How to have separate kbd layouts per usb-keyboards?

Hello, seems i am unable to find the correct terms to get something useful out of google i have the following problem: i am used to a german keyboard, my wife to a french layout anyone who had to switch between those 2 will concur that the respective other one is a real pain

Re: how to get 3D acceleration with an intel i7?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:28:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:05:13 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: You will need to find out why the intel driver fails to load and Xorg fallbacks to vesa or fb mode, if that's what is really happening here. hmmm indeed reading the log i don't

Re: how to get 3D acceleration with an intel i7?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:49:14PM +, Camaleón wrote: And provided you seem to be using a recent -and customized?- kernel (Linux yoda 2.6.37-2-amd64) and also an updated Xorg server (1.9.5) upgrading any of those components does not make much sense, right? yes the standard kernel coming

how to get 3D acceleration with an intel i7?

Hello i just got a new machine, fitted with no graphics card, since the processor and the motherboard together should be able to give a decent graphics output... till now i had no problems with intel integrated graphics, worked out of the box but this time i have only basic services working

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

- Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl a écrit : i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard? exactly! and if you ask why: the french layout is

keyboard mapping problem under X

Hello i have a problem on my debian machines lately concerning the keymapping of the keyboard... i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... from the beginning the default setting of no-dead-keys was annoying, but with a leattle tweakiing and configuring i could get rid of that annoying

How to change the defaults for the Xserver without modifiying the xorg.conf directly?

Hollo i just re-installed a debian on a server, and as it seems i am not able to change the xserver switches anymore... a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks me 0 questions... i would like to throw out that extremely annoying nodeadkeys and switch that damnable caps-lock key to a less

Re: How to change the defaults for the Xserver without modifiying the xorg.conf directly?

- Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt a écrit : a  dpkg-reconfigure  xserver-xorg asks me 0 questions... Rather annoying indeed, but doesn't that also create a backup of your current edited xorg.conf? Couldn't you use that for following updates? it does! but i searched for a way to

how to get pulseaudio working?

Hello am trying to get the replication of audio working, no success so far... i read through the docu at the pulseaudio pages, which i can't really apply since i am running gnome, and as it seems gnome allready starts up a pulseaudio daemon on the laptop i use for the tests, all seems fine,

how to get the raw1394 modules for 2.6.24 kernel?

Hello, i just wanted to make again a try to see if somewhat there was a way to fetch some films from my camera, but as far as i see the prerequisite needed by kino is missing i tried to load the requested raw1394 module, but as far as i can see it, there's none on my system...

Re: getting a printer published.....

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:20:01AM +, Patter wrote: @IF(eth0) to get it work... Ah, so @LOCAL is loopback only ... TFM doesn't mention that. yep, that's why i bikered about the docu -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getting a printer published.....

hello! i have a network printer on my LAN that uses a peculiar driver, i configured one machine to be able to talk to it, so far so good, the printer works properly now iwante the other machines to access that printer through my server, and there nohing goes i used the local

Re: getting a printer published.....

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:31:24AM +, Patter wrote: You may need to adjust the BrowseAddress option to include the server's indeed, despite the documentation @LOCAL isn't enough, i had to add @IF(eth0) to get it work... thanks! -- ciao bboett

debian package for sleep to disk?

hello i am in the process of setting up a new laptop, and am at the moment searching without a success how to implement a hibernate functionality there's surely a package in debian offering this, but i seem to hit the wrong keywords so if someone could point me into the right direction!

recommended webcam?

hello i want to play around with ip-telephony and thus need a webcam, i have an old thing that does 340x280 which is enough to see thatthere is indeed somebody but the quality is simply awful, so what webcam are there that are easy to get working under debian with more appropriate resolution and

wildcards and NFS...

hello want to dispatch music from one computer through my house so i exported the mp3 directory by nfs. the problem is that most other comps in the house go by DHCP... so i added the following line to the /etc/exports /home/bboett/mp3/ 192.168.0.*(ro,insecure,root_squash,subtree_check) but

Sound problem with videoplayers

Hello i am running an amd64 system, and recently saw that vlc and mplayer are available now for this platform... tried, but they play without sound xmms plays fine, so i ran an strace on it, and mplayer stops at open(/dev/snd/controlC0, O_RDONLY)= 5 close(5)

getting à Tn B loopi puppet cam to work?

