Re: gcc-4 : am I the only one having problems?

2005-11-11 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 10 November 2005 07:49 pm, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Thursday 10 November 2005 19:40, Mike Chandler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Since my testing system updated to gcc-4, I can no longer build a kernel > > (the > &

gcc-4 : am I the only one having problems?

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Chandler
Folks, hello and thanks for the help you've generously offered thus far. Since my testing system updated to gcc-4, I can no longer build a kernel (the debian way). Doing "make oldconfig" or "make xconfig" gives errors almost immediately and won't build. Another problem when it becomes necessary

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Chandler
> IIRC, you said earlier that you can log into Gnome without this problem. > So simply log into Gnome (or into console) to create your new user. > > I just saw another thread on the list that may be relevant: "keyboard > > quit working after kde upgrade, testing".

Re: keyboard quit working after kde upgrade, testing

2005-11-08 Thread Mike Chandler
The problem is solve by doing: #apt-get remove --purge kdm #apt-get install kdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 pm, Kent West wrote: > Mike Chandler wrote: > >Thanks so much Kentthe numlock light is "on" and stays on...you cannot > >turn it off. None of the other (caps lock etc) buttons do anything. > >(All this in KDE.) > > > &g

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 07 November 2005 08:52 pm, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now I have a good mouse, and the nvidia driver is working so X works > > fine. > > The problem is now, the keyboard doesn't work at all. > > It's getting so close, please help me fix the keyboard? > > Does the CAPS

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:06 am, Peter B. Schmidt wrote: > Hi there, > > I had the same problem, kdm took my keyboard from me. I fixed it by > copying the kdmrc.dpkg-dist over the exisiting kdmrc, which I have > chosen to keep during install (which wass the cause of the problem;). > > Thanks t

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-06 Thread Mike Chandler
> would a dpkg-reconifigure xserver-xfree86 have "fixed" this?? > > C > No. That was the first idea I tried. If I didn't have access to this mailing list, my system would be useless. Thanks! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread Mike Chandler
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 06:24 pm, John A Chaves wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just now checked and I don't have the file "Xservers.dpkg-old" in that > > directory. > > Are you sure that's where it is? I don't have any way to search for it > > wi

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 15 October 2004 07:31 am, robin wrote: > Mike Chandler wrote: > >On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >>Hello, > >>Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!! > > > >Nope, not needed. > &

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!! Nope, not needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-02 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 01 October 2004 07:28 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > I would like to hear what models and brands of nVidia > cards the list members use and what their experiences > with those have been. My card is a Radeon 9000 Pro > 128 MB that cost US$ 85 in July '03. I am looking f

Re: Mplayer: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.

2004-09-13 Thread Mike Chandler
On Sunday 12 September 2004 11:20 pm, Blake Swadling wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:11, Mike Chandler wrote: > > New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. > > Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). > > > > Sure enough, there is no file called

Mplayer: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.

2004-09-12 Thread Mike Chandler
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:11:08 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: R X-Status: N

Re: OT: Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 06 September 2004 12:31 pm, Jacob S. wrote: > I've never actually used jbidwatcher, just a couple of other java > programs unrelated to ebay. For ebay I've been using 'bidwatcher' > (similar name, unrelated project from what I can see). It works well, > but it's not quite as fancy as jbid

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 06 September 2004 11:51 am, Jacob S. wrote: > No problem. Sorry for the confusion along the way. > > > in order for it to work. By the way, the desktop icon now works as > > well. Thanks again. > > Excellent. Enjoy jbidwatcher. :-) > > HAND, > Jacob Thanks Jacob, The confusion was all on

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 06 September 2004 11:33 am, Jacob S. wrote: > Ok, I think we're getting somewhere then. From a terminal, type 'whereis > java'. It should be something like /usr/local/java/java. Replace 'java' > in jbidwatcher.sh with the full path to the java binary > '/usr/local/java/java' (or whatever

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 06 September 2004 11:10 am, Jacob S. wrote: > If 'java -jar JBidWatcher-0.9.3.1.jar' works when run from the directory > the .jar file is located in, I would say the next step is to test your > shell script from the command line. See what errors it gives, copy/paste > them here and we ca

