Re: Email client programs

2001-12-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Craig Dickson wrote: ... If good IMAP support was common in mail clients, I'd probably be more inclined to explore it, but in my experience many clients either don't support IMAP, or the support is limited and/or buggy. it's getting better, IMO it's a lot simler than file storage support

Re: I want to ask a question

2001-12-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Ivan Kirov wrote: what is the command for uploading site in Linux Debian server, because it's not the same like in the Red Hat Linux. what do you mean by 'uploading site'? perhaps you could say which command you sued on redhat system... erik

Re: Fonts' strategy

2001-12-28 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which fonts should I install and why would I install xfs ? font server is useful if you want to provide fonts for more than one X server, otherwise you don't have a reason to run it (AFAIK) how can I use fonts from Windows ? apt-get install msttcorefonts if you

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-28 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:58, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.28.0807 +0100]: From the powershell package description: PowerShell is a GNOME/Gtk+ based terminal emulator which supports many terminals in a single window (limited only

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-30 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2001 06:55, Erik Steffl wrote: i find the tabs rather confusing. but then again, my desktop is simply four xterms (10 desktops thereof), and i usually don't need more... I suppose you're talking about programs that require user interaction

Re: Kernels - The Debian Way

2001-12-31 Thread Erik Steffl
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, As I wander about sites, I periodically see references to a document in ascii/html/pdf format with a title along the lines of Kernels - The Debian Way, but I cannot seem to find it, and I think I would like to read it. If it exists could someone give me the

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2001-12-31 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Sunday, December 30, Dimitri Maziuk did write: * William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... So... why *should* the programmer concern himself with individual bytes of memory? (Assuming he is writing an ordinary application and not a

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2001-12-31 Thread Erik Steffl
Eric G. Miller wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:46:15 -0800, Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Sunday, December 30, Dimitri Maziuk did write: * William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... So... why *should* the programmer concern

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Monday, December 31, Erik Steffl did write: Eric G. Miller wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:46:15 -0800, Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... it's the resource allocation that's important, not types. garbage collectors are generally more robust as far

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Steffl
William T Wilson wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: consider perl which doesn't have strong types but it's quite impossible to make it segfault and C++ on the other side which is That is true but it doesn't mean that type safety won't prevent it also. Consider

soundcard not detected (after moving of NIC)

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Steffl
I get the error from alsa that soundcard is not detected, it worked fine before I moved NIC to another PCI slot. I have ABIT VH6-II motherboard. here's the HW side (1 isa slot, 4 pci slots altogether): ISA 1 soundblaster awe 64 irq 5 PCI 1 voodoo 3irq 9 PCI 2 NIC

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Petre Daniel wrote: yeah,like all new releases of mandrake,redhat autoconfigure 2 network cards,but with our beautiful debian we gotta work it out,and feel the taste of manual settings and confugiration.. perrsonally,i like this way best.. call me old fashion,i'll call you clickpointers

soundcard not detected (after moving of NIC)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
I get the error from alsa that soundcard is not detected, it worked fine before I moved NIC to another PCI slot. I have ABIT VH6-II motherboard. here's the HW side (1 isa slot, 4 pci slots altogether): ISA 1 soundblaster awe 64 irq 5 PCI 1 voodoo 3irq 9 PCI 2 NIC

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Wednesday, January 2, Erik Steffl did write: Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Monday, December 31, Erik Steffl did write: Perl does have strong types, but they don't really correspond to the types that most people are used to thinking of. Perl's types

Re: external monitor and X

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Bonjour, we can login to an external computer and run X stuff from there, can we do the reverse ? I mean, can we open an X session on an external screen (via internet connction) ? yes, you can run an X application anywhere you want and display it anywhere you want

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Thursday, January 3, William T Wilson did write: On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety, it *has* to have some

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Phil Beder wrote: ... I wish I was a good enough programmer to contribute to this great project. Maybe one day when I understand more about Linux I could write a more user friendly help interface with clear syntax, option, and flag usage. by that time you'll swear by man pages! :-))

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: what's the difference? the point is you can assign almost anything to anything, and yet there is no segfault - i.e. the strength of types has nothing (sort of) to do with segfaults... the resource allocation

