Hi, Todd!
You should first mail to debian-user for questions like this. d-anounce
is definitely the wrong place. I left the other list adresses in for
this mail, so that people know that there was an answer to your
request. When you reply, please consider to remove some more.
I can only guess
On Saturday 24 February 2001 06:47, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> I admit it. I'm a UNIX elitist. I know not all people will not
Me too ;-)
> realize the philosophies of the UNIX operating system, the
> small-tools approach, but if I can influence just one person into
It's the greatest thing.
> Wh
On Saturday 24 February 2001 16:05, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> When I compile a program from the sources and it beakes for whatever
> reason, how can I get rid of all the files that were created so far
If it's a debian package, cd to the unpacked src-packages top directory
(the one containing a di
Regarding recent questions, a hopeful seed of a Cross building micro HT
has been laid to
http://home.t-online.de/home/eislink/document/crosshto.txt
Input &| comments, pointers cheeringly appreciated.
Be warned though that this seed has yet only been fertilized by partial
success in my own effo
On Monday 19 February 2001 10:21, Eivind Arnesen wrote:
> I was just beginning to feel comfortable with Debian, when my
> X configuration broke down. I tried to remove XFree and install it
> again, but there is too many dependency problems. It looks like the
> package database
> is really screwed
Hi, Frederik!
Good to hear you keep going .. :)
On Sunday 18 February 2001 20:38, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> I tried this (now with 4.0.2-3), but the error seems to remain the
> same: What I did was:
> debian/rules source.make
> cd /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers
> mv mga mga_old
>
On Saturday 17 February 2001 09:33, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 17 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote:
> > On Friday 16 February 2001 09:41, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I'm currently confused about X-4. I've been keeping up to date
> >
> > You're actual
Hi, Martin!
On Friday 16 February 2001 15:54, "Martin_Tanzer"@dvs-berlin.de wrote:
> As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the
> hostname and want it active.
> The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot...
>
> martin
And not even that is necessary, /pr
On Friday 16 February 2001 19:54, Robin Rowe wrote:
> Hi. I have a little confusion with XFree86Config. What is the
> difference between bpp and color depth?
> Section "Screen"
>DefaultColorDepth 32
This selects which of the following Display sections will be used.
martin
On Friday 16 February 2001 09:41, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I'm currently confused about X-4. I've been keeping up to date with
> Testing and now I don't know which version of X I'm running. My
> driver is xserver-svga 3.3.6X. I tried running xf86config and this
> generated a XF86Config-4 file whic
On Friday 16 February 2001 15:04, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is
..
> setup file. I get the X server up,(the gray screen) but when it tryes
> to switch, the screen becomes black and there is no way to get it
> back. I suppose it is step
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ?
> > ... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate
> > IRQs?
>
> I would change the jumpers. Hoping the software ca multiplex is a
> recipe for disaster.
On Friday 16 February 2001 13:28, David Purton wrote:
> I'v solved this prob by changing this line in xdm-config from true to
> false:
>
> ! All displays should use authorization.
> ! X terminals may not be configured that way, so they will require
> ! individualized resource settings.
> DisplayMan
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 15:12, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote:
> > On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> > > using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use
> > > 'debian/rules bu
On Thursday 15 February 2001 13:07, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> if it's a good idea to let all users use it, why not just change the
> execute permission to world permissions ?
>
> Also, i took a look at gcombust (yuck) and couldn't find a way to
> burn 12x cdrom's does anyone have any advice on this,
On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> list, but now I'm fairly certain it's a Debian-specific problem, since
> I've succesfully build the debian source with modified matrox mga driver
> using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use
> 'debian/rules build', which is ra
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Pollywog wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:56:51 +0100 (MET), Roberto Diaz said:
> > example but I find I havent ggi.h nowhere :?
> libggi2-dev but I got it from "woody"
It's actually just the same.
(but i'm working on this)
To have more output targets you may install
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> XF 4.0 won;t run on my machine.
> XFCom_Rage128 Version 1.3/ X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: 6 September 1999
As the msg clearly says, you simply don't run an X4 server.
You have to install a
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, DSC Lithuania wrote:
>
> You know, I'm sitting here using Microsoft Windows and Explorer. (I do use
> linux,
> but not for this system.)
>
> And one of the things that makes me just a little bit paranoid about those
> things
> is the question of whether there might be a ne
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
> Trying to switch from kbd to console-tools (testing distribution), I
> get this error when configuring console-tools:
>
> /var/lib/debconf/config.53881: null: command not found
> console-tools failed to configure, with exit code 127
>
> Any id
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> 1) Sending this mail once was a great plenty. Three times seems a bit
>excessive, don't you think?
Lot's of mail came in here doubled, tripled during the last days.
May be the slowness of the list during the last days has sth. to do
with it ...
m
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> I have a strange problem.
>
> All of the sudden, various modules don't load when I boot (sound modules
> for a basic SoundBlaster and ftape).
>
> I haven't been messing with my configuration. Things worked last time
> I booted a couple of days ago.
