Re: capturing terminal scrollback buffer?

2006-09-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:30:41 -0700 derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can direct the output to a file,for example lsmod tmp.txt And you can use 'tee' to direct output to a file and to standard output at the same time. On 9/29/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anybody

Re: Log out problem?

2006-09-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:21:55 +0100 Jonathan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to log out of debian (testing) it logs me out ok but rather than putting back up the log in screen i'm left with a blank pale blue screen with a white box (obviously where the text box would be). cursor

Re: Empty syslog

2006-09-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:39:54 +0100 Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 09:01, Mario Frasca wrote: Hi Benjami, found your message looking for 'syslog' on this group. your questions are quite in line with what I'm seeing on my system. [EMAIL

Re: How to include a kernel module automatically?

2006-09-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:10:33 +0800 Deephay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I am wondering that how can I include a kernel module at the boot time. I think edit the /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file and run update-initramfs should work, but are there any other way to do this or is

Re: startx and xfce

2006-09-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:21:35 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel 2.6.17 and Etch are installed here and startx invokes xfce, all OK. But how does startx find xfce rather than xpdf or another X client? man startx remarks that it looks for .xinitrc in the user's home directory.

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:40:49 +0100 anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Liam, i haven't done any customisation and interestingly enough I don't have this file instead there is : nano /home/anthony/.gtk .gtk-bookmarks .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 could this explain the prob? No, I don't

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:46:40 +0100 anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I added these paths to my /etc/X11/xorg.coSection Files so it now looks like this: # FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall

Re: Problem with apt-get after enabling unstable tree

2006-09-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:09:05 +0200 Kaspar Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I have a very basic problem and would be glad to be pointed into the right direction: Some time ago, I installed debian-sarge and was forced to install a version of samba that was only available in the

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
/X11/Type1 FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType EndSection The directories under /usr/lib/X11/fonts are no longer in use since Xorg 7.0. Also, the path unix/:7100 is only needed if you are using a font server (which you do not appear to be). On 9/18/06, Liam O'Toole

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:03:13 +0100 anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian-users, I have been using Debian etch for some six months and mostly it has been going well. However, after a few recent changes (I'm not sure which one caused the problem so I'm going to list them) I lost the

Re: inetd or xinetd

2006-09-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:58:49 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 September 2006 03:56, T wrote: Hi Hope I'm not starting a religious war here, but I'd like to know whether inetd or xinetd is preferred for a *personal environment*. I like openbsd-inetd because

Re: firefox segmentation-fault

2006-09-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:22:50 -0400 Luis R Finotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have just started recently having problems with Firefox (and Mozilla) in Sarge. I suspect that it started to happen after a recent update, since a week ago (or so) I did not have any problems. If I go

Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

2006-08-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:30:20 +0200 PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ive also been having real trouble getting a clean new xorg.conf setup using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg even with the dexconf command you suggest and removing /etc/X11/X I seem to put some

Re: Using cups remotely?

2006-08-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:31:28 -0400 Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: There is no need for the cups daemon on the second machine; in fact, you only need to install the cupsys-client package. That's correct, except if the client-machine is notebook -- I haven't manage

Re: Meta Destkop packgae (when installing)

2006-08-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:36:40 -0400 André Allavena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, Is there a meta package corresponding to the high level desktop package that one has the choice to install when doing a complete, froms scratch install? I didn't install it, and would rather install a

Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

2006-08-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:34:11 -0400 André Allavena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks me a few questions, but doesn't write anything to /etc/X11/xorg.conf Where does the configuration gets writen? Running Debian unstable (well, trying to install,

Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

2006-08-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:20:08 -0500 Owen Heisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:52 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:34:11 -0400 André Allavena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks me a few questions, but doesn't

Re: Using cups remotely?

2006-08-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:07:50 -0300 Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two networked sarge machines. One is printing successfully via cups to a paralel hp printer. How do I set up the other machine to use this one remotely, preferably as default? Links/howtos/threads also accepted :)

Re: cups - pc in my home lan cannot see the printer after upgrade

2006-08-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:44:06 +0200 Aldo Maggi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: etch runs on my home server, a printer, hp deskjet 5550, is connected to it up to a couple of months ago the other two pc's in my home lan could print on it. after an upgrade it is not any longer the case, indeed when i

Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update' (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list)

2006-08-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:44:54 +0200 Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following lines: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib

Re: VNC

2006-08-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:47:38 -0400 Chuck Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I only been using debian a short time, and I am wanting to know what would it take set up X so that it running VNC or a VNC like program. When I start kde on my SuSE box, it running with out me doing anything.

