Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Wilson
interesting ways (and take down X once, but that's not relevant). Care to detail what files to swipe, and where to swipe 'em from, and where to put them? Or just a pointer to TFM. ^_^ -- Marc Wilson | If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Wilson
actually put together (what the MPEG has to look like, and so on), start here: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/vcd.htm It's Windows-centric, but look past that and there's a wealth of information. -- Marc Wilson | She's genuinely bogus. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-28 Thread Marc Wilson
the marilatt w32codec debs...dunno. What "QT stuff" is necessary? > This answer your question?? No... I know quite well how to get mplayer itself to work, I just can't get audio in QuickTime. -- Marc Wilson | Honi soit la vache qui rit. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- T

Re: conversion tool for avi to (s)vcd

2003-02-28 Thread Marc Wilson
taking *in* raw video and doing something with it, but not so great for getting from one format to another. -- Marc Wilson | If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
sn't have security updates, and has never been advertised as having security updates. Are you volunteering? Someone else running testing in a production environment. -- Marc Wilson | When God saw how faulty was man He tried again and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | made woman. As to why he then

Re: X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
hite I don't know for sure what class name rxvt actually uses, but a preusal of the documentation will tell you. -- Marc Wilson | The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a new one to me. -- Miguel de Cervantes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
ly... go to another VT, log in as root, and type: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# shutdown -r now You can look at the man page for shutdown to learn all the other neat things it has to offer. IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works to reboot the machine. -- Marc Wilson | Sur

Re: Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
ean that you should do it. At an estimate, 99% of the binaries on your box are probably ELF, unless you're actually using one of the few arches that're still a.out. -- Marc Wilson | Error in operator: add beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-15 Thread Marc Wilson
terminal thinks is black, not a real black. Since you use rxvt, I'd look at whether or not the two machines have the same resources defined. -- Marc Wilson | Truth can wait; he's used to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dual headed screen saver

2003-03-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:15:16PM -0700, Bill Webster wrote: > How can I get a second screen saver to run on display :1? Just use xscreensaver. It occupies all displays on the X server you run it on... in fact, you can't make it NOT do that. :) -- Marc Wilson | If you don'

Re: Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-17 Thread Marc Wilson
. Actually learning something would be way too time consuming. -- Marc Wilson | You have an unusual understanding of the problems [EMAIL PROTECTED] | of human relationships. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xv (graphics package)

2003-03-22 Thread Marc Wilson
t-resize.patch from http://shh.thathost.com/patches/ * added wheelmouse.patch from http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/ * added dirwkey.patch from http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/ * added printkey.patch from http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/G

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Marc Wilson
bution. Don't they teach people how to read any more? -- Marc Wilson | A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if [EMAIL PROTECTED] | she also looks as if it were quite a struggle. -- | Edna Ferber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Marc Wilson
es-style installer done for the next release. Gods, whyinhell would you need X in order to install a distribution? That's just silly. -- Marc Wilson | I like young girls. Their stories are shorter. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Tom McGuane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Marc Wilson
to be accepted as a given that Joe Moron needs to know how to build a computer in order to use one. The idea that operating systems are consumer products is the ultimate Microsoft-ism and, I think, has led to a lot of their problems. -- Marc Wilson | In charity there is no excess. -- F

Re: PHP4 conflicts with libc6

2003-03-24 Thread Marc Wilson
ve either one... that would be bad. :) -- Marc Wilson | Government lies, and newspapers lie, but in a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | democracy they are different lies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HOME and END keys

2003-10-16 Thread Marc Wilson
~Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta End: string("\033OF") Ain't using a PC keyboard to emulate a VT220 *fun*? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marc Wilso

Re: gtk2 apps + utf 8 = squared characters

2003-10-17 Thread Marc Wilson
x27;re using a font that contains the characters they're typing. The first is far more important than the latter. -- Marc Wilson | A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to imitating yourself. -- Don Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: 2.6.0 + where is /etc/modules?

