Bullseye installation failure because boot loader not installed

2021-08-15 Thread Ken Heard
I recently upgraded a desktop computer by replacing major parts in it including the mainboard and CPU. I now want to install in it a more up to date operating system than Wheezy which was the one used before the upgrade. Having noted that the release of Bullseye is imminent I decided to use the RC

Access to files in wiki.debian.org.

2021-09-22 Thread Ken Heard
Does anybody know when access to wiki.debian.org will be opened? There are two files there, UEFI and GrubEFIReinstall, that I need in order to find out how to install a boot loader in my desktop. On 2021-09-11 I was able to read these files on another computer; but not thinking that it would be n

Dcopserver not loading

2021-11-13 Thread Ken Heard
Very soon after I started to use the TDE 14.0.11 version I began receiving DCOP error messages, having the effect of preventing use of various applications like Firefox and LibreOffice. After online research and experimentation on my part I discovered that I could solve such preventions if before o

Re: printing pages in reverse order not possible in LO 7.2.5.2.0+

2022-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
On 2022-02-13 18:09, Ken Heard wrote: In order to print documents on both sides of the paper using a printer without collating ability, I always printed first in reverse order the even pages.  I then  print in numerical order the odd pages on the back side of the paper on which the even pages

Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-04 Thread Ken Heard
The latest version of Thunderbird for Debian Stretch, 70.7 which I now use, still allows only the US date format, MM-DD-, but for me at least expresses the time as HH:MM (24 hour clock). In a partially successful attempt to change the date format I did the following. 1. Ran update-locales 'LC

Cannot connect to HP printer

2019-09-07 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am presently using stretch. I have a USB connection between the computer and the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M475dw. Command lsusb shows the connection. Command HP-setup finds the printer, but the last line says: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow),

USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread Ken Heard
y one or more bad 'if' and 'of' settings if there is not an easier way. Does anyone here know of one? In any event I would surely know how this situation would arise in the first place. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2UnM6QmZNwUCXZPAiAAKCRCU2UnM6QmZ N5HJAJ9S/haC6nE8/EkuhXtCETZimi8mzQCeO7BmV2pKWO4TuPMkcJTH/71nMDY= =04oO -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 5:33 p.m., Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/10/2019 à 23:09, Ken Heard a écrit : >> >> - - after unmounting and closing encryption running as root >> 'wipefs -a -f /dev/sdd' returns 'wipefs: error:

Re: Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-05-03 Thread Ken Heard
Hello, On 19/03/20 05:44 PM, Ken Heard wrote -- my original post on the subject: I think that this particular laptop has mono sound.  I have been using it temporarily to stream content by HDMI to a LG HD monitor and then by fibre optical cable to a NED D3020 V2 hybrid amplifier and finally to

Display full date in Thunderbird

2018-06-24 Thread Ken Heard
I start Thunderbird with the following script: #! /bin/bash export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 && thunderbird "$@" For emails sent or received today only the time is shown, e.g., 13:17. For emails sent or received more than a week ago, the year, month, day and time are shown, e.g., 2018-06-13 07:43. F

Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-16 Thread Ken Heard
Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of the tape produced by mechanical machines to show the entire calculation. I find such "tapes" essential when for example I am adding a long list of numbers and need to check after the addition is done to verify that all the numbe

Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable

2018-10-02 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-08-20 3:27 p.m., Stefan Pietsch wrote: On 20.08.18 11:57, Curt wrote: On 2018-08-20, Stefan Pietsch wrote: Dear list, after the upgrade from Thunderbird 52.9.1 to 60.0 (Debian sid) it seems for me that the environment variable LC_TIME is ignored. I used the following command to set 2

Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable

2018-10-02 Thread Ken Heard
On 2018-10-02 3:07 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:47:52PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: $ LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 thunderbird This command doesn't work for me. You have to generate the locales that you want to use. dpkg-reconfigure locales > Check it by running "

Will my reconstructed fstab work?

2022-11-02 Thread Ken Heard
phen, of the UUID of the added storage device on line 26. Lines 27-40 were spared the overwrites. I have no idea how these overwrites happened; it certainly was not the result of any conscious action on my part. Regards, Ken Heard

Re: Will my reconstructed fstab work?

