Re: Help - CUPS printing stopped working

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Florian Kulzer wrote: It seems that you are trying to connect to the standard CUPS port (631) using an https://... url. Did you actually configure your CUPS server to support SSL connections on port 631? Well, I thought I had - but using plain http: works fine, so someth

Help - CUPS printing stopped working

2010-07-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've been running pretty vanilla CUPS-based printing on my home and office machines for years. After a recent dist-upgrade to testing, I get on both machines this error when trying to browse to the admin page: An error occurred during a connection to localhost:631. SSL received a record that e

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/09/2010 05:45 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution (>= 2.28.3). Well, not completely s

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution (>= 2.28.3). Well, not completely sure, but here's what I've got: sandbox:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.

evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

2010-07-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
My university is shifting over to Exchange 2007, which means I would like to try to get evolution working as a client. However, evolution-mapi doesn't install for me, even from unstable, because the package depends on evolution version < 2.29 where the version in the repository is 2.30. I will

Re: Tablet input GONE after wacom upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:05:23 -0500 (EST), Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, my tablet laptop's wacom tablet is completely non-functional. Nothing else has changed to make this happen, so I'm wond

Tablet input GONE after wacom upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, my tablet laptop's wacom tablet is completely non-functional. Nothing else has changed to make this happen, so I'm wondering if others have had a problem with the new xserver-xorg-input-wacom package or similar. System is a lenovo X61 tablet,

Re: nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:04:50AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Here's the kicker: changing the AP to a different ESSID and connecting to tha

nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Good morning- I am trying to move away from using ifup/ifdown and manually editing /etc/network/interfaces to manage the wireless network on my laptop. For reasons I can't change, the wireless network I'm connecting to is open (no security). It works fine with the entry in /etc/network/interfa

Using 1394 under 2.6.30

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings all- I am running the stock 2.6.30-2-amd64 kernel, largely because I have been unable to compile a working 2.6.30 kernel of my own. (My travails on that account are documented here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/09/msg01936.html .) Bottom line on compiling my own: In the

Any luck with Blackberry?

2009-11-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Since I got my Blackberry Bold a year or so ago, I've been syncing it with Outlook (blech!) inside a VMWare virtual machine because I had no luck syncing it with evolution, iceowl, etc. When I used opensync with barry, it would work sort of, but then frequently just hang during the sync, which

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:51:12PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: [snip] I was just seeing if I was missing something, it just seems like a pain to

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: [snip] Alex, How does having an initrd prove more or less beneficial than not having one? IMO I like simplicity and a straight forward boot configuration: 1. /boot/kernel 2. /boot/S

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
0 USA On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hi, I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list-- If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably don'

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hi, I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list-- If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want the search line either. menuentry "Debian GNU

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for your continued interest. Answers below. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted at http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using initrd. The essentials I know of - sata

Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted at http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using initrd. The essentials I know of - sata, ext3, e1000e - are built into the kernel, so I don

Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Hey all - I'm having more trouble than I ever have before booting my newly-compiled 2.6.30 kernel. Typically make-kpkg linux-image makes a usable .deb file, which I can install and be done with it. In this case I keep getting: kernel panic: no init found. Unable to mount root fs on unknown-bl

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
- CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, mess-mate wrote: Andrew Perrin wrote: Hey all - I'm having more trouble than I ever have before booting my newly-compiled 2.6.30 kernel. Typically make-kpkg linux-image makes a usable .deb file, which I can install and be done w

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
just to be annoying and point out the obvious, a backup is not a backup if you don't know how to restore from it... A Aye, and you should be restoring it periodically to validate it - all my systems restore daily and validate the data, Yes, I'm painfully aware of the irony! --

Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings all- Running postgresql under debian, my standard apt-get upgrade upgraded me from 8.3 to 8.4. As a result, I no longer have access to the databases that were created under 8.3. Typically I would use pg_upgradecluster to fix this problem; however, the upgrade also removed 8.3, and so I

