thread Jules Bean
ry special about .31. Anyone who needs it is most welcome to contact me by email though. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond,

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread Jules Bean
t; > > > You can get the prepackaged version of MagicPoint (mgp) from Debian JP > > > ftp site: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.or.jp:/pub/Linux/debian-jp/hamm-jp/ > > > m

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

1999-02-27 Thread Jules Bean
the convience of users. I am closing this bug report, > as it has no relevance to the package in the distribution. If you are > having difficulties with the CVS debs, please contact Jules Bean, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to reassure everyone, I am quite happy to support the enlightenment-c

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

1999-03-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:21:21PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: > > > > when I run cvs enlightenment as a

Re: enlightenment-cvs bug: Enlightenment is removed from the menu system

1999-03-03 Thread Jules Bean
t there. Yeah. I haven't integrated it properly with the menu package yet. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surre

Re: imlib against gtk1.2?

1999-03-06 Thread Jules Bean
too. > :) I should add that any flames relating to this policy should be directed to me, not ossama, (and I don't follow -user, I'm afraid). The very best place to discuss it is the new list, debian-gtk-gnome (note that it's not a user or

Re: ethernet hookup

1999-11-01 Thread Jules Bean
(or /etc/modutils/something, with recent packages, but if you're using slink that doesn't apply). Hope that helps a bit, Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd

Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
find these libraries? I've installed the new xlib6 (my machine is up to date on frozen). In fact, I de-installed xbase, xlib6, and the oldlibs xpm, and reinstalled them all, and re-ran ldconfig. But the linking is still not OK... Jules /+--

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
understand correctly: bo is dead. bo is frozen. Replace bo with frozen. Or better, still use URLs like debian/dists/stable/main. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| |

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
mpat/libXpm.so.4 (0x4000a000) libXext.so.6 => not found libX11.so.6 => not found libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40018000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4001b000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400d9000) odd, isn&

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
when they are clearly there... Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROT

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > On 01:04 PM 98.03.26 +0000, Jules Bean wrote (and I quoted): > >If I understand correctly: > > > >bo is dead. bo is frozen. > > > >Replace bo with frozen. > > > >Or better, still use URLs like debian/d

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
s/unstable/ seems to be empty. I refer the gentleman to my previous message. hamm (unstable) has become 'frozen'. Shortly, unstable will be linked to 'slink', I believe. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EM

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
7;smart' ld.so refused to allowed a lbc5 program to dyn-link to a libc6 based library. Who would have thought upgrading libc was so complex... Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd

FAQ suggestion - mem > 64M

1998-03-31 Thread Jules Bean
ng, having some vague memory that it was 'a LILO thing...'. Kudos, BTW, to the maintainers/creators of the mailing list search and browse feature. *Very* useful indeed. Not really worth archiving locally with that power

XFree86 gamma correction

1998-03-31 Thread Jules Bean
My XFree86 stuff looks much darker than on PCs or Macs... sounds like a gamma problem to me. Anyone have any pointers to docs on setting up gamma on XFree86? Doesn't seem to be a how-to on it. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibea

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
ex-- > Actually, if you have a decent MIME-configured email reader, HTML mail shouldn't give you a problem. Netscape *does* deviate from the good-conduct rules though, by not also including a plain-text version :( *sigh* Jules /+---+

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
ndard polluted. Personally, I never ignore email from clients. Whatever the format. I find my business improves when I'm prepared to communicate with them. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka

Re: ftp.debian.org mirroring at Sunsite

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
ution. > > Have wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this - no avail. > It is on the UK sunsite. sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/debian(/dists/frozen) /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn R

Re: swap space

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
M until something accesses them (if I understand correctly). Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
igher res, my monitor is broken :( 3D accel isn't used, though. Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey |

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > > Actually, if you have a decent MIME-configured email reader, HTML mail > > shouldn't give you a problem. > > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > At some companies (like

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
SQL/92 RDBMS. [Some would say misguided]. MySQL doesn't try very hard to be SQL92 conformant, but is *very* fast indeed. It doesn't do transactions (but has a custom locking syntax which is faster), but does fast joins.. YMMV. Go read about them ;)_ Jules /---

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
user, they *will* cancel his account. It quickly becomes quite hard work for the spammers to operate. And any genuine AOL debian enthusiasts are welcome to lurk here until they get the new hard-disk they're waiting for to dump Win95 ;) Jules /+

Re: grep broken?

