Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

Hi all, I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 and am having trouble using cdrecord/cdrdao. They are both complaining that there are no valid scsi devices. I have compiled in the appropriate (advansys.o) driver & am able to mount & read data CDs. Just not write. Anyone else have this trouble? Chee

Re: Win4Lin

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:46:37PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi > > Just wondering if Win4Lin works under kernel 2.4.2. > > Edwin Lau > Version 3 will, which should be out in a month or 2. Check their mailing list archives for the past week or so for more info. John -- -_-_-_-

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

> > I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to > > your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company. > It's common practice around here.. The pipe going out of the house is an > excellent ground. However, if you do it wrong, or the pipe is the wrong > sor

Sid vs unstable

Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference between sid and unstable is? Thanks. -- Stephen

Re: GPM and XF86

Thanks. This solved my problem with my logitech firstmouse+ too. -- Stephen On Sunday 25 March 2001 11:13 am, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hello Raffeale, > > > Run 'gpmconfig' while in console or X, it doesn't matter. Then at the > end it'll ask you what you want for the 'Repeat' value. Answer 'none'

cups drivers via kups not there

I don't see any drivers for the kups add printer wizard for my remote printer (it's an hp2100 with an ethernet connection). All the selections besides local printer and file are grayed out. Is there some other package I need to install? -- Stephen

Re: Win4Lin

You wrote: > Hi > > Just wondering if Win4Lin works under kernel 2.4.2. > I have no idea. I'm running 2.2.18. You can check out the support section at http://www.win4lin.com. Thanks for everyone's pointers on this. I've now managed to get it set up and working. I do appreciate the as

Re: problems in mounting cdrom

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Patrizia Canton wrote: > Hi, > I am new to Debian and to Linux, > after installing it, I mounted many times the cdrom > with no problems. Today I tried to install apt > and, when I was requested to select the install source for apt, > I was not able to cont

Re: Win4Lin

Hi Just wondering if Win4Lin works under kernel 2.4.2. Edwin Lau On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:03:52 Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:22:57PM -0600, stephen wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good step-by-step guide to installing Win4Lin on > > Debian? I've searched for one, an

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to > your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company. It's common practice around here.. The pipe going out of the house is an excellent ground. However, if you do it w

Re: pon and user in debian

> > I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects > > OK. But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can > > be made for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to > > be changed with permissions. > > I think debian is set up that way by default

Re: pon and user in debian

Bud Rogers writes: > I think debian is set up that way by default. Just add the select users > to the group dialout. 'dialout' is for serial port users. 'dip' is for ppp users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

> if you solder a wire to any peice of metal pipe which is part of the > plumbing system in your home, that should be more than sufficient for most > uses. Never ever, ever connect your electric instalation cables to your plumbing system!!!.. It could result in fatal electric socks at shower... n

Re: Printer reccommendation

> I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're pretty > reliable > my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started doing so, right after the > warranty ran out, so I'd recommend against Epson (but then that's only one > printer, it could have been a fluke), and there's not a w

enlightenment deb repository?

Does anyone know of an enlightenment deb repository I can add to /etc/apt/sources.list? TIA

Re: I want to StartX Manually

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:15:51PM -0700, Dan Reinhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > > I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot. How do I do > this. I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the > inetd.cong thinking it was in there, but couldnt

Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:56:42PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote: > > Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? > > -chris > > no users should not run X programs as root. I believe you mean one or mo

correct fonts in console

It's not a big deal but I used to have correct ansi escaped fonts on my console so when I ran epic4 my scripts wouldn't look stupid. Since I've installed debian a couple months ago the fonts have never looked right on the console. I've searched around to try to find a way to fix this and nothing se

Setting up internet w/ Sygate Server

Hey, I used to have a crappy free proxy server, but it didn't work well at all, so I've downloaded the Sygate Home Network connection-sharing software (transparent proxy?) Anyway, I can't seem to get it to work, this is what I've done: edit the /etc/network/interfaces like so: auto lo iface lo

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:20:32PM -0500, Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <...> > > > This outfit did not sell "coolers" in the belief that the local > > separation int

Re: nvidia drivers - file missing

Tomaas Ortega wrote: > > ive had the same problem when it comes to installing natsemi drivers for my > netgear ethernet card. > 2.4.x have the modversion files but it seems 2.2.x do not. I just edited the > source. all works perfectly now... I believe that this file is created when you do 'make

