Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:03:17PM +0200, Tim Edwards wrote: > > > Tim Edwards wrote: >> >> >> Thomas H. George wrote: >>> Running nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so >>> fails when libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is not found. Apt-cach

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:12:33PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 09/11/08 09:45, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> > >> Running nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so > >> fails when li

Re: Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?

2008-09-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:16:29AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > > There may be no good reason for the 32-bit chroot. I was influenced by > > the following quote, "If you're going to point out nspluginwrapper, &g

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:35:05PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Thomas, > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:42:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > ia32-libs-gtk did the trick. Youtube video's run fine. NYTimes > > video's now try to start but stall loading.

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 09:09:02AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:35:05PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Dear Thomas, > > > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:42:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > ia32-libs-gtk did the trick. You

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:40:32AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:54:16AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I too have 9.0 r124 but also 9.0 r100 and Flash Movie Player compatable > > > with Shockwave Flash 4.0 are also installed. I'm working

nspluginwrapper puzzle

2008-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
iceape can play youtube videos but stalls at the start of NYTimes videos. My setup is lenney with a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel. From iceape/help/about plugins/plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux (x86 64) I have downloaded: nspluginwrapper-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm nspluginwrapper-i386-1.0.0-1.x

glibc install problem

2008-09-17 Thread Thomas H. George
The installation end in Error 2 as shown in the captured output included below. My system is Lenney with a 2.6.26-1-amd64 stock kernel. I installed the debian glibc-source_2.7-13.all.deb package, unpacked glibc-2.7ds1.tar.bz2 into /usr/src/gnu/glibc-2.7, created /usr/src/gnu/glibc-build and from

The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-22 Thread Thomas H. George
Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and that the solution was to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change MODULES=most to MODULES=dep. This indeed reduced the size of the initrd.img from about

Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-22 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian > > system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and > >

Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:10:54AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:34:21 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > With BUSYBOX=n the initrd.img file size is reduced to 6683876 but > > bootup still fails. > > Maybe yaird can help. Install the ya

Galrey Bug

2008-09-23 Thread Thomas H. George
The latest version of galrey fails. Using strace I find it tries to open '.' and finds there is no such file or directory. Of course I invoked galrey when in a directory containing .jpg files and ls . lists them with no problem. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Galrey Bug

2008-09-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:10:13PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > The latest version of galrey fails. Using strace I find it tries to open > > '.' and finds there is no such file or directory. Of course I invoked > > galrey when

exim4 authentication in etch?

2008-10-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I wiped the hard drive, did a clean installation of etch, configured exim4, put the user:password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client and tried to send a message. The entry in /var/log/exim4/mainlog showed authentication required. I had saved a debian users posting from Jan 2006 explaining how to mod

Re: exim4 authentication in etch?

2008-10-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Chris Davies wrote: Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wiped the hard drive, did a clean installation of etch, configured exim4, put the user:password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client and tried to send a message. [...] "man exim4_passwd_client" says The fil

Re: exim4 authentication in etch?

2008-10-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Chris Davies wrote: Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The line I put in passwd.client is, "outgoing.verizon.net:my-user-name:my-password", which is my understanding of the man page instructions. Yes, that's the correct format. But it's not

Re: exim4 authentication in etch?

2008-10-05 Thread Thomas H. George
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:10:53PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Chris Davies wrote: Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wiped the hard drive, did a clean installation of etch, configured exim4, put the user:password in /etc

Re: exim4 authentication in etch?

2008-10-05 Thread Thomas H. George
P. Lane wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Tried *:my-user-name:my-password with the same result: Authentication Required. Poured through the /usr/share/doc/exim4 documentation (also exim4-base and exim4-config) which insist there is a file exim4-conf

Re: exim4 authentication in etch? - SUCCESS!

2008-10-05 Thread Thomas H. George
Thomas H. George wrote: P. Lane wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Tried *:my-user-name:my-password with the same result: Authentication Required. Poured through the /usr/share/doc/exim4 documentation (also exim4-base and exim4-config) which insist

Re: exim4 authentication in etch? - SUCCESS!

2008-10-07 Thread Thomas H. George
Chris Davies wrote: Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true| |AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS=yes| Chris Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What you've done there is to enable TLS (encryption), but then immediately say that you're happy

exim4 mainlog & msglog permissions?

