Re: is repartitioning and reformatting the only alternative?

2004-11-28 Thread Christophe Broult
Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:11:54 +0100) writes: > Christophe Broult wrote: > >>Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:43:16 +0100) >>writes: >> >> >> >>>It wouldn't jump the gun.

Re: maxtor harddrive firewire usb

2004-11-26 Thread Christophe Broult
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:45:03 -0500) writes: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:09:20 -0500, Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:37 -0500) >> writes: &

Re: is repartitioning and reformatting the only alternative?

2004-11-25 Thread Christophe Broult
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:37 -0500) writes: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:33:51 -0500, Christophe Broult > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Suddenly, last Saturday, I could no longer access the main p

is repartitioning and reformatting the only alternative?

2004-11-25 Thread Christophe Broult
Hi All, Suddenly, last Saturday, I could no longer access the main partition of my year old external Maxtor 5000XT, a 250 GB drive because of some read errors on some sectors (see at the end of the message). I called the Maxtor support and the only suggestion beside saying that Linux is not suppo

Re: Intel AC'97 soft modem

2004-10-24 Thread Christophe Broult
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:16:20 +0530) writes: > On Saturday 23 October 2004 06:53 am, Christophe Broult wrote: >> > hi all, >> > I'm having a Compaq Presario 2203AL with a soft modem in it. >> >> You should install sl-

Re: Intel AC'97 soft modem

2004-10-23 Thread Christophe Broult
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:57:06 +0530) writes: > hi all, > I'm having a Compaq Presario 2203AL with a soft modem in it. You should install sl-modem-daemon and should be all set. You may want to install sl-modem-source and then build a package corresponding to you

Re: Sound Problems

2004-09-09 Thread Christophe Broult
--- Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Noah Durell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I've been having trouble getting the sound working > > on my box. I have a > > Dell Dimension 8250 with the emu10k1x sound card. > > The modules appear to > > be loaded but there is no

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread Christophe Broult
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 08 Sep 2004 08:31:39 -0400) writes: > John Summerfield wrote: > >> Often, too, you can use the TAB key to advance over problematic characters, a "?" >> to represent one of them and "*" to represent any number of them. So >> >> rm ?rtsp-stream-over-tcp

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-08 Thread Christophe Broult
--- Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I know, there is no need to mount the dvd... > > well, this is the error I have > $ xine dvd:/ Have you tried to run the following command? $ xine-check -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-26 Thread Christophe Broult
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear fellow Debian user, I have just relocated from Normandy, France to Boston, MA. I am wondering if any of you in the Boston area would have any suggestion about an ISP whether it is via regular modem, cable or DSL. I hope you will enjoy a great weekend, Christophe

modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000

2000-12-03 Thread Christophe Broult
Hello Debian users, Is there anyone who could tell me why I am getting the message in the subject? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -a Linux madison 2.4.0-test11 #1 Thu Nov 23 10:45:11 CET 2000 i586 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ Thank you, Chris -- "Man is distinguished from all other creature

Re: FW: 2.4.0-test8 and ssh (OpenSSH_2.1.1): error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

2000-09-11 Thread Christophe Broult
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Works fine here: > > chester:/tmp# ssh -l root localhost > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Last login: Mon Sep 11 00:34:40 2000 from localhost on pts/4 > Linux chester 2.4.0-test8 #1 SMP Sun Sep 10 16:06:26 PDT 2000 i686 unknown > > Most of the progra

FW: 2.4.0-test8 and ssh (OpenSSH_2.1.1): error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

2000-09-11 Thread Christophe Broult
Has anyone had the same problem here? Thank you, Chris --- Begin Message --- Hello, I have just compiled the last version of the Linux kernel (2.4.0-test8) and somehow I am no longer able to use ssh and get the following message: Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 11. In /va

Re: Guru needed.

2000-09-05 Thread Christophe Broult
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > im getting this error message: /proc/ksyms: Not normal > After a while, top gives me the same message and then eats up most of CPU time. I already submitted a bug against procps but I got no answer so far. You should take a look at

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-30 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > What is the content of your /etc/modules.conf file? Are there any > > reference to the missing module in it? > [...] The following lines are related to the alsa system: >

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-24 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In short the alsa modules uses the OSS sound modules to provide sound > >

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-23 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In short the alsa modules uses the OSS sound modules to provide sound > > for your system. > > I don't have alsa on my system. I did try it once but removed the package. By any chance

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-22 Thread Christophe Broult
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bsamuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BS> I have also noticed the follow errors in the log when I play a CD: > BS> > BS> Aug 22 10:45:56 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 > BS> Aug 22 10:45:56 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module

Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?