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> > Second question. I have a mystery service running on port 1024. I
> fairly
> > certain I haven't been hacked, but, who knows? When I do a "nmap
> > localhost" port 1024 shows up as "unknown". How can I find out which
> > daemon is bound to 1024? T
Hi, nice people on this list.
I hope it's ok for you (and for you, John), when i cc my answers to pm
here. So many of you did already take part.
So here the story continues. We're getting closer, it seems ;-)
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Martin, here are some of the answers that I found.
> W
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, USM Bish wrote:
> Hi folk,
> Just a small clarification. The mail placed below was received
> by me today from "bounce-debian-user". This was NOT initiated by
> me. Quite surprised to see my name on the LOG (List of Greats!).
Just the queue to return the mail to the subscr
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
> How do I get rid of huge files in /var/log like `xdm.log' and `nmb',
> and/or prevent them from accumulating in the first place? Can/must I
> just delete or clear them every so often?
Yes and OR or man logrotate
hth, martin
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, D-Man wrote:
> | I try PS/2, Buttons 5, ZAxisMapping 4 5 - but strange things happen on
> | the screen then. May be you have it for me.
>
> My Logitech wheel mouse (wasn't cheap -- cost ~$40 and worth it) works
> fine (or at least it did with RH 6.1 and 7.0 I don't have a new
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this has been tried yet
> When I upgraded to X4.0.2, I did lose the cursor (it was moving but
> invisible). Turned out the xserver was not upgraded, so it was still using
> the xserver-svga 3.3.6, instead of using xserver-xfree86.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> As someone else suggested, try stopping gpm before launching X or trying to
> configure X (via some graphic configuration utility that right now i don't
> remember the name, where is dexter =).
I don't think, that is hte problem. The mouse moves, jus
On Mit, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Albert, I tried the configuration you suggested. I got a cursor in the
Please let me introduce myself as a man of wealth & taste and the name
is martin 8-)
> text mode but not in X. I was able to lite up menus.
In X? Did you already try to find out about your
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there an easy way to compile a Debian source package with debugging
> options turned on (removing the -O2 and adding -g to all the make
I'm afraid
> dpkg-buildpackage --debug???
isn't quite ready :)
For a 'brute force' solution have a look at the
On Son, 28 Jan 2001, Yvon VODOUNON wrote:
> I need help to set French local under X.
Yesterday i added 'export LC_ALL=de_DE" to my .profile
Most programs honour it.
Have a look for the french code, could be fr
HTH, greetings, martin
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Andrew Clark wrote:
> The easiest way I have found to do SMB mounts at boot time is to put
> entries in /etc/fstab for them. IIRC:
>
> mount -t smbfs //winpc/share /mnt/winpc/ -o
> username=Administrator,password=blahblah
>
> translates to:
>
> //winpc/share /mnt/winpc smbf
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Henry Gomersall wrote:
> I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to
> ..
> This particular card cannot be selected from the list of NICs during
> installation (of the base system from the rescue disk). This then means I
> ..
> (ftp.dlinknet.com/
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, hogan wrote:
> Have SiS IDE controller in my current Debian box - it says something about
> bus-mastering disabled in bios, running in a more basic mode. Leave it be? Try
> to enable it? I can't see any option in the bios that would affect this unless
> bios is hard coded to di
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote:
> but now it says my kernel-headers don't match my kernel. I got
> kernel-headers-2.2.18-1 and a custom-kernel compiled from
> kernel-source-2.2.18-1. What do you think?
With modules? And no make clean / distclean after that?
make config before :^)
I'm
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, hammack wrote:
> Long time and still no cursor. I've tried two pointers, Kensington "Expert
> Mouse" serial, and a PS/2 Generic. I have tried all the combinations of
> Protocol and Device that I can and still don't have a pointer in X. Below
> are files and excerpts of in
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Harry Barnes wrote:
> Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to
> audio and disk ...
> I have already undone this, after reading the post. My problem is I do not
> seem to have /dev/cdrom
> To get gtcd to play I had to change the device from /dev
> > a CDR, not RW, on my box. So the 'ro' option makes sense.
it saves you a 'file system is read-only, mounting ro' msg. ;-)
karsten, you see? Not only: At the end of your life it is not important,
how you've done it, but _that_ you've done it.
greetings, martin
--
Is there a key combinati
> >Anyway to get this to work with 'apt-get --compile source '?
> >It would be really nice if there were a way to override the default
> >compile flags on a system wide basis.
Have a look at the simple doings of the pentium-builder pkg.
The idea is quite extendable.
greetings, martin
--
Is t
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> I'm trying to get my cd-burner working under Debian 2.2. I've configured
> my system so that the ide-scsi module is loaded at boot time and I've
> I know that the module is loaded and functional because I can see the
>
> However, I'm not sure which param
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Tommy Wu wrote:
> I've try kernel 2.4.0, 2.4.1-pre8 - 10.
