Re: IDE hard disk problem...

2003-03-27 Thread David Roundy
t; that backup first is in order:)? I've just tried one change with hdparm, disabling DMA, which had no effect. That is, it didn't fix the problem. I've also now tried rebooting with various old kernels, and seem to see the problem on pretty much all of them. -- David Rou

IDE hard disk problem...

2003-03-24 Thread David Roundy
an IDE error on page fault must be worse than on simple file system access). I'm also in the process of backing up the whole drive (rather than just home and etc), just to be on the safe side. Any suggestions, advice or wisdom? -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

possible IDE hard disk problem

2003-03-24 Thread David Roundy
kernel I was on 2.4.17, I believe. For the moment I've turned off my swap, thinking that that should make hard disk errors less likely to simply freeze up the system. I just won't run X in my unstable chroot... Any suggestions, advice or wisdom? David Roundy (hoping someone can tell me that

error running apt-get update

2003-01-17 Thread David Roundy
error when I run apt-get upgrade, which isn't too surprising. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I get my USB mouse working?

2002-09-23 Thread David Roundy
and will overwrite any existing config (after asking, of course), so use it with caution. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-23 Thread David Roundy
experimence) rather easier to set up that coda (which I think may be comparable to afs). It is also much more closely related to nfs, in that it doesn't try to do any offline availability or caching. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sfs-problems

2002-09-17 Thread David Roundy
support included is all you need. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: integrity checkers

2002-09-12 Thread David Roundy
d already reported without modifying the on disk catalog of file hashes. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ msg02034/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2 to 2.4.19

2002-09-09 Thread David Roundy
nerally you wouldn't want it to, since to upgrade to a new kernel you'd have to reboot... well I guess you can tell I'm used to workstation computers that are always left on). You want to install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (or whichever processor you have). -- David Roundy http://ci

Re: [offtopic] latex question (correct question)

2002-09-04 Thread David Roundy
nable to see the contents of the files. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keymap is fubar! what to do?

2002-06-24 Thread David Roundy
made. There is also some file in /proc you can echo 1 to which switches this kernel configuration. It's called something like /proc/.../kernel_sends_linux_keycodes... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb mouse and XFree86 config problem

2002-06-18 Thread David Roundy
he Option "SendCoreEvents""true" line looks wrong to me. This looks like an option for someone with two mice (as I have--a laptop with a trackpointer and usb mouse). I think you would want instead Option "CorePointer"

Re: fast way to make bootable cd ?

2002-06-09 Thread David Roundy
your normal system is small enough (telling bootcdwrite which parts to skip), you could use it instead. On the other hand, an easier method (if you only need reiserfs support), it probably would be even easier to download an install CD from some distribution (I don't know if debian has one supportin

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

2002-05-23 Thread David Roundy
re what exactly this means (not being a sendmail user). Is this for outgoing or incoming mail? If you just want to change the from address on outgoing mail, with exim you just edit /etc/email-aliases, which has explanatory comments in it. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To U

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

2002-05-22 Thread David Roundy
he package name wrong). I found that this was the easiest way to get my monitor configured. If you don't know the sync rates, you could try the 'medium' level which gives reasonable defaults. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:18:46PM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > No, under the old kernel, everything was great. I upgraded and everything > slowed down. But if you boot back into the old kernel, does it speed up again? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUB

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:57:35AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > > Yep. I wish it were that simple. :( >From that I presume you got the same slowness even under the old kernel? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
g your old kernel? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with cups (cupsd and admin.cgi hang)

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
ing a remote machine, then something is wrong. I would > suggest, in this case, that you purge and reinstall the cupsys package, > and try from there. I had this same problem, logging on locally, using the default config. In fact I think I purged and reinstalled twice, because I had trouble

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
t package selection other than paging up and > down and unselecting every item? I know this isn't an answer to your question, but my recommendation would be to try aptitude. It's much easier to use (at least for me) than dselect, and doesn't always want to install suggest

Re: how do I update my local debianmirror, made with debmirror?

