Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-12 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:02:45AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > After many iterations of installing, autoremoving, updating and > > upgrading, some packages were installed along with their dependencies, > > but I

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:07:41AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 09 dec 21, 18:37:02, A. F. Cano wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > > > > > Somethi

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all.

After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. Vim, for instance is unusable. I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies, broken packages, etc, and they all return

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

2017-07-03 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > On another note, > > just checking to see if anyone has used the nvidia driver (304 > series) install and if there were any problems that arose or needed > to be resolved either before or after the installation? I finally got this

Re: Keyboard gets stuck when closing PPP

2010-04-08 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:14:47PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: ... phone (motorola e815) through a usb cable. It's not 100% repeatable. I suspect something in the close routine is overwriting part of the keyboard driver, but only some times. BTW, this is on a Dell 8600, with the

Re: Keyboard gets stuck when closing PPP (was: Problems when logging out Gnome)

2010-04-07 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:07:14PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: Lenny installed on my old Pentium III often gets stuck when logging out Gnome, either via the panel menu or with `Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. Does anyone have any direct experience

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-28 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:53:12PM +0100, Jozsef Vadkan wrote: I want to block ads on the client side. [i mean when the people surf the net, they shouldn't see any ads] Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent squid proxy, that can filter ads? [on client side! -

Re: need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-07 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:43:35PM +0800, Long Wind wrote: I have Win2k and etch I hope I can get etch to work with help from the list. After installing microSD card, is my phone a USB storage device? Can etch access the card? That depends on how the carrier has messed with the programming on

Kbarcode - dead? unusable in Lenny for business cards.

2009-03-20 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, I went looking for some software to create business cards. Since I'm running kde, I thought kbarcode would do. In addition to a lot more, it claims it can do simple business cards, and from the user interface it seems pretty powerful. The problem is that it is almost unusable under

Re: Unison not syncing files under ~/.kde

2009-03-10 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:53:35AM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:21 AM, A. F. Cano wrote: ignorenot = Path afc/.kde/share/apps/kpilot #this is a directory ignorenot = Path afc/.kde/share/apps/karm/karm.ics #individual file ignorenot = Path afc/.wine/user_files

Unison not syncing files under ~/.kde

2009-03-07 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I've been using unison to keep home directories syncronized for quite a while now, but this little bit is starting to aggravate me. It appears that, unless I'm missing something in the configuration below, files under a .directory are ignored. Note that at the bottom there is a blanket

Smartlink modem driver and vgetty: modem doesn't answer.

2009-02-18 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, This is new behavior in the new Lenny installation. Under Etch it worked fine. I have restored the same configuration files that worked before, but now the modem never answers. The following init-chat line used to work before: init-chat AT+FCLASS=8 OK ATN1S0=0S13=1 OK The S0

Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, I recently installed Lenny from scratch on a new HD. It's time to maintain some basic web pages, so I went looking for mozilla composer (that I used before) and found that mozilla is gone from Lenny. Tried to find a composer feature in iceweasel, but there is none. Then went searching

The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I was forwarded this. Please ignore the political content. I tried to watch the video clip in my totally standard Lenny, with iceweasel http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php and I can't believe the result. The video skips and freezes, the sound hiccups and repeats like a

Re: The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:02:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... No hiccuping in IW 3.0.5 and Flash 10.0r15. Interesting, I have the exact same versions. ... The exe files are self-extracting zip files, simple as that. $ dir GC*exe -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 28366848 2009-01-31 19:59 GC Short

Re: Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:09:23PM -0700, Robert Hodgins wrote: Found some hits: seamonkey, kompozer/nvu, but none of them are in Lenny. I'd like to keep the installation as standard as possible, so I'd prefer not to have to get non-aptitude packages. Would iceape work for you? Ahh...

Re: The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:02:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/2009 08:21 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:02:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... No hiccuping in IW 3.0.5 and Flash 10.0r15. Interesting, I have the exact same versions. What video driver? And CPU/RAM

Re: Current state of hibernation/suspend on Lenny (kernel 2.6.26)?

