Menu

Show posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Show posts Menu

Topics - Gordon

#41
General Support / Latest ISO
December 15, 2014, 01:58:01 PM
Hi. I downloaded the latest ISO yesterday and tried to install it. The live DVD ran OK but on installation it kept coming up with  BOOTMGR Failure. As I haven't got a working PC now can I download the ISO again using the live DVD and burn another one ?
#42
General Support / brother printers
November 15, 2014, 08:09:13 PM
Hi All
A question about the  above. I have just done a search for the above with no luck so hence a question.

I am thinking of buying  brother printer either a DCP J4110DW or MFC J4510DW, Has anyone any experience of either with VSIDO  ?
#43
General Support / Boot Up Question
October 08, 2014, 07:06:32 PM
Hi Folks

When I boot my machine up I see a few red FAILED items but they past too fast for me to read. I know that they will be in a log somewhere but where is it please ? This has only started since I upgraded to kernel 3-16-2-amd64. I had to go and buy a new graphics card even to get it to boot up as it said mine was too old, just like me probably  :D
#44
General Support / Digikam Question
August 29, 2014, 07:56:24 PM
Hi,

I have just done my usual dist-upgrade only to find that it has removed Digikam from the system. Is there a particular reason for this and if so what should I replace it with or is it OK to reinstall Digikam  ?



#45
Hi All

Yet again I have bee thrown another printing problem. While trying to print now I get the following


"The PPD version (5.2.9) is not compatible with Gutenprint 5.2.10."


What is PPD and where can I find it please  :'(
#46
General Support / Firefox Nightly [ SOLVED }
May 10, 2014, 06:00:04 PM
Hi All.
I am having trouble with nightly, I tell it to download and install the updat but all it seems to do is try and connect to the server. another thing is I can't set the background colour, at the moment it is bright white and I can't see all the boxes / icons or the google logo. Any ideas as to why please ?  :(
#47
Hi All'

I still have a problem with LibreOffice. As stated before in my previous post when I ask office to print a doc or spreadsheet it just closes down but still print's the doc. I have waited for updates to see if that would fix it, but with no luck. I have just used smxi to remove it and reintall it but it is just the same. HELP please, has anyone any ideas as to why this is happening ? Or should I have just used apt-get ot install it ? :'(
#48
General Support / LibreOffice
March 11, 2014, 04:14:51 PM
Hi All

Not sure if this is in the wright place, If not please shift it mod's.

I can't get my printer to print and I have no idea as to why. It works fine on #! and it seems to print on VSIDO but it does not put any charactures on the printed page. I am using Version: 4.1.5.3 Build ID: 410m0(Build:3) of libreoffice and running the experimental addon as well ( this is only on vsido ) but I don't think its that as it didn't print before I added the addon.

Any ideas' as to why please ? :(
#49
General Support / fontconfig-config
February 22, 2014, 12:21:25 PM
I had an error message this morning while running smxi regarding an error over fontconfig ( error 100 ). Afer a lot of reading and with no idea what I was doing I ran

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig-config_2.11.0-3_all.deb

and it seems to have fixed it as I had tried to install transmission which it wouldn't do but has now done so. Is there anything else that |I should do ?
I also seemed to have switched kernel to 3.13.4.towo-siduction-amd64 done by accident I assure you but I am ok with this as I was going to switch from liqorix to see if there was any difference anyway. :)
#50
General Support / Epson DX5000 printer [ SOLVED ]
February 16, 2014, 12:08:45 AM
Hi all

Am having trouble installing the above printer. I have run system-config-printer
several times now. I have even downloaded the printer driver for a 64 bit board of the net. System-config-printer find the printer and driver OK but will not apply it. Any ideas how to get round this please ?
#51
VSIDO Discussions / (Solved) A question regarding Digikam
February 15, 2014, 11:52:09 PM
Hi All

