Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
9 at 02:04:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: By real dos computer I mean a different machine with msdos 6.22 installed on it that was connected to the printer through its parallel port and the file was copied to a floppy disk and printed from that floppy disk on the other machine. The other mach

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
9 at 02:04:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: By real dos computer I mean a different machine with msdos 6.22 installed on it that was connected to the printer through its parallel port and the file was copied to a floppy disk and printed from that floppy disk on the other machine. The other mach

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
9 at 02:04:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: By real dos computer I mean a different machine with msdos 6.22 installed on it that was connected to the printer through its parallel port and the file was copied to a floppy disk and printed from that floppy disk on the other machine. The other mach

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:22:51PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux and that same file gets printed perfectly

what does this udev message mean?

2009-08-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly . The interesting thing about this message on boot up on my system is that it isn't being caught by dmesg. That is when I do dmesg >dmesg.log and examine the log file

"print" "mailcap" rules for plain/text

2009-08-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does anyone know where these are documented? Apparently a2ps needs at least one of these to go further than an error statement: Script started on Sun 02 Aug 2009 06:06:38 AM EDT j...@localhost:~$ cat print #!/bin/bash # file: print - script to print to dot matrix printer a2ps -1m -Eplain -B --bo

cups package bug

2009-08-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
When either real root or sudo root runs commands like: lpadmin -d Panasonic-KX-P1123 Immediately afterwards /var/log/cups/error-log should not contain an entry stating that root tried setting cups default and that the attempt was unauthorized. This potentially means three things: 1) cups no

cups undocumented deprecation

2009-08-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
The command line tools in cups current debian version are deprecated and that deprecation is undocumented. I proved this a few minutes ago by setting up my printer using the web interface and set printer options after successfully adding the printer. Before I did any of this configuration tho

Re: cups undocumented deprecation

2009-08-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently cups doesn't consider root part of lpadmin group. On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:26:38AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: The command line tools in cups current debian version are deprecated and that deprecation is undocumented. I proved this

cups and panasonic printer status

2009-08-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I think what I got was either a new never used defective printer, or I must have hit a wrong menu key on the printer because the printer now only prints out everything on one line. I can probably get the printer checked out this weekend and if the configuration is wrong have it fixed. If that

print jobs missing line feeds

2009-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
It seems the reason everything now prints out on one line after the header prints is because the postscript file being created has had line feeds stripped out. I saved the output of a2ps -r -o biglots.doc biglots.txt and ran file biglots.doc to find out it was postscript level 3. So mv biglot

dash download

2009-08-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
When the offer came up to install dash on my machine and I had a listen to the bug reports, I decided to do the installation but not make dash my default shell. Everything on this amd64-k8 machine went without incident. I haven't yet tried chsh to find out what will happen but am in a position

oss-compatibility package warning

2009-08-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had squeeze mostly working well except no mixer was detected by alsamixer when I ran it. I have one of the Intel sound cards so maybe that's why. I made the huge mistake of trying to install the aumix package and one of its dependencies is the oss-compatibility package. The oss-compatibilit

debian stream browser accessibility

2009-10-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have gnome-orca installed and when I use the X environment I have speech turned on. I tried tunapie earlier and found it totally useless with orca; the only thing orca ever said when tunapie was running was "panel" when I hit the left and right arrow keys, I couldn't get it to do anything el

seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my user account. This happens even though I think e2fsck runs when I boot up. Any ideas as to what the cause for this problem is as well as what can be done

sid postgresql 8.3 install status?

2009-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is postgresql 8.3 still uninstallable on sid? Last time I tried installation failed since postgresql 8.3 had a forward dependency on an obsoleted package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

sid misadventures

2009-04-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had installed sid three times in all. The first was the most successful and longest lasting in which I had a few weeks to learn vbnc and use it a little. I did all of that since we're changing over to visual studio 2008 at work and I had been without projects for several years on the job and

follow up on debian sid misadventures

2009-04-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
The specs on the sound card Lenny found and configured I was able to cut and paste and those are: intel8x0 nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

debian speakup sid problem solved

2009-05-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
I ended up having to use a sarge disk which installed lenny for me then upgraded to sid. I had to do this a couple different times because using an amd64 kernel on a k7 machine udev didn't like whtn it was time to boot into sid. I got an endless looping udev selected 408 unimplemented error u

