Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2022-01-03 Thread Gavin Henry
Got access to salsa.debian.org today! Woot! On Thu, 30 Dec 2021, 08:55 Gavin Henry, wrote: > Thanks! > > I've managed to build it. Just going through debuild now to clean up > lintian issues and pbuilder. > > Suprisingly enjoyable! > > I've emailed the VoIP pa

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-30 Thread Gavin Henry
Thanks! I've managed to build it. Just going through debuild now to clean up lintian issues and pbuilder. Suprisingly enjoyable! I've emailed the VoIP packaging group to see if I can help now that I know more. I'd like to look after the libosip2 package too. Gavin.

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
> > Also have a look here: > https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging Thanks. I think Google gave me this one first, but it was quite daunting for a beginner. It will make more sense now 3rd time round I think since I've read the tutorials. There is also http://codesearch.debian.net/ which let you sear

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-28 Thread Gavin Henry
> > > Hi, > > (I reply assuming you seek packaging help, because that appears in > your subject, even though you don't mention that in your message) > > There is another mailing list specifically for packaging questions: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ > > That list is described here:

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-28 Thread Gavin Henry
I was given this advice from Arthur, a Debian developer, but I can't find some of the finer details I'm looking for: --- I recommend looking at https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide to some pointers about how to make it easy to ensure your software can be easily packaged in Debian. If you're

Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-28 Thread Gavin Henry
Hi all, Where are some good examples to read about adding a user and group, a systemd service file, a /etc/default file and creating a /var/lib/sentrypeer directory to hold an sqlite db file? Just look at official packages? I've read This is for: https://github.com/SentryPeer/SentryPeer and I'

push db backup from one server to another with cron

2015-05-12 Thread Red Henry
I have a Debian server running PostgreSQL and I want to push a daily backup from that server to another server. Although I think I know how many of the pieces work to make this happen I don't know how to put it all together in a nice Debian way. Where should I put the bash script that will do th

Iceweasel and chromium stable and secure versions

2013-02-28 Thread Henry Jensen
Iceweasel. Upstream Firefox 10.x is EOL now. Regards, Henry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130228181813.dc7b44d0.hjen...@gmx.de

X freeze with proprietary fglrx driver on radeon HD 5970

2012-10-03 Thread henry wasker
Hi, I can't get to install the proprietary driver "fglrx" with ATI Radeon HD 5970 on Debian Squeeze. After the installation with ATI Catalyst 12-8 and a reboot, from the stage of GDM, the screen is freezing with a lot of little squares appearing on X, mouse is locking and total freezing of the sys

3dm2 and iceweasel/firefox 10 - Connection reset

2012-02-27 Thread Henry Jensen
h iceweasel/firefox 10? Regards, Henry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120227162047.fd083797.hjen...@gmx.de

kernel source package with applied patches

2011-08-15 Thread Henry Jensen
ct so far? Regards, Henry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110815154218.20c85c6b.hjen...@gmx.de

Re: Single mouse click registers as double click

2011-05-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 09 May 2011 16:47, Ijon Tichy wrote: > Hi again > > >>> I've had this problem (a single mouse click being considered as double > >>> click) from quite a long time (almost two years) in two different > >>> computers, > >> > Thanks anyway for your replies. > > Cheers. Hi. I had this pr

Re: CUPS broadcasting print queue availability

2010-04-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 03 April 2010 04:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I did this once a *long* time ago, but don't remember how. Also, > I've read the (seemingly relevant sections of the sorely lacking) > CUPS SAM, and Googled around to no avail. Hi Ron. Can't help much on configuring the machine with t

How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Nigel Henry
Hi Folks. I've got a whole bunch of updates for Lenny, including a load of X stuff, which I don't like installing while X is running. I save all the update output from the konsole in my history-files for future reference. Is there a way to save the output when working in runlevel 3? Thanks.

Re: GOsa LDAP Admin

2009-06-06 Thread Gavin Henry
It's good, but it needs to add attributes and schemas of it's own, so might be suitable for an existing directory server. On 06/06/2009, Tony Asnicar wrote: > Did anyone use it/heard about GOsa? Are there "negative" experiences about > it? > https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/ > from: > https://oss

Re: where is the sound device in debian?

