Re: FATAL: Module ide_cd not found.

2006-09-17 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Fred J. wrote: I just booted with a newly custom compiled/installed 2.6.16 on my debian/testing. the first suspicious lines in my /var/log/boot show towards the end of the quoted section below; Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: Cleaning up ifupdown...done. Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: Loading modules... Mon

Re: Etch doesn't install in a ESX VmWare virtual machine (sarge yes)

2006-09-17 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all, after some test I discovered that Sarge installs correctly. So I suppose that is something related to the installer (I tried the text and the graphic installer). Any hint? Thanks Mirto Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install etch al a virtual machine (Vmware E

stopped jobs

2006-09-17 Thread George Adamides
sometimes when i try to logout from my linux system i get the following message: #There are stopped jobs.   what does this mean and how do i handle this issue?

Re: log messages at boot time

2006-09-17 Thread Jordan Evatt
* Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jordan Evatt wrote: > >* Fred J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>I editet /etc/default/bootlogd so that "BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes". and booted > >>with my newly compiled 2.6.16, I then went to read the messages > >>/var/log/boot, but it says the file

Re: log messages at boot time

2006-09-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jordan Evatt wrote: * Fred J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I editet /etc/default/bootlogd so that "BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes". and booted with my newly compiled 2.6.16, I then went to read the messages /var/log/boot, but it says the file is not readable. how can I get those lines scrolling up the s

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-17 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Marc Shapiro wrote: So, SATA drives will 'just work' with a 2.6.x kernel? I'm running SATA (1) on: * ASUS av7600 (non-native) * Intel 945/ICH7 (native) * Intel other (powered off at the moment) In general, things just work... you may have to tell y

FATAL: Module ide_cd not found.

2006-09-17 Thread Fred J.
I just booted with a newly custom compiled/installed 2.6.16 on mydebian/testing. the first suspicious lines in my /var/log/boot showtowards the end of the quoted section below;Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: .Mon Sep 18 12:03:45 2006: Settin

Re: log messages at boot time

2006-09-17 Thread Jordan Evatt
* Fred J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I editet /etc/default/bootlogd so that "BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes". and booted with > my newly compiled 2.6.16, I then went to read the messages /var/log/boot, but > it says the file is not readable. how can I get those lines scrolling up the > screen when bootup

log messages at boot time

2006-09-17 Thread Fred J.
I editet /etc/default/bootlogd so that "BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes". and booted with my newly compiled 2.6.16, I then went to read the messages /var/log/boot, but it says the file is not readable. how can I get those lines scrolling up the screen when bootup.thanks Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/06 19:15, J Merritt wrote: > What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning > physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, > filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? fsck (FileSystemChecK) is the canonical tool. - -

Re: Webcam users with debian

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Dimitri Chausson wrote: > I want to use a Webcam with debian. Have been looking for documentation > yesterday. I found the howto and some user reports very useful. However, > going to the store, I noticed that there is a plenty of different models > who are not reported to wor

Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-17 Thread J Merritt
What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

2006-09-17 Thread Fred J.
Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:09:13PM -0700, Fred J. wrote:> > > Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-> Hash: SHA1> > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:03:05PM -0700, Fred J. wrote:> > Hi>

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Derek schrieb am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 21:21: > I had this problem on my powermac, And it worked before, too? Maybe, one should file a bug on this ... > I ended up just compiling my own kernel > without any of the eth1394 stuff. Hmm, this will be difficult to do since currently, the kerne

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

2006-09-17 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:09:13PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > > > Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:03:05PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have netgear ethern

bedir polat sohbet etmek istiyor

2006-09-17 Thread bedir polat
slm linux debia kullanmaya yeni başladım ama --- bedir polat, Google'ın en beğenilen yeni ürünlerinden bazılarını kullanarak sizinle bağlantıda kalmak istiyor. Gmail veya Google Talk'unuz varsa, lütfen şu sayfayı ziyaret edin

Re: hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hdparm -I /dev/hda > hda hda1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hdparm -I /dev/hda > bash: hdparm: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hdparm -I > bash: hdparm: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ You must be root. And yo

Re: hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread H.S.
Fred J. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hdparm -I /dev/hda hda hda1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hdparm -I /dev/hda bash: hdparm: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hdparm -I bash: hdparm: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Are you trying this as root? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread Fred J.
Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Tryhdparm -I Sjoerd[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install hdparmPassword:Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneSuggested packages:  apmdThe following NEW packages will be installed  hdpa

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

2006-09-17 Thread Fred J.
Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:03:05PM -0700, Fred J. wrote:> Hi> > I have netgear ethernet card and am trying to find what options to activate in the 2.6.16 kenrel.> > *-network:1> description: Eth

