> > I still see characters such as hyphens
> > (-), boldface pipes, and single quotes rendered as รข (circumflex-a) in my
> > terminal windows. If I set LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, then the characters are
> > shown correctly.
>
> Your locale setup is fine. The problem here is that your terminal is
> i
Thank you both for your help.
> You could try cleaning things up a bit with 'localepurge'
Looking at the package description, this doesn't seem like a good idea. And
anyway, my problem isn't that I have too many locales. It seems to be a
font problem.
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Yes, I h
In order to avoid problems with CUPS (yes Master, I shall comply) and get
consistency within my LAN, I'm finally giving up on the ISO-8859-1 locale
and switching my desktop host to use UTF-8. I've already corrected
/etc/locale.gen, to change the default locale to UTF-8:
$ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/l
> The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my
> installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio
> chipset).
>
> Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an
> audio program as an ordinary user (eg mplayer, alsamixer), I get an
>
> Next, assuming there are no compatability problems with th MB or CPU, can I
> just replace the MB, add appropriate memory, connect my old HD with Sarge and
> Etch as mentioned above, and expect the system to boot? Certainly, it will
> not see the dual cores and it would be running in 32 bit
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:59:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:41:03AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> >> What is the difference between the two latex implementations available
> >> under debian?
> >>
> > I think the main difference is that texlive is the new packag
> Hi Jason.
>
> > At some point I upgraded UDEV, and the following rule broke:
> >
> > BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Griffin PowerMate", NAME="powermate",
> > SYMLINK="input/powermate", GROUP="audio", MODE="0660"
> >
> > It gives this error message: Jul 21 11:26:37 localhost udevd[8581]:
> > add_t
> Andrew Schulman writes:
> > So the question then becomes, how to get your DHCP client to put the
> > names of the DNS servers into resolv.conf. The simplest way to do this
> > is to install the resolvconf package.
>
> The simplest way to do this is to choose
> 1) How to insure that the correct DNS address is included when
> resolv.conf is generated?
>
> 2) Do ISPs change DNS addresses often? Is there a way to detect it when
> it happens, so I don't have to call them up for the new one every time
> it happens?
If you get your IP address from your I
> I cannot access my Jumpdrive from a Etch box with a 2.6.15 kernel.
>
> I have successfully used this Lexar 256 MB Jumpdrive Pro (usb 2.0) with
> Sarge box and a 2.6.11 kernel compiled from source.
>
> With Sarge it is recognized as SCSI device sda and located at
> /dev/sda1. It can be mounte
> Cany anyone recommend a good flatbed scanner for under $200.00 that
> they are currently using with a Debian box?
Be sure you get a USB 2 scanner, as it will be much faster than USB 1. The
USB 2 scanners are newer, so many of them aren't supported in Linux yet, but
some are. Check http://www.s
> > mv nvidia.o{,.hold}
>
> I take it this is the same as
>
> mv nvidia.o nvidia.o.hold
Right, at least in bash.
> > You don't have the nvidiafb module inserted, do you? It conflicts with
> > nvidia.
>
> No. I nvidiafb is not installed. However, there is a file
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l -R /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/ | grep
> nvi
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root104 2006-06-14 08:30 nvidia
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root80 2006-05-16 18:14 nvidia
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73665 2006-0
> I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel
> Where do I start to look for the 8756 stuff that it finds but I can't?
Look for older versions of /usr/lib/lib{GL,GLcore,nvidia-tls}.so*, and
anything in /usr/lib/tls, /usr/lib/nvidia, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers,
and /usr/lib/xorg/
> after X upgrade (etch 7.0.20) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't change
> xorg.conf. Any ideas why?
dpkg-reconfigure won't change it if you've modified it. It compares the
current md5sum against a stored md5sum of the original config file. If the
two are different, it will go through the wh
> > I have
> >
> > deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
> > testing/security-updates main contrib non-free
> >
> > in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Since a couple of days now, apt-get update
> > always hangs on this update. Can anyone tell me what's up, or down?
