CD device file problem and kernel questions

2001-08-18 Thread Jeremy
Hello all! I'm having a problem with accessing my CD drive, and I was hoping to possibly get a little insight into the situation. Basically the situation is that I have an IDE CD-RW drive, but I can't get much to find it. Normally it would be /dev/hdc, but I have the ide-scsi option (append="hdc

Re: External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-18 Thread MaD dUCK
which kernel are you using, and does it have VJ compression enabled? the option should be around the configuration item for PPP. martin

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-18 Thread edoc
Sure wish I knew that up front! My expectations would have been different and so would have been my preparations prior to install! Anyhow ... now trying to run the ALSA update gauntlet ... Downloaded and unzipped as follows ... bunzip2 -x alsa-driver-0.5.11.tar.bz2 bunzip2 -x alsa-lib-0.5.10b.t

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread Todd V . Rovito
I just got the same setup to work on my computer without upgrading to woody, have you thought about that. Just follow the steps below. 0) Compile and install the 2.2.19 kernel 1) Download the binary packages of X from xfree86.org and install 2) Download kde 2.2. Compile and install. Follow the dire

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
You wrote: >The manual says this: >() No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed >or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active > >I don't know what it means by that except that it sounds like it would >be important if you were putting LILO in a partition

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > There are lots of reasons why a 2 year old G3 Mac has a 1 meg cache and > the Athlon has a 256k cache, all of which are irrelevent given the > difference between the CPU architectures. Um, that shoudl read: There are lots of reasons wh

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello > > I've seen some messages in the system log and am wondering what to do > with them: You may want to consider replacing the IDE cable. The CRC errors make me suspicious that it may be bad. The "sector not found" errors may be

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:30:00PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > liborbit-dev: Conflicts: orbit (< 0.4.3-2) but 1:0.5.8-ximian.1 is to be Take the ximian lines out of sources.list, and I would recommend removing all the ximian stuff before the upgrade. Also your sources.l

potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings, I'm trying to upgrade my potato box to woody so I can run KDE 2.2. I'd also like to upgrade to Xfree86 4.x. I tried using apt-get, but I'm getting an error message and having trouble tracking it down. I added these sites to my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debi

Re: External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-18 Thread adam krell
>Martin F. Krafft writes: >> ...or use pon/pff with pppconfig, adding the line >>debug to >> /etc/ppp/peers/. >pppconfig adds that line by default (you can turn it >off in the 'Advanced' menu). >> ...while monitoring /var/log/ppp.log. >Which you can do with plog. Here is a copy of the ppp.log.

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-18 Thread Scott Dier
* edoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010818 20:37]: > the older Stormix automatically detected and installed drivers for my > HP OmniBook 4100 sound chip and the newer Progeny ... even after Progeny was developed as a Base for NOW, which is primaryly for desktops. Laptops aren't the primary scope of prog

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Thanks for your reply. I've built the kernel with apm as a module. I've modprobe'd the apm module now (/proc/apm reports -1% battery charge :-) ) and installed apmd - i'll see if that changes anything. christian At 20:13 Uhr -0500 18.8.2001, Brian McGroarty wrote: With a previous machine, I

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread destruss
On 18 Aug 2001, at 18:36, Mike Miller wrote: > You wrote: > > I see you have two kernel's, does lilo add both when running lilo? > >I would check cmos settings to see if your computer is set up to > >boot from harddrive. HTH Dean > > I agree that's exactly what it looks like, but the BIOS

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Yes, i ran /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf and it prints the > message that Linux was added, the master boot record was written. In > particular, the settings i tried playing with were the lba32/linear > options, and adding the hard drive geometry to the file

Re: 3c509b and dos utility to disable PnP; or isapnptools

2001-08-18 Thread Greg Madden
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:01:08PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What would be better, disabling PnP for 3c509b using the DOS utility from > > http://www.3com.com ? or use isapnptools? > > I would like to hear some opinions before proceeding. I was about to install

Re: Chrooting a user?