2003-10-17 Thread Marc Wilson
o idea whatsoever if that script still exists if you're using the module-init-tools package to support 2.6.x, nor do I care. I'm not about to run 2.6, nor will I until there's some demonstrated advantage in it. Your mileage may vary. -- Marc Wilson | Yow! I want my nose in li

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
got around to telling the CPU, it wasn't there any more. IRQ7 is the lowest priority interrupt, and that's where the service routine ends up. It's harmless. -- Marc Wilson | O.K., fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X trouble!

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:58:01PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Anyone else experience this, or is it just me? See recent BTS entries for fontconfig. -- Marc Wilson | Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | livin' is gone. -- John Cougar, &

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
t's idiot-level speak. The hardware had an interrupt asserted, but it's not there any more by the time the logic tried to route it. Remember, chained 8259's. So it fell to the bottom of the logic. The kernel, on the other hand, is sitting there saying "huh, there was no interru

Re: 2.4.0 GNOME in Sid

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
al packages you're using, replace with real ones. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #389: /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
;, or the "I'm clueless and didn't notice that fontconfig segfaulted during its postinst problem". -- Marc Wilson | Nadia Comaneci, simple perfection. -- '76 Olympics [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nVIDIA/Xft/OpenGL Problems

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
ore it, it's meaningless. Well, it's not *meaningless*, but it's not relevant. -- Marc Wilson | "Though a program be but three lines long, someday [EMAIL PROTECTED] | it will have to be maintained." -- The Tao of | Programming -- To UNSUB

Re: Bug#217452: mailfilter: installing under Debian

2003-10-24 Thread Marc Wilson
running fetchmail daemonized. -- Marc Wilson | Confidence is the feeling you have before you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | understand the situation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#217452: mailfilter: installing under Debian

2003-10-25 Thread Marc Wilson
le administrator responsible for administering /etc/fetchmailrc and then perhaps we'll talk. -- Marc Wilson | There are only two kinds of men -- the dead and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the deadly. -- Helen Rowland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
%-15.15F == author name, or recipient name if the message is from you # (%4l) == number of lines # %s== subject of message set index_format="%2M %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s" - cut - cut - -- Marc Wilson | The only possible interpretation

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
ll meant to drive the older CD-ROM drives on proprietary interfaces. I suspect what's more likely is that you have your drive on some interface that the install kernel doesn't recognize, such as an add-on PCI controller. How is this drive interfaced? -- Marc Wilson | But like th

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
evaluate whether or not anyone ELSE might have had a problem before allowing something from unstable to update? Yeah, right... -- Marc Wilson | Spirtle, n.: The fine stream from a grapefruit [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that always lands right in your eye. -- Sniglets, | "

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
r kernel source tree? -- Marc Wilson | *** System shutdown message from root *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] | System going down in 60 seconds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "locale not supported"?

2003-11-05 Thread Marc Wilson
ale is "en_US.UTF8", you could always try spelling it properly. rei $ locale -a | grep US en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 -- Marc Wilson | What the large print giveth, the small print taketh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: sawfish debian menu compatibility?

2003-11-06 Thread Marc Wilson
package, and that's what it's still doing. Where does your root menu expect to find the Debian menu? -- Marc Wilson | The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just [EMAIL PROTECTED] | crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press | 'OK'

Re: Lynx vs xli

2003-11-06 Thread Marc Wilson
This is hardly a "Debian way of doing things"... unless you want to claim that Debian controls XFree or something. -- Marc Wilson | "Problem solving under linux has never been the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | circus that it is under AIX." (By Pete Ehlke in |

Re: lost my Apps - Shells - bash option in Blackbox Menu

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
e . . . . As root, run update-menus, note whatever errors it spits out, correct them, rinse, repeat. -- Marc Wilson | Some people have parts that are so private they [EMAIL PROTECTED] | themselves have no knowledge of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: gtk background

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
t; I've tried editing the ~/.gtkrc ~/.gtkrc-2.0. I love clueless statements like this. So you "edited" them, huh? What did you do, add "MAKE MY SCREEN BRIGHTER!" to the two of them? Yes, yes, I'm so mean. Well, what do you expect to be made of a statement like that?