Evolution palm sync problem

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- In preparation for a move from my old Treo to a Blackberry, I am trying to sync my Treo to Evolution. I was easily able to set up the sync preferences, and the contacts sync worked great. But the calendar, memo, and to-do syncs don't show up in evolution. They *do* show up in the d

Evolution mail hangs while scanning folders

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Making my migration to Evolution, I am seeking to read folders from an IMAP server on which I have a LOT of folders (about 4500). Evolution simply hangs while reading this list of folders, and has to be manually killed. Any advice? This is debian testing, kernel 2.6.26, i386 quad-

Re: General Protection Fault in openafs, 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels

2008-10-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Update: this issue is now bug 500850 in openafs-modules-source. The solution is to set the following in the kernel .config: CONFIG_KEYS=y CONFIG_KEYS_DEBUG_PROC_KEYS=y CONFIG_SECURITY=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y ---

General Protection Fault in openafs, 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels

2008-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Using debian testing (lenny) and self-compiled 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernels, I get the following GPF: Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: general protection fault: [#1] SMP Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: Modules linked in: piix ide_cd_mod ide_core pata_mpiix radeon drm openafs(P) rfcomm l2cap bluetooth v

Re: Gnome desktop: mouse suddenly won't move to left screen

2008-08-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Ted Hilts wrote: Andrew Perrin wrote: I'm sure this is something simple, but on my gnome desktop which uses an ATI dual-output card for a dual-screen layout, I suddenly can't move the mouse off the right-side screen. The left side is recognized by the resolutio

Gnome desktop: mouse suddenly won't move to left screen

2008-08-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm sure this is something simple, but on my gnome desktop which uses an ATI dual-output card for a dual-screen layout, I suddenly can't move the mouse off the right-side screen. The left side is recognized by the resolution switcher, and displays fine, but there's no way (that I can see) to ac

pilot-xfer unable to bind to port: net:any

2008-08-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
After an apt-get upgrade today I suddenly can't sync over bluetooth: adorno:/etc# pilot-xfer -p net:any -l Unable to bind to port: net:any Please use --help for more information ifconfig shows the ppp link was set up successfully: adorno:/etc# ifconfig ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-t

Cursor won't move off screen 1

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Summary: After today's apt-get dist-upgrade, my mouse cursor won't move back from the right screen (screen 1) to screen 0. Detail: this is debian testing, kernel 2.6.24, using the radeon drivers for a two-headed setup. Login and the original cursor are on screen 0. After moving th

Re: TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
I use the pvr 500 using the ivtv driver and play using mplayer. Works just fine, native debian. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor,

tex4ht oolatex produces unreadable .odt file

2008-04-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Using tex4ht on an AASTeX-based document, I have finally been able to produce what appears to be a valid .odt file, but when I try to open it using OpenOffice.org, the file is simply blank. Any thoughts on how to diagnose? The file does contain elements: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/dualspheres-r2-

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's not out of the question that they would have used distiller to build the PDF from PS output from laTeX, but I agree it's more likely some other structured format. XML is a good bet. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at)

Re: pm-hibernate doesn't resume (Thinkpad X61 tablet)

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- I have just finished setting up my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet PC. I am running Debian testing with a self-compiled kernel 2.6.24.2. Generally it works very nicely and I am pleased

pm-hibernate doesn't resume (Thinkpad X61 tablet)

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I have just finished setting up my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet PC. I am running Debian testing with a self-compiled kernel 2.6.24.2. Generally it works very nicely and I am pleased with it; however, hibernate/resume does not work correctly. Specifically: using either

xrandr -o right crashes X display

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Setting up my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet PC, and I am trying to make the screen rotate 90 degrees right for tablet use. This crashes the display, as is documented many other places, but none of the suggestions found via google have fixed the problem. Kernel is 2.6.24

Re: m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64)

