Guidance

Hi, I have just finished installing the debian base system on my 386sx, which has a 170 meg hd and 8 meg of memory. I am brand new to linux/unix. I need some help. I have been on your site for about an hour and have not found any help yet. My 386 is not on the net. How do i download package

internet connection

Hi, i have set up debian base system and was advised to get on the net with that computer to get the rest of the system. I am having trouble configuring my internet connecti0on. I have it on a win computer, and the terminal window comes up with a menu, where i switch to ppp and then log in. I

Modules

Hi, i just got a cd drive for my computer and i was wondering what module i should install to use it? It is a 40x Diamond Data. Could someone please help me. I also got an internal modem. How do i get it to recognise this? When i try to set up a ppp account, it will not detect it as a modem

Re: Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

Have you monitored your CPU temperatures?

Cupsys, using gutenprint driver instead of CUPS'

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:50:14 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> For cupsys in Etch, is it possible to use gimpprint driver instead of >> gutenprint? > > The current cupsys-driver-gimpprint package in Etch is just an empty > transitional package to ensure an automatic upgrade to the gutenprint > sys

Re: Cupsys, using gutenprint driver instead of CUPS'

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:01:32 -0500, T wrote: > the driver that I was using > is actually not the gutenprint's but CUPS'. So I re-installed everything > again, but still I can't see any gutenprint drivers when I get to the > choosing "Model/Driver" step at web

how bash encode/decode characters with byte value greater than 0x7f

Hi For characters whose byte values are greater than 0x7f, how bash encode/decode them? I.e., echo $'\312\325\274\376\317\344' | bash_encode Anybody know how to make the output similar to '\312\325\274\376\317\344'? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.ne

Re: how bash encode/decode characters with byte value greater than 0x7f

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:02:07 -0500, T wrote: > Hi > > For characters whose byte values are greater than 0x7f, how bash > encode/decode them? > > I.e., > > echo $'\312\325\274\376\317\344' | bash_encode > > Anybody know how to make the output similar

tool to encode html entities

Hi Any tools can help me encode html entities? E.g. from sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2 to sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2 ? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: tool to encode html entities

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:59:37 -0500, T wrote: > Hi > > Any tools can help me encode html entities? E.g. > > from > > sed "s/ / /g" < f1 > f2 > > to > > sed "s/ /&nbsp;/g" < f1 > f2 > > ? > > thanks hi,

[OT] looking for a image (re)compressing tool

Hi, Is there any command line tool that can take a jpeg file and re-compress it with a new compress level/factor? I looked into the ImageMagick package, seems that none of the convert(1), identify(1), composite(1), montage(1), compare(1), display(1), animate(1), import(1), conjure(1) can do

Re: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:08:18 +0800, PCMan wrote: > my friends and I have > developed a new lightweight desktop environment which is really usable > and suitable for older machines. PCMan? are you the author of pcmanfm -- the extremely fast and lightweight file manager for X? I'm using fluxbox cu

Re: [OT] looking for a image (re)compressing tool

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:31:26 -0500, T wrote: > Is there any command line tool that can take a jpeg file and re-compress it > with a new compress level/factor? Hi, thank you Florian & Sven for the swift respond. yes, the -quality option of convert/mogrify is what I'm looking fo

Which firewall can do Bandwidth Shaping

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:46:57 +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Can anyone recommend to use (or to avoid) any of the following? very interesting topic. I wanted to ask too. Thanks everyone for the input. Is your suggested firewall wrapper support Bandwidth Shaping/Policing (ie, traffic shaping/

device /dev/sda16 not exist?

Hi, I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ mount: special device /dev/sda16 does not exist why the device not exist? It's there: $ fdisk -l | grep sda16 /dev/sda16 23510 24792

Re: device /dev/sda16 not exist?

