Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

2021-12-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
EST, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems to happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC,or watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when listening to audio through an audio player

Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

2021-12-03 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems to happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC,or watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when listening to audio through an audio player, or having Zoom calls. After a crash,the

How to request a package be updated? (Solaar, for controlling Logitech MX Master 3 mouse)

2021-08-04 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
How does one ask for a package to be updated? The Solaar package, which provides functionality for Logitech mice (and keyboards), is at 1.0.4 in bullseye and sid, but the current version is 1.0.6, which was released on June 16. (And 1.0.5 came out in February, so it's been a while.) Apparently

USB audio device no longer showing up

2021-07-20 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I've been using a Schiit Modi 3 D/A converter for my main desktop audio for a year or two. In the last week, it's been sporadically vanishing from PulseAudio. It's normally plugged into a USB port on my monitor, which has several such ports, all of which work with other devices. When I plug it

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-09 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Nussbaum wrote: >  >    On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 08:07:37 AM EST, Brian > wrote:  >  >  > On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 12:55:07 +0000, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Can you scan by choosing airscan, eSCL (note the lower case e), from > > simple-scan's drop-do

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Just to clarify what someone else in the thread asked about, the user I'm running this under _does_ appear in the scanner group. On Friday, January 8, 2021, 07:07:40 PM EST, Brian wrote: On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 17:28:16 -0500, Jen Nussbaum wrote: >> When I run simple-scan, it detects the

simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
After using a rather old Canon scanner for many years, I recently upgraded to the Canon LiDE 300,and installed the drivers as directed, on a Bullseye system (10.2.0-17). The printer is recognized: $ scanimage -Ldevice `pixma:04A91913_47A8A4' is a CANON CanoScan LiDE 300 multi-function

Re: Pulseaudio not starting, after no obvious changes [SOLVED]

2016-05-22 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
> >I just returned home after a short vacation to my running, completely >up-to-date jessie system, and discovered that Pulse had stopped running, and I >dont know how to get it going again. > > >Various of the startup commands give an error :"E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed >to initialize

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-06 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
- Original Message - From: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 11:05 AM Subject: Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid? On 02/03/15 08:22 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, i have a USB keyboard

USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-02 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, i have a USB keyboard that, every week or three, will drop off, and require replugging to work again. It is immediately recognized and works fine after I do this This was the case on a previous Wheezy system, and it still happens on a Jessie box I built. The problem is that the new box has

Installing new Opera version?

2015-01-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, it seems that lst month there was a new stable version of Opera for Linux released, but for Ubuntu only. One of the Opera devs has a blog about installing it on non-Debian-based distros

Pulseaudio not listing sound source

2014-09-22 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. Im running Pulseaudio on a pretty stock Wheezy installation. Im trying to get a USB audio output device to work, but it's not showing up in my Pulseaudio volume control. The device is an Audioengine AW1, and Id previously used this on my system with no problems. But now when I plug it in,

Can't force unmount device

2014-05-26 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I know this problem has been discussed endlessly online, but i cant get any of the suggestions to work. I have a Debian laptop that, when im at home, I mount via nfs to a local fileserver. Sometimes for no clear reason, i cant unmount it, and when this happens, i cant put the laptop to sleep.

Re: Can't force unmount device

2014-05-26 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Monday, May 26, 2014 11:39 AM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Mon, 26 May 2014 08:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: I end up having to power the computer down, which is extremely annoying. Try 'unmount -l' for the offending filesystem

Re: Can't force unmount device

2014-05-26 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Monday, May 26, 2014 12:32 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/26/2014 11:02 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I know this problem has been discussed endlessly online, but i cant get any of the suggestions

Re: Can't force unmount device

2014-05-26 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Monday, May 26, 2014 1:01 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/26/2014 12:40 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: On Monday, May 26, 2014 12:32 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: As far as the hangs

Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

2014-04-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I'm running Debian Wheezy 7.4 on a server in Amazon's EC2, that i installed, recently, from the official Debian AMI. I havent made any changes to the package infrastructure. I'm trying to fix the Heartbleed bug, but my system seems to think everything is up to date.  My /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

2014-04-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:01 AM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 2014-04-10 14:56, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum a écrit : I'm running Debian Wheezy 7.4 on a server in Amazon's EC2, that i installed, recently, from the official Debian AMI. I havent made any changes to the package

Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

2014-04-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:30 AM, David Glover m...@davidglover.org wrote: Debian patched the wheezy version of OpenSSL without changing the version number. Run: dpkg-query -l openssl You should see version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u5. The +deb7u5 indicates the heartbleed patch is

Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
What Debian font packages provide emojis? At least, thats what i think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular boxes with 01f 44d and 01f 1e7 in them, and some googling suggests these are thumbs-up signs and things like that. How doe i get these to display? (Also how do i look

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: What Debian font packages provide emojis? apt-file search and apt-cache search give nothing. Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On , Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my question is, if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box with 01f 1ey in it, how do i figure out what that is? Typo--i meant '01f 1e7, as in my original

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used

MTP and Android phones

2014-01-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, i'm running Wheezy. I used to have an older Android phone that Just Worked with my system, but I upgraded it to one running Android 4.2, and now i can no longer figure out how get it to talk to my computer. Ive Googled and tried to read up about MTP, but im still not sure how to get things

Re: MTP and Android phones

2014-01-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:46 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 07:28:06AM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:     Hi, i'm running Wheezy. I used to have an older Android phone that Just     Worked with my system, but I upgraded it to one running

Re: MTP and Android phones

2014-01-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 11:43 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2014-01-07 15:46:10 +, Darac Marjal wrote: MTPFS is only available in Squeeze and Sid. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mtpfs But it doesn't work with Android phones. Wait, so explain how i can

Re: Advice on new desktop/building?

2013-10-21 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On 10/19/2013 02:58 PM Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: My current desktop has been having some issues lately and I think its time to consider replacing it. Ive been having trouble finding exactly what I want, even tho' this is straightforward, so i though I'd ask here to get some advice, maybe

Advice on new desktop/building?

2013-10-19 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
My current desktop has been having some issues lately and I think its time to consider replacing it. Ive been having trouble finding exactly what I want, even tho' this is straightforward, so i though I'd ask here to get some advice, maybe even about building my own machine (which Ive never

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-16 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Thanks for the various suggestions. Of course the computer hasnt crashed for the last four days now. I did run some of the tests suggested, and everything checks out OK. Theres no new hardware in the system, no new accessories. And i dont have replacements for every bit that i can swap in and

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
, September 12, 2013 12:55 PM Subject: Re: Frequent kernel panics Hi all, Normally you could find it in /var/log/syslog and in /var/log/kern.log Regards, Le 12/09/2013 13:49, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum a écrit : Im running an up-to-date Wheezy on a newish desktop box. In the past the machine would

Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im running an up-to-date Wheezy on a newish desktop box. In the past the machine would crash with apparent kernel panics on occasion, but in the last week or 2 the machine is crashing almost every day. Ill step back to it and there will be a crash screen with a timestamp log beginning cut here

Re: PulseAudio--simultaneous output stopped working

2012-03-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
- Original Message - From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:42 PM Subject: PulseAudio--simultaneous output stopped working I use PulseAudio on Debian Testing. For the most

PulseAudio--simultaneous output stopped working

2012-03-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I use PulseAudio on Debian Testing. For the most part it Just Works and i didnt have to do any elaborate configuration juju. I have it set up to do multiple simultaneous output, i do this just by clicking Simultaneous Output - Add virtual output device for simultaneous output on all local sound

Re: USB speaker as internal audio?

2012-03-03 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
- Original Message - From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:56 PM Subject: Re: USB speaker as internal audio? On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:32:44 -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, Im running Debian testing

USB speaker as internal audio?

2012-03-01 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, Im running Debian testing with XFCE, and PulseAudio as my sound system. I currently have a pair of cheap speakers plugged into the sound out on my computer, and then two different USB speakers for higher-quality stuff. I want to get a pair of small USB speakers as my main desktop speakers.