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
're loading the dri module. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What's the difference between a car salesman and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | computer salesman? A: The car salesman can probably | drive! -- Joan McGalliard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
. > [drm:drm_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module. Well gee, now you know why DRI doesn't work. Provide support for your GART. -- Marc Wilson | "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've [EMAIL PROTECTED] | got hundreds of people waiting to abuse

Re: mplayer, ogle, unable to play DVD

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
le whining about how all they actually want to do is be able to watch their discs on Linux. Such hypocrisy. -- Marc Wilson | It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UI font size in OpenOffice

2003-11-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:19:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After a sid upgrade the font is larger than I would like. See bug #218585. -- Marc Wilson | Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
n't finding that > right now. Oh, maybe it's because I'm using Xinerama. Correct. No DRI on second head, means no acceleration on second head. If you use Xinerama then you're not going to get acceleration on either head. If you're getting only 200 fps in gl

Re: Definitive HOWTO use truetype fonts on a Network

2003-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
-using applications will happily use it as well. It's the Xft2 applications you're going to have a problem with. -- Marc Wilson | "Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Harlan Ellison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
his, I dunno what ATi does), then you only get accelerated OGL on the primary head. Effects on the second head vary from simply being unaccelerated, to windows that render properly on the primary head being empty black rectangles on the second head. -- Marc Wilson | Neil Armstrong tripped. [E

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
fficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. Why you think you need to use localepurge, I have no idea at all. -- Marc Wilson |

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
#x27;Anything to PostScript' converte Well, not -20.2, as I built that locally to avoid #202673. The prior version is actually -20.1... It's all in the BTS. -- Marc Wilson | I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best [EMAIL PROTECTED] | of them, and I know h

Re: interface fonts in ooffice

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
#x27;s another one now. -- Marc Wilson | Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a message from a young man. -- Moms Mabley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
hich XML requires you to escape), but other than that, it does the job. I attach it here, because it's only a few lines. -- Marc Wilson | In the next world, you're on your own. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | #!/usr/sbin/install-menu # # Generates openbox menus for all registered application

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:05:52AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.13.0439 +0100]: > > Unstable's current a2ps is (a) broken wrt paper sizes, (b) is currently > > without libpaper support. You need to downgrade

Re: "Error Running kbd-chooser" while installing sid

2003-11-14 Thread Marc Wilson
l disc images you are using regarding whether it is possible to use their product to install from. -- Marc Wilson | stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful [EMAIL PROTECTED] | hack! */ -- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl | source code -- To UNSU

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread Marc Wilson
now... I never had that problem with it. My default printer isn't lp, though... I set $PRINTER in ~/.bashrc: rei $ grep PRINTER .bashrc export MOZ_PRINTER_NAME=select360 export PRINTER=select360 That shouldn't mean anything to a2ps, though... only to lpr. -- Marc Wilson | You had

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

2003-01-25 Thread Marc Wilson
y do they use the run-out area, but the spiral is tighter. -- Marc Wilson | It is the theory which decides what can be observed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

2003-01-25 Thread Marc Wilson
erburn no matter what you do, one of the LiteOn's doesn't care and just does whatever you tell it, and the other LiteOn has the CUE sheet thing. Frustrating. -- Marc Wilson | The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | school as a boy. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: VIM 6.1 with GTK+ 2.0 patches

2003-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
im The GTK2 binary works (if you just yank a copy of it out of the deb), but it doesn't seem to be installable because the main deb produces this error. It's real pretty, though. ^_^ -- Marc Wilson | Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is [EMAIL PROTECTED] | possib

Re: nvidia drivers conflicting with mesa opengl drivers.

