Re: How to access a file with RTSP protocol?
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:30:32PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: Many of the files in our university's server, have an address that starts with rtsp:\\ I investigated a bit, and it seems that RTSP is a standard protocol for real time streaming, which is recognized by IETF. Still, nither mozilla nor Konqueror aren't able to do anything with these file. left clicikng on file, and right clicking on it and issuing the save link target as.. command simply do nothing. How can I access these rtsp files? How can I doenload/listen to them? Cheers Try installing Mplayer. Either grab sources and compile, or go to apt-get.org to find a Debian source for it. It plays almost every streaming audio/video format out there. Robbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ugly font hell
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:37:13PM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: 3. GTK1 applications are defined through ~/.gtkrc configuration file or gnomecc. GTK2 has gnome-control-center or kde has kcontrol (or maybe newer.. don't know - i don't use kde). Ah, this is it. I was using the URW Gothic font. And when I change the theme font thru gnomecc to Verdana or even good ol' Helvetica, Mozilla's embedded widgets go back to a sane size. Some other fonts are still freaky (Arial has been replaced by some horrible font with curly tips), but now I have a useable browser again. I can be happy now, and return to a more leisurely investigation of the font setup. Thanks much! Robbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ugly font hell
Help! I'm in Ugly Font Hell. I have a Sarge system that's all up-to-date, but can't find the Debian Way to have decent looking antialiased fonts in X. I've gone through message archives, Google, Debian bug reports, and every other source trying to fix this problem. I've mucked with defoma, libfreetype6, fontconfig, and more, but none of these do anything to help. I can use the Gnome-AA session in GDM and get smooth fonts in GTK and Galeon ... except the XUL bits within Galeon are gigantic -- a single form button won't fit within the browser! Mozilla shows up the same way. It's menu won't even fit on the screen. Other apps also fail to work properly with the way the session invokes libgdkxft0 in LD_PRELOAD. Notably Gabber dies as soon as a chat window is opened. However, if I use the standard GDM session or run startx directly, I get blocky fonts everywhere. All the apps work, but look horrendous, Mozilla and Galeon included. Is there a way to make this work in Sarge? Or am I lost in Ugly Font Hell indefinitely? Thanks, Robbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody reinstall, mozilla menu huge fonts
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:53:05AM -0800, Michael Rudmin wrote: So I'm wondering what's gone wrong. *WHY* do those fonts on the menu come out giant? I really like mozilla, but at the current stage it's unusable, and googling doesn't provide any clues. I don't know why ... I have been having similar troubles for quite awhile. I've found that using the Gnome-AA GDM session to get antialiased fonts is part of the cause in the giant XUL widget problem. If I switch back to a normal session, the widgets go back to a normal size. All the Gnome-AA session does is set LD_PRELOAD to get libgdkxft0 available to GTK. And oddly enough, unsetting LD_PRELOAD and starting Mozilla doesn't fix the problem. So give that a shot if you're using that GDM session. It might give you a usable browser again, even at the loss of antialiased fonts. Robbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt package listing error.
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:08:15AM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got this message while doing a [U]date. Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed Priority line E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. update available list script returned error exit status 100. Has the package listing format changed recently? I do tend to keep this box really up to date. Usually update once a day. Just wanted to say...me too. Started since the dpkg update I grabbed a day or two ago. Even an apt-get update does the same thing. Looking at the file in question, I see two lines that have Priority: optionnal. Correcting those allows apt-get to complete as normal. A problem in the actual file descriptions? Hope that helps. Robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modems, caller id, and init strings
Hi all, I thought this list might be the best place to ask: What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? Specifically, I want AT#CID=1 to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo AT#CID=1 /dev/modem'? Thanks much, Robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 03:03:17PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote: 7: At the moment, my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E be configured to reduce any problems this causes? Right now, with fvwm95, if I open one app with lots of colours, than another one, the second complains there are not enough colours left and the screen keep switching different colours as the two app's borrow from each other. Is there some way to make the apps use the same colours? That's really dependant on the X server configuration. Most of the themes for E! tend to use a *lot* of colours, so you'd probably find the problem you described was worse using E!, but that's not to say you can't use a low-colour theme... But the way apps handle colour allocation is out of the hands of the window-manager. Hmmm...I though E and most of GNOME used Raster's imlib, which means they do an excellent job of dithering, even in 8 bit color. At least that has been my expereince. It's the next best thing to re-writing X code to get applications to share colors nicely. Of course, a low color theme will free up color cells. And you can set imlib to use a very small color pallete, thus saving colors for other applications at the cost of appearance. Just run imlib_config. Just some thoughts, Robbie
Re: why so much hate?