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
the problem down to grep. > > Thanks, > -Ossama Yes. It is a reported bug. If you are using hamm, you would be advised to subscribe to debian-devel. The new version has already been uploaded to master - expect it on ftp.debian.org lat

(RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
ich caused me to subscribe myself to devel in the first place). Thoughts? Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey |

Re: >8bpp?

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
s not ideal. You could probably edit the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver to have -bpp 24 on the end, but that sounds ugly to me.. Jules /+---+-----\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules a

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
.. Who is using PostGrees for Commercial > applications? Who is running Oracle or Informix in a Linux BOX? > > I can download and test PostGreeSQL... but you "know" boss. They need > the commom sense. What everyone uses is What I see ;) > TIA > > Leonardo Ru

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:21:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >> in udev.rules I have: >> BUS="usb" , KERNEL="sd?1",SYSFS_serial="07381C501259, NAME="usbkey" >> I then can: >> mount /dev/usbkey /mnt/usbkey >> or some other magic for automounting. >

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:55:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> Don't know about a "general concensus" but I'm quite happy with udev's >> operation and having consistent device names for my USB and Firewire >> devices. > > What kind of names

RE: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:41:32 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: > What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Apparently -- I don't buy closed hardware -- udev is not able to create the device nodes needed by X quickly enough to satisfy the NVidia server. So, as others have point

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:50:38 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: > 2. My desktop went from KDE to Gnome. Is this normal? Where do I set the > default desktop? When you boot, do you get a graphical login screen? Is there a session icon or menu item? If there is, you should be able to choose a KDE "

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:43:31 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse? udev is, conceptually, a much better naming scheme than is devfs. This purported goodness comes at a price: udev is not able to do directly some of the things

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:19:06 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:29 -0800, Steven Yap wrote: >> >> BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Zynet*",SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-CFC*", >> NAME{all_partitions}="compact_flash" > > Where does this go? /etc/udev/udev.rules? It could, but I think it'

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-24 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:56:38 +0100, Eduard Pauna wrote: > Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on debian? Yes: Eclispe 3.0M8, 3.0M9, and 3.0 work for me. I haven't tried 3.1. > I got the eclipse-platform-SDK-3.0-linux-gtk.zip package, unzip it and > when I run eclipse I obtain this error >

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-26 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:06:05 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Runs fine here on Sid. I also compiled a PPC/GTK version that works fine > on my PPC. In fact the version I built has more features than the x86 > version I downloaded. Windows users report that there are numerous nice features which are si

Re: Hardlinks to remote directories

2004-12-11 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:46:46 +0200, ocl wrote: > I am trying to create a hardlink to a remote directory > but it gets rejected Hard links must be on the same filesystem as the target. Hard links to directories are (almost certainly) rejected. > What am I doing wrong? You can't do that. If you

Re: Converting from KMail

2004-12-16 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:01:39 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Does anyone know of a tool to convert > from mdir to mbox format? KMail? Create an (mbox) mail folder in KMail and copy all the messages from your maildir message folder into it. Copy the resulting mbox file to a place where your

Re: Trackball Problems

2004-12-16 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:59:43 -0500, tech wrote: > I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel > Trackball. > As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. > Any help would be appretiated. In this section of your X11 configuration file: Sec

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:58:21 +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > Unfortunately the ipod won't start since i erased its software. Any > ideas how to restore it? The drive's filesystem may be toast but the firmware is intact. I think the iPod manual-ettes come with instructions to reset the device. I

Re: Please, stop mail massive

2005-05-17 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 17:38, Ian Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is it possible to subscribe to the list, yet no receive it via e-mail? Not exactly; "subscribing" means email. > I'd much prefer to read it via Usenet, but if I'm not subscribed, I can't > post. See:

Re: synaptic, aptitude and dselect etc. (myref: rl3b26may)