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas H. George
After finally understanding the exim4 authentication setup - as root I am able to send email to my other mail box - I tried to send mail as tom and from mutt. No go. First, there were messages that exim4 could not write to the files /var/log/exim4/mainlog and paniclog - permission denied. I

Re: exim4 authentication in etch? - SUCCESS!

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas H. George
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,07.Oct.08, 10:22:18, Thomas H. George wrote: [snip security concerns] Should I worry about this? The SMTP (used by exim) and POP (used by fetchmail) protocols are not very secure by default, which is probably one of the reasons we now have such a huge

Re: exim4 mainlog & msglog permissions - Unresolved

2008-10-11 Thread Thomas H. George
Thomas H. George wrote: After finally understanding the exim4 authentication setup - as root I am able to send email to my other mail box - I tried to send mail as tom and from mutt. No go. First, there were messages that exim4 could not write to the files /var/log/exim4/mainlog and

Grub Question

2008-10-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst (also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0). The MBR is unchanged and the system still boots with lilo. A problem

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and > >root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf > > > >I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst

grub with sata drives?

2008-11-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst: kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 groot=(sdb,0) and ran update-grub. Next I tried to boot the system and got the splash screen with my kernels listed but then a

Re: grub with sata drives? - Progress

2008-11-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:00:56PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I > > installed grub on sdb and made the following entr

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-04 Thread Thomas H. George
Regarding disk names see my posting "Re: grub with sata drives - solution" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub with sata drives? - Success

2008-11-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:21:45AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:00:56PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote: > >>On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>wrote: > >>>

nspluginwrapper problem

2008-11-06 Thread Thomas H. George
When I run nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashflashplayer.so the response is *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. I found a copy of libnss3.so in /usr/lib and added a soft link to it from /usr/lib/browser-plugins b

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

2008-11-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:33:44PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2008, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'nspluginwrapper problem': > >When I run nspluginwrapper -i > >/usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashf

OT: BIOS Problem

2008-11-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Problem: Very slow bootup while grub tries repeatedly to get responses from a dead ide slave drive. If the ide slave drive is disconnected bios apparently spends a long time searching for ide drives and grub loads very slowly but, once loaded, boots the system quickly. If I enter bios at power

Re: OT: BIOS Problem - Thanks

2008-11-18 Thread Thomas H. George
David A. Parker wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: If your slave drive has failed completely, it's possible that your master drive needs to be jumpered as "single" instead of "master" (if it is one of those drives which make that distinction). Sometimes the BIOS wil

Sound But No Sound

2008-11-20 Thread Thomas H. George
Sound: alsaplayer plays cd's & totem plays videos. alsamixer adjusts volume. No Sound: Audacity has no input control - input options are determined by the sound card so presumably Audacity doesn't see the sound card. Neither does alsactl. alsactl names returns nothing and alsactl card0 says card

Re: Sound But No Sound - Finally Puzzled It Out

2008-11-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:07:33PM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Sound: alsaplayer plays cd's & totem plays videos. alsamixer adjusts > > volume. > > > > No Sound: Audacity has no input control - input options are determi

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas H. George
I just had a long struggle with Alsa and Lenny as I had sound from playing a cd but nothing from input to the mobo sound card. I finally learned to switch the alsamixer to capture (tab) and try different capture choices (arrows, space bar) until I found the correct setting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

OT Internet Radio Reception Program

2008-12-15 Thread Thomas H. George
I ordered an Aluratek AIRJ01F as a Christmas present for a grandson who sticks with Windows XP. My understanding is that this device when plugged in to a usb port automaticly loads a program which provides access to 13,000 internet radio stations with scan options to find various types of music.

Re: OT Internet Radio Reception Program

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:05:14PM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:38:20PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I ordered an Aluratek AIRJ01F as a Christmas present for a grandson who > > sticks with Windows XP. My understanding is that this device when >

Cups Sharing Setup Problem

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas H. George
Two debian boxes - one lenny, one etch, each with its own printer - connected to the LAN and can ping each other. Problem: Etch box can use Lenny box's printer, Lenny Box cannot find or stalls trying to use Etch box's printer. More precisely, if I run lynx localhost:631 on the Lenny box and tell

Re: Cups Sharing Setup Problem - Resolved

2008-12-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:08:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 16:01:04 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Two debian boxes - one lenny, one etch, each with its own printer - > > connected to the LAN and can ping each other. > > > > Prob

live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas H. George
I ran update and dist-upgrade. The live-helper set up complained about duplicate files in /usr/share/live-helper/includes.debian directory. Checking I found the directory contained soft links from etch to sid and lenny to sid both dated 2008-06-16 and a soft link from squeeze to lenny dated 2008-1

