Re: muttprint only printing one page

2003-02-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:29:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > hi there, > > how do i go about fixing a problem i have with muttprint? it will only > print one physical page, so if i try to print a document consisting of > three pages, with two pages printed onto one, only pages 1-2 will come

Re: Epson Stylus C82 "Printer not connected", nothing prints

2003-02-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:19:11AM -0800, Ruchira Datta wrote: > I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which > I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5. When I add my > Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully. The > connection was through

Re: xmms, realplayer, and plugger

2003-03-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:54:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm using plugger with galeon. > > Few questions: > > - When I click on an audio file the entire file is downloaded before xmms > begins to play. Is there a way to get xmms to start playing before the > download is complete (stre

Re: X and mouse problem

2003-03-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:45:43PM +0530, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: > +++ Bhushan Kulkarni [10/03/03 10:21 +0530]: > | Hi , > | I am using Debian Woody3.0 r1 . > | My problem is when gpm service is on i face problems using mouse . Mouse gets > | hang for few seconds and retains again after, mous

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > I had problem with cups: Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing "--" between the blocks. Some mail user agents (e.g. mutt) interpret this as the start of a signature. It makes it difficult to incorporate t

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-14 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:02:52PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > Thanks for answer. > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > > > > > > > I had problem with cups: >

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:07:12PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your > > printer. You probably need to install one of these packages: > > I have HP Laserjet 120

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:47:59AM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: > I am running Woody. I was trying to update CUPS by using Synaptic when I > got this message: > > > (Reading database ... 93315 files and directories currently > installed.) > Preparing to replace cupsys 1.1.14-3 (using > .../cupsys_

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:04:46PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > > > Is the version of HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd the same as other ppd's that > > come with the cupsys package? > I did NOT have any ppd files in

Re: Xserver fails after upgrading to testing/unstable

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off > my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again, > but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle.

Re: CUPS Update failed

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:09:56PM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:27:43 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:47:59 -0800 > > debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is

Re: Nvidia Issues

2003-03-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:16:29AM -0500, Bill wrote: > Hi, > > How do I "move" to woody? I am not sure what that means. It means do a distribution upgrade to change your Debian/GNU 2.2 to 3.0. The below link discussed upgrading from Debian 2.2 to 3.0: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/referenc

Re: Problems installing quickcam on kernel bf2.4

2003-03-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:49:33PM +0100, Hans van Leeuwen wrote: > > Hello, > > I have problems installing qce-source. I have a Logitech Quickcam (you > know, the golfball) and I want to use it with my Debian server. > > The problem is that the module is not loaded correct. This is because I

Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?

2003-03-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic > :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's > DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.

Re: Detecting the fysical mouse URGENT

2003-01-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:04:20PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > As some of you allready knows I've got many problems > to get an USB mouse working (I only have that USB > mouse) > > I allready posted this before but I got not even one > reply on it so I think most of you must ha

Re: Cupsys & printer

2003-01-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:08:16AM -0500, thanhvunguyen wrote: > Hello, I used cupsysd for my USB printer on Sid before, now I switched > to Woody. I reconfigure everything via the web interface on port 631 > exactly as I did before. But for some reasons it seems that nothing is > sent to the print

Re: Apt-get problem with libc

2003-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:57:12PM -0700, Curtis Call wrote: > Disclaimer, I'm a novice so bear with me. I've run into some problems with > apt-get. Currently, when trying to use 'apt-get -f install' to clean things > up I continue to get this error: > > ogd2jpr6908:/home/curtis# apt-get -f inst

Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:02:40PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package, > how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev? > > As a particular example, I work with the Debian "camserv" package, > so I added to devfsd's configuration file,

Re: xwindows

2003-01-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Bob Wheate wrote: > i got it working late last nite,im new to debian and the install was > different from other flavors,how ever once i got it working i enjoy "woody" > a lot,i'm led to believe that the kernel is 2.2.x,is that correct ?,any way > thanks for

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Dave W wrote: > I've been messing around with devfs in sid, trying to learn my way > around, since this may be the way of the future ... and although > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd makes good SENSE and is pretty easy > to figure out, it's not so qui

Re: USB primer?

