Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 19:32:31 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:08:11 +, Brian wrote: In the post you responded to there is: I have connected something to the other ethernet port now ... and so ifconfig -a reports (with me doing nothing special but having

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 11:44:33 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Is there a tutorial someone can point me to that would help educate me on how best to approach this task? Or do I need to go cold-turkey and uninstall NetworkManager before configuring wicd? Normally I try to address the

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 20:31:25 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:52:57 +, Brian wrote: the other ethernet port is ambiguous but the second statement and the ifconfig output make it clearer. Well, all this issue is around an ethernet card that received its configuration

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Feb 2012 at 16:13:24 +, Camaleón wrote: I trust logs rather than perceptions. The thread has moved on: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg00975.html We should do the same. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Feb 2012 at 19:40:53 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:19:17 +, Brian wrote: On Mon 13 Feb 2012 at 16:13:24 +, Camaleón wrote: I trust logs rather than perceptions. The thread has moved on: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg00975.html

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 10:07:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: In the confused thread I butchered, I missed this little snipped from Brian. I very much appreciate this explanation. I had it wrong. You're being too hard on yourself. I get things wrong all the time and it may be only months later I

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: [Snip] Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the tools that control networking... There is: ifupdown Command line is my preferred

All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
not the only one to have seen this problem, but I can't find anything which gives a solution for Debian. Has anyone managed to solve this? Thanks, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little to find mine as my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the details. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
to be based on a rather old version of Firefox. I'll try grabbing at least Firefox and Chromium direct from the sites. Watch this space... Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
On 02/17/2012 01:12 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 17 feb 12, 11:16:17, brian wrote: And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: brian wrote: [snip] Hi Kelly, I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e. later today, hopefully) but if you plug flash too fast Debian into a Google search box, you will see plenty of other reports of the problem, dating

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-18 Thread brian
On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: brian wrote: [snip] Hi Kelly, I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e. later today, hopefully) but if you plug flash too fast Debian into a Google search box, you will see plenty

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-18 Thread brian
On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 I cannot follow further as I'm on dialup

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-19 Thread brian
On 02/19/2012 04:58 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-19 Thread brian
On 02/19/2012 08:41 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-02-19, brianbr...@meadows.pair.com wrote: So there is an USB audio device connected as well? Unless it's my cassette tape to MP3 converter, I'm at a loss to know A usb-connected webcam? Nope, don't have a webcam. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 11:42:59 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then entering the

Re: CUPS

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 10:46:03 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: As I understand, the newest version of CUPS is buggy. I cannot print from my Okidata 10ex. What can I do? This bugginess - is it a reference to the two reported Severity: grave bugs? If you could print before (you don't say)

Re: live usb automatic boot parameters

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:00:42 -0800, alvaro rincon wrote: i need to set automatic these two boot parameterslive persistent because i have to write it every time i boot my live usb GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub is the place. Do 'update -grub' afterwards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: CUPS

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:01:45 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: rosenberg:/var/log/cups# cat error_log E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter hpgltops not found. E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter pstoraster not found. E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter oopstops not found. None of these

Re: CUPS

2012-02-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 20:10:11 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: You could completely purge CUPS and all its related packages. Then reinstall (with the Recommends:) and install your printer. I need instructions how to do it. Backup /etc/cups first. apt-get purge cups followed by apt-get

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:34:12 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to +install it, just in case. I've found out that if I do install Windows, I won't be able to boot Debian. Although it appears that

Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 07:28:51 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 26 Feb 06:43 -0600, Camaleón wrote: Try with the last good version of the package in Sid and if it works, just open a bug report. Two bugs are open in this topic, 660348 (mine) and 660420 (Mike's). Both of us have

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-26 Thread brian
for the extended delay in replying. You're correct, it's the tape converter. Brian. -- 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/4f4a9227.8090...@meadows.pair.com

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:02:47 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Wow. Your message came as a separate base64 encoded attachment. Whatever you did when you sent it please try to do something different next time. Is that what happened? With Mutt I did 'v' and copied and pasted. But forgot to tell vim