2005-05-26 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 26 May 2005 09:07, rich lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've long favoured the synaptic package manager because it's easy to > search the packages, and it's clear what's going to be installed > (dependencies etc) and easy to select packages. That's also my expe

Re: packages.debian.org down? (June 14 2005)

2005-06-14 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:22, Fernando Cacciola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Are there alternative mirrors? (trying the get kdevelop3) http://www.debian.org/mirror/list If you install and use the 'netselect-apt' package, it will time transmissions to the various mirrors

Re: .aptitude/config and Automatic Cache Deletion

2005-06-21 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 07:03, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > 'Autoclean' doesn't seem to be quite what I used in the past. autoclean: remove obsolete packages from the cache. clean: remove all packages from the cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: A little debian-user ml help..

2005-06-25 Thread Jules Dubois
On Saturday 25 June 2005 18:13, Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My isp doesn't provide news server and reading/managing debian-* lists > in evolution is killing me... I really need to switch to a news reader > so I can ignore/follow threads and all that good stuff... S

Re: aptitude synaptic gnome to be removed?

2005-06-28 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 06:40, Jason Edson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I just did a dist-upgrade on my unstable box and for some reason apt > wanted to remove gnome, synaptic, aptitude and I think one other. Has > any one else had this problem [...] Yes. > [...] or can som

Re: lseek error / LFS support with potato

2001-11-20 Thread Jules Bean
The program is compiled. It has compiled into it code which knows that off_t is 4 bytes long. E.g. it only allocates 4 byts on the stack for off_t, that sort of thing. It couldn't possibly work with an 8 byte off_t. Change the size of a data type, in a language like C, will always force a recompile... Jules

Re: Large Debiandoc SGML and PS/PDF problem

2002-02-19 Thread Jules Bean
oc2latexps: ERROR: qref.en.dvi could not be generated properly > make: *** [qref.en.ps] Error 1 ..so this is a weird error. You need to investigate why debiandoc2latexps thinks there has been an error when it looks like the the DVI was generated fine. Jules

Re: cannot login 2 X since upgrade 2 woody

2001-09-21 Thread Jules Bean
bly broken: I don't know how KDM manages sessions, but you probably need to clear or delete a config file. Does KDM not offer some kind of 'safe session' or 'bare .xsession' option? Jules

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.9.3-6 crash

2004-10-15 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > I have been experiencing inexplicable, apparently random crashes of > mozilla-firefox. This URL crashes Firefox 0.9.3.6 for me: http://pclinuxonline.com/ The previous version didn't. > At first I believed it to be a javascri

Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

2004-09-30 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:19:38 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Ian Thomas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [GNOME panel doesn't start using Sawfish WM] >> > Have you deleted the ~/.sawfish dir too, or at least the > ~/.sawfish/sessions dir? I can conf

Re: usb storage kernel module with 2.4 kernel

2004-09-30 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:10:52 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: >> on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:00:19PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: >> >> [iPod on USB] >> >> i'm using USB (1.1), fwiw. (but i don't think that matters for this). Officially, USB 1.1 isn't supported. I have a 20GB

Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

2004-10-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:34:35 -0700, Ian Thomas wrote: > $ panel & I didn't think of trying to start the panel manually. > No panel starts. I haven't found any information > about how to fix this problem from the following > sources: I'm unable to get the panel to start automatically using Saw

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:22:48 -0400, Brendan wrote: > That's not why NVIDIA cannot open their driver. It's been said by them time > and time again that the drive contains 3rd party code that they have a > limited license for, and as such, cannot expose that code to non-licensees. This is a disin

Re: CD-rom access

2004-10-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:51:00 +0200, Arnfinn Gjostol wrote: > I have installed Debian for my very first time and want to install > packages from my CD-rom, but I do not know how to get access to mu > CD-rom You don't need to do this. Run 'apt-cdrom', if you haven't already, to tell APT have ha

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-03 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:26:41 +1000, Caveman wrote: > Frankly I think nvidia should get a clap on the back for making a > driver. A kick in the front for being completely closed. > So its not Open Source, well frankly you are never going to > get totally open source. I may never get totally open

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:58:07 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: >> - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file > > Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your kernels.. Except that you don't, as I don't use symlinks for my kernels. >> - Grub understands file sys

