Re: KDE日本語パッケージについて

1999-08-21 Thread Neil Booth
Ben Lutgens wrote:- > On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 02:28:22PM +0900, Shinichi Miyazawa wrote: > > Debian用のKDEの日本語化されてパッケージで、slink版は有りま > > せんか? > > 以下ののftpサイトにslinkのフォルダーは有りますが、空で実態が有り > > ません。 > >  ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian/dists > Content-Description: Shinichi Miyazawa のカード > > Wow! wtf is th

Re: Please help a poor gaijin!

1999-08-31 Thread Neil Booth
Stephen Pitts wrote:- > Hi! I'm trying to figure out what level of Japanese input support exists > in Debian. Not much to my knowledge, unless you install Debian-jp. > Ideally, I'd like to be able to receive messages written in > Unicode with mutt (via the mutt-ja package), and type messages/docu

[NeilB@earthling.net: Re: Please help a poor gaijin!]

1999-09-01 Thread Neil Booth
Miles Bader wrote:- > > Thing's are quite a bit simpler if you just use emacs-20's built-in > input methods -- they basically just work out of the box (as long as > your emacs was compiled with the leim support enabled). Just do: > > (set-language-environment "Japanese") > > Then type C-\ (to

Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
I have 2 PCI Planex ethernet cards in my machine, the first uses "tulip.c" as its driver, and the second uses "de4x5.c". When I inserted the second card today and rebuilt my kernel (no modules), during boot-time initialization the tulip driver initializes successfully as eth0, but the second drive

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
Peter Iannarelli wrote:- > Hello Neil: > > via the card configuration tool from the manufacturer, > you should be able to change the IRQ and I/O mapping > for the card(s) in question. > > Peter Hi Peter, Literally all that came in the box was a manual, a cable for Wake-On-LAN, and the card itse

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
George Bonser wrote:- > > If both cards are PCI there really should not be a problem. Try swapping the > order of the cards in the PCI bus and see if that helps. Hmmm, yes they are both PCI - swapping the card order made no difference - the same card gets recognised first, and the second one ign

Forcing a core dump?

1999-10-16 Thread Neil Booth
I have found a bug in some software that causes it to segfault. However, there is no core file to use with gdb. Why is a core file not generated / how do I force one? Thanks, Neil.

libslang problem after upgrade to potato

1999-11-02 Thread Neil Booth
After doing a distribution upgrade from slink to potato, I keep getting errors about /usr/lib/libslang.so not existing. Doing "ldconfig /usr/lib" results in ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.s

Soundblaster installation problem.

1999-11-27 Thread Neil Booth
Hi, I've been trying to set up a Soundblaster ISA card under Debian. The card (AWE64 I think) works fine under Redhat with sndconfig, albeit with slightly different hardware. I have 4 IDE devices installed, 2 PCI NICs and a PCI ATI graphics card. I'm using a modular 2.2.13 kernel. If I do the

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-06 Thread Neil Booth
Anthony Towns wrote:- > The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are > mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper, > instead of the other way around, for some reason. > > Easiest way to avoid this nastiness is to apt-get remove data-dumper

Re: wvdial doesn't connect

2001-03-11 Thread Neil Booth
Henning Otte wrote:- > > What kind of modem? Winmodems aren't supported. (In > > general). > > How do I find out, if I've got a winmodem? > (It's called 'ASKEY 56k Plug&Play Modem', it supports Rockwell K56flex, > but not V.90) Is it internal or external? You should have no probs with an exter

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-26 Thread Neil Booth
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:- > socrates tmp$ telnet localhost 80 > telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution FWIW I have exactly the same problem. Just started recently. I have a dial-up connection too. The problem only exists when I'm not connected to the i

Perl's default include path

2000-11-25 Thread Neil Booth
I get these messages trying to install recent versions of debconf: monkey:/usr/src/gcc/build# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.5.22_i386.deb (Reading database ... 36741 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace debconf 0.5.25 (using .../debconf_0.5.22_i386.deb) ...

Re: Neighbor table overflow

2000-04-01 Thread Neil Booth
Hi Alex, This is almost always caused by not having a loopback interface. If you haven't, make sure the first interface you configure is lo. Neil. Alex McCool wrote:- > Helpp > > What is neighor table overflow?? > > I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of a machine > > I changed /

Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Neil Booth
Hi, I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. Does anyone know if these cameras simply pass the JPEG data down th

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-13 Thread Neil Booth
Hi all, Thanks for the very useful info. With this, and having found gphoto.org and noticing gphoto comes with Debian, I have everything I need to buy a camera that works with Linux. Cheers, Neil.

debconf error

2000-01-06 Thread Neil Booth
I'm running the latest potato, but if upgrade something to the latest and greatest, I tend to get the following error: debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend debconf: falling back to Text frontend How can I fix this? Neil.

