Re: XKB problem with x-terminal

2005-12-11 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:19:39PM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:22:30PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:34:26PM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > > > Is there a way to compile keybo

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > Well, just use md5sum, sha1sum, etc. Against what, exactly? How do these verify the contents within that discrete piece of the archive? > Or use .zip with zipsplit -n . . . I > don't see that rar has any particular advantage there. Point being was that split

Re: netatalk experiences

2005-12-11 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 21:59 -0500, mw wrote: > 1. Will netatalk treat resource fork better? > 2. Is it troublefree from an admin stance? I've used it for several years with RH, Gentoo, and Debian, and it's worked flawlessly. It's always been completely passive -- just storing and serving Mac file

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 17:32, Sun 11 Dec 05, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:59 -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > --snip-- > > will probably laugh at you. How else are you going to get a > > uniform file size of say 15mb each in your sample if you > > don't use rar? > > tar cz sample/ | split -db 15m - sampl

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 11 December 2005 21:00, Steve Lamb wrote: > Sean Davis wrote: > > split(1). Been around since AT&T Version 6. > > Now verify each portion has no errors in it with split. Oh, wait, ya > can't. That's because it is just a rough split and not an actual archive > which can be verified.

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Using Testing/Etch > > > > Wait for it to propogate. A new version was just uploaded to Sid > tonight. If there are no RC bugs filed against it, the propogation to > testing will happen in 10 days. Well, there's still some transiti

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:01:12 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Using Testing/Etch > > > > Wait for it to propogate. A new version was just uploaded to Sid > tonight. If there are no RC bugs filed against it, the propogation to > testing will

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Using Testing/Etch > Wait for it to propogate. A new version was just uploaded to Sid tonight. If there are no RC bugs filed against it, the propogation to testing will happen in 10 days. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:52:59 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:33:43 -0500 > > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >> > >>>deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:33:43 -0500 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> >>>deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ >>> >> >>It went away now that the packages have been uploaded to Sid. >> >>-Roberto >> >>-- >

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:33:43 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > > > It went away now that the packages have been uploaded to Sid. > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://fami

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > It went away now that the packages have been uploaded to Sid. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty no

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Sean Davis wrote: > split(1). Been around since AT&T Version 6. Now verify each portion has no errors in it with split. Oh, wait, ya can't. That's because it is just a rough split and not an actual archive which can be verified. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your

Re: gcc internal error

2005-12-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:40:50 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > UNCLELEO:~# memtest86 > bash: memtest86: command not found > UNCLELEO:~# find / -name memtest86 > UNCLELEO:~# It's probably not included on the mini-iso. If you have a repository setup, you could easily just aptitude in

Re: Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alex Malinovich, > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:26 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > > "As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its > > own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its > > phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of interactive > > Doomsday Book of er

netatalk experiences

2005-12-11 Thread mw
I'm considering using Debian and netatalk for our macintosh hard drive backup of files. This would be instead of windows2000 with services for macintosh.We have had some problem with resource forks getting messed up copying files from windows 2003 server (using Xinet) to windows 2000 server wit

No sound from gxine with ALSA

2005-12-11 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Hi, I've just moved from OSS to ALSA, and gxine doesn't generate sound anymore. Mixer settings are Ok because I can play CDs with xmms or cdplay without problems. audio.driver:alsa in ~/.gxine/config. When I try to play streaming audio, gxine connects to the server but doesn't generate sound

Re: usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb with sarge

2005-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:53:34PM -0800, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > once in a while (can be every couple days or every couple weeks), my > usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb, and i see this in > dmesg: > > > scsi11 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device > ReiserFS: sda1: warning: zam-700

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Sean Davis
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 05:59:41PM -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > On 11:49, Sun 11 Dec 05, John Hasler wrote: > > Gnu_Raiz writes: > > > This is one program that I believe is worth buying the license for. This > > > is especially true if you have any windows machine's around. If you use > > > Usenet for

Re: Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:26 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > "As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its > own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its > phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of interactive > Doomsday Book of error, fallability, and redemption..." >

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:59 -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: --snip-- > will probably laugh at you. How else are you going to get a > uniform file size of say 15mb each in your sample if you > don't use rar? tar cz sample/ | split -db 15m - sample.tar.gz Would work just fine for me. Or, if you have to use

Re: realplayer on gnome & sound

2005-12-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've had about the same experience with slackware 10.2 but I was using trplayer down on the text level and failed with: http://audio.federalnewsradio.com/stream/real/fnr.sml On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Adam Hardy wrote: Realplayer 10 is not working for me. When I try to start any sound file like

