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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:14 PM, John Anderson j...@janderson.org.uk
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On 04/12/12 13:48, Leonid Korostyshevski uttered these pearls of
wisdom::
Leonid
-nonfree. I think your graphic chip needs
this same firmware to function.
Regards
John Anderson
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Lenovo Z575 AMD A6-3420M Debian Wheezy Gnome 3
Resume does not turn the backlight on.
How do I disable suspendwhen closing the lid? Gnome System Settings -
Power does not have an option to disable the lid event.Have tried
editing /etc/default/acpi-support to no effect.
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very annoying and they make the black
text in the
grey bars almost impossible to read for one of advancing years.
SystemSettings-Application Appearance-Colors-Colors Tab-Color Set:
View ; and then make Normal Background and Alternate Background the same.
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On 09/05/12 02:17, Sharon Kimble uttered these pearls of wisdom::
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Hi everyone,
I have an amd64 computer running Debian testing x86
and having problems being able to copy dvds. The dvds
I wish to copy are homemade recorded off air from my
Lite-ON DVD recorder.
I had Ubuntu Breezy amd64 on this same computer with
the same exact error that I am currently
Hi,
I'm trying to install X11R7 on my debian testing amd64
computer but I get the following messages during the
make phase:
If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very happy :-)
The computer is using the vesa driver and would be
really nice to have a higher refresh rate. Mainboard
is Biostar
Hi,
I just installed Gnome and Debian Sarge on an Pentium
IV 1.5 ghz computer. I'm having a problem because the
initial account setup during the installation
automounting CD's or DVD's is automatic and sound is
fine.
However, when I added another account that user cannot
automount files... they
Hi everybody,
I just installed debian sarge w/2.6 kernel on a
computer that I use as a router. Quick facts has 1.5
Gb of RAM, Intel 845 board, P4 1.5 Ghz processor.
Worked fine before I put a new install (old server
fried so decided to use this one but wanted a bigger
hard disk so installed
Hello,
I have just upgraded my server PC which is a Pentium
III 1 ghz to Sarge. The machine is used as a
router/firewall for 2 other computers. The problem
that I'm having is I installed etherconf to configure
eth0 used for the router and now it changes the name
to minikerr.minikerr everytime I
Hi, All
I am relatively new to Linux, been running Mandrake 9.0 for about a fortnight,
and after lots of reading I have decided to move to Debian.
I have a 80gig drive, and when I installed Mandrake, I let it have its
defaults for drive mapping which was .
/dev/hda1 mount /
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:52 pm, Kent West wrote:
John Anderson wrote:
Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and
would appreciate thoughts and guidence.
/boot20meg
/4gig
/var 8gig
/tmp 2gig
/usr 5gig
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:19 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:24, John Anderson wrote:
Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and
would appreciate thoughts and guidence.
I have long had multiple partitions too, but over time realized it's
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:23 pm, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 18:15, John Anderson wrote:
[...]
Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed
the machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me)
however I don't want that to ever
I have an Iomega parallel port drive model no. ditto easy 3200. I have
added support into the kernel for parallel port devices, ftape, ztape,
etc.
When I try to write to the tape I receive the following message:
kerr:~# tar cf /dev/qft0 home
tar: /dev/qft0: Cannot open: Device not configured
I switched root's shell to /bin/ksh instead of /usr/bin/ksh and now I
cannot switch into root user. I have tried telling su to use bash, but it
keeps on saying no shell or the like.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. -:)
P.S. I don't subscribe to this list so please E-mail me directly.
I've just added two more serial ports into my computer (for a total of
six). I added support into the kernel for than 4 serial ports. I added
more ports with the MAKEDEV command, but I get the following message when
I try to access the 5th or 6th port:
kerr:~# statserial /dev/ttyS4
statserial:
To my knowledge booting of a floppy is not supported in the 'Ultra' series
of Sparc computers. So, probably you have to bypass that option.
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John Kerr Anderson
Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
I'm trying to set up mgetty to except logins through the modem. When I
dial from a terminal, all I receive is a connect speed but no login
prompt. How do I make mgetty issue a login prompt?
===
John Kerr Anderson
I'm supposed to get a Sparcstation 2, I've found a lot of information at
www.ultralinux.org, and www.sunhelp.org. Both web sites have information
about sun systems... Ultralinux.org discusses all of the Linux
distributions on Sparc machines, hardware supported, etc.
