I noticed that when you start a gnome session as root, the logout dialog
box allows you to shutdown the computer. This is convenient because you
don't have to restart gdm to shutdown.
Now I wonder what need to be done to allow a normal user to have this
shutdown option in the logout dialog box. I
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:34:49PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
> 3) If you downgrade your Xfree86 to 4.2.0 & install the ATI drivers,
> then you will get the best 3D you can on Tux & 2D looks better also!
I just want to precise that the method 3 is x86 only, said another way
is not free
Adding
pref ("accessibility.typeaheadfind", false);
in /etc/prefs.js should be enough.
Christophe
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:10:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> my battles with galeon continue. Every now and then I will find myself
> on a page with a form on it. The status ba
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:08:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Olav Lavell wrote:
>
> > If your internet provider lets you run procmail before getting the mail
> > from their server, or if you run procmail yourself, the following recipe
> > (to be put in your ~/.procmail
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:12:55PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
> I have never used config.opts for that sort of thing, I have always just
> configured the card using /etc/network/interfaces and up statements.
> Have you tried using iwconfig manually to set the essid/mode/channel
> etc? Here's an examp
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:16:34AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, christophe barbe wrote:
>
> > It has the merit to be compact but the inconvenient to read the body.
>
> Which is about the only reliable way to filter it.
...
> Not reliable enough f
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:32:08AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote:
> Hello Ladies and Gentlemen of the Debian list!
>
> I chose to follow the directions on:
> http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html
> For my woody installation. I love gnome so I thought I would give gnome2 a go.
>
> Here is what I
If you use gnome2 have a look at the accessibility setings.
Otherwise have a look at the xkbset command:
xkbset bouncekeys 80
xkbset exp =bouncekeys
Christophe
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:25:48AM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I'm running Xfree86 4.2.1 on unstable and I'm havin
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:25:12AM -0400, Bruce wrote:
> So, I am fiddling around with whereami to do this; check for a wire, if so
> bring it up. If no wire, drop eth0 and bring up wlan0. Solves the "pump"
> problem; now all I have to do is get it to find the wireless card on boot.
Is your cur
This package has not vanished. I initially uploaded it to unstable but
one of the library was only in experimental. So I ask for the removal of
it in unstable and uploaded it to experimental. I will soon upload it in
unstable again now that gnome2 is where it belongs.
Christophe
On Sat, Nov 02, 2
There is two part that come from DRI:
xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk : the xfree server
And the drm kernel module. The message you see is because the kernel
module that is shipped with the kernel is not for xfree 4.2.1.
You need to rebuild your kernel without any drm stuff and get the kernel
module
I try to get debs from blackdown.com but all packages depend on
j2se-common and is not available.
Where can I get this one ?
I suspect this package is related to the following lines in the package
description :
NOTE: You must accept Sun's EULA prior to successfully installing
this package
Thanks for the help.
It's better with main too.
Christophe
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:03:19AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:47:45PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote:
> > I try to get debs from blackdown.com but all packages depend on
> > j2se-common
zy?
Yes the dependencies are updated.
But you will never see the custom.1.0 in the kernel name (just the
package name).
Christophe
> Thanks for your help, Holger
>
>
> To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Can't get ATI Rage128 to work with XFree86 on De
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:39:39PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Wednesday 20 November 2002 15:26, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > [...]
> > Yes. Caught fire.
>
> OK, now we need a conspiration theory. I say it was either the BSA or
> some music or
;m currently running a 2.4.18 kernel and the modules
> > under /lib/modules/2.4.18 are set up for this kernel. It is building
> > the new dependencies file modules.dep but it should be rebuilt after
> > the reboot. May this be the thing that drives me crazy?
>
> Yes the dependenc
modules
> > under /lib/modules/2.4.18 are set up for this kernel. It is building
> > the new dependencies file modules.dep but it should be rebuilt after
> > the reboot. May this be the thing that drives me crazy?
>
> Yes the dependencies are updated.
