Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:20:52PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > > 1. i tried to install win98 to play games > 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. > 3. so, i put in my debian cd > 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 > 4. it boots up, all good... > 5. login, re-run lilo > 6. lil

Re: How to find uptime stats after a reboot

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I just had a power loss that brought down a Potato server. Is there any > way to find out now what the uptime was prior to the unannounced shutdown? I've installed "ud": 00:30 $ ud -d - Uptime for peon - Now : 97 day(s), 10:48:07 runn

Re: logitech first wheel mouse

2001-05-04 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
May 05, 2001 at 05:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Anydoes who owns a mouse like this and makes scrolling > work in netscape pls kindly tell me how you did it. > http://jonatkins.org/imwheel/ -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE...Amateur Radio Keeping your Software FREE.the

RE: More Sid/unstable wierdness.

2001-05-04 Thread Marc Wilson
devpts is the Unix98 Pty (pseudo-tty) support that more and more applications are coming to depend upon. You want this. There's a script in /etc/init.d that will mount it for you if you do not explicitly do it in /etc/fstab. And of course everyone knows what /proc is. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL P

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-04 Thread idalton
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:23:31PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > > > @home servic

Re: Slow Cable Modem Revisited

2001-05-04 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link > DFE-530TX

device3dfx

2001-05-04 Thread Greg Steele
I am having a difficult time compiling the device3dfx driver. Part of the problem, I'm sure, is my lack of knowledge of how to correctly setup the kernel-header and kernel-source directories under Debian. I am running kernel-2.2.19-ide. I have /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19 /usr/src/kernel-heade

logitech first wheel mouse

2001-05-04 Thread jdls
Hi, Anydoes who owns a mouse like this and makes scrolling work in netscape pls kindly tell me how you did it. I have added the necessary options in my XF86Config-4 file such as ZaxisMapping, buttons, etc..and scrolling works on almost all applications EXCEPT netscape. Also, if anybody used .Xdef

Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-04 Thread Forrest English
On Fri, 4 May 2001 22:34:41 -0500 (CDT), Petr [Dingo] Dvorak whispered to the router: !! !! either add 'install=/boot/boot.b' line in /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo, or run !! /sbin/install-mbr and then rerun lilo, then reboot, and as long the win 98 is !! on 1st primary partition and linux on 2n

Command-line arguments fro CD

2001-05-04 Thread Barry Kirsten
Hi all, I'm having trouble getting Debian to recognise my CD-drive, even though it will boot and install from same. For the third time I have trashed everything and started the installation from scratch. I now think my trouble may be to do with command-line arguments for the drive. The drive is a

Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-04 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On 4 May 2001, Forrest English wrote: FE> FE> 1. i tried to install win98 to play games FE> 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. FE> 3. so, i put in my debian cd FE> 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 FE> 4. it boots up, all good... FE> 5. login, re-run lilo FE> 6. lilo seems to

Re: Run dos command on NT4 from debian box?

2001-05-04 Thread Ranjan Bagchi
Depending how involved your job is, you may want to check into using expect to drive an interactive session. Ranjan "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:45:58AM -0700, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to put files in

Re: Run dos command on NT4 from debian box?

2001-05-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:45:58AM -0700, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > > I'd like to put files in a directory on an NT4 box, run a dos command (a > > CAD processor batch command) and then bring the files back to the Debian > > box using cron, samba and

attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-04 Thread Forrest English
1. i tried to install win98 to play games 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. 3. so, i put in my debian cd 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 4. it boots up, all good... 5. login, re-run lilo 6. lilo seems to work fine. 7. i reboot 8. I9990305 is all that apears where i expe

Re: how to zip/compress a directory?

2001-05-04 Thread francisco m . neto
» john smith disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > nope. it won't work.. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] share]$ tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps > pixmaps/ > tar (child): pixmaps.tar.gz: Cannot open: Permission denied > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now > pixmaps/3D-Gun.xpm > pixmaps/Ant.xpm > Br

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Raja R Harinath
Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 04 May 2001 15:04, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. > > > > Thanks, > > Hugo van der Merwe > > I have this same soundchip onboard and I also didn't get sound with > the oss kernel module. I t

alsa problems

2001-05-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I'm trying to get the alsa modules built, and I keep getting the same bloody error. I've included it below, along with a shot of my alsa-source.conf file. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks in advance, Mike # # ALSA source config file used by Debian GNU/Linux #

Promoción Chopp Cusqueña

2001-05-04 Thread CLUB CUSQUEÑA
Title: www.cusquena.com.pe - Chopp ...Pídelo    AQUÍ    Como hacer el pedido? Solo necesitas llenar tus datos en el formulario de pedidos de CHOPP... y LISTO!!! RD: 152-2001-IN-1501 Visita el Web site de Cerveza Cus

Re: dpkg totally broken. some more details inside.

