Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote: [..] If we can establish that this was the problem (that it must be built-in, and not built as a module), is this a bug? I suppose that I should at least update the Wiki to warn about this. Not sure if it's relevant, but this vaguely

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 03:30:38PM EST, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:03:34 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote: [..] Not sure if it's relevant, but this vaguely reminds me of having had to add my old ATI mach64's

[OT] Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:30:33AM EST, John Hasler wrote: [..] I have not seen a movie in more than twenty years and probably never will see one again. I find the entire entertainment industry and everyone associated with it faintly disgusting, and, in any case, like popular music, movies

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:31AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: [..] When it comes to LCD/TFT, you have to pay attention to native resolution. I agree. And the highest you can get. Look, 17 displays tend to use the same resolution (dots

Re: USB soundbar as default audio device

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:35:01PM EST, Russell L. Harris wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Maybe I should send it back use the compatiblity lists to try and get something that's supported out of the box. Consider a Lexicon Alpha (US$60) or Lexicon Omega (US$180). See broadcast suppliers

Re: USB soundbar as default audio device

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:26:12PM EST, deloptes wrote: Chris Jones wrote: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Device [HOLTEK  AudioHub Speaker] on usb-:00:07.2-1.4.4 usb 1-1.4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0a0e usb 1-1.4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:46:38PM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Chris Jones put forth on 12/27/2010 7:00 PM: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:31AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: [..] When it comes to LCD/TFT, you have to pay attention

Re: USB soundbar as default audio device

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 01:46:13PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: Ubuntu is now heavily invested in Pulse Audio so what you learn in Debian won't necessarily apply there. You might want to convince your friend to use Debian instead. Hm. I may end up doing that.. What's the deal with Pulse Audio..

Re: USB soundbar as default audio device

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 03:48:52AM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:15, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu is now heavily invested in Pulse Audio so what you learn in Debian won't necessarily apply there. You might want to convince your friend to use Debian

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:58:42AM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Johan Kullstam put forth on 12/29/2010 11:25 PM: Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's shortscreen or nothing. I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs

Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:33:28PM EST, John Jason Jordan wrote: [..] It will be a long time before I install an nVidia proprietary driver again. When I installed ‘lenny’ on this new laptop, the ‘nv’ driver was the default. At some point I figured I'd watch some TV news, and I noticed that

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 02:18:40PM EST, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi, Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the system. [..] $ xset dpms force suspend # ..? cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: What happened to consolechars?

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:01:58AM EST, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote: On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command consolechars -d used to correct this

Re: What happened to consolechars?

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:42:19PM EST, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] Also, take a look at ‘unicode_start’. Note that if the locale set in /etc/default/locale (or /etc/environment on older systems) has a UTF-8 charmap (as reported

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:57:22AM EST, David A. Bandel wrote: Folks, I've googled this with no helpful results (several unhelpful results regarding dpkg-reconfigure console-data though). I want to get back to the old behavior I had where my i386/pc/qwerty keyboards had dead keys for

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:39:53AM EST, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Doug wrote: There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the compose key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out You must be joking. That will work well only if

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:08:27PM EST, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [..] When I issue 'acpitool -s' from konsole on X, the system does not shut down right and does not resume but boots with the 4 disks messed up. But sad to say it only works

Re: care and feeding (no longer resembles: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?)

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:01:03AM EST, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote: [..] They know that the computer needs electricity and that the car needs petrol. I doubt that most people know more than that. Well, I would hope they also know

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:15:28PM EST, Robert Latest wrote: [..] What now? I'm stumped. Works here out of the box on Debian stable. Since I do not run dwm, I did the following: $ /bin/su - # apt-get install dwm # adduser dwm # password .. enter .. enter # cd

Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present..

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
I'm in the last stages of migrating my (mostly legacy) stuff to a newer laptop and cannot get mplayer to work as well as I had hoped on debian lenny. On my previous system with an old ATI Mach64, I specified the XVideo output driver and was getting pretty decent results. On the new system, with

Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present..

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:11:33AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:24:32 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] Is this telling me is that the XVideo extension on the new machine is not enabled? You can check it: stt008:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep XVideo (II) Loading

Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present..

