Re: Mplayer plugin for Galeon

2003-10-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-10-05 at 22:30, stan wrote: Anyone know where I can get mpalyer plugin (preferable as a .deb) tat will work with Galeon from teestong? See http://marillat.free.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: outlineing program?

2003-10-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-10-05 at 22:32, stan wrote: I remeber a month or so back playing with a nice (Gnome base I think) outlining program that generated XML files as an output. 'apt-cache search outline' gives me gnome-think -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 07:06, Uwe Dippel wrote: No understand. Tried Google, but still don't understand. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html says: This document explains how Debian repositories work, how to create them, and how to add them to the

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:29, Uwe Dippel wrote: Sorry, not even. Everything installed (it said so), but the fonts are not (yet ?) available in any application (Galeon, term, Theme Selector). What is necessary to add them to the available fonts ? Hm, should be done automatically. Could you post

Re: Gave it a try and will try again ....

2003-10-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Die, 2003-10-07 at 15:19, Roberto Sanchez wrote: What I have found is even better is to boot Knoppix, and then use it to do a chroot install. FWIW, I just want to add that Knoppix has a script to install it do HD directly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Incorrect system time

2003-10-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mit, 2003-10-08 at 07:40, Oliver Elphick wrote: The only time you want the hardware clock on local time is when you are dual-booting Windows, since Windows runs with local time in the hardware clock. Not anymore. At least XP (not sure about 2000) has a System clock is GMT check box --

Cardbus eth0: no route to host after sid upgrade

2003-11-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, after a vacation, I upgraded sid on my laptop. After pulling in 3 week's worth of upgrades, I lost ethernet connectivity, and for the life of me can't figure out what went wrong. Nothing changed in the network's configuration. I have a cardbus ethernet card in my laptop. It is connected to a

Re: pppupd... where has it gone ?

2004-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:40, Ian Perry wrote: Hi, I noticed that pppupd is not in Debian 3. Is there something different, or has pppd been modified/updated to take care of redialling after a connection is broken on a modem ? man pppd: persist Do not exit after a connection is

RE: pppupd... where has it gone ?

2004-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
option: Initiate the link only on demand, i.e. when data traffic is present. -Original Message- From: Mario Vukelic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 1:15 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: pppupd... where has it gone ? On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:40, Ian Perry

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:56, Kent West wrote: Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Window/Desktop System * I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change to a more modern system? [...] You've probably installed stable, which is ancient. stable is suitable for a server

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote: 'dpkg -p' lists whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/available; 'dpkg -l' lists whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/status. Uh, for me (dpkg 1.9.21) man says -l lists available, and -p dpkg -p|--print-avail package Display details about package, as

kernel 2.6.2: no arp replies with Intel Etherexpress 100 - no connection; works fine with 2.4.23

2004-02-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, OS is Debian Woody + backports (mainly backports.org). This machine has 2 NICs. It does IP masquerading for the internal LAN. eth0 is a Broadcom 4400 onboard interface (on Asus P4PE). Kernel module is b44. It is used by pppoe to connect to my ADSL provider. eth1 is an Intel Etherexpress 100

Re: Newbish Q: Why modprobe.d *and* modutils?

2004-02-21 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:14 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: Yes, you are right. Kernel 2.6 uses /etc/modprobe.d (and if you use update-modules, the contents are written to /lib/modules/modprobe.conf, which is included in /etc/modprobe.conf). Use update-modules.modutils to update

kernel 2.6.2, acpi, on_ac_power

2004-02-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, now that I run kernel 2.6.2 (stock debian config, from backports.org), I have switched from apm to acpi (which I now not much about). I have an Asus P4PE mobo with an Intel 845PE chipset. Distro is woody + stuff from backports.org acpid is running (ps shows /usr/sbin/acpid -c

Re: kernel 2.6.2, acpi, on_ac_power

2004-02-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 21:46 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: lsmod|grep acpi shows no hits Forced to reply to own post, sorry Ok, I found acpi modules in /lib/modules/2.6.2-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi and modprobed them (ac, battery, button, fan, processor, thermal). They insert without errors. No I

Re: Netscape - libstdc++

2000-10-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
ObeseWhale wrote: It seems as if I can't install netscape 4.75 on my Potato box because the version of libstdc++ that comes with debian is too high. I get a dependency error when trying to run netscape. Has anyone had a similar problem, or better yet, a solution? Worse yet, no problem at

Re: exim and libdb.so.3

2000-10-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I type locate libdb.so.3 it says that /gnu/lib/libdb.so.3 and /usr/lib/libdb.so.3 exist, but when I check myself, they actually don't. Don't know about exim, but if locate thinks it's there, it probably was until recently. locate maintains a database that gets

apt-get: The following packages have been kept back - What does it mean?