Help! Can't log in as self

2011-10-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im running Xfce4 on Debian testing. I recently rebooted the machine, and i didnt intentionally make any changes to anything that i think would be relevant. On reboot, I was not able to log in as my usual user; i get to the Xfce Welcome to [machine name] screen, and enter my username/password,

Re: Help! Can't log in as self

2011-10-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
! Jen - Original Message - From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 7:19 PM Subject: Help! Can't log in as self Im running Xfce4 on Debian testing. I recently rebooted

Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

2011-08-17 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
- Original Message - From: Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:33 AM Subject: Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert 2011-08-16 12:20, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum skrev: Where can i go

Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

2011-08-16 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I used to use Debian but recently have been using Ubuntu. For various reasons (mainly hating the Unity interface) i now am back on Debian. I have a clean install of Wheezy running under Xfce on a basic desktop computer. I am looking to get audio working in a straightforward way, i dont want

Ralink driver connection, speed problems

2011-05-15 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble with finding the driver for my ralink card. I got help with that but now its working but not in any good way. The card is: 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092] and Im using the

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

2011-05-15 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 4:03 AM On Sun, 15 May 2011 03:24:16 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

2011-05-15 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 04:11:50 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: --- On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble with finding the driver for my ralink card. I got

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

2011-05-15 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: and Im using the rt2800pci driver. The machine itself is running 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1. You could try 2.6.39-rc7-amd64 from experimental. OK, i did give this a try (though i worry about doing

Getting ralink driver working?

2011-05-14 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1. I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card is: $ lspci -nn | grep Network 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092] The page

Re: Getting ralink driver working?

2011-05-14 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 05/14/2011 10:26 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: $ sudo modprobe rt2860sta FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found. $ apt-file find rt2860sta linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt2860sta.ko [...] I guess I

Re: Getting ralink driver working?

2011-05-14 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On 05/14/2011 03:26 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1. I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card is: $ lspci -nn | grep Network 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp

DAAP server for OS X or Debian?

2010-03-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very large music library. I want to share this music over DAAP to my Debian box (dont really care what client i use, Rhythmbox or Banshee or Songbird is all fine), but the iTunes version encrypts it so you cant use it with non-iTunes clients. Is there a

Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian?

2010-03-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Mon, 3/8/10, tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: From: tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 1:26 PM Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I

Re: X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

2009-09-30 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum kirjutas: I am willing to downgrade X but dont know how to do this. Or if it will help. I had the same problem yesterday. In order to downgrade X, I booted to single user mode, purged all X related packages, changed sid to testing

X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

2009-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. Im running Sid on a Thinkpad T60, and recently rebooted my machine after having done several updates recently. I now find that X is crashing hard on boot, rendering the system unusabler. My Xorg log shows the same backtrace thats reported in this thread:

FF 3.5 in Unstable?

2009-07-04 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, Im running Debian Unstable, and had hoped that the new version of FireFox would be in Unstable pretty quickly. But its not there yet. Im using it happily on my Mac system, and i'd really like to get it on Debian as well. Is there a safe way of getting it now? I guess i can get it from

X problem after upgrade--help!

2009-05-17 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I just upgraded from testing to unstable, in order to get some updated packages I need. X is now not working, and i dont know why. There are no useful messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, that i can tell--no errors are reported adn the only thing that looks bad is SELinux: Disabled on system,

Re: Sound woes

2009-05-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
And opening up a new browser, sound doesnt work in that one either. As long as the original browser is open, weather or not theres sound playing, nothing else can get sound. does that help narrow things down? One thing you could try is editing /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc and

Re: Sound woes

2009-05-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Iceweasel itself shouldn't grab the soundcard if your not on a site that uses flash for audio. If you close the webpage after listening to flash audio the soundcard is still in the being used state, correct? Try these two commands below, which should show what is using the

Sound woes

2009-05-09 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I keep having problems with sound on my system that i just dont know how to describe any more. If there is a way to say whats going on, i want to know this, so i can get help better, and figure out myself how to keep things working. I dont want to do any thing fancy, i just want sound to

Re: Sound woes

2009-05-09 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Right now on my Debian unstable system, i run Pulseaudio (for good USB audio support). Recently many things have stopped working. I can watch YouTube videos with sound, and click on MP3s and hear them, both from within FireFox. But when I open up another browser at the same time, that gets

Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

2009-04-05 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, I have Pulseaudio set up on my sid machine, and after following the configuratoin examples, things have been working fine. But recently some parts (i dont know the right word--channel, track, source?) stop working and i cant tell why. When I first boot the machine everything works. But

Upgrading flashplayer?

2009-02-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. Im running...well, I guess Sid. Im using testing for my /etc/apt/sources.list file. A few days ago flashplugin-nonfree went away, or something, and i can no longer get flash to work. I installed flashplayer-mozilla but it doesnt work. I looked at the Adobe site and they do have a Linux

Re: Upgrading flashplayer?