Hello! running through a store i came across that webcam disguised as a dog-puppet (http://www.t-nb.com)... and bought it without much thinking about drivers... now at home i would like to get it working, but alas i can't get anything out of it... in the syslog i only see that some device was

a CAD program for building a house?

Hello! i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my house... nevertheless i need some inforations and thus have decided to draw up

how to convert an historically grown debian to utf?

Hello! i have several machines that run with debian since several years now, and i have new ones installed from scratch... the new ones all run under utf... i wanted to move the other ones to utf also, but ran into lots of problems i reconfigured the locales package to add the

utf problem with mutt

Hello! since i passed onto a amd64 machine i noticed that the basic charset used is utf8 but mutt displays that in hex codes, with a \ prepended... reading french and german mails in the great majority, this isn't very practical... is there a solution to this? BTW at each update my default

how to activate wlan??

hello i have a stupid problem that is driving me mad i have a medion sim2010 laptop and want to (finally) activate the wlan part so i downloaded the firmware for the ipw2200 chipset installed on the laptop, and the thing boots nicely until the dreaded message: May 18 19:02:53 localhost

offtopic: cutting an image into subimages...

Hello! might be offtopic, but i don't know where to post this one... for a website i need to cut down into 9 parts an image, and repeat 3 times this operation with the subimages. Then i need to reduce the resolution in the inverse sense, making the big scans smaller. this is to make a html

Xserver-xorg crashing on Xvideo with i810 driver

Hello! i have the following problem: i have a medion sim 2010 latop with integrated Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller if u use the vesa driver, all is fine, although slow, and some programs don't start due to missing xvideo support (even if xdpyinfo reports

No sound out of Pcmcia saa7134 card...

Hello! recently i noticed that the PCMCIA part has made progress concerning my TV card, and that a bunch of modules is loaded (saa7134 + saa7134_dvb). launching tvtime yields channels, image etc all fine, only: there's no sound... so i added alsa-oss, but that too didn't solve the problem

how to use pcmcia memory cards???

Hello! tryed to mount a SD card of a Casio photo-camera... without success so far... my laptop has an inbuild SD-card adapter which is in fact (as i found out) linked to the pcmcia system... inserting the card the first time, i got the negation beep... looking into the log i found :

which alsa package do i need to compile mplayer?

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 sources... seems i got most of the stuff i need installed, unfortunately it

rescuing a server with adaptec SCSI wihtout reinstalling?

Hello somehow the kernel i kept from the installation procedure was thrown out by aptitude last time i didn't looked closely... and now i have a machine that stops at a busybox claiming that something doesn't exist: after: /scripts/local-top/evms: 32: /sbin/evms_activate: not found

getting vhosts to work with apache2 and sid?

Hello! i am stumbling across a very strange problem... i installed apache2 and spip and there's no way to access the spip part i tryed to install myself other vhosts, and a part from the default vhost all others are simply ignored i moved the NameVirtualHost *:80 directive just above

Re: getting vhosts to work with apache2 and sid?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:30:17AM +0200, Aurelien Ricard wrote: Could you send us your httpd.conf? sending them through the list seemd a bit too much :D put them up under: http://bboett.dyndns.org/~bboett/apache2.conf http://bboett.dyndns.org/~bboett/default

Re: getting vhosts to work with apache2 and sid?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:46:23PM +0200, Aurelien Ricard wrote: Does the 'apachectl configtest' command process all your externals VirtualHost files? (it must print processing config file: for each vhost) nope: apachectl configtest Syntax OK It seems you don't include your files

Re: getting vhosts to work with apache2 and sid?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 01:57:03PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: ok heres some new stuff i made all tests from an outside machine, nd i made them now internally on the machine with lynx big surprise: the vhosts work when i amon the machine but not from outside... maybe it is realted

Re: Debian-laptop.org

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote: I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. heh isn't a site devoted to free software but build with proprietary means denying access to whoever doesn't can

problem with setting openoffice to A4...