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce Sass wrote: > It looks like ya found a dependency loop. No, dependancy loops are quite proper, there are hundreds of them in debian, and I don't think that's it anyway. I have forwarded the original message to the dpkg authors -- I thought this bug was supposed to be fixed in dpkg 1.4. --

Re: how to zip/compress a directory?

2001-05-04 Thread john smith
nope. it won't work.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] share]$ tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps pixmaps/ tar (child): pixmaps.tar.gz: Cannot open: Permission denied tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now pixmaps/3D-Gun.xpm pixmaps/Ant.xpm Broken pipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] share]$ is that permission probl

x setup problems - garbled interface

2001-05-04 Thread the auroran sunset
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 a few details to start:- monitor: tatung tm3401 graphics: onboard (dell dimension p120) vertrefresh: 50-87 horizsync: 31.5-35.5 x server: svga os: debian 2.2r3 (potato) the problem: i've been trying to get the above lot in some sort of working order,

Re: getting mlc++ to compile under debian

2001-05-04 Thread Henry House
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:26:07PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote: > Well being the ambitious programmer(not terribly good but I can at least code > medium level data structures). > Well anyrate I decided to try to get together a little program that would do > some nice AI in a possibly n

Re: how to zip/compress a directory?

2001-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
"john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to zip a directory... gunzip -c > pixmaps.gz doesn't seem to >work. Also, I don't have a root password, I am an ordinary user only. No need to be root. Try 'tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps', if you're trying to compress the pixmaps directory.

Re: Installation

2001-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to see a installation wizard for linux similer to the ones >on windows. Are you thinking of some kind of graphical tool that lets you install packages easily? There are lots: gnome-apt and red-carpet being two of the better-known ones. debcon

how to zip/compress a directory?

2001-05-04 Thread john smith
Hi, I would like to zip a directory... gunzip -c > pixmaps.gz doesn't seem to work. Also, I don't have a root password, I am an ordinary user only. TIA _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: downgrading

2001-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Hey people. This must come up all the time, so I apologize. If >> I've found that upgrading was a bad idea, is there any way to >> downgrade the system again? > >Frankly, no. Not

Re: sendmail and setgroups()

2001-05-04 Thread Shane Wegner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:42:55PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Shane Wegner wrote: > > The current SendMail in unstable appears to be doing a > > setgroups() call when it does not have superuser > > privileges. I am getting the following on a regular basis > > from my lids

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> Try > > $ fuser -v /dev/dsp > > It'll show you the program that has currently opened the sound device. > > Most likely, you have 'esd' running as part of your Gnome session. > To fix, > > - run all your audio apps in ESound mode > - disable "Startup Sound Server" in your Gnome control p

Re: downgrading

2001-05-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. This must come up all the time, so I apologize. If I've found > that upgrading was a bad idea, is there any way to downgrade the system again? Frankly, no. > I'm considering simply reinstalling, but that's a bit

Re: Monitor powerdown on idle

2001-05-04 Thread Thomas Hess
On 4 May 2001 12:55:15 -0700, Steve Gran said: > I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown when idle. > Right now the box shuts off the display, but the monitor still has a > backlight on, and the light is green, indicating it's still getting feed from > the video car

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:43:20AM -0700, asdfasf asfasf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is getting ridiculous. I've been trying for many hours over many > days now to save realplayer broadcasts to files on my disk and have > been completely unable to do so. It almost seems as if the realplayer

downgrading

2001-05-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. This must come up all the time, so I apologize. If I've found that upgrading was a bad idea, is there any way to downgrade the system again? I'm considering simply reinstalling, but that's a bit of a pain. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With su

apt-get horrors

2001-05-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I tried to install the unstable version of gnapster and the XFree 3.3.6 -> XFree 4.0.x conversion broke my system. So, I set my sources.list to testing and did a dist-upgrade. However, I keep getting errors in the configuration stage of several packages. It just tells me that t

Re: How to find uptime stats after a reboot

2001-05-04 Thread ktb
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I just had a power loss that brought down a Potato server. Is there any > way to find out now what the uptime was prior to the unannounced shutdown? I don't understand the contents but have you taken a look at - /var/log/uptimed.log Ju

How to configure supermount?