2000-10-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back task-helix-gnome

RE: apt-get: The following packages have been kept back - What

2000-10-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
to find out the cause of your problems, do a 'apt-get install task-helix-gnome', that should tell you why it is being held back. Yup, that did the trick. gaim was the offender, I believe its name was changed to gaim-gnome. apt removed gaim and installed gaim-gnome. Everything ok now. Thanks a

apt-get source problems

2000-10-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, Whenever I try to do a apt-get source anypackage apt responds with: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Could not open file /var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory) Note that

Re: apt-get source problems

2000-10-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
I just realized that apt-get update also gives me an error: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/source/Sources 404 Not Found Seems to be related. However, I still don't find the error in sources.list -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

RE: apt-get source problems

2000-10-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Thanks. Unfortunately, I still get the same errors (both for update and source). Hmmm -- I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux: The choice of a GNU generation. Visit

RE: apt-get source problems

2000-11-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 31-Oct-2000 Mario Vukelic wrote: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Thanks. Unfortunately, I still get the same errors (both for update and source). Hmmm how odd, that is directly from my own sources.list My

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
I havn't been able to install Helix-Gnome in a while ... (snip) Strange, I never had a probem with potato. Is this your sources.list line for helix? deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main -- I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux: The choice of a

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Mario Vukelic
Yves POCCHIOLA wrote: I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question during the installation process concerning the

Re: Hi I am having a problem with X.

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, If any one who can help me, I am a new user of debian, I am working on Intel 810 chipset but debian refuse to make X work on the in built AGP so, I am currently using the shell is deprived of use of X, So any body out there have any idea about the problem Thanks, Gurpreet

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to activate properly the configuration and I was not given a second chance to run the configuration even after removing and installing again the package. I'm glad I could help. Probably you want to know that dpkg lets

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

2000-12-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:08:54 Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:17:30PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote: Anyone else seeing this? Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey, but I'd like to bring up a new point: is there

OT? Prob after today's helix sawfish update (0.34-helix1)

2000-12-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I use hlix gnome on potato. After today's apt-get upgrade to sawfish_0.34-helix1, sawfish draws a window frame for my gnome panels (menu panel and edge panel). I also can't unhide the edge panel anymore. Tried to tell sawfish to use Frame-Type: None for the menu panel, but then the panel

Re: Where is task-kde?

2000-12-18 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 17 Dec 2000 17:18:41 +0100, Gian Piero Ascenso wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install KDE2 on my Debian potato. This is the KDE line I got in sources-list: # KDE deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps Nevertheless, when I try to apt-get install task-kde I'm told it's

Re: Gimp1.1 and xsane*

2000-12-28 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 28 Dec 2000 10:30:43 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: When upgrading to Gimp1.1 1.1.32-1 (Woody), apt-get removes xsane-gimp1.1. However, xsane is also removed. Is there any way to get them to coexist? Right now I am alternatively installing whichever program I am using. I had to

Locale: LC_MESSAGES influences character set???

2001-01-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I dedicated the previous days to locales (on potato). After reading all HOW-TOs, mailing list archives etc. I could find, I finally managed to have special chars in the console _and_ an english gnome. However, I've come across some things I still don't understand. First, here are my locale

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 17:41, red wrote: any ideas? http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chrony (was: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with theclock!)

2002-12-28 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 19:57, John Hasler wrote: Bill Moseley writes: So the confusing thing is the startup scripts. /etc/rc2.d/S14ppp runs before /etc/rc2.d/S83chrony. For some reason it all works now, but it looks like it's possible that the ppp connection could come up before the

Re: Xfree86 4.3 confusion

2003-07-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 20:11, Johannes Graumann wrote: Where can I get the packages? http://www.apt-get.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wandering if you can help me

2003-07-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 21:15, 9mm wrote: a freind recemended me to ask you this. i am having problems with my ATI 3D Rage Pro video card and i was just wandering i it is OpenGl compatible. In X 4.3 it's supported as hardware accelerated http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 -- To

Re: Auto load pop3 mail at night ?