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:20:37AM EST, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 14. 01. 2011 09:24:32 je Chris Jones napisal(a): [..] On the new system, with a fairly current nvidia video card, and the default ‘nv’ free driver, only the sound appears to work when I stream TV news channels or play .flv videos

Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present..

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:06:51AM EST, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-01-14 09:24 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: I'm in the last stages of migrating my (mostly legacy) stuff to a newer laptop and cannot get mplayer to work as well as I had hoped on debian lenny. On my previous system

Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present.. No XVideo

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37:11PM EST, Camaleón wrote: [..] Maybe it's time for you attach/upload the whole /var/log/Xorg.0.log file :-) Hey.. why not.. http://pastebin.com/38DZcW7D Enjoy¹..! cj ¹ this is the log on ‘lenny’ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present.. No XVideo

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:58:54AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:03:19 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37:11PM EST, Camaleón wrote: [..] Some comments on the log... *** (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx

Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present.. No XVideo

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 07:26:08AM EST, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-01-15 12:58 +0100, Camaleón wrote: [..] It seems loading the GLX module using some part of the nvidia closed drivers... how is that possible? :-? Because the nvidia-glx package is installed, even though Chris does not

Re: Lenny - xvinfo: No Adaptors present.. No XVideo

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:12:35AM EST, Camaleón wrote: [..] Okay, just remember Squeeze uses a different set of driver (nouveau) than lenny (nv), it is possible that you don't need to tewak anything there. Thanks, I'll remember this thread when I'm ready to switch to squeeze. cj -- To

Re: Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter works with squeeze / gnome

2011-01-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:23:49PM EST, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:10:07 -0800 Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had to add wifi to my squeeze / gnome desktop. Based on some reviews I bought a Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter, and I found that when I

Re: Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter works with squeeze / gnome

2011-01-19 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:54:10PM EST, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:04:23 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:23:49PM EST, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:10:07 -0800 Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:14:43AM EST, S Mathias wrote: my /tmp is too small [when i want to use convert]. how can i set imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? thank you! Try (untested): MAGICK_TMPDIR=./mytmpdir convert .. If you need this on a permanent basis,

Re: Where are xrandr settings stored?

2011-01-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:13:29AM EST, Camaleón wrote: [..] # xrandr --output VBOX0 --mode 1280x60_60.00 [..] 1/ How can it that xrandr settings are remembered for all the users session? 2/ What is the involved file/tweak command to revert any change and reset its settings? You

Re: Where are xrandr settings stored?

2011-01-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 04:21:35PM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:09:22 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] You could try brute force to narrow it down a bit: # touch /tmp/xxx # xrandr ... # find / -type f -newer /tmp/xxx /tmp/filelist # rm /tmp/xxx You may want

Re: /etc/X11/Xsession.d

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:59:21PM EST, T o n g wrote: Hi, Anywhere I can read more about /etc/X11/Xsession.d? I want to use it to start an app when X starts, synergyc to be exact, following the steps from http://tacticalcoder.com/blog/2009/05/using-synergy-software-kvm-with-osx-

Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
I burn my backups to regular single-layer DVD's once in a while. DVD+RW is what I use, but now it looks like I'm flirting with their limit in terms of capacity.. In the long run, this probably means that I need to review my backup policies, maybe separating /home from the rest of the system, but

Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:27:57AM EST, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 02/02/2011 11:07 AM, Chris Jones wrote: I burn my backups to regular single-layer DVD's once in a while. DVD+RW is what I use, but now it looks like I'm flirting with their limit in terms of capacity.. [..] My comments

Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:18:06AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:07:11 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: (...) Do some of you people still use DVD's as an external medium for backups..? I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be worth a try in the event I'd

Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:18:06AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:07:11 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: (...) Do some of you people still use DVD's as an external medium for backups..? I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be worth a try in the event I'd

Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:10:53PM EST, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be worth a try in the event I'd look for an optical backup solution. Thanks, will check whether my drive

Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:27:50PM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:44:43 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: Doesn't say anything about double-layer.. or are they dual-sided? Hum, OSTA calls them double-sided ;-P http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa6.htm Looks like I suspected