2001-05-04 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I patched the 2.218 kernel with supermount.patch for 2.2.17. There was no error at patching time, but after compiling the kernel it does not seem to work. the /cdrom dir is locked. Does supermount require any more configuration? How? Thanks in advance. -- Viktor

Re: package version problem

2001-05-04 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 04-05-01 at 18:59 Jeremy T. Bouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > For one idea that just screams out to me is that they both have > the same epoch (1) however the versions themselves are different. I would > assume in the case of epochs being equal it would

How to find uptime stats after a reboot

2001-05-04 Thread Kent West
I just had a power loss that brought down a Potato server. Is there any way to find out now what the uptime was prior to the unannounced shutdown? Thanks! Kent

Re: Monitor powerdown on idle

2001-05-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:55:15PM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: > > I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown > > when idle. Right now the box shuts off the display, but the > > monitor still has a backlight o

multiple gweather

2001-05-04 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
I used to be able to run multiple gweather (for different cities), however, recently if I try to run multiple gweather, then each will take 50% of availible CPU, and neither will show anything. Does anyoneelse have the same problem? PS: I am running unstable (Gnome 1.4) Thanks,

Re: [alsa-user] Linux ALSA sound & ThinkPad 380ED

2001-05-04 Thread Erik Steffl
are these PCI devices? if so, do not use isapnp, set your bios so that it does not expect plug and play support in OS and all should be fine... try lspci to see if the sound card is listed as pci device erik Terry Hancock wrote: > > [Cross-posted to debian-user and alsa-user, not >

Re: motherboard suggestions OT: ECC memory

2001-05-04 Thread John Hasler
> ECC (Error Correction Code) has an additional 9th bit for every 8 data > bits to catch and correct certain errors... That's just parity. With only one extra bit you can detect single bit errors, but you can't correct them. > Note, though, that I've heard Athlon doesn't play well with ECC,...

XFree4.0.3 Multihead trouble...

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I've set up XFree86 4.0.3 to run four monitors off an Appian Graphics JeronimoPro card, which is incredibly spiffy, but... When I close my window manager or CTRL-ALT-F1 the system hangs (unpingable, reboot time). I have it working fine with XiGraphics Xserver, but being a good little free so

Re: a new program called xtar

2001-05-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi a how about adding your sw to the list of apps on the various search engines...etc..etc..so that people will find it when they're looking for "tar gui X11" etc.. have fun alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net ... On Fri, 4 May 2001, a wrote: > i wrote an X interface to process tar/tgz files. It wo

Re: Monitor powerdown on idle

2001-05-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:55:15PM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: > I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown when idle. > Right now the box shuts off the display, but the monitor still has a > backlight on, and the light is green, indicating it's still getting feed from > the

Re: get number of pages of a PostScript file

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:04:41PM +0200, Iwan Mouwen wrote: > * Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010428 23:09]: > > 10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps > /dev/null > > [8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes > > Shouldn't that be > psselect -p - file.ps > /dev/null > instead? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to copy the binary image of a dos floppy ?

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:48:35PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: :Hi, :I have dos and debian installed on my system . I would like to backup the ddevice drivers that came on dos floppies with my system. I know I need to use the dd command to make a binary image of the floppy. But I do not know the exac

Re: Diagrams with Dia: Help!

2001-05-04 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Glen Snyder wrote: > Has anyone been able to get dia to work worth a darn? [snip] I use dia on regular basis on two Potato computers and never had any problems (except making it display and print iso-8859-2 let­ ters, but that's another case; anyone knows solution?). I ha

Re: speedup nvidia?

2001-05-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:56:54PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > * Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-05-04 17:48): > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:31:13PM +1000, Ewing, Jeff wrote: > > > Steps I used for Diamond Viper 770 AGP > > > > > > 1.Environment is Debian Unstable, XFree 4.0.3. > > > 2.Rem

net-pf-10 modprobes in /var/log/ksymoops/???