2001-08-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Don't forget that - you will of course waste ram since every library etc is loaded multiple times - it's not secure if you use a kernel with modules or allow raw memory access (don't remember what it's called exactly) since the user could change the running kernel to allow him to escape the jai

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-18 Thread edoc
> Here we go again ;>. Firstly, have you tried things we've already > covered in the debian-user archives. If those don't work we'll need to > know what your /etc/modules.conf looks like in addition to your /dev/dsp > and /dev/mixer ls -al output. Then /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports and > /proc/

Re: Compiling pcmcia source w/ 2.4.x kernel

2001-08-18 Thread Tupshin Harper
Not sure what your particular problem is, but I haven't had luck getting my wireless pcmcia (D-Link 650) working with anything later than 2.4.6. You might try going back to that rev. -Tupshin - Original Message - From: "Steve Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001

Re: Compiling pcmcia source w/ 2.4.x kernel

2001-08-18 Thread Tupshin Harper
Not sure what your particular problem is, but I haven't had luck getting my wireless pcmcia (D-Link 650) working with anything later than 2.4.6. You might try going back to that rev. -Tupshin - Original Message - From: "Steve Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001

Compiling pcmcia source w/ 2.4.x kernel

2001-08-18 Thread Steve Witt
I'm trying to setup a wireless LAN system on a system running Debian testing, and am compiling the 2.4.7 kernel sources (which I can do fine). I'm also trying to compile the pcmcia sources and am running in to a problem. I'm using the kernel-package mechanism of compiling the kernel and pcmcia sour

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 03:05:42AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hello > > I've seen some messages in the system log and am wondering what to do > with them: > > Aug 14 06:25:53 pflanze kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA > Aug 14 06:25:53 pflanze kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported > id

Re: Help! I can't choose my network card in the kernel build options.

2001-08-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 04:22:57PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I'm trying to rebuild my kernel, and my network card does not come up > as an option. The network card is an rtl8139. I have the options for > 3COM, AMD Lance, and WD cards, but the RealTek option is grayed out. > I enabled TCP/IP netw

DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I've seen some messages in the system log and am wondering what to do with them: Aug 14 06:25:53 pflanze kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA Aug 14 06:25:53 pflanze kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 Aug 14 06:25:53 pflanze kernel: hda: irq timeout: st

Re: Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:15:42PM -0500 or thereabouts, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffc > Where should I begin to look for a solution? This suggests memory problem (but may not be). These kinds of problems can be very hard to find. I w

Re: Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:38:08PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > | My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian > | 2.4.x kernel. > | > | Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. > > Try running memtest86 to ma

Re: Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread dman
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: | My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian | 2.4.x kernel. | | Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. Try running memtest86 to make sure you don't have any bad memory. Compiling the kernel is sure

Re: Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian > 2.4.x kernel. > > > Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. > > > > Usually, shortly before freezing, I will see this dmesg, or one like > it << > >

Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian 2.4.x kernel. Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. Usually, shortly before freezing, I will see this dmesg, or one like it << Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffc printing eip: c01220

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Sean Quinlan: > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 01:00): > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > > > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50): > > > > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024

Re: tripwire reports constant changes of /usr/doc and /home

2001-08-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Roberto Diaz (on Sat, 18 Aug 2001 07:11:26PM +0200): > > at first, it was only /home, and i thought it had anything to do with > > the quotae i enabled on that partition, but /usr/doc is (a) not a > > partition of its own, and (b) /usr doesn't have quotae. > > /home could be explained

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-18 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Sean Quinlan: > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 01:00): > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50): > > > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point > > > > I tried this just now,

Re: diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:52:54PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > I have trouble installing diald. It fails to run the post-installation > > script. > > > > here is some output: > > > > Arwen:~# dpkg --configure diald > > Setting up diald (0.99.

Help! I can't choose my network card in the kernel build options.

2001-08-18 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to rebuild my kernel, and my network card does not come up as an option. The network card is an rtl8139. I have the options for 3COM, AMD Lance, and WD cards, but the RealTek option is grayed out. I enabled TCP/IP networking. The last box I had this card in had a vanilla kernel, so I jus

Re: dhcp with network restart problem

2001-08-18 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:48:26PM +0200 or thereabouts, john wa wrote: > > all syslog says during a restart is "PUMP: sending discover" (twice) and > never hears anything back from a dhcp server. could it have anything to do > with You could be having a problem with your nic at 100baseTX when yo

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
You wrote: > I see you have two kernel's, does lilo add both when running lilo? >I would check cmos settings to see if your computer is set up to >boot from harddrive. HTH Dean I agree that's exactly what it looks like, but the BIOS is set to boot from floppy, cd, and hard drive. I've also

