Re: Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX

2007-06-12 Thread David Dawson
David Dawson wrote: > Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX: > > After a recent upgrade to Debian Testing, support for this camera has been > downgraded, with the result that VLC can now only display the stream at a > much lower resolution. > > Formerly the resolution was an ac

Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX

2007-06-10 Thread David Dawson
Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX: After a recent upgrade to Debian Testing, support for this camera has been downgraded, with the result that VLC can now only display the stream at a much lower resolution. Formerly the resolution was an acceptable 640x480, now it is only 320x240. Suspecting the

Re: Mike Capture not working in Debian Testing/Creative Live Soundblaster

2007-05-26 Thread David Dawson
Chris Lale wrote: > David Dawson wrote: >> Chris Lale wrote: >> >>> David Dawson wrote: >>>> I'm running Debian Testing and the mike capture recently stopped >>>> working. The card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. >>>> The problem

Re: Mike Capture not working in Debian Testing/Creative Live Soundblaster

2007-05-26 Thread David Dawson
Chris Lale wrote: > David Dawson wrote: >> Chris Lale wrote: >> >>> David Dawson wrote: >>>> I'm running Debian Testing and the mike capture recently stopped >>>> working. The card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. >>>> The problem

Re: Mike Capture not working in Debian Testing/Creative Live Soundblaster

2007-05-25 Thread David Dawson
Chris Lale wrote: > David Dawson wrote: >> I'm running Debian Testing and the mike capture recently stopped working. >> The card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. >> The problem is that the system will not allow any app to get mike audio. >> On the other hand I

Mike Capture not working in Debian Testing/Creative Live Soundblaster

2007-05-24 Thread David Dawson
I'm running Debian Testing and the mike capture recently stopped working. The card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. The problem is that the system will not allow any app to get mike audio. On the other hand I *can* get mike audio through the card if I switch on the mixer monitor. I tried setting th

Re: [OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-21 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 18:48:02 +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 17:08:03 +, David Dawson wrote: >> >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > That looks normal to me. You probab

Re: [OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-21 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu AHA! Thanks to you, Florian (and Joe and Roberto) -- If you wrestle in the mud with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. -- Dave Dawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: [OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-20 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 17:08:03 +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: > That looks normal to me. You probably already tried running kcontrol > from a terminal window and checking for error messages. Another thing Thanks! I'm not exactl

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-19 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > aptitude -F '%c %p%?v' search '~R(~Rkcontrol)~dkde|kcontrol' | awk '{print > $1,$2,$3}' Thanks, Here's the output: p gamin i kcontrol 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 i kdebase-data 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 i kdelibs-data 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8 i kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a-1 i libarts1c2a 1.5.5-1 i libko

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-18 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 18:08:02 +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> David Dawson wrote: >> >> > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > >> >> aptitude -F '%?p%?v' search '~i~dkde' | awk '/3\.5\.6/{print $1,$2}'

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-17 Thread David Dawson
David Dawson wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> aptitude -F '%?p%?v' search '~i~dkde' | awk '/3\.5\.6/{print $1,$2}' > Thanks. > This is what I get from the above command: > kde-i18n-engb 4:3.5.6-1 > kde-i18n-eo 4:3.5.6-1 > kde-i18n-fr

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-14 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > aptitude -F '%?p%?v' search '~i~dkde' | awk '/3\.5\.6/{print $1,$2}' Thanks. This is what I get from the above command: kde-i18n-engb 4:3.5.6-1 kde-i18n-eo 4:3.5.6-1 kde-i18n-fr 4:3.5.6-1 Is any package there likely to be involved? If I were to add a non-broken i18n-xxx pa

Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-14 Thread David Dawson
I have a problem in the control center in KDE 3.5.5 with Debian Testing (Lenny). The app runs but the only menu item is 'Network' everything else is gone. I tried apt-get remove kcontrol --purge and then apt-get install ... But this is not a fix. Does someone have a fix for this problem? Than

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-09 Thread David Dawson
Mark Grieveson wrote: >> Greetings; > >> I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have >> had all sorts of problems with it. > >> It seems to me that either something got corrupted during >> the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that >> shouldn't be, or there is t

Re: Troubles with my modem

2007-04-28 Thread David Dawson
Carlos Manuel GV wrote: > My problem: > > I have a M70 Toshiba Satellite and Debian 4.0 installed. > I already have sl-modem-daemon packet and I´ve configured several times > /etc/wvdial.conf and checked /etc/ppp/ppers/wvdial, pap-secrets and > chap-secrets, and from root I gave privileges to use

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-28 Thread David Dawson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > I've got an old Compaq laptop. It can boot from hard > drive or floppy but not from CD. I installed Etch > by moving its hard drive to another machine > temporarily. The CD drive is fine. The BIOS is > ju

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-17 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 21:08:03 +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:28:03 +, David Dawson wrote: >> >> Magnus Pedersen wrote: >> >> >> >> > David Daws

