Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

2004-12-21 Thread seeker5528
You can look projects up at http://freshmeat.net and follow the links back to the home pages, some of them will have links to Debian repositories or provide Debian packages that can be downloaded. For unofficial sources for your sources.list you can have a look at http://apt-get.org for Mplayer

Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:37:27 +0800 "Cameron G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default > installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really > rather avoid rolling my own kernels There are symbolic links in / for the kern

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:45:57 +0100 Mauro Darida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that ubuntu is probably a good name if you want to > sell in africa but certainly not a good choice if you want to sell in > the western world. In what western language is there a word that sounds like ubuntu tha

Re: Linux Functionality?

2005-01-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:05:46 -0500 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without taking up the issue of "my mailer is better than Outlook" (of > course it is) XP's filesystem permissions *also* limit damage to > user-owned files. People running with administrator rights has already been covered,

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:24:45 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And you'll find exactly what the guy said: a few people are racist, a > much larger number are not. And it's really easy to not be racist in > the Pacific Northwest -- there aren't any black people to be racist > ab

Re: install USB optical mouse

2005-01-06 Thread Seeker5528
On my system I do: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 : then when asked where the mouse is choose the: /dev/input/mice : this option works for me in both cases where I plug the mouse in a USB port or use the adapter and plug in to the PS2 port. I'm running udev, but I think it is the same with

Re: about dpkg

2005-05-04 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:14:35 +0300 "Voiculescu Corneliu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had mistaken and I removed the /var/lib/dpkg/available file from a If the available-old file was deleted as well you should be able to type: touch /var/lib/dpkg/available : at the command prompt. Then do: ap

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:12:18 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is also puzzling about this is that an entire working directory > acts as if corrupted when moved from /root to a regular user's /home > directory. I have tried this with 3 different regular user accounts >

Re: apt-get remove kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 also removes kernel-image-2.6-k7

2005-05-28 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 26 May 2005 17:02:03 -0700 (PDT) darin strait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been running the 2.6.10 kernel on my Athlon for quite a while now > and I'd like to remove the old 2.6.8 image. So... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get remove kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 > Reading Package List

Re: Strange KDE Problem

2005-06-08 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:21:10 +0100 Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok that's a little odd. I found nautilus running but I didn't start it. > I suppose some other application must have started it for some reason (I > presume OpenOffice did it). Killing nautilus hasn't brought my desktop

Re: MythTV

2005-06-27 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:00:32 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. What card would you suggest that I use? Hauppauge 250 and 350 are popular for use with MythTV in multi card configurations. Visit http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/ to see what it takes to install the driver and decide if you want

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-12-05 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:34:50 -0500 Matthew Krauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get a larger list - see below. Also, that list includes Gamin, which > actually conflicts with fam. In fact, I'm confused. If I try to install > fam, it tries to rip out a lot of Gnome stuff, and some other thing

Re: debian port of timidity doesn't work here

2007-09-08 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:49:12 -0500 (CDT) Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out > missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert > the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if

Re: Amarok and mp3

2007-09-20 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:25:09 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I recently install amarok (on amd64), using the xine engine, but it > refuses to play any mp3 files. After some searching, I also installed > libxine1-ffmpeg, and have w32 codecs installed, but it still wo

Re: Strange behaviour of K3B

2008-01-30 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:12:49 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R > When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that pops up normally has a > drop down box which says the type of media detected. This remains > steadfastly saying no media loaded regar

Re: Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

2006-07-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:57:51 +0200 "jbmorla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, sorry I don't understand how the mailing list works. > > > > Should I reply directly from my mail client : gmail in IE6 ? > > Or should I do what I do now, reply to my own thread in the list itself ? > When you rep

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:01:01 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're running a GNOME desktop then gnome-volume-manager+pmount can > take care of it. Even if you are not running Gnome you can still use gnome-volume-manager+pmount, you just have to add it to your .xsession file

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-09 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:43:11 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Even if you are not running Gnome you can still use > >gnome-volume-manager+pmount, you just have to add it to your .xsession > >file, ~.kde/autostart directory, run it and save your session, or > >whatever is necessa

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

2006-07-09 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:11:43 -0300 Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Do ISPs change DNS addresses often? Is there a way to detect it when > it happens, so I don't have to call them up for the new one every time > it happens? They shouldn't change very often. Usually you can connect to

Re: Ndiswrapper not work...

