AccessRunner PCI ADSL card + Sarge kernel 2.6.8

2005-06-13 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, [apologies if you have recieved this twice - i think i knackered my reply-to on gmail] Anyone got any ideas how to persuade these to work properly together? I have an unbranded Conexant AccessRunner PCI card and Sarge 3.1r0a sitting here not playing nicely on kernel 2.6.8. I can't get the c

Re: SMP on Compaq 850r

2004-03-31 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:50:57AM +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: > > I'm running an HP Netserver LHPro200 and it is running the same kernel > > and both processors seem to be working fine. I think there was a > > security patch for this kernel a few weeks ago and I didn't notice any > > problems

Does dselect use apt?

2004-03-30 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, Does dselect use apt at all? I'm trying to build an offline system with little disk space and don't want my apt cache filling up. Cheers, - Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question requarding older HP machines

2004-03-30 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:59:30PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I expect a kernel compile may take all night on that CPU, you need to > _at least_ double the RAM, the hard drive is _way_ too small. It's pretty much fine if you don't run mozilla, kde, gnome etc on the machine. I wouldn't both c

Gimp 2.0 in sarge?

2004-03-27 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, Anyone know if Gimp 2 will make it into sarge at release at all? I've just built a -testing box to play with and all is promising so far apart from that! Cheers, -- Chris http://www.scratchmonkey.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

ess maestro 2 sound problem (compaq pws5000)

2002-10-15 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, Anyone know how to get the ESS Maestro 2E sound card working on a compaq professional workstation 5000? None of the ess modules or maestro ones load... ALSA won't load because i'm using the 2.4.18 kernel. I'm running woody w/ kernel-2.4.18-i686-smp btw on a dual ppro 200 with 64mb of ram.

Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-22 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > > One advantage of removable media is that if something happens to your > > box (e.g. it gets stolen, goes up in flames, etc.) you don't lose your > > backups. You are of course assuming that the house doesnt burn down when the computer goes up in flames, burning my collection of CDRWs ;-

Re: LS120 and Amiga

2001-06-21 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > I just purchased a LS120 superdrive and it works correct for ordinary > pc formatted floppy's. But when I insert a 880KB Amiga formatted floppy, > the drive complains: > hda: The drive reports both 737280 and 0 bytes as its capacity > > Is there a way to tweak the drive? I am told that with

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-21 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > Vector wrote: > > For multiprocessor support, intel is not as horrid as you proclaim it to > > be. No question, AMD rocks. But there are not many (any at all?) dual > > cpu boards out there and the support for more than one processor with AMD > > is still quite immature. For mid-range an

Re: memory

2001-06-20 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > a) I read that sometimes linu doesn't see all the ram you have installed on > your machine. > How can I verify hao much ram does my debian sees? And how can I correct > the situation in case there's something wrong? This is a problem with some BIOSes AFAIK. Type:- # cat /proc/meminfo

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own them :) > under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was nothing obvious, > only players it seemed. cdparanoia to extract the audio from the cd. LAMEend to encode to mp3. You will need to get this

Re: MPG / AVI player

2001-06-20 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, > I'm also interested in where you found futurama videos... Hint: There *could* be loads on GNUtella and Usenet alt.binaries groups...but I didnt tell you that... ;) - Chris.

Abit VP6 - any good?

2001-06-20 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, Has anyone tried an ABit VP6 motherboard and can they comment on it's stability / compatibility at all. I think a new workstation is on it's way for me ;) It'd be running Debian hack (TM) - a combo of 2.2r3 and 2.4 kernel... you get the picture Thanks, - Chris.

opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW

2001-06-19 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, I've been thinking about something over the last few days and was wondering if it classifies as "sane" - opinions please! I have about 500Mb of variable data (theres only 4 console only users and we arent mp3 freaks!) and a CDRW. Would it be worth setting up a script+cron job to do the follo

Intel 815 chipset + Hedrick IDE patches + Reiser

2000-12-20 Thread Chris . Smith
Hi, Does anyone know which patches I need to get ATA100 working on 2.2.18 with this chipset (ICH2)? According to http://www.linux-ide.org/ they have a 2.4 backport to this kernel, and the patches support the chipset but they don't say to what level. It's supported - go suck, basically. They don

Unreal Tournament + debian 2.2 ??

2000-08-18 Thread Chris . Smith
I'm running potato and a Voodoo3 3k AGP with the intention to use Glide. I've installed potato on the test box and it's as solid as a rock, and about 10x less bloated compared to SuSE. Nice job :-) Soon I may convert my other 3 systems to it! Cheers, ------

Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )

1998-01-23 Thread Chris Smith
> > Faulty! Make the following changes and re-run LILO. That should fix you up! > I would fix him up if the Win95 boot sector hadn't already been overwritten. As is, that will just keep the problem from happening again. This guy has got to sys c: from Win95 as well, to restore the old 95 boot s

Re: shell program menu

1998-01-23 Thread Chris Smith
adbbs, which may or may not do what you want. Take a look at it. You would have to set the program as the user's shell to get it to start when they telnet into the system. If you were looking at this for security reasons, though, then you can heed Mr. Blaakmeer's warning. Good luck, Chr

Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )

1998-01-23 Thread Chris Smith
g system," and the latter only if you previously had windows 3.1 installed and chose to install 95 from the upgrade package in a separate windows directory. It's a bit too limited to boot linux from. Chris Smith OU On 22 Jan 1998, Stephen Zander wrote: > I'd suggest adding Linux

Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )

1998-01-22 Thread Chris Smith
ng it active, and using that stanza. - Using some options I don't know about because I'm not an expert here. This looks like what you were trying to do with chain.b. I have no idea what chain.b does, and so I can't help you there. C'ya, Chris Smith OU On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Steve

"1FA:" prompt at boot

1997-07-17 Thread Chris Smith
Ran the installation program from the official CD but when I try to boot from the hard drive I get a "1FA:" prompt. What does this mean? More importantly where can I find a list of such messages and there meanings? Thanks. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubs

md5sum failure update

1997-07-14 Thread Chris Smith
Thanks to those who wrote. The suggestion was that I had ftp set to ascii mode but was not the case. My ftp program is fairly reliable in auto mode and the files were all the correct size. What I have since done is add the -b (binary mode) switch in running md5sum.exe instead of blindly followin

md5sum failure

1997-07-13 Thread Chris Smith
Recently downloaded the Debion Official CD 1.3.1. When I ran the md5sum program against it, I received a failure in all 85 files. Since I haven't experienced any other corruption problems I am at a loss to explain this. Newbie at Linux, used NT4 to download and ran the posted DOS md5sum (md5sum.