Hello,
Apparently I have mucked something up. The GDM3 greeter screen (i.e. the
screen that displays your name, and solicits the password) functions,
but it will not sign me on.
I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or
password problem.
I've run dpkg-reconfigure gdm3,
Hello:
I finally upgraded to Wheezy and GDM3 in August. Since then, my
Postscript printer which functioned correctly under GDM2 outputs
ONLY blank pages when print requests are submitted to CUPS.
The printer does function correctly if I run:
cat PS_FILE.ps /dev/lp0
But using lp
Sven:
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:29:51AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
---snip---
It is essential to find out why it does not work. You might want to try
my
Sven:
I have executed the recommended procedure. I didn't appreciate
the need for the remote login until you explained the purpose -
sorry for the delay.
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:29:51AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
On Sat
Hello:
My nVidia GeForce 6600 GT card started to act up, so I purchased an
inexpensive MSI N210 card (which uses the 210 nVidia chipset).
The salesman said I'd be happier with it!
Sadly, after the the initial boot sequence lines of text (in regular
VGA font) appear, the screen goes blank, and
Sven and Camaleón:
Thankyou for the replies and suggestions. I have made some
progress. See below.
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-12-31 16:31 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:30:30 -0700, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
My
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:46:23PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/23/2011 07:57 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
I noted your comments on Python, and while I haven't any
experience with the 2 - 3 transition, I am inclined to prefer
it. In fact, almost all my work is now
David:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:14:44PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
Someone wrote:
I am like you and wrote most of my C++ during the
early years of the language. I used the ATT Cfront version 1.2
compiler for years. Always on Unix machines and never on Windows.
I have become
Wayne and Weaver:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 08:02:43PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 04/19/2011 07:47 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
On 20 April 2011 07:33, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
provi...@telusplanet.net wrote:
Hello:
I'm trying to use the Writer program to put a web page together.
I
Hello:
I'm trying to use the Writer program to put a web page together.
I want to include some images, and I'd like to cut back on the
document length.
I tried placing the PNG images side by side (I used the LEFT alignment
and RIGHT alignment controls on the menu bar), and they looked just
Andrei, Stan and Paul:
Thanks for the replies. I was unaware that /dev/disk/*
existed. I must have missed that lesson during the last upgrade.
I appreciate your assistance.
Regards from Calgary,
Dean
--
Dean Provins, P. Geoph.
Hello
I have used dump and restore to perform system backups for many years.
Since upgrading to Debian 6.x, I have not been able to obtain consistent and
reliable dumps for the following reason:
Sometimes. my single fixed disk is labeled as /dev/sda, but
At other times, it is labeled as
Hello:
I clobbered my client system accidently after discovering I could no
longer boot due to a bad master boot record. When I got it back up, the
NFS system began to act strangely.
I can read/write the mounted file systems on the server (a 'sarge'
system), but cannot run mutt, openoffice or
Hello:
It seems that the PC clocks here in Alberta are still on daylight
savings time. This is odd as Alberta's clocks switched back last
weekend.
/etc/timezone contains:
Canada/Mountain
Anyone know how to fix them?
Regards,
Dean
in Calgary
--
Dean Provins, P.
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:28:36AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I just did an 'apt-get upgrade' and openoffice.org was upgraded from
2.0.1 to 2.0.3 and now I am unable to save my files. When I do try to
save I get an error message saying that OpenOffice has crashed due to an
unknown error
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:48:44PM +0100, George Borisov wrote:
Dean Allen Provins wrote:
I recently went to a dual screen setup, and X provided a screen
resolution of 191x96 (from 96x96). I was able to configure mozilla and
firefox to use a resolution of 96 (thus making the image
Hello:
I recently went to a dual screen setup, and X provided a screen
resolution of 191x96 (from 96x96). I was able to configure mozilla and
firefox to use a resolution of 96 (thus making the image the same size
as on the single screen setup, instead of double size), but do not know
how to do
Smith wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:23:24 -0500
Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:09:42 -0600
Dean Allen Provins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello:
I have used SSH and X Forwarding successfully in the past, but since
moving to Sarge, it refuses to co-operate
Hello:
I have used SSH and X Forwarding successfully in the past, but since
moving to Sarge, it refuses to co-operate. Either I can't
read/understand the documentation or there's something new.
From work, I can ssh or scp to home using a host.domain address. At
home I've added 3 lines to my
Hi:
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:20:14AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Arrizabalaga, Saioa wrote:
Hello all,
I need a pdf-printer: I have tried with the cups-pdf package, following the
installation
Hello:
I'm interested in adding a CD/DVD reader/writer to my meager system and
have been looking at LG GSA 4160B units (which allegedly `do it all').
