r this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
root@hammerhead:/home/mark#
Thanks for
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I ran apt
Or, do you mean
*update-initramfs -u
*
*Mark
*
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Phillips
wrote:
> Darac,
>
> It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell
> workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with
> success
inux-image-2.6.32-5-686
Thanks,
Mark
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server
> >(Debian Squeeze) and the system won&#x
at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips
> wrote:
> >
> > I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server
> (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error
> >
> > kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown
>
I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server
(Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error
kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown
-block(0,0)
One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe mode
with this
to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
# aptitude install ia32-libs
Aptitude still wants to replace gnome etc with i386 packages.
What am I missing?
Mark
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Mark Phillips
wrote:
> I have a Debian testing amd64 laptop. Only testing, no unsta
I have a Debian testing amd64 laptop. Only testing, no unstable or
experimental. I need to install ia32-libs to run eclipse in 32 bit mode for
android development.
However, I get a slew of conflicts, and it seems that aptitude wants to
replace a lot of my 64 bit aps with 32 bit apps. Apps like gno
s now in testing?
Thanks,
Mark
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Stephen Allen
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:10:33PM +0200, Steven Post wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 07:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > > I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several yea
Steven,
Thanks Installing gnome-shell and gnome-shell-common from unstable
worked
Mark
On Jul 2, 2013 8:14 AM, "Steven Post" wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 07:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several years
I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several years. I
performed a "routine" update/upgrade on Sunday, and I seem to have lost
gnome. At first, I could not log in, but I got that fixed. However, when I
log in, all I get is my wallpaper. No favorites on the left, no window
docks (not s
I am running Debian testing (amd64) and after running an aptitude
update/upgrade my wired network stopped working. I get a cable unplugged
message. The cable is OK and the router is OK and the link pulses are
there. My wireless is still working.
My system:
Linux version 3.1.0-1-amd64 (Debian 3.1.8
/fstab.
I hate it when things like that come back to haunt you years later.
Mark
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Peter Viskup wrote:
> On 01/24/2013 05:51 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> Can I access the log if I boot the machine with a live cd
I used aptitude to upgrade a headless server from Debian stable to Debian
testing. The upgrade did not generate any error messages, but when I
rebooted I could not ssh into the box (connection refused) nor do I get any
output on a monitor I attached to the box (no signal). Apache does not
appear to
I have a 320 GB drive which dual boots Windows and Debian:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512
My current Dell Latitude C640 has died, so I am in the market for a new
laptop. I am looking at either a refurbished Dell latitude D830 or a new
Dell Studio 1555. Both are about the same price ~$700.
The Studio 1555
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T6600 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Pre
I am running Debian testing on my computer. I am in the process of doing an
apt-get update/apt-get dist-upgrade.
I got this error message :
info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot.
error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing.
error: Problems detected: pac
, Javier Barroso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Mark
> Phillips wrote:
> > I ran my usual apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade last night on my
> Debian
> > squeeze system. There were no errors, and when I rebooted, I was able to
> > login, but gnome (
I ran my usual apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade last night on my Debian
squeeze system. There were no errors, and when I rebooted, I was able to
login, but gnome (1) generated an error message and (2) I only got as far as
my wallpaper and items on the Desktop. No menu bar (just white band) and n
I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. Reading
the "Securing Debian Manual" (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-
debian-howto/), it recommends separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and
/var. I was talking with some of the Linode folks on IRC to find out how
at 03:20:55PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>> Try to run 'apt-get install python-central'
>
> I tried it, and get this error:
>
> narwhale:/home/mark# apt-get install python-central
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --con
ed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:07:09PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get
>
> dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages
> that
>
> depend on python - t
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From: Eugene V. Lyubimkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:30 AM
To: Mark Phillips
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade
>=20
> depend on python - they cannot be installe
I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get
dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages that
depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example
below).
Setting up python (2.5.2-1) ...
running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5.