Re: Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-11 Thread Paul Johnson
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > By the way, is there a problem of abandoning dependency on APT? There > have been some problems blamed on this relationship -- "That must be a > bug in APT!"; "No, I'm sure it's an aptitude problem". Yes. aptitude is a frontend to apt. -- Paul Johnson Email and In

Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Tony Godshall
"As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of interactive Doomsday Book of error, fallability, and redemption..." -- Neal Stephenson In The Beginning Was The Command Line,

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Gabriel
Kenneth Jacker wrote: pw> That's sort of the point of safe mode, isn't it? You can uninstall pw> extensions while in safe mode, and then try to start firefox. My hunch was: "downTHEMall" ... and I was right! Uninstalling it fixed the problem. Thanks for everyone's help, -Kenneth

Re: usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb with sarge

2005-12-11 Thread Brendan
On Sunday 11 December 2005 19:50, Jan Schledermann wrote: > Jason Dunsmore wrote: > > once in a while (can be every couple days or every couple weeks), my > > usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb, and i see this in > > dmesg: > > > > > after that happens, i have to remount my usb hard

Re: usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb with sarge

2005-12-11 Thread Jan Schledermann
Jason Dunsmore wrote: > once in a while (can be every couple days or every couple weeks), my > usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb, and i see this in > dmesg: > after that happens, i have to remount my usb hard drive under /dev/sdb. > after a reboot, it's at /dev/sda again. this cau

Re: Need basic help with KDE Wallet, added question: (both) SOLVED

2005-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:39:34PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:37:28PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >>I was confronted recently with a request for the password of my KDE > >>Wallet. > >>I didn't know I had one. I guessed my l

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Kenneth Jacker
pw> That's sort of the point of safe mode, isn't it? You can uninstall pw> extensions while in safe mode, and then try to start firefox. My hunch was: "downTHEMall" ... and I was right! Uninstalling it fixed the problem. Thanks for everyone's help, -Kenneth PS I'll miss it ... a very

Re: openoffice hangs with 2.6 kernel

2005-12-11 Thread Jan Schledermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.14, and now openoffice > freezes whenever I try to open a document, or to start a new > one. When I boot into the old 2.4 kernel, it works fine. > > Any suggestions? > > I tried looking through the list of openoffice bugs.

Mutt crashing (segfault)

2005-12-11 Thread Ryan Claycamp
I ran aptitude update && aptitude upgrade today and now I'm unable to read mail in mutt under an X session. I normally run mutt from an icon which runs it in an xterm. Mutt loads okay but when I select a message to read, the window disappears. I ran mutt from an xterm and it drops to the prompt

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 11:49, Sun 11 Dec 05, John Hasler wrote: > Gnu_Raiz writes: > > This is one program that I believe is worth buying the license for. This > > is especially true if you have any windows machine's around. If you use > > Usenet for any amount of time you will find that this program is a must > > hav

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-11 Thread Joey Hess
Jim Holland wrote: > I was wanting to install a later than standard version of Midnight > Commander to solve some problems with the standard stable version > 4.6.1-pre3-3, so found I had a choice between a tarball, a patch and an > rpm at the following site: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ut

Re: Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-11 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Hardy wrote: > Do apt/dselect and aptitude share the same database as far as the > currently installed modules are concerned, ignoring whether the packages > were installed by apt or by aptitude? "apt/dpkg/aptitude use different databases" is a frequent statetement on this mailing list. It'

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Kenneth Jacker
pw> Well, I thought you could do that, but apparently 'Disable' is pw> not an option in safemode because they're disabled already; so pw> uninstall is the only option. pw> Sorry to mislead. No problem! -Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 12/11/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/11/05, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   pw> That's sort of the point of safe mode, isn't it?  You can  pw> uninstall extensions while in safe mode, and then try to start firefox.Now I get it!I did look at the "extensions" win

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 12/11/05, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   pw> That's sort of the point of safe mode, isn't it?  You can  pw> uninstall extensions while in safe mode, and then try to start firefox.Now I get it!I did look at the "extensions" window while in "safe mode", but didn't realize each entry w

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Kenneth Jacker
pw> That's sort of the point of safe mode, isn't it? You can pw> uninstall extensions while in safe mode, and then try to start firefox. Now I get it! I did look at the "extensions" window while in "safe mode", but didn't realize each entry was, in fact, usable since everything was grayed ou

