installing grub-pc

2007-05-20 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello, list. I have attempted to install the new grub-pc on to my lappy, running Sid. However, what comes up during boot is the legacy grub. I assume that I need to do a grub-install hd0,1 (the boot partition is on hda1), but I want to make sure I'm right before I bork my system. There is

undefined symbol: xmlIsBaseCharGroup

2007-02-23 Thread David R. Litwin
I've got plenty of packages pertaining to libxslt1 and libxml2 -- including devs. Clearly, I'm either missing some thing; or else there is a bug. Help? Cheers. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Re: cable modem connection slower then dial up

2006-11-06 Thread David R. Litwin
On 06/11/06, Zoran Kolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cable modem connected to a router that connects to a Windows XP machine and my Debian linux machine.Internet on the Windows XP machine is extremely fast and the Debian machine is slower than dial up (no joke! night and day

Re: linux-image-2.6.16 not able to purge?

2006-11-06 Thread David R. Litwin
On 06/11/06, Deephay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all,I found that the linux-image-2.6.16 package on etch cannot be purged:I'm using Sid and can't purge the 2.6.17 kernel, for what that's worth. I get the same error message (code 128). -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is

Re: dire difficulty with udev

2006-09-10 Thread David R. Litwin
On 10/09/06, Ruben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks,I'm kinda needy for help, here. I'm using debian unstable on aThinkpad T20 and after a recent aptitude upgrade udev (version0.100-1) broke my os (again...). The resulting symptoms close to what someone mentioned

Modem-Telephone

2006-09-01 Thread David R. Litwin
Good-day.I have had success in hearing a dial tone, as well as a the-phone-is-off-the-hook-hang-up message. Clearly, I can use it to call other persons (not computers). However, I don't know what software I need to be able to do this. Please do not confuse my situation with VoIP: I wish to

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-06 Thread David R. Litwin
On 05/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, install strace, and run strace -f -F -o /tmp/log chroot /mnt/hda3 and check the results of the log.Put it up for download somewhere, and we

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-06 Thread David R. Litwin
Roger Leigh wrote: So, there you have it. Now what?So some part of the filesystem is knackered, and we can't know theextent of the damage for sure.Since it happened suring adist-upgrade, it's most likely some part of the packages upgraded at that time.I would suggest something like:# for pkg in

chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-04 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello vaunted list:I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells meFloatingPointException.apt-getisnowbustedafterItriedtoinstallntp(Ididmanagetogetntpdate)andforcinginvariousways(installinganduninstalling)is doing exactly nothing. Generally,

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-04 Thread David R. Litwin
On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after mount /dev/ hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells me Floating Point Exception. Please post an exact transcript, so we can see what happens.script(1) can do

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-04 Thread David R. Litwin
On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try reading the manual page?Just type script and run theprogram.Ah.Alright.I'mrunningit.Nowyou'llbeabletoseeallofthepermutationsandsillythingsI'mdoing!:0) Also, install strace, and run strace -f -F -o /tmp/log chroot /mnt/hda3 and check

Is the latest kernel image in Unstable 2.6.17.7 or greater?

2006-08-02 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello list. I'm wondering two things. One: Is the latest kernel in Sid the 2.6.17.7? Two: Why doesn't it say that some where so that I wouldn't need to ask the list? I ask because I use XFS with has the flaw on kernels before the one mentioned. And, in stead of compiling and what not a new one,

Re: Audio Player for FLAC

2006-07-23 Thread David R. Litwin
On 23/07/06, Tony Terlecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 3: amaroK and kaffeine: Both of these don't have a problem withinterruptions between tracks but I am unable to seek within a track.Reading through a few posts about the problems it seems to have something to do with the interaction between

[OT] How do I make my computer act like a telephone?

