Cannot Initialize DSP

2007-10-17 Thread Thomas H. George
My sound system was working perfectly but something must have changed when I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system is lenny with kernel-image-2.6.22-2. I ran alsaconf but still get the message, Cannot initialize DSP I scrolled through the October archive but didn't spot a

Re: Math Package to Solve Linear Equations? - Thanks

2007-10-07 Thread Thomas H. George
Many thanks for all the helpful leads. I believe every one of them could do the tasks I want to tackle. I am happily experimenting to determine my favorite. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Math Package to Solve Linear Equations?

2007-10-05 Thread Thomas H. George
I'm feeling stupid. I used to have a math package which inverted matrices to solve systems of linear equations - i.e. enter the matrix and the y values and the program inverts the matrix and reports the x values. I know how to do it manually but it is laborious for large matrices. Perhaps

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:39:41PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was no esfw41.bin in my system. I added a line usb 0x048b 0x011b to snapscan.conf and after this gimp ran 4 succesful color scans with the Perfection 2400 before locking up

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:59:26PM -, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 Photo. Neither work with Debian Linux. Check the location of the firmware file, esfw41.bin. A few upgrades ago

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:12:15AM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:19:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:19:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 Photo. Neither work

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas H. George
I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 Photo. Neither work with Debian Linux. Both are known to work flawlessly with Windows XP Professional. I hate to reboot to Windows XP Professional and do so only as a last resort. At present I have no choice when I need to

iscan frustration

2007-09-21 Thread Thomas H. George
I was able to run iscan for my Epson Perfection V100 Photo scanner but only as root. This no longer works. I get a message, Could not send a command to scanner. The system is lenny with a 2.6.21 linux-image kernel. I have tried unplugging and plugging the usb cable to reset the scanner. I

Re: cdrecord problem - Correction

2007-09-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Joerg Schily's original cdrecord works perfectly. Apparently I have a box of bad blank cdrw disks, 100 of them unfortunately. I tried cdrw disks from another box and cdrecord ran the Lite-On drive at 25x with no problems. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

cdrecord problem

2007-09-16 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sept. 7 I posted a problem, I have an Etch box with a linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7. All works well but wodim -devices Beginning native device scan. This may take a while ... wodim: Invalid argument. Cannot Set SG_SET_TIMEOUT Apt-get install wodim confirms I have the latest release. I

Re: Re exim4, postfix problems - Thanks

2007-09-15 Thread Thomas H. George
. . . I created this file but in /etc/postfix/sasl/ as somewhere there is a note that this is the Debian way. Any reference please? (I'm keen on having everything The Debian Way) /usr/share/doc/postfix/README.Debian Actually, /etc/postfix/sasl was already a directory. . . .

Re exim4, postfix problems

2007-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
Still posting from iceape. I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't remember entering such a line. I believe it was automatically generated or picked up from some previous configuration. I am attaching the last 20 lines of /var/log/mail/mail.log. They show that if I

Re: Re exim4, postfix problems - Thanks

2007-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:24:54PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still posting from iceape. No, now posting from mutt I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't remember entering such a line. I believe it was automatically

Re: make menuconfig problem - Thanks

2007-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
at 11:58:38AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I know there is another package which must be installed before make menuconfig will work but I have forgotten what it is. Please refresh my memory. Tom George run make menuconfig otherwise (you'll need libncurses5-dev installed) I

Re exim4, postfix problems

2007-09-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Still using iceape. I have tried dpkg-reconfigure postfix selecting Smarthost. First I entered my ISP provider, ran /etc/init.d/postfix reload and then sent a message from mutt to my other mail box, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Next I repeated this entering outgoing.verizion.net which I must use for

Re exim4, postfix problems

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I am again posting from iceape. I had thought I had solved the problem when after running dpkg-reconfigure postfix one of my earlier postings from mutt appeared on the list. I then tried to respond to the original thread from mutt but after 24 hours the response has not appeared on the list.