Solved: Using Database abstraction ADODB for PHP

2006-09-17 Thread T
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:35:56 +0200, T wrote: > How to use Database abstraction ADODB for PHP? I've got the following > error: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in > /usr/share/php/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 353 > > I've ... The OP list all the steps nec

Re: hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try hdparm -I Sjoerd Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am after the command which shows info about my hard drives >> $df >> is not doing it, I need more specifics because I am recompiling a kernel. I >

Re: Re: problems with / on LVM/RAID1

2006-09-17 Thread Joachim Reichel
> > Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. > > I: mdadm: RAID support installed to mount all RAID arrays during boot. > > I: mdadm: use `dpkg-reconfigure -plow mdadm` to change this. > Don't you need to bring up raid and lvm in the initramfs rather than > in the boot sequence? Yes, sure. T

Re: Mailman question

2006-09-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:41:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I recently setup mailman on one of my servers. I setup a new list and > everything seems to be working fine. However, all the list subscribers > are getting the list messages *and* the daily digest. When I check the > membersh

Using Database abstraction ADODB for PHP

2006-09-17 Thread T
Hi, How to use Database abstraction ADODB for PHP? I've got the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /usr/share/php/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 353 I've installed the following packages: ii libapache-mod-php4 server-side, HTML-embedded sc

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

2006-09-17 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:03:05PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > Hi > > I have netgear ethernet card and am trying to find what options to activate > in the 2.6.16 kenrel. > > *-network:1 > description: Ethernet interface >

netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

2006-09-17 Thread Fred J.
HiI have netgear ethernet card and am trying to find what options to activate in the 2.6.16 kenrel.    *-network:1 description: Ethernet interface product: DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller vendor: National Semiconductor Corporation physical

Re: Mailman question

2006-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:41:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I recently setup mailman on one of my servers. I setup a new list and > > everything seems to be working fine. However, all the list subscribers > > are getting the

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-17 Thread Derek
I had this problem on my powermac,I ended up just compiling my own kernel without any of the eth1394 stuff.On 9/17/06, Peter Thomassen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi,I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone. Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the boxusi

Re: swap problem

2006-09-17 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
On 9/18/06, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: solved by mkswarp opps , spelling mistake  "mkswap" On 9/17/06, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello.(Can't Evolution reply to list? I thought I read something like that somewhere.)>>> /dev/sda5   noneswap  

Re: hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Fred. > I am after the command which shows info about my hard drives $df is not doing > it, I need more specifics because I am recompiling a kernel. The „lshw“ command gives you some information about your drives. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am after the command which shows info about my hard drives > $df > is not doing it, I need more specifics because I am recompiling a kernel. I > was looking around at /proc/... but could not figure it out. > > i.e. > show pci info > $lspci > sho

Dell Ispiron with Etch netinst 17092006

2006-09-17 Thread Zhengguo Xu
Hi guys, I'm a completely Linux newbie. I've been reading some Linux guide for some time now and I thought I should give a try. So I downloaded Debian Etch daily builds (17-09-2006) netinstall cd and tried a dual-boot installation on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. I was able to boot and see nice

hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread Fred J.
HiI am after the command which shows info about my hard drives $df is not doing it, I need more specifics because I am recompiling a kernel. I was looking around at /proc/... but could not figure it out.i.e.show pci info$lspcishow cpu info$cat /proc/cpuinfothanks Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. Yo

Re: swap problem

2006-09-17 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
solved by mkswarpOn 9/17/06, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello.(Can't Evolution reply to list? I thought I read something like that somewhere.)>>> /dev/sda5   noneswapsw  0   0> check this line.Whoops, my bad. I was looking for hdxN>> There is no s

Re: udf support in kernel 2.6.16

2006-09-17 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
File Systems -> CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems -> UDF file system support В Сбт, 16/09/2006 в 20:14 -0700, Fred J. пишет: > Hi > I am recompiling a 2.6.16 now and looking at all those menu items in > the screen "make menuconfig" where do I find the place to turn on udf > support for my dvd+rw? > > thanks

Re: Writing to vfat /media/sda without sudo

2006-09-17 Thread H.S.
marc wrote: Hi, I have a mount defined in fstab as follows /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 vfatdefaults0 0 All fine and dandy, but I would like to make this partition universally available for writing; currently it's only available via sudo. I have an antry in my

Zhengguo Xu wants to chat

2006-09-17 Thread Zhengguo Xu
--- Zhengguo Xu wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest new products. If you already have Gmail or Google Talk, visit: http://mail.google.com/mail/b-f62b6136bb-08d441fbb6-0fc6ff80b7cefa84 You'll need to clic

Re: Webcam users with debian

2006-09-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 17 September 2006 02:37, Dimitri Chausson wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use a Webcam with debian. Have been looking for documentation > yesterday. I found the howto and some user reports very useful. However, > going to the store, I noticed that there is a plenty of different models > who ar

Mailman question

2006-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I recently setup mailman on one of my servers. I setup a new list and everything seems to be working fine. However, all the list subscribers are getting the list messages *and* the daily digest. When I check the membership list through the web interface, I see that no one has digest selected. D

Re: PHP5 on unstable?

