dvips printing problem
I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now.. When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints out is the following: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software %%Title: quantum.dvi %%Pages: 1 %%PageOrder: Ascend (more header then a page full of misc garbage) When I go to the www.radicaleye.com page, it says if you are receiving the %!PS at the beginning of a file and you don't know how to print it, you need to install GhostScript. When I was running stable the dvips command would print fine. After upgrading to woody, I encountered this problem. I tried upgrading to sid, but no luck, same problem. According to apt, I have the latest gs package installed, I also tried install the Aladdin ghostscript package but I got the same results from it. This is a frustrating problem as I need to be able to print a letter with latex. thanks dale
Re: dvips printing problem: Repost
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, Dale Morris wrote: I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now.. When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints out is the following: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software %%Title: quantum.dvi %%Pages: 1 %%PageOrder: Ascend (more header then a page full of misc garbage) When I go to the www.radicaleye.com page, it says if you are receiving the %!PS at the beginning of a file and you don't know how to print it, you need to install GhostScript. When I was running stable the dvips command would print fine. After upgrading to woody, I encountered this problem. I tried upgrading to sid, but no luck, same problem. According to apt, I have the latest gs package installed, I also tried install the Aladdin ghostscript package but I got the same results from it. I have also removed and reinstalled apsfilter, installed magicfilter and printtool, all with the same result. It seems that somehow the printfilter is not sending the output to ghostscript.
Re: dvips printing problem: SOLVED!!
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, Dale Morris wrote: I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now.. When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints out is the following: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software %%Title: quantum.dvi %%Pages: 1 %%PageOrder: Ascend (more header then a page full of misc garbage) When I go to the www.radicaleye.com page, it says if you are receiving the %!PS at the beginning of a file and you don't know how to print it, you need to install GhostScript. When I was running stable the dvips command would print fine. After upgrading to woody, I encountered this problem. I tried upgrading to sid, but no luck, same problem. Finally this is working! My solution was to go to install ghostscipt 7.0 using alien and dpkg. Still didn't work so I installed redhat printtool.. sort of worked, printed a message about no file name at the top of my letter, then printed the letter correctly. Then I went to the cups website downloaded the cups .deb package, removed lprng and apsfilter and installed cups. Typed http://localhost:631 in netscape added a printer on lp my file quantum.dvi printed properly with the command dvips quantum.dvi
TeX printing problem
After my recent install and upgrade to woody I can't print tex documents. Other printing seems okay, mail messages from mutt print fine. xdvi displays the document properly, but when I try to print the following file: $dvips quantum.tex the printed output is not the document I viewed in xdvi, but the following: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: dvips(k) 5,86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software %%Title: quantum.dvi %%Pages: 1 %%PageOrder: Ascend %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842 %%EndComments %%DVIPSWebPage: (www.radicaleye.com) .. Then after this 'header' it prints out a page full of TeX commands. Is there some configuration file that I haven't done or ?? thanks
Re: TeX printing problem
After my recent install and upgrade to woody I can't print tex documents. Other printing seems okay, mail messages from mutt print fine. xdvi displays the document properly, but when I try to print the following file: $dvips quantum.tex typo-- I meant $dvips quantum.dvi the printed output is [some Postscript/TeX garbage] [..] Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] answered: Yup. that's the right output. The dvips is used to create ps from dvi file. You need to use -o option for dvips to create a ps file and then you can use gv to view the ps file. Check out man dvips. Yes, you can do it that way. A better way seems to me, to install either APSfilter, Magicfilter, or CUPS. These packages install filters that are invoked by lpr. As a result, lpr recognizes the content type of the file (e.g. postscript, dvi, plain text or some graphics format), translates it automatically to the native code of your printer and then sends it to the queue of your printer. As a result, you can give the command: $ lpr quantum.dvi or, when the dvi file contains postscript: $ dvips -f quantum |lpr I cannot tell which of the three packages APSfilter, magicfilter or CUPS is best. I use magicfilter and that works very well I have apsfilter installed. I still get the same results, trying both of the commands above. When I went to the www.radicaleye.com webpage it said if I had a file beginning with '%!PS' I should go to the ghostscript webpage. Now I'm wondering if I have ghostscript properly installed? I tried installing gs-aladdin from testing sources, it removed tetex-extra, gs, and gsfonts. Still the same results.
removing xdm??
Upgrading from potato to woody xdm was installed with X. When I removed it, X starts back up using my .xsession file, but there are no window managers or terminals on the menu in fvwm2. Those selections have disappeared. What can I do to get them back? Is there more recent or more understandable documentation that explains how this xinit process works? thanks
Re: removing xdm??
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Dale Morris wrote: Upgrading from potato to woody xdm was installed with X. When I removed it, X starts back up using my .xsession file, but there are no window managers or terminals on the menu in fvwm2. Those selections have disappeared. What can I do to get them back? Is there more recent or more understandable documentation that explains how this xinit process works? aaggh!! Now I see that Netscape has also disappeared from the menu, too. update-menus does nothing.
Re: removing xdm??
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, David Roundy wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:21:27AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Dale Morris wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Dale Morris wrote: Upgrading from potato to woody xdm was installed with X. When I removed it, X starts back up using my .xsession file, but there are no window managers or terminals on the menu in fvwm2. Those selections have disappeared. What can I do to get them back? Is there more recent or more understandable documentation that explains how this xinit process works? aaggh!! Now I see that Netscape has also disappeared from the menu, too. update-menus does nothing. that probably means that the debian menus are not used. your problem is not related to xdm, check the configuration of fvwm, check the menus etc. This sounds right. You might try (if you haven't configured fvwm yourself) running an `apt-get --purge remove fvwm` followed by `apt-get install Thanks, that works. Still this xdm process seems rather confusing. Some script is keeping my .Xresources/.Xdefaults file from being read and my debian menus are not correct. update-menu doesn't help and the only way I can get programs in the xwm menu is to apt-get --purge remove and then apt-get install. I've tried the how-to on Karsten's page, doesn't seem to work in woody.. Well, thanks for your help dale
Can't compile VIM
I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I run make: objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize': objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x1b4c): undefined reference to `term_set_winsize' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [vim] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dlm/vim60av/src' make: *** [myself] Error 2 Anyone have any ideas what might cause this? Or how to tweak it so it installs? I have compiled this before on woody without problems. thanks dale
Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem
I'm still trying to get my printer working, not much luck. When I run dmesg it shows: PCI: Using IRQ router default [1022/7006] at 00:00.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v1.8 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(18) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(18) parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 600 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured This means the printer is being detected, no? Yet, since this compiled into the kernel rather than built as a module the lsmod command does me no good. Is there another command I can use to find if this is working? I tried installing printtool and it detects nothing on any of the ports lp0, lp1, etc.. thanks dale
Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Ron Farrer wrote: Perhaps try something simple, such as: echo test /dev/lp0 results of that command are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$echo test /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: Permission denied
Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem
results of that command are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$echo test /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: Permission denied What does this command show: ls -l /dev/lp* Ron, it shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ls -l /dev/lp* crwxr-x---1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp1 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp2 dale
Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ls -l /dev/lp* crwxr-x---1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp1 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp2 Did you attempt my previous command as root or as a normal user? If as a user, you need to exec this command as root adduser SOMEONE lp (replace SOMEONE with your username). When I do that I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dlm lp The user `dlm' is already a member of lp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] that's what's so frustrating.. thanks dale HTH, Ron -- |Dale L. Morris | Homepage: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Massage Therapist | PGP key: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Telephone: (702) 647-5583 || |ICQ #: 67278457|Yahoo Instant Messenger: dl_morri |
Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Ron Farrer wrote: Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I do that I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dlm lp The user `dlm' is already a member of lp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] that's what's so frustrating.. Does it give the same error if you do: echo test /dev/lp0 as root? If so, then printer support is not enabled in the kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/dlm/turboprint_1_43#echo test /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: No such device ..sigh.. I just reconfigured the kernel. Any specific settings that I may have missed in kernel configuration? But the confusing thing is that dmesg shows I have a printer.. PCI: Using IRQ router default [1022/7006] at 00:00.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(18) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(18) parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 600 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled What now, should I reconfigure the kernel again? I have the parport support built into the kernel, not made as a module. It has always worked before this way, but maybe there is a security script that has changed something. thanks for all your help dale
Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem: SOLVED!!
