Firware drivers?

2011-02-07 Thread Arthur Barlow
Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using testing for years with very little problems. I noticed that Squeeze was just officially released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable packages. So fine, I do the upgrade. Reboot, and find I can't get on the network. After some

OT:Gmail and console-kit-daemon

2010-11-02 Thread Arthur Barlow
I believe that this has been mentioned before, but I still haven't heard a credible argument. If I monitor the processes on my when I first open a browser, not much changes, expect maybe a few added processes for the browser. If I do a search on Google.. nothing. But, as soon as I log into

xvidtune and nouveau video driver

2010-09-11 Thread Arthur Barlow
Oops. Wrong list originally -- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:05 PM Subject: xvidtune and nouveau video driver To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Ever since Debian went to the nouveau video driver for Nvidia, I have

Nouveau driver and kernel 2.6.32-5

2010-06-17 Thread Arthur Barlow
I recently updated my kernel from 2.6.32-3 to 2.6.32-5, (Squeeze on an x86 platform). I noticed on reboot that shortly after the kernel booted the screen switched to a frame buffer for the remaining loading messages. I have a desktop system that runs GNOME and so gdm started as usual and I

xvidtune doesn't work after upgrade

2010-06-13 Thread Arthur Barlow
I'm running Squeeze in a x86 processor, and I noticed after a recent package update that I now get an error when I try to run xvidtune. The error says: Unable to query monitor info. I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000 card.

Re: Where did nv.ko go?

2009-09-17 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Wed,16.Sep.09, 18:14:27, Arthur Barlow wrote: I believe that someone else wrote in about it this, but until I shutdown = my X server I didn't realize I had the problem. I logged out, and when gdm tried to reset I get a message saying that it cannont find the nv drive= r. I have a GeForce4

Where did nv.ko go?

2009-09-16 Thread Arthur Barlow
I believe that someone else wrote in about it this, but until I shutdown my X server I didn't realize I had the problem. I logged out, and when gdm tried to reset I get a message saying that it cannont find the nv driver. I have a GeForce4 MX 4000 card. Thanks.

eth0 and networkmanager

2009-09-11 Thread Arthur Barlow
I understand that NetworkManager was designed as a tool for the woeful state of wireless connections and linux, but I'm using a workstation with a hard-wired connection and networkmanager cannot seem to manage it. It shows ifupdown(eth0) as being unmanaged, which I suppose is no big deal, but it

Epiphany browser always starts up off-line

2009-09-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
I have a fairly recent clean install of Debian testing and everything works well. Just one thing I find annoying. Whenever I start up the Epiphany web browser, it by default begins in the work offline mode. There's nothing under preferences that I have found to turn this off. Any suggestions?

Re: Epiphany browser always starts up off-line

2009-09-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:49:19 -0400 From: JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Epiphany browser always starts up off-line Message-ID: 20090901114919.7eaec...@teksavvy.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Arthur

Re: Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-09-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
, 31 Aug 2009 17:50:45 -0700 Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my practice to build new kernel with the kernel-package software that is part of Debian's toolkit. Im noticed over the last few months that all kernels

Fwd: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels

2009-08-31 Thread Arthur Barlow
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM Subject: Boot problem with Kernel Package kernels To: debian-u...@debian.org I'm been using Debian for over a decade now, and it's always been my practice to build new kernel

Problem installing Iceweasel

2008-10-27 Thread Arthur Barlow
I've been trying to install Iceweasel with Aptitude, but the same thing happens each time. Even if I purge all the Iceweasel files and directories, and then do a reinstall the result is that there is a soft link in /usr/bin/iceweasel that points to /lib/iceweasel/ iceweasel. But, when I

Re: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:23 AM, debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote From: Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 28, 2008 12:28:43 AM PDT To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I

Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-27 Thread Arthur Barlow
I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the kernel- package program that is included with Debian to compile new kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that has the Reiserfs 3.6 on it. After I do the make-kpkg --revision= ## kernel-image and then use dpkg -i to install the

Re: Re: Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

2008-08-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700 Arthur Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone

Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

2008-08-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone know if there is an open source driver for this chip? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: discovering debian ...

2008-02-04 Thread Arthur Barlow
oxy wrote: Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask. Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system

Re: compiz + xfce4 on stable (etch) [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Barlow
Jimmy Wu wrote: I sort of have this working, there's a few more things I have to take care of. First, how do I add an entry in gdm to run compiz instead of xfwm4? I tried to use the method of putting a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions, pointing to a script in which I run nvidia-settings

Re: font size changes

2008-01-04 Thread Arthur Barlow
Rick Pasotto wrote: I pretty much keep current with 'testing' but seldom reboot. Today I rebooted and system fonts are noticeably smaller than before the reboot. My Seamonkey window now shows two more lines of text because the menubar text is smaller. Why would the display size of the fonts

Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread Arthur Barlow
John Salmon wrote: I keep seeing Aptitude Reference Manual mentioned in the documentation but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? Install aptitude-doc-en. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Aptitude slow package initialization

2007-07-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
I'm running unstable on a x86 machine. About a month ago Aptitude recommended uninstalling itself, which I overrode for awhile then one day decided to let it do it, thinking I could reinstall it. Well, I was wrong. There was a dependency problem for awhile and it's only been recently

[Fwd: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick]

2007-04-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
I thought I'd try this list as well. ---BeginMessage--- I'm using an older Dell Latitude which has always worked great with Debian. I'm currently using the lenny or testing version. I'm trying to set up a Linksys wireless card or stick. When I boot the computer the BIOS sees the stick on

Re: [Fwd: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick]

2007-04-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:23 -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: I thought I'd try this list as well. email message attachment (Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick.eml) The fact you are running 2.6.17 tells me you are behind on kernel versions or running Ubuntu Edgy

Continuing problem with updates

2006-01-10 Thread Arthur Barlow
For the past few days I keep getting a public key warning when I try to update packages from two different mirrors. The warning says NO_PUBLIC 010908312D230C5F It seems as if the packages are missing a checksum key or some other problem. Could you please check thanks. -- Arthur Barlow [EMAIL

Gnome menus

2005-06-12 Thread Arthur Barlow
After updating the latest set of Gnome libraries for Debian unstable, I noticed that the Applications menu and submenus have changed. However, Iam not able to right click and delete an item. Enough when I log in as root I don't have this functionality. Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-06 Thread Arthur Barlow
Try doing a make mrproper to delete the existing .config file. Then do make config or make menuconfig, etc., and build a new .config file. With the exception of the processor type, don't make any changes to the default .config file. Then try to compile it and see what happens. This has worked

agpgart aperture setting

2004-03-02 Thread Arthur Barlow
I just build a new computer and I'm trying to set up Debian Sid on it. The motherboard is an MSI KT400 for an Athlon-XP processor. I'm using an MSI video card with the Nvidia FX5200 chipset and 128M of memory. The system will not run X and when I look at dmesg I see an error when the kernel is

Re: installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card

2004-02-22 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:57:07 -0500, xucaen wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate, the pc has an IO

Re: Dual boot Debian/Windows question

2004-02-22 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:37:17 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: My laptop is set up to dual boot Debian (sid) and Windows 2000. What is the best way to be able to share files between the two OSs? The Linux howtwo on this subject warns about directly mounting My Documents from Windows in Linux,

Ethernet Cardbus problem

2004-01-11 Thread Arthur Barlow
I'm searching for guidance in the wilderness. I'm running a Dell Latitude CPx laptop with Debian Sid. I originally installed the bf24 kernel and never had a problem. Now I'm trying to use kernel-package to compile the 2.4.23 kernel. I've downloaded the necessary source run make menuconfig to

Re: make-kpkg kernel-image .. missing modules

2003-12-15 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:00:38 +, Richard Pearce wrote: Hi I've been trying to recompile my kernel however the list of modules coming out is incomplete.. What i've been doing.. First off I got kernel-source.2.4.20 .. then i did make menuconfig and decided on the stuff i want in the

Re: Debian instalation

2003-12-06 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:18:22 +0200, Mihai P. B. Stiucan wrote: Hello, I am an RedHat user and now I saw that RedHat is no more available as a free distribution. So i want to switch to Debian. I found some help on the www.debian.org web site, but I still need some advices. I saw there

Re: Apt-get upgrade problems

2003-11-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:30 +0100, . . wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does not upgrade anything. It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: newbie boot log question

2003-11-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
Type dmesg at the command prompt. Then use Shift-Page Up to scroll upward. On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll off the screen. Are they logged in a file or files in

Re: what I'm wondering is ...

2003-11-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
Speaking from my own experience, I sent an e-mail sortly after the servers went down and it eventually found it's way to the list. However, it was about 4 or 5 days late. On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:34, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Will there be a sudden flood of the messages that weren't processed in

Re: Newbie installation query

2003-11-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
IMHO, your best bet is to install aptitude. Aptitude will manage all the upgradeable packages in a single instance for you if you choose that route. It's on the ISO disk. Do apt-get -u install aptitude. On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:29, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: I am a former RedHat user and

Re: openoffice.org inline in mozilla

2003-11-26 Thread Arthur Barlow
Put the following line in your /etc/mailcap file if it's not there already: text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla '%s'; description=HTML Text; test=test -n $DISPLAY; nametemplate=%s.html On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:04, Christoph Simon wrote: Is there any way to configure mozilla to open inline any file

3com network driver

2003-11-25 Thread Arthur Barlow
I have an AMD Athlon machine with a 3Com network card. I first install Debian 2.4.18-bf24 for Sid and everything worked fine. Recently I tried to use kernel-package to make a new 2.4.22 kernel. I ran menuconfig and set what I believed to be all the appropriate settings. Under network devices I