Re: Grub won't timeout

2004-10-07 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:26:02 -0700, Jason D. Berg wrote: > My Grub won't timeout. # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from # 0, and the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the defau

Re: Grub won't timeout

2004-10-08 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:23:51 +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:00:38AM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: >> >> (I would have sword GRUB started numbering at 1, not 0, but perhaps I'm >> mistaken. > > I believe you are wrong. It starts at 0. Thi

Re: mozilla-firefox error

2004-10-17 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:21:02 -0300, Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox > Error: No running window found > auto selected locale: en-US > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory? I get a segmentation fault. Try running 'firefox' wi

Re: mozilla-firefox error

2004-10-18 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:59:56 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:18:05 -0600, Jules Dubois > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > [can't run 'mozilla-firefox' from the shell] >> I get a segmentation fault. Try running &#

Re: mozilla-firefox error

2004-10-19 Thread Jules Dubois
[replying to myself] On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:41:35 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:59:56 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > >> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:18:05 -0600, Jules Dubois >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >> I suspect some stale

Re: [root@comcast.net: Cron if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi]

2004-10-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:47:44 -0400, xucaen wrote: > Does anyone know what this message means? > > - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It means Comscat's mail service is broken. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters

2004-10-29 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:31:21 -0400, H. S. wrote: > I am just trying > to verify it won't mess with my Debian installation. All I want to do is > interchange D: and E: driver letters for two partitions Do you mean changing Windows' drive letter assignments using Windows Disk Manager (or whatever

Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters

2004-10-29 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:26:20 -0400, H. S. wrote: > But when windows was started, I got: > hdc2 as c: > hdc3 as e: > hdc5 as d: I had hda1 as c: hda2 as o: hda3 as d: etc. > I have > found out how to change drive letters, I am thinking of doing: > > 1) make d: as z: > 2) make e: as d: >

Re: dselect?

2004-10-29 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:46:22 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect can > do. I think 'aptitude' is the most powerful package manager available. I recommend it. > If there is graphic tool, that would be better. Synaptic. It's what I used

Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters

2004-10-29 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:49:18 -0400, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Jules Dubois_, on 30/10/04 00:21,typed: It's just an unsubstantiated rumor. >> IIRC, you'll have to reboot before step (3), because "e:" was already >> in use before you began relettering. > > Good point! I have been reading about

Re: dselect?

2004-10-30 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:55:04 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:02PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > >> Incoming from Jules Dubois: >> > >> > Synaptic. It's what I used until I read Joey Hess' article, titled >> > something l

Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

2004-11-03 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > I just ran aptitude and it got "The following packages are unused and > will be REMOVED". There are 8 packages it wants to remove, one of which > is bluefish, which I am using as I run aptitude.(?) Bluefish is an HTML editor based on GTK, n

Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

2004-11-03 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:35:49 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Jules Dubois([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: >> >> If you want to keep bluefish, tell aptitude you installed it >> "manually". &g

Re: How to activate a theme look of gtk/gnome application when I usen't gnome session ?

2004-11-05 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:48:18 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:29:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> When I'm on KDE, the gnome/gtk application aren't theme. >> > Do you have gnome-theme-manager program? If you run that, and set a > theme, is it then p

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

2004-11-05 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:01:36 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i managed to write the blank database that gtkpod was displaying to my > iPod -- at least, that's what i think has happened. What is the output of 'ls -l ~/.gtkpod`? > now, when i start up gtkpod, sometimes it'll give me an error about

Re: always ask for root password

2004-11-06 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 04:12:51 +, Ananda Kumar Samaddar wrote: > When I boot my custom compiled kernel (2.6.8) the system always asks for > a root password (Ctrl-D for normal startup). That kernel is being booted into single-user mode. Check your boot-loader configuration file -- probably /boo

Re: Alsa Problem

2004-11-08 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:20:11 -0800, mamas wrote: > I installed Debian testing (2.4.27-1-386) with all of its Alsa packages > (apt-get install...) so, afaik, I should get full support of my audio > card (Terratec EWX24/96 i.e. ice1712). It looks like you have a pre-built kernel package, which I ne

