Re: dvips TeX printer driver

2004-02-06 Thread Alf Werder
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:37, Haines Brown wrote: > When I migrated to debian, I lost my ability to print LaTeX files. No > information is sent to the printer. > > The printer driver is dvips, and I assumed that it was included in the > LaTeX package, for that was the case with my LaTeX installatio

Re: cdrecord priority

2004-02-04 Thread Alf Werder
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 17:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-04, Gustavo Halperin penned: > > Hello List > > > > When I roast some CD with 'xcdroast' (or any other application), I > > can also do it another thinks in the computer. But if I call to the > > command 'cdrecor' (also I

Re: display directories only

2004-01-05 Thread Alf Werder
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 15:47, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I have a basic question. > Is there a method using "ls" from the command line to > have it display only directories. > I've looked thru the help (ls --help), but cant' guess the right > switches. A bare ls cannot do that ... it needs some assis

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Alf Werder
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 18:22, Gruessle wrote: > Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. > I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet. > So I will email it to my other pc. # man -T ps will produce the manual page for in postcript format. Maybe you prefer a plain text

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-15 Thread Alf Werder
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:41, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I did a downgrade to debian/stable - after a knoppix harddisc a few > weeks ago (which is a mix of stable and testing) > > However, right now the fonts in mozilla are ugly - they used to be much > better and I'd want to get

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:17, Steve Lamb wrote: > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would like > to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to make > absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is right the > first time. Currentl

Re: crontab

2003-12-04 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:17, Michael Martinell wrote: > I am definitely doing something wrong here. I want to schedule a job > to run once at 12:00noon. I set it up in cron. It waits until > 12:00noon, runs, and then runs every minute after. > > > > Can anybody tell me what I have done wrong

Re: Where did the CD writing howto go?

2003-12-02 Thread Alf Werder
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 19:15, Joris Huizer wrote: > Thanasis Kinias wrote: > > >scripsit Joris Huizer: > > > > > >>I know there is supposed to be a howto file in > >>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz but the complete > >>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt directory is missing (I guess it

Re: Where did the CD writing howto go?

2003-12-02 Thread Alf Werder
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:50, Joris Huizer wrote: > I know there is supposed to be a howto file in > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz but the complete > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt directory is missing (I guess it's not part > of the knoppix harddisk installation) > What do I have

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2003-11-30 Thread Alf Werder
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:12, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But then the disappointment: > > > > $ modprobe amd74xx > > > > $ hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > >

Re: Modules/Ethernet setup

2003-11-30 Thread Alf Werder
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 21:32, Paul M Foster wrote: > When I was installing Deb 3.0r1 on a new machine, I couldn't find what I > thought was the right module/driver for the ethernet card, so I just > skipped it. Later I found the right driver. I can get the card up and > working. Manually, I can d

Re: problem loading ide-scsi module

2003-11-29 Thread Alf Werder
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 22:02, dooble M wrote: > hi everybody, I'm new on this list ! > > I'm runing with woody and i'm trying to use my ide cd-burner. > Since I read that I need scsi emulation to make it work, I just > recompiled my kernel (2.4.22 with make-kpkg) with sg, sr, ide-scsi, and > with

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Alf Werder
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:21, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 7:27 am, charlie derr wrote: > ># apt-get remove python > >(or maybe it was "apt-get remove python2.3") > >Which will remove a lot of packages (paste the list to a file before you > >answer "Y" if you want to reinstall t

Re: fonts in Mozilla

2003-11-28 Thread Alf Werder
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 06:17, H. S. wrote: > In my newly intalled and dist-upgraded Debian system, I get crapy fonts > in Mozilla(version 1.5). How do I get the nice anti-aliased fonts? Install 'mozilla-xft'. -alf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: dpkg and file ownership

2003-11-27 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 05:26, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:25:32PM +0100, Alf Werder wrote: > > How does dpkg handle the upgrade of a package, if file ownership und > > access permissions of an installed file was changed manually? Does it > > keep the modif

Re: Xresources & Xdefaults documentation

2003-11-26 Thread Alf Werder
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 23:39, Micha Feigin wrote: > Can someone recomend so documentation about Xresources & Xdefaults. > I found some examples floating around but the exact syntax eludes me. > I tried googling, looking in the HOWTO directory and apropos but it > seems like I am not finding the righ

dpkg and file ownership

2003-11-26 Thread Alf Werder
Hi, How does dpkg handle the upgrade of a package, if file ownership und access permissions of an installed file was changed manually? Does it keep the modified state, asks me or just reinstall the old ownership and access permissions? The question arises, because I want to give some users of my

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Alf Werder
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 14:43, Micha Feigin wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see what is using that mount point? >

Re: scsi emulation for CD burner

2003-11-20 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:31, marcos wrote: > Hello > > I'm having big troubles when I try to use my ide CD burner with scsi > emulation. > > (Question #1 : is it true we have to use scsi emulation in order to burn > CDs with a IDE cd burner ?) > > The problems begin when the system tries to lo