Hello! trying to get rid of this annoying US-Letter problem... if i could purge the whole system of any occurence of that paper type i would this is getting very annoying... there's no way to get openoffice to print on A4 paper i went through messages on the net, tryed first

Anyone got a Medion 7134 PCMCIA Card working?

Hello! sorry bothering with this once more, but little by little my laptop finally gets its parts working! now i am at the part of the PCMCIA TV-Tuner from informations on the card and the net i extracted the following: Medion TV-Tuner 7134 with a saa7134 chipset... tried: modprobe saa7134

finding doubles of images?

Hello! i am collecting photos from an event coming from different sources, i am at a count of 1500 images so far, still more coming in, unfortunately the people did allready synchronise among themselves in certain cases, and even worse, they renamed the files are there any means to

pstools aren't working?

Hello wondering about one thing, i noticed that non of my pstools seems to work correctly just a sample of what i get: ps2ascii test.ps Error: /undefined in ch-xoff Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 0 Execution stack:

Re: problem accessing the CD-Rom...

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:20:32AM -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: You try to eject the CD and you get Read from remote host errors, or did that get inserted into your message by accident? nope those got inserted by error... -- ciao bboett

problem accessing the CD-Rom...

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:35:52PM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: Hello still in my periodical tries to get the CD-Rom running on my laptop... i juste noted a really strange thing: when i do a eject or eject /dev/cdrom, or eject /dev/hdc (to where cdrom is linked, and where the CD is:· ide0

Re: dvd strangeness....

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:04:12PM +0200, Ionut Georgescu wrote: It happened to me before with cheep DVD-R media and with DVD+R media in DVD-R only drives. h indeed tryed a commercial dvd and it read it strange, allways thought it was easier to read from a disc the drive had written

dvd strangeness....

Hello strange things happens that my laptop is unable to use a cdrom-drive under linux, i am slowly getting used to it... but now my main comp (after the last update) shows the same behaviour too ide_cd and isofs are loaded... i have the correct entry in fstab (making the line by hand

problem accessing the CD-Rom??

Hello! on my Laptop i have the problem, that i can't access the dvd-reader/writer i put in a tested dvd, try to mount it, and get: mount /dev/hdc /mnt mount: you must specify the filesystem type huh? mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt mount: /dev/hdc already mounted or /mnt busy laptop:~#

Re: problem accessing the CD-Rom??

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:35:52PM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: hi! Try `-t auto' ah forgot to mention that one, same as when i doesn't specify a filesystem, tells me to use a correct -t flag Some CD/DVD's may be UDF. burnt that one my self, its iso9660 and its readable by my main comp and

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:20:22AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: try to boot in runlevel 2 or runlevel 1 or runlevel s if you can, then check the output of lsmod, lspci, or dmesg and /var/log/messages problem is the kernel seems to die just after loading. there's no reaction to any of the

getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

Hello! haviong trouble getting my latest bought laptop running its a medion si 2010, and neither debian testing install dvd nor knoppix 3.8 are able to boot it after the message uncompressing Linux ... Ok, booting the kernel. nothing happens i supsect it has something to do with

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:27:10PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: try knoppix in expert mode loading linux... loading minirt something... nothing (means empty screen..) still seeing nothing. -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: try switching to another vt ehm... the thing is after the ramsdisk is loaded, CD led stays dark... and all vt's are blank -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to set GS_FONTPATH or how do i get rid of /invalidfont?

Hello! i am still trying to get my Aculaser C4100 working, and since only cvs esp Ghostscript supports it (at least i hope the font problem as shown in http://bboett.free.fr/scan.jpg is due to the gs driver...) i compiled a new gs... compiling went fine, installation too, no noticable

problem compiling ghostscript?

Hello ghostscript mailing list seems utterly dead, or my problem terribly stupid... i am still trying to get the aculaser C4100 (Epson) running, and since default debian ghostscripts don't support it directly i tryed to compile a ghostscript myself... unfortunately it stops with the error:

anyone managed to get an Epson aculaser C4100 working with debian?

Hello! its now a week i try without success to get an epson aculaser C4100 working. The thing written on linuxprinting.org that this printer works perfectly is utter bullshit... want to know if at least one person really got this thing printing something that has a even just readable result

Re: Howto change the default font used by gs?