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
I was unable to compile madwifi under 2.6.24 either - my best guess is a problem with the madwifi source that needs fixing under 2.6.24, but I wasn't wedded to it so I just reverted to 2.6.22. Sorry not to be more specific. Andy

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I have a WASP pen scanner that seems to be recognized by the kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev input: Marson Wasp Barcode USBi as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Marson Wasp Barcode USBi] on us

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that tape (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term storage (e.g. archives) because CD/DVDs fade rather quickly while ha

Re: finding the rpm of the hard drive

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, lsscsi will give you the model number which you can then search online ap -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Fo

Re: XForward mplayer

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: I want to xforward mplayer, but when I run it from my remote ssh session, it runs in its console mode. Is there any way to force it to run as a GUI application so it will appear in my local X session? I don't see this in the MPlayer docs. -

Re: Problem with cheapo USB hub

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through repeated cycles of connect-disco

Problem with cheapo USB hub

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through repeated cycles of connect-disconnect, with no devices actually appearing: Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_

Re: which program can read M$ Access file (.mdb)

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
kexi-mdb-plugin - MS Access (MDB) driver for Kexi libhk-classes-mdb - MS Access driver plugin for hk_classes libmdbodbc - MDB tools ODBC module libmdbtools - mdbtools libraries mdbtools - JET / MS Access database (MDB) tools mdbtools-dev - mdbtools development files mdbtools-gmdb - JET / MS Access

Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, arijit sarkar wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:26 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware: [snip] Sound works OK from a variety of applications, including

Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] is the lsmod from before or after the force-reload? After anything pertinent in syslog? There's this: Jun 20 12:41:41 joehill kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:10.1 disabled Jun 20 12:41:41 joehill kernel: PCI: En

Mixer use kills ALSA

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware: 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81cb Flags: bus master, 66MHz,

Re: Am I missing something in my understanding here?

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Is the following line in /etc/network/interfaces : auto eth0 If not, eth0 will only be brought up when manually instructed to do so with an ifup command. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.

Re: from scanner to pdf conversion util?

2007-06-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a very basic script on my website: http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/tips http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/tips/src/pdfscan-pl.txt Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Prof

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Russell L. Harris wrote: The XEmacs implementation which I am running appears to differ from the implementation which you are running. When in LaTeX mode, the first press of " produces a contiguous pair of single left-quotes: `` and the second press of " produces a contiguo

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:09:15PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: A 30 day moratorium on re-sale doesn't hurt the store that much, the Never work in retail, huh? Forcing a business to carry something in stock for 30 days before they can even think

Re: Will kernels work on the "wrong" hardware?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Chances are you'll be fine either way - isn't k7 a subset of 686? I would certainly thnk an amd64 motherboard should work fine using a k7 kernel. The other option, though, is to boot to a rescue CD and install a new kernel using the rescue system.

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: Well, I only attended on US college, but Santa Clara U always had a UNIX lab. That is, after all, where SCO comes from... :) Ummm... "Santa Clara" ne "Santa Cruz" -- Andrew J Perrin

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, John L Fjellstad wrote: Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is this typical for US-universities? 3 out of the 3 (german) universities I have attended were running *nix-system for their students/stuff. Looks like "old Europe" is leading here? Well, I only attende

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm pretty happy with my Samsung YP-T7, which I got from overstock.com a while back. It has a voice recorder and an FM radio, both of which I use regularly, along with 512MB RAM which is plenty for my casual music use. The interface is OK, a little clunky but I can get used to it (and have). It

Re: Simplest way to reconstruct /etc/rc?.d

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
stant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I

Simplest way to reconstruct /etc/rc?.d

2007-04-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
I had a hard drive glitch that seems to have screwed up some of the /etc/rc?.d links. The /etc/init.d area is fine, but lots of services are no longer coming up automatically. I can fix them one at a time with: dpkg-reconfigure xdm replacing xdm with whatever package I've noticed needs to be

Re: wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Should be in /usr/src/linux-2.6.20 or wherever you put the source. The headers are just a subset of the kernel source. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociolo

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Daniel Graham Palmer wrote: [snip]. I don't believe in "rules" but instead "sensible explanations". People have this Slashdot mentality where their solution is *the right way(TM)* whereby they instantly chastise anyone that thinks differently. Frankly, if you're going to emp

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Daniel Palmer wrote: Why not put a windowmanager on a "server" ... to me a server is an application not a machine. If a server is an application, then you can't put a window manager on it. If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want to

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Mike McClain wrote: On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confi

Re: Can I compile a hugemem kernel?