I just completed an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on my Debian
lenny machine. I noticed that evolution, which is installed on this
machine, is still at version 2.10 and the latest in testing is version
2.22. If I do an apt-get install evolution, apt wants to delete a huge
number of packages an
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 12:36 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Mike Bird wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > (big snip)
> >> Anyway, that's it, FWIW.
> >
> > Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you.
>
> I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 20:59, Rob Sims wrote:
> How about the Wing? I'm reasonably happy with the predecessor, the MDA.
> You need to download Java if you need it (I did it to try an app, so I
> know it works).
> - 2 MP camera (though the 1.3 MP on the MDA is quite poor)
> - Bluetooth works
I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash (
http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/dash/index.htm). However, I use Debian,
KDE/Gnome and Kontact, so the Windows Mobile OS is not very appealing.
1. Is there a way to synchronize my Kontact contacts, calendar, email, etc.
with
ous messages. ]
>
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 14:01:54 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > Florian,
> >
> > I made some progress, but I am beginnning to believe that I have put
> > myself in a world of hurt.
>
> You could also think of it as an interesting learning experie
On Monday 07 May 2007 14:14, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Why not run Etch?
>
What do I do besides:
1. update sources.list to point to etch
2. apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade
Does it work...what are the pitfalls?
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On Monday 07 May 2007 13:29, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:29:41 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I seem to have lost my video after moving
I seem to have lost my video after moving from xfree86 to xorg.
The error reported in my xorg log (after many pages of no errors) -
(II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,
i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
915GM,
quot; this could be a permission
problem. But I have no idea how to fix it.
Thanks for any suggestions you can provide me!
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kde: Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
How can I install kde on sarge without the kde package?
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I just did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on Debian Sarge and now I get
a message that my xserver is restarting every few seconds. The screen is
flashing through the gdm login so fast that I cannot login.
Anybody see this before? Any suggestions on how to fix it??
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I have installed Knoppix and Debian on several Dell laptops - Inspiron
3000's and Latitude 610's. Never had a problem. I use both sid and
woody. I was not able to install it on a Sony Vaio, so I got rid of it!
Mark Phillips
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to
catch up on the lost productivity since I did not get my machine running
correctly until Sunday. I do not know what caused the problem, but that
is the wonderful life of living on the edge with sid!
Cheers!
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My laptop is set up to dual boot Debian (sid) and Windows 2000. What is
the best way to be able to share files between the two OSs?
The Linux howtwo on this subject warns about directly mounting My
Documents from Windows in Linux, and suggests creating a separate vfat
partition to share files. Is
Take a look at www.win.tue.nl/~martijna/Debianstuff. Don't know if it
works; I was going to try it this weekend or next week.
Let me know if it works!
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-Original Message-
From: tony
Take a look at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot
-from-floppies.
BTW, it is always a good idea to read the manual first!
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From
Well it sounds like this might get to the stage where we should just
"agree to disagree", but for now I'll throw in a few more thoughts...
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > Good lord, please NO. Having an "undelete," IMHO, leads to very
> > > sloppy practices - better to le
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> > By the way, is there any way of setting up an "undelete" for averting this
> > kind of disaster? My Dad mentioned that Novell Netware has an undelete
> > which basically puts off really deleting stuff for about 5 days --- unless
>
Thanks Gavin for your help!
I managed to restore my system!!
What I did, was use "dpkg --get-selections" to find out what packages were
installed on my system. I redirected this to a file and then edited it.
I turned it into a script which ran
apt-get --reinstall install
on every pac
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> The short answer is: restore from your backups :)
>
> No backups? Copy all important stuff to your other machine, reinstall from
> scratch, and learn from the experience :)
No backups. This machine needs to be working by tomorrow (if at all
possible) so
I created a directory /opt/tmp and later wanted to delete it, but I
accidentally typed "rm -r usr" instead (within the /opt directory). I
realized my mistake fairly quickly and ctrl-C-ed it, but some files
have been deleted. In particular I've deleted dpkg and apt-get!!!
I think I've got a part
gs differently depending on how big
the name space is?
Anyway, thanks again for your help.
