Re: Can't enable DMA

I'm using 3.0r0 (2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel) with ASRock K7VT2 m/board and Maxtor 30GB ATA133 hard disk. I tried switching on DMA using hdparm -d1 /dev/hda but got the following error message: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted Above was running as root. The hdparm -c and -m flags do what t

Can't enable DMA

I'm using 3.0r0 (2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel) with ASRock K7VT2 m/board and Maxtor 30GB ATA133 hard disk. I tried switching on DMA using hdparm -d1 /dev/hda but got the following error message: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted I have an identical disk with Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14 kernel) and

Re: Where's modversions.h? ANSWERED

Thanks to all who answered. Guess I should have looked harder (and installed kernel-header package). _ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Where's modversions.h ?

I tried compiling a driver for my Tekram dc315 SCSI card in 3.0r0 using 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Compilation failed when make couldn't find modversions.h header file. I spent a couple of hours searching the kernel source but couldn't find it . I had to revert to my RedHat 8.0 setup, on which it compi

xterm cannot execute xterm (fwd)

Dear list, I am resubmitting my question. Anyone have any ideas? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:58:42 -0400 (GMT) From: Roy John Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: xterm cannot execute xterm Dear list: While upgrading m

xterm cannot execute xterm

Dear list: While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the window I use for most of my work, will not execute x-type commands: xter

this is an unsecure session

Dear list: I have just upgraded from Debian 2.1 to 2.2 by way of apt-get upgrade-dist, and all was upgraded successfully, as far as I could tell. I decided to reinitiate the session. The login prompt with the banner background appeared, with the disturbing difference that, instead of saying "Debi

fdisk switching between w98 and Linux

Dear John: Thanks for the reply. It would seem indeed that you have had some unfortunate experiences with windows. I too am in the process of weaning myself from windows, but as I noted before, there are still too many programs that have not made the transition to the linux environment. I

fdisk switching between w98 & Linux

For about the past two months I have been using Debian Linux, version 2.1, which has been sharing my hard disk with a previously installed w98. My computer is at home and is not connected to the internet. I have been switching between the os's by setting and unsetting the active partition flag wit