Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

On Wednesday 06 December 2000 07:05, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is > > > not a proxy involved. > > > > why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it > > better? A

Re: Q Lynx show web pics?

On Friday 08 December 2000 19:47, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Can Lynx show web site gifs? Can Links or anything besides the > Netscape/Mozilla/Opera crowd? > > Thanks, > > Jonathan Try Konqueror (what comes, as they say in their web page, after the Navigator and Explorer). It's part of the KD

Re: CD-RW information

On Sunday 10 December 2000 04:40, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "NV" == Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NV> Hi, Can someone point me to information about supported CD > NV> burners in linux? I've finelly decided to go out and buy one, > NV> but I have no idea which one w

Re: Creating CD's from ISO's

Since you mentioned you have succesfully burned other distro's ISO images, then why not just use them? They all come with Joerg Schilling's excellent cdrecord. For example: cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sg0 speed=4 cdrom.img On Tuesday 12 December 2000 00:29, Jack Hockett wrote: > Heinrich, > Than

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

On Monday 11 December 2000 15:55, MH wrote: > > Vi scribis: > > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd,

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:36, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > >>>>> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > c> Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS > c> setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it

Re: es1371

Funny, but I have an ES1371 card and I didn't have to recompile. The debian installer took care of it (with some gentle prodding). Vendor: Ensoniq Model: ES1371 (AudioPCI-97) Kernel Module: es1371 Bus Type: PCI On Tuesday 12 December 2000 18:43, Manegold wrote: > romain lerallut wrote: > > Hello

Debian and Pentium 4

>From Linuxgram Issue No 147 is this piece titled "Most Linux Cuts Won't Install on Pentium 4." Quoting: "In another one of those awkward little moments that we have come to expect from Intel, the chip giant has confirmed that only Red Hat and TurboLinux can be installed on Pentium 4 boxes. The

Quick tip on transforming a tarball into a .deb

I need to compile some stuff in Debian (available in Debian but three version numbers stale). I have already successfully compiled them in Mandrake. The problem is that the application's various bits and pieces will be splattered across my system. While they'll probably wind up in /usr/local, I

Re: Finding/Including sr_mod post install

Before recompiling it would be nice to try: # modprobe ide-scsi # modprobe sg cdrecord might automatically load the "sg" module. As a cd-rom, the cd-writer can be mounted as /dev/scd0 (or the infamous /dev/sr0). You might also need to add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf (not sure; I use gr

What /potato/main/disks-i386/ image to burn into CDR

Having been converted to the Debian download-as-needed way, I am now reluctant to download entire ISO's of irrelevant .debs (either raw or thru the pseudo image kit). Now, what I want to know is: what floppy image from debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/ do I need to down

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

On Saturday 30 December 2000 00:10, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi Noah! > > Thanks a lot for your quick reply! > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > You don't need KDM in order to start KDE, nor do you need GDM to start > > GNOME. Either of these display managers will allow you to choos

Straight to woody after fresh potato install?

The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of downloaded packages. Second question: where is the best place to get t

Re: mkisofs

On Tuesday 02 January 2001 22:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:49:48PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the > >contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image? > >I tried different options to do it,

Command line search and replace

Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? Something along the lines of: replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process I find it a bit of a hassle to keep 100+ files open just to change an ".html" to an ".htm." Note however that I intend to use the tool on other tex

Re: Command line search and replace

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, I wrote: > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > Something along the lines of: > > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process sed is it! Thanks to John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, und eechi von

Re: Getting Gnome desktop on woody

On Sunday 14 January 2001 17:06, Steve R. Hastings wrote: > Now all I need to do is get the esound daemon going and play my > favorite music in Xmms. You don't need the esound daemon to use Xmms. It's intelligent enough to use sound drivers from various sources. As an example, I can use both the

Debian GNU/Hurd?

