qvvx wrote:
> I seem to have a trouble with the X Window System.
> My video card is nVidia GeForce 2 GTS (64 MiB of memory)
I run an Nvidia card too (FX5200), and it was as unstable as yours when
using the Debian defaults with the nvidia driver. In the Nvidia docs,
open the README.txt file, scan f
olive wrote:
> In Windows XP, there is a tool to easily print photos: we choose a
> directory and the size of the photos and he print puting as many as
> photos on a page as possible. Is there such a tool for Linux? I could
> use gimp but it is not so easy and it is impossible to manage an A4 pa
Alex Goldman wrote:
> My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The way
> it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms
> inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command just
> hangs)
Sounds like a drive problem, it should show up in the output of dme
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Caldera purchased some of the assets of SCO, including the SCO name.
Novell, SuSE, TrollTech (KDE's Qt), SCO, Caldera.
They (and more) are all tied together though the Canopy Group.
I wouldn't be suprised to see Corel as another one.
> SCO then renamed itself Tarantella.
> C
steven.damer wrote:
> Here's the results I get from smartctl:
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
>
"smartctl -HA /dev/hda" will get you the info without the cruft.
Frankly, your drive looked in good shape (the -A portion).
Try
John Hassler wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom writes:
>> I read it carefully and being, how shall one say, not business oriented
>> 8-p, what does it mean?
>
> It means that the company that now calls itself "SCO" is an entirely
> different company from the 1980s Unix company by that name.
Smoke and mirr
Clint Harshaw wrote:
> 2. As root, I edited /etc/default/cdrecord and made the following changes:
>
> CDR_DEVICE=cdrw
> cdrw= 1,0,0 -1 -1 ""
Try cdrw= ATAPI:0,0,0 -1 -1 ""
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Pooly wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ apt-cache search k3b
> k3b-i18n - Internationalized (i18n) files for k3b
> kipi-plugins - image manipulation/handling plugins for KIPI aware programs
> quodlibet-plugins - various contributed plugins for Quod Libet
> k3blibs - The KDE cd burning application l
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
> Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
I think I pressed the wrong button and sent a premature reply, maybe not.
But that doesn't look good...
> Self-test execution status:( 41) The
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
>Enabled Supported:
> *NOP cmd
> *READ BUFFER cmd
> *WRITE BUFFER cmd
> *Host Protected Area feature set
> *Look-ahead
>Write cache
> *Power Management feature set
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
> hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=14410238,
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 14410238
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 14410238
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 14410238
Do you see a pattern? That looks like a sic
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
> JV> That's what you get when you buy things on sale... ;-)
>
> You mean the harddrive is dying?
No, probably not. You can install smartmontools to keep an eye on it
though. Cheap electronics just cause problems and it sounds like you
are suffering from one. :(
> I r
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> ide0: reset: success
>
> What does that mean and how can I solve this problem?
That's what you get when you buy things on sale... ;-)
Try turning the write-cache off: hdparm -W0 /dev/hda
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"H.S." wrote:
> I have tried:
> apt-key add /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg
> apt-key add /usr/share/keyrings/debian-role-keys.gpg
> but the warning doesn't go away. What other keys do I need to import?
W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates
Release: The follo
J Merritt wrote:
> Recently I ran 'apt-cdrom add /dev/cdrom' to add
> repository index to Synaptic. The disc would not eject
> even after apt-cdrom had unmounted it. I did a 'umount
> /dev/cdrom' and it said the device was not mounted, of
> course. It would not eject, period.
As a workaround, try
Titus Barik wrote:
> info is nice, but I much prefer pinfo, which is basically the same thing
> with colors.
One up on pinfo for KDE users is "info:/" in the Konqueror URL box.
Eyecandy for info pages, it's amazing how things have changed. :-)
Somewhere is a list of nifty URI's like these:
syste
marc wrote:
> Thanks for advertising apt-key's existence :-o It might also help folk
> to know about man apt-secure.