Re: live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:12:20PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,29.Dec.08, 14:08:59, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I ran update and dist-upgrade. The live-helper set up complained about > > duplicate files in /usr/share/live-helper/includes.debian directory. > >

Re: live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:09:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,29.Dec.08, 16:33:49, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > Could you please post the exact error message? > > > > > I don't know how to recover the information. I tried apt-get > > -

Need Help with Display in Chroot

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas H. George
Following Debian Reference 8.6.35.1-3 I have created a directory /sid-32bit, used debootstrap to populate it with sid i386, modified inittab to make F8 open a console for the chroot and added "do s/vt7/vt9" in the [servers] section of gdm.conf. Problem #1. Only one display can run at a time. Tha

Re: Need Help with Display in Chroot

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:09:14AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:53:45AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:15:40PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > Following Debian Reference 8.6.35.1-3 > > Please install lnny version of DR. The latest is a

OT: Need Printer Reset Command

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas H. George
Occasionally something in a .ps document fails to translate (gs?) into a printable document and my printers then spit out hundreds of pages each containing one line of jibberish. It does no good to clear the print queue, to turn the printer on and off or even to re-boot the system. After all this

Re: OT: Need Printer Reset Command

2009-01-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:11:07PM -0500, microwaverich wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: >> Occasionally something in a .ps document fails to translate (gs?) into a >> printable document and my printers then spit out hundreds of pages each >> containing one line of jibberish.

hald/dbus Question

2009-01-31 Thread Thomas H. George
I have installed a foreign system (Ubuntu) in a separate partition and want to run it as a chroot. The gdm start fails with a message "Failed to initialize HAL". The chroot console works and when I enter the command lshal the response is: error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFo

Re: hald/dbus Question

2009-01-31 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:39:01PM +0200, subscriptions wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 17:14 +0100, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > Notes: The system will boot to Ubuntu with no problems, it is just > > trying to run it as chroot that fails to open the desktop window. >

Re: OT: Printer Reset Solution

2009-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George
Brother Customer Service provided instructions for factory reset: 1. Turn printer off 2. Hold down button on front panel (HL-730 has only one button) 3. While continuing to hold down the button turn the printer on and wait until the drum light comes on. 4. Release the button then hold it down agai

mount foo.img problem

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
I have carefullly followed the instructions in man mount and in the Debian Reference manual, for example mount -o loop -t ext3 debxo-awesome.ext3.img /media/sdloop or mount dexo-awesome.ext3.img /media/sdloop -t ext3 -o loop In both cases the mount command exits with a message: Can't find ext3

Re: mount foo.img problem

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:44:47AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:31:17 Thomas H. George wrote: > > I have carefullly followed the instructions in man mount and in the > > Debian Reference manual, for example > > > > mount -o loop

Re: mount foo.img problem

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:28:20PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 07 February 2009 13:37:46 Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:44:47AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:31:17 Thomas H. George wrote:

Re: mount foo.img problem

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
Out of town for a week, I'll try again next week. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64?

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory. Added, I guess, as part of a recent dist-upgrade though I didn't notice it (careless) in the list of new items to be installed. grub has added this kernel image to the top of the boot list but trying to boot with it ends in kernel

Best Video Capture Device for Debian?

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas H. George
I purchased a Canon DC410 camcorder and recorded on several mini cd's during a trip to Europe. Most of the mini cd's I can mount and edit the foo.vob files with avidemux. Mount fails for one of the mini cd's and my dvd player can't read it either but the camcorder can still play back the recordin

Re: Best Video Capture Device for Debian?

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:04:08PM +, CamaleĆ³n wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:08:48 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I purchased a Canon DC410 camcorder and recorded on several mini cd's > > during a trip to Europe. Most of the mini cd's I can mount and edi

xawtv and lavrec setup problems

2010-02-20 Thread Thomas H. George
I want to capture video from the component output of my Canon DC410 camcorder. I purchased KWorld DVD Maker USB2.0 (Maybe not the best choice?) When connected to a Squeeze 64 bit system it was immediately recognized as /dev/video0 xawtv -hwscan produced the following outbut: Script started on

xawtv: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode error

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas H. George
Why do I get this error? I have libxxf86dga1 and libxxf86dga-dev installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100221165024.ga27...@tomgeorge.info

Re: Best Video Capture Device for Debian?