2008-08-22 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- > I don't know how; but i use b43-fwcutter from Debian repositories. > I use Lenny and broadcom card. I finally got rid of my broadcom card because no matter what driver I tried to use results were inconsistent. It would work for a while, t

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- From: "Jesse Welling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > I'm running Debian Testing for reference. The problem I'm having seems very > very suspicious to me, and please don't think this is a joke, but I think my > clipboard (or whatever takes ca

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 03:09:23AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > For Java, icedtea-gcjwebplugin is in main. (Sun Java is not packaged > > but this free one is pretty good) > > The last time I c

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
> > I have not seen this personally, but it explains why so many Windows users > > are > > suddenly getting infected with XP Antivirus and AV2008 over the last few > > weeks. > > > > Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack: > > > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1733 > > Not just wi

Re: Why not?

2006-07-15 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- > > Clearly all this is rather a matter of opinion; my only intent in > > posting was to provide a counter to your implication that KDE/qt was > > somehow obviously superior in functionality/usability, and that people > > only like Gnome/gtk

Re: Debian install and swap

2006-08-27 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:16:45 -0400 (EDT) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The system is a debian derivative. hdb2 is a primary > partition for Linux swap. /etc/fstab has the entry: > > /dev/hdb2 noneswapsw 0 0 The entry looks fine to me. The entry my Debian unsta

Re: Upgrade from 32bit Sarge to 64bit Etch

2007-06-08 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:19:36 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another way you might want to go about it, is to just upgrade a 32-bit > setup to a 64 bit one, rather than installing multiple versions. That > being said, I have both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version > installed,

Re: Yes! a free legal source for downloadable music!

2006-10-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:45:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >How do i get some music > > This may not be what you were looking for, but it's an interesting > find for legal, free downloads: > > http://www.irateradio.com/ Hmmm, interesting, I will have to check that

Re: udev

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:17:27 + Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious > hassle with it when etch was testing. > > I'm still on etch - and synaptic claims that this is still the latest version > available. Mu

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:51:12 + "B. Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is which wm to use, as Gnome install metacity by default and > I don't have experience with anything else. > > There's a lot of information on Google Groups and in the Debian > archives, however I have a mor

Re: Moving Unstable to new HDD

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:51:10 -0500 KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which > came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The > 80GB hard disk contains the Debian unstable system with differen

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:32:31 + Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb > brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ > > I assume this should be cdrom not disk correct? That is what the Audio CD, DVD, VCD players want, the

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:24:42 +0800 "Rage Callao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a script, something like make-jpkg for Java, that can be used > to create a .deb from a FireFox binary tarball? Look at checkinstall. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:33:22 + Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seeker, > > Thank you very much for your reply. > > > From: Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> [EMAI

Re: Recover data from formatted ext3 partition

2009-05-30 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:12:52 + Azhagu selvan wrote: > Hi, >I am using debian and my present installation partition is > accidentally formatted while trying to install ubuntu in another partition. > Can i recover my files that i have stored in my previous home directory? If > yes pleas

Re: replacing hard disk

2009-06-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:12:17 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to > > the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install > > any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy > > modified config files, mail

Re: Convert a 64 bits machine from debian32 to debian64

2008-09-17 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:19:10 -0500 "Sebastian Castillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now i want to change that... i want to have all 64bits libraries, and > kernel.. i begin installing the amd64 linux image package and the amd64 libc > version but now i dont know all of the implications of this