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:06:08 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:14 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: >> > >> > I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. >> > >> > But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: >> > >> > % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ >> > mount: s

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:55:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver >> relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP. >> >> However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication. > [...] > > Al

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:27:45 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> # cat /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd >> upstream.mail.exchange[EMAIL PROTECTED]:password > > Can you have multiple entries, one per user? From http://www.k2.on.lk/fourm/viewtopic.php?t=30 "u can list m

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:55:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver >> relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP. >> >> However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication. >> > > Here i

Can't startx after xorg update

Hi, I'm using testing, after yesterday's xorg update, my X can't start anymore. The error is: Failed to load module "bitmap" & "pcidata". Why is that? How should I fix it? $ ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libpcidata.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4525 11-

Re: Can't startx after xorg update

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:29:03 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I'm no expert, but based on the above (modules located in > /usr/lib/xorg/modules) and the below, I think I know the problem. Bingo, thanks a lot Andrew. I actually looked at the two for a few seconds before I asked, :-) silly me

Kaser USB Jumbo Drive

Hi, My newly bought Kaser USB Jumbo Drive [1] can't be recognized. I've been googling around, and here are the relevant info. After the USB drive is plugged in: $ tail messages Dec 29 19:40:31 cxmr kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 Dec 29 19:40:32 cx

Re: Kaser USB Jumbo Drive

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:47:19 +, T wrote: > My newly bought Kaser USB Jumbo Drive [1] can't be recognized. Never mind, it's my crappy PC's HW problem. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Clone root partition

Hi, I'm trying to compile a comprehensive document on cloning root partitions. My immediate goal is to clone my current working Linux to external USB HD, so that I can use it wherever I go. By comprehensive I mean it should not be as simple minded as dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/sda2 or cp -a

Re: Clone root partition

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:08:14 -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Suppose I have a production server with a /dev/sda disk and I mount a > second disk /dev/sdb in order to clon sda to sdb (booting from a live > cd). Sdb is the disk from a backup server (similar to the production > server) I want to use whe

Looking for dark background themes

Hi, My main color theme (for my fluxbox) is light-on-dark. But all GTK or QT applications seems to be default to black-on-white, which is stressful to my eyes. I'm wondering if I can change those GTK/QT applications to a light-on-dark theme. Moreover, can you recommend a good light-on-dark them

Re: Clone root partition

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:00:38 -0500, Marty wrote: > For cloning root filesystem drives I use a small script that > performs an rsync backup followed up by fixups to the /dev directory, > /etc/fstab, and /etc/lilo.conf and then runs lilo -r to make the backup > bootable. (A similar approach coul

subprocess pre-removal script returned error

Hi, How to remove those packages that have pre-removal script errors? This is what I tried: $ aptitude --purge-unused purge open-iscsi The following packages will be REMOVED: open-iscsi{p} Removing open-iscsi ... Stopping iSCSI initiator service: succeeded. Removing iSCSI enterpr

Obtaining my IP, strange results

Hi, I know that whatismyip.org is supposed to return my IP address. But this is what I got: $ lynx -dump http://whatismyip.org/ 127.0.0.1 This is strange enough but my question is even more strange than this: I can get my correct IP via checkip.dyndns.org, but after I visit the whatismyip.org,

Data-driven GUI Builder

Hi I had always been looking for a general purpose GUI building program. The easiest task is the command-line wrapping program, because the switches and their options are limited. I once came across such great program that ideal for such case -- you throw it some (xml based?) data and it can bui

resolv.conf changing over time

On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:23:16 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > You use DHCP and your DHCP client changes /etc/resolv.conf because new > name servers are announced. > It is one of the main reasons to use DHCP: getting a working network setup I'd feel more than happy if my /etc/resolv.conf change onl

Re: About newsgroups related to debian lists

On Sun, 21 May 2006 10:11:28 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 21 May 2006 09:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Now, I realised that `gmane.linux.debian.user' preserves the message's >> original headers, whereas `linux.debian.user' changes the Message ID >> into a different value. > > Differen

