Re: XBMC/Kodi? Anybody actually using this on Debian?

2015-01-27 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Peter, Roland, On 01/27/2015 09:55 AM, Peter Viskup wrote: regarding the XBMC version - try to use Deb-multimedia repository [1]. There are more recent versions available. True. These are not part of Debian itself though which is why I usually forget to check package versions over there.

Re: XBMC/Kodi? Anybody actually using this on Debian?

2015-01-25 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Ronald, On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:31:35 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I have a reasonably fresh (1 month old) install of Debian. Today, I became root and did the following: apt-get install xbmc You are not saying which release you are using so I guess you are running the latest

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Oh, and (since they sound like the kind of servers that come with monitors) don't plug monitors into UPSen. Uhm, sorry, why not? I have connected a monitor (14, normally turned off) to our server and to his USV so I can even read

Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-08 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:38:21PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: Yes there are people still using libsvga support and there even are packages that depend on it like bmv (a postscript viewer for console that is maintained by me and that is still actively developed). Therefore, please do not

Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:35:14PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: I think it'd be really nice if you could get framebuffer support, since svga doesn't even relate to most of my systems anyway :) Right, that would be a nice replacement to svga support. I am looking into it. Thanks Torsten

RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga support removed. Comments? Torsten (Ghostscript Maintainer)

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:41:42PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: bash$ at /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache.md5sums | \ ^^ that would be cat (missing 'c') sed -e 's/usr/\/usr/g' | md5sum -v -c cu Torsten pgpCVF847yyIX.pgp Description: PGP signature

New ifhp package available (was: Re: Bug#71868: ifhp in Debian is way too old)

2000-09-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:06:29PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Yep, I have a current package on my disk but I don't have a printer to test with. So I am comparing the contents of the two packages a bit before uploading my package. I should get around to it in the next days

Re: magicfilter vs. apsfilter

2000-04-26 Thread Torsten Landschoff
to find the maintainer of gs, for example, you can go to http://packages.debian.org/gs, click on the newest package and you have the current maintainer. Is there something similar on the FreeBSD webpages? Friendly Torsten -- Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
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Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-16 Thread Torsten Landschoff
if the macro is defined as itself and breaks the loop in that case. I think this patch is perfectly valid and should go upstream. HTH Torsten -- Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member

Re: Small observation [FYI]

1999-11-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:59:27AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote: I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the following: When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. Following

Re: input tk_Brief into Debian?

1999-04-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 08:14:13AM +0200, Ralf Mueller wrote: Hello, Hi Ralf, Do you want to put tk_Brief (http://krisralf.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/tk_Brief/) into the Debian-Distribution? Why not :) What is the license? It is a GUI for easily writing letters with LaTeX. Cool! Can

Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 07:26:08PM +0900, chul-yong,shin wrote: The only thing that I can get from MC home page is type cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]. This example doen't tell me how to input passwd. Did you ever try? It will prompt you for the password. cu Torsten pgpQI0QpdhlU1.pgp

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:39:27PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: The Client machine needs to have it's default gateway set as your gateway/host machine. Oops... forgot an important detail before, you'll need to allow the IP number for your client machine as part of the allowed systems in your

Re: Permissions of the sysadmin

1999-03-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:32:53AM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: Oh, I wasn't advocating rethinking root I was just pointing out that you cannot effectively prevent root from accessing anything you want to. (In fact, it can be damn tough to prevent access to certain users if you allow them

Re: vim has no color after moving uo to slink

1999-03-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:39:30PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: I found vim-rt on the debian site. It mentioned syntax highlighting in the description. I downloaded it and installed it. The error is gone (cuz I let it overwrite my /etc/vimrc), but I still get no syntax highlighting :( Could

Permissions of the sysadmin

1999-03-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: underneath or not, they can't get to underneath. The superuser can get in, but root can always get in. Preventing that requires rethinking the concept of root. Hopefully root will stay as it is. I hate this message Access

Re: libm.so.#: where?

1999-03-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:12:08AM -0500, Shaleh wrote: remember to install the -dev packages too. Why? All you need to run programs that require libm.so is in libc6 (which is in base). You might need libc5 for old programs and you will need libc[56]-dev for development. cu Torsten

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:43:59PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to PPP.

