Re: Install Help again PS

2003-08-23 Thread Bill Morgan
On 8/22/03 7:50 PM, "Alan Waterfall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know what the video chipset and PCI video buss ID is on a > powermac 7600? > > Thanks, > > Alan > You'll probably have better luck on the debian-powerpc mailing list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject "subscribe

Re: hot boxes and power consumption

2003-08-20 Thread Bill Morgan
A late reply, but I'm just back from vacation: On 8/11/03 9:45 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Even though I have power supplies that add up to >1400 watts I know that > isn't really the case because the fuses haven't blown. > > Does anyone have any information or metho

Re: IEEE 1394 (FireWire) on Debian

2003-07-13 Thread Bill Morgan
On 7/13/03 1:31 PM, "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: >> Does anyone have any info to share about 1394 devices on Debian? I just >> ordered an external IDE enclosure with a DVD ROM drive that uses a 1394 >> connectio

Re: ? about browser's talk

2003-07-12 Thread Bill Morgan
On 7/12/03 1:25 AM, "John Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also, the html page has a few input box, when you > enter values and click submit button, the browser will > return info based on your input. i want to write a > program to repeatedly get info from the server, what's > uri to get that dat

Going Unstable

2003-06-24 Thread Bill Morgan
A few days ago, Colin Watson referred to "...perlmagick, which is still at a perl 5.6 version in testing. This was temporarily necessary because getting perl 5.8 was more important than waiting for all of perlmagick's dependencies, which remain very messy and complicated; my notes say that imagema

Re: howto use defaults/preferences to keep to testing ???

2003-06-21 Thread Bill Morgan
On 6/21/03 6:58 AM, "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: >> On Fri, June 20 at 5:19 PM EDT >> "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Based on the preferences set, I fail to see how my update installs so >>> much un-

Re: error running apt-get update

2003-01-17 Thread Bill Morgan
On 1/17/03 12:12 PM, "David Roundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Yesterday I got the following error when running apt-get update: > > ... > Fetched 77.4kB in 33s (2284B/s) > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing libscrollkeep

Re: powerpc

2002-11-07 Thread Bill Morgan
On 11/7/02 4:50 PM, "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a couple of Mac PowerPC 7200/200 or similer, will these run Debian ? > Are they comparable to say a P200 or more like a 486 ? Or what ? > > Thanks > > Matt > Matt, Those are PCI-based, so installing Debian is at leas

Re: having problem with X on woody with r128

2002-09-25 Thread Bill Morgan
This card worked fine for me under X 3.36, but failed under Woody's X 4.1, which I find a little puzzling. I wound up using Branden's somewhat experimental XFree86 4.2 located at: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ There's a list of mirrors at: http://raw.no/x4.2/ It's working fine fo

Re: apt-get upgrade holding back packages

2002-09-21 Thread Bill Morgan
On 9/21/02 9:21 AM, "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > apache apache-common bind9-host binutils dhcp-client dnsutils file html2text > libc6 libc6-dev

Re: Newbie Resources Was -- Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread Bill Morgan
On 6/13/02 1:16 PM, "David Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember Dale (aka Dwarf) Sheetz's the Debian > Linux User's Guide. ISBN 0-9659575-1-9. published > by Linux Press in 1998. > > It was distributed with a CD of Debian 2.1. It > was available as html for free electronic > redistribu

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-03 Thread Bill Morgan
Makes me think of http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990807 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody install problems

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Morgan
On 5/1/02 6:13 PM, "Erik Steffl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used the woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso and weverything worked fine > until the point when the basic system configuration started - I believe > that's part of the base, nothing to do with > woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso itself. >

Re: gnome-utils won't install on update

2002-04-10 Thread Bill Morgan
On 4/10/02 5:45 AM, "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:07:26AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:49:31PM -0400, stan wrote: >>> I trued to update my woody box yesterday, and ran inot a small problem with >>> the gnome-utils package. I fugured it wa

Re: Performing new sets on HDs ... 'hdparm'

2002-03-20 Thread Bill Morgan
On 3/19/02 4:58 PM, "HostMaster of NullZone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > i think its a trivial question for your all but im a bit new at Linux. > > How can i know if i can set better parametres with 'hdparm' utility on my > ide drivers? > How can i know if one of my mainboards

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-08 Thread Bill Morgan
/dev/hda2: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.99 seconds = 129.29 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.93 seconds = 2.92 MB/sec >>> >>> /dev/hda1: >>> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.77 seconds =166.23 MB/sec >>> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB

Re: x and console runlevels

2001-03-14 Thread Bill Morgan
On 3/14/01 4:17 PM, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's really quite easy. By default Debian boots to runlevel 2, and xdm > (or gdm, wdm, whatever is installed) is started at each runlevel. ^^ ^^^ ^^