2006-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:22:49PM -0300, Leonardo Sá wrote: > Hello all, > > I went around in a quest for PHP5 and found it to be in the unstable > repository. Anyone knows why is it still there? Many PHP frameworks require > php5 now, so Ive been considering installing it on my production server

error running python pre-rtupdate hook python-gnome2

2006-09-17 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear debian-users I run sid on my workstations: 10 days or so ago I had a hang up with apt-get dist-upgrade I got this error: "error running python pre-rtupdate hook python-gnome2" and upgrade stopped: and there were problems with the install of the three packages python python-minimal

Re: Writing to vfat /media/sda without sudo

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:43:43PM +0100, marc wrote: > Hi, > > I have a mount defined in fstab as follows > > /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 vfatdefaults 0 0 > > All fine and dandy, but I would like to make this partition universally > available for writing; currently i

Re: laser printer recommendation for personal use?

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 16 September 2006 8:56 pm, Miles Bader wrote: > Er, are there any popular choices that have _good_ print quality? > > [My only experience with printers is those at work, which tend to be > very high quality, though I assume they're pretty expensive too.] My choice, is a used laserjet

Re: Problem with soundcard

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 04:48:46PM +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote.. > I made expert install and i selected the last 2.6 the k7-smp > version I tried also 386 but nothing.. > Thanks for your try The k7-smp kernel is for a dual processor. Is your laptop running AMD dual processors

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-17 Thread Wackojacko
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wackojacko wrote: AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc. So, SATA drives

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Wackojacko
Peter Thomassen wrote: Wackojacko schrieb am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 10:48: The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal w

Re: problems with / on LVM/RAID1

2006-09-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:53, Joachim Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some problems with / on LVM/RAID1. The situations is as follows: > mdadm is configured to bring up all raid devices early in the boot > sequence. When I install the new kernel package, there is the following > message:

Re: PHP5 on unstable?

2006-09-17 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:22:49PM -0300, Leonardo S? wrote: > Hello all, > > I went around in a quest for PHP5 and found it to be in the unstable > repository. Anyone knows why is it still there? Many PHP frameworks require > php5 now, so Ive been co

Re: number of machines running Debian?

2006-09-17 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 9/17/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:50:51AM +, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > FYI, we had more than 1.2 million web servers (yeah, just web servers) > running Debian[0] in 2005. > > If you add Debian web servers not publishing this information, othe

PHP5 on unstable?

2006-09-17 Thread Leonardo Sá
Hello all,I went around in a quest for PHP5 and found it to be in the unstable repository. Anyone knows why is it still there? Many PHP frameworks require php5 now, so Ive been considering installing it on my production servers, but im not sure whether thats gonna harm my system stability in any wa

SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Wackojacko wrote: AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc. So, SATA drives will 'just work' with

problems with / on LVM/RAID1

2006-09-17 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, I'm having some problems with / on LVM/RAID1. The situations is as follows: /dev/sda1 ext3 /boot /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 are used for /dev/md0 (raid1) /dev/md0 is a single PV for a VG "raid" this volume group contains three LVs, one of them being /dev/mapper/raid-slash with ext3 mounted on

Re: Writing to vfat /media/sda without sudo

2006-09-17 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marc. > I have a mount defined in fstab as follows > > /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 vfatdefaults 0 0 > > All fine and dandy, but I would like to make this partition universally > available for writing; currently it's only available via sudo. You have to specify

Writing to vfat /media/sda without sudo

2006-09-17 Thread marc
Hi, I have a mount defined in fstab as follows /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 vfatdefaults0 0 All fine and dandy, but I would like to make this partition universally available for writing; currently it's only available via sudo. -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: alsa troubles

2006-09-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 20:05 +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: >> the system has 2 soundcard, one onboard via card (which is disabled in >> the bios but for some reason shows up in lspci nevertheless), and a >> creative sb live 1024 run