Re: Xorg mouse cursor

2006-08-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:59:15 -0600 Dwayne C. Litzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 07:36:42AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: I haven't found any details on how to change the mouse pointers in a pure Xorg system. :( I think you can use xsetroot to do it, though I

Re: An SSH X11Forwarding problem

2006-08-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:42:07 +0800 Wang Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have two Debian Sid box, form A access B with | ssh -X B I can open x application (such as xterm or eog...) well. However, from host B | ssh -X A I found there is no DISPLAY environment var, and even

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:49:15 +0100 Wulfy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 23:27:06 +0100, Wulfy wrote: Further to the last e-mail: I removed apm using aptitude, it removed libapm0 and powermgmt-base as well. Then I checked in my BIOS setup

Re: An SSH X11Forwarding problem

2006-08-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:56:39 +0800 Wang Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/8/9, Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is the output of the command It is said the DISPLAY is not set, which is the fact. | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm | xterm Xt error: Can't open display: | xterm: DISPLAY

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! I use sarge's default kernel, 2.4. It seems that I would wait for Debian 4.0, which use kernel 2.6, in Dec, 2006 APM (Advanced Power Management) should work with that kernel. Is the apm module already

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:39:59 +0100 Wulfy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! I use sarge's default kernel, 2.4. It seems that I would wait for Debian 4.0, which use kernel 2.6

Re: apt-get fails through broken proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Ottavio Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run a Debian derivative on a portable memory stick and I have to connect through an ISA proxy server (both http and ftp). The proxy is broken and misconfigured so it won't download any .gz files, hence I

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-31 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:41:03 +0100 Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 July 2006 08:54, Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] I second the proposal that a solution based on VNC is your best bet. It should even be possible to run a VNC viewer on your laptop and connect to your

Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:28 -0500 Bob Smither [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:34 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] I have been able, with a second ssh hop onto my workstation from the server (also forwarding X) to run individual X based applications so that the

Re: Gnome problems

2006-07-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:45:09 -0600 edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnome has been giving me mysterious problems. I am running a testing amd64 installation (gnome 2.14). My install was very problematic. The package that checks signatures debsig-verify wouldn't allow many packages to

Re: where's gksuexec in Etch

2006-07-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:40:34 -0400 Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:38:14 -0400 Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I recently switched from Sarge to Etch. I used to use the command gksuexec to run things as a different user (run as

Re: where's gksuexec in Etch

2006-07-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:38:14 -0400 Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I recently switched from Sarge to Etch. I used to use the command gksuexec to run things as a different user (run as root). In particular, I used it to open nautilus --no-desktop --browser. I've tried the

Re: Possibly OT: Firefox font flexing

2006-07-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:04:56 -0400 Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent vintages of Firefox have developed an irritating new quirk: you can change the font size (helpful for those pages with teeny-tiny type, given my crappy vision). But whenever you load a new URL, the fonts revert to

Re: kdebase-dev removes gnome-desktop and xfce4

2006-07-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:49:57 +0200 Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing kdebase-dev (I need it to compile kphotoalbum) removes gnome and xfce4, apparenty because of a conflict between libgamin0 (needed by the removed packages) and libfam0c102/libfam0 (needed by kdebase-dev). I would

Re: IPtables front end

2006-07-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:28:46 -0400 Jean-Sebastien Pilon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Webmin has a module -Original Message- From: Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:19 AM To: debian Subject: IPtables front end I'm looking for a front end to

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:32:10 -0300 Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Srs, I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480) and I can see all of

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok - SOLVED ?

2006-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:34:40 -0300 Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] I followed Mr. Keeling's suggestion and, at the end of dpkg-reconfigure, I got an warning message: xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been customized Well,

Re: Why not?