>
> That said, I couldn't work out what steps I am supposed to take from
> those man pages.
W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates
Release: The foll
How do we enable the grammar checker in abiword-2.4?
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marc wrote:
> Sorry for the cheesy question.
>
> Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm after
> a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only interested in
> text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that I've contributed
> to are important. The l
Jim Lynch wrote:
> For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that
> directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured
> out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser
> or other means of indexing them, searching them and displayi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Wierd. The vnc is behaving in a strange way over the last 2 days. When I
> execute vncviewer, a vnc session comes up. But inside the vnc session,
> If I press F8 and select "Full Screen" then the session just crashes.
> Previously, it used to become full screen but n
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Kernel versions 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 are causimg serious problems here.
>
> 2.6.13 won't access /cdrom and 2.6.12 segfaults when I try this. It is
> then impossible to log out normally and I have to pull the plug on the
> computer!
Similar trouble here. Kernel.org-2.6.13 wo
Rodney Richison wrote:
> What gui program might be good for scanning a network to take an
> inventory of machines and ip address's etc on a network?
ntop might be useful. Set it up with "ntop -A" and then look at
http://localhost:3000 for stats, charts and other info.
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gr wrote:
> It's a pity people have to ask around before they can
> draw a rectangle with a graphics program. I had the
> same question.
I'm wondering how the question resulted in Gimp for an answer..
Gimp wasn't exactly designed for drawing. You want a vector drawing
program of some kind. so
cc wrote:
> 'apt-get install xserver-xfree86 ' will install 'xserver-xorg'
> instead of xserver-xfree86, whats the matter ?
>
> i want to install xfree86, not xorg
me too.. so i put this line in sources.list :
deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xfree86
and all is well again
Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> I recently had a similar problem. After starting the k3b installation
> assistant, /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap lost it's set-uid bit. I reinstalled it
> with chmod u+s /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap and now, k3b works fine again (do not
> start k3b assistant).
>
> # l /usr/bin/cdrec*
>
Albert wrote:
> I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is
> to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or
> 1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from
> the mozilla site, but I have no idea how I might then wrap them
> with an icon and
Eric P wrote:
> James Vahn wrote:
>> Try "wajig install/unstable gnumeric" and see if that works.
>>
> Thanks for the tip.
And thank you for the heads up- gnumeric is working for me again. :-)
> However, can you clue me into wajig?
> It just reinstalled 1.5.
Eric P wrote:
> I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded
> (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts
> anymore.
>
> Here's what I get:
> $ gnumeric
> gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats
>
> Anyone else have
g keys that way
as well.
~$ su -
~# export DISPLAY=:0
~# kgpg
...and then finished it on the command line for the rest:
~# gpg -K
/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg
sec 1024D/256B0DA7 2005-09-25
uid James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTE
John Hasler wrote:
> And please don't post anything to the list containing the string that
> started this thread. Doing so will create more hits.
Too late.. "aol art files" is already at the top of the list. "debian"
must be scoring it high because of the traffic here.
> One thing that baffles m
Simo Kauppi wrote:
> James Vahn wrote:
>> # Set this to key name to be used for signing Release files.
>> SIGNINGKEY=
>>
>> What is it wanting me to put there?
>
> Hi,
>
> I haven't used apt-move, but fro
/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg
>
> sec 1024D/C633A12A 2005-09-24
> uid James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ssb 1024g/14633FD3 2005-09-24
>
Do you see a "key name" for apt-move in there?
#
/C633A12A 2005-09-24
uid James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ssb 1024g/14633FD3 2005-09-24
In /etc/apt-move.conf is this line:
# Set this to key name to be used for signing Release files.
SIGNINGKEY=
What is it wanting me
Tom Allison wrote:
> xorg won't work.
>
> And I can't get back to xserver-xfree86.
X.org doesn't work here either (freezes up the screen and keyboard).
(nvidia)
I removed "x-window-system-core" and put this line in my sources.list ...
deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xfree86
Mike McCarty wrote:
> I have a suggestion for this list.
