/dev/nvidia* device files missing

2004-04-15 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, I had problems trying to use the (non-free) nvidia kernel module generated from nvidia-kernel-source and I found out that the device files /dev/nvidia[ctl|0|1] were not created by any of the nvidia* packages, and are also not created by the MAKEDEV script nor by the udev package. I'm not su

can't boot stock kernel-image-2.4.22

2003-09-30 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi :) i've been using my own compiled kernels for the last couple of years. After getting somewhat tired of compiling them, i tried the stock kernels. But they just won't boot, looping with a message like (it doesn't log the message): "insmod: can't find module /lib/module/2.4.22-1-k7/kernel/net/

en_US.UTF-8 compose bug fixed, but whom should i send it to ?

2003-09-24 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi all, using LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for unicode characters i wasn't being able to get composed latin characters (accents) using the Multi_key. searching a little bit i found out the the "compositions" were defined but in the "wrong" (i.e. different than what i'm used to) order of key strokes. So I ju

en_US.UTF-8 compose bug fixed, but whom should i send it to ?

2003-09-23 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi all, using LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for unicode characters i wasn't being able to get composed latin characters (accents, umlaut, etc.) using the Multi_key. searching a little bit i found out the the "compositions" were defined but in the "wrong" (i.e. different than what i'm used to) order of key st

Re: diskless debian

2000-12-19 Thread Jan Pfeifer
I've just done it a couple of weeks ago, and it's working great. Read the stuff, because mostly it works the same for Debian :) Anyway there are different configurations for a diskless machine, and each one requires different steps. Just as an overview: * kernel for DL (diskless machine): may be

Re: 100Mbs ether cards talking @ 10Mbs ...

2000-12-06 Thread Jan Pfeifer
> The only way to really measure the speed of the cards (and not of hard > disk, nfs-subsystem etc) is to send _huge_ amounts of data really, > really fast. > > Personally I like netcat (it´s debianized) for that sort of stuff, just > dd if=/dev/null | netcat 1.2.3.4 > and, on the other side

100Mbs ether cards talking @ 10Mbs ...

2000-12-05 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, I have two computers connected with a crossover cable (BTW, thanks &rw), both with 100Mb/s ethernet cards (SIS900 & RealTek 8139) but they seem to be connected only by 10Mb/s (NFS transfers are at a bit more than 1 mbyte/s). I just compiled the drivers into the kernel. am I forgetting to set

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Jan Pfeifer
yes, no harddisk. But I found the following: ".../linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt" and the program "bootparamd" and I think I found my way. I'm still in doubt about which files should be shared ("/home", "/usr" a part of "/etc") and which not ("/tmp", "/var", another part of "/etc"). And how t

help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, I have a spare machine (a PIII 550) without monitor/keyboard/mouse nor _hd_, but with onboard (SIS) ethernet card, disk (3 1/2) and cdrom drives. I want to set up a small LAN with my main machine (debian woody, kernel 2.4.9) as a server, and this machine just to run some CPU intensive (but not

eSound problem with old SB16

2000-11-12 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, sorry if this question is out of topic, but maybe this is a configuration problem and someone may help me ... :) I have an old SB16, which works great when used by OSS driver. When I try to use eSound for multiplexing, it sounds broken, as if it were playing a scratched old LP. Even if only

XFree86 - Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed'

2000-10-28 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, since I upgraded to the X3.3.6-11 version X started complaining about this and won't run!! Any idea about what could be causing this ? thanks very much for any help :-) jan ps.: I tried 'mkfontdir' again in all font directories, I checked permissions, I'm using exactly the same configurat

recompiling gcc & g++

2000-08-14 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, gcc & g++ are the programs I use most, and often I'm waiting for them to compile a big project I'm currently working on. is it worth to recompile them using more "agressive" optimizations options (-O3, -funroll-loops, and -march=pentiumpro) ? anyway, I tried it, using apt-get to get the so

how does one redirect the input for a terminal ?

2000-06-07 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi all, I'm trying to compress with passwords a couple of hundred files using "zip" (I have to use this, as some of the compressed files will go to windoze users), but "zip" only seems to take the password from a terminal, so I can't use the "<" redirector of bash. Is there a way of fooling it, so

Re: Latin-1 characters in X, how?

2000-05-14 Thread Jan Pfeifer
I think my .Xmodmap may help you with this. It sets the two "windows" keys as "Mod3" (which I assign to window manager functions) and the "menu" key to "compose", aka "Multi_key". The compose key will be accepted by most of the software (all gnome, xemacs, powershell(this one is great), gnome-termi

Re: jdk1.1 problmes

2000-05-06 Thread Jan Pfeifer
Chris Gray writes: > > On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:14:30PM -0300, Jan Pfeifer wrote: > > I'm trying to execute a "HelloWorld" program in java, > > but after compiling it, when running, it segment faults: > > > > > ahn, and: >

jdk1.1 problmes

2000-05-06 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, I'm trying to execute a "HelloWorld" program in java, but after compiling it, when running, it segment faults: $ java -v HelloWorld.class Loading java/lang/Object.class(/usr/lib/jdk1.1/lib/classes.zip) Loading java/io/Serializable.class(/usr/lib/jdk1.1/lib/classes.zip) Loading java/lang/Clon

sawmill problem

2000-04-24 Thread Jan Pfeifer
for those following this subject, the new version 0.25.2-2 has just fixed this problem, and sawmill was worth the (minimal thanks to dselect) effort :), I'll stick with it ... thanks for the answers ... jan Jan Pfeifer writes: > hi all, > > I've just installed t

SVGA Text Mode & ATI Charger video card

2000-04-24 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, untill someone with real knowledge help you, you may try using one of the Vesa modes (I suppose ATI Charger supports it). But to use this you will have to set the Console/Frame Buffers/Vesa VGA support for the kernel. And then select one of the vesa modes listed in the /usr/src/linux/Documenta

sawmill problem

2000-04-23 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi all, I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package, but sawmill won't run, and keep mumbling "error--> (invalid-function (macro . #))" to me, each time I run :) if I run it with the "--interp" option it seems to run, but without the menus and don't know what else -- I've never used it. p