Re: arts Server Problem - only running as root

2003-07-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:23:00PM +0200, Thorsten Viel wrote: Hi List, i got a problem ;-). After installation of the necessary packages for a soundsystem, logging in as nonroot user i always get the following error message: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing

Re: Change font?

2003-07-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:02:05AM -0400, The Nyc0n wrote: Here is the only thing I have found in my XF86Config-4 file that references fonts, is this what I am suppose to have by default? I don't A couple months or so ago, an update to XFree86 changed the default order of fonts. If you are

Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and then overwrote them with an updated Debian package (which unfortunately lacked the patch). I

Re: Recent dist-upgrade in Sarge

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:47:03PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: Dear all, I've recently done apt-get --fix-missing --fix-broken dist-upgrade on debian-testing (Sarge). Lots of package got thrown out but I see some of them got thrown back in. After the process done. I can see I'm in

Re: A4 paper size not available for printer

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:25:18AM +0100, Mark C wrote: Hi, I done a upgrade to sarge, and so far its been great, I have now just come to setup my printer and discovered that there is no 'A4' size listed to use. During the install I can remember something regarding the printer paper

Re: GDM Problem

2003-06-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:19:03PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all Changed my apt sources to get the testing packages, did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, and now GDM won't work properly - when the PC boots up and loads GDM, I just see the default grey/white screens on both

Re: Cannot acces my machine (woody)

2003-06-21 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:50:57AM -0400, Jean-marc Belley wrote: I have a problem to access my computer. I cannot access to root or any user. When i tried to login as root or user i have the following error: Cannot Execute /bin/bash: Exec format error So i cannot access my

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:50:15PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: Hi debianeers. All my device files for high density floppies are gone, I mean no /dev/fd0h1440 or any other /dev/fd0hxxx. But /dev/fd0 exist and it's not a link to any other dev. (Shouldn't /dev/fd0 be a link to

.xsession-errors: event-keyval: xxxxx, event-state:0

2003-06-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
I see thousands of entries in my .xsession-errors that read: subset is whole list! event-keyval: 110, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 116, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 47, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval:

Re: xlibs-dev package unresolvable conflict

2003-04-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:10:17AM -0500, Blitzen wrote: Hi, I have the xlibs version 4.2.1-6 package installed, and am trying to Since you have xlibs 4.2.1-6 installed, you ought to have libc6=2.3.1-1 installed also. So you are probably running some sort of woody/unstable hybrid. You might as

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' error this morning

2003-04-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:41:11AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I've upgraded lots of packages to testing this morning (the libc6/php4 problem evidently got fixed) and finally got the following error. How do I fix whatever went wrong? (Reading database ... 170160 files and directories

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello, all: I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.e.

Re: Nvidia Issues

2003-03-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:16:29AM -0500, Bill wrote: Hi, How do I move to woody? I am not sure what that means. It means do a distribution upgrade to change your Debian/GNU 2.2 to 3.0. The below link discussed upgrading from Debian 2.2 to 3.0:

Re: Problems installing quickcam on kernel bf2.4

2003-03-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:49:33PM +0100, Hans van Leeuwen wrote: Hello, I have problems installing qce-source. I have a Logitech Quickcam (you know, the golfball) and I want to use it with my Debian server. The problem is that the module is not loaded correct. This is because I have

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:47:59AM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: I am running Woody. I was trying to update CUPS by using Synaptic when I got this message: (Reading database ... 93315 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace cupsys 1.1.14-3 (using

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:04:46PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Is the version of HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd the same as other ppd's that come with the cupsys package? I did NOT have any ppd files in the cupsys for HP Laserjet 1200 series and I

Re: Xserver fails after upgrading to testing/unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello, Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again, but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle. The

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:09:56PM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:27:43 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:47:59 -0800 debian_newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is also in

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:07:12PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your printer. You probably need to install one of these packages: I have HP Laserjet 1200 series. 1) cupsys-driver

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-14 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:02:52PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: Thanks for answer. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: I had problem with cups: Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: I had problem with cups: Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing -- between the blocks. Some mail user agents (e.g. mutt) interpret this as the start of a signature. It makes it difficult to incorporate the

