Thank you for your help I am a total neophyte to computers and am struggling
along
the path to wisdom, I appreciate your help very much.
best wishes jack
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Michael McKinley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Where are you entering the password? That is, is this in a GUI dialog
> or at the terminal? At the terminal, this is expected behavior: when
> entering a password, no asterisks or other characters are echoed to the
> screen. In other words, the computer sees you entering the password,
> but it doesn't give any feedback.
>
> --
> trying to install application (nvidia-glx-config enable) i am asked for
> password but am unable to enter anything from keyboard
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274848
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> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> currently running Ubuntu 8.08
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Sep 26 08:40:26 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
>
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trying to install application (nvidia-glx-config enable) i am asked for
password but am unable to enter anything from keyboard
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274848
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