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
s how to > update a mirror made with debmirror, I'm thinking about using rsync, but > I'm not sure. > > Any ideas? Wouldn't debmirror be the way to do it? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
riting the suppressions file, but for memory leak testing you don't need to do either. The memory leak output is very easy to understand and read. Only catch is that valgrind (especially at startup) poses a major performance hit, because it does so much more than look for memory leaks. -- D

Re: Problem with cups (cupsd and admin.cgi hang)

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
e made it work. I was getting pretty crazy at the time, due to extreme frustration. I'd still like to get the web interface working, as it would make it far easier to change the driver settings (DPI, paper type, etc). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: cups hangs when defining a printer

2002-05-07 Thread David Roundy
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:59:34PM -0400, David Roundy wrote: > I've been banging my head against setting up my new printer all afternoon, > and just when I thought I had it I ran into an error that has me stumped. > > I'm trying to set up CUPS for my printer, and the

cups hangs when defining a printer

2002-05-06 Thread David Roundy
here, and would greatly appreciate any pointers anyone could give me. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-06 Thread David Roundy
the copy. With the > symlink, the execution is identical, but the environment (containing the > command line) is different. In fact, I believe this is the way tetex does latex. latex is a symlink to tex, but when tex runs, it checks to see if it was named latex, and if so loads the la

Re: where can I find 'play' progran

2002-05-05 Thread David Roundy
sox has a program called 'play' which is rather nice. Plays just about any kind of sound format, or at least quite a few of them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

chroot for other distribution?

2002-05-04 Thread David Roundy
is up? I was thinking that perhaps I could run a redhat CD image in a chroot using user mode linux, but since I've never used UML, it's a bit intimidating. Any ideas or experiences related to setting up a foreign linux distro in a chroot filesystem? -- David Roundy http://www.abridgega

Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels

2002-05-04 Thread David Roundy
ase kernels. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels

2002-05-04 Thread David Roundy
h her Mandrake box running a > 2.4.8 kernel. Are there issues with usb in 2.4? I read everything I > could find about usb in /usr/src/linux/Documentation and poked around > the archives a bit, but didn't find anything specific. The 2.4.8 kernel dates from before I switched

Re: Debian Mirror (How To???)

2002-05-03 Thread David Roundy
se someone help me in > making an unstable mirror from a full fledged mirror. > > Thanking you all in advance. Use the debmirror package. It allows you to choose how much you want to mirror. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Packages

2002-05-02 Thread David Roundy
var/lib/dpkg/available, read it, love it (-: Or apt-cache search keyword, apt-cache show packagename. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-02 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Is the source or even image file for that under Sid? No. You can get the patch for it at kernel.org and apply that to your 2.4.18 source, though. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-02 Thread David Roundy
go get one, to > see if its the camera or the usb moudle, unless anyone has an idea of > what I could be doing wrong. 2.4.18 has some problems with usb mass storage. You could try 2.4.19pre7, which has some usb fixes it it. I don't know, but that might help. -- David Roundy http

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-24 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the > packages have already been configured. dpkg-reconfigure -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Support for wireless PCMCIA

2002-04-24 Thread David Roundy
"orinoco_cs" in your /etc/pcmcia/config or /etc/pcmcia/config-2.4 file. Mine's in config-2.4, since I'm using the drivers that are in the 2.4 kernel. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autologin

2002-04-19 Thread David Roundy
itrix MetaFrame Linux Client. > > My question is: Is it possible to auto log in? If yes how? If no how > could it be made possible :-)? kdm has ways of doing this. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread David Roundy
r. > > knuth:~# apt-get install testing > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package testing > > Does anyone have the real instructions? http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu

Re: Galeon crashing

2002-04-10 Thread David Roundy
m > > If I run galeon www.mobilestreams.com I get this in top as well as a > frozen browser: Do you by any chance have the macromedia flash plugin installed? If so, I'd try simply uninstalling it. The website you mentioned had flash plugins, so my guess is that flash is at fault here,

Re: Getting time from server at boottime

2002-04-10 Thread David Roundy
much easier to reverse your changes at some later date. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netmeeting clone (not gnomemeeting)

2002-04-09 Thread David Roundy
ody, so it isn't like there would be any problems meeting its dependancies. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt and GPG

2002-04-05 Thread David Roundy
my .gnupg/options file, and it seems to work. Presumably mutt is configured by default to work right with gpg, assuming gpg is set up to use the keyservers. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: audiphone?

