Re: Missing ncurses.h when compiling Kermit on Etch

2008-03-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Keith Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the latest Kermit tarball from this link: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/test/tar/x.tar.gz Compiling fails with a missing ncurses.h message thus: Install the ncurses-dev package. Patrick -- To

What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Provocative question, I realize. But here's why I ask: totem-gstreamer could not handle DVD's with menus, no matter what plugins I added, it just played the first track. So, I switched to totem-xine, and it handled them perfectly. Rhythmbox (based on gstreamer) could not handle

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/07/08 23:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Provocative question, I realize. But here's why I ask: totem-gstreamer could not handle DVD's with menus, no matter what plugins I added, it just played the first

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/08/08 09:40, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat March 8 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Oh, I thought you only meant that totem/xine played DVDs like you wanted them to. BTW, I just noticed that I don't even have

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Thanks for going to all this trouble! On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2008 06:10, I wrote: Rhythmbox (based on gstreamer) could not handle wrfg.org/listen.asp (told me it could not determine the nature of the stream). The totem

Re: What's the problem with this cron command

2008-03-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:42 PM, T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:19:10 -0700, David Fox wrote: Please take a look at the following cron task: * * * * *rootps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' /dev/null || logger get

gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. Well, you

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted

Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? FIXED?

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. It appears there's a clash between whatever it is that uses and updates /etc/network

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Wiseman: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use update-alternatives

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Patrick, pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln

Errant ld-linux.so.2

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Every now and then, I have an apparently memory-leaking ld-linux.so.2 process running. When I kill it, nothing else seems adversely affected. Is there some way I can identify what's spawned it? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Errant ld-linux.so.2

2008-03-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/03/2008, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and then, I have an apparently memory-leaking ld-linux.so.2 process running. When I kill it, nothing else seems adversely affected

Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron

Re: Gnome Network Manager appears disconnected when using Static IP...

2008-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:13 AM, El Amigo De La Playa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I wanted to have my regular static IP (I need it, because I share files between various PC's in my local network...). I successfully configured it, but the nm-applet 0.6.5 displayed the red cross, saying no

Need to update apt file?

2008-04-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: After a post-upgrade reboot of my testing system this morning, there was a lightbulb icon in my system tray, advising that I need to update the apt file. But running the command to do so yields # /usr/share/apt-file/do-apt-file-update Can't get

Sox, compiled to encode mp3, still won't

2008-04-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I have repackaged sox to encode mp3, and, as it's building it reports that I did that properly: MAD MP3 reader yes id3tag library yes LAME MP3 writer... yes But when I try to encode to mp3, I still get: Can't open output file

Re: Sox, compiled to encode mp3, still won't

2008-04-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have repackaged sox to encode mp3, and, as it's building it reports that I did that properly: MAD MP3 reader yes id3tag library yes LAME MP3 writer

[OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6 Jan 2007 15:16:56 -0800, wurong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was rejected for my first one so I want to try again Unless someone replies to a gmail email, it doesn't show up in your inbox. Perhaps that's why you thought your message was rejected? Patrick

Printing from WP8 (was Re: Text on printed pages truncated)

2007-01-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 1/9/07, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fortunately, for most of my writing I am still using -- believe it or not -- WordPerfect 5.1 on Dosemu. It prints beautifully. In my estimation the best word processor ever. However, when I need to I convert 5.1 files to 8.0 for Linux, where I

Are 'etch' and 'testing' still one and the same?

2007-01-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I ask because I just did my weekly aptitude update (with 'testing' in my sources.list - with one exception) and got a whole load of updates, even though people say etch is frozen. The exception is that the sources.list lines getting security updates refer to etch; should they refer to

Re: My two boxes will not talk to each other

2007-01-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 1/16/07, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a P4 desktop, on which is Sarge installed, host name SOL; and a P2 laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000), host name LAP, on which yesterday I successfully installed Etch RC1. Both can communicate with the outside world through a gateway and both can

Re: Inability to configure printer

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/11/07, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried today to add my only printer to CUPS from a P3 box running Etch. I first used CUPS's own installation wizard (http://localhost:631/admin). I answered all the questions about the printer faithfully. After providing the printer information I

Where did 'locate' go?