>
> On May 12
I have
deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
testing/security-updates main contrib non-free
in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Since a couple of days now, apt-get update
always hangs on this update. Can anyone tell me what's up, or down?
Thanks,
Andrew.
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> UW-IMAP does not have Maildir support. You'll need to switch to
> something that does (Courier-IMAP for example).
I just finished setting this up using bincimap (http://www.bincimap.org). It
has native maildir support, and is relatively easy to configure. My whole
/etc/bincimap/bincimap.conf
> I have net install/Minimal Install CD of Debian. I have "Marvell Yukon
> Gigabit Ethernet card 88E8053 PCI-E" which detected by WinXP and Red
> Hat. When stsrting installation ,It attempts to auto-detect the network
> card and fails, then displays a list of drivers for network cards.I
> could not
> Hi all,
>
> Last year I purchased a new amd64 system: an AOpen XC cube EZ482,
> where I have been trying to install Debian for a long time. Still no
> luck with Debian testing amd64 net install, from April 13th 2006. So
> rather than keep trying out daily images and wasting CDs, I'm asking
> her
> > KERNEL="ttySHSF0", SYMLINK="modem"
>
> This has come a few times over the past week. In case you missed it,
> the new version of udev requires you to use "==" for comparison and not
> just "="
Yeah, threw me for a loop until I figured it out.
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> I am trying to connect MSSQL from debian system. The
> reference which I was following, used Redhat's ODBCConfig.
> As that is not available on Debian, so I could not succeed
> there. Which is the equivalent to ODBCConfig in Deabin?
>
> I have file /etc/odbc.ini which has at its end:
>
> Nam
> Trying to get sshfs to work on my 'sarge' box.
>
> Installed sshfs, added root to the fuse group, then attempted to connect to
> remote machine that has sshd, with sftp extension, and get:
>
> # sshfs remote_host:/ /
> Password:
> FATAL: Module fuse not found.
> fusermount: fuse device not fo
> My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's
> into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage
> without much luck...
I sympathize...
> what solutions do other people use to make a dvd-9 to
> dvd-5 backup?
Try k9copy. It's a nice GUI designed for exac
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 700
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 100
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 1
>
> Package: xmaxima
> Pin: version *
> Pin-Priority: 1200
>
> Still when running 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgra
> I am new to LINUX and somewhat dismaid/confused about the various
> distributions.
Maybe the Linux Distribution Chooser can help:
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php?firsttime=true .
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> I'm looking at getting a new rig, and I've decided that what I *really* want
> is one of those new Athlon64 X2's (cue Homer S. gargling noise).
>
> Since I've been a happy Debian user for over 5 years now, I'd like to stick
> with what I know. But from looking at the web site, I haven't found a
> David Roguin wrote:
> I once found somehthing on the chat room for this but I didn't write it
> down. :(...
>
> But there is a "recipe" for doing this.
> isn't there?
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
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> I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL
> modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems, one via a
> cable link to the modem, the other via a wireless link to the router.
If I understand you correctly, your LAN looks like
+-
> The Debian testing security team is pleased to announce the beginning of
> full security support for Debian's testing distribution.
Has anyone else been able to verify the signature on that message? Try as I
might, I cannot. It may be because I'm reading this group on gmane, but
I've also trie
> When I ssh into one of my Debian 3.0 boxes from WinXP Pro/ Cygwin, top
> works as expected.
>
>
> When I ssh into my Debian 3.1 box from WinXP Pro/Cygwin, top seems to be
> inserting multiple line feeds at the end of each line:
>
>
>4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01
> I have a new Samsung TS-H552 DVD-RW with a maxium writing speed of 4x. I
> tried to record some DVD's but in all K3b ignore my selection of
> writting with 4x speed. This only don't occur when I select 1x speed,
> but in all the other cases as writing in "Auto", "2x" or "4x" ignore my
> selection
> Hello everyone,
> Since kernel 2.6.9 writing CD's and DVD's suck. The best I can achieve
> with 2.6.13 is single-speed dvd-recording. I would switch back to 2.6.8
> but reiser4 is only available since 2.6.9...(i don't care about the
> "blablabla experimental blablabla" stuff - and i'm certain tha
> Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux
> (Debian)?