2001-05-04 Thread Francois Gouget
I keep getting these reports in '/var/log/ksymoops/*.log'. 20010504 02 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k net-pf-10 safemode=1 20010504 02 probe ended 20010504 000203 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k net-pf-10 safemode=1 20010504 000203 probe ended 20010504 000712 start /sbin/modprobe -s

Re: speedup nvidia?

2001-05-04 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-05-04 17:48): > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:31:13PM +1000, Ewing, Jeff wrote: > > Steps I used for Diamond Viper 770 AGP > > > > 1.Environment is Debian Unstable, XFree 4.0.3. > > 2.Remove Open GL software support Mesa, Utah-GLX etc. > > 3.Compile Kernel and

Monitor powerdown on idle

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown when idle. Right now the box shuts off the display, but the monitor still has a backlight on, and the light is green, indicating it's still getting feed from the video card. What I would lie to do is have the monitor

How to copy the binary image of a dos floppy ?

2001-05-04 Thread B Thomas
Hi, I have dos and debian installed on my system . I would like to backup the ddevice drivers that came on dos floppies with my system. I know I need to use the dd command to make a binary image of the floppy. But I do not know the exact parameter to pass . Could you please show me a sample comm

Re: upgrade doubt

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Gran
You can do it one of two ways - download the packages and then dpkg -i gimpsomethingorotherversionnumber.deb, repeat for gnome. Or, you can edit your /etc/sources.list to point to either testing or unstable (replace the word 'potato' with 'testing' or 'unstable' - don't us the ''), depending on

Re: max concurrent processes can't be > 257?

2001-05-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:41:47AM -1000, Joseph Dane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Nate" == Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nate> Brett wrote: > >> I'm running qmail and am trying to set up linux to allow for > >> hundreds of outgoing connections at once (no, I'm not a spamm

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On 4 May 2001, Steve Gran wrote: > Be careful removing things, and if you're not sure and it's not causing a conflict, it may be asiest to leave it alone. "dpkg --purge" will not purge a package that is depended on by other packages - you may inadvertently get rid of a recommended or suggested pa

Re: email options and --force with dpkg

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Gran
try apt-get install qmail; this should tell you that it conflicts with ssmtp, and you must remove it. say yes - this should force the removal of ssmtp and install qmail - hopefully allgoes well : ). I've changed MTA's in the past this way, and so far (knock wood) no problems. If this doesn't

Re: motherboard suggestions OT: ECC memory

2001-05-04 Thread freedman
On Fri, May 04, 2001, William Leese wrote: > > I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got > > fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. > > Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead > > one (i840 chipset) couldn't.

Re: Toshiba Satellite 2535CDS laptop

2001-05-04 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 04 May 2001 17:55, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm trying to install debian on a 2535cds and not having much luck... I have a similar laptop and it likes debian :) I get to the bios setup by holding ESC when switching on. My laptop also cant boot from cdrom. So I made a boot floppy and a ro

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Hello, > hi,all > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the > filename,and there are so many package to remove. > How can I reinstall but keep

Re: Image

2001-05-04 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 04 May 2001 15:17, Anthony Walker wrote: > I seen a few websites that have been done with linux and linux programs > and I once used corel linux as well, alot of times I notice the image > have a water color like pixel like blending, theres no smoothing or > blending, can you tell me why

Re: Stylus Color & magicfilter

2001-05-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Stylus Color & magicfilter Date: Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:44PM -0300 In reply to:Marcelo Chiapparini Quoting Marcelo Chiapparini([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Dears debianners, > > I have just installed magicfilter in my potato 2.2r3 box. I have attached a > Epson Stylus Col

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Robert Voigt
On Friday 04 May 2001 15:04, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. > > Thanks, > Hugo van der Merwe I have this same soundchip onboard and I also didn't get sound with the oss kernel module. I tried alsa and it worked. Isn't it great that different

Re: Spontaneous reboot! HW diagnostics?

