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

:)

I just wanted to end this thread. Thanks for the excellent help and advice.

From reading other forums and their postings I used apt-get to remove two conflicting packages and then
repeated the update / upgrade / install steps using apt-get

excellent installed well so that the Sid system is now running and updating with no conflicts or errors.

The sound issue is still wierd, but not critical. Knoppix hackers--please fix the sound stuff! The video drivers used to be this difficult and odd and now there is no problem at all. Perhaps in the next version of Knoppix sound can be konquered also.

Thanks again,
Cheers,
Freitag :)