make menuconfig problem

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I know there is another package which must be installed before make menuconfig will work but I have forgotten what it is. Please refresh my memory. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

exim4, postfix problems

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas H. George
I struggled for two days trying to fix exim4. I posted the following message, I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit

Re: wodim:Can't Set SG_SET_TIMEOUT

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:34:13PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/07/2007 03:19 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: I have an Etch box with a linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7. All works well but wodim -devices Beginning native device scan. This may take a while ... wodim: Invalid argument. Cannot

Re: wodim:Can't Set SG_SET_TIMEOUT

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:34:13PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/07/2007 03:19 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: I have an Etch box with a linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7. All works well but wodim -devices Beginning native device scan. This may take a while ... wodim: Invalid argument. Cannot

Netinst Fails to Recognize SATA Components

2007-09-07 Thread Thomas H. George
I purchased an HP desktop with a SATA hard drive and a SATA dvdrom/cdrw and added a second SATA hard drive on which I want to install Debian Etch. I downloaded debian-40r1-amd64-netinst.iso, burnt a cd and booted the box with the cd. Initially all went well - i.e. the netinst program booted

wodim:Can't Set SG_SET_TIMEOUT

2007-09-07 Thread Thomas H. George
I have an Etch box with a linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7. All works well but wodim -devices Beginning native device scan. This may take a while ... wodim: Invalid argument. Cannot Set SG_SET_TIMEOUT Apt-get install wodim confirms I have the latest release. I have also run apt-get

fetchmail downloads, mutt does not display

2007-09-04 Thread Thomas H. George
I had this problem with an earlier version of exim4 and was advised to change the line smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = * to smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 in the file /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. There is no longer such a line in exim4.conf.template. Is there a new

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:05PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? Ben It says connection refused by 127.0.0.1 What is the output of mailq? Kumar exim: permission denied

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. I changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with 777 permissions. exim4

exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit the configuration. As a result exim4 was left in a broken state that could

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I

Wireless card for emachine?

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas H. George
I have been given an emachine M5310 laptop with a dead battery and am considering trying to convert it to a debian etch laptop. I can boot it with a GRML cd and lsdev reports wifi0 when an Activa wifi card is plugged in. I tried using wlanconfig but have not been able to specify a static IP

Unsolved Scanner Problem

2007-08-23 Thread Thomas H. George
Problem: USB Scanner locks up (does not reset?) after one or two scans. Disconnecting the usb cable and reconnecting it solves the problem for another couple scans. The system is Etch with a 2.6.18 kernel compiled from the Debian source. The problem was first encountered several months ago

Re: mplayer problem

2007-06-22 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:02:12AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: mplayer worked once, then no more. Using the iceape browser I went to a www.whyy.org and connected to the sound stream - no problem. Then stopped this stream, went to www.wrti.org and connected

mplayer problem

2007-06-20 Thread Thomas H. George
mplayer worked once, then no more. Using the iceape browser I went to a www.whyy.org and connected to the sound stream - no problem. Then stopped this stream, went to www.wrti.org and connected to the sound stream - mplayer quickly reported 99% complete and the buffer just kept on filling.

Re: RAW image file

2007-06-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:25:10PM -0400, Bernard wrote: Hi, What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by digital cameras? Does such applications exist for Linux? See the article DEEP IMAGES in the July issue of Linux Journal. I found it helpful. Tom George

Re: Unwanted Printer Test - Thanks

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:17:25AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On bootup - Etch, stock 2.6.18 kernel - my Brothers HL-730 laser printer prints a partial test page and stops with the error light flashing. I don't

Unwanted Printer Test

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On bootup - Etch, stock 2.6.18 kernel - my Brothers HL-730 laser printer prints a partial test page and stops with the error light flashing. I don't need or want this test page. The printer is almost 10 years old but it works fine on those rare occasions (like income tax preparation) when I

Re: kino problem: No GLIBC_2.4 - Thanks

2007-04-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:20:26AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:01 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I installed kino with apt-get. Capture from my video camera worked fine but export to dvd failed. Help showed mjpegtools was required. When apt-cache search couldn't

kino problem: No GLIBC_2.4

2007-04-05 Thread Thomas H. George
I installed kino with apt-get. Capture from my video camera worked fine but export to dvd failed. Help showed mjpegtools was required. When apt-cache search couldn't find it I downloaded a copy from the internet. With mjpegtools installed export still failed with a message mjpeg2enc:

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before shutting the old system down I

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:19:29PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems. I can only stop gdm as root. If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same

Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Thomas H. George
After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to open a console window. If, in the console window I become root, then as root I can successfully start and user both iceape and openoffice. I need

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to open a console window. If, in the console

javaldx failed.

