Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

David R. Litwin wrote: > I read entirely through the Creating Custom Kernels with Debian's > Kernel-Package System and I don't think I really feel like doing that. > It seems ridiculously elaborate. I see in another posting that you solved your problem. But to address the above see this documenta

Re: Briefly Making a Botable Floppy with GRUB

David R. Litwin wrote: > cp .. stage1 /floppy/grub/ > cp .. stage2 /floppy/grub/ > (adjust vmlinuz and initrd... and where your /boot/vmlinuz... is, > here first hd second oartition) > but I do not know what the cp stages one and two means, dpkg -L grub | grep stage Those files u

Re: Using CDs/DVDs to backup and dvdisaster

Nice Tool Man thanks for more info about tool visit: http://www.dvdisaster.com/ On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 02:52 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > As some of you may know, I like to keep my backups in CD-RWs and DVD+RWs > and the issue of media reliability is one to take into account when doing > the backu

Re: question about routing

You are trying to do a "double" NAT but it doesn't sound like you have NAT set up on your second network. For example: Anything on the 192.168.1.0 network is showing up on the internet as whatever IP address that your ISP assigned to you. As the traffic from say, 192.168.1.100 hits the route

Re: Crintab Problem

Phantazm wrote: > This is insane. > > I cant get user crontabs to work. You know it must be something very simple. > cron is running > crontab -l gives correct output. > EVERYTHING looks fine. I've must have missed something. Check /var/log/syslog and look for entries that look like this: Au

Using CDs/DVDs to backup and dvdisaster

As some of you may know, I like to keep my backups in CD-RWs and DVD+RWs and the issue of media reliability is one to take into account when doing the backups, just to see if you can restore the backup that you made. I recently discovered one excellent program already packaged for Debian, called d

xterm and keypad

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm trying to use the application functionality of the numeric keypad (arrows, home, end, page up, page down, etc). It appears that I'm in application mode, but there's no difference between the arrows on the numpad and the regular arrows. when I use page

Crintab Problem

This is insane. I cant get user crontabs to work. cron is running crontab -l gives correct output. EVERYTHING looks fine. I've must have missed something. Just installed 3 debian boxes just running heartbeat and failover for apache/bind9/dhcpd/mysql 4.1 and some other services and on none of th

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

> kernel-image was renamed to linux-kernel to accommodate for hurd and > other kernels in near future. So it was! That would explain why when I searched in the Packages I found linux-kernel and not kernel-image. I thank you kindly! I will try to dpkg -i and hopefully all shall go well.

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

I read entirely through the Creating Custom Kernels with Debian's Kernel-Package System and I don't think I really feel like doing that. It seems ridiculously elaborate. So, let's try this again. I still have the problem I wrote of (namely udev needing a 2.6.12 kernel and I have only a 2.6.11 ker

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

David R. Litwin wrote: > My problem is (possibly) three-fold: > > I dist-upgraded to Sid a few hours ago and haven't fully installed it > because udev can not be installed with the 2.6.11 kernel. So, I need > the 2.6.12 kernel, but it isn't a kernel-image. So, I must make one > myself, which I am

Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

My problem is (possibly) three-fold: I dist-upgraded to Sid a few hours ago and haven't fully installed it because udev can not be installed with the 2.6.11 kernel. So, I need the 2.6.12 kernel, but it isn't a kernel-image. So, I must make one myself, which I am quite willing to do. However, apt-

Briefly Making a Botable Floppy with GRUB

I found this from the Archives: -format a floppy -cd /floppy -mkdir /doc -mkdir /grub -mkdir /pict cp .. stage1 /floppy/grub/ cp .. stage2 /floppy/grub/ create and edit a file menu.lst as follows: (adjust vmlinuz and initrd... and where your /boot/vmlinuz... is, here first hd second oar

Re: disable init scripts

John Hasler wrote: > Matthew Lenz wrote: > > is there a 'debian way'/command for disabling init scripts from > > various run levels? Or do I just remove the links from the > > various run levels? My opinion is that the Debian way would be to remove services that you are not using. Simpify your l

Re: disable init scripts

Matthew Lenz wrote: > is there a 'debian way'/command for disabling init scripts from various run > levels? Or do I just remove the links from the various run levels? Install and use sysvconfig. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Hardware or software?

--- Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:12:40AM -0400, Antonio > Rodriguez wrote: > > How do I determine if the reason for the kernel > not handling well > > my card reader and usb ports is hardware failure? > > Before buying a new piece of hardware, I would

Re: Suspend

On 20:51 Mon 15 Aug 2005, Emil Khatib wrote: > Hi everyone. > I'm wondering if it would be possible to suspend a machibne using > ACPI, as we used to do with "apm -s" using APM.. > I've tried with klaptop_acpi_helper, and it just hangs my computer... > I also tried with "echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep"

Re: disable init scripts

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:26:26 -0500 "Matthew Lenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a 'debian way'/command for disabling init scripts from various run > levels? Or do I just remove the links from the various run levels? > Run update-rc.d to remove or add init scripts from run levels. --

FW: Hi!

Suzanne M ODell wrote: > ... My board is an Intel D815EEA, ... > ... if I will be able to use Debian, ... I've got a D815EEAAL (integrated audio and 10/100Mbps LAN) that I've run various flavors of GNU/Linux on, including Debian, both using the integrated graphics chip and using AGP or PCI video c

disable init scripts

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Re: Network card recommendation - testing

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Anders Breindahl wrote: > Please educate me: What exactly determines a NIC's reliability? What defines > its effectiveness? use 2 machines for all tests, but use the same nic card in both machines scp machine1:/opt/test/10MB.tgz machine2:/opt/junk try the same te

Re: Kernel 2.6.8-2-686 panics

Hi Martin, > >> I have installed kernel 2.6.8-2 686 on a newly > >> installed sarge machine, > Yes the install is on a sata disk, it works fine > with 2.4.27, is there some > kind of reconfiguration I can do to get this up and > running? I had lots of problems because of this. The root devic

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: > Hi Antonio, all was present, so I continued to this step: > > 5. edit the file "/sbin/hotplug" and add, on the second line: >"export DEBUG=1". Dis- and reconnect your scanner; > 6) examine "/var/log/messages". It *should* say some

Re: downloading from web

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:57:58PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:42:24PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > A few weeks agol I think on this list, I saw a message asking > > about software to lownload series of numbered files from a web site > > -- series like > >htt

question about routing

Hi,   Almost a year i am working with linux, i almost can do anyting from setting up a mail server, rebuilding the kernel but i do lack a lot of knowledge about routing, and somehow i do think that its just to simple but i dont see the light.   Anyhow, bought recently a server to experiment wi

sarge usb hard drive rsync problem

While attempting to rsync a backup I get the below error on sarge after it's run for awhile.. I guess eventually I could get it all copied. :( Notice when I try to umount afterwards, the device is busy. I'm using reiserfs on both drives. * sync: writefd_unbuffered failed t

Re: Network card recommendation

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:58:09PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >Among other things, its load on the CPU when under heavy traffic load. > >Certain cards implement a minimal hardware set and do most of their > >processing in the driver software. The size of the buffe

Re: Sarge, SASL, and pwcheck

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:46:30PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > Hi all - > > I'm in the process of setting up a new Sarge box. One of it's roles > will be to act as an authenticating mail server (using exim4). I was > looking into doing auth'ing with PAM, but that would require having exim >

Re: Network card recommendation

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: On Monday 15 August 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:40PM +0200, Jan Schledermann wrote: A safe bet is a card with a realtek chip. It works well and is

Re: downloading from web

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:42:24PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > A few weeks agol I think on this list, I saw a message asking > about software to lownload series of numbered files from a web site > -- series like >http://foo.bat/onion/soup01.htm >http://foo.bat/onion/soup02.htm >http:

Sarge, SASL, and pwcheck

Hi all - I'm in the process of setting up a new Sarge box. One of it's roles will be to act as an authenticating mail server (using exim4). I was looking into doing auth'ing with PAM, but that would require having exim run as root, which obviously is not a good idea. After reading a little mor

downloading from web

A few weeks agol I think on this list, I saw a message asking about software to lownload series of numbered files from a web site -- series like http://foo.bat/onion/soup01.htm http://foo.bat/onion/soup02.htm http://foo.bat/onion/soup03.htm http://foo.bat/onion/soup04.htm and the l

Re: Network card recommendation

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:40PM +0200, Jan Schledermann wrote: > > > A safe bet is a card with a realtek chip. It works well and is not > > > expensive. > > > > Yeah.

Re: Network card recommendation

On Monday 15 August 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:40PM +0200, Jan Schledermann wrote: > > A safe bet is a card with a realtek chip. It works well and is not > > expensive. > > Yeah. It's safe in the same way that a Pinto was safe in a rear end > collision.