Re: Nvidia Ion + Xserver problem

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 15:24:30 -0500, rypervenche wrote: Hello. I've been dealing with this problem for a long time, and would like to finally have a solution. I am using Debian Testing on an EeePC with an Nvidia Ion GPU. For a long while, once xserver 1.11 came out, I was unable to run X

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly - SOLVED

2012-02-26 Thread brian
On 02/19/2012 04:58 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:54:31 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the kernels I

Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 15:55:27 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 26 Feb 14:12 -0600, Brian wrote: Bug #660420 at most rates a severity level of 'Important'. Designating it as 'Grave' to prevent it getting into testing is not the purpose of the BTS. Strangely, I thought

Re: iceweasel update from 9 to 10.0.2 went wrong on Wheezy

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:25:06 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: Yesterday I upgraded iceweasel on my two wheezy boxes to 10.0.2. Since then I get this message on both boxes: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul Line Number 553, Colum 7:

Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets

2012-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 18:20:25 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: I suspect that if this update hits Testing that many more users will be impacted. I know that I will have to put CUPS on my laptop in Hold status just so I have a machine to print from should it migrate to Testing in its current

Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets

2012-02-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Feb 2012 at 11:29:59 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Quite possibly. But that's the nature of Testing, isn't it? Preventing packages in a good state (like CUPS) from migrating there defeats its purpose. Why don't you

Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

2012-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:53:58 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I'm running KDE on a siduction distribution. Konsole starts in $HOME. Xterms started from the KDE Launcher-System-Uxterm or Xterm start in ~/Documents. There's nothing in the environment which mentions ~/Documents. I've been

Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets

2012-02-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Feb 2012 at 12:44:34 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Sorry, I'm a bit thrown by 'diversity'; I'll assume you mean 'severity'. There is already one mail expressing that view and I try not to go in for 'me toos'. I

Re: Where is cheops-ng

2012-02-27 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Feb 2012 at 14:51:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: With this sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/ deb-src

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat printer called, unsurprisingly, PDF. But, when I try printing with that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uninformative message showing lpr

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 12:17:08 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 28/02/12 11:11, Brian wrote: Please post the exact command you used. lpr -P PDF -o PageSize=A4 -o PageRegion=A4 -o Resolution=300dpi is the (un-editable) command displayed in window opened by clicking on Properties

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 11:33:01 +, Brian wrote: The PDF printer converts a file into a pdf document. But you have the pdf so it's a litle unclear what you want to do here. But if all you want is to process a file without using Acrobat you have lp -d PDF file or lpr -P PDF file

Re: [SOLVED]: Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 18:16:06 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: For some strange reason lpr -P PDF will fail here with lpr: PDF: unknown printer Theory:You have the lpr package installed. The failure message indicates this. Test: dpkg -l | grep lpr Solution: apt-get install

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-02-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 12:05:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: After a recent sid dist-upgrade, I'm having problems printing. The CUPS test page prints a border with this text only: Brother HL-5340D Series 3010.106 5 -88807824 That is using the 5240 driver. I tried a couple other Brother

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-02-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Feb 2012 at 23:48:22 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: This guide wasn't helpful. modprobe nouveau outputs nothing and It wouldn't output anything if the module was already in place. there is no nouveau module in the output of lsmod. But nouveau That is extremely surprising considering you

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 02:56:15 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:40:38PM +, Brian wrote: It might be particular to the ppd you have. Tell CUPS to use one in /usr/share/ppd. Still the same error?. Knowing the outcome of doing this would have been useful. What

Re: bzr-hg gone missing from unstable?

2012-03-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 16:49:47 -0500, Max Hyre wrote: bzr-hg's bug list has nothing relevant, and I could find no mention of the lack in the last couple of months of debian-user, so here it is: where'd it go, and should it come back? http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzr-hg.html -- To

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 21:51:09 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:18:22PM +, Brian wrote: What is the result of file your_supposed_ppd_file ? UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text This is the norm here: brian@desktop:/usr/share/ppd/cups-pdf$ file CUPS-PDF.ppd

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy (SOLVED!)