Re: Problems with drive usage (Debian 1.3.1)

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 04:11:04PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: - Warning: Unknown PCI device (104c:3d07). This is probably no problem - you just have a pci device which is not known to your ancient kernel. No problem. - Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card. This is no problem either

Re: X11 'fixed' font error

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:03:33PM -0600, me wrote: After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz. /etc/X11/XF86Config shows this

Re: Problem with 3C905-TX Network Card

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:11:07PM -, Robert Kasunic wrote: Hello All, I've got a problem with the Network Card in my PC. It's a 3COM Fast Etherlink XL 100 Mb or short 3C905-TX. The problem is that I can't find a driver for this card. I couldn't find this card in Debian Setup. It's my

Re: Installing over PLIP?

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 07:19:35PM +, Vincent Murphy wrote: Hi. Hi Vincent, I'm interested in installing Debian on a stand-alone machine. No Problem :) This machine is connected via a parallel cable to a machine on a LAN, in a university. This machine does not have external firewall

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 11:54:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, environment), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the window is very wide

Re: Help! XFree86 and on-board video chip problems

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:07:37AM -, Frank Packer wrote: A general HELP! to all. You don't need to cry for help on Debian mailing lists - we try to help everybody :-) I am having a problem with XFree86 and its detection of my video card. I cannot find a solution in any of the normal

Re: lynx proxy

1998-12-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 05:10:04PM +, Pere Camps wrote: What about auto proxys? ie: http://somewhere/cgi-bin/autoproxy ? Will not work. It needs Javascript which lynx does not support. cu Torsten pgprJ1k0TWbOd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:59:48PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: eval `ssh-agent` ssh-add # this will open a window to ask you for your passphrase /usr/bin/wmaker # for example eval `ssh-agent -k` # kill the ssh-agent Thanks for making this clear, I will give it a try.

Re: xterm-debian

1998-12-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:22:00PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: What's the deal with the terminal setting xterm-debian? Why can't it just be xterm, like with every other unix system? It would may so things a little easier if it was xterm since most programs (to my knowledge) have never heard of

Re: Lynx Proxy again

1998-12-10 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 08:57:14PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, I did the following, still not working.. In netscape 4.5 I set my proxy - auto proxy - http://proxy2.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac, and it worked fine... so in lynx.cfg, I wrote a line:

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-09 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:48:43PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 10:52:33 -0500 AJ writes: password in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type something like: ssh -l login -p password host.com ? or is there a way to specify the

Re: very weird problem with PPP (server+client)

1998-12-09 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 06:09:52PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! Hello Pere, Hmm, nobody replied so I will make a try. Forgive me if my answer is wrong but I am really tired (3:45 am here :) I used to have a very stable configuration for a PPP connection between two debian machines

Re: multiple X servers?

1998-12-09 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:04:00PM +, Preston Landers wrote: In the other user's home directory, I put an .xserverrc file with only this in it: exec X :1 -bpp 16 but unfortunately, that JUST starts the X server and no clients or window managers. It's not using the system wide

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:35:30PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: I guess installing libc6 2.0.7u-5 will do it. But you should update some time after that fix... Where do we get libc6 2.0.7u-5? All of the mirrors I've checked had some really old version or the latest libc6 2.0.7u-6. Uh,

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 07:28:50AM +0100, Andreas Kremer wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded my debian, unstable version. Here is the message I get when I do virtually anything: groumph:/usr/lib# dselect dselect: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined

Re: expect script with ppp and stty forces reboot

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: I recently began using an expect script to connect to my office via ppp and have a problem with how I initialize the modem. I talk with the modem in the expect script as follows: Uh, why that? system stty 38400 -echoe -echo raw

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:09:29AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have ip-up call a setuid program to specifically edit resolv.conf or named.conf, if they exist. This is the obvious way to do it, but there is a policy question about messing with these files. Hmm, what about putting the

Re: IPFW works a little to well...

1998-11-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 06:14:57AM -0600, Anthony Landreneau wrote: Greetings, Looking for a little help with ipfwadm. Got a good machine running 2.0, two nics and the system is passing traffic wonderfully. Now I would like to put in packet filtering. IPFW sounds as though it will fit

How to make your kernel detect 64MB RAM

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 12:31:40PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Hi Mark! My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, but when I run free under Debian it comes up with: # free

Re: Bad primary partition

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Richard Hall wrote: After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap partition, it

Re: SMP

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 08:12:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy All!! Hi Chuck! From /proc/version: Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 oSo I know I've got SMP support compiled in... Yet /proc/cpuinfo sure makes it