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:30:33AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: Please describe exactly what are you doing to get wrong fonts. From what software do you print? Which print spooler do you use (lpr? lprng? cups?) have a new epson aculaser C4100 (from google it seems that lots of

how to tell the rrescue kernel to load the aic7xxx module?

Hello! i am still stuck with no functioning rescue disc my system uses only scsi disks and that case isn't thought of with sarge's rescue discs, and i get a kernel panic when i set the root argument i read through and go the bootoptions howto, and they explain how to set options for the

howto rescue an install with an USB keyboard??

Hello sometimes the reboot doesn't go well and the IPL gets stopped at the stage where some disk needs attending... and there i am blocked its now the 4th time i reinstalled the base system, since there seem no way to tell the rescue disk to load the scsi adapter module... and since the

getting rid of appletalk at boot?

Hello! i have set up cups to use my new Espon aculaser c4100, but for the moment i got only strange output... the test page send from the gnome-cups-manager comes out really fine after switching the driver to 4000 instead of 4100 cause there's no alc4100 as a valid gs driver but as soon as

Re: getting Aculaser C4100 working...

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:09:40PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: Don't know if this can help: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-AcuLaser_C4100 went there allready, unfortunately those drivers try to use the device acl4100 with gs, and gs doesn't know that thing...

Howto change the default font used by gs?

Hello! still trying to get my printer (aculaser c4100) working... actually the stuff issued is written out in a too big font (lines merge a littel) and a font that wobbles over the lines... i looked at dfontmgr but don't understand a thing about it... tryed to install the different fonts i

how to use sarge boot disc as rescue disk?

Hello! trying to get my server working again.. somehow is the MBR of the boot disk corrupt, and i don't seem to get it repaired (should have never thought about rebooting that damn machine... was running fine for 3 years) thus i want to be at least able to boot the system from a cd

Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:20:48PM -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: Uwe Dippel wrote: If you need grub, take care, the last upgrade (17-18 Nov.) killed grub here on Sarge (no, not SID !). hmmm was just wondering, have one machine down, completely due to the malfunction of grub Somehow grub

why does mutt ignore /etc/mailcap??

Hello! since some time now i notice that i can't anymore open images send by mail directly from mutt, not so bothersome since this doesn't happen very often, but still annoying... the images have the correct mime-type in the mail, corresponding lines are in /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap even, but

usable subnotebook?

Hello! i know this might be offtopic, but nevertheless... i am looking out for some subnotebook to be able to continue work whilst beeing in train, wihtout the hassle of transporting a whole notebook with heavy and expensive batteries that won't last long enough... i tryed some PDA's

gnome still broken?

Hello hitting any menue under gnome yields awfully big blank popups, sometimes with some icons in them which means that somewhere the menues are still there found though google an archive with a related thread and removed some strange named files, but still, the same problem... is there

howto get upper wheel event for trust ami mouse 250S?

Hello! have a strange problem... bought a Trust wireless Ami mouse 250S recently, and so far this thing works fine, except for one thing... the whell mouse works only in 1 direction to the bottom (event 5) turning the wheel up (X-event 4) never happens to be catched i tryed with xev,

no mouse with kernel 2.6.x

Hello as many i have the problem that the migration to kernel 2.6 didn't went well because of the lack of the support of the mouse i went throug the archives and could get most of my machines working by loading the psmouse module or using directly the /dev/input/mouse0 node instead if

no more gt,lt or pipe under X?

Hello! another extreme annoyance this time... a whole key was lost under x... xev tells me its the key 0x0. its the lower left key of a 104 key kbd... above the windowssign, right to shift, in diagonal to left ctrl left to y... holds for me (german layout) the less/greater/pipe symbols

migration to utf-8?

Hello! on a new install i tryed to conform to modern times and set the kbd to utf-8 encoding. and now its getting near hell on earth :D so is there some migration odcu out there? cause i have some questions: there doesn't seem some general switch (as e.g. with the papersize) with which i

other users of the medion MD40100?

