Re: cleaning up a system
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martin == martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
martin there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should
martin configure it in the long run, for now i have thought of
martin something like the following, which can run for a while. i
martin took the output of a `find /` and deleted all lines
martin corresponding to inodes in the above special directories
martin (find has no exclude!!! wishlist!), and now i want to:
look at -prune I use
find $HOME -path '*/log' -prune -o \( -name '*.log' SNIP \)
- -exec rm -Rv '{}' ';'
to delete a whole heap of unneeded files (TeX's .log .aux etc) without
touching the files in ~/log find also has a -not
I use dpkg --list |grep -v ^ii to find old packages that haven't
been purged, which isn't to many if you update with apt-get --purge
dist-upgrade consistently.
Cheers
Joel
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Re: bugreport problem
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Re: latex documentation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a go at latex. Somewhere on the net I've read that documentation for using latex many packages could be found under /usr/share/doc/texmf/tex/latex and the name of the package. Well, under ***WOODY*** I can find those directories but they're empty. Anyone knows where I can find those info? Ciao Vittorio G'day Vittorio Try /usr/share/texmf/doc/ or better yet 'apt-get install texdoctk' and get a GUI which lists all the manuals in easy to sensible catagories and display them at a click Cheers Joel - -- Go ahead try and spam me ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE8RswDFgrYE4V82aYRAjLmAJ48aKy85CfKA4BZEgVm/40bOkBR5QCgj7IK aWfdYjalsx3s1BpWtfWJw8c= =hmrT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: locale error messages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timeboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 12 Jan 2002 04:50 CET Titus Barik wrote: After doing a recent dselect upgrade, I'm noticing the following when trying to view man pages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man ls (null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Reformatting ls(1), please wait... This could be a bug. I have the same trouble since two days. Trying to configure locales in /etc/locale.gen and /etc/environment had no effect. Please let me know if there is a way to fix this and this is NOT a bug. Some other things also working bad. Hope that there cames a better update soon. Timo I've fixed this by adding LANG=en_AU LANGUAGE=en_AU export LANG LANGUAGE to /etc/profile, you'de probably want to change it a bit if your not in Oz Cheers Joel - -- Go ahead try and spam me ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE8QBZxFgrYE4V82aYRAvL/AKCicy8ovsuuP0pTF29cO+unNpqKbgCdF24i KgDwiLT79gqw8uVCGDf7B50= =0SGr -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Nesbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. Joel, I noticed your sig. Have you got any helpful anti-spam tips? (I am having /terrible/ problems with spam at the moment). Not really, I use spamassassin and razor and have a gnus score file I've been adding spam to for close to a year, I haven't seen a bit of spam in my personal mailbox for a couple of months, and only get the ocassional mailing list (I'm subscribed to about a dozen lists) or usenet spam, maybe one two two a month. Cheers Joel - -- Go ahead try and spam me ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE8PTkiFgrYE4V82aYRAkkqAJ90e1taB34tGYFrCN7StqA5IccxuQCdGQhY 0itnwk8wwF9oG0HhG3tB22s= =c8Pa -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: OT window$ floppy formating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mformat will do what you need: mformat a: ap Thank you, What a damn usefull set of tools Cheers Joel - -- Go ahead try and spam me ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE8OplcFgrYE4V82aYRAsaXAJ9tVkIEA9o4bFSQ/dy3af6U3n1SCACbBiJ5 2ux0xHlrRgiXnpKjtxSGAys= =Klzx -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lamport's _LaTeX: A Document Preparation System_ and _The LaTeX Companion_ are good (the first is more of an introduction, the second a reference book). Also check out http://www.tug.org/interest.html for links to lots of good online documentation. I'd also recomend the LaTeX Graphics companion, if your going to be useing any graphics, Ignore the section on MusixTeX though it's out of date, and lilypond-book just as good a job with a lot less work. (no flames please) Cheers Joel - -- Go ahead try and spam me ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE8O9OAFgrYE4V82aYRAqfcAKCL0wLNrUT5bkEM3z2otzz1K1NJqwCaAjLE i2p0KncbxnZe9LeIouat1so= =K40v -END PGP SIGNATURE-
OT window$ floppy formating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day Debianites Just a quick question, I use Debian at home and windows at work, and often carry floppies to and fro, I'm fine if I bring a win formated floppy home, but if I forget to, I have no way of formating a floppy that windows can read. Is there a program for fat partions like e2fsprogs ?, or do I have to improve me memory ?? Thanks Joel - -- Go ahead try and spam me ... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE8Ol+9FgrYE4V82aYRAjMDAJ9QuMaWM8HT8sHS+l1jABa/4FAUPQCfRZjk STZI/VI1Xi0HUxO6SkPX01s= =CqFp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Debian Lists, USENET Spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using available tools (e.g. procmail) to filter spam? Is it something that the unwashed masses like myself can learn to do? apt-get install spamassian then have a look at /usr/doc/spamassian/README.gz, it contains a sample procmail recipe, it work quite weel for me, and is dead easy to set up, just a copy and paste if your already using procmail Cheer Joel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE8N6sWFgrYE4V82aYRAkEiAJ4rpSxmDT4PZXKEwosDdVKC8LdFEQCfXaS1 bbvjFcPNQTPJgbXUJnFXkUw= =gMel -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: USB Mouse
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:09:49AM +0100, aparra wrote: I will like to use a USB mouse whith debian 2.2. It is posible? How to do it? It's posible to use on X? Please, I am not subscribed, so replay whit copy to my address. Thank you for all Angel I've used my A4 Tech 4D USB scroll ball under Debian 2.2, you'll need USB support, HID, and Input core support compiled in your kernel, it's probable a good bet the standard Debian kernel has this, in which case you'll just need to load the right modules I have the following in /etc/modules usb-ohci --- this might be different for your motherboard hid mousedev Cheers Joel
Re: overkill...
Jeff ok, I installed overkill and the data file. How do I run Jeff it? it seems to need a server and a port. any ideas? G'day Jeff, You need to run the overkill server /usr/games/overkill-server (it might be in a seperate package) you can then connect to that, the default port should be OK and kick some ASCII but :) If your playing by yourself you should also run /usr/games/overkill-bot to give your self some targets -- Joel
Re: Emacs/X problems...
