Register for Debian forums

2025-05-05 Thread Joseph Park
Hi, I have been trying to register for the Debian Installation forum since May 3 2025.  The account seems to be created, username and password apparently accepted, however, I do not receive an activation link. The response from forums.debian.net/ucp.php?mode=login is : The specified usern

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Joseph Loo
You might want to read the manual with the computer. My Lenovo would boot automatically to Windows. In the manual, it had a hold on the side, trusty paperwork clip press the hole, boots into bios. Install Linux On Thu, Jun 8, 2023, 2:51 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: >

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Joseph Loo
Try this article https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:BTRFS On Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 5:43 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > I have a Freedom Box Pioneer (hardware is an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 > unit with a Samsung 128 GB micro-SD card. The micro-SD is partitioned > into 2GB boot ext2 and the remainder as the r

Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-28 Thread Joseph Brenner
em. That's interesting in itself. Makes some sense. Thanks much. On 1/28/22, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 26 ian 22, 17:33:04, Joseph Brenner wrote: >> I was wondering if the on-disk data format for btrfs is >> compatible between the i386 and amd64 code bases-- >> e.g

btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-26 Thread Joseph Brenner
I was wondering if the on-disk data format for btrfs is compatible between the i386 and amd64 code bases-- e.g. would you expect to be able to swap data drives between machines running either? I've got an old i386 installation with /home in it's own partition, and I'm wondering if I can expect to

Lenovo Miix 720

2020-11-14 Thread Roderick Joseph
Good day, I have a Lenovo Miix 720 and I would like to I need a physical keyboard to install ubuntu on it and what kind touchscreen support there is?

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-21 Thread Joseph Loo
iveCountMax and also ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Is there some other setting somewhere that affects this? Thanks, Britton -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

upgrade hits an acpid problem: "Got no socket."

2019-04-19 Thread Joseph Brenner
I've been going around on some fun issues related to doing a full upgrade for the first time in a long time on a Lenovo E550 laptop running Debian testing. The system now won't boot cleanly, but I can get in via a recovery mode (after which, I start network-manager manually), so I've continued exp

Re: How to mount or link as extention of fs?

2018-03-17 Thread Joseph Loo
ocuments from another location. But the user logging into the machine would only see it as a single location without any links. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: How to mount or link as extention of fs?

2018-03-17 Thread Joseph Loo
ocuments from another location. But the user logging into the machine would only see it as a single location without any links. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: Sony Memory Stick problem on Debian 9 stable

2017-12-21 Thread Joseph Loo
and memory stick is old technology. In addition be careful of the switch. In sdc cards, the switch does not truly make the card read only, instead it is a bit to indicate the switch is on or off. It is up to the software to ensure that you do not write to it. Of course this may have changed -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

2016-11-11 Thread Joseph Loo
linux.com/showthread.php?147959-How-to-install-and-boot-145-operating-systems-in-a-PC > (Scroll down to "Partition Tables".) > > Cheers, > David. > Your URL is talking about gpt scheme. The limitation is in the MSDOS partition scheme -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: Installing Gutenprint

2016-10-20 Thread Joseph Loo
your system? If you did all the above, you can just print the ps file to the printer. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: [computers] bad sectors on disk

2016-02-10 Thread Joseph Loo
e2fsprogs ? > > > -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com > "Necessity is the mother of invention" > > fsck checks primarily a directory structure not the hard drives. you might want to try badblocks -svn /dev/sdb Like always, backup your drive before you do this. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: grub rescue> (getting error: unknown filesystem) for all filesystems!

2015-11-24 Thread Joseph Loo
losure) or you will have to mount it on the system. First thing I would do is to just load it on the system and use gparted to look at it only (this can destroy your disk). Alternate method, is get something like parted magic (live rescue disk) and boot from it. There you can try mounting the drive. In some cases you may need to do a fsck to check the system (make backup before doing it). -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

2015-10-13 Thread Joseph Loo
On 10/13/2015 10:34 AM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, October 13, 2015 7:26 am, Joseph Loo wrote: >> have you tried installing >> ghostscript on your windows machine? It will convert ps and possibly pdf to >> pcl or some other printers they have drivers for. > >

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

2015-10-13 Thread Joseph Loo
And it has traditionally been easier to make use of from > Windows than from Linux. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format > > Lisi > I am a little late in the discussion, but have you tried installing ghostscript on your windows machine? It will convert ps an

Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.

