Re: Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-27 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks.  That was a great lead!

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It pri

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Mark, that did the trick. I appreciate it! --- Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, rea

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
I used printconf and it got me going...thanks for your help! --- Grant Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What type of driver are you using for the printer? > Usually I am able to get generic printing > functionality fro CUPS by choosing > the Raw printer option. > It should be the one that stat

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:57:47PM -0800, Clyde > Wilson had the following words of wisdom... > > I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able > to > > print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and > others, > > read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothi

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Grieveson
On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything.  I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work.  My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Grant Thomas
What type of driver are you using for the printer?Usually I am able to get generic printing functionality fro CUPS by choosing the Raw printer option.It should be the one that states no driver is needed.Also, I usually add my user account into the lpadmin group. How are you connecting to your print

Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It prints just fine under Kno

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-10-02 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Kent West wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: >> >>> Andy wrote: >>> I have the same problem and followed your directions exactly. I even upped my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 and included the Intel sound option into the kernel but having same problems. On

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-10-01 Thread Kent West
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Andy wrote: >> >>> I have the same problem and followed your directions exactly. >>> I even upped my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 and included the Intel >>> sound option into the kernel but having same problems. >>> On bootup I get the following me

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-10-01 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Kent West wrote: > Andy wrote: > >> I have the same problem and followed your directions exactly. >> I even upped my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 and included the Intel >> sound option into the kernel but having same problems. >> On bootup I get the following message: >> Sound Server Message: Err

onboard Ac'97 chipset was: Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-10-01 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:13:46AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Run "modconf" and see if there's a module available for the 82440MX. > You'll either need such a module loaded (lsmod shows only the ethernet > nic module loaded), or you'll need support for that chipset compiled > directly into the

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Kent West
Andy wrote: >I have the same problem and followed your directions exactly. >I even upped my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 and included the Intel >sound option into the kernel but having same problems. >On bootup I get the following message: >Sound Server Message: Error while starting driver: devic

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Andy
I have the same problem and followed your directions exactly. I even upped my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 and included the Intel sound option into the kernel but having same problems. On bootup I get the following message: Sound Server Message: Error while starting driver: device /dev/dsp can't b

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 08:14, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >> while installing, in the section of device driver modules, i > >> have included i810. it also selected so

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > >> i have been using windows for quite some time now and am >> contemplating to shift to linux. so i am a 'newbie' to linux - >> in short. i recently installed debian 3

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Kent West
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i have been using windows for quite some time now and am contemplating > to shift to linux. so i am a 'newbie' to linux - in short. i recently > installed debian 3.0 on my compaq making it a dual boot machine. it is > a piii 766mhz machine with on board sound card. >

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread marshal
> "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have been using windows for quite some time now and am > contemplating to shift to linux. so i am a 'newbie' to linux - > in short. i recently installed debian 3.0 on my compaq making it > a dual boot machine. it

problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
i have been using windows for quite some time now and am contemplating to shift to linux. so i am a 'newbie' to linux - in short. i recently installed debian 3.0 on my compaq making it a dual boot machine. it is a piii 766mhz machine with on board sound card. while installing, in the section o

Re: Install problems from a newbie

2002-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:15:46PM -0600, Carnes, Kevin wrote: > OK, after hearing lots of hype about how Linux is the best thing since > sliced bread, I'm putting the claims to the test and trying to install > Debian on a new Intel box. I'm an old VAX/VMS system manager and have > been playing wi

Re: Install problems from a newbie

2002-03-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:15:46PM -0600, Carnes, Kevin wrote: ... > hdc:cdrom_decode_status: status = 0X51 {DriveReady Seek Complete Error} > hdc:cdrom_decode_status: error = 0X34 > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > hdc: irq timeout: status = 0Xd0 {Busy} > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector

Re: Install problems from a newbie

2002-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 20:03, Joe wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:15:46PM -0600, Carnes, Kevin wrote: [snip] > At the risk of getting flamed by this particular group, I might suggest > starting with another distro just to prove to yourself that Linux is > indeed easy to install. As much as I hap

Re: Install problems from a newbie

2002-03-06 Thread dad
One could install the Progeny distro and dist-upgrade to woody. It only leaves 4-5 progeny packages on the system and you have a good working woody system. On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 20:03, Joe wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:15:46PM -0600, Carnes, Kevin wrote: > > OK, after hearing lots of hype a

Re: Install problems from a newbie

2002-03-06 Thread Joe
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:15:46PM -0600, Carnes, Kevin wrote: > OK, after hearing lots of hype about how Linux is the best thing since > sliced bread, Better. Like bread with jam. >I'm putting the claims to the test and trying to install > Debian on a new Intel box. Debian? What sadist told

Re: Install problems from a newbie

2002-03-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:15:46PM -0600, Carnes, Kevin wrote: > OK, after hearing lots of hype about how Linux is the best thing since > sliced bread, I'm putting the claims to the test and trying to install > Debian on a new Intel box. I'm an old VAX/VMS system manager and have > been playing wi

Install problems from a newbie

2002-03-06 Thread Carnes, Kevin
OK, after hearing lots of hype about how Linux is the best thing since sliced bread, I'm putting the claims to the test and trying to install Debian on a new Intel box. I'm an old VAX/VMS system manager and have been playing with computers in various forms for 20 years. If Linux is so easy to ins

