USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June
Hi all, Since I did a dist-upgrade (running unstable) on 2015-06-01, I'm having a rather annoying issue that the system will seemingly randomly drop keystrokes from my USB keyboard I tried disabling power management for that device, but that doesn't help. This is happening on two different machines with the same keyboard model that worked well before the dist-upgrade, and the hardware is fine as witnessed by other operating systems. A USB mouse attached to the integrated USB hub works without issues. It used to help to attach the keyboard to a USB3 port, but right now even that is acting up. I have no idea which package may have introduced the issue, a list of all packages changing as well as lsusb output is here: https://gist.github.com/ngollan/8542b21675133c663f97 Any ideas? Regards, Nicos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4512563.1VuuCBAH78@metal
Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?
On Friday September 23 2005 15:09, Malte Cornils wrote: [...] test_p = new test[i]; [...] free(test_p); Never, ever free() memory allocated with new! Use delete[]. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpNKdrg6W5Aw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange things with SMP setup (slightly OT)
On Tuesday September 13 2005 00:09, Nicos Gollan wrote: There's a really funny thing happening with my new machine (Athlon 64 X2). Everytime the machine sees some load (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or a -j4 make job), something seems to go bam in the scheduler, IRQ routing or something else. Self-reply, in case someone happens to have the same problem. It appears to be a known problem with a desynchronized timer. A problem description and possible workarounds are given here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105 -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp5Yzd5DQV3W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: UPS recommendations?
On Saturday September 17 2005 16:54, Gene Heskett wrote: even after all this time they have not made it work with the USB ports on their UPS's, so you lose a seriel port to connect the software to the UPS. Gr. I need that port for other things. Wouldn't it be possible to use a USB/Serial adapter? Sure, those things are too expensive for what they do, but if you need a serial port this badly it might be worth considering. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgphIBIPcHPqf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is ASUS A8V Deluxe OK for Linux?
On Friday September 16 2005 22:50, Dirk wrote: It's the [ASUS] A8V-Deluxe Does anyone know if this MB has problems with Linux (or the other way?) The article linked below says that you'll probably have to hunt for working network drivers, and there's also a mention of problems with kernels below 2.6.12. Before I had the P5RD1-Deluxe (Intel CPU) but it was too hot (noisy) because I needed 550Watts to make it stable. Make sure as hell that you get a Venice core. Most if not all retailers I know have the core revision mentioned in their listings. Compared to a P4, a Venice core runs on thin air. Also, make sure to get a good power supply. There was a test in a recent c't. Read it if you can get it. Are VIA chipsets in general OK for Linux or do they suck for some reason? VIA is usually the better supported chipset when compared to nvidia. However, with some knowledge and well-choosen hardware you'll be OK in any case. I WANT an Athlon64 3200+! Maybe there is a better MB available? I got an MSI Neo4 Platinum for my X2 4200 (yeah, maybe I'm just answering to show off, but what the hell :-P) after reading this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-338363.html This one runs quite well like the article says 'though the Marvell NIC still doesn't seem to be recognized in kernel 2.6.13 and the PCI-ID database in that kernel still shows 16 onboard PCI devices as unknown. Be aware that my system started to work well only after an update to the most recent BIOS 1.9, which may or may not be trivial to update without something DOS- or Windows-based -- the BIOS doesn't have that nice built-in flash tool and floppies are actually not recommended. Up to this revision, I had horrible problems with USB input devices when the system got busy (see another one of my recent posts on this list about it). That issue might not come up on a non-SMP system. A *big* downside of that MSI board is the chipset fan. It's a little 30 or 40mm *turbine* running at 7000 RPM, which is not so nice. Also, that sucker is located right where the graphics card is venting its waste heat. So if you want some more powerful card, make sure you get a model that vents to the outside of the case (or use an aftermarket void-your-warranty solution like Arctic Cooling's VGA Silencer). Otherwise, the board layout is somewhat useful. You get a 2xPCIe (4x socket, open) and a 1xPCIe slot *above* the PEG slot and three PCI slots, one of which should be kept free so that the graphics adapter can breathe. Back to ASUS, one of their boards, a P4 board, didn't get away too well in a review in c't because it had a ridiculous power consumption at about two times of what its contenders disspated. Also, look out for oversized cooling solutions like ABIT has on their [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fatal1ty boards. If they don't indicate some strange heat source, they still mean a lot of unnecessary noise but seem to be a necessary source of coolness for enthusiast equipment. Really, fans are today's blinkenlights. Some ABIT boards use a heatpipe to keep the chipset cool, which is a nice solution since it means the board doesn't have moving parts. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpFoxEtdWvcg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Strange things with SMP setup (slightly OT)
Hi, There's a really funny thing happening with my new machine (Athlon 64 X2). Everytime the machine sees some load (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or a -j4 make job), something seems to go bam in the scheduler, IRQ routing or something else. The visible results are: - Multiplied input events from the keyboard (attached via USB, OHCI driver) - Firefox having problems with the URL auto completion and the file chooser dialog, both need ages to open. Those do not go away when the load goes down to idle. Aparently, KDE seems to run just fine other than the input problem, there are no issues with file chosser or other widgets taking ages to open. The input problem occurs quite soon after the system gets busy, the Firefox problem seems to take a while to develop. The machine is otherwise perfectly stable, there have been no hard crashes, memtest86+ found nothing wrong with the memory. Does someone have an idea - how to find out what goes wrong? (diagnostic methods?) - what might be at fault? (hardware or software issue?) - who might have further ideas? (other maillists, forums, etc.) My setup: - Athlon 64 X2 on a MSI Neo4 Platinum board (nForce 4 Ultra based, BIOS version 1.8) - kernel 2.6.13 without kernel preemption. This also occured with 2.6.12.5, but it seemed to be stronger, meaning that each and every keypress was repeated 4-5 times whereas without preemption it gets reduced to perhaps one keypress in 100 or so. I'll now try and send this if I can just enter my GPG passphrase :-/ -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpOdk0sDxIYN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apache2 vs. apache-perl
On Tuesday September 6 2005 21:55, Daniel McBrearty wrote: I'm wondering whether this will cause me extra work in deploying my project, and hence whether to go to the trouble of removing 2 and replaicing with perl. If your project uses mod_perl 1, you will probably run into some difficulties. mod_perl 2 uses a different API, so you'll have to change some bits. The website at http://perl.apache.org has a migration guide which you should read before upgrading. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgplvOFsVJqA1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM
On Sunday September 4 2005 22:14, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2005 05:02 pm, Jim wrote: What happened to gunsamerica.com? [EMAIL PROTECTED] could answer that. Perhaps he got shot or something? *SCNR* Necessary disclaimer: This is sarcasm! -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpN8lS5rPPft.pgp Description: PGP signature
nforce4 PATA support?
