Re: cannot install skype on unstable

2009-06-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Sjoerd Hardeman sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl writes: Jonathan Wheelhouse schreef: Andreas Juch debian-u...@juch.cc writes: Am Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:27:25 +1000 schrieb Jonathan Wheelhouse jonathan.wheelho...@gmail.com: Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Mon,22.Jun.09, 15

Re: cannot install skype on unstable

2009-06-24 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Mon,22.Jun.09, 15:12:18, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Hi I used to have skype installed but I think a recent dist-upgrade got rid of it (now my wife _really_ wants it back). /etc/apt/sources.list has deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael

Re: cannot install skype on unstable

2009-06-24 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Andreas Juch debian-u...@juch.cc writes: Am Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:27:25 +1000 schrieb Jonathan Wheelhouse jonathan.wheelho...@gmail.com: Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Mon,22.Jun.09, 15:12:18, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Hi I used to have skype installed but I

cannot install skype on unstable

2009-06-21 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I used to have skype installed but I think a recent dist-upgrade got rid of it (now my wife _really_ wants it back). /etc/apt/sources.list has deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64 ./ # aptitude install skype produces The following packages are BROKEN: libc6-i386 The

Re: Sharing a directory

2006-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:10:33AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Got a question re UNIX permissions: I've got a directory, photos, in my home directory, that I want the wife and kids to put digital photos. I'm not sure I understand you, I

Re: Sharing a directory

2006-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Martin OConnor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can use umask to change your users default file permissions. If you put: umask 0022 in the .bashrc and .bash_profile, any new files and dirs will be group writable by default. The only problem with this is that it applies to *ALL* files that

Sharing a directory

2006-01-28 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Got a question re UNIX permissions: I've got a directory, photos, in my home directory, that I want the wife and kids to put digital photos. I created a group, photo, and put them all in it. I changed the group on the directory to be photo. I set the sgid bit on the directory so that files

Re: [Gnome] Error pop-up: there's already a gnome-panel

2005-11-20 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Lorenzo Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks! I had the same problem and now it's fixed!! Lorenzo Lopez Lorenzo, me too! Just want to say thanks; this was annoying my daughter and wife; I didn't know what it was. I fixed it for me by deleting my whole .gnome2 directory and then setting up

Browser Crashes

2004-10-06 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi For the last couple of weeks, my kids and I have all experienced browser crashes on various sites. We use any one of firefox, mozilla or galeon. I've just crashed all 3 browsers on this URL, http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/ . Each browser produces the following dump (see below cut line)

Re: Browser Crashes

2004-10-06 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:54:35AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: ... If that doesn't work, I'd start looking at the plugins that you're using and see if temporarily removing any of those fixes it. Other than that, I'm not sure what to suggest. Hope that

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another? [Done!]

2004-08-04 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi Thanks for all the tips. Just want to report that I've successfully moved. Here are my brief (and terse) notes: See /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz Short version: Assumptions: old disk is hda; mbr is installed hda; bios allows switching which hard disk you want to boot -

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Hi I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp) using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200). Oh dear. Sven has much the same idea I have. Before I forget, install

How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-07-31 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp) using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200). The family have 5 accounts. What I would like to do is to make the 120GB drive the main one (using ReiserFS) and use the 30GB drive for data. So, the plan

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-07-31 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:30:35PM +1000, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Hi I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp) using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200). The family have 5 accounts. What I

.note.GNU-stack in XFree86.0.log file

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi XFree86 version is 4.2.1-14 (apt-cache show xserver-xfree86); I use NVIDIA's installer for my graphics card rather than the nv driver. /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows [snip] XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-14

gconf2 - sid gnome won't start

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi My kids use gnome which won't start. After entering appropriate details on the gdm screen and pressing enter the following message pops up: The files that contain your preference settings are currently in use. ... Do you want to continue They hit

gconf2 - sid gnome won't start

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi My kids use gnome which won't start. After entering appropriate details on the gdm screen and pressing enter the following message pops up: The files that contain your preference settings are currently in use. ... Do you want to continue They hit

[SOLVED]Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-06 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:29:22AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse said Hi I get this when running aptitude: [snip] E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault. Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: [snip] I

dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-03 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I get this when running aptitude: The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 locales 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 127 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/8785kB of archives. After unpacking 4694kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended

Re: Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more

2000-11-21 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 08:12:14AM -0600, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: Okay. I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody. Good Idea? Of course. Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!). I've got this down to an art now. I know that for some reason X isn't finding the

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:11:07AM +0100, R?diger Kuhlmann wrote: Okay, are there any .debs for Quake3, or where do I get it? http://www.quake3arena.com/ Download the Linux demo to /usr/local/src chmod 755 linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh ./linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh Then to run q3demo

Re: GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:01:46PM -0800, Cisco.Addict wrote: Sorry, is there any way i can get my GeForce2 GTS 64mb working in XFree86 4.0.1(Im hopeing to be able to play Quake3) I've got a GeForce2 GTS 32mb; I followed tomshardware instructions (+ others) to install and now I can play

Re: Sawmill config Gnome CC

2000-11-02 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Sawfish (as it is called by now) is configurable in GCC itself (look a little bit further down ...), so I guess, the config tool is disabled there. Well, I upgraded to sawfish-gnome; the config tool came up in Gnome CC. But

Sawmill config Gnome CC

2000-10-31 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi Nothing happens when I click on the 'Run configuration tool for Sawmill' within the Gnome Control Center. What gives? Jonathan

GeForce2 GTS X 4.0.1c

2000-10-28 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Recently I installed Branden's debs for X 4.0.1c (deb http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/) because, frankly, vga16 @ 640 x 480 sucks with a GeForce2 GTS card. So, now, woohoo, the desktop looks great and I don't spend much time in the console. But my question is - I thought that I

Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet

2000-10-10 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
: jason andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/10/2000 13:24:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Wheelhouse/AU/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: debian archive problems Hi, You've all written

4 speaker sound

2000-09-28 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
I compiled my kernel (kernel-source-2.2.17 kernel-patch-2.2.17-ide) with the emu10k1 driver last night. Sound works. Woohoo! I have a SB Live! Value card with the Cambridge Soundworks fp1000 speakers (4). When I play a CD only the front 2 speakers have sound. Are there any packages which test

Re: testmail

2000-09-07 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Me too. My mail doesn't seem to be getting through.

SB Live kernel sound

2000-09-07 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I'm forwarding this message again because it didn't seem to get to the list; I will add a couple of questions. I recently installed Potato and now would like to set up sound. I have already read on the mailing list some stuff about installing sound support but would like to check a few

Missing Sawmill menu in gnome!

2000-08-12 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
   In the last couple of day I installed Debian potato on a dual boot machine and am now in the process of trying to get everything setup properly. I installed gnome, gdm and sawmill. Unfortunately, in gnome all the windows are missing the top panel where the minimize, maximise and close