2010-02-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:07PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:08 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I purchased a Canon DC410 camcorder and recorded on several mini cd's > > during a trip to Europe. Most of the mini cd's I can mount and edit t

Postscript, PDF Problems with Iceape and OpenOffice

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas H. George
The iceape browser will open foo.ps files with viewer but not foo.pdf files which it tries to re-save. Openoffice3 opens either of these file types as if they were ascii files. file foo.ps reports foo.ps: PostScript document text conforming DSC level 3.0, Level 2 file foo.pdf reports foo.pdf: P

OT: Programming Robots

2007-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux applications that he should consider? If so, how best to get started? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

System Lockup

2007-12-11 Thread Thomas H. George
I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard with an Iceape screen open. I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response. In desperation I crashed and rebooted the system. I am using linux-image 2.

Re: System Lockup - Thanks

2007-12-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:50:26PM +0100, strawks wrote: > > I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard > > with an Iceape screen open. > > > I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then > > Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response. > >

dvgrab doesn't

2007-12-24 Thread Thomas H. George
With my old system dvgrab controlled my Sony Digital 8 video camera with no problems. I upgraded to a new motherboard and a Athlon 64 processor, Lenny and a linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64 kernel. The new motherboard does not have a firewire port so I added a pci firewire card (NEC single-chip IEE

Re: dvgrab doesn't - Thanks for the help

2007-12-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 09:38:19AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 22:24:52 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > With my old system dvgrab controlled my Sony Digital 8 video camera with no > > problems. I upgraded to a new motherboard and a Athlon 64 p

Wodim Woes

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas H. George
wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access /dev/hda and then /dev/hdb My system is lenny with a linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 kernel. What is wrong and how can I fix it. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Wodim Woes

2008-01-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:24:43PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but > > > > wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access > > /dev/hda and then /dev/hdb > >

Re: Wodim Woes - Correction

2008-01-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:24:43PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but > > > > > > wodim -v dev=0,0,0 da

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One ethernet card is connected to the Verizon dsl modem which is connected to the phone li

alsactl names finds nothing

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card. Alsaconf says it is not needed with Lenny but it will find the Creative Labs sound card. Unfortunately it also kills dsp. alsactl names finds nothing. I am

Re: alsactl names finds nothing

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:23:07 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard > > soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card. &g

Re: alsactl names finds nothing - Thanks

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:59:11PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:35:38 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:23:07 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > &g

tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems

2013-08-29 Thread Thomas H. George
Netinst Wheezy with linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 Problem: On initial bootup there is a message that gdm3 is not fully installed, probably a hardware problem. (The Gigabyte mb has onboard video AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics) Problem: Despite bootup message classic gnome display appears and works but sw

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems

2013-08-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:37:04AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/30/13, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Problem: On initial bootup there is a message that gdm3 is not fully > > installed, probably a hardware problem. (The Gigabyte mb has onboard > > video AMD Ra

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems, little help

2013-08-31 Thread Thomas H. George
Still trying to solve this problem I ran two straces. strace -f -e trace=open,read /etc/init.d/xdm restart This trace ends "xdm is not the default manager" after reading /usr/sbin/xdm from the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager. There is no file xdm in /usr/sbin/ although xdm is installed. s

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems - Solved

2013-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
apt-get install fglrx-driver has solved the problem. I had overlooked a message at the start of bootup stating a radeon nonfree display package might be required. (Its on the screen very briefly - it took me three reboots to read it). The notes on the fglrx-driver actually suggest trying the newe

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems - Solved, Not Entirely

2013-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:54:42PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > apt-get install fglrx-driver has solved the problem. > > I had overlooked a message at the start of bootup stating a radeon > nonfree display package might be required. (Its on the screen very > briefly - it took m

LAN Recognition Problem

2013-10-16 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two computers connected to the LAN, one my desktop running Wheezy and the other a RaspberryPi running Wheezy-Raspbian. The RaspberryPi can successfully ping all the devices on the LAN, the desktop, the printer, the gateway. It immediately found the desktop's hostname and sucessfully pings

Re: LAN Recognition Problem

2013-10-16 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:58:36PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:53:52PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I have two computers connected to the LAN, one my desktop running Wheezy > > and the other a RaspberryPi running Wheezy-R