> But you will never
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:39:28PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote:
> In case anyone is interested, the 1.1 OpenOffice.org Beta is out now. There
> is a problem which can cause this version to exit with an IO error message
> on machines that do not have a domain name set. See this issue for details:
I
In this screenchot:
http://207.170.50.26/shots/Screenshot-Red-Carpet-3.png
we can see a very nice GTK2 theme that I can't find in debian/sid
and in art.gnome.org.
What is the name of this theme?
Where can we find it?
Thanks,
Christophe
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+ makes it harder, but
> when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
> -- Bjarne Stroustrup
>
> christophe barbe wrote:
> > In this screenchot:
> >
> >http://207.170.50.26/shots/Screenshot-Red-Carpet-3.png
> >
> > we can see a very nice GTK2 theme th
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:19:51PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote:
> Le sam 29/03/2003 ? 17:12, Samat Jain a ?crit :
> > That theme is Redhat's 'Bluecurve', or called 'Wonderland' in non-Redhat
> > distributions.
> >
> > I don't know if
I forgot to mention that chkrootkit can help detect this kind of
problems:
http://www.chkrootkit.org/
Christophe
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Cats are intented to teach us that not everything in nature has a
fun
To mention the obvious: If you reinstall the same software with the same
configuration, you are also reinstalling the security flaw that let
someone install the rootkit in the first place. You should find how the
rootkit was installed (for this, keeping a copy of the compromised
system can help).
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in
> debian. Why is that?
No idea but can't you use /etc/cron.d/ ?
> Should think that clock synchronization is
> needed. Especially since most computer clocks dr
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:14:26PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Dec 31, 1969 at 11:59:59PM +, Benedict Verheyen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
>
> The webmail service you're using is creating the following
>
> Date: Thu 12 Jun 2003 13:32:37 +0200
>
> This is missing the ',' fo
On a very good article concerning RCU (the code that SCO
pretends is his property even if they have nothing to do with it)
http://lwn.net/Articles/36164/ (you have to be subscribed to lwn or
wait a few days)
Jonathan corbet provides this url to an archived version of the
sequent.com website (inc
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:39:13PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > On a related topic, is there a way to instruct procmail to fix broken
> > date on the flight. I would be happy to get rid of old mails showing at
> > the end of the mailbox because the sender believes we already are in
> > 2010.
>
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:30:04PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> Thanks, Matthew! Just another question. Which application uses the
> following packages, available via apt-get?
>
> libexif-gtk3
> libexif-gtk4
Nothing in the debian archive. gtkam should use the last but apparently
the maint
I am trying metacity and find it very nice.
One thing that I find missing is the ability to set an application as
sticky so I can see it on all desktop (It's for gkrellm).
Is it possible with metacity ?
Christophe
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On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:41:15PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> BTW, gkrellm2 (which hit unstable recently) seems to work better with
> Metacity, and has configuration options to (among other things) show up
> on all workspaces.
Thanks for the great tip. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Ch
Is there a gui config tool to set network and stuff like that or is it required
to edit config file.
I want to set a default route and I don't know how to do that properly.
I can add a line like "route add ..." in a init script but it's not really
clean.
Christophe
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I use an Azerty keyboard but under the console it's configured as a qwerty one.
Where should I configure my keyboard?
Christophe
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By default, rcp is linked (in /etc/alternatives) to scp which is (in my limited
understanding) a secure version based on openssh.
When I try to do a rcp with a computer without openssh I obtain "Secure
connection to mypc refused"
What can I do (on my computer) ?
Is is possible to use rsh instea
It works for me but I've used a pure kernel 2.2.18 (from kernel.org)
Christophe
On mer, 21 fév 2001 03:46:33 Damir J. Naden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got it working under 2.2.18 from the stable dist on thinkpad A21m ...
> compiled my own from source 5.78e
> HTH,
>
> > I'm trying to get it working righ
I use potato on a laptop and my laptop is on only when i'm using it.
When I start, cron launches various task (too many at the same time) and take a
big part of the CPU.