Mark.
>
> As for the slight difference between the two executables, that's because
> you were storing symbols in the executable. If you run them through
> strip there is no differe
Hi,
I thought I'd found a gcc compiler error (and still may have). The
following program crashes with a segmentation fault.
#define N 209677
int main(int argv, char **argc) {
int
i;
double
a[N],
b[N],
c[N],
d[N],
e[N];
c[0]=0.0;
i=1;
c[i]=c[i-1];
}
If I make
I've just solved my own problem. Of course I needed to do
$ gcc thick.c -lm
It's been a while since I've used C. Sorry for the silly question.
Cheers,
Mark.
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following program:
>
>
> #include
> #i
Hi,
The following program:
#include
#include
int main(int argv, char **argc){
double x;
x=sqrt(5.0);
}
does not compile. Instead I get the errors:
$ gcc thick.c
/tmp/ccU9fgSr.o: In function `main':
/tmp/ccU9fgSr.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `sqrt'
collect2: ld returned 1 exi
A long time ago, back in the days when I used slackware, I used a
backup program called "tbackup". I have been looking for the Debian
package of it and can't find it! Is it not packaged? From memory it
was quite a good program. I can't think why it would not be packaged.
It is released under GP
Hi,
A long time ago, back in the days when I used slackware, I used a
backup program called "tbackup". I have been looking for the Debian
package of it and can't find it! Is it not packaged? From memory it
was quite a good program. I can't think why it would not be packaged.
It is released und
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Brian, thanks for taking the trouble to write this - it's been useful!
I'd like to second this. Thanks Brian for your reply. Very much
appreciated.
Mark.
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Thanks for your reply on this. There are still some things I don't
understand very well though.
brian moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:05:13AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > enable /e
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> enable /etc/email-address use. I use this so that mail from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I could do this, but I have been told in the past that this is bad.
Let me explain what I was told. If my secondary isp thinks of me as
"[EMAIL
Hi,
I have more than one ISP that I use, but I want all mail to me to be
addressed to a single email address. The way I have handled this in
the past is to use exim to make my emails _seem_ to come from the one
address, even if really they don't always. I have been told however,
that this is a b
Hi,
I have just added a user to my dip group so that I can run pon as this
user. But it didn't work, because that user doesn't seem to have
access to the /etc/ppp directory etc. This is really strange because
we have
drwxr-x---6 root dip
for the /etc/ppp directory.
Perhaps there is so
hi, i'm trying to get my HP deskjet 810C working using printtool. i
configured it, then tried to print an ASCII and a PostScript test page.
in both cases, a page was printed which said only: "No spool file found."
any ideas as to what could be going on?
here is some information that might be use
Well I'm not sure how well I'll go answering your question, but I'll try.
hammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After initiating "startx" a window comes up with a menu. I am not
> sure this is an X window or the window manager. But the mouse
> cursor is not present and the mouse buttons are not ef
I am trying to compile the newly released kernel 2.4.0 on my laptop.
(I also have ReiserFS support patched in). When I try compiling it
using make-kpkg, I consistently get it dying the same place, with the
messages:
init/main.c:588: conflicting types for `inode_init'
/usr/local/store/kernel-sourc
hello,
question 1:
does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to
when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method
to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and
zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or something, but i can't see
Now that kernel 2.4 is officially released, is there going to be a
kernel 2.4 based rescue disk produced?
I really need one with the ReiserFS support compiled in (ReiserFS
requires a patch). My reason is that I am using LVM and ReiserFS ---
which means that if anything ever goes wrong, I won't be
> > So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong.
> > It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to blame, maybe
> > entirely to blame? It uses gzip in conjunction with afio, which I
> > thought were fairly reliable. Hardware could possibly be to blame,
> > but
Yesterday was a bad day. I do a bit of maintenance work for a
friend's laptop. Yesterday morning he contacted me about problems he
was having booting it. As it turned out he had accidentally used the
rescue disk to destroy his system. "Initialize ext2 partition?" Why
of course!