2009-05-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 29 May 2009 10:26, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all, I'm using debian lenny, but I can't found /dev/dsp or /dev/audio > device in /dev directory? where is it?? Try installing the oss-compat package, and they should turn up in /dev. All the best. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Sound woes

2009-05-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 10 May 2009 20:27, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > And opening up a new browser, sound doesnt work in > > > > that one either. As > > > > > long as the original browser is open, weather or not > > > > theres sound > > > > > playing, nothing else can get sound. > > > > > > does that hel

Re: need help on mp3 recording

2009-05-05 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:55, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 17:56, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 23:29, Long Wind wrote: > > > I have sarge or etch > > > Which package should I install for mp3 recording? > > > I install

Re: need help on mp3 recording

2009-05-05 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 17:56, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 23:29, Long Wind wrote: > > I have sarge or etch > > Which package should I install for mp3 recording? > > I install audacity, but it need libmp3lame.so > > > > According to tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-HOWTO-9.html > > bladdenc can

Re: no sound on lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 17 April 2009 23:09, you wrote: > Nigel, > > Ok, thanks. > > I installed the oss-compat package, and rebooted. This time I heard the > speaker pop, at least. > > When I ran aplay again still no sound. > I double-checked my mute status and volume levels again in alsamixer and > everything

Re: no sound on lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 17 April 2009 21:05, you wrote: > Nigel, > > Ok here you go: > > type of system: > gateway 7200X CTO desktop > pentium II 3.0ghz > 4 gb ram 250 gb harddrive > > output from "cat /proc/asound/cards" > > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel > HDA Intel at 0x9220

Re: no sound on lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 17 April 2009 19:03, Don Raikes wrote: > Hello, > I installed lenny yesterday on a desktop system I have. I installed it > without a graphical desktop since I am not currently interested in anything > other than console-based applications, and it is an experimental > environment. > > Afte

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

2009-04-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 00:24, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 22:22:24 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Sunday 12 April 2009 20:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > > > Florian Kulzer

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009-04-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 16:52, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get > > upgrade", what does it mean? > > It means that there are newer versions of those packages available, but > apt-get refrained from upgrading them. The reasons for that can

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

2009-04-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 12 April 2009 20:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > Florian Kulzer pisze: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tr

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

2009-04-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 12 April 2009 16:00, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've > heard and used before). > I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker. > But, I get missing dependencies: > > # sudo apt-get install

Re: More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 09 April 2009 22:30, Dancing Fingers wrote: > On Apr 8, 12:00 pm, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Many thanks Nigel for your eply. > > > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 14:56, Dancing Fingers wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > I'm also having an ALSA problem.  I

Re: More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-08 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 14:56, Dancing Fingers wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm also having an ALSA problem. I put a SoundBlaster card in my > Lenny box. If I run alsaconf every time I boot and everything works > fine. What I don't understand is why the system resets the conf > files every time it bo

Re: thanks (ntp problems)

2009-03-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 26 April 2009 00:09, leo wrote: > thanks for the info but I can't access internet ntp servers from my LAN Well you havn't quoted what info you were given. That aside, ntp uses port 123 UDP, so make sure it's open, outgoing to the Internet. Alternatively, if you have ntpdate installed,

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 18:51, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted: > > > I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the > > > same poor person repeatedly by VOIP. > > > > > > I have t

Re: Light-weighted voice recorder

2009-01-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 31 January 2009 19:40, T o n g wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking for a light-weighted voice recorder (for quick note taking). > > I've tried most of the CLI tools, the problem is that none of them have > the "pause" feature that I need during recording. > > I also know many others, > http://x

Re: portaudio2/device busy?

2009-01-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 25 January 2009 17:21, Tamas Hegedus wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > I assume that you had installed pulseaudio at some time or other, to try > > it > > Yes, I installed it myself. Since when I was fighting to set up my > audio, at a point I red that I n

Re: portaudio2/device busy?

2009-01-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 24 January 2009 18:12, Tamas Hegedus wrote: > Hi, > > I stopped pulseaudio. > BTW: This did not work "/etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop" > I had to use 'kill'. > > And 'espeaks' works! > > > Could you see my other thread - problem with my > other computer's sound system. > "Re: sound car

Re: portaudio2/device busy?