It's crazy : you turn your computer 2 minutes on (you do near nothing), cron
works. After a night you turn on your laptop an
I've a old one. When It was still a starfish(/Franklin electronic) product.
The card is seen as a normal pcmcia memory card. The chip use directly this
memory. So you can already backup you content.
Starfish has provided a software RexConnect (require a NDA) to seen this
content in a more conveni
Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory.
Can I delete these files ?
Where can I tell to not keep these file ?
I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only the
diff when upgrading a package.
But it's not what is done.
Christoph
Hi I've the same problem with Opl3sa2 and kernel 2.4.2.
I have seen threads about that in the kernel mailing list.
Currently I use alsa which works great and is certainly a good solution.
IMHO the OSS ccode in the kernel are going to be replaced by alsa.
Christophe
On jeu, 15 mar 2001 19:16:09 Ph
Thank you to point me to the man command that I already know (-;.
But you not really answer to my questions.
Why are packages kept ?
How can I stop this ? (how to say "stop keeping downloaded packages")
Thank,
Christophe
On lun, 19 mar 2001 10:27:43 Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote:
> In ch
(under poatto with ximian gnome 1.4beta)
I try to remove a package (mozilla-xmlterm) but dpkg refuse to do it because
the post script return 1.
So I can't remove it. I imagine that is because I've previously removed mozilla.
Is there a way to force dpkg to remove mozilla-xmlterm from the packages
Sorry, I realize that I can look in the script (I don'tb know why but I was
thinking that they were hidden).
Perhaps you know where these scripts are saved ?
Christophe
On mar, 20 mar 2001 10:53:56 Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:26:21AM +0100, christophe bar
Loop is broken in kernel 2.4.2.
Christophe
On mer, 21 mar 2001 18:54:50 Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> Were there any changes to files that are necessary to support loopback
> mounts in 2.4? I have one iso image that I mount as a drive for Wine, and
> whenever I try to mount it, it hangs pretty so
For your USB question, I've compiled a 2.2.18 kernel on my debian potato in
order to use a USB mouse (and a internel trackpoint in the same time).
First I can tell you that it works really good. I'm able to hot-plug and
hot-unplug the mouse and that's a good point for a laptop.
There's already USB
In order to set a ppp connection as a normal user I have had myself in the
dip group (for pppd) and in dialout for my /dev/ttySx.
Is this safe ?
Now it works but I obtain this
$ wvdial provider
...
--> PPP negotiation detected.
--> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission den
nbd export only block devices and in my understanding modem (serial line) are
char devices.
Christophe
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:04:29 Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone ever use nbd (network block device) to remotely "mount" a
> modem (which is supposedly to reside on a server)? Does it work on
It's safe. If you want only a part don't select task-*.deb packages (there are
only meta-package).
Add wimian in your source.list, do apt-get update and then do not do apt-get
install task-helix.
Then you can simply upgrade what you want without downloading the last version
of gnumeric, ...
Chr
That right you should put the cdrom lines at the beginning of your source.list.
In my sense, this is a bug. When you install a system, you insert all discs to
generate the list of available packages and in the same time they are added in
the source.list but after the commented ftp sources. So whe
I like debian. But there's is a big lack today in potato : no free www
browser (I mean open-source and not buggy : ie not netscape) with java and
ssl support.
But it's a pity because mozilla is out with all required stuff. But we are
still (in potato) with the M18-3 release. Today the 0.7 is out. T
And mozilla 0.8 should be available really soon...
On mer, 07 fév 2001 22:02:18 christophe barbe wrote:
> I like debian. But there's is a big lack today in potato : no free www
> browser (I mean open-source and not buggy : ie not netscape) with java and
> ssl support.
> But it
Hi,
I'm trying to use pdq (a print spooler system) under potato. It uses
ghostscript to convert postscript to printer format file.
First I thought there was a problem with pdq but know I'm sure the problem
comes from gs.
I've tried a lot of command and the result is always the same : I obtain no
Have you enabled Scsi Generic support in your kernel config.