Aaron == Aaron Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aaron When I start emacs, using my trusty old .emacs file I've Aaron been keeping and maintaining for years, The colors I've Aaron selected aren't quite working right. Basically, I set the Aaron background color to black, and that works, except or where Aaron there's text. Each character taken up by something other Aaron than whitespace has a white background. I've determined Aaron it's something to do with X, as the same .emacs file works Aaron beautifully when I export the display to my Solaris box. G'day Aaron, Are you using (set-face-... 'default ...) to set the colours? I had the same problem with Emacs and fixed it by using (set-(back|fore)ground-color) to my .emacs -- Joel
Re: Progeny vs. Libranet vs Pure Debian.
DanSV == DanSV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DanSV I was wondering what the best way to install and then DanSV maintain debian is. I have tried libranet, but not progeny DanSV or just pure debian (beyond 2.1 that is). I want a simple DanSV install, and hard-ware recognition on the level of mandrake DanSV (they say they can get 3D support with an ati rage128 DanSV (2000), whereas progeny says it does not. Good printer DanSV support is a must, but I also want to get under the DanSV hood. (I ruled out mandrake as I had an rpm muckup that DanSV trashed my box and had me starting over with DanSV debian. Debian packaging is superior (A Mandrake distro DanSV based on debs would be the ultimate in my humble opinion). DanSV Does anyone have any experience with progeny? (eg. getting DanSV it then upgrading to debian unstable, mixing packages, etc) DanSV What is the best way? G'day DanSV, All Linux hardware support is dependent on the kernel / software installed so if you can get support for one video card with one distribution you can get it for all the other, with maybe a bit of work. IMHO Debian Testing is the best choice for a home PC, you get current versions of all the main programs very good support from other users in list like this ( It might be a good idea not to continue to post HTML messages though :) and it very stable. The best way to get a Debian testing install is to do a plain debian install then edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and replace all the stables with testings and do an apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade this will take quite some time I've heard good things about Progeny but haven't used it my self, the Progeny web-site says Progeny Debian, a commercial version of Debian, is now available for purchase, which includes a printed manual, support, and 90-days of Progeny Service Network. Progeny Debian is also available for download. Progeny Debian provides an enhanced feature set that includes easy graphical installation, hardware detection support, and improved configuration and management tools. So if you want hardware support and a graphical install Progeny is probably for you. -- Joel
Re: sid images
Eduardo == Eduardo Gargiulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eduardo Hi all. Where can I find the iso images of debian Eduardo unstable? Last time I looked Linux System Labs Australia (http://www.lsl.com.au) sold unstable ISO's, couldn't tell you how current they are though -- Joel
Re: Upgrade
GECOS == GECOS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GECOS Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? GECOS I always get lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg Try ``apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade'' -- Joel
Re: uninstalling GRUB
Dan == Dan Pomohaci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan Hi, I look in all grub documentation but I didn't find any Dan clue about uninstalling GRUB. A friend want to clean a disk Dan to install Win2K (poor of him :). G'day Dan, You probably don't have to worry about uninstalling GRUB, Win 2000 will just over write the boot record itself. Or if you really have to (and don't mind wiping the whole disk) try 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/partition number' -- Joel
Re: printtool?
Bob == Bob Koss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob RedHat has a handy utility called printtool for configuring Bob printers. Is there a Debian equivalent? If not, how do you Bob folks configure printers? I've found the best system for printing with Linux is CUPS + XPP + Gimp print drivers. Cups has an easy to use graphical setup just point your browser at ``http://localhost:631/'' or can be at the command line with lpadmin and has both SYSV and BSD printing commands. XPP is an X program for printing, you can use it to set the printing quality, color|monochrome ect. -- Joel
Re: Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:
Daniel == Daniel Toffetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Perhaps it is possible to set up some e-mail address, say Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that when Daniel someone wants to be unsubscribed, just need to click in Daniel the link and send the message ?? I saw this working in Daniel other lists... It would be but why should the list admin go to the effort, the current unsubscribe instructions are not hard to understand and it pretty basic mailing list manners not to post unsubscribe messages to the list. Daniel I agree with you, the instructions are not hard to Daniel understand, but, have you seen how many such messages Daniel reach the list ?? Anyway, perhaps after implementing such Daniel feature the amount of unsubscribe messages remains the Daniel same... ::(( Exactly, the people who now don't send there requests to d-u-request will now not send them to d-u-UNSUBSCRIBE :) I usually just ignore them or if I ever get really annoyed I could filter them out in my .gnus I do think it's a bit much to expect the list admin to filter out the occasional illiterate. -- Joel
Re: HDD Error Message
Sven == Sven Gaerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven Hi, sometimes I get the following error message. My kernel
Sven is compiled with multi_mode=on.
Sven hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Sven Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
G'day Sven,
get the kernel source do a make makeconfig - ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
- IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices - Include IDE/ATA-2 Disk support
then enable Use multi-mode by default, then recompile.
Hope this helps
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Re: X Windows Problems
Patrick == Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick Also, I believe I am configuring xdm (or something like Patrick it) to manage my windows. I'm not sure if it has Patrick something to do with this or not, but everytime I boot up Patrick (even with an emergency backup floppy), the X-Windows Patrick tries to start up and the screen goes black again. I Patrick have reinstalled Debian 3 times to try and figure out Patrick what's going on, and haven't seemed to make any progress. Patrick Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Look at section 10.5 of README.dri in /usr/doc/xserver-xfree86, Mind you this is with X 4.1 YMMV -- Joel
Re: System Wide Fetchmail (failed!)