2003-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
s the low-level stuff. You have to have xlibmesa if you want to actually USE it. -- Marc Wilson | Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is the school of genius. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-13 Thread Marc Wilson
Here's a procmail solution for you: # Debian lists ... :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<].*@lists\.debian\.org[>] * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<] *\/[^ ][^@]* $MATCH That'll filter mail from *any* Debian list. You don't have to modify it when your subscriptions change. ^_^ --

Re: Can't synthesize root hub events

2003-02-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:32:26PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > What is the meaning of this message which flashes by during boot up? > What should be done about it? It's generated by hotplug... it can be ignored. Look through hotplug's init script. -- Marc Wilson |

Re: Odd details in Mutt

2003-02-16 Thread Marc Wilson
e using doesn't include the proper glyphs. set ascii_chars <-- will fix it All in the handy manual, available by pressing F1. -- Marc Wilson | Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | only one we've got. msg31190/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wheel mouse with mutt

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
pate in the X resource database. What you want to do is direct resource changes to the xterm you're running it in. Take a look at the attached... perhaps it does what you want. -- Marc Wilson | It is common sense to take a method and try it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If it fails, ad

Re: kernel-2.6 and devfs. Can't open xterm or konsole (kde terminal)

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
lease CC me as I am not on the list. You should be. -- Marc Wilson | The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into [EMAIL PROTECTED] | his dying. -Samuel Goldwyn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
was never in Debian, it was in non-free. It had bugs, they were non-fixable, it went away. -- Marc Wilson | The sudden sight of me causes panic in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | streets. They have yet to learn -- only the savage | fears what he does not underst

Re: DVD recording software?

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
;m aware that there's a patch to the free cdrecord that adds DVD support for a subset of drives. -- Marc Wilson | The opposite of talking isn't listening. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] | opposite of talking is waiting. -- Fran Lebowitz, | "Social Studies&quo

Re: DVD recording software?

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
supports a limited subset of drives. Now, if what you're ACTUALLY trying to do is author a DVD-Video disc, the two processes are separate. You create a filesystem, and then you write that filesystem to a disc, with one of these tools. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #395: Redundant A

Re: cdrecord-prodvd support?

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
ript: rei $ cat /usr/local/bin/dvdrecord #!/bin/sh CDR_SECURITY= export CDR_SECURITY exec cdrecord-ProDVD "$@" This is the recommended method in the readme. -- Marc Wilson | Tex SEX! The HOME of WHEELS! The dripping of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | COFFEE!! Take me to Minnesota

Re: Wheel mouse with mutt

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
t; > What do you think? I think you've got things confused between mutt and the xterm it's running in and who has control of and who's listening to the mouse. I think you've reconfigured the default keybindings in mutt such that the arrow keys do not scroll single lines in

Re: nfs is driving me crazy...

2003-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
ut I needed a working server, so I quit. And yes, I should have filed a bug. Should have done a lot of things the last couple of weeks. Work comes first, though. -- Marc Wilson | Fuch's Warning: If you actually look like your [EMAIL PROTECTED] | passport photo, you aren't

Re: Wheel mouse with mutt

2003-09-08 Thread Marc Wilson
forgotten it was there. It's not him who's changed the defaults, it's me. /me puts on the dunce cap. Apologies. -- Marc Wilson | Five is a sufficiently close approximation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | infinity. -- Robert Firth "One, two, five." --

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-10 Thread Marc Wilson
ecord. Pfui. Use cdw. It's a curses app. (why the OP stated that a GUI app was better for occasional use boggles the mind) -- Marc Wilson | We are what we are. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/backups What script populates this

2003-09-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:14:15AM -0500, wsykes.lists wrote: > I noticed a nice little backup action occuring in /var/backups. > What script does this? and is it configurable? /etc/cron.daily/standard -- Marc Wilson | Knocked, you weren't in. -- Opportunity [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fonts in gvim