Ha!
> What do people think of the list adding a "Reply-To:" in the
> header so that replies automatically go to the list?
You could accomplish that yourself by using procmail on your incoming
mail. I haven't tested this directly but you're
Florian Ohnimus wrote:
> I am completely new to Debian and was wondering why there isn't a
> xstartup script in the .vnc/ directory. How else can I select window
> manager other than gnome?
Hi. Just edit the file with a text editor. Mine reads:
~$ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Is there any "debian way" to do memtest? On some distros, I saw a
> memtest entry into the bootloader. I use lilo for the moment, anyway, I
> dont have floppy drive, just CDRom.
One entry in /etc/lilo.conf should look like this:
image=/boot/memtest86+.bin
Tony wrote:
> Problem:
>
> I log in from a remote location, but I need to start an aplication
> (example: emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper & )
Try: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper
It's been a while since I've used it, that might be bad advice. Another
Tong Sun wrote:
> This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having
> upgraded from xsever to xorg.
>
> Is there any way I can have my X back?
X-window-system-core depends on xserver-xorg, you could try removing both
of them and installing xserver-xfree86.
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Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:54:38PM -0700, James Vahn wrote:
>> Meaning that this command does not produce a response?
>> telnet smarthost 25
>
> Exactly.
So what happens if you run exim on another port, and then do your port
forwarding on th
Bob Proulx wrote:
> James Vahn wrote:
>> I'm unsure why sendmail runs as root if exim/postfix don't.
>
> In order to deliver mail to the local user's mailbox the MDA (mail
> delivery agent) needs to run as the user. Same for being piped into a
> mail filte
Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya james
>
> i don't know if this was meant to be offline ..
Whoops.
>> FEATURE(`access_db')dnl
>> FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
>> FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1')dnl
>
> i don't use greet_pause .. i have no time to sit and test it out .. :-)
There's nothing to t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Hello
> actually i take control of proc temperature via the following command
>
> :~$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
>
> but i'd like to ask if there exists some X utility to do this in KDE,
> by some other program which uses that command
Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> The problem is that all my requests to the smarthost's port 25 are
> blocked.
Meaning that this command does not produce a response?
telnet smarthost 25
"smarthost" being something like "mail.isp.com" or (better) their IP
address. Will they give you an MX address?
Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear list,
> I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I
> have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a
> copy of some is forwarded to another address automatically.
>
> Now, recently, due to excessive spread of viruses on th
Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> yup.. but in 1 minutes.. you're completely done w/ antispam
I've found that these help a lot too. If the headers don't pass the
tests, the data never comes across the wire. They are described in
cf.README and really silence most of the noise.
FEATURE(`access_db')dnl
FEATURE(
Bob Proulx wrote:
> I also ran Sendmail for years. It was a good mailer in its day and
> has set the standard. But unfortunately it has had a long history of
> security vulnerabilities. Mostly this one thing is what has driven
> people away from it.
Sendmail/Exim/Postfix/Smail have all had secu
Cedric BRINER wrote:
> I'm maintaining a parc of 20 stations. All of them are sarge. But time
> to time, I need to install an other package (eg: from sid, from
> postgresql..).
>
> So I was wondering how do you do, guys, to achieve such things.
examples:
~$ wajig update
~$ wajig install mysql
~$
David Jardine wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
>> > Any way, have you any advice
>>
>> not using HTML...
>
> Using mutt, I see no html. Is this a bug or a feature of mutt?
> (I do ofte
Bob Proulx wrote:
> I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should
> move away from sendmail. Half will be to postfix. Half will be to
> exim.
Any idea why? I've never understood why Debian moved to Exim as the
default MTA. Longtime sendmail user, 10-11 years.
I didn't
James Haskell wrote:
> i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems*
> that in the process, my pager has changed from
> /usr/bin/less to /bin/more.