2006-07-19 Thread David R. Litwin
Preamble:Hello list. This is rather not Debian related, but I simply can't find the correct forum. If this can be suplied, I'd be grateful.Now then: I want to make my computer act like a telephone: Literaly, plug in the telephone wire to a jack and dial (and receive) a phone call. I _believe_ I've

Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread David R. Litwin
I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently downloaded two large files via BitTorrent. As I wanted to have them as quickly as I could, I decided to leave my laptop on until they were fully downloaded, rebooting only for

Adjusting Memory on Shared ATI Radeon Mobility 9100 IGP

2006-06-22 Thread David R. Litwin
Greetings, list.I have a shared memore ATI Radeon Mobility 9100 IGP video card. I should like to know how to increase the shared memory with out ussage of the BIOS, as this latter does not support changing the memory settings for my video card. I had previously suspected that this could be done in

Re: Ksynaptics

2006-06-13 Thread David R. Litwin
On 13/06/06, Modestas Vainius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0.14.4-5 is fine. You should avoid = 0.14.5-1 at all costs if you want to useksynaptics, which is currently in debian. Seehttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372498

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-13 Thread David R. Litwin
On 13/06/06, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Important note*: grub suffers the same limits as the BIOS does. Soif your disk is large, you will need to create your boot partition *and*the Linux root partition near the beginning of the disk.

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-13 Thread David R. Litwin
On 13/06/06, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while since I've dealt with these, so memory is a bit rusty.You may want to follow up with a Wikipedia or general web search, formore detailed data.I tried 'BIOS disk size limit', and one of the sites

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-11 Thread David R. Litwin
On 11/06/06, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/06/06, Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 19:23 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: Is it true that this has been fixed in GRUB 0.97? I think I read that some where.I don't know. I use sarge, which use GRUB

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-10 Thread David R. Litwin
I'm again posting out of context, due to many god posts.I think I'm going to stick with the standard ext3.XFS,thoughI'msureanexcellentfs,seemstobenotascrash-resilientasext3.AstothesuggestedlvmandCryptoFS,Idon'tthinkIneedthem.Itseemsthatitmaybethewayofthefuture,butforFS, I do want

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-10 Thread David R. Litwin
I think I'm going to stick with the standard ext3.XFS,thoughI'msureanexcellentfs,seemstobenotascrash-resilientasext3.I'vejusthadathought:SinceIalreadyhaveapartitionedharddrive,whydon'tItrybothandseewhichisbetter?WouldGRUBbehappy withonepartitionbeingext3andtheotherbeingxfs,bothrunningdebian?-- —A

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-10 Thread David R. Litwin
On 10/06/06, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, the swap. I'm not too sure what these swap-files are, but it seems to me that a swap partiton is quite acceptable as a just-in-case. I'm simply unsure as to how large I should make it. A swap *file* does the same thing a swap *partition*

Re: Tor

2006-06-10 Thread David R. Litwin
On 10/06/06, Jiann-Ming Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grateful for any information.Tor is amazingly easy to set up in Debian.Install it and privoxywith apt-get.Then follow steps 2-4 at

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-08 Thread David R. Litwin
Let me start thus: I've gotten so much valuable feed-back that it is illogical to do my normal shuffle-post. Hopefully what I write shan't be woefully out of context. Here goes.I appologise that I neglected to give you the specs of my system, dolt that I am.Thelaptophasa

ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-07 Thread David R. Litwin
Hallo friendly list:I've decided that windows has to go and a swap has to come. So, I'm a gonna clear the hard drive of my Toshiba satellite A70 laptop and give myself a new start on life. Now, I've been looking about some. It seems that ext3 or xfs are the best filesystems, with /boot being on a

Set shared video memory in xorg.conf

2006-05-27 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello, list.I recently acquired a 512 MB of ram to bring my laptop to a grand total of 1024. With this amount, I would like to increase the memory of my shared video card form 128 to 256, the max, in order to speed up graphics et cetera. Since I have edited the xorg.conf file, I ran the suggested

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread David R. Litwin
On 27/05/06, kruton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the regualar apt-get update and upgradeyesterday, the aRts sound server crashes on KDEstartup.snipThe problem is with libasound2. To quote Linas Žvirblis:If you do not use aptitude (I highly recommend it), you can do it manually: 1. Download