Also, I did a web search
You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor
power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power
saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might
be out of luck.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote:
John Anderson wrote:
You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor
power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power
saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might
I have had a similar problem trying to install through a character
terminal on an IBM PC 350. I pass the linux console=ttyS0 argument, but
with the CD-Rom the kernel messages don't appear on the monitor, nothing
appears on the terminal screen either. I tried the floppy (idepci) which
won't fully
I have been experiencing slow and erratic connections using pon and a
Best Data external modem. When I tried the modem with Wvdial and manually
patched wvdial.conf so that I would have the default initialization
string, it seems to be more responsive.
Do I need to change the modem initialization
An easier way then to manually add the user into dialup group is to
adduser option in the pppconfig program. Start pppconfig and select
Advanced options, then select adduser.
Hope this helps!
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John Kerr Anderson
I thought that there was no sound available, but when I log in as root I
have sound. I have tried adding my normal account into the audio group,
but still I have no sound. Any suggestions?
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John Kerr Anderson
Powered
Try the command tzconfig which will ask you to enter your local time
zone and set it accordingly. I hope this helps.
John Kerr Anderson
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Andreas
I have downloaded a patch for pc speaker support and added it into kernel
2.2.15 on potato. Do I have to configure another program in order to get
sound support? I have tried playing audio CD's and games with no sound.
How do I get sound, It is supposed to be just like using a sound card?
I have found that using printtool available at the unstable distribution
Debian web site is much easier to print with than apsfilter. I have an
Epson Stylus 850 that works wonderfully using the 500 setting, for yours
the stylus 800 setting should work fine. I have nerver been able to
figure out
I downloaded the ide patch for kernel 2.2.17, but how exactly do I install
it?
John Kerr Anderson
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
I had a similar problem with Debian 2.1 on an IBM PC 350 /w a 166 mhz
processor. It had know special cards. I found that Debian 2.2 would work
on it because it uses the 2.2 kernel and that particular computer has a
bug which the 2.2 kernel recognised. Try downloading on your FreeBSD
machine a
I just installed Debian 2.2 on an 386 20 mhz deskpro w/10 mb of ram. I
found the install was slow and very slow to boot up, but with a custom
kernel it boots much faster and the performance of the system is
significantely increased. At http://www.linuxdoc.org, under
mini-HOWTO's there is one
I installed the eject program through dselect and I receive this message
when I try to use it:
eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
The CD-rom drive is a Memorex 40X that is ATAPI compatible and has worked
with the eject program before. Is there anyway to get that
Does anyone know of a program that can print on envelopes, labels, roledex
cards, etc. I have a wonderful one for Dos called Envelopes Plus, but I
cannot find one for Linux/Unix. I would like to find one so I wouldn't
have to use DOS at all. Any suggestions?
John Kerr
I am having an error messages such as No operating system or, 40 40
40... on the screen after the hard disk jumpers were not set up correctly.
What is the command to redo the master boot record?
John Kerr Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian
As root go into the pppconfig program. Then I believe under the heading
of advanced options or the like their is a place to adduser to the
pon/poff utility. That way you can add as many users as you like to have
access to the internet.
John Kerr Anderson
All you have to do to shut Wvdial off correctly is press the interrupt key
(Ctrl + C) in the virtual terminal Wvdial is running in.~
John Kerr Anderson
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
On Fri, 1 Sep
I was wondering if there is anyway in Debian, when I use the halt command
the computer will shut off automatically if equpped with an electronic
power switch. Distributions such as SuSE and Redhat would shut down my
computer in that manner. Is there anyway to do this with Debian?
type dmesg | more and you should be able to see if serial ports are
available to you. You have to uncomment one of the terminal lines in
/etc/inittab. The connect speed on your terminal (or PC pretending to be
one) must be the same. The text-terminal howto http://www.linuxdoc.org
has many
The Cliq suite is available at www.quad.com, it offers not only
character-based word processing, but additional features such as a
spreadsheet, calendar, calculator and phone book. You can download the
programs from their web site and ask for a temporary key to try it out.