I'm sure that there are alternatives, but I'm still in the infancy of my
search.
I'm aware only that the LG GSA 4040B (an old unit) was
Hasan:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote:
Hello ,
I want to use apache server , it works at localhost perfect . Bu i have
the adsl modem zoom x4 . When i click my ip at the browser Home Gateway
popup appears and ask password. I tried to do Virtual Host section .
When I
Hasan:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:11:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote:
Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Hasan:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Hasan wrote:
Hello ,
I want to use apache server , it works at localhost perfect . Bu i have
the adsl modem zoom x4 . When i click my ip
Dave:
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:48:38PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
I wrote
I'm trying to import an EPS file into OOo Writer. I choose
Insert/Graphics/FromFile... then select EPS as the file type and click
on my eps file But when I press the open button, it says 'Unknown
graphic format'.
Gavin:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:03:34PM +0100, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hello,
My tape drive is a hp 20 40 scsi drive. It will allow data to be
written to it.
The output of mt -f /dev/st0 is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gseddon# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0,
Gavin:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:01:51PM +0100, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
I have tried mt setblk 0
but now the error is:
tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not
recoverable: exiting now
Can anyone help?
Gavin.
Your problem is curious as I too have no difficulty
Geoff:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:53:48PM -, Geoff Bagley wrote:
I wish to use my Debian box for plotting the output of compiled
programmes in the form of bitmaps or cartesian pixel maps either
on the X window display, or on a laserjet printer.
The material to be plotted consists of
Gavin:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:32:20PM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:21, Wayne Topa wrote:
Dr Gavin Seddon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
Hi,
Ihave 2 devices that I cannot get working.
Can not get working is very vague. You must be getting
useful. Be sure to start with clean kernel sources (make
mrproper the unpatched sources) and do a make menuconfig or whatever
you choose to ensure proper SCSI support is built in.
Regards,
Dean
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:19, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Gavin:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:32
Gavin:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:17:23PM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hi,
Ihave 2 devices that I cannot get working.
a. A scsi tape drive. Here I have installed the mt-st kernel patch and
made a ln -s between /dev/sto and /dev/tape.
I'm using kernel 2.4.18 without any patches and can
Jan:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:33:17AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:56:47PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
I have two Ethernet cards (NICs) in a PII-300. The first recognized is
an NE2000 ISA clone at IRQ10, and the second is a PCI at (shared) IRQ
12.
I would
Jan:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:41:29PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
Morning!
Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed.
Sorry about the CC, when I hit Reply, you were there first and I
failed to delete you. Shouldn't happen this time...
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:22:04PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins
Hello:
I have two Ethernet cards (NICs) in a PII-300. The first recognized is
an NE2000 ISA clone at IRQ10, and the second is a PCI at (shared) IRQ
12.
I would like the second (the PCI) to be assigned as ETH0, and the first
(ISA) to be ETH1.
I've fiddled with the ether= append line for the
Bill:
Dallas Semiconductor sold weather stations several years ago that
could talk to Linux (as well as that other OS). It was about $80US.
I believe that another firm is now marketing the product. A google search
ought to find it. The base system includes wind speed and direction,
and
Ian:
I don't have a million points for line graphs, although I do for maps.
For line graphs I use gnuplot which makes good PostScript (or EPS)
images which I can include in publications. For maps, use Generic
Mapping Tools (GMT) which will also do first class line graphs. it too
generates
Hello:
I just added another 32 + 64 MB of memory to an older Pentium 1 (2 72
pin SIMMS each). There was already 32 MB installed, so this should have
totalled 128 MB. The BIOS finds about 117 MB, and the kernel (2.2.18)
finds just 65 MB.
Any ideas on what is happening, or how it can be fixed?
Hello:
I have used ps2epsi for several years without difficulty, but have
just discovered that the woody version fails with newly created
postscript documents, and even on old Postscript documents.
A typical error message is (for a good Postscript document):
--ps2epsi
Paulo:
The January issue of Linux Journal has an article in Cooking with
Linux about gnomemeeting (I believe that was the name) which is
supposed to talk to NetMeeting. You may find the information that
you require in that article, or by contacting its author, Marcel Gagne:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:33:27PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:51:51PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:21:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
| Are there any tools that will let me fill in forms in pdf?
acroread
| Ideally, the
Mike:
I'm using the Debian install of ghostscript (6.53) and the matching
ghostview install, so this may not answer your query, but
nevertheless
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:53:38PM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote:
I'm hoping someone can tell me how Ghostscript
(specifically, gs-aladdin 7.04
Patrick:
I've used a 7475A and a 7550 successfully on Linux (Debian), but both
are attached via serial ports. Best results were with software flow
control. I've also driven them via a Windows machine. I know of no
CUPS driver. The cat should work.