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-27 Thread David R. Litwin
On 27/05/06, Adam Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I'm trying to use aptitude to downgrade, but it only shows oneversion (1.0.11-5) available for the libasound2 package.Logical:You(mostprobably)haveonlyonerepositoryforSid(don'tseewhyyou'dneedmore)andthisonehasbutoneversionofeach

Set video memory allocation (Was: Set shared video memory in xorg.conf)

2006-05-27 Thread David R. Litwin
On 27/05/06, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what do I have to put in to the file to get 256 mB of ram for my shared video card?Thanks much.Well,itseemsthatthisonlycontrolshowmuchxorgthinksthevideocardhas;itdoesn'tchangethevalueonthecarditself.So,new question(andnewthread

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-15 Thread David R. Litwin
On 15/04/06, Hodgins Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour?That is, in fact, a lower-case letter gamma. The word is dialogue in Greek, dialogos from (approximately) dia, two and logos, knowledge. Please don't top-post. If you are un-aware of what that is,

Re: unstable XORG upgrade ..

2006-04-14 Thread David R. Litwin
On 13/04/06, alan bonard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wish to confirm reports of teething problems by recent posters.I'm running unstable and carried out my usual upgrade and dist-upgrade,noticing xserver would be removed and many xorg modules installed. On reboot, I had no xserver - big

Re: Xorg upgrade troubles

2006-04-14 Thread David R. Litwin
Raju: Finally, to all those people, who keep referring unstable for newbies - situations like this should be kept in mind. Mark Crean: Don't worry. With the kind ofattitude on display among some of the regular Debian-fanciers who post here, I should imagine these newbies will beheading for

Re: X error : Major opcode: 151

2006-04-13 Thread David R. Litwin
On 12/04/06, Laura Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just used aptitude to upgrade my debian/unstable box (the previousfull update was on 2006-03-19), and then several graphical programsare now having one same error. For some it is fatal, for some it onlyprints an error report. These errors don't

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
On 12/04/06, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???No, there isn't. If you'd like, you could volunteer.Ofcourse,thatcouldhavebeenNO,THEREISN'T.IFYOU'DLIKE,YOUCOULDVOLUNTEER. But, since I'm not one to flamify, I won't do that.Cheers. On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:12

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what therest of the world thinks of English measure.A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not 1000, dammit!Really?Thereisametricbyte-system?I'veneverheardofsuchathing. I even live in Canada and use the metric

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to 7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate a lot of

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
Expect for gtk.All things that use gtk (Firefox, Synaptic and Gnome itself) do not run. News: This problem is fixed with the new xserver-xorg-core update.What went wrong the first time round? And why in the world did it remove xserver-xorg in the first place so that I had to install xorg? -- —A

Firefox Reloads Due to KDesktop Change?!

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
A while back, I had mailed the list concerning a problem with Firefox: Every now and again, it would refresh the page. This entailed the programme freezing, the page part (under the tab bar) turning grey and the page, when it un-froze, returning to the top, regardless of where it had been prior to

Re: Problem w/ NetworkManager and wpasupplicant

2006-04-09 Thread David R. Litwin
I'm using using wpasupplicant and networkmanager (both latest versions)on Debian/Sid. wpasupplicant -iath0 -Dmadwifi -c/etc/wpasupplicant.confI notice that you use madwifi. Which version? I ask since wpa_suppllicant refuses to work with the newest madwifi-ng (as of a month or less ago.). Thanks. I

Re: turn capture [on] on usb audio.

2006-04-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Hi,I have a Dazzle DVC90, which is a video capture device. (It captures audio video in fact)Are you saying that you can capture video via usb? From what device? How?Thanks very much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Re: 2.6.16-1-686 header problem?