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Gary Turner wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:28:46 -0500, dman wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:39:09PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: | | Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: | | what's the difference? the point

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:10:56PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | Richard Cobbe wrote: | | Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: | | what's the difference? the point is you can assign almost anything to | anything, and yet there is no segfault - i.e

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:39:09PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: ... | char str[] = { 'b', 'a', 'd', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g' }; | // note the lack of a terminating '\0'! | cout str; ... |

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:38:01PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | dman wrote: ... | In C/C++ there is an invariant on strings (char*, which is | essentially equivalent to char[]) that they end with a NUL byte. | | no, that's not true. It is true. A type is more than

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Eric G. Miller wrote: ... merely a subset of them (0=ilength). The problem is that today's programming languages don't provide a mechanism to express this so programmers approximate it with types that describe supersets of the set they want. (this explains why I dislike java and its type

Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)

2002-01-13 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:51:14PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | dman wrote: | | On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:38:01PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | | dman wrote: | ... | | In C/C++ there is an invariant on strings (char*, which is | | essentially equivalent to char

Re: Freezing with Sound

2002-01-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake Aldous B Bernardo: I recently installed ALSA (0.5.12) on my Potato. When I play something with freeamp or xmms my desktop freezes. The funny thing is that I notice freeamp or xmms still functions well, there is still sound but all the other parts

Re: Debian, FHS /floppy

2002-01-16 Thread Erik Steffl
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Romuald DELAVERGNE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.16.1837 +0100]: Le 2002.01.16 16:17, martin f krafft a écrit : exaclty. but say you have /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy, and both mounted, and now you want to make proper use of what /mnt is, and you mount

Re: Debian, FHS /floppy

2002-01-17 Thread Erik Steffl
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.16.2306 +0100]: if you have more then one temporarily mounted filesystem, where do you mount it? It does not make sense to have a mount point for one filesystem but not for few of them. as others have said

Re: Windows vs. Linux

2002-02-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Bruce Burhans wrote: Someone asked me what the difference between Windows and Linux was, and I presumed to answer: Windows grew out of the work of self-involved gameplayers, and Linux grew out of the work of people concerned with using the computer to make the world a better

Re: Any interest in a cyrus2 package

2002-02-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Nigel Pauli wrote: On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:58, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: [Apologies if you're seeing this the second time, I post a couple of days ago but it doesnt seem to have shown up.] The Debian package of cyrus-imapd is rather old and the maintainer seems to be MIA so I'm

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul Sargent wrote: ... Now Application A (What the apps are really doesn't matter. They're closed, I don't have source), for which the box was originally built, was developed by the software house on Debian. So when it came time to build our box we replicated their systems and used Debian

Re: Fetchmail and Netscape

2002-02-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Shapiro wrote: I use Netscape Communicator 4.77 for my e-mail client. (So fa,r, I haven't found anythiong else that I am happier with.) Sometimes, however, its mail filtering just doesn't seem to work quite right. I am thinking about using fetchmail to get my POP3 mail. I have done

Re: (OT) chicago

2002-02-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 11:56, Rich Puhek wrote: tristate. And I've still never found the post office. Everyone in Chicago seems to go to the same post office, since they'll tell you how long it takes to get there! I'm guessing that you're just joking, but at

Re: C-A-Fx not working in XFree86 4.0.2?

2001-04-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul D. Smith wrote: It seems to me that I saw something about this a few months ago, but 30 mins+ with Google and the Debian mailing list archive search engine netted me zippo :(. I upgraded to the latest testing version a few days ago, and ever since I did I can't use C-A-F{1,2,3...} to

Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: ... Which brings me to my favorite lite-wm peeve. Why do most of them lack a persistent menu/taskbar? Take Blackbox (a favorite from the posts I have read). To open a new app you have to click at the desktop (or is there some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) to bring up the

Re: what i've learned, and explanation.

2001-04-13 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... read for those who have little familiarlity with Linux. Personally, I don't think either of those resources were of any help to me until I was at least 3 months in, and I had a pretty solid background in general computing concepts, and the willingness to spend a

Re: how to avoid the X windiws login?