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:44:28PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Right, it is not having a clearly marked button that drives many of today's users into fits. They did not read the docs so they do not know that R means Revert if they get thrown into conflict resolution and a bunch of packages get marked for removal and that Q will take them back to where they were in the selection menu without rechecking for conflicts. Basicly it is a program that you must read ALL of the instructions for before using and it and it expects you to have done so. It is NOT a program you can figure out as you go along. True true true, but I can't help but still feel that the dselect interface is pretty bad. It's like trying to use info--an emacs-ish program that doesn't follow the emacs keystroke conventions very well. Info could be as simple as lynx, but certainly isn't. Something so vital to the system as dselect shouldn't need to be so cryptic. A system can get really screwed up by a few inadvertent keys. I think a lot of dselect is great, but too much of it is counter-intuitive. Just an opinion, though. Robbie
In-home networking
Greets all, I'm looking for some good pointers on how to configure the software for an in-home network. I've managed it before, but I was hoping that now I could find some better resources on the web. Are there any that any of you would recommend? Thanks! Robbie
chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!
Has anyone out in debian-userland managed to get chos to boot Win98? I have
it installed on a small drive at /dev/hdc1. If I set my bios to boot drive D
Win98 works great. But the following entry with chos gives me errors.
bootsect Windows 98 {
color=lightblue
image=/dev/hdc1
}
I would go back to using lilo, but after running lilo I still get chos at
boot time. Any help with either would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely confused,
Robbie
Re: chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 06:21:19AM +, Dan wrote: That config doesn't really sound right... I mean, image=/dev/hdc1 would imply that the image IS that drive. Shouldn't it be something more like root=/dev/hdc1 or something like a lilo config? I would seriously just go to lilo. Can you not remove the ``chos'' package through dselect? If not, just remove it from the initialization scripts in /etc/init.d/ -dan That config is the best I could make of the example file in /usr/doc/chos. There doesn't seem to be a root= sort of option. As for removing the package, well, I could, but that would still leave chos installed as the bootloader. I can't get lilo to replace it. Hope that clarifies the situation. Many thanks, Robbie
Re: Star Office 5 Potato/Glibc2.1??
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:11:40 CST, wrote: Hello, I was the one who posted the original message for help with this. After reading your message, I played around with the soffice wrapper that calls soffice.bin. Here's how I got mine to work... 1) I got the libc deb from slink. 2) I manually unpacked the archive (ar -x libc???.deb; tar xvfz data.tar.gz) 3) I edited the soffice wrapper: a) In the section where it sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (I believe it is the *) option in the block that starts with case $sd_platform in), I added the path where my glibc2.0 is located to the BEGINNING of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/myuser/glibc2.0/lib:$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH b) The last line of the soffice script, I changed as follows: exec /home/myuser/glibc2.0/lib/ld-linux.so.2 $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 It took a *WHILE* (8-15 seconds) for it to load the first time (I run a P200 w/128M RAM), but it did load, and seems to function properly. When the program first loads, it gives me a message box that says, Error opening document /home/myuser/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: Nonexistent object. Filter not found. I click the OK button, and it works. Hmmm...I just tried this, finally, and I can't seem to get it to work. I get the following error messages: soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries soffice.bin: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory What has changed in the last month or so? Perhaps the slink version of libc? Thanks, Robbie
dselect madness w/enlightenment
I fired up dselect to get an updated list of packages tonight. I saw several new Enlightenment themes in the list of new packages. Nothing else caught my eye, so I proceeded. However, I was presented with a list of dependency errors based on enlightenment, enlightenment-themes, enlightenment-conf, and dox. I couldn't really find a problem, but dselect repeatedley set enlightenment to remove, as well as the associated packages. I finally set them back to install so I wouldn't lose Enlightenment, and then used the Q key. Is anyone else having problems? Did I make a boo-boo by forcing the packages to be kept? Thanks for any input! Robbie
Re: Current kernel configuration?
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:43:10PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: The only way I know of to get a SoundBlaster working 'with-out' compiling it into the kernel is to purchase the OSS commercial Sound package for $20. That has it's advantages. It is the way I run my sound blaster. How about possibly just using someone else's .o files? /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/adlib_card.o /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/awe_wave.o /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/sb.o /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/softoss2.o /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/sound.o /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/soundcore.o /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/soundlow.o /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/uart401.o Would sending these get the job done? Curiously yours, Robbie
Mouse buttons, xinput, drawing tablets, help!
I have one of those nifty drawing tablets working with my Debian system. However, the button on the side of the stylus is mapped to button 4! I've played with xmodmap, but can't change the mappings on the tablet. I've tried playing with XInput stuff, but the documentation is way too sketchy for me to figure out what to do. Can anyone out there give me a hint on how to change button 4 to button 3? Also, I know there are versions of the Gimp with take advantage of the extended feature of a drawing tablet. Can I find Debian support for this or is it time to roll my own? Thanks much! Robbie
Re: ip-up for each user?
