Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Show us the output of: lpr -P your_printer /etc/hosts Greetings, -- Camaleón Thanks, Camaleon and everyone else who has helped. Everything is working now; the solution was to set

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that specified in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create it? At http://localhost:631/printers/ there should be a 'Set

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing - SOLVED

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
/utf-8: No such file or directory no system default destination The last two lines look bad but googling has not provided a clue (some talk of bugs in Cups). Can anyone point to possible solutions, please? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test page gives a blank sheet. Which package did you install

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
didn't need to have the driver in the printcap on the client machine. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

/dev/usb/lp0 disappeared after upgrade

2011-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
with similar errors but nothing helpful. I suspect udev may be at fault but not sure how to fix it. Any suggestions? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view

Re: /dev/usb/lp0 disappeared after upgrade

2011-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:39:34 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I recently did a big upgrade on Sid after a year. This seemed to go off OK but now I cannot print from my usb printer. I get 'Cannot open /dev/usb/lp0 -No such file or directory' My scanner

Re: /dev/usb/lp0 disappeared after upgrade

2011-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry to follow up to myself, but I've now found that the printer is, in fact, at /dev/usb/lp0, which it should be; but the permissions seem to be wrong because although I can cat files to that address as root and they are printed, I can't print as user

Re: /dev/usb/lp0 disappeared after upgrade - SOLVED

2011-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: Once more apologies, but I fixed things in the end by reinstalling lprng. I suppose it had got corrupted recently. Thanks again Maderios and Camaleon. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: Safest way to upgrade Sid after long interval?

2011-07-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
many problems. The worst were (1) apt-listbugs not working caused the upgrade to stop - solved by turning off apt-listbugs in its config file, and (2) boot hanging for 5 min truing to start klogd - solved by replacing with rsyslog. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free

Safest way to upgrade Sid after long interval?

2011-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
huge) list of upgrades. I think it should be safe to do 'upgrade' but for dist-upgrade perhaps it should be done piecemeal afterwards, for reasons both of time and safety. Has anyone any experience of doing something like this? Best way to go about things? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
, kdm? Those of us who don't want to use Gnome, KDE and the rest of the desktop managers necessarily do use startx. Incidentally, it provides an easy way to pass commands to X when it starts. Anthony (using Icewm) -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Jun 2011, Brian wrote: On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 16:16:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: 02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01) According to the Debian wiki ath5k is the driver for an AR5212. It also appears your

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 23 iun 11, 12:06:54, Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks, Philipp - you were right and gave me the clue. There are two modules available, ath5k and ath9k. I was using ath5k because that is what the docs talk about, but when I changed to ath9k

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
for a time but then, after reading the docs, I found that ath5k gives wlan0. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/22/11 at 10:35pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2011-06-22T22:35:47+01:00 * Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd

Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
? The router does not have encryption but broadcast of its essid is disabled. This does not prevent wicd from seeing it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription

2011-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
, to say 'one' instead of 'I'. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
. They answer support queries about Linux (although they had no idea how to use the printer on my LAN, saying this is not a network printer; I had to work out how to do it for myself). -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. Any suggestions? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in a bug report but I have no idea where the problem

Re: Wireless via dhcp needs repeated ifdown/ifup -SOLVED (partially)

2011-05-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Apr 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 27 apr 11, 15:36:42, Anthony Campbell wrote: Nothing in the logs apart from an entry saying the router doesn't do IPV6. Maybe you need to turn verbose/debugging or whatever mode on in some config file ;) Regards, Andrei -- Well, I

Re: Wireless via dhcp needs repeated ifdown/ifup

2011-04-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
try isc-dhcp-client first and see if that is better. If not, I'll probably give wicd another whirl. Will report back later. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com

Re: Wireless via dhcp needs repeated ifdown/ifup

2011-04-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Apr 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 26 apr 11, 16:11:40, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have this stanza in /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless-mode managed wireless-essid 'My ESSID' At the end of booting, the system tries to connect