Roland == Roland Hinkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roland I do still have a problem that is driving me Roland mad. Fetchmail works fine when I start it as a Roland user. Unfortunately when it tries to start at boot I get Roland the message that it has failed. It also does not start up Roland from the fetchmail script within ip-up. G'day Roland, I think this is a common problem with Debian (at least I remember it being on the list at infrequent intervals) my solutions is to make a .fetchmail in my home directory edit the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail script so it only contains. su -c fetchmail --daemon 300 user-id-here this automaticly fetches the mail from the servers in my .fetchmail when I connect to the web -- Joel
Re: Debian
Tandex == Tandex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tandex I am new to debian and I wonder what is difrent betven US Tandex and non-US debian? G'day Tandex, The US has some draconion exporting laws. i.e. It's illegal to export encryption software from the US even if that software was originated outside the US. So non-US debian contains software that the US government thinks people outside the US shouldn't have. -- Joel
Re: Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:
Daniel == Daniel Toffetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Perhaps it is possible to set up some e-mail address, say Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that when Daniel someone wants to be unsubscribed, just need to click in Daniel the link and send the message ?? I saw this working in Daniel other lists... It would be but why should the list admin go to the effort, the current unsubscribe instructions are not hard to understand and it pretty basic mailing list manners not to post unsubscribe messages to the list. -- Joel
Re: flashing console
Markus == Markus Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Markus i have a debian with a console monitor, and before seeing Markus the login the display flashes 3 or 4 times, i think this Markus is not normal, what can it be? i have tried sometimes Markus sucksessless to install x, is this maybe the problem? Markus markus Thats the problem, you've installed X but haven't got it configured properly the three flashes are an X display manager (xdm, wdm, gdm etc.) trying to start and failing. You can fix this by either configuring X properly (If you mail me details of your video card, mouse, monitor etc I MIGHT be able to help here) or removing the ?dm script from your default run level. -- Joel
Re: Any way to play midi files?
Anthony == Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony Is there any way to play midi files on Linux? Have a look at the timidity timidity-patches packages, -- Joel
Re: Unidentified subject!
gary == gary p largess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gary I do not want to experiment with the computer I use for gary work/school, but I have a project computer I would like to gary install some version of Linux on. 133 Mhz Pentium less than gary 300 Mb available hard drive 8 Mb mem. All I want is a gary version of Linux I can install on this machine, that has a gary graphic interface (I have old/bad memories of DOS), I'm even gary willing to pay a small amount. While your Pentium CPU is more then powerful enough to run Linux you would have huge problems running X (the linux GUI) with only 8Mb of RAM, 16Mb would be fine if you can dig up some old memory chips and stick to a light window manager, FVWM is my recomendation and runs fine with 16 Mb. -- Joel
Re: getting woody
David == David Dayan-Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Hi all, I am trying to get woody but could not find out how David to do that. Are there some ISOs available ? I don't think Debian releases testing or unstable ISO's your best bet is probably getting a potatoe ISO and apt-get dist-upgrade'ing to woody. or last time I looked Linux System Labs Australia (http://www.lsl.com.au) sold a unstable snap shot ISO, you'd have to ask them to find out how up to date it is. -- Joel
Re: TrueType Fonts
Joris Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, I've been looking to install the msttcorefonts package but although i've downloaded all of the files into a directory and give the script the right path the TT fonts won't install. I've tried this on both .exe-archives and expanded archives. Someone got a good/quick hint for me on what to do ? Tnx, Joris G'day Jorris Do you have the new font path in your XF86Config or XftConfig ? The first time I installed this package some of the fonts had changed and I had to install the last couple by hand as the change in font name killed the install script. So you might need to decompress and install some by hand the TT-Debian Howto should help with this Cheers Joel
Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?
Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Adam Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Okay, so can anyone tell me what popular (to Debian Users) MUA sends every single message as an attachment to an empty message? Mickeysoft Lookout Distress? Dima (transmits every known virus except AIDS, and we're working on it) Not true, after some research it was decieded that MS Outlook wasn't responsible for the recent foot and mouth out break in England :)
Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's creators products. Or write your own filters. I'm not sure thats true, if you install cupsys-driver-gimpprint and cupsomatic-ppd you get support for over 1000 different printers Cheers Joel
Re: 2 Linux in same partition
Don Cavaiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, I had Debian up and running just fine. Then, I installed a free CD of TurboLinux into the SAME partition. Looks like maybe I should not have done that as the wires seem to be a bit crossed now. Can you briefly advise. Probably now way to undo it now? Please respond directly to me as I am not currently subscribed to the list. Thanks, Don G'day Don, I think you'll have to re-install, while you can (generally) run any application from one linux Dist' on any other Dist' they all use different startup files and put programs in different places and installing one on top of an other will not work. As a side note, I've used both Debian and Turbo linux and would _Highly_ recomend Debian Cheers Joel
Re: Help with X setup
Alex Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have got potato installed my system, but typing startx starts tvm. Which file do I edit to have startx start gnome using sawmill? Thanks in advance for any help. try (as root) update-alternatives --config x-window-mannager Cheers Joel
Re: A small doubt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good Morning/Evening to all, I guess that it is standard in Unixes that : 0 : STDIN : keyborad 1 : STDOUT : monitor 2 : STDERR : error output device If this much can be accepted , and this is true for Linux verssions , too , then how come I am given an error by my Linux machine for example : [shyam @shyam shyam] cat 0 Sample ^d Can not open 0 : No file or directory [shyam @shyam shyam] The same occurs for 1 (STDOUT) also. You've got the right idea, but the format is to for example save error mesages to a file foobar 2 errors.log ^^ hope this helps Joel
Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato
Paul Huygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) I have installed lpr and magicfilter and that runs fine. However, I understand that CUPS is a modern alternative for the two (am I right?) I as understand it yes, it also offers beter drivers/filters for new printer then lpr or lprNG and it's much easier to configure Cheers Joel
Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato
Linuxero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello: Could you tell me how-to configure a printer in my debian potato? What packages Should I install? Are there any doc ? The Printer is a HP Laser Jet 4050 N Thanks Aah. printers and Linux :) You should read the printing howto for a start. There are several packages for printing avaliable in Debian I prefer cupsys, cupsys-client and cupsys-driver-gimpprint which give v. good print out on my el-cheepo HP-DeskJet, other packages include (lpr | lprng) with (magicfilter | apsfilter) which I can't comment on but have also recieved praise from different users Cheers Joel
Re: Can't play audio CDs
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:26:58AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative Dxr2 DVD drive), which I can't get to play audio CDs under debian. I am new to debian, but have a fair amount of experience wi/ Redhat. I am currently migrating my system from redhat to debian, dual-booting so I can keep the useable rh system around until I get everything working under debian. Playing of audio cds works fine under redhat (using kscd), but under debian (unstable, with either the 2.2 idepci kernel or a custom 2.4.5 kernel), I get no sound. My drive is showing up as /dev/hdc. kscd tries to use /dev/cdrom, and when I change that in the configuration, it crashes. grip will use /dev/hdc, and gets a track listing, but when it plays there is no sound. Under redhat my drive showed up as /dev/cdrom. I'm not sure if this is significant. Since I don't own a cd player, I can't switch over to debian until I get this working. Any suggestions? TIA, Nathan G'day Nathan, Are you using ALSA sound drivers ? I can't get my CD to play at all under alsa drivers, but it work perfectly with kernel driver ( I've no idea why ) Cheers Joel
Re: Install
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:58:27AM +0200, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: yes i have lot of free space in /usr i try it tonight. I think i have made a bad configuration of my partitions I have 8Go on my hard disk, 64Mo RAM i don't remember very well, i think i have this : /usr : 5Go /var : 100Mo /home : 1Go /tmp : 70 Mo / : 200Mo (?) swap : 70Mo could you tell me a better configuration ? -- Nicolas LAMIRAULT I have /var/cache/apr/archive on a seperate partition, actually on a seperate HD an old 1G clunker I had left over after an upgrade on which I have 2 500M partitions one is /var/cache/apt/archive the other mount as ~/music/mp3. Your setup would probably be fine uner most dists, but debian stores it's cache of downloaded .deb's under /var which is perfectly logical but IMHO a note about this in the install would save a lot of problems for first time debian installers Cheers Joel
Re: xfce, can't open display
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:39:09PM +0200, Daniel Laska wrote: Hi! As a debian-beginner i managed to confuse my system! I did this: As I wanted to use xfce, i typed: apt-get update with woody (i once had potato). Then i installed xfce with apt-get install xfce As this didn't work and i could not run kde or gnome anymore, i decided to apt-get dist-upgrade. Now, when typing startx, i get: command not found. When typing startxfce, i get: XFWM message (main type): Error = can't open display. Does anyone know a way to get it work again? This is xfce telling you X isn'y running so it can't find a X server to display on, It's sound to me like somewhere along the line you've lost your X installation try reinstalling X Cheers Joel
Re: Download managers?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:14:56PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: I am running stable, and I was wondering if there are any (preferably non-X) download managers that run well (and possibly come with) Debian. I need it for downloading some ISOs from a dialup connection that I can only use at night. Thanks for any help, Jeremy G'day Jeremy, Is darxite in stable ?? if it is I'd give it a go, works on the console and with X supports multiple downloads and will auto resume download on restart if the daemon dies. Cheers Joel
Re: Broken X in testing ?
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hi there ! Yesterday evening I performed an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for my woody box (as every week). I can not anymore start X, I get the following error message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' plus this message on the console at boot time : [drm] Process 1130 dead (ctx 3, d_s = 0x00) Any idea ? Dominique G'day Dominique, I had this problem last night, cuase by an install of the unifont package, which remove a fonts.alias file from one of my font directories ( I think ) I fixed it by making fonts.alias file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ containing fixed default8x16 Cheers Joel
Re: lilypond fails (error: latex: command exited with value 256)
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:36:41PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
(debian unstable, 2.4.3 kernel)
I tried the example from info lilypond tutorial:
\score {
\notes { c'4 e' g' }
}
then ran command:
ly2dvi -P test.ly
and here's what I've got:
..SNIP ..
Do you have dviutils installed ?, the ly2dvi AFAIK only produces dvi output
the all the -P option does in run the dvi file though a dvi 2 ps converter
Cheers
Joel
Re: ?True type fonts?
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:41:58PM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine. Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against using TT fonts? This question also touches upon TeX/LaTex; I have also seen instructions for installing TT fonts. I resist. What---if anything---recommends them? I am looking for a balanced view; however, I cannot/will not leave philosophical issues behind. I wish to support free software in every way possible. At first glance, even in the page http://www2.arnes.si/~mrihta3/ns-unix.html, where Type I fonts are mentioned, I didn't see any instructions for installing them---mainly TT fonts. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) G'day Alan, QUOTE - Font-HOWTO 2.1.4. TrueType fonts True type fonts were developed by Apple. They made the format available to Microsoft, and succesfully challenged Adobe's grip on the font market. True type fonts store the metric and shape information in a single file ( usually one with a ttf extension ). Recently, font servers have been developed that make TrueType available to X. And postscript and ghostscript have supported TrueType fonts for some time. Because of this, TrueType fonts are becoming more popular on linux. /QUOTE So unless you install the msttcorefont or what ever that package is called you aren't putting any MS products on your box. Cheers Joel
Re: troubles with cmpci again
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:18:41PM +0800, zhaoway wrote: Sergio E. Schvezov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i'm writing this cause i'm having some trouble with one of those cmedia cards (again), Just FYI, I have a CMIPCI card which works with ALSA like a charm. G'day Sergio, Is there an advantange to using ALSA over the kernel modules ? I tried ALSA briefly with little success back in my begining bay at linux but gave it up and might give it a go again if thieres any advantage to it Cheers Joel
Re: nv driver available?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:41:53AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- I'd like to use the nv driver for X 3 (not ready to take the plunge and move to 4.x). I'm having trouble finding it - can anyone offer advice? (This is what was available for nvidia cards before X 4) Thanks. G'day Andrew, You to be able to get X 3.x drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/ but I quick check while I'm writing this didn't turn them up, You can still use the nv driver which is built into X, but it's speed isn't the same as the nvidia driver you get from nVidia. Cheers Joel
Cross compiling (mingw32)
G'day All, I'm trying to cross compile a the display-dhammpada program for a friend who runs a win95 box, I've installed the mingw32 package and the target using '-b i586-mingw32msvc'. I'm getting an error mesage which reads gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory gcc: file path prefix `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mingw32msvc/2.95.4/' never used make: *** [display-dhammapada] Error 1 Any advice would be very welcome Thanks JOel