2012-03-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 18:54:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:11:28PM +, Camale??n wrote: Good to know, but if your only problem was in selecting the PPD file from CUPS wizard, just copy the PPD manually as instructed and go on :-) That is easier now that I see

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 02 Mar 2012 at 16:30:26 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:41:55AM +, Brian wrote: The error you got is reproducible by removing the first line of a ppd *PPD-Adobe: 4.3 I see I have a couple leading characters of garbage. Removing them, I now get /etc

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:03:26 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 Feb for details. I did find

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 09:17:55 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Not strange as most other programs don't have an export to PDF as Libre Office does. That is what I was trying to say. This is an underselling of GTK and QT based applications which have a Print... dialogue, including Libre Office.

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:45:20 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:32:22AM +, Brian wrote: If you do acquire another copy you may want to run cupstestppd on it. Where do I find it? It's on your system. man cupstestppd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 20:59:30 +0100, Bernard wrote: So, everything seems to work fine... except for the 'NetworkManager' ! On that machine, I only have a wired ethernet connexion ; there is no wlan chipset for now ; I will install one soon. So, the Internet connexion happens

Re: printing dead slow since squeeze

2012-03-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Mar 2012 at 12:26:56 +0100, Rémi Letot wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: [...] The ppd is the one provided with cups, and I also tried with the generic ps ppd. Try also with Brother's PPD file:

Re: CUPS

2012-03-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Mar 2012 at 13:49:36 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: I am trying to install the stable version. I can't make it work. Here is what I did: rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2# apt-get purge cups apt-get --purge autoremove rm -r /etc/cups Here is the result of an attempted install:

Re: bug report request for advice

2012-03-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Mar 2012 at 17:53:05 -0800, David Christensen wrote: You sohuld try and pin down what printer driver you are using. How do I determine what printer driver my system is using? From http://localhost/printers. But also consider that I *think* when evince prints it's relying on

Re: What's clobbering /etc/network/interfaces?

2012-03-07 Thread Brian
On Wed 07 Mar 2012 at 23:06:46 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: Oh, sorry! I've already resolved this via the debian-live list — I didn't realise you hadn't seen that, because I didn't see which mailing list this was from. http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2012/03/msg00030.html -- To

Re: CUPS

2012-03-07 Thread Brian
On Wed 07 Mar 2012 at 16:05:01 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 06:57 PM 3/6/2012, Brian wrote: Please let us know how you make out. Brian - Thanks. Not well regrettably. I tried the stable version and then testing, and had the same result - rosenberg:/proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0

Re: CUPS

2012-03-07 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Mar 2012 at 00:03:44 +, Brian wrote: Do say how all this turns out before we move on to attending to your printer. I forgot to mention that you could also check from the web interface whether the option to add a parallel port printer exists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 00:10:09 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: ls $HOME/PDF does not find the directory. It should be created on the first use of the PDF printer. However, configuring cups-pdf wasn't really part of the agenda and being able to use it is not critical. Of far more importance is

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: This is debian testing, with recent updates. When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 bytes is already reached. E: Dynamic

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:35:59 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Find New Printers - No Printers Found. At https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems there is some parallel port printer troubleshooting advice. You might want to post the outputs of some of the suggested commands. --

Re: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 09:28:52 -0500, Joey L wrote: I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network card. On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw does anyone know how i can get around

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:43:06 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: kjetil@kjetil:~$ apt-get clean Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: CUPS

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 11:22:13 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Everything on the parallel port looks kosher (hopefully, other eyes are peeking to) but when you report: rosenberg:/home/ethan# lpinfo -v WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-e42sxy/pkcs11: No such file or

Re: synaptic bombs!

2012-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 10:36:21 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 08:46, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. thanks! sudo apt-get clean is successfull, while

Re: CUPS

2012-03-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Mar 2012 at 21:27:06 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: ethan@rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ total 508 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7250 Mar 2 16:54 beh -rwx-- 1 root root 21284 Dec 26 22:43 cups-pdf -rwxr--r-- 3 root root 18096 Mar 5 02:52 dnssd -rwxr--r--

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-13 Thread Brian
On Tue 13 Mar 2012 at 11:05:27 +0100, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: i am currenttly running debian 6.0 with 2.6.32-5-486 on CF-27 (toughbook) 300MHz Pentium II with 128MB RAM. I dont need a desktop (gnome, kde, etc) but would like to have X-server running. X starts for root, but not for

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-13 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 07:03:51 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: I think you're the newest member to our growing club! See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660420 You may or may not be aware that another chapter of your club has recently opened over at

Re: Cups init.d file missing

2012-03-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 12:01:29 +, Ralph Bacolod wrote: Hi! I just did an update and it seems that the cups init file is missing. I looked at the bug reports,didn't see anything. I am on unstable. /etc/init.d/cups is not there? The same upgrade here went without a hitch. Try 'apt-get

Re: Boot problem : how to make it verbose ?