2009-01-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 24 January 2009 07:06, Tamas Hegedus wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use espeak (text to voice application). > I got error the error messages below. > > It was reported that several years ago it was a segmentation fault of > portaudio19 (segmentation fault if device is busy; espeak use

No sound on HP dv4

2009-01-21 Thread Nigel Henry
Repost of info posted on the /dev/sndstat thread by s. keeling. >I'm just adding my similar situation. It's an HP dv4 AMD Turion dual >core. I've not heard a peep of sound from it yet. Linux newmil >2.6.28-0.slh.11-sidux-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 15 22:48:01 UTC >2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux. Kern

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 19 January 2009 19:30, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson : > > On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: > > I'm just adding my similar situation. It's an HP dv4 AMD Turion dual > core. I've not heard a peep of sound from it yet

Re: CMI8738 sound card - cannot hear sound in Lenny - SOLVED

2009-01-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 17 January 2009 16:37, Robert Canner wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 00:07 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Friday 16 January 2009 22:04, Robert Canner wrote: > > > I've unmuted the Synth control in alsamixer, but I still can't hear any > > > soun

Re: CMI8738 sound card - cannot hear sound in Lenny

2009-01-16 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 16 January 2009 22:04, Robert Canner wrote: > I've unmuted the Synth control in alsamixer, but I still can't hear any > sound :-( > > Alsamixer now shows: > Master = 100,100 (but no mute/unmute box is shown) > 3D Control = unmuted > PCM, Synth, Line, CD, Aux = 100,100, unmuted >

Re: CMI8738 sound card - cannot hear sound in Lenny

2009-01-16 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 16 January 2009 14:13, Robert Canner wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 01:04 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Friday 16 January 2009 00:10, Robert Canner wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I've installed a CMI8738 PCI sound card (C-Media 8738) o

Re: CMI8738 sound card - cannot hear sound in Lenny

2009-01-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 16 January 2009 00:10, Robert Canner wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've installed a CMI8738 PCI sound card (C-Media 8738) on my dual-boot > machine. When I boot Windows, I can hear sound, but when I boot > GNU/Linux, I can't hear any sound. > I have tried 3 different ways of generating sound:

Re: sound mixer cannot find audio devices after rebooting with USB headset

2009-01-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 15 January 2009 20:39, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > On Debian Lenny and running KDE, I am using an audio card listed as: > 02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) > > and it works fine. > > However, if I plug in a headset to the USB port of the computer > (Micros

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 04:49, M. Lewis wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > I wonder if you have some sort of codec conflict going on here. Try > > adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and rebooting. > > > > options snd-hda-intel probe_mas

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 12 January 2009 16:22, M. Lewis wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/12/09 03:44, M. Lewis wrote: > >> M. Lewis wrote: > >>> M. Lewis wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/11/09 23:33, M. Lewis wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: > >>>

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-04 Thread Nigel Henry
d try the various model options again, including the extra one. As I say above, if you're not sure of the packages that need to be installed, or the procedure, just ask. All the best. Nigel. > > Dean > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Saturday 03

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 03 January 2009 19:30, Dean Chester wrote: > Update: I unloaded alsa with the command: alsa unload. now i can't get it > to resume as it doesn't load any modules. I think this info might help us > find a solution. Outputs of commands > alsa unload: > debian:~# alsa unload > /usr/sbin/al

Re: Soundcard not detected after reboot with Lenny

2009-01-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 02 January 2009 18:03, Sander Marechal wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > I'd suggest adding a couple of extra options lines to > > /etc/modprobe.d/sound, as below, reboot, and see how that goes. > > > > options snd-hda-intel index=1 > > options snd-mp

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 02 January 2009 17:53, dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > Here are the results to what Nigel wanted to know: > Before: > d...@debian:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel > HDA Intel at 0xfebfc000 irq 21 > > After > d...@d

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 02 January 2009 16:36, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi, > Everytime i boot in to debian(sid im running on a vostro 1400) i have > to run alsaconfg. Is there anyway i can get rid of having to do this > as it annoying. > Dean Hi Dean. Would you post the output of, cat /proc/asound/cards , for be