Re: pon and user in debian

On Monday 26 March 2001 20:44, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects > OK. But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can > be made for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to > be changed with permissions. I think

Re: pon and user in debian

L.V.Gandhi writes: > I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects OK. > But how to make it work for some selected users. Run pppconfig, select 'Change', select the relevant connection (you might have only one), select 'Advanced', select 'Add-User', and add a user. > If a gr

Re: sound in potato

>From memory, forgive me if its wrong, but debian installs the audio devices with read/write access for owner and group with owner being root and group being audio. To fix it you can either add read/write access for world to the devices (chmod o+rw) or add any users needing access to sound to the

mount a mounted filesystem

The unix system at my school is not mountable from off-campus. However, I can mount it via smbfs from my work computer (on campus), and I can mount my work filesystem via nfs from home. I figured that if the unix filesystem is mounted to my work computer, I could access it from home through my wo

sound in potato

I have installed debian in a box with yamaha opl3-sax card. In the same box, I have RH6.2 also. With sndconfig, I installed modules for in both boxes. In RH, sound works for root and user. In debian, it works for root. As user when i try to access gmixer in debian, I get msg kernel is not configure

pon and user in debian

I have used pppconfig to configure internet connection. It connects OK. But how to make it work for some selected users. If a group can be made for that purpose say dialup, what are all the files needs to be changed with permissions. Further there is nice way to know time online with RHPPP dialer.

Re: Printer reccommendation

"Karsten M. Self" writes: > My recommendation: don't get anywhere close to an inkjet. Not as bad a bet as they once were. Epson printers are well-supported by gimp-print (which, name to the contrary, is not limited to Gimp) . HP printers just got a dose of

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

Matheson Cameron wrote: > XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) > 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved > Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18) Sorenson Video not supported, and is not likely to be for a while yet due to patents, agreements between Sorenson and Apple, and Apple

Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?

Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:37:46AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > > > > OK, I tried it. It seems to still not want to run. > > Here is what I did: > > 1. Copied my users .fetchids and .fetchmailrc files to /etc/ppp/ and > > changed the > > group and owner for them to "mail" >

Re: Quicktime *.mov player

Hey, thanks for the help, I almost have this figured out. I downloaded gxanim, and xanim-modules. When it tried to configure xanim-modules, I had to bail, because I don't have FTP working through my proxy server. I downloaded the files on another machine, and copied them over to mine in /usr/lo

Re: nvidia drivers - file missing

ive had the same problem when it comes to installing natsemi drivers for my netgear ethernet card. 2.4.x have the modversion files but it seems 2.2.x do not. I just edited the source. all works perfectly now... - Original Message - From: "redgirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian" Sent: Tue

Re: I want to StartX Manually

Get rid of /etc/rc*/*xdm . Alternatively, edit /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid starting xdm. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hil

nvidia drivers - file missing

Hi, I want to install the nvidia drivers to my new linux system (just installed debian 2.2r2 / potato). When I unpack the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.tar.gz and do "make install", it reports that there's a file missing. The error get is nv.c: 49 /linux/modversions.h missing file I oculd not fi

I want to StartX Manually

To Whom It May Concern,     I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot.  How do I do this.  I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything.  Where is it loacted?   Any help will be honored.   Thanks, Dan

Re: Win4Lin

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:22:57PM -0600, stephen wrote: > Does anyone know of a good step-by-step guide to installing Win4Lin on > Debian? I've searched for one, and I've found several places where people > claim to have it working, but I've been unable to find a guide to getting > up and going.

Re: Printer reccommendation

on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:09:57AM +1000, Price, Tim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget printer with > good linux (and debianised) support? Discussed here at length fairly recently. My recommendation: don't get anywhere close

Re: Win4Lin

Someone posted the below a while ago - I take no responsibility for its content, I just happened to save it :) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:30:46 +0100 From: Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The Doctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Win4Lin Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04

Re: can debian be a wins server??

