Scrolling the mouse wheel of Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (again) in Corel Linux 1.2

I am yet another user having difficulty getting the wheel of a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (the big mouse with the optical eye) to scroll in Linux. I am running Corel Linux Desktop version 1.2 with a 2.2.16 kernel, and with Corel's modifications to KDE. Corel Linux is a flavour of Debian,

woody apt: dowloading from different releases

I am running Libranet 1.191 updated to woody with KDE from sid. The version of apt in woody has been 0.5.3; as of yesterday, it upgraded to 0.5.4. This version of apt has a feature to download a file from a different release without changing /etc/apt/sources.list. N.B. The feature is new as of

apt 0.5.4: preferences file

I put in a lot of effort yesterday studying the man pages for apt and apt_preferences as well as the APT HOWTO which is buried deep in the Debian website. To no avail. apt turned up its nose at my feeble attempt to write a preferences file. I usually beat my head against the brick wall until I

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

I believe that you are getting too complicated. Windows is, indeed, not very flexible but I am not sure that the comments in this thread are either correct or relevant to the real problem. What one needs is a good boot manager in the MBR of the first hard disk on the system. GRUB is an excelle

Re: apt 0.5.4: preferences file

Jens, Thanks for the ideas. In fact, today, I did a Google search on ``/etc/apt/preferences" and got many of the same results. My German is not as good as my Scandinavian languages (I did post- graduate study in Sweden and later married a Norwegian-American whom I met while she was majoring in S

How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide

I have been ``doing Linux" in all available spare time for the last ten days or so and have had little or no time to follow the three Debian mailing lists I regularly monitor. If this has already been covered, please bear with me. Scanning subject lines quickly, I see there is still traffic on h

Re: kernel-2.4.12 compile errors

When you get a problem like this, a good first place to check is the ``Kernel Newsflash" maintained by rgooch. URL available readily from Google. The IEEE1284 module was broken in kernel 2.4.12. Kernel 2.4.13 was released early morning October 24. As of early evening, October 24 it had not yet

Follow-up to ``How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide''

I have already had some kind comments on the ``How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide''. Thank you. Less than kind comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvements, etc, etc all welcome. . A kind offer to host the draft on a website reminded me that my ISP does offer Web spa

LPGETSTATUS returned a port status of 18... --- Can anyone decipher this?

ing device file "/dev/usb/lp0"... D [09/Oct/2004:08:21:07 -0400] [Job 4] LPGETSTATUS returned a port status of 18... E [09/Oct/2004:08:21:07 -0400] PID 9021 stopped with status 0! Is someone more expert than I able to help me decipher these error messages? I can obviously supply re

Re: How do I get ntp to start on boot?

On March 2, 2004 12:19, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:51:22AM -0500, stan wrote: > > But it's not starting up on boot. I realize that I simply need to > > add aproriate links in the /etc/rc*.d directories, but I'm betting > > th

Re: libxft-dev: unmet dependencies

On March 15, 2004 10:46, Rajesh Menon wrote: > hey all. > im running debian unstable on 2.6.0 > i did an "apt-get update", "apt-get upgrade", and then > an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but i get a recurring > error, when it comes to > upgrading/installing libxft2-dev at dist-upgrade. the exact e

Re: Think I've messed up X :(

On March 15, 2004 06:48, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told > that: > > The following packages have been kept back: > x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev > > Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the >

Re: k3b and kde 3.2

b5kLaeb.tmp -r -hide-list > /tmp/kde-root/k3b30LBRa.tmp -l -iso-level 2 -path-list > /tmp/kde-root/k3b86nUMa.tmp > > > > -- > - > please send me a CC when replying Duplicate files are a packaging error, but they are not fatal. The workaround is: dpkg -i --force-overwrit

Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

be about US$ 3.5 bn. The grammar of the sentence in the NYT article is ambiguous; big though MS is, it does not have annual sales of US$ 350 bn. Even if the Commission legally has the power to levy a fine based on a company's global sales, to do so on a major global multinational with headq

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

place to do it. It is perfectly reasonable of Debian to adopt an international standard. It raises Debian above the debate which is taking place here. - -- Bruce Miller Ottawa, ON K1M 2H9 CANADA GPG key ID 0x1B9200FC. Public key available from keyservers -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

INIT: ID "2" respawning too fast: Disabled for 5 minutes

. The most sensible proposal appeared to be in a message from Joey Hess on debian-users recommending to add a -L flag to the terminal respawn lines in /etc/inittab. I did so, followed by an "/sbin/init q". This has not helped. I am running Libranet 2.8.0 updated to Debian sid/unstable.

Re: libXrandr.so.2 not installed

someone tell me how to get libXrandr.so.2 installed? dpkg -S libXrandr.so.2 apt-cache show libxrandr2 apt-get install libxrandr2 - -- Bruce Miller Ottawa, ON K1M 2H9 CANADA GPG key ID 0x1B9200FC. Public key available from keyservers -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Lin