Wireless via dhcp needs repeated ifdown/ifup

2011-04-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
. In summary, I can get wirelss to work in this rather clunky way but I think there should be a better solution. I googled a suggestion to turn off wpasupplicant, but that doesn't help. Any ideas? Incidentally, this happens both in Squeeze and in Sid. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

Re: Re^2: inconsistent reports from lpstat

2011-04-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
the cups-client package. Don't know what else to suggest. Wayne Perhaps not what the OP wanted, but I find Cups a nightmare and always use magicfilter. Very easy to configure and always works for me, with at least 5 different printers. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light? some progress

2011-04-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 24 Apr 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 24 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: Well, it's beginning to look as if it was a hardware problem all along. The Windows partition

Re: Laptop won't boot after installation - disk error

2011-04-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Apr 2011, Allan Wind wrote: On 2011-04-24 22:18:02, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did a fresh installation of Debian. Everything seemed to go off correctly but when I came to reboot I got: Non-system disk or disk error: replace and strike any key when ready. I reinstalled

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light? some progress

2011-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
in which the modules are loaded, though I can't figure out what. The effect is unpredictable - sometimes it works, sometimes not. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light? some progress

2011-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: Thanks, Camaleon. I found a lot of people using the same laptop with Windows who have the same problem. In some cases a bios upgrade fixed it, in others not. I tried to do

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light? some progress

2011-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:49:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 23 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: Also, check for a BIOS update, most of these ACPI things are usually fixed after updating to the latest BIOS. Thanks, Camaleon. I found a lot of people

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light? some progress

2011-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Apr 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 24 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: Well, it's beginning to look as if it was a hardware problem all along. The Windows partition disappeared and the backlight began to work perfectly. I decided to do a reinstall in the former Windows partition. Everything

Laptop won't boot after installation - disk error

2011-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
problem. Any other ideas? Is it possible to boot via a cdrom? All the files are there on the hard disk when I look at it via rescue. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

2011-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
setting is too low for you by default. Yes, I thought of that, but I've searched through all of /sys without coming across anything relevant. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

2011-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:35 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. (...) Hum... some of the new HP notebooks have a sensor that automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen depending on the ambient light

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

2011-04-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621036 In my case I removed /run and everything was back to normal. A If you have no /run then sorry for the dull response :) Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately I don't have /run so it isn't that in my case. -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

2011-04-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. I can fix this with   echo 10 /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness which I run from /etc/rc,local

Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

2011-04-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
wthout success, Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
, but not so. My /run is no longer there but now the 2.6.38 kernels won't boot - they stop at the nouveau driver. Luckily I still had a 2.6.37 kernel which isn't affected. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Apr 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: After an upgrade today to base-files 6.3 I rashly assume things would be fixed, but not so. My /run is no longer there but now the 2.6.38 kernels won't boot - they stop at the nouveau driver. Luckily I still had a 2.6.37 kernel which isn't affected

Re: Sound lost - SOLVED

2011-02-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Feb 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, in the end it was the sound card. I replaced it with a new one and sound is now working again. Thanks to everyone for help. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Sound lost

2011-02-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 3450 1 snd snd_page_alloc 5045 1 snd_pcm As far as I can see it _ought_ to be working! Can anyone suggest what to try next? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: Sound lost

2011-02-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Feb 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Anthony, From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:26:36 + I'm using Sid. Sound has worked without problems for many months. Today it is gone. A few hints here. http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#Troubleshooting

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2011, Rene Engelhard wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There define broke, please. Grüße/Regards, René

OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Its appearance in Sid seems to be fairly recent because not all mirrors have it. Is there any information about when and why Debian adopted this change? (Perhaps there was and I missed it.) -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
keycode 133 = F13 /usr/bin/xmodmap -e keycode 134 = F14 /usr/bin/xmodmap -e keycode 135 = F15 exec icewm-session Of course, you need to run xev to see which keycode is actually being generated by Alt-R (108 in my case). -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
make a list of all the packages I have on my existing system and use that to remind me of what I will probably use in the new one. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com

Re: Basic questions about Debian package tools

2011-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Wajig is also suitable for general system administration. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka lp -o fitplot)?