2009-01-27 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0500, I said: ... kernel (2.6.26). Since I've read that the video driver is a particularly thorny issue, especially on resume, and I'm using the nvidia legacy drivers, experiences with this driver will be particularly welcome. I have a GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go

Current state of hibernation/suspend on Lenny (kernel 2.6.26)?

2009-01-24 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, Everything I've found on the net (ie: www.linux-laptop.net) is at least a couple of years old. I've left my Dell Inspiron 8600 on all the time (plugged in) so far, but now I'm interested in suspending/hibernation. Everything I've read, particularly related to the 8600, is that there are

Re: No video in iceweasel or konqueror (lenny standard install)

2009-01-22 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:57:24AM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Originally I wrote: Am I the only one having trouble with youtube and any other video site? I presume this is a flash issue. This is a new Lenny install, not un ... Do you have the packaged version of Flash installed? What does

I seem to have messed up aptitude. Can't get back original behavior.

2009-01-22 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, I mistyped a command. I intended to type dpkg -S gdb to find what package contains the debugger in question and instead I typed aptitude -S gdb From then on, aptitude starts but claims I only have 44 packages installed, and a few more in the other categories. Is this a matter of just the

Re: I seem to have messed up aptitude - problem solved: please disregard

2009-01-22 Thread A. F. Cano
Well, an update seems to have solved the problem. I now get the proper number of packages and of course I found gdb. I shouldn't have panicked so quickly. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: I seem to have messed up aptitude. Can't get back original behavior.

2009-01-22 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:16:09PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: ... It could just be that the downloaded copy of the apt lists got deleted somehow. Does running aptitude update or apt-get update help at all? Yes. Even before seeing this message, I did an update and the problem seems to

Re: No video in iceweasel or konqueror (lenny standard install)

2009-01-22 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:52:34AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: ... It looks like flashplugin-nonfree (which is from the main debian archive, flashplayer-mozilla is from debian-multimedia) is only in sid. I would remove both swfdec packages, and then purge and reinstall Ok, did that.

No video in iceweasel or konqueror (lenny standard install)

2009-01-21 Thread A. F. Cano
Am I the only one having trouble with youtube and any other video site? I presume this is a flash issue. This is a new Lenny install, not un upgrade of Etch. I have done no customization to the browsers. Whereas I had no problem in Etch with iceape, I can't see any video with either konqueror

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-10 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 05:45:01PM -0800, consultores1 wrote: El lun, 05-01-2009 a las 13:58 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev escribió: consultores1 wrote: ... yes, it works with a monitor, but not with my TV! xrandr can't see the TV. Well, I did this recently. It took quite a bit of research, but

Re: Grub can't boot hda1 (vfat/diagnostics), need to do something from DOS? - SOLVED

2009-01-01 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-01-01 09:46 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:25:55AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: You must install the DOS bootloader with the sys command. I believe the DOS bootloader will simply overwrite GRUB,

Grub can't boot hda1 (vfat/diagnostics), need to do something from DOS?

2008-12-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, and happy new year to all, On a brand new HD, I made a small partition (32M) exactly like the one on the old disk. Copied (with tar) the contents as the drive was mounted from a usb carrier. Then I moved it to the main drive caddy and installed Lenny in the rest of the drive. Grub

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-29 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:33:20AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: ok, let me ask this again in a simpler way. I've not been able to burn a DVD in a while with brasero or K3b. Errors.. Well, you're not alone. I spent days and wasted an untold amount of blanks until I finally gave up. k3b uses

Re: Fonts messed after using old xorg.conf. Clear cache? How?

2008-12-29 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:13:37AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:37:56PM EST, A. F. Cano wrote: [..] Everything is way too big now, including the password field in kdm (I use KDE), everything displayed in the status bar is too big, the font in the konsoles is way

Fonts messed after using old xorg.conf. Clear cache? How?