2003-07-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 22:11, David selby wrote: I need a program to auto load my many pop3 mail accounts (can't get on with IMAP) preferably in the middle of the night. And hopefully grab them from a spool directory via Mozilla 1.3 If I understand you right, you want to download the mail

Re: moving menu panel in Gnome 2.2 (on woody)

2003-07-21 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 04:19, Daniel B. wrote: In Gnome 2.2 (the woody backport), can the menu panel be placed other than at the top of the screen? If not, why not? click with middle mouse-button (cursor changes to a cross) and drag. But only top or bottom are possible or make sense. You can

Re: setting window manager in Gnome 2.2 (on woody)

2003-07-21 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 04:19, Daniel B. wrote: How does one change the window manager in the Gnome 2.2 backport for woody? I couldn't find anything relevant in the Desktop Preferences. You could check the list archives, it's an FAQ. Basically, Gnome people say: Window Manager ist tech-speak

Re: how to connect to the Internet via Gnome?

2003-08-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 06:47, Nick Hastings wrote: Setting all this up has _nothing_ to do with gnome, however once you do have it set up you may be able to run pon/poff with some gnome applet or such. To find if such a thing exists do: Right-click on a panel - Add to Panel - Internet - Modem

Re: gcc version?

2003-09-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:10, Lukasz Hejnak wrote: export/setenv CC=gcc-2.95 (select one, export or setenv, depending on your distro) rather, depending on your shell. setenv if you run csh or tcsh, export if you run bash (highly probable) An easier way to set the compiler to s specific version

Re: Which release

2003-09-05 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fre, 2003-09-05 at 19:53, Joey Harrison wrote: My preference would be to have the most recent packages, but also somewhat tested, so should I use testing? I'v run stable, testing and unstable. In you case, I would start with stable. Most software in Linux is so mature these days that it

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 05:02, Russell Shaw wrote: If you use a lighter wm such as icewm, then there's no problem at all with testing. I'd recommend that because there's less changing and less chance of system breaks as with unstable. You can install single packages from unstable easily too.

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 08:35, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: Mario Vukelic wrote: [...] Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite fd most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite random manner. [...] Unstable is ok, it's not so much

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 13:41, Colin Watson wrote: The procedures are in place: there's testing-proposed-updates, which can be used to get critical security fixes autobuilt and into testing. The manpower to make use of this is what's lacking. Ah, good. Still, to the user of testing it makes no

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 13:33, Steve Lamb wrote: So don't do an apt-get upgrade. First install apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs. [..] Very good advice, I'd only add to read debian-devel list before upgrading packages. Still, it's a lot of work to do. I ran testing and unstable at some

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
Reading man dpkg I do not see an option that says: do not try to reinstall the package... I've missed the start of the thread, so excuse me if this isn't what the OP wants, but setting the package to hold should do it, no? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-09-07 at 21:05, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: A lot of banks here in germany allow online banking for linux only with netscape 4. I've never seen one. If it happened to me, I'd take my business elsewhere and made sure they know why. You probably don't even get security fixes fo NS 4

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-09-07 at 21:46, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Mine. :-) Hm, where I live in D there's no shortage of banks to choose from. I need only personal stuff though, and obviously don't know you needs :) May I ask which braindead bank this is, so I can avoid them? Uninteresting, since one

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-13 at 23:54, David Palmer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:10, Brian C wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-09-14 at 14:46, Richard Otte wrote: My 550 is working fine, but I'm not completely sure that I'm using the matrox driver or if I'm using the XFree one. I'm running testing (version 4.2.1.6 of xserver-common and xserver-xfree86). In my XF86Config-4 file I have: Section Device

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-09-14 at 16:06, Anthony Campbell wrote: However, the Matrox driver produced a bad cursor As I said in other posts, add Option HWCursor off to the Devices section in XF86Config-4. SWCursor makes cursor a bit flickery when the machine is under heavy load though. For single