2011-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
. (...) IIRC, Xpdf can pass raw lpr parameters when printing, so maybe it could be another option. Greetings, -- Camaleón I don't know about fitplot, but I found that xpdf would not print landscape pages correctly; they came out as portrait. But evince does it without problems. -- Anthony

Re: Scanner recommendations

2010-12-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
with Linux, and if something goes wrong with the printer (say), you have to repair or scrap everything at once. This is another example of the ill effects of the _market_ which have been discussed in another thread on this list in connection with wide-screen monitors. -- Anthony Campbell

Re: OCR

2010-12-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Dec 2010, Bernd Kloss wrote: I've found that the Debian tesseract package (tesseract-ocr-eng) works very well, with extremely few errors. But isn't it cli - only? regards It is, but is that a problem? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
. regards I've found that the Debian tesseract package (tesseract-ocr-eng) works very well, with extremely few errors. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
that packages I need are not going to be removed, as sometimes happens, resulting in a few days' annoyance until a missing dependency is fixed. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http

Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
relevant on Google. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Oct 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/05/2010 06:38 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: Linux is definitely a minority desktop OS, but you really should present to them the statistics showing that FF has about 25% of the market. I did. In fact, on my site it has about half the number of those

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Oct 2010, John Hasler wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm not sure if it is a design fault in the sites or a bug in Firefox. It is a design fault, and a common one. I see the problem when I visit the site with my default font size set to 18. It goes away when I set it to 12 (I use

Re: VPN Linux client

2010-08-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
://www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/linux/vpn.html It's actually quite simple to do once you know how but, starting from a state of complete ignorance, it took me about 3 days to work it out. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk

Re: Broken deps?

2010-08-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Aug 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: I was caught by this yesterday when I failed to spot that wajig and apt-listbugs were going to be removed. I even contemplated installing aptitude but that isn't possible either. But, as others here have said, it will probably be fixed in a few days

Re: Do apt-get and aptitude know each other's records

2010-08-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
it it removed half my packages for its own reasons. I've used wajig ever since. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
, it would be better to start with apt-get and friends to get an understanding how they work. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Broken deps?

2010-08-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
I failed to spot that wajig and apt-listbugs were going to be removed. I even contemplated installing aptitude but that isn't possible either. But, as others here have said, it will probably be fixed in a few days. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
start X and go back to the console with ctrl-alt-F1 the type face is small. If I do this a second time the console is completely blank. I've tried different settings (Terminus, VGA) in dpkg-reconfigure but that seems to have no effect. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Doesn't seem to work here. The small font I can live with, but if I enable KMS another problem appears. Initially the console type face is large. If I start X and go back to the console with ctrl-alt-F1 the type face is small. If I do this a second

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
this the KMS issue? I solved it by editing /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, as suggested by /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-radeon. The change to tiny font half-way through booting was exactly the symptom I had before doing the above. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft

Re: Iceweasel locks up after connecting to radio

2010-07-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jul 2010, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:31:26 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: I often use Iceweasel to connect to the BBC, either for radio or TV. Recently I've found that when I delete the connection Iceweasel locks up and I have to go

Re: Iceweasel locks up after connecting to radio

2010-07-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jul 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Yes, correct. I found I was running an older version of flash. Updating it has restored function to normal. Thanks. Unfortunately it's not as simple as I thought. The latest version of flash (10.1...) doesn't crash the browser but it gives a jerky

Iceweasel locks up after connecting to radio

2010-07-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:58:24, Anthony Campbell wrote: At the moment I have a blank xorg.conf but I've also used one which has ati as the driver. Here is the log: (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: You need not mess with nouveau

Re: xsane insisting on installing CUPS

2010-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jul 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/13/2010 01:19 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I want to install xsane but it insists on replacing lprng with cups. I don't want this. Can anyone suggest a way of getting xsane without cups

