Re: Printing problems

[Timothy Ritchey]

Ho-Kuo Chan wrote:
 
 Hello,
 I am running Debian potato and have set
 up an SMB printer with Printtool
 (3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer
 is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was
 working fine until recently, I think a
 package update may have caused the
 problem. The problem is that when I send
...
 I noticed that there is no
 /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter file. Could
 this be the problem? I have tried


i am having the exact same problem.

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rep/sawfish problem still exists

[Timothy Ritchey]

I am running the unstable branch, and every time I update, it insists on
loading the newer version of rep, which are conflicting with my sawfish
installation from HelixCode that I have installed as well. Would it be
better if I just upgraded my sawfish installation to not use the Helix
Code version?

Cheers,
tim

Re: ALSA and SB Live

[Timothy Ritchey]

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 I'm trying to get my SB Live to work with Debian 2.2 and ALSA.  The
 ALSA that ships with Debian 2.2 doesn't appear to have the driver I
 need for the SB Live.  So I have a few questions.

I just downloaded he 5.9b source from the ALSA site for my SBLive! I
compiled  it (./configure; make install), and everything seems to be
working fine.

I did a modprobe snd-card-emu10k1, and then needed to do modprobe
snd-pcm-oss to get the oss emulation up and running. It was
relatively painless.

I have not updated the /etc/modules file yet, but will do that later
and make sure everything comes up on reboot.

Cheers,
tim

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Re: Helix Code Packages

[Timothy Ritchey]

 deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main

I've got this in my /etc/apt/souces.list file. Weird. I will keep looking at
it.

tim

Re: esd says unable to bind port 16001

[Timothy Ritchey]

 Unable to bind port 16001
  
   and then it aborts. What does that mean, and how do I
  
 I thought of that, but esd is definitely not running on
 my system when this error occurs.

I think this means that there is a problem with the gnome-sessions and/or
ORBit. I believe you get this when ORBit is not running. I had a messed up
installation with a mix of devel and released GNOME packages, and got this
exact same error. When I went back to the stable branch on everything it
worked fine. Might me somewhere to look.

tim

Helix Code Packages

[Timothy Ritchey]

Greetings!
I have a debian system running woody, and tried to load up the HelixCode
using their installer. Everything seemed to work okay, but even though I
selected the full install, many packages were not installed (such as the
1.1.24 gimp, etc.) When I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. It said
there were no updated packages, and when I tried apt-get install gimp, or
searched for the packages in dselect they did not appear.

Here is the confusing part - once I had dselect update, the packages
appeared, and I could install them. Is there something I don't know about
apt-get update? I assumed it would have updated the package list. Am I doing
something wrong?

tim