A single user license
I have a Best Data 56K external modem to. I was having problems with it
taking forever to initialise, and it would also go off line constantly. I
found that moving it too /dev/ttyS1 using irq 3 seemed to improve the
performance. Before I had the modem set to /dev/ttyS2 using irq 5. Try
putting
You can go to the web site http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine and
download Pine as a .deb file. Pine is very self explanatory. in the setup
menu select config then if you have a dialup connection put your isp name
in the user domain option. If your ISP uses pop3 put {isp
name/pop3}inbox under
This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I
have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions?
John Kerr Anderson
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The
most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was
given the message that I needed the shared library
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2.
I've checked in the internet, but all I find is rpm packages for other
I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip
the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone
unzip this type of file?
John Kerr Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
I just upgraded from Debian 2.2 using the idepci disks. After
installation I noticed that there is no lp module for the parallel printer
port. The Debian website talks about adding additional modules into the
kernel after the installation. I have downloaded the 3 drivers disk
images for the
I have been trying to install Pine with unsuccessful results. I have
compiler output, but I don't know how to transfer it to this computer from
mine at home ( I connect via telnet).
The error message I get is:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: ***
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone is using an Epson Stylus 850, and at what
settings you've been successful with. I downloaded Apsfilter which
printed a good test page, but I was unable to print it out in Mozilla
using the standard lpr command. Is there something I did wrong? Should I
used the
In the program there is a configuration file /etc/TextConfig where you
specify your video card and so forth. To improve your resolution type
SVGATextMode 80x40x9 or whatever desired resolution you have. I use the
program in that mode. You can check with the file for all the
possibilities you
Is there anyway to update he print filter selections in magicfilter to
support more and newer printer models. If there is a way to update
magicfilter, what kind of filter can I add (from which program)?
I tried switching to apsfilter, but found it harder to setup than
magicfilter. Especially
Marco,
If you go to the site linuxcentral.com and select Linux Central CD-Roms,
then Distributions. They have an M68 version of Debian, that's probably
the one your looking for. Or go to the debian website and select
download on CD and then your country (I assume Italy in your case).
The
Hello,
Has anyone been successful at configuring an ATI Charger video card to use
SVGA text mode? I can get it to work at a generic VGA, but only at
80x25. I have tried ATI mach64, but It doesn't recognize the card as
being that. The resolution I want is 132 columns by 40 rows.
Any
I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this:
dip:x:1000:1001
still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I
configure it incorrectly? Is there anyway to get this working? If, not
is there any text-mode dialers that don't need root clearance?
Also, I
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:15:08 -0700
From: Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem with list...
I can't seem to post messages to this list regardless of what address I
send to.
Possibly, you might not have your internet connection fully.
look in /etc/host.conf which should have in it: order hosts,bind
multi on
And check /etc/resolv.conf which should have: nameserver your isp's
domain name server number.
J. Hartzelbuck
-0700
From: Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: John Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: boot from rescue floppy, install from cd?
Thanks. I'm going to try to work on that tonight. Would you please do me
a favor and post the following message to the listmaster or the list. For
some reason every time I
Your CD-ROM could be the culprit. I believe that Debian works off of any
ATAPI compatible CD-ROM drive. With other distributions (Redhat) which I
used before, my computer would freeze if I started through DOS. Is there
any way you can boot directly from the CD-ROM in the BIOS setup program?
I found the easiest way to deactivate XDM on startup was to simply rename
xdm to xdm.d in the dir /etc/init.d. Now when the computer starts up,
it stays in the text mode until a user wishes to enter x by typing
startx. All you have to do is enter the /etc/init.d directory and type
mv xdm newname,
Did you configure the parallel printer port module during the installation of
Debian? If not that may explain the problem. I'm not very experienced with
Linux, but I would say that the kernal would have to be redone or reinstalling
Debian if it's easy enough.
I've been trying to get Diald to connect correctly. The 1st time I
configures it, I got a connection. Now, all it will do is say there is a
slip connection, but it will not start ppp.
I have a typical internet connection, dial up to our service provider.
Does anyone have any suggestions or has
Hi,
I have a Panasonic (Epson emulation) Dot-Matrix printer, and the only
way to change the default pitch (i.e. 10 cpi, 12 cpi..) is through DOS
software. The owner's manual lists all the escape sequences, but how do I
send them to the printer?
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