Re: About newsgroups related to debian lists

On Wed, 24 May 2006 22:39:47 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> Different mail to news gateways. The gmane.* heirarchy is generally >>> the best mail to news gateways. > > T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 2nd to that

Xorg Configuration in Etch

Hi where can I find the xorgcfg and/or xorgconfig in Etch? I can't seem to find them anywhere in Debian. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?version=unstable&arch=i386&case=insensitive&word=xorgcfg&searchmode=searchword What is the recommended way to configure Xorg under Debian

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:49:27 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> > What is the recommended way to configure Xorg under Debian Etch then? >> > >> Does dpkg-reconfigure xorg solve your problem? >> > Did not work for me. I had to search through the many xorg packages, to > find the one that fit my vide

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:55:40 -0400, T wrote: > What is the recommended way to configure Xorg under Debian Etch then? > > This is what I tried: > > I did > > apt-get install xorg > > then startx, but get: > > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal se

pre-installation script returned error during package installation

Hi I got the "pre-installation script returned error" during package installation. Is there any solution / workaround? What else should I check? thanks Tong PS. here is the full info: Installing linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 under etch failed: % apt-get install linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 Suggested pa

Kernel images in etch broke? (was: pre-installation script returned error during package installation)

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:19:48 -0400, T wrote: > I got the "pre-installation script returned error" during package > installation. Is there any solution / workaround? What else should I > check? > > thanks > > Tong > > PS. here is the full info: > > In

Enable smtp mail server

using smarthost". the postfix server is up and running: root 31693 1 0 23:26 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master postfix 31695 31693 0 23:26 ?00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u -c postfix 31696 31693 0 23:26 ? 00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u -c please help. thanks

Debian packages tag tools

Hi I saw now Debian packages almost all come with tags. E.g.: Tag: admin::forensics, hardware::storage, interface::commandline, role::sw:utility, use::scanning Is there any tools to search tools based on the tags? Where is the vocabulary collection that available for tagging and searching the

locale and font alias

Hi My system comes with default locale not English. How can set the default locale to English? As the side effect, the fixed font is of iso8859-15: $ grep ^fix /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 Having removed all xfon

Re: locale and font alias

ing font Type1 (II) Loading font CID Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! --- As I said, it was working fine, until I removed all xfonts-*-transcoded fonts. Now it is "could not open default font 'fixed'". I did some googling, the "h

Re: locale and font alias

uot;type1" (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! --- As I said, it was working fine, until I removed all xfonts-*-transcoded fonts. Now it is "could not open default font 'fixed'"

Re: ispell/aspell in TeX mode.

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:31:09 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > In ispell/aspell documentation defined this mode like "tex" mode I > tried the next lines in ".emacs": > (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") (setq-default > ispell-extra-args '("--mode=tex")) don't know if

Highly Recommend: Grml

Hi I just found Grml about 2 weeks ago, as a Debian based Live CD. And now I'm ready to give up my stable Sarge and go for Grml! It is going to be my Live CD as well as desktop OS. I highly recommend it. If you want details, Mark Gjerde has written a good article on March 07, 2006. Check it out a

Fluxbox and Debian menu

Hi How can I incorporate the Debian menu system in my Fluxbox? This is a very basic piece of puzzle that I'm missing and can't find it on the Internet. The menus could easily become out of sync with what programs were actually available, with some menu items that didn't work, and other programs

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:13:17 +0300, Linas wrote: >>> How could I make that happening to Fluxbox? >> >> do you have the menu-xdg package installed? > > "menu-xdg" is not needed. Fluxbox (the one in Debian at least) uses > standard Debian Menu system, and has been doing that for as long as I can >

Solution: Fluxbox and Debian menu

Thank you all who replied. My own personal Fluxbox menu will help - add a menu not supplied by the author/maintainer - add my own shortcuts On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:08:45 -0400, T wrote: > Is it possible to keep my own menu, while link to the system menu via a > "Debian" sub-men

Where are screen saver functionality provided

Hi In my Debian testing, I don't have the xscreensaver package installed. However, there are still lots of xscreen saver functionality available. I presume that those programs would take up much space. I'd like to find them and remove them. Are they all come from the 7K /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.so.

