Attempt to access beyond end of device/Raid linear and 1

2003-12-08 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
I recently set up two 9 gig scsi drives on my machine. Discovered that an attempt to copy data from one array to another results in "I/O error. Attempt to access beyond end of device". Data copies to/from either raid array to/from a non-raid partition work properly. Googling found references

Attempt to access beyond end of device/Raid linear and 1

2003-12-04 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
I recently set up two 9 gig scsi drives on my machine. Discovered that an attempt to copy data from one array to another results in "I/O error. Attempt to access beyond end of device". Data copies to/from either raid array to/from a non-raid partition work properly. Googling found references

Sarge Netinstall ISO

2003-11-14 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Yesterday, I downloaded the following image: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso Burned the image to CD using Xcdroast, CD refuses to boot. The CD will mount and read properly. Tried another self-burned bootable CD (different image) and it booted with n

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-31 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:35:13AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > BTW, your email address is wrong: > host bigriver.net.mail1.psmtp.com[12.158.34.245] said: > 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command) It should be fixed now. Thanks. > | I read somewhe

OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-28 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? Larry -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

ALS-100 Sound Card and Sid

2003-08-19 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
During a recent upgrade to Sid, my old ESS-Solo1 sound card died. I do not think that the upgrade broke the card. I rummaged through my junk box and came up with an Avance Logic ALS-100. After finding out that sndconfig 0.7 is broken, I went back to sndconfig 0.68. Sndconfig wants to install

Re: Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-30 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 03:53 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > python-glade - Put a bit of python code behind interfaces built with GLADE. Getting this package got rid of the error about the python bindings. > python-glade2 - GTK+ bindings: Glade support > python2.2-glade2 - GTK+ bindings: Glade suppor

Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-29 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I am trying to compile a program called gramps from SourceForge. Running ./configure gives the error message that the python bindings for libglade were not found. Is there a Debian package that will fix this? Thanks, Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: cu program?

2003-01-30 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:30:37AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > I cannot locate the cu program. Can someone point me in the right > > direction? > I did not look but I recall the cu program being part of the uucp > package. You could install uuc

cu program?

2003-01-29 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, I have finally built a small home lan and want to leave my modem connected to the server machine. I found a HOWTO on this subject in the doc-linux package. The following perl script was listed as one method of routing pppd from one machine to the other.

Re: Asus ME-99 mobo manual

2003-01-24 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:18:34PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:41:24 -0600 > "Larry W. Irwin Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I just got an Asus ME-99 mobo and need to find a manual for it in text, > I founded everything on the ASUS si

Asus ME-99 mobo manual

2003-01-23 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Hi, I just got an Asus ME-99 mobo and need to find a manual for it in text, pdf, html, whatever. I have the CD that came with the mobo but the manual is a Windows executable. No MSBSOS on my machine. Motherboards.org lists a pdf file for it but it is zero bytes long. I have searched for i

Gaim problems

2003-01-09 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, Is anyone else using Woody's version of Gaim for Yahoo instant messaging? It worked fine here until about a week ago when I could no longer connect to Yahoo. The only error message shown is "Unable to read". ? Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: apt-get update errors

2002-12-27 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:01:57 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The redirect says to try unc.dl.sourceforge.net rather than > ftp3.sourceforge.net; does that help? (Although I don't understand > why you need it >when you already have ftp.us.debian.org.) I put in sourceforge as a b

apt-get update errors

2002-12-26 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Hi, For at least a week or so I have been unable to get apt-get update to go through without errors. Here is the output: Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Release Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.us.debia

Re: Palm Pilots

2002-12-26 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
On 25 Dec 2002 16:11:16 -0500 Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know for sure the equivalent for the /dev/usb system, but I > suspect it's the '1' entry, whatever the rest of the syntax is. > > Bret Thanks to you and Martin. After sending the inquiry to the list, I saw

Palm Pilots

2002-12-25 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Hi, I searched the mailing list archive and the howto's but could not find any help. I have pilot-link and jpilot installed but am unclear on which USB port to use. It *seems* that /dev/usb/ez0 should be the first USB port. True? Thanks, Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