sid upgrade perl problem

2009-05-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I finished the upgrade, the locale environment variables were not set and later could not be set. When I open man pages I get warnings about lc_all and language variables. That stuff was selected back when I installed lenny though. Can I do something to straighten things out? I had use

gnome setup question

2009-05-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does debian flavor of gnome come with sound that can play on the sound card when gnome starts up? If so, what needs to be done to turn that capability on? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

perl package environment problems

2009-05-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
The perl warnings are still with me: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8"" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to

openoffice.org going through broken phase again

2009-05-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Upgrades are breaking parts of openoffice.org on this machine under squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

squeeze upgrade process killed exim4 over here

2009-05-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
On the date that I did it, the squeeze upgrade process killed exim4 over here so I ended up replacing it with postfix. As time permits I'll try installing exim4 again and see when exim4 and squeeze will live together without trying to burn down the house. Can either of these packages first be

udev tutorials or howtos?

2009-05-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Do any such files exist? Earlier I tried using mtools and even mount to access a floppy disk and udev is configured to block access even to root. In future maybe mtools could talk to udev and give udev some clues and/or instructions to tell it to create certain devices when those might not yet

Re: udev tutorials or howtos?

2009-05-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Franklin, thanks much for the description of udev. I found a website with an article on writing udev rules and that was at the top of google's sort order and started reading it earlier today. There was much work done on udev and it's quite impressive how it handles usb type devices. Earlier I

new e2fslibs package corrupt

2009-05-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
I download from us.debian.org and security.debian.org and have had several failures since yesterday to install this package. The desktop accessibility previously provided by gnome-accessibility and gnome-orca has been terminated until further notice too. Seems the rest of gnome suddenly decid

e2fslibs sometimes corrupt

2009-05-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yesterday I was running ia32-apt-get when e2fslib came up for installation and that package converts libraries to be compatible with amd flavored machines when it works. Yesterday, it didn't work because dpkg flagged amd-e2fslib as being corrupt. When I removed ia32-apt-get from this system t

ed 1.33 install errors

2009-06-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Mon Jun 1 20:50:14 2009 localhost:~# aptitude install ed Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 100%Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dep

gnome accessibility update

2009-06-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
I just managed to install gnome-orca again and gnome-accessibility too and in a little bit I'll find out how nicely they'll play together. Two notes though on these recent updates for the package builders. 1) The gnome-accessibility package is an essential prerequisite for gnome-orca without

gnome accessibility update follow up

2009-06-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I start the system, I get the login beep but can't log in. I can log in after hitting control-alt-f1 then hitting enter to a command line console using the same credentials I tried using for an X session though. When I try logging in with X though, I key in username after beep then hit re

gnome accessibility update followup

2009-06-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Two of the packages distributed for squeeze with --print-installation-architecture in them are x11-common and xorg-server. If those architectures are critical to gnome and xwindows running this may explain part of why that doesn't happen. I'm going to go on a grep search and change the effecte

aptitude logging question

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is it possible just using aptitude to log what happens as a result of system upgrades and package installations? I had a situation with x11-common and xserver-xorg where --print-installation-architecture had been used. I'm wondering if I had configured aptitude correctly aptitude could have l

squeeze grep is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried a command line like: grep -in "print-installation-architecture" * | less and got me a surprise. I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I did this and was curious to know what other scripts might have that deprecated command in them. Grep responded with an undocumented error of argument lis

squeeze the whole grep suite is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
rgrep throws the same argument list too long error as did grep. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

squeeze grep status

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error. I made it happen with ed too. I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument lists with regular expressions in this case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

debian squeeze gnome-orca status

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
A sighted friend came over and left a few minutes ago. We managed to get gnome up and me logged in and managed to get vlc to play sound files on the computer. When we ran orca though orca wouldn't talk even after preferences were set to have it talking after login. This is either an orca pro

gnome login sound status

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
After having installed gnome-audio a friend went into the preferences sound area of gnome and found sound themes were grayed out. is there some reason gnome hasn't yet got available sound themes from which to choose? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

placing a watch on a package

2009-06-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Are any command line interface packages available in debian to place a watch on a specific package of interest? I'm thinking possibly something like watchupstream since that package wasn't specifically described as being graphical user interface but don't know for sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

where does gnome store its sound files on debian?