Yes - use samba which is perfectly happy to serve WINS. Andy Perrin -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

apt-get unmet dependencies

I did a apt-get wmppp.app and that downloaded ok but gave me this message..Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: wmppp.app: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-17 is installed Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. How do I resolve this? Thanks for your help Don

kernel mode nfs server on debian, mounting on solaris gives errors

Hello all, I am running an nfs server from a debian(potato) machine. It is running 2.2.18 kernel and the kernel mode nfs server with both kernel mode nfs-server v.3 and v2 configured. The solaris box is a sun sparc ultra60 dual processor running solaris 7. ==> On Debian machine (nfs server

Re: Printer reccommendation

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:14:01 -0700, you wrote: >I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're pretty reliable >my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started doing so, right after the >warranty ran out, I am printing thru cups to a 740 via USB and the thing works just dandy

Re: Printer reccommendation

Take a look at the suggested printers at linuxprinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html I recently bought one of the low-end laser printers that they recommend (Lexmark Optra e312) and I've been very happy with it. -- Tom "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

> Noise. In my system the most noises cames from the power source fan rather than the CPU fan. And be aware that a CPU fan shouldnt be too noisy.. if so maybe it has started breaking down.. change it.. I change my CPU fan as soon as it starts to vibrate too much and this way I always have a ve

Installation: where are the modules?

I am in a twisty little maze of installation errors, all different. I downloaded the current Potato "compact" diskette images for installation onto a Compaq ProLiant 1500R. The box has a Compaq NetFlex NIC (tlan driver) and the disks are connected via a Compaq SMART2/P RAID controller (cpqarray d

Win4Lin

Does anyone know of a good step-by-step guide to installing Win4Lin on Debian? I've searched for one, and I've found several places where people claim to have it working, but I've been unable to find a guide to getting up and going. I used alien to convert the rpm and installed that, but everythi

xscrabble for Debian?

Can anyone point me to a Debian package for xscrabble? I'm buildng a new machine for my SO & it's one of her favorites. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-

X connection

I know xhost and xauth to get X connected from remote site. xhost is insecure and xauth is complicated. I see ssh has portforwarding (-X) for X. Can anyone pont me to how to do remote connection using ssh. Pointer to document is fine but I need more than man page. Regards, Osamu

can debian be a wins server??

if so, what packages do i nee?

Re: reset: success

I don't know if it is related to the problem. Sometimes when I try to upgrade debian using dselect. I got the forwarding error hda: timout waiting DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset support ide_dma_timeout func only 14 hda: reset timed-out status 0x80 hda: status timeout: status = 0x80 {Busy} endrequest: I

Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0800, Chris Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is: > > > > # As root > > $ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority > > > > ...where $USER is your desired user. > > > > This tr

Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote: > Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? > -chris no users should not run X programs as root. > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is: > > > > # As root > > $

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:20:32PM -0500, Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <...> > This outfit did not sell "coolers" in the belief that the local > separation into hot and cold was energy intensive and in the long run > just crea

Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:37:46AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > > OK, I tried it. It seems to still not want to run. > Here is what I did: > 1. Copied my users .fetchids and .fetchmailrc files to /etc/ppp/ and changed > the > group and owner for them to "mail" /etc/ppp is not readable by user ma

Annoying gpm logs

Hi all, Mar 26 16:57:09 odyssey /usr/sbin/gpm[223]: Address not a socket in processConn Mar 26 17:01:14 odyssey /usr/sbin/gpm[223]: Address not a socket in processConn Anyone knows what's up with that? How do I get rid of this mess? TIA Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work)

gpm problem

I have microsoft intellimouse and installed debian potato previously also along with gpm. But it didn't create any problem with X. Now it gives me the problem. I am not sure which are the packages installed with gpm and which one is hindering. When i do dpkg-reconfigure i get either gpm is not inst

Re: [xine-user] xine not work

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But eric, is your dvd attached as a master in the ide0, you said your dev driver is hda!!!. In my case I have a dvd attatched as a slave in the ide1. First of all yous must be sure both cd and dvd ar running as cdrom, I mean could they read normal cds? Then go to /

Re: permissions and fstab

Hi Marcello, On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:04:21PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I have a dos partition which belongs to a win98 disk. I need to access > this dos partition from linux, in order to write some stuff on it. This > partition > is mounted automatically at startup trhough the ap

ML not coming from Debian

Suddenly, last few days, I am not getting mail from any of the ML I subscribe at debian. I do get from other ML (vim, emacs,...) I requested to subscribe thinking bad mail transfer caused to stop ML to send me new mail No response from -request comes back. I see new postings on Debian ML archiv

Re: Printer reccommendation

I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're pretty reliable my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started doing so, right after the warranty ran out, so I'd recommend against Epson (but then that's only one printer, it could have been a fluke), and there's not a whole lot of

Printer reccommendation

Hi all, I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget printer with good linux (and debianised) support? Cheers Tim CAUTION This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressee. The confidentiality and/

Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be "nvidia" rather than "nv", right? Gerry On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Remco Blaakmeer wrote

Re: Linux wannabe

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:46:28PM +, Viktor Lakics wrote: | On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:01:40PM -0500, D-Man wrote: | | I like grub too. But it's nor fair to compare an older version of | lilo to a newcomer grub. Maybe. I tried lilo first when installing linux on the company machine (RH6.2

Re: Running X apps when logged as su'd as root

Speaking of reasonable defaults, shouldn't this be one? -chris "Karsten M. Self" writes: > Rather than exporting xauthority, my preference is: > > # As root > $ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority > > ...where $USER is your desired user. > > This transfers cookies from $USER's .Xauthority

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:30:38PM +0200, Norman Schmidt wrote: | Hi! | | NO!!! | | The fans that are switched on and of or have highly variable speeds are | moch more annoying than a fan running with the same speed all the time. | There are very silent fans with less than 30 dB (I will find out

Re: apt-get update

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0500, Bill White wrote: ... > Now, when I update, I frequently can't see packages with "dpkg -l", > but I can install them. That is to say, if the package libmumble > exists but is not installed, and I run "dpkg -l '*mumble*'" I used to > get a line starting wi

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Noise. > > -chris > > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > > > > > > > Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some > > > models. You ca

Re: Linux in the company

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:20:12PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote: > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is > the first election RedHat Linux? My former employer Midcontinent Media Inc http://www.midcoc

Re: deleting specific files

Please respond to list mail on-list. Reply redirected to list. Reply-to: set to list. on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:23:15PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten > > thank you very much for your illustrating answer! > Now, I am new to linux and Debian, so I would like t

Re: Linux in the company

> > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which > > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is > > the first election RedHat Linux? I work for a Network Operations Center and ISP and we run almost everything off of debian servers. We have a couple

Re: Audio CD DAO recording

># Pipe ripped songs over to cdrdao using the 'toc' generated above >cdda2wav -q -D 0,0,0 -t 1 -d 5000 -O cdr -C guess -E big - |\ >cdrdao write --paranoia-mode 1 --driver generic-mmc:0x2 \ > --device 0,1,0 --buffers 64 --speed 4 --eject /tmp/cd.toc I think this is your proble

Re: Linux in the company

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote: > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is > the first election RedHat Linux? I have Debian running on every thing and have since 1.1, I think. Occasionally

Audio CD DAO recording

Hi, Due to hard disk limitations, I am not currently able to do TAO recording. I have tried using 'cdrdao' for DAO recording with some options enabled but so far only few of the audio CDs I have burned are perfect: on most of them there are parasite noises. A friend told me that buffer underru

gmc segmentation fault

hello, I have solved my problem with debconf but gmc always dislays the message "segmentation fault" and the address for help does not exist on the WEB. Can someone advise me, please, how to deal with this problem. I can't use gdb gmc core because gmc had not been compiled with the option -g. THan

GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it. Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. With those, I built the nv

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

Hi! NO!!! The fans that are switched on and of or have highly variable speeds are moch more annoying than a fan running with the same speed all the time. There are very silent fans with less than 30 dB (I will find out how silent later this week), and using an accoustically insulated case does si

Re: reset: success

perhaps you have power saving features implemented in your bios so that linux might be unaware of them? jason - Original Message - From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:30 PM Subject: ide1: reset: success > logcheck sends me these often -- > > Unus

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

if you solder a wire to any peice of metal pipe which is part of the plumbing system in your home, that should be more than sufficient for most uses. but for simple hardware upgrades, just make sure your computer IS plugged in (the thrid prong is the ground in your plug) and your whole case become

Re: How to activate the datacompression at SCSI-DAT-Streamer HP C1533A ??