Yep, reconfiguring the kernel made a big difference, printer is printing a test page right now. I'm using the cups printing system along with turboprint. It seems to work thanks again for the help! dale
Unable to start X
I just did a fresh reinstall of potato, then upgraded to woody. I didn't have a working X configuration, just changed my sources list and did dist-upgrade. Now when I try to connect to X my screen hangs with a little white space at the top and then gives me the error message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I checked the error messages in /var/log/xf86 and it suggested running mkfontdir in 3 different directories, which I did. Still didn't work. I tried changing the font path in XF86Config-4 as suggested here in the list and that didn't help. Any suggestions? Thanks dale
Re: Unable to start X Solved!
I have X working now, apparently I missed installing xfonts-base and xfonts?75dpi. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Dale Morris wrote: I just did a fresh reinstall of potato, then upgraded to woody. I didn't have a working X configuration, just changed my sources list and did dist-upgrade. Now when I try to connect to X my screen hangs with a little white space at the top and then gives me the error message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I checked the error messages in /var/log/xf86 and it suggested running mkfontdir in 3 different directories, which I did. Still didn't work. I tried changing the font path in XF86Config-4 as suggested here in the list and that didn't help. Any suggestions? Thanks dale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- |Dale L. Morris | Homepage: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Massage Therapist | PGP key: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Telephone: (702) 647-5583 || |ICQ #: 67278457|Yahoo Instant Messenger: dl_morri |
xinit problem
I'm having trouble getting startx to read my .xinitrc or .xsession file. I downloaded gdm but then removed it with the --purge option, but still I can't get startx to read the init file. The way I have to start the window manager is startx /usr/bin/X11/fvwm then manually change background and add apps such as xscreensaver, xbiff, etc. When I check the file /etc/X11/Xsession it seems properly configured to allow .xsession in my home directory. any ideas? thanks dale
Re: xinit problem
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Josh McKinney wrote: On approximately Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:25:00AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: As far as I know there is no /etc/X11/XSession file. Try /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc Still doesn't work. I have commented out Xsession file from the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and put ~/.xsession at the end, startingx results in the same behavior. There is some script somewhere that isn't allowing startx to read the .xsession file. Another problem I have is that I can't change window managers on the fly. Although installed, there are no window managers listed in the debian menu. dale file. You can just put ~/.xsession at the end of this file and then the .xsession file in your home directory will be read. This is the method I use. |
Re: xinit problem
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, James Ramsey wrote: --- Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble getting startx to read my .xinitrc or .xsession When I check the file /etc/X11/Xsession it seems properly configured to allow .xsession in my home directory. any ideas? Do the permissions of the ~/.xsession file allow it to be executed? I've done $chmod u+x .xsession Is there anything else I need to do? Also I find procmail isn't transferring my mail to the proper mboxes. I suppose somewhere the permissions have changed. = I am a fool for Christ. Mostly I am a fool. __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- |Dale L. Morris | Homepage: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Massage Therapist | PGP key: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Telephone: (702) 647-5583 || |ICQ #: 67278457|Yahoo Instant Messenger: dl_morri |
epson stylus 600 setup problem
I'm trying to setup printing in woody using lprng. checkpc -f-V gives me the following:ecking 'status.lp' file checking 'status' file checking '/var/log/lp-errs' file checking '/var/log/lp-acct' file Warning - lp: cannot open lp device '/dev/lp1' - No such device Yet when type ls /dev lp0, lp1, and lp2 are there. I suppose this is a permission problem that is not allowing lp to open /dev/lp1. What is the correct way to install this printer? thanks dale
X-windows hosed!
Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work) Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall? -- |Dale L. Morris | Homepage: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Massage Therapist | PGP key: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Telephone: (702) 647-5583 || |ICQ #: 67278457|Yahoo Instant Messenger: dl_morri |
Re: X-windows hosed! Solved
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: Dale Morris wrote: Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work) Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall? well, check the error messages. It worked after I removed the offending files I did option to install the package maintainers version of all the new .deb configuration files. Only thing is now the menus don't work properly.. btw why would you run install scripts from XFree86 download site? The X 4.x is in debian and you can use the ttf straight out of the box (don't even need the font server (if you don't want to serve fonts for other machines)) I don't remember now, for some reason it wouldn't work and I was in a try anything mode. It seems I have to have a certain amount of frustration in my life. thanks for your help! dale
True Type Fonts
I've been working on true type fonts and can't get them to work on XF86-4.3. I'm using Paul Smith's TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems at http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html#NETSCAPE. I'm sure I've configured it the way he recommends, but when I run $ xset fp+ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType I get the following: X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 9 Current serial number in output stream: 11 I will attach my XF86 Config file, I'm not sure the FreeType module is loading properly. If I try to generate another XF86Config file using xf86config, I can't get it working, there seem to be to many errors. I'm running woody, and am current with updates. Any help is appreciated. thanks -- # XF86Config (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-v3 manual page. # (Type man XF86Config-v3 at the shell prompt.) Section Files # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType FontPath/usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules EndSection Section Module Loadpex5.so Loadxie.so Load freetype EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard XkbRulesxfree86 XkbModelpc104 XkbLayout us EndSection Section Pointer Device /dev/psaux ProtocolPS/2 Emulate3Buttons ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor VendorName Generic ModelName Monitor HorizSync 30-95 VertRefresh 50-160 # 640x350 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine 640x35031.5 640 672 736 832350 382 385 445 +hsync -vsync # 640x400 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine 640x40031.5 640 672 736 832400 401 404 445 -hsync +vsync # 720x400 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine 720x40035.5 720 756 828 936400 401 404 446 -hsync +vsync # 640x480 @ 60Hz (Industry standard) hsync: 31.5kHz ModeLine 640x48025.2 640 656 752 800480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync # 640x480 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine 640x48031.5 640 664 704 832480 489 491 520 -hsync -vsync # 640x480 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.5kHz ModeLine 640x48031.5 640 656 720 840480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync # 640x480 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 43.3kHz ModeLine 640x48036.0 640 696 752 832480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync # 800x600 @ 56Hz (VESA) hsync: 35.2kHz ModeLine 800x60036.0 800 824 896 1024600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine 800x60040.0 800 840 968 1056600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 48.1kHz ModeLine 800x60050.0 800 856 976 1040600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 46.9kHz ModeLine 800x60049.5 800 816 896 1056600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 53.7kHz ModeLine 800x60056.3 800 832 896 1048600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync # 1024x768i @ 43Hz (industry standard) hsync: 35.5kHz ModeLine 1024x768 44.9 1024 1032 1208 1264768 768 776 817 +hsync +vsync Interlace # 1024x768 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 48.4kHz ModeLine 1024x768 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # 1024x768 @ 70Hz (VESA) hsync: 56.5kHz ModeLine 1024x768 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # 1024x768 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 60.0kHz ModeLine 1024x768 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync # 1024x768 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 68.7kHz ModeLine 1024x768 94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync # 1152x864 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 67.5kHz ModeLine 1152x864 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync # 1280x960 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 60.0kHz ModeLine 1280x960 108.0 1280 1376 1488 1800960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync # 1280x960 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 85.9kHz ModeLine 1280x960 148.5 1280 1344 1504 1728960 961 964 1011 +hsync +vsync # 1280x1024 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 64.0kHz ModeLine 1280x1024 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync #
Re: True Type Fonts-Solved!