2007-12-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or did 'locate' get, uh, relocated or something? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: cannot connect to my wifi

2008-02-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Feb 2, 2008 11:46 AM, oxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Than i installed wifi-radar. It makes it easy to set the connection, but there is no way to set the interface name. So wifi-radar keeps on trying to connect a certain eth2 interface, that does not exist! In the wifi-radar GUI, select

CUPS suddenly doesn't like WP8 Postscript

2006-09-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello:All of a sudden, the Postscript generated by WP8's Passthrough Postscript won't print properly. The first page of a document prints, but no more. I've tried to print to PDF and to a printer which has before printed WP8's Postscript without trouble, so I'm thinking maybe there's an underlying

GS and fonts (was Re: CUPS suddenly doesn't like WP8 Postscript)

2006-09-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/16/06, Alan Greenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-09-15, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of a sudden, the Postscript generated by WP8's Passthrough Postscript won't print properly.The first page of a document prints, but no more. I've tried to print to PDF

Testing - fetchmail heads up

2006-09-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all:Maybe it's just me, but after an upgrade this weekend, fetchmail stopped working, and when I tried to start it, I kept getting the message Edit /etc/default/fetchmail to start fetchmail. No editing in there helped, and running dpkg-reconfigure on fetchmail repeated the message twice! It

Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
scanner working, but somewhere along the line I broke networking! Thanks. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 12:43am, Mark Schouten wrote: :On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:53PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: : : Where are the configuration files to automate all this? It used to work, : but I have recently been messing with the box - I updated everything : updatable with aptitude

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
IP address for your gateway of course. Edit /etc/interfaces (as directed at man interfaces) to have it work on boot. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach

2002-10-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
://www.tldp.org/guides.html#lfs) which seems to take just this sort of incremental approach to learning Linux. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PCMCIA network card

2002-10-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS A bunch of 3Com cards are listed. So why didn't _you_ google? -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 or WordPerfect Office 2000

2002-11-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
found WP8, which is a native UNIX application, to be far more reliable than WP 2000, which relies on Corel's version of WINE. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

OpenOffice.org

2002-11-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
source project and its software. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OpenOffice.org

2002-11-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
of the :trademark owner. I was just quoting the FAQ, not taking a legal position. But obviously you're right - I couldn't call a project Microsoft.org and get away with it (not that I'd want to). Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943

Re: Epson 1200U and Sane - not quite

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
. /etc/sane.d/epson.conf defaults to SCSI. Edit to enable usb and it should work. At least, that was my experience with a 1650 the other day. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later

Re: Sound, volume, music

2003-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
card. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: config file for Kernel compile

2003-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
exactly and I assume this is prior to running :make-kpkg -config=menuconfig kernel-image. I've always copied .config from the old kernel-source directory to the new, and then done 'make menuconfig', but I suspect that's not canonical. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL

Re: Pkzip - Pkunzip

2003-03-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
programs, they're slightly different. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt-get, downloading a single package

2003-03-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 at 5:31pm, Radek Zajkowski [Deb] wrote: :What would like a command to apt-get look like if I wanted to download a :single package. 'apt-get -h' reveals all! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943

Re: [newbie] Setting up network

2003-03-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
? As I was told just last week :) 'man interfaces' will explain how to configure for automatic connection. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl

2003-03-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
tcldtk.o -ltts -ltts_us -ltcl -shared -o tcldtk.so /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [tcldtk.so] Error 1 I have /usr/lib/tcl8.0, 8.0jp, 8.2, 8.3 and tclX8.0.4. Maybe that's the problem? Any suggestions? Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman

Re: I need a little help

2003-03-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
control. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What the heck did emacs do with my email?

2003-03-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
? Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What the heck did emacs do with my email?

2003-03-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
was messing with it! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
documentation is so sketchy, I couldn't begin to diagnose the problem. Any help will be much appreciated, and I'll report back (and probably create a website) so that anyone else wanting to set up a minimal but functional talking system will be able to do it more easily! Thanks Patrick -- Patrick

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 at 7:34am, Karsten M. Self wrote: :on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hello, all: : : I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ : offtopic :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 at 8:02am, I wrote: :DECtalk's 'say' is supposed to take input as stdin, too, but 'echo Say :something | say' doesn't do anything :( 'echo Say something | say -', however, _does_, so maybe I'm making some progress here! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
(which is in perl, with which I have a :fair amount of familiarity) to support DECtalk. yasr, of course, is not in perl; that's speechd - I've been messing with so much stuff, I'm confusing myself. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943

apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So, how badly hosed is my system, and what do I need to do to complete the upgrade? Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So, how badly hosed is my system, and what do I need to do to complete the upgrade? Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Apologies for the duplicate; the upgrade had turned off exim, apparently, and I tried resending before realising that was the problem, so there were two identical messages in the queue. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 at 10:10pm, Jonathan Matthews wrote: :On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:40:39AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: : I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get : update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, : bailed

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 at 10:17pm, Colin Watson wrote: :On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:40:39AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: : I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get : update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, : bailed with the following