Dean
--
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at
Pat:
The order hosts bind line should be in /etc/host.conf, and
formatted as order hosts,bind. This line is followed (in my
/etc/host.conf file) with the single line multi on.
The remainder looks fine to me.
Dean
-
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote:
Hi
I
Hello:
You indicate that you are using a Pentium IV CPU. This is a 32 bit
processor, so the 64 bit FORTRAM shared libraries mentioned in your
post (below) will never work. You must install the 32 bit version.
While I have but a Pentium II, I've had no trouble with the compiler.
Dean
Hello:
I use a '386 (successfully) as a firewall, with Debian 2.2 on it. It
is connected to an ADSL modem and runs quite well. Its been up for 63
days, passing packets back and forth.
Lately, pump, when asked for status (i.e. pump --status) on the
default device (eth0) returns Operation
Hello:
Don't you also have to do (as root):
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Dean
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:21:17AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
Does anyone have IP Masq setup using a Reiser FS and kernel 2.4.12.
I setup IP Masq one night with kernel 2.4.12 when I had a ext2
Hello:
I have been trying to encrypt messages with PGP 6.5.8 when using mutt
to no avail. Signing, and decoding seem to work fine, but mutt
cannot seem to locate the correct key for encoding.
When sending (after indicating that I want the message encrypted), it
asks if it should use keyID =
Hello:
I have encountered a problem with the recognition of 2 Ethernet cards
when using a non-modular kernel. The specifics are as follows:
kernel 2.4.2 (with console = tty and lance ethernet enabled)
2 Lance (ISA) E/N cards jumpered to 0x300 and 0x320 respectively
Hello:
I have a curious problem that first surfaced several months ago, but
I was unable to address until this week. Basically, 'make' refuses to
make anything, although it knows what has to be done. For example,
I have a small library, and a corresponding makefile for which 'make -n'
tells me
Hello:
I just upgraded my 2.4.0 kernel to 2.4.2 (via 2 patches) and PPP
immediately failed. The connection was made, but an IOCTL said there
was an argument error, and PPPD aborted. The IOCTL command in question was for
PPPIOCGFLAGS.
Anyone else had this problem, and know how to correct for
Hello:
Since Friday, I've seen 5 messages on this list. During the previous
week, there seemed to be about as many! It was VERY ACTIVE until quite
recently.
What's happened?
Dean
Calgary
Hello:
I have KDE2 as the X display manager using an ATI rage128 card, but
cannot get the login screen to blank.
I've set xset to 10 minutes, but nothing happens at the end of the
interval.
Clearly I'm missing something, probably related to KDE and its login.
Ideas or suggestions are most
Hello:
I have one Linux (Debian) machine and one legacy Windows for Workgroups
machine on a private network. All worked well (i.e. they shared files
and printers) until this morning, when I decided it was time to change the
passwords. I haven't been able to get the WFW - Linux host
Peter:
Hi again,
I can get a Tekram DC310U PCI Ultra-SCSI controller (based on the
Symbios Logic SYM53C860 SCSI-3 Chip) for the same price as
the Advansys 3940UA. It uses the sym53c8xx.o driver.
Should I go for that instead?
Thanks!
--
Peter Galbraith, research scientist
Paulo:
You'll find dump and restore at http://perso.cybercable.fr/pop;.
Dean
Hi,
where is dump and restore commands (in what package)?
Thanks, PH
PS: How I mark the tape at its end? Is it necessary?
Quoting Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Paulo
Hi All,
I need to provide my users with the possibility of safe and convenient
file transfer.
The ftp is difficult for setup with SSL. The scp lacks the convenient
GUI or TUI.
The mcserv (from midnight commander suite) seems to be a good alternative.
However I don't know if it can be
Hi,
I'm thinking to get a scsi backup tape for the Potato
box. I'd like to know what is the recommended drive
and what software should be used.
I also have this dump question. Would the backup software
append the backup files to the end of the tape or overwrite
it
Mani:
Did you compile everything with -pg? If so, it should work fine (does for me).
Dean
Hi All,
I tried gprof for getting the amount time spent in each function call
in the C code. But it seems that it is not working. gprof o/p shows the
statistics as zero.