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 02:14:37PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
I'm assuming that you have multiple users dialing into a single provider
account. Change 'pon' from
/usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider}
to
/usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} ipparam $USER
and have the behavior of the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d depend on the
value of $6 .
Ahhh...that's something I was missing. The manpage explains it nicely.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Robbie
Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Richard Black wrote: rdate time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc I use the netdate command, which has been working really well from me. Run it periodically, or else from ip-up. Robbie
Re: ip-up for each user?
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:19:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: This is in /etc/diald/ip-up: === #!/bin/sh # Set the time and date ntpdate -s -t 5 ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk ntp4.strath.ac.uk # Get mail fetchmail mail.enterprise.net # Run the mail queue runq === I presume you could do the same in /etc/ppp/ip-up/something. fetchmail won't allow 2 copies of itself to run, so you don't need to worry about that. So how does fetchmail know who to run as? I'm supposing as the user who called pppd, right? If that's the case, then my problem can be solved simply. Otherwise more hacking will be necessary. Thanks, Robbie
Re: pppd problems
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 12:33:36PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: I upgraded one partition to potato a week ago, and whenever I try pon, I get the following message: bob:vc-ty1:bobpon /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /home/bob/.ppprc: Function not implemented I had this problem...just touch .ppprc, and everything should be OK. It worked for me, at least. Robbie
ip-up for each user?
I'm currently looking for a way to have a per-user version of ip-up. For example, I'd like to start fetchmail if it isn't running already and execute a few pilot programs. But this sort of thing doesn't seem to belong in the systemwide ip-up file. I know I can hack together something which would allow for this, but I wanted to see if there was a standard way to do it which I just can't find. So, that's my question. FAQ or hack? Thanks, Robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ip-up for each user?
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: It sounds as if you should use diald to bring the link up automatically whenever a program attempts to connect to an external site. My own arrangement is for fetchmail to run whenever the link comes up, and for cron to do a single ping from time to time to ensure that the link does come up and collect mail, even if no-one is using it otherwise. What I'm looking for is your arrangement which allows for fetchmail to run when PPP is started. I'm guessing you just played with the systemwide ip-up script? Thanks, Robbie
Failed partition check
What would cause a 2.2.5 kernel to fail at bootup time when it reaches the Parition Check section? It says it can't find the driver for HDA, and subsequently panics. This is a standard PC with IDE drive. I have the ext2 stuff built into the kernel. What else could I be missing? It doesn't make any sense to me. Thanks much, Robbie
HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
This is an urgent plea for help! The problem is one I've experienced sporadically since I started with Debian several months back. Some packages won't install, giving an error such as this one: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb Currently, I'm trying to upgrade to a 2.2.5 kernel in order to fix many problems on my system related to hardware. The kernel compiles fine, and make-kpkg gives me a nice deb. But as you can see by the error above, dpkg can't install it. I *can* use dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile filename new.tar and get a perfectly fine tarfile. I've taken this to #debian and to bugtraq. But nobody has encountered this problem before. I'm hoping someone on the list has, and can help. Or at the very least, someone can suggest a way for me to install the package using an alternate method. I'd hate to just jam the kernel into the system, and upset some precarious balance in the packaging system. All help is appreciated! Thanks, Robbie
Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
Regarding: dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John Galt wrote: I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or gzip got updated since then :( I won't ask you how, but I will ask how I can use apt to install a single file (namely, this new kernel-image deb). It's probably simple and obvious, but I'm not seeing it. Yes, the problem comes and goes rather randomly. At one point I went from about 15 packages which wouldn't install due to this problem to none, all in a single update. Thanks! Robbie
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:03:53PM -0800, Gary Singleton wrote: --- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snippage-- No, you could even retrieve this kind of features with bsod, a linux application to emulate Win1895 BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I've saw it a loong time ago either on sunsite or tsx-11 :-)) If anyone can find this please let me know, it would be a nice gag to play on my M$ loving pals g. It's part of the xscreensaver/xlock packages. You can install it with dselect. ;) Robbie
Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:50:12PM -0700, John Galt wrote: apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1 I installed the sources that way, compiled them, and then used make-dpkg to get a deb package. But dpkg won't install the resulting deb. Is there a way to coerce apt into installing a local file such as this? I can't find a way to do it. Thanks again, Robbie
Need printer help
I'm hoping someone out here can help me discover why my printer won't print. Until not very long ago, I was using a Slackware system, and sending my infrequent print jobs by hand using gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1. Now that I've switched to Debian, I can't get that much to work anymore. A good tunelp /dev/lp1 -r gets some response from the printer (in the form of some printhead movement), but nothing else will. Using gs sometimes causes the busy light to come on, but it quickly blinks out again. The Printing-HOWTO doesn't have any debugging hints. I'm lost. And my only guess is that the Debian setup for lpt1 is somehow different. Any pointers? Thanks, Robbie Huffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
