Re: BIG xwindow apps
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:11:29PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes off the screen so much so i cant reach the buttons on the top half or bottom half of the screen with the mouse. My laptop is limited to 800x600, but I use X (4.1) all the time with no problems what so ever. I use Blackbox with a smallish theme and lots of workspaces - this combined with bbkeys makes it easy for me to quickly flip between workspaces. I also use AA fonts where possible as they are much more readable at smaller sizes, using this I can fit 4 80x25 xterms in a single workspace and them still be just about readable. I've also hacked my ~/.gtkrc 'theme' to use a smaller fonts so all my gtk and gnome apps fit much nicer. If an app does open too large, in blackbox ( and other wm's too I think ) holding down ALT and click dragging the oversized window allows you to drag it so you can reach the title bar buttons and resize it something more conservative. -- mallum
Mobile Networking Setup Ques
Aloha all; Is it possible for me to setup my laptop to 'know' what network its connected to and run scripts based on that ? For example, at work they use dhcp and at home my address is static. At work I manually 'pump' for an IP and at home I have to run ifup on the interface an d then manually edit resolve.conf ( which has been previously been set via dhcp at work ). Can somebody point me in the right direction for doing this ? Can it be done with somesort of broadcast ping ? Is there a package that will help with this sort of configuration ? Many thanks; -- mallum
Re: Mobile Networking Setup Ques
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:30:16PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: Yes, look at following packages: divine guessnet intuitively laptop-netconf whereami (that's on unstable) Cool, thanks - went with guessnet, just what I needed. I also tried laptop-netconf but didn't have much luck with that. -- mallum
galeon wont start, complains of gconf error
Hi all; I just apt-getted galeon (woody), but when I try and start it, I get the following error repeatedly ; ** WARNING **: GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit) GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit) I've checked the galeon faq and also played with the galeon-config-tool but both to no success :( Can anybody help ? -- mallum
Re: Installing GNOME and KDE on Woody
on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:00:46PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Check out the tasksel command. nice, but task-kde is not on the list. What does one set in the sources list to get a task-kde on woody ? -- mallum
usbmgr just beeps in unstable
Has anyone had any luck with usbmgr ? When it starts up it just beeps twice and me and then exits. I cant seem to get any verbose/error info from it neither. It does however appear to load the relevant usb modules ( uhci, hid and mounsedev ) before exiting. I running unstable with a 2.4.10-ac4 kernel. Many thanks; -- mallum
xterm segfaults with -fa in unstable
Hi all; Im using X 4.1.0.1 from unstable. I have xft and truetype fonts installed ( via mscorefonts package ). Im trying to get xterm to display AntiAliased fonts its -fa switch however the following ; xterm -fa mono-12 results in a segfault . Any ideas on how to fix this ? xterm and other apps display tt font ( non aa'd ) no problem. --Matthew Allum
broken packages on sparc woody
Hi all; Having at last getting debian to boot on an old sparc10, I upgraded to woody , but now Im having some wierd apt problems. heres a snippet of whats happening; snip #apt-get install task-c-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-c-dev: Depends: task-devel-common but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages #apt-get install task-devel-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-devel-common: Depends: autoconf but it is not going to be installed Depends: automake but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages # apt-get install autoconf Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: autoconf: Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed Depends: autoconf2.13 (= 2.13-34) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages /snip Yet Perl is installed ; dpkg -l | grep -i perl ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-3Shared Perl library. ii perl-5.6-base 6.2Transitional package. ii perl-base 5.6.1-3The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Any ideas ? mallum
XFree 4.0.3 and remote clients
Aloha; I apt-get upgarded my woody install this morning and Xfree 4.0.3 got installed. All working fine except when I try and launch an X app on a remote machine ( with DISPLAY set to the 4.0.3 machine ) I get an unable to connect error. This used to work fine and the remote machine is in xhost's . Any ideas ? mallum
Blank Screen With geforce2 and Nvidia Drivers
Hi all; Im running potato with Xfree 4.0.1 ( cybotha..? debs ) and a Hercules Prophet GeforceII MX card. I succesfully compiled the Nvidia 0.9-6 kernel module and installed the openGL drivers. Unfortunatly when I try and fire up X, the monitor changes resolution and then the screen just goes blank, and the keyboard locks up. However I can still ssh into the machine. The Xfree.0.log [ attached ] seems to show nothing thats obviously an error. I have tried numerous changes to XF86Config file advised by the faq and documentation found on the net, but still all I get is just a blank locked screen. Can anybody help ? If it helps I have a kt7-raid mother board with softbios III. The kernel is compiled with MTRR support ( though I havn't set this ? ) and no framebuffer support. Id really appreciate any help on this. Many thanks mallum XFree86 Version 4.0.1d / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 27 October 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.17 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Sun Mar 4 15:10:53 2001 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown. (WW) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. (**) |--Screen Screen AGP (0) (**) | |--Monitor MyMonitor (**) | |--Device NV AGP (==) |--Input Device Mouse1 (==) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 250 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) XKB: model: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (**) FontPath set to unix/:-1 (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (**) Option AllowMouseOpenFail (--) using VT number 7 (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.3 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.1 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.0.1d, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.1 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.0.1d, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x80010004, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,0305 card , rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,8305 card , rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1106,0686 card 1106, rev 22 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1106,0571 card , rev 10 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 10 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 10 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:4: chip 1106,3057 card , rev 30 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:08:0: chip 10b7,9055 card 10b7,9055 rev 30 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 11c1,0449 card 13e0,0020 rev 01 class 07,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1274,5880 card 1274,2000 rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:13:0: chip 1103,0004 card 1103,0001 rev 03 class 01,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0110 card 14af,7100 rev a1 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.0.1d, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 (II) UnloadModule: scanpci (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x00 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x00 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x00 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus
Potato Blackbox Quickie
Aloha all; I run Blackbox wm on my box at work ( woody ) and my box at home ( potato ). In both there .blackboxrc's the focus model is set to 'clicktofocus'. Howevre my home box only focuses a window when I click its title bar, not when I click anywhere with in a window ( like my woody box at work ). Anyone know how I set up my potato blackbox to focus when I click anywhere on the window ( like woody blackbox ) and not just on the titlebar. I've searched the blackbox docs, but have had no joy. Is the woody blackbox a patched version to allow this behaviour ? Many thanks mallum
Help ! Dead Woody after upgrade
Hello all; Im running Woody on my desktop box at work. Yesterday I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. It was a while since Id done that so quite alot of stuff got updated including the kernel. Everything seemed fine. Later on in the day I had to reboot and I was greeted by a continual; Lilo loading Linux . Lilo loading Linux . Lilo loading Linux . (over and over again with no Linux Loading) I tried the rescue option from the original potato install cd and it nearly came back up until the screen was filled with an error message complaining about loading kernel modules and not being able to write to the disk. Later on I managed to mount the hardrive via another rescue disk (via freshmeat) and tried to rerun lilo but it was confused about paths due to /dev/hda1 having to be mounted on /mnt. Im really lost here and would really appreciate some help. Fingers crossed; mallum
Re: Help ! Dead Woody after upgrade
YeeHaa ! it worked . Many many thanks - lfe saver. mallum http://10.am http://10.am/search/?search=debian - lots of Debian news On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:53:28AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Am Friday 08 December 2000 17:46 schrieb mallum: Hello all; Im running Woody on my desktop box at work. Yesterday I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. It was a while since Id done that so quite alot of stuff got updated including the kernel. Everything seemed fine. Later on in the day I had to reboot and I was greeted by a continual; Lilo loading Linux . Lilo loading Linux . Lilo loading Linux . (over and over again with no Linux Loading) I tried the rescue option from the original potato install cd and it nearly came back up until the screen was filled with an error message complaining about loading kernel modules and not being able to write to the disk. Later on I managed to mount the hardrive via another rescue disk (via freshmeat) and tried to rerun lilo but it was confused about paths due to /dev/hda1 having to be mounted on /mnt. Never seen this before. If you want to run lilo, you have to pass the -r option i.e. # lilo -r /mnt -C configfile in order to give it the right path. Good luck, -Cajus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.2.4pre9 and modules
Aloha All; To get support for my new ata100 drive , last night I installed the 2.2.4pre9 kernel ( using kernel-package ) . It all went fine (the drive worked) ... but then I noticed non of the modules Id selected seemed to be loading on boot. I checked /lib/modules/2.2.4pre9 and non of the modules Id selected during the kernel config were there. I tried again and again but alas no modules seemed to be getting compiled. I checked the docs for kernel-package and it said something about modules not being compiled when the kernel version has an epoch ? Am I doing something completely stupid here ? mallum