2003-01-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:34:37PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Hi, this is mostly a request for a pointer to the right docs. I haven't > ever had any USB devices until the past few months, when I picked up a > webcam, scanner, and mouse. The webcam & the scanner aren't on the > compatability lis

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: > > What I _did_ try was > > > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so > > I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has cha

Re: Intel extreme graphics

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:12:14PM +0100, Janke Dávid wrote: > Hi all! > > Has anybody experience with intel extreme graphics (I845G/I845GE), and > XFree86? > I'm going to by a motherboard and an ASUS P4GE-V would be a godd choice for > me. > > David http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.h

Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:35:00AM -0500, stan wrote: > I've got 2 differnt "testing' machines that should be set up in a very > similar fashion (mine which I tend to test things on first, and my wife's, > which I ry to keep _very_ stable). > > Latley when I do apt-gte update ; apt-get dist-upgrad

Re: apt-get problem

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:36:53PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > While trying fix some broken packages, I ran apt-get -f install from my > terminal...after all packages were downloaded, I got the following > error(s): > > etched 49.1MB in 19m6s (42.8kB/s) >

exim - retry time not reached for any host

2003-01-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
For mail I use a fetchmail+procmail+mutt+exim combination. Not every message I send but a few don't get sent to my ISP's SMTP server. When I run eximon and check the message log of messages awaiting delivery, I will see entries like: 2003-01-27 20:09:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-4

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > Epson Stylus Color 860 on /dev/usblp0 installed with > CUPS+GIMP-print_v4.2.2-pre2. > > Print Test Page prints a page with color hexagon but no test. > > From a command line escputil -s -u -r /dev/usblp0 returns printer > st

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
to correct the problem. > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:44:36PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > > > Epson Stylus Color 860 on /dev/usblp0 installed with > > > CUPS+GIMP-print_v4.2.2-pre2. &

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-30 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > The attachment is a segment of the /var/log/cups/error_log beginnig two > lines before the first "false" result and continuing to the Ghostscript > exit. This was generated by trying to print a single line of text. > > If an

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:45:28AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > It is not clear from your message whether you have gotten your USB set > > up properly. What output do you get to "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" and > > "cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers"? > > > T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:15:15AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Embarassed. Part of the problem was a defective ink cartridge. > > lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps > > is now ok. But termial problem persists. lp printtest prints nothing > and generates the error_log previously

Re: Trouble Starting up

2003-02-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:26:33AM -0700, Benjamin Meakin wrote: > Hello, > While installing the packages for debian I get an error message that > says: > Errors encountered while processing: > cxref What is the result of running "apt-get install cxref"? > I also run in to trou

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:20:18AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: [snip] > > Also, Check /etc/cups/mime.types; in the section > > "Text files...", you should have an entry: > > > > text/plain txt printable(0,1024) > > There was no such section. I tried adding one, stopping a

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:42:10PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > My error, didn't read carefully. The entry > > text/plain txt printable(0,1024) > > is in /etc/cups/mime.types. I have restored the original version of > mime.convs which I saved before editing. > >

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, > cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: > >Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs > (my d

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors you report. > *PPD-Adobe: "4.3" > *%PPD file for CUPS/GIMP-print. > *%Copyright 1993-2001 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. > *%This PPD file may

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:18:13PM -0500, stan wrote: > I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go > to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username > password pair. > > Where do I look for this config? > If you don't want to login as root, a

Re: dpkg inconsistency

2003-02-07 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > Hi, > > I've done a really stupid thing: > > I tried to install&compile some stuff for the kernel which failed. > > I made a dump before that, which I restored to make my system running > again. > > But I forgot to dump & restore

Re: package and driver problem

2003-02-08 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Mikkel Liisberg wrote: > Hi > > i need to install a display driver for my Hercules Prophet ( ATI 9000) in > order to start kde. > but my problem is that i can't (don't know how) open/install the rpm > package. > i have debian woody! > How do i do this? >

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? > > > > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remo

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-10-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:03:03PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: > Hello, > > > >i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my > >computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my > >printer epson stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by

Re: j2se-common (was Re: java debs, where?)

2002-10-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:42 pm, Edward Guldemond wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > > > I have been getting errors from this server for the

Re: Q: Xfree troubles!!! help, please

2002-10-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 10:15:12PM +0200, Raúl Wild-Spain wrote: > Hi! > > I've installed with apt-get the x-window-system package . I've not been able > to successfully execute Xwindows. When I try to execute startx it says: > > "could not open default font 'fixed'" > > Looking for information

Re: escputil epson

2002-10-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:56:34PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: > > >> > >> Hello, > >> > > >> > i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my > >> >computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my > >printer > >> >epson stylus color 880. The synopsis

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:52:23PM -0400, lameth wrote: > Okay I installed kernel-package and did make-kpgk. The response I > recieved a message about not being in a top level directory ( I was at a > /) or make-kpgk was totally out of date. So I downloaded > kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4. After

Re: disabling ide-scsi

2002-10-19 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:38:17AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > hi, > > I need to know how to disable ide-scsi emulation. > > The 2.4bf-xfs kernel appears to have ide-scsi emulation built into > the kernel, > and its behavior is to grab all cdrom and zip drive IDE devices by default, > rather th

Re: More probs installing packages

2002-10-20 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:35:39PM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote: > The second source package has failed during ./configure when trying to > find gnomeconf.sh. I am using the Gnome desktop so I cannot really tell > why - apart from the fact that gnomeconf.sh does not exist. There is a /usr/lib/gnomeCo

Re: I broke apt and dpkg - need help

2002-10-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:20:31PM -0400, Robert wrote: > On Friday 25 October 01:06, nate wrote: > > Robert said: > > > Help. I just did a major patition reshuffle and I've wiped out > > > /var/lib/apt and also /var/cache/apt -- and now dpkg and apt are > > > broken, Can't reinstall them either

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

2002-10-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hello. > > In order to correctly build the cvs version of MPlayer, I've been told I > need to use gcc-3.2, which is currently in unstable. > > My question, then, is: what is the best (as in "most debian compliant") way > to install

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:05:08PM +0100, David Jones wrote: > Hi, > I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's but am >unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use > any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants to

Re: DPKG Problem with corrupted file

2002-11-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:36:07PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got a problem after a system crash. The file /var/lib/dpkg/available > is corrupted and dpkg reports an error if I want to remove a package. > > Does anyone got a hint or some other info for me how to solve this? > run "d

Re: creating /dev/hd[m-t]

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:54:09PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: > With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel > in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make > up to /dev/hdl: > > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm > ./MAKEDEV: do

Re: Weird problem with self-compiled kernel

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:09PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: > > Everything works fine. But the problem is that I can't connect to > > certain sites. Eg. When I type "lynx www.openoffice.org" he tries to > > make a http conne

Re: netscape

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:36:23PM -0200, Galileu Paulo wrote: > Hi guys: > > I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the > way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the > problems: > > 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the syste

Re: Which print document shoul I read?

2002-11-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:01:41PM -0500, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > I just installed woody on my cpu and > would like to get my printer working. > Can someone point me to the document > I should read? I did a google search, but > could not find a current howto. I also > went to the debian home pag

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:29:35PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:24:56 +, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Nah - no luck. Rescue disk has no dpkg. It's the same as the boot > >image you get in the Debian 2.1 single CD. Instead of using rescue disk you could try tomsrtb

Re: X file explorer

2002-11-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:22:10AM +1100, Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > What file system viewers are there for X? I've been using > midnight commander which is ok, except that when i view a > file, i want to be able to copy text to the X clipboard. > I'm using fvwm2. fsviewer tkdesk In midnight

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:03:14AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Nonono you didn't read my post! I'm trying to do exactly what this > page suggests. ar still works, so I can get to the control & data > .tar.gz stage. But tar/gzip don't work. So I have to copy the .tar.gzs > onto my DOS partition, reboot i

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives

2002-11-13 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:21:59AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found > base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it > to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition > of some of the rescue disk itself (

Re: /dev/ttyUB0 on debian

2002-11-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:58:41PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Not sure if this is quite on topic but I have installed bluez from the > debian packages and am running 2.4.19. However I'm having trouble with > hciattach as /dev/ttyUB0 doesn't exist. Also /dev/MAKEDEV ttyUB0 comes > back a

Re: LiLo installing

2002-11-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:30:30AM +0200, HNO3 wrote: > Hello. > How i can install lilo when i have system like this: > there is Win98 installed at hda > and linux is in hdb, without boot partition. (only 2 linux partions and swap) > Now i have a boot disk and i put it in when i want to start up li

Re: Problem with mount floppy

2002-11-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk! > > >> > Now I see this message: > > >> > /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > >> > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > >> > when I do `mount /floppy' and I can only read data on floppy but cannot >

Re: Xfree86

2002-11-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:11:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > please, help. I installed Debian on a laptop (old one) using the floppy > disks. I want to install and run X. Files do I need and how do I go about > installing X. This is the first time I have ever used Debian, but not my >

Re: installing package

2002-11-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:44:11PM +0100, Raymond Gree wrote: > Hello, > I try to install a new package and get the following error message: > > debian-server:/# apt-get install lprng lprngtool magicfilter > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package lprng has no av

