X doesn't react to keyboard commands

Since a while ago, X doesn't react to keyboard commands (such as ctrl+alt+backspace to kill it, or ctrl+alt+1 to switch to the console). Nothing happens when I press these keyboard combinations. Does anyone know what might be the problem? I'm using testing/unstable, with this version of X:

distutils lacking from my Python installation

I have python2.3 (as well as python2.2) installed on my system, but today I realized that the distutils module is not present, so I can't use it (I would expected it to be present in /usr/lib/python2.3). Why is this, I thought distutils was part of the standard Python library? Jesper -- To

Tunneling smtp with exim4

I normally use exim4 with the smarthost-configuration, i.e. I relay all email to the mail server of my ISP. In the file /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf i thus have a line saying: dc_smarthost='mail.my.isp.se' Now I would like to tunnel my outgoing email over ssh, and I have started up an ssh

Troubles with pcmcia modules

I recently installed Woody on a new box on a Dell Latitude. It uses a standard D-Link pcmcia network card, and worked fine after installation. However, last night I upgraded to Testing, including an upgrade to kernel-image-2.4.20, and kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.20, and now I can't get my network

Re: Java problem

. Happens every time. Suggestions? Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone? | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the name of eth0?

Doing an ifconfig shows me (among other things) this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:8D:C6:50 inet addr:10.11.165.13 Bcast:10.11.165.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 However, when I try ifup eth0 or ifdown eth0 (as root) I get the error: Ignoring unknown interface

Suspending laptop screws up servers

I usually run my old Dell laptop all-day, and then suspend it during nights. Unfortunately, the last couple of months, this gives me some side-effects: 1. The general volume of the sound goes down to zero, shutting off sound, after I wake the computer up, although this is not the way it's

Re: Suspending laptop screws up servers

Thanks for your suggestions, Sean. * On Sat Apr 20, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: the sound modules may be getting unloaded and reloaded, don't know if that will make a difference. An lsmod before and after a suspend/resume shows no differences, so it seems to me this was not it. if you are

Re: Weird e-mail headers

might have to fiddle with the stripcr parameter. Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone? |

Kernel modules and usb

these modules probed when a usb mouse is detected? TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone? |

Re: ^S/scroll-lock in konsole

* On Mon Oct 22, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it gets pressed? What signal it sends, I don't know. But to disable it, press ^Q. HTH, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Xnest refuses connections

solving this? TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone? |

Python versioning

the reasoning behind these four groups, or provide some friendly pointers to where to learn more. TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone? |

Re: Python versioning

version, or just the next release after 2.0? TIA, Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone? |

Re: ls sort

files, also sorted alphabetically? None of the sort options (cftuSUX) seem to include the ability to sort by whether or not the file is a directory. -- Jesper Holmberg|But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 29285 Brest, FRANCE | alone? |

Re: Realplayer installer broken in sid?

* On Fri Oct 05, Nick Hastings wrote: after a harddisk failure I reinstalled sid on one of my pcs. There were no big problems. However the it seems that the realplayer installer may now be broken. Exactly the same thing happens over here on Woody. Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg

Non-ascii chars in GTK+ programs

Hi all, I don't know if this is a new problem on my machine, or if it's just that I recently found it, but all my GTK+ programs (gimp, abiword, gcorr101, etc) have problems with file names including non-ascii characters. They show up in listings with very strange characters substituted for the

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

* On Fri Sep 28, dman wrote: Check out the frame buffer stuff. I found it to be really cool. How do I get this frame buffer stuff to work? I compiled the kernel with support for frame buffer, but obviously something else need to be configured for it to start? Where should I look? TIA Jesper

X sluggish after upgrade to 4.1

After a short vacation, I yesterday did an upgrade of my Testing system, bringing me the xfree86 4.1. Now, my X seems quite sluggish, especially noticeable when scrolling in a web browser (I've tried several). I first suspected this could have something to do with the frame buffer, but I have

Setting $PATH

I might have misunderstood something here, but my bash{profile,rc} files don't work as I expect. In my .bash_profile, I have this: PATH=~/bin:${PATH} export PATH This works as expected after I have logged in, I do have ~/bin in my path. However, when I start X, my ~/bin is gone from the path. I

Converting ps-file

I have a couple of postscript files that are made for letter-size paper, and I would like to convert these into a4 format before printing them. How would I best go about to do this? TIA Jesper

Re: [OT] BibTeX style

* On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: I don't know of a specific style, but I generally do: NOTE=Avail: \url{http://foo.bar.baz/foobar.pdf}; Thanks, this works great. I thought it required something more complicated. Jesper

[OT] BibTeX style

I am writing a scientific report in LaTeX, using BibTeX. I don't have very particular demands on how the references should be given, and I can therefore use any of the standard styles (ex. plain.bst). However, since many of my references are available (mainly as PDF documents) on the Web, I'd like

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

Hi Mark, I use this in my ~/.mailcap file: application/msword; ~/viewDoc %s; copiousoutput which calls the small script viewDoc, residing in my PATH: #!/bin/sh wvHtml $1 $1.html w3m -dump -T text/html $1.html rm $1.html This converts the doc file to html using wvHtml, and then converts the

Re: Real Player

Hi Vineet, thank you for your answer. The install process dies right after the first screen, and I never get a chance to enter the file name of the Real Player package, which I have downloaded. So there seems to be a problem before it starts looking for the package. Jesper * On Thu, Jul 19,

Real Player

I am trying to install Real Player, and I have downloaded the package from real.com. However, as I install the realplayer deb with: apt-get install realplayer it crashes after the first dialogue with this message: dpkg: error processing realplayer (--configure): subprocess post-installation

[OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, but is there any way of extracting information such as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other things than view them, and occasionally print them, using xpdf, but now I need to cut

no network in kernel 2.2.19

I installed kernel-image-2 2.2.19-8, but when I boot it, PCMCIA doesn't work. I see there are packages for PCMCIA kernel-modules, but there doesn't seem to be any for 2.2.19. What should I do? TIA Jesper

kernel-image

I recently installed Potato from discs, and then dist-upgraded to Woody. Now, I was looking into the subject of kernels, and I find I have no package named kernel-image, although of course there exists one (2.2.17 it seems) in /boot. Now, what would I do if I wanted to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.X

Scroll Wheel

What is the recommended way of adding support for the scroll wheel (Logitech mouse) under X4.0.3 and Woody? TIA Jesper

LC_*

In which file should I put my LC_* statements (e.g. LC_CTYPE=se_SV) so that they are globally valid? TIA Jesper

Can't get exim to work

When I try to use fetchmail on my newly installed testing/unstable system, with an .fetchmailrc I've used before on another system, I get these errors: reading message 2 of 367 (2998 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to