Hi,
I am running potato+last minute helix gnome.
The gdm login screen seems not configured to handle foreign
keyboards. Although I have a valid /etc/X11/Xmodmap for my Brazilian keyboard
(abnt2), gdm don't load till the beginning of a gnome session.
To solve this I have add a line to
Same here with an AWE 64 value.
It happens when I use sfxload do load the midi table to the card at start
up. But this only happens at boot time, and not at very boot. The card works
perfectly well afterthat. I have this problem for more than a year now, so I
believe it goes back to the time I
Hey,
Didn't 2.2.16 appear to solve some security bugs of 2.2.15? If this is the
case, even if the patches applied to 2.2.15 actually close those security
bugs, wouldn't 2.2.15 give an impression of lack of security?
I can imagine someone who read the security alert (and didn't read carefully
This happened to me last night. I made a quick and dirty fix. Probably there
is a better one.
What I did: I ran dselect and marked my kernel image as on hold (find your
kernel image in the selection list and type an =).
Now apt-get don't try to upgrade my package anymore.
Anyhow this is weird,
En Français:
Non, la version 2.2 (potato) est un pre release. Aujourd'hui le premier cycle
de teste a commencé. Si tout vas bien la version 2.2 sera prêt dans 2
semaines. Sinon, la version actuelle sera corrigée et le cycle va
recommencer.
Pourtant, il y a beaucoup de gens que utilisent déjà la
Hi all,
Is there any way to make apt-get list the URL of the files it would like
to download? (If anyone wants to know why I need this, an explanation
follows).
Thanks,
Paulo
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I have slink in my computer, updated using slink-proposed-updates. I think is
time to move to potato.
The
By any chance do you know to what device is your CD-ROM attached?
For exemple, my cd-rom is the slave drive of the first IDE, therefore it is
/dev/hdb. The usual IDE device are:
/dev/hda: Master of first IDE slot;
/dev/hdb: Slave of first IDE slot;
/dev/hdc: Master of second IDE slot;
/dev/hdd:
Sorry, I have to fix a typing mistake.
To link create a link you should use the ln command not ls.
Best wishes,
Paulo.
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Paulo José da Silva e Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph.D. Student in Applied Math.
University of São Paulo - Brazil
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva
May the code be with you :-)
dpkg -S name of the file
It should do the job.
Paulo.
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Paulo José da Silva e Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph.D. Student in Applied Math.
University of São Paulo - Brazil
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva
May the code be with you :-)
Hello,
I am running slink with october-gnome from http://www.debian.org/~vincent.
(thank you Vincent ! :-)
I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried apt-get --compile source to
grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The process failed (it seems
that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any
Pollywog writes:
Is there a place where I can get a bootable CD to install from so that I
don't
need the base floppies? CheapBytes disks seem to have problems in this
regard
(some versions).
--
Andrew
I have already installed four home systems booting from cheapbytes cds.
Thomas Keusch writes:
Hello,
I just updated some packages to unstable/potato, including some of my X11
stuff, mainly because I have had some problems with slink's WindowMaker
package.
Now that I've updated, I found out WindowMaker in slink and potato are the
same version, so
Oz Dror writes:
I am looking for a gnome stable (or almost stable) window manager
any ideas?
-Thanks
Oz Dror
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Take a look at wmaker 0.5 + wmaker-gnome at potato (unstable release). I have
installed it this weekend and it seems to work (at least I can use
gnome-pager). I am
Shao Zhang writes:
Hi,
I need to include some simple graphics(boxes, triangles, similar to a
flow chart) in
my latex document.
I am wondering: Will it be easier to use gimp and xfig to draw the
chart first and then
include it in latex as a picture, OR use
Sami Dalouche writes:
But the Desktop Manager is KDE and Debian doesn't have KDE package (It's
better like this). So Debin could make another project :
glothar wich includes gnome instead of KDE
Sorry, but I think you haven't take a look in their URL posted previoulsy in
this thread:
Hello all,
I am wondering if there is someone thinking on using COAS (Caldera Open
Administration System, I think) with Debian? It have reached 1.0 stage and I
heard good things of it in a LinuxJournal some time ago.