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Dale Morris wrote: I've been working on true type fonts and can't get them to work on XF86-4.3. I'm using Paul Smith's TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x I was finally able to get true type font package working, but it entailed reinstalling XFree86 binaries and overwriting everything to get the correct fonts and to get XF86Config properly configured. Whew! I suppose there was an easier way, but I wasn't able to smoke it out.
Re: Cameras for linux: the million $ question
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: High, I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital camera to use with it and the Gimp. Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? I have heard that the Logitech (USB's?) are a bad choice for Linux because they do not release any Linux drivers for it. If you buy one, be sure you can return it and get another one in case it does not work. I bought a sony mavica and it works great! Images are on a floppy disk and there's no headache whatsoever. Sony Mavica's can be had for about $300.. -- |Dale L. Morris | Homepage: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Massage Therapist | PGP key: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Telephone: (702) 647-5583 || |ICQ #: 67278457|Yahoo Instant Messenger: dl_morri |
Re: Gnome
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Lute Mullenix wrote: Icewm, but that [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome is still there. How do I GET RID OF IT? Is there a way to undo the update/upgrade so things will go back to the way they were before? I have luck creating an .xsession file with entry exec icewm-gnome that will usually work for me. I also have removed the display manager(maybe gdm) and am working from the command line with startx command. I don't particularly care for gnome either, for me it's either icewm-gnome or fvwm. But I have had difficult trying to get icewm to execute aterm rather than xterm when I click the little terminal..
Aspell systemwide?
How do I make Aspell the system wide spell checker for my system? Currently I have it working for mutt, but I'd also like to use it with vim and other apps. I tried doing a symlink but maybe didn't do it right, it didn't work. thanks
Help in selecting laptop
I'm looking to purchase a laptop, probably used and I want to install debian linux on it. Can anyone point me to a good source or suggest a brand or particular configuration? I'm not so concerned about speed, but it might be nice to be able to hear/watch a cd.. I want to keep price below $700 if possible.. I plan to be using it abroad (Africa) in the future, so reliability is important. I'm not sure about power source but a converter will surely do the trick. I've done some research, seems the modem can be a snag.. thanks
slow slrn download problem
Since my latest apt-get upgrade and the newer version of slrn(0.9.7-5), my download of newsgroups has slowed to a crawl. If I remove the .slrnrc from my home directory, speed goes back to normal. If I change the setup in the /etc/news/slrn.rc file, the same thing happens. I've done the slrn.rc-conversion script, fixed any errors that appear, etc.. Before this upgrade, slrn was working perfectly. Anyone else having this problem?
Java2 Problem
I just finished filing a complaint with citibank because their citibankonline website isn't working with either Netscape 4.77 or the 6.0 version I have on my wife's computer. (I can log on, the page loads but returns an empty form..) When I called Citibank support they give me the runaround that they don't support Linux and they don't support Netscape 6.0, it's only Internet Explorer or Netscape 4.77. After heated discussion with the rep for a few minutes, threatening to take my business elsewhere, he finally tells me I can make a *formal complaint*. Which I did, citing security issues with I.E. and not being given a choice to use a different web browser or operating system. g Anyhow, I haven't been on the list for a while, I don't know if there are any problems with j2sdk or not. I have it on both machines and am wondering if anyone else has had any trouble with it? I also removed it from my system and then tried to logon to the citibank website using the java module in netscape 4.77, but that didn't work either. I suppose it is just some sort of problem with java and citibank programmers..
Re: Java2 Problem
* Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010620 21:32]: I just finished filing a complaint with citibank because their citibankonline website isn't working with either Netscape 4.77 or the 6.0 version I have on my wife's computer. (I can log on, the page loads but returns an empty form..) When I called Citibank support they give me the runaround that they don't support Linux and they don't support Netscape 6.0, it's only Internet Explorer or Netscape 4.77. After heated discussion with the rep for a few minutes, threatening to take my business elsewhere, he finally tells me I can make a *formal complaint*. Which I did, citing security issues with I.E. and not being given a choice to use a different web browser or operating system. g Anyhow, I haven't been on the list for a while, I don't know if there are any problems with j2sdk or not. I have it on both machines and am wondering if anyone else has had any trouble with it? I also removed it from my system and then tried to logon to the citibank website using the java module in netscape 4.77, but that didn't work either. I suppose it is just some sort of problem with java and citibank programmers.. I got the page to display content. I think the problem had to do with kerberos and the system clock, I updated the system clock and now the page loads fine. I'm still pissed at citibank and their $MS tactics, though.
character set ISO-9959-1??
I have a question about character sets. Currently I have my locale set to US IS0-8859-1. Should I edit this to use other locales, and if so, what locales should I use? The problem I am experiencing is when I am using mutt to read email, and I receive a mail from Thomas Kohler (I think) it shows up as From: Thomas K\366hler [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also have similar problems displaying text in netscape. Any suggestions? Thanks
Unable to start X
I just did a dist-upgrade to woody and when I try to start X I get the following error message: X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) aborting xinit: server error I will check the list archives (with lynx :-) and I know I need to make a symlink somewhere, but I'm not sure to what. Is there an url that gives some sort of 'newbie' instructions for this upgrade? Help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Re: Unable to start X
Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a dist-upgrade to woody and when I try to start X I get the following error message: X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) aborting xinit: server error I will check the list archives (with lynx :-) and I know I need to make a symlink somewhere, but I'm not sure to what. It's working! I created a symlink ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X (thanks Gary) but still was unable to connect. I ran dselect, an selected the XFree86-4.2 version. Now it seems to be working fine.
apsfilter problem
In upgrading to woody, apsfilter no longer works. I've run checkpc and checkpc -f to fix permissions and that hasn't helped. Has anyone managed to get this working and if so, what do I need to do? I'm using an Epson Stylux Color 600 printer kernel 2.4.2 thanks
Re: Unable to start X_SOLVED!
It's solved. I didn't have the proper packages which I snatched with dselect. thanks for the replys
Re: Does apsfilter work?
I had *lots* of problems with this, what eventually worked best for me was to install lprng package and go the lprng webpage. There it gives instructions and commands to set the proper permissions. After that, everything works well. HTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nelson, do you mean that now your apsfilter is up and running ( in other words is yours a suggestion to fix the problem) or did you abandon apsfilter? Vittorio -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 From: Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, Wayne, I don't really think a Debian potato distribution fails in a strategic and basic piece of software such as apsfilter. I rather think there's something wrong in my configuration relating to authorizations but I don't know where and what to manipulate. Perhaps I missed to define some special group, or whatever else. What strikes me is that the test which apsfilterconfig suggests works great, while any following attempt to print dies unexpectedly. Any suggestion to fix it before eliminating apsfilter? Vittorio I just set up apsfilter last night, and I had the same problem--the test page printed fine, and I could cat stuff directly, but everything else failed. It turns out that the permissions of the printer device in /dev were set wrong-- read-only, no write for the lp group, which obviously doesn't make much sense for a printer using lprng for spooling. -Nelson - messaggio inviato con Freemail by superEva http://www.supereva.it - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LS120 drive
I have a LS-120 (Superdisc) on a compac that I've used with linux. don't like it.. If convenient, or you're buying, I would get a zip drive. Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2001, [iso-8859-2] Szatori Péter wrote: Hi At home I use a LS-120 drive and yes if you buy a knewer one, it's much faster reading ordinary floppys. In the kernel you have to compile the ide floppy support and it should work. I don't know how it works with the amiga floppies, what fs do they use. Thanks for your reply. The problem is not the fs, but the amount of data stored on it. DD floppys are 880KB formatted, while on PC this is only 720KB. The problem is not the drive, but the floppy controller, PC's can not read further than 720KB. Thanks, Sebastiaan -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:32 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: LS120 drive Hello, I am planning to copy several hundreds (thousands?) of old Amiga floppys to my computer and burn a cd from it. My Amiga drives are old and relatively slow and an ordinary PC floppy controller can not read Amiga floppys, so I was thinking about buying a LS120 drive for this job. How well does this drive work under Linux? I have heard that it is possible to read Amiga floppys with this drive, and that the drive is much faster. Is this true? Or does anyone have an alternative on how to read Amiga floppys on PC's? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
character set??