Waiting for Squeeze - was: Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:35:51PM EST, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 02/02/2011 01:10 PM, Chris Jones wrote: (...) One trick I use is copy my back-up file (encrypted) to my cell phone's micro-SD.. In the event disaster struck, I would either be out of the house with my cell phone, or grab

[OT] Expert install.. was: help

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:13:37PM EST, Joey Hess wrote: [..] There is no need to use any expert install option with squeeze. Simply follow the instructions it presents: Maybe the next incarnation of the installer should do away once and for all with this ‘expert’ misnomer. Although it may

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:28:19PM EST, Tarek Soliman wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:43PM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using testing for years with very little problems. You should know that every time a release happens, both testing and unstable

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:03:04PM EST, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Appears that I need to make a .Xresources file before TightVNC will work. Can anyone recommend instructions or examples for the task? The transcript from the TightVNC follows. Thanks, ... Peter E.

Re: Help with my Squeeze upgrade! (missing fonts)

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:40:30AM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote: [..] $ locate lmtypewriter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/truetype/hoekwater/lm/lmtypewriter10-regular.ttf $ emacs -fn LMTypewriter-10 Font `LMTypewriter-10' is not defined $ This used to work just fine! That's odd.. I would've

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:28:53PM EST, Bob Proulx wrote: Chris Jones wrote: That's odd.. the vnc4server script on ‘lenny’ from the vnc4server package tests the existence of the file: [ -r ~/.Xresources ] xrdb -merge ... The vncserver uses the alternatives. It could be one

Re: Help with my Squeeze upgrade! (missing fonts)

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:34:36PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: This is a shoot in the dark, but maybe you are experiencing some of the side effects this FAQ is pointing out :-? Seems like a good idea. I checked it. Now in /etc/fonts/local.conf there is no

Losing hi-res with Xen kernel

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
I did the following to set up a Xen dom0: 1. squeeze AMD64 install on a new partition 2. apt-get install the Xen packages (cf. Xen/debian wiki) 3. tweak the grub2 environment and install it to the MBR 4. boot the Xen dom0 kernel Now, the odd thing is that while doing steps [2-3] above, I'm

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:32:05PM EST, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: [..] They do? It's not configured by default or populated in /etc/skel. I doubt most users would go about adding one themselves. Trust the little beggars.. Yes, _if_ you're going to specify custom xrdb resources, that's the

Re: Help with my Squeeze upgrade! (missing fonts)

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:11:41PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: That's odd.. I would've thought the ‘-fn’ flag would not support .ttf fonts. I don't use emacs, but other X programs such as XTerm, xfd, etc. use the ‘-fa’ flag when using the ‘typeface

Re: Help with my Squeeze upgrade! (missing fonts)

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:19:38PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote: [..] I guess that leaves three loose ends to this whole adventure: (1) Is it recommended to try adding /usr/share/texmf and /usr/share/texmf-texlive fonts to fontconfig? Did you check the /etc/conf.d and /etc/conf.avail

Re: Buffers VS Page Cache

2011-02-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:46:40PM EST, George Shuklin wrote: Good day. I'm trying to understand difference between Buffers and Page Cache in Linux, but found almost no documentation. Where ‘in Linux’..? What exactly are you looking at..? As far as I understand buffers and Page Cache

Re: Fwd: Re: Buffers VS Page Cache

2011-02-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:39:07PM EST, George Shuklin wrote: I have started my post from sentence 'almost no documentation'. Ok, I repeat my question in most simple form: cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal:8197852 kB MemFree: 89764 kB Buffers: 16436 kB Cached:

Re: Help with my Squeeze upgrade! (missing fonts)

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:38:36PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:19:38PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote: [..] I guess that leaves three loose ends to this whole adventure: (1) Is it recommended to try adding /usr/share

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:55:05PM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, on my Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze system in the textual - command line environment - console I can hear beep when hit on keyboard Down at the and of command history, but in the grapchical environment - X Window - in a rxvt (urxvt)

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:52:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge wrote: Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never figured out how.