Hi, after some research, I ordered a MSI Neo4 Platinum Mainboard, which uses the nforce 4 chipset. Until today, I was fairly confident that I could get the planned configuration to run, but just now I'm not so sure anymore. Each and every writeup I found so far on the 'net talked only about SATA support, which I won't need. I need my PATA drive to work, preferably without an expensive adapter. The kernel up to 2.6.12.5 doesn't seem to have any support for PATA on any nforce chipset. Is it really impossible to use it? Or is it just part of the SATA driver? Does someone here have experience with that topic? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpBeAEOb4hOn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: trash
On Friday August 5 2005 19:49, j j wrote: can I empty trash can from a terminal? Can I use xffm to delete kde trash:/ ? Which directory is trash:/ stored in? Try ~/Desktop/Trash and delete or move its contents to see if it works properly. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpkJI4CEAEGC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Copying Large Files 2Gb to smbfs mount
On Wednesday August 3 2005 14:52, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Christof Hurschler schreef: I thought that the file size limit for NTFS was much bigger than 2Gb. Is this maybe a samba limitation? Not that I know: I have copied 4 Gb (Debian ISO images) back and forth between Debian Sarge with Version 3.0.14a-Debian and W2K SP4 machines. That's because the W2k machines probably used CIFS and not SMB. SMB, at least like Samba uses it, does have a 2GiB limit, CIFS does not. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpwu0Gn5EffN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Copying Large Files 2Gb to smbfs mount
On Wednesday August 3 2005 15:57, Christof Hurschler wrote: How can I circumvent the 2GiB limit? Can I mount the share as cifs? You can if the client's kernel supports it. For some reason, smbmount doesn't do CIFS and there doesn't seem to be a CIFS equivalent, so you'll have to use mount with something like: mount -t cifs //remote/share /path/to/mountpoint which of course won't work for a normal user, but an fstab entry should help. To check whether your kernel supports CIFS, check /proc/filesystems. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpTO1LH8P4VO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't locate Apache2.pm in @INC
On Sunday July 31 2005 16:36, Paul Scott wrote: I presumably can follow the instructions below but I am running sid and have the latest packages. I just installed the new libapache2-mod-perl2 that showed up after I sent my first post and it is still broken. What updated packages are you referring to? I have no non-Debian code that uses mod-perl. Due to the renaming, some packages that are using mod_perl2 might have some problems. Mason is one case where it took some time for a working version to get into sid. If you're using any handlers that might cause a problem, disable them one by one to find the problem. Here's the description of the problem along with some advice on how to fix your own code: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/rename.html#Effects I had seen that and will reread it but was wondering if there was a Debian package solution. If you're getting the message when starting Apache, you'll have to check /etc/apache2 for some file trying to load the module. If you have a link /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.conf, delete it or just remove the line use Apache2; if you changed it yourself. It was part of the older mod_perl2 releases which required the module to be loaded to redirect the Apache namespace. If there's nothing in in anymore, you can also delete the linked file at /etc/apache2/mods-available/perl.conf. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpkiOPdfjKhj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't locate Apache2.pm in @INC
On Monday August 1 2005 19:01, Paul Scott wrote: Unfortunately the next problem is that the script I'm working on just begins with the usual: #!/usr/bin/perl -w and the browser (Firefox) still displays the script instead of executing it. The script works fine on the web server that is hosting the sight. Make sure you set up the handler for the file type properly and named the file accordingly. I don't know how much experience you have with the mod_perl stuff, but you'll properly be best off if you read and understand the short introduction which handles server setup and a basic script: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/intro/start_fast.html -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpRwVXHwresH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't locate Apache2.pm in @INC
On Sunday July 31 2005 00:50, Paul Scott wrote: on sid I am getting on trying to start Apache2: Can't locate Apache2.pm in @INC and Can't load Perl module Apache2 I have both packages installed which contain Apache2.pm according to http://packages.debian.org From much Googling I understand this is because of name changes in Apache2. Is there a Debian solution to this? mod_perl2 had a rather radical change in its API sometime in the late 1.99x releases which actually removed the Apache2.pm module and created the Apache2 namespace for sub-modules (before, Apache2.pm redirected the Apache namespace to Apache2). If you have written any code for mod_perl2 or if you're using any packages which need it, you'll need to fix your code or get updated packages. Here's the description of the problem along with some advice on how to fix your own code: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/rename.html#Effects -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpBR6pNKZkHX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: libimf.so not found by Intel C/C++ 9.0 compiler
On Saturday July 30 2005 19:01, michael wrote: error while loading shared libraries: libimf.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I don't know what libimf is supposed to do, but a bit of searching makes me believe that it's an intel-specific library that is installed along with the compiler but not added to ld's search path. Perhaps this helps: http://softwareforums.intel.com/ids/board/message?board.id=16message.id=2000 Also, you can try adding the library path, whatever it might be, to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpQsppPCg82B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: software Raid fsck
On Thursday July 21 2005 14:29, MatB wrote: Hi, i have a software raid 1 configuration. When i need to check the filesystem, does it make sense to fsck the physical device (/dev/hdXX) or checking the block device /dev/mdX is enough? With RAID, checking the discs for filesystem consistency doesn't make much sense. What's stored on the discs might not even be a useable filesystem before the adapter layer that does the RAID stuff, so you have to check the md block device. To make sure the discs are doing fine, have a look at /proc/mdstat every now and then and if the discs support it use SMART to monitor them. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpUFOmCGH1P2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: completely inane AOL questions
On Saturday July 16 2005 22:04, John Fleming wrote: Agreed - Perhaps we could filter profanity as well. It's kind of hard to draw the line there. If you are referring to the goddamn in my post, then I can't see too much profanity there. It's not as if I'd written shoot al those fu**ing AOL ales, it wasn't even directed at a specific person. Implementing a well-behaved filter for that would mean implementing a complete understanding of the language which should prove difficult, especially on a list like this. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpGvjEHh1Slg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: completely inane AOL questions
On Saturday July 16 2005 21:37, roach wrote: On Saturday 16 July 2005 14:50, Nicos Gollan wrote: ... Anyone else for blocking all mails to the list that have a From header ending in @aol.com? AOL has become quiet good at fighting spam coming from their network, no need to punish them. It's not about punishing AOL itself, it's about keeping the list clean. Have a good look at the From lines. Most of them are formed like: Sometimes Real Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] while those AOL mails tend to just have the mail address, with the name part ending in numbers more often than not (this fulfills two SA spam criterions on one line). This means that filtering out those mails wouldn't touch the vast majority of mails on this list, and only kill messages which come from people that are too dumb or too lazy to enter their real name in their MUA. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp7RlSSLrh5j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: completely inane AOL questions
On Saturday July 16 2005 14:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to retrieve my old password and change it please. I am not good on computers, need help. This is new and frightening: AOL idiots looking for help with password problems on this list. Anyone else for blocking all mails to the list that have a From header ending in @aol.com? The spam filter seems to need a small^Wcomplete overhaul anyway, so why not go all the goddamn way? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpeKO28E7rSN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: take your fucking shit out of my computer
On Monday July 11 2005 16:45, rodger wrote: I thought I was the only one.No os is safe not even linux. They Slow down my band width drop trojans in my pc.Turn of my security tools and hide themselves and are Being smart arese in general. Big brother is watching us all. Looks like someone didn't eat the funny pills the doc gave him... That or he ate them all at once, which might also explain it. That and a liter or two of grain alcohol. Speelign ruls! -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpmwvP959RCX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: yahoopops and xinetd
On Friday July 8 2005 12:51, Efthimios Mavrogeorgiadis wrote:
I added the following lines to /etc/xinetd.conf:
service unlisted
{
type= UNLISTED
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
server = /usr/bin/ypops.sh
port= 3495
disable = no
}
The problem is that whenever thunderbird tries to connect to ypops I get
the message Could not connect to server localhost; the connection was
refused and a quick port scan shows that no service is listening for
activity on port 3495.
Did you restart xinetd? Did it start the new service properly? Have a look
at /var/log/daemon.log after restarting it.
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(Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!