> e.g. if i type:
> cd /usr/include/
> bash displays:
> Display all 370 possibilities? (y or n)
> when i type y, bash lists the files using /bi
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> On 8/26/05, James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> edit /etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters:
>>
>> Augment_Printer_List %none%
>> # Printer xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs
>> # Printer xp_ps_spooldir_
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote:
On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 15:35 +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
I think that Debian itself runs /usr/share/sendmail/update_sendmail.
That ought to be almost as convenient as running make. Does it do the
trick?
It looks like it does more fr
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Eric Persson wrote:
I'm using a debian testing environment on my laptop, and most of the stuff
works good now, but printing is still a bit strange.
Cupsys and gimp-print have improved things tremendously, if your printer
is supported... Unfortunately, firefox uses Xprt inst
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I vote the headers should direct a reply to the list.
It has always seemed lunacy to make the default the specific thing that
list policy shys you shouldn't do.
Smartlist, isn't it? Just a suggestion:
rc.local.20
##
FROM=`formail -x From: \
| sed -e
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Ian wrote:
Hi, all you Debian gurus! I was wondering, how can I disable exim4 from
starting at boot? I have absolutely NO use for it, as I use webmail, and it
adds a full 2 minutes to my startup time, so it really takes a while to boot
up. Thanks for the help!
This is a ba
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to make my sendmail work and it should work when I fix
this problem:
sendmail -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] returns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unrecognized host name lyderis.com.
Apparently you are offline when this happens - sounds like somethi
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Steven Jones wrote:
Anybody got some recommendation on tuning sendmail to reject spam?
Things like mis-behaving remote smtp server or servers not in dns ie
domain does not existlow cpu overhead stuff
FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1')dnl
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Roman Yushin wrote:
hello! i need to install debian 3.0 but i didn't find it at official website
is it real to find it? or now i can use only 3.1 version?
Keep looking! :-) ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
The archives go back to Debian 1.1, the very first!
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, John Hasler wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer-586: Depends: libbio2jack0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libjack0.80.0-0 (>= 0.99.0) but it is not installable
Depends: slang1 (> 1.4.9dbs-4) but 1.4.5-1 is
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Thomas Lecomte wrote:
Hi,
I'm new in the Debian community, and I'm running Debian Sid on my computer.
I would like to know what should I do when I get a broken package. Report it
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
The broken package is libaspell which disable me to install kdelibs4.
P
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, phyrster wrote:
http://debianplanet.com/node.php?id=880
Oh my. There might be some good advice there, but I sure didn't see any.
How do you guys downgrade? Are there sleek tools out there that can handle
this job better?
I've set /etc/apt/preferences to:
Packa
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Joe Potter wrote:
I figure that someone at Debian hates the editors I like. What to do?
An "apt-get dist-upgrade" will remove abiword and gedit. They then would
be un-installable. This always happens with Sid and Gnome. Abiword is
always the last to be fixed. I smell a con
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:55:29PM -0700, James Vahn wrote:
Qemu segfaults on me, but I've been able to get bochs (the upstream
version - 2.2.1-0) to work reliably (very much slower than qemu) and
the bochs TUNTAP finally works! :-)
Ho
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Steve Kemp wrote:
Qemu is very usable and simple to install Windows upon, albeit a little
slow.
Qemu segfaults on me, but I've been able to get bochs (the upstream
version - 2.2.1-0) to work reliably (very much slower than qemu) and
the bochs TUNTAP finally works! :-)
-
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Michael Gass wrote:
I am having a problem with a debian install using nfs and a floppy boot.
I am trying to install woody (bf2.4 flavor) on an old 486 with 24M ram
(Compaq Prolinea 4/66). I am using PLIP as the machine has no network
card and no cdrom.
<.>
"nfs: serve
you wrote:
> Hi, as in the title, thanks a lot:)
Use "wajig unofficial " to search for the kplayer and w32codecs
packages.
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Matthijs wrote:
>> I'm trying to get the temperature sensors working on my Debian Sarge
>> box. The hardware is a VIA Epia M1 board running a custom compiled
>> 2.6.8-16 kernel.