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread seeker5528
On 11/23/2014 9:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: What I see missing in these discussions is the vast number of people who don't monitor the lists. That is the huge majority of Debian users. Some will get a rude surprise when they upgrade and things don't work as expected. That's how it works wit

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-23 Thread seeker5528
On 11/23/2014 12:03 PM, Doug wrote: Yes, grub can boot Windows _just fine_ if Windows is bootable. Windows wants to be "activated" and I found that GParted's activation does not suffice.That's why I mentioned obtaining a program to activate Windows. If you only have one computer, you should ge

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread seeker5528
On 11/23/2014 1:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: We're not talking non-technical people here. We are talking companies with ITcd departments managing multiple servers and desktops. We are talking small companies who contract their IT services. We are talking individual users running their own serve

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-26 Thread seeker5528
On 11/26/2014 6:04 PM, Serge wrote: Those XDG standards were created by "X Desktop Group" only to define unified directories for COMMON files of multiple X desktop environments, not for some rogue applications to hide their own private files. Each of files placed in those directories is exten

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread seeker5528
On 11/28/2014 6:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: I have a question along these lines: Years ago when we used computers, many people used one machine -- centrally administered. Nowadays one person uses many machines 1. Simply multiple hardware 2. Multiple OSes on the same h/w 3. Other more fancy (cloud)

Re: XDG Standard is not evil

2014-11-28 Thread seeker5528
On 11/28/2014 10:27 PM, seeker5528 wrote: Pictures, music, etc... can all be kept on another partition, creating symlinks in your home directory within each installation in place of the real Documents, Pictures, etc... that would normally be there. As root you can do something like

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread seeker5528
On 12/6/2014 5:58 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Well, it is not as if fscks happen out of the blue. Either you weren't paying attention and you were hit with the periodic fsck, or you make a habit of doing dirty shutdowns, and you know the fsck is going to happen anyway. Assuming your partit

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-07 Thread seeker5528
On 12/07/2014 at 06:37 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Look, if you reboot a laptop instead of suspending/hibernating it, sooner or later you're going to have to think "Hmm, it hasn't fscked for a while". It shouldn't be a surprise when it does. That brings up a whole different question about wh

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread seeker5528
On 12/10/2014 11:22 PM, Bret Busby wrote: I make the point that the term is a malapropism. Not that it is invalid. A car central computer, which performs functions like heating the seats, and, determining which seats are occupied, to illuminate "seatbelt not fastened on seat ", are "multi-seat c

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread seeker5528
On 12/11/2014 8:33 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 18:59, Marty a écrit : If this proves feasible, that's what I hope to do. I just want to know if anyone thinks it's a good idea, before I commit time and resources. My knowledge of all of the issues is sketchy at best.

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-13 Thread seeker5528
On 12/12/2014 2:35 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 12.12.2014 06:13, seeker5528 a écrit : Personally I would prefer software X gets a poke in the arm and a message indicating network status changed, screen orientation changed, configuration changed here, there was an event in

Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread seeker5528
On 12/13/2014 3:43 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: What packages should I make sure are properly installed? Where can I find a check list of what needs to be done. While I'm typing this I realize I might need to become a member of a special access group, but what is the name of the group? These are thi

Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

2015-04-19 Thread seeker5528
//Is this still a work in progress? /From: Luis Finotti Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:03:48 -0400 Message-id: Dear all, I had a power failure while I was away and when I came back the boot failed, asking to run fsck manually, which I did. *Many* errors where fixed and I could reboot

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread seeker5528
See if this gets through, my WiFi got flaky, which seems like it cause some issue with imap between Thunderbird and Comcast. Thunderbird claims the message was sent twice, but I never got a copy in my inbox. Here we go again, from the webmail this time. ;) On 3/22/2016 11:20 AM, Russell Gad

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-17 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:45:03 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I'm using udev on this box. Not that I like it, not that I give a > tinker's damn about demonstrating how big my d*ck is by how empty I can > make /dev (and that emptiness has meant I've had to write rules for every >