2001-04-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Duser wrote: Well everytime i make X windows work on my pc on a debian installation the next login i'm forced to have a graphic login (on tty7)wich leads me directly to a working windows system (even if at installation time i told the system not to set xdm to give me the grph login), as you

Re: computer hangs when idle

2001-04-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Gil Elad wrote: Hello, I'm running Potato with kernel 2.2.17 compiled with apm support on an Intel PIII with an Intel D815EEA motherboard with apm enabled at BIOS. When the computer is busy -- for example downloading a file from the web everything's fine, console blanks after a few

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later models?). But it seems

Re: bad minute?

2001-04-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:03:00PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and try to save my changes, I get the following messages: crontab.16288 54L, 1391C written crontab:

Re: 2.4.3 + X 4.0.2 + star office = dead box

2001-04-17 Thread Erik Steffl
Gerd Bürger wrote: Hi, Try running an xosview and watching your usage creep up. If you're really desperate to use StarOffice, try adding an extra swapfile as described in mkswap(8) and swapon(8). Same problem for me. I only have 8Mb memory and 30Mb swap. vmstat shows the swapping

Re: any women here?

2001-04-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Deirdre Saoirse wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: Like most places in GNU/Linux land, and IT in general for that matter, the project (newbiedoc) isn't getting all the help that it needs because: the help of women is lacking. It's sad to see 1/2 the human race is

Re: [alsa-user] Linux ALSA sound ThinkPad 380ED

2001-05-04 Thread Erik Steffl
are these PCI devices? if so, do not use isapnp, set your bios so that it does not expect plug and play support in OS and all should be fine... try lspci to see if the sound card is listed as pci device erik Terry Hancock wrote: [Cross-posted to debian-user and alsa-user, not

mutt, email and ssl: SSL is unavailable.

2001-05-13 Thread Erik Steffl
I have the following setting in mutt: set folder={localhost/ssl}mail I start mutt and it says: SSL is unavailable. is there anything I have to do to enable ssl? Since the description of mutt package says it supports ssl I thought it would work right away. There is no separate mutt-ssl

Re: xdm on beta-blockers (2)

2001-05-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Martin WHEELER wrote: Sorry; on previous, forgot to add: [Please cc any replies to author, as not subscribed to this list. Thank you.] OK, I give up. Can anyone explain to me why xdm now takes a full 60 seconds to load

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001, ktb wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback,

no mutt-ssl but we can have apacvhe-ssl? what's the deal?

2001-05-16 Thread Erik Steffl
the README.Debian for mutt says: SSL support ~~~ SSL support has been disabled because debian cannot legally distribute binaries of a GPLed program

logitech mouseManPlus and fourth button: how to make it work?

2001-05-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Q: is there any way to get the fourth button (on the side of the logitech mouseMan with wheel) working? It does not work at all - not even with xev. I have: logitech cordless mouseMan wheel mouse (4 buttons wheel) XFree86 Version 4.0.3 here's what works and how (so

wheel scrolls but arrows keys don't in netscape

2001-05-16 Thread Erik Steffl
I have set up the netscape according to: http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ now the scrolling with mouse works fairly ok but I cannot scroll using space (full page) or arrow keys. what's strange is that when I use left/right arrow keys the Location: fields becomes

Re: various selection/clipboard mechanisms in X

2001-05-16 Thread Erik Steffl
this works with most application (I guess you already know it): drag left mouse button to select click middle mouse button to copy the selected text to focused window (field) here comes the saviour: when it does not work, notably with staroffice, use xcutsel, try to select, click one

aptitude holds back packages (while pt-get does not)

2001-05-17 Thread Erik Steffl
since some time ago the aptitude started to act strangely - everytime I do update (u) and then upgrade (g) it holds back huge number of packages (20+). when I run apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade no packages (or only two or three) are held back. I can manually set the packages to be

cups: The requested resource was not found on this server

2001-05-17 Thread Erik Steffl
the cups was working just a minute ago and I was able to print using lp filename I checked the default samba command and tried if it works: lpr -r -P%p %s (I used epson740 instead of %p and filename instead of %s) it didn't print because of printer error (paper jam). from then on