2006-03-23 Thread David R. Litwin
Hi. Up to date Sid, which included 2.6.16 this morning. I have two packages that I have to build from source, MadWiFi and nVidia kernel drivers. The MadWiFi driver build system uses something called modules-assistant, and running it against linux-kernel-headers-2.6.16-1-686 causes an error

New Madwifi-ng doesn't work

2006-03-22 Thread David R. Litwin
I'm using the 2.6.16-smp kernel on Sid (Please, I beg of you not to go in to the Sid bit. I have heard all of the pros and cons already. Thank you kindly.). I recently upgraded to this kernel and, in so doing, chose to upgrade my madwifi-ng driver. Doing so has rendered it busted (some how). Well,

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

2006-03-16 Thread David R. Litwin
On 16/03/06, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (15/03/06 19:53), David R. Litwin wrote: I'm trying to print to my printer from Debian. The printer (an HP DeskJet 842C) is connected to the main computer which uses Windows XP Pro.I downloaded and installed the HPIJS driver from the HP

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

2006-03-16 Thread David R. Litwin
This post is long.I have:# smbclient configuration//zeus/cma /smb/cma cifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=07700 0 //zeus/clive /smb/clive cifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=07700 0//zeus/misc /smb/misccifs

Error connecting to printer via Samba

2006-03-15 Thread David R. Litwin
I'm trying to print to my printer from Debian. The printer (an HP DeskJet 842C) is connected to the main computer which uses Windows XP Pro. I downloaded and installed the HPIJS driver from the HP sourceforge web-site. I now go to http://localhost:631 so that I can set up the printer and use it.I

Re: PPPOE CHAP authentication failed

2006-03-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Hi All,I have problems with PPPOE.snip It's my /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file:# Secrets for authentication using CHAP# client server secret IP addressesmy_login * my_passwordI think I had that message too, many moons ago. The problem? I mixed up the username and password. Try flipping them. How did

Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Drive Issue

2006-02-20 Thread David R. Litwin
When I issue the command line of: apt-get install gcc kernel-package kernel-source-2.4.18 libc6-dev tk8.3 libncurses5-dev fakeroot How do I know the exact names for the available packages for this project? Are these names aliases that point somewhere to the precise package?Firstly, under

Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Drive Issue

2006-02-19 Thread David R. Litwin
On topic with that, does anyone have a link for recompiling the kernel in Debian, preferably as a step-by-step? I *need* the SMP support, and I'd like a highly secure (read: REAL CURRENT) kernel. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.htmlIt is a tad old, but you can simply replace

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread David R. Litwin
This also didn't give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working splashy? I do indeed hsve Splashy working with Sid. Please post your GRUB menu.list (or the LILO equivalent). We'll start there and see what we can do.Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread David R. Litwin
The only difference I can spot is the 'splash' which I don't haveInitially I also didn't have it. As it didn't work, I saw in ubuntu forums with this addition to kernel option. Hence I added it.Even then no use.When you boot in to Debian, what exactly do you see? Is there any comment made with

Re: Strange systray behaviour in kde 3.5.1

2006-02-01 Thread David R. Litwin
I've been seeing some weird KDE Systray behaviour as of 3.5.1 (since two days, more or less): the icons for eg klaptopdaemon or knemo end up on top of my screen, instead down in the systray where they're supposed to be. Restarting said services helpts to fix the problem, but it's rather weird.

Re: [OT] debianhelp.co.uk steals my words?

2006-01-27 Thread David R. Litwin
Perhaps you could add a copyright notice to your sig for posts? Underthe GNU FDL, verbatim and derived works must credit the original author: That is quite an idea I must look in to. Thank you kindly. Copyright (c) 2006 YourNamePermission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this

Re: Problem with X.org in Sid (sis card)

2006-01-27 Thread David R. Litwin
On 26/01/06, Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My X freezes up every now and then, forcing me to power-cycle. I'msuspecting a problem with X, but I'm not sure.Hardware: % lspci|grep VGA :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA

Roaming Ethernet/Wireless Configureation Options

2006-01-25 Thread David R. Litwin
What it doesn't do: It doesn't notice that it's been associated (maybe?) and it does not acquire an IP address. I need to kick in dhclient in there or something maybe? This part isn't quite figured out yet.I had much the same situation. I found this web-site:

Re: problem with pppoeconf: not starting at boot time.

2006-01-24 Thread David R. Litwin
On 24/01/06, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I use Etch, up to date, and I have a pppoe internet connection. the problem is though I answer OK to tell I want the connection to be launched at boot, it does not launch itself at boot. It only launches when I run

[OT] debianhelp.co.uk steals my words?

2006-01-24 Thread David R. Litwin
In a bid to help a fellow Debian user, I wanted to link to a thread I had been involved in (concerning internet connexions). I googled some words in it and found the post in the Debian mailing list archives, which is normal. I also found a tiny piece of it at this

Render acceleration ATI Radeon Mobile 9100

2006-01-23 Thread David R. Litwin
I have a Toshiba A70 laptop with Mobile P4 H-T, ATI Radeon Mobile RS300M AGP 9100IGP, KDE 3.5, Sid, kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp.How do I enable the render acceleration on my card? I wish to use the Translucency effects offered by KDE. Doing so currently makes every thing un-usably slow. In addition,

(Solved) Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-16 Thread David R. Litwin
The file /var/dpkg/available became corrupted. debconf, dpkg, apt-get and synaptic could not work. The fix: My suggestion, rather than messing around with editing and such, would be to do:dpkg --clear-avail: to clear the available list, then do:apt-get update: to repopulate it. Ta.-- —A watched

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Litwin
Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf. When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken.An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconfdpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui': field name

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread David R. Litwin
# dpkg-reconfigure debconfdpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui': field name `/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installedBut, when I apt-get install debconfdebconf is already the newest version. fsck? I ran fsck. It is still corrupt.

Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-14 Thread David R. Litwin
Trying to upgrade in synaptic givesdpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui':field name `E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)Looking at the said file, at around the line mentioned, the normal text becomes corrupted: It is a lot of

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-14 Thread David R. Litwin
Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf. When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken. David R. Litwin wrote: Trying to upgrade in synaptic gives dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui':field name ` E: Sub

(Solved) dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-14 Thread David R. Litwin
okay okay I get it. you can't reconfigure debconf because reconfigure wants to use KDE... well per man debconf, there is more info in debconf(7) part of debconf-doc. apt-get install debconf-doc; man 7 debconf; found this:passing --frontend= to dpkg-reconfigure will specify the frontend to use. so

Re: My Wireless Troubles

2006-01-11 Thread David R. Litwin
David your will have repositorioes (in the sources.list ) for kde 3.5 and gnome?I have gotten KDE 3.5 from the standard Sid repository (http://http.us.debian.org/sid et cetera).Perhaps I misunderstood your question.? -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and

Fwd: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
Didn't one come with the camcorder? Sony, willingly give up the chance to sell some thing to some one and make a pretty buck? I'm surprised that they supplied a USB wire. But, I would like to have the USB working in the interim.Good luck.Tell us if you get it working...I'll need some good skill

Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
snipSee January 2006 Linux Journal for quite an interesting article about this sort of thing. Where can I find this?Ta.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few seconds and went to the top of the page. I can't think of any others at the moment. I shall mark

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
David,Am I mistaken or did I see a recent post from you about some sortof flakiness in your wireless internet connection?Could a lost connection be causing firefox to reload the page?You know, I never considered that. I some how don't think that is it, but it is an interesting theory. The reason I

dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
During a normal Sid upgrade to the latest xorg, some thing went wrong and it didn't work. When it rebooted and dropped me straight to a terminal, I said, no problem; I'll apt-get install xserver-xorg. It didn't work. I removed X (since it never compiled properly in the first place) and tried to

Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root.dpkg-reconfigure debconf then select dialog.If only it were that simplex!I changed the dialogue to KDE which means it needs X which I un-installed. It won't let me reconfigure any thing.Does that make sense? It's not obvious what

Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-09 Thread David R. Litwin
I should like to be able to see the live video from my Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder on my Sid 2.6.14-686-smp KDE Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading Toshiba laptop machine (I hope that tells you what I'm running) using USB 2.0. I know it can do this: I've done it in windows. But, I need a driver for Linux.

Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-09 Thread David R. Litwin
P4 HT is irrelevant.I thought so, but, once I got going, I'd figure I'd supply it all. ;-) No one has written a driver, I think.Firewire is the the technologyof choice for those people writing video transport drivers and apps. Kino is what to look for.It is packaged in Debian.No driver? Huh. I did

Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-09 Thread David R. Litwin
Every now and again, Firefox refreshes. When this occurs, the Firefox window (just the web-page, mind) briefly blanks and, when it re-appears, the web-page is back at the top.Is this a bug? How do I stop it? I dislike having to scroll back to where I was; especially on a long page. Cheers.-- —A

My Wireless Troubles

2006-01-09 Thread David R. Litwin
I'm using a Toshiba Satellite A70 laptop, Atheros (built-in AR5212 wireless card), madwifi-ng (I do not know when the CVS is from), 2.6.14-686-smp, Pentium 4 H-T, Sid, KDE 3.5. Problem 1: Every now and again, I am disconnected -- in some way. I do not know how. I do know that if I type in

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-09 Thread David R. Litwin
-What version of Firefox is this?Firefox 1.5. -What kind of package (original website, Debian package, etc.)?From Debian Sid repository, Firefox (not Mozilla-Firefox). -What extensions do you have?All-In-One Gestures, Download Statusbar, Translate Page, MR Tech About:About,

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-09 Thread David R. Litwin
Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few seconds and went to the top of the page. I can't think of any others at the moment. I shall mark

Re: Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread David R. Litwin
What's the command to stop a service like gdm?Killall. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Re: How do I get my Kernel Back?

2005-12-19 Thread David R. Litwin
Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice it to say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image. How do I get it back?in knoppix, you first have to mount all your debian partitions tosoewhere, e.g.:/ to /mnt/debian/usr to /mnt/debian/usr/home to /mnt/debian/home

Re: screen resolution in GUI

2005-12-16 Thread David R. Litwin
On 15/12/05, Dan Sheffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep trying to get Debian to load a GUI to 1280X1024 resolution. I run the install and select the correct driver for my video card. Then when it asks about my monitor I select the medium option and select 1280X1024 @ 75. I know this resolution

Re: screen resolution in GUI

2005-12-16 Thread David R. Litwin
On 16/12/05, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Litwin wrote on Dec, 16: I keep trying to get Debian to load a GUI to 1280X1024 resolution.I run the install and select the correct driver for my video card.Then when it asks about my monitor I select the medium option

How do I get my Kernel Back?

2005-12-16 Thread David R. Litwin
Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice it to say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image.How do I get it back?I tried to do this from Knoppix but it doesn't seem to work. I will try again soon and give more details. Unless some one can point out an obvious

Re: kernel 2.6.14-5

2005-12-15 Thread David R. Litwin
On 15/12/05, ochnap2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, yesterday I installed the linux-image-2.6.15-5-386 and had some problems.The computer is a old box with a PC-Chips M598LMRT motherboard, a AMD K6400Mhz CPU, 96 MB of RAM, and using the onboard vga card. The problems are:- no fb console: I'm using

Re: Where is the script update-grub located?

2005-12-13 Thread David R. Litwin
I have the same problem, and there allready is a thread about it, butwithout any hopes. I didn't try update-grub because i don't think this is the problem, but if you find something please post ...Which thread is this? I should like to read it.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft

Where is the script update-grub located?

2005-12-12 Thread David R. Litwin
I should like to know where the actual script is so that I can run it from windows.When I upgraded my kernel-image last-night, I did not reboot the computer until after a few minutes (I had started a game of spider which was looking promising). Now, linux will no longer boot saying some thing to

Re: Where is the script update-grub located?

2005-12-12 Thread David R. Litwin
On 12/12/05, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 16:05 -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: I should like to know where the actual script is so that I can run it from windows.$ dpkg -L grubI'm afraid that that doesn't work from Windows $ locate update-grubThis says it doesn't

Re: Where is the script update-grub located?

