Re: reduce write access to hard disk [solved - sort of]

2005-11-02 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Dear all, thanks for your suggestions on how to prolong the live of my flashdisk by reducing write access to it. It seems, the laptop mode, as proposed by some of you, does not work as expected, at least I get some error messages when starting up the laptop mode. I assume, the flash disk does n

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
> >"Jonathan Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Dear all, >> I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part >> of >> the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the ma

reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Dear all, I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of write cycles before the cells wear out and therefore I'm looking for ways to reduce

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-12 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, in addition to the other poster, >/ 100M >/swap 512M >/boot 15M >/usr 5G >/usr/local 5G >/var 7G >/tmp 100M >/home The remaining part of a 30G drive, approx 12G You won't find that setup to be a good idea. Woody does

Re: more installation stuff

2004-03-12 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >Am I right in believing that all external serial (RS232 not USB) modems >are "real" modems? even USB modems are "real" modems. There are even some internal modems, that are "real". "Real" is here using a standard instruction set. Those internal "winmodems" (as they are sometimes called)

Re: more installation stuff

2004-03-12 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo >2. I'm installation X-Window. I have two video ports, one is PCI S3ViRGE and the other is onboard Intel 82865G AGP. What's the X server driver for the Intel chip? >I try out X-Window with the PCI controller. On boot-up, the screen goes blank and CTRL-ALT-F1 does not bring up the command

Re: OT: behaviour (was: Re: ps - complete username)

2004-03-12 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>Also, how many of us have actually donated to Debian? So, the point, >about casting a 'bad light' on Debian isn't really valid at all -- at >least in my view. If you're not paying, you don't complain. That's the >way I was brought up. Wouldn't You think, the time, I spend here on the list answe

OT: behaviour (was: Re: ps - complete username)

2004-03-11 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, although I'm not involved, I was mentally going over the idea of writing back, I would like to share some thoughts. >Instead of thinking of it as hostile (I didn't see it that way), think >of it as a pointer in the right direction. I.e. the info *is* in the man >page, read carefully. Yes,

Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >Is there any way to reinstall the root user?? well basically, that's the problem, lfs users have to deal with during install. I think (but You might get more acurate descriptions from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ ) their way is to create the passwd file at first, than chroot into the

Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo >I can NOT any longer log in to the >repaired system, after running e2fsck. All logins fail. You should look into the /etc directory and check whether or not /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd- (in case You used shadow Passwords) are present. To gain access at first, You could boot som cd distro

Re: XFree86 4.1 --> 4.2.1 (Woody)

2004-03-09 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
So, here we meet again ;-) First of all, get Your fingers away - far far away - from any Xfree86.org binaries! Worst idea ever, really. On my notebook I "upgraded" manually to xfree 4.3 (because of a lack of driver support for Geforce Go chipsets in 4.1). Finally, when the next X Update arrived,

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-08 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo I've taken a look at my log output and for now, I put my head in ashes, throw myself to the ground and plea for mercy. So, I'm using XFree 4.2 (and mybe that's the reason, it works for me and my Radeon 8500). Your (and mine) card are abviously not listed in the supported device list of the

Re: how to force the install cd to use EXT3 type partition

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >Can anyone tell me, what should I do to enable the choice of which type, >(EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS) to use for my file system? ext2 and ext3 are (from a fdisk point of view) the same. You can turn any ext2 partition into an ext3 by using tune2fs -j /dev/... This creates the journal file, Y

Re: Removing KDE 2.2.2

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >Hi! > >Could anyone gime me instructions how to remove KDE 2.2.2 completely from my >system? I'd like to install the new 3.2 version of KDE and before doing that >the old one should be removed. Apt didn't do the job with 'apt-get remove >kde' and I have no clue what could be the packet n

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>This asside, there's a not so elegant way to steer around this problem. Using >the commercial ati drivers, available at www.ati.com. From my experience, I >would suggest to use them as a last resort, the discussion on /. seemed to >indicate, this new version suffers from some ugly bugs, but Yo

Re: Where is XFree86

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >Hi, > >I saw Kent's message, > >I did "apt-get install x-windows-system" as root > >It says "could not find package x-windows-system" try "x-window-system" instead js -- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. -- Burt Bacharach

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:01:02AM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: >I'm using a backport of 4.3.0. Never tried with 4.1; I got 4.3.0 >before I got the 7500. Well, I'm using a 8500LE (Hercules) graphics adapter. As this is supported in 4.1.0 without any trouble, I find it hard to belive the 7500 is

Re: Setting up a printer.

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >Hi, > >I'm not capable to get my printer work under Debian >sarge. >I have installed cups, I've read the docs in >linuxprinting.org and all. If I go to >http://localhost:631/admin, the browser says that the >connection is refused and I don't understand why. Have You installed the cups serv

Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-07 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
tp://www.kernel.org)to make compilings?or elsewhere? > >Best regards! > >Tom >7/3/2004 >-- > > >======== >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW? >

Unidentified subject!

