/dev/sbpcd is not available.
Does this mean that I've got to copy everything to floppies in
order to install debian :(
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pretty difficult to use - Red Hat is more intuitive. I hope it may
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it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so,
which I used to have previously.
Do I perhapd need a different version of java altogether?
Can anyone point me towards a solution?
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Hello Anthony,
Following a suggestion on google I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but
it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so,
which I used
OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences!
Working OK now - apologies for troubling the list.
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Hello Anthony,
OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences!
You've found the problem, that's what counts. Posting the solution to
the list
methbods of inflating their hit rate. (I don't do this.) Has
anyone else noticed anything similar?
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On 30 Apr 2012, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:04:57 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
For the last 3 weeks there has been a roughly 70 per cent drop in the
number of hits on my web pages (although one of these pages in contrast,
has seen a steep increase). Googling finds
.
Is this something peculiar in my setup or can other people running Sid
reproduce it? It happens with several different window managers (i3,
dwm, icewm); I don't know about desktop managers.
It does not happen in Squeeze.
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I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with
Radeon.
In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*,
either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely
(Nouveau
/20120516143642.06840...@celsius.lan
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a bug in i3 but it is not confined to that wm.)
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it may be the same as a bug reported for xserver-common, which
may well be right.
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http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement
Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me.
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I have just tried again by entering name and e-mail address and Enter,
and this was successful.
HTH
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Pressing Enter didn't work but the Save button did work today, so
perhaps they've fixed it.
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On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote:
Hi,
I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should
choose.
Thanks ahead for recommendation,
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a Brother and a Samsung, both of
which work very well. I'm sure CUPS would work with both but I prefer
lprng + magicfilter. The driver from the Brother site used to work for
me but for some reason it stopped; however, the ljet4 driver provided
with magicfilter is fine.
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:09:07PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Xmonad is good but for configuration you have to delve into Haskell,
In my experience, it's not that bad. Mostly because someone has probably
already done what you want it to do
literally
hundreds of spam piostings, so I don't know how useful the things are
anyway.
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Experience suggests that either computers can pass it and/or humans
fail.
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installed and
you have been warned about the problem.
This is what I do too.
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. A stacking WM is better for these.
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I do this because I like tiling WMs but they don't do very well with
programs that open a lot of windows, such as xsane or gimp; a stacking
WM is better for these.
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.
So it _ought_ to work, but I have come across posts in other lists
(ubuntu) where people report failure. So I have got cold feet about it
and am wondering if I ought to return it unopened. Hence my question:
has anyone used this model successfully (or not)?
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Perfection 1650 either, but that never worried me. How have you found
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a window manager
and no desktop. But I suppose that, coming from Windows, you might feel lost
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There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an
error message about no socket to connec to. I don't know why I have
this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop
manager). Will anything dreadful happen if I remove it?
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an
error message about no socket to connec to. I don't know why I have
this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other
That site is down at present.
My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of
typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the
QWERTY keyboard?
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in my favourite editor, Vim) but I'm trying it out
as BackSpace now. I find I often hit Return instead of the normal
BackSpace so this may be worth while.
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems
authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to
getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember
On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote:
On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that specified
in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create it?
At http://localhost:631/printers/ there should be a 'Set
supplied.
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On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Show us the output of:
lpr -P your_printer /etc/hosts
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at least one person says he cannot reproduce the error. I've reported it
as a Debian bug but so far have only had a routine acknowledgement.
If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they
can reproduce it?
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If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they
can reproduce it?
I can only say that I don't have any problems running (g)vim while using
awesome.
That's interesting: I just tried awesome and I couldn't
it almost impossible to avoid hitting the
thing accidentally,. with unexpected results. The little joystick on the
Thinkpads is a decisive advantage.
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Thanks to both for replies. Yes, following a further upgrade it's now
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dislike Windows (version 3.0!) so Linux was less of a culture shock than
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Don't buy it.
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On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver
from Avasys.
A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find
that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and
they are not installable
On 24 Feb 2012, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
On 02/15/2012 02:29 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Sorry to follow up to myself but I found a solution. The missing
dependency was libltdl3, which is no longer available. But after more
googling I found
previously
without problems now no longer worked. However, the ljet4 driver in
macicfilter is fine.
I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog:
http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16
Feb for details.
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* On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog:
http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16
Feb for details.
I did find your blog a few days ago
this on my laptop (radeon mobility X1400) but not my desktop
(nvidia). But it's also something to do with the window manager: it
happens with i3 but not with icewm.
