sarge: gnome-cd-properties crashes on startup

2004-10-18 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
Hi, gnome-cd-properties crashes on start with my sarge i386 installation. I've tried purging and re-installing magicdev (which according to dpkg owns the program.) Is there a way I can erase the settings for it in my home directory without trashing all my Gnome settings? Thanks in anticipation -

sarge pre-rc2 debian-installer error on iMac G3

2004-10-18 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
Hi, I have an old iMac G3 Rev. B (Strawberry, Tray Loading) I've successfully installed sarge pre-rc2 on it with the netinst boot CD. However, during install after the partitioner had had a go at partitioning the entire disk debian-installer reported that it needed a figure (some where between 800

Module parameters

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
Hello, Two questions - how do I find out what parameters a module accepts (which part of the kernel source if thats where you look)? And how do you get a driver to work with 2 network cards (two ne2000:s). TIA - Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Which driver for a VIA AC97 Chip?

2003-01-27 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
Hi, I have a new motherboard with a VIA AC97 chip for sound, I can't get the via82cxxx_audio driver to load for it. I've read around on the internet but they all seem to refer to PCI string 0x1106:3058 whereas (as you can see) lspci gives 0x1106:3059. The messages I get are: # modprobe via82cxxx

Re: 2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:15:23PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > > Have you tried with noapic parameter on boot? > > If it's still a failure, maybe you can try disabling > CONFIG_*_APIC? > Thanks, noapic on the boot didn't work but disabling the config did. Problem fixed thank

Re: 2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:17:03PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > > > This just a guess, > can you try booting with boot parameter: noapic ? > > If it still not successful, may I see your kernel config file? > > > > Best Regards, > > arief_mulya > -- > I used kernel-image .

Re: 2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
, but as I say not on 2.2.20. Thanks in anticipation - Andrew On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:33:52PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > > Andrew M. Lindley wrote: > >I have installed Woody with current security updates on a AMD Duron 1.3 > >with > >an Ea

2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-19 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
I have installed Woody with current security updates on a AMD Duron 1.3 with an EagleTEC M825ULR motherboard, 256Mb memory and an IBM 60GB harddrive. The 2.2.20 kernel supplied with the Woody CD set boots fine but 2.4.18 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 all lock up / freeze / halt early in the boot sequence when

apt-get / dpkg gives signature error

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
After the usual 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' 3 security fixes were not applied. An 'apt-get clean' and 'apt-get upgrade' does not resolve the problem. How do I rid myself of the following messages and get the fixes on my system? TIA - Andrew gate:~# apt-get --no-download --ignore-hold up