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 15:11, Damien Ferrand wrote: On 08/03/07 10:28 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: I seem to have developed a need for a single process (R) to use more than 3G of RAM. The system has 6G, and is doing

Can I compile a hugemem kernel?

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I seem to have developed a need for a single process (R) to use more than 3G of RAM. The system has 6G, and is doing virtually nothing else. Is there a way to compile 2.6.18 or higher with the so-called hugemem patch under debian? Thanks.

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 13:44, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:11:04 -0600 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:11:04 -0600 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070228 18:21]: I remember reading an article in a German audiophile magazine about a device to demagnetize CDs. The author claimed the

Re: who/what uses my CPU?

2007-02-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
From man top: wa -- iowait Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book

Re: DELL 2407WFP build in card reader

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
:2228 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0424:2602 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0424:2502 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID : On 2/23/07, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's the o

Re: DELL 2407WFP build in card reader

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
What's the output from lsusb ? -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hi

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: Thanks for the advice. I have to admit, sounds a little scary for someone who has never compiled a kernel before. =\ But I may actually try it. There's a first time for everything! And you'll have a better understanding of the kernel that way too.

Re: VMWare on current kernels (was: debian rocks!)

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Take a look here: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=76957&tstart=0 Essentially, vmware in its raw state doesn't compile with relatively newer kernels. You need patches to make them work. You can find these patches at http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware . Once you down

Re: VMware?

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
I use it from the original tarball. Works great for me. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
What's the output of (as root): fdisk -l /dev/sda Also, what happens in /var/log/syslog when you insert the device? ap -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Socio

HP PhotoSmart C3180, CUPS driver HPIJS, hangs

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a new HP Photosmart C3180 printer which is driven by the HPIJS driver using CUPS. linuxprinting.org lists it as working "perfectly." The printer is connected via USB to my home computer. There is another HPIJS-driven printer -- a LaserJet 1200 -- which works fine. Both are also shared

Re: DDS2 tape drives and Debian

2006-12-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sorry to join the thread late - I use DDS3 tapes here. Can I be helpful? Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ U

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
wrote: i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... On 10/18/06, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlo

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlog.Debian.gz: * npdate is no longer started from an init script but instead by ifup (closes: #56499, #245338, #312576) * Run ntpdate from ifup in the background (closes: #321759, #375280, #382543) The script is now in /etc/network/if-up.d .

Dymo 320 USB - no writeable port?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've been playing around with a Dymo label printer, model 320, which is a USB printer. My system recognizes it fine and attaches the usblp driver, but the appropriate port (/dev/usb/lp1) is unwriteable. Yes, I'm sure it's lp1 because lp0 is the regular laser printer on this machine. Here's the s

Re: Degraded i810/i915 Rendering Performance After Xorg 7 Upgrade

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Leo L. Schwab wrote: Yesterday I finally made the long-delayed upgrade from xorg 6.9 to 7. It required a lot of changes, including a kernel update from 2.6.12 to 2.6.17. After some fiddling with xorg.conf and a lot of visits to the Xorg69to7 Wiki, I now have a work