2007-03-30 Thread Thomas H. George
mozilla openoffice wont start. netinst of Etch worked perfectly with all hardware working, internet accessible from console, xorg.conf ok, gdm and icewm ok, but mozilla start from default fails, openoffice start fails with internal error message. The .xsesseion-error file ends with

Re: Netinst bug report - Withdrawn

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:14:35PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Relevant information: Box assembled with ASUS M2N4-SLI motherboard, AMD64 cpu, two hard drives, 2 GB memory In BIOS setup, POWER there is an option ACPI APIC Support. When this is disabled the system boots

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst. The ASUS installation CD contains a directory for Linux giving links to several websites to setup audio and 64 bit operation. I haven't checked these out yet

Netinst bug report

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas H. George
Tried both etch RC2 netinst amd64 and daily built netinst amd64. Both stalled after io scheduler cfq registered (default) Tried to run reportbug installation-report but this failed. Relevant information: Box assembled with ASUS M2N4-SLI motherboard, AMD64 cpu, two

Re: SATA - How to access disk ???

2007-03-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:28:00PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:15:37PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: The motherboard supports a SATA drive but on bootup there is no entry for it in /dev If I recompile the 2.6.18 kernel including the module Device

SATA - How to access disk ???

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas H. George
The motherboard supports a SATA drive but on bootup there is no entry for it in /dev If I recompile the 2.6.18 kernel including the module Device Drivers/SCSI Device Support/Low Level SCSI Drivers/Serial ATA (SATA) support the /dev has an entry for SDA and SDA1 BUT during bootup irq is

Re: grml can - Solved: Debian can

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde and hdf. They are mountable and usable. snip I complied a kernel from Debian linux-source-2.6.18. On boot up the system fails to find the dvdrw

grml can, why can't my Debian kernel do it?

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas H. George
When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde and hdf. They are mountable and usable. The grml release info says it is based on Debian and uses a vanilla 2.6.18-3 kernel with patches and additional modules. I complied a kernel from Debian linux-source-2.6.18. On

Re: grml can, why can't my Debian kernel do it?

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde and hdf. They are mountable and usable. The grml release info says it is based on Debian and uses a vanilla 2.6.18-3 kernel

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:42:11PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17

Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas H. George
Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 AM2 combo from NewEgg. This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered two problems. First, Standard CMOS Features does not list my dvdrw and cdrw drives. There are two ide headers on the board

Re: Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:32:12PM +, Joe wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 AM2 combo from NewEgg. This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered two problems. First, Standard CMOS Features

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf - Thanks

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:53PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf - Thanks

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:47:50AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf - Resolved

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set

MAKEDEV Question

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
My new box has a cdrw drive and a dvdrw drive but there are no entries for these devices in /dev. My old box has similar devices and there are entries for them in /dev and they are both soft links to scd0. There are also entries for hdc and hdd which is reasonable as these devices are master

XP Blocking CD Boot

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert this box to a dual

Re: XP Blocking CD Boot - Not So

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:26:04AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set

Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert this box to a dual

Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane epson backend does not support this model. As root scanimage -L finds the scanner but the test scanimage image.pnm suggested in the sane man page results in scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument. I have set SANE_DEBUG_DLL

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:36:39PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane epson backend does not support this model. As root scanimage -L finds the scanner but the test scanimage

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:24:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 17:03, Thomas H. George wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:36:39PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: I just purchased

