Re: How to debug a vnc issue in Debian 10?

Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 09:40, Yuwen Dai a écrit : > Dear all, > > I setup a vnc server in Debian 10 and connect to the server by using vnc > client, the desktop shows, but I cannot launch any application. There's > no error message. It looks like a privilege issue. Thi

How to debug a vnc issue in Debian 10?

Dear all, I setup a vnc server in Debian 10 and connect to the server by using vnc client, the desktop shows, but I cannot launch any application. There's no error message. It looks like a privilege issue. This is what I did: sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies gnome-icon-theme

Re: dictionnaire

Bonjour Bernard, Je trouve que je peux utiliser aspell-fr dans Emacs, c'est plus facile que dicollecte. En effect, je travaille quotidiennement avec Emacs. Merci quand même! bonne journée yuwen Le 12 octobre 2017 à 10:55, a écrit : > bonjour, > > voici un

Re: "spelling check" pour le français

iment dispensé leur leçon de > Français : visiblement elle était inutile car Yuwen semble apte à apprendre > notre langue sans nous, mais la réponse à sa question aurait peut-être été > plus > utile, ne pensez-vous pas ?) > > Le jeudi 12 octobre 2017 à 10:24, Yuwen Dai a écrit : &

Re: "spelling check" pour le français

... je vais tu vas il va nous allons vous allez ils vont * > > *Exemple : les enfants, maintenant, vous allez à l'école* > > *Bon courage et bonne journée, Patrice.* > > Le 12/10/2017 à 05:14, Yuwen Dai a écrit : > > Merci Bernard, mais mon question est pourquoi "allez" est un i

Re: "spelling check" pour le français

Merci Bernard, mais mon question est pourquoi "allez" est un invalide mot. Vous n'avez pas le même problème? slt Yuwen Le 12 octobre 2017 à 10:35, <bernard.schoenac...@free.fr> a écrit : > > > ------ > > *De: *"Yuwen Dai" <

"spelling check" pour le français

Bonjour! J'apprends le français récemment et J'ai installé myspell-fr pour "spelling check" dans gedit. Quand je fais "spelling check" sur mon texte, plusieurs mots sont considérés invalides, tel que "j", "c", même "allez"! Je comprends que "j", "c" sont invalides parce que je utilise phrases

chromium error: Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -8023

Dear all, I'm using Wheezy and chromium. Chromium has been worked well until today. When I run chromium from the shell, i saw this message: [31:31:1029/204029:ERROR:nss_util.cc(211)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -8023 and chromium cann't open any

Re: How to enable flash plugin in Chromium

Hi Thank you very much! It works. 2016-04-20 14:51 GMT+08:00 Markus Schönhaber < debian-u...@list-post.mks-mail.de>: > Yuwen Dai, Mi 20 Apr 2016 07:51:01 CEST: > > > I use the chromium browser in Debina 7(wheezy). To enable Adobe Flash > > plugin, I download the plu

How to enable flash plugin in Chromium

Dear all, I use the chromium browser in Debina 7(wheezy). To enable Adobe Flash plugin, I download the plugin for debian, and copy the "libflashplayer.so" to ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions. But flash is still disabled. chrome://version shows flash is disable, and chrom://plugins shows

Re: How to disable UTC time?

I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get it... but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock? I did. As I mentioned in the previous email, I set the BIOS clock as UTC time and set my time zone as UTC+8, this works. My machine also has Windows, after I boot into

Re: How to disable UTC time?

On 7/9/13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 22:12 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com writes: Dear all, My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC time, so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8

How to disable UTC time?

