Re: Can't install addons for firefox

t. https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/978 https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ It appears to be a recent bug. Bestest, -- Trevor D. Manning BOFH Excuse #232: Ionization from the air-conditioning

Re: Corrupted security update package files

I am receiving the following error: sudo aptitude update ... Fetched 548kB in 1s (498kB/s) Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package

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Re: Too many annoying windows! How to i make it use the same one??

gt; the same window, instead of opening a new window each time? it gets to > > be kind of annoying when you are looking for a file nested 6 or 7 layers > > down, and all of a sudden there are windows everywhere. Thanks in > > advance > > Trevor > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Too many annoying windows! How to i make it use the same one??

and all of a sudden there are windows everywhere. Thanks in advance Trevor [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wireless help

t working, once this prob. is solved...GOOD BYE WINDOZE!!) So the sooner i get this problem solved, the better. Thanks for the help, Trevor Pankonien [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reconstruct the system

Quick question, how did you 'lose' the /var directory? just so i dont make the same mistake rm -R /var ??? gustavo halperin wrote: Hello Yesterday I lost all my directory "/var". There is any posibility for reconstruct the system using the information of the other directories ?? What can I

divx in debian???

I was just curious if it was at all possible to play divx movies through debian, and if so, where should i be looking for info to do this? or is there a simple way that someone knows of to do this Thanks for any help Trevor [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Display/resolution problems

Got it working after the reinstall and amazing how easy it was! just had to add the 1024x768 BEFORE the other two options. I had tried a similar approach but put it after the otehr two...lesson learned! thanks for the help everyone! On 6/1/05, Trevor Pankonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: Display/resolution problems

Thanks for all the help so far. I will give these ideas a try as soon as sarge is done reinstalling :) Otherwise, could it be that ubuntu uses Xorg and debian is not? if this is the case, what steps would i have to take to get xorg into debian Thanks Trevor On 6/1/05, Tony Godshall <[EM

Display/resolution problems

I just switched over from Ubuntu since debian has no problem working with my MP3 player, but now i have a new problem. The display on my laptop is sitting inside a black box/border, makeing approx half of my screen just black. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FRV26 notebook, which comes with the ATI mobility

Net Install of Debian testing on AcerNote Nuovo computer (with failed CDROM)

the Linux_2.4.22 kernel to load so that  I can complete my network installation.   Trevor,    

Net Install of Debian testing on AcerNote Nuovo computer (with failed CDROM)

the Linux_2.4.22 kernel to load so that  I can complete my network installation.   Trevor,  

please read this

  Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to Gardner middle school in Lansing Michigan. We have to do a project with donating a dollar to an organization. we have to know where the dollar goes and how it helps. We have to pretend that we are the dollar and tell where we are going. I was hoping you could

Re: Wilber the gimp

* Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In the gimp documentation directory, there is a thumbnail-sized > version of Wilber the gimp. Is there a larger version of this image > available (I did not find one on gimp.org)? I have a 1080x902 Wilber that I'd be happy to email you, if that would h

Is it likely that a malfunctional PC internal speaker can make a PC appear "dead?"

Hi Debian, I turned on my PC as usual which did not run POST and there were no beeps from my internal speaker to indicate a POST error. There was no video, and hence no error messages. My system appears to be dead - although the fan on the CPU and the system fan are obviously running, and the LEDs

Re: Automagic periodic /tmp cleaning?