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread cmetzler
> As some of you might know from an earlier posting, my 'firefox' > stopped working after updating some extensions. Luckily I can still > use it by invoking it as "firefox -safe-mode" (thanks, Steve!). > > How to regain the normal functionality? Which is the "bad" extension? > > I tried runni

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-11 Thread Hendrik Sattler
David LIMA wrote: > > I'm running Debian SID with linux-image-2.6-686, since few days i'm > facing DMA problems after upgrading kernel to 2.6.14 (from stock). > Hdparm reports "operation not permitted" when I try do activate DMA. > > I have read http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/11/msg004

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 12/11/05, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Debian/sarge;  firefox-1.0.4-2sarge5]As some of you might know from an earlier posting, my 'firefox'stopped working after updating some extensions.  Luckily I can stilluse it by invoking it as "firefox -safe-mode" (thanks, Steve!). How to rega

Compiling a module

2005-12-11 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, I tried to follow the first example hello.c in the book linux device driver 2nd edition but I am getting a bunch of errors: hello.c: #define MODULE #include int init_module(void) { printk("<1>Hello, world\n"); return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { printk("<1>Goodbye cruel world\n"); } Er

realplayer on gnome & sound

2005-12-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Realplayer 10 is not working for me. When I try to start any sound file like an mp3, it dies. I streams OK, but won't play any sound. I set up the standard realplayer 10 from apt I'm using gnome and in xmms for instance, I can play sound using either the OSS output plugin or the esound output

Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[Debian/sarge; firefox-1.0.4-2sarge5] As some of you might know from an earlier posting, my 'firefox' stopped working after updating some extensions. Luckily I can still use it by invoking it as "firefox -safe-mode" (thanks, Steve!). How to regain the normal functionality? Which is the "bad" e

Re: Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrew M.A. Cater on 11/12/05 10:13, wrote: A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which featured a wonderful (albeit imperfect, as some bug r

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gabriel
Jacob S wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:26 -0300 Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Kemp wrote: apt-cache search rar unrar Gives you this in the output: unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free vers

Re: XKB problem with x-terminal

2005-12-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:22:30PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:34:26PM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > > Is there a way to compile keyboard definitions for X and save them > > > somewhere, where XServer can

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-11 Thread [Jaalkab cha']
Hello, i use alien to convert rpm packages to debian packages, u can try it regard J __ On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 22:57 +0200, Jim Holland wrote: > Hi all > > I was wanting to install a later than standard version of Midnight > Commander to solve some problems with the standard stable version > 4.6.

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Holland
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Marc Wilson wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:11:20 -0800 > From: Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:57:04PM +0200, Jim Holland wrote: > > It successfully created

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Holland
Hi Roberto Thanks for the very handy tip about checkinstall. I have never come across it before and it does seem to neatly handle the problem of installing, querying and uninstalling utilities installed from source. I see that it can even be used with rpms - I will pass that tip on to my Red

Re: which alsa package do i need to compile mplayer?

2005-12-11 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 21:29 +0100, Andreas Rippl wrote: > standard mplayer is a bit annoying since it is unable to resize > movies, > > if i put them full screen i have a mini video in the center and > > a big black border around it... mplayer -zoom yourmovie or set the value in your mplayer.conf

Re: Old version of Midnight Commander

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Holland
Hi Roberto C. Sanchez and Marc Wilson Thanks for the helpful explanations. I will try out the backport from unstable. Regards Jim Holland System Administrator MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Jim Holland wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:46:07 +0200 (CAT) >

DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-11 Thread David LIMA
Hi list, I'm running Debian SID with linux-image-2.6-686, since few days i'm facing DMA problems after upgrading kernel to 2.6.14 (from stock). Hdparm reports "operation not permitted" when I try do activate DMA. I have read http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/11/msg00410.html and recompil

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:57:04PM +0200, Jim Holland wrote: > It successfully created a .deb package which installed fine. However I > soon realised that that many of the files in the rpm (eg /usr/share/mc/* > for example, as well as others) were missing from the .deb package. Is > there any way

Re: Old version of Midnight Commander

2005-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:46:07PM +0200, Jim Holland wrote: > The later version did solve the problems I was having. Is there anyone > who is working on upgrading the standard Debian mc package? Upgrading it to what? Unstable (Sid) is on 4.6.1-release and has been since September 5th. The ver

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Jim Holland wrote: > Hi all > > I was wanting to install a later than standard version of Midnight > Commander to solve some problems with the standard stable version > 4.6.1-pre3-3, so found I had a choice between a tarball, a patch and an > rpm at the following site: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/

