automounted USB drive: All partitions cannot be accessed by user

em to be automatically mounted. Alan Davis PS. It's good to be using Debian GNU/Linux again after many years. The sticking point (that led to my giving up) has almost always been networking, usually a wifi adaptor that is not supported. This time it took two days for me to copy over *deb

Tetex problem: twocolumn is not working properly

roblem has crept up a couple of times again. This time, I am at a loss. Any suggestions? Alan Davis Kagman High School Saipan, N. Mariana Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Motherboard ASUS a7v600: is anybody using this?

I have ordered this motherboard, with 3c940 Gigabit ethernet (with a "Linux" driver on the ASUS website(?!)); and AD1850 "AC'97" etc.) sound. I would appreciate hearing about any issues people have encountered. Thanks for any advice. I would like to be prepared before burying my head in the san

Modem strangely answers my phone, when ppp is not connected.

sconnected; however, even when those lines were commented out from /etc/ppp/options, this other behavior has bothered us. Can someone suggest where we might look? Alan Davis Marianas High School, Saipan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, P

UPGRADE: console-common error

: console-common console-data Is this a known problem? This looks crucial, but is there any way to override this? Thanks for many years of satisfaction, with the occasional self-induced climbing problem (upgrading unstable systems, for example!). Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan

Re: Galeon opens multiple frames recursively, endlessly

; > Tried under all users on this system: it's a system wide problem. I > have reinstalled galeon, with no change. > > This has happened before, but worked itself out when I reinstalled > galeon from scratch and dist-upgraded the system. > > T

FIXED: HP 4100C Scanner: / sane

As usual, when I had posted, all was revealed. After deleting an old version of sane in /usr/local, the scanner starts up fine! Sorry to waste bandwidth and your time. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006

Lexmark z23 revisited

sebastian: I am copying this message to the list. I am hoping you have succeeded with this printer on a Debian box. Here's my experience: I bumbled through two or three different ways of installing it. I don't understand CUPS or FOOMATIC. But I downloaded the foomatic lexmark kit (I think t

Re: Lexmark Z23 please?

ng what possible effect can editing /etc/printcap have? I am now also installing cups, as if all of the above isn't complex enough. There are some success stories. If I can work through all this, I'll post a followup. Alan Davis Marianas High School, Saipan On Wed, 11 Dec 2002

Lexmark Z23 please?

Can anyone shed light on recent success with the Lexmark Z23. Is Omni working w/ Debian (sid)? One mention found that this worked on a mandrake system. Thank you, Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006

Lexmark Z23

Is ti possible, or not, using Sid? There seems to be little of specific interest on the Inet. Apparently it is done, but Linuxprinting.org thinks it's a "paperweight." I would really appreciate hearing from people who have done it. Alan Davis -- [

HP 4100C USB scanner

scanner w/ software? I fried my Microtek E6, and I suspectee it was an issue with the SCSI drivers in the kernel. Debian has come far, for sure, in the past few years. Thank you to everyone who has made it what it is today... Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan, N. Mariana Islands

Show me some good newbie intros to GNU/Linux

lace to take up the issue---but it's a good one. Alan Davis Marianas High School Saipan, NMI [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my m

Re: Off Topic?: File format "AppleSingle"

Thank you Mark. I have now gotten one step closer to using the file. I cannot thank you and a large number of other Debian people enough. SInce I begin using Debian about 6-7 years ago, I have seldom run into a question, issue, or problem that wasn't answered within hours. I shyly waited fo

Re: Off Topic?: File format "AppleSingle"

Thank you Mark. I have now gotten one step closer to using the file. I cannot thank you and a large number of other Debian people enough. SInce I begin using Debian about 6-7 years ago, I have seldom run into a question, issue, or problem that wasn't answered within hours. I shyly waited fo

Off Topic?: File format "AppleSingle"

tions, once I figure out what the issues are. Apparently, the issues involve not only the format, but the filesystem structure? Thank you. If this seems off topic, please forgive me. I am committed to finding ways to do all scientific computing work over GNU/Linux. Thank you, Alan Davis Mar

lilo geometry mismatch on hard disk upgrade

Hail to the list: Running sid, trying to copy my system over to a different HDD, following the Hard-Disk-Upgrade mini-HOWTO. Moving to an IBM 13GB Ide Drive. I followed the instructions for editing /new-disk/etc/lilo.conf. Ran "lilo -C/new-disk/etc/lilo.conf" This message was received: ele

frequent segfaults on fsck at boot (ext2 fs)

Am I looking at a bad SCSI drive? Thank you, if you have read this far! Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any

Re: scsi 19160, 29160 && 29160N Adaptec cards

. Alan Davis. On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 12:20:56 +0200 (CEST) Maciej Bobrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does somebody know whether I can use the scsi 19160, 29160 && 2960N > Adaptec cards in Debian Potato distribution?? Does the kernel > 2.2.16

Re: libc6 2.2.3-7 post-inst error

ausing X11 to shut down. Alan Davis On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:37:01 +0800 (WST) Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > elm:# dpkg --configure libc6 > Setting up libc6 (2.2.3-7) ... > date: invalid date `Mon Jul 23 07:32:48 WST 2001' >

?True type fonts?

I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine. Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against using TT fonts? This question also touches upon TeX/LaTex; I have also seen instructions

su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

wn Sorry. bash-2.05$ What the heck does that mean? Also, back on a virtual terminal/console. Root cannot log in. I reinstalled the login package with no effect. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006,

Re: ftp "reget" via netscape?

The amazing thing is that netscape on my sid machine DID have the desired behavior, just like the standard FTP. Automatically, it started at the end of the incomplete file on my disk, and FTPd the rest. I wish to know what is the difference, since Netscape on the woody box didn't exhibit this

lpr printing problem in sid---temp file error

lp 1024 Jun 1 00:28 . drwxrwsr-x8 lp lp 1024 Jun 1 00:18 .. -rw-rw---x1 root lp 0 Jun 1 00:28 .seq bash-2.05$ I can print ok as root. Can someone suggest which files, if any, I can change permissions on? Alan Davis Marianas

fetchmail/fetchpop etc.

com fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: terminated with signal 13 bash-2.05$ - END error message Can anyone lend a clue? Thanks (again and again) Alan Davis Marianas High School -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis

Re: SOLVED: (Post Upgrade?) Boot Disaster revisited

onger any link "/vmlinuz" to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19 or whatever. Once I booted the system from a rescue disk as Osamu Aoki mentioned to another user. edited /etc/lilo.conf, and ran lilo, the machine boots fine. Alan Davis. On Tue, 1 May 2001 23:58:42 +1000 Alan <[EMAIL PROTEC

install-info error when installing package

. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, NMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every

Still seeking solution to PPP failure with kernel 2.1.90.

el" ti\ rick in the /usr/src/ppp.. directory. Nowhere can I find a lucid description of what that all means. If I could \ get to the bottom of it, I'd thnk write one. Sorry for the butchered up text. alan davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

installing emacs 19.34---is this a bug?

! Wow. Alan Davis - -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001International Year Saipan, MP 96950 of the Coral Reef Northern Mariana Islands

Setting up mail services

due to partly my ppp setup and partly my mail set up probably not being set up right. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001 Saipan, MP 96950

Setting up Mail Services, Linux, Emacs, and ppp.

[I am sorry. I hit the wrong keys and sent this message before I completed it. I will try again.] (25 September 1996, 8:36 PM, waiting for Supertyphoon Yates which is quite nearby). I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to addresses at the domain of my ISP usu