Re: [Dorset] ACPI control

2010-08-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install cups [sudo] password for peterm: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done cups is already the newest version. So I think cups is installed OK, but two other packages have never

Re: [Dorset] ACPI control

2010-08-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, I notice all those other rc(x).d files are missing. If I had thought about it, I would have assumed that they are back copies of an rc.d file. No, they're fundamental to your machine entering and leaving different runlevels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel Glad to see

Re: [Dorset] ACPI control

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Merchant
Is anyone else having problems with ACPI control. I notice that it is an open bug to do with LSB bits. I have just done a set of upgrades that ended with an error message about ACPI, but they have installed successfully. Peter On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 21:33 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: I have

Re: [Dorset] ACPI control

2010-08-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, I have been wondering why I am having trouble setting up an HP Parallel printer, and every time I try and install anything, like cups, It terminates with an error due to acpi control. That's a bit vague. :-) My grub file ends with a statement that I added a couple of months

Re: [Dorset] ACPI control

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Merchant
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:43 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I have been wondering why I am having trouble setting up an HP Parallel printer, and every time I try and install anything, like cups, It terminates with an error due to acpi control. That's a bit vague. :-)

[Dorset] ACPI control

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Merchant
I have been wondering why I am having trouble setting up an HP Parallel printer, and every time I try and install anything, like cups, It terminates with an error due to acpi control. My grub file ends with a statement that I added a couple of months ago: # added 22-6-10 to enable temperature