[FIXED] Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
), and then allowed aptitude to go ahead and install all the pending packages, which seems to be proceeding without a problem. I'll do apt-get dist-upgrade one more time, just to be sure I've not missed anything. Thanks for your patience! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL

Re: What's the std print config tool

2003-03-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
them up.) Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing WordPerfect 8.0 in woody

2003-04-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
in installing WP8 into a system which normally :uses libc6 and other newer libraries? I'm running it on a testing (i.e. post-woody) machine, and ran it happily with woody before upgrading. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943

RE: 2.4.18 SMP Kernel - Running but have a question

2002-11-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
lilo.conf) lilo :) Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
because :I don't know the settings for Waitrose. : :I also need to know the means by which the server can authenticate :itself. I am required to enter a password into a file on my system :for this purpose. : :Thanks, : :Pigeon : : : : -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
putting the MBR on /dev/sda, which is not my situation. Hoping someone can help, Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 3:05pm, Andrés Roldán wrote: :Add the line: : :disk=/dev/sda inaccessible : :to the lilo.conf file. Thanks! That fixed it. But why does lilo care about /dev/sda in the first place? Patrick :Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Hello: : : I've been away from

odd `ps` behavior

2003-06-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Whenever one of the basic utilities behaves weirdly, I worry I may have been hacked, but this is on a 2-day old Debian install: ~$ ps {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.20-compact does not match kernel data. I've made no kernel changes on that system.

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
...but cant find one : :I know there must be a linux command for it ! 'df'? 'df -h'? -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Kernel will not compile

2003-06-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 1:42am, Roberto Sanchez wrote: : --- dhobner [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: : I did the following: : : apt-get install gcc : apt-get install kernel-package : apt-get install kernel-source.2.4.18 : apt-get install libc6-dev : apt-get install tk8.3 : apt-get install

Re: Creating a account with a blank password?

2003-06-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 12:00pm, Jason Grindlay wrote: :I'm trying to create a login account on a Debian Woody (3.0) system that :has no password. (i.e. blank/empty password) As far as I understand it :I need to edit /etc/passwd and remove the 'x' from the field after the :username (I'm using

Re: Using libstdc++.so.5 on woody?

2003-06-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 6:10pm, Pete Ashdown wrote: :Is it possible to install libstdc++.so.5 on woody? I have a compiled binary :that depends on it, but I don't want to break the rest of woody in order to :use it. altgcc might be the package you're looking for. -- Patrick Wiseman

Re: Kernel will not compile

2003-06-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 9:25am, Gary Hennigan wrote: :Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 1:42am, Roberto Sanchez wrote: [...] : : Anyone know why this is not compiling? : : No, but I grabbed the 2.4.20 source and had all sorts of other problems. : I'm

Does PCMCIA require ISA?

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
' assumption that no interrupts are available, but so long as it's working again. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: kernel 2.4.20 building error with patch xfs

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
'). Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does PCMCIA require ISA?

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 at 1:06pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: :Quoting Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : I've been messing around with my kernel, and compiled without ISA support, : since I'm on a PCI machine. On rebooting, PCMCIA gave a ResourceIRQ : conflict. When I recompiled the kernel

Re: Does PCMCIA require ISA?

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 at 2:50pm, Kevin McKinley wrote: :On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:22:08 -0400 (EDT) :Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I've been messing around with my kernel, and compiled without ISA support, : since I'm on a PCI machine. On rebooting, PCMCIA gave a ResourceIRQ : conflict

Existing libraries not found

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
libraries exist in /usr/X11R6/lib, which is in /etc/ld.so.conf. The executable is almost certainly an a.out (is there a way to tell?), while the libraries are presumably ELF (I'm on a 'testing' box). Is there anything to be done? Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL

Re: Existing libraries not found

2003-06-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 at 6:24pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :When I 'ldd' a particular executable, I get : :libXt.so.6 = not found :libX11.so.6 = not found :libXpm.so.4 = not found :libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000d000) :libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40016000

Mail delivery failure

2003-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
it's the only one in my little network which fetches mail. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:30:57 -0400 From: Mail

Re: Network not enabled with upgraded kernel, 2.2.20-2.4.18, DellInsp 4100 NB

2003-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
the help says if unsure say N) at least. I think you may need CONFIG_FILTER as well. Do 'less .config' in your kernel source directory to see which CONFIG_* are set, or 'cat .config | grep FILTER' to see if indeed CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman

Re: Mail delivery failure

2003-06-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 at 11:50pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: :On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:07:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :[...] : :| This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). :| :| A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its