Is there any
Rick:
Thanks for the insight. I've got to invest some time in learning how to
set up X's key mapping system. Clearly, there are still a few things to
learn!
Dean
---
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Rick:
Thanks for responding. Curiously, my
, (170,167),
root:(205,222), state 0x0, keycode 22 (keysym 0x, Delete),
same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 characters:
So now the question becomes, where do I reset it?
Regards,
Dean
- Forwarded message from Rick Macdonald -
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote
Hello:
I just installed StarOffice on my slink system. Seems to work fine,
but I cannot get the BACKSPACE key to do anything.
Anyone know how to make it move left and delete as it goes?
Thanks,
Dean Provins
Thanks to the two respondents.
I updated the kernel to 2.2.14, but the problem symtoms simply changed
too. So I switched to another card and the problem has stopped.
Must have been hardware.
Regards,
Dean
Hello:
I have been experiencing curious NIC error messages, none of which
Ryan:
I have a similar system. If in /dev/, you have no 'st?' devices, try
making them with 'mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0' = 'mknod /dev/st7 c 9 7'.
Check the man page for correct options...
They should have root:tape ownership and be owner:group RW. Put any
users that need acces in group 'tape'
Wilson:
I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st0 (rewinds after
each operation) and /dev/nst0 (does NOT rewind after each operation -
you or your program/script must do the rewind).
You can use 'mt -f /dev/[n]st0 OPERATION' to manipulate a tape
(do man mt for a description of the
and permissions 660, and add (if necessary) your userid to
the tape group in /etc/group.
As far as I know, you only need /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. Those are the
only two I use.
Dean
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Wilson:
I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev
Hello:
I have been experiencing curious NIC error messages, none of which
mean anything to me. Any assistance in comprehending their content is
welcome.
System is Debian 2.1 (up to date) on Pentium, 64 MB, with NIC (from
dmesg),
eth0: PCnet/ISA 79C960 at 0x340, 00 00 f4 b1 84 e7, probed IRQ
Aaron:
Your command line should be something like:
mt -f /dev/ht0 status
to get the drive status (assuming 'ht0' is the device, and a tape is
loaded). If you set environment variable TAPE to /dev/ht0 (as per
export TAPE=/dev/ht0
then the following will work:
mt
Can't help you with your problem, but the news group
'can.internet.highspeed' does have some Linux users. You might try
there, if you haven't done so already.
Regards,
Dean
Calgary
-
Sorry if this is offtopic for this list, but I'm at my wits' end.
I'm from
Hi all!
I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with
256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec
2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a
really sweet server here except that I just noticed there
Steve:
Thanks for the fix. I just tried it and I'm VERY PLEASED to say that
it works!
Dean
--
Thursday, September 30, 1999, 2:02:55 PM, Dean wrote:
Anybody know how to get around this problem?
If it is the problem I think it
Hello:
I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never
experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line
at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'.
For the record, I use 'xterm's under OpenLook, and that is were I
Hello:
I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never
experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line
at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'.
For the record, I use 'xterm's under OpenLook, and that is were I
Mich:
How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so)
and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker
or programs.
I've just been through this process, trying to build the shared
libraries for UIT and SlingShot (Xview C++ and graphics
Hello:
I have a similar problem which I have not been able to resolve. It
seems that I can access the discs from the console after boot (read and
write is fine - note that the disc is classed as (rw) in /etc/fstab),
but NOT after firing up X. Once X has started, or at any time after I
terminate
Hello:
A recent message (portion follows) indicated printer problems with
Kernel 2.2.1. I am having somewhat sinilar problems, and request
assistance.
The previous correspondents indicated:
*- On 9 Mar, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about Printer in
kernel 2.2.1
Hi Debian
John:
I would just like to know if any one has been able
to print from a Linux machine to a printer
attached to a Window NT 4 (sp3) Server based
machine.
---snip
I am just wondering if there is something
particular with NT server... any clues.
Appreciate any info anyone
How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on
the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that
shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it?
In your home directory, create a file called '.bash_logout' (assuming
that you are using
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 2.0 from the Cheapbytes CD (July 21 record
date). After the usual 'monkeying around', I got X up and running,
using my favourite windowing system - OpenLook (virtual) Window
Manager (olvwm).
I observed two differences from what I expected: firstly, 'xterm'
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete
the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else
that I have tried seems to be).
I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system.
Should I remove X and re-install, or is there another
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete
the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else
that I have tried seems to be).
I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system.
If neither of these is there,
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