On Wednesday July 6 2005 15:43, Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 06.07.2005 at 07:56 -0500, John Hasler wrote: You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again later. s/is free to/will almost certainly/ IMHO Yes, but now the parliament has at least shown its ability to act which I hope will make the corrup^Wcommission a bit wary of just trying to override its decisions. Hopefully, this will lead to a more sensible approach the next time the issue comes around. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpJRiJbuuB2n.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: rosegarden, no sound
On Tuesday July 5 2005 06:46, David E. Fox wrote: After configuring rosegarden4 it seems to think the midi device can do sound, but nothing comes out, despite playing with the kmix sliders to no avail. This is on a (mostly) sarge system, kde 3.4.1, using jackd/alsa as the software suggests, after using sfxload to load a basic sound font into the sound card, which is EMU10K1 based - SB Live value. Search the archives, MIDI has been covered several times over the last few months, and the necessary steps are still the same. Read this: http://houghi.org/user/ch19s09.html You might also want to have a look at Timidity which can be used as a normal sequencer device, but it also burns CPU cycles like mad. You'll also need a patch set or soundfont, sources are somewhere on this list, but your soundcard's driver CD should have some on it. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpyBpp05Kpfk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installing screen
On Sunday July 3 2005 03:05, trevor hamel wrote: hi ... im new to all this but ive done pretty well so far. i wanna install debian to my 2nd hard drive. i wiped it clean and booted up debian. i got tothe page where it asks for the language and it was unresponsive. any ideas to y that happened? thank you very much for any help.. I don't know the installer too well, but if this is the first time that you do any keyboard input and you have a USB keyboard, there might be a problem with that. You could try enabling USB keyboard support in the BIOS setup or -- if you're installing Sarge -- try using the 2.6 kernel which might be better at using HID devices. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpjo5vCJZL1S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla browser and thunderbird printing problem
On Saturday July 2 2005 07:34, Ms Linuz wrote: If this a very often thrown question, then I'm sorry since I can't find any problem solving related in my debian mailing list archive. So...I can't print from mozilla browser and thunderbird.I don't know exactly [...] I'm using CUPS and Xprint is also installed. You are right, that question crops up quite frequently. Uninstall everything related to XPrint and make sure you have the cupsys-bsd package installed. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp2IrpWM2jVP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what is iproute2 and how to install it ?
On Saturday July 2 2005 10:21, Cao Van Khanh wrote: I use route comand in debian 3.1 to routing my network , but sometime I head about iproute2 and would like to know more about it . Please give me some infor http://lartc.org/ -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpFOXDVoZurE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Etch Version #
On Saturday June 25 2005 02:33, Robert Wolfe wrote: Anyone know what the next version number of Debian will be once etch comes to fruition?? That'd be Debian GNU/Linux 2010. SCNR. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpltpwbYgVHC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Strangeness in name resolution
Hi all, since recently, there seems to be a strange phenomenon going on with DNS resolution. From time to time, some domain names seem to be redirected to a domain broker/squatter (domainmonkeys or something), or today to myfamily.com. This is completely new behaviour from a system that has been running fine for over a year. I am running BIND9 (from testing) that just serves local names and acts as a forwarder/cache for anything outside my local TLD. Sometimes, restarting BIND fixes it, but sometimes it doesn't. According to dig, the forwarder resolves to the same wrong IP as does another name server. When digging the name servers in the WHOIS data, I get the right IP. Is this some kind of attack on my system or are my forwarders simultaneously being poisoned? Is there someone crawling through my system? As for outside attacks: the system doesn't answer to inbound connections or unrelated packets to the ports used by BIND that come from outside the network. All machines on the network seem to be virus and spyware-free. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp5zBCc2jr4G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FireFox annoyances
On Friday June 17 2005 10:36, Mitja Podreka wrote: Another problem is probably related with general settings (it is same in FireFox and Konqueror), but I can't find the solution. If I view pages on localhost the special characters are displayed incorrectly. When I view the same pages, uploaded on server everythink displays correctly. That's a problem with how HTML and HTTP are supposed to work together. HTML in itself has (IMAO) no sane way to specify a charset. For three possible ways which are all rather unreliable read this: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.2 With XHTML, that problem is solved in a much better way by having the XML declaration contain the charset, but having the declaration usually breaks IE. Also, at least Firefox and Konqueror read XHTML files as HTML unless you properly name them with the .xhtml extension. A way that I found to at least have a working local preview is to use both the XML declaration and the META-tag. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpyX2CMlN4pM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: bash positional parameters
On Thursday June 16 2005 21:13, michael wrote:
For some reason out of my control I need to pass the name of an env var
to a bash script and then, within said script, determine the value of
that env var.
[...]
I've tried various combos inside the script like
echo ${$1}
That was pretty close, and reading the bash manpage actually helps. Read near
the beginning of Parameter Expansion, there's an explanation of what you
want.
Try:
echo ${!1}
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Re: download swf video
On Tuesday June 14 2005 18:56, Christian Christmann wrote: I'd like to download the swf video which you can get on http://whoppix.hackingdefined.com/Whoppix-HD-install.html Is there any way to do that? Yes. Just have a look at the page source. It points to an XML file that holds the viewer's configuration. In that file is the filename of the video, which can be downloaded from: http://whoppix.hackingdefined.com/WHoppix-HDinstall.swf That file doesn't have any navigation, so you might want to get the viewer along with its configuration and build your own short HTML page. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpHfewe02XLP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: file truncation bug in gv 3.5.8???
On Saturday June 11 2005 09:54, Bill wrote: The strange thing is that when I open the original .pdf file in gv I can see all 56 pages on screen. But when I try to print the file only the first 44 pages will be output. Also, if I try to print the last 12 pages separately, either singly or as a group, nothing prints. ( There is no problem with toner or paper. ) Have you tried printing the last 11 pages, omitting the one it fails on? Sometimes, even not corrupted PDF or PS documents are a bit weird, which in my experience sometimes happens with files generated on Windows. Now, don't ask me why, I just know that each and every file that I couldn't print was apparently generated on Windows, I don't know by what program though. The only thing all those files had in common was a pixmap image on the page with the failure. Those files just made my printer crash. The only solution I found was rasterizing the pages in Gimp and then print the image. I think some piece of software has the tendency to produce ever so slightly broken code when being confronted with certain types of graphics. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpsGgIDExebT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox no print issue
On Wednesday June 8 2005 20:50, Jim Hall wrote: Because printing in Linux and I are not on the best of terms, I sort of expected to see something more CUPS related. I say that because in the CUPS setup I've done so far I didn't see any lpr commands. So there we have a(nother) potential culprit. Install the cupsys-bsd package. It will replace the BSD printer tools (lpr and others) which use the antiquated printcap system for configuration and replace them with drop-in commands that actually use the CUPS configuration. It seems that installing CUPS doesn't automatically install those tools, so any program that uses them may or may not work while others that use CUPS directly (e.g. KDE or Gnome) work just fine. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpFjuOVEpXIL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox no print issue
On Saturday June 4 2005 03:28, Jim Hall wrote: Results of suggestions. Tried the Postscript entry; same bad result. Looked for all pkgs related to xprint. Found: xprt-xprintorg, xprint, xprint-common. When I tried to remove them, that would also remove x-window-system! That seems like xprint is a necessary component and can't be separated from X. x-window-system is just a metapackage (a bunch of dependencies) that can be removed without any worries. So, if cups is the system default why did xprint stick it's nose into Firefox's business? If I can't remove xprint, is there any way to change it? Or, is this a Firefox problem, since no other app seems to be affected? It's a Mozilla problem. Xprint is an initiative that spawned from the Mozilla project. It's basically a translator that converts the X protocol to Postscript. Also, it's pretty telling that the version in Debian is 0.1.0.alpha1-10, with no corresponding release being offered by the project itself. It might get better with a transition to X.org which Xprint seems to have become a part of. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpnddde1eep6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox no print issue
On Friday June 3 2005 04:40, Jim Hall wrote: Web site page in Firefox. Go to File - Print - dialog box. Click print button: page is sent to printer, first page is a PS error, lots of blank pages follow. The printer is listed as: QMS 1660@:64. This looks like you're using xprint to print from Firefox. Don't use it, xprint is buggy as hell. The printer should be listed twice, once as QMS 1660@:64 as you said, and then again as PostScript/QMS 1660. Try printing from the PostScript/...-entry. If this works, find all installed packages that have xprint in their names and deinstall them. This way, you'll lose some settings in Firefox's print setup (e.g. duplex print if it's available at all), but at least it should work with the printer's default settings. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpZdDK2Tiuu7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: decyphering spam
On Thursday June 2 2005 22:18, michael wrote:
how do i decypher what the following HTML/javascript attempts (original
'write' was all one line)?