Re: Soundcard not detected after reboot with Lenny

2009-01-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 02 January 2009 12:44, Sander Marechal wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with my on-board sound card. I have an Asus A8N-SLI > motherboard with on-board nVidia CK804 AC'97 audio controller. When I > reboot my computer (Lenny) it is not recognised. I get no sound. > > When I run `asoun

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

2008-12-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:59, Daryl Styrk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I also have a T61-7658. > > Sound works fine here. > > So, some output.. > > > > > $ lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel > snd_hda_intel 434776 1 > snd_pcm81672 2 snd_h

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

2008-12-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 06:25, Rob Starling wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:31:12PM -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote: > > A while back (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02415.html), > > I was having trouble getting sound to work on my Thinkpad T61. > > Although that was resolved a

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

2008-12-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 04:31, Kyle Barbour wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A while back (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02415.html), > I was having trouble getting sound to work on my Thinkpad T61. > Although that was resolved and everything worked wonderfully, a few > days ago

Re: [SOLVED]race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 18 December 2008 16:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Nigel Henry wrote: > >> On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> How does one put a wait in the initialization

Re: race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? > > I have 2 audio cards: > one the builtin card of the mobo > two a CA0106 PCI card. > > They are supposed to be like this: > > h...@debian:/etc/udev$ cd /etc/m

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration SOLVED (to a point)

2008-12-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 07 December 2008 17:28, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 12:39 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,01.Dec.08, 05:19:05, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > Now I need to compile some kernel modules for VirtualBox so I need the > > > kernel source. Of course, it is not listed in

Re: Problem in installing alsa driver on Etch

2008-12-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 20:38, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 05:35, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nigel Henry wrote: > >> I have no problems upgrading the alsa driver on Ubuntu/Kubuntu, or > >> Fedora. On Ubuntu/Kubuntu I just install

Problem in installing alsa driver on Etch

2008-12-02 Thread Nigel Henry
I have no problems upgrading the alsa driver on Ubuntu/Kubuntu, or Fedora. On Ubuntu/Kubuntu I just install the build-essential, kernel-package, and the kernel headers for the running kernel, then a simple ./configure, make, and as root, make install, and the alsa driver is upgraded. I have ins

Re: Synaptic. Can't find where it saves history

2008-12-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 01 December 2008 21:15, Thilo Six wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote the following on 01.12.2008 18:09 > > > Hi Folks. > > > > Does anyone know where Synaptic saves it's history? > > /root/.synaptic/log > > <- *snip* -> > > > Nigel. > &g

Re: Synaptic. Can't find where it saves history

2008-12-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 01 December 2008 20:42, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:25:54 +0100 > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Nigel, > > > Yes I know, but there is zilch in /var for Synaptics history. I mean, > > it must be somewhere on the harddrive.

Re: Synaptic. Can't find where it saves history

2008-12-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 01 December 2008 19:21, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,01.Dec.08, 18:09:06, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Hi Folks. > > > > Does anyone know where Synaptic saves it's history? I can view the > > history of packages installed, or uninstalled when Synaptic is ope

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration SOLVED (to a point)

2008-12-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 01 December 2008 18:39, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,01.Dec.08, 05:19:05, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Now I need to compile some kernel modules for VirtualBox so I need the > > kernel source. Of course, it is not listed in synaptic, so now I'm in > > the position of rebooting between conf

Synaptic. Can't find where it saves history

2008-12-01 Thread Nigel Henry
Hi Folks. Does anyone know where Synaptic saves it's history? I can view the history of packages installed, or uninstalled when Synaptic is open, but where exactly is this history saved on the machine. Looking at the installed files for Synaptic, when Synaptic is open, nothing stands out. Ther

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration SOLVED (to a point)

2008-12-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 01 December 2008 11:19, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2008 07:20 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:11, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Kelly. > > > > > &

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 November 2008 21:20, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 14:52, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 27 November 2008 17:40, Nigel Henry wrote: > >> On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:38, Mark Neidorff wrote: > >> > Hi

Re: FROM LAST APRIL, I almost got it right! Was: Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-11-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 November 2008 16:57, Kent West wrote: > Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > "Cybe R. Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Everyone piped up: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> I hereby propose the Jibbering Jackalope. > >> > >> Cybe > > > > Do I get a prize for coming so close to reality, something

