SOLVED: Problem mounting USB stick after installing Squeeze in new netbook

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Austin
I have just installed Squeeze in a new eMachines E350 netbook, my first laptop, using the .iso image of CD-1 on a USB stick. The install went perfectly, thank you very much to all the developers. A problem emerged today when I tried to transfer some files from the desktop computer to the netbook

Re: Re: [SOLVED] New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Austin
.html and worked with that for a year, but due I guess to less software contact bounce suppression in Xorg than in XFree86, I often still got unwanted context menus. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [SOLVED] New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Austin
while writing this message it has been an enormous relief to be able to paste with a proper middle button, rather than by 3-button emulation, which in Lenny frequently gives an unwanted context menu, and even worse, sometimes activates an item in that context menu. Best regards, Chris Austin

Re: Slowing down the mouse speed

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Austin
://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/FAQ#lefthandmouse Experimenting with gpm yesterday and today, it does not seem to respond to command line instructions, only to what is in /etc/gpm.conf. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Austin
nonfunctional. It was plugged into Serial port 1, and I also tried going into the BIOS and altering Onboard Serial Port A from 3f8h/COM1 to Auto, but this didn't help either. Are serial mice supported in Lenny? Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade failed because libc-bin was not installed. How could this happen, given that libc6 depends

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
? And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying to upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
there be a big warning that trying to upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? Best regards, Chris Austin. PS. Sorry if this message has appeared twice, the previous version didn't show up for a while, and it wasn't word-wrapped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken - SOLVED

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
as needed? * Best regards, Chris Austin. -- 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/201005120104.18113.chrisaus...@ukonline.co.uk

3 button mouse emulation unreliable in Lenny

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Austin
at the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Best regards, Chris Austin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Etch installer floppy disk does not detect my hard disks

2007-09-27 Thread Chris Austin
an attempted upgrade to Etch. Also the problem is not due to low memory, I have just upgraded memory from 64MB to 256MB, and I no longer get the low memory mode message. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-09-09 Thread Chris Austin
from the old Woody rescue.bin floppy, but file locations then need to be prepended by /target, and dpkg gives an error message: relocation error, symbol _obstack_begin, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email