Need Scanner Recommendation

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas H. George
My Epson Perfection 2400 Photo scanner has died and must be replaced. The Epson 4990 is too rich for my budget and the Epson 4490 is not on the Sane list of supported scanners? Has anyone had success with the 4490? Are there better choices in the $100-200 range? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Lost localstart.html

2007-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
The recent upgrade from mozilla to iceape is very nice indeed but it has erased the localstart.html page. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb failing - Solved

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas H. George
Purged hotplug and the problem went away. The apparently dead usb socket is live and lsusb reports the device attached to it. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

usb failing, need new motherboard recommendations

2007-01-15 Thread Thomas H. George
After struggling for a week with strange usb problems - posted xsane usb problem - I believe my problem is a hardware problem. One usb socket has failed: device not seen but device and hotplug ok if another usb socket is used. Since I only have motherboard usb sockets I am considering

Purge Hotplug?

2007-01-15 Thread Thomas H. George
Just did a large dist-upgrade on another computer. A message scrolled by saying /etc/init.d/hotplug was found, please purge hotplug. Could this be right? The apt-cache show hotplug description says hotplug can now do almost everything but slice bread. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: xsane usb problem -buffer not cleared?

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:26:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:23:00AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: A binary scan works, a color scan stalls the scanner. A posting to sane-devel on 1/6/07 drew no responses. The backend maintainer pointed out

xsane usb problem

2007-01-13 Thread Thomas H. George
A binary scan works, a color scan stalls the scanner. A posting to sane-devel on 1/6/07 drew no responses. The backend maintainer pointed out that If the USB system stalls, the scanner can not get rid of it's data. I tried scanimage -B to increase the buffer size but this did not help.

Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I tried reading the debian-user archives by subject but they are so extensive it is slow going. Perhaps there is a better way to search

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I tried reading the debian-user archives

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:42:22PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:29:55PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:20:47PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: You didn't say what kind of camcorder you have. Is it a digital camcorder, that you can download the video via FireWire or USB 2.0? Or does it only have analog output that you must capture with a traditional video capture card?

Re: xsetwacom parameter question

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:35:40PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Now my Wacom Graphire 4 mouse moves in fits and starts. It worked smoothly before the upgrade. The upgrade was from Debian Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel

Re: xsetwacom parameter question

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:57:08AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:35:40PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Now my Wacom Graphire 4 mouse moves in fits and starts. It worked smoothly before

Re: Jerky Mouse Movement - SOLVED!

2006-10-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:42:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: After a dist-upgrade from Sarge to testing and to a kernel built from linux-source-2.6.17 my mice - one old fashioned ball mouse and one Wacom Graphire mouse - only move in jumps and starts.Clearly there is something

xsetwacom parameter question

2006-10-28 Thread Thomas H. George
I have tried changing the Motion_Buffer from 256 to 0 with xsetwacom set cursor Motion_Buffer 0. Result: Motion_Buffer is an unknown parameter. My object is to correct the following problem resulting from the move from Sarge to testing: Now my Wacom Graphire 4 mouse moves in fits and

Jerky Mouse Movement

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas H. George
After a dist-upgrade from Sarge to testing and to a kernel built from linux-source-2.6.17 my mice - one old fashioned ball mouse and one Wacom Graphire mouse - only move in jumps and starts.Clearly there is something wrong with my setup but I am having difficulty finding the fault. I

Mouse: Relative or Absolute, How can I Change this?

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas H. George
Somewhere I have seen an option to change the mouse position between relative and absolute but I can no longer find it. Can someone tell me where it is? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem: modprobe wacom failure

2006-10-25 Thread Thomas H. George
modprobe wacom results in: wacom: version magic '2.6.16Jun03 preempt K7 gcc-4.1' should be '2.6.16Jun03 preempt K7 gcc-3.3' FATAL: Error inserting wacom (lib/modules/2.6.16Jun03/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko): Invalid module format. Background: The box was Sarge with a 2.6.11

Re: Problem: wacom - Partial Sol'n

2006-10-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I forgot that I had encountered a problem when I first attached the wacom pad which I ultimately solved by editing the xorg.conf file to add the following sections: Section InputDevice Identifier stylus Driver wacom Option Device

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-25 Thread Thomas H. George
Add me to the list of devoted Debian users. I mailed a donation of $50 this morning. I hope it helps. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spanish Lesson Program?

