Re: pulseaudio, derivative problems

2016-08-10 Thread Levi Darrell
> > Being in the audio group is neither > here nor there. > The audio problem is specifically with pavucontrol. The audio itself still works through alsa. I'm inclined to believe it has something to do with some of the libraries I installed, since other programs, such as firefox and evince, are a

Re: pulseaudio, derivative problems

2016-08-10 Thread Levi Darrell
> > > It is not necessary for a user to be in the audio group these days. > > ls -l /dev/snd/* > > shows all files have permissions crw-rw+. The "+" sign indicates an > ACL (Access Control List). Then (as the user) > > getfacl /dev/snd/* > > will show whether the user is on the List. > > It

pulseaudio, derivative problems

2016-08-10 Thread Levi Darrell
I've really done it this time. I'm running Debian Stretch Testing, Kernel v. 4.3.0-1-amd64. With X Server I use the LXDE desktop environment. I had been using pulseaudio without any trouble. I tried to install audacity v. 2.1.2. I compiled it from source, but when I open audacity, it doesn't read

Canon Printer Setup

2016-06-18 Thread Levi Darrell
17:51 GMT-06:00 Brian : > On Fri 17 Jun 2016 at 16:50:46 -0600, Levi Darrell wrote: > > Is there anything in the Printing section of the wiki which helps you? > It could be a 32-bit/64-bit issue. > >

Canon Printer Setup

2016-06-17 Thread Levi Darrell
Hi All, I'm attempting to use a Canon Image Class MF628Cw from Debian. I downloaded the drivers from the Canon website at https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/printers/color-laser/mf628cw. I installed them via dpkg, then added the printer in CUPS via a web browser at l

Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts

2016-06-10 Thread Levi S. Darrell
On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:31:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I would have thought that you would put XKBLAYOUT="fr,latam" > in your /etc/default/keyboard which gives you deadkeys by default. > That's for X itself (I know nothing about LXDE) but also the VCs. > > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-con

Changing tty shells

2016-06-09 Thread Levi Darrell
Hi Debian Users List, My computer is set to boot into a tty shell. I manually enter X Server by issuing the startx command. Previously, I had been able to switch tty shells with the keystroke combination Alt + F[1-6]. After attempting to reconfigure they keyboard and locales to solve an unrelated

Locales, Keyboard Layouts

2016-06-09 Thread Levi Darrell
Hi Debian Users List, I am using the lxde desktop environment with xorg. I have installed the "Keyboard Layout Handler" applet, and I am attempting to use the French and Latin American keyboard layouts. Single-keystroke characters, such as ñ οr ç work just fine, but I am having difficulty inputtin

Using a dedicated partition for VBox install

2016-03-07 Thread Levi Darrell
Has anybody had any luck using VBox to install a second system to a dedicated partition on the host system, rather than a dynamically allocated virtual hard disk? The reason I want to do this is that my computer has two drives, a 120 GB SSD to which I have my host Debian system installed, and a 1 T

NVIDIA GeForce problem

2016-03-02 Thread Levi S. Darrell
Hello, I am trying to get my NVIDIA video hardware to work properly with X. I am running Debian Testing, which I just installed a few days ago. I installed nvidia-detect using apt. I then installed Bumblebee using the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee#Installation. I added my lo

Intel Wireless 8260 not working on Lenovo Ideapad

2016-02-29 Thread Levi S. Darrell
Dear all at debian-user@lists.debian.org, In January of 2016, I purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 laptop, which had Windows 10 pre-installed on it. Since that time I have been unable to get my Intel Wireless 8260 hardware to work with my Debian Jessie stable distro. After several hours se

qunu tip

2006-07-12 Thread Darrell Crow
no other distribution has jumped onto this yet. it might be awesome in PR potential value for you! anyway - the site is at www.qunu.com if you wanna check it out. thanks for your work on debian :) cya darrell Ps: not affiliated w/Qunu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-29 Thread Darrell Bellerive
Debian stable system up to date. -- Darrell Bellerive Amateur Radio Stations VA7TO and VE7CLA Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

newsletter management- Help

2004-02-06 Thread Darrell
I need help!  I want to create a newsletter for a website, and don't want to use Windows for the newsletter creation or opt-in. Any linux apps for creation and management of the emails.   Thanks   Darrell   ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system

Re: Debian on a SUSe system.