27;d rather be deltree-ing? ;) -- Trevor

fb setup on console

xt boot. My problem is that I need to know where I can change the default boot video mode from 640x480 to what is required for the fixed freq. monitor. Can somebody please point me in the right direction ie. doc or where to change a file. Have looked in /etc/rc*.* but nothing seems obvious. Thanks Trevor Callow

Problems configuring xserver-tga on alphastation 200 4/166

loaded nt4 to check if it was a hardware problem, all went well. sigh! Many thanks Trevor Callow

"Can't open display" problems

an X application from a remote ssh connection. This sounds like an embarrassingly stupid problem, but how do I fix it? Thanks in advance, Trevor

RE: Java???

from what I've been told, in Linux just because one has the JDK installed does not mean that JRE is installed(I don't think that they're bundled in the Linux version). If you want JRE then you have to install it. Yah I know, weird... -Original Message- From: Dale Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PR

kde2 install help

I did an install of Stormix and chose kde as my default windowmanger. Then I added: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main to my sources.list. I added "apt-get update" and "apt-get install task-kde" it pulled down all the packages. So now my question is this, how do I start kde2? Everytime I typ

newbie xdm and gnome problems

I actually got Debian installed! Woohoo!!! However, how do I disable xdm so that I can log in from the console? Also I seem to be using WindowMaker, how do I switch to Gnome(which I'm sure I installed. . .). Thanks in advance. Trev

Re: X can't find the mouse! - Solved

30:28 -0700, Trevor Ramoutar wrote: > So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation > I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get: > > Fatal Server Error: > Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) > > and I don't know what

X can't find the mouse!

So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get: Fatal Server Error: Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) and I don't know what to do! Help!

Debian won't find my mouse

I installed Potato last night, everything went great, but when I tried a startx it crapped out on me saying that it could find my mouse (which is a PS/2). Can somebody help? Thanks in advance. Get your FREE Email and Voicemail at Lycos Communications - http://comm.lycos.com

Video card recommendation?

Can anybody recomend a good video card to get with a new system? I'd like something that'll give me good performance in XFree86... I'll also have a Windows partition for games, so decent 3D performance under both OpenGl and DirectX is also an issue. (OTOH, my taste in games runs more towards advent

RE: Secure CRT

I tried installing the secure crt… I used the key generator, however, I can’t connect! It says that this license doesn’t support telnet connections.   -Original Message- From: Ehren Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 7:05 PM To: Trevor Gold Subject

ld prob

In regards to the last email, I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC: me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks Trev

Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem

Help I was try to get ld-linux to point to an earlier version and so I deleted ld-linux.so.2 in an attempt to get star office and java working, and instead I cannot run any program!!! Is there an easy way to fix this? Help Trev

Re: Java Problem

Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > if you have potato installed, you can't use java, you have to go to slink > (because > glibc6), or wait jdk 1.2 who is in prerelease. Oh. That would explain a few other probs. So how do I downgrade? TIA, Trev

Re: Java Problem

budi wibowo wrote: > have you run ldconfig before? Yep.

Java Problem

Hi All, I am having problems running java. In fact it is anything to do with java. Whenever I type java I get this: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i586/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i586/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol: _dl_symbol_value

Re: Scanner

Kevin Dalley wrote: > There actually is some support for some parallel port scanners. For > the Mustek, from the sane-mustek man page. As of sane-1.0.1, uploaded > soon to a Debian archive near you, Mustek 1200 ED is not listed as a > supported scanner. Bummer. >The only non-SCSI scann

Scanner

Hi All, Frequent "listeners" to this mailing list, may have seen my name in the last couple of days: and I have yet another problem (surprise, surprise some of you may be saying) and this is it: I have a Mustek 1200 ED scanner. It is a parallel port model. I want to run it under GNU/Linux. I can'

Re: Sound

Thank you to everyone who helped with my sound problem. Especially Will. This is the best "customer service" I think I have ever seen, and it's provided by the customer! ;) Thanks, Trev

Re: Sound

Will Lowe wrote: > Are you sure that the IRQ settings and stuff you gave the kernel sound > config were right? Yeah. Stop Press: Progress! I got it to work, after I reset the computer! I think that it is a problem with gnome. After I ran the Gnome Control Centre it seemed to lock the /dev/audio

