gtkam cannot initialize Canon camera in Squeeze Testing

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Lale
0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 Any suggestions would be appreciated. [1] http://manwe.elfove.cz/~brill/blog/ Chris. -- Chris Lale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Cannot load module toshiba_acpi.ko

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Lale
Lenny 5.3 i386 laptop: Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D I want to run fnfxd and toshset to access the function keys for brightness etc. The programs will not run. The problem seems to be that kernel module toshiba_acpi will not load: Output from commands: = # fnfxd FnFX Daemon

Re: hotmail sends blank messages from iceweasel

2009-08-29 Thread Chris Lale
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 01:27:21AM +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Charles wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:42:09 -0700 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:51 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Hotmail does not like Iceweasel. Yes, it's Iceweasel that has

Re: hotmail sends blank messages from iceweasel

2009-08-28 Thread Chris Lale
Sven Joachim wrote: [...] Out of curiosity, why are you using Hotmail? [...] I wouldn't touch it myself, but other users (family) of my computer do. My daughter has grudgingly allowed me to put a small Linux partition on her laptop, but she won't use it if her email doesn't work. -- Chris.

Re: hotmail sends blank messages from iceweasel

2009-08-28 Thread Chris Lale
Charles wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:42:09 -0700 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:51 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Hotmail does not like Iceweasel. Duh! When has Microsoft played well with others except when politically convenient for them? Have you considered

hotmail sends blank messages from iceweasel

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Lale
Hotmail does not like Iceweasel. If you send a message, using Lenny or Squeeze, the whole body is empty. The text you entered is missing. You can check this by looking in your Sent folder. I recently found a solution at

Re: alsaconf says No supported PnP or PCI card found

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Lale
Luc Saffre wrote: [...] # lspci | grep Audio 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High \ Definition Audio (rev 2a) Do you have built-in sound /and/ a plug-in sound card? grep may have missed a second device. Try using lspci | grep audio (lowercase a) or inspecting the full

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 17:16:36 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The problem seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is unable to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so

SOLVED: Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Lale
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-06-20 10:16 +0200, Chris Lale wrote: I have created both files. Florian's: http://untrammelled.co.uk/lenny/dpkg-file-strace.txt Sven's http://untrammelled.co.uk/lenny/dpkg.log Thanks, now I have an idea what is going on. Here is your problem

Re: SOLVED: Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Lale
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-06-20 12:31 +0200, Chris Lale wrote: The diverted files were /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so. I removed them with dpkg-divert and upgraded xserver-xorg-core successfully. My X Window System is restored! nvidia

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Lale
Hello Florian. Thanks for your suggestions. Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:27:22 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:25:16 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 16:03:33 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Xorg

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Lale
Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/19/2008 11:16 AM, Chris Lale wrote: [...] I've checked the exact size of the deb with ls -l (4070872 Byte), which is the value given on the Debian website [1]. However, I cannot check the MD5 checksum (bca5e59168c73a3c8661069df80f368a) using # md5sum --check xserver

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:25:16 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 16:03:33 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The problem seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Lale
Thanks, Paul. It appears that xserver-xorg-core has not upgraded. Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat June 7 2008, Chris Lale wrote: Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The problem seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is unable

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Lale
Thanks, Florian. Sorry for the delay in replying. Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 16:03:33 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The problem seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is unable

Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Lale
Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The problem seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is unable to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so'. This does not seem to be mentioned in any bug reports. Here is some of the output: #

Re: Having problem with recording voice

2008-03-19 Thread Chris Lale
Bob McGowan wrote: [...] Are you running KDE as your desktop? If so, it takes control of the /dev/dsp device and handles all sound I/O through a daemon. If this is the case, you need to start the KDE control center app (usually in the Kmenu, simply named 'Control Center'), the second to

Re: Having problem with recording voice

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Lale
Pete Kay wrote: Hi I am able to get my debian running, but not to record audio. I have tried many different solutions without success. The error I am getting is : debian:/tmp# rec hello.wav Send break (control-c) to end recording sox: Can't open input file '/dev/dsp': Device or