Re: reading boot messages

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:24:01PM -0700, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: >On 8/14/05, Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Type "dmesg" at the command line. >> > >Well there are several boot messages that don't appear in dmesg. Is >there a way to make dmesg exactly the same? Also dmesh quickly fills >with

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

On 8/12/05, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shoot 'em to me. I'd love to help make it a smoother transition. > > My broad suggestion is to run vimtutor (it should be installed), and go > ahead and start learning everything the vim way, such as hjkl for movement, > etc. It pays off fairly

gnome + nautilus prevent xstarfish from setting background

Hello I changed from my .xsession based setup to Gnome but now xstartfish seems to be unable to set the background. Gnome's background preferences is already set to "no background" but that just seems to mean that it paint it black :-( Any idea? bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

On 8/13/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) Exactly that's what everybody has been telling me... I now found the reason for emacs not liking utf-8 files: I still had included a many years old emacs package from our local administrator that had been design

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I see a large potential for wiki.debian.net in the future as the Debian base grows continuously. But having a cursory look through the wiki, I could not figure out how much stuff it currently holds. I think it would be a good idea to display atleast the following st

Re: Network card recommendation

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:40PM +0200, Jan Schledermann wrote: > A safe bet is a card with a realtek chip. It works well and is not > expensive. > Yeah. It's safe in the same way that a Pinto was safe in a rear end collision. Seriously, Realtek are the *cheapest* and *worst* possible chips.

Re: Kernel 2.6.8-2-686 panics

David Huemer wrote: I had this problem too and solved it like this: When booting (with lilo) I appended root=/dev/sda1 (my root device under 2.4 was hda1) and checked if the kernel was able to mount the root device. After successfully mounting the root device I booted up a Kernel 2.4 and changed

Re: Network card recommendation

man, 15,.08.2005 kl. 13.39 -0700, skrev Daniel L. Miller: > Not to start a war, but . . . > > What's the definitive, must-have, kick-ass, bestest, baddest network > card - that has Linux kernel driver support of course. > > I'd like an answer for both the 100BaseT and 1000BaseT competitions. >

Re: sda disapering

On 8/15/05, Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/12/05, Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > i'm using sid, kernel image 2.6.10: > > > > > > # uname -a > > > Linux quetzalcoatl 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SM

Re: Network card recommendation

Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Not to start a war, but . . . > > What's the definitive, must-have, kick-ass, bestest, baddest network > card - that has Linux kernel driver support of course. > > I'd like an answer for both the 100BaseT and 1000BaseT competitions. > I've tried various Google, searches

Re: Network card recommendation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel L. Miller wrote: > What's the definitive, must-have, kick-ass, bestest, baddest network > card - that has Linux kernel driver support of course. Always had good results with the Intel cards, the gigabit versions use the e1000 driver: normally

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

Hi Antonio, AR> ls -l /etc/hotplug.d/usb AR> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 535 2005-04-20 10:28 libsane.hotplug That's the same as mine.. AR> and AR> ls -lR /proc/bus/usb/ AR> /proc/bus/usb/002: AR> total 0 AR> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 2005-08-13 07:27 001 AR> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 2005-08-13

Re: Network card recommendation

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:39:14PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Not to start a war, but . . . > > What's the definitive, must-have, kick-ass, bestest, baddest network card - > that has Linux kernel driver support of course. > > I'd like an answer for both the 100BaseT and 1000BaseT competiti

Thanks for the help

Hi, Thanks you everyone for submitting links about HPC related projects and sites to Cluster Builder (http://www.clusterbuilder.org). Upon suggestions sent by the HPC community, I added sections for Grid middleware and end-user applications under the "Software" category. I want to continue making

Using ghostscript 8.51 on etch?

Dear group, I was wondering if anyone had advice on running ghostscript 8.51 on etch. There doesn't appear to be a Debian package for this version. I've downloaded the source (from ghostscript.com), compiled it, and installed it in /usr/local. At first glance it seems to work OK. But, I know ther

Network card recommendation

Not to start a war, but . . . What's the definitive, must-have, kick-ass, bestest, baddest network card - that has Linux kernel driver support of course. I'd like an answer for both the 100BaseT and 1000BaseT competitions. I've tried various Google, searches, and haven't gotten a real comfo

Re: bttv/streamer: no audio recorded

Hi, It was very long since you have posted your question, but if you haven't found solution please look at the bttv-HOWTO at http://www.linux.com/howtos/BTTV/recording.shtml It was very helpfull for me with one change: I could not make btaudio working, but finally managed to record AVI with audi

Re: Debian Installation Question

Do you get any message box reporting any problem? If you do, try to send the error, if you do not, change to the fiirst virtual console (Ctrl + Alt + F1). Surely you will read an eror message or warning there. Good luck!

