Re: Printing with CUPS

2002-10-18 Thread John Lord
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 10:56 pm, :Alan Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 8:04 pm, John Lord wrote: > > Next thing to check? > > Whats the device uri in /etc/cups/printers.conf > > I have an epson 80 under cups - here is mine > > DeviceURI pa

Printing with CUPS

2002-10-16 Thread John Lord
Hi, Please CC to me thanks. I have posted the following message on the debian-powerpc list but have had no answers as yet, any help folks? I have installed CUPS from Testing and am trying to get my Epson Stylus Photo 700 to print with it. It is connected to the parelle

What are these mails?

2002-04-13 Thread John Lord
Hi there, Over the last few days I have recieved a lot of mails with the following subjects:- Not read: ÍøÕ¾±à¼­:ÄúºÃ Nem olvasta: Í???±??­:Äú?? Read: ÍøÕ¾±à¼­:ÄúºÃ They are from different subscribers but all have an attachment titles winmail.dat. -- Cheers John Amiga A1200 PPC running

Re: X/Gnome won't start properly

2002-04-12 Thread John Lord
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 5:06 pm, Nick Hall wrote: > I'm running XFree86 4.1.0.1 and Gnome. A couple days ago I did > apt-get upgrade (I was running testing) and it upgraded some > packages. The next day when I started my computer it started > into X and the username/password box came up, but after

What are these mails?

2002-04-08 Thread John Lord
Hi there, Over the last few days I have recieved a lot of mails with the following subjects:- Not read: ÍøÕ¾±à¼­:ÄúºÃ Nem olvasta: Í???±??­:Äú?? Read: ÍøÕ¾±à¼­:ÄúºÃ They are from different subscribers but all have an attachment titles winmail.dat. -- Cheers John Amiga A1200 PPC running

why use sendmail?

2002-03-30 Thread John Lord
Hi folks, Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? I'm sorry but I can't see the reason why, but there probably is one. I have sat reading the various files about setting it up, but have drawn a blank. Having a bit of

Is it still stuck?

2002-03-30 Thread John Lord
Hi, Wonder why that other mail wasn't sent? -- Cheers John Amiga A1200 PPC running Linux/Apus Debian and KDE2.* Web site http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Still cannot subscribe

2002-03-29 Thread John Lord
Hi Anthony On 29-Mar-02, you wrote: >> I am also unable to subscribe to debian-user. My other subscriptions >> are working fine with my email address, though I have been subscribed >> to them for over a year now. I did mail the listmaster 2 days ago, >> perhaps you should do likewise. Yes confir

I am subscribed ;-)

2002-03-29 Thread John Lord
Hi folks, I have finally managed to subscribe to this list with my new email addy, looks like it is fixed now. ;-) John -- Amiga A1200 PPC running Linux/Apus Debian and KDE2.* Web site http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Still cannot subscribe

2002-03-29 Thread John Lord
Hi Jaye On 29-Mar-02, you wrote: >Greetings John: > I am also unable to subscribe to debian-user. My other subscriptions > are working fine with my email address, though I have been subscribed > to them for over a year now. I did mail the listmaster 2 days ago, > perhaps you should do likew

Still cannot subscribe

2002-03-28 Thread John Lord
Hi there, As mentioned before I have had problems subscribing with a new email addy to various debian lists. I know there have apparently been problems with the server or something, but although it should now work, I still get the same failure. Here's what I get back after confirming my reque

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-21 Thread John Lord
Hi Paul On 17-Mar-02, you wrote: >> ATM I have to d/l mails on one side of my system, forward the >> interesting ones to my Debian side. Then boot into Debian to >> continue. If someone could tell us why it is so hard to do a simple >> sub/unsub, or correct this I would be very gratefull. > On

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-20 Thread John Lord
Hi Siward On 19-Mar-02, you wrote: >> >> Right. >> I have tried subbing via the web site and sending a mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject Subscribe, >> recieved confirmation mail, replied as above, nothing recieved. > I have forwarded this to listmaster. > He can see what, if any, wa

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-17 Thread John Lord
Hi Siward On 17-Mar-02, you wrote: >> But the problem is it dosn't seem to work, "unsubbing" OR "subbing". >> Try as I might nothing works beyond getting a 'CONFIRM' mail, >which I reply to in a number of ways, just to be certain. > When I read a CONFIRM email, i simply click the REPLY bu

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-16 Thread John Lord
Hi Sebastiaan On 14-Mar-02, you wrote: > High, > Read very carefully: this is only displayed in every message once: >> > -- >> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > (or twice by the time this arrives) Bu

Locales missing?

2002-03-13 Thread John Lord
Hi, Recently after the last 2 upgrades I have been getting the following error message, also when installing individual files. *dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `locales' missing, * *assuming package has no files currently installed.* Anyone advice why this is now being report

Could not connect passive socket?