Hello, i am in search of other users of the new Aldi notebook MD 40100, i have begun to regroup the hints i had to extract onto http://www.inforezo.org/~bboett/md40100/ (that link is also submitted since 4 days to the linux-laptop site but doesn't show up... ) and am searching other

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:39:15PM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: Xfree 4.2 will not work with nvidia FX cards.You'll need the nvidia drivers installed.To install those you'll need at least the kernel headers for your which crash my comp... kernel installed and probably also the source.Don't

why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

Hello, seems there's no way to get X running under debian on my new Medion laptop i tryed so far Mandrake, Suse, Redhat and Knoppix and none had the slightes problem to set up at least the vesa X server i still try to install debian (usntable) on the laptop, and discover

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:15:09PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's really hard to screw that up... cause the config file generated by it doesn't work otherwise i wouldn't have tried other config files... -- ciao bboett

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:15:09PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's really hard to screw that up... cause the config file generated by it doesn't work otherwise i wouldn't have tried other config files... -- ciao bboett

anyone got X running on the new Medion Laptop?

Hello put up an unstable debain on my brand new Medion laptop and there seems no way to get X working... i got XF86config files from other people having this laptop but running under Suse, rEdhat or Mandrake and who have no problems i even tryed to copy over the config file knoppix

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:31:26PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Use fetchmail to download your mail and feed it to exim for local delivery. Exim can run spamassassin for you. If the download volume ..putting procmail between these should do this the nice way. sure but why does spamassassin not

how do i switch languages with ispell??

Hello i have to check texts in my 3 motherlanguages (de,fr,it)... at the moment i reinstall the package ispell each time i have a bunch in another language to check.. this isn't very practical how come that the dictionaries can't coexist??? what is the purpose to have a script to change the

Kontakt zu usern im Saarland und Baden-Wuertenberg bez Softwarepatentdemo in Strasbourg

Hi Tut mir leid so ne Art spam hier loszulassen, aber ich habe Probleme mit bestimmten LUG's in Kontakt zu kommen (z.B. Offenburger LUG) ich bin Mitglied des Strasbourger Lug, und wir suchen Kontakt zu deutschen Usern/Usergruppen in der nähe Strasbourg um die Demo gegen Softwarepatente die in

howto process attachments out of a procmail script?

Hello, i am getting doc files with announcements, i would like to process them automaticly (means extracting the attachment, create a tmp dir, run wvHtml on it, and transfer the resulting files onto a webserver) now in procmail i can identify the mails that should be

strange xawtv problem...

Hello, since the last update somehow xawtv has a problem xawtv This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-3-k7) NV: could not get NV card info (Das Argument ist ungültig) X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)

unusable X setup after new install....

Hello, i just boostrapped a machine into debian to show how nice this is in confront to suse, and am loosing some face here :( it took some time to get X to start, that part is now a little bit solved, but now when i log in with gdm it starts up a gnome env but without a windowmanager!!!

no more tv with xawtv??

Hello! after the last update, xawtv only finds my webcam as a suitable source... the tv card isn't found anymore is this some sort of normal? is there now some other tv viewer around that works? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL

strange printing problem....

Hello! a recurrent problem i have but since i don not often print documents that hold more than 2-3 pages i notice it not really often... nevertheless, now i had again to print out a 50 page document, and as usual it happenend again... the source is a pdf file, thats AFAIK, nearly the same as a

printer stalls on multipage documents?

Hello have a problem, my printer a laserjet 5n doesn't seem to be able to print ou multipage documents printing 1 or max 2-3 page documents is ok, but i noticed that printing out something larger (which doesn't happen very often, but it happens :D) after some pages, the printer doesn't

lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

Hello! after the last update of my unstable distribution on my laptop, the whole X system is out of order the start option for the xserver tcp isn't anymore wanted, but even after removing it, i am far from a usable system. some graphical stuff starts up, but stops somewhere leaving

Re: lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:07:26PM +0100, Mark Schouten wrote: Perhaps you could be more specific? uhm indeed the image shown me on the start of xdm is a pixelized chaos, i thus disabled xdm in fact a strange mix of old images somehow still stored in the grafic card buffer started

need scanner microcode eplus2k.usb ....

Hello! just got an interesting offer for a lifetec LT 9385 scanner, but as it seems that damn thing needs some microcode to start up correctly finding a windows box has gotten really difficult nowaday... so if someone has a charitable soul and that file, please send me that stuff ! --

cluttered up system?