2000-08-21 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am running Potato with kernel 2.2.17pre6. > > If I dial out to my ISP kmod loads the appropriate modules but > they are not unloaded, after pppd is terminated, even though > there is a Root crontab to do this. > > If I type, as Root, 'modprobe -r', which I understa

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

2000-08-19 Thread Christophe Broult
"John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? tar xIf file.tar.bz2 will `bunzip2' and untar your files. The `I' is for bzip2

Re: Re[2]: tty-ldisc-3 module - anyone know what it is?

2000-08-19 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Aug 15 21:15:06 DATAMAN modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate > > module tty-ldisc-3 > > > You should add the following line to your /etc/modutils/aliases > > alias tty-l

Re: tty-ldisc-3 module - anyone know what it is?

2000-08-19 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] > Aug 15 21:15:06 DATAMAN modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module > tty-ldisc-3 > Aug 15 21:15:34 DATAMAN wwwoffled[205]: WWWOFFLE Connection from > host localhost (127.0.0.1). > > Can someone tell me what tty-ldisc-3 is please? [...] You should add the following

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-09 Thread Christophe Broult
In the file `preferences.js', look for the following line and edit it according to YOUR preference: user_pref("browser.bookmark_file", "/home/broult/lib/netscape/bookmarks.html"); At the top that file you will find the following warning: // Netscape User Preferences // This is a generated file!

Re: gnus in GNU Emacs 20 in Potato does not start

2000-08-08 Thread Christophe Broult
Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hallo Debs! > > > > Because xemacs is a little bit big, I want to use GNU Emacs instead. > > > > Two days ago I dist-upgraded to potato with no problems, so I now run > > emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-lin

Re: run arbitrary program as screensaver?

2000-07-27 Thread Christophe Broult
What about using the `setiathome' package? # apt-get install setiathome Chris setiathome Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know of a way to run an arbitrary program as the screensaver? > Two applications that have come to mind are setiathome and something like > acidwarp. I'

is there a midi/wav plugin for Netscape?

2000-07-26 Thread Christophe Broult
A friend send me the URL of a greeting card which included some sound. I was unable to hear the sound because Netscape complained that there was no plugin for midi/wav sound. How can I configure Netscape to play some sound? Thank you for your help, Chris -- "Man is distinguished from all othe

Re: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

2000-07-24 Thread Christophe Broult
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21-Jul-2000 Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > that info was the reason of my question! I read that also in Changes and > > as I didn't find ppp-2.4 for debian I just held the upgrade for now! > > > > any success Pollywog? > > I am using PPP 2.3.11 with

Re: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

2000-07-21 Thread Christophe Broult
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20-Jul-2000 Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > > >> > >> On 20-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote: [...] > > > > Hi, > > > > are you going to produce .deb's? > > Do I need ppp 2.4 for a dialup conection? > >

Re: J2EE SDK

2000-07-21 Thread Christophe Broult
Dominic Blythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > just been checking out java.sun.com and they've got binaries of J2EE SDK for > redhat 6. > > I presume these are .rpm, although i haven't checked it out. If there are some .rpm, you should try to use the alien package. Chris

install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory

1999-11-25 Thread Christophe Broult
(--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: info Thank you, Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software verification technology?| <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chec

Re: unmount a automounted CD ROM?

1999-10-08 Thread Christophe Broult
user to /etc/fstab should do the > trick. > Or is there a better solution? Have you tried the `eject' command? Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check http://www.inf

Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and soundblaster module

1999-06-17 Thread Christophe Broult
t I have in my /etc/modutils/aliases for the sound system: alias sound sb options sound dmabuf=1 post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" options sb io=0x220 irq=6 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM synthesizer Chris -- Looking for

libgmodule-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

1999-01-22 Thread Christophe Broult
libtiff3g, libungif3g (>= 3.0-2) | giflib3g (>= 3.0-5.2), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3) Description: Graphical TOP variant The graphical version of top provides an easy interface to process control on a GNU/Linux system. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ -- Looking for a cutting e

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread Christophe Broult
>another gcc. > > > Do the 2.2 kernels compile with egcs? > > As of somewhere in the 2.1 series Linux kernels should work with egcs. I've been using an egcc compiled 2.1 kernel for a few months now and the 2.2.0-pre serie works with no problem when compiled with egcc. C

Re: using xfig + latex

1999-01-15 Thread Christophe Broult
Hi, Here's a description I have found one day. I think gives you everything you wanted to do. Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lp

Re: SB Vibra PnP Sound Card

1998-11-17 Thread Christophe Broult
thing like: options sound io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma1=5 mpu_io=0x0330 I hope this help, Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv | ``Smile, chuc

FW: netscape3: Bus error

1998-11-10 Thread Christophe Broult
.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4008f000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4009a000) libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40138000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4013b000) houston:~>10 Any help would be appreciated. Thank you,

Re: Zip drives

1998-11-05 Thread Christophe Broult
ge protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive. Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv | ``Smile, chuckle, giggle''

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-22 Thread Christophe Broult
slowdown and cache problem here:-( Anyway, as suggested in the mailing list I'll try to find the kernel patch for 2.1.xxx that allows me to do swapping those upper 64 Mb of RAM. Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv | ``Smile, chuckle, giggle''

using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Christophe Broult
mmand like mkswap /dev/ram0 65536 in /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh before the `swapon -a' command. Thank you for any informations, Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check http://ww

Re: Which packages for c++ development?