The only one I've ever seen is Open Tax Solver:
http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/. The last I looked it was in
alpha state, but that was a while ago.
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> Just wanting to tap into some of the wide-ranging knowledge
> available on this list.
You might have better luck asking on comp.text.tex.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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> I have just started to get Ogle working, when I discovered
> that my DVD/CD drive is not showing up in /dev/. hdb is there (which
> is my hard disk).
>
> Note that this is not a SCSI or SATA system - plain vanilla EIDE.
>
> I know the drive works: I installed the base packages with it! I can
>
> I poked around on Andrew Schulman's site
> [http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/troubleshooting.html.]
> for a while, then settled in and spent an hour reading the readme file.
> In Appendix C, there is a listing of installed components, including
> files. I started poking around in tho
> Where does kaddressbook keep it's database and what is it's name?
> I couldn't find anything in ~/.kde/...
.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf. Backups are in std.vcf_*, I believe.
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> I have an nforce2 system, and I'm using the onboard AGP graphics. I am
> running sid, 2.6.11-1-k7, nvidia binary drivers 7174. (The nv driver
> works, but it's much slower than the binary driver, I can't use my TV
> tuner card because it strains my system too much without the nvidia
> closed-sour
> I'm going to be working in a school which sits behind a nasty
> firewall: it will not allow outbound SSH traffic. (And it appears
> that they are filtering based on protocol, not only on port number :/ )
>
> I'd like to be able to ssh to my home machine, and I can use putty as
> a terminal pro
> Can anyone clarify for me when the ~/.bash_rc and /etc/bash.bashrc
> scripts get sourced? I read from the man and googling that it is
> only when an "interactive login" shell is created, but what does
> that mean? If I create a new xterm do these scripts get sourced
> or is it only if I do an
> How do I access double-density DVDs? For example, if I
>
> # dvd+rw-format -force /dev/hde
>
> It mentions 4.7 GB DVD+RW media detected
>
> Similarly, if I use mondoarchive and don't specify a size, it also detects
> 4.7 GB media.
>
> Are there some generalizations, IOW ways to specify, that
> P.S. The reason that "find ... -print0 | xargs -0r rm -i" exhibits the
> same behaviour is a different one: Here, find's stdin filehandle would
> somehow have to be passed through to rm (via xargs, which in turn has
> its stdin attached to find's stdout), in order for rm to be able to
> read fr
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:51:07AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
>> find ... -print0 | xargs -0r rm -i
>
> This won't work because rm -i reads for confirmation from stdin and rm
> has no stdin when it's run via xargs.
Hm, you're right. Well one alte
> I have a script called texclean as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -z "$1" ]; then
> DEPTH=1;
> else
> DEPTH=$1;
> fi;
> for PATTERN in '*~' '*.log' '*.aux' '*.bbl' '*.blg' '*.toc' \
>'*.lof' '*.lot' '#*#';
> do
> find . -maxdepth $DEPTH -name "$PATTERN" -exec rm -i '{}
> Hi everybody,
> i'm trying to connect to my host via ssh fron another computer but
> i've got always this error, it refuses to give me the right to enter the
> computer:
>
> $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> # Permission denied (publickey).
>
> What do i have to modify in my hosts sshd.config to h
> Could not start proccess Unables to create io-slave:
> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'trash'.
trash:/ is new to KDE 3.4. I got this message when I temporarily
downgraded the kdebase-kio-plugins package from 3.4.1 to 3.3.x. Check
apt-cache policy kdebase-kio-plugins, and if your installed ve
> This is just the beginning...
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
> http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Thanks. This is pretty dismal stuff.
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> On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:48, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:12, Kent West wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> I can't understand why your /etc/network/interfaces file is being
>>> ignored. It makes no sense to me. Maybe the permissions on the file?