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 06 September 2004 10:13 am, David Goodenough wrote: > What this says is that it can not find the JAR file. Are you absolutely > sure that it is spelt this way (remember Linux is case sensitive). Yes, I am 100% sure. I really am. > What does the ls command say is in the current direct

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 06 September 2004 06:32 am, David Goodenough wrote: > This is not the problem and is entirely unnecessary. You only need it on > the command line because the current directory is not on the PATH by > default. > > I suggest you type in the "java -jar " command directly and see what >

Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
t; David > > On Monday 06 September 2004 09:42, Mike Chandler wrote: > > Well, I tried the suggestion; but I must not be doing something right. > > Here's what I did; > > 1. went onto the dir where JBidWatcher-0.9.3.1.jar is located, (which > > is /home/mike/prog

Re: Re: how to start jbidwatcher

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Chandler
Well, I tried the suggestion; but I must not be doing something right. Here's what I did; 1. went onto the dir where JBidWatcher-0.9.3.1.jar is located, (which is /home/mike/programs) 2. rightclicked and did 'create new file > text file', and called it jbidwatcher.sh 3. made jbidwatcher.sh exec

Re: Transcode deb vanished?

2004-08-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 06 August 2004 09:13 pm, Jeremy Workman wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about what happened to the > Transcode package? I just installed it with apt-get on another machine > just a few days ago, and now it seems to be gone from apt. > > Thanks > J Just wonder, d

Re: why I can't post while on the list (still geting mails)

2004-08-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 06 August 2004 05:12 pm, Tong wrote: > I can't post You just did. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP all-in-one PSC 1110 USB

2004-08-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:05 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > Please, don't crosspost lists and newsgroups: it's bad enough having my > email address in Debian archives without having it in newgroups too. > > Had I noticed before beginning to reply, > > Wolfgang Zocher wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I h

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:55 am, Kent West wrote: > Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so > now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at > the top of the file. > > At this point, it might just be easier to manually modify the > /etc/X1

Re: (dvix,avi) to (svcd,vcd) script

2004-06-17 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:39 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does any one has any idea of how to convert an avi to svcd or vcd? Do > we have any scripts packaged as debs? I like the gui kavi2svcd, I had to make a deb with alien from a RH rpm, but it works fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:06 am, Adam Funk wrote: > On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:40, Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:46:37PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > >> > And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji > > > > You must use "sda1

Re: Newbie firewall for Sarge

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 11 June 2004 08:34 pm, John Fleming wrote: > > On Friday 11 June 2004 07:30 pm, John Fleming wrote: > > > Is there anything analagous to pmfirewall in Sarge (2.6 kernel)? I > > > downloaded pmfirewall because I was familiar with it, but it's not > > > compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I n

Re: a pair of questions

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Chandler
99 > > > Don't have a card reader. > > > > Jim > > Mike Chandler wrote: > >On Friday 11 June 2004 04:54 pm, Christian C. Benito wrote: > >>all- > >> > >>1) Has anyone been successful in making nvidia drivers > >>work with th

Re: Newbie firewall for Sarge

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 11 June 2004 07:30 pm, John Fleming wrote: > Is there anything analagous to pmfirewall in Sarge (2.6 kernel)? I > downloaded pmfirewall because I was familiar with it, but it's not > compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I need something newbie-easy that I can > configure remotely. Thanks -

Re: a pair of questions

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 11 June 2004 04:54 pm, Christian C. Benito wrote: > all- > > 1) Has anyone been successful in making nvidia drivers > work with the 2.6 kernel? I keep trying, and it keeps > breaking my machine. > > 2) I just got a usb card reader. I built a new 2.4.26 > kernel that has all the relevant m

playing CDs with alsaplayer, error

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Chandler
Using debian testing, kernel-2.6.6, this is really not a huge problem because I can play audio CDs with other applications, but I wonder why when I use alsaplayer I get this error: CDDA: read TOC ioctl failed Googling has got me the question but no answer that I can see. Appreciate your help.

