Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-13 Thread diane mittnik
On 11/12/08, S.D.Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:29 -0500 (EST), Doug Mitton in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > >> Yes, I agree BUT by update you keep updated in your current version >> "stream". That I did. I don't always jump to be the first to use a >> new relea

Re: Ctrl key stuck? with every key press?

2008-11-13 Thread diane mittnik
On 11/13/08, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/13 diane mittnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> tia for any help, >> >> Di. >> > > Enable the Show Keyboard Status applet to ensure that you do not have > Sticky Keys enabled, or that

Ctrl key stuck? with every key press?

2008-11-13 Thread diane mittnik
I'm using Debian Etch on a laptop with KDE (everything is stable version unless otherwise noted). I've had problems in the past where some app would crash, or seg-fault (or possibly some other error would happen) and as a result, the screen saver wouldn't work, or the keyboard repeat would stop wo

Re: apt source line for debian multimedia on amd-64? Works for me now

2008-09-03 Thread diane mittnik
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Johannes Wiedersich < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >=20 > >> On 2008-09-03 16:18, diane mittnik wrote: > >>> Can someone please copy/paste their debian-multimedia url line in apt= > 's > >>> sources.list fil

Re: apt source line for debian multimedia on amd-64?

2008-09-03 Thread diane mittnik
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Johannes Wiedersich < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-09-03 16:18, diane mittnik wrote: > > Can someone please copy/paste their debian-multimedia url line in apt's > > sources.list file? I'm getting errors I think bec

Re: apt source line for debian multimedia on amd-64?

2008-09-03 Thread diane mittnik
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed,03.Sep.08, 10:18:48, diane mittnik wrote: > > Can someone please copy/paste their debian-multimedia url line in apt's > > sources.list file? I'm getting errors I think bec

apt source line for debian multimedia on amd-64?

2008-09-03 Thread diane mittnik
Can someone please copy/paste their debian-multimedia url line in apt's sources.list file? I'm getting errors I think because of the path for amd/64. I've tried [many] variations of these but no joy: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main or deb http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/stable

Re: can't swapon second partition after swapoff, partially solved

2008-03-20 Thread diane mittnik
On 3/11/08, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > diane mittnik wrote: > > I tried googling and checking docs but couldn't find anything relevant. > > I have 2 swap partitions, /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7. 1 GB of Ram > > I wanted to wipe my swap partitions, so I did s

can't swapon second partition after swapoff, overwrite /dev/urandom, swapon

2008-03-11 Thread diane mittnik
I tried googling and checking docs but couldn't find anything relevant. I have 2 swap partitions, /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7. 1 GB of Ram I wanted to wipe my swap partitions, so I did swapoff /dev/sda7, then dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda7, then mkswap /dev/sda7, then swapon /dev/sda7 With swapon /dev/s

usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop

2008-02-27 Thread diane mittnik
Toshiba laptop A215-S7422, debian etch installed # uname -a: 2.6.22-4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 10:29:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm following the instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/trying-to-load-module-ndiswrapper-with-modprobe-modprobe-ndisw