Thank you for your help I am a total neophyte to computers and am struggling along the path to wisdom, I appreciate your help very much. best wishes jack
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Michael McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Where are you entering the password? That is, is this in a GUI dialog > or at the terminal? At the terminal, this is expected behavior: when > entering a password, no asterisks or other characters are echoed to the > screen. In other words, the computer sees you entering the password, > but it doesn't give any feedback. > > -- > trying to install application (nvidia-glx-config enable) i am asked for > password but am unable to enter anything from keyboard > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274848 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > currently running Ubuntu 8.08 > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Fri Sep 26 08:40:26 2008 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 > Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 > PackageArchitecture: i386 > ProcEnviron: > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 > Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686 > -- trying to install application (nvidia-glx-config enable) i am asked for password but am unable to enter anything from keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274848 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs