Re: how to reset scd0

2009-12-11 Thread Hugh Lawson
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 10. 12. 2009 12:17:33 je lee napisal(a): Now even after a shutdown and turning off the power, the drive still doesn't work. So this might be a hardware problem, and it's getting off topic

Re: Another Firefox and sound problem

2009-10-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com writes: I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course, many people are against PA, often along with most of the other useful modern desktop technologies... Can you point

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-30 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs. Thanks even more for taking the trouble to explain. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after running some .avi

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. After you lose sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra process, separate from any currently active

grub2, update-grub, /etc/grub.d

2009-09-26 Thread Hugh Lawson
grub2 (provided by package grub-pc) Suppose you want to add something like vga=791 to the linux line of one of the stanzas auto-configured by update-grub. What is the debian way to do this? I know how to edit the grub.cfg file to do this, but won't this file be replaced by the next

Re: My Alt keys don't work!

2009-09-23 Thread Hugh Lawson
chombee chom...@lavabit.com writes: Could someone help me sort out my keyboard configuration, or send me on the right track? I've investigated a little but I really don't know what to do. It's a somewhat tricky configuration. 1. I have two keyboards. The built-in one (it's a laptop), and an

usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hello Debian Users, I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. I've done some googling without success. Hugh Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi writes: On 2009-08-20 09:08 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote: I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. Why doesn't dd work? Did you try? Thanks Teemu, I tried once more, and it did work this time. Earlier, I must

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi writes: OK. As you know dd is dangerous tool and usually it doesn't forgive typing mistakes. My method with device names is that I pretty much always use symlinks in /dev/disk/by-id or /dev/disk/by-label, never /dev/sda1 etc. Sound advice. Luckily, my error

Solved Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Jack Schneider p...@dp-indexing.com writes: Hugh wrote: I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. Jack wrote: Did you you look @ clonezilla-live ?? Hugh again: Thanks Jack, but as it turned out 'dd' did the job. My earlier efforts failed because

udf and dvd-ram

2009-08-14 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hello debian-users, Here's something I'm thinking, and I'm wondering if others may disagree. I've been trying out udf with Debian Lenny, and I've concluded that udf is not ready for prime time. On my system, when a udf cdrom is umounted, it leaves errors behind that interfere with the

Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-05-18 Thread Hugh Lawson
/libflashplayer.so Note that You must have i386 libcurl installed or the plugin will fail. source: http://macromedia.mplug.org/ -- Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-09 Thread Hugh Lawson
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2009-05-08 14:28 +0200, Hugh Lawson wrote: My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers. Sven wrote: This seems to be a libc6 problem, see bugs #516218

Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
with a later netinst cd--makes no difference. -- Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com writes: [ snip ] Hugh wrote: My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers. Bob asks: What do you see if you run fetchmail directly from the command line with

squeeze, dns, fetchmail error

2009-05-06 Thread Hugh Lawson
How to troubleshoot this error? I've done hours of googling but can't find anything that helps. fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop-server.triad.rr.com (pop-server.triad.rr.com): Name or service not known fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS) If I replace pop-server.triad.rr.com

Re: squeeze, dns, fetchmail error

2009-05-06 Thread Hugh Lawson
Bhasker C V bhas...@unixindia.com writes: On Wed, 6 May 2009, Hugh Lawson wrote: fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop-server.triad.rr.com (pop-server.triad.rr.com): Name or service not known fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS) Bhasker C V: Is all the DNS servers

udftools aptitude upgrade error

2009-01-05 Thread Hugh Lawson
: udftools Then I did 'dpkg-reconfigure udftools', which returned this error: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: udftools is broken or not fully installed -- Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: cedilla on a us_intl keyboard

2008-09-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
designates the Multi_key, which is the compose key in X. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zotero on debian?