2008-12-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I'm now fine tuning a brand new Lenny install on a clean disk. It came up great out of the original installation with the non-accelerated nvidia driver: it just worked with the WUXGA (1920 X 1200) display. In previous releases the config files (XFree and xorg) required tweaking. I then

Re: unable to burn DVD

2008-12-24 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:54:31AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed December 24 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: BraseroGrowisofs stderr: :-( write failed: Input/output error This seems to be the key.  Are you running out of disk space, maybe? paulandcilla:/home/pbc# df -h Filesystem

get list of config files (with aptitude) tha were manually changed

2008-12-24 Thread A. F. Cano
I know that this is checked somehow as I have been asked which config file to install or leave alone when upgrading various packages with aptitude. What I would like is a command line (not interactive) that would give me a list of all the config files in all installed packages that were modified

Anyone tried lenny rc1 install on a Dell inspiron 8600?

2008-12-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I've just tried the net install of lenny RC1 on a new blank HD in a Dell Inspiron 8600, and it hangs on the hardware detection step (network hardware detection step in the expert option). I've tried all the boot options: noapic, nolapic, acpi=off, etc... with no success. Suggestions?

Re: Card works, but still no connection - Problem solved!

2008-12-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:37:10PM -0500, I wrote: ... Actually the setup is exactly the same as I had for the previous ethernet card, an old ISA SMC that has been working fine for years. The only thing I've done is replace eth0 with eth4 since the ... And now, a couple more things I

Re: Card works, but still no connection [Was: Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all]

2008-12-01 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.Nov.08, 21:22:59, A. F. Cano wrote: This is interesting. On my machine it is eth4, I have no idea why. So, when I modified /etc/network/interfaces and replaced eth0 with eth4, ifup eth4 now works

Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Some progress...

2008-11-30 Thread A. F. Cano
First, thanks to all that have replied to my orignial query. I have made some progress, but I still can't even ping. On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:00:51AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: ... I have a cardbus adapter called Zonet ZEN 1201 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet 32-bit, which is actually a Realtek

Re: dpkg error!! says no space left in device

2008-11-30 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:19:36PM -0500, raman narasimhan wrote: ... failed to write status record about `libmng-dev' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device what should i do?? Clean up some files to make space? Check particularly that some log files in /var/log have not grown

Re: PCI ethernet card RTL8139D now partially reconized, but not working

2008-11-30 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 09:22:59PM -0500, I wrote: I have tested loading 8139too by itself and both 8139cp and 8139too. No errors but ping fails with Destination Host Unreachable in both cases. Interestingly, the LED at the back of the card flashes and the LED at the network hub flashes,

Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-29 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:48:25AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,28.Nov.08, 23:47:12, A. F. Cano wrote: [...] and lspci -v says this: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) [...] The drivers the system loads

Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-29 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:48:44PM -0600, lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:47:12PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while

PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I needed a PCI ethernet card for an old P3 system and so I did some research to make sure it was supported and got the first one that showed up on an ebay search. At least it was cheap. The sellers all claim that they were RealTek (RTL8139D) and they are detected as such. This is what lshw

PPPStatus hasn't detected connection in ppp0 interface

2008-04-28 Thread A. F. Cano
pppstatus was working fine, until I decided to unplug the second HD in the removable device bay (Inspiron 8600). That froze the computer and I had to turn it off forcefully (by pressing the off button for about 10 seconds). I wanted to test if hot-swapping was somehow fixed in the newer

How do I get the tar.gz file out of a TPB.torrent file?

2008-04-26 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, Obviously I've never dealt with bittorrent before. I've read quite a bit on the web about how it works, the software to install, etc... But nowhere have I found how to unpack the contents of the TPB.torrent file so I can use it. Many sites claim a torrent file is a RAR archive, but unrar

Re: How do I get the tar.gz file out of a TPB.torrent file?