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

2005-12-26 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:29:30 + Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am obviously missing the obvious here. An IBM Thinkpad, sid, orinoco > wifi card talks to the Netgear DG834G router when security is disabled, > but when I turn WEP on it doesn't connect. > > /etc/network/interface

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-01-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:52:26 +0100 Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover > etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order > with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. For 2.6.14 3c59x is loaded first > corres

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-13 Thread Seeker5528
On 12 Jan 2006 00:45:10 -0800 "hillbilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question to Marc Perrudin... > In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the > 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ > directory as indicated in your response and place th

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:32:17 -0400 Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience, FWIW, Simply put: > > In kernel 2.4, ide-scsi module, we got used to the scsi-emulation concept. > > Whereas, > > In kernel 2.6, we were (somewhat confusingly, IMO) told the above, i.e.: > "SCSI emulation is no

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-14 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI > > emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will > > be expecting to have srX devices for their drives > > 1) I have symlinks: > [EM

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread seeker5528
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:31:51 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file available.old has an uncorrupted copy. Shall I simply copy the good > lines in to the file available and save it? The reason I've not yet done so > is that it says it is a binary file and saving (or is it al

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-17 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:53:44 -0400 Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At last! > Not only am I not inebriated, but I remembered where I read what I > based my missive on. :-) > > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/man/README/README.ATAPI > > An extract from which goes as follows: >

Re: su/sudo cannot X

2006-01-19 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:29:35 -0500 Lei Kong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a strange problem with my thinkpad z60t, running debian testing. > I ran these commands in konsole or xterm under kde: > > $xhost + > $ sudo -s > #kedit > kedit: cannot connect to X server > > What is wrong? If you

Re: apt-get source

2006-01-21 Thread seeker5528
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:05:43 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having failed to get apt-build to work, I tried this. I can easily compile > and > install stuff that the kde packages will not due to dependency problems > (around qt3 and kde) and I get the Debian version (versions po

Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-22 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:38:19 +0100 G-Point <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that a > file has "6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s)" > so i can't boot linux. There are six different parts in the file where it points t

Re: gnome & firefox & thunderbird

2006-01-23 Thread seeker5528
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:26:44 + Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep seeing messages about Firefox and Thunderbird but it's never > about this and I can't find any info about how to control this in Gnome: Gnome has nothing to do with it. I expect Thunderbird probably is defaulted to

Re: ReactOS (was windows desktop under linux)

2006-01-24 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:11:10 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This baby runs slower than a qemu knoppix session off a CD. Even with kqemu > installed. I do not know how one would run one's own apps in such a virual > machine since the only programs are those it has compiled into it

Re: ReactOS (was windows desktop under linux)

2006-01-27 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:28:14 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qemu with ReactOS is either installing to/saving to its disk image file or > simply to ram-disk like knoppix does. A second, empty disk image can be > created as the "D" drive as well. I have had this work running Knoppi

Re: Radeon : scanpci failure ? DRM+DRI disabled

2006-03-30 Thread seeker5528
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:19:43 +0100 "Bruno Costacurta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support > *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500 > *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree. > *** A very experimental (and in

Re: how to begin with qemu and networking

2006-04-05 Thread seeker5528
ttp://home.comcast.net/~seeker5528/qemu-scripts/qemu-ifup http://home.comcast.net/~seeker5528/qemu-scripts/qemu-ifup-sudo Lately I have just been using the -user-net option since I only run one guest environment at a time and am only worried about connecting the guest to the internet it serves my need. It

Re: disableing gnome destop background?

2006-04-08 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:50:43 -0800 "Britton Kerin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to be able to display pictures for my desktop background, > and change them every so often. It seems that gnome doesn't do this, > so I though I'd just do it from a script with xsetbg, but I think for

Re: ati fglrx and xorg 7.0.0

2006-04-25 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:05:46 +0200 Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-05-04 Thread seeker5528
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:16:16 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool. Do you launch them just by kicking off kdesktop and gnome-panel > somewhere in the openbox config? I run fluxbox and start just about everything extra from my .xsession file and have the option for the fluxbox panel

Re: Udev problem when rebooting....no filesystem found

2006-05-04 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:14:04 +0200 "miguel velasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! yesterday night I installed my Debian Etch widh KDE 3.5 at > home and everything could be ok untill I rebooted my computer. At this > moment in the boot process watched: > > Waiting for root file system..