Re: is there a comprehensive howto on setting up wireless

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Lale
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I have a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) wireless card. I am able to access the wireless connection from a router (linksys wrt54g) by adding a stanza into /etc/network/interfaces if the wireless connection does not use any

Re: Laptop Wireless

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Lale
Ed wrote: [...] Actually, as I use Debian more on the laptop, I am beginning to be much more comfortable with it and I may just leave it as is. Everything is working perfectly. I'm glad everything is working out well. :-) -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Laptop Wireless

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Lale
Ed wrote: Hi, I have a HP ZT1000 laptop with an internal wireless card. I tried to install Fedora 8 on it, and although the install went smoothly, it refused to recognize the internal wireless card. Eventually I gave up and wiped Fedora off and installed Debian 4or1. Again the install

Re: RTL-8185 Wireless Card Problems

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Lale
Schiz0 wrote: I'm running Debian Lenny on a Gateway laptop. lspci says: - 08:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20) - I'm using the drivers from http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net and

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Chris Lale
Angus Auld wrote: --- michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:27 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 1:49 PM, Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes to papers I download to reference in my work

Re: discovering debian ...

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Lale
oxy wrote: Hi, i just installed debian/gnome and am discovering it. At first, few things sound strange: where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[ If you are looking for a way to access man(ual)pages graphically in Gnome, I would suggest installing the package dwww. You can search

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Lale
Mitchell Laks wrote: [...] a) My problem was _not_ that some individual applications did not work. My problem was total loss of sound. For instance, KDE did not make its 'KDE' sound when it started up after I hit startx. I had to run alsaconf to get sound started again. /etc/init.d/alsa

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Lale
Mitchell Laks wrote: [...] a) My problem was _not_ that some individual applications did not work. My problem was total loss of sound. For instance, KDE did not make its 'KDE' sound when it started up after I hit startx. I had to run alsaconf to get sound started again. /etc/init.d/alsa

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Lale
Hello Doug. The VIA EPIA 5000AG Fanless mini ITX runs at 533Mhz. I don't know if you can find a way to underclock it. Fanless VIA Eden 533MHz Processor, Up to 1GB PC133 Ram, Onboard VGA, Serial, 4xUSB v1.1, LAN 10/100, Parallel. Does not have TV out. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-04 Thread Chris Lale
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi Gurus, I seem to have to rerun alsaconf to reconfigure alsa every time I reboot my computer. I have no idea why? I am running sid with debian standard kernel: [...] Have a look at the solution on the NewbieDOC wiki [1]. Let us know if renaming modprobe.conf does

Re: m-a a-i madwifi-source (linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64)

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Lale
Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, After I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64, the commands: sudo m-a a-i madwifi-source failed sudo m-a a-i alsa-sourcefailed sudo m-a a-i m-a a-i fglrx-kernel-src failed what am I missing ? You may have done these but, if

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Lale
Walt L. Williams wrote: [...] I am attempting to connect to my ISP with wvdial. The instructions I found states that I should run wvdialconf command. I did. It sets a few settings for you. The instructions state that I should now change the phone number in the wvdial.conf file to the

Re: Configuring Wireless Dlink

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Lale
Rodrigo Tavares wrote: I have a wireless DLink G520. With command lspci I see : 00:08.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface [...] The first hit of a Google search for linux Texas Instruments ACX 111 is the SourceForge page for the acx100 driver

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Lale
Brian McKee wrote: [...] I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. [...] You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to test your hard drives. This article [1] ahould get you started. [1]

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Lale
Daniel Burrows wrote: [...] For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. ... 9. hooks hooks.html Being an experienced Debian user, I knew

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Lale
Alan Chandler wrote: Chris Lale writes: Daniel Burrows wrote: [...] For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. ... 9. hooks hooks.html Being