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread destruss
On 18 Aug 2001, at 17:36, Mike Miller wrote: > > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda3 > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > delay=20 > vga=normal > default=Linux > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=LinuxOLD > read-only > opti

Re: fetchmail upgrade problem

2001-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:10:46PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010818 16:54]: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that > > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should

Re: how to use BTS for install disks

2001-08-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 18 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BTW, which bug did you discover? Any problems with > > PCMCIA hardware installation? > > Yep. The running log on one of the consoles claims that some files > or a directory are missing. I'll r

Re: fetchmail upgrade problem

2001-08-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010818 16:54]: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want > > fetchmail started at bootup... > > While this i

Re: 3c509b and dos utility to disable PnP; or isapnptools

2001-08-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:01:08PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What would be better, disabling PnP for 3c509b using the DOS utility from > http://www.3com.com ? or use isapnptools? > I would like to hear some opinions before proceeding. I was about to install > isapnptools when I saw the warn

3c509b and dos utility to disable PnP; or isapnptools

2001-08-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What would be better, disabling PnP for 3c509b using the DOS utility from http://www.3com.com ? or use isapnptools? I would like to hear some opinions before proceeding. I was about to install isapnptools when I saw the warning in the lower half of the screen (dselect, 2.2rev3) about some potential

Re: Cox cable modem and debian **FINALE**

2001-08-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Thursday 16 August 2001 16:38, dman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:11:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Greetz, > > I have been running myself through the ringer trying to get debian to log > onto my new Cox Communications cable modem using @home. I was given a new nic > (

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
You wrote: >When you say that you messed around with lilo.conf changing settings, did >you also try doing /sbin/lilo after changing the settings? Did you see >where the label for linux was installed when you ran it? > >I think it might help to see your /etc/lilo.conf and the partition table. I >a

Re: dhcp with network restart problem

2001-08-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Saturday 18 August 2001 05:05, James D Strandboge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:51:19AM +0200 or thereabouts, john wa wrote: > > i have a dodgy cable modem which frequently cuts out requiring it to > > re-negotiate the link. my firewall/irc box often fails to come back after > > some cut o

Re: fetchmail upgrade problem

2001-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want > fetchmail started at bootup... While this is indeed a packaging bug, if you don't want something started a

Re: XF86Setup in Woody?

2001-08-18 Thread R1nso13
i've re-installed the xf86setup packages and all the packages that depend on it however, i'm still getting errors such as "Warning Server spcification missing in card database entry for " or "Warning Chipset spcification missing in card database entry for " perhaps i need to install the severs fo

Re: debconf problems

2001-08-18 Thread Timothy Bedding
Joey Hess > It would also help if you can figure out where that copy of > base.pm came from -- did you locally install it by accident, via CPAN, > or something? You're not the first person to run into this problem. I think /usr/lib/perl5/base.pm is from perl 5.004.04-7 I would tentatively sugges

Re: Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi, i have a problem booting from my hard drive after installation. > > I've installed the stable release on a clean hard drive, no problems > with installation. If i boot from a floppy or a cd, the filesystem is > intact on the hard drive partitions. The hard

Re: fetchmail upgrade problem

2001-08-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want > > fetchmail started at bootup... >

Re: upgrade to testing (woody) sources.list

2001-08-18 Thread dman
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:50:44PM +0200, Roberto Diaz wrote: | I am running potato since a lot of time ago.. I would like to upgrade to | testing.. could you please tell me what must I put in my sources.list? Change "stable" or "potato" to "testing" or "woody" (right now stable=potato and testi

upgrade to testing (woody) sources.list

2001-08-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
> I got round this problem by installing the package libdb2 by hand with > dpkg. More precisely: dpkg -i libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-8_i386.deb The deb was > in /var/cache/apt/archives. > > The upgrade proceeded more or less smoothly after that, but there was > also a problem with exim; I had to create the d

thanks! (was re: monitor power saving mode?)

2001-08-18 Thread Chris Palmer
Thanks guys... :) Between the 3 of you... - Karsten M. Self - Eduard Bloch - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got all the specifics I'll need. Woo! I'm mostly using console right now, but I'll be setting up 2 machines using X, too, so it's cool that you guys hit both fronts. :) -Chris [EMAIL PR

Re: Partition Numbers

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:35:49PM -0700, Steven Farrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I seems that my Partition Numbers all change after boot up. > > On my hard drive these are my partitions > > hda1 Windows > hda2 Debian /boot > hda3 Freebsd >Freebsd "virtual partitions" > > hda4 ext

Unable to boot from hard drive

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Miller
Hi, i have a problem booting from my hard drive after installation. I've installed the stable release on a clean hard drive, no problems with installation. If i boot from a floppy or a cd, the filesystem is intact on the hard drive partitions. The hard drive is a large one, but the BIOS autodete

Re: adduser/group hanging....

