Re: 256 color

2007-11-15 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:37:51PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Chris G wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit color to 256 color. I have tried through my display settings

Re: 256 color

2007-11-15 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit color to 256 color. I have tried through my display settings but when I restart my computer it goes right back to 16 bits. I think you have your

Re: 256 color

2007-11-15 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Emmanuel Revah wrote: # We need to know what desktop/display manager [s]he's using don't we? not really, imho. we need to see /etc/X11/xorg.conf also, to try different settings one can use xrandr OK, yes, I had my sort of Windows/doItFromTheGui

Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user

2007-11-18 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:48:29AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:34:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: There is one tip I have for you: use a mailer that has better support for mailing lists than

Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user

2007-11-18 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:18:46PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: Also why do you say you'd have to use IMAP with mutt to get what you want? Unless you need to be able to read (using mutt) your mail from several different systems I don't see how it would help you. I do want to access mail

Re: configuring ADSL via a gui

2007-11-22 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:36:27AM -0500, H.S. wrote: Hello, Since I started using Debian, I have always used pppoeconf command to set up my ADSL connection. Now I am a situation trying to convince a few others that Linux based OS is very easy to use. So, is how do I go about configuring

Re: to sata or not to sata (etch dvd install)

2007-11-24 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:52:52PM +0100, baldyeti wrote: Hello, I haven't built a computer in over 3 years. I seem to remember people mentioning difficulties installing etch (or was it sarge?) from a sata dvdrom. Is there a reason to stick to IDE(PATA) for the cd/dvd unit or can i safely

Re: wiki to pdf converter

2007-11-24 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:24:26AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:49:10 +0100 Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of any for your specific markup, but you might want to take a look at reStructured Text, which is very similar and can be converted

Re: epson perfection 4180 scanner

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:43:27PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: I used to have this scanner setup in SUSE, but it doesn't seem to work in Debian. # sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0118 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:007:006 # scanimage -L No

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:10:06AM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: I have used Linux for 8 years. I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my life can be

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:59:53PM -0600, Sidarth Dasari wrote: Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? None at all where I am, my host's spam filtering must be working! :-) -- Chris Green -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: epson perfection 4180 scanner

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun November 25 2007, Chris G wrote: Sane *always* does this to me too!  sane-find-scanner finds a scanner but nothing actually sees it.  I just got my Epson V700 working, what I had to to was add the following line to /etc