Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-14 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:54 AM, leel...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: BTW, I've given up attaching the game to a particular CPU and trying to mess with the priority/scheduling. That doesn't seem to make it faster, but more unresponsive to keyboard inputs. I guess LGP just needs to fix the game.

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being automounted the way they used to be

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On 3/18/07, Jeff Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an removing method if wanted latter. Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under

Re: Hangup in atan2() / __signbitl()

2007-02-20 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/19/07, Eric Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Two questions: Has anyone stumbled on this before, and do you have a fix? I am not sure on what package to submit a bug. It seems the problem would be in libm, so that would be the libc6 package? What kind of info should I add? The info

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-16 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/16/07, Hans du Plooy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACPI is still a thorn in my side too. I've seen way too many notebooks on which fans simply don't switch on and off reliably, and suspend works but resume doesn't - surely there must be a generic way to handle these things? I'm not sure if

Re: Beagle/Kerry

2007-02-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/12/07, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I want to do fulltext searching in my archive of PDF files using beagle with the kerry frontend (with Debian Sid). But it seems that my PDFs are not indexed at all. All hits are for words contained in the PDF filenames. I

Re: Easier to Read Fonts

2007-02-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/11/07, Winston Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my chagrin, web pages are actually easier to read indirectly from my wife's Windows machine (when I connect to it by VNC from my Debian box) than directly on my Debian box. Her Firefox uses Times New Roman, which I believe is a true type

Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)

2007-02-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/11/07, Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I could use the net and find a publisher in the U.S. but that's not how it works. Most publishers wont touch writers who don't have an agent and agents wont touch writers that haven't published. How bout putting it up on one of the

Re: ip forwarding

2007-02-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/12/07, Andrew Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am having some problems either understanding ip forarding or configuring it? My set up is: XP1 - Debian/Server - XP2 XP1 IP = 10.251.134.20 Debian/Server eth0 = 10.251.134.10 Debian/Server eth1 = 172.16.0.50 XP2 IP =

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/2/07, Incoming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as rants or flames, don't waste my time. Oh the irony! There are nicer ways to ask for help you know. Starting of by flaming people, then preemptively trying to make them

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/1/07, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Hi. Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... Desperation takes over: is there no

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:59:30PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: On 2/2/07, Incoming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as rants or flames, don't waste my time. Oh the irony

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-01-31 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/31/07, Gustavo Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've a question on behalf of the Debian Ombudsman Team: - Is there any current issue you would like to see solved into our post-etch release (Lenny) ? Something I'd actually like to see resolved before the release is the whole

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-24 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/24/07, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C wrote: It's kinda like a religious fanaticism... everyone should act and believe like I do. And yes, you're absolutely right - there is too much bile being spewed at top posters. No, it's not. It's called a convention for

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/22/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/07 08:12, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:30:29AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:08PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at

Re: [OT/Sometimes Windows is better] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet said... On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's my point, really: why continue to clone TC, when there are so many additional functions out there on other tools that leave TC in the dust? If devs stick their heads

Re: [OT/Sometimes Windows is better] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's my point, really: why continue to clone TC, when there are so many additional functions out there on other tools that leave TC in the dust? If devs stick their heads in the sand and ignore developments then things will atrophy. In fact, in the

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-06 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: You're saying two things here. First you're saying it open()'s every file you come across, then you say it lists every directory. I've noticed it does list all files in a directory on the path you type (which on a system

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote: Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to user.js: The GNOME file picker is so bad,

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Wim De Smet wrote: To be honest, I actually like it. The newest incarnation of it anyway. I think all those hits you'll come up will be at least partly based on the older one, which had a bit too many big

Re: NSS and PAM - What's the relation?

2006-10-04 Thread Wim De Smet
On 10/5/06, Grok Mogger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just what the title says. What is the relation between NSS and PAM? I understand that NSS basically tells C libraries where to get information. What's confusing is that two of the entries in the nsswitch.conf file are passwd and shadow. Are

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

2006-07-07 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/7/06, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think I've sorted out my internet connection problem, at least temporarily. I determined that I was having DNS problems, as I could ping numerical IP addresses, but not domain names. My resolv.conf file, as automatically generated, lists my

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-18 Thread Wim De Smet
On 6/18/06, David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only other thing - I can only run it at depth 16. It falls over at depth 24, and if I try depth 32, X falls over - the driver dan't do debth 32. All of this is with X.org 6.9 - latest I have in Etch - the 7.0 packages seem to be held back.