>>
>> It is not being ignored - the i
> Of course, it might well be combine with some actual copy protection
> scheme that involves damaging the CD in some way.
My guess is yes, since the attacks that Tony and Shaun mentioned are
well-known. I'm interested in the mechanism that
- allows audio CD players to play the disk
- allows Win
> Read an article in the WP about copyprotected CD's:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800149.html
>
> Would cdparanoia care?
I read that article all the way through this AM, hoping that it would say
something about how the protection scheme works. But i
> # ifconfig eth0 up
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
What does ifconfig -a say?
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> RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address
Google turns up a few instances of this error message, as well as the
earlier "SIOCSIFADDR: File exists". Many of them seem to be associated
with vserver, whatever that is. It seems that running vservers have to
be shut down before the interfa
> I did a bunch of dumb things - reinstalling from scratch, trying
> symlinks to my old profile directory, etc. - and then 'discovered' (I
> know, I should have RTF man page sooner!) that Firefox can be launched
> in safe mode ('firefox -safe-mode') and that I could decide which
> profile to use ('
>> be getting out of hand :)
>> us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to
>> Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give
>
> My point (with all do respect and no insult intended): You may not like top
> posting, but all of us on the 'net, even in technical groups like t
> Can't find my original thread re: this problem, but this is close.
>
> I was having all sorts of errors trying to burn 8x media @ 8x. The burn would
> be physically bad, with blank bands, scorches, etc. Below that, they were
> fine, and 16x media worked @ 16x. I thought I'd tried everything,
> is it possible? i
> mean, access my cam w/ gphoto and not mounting it?
Yes, this is how my Canon Powershot S30 works, and many other cameras
too I believe. I never mount my camera as a file system. Instead I
just run digikam, which is a front end for libgphoto2, which "sees" my
camera and know
> Jun 2 11:29:10 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod
> 0x54c/0x10) is not claimed by any active driver.
I've seen this message before when I've connected USB devices that
aren't supported in Linux. Maybe your camera can't be mounted directly,
but only accessed through e.g. gphoto2/
> I got assigned to set up a new backup system here at
> work, so i've decided to go w/ amanda. Everything
> seems to be great, except for the fact that i have no
> experience w/ tape whatsoever. I've configured amanda
> so that it works and will back up to my tape drive
> /dev/nst0, but i would
>> If you don't have the mozplugger package installed, try installing it. That
>> might fix it for Firefox. Make sure you have a symlink in your
>> mozilla-firefox plugins directory that points to mozplugger.so
>
> I tried using mozplugger and in my case it stopped acroread (as plugin)
> from
> hi, i've got problems with writing some national (slovak) characters in
> my system. i've got Debian Sarge and i'm running KDE 3.3.2.
>
> i've got "locales" package installed and configured to support both
> "en_US.ISO-8859-1" and "sk_SK.ISO-8859-2", "sk_SK" configured as default.
>
> i also ch
> Hi after messing with bootsplash for a while, I became convinced I had
> broken it, so I tried uninstalling bootsplash and everything to do with
> it and then reinstalling it. But now when I try to reninstall it I get
> the following output:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id
> On 5/6/05, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me if NT ACL support is compiled into the Debian Samba
>> packages?
>>
>> I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a
>> line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT ACL.
>
> A
> Here's a question for you. I Debian earlier on a machine at home that
has
> SATA drives. The SATA drives are configured as IDE-3 and IDE-4 Master's.
> It installs fine, but when it boots, GRUB apparently can't find the config
> file. It defaults to a text mode prompt GRUB>. It I enter
>
>
> I want to both to use the same /var/cache partition. /var/cache has its own
> partition. I already share /tmp and swap. Is there anything in /var/cache,
> or is there anything that could be in /var/cache that would cause problems if
> it was shared in this way?
I don't know, but there are
> I have a file, 'grove.log' in my root folder:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 65 Oct 28 22:24 /grove.log
>
> It contains just one line:
>
> 20041028 22:24:51 grove: client (pid 20227) exited with 1 status
>
> Does anyone know where such a file may come from and what it means?