2002-03-31 Thread David Roundy
lso what other choices do I have for doing this? I recommend gphone. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! Stuck in apt-get

2002-03-12 Thread David Roundy
and gs has not been installed, that the ghostscript part of aladdin > has not been completely removed. The problem is: How do I get it to > instll gs-common so that it can then install gs ? My guess is `apt-get remove ghostscript` will fix things up. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: MUTT Issue

2002-03-12 Thread David Roundy
_passive=no to make mutt keep checking the imap server for changes. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-09 Thread David Roundy
but didn't actually do it, since it would have confused things). I've heard before that gnucash has problems when you import your monthly statements, but never understood what that problem is. Can you explain this for me? I'd rather know what I'm up against when I get m

Re: How to specify default WM (woody)?

2002-03-07 Thread David Roundy
have to start it manually. > > How does one ensure this (or any default wm) is > started on login by default for all users? I > thought there used to be a window-managers file or > something, but I can find no such thing... Are you starting using startx? If so, try #update-alterna

Re: IRC Client?

2002-03-07 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:36:02AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > apt-cache search irc | grep client apt-cache search irc | grep -i client You missed a couple... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Ext3 filesystem and Woody

2002-03-07 Thread David Roundy
t doesn't have ext3 support. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: packeges kept back

2002-03-05 Thread David Roundy
s that the new version depends on a package you don't have installed, and you are doing a simple apt-get upgrade. If you do apt-get dist-upgrade, it will be willing to install new packages. Alternatively, you could run apt-get install the package which was kept back. -- David Roundy http:/

Re: users choose x-session-manager

2002-03-05 Thread David Roundy
u use kdm they'll automatically get a menu of choices. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: question about ifup and ifconfig

2002-03-01 Thread David Roundy
"done." > ;; > > and it works good. You might try guessnet, which can automatically determine your environment. > my question here is: > 2) how can i use ifconfig to bring up eth0 with dhcp? man interfaces apt-get install pump -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: /tmp size

2002-02-28 Thread David Roundy
anyone explain to me what is going on, and what to do. Thanks, To see if /tmp is a separate partition (and its size, if it is) run df -h (the -h gives you human readable units, which is handy) -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Bastille on Debian?

2002-02-27 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:22:39AM -0600, Lance Heller wrote: > > What magic, if any, must be worked to have Bastille run on Debian? apt-get install bastille -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: EASY X11 application development

2002-02-20 Thread David Roundy
to use glade with whatever language you prefer. It still requires work, but it's probably the easiest way to make the gui. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2002-02-19 Thread David Roundy
allow X forwarding, it overrides the ssh client setting. The relevant line (on the ppc computer) probably looks something like X11Forwarding yes or more likely #X11Forwarding no -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgpwYOoHoL0Hz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-17 Thread David Roundy
and out of the mode. You can specify the > number of columns to wrap at or accept the default. I think the default > is 72 columns, but help can tell you more. Or, you can look at the > source. Just so you know, you can also use M-q to rewrap a paragraph, or to wrap one if you d

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-15 Thread David Roundy
tries to assure me of this every time I fire it up. :-P > > Surely I'm not the only one seeing the above as a single line? Your > messages aren't wrapped at 70 over here. No, you're not crazy, I see it as a long line also! -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread David Roundy
> *REALLY* annoying when I'm playing Unreal Tournament because all of a > sudden I'm staring at a spinning ceiling :-) Are you running gpm? If so I would try turning that off, as it can sometimes cause the symptoms you describe. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread David Roundy
/mknod, that would > make just as much sense. PAM can do a lot more than just interactive stuff. I would want to make it so that shutdown can only be run by users on the console (or root, perhaps). Is there some way to do this other than using pam? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: syntax of interfaces file

2002-02-13 Thread David Roundy
i boot .. i > want to put its setting in this interface file which @ > this time only have entry for the loopback interface > .. so anyone share how can i put setting of my eth0 > adapter ? man interfaces In short, you sound like you're missing a line auto eth0 -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: usb mouse [added some detail]

2002-02-13 Thread David Roundy
makedev input/mouse$i c $major `math $i + 32` $mouse makedev input/event$i c $major `math $i + 64` $mouse makedev input/mice c $major 63 $mouse Thus, MAKEDEV input. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

2002-02-01 Thread David Roundy
boot? It seems that you could just insmod ext3 and then `mount -o remount` the relevant partitions. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: mutt setup help, please

2002-02-01 Thread David Roundy
around and select the > desried mailbox file. > > How can I configure mutt to do something similar? With mutt, using the default keybindings, I believe that hitting tab two or three times instead of '=' should do the trick. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: BTTV

2002-01-12 Thread David Roundy
ma? I'd try installing gatos and running xatitv (which may require running as root). As I understand it, the ATI wonder cards aren't well supported by the kernel, but gatos is designed specifically for them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: audio no longer produces sound

2002-01-12 Thread David Roundy
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:01:38PM -0800, David Roundy wrote: > I made an unfortunate discovery today that audio no longer works on my > laptop (a Thinkpad X21, which is running testing). I had it working a > month or two ago, but haven't used audio much since, so I don't kno

audio no longer produces sound

2002-01-12 Thread David Roundy
d go about trouble-shooting this would be greatly appreciated. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

gatos permissions problem (xatitv)

2002-01-12 Thread David Roundy
seems most likely that I just need to add my user to the right group (although maybe I should make the xatitv program SGID or something), but am at a loss as to which group could be relevant. Any help would be appreciated. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Hairy lilypond compile problem

2002-01-09 Thread David Roundy
fferent problem? Well, the lines you show don't look like an error message to me, they look like normal operation. I'd say the error occurred earlier perhaps? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: apt expectations

2001-12-30 Thread David Roundy
still not sure whether apt will pull up the unstable library when there is a testing version available... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread David Roundy
American white male, 28. Hopefully will file my physics PhD thesis today at UC Berkeley. (Theoretical solid state physics, for the curious). Play classical guitar (but not well). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Games - A question

2001-11-30 Thread David Roundy
t see where the separation between client and server is, and may not have to depend on trusted clients. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: compiling .debs for potato on woody

2001-11-28 Thread David Roundy
ke the potato deb. > > Hopefully there are automatic tools for the job and/or simpler > solutions. There is: pbuilder. It sets up a chroot build environment in which it compiles a package. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgpcfpQVAf2LV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: usb mass storage problem

2001-11-23 Thread David Roundy
n't have a real scsi disk as well). But alas, I have no idea what else you could try. Sorry. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: CD Writer

2001-11-20 Thread David Roundy
nt kernel (I'm not sure). Anyhow, my guess would be that any USB drive you get will work. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: working icq client for debian?

2001-11-20 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:42:50AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > Or is there some other icq client in debian that supports the new > protocol? I've been using licq without any problems. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-20 Thread David Roundy
ou want to acheive, but it seems like you could avoid the symlink problem by simply exporting the / directory, and then chrooting into it on the other computer (which would make the symlinks work). Of course, then you'd be chrooted into it, which quite likely isn't what you want... -- Da

Re: Detecting Network connections...

2001-11-20 Thread David Roundy
is no wire plugged into the ethernet (or if the other end isn't plugged in). I'm not sure where you would do the checking, though. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: woody and sid

2001-11-17 Thread David Roundy
te` and then `apt-get dist-upgrade` (the latter you may need to run more than once). Sid is more up-to-date, but changes quite often, sometimes for the worse. Woody is a bit older in some of its programs, but doesn't change so often, and is perhaps more seldom broken. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Upgrade woes: "These packages have been kept back"

2001-11-04 Thread David Roundy
; or something similar, yet I don't have anything like that. Does > anyone have any clues as to why I got this result, and what the best > thing to do is, please? Try apt-get install login, and see what it tells you. That should clarify why they are being held back. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Presentation Software...