Re: Where are screen saver functionality provided

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:13:44 +0800, Katipo wrote: >>In my Debian testing, I don't have the xscreensaver package installed. >>However, there are still lots of xscreen saver functionality available. > ... the > xlockmore/xlockmore-gl packages (under the X11 category of the ncurses > aptitude interf

OT: SloppyFocus for fluxbox

Hi Upgraded from Debian stable into testing, I notice one most important feature missing from fluxbox -- the SloppyFocus mode. Ie, the mode of traditional X behaviour -- auto raise the window when the mouse stay on a window for a while. Anybody else misses the feature? what's the workaround?

OT: Spell checker for pan

Hi Upgraded from Debian stable into testing, I notice one most important feature missing from pan -- the spell checker. Is there anyway I can get it back? thanks PS my pan: Installed: 0.14.2.91-5 Candidate: 0.14.2.91-5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Installation problems

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:50:17 +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: > I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an > Intel D945GNT motherboard and twin 3.2GHz processors and 1Gb of memory. > It has two SATA disc drives. Unfortunately, none of the peripherals is > recognised - not the netwo

Remounting USB pen drive

Hi I am able to mount my USB pen drive by sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usbdrive/ However, after I umount it, I can't remount it again: sudo umount /media/usbdrive sudo eject /dev/sdb $ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usbdrive/ mount: No medium found I'm us

defoma how to

Hi Can you recommend a good defoma how to guide please? Specifically, - how to add a truetype font path for defoma to manage? - If all X-fonts are managed by defoma, theoretically, is it true that I can leave only the following two FontPath in the "Files" section, while removing all the rest o

Sequential background tasks

hi I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background task-a has properly started. So far I haven't found a good way to do it. I used task-a & sleep 2; task-b & but that 'sleep 2' has changed to 'sleep

Re: Sequential background tasks

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:10:43 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in >> sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background >> task-a has properly started. >> >> So far I haven't found a good way to do it. I used >> >

Re: Sequential background tasks

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:58:33 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed >> >> in sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after >> >> background task-a has properly started. >> >> >> >> So far I haven't found a good w

Re: CD writer wear out?

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:54:03 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop > writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. 10? that's absurd. and then you need to reboot, or it just won't burn any further? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Sequential background tasks

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:54:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> does this mean you need to start task-a, wait a little and then start >>> task b to run concurrently with task-a? >> >> Exactly. [...] >> >> It sound a bit confusion but the bottom line is, yes, I need to do >> exactly what you've descri

adduser and RPC Connection

[redirected from gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user] hi whenever I add a user in grml, I get the following error: rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused The respond that I got is that - the Debian's useradd tried to run userauth via NIS by default,

Easy to manage debian mirror

Hi My adjacent debian mirror, gulus.usherbrooke.ca, goes off and on often. I need to access my 2nd choice when it is down. So I have to change my apt sources.list, pull down all the package lists from it before I can do anything. Now I'm thinking, I should put an persistent entry 'debian-mirror'

Bug? xxdate.exe missing from tex/hevea

Hi The helper script xxdate.exe is missing from tex/hevea in the testing/unstable release: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searchword&case=insensitive&version=testing&arch=i386&word=xxdate.exe http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searc

Fluxbox Bug: SloppyFocus mode missing

Hi Upgraded from Debian stable into testing, I notice one most important feature missing from fluxbox -- the SloppyFocus mode. Ie, the mode of traditional X behaviour -- auto raise the window when the mouse stay on a window for a while. I've been asking this question in all the possible places an