Re: exim mutt ?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:58:50PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: Hello, Y had to reinstall my potato 2.2r2 (I had tried to compile kernel 2.4.5 ) and there is a change : (exim mutt) before : (complite failure...) if user1 send a msg (local) to user2 i.e. : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] (or localhost) the msg goes directly in /var/spool/mail/user2. after: the msg goes in /var/spool/exim/input and goes to my provider and come back with error, because [EMAIL PROTECTED] is unknown for my provider. J don't know how to put things back in order. Thanks in advance for advices. -- Gerard G'day Gerard, Have you put the correct e-mail address in /etc/email-addresses ? Cheers Joel
Re: man problem
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:21:24PM +0200, thomas wrote: 'apt-get install less' to get a better pager, and your problems should go away. If that doesn't work, 'update-alternatives --config pager' to change what /usr/bin/pager points to. you were right. thx. thomas G'day Thomas, Before you settle on less try most it's got some very nice syntax highlighting and a better search engine then less Cheers Joel
Re: Ripping MP3s
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:34:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was nothing obvious, only players it seemed. For bonus points you might also like to recommend a sound card, as I'm not sure that mine (Yamaha WF192XG) works too well (or at all) using GPL-type software. Thanks, Gary, soon getting some RF headphones and wants to turn his computer into a jukebox :-D Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! G'day Gary, I use Grip as a GUI, it includes the cdparanoia ripper so you don't need to install the cdparanoia package unless you want to also rip from the console to encode MP3's I use gogo which is an enhanced version of the lame encoded optimised for speed, ( it about 2x faster with no loss of quality) you can get the source from freshmeat, and will need to install nasm to get it to compile Cheers Joel
Re: Ripping MP3s
--- ME --- G'day Gary, I use Grip as a GUI, it includes the cdparanoia ripper so you don't need to install the cdparanoia package unless you want to also rip from the console to encode MP3's I use gogo which is an enhanced version of the lame encoded optimised for speed, ( it about 2x faster with no loss of quality) you can get the source from freshmeat, and will need to install nasm to get it to compile --- HIM --- I would like to second the use of grip. Grip runs cicles around all other ripping software I've tried. I use the newer lame (http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/) as the sound quality has really improved over time. It is now hands down the best quality encoder. Gogo is just to old to have the same sound quality; infact several of the gogo developers have worked on the current codebase of lame and brought the speed up. Thomas I didn't know that, I might give lame another try, Thanks Joel
Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:55:23PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: Hello friends, This is already bothering me for a while, but I never really cared. But now I just want it fixed. The problem: I use X 4.0.3 as in testing, and the Nvidia kernel and GLX drivers, I'm _not_ using the newest ones, because I heard that there are problems with them. When I start X with startx, it takes rather long until the screen is filled with something useful. It flickers a couple of times, there is a green horizontal line at the top of the screen, then, as soon as I move the mouse around, or just after having waited 5 seconds or so, the windowmanager and the GNOME panel appear. I remember when I was using a PII-400 with the same graphics card (Nvidia Geforce DDR) but not with the nvidia drivers, this problem did not occur, and X started alot faster. so I guess it has something to do with those nvidia drivers. Could it be some configuration issue I missed? Has anybody seen this on his/her machine? I'm using nvidias AGP implementation, not the kernel one (agpgart). Thanks for any info Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address G'day Alex, I'm using XFree 4.03, Nvdriver + GLX 0.9.769-1, kernel 2.4.4's AGP support, on a celeron 700 + 196 Mg RAM and have the same issues with X startup, I think it's a driver issue not a configuration problem It's never caused any problems so I'm happy anyway Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: Mail indexing
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:24:45PM +0200, oivvio polite wrote: A long time ago when I was using an other OS I also used Altavista Personal to index my email. Worked great. I've found a couple of tools (htdig, glimpse) for linux that index files. I haven't researched theese tools that deeply because it seams like they both index entire files rather than separate email messages within a large mbox file. Ideas, anyone? -- oivvio polite cell +46 (0)709 30 40 30 / phone +46 (0)8 669 64 18 / fax +46 (0)8 84 00 18 varvsgatan 10A / s-117 29 stockholm / sweden G'day Oivvio GNUS can rate singles messages and threads in its nnml format, don't know if it can do it with mbox though. -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: XF86Setup problem
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:14:01PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: The xserver-svga package is installed. On another note now. I'm having trouble figuring out what kind of XFree version I'm running. I'm a confused by this contradiction Tomsk:~# X -version XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System Tomsk:~# dpkg -l xfree86-common ... ii xfree86-common 4.0.3-4 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen Phone +32(0)56 32 91 37 Mobile +32(0)486 88 21 26 There's no such thing as an infinite loop. Eventually, the computer will break. - John D. Sullivan That could be your problem, if you've still ot the deb's on your box I'd reinstall X makeing sure X-base and X-clients ect. are all the same version Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: List new packages after an apt-get update
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:52:30PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have already installed but that have been updated since the last time I did an apt-get update. (I.e., ignore packages that have been updated but not since the previous time I did an apt-get update) Are there any simple command line methods for getting these two lists (or do I need to persist in learning what seems to me to be the quite un-intuitive interfaces in deity and aptitude). Many thanks in advance, Graham G'day Graham, apt-get -u upgrade will show installed packages that have newer version then the one on your system. just answer no to the continue prompt if you want don't want to upgrade them all automaticaly. If you want to find all new packages you could backup, ( I think this is correct) you /var/lib/apt/lists directory before the each update, then compare the backup directory to the newly downloaded list, or write a script that does the lot. There might be an easier way to do this ?? Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I have been trying to install the NVIDIA drivers for my NVIDIA 32mb GeForce 2 card without much success. I succeeded in downloading two tar files from the NVIDIA web site under windows and then decompressing them into my /usr/local directory. This created two new directories /usr/local/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and /usr/local/NVIDIA_kernal-0.9-769. I typed make install in NVIDIA_GLX* directory and received error message, install: cannot create regular file '//usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers': No such file or directory make:***[install]Error 1 Then I proceeded to mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers thinking this might solve the problem. I again ran make install and got these messages: Removing all old and conflicting files! There's two deb packages for Nvidia drivers, they don't contain the sources but they do contain some good install scripts, 'apt-get nvidia-kernel-??? nvidia-glx-???' then copy the two source tarballs into /usr/src/ and follow the direction in the readme for the deb's you should be find. You'll need kernel headers to compile the nvidia-kernel driver, if you compile your own you've already got them if you using the stock debian kernel you'll need to 'apt-get kernel-source-??? kernel-headers-???' Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi !!! I hope that this simple(and maybe stupid) question has a simple answer ... I used to be a RedHat user, but after trying the 7.0 version, I decided to change it for another flavor ... and after a while I found Debian. However, I miss the RH instalation option everything, when you are selecting the packages. I?ve seen that Debian also has a package-grouping by kind, and I chose all the categories, but it doesn?t install everything. Is there an easy way to install EVERYTHIG that comes in the Debian Cd?s Thanks in advance. saludos dario estepario ... - Obt?n tu correo en www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunic?ndonos You can't some packages conflict with others, and any way would you really want 8+ different windows managers when you only use 1, or 4+ different music typesetting programs. Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: Kernel upgrade.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:41:38AM -0400, Chapman, Matt wrote: Hi, I am running the sparc version potato.. I changed my sources.list for apt to woody and was able to do a successful apt-get dist-upgrade Now how do I get the new kernel? -matt -- Matt Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.duhnet.net http://www.mattchapman.net G'day Matt. By default debian never installs new kernels, you have to do it manually with apt-get install kernel-image- or if you want to roll your own apt-get install kernel-source- I've been on kernel 2.4.4 with woody for some time now and it work fine. Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: XF86Setup problem
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:50:58PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: Hello, I already asked this question in my local linux ng, but the answer were not that helpfull. So I hope somebody can give me an answer here. I would like to reconfigure X windows on my machine. Especially the grafical settings need some finetuning. I would like to change resolutions and add virtual screen. So I start XF86Setup as root, but I get this error: Tomsk:~# XF86Setup [1] 23274 Tomsk:~# Error in database, invalid reference: ET4000/W32 (generic). Error in database, invalid reference: ET4000/W32 (generic). Error in database, invalid reference: ET4000/W32 (generic). Error in database, invalid reference: Generic VGA compatible. Error in database, invalid reference: Generic VGA compatible. Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 Savage4 (line 1442). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9420 (generic) (line 2186). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9440 (generic) (line 2191). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9660 (generic) (line 2196). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9680 (generic) (line 2201). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2218). Any idea what the problem is? Also some guy suggested using xf86config instead. So I tried this too. However, when I restart gdm using the new XF86Config file I get a black screen, so no X. Actually there is a small '+' sign in the upper left corner. I guess this has someting to do with the graphical card I choose from the database. I have an Nvidia Riva TNT II Pro. In the specs of my graphics card I also find 128-bit high performance accelarator. In the database there is RIVATNT2 and RIVA128. I don't really know which one to choose. I tried both but none seem to work. Any suggestions here? Thanks, Regards -Jeroen- -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen Phone +32(0)56 32 91 37 Mobile +32(0)486 88 21 26 G'day Jeroen, I'm guessing but it looks like your using X 3, and if your video card wasn't detected during the original install xserver-vga16 will be the only xserver-??? installed, and it doesn't contain wupport for most modern video cards, Nvidia TNT 2 is supported under X 3 by xserver-svga if you installed this with apt-get install xserver-sgva and try to configure X again it should work, You probably want the RIVATNT2 driver. Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
Re: the clip in windowmaker
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:13:21PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: can anyone tell me how to get the clip in windowmaker back? I had a crash and for some reason it's now not starting up when wmaker starts. thanks, Renai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] G;day Renai, Run the wmpref program, the 7th icon will be workspace navigation Features click on this, and there will be two icons down the right hand side of the box on of these enables/disable the application dock, the other enables/disables the Clip. ( probably the one with the big disabled cross though it ;-) Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: installing Window Manager
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:25:36PM +0200, spider wrote: i wanted to run SAWMILL as window manager (im not using ximian so i couldnt install sawfish) on gdm. i did: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and then i chose SAWMILL as the window manager from the list. BUT: i thought i should edit a file, particularly .xinitrc or .xsession... i have ~/.xsession file and it has only one line: exec gnome-session. anyway i just want to know whether i did the right thing to have a window manager or i should have done it in a different way/ thanks. What I think you've done is change the sim-link x-window-mnager so that it now points to sawmill, if you change the exec gnome-session line to exec x-window-manager it should load sawmill Don't worry that you couldn't install sawfish, there the same program, it has just been renamed due to a nameing conflict (with what I don't know) Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: Install over another Linux
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:19:30PM -0300, Rafael Sasaki wrote: Hi, I`m with a machine to install the Debian Linux on it. I`ve already got the files to install it, but i`m with a doubt. The machine has a Windows 98 and a Conectiva Linux (a brasilian distribution of Linux) and I`m supposed to install Debian over the Conectiva instalation. But I was thinking what will happen to the Lilo. The Debian instalation will handle it right? How can I do this instalation? Do I have to uninstall Lilo first? If yes, how can I do it? Thank`s, Rafael Sasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Sorry for my bad english. I`m trying to improve it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] G'dat Rafael, You shouldn't have any problems, when the installation process make debian bootable from the HD, asuming your installing to boot record on the same partition, it will overwrite any old lilo boot record. Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: Newbie floppy disk access question
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file floppy in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to mount the floppy, this is easy to do. 1 Make sure you NOT in the /floppy directory 2) Put the disk in the drive. 3) type mount /floppy Your floppy should now be mounted, cd to /floppy and it will now show the contents of your disk, don't forget to unount the floppy when your done, this is easy too. 1) Make sure your not in /floppy 2) type umount /floppy ^ not a typo there is no only one n Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: root owner (or group) of lot of files in ~erik?