Re: Mail delivery failure

2003-06-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 at 4:07pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :I've been getting a bunch of these messages on a fairly new testing :installation. According to the Exim FAQ, this error happens when users :don't have home directories, but I do. My exim.conf includes localhost in :the local_domains

Re: printing problem

2006-02-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/13/06, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HiI have a problem printing to a network printer here at school.The spool that the school provides is no good so I am trying to createmy own on my computer and talk directly to the printer (then I allso have better control over my

Sound problems after recent etch upgrade

2006-02-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, fellow Debian users: After a recent upgrade of my testing system, some sound apps work (xmms, eg) and others (in particular, xfce4-mixer) do not, complaining that there is no alsa device. My sound driver - for the ESS maestro chip in my laptop - is compiled into the kernel. (As an aside, I

Re: Sound problems after recent etch upgrade

2006-02-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/14/06, Simon Huggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya Patrick,On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:54:55AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: After a recent upgrade of my testing system, some sound apps work (xmms, eg) and others (in particular, xfce4-mixer) do not, complaining that there is no alsa device.My

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/18/06, David Jarvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more thanonce a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmetdependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils, but in the last week or so more have

fetchmail broken after etch update - a kludgy fix

2006-02-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: I did my weekly aptitude update on my etch system yesterday. It included an upgrade of fetchmail. When asked whether I wanted to replace the configuration file, I declined, because I had a customized line in there which I wanted to keep: OPTIONS=--daemon 300 --syslog But apparently,

Re: fetchmail broken after etch update - a kludgy fix

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/20/06, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:38:38AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: if [ ! x$START_DAEMON = xyes ]; thenecho Edit /etc/default/fetchmail to start fetchmailexit 0 fi Temporarily, I have commented out the above lines, and my fetchmail is working again

using lpr to print to a cups printer

2006-02-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Sorry, list - I wasn't paying attention to Gmail's reply field, and meant to send this to the list.-- Forwarded message --From: Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Feb 21, 2006 5:54 PMSubject: Re: using lpr to print to a cups printerTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]On 2

Netscape 4.77 and PDF files

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
at all, so I set it up to use acroread, but now the pages come up in a separate acroread window. Can anyone tell me how to restore the earlier behavior? Thanks Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Netscape 4.77 and PDF files

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, B. L. Jilek wrote: select Plugin -- nppdf.so These are the plugins: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6/nppdf.so Thank you!! I linked to it from my .netscape/plugins directory and now it works as before. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman

WP8 document window size

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
to see what's changed to cause this? Thanks Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
for batch mode, and it produces output suitable for redirecting to a file or piping to a program: #top bp pid filename Use '^C' to stop the process, or the 'n' flag to specify how many iterations to go through. Do 'man top' for further detail. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user

Re: How to install DHCP

2002-06-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
'man ifup' - that should get you started in the right direction, I think. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SOLVED] Re: WP8 document window size

2002-06-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
whether it had anything to with my upgrade (if that's the word) from stable to unstable, but it turns out that xwp has a '-geometry widthxheight+offset' option which I was able to use to restore previous behavior. But I never had to do that before! Oh well. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL

Re: VIA 8233 ALSA

2002-06-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
, but the ALSA documentation seems to me to presume too much! Since you already know how to reconfigure your kernel, you may find compiling VIA support into the kernel more intuitive! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

CUPS 1.2 not detecting LAN printer exported by CUPS 1.1

2006-06-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello:I know I'm not the only one having problems with CUPS 1.2, but mine's a little different. I have a desktop system on my network running sarge, which has CUPS 1.1. That system has my HP DeskJet printer attached. Until a very recent upgrade of my laptop etch/testing system, the printer was

Re: CUPS 1.2 not detecting LAN printer exported by CUPS 1.1

2006-06-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/12/06, Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:46:28 -0400Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I know I'm not the only one having problems with CUPS 1.2, but mine's a little different.I have a desktop system on my network running sarge, which has CUPS 1.1.That

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/11/06, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:14:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently switched from mozilla to firefox and the new file dialog is driving me up the wall... Ah, if it were only a rant.The problem is

Re: Etch upgrade breaks WP8 [SOLVED]

2006-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/8/06, I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello:I don't know if it's a permanent break, but WP8 (that's the UN*X version of WordPerfect) throws a 'Floating point exception' after a current Etch upgrade. (Later, it started segfaulting instead.)After much hair-tearing (which I can ill afford) I finally

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 7/17/06, CN Liou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!I don't know since when Ctrl+Alt+F7 does not bring me back to WindowMakerany more. Once I switch from WindowMaker to console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1~ F6, I lose my GUI forever and killing process xinit is my only solution to this problem for the time

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