2015-02-18 Thread Joseph Loo
higher performance version of cat 5, enhanced cat 5 or cat 5e has been added to the standards. Cat 5e adds new performance requirements to permit higher speed network operation In real life depending on the length your throughput for 5 will be far less than 5e. - -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -B

Re: How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread Joseph Loo
nerally do this on my drive before deploying. It tends to remove the bad blocks. You can also try grc's Spinrite (cost money) at grc.com -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Epson XP-820 Small-in-one

2014-12-05 Thread Joseph Loo
has a method of getting the XP-820 to print to CD/DVD from Linux. I used Turboprint from turboprint.info. It is a paid program and it allows me to print to CD/DVD. Unfortunately they have not come out a driver for the epson xp820. I have a Epson XP810 -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- To UNSUBS

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Joseph Loo
he motherboards are sensitive to the USB connection at the bios start period. One clue, is power on the keyboard at the start, i.e. flash of the keyboard lights (sometimes). -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: Different behaviour handling NFS mounts after login

2014-07-03 Thread Joseph Loo
soft instead of hard. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53b5024f.8090...@acm.org

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Joseph Loo
mited to about 10K writes per cell. If you exceed the limit, dead cell. Remember that another factor involve is the number of spare cells. all of these things play in the role when an ssd fails. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

GTK Apps not themed after KDE installation (Debian 7.1.0)

2013-12-02 Thread Joseph W. Joshua
Hello all, I have installed KDE on my 7.1.0 box. However when I log in under KDE, all GTK apps such as synaptic or firefox are unthemed (then have the old windows 9x style). How can I fix that? Josh

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Re: "termcap-compat" is still referenced in the Debian FAQ [SOLVED]

2013-06-28 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 06/28/2013 03:01 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-06-28 21:24 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: On 06/28/2013 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-06-28 17:39 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: Noticed that "termcap-compat" is referenced in one of the FAQ questions on the website (http://www.

Re: "termcap-compat" is still referenced in the Debian FAQ

2013-06-28 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 06/28/2013 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-06-28 17:39 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: Noticed that "termcap-compat" is referenced in one of the FAQ questions on the website (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/debian-faq.en.txt, 4.7). The package does not exist on W

"termcap-compat" is still referenced in the Debian FAQ

2013-06-28 Thread Joseph Lenox
file this as a bug against the FAQ or the fact that the package is missing. If I have a program to which I do not have the source (commercial EDA tool) and it requires libtermcap.so.2, how do I satisfy this program the Debian Way? -- --Joseph Lenox, BS, MS I'm an engineer. I sol

Re: VNC not connecting over SSH tunnel

2012-07-10 Thread Joseph Loo
sses and the net mask for each item. ifconfig will tell you what each machine has. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org

Re: /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument

2012-04-11 Thread Joseph Bou Faysal
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Re: XFWM4 window manager failure? Sid/Wheezy

2012-01-23 Thread Joseph Lenox
time, I've added xfwm4 to the list of programs to start and been too busy getting other work done to look at it. --Joseph Lenox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: URW Bookman Font

2012-01-01 Thread Joseph Loo
On 12/30/2011 01:47 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:55:23 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic

URW Bookman Font

2011-12-29 Thread Joseph Loo
I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic. The non-bold & non-italic are both missing. I have TeXLive: Recommended fonts installed -- Joseph L

Re: XFWM4 window manager failure? Sid/Wheezy

2011-11-09 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 11/08/2011 09:10 AM, Joseph Lenox wrote: I'm not quite sure how, but I managed to get XFWM4 (current sid version 4.8) to not start with my session (or not to be saved). I don't recall doing anything particular to the window manager settings or desktop session settings. All I know