Dear all, My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC time, so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct. I do these actions to disable UTC: 1. add UTC=no in /etc/init.d/rcS 2. remove UTC , add LOCAL in /etc/adjtime Neither of the above

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

You imply the machine is still functioning and the OS is bootable, so d-i can be started up from this disk. I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then I found the CD-ROM is broken, it can not boot from the CD-ROM. The old PC can not boot from USB disk

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

You can get a HDD to USB adapter and attach the hard disk to a working PC, then use debootstrap to install debian onto that HDD (you will need to format it to your desire first). Yes, I have another PC installed Debian and a HDD to USB adapter. If you aren't sure of what you're doing,

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

On 4/15/13, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same Yes, this is easier. But I want to try the harder path :-) Best regards, Yuwen -- To

How to install Debian in such a situation

Dear all, I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read only. I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then I found the CD-ROM is broken, it can not boot from the

where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

Dear all, I downloaded the latest Wheezy AMD64 version DVD iso image, trying to install it on a HP notebook with a RTL8169 NIC. When the installer detects network, it hangs. I could switch to other ttys and open a busybox shell, but it's useless, the installation could not resume any more. I

Re: where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

Thank you for testing the early installer and then reporting problems with it. The place to report those bugs is the installation-reports package. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=installation-reports You would want to look over the bugs already filed

which tftp server supports IPv6

Dear all, Would you please recommend a tftp server that supports IPv6? I read several server's document, tftp, atftp, tftp-hpa, they don't mention whether they support IPv6 and how to configure. Best regards, Yuwen

How to drop a specific TCP segment in iptables?

Dear all, I'm simulating an network environment that some TCP segments are missing. So I want to use iptables to drop these segments. How to write a rule to drop a segment with a specific sequence number from a host? Best regards, Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

Hello Liam, I got little information about HDMI on an E6400. I saw a person using HDMI and sound on an E6500 successfully, and the sound card is not IDT 92HD71B. Best regards, Yuwen

audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

Dear all, I have a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, which has a Displayport. I tried to connect the laptop with a Sony TV with a HDMI port. So I bought a Displayport-HDMI converter from Dell. When I play a movie using mplayer, the video is OK on TV, but without sound on TV. The sound is still

Re: How to disable (or change) the logout sound in gnome/GDM?

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2011-03-28 09:58:57 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: The logout sound is a very ugly beep. I can change the login sound in gdm.conf but can not find where the logout sound setting is. I also put pcspkr module

How to disable (or change) the logout sound in gnome/GDM?

Dear all, The logout sound is a very ugly beep. I can change the login sound in gdm.conf but can not find where the logout sound setting is. I also put pcspkr module in the blacklist, no effect. Best regards, Yuwen

please help me write a udev rule

Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a udev rule according to the UUID of the disk? Best regards, Yuwen

Re: please help me write a udev rule

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write

Re: How long has your Lenny - Squeeze upgrade taken?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully up-to-date Lenny system). I

E-business and Linux

Dear all, I just can not completely abandon Windows, for all the E-business related software are for Windows or IE in my country, for example, the security plug-ins released by banks in China. I don't understand why they don't develop plug-ins for Linux and Firefox. I'm just curious, how is your

Re: [OT] Re: E-business and Linux

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:13:14 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: I just can not completely abandon Windows, for all the E-business related software are for Windows or IE in my country, for example, the security plug-ins released

Re: E-business and Linux

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 28. 12. 2010 09:13:14 je Yuwen Dai napisal(a): Dear all, I just can not completely abandon Windows, for all the E-business related software are for Windows or IE in my country, for example, the security plug

Re: [OT] Re: E-business and Linux

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/12/29 francis southern francis.south...@gmail.com: On 28 December 2010 20:23, John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: Yuwen Dai writes: The situation is the same in all countries... I get along fine using

compare two directory trees

Dear all, I burn DVD/CDs from ISO files. In order to verify the burning is correct, I wrote a script working like this: 1. mount the DVD and ISO files onto two mount points 2. calculate every file's md5sum in each directory, and save and sort them in two separate files 3. compare the above two

Re: Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/23/2010 11:59 PM: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: CRC errors indicate a transmission problem on the interface conductors. Whether

Re: Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/21/2010 11:44 PM: Dear all, My Debian Lenny constantly reports disk I/O error on block xxx when booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. I'd formated

Re: Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/22/2010 7:46 PM: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: The output from ~# smartctl -a /dev/sdX would be helpful. The output of smartctl

Does I/O error mean hardware problem?