2022-11-04 Thread Ken Heard
On 2022-11-04 01:52, mick.crane wrote: On 2022-11-03 04:52, Ken Heard wrote: A few days ago using vim I added to my desktop fstab file a line for a new portable storage device.  in the process I somehow managed to screw up fstab.  Unfortunately I saved the screwed up version of fstab before I

Cannot open *.asc files with gpg -- because no pinentry

2023-01-06 Thread Ken Heard
When I try to do so I receive the following message: [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 091EE1D5633F19F2 16 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0 gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG key, ID 091EE1D5633F19F2, created 2007

Re: Cannot open *.asc files with gpg -- because no pinentry

2023-01-06 Thread Ken Heard
On 2023-01-06 22:48, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, I had some similar issue a long time ego. So far I can remember the following page was very useful, in particular section 9.2: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG best, Jerome Thanks for the tip, it looks good. When I have a chance to test

Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

2019-02-05 Thread Ken Heard
On 26/01/19 03:06 AM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:24:56 -0800 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: Fellow List members: Would anybody care to voice an opinion on USB external hard drives in the 2 terabyte size range, for automated backup purposes? We've been looking at the Seagate "Expansi

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 11:03 p.m., David Christensen wrote: > I have read that some USB flash drives will revert to read-only > mode when they detect an internal error. Makes sense I suppose, but in a negative way. I did not know that flash drives (some? all?

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-02 2:51 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote, in part: > Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in > your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a > physical switch is just communicated to your drivers v

Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the past week or so some in my computer procedures have become sluggish, and some others have not worked at all. For example the following script works: #! /bin/bash CURPWD=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kfinancescurrent.tgz --wildc

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-21 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Bob Weber wrote, in part: > I would first check if the raid was working. Use "cat > /proc/mdstat". You will see something like this for each raid drive > configured: > > md0 : active raid1 sdb1[3] sda1[2] 28754230 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] > [UU

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-22 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As instructed at approximately 19:00 on 2019-10-21 Monday I ran first 'sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda' which returned the following: ken@SOL:~$ sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-9-amd64] (local build) Cop

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-22 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At about 04:35 EDT today 2019-10-22 Tuesday I ran 'sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sdb'. At 12:48 I ran the command in the next line. The result is below after the next paragraph. Based on the results below relating to /dev/sdb and the results relating t

Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. STARTDIR=$PWD cd /home/ken tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - --wildcards -T docs/ta

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-24 7:12 p.m., Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >> tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches \ - >> --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst >

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-24 8:40 p.m., deloptes wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > >> Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it >> >> #!/bin/bash # Script to back up all browser files in directory >> /home/ken/mozilla. START

Re: Firefox Seems to Have a Mind of It's Own

2019-10-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spelling error in the title. 'Its' as a possessive adjective does not have an apostrophe. "It's" with the apostrophe is only used as a contraction of 'it is' or 'it has'. Regards, Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2U

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-26 Thread Ken Heard
have a buster machine instead of the stretch one I am still using in Toronto. So I may be on the thread again in Thailand, and or possibly again in Toronto in April 2020. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2UnM6QmZNwUCXbTz8gAKCRCU2UnM6QmZ N1Z

Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

2019-10-27 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-26 9:55 p.m., The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-10-26 at 21:33, Ken Heard wrote: > >> The tar scripts now look like this. >> --- >> #!/bin/bash # Script to back

Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-03-19 Thread Ken Heard
the sound card. Lack of such specs indicates to me that Acer does not want people to know that this laptop is mono only. Is mono sound the norm for low market laptops such as this one and notebooks? Ken Heard

Re: Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-03-19 Thread Ken Heard
On 19/03/20 09:10 PM, Joe wrote: If you're getting convincing stereo, then the problem is elsewhere in the path. I always suspect HDMI of anything that involves it. Yes, it can do many channels, and something with 'HDMI' stamped on it should do at least stereo, but that may be the weak link in

Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-02 Thread Ken Heard
they went into the Local Folders Unsent folder. I could find no option among Icedove's preferences to have "Send later" messages saved in the account's Unsent Messages folder. This bug should be fixed. Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-03 Thread Ken Heard
ng it. On the other hand I cannot connect with either of the two wireless cards I tried. The priority task is to get a wireless connection. I would certainly appreciate all the help I can get to be able to do so. I would also like to be able to switch from one card to the other without difficulty, by obviating the problem mentioned in the proceeding paragraph. Regards, Ken Heard Chiang Mai, Thailand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-03 Thread Ken Heard
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Is your account a POP account or IMAP? POP Regards, Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-04 Thread Ken Heard
"debranded" versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey (the "Ices") available for all Linux distributions or are they unique to Debian? As far as auto-sending email when you return from off-line, *that* sounds like valid enhancement request (that should go thru Mozilla, not

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/07 05:07, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Testing your assertion now. Ok, I created the "03/03/07 07:39" email, and then did: File->"Send Later" Icedove put the email in "Local Folders".Uns