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Lale
Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] I have a few questions before I wipe Vista off the laptop, specifically about the Thinkpad software that comes preloaded. Does Debian provide similar support for stuff like the Client Security that manages the fingerprint reader, and other stuff the volume buttons, the

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Lale
Rick Dooling wrote: [...] I'm more interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, [...] You may find some of these things in the Debian NewbieDOC project [1]. If you feel like adding more the wiki is very simple

Re: compatibility problems

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Lale
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: John Hasler wrote: [...] If the modem provides straight ethernet (no pppoe or other specialities required), then the docs that come with your modem will usually tell you what ip-address the modem will have. [...] In my (limited) experience, the IP is usually

Re: crashed disk

2007-12-29 Thread Chris Lale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I had a disk crash on my debian etch workstation and now I'm trying to recover data from that drive, basicaly with dd, but i wonder if there are better solutions. There are some suggestions here:

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-29 Thread Chris Lale
Don Harwood wrote: yes i downloaded the net install cd on my friends dialup this week end i hope to try my first bootup, i wont get the dsl installed until next year so i wont be able to get the full package until then my fingers are crossed This NewbieDOC article [1] may get you started

Re: How to create an image of HD?

2007-12-29 Thread Chris Lale
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I am planning to buy a new hard drive for my laptop and replace the existing one. However, I love my setup right now and wouldn't want to change it. I know there are some FLOSS tools that can be used to image/clone hard drives. Any suggestions? Anybody

Re: Using Linda

2007-12-13 Thread Chris Lale
David Schulberg wrote: Hi All, Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb Linda: Running as root, dropping to nobody. Traceback (most recent

Re: recommended webcam?

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Lale
Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello i want to play around with ip-telephony and thus need a webcam, i have an old thing that does 340x280 which is enough to see thatthere is indeed somebody but the quality is simply awful, so what webcam are there that are easy to get working under debian with

Re: Out-Of-Sync Synaptic

2007-11-09 Thread Chris Lale
Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I've noticed that the list of installed software that Synaptic tells me and what I actually can use on my box are not the same. For example, I can run Evince, but Synaptic tells me that it is not installed. I have done something to get them out of sync. My

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-11-02 Thread Chris Lale
Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 07:25:58AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:09:07AM -0800, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: No, I just come down hard on this meme because it seems

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Chris Lale
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some setup. Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows following drivers : .. snd_hda_intel 17332 3 snd_hda_codec

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-27 Thread Chris Lale
Nate Duehr wrote: On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote: I was just reading the forums at forums.debian.org and came across a thread about apt-get and aptitude. I just installed Debian this week after moving over from Gentoo. I have only been using the apt-get method because

Re: Installation question

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Lale
jekillen wrote: [...] Is apt-cdrom add a command line program? I did not see it in administration menu, only Synaptic which when launched presented dialogs about Debian site files being no existent. [...] You can add CDROMs from within Synaptic - no need for the command line: Edit -

Re: Installation question

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Lale
jekillen wrote: [...] I want to install KDE and noticed that among the 24 cds there is one labeled KDE install 1. Does that mean that that cd would install the system with KDE and not Gnome? I think that this is a bootable installation disc. If you install from it, your system will have KDE

Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

2007-10-09 Thread Chris Lale
andy wrote: [...] OK - so a *.wav file format is that which will play on an audio CD player? Thanks for that. I'll read up on sox never having used it before. Burning to a CD is straight forward enough. No. K3B will make the necessary conversion from .wav to audioCD format on the fly. Just

Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

2007-10-09 Thread Chris Lale
David Brodbeck wrote: On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:54 AM, andy wrote: OK - so a *.wav file format is that which will play on an audio CD player? [...] I think K3b will do the conversion from mp3 on the fly, but I'm not certain about that. It's been a while. If not, you can use sox, mpg321, or

Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

2007-10-08 Thread Chris Lale
andy wrote: Hello I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s onto a CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is there an application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that the end product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Lale
Anthony Campbell wrote: [...] Have you tried running udevtrigger as user root? This is from bug no 430624 [1]: # udevtrigger --verbose This should reload the modules you need. On next reboot, your system will find your soundcard. The module management is done by udev. You should not