XFWM4 window manager failure? Sid/Wheezy

2011-11-08 Thread Joseph Lenox
d saved my session, the window manager was not loaded. I started xfwm4 by hand, saved the session, and did a logout/login cycle and it seemed to have stuck. Anyone else seen this issue? Any ideas where a log file may reside to shed some light on what's going on? --Joseph Lenox -- "N

Re: How to install broadcom BCM4312 on debian

2011-11-04 Thread Joseph Lenox
ch the package lists from packages.debian.org, download them yourself, and use "dpkg -i" to install (or grab the source files if you can use those). b43-fwcutter (debian stable): http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fwcutter&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all --Joseph

Re: CUPS & network printing

2011-09-22 Thread Joseph Lenox
g up a network printer under Vista/7 and entering "http://machine>:631/printers/print_queue_name" as the printer destination. --Joseph Lenox -- 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/4e7bb25c.3050...@gmail.com

Re: Debian sid root path issue

2011-09-21 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 09/19/2011 09:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the behavior of secure_path. See Bug#639841 for details. It no longer overrides your path with a standard system PATH by default. So now unless you set it in your /etc/suders file it will us

Re: Debian sid root path issue

2011-09-20 Thread Joseph Lenox
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Joseph Lenox: > > > After updating Sid last week, I tried to install something with > > apt-get using sudo and got the following error from dpkg: > > dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not exe

Re: Debian sid root path issue

2011-09-19 Thread Joseph Lenox
if I use sudo. Synaptic package manager works fine, as does changing to root with "su -". Any offhand ideas as to where to look first to figure out what's going on? --Joseph Lenox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Debian sid root path issue

2011-09-19 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 09/19/2011 08:40 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote: Any offhand ideas as to where to look first to figure out what's going on? --Joseph Lenox My apologies if I've double or triple posted; I managed to screw up the destination once and then sent from an unsubscribed email address

Debian sid root path issue

2011-09-19 Thread Joseph Lenox
if I use sudo. Synaptic package manager works fine, as does changing to root with "su -". Any offhand ideas as to where to look first to figure out what's going on? --Joseph Lenox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Manually creating a Debian boot sector Or a bootable Debian disk in Solaris for x86

2011-03-15 Thread Joseph Lenox
des GRUB as its boot method. If you can grok Solaris 8 x86's bootloader config and get it to boot Linux, good luck. --Joseph Lenox

Re: How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?

2011-03-04 Thread Joseph Brenner
I think people are assuming identical hardware, and if that's not the case, you need to be careful about just doing an "rsync" between the boxes. Even getting a list of debs from one machine and trying to bulk install them on the other can bet tricky... as I remember it there are some packages tha

Re: NIS/NFS/Squeeze - All files have "4294967294" for GID and UID on NFS-mounted files/directories

2011-01-08 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote: I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). Th

Re: NIS/NFS/Squeeze - All files have "4294967294" for GID and UID on NFS-mounted files/directories

2011-01-08 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote: I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). Th

NIS/NFS/Squeeze - All files have "4294967294" for GID and UID on NFS-mounted files/directories

2011-01-08 Thread Joseph Lenox
their /etc/hosts. I've gone over these settings for hours now, and can't determine what's going on exactly. According to what I've read, "nobody" is being set because some nfs daemon can't match user ids between the two systems. All of the systems are auth

Re: xdm shutting down

2010-12-18 Thread joseph lockhart
Yes, it is quite possible, use the same format and replace the desired key. for instance, i had a machine that rebooted on ctrl+alt+del (shutdown -r now) and shutdown on ctrl+alt+h (shutdown -h now) iirc, on that machine i had to switch to a tty first but might be a setting error on my part ---

Script for using neroAacEnc and neroAacTag with rubyripper

2010-12-10 Thread Joseph Lenox
ially for stuff like disc #, etc), but I'd hate to waste this. It assumes that neroAacEnc and neroAacTag are in the path (because I keep my copies in /usr/local/bin). --Joseph Lenox #!/bin/bash # Shell script to interface with neroAacEnc and neroAacTag for tagging of