Fortunately a
My friend has (had) Debian installed on his laptop. I got a call from him
this morning saying he can't boot his laptop anymore! I'm over his place
now and after using the rescue disk to mount his / partition, I've
discovered all that is there is /lost+found and /root/dbootstrap_settings.
My frie
> Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to do this easily - there doesn't seem
> to be any way to tell apt, "Keep the system up to date with potato, except
> for packages foo, bar, and baz, which should be woody." The closest I've
> come is:
>
> - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato
>
Hi,
I have the following in my .muttrc:
### Tell mutt what mailing lists I belong to.
lists awad debian-laptop debian-user evolution exmh_users intermezzo-discuss
lists linuxsa linux-announce
lists linux-lvm wine-users
### Misc global hooks.
save-hook ~l +lists/save/%B # if message was sent to
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> sounds like portmap is not running it is required for NFS.
Portmap is running. I can do:
# ps aux | grep portmap
daemon 79 0.0 0.4 1324 564 ?S13:18 0:00 /sbin/portmap
# /etc/init.d/nfs-server restart
Stopping NFS servers: mountd nf
If I change my /etc/exports file, I think all I should need to do is run
/etc/init.d/nfs-server restart. But when I do this, I get the error
message:
# init.d/nfs-server restart
Stopping NFS servers: mountd nfsd.
Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno =
Operation
Hi again,
I earlier sent a message about problems I have been having getting a
printer to work under kernel 2.4.0-test11. Well, I since have tried
it under a 2.15 kernel on a laptop and got the same problem ---
printer not active or something to that effect.
I also took the printer home where I
Hi,
I'm running a 2.4.0-test11 kernel under debian linux (potato + a little
woody). I have a printcap file which has worked before. I understand
that what used to be /dev/lp1 in 2.0 kernels is now /dev/lp0 so I have
made this change. But neither lprng, nor the standard lpr work. I have
unplugg
I noticed that if I run:
iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING DROP
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
then masquerading works, but if I run the last two commands in the
opposite order (so that they appear in the opposite order
I ran
/etc/init.d/nfs-server restart
and got:
Stopping NFS servers: mountd nfsd.
Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno =
Operation not permitted
I can't work out what's wrong.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mark.
_/___/~~___
I've just tried compiling pcmcia-source 3.1.22 using make-kpkg but it
fails, telling me:
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/modules'
MD -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -I../include
-I/usr/src/linux/include -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -c cs.c
make[4]: MD: Command not found
make
I am trying to use masquerading to upgrade debian on a laptop, via a local
network. I have made /var/cache/apt/archives a soft link to a directory
mounted using nfs. I have mounted it rw and have the no_root_squash
option set, so there should be no problems I thought.
But when I use apt-get dis
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> is there any way to restrict apt-get to download one file at a time
> only?
When it downloads two files at a time, this means there are two lines
in /etc/apt/sources.list corresponding to the two files. The only way
I can think of of forcing it to download
8AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I have recently compiled a 2.4.0-test11 kernel. I am using it with a
> > mainly potato distribution. However, in order to get things working I
> > have needed to upgrade to a number of woody packages. In particular,
> > I have up
I have recently compiled a 2.4.0-test11 kernel. I am using it with a
mainly potato distribution. However, in order to get things working I
have needed to upgrade to a number of woody packages. In particular,
I have upgraded util-linux, modutils, e2fsprogs and ppp.
When I try to use pon to start
Is there a rescue disk for kernel 2.4.0 yet? If not, is it possible to
"roll your own"? How hard is it?
Thanks,
Mark.
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I have sort of solved the problem by doing "modprobe psaux". That is, the
mouse is now found and X works again.
But the point remains that I shouldn't have to do this manually. Why
isn't it loaded automatically? (I am currently using kernel 2.0.36)
Cheers,
Mark.
On Mo
I've just upgraded a machine to potato. All was fine till I tried
rebooting, then X crashed, complaining that it couldn't find the mouse. I
noticed gpm wasn't running. When I tried running it, it complained about
/dev/psaux device not existing. Now the file /dev/psaux exists. Now
there are al
When I type "exmh" in an xterm, it just hangs. No window pops up or
anything!
