cannot print in kde apps using lp

2006-10-23 Thread Karl Agee
I posted about this about a month ago, thought i had it it figured out but I guess I fooled myself. I have kde 3.5.4 installed in fbsd6.1. I cannot print from kde applications, such as the printer control module, kpdf, etc. I can print just_fine from OO.o, Firefox and Adobe Reader 7. The

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-14 Thread Karl Agee
--- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 21:17, Karl Agee wrote: --- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006

startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-13 Thread Karl Agee
6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 I cannot start kde. Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add -r kde and everything installed fine. I put in my ~/.xinitrc file: startkde but I keep getting this error: /usr/local/bin/startkde: permission denied startkde:

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-13 Thread Karl Agee
--- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 I cannot start kde. Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add -r kde and everything installed fine. I put in my

Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

2006-10-13 Thread Karl Agee
--- Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On October 13, 2006 6:11:42 PM -0700 Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 I cannot start kde. Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add -r kde and everything installed fine

Printing Problem

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Agee
uname -a FreeBSD enterprise.myhome.westell.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.20060916 i386 I cannot print from some applications, namely xpdf and evince. I have cups installed and running and I can

Printing Problem

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Agee
BTW, this is a usb printer. /var/log/messages shows: hine enterprise.myhome.westell.com: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Oct 6 08:45:56 enterprise lpd[11501]: /dev/lp: No such file or directory __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Printing Problem

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Agee
uname -a FreeBSD enterprise.myhome.westell.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.20060916 i386 I cannot print from some applications, namely xpdf and evince. I am trying to print pdf's from these as printing

Re: Printing Problem

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Agee
--- Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uname -a FreeBSD enterprise.myhome.westell.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.20060916 i386 I cannot

su: illegal option -- s

2005-04-02 Thread Karl Agee
FreeBSD 4.11-Stable, bash 2.05. I am getting an error when I try to launch a daemon script manually as root, or in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: -su-2.05b# /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/z3950-daemon-launch.sh -su-2.05b# su: illegal option -- s usage: su [-] [-flm] [-c class] [login

page fault when starting system with new hard disk

2005-04-02 Thread Karl Agee
FreeBSD 4.11-stable. details: FreeBSD enterprise 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 30 22:07:15 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL_20050130 i386 Put a new hard disk is my system today, and setup partitions for storing data files iso's etc. it is setup as a

Re: su: illegal option -- s

2005-04-02 Thread Karl Agee
Dan: Thanks, this seems to have worked. --karl --- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Apr 02), Karl Agee said: FreeBSD 4.11-Stable, bash 2.05. I am getting an error when I try to launch a daemon script manually as root, or in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: -su

printer gone beszerk

2005-03-19 Thread Karl Agee
FreeBSD 4.11-Stable. My printer has gone beszerk...and, I cant clear the queue. Here is some output: bash-2.05b$ lpq -P hp Warning: unable to get address list for remote machine : No address associated with hostname Warning: no daemon present Rank Owner Job Files

portmanager

2005-03-05 Thread Karl Agee
For those who havent tried it, I used sysutils/portmanager to fix my broken gnome install...and it worked! everything is happy now. Thanks to Mike Shultz for suggesting it. --Karl _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger!

portupgrade wrecked gnome!!! ~8-(

2005-03-03 Thread Karl Agee
Here is my tale of woe. Freebsd 4.11-stable. I upgraded my ports using portupgrade -arR after cvsuping and make fetchindex and portsdb -u. Things worked, so I went out and did portupgrade. But my gnome-2.8.2 install is hosed. It starts but gives me no taskbars or button bars. Just little

Device Perms in 5.3

2005-01-07 Thread Karl Agee
I want to use 5.3 as a desktop system, but I am having some problems with device permissions. Since devfs re-creates devices on boot I have to redo the perms everytime I want to use these devices. Listening to audio cd's, watching dvd's or burning cd's/dvd's. Gets a little annoying. How can