Re: Note about 6.0 installer, Nouveau, and Quadro NVS240

2010-10-29 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 2010-10-28 00:05 +0200, Camaleón wrote On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:47:44 -0500, Joseph Lenox wrote: The version of Nouveau (FOSS nvidia driver) that ships with 6.0 (Squeeze) on last week's (2010-10-17) testing disc does not play nice with the Quadro NVS240 graphics card. No output on screen

Note about 6.0 installer, Nouveau, and Quadro NVS240

2010-10-27 Thread Joseph Lenox
h the disc recovery option, and remove the driver from its modprobe list in /etc just to get to a text console. --Joseph Lenox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Note about 6.0 installer, Nouveau, and Quadro NVS240

2010-10-27 Thread Joseph Lenox
h the disc recovery option, and remove the driver from its modprobe list in /etc just to get to a text console. --Joseph Lenox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Joseph Lenox
It's called a makefile. http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/make/make_toc.html On 9/29/2010 12:46 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the default gcc,

Initramfs help

2010-09-04 Thread joseph lockhart
Computer suddenly dropped into initramfm after power loss, help getting back into file system would be helpful, and appreciated, stuck doing email from my phone thanks in advance, hopefully the basic steps will b all i need -- Sent from AT&T's Wireless network using Mobile Email -- To

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Joseph Lenox
swap, at least 256MB, just to stave off the OOM killer. You can find P3 boxes really, really cheap (basically what it costs to ship) these days; and the RAM for those isn't an arm+leg yet. Depending on the board, you may still find ISA slots (if that's something you must have). -

Re: NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error [SOLVED]

2010-03-27 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 3/25/2010 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.03.2010 23:38, schrieb Joseph Lenox: I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Adding the exact user to the plugdev group on the local machine work

NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error

2010-03-25 Thread Joseph Lenox
I'm running lenny (5.0.4); and trying to get USB flash drive mounting in a way that doesn't involve hand-adding every user to the plugdev group (we're running NIS). I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Ad

Limited X setup

2010-02-27 Thread joseph lockhart
Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition which will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in setting up X to run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of the web yielded no help. Any suggestions on where to look. Running lenny fr

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-29 Thread Joseph Rawson
the time to fiddle with it myself. It's cool to learn something new every day! :) Do you have an estimate of when it will appear in sid? -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
ng. I leave it to you to > suggest some sane method my which this can be achieved. > using ~ decreases the version. Try this: dpkg-source -x dscfile pushd $src-$ver dch -l mybpo dpkg-buildpackage -S (It's rare, but sometimes you may need a builddep installed for this, such as po4a). pop

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
nd he keeps telling me that they have a better system for building packages with the options the you select. I decided to try and make my own quick, sloppy build system using multiple buildd's with cowpoke as an example. I've had mixed results with some packages honoring those options and other packages ignoring them. It's been a very interesting experiment. -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Rawson
re interested in it, look it over, maybe try it out and let me know. It may be outdated, but bringing it back up to date shouldn't be too difficult. -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-25 Thread Joseph Rawson
only one Subversion library, > not the whole thing. It's not just a distributed SVN in that sense ... also > see: <http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/SVKAntiFUD> > > // Oliver -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-11 Thread Joseph Rawson
o the terminal/shell (I don't know which) that originally authenticated. So, if you are using sudo in one terminal, then quickly start another terminal and use sudo in that terminal, you will have to authenticate again. -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Unable to start postgresql on Debian

2009-05-11 Thread Joseph Rawson
en I install postgresql with a preseed file in the debian installer, but I don't know why you have this problem. To fix this, try this command (as root): pg_createcluster 8.3 main --start > > I checked all the postgre .deb files in my /var/apt/cache/archives > directory. None of the

can I restore a mysql databse with just a backup of /var/lib/mysql?