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downloaded this and installed it with
dpkg but the error still comes up. I also tried downloading and
installing the latest version of libc-bin, mentioned in the error line,
but that had depnendency problems. Any ideas what to try next?
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On 18 Apr 2012, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this
message:
E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in
SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386
. They answer support
queries about Linux (although they had no idea how to use the printer on
my LAN, saying this is not a network printer; I had to work out how to
do it for myself).
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various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in
a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie.
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On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today
(there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in
a bug report but I have no idea where the problem
, to say 'one' instead of 'I'.
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The router does not have encryption but broadcast of its essid is
disabled. This does not prevent wicd from seeing it.
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for a time but then, after reading the docs, I
found that ath5k gives wlan0.
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On 06/22/11 at 10:35pm, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K
module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with
/etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd
!
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* 2011-06-22T22:35:47+01:00 * Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K
module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with
/etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd
On 23 Jun 2011, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 23 iun 11, 12:06:54, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Thanks, Philipp - you were right and gave me the clue. There are two
modules available, ath5k and ath9k. I was using ath5k because that is
what the docs talk about, but when I changed to ath9k
On 24 Jun 2011, Brian wrote:
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 16:16:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01)
According to the Debian wiki ath5k is the driver for an AR5212. It also
appears your
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, kdm?
Those of us who don't want to use Gnome, KDE and the rest of the desktop
managers necessarily do use startx. Incidentally, it provides an easy
way to pass commands to X when it starts.
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huge) list of
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perhaps it should be done piecemeal afterwards, for reasons both of time
and safety.
Has anyone any experience of doing something like this? Best way to go
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working caused the upgrade to stop - solved by turning off apt-listbugs
in its config file, and (2) boot hanging for 5 min truing to start klogd
- solved by replacing with rsyslog.
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suspect udev may be at fault but not sure how to fix it. Any
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On 17 Jul 2011, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:39:34 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I recently did a big upgrade on Sid after a year.
This seemed to go off OK but now I cannot print from my usb printer. I
get 'Cannot open /dev/usb/lp0 -No such file or directory'
My scanner
On 17 Jul 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Sorry to follow up to myself, but I've now found that the printer is, in
fact, at /dev/usb/lp0, which it should be; but the permissions seem to
be wrong because although I can cat files to that address as root and
they are printed, I can't print as user
On 17 Jul 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Once more apologies, but I fixed things in the end by reinstalling
lprng. I suppose it had got corrupted recently.
Thanks again Maderios and Camaleon.
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didn't need to have the driver in the printcap on the
client machine.
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/utf-8: No such file or directory
no system default destination
The last two lines look bad but googling has not provided a clue (some
talk of bugs in Cups).
Can anyone point to possible solutions, please?
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On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote:
On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought
everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test
page gives a blank sheet.
Which package did you install
with Linux, and if something goes wrong with
the printer (say), you have to repair or scrap everything at once. This is
another example of the ill effects of the _market_ which have been discussed in
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IIRC, Xpdf can pass raw lpr parameters when printing, so maybe it could
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keycode 133 = F13
/usr/bin/xmodmap -e keycode 134 = F14
/usr/bin/xmodmap -e keycode 135 = F15
exec icewm-session
Of course, you need to run xev to see which keycode is actually being
generated by Alt-R (108 in my case).
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. Its appearance in Sid seems to be fairly recent
because not all mirrors have it. Is there any information about when and
why Debian adopted this change? (Perhaps there was and I missed it.)
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On 16 Feb 2011, Rene Engelhard wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and
reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There
define broke, please.
Grüße/Regards,
René
,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 3450 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 5045 1 snd_pcm
As far as I can see it _ought_ to be working! Can anyone suggest what to
try next?
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On 24 Feb 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
Anthony,
From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:26:36 +
I'm using Sid. Sound has worked without problems for many months. Today
it is gone.
A few hints here.
http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#Troubleshooting
On 24 Feb 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Well, in the end it was the sound card. I replaced it with a new one and
sound is now working again. Thanks to everyone for help.
Anthony
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can install deb packages on a RedHat system using alien; I've done it
several times.
Anthony
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but in my case my ISP has a complete list of the newsgroups in various formats,
so you can download the whole thing in compressed form and unpack it.
You'd probably be better off posting this query to news.software.readers.
Anthony
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the rpm version or is there another solution?
Anthony
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Many thanks to all who replied - very helpful.
Anthony
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it?
Anthony
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to gnuchessx.
Does anyone know what the problem is here - has anyone got it working?
Anthony
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Changing the printer default font doesn't work when you print via
magicfilter, presumably because it calls ghostscript (I have a
non-Postscript laser printer).
Question: is there any way to change the default font which is used?
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