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
> I get a mess a message: > mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 Three options spring to my mind, 1) You've problems with autoloading the vfat/fat driver module or not compiled it at all. Try loading vfat prior to mounting the floppy. 2) Your disk is not vfat (or regular

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, > js> You could ease up error detection by providing the complete /var/log/ > js> XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). > >Good idea! > >The files are attached below. I manually edited XF86Config-4 some, so >I hope it isn't in too bad of shape! ;-) I'm not a XFree professional, but

Re: hard drive partitions post install set up

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >So this looks like other than the first GB on my hard drive I've screwed up >the rest of it. What should I do at this point to get use of the rest of >the space on my hd? I don't care about any data anywhere except for /dev/ hda1. different options: 1) mount the other filesystems somwhe

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >For some reason, the board isn't being recognized when I 'startx'. >In particular, this: > >(II) ATI unknown chipset (0x5157) > >and this: > >(WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected You could ease up error detection by providing the complete /var/log/ XFree86.

Re: Question about hardware

2004-03-06 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hello, > * Is there some way I can access the laptop HD (2.5" I think, > don't remember exact specs) ... I need is some hardware so > that I can mount the HD under linux, and I can take care of > the rest. (Perferably USB, I'm not familiar with firewire; though > if I have to

Re: swapping interfaces

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>I may be off here, and someone will let me know. > >It should be as simple as shutting down the interfaces "ifdown -a" > >Then editing the /etc/network/interface file, and swapping the "eth0" & >"eth1" This would result in a configuration change (i.e. if You configure static IP addresses) but w

Re: swapping interfaces

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>I have a machine with 2 ethernet interfaces installed. The systems >installed >with the Gigabit interface as eth0 and 100MB interface as eth1. >Can someone tell me how to change this so the 100MB interface is >eth0 and the gigabit interface is eth1? Hallo, try to compile the drivers as modules,

Re: Kernel patching + compilation for Cobalt RAQ 500....

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, > I'm trying to get debian up and running on two of these units, and I >really want to use a 'proper' debian package to install the kernel from. >I've installed the 2.4.23 kernel source (no package available for this) >and the kernel-patch-2.4-cobalt package. I'm confused, are You trying

Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >At first I ventured into debian installation ( via networking)again, >the embeded LAN chips(RTL8201BL , RTL8101L) of current EPOX-8RDA3G > motherboard (nforce2 Ultra 400 +MCP chipsets) can't be detected whatever > kernel driver modules I set on. There is one driver in the current

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via >dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these >addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It >seems that the current mechanism within Debian is to specify a hos

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? >(abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously >proprietary formats dropped) You can almost always produce a ps file by printing to a file. Just use a ps-capable printerdriver and "print" it into a f

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under >woody (3.0 r2)? Hallo, Iv'e been using (successfully) ps2pdf to confert postscript to pdf and before that converted dvi to postscript. As with the WYSIWYG editor, I suggest OpenOffice. I don't know whether or not 1.1 is part

Re: make boot screen big like knoppix

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>The default wood install only uses about 1/2 of my screen however when I >boot up with knoppix live CD it uses all of the screen out the very edge. > >How can I make woody do this? If You're running a notebook with non-expanded screen and want to increase the resolution in the console, You can

Re: kernel panic

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>Yes, however, I didn't delete anything... When I was working in Lilo previous to >the 'accident', the old config was there. Beats me what happened to it. It was >called 'Linux.old' Generally, it's a wise idea, not to touch lilo.conf anymore unless You have to. The debian-way is to move Your

Re: External DVD-burner

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
> I have an external DVD burner which is connected to ieee1394 port. Hallo, You have to have the following components compiled in Your kernel (or loaded as modules) - ieee1394 support - sbp2 support (firewire menu) - ohci support (also firewire menu, I'm not sure, whether this is a must) - scsi su

Re: kernel panic

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo >So, I took the plunge and installed '2.4.18.img' and ran lilo afterwards. Lilo >gave an error on the stanza I added to lilo as per the debian installer >instructions: I think it was the 'initrd=/initrd.img' line. I obviously added it >to the wrong place. You should always keep the old

Dlink DFE 690 TXD vs. Netgear FA511

2003-06-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, I'm currently thinking about a replacement for my defective 3com Officeconnect PCMCIA Network Adapter. I've found two cards available at local stores not using a media converter, the netgear FA511 and the dlink dfe 690 txd. As the XJack connector on the 3com card was a disappointment, I w

Problems with keyboard layout

2001-10-15 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
If some problems with my keyboard and the german layout, I want to use. All keys seem to work, according to the de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap, except the modification ("a, "o, "u). They simply don't work. As all other keys are working according to de-latin1-nodeadkeys, including for example meta-q, I