Re: what's wrong with real.com? I can't download reaplayer for Linux

2007-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
have had mplayer perform better than realplayer on problematic realvideo files. I am not sure if mplayer was using an ffmpeg version of the codecs or if it was using the Windows DDLs and the player itself is simply better. But it was definitely better. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
on the fluxbox panel. I don't know about this, but a search in aptitude for volume or mixer ought to turn up some options. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 1, 2007 6:03 PM, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is mass-storage, you just mount it with a command like mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/usb (mount point and device might be different). Or you can put a line in /etc/fstab : /dev/sda1 /media/usb auto noauto,users

Re: ntfs-3g and Etch (stable)

2007-11-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
-utilities are version 2.5.x. Backports.org has fuse = 2.6 for etch. And they have ntfs-3g packages as well. http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: CD to acc

2007-11-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
forget they are not part of a default install. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

2007-11-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
google does it. Firebug sets the value of the DOM element window.console to Firebug and creates the elements window.console.firebug and console.firebug Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

2007-11-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
implementation and the news would be all over the tech sites. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing kde

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
full cd image, and of course on the first dvd image. http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-search.php?q=kdebase+_i386 Theoretically, Debian's default DE is Gnome, but it is a very weak preference, that is easily ignored or overridden. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CD to acc

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
the debian-multimedia.org repo. If you don't already use debian-multimedia.org, the website has instructions on how to add it. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD to acc

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
it once. Cheers, Kelly Clowers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch-compatible PCIe X4 network card?

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
kernels/drivers I'd like to hear about it. I don't know for sure, but I bet Intel's PCIe NICs would work. And don't forget that you should be able to put a 1x or 2x card in a 4x slot. I should admit, my PCIe knowledge is all theoretical, not practical. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: cupsd, hplip on demand?

2007-11-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
, but the more recent versions of hplip are library-based instead of using a daemon. Hplip isn't in backports, but you could get it from the sourceforge site. Cheers, Kelly Clowers

Re: [OT] firefox 3

2007-11-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
waiting for more of the features (especially Places) to make it into the Mozilla nightlies, which is what I have been using for a few months now. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Video Card Nvidia card

2007-11-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
be bad). Support for these devices was added in April. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xresources not read at startup

2007-11-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
a few colour options for xterm, is not read at startup. I need to manually xrdb load it I have it in ~/.xinitrc I tried that as well :(. No good! I made .Xdefaults a symlink to .Xresources, and it started working. Might be worth a try. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: no x version

2007-11-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
-protocol IM tmsnc - MSN bitlbee - all IM to irc gateway, use with any IRC client irssi now has plugins for xmpp (jabber) and icq irc: irssi, ircii, epic4, scrollz, sirc, tinyirc Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

2007-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 20, 2007 6:55 PM, Peter Smerdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What happens if you just try running X alone, as in: # X The same thing happened running X directly I am having problems even googling this. It seems like a very rare situation and I

Re: recommend a flatbed scanner

2007-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 20, 2007 5:55 PM, Reid Priedhorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I'm looking for a decent USB flatbed scanner for use with my Lenny box -- and I don't want to spend much, $20-30 on eBay would be ideal. I would use it to scan photo prints and text documents. Any suggestions for

Re: recommend a flatbed scanner

2007-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
, except HP multifunction devices. They have a list of how well various models are supported: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .xsession-errors servicetype

2007-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
when I used KDE I always disabled and purged it. (Artsd can be purged, just leave the library) Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no x version

2007-11-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
would like to have things like lynx, finch, ircii, mpc, and so forth Install just the base system and you will have X-less Debian. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-11-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
vimrc, but the defaults worked well enough at first, so all I had to do was memorize key bindings. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-11-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 18, 2007 11:30 AM, Chris G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: What path is iceweasel using to find Java plugin?

2007-11-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
annoying until you turn off the slide up notifications and allow JS on the the top JS-using sites you visit. From there on it works great. Between Adblock+ and Noscript I find many pages load much faster and browser stability is much improved. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: NVIDIA card lenny-SOLVED

2007-11-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
) and you can definitely remove the line for loading the type1 module. My two cents. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
use en_DK.UTF-8 for time, because I like ls -l to list times as -MM-DD HH:MM (24 hour clock). I left LANGUAGE and LC_ALL unset. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request information

2007-11-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
of any other peripherals you might have (printer, scanner, etc). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: any pages listing text mode resolutions of video cards?

2007-11-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 12, 2007 7:24 AM, Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On Nov 11, 2007 7:46 PM, Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having trouble finding out the text-mode resolutions of video cards. Does anyone know of a good compilation of that information? Here

Re: any pages listing text mode resolutions of video cards?