2006-09-20 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:07:05PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:48:24PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Are there any good Spanish Lesson Programs that run on linux? I can shutdown and reboot to Windows but I hate to do it. Not sure what your requirements

Spanish Lesson Program?

2006-09-19 Thread Thomas H. George
Are there any good Spanish Lesson Programs that run on linux? I can shutdown and reboot to Windows but I hate to do it. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why Does Mutt Delay Postings?

2006-07-16 Thread Thomas H. George
If, when fetchmail finishes downloading a batch of mail, I immediately run mutt it displays only a few messages - and these may actually be from a previous download. In time - measured in hours, not minutes - a re-run of mutt will display a large batch of messages retrieved by fetchmail much

Re: Something has gone wrong with Mutt

2006-07-15 Thread Thomas H. George
p wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: Fetchmail is downloading messages but mutt is not displaying them? I have not changed any settings and I saw nothing in the latest dist-upgrade of testing which related to mutt. What can have gone wrong?

Something has gone wrong with Mutt

2006-07-14 Thread Thomas H. George
Fetchmail is downloading messages but mutt is not displaying them? I have not changed any settings and I saw nothing in the latest dist-upgrade of testing which related to mutt. What can have gone wrong? Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Wacom Mouse Problem

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas H. George
If gdm is started with the mouse on the wacom tablet, the mouse wont work. If gdm is started with the mouse off the tablet and the mouse is placed on the tablet after the sign in screen is displayed it will work. This is with a debian testing box and a 2.6.15 kernel. I discovered this about

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-08 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0200, LeVA wrote: 2006. július 7. 16:11, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] - debian-user@lists.debian.org,: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26:28PM +0200, LeVA wrote: [...] When my daughter who is still wedded to windows listens to this station

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-08 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:52:25PM +0200, LeVA wrote: 2006. július 8. 16:49, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] - debian-user@lists.debian.org,: On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0200, LeVA wrote: 2006. július 7. 16:11, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] - debian-user

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26:28PM +0200, LeVA wrote: [...] When my daughter who is still wedded to windows listens to this station on line there is a continually changing light show in the window as the music plays. This makes me think that somehow my setup is incomplete. [...]

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:37:12PM +0200, LeVA wrote: 2006. július 5. 18:17, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] - debian-user@lists.debian.org,: Hi Tom! Using the mplayer plugin for mozilla I listen to a fm radio station on line. The sound is fine but mplayer occupies a large gray

Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-05 Thread Thomas H. George
Using the mplayer plugin for mozilla I listen to a fm radio station on line. The sound is fine but mplayer occupies a large gray window. When my daughter who is still wedded to windows listens to this station on line there is a continually changing light show in the window as the music

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: With Etch it is recognized as SCSI device sdb and located at /dev/sg1. It cannot be mounted, mount fails with a message that /dev/sg1 is not a block

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:29:09 -0400, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] said

Problem Stopping mplayer

2006-07-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I start mplayer from mozilla and listen to a radio station not available locally - works perfectly. There is a hitch though. If mozilla is stopped there is no longer a window for mplayer. I stop it from a console by getting its pid and killing it. This works but shouldn't there be a better

Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I cannot access my Jumpdrive from a Etch box with a 2.6.15 kernel. I have successfully used this Lexar 256 MB Jumpdrive Pro (usb 2.0) with Sarge box and a 2.6.11 kernel compiled from source. With Sarge it is recognized as SCSI device sda and located at /dev/sda1. It can be mounted and has a

Re: Gimp: No Printer in File Menu - Thanks

2006-06-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:22:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: 2006. június 27. 20:30, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] - debian-user@lists.debian.org,: Gimp 2.2 has forgotten that I have a printer. Actually I have two both defined in Cups and working from a console, from Xsane and from

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