2008-08-26 Thread Hugh Lawson
in zotero notes, I keep the LC web site open, and get my publication data there. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCD display - laptop

2008-04-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
you will see a question about those numbers. These are the most important numbers, as I understand, for the display. Note. If you get into dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and get confused or unsure, you can always do it over until you understand it. I have done this many times. -- Hugh Lawson

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-31 Thread Hugh Lawson
Arthur Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hugh Lawson wrote, on 31/03/08 00:06: Arthur Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The smbfs package, which depends on samba-common includes the mount.cifs binary: [ snip ] The format of the /etc/fstab entry changed, requiring the IP address

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-30 Thread Hugh Lawson
, the Windows computer gets its IP address from a router by dhcp. How to get this IP for the remote Linux /etc/fstab file? Can this be automated? -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
.run. I don't understand what the /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx script is supposed to accomplished, and how I can get along without it. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes--Solved

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hugh Lawson wrote: Since posting, I've done some more work. nvidia-glx-legacy has been purged; now I have nvidia-glx. Wacko wrote: You are mixing the two methods of installing the the nvidia module. 1. Use the script from the nvidia site and nothing

etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
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Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-03-19 Thread Hugh Lawson
again. For some documentation, see: /usr/share/doc/exim4-config and http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html and then edit /etc/exim4/email-addresses -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-23 Thread Hugh Lawson
; it dims the lights a little. Before I used a top-loading HP Laserjet 5L. This printer, although it had some problems with loading, had a somewhat more solid feel than the Brother. I'm satisfied with the Brother. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

DVD-RW data disk, growisofs, multisession

2007-09-15 Thread Hugh Lawson
Given: a dvd-rw disk, containing data, formatted with sequential formatting Issue: growisofs -M etc doesn't work. But: If I format the dvd-rw disk as restricted-overwrite, then growisofs -M works as expected. Question: Is this normal? I can't find any documentation on this issue. -- Hugh

Re: Problems wi th AtherosĀ® 802 .11b/g wireless -LAN in Debian Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Hugh Lawson
. Can anyone give me a tip to solve that? Here are the instructions I used to install madwifi module. I used the Installation (with module-assistant) http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi It worked perfectly and easily. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-02 Thread Hugh Lawson
-assistant is a debian package. Once installed, its executables take care of the grunt work of compiling the module and making it properly usable by the kernel. I had no idea this could be this easy. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: wireless adapter recommendation

2007-05-27 Thread Hugh Lawson
experience with a TD-Link WN510G. I'd never used module-assistant before, but it worked as smoothly as can be. The card uses the madwifi module for which there is an iformative web page. http://madwifi.org/ -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Hugh Lawson
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Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
of from /etc/net- work/interfaces. If this means what it seems to mean, you can write a different file for each of your configurations, and start ifup with the i option. ifup is part of the package (in stable) ifupdown. See also man ifdown. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: wma player for firefox

2007-03-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
the absolute beginning, with a stable Debian. I don't know enought to understand these directions: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.html -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wma player for firefox

2007-03-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
have now is that there is evidently no package containing apt-key in the stable distribution. Maybe this doesn't work in stable. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
) into the same directory (regardless what ever) within your HOME, such as: -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Hugh Lawson
, to print a one-line file. I've played with both the debian package and a binary package which is the one I have now. I've never tried any games. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
Grok Mogger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to respond. It's helped a lot. I'd still like some more help though if you can spare it. =) Hear! Hear! This has been really informative. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This thread got me to wondering about my own floppies, which I have not checked in some time. I tried to access several floppies, all unsuccessfully. I OTOH just mounted successfully some floppies that were made about fifteen years ago. -- Hugh Lawson

Re: [Fwd: Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie]

2005-11-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
steef [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i used 10 years ago wp5.1. never found a better Get dosemu working, find your old wp5.1 install floppies, and you can use wp5.1 under Linux. See: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-12 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*Background: black XTerm*Foreground: white But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According

Re: debian testing console euro and accented characters Solved

2005-09-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # make bash deal properly with 8-bit characters bind set output-meta on bind set input-meta on bind set convert-meta off /bin/loadkeys us-intl.iso15 /usr/bin/consolechars -f lat9u-16 [ snip ] How

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-11 Thread Hugh Lawson
installing Windows. or, get tomsrtbt to rerun lilo. http://www.toms.net/rb/ or, get grub and make yourself a grub boot floppy. This takes a little study. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL