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.
i've been having repeated problems with potato imap server (from the imap package). Sometimes, while you are working with your mail folders, the daemon just drops the connection. The relevant line from syslog: Jan 17 10:00:23 moon imapd[20791]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user=alf host=dns1.localn

"Neighbour table overflow" in potato boot-up

2000-03-24 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple of days, then i moved it to another building, and the first time i tried to b

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