Re: X and mouse problem

2003-03-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:45:43PM +0530, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: +++ Bhushan Kulkarni [10/03/03 10:21 +0530]: | Hi , | I am using Debian Woody3.0 r1 . | My problem is when gpm service is on i face problems using mouse . Mouse gets | hang for few seconds and retains again after, mouse

Re: xmms, realplayer, and plugger

2003-03-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:54:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I'm using plugger with galeon. Few questions: - When I click on an audio file the entire file is downloaded before xmms begins to play. Is there a way to get xmms to start playing before the download is complete (stream)?

Re: muttprint only printing one page

2003-02-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:29:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: hi there, how do i go about fixing a problem i have with muttprint? it will only print one physical page, so if i try to print a document consisting of three pages, with two pages printed onto one, only pages 1-2 will come

Re: Epson Stylus C82 Printer not connected, nothing prints

2003-02-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:19:11AM -0800, Ruchira Datta wrote: I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5. When I add my Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully. The connection was through

Re: package and driver problem

2003-02-08 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Mikkel Liisberg wrote: Hi i need to install a display driver for my Hercules Prophet ( ATI 9000) in order to start kde. but my problem is that i can't (don't know how) open/install the rpm package. i have debian woody! How do i do this?

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors you report. *PPD-Adobe: 4.3 *%PPD file for CUPS/GIMP-print. *%Copyright 1993-2001 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. *%This PPD file may be

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:18:13PM -0500, stan wrote: I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username password pair. Where do I look for this config? If you don't want to login as root, add

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:20:18AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: [snip] Also, Check /etc/cups/mime.types; in the section Text files..., you should have an entry: text/plain txt printable(0,1024) There was no such section. I tried adding one, stopping and

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:42:10PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: My error, didn't read carefully. The entry text/plain txt printable(0,1024) is in /etc/cups/mime.types. I have restored the original version of mime.convs which I saved before editing.

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:15:15AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Embarassed. Part of the problem was a defective ink cartridge. lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps is now ok. But termial problem persists. lp printtest prints nothing and generates the error_log previously

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:45:28AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: It is not clear from your message whether you have gotten your USB set up properly. What output do you get to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers? T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-30 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: The attachment is a segment of the /var/log/cups/error_log beginnig two lines before the first false result and continuing to the Ghostscript exit. This was generated by trying to print a single line of text. If anyone

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
--%ztokenexec_continue-- and then, several lines later, Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 7.05.4: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 If anyone can interprete this, I would appreciate advice as what to try to do to correct the problem. On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:44:36PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr

exim - retry time not reached for any host

2003-01-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
For mail I use a fetchmail+procmail+mutt+exim combination. Not every message I send but a few don't get sent to my ISP's SMTP server. When I run eximon and check the message log of messages awaiting delivery, I will see entries like: 2003-01-27 20:09:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: What I _did_ try was mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has changed.

Re: Intel extreme graphics

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:12:14PM +0100, Janke Dávid wrote: Hi all! Has anybody experience with intel extreme graphics (I845G/I845GE), and XFree86? I'm going to by a motherboard and an ASUS P4GE-V would be a godd choice for me. David http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html

Re: apt-get problem

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:36:53PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: While trying fix some broken packages, I ran apt-get -f install from my terminal...after all packages were downloaded, I got the following error(s): etched 49.1MB in 19m6s (42.8kB/s)

Re: xwindows

2003-01-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Bob Wheate wrote: i got it working late last nite,im new to debian and the install was different from other flavors,how ever once i got it working i enjoy woody a lot,i'm led to believe that the kernel is 2.2.x,is that correct ?,any way thanks for the

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Dave W wrote: I've been messing around with devfs in sid, trying to learn my way around, since this may be the way of the future ... and although /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd makes good SENSE and is pretty easy to figure out, it's not so quick

Re: USB primer?