Re: Why does Firefox's middlemouse.contentLoadURL keep getting reset?

2006-06-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 6/5/06, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know how to use about:config to sett middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true in order to enable pasting links directly in. But why does this customized value get annoyingly reset to false with every upgrade? Are you running unstable? I myself am and

Re: [Unstable] NFS problems

2006-05-17 Thread Wim De Smet
Just a blind guess, but is your lo interface mounted? Try doing ifconfig, if there's no configured interface with address 127.0.0.1 then that might cause weirdness like the stuff you're seeing. On 5/16/06, El Virolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem still hasn't been fixed in the latest

Re: Debian-specific behavior: 'useradd -m' ?

2006-04-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 4/10/06, Matt England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ useradd myname ...creates an a login named myname with a home directory of /home/myname (or whatever pathname format the system conf/template files specify). On at least some flavor of Debian systems (I tested with Debian3.1-based

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-27 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/24/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Interestingly, there is no two-line instruction on your mail. I've noticed the same for some other people, too, but haven't chased it down. Hint: it is there, your client isn't

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-22 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/17/05, Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer from gnome?... I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any. For those that don't know. gdm runs as root, yes. And so does x.org. They have to if they are

Re: can't load fglrx

2005-12-22 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/22/05, ericradt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am install ati driver 8.20.8 in my system,kernel 2.6.14 patch with ' vesafb',but now i can't load the fglrx modules, when i run modprobe fglrx with bash,there are this error in terminal FATAL: Error inserting fglrx

Re: Kernel source tree for installed kernel, and config file: how to get?

2005-12-22 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/22/05, Fred Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Debian Testing via the netinstall, and have a kernel 2.6.12-1-386 from Debian testing (etch). I'd like to make some changes to the kernel source, namely the device driver for my sound chip. I installed what I thought was the

Re: Kernel source tree for installed kernel, and config file: how to get?

2005-12-22 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/22/05, Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/22/05, Fred Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Debian Testing via the netinstall, and have a kernel 2.6.12-1-386 from Debian testing (etch). I'd like to make some changes to the kernel source, namely the device driver

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/13/05, Rob Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what everyone's opinion was on a good quality laptop. I bought a Dell desktop for my mom almost a year ago and it wasn't such a good deal. So any place that takes trade-ins is a plus. I'm not really worried about compatibility

Re: Controlling volume levels from command line

2005-12-08 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/8/05, Justin Gallardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking for a way to control the volume on my laptop through the command line for some time now. I use ion3, so I don't have the nice apps one would find in Gnome readily available. Any ideas? Justin If you use alsa then I'd

Re: jerks

2005-12-08 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/8/05, Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) out of a SUN W2100z (dual AMD64). Every few seconds, at seemingly random times, everything freezes for ~50ms. Even the mouse. Sometimes. Reliable at the first card moved in Aisle Riot

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-01 Thread Wim De Smet
On 12/1/05, Christian Folini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote: sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than intended, but it can very easily be

Re: mozilla security: hangs after clicking on binary file

2005-08-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On 8/23/05, H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently, _H. S._, on 22/08/05 18:39,typed: Hi, Due to the various sshd dictionary (apparent) attacks I have been observing in my syslog, I tried a little seach on what script or worm or bot is doing this and discovered this site:

Re: www.debian.org down?

2005-08-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On 8/25/05, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:06:54AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Is anybody else having problems reaching the debian website? I can't reach www.debian.org or security.debian.org. DNS still works (ah, wait, they appear to be the same machine

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-27 Thread Wim De Smet
On 8/26/05, Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/6/05, Steven Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software) -Steven I'm going to buy a samsung YP-C1Z, which is a 1GB flash player

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On 8/6/05, Steven Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software) -Steven I'm going to buy a samsung YP-C1Z, which is a 1GB flash player that supports ogg and is quite reasonable in price (I think).