Dear all, My Debian Lenny constantly reports disk I/O error on block xxx when booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. I'd formated the partition but the problem still occurs. The hardware is an Dell E6400 which has a Diagnostic tool. I'd run the tool, but it said

Re: how to install debian on a external USB disk

I run with 2 external USB disks and have for years. Most of the time my root partition is on an USB disk. D-i is straight forward, just select the USB disk. Instead of grub I prefer to run with SuperGrubDisk because that allows you to search for the right partition and fill in what the

how to install debian on a external USB disk

Dear all, I've been using Debian stable for years. Now I'd like to try Debian unstable or test on an external USB disk without modifying anything on my current disk, including partition as well as grub. Would you please give me any guides on this? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Yuwen

Re: how to install debian on a external USB disk

You should proceed as usual (using expert installer). Installer will detect USB disk and then you can make partitions at your wish. Just remember to install GRUB in MBR of the USB disk. If it fails at installing GRUB, do not worry, select no boot loader to install, end Debian installation

Re: Does Pidgin support audio and video?

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:19:57 +0800 Yuwen Dai yuw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Do you know if Pidgin supports audio and video? If it does, from what version? I use Pidgin 2.6.6 on Debian Lenny and find no audio or video

Does Pidgin support audio and video?

Dear all, Do you know if Pidgin supports audio and video? If it does, from what version? I use Pidgin 2.6.6 on Debian Lenny and find no audio or video settings. Best regards, Yuwen

Re: how to improve the quality of DVD created by qdvdauthor

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 25. 10. 2010 02:47:43 je Yuwen Dai napisal(a): I use mpeg2 files as source to create a DVD. The Resolution of the mpeg2 is 720x576 and clear, but the result is blurer although its resolution is 720x576 too

Re: how to improve the quality of DVD created by qdvdauthor

As you certainly know, re-encoding compressed formats may be extremely lossy; so, the first thing to do would be to double-check that your mpegs just get *copied* over to the DVD, and not *re-encoded*. I'm not acquainted with the qdvdauthor suite, so can't advise you on the precise steps to

how to improve the quality of DVD created by qdvdauthor

Dear all, Have you ever used Qdvdauthor to create DVDs? I use mpeg2 files as source to create a DVD. The Resolution of the mpeg2 is 720x576 and clear, but the result is blurer although its resolution is 720x576 too. When I play the DVD, I can see obvious mosaics. Did I misconfigure anything?

mount a UDF image on a loop device

Dear all, I want to mount a iso image whose filesystem is UDF on a loop device: sudo mount -o loop -t udf file.iso /tmp/image there's no error from the above command line and `mount' shows the image has been mounted: file.iso on /tmp/image type udf (rw,loop=/dev/loop0) But /tmp/image is

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

What instant messaging service are you trying to connect to? I use MSN. I'd been using Gaim OK in Debian Etch before December. Do this mean Microsoft suddenly changed MSN protocol recently? Best regards, Yuwen -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x316F4BE4670716FD Jabber dmj...@jabber.org

gaim and pidgin connection problem

Dear all, I have Gaim connecting problem since the beginning of December. I use Gaim in Debian Etch. I also tried Pidgin in Debian Lenny, could not connecting either. I didn't change any configuration in Gaim. Do you have any suggestion? Best regards, Yuwen Dai

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kun Niu haoniu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint from the output of the pidgin debug output window? The error message is : Our protocol is not supported by the server. The version of pidgin is 2.4.3. Best regards,

gnome-screensaver slideshow

Dear all, I'd like to slideshow some pictures when gnome-screensaver is invoked. There is a picture fold in gnome-screen-preferences. However, there' no settings for this fold. Do you know where the picture fold is? I use Debian etch, gnome 2.14.3. Best regards, Yuwen