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 27 November 2008 17:40, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:38, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > In case I have to say it, I'm very frustrated trying to get ALSA sound > > working on my Debian ETCH (up to date) box. > >

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:38, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi All, > > In case I have to say it, I'm very frustrated trying to get ALSA sound > working on my Debian ETCH (up to date) box. > > My motherboard has built-in sound. Needless to say, I want to hear sound. > I also want to be able to reco

Re: ALSA not loading at system boot

2008-11-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 23:42, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > > > cat /proc/asound/cards > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel >HDA Intel at 0xfebfc000 irq 21 > > > grep ^Codec /proc/asound/card?/codec* > > [EMAIL

Re: Haven't received an posts I send to the list

2008-11-04 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 03 November 2008 21:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > While receiving other people's emails on the list, all emails that > I've sent to the list since yesterday afternoon seem to have > vanished, not even appearing in the web archives. > > So, before pestering the listmasters, can someone CC me if

Re: kde: can't right click and get context sensitive menu, iceweasel drop down menus dont drop

2008-10-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 30 October 2008 19:34, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 17:19 Thu 30 Oct , Nigel Henry wrote: > > That sounds like a problem I had a while back (May), after some updates > > to Lenny. > > > > It turned out that a single click was being interpreted as a double &g

Re: kde: can't right click and get context sensitive menu, iceweasel drop down menus dont drop

2008-10-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 30 October 2008 15:08, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I am only having this trouble on only one of my many systems running sid. > It started a while ago. It only is a problem if I run X directly. If I run > via vncserve there is no problem. > > I run KDE. > > I noticed first that when

Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Nigel Henry
Update below. On Saturday 25 October 2008 23:06, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2008 21:53, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I enter the command "alsactl store" and reboot, it doesn't work! > > Hi Serena. I have an SB16 ISA card on the machine I'm posting

Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 25 October 2008 21:53, Serena Cantor wrote: > I enter the command "alsactl store" and reboot, it doesn't work! Hi Serena. I have an SB16 ISA card on the machine I'm posting from (FC2), but it's only set up for one of the distros on the machine as a second soundcard on the Fedora Core

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-16 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 16 October 2008 20:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Nigel, Florian, thank you so far for the hints. > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 October 2008 > > > > 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > > > Dear All > > > > > > I have an et

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Dear All > > I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking > on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file. > But, sometimes > it does not. > There are three sound-bottoms on my keyboard

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 17:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I > > found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, > > because previously, > > > > /usr/lib/cups/backe

Re: unable to play some flash videos

2008-09-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 25 September 2008 18:38, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > Same error message from that site. I am running Debian Lenny (fully > updated) with the actual flash plugin from Adobe's site installed > through iceweasle. Heh, it's kinda funny that they don't seem to notice > their own plugin... > >

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-26 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:16:46 +0200 > >> > >> Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did an apt-get install xorg, which

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:16:46 +0200 > > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:45, Shachar Or wrote: > > > On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:36, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > >

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:32, Shachar Or wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008 00:16, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > You need sux instead of su. > > > > > > > Nigel. > > > > > > -- > > > Shachar Or | שחר אור > > > http://ox.freeallw

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:45, Shachar Or wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:36, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install KDE, and > > X. > > > > I ran apt-get install kde, and a whole bunch of packages were installed, &g

Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Nigel Henry
Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install KDE, and X. I ran apt-get install kde, and a whole bunch of packages were installed, including some X packages. After these had been installed, I also did an apt-get install kdm, as I wasn't sure if it had been installed, and it ha

Problem scrolling back in runlevel 2. Etch netinst

2008-08-23 Thread Nigel Henry
When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen, which is the tail end of lsmod. Now there must be some sort of basic window drawing ability, because nano works ok. Is there some similar app that I can st

Re: [Fwd: Re: No sound problems on Intel board]

2008-08-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 16:26, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nigel Henry wrote: > | On Tuesday 12 August 2008 22:57, Frank McCormick wrote: > |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > |> Hash: SHA1 > |> > |>&

Re: strange usb trouble...