First, you shove it through that Perl script with the line intact (isn't
downloading Videos from secure pages fun...):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
foreach (STDIN) {
s/\%([0-9a-fA-F]{1,2})/print STDOUT chr(hex($1))/ge;
}
Afterwards, you search the resulting JavaScript fragment for what the dF
function actually does. It decodes to this:
SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascriptdocument.write('empty..');/SCRIPT
script language=javascript
function dF(s){
var s1=unescape(s.substr(0,s.length-1));
var t= '';
for(i=0;is1.length;i++)
t += String.fromCharCode(
s1.charCodeAt(i)-s.substr(s.length-1,1) );
document.write(unescape(t));}
/script{]
Have fun. I found that it's actually pretty simple to just re-implement
whatever it does in a programming language of your choice and just dump
everything to stdout.
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Re: Kdevelop3 and CVS
On Friday June 3 2005 00:46, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: I'm using kdevelop3 that comes with Debian Sarge. I noticed that no CVS menu is available anywhere... do I have to install further packages or configure something? Try the kdevelop3-plugins package. Also make sure to set the proper version control system in the project options. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpL3CaAQZTPI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves. (SPOILER)
On Wednesday May 25 2005 13:38, michael wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:04 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:
and what about this:
$ :(){ :| :};:
Try it at your own risk. :P
I've tried to decypher this but failed... can somebody enlighten me pls
It defines a shell function : that calls itself and executes it. It's as
short a bash (also sh?) forkbomb as you get and it's pretty efficient at
cleaning your memory and swap partition to a bare minimum if you don't ulimit
it. Killing it was not too difficult the one time I tried it, but as always:
don't do this on a production machine.
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Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...
On Sunday May 22 2005 22:26, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: The only way I can share files between the OSs is through FAT32 disks. But those only support files up to 4GB. So I'm in trouble. You could try a tool like EXT2IFS to access you Linux partitions from Windows: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm It will at least let you read from ext2/3 partitions. I don't know how well this driver handles large files though and have never used it myself, so you might want to do some testing with a file over 4GB. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpeX1SzHTFZd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Setting default fonts for xlib applications?
Hi, applications which are using xlib directly (at least that's what I think is the common denominator) suffer from rather ugly font rendering. As an example, here's a screenshot of a WINE window (15k file size): http://www.spearhead.de/somepics/wine-ugly.png Other applications that look like this include xedit and eximon. I tried my luck with some search engines, but didn't find anything relevant. How do I set the default fonts to be used for those applications? Thanks for your time :-) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpHyCov23P1p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sar
On Tuesday May 17 2005 14:12, stan wrote: Is there no sar in Linux/Debian? apt-get seems to anly offere something called searchaandrescue in it's palce. This doesn't sound right. sar is System Activity Reporter a general purpose tool form SYSV to monitor various system usages etc. $ apt-cache search system activity report atsar - system activity reporter sysstat - sar, iostat and mpstat - system performance tools for Linux -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpZssuxuyYcn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox and MIDI
On Saturday May 14 2005 05:02, Jim Hall wrote: A user needs MIDI to work in Firefox. I installed kernel-image-2.6.8-686, then ALSA. Ran alsaconf. Everything seemed fine, but no MIDI in Firefox. Can't find a plugin. Is there any way to make Firefox recognize and use ALSA? Can you play MIDI files with pmidi? You'll have to do some setup work before you hear any sound unless you have a hardware synth attached to the soundcard. This did help me to get MIDI working: http://houghi.org/user/ch19s09.html The article seems to change locations every now and then, I've had at least three locations go invalid over time. Searching for ALSA and MIDI on Google usually does the trick, the page title should be 19.9. ALSA and MIDI. If you're interested in better MIDI quality than most consumer soundcards can handle, I recommend you have a loot at timidity which can also be used as a synth for ALSA: http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ Sets of MIDI patches can be found all over the net. I use the Titanic Soundfont, but that's too big for most cards and needs quite some CPU power. There are smaller ones that can be loaded with sfxload, but don't expect too much (Creative usually ship an 8MB Soundfont on their driver discs). -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpc2zMkGR9xh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mecoder deal with two files
On Friday May 13 2005 07:59, BingYU wrote: I have two file 1.avi 2.avi which are ripped form one big video file, source.avi [...] now I want merge 1.avi 2.avi to one video file (put them together in one file Get transcode, it comes with a program avimerge to du just that. The sad thing is that it seemed to be quite buggy the last time I used it, but that was quite some time ago. If you can get away with using OggMedia containers, I suggest you do that. The tools for those (package: ogmtools) were much better back then. Playback might be a slight problem though, I had to rebuild the xine package from source for that. Demultiplexer for Windows are also available and appear to be stable, so even WMP can play the files. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpuh24FAWoe3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SSH Blocking
On Tuesday April 26 2005 07:51, Alvin Oga wrote: i log into any machine around the world and vice versa ... but only with known and trusted boxes ... you can always convert dynamic ip# into static ip# and continue from that known proxy And how exactly does that take logging into a trusted box from a potentially untrusted one out of the equation? You're merely moving the original problem to a proxy (which might get compromised as well), not solving it. When you are on a dynamic IP, you can't just push a button to get a static, trusted one, but you might still need to log in to your database server to restart a crashed service. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpkaVoCU6S7L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gpg-agent packaged...?
On Thursday January 6 2005 03:57, Paul Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install gnupg2 gpgsm [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: gpgsm: Depends: libopensc0 ( 0.8.1) but it is not installable E: Broken packages That's strange. I have gnupg2 and gpgsm version 1.9.11+cvs20040924-5 installed without libopensc0. Anyway, libopensc0 seems to be only in testing (I have unstable, testing and experimental in my sources.list): $ apt-cache policy libopensc0 libopensc0: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.8.1-7 Version Table: 0.8.1-7 0 700 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status For me, gpgsm depends on libopensc1, which is in unstable: $ apt-cache show gpgsm |egrep ^Depend Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgcrypt11, libgpg-error0 (= 1.0), libksba8, libopensc1 ( 0.9.4), libpcsclite1 (= 1.2.9-beta6-1), libusb-0.1-4 (= 1:0.1.8), zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1) By the way, is there an easy way to print all dependencies of a package along with the installed versions of those dependencies? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpJ8rrLw9XCs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gpg-agent packaged...?
On Wednesday January 5 2005 19:13, Tom wrote:
So I kind of wondered -- why is there no packaged solution to this?
Debian boasts thousands of packages, why not gpg-agent, or something
containing it?
The most precise thing I could find about it was, that the gnupg2 packages got
stuck in the ftp bureaucracy, possibly due to that *damn* freeze. The whole
thing is ridiculous (well, yes, I have other words for this, but I don't know
who to blame and it's *not* language I'd like to put on a public list...),
there are packages with dependencies on parts of that stuff in unstable, like
kleopatra or pinentry. OK, pinentry doesn't officially depend on gpg-agent,
but it's pretty darn useless without it.
If you want proper support, use this package source in sour sources.list:
deb http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ experimental smurf
Install the packages gnupg2 and gpgsm, that should get you proper gpg support
(and supposedly S/MIME with some fiddling) in KMail. One pitfall is that it
doesn't include a way to properly start gpg-agent. I'll attach my startup
script (which is different from the one in the gpg-agent docs) for use with a
session manager like kdm. You put it in /etc/X11/Xsession.d. This is what it
does:
- it'll keep the current client information in ~/.gpg-agent-info. Since there
is no proper shutdown mechanism for X sessions, it won't be deleted. The
script mainly handles disaster recovery.
- Each time a session is started, a new instance of gpg-agent is started. I
didn't want to rely on running agents. This is a potential leak, but it
should be easy to fix and I probably will look into reuse if I ever see a
reason for myself.
- It tries to kill a running instance from both the environment variable
GPG_AGENT_INFO and an existing info file. I got it to a point where it
shouldn't bomb except for some rare cases where PIDs and the random part of
the socket path match.