Re: Old version of Midnight Commander

2005-12-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Jim Holland wrote: > Hi all > > One of the reasons that I have switched over to using Debian is that its > display of console utilities such as Midnight Commander works much better > than Red Hat and derivatives from version 8 on. However I have still > found a display problem (a screen refresh f

Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Holland
Hi all I was wanting to install a later than standard version of Midnight Commander to solve some problems with the standard stable version 4.6.1-pre3-3, so found I had a choice between a tarball, a patch and an rpm at the following site: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/sn

Old version of Midnight Commander

2005-12-11 Thread Jim Holland
Hi all One of the reasons that I have switched over to using Debian is that its display of console utilities such as Midnight Commander works much better than Red Hat and derivatives from version 8 on. However I have still found a display problem (a screen refresh failure) with the stable version

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Georgi Alexandrov
Gnu-Raiz wrote: The Window Version comes with the nice GUI, where as the *nix version is only commandline. If one really needs the GUI you can run it under wine. You are one of those guys that like to complex their life just for fun? ;-) You need to unrar a .rar file, and you will install an

Re: Need basic help with KDE Wallet

2005-12-11 Thread ML
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:44 pm, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at 16:28:42 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:50:44PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:37:28 -0700 > > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: which alsa package do i need to compile mplayer?

2005-12-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:16:41AM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > standard mplayer is a bit annoying since it is unable to resize movies, > if i put them full screen i have a mini video in the center and > a big black border around it... > > so i am trying to compile a mplayer from so

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Thomas Jollans
John Hasler wrote: Gnu_Raiz writes: This is one program that I believe is worth buying the license for. This is especially true if you have any windows machine's around. If you use Usenet for any amount of time you will find that this program is a must have. Interesting. I've been on

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-12-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:48:37 -0500 "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:03:30 -0500 > > "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>I noticed similar problems. Can't download using ftp but works fine with > >>http !! > >> > >>/ks > >> > > > > > > I th

Re: No package signature check for specific repository

2005-12-11 Thread Georgi Alexandrov
Hendrik Sattler wrote: Georgi Alexandrov wrote: I'm using debian unstable and the main debian unstable repositories to update my system. I have added the ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ repository to my sources.list file. Works great, but every time I deal with apt-get or aptitude I get

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread John Hasler
Gnu_Raiz writes: > This is one program that I believe is worth buying the license for. This > is especially true if you have any windows machine's around. If you use > Usenet for any amount of time you will find that this program is a must > have. Interesting. I've been on Usenet for twenty years

udev and gphoto2

2005-12-11 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi All, Somewhere along the lines up upgrading my testing installation I've broken the gphoto2 support for my camera... When I plug in the camera on the USB port it is detected and i used to be and the normal dialog appears asking if I want to import the photos. But now that fails which seems to b

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 12:58, Sun 11 Dec 05, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:35:35 -0300 > Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oliver Lupton wrote: > > > > >On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:02:50 -0300 > > >Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>Does anyone know a free software alternat

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 22:21, Sat 10 Dec 05, Jacob S wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:26 -0300 > Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steve Kemp wrote: > > > > apt-cache search rar unrar > > > > > > Gives you this in the output: > > > > > > unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files > > > unrar - Unarchiver fo

Re: getting going with midi

2005-12-11 Thread cmetzler
> I have an audigy card and pmidi installed. I can play wav, mpeg, > etc. files etc. using applications such as gxine and xmms. However, I > would now like to play a .midi file. In my previous email, I should have mentioned one other route to go, and that is to do everything in the software doma

wireless drivers

2005-12-11 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, I am currently learning how to write drivers for wirless cards. I was wondering if there is like a developer manual for these cards and how do programmers figure out how to send and receive data from the card and how to interface with it in general. I really appreciate any help you can provi

Re: Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-11 Thread Allan Wind
On 2005-12-11T10:13:34+, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Aptitude is great as a gui front end text-based user interface (tui) > - but you can take "apt-get install foo" as a single command from my > cold dead fingers :) aptitude provides similar command line syntax. /Allan signature.asc Descr

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-12-11 Thread [KS]
Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:03:30 -0500 > "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I noticed similar problems. Can't download using ftp but works fine with >>http !! >> >>/ks >> > > > I think that there is some issue with the gpg key, enter the site, there is > some instructions on

Re: getting going with midi

2005-12-11 Thread cmetzler
> I have an audigy card and pmidi installed. I can play wav, mpeg, > etc. files etc. using applications such as gxine and xmms. However, I > would now like to play a .midi file. > > I have pmidi installed. To find the available ports I do: > >$ pmidi -l >Port Client name

sort amarok playlists on multiple fields?

