Re: Happy Valintines Day!!!
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Eterm keys
Hi, I just got myself a 'theme' for wm at themes.org. Looks great, especially with those pseudo-transparent eterm backgrounds. I found it impossible to use the 'home' and 'end' keys in an Eterm, while they do work in an xterm... Why? Can I enable them in any way? I told WM to launch an Eterm on startup. Occasionally, the Eterm is on quicker then the background, so the eterm will not be transparent. Can I 'delay' the Eterm a bit? I don't want to use auto-refresh or what it's called to have it watch the bg Arnout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing printer on stripped-down machine
Hello, I am trying to install a printer (HP deskjet 510) on an old machine. I have removed a lot of packages here, especially much of the networking. 'echo hallo /dev/lp1' as root works. I installed the lprng package. 'echo hallo | lpr' gave some confusing error messages (sorry, don't remember), one of which concerned /etc/service, which didn't exist. I grepped the contents file and installed the netbase package, which provided this file. Now 'echo hallo | lpr' gives a 'network unreachable' error. What package should I reinstall? Or is there an other solution to get it working? I want, eventually, to print ghostscript files, and possible process text with (La)TeX. (but hd space is getting low... 30mb now) Arnout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP880c printing from (i.e.) GIMP
Hello, I just installed a new HP Deskjet 880c. I installed 'apsfilter' and chose the 'cdjcolor' driver. I can print from Lyx fine, but I can't seem to get nice output from the GIMP. How exactly does this work? Saving the same image and printing it in Windows (Photoshop 5) does work. Arnout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Debian Installations
I'd also recommend staying away from dselect. apt-get upgrade will allow you to break out in the cases where some new package decides it wants to remove dozens of conflicting packages. Dselect seems to just go ahead and do it. Huh? When I de-select something that is depended on, dselect politely gives me a list of changes. You can easily change them back again, and there are probably keys to do that automagically, too. Despite the bashing every now and then, I still think dselect is a great tool, and not too hard to use if you care to read the manual. I hear there will be even better package-management tools in Potato? (I'm now using slink) Arnout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: STILL can't install!!!
The fist thought that occurs to me is: does dselect know enough to put files on the usr partition, or did it freeze trying to stuff 400+ megs onto a 100 meg root partition? How does dselect know which files to put on which partition? Or does it know? Dselect automagically puts everything where it should be Any help would be greatly appreciated. Coming up next: attempt number NINE to install this EASY to install system!!! Who said Debian is easy to install? I had nada problems myself, just following a manual, and this was my very first Linux install. But everywhere I see distro's compared, they keep bashing Debian for the hard install Arnout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Menu empty?
A friend of mine has recently installed Debian (well I did it for him, most of it). Now he's suddenly having trouble with his X Menus: They work fine as Root, but the menu is empty as a user! I couldn't reproduce this here, and have no idea what could cause this behaviour. Any ideas? Arnout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc.so.4
I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for libc5. Does this mean I cannot use this program? Where would I be able to find libc.so.4? Would it hurt just putting it in /lib/? Any response is appreciated Arnout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to recover from crash (urgent for me)
After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot: --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: mount -n -o remount,rw / --- I have never used fsck before. When giving the command 'fsck' or 'fsck --help', the following is the only response: --- Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-jul-98) --- and 'man fsck' failes because the fs is read-only. Only, when I remount it read-write, this apprears: --- EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended --- **what should I do? ** I managed to mount one of my windows disks and copy my home directories. They seem to copy all-right, but I am worried about the error messages: a lot of 'permission denied' (butI am root??), and 'attempts to read beyond end of system (or similar)' fail. Please Help! This is urgent, for me! Arnout Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect behaving oddly - package not installed, but no err. msg.
I do not understand this. Why isn't kanjidic installed? Not that I need this particular package, but this _should_ work, shouldn't it? I use slink, kernel 2.0.36 on a pentium-based system. (the below was cut-n-pasted from an xterm. I only changed the prompt.) # dselect install Get currently installed package versions.(etc) Got 408 installed/pending packages Scanning available packages(etc) Installation OK. Hit RETURN. # dpkg --status kanjidic Package: kanjidic Status: install ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: non-free/text #
Sound volume problems
I have recompiled my kernel (slink, kernel 2.0.36 i think?) to supportsound. I can now play waveforms catting to /dev/audio, s3mod works and I canplay xkoules and quake with sound. The problem is that the volume isextremely low. The sound is very faint even when I turn the amp up to 100%,while in Windoze it works fine at 5-10%. I set the volume to the maximumwith a mixer (aumix, xmix), too, which helped just a little. Has anybody hadthis problem, too? Any possible solutions? Thanks in advance,Arnout Engelen[EMAIL PROTECTED] (since i'm having some trouble with my mail server,please CC me at that adress, too).