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Die, 2003-09-23 at 13:18, Colin Watson wrote: By default, every mail scanned by SA, ham or spam, comes out with an X-Spam-Status: header which lists the score and the triggered tests. Not for me :) Actually, I wanted to ask this for a couple of days (/me being a Swen victim). I run spamd

Re: Grafische Benutzeroberfläche

2003-09-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fre, 2003-09-26 at 05:11, Carsten wrote: Hallo Debianteam !!! Linux ist für mich eigentlich Neuland, ich habe vorher schon einwenig mit SUSE 8.0 gespielt . Jetzt habe ich von den vorteilen von eurem System gehört . Ich habe mir eure neue Version gekauft und Installiert . Es hört sich

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-09-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-27 at 14:33, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Can someone help me cofiguring spamasassin so that I get rid of those ms security-mails? check google and the extensive threads in the archives from the last couple of days/weeks. You are not the only one being hit. Basically, score

Re: Getting rid of Gnome 1.4 stuff

2003-02-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 05:49, Hall Stevenson wrote: I KNOW there's lots of Gnome 1.4.x stuff leftover. Any idea how to either clean out the old stuff ?? I thought an apt-get upgrade would do it, but it didn't... (you use sid, right? Because that's the only one that actually carries Gnome

Re: GNOME2 questions

2003-02-24 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 22:21, Johan Ehnberg wrote: 2) Something seems to be very slow with gnome-terminal. Scrolling text in it eats my CPU to 100% and the scrolling is slow.

Re: kernel-package gcc configuration etc. (Re: How do I do a sidupgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?)

2003-02-24 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:03, Faheem Mitha wrote: So, you can still compile kernels with it, though I agree that there might be some problems if everything insists on calling gcc. Set the env variable then Hmm. Does anyone know if it is currently possible to configure what version of gcc

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:24, John Anderson wrote: Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would appreciate thoughts and guidence. I have long had multiple partitions too, but over time realized it's a waste of space or time on a desktop. On a server it sure is

Re: Themes

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:07, Sridhar M.A. wrote: 1. There are many themes included for gtk-2.0 How do I use them? Put them into /usr/share/themes or ~/.themes and open Applications Manu - Preferences - Theme 2. art.gnome.org has some nice themes for nautilus. The nautilus docs do

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:19, Mario Vukelic wrote: I now have /boot 100 MB, / 30 GB (too big, but able to compile mozilla and openoffice.org and enough for a long time :) Oh, wanted to include that since I don't have extra partitions, of course my 30 GB for / includes space for /usr, /var, /tmp

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 19:15, John Anderson wrote: Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed the machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) however I don't want that to ever happen again, so will most likely end up with say 2 Cd's worth or

Re: kernel-package gcc configuration etc. (Re: How do I do a sidupgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?)

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:17, Faheem Mitha wrote: Thanks. Are you sure you don't mean CC? Ooops, sorry, you are right -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 23:13, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Or not as the case may be. On my laptop, it insists that that the laptop is on battery power and won't run. The laptop only runs on AC since the battery won't hold a charge. Have a look in /etc/init.d/anacron: case $1 in start) if

Re: decrufting system files (e.g. GNOME files)

2003-03-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:54, Rich Johnson wrote: I have some scripts to short out which files are known to the current Debian configuration apt-cache show cruft debfoster deborphan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: What's logcheck/cracking.d?

2002-10-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 18:42, DSC Siltec wrote: Configuration file /etc/logcheck/cracking.d/standard Generally, read /usr/doc/logcheck The rules in /etc/logcheck/ define expressions to enable logcheck to interpret stuff it finds in the logs. E.g., kernel: Oversized packet received from means

Re: Version 3.2 Wann?