---*If you session doesn't start, disable the script.*---
If you aren't running an xsession but run from console, you can easily adapt a
few parts to run it from your .profile.
DISCLAIMER: The attached script works for me. However, there's no guarantee
that it won't crash your system, damage your data, steal your dog or run off
with your wife. You have been warned, everything you do from now on is ON
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GPG_AGENT_EXEC=/usr/bin/gpg-agent
GPG_AGENT_INFOFILE=${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info
# Except for going through the process table, there is not much we
# can do. Damn developers. We'll try to kill the process.
# try the environment variable
if [ x${GPG_AGENT_INFO} != x ]; then
CUR_AGENT_PID=`echo ${GPG_AGENT_INFO} | sed -e 's/.*:\([0-9]\+\):.*/\1/'`
echo -n Stopping gpg-agent with PID ${CUR_AGENT_PID}...
kill -TERM ${CUR_AGENT_PID}
echo done.
fi
# try the user file
if [ -f ${GPG_AGENT_INFOFILE} ]; then
# check if the socket given in the info string still exists
if [ -e `cat ${GPG_AGENT_INFOFILE} | sed -e
's/\([^:]\+\):[0-9]\+:[0-9]\+/\1/'` ]; then
# it exists, so terminate the process
kill -TERM `cat ${GPG_AGENT_INFOFILE} | sed -e 's/.*:\([0-9]\+\):.*/\1/'`
fi
rm ${GPG_AGENT_INFOFILE}
fi
if [ -x $GPG_AGENT_EXEC ]; then
# start the agent
echo Starting gpg-agent: ${GPG_AGENT_EXEC}
eval $(${GPG_AGENT_EXEC} --daemon)
echo Got agent info: ${GPG_AGENT_INFO}
echo ${GPG_AGENT_INFO} $GPG_AGENT_INFOFILE
fi
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Re: Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware
On Monday January 3 2005 16:48, Zachary Rizer wrote: I recently moved an installation to a new box, which has integrated audio. Specifically, from lspci: :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 01) A bit of googling shows what module to use (ac97_codec). That's really old. If you're using any slightly recent ALSA version, the module for the AC97 codec is snd_ac97_codec. Also, you'll need a hardware specific module. I'd suggest you have a look at the driver-specific instructions for the ALSA modules: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ Also, you'll want to grab the recent ALSA packages, depending on what kernel you're using. 2.4.x from debian package: Get the appropriate alsa-modules package. 2.4.x from source: Either get the alsa-source package or patch the kernel yourself from the stuff available at the ALSA site. 2.6.x comes with ALSA as default sound infrastructure. Consider upgrading your kernel. An example lsmod output from my box with 2.6.10 kernel (irrelevant parts cut): $ lsmod Module Size Used by snd_emu10k197476 8 snd_rawmidi24160 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_device 8716 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 75104 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm_oss52964 0 snd_mixer_oss 19712 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm94408 6 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24260 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9924 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem4480 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9156 1 snd_emu10k1 snd53860 20 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpt9sJ7PvTC1.pgp Description: PGP signature
XMMS produces tons of errors with ALSA output
Hi all, since recently (I don't know when it began, but it should be about a month), XMMS produces tons and tons of error messages when paused. I'm using the ALSA output The exact message is: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:490:(snd_pcm_hw_delay) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DELAY failed: File descriptor in bad state The installed XMMS version is 1.2.10-2, the kernel ALSA drivers are from a clean 2.6.10 kernel, although the error also occured with a 2.6.7 kernel. The libasound package is version 1.0.7-4. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpE7S7Fn5ldJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: entering unicode chars
On Wednesday December 29 2004 10:56, David Purton wrote: I don't even know what the technical term, but as in pressing a modifier key, then the accent and then the letter. It's not a solution to your exact problem, but the correct term for the modifier key is compose key. This might help you to find answers. The default sequence for on a german layout seems to be compose shift-~ a. You can grep the files in /etc/X11/xkb for macron (grep -r /etc/X11/xkb/*) to see what key is assigned to this accent in your layout. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpfk1eQQqapZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DMA On a DVDRW
On Friday December 24 2004 14:04, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: But when i reboot dma has gone off again, how do I get debian to keep the setting? i run 2.6.9 as my stable kernel but iam running 2.6.10-rc2 right now. Have a look at /etc/hdparm.conf -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpG1re1pAwQ9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Need urls for apt sources.list
On Tuesday December 21 2004 16:48, Andrew Konosky wrote: I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls, and what about extra packages and stuff? One important thing is: deb http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ experimental smurf That's the gnupg2 packages which have been waiting for inclusion in unstable and/or testing for several months now. Since there are some packages in testing and unstable by now which don't make a lot of sense without that stuff, it should be considered essential. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpzh5vgzqFga.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sarge Betting Pool
On Friday December 17 2004 22:07, William Ballard wrote: I'll say Sarge on April 1st, 2005. Takers? Probably not. IMO, Debian should stop producing stable releases for good and concentrate on the unstable and testing branches. There are enough working spinoff-distros by now, so having the outdated branch isn't good for anything. Sorry for that flamebait, but that's what I think. The freezes suck. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpVbiZqpOPxz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Calling a script when an Xsession ends
Hi, is there any generic way to have a script called when an X session is terminating? Like an Xsession-end or something? My situation: I was fiddling with gpg-agent (and seriously think that the people who came up with the current design should be shot) and managed to start it from a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d. Now, there is no way to shut it down properly, unless a script is called still within the user's context. The easy way to do it would be to just kill the PID given in $GPG_AGENT_INFO when the session is ending, but the design of the startup sequence seems to forbid that. If the agent process is not terminated, repeatedly logging in and out will flood the system with essentially dead agents. I know that there are sample scripts in the gpg documentation, but those depend on a file in the user directory which is never really removed and don't do much to kill agents. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpYfYfZ8yRy7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sound problem.