2005-12-12 Thread David R. Litwin
In any case, I think anyway that update-grub could not work fromWindows, since it's a Linux program, right? I was wondering about that myself. I thought it best to at least try it, though. Not much success since I can't even find it, though You should be able to do anything you need from the

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-08 Thread David R. Litwin
I' using a Toshiba A70 with a built-in Atheros card (5121 I believe).I seem to have it working fairly well from the instruction I got from http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo and http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian. I mean, by this, that I looked at both and followed bothh

Firefox Opens Only As Root.

2005-11-21 Thread David R. Litwin
This is a little odd. My Firefox (which had been working perfectly) now only opens as root.Trying to open it in a console as a normal user provokes the Mozilla Bug Report thingy in to action and gives this mysterious message: $ ./firefox./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 6335 Segmentation fault $prog

Re: touchpad don't work at startup

2005-11-21 Thread David R. Litwin
Hi!I've added psmouse.proto=imps in my grub's menu.lst file for the kernel I boot, and everything works fine.edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add psmouse.proto=imps on the linecorresponding to your kernel If I can jump in, the only way that my touchpad works is if I disable USB Legacy in the BIOS.

Re: Firefox Opens Only As Root.

2005-11-21 Thread David R. Litwin
Which version of firefox are you using? Firefox 1.5 RC3. To my credit, though, it had been working perfectly before my system started to crash a lot. Then, briefly, I could only sign in under Root. I solved that and Firefox hasn't worked under the normal user since. Well, it did briefly,

Checking to See if this List Got My Firefox E-Mail

2005-11-17 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello all.I sent an E-Mail concerning my troubles with Firefox. However, it was spammified by that new Brazilian thingy asking for approval and what not (aren't I specific!). I was just wondering if it got through for I do not see it. If not, I'll send it again.If it did, I apologise for clogging

Firefox won't open with normal user; only root.

2005-11-16 Thread David R. Litwin
This is begin to sound like a patternMy firefox, which I compile myself from their website, will not open with under the normal user. When I try to do so from a console (to se the message), it has this to say: $ ./firefox./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 6179 Segmentation fault $prog

Re: Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root

2005-11-13 Thread David R. Litwin
# ls -ld /tmp/.ICE-unix/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2005-11-13 23:04 /tmp/.ICE-unix/ There is a difference in the last thing. Note after the root you have 1024 and I 4096. Could this be doing it?Probably not. But to make sure, just delete the file, and let it berecreated the next time you try

[Solved] Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root

2005-11-13 Thread David R. Litwin
I could not start KDE from normal user; only root. Logging in via console under normal user, I tried to cd to /etc/X11. It would not let me. So, I changed the permissions via chmod 755 X11 (while in /etc) then fired it up and it worked. Yay. Thank you kindly to all that helped. You inspired me.

Re: [Solved] Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-12 Thread David R. Litwin
I suspect, if you're running Sid, that you've run into a fairly commonissue of /tmp/.ICE-unix file not belonging to root. chmod -R root.root/tmp/.ICE-unix should fix this is this is the problem.I looked at the files in that folder and the folder itself. They all belong to root. If KDM is running

Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root

2005-11-12 Thread David R. Litwin
When I try to log in to KDE using KDM through my normal user, the screen goes black, then returns to KDM. This is indicative of X having crashed, since I told KDM to re-appear if that should happen. Loging in through a consle tells me that /etc/X11/X is not executable. I checked: It is a symbolic

Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-11 Thread David R. Litwin
I have an interesting update. I normally use my laptop in my room, which I like to keep between 11 and 15 degrees centigrade. However, in the kitchen, where I am currently, it is around 22 degrees centigrade. After three or so hours of usage, it has yet to freeze. Could it be that the temperature

[Solved] Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-11 Thread David R. Litwin
AFAIKWhat does that mean? Nonetheless, thank you for that information. It's nice to know that it won't break in the cold. I've actually solved the mystery. It was the programme Azureus. My computer is very allergic to it. It froze every time. At least that is solved.There is another problem,

Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-09 Thread David R. Litwin
Are you using ATI or nVidia proprietary kernel modules?If so, get rid ofthem and see if the crash goes away.If it does, you know where to direct your complains.If you are rederening to what is currently in my kernel, I am using the standard linux-image from the Debian repository and, subsequently,

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