Package pools and Japanese Debian problems

2001-01-06 Thread Neil Booth
I use Japanese Debian, and ever since pools were introduced I've not been able to update many packages at all without download errors, and new revisions seem to be far less frequent. Here is a typical apt-get example:- monkey:/home/neil# apt-get install modutils Reading Package Lists... Done Buil

Mutt and viewing attachments simultaneously

2001-01-17 Thread Neil Booth
When I run Mutt and I receive a mail with 3 attachments, I see something like: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] [blah blah blah] [-- Attachment #2: test-cpp-if-2.patch --] [-- Type: text/x-patch, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.8K --] [-- text/x-patc

Installing xlibs wants to remove xdm and other stuff

2001-02-03 Thread Neil Booth
This is what apt-get -s gives:- monkey:/home/neil# apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: intlfonts-japanese intlfonts-japanese-big xbase-clients xdm xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

Re: 質問です 。

2001-07-02 Thread Neil Booth
If you have a (fast) internet connection you should be OK. You can download two or three floppies from Debian's web site, and that is all you need to install. The rest of the distribution is downloaded from the internet. If you haven't got a fast connection, it can take a while. But I did it on

Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-22 Thread Neil Booth
I installed sawfish about 3 wks ago, and have installed a couple of revisions of gnome panel since then. However, if I bring up panel after starting sawfish, dragging a window becomes jerky and slow. I don't remember this behaviour in WindowMaker. Somtimes, but not always, panel complains about

Re: Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-23 Thread Neil Booth
First, thanks to Johnny and Stephan. > You can start Gnome in two ways in your .xsession: > > start the panel > start a windowmanager > > This will work, but will not be session managed. > > The smarter way is: > > gnome-session > > Gnome-session (and do NOT start a window manager manually be

Re: Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-24 Thread Neil Booth
Jim McCloskey wrote:- > It works well for me. > > I'm running X 4.0.3 from testing, and version 0.99 of sawfish from > testing. Version 1.0.55 of gnome-panel, also from testing, Hi Jim, It's a little weird. If I start panel in my .xsession before sawfish, everything is snappy like you'd expec

Re: bug: "neighbor table overflow" message

2001-11-19 Thread Neil Booth
Josef Dalcolmo wrote:- > Hello, > > I am getting a "neighbor table overflow message" during installation of > woody from 2001-11-09 and also afterwards > Does anyone know where this message comes from? This usually means you are not configuring the loopback interface, or not configuring it first

tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-21 Thread Neil Booth
I just finished playing xmame in full screen mode, and coming out of full screen mode messed something up. X died, and gdm was respawned. However, interestingly, the virtual consoles 1-6 are now screwed; if I switch to them I see a mess of mostly green and black in graphics mode. Everything stil

Re: tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-23 Thread Neil Booth
Shaul Karl wrote:- > I do not know what gone wrong. > > As for having a vt reset without rebooting, try issuing a reset command > (reset) after logging in. Ignore the fact that you might not see this > command while you keying it in. Thanks, but I'd already tried that. No luck; it stays in gr

Re: t0rn v8

2001-12-03 Thread Neil Booth
Stephen Gran wrote:- > Hello all, > While running chkrootkit, I got this message (among a bunch of others > saying nothing found): > > Searching for t0rn's default files and dirs... nothing found > Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... Possible t0rn v8 (or variation) > rootkit installed > > and >

Re: t0rn v8

2001-12-03 Thread Neil Booth
Stephen Gran wrote:- > Sorry, bad form to have to reply rather than include the info in th > original message, but hindsight and all that. A few things I have > done to try to see if t0rn is in fact present: > lsof|grep LISTEN: > portmap273 root4u IPv4303 TCP *

Unavailable packages question

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Booth
This is the output of a couple of dpkg commands on my system:- monkey:/home/neil# dpkg -l "mutt*" Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/

Re: Unavailable packages question

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Booth
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:- > # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/purge/'|dpkg --set-selections > # apt-get dselect-upgrade > > what this does is find packages that were removed but not purged and purges > them. That doesn't appear to do what I want. The mutt-i package is not flagged "

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Neil Booth
> (Ironically, the reason I want to get rid of gcc-2.95 entirely and use > only gcc-3.x is that I'm a GCC maintainer, and want to do lots of testing > with the 3.x series. If the solution to this dependancy mess involves > destroying gcc-doc, that's fine with me; I have many copies of the GCC > ma

C locale and error messages

2001-10-10 Thread Neil Booth
If I open an rxvt window or xterm, which for me defaults to LANG=C, and do echo < foo instead of getting bash: foo: No such file or directory I get bash: foo: ?? If I set LANG to en_GB, it doesn't help. If I set LC_MESSAGES to en_GB, I then get the

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Neil Booth
Romain Lerallut wrote:- > You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it > for my Fortran codes:) That's not true, certainly in GCC 3.0. Neil.

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-27 Thread Neil Booth
Romain Lerallut wrote:- > > Romain Lerallut wrote:- > > > > > You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it > > > for my Fortran codes:) > > > > That's not true, certainly in GCC 3.0. > > > > Neil. > > > h: > > echo '__LINE__' | cpp-3.0 -P > 1 > > looks like you c