Re: Console Text Scrambled

2001-02-28 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:54:28PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > do you by any chance upgrade to Xfree 4.x and are running > > framebuffers compiled into the kernel ? > > I do, why ?? I ask because I *cannot* use any consoles if X is running. > When I switch to it, it looks file, but as soon a

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:58:26PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm tryng to build a machien this weekend to see if I can use testing. I need > largefile support, and that appaears to be the best way to get, but I also > need a > machine thats reliable enough for production work. > > In any case, I

problems with imapd from potato

2001-01-17 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
authentication. any ideas? TIA Alberto Brealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with XF4

2000-11-10 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:07:23AM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > I have a Celeron-Something here, Intel BX chipset, I tested to run XF4 > with both a ATI Rage 3D Pro and a Matrox G100. I have tried to install > the /dev/agppart thing into the kernel (running 2.4.0-test10). Is there > some thing a

Re: SysAdmin list and question ..

2000-11-09 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote: > 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off > at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined > filesystems, even though they are listed correctly in /etc/fstab. Is this is a problem with the way

Re: Default Route

2000-09-28 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:55:30PM +, Blair M. Cummings wrote: > mention. What if the default gateway is in a different subnet? Would that > make a difference? gateway has to be on the same subnet, cuz the machine has to know how to get to that gateway, in order to go elsewhere. alberto.

Re: Default Route

2000-09-28 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:52:29PM +, Blair M. Cummings wrote: > I hate to write the list about this but I'm not having much luck with > keeping a default route after reboot. I was able to keep it with a try adding "gateway aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" at the end of the iface section for the interface wh

Re: apt-get tut

2000-09-21 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:23:40PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > How does one find out what packages are out there? try apt-cache search , man apt-cache > I'm looking for helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like try deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian uns

XFree 4.0.1 modelines and a little masq'ing problem

2000-09-12 Thread Alberto Brealey
i have a couple of problems: 1. i just installed XFree 4.0.1 from branden (phase2v4), so i can get the dual-head matrox working ;-). it works _almost_ like a charm, cuz i can only get 1024x768 and 1280x1024 _but_ no 1152x864 (i had that mode working with the same hardware with xfree-3.3.6-10, so

Re: Failed dependency: what to do?

2000-08-07 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:32:35PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I'm trying to install Win4Lin, but the install script comes back with... > > error: failed dependencies: >/bin/shis needed by Win4Lin-4.9.2k.eval-1 i haven't tried Win4Lin, but i just read a message on the list about it: the fai

Re: displaying binary files

2000-08-04 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:46:31PM +, john smith wrote: > 1. if the console is "trashed" already with displaying binary..is there a > way to make it recover w/o rebooting? logging out of the console doesn't > seem to work. try typing 'reset' + Enter on the fsckd console. (there was a thread

Re: Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

2000-08-03 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:41AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > already, cut the size in half), and the module's available in Modconf, but > I get a "Device or resource busy", and the installation fails. i used to have the same problem. > So, I tried to fix that with a boot parameter, "aha1542=

Re: exim/procmail & mutt: some mboxes read as 'new', others don't

2000-07-24 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:40:49AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > and haven't figured it out: mutt's confused about which mboxes have new > mail if i'm not mistaken, you tell mutt which mailboxes it should check for new mail with the 'mailboxes = ' statement in .muttrc. > mutt correctly knows

[OFFTOPIC] Eudora mail client behind MASQ'ing debian?

2000-07-18 Thread Alberto Brealey
s i can send mail. her box got rebuild like two weeks ago, and since then eudora craps out ('Connection Refused' error) when sending mail. i can send mail telnetting to port 25 of her mail server, so the rules are fine (i guess). TIA, Alberto Brealey. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Alberto Brealey
hp3/apache/ as where it > should belong if I am not mistaken. I turned it on in php3.ini (see my > original post) and have restarted the apache server. did you try dl("pgsql.so"); before using any pgsql functions? (you have to do this 'cuz pgsql is loaded as a module, not compiled into php interpreter). hope that helps, Alberto Brealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--?

2000-06-15 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:31:31PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > window we try 'ping pacific.net.au' just for fun, > and the linux nameserver correctly looks it up and > the pings march across the screen. (this is from her as you said: her setup is okay > explorer all refuse to cooperate for

multiple ne2000 cards?

2000-05-24 Thread Alberto Brealey
i've got 2 ne2000 cards, each working perfectly with the ne.o modules. my question is: how can i use the module to get _both_ cards working simultaneously? tia alberto

WMMail.App + Mutt annoyances

2000-05-24 Thread Alberto Brealey
im using mutt 1.0.1-9 from potato with the mailboxes option set in ~/.muttrc, which works great. that is until i install wmmail 0.63a-4. the thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have any new mail, even when they do.

Re: cd-rw for old cdrom drivers (8x)

2000-05-23 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:54:20PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: What cdrecord options should I use in order to make the disk readable by olders cdrom drivers (8x, 4x, 16x, etc)? the cd-rom drive must be capable of reading cd-rw disk, and as a very general rule only those wit

"Neighbour table overflow" in potato boot-up

2000-03-24 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
sn't being initialized. is this it? any other ideas? TIA Alberto Brealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bad dependencies in postgresql (potato)?

2000-03-23 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i'm trying to install postgresql in a potato box, however, the configuration script bombs out with a message concerning the non-existence of the file '/etc/timezone'. is that a missing package? or is it something that got replaced somewhere in the way to the current version? how can i set it up so

problem doing slink -> frozen

2000-02-24 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i've done a fresh install of slink (because i have the bootable CD lying around...), and need to upgrade to potato/frozen. it does the apt-get update fine (retrieves the package lists). when i try to dist-upgrade, it downloads 13.7 MB fine, but when trying to install, it exits with: E: Internal e

Installing VMWare on Debian

2000-01-13 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes on /usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it fails. Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting stuf

Re: wireless suggestions

2000-01-13 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:45:04PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote: > A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then > split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around i've been using Lucent's WaveLAN products to setup a 'WISP' for a month now, and even wi

Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
> What utilities can I use to get past this error? it can be a damaged hard disk but i had this problem to, like a year ago, and disabled SMART for the offending harddrives and never had that problem again, so you might want to try that. alberto

Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-02 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
> I am quite a new user to Linux and thus I was looking to install a > dual-boot system. I have figured out this much so far... > I have two hard disks. My Linux disk is on the primary master. It > contains the following partitions: hda1, hda2, . I also have a Windows > 98 disk