Re: Problem with soundcard

2006-09-17 Thread Margiolas Christos
I made expert install and i selected the last 2.6 the k7-smp version I tried also 386 but nothing..Thanks for your tryChristos

eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi, I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone. Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script does several tries after different intervals and finally gives up. I googled around and

Re: Two seat pc [was Re: install nvidia for latest debian kernel]

2006-09-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Arthur Marsh wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote, On 17/09/06 05:33: Derek wrote: I use the nvidia installer,never had a broken system,dunno where you got those instructions from.Just download the nvidia installer,run it and you should be good to go(assuming you have all the stuff needed to compile

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Wackojacko schrieb am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 10:48: >> The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) >> harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) > > AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 > kernels deal with SATA drive

Re: Process starts even though I stop it

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:39:25AM +0200, Erik Persson wrote.. > I'm running sarge. I've installed tinyproxy in a vserver. I don't > want it to run all the time though, so I stop it when I'm done > using it. There are S-links to /etc/init.d/tinyproxy in all the > relevant /etc/rc*.d dirs (

Re: number of machines running Debian?

2006-09-17 Thread Graham Smith
On Sunday 17 September 2006 04:34, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:50:51AM +, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > FYI, we had more than 1.2 million web servers (yeah, just web servers) > > running Debian[0] in 2005. > > > > If you add Debian web servers not publishing this informat

cpu threshold temperature

2006-09-17 Thread Jordi Carrillo
When I use programs that consume a lot of cpu, such as mondo or acidrip I get the following messages all around the console:Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sun Sep 17 12:03:58 2006 ...localhost kernel: CPU1: Temperature above thresholdMessage from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sun Sep 17 12:03:58 2006 ..

Error adding font directory (libfontconfig1 or lilypond)

2006-09-17 Thread Daniel Kjøller Skovenborg
After a dist-upgrade (unstable) I get the following output from "lilypond -V" GNU LilyPond 2.6.3 LILYPOND_DATADIR="/usr/share/lilypond/2.6.3" LOCALEDIR="/usr/share/locale" Effective prefix: "/usr/share/lilypond/2.6.3" Initializing FontConfig... error: adding font directory: /usr/share/lilypond/

Process starts even though I stop it

2006-09-17 Thread Erik Persson
Hello! I'm running sarge. I've installed tinyproxy in a vserver. I don't want it to run all the time though, so I stop it when I'm done using it. There are S-links to /etc/init.d/tinyproxy in all the relevant /etc/rc*.d dirs (thus except 0,1,6 and S) so it is started when the system boots. Th

Migrate system?

2006-09-17 Thread Jan Johansson
If i want to migrate a system from a "plain ide" system (on board IDE, and root-fs being /dev/hda2) to a new system where the root-fs would be on a ICP-Vortex RAID-controller, managed by the gdth module. How would I do that in an easy fashion? I thought I would do the following: 1. amend gdth to

Re: swap problem

2006-09-17 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. (Can’t Evolution reply to list? I thought I read something like that somewhere.) >>> /dev/sda5 noneswapsw 0 0 > check this line. Whoops, my bad. I was looking for hdxN >> There is no swap entry here so it is obvious that it won’t get started. You

Re: swap problem

2006-09-17 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 11:23 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello. > > > i am getting some problem with swap. the swap is not starting ok. > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/fstab > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > # > > proc/proc

Webcam users with debian

2006-09-17 Thread Dimitri Chausson
Hi, I want to use a Webcam with debian. Have been looking for documentation yesterday. I found the howto and some user reports very useful. However, going to the store, I noticed that there is a plenty of different models who are not reported to work and the report are about older models. More

Re: swap problem

2006-09-17 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. > i am getting some problem with swap. the swap is not starting ok. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/fstab > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > /dev/sda6 / reise

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Wackojacko
Peter Thomassen wrote: Hi! The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) Is there a list of harddisc involved in this change? Maybe, there should be some easy-to-find info on this (perhaps in a Wiki, don't

Two seat pc [was Re: install nvidia for latest debian kernel]

2006-09-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote, On 17/09/06 05:33: Derek wrote: I use the nvidia installer,never had a broken system,dunno where you got those instructions from.Just download the nvidia installer,run it and you should be good to go(assuming you have all the stuff needed to compile the kernel module).

Re: Boot messages

2006-09-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/06 00:04, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > How I can read the boot messages? With /var/log grep and zgrep I > can't locate some error messages that appears when the system > starts. I.e. today have read some about /etc/ntp... ? and ntpdate > doesn

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi! The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) Is there a list of harddisc involved in this change? Maybe, there should be some easy-to-find info on this (perhaps in a Wiki, don't know if one exists). Pet