Re: cups: The requested resource was not found on this server

2001-05-17 Thread Erik Steffl
Erik Steffl wrote: the cups was working just a minute ago and I was able to print using lp filename I checked the default samba command and tried if it works: lpr -r -P%p %s (I used epson740 instead of %p and filename instead of %s) it didn't print because of printer error

Re: nautilus 1.0.3-2 won't start

2001-05-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Philipp Bliedung wrote: hi I apt-get nautilus from unstable and the installation went without any errors, but when I try to start it I get this error message: nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or

Re: potato or woody?

2001-05-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Bill Wohler wrote: Stefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody? I find that the biggest problem with woody is the update process. Packages are

Re: What's up with the list?

2001-05-19 Thread Erik Steffl
John Willey wrote: Now, I appreciate seeing the word die and Outlook in the same sentence as much as the next guy, but why are all the messages on this list suddenly in German? Is something on the listserve screwed up, or is it just me? Is anybody else suddenly receiving the German

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-19 Thread Erik Steffl
John Willey wrote: I think I learned something from the recent German crossover on this list. This message was especially useful: Re: Outlook, die Schweinepest des Internets My German is terrible/nonexistent, but I like to think that this translates as: Outlook, the swine-pest of

Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Joel Mayes wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:17:18AM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001 00:22:35 Joel Mayes wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO Did you happen to use the debian packages, or did

Re: Netscape , problem again...!

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, Any one noticed the problem if using Netscape 4.77 (not sure for older version) browse this page http://download.cnet.com/ And sometime Netscape doesn't not display anything after loading a page for a while, for example if type http://www.slackware.com/

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Hans wrote: I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done you got some responses already but here's some more info: to see how quotes work: export

files disappearing??? apt-get fun?

2002-03-10 Thread Erik Steffl
not sure how it happened but this is second time that I have found out files missing on my computer, I think it's after upgrade but can't be sure. some time ago I suddenly found out that xvncviewer file is no longer on my computer, it was still listed in locate output and xvncviewer package

cd writer setup questions (SONY CRX175A2)

2002-03-13 Thread Erik Steffl
system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.17 I just installed Sony CRX175A2 CD-r/RW drive (atapi/eide internal drive). It looks like the drive is almost properly recognized, dmesg contains: hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX175E2, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Note that there is E instead of A in model number and it

Re: cd writer setup questions (SONY CRX175A2)

2002-03-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Tim Dijkstra wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:53:19 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to use the SCSI emulation but cannot find the docs how to do it, I enabled the drivers, the kernel help mentions that there has to be a kernel option hdc=scsi, but when I included

CDROM: hdc: lost interrupt (how to troubleshoot?)

2002-03-24 Thread Erik Steffl
when I try to rip the CD I get the following messages and the ripping is VERY slow (few hours per one song): Mar 24 04:10:09 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.17 cdrom (burner) /dev/hdc TDK CDRW321040B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive jojda:/home/erik#

Re: CDROM: hdc: lost interrupt (how to troubleshoot?)

2002-03-24 Thread Erik Steffl
one more relevant fact: data CD can be read without problems and it seems fairly fast (whole CD is read in few minutes), no 'lost interrupt' or other messages in syslog. erik Erik Steffl wrote: when I try to rip the CD I get the following messages and the ripping is VERY slow

Re: CDROM: hdc: lost interrupt (how to troubleshoot?)

2002-03-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | when I try to rip the CD I get the following messages and the ripping | is VERY slow (few hours per one song): | | Mar 24 04:10:09 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt | the situation is the same regardless of whether I use scsi emulation | or not.

Re: CDROM: hdc: lost interrupt (how to troubleshoot?)

