Re: KDE, CUPS now fixed.

2004-06-05 Thread Kevin Boergens
Paul Scott wrote: AFAICT the KDE 3.2, CUPS conflict is now fixed or at least improved. Paul Scott Yes, with great joy I installed the new package last night. My dad whined around all the time because his sweet little KDE was gone. Now it's back and I told him to express his joy by making a donati

Re: Whom to ask about package system errors?

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hello! Thanks to both of you for the quick answer. You want to be able to run down issues like this if you're going to run unstable, IMHO. I did an "apt-cache showpkg libcupsys2" to find out 1) that it is indeed present in stable and testing, but not in sid; 2) that the KDE package that depends o

Whom to ask about package system errors?

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hi! In the last days I had a huge problem with the package system, and I'm not sure whether the packages are messed up or whether it is my fault. All kde packages refuse to install. They need the libcupsys2 package, but according to apt-get, this has no installation candidate and is replaced by

Re: ALSA Cannot find Sound Device

2004-04-08 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hi! I dunno whether Kenneth' idea helped you - if not maybe mine does There seems to be a problem with the ALSA driver not being able to find my sound card. I can get sound if I use the OSS Driver in XMMS but not ALSA. I even get sound when I us XINE. When I run alsaconf it also says "No suppo

Re: Nasty NFS errors

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hi! I think you know that 2.6 is not ready yet. Use a stable kernel. Why? I always thought that even numbers are for stable kernels. But, apart from that, your question indicates that the error is more likely on the server's side? Bye, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Nasty NFS errors

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hi! I'm having trouble at a desktop PC running woody. It mounts /home via NFS from a server running woody,too, but with a 2.6.1 homemade kernel. I use the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Unfortunately, NFS does not work properly. Jan 31 18:40:01 pceva kernel: nfs_notify_change: revalidate failed, error=-

Re: linux-wlan-treiber

2004-01-09 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hallo! Für deutsche Postings gibt es auch eine Mailinglist auf Deutsch. MfG Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: game

2004-01-09 Thread Kevin Boergens
Dr Gavin Seddon schrieb: Hi, This may seem like a lame question, but, here I spend most time conducting computational biophysics for drug design and I could do with some kind of distraction so I don't keep on working during breaks. I have ALWAYS avoided games on my workstation but it was suggeste

Re: Kernel Problem: cs5530_set_xfer_mode(UDMA2)

2004-01-09 Thread Kevin Boergens
Russell Shaw schrieb: Kevin Boergens wrote: Hi! I've got a nasty problem with my kernel (2.4.18-bf2.4) on Woody I discussed a long time about it in de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware, but no solution was found, maybe someone over here can help, it looks like a Debian problem: My southbridge

Kernel Problem: cs5530_set_xfer_mode(UDMA2)

2004-01-09 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hi! I've got a nasty problem with my kernel (2.4.18-bf2.4) on Woody I discussed a long time about it in de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware, but no solution was found, maybe someone over here can help, it looks like a Debian problem: My southbridge is a National Semiconductor CS5530 http://www.natio

Re: Knoppix HD Install Question - Partitioning and Whatnot

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hello! * Boot with your Knoppix * Format /dev/hda2 with mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.reiserfs (You got it? *g*) * Mount /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 * Move everything from firstmountpoint/home /secondmountpoint * Add /dev/hda2 /home auto defaults 0 0 to /etc/fstab * Boot your system > I know that t

Re: Moving /usr problem

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hello! I've tried using tar but I get lots of error messages - symbolic links or something. Unfortunatelly my crystal ball got broken yesterday, so the exact error message would help! Greetings, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: has anyone heard of this new crap?

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Boergens
Antonio Rodriguez schrieb: Ownership of Streaming Audio and Video Challenged Acacia Media Technologies has sent letters to a number of colleges and universities essentially claiming that patents it owns govern file transfer over the Internet, or any local network. In essence, Acacia is claiming t

Re: NFS fails on standard Woody

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hi! The guy whose post I quoted wrote me about his way to solve the problem: > What I did was to implement the user-level nfs-server at first, since the 2.2.20-kernel does not have nfs-kernel-server support in it by default. This made it work temporarily, and would probably have done so til the

Re: NFS fails on standard Woody

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin Boergens
You are describing exactly what I asked about in a thread "nfs setup on woody" yesterday. Oops! What a coincidence.. Or, if I think of it properly, it is really strange that there aren't guys asking that here every day. I mean I just made a really standard installation, so why aren't people run

NFS fails on standard Woody

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin Boergens
Hello! I installed Debian Woody rc1 on a small server, just with the nfs, samba and a bit more (without XFree). I ran into a problem, googled for it and found an unresolved question posted two years ago, describing my problem in detail, so I will post it again. ### Hi everybody! I'm havin