> Log files in the
> > > /dev/hda hd
> > > /dev/hdb dvd writer
> > > /dev/hdc hd
> > > /dev/hdd dvd rom
> >
> > I have found mixing hd's & cd'd on the same IDE controller to cause
> > issues. I have even had issues with the position of the drives on the
> > ribbon cable, depending on the UDMA number of th
>>Log into CUPS. Delete any printers you've already set up. And set them
>>up from there.
>
> I just tried that, and it still isn't working. I don't know what else
> to try. I know the printer, cable, and connection are good, because
> earlier, I booted up Mepis and tested everything, and the p
> Lsmod shows that after reboot both cdrom and ide-cd modules are running
> I can mount CDROMS to /dev/hdx. I have /dev/scdX setup properly.
> Mounting of /dev/scdX fails, "dmesg shows that ise-scsi emulation does
> not work.
I believe you need to tell ide-cd to ignore your ide-scsi drives. My
n
I have an NEC ND-3500AG DVD burner. The mfr specs say it can burn single
layer DVDs (-R, +R) at 16x, and dual layer DVDs at 4x. But so far I can't
get any burn speed above 4x, and I can't burn dual layer at all.
I mainly use K3b for burning, but have fooled around a bit with cdrecord and
growiso
> Anyone know of something simple like Nero which takes in videos, decodes
> 'em
> and spits em onto a CD?
http://k3b.sourceforge.net
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
plus many other backend tools that these call, e.g. cdrecord, transcode,
mkisofs, growisofs, sox, dvdbackup, All the power you c
> Does Debian offer an echo server? I can't seem to find one in the
> package list. Thanks, A.
Well I just found one, provided internally by xinetd. I'm already
running xinetd, so I'll just use that one.
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package list. Thanks, A.
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> I have a year-old laptop with a pentium 4, running Debian testing with
> kernel 2.6.6. After an initial 5 minutes of calm after booting, the
> cooling fan comes on and remains on in a state of relatively high
> activity; it is very noisy).
I don't know about the activity, but to reduce the nois
> apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.7 nvidia-kernel-source
> nvidia-kernel-common
> tar xvjf kernel-source-2.6.7.bz2
> tar xvzf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
> ln -s kernel-source-2.6.7 linux
> cd linux
> (fakeroot make-kpkg clean)
> make menuconfig
> fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=20041201 kernel_ima
> I don't want to see the
> Mozilla print dialog at all - hence my use of the word 'directly'.
> Hopefully QT builds in the future will do this though.
Ditto here. kprinter would be a perfect solution, if it weren't for
having to click through the useless Moz print dialog first.
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> For now I will adopt "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. I am
> unsure of what removing x-window-system entails ... something to explore
> when I have more time ;)
This shouldn't be hard. Just 'apt-get remove x-window-system', and see
what it wants to take out with it. You can always
There is a ridiculous oversupply of ftp servers in Debian:
bsd-ftpd
ftpd
inetutils-ftpd
libnet-ftpserver-perl
muddleftpd
oftpd
proftpd
pure-ftpd
pyftpd
twoftpd
vsftpd
wu-ftpd
wzdftpd
I want something simple, for anonymous access. I was going to use
oftpd, which is an anonymous-only server; but
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm pretty new to the Debian community. What's the polite/effective way
> to figure out when a particular feature is likely to show up in the kernel?
>
> Specifically, I'd like to know if/when the installer will support the
> Reiser4 filesystem, so that I can install Debian onto
> Anyway, you've saved me from another evening of my six-year-old daughter
> being upset about not being able to play Tuxracer.
Yikes!
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> > First of course be sure that /lib/modules/2.6.9/nvidia/nvidia.ko
exists.
> > That's still the standard location for that driver, AFAIK.
>
> Yes, it's there.