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jul 2010, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:58 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:39:29 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more experimenting, I've found that it also happens even without X! So I don't think the problem is with xorg

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
before X is started, it can't be anything to do with the xorg driver. On the other hand, it doesn't happen with any kernel prior to 2.6.32-5-686, which also causes the small font effect, so it must be something about that kernel on my machine. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

xsane insisting on installing CUPS

2010-07-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I want to install xsane but it insists on replacing lprng with cups. I don't want this. Can anyone suggest a way of getting xsane without cups? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks

Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
with options nouveau modeset=0 but no help. Is there any solution to this? Any way to find a slightly earlier kernel? (unfortunately I deleted the others) -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks

Re: Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg

2010-07-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:04:08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32-5-686 and now X starts and works for a bit but then starts flickering and is unusable. This is on a Thinkpad Z61M. The text terminals now have small text

Re: apt-get

2010-06-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
or apt-get or apt-cache, etc, wajig does the selection of the appropriate tool for you. I've used it for several years now and have no complaints. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

2010-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2010, Johan Kullstam wrote: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk writes: On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in /etc/inittab. But why was the OP getting the message in the first place

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
it. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1) -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

2010-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

2010-05-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 May 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 11 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: I have nouveau and it works with 2.6.32-4-686. It doesn't work with 2.6.32-5-686; no screens are found. You said that the freeze happens with nv and vesa, no mention of nouveau… Anyway, please file a bug

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

2010-05-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-05-10 09:47 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: Which kernel? With 2.6.32-5-685, X always locks up here? The mouse freezes and all the keys are inactive so I have to do a hard reset. This happens with both the nv and vesa drivers. You should try

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

2010-05-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
be something else. Sorry, yes; I should have said that the radeon driver works on the laptop with 2.6.32-5-686. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

2010-05-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
ideas on what could be wrong here? Cheers, Óli Which kernel? With 2.6.32-5-685, X always locks up here? The mouse freezes and all the keys are inactive so I have to do a hard reset. This happens with both the nv and vesa drivers. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 May 2010, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010 08:32:26 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 04 May 2010, Celejar wrote: Indeed. I was just trying to help, over the phone, a Windows user set up a new router, in the absence of a manual. I told her go

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
as routerlogin.net or something like that. I still have no idea what the IP address is. Celejar -- In my case, routerlogin.net gives me my router at 192.188.0.1. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my

Re: Vpn seems to be connected but not being used

2010-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Apr 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Starting a new thread: I seem to have got connected to a vpn server after reading the Debian Howto but I don't know what to do next. Here is the output of ifconfig -a, which seems to show that ppp0 is running. But I'm not connecting via it. [snip

Re: Vpn seems to be connected but not being used -SOLVED

2010-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry, forgot to say SOLVED in previous post - please see that for the solution. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com

Vpn seems to be connected but not being used

2010-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
bytes:2351 (2.2 KiB) TX bytes:80 (80.0 B) Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about this and have little time to find out, because I need to get it working by Saturday! Can anyone kindly tell me what package(s) to install and point me to a (preferably simple) how-to? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 04/14/2010 12:59 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about this and have little time to find out, because I need to get it working by Saturday! Can anyone kindly tell me what package(s

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 04/14/2010 01:39 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 04/14/2010 12:59 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about this and have little time to find out

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
and handshake methods beforehand. PS2. Anthony, my apologies for the double mail. I've hit the wrong reply button. I'm not using either kde or gnome and don't really want to install all that extra stuff if I can avoid it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, I tried to connect but got: EAP: unknown authentication type 13; Naking Anyone know what this indicates? Googling doesn't produce much illumination - nothing that applies to my situation. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-04-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
; Surely that can't be right, can it? No updates available here, either on ftp.de.debian.org or ftp.uk.debian.org. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com

Re: Can't change brightness on Dell Studio 1749

2010-04-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
it manually each time. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

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