Help - PCI card detection problem

Hi I've got a box that's failing to see a certain PCI card. When I run 'lspci', it sees all the other cards fine, but not this one. On other boxen, lspci detects the card without problems Specifics: Kernel: 2.4.19 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-5AA Chipset: Ali M1542 southbridge, Ali M1543C northbrid

Help! How do I increase user proc limit

help - i'm trying to increase a user's process limit i've increased it in /etc/security/limits.conf. But when I log in as that user, and run 'ulimit -u 1024' (a bash builtin), I get 'operation not permitted' Also, even with the limit of 1024 set in /etc/security/limits.conf, 'ulimit -a' still r

Help!! Soundcard questions

Hi, I'm running debian potato, on a K6-2 500 with 500+MB RAM, on a Gigabyte GA-5AA M/B. Everything's working fine, except that I'm trying to get a soundcard working. Mandrake on the above system auto-detects the card, and gets it working automatically. No drama. But under potato (which I prefer),

Woody installer not allowing device selection

Hi, I'm happily using potato, but my attempts to upgrade to woody have been frustrated by what looks like a bug. After selecting/formatting partitions, and just as the device selection menu is coming up, the menu shuts down and takes me to the 'enter hostname' menu, without giving me a chance to

Anti-Debian Discruimination (was: DEB vs RPM)

>From my short time with Debian so far, I sense that there may be some discrimination against the debian platform. The excerpt below is one dramatic instance. Can someone please comment further about anti-debian discrimination? Also, how much success have people had with the 'alien' utility for c

Help - Large Files Support

Hi all, I've just now managed (after a few attempts) to install deb testing/unstable, and find Debian to be unquestionably the best Linux distro to date. One thing I need help with is in getting large files support working. Some of my uses (eg Freenet 0.4, which has its store as one large file),