I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone here at
debian-user@lists.debian.org for taking the time to help others with
their questions and problems about Debian GNU/Linux, etc.
It must really seem like a chore at times, especially when the questions
are very difficult, or very easy, or yo
ter purging hplip I
assumed it was not the cause. In retrospect, the system must have been
booted up a number of times before this program was purged and perhaps
it schedules print tests at boot up?
At any rate the problem is gone. Thanks for your comment.
Tom
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charles norwood wrote:
I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
complex process manageable by normal users.
AOL.
I did the task on Tuesday, on a (pseudo)machine I use at work. No
problem at
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
> past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch!
> Debian's policy has never been to be the sexiest distribution around,
> and while m
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> charles norwood wrote:
> >I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
> >went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
> >complex process manageable by
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Sorry for reposting; I meant to forward this to the developers at
debian-devel.
Johannes
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Thanks to all!
Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch!
Etch is a great OS and a great distribution -- to me it's the best
software I ever had. I would switch to something better than debian, but
I know that such a
charles norwood wrote:
I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
complex process manageable by normal users.
Me too!!!
Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
complex process manageable by normal users.
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> Okay then, here is the deal, you need to add the Debian Multimedia stuff
> to youe /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Since you are using Etch, add:
>
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
>
> do the obligatory updates and install the proper packages using aptitude
&g
o:
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct15_20_613025126527-part1 -> ../../hda1
> so if I used /dev/hda1, I'd replace it with
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct15_20_613025126527-part1
> Its a bit longer, but if I move the disk hda to hdb, the 'by-id' will
&g
Damn Small Linux CD and two Debian boot floppies
> > all fail.)
> >
> > How can I regain access to my Debian system?
> >
>
> I hate to suggest yet another distro for you, but perhaps grml can help
> you. It's one of the best recovery systems that is widely
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 08:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
> need a "smart app." that says:
> this you decided to get then but do you still need it?
>
> Hugo
$debtags search 'use::checking && admin::package-management'
apt-show-versions - lists available package versions with distribution
deb
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> So I decided in the past to "get a package" and so on... and so on...
> and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a "smart app." that says:
> this you decided to get then but do you still need it?
Hi,
there already is such an a
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Just dist-upgraded Sid: 390 packages. Went without a hitch after 36
hours on the dialup v.92 line.
Thanks developers!
Except...
I use yaird to preload usb-storage with mkinitrd.yaird.
That did not change in the upgrade but lilo did:
lilo 22.6.1-8 --> l
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
So I decided in the past to "get a package" and so on... and so on...
and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a "smart app." that says:
this you decided to get then but do you still need it?
that
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> So I decided in the past to "get a package" and so on... and so on...
> and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a "smart app." that says:
> this you decided to get then but do you still need it?
that tool comes pre-installe
Hi,
Just dist-upgraded Sid: 390 packages. Went without a hitch after 36
hours on the dialup v.92 line.
Thanks developers!
But this brings up a point: the list of packages keeps getting bigger: I
now have Iceweasel too, although I use Firefox from upstream.
So I decided in the past to &quo
I would like to thank the replies to my questions regarding the Firewall
installation with Debian. I certainly will look at the Arno's Firewall scripts
and see whether it's suitable for what I am trying to do.
Cheers and muchly appreciated.
Regards,
Stef VK5HSX
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> s. keeling writes:
> > My guess is postgres is what you need.
>
> PostgreSQL, to be exact. The package in Sarge is postgresql. Sid
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lar continent into a
folder along with script (from Lubos) with a tar zxvfC argument,
pointing the output to a set directory, and then writing that directory
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subfolders on the fly. Now I just go
ksh /mnt/cdrom/europe/scenery-extractor.shell
Again, this was scenery data for the flightgear flight simulator.
Much thanks to Lubos and to the list.
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Hopefully everyone else who was having problems with their GTK2 apps gets some
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"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> gimp-print was missing. I suppose I must have had it in the past
> as, when installed, the print command included two long dead and
> gone printers with no way to delete them.
Hmm, I hadn't noticed that omission before. You can edit or delete
~/.
d working from a console, from Xsane and from Openoffice.