MANICAL LAUGHThe Eric Comspiracy strikes again/MANICAL LAUGH Sorry, couldn't resist Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: Running X apps in Windows
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:36:47PM -0400, Sean wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 20:15, Joel Mayes wrote: --snip-- To be honest I couldn't say as I don't have windows on by box, I just spotted this program at /. where it was the subject of sum debate, there web page has some screen shots showing a windows box runing 2 or 3 X apps simultanency, thing like Ghostscript, bash and I think The Gimp. You probably take a bit of a performance hit, but new computers are over powered anyway, Cheers Joel Funny you should list those particular apps ... as each one can be run natively under Windows. Nice thing about open source, porting isn't illegal. Sean LOL, you could save disk space by only have one copy of the prog on your HD if your dual booting, you could probably run something like procmail, which AFAIK isn't portable. LOL again. Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: cups and deskjet 840c
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:26:06PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:15:27PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: Hi! Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although mostly. When I open http://localhost:631/admin;, I get this file contains no data. The other sections of this interface are also empty. The docs say that I can add a printer with the lpadmin command ( unfortunately, this wasn't in the .deb package I downloaded.). My local user is in the lpadmin group and the printer does respond ( usually...) to lpr filename. It only prints the first line of the text, though... Any tips?! Thanks. Eamon Roque I can't help with all the question but did you install cupsys-client, as well as cupsys, I was looking for the lpstat and lpadim commands mentioned in the manual to until I took a guess and installed cupsys-client, Voila Cheers Joel well, I've got the lpadmin etc... Thanks! now I need to get the printer working... Eamon Roque G'day Eamon, I got my deskjet to work using the localhost:631 setup stuff, if it's broken in your install, try the version from Testing, it worked OK for me when you add a printer one of the fields you prompted to fill is location, put the path to the driver, for the deskjet it shoud be, /usr/share/cups/model/deskjet.ppd there and the rest should be a piece of cake Cheers Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: A philosophical one
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor wrote: What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] G'day Victor, Debian-User, appears to be mirrored at linux.debian.user, this is good for people wanting to post 1 time questions, with out the 100+ messages a day you get from the full list, I don't see any point in your second sentence though, you don't subscribe to Usenet, in the sense that messages are only sent to you when you request them, not on a regular basis. Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: apt-get question
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:22AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an 'apt-get install postgresql install the version from testing), but I think if I just edit sources.list and add the unstable sources then the following 'apt-get install foo' will install the version from unstable (when I whould like it to install the version from testing), I hope I stated my problem clearly :) Does anyone knows how I can achieve this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] G'day Jorge, Probably the easiest way to do this is to put unstable in the sources list, do apt-get update, then install the package your after from unstable then change unstable back to testing, apt-get update, again before you install any thing else Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: Running X apps in Windows
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:01:49AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:43:11PM +1000, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Quoth Joel Mayes, On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:33:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on a linux box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a windows box, in the same way that X apps can be run over networks? G'day Jonathan, You might look at LINE, a program that attempts to be for windows what WINE is for Linux, it's still in Alpha development. http://line.sourceforge.net/ Try WeirdX http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/ It's a free X implementation in Java which runs on Windows. Interesting. How's performance? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org G'day Karsten, To be honest I couldn't say as I don't have windows on by box, I just spotted this program at /. where it was the subject of sum debate, there web page has some screen shots showing a windows box runing 2 or 3 X apps simultanency, thing like Ghostscript, bash and I think The Gimp. You probably take a bit of a performance hit, but new computers are over powered anyway, Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:20:07PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:04:08PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the SCSI. I also got that LILO warning, and got around it by unplugging the IDE drive, booting, running lilo, then plugging it back in again and booting again. Everything worked fine. I'm positive theres a better answer, but if you can utilise this temporary measure it might work. Yep, that is exactly what I am trying to do. But I don't want to open the box and remove the first hard disk - it will void my warranty as the computer guy who installs my hardware has put stickers on the case to prevent this. I'd look in to that where I am (Australia) you can't void a computer waranty just by opening the box, even if there are stickers saying other wise, Cheers Joel Can I boot hd1 and then chroot to the hd2 root partition or something like this. Sorry I am a newbie. Thanks. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:59:29PM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 13:37, Gordon Hart wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the tar file, right? thats what I've been using.. unpack, type make If you're running unstable use the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src scripts. They will automatically create .debs for both of the Nvidia packages. Very sweet -Chris Make sure you've got a kernel source tree, with a valid .config other wise this won't work, you allready have this if you've built your own kernel or you can get the headers for the standard debian kernel by installing kernel-headers-2.?.?-??? Of course you need kernel source to build kernel modules BLUSHtook me a week to figure that out, /BLUSH ;-) Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: How to use debian lists
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:14:16AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up useful information from other user's questions and answers but I'm swamped! Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to download and delete them much less scan them for interesting items. I unsuvscribed for a while because of this and am thinking of doing so again. What I'd like is a way of switching on and off depending on my need to ask a question and the time I have available to download and scan messages. In the last analysis I think debian linux is wonderful, I am enormously greatful to the all those who have freed me from microsoft but most of my time is devoted to taking advantage of this by working at my computer with only an ocasional need for help when I encounter a problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] G'day Thomas, Have you looked at the usenet 'linux.debian.user' it appears to be a copy of the debian-user list available over NNTP. Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as Office on NT4. The From my experience, that is *completely* untrue. I have never had either of those office suites crash on me (although WP8 is kind of clunky), but stability is *not* an issue. stability of the filesystem is also a major question, you'd have to use ReiserFS on everything as ext2 is no replacemnet for NTFS. Why couldn't you use ext2? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Has any one here used LyX, I got on to it a couple of months ago and It is the best word procesor I have every used, and not to difficult to learn, as it's a what you see is what is mean procesor it would let the students concentrate on content rather than worrying about layout. Cheers Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: kde_gnome
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:21:04PM -0500, Karshi Hasanov wrote: Can you help me to setup KDE or Gnome as a default panel when I run startx. This is my first time I am using Debian(Woody), and don't understand how startx works. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Create a file called .xsession in your home directory and put gnome-session in it to start gnome or startkde to start kde, or both and just comment out the one your not useing. Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: small partitions are faster?