2007-11-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
to edit your grub menu.lst file and add to the kernel line a reference like vga=791 http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
and file completion after sudo complete -f -c sudo Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
favorite FOSS poll is still on topic (and fun). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
-Manager, bash, vim, Debian, git, ikiwiki games: Frozen Bubble non-free: Starcraft, Civ3 Feed reader (RSS/Atom): Newsfox (SeaMonkey/Firefox extension) Download Manager: wget web server: apache web framework: ikiwiki other servers: sshd, PowerDNS, MIT Kerberos, OpenLDAP Cheers, Kelly Clowers

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
to use something else as escape. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multimedia driver support questions...

2007-11-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
, but I can see nothing in lspci or lsusb which would indicate what device this is. It doesn't work. Can you look inside and see what kind cable it uses (USB, IDE, SATA)? Definitely not a computer designed with Linux in mind. Sorry I can't help more. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: List of packages on a Debian / Ubuntu system

2007-11-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
/log/aptitude have some install-related stuff, but you would need to do some work to get the date packages where installed. I don't know of any other way. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
not necessarily support all of [Java, Lisp, Perl]). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Development Enviroment

2007-11-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
) or NetBeans. I guess most Perl and Lisp Devs would use text editors, like Vim, Nedit and Emacs (Emacs has a particularly good Lisp editing mode, since it is written in Lisp). You will need to install the libraries yourself. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What is a binNMU?

2007-10-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/28/07, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to use wajig as a frontend to apt but it has been removed from Sid because it depends on python-apt, which is also missing, apparently because of a binNMU connected with apt. I have no idea what a binNMU is. Googling produces a lot

Re: Best Kernel?

2007-10-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/27/07, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AMD Sempron 2800+ processor with 1 Gig of ram. I am currently using the 2.6.22-2-486 kernel from Lenny. I want to install a different kernel so I can get the full use of my 1 Gig of ram. I was looking through the options and

Re: Best Kernel?

2007-10-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/27/07, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: The cpuid program should be able to tell you if you have a 32 bit Sempron or a 64 bit Sempron. Even if you have a Sempron64, I am not sure if you can/should run a 64 bit kernel while using Debian's i386

Re: Squid setup question

2007-10-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to squid (installed it today) and I'm following the instructions at the squid wiki. I'm finding them to be confusing and I wonder if anyone can recommend instructions that are specific to Debian and are specific to version 2.6. My

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wei Chen wrote: 3. Run `im-switch -c` to configure the input method for the current user. Choose scim from the interactive user interface. This was one step I had missed. The second one was to put: #GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried with xcim: $ cat .xinput.d/en_CA # # Use X input Method for all applications # # Per Ming's Documentation in SCIM, XIM Input Method is activated # not only for old X-applications but also for GTK and QT appplication. # # If a user wish

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages through a proxy server whenever required. However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, Wei Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the first time that I hear of skim. I just looked into it briefly. It looks very interesting. However, it seems that it does not follow the standard im-switch launching convention, which may cause problems when I occasionally switch to

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/23/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this must be an incredibly dumb question, but i cant find my eth0 interface. I normally use a WiFi connection on my laptop, running Etch with Gnome. But i just brought the computer into an office, plugged in an Ethernet cable,

Re: naive bind question

2007-10-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 20 Oct 2007 17:20:16 GMT, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working through an old-ish book on web programming. It has several pages of instructions on installing and running bind8 for use on a standalone computer. I just used aptitude to install bind9, and without any

Re: naive bind question

2007-10-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 20 Oct 2007 19:09:06 GMT, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at dig and also nslookup. nslookup produces: tyler:bind- nslookup www.cbc.ca Server: 127.0.0.1 Address:127.0.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.cbc.ca canonical name =

Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel

2007-10-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/18/07, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About what? Gmail did the right thing, given the information available. The peculiar constraints of this mailing list are just that; gmail has no way to detect them, so it's up to you as the reader to

Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel

2007-10-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/18/07, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This being? This being the idea that gmail has no way to detect that this is a mailing list. You're right, gmail can detect _that_. Based on this gmail could add a reply to list button

Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel

2007-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/15/07, Bret Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that the only action that I can take, when the offence occurs, is to twice minimise the offending browser windows that are opened by the application; as, as already mentioned, if I close the offending browser windows, it crashes the

Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel

2007-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/17/07, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/07, Bret Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mozilla stuff Sorry about the To/CC thing, I was so busy writing that I forgot gmail is stupid about mailing lists. Note to self: time to bug google about that again. Cheers, Kelly

Re: Can't upgrade to xserver-xorg, help!