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:08:25PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > as someone asked me if i was in the group audio to get the sound > working, this reminde me of anotzher problem i got aware of at setup of > the machine: > > adduser and addgroup don't work: they hang afte

Re: fetchmail upgrade problem

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want > fetchmail started at bootup... > > Here's the main part of the error message: > > Pr

fetchmail upgrade problem

2001-08-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want fetchmail started at bootup... Here's the main part of the error message: Preparing to replace fetchmail 5.8.16-1 (using .../fetchmail_5.8.17-1_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/inf

kdebindings?

2001-08-18 Thread William Leese
To make it sweet and short: where can i find the kdebindings module? I'd love to give konqueror and gecko a try, but couldnt find kdebindings anywhere. William

Re: how to use BTS for install disks

2001-08-18 Thread Greg Wiley
On Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I would like to report a bug on the install disks >> for the "testing" [...] > BTW, which bug did you discover? Any problems with > PCMCIA hardware installation? Yep. The running log on one of the consoles claims that some files

HDD Error Message

2001-08-18 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, sometimes I get the following error message. My kernel is compiled with multi_mode=on. hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? Thanks. Bye, Sven -- +-

Re: How to answer

2001-08-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:59:40PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > And, as I have learned recently on debian-isp, the policy on all > > debian-lists is to reply to the list _only_ unless it was otherwise > > requested. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2001/debian-isp-200108/msg00096.

SB pci 128 & jetway motherboards

2001-08-18 Thread Wayne Sitton
I Just solved a sound problem with My Desktop. I purchased a SB PCI 128 and after installing it, I could play CD's, but the sound was very low, and when I played wav's, etc. I got alot of distortion and whistleing. At first I thought I got a bad card. It turns out that Jetway motherboards will

Re: tripwire reports constant changes of /usr/doc and /home

2001-08-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
> at first, it was only /home, and i thought it had anything to do with > the quotae i enabled on that partition, but /usr/doc is (a) not a > partition of its own, and (b) /usr doesn't have quotae. /home could be explained if you have something (like netscape which let things there, or procmail wh

ist there a package named omniORBpy?

2001-08-18 Thread Marco Herrn
Hi after trying to compile Berlin on my woody system I get the following errormessage: / omniidl: ERROR! omniidl: Could not open IDL compiler module _omniidlmodule.so omniidl: Please make sure it is in directory /usr/lib omniidl: (or set the PYTHONPATH environment variable) omniidl: (Th

Re: kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-18 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Steve, Saturday, August 18, 2001, 5:48:02 AM, you wrote: >> This way you're able > Boot them? Who said anything about booting them? :-) I was just writing 'bout the _ability_ :-) -- Best regards, Petermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] X11 Key mapping

2001-08-18 Thread Brandon High
I'm having a few problems when running an X application on my Solaris 5.6 box and displaying on my Potato X session. Namely, when I press and release the right shift key (Shift_R) xev reports that I'm pressing the key pad "*" key. KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x381, roo

tripwire reports constant changes of /usr/doc and /home

2001-08-18 Thread MaD dUCK
folks, this one leaves me puzzled, so i was wondering if you could help me out. every day, tripwire reports to me that on one of my systems (only), the directories /home and /usr/doc have changed: changed: drwxr-xr-x root 8192 Aug 6 16:18:56 2001 /usr/doc changed: drwxr-xr-x root

Soundproblem

2001-08-18 Thread Günther
I have a strange problem: Yesterday I configured my sound and all I had to do to get it working was to change the permissions on /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp. But as I rebooted my computer today my MP3 player didn't work. I pressed "play" but it even didn't want to start playing. I tried some other play

Re: Ayuda instalacion

2001-08-18 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 18 August 2001 08:50, ALBERTOMU wrote: > Hola soy un Novato en el mundo de linux y estoy recopilando manuales > y textos para ir aprendiendo, si alguno tiene algo que sea valga la > pena y que enseñe algo a los de mi nivel agradeceria que me lo > mandaran y si alguno tiene el manual de

Re: Need Motherboard input for evaluation with Debian Woody

2001-08-18 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once in debian galaxy, I heard John Foster say > 3. Asus CUV4X-D dual P-III 1.13 Ghz CPU > 4. MSI 694D Pro2 dual P-III 1.13 Ghz CPU For this part I had abit VP6 which has very similar configuration. My cpus are PII933 stepping cc0. This board has never anything else besides debian. I pull my old

Re: MySQL non-free?