2009-06-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I installed the gnome-audio package it put all sound files into /usr/share/sounds. Gnome does not find them in that location. I read in the README file in gnome-audio that there is supposed to be some path prefix/gnome/share where those sound files can be installed. So far as I've been

gnome-audio package is broken

2009-06-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Though the package does what it thinks is a successful install, once installed gnome ought to have at least one sound theme available and it doesn't. The gnome-audio package installed its contents into /usr/share/sounds and when it was finished did not make /usr/share/gnome/sounds and populate

invissible printer

2009-06-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a new Panasonic 1123 dot matrix printer I've been trying to get working with debian and cups can't seem to find it. lpadmin fails and printconf can't do anything either. Are these printers even Linux compatible and if so, how can I set this up so it will print? I chose a dot matrix pr

thanks for help with printer

2009-06-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
A friend came over and the printer now is alive and working. It does need a new printer cartridge and I know where to get those so should be printing in a few days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

gotmail oddity

2009-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page and ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form page. What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect that does happen before this message comes up too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

info tags out of date message

2009-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
What can be done to update tags inside of info files so these tags out of date messages don't appear anymore when reading info files like the one for forms as an example? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

dictionaries-common install problems again

2008-08-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Same problems in earlier kernel versions happen again with 2.6.26.26 in that dpkg can't get locks. Discovered this when trying to do aptitude install gnupod-tools -r earlier today so did aptitude remove --purge gnupod-tools to at least get broken packages off the system. Interestingly rkhunter

emacs upgrade multiple disasters

2008-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've had the usual emacs upgrade disasters with locks not being able to be gotten by dpkg and consequently as usually happens ended up removing all emacs add-on packages from this system just to clear the errors. The weird dpkg behavior happens in such a way that error messages loop and repeat

can rkhunter propupdate correctly be run?

2008-09-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Given the changes in the debian system is it correct to run rkhunter propupdate or may something else be going on? From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 2 06:46:21 2008 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by verizon.net (Postfix, from userid

when dpkg can't get a lock

2008-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate? I was doing some reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking for package updates. If that's possible what might have enabled it in all the

alsaconf script now broken

2008-09-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
In latest update to alsa packages running alsaconf gets the following interesting warning: Loading driver... Usage: /sbin/modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-b] [-o ] [ --dump-modversions ] [parameters...] /sbin/modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] ... /sbin/modprobe -l -t [ -a ...]

dpkg: anyone managed to install gnus yet?

2008-09-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
With the current version of dpkg on lenny has anyone yet managed to install gnus yet without errors? Originally I thought the problem I ran into a few minutes ago might be aptitude connected so did aptitude -y remove --purge gnus and then tried apt-get install gnus but the same problem showed

gnome-orca package

2008-09-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
If metacity isn't yet a dependency of gnome-orca, it needs to be made one so gnome-orca can work correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

got gnus 5.11 started

2008-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Like calc gnus got added to the current version of emacs so there's no need for the older package to be on current systems. In reading up on gnus with info the last message on info's status line is Tags out of D. Does that mean tags are out of date and if so how can those be updated? -- To

emacs 21 add-on packages

2008-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
The packages like gnus and calc in emacs 21 once emacs 22 is installed are superfluous packages because both calc and gnus are included as commands that can be run inside emacs 22. There may be other emacs add-ons in this class, I don't know for sure. It's possible timidity-el and edb may be i

weird login solved

2008-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
That was the apache-mpm package trying to do something when I started up the system. I took apache off as well as the web mail reader which was its dependency since apache unless configured and maintained correctly is a security hole and some internet service providers ban web servers in their

parallel to scsi converters question

2009-01-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a parallel to scsi converter and a jazz drive. If I hook that up to the debian box I have running, how will debian see that drive? I expect I can activate parallel port support but once done what kind of a new device should I expect to find? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

postgresql setup question

2009-01-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
I managed to make the postgresql cluster with initdb but can't do anything with createuser because postgresql by default is trying to use a unix socket at address 5432. I'm running on amd hardware and don't know what needs to be done to either enable this socket or go with another alternative

re: postgresql setup

2009-01-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
I installed version 8.3.5 with tasksel. When I ran initdb, it ran in debug mode but ran successfully so far as I can tell. I was then able to run postgres -D /usr/local/postgresql/data and the message that came back said postgres was ready to accept connections. I exited that and the databas

re: postgresql setup

2009-01-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
It makes no difference if you've done su - postgres before running createuser, the same error message appears. I checked that to make sure. I do have a firewall up and running on this machine and port 5432 is not open to the world if that helps any. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