>From a tip given somewhere on this list, I typed: # apt-get dist-upgrade -s And lo and behold came the following output: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst diff [shellutils on hurd] Conf diff Inst le

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

On Wednesday 17 January 2001 02:16, Bob Hilliard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... > > > > ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to > > happen, what would be the best

Re: Making a copy of a CD

On Thursday 18 January 2001 18:05, romain lerallut wrote: > Add to this the X frontends for cdrecord, cdparanoia, cdrdao,etc: > > my favourite: xcdroast 0.98 ( doesn't copy on-the-fly audio CDs , > though, just data) gcdmaster (1.1 i think) (can't find a .deb for > this one, check out .rpms or non-

Re: installation kde2 problems

On Friday 19 January 2001 22:31, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Greetings everyone > > I am trying to install KDE 2.0 to my potato system, and I am > getting errors. Here's what I did: > > added the following line to sources.list: > deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto optional qt1

Re: Requirements to Build Gimp 1.2 Help

On Sunday 14 January 2001 01:57, Colin Watson wrote: > Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ok, I'm on a potato system. Are the following what's needed to > >successfully compile the new Gimp 1.2? > > OK, I didn't see this message before replying to your earlier one; > repetition and maybe a

Re: netscape ftp vs http

On Saturday 20 January 2001 06:24, Svante Signell wrote: > What am I doing wrong trying to download files from > eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using > Netscape (4.76)? > > You don't get the possibility to on the file, it > just starts downloading to the Netscape buffer

compile help: cannot find -ldb

Using either apt-get source -b foo or dpkg-buildpackage after the fact, I have a number of debian source packages fail on me. In most cases the most conspicuous symptom is the following stderr line: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb What package am I missing? OR is it a ./configure problem? Some b

Uncompilable sources

The short of it: A number of debian sources won't compile because of the following problem: usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb >From previous posts I learned the problem has something to do with libdb-something. I checked my system. I seem to have some sort of libdb installed. debian:/# dpkg -L lib

Re: application for website offline viewing

I don't know about netconspiracy and history buttons. But I know of two web-getters/grabbers: pavuk and wget. Both apt-gettable On Saturday 10 February 2001 03:16, john smith wrote: > hi, > can someone recommend an application that could copy an entire > given website for offline viewing..with fe

Re: Uncompilable sources - SOLVED

On Saturday 10 February 2001 01:37, Oliver Elphick wrote: > csj wrote: > >The short of it: A number of debian sources won't compile > > because of the following problem: > > > >usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb > > ... > > >debian:/# dpkg -L lib

Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version found at non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/?

Re: Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

On Monday 18 June 2001 17:45, Frank Copeland wrote: > On 17 Jun 01 17:48:05 GMT, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version > > found at > > non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/? > > Y

Re: Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

On Monday 18 June 2001 07:33, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:48:05AM +0800, csj wrote: > > Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version > > found at > > non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/? > > yes Precisely

Re: Problems with sound

On Tuesday 19 June 2001 23:45, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hello! > I've a problem with my sound card. I reinstalled my potato box some > days ago and > > since then I can't play any mp3 or cd on my debian potato box. > > I've a opl3 card, and I recompiled the kernel with module support > fo

Re: wget and images

On Thursday 21 June 2001 19:36, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > How do I make wget download images? > I used > wget -r -l1 -k > http://www.somesite.anywhere/the/directory/iwant/index.htm > This copies all html files that are linked form this index file to > my local computer. I'm only missing t

Re: TrueType Font Guide feedback

On Thursday 21 June 2001 22:35, Paul D. Smith wrote: > It's a doc that describes how to get TrueType fonts set up > correctly on your Debian system. There is an older (and slightly > outdated) version for Debian 2.2/stable with XFree86 3.3.6, and the > new version I just posted for Debian testing/

Re: recursive download of cgi based webpages ??

On Sunday 24 June 2001 16:08, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > How can one download a group of webpages hyperlinked by cgi scripts > (rather than simple hrefs) . Note - wget chokes on this, in the > sense it downloads some of the cgi forms itself, instead of > querrying the server and obtaining the pag

Re: big IBM harddisk

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:38, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Good info. I had a 486/66MHz system. I pulled out the huge 350mb > hard drive and installed my 20Gb wd. The bios seen *something* and > then I installed debian. Never had a hitch with it.I don't really > think debian gives a rip what the b

Re: How to install cdrom (Samsung CDR-RW, SW-208; Debian Potato 2.3

On Monday 25 June 2001 23:40, Stephen Taylor wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions; it still doesn't recognize the cd.. > - if it reads a disk I'll try another console to catch the device - > but it's apt-get and it may not stay mounted > > These don't work: > - mount /dev/hdb > - boot: linux ide-scs

Re: Birth of KDE

On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET) > > http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive/9610/msg00368.html > > An

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:12, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Steffl wrote: > > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > > illustrator which is allowed) > > "Fair use" is a term in copyright law. It has no mea

Re: Download managers?