2001-08-18 Thread Volker Schlecht
> ... which is correct, sort of. They both *were* non-free, before > MySQL was GPLed. See http://www.mysql.com/news/article-23.html>. > > Given that MySQL is now free software, maybe this should be considered > a bug in vrms. Rather one in dpkg, but as far as I can see, that has been reported

Re: MySQL non-free?

2001-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 05:30:17PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > Volker Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > could anyone enlighten me about the current status of mysql-client and > > mysql-server in woody (both 3.23.36-2)? When I apt-got them, I got > > them from main, the license is the GPL

Re: Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:

2001-08-18 Thread John Hasler
Daniel writes: > I agree with you, the instructions are not hard to understand, but, have > you seen how many such messages reach the list ? That's because those instructions often don't work. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:

2001-08-18 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Daniel> Perhaps it is possible to set up some e-mail address, say > Daniel> [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that when > Daniel> someone wants to be unsubscribed, just need to click in > Daniel> the link and send the message ?? I saw this working in > Daniel> other lists... > > It would

Re: MySQL non-free?

2001-08-18 Thread Leonard Stiles
Volker Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could anyone enlighten me about the current status of mysql-client and > mysql-server in woody (both 3.23.36-2)? When I apt-got them, I got > them from main, the license is the GPL and it's even listed as a GNU > package on gnu.org but vrms claims both

Re: LaserJet 6L and dvi-files

2001-08-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm not sure why your subject line mentions Laserjet 6L, since what you're clearly interested in is dvi and ps. However, my understanding is that grayscaling is a postscript-level feature, and there's therefore no way to represent it in DVI (other than as a "special" which, by my understanding, me

MySQL non-free?

2001-08-18 Thread Volker Schlecht
Hi, could anyone enlighten me about the current status of mysql-client and mysql-server in woody (both 3.23.36-2)? When I apt-got them, I got them from main, the license is the GPL and it's even listed as a GNU package on gnu.org but vrms claims both were non-free? regards, Volker -- The great

Re: diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:52:54PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > I have trouble installing diald. It fails to run the post-installation script. > > here is some output: > > Arwen:~# dpkg --configure diald > Setting up diald (0.99.4-2.1) ... > dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): > subpro

Re: 2.4.8 & SB live

2001-08-18 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Can you try compiling modules from Creative's CVS? http://opensource.creative.com Alternatively, I've read reports that 2.4.9 resolves some of these symptoms... --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Petteri Heinonen wro

Re: DHCP and host names

2001-08-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I have managed to change my LAN from fixed IP to DHCP. I had somehow > expected the DHCP software to update my /etc/hosts file, so I would > still be able to ping hostname. In general, this is not a problem because you are also running DNS. H

Re: install x

2001-08-18 Thread smokez
Markus Hansen wrote: hi guys i have a debian with a command line display. network is ok (broadband contact) can someone tell me how to set up x server and xwindows or kde 2.2? thank you i have a diamond viper 550 (tnt) a logitech mouse (black logo) and an iiyama a701g monitor. markus xf86cfg

Re: monitor with alphabetic-soup.

2001-08-18 Thread ktb
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:34:55AM +0200, A.E. Roy wrote: > I have a new computer with some problems. When I got it, I powered it > up, popped in my bootable debian cd, and it all went just fine. For the > record; I've installed debian on 10+ machines, mostly old machines less > than 200MHz cpu. >

Re: hej bara en fragar

2001-08-18 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
Depends on what you want to do. To change the layout of the keyboard use 'xmodmap'. I have one keyboard map for US (when programming) and one for Swedish (when being social). I also have 'vim' setup with digraphs so I can type whatever char I need without changing keyboard map. You have to look i

Re: DHCP and host names

2001-08-18 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:34:20AM +0200 or thereabouts, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hi, I have managed to change my LAN from fixed IP to DHCP. I had somehow > expected the DHCP software to update my /etc/hosts file, so I would > still be able to ping hostname. In practice, this does not seem to