re: postgresql setup

2009-01-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
This gets stranger by the second. I managed to get postgresql going as user postgres with postgresql -h 127.0.0.1 & . Then I was able to run createuser dashielljt successfully and createdb too. So I exited the postgres identity and dropped back to dashielljt and tried psql -h 127.0.0.1 and p

postgresql setup

2009-01-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
I found out a little more just now. Having failed to find the debian packager's installation instructions for postgresql I removed the packages from this system. Later I figured to install everything and take another look. I used the current sid tasksel and checked data base and hit ok. The

re: postgresql setup

2009-01-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, I figured all of it out. postgresql is uninstallable because postgresql-common requires postgresql79 and that's uninstallable. That sets up a situation almost similar to what I encountered when I tried installing emacs and gnus but at least gnus is already in the current version of emac

mono-vbnc question

2009-02-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
once mono-vbnc is installed on sid, where are vbnc's assemblers and libraries? I managed to get that hello world program compiled and it runs on debian. I'll try it on windows xp later. Now I'd like to learn more so I can do more. The windows version of vb.net is the programming language of

postgresql postrm script needs work

2009-02-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Having failed to install postgresql on sid for reasons already discussed on this list, I ran updatedb then did locate postgresql | less to see what I could find. Not to my surprise, I found all kinds of postgresql cruft littering my system after having done aptitude remove --purge postgresql i

re: postgresql postrm script needs work

2009-02-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
I forgot to mention tiger had also been installed on this system. When tiger got removed earlier today, all the sudden a whole bunch of postgresql packages were removed with it. Apparently there was some kind of dependencies issues with stuff in the tiger packages. I am puzzled by this since

col command broken

2010-03-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Earlier I used col -bx < typescript >typescript.tmp; mv typescript.tmp typescript to clean up typescript files so the escape codes are removed. With the latest update of col that I got though, running that command no longer cleans up typescript files and just leaves them in their original for

interesting aptitude situation

2007-11-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Wed 14 Nov 2007 11:26:43 PM EST debian:~# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... 0% Reading package lists... 100% Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... 50% Building dependency tree...

Re: listening to radio stations

2007-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:17:42AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: Do any command line tools exist in debian that will allow a user to listen to a streaming broadcast say from http://sc1.liquidviewer.com:9062/listen.pls I had that working fine on my mac mini yesterday then the stream went away so I

command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't think such can be installed on debian. Probably not on freebsd either, so I'm curious have any of the emacs experts ever put together a key bindings package for emacs that can make a wordperfect user feel right at home? The internet service provider runs freebsd and a couple other sub

listening to radio stations

2007-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Do any command line tools exist in debian that will allow a user to listen to a streaming broadcast say from http://sc1.liquidviewer.com:9062/listen.pls I had that working fine on my mac mini yesterday then the stream went away so I am interested to know if debian can play this too if it's actu

Re: listening to radio stations

2007-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks much for the help in sorting this problem out. In this area of the country most of the time when anyone gets clear radio reception it's because they're bringing it in over the internet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

jazip r.f.e.

2007-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
a command line package that supports both zip and jazz drives. Not available in debian yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian dvd setup question

2007-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's directory structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on ubuntu machine all file structure seems present and correct. However as soon as that DVD

DVD support question

2007-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does debian have support for the external mad dog dvd burners available? If this one won't work I should have a phillips as a replacement next week. This one can't be mounted yet because of a missing helper application according to the mount utility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: How Linux becomes Windows

2007-12-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Good on you! Reason I write this is larger code and more complex code by its increased size and complexity is inherently more likely to fail more often. Figuring out how to do as much as possible with C.L.I. tools puts what may be those essential backup tools in your pack that may get you aro

Re: ac adapter serious problem

2007-12-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
This needs to be put on a complaint form over at consumeraffairs.com as soon as possible. On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: roberto wrote: hello unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) very frequent on these models: sometimes, the BIOS does no

Re: DVD support question

2007-12-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hi, it's a usb connect. Interestingly it works with the mac mini I have. On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:28:33AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: Does debian have support for the external mad dog dvd burners available? If this one won't work I sho

alpine question

2007-12-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a couple different email accounts one has pop address as incoming.verizon.net and another has incoming email address of mail.shellworld.net and the same for outgoing address. Having had a look at the alpine configuration file, it doesn't appear to have a place to document the incoming e