>
> No suggestions, anyone?
Two alternatives: mbmon and xmbmon
~# mbmon -Sf
Temp.= 91.4, 98.6, 0
Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems,
> and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of
> their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'.
Have you tried "debsums -s" ? It is unfortunate that not all packa
>if [ `tty` = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
A typo -- a single = is used to assign values, not compare them.
The script should use ==, thusly:
if [ `tty` == "/dev/tty1" ]; then
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Khanh Cao Van wrote:
> I' tried change the run level in /etc/inittab to 5 but my PC did not
> boot in X at boot time . Ofcause I've install all gnome and x windows
> and could startx by hand . How should I do ?
Debian doesn't use runlevels in that manner. I removed gdm/kdm/xdm and
have these lines
frazu wrote:
> How can I find libraries etc that were installed as dependencies, but
> which currently have no "dependants" installed? IE the package that
> caused apt to install them isn't installed anymore.
Note the use of backtics as opposed to quotes here:
wajig purge `deborphan`
Geoff Reidy wrote:
>> anubis:/home/jon# modprobe tun
>> anubis:/home/jon# ifconfig tun0
>> tun0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>> anubis:/home/jon# uname -a
>> Linux anubis 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Fri May 20 07:34:54 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>>
> Thanks Jon, this makes it look less
Vegard|drageV wrote:
> hjem:/home/vegard# cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI
> cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
>0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CDU5211 ' 'YYS2' Removable CD-ROM
>0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-48126S ' '2QS5' Removable CD-ROM
Rich wrote:
> I see from some pages on the net that this is a problem with the driver.
> Users of synaptics touchpads have a synaptics driver to get them by,
> however I have an Alps touchpad.
Tried this?
Package: tpconfig
Version: 3.1.3-5
Replaces: synaptics
Description: configure touchpad devi
For some reason konqueror uses a large font when I print web pages to
paper - 9 characters per inch. It isn't clear to me how this is to be
changed.
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Paul wrote:
> I?ve tried with xf86config, and even selecting the minimum (VGA, 16
> colors, etc) It Doesn?t work. I?m desperate. I need to get this done to
> work in my ph.d. thesis, as Soon as possible.
Welcome to the school of hard knocks.
Make sure discover, read-edid and xserver-xfree86 are
Kim Onnel wrote:
> I want to be able to send mail from the console, i tried this and
> thats the result,
> Cc:
> slg:/home/zazu# Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 67
It would be nice if there was a list of those codes, but they seem to be
pretty elusive. Wishlist bug.
You
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 06:44 -0800, James Vahn wrote:
>> I held the top slot in the BogoMIPS-HOWTO for slowest system for many years-
>> a 386SX/16 w/8 megs of RAM. Used a pair of them (and Hercules MDA) to get
>> Netscape on the internet (orange hi-res sc
Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with 16MB RAM
> and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience with such a
> slow machine running debian (or any other linux dist)?
I held the top slot in the BogoMIPS-HOWTO for slowest system for
Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:28:55PM -0800, James Vahn wrote:
>> 0x3bc is kind of an odd place for a printer, and I don't see the
>> more standard 0x0378 being used by anything else. What's up?
>> Double check your BIOS settings.
>
> 0x
Jim Woodruff wrote:
> I need some help to get my printer working. Yes, I've read the CUPS
> Administration manual and searched Google. Either the answers aren't
> there or I'm not smart enough to see it.
<...>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP]
> parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet
Ryan wrote:
> Sure, but the logic I use is simple: If I'm not willing to blow away
> the box then I'm not going to try to install something I know nothing
> about. Since I need to be productive, without any downtime, (it's my
> primary box) I need to ensure I can recover from whatever may happen.
Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> v3.7 and have to disable ACPI to get it to boot. I have not yet
> attempted "sarge" because I am not at a point where I can blow away my
> box. My goal, however, is to be running Debian (I'm somewhat sick of
> the Fedora pace.)