I have a question about character sets. Currently I have my locale set to US IS0-8859-1. Should I edit this to use other locales, and if so, what locales should I use? The problem I am experiencing is when I am using mutt to read email, and I receive a mail from Thomas Kohler (I think) it shows up as From: Thomas K\366hler [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Same thing happens in Netscape on web pages. I am using debian 2.2 linux thanks
HELP! Sendmail/smail not working
I seem to have screwed up my mail transfer abilities. I had sendmail installed, also ssh and whatever kde2 program that was similar. I installed the xterm package from 'woody' and noticed that sendmail was being replaced. When I try to send a mail in mutt, I can't, get 'operating system error' message. So I apt-get install smail and it says it can't find the package but I can use ssmtp instead. When I try to send a mail with it I get 'error unable to open port smtp port 25' message. I tried removing ssh but that didn't make any difference, also installing exim, but that didn't work either. Any suggestions? Debian 2.2 system with potato and woody packages. thanks
Re: HELP! Sendmail/smail not working SOLVED!!
I have it working. I was able to remove ssmtp and it removed a logrotate file that may have been the problem. Seems to work fine. Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have screwed up my mail transfer abilities. I had sendmail installed, also ssh and whatever kde2 program that was similar. I installed the xterm package from 'woody' and noticed that sendmail was being replaced. When I try to send a mail in mutt, I can't, get 'operating system error' message. So I apt-get install smail and it says it can't find the package but I can use ssmtp instead. When I try to send a mail with it I get 'error unable to open port smtp port 25' message. I tried removing ssh but that didn't make any difference, also installing exim, but that didn't work either. Any suggestions? Debian 2.2 system with potato and woody packages. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Latex guide
I'm trying to find a file called local-guide.tex or something similar, but several searches reveal nothing. The file is a help file for latex and although I bought the LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual, it looks like I need this file. Any suggestions? Does Debian package this file under another name? Thanks System: Debian 2.2 with all current upgrades and Ximian Gnome 1.4
Loss of Mouse in Xterm
When I first log into Xwindows, I can use the mouse in Midnight Commander to select files. After I've been logged in for a while, perhaps even an hour, I no longer can use my mouse. Originally I thought this was a problem of not having GPM installed, so I installed it, but it doesn't make any difference. I also notice this behavior with slrn and vim, even though I have mouse enabled settings on. any suggestions? thanks)
Printer Problem
Having just done another debian 2.2 reinstall, I'm having some printer problems. I have installed the apsfilter package and it works fine printing from netscape and printing text files, etc.. The problem is when I try to print from StarOffice. The printer starts but nothing is printed to the page. Anyone else have this problem or know the solution? I'm using apsfilter, lpd, and an epson stylus color 600 printer. thanks
Re: Printer Problem Solved..sorta..
Doing some investigation, I find the problem lies more with StarOffice 5.2 than it does with my printer configuration. I changed lpd to lprng and have configured it. ABI word prints fine, I can print from mutt, netscape, lyx, etc.. but nothing happens with StarOffice, the printer just keeps spitting out blank pages. On an email thread, I saw there were some changes that had to be made to the printcap file having to do with *levels*? but I've decided to remove StarOffice. It's so slow loading that I never use it anyhow. The problem is when I try to print from StarOffice. The printer starts but nothing is printed to the page. Anyone else have this problem or know the solution? I'm using apsfilter, lpd, and an epson stylus color 600 printer.
XFree86 4 Problem!
I would check the list archives, but I don't have X or Netscape to do that with :( I have just upgraded to woody with dist-upgrade and when I try to connect to Xwindows using startx I get the following error message: FontTransSocketUnixConnect: Can't Connect: errno =2 Could not init font path element unix/:7100, remove from list! I remember something about a symbolic link that flashed across the screen, but didn't copy it down. I'm using a Voodoo 3 card and configured XF86Config using the text xf86config program. I am also using kernel 2.4.2, and I don't remember anything about the Voodoo 3 card.. Did I leave something out when I recompiled the kernel? Thanks for any info or help
cdrom permission problem
I installed 2.2 and upgraded to the 2.4 kernel. I configured my sound card in the kernel and it works fine with real audio and XMMS. Problem is when I put a cd in the cdrom drive and execute Gnome CD player, I get the following error message: Error accessing cdrom device Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is compiled into the kernel and you have permission to access the device. If I execute Gnome CD player from root, it works fine. I have done the following.. adduser myusername cdrom chmod 660 /dev/cdrom chgrp cdrom /dev/cdrom Any suggestions? thanks -- If you are a peg, endure the knocking. If you are a mallet, strike. --Nicholas de Fluery
Re: cdrom permission problem
Yes, I've done the adduser (myusername) cdrom. Alson van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:45:57AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: I installed 2.2 and upgraded to the 2.4 kernel. I configured my sound card in the kernel and it works fine with real audio and XMMS. Problem is when I put a cd in the cdrom drive and execute Gnome CD player, I get the following error message: Error accessing cdrom device Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is compiled into the kernel and you have permission to access the device. If I execute Gnome CD player from root, it works fine. I have done the following.. adduser myusername cdrom chmod 660 /dev/cdrom chgrp cdrom /dev/cdrom is the user you try to run gnomecd player as in the group cdrom? -- ,---. Name: Alson van der Meulen Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `---' If I knew it wasn't going to work, I would have tested it sooner. - -- If you are a peg, endure the knocking. If you are a mallet, strike. --Nicholas de Fluery
Re: Who can recommend me a news reader?
I like slrn, it's easy to setup, just copy the .slrnrc.gz files to your home directory, edit and download a list of news groups. Oh, you need jed editor installed for standard .rc settings. HTH Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20010305 17:57 +0100, Stephen Rueger wrote: Has anyone a recommendation for a console-news reader that looks as much as possible like slrn or mutt, but caches the subjects? I use mutt 1.3.15i with nntp-patch. You can get it for example at http://packman.links2linux.de/index.php4?action=045, a .deb is at ftp://ftp.links2linux.de. Be sure to also grab the associated perl nntp client (see the first link), and install it for example as /usr/local/lib/site_perl/News/NNTPClient.pm. When you've installed the .deb, do chgrp mail /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock; chmod 2755 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock after the installation. Use i to get the news. It works fine, unless you try to retrieve an article and the connection is lost (e.g. ppp finished meanwhile). Mutt hangs in this case and has to be killed. Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita
/var getting full
I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and /200 for /tmp. I am noticing that /var is now 70% full. Yesterday it was 46% and I went in and cleaned out all my big mail files, yet that made little difference. Is there something wrong here or is this normal /var behavior? Here's what the df command yields: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda394667 53227 36552 59% / /dev/hda594635 638 89110 1% /tmp /dev/hda6 283431187954 80838 70% /var /dev/hda7 1922188764500 1060040 42% /usr /dev/hda8 2402992552172 1728756 24% /home thanks
invoking manual
Recently I did a 2.2 cd install of debian. Before I'd been running the libranet version of debian. I am sourcing the keybind-1.2i file and it has F1 linked to the mutt manual. But, it doesn't work. Trying to get vim to read a .gz file doesn't work either, whereas it used to work with the libranet version. I'm missing some package or configuration, can someone clue me to what it is? I have bash, sh, zsh shells installed. I have vim-rt, vim-tcl installed. thanks
invoking manual
Recently I did a 2.2 cd install of debian. Before I'd been running the libranet version of debian. I am sourcing the keybind-1.2i file and it has F1 linked to the mutt manual. But, it doesn't work. Trying to get vim to read a .gz file doesn't work either, whereas it used to work with the libranet version. I'm missing some package or configuration, can someone clue me to what it is? I have bash, sh, zsh shells installed. I have vim-rt, vim-tcl installed. -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita set cino=4 au BufEnter *.c,*.h,*.cc,*.java set cindent set ruler set tabstop=4 set textwidth=80 set ai set wrap set backspace=2 retab highlight Normal guibg=Black guifg=white set background=dark iabbrev teh the iabbrev Teh The iabbrev tia thanks in advance iabbrev Tia Thanks in advance
Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!