Power Save Mode for monitor.

How do I start 'kapmd'? The reason I ask is that I have two groups of machines with similar configurations. However one group's monitors never enter power save mode while at the KDM greeter. I noticed that 'kapmd' is not running on this group of machines, which I'm guessing is the problem. Th

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

On Monday 15 August 2005 04:37, Hans du Plooy wrote: > I really couldn't care if mp3 is free or not, it doesn't cost anything > to compile lame and it doesn't cost anything to play back mp3s either, > so what's the fuss? Another poster correctly stated it isn't DFSG-Free, though it is available.

experimenting with 2 ISP's

Hi all Im busy experimenting with 2 ISP's my rt_tables looks as so: gate:~# cat /etc/iproute2/rt_tables # # reserved values # 255 local 254 main 253 default 0 unspec # # local # #1 inr.ruhep 200 IS 201 TELKOM and in my fw rule set I have: $IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -i et

Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

søn, 14,.08.2005 kl. 13.23 +0100, skrev Chris Boot: > Hi all, > > I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives > and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my > motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get th

Suspend

Hi everyone. I'm wondering if it would be possible to suspend a machibne using ACPI, as we used to do with "apm -s" using APM.. I've tried with klaptop_acpi_helper, and it just hangs my computer... I also tried with "echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep" and it works, but there is no way to wake up the machin

Re: Pinning, Local Repositories

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:45:06 -0400, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On glumble.example.net, I have: > /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://apt.example.net binary/ > # ... normal repo's > /etc/apt/preferences > Package: * > Pin: release o=Example >

Re: Running multiple desktops...

Brent Clark wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [3] a list of all 2.6.x patches. I run 2.6.11 at the moment, 2 monitors on TNT2 AGP and MX-440 PCI. Hi Just out of interest Can you use 2 PCI cards. Of course. If so, are there any catchs I need to be aware of (since my machine is a dual boot

Kaffeine and slow audio

Hi, I have a bit of a problem with audio in kaffeine when playing a dvd and was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. The audio is very slightly (1 or two seconds in every 10 minutes) slower than the video. It starts off alright and then slowly slips out of sync. Pausing and restartin

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-15 17:47:48 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Vincent Lefevre [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 04:35:01PM]: > > On 2005-08-15 15:53:29 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > More useable fonts gets you "fc-list | grep Mono" > > > > Or "fc-match --sort Mono". > > I don't think so. It shows a lot o

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-15 17:20:16 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Vincent Lefevre: > > On 2005-08-15 10:56:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. > > > > No, this can just cause the font to be slightly larger or smaller. > > This can be seen as a zoom f

Re: Standarts for building debian packages

Pavel, You can find the developer resources on the Developer's Corner[1]. Read the New Maintainer's Guide first[2]. When debianizing your package, I highly recommend you make use of debhelper(7) in your maintainer scripts. Also, if you will be doing *any* patching to upstream sources, dpatch(1)

Re: Pinning, Local Repositories

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:45:06AM -0400, Ryan King wrote: > I am working on a project where we need to maintain several deployments of > our code. I want to set up a repostory so we can: > - Package our main code up as a .deb > - Package CPAN modules up that don't already have .deb's >

Re: Running multiple desktops...

Appreciate that Hugo, but this is only a temp fix. As for the dual pci cards, I have had no problem with that on the "wintendo" it even adjsut its display manager to show the other cards. On Monday August 15 2005 12:54 pm, Brent Clark wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > [3] a list of all 2.6.x

Re: KDE or gnome: How to keep screen saver on - ie No shutdown of screen to black

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:35:12 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hubert Palme) wrote: > Seems to me that KDE uses xscreensaver, but I'm not sure -- the > cooperation netween KDE and X is pretty inscrutable for me. > > In the "KDE control center" (KControl) I find "Attached devices" > (Angeschlossene Geräte)

Re: Running multiple desktops...