Re: DVD support question

2007-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
The older machine uses usb 2.0 it was just on the border line when the switch over got made. On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:56:56AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: Hi, it's a usb connect. Interestingly it works with the mac mini I have. On Sun, 16 Dec

wodim scsi paradox

2007-12-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
This isn't a problem yet but should be documented somewhere for support purposes. When I do wodim -scanbus on this system, my internal cd burner is found as well as an external DVD burner. That's good since both are connected. What's not detected though are 2 external scsi drives a 2GB jazz d

recent updates

2008-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is anyone else using pppoeconf also noticing a problem with the most recent version of dhclient where pppoeconf has to be run after each reboot in order to connect to the internet at all? The dhclient software when run is claiming option space encapsulate doesn't exist but is configured. The m

nrss in jessie

2013-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
simply doesn't work even using sample config in man page. That package ought to be removed from debian archives. --- jude -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

quit out of olive?

2013-09-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
How is this possible? On the amd64 machine I use the q key does nothing and what's worse the program also has control-c and control-d blocked as well so they cqan't disrupt program operation. --- jude -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: quit out of olive?

2013-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Josef Bailey wrote: > On 09/21, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > How is this possible? On the amd64 machine I use the q key does nothing > > and what's worse the program also has control-c and control-d blocked as > > well so they cqan't disrupt

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 14:41 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > >> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf > > >> wrote: > > >>> On Thu, 2013-09

Re: just released Grml 2013.09

2013-09-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried installing that from an iso for accessibility and noticed the boot up sounds are not four different musical notes any longer. There are several of them and hitting q followed by modprobe speakup_soft followed by espeakup did not enable any screen reader on the sound card this time.

Re: no sound with youtube

2013-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Hi! > > I have no sound with youtube.com and chatroulette.com in iceweasel. > > I found pages where flash sound works: > http://www.crackle.com/c/comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee > http://www.songsofinsects.com/flashtest/index.html > > Otherwise I ca

Re: [SOLVED] Messed up audio settings

2013-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Earlier youtube had muted sound on its videos. I found that out as a result of reading some other blindness-related e-mail lists and I wrote about it earlier on this list. So, did you unmute the video? You need to do this with each video you visit. If you did that and are still having these

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

2013-11-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
The apt-cd package may help here. Also when searching for tutorials I find it useful to append "tutorial OR howto" to google searches for problems like this. The howtos get you into another probably useful category. On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Nov 201

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

2013-11-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, I meant apt-cdrom, actually what you're wanting to do is to make a local mirror of a repository. On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > The apt-cd package may help here. > > I don't find "apt-cd". Do you mean "apt-cdr

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Then run fsck.ext4 -c /dev/sda1 and watch the fun. This will use badblocks nondestructively and set off a repair operation which should end up with you h

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, your bios settings are messed up on that computer. You need to go into bios settings and give them some clues about what's actually on the computer in terms of hardware. The bios settings on your machine have lost their mind somehow. On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Ray Dillinger wrote: > > I have

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Avoid the mistake I made. Along with your install media, get all the firmware drivers for your flavor of hardware and have them on hand expecting to use them to install your system. I didn't earlier and couldn't wipe windows vista off a dell laptop. Some ambiguity in terms of firmware requir

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, David Guntner wrote: > erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Dear List - > > > > I have done the following - > > > > Downloaded chrome from site into /opt > > > > root@meow:/opt# ls > > google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb > > > > install - > >

Re: [OT] P* language web page (Was: Re: P* - New language for web programming)

2013-11-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Alois Mahdal wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:55:33 +0100 > Atle Solbakken wrote: > > > Den 18. nov. 2013 10:06, skrev Sandro CAZZANIGA: > > > You see my point ? Cheers. > > > > Yes, I see your point :) > > > > The manual page you saw was auto-generated docbook pages, so >

Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......

2013-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
hughesnet is so bad in my personal experience I can do things faster with a 57.6 modem. On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:34:05 +1100 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > sent this: > > >On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:03:57 -0600 Selim T. Erdogan sent: > > > >> Further

pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I ended up doing was to remove pulseaudio and pulseaudio-module-x11 from the machine in order to get things working and then used alsamixer to unmute many things. The result for now is that streaming multimedia works. My original interest in configuring pulseaudio was to enable a desktop

nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:45:42PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card > > that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control > > the sound card? > > Is the card being reco

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound > > card. > > Is alsamixer able to

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