Re: Eclipse on Debian - No Java?

2005-07-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/26/05, Redefined Horizons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed Sun's JDK on my Debian Sarge OS. Java appears to be running just fine when I run java -version from the terminal. I installed IBM's Eclipse 3.01. Eclipse fires up with no problem when I double-click eclipse.exe.

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-19 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/16/05, Dennis Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 16.07.2005 um 06:15 schrieb Benjamin Sher: Those are not my instructions but those of the author, who very explicitly requires that K3b always run as root. And what do you think, why the k3b authors wrote k3bsetup, which sets up

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-19 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: normal user access to recording devices has been broken many times in the past by changes in the kernel API. It often doesn't work reliably and therefore it's safer to run K3B as root. If you're

Re: set language in bash

2005-07-18 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/17/05, Vegard|drageV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language is set to norwegian, and I wish to temporarily to set the language to english so I can post the

Re: FTP authentification issue

2005-07-17 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/15/05, Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 July 2005 08:58 am, Wim De Smet wrote: On 7/15/05, Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: I have run into an unusual and inexplicable FTP authentification issue. It's the first time I've ever had

Re: FTP authentification issue

2005-07-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/15/05, Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: I have run into an unusual and inexplicable FTP authentification issue. It's the first time I've ever had this problem in Linux, and I've been using the same Dell 8200 Dimension computer for five years (on both WinXP and

Re: configuring a touchscreen monitor (samsung 173vt)

2005-07-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/14/05, Håkan Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Got the same problem at work with a Samung 173VT connected to a Linux thinclient. I missed the mutouch driver in that Linux distribution, but I only had to copy it from another Linux machine and put it in

Re: How useful is apt-spy?

2005-06-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 6/14/05, David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanting to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and having a slow modem (not one of those ultra-modern 56K things), I thought apt-spy might be a useful thing to use to find the fastest mirror. I have no complaints about the result because I have no

Re: Top posting

2005-06-11 Thread Wim De Smet
of those cases. On to your message. On 6/10/05, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday June 9 2005 3:06 pm, Wim De Smet wrote: For example, you sent your boss a mail 2 weeks ago about feature x you want to implement and he sends you a reply now saying 'go ahead'. Smart users

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Wim De Smet
[...] I understand the reasons why bottom posting is supposed to be better but if I am following the thread, which is normally the case if I'm actually reading it, then I find it quicker to read just the top section of each post rather than having to scroll down past everything I've already

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/14/05, Ryan D. Egeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, etc. all have very nice login prompts, default color for ls, high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be part of a default install, but is there a

Re:

2005-05-12 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/12/05, sabina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please i need driver es 1373 In the future, I would advise you to use a subject in your mails and to be a little more verbose with your question. I'm going to assume that you know next to nothing about your kernel configuration. Follow these steps:

Re: Eclipse: X eats up 280 MB of memory

2005-05-09 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm using KDE, six virtual desktops and a two-head setup with two screens of 1280x1024 resolution. When my machine is started top shows that X takes about 40 MB of memory. That seems normal to me. But when I start Eclipse X eats 280

Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-09 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/6/05, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that is the case--at least, not in stock Debian kernels. I have an Athlon XP 1700+, and it idled at 45C until I installed athcool. Now it idles below 40C, sometimes as low as 30-32C in cooler weather. I have to agree, my Athlon

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-08 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/8/05, Deboo Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any permissions etc. Now when I run firefox, it asks me to select one of the listed profiles but if I select any of the

Re: apt-get deprecated?