2004-01-30 Thread Darrell
-http://www.debian.org/doc/ I hope this helps with your start. Darrell On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 14:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I currently have SUSe on my PC and > would like to switch to Debian.Could > someone point me to some documentation > that might help me convert.Something that

Evolution error

2004-01-29 Thread Darrell
GNOME- Desktop and Control Panel? Darrell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Evolution install

2004-01-28 Thread Darrell
good PIM. Any ideas Darrell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip forwarding under 2.2.17

2002-02-26 Thread darrell dupas
for completeness, you will put your ports and ip's in of course - hope this helps darrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/sh echo DMZ modprobe ip_masq_mfw ipchains -I input -p tcp -y -d 161.184.137.127/32 1521 -m 1521 ipchains -I input -p tcp -y -d 192.168.1.1/32 1521 -m 1521 ipmasqadm mfw -A -m

Re: Script that when when you login

2002-02-25 Thread darrell dupas
everything up one step at a time, this way you can see where the problem is ie/ alt+ctrl+f1 killall gdm killall xdm X & alt+ctrl+f1 xterm -display :0 & wmaker --display :0 & i give this tip all the time because i find xdm and gdm annoying when trying to configure X darrell

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-17 Thread darrell dupas
so the last attempt was a learning process, if you tried it you may have had *very* hit and miss success, plus general weirdness, the script i have attached is a little better, i woke up this morning thinking, hmm, i should not learn at other peoples expence and perhaps i should give a second e

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

2002-02-16 Thread darrell dupas
expect { "login:" { send -s "mp3\r" } "assword:" { send -s "mp3\r" } "Last login" { break } } incr tries } send_user "login success" interact -u xterm -- comments: uh, this doesnt open 3 terminals, i g

Re: sgml or latex?

2002-02-12 Thread darrell dupas
also worth noting is the LaTeX word processor called LyX, which also supports DocBook export and several generic tex styles it can produce pdf and if you export to docbook sgml you can still use those tools too lyx is still a little unstable in woody, if you open the user manual as anyone ot

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-26 Thread darrell
this technique ( init=/bin/sh, with a remount, edit passwd ) has worked for me in the past as well, also, dont forget to umount after you are done, and perhaps a sync this is a cool trick, that emphisises the importance of physical security darrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you can

Re: Gtk error only when root! (??)

2002-01-22 Thread darrell
#x27;s or whatever, and the other for surfing or whatever seems like a lot of work, but i dont reboot too often ;) darrell

Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-18 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:57:16 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Isn't that why I ran "vim /boot/grub/menu.lst" in the first place? With a configuration as simple to manage as grub's is, I can't imagine why this would need to be automated. (X, yes; sendmail, yes;

RE: roff / tex comparison (was Re: OT: Rant)

2002-01-18 Thread darrell
i would like too throw my 2 cents in here, i started with lyx as a gui for latex, just installed the deb ( after wrestling with dselect ;) and am very happy with lyx, there were some post deb install issues that i had to fix, i am new to debian and dont want to track down the maintainer, so i

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-18 Thread darrell
problem solved after taking couragous leap of faith - debian rules, i am so very impressed i wonder if it is as simple as changing the word stable to testing? deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:18:45PM -0700, darrell wrote: Is this in potato? i wonder if it is as simple as changing the word stable to testing? yes run: cat /etc/debian_version A response "3.0" means you are using testing, i.e. woody. Stable is 2.

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
work for me, had to adjust server info if i recall correctly ( and use full hotmail address, not just pre@, same as imici ) , but i have heard lately other users of everybuddy having problems darrell

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
/ +++-+ / or quiting but got into some nasty loops thanks - i dont know how i missed the X, duh - well i tried X and it still wants me to unistall half my software, i dont think so!!! darrell

Re: WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/01/2002 (10:04) : here is some pix of my desktop nori, btw, wmaker is cool and pretty damn hard to beat, i have tried many desktops, gimp 1.2 runs real You mean you have tried several windowmanagers. Have you tried s

wrestling with dselect

2002-01-16 Thread darrell
enough of the manual, but i have come along ways just pushing dselect, and i like it for instance the Q option to force things along, got me tleds after some wrestling darrell

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-16 Thread darrell
s does irritate me somewhat too! when i was trying to figure out how to fix gdm, i tried to pass runlevel to lilo - this was nice when 1-3-5 where the runlevels singleuser-network-gui, guess that is old hat now? darrell

Re: WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-16 Thread darrell
vent tried the 2.4 kernel yet perhaps your menues are broken if they dont fix the theme darrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.0119 +0100]: things progress fine until i attempt to change the background, or add more desktops th

is dselect for woody going to break if ...

2002-01-15 Thread darrell
i already did this, because, well it is a bit hard to explain, but dselect wanted to remove a bunch of software, i had to quit dselect, i did the following and everything is fine now, but, er it is the second time i did this, essentially i am telling dpkg to quit bothering me about uninstalling

strange behavior, comments

2002-01-10 Thread darrell
working, simply downloading the source and compiling it locally is the fix - some people suspected permissions, which is not the case anyway - i am totally impressed thanks darrell dupas

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread darrell
like: Xsession wmaker # all this said, if you asked 20 linux users we would all do it differently! darrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted of verti

Re: Did something break with gnome 1.4?

2002-01-06 Thread darrell
UNSURE IF IT IS RELATED FIX? i had to run gdmconfig and add a parameter to the debian window manager script, in the call to Xsession Xsession wmaker or in your case Xsession enlignmxx (i dont know the name of the enlightenment program) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did an apt-get