2005-12-11 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, all you amarok fans out there (I know there's lots), anyone know a way to sort amarok playlists on multiple fields? so, for instance, can one sort First by Artist Then by Album Then by track number so that the playlist goes through your collection album by album? I'd real

Re: Soundblaster Audigy LS not working (detected OK?)

2005-12-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 11.12.2005 at 04:41 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Let's make sure: this is the card with the big chip on it that says > >>"CREATIVE ca0106-dat" and at the outer edge: "Sound Blaster Live > >>24-bit", ok? > > > >Actually, it's this: > >http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp

Re: Need basic help with KDE Wallet, added question

2005-12-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi Paul, Paul E Condon wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:37:28PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I was confronted recently with a request for the password of my KDE Wallet. I didn't know I had one. I guessed my logon password for Debian, but that didn't seem to work ("seem" because I had no idea w

openoffice hangs with 2.6 kernel

2005-12-11 Thread dzpost
I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.14, and now openoffice freezes whenever I try to open a document, or to start a new one. When I boot into the old 2.4 kernel, it works fine. Any suggestions? I tried looking through the list of openoffice bugs. I didn't see anything related, though

Re: Soundblaster Silent on Reboot

2005-12-11 Thread Colin
Hal Vaughan wrote: > So if anyone knows how I can tell Alsa to save the Soundblaster as the > default > card and NOT the built in motherboard one, it'll be working perfectly. (I > can even remove the @reboot cron job I had w/ aumix to set the levels.) I think you put a file in the /etc/modprob

Re: snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol __compound_literal.180

2005-12-11 Thread swhe
met this before.I still have no idea with it. I just fall back to kernel 2.6.8 to avoid the problem, hope someone can tell us how to fix it. On 12/6/05, Fisher, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After googling my subject line, I found references to bug #329989 and its > reported closure aft

Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid

2005-12-11 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Hi, I thought of using thoughttracker but realized that it's not in etch nor sid. Would anybody know why ? I've been trying to organize my scraps and bits of knowledge in man pages and Csanyi Pal recommended me thoughttracker. I track sid and could perhaps try pulling it from stable, but woul

Fwd: basic questions

2005-12-11 Thread Rafi Gabzu
Hi , "testing", 2.6. 1. When I'm trying to add printer with the KDE add printer wizard it won't let me finish the setting , it asks me for identication (with wallet ) and won't recognize my user or root password . Any idea ? (I'm starting to be frustrated , why is a simple "add printer"action is s

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread steef
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:35:35 -0300 Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oliver Lupton wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:02:50 -0300 Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know a free software alternative to RAR??? Use 'tar' combined with

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-12-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:03:30 -0500 "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > > > > Well, I think I have some problems with ftp, because I have changed > > sources.list to: > > > > deb http://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main > > > > And I didnt get that error aga

Re: Soundblaster Audigy LS not working (detected OK?)

2005-12-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Ewart wrote: On Saturday, 10.12.2005 at 13:28 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Let's make sure: this is the card with the big chip on it that says "CREATIVE ca0106-dat" and at the outer edge: "Sound Blaster Live 24-bit", ok? Actually, it's this: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:35:35 -0300 Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Lupton wrote: > > >On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:02:50 -0300 > >Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Does anyone know a free software alternative to RAR??? > >> > >> > > > >Use 'tar' combined with gzip or

Re: Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:48:09AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to > Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from > apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which > featured a w

Re: Need basic help with KDE Wallet

2005-12-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at 16:28:42 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:50:44PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:37:28 -0700 > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was confronted recently with a request for the password of my KDE >

Re: Reiserfs and quotas

2005-12-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:26:04PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running Debian sarge on i386 with some Reiserfs partitions. > Is it still the case that Reiserfs volumes don't support quotas? >From the CONFIG_QUOTA help: Currently, it works for the ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file syst

Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which featured a wonderful (albeit imperfect, as some bug reports have shown) problem solver (for

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday 10 December 2005 23:35, Gabriel wrote: > >Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Does anyone know a free software alternative to RAR??? [snip] You might try unrar-free. Have fun Eike -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Casilla de Correo 1519 Asuncion / Paraguay Tel.: 595-21-578698 FAX: 595-21-