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33:45AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: [..] Does it beep in other terminals under X.. xterm, gnome-terminal..? If I run the 'beep' command in any terminal emulator (xterm, urxvt, gnome-terminal, terminal.app) that's not what I

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:58:51PM EST, Mike McClain wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:31:01AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I call xterm from a hotkey like this: uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Rob your answer is way over my head. If I have any hotkeys in X I don't

Re: Middle button copy/paste

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:04:51AM EST, Jochen Schulz wrote: Please don't top-post. Instead, trim the quotes and write your reply below or in-between. Radhakrishna Bhat: Not sure, but I think you need to be running 'gpm' daemon for middle button paste to work. Gpm is only needed for

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:16:43PM EST, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:52:09 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: $ bind '\C-t: xterm^M' .. and press Ctrl-T you start a new xterm - try it. Notes: 1. to enter the ^M in the above bind command, you need

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:12:02PM EST, Brad Alexander wrote: [..] Honestly, I saw the writing on the wall when Elom was named CEO of Nokia. It's ‘Elop’.. easy mnemonics:. rhymes with cop, flop, mop, slop, etc. cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33:13AM EST, Chris Jones wrote: [..] He probably wants: $ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources That should have been.. $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources %-) cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39:39PM EST, Mike McClain wrote: [..] That said the complexities of 'nix is a broad subject and though I've been a user for many years there is still so much I don't know that it's easy to get overwhelmed. Rob's shortcut for instance: uxterm -fn

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:10:11PM EST, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:09:23 -0700 [..] Good to know, thanks - I've heard that before. The keyboard is the one thing about which I'm really dissatisfied with my Acer Aspire, although that's not Linux specific. Not sure which particular

Re: xterm question [SOLVED]

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:47:27AM EST, Mike McClain wrote: [..] After a day spent reading several articles on X and xterm I finally came to the realization that the use of bind you pointed out earlier in this thread would do what I wanted. Using ^v to see what the key combinations were

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

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:35:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge 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).

Re: Setup xterm to use TrueType Fonts in .Xdefaults

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:15:08AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup in .Xdefaults for xterm to use TrueType Fonts so I don't must use every time the 'control' key and pointer button three to set this up in the VT Fonts menu. I want also to setup the geometry for xterm and

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:46:27PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2011 01:50 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the repos or widespread a bit more what

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34:04AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] Hi, Being the stubborn person that I am, I want

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:56:14AM EST, Jason Hsu wrote: [..] Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu.. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1604 cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-03-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:10:01AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 28 feb 11, 22:47:17, Chris Jones wrote: So what do I do..? recommend we continue our heated discussion on the OT mailing list..? too bad.. she's not subscribed to D-OT .. and given the circumstances and our disagreement

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:48:47AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 01 mar 11, 19:59:25, Chris Jones wrote: That shouldn't be a problem, the list is setup as close as possible[1] to debian-user: posting open, no reply-to munging, etc. so all you would need to do to move a discussion

KDE hangs with ADSL and DHCP router

2006-09-01 Thread Chris Jones
to begin looking for the cause of this problem? It may already be a well known problem. So far as I know the DHCP setup provided by my ISP is fairly standard (although I have yet to ask this directly.) many thanks Chris Jones. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Chris Jones
:( .. is possible? On 7/19/06, Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michele Della Marina wrote: Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? Do you mean for sending text messages to people's phones via email, or something else? - Joe -- Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Moving web server to new IP

2006-07-26 Thread Chris Jones
addresses. Sure, some requests will still hit the old addresses, but they'll be few and far between. The same should also be true of mail. Then, once there's nothing more hitting those IP addresses, you can safely decommission them. Regards, Chris Jones Simon wrote: Hi There, I know

apt-get source questions

2006-04-15 Thread Chris Jones
1. How do I do the equivalent of the usual gnu ./configure when I install from source..? 2. Can I just remove the source tree after having installed the binary .deb without breaking anything? Or is there a recommended 'debian way' to clean up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get source questions

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Jones
Magnus Therning wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:13:48AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: 1. How do I do the equivalent of the usual gnu ./configure when I install from source..? This is all done from inside the debian/rules file. I'd suggest reading the New Maintainer's Guide for a gentle

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:43:33AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Keep replies to the list. On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo

gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Jones
This worked fine in etch: When I needed to view an url embedded in an e-mail, I would hit CTRL-B which my .muttrc causes the selected url to be piped to the urlview uitility. Since obviously I run mutt in a terminal, a gnu/screen window actually, urlview would correctly launch the ELinks

Fwd: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Jones
- Forwarded message from Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com - Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:51:15 -0400 From: Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com To: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance Chris Jones wrote: When I needed

Re: Fwd: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 01:10:13PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: - Forwarded message from Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com - Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:51:15 -0400 From: Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com To: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using ctr + shift)?