On Wednesday 11 July 2001 18:05, John Griffiths wrote: > At 08:14 PM 7/10/01 -0500, Jeremy wrote: > >I am running stable, and I was wondering if there are any > > (preferably non-X) download managers that run well (and possibly > > come with) Debian. I need it for downloading some ISOs from a > >

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

On Thursday 12 July 2001 00:25, D-Man wrote: > Disclaimer : I have no experience with ReiserFS, but I do use grub. > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:54:49AM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > | San Segkhoonthod wrote: > | > GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have > | > ReiserFS root file system

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

On Thursday 12 July 2001 14:42, Guy Geens wrote: > >>>>> "csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [Line from GRUB menu.lst] > csj> I don't think so. The line: > > csj> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single > > csj&g

Re: Using apt

On Thursday 12 July 2001 19:20, Jamie Wood wrote: > > you have to make the directory structure (e.g. > > dist/potato/whatever..) > > Hi - Thanks for your reply - but do I need to create a Packages.gz > file that seems implicit in the search? Is so how? If not thanks! > I'll give it a try. > > Cheer

Re: kde2

On Saturday 14 July 2001 02:49, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Installed KDE2 for the first time. Initially all was fine. After > later restarting the xserver only three fonts are available to KDE. > Looks bad. Been trying to figure this out. > > What happened? How do I fix this? File a bug report? Serio

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:39, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Thanx but xine dependence screwed up. it require libasound1 not > libasound2 which is needed by esd I think No problem here (sorry for the ugly output): alpha:~$ dpkg -l libasound1 libasound2 xine Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

Re: locale problem

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 20:04, Richard Black wrote: > My locales seem to be screwed up: > > nedit > NEdit: Locale not supported by C library. > NEdit: Using C locale instead. > > I reran local-gen: > #locale-gen > Generating locales... > en_CA.ISO-8859-1... done > en_IE.ISO-8859-1... done > e

Re: Gnome got ugly?

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:14, David Z. Maze wrote: > Kurt Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KD> Does anyone know what happened with the recent (last couple of > weeks) KD> update of gdm, such that the login screen is just really > ugly looking? KD> It used to have the little picture and just t

Re: zip drive?

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 18:32, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Leonard Stiles wrote: > > Note that you can alternatively specify "auto" as the file-system > > type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount. > > I realized some problemes with "auto" and vfat, namely long > filenames. When I tried t

Re: gnucash missing /etc/gnucash/config

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 18:20, William S. wrote: > Today I updated and upgraded my packages running on > unstable on a 2.4.5 kernel. > > When I run gnucash though I am getting: > > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/etc/gnucash/config" > > I looked at /etc/gnucash but it is empty. Is there > anothe

Practical gnu/linux benchmarks

Are there any benchmarks around that tell which is the fastest architecture (i386, PPC, etc) running gnu/linux. I'm not talking about MHz or dry stones, but of timings that are of practical use to the typical gnu/linux user. Example: How long does it take to compile the kernel, XFree86 or that beas

Linux player for Sorenson video

I downloaded a QuickTime (tm) .mov-ie from Apple's movie trailers sites. Is there any way to play them under GNU/Linux? I thought the non-free xanim could do it. But it seems I've just put a good two-hour+ download to waste. I would appreciate somebody's "working" experience. Details follow: alpha

Re: Unidentified subject!