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [3] a list of all 2.6.x patches. I run 2.6.11 at the moment, 2 monitors on TNT2 AGP and MX-440 PCI. Hi Just out of interest Can you use 2 PCI cards. If so, are there any catchs I need to be aware of (since my machine is a dual boot, I wonder is the same can be achieve

Bad superblock

Hi After a system crash, the superblock of /dev/hda4 (used for not so important data, hence no backup, sigh) is no longer readable. An attempt to mount that device yields /mnt # mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 hda4 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4, missing codepage

Re: reading boot messages

> For Debian >3.1, check the file "/etc/default/bootlogd" and set the > variable in it: > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes > > After booting, the file "/var/log/boot" is available. It might contain what > you are looking for.. > > Apart from that, messages from pppd can be found in "/var/log/syslog" (for > me

Re: Running multiple desktops...

Bill Day wrote: OK, while wifes computer is down and waiting on fan to arrive I decided to investigate the option of running multiple desktops on my computer on different vt's. I found this article: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Configuring_X#Setting_up_Multiple_X_Sessions_on_a_Single_Mon

Re: Mozilla scrolling problem

[KS] wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I compile mozilla myself: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20050709 and that does not have the problem you describe. H I don't think it matters if you compile it or not as long as your are using the new version of Gecko (1.8a4 in you

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

#include * Vincent Lefevre [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 04:35:01PM]: > On 2005-08-15 15:53:29 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > More useable fonts gets you "fc-list | grep Mono" > > Or "fc-match --sort Mono". I don't think so. It shows a lot of fonts which are not pure monospace, if useable at all, eg. Tahom

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

On Monday 15 August 2005 10:37, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > But the point still stands, if you want free you use Ogg. If you want > > wrong, go with MP3. > > I really couldn't care if mp3 is free or not, it doesn't cost anything > to compile lame and it doesn't cost anything to

Pinning, Local Repositories

I am working on a project where we need to maintain several deployments of our code. I want to set up a repostory so we can: - Package our main code up as a .deb - Package CPAN modules up that don't already have .deb's - Force certain versions of packages /not/ to upgrade until we're

[Solved] Re: Running multiple desktops...

Success, thanks a lot. On Monday August 15 2005 10:09 am, Bill Day wrote: > Yes, iwas starting manually before making it permanent. What I did was > ctrl + alt + f1 logged in as her and then did startx -- :1 vt8 where it > launched gnome(unfortunately to here displeasure). Will give the > ~/.xi

Debian Installation Question

As a followup to this problem I discovered in text mode that I was getting a message on the screen when it beeped. It says found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0 ETH0 setting half - duplex based on MII#1 local partner capabiltiy of Anyone know why this is happening? Is my network card to old? T

Mars_Nwe with a modern distro?

Greets All; Preface: I am a linux n00b: I'm trying to install Mars_nwe on a debian (sarge I believe it is referred to) 3.1 box, running kernel version 2.4.27-2-386; I've found several releases for this emu, but none of them want to compile for me; I've tried using alien to convert rh rpm's to deb

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-15 10:56:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. > > No, this can just cause the font to be slightly larger or smaller. > This can be seen as a zoom factor for the fonts. Ok. I thought maybe this resizing screws

Re: madwifi, dwl-G510 and Debian 3.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've had the same problem and solved it by installing libssl0.9.7, libssl-dev and openssl. (I think you only need the libssl-dev but I was desperate and installed them all ;) . This is from memory and I was/am using the 2.6.8-2-686 kernel but hop

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-15 15:53:29 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > More useable fonts gets you "fc-list | grep Mono" Or "fc-match --sort Mono". -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - compute

Re: sda disapering

--- Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/12/05, Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > i'm using sid, kernel image 2.6.10: > > > > # uname -a > > Linux quetzalcoatl 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Jan > 18 > > 03:03:11 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > #uptime > > 17

Re: Mozilla scrolling problem

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I compile mozilla myself: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20050709 > and that does not have the problem you describe. > H > I don't think it matters if you compile it or not as long as your are using the new version of Gecko (1.8a4 in your cas

Re: Running multiple desktops...

Yes, iwas starting manually before making it permanent. What I did was ctrl + alt + f1 logged in as her and then did startx -- :1 vt8 where it launched gnome(unfortunately to here displeasure). Will give the ~/.xinitrc a go. TIA On Monday August 15 2005 10:34 am, Kent West wrote: > Bill Day

Re: Hardware or software?

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:12:40AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How do I determine if the reason for the kernel not handling well > my card reader and usb ports is hardware failure? > Before buying a new piece of hardware, I would like to know the > answer to this, but I am not sure how to do

Re: debian 3..1 sarge

Hay Charlie unfortunatelly its occure the same problem with usb. usb.c usb-uhci and it hang. I performed clean expert install, it seems all be right but once more & more the problems with usb. thanks your help, I will try test the best solution myself. michal On Ne, 2005-08-14 at 16:53 +1

Re: Running multiple desktops...