2005-05-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 4/30/05, Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 April 2005 08:52, Jules Dubois wrote: In one case, I must type apt-get install package In the other case, I may type aptitude install package Sure, I save one keystroke but there's no hyphen in aptitude. I

Re: Tab completion i Debian and Knoppix

2005-05-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 4/30/05, Nils-Erik Svangård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I recently did a reinstall of debian unstable from scratch on my computer, before that I ran debian unstable but installed from knoppix. There is a feature that I really miss, and I think its a configuration error on my part but

Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK

2005-01-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:27:51 +0100, Karsten Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello the following command: wget -nd ftp://80.198.12.199/pub/hans.burchard/aa gives the following output: krabbe% wget -nd ftp://80.198.12.199/pub/hans.burchard/aa --12:25:17--

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:17:10 +0200, Necati DEMiR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try giving the file system type in your mount command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom it didin't work. i am telling from stracth; i rebooted the machine; then # dmesg|grep hdb ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:37:17 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:13 -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: On 29 Dec, dorn hetzel wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than

Re: network connection fails after setup

2004-12-31 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:32:45 -0800 (PST), Roger Creasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:34:53 -0800 (PST), Roger Creasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! I set up sarge with kernel 2.4. This setup was done via a startup cd and http. During setup files were

Re: network connection fails after setup

2004-12-30 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:34:53 -0800 (PST), Roger Creasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! I set up sarge with kernel 2.4. This setup was done via a startup cd and http. During setup files were downloaded with no problem. After the setup was complete, I have no internet or network connection.

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:45:06 -0600, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:49 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: --snip-- What a wonderful world it would be if all people would just throw away their holy books and start thinking and acting as humans. Bravo! I second

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:46:33 -0800, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Watkins wrote: In what way does ubuntu.org have a terrorist agenda? Or does pacifist equate to terrorist in your dictionary? When a pacifist defends those who behead innocents on video tape is there a

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:16:01 -0500, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: You missed on of the best: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Wim De Smet
I'm gonna cut some passages here to get to the most outrageous first. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:39:51 -0800, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: Calling people islamic terrorists is about the same as claiming that Islam is responsible for their actions. Facts

Re: What is wrong with debian X windows?

2004-12-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:40:59 +0800, Hantsy Bai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 $ uname -a Linux debian 2.6.8-1-k7 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:13:37 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ locale LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=zh_CN.UTF-8

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:27:41 -0600, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 13:57 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:48:24 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian is not Linux. Okay, I'm confused. Does Debian not use the Linux

Re: install probs

2004-12-24 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:37:01 -0700, Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a testing net install a few days ago. The system is 2.4.27 kernel, P4, 1G RAM, SCSI2 disk, IDE disk, SATA disk, RME soundcard, intel i810 video. No probs with SCSI or parallel IDE, but the SATA disk doesn't seem

Re: nVidia Video Drivers Need Reinstalled After Reboot

2004-12-20 Thread Wim De Smet
Have you tried to just modprobe nvidia instead of rebooting everytime around? greets, Wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network unreachable

2004-12-17 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:05:48 -0500, Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandru Cabuz wrote: When I try to ping B from A I get connect: Network is unreachable When I try to ping A from B I get From [IP of machine B] icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From [IP of machine B]

Re: NAT forwarding : only partial connections

2004-11-27 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:12:31 +0100, Francesco Bochicchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a laptop with installed Sarge and a PC with installed Sid. I would like to implement this schema: Laptop -wireless- PC+ADSL Modem phone lines Provider..Internet I had it working in the

Re: openoffice in chroot

2004-11-23 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:26:03 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up a chroot last night following the instructions in the howto. By the way, that howto needs some updating. There are some details that are not mentioned. Like when and how to run base-config to set up the

Re: Bug Reporting for Woody Sarge Installations

2004-11-21 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:50:42 -0600, John J Waldeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was directed to file bug reports for installations of Woody (which failed with a P4 system), and Sarge (which failed on a P3 system and succeeded on a P4 system). My question is which package should I

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-20 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:26:21 +0100, Alexandru Cabuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an example). http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 I just disappears all of a sudden. No fuss. Is anybody else's doing the

Re: Playing ogg files

2004-11-18 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:17:25 -0500, Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:45:16PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: via82cxxx_audio21564 1 ac97_codec 13300 0 [via82cxxx_audio] uart401 6436 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:14:54 - (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though Marc is saying if you mix you'll end up with 2 out of date

Re: Playing ogg files

2004-11-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:51:55 -0500, Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:11:56PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: I think it might be more of a driver issue. Try playing some .wav's or .mp3's with another program and see what that does. Do you have alsa or OSS? You