Re: start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon

man start-stop-daemon: Any arguments given after -- on the command line are passed unmodified to the program being started. I mean the environment variables that will be recognized by the invoked daemon. I have solved this by adding NAME=xxx pairs preceding start-stop-daemon: VAR1=xxx

start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon

Dear all, A daemon invoked by start-stop-daemon needs some extra enviroment variables. How to pass them to the daemon? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Yuwen

how to set environment variables in init.d/ scripts

Dear all, I installed distcc. Distcc is invoked by a script in init.d. In order to use a cross compiler, the distcc needs to know the path of the cross compiler and other environment variable. I put lines like: export VAR=xxx in the script. Seems no effect. What's the correct method? Best

depmod in Debian doesn't support compressed module?

Dear all, When I use Live-CD, I found depmod didn't support compressed module so that the modules.dep was empty. I search the web, finding there's an --enable-zlib option for module-init-tools. Why Debian didn't enable this? Or can I build my own version of module-init-tools? Thanks in

Re: Intel pro100 NIC problem in Etch

On 6/19/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuwen Dai([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Dear all, I have a Intel pro100 network card in my PC. The system loads kernel module `e100' automatically when booting. But ifconfig eth0 up failed. If I manually load `eepro100

Intel pro100 NIC problem in Etch

Dear all, I have a Intel pro100 network card in my PC. The system loads kernel module `e100' automatically when booting. But ifconfig eth0 up failed. If I manually load `eepro100', ifconfig also failed. This is some output: # modprobe eepro100 PCI: Enabling device :02:02.0 (0110 - 0113)

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

I don't know: it just works. As long as you have the lvm2 package installed and the initrd package was created after the lvm2 package was installed, it should just work. Hi Stefan, After I changed root device to /dev/mapper/volume-root, Linux boots successfully. And I didn't make anything

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

I setup /boot as a seperate disk parition. The rest is for LVM. /dev/volume/root is OK when I use a rescue CDRom. And I re-build the initrd, adding all dm-* modules to the initrd. Any suggestion? Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead. I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar

grub and rootfs as LVM

Dear all, I setup my rootfs as an LVM, the menu.lst of grub looks like this; title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-386 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/volume/root ro initrd /my_init savedefault Error happens when the kernel tried to

Re: Who will do `depmod -a' in Etch?

I might not know what I'm talking about here, but you might take a look at the postinst scripts of the linux-image-* packages. They run depmod for you after the kernel package is installed. Do other distros run depmod at every boot? I understand. In order to speed up the boot, depmod is

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead. I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using /dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though once the boot is over, /dev/Debian/root can be used just fine, it looks like the alternate name is constructed

Who will do `depmod -a' in Etch?

Dear all, I found there's no script generating modules.dep in /etc/init.d of Etch. # cd /etc/init.d # grep depmod * modutuils:[ -e /sbin/depmod ] || exit 0 No scripts execute /sbin/depmod. Any idea? Best regards, Yuwen

Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?

Dear all, I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? Best regards, Yuwen

where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

Dear all, It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? Best regards, Dai Yuwen

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

The expected file /tmp/November didn't create. Maybe Procmail won't deliver in /tmp because everybody can read and write there. Maybe ^Received: .*;.*Nov 2006 doesn't match anything in the mail. Test that with egrep. Now I change the rcfile as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat rcfile :0: *

how to use font in convert(imagemagick)?

Dear all, I want to use the '-font' option of convert to annotate images. I'm not sure if convert can deal with locales other than iso-8859, and what's the syntax of the font name? Will an X font name like - misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0 be accepted? In the example

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

$ formail -s mboxfile | procmail recipefile recipefile looks like this: :0: * ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Dec 2006 /home/me/December :0: * ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Nov 2006 /home/me/November Hello Cameron, I created a similiar rc file like this: :0:

thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

Dear all, I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the backup quick in thunderbird if need. What's your suggestion? I once backuped the whole inbox on a CD-ROM, and set the local directory on the

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

apt-cache search archive mail|sort brings up, among other things: archivemail - archive and compress your old email archmbox - a simple email archiver written in perl These utilities are OK. But I think the point is, it's difficult to restore and read them back in thundbird.