On 16 Aug 2001 09:23:05 +1000, Serge Rey wrote: > unsubscribe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think there will be less room for misunderstanding if the instructions read: To UNSUBSCRIBE, send an emai

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

On 17 Aug 2001 18:30:58 -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > > There is an option for specifying a block size when mounting, you > > could try the option "blocksize=1024". Your mount command would look > > like this: > > > > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point > > I tried this just now

Re: Playing Quicktime movies on woody

On 16 Aug 2001 19:00:38 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote: > Dominique Deleris writes, > > > I'd like to play QuickTime movies on my woody box, so I've > > installed the following packages: > > As others have written, most movies use the Sorenson codec, which is not > available at all for Linux. > > Howe

Re: Abiword font problem

On 19 Aug 2001 13:35:55 -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > I am running debian unstable, and can't seem to get abiword to work. It > complains that it can't find it's fonts -- specifically, Times New Roman. I > checked the shell script that runs abiword, and it adds the abiword font > directory to th

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

On 20 Aug 2001 18:37:25 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On Aug 13 2001, Rogério Brito wrote: > (BTW, as a side comment, both of my posts to this list > regarding DVDs in the last month received almost no responses, > a very curious fact -- is it an indication that

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

On 21 Aug 2001 16:24:17 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On Aug 22 2001, csj wrote: > I can't find VCDs where I live, but I've already thought of > making some using vcdimager, which, fortunately, is available > in unstable (but I can&#

Partitioning after-effects

I'm planning to repartition part of my HD. Previously, I only partitioned the whole drive as part of a Linux reinstallation. So I'm somewhat clueless about partitions and partitioning. The tool I'm most comfortable with is cfdisk. So replies which take into account this tool are most appreciated.

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

On 27 Aug 2001 18:54:36 -0400, dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:48:50AM +0800, csj wrote: > | I'm planning to repartition part of my HD. Previously, I only > | partitioned the whole drive as part of a Linux reinstallation. So I'm > | somewhat clueless about partitions

Re: Will the Progeny graphical install process inspire our developers ?

On Thursday 15 November 2001 21:03, spear wrote: > Hi there ! > > I was wondering : a few weeks ago, i contacted Steve Schaffer from > Progeny, about the graphical installation process of the Progeny > Debian, wondering if they would let it to our community ... > He said yes ... > > So, did anybody

Re: S: Sound editor

On Tuesday 20 November 2001 02:53, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello ! > > Since there now is a "multimedia"-Debian distri, I start getting hope > again: is there SOME reasonable sound editor for Linux ? I am > searching since my Linux start (2.0.??) for something as powerful as > Cool Edit but everyt

Re: BLOCK THIS EMAIL!!!!

On Thursday 22 November 2001 08:40, John Griffiths wrote: > At 06:10 PM 11/21/01 -0600, DvB wrote: > >Matt Fair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> can this list block the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? > >> all they are sending is viruses. > >> Matt > > > >I finally got around to looking up how the gnus

Re: CDRW with TEac 54E

On Thursday 22 November 2001 16:11, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Is there a way to get my teac to burn? it is a 54E CDRW but shows the > following: > > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg > Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC'

Re: Virus incident

On Friday 23 November 2001 03:21, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Hmm, when did this become an elitist, better than you mailing list? >  Is this debian-users or debian-I-am-God-worship-me? > > And the language isn't needed either.  There are children who read > this. Hmm, prodigies will probably underst

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

On Saturday 24 November 2001 20:11, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:51:14PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: [...] > > Could you please post the url to the tread that discusses this? > > Look for these strings: > "2.4.15-pre9 breakage" > "2.4.15 problem: deleted inodes still pre

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

On Sunday 25 November 2001 08:45, nate wrote: > the first problem i encountered when trying to boot 2.4.x(i think > it was .5 or .6) was an "illegal instruction" on every binary > i tried to use. this was with compiling with athlon optimizations. FWIW I've also been trying to compile 2.4.x kernels

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

On Sunday 25 November 2001 21:45, Stan Brown wrote: > I've been playing with this this weekend. > > Setup is a Athalon 750mhz, very lightly loaded machine, just really > running vcr. > > I found thta with a resoluting of 384x288 I would drop a single frame > or so about every 2 to 5 seconds. Change

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

On Saturday 24 November 2001 17:37, Karsten Heymann wrote: > * Tim Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011124 10:20]: > > Apparently, on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:27:47PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > > > ... > > > > I don't have a Radeon card (yet) but I was just looking up info > > about it on the XFree lists and

Re: Games - A question

On Friday 30 November 2001 01:21, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > That said games are one of the few things people 'accept' as closed > source.  It is an odd blend of real art, CS art, etc.  The best of > both worlds is what id Games does by releasing the source a year or > so after the game came out.