>
> > Run lsmod | grep nvidia. Is the nvidia module already loaded? If not,
> > then modprobe nvidia. What's the result? Now ca
> I had been using nvidia's accelerated driver (version 6106) plus
kernel 2.6.8
> without trouble with Sid until Nov 10 (I had done a dist-upgrade the previous
> evening). Now, X says the nvidia driver does not exist. I noticed that
> there was a newer version of the nvidia driver (6629) as w
Hi Bram.
> I would like to install the nvidia drivers on my laptop. I found a
> HOWTO that looks very nice on
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
>
> Before starting with the installation I wanted to install all required
> packages to see if everything would go as e
> Anyone else have a problem with CUPS repeatedly dying in unstable? For
> the last 3 weeks or so, CUPS just seems to stop once a day or so. No
> warning, no log messages, it just stops responding. I do
> an /etc/init.d/cupsys restart and it comes back up just fine. It's just
> really annoying to h
> Hello, I'm having the same problem. Could you tell me what is dri-trunk,
> and how you solved it?
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/troubleshooting.html#nodri
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> Linux newbie, tried to upgrade the kernal to the 2.4 version that
comes with the cds, guess i missed a direction somewhere, but i got a
real nice message:
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05\
It seems that the kernel is looking in the wrong place for your root
file system.
> Sorry to be so lame as to not find this doucmentation on my own, but a
> quick google didn't find the answer.
Don't worry, I wondered about this myself (though for French, not Greek
characters) for ages before I finally asked and got an answer on Usenet.
> I want to be able to type in Greek
> When i perform a cat /dev/sndstat i get
> Cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
$ ls -l /dev/sndstat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 20 02:53 /dev/sndstat
-> /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
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> I downloaded with apt-get nvidia-kernel-source and now it is in my
> /usr/src path.
> How do i install it ?
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html
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> > I would like to install my nvidia quadro pci-e series card.
> > What do i have to do for this ?
> > I have no experience with it.
>
> First, Learn to ask intelligent questions:
This seems a little harsh. It's true that he didn't say what
architecture or software versions he's using, but tha
> Things are very slow for me under 2.6 kernels. Under 2.4.16 I was
able to
> play tuxracer just fine, but under 2.6.6 things are so slow that it is
> unplayable (a second or so pause between command and action). I ran glxgears
> under 2.4.16 and got output like:
> 2430 frames in 5.0 seconds
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to get an nVidia GeForce2 MX card to work:
>
> :02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11
> [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1)
>
> First I tried the nvidia drivers, then the nv drivers. Nothing appears
> to work.
Jamie, try my tro
> here's the output from glxinfo:
>
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> server glx version string: 1.3
> client glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx version string: 1.2
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidi
> Sorry for the lack of details. I couldn't find the log file from the
> previous install. Anyway I tried installing the nvidia drivers again
> by entering the command:
>
> module-assistant auto-install nvidia
>
> I get a warning about the rivafb module and it says there is no rule
> to make ta
> I got this strange phenomenon going on. When i physically look at my
> /dev/hdc drive in my computer it says CD-ROM drive on it, when dmesg
> looks at it i see this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep hdc
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> hdc: SAMSUNG CD-
> I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under
a
> number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most
> part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being
> very stable.
>
> Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most o
> with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:
>
> Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...
>
> whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using PuTTY:
>
> Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...
That's good detective work. It seems that PAM doesn't wan
> Subject says it.
> Did my daily dose of upgrade, rebooted, and now XMMS doesn't want to play.
> At 'play' it keeps at 0:00, but active.
> Another click on 'play' makes it freeze.
> It can only be removed with kill then.
See if other users have the same problem. If not, then the problem is in
yo
> Do I have to EXclude this option? Does that mean that DevFS is
obsolete?
Yes, exclude it. That is, if it's checked, uncheck it.
Yes, devfs is generally considered to be obsolete; the new favorite is
udev. See http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ,
and if you want the
> ! Using username "rich".
> . Session password prompt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: )
> . Using stored password.
> . Sent password
> ! Access denied
> . Access denied
Maybe a problem in /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny? Or something
PAM related (which I know nothing about and pity you
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