this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by running apt-get clean Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and /200 for /tmp. I am noticing that /var is now 70% full. Yesterday it was 46% and I went in and cleaned out all my big mail files, yet that made little difference. Is there something wrong here or is this normal /var behavior? Here's what the df command yields: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda394667 53227 36552 59% / /dev/hda594635 638 89110 1% /tmp /dev/hda6 283431187954 80838 70% /var /dev/hda7 1922188764500 1060040 42% /usr /dev/hda8 2402992552172 1728756 24% /home thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita
Re: Printing Problems-SOLVED
I was able to get this working with a script that one of the list members supplied me with. If you need it please email me and I will send it to you. Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been installing debian most all day, so I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but I'm having a real problem with the printer setup. How do I get printing setup correctly in debian? I have installed lprng and magic filter but I can't get it to print. I have also tried printtool, but that doesn't work either. And of course apsfilter. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 600. I've set it up to print at 720dpi on plain paper. Does anyone have a working printcap file for this printer that they will send to me? I want to be able to print using the command lp so I can print messages from mutt or slrn, Here's what I get when I try to print a simple text file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/writing$ lp quills request id is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..at this point nothing happens.. so I issue lpq command [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/writing$ lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson Stylus Color' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: removing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - ABORT at 20:13:55.027 Filter_status: lp is ready and printing Printing used to be quite easy to setup using printtool, but it doesn't work for me now.. any help on this one is greatly appreciated. I've attached a copy of my existing printcap file.. thanks dale -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|lp|Epson Stylus Color:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita
install questions
I just did a fresh install of 2.2 by cd. Couple of questions: 1. I didn't have sound in my user directory, but had it as root. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp and it works but I'm not sure that's the proper permission. What's the right permission? 2. If I try to compile the kernel I get errors when I type the commands make menuconfig and make xconfig. I have installed bin utils and also tryed it the way it's described in the debian faq with make-kpkg. The make menu config says I'm missing Ncurses, although I have installed the ncurse5-dev package. I'm probably missing a package here, but I'm not sure which one. thanks
Re: install questions
I get an error2 message when I try to use make xconfig #KUNDAN KUMAR# [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. its alright, as far as i know.. 2. ncurse5-devel is the package for developing ncurse... you would probably need to install ncurse only.. i am not sure.. why not use make xconfig?? Kundan -Original Message- From: Dale Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 9:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: install questions I just did a fresh install of 2.2 by cd. Couple of questions: 1. I didn't have sound in my user directory, but had it as root. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp and it works but I'm not sure that's the proper permission. What's the right permission? 2. If I try to compile the kernel I get errors when I type the commands make menuconfig and make xconfig. I have installed bin utils and also tryed it the way it's described in the debian faq with make-kpkg. The make menu config says I'm missing Ncurses, although I have installed the ncurse5-dev package. I'm probably missing a package here, but I'm not sure which one. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita
Re: install questions
Here's the error message I get with the make xconfig command: ake[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display :0.0 Error in startup script: invalid command name button while executing button .ref (file scripts/kconfig.tk line 51) make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a fresh install of 2.2 by cd. Couple of questions: 1. I didn't have sound in my user directory, but had it as root. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp and it works but I'm not sure that's the proper permission. What's the right permission? 2. If I try to compile the kernel I get errors when I type the commands make menuconfig and make xconfig. I have installed bin utils and also tryed it the way it's described in the debian faq with make-kpkg. The make menu config says I'm missing Ncurses, although I have installed the ncurse5-dev package. I'm probably missing a package here, but I'm not sure which one. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita
Re: install questions-SOLVED
Got it working thanks for your help! I'm now using kernel 2.4!! #KUNDAN KUMAR# [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using su to run the xcnofig? If that is the case, try running xhost + inside the termianal. Then run su and do the kernel compilation... let's see if it works.. just a guess.. Kundan -Original Message- From: Dale Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: install questions Here's the error message I get with the make xconfig command: ake[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display :0.0 Error in startup script: invalid command name button while executing button .ref (file scripts/kconfig.tk line 51) make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a fresh install of 2.2 by cd. Couple of questions: 1. I didn't have sound in my user directory, but had it as root. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp and it works but I'm not sure that's the proper permission. What's the right permission? 2. If I try to compile the kernel I get errors when I type the commands make menuconfig and make xconfig. I have installed bin utils and also tryed it the way it's described in the debian faq with make-kpkg. The make menu config says I'm missing Ncurses, although I have installed the ncurse5-dev package. I'm probably missing a package here, but I'm not sure which one. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita
Re: install questions
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:08:20AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: I just did a fresh install of 2.2 by cd. Couple of questions: 1. I didn't have sound in my user directory, but had it as root. I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp and it works but I'm not sure that's the proper permission. What's the right permission? chmod 660 /dev/dsp adduser yourusername audio I also had to do a chmod 666 to get /dev/cdrom working in my user directory. Is that acceptable from a security standpoint? (sound sure works good..) thanks dale
Printing Problems
I've been installing debian most all day, so I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but I'm having a real problem with the printer setup. How do I get printing setup correctly in debian? I have installed lprng and magic filter but I can't get it to print. I have also tried printtool, but that doesn't work either. And of course apsfilter. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 600. I've set it up to print at 720dpi on plain paper. Does anyone have a working printcap file for this printer that they will send to me? I want to be able to print using the command lp so I can print messages from mutt or slrn, Here's what I get when I try to print a simple text file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/writing$ lp quills request id is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..at this point nothing happens.. so I issue lpq command [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/writing$ lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson Stylus Color' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: removing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - ABORT at 20:13:55.027 Filter_status: lp is ready and printing Printing used to be quite easy to setup using printtool, but it doesn't work for me now.. any help on this one is greatly appreciated. I've attached a copy of my existing printcap file.. thanks dale -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|lp|Epson Stylus Color:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
KDE Sound Problem
KDE doesn't initialize it's sound module when I start it up. I have sound configured in the kernel (2.4.0) using the Ensonic 1371 sound card settings. When I check the 'info' KDE isn't recognizing any sound card. I am able to get sound by executing gmixer. Anyone have any suggestions? thanks -- You are entitled to your actions...not the results --Bhagavad Gita
Re: apt- source.list