2006-07-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:53:00 -0700 Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: your KDE session. But again, it's not something that the user would normally want to do: the whole point of using a desktop environment is to avail of a set of consistent software components rather

Re: disappearing text in gtk apps in upgraded Sid

2006-07-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:28:53 -0500 Andrew Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried turning ON anti-aliasing in the Gnome font preferences dialogue, and the problem went away. But... err... I hate using anti-aliased fonts in my UI... ! Where should I look to try to get non-anti-aliased

Re: xfce panel missing on startup

2006-07-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:51:27 +0200 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it works as expected, with another user it seems to start, but there are no panels and no mouse buttons result in any menus. I am using kdm. I tried

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:19:07 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:44:44 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize

Re: apt-get and Proxy configuration

2006-07-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:09:59 -0400 Hansel A. Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi... people.. Now im having problems with a apt-get because it requires authorization be the ISA server, but the configuration i made to see if i can fix the problem was this.. i have an user in the isa server

Re: How to remove gnome-panel-data?

2006-07-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
removing and reinstalling scrollkeeper but the seg faults persist. I'm at a bit of a dead end. I'm really tempted to reinstall sarge. Any suggestions? Only to post the output and hope that somebody knows what to do about it. Art Edwards On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:15:28AM +0100, Liam O'Toole

Re: Using remote apps on local X server

2006-07-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:35:53 -0500 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Smither wrote: This must be a FAQ, but I could not stumble upon a solution. With other Linux boxen, I can ssh -X into them, then run X apps on the remote with local display. On a newly installed Sarge Debian

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:58:00 -0400 Nick Lidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0400 Nick Lidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how

Re: How to remove gnome-panel-data?

2006-07-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 00:00:18 -0600 Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to remove gnome-panel-data on a stable box. Here is what I get. apt-get remove gnome-panel-data Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0400 Nick Lidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that matter, e.g. Abiword) is using. It seems to

Re: Running KDE; how to change Gnome app single-click behaviour?

2006-06-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:07:26 -0700 RParr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running KDE as desktop on Debian sid (AMD64). In the KDE control / Peripherals / Mouse I have set 'single click to open files and folders' How can I configure the Gnome apps (run from KDE desktop) to behave the same?

Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

2006-06-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:24:39 -0500 Sergio Cuéllar Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no answer. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h [EMAIL

Re: Konsole font

2006-06-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:16:50 +0200 Gabor Kum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Which package must i reconfigure for using bitmap fonts too? (Sarge) thanks, fontconfig -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: CUPS - Stuck

2006-06-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:14:37 +0200 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ii cupsys 1.2.1-2 The system was working until a recent upgrade. When I print locally or from a remote machine I see the job which is marked as Processing, but nothing happens at the printer. If I go

Re: gnome-panel disappeared

2006-06-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:55:51 -0500 Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a recent upgrade, dselect seems to have removed my gnome-panel. I have gone back to dselect and installed gnome-panel (2.14.2-1), but it does not appear on my screen at bootup. Without it, I can't launch a terminal,

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

2006-06-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:44:01 -0400 Sridhar Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard van der Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/06/23 11:56] typed : ... when i open a menu in the top -bar the last two (places System) are opening OK, but when i open the application menu it starts flickering and

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

2006-06-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:58:13 -0400 Sridhar Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/06/24 04:26] typed : Make sure that all of the following packages are installed: gnome-menus libgnome-menu2 menu menu-xdg That should fix

Re: ati's fglrx 8.25.18 and sid

2006-06-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:35:45 +0200 Nicoco Kinlidex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i am trying to get latest ati's driver working under debian sid. i downloaded them from ati's website as debian repository only offers 8.24.8 (which are working) i created debian packages from the .run

Re: ati's fglrx 8.25.18 and sid

2006-06-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:17:43 +0100 Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jun 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:35:45 +0200 Nicoco Kinlidex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i am trying to get latest ati's driver working under debian sid. i downloaded

Re: OOo2 from backports questions

2006-06-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:37:05 GMT s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [SNIP] My /etc/apt/sources.list includes: # was marillat deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main contrib - # apt-get update . . . Get:1

Re: OOo2 from backports questions

2006-06-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:28:59 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Sarge and Debian stock kernel 2.6.8-k7. I had been using OOo2 from OO.org, but it recently started giving me trouble when trying to save files. I had not done any upgrades, so there should not have been

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Wohler wrote: [SNIP] 2. The courier fonts were ugly. The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in

Re: gdm X login does not work anymore after last update (dbus problem?)