2012-03-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 11:06:04 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: I installed Debian Squeeze on a multi-boot PC where Ubuntu is the first and bootable distro. Using GRUB2, the options 'nosplash debug --verbose' are used, but Debian freezes silently. How to make boot verbose to see what happen

Re: Cups init.d file missing

2012-03-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 13:11:37 +, Ralph Bacolod wrote: I did that and still no go. I notice that during install. I get this message. Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/cups ... Do you have any output from the command 'lsb_release -is'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Cups init.d file missing

2012-03-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 14:29:41 +, Ralph Bacolod wrote: Ubuntu brian@desktop:~$ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) Release:unstable Codename: sid In the cups package the preinst file checks for an Ubuntu installation

Re: Boot problem : how to make it verbose ?

2012-03-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 20:48:03 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Yes, the GRUB2 menu is reached (in fact, it's used to boot the other system on same PC). The Debian system hangs direcly. Nothing is displayed. Yes, a LiveCD Debian 6 works fine (however it was a i386, the installed Debian is

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub. Rebooted again

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:27:55 -0700, Baruch wrote: [Snipped: apt-get doings] My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, and that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a graphical browser installed. Against what package should I file the bug?

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you now, I think. There are three entries for Absolute Linux in grub.cfg. I can see a

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 13:01:19 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: Perhaps instead of distributing the kernel, the OP should distribute the .config files for the various kernels he is offering and interested individuals could compile it locally... If this is the same person he could do without any

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 01:37:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I do not know whether the firmware is faulty (the IPW firmware) or the mirror settings within the downloaded netinst ISO, are bad. But, it does not work. If not a single mirror works for you it looks like a network problem. Could you

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Fri 16 Mar 2012 at 16:45:13 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote: # aptitude why iceweasel i   sun-java6-plugin Depends firefox | firefox-2 | iceweasel | mozilla-firefox |   iceape-browser | mozilla-browser | epiphany-gecko

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 03:13:39 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The IPW thing is the firmware required for the network adaptor. I think it is IPW200 or something similar. You should know, but I'll not press it. That is why I had to use the firmware instal, and the only way availabl;e, is using

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 20:21:13 +, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2012 19:56:03 Brian wrote: So you fill in all the fields pertaining to setting up a static address and certify it is correct when asked. I almost always set up a static IP. It is very simple. When the installer

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 22:01:00 +, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2012 20:58:44 Brian wrote: I do too. But Brett needs to find out whether it works for him. Of course. But I thought that he may not know to reject the DHCP offer. It isn't immediately obvious that doing so

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend for mplayer2.

2012-03-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 19 Mar 2012 at 01:31:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. Using mplayer2 for playing video files I get this error always: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r300.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [vdpau] Error when calling

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Brian
On Mon 19 Mar 2012 at 13:11:38 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I do not know whether the wireless stuff is the cause of the problem(s) with the installation process (apart from the Debian 6 CD/DVD Creator not creating a bootable DVD from the ISO image), but, as the installation process appears

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 Mar 2012 at 11:14:28 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I answered NO to the firmware question for the wireless NIC driver (it is unfortunate that the question does not indicate that it is for a wireless device, otherwise I would have answered No from the start, and The dialogue names

Re: update-alternatives vs. dpkg-divert [was: Re: rt kernel and nouveau]

2012-03-28 Thread Brian
On Wed 28 Mar 2012 at 18:35:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: By locally diverting Sven meant using dpkg-divert(8) which is the correct tool for what he ended up doing. I have a machine for which I want to manually manage grub.cfg and I agree totally with you (and Sven, of course). It's a