Re: compile vmware module with 2.6.17

2006-09-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Yang wrote: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi all! Yesterday, I want to install vmware on knoppix5 with kernel 2.6.17 I and download the latest vmware-any-any-patch104,and pass some problems would heapend before using this patch! But anothere one come out saying that /usr

i915, dri, and xv

2006-09-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
Folks- I'm still struggling with a problem using the built-in Intel 945G graphics in my new ThinkCentre desktop. The symptom is that applications that use the xv driver to display video work exactly once per X session - subsequent times, they revert to a color-map of about 16 colors. I suspe

xine colormap problem

2006-09-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've just installed debian sarge on a new computer, and it mostly went OK. However, I'm having a strange problem playing video files, which I generally do on xine. This problem occurs with other flavors, though, e.g., kmplayer, gxine, oxine, etc. The *first* time I run xine in a given X sessio

Re: lsmod q

2006-09-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, lsmod shows, in part: ... usbcore95296 5 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd ... Is there a way to find out who the other 2 users are, besides usbhid,ehci_hcd and uhci_hcd? When I do a rmmod on those, they go away but usbcore refuses to

Re: Disk usage

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Try du -x / -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210

NFSv3 Not supported; can't read superblock

2006-08-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- After bringing my two systems back up after routine maintenance, I can no longer mount an nfs share from one to the other. These have coexisted for some time, but have probably not been rebooted for several months and across numerous apt-get updates. The NFS client machine does n

Re: xorg upgrade breaks fonts

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
, NC 27599-3210 USA New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:41:24PM +, Andrew Perrin wrote: Since upgrading xorg, I get lousy-looking fonts in places such as emacs, the fvwm menu popup, and

xorg upgrade breaks fonts

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Since upgrading xorg, I get lousy-looking fonts in places such as emacs, the fvwm menu popup, and other GTK-like apps. Any advice on where to look? joehill:~# apt-cache show xserver-xorg Package: xserver-xorg Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 484 Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force

Re: trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude

2006-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, tom arnall wrote: I'm trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude c600. From information on the itnernet, the driver for the card is '3c59x'. I am able to load this with modprobe. But when I do 'ifconfig 3c59x eth0' I get 'eth0: Host name lookup failure'. My ke

Re: How does inetd work?

2006-05-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
My understanding is that it depends upon the type of connection. A dgram ("nowait") server is spawned separately and the socket is passed, while a wait server is passed stdin, stdout, and stderr and managed through inetd. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-inetd.h

New problem with dvips and latex-beamer

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Help! This morning a new problem has emerged using the latex-beamer package and dvips. I have not changed my workflow, so I'm guessing it's the result of an update somewhere along the way. The issue is, after I use latex to generate a dvi of a set of lecture slides, I then use dvipdf to creat

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
In that case, I'd have to suggest turning on the verbose debugging for USB and seeing if you can figure out what's up at the low level. Of course, this is probably not worth your while since you can get a new one for $20 or so online ap

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Klaus Pieper wrote: host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1 dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found This may not be your only problem, but it probably is one of them. You're trying to *read* from your memory stick h

Re: about scp

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
Can you be more specific? What command are you using? What does it do or not do when you try? -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _S

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
For both of you, how about formail as a tool? Or, alternatively, Perl's mail handling modules like Mail::Mbox::MessageParser or Mail::MboxParser ? Cheers, Andy (who used MANGOnet while in Zimbabwe in 1992) -- Andrew J Perrin -

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
stant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Chris Howie wrote: --- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked correctly; what'

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked correctly; what's the output of: ls -l /dev/pilot -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Edito

Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: cd /old-partition-mount ; tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/tmp ; tar xf -) What does the dot do? current directory -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperr

Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote: Hi, /dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions. /dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions. /dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to the new drive, remove the old drive, move new drive to /dev/hda (prima

Re: scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:22 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: means it can be found at: /proc/bus/usb/001/004 Does that mean that changing the ownership of this device will be definitive? I would like to know how to do so. Yes, changing

Re: scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. I am running "unstable" I installed sane and xsane. When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as root. The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scanner and may scan

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 14:20:08 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86# ldd ./qcad /usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld

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