Re: THANKS Re: Possible convert to Debian

2004-06-09 Thread Mike Chandler
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 06:05 am, Adam Aube wrote: > John Fleming wrote: > > Several of you have mentioned the "new installer". Can you > > expand on that? IOW, where is it? > > www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > > Is it included with, say, the stable 30r2 CD set? > > No. It is the new

Re: jigdo image errors

2004-06-07 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 07 June 2004 07:59 pm, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all > > I'm still trying to download sarge-i386 iso images using jigdo-lite. > > Image 1 (sarge-i386-1.iso) have problems, some packages listed in > jigdo/template files aren't found on the repositories. Some other > packages are listed

Re: How to write to XP (ntfs)?

2004-06-07 Thread Mike Chandler
On Sunday 06 June 2004 11:55 pm, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:26:23AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:30:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Not true, tools exist to to use it just as you would a fat32 > > > filesystem. > > > > > > Kn

Re: How to write to XP (ntfs)?

2004-06-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Sunday 06 June 2004 06:26 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:30:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not true, tools exist to to use it just as you would a fat32 filesystem. > > > > Knoppix uses them, in fact and that's based on debian. > > Don't know of any, and the kernel

How to write to XP (ntfs)?

2004-06-06 Thread Mike Chandler
Using testing, with a custom kernel 2.6.6 into which I built write support for ntfs. Cannot write to the XP partition, though it is clearly readable. Put this in fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsntfs user,owner,rw,exec,umask=000 0 0 and created /mnt/windows to keep it in. Did this

Re: Kernel-source ???

2004-06-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Sunday 06 June 2004 10:59 am, Craig Genner wrote: > I'm no expert but you could try: > > agt-get install kernel-source > > Thanks > > Craig > > On Sunday 06 Jun 2004 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > I have Kernel-2.6.3-1-386 (Sarge) installed > > > > > > Need to download the source to

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:27 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:56:15 -0700, Mike Chandler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:50 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:33:44 -0700, Mike Chandler > > > >

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:50 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:33:44 -0700, Mike Chandler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:28 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:04:30 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:28 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:04:30 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ignatz Sol wrote: > > >I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm > > >trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 08:44 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm > trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the > first 4 cds and everything installed with no problem and only a few > items required to download. Wh

Re: which sarge iso's do I need to install kde desktop?

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:36 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:08:17 -0700, Mike Chandler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 05:59 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > > I've been hunting around for this information (or any list of wh

Re: which sarge iso's do I need to install kde desktop?

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 05:59 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I've been hunting around for this information (or any list of what is > in each iso) but cannot find it. I would like to install kde from > iso's and have the right ones around for some friends' installs that > are coming up. Can anyone clue

Re: deb package for Mplayer?

2004-05-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Where can I find the .deb package for mplayer? > > -ishwar Add this to your sources.list, maybe replace 'testing' with what you use: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

2004-04-24 Thread Mike Chandler
On Saturday 24 April 2004 09:21 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 07:49:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I do understand that we don't want scsi-emulation any longer. So far > >> > so good.

Re: Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
I have been able to duplicate the problem you describe, to the letter. But, I can't say why, or what to do about it. You're not alone! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
I see you did that already, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:26 pm, Phil Ramey wrote: > Howdy, > > So last tuesday I got fed up with windows and > formatted C: it was very satusfying > > Anyway, I went through a couple of installs that were > broken (PIBKAC, i assure you), until I landed on this > install... let's see if

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
ether to use > the 100MB image, or the 30MB net-installer or the PGI GUI installer or > install a bare woody and dist-upgrade to sarge/testing? > > jigdo seems a big pain, but I can probably get it going on my Windows > system if I absolutely MUST. > > any suggestions or warnin

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:33 am, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:47:05 +0100, users escreveu: > > I > > was wondering if I can download the complete Sarge version somewhere?? > > No. One has only small CD images of around 100 MiB. > > > -- > Leandr

Re: kde and sound

2004-04-21 Thread Mike Chandler
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:26 am, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: > Hi. > Im new to kde (used enlightenment for years now) > How do i turn off these stupid sounds in kde when i open a program, > switch desktop and so on? > Im using testing and kde 3 in testing. > Kenneth. Hey Kenneth, go and cl

Re: help with a driver...