Re: weird fam/samba problem

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:05:36 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fam was started by /etc/init.d/fam on my Sid machine. (I say was > because it appears my machine is now using avahi, since I did an > apt-get upgrade the other day.) These are unrelated things. Avahi provides "a framework for

Re: Removing Exim 4 from Sarge

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:46:25 + Brad Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I would like to know is what is the best way to remove the > preinstalled binary of Exim so that I can download the source and compile it > manually? When I try to remove it through aptitude, it wants to remove a

Re: X.org resolution default selection

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:04:21 -0800 Joel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other suggestions as to how I can accomplish this? Again, I'd like > 1400x1050 for normal desktop use, but be able to switch (via XRANDR) to lower > *and higher* resolutions. The only other thought I have it to place

Re: How to add a new dir to my PATH?

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:21:08 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:40:53PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > > Apparently the issue is solved, so thanks for everybody's inputs. But it > > looks weird, to me. How come there's .bash_profile and .bashrc on my > > home, t

Re: Debian equivalent to service?

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:44:45 -0500 Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These distinctions (at least 3 and 5) are actually useful when debugging > problems with your X config. It just saves a step on some activity. > > On debian, I have to kill gdm, fiddle, and restart it. I can see situat

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-09 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:12:43 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mentioned ppracer as a bit of a sidenote, since not all applications > in Sid could handle Xorg's dri at first. Up until just recently, > glxgears/glxinfo would show I had dri enabled in Xorg, but applications > like ppracer

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-09 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:53:47 +0100 Renato Serodio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, I forgot about the xorg.conf file.. > I have a Radeon 8500 LE The most significant differences between your and mine are the following sections. > Section "Module" > Load"GLcore" > Load"bitm

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-10 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:14:32 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf > > > [FireGL 9000]" Driver "radeon" > > > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > > > > > > Option "UseInternalAGPART" "yes" > > >

Re: Newly added TV Card disables existing sound card.

2006-02-14 Thread seeker5528
> I have an onboard sound card that has been working fine based on > default settings for some time. I have added a Pinnacle TV card and > now find that the sound card is no longer configured after boot. Can > anybody provide advice on what config step I am missing? Looks like it is configured acc

Re: udev problem

2006-02-18 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:33:58 -0500 Jonathan Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a second box, I thought I would get "smart" > and install yaird and remove initramfs before I switched from 2.4 to 2.6 > kernel, but that didn't work somehow. Typing 'man mkinitrd.yaird' shows: To let yaird build

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:31:01 -0800 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15.20060216 > root(hd0,8) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.20060216 root=/dev/hda9 ro quiet > splash vga=791 > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15.20060216

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-02-28 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:36:35 +0100 Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The solution given below has been working for some time now, until udev > 0.085-1 from Feb 19 was installed. Then the behaviour is wrong again, > eth0 is associated to the 8139too driver and eth1 is associated to the >

Re: midi support in debian

2006-03-02 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:53:55 +0300 Roman Makurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) $ sudo aptitude install awesfx > 2) Copy from Driver`s CD sound fonts to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 > 2GMGSMT.SF2 > 4GMGSMT.SF2 > 3) $ sudo modprobe snd_emu10k1_synth > 4) $ asfxload 4GMGSMT > 5) $ pmidi -l >

Re: modprobe.d and post-install problem

2006-03-05 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:28:13 +0200 "Andras Lorincz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a tv-tuner with saa7135HL chipset and works fine with kernel version > 2.6.15.4. When booting I want to pass the module alsa=1 option and to load > the saa7134-alsa module also. So I took these steps: > > 1. c

Re: How do I make my NIC pick the same ETH port every time?

