Extracting WAD files from Ultimate_Doom.exe under Linux

2007-04-29 Thread Mumia W..
I just purchased the registered version of Doom (Ultimate_Doom.exe), and I want to start playing the game, but there is a problem--I'm a Linux user. I was able to play the shareware Doom episode using prboom and freedoom, so I know Doom can work on Linux. I just need to get the WAD files

Re: Extracting WAD files from Ultimate_Doom.exe under Linux

2007-04-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/29/2007 09:16 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 04:16 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: I just purchased the registered version of Doom (Ultimate_Doom.exe), and I want to start playing the game, but there is a problem--I'm a Linux user. I was able to play the shareware Doom episode

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/08/2007 08:36 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [...] dgwicks:~$ openoffice /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice: line 254: 5256 Floating point exception$sd_prog/$sd_binary $@ ** (process:5240): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ... dgwicks:~$ [...]

GDM default locale--can't set

2007-05-10 Thread Mumia W..
I can't seem to set the default locale to en_US.UTF8 for GDM. When I change the settings at the GDM window, it offers to make my new locale the default. I always say Yes to this prompt, but whenever I log in to GDM again, I get the old default: iso-8859-1. The Gnome help pages say that I can

Re: Synaptic intends to remove necessary packages during installtion of Gaim

2007-05-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/09/2007 07:55 PM, sjq wrote: Hi! I am using Debian 3.1 with quite a lot of old packages.I tried to install Gaim 1:2.0.0+beta5-10 from within Synaptic. Synaptic told me that quite a few necessary packages would be removed during installation of Gaim, such as gdm, kdebase-bin, kdelibs,

Re: no blanking on consoles

2007-05-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/10/2007 07:44 AM, Loic Le Loarer wrote: Hi, I have several servers which VGA output is connected to the same screen by a VGA switch (a KVM). If I want to let the screen go in standby mode, I just connect it to an unplugged KVM input or switch it off manually. So I don't have any interes

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/10/2007 11:08 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Problem Update: I have my system repaired so I have several browsers that I can use but I still have the same problem. (Keep reading!) I contacted the vendor and they said that my clock was wrong, I didn't accept cookies, and my Internet sharing

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/12/2007 05:56 PM, Stephen Cormier wrote: [...] without the links it does not list my newest kernel in the grub splash screen first so I would have to select it manually instead of getting to boot into it without an action on my part. Stephen /boot/grub/menu.lst has a default option

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

2007-05-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under amd64. Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. [...] I also installed Etch on a computer that has only 64MB of RAM, and I haven't noticed this problem. As Hervé

Re: Runlevel for textmode

2007-05-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/13/2007 10:51 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 22:13, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 5/13/07, Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped In Debian you use runlevel 2 for everything. (I'd better say there's no need to use another runlevel). You'll run on 2 by default whether

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/14/2007 12:45 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: I'm going to try to attach a dump of ps -aux as ps.txt I don't know if the list will allow the attachment, but we'll see. It will be easier to read than if pasted into kmail, I think. trying attachment. tim I suggest that you dedicate a

Re: System monitor inside panel

2007-05-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/15/2007 08:51 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: * Masatran, R. Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-05-11 I am using FBPanel. Gnome System Monitor appears unable to show system status inside it. Is there any panel that can show system status inside it, without the overhead of starting the Gnome,

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/14/2007 10:18 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 20:46, Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:49:41PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 20:00, Michael Pobega wrote: Nothing there looks out of the ordinary. The only ones having to do with the internet

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/15/2007 03:49 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:28, Mumia W.. wrote: I suggest that you dedicate a runlevel, say 3, to debugging this problem. For RL (runlevel) 3, disable as many services as possible--making it almost the same as RL 1; then re-enable only those services

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/15/2007 08:12 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] xterm*font: 10x20 Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work so well for you. Thanks. This works if I

Re: GDM default locale--can't set

2007-05-16 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/16/2007 12:44 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:07:39AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: I can't seem to set the default locale to en_US.UTF8 for GDM. When I change the settings at the GDM window, it offers to make my new locale the default. I always say Yes to this prompt