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 03:20:30AM EDT, j t wrote: Good morning all. I'm reasonably sure that I used to be able to input unicode characters by holding down shift and ctrl and then tapping out the hex code for the character that I wanted, and then releasing shift and ctrl. For example,

Re: Random seamonkey crashes when playing flash videos

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 04:25:36AM EDT, Andreas Juch wrote: Am Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:55:32 -0400 schrieb Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com: It looks like they're caused by some mixed environment issue. Should I remove every mozilla on the system and reinstall from scratch? I removed

Re: gnu/screen + mutt - mailcap creates a new terminal instance

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:53:58AM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote: Chris Jones wrote: [..] Now on lenny although as far as I know I am using the same .muttrc and the same /etc/mailcap that I copied over from the etch system, what happens is that urlview creates a new xterm where it then launches

USB stick - heavy use taking its toll - I/O error, dev sr0..

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:41:34PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: Reviving this long-dead debate. I had noticed these boot time messages in /var/log/kern.log for some time now: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 49150 sr 0:0:0:1: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE

Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-27 Thread Chris Jones
Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice. How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good unicode fixed font that

Re: Unicode font recommendations in a terminal.

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:52:06AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,28.Jun.09, 00:43:58, Chris Jones wrote: Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... irc clients, etc. and would be able

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:51:59AM EDT, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Chris Jones wrote: How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good unicode fixed font that could make the experience more true to life? The Debian package xfonts-efont-unicode has very wide character

Re: no sound on lenny

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:36:26PM EDT, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: solved, my brother was using the wrong jack. He switched in and out the other way around. All is well that ends well. Your next challenge is learning to trim your posts. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 09:22:02AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: Chris Jones: Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice. How

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:02:38AM EDT, Tony Baldwin wrote: Chris Jones: Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice. How should I

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:33:43PM EDT, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Another thing is that I would like to be able to display all the glyphs of a given font so I can tell at a glance what scripts are covered. gucharmap is a great app for this. I guess that's the one I

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:12:57AM EDT, Csanyi Pal wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:28:08PM EDT, Paul Scott wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based (snip) There was another reply recommending unicode-rxvt in this thread, so I'll take

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 09:21:58PM EDT, Hal Vaughan wrote: Streisand effect, especially known to be prevalent on Debian-User. Or, as Hal's Law states: The surest way to make sure a thread continues ad nauseam on Debian-User is to give even the slightest suggestion it may be off-topic.

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:53:25PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Suno Ano wrote: Hi folks, I wrote an article about etckeeper... that nifty thing that allows to keep /etc under version control and thus rollback in case something bad happens during an upgrade or so.

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 08:14:57PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: CJ writes: Maybe use a mature browser such as ELinks - displays fine here. The problem is that some of us have less than perfect vision And poor old Homer, blind, blind as a bat, (..) Ear, ear for the sea-surge, murmer of old

Re: dmesg and root-tail

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:32:59PM EDT, lee wrote: The tail -f waits for more output from dmesg, but dmesg won't produce any more output. dmesg is supposed to print the contents of the kernel buffer; it does exactly that and then ends. It also doesn't have an option like -f to tell it to keep

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:34:07PM EDT, AG wrote: unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. You want the cdtool package, per apt-cache show, size = 62122 (lenny). :-) Seriously I'd be curious to know

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:54:48PM EDT, AG wrote: Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:34:07PM EDT, AG wrote: unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. You want the cdtool package, per apt-cache show, size = 62122 (lenny). :-) Seriously I'd be curious to know whether

[OT] - Problem with DVD drive mounting

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:54:08PM EDT, thomas.ferry wrote: [..] It looks like hal doesnt mount my dvd drive. I tried to rename the file you mentioned and it doesnt exist. I know the drive is good cause I dont use it that often heh. Well, no.. if you don't use it that often, you don't

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