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hi i'd say that only 1 in 3 times my system starts up. half the time i get stuck at the boot splash and my harddrive light stops flickering and then that is that.
Quotethen quite often always i get this error:
BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramf
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[OLD] - Installed Mode yeah i get this quite a lot. my system is only booting 1 in 3 attempts which is worrying. my iso is fine as i got it through paypal from official site etc...
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[OLD] - Live mode apparently the kernel has some issues, there is a sticky now at the top of this forum with a fixed kernel/source and nvidia drivers...
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[OLD] - Installed Mode thanks for the tip but it still won't work...
the above will not work for me, here's what i get:
jonah@EliveCanvas:~$ ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.4 /usr/bin/gcc
jonah@EliveCanvas:~/Desktop/rt61-cvs-2007100406/Module$ make
rt61.ko failed to build!
jonah@EliveCanvas:~/Desktop/rt61-cvs-2007100406/Module$
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi guys, elive doesn't seem to be printing out for me. it will print a text file or a small greyscale photo. but when i try print a larger image in colour or a pdf from various apps nothing happens.
i can print an email but if there is a photo attached it just comes out as a black block of ink and not the photo.
any help would be appreciated. thanks.
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hey i had to do a reinstall of elive and now once again i can't install vmware player
here is my out put:
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[OLD] - Installed Mode Hi I can’t use my wireless Edimax card as the shipped rt61 driver won’t work so i have to instead use this:
BUT it won’t compile in elive. the make command doesnt work even with headers and source installed. can someone please help.
I know i need to use this driver as i’ve used it before. the MAKE worked in ubuntu and fedora and was simple to get my edimax card working.
i’ve uninstal
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[OLD] - Installed Mode you guys might be interested in this howto, it lets you have some newer apps and different stuff:
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[OLD] - Installed Mode problem is i don't know the trash location in elive, otherwise i could just open a root thunar up and delete them...
there is no .Trash in home folder.
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi i've got some items in my trash that i can't delete because of their permissions. I don't have a .Trash dir in home to access and i've tried su thunar, but that trash is empty as it's root trash and not my trash. how can i delete these items, thanks.
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[OLD] - Installed Mode > **phoenix Wrote:**
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> maybe someone can help with formatting in here, i
> don't get it...
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> It's better now.
awesome thanks...
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Misc Howtos > **Anthony M Wrote:**
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> Im getting an error with the apt-key add command.
> what do I do with apt-key add?
hi sorry it's prob just the formatting of this forum, below is the debian page with instructions at the bottom of how to add the keys in, just click on this link:
this forum doesn't show full link addresses so the key address isn't showing up right
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Misc Howtos yeah i want to access both ways, but would be nice to just have a link on both machines to other in file browser...
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[OLD] - Installed Mode ok i just learnt from the debian guys about their etch backport repo.
NOTE:
for some reason this forum is bracketing my links, so if there is a bracketed link just float over it or right click it to see the full address, you'll need to put this address with http and all that, not the brackets thing!.
So at your own risk (but i had no troubles at all) you can do the below to get a
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Misc Howtos ah apparently "su rmmod battery" (someone in irc told me) is how to ditch the battery module so that's one thing cleaned up... anything else shouldnt be there?
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi i tried to compile amarok from source but made a real mess, someone on irc was helping me out and got me to install various things until it would ./configure
anyway after i noticed thunar had dissapeared and some other stuff, so i put it back, removed all kde libraries that i didnt need, uninstalled amarok and installed the old amarok again that was in elive/etch repos.
anyway i've
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi is all this necessary, i enabled my boot log. there's an acpi battery module loading which i don't kneed cos i don't have a laptop and other stuff like messages that stuff's already mounted. just wondered if someone can check this thanks, would be great to just have what i need on boot...
Wed Sep 12 16:27:40 2007: Setting kernel variables...done.
Wed Sep 12 16:27:40 2
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi i have a macbook with sharing enabled which is wireless to my router for internet.
i also have elive box with wireless card also getting internet from wireless router.
i want both machines to automount each other on boot if available so they can share files, i'd like to simply have a link in the thunar side bar/favourites bit in elive so i can get to the mac and something similar go
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi, i can't quite remember what he told me, but i think he told me to do what this guy says:
but put it as 3.4 instead 3.3 as it has in that forum thread.
hope that helps
> **7shadow Wrote:**
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> Hi,I'm new in linux, please help me. I have the
> same problem with vmware workstation. The
> vmware-config.pl is aborted by the same way. I
> installed by syn
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[OLD] - Installed Mode i already have that disabled but there's still a battery acpi module loaded on boot
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi i spotted that elive when booting shows output about battery acpi modules and that got me thinking is there anything i can take out of startup to get my machine to boot quicker. things that aren't relevant, as i don't have a laptop i don't need any battery support.
i don't have the battery module running on elive desktop so how do i get rid of it on boot? is there anythi
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[OLD] - Installed Mode turns out your hostname on linux shouldnt have spaces in it, mine did. i changed my hostname and removed spaces and bang. it's now loading the dcopserver up fine so all it working
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[OLD] - Installed Mode > **sev7en Wrote:**
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> Do I can use the Ubuntu Feisty repository as the
> Trevino's repo list?
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> thanks
huh? what repo?
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[OLD] - Installed Mode what's more how can i also get rid of the create link on desktop sendto option in thunar as it doesnt work anyway?
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[OLD] - Installed Mode hi i really like soundjuicer and prefer it to grip, so i uninstalled grip and put it on elive. but now when i insert a cd it asks if i'd like to rip it and when i press to nothing happens (it must be expecting grip), how can i change it so soundjuicer opens from this option?
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