Re: the vanishing console message trick

Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:51, Jeff Cours wrote: I'm running a Pentium IV system tracking Debian testing. The video card is an ATI Radeon, Lilo's the bootloader, and I'm using a 2.4 series Kernel. Is there anything else I should be looking at? Well for

Re: the vanishing console message trick

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Unfortunately, though, the problem remains. Setting vga=ask in lilo.conf didn't seem to change anything. I still got the blank screen. Also, a "grep -i tty /etc/lilo.conf" turned up negative. I did verify that the file is using vga=normal. Also, I didn't se

the vanishing console message trick

Hi, everyone - I'm having a rather odd problem. Following an upgrade a few weeks ago, my lilo menu, the boot messages, and the shutdown messages all vanished. There's still a signal coming to the monitor (I can tell because the monitor hasn't gone into power save), but the screen is blank, like

Re: apt preferences (was Re: Mozilla 1.2.1)

Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I highly recommend giving aptitude a whirl. It handles this setup much better than dselect. Very nice tool - thanks for the pointer! If I understand correctly what it was telling me last night, it looks like mozilla-browser 1.2.1 depends on libc6, which

apt preferences (was Re: Mozilla 1.2.1)

Ron Johnson wrote: From "apt-cache showpkg mozilla-browser": sid: 1.2-1 sarge: 1.1-1 woody: 1.0.0-0.woody.1 I get something a little different with a fresh update this morning: Package: mozilla-browser Versions: 2:1.2.1-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binar

Re: changing a computer's name

Following up for the archives. It looks like reversing the order of the names in /etc/hosts and rebooting did the trick. I'm guessing that, instead of reading /etc/hostname, some daemons try to discover the hostname by doing a reverse resolution on 127.0.0.1. In any case, the machine now seems

Re: changing a computer's name

Bill Moseley wrote: How about /etc/hosts? Good catch - I forgot to mention that one. I did modify /etc/hosts originally, adding the new name in addition to the old name to the loopback (127.0.0.1) entry. I don't know whether or not the resolver is sensitive to ordering, though, so I just rear

Re: changing a computer's name

sean finney wrote: have you restarted those daemons? i think some of them may make a single call to hostname when they start up, and never ask again until they reload or restart. Yes, when I saw that the old name was being used, I figured someone must be caching it somewhere. Since I didn't kn

changing a computer's name

I recently changed the name of a computer, but I'm still getting messages in /var/log under the old name. I've changed /etc/hostname /etc/mailname /etc/resolv.conf /etc/exim/exim.conf and ran hostname to change the name. I've also rebooted since that time. A find+grep for the ol

Re: sound with SiS 7012 and alsa -- solved

Well, it was an interesting excursion through Linux sound systems... I wound up getting sound working using the standard Linux drivers, rather than using alsa. For the archives, here are the necessary modules: i810_audio 20104 0 soundcore 3556 2 [i810_audio] ac97_co

Re: sound with SiS 7012 and alsa

Klaus Imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You need the trident driver for oss sound.Don't know about alsa - tried once and it looked like it would take more than 5 minutes to set up. I might have to go the OSS route. I've been wrestling with alsa for most of the evening. It's trying to create a

sound with SiS 7012 and alsa

Hi, everyone - I'm having some trouble getting sound to work on my system. The motherboard is an ABIT SR7-8X with what windows identifies as an SiS 7012 chipset (the motherboard manual calls it an AC'97 sound controller). Running kernel 2.4.19-686. I first tried getting sound working just usin

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff Cours <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Could Jeff> someone please point me to where to can I find the Jeff> configuration file that was used to create Jeff> kernel-image-2.4.18-686? If you installed the image

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

The kind folks on the kernelnewbies list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) recognized the problem and suggested I try the 'noapic' kernel parameter. Adding append="noapic" to the lilo.conf stanza put the interrupts back where the should be. Of course, you answer one question you get another :-) , but th

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

It definitely looks like a problem with IRQ mis-assignment. The 2.4.18 kernel puts eth0 at IRQ 19, and USB at 20, 21, and 22. Windows puts eth0 at IRQ 11 and USB at 10 and 11. I'm not sure where the 2.2 kernel puts USB (it panicked when it detected ext3), but from the boot messages it puts eth0

Re: recover ext3 deletion

nate wrote: I have no suggestions other then do backups, but I feel your pain. There are methods that can be implimented in linux to help restore files(try searching freshmeat for undelete) but last I looked they required the methods to be implimented at the time of the deletion. You know, it'd

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

Donald R. Spoon wrote: I took a peek at your "troubleshooting.txt" file and it seems to me that when you tried inserting the 8139too module in step 24 it suceeded, but the IRQ of 19 is a bit "weird"to me. Just for grins, and to complete all the basic stuff, could you check in your BIOS and ma

Re: Linux installs but does not "see" NIC

John Foster wrote: It did NOT load the module( uses the 8139too) so I used insmod & loaded it. the kernel acknowledged this but still no connection to the net. Hrers the real rub; Windows 98se is still finding the cards and works fine. Interesting. The symptoms you've described so far sound

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it's a simple matter of the ethernet card's module. I went through the installation process again last night and kept a written log: Any other suggestions? Is there another mod

networking woes with 2.4 kernel

Hi, everyone - I'm in the process of building a new Windows/Linux dual-boot workstation, and I'm running into a problem with networking. The brief summary of the problem is that I can get Ethernet and TCP/IP working under the 2.2 kernel series, but not under the 2.4 kernel series. A Debian Woo

Re: Linux-native ROM?

At 09:06 9/30/2002 +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: >Here's a quick question, perhaps someone would know the answer. > >Suppose I wanted to make a computer that was completely and automatically >native to Linux, such that it automatically booted >into Linux, nice and quickly. What would the best way of

textutils/coreutils conflict in testing

e to figure out what's going on with the packages. thanks much, Jeff Cours -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Thanks a lot. Will try. I don't speak perl fluently, that's why I looked > for a shell script - but it gets the job done, and perl is installed by > default, so it doesn't matter. Glad to help! One thing to be aware of is that the script is currently set up to use file

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

Adrian von Bidder wrote: > find "$BACKUP_DIR/arc" -name '*.arc' -printf '%A@:%p\n' \ > | sort -g -t : \ > | cut -d : -f 2- \ > | head -n "$NUM_OF_FILES" \ > | xargs -r rm -f > Another option might be to re-cast the problem a bit. If you're just trying to keep the number

Re: They system wont Power down the mother board

end="apm=on" rather than append="apm on" (note the extra "=" sign.) - Jeff Cours -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

ing was installed. One reboot later, I ran modconf to install agpgart, and X started right up. Onward to the next thing. Thanks again for all the help! - Jeff Cours -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

ght be something else I should be checking. thanks very much in advance! Jeff Cours -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: config files and packages

Amir Tal wrote: > a small peice of advice : > BACKUP ! No arguments here - anywhere under /etc, RCS is my friend. :-) - Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: config files and packages

Debian wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Jeff Cours wrote: > >>Can I just edit files under /etc as >>necessary? What happens to them when I upgrade > > Simply put. Yes you can. And yes apt is smart enough. Great - thanks! Let the editing begin

config files and packages

hing under /etc that I've modified, what happens down the line when an application changes its config file format? thanks in advance, Jeff Cours -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]