2009-02-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:56, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: A few days ago flashplugin-nonfree went away, or something, and i can no longer get flash to work. I installed flashplayer-mozilla but it doesnt work. I looked at the Adobe site and they do have a Linux

Re: Upgrading flashplayer?

2009-02-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Upgrading flashplayer? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 11:45 AM On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:56, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271

Lots of Gnome missing from Sid?

2009-01-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
A while ago i asked for advice about upgrading--i wanted more up to date packages on my Lenny laptop. Thanks to some helpful suggests, i concluded that it was safe to go to unstable. I change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny to sid, and away i went. Since then things have been ok; sometimes a

Re: Lots of Gnome missing from Sid?

2009-01-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: A while ago i asked for advice about upgrading--i wanted more up to date packages on my Lenny laptop. Thanks to some helpful suggests, i

Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-15 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I am currently running Lenny on two laptops. I thought i had seen something on this list about how, with Lenny close to release, the lenny repositories are different from testing, and if we want to keep up to date we should switch to testing in sources.list. But the docs say that lenny is just

Songbird package?

2008-12-05 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Now that Songbird has been released as 1.0, will there be a Debian package for it? I use Lenny now. On the Songbird site they only have a source tarball, and the contributed builds are for Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, and Gentoo. Are we that much behind the times?!? :-) Jen. -- To

Decent fonts in Emacs?

2008-10-24 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. Im running Gnome under Lenny. Im trying to get Emacs to work with some decent fonts that show some special characters in a document, things like an fi or fl ligature, or some other odd things like that (ellipsis). When i look at these files in gedit, or even in the terminal wiht more, they

Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-06 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. Im running Lenny on two computers, and have been very happy with it. Nothings ever really been broken, so i dont think that a stable version is necessary for what i need. I dont really want to go unstable--the name alone scares me--but at the same time i read the release notes for the new

Setting up ad-hoc network?

2008-09-30 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im running Gnome on a Lenny laptop. Is there a simple way to set up an ad-hoc wireless network? I want to do this so i can tether an iPhone, to get Net access via the phone. I expected that the NetworkManager Create New Wirelss Network option would do it, but i dont know what this does; its

Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start. I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up in my networking tools, even though the machine does support WiFi. I rebooted

Re: Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu: Hi. This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start. I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up in my

Re: Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Sebastian Gunther wrote: * Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29.09.08 18:28]: [WiFi Problem] Please submit the results of the following commands: # uname -a # lspci # ifconfig # iwconfig Then we know a little more about your hardware. I seem to hvae fixed it. I cleaned

Volume control in Pulseaudio?

2008-09-16 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi! I recently installed Pulseaudio because a lot of people said it was the best thing, and i'd been having some problems with my audio beforehand. After following some detailed instructions online i managed to get it running smoothly with all my apps. My one problem is the volume control. The

Re: Installing svk on lenny?

2008-07-06 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Sun, 7/6/08, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing svk on lenny? To: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 6:17 AM On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:16:49PM -0700, Dr

Audacious segfaulting

2008-07-05 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
There was just a thread about a problem with Audacious, but my problem seems different. Fully up-to-date Lenny system, not running anything fancy. Trying to run Audacious, I get: $ audacious amidi-plug(amidi-plug.c:amidiplug_init:97): init, read configuration

Installing svk on lenny?

2008-07-05 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, Im trying to install svk on a lenny system, but its not available in the lenny sources. A search of the package archives suggests that you can get it in Etch or unstable, but apt-get install svk / stable or / unstable just says that svk is not available, but is referred by another package.

Firefox 3?