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

2007-05-17 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/17/2007 08:42 AM, Randy Patterson wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/18/2007 12:06 AM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/18/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two ways to cut and paste, using the control-c and control-v and using 'select' and 'middle-click'. The latter should work. The former as far as I know does not work because it doesnt interact with

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/18/2007 05:08 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read our user lists) due to volume and

Re: man beeps more than woman

2007-05-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/19/2007 07:40 AM, Deboo ^ wrote: How do you stop man from beeping when going below or above EOF or at other times when it beeps? Regards, Deboo Tell the less(1) pager to be quiet: export LESS=-q man 1 less -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: man beeps more than woman

2007-05-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/19/2007 12:43 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/19/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/19/2007 07:40 AM, Deboo ^ wrote: How do you stop man from beeping when going below or above EOF or at other times when it beeps? Regards, Deboo Tell the less(1) pager to be quiet: export LESS=-q

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/19/2007 01:19 PM, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 09:17 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007 08:02, M. Fioretti wrote: Offensive or not, it doesn't even matter with you, will you please realize it? You are simply making a lot of USELESS noise. I just move on and

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/19/2007 10:16 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [...] OK. Let's recap: - Amy asked: If somebody's current provider provides only POP, should they be forced to switch to another provider just for the privilege of being on this list? - I pointed out that [...] Amy asked a rhetorical

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2007 01:38 PM, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is connected to an external screen, with the laptop closed (so, at home, I don't use the laptops own

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2007 01:44 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [...] I propose we add a clause to the code of conduct to address the OT issue. This half of the problem is generally followed but it should be part of policy. The following wording is a starting point for discussion: Discussions

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2007 03:34 PM, Matthias Brennwald wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option would be to have both 1440x1024 and 1280x1024 in the modes list What would this look like? Two 'Modes' lines? Or one line with two entries? How are they separated (space, comma, whatever)? They're

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 01:55 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:19:12AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that an entire separate list is being considered, the

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 01:57 AM, S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. [...] This is an opportunity for us as a group to ignore and reject what should obviously be seen as a troll post. S C, the newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy would be a better place to

Re: reconfiguring grub to see windows partition etc....

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 03:11 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I am using a machine at work that has an AMD Duron 1200 MHz i386 chip in it and two hard disks. The master is a 40GB drive and the secondary one is a 20GB drive. Debian Etch r0 i386 lives on the 40GB drive. I used to have

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 06:48 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:06AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: From: Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, in /usr/local/src/twinkle-1.0.1/ I did

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 02:19 PM, Gerard Robin wrote: thanks, it's better, but always ./configure failed: ... checking boost/regex.h usability... yes checking boost/regex.h presence... yes checking for boost/regex.h... yes checking for main in -lboost_regex... no checking for main in

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 06:02 PM, S C wrote: It's better, I'm awake now. Responses: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. What if you don't explain it at all? I don't hate Microsoft, I simply think their product, especially the last one, is more like a pointless video

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 03:28 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:01:18PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: From: Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-26

Re: size of partitions worries me

2007-05-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 04:41 PM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I've managed to install debian etch on my amd64 system which I dualboot with FreeBSD. I installed it on a 57GB partition. I've chosen to let the installer recommend the partitions and their sizes and the result is: Bestandssysteem Grtte

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 06:49 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources with xrdb -load .~/.Xdefaults or xrdb -load ~/.Xresources but how do you load the ~/.Xresources/ directory? I made the directory but nothing changed since it did not load. Regards, Deboo Ignore anyone who says

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu, there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate the other three everytime. How do I do this auto? Regards, Deboo That's definitely strange. Something has been

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/23/2007 08:36 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: Thanks for your help Mumia, the mailing list of twinkle gave me the solution: it's libboost-dev 1.34.0-1 and libboost-regex-dev 1.34.0-1 which cause the problem. I downgraded to libboost-dev 1.33.1-10 and libboost-regex-dev 1.33.1-10 and bingo the