2002-02-08 Thread John Lord
Hi there, The last couple of days I have not been able to d/l anything from the uk server, I get the following: The following extra packages will be installed: koffice-libs The following NEW packages will be installed: killustrator koffice-libs 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 t

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-25 Thread John Lord
Hi Brian , On 23-Nov-01, you wrote: > So you're saying newbie questions are appropriate... Of course they are, weren't you a newbie once? or were you born a genius? ;-P > But no one wants to read newbie questions. So why are they > appropriate if no one wants to read them? So now you are the

Re: Amiga installation

2001-11-16 Thread John Lord
Hi Joseph , On 15-Nov-01, you wrote: > Whenever I try to instal Debian on my 68040 Amiga, I get to the endo of the > installation where it asks if I want to enable it to boot from a har drive > and when I acknowledge this it tells me, "Installing a boot loader is not > yet possible for Debian/m68

Re: Amiga installation

2001-11-16 Thread John Lord
Hi Joseph , On 15-Nov-01, you wrote: > Whenever I try to instal Debian on my 68040 Amiga, I get to the endo of the > installation where it asks if I want to enable it to boot from a har drive > and when I acknowledge this it tells me, "Installing a boot loader is not > yet possible for Debian/m68

Re: Cant login

2001-11-10 Thread John Lord
Hi Steffen , On 08-Nov-01, you wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 14:30, John Lord wrote: >>> 1. Make sure that this problem is caused by xfree package 4.1.0-7 by >>> updating to the most current ones. >> I have 4.1.0-7 installed atm, and yes this does seem to be

Re: Cant login

2001-11-08 Thread John Lord
Hi Steffen , On 07-Nov-01, you wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 01:14, John Lord wrote: >> I have installed KDM and cant login. >> I now have the problem that I think I saw mentioned somewhere recently. >> That is when I select a user in the login GUI and select the s

Cant login

2001-11-06 Thread John Lord
Hello, I have installed KDM and cant login. I now have the problem that I think I saw mentioned somewhere recently. That is when I select a user in the login GUI and select the session, it takes a server restart before the keyboard is recognised. Then when I have entered my password I just end u

Re: startx problems

2001-11-04 Thread John Lord
Hi Kevin , On 04-Nov-01, you wrote: >> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file >> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " " >> I have updated some files over the net and can't quite work out what has >> happened. I am a relative newbie to Linux though have been reading some >> d

startx problems

2001-11-04 Thread John Lord
Hello, Can someone let me know what the following errors mean, and how to fix them please? /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " " I have updated some files over the net and can't quite work out what has happened. I am a relative newbie t

Re: sources list additions

2001-11-03 Thread John Lord
Hi Martin , On 03-Nov-01, you wrote: > My sources list: > deb http://ftp.bg.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > > I am in Czech republic but I think that bulgarian servers are "bloody" fast > :) It sure is fast, but it dosn't seem to have the ppc binaries, which are the o

Re: sources list additions

2001-11-03 Thread John Lord
Hi Martin , On 03-Nov-01, you wrote: >> Can someone let me know the correct format for the following lines that I >> have added to my sources.list, all I get is "file or directory" does not >> exist. > My sources list: > deb http://ftp.bg.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free >^^

sources list additions

2001-11-03 Thread John Lord
Hello, Can someone let me know the correct format for the following lines that I have added to my sources.list, all I get is "file or directory" does not exist. deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main binary-powerpc deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing contrib binary-powerpc deb ft

Xstartup, non-zero status

2001-10-29 Thread John Lord
Hi again, Sorry if this message appears more than once, the original was bounced back to me, unable to send. I have managed to boot into the login screen with kdm and when I complete the login, the desktop starts to load then I get the following error message: startup program /usr/X11R6/lib/kd

Xstartup, non-zero status

2001-10-29 Thread John Lord
Hi again, Sorry if this message appears more than once, the original was bounced back to me, unable to send. I have managed to boot into the login screen with kdm and when I complete the login, the desktop starts to load then I get the following error message: startup program /usr/X11R6/lib/kd

Xstartup, non-zero status

2001-10-29 Thread John Lord
Hi again, I have managed to boot into the login screen with kdm and when I complete the login, the desktop starts to load then I get the following error message: startup program /usr/X11R6/lib/kdm/Xstartup exited with non-zero status. Please contact your system administrator. (well thats me any

Re: UNATTACHED INODE

2001-10-28 Thread John Lord
On 26-Oct-01, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > after fixing, set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS, and next time it'll > get fixed automatically. Thanks I'll do that. Regards

UNATTACHED INODE

2001-10-25 Thread John Lord
Hello, After a crash during booting I now get the following error message: UNATTACHED INODE 161806 /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISENCY; RUN FSCK MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p options) Please repair manually and reboot. To remount it rw: do mount -m -o remount, rw / Can you guess the ne