As stated a question about Digikam. Why is it that when I pointed my images folder to where they are on my system Digikam failed to locate them yet when I removed the pointer and simply added the collection point

sdax on /media/sdax-ata-WDC_.......

it found them. I had set fstab to

/dev/sdax    /home/......../images

Have I got something wrong ?
#52
General Support / Fluxbox Problem
February 15, 2014, 03:08:20 PM
Hi all

Been trying to alter the fluxbox dropdown menu but without any luck.
The fluxbox editor tells you to lock in

/usr/share/menu/default

but default isn't there
also look in

/usr/share/doc/menu/html

but menu/html isn't there either. Where do I go from here Please ?
#53
VSIDO Discussions / Update PC
February 12, 2014, 06:35:54 PM
Hi All,

Just upgraded my PC to a gigabyte motherboard, all appears to be working OK except for my wireless internet connection, wired works OK though. No trouble with the latest ISO downloaded and installed with no bother at all, Thanks VastOne  great job  :D
#54
General Support / Iceweasel problem [ SOLVED ]
November 22, 2013, 10:31:55 PM
Hi

I have no idea what I have done or if is something else. I can see and use the basic outline of Iceweasel, That is to say I can see file edit etc but when I click on one of them I get the drop down menu OK but all that I can see is the box itself all the writing held within the box itself is invisible until I scroll over it and only then does it become readable. Has anyone any ideas as to what I have done as I have no idea at ll myself ? also the VSIDO web page itself has been altered and become awkward to see and use. I have been trying for ages to sort this out with no luck at all
#55
General Support / Bluetooth
November 22, 2013, 10:06:43 PM
Hi

I have just decided to try and get my android phone / tables  ( ASUS ) to bluetooth to this PC but I can't figure out how to do it and there doesn't appear to be a wizard to help out. I have tried all the bluetooth things that appear in /usr/bin but they don't seem to do anything. Am i doing something wrong again or is there something that smxi hasn't downloaded / installed that I have to do manually ? Help please
#56
General Support / A couple of Questions
October 12, 2013, 08:42:39 AM
Hi All

A couple of queries

1, Why is it that when you do an dist-upgrade and it say there are a few critical bugs and do you want to continue, if you say no it upgrades nothing at all and if you say yes it seem to upgrade everything including the critical bugs. Why isn't there an option to upgrade everything else except the ones with bugs in. I always continue regardless with my fingers crossed as I have no idea as to what the buggy things do anyway. So far I have been lucky :-)

2. I seem to have done something to libreoffice and have no idea what. If i used spacefm as root and open a document with libreoffice from that it work OK yet if I run libreoffice and then try to open a document it say permission denied. I have changed all Docs etc using chmod 777 to do everything as far as i know but they still don't work, any ideas as to why please

Mods. I hope these are in the right place but if not sorry and please shift them around  :D
#57
Hi All,

I have the above printer and am having a lot of trouble trying to get VSIDO to see it. I have tried searching but am unable to find an answer. I had this problem on Crunchbang but it was sorted out by using

apt-get install -y cb-meta-printer-support

unfortunately it did not work here
Help required please
#58
General Support / Latest ISO download
September 15, 2013, 07:02:06 PM
HI

I am having trouble with the latest 32bit download. All I get is

Not Found
The requested URL /debian/vsido_v1-2_3.10_Kernel_i386.iso was not found on this server.

I get the same message using wget as well.

Any help or ideas why please ? :(
#59
General Support / fstab
September 13, 2013, 07:47:50 PM
Hi All,

I have finally managed to get VSIDO on my PC. MY question is how do I get fstab to to point my documents stored on sdc2 to show my documents folder. I have tried searching the forum but with no luck, guess I am not phrasing my search correctly but can't think of any other way of asking. Thanking one and all for any help offered
#60
VSIDO Discussions / Crunchbag install
July 13, 2013, 06:17:17 PM
Hi VastOne

Any news on how the crunchbang style install is coming on. Dying to try VSIDO out  ;D