Although It is using QT as one of it widgets (and for that reason Debian may
Nathan E Norman writes:
Er, what is it and where do we find out more?
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It sowed up on slashdot yesterday, you can still take a look there
(www.slashdot.org). It is a project to make hardware configuration easier. I
haven't look the details. It was started by the mandrake
Hello,
I have a super 7 mother board with ALI V chipset. This chipset is not directly
supported by kernel 2.2, but there is a patch to support (and some others) at:
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
If I understand well these are the official ide developers for the linux
kernel. So I
Brian Morgan writes:
It's been a while since I've tried a kde install. I'm running Debian 2.1
stable and would like the most current working version of kde. What's the
best way to get it (are there deb files?) and what configuration do I need
to do once I get it? I can't remember, is it
There have been a lot of discussion on this benchmark on slashdot
(http://www.slashdot.org). I had time to take a galnce and it seems that the
benchmark is biased. It seems they have done a very good tunning of the NT box
and a poor one for the linux box.
As a small exemple they have used a
I have just read the lwn comments. They have pointed out that the NT server
was setted to use only 1GB of memory, so my last example of biased tunning
doens't apply. Sorry for my error :-).
Any way I would be glad to know which is the maximum amount of RAM kernel 2.2
can handle.
Thank you all,
You may try scilab (which is a clone of matlab written by INRIA) for plotting
graphics and so on.
But if you are looking for some scientific application, please don't forget to
consult SAL (http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/index.shtml) it has a good summary of
linux scientific applications.
Paulo.
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Hello,
I`ve done an upgrade to X 3.3.2.3a-11, using apt. I am using a mix of slink
and hamm and a touch of potato.
Now, some applications like window-maker (0.51.0-3) and gnome (1.0.1) gives the
following warning:
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Everything works well
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven writes:
I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't
configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the
qt1g file in the package file.
Where can I get this file?
TIA,
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
You should br
Hello,
This weekend I decided to upgrade xemacs20 to slink (I didn't have any good
reason, but apt said it was there and I, stupidly done it). The problem is
that now my dired doesn't work. When I trie to mark some file do delection
xemacs gets into a loop displaying: Garbage collection.
I have
Rich,
Could you please send a copy of your /proc/sound in order to make us sure
everything is working.
I have just compiled 2.2.1 to give my awe64 sound. Maybe I can remember
something...
Paulo
rich writes:
First let me thank everybody that helped me to get my kernel recompiled
and support
Hello,
I give up asking help in the staroffice support list. I hope some one here at
Debian users can give a light!
I have installed SO5.0 but my tilde accent (as dead key) is not working. All
other accents are working well. Tilde is works under other X applications that
understand
Well,
I am at the university now and I don't have access to my linux box. As far as
I remember I have not tried to play wav files. I have played cds, mid, played
Quake and used real player. I will have to check out if wav files work well.
But something called my attention on your /dev/proc:
Hello,
This is a guess, I don't have access to my linux box now.
Probably your computer is trying to use the sfxload command to load sound
samples to your card. Maybe it is not finding the sfxload program (it is on
awe-drv package in section sound) or it is not fiding the samples file. In my
box
Hi,
Probably isn't a goot idea (I really believe that there is a better software
solution), but have you considered some removable storing device, like jazz
drive from iomega? I only saying this since you have considered having a
dedicated hard drive.
Paulo.
Timothy Hospedales writes:
Hi,
Hello,
There was a problem with this package. I remember you could solve it by
installing some kde?-dev_.deb (I believe it was
kdesupport0g-dev_980306.deb).
A better solution would be to fetch the KDE 1.1 pre2 packages. Take a look at
the kde page (www.kde.org).
Have fun.
Paulo.
Jeff Miller writes:
Hello Debian users,
I have been using the Debian distribution of Linux for many months now, but
am starting to recognize deficiencies in available, up-to-date packages.
For example, the latest GNOME files are 0.99.2 but I cannot find .deb files
for it anywhere.