2008-09-29 Thread Joseph Neal
Hi All My host managed to kill my virtual server while migrating it from one machine to another. They were able to give me the up to date contents of /var /etc and /home and a new server with a fresh etch install on it.Will it work if I just copy over the contents of /var/lib/mySQL? I've

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-08-14 Thread joseph lockhart
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because of this lack of success, I am unable to upgrade or > install any > packages in this laptop. Is there a way to get out of this > catch-22 > situation, and consequently upgrade tzdata successfully, > and upgrade and > install

Re: Wiki

2008-08-03 Thread Joseph Neal
sadeq zabihi wrote: > I am tring to install a wiki software on Debian (server) on my network. > But I dont know which wiki software is better for my project (it is not a > big project) and how i can install it on debian server. It it is possible > for you please help me about both (wiki software

Re: Request for assistance with a bug

2008-08-01 Thread joseph lockhart
also thought check out https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105871 seems to be in the sync flag on the new kernels (if i am reading it correctly) and also suggests fixes, it may help jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered

Re: Request for assistance with a bug

2008-08-01 Thread joseph lockhart
--- On Fri, 8/1/08, myblog1980 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm an Ubuntu user who is having an ongoing problem > with USB file > transfers. This issue also seems to be affecting a > significant number > of other Ubuntu users, and I have also been reading reports > of it > appearing in other

P2P clients for debian etch

2008-07-10 Thread joseph lockhart
just wondering which P2P clients are best, seems to be slim pickings in the base debian repository so I figure that I am missing a repository or will have to go the long way to find a good client (however, I do not want to have to find and install a lot of dependencies that are also not in the r

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph Neal
Neil Gunton wrote: >> to see what driver version supports your card. The names have changed >> since Etch. For example, the 1.0-8776 driver was the one which supported >> the MX400 graphics card, but it is now the 96.43.xx driver which >> supports it - but is not yet in testing. > > Thanks - but

login problem (password corruption? pam?)

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph Neal
g: Jul 6 07:55:33 dsl017-124-002 kdm: :0[4670]: pam_unix(kdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user =joe Jul 6 07:55:51 dsl017-124-002 kdm: :0[4670]: pam_unix(kdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user =joseph

Re: need install 'how to' help

2008-06-08 Thread joseph lockhart
>From: Gordon Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: need install 'how to' help >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sunday, June 8, 2008, 11:40 AM > >>need 'howto' help, newbie to linux, want to install debian to hd on >>laptop, specs follow > >You need a local user group. Google for "

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-05-28 Thread Joseph Neal
> If you are using Debian on your phone, embedded computer, laptop, > desktop, server, network, telecommunications equipment or other part of > your information infrastructure, I'd love to hear from you. > What are you using Debian for? I'm presently running sid on two desktops and etch on a sm

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-17 Thread joseph lockhart
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/14/2008 08:57 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi list, > Hi Javier. > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes [unresponsive] during > three or four seconds. > > First I experiment it with swiftfox, then I used Firefox (iceweasel) 2 and

no sound on compaq armada 7770dmt with ess-1878 sound card

2008-03-27 Thread joseph lockhart
well i have been working on getting an old compaq armada 7770dmt up and running with debian etch 4.0r2. everything works good, only i cannot get alsa to find the sound card at boot, sound card is a ess-1878. added the sound module to /boot/modules but that didn't seem to help, checked alsa manpage

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-20 Thread joseph lockhart
my mistake forwarding to list --- joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:39:40PM +, Steve > > McIntyre wrote: > > > [ /me sets the Reply-To: to debian-cd ag

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread joseph lockhart
take it as you will, but I think that it would be useful to group the terminal and lightweight apps together, just seems a waste to download (25 for etch) disks to install onto a low powered computer, when everything together would all fit on one disk (that is base system and all terminal apps that

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread joseph lockhart
Luis Maceira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I see all the messages generated by a bash command (configure make make install, for example) to standard output(computer screen), and at the same time make sure that all is written to a text file for later analysis. It is a redirection but I don´t

Re: DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-29 Thread joseph lockhart
> Well, the BIOS recognises the drive, udev isn't > giving you nodes. Is > the kernel seeing it? Check dmesg. > no mention of the drive in dmesg > What do you have under /dev? When you say the > device node, do you mean > /dev/sd? or do you mean /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom? > What about > /dev/d