2003-03-22 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:03, Klaus Imgrund wrote: I think he is talking about Knoppix.Of course this is the right place for this.It is not released for download yet but you can get it in other places. c't handed out Knoppix 3.2 disks at CeBIT. Don't know about download -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 16:16, Aryan Ameri wrote: What about Libranet? Has anyone tried installing Libranet, and the pointing the repository to Debain's repository and upgrade packages? Do you think it is doable? Done with Libra 2.7, then used woody sources + the important backports. Worked

Re: XDM, Gnome 2.2 normal user startup

2003-03-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:36, Zeno Davatz wrote: I installed all the necessary packages and Gnome 2.2 runs very smooth when I get it running with 'startx'. When I do the same as normal User Gnome starts but crashes immediately and I land at the XDM Login again. 1.) I can't follow you: You

Re: XDM, Gnome 2.2 normal user startup

2003-03-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 19:20, Zeno Davatz wrote: If I login at XDM with a normal user it throws me back to the XDM login screen. Ok 2.) If you use Gnome anyway, you are probably better off with gdm instead of xdm Why is that? I find it prettier and easier to configure. Since you use

Re: compiling testing for unstable

2003-03-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:01, David Fokkema wrote: Now I would like to have cdrdao, but that is only available for testing. Of course, I could recompile the whole thing from source and be done with it Or you could use the cdrdao backport for woody at deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian

Re: Evolution UI fonts in Gnome 2 on Woody

2003-06-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 06:27, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: Is it a legacy Gnome 1.4 setting that's lurking somewhere? Something like that. Evo 1.2.4 is still a Gnome 1.4 program, so changes to Gnome 2 settings don't affect it. Evo 1.4 for G2 should be released on June 9, and I guess it will be

Re: woody, sarge, or sid?

2003-05-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:49, Gezim H wrote: I am confused as to what should I use; woody, sarge or sid? I have used all of stable, testnig and unstable at on time or the other. While testing extremely seldom has big problems, it is insecure (no fixes by security team) and you have to watch the

nvidia-kernel-src: package generation fails in strange way

2002-12-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I use 1.0.3123 I have used the nvidia drivers for ages, but due to a kernel bug cropping up I reverted to the free drivers. Since the bug happened with those, too, I wanted to go back to the proprietary modules. Stupidly I hadn't kept the kernel module's .deb, and when I tried to build it

Re: nvidia-kernel-src: package generation fails in strange way

2002-12-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:54, Mario Vukelic wrote: /usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123 SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/include NVdriver /bin/sh: - : invalid option For the record: My CC environment variable is set to gcc-3.2 When I did

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
C: Learning As others have pointed out, KR. Avoid common pitfalls: Summit: C Programming FAQs (Addison Wesley) Van der Linden: Expert C Programming (Prentice Hall) Fun: Feuer: C Puzzle Book (Addison Wesley) As a reference: Harbison/Steel: C - A Reference Manual (Prentice Hall) Algorithms:

Re: was wondering

2003-12-30 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old kernel 2.2.12 and I was wondering if it is possible to get some source code to recompile the kernel with terminal font color highlighting. I am not sure what to call it but its the font that's typed whenever your at a prompt.

Re: was wondering

2003-12-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 07:13, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..or PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED];32m\]\H\[\033 [1;37m\]:\[\0 33[1;31m\]\w \[\033[1;36m\]\$ \[\033[0m\]' ;-) this ^ space has to go Too colored for my taste, though :) Seems a good time to ask a question: Since my

Re: was wondering

2003-12-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
lol. And thanks for the .bashrc hint -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modutils for kernel 2.6.x and Woody

2003-12-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 14:56, Frank A. Uepping wrote: does someone know a package for the new modutils for Woody? Adrian Bunk has them, backports.org too http://www.apt-get.org/search.php?query=module-init-toolssubmit=arch%5B%5D=i386arch%5B%5D=all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2003-12-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, Today I've installed kernel-image-2.6.0 from backports.org on my woody pc. Until now I've always used self-compiled kernels, but decided to change to the kernel-images now. Those have devpts compiled in,while I had that never in my own kernels. Not sure why, but in any case, I never had

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 20:07, Mario Vukelic wrote: Using the kernel-image, pppd tries to use /dev/pts/num, which fails, and leads to a timeout: Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Serial connection established. Dec 31 18:06:34

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 15:48, Mario Vukelic wrote: After compiling 2.6.0 w/o devpts, I found out that ppp still times out, although it tries to connect vi /dev/ttyp0, as it did with my old kernel. Now I'm completely lost. Seems I'm the only one that cares for me ;o) Strangely, further

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 17:19, Paul Morgan wrote: If you google on the error message, a lot of potentially useful links appear. Might be worth doing some research that way. Unfortunately, no. Thanks for trying, though :). I've googled for hours to no avail. Problem is (see also my post in this