2001-05-04 Thread Tony Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 4 May 2001, at 10:02): > memtest86 (available from > http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/) will give your memory > at least a good workout. The Readme and freshmeat testimonials look great. Thanks! I'll be running that this weekend. > It needs to be run

Re: Toshiba Satellite 2535CDS laptop

2001-05-04 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > I'm trying to install debian on a 2535cds and not having much luck... > > I've used the Windows BIOS management software (AFAICT, there's no keystroke > that will invoke BIOS during the boot sequence) to change the boot device > preveference to CDROM/FDD/HDD. you can use the "keyboard b

Re: DHCP client retrieving 2 IP's

2001-05-04 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:09:57AM -0700, Aaron Walker wrote: > > > >I recently installed Debian v2.2r3 and I installed the DHCP client as > >well.. when debian boots, DHCP assigns eth0 an IP (which it is > >supposed to do, in this case 192.168.1.4) then it also assigns the > >

Linux ALSA sound & ThinkPad 380ED

2001-05-04 Thread Terry Hancock
[Cross-posted to debian-user and alsa-user, not sure which is more appropriate] Okay, I have a ThinkPad 380ED (Actually two of them -- so I'll refer to them as #1 and #2, I'm installing #1 while using #2, which has a pre-installed Windows 95 OS and working sound). I'm trying to install ALSA (="Ad

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Gran
On Mon, 07 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The easiest way to find package names is dpkg -l, or pipe it through less: dpkg-l|less. This will give you a list of all installed packages on your system and their current status. Then you can decide which ones to remove. Be careful removing thi

Re: package version problem

2001-05-04 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this case 1:2.3.0p1-0.11 > 1:2.9p1-1 so the first one would > override the second... What numeric system is that using? In mine, 9 > 3. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Loneliness is a terrible price to pa

Re: Setting compile variables

2001-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
"Matthew H. Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been trying to switch over to using "apt-get source" for my new SMP-P3 box >and I noticed the variables >DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux >DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 >

kernel compile

2001-05-04 Thread q
debs, using the "debian way" of kernel compliation ("make menuconfig; make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image), i am only able to complie a pristine kernel on my soney picturebook (running kernel 2.4.4, currently). on my other boxes, i cannot complie any kernels (2.2.17, 2

Re: max concurrent processes can't be > 257?

2001-05-04 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Nate" == Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nate> Brett wrote: >> I'm running qmail and am trying to set up linux to allow for >> hundreds of outgoing connections at once (no, I'm not a spammer >> but the new admin of some very large, dynamic mailing lists). I'm >> using Debian L

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > and the mixer appears to work (I used gom -it), but when I try to play > something (an mp3 with mpg123, a wav or .au with sox's "play", esd's > test by simply running "esd"), the relevant program "freezes" and no > sound comes out. (By "f

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread William Leese
On Friday 04 May 2001 19:14, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi,all > > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > > I want to use 'apt-get remove filena

Re: Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with > Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. > > However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, > it's apparent that I need the

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > > Etherlink I

Problem with adaptec aha1542 + Linux

2001-05-04 Thread Orson Jones
System: Pentium 75Mhz 16 Mb RAM SCSI Chain: SCSI ID #7 - Adaptec AHA-1542CF (terminated) | | (internal cable) | SCSI ID #2 - QUANTUM LP240S GM240S1X (not terminated) | SCSI ID #0 - QUANTUM EMPIRE_1080S (terminated) using the normal debian rescue/install disk lilo boot paramaters: linux aha1542=0

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi,all > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the > filename,and there are so

Re: quake-x11 problems

2001-05-04 Thread Ilya Martynov
MOdM> One more question: I've read some articles in tomshardware web MOdM> site and one of the performance measurement software they use is quake. MOdM> They report FPS rate for the tested hardware. MOdM> Do you know how to use quake for Linux to do that? Is it MOdM> possible? In quake 1 you

Setting compile variables

2001-05-04 Thread Matthew H. Ray
I've been trying to switch over to using "apt-get source" for my new SMP-P3 box and I noticed the variables DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-

Re: package version problem

2001-05-04 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
For one idea that just screams out to me is that they both have the same epoch (1) however the versions themselves are different. I would assume in the case of epochs being equal it would handle the version as normal and pick the one with the highest version. In this case 1:2.3.0p1

I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread fg007
hi,all I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the filename,and there are so many package to remove. How can I reinstall but keep the smallest base sy

Re: quake-x11 problems

2001-05-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Thanks Jaye! It works now! One more question: I've read some articles in tomshardware web site and one of the performance measurement software they use is quake. They report FPS rate for the tested hardware. Do you know how to use quake for Linux to do that? Is it possible?

Re: speedup nvidia?

2001-05-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:31:13PM +1000, Ewing, Jeff wrote: > Steps I used for Diamond Viper 770 AGP > > 1.Environment is Debian Unstable, XFree 4.0.3. > 2.Remove Open GL software support Mesa, Utah-GLX etc. > 3.Compile Kernel and ensure MMTR support, no DRI, no Framebuffer, no AGP. > 4.Download

More Sid/unstable wierdness.