Re: AVI/MPG player

On Thursday 29 November 2001 20:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for an X11 Mpeg-1/2 and AVI video player, or one > player for each. Does anyone know where I can get this? For a free solution, you can't go wrong with xine. There's even a debian package for unstable/sid ("apt-get ins

Re: Games - A question [getting philosophical]

On Friday 30 November 2001 05:44, John Griffiths wrote: > At the risk of wandering WAAYY out into metaphysics... > > surely the novel is a binary? it can't be usefully modified and can > only be read as-is. > > It'd have to be made available as a text file (or maybe printed with > double spacing to

Re: Games - A question

On Friday 30 November 2001 03:13, John Hasler wrote: > csj writes: > > We rarely get to see the source code for a novel. > > Just as well, since none of us have the compiler anyway. Well, I'm trying to compile my first novel using Abiword ;-) > > The source for a nove

Re: Games - A question [getting way off-topic]

On Friday 30 November 2001 06:52, John Griffiths wrote: > >Unless you want the latest Stephen King, there's Project Gutenberg > >. > > AH-HAH! > > correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Project Gutenberg  only cover > works  that are out of copyright? I was using Stephen as

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

On Friday 30 November 2001 08:41, John Patton wrote: > I don't know what getmail does, but fetchmail will gather your mail > from your ISP and will send it straight to exim (or sendmail, etc) > for processing. By default, exim will use procmail to sort your mail > if you have a procmail recipe in y

Can't locate module snd

I'm trying to get alsa to work I get the following errors when starting it. What's wrong? Where do I get the "snd" module? alpha:~# /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd failed. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by

Re: Tran Nam Binh

On Monday 03 December 2001 23:34, dman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:11:22AM -0800, ben wrote: > | On Sunday 02 December 2001 11:42 pm, Tran Nam Binh wrote: > | > HELP, PLEASE HELP!!! > | > Hackers have put my user id into > | > multiple redistributing lists of your technical forum. > | > I c

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

On Saturday 01 December 2001 00:09, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the delay: > > * csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011127 11:48]: > > ... > > Does this mean you've got XVideo (Xv) going on your Radeon VE? I'm > > curious what the output of

Re: Audigy Drivers

On Thursday 06 December 2001 18:33, David Wright wrote: > Does anyone know the status of drivers for Creative's Audigy sound > cards? I would like to buy one and use it with Debian. > > Does Alsa 0.9.x support it? If so, how to I use the Alsa drivers on a > Debian (Linux 2.4.x) system? If not, can

program balks at 3.9GB file

lav2wav +p /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2 INFO: Norm set to PAL **ERROR: Error opening /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi: File too large **ERROR: EOF in WAV header **ERROR: failure reading WAV file The program comes from a package which claims to have large file support,

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

On Saturday 08 December 2001 01:41, Preben Randhol wrote: > XMMS is a great program, but it is interface is hopelessly bad when > it comes to user friendlyness for people that are not used to > computers. i use it. But I need a program for my father and sister > who have just started to use compute

Re: reposts from yesterday

On Saturday 08 December 2001 03:40, Alec wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2001 02:05 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > > The following procmail recipe can keep your inbox clear of it: > > :0 > > > > * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /dev/null > > > > > > Craig > > Craig, can't you do it on the ser

Re: Any GOOD bttv grabbers ?

On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:51, Volker Schlecht wrote: > > Does anyone know any _good_ bttv grabbers ? Up to now I know only > > bad ones: > > On woody and unstable: > > apt-get install vcr Maybe what he (the original poster) really needs is a good $$$ card. My Leadtek Winfast -something is jus

Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

On Saturday 08 December 2001 17:28, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:27:48PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > lav2wav +p /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2 > >INFO: Norm set to PAL > > **ERROR: Error opening /xb/base/in

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:12, dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:01:18AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > | > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use > | > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows

Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

On Sunday 09 December 2001 08:50, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Side question: are the GNU utilities afflicted by the 2 GB limit? > > Can dd properly handle 2GB+ files. > > Easy to test: > >     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=420 > > Fails on my sysstem: > >     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]

Re: Installing ALSA?