> >
> > Tom George
> Hi Tom!
>
> Have you got the 'gimp-print' package installed?
>
> Daniel
Thanks Daniel,
gimp-print was missing. I suppose I must have had it in the past as,
when installed, the prin
I added wacom in the module section but this did nothing (lsmod always
showed the module loaded).
I changed from /dev/input/event0 to /dev/input/wacom and the mouse
worked! I knew there was an entry wacom in /dev/input but it is a soft
link to event2 so I never thought to try it.
fine to know t
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi,
>
> it seems that my wacom graphire4 works fine with both mouse and stylus
> on etch/xorg7/i386.
>
> >I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4
> >tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:46:25 -0400
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SNIP]
>
> These three files are the only files in /X11R6/lib now. There is more
> than a page of three columns of files in /X11R6Saved/lib but apt-get
> -f install finds no problems. At some point the lack of the
.9.0
> libxaw8/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
> libice6/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
> xlibs/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
> libxaw8-dev/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
> libice-dev/etch uptodate 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
>
> Hopefully, reinstalling them will restore the necessary files
> i
Done...
Thanks...
Most sincerely,
Dan
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whosoever should believe in him should not perish but have everlasting live"
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On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:20:08PM -0500, Daniel L. McGrew wrote:
> Thanks,
> I appreciate the help, but that didn't work... it's not
> lists.debian.org or linux.debian.user...
> I'll keep t
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:38 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> > On 2006-04-25, Ron Johnson penned:
> >
> >>On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> >>
> >>>Sure, but I could write a program in COBOL and still load passwords
> >>>from a plain text fi
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2006-04-25, Roberto C. Sanchez penned:
>
>>I think you are twisting Ron's point. His original point was that
>>some languages (like C/C++) make it possible to have hard to detect
>>subtle faults that become security problems. Other languages (like
>>COBOL) do away w
On 2006-04-25, Roberto C. Sanchez penned:
>
> I think you are twisting Ron's point. His original point was that
> some languages (like C/C++) make it possible to have hard to detect
> subtle faults that become security problems. Other languages (like
> COBOL) do away with those subtle issues. Es
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2006-04-25, Ron Johnson penned:
>
>>On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>>
>>>Sure, but I could write a program in COBOL and still load passwords
>>>from a plain text file stored with wide-open permissions, just for
>>>example.
>>
>>That's will
On 2006-04-25, Ron Johnson penned:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>>
>> Sure, but I could write a program in COBOL and still load passwords
>> from a plain text file stored with wide-open permissions, just for
>> example.
>
> That's willfully stupid programming.
Peo
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:42 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> >> On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned:
> >> >
> >> > Unless you write with a secure language like COBOL.
> >>
> >> I'm sure it's possibl
On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned:
> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:42 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>> On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned:
>> >
>> > Unless you write with a secure language like COBOL.
>>
>> I'm sure it's possible to write an insecure program in COBOL.
>
> It would be darned hard.
>
>
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:42 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned:
> >
> > Unless you write with a secure language like COBOL.
>
> I'm sure it's possible to write an insecure program in COBOL.
It would be darned hard.
Strings are fixed length, the RTL chops off stri
On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned:
>
> Unless you write with a secure language like COBOL.
I'm sure it's possible to write an insecure program in COBOL.
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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 22:23 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Christopher Nelson wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:21:14PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> >
> >>Or even more often, PHP scripts that you write yourself!
> >
> > Yes of course, but those aren't usually intentionally insecure ;
Christopher Nelson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:21:14PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>
>>Or even more often, PHP scripts that you write yourself!
>
> Yes of course, but those aren't usually intentionally insecure ;) If
> they are, you might want to see someone about it... But I (fooli
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:21:14PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2006-04-21, Christopher Nelson penned:
> >
> > Do keep in mind though, that you can still get infected via insecure
> > things you add on, like PHP scripts you find online and put on your
> > webpage. Doesn't happen often, but
On 2006-04-21, Christopher Nelson penned:
>
> Do keep in mind though, that you can still get infected via insecure
> things you add on, like PHP scripts you find online and put on your
> webpage. Doesn't happen often, but something to think about.