Install firefox extensions globally

Hi Has anyone successfully installed firefox extensions globally? I don't want the firefox extensions installed into my local profile. The benefits are: - so that I don't need to install them over and over for different local users. - I can switching between my Debian Sarge and Etch back and fo

Re: Install firefox extensions globally

Thanks for reply. several questions: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:21:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Has anyone successfully installed firefox extensions globally? I don't >> ... >> >> FYI, for a list of problems trying to do so, please refer to: >> >> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p

Re: udev, hal, pmount

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:14:29 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Hello. I'm using the combination of hal, udev, and pmount on my laptop so > that removable devices (usb sticks, an audio player, a camera) will be > automatically detected and mounted when inserted. > > All is working well, and I'm please

Xorg mouse cursor

Hi, I noticed that having upgraded to Xorg, my mouse cursor suddenly has a modem look -- half transparent, with shade, those kind of thing. I'd rather call it more M$ look. Is it possible to get back my plain simple mouse cursor under Xorg? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Xorg mouse cursor

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:28:34 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >I haven't found any details on how to change the mouse pointers in a > >pure Xorg system. :( >> > To change the default for all users, you would do (as root): > > update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme That works. Thanks There

Using udev as-is and device URI

Hi I know that udev has the advantage that allowing people to write their own rules for mounting the devices. But can I just use the udev as-is? Does udev fully backward compatible with traditional /dev directory? I have a Epson Stylus CX1500, which has been working fine. I used to check the ink

Re: Xorg mouse cursor

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:10:28 +0800, shell wrote: >> I noticed that having upgraded to Xorg, my mouse cursor suddenly has a >> modem look -- half transparent, with shade, those kind of thing. >> >> I'd rather call it more M$ look. Is it possible to get back my plain >> simple mouse cursor under Xor

Re: Space to install all packages

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:21:25 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> I plan to make partition, >> 20GB / >> 10GB /usr/local >> 1GB swap >> rest-GB /home >> Is this enough? > > This is more than enough. We have an installation of all your office, kde, > gnome requirements, different sets of compiler

Mount HD using disk labels via udev

Hi Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by their labels? I've read many Udev articles but haven't figure that out yet. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mount HD using disk labels via udev

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:02:44 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by >> their labels? > > It doesn't matter if you don't understand the following article > itself, the examples should be sufficient: > > http://www.pro-linux.de/news

Re: Mount HD using disk labels via udev

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:42:29 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 13.08.06 17:35, T wrote: >> Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by >> their labels? >> >> I've read many Udev articles but haven't figure that out y

Re: how can i extract data from mallfunction reiserfs parttion

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:44:19 +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > my Harddrive had past a way (aka died) ... but i had so much data oin it > and i need to get iit back (at least some of it). > so here is the info: > while reiserfsck --rebuild-tree it found lots of bad sectors so it didn't ho ho, wait, that'

About the batch command

Hi The traditional Unix batch command is old and not sexy enough to generate enough talk among the Linux users. However, I recently read a post that hinted the powerfulness of the old utility. To make the long story short, here are my questions, which are not explained clearly in 'man batch': - I

VMWare, how to access host share?

Hi How can I access my host shares from under Linux within WMWare? My host's samba and share folders are working fine -- I can access my host shares from win2k guest OS. But I just don't know how to access it from Linux guest. - I used to use "nmblookup \*" to look what's out there, but that f

Re: terminal true type fonts

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:49:57 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: >> Aren't they listed when you issue a: >> >> $ xlsfonts | grep comic >> >> > no > >> How did you install them? >> >> > I followed: > http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/Font-HOWTO/html/Font-HOWTO/x169.html > >> Did you in

Re: terminal true type fonts

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:21:19 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > Huh, perhaps not yet. > fontsel finds it, but it doesent seem to be there. > > --- $ > aterm -fn "-microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1" > aterm: ca

Re: terminal true type fonts

[please quote appropriately next time] On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:32:21 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: >> --- >> $ aterm -fn "-microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1" >> aterm: can't load font "-microsoft-comic sans