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 06:44 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/20/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're missing. did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu. Not even

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/23/2007 06:11 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the power failure damaged your O/S installation. Nah, everything was fine afte rthe failure. I'm usign ext3 too. And I ran fsck. From one of my very earlier posts, note that I was already purging

Re: Installing new kernal

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/23/2007 08:56 PM, Eric A. Bonney wrote: Is there another way to install the updated kernal other than the automated version that is supplied with kde? It worked just fine on my laptop and server when I used Gnome, but for some reason the window isn't large enough using kde and I can't

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/23/2007 10:37 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S.: Can someone paste somewhere the default fluxbox config and provide a link in a reply post here? You might have to manually delete /etc/X11/fluxbox . Oh well, here is the default config: http

Re: Remove gnome-games

2007-05-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/25/2007 12:14 PM, Manon Metten wrote: [...] I rather have gnome-desktop-environment removed completely, but I don't know what part or apps of kde will be broken then. Thanks, Manon. Hi Manon. You probably can remove gnome-desktop-environment safely using aptitude. Those individual

Re: http cache for dialup?

2007-05-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/25/2007 07:57 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I seem to remember reading somewhere that useing an http cache proxy would speed up browsing similar sites when using dialup. [...] You probably want 'wwwoffle.' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: bcm43xx issues an error message every minute

2007-05-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/26/2007 10:42 AM, Georg Heinrich wrote: Hello, I get the following error messages about every minute on the console: bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Microcode bcm43xx_microcode5.fw not available or load failed bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) The HW is:

Re: http cache for dialup?

2007-05-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/26/2007 06:19 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:09:10PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/25/2007 07:57 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I seem to remember reading somewhere that useing an http cache proxy would speed up browsing similar sites when using dialup

Re: missing libstdc++-libc6

2007-05-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/26/2007 10:30 AM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I have the following error : error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Where can I fetch it / find a replacement ? Thanks. Bye, Bruno Could you provide

Re: Still: AIGLX: Screen 0 not dri capable

2007-05-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/26/2007 10:34 AM, Georg Heinrich wrote: Hello, I get this error message after startup at the login prompt. [...] I don't need dri, I don't even need glx, I just want to have X running at the login prompt. Any hint is welcome. Thanks in advance, G. Heinrich Start reconfiguring

Re: missing libstdc++-libc6

2007-05-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/26/2007 01:22 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: On Saturday 26 May 2007 19:15, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/26/2007 10:30 AM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I have the following error : error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: missing libstdc++-libc6

2007-05-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/26/2007 01:56 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/26/2007 01:22 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: [...] Install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 or libstdc++2.10-dbg (debugging version) OOps, I forgot about your 64bit OS. Listen to Douglas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Still: AIGLX: Screen 0 not dri capable

2007-05-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/26/2007 04:07 PM, Georg Heinrich wrote: Mumia W.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Sat, 26 May 2007 13:17:45 -0500: Start reconfiguring xorg: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Then select the VESA driver when it asks you. I do not get this option. Thanks anyway. G. Heinrich Install

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/27/2007 12:30 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: On 2007-05-26, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the copy all text which is not a footnote. [...] Next, I

Re: Still: AIGLX: Screen 0 not dri capable

2007-05-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/27/2007 09:28 AM, Georg Heinrich wrote: Mumia W.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Sat, 26 May 2007 23:15:29 -0500: On 05/26/2007 04:07 PM, Georg Heinrich wrote: Mumia W.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Sat, 26 May 2007 13:17:45 -0500: Start reconfiguring xorg: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/28/2007 04:55 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/29/07, Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like it might be[0], any chance you're using AIGLX/compositing? [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7916 Not using ALGX. Don't even know what that is. Processor/MoBo: Intel PIV

Re: init.d and tinyproxy

2007-05-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/30/2007 01:24 AM, William Xu wrote: Hi folks, tinyproxy is a tiny proxy server. The problem is that , | # invoke-rc.d tinyproxy start ` doesn't start tinyproxy. It simply does nothing. While, by , | # /etc/init.d/tinyproxy start ` tinyproxy starts successfully.