2003-01-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:34:37PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: Hi, this is mostly a request for a pointer to the right docs. I haven't ever had any USB devices until the past few months, when I picked up a webcam, scanner, and mouse. The webcam the scanner aren't on the compatability lists,

Re: Apt-get problem with libc

2003-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:57:12PM -0700, Curtis Call wrote: Disclaimer, I'm a novice so bear with me. I've run into some problems with apt-get. Currently, when trying to use 'apt-get -f install' to clean things up I continue to get this error: ogd2jpr6908:/home/curtis# apt-get -f install

Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:02:40PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: For Device File System, Debian devfsd package, how might I test that devfsd properly creates files in /dev? As a particular example, I work with the Debian camserv package, so I added to devfsd's configuration file,

Re: Detecting the fysical mouse URGENT

2003-01-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:04:20PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: Hi everybody, As some of you allready knows I've got many problems to get an USB mouse working (I only have that USB mouse) I allready posted this before but I got not even one reply on it so I think most of you must have

Re: Cupsys printer

2003-01-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:08:16AM -0500, thanhvunguyen wrote: Hello, I used cupsysd for my USB printer on Sid before, now I switched to Woody. I reconfigure everything via the web interface on port 631 exactly as I did before. But for some reasons it seems that nothing is sent to the printer.

Re: galeon personal security manager needed?

2003-01-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:55:39PM -0600, will trillich wrote: when i click on a link, in galeon (using potato/gnome), that tries an https:// connection a dialog greets me saying This document cannot be displayed unless you install the Personal Security Manager (PSM). Download

Re: apt-get requests glibc-2.2.5-x; won't install it

2003-01-14 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:05:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to install locales using apt-get I get: # apt-get install locales [snip] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-14.3

Re: openoffice: dictionary.lst

2003-01-07 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:04:12PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: After installing several dictionaries mode of /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst was changed to 0600. I think mode should be 0644. $ ls -l /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst -rw-r--r--

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources[SOLVED] ... Onto another problem with gnome :(

2003-01-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:38:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hashed some outside apt sources and it somehow fixed up the dependencies of libxvidencore0, mplayer seems to download now. Thanks :) another prob: After rebooting I logged on the usual gnome wm but it just flashes a

Re: GLCore doesn't exist -- where find?

2003-01-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:43:51PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote: I'm trying to install a new vid card (ATI Radeon 8500DV AIW) ... the old card was an nvidia chipset ... xfree is choking, saying the GLCore doesn't exist I moved the old XF86Config4 file out of the way and did a clean

Re: Just installed Woody but need help with boot...

2003-01-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Scott (sidewalking) wrote: Hi all, I just took the time over last night and all day today to install Debian 3.0 from all 7 discs. I went through and did the partitioning and base stuff right, and shut it down and rebooted, so I had LILO right at

Re: USB Mouse not working ( contd )

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:45:55AM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: Hi, thanks for help ,but I am still not able to get the usbmouse to work . Here is what all I have done . I loaded input,mousedev,usbcore,usb-uhci,and hid modules . I can see the red light in the mouse but it does not

Re: System won't boot

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: When attempting to boot my newly installed system, it gets as far as the following and then stops with a kernel panic. Is this repairable, and if so how. I am a relative newbie, so be as simple as possible. Any help is greatly

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone know why this might be

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:19:08PM +0800, Elijah wrote: Actually, if you want to use mplayer, you _really_ should download the source from the main site http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it. Sean I've already done that and I'm having problems running it, gives me an error in my

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 image unbootable, source uncompilable

2003-01-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:18:08PM +, Tim wrote: Hi, I have a new computer on which I am trying to use kernel 2.4.18, so far without success. I can use 2.2.20-idepci without problems. I am using Debian Woody rev 0, on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, with ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard, which has

Re: WindowMaker without icons. How?

2003-01-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: Hi folk. How can I get rid of icons in WindowMaker. No icons, no backgraund - only menu and root window from X. Many thanks. Start /usr/bin/WPrefs to configure many of the options. Or use editor to edit various configuration files in

Re: apt-get (status file) broken?