2008-08-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 07 August 2008 05:54, Kai Martens wrote: > Hi there, > > Some may remember me having trouble with my Compaq Presario SR1675CL - a > noapic option got me to the point that I have a system now that works. > One thing still puzzles me though: I cannot see any usb devices. Here are > my dia

Re: [Fwd: Re: No sound problems on Intel board]

2008-08-13 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 22:57, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sometime over the last few days I lost all sound on my system. Its > > > an intel board - audio apps tell me they can't open the sound device, > > > but when the system boots I hear

Re: No sound problems on Intel board

2008-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 16:21, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sometime over the last few days I lost all sound on my system. Its an > intel board - audio apps tell me they can't open the sound device, but > when the system boots I hear a pop i

Re: alsa drivers; was Re: kernels for Lenny.

2008-08-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 07 August 2008 11:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nigel and anyone interested in alsa and USB development, > > nh> ... both snd-intel8x0, and snd-hda-intel are > being loaded, and it seems like they are both trying to grab card0, which > is resulting in neither getting card0, and snd-usb

Re: kernels for Lenny; was Re: Alsaconf & halting a frozen laptop.

2008-08-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 02:27, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Nigel & others, > > At Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:39:40 +0200 N.H. wrote, > "... Lenny install, I have the following kernels available. > 2.6.8 > 2.6.11" > > With /etc/apt/sources.list set to lenny, > dselect offers only 2.6.16 and 2.6.25. > Can d

Re: Regarding Sarge updates

2008-08-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 01 August 2008 21:22, Bob Cox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 20:09:16 +0200, Nigel Henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This is just a comment, as some folks have said that Sarge is a thing of > > the past, no longer supported, etc. > > > > I've just

Regarding Sarge updates

2008-08-01 Thread Nigel Henry
This is just a comment, as some folks have said that Sarge is a thing of the past, no longer supported, etc. I've just booted my Sarge install to check out deps for a certain package. As usual while booted into a distro, I run apt-get update, and Sarge is obviously still getting updates as an a

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 01 August 2008 17:10, Bob Cox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 07:37:33 -0700, Vwaju ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Aug 1, 9:40 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vwaju: > > > > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > > > > O'Reilly book

Re: Alsaconf & halting a frozen laptop.

2008-07-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 27 July 2008 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nigel, > > Progress! > > SUMMARY > According to the outputs from lsmod below, the net > effect of alsaconf is to remove snd_hda_intel. So, > unless there is more specific advice, I should find how > to prevent loading of snd_hda_intel at sta

Re: Alsaconf & halting a frozen laptop.

2008-07-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 25 July 2008 19:52, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > To get the on-board sound device of an IBM NetVista > working I must run alsaconf almost every time Lenny > starts. > > The first viewer of alsaconf mentions > "... testing/sid ... *udev* is predestined to load > your driver." > > Well

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:49, elijah r. wrote: > > I don't know if the netinstall cd would do. Does it use the same > > installer, as on the 1st i386 cd for Etch? > > I am pretty sure it is exactly the same, but it grabs installation > packages from the internet instead of from the local CD/DVDs

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:52, elijah r. wrote: > Debian Etch ISO images are available for download, completely free, > via the internet, just like those Fedora ISO's you are downloading. > > I highly recommend you get the single Debian NetInstall ISO. Since > you are using a Dial-Up connection, t

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:50, Arthur A wrote: > > I give up. > > > > Oh to hell with Debian. > > > > > > > > N. > > Problem solved. The probelm is not solved Arthur A "I'm a wanker" The problem is that I live in France, and to say the least it's a problem to buy Debian CD/DVD sets, and pay

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 21 July 2008 22:50, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:17:39PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > >From: Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Problems getting Etch in France > >X-Spam-Checker-Version: S

Re: Kernel version for Pentium MMX

2008-07-21 Thread Henry Luciano
set isn't supported. Don't know if it'd be worth looking at linux-image-2.6-486. Out of curiosity, why hang onto an old Pentium when you can pick up an old Athlon or P3 for probably nothing? Aside from not dumping yet another system into the waste stream that is. Best of luck, -

Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-21 Thread Nigel Henry
The only place I can find in France that has Etch DVD's available, wants payment via paypal, and Visa. I have neither, only my local banks Carte Bleue. I'm currently downloading 6 iso's for Fedora 9 on dialup, and am not too bothered about the time it takes. All my current Debian Installs, Sar

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