When I issue the apt-setup command I get an error message, ..command not found. What apt package am I missing? Otherwise apt works just fine. thanks will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:49:08AM +0100, Norman Schmidt wrote: Hi all! Another apt-problem... I use dselect to maintain my potato servers and fetch my files via ftp. from slink (2.1) onward, the recommended choise is APT-GET... At the moment, my list for the packages looks like this: deb ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/debian potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates contrib main non-free Now I want to add the lines to get the updates. Do I need and if yes, how do I include the paths? ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/debian/dists/proposed-updates (which is a link to potato-proposed-updates in the same directory) Since I use the non-US-version, do I need (and how do I get) deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/proposed-updates ? The problem seems to be that the proposed-updates - directories are not under a special distribution. I do not know how to tell this to apt/dselect. The manpage doesn´t make this clear to me... And one last one: What do I have to add to get sources as well? Thanx a lot, Norman. main thing to try is apt-setup to set your sources.list... my 'potato' sources.list looks mostly like this: # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free # deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # VERY IMPORTANT -- SECURITY PLUGS: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.digex.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib # deb-src http://ftp.digex.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free use mirrors that are shortest hops from you (try traceroute to see which respond best). frequently do apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade to make sure the packages you've got installed are kept sparkly fresh. http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html -- See, if you were allowed to keep the money, you wouldn't create jobs with it. You'd throw it in the bushes or something. But the government will spend it, thereby creating jobs. -- Dave Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]***http://www.dontUthink.com/ volunteer to document your experience for next week's newbies -- http://www.eGroups.com/messages/newbieDoc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt- source.list
I am using it as root. Here's the error message: lymond:/home/dlm# apt-setup bash: apt-setup: command not found I am sure there's another part of apt I need to install, but can't remember what it is.. ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:41:52AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: When I issue the apt-setup command I get an error message, ..command not found. What apt package am I missing? Otherwise apt works just fine. thanks You have to use apt-setup as root. kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt- source.list
It works now, after installing the base-config package thanks ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:30:21AM -0600, ktb wrote: You should only have to have the apt package. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:43:30AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: actually it appears to be in the package base-config which i don't have installed on any of my systems except a recently install potato box. (all my others were installed when potato was unstable) Note to myself dpkg-S is my friend;) $ dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs Esc- key (off topic)
My apologies for posting off topic. I want to bind the Alt key to the Meta key in Emacs. Is there a simple 'newbie' way to do that? thanks in advance dale
Re: RealPlayer installer problem
This worked for me, probably *not* the right way to do it, but I renamed the file to end in .rpm and used alien -i [filename] and it installed and is working. JC Portlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to the group. I'm not currently a subscriber, but do have a question. I recently upgraded for the latest/greatest. Am running potato 2.2.14. All went well with the update except for the RealPlayer install. The installer came as part of the upgrade, but the program has to be retrieved manually. The installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around to accept the rp8 file? 73, JC Portlock KE6UME VP HARC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 14481033 === Nothing but Pure kmail/KDE/X/Debian/Linux No windows died in the composing of this message. === Professionals built the Titanic, but Amateurs built the Ark. === Support Amateur Radio and Support Debian Linux === -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO Problem
duh.. I forgot to attach the lilo.conf file. I'll try again. When I try to boot from the hard drive, all that happens is I get a screenfull of zeros. here's how my hd is partitioned: hdc1=windows hdc3=/ hdc5=/home hdc6=/usr hdc4=swap thanks for replying. David B. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To quote Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED], # I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first # partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to # compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: # cat bzImage /vmlinuz # cp /usr/src/linux/System.map / # if [ -x /sbin/lilo ]; then /sbin/lilo; else /etc/lilo/install; fi # Fatal: open /dev/hda1: Device not configured # make[1]: *** [zlilo] Error 1 # make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' # make: *** [bzlilo] Error 2 # # I've read the man page, but still am not having any luck. Thanks in advance. For some reason, lilo is looking in /dev/hda1 for something. My bet would be your lilo.conf has an other = /dev/hda1 line, and it can't use it any more for some reason. However, since you lilo.conf attachment didn't make it through, there's very little anyone can do :( Dave David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) # Generated by liloconfig # Specifies the boot device boot=/dev/hdc1 # Specifies the device that should be mounted as root. # If the special name CURRENT is used, the root device is set to the # device on which the root file system is currently mounted. If the root # has been changed with -r , the respective device is used. If the # variable ROOT is omitted, the root device setting contained in the # kernel image is used. It can be changed with the rdev program. root=/dev/hdc3 # Enables map compaction: # Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single # read request. This drastically reduces load time and keeps the map # smaller. Using COMPACT is especially recommended when booting from a # floppy disk. compact # Install the specified file as the new boot sector. # If INSTALL is omitted, /boot/boot.b is used as the default. install=/boot/boot.b # Specifies the number of _tenths_ of a second LILO should # wait before booting the first image. LILO # doesn't wait if DELAY is omitted or if DELAY is set to zero. delay=20 # Specifies the location of the map file. If MAP is # omitted, a file /boot/map is used. map=/boot/map # Specifies the VGA text mode that should be selected when # booting. The following values are recognized (case is ignored): # NORMAL select normal 80x25 text mode. # EXTENDED select 80x50 text mode. The word EXTENDED can be # abbreviated to EXT. # ASK stop and ask for user input (at boot time). # number use the corresponding text mode. A list of available modes # can be obtained by booting with vga=ask and pressing [Enter]. vga=normal image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # If you have another OS on this machine (say DOS), # you can boot if by uncommenting the following lines # (Of course, change /dev/hda2 to wherever your DOS partition is.) other=/dev/hdc1 label=windows
Re: LILO Problem
Hi Bob, When I change hdc to hda and run /sbin/lilo I get the following message: lymond:/# /sbin/lilo Fatal: open /dev/hda1: Device not configured I am not sure now why these are listed as hdc, this install comes from libranet 1.8.2 (althought I don't know why that would make any difference). I'm confused, that's for sure. thanks Bob Billson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:15:37AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: here's how my hd is partitioned: hdc1=windows hdc3=/ hdc5=/home hdc6=/usr hdc4=swap Assuming you didn't make a typo and meant hdc not hda, what is on hda (master drive, primary controller)? My brother looking over my shoulder just pointed out something. Are primarily a Windows user? Are you thinking hdc = C:? If so, that is likely your problem. (My brother says don't feel bad. It took him a while get it right in his head.) Linux maps drives like this: MSDOSLinux ~~ C: hda(master, primary controller) D: hdb(secondary, primary controller) E: hdc(master, secondary controller) F: hdd(secondary, secondary controller) (and so on) If this is what you are doing, your drives are really partition like this: hda1=windows hda3=/ hda5=/home hda6=/usr hda4=swap If this is the case, make the appropriate changes in lilo.conf, i.e. change all hdc to hda and lilo should be happy. Let us know how you make out. bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. beekeeper -8|||} --Dorothy\) Athbhliain faoi Shéan agus faoi Shona Dhuit! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Maslow
Re: LILO Problem
Big learning curve here. I only have the one drive and when I hooked it to the mb I undoubtedly wired it up wrong. I just checked and it is on the secondary controller. What now? Can I just hook it up properly, change the fstab to read hda, then reboot or do I have to move partitions from hdc to hda? thanks for your help you guys are great Bob Billson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:55:56AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: Hi Dale... I forgot to ask how many drives are in your machine? Partition check: hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc5 hdc6 hdc3 hdc4 This it the only drive the kernel finds when booting? Seems like it. The kernel should report all IDE devices (hard/CD drives, tape drives, etc.) it finds. From the looks of it, you have only one hard drive which set to be master and plugged into the secondary controller. Does your BIOS agree with this? You need at least one drive which is master on the primary controller. Your BIOS might allow you to boot from any drive or auto-detect any single drive and say Guess I'll use this. I don't know. So before you go any further...how many drive does your machine have? If just this one, where does your BIOS say it is. DON'T move the drive around yet! If your /etc/fstab isn't right, you won't be able to reboot! bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek/) Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. beekeeper -8|||} --Dorothy\) Athbhliain faoi Shéan agus faoi Shona Dhuit! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Maslow
LILO Problem
I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: cat bzImage /vmlinuz cp /usr/src/linux/System.map / if [ -x /sbin/lilo ]; then /sbin/lilo; else /etc/lilo/install; fi Fatal: open /dev/hda1: Device not configured make[1]: *** [zlilo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [bzlilo] Error 2 I've read the man page, but still am not having any luck. Thanks in advance.