2001-11-02 Thread David Roundy
anything useful, but kpresenter looks like it may be nice (and I figure I try it out next time I have to give a talk). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: installing on local hard drive, without boot floppies ?

2001-10-31 Thread David Roundy
be that there is some other problem lurking beneath the surface... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Debian as multimedia system - startup and shutdown

2001-10-31 Thread David Roundy
to X without passwords, which sounds like precisely what you want. As far as training your two dogs to turn on and off the computer, I think you'd have to buy some special hardware with a large on/off button. Maybe you could hack one of those apple USB mice, in which the whole mouse is one large button? :) -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-30 Thread David Roundy
e > for adding it to the official kernel? (other than "soon," that is :-) For what it's worth I've been running 2.4.13-ac4 (and using ext3) for a day or two now with no problem. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-28 Thread David Roundy
fo and > other old 2.2.18 stuff in /usr/share/doc and /usr/doc > > What else if necessary to create the necessary 2.4.12 *.deb file I need > to proceed? Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-27 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-

trouble with acer usb cdrw drive and cdrecord

2001-10-27 Thread David Roundy
Hello. I've been having trouble with cdrecord on my Acer 4406eu usb cdrw drive. Just as a check, I have verified that it works fine under windows 2k. In fact, for a day it worked fine under linux, and I haven't been able to figure out what changed that made it no longer work. :( It has no prob

Re: variable ramdisk greater than 4megs

2001-10-27 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:38:54AM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > > Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I > somewhere activated "tmpfs", is it that what I may use? That's what I'm doing. It's like a ram disk that can get swapped out. It's not too hard to set is u

Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive

2001-10-25 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:31:21PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > Well, i'm sorry i'm really not an expert, but maybe you should > try a kernel with a initrd option. > With a initrd, you'll get somewhat of a prompt and the ability > to modprobe any module you like, it could help you

Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive

2001-10-23 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > Just to know, have you devfs compiled in the kernel and mounted at boot ? > are you sure the entry /dev/scd0 exists at boot-time ? > what is the error message ? (i guess it's can't mount root fs on device > XX:XX ->

using bootcd with usb cdrw drive

2001-10-23 Thread David Roundy
Hello all. I've been trying to use bootcd to create a bootable cdrom for my laptop, which has a USB cdrw drive (and no other removable drive), and I have been running into trouble booting with it. I can burn it just fine, and put on it a 2.4.12 kernel I compiled with USB mass storage compiled in.

Re: network, ifconfig, symbol link to network

2001-10-23 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote: > for some reasons during the debian (potato) installation > I had to leave out my Ne2000 compatible network-card. > I plugged it in later and installed the module 'ne'. > wonderful,no ioport-problems nor irq-problems. > Now I want t

Re: X/WindowManager: Mouse jumping around

2001-10-21 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:42:24PM +0200, Reto wrote: > When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds, > then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible, > of course :( > I have Debian Sid, a Logitech cordless Desktop, so a PS/2 mouse, which is

Re: ntp problem

2001-10-17 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:04:38PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > > The machine has been up for a good while now, but ntptrace still says it's > not synched. > > Any sugestions? Did you run ntpdate? (which requires you to enter the IP address into yet another config file) -

Re: Compiling openssh from source

2001-10-15 Thread David Roundy
line for testing-us, to include > the latest libraries that are not in non-us? I don't know, maybe. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

2001-10-08 Thread David Roundy
found that to get ppp to work we had to bring down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you shouldn't have to, but you could try that, if you still have your eth0 up. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

2001-10-08 Thread David Roundy
-get -u dist-upgrade, or -u upgrade), and if it's going to upgrade a major package (X or libc for example), then wait, and see what people are saying on this list before proceeding. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-09-26 Thread David Roundy
very unhappy if my hard drive had less bandwidth than my network connection. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: OT:mutt: skipping deleted messages

2001-09-26 Thread David Roundy
deleted messages, while the up and down arrows skip them. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ pgpWYsfgwMQtz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-24 Thread David Roundy
ng main contrib > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib > > Is it just in unstable? Or somewhere else? Well, only unstable has a reasonably recent mozilla... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

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