1998-09-08 Thread Christophe Broult
egcs-1.1b release and the Stl? All of the previously mentioned packages except libg++2.8.2 and libg++2.8.2-dev which should no longer be used. Chris --- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check

Re: rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35

1998-09-01 Thread Christophe Broult
Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Is there a version of the rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35? I've found how I could version 2.0.35 after reading section ``8.3 Replacing the Kernel'' http://www.debian.org/2.0/install.html:-(

rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35

1998-09-01 Thread Christophe Broult
Hello, Is there a version of the rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35? Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv | ``Smile, chuckle, giggle''

Re: fstab

1998-08-17 Thread Christophe Broult
"C.J.LAWSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > Is it possible to specify which mount commands in my fstab should > not me mounted at boot time. Or am I just going to have to resort to a > seperate script for this If I correctly understand your question, you want to specify a mou

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Christophe Broult
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > with your user name, current directory, etc. then what you need to do is use > the bash > PROMPT_COMMAND. bash runs the contents of this variable each time the prompt > is > printed (you could achieve similar effect using the PS1 variable

Re: Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Christophe Broult
Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my > system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program > again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching > the infinite sunsite. Anyb

Re: xfig not exporting

1998-05-26 Thread Christophe Broult
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > When I try to export something from xfig I get the message: > > Error during EXPORT (check standard error output) > > How do I check "standard error output" to determine what is wrong? > Assuming that you started xfig from an xterm window

Re: picons

1998-05-17 Thread Christophe Broult
icon on the fly from the picon repositories and thus you don't even need to install the picon database locally but if I recall well when I was using it the Java runtime was using a lot of memory:-( Chris > > Thanks > -Paul > -- // Christophe Broultmailt

Re: eject

1998-05-15 Thread Christophe Broult
-e eject disk -f eject disk even when mounted -r write protected (read-only) -w not write-protected (read-write) -p password write protected -x password protected -u unprotect till disk ejecting $ > [2 ] > -- // Christophe

Re: gzip question

1998-04-18 Thread Christophe Broult
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have > downloaded a lot of files onto here that I want to install to linux. > Some of these files are too large to put onto floppy, so they need to be > split. I have gzip for dos on win95, al

Re: PCI NE2000 clone w/1.3.1, 2.0.30 kernel

1998-04-18 Thread Christophe Broult
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 10:51:19PM -0400, jim wrote: > > Can someone give a hint as to what I need to do to use this card? > > /proc/pci reports > > > > PCI devices found: > > Bus 0, device 18, function 0: > > Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029

Re: where is tetex-base 0.9-1 ?

1998-04-18 Thread Christophe Broult
Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For awhile now, tetex-bin in frozen has been requiring tetex-base >=0.9-1 > to install. But that version of tetex-base doesn't exist in frozen. > Anyone know where it currently can be found? That version should appear soon in frozen. Meanwhile you may co

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Christophe Broult
Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] > > Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around > > with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually > > enter "mem=8

Re: dpkg handling of configuration files

1998-02-20 Thread Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > Chapter 9 of the Packaging Manual describes "Automatic handling of > configuration files by dpkg". Essentially, this boils down to: > >If neither the user nor the package maintainer has changed the file, >it is left alone. If one or t

HAMM/project/experimental: error processing linuxconf_1.9r22-2_i386.deb

1998-02-19 Thread Christophe Broult
The subject says it all. Chris Setting up dpkg-ftp (1.5.1) ... Unpacking linuxconf (from linuxconf_1.9r22-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up linuxconf (1.9r22-2) ... Cannot create /home/masoto/debian/linuxconf/debian/test/etc/hosts: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing linuxconf_1.9r22-2_i

HAMM: Setting up modutils (2.1.85-1) ...

1998-02-19 Thread Christophe Broult
Hi, I've just installed some new packages and for the following one, I think a message like ``Press to continue'' is missing after the important note. Chris Unpacking replacement modutils ... Setting up modutils (2.1.85-1) ... Starting kerneld, version 2.1.85 (pid 6944) IMPORTANT NOTES =

xscreensaver 2.15-3: couldn't get password...

1998-02-13 Thread Christophe Broult
Hi, I'm running hamm and I'm using dselect with the ftp method to update my system regularly. A couple of days or so, there was an update of xscreensaver and since then I get the following errors: xscreensaver: couldn't get password of "broult" xscreensaver: couldn't get password of "root" xscr