Re: installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-04 Thread Karl Agee
From: Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: installing a linux rpm, wants perl Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:41:38 -0800 On Monday 03 January 2005 09:24 pm, Karl Agee wrote: freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying

installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread Karl Agee
freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following errer: -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm package.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by package -su-2.05b# whereis

upgrading perl

2004-12-30 Thread Karl Agee
Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since 5.6.x some of the features arent in this older version. I am considering

gnome-cd: cant connect to cddb server--resolved

2004-12-25 Thread Karl Agee
I had posted earlier that I couldnt pull down cd info from the cddb server when playing music cd's. I did a lot more googling and found that: 1) gnome-cd uses a program called cddbslave2 to fetch info from the cddb servers; 2) cddbslave2 uses ftp through port 888 to request this info. so I

gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user

2004-12-24 Thread Karl Agee
Freebsd 4.11-pre, gnome-lite 2.8.1. using gnome-cd to listen to cd's in my user acct, but it wont connect to the cddb server to pull down cd info. It does when I do it as root, however. The only error I see is this: ** (gnome-cd:671): WARNING **: could not contact cddb server how to fix

Re: gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user

2004-12-24 Thread Karl Agee
From: Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: FreeBSD User Questions List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-cd: connecting to cddb server as user Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:27:23 -0500 On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 11:02 -0800, Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11

using growfs

2004-11-30 Thread Karl Agee
FreeBSD 4.10-stable. I want to grow a filesystem that is at the end of the partition. Reading the man pages for disklabel(8) and fdisk(8) I am still not sure how to make the slice larger before using growfs. Any tips appreciated! --Karl

Re: Parallel Port Printing Blues

2004-11-16 Thread Karl Agee
From: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Parallel Port Printing Blues Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:18:04 -0500 On Tuesday 16 November 2004 02:01 am, Karl Agee wrote: I have a Freebsd 4.10-stable system that I am having problems getting

Parallel Port Printing Blues

2004-11-15 Thread Karl Agee
I have a Freebsd 4.10-stable system that I am having problems getting parallel port printing to work on. The printer is an old HP DeskJet 820C Winprinter http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_820C that works well on the same box in Linux-Mandrake 10.0 Official. I have

books

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Hi Greg and all: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post

more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) Silicon Motion(0): Write-combining range (0x0, 0x1000) was already clear (II) Silicon Motion(0): Current Mode 0x00 (II)

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Karl Agee snipped: (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A registered at address 0x48. (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A removed. It looks as if you have trimmed too much. Look for lines starting with (WW) and (EE). (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI

laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-24 Thread Karl Agee
I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

X 4.3 on thinkpad iSeries 1300

2003-07-21 Thread karl agee
Trying to get X running (correctly) on a thinkpad iSeries 1300. This unit has a silicon motion LynxEM+ video chip and a 800x600 svga display. I can get X running, but, it comes up only in 640x480. Additionally the display looks like it is displaying in a 1024x768 mode as all of the fonts,

printing problems 4.7-stable

2002-10-21 Thread Karl Agee
I cannot print in 4.7-stable...I do not think the problem is the driver but with how the kernel deals the parallel port. Which is odd, since it recognizes and configures it properly. Why I say this, is because I cannot even send # lptest /dev/lpt0 to the printer, as nothing happens.

dial-up firewall

2002-07-25 Thread karl agee
In the handbook is a section on setting up a dialup firewall. I use kppp to dial out; would this be a good way to go?? Only other services I would require besides pop email would be realaudio which is udp. --karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

evolution palm-mail conduit

2002-07-25 Thread karl agee
This is along the lines of the thread using FreeBSD as a Desktop OS... anyone know of a conduit for palm OS pop mail to evolution? The one supplied is for sendmail. --karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Mission Accomplished!!!

2002-07-23 Thread karl agee
heh. Thanks to y'all I finally accomplished my goal--I've got my DP-1 kernel recompiled for sound and updated my system to -current AND I am listening to a cd on my freebsd box. heh heh Not bad for an old fart geek, eh? --karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

using burncd

2002-07-23 Thread karl agee
When using burncd, is it necessary to first create a iso fs on the cd?? It's not clear in the man page if it does this or not. --karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

kernel compile errors 5.0-DP1

2002-07-22 Thread Karl Agee
here's the errors: === NEWKERNEL mkdir -p /usr/obj/usr/src/sys cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf; PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin config -d /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NEWKERNEL

Re: kernel compile errors 5.0-DP1

2002-07-22 Thread Karl Agee
At 02:04 AM 7/23/2002 +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:51:14 -0700 Karl Agee wrote: config -d /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NEWKERNEL config: Device pci requires a count FYI: static unit limits for ppp are set: NPPP=1 config: Device