2004-04-20 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 02:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a D-Link Ethernet card... It says B22A234113422 H/W: E1 on it, an I > am haveing difficulties finding the driver. Any help?? > > Thanks, > Jim Maybe try: 8139too -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 19 April 2004 01:16 pm, Mike Chandler wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 12:20 pm, Markus Schabel wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote: > > > Mike Chandler wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > >> Hey Tim, > > >> I'm in the s

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted [SOLVED]

2004-04-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 19 April 2004 04:10 pm, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Markus Schabel wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote: > >> Markus Schabel wrote: > >>> Tim Beauregard wrote: > Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that. > >>> > >>> I had that problem when i forgot to compile the

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 19 April 2004 02:34 pm, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Markus Schabel wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote: > > [...] > > >> Unfortunately my first post was 9 days ago, and noone replied to that. > > > > I had that problem when i forgot to compile the piix drivers into the > > kernel. after fixing th

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2004-04-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 19 April 2004 12:11 am, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Tim Beauregard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could someone please help me find the kernel config settings which I've > > neglected, that prevent me from using DMA? I expected inclusion of AMD > > and nVidia IDE chipset support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD7

setting up HP psc2110 with hpoj, Debian Sarge

2004-04-18 Thread Mike Chandler
After doing some reading and searching, and trying to re-install hpoj, I get this error at the END of the 'make install': #Setting /etc/init.d/ptal-init symlink. /bin/sh: line 1: chkconfig: command not found Warning: chkconfig not available to set up SysV init script symlinks! Refer to setup

Re: won't shut down: "acpi_power_off called"

2004-04-18 Thread Mike Chandler
On Sunday 18 April 2004 12:25 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2004 01:12 pm, David Baron wrote: > > I had a non-shutdown problem as well. I could tap the power switch and > > get some "suspend" messages and then a real shutdown, but not automatic. > > The thing used to work. > > > > Somewhere

won't shut down: "acpi_power_off called"

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Chandler
Debian testing, kernel-2.6.3-1-686-smp, pentium 4, @3.0Ghz-- When I go to turn off the machine, it goes through all the screen messages as usual, but won't turn off. (Need to hold in power switch for 5 seconds to turn off.) The last two lines of messages are here: Power down. acpi_power_off call

Re: XMMS quit working.

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 16 April 2004 05:25 pm, you wrote: > Hello again, > All of a sudden XMMS will not run anymore, here is the error, which means > absolutely nothing to me. > If you can understand this, please tell me what I need to do. > Thanks! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms > libmikmod.so.2: cannot open s

XMMS quit working.

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Chandler
Hello again, All of a sudden XMMS will not run anymore, here is the error, which means absolutely nothing to me. If you can understand this, please tell me what I need to do. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Inconsistency

Re: Audio HOWTO?

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 16 April 2004 01:52 am, Markus Lindström wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering if someone could pinpoint me to some (easy) guide for > getting the audio to work in Debian. I'm currently running Sarge, and > have a SBLive card (should use the emu10k1 module). I need to know what > package

Re: digital camera question

2004-04-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 15 April 2004 04:20 pm, Christophe Barbe wrote: > Le jeu 15/04/2004 à 19:10, Mike Chandler a écrit : > > Thanks Christophe! > > Where exactly can I find the README.Debian file? > > Please. > > /usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-2/README.Debian > > Christophe Ma

Re: digital camera question

2004-04-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:22 pm, Brad Sims wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 9:09 am, Mike Chandler wrote: > > Unable to initialize camera. Check your port settings and camera > > connectivity and try again. > > First give this a read... > <http://www.gphoto.org/doc/