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Walther, Christoph wrote: > It makes no sense, if the datacompression is activated by the > DIL-switches 1 and 2 at the streamer or to do that by > mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 1. I'm not certain whether this is relevant

Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

Thanks! --Jie On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > No, boot-floppies are not the kernel. boot-floppies ARE up to > 2.2.20--Debian 2.2 floppies version 20. In fact, AFAIK boot-floppies use > 2.2.18... > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:02:51PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > This is strictly non-Debian but I haven't found any info on this > anywhere so maybe someone can help: can I run a PIII with the CPU > fan unplugged, provided I underclock it? I ran my Katmai 500MHz > processor with the fan unplugg

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

I dropped by the campus bookstore just now and saw two quiet machines. One is of course the Apple G4 Cube. You can hear the hard drive on it, but only barely. It's a bit of a black box though -- didn't see where I could plug in, say, a microphone. The display model had a huge (

permissions and fstab

Hi! I have a dos partition which belongs to a win98 disk. I need to access this dos partition from linux, in order to write some stuff on it. This partition is mounted automatically at startup trhough the appropriate entry in the fstab file. The problem are the permissions. This dos partition

Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, boot-floppies are not the kernel. boot-floppies ARE up to 2.2.20--Debian 2.2 floppies version 20. In fact, AFAIK boot-floppies use 2.2.18... On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote: > >Maybe you are right. I was confused by the versions: > >ftp://f

Re: Linux wannabe

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:01:40PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > I tried LILO myself, and on my machine with my BIOS it didn't > work. When asked to add linux to a win2k box at work I tried lilo > first. I couldn't get a lilo floppy to dual-boot the system. > LILO would also have had trouble on the MBR s

Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:09:13PM +1200, Lex McPhail wrote: | What does the following message mean: | | hdc: timeout waiting for DMA | hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } | The drive is probably going bad, or you might just have a bad machine. About a month and

Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

Maybe you are right. I was confused by the versions: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/ and ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/ Maybe the first one is debian's version. Am I right? --Jie Zou On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote: > --

Re: Linux in the company

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:59:07AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > the vast majority of my company's servers(especially at the office im at) are > linux. > they started out all redhat but are quickly becomming debian. There is an internal movement here for Linux within the company. The official

Re: no opengl after woody update

are you talking about re-installing the Nvidia drivers. If so I tried that and it didn't seem to work. I try to do a apt-get upgrade every week so it hadn't really been that long since the last one. Thanks - Original Message - From: "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-users" ; "B

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Noise. > -chris > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > > > > Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some > > models. You can buy one in all computer stores. > > > > Just curious.. why do y

whats your problem???

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Re: RSA and DSA keys?!

on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:11:57AM -0500, Mark Livingstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Would anyone please tell me how to generate DSA key for the server? > Why isn't it automatically generated upon installation of openssh? You've started the daemon? man sshd and reply back if you're still uncl

Re: Problem with alsa and oss emulation.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For you mixer problem, try aumix. It works on console and in x. On Monday 26 March 2001 09:09, Roberto Diaz wrote: > The problem is that if I just cat file.au > /dev/audio or /dev/dsp it > doesnt works.. while aplay (all related with alsa) works fin

Debian Client / OpenBSD NAT Very Strange Problem. A hand would be appreciated, at least to understand the problem! I am lost.

Hello: I must apologize for the crossposting, but I am not sure whether the problem is in the OpenBSD or the Debian Box. Let me explain. (I am posting to OpenBSD list and the Debian also) I would like to make this clear before proceding. I have READ THE DOCUMENTATION. I printed 200 pages of FAQ's/

Re: Where are woody's install disk images?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To be released RSN FWIH. The unstable boot disks used to be symlinked to stable until the unstable ones were ready, but this process stopped sometime around slink-> potato xsition. When I asked about this a month or so ago (on another list), the boo

Re: /dev/mixer missing

Yes, I'm in group 'audio' laptop:/dev# adduser user1 audio The user `user1' is already a member of audio. laptop:/dev# sound is compiled in (as moules) - here is my .config # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI=m # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI_SPDIFLOOP is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI_4CH is not

ide1: reset: success

logcheck sends me these often -- Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Mar 26 06:26:03 server kernel: ide1: reset: success this is a hard drive i reaped from a legacy windo~1 system; there were some parameters used in w98

Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote: > >I found kernel 2.2.20.0.1. Is it the newest one? u. no. On ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/ there is a file: LATEST-IS-2.2.19. Anybody trying to give you a 2.2.20 kernel today or for the near-t

Re: apt-get update

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:52:51AM -0700, Kai Martens wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Running apt out of dselect by default. Recently my machines one after the > other seem to refuse to really update the apt cache; they contact the > server, get all the HITs, but no more GETs for the package files. > Con

Re: apt-get update

> Consequently there never is anything to update these days. Is > that right? Looks like security alerts and their fixes are not > readily propagated to the stable distribution but parked in > http://security.debian.org (Why?), so maybe there really was > not much to update in the last two(?) month

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