CD-writer: Rico 7040a supported?

1999-06-09 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
It seems as if this Rico is a newer model than the supported Ricoh MP-6201. It is not on cdrecord's list of supported drives. Does anyone have experience of using this drive with cdrecord? Johann -- | Johann Spies

Efax: can't rename lockfile ...

1999-06-07 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I have posted this question before last week, but did not get any replies. So forgive me for trying again. I still could not solve the problem even after removing efax and resinstalling a newer version. --- I never had this prob

Cooledit for debian?

1999-06-05 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
Does anyone know whether somebody is packaging cooledit for Debian? It is a very nice, and fast X-editor with a lot of features. I have read about it on another mailing list and installed a rpm package. Have a look at http://www.obsidian.co.za/psheer/devel/cooledit/ ftp://lava.obsidian.co.za/

apt-get/dpkg screwed up.

1999-06-04 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I get the following error message on my screen after I tried to removed ee after the installation of ee failed: $ apt-get -f remove ee Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ee 0 packages upgr

can't rename lockfile ...

1999-06-03 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I never had this problem with efax before: --- $ fax send 426191 jan.ps jan.ps is postscript... efax: Thu Jun 3 16:01:09 1999 efax v 0.8a (Debian release 08a-4) Copyright 1996 Ed Casas efax: 01:09 Warning: local ID (0331-461310) has non-standard characters efax: 01:09 remov

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-03 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > How about: > $ kill `pidof gtt` The problem is that pidof gtt shows nothing. $ pidof gtt $ $ kill `pidof gtt` kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec] Johann ---

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-03 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Ares wrote: > Either that or look under /var/run for a file like gtt.pid. bash-2.02$ l /var/run total 17 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 2 19:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 May 25 23:16 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Jun 2 18:16

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-03 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: > Try > ps auxw | grep gtt bash-2.02$ ps auxw | grep gtt jhspies462 0.0 0.7 1196 492 ? S20:05 0:00 grep gtt bash-2.02$ -- | Johann Spies

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-02 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Johann Spies at Johann wrote, I replied: > Try > ps ax | grep gtt | grep -v grep I have tried that. It shows nothing. I have also removed gnome-utils and reinstalled it, and the same problem occurs. > > When I try to run gt

Removing a pid

1999-06-01 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
When I try to run gtt(from gnome) I get the message : "There seems to be another GtimeTracker running. Please remove the pid if that is not correct." I cannot find a pid for gtt. The /var/run directory looks like this: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 1 16:29 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18

Re: How do I apply a kernel patch?

1999-05-31 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Sun, 30 May 1999, John Pearson wrote: >> The patch was prepared on a system where /usr/src/linux was 'really' >> /usr/src/linux.vanilla. Try this: >> # cd /usr/src >> # ln -s linux linux.vanilla >> # cat patch-2.2.7-ac4 | patch -p0 >> >> That should work. >The patch utility was specifical

How do I apply a kernel patch?

1999-05-29 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
According to the Kernel-HOWTO I should do the following: So, continuing with the example above, let's suppose that you have `patch46.gz' in /usr/src. cd to /usr/src and do a `zcat patch46.gz | patch -p0' (or `patch -p0 < patch46' if the patch isn't compressed). You'll see things whizz by

RE: XCDRoast and HP7200

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
Hallo Bryan, Thanks for your reply. I think I found the problem today: the hp7200i-writer is faulty. I took it to my friend who has one on his Windows 98 system. He connected it and could not successfully write to the CD-RW-disc (the one that came with the writer and the same one he formatted

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > "Christopher J. Morrone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Just to add to everybody's whining, I should say that I haven't been > > > able to get my CDR (Panasonic 7502 SCSI) working for about 6 weeks > > > now. Yes, Me Too (tm), I have to boot into Window

Cut & paste with gpm stopped working

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
The subject line says it all. I have recently upgraded my kernel to 2.2.7 and installed libncurses4. How can I get it to work again. Maybe it is related: when I try do do menuconfig in my kernel source tree, it fails complaining about some include files that is missing. That started happening a

Re: Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-28 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Could I please see the actual command you typed to blank the cd? > cdrecord speed=4 -dev=0,0 -v /f/image1.raw -multi Johann -- | Johann Spies Win

CD-writing keeps failing

1999-05-27 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I have been trying to get a HP7200i to successfully write CD's and had no success so far. I am beginning to doubt whether I will ever be able to write CD's with Linux. And I cannot do it with windows because I do not have windows95 or NT. I have even upgraded my kernel to 2.2.7 because I suspect

Re: apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-27 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > "Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > > > Johann Spies at Johann wrote: > > > > > > Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get > > > on my hamm system. Durin

Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-26 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I am for the first time experimenting how to do CD-writing with a HP 7200i. After my first effort using CDROAST on a rewritable cd I could not mount it - my effort to mount it resulting in mount /hp7200 mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only hdb: ATAPI reset com

apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-26 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also upgraded. Today when I ran "make menuconfig" in my kernel-source tree I get the following error message: There seems to be a pro

Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-26 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Christensen wrote: > I picked Debian over the other distributions because the non-commercial > aspect appealed to me. But I realize that it's the Debian community of > users that make it the best choice! Without the support of other users > the installation process would hav

xcdroast and HP7200i

1999-05-26 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I have installed xcdroast 0.96e to try out my HP7200i. According to the supported cdwriters the HP7200 (which is not a SCSI-drive) is supported, but I cannot select it during the setup. The documentation says about the hardware requirements: * SCSI-Controller running with Linux. (Not necessary

Installing libc6_2.1.1-7 on hamm

1999-05-25 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I have a mixed system with a hamm base and slink and potato packages. I want to try out a cd writer (HP 7200i) and to do that want to install a new version of cdrecord as hamm's version does not support the drive. cdrecord depends on libc6 > 2.1. When I try to install libc6 the following happens

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-24 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I have two large files in my /var/log: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18523020 May 24 07:14 lastlog <- -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm871296 May 24 07:14 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 7499904 May 5 14:07 wtmp.0 <- -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 49369 Oct 1

Re: lpq:cannot open connection to `lp@localhost' - Connection refused

1999-05-14 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I recently had a similar problem although I have only one printer. For a reason I could not determine, the lp-module of the kernel got lost and I had to put it back by modconf (could also have used insmod). Johann On Thu, 13 May 1999, Jan Krupa wrote: > I have two printer installed on my Deb

re: hp 7200i

1999-05-13 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > Check read this, UDF enables you to read those CDRW disks you make in > Windows. > > In order to burn CDR disks in linux, you need to recompile your kernel. > DISABLE IDE Atapi CD-rom support, and ENABLE scsi emulation and scsi > generic support. This

HP 7200i

1999-05-13 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I can get a HP7200i CD-R-drive (still new) at a very reasonable price. I have checked the Hardware-Howto, but did not get much information on CD-RW-drives. Can anybody comment on the usability of this drive with Linux? Thanks in advance Johann

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-10 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > Dselect ? Do people 'still' use that? Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it in a directory and install it with dpkg. I have tried apt, but could not g