Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-12 Thread Chris Gushue
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 automatically decompresses .gz files). I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?) did in Debian as well. I wish more things supported tra

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-12 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -snip- < I was wondering about how to get the system clock to match the hardware clock when the system's time is >5 min slow. I can't use the NTP clients because of a rather ignorant windoze proxy (determined by trial and error), and I would prefer not to hav

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. Nicely compressed to conserve your disk space :-). | What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and | over? I don't know, I'm not "Joe Average". (some people call me "

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:14 , faisal gillani wrote: well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. First off, you might be able to get away with it. Make sure the li

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Woody is frozen and will shortly become stable release. Whenever you get your woody CDs, after installation you'd better use "apt-get update" to update the packages list from the headquarter and "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade necessary packages. Also a Debian user in Tainwa

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: You want to turn the computer *off*!? OFF!? Why in the world would you want to do such a thing? ;-) | poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the | disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, "shutdown -h now" d

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-12 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the > disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, "shutdown -h now" does indeed > turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not > adjusted? You need to turn

Re: ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Scott,,,
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 06:30 , Paul Scott wrote: I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying the first 500

do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-12 Thread kindly_remove_this_part_first_jidanni
How much did woody change in the last 50 days? i.e. at our first meeting I took the 8 woody CD's marked 2002.5.14. At our next meeting should I have my friend make a supplemental CD to keep me fresh or are the changes minor and I can download them at 56K, or not download them at all? On 2002.6.

so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be ideal. However then one encounters patches of HTML docs, which seem best suited for galeon,

debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, "shutdown -h now" does indeed turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not adjusted? By the way, on mandrake when we do shutdown -h now, we see a comforting sequence of mes

Re: ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 06:30 , Paul Scott wrote: I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying the first 500 blocks of a 4 GB partition.

Re: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread Michael Biddulph
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: > > Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and > > running, whats the best way to install KDE? > > As a former KDE 2.2.1 user (in my Mandrake days) who thinks > that KD

RE: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: > Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and > running, whats the best way to install KDE? > > Gary > If you use 'dselect' you can see all the KDE packages available. I usually do 'apt-get install kdebase' & this

RE: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: > Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and > running, whats the best way to install KDE? As a former KDE 2.2.1 user (in my Mandrake days) who thinks that KDE has it's strong points, I must ask: why use KDE? It's

Re: USB HardDisk?

2002-06-12 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Robert> My home machine will be re-compiling with USB support very soon Robert> (aka as soon as copy done). The MP3 player shows out it's Robert> internal disk as a usb disk and works great. To access this Robert> under linux (

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:13, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > > I got a really interesting one. > > > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot > > sequence. [snip] > Freeing initrd memory: 2700k freed > VFS:

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-12 Thread Chris Gushue
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:25, Chris Gushue wrote: [snip] On my home router, I'm still using a 2.2 kernel. I tried 2.4 at one point, but found the ipmasq modules lacking (unless I missed something, which is likely). Overall, it shouldn't hurt to stick with ipchains unless the

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:25, Chris Gushue wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: [snip] > On my home router, I'm still using a 2.2 kernel. I tried 2.4 at one > point, but found the ipmasq modules lacking (unless I missed something, > which is likely). Overall, it shouldn't hurt to stick with ipchains > u

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:48:01PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | >On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | >| The failure during boot is where the VFS fails to find the device at the | >| address/location specified. | > | >How about double-checki

Re: [MDLUG] Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:07:40PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: | On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:13, Tom Allison wrote: | | > devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch | > devfs: boot_options: 0x0 | | No matter what else is a problem, the above is also very much a problem. | | Just say no to devfs. I've bee

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:16:09PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too | excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a | router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a | few quest

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the > > fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. > > Being more of a GNU type of person than a Debian type of person (yet!) > I would like to ask wh

pcmcia installation?