Or even more often, PHP scripts that you write yo
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:11:26PM -0700, lmyho wrote:
> Hi Paul and Linas,
>
> Thanks for the good to know information and nice suggestions! Makes me happy
> to hear
> these.;) Thanks! Hate those viruses, worms, Trojan horses and dialers, nice
> to
> know Debian is imm
Hi Paul and Linas,
Thanks for the good to know information and nice suggestions! Makes me happy to
hear
these.;) Thanks! Hate those viruses, worms, Trojan horses and dialers, nice to
know Debian is immune (at least a great portion) from those. :)
Cheer.
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ipts that will be a security risk.
I think a PHP mailing list would be the appropriate place for this
question, not debian-user.
For secure programming tips, go to google, type in "writing secure php"
and click "I'm feeling lucky."
Thanks for this link. I will check i
would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
> > Specifically, I have started learning Perl-Tk from the widget program
> > and the man page and I would like to write text on the canvas widget
> > which includes the playing card symbols.
> >
> > Tom George
&g
Thanks - I was just out of date. It works now.
Tom
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jan Stavel wrote:
> >Well, do your disks, your controller and your driver support SATA
> >Hotplug? If one of them does not, don't wonder about system freezes :)
>
> Thanks for your answer. It is new knowledge for me.
>
> My motherboard does not
tem
Well, do your disks, your controller and your driver support SATA
Hotplug? If one of them does not, don't wonder about system freezes :)
Thanks for your answer. It is new knowledge for me.
My motherboard does not support SATA Hotplug.
regards
Mario
regards
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nd no others AFAIK.
>
> All four tools have different approaches for resolving complex
> dependency/conflict sutuations, which are much more likely to lead to
> differences in behavior.
Thanks a lot for that. Someone lob it in the wiki.
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Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> By the way, is there a problem of abandoning dependency on APT? There
> have been some problems blamed on this relationship -- "That must be a
> bug in APT!"; "No, I'm sure it's an aptitude problem".
Yes. aptitude is a frontend to apt.
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Adam Hardy wrote:
> Do apt/dselect and aptitude share the same database as far as the
> currently installed modules are concerned, ignoring whether the packages
> were installed by apt or by aptitude?
"apt/dpkg/aptitude use different databases" is a frequent statetement on
this mailing list. It'
Andrew M.A. Cater on 11/12/05 10:13, wrote:
A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to
Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from
apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which
featured a wonderful (albeit imperfect, as some bug r
On 2005-12-11T10:13:34+, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Aptitude is great as a gui front end
text-based user interface (tui)
> - but you can take "apt-get install foo" as a single command from my
> cold dead fingers :)
aptitude provides similar command line syntax.
/Allan
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Descr
re much more likely to be found and fixed
fairly readily - such that the above quote "feels right" - you'd find
significant problems with apt much more readily because it is so much
more widely used and embedded-ish in the system.
Aptitude is great as a gui front end - but you can ta
lack of a better name), making a great tool
even better.
By the way, is there a problem of abandoning dependency on APT? There
have been some problems blamed on this relationship -- "That must be a
bug in APT!"; "No, I'm sure it's an aptitude problem".
Thanks...
To all of you, thanks! I've tried some of the methods, and all of those I tried worked!
Cheers, VegardOn 05/12/05, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ryan Nowakowski wrote:> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:>>>Hello list,>>I have
rge add:
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0 sarge main
>
> to your /etc/apt/sources.list
I hadn't uninstalled it from last time, it was just the use of it I was
rather daunted by.
Thanks anyway
Regards
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:25:33AM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> I flirted with LaTex briefly, a while ago, but didn't get very far.
> Your advice prompts me to revisit it :)
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
To install tetex 3.0 on Sarge add:
deb http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0 sarge main
t
--- Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, John and others.
>
> On Nov 15 2005, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> > One thing I don't understand about LaTeX/TeX though is why it's so
> > darn big and complicated.
>
> LaTeX isn't big. Well, it does have some core packages, but they surely
> are
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:05:04PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> And if you use Emacs for typing your texts, I would highly recommend
> you to grab auctex from the Debian archive and stop 5 minutes to read
> its manual.
