Getting rid of ghostscript message

2006-10-22 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi, I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using $ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps For this to work, I have to press return for each page. I googled around a bit and found out that the PostScript showpage command seems to be missing. (Omitti

Re: Getting rid of ghostscript message

2006-10-22 Thread Peter Thomassen
Cameron L. Spitzer schrieb am Montag, 23. Oktober 2006 02:02: >> I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using >> >> $ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps > > Try -dNOPAUSE and -dQUIET Thanks! I now also found it in the manpage, but I couldn't bef

Re: Watching google videos?

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
W. Borgert schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 23:35: > But maybe there is a way to download the video and watch it > with mplayer or another free program? Thanks in advance! On the right hand side of the video page, there's a Download button (at least in the German version) which leads to an av

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
George Borisov schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 15:36: > Did it by any chance stop working after you rebooted into Debian > from Windows? > > I ask because I have a sound card that disappears if I do this. > It will only work if I shut down and then boot into Linux. Hey, thanks, that did the

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
Bill Smith schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 18:09: > worth replacing the card, preferably with a 3com or intel based one. That's not that easy as it's a notebook ... Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Thomassen
steef schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 11:35: > maybe a stupid remark, but could this be a hardware-fault of the realtek > ethernetcard? i remember that in my machines two gave up for unclear > reasons. I don't think so because on the same system, Windows XP is installed where the card can be

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Derek schrieb am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 21:21: > I had this problem on my powermac, And it worked before, too? Maybe, one should file a bug on this ... > I ended up just compiling my own kernel > without any of the eth1394 stuff. Hmm, this will be difficult to do since currently, the kerne

eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi, I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone. Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script does several tries after different intervals and finally gives up. I googled around and

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Wackojacko schrieb am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 10:48: >> The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) >> harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) > > AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 > kernels deal with SATA drive

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi! The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) Is there a list of harddisc involved in this change? Maybe, there should be some easy-to-find info on this (perhaps in a Wiki, don't know if one exists). Pet

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Thomassen
Kent West schrieb am Samstag, 16. September 2006 01:23: > What filesystem was used? ext2,3, reiser, etc ext3. > What are the partitions on the drive? Before Linux installation: 1 NTFS 2 NTFS 3 NTFS After: 1 NTFS 2 ext3 3 swap 4 NTFS (The numbers don't correspond to the partition numbers in /

2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hello, I helped a friend of mine with installing Debian by phone, that's why my diagnostic possibilities are shortened. After downloading the stable netinst CD, we installed sarge (using Kernel 2.4.27 or so). Then, we modified sources.list to use testing in the future and did an apt-get dist-upgr

2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hello, I helped a friend of mine with installing Debian by phone, that's why my diagnostic possibilities are shortened. After downloading the stable netinst CD, we installed sarge (using Kernel 2.4.27 or so). Then, we modified sources.list to use testing in the future and did an apt-get dist-upgr