Java???
I'm trying to get java working on my system. I have both jdk1.1 and j2sdk1.3 installed, I can execute the java console, but still there's no java environment. Any suggestions? thanks
Java2
I downloaded the j2sdk1.3 package from Blackdown, it installed fine, but doesn't work when I try to setup staroffice. Any suggestions? I'm using debian 2.2 (libranet 1.8.2 that's been apt-get upgraded). I suppose there's some permission somewhere that has to be changed, but I'm not sure where it is. thanks in advance -- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Maslow
Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?
I suspicion this is a troll, someone lurking on the list trying to map behavior in the Debian world. Jason Michaelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to kill the keyboard, Jens Gecius produced: Jim Kroger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass So, well and educated spoken... _ James K. Kroger, Ph.D. Did you win it somewhere? Or is it just a fake? Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior Broke up yours, pal? Try yourself as an object of study... Can't someone forward his action to his students? Department of Psychology I KNEW it... 3-N-4D Green Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USA Tel: (609) 258-1291 Fax: (609) 258-1113 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.princeton.edu/~kroger/home/ This kind of footer is speaking for itself... And now YOU tell ME who's the looser... -- Tschoe, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, if anyone goes to his web page, I think that's a portrait of himself up front. jdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921
eth0 problem after installing netscape
I just did a dist-upgrade and installed netscape 4.76. Now it seems my eth0 connection (cable modem) won't stay active. I am unable to connect to anything and then when I switch to init 1 and back [ctrl-d] then I have a connection that works. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm wondering if it's something from the upgrade or a net work problem. It seems to work for a short time, then dies. this time the connection died in about 4 minutes. here's the result [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.lvcm.com ping: unknown host www.lvcm.com Any easy way to fix this? thanks -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921
Re: eth0 problem after installing netscape
Well, I'm realizing what has happened here. I installed potato on my wife's machine and in the libranet cd it asked for network connection data. I entered my IP address (static IP), dns name servers, gateway, domain, etc.. then when I configured the kernel, I configured it using dhcp. Now, I find that as long as the wife's machine is in windows, everything works fine (because it's using the dhcp connection) but in linux both machines are screwy. I tried using linuxconf (included with the distro) to edit my network configuration, but it doesn't seem to write to the proper file, in short doesn't work. Could someone please tell me how and which file to edit, so I can get her machine using dhcp in linux. Hopefully, this will solve my problem. thanks in advance Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a dist-upgrade and installed netscape 4.76. Now it seems my eth0 connection (cable modem) won't stay active. I am unable to connect to anything and then when I switch to init 1 and back [ctrl-d] then I have a connection that works. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm wondering if it's something from the upgrade or a net work problem. It seems to work for a short time, then dies. this time the connection died in about 4 minutes. here's the result [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.lvcm.com ping: unknown host www.lvcm.com Any easy way to fix this? thanks -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921
reinstall windows?
I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95, of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version' of win98 and a windows 98 startup disk. The computer has a 4.6hd master and a 2.1hd slaved to it. I would like to make it a dual boot machine using linux on the 4.6 drive and windoze on the 2.1 drive. So far I've been able to use the win98 startup disk to format the /mbr, but that's about it. I was able to to type e: and then dir and it listed the contents of the win95 cd. When I tried to run setup, it told me there was a compressed drive or something at the end (perhaps it was seeing the slave drive?) and I couldn't get any further. Now I'm stuck in the win95 directory and can't get back to the dir listing the contents of the cd. I know absolutely nothing about dos commands. Is there an easy way to do this? thanks, any help is appreciated.
Re: reinstall windows?
I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 version. Will it work this way? Martin W?rtele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95, of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version' of win98 and a windows 98 startup disk. The computer has a 4.6hd master and a 2.1hd slaved to it. I would like to make it a dual boot machine using linux on the 4.6 drive and windoze on the 2.1 drive. windoze needs a primary partition marked as active/bootable (dos fdisk/cfdisk) to boot. all partitions that contain a file system other than fat whatever are hidden from windows so it takes the first bootable primary partition it finds as c: hth martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921
Re: reinstall windows?-SOLVED!
Got it!! Problem was I needed to format the partition using windoze, and it gave the partition a label. Thanks for the help :) Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 version. Will it work this way? There is not much difference between win95 and win98 bootfloppy's. So try to boot with your floppy and if you can mount your cdrom drive, then it should be able to acces your win95 cd. It is also possible to install win98 directly, the installation program asks for win95 cd early in the installation proces (just for a check). If your 4.6 hd is still the first hd in line, e.g. /dev/hda, then windows should have noting to complain. Good luck, Sebastiaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921
Lilo Question
After hours and hours of aggravation I was finally able to get both Windoze and Debian installed on my wife's compaq presario. Because of partioning problems (I think) I had to install win98 in the first partition and it finally worked fine. I will copy some of the files from the CD to drive, as suggested by folks here on the list. My problem now is that when I installed and configured the kernel for libranet debian, it overwrote the mbr and now I can't boot windoze from the hd. Lilo just gives me linux. I will get to the man page as soon as I'm not so tired, in the meantime, I have a couple of questions: 1.) Can I use the Liloconfig tool to include windoze in my lilo configuration. I know this is a dumb question, I'm just overly cautious about blowing my /mbr because I have a LS-120 floppy drive that so far has not allowed me to make any boot floppies. I also have linuxconf on the machine. 2.) Because of this lack of boot floppies, is there a bullet-proof way to configure LILO for both OS's? thanks -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921
Re: Lilo Question
Thanks for the reply Jason, but it didn't work, probably because of the boot block I have installed (per directions). Here's a copy of my lilo.conf file, maybe you can suggest how to edit it properly? cheers Everyone goes through this, its a rite of passage. :) My problem now is that when I installed and configured the kernel for libranet debian, it overwrote the mbr and now I can't boot windoze from the hd. Lilo just gives me linux. I will get to the man page as soon as I'm not so tired, in the meantime, I have a couple of questions: 1.) Can I use the Liloconfig tool to include windoze in my lilo configuration. I know this is a dumb question, I'm just overly cautious about blowing my /mbr because I have a LS-120 floppy drive that so far has not allowed me to make any boot floppies. I also have linuxconf on the machine. i don't know about liloconfig. but if you add these lines to your /etc/lilo.conf file, you should have no problems other=/dev/hda1 label=windows and rerun /sbin/lilo to rewrite the changes. that is assuming windows is on the first hard drive (hda), partition 1. 2.) Because of this lack of boot floppies, is there a bullet-proof way to configure LILO for both OS's? thanks hope that helps. Jason -- For de little stealin 'dey gets you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin 'dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. Eugene O'Neill, 'The Emperor Jones' 1921
fips/win swapfile ?