2002-06-12 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, I wanted to install a pcmcia network card on my laptop, but I have big problems. My kernel is 2.2.18pre21. 1) First I simply wanted to install simply the precompiled drivers from the corresponding deb packages. So I got pcmcia-modules-2.2.18pre21_3.1.22-0.1potato.0.2k1.deb which seemed to me

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:46 pm, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the > > fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andrew On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too > excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a > router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a > few questions:

which prog to configure keyboard

2002-06-12 Thread Willy Sutrisno
hi, I like to change my keyboard from 101 to 106, I remember debian ask me about what keyboard I am using. But I don't know the name of the program. I need to reconfigure again. Could anyone tell me, what is the name of the program to change the settings? thank you -- Willy [ http://web.singne

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:46:55 -0400 (EDT), > Rob Ransbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the > > fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. >

Imap + Outlook 2000 problems when creating folders

2002-06-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have uw-imapd-ssl installed from woody in a Debian potato machine. I tested with Outlook Express the creatoin of folders and dir and all is ok. When I try to create a folder with Outlook 2000, it crashes. Bellow are the logs with Outlook 2000:

USB HardDisk?

2002-06-12 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just bought a 10Gig Archos MP3 player. Very nice so far. Plug it in to the USB, open explorer and start copying files over. Yeah windows. My home machine will be re-compiling with USB support very soon (aka as soon as copy done). The MP3 player shows out it's internal disk as a usb disk an

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-12 Thread Chris Gushue
Andrew Perrin wrote: I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a few questions: - How easy or hard is it to migrate an ip

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread James D Strandboge
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:48, Tom Allison wrote: > >>I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M > >> > >>Now, when I boot it panics with a message that VFS can't mount > >>the root device at 03:02. > >> > > > > > I selected the limit of 768M based on conversations with the MOBO MFG > a

ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a few questions: - How easy or hard is it to migrate an ipchains ruleset to iptab

Re: [MDLUG] Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Joe Landman
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:13, Tom Allison wrote: > devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch > devfs: boot_options: 0x0 No matter what else is a problem, the above is also very much a problem. Just say no to devfs. It mucks with device things in ways that cause exactly the sort of problem you have.

Re: XF86Config-4

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:47:42PM -0400, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > I initially configured X to use a mouse type of ImPS/2, which caused > some strange behavior, so I changed it to PS/2 in the XF86Config-4 > file. It works well now, however when I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > it reverted back t

XF86Config-4

2002-06-12 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I initially configured X to use a mouse type of ImPS/2, which caused some strange behavior, so I changed it to PS/2 in the XF86Config-4 file. It works well now, however when I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' it reverted back to the initial debconf setting and I had to go back and change the config f

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M Now, when I boot it panics with a message that VFS can't mount

Re: Multiple questions

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:45:06PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > So about the locales, I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales, selected the > "en_US" and "en_US.UTF-8" options, then chose "en_us" as the system > default. Now I don't get the "locale not supported by C library" > message, so I'm assuming I

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:46:55 -0400 (EDT), Rob Ransbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the > fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. > > I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file > and fo

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:46:55PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file > and follow it. > > Now, what do I do next? That is: When/what do > I do with a debian/rules file? Low-level: debian/rules build fakeroot debian/rules binary High-level:

Re: Recover root password

2002-06-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya patrick good memory.. and the rest of the various ways... to get our passwd if we dont have a fd or cd or broken lilo or ??? .. http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/Boot.SingleUser.ForgotRootPasswd.txt c ya alvin On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Anton

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Gerhard Gaussling wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 22:51 schrieb Tom Allison: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M No

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I figured out the floppy boot for memtest86.bin. It's running now (wall | time == 1:12:24 elapsed). | I am currently on test #7 of ??? and have no errors. I assume that it's | at least nothing obviou

Re: Multiple questions

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Potkin wrote: > copernicus:$ dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure > debconf: /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz > debconf: /usr/share/man/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz > debconf: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure > > > trixie:~> find /usr/bin -name '*dpkg*' > > As you see debconf has dpkg-reconfigu

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:01:24 -0500 > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > memtest86 runs forever (until you stop it). You determine when you > > think it's run long enough to elminate the possibility/probability of > > errors. >