For those of you on the other side of the fence, vim-latexsuite is
fantastic,
Le Lundi 14 Novembre 2005 20:24, Joe Mc Cool a écrit :
> Wow,
>
> thanks a lot guys for the push towards Latex.
>
> After struggling with groff etc for years, Latex is a charm. Already
> I can do tables, footnotes, indexes, headers, footers, maths, item
> lists ...
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:25:33AM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> I flirted with LaTex briefly, a while ago, but didn't get very far.
> Your advice prompts me to revisit it :)
>
May I encourage you to take another look? LaTeX has a steep learning
curve, as you no doubt are aware. But once you
o be a nightmare.
>
> Don't forget to install tetex-doc and use the "TeX Catalogue on-line"
> for looking for packages to accomplish what you want. Also, a *very*
> good source of information here is the UK TeX FAQ (search in Google).
> Not only it is very good, bu
Hi, John and others.
On Nov 15 2005, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> One thing I don't understand about LaTeX/TeX though is why it's so
> darn big and complicated.
LaTeX isn't big. Well, it does have some core packages, but they surely
aren't *that* many.
The "complicated" part is probably using "exte
--- Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow,
>
> thanks a lot guys for the push towards Latex.
>
> After struggling with groff etc for years, Latex is a charm. Already
> I can do tables, footnotes, indexes, headers, footers, maths, item
> lists wo
Hi there.
On Nov 14 2005, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> thanks a lot guys for the push towards Latex.
And if you use Emacs for typing your texts, I would highly recommend you
to grab auctex from the Debian archive and stop 5 minutes to read its
manual.
After that, you'll be even happier with LaT
Wow,
thanks a lot guys for the push towards Latex.
After struggling with groff etc for years, Latex is a charm. Already
I can do tables, footnotes, indexes, headers, footers, maths, item
lists wonderful, a joy to work with. And that is after
only a few hours with Kopka and Daly
e
Debian culture will keep me coming back for more... I find it amazing
that Ubuntu managed to capture the love of so many GNU/Linux
lovers/users so quickly and the possibility that the numbers are
bigger than that of Debian. I, on the other hand, am entrenched in
'the greatest OS on earth'.
Thanks for reading this personal account... if you did.
very nicely warns me when I am
about to segfault my code for the umptienth time:
do_dialog_smartctl.cpp:823: warning: cannot pass objects of non-POD type
`class
QString' through `...'; call will abort at runtime
Thanks people! Great job!
H
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Rogério Brito wrote (Sunday 23 October 2005 5:07 am):
> Well, I'm also feeling guilty after your message of not thanking the
> developers. I do know how it is pleasing to receive kind words for a
> project you maintain to be recognized and useful for some people.
The BTS needs to be accompanied by
he community and
all
>|--- >>>programmers of it too! thanks!
>|--- >>
>|--- >>Thank you for doing something that never seems to occur to most
users.
>|--- >
>|--- >
>|--- > Well, I'm also feeling guilty after your message of not
thanking
Rogério Brito wrote:
On Oct 22 2005, John Hasler wrote:
aciddata writes:
i just wanna say that debian is great and the community and all
programmers of it too! thanks!
Thank you for doing something that never seems to occur to most users.
Well, I'm also feeling guilty after your me
ement, which I feel, is the
technical merit of all Debian and Debian based distribution.
I also second (third, fourth...?) my thanks to this great community,
and I am glad be be a part of it as a user.
Kudos to the Debian developers!
Kumar
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On Oct 22 2005, John Hasler wrote:
> aciddata writes:
> > i just wanna say that debian is great and the community and all
> > programmers of it too! thanks!
>
> Thank you for doing something that never seems to occur to most users.
Well, I'm also feeling guilty after yo
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> programmers of it too! thanks!
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Just that simple change did it. Thanks a lot sir!
So I take it that Grub looks at hd0 as the BOOT drive
based on your BIOS settings and boot sequence. hd1 in
this case would be "hda", hd0 is "hdb" because hdb is
the actual boot device.