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 01:17, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Hi debianers, >   I have a big problem in installing and configuring ALSA modules. At > boot time I got the folowing message > > Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate > module snd failed. > > I got the same msg whe

Re: ATI video card confusion

On Monday 10 December 2001 12:43, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > All the Radeon lines work with the "radeon" XFree86 driver, so it > doesn't matter if you got a mixed bag.   After the latest XFree86 4.1 gloriously overwrote my months-old config file, I found out that my Radeon VE 64MB also works when

Re: Found GOOD bttv grabber !

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 02:37, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi! > > Some time ago I wrote: > > - xawtv or streamer: too many lost frames which don't appear in > > bttvgrab and it has a FIXED aspect ratio so that I cant grab in > > 352x288 which is the vcd standard > > thats not true. streamer CAN

Re: Consensus on best tools to convert LPs&tapes to CDs ?.............

On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:01, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi ! > > > What is the collective experience of Debian users regarding the > > conversion of LPs, reel-to-reel tapes and cassette tapes to CDs ? > > I recently used gramofile which is very nice: it detects track > boundaries and can filte

Re: cdrdao question

On Friday 14 December 2001 05:51, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > can I use cdrdao to make an identical copy of a vcd cd > and dvd cd ? Simple answer: no. Qualified answer: another program uses it as a backend. Check out: http://vcdimager.org. You can even apt-get the second part of the URL from uns

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

On Friday 14 December 2001 04:31, Brian Nelson wrote: > There's no need to install libguppi13 unless you really want to use > the gnucash deb in unstable.  It's just as easy to built your own > deb, which will link gnucash against whatever libguppi/libgal/etc you > have on your system.  That way yo

gcc and gcc-3.0 harmony

I see that there's no Conflicts line between the gcc and gcc-3.0 packages. Does this mean they can really coexist at build time? What would happen (I obviously have only one of them installed) when I do something like "dpkg-buildpackage"? Would the package be compiled with gcc 2.95 or with gcc

Re: gcc and gcc-3.0 harmony

On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:07, dman wrote: > What > | would happen (I obviously have only one of them installed) when I > | do something like "dpkg-buildpackage"? Would the package be > | compiled with gcc 2.95 or with gcc 3.0? > > The only one you have installed.   Obviously, a failure of the

Re: ALSA strikes again (sb16 no go)

On Monday 17 December 2001 05:22, Curtis Farnham wrote: > Does *everybody* have problems getting ALSA to run? Has anyone got > an ALS4000 card to work? What about SB16? I am getting frustrated > and desparate to get sound to come out of my speakers. Maybe you should enable the automatic kernel

Re: startx -> /usr/bin/X11/X no such file

On Monday 17 December 2001 11:40, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hello all, > > > > Frustrated. Original running woody now sid trying to > > resolve this issue. I am hoping that one of you has > > crossed this bridge and are able to help! > > > > xf86config runs without snag

Re: A rave about wine

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 05:08, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 17/12/01 Andrew Perrin did speaketh: > > Greetings folks- > > > > I just wanted to tell you about an out-of-the-box success with > > wine. A textbook company sent me a Windows-only CD-ROM with > > software for creating exams from the

Re: J2SE On Debian

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:40, Ben Hill wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK in the /usr directory, > and set up the environment variables. > > If I execute the "java" command though I get the message: > > Error: failed /usr/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so,

Re: kmail_2.2.2-4_i386.deb

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:39:54PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I tried the testing version of kmail, unfortunately it was unable to > read properly my mailboxes. In other words, that version fails to > display message listings properl

Re: need advice pls, the best cdwriter using with Linux

On Sunday 23 December 2001 06:57, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > My friend has a 8x4x32 Acer CD-Writer and I got a lot > of trouble with the quality of recording, not for sure > what is the reason. cdrecord informs that everything > is ok but after that the newly created cd can not be > mount ; no med

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

On Monday 24 December 2001 11:19, Brian Nelson wrote: > > it happens quite a bunch as some of the most capable debianers are > > unfortunately stuck with jobs that force them to use windoze > > machines. > > Assuming most of us live in so-called "free" countries, we are free > to get another job th

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

On Monday 24 December 2001 04:37, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > 17, male, english, still going to high-school, learning how to do > things the "debian way", hacking C programs, writing php, and > learning more about computers in general > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:20:32PM +, Aniartia wrote: > > 2

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