Re: growisofs: how to write iso files

hm. are you sure you haven't inserted a space between /dev/dvd and the '=' symbol? That is weird as I've used that very command many times. Has this worked in the past for you and recently changed? One more question, does /dev/dvd exist? and what does it point to? The device is /dev/scd0. I

growisofs: how to write iso files

Dear all, The manual of growisofs says the following line can write a iso file to a DVD: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso when I ran such command, there's error mesage mkisofs doesn't recognize = option, aborting. Which one's problem, growisofs or mkisofs? I use Debian etch,

Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN

On 12/20/06, David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using CVS (and RCS before it) for several years new. I've also looked at switched to SVN, but seem to recall that there was an SVN feature whereby SVN applied to same version number to all files in the project (repository?)

why some packages are kept back?

Dear all, I'm using Debian Sarge. When I ran apt-gete upgrade, this message shows: ~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: ffmpeg libmjpegtools0 mjpegtools mplayer-586 thunderbird 0 upgraded, 0 newly

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

Hi RLH, I think it's normal as .bash_profile is only for login shell. When you open a X terminal, it won't be read. You can put your path info in .bashrc. -- Yuwen

Re: Boot Debian from USB disk

Hi Hugo, Have you included USB drivers in your initrd? regards, Yuwen

using bootchart

Dear all, When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found S40hotplug took nearly 15 seconds. S40hotplug calls {pci,usb,isapnp}.rc, and installing some modules. Is there any way to reduce this time? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen

no bold font in X

Dear all, I found there're no bold fonts in someplace where they should appear. For example, the gmail, the new arrived emails use bold font. Should I install anything or do configuration? My system is Debian Sarge. Best regards, Dai Yuwen

Re: using bootchart

On 12/6/06, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:34:09AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found S40hotplug took nearly 15 seconds. S40hotplug calls {pci,usb,isapnp}.rc, and installing some modules

LCD screen resolution and projector

Dear all, My resolution of LCD is 1024x768. When connecting to most projectors, the resolution produced by projectors is 800x600, my comupter still keeps 1024x768. The graphics card is ATI, driver is raedon. If I use vesa driver, the resolution will be 1024x768, but only the project or LCD

Re: LCD screen resolution and projector

On 12/5/06, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:58:44AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: What happens from within X if you use C-A-KPminus to reduce resolution? The LCD resolution will be change, but the MAX projector produces is 800x600. I also used C-A-backspace

why X insist on using vesa driver?

Dear all,I have two computers installed Debian sarge. One uses ATI readon 9000 and the other uses nvidia. I uses dpkg-reconfigre xserver-xfree86 to configure X, then I found in XF86Config-4 vesa is used:Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver vesa Option VBERestore

Re: invoke thunderbird and firefox when gnome starts

You can try starting gnome-settings-manager before firefox andthunderbird (or was it gnome-settings-daemon? I don't remember, but I'm sure that you can see which one exists on your system), which doesthings like load font configuration for apps if its started.You can also add firefox and

Re: esound locking sound

Esound grabs /dev/dsp to manage it, so you can hear sounds fromdifferent apps concurrently.For example, hear warning or alert sounds while playing mp3s or videos.On sarge, for ogg123, you'll need to put this in/etc/libao.conf or~/.libao:default_driver=esdThat works for me.See man libao.conf .I

invoke thunderbird and firefox when gnome starts

Dear all,In order not to invoke thunderbird and firefox manually when gnome starts, I tried to save the current settings when I log out. But gnome says it can not save thunderbird and firefox settings.I also tried to start thunderbird and firefox in .xsession: ...# thunderbird and

Re: copy debian form vmware to real pc

On 9/8/06, Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to copy the debian system form a vmware toreal pc! what should be done to make the copyed system work?My suggestion:1. boot the vmware using a Ghost CD-ROM, backup the partitions of Linux. Then restore it to a real Linux. 2. Usd 'dd' or 'tar' comand

mkisofs: how to specify the volume name?