Re: Debian with Wireless

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Lale
Dennis wrote: When will there be a distro available that will include the setting up of wireless networks, for those that want the setup in their laptops? I have a laptop, and so far the only one that allows me to setup wireless as I install, is Ubuntu. I begin to tell you how much I dislike

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Lale
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Meanwhile, you could try my workaround [1] for Etch: The problem in alsaconf is the result of the presence of the file /etc/modprobe.conf. This causes /etc/modprobe.d/ to be ignored by Debian packages (including alsaconf) which store

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Lale
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote (on the Debian-User list) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg02165.html : On 24 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: This is probably because alsaconf is broken [1]. What version

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-27 Thread Chris Lale
Anthony Campbell wrote (on the Debian-User list) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg02165.html : On 24 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: This is probably because alsaconf is broken [1]. What version are you using? It is slated to be fixed in version 1.0.14-2 [2

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:55:36 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've just discovered that my sound has disappeared following a recent upgrade in Sid, after working flawlessly for months/years. I suspected this was due to a problem with udev, which has recently replaced

Re: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Lale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit. Mix of Windoze and Macs on the LAN behind it. Some of the Windoze boxes have those low-end printers (Minolta-QMS 1100L etc) that do their imaging in the

Re: Could somebody PLEASE help with an Alsa problem?

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Lale
Barry Samuels wrote: I've been struggling with this for days without getting anywhere. I've done endless searches and made some previous postings without any useful results. Debian Testing up to date as of today. Kernel 2.6.22.6 plus alsa modules What is really irritating is that if I

Re: need help on config PCI wireless card (rt2500 chip)

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Lale
Serena Cantor wrote: according web page below, the card should work out of box on etch: http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/ so I buy such a card. It does not seem so simple to me. During etch installation, my card isn't auto detected. How can I load the driver for my

Re: what's problem with router configuration

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Lale
Serena Cantor wrote: I used to connect Internet thru cable modem. Now I buy a wireless router and connect thru router. Actually I use wired part of the wireless router. IP is auto configed as 192.168.1.100, and I can visit admin page of router, but can't visit the rest of Internet.

Re: I hate Alsa [Solved]

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Lale
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 the mental interface of Kamaraju S Kusumanchi told: [...] I recently came to know that alsaconf is outdated in 2.6 kernels. You have to use udevtrigger instead of alsaconf. See #430624, #432678 for more info. alsaconf will be fixed for PnP

Re: how to config wireless card

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Lale
KS wrote: Serena Cantor wrote: I've just got a USB card. It use rt2500 chip, said to be supported by etch how to config it? which package should I install? The rt2500 package and drivers from rt2500-source. I have a rt2500 based card running on testing but it is a PCI card. More details

Re: Please comment on a debian-offtopic list

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Lale
Steve Lamb wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: If you are interested or totally against a debian-offtopic mailing list please send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you just want to read other comments see bugs.debian.org/427218 ( Also posted to the bug database for posterity. ) No, check

Re: Udev failed to create /dev/sda?

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Lale
Romain JACQUET wrote: Kevin Mark a écrit : On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:32:14AM +0200, Romain JACQUET wrote: After upgrading my distro (unstable), my digital camera stop working. The device /dev/sda1 is never created. The gnome-system monitor show that a process makes 100% I/O latency. [...]