2003-01-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:25:00PM -0700, Adahma wrote: I get the following error when trying to use apt-get or dselect: Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error

Re: apt -- which method is preferred?

2002-12-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:42:47AM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: It's turned out that a certain package was somehow not downloadable, even though apt-cache policy showed an ftp entry. It's probably not in the archives anymore or something. The package itself was not important, I just wanted to

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:30:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: http://wiki.debian.net/ doesn't appear to be a debian wiki. Anyone know what's up? It seems to be correct now ... try http://wiki.debian.net/DebianWiki/FrontPage

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:32:43PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: What does `wiki' mean ? Wiki Wiki is Hawaiian for 'quick'. For an intro http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki? -- Jerome msg20912/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mutt won't send mail now

2002-12-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 05:31:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have changed it, mutt's default is set to use /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi, so you should not need an entry in muttrc. well, those entries were not in either mutt config file, i don't know why these 'disappeared'

Re: Booting 2 Linuxes with LILO

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:48:56PM -0800, alberto wrote: Please, send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have 2 debians installed on my system but I'm having troubles with having LILO allowing me to boot any of those. I have potato on /dev/hda3. I just erased win on

Re: Quick way to set up printing?

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:06:27AM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:52, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:05:59PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: Somehow, printing didn't get set up when I installed lpd. I need a quick and dirty way to get my OOffice stuff

Re: Reset old package state after running dselect's install

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Holger_ wrote: I've got two questions: 1) how can I get dselect to ignore the settings I (somehow) selected during the last dselect session (reset the packages info to the currently installed state. Right now, dselect tells me for instance, that the

Re: HELP, PLEASE!! Apt-Get update Errors

2002-12-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:23:09PM -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: I think I read somewhere that there is a problem with one of the libraries causing APT-GET UPDATE to fial. I keep getting the same error; UNABLE TO PARSE PACKAGE FILE /VAR/LIB/DPKG/STATUS (1). I would really

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-11-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: not sure when it happened, I guess it was during dist-upgrade, but suddenly sawfish was the x-window-mananger (I definitely did not run update-alternatives). is this a bug or intented behaviour? If it's a feature, can it be

Re: still monitor problems

2002-11-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: These modes are supported, there should be no problem implementing them. However, now when I open Mozilla the screen just turns white. Right-click with the mouse - and standard menu for Mozilla appears. But I do kind of need

Re: still monitor problems

2002-11-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: These modes are supported, there should be no problem implementing them. However, now when I open Mozilla the screen just turns white. Right-click with the mouse - and standard menu for Mozilla appears. But I do kind of need

Re: Xfree86

2002-11-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:11:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please, help. I installed Debian on a laptop (old one) using the floppy disks. I want to install and run X. Files do I need and how do I go about installing X. This is the first time I have ever used Debian, but not my

Re: installing package

2002-11-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:44:11PM +0100, Raymond Gree wrote: Hello, I try to install a new package and get the following error message: debian-server:/# apt-get install lprng lprngtool magicfilter Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package lprng has no

Re: Problem with mount floppy

2002-11-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: Hi folk! Now I see this message: /dev/fd0: Input/output error mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only when I do `mount /floppy' and I can only read data on floppy but cannot write. What 's

Re: /dev/ttyUB0 on debian

2002-11-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:58:41PM +, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Not sure if this is quite on topic but I have installed bluez from the debian packages and am running 2.4.19. However I'm having trouble with hciattach as /dev/ttyUB0 doesn't exist. Also /dev/MAKEDEV ttyUB0 comes back as

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives

2002-11-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:21:59AM +, Pigeon wrote: Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition of some of the rescue disk itself

Re: X file explorer

2002-11-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:22:10AM +1100, Russell wrote: Hi all, What file system viewers are there for X? I've been using midnight commander which is ok, except that when i view a file, i want to be able to copy text to the X clipboard. I'm using fvwm2. fsviewer tkdesk In midnight

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:03:14AM +, Pigeon wrote: Nonono you didn't read my post! I'm trying to do exactly what this page suggests. ar still works, so I can get to the control data .tar.gz stage. But tar/gzip don't work. So I have to copy the .tar.gzs onto my DOS partition, reboot into