Re: still monitor problems

2002-11-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:19:25PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > Hello! > > I just installed Debian on my fairly good Pentium !!!, and just barely > got my (very good indeed!) monitor to work (thanks to the people on the > list). Now, I am having major problems configuring it, as the > config

Re: still monitor problems

2002-11-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:34:13PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > > Yes, I use a standard gpm mouse (to the best of my knowledge :-) ) I think you need to change /etc/gpm.conf to read something like: device=/dev/mouse responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=ps2 append="" and then restar

Re: still monitor problems

2002-11-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > These modes are supported, there should be no problem implementing them. > However, now when I open Mozilla the screen just turns white. Right-click > with the mouse - and standard menu for Mozilla appears. But I do kind of > nee

Re: still monitor problems

2002-11-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > > These modes are supported, there should be no problem implementing them. > However, now when I open Mozilla the screen just turns white. Right-click > with the mouse - and standard menu for Mozilla appears. But I do kind of >

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-11-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > not sure when it happened, I guess it was during dist-upgrade, but > suddenly sawfish was the x-window-mananger (I definitely did not run > update-alternatives). > > is this a bug or intented behaviour? If it's a "feature, can it

Re: HELP, PLEASE!! Apt-Get update Errors

2002-12-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:23:09PM -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: > I think I read somewhere that there is a problem with one of the libraries > causing APT-GET UPDATE to fial. I keep getting the same error; UNABLE TO > PARSE PACKAGE FILE /VAR/LIB/DPKG/STATUS (1). I would really apprec

Re: Booting 2 Linuxes with LILO

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:48:56PM -0800, alberto wrote: > > Please, send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have 2 debians installed on my system but I'm having troubles with having > LILO allowing me to boot any of those. > > I have potato on /dev/hda3. > I just erased win on /

Re: Quick way to set up printing?

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:06:27AM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:52, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:05:59PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > > > Somehow, printing didn't get set up when I installed lpd. I need a > > > quick and dirty way to get my OOffice stuff

Re: Reset old package state after running dselect's install

2002-12-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Holger_ wrote: > > I've got two questions: > 1) how can I get dselect to ignore the settings I (somehow) > selected during the last dselect session (reset the packages > info to the currently installed state. Right now, dselect > tells me for instance, tha

Re: xlibs-dev package unresolvable conflict

2003-04-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:10:17AM -0500, Blitzen wrote: > Hi, I have the "xlibs" version 4.2.1-6 package installed, and am trying to Since you have xlibs 4.2.1-6 installed, you ought to have libc6>=2.3.1-1 installed also. So you are probably running some sort of woody/unstable hybrid. You might

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' error this morning

2003-04-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:41:11AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I've upgraded lots of packages to testing this morning (the libc6/php4 > problem evidently got fixed) and finally got the following error. > > How do I fix whatever went wrong? > > (Reading database ... 170160 files and directories c

.xsession-errors: event->keyval: xxxxx, event->state:0

2003-06-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
I see thousands of entries in my .xsession-errors that read: subset is whole list! event->keyval: 110, event->state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event->keyval: 116, event->state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event->keyval: 47, event->state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event->ke

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:50:15PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Hi debianeers. > > All my device files for high density floppies are gone, > I mean no /dev/fd0h1440 or any other /dev/fd0hxxx. > > But /dev/fd0 exist and it's not a link to any other dev. > (Shouldn't /dev/fd0 be a link to /d

Re: Cannot acces my machine (woody)

2003-06-21 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:50:57AM -0400, Jean-marc Belley wrote: > I have a problem to access my computer. > I cannot access to root or any user. > When i tried to login as root or user i have > the following error: > > Cannot Execute /bin/bash: Exec format error > > So i cannot access my

Re: mutt won't send mail now

2002-12-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 03:41:13PM -0500, cmustard wrote: > My mutt has fleas,...well anyway, > > I posted earlier that /usr/bin/mutt was giving me 'message aborted > error' when i was trying to reply to emails and someone was kind > enough to point out that ${EDITOR} was probably not specified

Re: mutt won't send mail now

2002-12-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 05:31:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Unless you have changed it, mutt's default is set to use > >"/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi", so you should not need an entry in > >muttrc. > > well, those entries were not in either mutt config file, i don't know why > these 'di

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:30:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > http://wiki.debian.net/ doesn't appear to be a debian wiki. Anyone > > know what's up? > > It seems to be correct now ... try http://wiki.debian.net/DebianWiki/Fro

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:32:43PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > What does `wiki' mean ? Wiki Wiki is Hawaiian for 'quick'. For an intro http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki? -- Jerome msg20912/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt -- which method is preferred?

