printing a certain .ps causes usb kernel errors

Perhaps I should send this to some other mailing list (suggestions?), but my user has been generating a series of .ps files through firefox that, when printed, cause the printer to stop printing. Its red LED starts flashing, and when I go to examine /var/log/kern.log I see many entries of the form

how to set mouse color?

My mouse cursor is mighty hard to find. Does anyone know of a program which will make it red+white (instead of black+white)? I tried xsetroot, but that only affects the root window. I need red for all windows. Also, anyone know of a technique to get mouse-trails? I have nvidia hardware, an

one machine - multiple users, monitors, keyboards, mice ...

I would like to take my rediculously over-powered computer, and have it usable by two people at the same time. I'd like to hook up two monitors, two keyboards, and two mice, and run a display manager like xdm on each monitor. I vaguely recall some hooks for this in X, like saying 'xterm -disp

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

John Hasler Add to Address Book wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Look at the diald package. Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. I have no trouble to get pppd to demand->dial, its the undemand->hangup that is proving trickier, since this ISP sends all kinds of crandom carp

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

John Hasler wrote: All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when users run "pon demand-wvdial"... ^ I named my ppp connection /etc/ppp/peers/demand-wvdial, because ppp calls "wvdial --chat" to negotiate the login, and because its theoreti

pon does nothing when run by users

All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when users run "pon demand-wvdial" pppd starts, but the modem doesn't DO anything. When root runs the same command, busy modem dialing ensues. Similarly, when poff is run as user, and pon had been called previously by roo

esd taking over /dev/dsp

[was: stupid sound permission problem] Aha! The real problem is that when user david runs ogg123 its from within X, where "esd -nobeeps" is an fuser of /dev/dsp. Uh, what's the debian way of allowing these things to co-exist peacefully? David Morse wrote: These audio permissio

stupid sound permission problem

These audio permissions look good to me, but for some reason user "david" still can't play sounds, while "root" can. crw-rw1 root audio 14, 4 Mar 14 2002 /dev/audio crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 1

Re: serial modem + wvdial = solved

David Morse wrote: Hi, I have a USRobot. internal serial modem that was working fine under redhat 7.2. I wiped the box and installed debian, and now wvdial claims the modem smells: titania:/dev# wvdial speakeasy ---> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.53 ---> Cannot open /dev/ttyS2:

groups [was: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

Alexander Fitterling wrote: PS this Debian concept with separate group permissions is very efficient and I think gives more transparency as you would install programms as suid bit and must run as root. Also chmod 666 to devices as done by different distritbutions seems wired to me. I've never re

serial modem + wvdial

Hi, I have a USRobot. internal serial modem that was working fine under redhat 7.2.  I wiped the box and installed debian, and now wvdial claims the modem smells: titania:/dev# wvdial speakeasy ---> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.53 ---> Cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Input/output error --->

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

- Subject: Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt From: David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:21:36 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I apt-got xfstt in order to use bi

bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running "xlsfonts" gets me, among other things: -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 This makes no sense for a number o

emacs can't find bitstream vera

Older applications, like emacs and xfontsel, can't find bitstream vera on my woody+gnome-backport boxes. I think the installation told me to run some program or something after the install to fix this, but I forgot what it told me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

change $PATH system-wide?

I would like to add /usr/yokel/bin to my PATH system-wide. I can't find what config file to use. /etc/profile doesn't do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DMA doesn't seem to work with my custom 2.4.21 kernel

Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: You may also need to enable support for the specific chipset on that motherboard in your kernel config. See ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> IDE chipset support/bugfixes. I didn't see any support for Nforce

how to right correct /etc/modutils/* ?

Is there somewhere a cookbook or HOWTO for writing files for /etc/modutils/* . I have to write files for my usb mouse and for my sound chip, and I have no clue. I see on another system /etc/modutils/usb:__ alias char-major-13 mousedev below mousedev hid below hid usb-uh

gnome-core OR gnome-panel but not both??

In Sarge: "apt-get install gnome-panel" wants to uninstall gnome-core, and vice versa. And I need gnome-core as a prerequisite for gnome-media, without which I get no mixer applet (boo hoo). Without gnome-panel, I get no panels whatsoever, thus definately no mixer applet. I'm something of a ninn

libstdc++ lossage during dist-upgrading to sarge

Hi, I decided to give sarge a try. I did a dist-upgrade. Now all apt-get commands ignore me and instead try to install packages "mirrormagic" "moon-buggy" "nedit" and "oneko". Installing those packages fails with several complaints like this: update-menus: /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: vers