Any ideas about what's wrong? I haven't created the ~/Mail directory
--- I presumed it would do that for me.
Cheers,
Mark.
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Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 01-Nov-2000 Mark Phillips wrote:
> > Is anyone using InterMezzo with Debian? It looks like quite a good
> > system --- especially for connecting laptops with desktops.
> >
> > Are there plans to
Is anyone using InterMezzo with Debian? It looks like quite a good
system --- especially for connecting laptops with desktops.
Are there plans to provide a Debian package for InterMezzo?
Cheers,
Mark.
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Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have two machines set up with Woody. When I run X Windows on one I can
> use Alt as the Meta key in Emacs, on the other machine I just get a beep and
> have to use ESC. I'd like to use Alt as Meta on both. Alt works as Meta on
> the console on both. Any i
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> PJS> i'd like to learn how to drop packets coming from a
> PJS> particular host -- is there a netfilter howto yet? i didn't
> PJS> see anything on LDP.
>
> Have you checked the kernel docs?
By kernel docs, do you mean /usr/src/linux/Documen
David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Would someone please give me a reference on the reiserfs? That is a
> new fs on me. What advantage does it have over e2fs?
Have a look at:
http://www.namesys.com/
Basically, reiserfs is a journalling file system which gives better
performance (faster
I was recently trying to download the latest "Evolution" from helix
gnome using apt-get, and had some problems.
I have the sources.list line:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./
When I did "apt-get update" it happily did so, but doing "apt-get
dist-upgrade" wo
I use mutt to read my mail and I have a folder with debian-user in it.
When I come to messages of interest to me, I want to be able to easily
save them to another folder. I've got it set up so it saves to the
right place, but currently in order to save I need to press "s" and
then hit return to ac
I think what you probably need to do, is make sure the bios settings
on your laptop are set so that you can boot from the CD drive, and
then boot it using the debian CD.
Also, you might get some help from debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
mailing list.
Hope this helps,
Mark.
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Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address',
> > attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 07:47:26.313
>
> Hmm, you know that since Linux 2.2, the f
I don't have an answer to your question, but rather I've got a
question. I have onboard cmpci as well, at least I think I do, but
all I get in dmesg is:
cmpci: version v2.41-nomodem time 18:27:22 Oct 13 2000
Nothing else! How did you get yours to detect something? And my
sound doesn't seem t
Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can't you use the Video Timings howto to create a modeline roughly the
> same as the one above, but within your monitors specs?
That's what I'm looking at now. I was trying to avoid the work, but this
seems the only way.
Cheers,
Mark.
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I want to use the modeline:
# 1152x864 @ 70 Hz, 62.4 kHz hsync
Modeline "1152x864" 921152 1208 1368 1474 864 865 875 895
but my monitor only has a horizontal frequency range of 30-60. I am
thinking that perhaps changing it to 30-63 won't hurt, but the XFree86
Video Timings HOWTO wa
chudpi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is the first time I installed Debian on my box to have X.
> Although I do have the package (xfree86-common) installed on my system, I
> can't start X. The startx command is not recognized. I also can't seem to
> find XF86Setup anywhere.
> Could anyone h
I have just bought a secondhand S3 Virge/DX card (Eagle brand). I've
used XF86Setup to get a roughly working XF86Config file, but I think I
should be able to do better. Here's what I can get so far:
1024x768 24bits --- seems to work fine
1152x864 24bits --- works, but some "speckle lines" appea
Hanno Böttcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I want to install a Debian and I'm asking myself what Kernel whould be
> the best choice? E.g. anyone tried the 2.4 ? Is it making Problems?
I am using 2.4.0-test9 and it seems fine so far. It allows me to use
LVM and ReiserFS, both of which
I'm looking at the wine documentation directory, and half the files
seem to be sgml ones. How do you read them? Do you need to run a
utility to convert them to latex or something?
Thanks,
Mark.
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