Re: digital camera question

2004-04-15 Thread Mike Chandler
ks as root and not as a normal user, read the README.Debian > file. > > Christophe > Thanks Christophe! Where exactly can I find the README.Debian file? Please. > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:09:33AM -0700, Mike Chandler wrote: > > Now, using Debian testing, with kernel 2.4.25-

Re: digital camera question

2004-04-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 15 April 2004 08:33 am, steef wrote: > H. S. wrote: > > Apparently, _Mike Chandler_, on 04/15/04 10:09,typed: > >> Now, using Debian testing, with kernel 2.4.25-1-386, have installed > >> gphoto, (and the front end gtkam). > >> So I run gtkam and it will detect my camera, however there

digital camera question

2004-04-15 Thread Mike Chandler
Now, using Debian testing, with kernel 2.4.25-1-386, have installed gphoto, (and the front end gtkam). So I run gtkam and it will detect my camera, however there is an error: Could not initialize camera. If I try and use kde control center >peripherals >digital camera: Unable to initialize came

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:42 am, Kent West wrote: > Mike Chandler wrote: > > Thanks, Kent. I cannot install any kernel at this point, I have tried > > the old one (first) and then actually downloaded and attempted two > > others, everything comes to a halt with that

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
st re-install? I am beginning to lean that way... Thanks > Mike Chandler wrote: > >On Tuesday 06 April 2004 02:47 pm, David Baron wrote: > >Thanks, I am there, now it seems I have a larger problem, I cannot install > > ANY kernel, I've tried several, they all fail with an e

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 02:47 pm, David Baron wrote: Thanks, I am there, now it seems I have a larger problem, I cannot install ANY kernel, I've tried several, they all fail with an error about /dev/fd doesn't exist, and initrd didn't make. I am LOST. :( > At the knoppix boot command, type "kn

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 05:06 am, Nicholas Pattison wrote: Hi, thanks. I am not passing any options to initrd, only doing this command as part of building the kernel: fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image I will check after work today about the version of initrd-tools.

Re: Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
OK, I got into my system using knoppix, then I did mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 chroot /mnt/hdb1 This got me where I needed to be, to reinstall my kernel. However, it would not install, there was an error saying "usr/sbin/mkinitrd; can't find /dev/fd" and cannot make initrd. (something like that...

Re: I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
Thanks for the replies, I booted to knoppix using the command knoppix 2 which got me to a (looked like) root prompt, but how do I access /usr/local/src/ to access my kernel.deb to reinstall it? I got to, I believe, the /usr/local/src/ which is not on my hard drive, but maybe in knoppix, because w

I blew it bigtime!

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
Hey, this oughta get a chuckle out of some of you... I have Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.4, self-compiled, working fine untill... I decided to recompile the kernel again, changing some stuff around, building more stuff into it, and taking more stuff out... when I did dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_cust

Re: Why do I need mkinitrd with 2.6?

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 05 April 2004 10:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following from /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/readme: 4% $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image (Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or sudo are examples that come to mind). NOTE:

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
; >On (05/04/04 10:24), Mike Chandler wrote: > > >>I understand what I need to do now, putting stuff in > > >>/etc/hotplug/"blacklist", but the problem is that while booting, the > > >>stuff goes by so fast, I can't actually pick out any names...

Re: Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
I understand what I need to do now, putting stuff in /etc/hotplug/"blacklist", but the problem is that while booting, the stuff goes by so fast, I can't actually pick out any names...I just can't see that fast! I guess I can live with this, till the hotplug issue gets sorted out. Thanks for the r

What a great forum this is

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Chandler
Just want to say "thanks" to all you, for the help, and what a great forum this is. I am a Debian 'newbie', but learning a lot, already, from you folks. I have just successfully compiled (my first) 2.6.4 kernel, using some of the advise and links posted here, and the 'Debian way' is the only way!

Quake on Debian?

2004-04-01 Thread Mike Chandler
Newbie to Debian... Can I run Quake / Quake II /Quake III on Debian Sid? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems

2004-04-01 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:10 am, Ken Bloom wrote: Hello, I have exactly the same situation, so I went to /etc/modules to have a look. Here is my /etc/modules: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at