2002-12-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:42:47AM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > It's turned out that a certain package was > somehow not downloadable, even though apt-cache policy showed an ftp > entry. It's probably not in the archives anymore or something. The > package itself was not important, I just wanted

Re: apt-get (status file) broken?

2003-01-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:25:00PM -0700, Adahma wrote: > I get the following error when trying to use apt-get or dselect: > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Er

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 image unbootable, source uncompilable

2003-01-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:18:08PM +, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > I have a new computer on which I am trying to use kernel 2.4.18, so far > without success. I can use 2.2.20-idepci without problems. I am using > Debian Woody rev 0, on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, with ASUS A7N266-VM > motherboard, which

Re: WindowMaker without icons. How?

2003-01-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > How can I get rid of icons in WindowMaker. No icons, no backgraund - only menu and >root window from X. > Many thanks. > Start /usr/bin/WPrefs to configure many of the options. Or use editor to edit various configuration file

Re: USB Mouse not working ( contd )

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:45:55AM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: > Hi, > thanks for help ,but I am still not able to get the > usbmouse to work . > Here is what all I have done . > I loaded input,mousedev,usbcore,usb-uhci,and hid > modules . > I can see the red light in the mouse but it does no

Re: System won't boot

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > When attempting to boot my newly installed system, it gets as far as the > following and then stops with a kernel panic. Is this repairable, and if > so how. I am a relative newbie, so be as simple as possible. Any help > is greatl

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to > /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount > shows that the / partition is the one actually > decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone > know why this migh

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:19:08PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > > > Actually, if you want to use mplayer, you _really_ should download the > > source from the main site http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it. > > > > Sean > > I've already done that and I'm having problems running it, gives me an > er

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources[SOLVED] ... Onto another problem with gnome :(

2003-01-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:38:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hashed some outside apt sources and it somehow fixed up the dependencies > of libxvidencore0, mplayer seems to download now. Thanks :) > > another prob: > > After rebooting I logged on the usual gnome wm but it just flashes

Re: GLCore doesn't exist -- where find?

2003-01-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:43:51PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote: > I'm trying to install a new vid card (ATI Radeon 8500DV AIW) ... the old > card was an nvidia chipset ... xfree is choking, saying the GLCore > doesn't exist > > I moved the old XF86Config4 file out of the way and did a clean > dpkg

Re: Just installed Woody but need help with boot...

2003-01-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Scott (sidewalking) wrote: > Hi all, > > I just took the time over last night and all day today to install Debian > 3.0 from all 7 discs. I went through and did the partitioning and base > stuff right, and shut it down and rebooted, so I had LILO right at

Re: openoffice: dictionary.lst

2003-01-07 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:04:12PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: > After installing several dictionaries mode of > /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst was changed to 0600. I think mode should > be 0644. $ ls -l /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst -rw-r--r--

Re: apt-get requests glibc-2.2.5-x; won't install it

2003-01-14 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:05:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > When I try to install locales using apt-get I get: > > # apt-get install locales [snip] > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-14.3

Re: galeon "personal security manager" needed?

2003-01-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:55:39PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > when i click on a link, in galeon (using potato/gnome), that > tries an https:// connection a dialog greets me saying > > This document cannot be displayed unless you install the > Personal Security Manager (PSM). Downloa

Re: Help me!! Kernel Panic!!

2002-08-30 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:55:59PM -0300, Gabriel Elias de Aquino wrote: > My kernel was a 2.2.20-idepci, then i have installed the kernel 2.4.18-586, > and when i restart the system, the lilo report this error: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda2" or 03:02 > Please append a correct "root=" b

Re: Help me!! Kernel Panic!!

2002-08-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:52:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Add the module needed for you root file system to > > /etc/mkinitrd/modules. If you are using ext3, put "jbd" on the line > > above "

Re: WindowMaker

2002-09-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:29:40AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to add my own command to the Window Maker WM. > > What I'm tyring to do is add the ability to run a single command > line from the F2 key. This is simeilar to the functionality in > KDE of the F2 button. > > Someone has

Re: CustomKernel-EliminatingInitrdNeed

2002-09-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:27:39AM -0700, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote: > > What else do I need to change? Comparing the stock config-2.4.18-k6 to a 2.4.17 kernel where I had removed initrd, look for these: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y

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