Re: alsaconf

2004-11-08 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:29:34 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have installed libasound1, alsa-base, alsa-utils. When I run alsaconf > it says it can't find any PCI sound cards even though I have an Ensoniq > AudioPCI (ES1371) that is detected on startup. > > I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays

Re: playing cds

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 04:05:10 -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > I too have not been able to play audio cds with alsa. I have not tried > with OSS however. Neither ALSA nor OSS are CD players. What application are you trying to use? What happens when you try to use it? Where have you told this applica

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:44:52 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > I cannot apt-get blackdown JRE. The program says: report the problem to > solve it. What is the actual error message? > I do so. This is basically a mailing list for discussions by users; your message, although lacking essenti

Re: playing cds

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:09:08 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:05:10 -0600, Chad Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> My sound card is: >> :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. >> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) >> > > I've one

Re: alsa won't work unless i kill esd

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:01:19 +0800, ms linux wrote: > sorry for another trivial question about alsa. > i use sid 2.4.27 and gnome for desktop. > recently if i want xmms play my mp3s, i have to kill > esd first :-( Try opening the XMMS preferences and at the bottom of the "Audio I/O Plugins" t

Re: alsaconf

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:47:37 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:29:34 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays mp3 files so I do have sound. >> What I ultimately want to get working is gnomemeeting and evidently I >> need a

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:07:11 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > But I like blackdown, becuase making an apt-get install, it installs > automatically in Mozilla (in a similar way to Macromedia Flash Debian > Package ). I think that's what the 'java-package' package is designed to do: Make a

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:09:51 -0500, Tong wrote: > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > current directory in RH: > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- find . -type d -name -print > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. Using 'ls', if the direc

Re: playing cds

2004-11-10 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:59:49 -0600, Chad Davis wrote: > So the conclusion to this is it's a alsa bug that I can not play audio > cds? I don't think anything was concluded either way. (I was being pedantic about some CMI chip not being a VIA chip. We concluded, I think, two or three of us, that w

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-10 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:10:03 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > VSJ escribió: > >>Read these instructions: >>http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php >>to build you own up to date Debian Java packages. >> > So we would find a single step package that would install Java in Debian > and in th

Re: playing cds

2004-11-11 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:22:15 -0600, Chad Davis wrote: Can you get things like system sounds and perhaps Ogg to work? Did CD audio (or all audio) work at one time and then break? > Kernel 2.6.9, custom built. > > snd46052 10 > snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixe

Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

2004-11-12 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:11:22 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i just ended up restoring the thing How unfortunate. > i tried using ephpod on a windows machine to restore the database, but > when i did, it would prompt me for each mp3 as it was stored in the It could have used some mangling of the

Re: Java

2004-11-17 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:12:07 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's packages. Download one into a good parent directory. chmod u+x on the file. execute it. Add its bin directory to your path. > Too bad they don't have enough sense to put deb's out th

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:48:45 +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:10, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > >> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:41 +, Adam Funk wrote: >>> I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back. I >>> tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatene

Re: acme

2004-07-08 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:29:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Starting with updates a couple weeks ago, "acme" now > conflicts with "gnome" and other foundational gnome packages. Acme is gone from the GNOME 2.6 packages. It's been replaced, I think, by "Keyboard Shortcuts" in "Desktop Preferences."

Re: Gnome configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Jules Dubois
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:04:59 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I like gnome-terminal [...] But, it used to be that the > browser was selectable via alternatives. Now it seems not to be. >From the GNOME menu, look at Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Preferred Applications -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Configuring the serial PCI I/O card 2port on Linux

2004-07-12 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:44:07 +, Vijaya S wrote: > I inserted a PCI serial 2 port I/O card on a Suse machine. This is a Debian mailing list (and/or newsgroup). If you have a SuSE problem, try a general Linux or SuSE specific newsgroup (and/or mailing list). > How do i configure it to get it

Re: ALSA setup problem

2004-08-02 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:00:20 -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [sarge/kernel-2.4.26-1-686. I am in the "audio" group.] > > I'm going to jump in here since I, too, can't get ALSA to work > correctly with my board (SB Live!). I was never able to get ALSA to work with my (new) SB Live under kernel 2.

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