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/30/2007 11:26 AM, Tyler Smith wrote: [...] I copied the custom keymap to /etc/console-setup/ and rebooted, but it still doesn't load. It works when I run /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz, but I have to do that manually for each boot. Thanks, Tyler Perhaps you could create a

Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file

2007-05-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/30/2007 11:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it was an unorganized Sent Mail file. It's one huge concatenated set of emails. When I've tried to open it so far, I see

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-05-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/30/2007 04:38 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: Well, can someone tell me if I have to delete the /var/cache/apt/archives to do a clean install or is it that it will be cleaned too when issuing the apt-get install clean ? Doing apt-get clean will clean up the packages cache. -- To

apt_preferences: avoiding Etch [solved]

2007-05-30 Thread Mumia W..
I want to set up my apt/preferences so that I don't get Etch. However, I do want to be able to see what is in Etch in aptitude. So far, this has worked to keep Etch packages off my Sarge system: --/etc/apt/preferences--- Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: -1

Distinguishing Etch(Stable) packages from Sarge(Stable) packages.

2007-05-31 Thread Mumia W..
I'm running a Sarge system with a few deliberately installed packages from Etch. In case I need to remove the Etch packages, I want to be able to know which packages are from Etch, and I was hoping that aptitude's search facility would help me. However, this does not work: aptitude search

Re: init.d and tinyproxy

2007-05-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/31/2007 12:27 AM, William Xu wrote: Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The manual page for invoke-rc.d suggests that it's mainly for the use of Debian package maintainers. You are probably a normal user, so /etc/init.d/tinyproxy start is the correct method for you. It just says

Re: Distinguishing Etch(Stable) packages from Sarge(Stable) packages.

2007-05-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/31/2007 02:36 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007 00:49:42 -0500 Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a Sarge system with a few deliberately installed packages from Etch. [...] Would there by any way to distinguish the Etch packages from the Sarge packages? Use

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-05-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/31/2007 03:21 AM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/31/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing apt-get clean will clean up the packages cache. But I _don't_ want to clean the cache! And still be able to do clean etch install. How should I do that? Regards, Deboo I think you can use apt

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-05-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/31/2007 01:03 PM, Robert Cates wrote: Hi all, I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not bring up my eth0 and eth1, nor can I input any on the keyboard. In other words, I'm now locked out.

Re: How to force Iceweasel to remember login

2007-06-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/01/2007 04:45 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: There is a site I visit frequently that requires a username/password combo. However, the text in the page doesn't trigger Iceweasel's offer to remember the password. Is there some way to force it to store it? Yeah, I'm lazy... - Nate I use

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-06-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/02/2007 03:18 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: [...] Atleast the 400 or so files that passed the md5sum test, can I without copying each of them, do something automatic to copy all these to a separate directory? Regards, Deboo If you're not in the mood to write a script, you can use mc (Midnight

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

2007-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2007 12:37 AM, Serena Cantor wrote: I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web pages. I believe the software is called either Tor or Torfree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Debian Etch can not startx

2007-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/02/2007 11:45 PM, rocky wrote: [...] I was trying dpkg-reconfigure xfree86 but it seems this does not bring me the interfaces where I can reconfigure my x-window-system. Can any of you give me some hint on how can I get over these problems please? Thanks a lot in advance! Try this:

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2007 06:58 AM, Robert Cates wrote: Hi, this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode, and it gets all the way to the login prompt, but the machine will not take keyboard (USB, which is what I always used) input. As I was saying, I can see during the bootup

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2007 09:49 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: About half of the files passed and are moved from the cache. About half, that is about 171 MB is left in /var/cache/apt/archives.If I can get a quick way to somehow check these, I'll move them or else leave them after taking the output of dpkg

Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

2007-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2007 08:02 PM, ss11223 wrote: Further update, I created a new user and gnome works. Something in the gnome config for my default user got corrupted and killed the keyboard. Any easy way to correct this without losing all of my settings? Stuart Use the gconf-editor and search for