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-28 Thread Brian
On Wed 28 Mar 2012 at 15:12:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:50:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: The improvement long term *could* be valuable enough to justify the pain. The correct way is usually not the easy way. And what (or who) decides what is correct? It's my

Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN

2012-03-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 at 16:29:40 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: Debian testing (wheezy) has recognized the network printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN correctly, I have first taken the driver offered by Debian and then the one offered by Kyocera. If I print I standard text document created for eg. by

Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN

2012-03-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 at 20:00:23 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: It is obviously not a driver problem, as the driver from Kyocera is the most recent and works fine on other systems (such as Ubuntu 11.10). So as you suggested, it is the cups which is affected - as reported by others. Hence I will

Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN

2012-03-31 Thread Brian
On Sat 31 Mar 2012 at 20:28:09 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: Hey guys, thanks for your answers! So the current state is the following: 1.) With the Generic-PCL-6-PCL-XL, everything works fine and the PDF is printed without any problems. This is fine for me for the moment, of course, duplex

Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN

2012-04-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Apr 2012 at 14:04:05 +, Camaleón wrote: *** http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=pxlcolorprinter=Generic-PCL_6_PCL_XL_Printershow=1 *OpenUI *Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: PickOne (...) *** Without leaving the comfort of your fireside and with foomatic-db-engine

Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom

2012-04-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Apr 2012 at 19:32:47 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Didn't this whole thread start, because some people (I) top-posted? It has continued to its present length of nearly fifty posts after you said: Could someone explain me, what are top- and bottom posting styles? If Debian

Re: print jobs to parallel printer now hang

2012-04-01 Thread Brian
On Sun 01 Apr 2012 at 19:18:23 +, Steve Kleene wrote: If I cancel the print job, the job is deleted from the list, but the printer Status is still Processing and process 8190 hangs around. The calling process (8014) is /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Any ideas how to fix this?

Re: print jobs to parallel printer now hang

2012-04-02 Thread Brian
On Mon 02 Apr 2012 at 01:44:00 +, Steve Kleene wrote: Sid instead of unstable also fails. I tried downloading the packages manually and using dpkg -i, but the chain of dependencies was getting too scary. The dependencies for cups-filters in unstable are different from those in testing

Re: Brother HL-5370DW Error: Undefined Offendign Command Stack 441

2012-04-02 Thread Brian
On Mon 02 Apr 2012 at 14:54:42 -0300, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: I have sent this question to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2012/03/msg00107.html but didn't have any clue. I discovery if I use acroread, my printer work OK. Any help for me? Thank you very much! Please

Re: Xerox Phaser 3140

2012-04-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 08:44:12 +, James Brown wrote: By some reasons I want to buy a printer of Xerox Phaser 3140. Is it workable under Debian squeeze? Anyone have experience with the printer Xerox Phaser 3140 under squeeze? There are no drivers of it in the cups-package from distr. There

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 09:35:19 +, James Brown wrote: After upgrading from lenny to sqeeuze last year I faced witha problem of fonts in the console. Problem has been overcome in this way: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00294.html After installing the kernel

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-05 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 09:08:39 +, James Brown wrote: On 04.04.2012 11:42, Brian wrote: Does dpkg-reconfigure console-setup do anything for you? I have the max size of fonts in the setting of console-setup. A year ago What are FONTFACE and FONTSIZE in /etc/default

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-05 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 12:17:49 +, James Brown wrote: On 05.04.2012 10:22, Brian wrote: What are FONTFACE and FONTSIZE in /etc/default/console-setup? FONTFACE=Fixed FONTSIZE=16 You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-terminus package. I'm a little surprised your console

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-05 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 11:48:57 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: AHA, an undocumented feature. At least, it is not documented in the /etc/default/grub file itself. You need to do: info grub Bet you didn't know about that. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:40:22 +, James Brown wrote: On 05.04.2012 13:13, Brian wrote: You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-terminus package. I'm a little surprised your console-setup doesn't offer them. I know. But using terminus is not useful to me (in the case

Re: [NOT OT]: i3 configuration

2012-04-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 10:26:40 -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote: I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and i3 mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of awesome. However, I like that awesome handles the osd notifications, let's me know dropbox

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