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:26:07 -0800, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though Marc

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:45:25 +, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote: Hi, There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian should be the

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-12 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:49:55 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jules Dubois escribió: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:10:03 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: VSJ escribió: Read these instructions: http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php to build you own up to date

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-12 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:27:06 -0600, Rich Wellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I must say I think that every user that uses this operating system should have the basic capabilities to do this stuff. If you do not, maybe it is time for you to learn them

Re: Playing ogg files

2004-11-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:07:02 -0500, Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:46:16AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: Just for the sake of it, check if some friend pulled a practical joke by installing an alias for ogg123. :) Something is wrong if `alias ogg123' gives

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-09 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:44:52 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot apt-get blackdown JRE. The program says: report the problem to solve it. I do so. I want to download and install this wonderfull environment now. the blackdown jre is not exactly wonderful. Last I

Re: Debian creates duplicate image files with strange extensions!

2004-11-06 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:26:43 +0530, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My Debian Woody 3.0r2 has a folder called images ie shared to outside by Samba. Clients using windowsXP and Windows 2000 acces these shares and write to it. In this folder I found a strange behavior! Debian

Re: no cdaudio with alsa but ok with oss

2004-11-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:02:50 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Debian! I spoke to soon, saying that the migration to alsa was a piece of cake. I have all sound, but no cd audio. I did have that with oss. The cd slider does not show up in aumix nor alsamixer. I googled

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian? - raid

2004-10-31 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:55:54 +1100, Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:07:58 +0200: Hi, please don't change the subject too much during a conversation. It breaks my threading and I would think that it does the same for quite

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian? - raid

2004-10-30 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, please don't change the subject too much during a conversation. It breaks my threading and I would think that it does the same for quite a number of other people too. greets, Wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-28 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:07:56 -0700, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: What exactly does modconf do other than load a module and save it's name to /etc/modules? If you want to manage modules on your own, add their lines

Re: Browser Crashes

2004-10-07 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:15:08 +1000, Jonathan Wheelhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi For the last couple of weeks, my kids and I have all experienced browser crashes on various sites. We use any one of firefox, mozilla or galeon. I've just crashed all 3 browsers on this URL,

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-04 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:32:37 -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #secure method=pgp mode=sign -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're looking at it wrong. Nobody really wants them to open source their driver. Okay maybe

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-04 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:56:57 -0400, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:32:37 -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #secure method=pgp mode=sign -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: Mozilla browsers and Flashplayer

2004-10-04 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:03:51 -0700, Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange problem with Mozilla browsers, both Mozilla and Firefox, and Flashplayer when I install sarge using the netinst cd. If I install woody first, and then do a dist-upgrade from there all sites

Re: Icon bug in Nautilus (SARGE) still not fixed ?

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:09:28 -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in mid June, there was a bug in Nautilus from Sarge which broke all the icons. I was told by other Sarge users that it already had been fixed but till now that problem still happens to me. My Sarge system is

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:22:48 -0400, Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2004 08:29, Wim De Smet wrote: linux support sooner). Now GPL-ing their drivers isn't going to happen. Drivers need to know certain things about the hardware that these companies just aren't willing

Re: desktop

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:53:58 -0800, Theo Lehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please help I installed debaian and when I boot up I can loggin fine but I know I chose to install a desktop interface during insalation but all I get is what look like a beefed up version of ms dos (discrpition not

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:02:19 +0200, bing yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su

Re: desktop

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:06:03 -0800, Theo Lehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:53:58 -0800, Theo Lehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please help I installed debaian and when I boot up I can loggin fine but I know I chose to install a desktop

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-02 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:41:06 -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Johnson wrote: #secure method=pgp mode=sign Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I would like to do

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-10-01 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:11:24 -0400, Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jim On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote: I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt

Re: windows locks up while accessing samba shares

2004-10-01 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:06:20 +0100, Ognjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server running debian (testing) with samba. All permissions etc... work and i can create folders etc my problem is that when i try to transfer files on the server windows (win2000 prof) locks up. after

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