Thanks again for your help,
J
Hi,
Thanks you everyone for submitting links about HPC related projects
and sites to Cluster Builder (http://www.clusterbuilder.org). Upon
suggestions sent by the HPC community, I added sections for Grid
middleware and end-user applications under the "Software" category.
I want t
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:00:22PM -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote:
>
> Have a look at the mdbtools package.
>
>
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>
This does what I need.
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Benjamin Sher wrote:
>Dear friends:
>
>My thanks to all of you who were kind enough to share your
>expertise in helping a Debian newbie resolve the k3b user vs. root
>issue. I'm sure I'll have a change somewhere along the line to
>help someone else with t
Dear friends:
My thanks to all of you who were kind enough to share your
expertise in helping a Debian newbie resolve the k3b user vs. root
issue. I'm sure I'll have a change somewhere along the line to
help someone else with the same problem.
Learning something new every day.
Th
PC to
outside world with three steps (install bluez utils, get paired, set up
NAT with editing one file...)
* skype works just fine for me.. (including mic.. what was not case with
Mandrake)
* NVIDIA drivers working just fine with some apt-get sources added (and
then removed)
Thanks for your great
or both actions
that got me there, but my workstation has a completely reasonably
looking desktop at this point.
Thanks to all for the feedback.
Sincerely, Xeno
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pt cache.
>
> if test $# -eq 1; then
> DAYS=$1
> else
> DAYS=90
> fi
>
> SRC_DIR="/var/cache/apt/archives"
> DEST_DIR="/backup/debian/packages/old"
> TMP_SCRIPT="tmp.sh"
>
> find "$SRC_DIR" -daystart -mtime +$DAY
; > > dist-upgrade).
> > >
> > > If I were you I'd get the most recent kernel source from kernel.org and
> > > compile that. You can treat them exactly the same way as the tar.bz
> > > files from the Debian source packages.
> >
> > Or the
; compile that. You can treat them exactly the same way as the tar.bz
> > files from the Debian source packages.
>
> Or the latest 2.6.11 kernel from sid (a lot less work).
>
Thanks. A good idea and it worked. I had never considered downloading
anything from Sid but checking the Debia
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:52:19PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote:
> It has been aggravating, but I've learned a lot! Being a complete
> Debian newb, I have a lot of reading to do over my 4 day weekend
> coming up! I just wanted to thank those who helped and encouraged me
> last fall, and apologize
stallation "bug report," so I want to do that first. It's really strange that the installer kernel couldn't recognize my HD controller, but it installed a kernel that could!
Thanks again,
Dave Witbrodt
Thanks for the suggestions which solved my problems. I installed
gscanbus and when it aborted, I ran strace gscanbus which showed the
problem was a failure to open /dev/raw1394. A check showed this file
was owned by root and disk but with only 660 permissions. I changed the
permissions to 666
xfig does exactly what I want and is fully documented. I don't know how
I overlooked this program when I searched the Debian packages.
Tom George
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a new kernel, I had exactly the
opposite effect. USB mouse using the PS/2 connector failed to respond.
Even with the original kernel where it had worked just fine not an hour
earlier.
Thanks to scarynetworkguy from #debian, I was able to get my mouse back
simply by removing the connector and usin
ast for the time being :-) - is an error
> message that reads "Can't find file pc/uk for symbols include" whenever I
> startx. However, this is very minor, and doesn't seem to actually break
> anything.
>
> So thanks to the infinitely patient Kent and everyone else w
for symbols include" whenever I
startx. However, this is very minor, and doesn't seem to actually break
anything.
So thanks to the infinitely patient Kent and everyone else who helped - you
are stars all!
Best wishes,
Brian
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Thanks - you are both right.
I missed the in my first reading of the lengthy
option-rich /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. When I enabled this option the
error message disappeared but the transmission still did not work.
The line http:/Dragon:631/ipp was one of the suggested entries listed
when
Thanks for all the insightful discussion. I now understand the
differences and may switch to Grub in the future. For the present I
have a number of other pressing projects that have priority.
Also, the though I have frequently rebuilt kernels the only time I was
plagued with boot hangups it
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