On Thursday December 16 2004 15:00, Thomas Sjölin wrote: When I start X I get this message: --- Sound server informational message Error while initializing the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the null output device --- In /dev I find dsp, dps1, dsp2 and dsp3 all set to crw-rw Did you make your user a member of the audio group? (adduser user audio) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpunLFPpYDB4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sing .debs
On Saturday November 13 2004 13:21, Jim Bailey wrote: Is there a quick and dirty way to get debian to use the /var/cache/apt/archives .debs from another machine? There is also a not-so-dirty way that can save you time and bandwidth if you have several machines. Have a look at the apt-proxy package and its documentation. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp9I7VFNUm3a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Alt Gr + key doesn't generate extra symbols any more
On Sunday November 7 2004 18:09, Bram Mertens wrote: Recently I edited my XF86Config-4 file (in an attempt to get the nvidia drivers to work) and ever since something in my keyboard setup is screwed up. The keyboard layout is azerty and before messing things up pressing the Alt Gr key in combination with the -key generated the pipe symbol |. (Pressing the shift key with this key generates the number 1) Similarly pressing Alt Gr + s should generate the greek beta (or german eszet) ß. I have restored my previous XF86Config-4 file but I am still unable to type any of these extra symbols. Which other configuration determines this behaviour? As Andrea already said, it might be a problem with your DEs setup. If you're running unstable, there was an update to KDE 3.3 recently. That broke AltGr for me. What I found to be the cause is that KDE seems to override defualt settings after the update. To fix it, go to the Regional Accesibility-Keyboard Layout settings in the control panel. There, you: * disable keyboard leyouts on the first tab * either disable xkb options on the third tab OR make sure Reset old options is UNchecked. Afterwards, restart X. If that doesn't fix it, have a look at the output of xmodmap. There should be a line like this: mod5ISO_Level3_Shift (0x71) If there isn't, you have to create that mapping yourself. Try running this command from an X terminal: xmodmap -e add mod5 = ISO_Level3_Shift and see if it helps. If it does, create a file ~/.xmodmap with one line: add mod5 = ISO_Level3_Shift That should be evaluated automatically if you don't have a ~/.xinitrc. If you have one, call xmodmap - ~/.xmodmap from there. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp1wwH8iHZ4e.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gpg and outlook 2002
On Thursday November 4 2004 22:25, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: OK, so I have figured (I think) how I am supposed to decrypt in Outlook but it still does not work. I forwarded the message from Outlook back to linux and was able to decrypt in Thunderbird with no problem. From linux I did a gpg --export key.txt [...] If I gpg -d file.txt I get decryption failed: secret key not available What have I done improperly? You need to transfer the secret key. --export only exports the public key. Use --export-secret-keys -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpgvGug8btve.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: post-2.6 upgrade problems
On Wednesday November 3 2004 23:34, Aaron Thoreson wrote: After an upgrade from 2.4.19 stable to 2.6.9 custom (maybe too ambitious?) I've lost the ability to ssh into the upgraded box. auth.log is reporting error: openpty: No such file or directory error: session_pty_req: session 0 alloc failed The problem is that you don't have the PTS filesystem mounted. This should normally be done by the mountvirtfs init script (package initscripts). Stable doesn't have this script since it was pretty useless back when stable was born, so I guess you'll have to see how it works or try and install it along with its dependencies. The relevant output of mount is: devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) devfs should theoretically handle the rest (if you have devfsd running). -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpvpryddwVIZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: help with DHCP clinet
On Monday October 25 2004 16:53, Kevin Wang wrote: From PS output, I can see a process dhclient-2.2.x -q eth0 right there, but there's no renewal request been sent out at all in daemon.log unless I issue the command /etc/init.d/networking restart What's wrong with it? Any help appreciated.. Possibly a badly configured DHCP server that doesn't send a renewal timeframe. You can configure the client to do this itself in /etc/dhclient.conf -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpQDmFIi76L7.pgp Description: PGP signature
courier-imap extremely slow after update
Hi, after updating courier-imap, access to the mailbox has become extremely slow. Opening a mail folder in any client (tried sylpheed-claws, Thunderbird and KMail) takes about 6 seconds. Access to mails inside an opened folder is normal (almost instantaneous). It is an issue with SSL, TLS and unencrypted connections. Any ideas what could cause this? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgplp8IYueSll.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: input layer
On Tuesday October 19 2004 20:09, Paul Akkermans wrote: I am trying to analyse a part of the input layer of the kernel 2.6.7 (input.c) (see below). The problem is that I don't fully understand what this piece of code does. Can anybody help me? This question should be asked on a kernel-related maillist like the LKML. There are also web resources specialized on kernel hacking. debian-user is (far) less developer-oriented. (Although this shouldn't deter developers from listening to some of the complaints and ideas voiced here ;-) ) As for the function, it looks like it just registers the very basic infrastructure needed for the input subsystem in /dev (the devfs call) and in /proc/bus. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpXYNA1yqRZf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Losing sound
On Tuesday October 12 2004 13:24, Michael Satterwhite wrote: When I first boot-up and start, sound is running. I know this because I hear the KDE startup sound (KDE 3.3). I then lose the ability to play sounds. No sound notifications of any type are played. I checked, and the user is a member of the audio group. Did you check both the KDE mixer (kmix)? It might be that it mutes some important channel like PCM or main volume. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp5Q68CIt0kE.pgp Description: PGP signature
gnupg2 packages?
Hi, I tried to install kleopatra from unstable, but that package depends on the gnupg2 package. The problem is that there is no such package anywhere. I tried some google searches, and it seems there have been several attempts at introducing it, without any result. There are also the pinentry packages which are completely useless without gpg-agent which is part of gnupg2. Is there any information on it? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpKWz2XnFGQK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X keyboard broken *again*
On Sunday October 10 2004 23:40, Nicos Gollan wrote: Hi, Another day, another variation of the Help, the update ate my keyboard mapping! For a change, it's not the '#'-key that got lost, no, it's the AltGr-Key which at least on the german layout gives access to useless characters like the pipe symbols, the brackets or the unneeded at-symbol (...) I tried some things, but nothing seems to bring back my AltGr key. setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc105 -layout en_US+de -option lv3:ralt_switch_multikey -variant nodeadkeys seems to give a valid german layout, but still without AltGr. Trying to add ISO_Level3_Shift as mod5 doesnt work either. On a machine running xlibs version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 0, everything is fine. If there is anybody here with a working german keyboard layout running testing or unstable, please send me your configuration. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpErTtgZ3O8L.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SOLVED] Re: X keyboard broken *again*
On Monday October 11 2004 12:45, Nicos Gollan wrote: I tried some things, but nothing seems to bring back my AltGr key. Actually, ths was not a problem with the XFree settings, but with KDE 3.3.0 which seems to reset XKB settings per default. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp58U3eCLSKR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Matrox G450 hw acceleration?
On Monday October 11 2004 22:42, Terje Fåberg wrote: glxgears gives me 205 fps on this P3-866 with a matrox G450. Is this accelerated? Have a look at the output of the glxinfo command. If there is a line like direct rendering: Yes near the beginning, you have HW acceleration. (Except for rare cases where this display is wrong) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpn1RGpRdvhT.pgp Description: PGP signature
X keyboard broken *again*
Hi, Another day, another variation of the Help, the update ate my keyboard mapping! For a change, it's not the '#'-key that got lost, no, it's the AltGr-Key which at least on the german layout gives access to useless characters like the pipe symbols, the brackets or the unneeded at-symbol (you know what I mean, it's not like I had to type mail addresses or write programs). It's working fine on the onsole, but xmodmap doesn't know anything about those symbols. Shouldn't xmodmap -pk have some lines with the word bracket in them? This is rapidly getting annoying :-( I am using xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 0, the relevant section from XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Option XkbVariantnodeadkeys EndSection -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpLj6grqyxWU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:40:25 +0800 Lian Liming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size on toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. Firefox is based on GTK, so you need to set the font properties for that toolkit. The Gnome control center (package gnome-control-center) is one way to do this. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpnCUbDTEjvF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cheap network card supported by linux
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:01:22 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janne Blomqvist) wrote: Most cards work fine these days. The thing is to avoid the really crappy ones. Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests to avoid the rt8139 chipset based cards, which most of the really cheap ones unfortunately are. I haven't had any problems with that chip yet. The problem ist that it is *cheap* in any meaning of the word. It's not a technical marvel and you probably won't get stunning transfer rates, but chances are you'll get a connection. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp6pgk7BUG8z.pgp Description: PGP signature
KDevelop 3.1 anytime soon?
Hi, I know this is a touchy subject, and Debian freezes seem oddly coincident with KDE releases. So let's be civil ;-) Is there anything known about KDevelop 3.1 coming to unstable anytime soon? A large part of KDE 3.3 seems to have made it there already. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpcQihkjqgHL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: libGL
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:14:29 +0200 Prakash Countcham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I launch an application which use libGL (openoffice, glGo, licq, glxinfo, etc.) I have the following error message (even if the application works) : libGL error: drmMap of sarea failed That sounds like a driver problem. You should look through the /var/lock/XFree86.0.log and see if you get any warnings or errors (lines beginning in (WW) or (EE)) about DRI or DRM. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpixCVsfTCEp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No flames please.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 03:57:58 -0400 spencer ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently change to debian and notice that the default desktop mgr. is KDE. I've been lurking on UserLinux and the group had a debate as to which desktop they would put in thier distrobution. They decided to use GNOME because of the licencing of Qt. I thought that Troll Co. removed the restriction they had on Qt. So, the question is are there any restriction on the use of Qt? That discussion is (or at least should be) long over. The free Linux/Unix/MacOSX Qt is licensed under the GPL. http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/freelicense.html -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp09Fq4Lf0dA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No flames please.