2003-09-10 Thread Marc Wilson
s app-defaults file to be sure. If you're running xterm using anti-aliased fonts, then it could be using anything available to Xft1, which is pretty much, again, any XLFD. You've got standard X fonts, you've got Xft1-rendered fonts, and you've got Xft2-rendered fonts. -- M

Re: DVD RW on Debian

2003-09-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:58:12PM -0500, wsykes.lists wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good internal or external DVD RW drive i could use > with Debian? The Panasonic drives are always a good bet. I have a A05 in my main box with no problems. -- Marc Wilson | There is no royal r

Re: starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Marc Wilson
e to start the X clients you want. If the user doesn't have one, then it uses the system one. The x-window-manager alternative is a fallback, and fails miserably at usability the moment there's more than one person using the box. Plus, you have to be root to modify the alternative. --

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Marc Wilson
be no reason to need to define anything yourself. A properly configured interfaces file is all you should need. -- Marc Wilson | It's not? Are you saying that you SHOULD allow [EMAIL PROTECTED] | people (other than William Wallace) to shoot | lightning bolts from the

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-23 Thread Marc Wilson
o this is OK if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi Seems to do the job. -- Marc Wilson | Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because he is a fool is despised only because he is | a lawyer. -- Montesquieu -- To UNSUB

Re: Fonts in gvim

2003-09-28 Thread Marc Wilson
accepted. So... either you build a GTK1/Motif/xaw vesion of the package, you build it from sources yourself, or you find a font that's both known to fontconfig and that you can live with. -- Marc Wilson | Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | halves. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Is cdparanoia not compatible with ide-scsi for some reason? (why?) Works fine here... I have four optical drives in this box, all controlled by ide-scsi, and cdparanoia will rip from any or all of them. --

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
ves when they install DEB's from random places. Not that I recommend DeadRat to anyone, but Joe User isn't going to be going to rpmfind.net or anywhere else and installing random junk. -- Marc Wilson | If there was any justice in the world, "trust" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | woul

Re: [OT]: launch a file from mc?

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc? Certainly. Command Menu >> Edit Extension File -- Marc Wilson | Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | b

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
xample). In xterm, this is easily done with a couple of resource settings. For gvim, of course, you can use any hex triplet as a color. In the console, I think you're stuck. :( -- Marc Wilson | The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Muriel Rukeyse

Re: [OT] kernel versioning: extra suffixes

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
, after all... Anyway: -ac = an Alan Cox kernel, usually numbered -preN = a pre-release kernel, #N in a series -bkN= a BitKeeper snapshot, #N in a series -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #249: Unfortunately we have run out of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | bits/bytes/whatever. Don&#

Re: Unstable in the house

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
window manager? Assuming you want metacity (shudder) for the window manager, 'man metacity' will tell you what you need to know. -- Marc Wilson | Old age is always fifteen years old than I am. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | B. Baruch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
hat it had to do in order to achieve a solution. Then it resisted attempts to break it. The only safe thing to try is to take it directly to unstable, and I'd imagine that, depending on your package mix, that might not work either. -- Marc Wilson | Think of your family tonight.

Re: a2ps in unstable: config files have changed

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
you install apt-listchanges so that you, as well, can pay attention to it? -- Marc Wilson | John Dame May Oscar Was Gay Was Whitty Was Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] | But Gerard Hopkins But John Greenleaf But Thornton | Was Manley Was Whittier Was Wilder -- Willard Espy

Re: Unstable in the house

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
The fact that metacity registers an alternative for x-window-manager is a bonus, not a requirement. The fact that newbies are told that x-window-manager is the way to control what window manager they're using is unfortunate. -- Marc Wilson | I'm QUIETLY reading the latest issue of "

Re: Ugly PDF display: libXft.so.1 vs. libXft.so.2 / Freetype

2003-10-08 Thread Marc Wilson
for my libXft.so.2 linked programs much? I believe Debian's libfreetype has the interpreter enabled, although this has gone back and forth several times. > - Or, is one of the problems the fonts selected in the PDF file just are > not that great? Ah, got it in one. -- Marc W