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes:
Hi Debian users,
anyone knows if exists a translator from Fortran90 to C or Fortran90
to Fortran77.
I'm very interested in a program like this.
Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
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Here is the answer of Jim Pick, gnome mantainer for this question.
I'm aware of this behaviour. I had talked to the Gnome guys, and was
hoping that they would fix it upstream, but they didn't.
Take a look in the Gnome 0.30 x KDE thread in debian-devel (October)
The point is that the Gnome
Hello,
As it was already said Wordperferct may be a good bet. It will be available
today at: http://www.download.com.
For a spreadsheet you may try siag (it is in hamm), it's web site is:
http://www.edu.stockholm.se/siag/
I've nerver used it serioulsy (only home budget), but it may work and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi !
I know it sounds like a stupid question but since i installed my new
K6-2/300 i have a lot of problems.
Hardware is:
Gigabyte HX 2.01 board, latest BIOS (with K6-2 support) at 66Mhzx4.5
Symbios 8751 UW SCSI, IBM DCAS 34330 UW etc.
When running
Hello,
I have debian 2.0 too. My window manager is WindowMaker. My scilab works
well. I've compiled it myself. Have you tried to do that. Is really easy, once
you have the development (gcc and g77) stuff installed.
The only problem I get is that the graphic window doesn't pop up when it is
Hello,
I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in Hamm
(Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at
least they create directories there).
Well, our local system administrator is having problem with this. It has
decided to mount
XRDLAB writes:
Hello,
I am running hamm. To install the latest windowmaker,
I downloaded the following files for WindowMaker 0.19.1 from
http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages (as was suggested by the
maintainer):
libproplist0-dev_0.8.1-2.deb
libproplist0_0.8.1-2.deb
Robert Wilderspin writes:
Cut and pasted directly from the Debian bug-tracking system, where
this has been reported. Try both of these things, which might (or
might not) work. I'm having the same problem myself, but haven't
tried the second option yet.
1. As root, run ldconfig.
Johann Spies writes:
Then I wanted to compile pine from the non-free disk. But there was
no pine source. I then downloaded a binary rpm package of pine using
my slow 14400 modem, tried to convert it by alien, but the process
failed because of some library error in the package.
Hello,
Last night I tried to get xdm working. As far as I understood all I should do
was edit /etc/X11/config line from no-start-xdm to start-xdm. I did that,
booted and then I got xdm up. After that I logged as a user, logout, and then
logged as root (to install something). After logging out,
Marcelo E. Magallon writes:
Today I´ve compiled the scilab 2.4 math package
(http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/) in my Debian 2.0 machine. Compiling
was smooth.
But I got a weird surprise after that. Every time scilab tries to open a
graphic window, the window maker (WindowMaker
This is an extract from the PC magazine article on RH 5.1:
For most situations a fast Pentium with 32MB or more of RAM is advisable to
run Linux 5.1.
My God... A fast Pentium with 32MB... Hmmm I don't need that...
But the worst is Linux 5.1, I afraid that there *is* people that can make
The responses to George's suggestion were . . . interesting. I wonder
if the majority of developers share this hostility towards new users.
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Ivan writes:
At 09:10 AM 03-08-98 -0700, you wrote:
Try Star Office. - COMMERCIAL
Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution !
Not at all. You can download staroffice 4.0 and install in your box, if you
don't use it commercially (I think educational
JonesMB writes:
PS 1 - I embarked on a project to use a Microsoft-free Linux-inside machine
a
couple of weeks ago. So far everything I do in MSWindows I can do in Linux.
The only exception to this is Quicken and games. But I am amazed at the
amount of software that's outthere
Hello,
I am using Debian for some time now and something is really bothering me:
using the compose key to get accented characters (that 3 key strokes instead of
2 and not very ergonomic).
As a Portuguese speaker very often I need to write documents where there are
lots of accents and most of
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
I'd like to help you out, and I'll try to do so. I think you can get the X's
XKB to do
your bidding in this case, but I'm not sure. Pardon my ignorance but what
are 'dead
keys'?
Thank you for your attention.
Dead keys are keys that don't get processed
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