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-17 Thread David Dawson
t; On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:40:57PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 21:08:03 +, David Dawson wrote: >> > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > >> > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:28:03 +, David Dawson wrote: >> > >> Magnus Ped

Re: Openoffice won't display whole document word count in document over 73,763 characters

2007-04-16 Thread David Dawson
David Dawson wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a bug in OOo, or what, but it suddenly stopped > displaying the word count in my document, when I went on typing and > checked it. I found that by selecting all text, I could get a count, but > not unless I did so; it would otherwise

Re: Openoffice won't display whole document word count in document over 73,763 characters

2007-04-16 Thread David Dawson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/16/07 01:08, David Dawson wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is a bug in OOo, or what, but it suddenly stopped >> displaying the word count in my document, when I went on typing and &

Openoffice won't display whole document word count in document over 73,763 characters

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
I'm not sure if this is a bug in OOo, or what, but it suddenly stopped displaying the word count in my document, when I went on typing and checked it. I found that by selecting all text, I could get a count, but not unless I did so; it would otherwise display 0 words 0 characters for the total. If

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
andy wrote: > My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went to go and > save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the document crashed. Now > everything except the very earliest save is gone! She is *not* impressed > (so much for my Linux advocacy!). > How can I recover the docu

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:28:03 +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> Magnus Pedersen wrote: >> >> > David Dawson wrote: >> >>>> >> >> Thanks! ... >> >>> What does dmesg give your right after: >> >

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
Magnus Pedersen wrote: > David Dawson wrote: >>>> >> Thanks! ... >>> What does dmesg give your right after: >>> >>> - you plug in the device? >> This: >> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 >> usb 4-2

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
Magnus Pedersen wrote: > David Dawson wrote: >> I'm running Debian Testing and trying to set up a Logitech Quickcam Chat. >> it supposedly uses the spca5xx driver and is alleged to work. >> I have installed the driver with module-assistant. >> >> I have

How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
I'm running Debian Testing and trying to set up a Logitech Quickcam Chat. it supposedly uses the spca5xx driver and is alleged to work. I have installed the driver with module-assistant. I have noticed that suddenly, the /dev/video* devices are not present (they exist only in /dev/.static/dev/) I

Re: Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-18 Thread David Dawson
David Dawson wrote: > Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard > disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a > user forced fsck. > The reason the user forced the fsck was because of a system sluggishness > he suspect

Re: Unable to switch session from GDM

2007-02-17 Thread David Dawson
Ken Heard wrote: > Damodharan R wrote: >> Hi, >> I am using Debain Unstable. I have a problem with GDM. It always starts >> GNOME no matter what other session I choose. I tried to change the >> session to KDE using the session menu provided in GDM during login. But >> invariably I end up in GNOME

Re: Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-17 Thread David Dawson
David Dawson wrote: > Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard > disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a > user forced fsck. > The reason the user forced the fsck was because of a system sluggishness > he suspect

Inodes date in future - problem

2007-02-17 Thread David Dawson
Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a user forced fsck. The reason the user forced the fsck was because of a system sluggishness he suspected problems and rebooted with a forced fsck. I have

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread David Dawson
harm wrote: > in good old sarge there was a script in /etc/init.d/ that would check the > clock with the ntp server(s) in /etc/default/ntpdate. But how does it > works in Etch, since the init.d script is gone ? Of course i can execute > ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl but if i want it to sync every 24hrs sh

ext3 journal

2005-12-27 Thread David Dawson
How does one locate the ext3 journal? In particular I want to be able to for example, remount the partition as ext2, secure-delete the journal, fsck if required, and remount as ext3. Is this feasible? And if so, where exactly is the journal? Thanks -- ...Dave Dawson "If you wrestle in the mud wit

Re: NFS shares over the internet

2005-12-10 Thread David Dawson
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:05 pm, David Dawson wrote: >> I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. >> So far, the share works on the local network between my two local >> machines, but only "sort of" on the remote machine. >

NFS shares over the internet

2005-10-18 Thread David Dawson
I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. So far, the share works on the local network between my two local machines, but only "sort of" on the remote machine. The two local machines are running Debian Sarge and the NSF server is running the 2.6.8-2-386 Debian kernel. The other local m

Re: how do I keep the clock from going back to UTC?

2005-08-06 Thread David Dawson
Simonelli, Anthony wrote: > Thank you so much for figuring this problem out: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/02/msg00682.html > > Apparently it is still a problem in the stable release. I > created /etc/localtime as a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago > and it worked grea

Can't build Glade-2 apps

2005-08-05 Thread David Dawson
I have Glade and Glade-2 and am just learning the system. I have found that I cannot build anything under Glade-2. I am getting the following sorts of errors from the make after the ./autogen is run. (I haven't listed them all): in file included from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkcolor.h:4,