SOLVED: Problem mounting USB stick after installing Squeeze in new netbook

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Austin
I have just installed Squeeze in a new eMachines E350 netbook, my first laptop, using the .iso image of CD-1 on a USB stick. The install went perfectly, thank you very much to all the developers. A problem emerged today when I tried to transfer some files from the desktop computer to the netbook u

Re: Re: [SOLVED] New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Austin
an.org/debian-kde/2009/11/msg00120.html and worked with that for a year, but due I guess to less software contact bounce suppression in Xorg than in XFree86, I often still got unwanted context menus. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Slowing down the mouse speed

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Austin
89.html and at the end of the FAQ entry http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/FAQ#lefthandmouse Experimenting with gpm yesterday and today, it does not seem to respond to command line instructions, only to what is in /etc/gpm.conf. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: [SOLVED] New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Austin
gives an unwanted context menu, and even worse, sometimes activates an item in that context menu. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005161459.19702.chrisaus...@ukonline.co.uk

New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Austin
/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection I ran X -config /root/xorg.conf.new to test the new xorg.conf, but the new mouse was still nonfunctional. It was plugged into Serial port 1, and I also tried going into the BIOS and altering Onboard S

Re: Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, > On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: >> I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet >> dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade >> failed because libc-bin was not installed. > How could this

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken - SOLVED

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
upgrade as needed"? * Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005120104.18113.chrisaus...@ukonline.co.uk

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
shouldn't there be a big warning that trying to upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? Best regards, Chris Austin. PS. Sorry if this message has appeared twice, the previous version didn't show up for a while, and it wasn't word-wrapped. -- To UNS

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
ixed? And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying to upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

3 button mouse emulation unreliable in Lenny

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Austin
reedesktop.org/archives/xorg/. I learned that Emulate3Timeout was the relevant option, by looking at the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Best regards, Chris Austin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Etch installer floppy disk does not detect my hard disks

2007-09-27 Thread Chris Austin
an attempted upgrade to Etch. Also the problem is not due to low memory, I have just upgraded memory from 64MB to 256MB, and I no longer get the low memory mode message. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-09-09 Thread Chris Austin
from the old Woody rescue.bin floppy, but file locations then need to be prepended by /target, and dpkg gives an error message: relocation error, symbol _obstack_begin, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email