Re: Xorg not working after botched upgrade

2007-11-09 Thread Carl Brown
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > soudns like its a kde error, not an xorg error. look in > $HOME/xsession.errors for clues. Surprise! The drive with /home on it didn't get mounted, so it's likely neither an X nor a KDE problem. -- Carl Brown Wh

Xorg not working after botched upgrade

2007-11-08 Thread Carl Brown
uldn't open a session. In my experience, if there's a bad X problem, kdm doesn't work either. Any ideas? -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I verify hardware compatibility?

2006-11-26 Thread Carl Brown
"belkin F5D7000 linux" for example, and you will quickly find out the state of support. A reasonably current HCL for wireless cards may be found at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php/cat/10 -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xserver-xorg postinst script Hanging

2006-11-25 Thread Carl Brown
Which also failed. Interestingly, top says "0 zombie". Trying to remove discover, I find that the package is discover1, discover is not installed. After removing discover1, the xserver-xorg postinst script completed without error. Now for that reboot... Up and running fine! Than

Re: xserver-xorg postinst script Hanging

2006-11-25 Thread Carl Brown
root shell that I ran the command on is hung. Any suggestions? -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA

xserver-xorg postinst script Hanging

2006-11-25 Thread Carl Brown
Using testing, installing xserver-xorg 7.1.0-6. Running a dist-upgrade, xserver-xorg postinst script hangs indefinitely. There is no disk or CPU activity, I must kill it manually. Is this a local problem or are others also seeing this? -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Panasonic Touchscreen

2006-09-07 Thread Carl Brown
I am trying to get the touchscreen working on a Toughbook CF-29. I have been unable to locate any information specifically about it. It seems that some older Toughbooks used a serial port, usually ttyS3, and that others may use a similar setup to the Fujitsu Lifebook B-series, which apparently a

Re: kde 3.5

2006-02-10 Thread Carl Brown
;t even accepting bug reports for 3.4.x anymore. What is the problem keeping KDE 3.5 from moving into testing? -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Openoffice Setup Fails after Upgrade on Sid

2004-11-29 Thread Carl Brown
d the instructions in README.Debian.gz so now I have debug output. This output means little to me, however, due to my cluelessness in such matters. Any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-08 Thread Carl Brown
most of them: grep -R "PUBLIC LICENSE" /usr/share/doc/* -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA

Re: Can't play audio CD's

2004-06-08 Thread Carl Brown
nd logged out, then logged back in... > everything worked. If there is a way to refresh a current user's group memberships without logging out, could someone please enlighten us? -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: what happened to KDE?

2004-06-03 Thread Carl Brown
upgrading others. When KDE was restarted, it died of myriad complaints. Running the upgrade again from the _real_ root console solved the problem. -- Carl Brown Whitefield, NH USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Qt install problem

1998-03-30 Thread Carl Brown
;. Do I need to download libgif2 from somewhere? A search at linux.org came up empty. This is the first time I've tried to compile anything, so I have no idea what I'm doing. TIA /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\-\ Carl Brown, Whitefield,

Mouse Driver?

1998-03-29 Thread Carl Brown
al destop space. gpmconfig or XF86Setup didn't offer me any setting for this. Is there a way to do this? /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\-\ Carl Brown, Whitefield, NH, USA Proud Member of TEAM OS/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Boy