Error in dist-upgrade

Hello!

I have the following error when doing an upgrade for my gateway solo:

root@box:/etc/init.d# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libntfs5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libntfs5
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 146 not upgraded.
87 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/62.3kB of archives.
After unpacking 156kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 111797 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libntfs5 (from .../libntfs5_1.9.4-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.4-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libntfs.so.5', which is also in package ntfsprogs
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.4-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Also, I cannot get sound to work on this gateway solo. I have the ability under windoz to use the
headphone outlet to listen to sound, I think that there is a low-level sound card in this ancient portable
but am not sure how to figure this out.

I'm a new user of knoppix and any help would be greatly appreciated! I am enjoying very much running software and graphics on this computer.

Cheers,
Freitag :)

I have completed some progress.

using
apt-get remove <package>

where package was something that conflicted with the package, which apt-get could not install in the previous post.

This worked and immediately a bunch of other packages were then configured. Then
I tried to update everything and this worked.

Cheers :)

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Also, I cannot get sound to work on this gateway solo. I have the ability under windoz to use the
headphone outlet to listen to sound, I think that there is a low-level sound card in this ancient portable
but am not sure how to figure this out.

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I wonder of it's just that the sound is muted?

Try Kmenu>Multimedia>Kmix

(little speaker icon appears in taskbar -- click on it and whack up the volume)

Thank you for this quick reply! Regarding the sound. When I do this the icon, which appears on the lower left menu bar has a red circle and white (X) across it. Then when I open the mixer hardware information for this program, there is the following:

Sound Drivers Supported ALSA 0.9 + OSS

Sound Drivers Used:

(the used part is blank).

There doesn't seem to be anyway to access this volume. On the media player the volume was set to 0 and when I increased this there was no sound result.

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Freitag

Try the command alsa_init. It will try to detect the card and load an alsa driver for it. This is from a 3.7 knoppix version, but may still work in the newer versions.

KS

root@box# alsa_init
Preparing modules for alsa...
Building card database..

finished ok, not sure what to do next. Sound icon still has red-no sound icon and no sound programs work.

Perhaps some important details.

When I try the soundcardconfig from the GUI in the Probe results I get:

No PnP or PCI sound cards were found in your system. Please select your
card type from the following list.

When this ancient gateway was a windoz computer I believe that is hard a soundblaster compatable
sound capability, so I choose that one.

I tried using module-assistant.

Following Update Prepare Select and checking ALSA
and then Get Build Install, this resulting in getting and installing alsa-source 1.0.8-7


I get the error message saying I already have a newer version.

Still no luck with sound.

Thanks for response!

Freitag

Try tinkering with the sound settings in Kmenu>Settings>Control Centre>Sound System > Hardware.

I've a suspicion (nothing more) that you're either configured to use OSS when you should be using ALSA or vice versa: sometimes selecting Auto sorts things out.

Thanks for the suggestion regarding the centre, I fooled around with this and did get a "beep" heard through the headphones.

I'm sorry to have another dumb beginner question--when I place an audio cd into the cdrom nothing happens. When I try as su

mount cdaudio , mount cdrom , mount etc., I get an error that in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab there is not a proper entry. Looking at /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 none swap defaults 0 0


for /etc/mtab there does not seem to be such an entry,

/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
capifs /dev/capi capifs rw,mode=0666 0 0

I'll check the user forum about this issue, but just report the observation.

Thanks again for the centre suggestion, I had no idea about this resource,
cheers,
Freitag
:)

Ah, you don't mount audio CDs, just pop the CD in, open up a CD player (say, KsCD) and you should be on your way. Note that -- just to complicate things -- KsCD has its own volume slider and it's horizontal!

Thank you for these helpful replies!

AudioCDs automatically available--excellent.......

Cheers,
Freitag

:)