Re: hwclock /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 12:54 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, [Please CC me, I'm not subscribed] Can anyone tell me why hwclock --directisa works on this laptop (Dell Inspirion) but /dev/rtc does not (linux 2.6.21 from Debian sid)? # hwclock --directisa --show Fri Jun 1 15:36:11 2007

Re: Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 01:07 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: [...] One of my main questions now is how to log in on the console, which I prefer to using *dm, and start different window managers from there. In SUSE it goes like this: startx windowmanager but in Debian this does not work. [...] I have

Re: Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 03:06 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Mumia W. wrote: I have no ~/.xinitrc, and when I type startx, the default Gnome desktop comes up. You can type startx /usr/bin/gnome-session to get Gnome. If you want KDE, you can do this: startx /usr/bin/startkde And type startx /usr/bin

Re: hwclock /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 06:12 PM, Paul Wise wrote: [please CC me, I'm not subscribed] On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:36 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: $ lsmod|grep rtc rtc12372 0 [...] No I didn't write that. Bob McGowan wrote that. Please be more careful with the attributions

Re: Browsers can connect but Konqueror not

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 02:11 AM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello to all, I'm still having konqueror connection problems like http://www.linux.org: Could not connect to host http://www.linux.org/. However others browsers connect fine. No proxy on Konqueror and all setup seems fine as I can see. Thanks for

Re: Ethernet and wireless suddenly not working on Etch

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 04:10 PM, Glen Yu wrote: [...] It says I'm connected but gives me network info of: Driver: e100 IP 196.254.180.46 Broadcast addr: 169.254.255.255 Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0 All that info doesn't make any scense as I'm connected to a router, so the IP should be 192.168.x.x and the

Re: Browsers can connect but Konqueror not (Was: What is ASSERT: !icon.isEmpty() ?)

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 02:20 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, my Konqueror simply cannot browse Internet (others browsers can) and all setup looks fine (eg. no proxy or whatelse). Starting konqueror from a session to see what happens (by the way, an output debug info from konqueror is available?)

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 04:06 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have an .xinitrc, so I copied the one from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to my home directory, and added the line as follows: [...] However, this doesn't seem to have changed anything - I logged out of x, back in, and

Re: Browsers can connect but Konqueror not (Was: What is ASSERT: !icon.isEmpty() ?)

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 05:24 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007 00:04, Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/05/2007 02:20 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, my Konqueror simply cannot browse Internet (others browsers can) and all setup looks fine (eg. no proxy or whatelse). Starting konqueror

Re: Questions regarding apache2 authentication using either Pam or MySQL

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 05:10 PM, Eric A. Bonney wrote: [...] I would much prefer to use the MySQL method and I would really prefer to have the authentication required at the server level and not in some php files. Anyone have any ideas at this point for using the libapache2-mod-auth-mysql package?

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 06:41 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: That did it, thanks! Is there any advantage to using sh ~/bin/mystartx over just making it executable and running it directly? Cheers, Tyler I'm glad I could help :-) There is no advantage in using sh. I just wanted to skip the step of making

Re: Browsers can connect but Konqueror not (Was: What is ASSERT: !icon.isEmpty() ?)

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 09:43 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007 01:04, Mumia W.. wrote: Create a new user account and test konqueror. Perhaps something in your ~/.kde/ configuration directory has become corrupted. Also tell us if you can use konqueror as a file manager to browse

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/06/2007 01:01 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: [...] The BIOS has nothing to do with disc partitions. The BIOS works either at an absolute physical level using geometric address: cylinder, head, sector, or at a logical physical level (LBA) using logical sector number. It has no other conception of

Re: problem

2007-06-06 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/06/2007 01:45 PM, walter wrote: I can download ubuntu livecd, gentoo livecd, etc. with `direct download from ftp' without problems in a couple of hours. I can do the same with torrent. I know how to burn a cd. With your distro it's imposible for me do the same, direct, torrent, jigdo

Re: amalgamating address books

2007-06-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/09/2007 10:02 PM, Helen Easthope wrote: Debian users, I've imported the address book from my old Win 98 system into Icedove where it resides as Addresses. Can Addresses be amalgamated into the Personal Address Book which already existed in Icedove? If so, please give a hint of how this

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/09/2007 11:28 PM, H.S. wrote: [...] I am looking for a method to drag and move file1.jpg to the bottom of the list and then to rename them based on a file pattern to get 001_file2.jpg 002_file3.jpg 003_file1.jpg Only that I do not have only three files, a few hundred of them. Use

Re: did my message get through?