Re: Multiple questions

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:05:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > > 1. What package includes 'dpkg-reconfigure'? I have the man pages for > this command but not the binary. I seem to have all the other dpkg > commands. copernicus:$ dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure debconf: /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/dpk

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:46 pm, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the > fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. > > I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file >

Re: Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
> I am trying to build 'ls' from source. > > Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the > fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. Being more of a GNU type of person than a Debian type of person (yet!) I would like to ask what "don't work" about the GNU sources? They should bu

Re: Recover root password

2002-06-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote: > Is there something I can do to recover the root password or for logging > as the root user without having to reinstall Debian? If you didn't create a bootdisk when you installed, download tomsrtbt from http://www.toms.net/rb/ and create a bootd

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:01:24 -0500 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > memtest86 runs forever (until you stop it). You determine when you > think it's run long enough to elminate the possibility/probability of > errors. Not quite. Memtest86 will run all of it's test infinitely,

Multiple questions

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Dessent
1. What package includes 'dpkg-reconfigure'? I have the man pages for this command but not the binary. I seem to have all the other dpkg commands. trixie:~> find /usr/bin -name '*dpkg*' /usr/bin/dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg-deb /usr/bin/dpkg-split /usr/bin/dpkg-name /usr/bin/dpkg-source /usr/bin/dpkg-gen

Re: Why does dpkg prompt for unchanged conffiles during upgrade?

2002-06-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Josip Rodin wrote: > I think some of these packages might be fucking around with the files. I suspect a few packages of doing that. texmf.cnf is a well known culprit for example. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 22:51 schrieb Tom Allison: > I got a really interesting one. > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the > boot sequence. > > I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M > > Now, when I boot

Re: Why does dpkg prompt for unchanged conffiles during upgrade?

2002-06-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:37:10AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Why is it prompting for these when I have not modified them at all > > AFAIK? Is this a bug in dpkg or a packaging error? Anyone know? > > You'll have to compare MD5 checksums to figure that out. Without those > we really can'

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I figured out the floppy boot for memtest86.bin. It's running now (wall | time == 1:12:24 elapsed). | I am currently on test #7 of ??? and have no errors. I assume that it's | at least nothing obviously wrong with the RAM. memtest

Debian source package usage?

2002-06-12 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I am trying to build 'ls' from source. Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file and follow it. Now, what do I do next? That is: When/what do I do with a debian/rules file? rob

Re: Apt-get problem

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:22:55PM -0700, curtis wrote: > sources.list > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main non-free contrib > deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib ^ > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-U

Re: Apt-get problem

2002-06-12 Thread Steve Juranich
One thing I noticed, which is probably just an artifact of word-wrapping on your mailer, but make sure that there's no newline in your "deb ..." lines. I'd be surprised if this didn't break stuff. Secondly, it looks like you're snagging all of the official debian stuff just fine. The problem

Re: Why does dpkg prompt for unchanged conffiles during upgrade?

2002-06-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Why is it prompting for these when I have not modified them at all > AFAIK? Is this a bug in dpkg or a packaging error? Anyone know? You'll have to compare MD5 checksums to figure that out. Without those we really can't say anything. Wichert. --

Why does dpkg prompt for unchanged conffiles during upgrade?

2002-06-12 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Why is it prompting for these when I have not modified them at all AFAIK? Is this a bug in dpkg or a packaging error? Anyone know? 8<->8 Setting up libgnome2-common (2.0.1-1) ... Configu

Recover root password

2002-06-12 Thread Antonio Mu?oz-Flores
Hello, I'm a newbie and I forgot the root password of my personal machine. I just remember my normal user account password, but many administrative tasks requiere to login as root (as you certainly know of course) Is there something I can do to recover the root password or for logging as the root u

Slow kernel clock

2002-06-12 Thread Seneca
A while ago I noticed that my system time was about half an hour off of what it should be, and set it to the more accurate time of the hardware clock. Over the course of the past 24 hours, the hardware clock has gone ~1 minute slow, but the system clock is now 20 minutes slow. I know that the laps