E-Mail trouble

2002-12-13 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I am testing Dman's beautifully explained fix for my mail trouble by sending this. I used Sylpheed to read the replies to my request because I did not know if I would need to send again. Thanks, Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

E-Mail trouble

2002-12-13 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, I am a new Mutt/Exim user and have a problem sending mail. Have successfully sent e-mail using Mutt to another list and to an individual. When I try to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get the attached mails with the error messages. System: AMD K6-2 475 Mhz 128 Mb ram Woo

Re: choice of software

2002-11-06 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:19:27 -0800 Jim Bowering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find xmms impossibly hard to read with its blue-on-black and small > > font, so have been using noatun instead. Has anyone found a way to make > > xmms a little more readable? Look in the Options menu for the entry

Ogg Vorbis encoder speed

2002-10-26 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, I am trying out the jack cd ripper program and using oggenc as the encoder. It reads music tracks at 5.0x but encodes at 0.1x. Is that normal for ogg? Jack is set to use one encoder at a time. My machine: 475 Mhz AMD K-6 96 Mb ram 20 gig HD Debian Woody using 2.4.18-k6 kernel Thanks, Larr

Tasksel

2002-10-19 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, I am building a Debian 3.0 system via dialup. The manpage for tasksel states that you can issue the command 'tasksel install '. I looked in the task description file on my system and one of the tasks is basic-desktop which is what I want to do but basic-desktop does not appear on the tasksel

How to remove Gnome2

2002-10-16 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
I did an apt-get install Gnome2 today and wish that I had not. It appears to be far too large and slow for my 475 Mhz 96Mb system. I would like to go back to Gnome 1.4 but don't know how. I searched the mailing list archive and found nothing. debbie-newbie Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Netscape

2002-01-06 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I have been trying to apt-get install netscape with no luck. My sources.list is using us.debian.org. Can someone point me in the right direction? Larry

KDE pre 2.0

2001-07-24 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Can someone point me to a source of potato debs for pre 2.0 KDE? I want pre 2.0 because I downloaded the 2.something kppp and its supporting packages from kde.debian.net and it doesn't work very well for me. Pre 2.0 kppp worked fine. The newer kppp failed to connect to my isp because the erro

Re: Audio problems...help!

2001-07-19 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:34:38 -0500 "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgrade my debian potato to r3 and my sound isn't working! > > When I try to hear some mp3 file with xmms, at console I receive: > /dev/dsp: no such file. > But it is there!!! From going through t

Re: MP3 players

2001-07-19 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:20:44 -0700 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > > After reading your mail, I tried each of the output plugins. Only one > > produced any sound at all and of course, it was heavily distorted. > >

Re: MP3 players

2001-07-18 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:54:28 +0530 harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:55:17AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > > > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > > with > > it. mpg123 will p

Re: MP3 players

2001-07-18 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:43:03 + Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 July 2001 15:55, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > > with it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmm

MP3 players

2001-07-18 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems with it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp produce horribly distorted sound. Since mpg123 works properly, it seems to me that I have the right sound drivers and that they are configured correctly. An

.bashrc

2001-07-12 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Many thanks for the tip about .bash_profile. Sure enough, the lines that execute .bashrc were commented out. Regards, Larry

.bashrc

2001-07-12 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Hi everyone, I am running Debian potato and am having a problem with .bashrc. It works fine as root but does not get executed when I log in as a user. The default .bashrc contains one alias command (the rest are commented out). When I type 'alias' (under the regular user account), no aliase

Sound configuration

2001-07-04 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
This has probably been much discussed before but I am new here. How the heck do you configure the sound card under potato? Thanks, Larry

Re: Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-04 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Wed 04 Jul 2001 05:30:37 MET "Lambrecht Joris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leaves me very little choice. The only two i haven't tested yet are Evolution > (http://www.ximian.com/evolution) and Postoffice (www.tarball.net) wich looks > pretty cool but didn't work right away. Again, any and al

Netscape setup

2001-07-01 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I just installed Debian potato and want to use Netscape. I went to the Debian website and found two .deb packages, netscape-base-476_4.76-1.deb and netscape-base4_4.76-1.deb. These packages installed properly but I don't know what to do with them. What do I need to do? Larry