2008-04-26 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:35:08PM -0430, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: ... But nowhere have I found how to unpack the contents of the TPB.torrent file so I can use it. Many sites claim a torrent file is a RAR archive, ... Run something like this: rtorrent TPB.torrent Thanks for

Re: time management software

2008-04-21 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:41:22AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Can anybody recommend some software that tracks hours spent on tasks? I'm a software developer just looking for a simple piece of software, preferably in the debian distribution, that can do timekeeping chores for me. I use karm, part

Re: pon oddities - ppp status now works: timing issue

2008-04-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:09:49PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: ... And following up to my remaining problem, it is now solved. ip-up.local was executing the command that popped up the pppstatus window too quickly. The ppp link was not completely up yet and so pppstatus couldn't see it. A sleep 1

Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:28:44AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:34:33PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:06:14PM +1000, Charlie wrote: $ /usr/bin/X11/xhost + Yes, I had done that. Then as root in a terminal: # export DISPLAY=:0.0

Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-08 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:06:14PM +1000, Charlie wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, A. F. Cano shared this with us all: --} I've also tried without su.  The result is the same: --} --} konsole: cannot connect to X server --} --} And this is even after I've typed --} --} xhost + --} --} from

pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

2008-04-07 Thread A. F. Cano
I've decided to automate what I've been doing manually after starting pppd, via pon. /usr/bin/pon (a script) starts /usr/sbin/pppd (an suid root executable). I used to start pon as root, but I've added myself to the dip group so I now can start it as a regular user. After the link is up,

Re: Connecting the mobile phone via USB

2008-03-14 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:29:09PM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote: Johann Spies wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:50:16PM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote: I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to my computer my mobile phone

Using kppp with pon/poff? or alternate ppp status/monitor?

2008-02-13 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I have ppp configured just fine with pon/poff so I would like to keep using that sub-system as all the configuration files are working. I would like to have some graphical way that could start ppp via an applet and then display status (graph of incoming/outgoing data and statistics either on

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?

2008-02-10 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. The other poster already gave good advice on various issues. I tried to do that some time ago. It is a lot of work. I

Re: Modem in Debian

2008-02-03 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:14:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:16:57PM +, Pantor wrote: there is a modem plugged to PCI slot and no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions, advices, please. Use it to dialup into the internet like real people :) Or, like

Re: missing /var/mail

2008-02-01 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:20:03PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I know that this is pretty useless, but. I was just reading my mail when the power went out. There were some important mails there. At the time, they were in /var/mail/dtutty On reboot, it said that it was

Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-16 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:14:55PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:13 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: Good call! After searching blindly for a while, it turned out that Kmilo, the KDE special key notifier was running. Unselecting the check box in the KDE control center-KDE

Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-15 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:05 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: The most annoying and urgent is that on login with kdm, a window pops up right in the middle of the screen (quite large too) with Volume in extremely large letters

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support - now getting rid of ads

2007-04-13 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:49:01PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: ... Oh wait, did Flash do that? I have to say I find the web a much better place without it. Much of the annoying advertising disappears if you remove flash. OK, you miss The proper way to do this is by having privoxy between your

Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-13 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings one and all, I had previously posted about my upgrade to etch on a thinkpad 600E that went extremely well. I'm now fixing up all kinds of issues manually after the same sarge - etch upgrade on a Dell 8600. The most annoying and urgent is that on login with kdm, a window pops up right

Replacement for inter_module_register/inter_module_unregister in 2.6.18?

2007-03-14 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings, I'm trying to install thinkpad-sources (the latest version downloaded a couple of days ago: 5.9-2.1.) The first two problems I could fix because of already reported bugs: a compile error that had a patch to fix it and a make error that is solved by renaming a *.s file to *.S. Now

Re: Blacklisted module still loads!

2007-03-13 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:01:14PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: ... My fix on FC2 was to add a few lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, as below. I had thought about doing something like that, but was not sure at what point in the boot process the incorrect driver was being loaded, and when anything

Re: Blacklisted module still loads!

