fonts not working in firefox/ icedove

2006-11-22 Thread matthew yee-king
Hello! I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my i386 etch system and now the font rendering in icedove and firefox seems to be broken. For example, in my list of emails I onlt see the subject and other text information about the email when i click on the email. In firefox, I have to drag the

Re: fonts not working in firefox/ icedove

2006-11-22 Thread matthew yee-king
matthew yee-king wrote: Hello! I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my i386 etch system and now the font rendering in icedove and firefox seems to be broken. For example, in my list of emails I onlt see the subject and other text information about the email when i click on the email. In firefox

Re: fonts not working in firefox/ icedove

2006-11-22 Thread matthew yee-king
matthew yee-king wrote: matthew yee-king wrote: Hello! I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my i386 etch system and now the font rendering in icedove and firefox seems to be broken. For example, in my list of emails I onlt see the subject and other text information about the email when i click

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) I have deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main mplayer

Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Erik Steffl wrote: I have a DVD (PAL system, not sure if it matters, no copy protection) and I'd like to convert it to something that I can upload to youtube (or just send to friends). I am using debian linux system (unstable). Hello Try acidrip - It's a graphical front end on the

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Adam Hardy wrote: I upgraded a whole set of packages in etch using synaptic. I answered several of the questions posed by the installation processses of some of the packages but I must have answered one of them very wrongly. Now my system-, firefox- and thunderbird text refuses to appear

gnome apps can't print, everything else can

2006-12-13 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello! I have developed a problem with my gnome printing system. I am using cups with a samsung ml1520 + unstable amd64. The problem is that gnome apps can no longer print for some reason. They generate a job on the printer (according to cups) but this job is dispatched instantly without being

problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On the remote machine, i export DISPLAY=mylocalIP:0 then on my local machine, i xhost memote machineIP . but it doesn't work - on the remote machine i get the

problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On the remote machine, i export DISPLAY=mylocalIP:0 then on my local machine, i xhost memote machineIP . but it doesn't work - on the remote machine i get the

realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello (woody, 2.4.18bf2.4 I am trying to get realplayer working. I downloaded the installer from realnetworks and installed it. when i run it, it opens a window, maybe displays a couple of widgets, then locks up. anyone else had this problem? how can i fix it? cheers matthew -- To

Re: realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
oops! i forgot - i installed alsa0.9rc1 and hadn't rebooted yet so the kernel modules were in a bit of a state - ... now its fine. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:32:49 +0100 Matthew Yee-King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello (woody, 2.4.18bf2.4 I am trying to get realplayer working. I downloaded