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 18:13, Jan Minar wrote: Notice there is no info that could actually be used to figure out what went wrong. That's a correct observation. This is because there is no more info in the logs. I did post what info there is. If I had that info, I would have figured it out and

Re: help needed- linux

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 18:21, padmini badrinath wrote: and i am trying to read or access the mdb files from linux. This, am trying with the linux odbc driver I wanted to kno if the odbc manager is required for this purpose or is there a better way to do this mdb is the MS Access file

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:39, Jan Minar wrote: pppd printing out those ``ppp0 - /dev/foo'' lines doesn't mean /dev/foo is OK. It happily printed these when running over a serial port, wile it wasn't able to establish a connection. Interesting. Though in my case (debug option on) it prints

Re: Kernel 2.6 and module-init-tools

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 21:51, Deboo wrote: Debian Woody system, compiling 2.6 time and again keeps giving a VFS: Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs error, however many times I recompile. do you have everything you need compiled in? Filesystems of root/boot partition, IDE controller etc? I

Configuration of Herbert Xu's kernel-image-2.6

2004-01-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, having never used precompiled kernels before, I'm a bit surprised to find these enabled in Herbert Xu's 2.6 kernel image (section General Setup): CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y # CONFIG_OPTIMISE_SIZE is not set CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y

Re: Configuration of Herbert Xu's kernel-image-2.6

2004-01-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 12:03, GCS wrote: Could be a mistake of 'make allyesconfig' or whatever. Please note that packaging the 2.6.0 version of kernels is probably not sane enough. Thanks, that helps. Will investigate further -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: recovering corupted m$ word .doc

2003-06-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 18:55, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: Is there any programs that could recover as much as possible from it? If all else fails: 'man strings' - at least you'll get much of the text. You might also want to try antiword or word2x, but I don't know how good those are -- To

Re: Setting Mailto handler for galeon/gnome2 in sid

2003-06-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:09, Neilen wrote: This led me to look in the gnome preferences panel for a mailto handler setting, but I could'nt find it. There seems to be no GUI for it atm, but you can fire up gconf-editor (of use gconftool from the CLI) and add a new key

Re: Gnome does not create windows automatically

2003-06-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 03:13, Hamid wrote: Well, I use gdm to login to gnome and I guess it is the gnome window manager, right ? The manual placement sounds like twm. Are the window decorations green with white borders? I remember to have read several threads some time ago about this. The

Re: Evolution UI fonts in Gnome 2 on Woody

2003-06-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 14:53, James Strandboge wrote: I do plan to backport evo 1.4. thought so :) Once these issues are worked out, evolution 1.4 will end up in my gnome2.2 backport. You rock! As do your backports - I have them running with awesome stability and zero probs. Thanks! --

Re: Running GTK Apps in Enlightenment

2003-06-11 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:11, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: Actually, xchat *isn't* GTK -- it uses standard X libs, which are typically not all that appealing to look at. No way to theme them, really, without doing a lot of stuff in config files. You must be confusing xchat with some other

Re: Trying to connect a digital cam to my PC

2003-06-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 16:45, J.F.Gratton wrote: Olympus D520Z digital cam According to http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html it seems to work fine as a USB Mass storage device. I recently got my casio to work easily, just using these instructions for the 2.4.x kernel

esd and 2 concurrent users on machine?

2003-06-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I have gdm configured to have 2 login windows on F7 and F8. 2 users are logged in concurrently, both using gnome. User 1, who was the first to log in, has sound via esd - no problem. However, User 2, logging in second, has no access to esd. User 1 must make his instance of esd accessible by a

Re: esd and 2 concurrent users on machine?

2003-06-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:38, Alex Malinovich wrote: put esdctl unlock into your default session. Thanks for the tip, I didn't think of running it from the session manager myself. But right, what I hoped for is a cleaner solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: esd and 2 concurrent users on machine?

2003-06-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is certainly a dirty hack, but you could always just put esdctl unlock into your default session. Can someone elaborate on this? Applications menu - Desktop Preferences - Advanced - Sessions. Now on the Startup Programs

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:19, Terence Ng wrote: I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager and it shows: /etc/bin/gdm but I do not know how to set, since there is no /etc/bin/xdm such file. If xdm is installed, edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager to read /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm. Maybe

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