Understandable, but I don't think it's necess
Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> 3. My primary machine is a laptop (Toshiba 5005-S507). Most of the
> info I can find on Google, pertaining to laptops, is for Fedora or
> Mandrake. How well does Debian handle laptops? Any URLs would be
> GREATLY appreciated.
I recently installed Sarge on an HP ze5607wm a
Lauren wrote:
> I'm trying to download woody via jigdo. The isntructions are not clear.
> Jigdo was asking me for the number of the file i wanted to download.
> various numbers etc were tried to no avail. Can someone send me more
> clear step by step instructions to getting Debian.
Woody is
Bob Alexander wrote:
> In an attempt to mount /usr normally and then remount it ro to upgrade
> packages I must have screwed something.
> /dev/hda8 /var ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
^^
Those scripts that dpkg can't execute- they are in /var/lib/dpkg/info/.
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Smith wrote:
> i have installed xserver-svga, but only root can start X, others can't,
> error message says wrapper should be used.
>
RootOnly? Look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper, make sure it says Console or Anybody.
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> Yes, it's a problem with AOL. The date was 05/09/1953 and variations of it.
>> The page kept returning an error with the date highlighted.
>
> Lie. No, seriously: lie.
01/01/1981 got me in, but it all ended up in "/:misc error"
I'll have to give it another shot later. Ma
MJang wrote:
> Just wondering if there's a dpkg (or maybe debsums) command functionally
> equivalent to
>
> rpm -Vf /path/to/filename
>
> Which checks and verifies a specific file against the original package -
> or do I need to resort to a Tripwire check.
Yes, debsums. Some packages don't have
Peter wrote:
> On Monday 20 Dec 2004 21:02, James Vahn wrote:
>> Just this morning I was trying to get kopete to talk AIM and it led
>> me to an AOL registration page, which kept refusing my birthdate.
>> Methinks it is broken, although I'd like to refuse any more birth
Michiel wrote:
> Yes, this is all built into the kernel (including ext3 and jbd).
> I read something about that you need to use an initrd image file when
> the root partition has an ext3 filesystem. But I guess this is only
> needed when the ext3 drivers are loaded as a module?
I have an ext3 ro
> No my customized kernel does not load an initrd.img file. It is also not
> generated during kernel compilation.
Is ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support built in?
PCI IDE chipset support?
I'm out of guesses, sorry.
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Peter Nuttall wrote:
> guy then it should be good for you. Kopete is in the style of a IM client,
> and in fact supports all the common IM protocols, but if you are a power
> irc users it isn't for you.
Just this morning I was trying to get kopete to talk AIM and it led
me to an AOL registratio
Ted Parks wrote:
> I am trying to configure the sound card on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using
> Alsa drivers. The Sarge kernel includes OSS drivers, I think.
>
> I cannot get the snd-opl3sa2 driver to load, despite the fact that
> modinfo shows the driver is there.
I had the same trouble with an HP ze
Michiel wrote:
> Everything boots fine, but I wanted to recompile a customized kernel,
> because of a new video driver that I want to install, but I cannot get
> it to boot with my customized kernel.
Look in /boot/grub/menu.lst and see if you are telling grub to use
a non-existant initrd.img ..
Andrew Konosky wrote:
> After I got the base system installed, I selected "Desktop Environment"
> and apt installed both KDE and Gnome, Gnome as default.
I would like to see "KDE Desktop" and "GNOME Desktop", and not have
both installed.
> I switched it over to KDE and KDM, but the installer did
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Anyone can tell me howto install kernel sources under
> Debian Testing, I already try:
>
> apt-cache search kernel sources
Try: apt-cache search ^kernel-source
I prefer the sources from kernel.org for reasons I have forgotten. If I
recall, make-kpkg r
> Hey when i start running a inn server, i get the following msg "innd
> dead but subsys locked" i tried deleting the thread daemon from the
> subsys folder and runnning it again but the same msg comes, how am i 2
> proceed?
Run "/usr/lib/news/bin/inncheck" as root and see what it says.
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