It should give you a module called (IIRC) sg.o which is used to send specific
scsi commands for cd writting.
And you should have a /dev/sg too.
Christophe
On mar, 27 mar 2001 07:42:40 "Price, Tim" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just upgrad
2001 20:40:43 Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> christophe barbe wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use pdq (a print spooler system) under potato. It uses
> > ghostscript to convert postscript to printer format file.
> > First I thought there was a problem with p
I believe you need to enable java in edit/preferences/advances.
Christophe
On mer, 28 mar 2001 07:49:26 joeytsai wrote:
> Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've been able
> to download it, install it (I got the "Installation successful" screen), but
> when I restart
On jeu, 29 mar 2001 01:04:32 Jason Majors wrote:
> True. It's gone, they say that it's not needed, because it's included in
> the latest builds.
> But if you use
> deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./
> in your sources.list, you can get version 0.8.0, which has security and is
> prett
I use two books from Oreilly:
Linux Device Drivers - Alessandro Rubini
Understanding the linux kernel - Bovet & Cesati
The first one is a little old nut contains usefull informations.
The second one is recent and really good. As the title said, it's focussed on
the kernel understanding that on th
I've made a mistake and upgraded a potato box to unstable.
What I wanted was to upgrade to woody and now I realize that woody == testing.
Is it possible to do a dist-upgrade from unstable to testing.
Can expect to not reload all packages (is there a lot of common packages
between testing and unst
You can choose your window manager in the gnome control center.
Gdm has nothing to do with that.
Christophe
On jeu, 12 avr 2001 07:04:24 Stephen Boulet wrote:
> I downloaded gdm, and it lets met boot into gnome, but gnome defaults to
> window maker. How do I tell gdm to launch gnome with sawfish
I've dist-upgraded a fresh potato box to woody.
Everything works fine.
But I can't install sawfish.
It seems to not be available.
I can't see it anymore in the available package at
http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/.
What's wrong ?
Christophe
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Process in state D are in an uninterruptible state.
You can't kill a D process.
Normally process are in D state only during IO operations.
Abnormally, persistant D state means deadlock ...
So You can only reboot your computer.
If you're using linux 2.4.3, you certainly trigger a known bug which IIR
About Toshiba:
I use a satellite 2520 cds.
It contains (certainly like the 2100) a lucent winmodem. I use this modem with
a close source driver which works great.
Everything work but I've had to fight for.
I hope other laptop manufacturers are more linux-friendly. (I believe sony is
better it wo
I've a 2520 cds under Debian GNU/Linux.
You can enter in the bios setup in pressing the ESC key when powering on the
machine.
Debian is fine for your Laptop and you should think about avoiding dual boot
with M$ which is only about losing drive space.
I'm not able to boot with the debian CD (A lon
I can't find why the logout dialog box (debian unstable) doesn't propose me
"halt system" and "reboot". I can only answer yes or no to the "really logout?"
question. I was thinking it was due to the right to execute the halt and
shutdown binaries, so I've set their setuid bit : no change.
On a o
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:47:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> If only, I could get the gphoto2 cvs debs, then my Canon A70 would be
> easily recognised.
It's your lucky day. You can find gphoto2 packages from the last release
candidate at:
http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/gphoto2/
Please rep
Looks like a permission problem.
Install gphoto2
apt-get install gphoto2
then try as root
gphoto2 --autodetect -L
If you get a list of pictures in the cam, try the same as a normal user.
If it works as root and not as a normal user, read the README.Debian
file.
Christophe
On Thu, Apr 15,
Le jeu 15/04/2004 à 19:10, Mike Chandler a écrit :
> Thanks Christophe!
> Where exactly can I find the README.Debian file?
> Please.
/usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-2/README.Debian
Christophe
I think the gtk dev files are included in a libgdk-dev package. I'm not sure of
the exact name of the package but I remember that I've already fight to find
this gtk-config.
The problem is that I don't how to fing the (uninstalled) package name
containing a specified file. I know how to do that
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