Bash Scripting Question

2013-11-03 Thread Thomas H. George
The script I am trying to write executes a program that requires a keyboard response. I have experimented with redirecting STDIN but haven't found the correct way to make the response. I found one example that scanned the response from apt-get install for the letter y and fed this back to in

Re: 3D printer

2013-11-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:09:02PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-11-04, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > > > I'm waiting for a 3D printer that builds itself :) > > > > A self-replicating 3D printer? > > That's in the cards, isn't it? > > Or maybe it isn't. The economic model may be faulty; I dunno. >

OT Gnome Blocks Gimpusers Forums

2013-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
When I sign in to gimpusers.com and try to start a new discussion on the Help & Support forum the thread is locked in to gimp-user-list.gnome.org. Worse, gimp does not run properly on the gnome desktop! My system is Debian and I had been using the gdm3 window manager and the gnome desktop.

Re: OT Gnome Blocks Gimpusers Forums

2013-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Did you subscribe? I don't know if those list is a open list. > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > List master/s: mitch at gimp.org, schumaml at gmx.de > > Subscribe to the forums here: http://www.gimpusers

OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
My backup desktop died and I am thinking of replacing it with a laptop. I am not a gamer but a bit more than a routine user, i.e. occasionally use big programs and am interested in experimenting with Blender. I want to stick with Debian and have no need of Window$. Touch screen is not essential

Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

2012-12-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I have edited passwd and entered server:user:password exactly as described in exim4_passwd_client and run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. When I try to send mail using exim4 and then tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog I find authenication has failed. I have double checked every entry. They are all c

Re: Problem with exim4 smtp authentication

2012-12-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:34:43PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: Do either your username or password have a colon character in them? No, neither the username nor the password contain a colon. Do you need to connect to a particular port on the remote SMTP server in order to authenticate (e.g., som

How to write an init.d script which runs a perl program?

2014-09-19 Thread Thomas H. George
My system is Wheezy and I would like to add a script to init.d run a simple perl program at startup. The scripts in init.d look very different these days, they used to be numbered so I could make my program run last. I have tried reading the debian-policy manual and examining some of the foo.sh

No Sound

2014-04-10 Thread Thomas H. George
Yesterday everything worked. Then I used Audacity to capture stream from tape deck. Now everyting seems to work, view meters show output but no sound from speakers. I can't find where the signal is being misdirected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Iceape Slow As Molasses

2012-12-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Iceape browser and mail has suddenly become very slow in scrolling and paging. I have found an kludge fix: kill plugin-containe. This temporarily restores normal performance. Does anyone know the underlying cause and a permanent solution? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Is plugin-containe the problem?

2012-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
When I run top -i and kill the pid of plugin-containe this temporarily restores the normal operation of iceape, that is paging and scrolling response is immediate again rather than delayed by as much as 30 seconds. This is obviously not the right way to fix the problem. Is there a permanet soluti

Re: Rooting an Android Tablet on Debian

2013-03-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 02:57:18PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I got a Kobo Arc that runs Android 4.0.4 and would like to become su for this > device. There are paid services but I don't like the sound of them and they're > expensive. Since Android is Debian several times removed, I was wonder

Grub edits at boot not saved

2013-03-24 Thread Thomas H. George
Upon booting wheezy I get a message "vga=399 deprecated Enter set gfxpayload=1600x1200x24,1600x1200 before linux" Just before loading the boot file there is an option to press e to edit the grub startup file. When this is chosen the file appears in a window with instructions below the window whi

OT: Addressbook Programs

2013-04-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I would like an addressbook program compatible with my cell phone and with a few more features that contacts. It should be pretty simple to write something in Perl or perhaps to modify the contacts source code but before I start reinventing the wheel I thought I would make sure I haven't overlooke

Need help setting up bluetooth file transfers

2013-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
paired my desktop computer and my tablet but file transfers failed. The tablet said the failure was because the computer does not use obexftp so I installed obexftp and obexfs. hciconfig found the bluetooth device to be hci0 so I entered the command obexfs -b hci0 This was accepted but did not

Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-04 Thread Thomas H. George
My system is Wheezy. ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. cdir lists the tracks on the cd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:32:39PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:15:35 -0400 > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > >

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:18:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:50:09AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> My system is Wheezy. > >> ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > >> workbone plays the

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > My system is Wheezy. > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > Could this be a pulseaudio problem? Something wrong in my

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