2001-05-04 Thread John Foster
I am still battling a recent Sid upgrade that fried my test site file system. My main problem is that the kernel boots into runlevel2 with the / file system mounted as read-only. I tried several ideas (thanks Osamu) to remount the system to no avail. I decided to try to find exactly what is going o

Re: Warning: binary attachment

2001-05-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Osamu Aoki wrote: > !!! Warning !!! > > This "a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> person send a binary to Debian ML using > MS-outlook as client-ware with my name in CC. > > I am nothing to do with his e-mail. :-) I actually complained to him for > his previous binary posting by private mail! > > I do

Re: qmail - build and install on Potato

2001-05-04 Thread mark
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:15:39PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I'm back again! > > Still trying to get qmail installed so that I can have a look at it. > > On ftp.debian, I found qmail-src_1.03-14.deb ( and also the > dependency ucspi-tcp-src_0.84-1.deb). The ucspi package installs > without pro

Toshiba Satellite 2535CDS laptop

2001-05-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm trying to install debian on a 2535cds and not having much luck... I've used the Windows BIOS management software (AFAICT, there's no keystroke that will invoke BIOS during the boot sequence) to change the boot device preveference to CDROM/FDD/HDD. A potato CD in the drive appeared to be compl

RE: Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-May-2001 Stan Brown wrote: > I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with > Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. > > However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, > it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what i

Re: Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with > Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. > > However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, > it's apparent that I need the --date option, but

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:12:21AM +0200, Alberto Cabello S?nchez wrote: : : At LILO prompt, type: linux 1 and press enter. This will cause linux to start at runlevel 1 (single-user) so you can run passwd. After that, don't forget your passwd again. Debian asks for a root password before enteri

Warning: binary attachment

2001-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
!!! Warning !!! This "a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> person send a binary to Debian ML using MS-outlook as client-ware with my name in CC. I am nothing to do with his e-mail. :-) I actually complained to him for his previous binary posting by private mail! I do recommend not to run the binary in his

Re: Minor Technical Difficulties

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:52:45PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: :I always wondered, why are there different ways of using the runlevels? :It took me a while to figure out why "telinit 3" won't kill X! You can configure it to do this, by setting xdm (or gdm or wdm or whateverdm), to only start in runl

usb flash memory card readers (OT)

2001-05-04 Thread Charles Lewis
I'm looking at the Viking IntelliFlash USB which will read SmartMedia, PCMCIA (Types I & II), and CompactFlash. However, I want to be able to use it under linux. Anyone had any success with this or any other usb flash memory card readers? -- Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 817-556-4720

Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread Stan Brown
I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what is the "STRING" fomrat? -- Stan Brown

Re: package version problem

2001-05-04 Thread list
* On 04-05-01 at 17:36 Ilya Martynov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > Because ssh package on debian has epoch in its Version field. > > $ dpkg -s ssh > Package: ssh > ... > Version: 1:2.3.0p1-0.11 > ^^^ > > 1: in Version field is epoch. Package with higher

athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-04 Thread idalton
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link > DFE-530TX

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-04 Thread Frederico Muñoz
Darren Wyn Rees wrote: I've noticed that Linux Mandrake 7.2 is the only Linux distribution I've come across that actually switches off my (ATX) computer after shutdown. What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? If I'm n

KEN0100-AF "NE200"?? PCMCIA NET CARD

2001-05-04 Thread J . Ramón Fdez
Has anybody installed a KEN0100-AF pcmcia net card? If it so, please, can you help me abaut it? Thanks

Re: quake-x11 problems

2001-05-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Mario, This looks pretty much like what I get starting quake. The thing I have to look out for is starting it in kde. Kde has artsd running and locks the sound card until it times out. Pause/stop the artsd and it should work a little faster. hth On Friday 04 May 2001 08:13, Mario Olimpio

qmail - build and install on Potato

2001-05-04 Thread john gennard
I'm back again! Still trying to get qmail installed so that I can have a look at it. On ftp.debian, I found qmail-src_1.03-14.deb ( and also the dependency ucspi-tcp-src_0.84-1.deb). The ucspi package installs without problems - I used 'dpkg -i ucspi etc' and then 'build-ucspi etc' followed by 'i

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