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:40:09 +0200 Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and Gnome uses GTK, which is licensed under the LGPL. From http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html: Also, the GTK licensing model was not the topic. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpLLUWD6EWhh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New address
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + Tal Amir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpmKkk5WDLeU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re:
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:02:17 -0500 junk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you find a process that is using a file. Try lsof. It's in a package with that name. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpqL6WXADT3N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bad virusalert@domain
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:58:13 +0200 Jean-Paul Lacharme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing amavis+sophos (or clamav) with postfix, amavisd-new (for debian sarge) The remaining problem is the bad domain name used to notify the virus to the sender. Don't notify the sender! In virus-infected mails, chance is good that the sender is faked anyway, so all that functionality does is harass the rest of the net. If anything, notify the receiver. FYI, I'm treating those a virus has been detected mails as spam, and SA is becoming quite good at killing them :-) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpLin0EHH80h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Broken perl environment with libapache-mod-perl2 and apache2
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:50:33 -0400 (EDT) Chris Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if anyone is running libapache-mod-perl2 from sarge. I'm getting some odd errors which look to be related to an error in the perl environment. I'm trying to use ModPerl::Registry, formerly Apache::Registry with apache2. Per the instructions at perl.apache.org, I've made a http.conf which looks like... # mod-perl cgi scripts to be executed by ModPerl::Registry PerlModule ModPerl::Registry Alias /cgi-perl/ /usr/local/lib/cgi-perl/ Location /cgi-perl SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry # PerlOptions +ParseHeaders # PerlOptions -GlobalRequest Options +ExecCGI /Location Did you load the Apache2 module somewhere? From the error you posted, it doesn't look so. In /etc/apache2/conf.d create a file perl.conf with only one line: PerlModule Apache2 And in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled, create a symlink to /etc/apache2/mods-available/perl.load If there is no such file, try creating one with that line in it: LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so After restarting the server, @INC should look something like this for scripts run by the server, except for some custom elements: - /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Apache2 - /etc/perl - /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 - /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 - /usr/lib/perl5 - /usr/share/perl5 - /usr/lib/perl/5.8 - /usr/share/perl/5.8 - /usr/local/lib/site_perl - . - /etc/apache2/ - /etc/apache2/lib/perl Notice the topmost line, which will probably point not to the /usr/local structure for an install from packages, but still lead to the Apache2 subdirectory. It is placed there by the Apache2 module to avoid ambiguities with the Apache 1.3 mod_perl (yes, you can install both without any problems). -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpsnyKRbsIab.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: qt-4-preview - no thread support?
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:50:45 +0200 LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody knows how to compile the new qt-4-preview with thread support? AFAIK, Qt4 won't be available in an explicit no-threads version (except embedded)... -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpgEbVdNYmbL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Changing hostname
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:57:16 -0400 * Tong* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question how to change hostname under debian? Quick answer: edit /etc/hostname. No reboot necessary (but go to init level 1 and back again to make sure stuff like Apache doesn't get an identity crisis). -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp1Yd7z7n70o.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Missing KDE widget styles (SOLVED)
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:08:52 -0400 Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you on Sarge? If so, then it's probably bug #253928 moving from Sid to Sarge. Once the kdelibs and artwork packages update to 3.2.3, this problem will likely go away. Thanks, installing the 3.2.3 packages fixed it. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpcC3VwgkcC0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Missing KDE widget styles
Hi all, Since yesterday, I'm missing the KDE widget styles. All I can get are the ones that come with Qt. I had this problem before, and adding the plugin path in qtconfig resolved it, but now the path is set to where the kdeartwork-style package installs the widget libraries. The problem seems to have started yesterday (ironically, I can't remember if I upgraded that machine...), when KDE applications started showing up in a default style and the QT designer didn't sho KDE widgets anymore. An upgrade I did right now didn't change anything from KDE. Some versions: QT: - libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-4 KDE: - kdelibs stuff at version 4:3.2.2-2 - kdeartwork and kdeartwork-style 4:3.2.2-1 - kdebase 4:3.2.2-1 -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp9d2bsCKBtz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sluggish Ripping speeds
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:49:32 -0400 Ryan Waye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem: Whenever I try to rip CDs, I get extremely sluggish data rates (0.1x-0.3x). I know it is not a CDROM drive problem because it transfers my UT2004 cd in its entireity in about 2 minutes. Is this normal/what could be wrong? If you're only getting this with audio CDs, it might just be that your drive sucks at audio. Normally, every drive should at least do =5x, but that may quickly get worse when the disc is bad (doesn't even need to be a visible defect) or the drive gets slightly out of adjustment. When ripping a disc with grip or cdparanoia, you get smileys indicating the read quality. What does that say? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpWJVS5MCBzC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 'en_US.UTF-8' locale missing
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:59:20 +0530 Rajasekaran Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' is done in .bashrc, programs give errors like: locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Did you make sure the locales are created? Run dpkg-reconfigure locales and select the proper ones. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpOiGnHhgHhX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: L 90 90 90 90 90
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 15:24:55 +0100 Owen Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the computer re-booted it just thro up L 90 90 90 90 90 90 90... when i tried to run the OS on the HD. This is a lilo error isnt it? does this mean i have installed it wrong, or i have used the wrong distirbutation. I don't know if it has been fixed recently, or if it is a bug at all, but on some of my systems, LILO just fails to work correctly and needs to be re-run. My advice (which probably won't help you all that much right now) is to have an up-to-date boot disk specifically tailored to your system ready at all times. So if you're using a 2.4 series kernel, have a similar 2.4 bootdisk and make sure to create a new one when migrating to the 2.6 series kernel or when you're changing your hardware in a way that makes a new kernel necessary. If possible, test the bootdisk on another system to see if it gets past the LILO loading stuff line befor even considering rebooting your system. The base or network install debian boot CDs also used to do a pretty good job for that, just get to the make the system bootable point directly. Don't depend on Knoppix to fix a barfed bootloader, I haven't seen one painless attempt yet, and I've seen a lot of trial and error. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp7BRTaiE44J.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: no tooltips in the GIMP...
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:53:53 -0400 Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two parallel installations of Sid with very similar lists of installed packages. Both were updated last week sometime. On one, the GIMP has no tooltips. Rather, the little yellow boxes pop up, and in varying sizes, but they're either empty or displaying text in the same color as the background. I had a similar problem some weeks ago, when the dialogs of some filters were showing without any text. I haven't seen that effect since, just in one session. Perhaps it's a l10n/i18n problem? What locale are you using? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpPxQkVhXX0D.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CBQ for DEBIAN
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Umar Draz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have configure Debian Proxy Server and i have Cable network. Now i want restirct my user on spacific bandwidth so thats why i choose cbq. I alreday have Redhat Linux 7.3 and there also run cbq on that. but when I want run CBQ.INIT script on debian i a got erorr **CBQ: ip-route2 utilities not installed or executable! First, you'll need to install the iproute package. Since the shaper package depends on that, I guess it's already installed, but check it anyway. Then, you must make sure the kernel supports QoS. To do that, have a look at the kernel configuration and see if NET_SCHED is enabled. If it's not enabled, you'll need to build a new kernel or find a suitable premade package. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpmeXTGEgnqm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' ?