I'm installing 2.2 on a friends computer. He wants to keep windows onboard, but I seem to have misplaced my old PartitionMagic CD and don't want to spend the money to buy another one. Hence, I'm using FIPS. Reading the help file for fips, it tells me that I have to remove the windows swap file manually using the enhanced 386 control panel. ?? Then reinstall it after I run fips. The disk is defragging now so if someone can enlighten me on this a little I would appreciate it. Where is the command to remove the windows swap file? And then reinstall it? I looked through the control panel¬system and I didn't see anything. The machine I'm installing on is setup for FAT32. thanks
paperport scanner
I've got a visioneer 6100 scanner. I'm hoping to use it with sane, but I don't know how. I've ran some searches, and it doesn't look like there are any drivers for it in the linux world, has anyone got one of these things working? If so, where do I start? I've rtfm and there's no entry for sane and can't find anything searching with google. thanks
usb port question
I'm using a handspring visor, which I have set up using a serial docking cradle. I've also got a usb cradle and I would like to try and configure my system to use it. My serial port cradle is /dev/ttyS0 which is symlinked to /dev/Pilot. What are the standard tty names for USB? I'm using a fairly new biostar mainboard with an athalon chip. thanks dale --
KDE2 help files
I have installed KDE2 and so far I like it pretty well. I don't have the help files installed, could someone tell me what package I need to get the files? thanks
wmaker sound
this is off topic, but there's not much traffic on the wmaker list so I figured I'd ask you guys for help. I'm trying to get sound in my wmaker desktop. I have sound working for cd's (wmixer wmrack, etc..) but there are no .wav files in my ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds$ directory. So when I run the soundprefs for wmaker nothing works. Where do I get the soundfiles? Or should I be looking in a different directory? thanks
switching virtual terminals
There's a package that I need to install that allows switching virtual terminals by hitting [Ctrl Alt 'left or right arrow']. Anyone happen to remember what the name of that package is? thanks
Re: switching virtual terminals
alt left|right arrow is fine, guess I'm confused. Not unusual. Thanks.. Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:50:03PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: There's a package that I need to install that allows switching virtual terminals by hitting [Ctrl Alt 'left or right arrow']. Anyone happen to remember what the name of that package is? thanks uh... alt left|right arrow already changes virtual terminals on my systems... control alt does not but do you really need it to be control+alt or will just alt do? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ -- The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. --Albert North Whitehead
Re: switching virtual terminals
thanks. I can't remember the exact key sequence, I just remember apt-getting the package on a different install. And.. I seem to have it now with [Alt-Arrow keys] USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:50:03PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: There's a package that I need to install that allows switching virtual terminals by hitting [Ctrl Alt 'left or right arrow']. Anyone happen to remember what the name of that package is? thanks Is it konsole that you are thinking of ? Just reconfirm this [Ctrl-Alt-Arrow keys] aspect, because I think konsole uses [Shift - Arrow Keys] for VT switching.
Libranet Install
I had been having lots of trouble with my unstable install and decided to reinstall using libranet. It worked great, I've got sound, printing and it was quick and painless. I did forget to copy the sources.list and now I need to get the proper sources for apt. Could someone please post them for me? Or direct me to where I can get them? thanks
Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian
How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but I'm not sure. Here's where I'm at.. I can print using staroffice. I can't print using lp, I get the following output: lp: error - no default destination available. If I try to print using 'y' in mutt or slrn--doesn't work. Slrn returns 'error 1'. Here's how my /etc/printcap looks: # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|lp|Epson StylusColor 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs I also downloadd xpp and it installed the CUPS client and server. Yet when I run xpp it tells me it's unable to connect to CUPS server, check options. duh.. I'm confused please help thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Or use cups with a nice configuration tool. Mariusz On 09-Oct-2000 Dwight Johnson wrote: What is the preferred way to configure a PostScript printer on debian 2.2? MagicFilter did fine for mine. - - Nick - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. --Albert North Whitehead
Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian
no, installation of CUPS came with xpp and apt-get retrieved the extra packages related to CUPS/xpp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: did you install an additional package cups-bsd ? How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but I'm not sure.
Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian
When I use lpr... nothing happens.. printer is silent. That's why I'm so confused. Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I configure CUPS? I'm trying to set up my printer with magicfilter. I think there is a permission problem, but I'm not sure. Here's where I'm at.. I can print using staroffice. I can't print using lp, I get the following output: lp: error - no default destination available. If I try to print using 'y' in mutt or slrn--doesn't work. Slrn returns 'error 1'. Use lpr, not lp!
printtool
I'm trying to get my printer working after an upgrade. I've posted several other messages to the list, so I won't repeat them now. My question is this.. When I try to configure printtool for my Epson StylusColor 600 printer, there is nothing listed about resolution settings, paper type, etc.. And printtool locks up and won't do anything. Obviously a bug? The odd part is that printtool has worked fine for me the last 2 months or so and my problems only began after this update, which I remember printtool being replaced. When I check the available packages, there is only 1 package available for printtool. Is it possible the new package doesn't support the 600 printer? It will work, somewhat, by configuring it to use the epson driver. Anyone else had this problem? thanks
installing a printer
I just upgraded to the latest version of printtool and now my printer doesn't work. I used to printtool to install my epson stylus color 600 in the past and it worked great, but now, it doesn't work. I removed the printer from the printcap, hoping to reinstall it, but there's some sort of bug in the filter that doesn't allow me to set up the resolution. Is there another way to set up my printer? I'm currently using woody with 2.2.17 kernel. any suggestions, thanks dale
Re: installing a printer
I removed the printtool package and installed apsfilter, configuring it for my printer answering the questions asked. When I try to print a text file, here's the message I get: apsfilter: unsupported filetype english text from dlm or missing filter ! or perhaps you have to type lpr -Pascii to print an ascii file containing control characters or lpr -Praw to print a file in your printers native language, when printing data files (pcl3, pcl5, ...) Is there a package I'm missing for this? thanks
Re: installing a printer
I have my printer working now. Here's what happened and what I did: apt-get upgrade resulted in a newer version of printtool being installed (this is curious because there's only one version in unstable) I removed printtool and tried to configure apsfilter. Didn't work, got a message from cron that I was missing a filter to print text files. Installed ap2ps, then reconfigured /etc/printcap file using apsfilterconfig. Changed resolution from 720 to 360 for my epson stylus600 (default resolutions). Now apsfilter would print a test page. Great! Fired up staroffice and tried to print a page, no luck.. printer kept spitting out blank pages. Installed xpp after reading printing how-to. It installed CUPS and related print packages, but couldn't get it to work. Removed xpp. Disgusted.. ate a peach. Checked the debian-users list hoping there was an answer to this question. No luck, but there were other postings. Read one about MagicFilter.. Installed magicfilter and used magicfilterconfig --force option to create new /etc/printcap file. This time staroffice would print and.. So far it's working.. -- The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. --Albert North Whitehead
Re: apt-get problem-solved
I think I may have solved the problem.. at least everything is upgrading properly now. Apparently I had commented out some src files in my /etc/apt/sources.conf file and this wouldn't allow certain package dependencies to me be met. Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've screwed around with apt-get and dselect so much that whenever I try to install a package I get the following message: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done yossarian:/home/dlm# apt-get install eterm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package [eterm] has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package eterm has no installation candidate
apt-get problem
I've screwed around with apt-get and dselect so much that whenever I try to install a package I get the following message: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done yossarian:/home/dlm# apt-get install eterm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package [eterm] has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package eterm has no installation candidate Is there any way to remedy this? Here's how apt-get is reading the sources file: # apt-get update Hit http://pandora.debian.org woody/non-US/main Packages Hit http://pandora.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release Hit http://pandora.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://pandora.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://pandora.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://pandora.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release Hit http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com unstable/main Packages Hit http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com unstable/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Done Thanks for any help --
Re: apt-get problem
What is the content of /var/lib/dpkg? What is the output of dpkg -L eterm? Perhaps you should purge it and then install it again? /var/lib/dpkg has the following: (this doesn't format well when it's pasted) alternatives diversions-old status status.yesterday.3.gz available infostatus-old status.yesterday.4.gz available-old lockstatus.yesterday.0 status.yesterday.5.gz cmethopt methlockstatus.yesterday.1.gz status.yesterday.6.gz diversions methods status.yesterday.2.gz updates With eterm I did purge it and when I try to re-install I get the following: # apt-get install eterm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package eterm I did a dpkg --forget-old-unavail but that doesn't seem to help. Is there a way to wipe this stuff and start from scratch? again.. thanks..