Re: terminal true type fonts

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:11:03 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > I'm not 100% sure of where lies my problem, but I'd appreciate if you give > me the output of "$ xlsfonts | grep comic" on your machine. > > > I still get: > __ aterm: can't load font > "-micr

Re: terminal true type fonts

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:18:57 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > Here's mine, notice the difference. I wonder how come it's not the same. The only different is the last 2 parts, which depend on locale. Here are mine: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 zh_CN GB231

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:41:05 -0500, Kent West wrote: > ... > > Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude ... > > apt-get and dselect have been similarly useless for this task. how did you do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

stupid dependency on aptitude

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:45:49 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > } > That's your problem. aptitude sucks. > } > } I always use something like "aptitude install -t version xxx". Aptitude > } remembers reverse dependencies, hence aptitude purge xxx will remove xxx

Re: CRM web based

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:08:11 +0200, Kim Christensen wrote: >> I'm searching a CRM web based written in PHP using mysql as database and >> with CTI integration. Now I'm testing xrms (it seems very good) . But is >> there something more simple? Any suggestions? Thanks > > http://news.php.net/php.ge

Re: Questions about Etch in chroot.

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:34:53 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have installed a minimal Etch system into a chroot. ... My purpose > is to get a clean system without leftover bits of everything from Bo to > Sarge. ... so I try not to reboot any more than nescessary. ha, finally found one that's as

Backing up whole disk

Hi I tried to backup my whole partition with tar: tar -cvzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz . but when testing the archive result with tar -tzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz It ends with the following error, without explaining what's wrong: gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive t

Re: Backing up whole disk

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:35:17 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > On 8/28/06, T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I tried to backup my whole partition with tar: >> >> tar -cvzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz . >> >> but when testing the archi

Xorg, choosing default resolution

Hi My Xorg starts up in 1280x960 mode, which I don't like. I like it to be 1152x864. How can I make my Xorg starts up in 1152x864 mode? Here is my Screen. See, there is no 1280x960 listed in the mode, but yet Xorg starts with it. Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"

texlive and tetex tools

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:59:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:41:03AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: >> What is the difference between the two latex implementations available >> under debian? >> > I think the main difference is that texlive is the new packaging, which is

Re: [OT] automatically write enabled macros of the makefile into a file

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:14:33 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > The code comes with a makefile. The code contains many > > #ifdef > #endif > > constructs which are preprocessed by cpp (The C preprocessor). ... > > #ifdef construct1 > write(10,*) 'construct1 is enabled' > #else > write(10,*

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:03:00 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > I thought I would be slick and write a package that contains a script that > will figure out what should be installed/removed/upgraded/etc. on each of > the machines where I work. (Using sarge, btw.) I had planned to do this > by listi

Re: [OT] automatically write enabled macros of the makefile into a file

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:33:03 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:19, T wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:14:33 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> > The code comes with a makefile. The code contains many >> > >> > #ifdef >&g

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:58 -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote: >> Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install >> the package? > > Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be > scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you're > going

aptitude vs. debfoster

Hi I used to use debfoster to install/uninstall packages. My recent reading hinted that aptitude can be as smart as debfoster now. So I gave it a try. But I found that aptitude doesn't even come close to debfoster: % aptitude install apache2 The following NEW packages will be automatically ins

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > ... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), > then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it > conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for). It should work.

Re: mv files by date

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:51:44 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ > > in order to move the files found in the script up one directory? Why use xargs? find -exec deals with file one at a time. Why not something like (please test before use

Re: Braindead package management -- was Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:12:49 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: >>>... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then >>>apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it >>>conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was >>>for). >>> >>It

X, dpi and fonts

Hi Several questions about X and dpi: - How can I determine the dpi of current X session? - Is there any relation between X dpi and font selection? - How does X map font request such as '-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*' to actual font name? I think for the '-*-lucidatypewri

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