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OK, next Ubuntu graphics question/problem
by Chris G 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

OK, I now have Ubuntu 7.04 installed and working, network connection up, pretty OK in fact. However it will still only allow me a best resolution of 800x600 even though there are higher resolutions in the xorg.conf file. What else limits the resolution and how do I change it? -- Chris Green

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Red Hat 9 and MySQL-3 --> MySQL-4
by ted.harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi Folks, Now a question of my own ... to people who have been down the road below. I'm running Red Hat 9 on one machine, along with the MySQL-3.23.54a which came on the installation CDs. I want to upgrade the MySQL-3 to MySAL-4+, in order to have the increased functionality (especially sub-queries) which was introduced in version 4. My browsings on the web have not revealed an upgrade route which looks authoritative, though I have seen a few people recommend procedures, though not in detail, and I have not seen confirmations that these have worked. I really do want to avoid breaking things on that machine! MySQL is currently at version 5, but older versions (specifically 4.1.22) are available in various formats (binary and source) at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html If anyone has successfully made this upgrade, I would be most grateful to learn, in detail, how they did it! With thanks, Ted. PS I'm not open to suggestions to upgrade the Linux installation. That machine is something of an "attic", and renewing its joists is not compatible with not disturbing what's stacked on them! -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 05-Jun-07 Time: 19:35:32 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG] Standard output redirection caching
by Dan Hatton 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Adrian F. Clark wrote: > The easiest solution is to put > > fflush (stdout); > > after each printf() invocation -- or equivalent in other languages. Other > solutions tend to be less portable. Thanks, that worked a treat. For the archives, the language is Perl, and, with a bit of manpage searching (once you'd clued me in that the word "fflush" was relevant,) I found out the "equivalent" is to put use IO::File ; autoflush STDOUT 1 ; at the start of the program. -- Thanks again, Dan

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Standard output redirection caching
by Dan Hatton 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Dear All, When standard output is redirected to a file, it gets cached, so that nothing is actually written to the file until (say) 4kB of standard output has built up. I'm sometimes too impatient to wait that long to see the output of my programs, especially when the program in question is a long, slow numerical calculation that might be producing only a few hundred bytes of output per day. Is there any way of either switching off this caching, or inspecting the contents of the cache before it gets written, please? -- Thanks very much Dan Hatton <http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/>

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Weird blackout on browser!
by ted.harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hi Folks, I just observed something strange, using Firefox. I wonder if others find the same. 1. Go to http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/suttonfen/index.asp and get a nice page. 2. Now scroll down and find "Find out more", and click on A wonderful site for future generations to enjoy I get a complete blackout! 3. Now click the "Back" button to return to the previous page. Again, this is completely blank. Check that the URL in the location window is the same as you originally entered at (1). 4. Clear the URL, and re-enter the URL from (1). Again completely black! 5. Open something else, e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and normal service is resumed. Now clear the URL again and enter the URTL from (1). It's still black! But if you clear the cache and re-enter, it's OK again. The only explanation I can think of is that the cache of the page at (2) is considered to be the cache for the URL at (1), even though (2) is not at the same URL as (1), being http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/suttonfen/wonderful.asp What's interesting is that if I do it the other way round: 6. Clear history, cookies and cache, close down broswer, restart browser, and enter this last URL above, I then get a parfectly good page. But now find the "> Sutton Fen Appeal > ..." at the top, click on that, and you get a black page again. This of course should take you to where you were at (1) in the first place, since it is the same URL (as seen in the URL box). So it's the same effect: the transition (by any means) from either page to the other makes everything black! I'm a bit puzzled by all this. Any ideas? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 31-May-07 Time: 14:33:29 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Epson picturemate 100 printer
by Barrys linux mail 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hi Has anybody been able to get this printer to work with Ubuntu as all I get is printer recognised and then starts to feed paper and then it stops.Any Ideas? Barry

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Calendar/diary - I've found a usable solution
by Chris G 31 May '07

31 May '07

I seem to have found a solution to my calendar diary requirement. I've been looking for a simpler wiki (than TWiki) for personal use and after a fair amont of hunting around and wasting time trying things out I decided on MoinMoin. It's widely used (and I almost tried it myself once before) and it supports reStructured text as one of its markup languages so fulfilled quite a few of my wiki 'wants'. It turns out that MoinMoin has a ready made 'out of the box' macro that generates a calendar with clickable days that take you to the page for the day which (as with any wiki) you can create if it doesn't exist already. That's a large chunk of what I want, if I can link some sort of appointments utlity to the pages I create then so much the better but that will be a bonus. -- Chris Green

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Re: Missing Touchpad (Solved)
by Matthew 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello all, It works! Having found a 'how I got Ubuntu to work on my HP 510' article (http://arewold.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/installing-ubuntu-704-on-a-hp-510-l…) I followed instructions to make a small change to the kernel (forcing the outcome of a check that was presumably going wrong, I think). My custom kernel boots it with the touchpad working as hoped. dmesg now includes: input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input3 Thanks for all your help, Matthew

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Re: Missing Touchpad
by Matthew 30 May '07

30 May '07

> What does the output of dmesg say, in particular anything with "PS/2" or serio mentioned? The only line that mentions 'serio' is the one that loads the keyboard controller, and doesn't look relevant. The output of 'dmesg | grep PS/2' looks a little more interesting: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f0e] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice That might be it, since I have no PS/2 ports (although it probably doesn't prove anything: maybe it can gain PS/2 ports with a docking station or something and needs a PS/2 controller for that). > I had a feeling that some modern machines put the pointing device on the usb bus and not the ps2 serial one. > does lsusb show anything that might be the touchpad ? With my [external] USB mouse unplugged, lsusb looks like: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 I think those are the ports themselves, or something. I hope that gives someone some ideas: thanks for the help. Matthew

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bbc 'play it again'
by Jenny Hopkins 30 May '07

30 May '07

Hullo there, Has anyone on list had any luck with getting the bbc website 'play it again' working? Thanks, Jenny

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