Bill Day wrote: >OK, while wifes computer is down and waiting on fan to arrive I decided to >investigate the option of running multiple desktops on my computer on >different vt's. >I found this article: >http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Configuring_X#Setting_up_Multiple_X_Sessions_on_a_Singl

Running multiple desktops...

OK, while wifes computer is down and waiting on fan to arrive I decided to investigate the option of running multiple desktops on my computer on different vt's. I found this article: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Configuring_X#Setting_up_Multiple_X_Sessions_on_a_Single_Monitor to work howe

RE: madwifi, dwl-G510 and Debian 3.1

Antgel Said: "Wifi is not the same as Ethernet, so you aren't looking in the correct section of the config. Not withstanding that, a two-minute google search on "Linux DWL-G510" reveals that there are no Linux drivers, but you can use the Windows drivers with ndiswrapper. I don't know why peop

Re: Hi!

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:41:59AM -0700, Suzanne M ODell wrote: > I contacted the wrong list, initially, my > apologies. This list may be called debian-user, but prospective users are also very welcome. > My board is an Intel D815EEA, my > processor is Celeron 700mg w/ 256mg RAM, 20Gg HD, > I do

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

#include * Kumar Appaiah [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 07:46:35AM]: > On 8/14/05, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 8 > > This is a great setting! Thank you very much! And if it draws to slow for your liking: urxvt -fn 'xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8' Mo

xfce4-terminal vs gnome-terminal vs xterm (was: XTerm and Bitstream Vera)

On 2005-08-15 15:17:37 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-08-15 15:08:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > So, it seems that xfce4-terminal has some behavior if $TERM has > > some well-known values (e.g. term and xterm-color), but I can't > > make it work correctly with other values. > > In f

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

#include * Jochen Schulz [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 10:56:37AM]: > Vincent Lefevre: > > On 2005-08-14 17:47:12 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. The > "correct" solution would be to find out the real value for your monitor > and resolution. Yo

Hi!

I contacted the wrong list, initially, my apologies. My board is an Intel D815EEA, my processor is Celeron 700mg w/ 256mg RAM, 20Gg HD, I do not, that I know of have an extra graphics card. XP, in fact, fixed a color problem that I had had when I installed it. I want to get away from XP, since Mr.

Re: xfce4-terminal and terminfo (was: XTerm and Bitstream Vera)

On 2005-08-15 15:08:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > So, it seems that xfce4-terminal has some behavior if $TERM has > some well-known values (e.g. term and xterm-color), but I can't > make it work correctly with other values. In fact, this problem comes from screen. If I type TERM=xterm scre

xfce4-terminal and terminfo (was: XTerm and Bitstream Vera)

On 2005-08-15 13:12:39 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-08-15 10:56:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Typo. It's xfce4-terminal, of course. > > I've installed it. It seems to be an improved gnome-terminal. > Do you know which $TERM I should use? The default value "xterm" is fine except th

Re: reading boot messages

Hi Lubos, >> how can I read the boot messages? I've had some big problems today >> information. Any help? For Debian >3.1, check the file "/etc/default/bootlogd" and set the variable in it: BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes After booting, the file "/var/log/boot" is available. It might contain what you are

Re: reading boot messages

Lubos Vrbka wrote: >> how can I read the boot messages? I've had some big problems today >> which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly >> ifconfig reports a ppp0 and ppp1. Before I only had a ppp0. I got >> some sort of ppp error with instructions but I can't read it fast >

Re: reading boot messages

how can I read the boot messages? I've had some big problems today which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly ifconfig reports a ppp0 and ppp1. Before I only had a ppp0. I got some sort of ppp error with instructions but I can't read it fast enough. I can't see it switchin

Re: Loadlin under Config.sys -- AAAAGH!

Avid LinuxHacker wrote: >Man pages and user guides have turned me bug eyed these last three months. >This is my first >attempt at perfroming a Linux installation and I am totaly lost. Here is my >situation; > >My machine is an old 200 mHz "all in one" with two hard drives and an internal >mod

Re: Wierd Xserver issue.

I think I just figured it out... Opened the cover and started peaking around while it was running and noticed that the cpu fan is not working Guess I will pick on of them up before I mess with anything else. If it doesn't help, I will revisit the issue at a later time Thanks again. On Mon

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