Re: Asus motherboard and Sound

2007-09-16 Thread Chris Lale
arijit sarkar wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:26:15AM -0400, Alon Kantor wrote: I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent card. Can

Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles

2007-09-13 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Brotherton wrote: [...] My access point uses wep. So I ran iwconfig eth0 key s:. The iwconfig output is: eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:melange Nickname:HERMES I Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:2 Mb/s

Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Brotherton wrote: I just recent got an old T20 and I am attempting to use Debian on it. I am using a PCMCIA orinoco wireless card. Here is the crazy part. The card is recognized by the installer. The installer asks me for my essid and my WEP key. After I input the information, the

Re: Vote for Debian on Lenovo

2007-09-11 Thread Chris Lale
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:20:29AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 thanks for the head up. vote cast, interesting to note that Untunbu is leading the pack by a lot with deb a distant second (something like 900+ for U with

Re: apt-get problems (lm-sensors)

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:24:43 +0200, chris wrote: Hi, I just upgraded (partialy) to ETCH from Sarge. Does partially mean without reading the release notes? but some dependencies did not meet. when I try e.g. apt-get install nmap i get following: [ snip:

Re: Problems regarding sound

2007-09-04 Thread Chris Lale
vivek shah wrote: hello, I am using Debain Etch on my Acer laptop and it was running fine till the sound stopped working suddenly. I was playing a movie on VLC player and in the middle it just stopped working. After that I tried cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp but I didnt get any sound.

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-28 Thread Chris Lale
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math symboles and functions, not always). Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? thanks for help Have a look at LyX [1] which is a great front end GUI for Latex.

Re: Wireless card for emachine?

2007-08-28 Thread Chris Lale
Celejar wrote: [...] The first question is, what wireless card is in the machine? Do lspci, and find the entry corresponding to the wireless card. Then find the chipset of the wireless card and install the appropriate kernel module driver. Alternatively, use Ndiswrapper and the Windows

Re: live Debian on USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Chris Lale
Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I installed knoppix on my USB stick and it runs fine but it's too big ~ 600 Mb. There are too many packages. Is there a Debian dist, not as big as knoppix, that I can put on my USB stick ? Debian Live [1] is the only live CD/USB which is 100% pure Debian. There are

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-10 Thread Chris Lale
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. [...] You may find answers to some of your problems

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Chris Lale
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) [...] But I dont know how to prevent the automatic configuring of this wireless device. I do not want to remove dhclient since it is essential

Re: Problem with amixer or ...

2007-07-18 Thread Chris Lale
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] check: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406738 and this thread which deals with OSS, but may shed some light because it raises the alsaconf issue. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg02587.html I have summarised the

Re: [OT] Samsung-provided linux drivers could be dangerous

2007-07-18 Thread Chris Lale
Anson Gardner wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Samsung_Linux_printer_driver_modifies_the_permissions_of_many_executables I was going to recommend a Samsung Laser printer (like my ML-2250) on the Economic Printer thread, but now maybe not. Well, in fact I still recommend it, just not

Re: ALSA TV tuner problems persist -- no sound :(

2007-07-14 Thread Chris Lale
Michael Bonert wrote: Hi, I'm still struggling with my tv tuner card. I described the problem here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00340.html (ALSA problem - TV tuner no sound) The short of the long of it: sound works-- but not for the TV tuner. Chris Lane had a

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:15 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] Problem solved. alsaconf runs the obsolete command update-modules which modifies /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present. According to the update-modules man page the existence of /etc

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:15 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] Problem solved. alsaconf runs the obsolete command update-modules which modifies /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present. According to the update-modules man page the existence of /etc

Re: Audio problems

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Lale
Barry Samuels wrote: I'm running Debian Testing - up to date as of yesterday and I'm using Kmix. Since I have updated my kernel to 2.6.22 from kernel.org I am having audio problems with the on-board Intel HDA system. Sound output through the speakers is fine but sound from the

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]

2007-07-10 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 19:49:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] I've now discovered why /dev/dsp disappeared - /dev/dsp is deleted when I run alsaconf! This might be related to unreproducible bug #406738: alsa-utils: Running alsaconf stops sound card from working[1

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [SOLVED]

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:39:48 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] Both machines have Etch up to date. The laptop has /dev/dsp, the affected desktop does not. Perhaps this device is needed by alsa for the affected applications? I tried to create