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:09:44 +1200 Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... but am not having success in mounting dvd and dmesg is giving me the output below which I can't interpret. Can someone tell me what 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' means ? It mostly means that some error occured after the drive had processed a seek command and was ready again. Those errors are quite common, and depending on the exact code can mean anything from some unsupported drive feature being used to a complete drive failure. In your case, check the IDE cable (try another one), see if the error occurs without using DMA mode and if everything else fails try to get your hands on another drive and see if that's working. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpwEGGZa5ozh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: charset of ext3 drives
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:56:54 +0200 J. Preiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems that I found a bit more infos on my system: I cannot enter cyrillic chars neither in konqi nor in kate. So I installed xfree-cyrillic (a really good idea, but I bet I selected this by first install... anyway). I guess you mean xfonts-cyrillic? Did you check if those fonts are really available to X and KDE via xfontsel and some KDE font selector? Did you make sure both applications are set tu use proper fonts? At least Kate does not use standard font setups. By the way, there is a package console-cyrillic that you probably already installed, but it seems important if you ever need to do some work on a console... But if it is a problem of the fonts... why can juk display the song infos correctly I guess that if JuK pulls info not from the filename but from the file tags, it's using the proper encoding. IIRC, OGG explicitly specifies UTF8 as encoding; I don't know how MP3 handles things, but I guess it would be a good idea to try Windows charsets. The FS is the last thing I dont understand: if the file name is a double wide charset, how can the file name be stored without loosing information? Do you know what I mean? I don't really know what you mean, but I think you need to know a bit about the UTF8 encoding. It is not exactly double-wide, that's what UTF16 is (each character is encoded as a 16bit value). UTF8 encodes the low-ASCII and some more characters the usual way, as 8bit values. Then, there are certain escape characters that start the encoding of a longer character that can be 2, 3 or 4 bytes wide. The effect is that control characters are untouched and a great lot of text can be used without modification. There's a great lot of information about that at www.unicode.org. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp9EMUe1xApr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: charset of ext3 drives
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:26:17 +0200 J. Preiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am at the point that cyrillic chars are always -displays (in text mode) and glyphs in graphic mode (konqueror). I changed the charset of konqi to utf8 without any change. Am I too stupid to use debian? Maybe... Well, depending on what encoding the filenames (I suppose we're still talking about filenames?) were before, you'll first have to convert them to UTF8. There is a script somewhere that will do this similar to the recode utility, but I can't find it right now. If you have some files with single cyrillic characters in their names followed by a normal character and that cyrillic char eats one to three of the following chars, then the name is not encoded in UTF8. Example (let's suppose y was a non-standard char for now): File name: abcdyefgh Displayed: abcd?fgh On a real terminal (not a console emulator), you can try if the command unicode-start helps. Inside KDE and other DMs, make sure you can type the characters you need properly and whether files you create are displayed properly. If this is so, all you need to do is to look for a proper console charset and fonts, and of course convert the filenames. I think my main problem is, that I dont know whom to ask for what. Is it a problem of X, Display Manager, Kde at all, Konqueror, a mount problem... it could be everything. Well, essentially it *is* everything, but in most cases, the solutions are very similar. X, DM, KDE: needs proper fonts KDE: needs locale set mount: as mentioned, the FS doesn't care what encoding you're using :-) console: good luck -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgppHNwfFieCX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Starting Spamassassin?
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:42:35 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not how spamassassin works. Not so much into helping today? Ask google for kmail spamassassin and you get here: http://www.tomchance.org.uk/research/random/kmail -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpYMz3I1uMYy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:43:18 -0400 (AST) Luis R. Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is thunderbir in the apt-get or aptitude tree? mine says it couldnt find it? in case it isnt. can you install manually? It is in testing (0.5) and unstable (0.6). -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpPsQCUqi34Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: charset of ext3 drives
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:23:18 +0200 J. Preiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isnt there a way to use utf-8 encoding for ext3 partitions? I urgently need umlauts and cyrillic characters, so utf 8 would be the best choice. Now I run in trouble when I try to create m3u playlist. The filesnames dont match. Please don't post new questions as replies to old threads. Using UTF-8 characters ist not really a filesystem problem, the FS doesn't care too much what characters you use as long as there are no control characters or slashes. You just need to tell the rest of the system to use the proper locale. A first step is dpkg-reconfigure locales and choose a unicode locale that best matches your location. Now, you will also need to inform certain other things about the change (most notably KDE and maybe GTK) and restart all applications. You might also notice that the console starts to behave funny. For graphical consoles like KDE's konsole, make sure you're using a font with the characters you need. Andale Mono works reasonably well for me. If you're using samba shares with special characters (anything not low ASCII), you will need to mount them properly. I'm using this smbmount command: smbmount //server/share mp/ -o iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp850 The iocharset option is the system's locale (what SMB uses for the local filesystem), the codepage determines what gets sent over the wire. I have not managed to get an all-unicode connection between a samba server and a samba client (current versions from unstable), if anyone knows how to do this, please tell me. If you've got here, chances are that special characters aren't all this special anymore and they even get displayed with the right fonts. Generally, the Microsoft truetype fonts are rather good at this. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgphDVCPn9baQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Masterizzare immagin iso
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:21:43 +0200 guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Esiste una guida per poter masterizzare le immagini iso di debian, utilizzando mandrake 9.2? grazie guido English speaking list here, but cdrecord may still be what you're looking for... -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpOIKYNpi3xI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unsubscribe
On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:42:43 -0700 Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ? ! -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpdlFebZXWn2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal
On Wed, 19 May 2004 17:56:05 +1000 James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but if you don't want to play you don't have to, kid. Take your poo-poos elsewhere. And why do you think that this kind of attitude will help you or your cause in gaining acceptance in an unsuitable forum? -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgptqBKNhlJfd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bash Yank Question
On Wed, 19 May 2004 15:49:53 -0500 david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some lines from the manual of bash: yank-nth-arg (M-C-y) [...] My question is: How do I give it the argument n? You press M-n for positive numeric arguments starting with n or M-- (meta-dash) to start negative numeric arguments. You can edit the argument by entering numbers (there is a (arg: n) prompt). When the number is right, use the macro you want to use the argument. So for the second commandline argument, you'd press M-2 M-C-y Search the bash manpage for digit-argument for further info. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpUKLpsPaPew.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Harddisk not recognized
On Sun, 16 May 2004 13:44:48 +0200 Christian Christmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the BIOS if my motherboard doesn't recognize my new 160GB harddisk correctly. I'd like to boot from this device. Is there a way to overcome this problem with lilo etc. ? No, if the BIOS doesn't recognize the disk, you won't be able to boot from it. The kernel itself should recognize the disk, so if you boot from a floppy, USB stick or CD, you should be fine. I have a similar problem, the BIOS *crashes* when trying to auto-detect the disks, but Linux itself has no problem. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgpFlUE4wYsmi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Does nice-ness exist for bandwidth? [sic]
On Wed, 12 May 2004 02:52:33 +1000 Lex Hider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if I'm web-browsing and reading a page already loaded all the bandwidth goes to wget/apt-get. But when I am loading a web-site or checking my mail then the priority for the bandwidth goes to the browser like in the cpu-nice example. === Does an application that achieves the above exist currently? If not; is it possible or even a good idea? The way packet handling works in Linux makes it hard if not impossible to determine what specific application created a packet. You can however do some pretty sophisticated scheduling based on service types. This is not a trivial topic, but if you're willing to learn a bit, this will really help you to get started: http://lartc.org/howto/ Mostly, you should read chapters 1-3 and 9. You'll also want to get at least into the iptables basics. The most important stuff is already handled in the HOWTO, but there are some interesting possibilities (rate limiting etc.). -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] Populating LDAP
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:47:54 -0700 Eric Walstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard a bit about LDAP and am curious if it'll work for a central contacts database for a network of both Windows and Debian users. [...] I've googled a bit, too, and am having a hard time finding out how best to populate the LDAP database with the contents of my addressbook. Rule 1: If you know about LDAP, learn just a little more and go earn money with it. IMO, LDAP's only purpose is to make those who understand it money. Anyone know of a user-friendly, lightweight Windows and/or Linux client that can be used to add individual records to the LDAP database? Sadly, LDAP is *not* your lightweight filing system. It's designed to be a large-scale directory service. Most mail clients use it strictly read-only. If anyone knows of a nice, friendly frontend (*not* gq): I'm interested, too. Only interested folks with some spare time really need to read below, but I think it's worth it ;-) In fact, there *is* a spec for a useful multipurpose filing system. It's called ACAP (see RFC 2244). For an experimental server and links to more information on the topic, see http://infotrope.clues.ltd.uk/ . The bad part is that you're not too likely to find a client using it, but it sure has potential. -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
