Re: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-30 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Thomas Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christopher! On 30-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: --- David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Christopher R. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Are you sure your usb-printer ist recognized by your system? Try cat

RE: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Thomas Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christopher! On 28-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: I try to print with the command $ lpr test.ps try lpr -Plp or lpr -Plp0 file I tried that also. The docs say that if you don't specify a -Pprinter option to lpr

Re: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Christopher R. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Are you sure your usb-printer ist recognized by your system? Try cat textfile /dev/lp0. Does it work? No, the command just hangs. What did you actually type? I assume you *didn't* try

RE: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Thomas Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christopher! On 29-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: --- Thomas Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Christopher! On 28-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: I try to print with the command $ lpr test.ps try lpr

RE: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Thomas Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Christopher On 28-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: lp0 :\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\ :if=/usr/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter:\ I try to print with the command $ lpr test.ps try lpr

Where does the ghostscript init string go?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Okay, I think the reason why my Epson Stylus Color 880 isn't working with its USB hookup might be due to: http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html#sh3 They write: Q: My Epson printer doesn't print anything. A: Many Epson printers (the 740 does not) need a special set of characters sent to the

How to start debugging printer hookup?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Okay, when on my system I do $ lpr -Plp0 test.ps and nothing happens, it is probably not actually NOTHING that happens. That is, some of the things that are supposed to happen probably happen, but other things do not. How do I figure out what things that are supposed to be happening _are_

Re: How to start debugging printer hookup?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system indicates all the relevent usb *.o module files are loaded. ^^^ OOps, you have USB printer. First question is can you print text to printer using its device name. No, I can not.

USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I've gotten a Epson Stylus Color 880 that hooked up straightforward under windows connected to the USB port, but so far it is not working under Debian with a 2.4 kernel. Per all the howtos I've read, I created the file /dev/usb/lp0 using mknod, in /etc/printcap I put as the first entry: lp0 :\

Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
For many years, whenever I have tried to run a program under X as root I get a message like: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 I guess tonight I finally want to get around to figuring out how to

USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I've gotten a Epson Stylus Color 880 that hooked up straightforward under windows connected to the USB port, but so far it is not working under Debian with a 2.4 kernel. Per all the howtos I've read, I created the file /dev/usb/lp0 using mknod, in /etc/printcap I put as the first entry: lp0 :\

Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
For many years, whenever I have tried to run a program under X as root I get a message like: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 I guess tonight I finally want to get around to figuring out how to

Xmodmap broken after 2.4 upgrade

2001-01-24 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4 and a number of funny things have happened, the presently most annoying of which being that my .Xmodmap doesn't work anymore. This is my .Xmodmap file: - !!! Mods that reduce Emacs-pinky clear Control clear Mod4 keysym Control_R = F1 keysym Menu

Does any Linux Realplayer[TM] work under newest Potato?

2000-01-12 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I can't get any darn version of Realplayer working with Netscape. Is it known to be impossible with the newest Debian, or do any of you have it working? Thank you, Christopher

Kermit works in DOS with exact same settings but not Debian.

2000-01-02 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I need to connect to an HP49G calculator. X-Face: $DD[\LKdxF)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:I8![LO*X#'|ctq-w]1aoQD8x1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher R. Barry) Date: 02 Jan 2000 11:08:15 -0800 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 44 I think I need help from a serial port guru. I am

smail example for mail between local hosts.

1999-07-03 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I have two boxes on my network that are IP masqed to the net. From the non-Linux box I can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works but whenever I try to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it does not work. I always get a mail from my ISP about the delivery failing and the host being unknown, so it

TCP wrapper telnet breakage?

1999-06-04 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and worked before. It's the classic problem: bash-2.02$ telnet localhost Trying 192.42.172.1... Connected to HAL. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by

Fixing 501: Sender domain must exist errors.

1999-03-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
My machine name is HAL and when sending email to many places I get errors like: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mail failed, returning to sender To: cbarry Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:23:32 -0800 (PST) X-From-Line: MAILER-DAEMON Sun Mar 28 11:23:56 1999 Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON Received: from

Think I got the 501 error fixed.

1999-03-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
After playing around awhile I tried changing visible_name in /etc/smail/config from HAL to 2xtreme.net and I think everything works now. Christopher

Re: SB32 PnP Midi with Kernel 2.2.1

1999-02-07 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] *** my /etc/isapnp.conf : Don't use isapnp with the 2.2.x kernels. I read through all the kernel sound docs and thought I had configured everything perfectly for my system but souhd still refused to work correctly. It turned out that I had forgotten

Re: x11amp, lsof kernels

1999-02-07 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Daniel J. Brosemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 1. x11amp (v 0.9) used to take about 13% CPU according to top... now it's sitting steadfast at 35.3% Is it really taking more processor, or is this due to some kernel option I might have chosen? I'm also noticing that things seem slightly

Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?

1999-02-07 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Yi-ping Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, guys: I would like to know which text editor is compatible with big-5 Chinese text. I have xcin and crxvt installed in my linux box. Because my favorite editor is vi, I tried to open a Chinese document with that in crxvt terminal, but what I

Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

1999-02-07 Thread Christopher R. Barry
A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this behavior configured? Christopher

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

1999-02-07 Thread Christopher R. Barry
William Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where

77MB log files and sound partially working (well, less broken :-)

1999-02-04 Thread Christopher R. Barry
After reading the kernel docs I kinda thought I had things figured out but maybe not One poster mentioned that they started their sound card with: modprobe sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1 As far as I understand from the docs, if I configure everything as modules and enable kerneld, then no

Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-04 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Been meaning to getting around to asking about this for awhile now Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them? Preferably, if Apt could understand the local directory hierarchy and automatically put them in their place that would be wonderful. Christopher

Re: Modem freezeup again

1999-02-03 Thread Christopher R. Barry
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher R. Barry writes: I have a Courier X2 and I always need to type pon, wait a second (the modem lights change), then type pon again to connect. Try editing /etc/chatscripts/provider and changing 'OK' to 'OK-AT-OK' . Let know how it works

Re: Modem freezeup again

1999-02-02 Thread Christopher R. Barry
ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted a couple days ago (to Debian User's) about my modem freezing up. I got a couple suggestions and am now getting around to trying to solve this problem. The problem has increased in frequency so that every time after logging off using poff my modem

ipchains and /dev/audio

1999-02-01 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I just installed the 2.2.1 kernel over 2.0.36. I couldn't find `/dev/audio' and `/dev/mixer' in the configuration options so sound is completely broken right now. What do I need to do to get `cat foo.au /dev/audio' to work again? Also, I use this WM dock-app called wmnet that used to use ipfwadm

Standard header files.

1997-12-07 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I've installed gcc and all the packages that dselect recommends to go with it but whenever I try to compile anything, like the kernel, I just get a bunch of error messages about missing *.h header files like stdio.h. Shouldn't gcc come with these basic fundamental headers? Do I need to do a path

'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I apologise for this newbie question but what do I do to get 'make config' to exist? I installed Debian several days ago and just learned today that the reason why my mouse doesn't work is because I need to compile support into the kernel. When I go to /usr/src/linux and type 'make config' I just