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:07:48AM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: hello. I have a 20 gbyte fujitsu. My bios didnt recognize the disk as a 20 gbyte so I jumpered the drive to 2gbyte to trick the bios. ( this model can do that). I boot on MS-DOS and then use loadlin to load boot linux. I made some tests using dos, and when copying files I get an average disk transfer rate of 5.1 Mbyte /s. I did the same test using linux and get 2.6 average. These tests where made with a 100megabyte file and a watch. :-) tell me something, does the faster speed is because I have dos on 2gbyte partition? if I had my drive partitioned into smaller partitions instead of having a huge 18gbyte Iwould have an increased speed performance? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think partion size make much of a difference with ext2 partition, but I could be wrong, the speed difference is probably caused by MS-DOS defaulting to used DMA and linux not, try install the hdparm package with it you can test you HD read speed with 'hdparm -t' and fiddle setting I use 'hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hd?' to set 32 bit IO mode and turn on DMA. Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: cups and deskjet 840c
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: Hi! Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although mostly. When I open http://localhost:631/admin;, I get this file contains no data. The other sections of this interface are also empty. The docs say that I can add a printer with the lpadmin command ( unfortunately, this wasn't in the .deb package I downloaded.). My local user is in the lpadmin group and the printer does respond ( usually...) to lpr filename. It only prints the first line of the text, though... Any tips?! Thanks. Eamon Roque I can't help with all the question but did you install cupsys-client, as well as cupsys, I was looking for the lpstat and lpadim commands mentioned in the manual to until I took a guess and installed cupsys-client, Voila Cheers Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)
Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO Thanks Again Joel On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:26:52PM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: G'day All, I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my printer ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and lp loaded with the correct irq, ect settings. but any request to the printer ejects a blank page, except the command 'lp foobar.txt' which prints No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' on the top of the page I'm using lprng as my printer spooler and I've used lprngtool to set the printer settings. Any advice will be repaid with bundle of good karma, I just reset my printer tonight, and the permissions are all screwed up for lprng. Try running /usr/sbin/checkpc -f -V and see what it says. This checks your printcap for proper directorys and permissions. If it kicks out errors, then su and run it again..., this will fix the permissions. Although I love debian, I think getting a printer to work on this dist sucks. Just take a look at all the bug reports for lpr, lprng and cups. Note meant as a flame btw, just a fix this, improve it *alot* should be intended. Dana G'day Dana, Thanks for the reply I've followed your advise but still no luck, ( no change at all actualy ) just a black page or a No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' message, printed on the printer :( I'll agree with you about Debian though, it is the best Dist I've come acroos out of the 5 - 6 I've tried but it's also the only one hwere I can't get my !$$%@ printer to work Thanks Joel Have you tried magicfilter and lpr? They worked pretty well for me. Good luck, Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: opera
You can kill that opera ad by pressing F11 and browsing in full screen mode Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: Running X apps in Windows
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:33:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on a linux box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a windows box, in the same way that X apps can be run over networks? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / Student Technology Support The University of Georgia -- G'day Jonathan, You might look at LINE, a program that attempts to be for windows what WINE is for Linux, it's still in Alpha development. http://line.sourceforge.net/ -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:17:18AM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001 00:22:35 Joel Mayes wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO Did you happen to use the debian packages, or did you try the ones from cups.org? I tried the .deb from cups.org, although it seems you have to pay for canon printer support. Dana G'day Dana I used to Deb packages, cupsys cupsys-clients, I thinks you might be right about having to pay for Canon printer support, I can't find a driver for one anywhere in the /usr/lib/cups or /usr/share/cups directories, You get Epson drivers and HP drivers, and a couple of generic drivers but no Canon. At a guess I'd say this is probable 'cause Canon won't release specs for there printers. Cheers, Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: lprng problem.
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: G'day All, I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my printer ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and lp loaded with the correct irq, ect settings. but any request to the printer ejects a blank page, except the command 'lp foobar.txt' which prints No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' on the top of the page I'm using lprng as my printer spooler and I've used lprngtool to set the printer settings. Any advice will be repaid with bundle of good karma, I just reset my printer tonight, and the permissions are all screwed up for lprng. Try running /usr/sbin/checkpc -f -V and see what it says. This checks your printcap for proper directorys and permissions. If it kicks out errors, then su and run it again..., this will fix the permissions. Although I love debian, I think getting a printer to work on this dist sucks. Just take a look at all the bug reports for lpr, lprng and cups. Note meant as a flame btw, just a fix this, improve it *alot* should be intended. Dana G'day Dana, Thanks for the reply I've followed your advise but still no luck, ( no change at all actualy ) just a black page or a No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' message, printed on the printer :( I'll agree with you about Debian though, it is the best Dist I've come acroos out of the 5 - 6 I've tried but it's also the only one hwere I can't get my !$$%@ printer to work Thanks Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
lprng problem.
G'day All, I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my printer ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and lp loaded with the correct irq, ect settings. but any request to the printer ejects a blank page, except the command 'lp foobar.txt' which prints No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' on the top of the page I'm using lprng as my printer spooler and I've used lprngtool to set the printer settings. Any advice will be repaid with bundle of good karma, Thanks Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;) (Yes I know I've stolen this from /. but it's such a good quote I thought it need spreeding ;)
Re: Mouse in X
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:16:36PM -0300, Arlequ?n wrote: Help!! I can set up my X Server to be able to use my mouse... and if I try to run the XF86Config, it tries to switch to graphic mode and I still CAN'T move my pointer. I've my 3 button mouse attached to the 1st. Serial Port (isn't a PS/2), tty0 I guess... But I can't get it work! Thanks Arlequ?n check what protocol X is setup to use with the mouse. If your only guessing that the mouse is in tty0 make sure it really is, if X is looking to tty0 for the mouse and it's really on tty1 it won't work. A bit more info might be useful as well Joel Mayes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;) (Stolen Quote from a clever /.'er)
Power control question
G'day All, Just a quick question, how do i configure my Debian testing box so that the poweroff command actualy powers down my computer ? I'm using the standard 2.2.18pre21 kernel that come with debian. Thanks Joel
Re: Problem with fetchmail.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:06:07AM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote: I am not able to download my email with fetchmail. I try to download being root and I configured it with fetchmailconf. It just picks the lists of emails, but fails to download them. What could be the problem. Thanks in advance. G'day Alberto, I've just had a very similar problem, fetchmail mail would run get the number of messages then run though each one say SMTP error 250 not flushed, the problem wasn't in fetchmailrc but with my exim setup, try looking though /etx/exim.conf for any thing out of the ordanary, If you can't find anything ( I couldn't, I'm still a newbie :-) What I did was backup my old exim config files then dpkg --purge --force-depends exim to completely remove it the apt-get install exim to re-install it with a default setup, this fixed my problem and I can compare the two config files to see what I did wrong. This is probably a last resort though I'm sure someone more experienced than me can give a better answer Cheers. Joel