2006-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:29:11 +0200 Stefan Bellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done an apt-get update apt-get upgrade on my notebook last night and today I noticed that I can no longer login to an X session using gdm. I get the following information in my ~/.xsession-errors file:

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:06:53 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Wohler wrote: [SNIP] 2. The courier fonts were ugly. The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming

Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:51:34 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:04:58 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] ... The next thing I would check is that various symlinks in /usr/lib/ point to the fglrx libraries rather

Re: switching between desktop and consoles takes long time

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:55:24 -0400 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Debian Etch, installed from scratch a few weeks ago, when I switch from my desktop to a console (by pressing the CTRL+Fn keys), it takes extraordinarily long time -- around 6 seconds -- to get to the console.

Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:20:02 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Is there an ATI Debian package? Yes, but only in unstable. The packages of interest are fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src. The latter can conveniently be built using module-assistant. I use these on my Thinkpad,

Re: wlan in different environments -- one time with static network address, one time with dhcp

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:09:54 +0200 Johannes Zellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, how do I configure my network (w/o reediting /etc/network/interfaces all the time) to work in different network environments: environment 1: static IP, static host name environment 2: dynamic

Re: switching between desktop and consoles takes long time

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:39:14 -0400 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: Is there anything which prevents you from installing the nvidia drivers again? On my old RIVA TNT2 64 switching between console and X takes about 2 seconds. http://packages.debian.org/testing

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:16:15 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the latest xorg packages? Yes. I have fglrx working with xorg and the stock Debian 686 kernel in an up-to-date sid installation. I installed fglrx

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:19:38 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:16:15 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the latest xorg packages? Yes. I have fglrx working

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:04:58 -0700 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Do you load the GLcore module explicitly in the Module section of xorg.conf? If so then remove that line. no I don't, here's the module section of my xorg.conf: Section Module # erik: does not

Re: Tiger says files are orphans but they aren't

2006-06-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:06:21 -0400 Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some output from the Tiger audit: # Verifying system specific password checks... NEW: --WARN-- [lin001w] File `/usr/X11R6/bin/glxdemo' does not belong to any package. NEW: --WARN-- [lin001w] File

Re: Tiger says files are orphans but they aren't

2006-06-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:53:14 -0400 Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:09:34PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: Note the difference in path names (/usr/X11R6/bin vs. /usr/bin). Aha! Thank you. You may imagine me smacking myself. So the problem is that the old

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:18:45 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: For the vast majority of

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:29:00 -0400 John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (15/06/06 10:02), Patrick Rittich wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Patrick Rittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:02:27 -0700 X-Spam-Status:

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:30:12 -0400 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/06, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:14:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently switched from mozilla to firefox and the

Re: gdm fails after 3.1r2 desktop install

2006-06-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:43:19 -0500 Phil Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (My first attempt to install any Linux system so bear with me please!) I did what appeared to be a clean installation of 3.1r2, but on first startup gdm says: GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0

Re: CUPS 1.2 not detecting LAN printer exported by CUPS 1.1

2006-06-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:46:28 -0400 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I know I'm not the only one having problems with CUPS 1.2, but mine's a little different. I have a desktop system on my network running sarge, which has CUPS 1.1. That system has my HP DeskJet printer

Re: network: how to name interfaces ?

2006-06-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:47:43 +0200 Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, how to name network interfaces ? My unique wireless card contines to receive changing interface names like eth1 or eth2 ..etc.. : how to fix it ? Cheers, Bruno I use ifrename to ensure consistent

Re: Totem?

2006-06-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:52:47 -0400 Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We discussed totem on this list a few weeks back, and people said I should use 1.4 because 1.2 (what's in Etch) isn't that good. Since then, 1.4 hasn't moved into Etch, even though no bugs that I can see at bugs.debian.org

Re: Security updates and apt-get

2006-06-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:35:01 +0100 Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, currently, whereas everything was fine, I have some trouble with secure-testing.debian.net : deselect/update `Could not connect ... (connection timed out)' May be you have a similar issue: in this case I

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:23:20 -0400 Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're terrible. If GNOME has to be the basis for programs like Firefox, surely they could avoid different for different's sake and use standard selection dialogs. If I click on a file and want to save it in a particular

Re: /usr/X11R6/lib softlinks lost - Thanks

2006-06-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:46:25 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] These three files are the only files in /X11R6/lib now. There is more than a page of three columns of files in /X11R6Saved/lib but apt-get -f install finds no problems. At some point the lack of these

