Lyx package

2002-09-17 Thread Riaan Rottier
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Re: USB mouse only moves up and down (solved)

2002-06-14 Thread Riaan Rottier
I solved it, apparently the problem was the usbmouse module, modprobe -r usbmouse... Mouse works. Riaan On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 13:47, Riaan Rottier wrote: > Hi > > I installed a USB optical mouse on my computer. After going through the > whole process as described in www.linux

USB mouse only moves up and down

2002-06-14 Thread Riaan Rottier
Hi I installed a USB optical mouse on my computer. After going through the whole process as described in www.linux-usb.com the mouse worked but only moving up and down when I move the mouse side to side. Neither the buttons nor the up and down movement had any effect. lsmod gives: Module

USB install problem

2002-06-13 Thread Riaan Rottier
Hi I have just got a USB mouse and cannot get the USB port working. I'm using kernel 2.4.17 that a friend helped me compile to get my sound working. I think USB support is compiled in, and I would like to avoid recompiling the kernel if possible since I have no idea how we got the sound working

Re: eject command fails on cdrom-SOLVED

2002-05-22 Thread Riaan Rottier
I found the problem... My user did not belong to the group cdrom. Thank you fo all the advice Riaan On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 12:54, Riaan Rottier wrote: > OK there is a link to hdc - > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Feb 23 16:48 /dev/cdrom ->hdc > > I can mount

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

2002-05-22 Thread Riaan Rottier
ioctl for device) ioctl(3, FDEJECT, 0)= -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) ioctl(3, SNDCTL_MIDI_MPUMODE, 0xbffffa74) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) write(2, "eject: unable to eject, last err"..., 67eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

2002-05-21 Thread Riaan Rottier
e, 2002-05-21 at 16:53, Robert_L wrote: > On Tuesday 21 May 06:25, Riaan Rottier wrote: > > When I try to eject a cd using the eject command, the system returns the > > error: > > > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > It

eject command fails on cdrom

2002-05-21 Thread Riaan Rottier
When I try to eject a cd using the eject command, the system returns the error: eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device It used to work a few months back and I updated some packages since then but I made no other changes to my system. I am running Woody. Any advice??

Openoffice file copy error

2002-05-07 Thread Riaan Rottier
Hi I installed openoffice 1.0 using dpkg --install, as root. When as a user I run openoffice for the first time I get a series of errors like An error occurred while copying the file mathdoc.desktop to /home/riaan/.kde2/share/applnk/OpenOffice.org 1.0 an error occurred while copying a file Exit