2007-06-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/10/2007 05:02 PM, Zach wrote: [...] I just upgraded my kernel in Debian testing release from 2.4.27 to 2.6.18 and ran into some problems I would appreciate help with. I built the kernel from the Debian kernel source package which has some bug fixes and patches not found in the upstream

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

2007-06-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/10/2007 11:33 PM, Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much as possible. Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead of a full GUI. Is it

Re: problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/11/2007 11:15 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr) + (shift). Someone mentioned using xkbprint, but I'm

Re: download and install older version of debian

2007-06-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/11/2007 08:58 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:52:50PM -0700, yong lee wrote: I am new to Debian. I would greatly appreciate if someone can show me how to get an older version of debian which runs kernel 2.4.X version. I would prefer either download an ISO image

Re: Where's OO.o's Hyphenation for US English?

2007-06-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/11/2007 08:36 PM, Kent West wrote: I'm currently running Etch, and just realized that the Hyphenation module in OpenOffice.org is not installed. So I've gone looking for it, and can not find the US English version. Google's not much help either. I've tried: sudo aptitude search open |

Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-12 Thread Mumia W
Hello. I'm having a problem getting aptitude to forget about a couple of CD-ROMs. I might give the CD-ROMs to my father soon; however, I've loop-mounted the ISO files from which the CD-ROMs were made, so I should be able to install from those. However, aptitude just won't forget about the

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-12 Thread Mumia W
-Original Message- From: Julian De Marchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mumia W wrote: [...] However, aptitude just won't forget about the original CD-ROMs. [...] Try [hashing] out the references to the cdrom. [snip] Julian I've tried that many times. Those 'Ign' messages will disappear

Re: FW: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 Etech - could not setup syslog

2007-06-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/13/2007 01:43 AM, Kuruvilla, Chindu wrote: [...] The sysklogd.conf is supposed to contain the term (SYSLOG= ) which needs to be converted to (SYSLOG=r -m0) since that command sets syslog to listen remotely put marks. Now the sysklog.conf does not contain the above term I put the term

Re: splitting tar files and zero padding

2007-06-13 Thread Mumia W.
On 06/12/2007 11:09 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: hello, Hello Michael. my goal is to eliminate (or split out) the last file from a tar archive, and i'm having trouble understanding the extra bytes added and zero padding that is done to tar files. let me illustrate what i'm doing. [...] but

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/13/2007 03:17 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 21:34:28 -0500, Mumia W wrote: I've tried that many times. Those 'Ign' messages will disappear after I've removed the CDROM references, but when I put back references to the ISO files, the 'Ign' messages reappear

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/13/2007 10:37 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:04:56PM -0500, Mumia W [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] aptitude just won't forget about the original CD-ROMs. [...] Delete the cdrom lines from /etc/apt/sources.list. If you want to loop-mount the CDs, you

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/25/2006 05:54 PM, Matt Price wrote: hi, I'm having a little trouble with the rss feed from planet debian. using firefox 2.0's native live bookmark features, I can generate a bookmark which fetches the titles of articles from planet debian. but when I try to click on them. I often get

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/26/2006 07:15 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: debian wrote: Hello, I still have problems with my new installation. There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub starts booting about the hdd, but i can't see what it is because it goes to fast and it is too far up to go

Re: How to vnc to not log?

2006-10-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/29/2006 01:11 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Anyone know how to get VNC to not log it's errors? I have gotten into the habit of using VNC as my main interface on my server machine. Every few weeks the log fills up root forcing me to shut down VNC so it'll close the log file and allow it to be

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