2008-07-03 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Is there a version of Firefox 3--or, i guess, Iceweasel 3--in package form yet, or is it still in some kind of testing form where you have to compile it yourself? FF3 on my Windows machine is shockingly much faster, so id like to move over to it on my Lenny machine too, if its stable and

Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button

2008-06-30 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, Im running Lenny on a ThinkPad T60. I got the computer from a friend and dont know if this worked on it beforehand. The middle mouse button doesnt work in X--just no response at all to try to paste things. I shut off the trackpad in the BIOS (I only use the clitmouse and it's buttons) but

Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now im running kernel version 2.6.24. And i cant find the package for ipw2945 2.6.24

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:26, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now im running

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Jeff D wrote: have you tried to manually load the iwl3945 module? I beleive that the ipw driver has been replaced with the iwl. Oh, yes, thank you! I found the entry in the Wiki for doing this, followed everything exactly, and now im back on wireless. Thanx all! Jen

Getting USB audio to work (Lenny)

2008-02-10 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I have an up to date Lenny system, and sound works pretty much fine but i cant get USB audio to play. I have a pair of altec USB speakers that work on a Mac. When i plug them in, they show up in the system: if i go to System - Preferences - Sound, the Devices tab gives me the option for USB audio

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #118

2008-01-12 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:29:16 + From: Benjamin M. A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing Skype 2 on Lenny? On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:03:06PM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: How do i

Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?

2008-01-11 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2 for the video chat.) I cant find any packages in the usual debian repositorys, and the one on the Skype site is only for Etch. Will it work OK? (And if it does, silly question: whats the name for the QT4 package? I use Gnome. There were a bunch

Adjusting volume, and system beep

2007-12-20 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Sorry if this is too basic a question. I have an IBM ThinkPad T60 running lenny, using GNOME. There looks like there are two main ways to adjust the volume. I can do it in software by using the Volume Control or Mixer apps, or similar things from the commandline. Then i can use the volume

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0? (followup)

2007-10-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my questoin. Fortunately or unfortunately i was forced to reboot the machine for other reasons, and upon rebooting eth0 was there. Repeated suspends had no effect, i.e. eth0 was still there (meaning that suspending isnt what caused it to vanish). Since

Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-23 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I know this must be an incredibly dumb question, but i cant find my eth0 interface. I normally use a WiFi connection on my laptop, running Etch with Gnome. But i just brought the computer into an office, plugged in an Ethernet cable, and waited for NetworkManager to pick it up. And waited. And

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-23 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I know this must be an incredibly dumb question, but i cant find my eth0 interface. I normally use a WiFi connection on my laptop, running Etch with Gnome. But i just brought the computer into an office, plugged

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-23 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Andrew Sackville wrote: personally, I think network-manager is more trouble than its worth, but that's jsut me. Im starting to feel that your right--when it works its nice but when it doesnt i never know what to do. please provide the exact output of the following: dmesg | grep -i ^eth $

Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, which still seems to be stuck on Gnome 2.14, even though 2.16 was released about a year ago and 2.18 since then. What are the plans for integrating more up-to-date versions of Gnome into Etch, or into later versions of Debian? I

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2325

2007-09-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:26:10 -0400 From: Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie) On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:54:23 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports

Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)

2007-09-06 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def systems, but just so i can listen to music while getting beeps from Gaim, or

Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im having some big network problems all of a sudden and am not sure why. This is running an up-to-date Etch. I dont do anything fancy. Im on a wireless network now. I had a system freeze, and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came up at all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but

Re: Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 07:20 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Im on a wireless network now. I had a system freeze, and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came up at all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but then again im not sure how to do this anyway. I

Re: Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Please don't Cc: me, I am subscribed to the list. Sorry, on some other lists im on its considered polite to cc the posters. And i know im breaking threading by responding now with a new message. I have to stop the digest subscription, sorry On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:08 -0700, Dr. Jennifer

Re: Networking problem (SOLVED)

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
What is your Wi-Fi chip? Maybe you don't have the driver module installed for the newer kernel version. Its an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. From my dmesg in the 2.6.18-4 kernel: --- ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.1.2dmpr ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006

VMWare network setup (newbie)

2007-08-21 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, sorry if this is too basic or offtopic a question, but i didnt see a debian-newbie list or anything. Im running Etch on an IBM ThinkPad T60. I need to run a Windows application on it, so i installed VMWare Server following some detailed instructions i found on HowToForge and then installed

.bashrc problem--ls output and root prompt

2007-08-21 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im a new Debian Etch user, coming from FreeBSD. When i first installed my system, running the ls command would give me coloured output (executables one colour, directories another). Also, when I sudo'ed to root, i would get the usual # prompt as root. I then copied over my (straightforward)

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2227

2007-08-21 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
From: Sergio Cuéllar Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: .bashrc problem--ls output and root prompt 2007/8/21, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, nothing fancy. How do i get my coloured ls back, and my # prompt as sudo'ed root? Hi