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Please see the advocacy howto and the output of "dict troll". No offense, but most of the "advocates" should be shot. Have you never read COLA? Or slashcrap? -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #92: Stale fil

Re: aha-2940 scsi controller problem

2002-10-07 Thread Marc Wilson
us is terminated properly and if at all possible don't have the 2940 handle it at all. And before you ask, yes it's entirely possible that even a screwed-up SCSI bus would work well enough for the host adapter to identify the drive, but still not be able to actually use it. -- Ma

Re: Debian 3 Woddy und Geforce 4MX

2002-10-07 Thread Marc Wilson
1.0 doesn't know what one is. You have to use nVidia's binary-only driver. I believe there is support in 4.2.x, though: [09:04][pts/8][drivers] $ strings nv_drv.o | grep "GeForce4 MX" GeForce4 MX 420 GeForce4 MX 440 GeForce4 MX 460 -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: logitech iTouch keyboard

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Wilson
t;unknown". Certainly they are scancodes not assigned to anything... but if they're generated, they must by definition be "known". > and cause problems. Nonsense. Toss him back and find a better quality of friend. If you want to use them, take a look at xmodmap or the hotke

Re: CD Writing [was: Re: The Real Problem With Debian]

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Wilson
troit). Although I suppose for something like a SCSI adapter, you could then unload and reload the module to get devices re-detected or something. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Wilson
on to when it updates. It might surprise you. All it really means is that you need to know what your applications expect. That, or stick to Gnome/KDE, where the same standards enforcement is going on. Just my opinion. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: window-managers don't find their fonts

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Wilson
e effect that it cannot find the 'fixed' font. This is a FAQ. Refer to the X FAQ in the xfree86-common package. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X behaving wierdly after last SID upgrade

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:21:02PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Mine doesn't even bother asking. I keep a backup of the good file on hand. It doesn't ask because you've told it once that you want it to manage it. If you don't want it destroying it, change that.

Re: Lite On 40x Burner

2002-10-16 Thread Marc Wilson
s. > The drive is $40 cheaper then the 40x Plextor. I really don't care to > waste my money. Plextor is *never* a waste of money. And now I understand they're planning on getting back into SCSI... -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't install blackdown java

2002-10-19 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 10:15:52AM +0200, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > apt-get -f install > Vlada How is this going to help him, when what he has is a missing package? Why does everyone automatically offer this, like it fixes anything and everything? -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PRO

Re: Lighter window managers

2002-10-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:36:44PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Personally I prefer the two distinct monitors over xinerama though. I knew we'd bring you to sanity sooner or later. :) -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla craches new libc6

2002-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
nately this is the only > thing which is working fine... Has anyone else noticed this problem? That's because you've downgraded to a libc6 that has the symbol. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
s all of what you want, save parts of #1. It takes Blackbox and extends it to add stuff like support for AA, customizable buttons, and more orthagonal style element support. -- Marc Wilson | Recursion n.: See Recursion. -- Random Shack Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Processing Dictionary --

Re: dosemu

2002-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
FreeDOS. It's come a LONG way in the last couple of years. I just wish Sourcer would behave properly. This is not to run down your HOWTO. It works. Follow it, and you have a guaranteed working dosemu. -- Marc Wilson | Many Myths are based on truth -- Spock, "The Way to [EMAIL

Re: Mozilla 1.1. plugin failure

2002-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
7;t even remember the last time something broke this badly... How quickly people forget the last PAM breakage... -- Marc Wilson | "If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | millions of people will go to hell." -- Jimmy | Swaggart, 5/20/

Re: instead of xv?

2002-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
, or the latest-packaged Debian (3.10a-26) is still out there on the 'net. I saved the doc package and the binary in my archives in case I ever needed it again... someday I'll scrounge up the source deb and build it against xlibs instead of xlib6g. :) -- Marc Wilson | > 1. is

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