2006-03-25 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:09:28 -0800 > My NIC keeps jumping around between eth0 and eth1 every so often when I > reboot. It is real annoying! How do I get it to stick to be the same all the > time? It is conflicting with a firewire controller... My last go around with the network issue was: http://

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:13:04 -0500 Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's been about a week since I can't solve this problem, despite trying > several different mirrors. This is what I see: > > ,- > | Get:10 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [197B] > | Get:11

Re: Strange "smart" upgrades in aptitude / synaptic?

2005-08-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:58:12 +0200 Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When it recently suggested I > should remove most of gnome just to bump the debian revision of one > package I went looking for alternatives. There seem to be two types of > apt frontends: Can't speak for the othe

Re: Qemu ( was vmware )

2005-08-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:45:37 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Win98 CD that I have is a upgrade CD and is not bootable. Attempts to run > it after successfully booting a DOS diskette designed to Win98 installations > in qemu fail (and it may not be possible to install "from scr

Re: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

2005-08-14 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:19:04 -0700 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas about how to fix? > > laptop:/home/moseley# apt-get update > Get:1 http://bumby unstable/main Packages [3755kB] > [...] > Fetched 5384kB in 1m14s (72.0kB/s)

Re: gnome + nautilus prevent xstarfish from setting background

2005-08-16 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:23:33 +0200 Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I changed from my .xsession based setup to Gnome but now xstartfish seems to > be unable to set the background. Gnome's background preferences is already set > to "no background" but that just seems to mea

Re: disable init scripts

2005-08-16 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:13:33 -0400 Erik Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:32:45PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > > Matthew Lenz wrote: > > > > is there a 'debian way'/command for disabling init scripts from > > > > various run levels? Or do I just

Re: LILO bug? - led

2005-07-03 Thread Seeker5528
What do your: /etc/lilo.conf /etc/fstab /etc/mtab : files look like when you boot normally. And in your first attempt to install lilo to hda was 'boot=/dev/hda' the only thing you changed? Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

2005-08-30 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:29:55 +0200 Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XFree86 has created licensing issues, which is the reason why xorg was > started at all. I remember things a bit differently. X.org was started as a result of difficulties of developers to gain admittance to the i

Re: missing gnome menu items

2005-09-03 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:27:25 -0400 Angelo Bertolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced missing gnome menu > items. I have had this happen on occasion. Usually opening a terminal window, typing: su : giving your root password, then typing: update-me

Re: missing gnome menu items

2005-09-03 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:20:17 -0400 Angelo Bertolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I tried it out, but it still didn't seem to correct the > problem. I am still missing gnome sessions and screensaver settings. Usually the next steps I would take would be to check the file system for errors

Re: missing gnome menu items

2005-09-08 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:08:05 -0400 Angelo Bertolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. I tried this, but it didn't help. Any other ideas? Where are > the gnome menus kept? I have not really delved that deeply into the dark depths of the menu stuff to understand how everything works, but

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-10 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:55:31 -0700 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what about using splashy? it doesn't require a kernel rebuild and is in > experimental or you can add: > > deb http://splashy.Alioth.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > deb-src http://splashy.Alioth.debian.org/debian/

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:39:58 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The point is, the playing field isn't fair. Since a user's computer > > already comes with Windows, they MUST go through an installation process > > to install Debian. The idea is to make that installation process as

Re: booting knoppix from windows

2005-09-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 19:16:01 +0100 debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way that I can persuade windows itself to boot the knoppix cd ? > Or does this make sense ? Qemu seems like the best bet, http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ But if you are going to go that route you might what

Re: fglrx on an ATI 9200SE???

2005-09-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:35:47 + "Florian Dorpmueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thinking about establishing the propreitary ATI driver for my 9200SE > graphics adapter. Hopefully the graphics performance can be increased with > this. With my 8500 the performance with the native ATI dri

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