Re: Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-05 Thread Ken Heard
"network unreachable" message after pinging the server. Finally, I ran "RaConfig2500" which returned "RaConfig2500: cannot connect to X server". Anybody have any idea what the problem or problems may be? Another question: is there a Debian package which sn

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Ken Heard
s way, and so is Christmas.) Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Iceweasel and Iceweasel-dbg

2007-03-13 Thread Ken Heard
"debugging symbols"? Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Failed!" message received when EXT3 filesystem mounted

2007-03-13 Thread Ken Heard
do. All these EXT3 messages in both do not indicate anything amiss; nor have I noticed any performance degradation. Is the appearance of this "failed!" message on boot up something I should be concerned about? If not, is there some way I can stop it? Regards,

Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
ich? I do not even know what packages are necessary for sound. I would appreciate if one or more of the experts out there could give me some clues as to what I should be looking for. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: you should also add the user to the group audio (and video ?). as root: # adduser your-user-name audio # adduser your-user-name video Both the users had already been added to those two groups, but not by me. Regards, Ken Heard

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
Windows 2000 on it I was able to do both -- listen to audio CDs and watch and listen to downloaded newscasts. So it would seem that the problem(s) is(are) not hardware related. Any further suggestions? Regards, Ken Heard -- To

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
that strange, as the the CDROM drive was empty, nor could I see any application open, except icedove and a terminal emulator. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
If these packages are screwing up the sound, then a little knowledge on my part is dangerous. I should have asked whether that warning message could safely be ignored. Since I do not use the sound properties of dosemu perhaps I should have left well enough alone. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
ound/isa ./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686/include/config/isa ./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686/include/config/generic/isa ./lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/sound/isa ./lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/isa LAP:/# find -iname isa-pnp LAP:/# I am using kernel 2.6.18-4-686.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
Also found the following: LAP:/# find -iname isapnp ./sys/module/snd_opl3sa2/parameters/isapnp ./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4/drivers/pnp/isapnp LAP:/# Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-17 Thread Ken Heard
had been able to listen to audio CDs with noatun. Now I cannot. Any opinions on this matter? In any event, as I do not seem to need these packages for dosemu, I should remove them -- once I figure out how to do so *without* removing key packages. I also really wonder whether I need to

Browser identification to websites

2007-03-19 Thread Ken Heard
control centre users can add to a list identifications for specific sites which would otherwise prohibit access unless they can detect that identification. I have done so with several sites. I would certainly like to see such and identification capability in Iceweasel. What are the possibilitie

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-19 Thread Ken Heard
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:52 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: [snip] I would certainly like to see such and identification capability in Iceweasel. What are the possibilities? http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/ That is the one you are looking for. Thanks for the

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-20 Thread Ken Heard
og in with the above URL. https://www.sunnet.sunlife.com/member/BlockPage128.asp Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-20 Thread Ken Heard
. The server hosting the site may not be in Canada, however. When I am back in Canada I will have to investigate further with the insurance company. Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-20 Thread Ken Heard
weasel -- at least the User Agent Switcher -- Iceweasel has to be closed and restarted for the extension to take effect. Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-20 Thread Ken Heard
ything like the price. So we will have to put up with dealing with the symptoms instead of the problem for some time yet. Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-08 Thread Ken Heard
through a print server to an HP LaserJet II-P. Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Ken Heard
n repaired. Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Ken Heard
ly. In my estimation the best word processor ever. However, when I need to I convert 5.1 files to 8.0 for Linux, where I can format them as ps or pdf files. In extremis I can even convert WP files to MS Word files using OpenOffice.

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
hat I did not have this problem when I used lprng instead of cups. Regards, Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing from WP8 (was Re: Text on printed pages truncated)

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
nges they have to go through me. By the way, I never could get the Debian Dosemu package to work. Instead use the latest developer version of Dosemu downloaded from the Dosemu website. Regards, Ken Heard Toronto, Canada

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
luding Kpdf and Xpdf. Regards, Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Making KDE default desktop environment

2007-01-14 Thread Ken Heard
knows how to do what I want to do, I would appreciate it if s/he would share the knowledge. Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

My two boxes will not talk to each other

2007-01-16 Thread Ken Heard
icate what is wrong? Can anybody advise me what to do to put these two boxes on friendly terms with each other? Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xorg will not start no matter what I do

2007-01-19 Thread Ken Heard
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode0666 EndSection --- Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My two boxes will not talk to each other - now they do.

2007-01-20 Thread Ken Heard
iates the need to assign them manually, a complicated procedure. Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HAL (was "Why there is no space left on root partition?")