Apt-get problem

2002-06-12 Thread curtis
I have developed the following problem on one of my computers. No other computer in our office experiences this problem. When I run apt-get update it will eventually stop and time out on an entry. For example, here is one output during an apt-get update session. It can actually time out on diff

XSLT and PHP on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Arild Evensen
I am trying to install php-xslt on woody. It shows up as XSLT enable on phpinfo, but i am not able to run the XSLT page. And i know they are working sins i have them runing at another site. Have added extension xslt.so to php.ini Tryed to install libsablote..., sablotron and expat, no different. Fa

RE: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread FreeportWeb Debian Support Account
Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and running, whats the best way to install KDE? Gary -Original Message- From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:54 PM To: G. L. `Griz' Inabnit; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing debi

Re: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: OR!! dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and do it "The Debian Way". :--) I found this to work pretty well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Gary Hennigan wrote: "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot s

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:06:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Jamin W. Collins wrote: | >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing just | >this. | | I tried loading this in lilo and I got a fatal error that the kernel | doesn't support ram disks I suspect your lil

Re: MC: doesn't remember last directory

2002-06-12 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! > I would like that MC remember last directory it was > in. I would like to add that env outputs this on a computer on which mc works as it should: mc= But on my computer it outputs: mc=() { mkdir -p $HOME/.mc/tmp 2>/dev/null; chmod 700 $HOME/.mc/tmp; MC=$HOME/.mc/tmp/mc-$$; /usr/bin/mc -

ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Scott
I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying the first 500 blocks of a 4 GB partition. I copied it with dd to another new partition on another dri

Re: question about Debian

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:45:53PM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > Ok, now to the real answer -- I've been running various 2.4 kernels | > since 2.4.7. The kernels prior to 2.4.10 had some VM issues where it | > would swap more than it sho

Re: WM Suggestions

2002-06-12 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I changed window managers and even went straight KDE. Still locks up. I was able to ssh in from another host and the server is running fine, atleast for a little bit. I started killing off children. Everything ran fine until I killed X so it may actually be a problem with X itself >

Re: Window Manager

2002-06-12 Thread Dave Price
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:27:40AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Ho w do you do it globally as the default? you can make changes to /etc/X11/Xsession or 'startx' many startx scripts will also take the window manager as a parameter, in which case you can just 'replace' your startx with 'startx black

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:59:14PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing just > >this. > > I can't get it to boot in order to test it. > I was assuming that since it was detected and was able to start booting > from /dev/hda that it was i

Re: What does CVS mean? And how can I use it?

2002-06-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:45:52PM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hello > > I am going to install ALSA sound support on my iMac. Therefore I found on the > page of AlsaOpensrcOrg (http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/) the > following hint: > > Use the very latest CVS, this driver is under d

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-12 Thread Richard Beri
I tried the "dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser" and set the audio to "none" but mozilla was still crashing. Right now I have just disabled the kde artsd server altogether and mozilla is stable. Granted I have no sound in kde, but I can still play mp3's with xmms, and hear sound in movies in xi

Re: Time(zone) problems

2002-06-12 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! > % ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/MST7MDT > -rw-r--r--6 root root 877 > Apr 28 03:56 /usr/share/zoneinfo/MST7MDT Uh. This was wrong. I have umask for root set to 077 and so this file wasn't readable for others when script create it. Thanks for help! Mike ___

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:50, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 > "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got a really interesting one. > > > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 > "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got a really interesting one. > > > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot > > se

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:59, Tom Allison wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > >On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 > >"Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I got a really interesting one. > >> > >>I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > >>I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS,

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the c

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:59:14 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing > >just this. > > I can't get it to boot in order to test it. Memtest is it's own stand alone item. There is no need t

Inconsistancy detected by ld.so

2002-06-12 Thread Erik Severinghaus
I'm getting the following problem when trying to start X: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 62: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion'! "bad dynamic tag"' failed! (repeats twice) I get it when running the unofficial kde3 debs. I don't think they are the problem though, as no one else see