Re: Sound

Jim Foltz wrote: > Hello, > > Did you compile support for your sound card (you need to confiugre and > compile a custom kernel to get sound support for your particular card). > > -- >Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ACORN techie > AOL/IM Jim Folt

Re: Sound

Will, Will Lowe wrote: > cat file.au > /dev/audio I run the command below, and this is the output! $ cat /usr/lib/games/crossfire/sounds/magic.au > /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Device or resource busy I had the wmss running, but then I killed it, is there a way to get around this problem? Thank

Sound

Hi All. I have a problem with sound. I can't play any sounds. I have tried using rplay and nmaker, both the same results. The annoying thing is that I can play CDs with no probs!!! I am a member of the group audio and sounds are compiled into the kernel. Any ideas? Anything that I could try? Tha

Umax Astra 1220P Scanner

Does anybody know how I'd go about using a UMAX Astra 1220P under Debian? I installed sane, but looking at the docs it seems as though the only Umax scanners it supports are SCSI models; this is a parallel port scanner.

XFMail and Rules

Hi Everybody, It's me again :) Does anyone know how I can set a rule (or something similar in XFMail such that when they get to be more than a week old, the messages get moved to another folder? Trev -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date

DOSEMU and games

programs like Maniac Mansion and Kings Quest. I can supply my conf file if that would help anyone to help me. Thanks, Trev -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-Nov-98 Time: 21:53:58 Scully to Mulder: "Why did you lie to that man?"

Re: Sound Problems

making progress though as Licq is recognising this command and I can hear a click whenever I get a message. But I would like to hear the sounds! :) Thanks, Trev ------ E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25-Nov-98 Time: 23:35:43 Scully to Mulder: "

Sound Problems

, which XFMail needs. Can anyone suggest a good (or even bad) player? Thanks, Trevor Glen. ------ E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25-Nov-98 Time: 12:17:11 Scully to Mulder: "Why did you lie to that man?" Mulder to Scully: "I merely participated in a campaign of mis-infomation" --

Gnome

: error in loading shared libraries libgtk-1.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The only lib that I have is libgtk-1.1.so.2. Any suggestions? Trev -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-Nov-98 Time: 22:01:09 Scu

Re: Locale 'C' (but with more)

have one running but I thought that I might try this 'new' method) and it says: Please install program before using it. Ok, then how do I do it? Or should I get xf86setup_3.3.2.3a-8? Trevor -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-Nov-98

Re: Locale 'C'

ave to install all of the other x* packages that are currently running on 3.3.2.3a-7? Trevor Glen -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-Nov-98 Time: 16:52:21 Scully to Mulder: "Why did you lie to that man?" Mulder to Scully: "

Locale 'C'

ng: X locale modifiers not supported, using default What is this all about (I assume that they are related) Trevor Glen. -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-Nov-98 Time: 09:52:42 Scully to Mulder: "Why did you lie to that man?" Mulder

RTF converter/reader

Hi, Does anyone know of a program in which I can either read or convert RTF files? If so, where can I get it? Trevor Glen. -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-Nov-98 Time: 18:46:02 Scully to Mulder: "Why did you lie to that man?"

RE: Update to Slink ate itself

> brought up here, I apologize for bringing it up again. I had a similar problem, and it has to do with dselect not downloading the necessary .deb's first. I have heard that apt fixes this, but I am not sure. Trevor Glen ------ E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Slink broke after upgrade (Thank's it's working!)

that I had the line: /usr/X11R6/lib in my /etc/ld.so.conf file. You then have to do something with the ldconfig command ( I think :) ). Try the man pages, sorry I can't help more! HTH, Trevor Glen ------ E-Mail: Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17-N

Re: slrnpull + trn?

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > I use slrn --spool. I can't remember the details, but I know at first I > had a lot of trouble to get it to work. If I remember correctly, I, as > root, deleted the /var/news/ directory because of trouble getting the > correct permissions. Thereafter th

slrnpull + trn?