2007-03-13 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:59:44AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: A. F. Cano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on an Etch system (recently upgraded from Sarge), kernel 2.6.18 from the deb source package available and compiled locally. If you compile your own kernel why don't you disable

Re: Blacklisted module still loads!

2007-03-13 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:24:32PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: ... udev manages non-removable devices too. Moreover, it consults blacklist entries in the directory /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/. Try placing a file in that directory containing the name of the module you wish to blacklist. Ah! This

Blacklisted module still loads!

2007-03-12 Thread A. F. Cano
I don't know what else to try. I have tested the following in /etc/modules.conf: alias snd-cs46xx off blacklist snd-cs46xx install snd-cs46xx /bin/true(found this on a web site) in /etc/discover.conf-2.6 and /etc/discover.d/alsa-base skip snd-cs46xx A kernel boot parameter:

Re: Sarge to Etch upgrade report and module autoloading

2007-03-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:02:53AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: A. F. Cano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the longest time, I had been annoyed that shells in a konsole did not execute startup files. The last time this worked was in woody. Don't know about konsole, but other xterm's I

Sarge to Etch upgrade report

2007-03-10 Thread A. F. Cano
For the longest time, I had been annoyed that shells in a konsole did not execute startup files. The last time this worked was in woody. Recently I did some testing and found that it wasn't pdksh. Bash had the same problem. No matter what I did with .profile or .bashrc files. I'm happy to

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-21 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:39:05PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on

Re: APT problems (416 error and uncaught exception)

2006-12-28 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:53:32PM +, John Halton wrote: On 12/28/06, John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: generic_problem_resolverPackageUniverse::generic_problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned

Re: APT problems: it magically works again...

2006-12-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Mmm... I started digging into /etc/apt, didn't see anything obvious and thus didn't change anything, but the next time I started up aptitude it worked. Strange... A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvd a no go

2006-12-18 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:02:36PM -0500, Ed wrote: Running etch. I used to be able to play dvds, but all of a sudden I cannot. They can neither be played nor mounted. CDs work fine in the same drive. I realize it may be a hardware problem, but I wonder if anyone who has experienced the

ksh in konsole doesn't run .profile (up to date sarge)

2006-08-30 Thread A. F. Cano
This used to work in woody. Doesn't in sarge, and yes I do start ksh with the -l (login shell) option in the konsole configuration (Execute field). There is a similar bug filed in bugs.debian.org (almost 2 years old) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279347 although this person

Re: PCI to PCMCIA card

2006-03-02 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:47:41PM -0600, David Berg wrote: Does anyone have any experiences with a PCI to PCMCIA card? I've used I got some quite inexpensively off e-bay some time ago and they work just fine with 16 and 32 bit pcmcia. I got them precisely for wireless networking but other

Re: vi flashes in KDE shell

2006-02-19 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:09:35PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there anyway to fix this problem? It drives me nuts. Basically the gui flashes occassionally and seems to miss commands I give it. Could this be the visual bell? I have encountered this in sarge, although it (the regular beep)

Re: cdc_acm

2006-02-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:44:38PM +, Michael Ott wrote: Hello A. F.! I want to connect to my new mobile phone (Motorola V635) using cdc_acm. I can see the memory in the mobile, but there will not create an device to the modem. And I want to connect my Motorola E815...

Re: cdc_acm

2006-01-30 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:25:49PM +, Michael Ott wrote: Hello! I want to connect to my new mobile phone (Motorola V635) using cdc_acm. I can see the memory in the mobile, but there will not create an device to the modem. And I want to connect my Motorola E815... Different

Windows emulator (wine) errors, and one solution

2006-01-27 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, I've tried to run the motorola mobile phone tools under wine and right away I encountered two problems. This is after doing an update with aptitude just an hour ago, in which wine and libwine were upgraded. Wine didn't find kernel32.dll. After looking at another version of wine in woody