Lexmark Z55 install

2002-06-12 Thread gob
Hi all, Apologies for the long post. I'm trying to install the driver for the Lexmark Z55 printer, downloaded from the Lexmark website. Unfortunately it is not Debian-ready; has compatibility with Mandrake Version 2.5, Red Hat Version 7.0 and SuSe Version 7.0 according to the site. I plugged o

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the c

[solved] aterm and scrollTtyOutput

2002-06-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.12.2250 +0200]: > hi folks, ... i am stupid. bugs #136677 and #136679 say it all. if you want the behaviour i do... no jumping to scroll position 0 on tty output but only on a keypress, set Aterm*scrollTtyOutput:true Aterm*scro

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a really interesting one. > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot > sequence. > > I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to

aterm and scrollTtyOutput

2002-06-12 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, been using rxvt for a long time and have now switched to aterm for it's transparency. it's nice to see that it supports .Xdefaults resources in the XTerm class too, so I literally had to do nothing when switching over to have all my rxvt settings (= Xterm settings) ported to aterm... exce

RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M Now, when I boot it panics with a message that VFS can't mount the root device at

mknbi-linux

2002-06-12 Thread OMestre
I'm trying mount one linux diskless machine. i'm receiving the error 101, then i want put some parameters in tagged image cration. How can i put this nfs options for example (the nfs root are not recognized) nfsroot=10.124.66.21://,rsize=8192,wsize=8192, \ port=2049,mountport=1234,mountprog=

Re: question about Debian

2002-06-12 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, now to the real answer -- I've been running various 2.4 kernels > since 2.4.7. The kernels prior to 2.4.10 had some VM issues where it > would swap more than it should. I've been running 2.4.18 for a long > time and haven't had any problem

Re: Time(zone) problems

2002-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Mike Mimic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm. The only other thing I can think of is the > > setting in /etc/login.defs. ENV_TZ is typically > > commented out though. If it's not you might try > > commenting it out, although I would think root > > would be affected if that variable were set. Th

Re: gimp

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 12 Jun 2002 17:13:25 -0300 "O Senhor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know how can i change the picture scale, without loose the > quality? a tiny picture... 354x289 to 1280x1024 for example... but i > want the result perfect! :))) > it is possible in gimp or another tool? TMK, this is

gimp

2002-06-12 Thread O Senhor
Do you know how can i change the picture scale, without loose the quality? a tiny picture... 354x289 to 1280x1024 for example... but i want the result perfect! :))) it is possible in gimp or another tool? Thanks! -- - thesirbr

Re: Time(zone) problems

2002-06-12 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! > Hmm. The only other thing I can think of is the > setting in /etc/login.defs. ENV_TZ is typically > commented out though. If it's not you might try > commenting it out, although I would think root > would be affected if that variable were set. The > root account doesn't have any TZ environme

Re: What does CVS mean? And how can I use it?

2002-06-12 Thread DvB
Roland Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does CVS mean? Is that something to integrate into the file source.list? http://www.cvshome.org CVS is an open source version control system... in short they want you to download and compile the latest development code for the driver in question

What does CVS mean? And how can I use it?

2002-06-12 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello I am going to install ALSA sound support on my iMac. Therefore I found on the page of AlsaOpensrcOrg (http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/) the following hint: Use the very latest CVS, this driver is under development. You need the module snd-powermac. What does CVS mean? Is that som

Re: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread Kent West
steve wrote: I am a linux newbie & my problem is that i cant get debian installed on my pc > I have tried various debian cd's2.2r4 + 2.2r5 & also debian woody beta, but i seem to only get upto the same part every time... with both the 2.2 debians i get a message saying my graphics card

Looking for tips in order to install alsa-source

2002-06-12 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello I am going to compile source code for the first time. I will install the alsa driver(s) on my iMac 500MHz with a Slot in CD-RW for sound support. Did anyone do the same job some time ago and could therefore give me some hints? Does sombody know a well written paper about compilling sourc

Re: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 12 June 2002 11:48 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:18:49 -0700 > > "Mike Egglestone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Sounds like all is OK except X isn't being setup properly for you. > > From installing woody, you w

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