Re: DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-14 Thread joseph lockhart
> > that knocked out our power and after recovering > from > > UPS is your friend... > UPS? - big brown trucks? > > that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the > > device nodes just vanished) > > > > checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on > udev > > documentation seemed to help,

DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-12 Thread joseph lockhart
well, about a week ago we had a lovely thunderstorm that knocked out our power and after recovering from that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the device nodes just vanished) checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on udev documentation seemed to help, and STFW didn't help either. i'd

Help with bug report

2008-02-12 Thread Price, Joseph
. Thanks. Joseph A. Price, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology Dept. Pathology, OSU-COM OSU Center for Health Sciences W. 17th. St. Tulsa, OK 74107-1898 Ph: 918-599-1603 FAX: 918-599-1098 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange behaviour of K3B

2008-01-31 Thread joseph lockhart
> > I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R > > > When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that > pops up normally has a > > drop down box which says the type of media > detected. This remains > > steadfastly saying no media loaded regardless of > whether I have or > > not - meaning I cannot start

Re: print a sample of all fonts?

2008-01-26 Thread joseph lockhart
> is there a way to have gimp or whatever print a > sample of each > font on the system without manually writing them all > out? tia. > try gucharmap jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread joseph lockhart
only thing that i have ever had in /var/archives are the md5sum's and tarballs for backups created by backup manager (needless to say i have since sent backup manager to /dev/null) jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered __

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-23 Thread joseph lockhart
> I thought that at one point (in the past, when I was > paying a little more attention) that a certain > ubuntu release might be better > installed as a clean reinstall (rather than trying > to upgrade from a previous release). Hearing that > (or thinking I heard that), > I simply extrapolated

Re: Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-23 Thread Joseph
On Jan 23, 2008 2:48 PM, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Joseph, > Was that the same hardware? My problem seem to be related to the > motherboard. Other people reported good results with the cpu. > I agree it's very likely to be related to the motherboa

Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-22 Thread Joseph
I had a similar problem. I solved it installing from a USB stick. Cheers, Joseph

Re: Creating CD's frpm .iso files

2008-01-21 Thread joseph lockhart
--- Joe Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a very basic Debian question. I downloaded > all of the 25 Debian .iso files and want to > convert/write them to CDs. I am trying to use the > "InfraRecorder" program that I downloaded from the > Ubuntu web site. (I also plan to install Ubunt

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-21 Thread joseph lockhart
did you check to make sure that the appropriate users are added to "wheel" group? gpasswd -a wheel or usermod -G wheel also check /etc/pam.d/su if PAM is installed jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered _

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-21 Thread Joseph
key: quit if akey is key1 and the speaker is idle: ask the thread to beep compute last_beep_end_time (at which the beep ends, eg now + 100ms) ... silently ignore keypresses while the speaker is already beeping. Cheers, Joseph

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-19 Thread joseph lockhart
> >> I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1 > and in the GUI (gdm). > >> Running Sid, up to date > >> This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go, > "hm". Any ideas? > >> > >> and I can do sudo su. > >> > > > > When you are using su, are you using your password > or root's pa

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-18 Thread joseph lockhart
> Interesting stuff all this! > > Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. > I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for > needs. > > Thanks to all. > no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it on cli-apps so that it would no

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread joseph lockhart
> > i'm also open to suggestions > > Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages. > Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be > to prepare > ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue > tools I want?. > After a standard net-install one would just do a > wget and a dpkg. > > As an alterna

Re: Who uses Debian? Wikipedia doesn't tell.

2008-01-17 Thread joseph lockhart
> I'll be trying to pitch Debian as the OS for a > project to my employer. > One of the arguments will be to mention a few really > big and important > Debian implementations. I tried to see if there was > such a list on the > Wikipedia Debian article but found none. I couldn't > find info about i

tn3270 emulation, connection problems

2008-01-16 Thread joseph lockhart
i am wondering if anyone has experience with the c3270, x3270, s3270 packages? the help and documentation for these seems more sketchy than most. The computers i use for work run attachmate's extra! which is a tn3270 emulator. the computers that they connect to are ibm 3270's (as far as i can tell

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