[Fwd: Re: Need XWindows screen display settings for Dell UltraScan]
John Ferguson wrote: Anyone have the XF86Config monitor settings for the Dell UltraScan? Namely the Section Monitor Modeline settings for 1024x768. Thanks. John, I use a Dell UltraScan 15ES at 1024X768 with a Number9 Trio64 card (2MB), and the following settings work just fine (mind you I cannot recall for the life of me where I got them from, so I cannot garantee that they are entirely optimal...): Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName Dell ModelName UltraScan 15ES HorizSync 31.5-64 VertRefresh 50-90 Modeline 1024x768 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync Modeline 800x60050.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync Modeline 640x48031.50 640 680 720 864 480 488 491 521 EndSection Hope this helps, Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 16bit X-windows
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, ( Don ) wrote: hi does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks dOn have you tried? startx -- -bpp 16 Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course you can make it a permanent change by editing file /etc/X11R6/bin/startx and add the following line to it: serverargs=-bpp 16 The startx command will always launch the 16-bit mode afterwards. Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
TeTeX for Debian
Just a quick word of thanks and congratulations to Christoph Martin for his porting Thomas Esser's TeTeX to Debian. One word: superb. It was the one thing I missed from my pre-Debian days. Thanks also to Craig Sanders for his purge install script! It did the trick. Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
Re: LARRY ELLISON
James W. Lynch wrote: - Received message begins Here - The most brilliant mind has his website: http://www.concentric.net/~Cclm WARNING: An attempt to access this site killed netscape, so be careful. This may be a trojan horse and surely hasn't anything to do with Debian that can be determined from the subject or contents of this message. Jim. Well, it certainly happened to me... I'm not particularly proud, but it certainly killed Netscape, and my whole X session with it. Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
Re: TeTeX for Debian
Christoph Martin wrote: Alain Nadeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick word of thanks and congratulations to Christoph Martin for his porting Thomas Esser's TeTeX to Debian. One word: superb. It was the one thing I missed from my pre-Debian days. Thanks also to Craig Sanders for his purge install script! It did the trick. Ups... Did I miss this script? Where did he send it? I'm just trying to get upgrade smoother. Could you send it to me? Thanks, Christoph Well, perhaps I overstated what I meant. There was a bit of a confusion right after the package was released as to what the correct install procedure was, ie: purge the old TeX/LaTeX first, and only then install TeTeX. Craig just posted the following as being a correct way of doing it: dpkg --purge --force-depends amslatex amstex babel bibtex dvipsk kpathsea kpathsea-dev latex latex2e-doc ltxmisc ltxtool makeindex mfbasfnt mfdcfnt mflib mfnfss ps2pk psnfss texbin texi2html texinfo texlib texpsfnt textmf xdvik Then use dpkg or dselect to install the tetex packages. (assuming you have a mirror of debian mounted at /debian:) cd /debian dpkg -i bo/binary/tex/tetex-base_0.4pl6-2.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-bin_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-dev_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-doc_0.4pl6-1.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-extra_0.4pl6-2.deb I called it a script (perhaps wrongly), maybe procedure would have been more to the point. In any event, it had made clear to me (not a dpkg scholar) how to smoothly get the thing done. Thanks again for TeTeX, Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
Re: TeTeX for Debian
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: should i have some trouble using tetex with any of my latex files, that is, is the change suitably smoth? any known problem? what is missing, if any, regarding latex packages (they are many !) ? []s, Mario O.de Menezes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP BRAZIL | Mario, I can only describe how it went in my particular case. If by latex files you mean text files you wrote in LaTeX, then of course there is no problem whatsoever. If you mean additional macros, styles etc. that you have added by hand to your installation, then you will have to check out whether they are included in teTeX (it includes A LOT, much more than the old standard Debian LaTeX). How (and where) one adds additional macros etc to teTeX is explained in TETEX_FAQ (a must-read, as always, as well as TETEX_doc.dvi). Learning the ins and outs of the texconfig interface is also recommanded. Nothing up to now is missing. The change was very smooth indeed. The FAQ also explains how to subscribe to the tetex mailing list, which I recommend strongly. Don't hesitate to write directly if you need more details, Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
Re: lp1 out of paper
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Hi Karl, Thanks for your reply, Is the 'lpd' running? Maybe you need to 'rm' the S symlink to the 'lpd' startup script in '/etc/rcX.d' for the runlevel you are in, so that the line printer daemon never gets fired off? -- Many solutions were suggested, and as it turns out all of them where correct... Yes, I had old print jobs waiting in the queue; yes I had a symlink in /etc/rc2.d to the lpd script, and yes, /etc/modules was loading the lp module for some reason... All is now as it should be! Many thanks to all. By the way, the athmosphere on this list is truly a breath of fresh air. Very little noise, and lots of extremely useful feedback. I have moved from Redhat (a fine product, to be sure, but the list is Babel with a vengeance) in December, and in the last few weeks have been an interested reader of the exchanges here. Always extremely relaxed and positive. Most enjoyable! Alain. Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Leader appearing on Long Island and Rochester N.Y.
Bruce Perens wrote: I'll be at the Linux Expo in North Carolina in April, and plan to visit France and England in May (although that date could change). Thanks Bruce Perens Do keep the masses informed on the French plans. I have to go to Paris all the time, and I've been known to hoist the odd one... or twelve. Alain. - Dr. Alain Nadeau Institute of Medieval Studies University of Fribourg (Switzerland) http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
slang and xterm
I have encountered the following problem since moving to Debian (1.2), and I must admit I cannot find the solution. It appears that some binaries compiled with slang (jed and most in any event) will not load in an xterm (nor for that matter in an rxvt, itself an slang binary!): the reply is always: terminal not powerful enough for slang. Never saw that before. Is it a matter of updating the Slang lib? They work fine on a tty, xjed works fine as well. Any clue? Alain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lp1 out of paper
I know my printer is out of paper. Its also out of electricity, being that it's in a cupboard in the basement. Still, the above message is sent to /var/log/messages every 10 seconds, day in day out. I've recompiled my kernel (2.0.27) specifically disabling printer support, but that message is still spewed out every ten seconds. I cannot for the life of me find where that call is made. Could a kind soul tell me how to disable printer support for good (I do my printout stuff on the nice Laserjet at the office...). Thanks in advance, Alain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lp1 out of paper
Nathan L. Cutler wrote: Alain == Alain Nadeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (...) the above message is sent to Alain /var/log/messages every 10 seconds, day in day out. I've Alain recompiled my kernel (2.0.27) specifically disabling Alain printer support, but that message is still spewed out every Alain ten seconds. I cannot for the life of me find where that Alain call is made. I had this same problem. It was extremely irritating. I even tried putting paper in the printer ;-) to no avail. I finally discovered that there was a long-dead print job on the queue. When I 'lprm'd it, the messages stopped. Dear Nathan ! I have seen the light! Two thoroughly unknown print jobs were indeed lurking in my /var/spool/lpd/lp directory. I have no idea where they came from! They have been happily lprm'ed, and the pesky message is gone... Thanks a lot for the great tip: that is one I won't forget! Alain. --- Alain Nadeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slang and xterm
Wow, you're right. I think that the new version of the slang library fixed this. Sorry, I said new version of slrn, but I meant new versoin of slang. Anyway, I didn't want to bother checking. Joost, are you running slang0.99.34? Yes. Thanks to both Joost and Joey! I've unset my TERMCAP and everything is working fine, as they said. I'll be moving up to slang 0.99.34 as well soon. Best, Alain. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