Re: Where to find... NOW: update - 2.6.15 on sarge: the problem is with kmix

2006-01-18 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:30:47PM -0500, I wrote: ... Hopefully some tweaking of kernel options and manual setting of IRQs will fix this. Does anyone have any settings that work with the SB Audigy cards and kernel 2.6.15 (or any other 2.6 kernel)? Or should the kernel allocate properly the

Re: Where to find... NOW: update - 2.6.15 on sarge: boots but some problems remain

2006-01-17 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:19:15AM +, Adam James wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 18:45 -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: If you intend to generate an initrd image for your kernel, you'll need to backport an unstable initrd generator (such as yaird or initramfs) for it to play nice. Mmm

Where to find latest unstable kernel src without messing sarge?

2006-01-14 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi all, packages.debian.org has been down for quite a few days now and I haven't been able to find a way to download kernel-source-2.6.15.whatever.deb, presumably the latest kernel package available for unstable. The temporary/under construction packages page says to use apt, but from everything

Re: Where to find latest unstable kernel src without messing sarge?

2006-01-14 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:35:11PM +, Adam James wrote: ... Thanks to everyone that replied. That was quick! I've downloaded the kernel from the ftp pool. I was searching for kernel-source-*, no wonder I didn' find it. kernel to compile locally. Is there a way to do this? You can

Re: Voice recognition software?

2006-01-12 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:07:16PM -0800, ke6isf wrote: Ran into a local who is a partial quadriplegic, and is using Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Windows system, and has exhibited curiousity about Linux. Due to the nature of her paralysis, she requires voice recognition software, so with

current package similar to bookmarker (web based bookmark management)?

2006-01-08 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi everyone, I've been using bookmarker with woody for years now and I like it. It provides web access to a database of bookmarks (stored in posgresql in my case). The web page is here http://www.renaghan.com/pcr/bookmarker.html but it hasn't been updated since 1998. Getting it to run was

Exim4 configuration: routing through uucp (worked in Exim 3)

2005-07-27 Thread A. F. Cano
I've spent countless hours reading about Exim4 trying to determine how to send out mail like I am doing on this Exim3 (woody) machine. This gets complicated because: o The real name of the machine in question is not the mail name. o I want all mail to go in and out through the machine that I

Re: Anacron vs. cron.

2004-05-01 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:13:22PM -0400, R. Clayton wrote: I've discovered that cron.daily isn't being run (the locate database is 8 days I encountered the same symptoms some time ago on my laptop and tracked down what I thought was a generalized bug. After some discussion on debian-laptop, it

importing gnumeric spreadsheets into abiword (woody)

2004-03-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings, Is there an easy way (or any way at all) to import gnumeric spreadsheets into abiword files? (abiword 1.0.2, gnumeric 1.0.8, woody 3.0r2) The only common file format for import/export between these seems to be plain ascii, and using that not even the spacings are preserved and I need

Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello all, The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under woody (3.0 r2)? What I've done, with no success... First I looked at the various word processors and saw that none (that I could find) had a pdf export facility, so based on the ease of use and the fact that abiword

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under woody (3.0 r2)? Hallo, Iv'e been using (successfully) ps2pdf to confert postscript to pdf and before Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? (abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously proprietary formats dropped) You can almost always produce a ps file by printing

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:28:30PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: ... after you have the tex source written, do the following: tex file.tex; dvips -o file.ps file.dvi; ps2pdf file.ps This works too (dvips instead of

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:25:22PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:52:16PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? (abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously proprietary formats

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:03:30AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: ... It sounds like there is a problem with your latex installation. Is the document in english (english letters that is)? Try getting a true latex file and see how it works. Lyx can import text files quite nicely BTW. Yes. It's

onshore-timesheet: no connection to the server... clues, please?

2004-03-02 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I have overcome all the previous hurdles, but this one has me stumped. In the left frame, it says the following: Sorry, I cannot complete your request: o Cannot connect to backend: localhost:5432:timesheet: no connection to the server If you feel this is a bug, please report it. First