Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-05 Thread Alex Gould
Thanks for everyone's help. I looked into what deloptes and tv.debian suggested. In the course of this I have become convinced that I am afflicted by bug #902943 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902943 . So I'll subscribe to the bug and see if there's any way I can help troubles

Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-04 Thread Alex Gould
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, at 3:08 PM, deloptes wrote: > Alex Gould wrote: > > > I imagine I will need to fix some settings for initramfs, grub, crypttab, > > fstab, or something, but I'm not sure how to proceed. > > I would compare content of new and old initrd

Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-04 Thread Alex Gould
Hi, I'm hoping for some advice for a problem with my system that is tracking Debian Testing. The system has two equally-sized internal hard drives. They are partitioned in the following way: Disk A has a smaller ext2 partition that serves as /boot, with the remainder being a physical volume fo

Re: Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

2016-12-26 Thread Alex Gould
Thanks Michael and Gene. This model (MS310d) doesn't have a built-in server, or ethernet or wifi networking, so that's not an option. I installed dfu and tried "dfu-util -l" with the printer powered on and plugged in by USB, but it wasn't listed. So I guess it's not supported by dfu. I think I'l

Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

2016-12-25 Thread Alex Gould
Hello everyone, Has anyone been able to upgrade a Lexmark printer firmware via USB in Linux? I am using an MS310d. Lexmark has a windows firmware update utility but it doesn't detect the printer under WINE. Printing workers ok with CUPS but the firmware update promises to fix some errors that I'

Re: Looking for software to manage snail-mail subscriptions

2010-12-04 Thread Alex Gould
Camaleón gmail.com> writes: > This may sound a bit overwhelming but have you thought in a CMS (like > Drupal or Joomla) and a module for managing those subscriptions? :-? > Thanks. I'd consider it -- but do you know of any such module or add-on? It's hard to just do a web-search for this kin

Looking for software to manage snail-mail subscriptions

2010-12-04 Thread Alex Gould
Hi, does anyone know of a Free Software program for managing subscriptions and mailing lists -- the old fashioned dead tree kind? Ideally it would handle individual periodical subscribers and bookstore orders (consignment deals on multiple copies of each issue), and help to automate the printing

PDF form data won't print

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Gould
Hello, I am looking for advice with a frustrating little problem: I am able to fill in PDF forms from the US IRS with either okular or evince (I am using the "testing" distribution). However, alphanumerical form data is "invisible." It only displays the value for a particular field when I click

trouble with an old Packard Bell monitor and an ATI mach64 card

2006-09-11 Thread Alex Gould
Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge as a lightweight X desktop (fluxbox an a few programs) on a HP pavilion 6355. It has an ATI mach64 video card with 2 MB ram, connected to an old 13 or 14 inch (I'm not sure) Packard Bell monitor of some sort: the sticker on the back says it's a "PB 8539 VG". I've tr

trouble with an old Packard Bell monitor and an ATI mach64 card

2006-09-11 Thread Alex Gould
Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge as a lightweight X desktop (fluxbox an a few programs) on a HP pavilion 6355. It has an ATI mach64 video card with 2 MB ram, connected to an old 13 or 14 inch (I'm not sure) Packard Bell monitor of some sort: the sticker on the back says it's a "PB 8539 VG". I've tr

Re: usb HP laserjet 1300 and kernel 2.6.0 [fixed]

2004-01-09 Thread Alex Gould
On Friday 09 January 2004 13:16, Alex Gould wrote: > Hello, I am using the standard debian linux kernel 2.6.0-1-686. What > module(s) do I have to load to communicate with my HP laserjet 1300, > connected by USB? > > Thanks, Alex Well, just in case anyone is as ignorant as I am,

usb HP laserjet 1300 and kernel 2.6.0

2004-01-09 Thread Alex Gould
Hello, I am using the standard debian linux kernel 2.6.0-1-686. What module(s) do I have to load to communicate with my HP laserjet 1300, connected by USB? Thanks, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]