Webcam and GSPCA problem with new kernel partly solved

properly. I'm not keen to 'upgrade' to squeeze until I can get this fixed. Anyone with any ideas? Thanks, Bruce === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Setting up coloured directory listings

that all newly created users get the coloured listings turned on by default. How can it be done? Thank you. Bruce Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Setting up coloured directory listings

Thanks to those who proffered suggestions - I think I've got the answer and am about to test it out. Thanks again, Bruce Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread! It looks as though my choices are ImageMagick's import, KSnapshot, or Gimp's Acquire with the possible need for further trimming. Thank you again, Bruce Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

with the old CD writer seem to be more reliably read in other CD drives, and I just like to have everything working that should work! Any ideas? Thanks. Bruce Ward === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer (/dev/hdd). under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The DVD writer will recognise one

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:49 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sat

Is this a bug which should be filed?

. What if any bug should I file? Thank you Bruce Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is this a bug which should be filed?

On Sun,28.Jun.09, 13:54:35, Bruce Ward wrote: I have a machine with 2 IDE CD/DVD drives on the same channel. A DVD-RW is /dev/hdc and a Plextor CD-RW is /dev/hdd. I also dual-boot between an Etch installation and a Lenny installation; both standard GNOME desktops. The problem is that Lenny

Boot from 2.6.26-2-686 fails - unable to find root device

I have a problem with the new linux-image (2.6.26-2-686) provided as an update to Lenny. I have no problem with booting from the old image (2.6.26-1-686). The boot fails with messages: Gave up waiting for root device. ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. Dropping to a

Re: Re: Boot from 2.6.26-2-686 fails - unable to find root device

Juha Tuuna said: The boot fails with messages: Gave up waiting for root device. ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. Dropping to a shell! At that stage there is no /dev/disk directory (let alone a by-label subdir!) I use labels for my partitions because I

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

Javier Barroso wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Bruce Wardbmw...@orcon.net.nz wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:49 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote

Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

modules anywhere on the Debian site. Do they exist, or are they just a myth? Bruce -- === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Newbie with modem installation problems

Have been trying unsuccessfully to configure my ADSL connection with a Speedtouch Home modem, connected through an SMC USB connector. It is all working fime in Win 98 and some trial installations I did with red Hat and Mandrake both detected and set up the modem correctly. I would rather use

Lilo boot from second drive - success

Thanks to everyone who chipped in on this, a fix has been found. The problem is really that of getting LILO to boot the slave drive, which BIOS has found to be the first as the removable master is not present! Solution is (in /etc/lilo.conf): disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 Works a treat! Bruce Ward

Re: Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

-- === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c954caa.3070...@orcon.net.nz

Latest update was bad news for me!

. One thing to take from this - ASRock, AMD AM3, and Linux don't play well together. Another is that today's de2104x module doesn't work my card. /vent Bruce Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

PDF forms and field issues

) LibreOffice with pdfimport - fields are blank imagemagick - shows fields properly!!! Evince, GIMP, and xpdf when run from command-line all give Error: Unknown font in field's DA string Any ideas on work-around? Bruce -- === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

forcedeth driver - bug?

it! Is there some way over this problem or is this a bug? If a bug, who should know about it? Note: the same behaviour in my Wheezy (not surprising when it is the same version of driver module), but I had hoped it would be fixed in Jessie. Bruce -- === Bruce Ward

[SOLVED] Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

of it :-( On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 09:06:30AM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: An entry options forcedeth ms=0 msix=0 in some /etc/modprobe.d/foo.conf should do thr trick, no? Of course, perhaps you tried that already and I'm mis-interpreting your question completely. Apologies if that's the case. No I have

Re: Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

Hi Tomas On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:12:49PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: Installing Jessie 8.1.0 on an Asrock N68-VGS3 FX motherboard. This has Giga PHY RTL8211CL ethernet, which lspci reports as: 00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) It uses the forcedeth driver module

Jessie failed installation woes

from the missing directory (found on install CD renamed the directory), and now trying to boot from that disc reboots the machine! I am thankful I kept the Jessie install away from the working Wheezy! What can I do now? Bruce -- === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand

Re: Jessie failed installation woes - they continue!

of chroot - that appears to have got grub installed. Problem now, is the boot process hangs after the fsck declares the partition clean ... And that is not far into booting! Bother. Now to go looking for other reported similar failures ... Bruce -- === Bruce Ward

Jessie - running smoothly at last - nouveau driver

acceleration. So if anyone else has a similar system and similar problem, try creating a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf file, containing: options nouveau noaccel=1 Solution found in Debian bug 758460 (after much searching). Bruce -- === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New

Re: Re: problem with display breaking up

What is the video hardware in the system? There may be useful bug information. Bruce -- === Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org