2002-04-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:49:44AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: [[ snip ]] I can copy the whole data CD, no problems (fast, no errors, no messages in syslog). However when I run either of the following: cat /dev/hdc |od hdparam -t /dev/hdc

Re: installing oracle 9i

2002-04-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Jason Majors wrote: Where I work we need to use oracle 9i (I'm pushing for mySQL conversion) on Linux boxes to communicate with oracle 8i on a Solaris box. Our DBA tried to do the 9i install (when he looked for a d drive I got scared), and keeps having problems that he won't share with the

cdrom: lost interrupt

2002-04-04 Thread Erik Steffl
system: hdc: TDK CDRW321040B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Linux jojda 2.4.17 #1 Wed Mar 13 01:33:28 PST 2002 i686 unknown debian unstable the cdrom is a cd r/rw writer problem: when I try to rip the audio it doesn't work much (it works VERY slowly, hours per songs) and I get the

Re: multimedia keyboard

2002-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Patrik Modesto wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Hi all, I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard? Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide volume in xmms ... etc.) I have some Logitech

Re: Is Mozilla mail brian dead? SOLVED

2002-04-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Patrick Kirk wrote: Unless you told Mozilla in the first get messages to save the password you gave, you will be asked to give it each time you want to access the mailbox. -- It doesn't ask for a password when I click get messages. I think its best just assume that Moz can't cope

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-14 Thread Erik Steffl
martin f krafft wrote: hi folks, i've always installed OpenOffice or StarOffice or whatever into /usr/local/apps/{open,s}office or /usr/local/lib/{open,s}office, depending on whether the day was even or odd -- as in, there was no pattern. now i am installing a couple of new systems and

Re: Otazka

2006-02-07 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dobry den. Mam zaujem si nainstalovat Debian do pocitaca ale chcem tam mat aj windows xp profesional ktory mam taktiez uz zakupeny. Akym stylom to treba instalovat tak aby tam boli obidva systemy? ktory prvy a ktory druhy? ja mam uz v notebooku nainstalovanu verziu

PCI IDE controller - how to make it work?

2002-04-24 Thread Erik Steffl
I just got PCI IDE controller and have troubles making it work with linux (2.4.18). the docs in linux/Documentation/ide.txt say that linux will probe for ide devices that have device files in /dev or that I can force it to probe using ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11 (kernel option). So I thought it

Re: cdrecord/burn problem

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Steffl
ktb wrote: My burner used to work fine until I installed woody. I've been searching the net and found the suggestion to use the -dao switch. That didn't help. I'm running a 2.4.18 kernel. Here is the output of - which kernel you used when it worked? I also have some funny problem with

Solved but some Qs remain WAS: Re: PCI IDE controller - how to make it work?

2002-04-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:59:07PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: I just got PCI IDE controller and have troubles making it work with linux (2.4.18). the docs in linux/Documentation/ide.txt say that linux will probe for ide devices that have device files in /dev

woody install problems

2002-05-01 Thread Erik Steffl
I used the woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso and weverything worked fine until the point when the basic system configuration started - I believe that's part of the base, nothing to do with woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso itself. the problem is that at the point when the timezone and passwords

xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Is it possible to make ATI proprietary driver fglrx work with the latest xorg packages? I installed fglrx packages (build the kernel module etc.) but it doesn't seem to accept xorg 7: (II) fglrx(0): UMM Bus area: 0xd0acb000 (size=0x07535000) (II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xd0acb000

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
rendering is used. any ideas where to go from here? Would you (or somebody else) mind posting relevant parts of xorg.conf (and perhaps kernel but I guess I have that part working since the kernel module is loaded) TIA erik Richard wrote: On 19/06/06, Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Determinate the directory whithin a script

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2006/6/18, Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a script in something like /media/sda1/backup/script.sh since sda1 could be also sda2 or anything, I want to determintate at run-time what is the directory in which the script is located, how can I do? pwd doesn't

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
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 with xorg and the stock Debian 686 kernel in an up-to-date sid installation

Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: 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

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

2006-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
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 than the mesa ones. You should at least look at /usr/lib/libGL.so* and /usr/lib

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

2006-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: 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

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Bill Wohler wrote: In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well. I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a major upgrade (at

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
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 with a proper font path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in http

Re: ATI Driver Installer ATI Installer Version: 8.27.10

2006-08-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Mitch wrote: On 08/09/06 00:12 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried the new ati driver installer. Here is what I did: Well now all I get is: Mesa GLX Indirect (*). Is there a step that I am missing ? I use those drivers on two machines. I build my modules with make-kpkg,

drupal error: cannot instantiate xmlrpc_client (cron)