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-04 Thread Jim Lisi
Wayne Topa wrote: > You have Linux running on that Kaypro (Z80)? No, sorry :( I don't think a multitasking OS would be very useful on it. Know any good terminal programs for a Z80? :-) > How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. > Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Leone
-- Original Message -- From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:45:18 -0500 >On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >> How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. >> Those were that days of CP/M, befo

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. > Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. unfortunately, he bought qdos instead. cp/m was superior by almost all accounts. and qdos stands fo

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Leone
>Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Gates never bought/stole CP/M. MS-DOS v1 was NOT CP/M; it was a separate product. >I do have a router running on a 386sx w/12 Meg of Ram but that is old >hat to anyone who has seen the Linux Router Proje

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long) Date: Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:23:16PM -0400 In reply to:Jim Lisi Quoting Jim Lisi([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine

[very OT] Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > > audio tapes and play'e

Re: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. surely, now.

RE: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Her

OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Jim Lisi
Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine was an ANCIENT P75 running (I didn't > > Ancient, huh? How bout a 486 DX2 66, or a 486 DX4 100? That's what I have at > home as my firewall. :) > how about a 486DX-33? or a Kaypro II (bet you never heard of it!

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > > > > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > > actually > > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I > > have > > to go deal with more

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Erin Lewy wrote: > > Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected > bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs > Redhat > thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while > (Hi, Tom!) > Heh, why isn't he

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > actually > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I have > to go deal with more networking and web server people relatively earl

Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Erin Lewy
Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs Redhat thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while (Hi, Tom!) The very short version of why I'm here is that I'm

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-22 Thread The Doctor What
On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 07:49:32PM +0100, Frankie wrote: > If there is not an x11amp package in slink, then a solution would be to > download the > (debianised) source and compile it. Almost all of the debian sources (in my > experience) seem to compile straight away, with no problems. This way th

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
John Gay wrote: > Thanks for the info, but I think you over looked a few items. > The reason I want to upgrade to potato is, I installed x11amp, which required > newer libs than slink uses. This has broken apt. I've seen this problem > mentioned before and the recommended fix was to upgrade to pot

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-16 Thread John Gay
Thanks for the info, but I think you over looked a few items. The reason I want to upgrade to potato is, I installed x11amp, which required newer libs than slink uses. This has broken apt. I've seen this problem mentioned before and the recommended fix was to upgrade to potato. Also, my video car

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Just a correction: > apt-get install communicator-smotif-45 communicator-nethelp > communicator-spell For Communicator 4.5, the spell checker package name is communicator-spell-45, and the help file is communicator-nethelp-45 Tom

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
John Gay wrote: > > I've been following this list fro a while and currently have 2.1 installed on > my PC at home. I got a CD from a friend who provides various CD's for the > asking here in Ireland. I choose Debian because I like the philosophy Welcome! I'll try to answer a couple of your que

A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-14 Thread John Gay
I've been following this list fro a while and currently have 2.1 installed on my PC at home. I got a CD from a friend who provides various CD's for the asking here in Ireland. I choose Debian because I like the philosophy, though I don't subscribe to some of the extremist views I've heard RE: Bru

RE: xdm question from a newbie

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Xdm works fine ( when you have the X configured correctly) in hamm as well. Just install xdm, and it will work. If you ever want to get rid of it, edit the /etc/X11/config file and comment the line that says 'start-xdm' Same, to get it to work again, uncomment that line. Andrew -

RE: xdm question from a newbie

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Mar-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hello Debian-user, > > I now have Debian with X running smoothly and I want to add xdm > login. I have tried to find information about xdm, but I can not > find much (maybe I am blind?). The little I have found is > very...ummm..."cryptic" :) > >

xdm question from a newbie

1999-03-08 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hello Debian-user, I now have Debian with X running smoothly and I want to add xdm login. I have tried to find information about xdm, but I can not find much (maybe I am blind?). The little I have found is very...ummm..."cryptic" :) What I want is for xdm to start my X sessions like sta

RE: from a newbie

1999-03-06 Thread Shaleh
On 06-Mar-99 Ramakrishnan M wrote: > Hi, >I am new to Debian GNU/Linux.Until now I had been using RedHat Linux > system( now also in my institute I am using it).But thanks to afew friends > who introduced me to Debian system.I want to explore more on them. >One thing which attracted me to

Re: from a newbie

1999-03-06 Thread ktb
There are several places online that list commands and their usage. I need to get to work so I will leave you with a link that I found last night that might help with your search. http://www.linuxstart.com/ Good luck, Kent Ramakrishnan M wrote: > Hi, >I am new to Debian GNU/Linux.Until n

from a newbie

1999-03-06 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Hi, I am new to Debian GNU/Linux.Until now I had been using RedHat Linux system( now also in my institute I am using it).But thanks to afew friends who introduced me to Debian system.I want to explore more on them. One thing which attracted me to Debian system is the scripts it gives for allm

Qs from a newbie; broken hamm

1998-07-22 Thread Kent West
Thanks for the replies; when giving detailed info to Oliver Elphick, (who I thank very much for his help), I realized that my FTP-method dselect was looking to the stable distribution instead of the hamm distribution; so of course everything "broke". Being a newbie, I just took all the defaults tha