Dear all,How to specify the volume name with mkisofs? The manual says -V is the option. But I can only see the volume name when I mount it in GNOME. Users uses Windows can not see the volume name. Best regards,Dai Yuwen

specify the application to open files in Midnight Command?

Dear all,I want xpdf instead of gpdf open pdf files in mc. How to do this?Best regards,Dai Yuwen

Re: specify the application to open files in Midnight Command?

On 8/4/06, ra1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:14:21PM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:I want xpdf instead of gpdf open pdf files in mc. How to do this?Best regards,You can specify that in /etc/mc/mc.ext Thanks. I also find another way: add my own .mailcap if mc uses run-mailcap

Re: how to set firefox default browser in gnome

2. in thunderbird, when I click a URL, it still opens epiphany.user_pref( network.protocol-handler.app.http, /usr/bin/firefox);user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.https, /usr/bin/firefox);place this lines in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/__your_profile__/prefs.js Thanks. This works.Dai

how to set firefox default browser in gnome

Dear all,What's the correct way to set firefox default browser in gnome? There're several places you can click a link:1. in Emacs wiki mode. I add these these lines in ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote:[Mozilla] filename=firefoxNEEDS_TERM=falseNREMOTE=tureso the default browser is firefox.2. in

screen capture tools on Linux?

Dear all,Can you recommend a screen capture tool on Linux? It can record the screen and sound so that people can demonstrate some thing on Linux. Thanks in advance.Best regards,Dai Yuwen

Re: problem of bringing up pppoe on boot

2005/5/23, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yuwen Dai wrote: Deal all, I used /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to have pppoe bring up on boot time. Although ppp_on_boot is an obsolete method, it worked well untill I made an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday. My Linux box has two ethernet cards, eth1

problem of bringing up pppoe on boot

Deal all, I used /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to have pppoe bring up on boot time. Although ppp_on_boot is an obsolete method, it worked well untill I made an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday. My Linux box has two ethernet cards, eth1 for internal networking and eth0 for pppoe. I found eth0 is not up when

Re: How to use the driver-1.bin image?

Hi, deal all I want to use the files in /dist/stable/mail/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact on the Debian official CD-Rom. There're three files in this directory: driver-1.bin rescue.bin root.bin I know that rescue.bin is a fat12 image, and root.bin is a gziped ram disk. I

How to use the driver-1.bin image?

Hi, deal all I want to use the files in /dist/stable/mail/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact on the Debian official CD-Rom. There're three files in this directory: driver-1.bin rescue.bin root.bin I know that rescue.bin is a fat12 image, and root.bin is a gziped ram disk. I

Why messages sent by cron delay one day?

Hi, All This is my crontab: # Mirror the hard disk at 1:47 AM every day 47 1 * * * /usr/local/sbin/disk-mirror.sh This is the head of message sent by cron: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 01 01:47:01 2001 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the file system of root.bin?

Hi, Dear All I want to create rescue diskette from the Debian official CD-rom. I found that rescue.bin is msdos system, however, I could not figure out the file system of root.bin. I tried ext2, minix, msdos, fat. All wrong. Any idea? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen

Re: df print the wrong information

From: Michael Heldebrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: df print the wrong information Date: 24 Oct 2001 23:50:38 -0500 On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 22:06, Yuwen Dai wrote: Hi, All I encounter a strange behaviour of df. This is the output of df on my machine

df print the wrong information

Hi, All I encounter a strange behaviour of df. This is the output of df on my machine: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 303344 25804261879 9% / /dev/hda123302 1897 20202 9% /boot /dev/hda7

What's the reasonable time to mirror a hard disk?

Hi, All I have two identical hard disk linked with one cable. The capacity of each disk is 40G. I want to have the second disk be the mirror of the first disk by using this command: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=32k Nearly 2 hours passed, dd still hadn't finished. I had to press

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