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:29:35PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:24:56 +, Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah - no luck. Rescue disk has no dpkg. It's the same as the boot image you get in the Debian 2.1 single CD. Instead of using rescue disk you could try tomsrtbt at

Re: Weird problem with self-compiled kernel

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:09PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: Everything works fine. But the problem is that I can't connect to certain sites. Eg. When I type lynx www.openoffice.org he tries to make a http connection

Re: netscape

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:36:23PM -0200, Galileu Paulo wrote: Hi guys: I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the problems: 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the system

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:05:08PM +0100, David Jones wrote: Hi, I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's but am unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants to

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

2002-10-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: Hello. In order to correctly build the cvs version of MPlayer, I've been told I need to use gcc-3.2, which is currently in unstable. My question, then, is: what is the best (as in most debian compliant) way to install it on a

Re: More probs installing packages

2002-10-20 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:35:39PM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote: The second source package has failed during ./configure when trying to find gnomeconf.sh. I am using the Gnome desktop so I cannot really tell why - apart from the fact that gnomeconf.sh does not exist. There is a

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:52:23PM -0400, lameth wrote: Okay I installed kernel-package and did make-kpgk. The response I recieved a message about not being in a top level directory ( I was at a /) or make-kpgk was totally out of date. So I downloaded kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4. After

Re: escputil epson

2002-10-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:56:34PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: Hello, i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer epson stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-10-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:03:03PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: Hello, i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer epson stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by my

Re: j2se-common (was Re: java debs, where?)

2002-10-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:42 pm, Edward Guldemond wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello: I have been getting errors from this server for the last week or

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote: On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them

Re: escputil package

2002-09-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:36:32PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: Hello, I began to install GNU/debian linux and now i´m configuring my computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer Epson Stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by my

Re: Recently installed packages

2002-09-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:01:59AM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: I recently installed several packages along with their dependencies. I have since decided that I didn't really want those packages after all but I can't remember the names of all the installed dependencies. Is there any way

Re: Last night's dist-upgrade broke Gnome-AA session :-(

2002-09-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:15:04PM -0400, stan wrote: Last night I did apt-get dist-upgrade. I rememebr some font packages being upgraded, and being asked if I wanted defoma to manage them. I chose yes. My defaul X session has been Gome-AA for a while. After this upgrade, all I get if I try

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-21 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:03:48PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 September 2002 10:03 pm, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.20.2253 +0200]: Yes I know I can do that - I was looking for where ide-scsi gets loaded during the boot

Re: 3d hardware / nvidia driver problems

2002-09-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:38:05AM +1000, Sam Haldane wrote: Hi all, I've just been using Debian for a week or so now and I am trying to get my Asus GeForce 2 MX to handle 3d graphics. Everything seems to work fine in 2d but as soon as I try to run something that requires some

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: IOn September 17, 2002 08:41 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: [snip] Interestingly, I didn't see libnsp4 in the list of available packages. I did see libnspr4, which

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: I've successfully upgraded to Woody and am now just trying to install Mozilla and its components. dselect gives the following output and fails to install. Any ideas? cedar:/home/lwaldron# dselect Reading Package Lists...

Re: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.

2002-09-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also says root on

Re: Errors in upgrading old Woody. Help?

2002-09-10 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:51:55PM -0400, David Teague wrote: [snip] dpkg --audit dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 16531 package `cpp-3.0': `Depends' field, reference to `gcc-3.0-base': version contains ` ' It look like there is a

Re: can I create a .deb file from an already installed package?

2002-09-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:53:50PM -0400, valerian wrote: I wanted to install libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl, but when I run apt-get, it says: Package libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that

upgrade to woody failed; debconf can't configure [was: Re: Help?]

2002-06-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:10:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = C, LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are

Re: help

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:59:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am in the middle of upgrading to 3.0 and while apt/dpkg was installing th enew version of debconf I got these errors and not sure how to fix Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ... perl: warning: Setting locale

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