2007-01-21 Thread Ken Heard
ovide information about those upon request." Since I do not have it installed I don't know what I am missing. Does it do anything that other commands and packages do not do? If so, does HAL do it better? In short, is HAL worth installing?

base-config equivalent to Etch?

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Heard
? Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Heard
while computer is powered off. Does the foregoing mean that Etch does not need ntp or ntpdate to maintain reasonable clock stability? Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Button icons lost from KDE desktop and Konqueror

2007-02-03 Thread Ken Heard
how I did it; so I cannot replicate what I did. I am at a loss to know what to do to get these icons back. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Button icons lost from KDE desktop and Konqueror -- Success Report

2007-02-04 Thread Ken Heard
Theme=crystalsvg Since this entry did not change, I can only assume that that setting somehow got broken and it only took what I did a few minutes ago to fix it. If I had to start over again, re-customization would have been quite a task! Thanks, Florian for the help.

Re: Xorg will not start -- Success report

2007-02-04 Thread Ken Heard
f x-server-xorg were installed, and on first boot X.org was loaded without needing any manual configuration on my part. Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-04 Thread Ken Heard
ir propensity for such attacks by 70% if they did not contaminate their computers with *any* Microsoft product. Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-10 Thread Ken Heard
pecifically. Henceforth I will send to you copies of my panic posts to the list. The first one I expect to post today, called "Etch X-server failure". Regards, Ken Heard Toronto, Canada Michael Po

Etch and Sarge X-server failures on two different boxes the same day

2007-02-11 Thread Ken Heard
e grateful to anybody who can tell me how to do so. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-11 Thread Ken Heard
he laptop and the desktop I would like to remove the Trash icon but cannot find a way to do so. I don't like any icons on the desktop; they spoil my slide show. Help will be appreciated. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Inability to configure printer

2007-02-11 Thread Ken Heard
ier this afternoon -- would not inspire confidence in Linux from a novice. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-12 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The >> box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the >> other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba >> laptop, have

Re: KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
to my amazement and surprise the KDE login manager appeared! I wonder what I had done in the meantime to deserve this prise. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
he operating system cannot connect to the network. As I have managed to remove all my data from the Sarge box, fixing it is not my priority. Getting the laptop working is. As I have not yet any data on it, the only thing I can think of to do is to start the installation all over again, this

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
er that information is of any help. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
-08 10:21 .X11-unix On the Laptop with Etch, once again the same, except for the dates. Mine are dated today. > Also, what do the perms on your /tmp directory look like? >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> ls -lhd /tmp >> drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4.0K 2007-02-13 17:18 /tmp On the laptop, the same, except for the time and the number following the perms is 5 instead of 14. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

My Sarge box no longer,connects to the network

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP

My Sarge box no longer,connects to the network

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP

Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >>

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:12:32 -0500 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:24 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >>> > >> assigned by the gateway, 192.168.0.

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >> >>>> What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"? >>>> >> Returned: >> >> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. >> Reconfiguring

Re: Etch and Sarge X-server failures on two different boxes the same day

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
On Sun 11 Feb 2007 15:56:23 -0500 Ken Heard wrote: > A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop. > The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing > it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I > replaced Gnome

Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
Regards, Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
Is there in the Etch packages data base a "complete web authoring system" more or less equivalent to Nvu, which is in the Sarge data base? Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
be unused. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unable to switch session from GDM

2007-02-17 Thread Ken Heard
e kde login manager and much else besides. Some of the changes will not take effect unless you restart your user session, or even possibly not until after rebooting the computer. Finally, when all is done you can remove gdm, the gnome-desktop-environment and other gno

Dosemu

2007-02-18 Thread Ken Heard
Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
have these two commands. Regards, Ken Heard Toronto, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/07 21:43, Ken Heard wrote: Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. This is an example of a Bad Question

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
I found the answer to my own problem. I only had gcc installed; whereas it seems that g++ was also needed for the configuration. It seems that g++ and gcc are dependent on each other. Regards, Ken Heard -- To

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
ox will do so now, as Dosemu is now an orphan project. For example, Dosbox is still an Etch package; whereas Dosemu has apparently been dropped. I will report back in due course. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Hugh Lawson wrote: On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on the list who still uses dosemu. Hello Ken, I don't use dosemu very much, but I have played with it, to the extent of getting WordPerfect 5

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
umably 1.3.4, to work on the Etch laptop, or whether I can use dosbox instead. I will keep the list posted on progress, but not before next week. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
John Hasler wrote: Ken Heard writes: Nothing, because these [dosemu] packages are not in the Debian Etch/testing package repository Look in contrib. I suppose to do that I would have to add contrib to my /etc/apt/sources.list. All it has now are etch main. Those packages are not in the

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