Re: dhcp with network restart problem

2001-08-18 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:51:19AM +0200 or thereabouts, john wa wrote: > i have a dodgy cable modem which frequently cuts out requiring it to > re-negotiate the link. my firewall/irc box often fails to come back after > some cut > outs. > > sometimes the interface remains up with the correct IP

diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hello people, I have trouble installing diald. It fails to run the post-installation script. here is some output: Arwen:~# dpkg --configure diald Setting up diald (0.99.4-2.1) ... dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 30 Erro

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-18 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > FirstLast > # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags > -- --- - -- - -- > - > 4 Primary0 196607 32 196608 FAT16 (06) Boot > (80) > [~]# > > I've

Ayuda instalacion

2001-08-18 Thread ALBERTOMU
Hola soy un Novato en el mundo de linux y estoy recopilando manuales y textos para ir aprendiendo, si alguno tiene algo que sea valga la pena y que enseñe algo a los de mi nivel agradeceria que me lo mandaran y si alguno tiene el manual de instalacion de la debian en pdc o .doc para imprimirlo

Re: flashing console

2001-08-18 Thread Joel Mayes
> "Markus" == Markus Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Markus> i have a debian with a console monitor, and before seeing Markus> the login the display flashes 3 or 4 times, i think this Markus> is not normal, what can it be? i have tried sometimes Markus> sucksessless to inst

Re: monitor power saving mode?

2001-08-18 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi... > > Is it possible to setup the display in linux to shut off > after some time of inactivity, just like (gasp) Windows? > I've been converting my machines to linux-only and I'd > like to have the monitor auto-shutoff after some time. > > Does such a thing

Re: Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:

2001-08-18 Thread Joel Mayes
> "Daniel" == Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Perhaps it is possible to set up some e-mail address, say Daniel> [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that when Daniel> someone wants to be unsubscribed, just need to click in Daniel> the link and send the message ?? I saw th

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-08-18 Thread Henk Janssen
> Hi. > > I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Proliant DL360 with the > integrated smart raid controller. > > The error message I get is on boot up: > > scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detaected total. > Partition check: > apm: BIOS not found. > VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 > Kernel panic: VFS:

flashing console

2001-08-18 Thread Markus Hansen
i have a debian with a console monitor, and before seeing the login the display flashes 3 or 4 times, i think this is not normal, what can it be? i have tried sometimes sucksessless to install x, is this maybe the problem? markus

install x

2001-08-18 Thread Markus Hansen
hi guys i have a debian with a command line display. network is ok (broadband contact) can someone tell me how to set up x server and xwindows or kde 2.2? thank you i have a diamond viper 550 (tnt) a logitech mouse (black logo) and an iiyama a701g monitor. markus

hej bara en fragar

2001-08-18 Thread Markus Hansen
hur kan man har en a° med en tysk keyboard? eftersom du är fra°n sverige, har du kanske en idee? tack markus

Re: 2.4.8 & SB live

2001-08-18 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Petteri Heinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 10:00): > I changed form the 2.4.7 kernel to the 2.4.8 about a week ago, > and still have a problem with SB live. Problem is that it > _looks_ like it work, but it doesn't. For example, xmms starts > playing mp3, but nothing comes out of the speake

Re: upgrading only a few packages from sid into a woody-system

2001-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:50:04AM +0200, Marco Herrn wrote: > I'm running a woody system but need to get a few packages from sid. How can > I achieve this without upgrading the whole system? > I want to upgrade via apt-get. > > Do I only have to point my sources.list to a woody *and* a sid mirror

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-18 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 01:00): > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50): > > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point > > I tried this just now, still no joy. I am seeing something

dhcp with network restart problem

2001-08-18 Thread john wa
hi i have a dodgy cable modem which frequently cuts out requiring it to re-negotiate the link. my firewall/irc box often fails to come back after some cut outs. sometimes the interface remains up with the correct IP address but for some reason it can't find anything on the 'net. the dhcp lease h

upgrading only a few packages from sid into a woody-system

2001-08-18 Thread Marco Herrn
Hi, I'm running a woody system but need to get a few packages from sid. How can I achieve this without upgrading the whole system? I want to upgrade via apt-get. Do I only have to point my sources.list to a woody *and* a sid mirror? I want that an apt-get upgrade only fetches woody packages. But

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