Re: X applications won't run after xorg upgrade

2006-06-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:35:25 -0400 Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] I upgraded Etch and my list is the same as you posted. X does works for root but not for any other user. (Not a good idea to run X as root tho) When anyone else logs in the error is

Re: Evolution 2.6 in Etch -- Setting Up Exhange

2006-06-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:33:45 -0700 Matt Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just updated my etch installation, and Evolution went from 2.4 to 2.6. Exchange support is now apparently gone. When I go to Edit | Preferences | Mail Accounts | Add the Server Type drop down no longer includes an

Re: Caught half-way through xorg 7 upgrade, errors in installation of x11-common

2006-06-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 00:32:40 -0400 Henk Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to upgrade to xorg 7 for a few days now, and have managed to get just far enough through that the old X won't work anymore, but not far enough that the new one will =(. Everything is hinging on the upgrade

Re: /usr/X11R6/lib softlinks lost

2006-06-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:26:51 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the xorg update there was an advice to save the files in /usr/X11R6 so the bin directory could be replaced with a softlink to /usr/bin. Once this had been done the programs that were in usr/X11R6/bin could be

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:42:18 +0100 Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cga2000 on 05/06/06 02:22, wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:15:59PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: My monitor does a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. I'm using KDE and it seems that the font size at this resolution is

Re: xdm/gdm failure after dist-upgrade

2006-06-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:03:22 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My box is testing with a 2.6.15 kernel complied from linux-source-2.6.15. After the dist-upgrade this morning (Monday, June 5) X Windows failed to start with the message no keyboard module found. I ran

Re: mounting and poping up

2006-06-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:47:46 +0100 Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I have just reinstall my Etch box from scratch (my hard drive suddenly broke). One thing is really bother me right now is that each time something is mounted a window pops up: as I am working in Gnome

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:37:39 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] It does not explain, however, why removing that package does not want to remove thye rest of OOo if it does, indeed, intertwine with everything else. The package was generated using alien from an all-purpose

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:00:27 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Yes, I am running Sarge. I do not think that OOo had been backported when I installed the upstream packages. (I generally do not worry about backports.) I looked at the backports version since then but

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my continuing effort to remove as much of KDE and GNOME as possible from my system, I have come across scite to replace kate, and galculator to replace kcalc. Since I only use konqueror to read html documentation,

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:53:22 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apt-cache depends shows openoffice.org-core04u as being dependant on kdelibs4, which is, of couse, dependant

Re: Preventing kde to start

2006-05-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 30 May 2006 09:27:00 +0200 Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On debian 32 etch/sid I am trying from a few days frustratingly to prevent kde from starting at the command startx. I already asked for advice but the problem was not solved. I am posing the question again because

Re: my fonts changed

2006-05-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 30 May 2006 18:17:52 +0100 Pooly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, a few days ago I run apt-get to update my system (etch), and since then all the font (terminal, mozilla, KDE...) are differents from last week. The previous were more comfortable for the eyes (at least mine). Any ideas

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

2006-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 24 May 2006 08:26:13 -0600 Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install jdk1.5 on my Sarge system. I ran the I did a search for jdk in Debian space and found very little. I downloaded the jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin file, and ran the install. I tried it in both /usr/local and

Re: rar archiver

2006-05-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:48:55 -0300 Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed 'unrar-free' and 'rar-2.80' on my etch but they are both not working they list the files in the archive but when going to extract, return 'failed' And my stupid windows user friend just extracted

Re: install Kernel source???

2006-05-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 24 May 2006 12:05:48 -0400 Dov Oxenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Please pardon the stupid question...but...I am trying to install a piece of software on my Debian test machine and the setup is failing with a Kernel source error while attempting to build some sort of module. The

Re: Debian/Testing: x-window-system-core broken/missing fonts.alias?

2006-05-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 19 May 2006 05:20:17 -0400 (EDT) rs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf ## xorg.conf (Xorg X Window System server configuration file) ## ... Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has

Re: Viewing ASP files

2006-05-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 19 May 2006 08:58:33 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: Sorry for the naive question, but I occasionally acquire files with the .asp (active server pages) extension. What is the simplest way to view such files or convert them into a more convenient format (even

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