Can anybody point me to some info on how to get trn to read from the news spool created by slrnpull? I thought trn was capable of reading from a local spool, but the documentation only seems to talk about reading from an NNTP server. Failing that, could anybody tell me how to get _any_ newsreader

Re: Not able to use leafnode and trn?

On Sun, 31 May 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: > I'm a little bit puzzled. > I am trying to set up my system so I can read USENET news offline. > Having failed to get slrn and slrnpull to work I've decided to > try leafnode with trn instead. However it seems that using trn means > I can't use leafnode, de

Re: dselect oddities

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > No, the reply I thought went to the list didn't because this list does > not correctly set the reply-to field. Seems to me it sets it right... ie, it leaves it how the original sender set it. Stepping on a user's header is a Bad Thing IMO. -- To UNSU

Problem installing latest gzip

Running dselect (ftp method, connecting to ftp.debian.org, using the stable distribution) I found there's a new version of gzip which requires debianutils 1.6 or greater... but the most recent version of debianutils available is 1.5. What's up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Leafnode question

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Jack Kern wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 06:20:03PM -0300, Trevor Barrie wrote: > > I was running fetch this afternoon, and noticed it was downloading messages > > for a couple of groups I don't read (my system is single-user)... checking > &g

Leafnode question

I was running fetch this afternoon, and noticed it was downloading messages for a couple of groups I don't read (my system is single-user)... checking the "interesting groups" directory found that they were in fact listed. Does anybody know what could cause this? I've heard tell of people latching

Re: New Debian i386 Packages

I was running fetch this afternoon, and noticed it was downloading messages for a couple of groups I don't read (my system is single-user)... checking the "interesting groups" directory found that they were in fact listed. Does anybody know what could cause this? I've heard tell of people latching

Re: Ghostscript & Epson Stylus COLOR 500

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm just working a bit with ghostscript and just can't figure out how to > make it print in my Epson Stylus COLOR 500. Alan Williams has put up a web-page on just this subject; it's at www.pe.net/~williams/Stylus/Stlyus.html The information there was

Re: Posting to usenet

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > # user's mail address, if not [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > mail_address= > > > > Okay, that works. (OTOH, I'm not enamoured with tin, so it would be nice > > if I could figure out how to get trn to work.) > > > You should set a line like this in tr

Re: Posting to usenet

Amendment to previous message: /sbin/route produces different output when I'm connected. It's Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface ca24l.pq.ca.ibm * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 loopnet *

Re: Posting to usenet

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Okay, tin works, sort of. It seems it still can't find my hostname since > > my From: lines show up as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but I can manually edit that. > > It's a pain though. > > > > (The file /usr/doc/tin/INSTALL.gz cryptically recommends tha

Re: Posting to usenet

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Looks like nn tries a command leafnode doesn't understand (or the syntax > nn uses is wrong). You could check the rfc about error 502. "RFC"? I know FAQs, manpages, HOWTOs and /usr/doc/*, but that's a new one to me.:) Where do I find it? > As root

Re: Posting to usenet

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > > > I decided to remove all the news-related stuff from my system and started > > over by installing the leafnode, inewsinn, and trn packages (is that > > sufficient?); the message

Posting to usenet

I'm having trouble figuring out how to properly configure my system to allow the sending of usenet messages. After playing with various packages and the instructions in various HOWTOs and man pages, I got to the point where I could read fine, but any attempt to post resulted in something along the

Re: comment about Linux

On 13 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > The only solution is a terminal attached to your computer, some people > use their calculators (the better TI and HP ones) for this purpose. Okay, this I have to learn how to do.:) How good a calculator do you need? I have a HP 48S with (I think) 32 k of

File permissions for /var

While configuring my system recently, I managed to make my entire /var and subdirectories owned by root. Does anybody know the easiest way to fix this? Is there a list available of what the ownerships and file permissions for a standard distribution should look like? (I know the Contents files on t