Lost keyboard suddenly

2005-05-20 Thread Jerry Turba
I have been using a custom built kernel 2.6.8. After I did the upgrade/dist upgrade (unstable) I can not longer use the keyboard to login in (GUI). It is not the lack of echo because the enter key doesn't work, nor does ALt+E (restart X), nor Alt + N (console log in). If I click on console login I

Strange keyboard/GUI login/restart X problem

2005-05-20 Thread Jerry Turba
I have the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel working and there is no problem. I also have the 2.6.8 custom kernel installed and working fine except for the GUI login. When the login screen comes up the keyboard does not respond. (KDM) I can only use the mouse to click on the drop down lists etc. THe solution I h

Help with Zip drive

2005-05-20 Thread Jerry Turba
I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive. I have the ppa module loaded, along with scsi support, scsi disk support. I do not have any scsi drives, only the zip on /dev/sda4. The zip is recognized during boot, and I can read it, format it with the iomegaware tool (iw), mount it, all without problem.

Help with Zip Drive

2005-01-03 Thread Jerry Turba
I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive. I have the ppa module loaded, along with scsi support, scsi disk support. I do not have any scsi drives, only the zip on /dev/sda4. The zip is recognized during boot, and I can read it, format it with the iomegaware tool (iw), mount it, all without problem

Re: Fw: gdm and reboot

2004-12-05 Thread Jerry Turba
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 04:30:10 +0100, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Jason Rennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 3:33 PM > Subject: Re: gdm and reboot > > >> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:55:56PM -0500, Michael

Re: Lost keyboard suddenly

2004-12-05 Thread Jerry Turba
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:30:19 +0100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:29:40PM -0800, Jerry Turba wrote: >> have been using a custom built kernel 2.6.8. After I did the >> upgrade/dist upgrade (unstable) I can no longer use the keyboard to >> login in (GUI).

Lost keyboard suddenly

2004-12-03 Thread Jerry Turba
have been using a custom built kernel 2.6.8. After I did the upgrade/dist upgrade (unstable) I can no longer use the keyboard to login in (GUI). It is not the lack of echo because the enter key doesn't work, nor does ALT +E (restart X), nor Alt + N (console log in). If I click on console login I c

Re: Floppy too smal for mkboot

2004-11-23 Thread Jerry Turba
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:30:16 +0100, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:35 -0800, Jerry Turba wrote: >> I have installed the 2.6.8 kernel and it is working fine, but I cannot >> create a new boot disk for it (mkboot) because it complains that it runs >> out of

Floppy too smal for mkboot

2004-11-23 Thread Jerry Turba
I have installed the 2.6.8 kernel and it is working fine, but I cannot create a new boot disk for it (mkboot) because it complains that it runs out of space. Is there a way to create a boot disk in this situation? Thanks Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: User can't start firefox

2004-11-23 Thread Jerry Turba
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:40:08 +0100, Kent West wrote: > Jerry Turba wrote: > >>I just installed debian on a computer for a friend (PIII 500meg ram) >>and everything has gone fairly well. I installed firefox and thunderbird >>and some of the basic programs. >> >&g

User can't start firefox

2004-11-21 Thread Jerry Turba
I just installed debian on a computer for a friend (PIII 500meg ram) and everything has gone fairly well. I installed firefox and thunderbird and some of the basic programs. Root can start and run firefox and thunderbird. there is only 1 other user. He can start thunderbird but not firefox. When

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-22 Thread Jerry Turba
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:22:20AM +0300, Kristian Niemi wrote: Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't wan

Re: Idiot needs PPP help

2004-02-16 Thread Jerry Turba
stephen HARGREAVES wrote: Hi all OK - I'm an idiot - but now I'm an idiot with a problem. After a crash, I rebooted to find that some of the ppp files had vanished. No problem, I thought - uninstall ppp and re-install from my installation disk - except it doesn't (re-install) and now I have no d

Re: adding a directory to apt source

2003-09-16 Thread Jerry Turba
On Sunday 14 September 2003 07:36 pm, Skippi wrote: > Greetings. I am trying to add a directory to the list of sources for > APT to use for installing deb packages. > > The dirctory is > /home/skippi/0data/backup/debian30/debian > > I have been using the APT HOWTO. > In section 2.2 it tells me to