2007-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/16/07, Emre Sevinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm back to where I've started, it complains about `/usr/X11R6/bin' and x11-common_1%3a7.3+2_i386.deb. What am I supposed to do now? Any suggestions? I tried to remove xprt: # dpkg --purge xprt dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal

Re: Intel NIC

2007-10-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/15/07, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I am looking for the NIC for linux. In the intel website 1/ I don't know what is the meaning of Scalable I/O on Linux. 2/ ls the big different between desktop and server card? Thank you so much

Re: how can I see version changes using aptitude?

2007-10-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/13/07, Giorgos Pallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to everybody! When I was using synaptic, I remember that it showed the version changes for every packet that was to be upgraded. Where exactly is this information hidden? How can I see it using aptitude, or maybe another

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet. I've been thinking about upgrading one of my computers but I've had difficulties figuring out if any PCIe video cards have open source 3D drivers. My current system is using an ATI

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet. If a card is supported, it shouldn't matter if it is AGP or PCIe, just as with older cards, it does

Re: going from Xwindows to console

2007-10-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/7/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello; I've installed Debian 4.1 and would like to know how to drop out of Xwindows into a console display. It seems to be different from distro to distro. I tried F1, F2, etc; command F1, F2, etc; alt F1, F2, etc shift F1, F2, etc control F1,

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe and an AGP 8x version of the card. Not sure which they used. If you have a clue, let me know. I'll email them and ask too. Well, I don't have any direct experience with

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/2/07, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to

Re: ekiga

2007-09-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/22/07, Manu Hack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, After a dist-upgrade (I'm using sid), ekiga can't be installed anymore. Is there any way to install it in sid? Thanks! Manu I have Ekiga installed in sid; right at the moment there is an update for it which cannot be installed

Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt

2007-09-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/22/07, Mike Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had this for a long time and now I finally decided to ask about it. I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. The title such as Linux System Administrator's Manual, which usually appears in a man page, is

Re: Unreadable characters in aterm and rxvt

2007-09-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/22/07, Mike Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a weird behavior when viewing man pages in aterm or rxvt. ... Some of the lines run off the page on the right and continue at the beginning of the next line (lines are not neatly formatted in fixed width column). Also there are

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/21/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is selinux in Debian at all? Have any users asked for it? I don't know, but if it wasn't in Debian, I would ask for it. I don't get why people seem to think SELinux is a bad thing. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/20/07, Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course it's not meant for final users in the same sense as ubuntu is, you may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't use aptitude on a non-stable distro!) I

Re: AltGr on Japanese keyboard

2007-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/20/07, Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The jp keyboard layout (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/jp) does not seem to specify any 3rd (or 4th) level symbols. I do not know what you want to do with your AltGr key, but if it is to get things like AltGr-5 = Euro symbol, or AltGr-minus =

Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?

2007-09-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/21/07, Tobias Nissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Bruno! Bruno Buys wrote: I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty keyword searching. Anyone has experience with that? As Tod wrote

AltGr on Japanese keyboard

2007-09-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
I recently got a Japanese keyboard. With a little googling I got it working (and set up scim, but that's another matter). However, I am unable to get AltGr aka ISO_Level3_Shift working. LWin as compose works, and xev shows that ralt produces ISO_Level3_Shift, but when I type ralt+ [other key], I

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/14/07, Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A curious and rare (2 times since Etch became stable) X freeze or hang has me wondering what to do. Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrellm,

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/14/07, Richard A Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly see a similar problem on several boxen - and have for quite some time. * Mouse cursor moves, and can select windows (maximize/minimize) * Can not select items in a window (firefox/etc) with mouse * No

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 8/30/07, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, upgrading from Ubuntu to Debian (And vice-versa) is nearly impossible and unsupported by the Debian community (If you did try it, we probably wouldn't be able

Re: Version number of Lenny

2007-08-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 8/20/07, Masatran, R. Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that Etch incremented the major version number (3.1 to 4.0), but Lenny will increment only the minor version number (4.0 to 4.1)? Etch had a lot of major changes. Sarge had kernel 2.4 or 2.6, Etch had just 2.6. Sarge had Xfree86

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 8/18/07, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I recently installed Etch on my new system and found X performance to be sluggish, particularly when using Iceape. It appears as if there is little or no hardware acceleration, remeniscent of a K7 with a slow graphics card. While

Re: [sid] what package for iwl4965 and mac80211 kernel modules

2007-08-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 8/15/07, Mihamina Rakotomandimby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just switched to Sid, in order to have the iwl4965 kernel module and its deps. I just updated it to the latest on the 'fr' Debian repos (I am in France), but when I modprobe iwl4965 or modprobe mac80211, the module is

Re: Switch keybord layout from the console

2007-08-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 8/7/07, Oscar Corte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: How should be done in order to switch to Latin-American keyboard layout from the console? I'm using a very basic installation with no graphics desktop environment. Thanks in advance for anny hints. Make sure the console-tools

Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware

2007-08-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 8/6/07, Samuel Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I now got a Linksys WRT54GL to which Eric Reymond refers to in Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO[2]. Question B: Is it possible to install FREESCO on top of a commercial router (hardware, e.g. linksys, netgear etc.) What's

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/29/07, Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:20:59 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Florian, pdftk can be used to fill in PDF forms. It can generate an FDF file Yet another package I've not heard of. Hardly surprising, really, given that

Re: utf8 Problems

2007-07-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/28/07, Bernhard Kuemel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi debian-user! I converted to utf8 in the hope that my non ASCII character problems would disappear. They are now ... different. I used utf8migrationtool and locale now says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 snip I

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. That is such good news.. exactly what I have been hoping to read.. I've been looking for a

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/28/07, ArcticFox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Jesus Arocho wrote: I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there a program available that will provide

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/27/07, Giorgos D. Pallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... Or to put it in another way: Which

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/21/07, Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the text and paste it

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 13 Jul 2007 16:44:19 GMT, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-07-12, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just rebooted my laptop for the first time in ages (usually I just hibernate to RAM). Fluxbox is behaving very strangely. I have the Alt keys bound to a number of

Re: SATA support

2007-07-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/12/07, Dustin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building my first PC, it will run Debian of course. I'm buying the parts off of newegg.com and noticed that many of the newer DVD burners have a SATA interface. I'm looking at getting both the HDDs and the DVD burner with a SATA interface, but

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 12 Jul 2007 19:44:44 GMT, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just rebooted my laptop for the first time in ages (usually I just hibernate to RAM). Fluxbox is behaving very strangely. I have the Alt keys bound to a number of handy things, such as switching windows and switching

Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?

2007-06-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/28/07, John W. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at that but this is the line that was set up by the installation system general.useragent.extra.firefox default string Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 This seems to be exactly backwards to what you suggested. Where do you suggest I go from

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/10/07, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/06/07, Telly Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudev Barar wrote: On 11/06/07, Telly Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/11/07, Gayle Lee Fairless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider fluxbox or something

Re: advantages and disadvantages of local/lang en_CA.UTF-8?

2007-06-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in Canada speaking and writing English with a off-the-shelf North American computer with a standard US keyboard. Up until etch, lang was C and nothing was UTF. What are the advantages to me of etch setting a default language

Re: File Notes

2007-05-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 5/29/07, Manon Metten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my other platform (AmigaOS) I make a lot of use of file notes. Eg. if I download a file, I keep the original file name to store it, but the url is stored in the file note. So when I later want to know where that file came from, I just

Re: [OT] Screen

2007-05-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 5/9/07, Amy Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what does screen do better than multiple xterms Mouseless paste (that's how I found out about it, actually). Also, I just prefer having fewer windows open. And if for some reason I have to restart X, I don't

Re: moto4lin my razr v3

2007-05-09 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10 May 2007 03:12:08 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hey, i'm having some trouble accessing my new motorola razr v3 on i my debian etch system. i'm using moto4lin i can get to the point where i the

Re: alsa problem in etch

2007-05-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 5/8/07, Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running ech in a sony vaio pcg-v505ex notebook. The system has a buildin intel8x0 sound card. My problem is that alsaconf configures correctly the card, but the configuration doesn't survives to the boot, in each boot I have

Re: Mounts in Etch

2007-05-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 5/5/07, Mirko Scurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I googled a bit but don't know exactly what term to use. I have two issues bout disk mounting in Etch. 1. Windows partitions mounted from fstab have meaningful names on Etch desktop. Other mounted linux partitions have GB values in place of

Re: Will kernels work on the wrong hardware?

2007-04-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/26/07, Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system that died and I'm hoping to salvage it by either replacing the motherboard or moving the disks to a new machine. It was running the testing 2.6.18-k7 kernel. Will that work if I put it in a machine that is not a k7?

Re: Wine

2007-03-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 3/16/07, Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So, to sum it up, the reason that some upstream developers provide Ubuntu but not Debian packages is because they either don't know about tools like pbuilder or are just lazy. I fully agree. Now we just need to convince Mr. Richie of

Re: Google no longer searches newsgroups?

2007-02-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 2/18/07, Roby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Google has dropped archive searches of newsgroups. Anybody have any suggestions of what to use now? They didn't drop it. Just click more (above the search bar) and then groups. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 1/25/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 01:12, Marc Shapiro wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:kamaraju%40bluebottle.com said: Sorry wrong wording on my part. When I said it should look exactly as it would appear on the net,

Re: Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

2006-12-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 12/2/06, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if it is the time of the night here or whether it's because I am a newbie, but I can't seem to sort this out in my head. I thought I should write this before I do some damage, as it usually pays to prevent problems before they happen

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