Re: ALSA problem - TV tuner no sound

2007-07-05 Thread Chris Lale
Michael Bonert wrote: I recently upgraded kernels (2.6.18-4-k7 - 2.6.11-1-k7) and sound systems (OSS - ALSA). Sound, aside from the TV tuner, works fine. My TV tuner worked like a snap under OSS and made use of the following drivers: bttv bt878 I've discovered that 'bttv' is need

Re: backports

2007-07-05 Thread Chris Lale
Hello Steffen and Florian. Steffen Joeris wrote: HI mate [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key 4B2B2B9E gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server keyring.debian.org gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] not changed gpg: Total number

Re: backports

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Thanks Florian. Comprehensive, as usual! I think you have now covered all possibilities: 1. Checking an unofficial repository's keyring against the official Debian keyring. 2. Checking an unofficial repository's keyring against the personal key of the repository's

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Lale
Matt Miller wrote: I just installed Etch on an old Mac G3 to act as a multi-purpose server for my house. I'm having trouble with aptitude though. When I wanted to install postfix, aptitude wanted to install something like 109 packages! Many of them x11 related... I used apt-get instead. [..]

Re: Packages who requires restart computer

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Lale
Josep wrote: Hello Ron. I would like know if checkrestart will detect a kernel and libc update, [...] During the installation of a new kernel you will get a message warning you to restart soon - but don't restart until after the installation is complete. The point is that you should not need

Re: backports

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Lale
Steffen Joeris wrote: [...] If you really want to check that a certain key belongs to a Debian Developer, you should check that the key is on keyring.debian.org. This one is always up to date. Just use gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key $ID-TO-CHECK . If you do not get a

Re: Media Wiki 1.7 - Set-up / Install Help

2007-07-02 Thread Chris Lale
Nick Adie wrote: Hi I have installed MediaWiki 1.7 from the archive. The read me file is very confusing as it talks about a file that does not exist and a symbolic link that appears to have no relevence. Has anyone experience of the installation/set-up of MediaWiki, and if so could I

Re: Wireless with password not working

2007-07-02 Thread Chris Lale
Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I've got an Apple PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch on it. I've managed to make the wireless card work by copying the firmware for the card from Mac OS to Debian. I can successfully connect to an open wireless network (i.e. a network which is not require a

Re: backports

2007-07-02 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Here is a procedure for paranoid people, starting after your step 2; all these commands should be run as an unprivileged user. (The key is extracted manually and added to the unprivileged user's keyring; then it can be checked without risk.) aptitude download

Re: No Sound After Playing XMMS

2007-06-30 Thread Chris Lale
TW wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:51:29AM -0600, TW wrote: Hi, After playing music with the XMMS application, I seem to be unable to hear sound after closing the XMMS app and going to watch videos at Google Video (or anywhere else on the web). I've looked

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-29 Thread Chris Lale
Thanks for the suggestions, Nigel. Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:08, Chris Lale wrote: Some of my Etch sound apps have stopped working: Audacity, RealPlayer 10, XMMS. Others continue to work OK: gxine, mplayer, VLC Media Player. Hi Chris. Is this [...] an existing install

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [SOLVED]

2007-06-29 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:39:48 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] Both machines have Etch up to date. The laptop has /dev/dsp, the affected desktop does not. Perhaps this device is needed by alsa for the affected applications? I tried to create the device

Re: backports

2007-06-28 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] You have to tell gpg which key's signatures it should check. If you really want to know what is going on then you should first look at the list of signatures for the backports key: $ gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-backports-keyring.gpg --list-sig

Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-28 Thread Chris Lale
Some of my Etch sound apps have stopped working: Audacity, RealPlayer 10, XMMS. Others continue to work OK: gxine, mplayer, VLC Media Player. The error messages are: Audacity: There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer RealPlayer 10: Cannot open the audio device. Another

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Lale
Paul Johnson wrote: Chris Lale wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: [2] http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages-other/qemu/ Browsing through the tree, I can't figure out how to make a sources.list line from this... hing please? I just download

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Lale
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS

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