2005-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
since latest upgrade of drupal I get the following error from Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ -x /usr/share/drupal/scripts/cron.sh ] /usr/share/drupal/scripts/cron.sh: Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: xmlrpc_client in /usr/share/drupal/modules/drupal.module on line 142

Re: gaim/gtk themes

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Wayne Sitton wrote: I'm running etch,KDE, and Gaim. Problem is the incomming messages window, the text is too small to read. I've changed the type of gtk theme, and even increased the font size. But it increases the font size for everything but the incoming messages window. does anyone know

Re: installation problems with SATA drives

2005-09-06 Thread Erik Steffl
SALAH NOURI wrote: Hi, did anybody figure out how to install debian on a machine with 2 or more SATA drives? i get the error no partitionable media when booting the installer with the default parameters. and booting with expert26 gives me no common cd-rom drive was detected. - make sure

drupal package status?

2006-05-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Any ideas what's the status of drupal package in debian? drupal 4.6.x is tagged pending (for about a year), maintainer said he has no time, drupal version 4.7.0 is out now but if there's no update it's going to be hard to update (drupal site recommends to upgrade to 4.7 only from 4.6)

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: ... Windows may be not behave decently at all, but it sells as it is, and it's not only marketing. I can see some of the reasons: 1 - They do invest in their product, but thy'll target the users and do whatever they want.The UI, for example, that most hackers

3dwm - how to make it do anything?

2002-06-14 Thread Erik Steffl
I installed 3dwm but I can't make it do anything (interesting). When I start the server it opens the window, it's completely black and stays the same, no matter which client I run (except of pick client, which displays three squares). shouldn't clock display clock? and vncclient display vnc?

postfix cleanup stuck (cannot kill it)

2002-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
it happened twice in last few weeks: the cleanup (part of postfix) eats up all the cpu cycles and cannot be killed (even with -9). I guess that means that it's stuck in system call - it looks like kernel problem. any ideas on what to do (well, I know I can reboot:-)? how to troubleshoot?

Re: postfix cleanup stuck (cannot kill it)

2002-06-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Erik Steffl wrote: it happened twice in last few weeks: the cleanup (part of postfix) eats up all the cpu cycles and cannot be killed (even with -9). I guess that means that it's stuck in system call - it looks like kernel problem. any ideas on what to do (well, I know I can reboot

Re: xorg in sid

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul Scott wrote: I see that some xorg packages are now in sid. Are there enough packages to switch from xfree86? Are there any problems? the new open gl packages remove the old ones and thus whole bunch of programs: apt-get install libglu1-xorg (or x-window-system-core wich installs

cyrus21: Address family not supported by protocol

2005-09-13 Thread Erik Steffl
got the following error message from cyrus after reboot: Sep 13 03:06:40 jojda cyrus/master[9483]: unable to create imaps listener socket: Address family not supported by protocol and cyrus imapd does not listen on 993 (MUAs cannot connect to it). It was working fine before reboot. Other

SOLVED: Re: cyrus21: Address family not supported by protocol

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Erik Steffl wrote: Sep 13 03:06:40 jojda cyrus/master[9483]: unable to create imaps listener socket: Address family not supported by protocol Something gone wrong in your IPV6 (or lack thereof) setup? Tell cyrus to bind explicitly

Re: weirdest network problems of my ilfe

2005-09-15 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ok after installing the new router that came w/ my dsl i'm having the most mind-boggling internet problems of my life. Here's some background on my network: +Linux box |Linux laptop (wireless)

Re: mouse

2005-09-16 Thread Erik Steffl
sela wrote: I am going to sound like a goof ball but, my mouse roller working in the wrong direction mean scrolling up will take down and vice verse. here is my debian XF86Config-4 , which work wrong: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver

Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

2004-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Wayne Topa wrote: Jules Dubois([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I just ran aptitude and it got The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED. There are 8 packages it wants to remove, one of which is bluefish, which I am

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