Hello! i am wondering... i have a 2GB partition for /usr and more time passes the more it is nearing its 100% completion i don't install new software, besides the stuff selected by dselect... i don't have the impression that i have that much stuff installed, and still... i am wondering

anyone got the bittorrent stuff working ?

Hello tried the bittorrent deb, and after wards the sources directly... doesn't work the documentation of that program sucks, i don't know what the exe is supposed to be... the python code is a real mess (wondering how people could actually like that language...) and this whole this is

Re: Saving mail to another user's account

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:11:44PM +1100, Chris Kenrick wrote: The story behind this one is that I want to save some emails that come through my POP3 account to my local user to another account (that of my uhm? why not configure fetchmail properly then? you know that fetchmail

normal that with kernel 2.4.20 i ahve lots of zombies??

Hello! i jsut rebootet my machine with a standard 2.4.20-k7 and now i have ltos of programs that crash and are unremovable since definitely zombified what's going wrong here? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED]

configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found ???

Hello just wondering, am trying to compile a program, and configure stops there... but i did indeed install that lib... so if anyone has an idea on what's going wrong. dpkg -l libqt3* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

postgres upgrade failed.....

Hello i got used to the automatic postgres upgrade... and stopped making myself dumps before upgrading... :( and now i am stuck.. the automatic upgrade failed, and i don't know how to get this back... i tried the migration file, but couldn't get something usable out of it...

security problem on oleane???

Hello! made an upgrade hoping for a working galeon on unstable... and got this: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/java-linux/debian/pool/non-free/j/j2se1.4-i386/j2re1.4_1.4.0.99beta-1_i386.deb MD5Sum mismatch just some problem on my side, or a real problem?? -- ciao bboett

working alsa modules for kernel-image-2.4.19-k7??

Hello! thought i might give the stadnard build kernel a try again, and noticed that for the kernel i need the alsa modules are out of synch (dselect reports an error, and indeed, the sound doesn't work...) so i was wondering if there was a simple way to recompile the alsa modules (i tryed

allowing remote x connections?

Hello! i read this some time ago, but can't find the pointer to that docu anymore, and its not in the debian FAQ... :( i want to allow some local machines to send their displays to the desktop machine i know there's something to tweak with the server, but i don't know what other point

Re: allowing remote x connections?

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:49:24AM +1100, Russell wrote: If you want programs on the remote machine to use the desktop display, then i think that should happen automatic if the remote system sees your desktop DISPLAY environment variable. If not, start the remote program with: myprog -display

how to force galeon to use dns name resolving???

Hello! i have the following problem: i am developing a website on my local machine which has a dynamic ip and an address at dyndns... when i fire up galeon all is fine, and it fetches the ip from dyndns and finds the pages but at the first disconnection, and thus change of IP, all goes

Re: how to force galeon to use dns name resolving???

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:48:41PM +, Rupert wrote: With my dyndns account the DNS records live for 60 seconds on the world-accessible DNS servers. This seems to be the case for the machine bboett.dyndns.org (see dig output below). So you have to wait for up to 60 seconds before the new

keeping pppd alive?

Hello! i am on an ADSL connection, and most of the time the ppd daemon copes well with the periodical disconnects, but some times it dies... i wnat to keep the line up and running as neatly as possible... i made a script wich uses ping etc to see if the line is up, but this causes much more

Problem: plperl.so failed....

Hello i use the plperl extension for postgrs on unstable, and got lately problems: Warning: pg_exec() query failed: ERROR: Load of file /usr/lib/postgresql/lib/plperl.so failed: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /lib/libpthread.so.0) there seems to be some problem

ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script driven status displayer?

Hello! lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... since i nearly don't use the gnome stuff that is hanging around my desktop, i thought that

Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: I have tried including exec /usr/bin/wmaker in ~/.xinitrc , hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from your .xsession... (i had to put this in by hand... but on the

sound with a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio

Hello! i am trying to get the sound working with a 2.4.18 kernel and the onboard chip of my athlon board... there's not much of help in the docu so far, the kernelö docu about via chipsets only says they can freeze the kernel, but don't bother to say which module i should load for this t hing..

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