>
> I can't create file larger than 1G on console (tty1 - tty6 and X11
> terminal), but I can
> create such file from telent. For the same OS, kernel... only a telnet
> session can create
> large file more tha
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, David B. Harris wrote:
> To quote Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using
> mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other
> things), but it gives me an error saying the files with
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Tristan wrote:
> I have an ES1869 PnP Audiodrive, IRQ 7 DMA 1 DMA 0. I am having problems
> ...
> run isapnp, but isapnp doesn't detect my soundcard, and i tried using
> sndconfig but it couldn't detect any soundcard either, the soundcard is
> part of the motherboard, and i can
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Benjamin Black wrote:
>
> > alias sound-slot-1emu10k1
>
> how do you figure this out? i mean where exactly do you look to find
> out what the standard aliases are for sound card, network card, video
> card, tv card, etc? where exactly did you read about sound-slot-0
> Sven - who is desparate to run 2.4.0
#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
CONFIG_MD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set
# CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set
# CONFIG_MD_RAID1 is not set
# CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y
CONFIG_LVM_PROC_FS=y
try to leave t
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I am looking for a method to archive a bunch of stuff off of a couple
> different computers and since one is a laptop and one a desktop, it
> seems a parallel attached CDR drive might be the answer (I'm not
Hi, Nate!
May be you're better off with some n
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Anthony Fox wrote:
> I have auto module loading compiled into my kernel. How do I
> specify that when an application attempts to access the sound
> hardware that the kernel should install the emu10k1 module into the
> running kernel? Right now, the kernel installs the soundco
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> I compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer and edited lilo
> to:
> vga=0x301
> append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2"
> ...
> But when i for exempel, do an 'ls' in a dir with lots of things in it..
> then
> the framebuffer gets buggish.. (dont know
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Javier Sieben wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to install the emu10k1 module from ALSA. Having any troubles with
> it, I deinstalled it. When I read that the final kernel (version 2.2.17)
> had these module in it, I download, compile and install it with the modules.
> But I can't use
> > > > on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL
> > > > PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > > 2.2 cd's. However with the new PC every time I boot Linux will
> > > > > complain the filesystems weren't properly unmounted and will do
> > > > > a full check of the filesystems. I do o
Hi, 'users' ;-)
i know most of you aren't so i dare to ask:
My last Q to this list received no reply (PIIX, 82371 DMA probs). May
be i should have added the hexdump of kmem to be more specific?
Starring at the intel 82371FB docs and kernel-sources
driver/block/ide-* and driver/pci/* for two nigh
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> Well...there's volume knob on back of some soundcards :)
> Install a mixer app for X...or tehre's a volume controller in xmms.
> Andrei
also lots of console mixer apps out there. try aumix for example.
martin
> > I just installed Debian 2.2 and compiled the 2.2.17 kernel on a 3.2 gig
> > Quantum Fireball EX. The drive is a slave on the primary IDE cable and
> >
> > Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdhdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> > DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
Howdy hackers, i'm stuck ...
Searching debian.org, kernel.org, etc. i can not find a solution.
search.debian.org gives just some BUG closed msgs and some people
giving up on the issue ...
Now i already downloaded the intel 82371FB docs, being prepared to
initialize the PCISet myself. But as i've ne
> on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:09:22AM +0100, Max Reiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > is there somewhere a Star Office or OpenOffice deb?
Should you just be concerned that installing the standard sun download
would in any way break your system - that is not the case.
Just download, run: xxx0.bin -n
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Liam Ward wrote:
> I'm getting the following message when I run ps/top:
> Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data.
The message comes from a kernel symbol checking routine in (as far as i
remember) misc/symbol.c in the ps source tree.
I _knew_ for sure my sy
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Brandt Dusthimer wrote:
> and 2, I'm also usually the file sharing server.
so you know you're good ... ;-)
> However, when everyone's uploading/downloading to/from me, I
> experience major system lag and if do anything (even simple command
> prompt stuff) there upload/downl
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, ktb wrote:
> I'm a little farther along with my mail trials. Out going works
> fine but I can't receive with fetchmail. I'm using exim, fetchmail
> and pine on Potato.
I use sendmail, so i don't understand the implications of your
configuration, BUT:
I can't see where you
> Btw. forget it. I saw a pentium/100 with 8MB RAM, and it was unusable slow.
> apt-get-installing a 20kb-package took 5 Minutes(!). After upgrading to 24MB
> RAM (didn't check 16MB), it was a cool server, even able to run small
> php3-scripts in a fast manner.
As always it only depends on what
> > Just kinda curious...how important is it to place the new System.map file
> > (created when you compiled a new kernel) in the /boot directory? I have
> > compiled a number of kernels and, after looking at this discussion, I
> > checked my /boot directory to see if I had moved my System.map
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Knud Sørensen wrote:
> Hi
Hi, Knud!
> I have installed debian 2.2 and have some problems
> getting the internet to work.
> I have noticed something strange.
> /etc/init.d/inetd is a empty file !
So, your on your way - good!
> if I move it to /etc/init.d/inetd.bak
> and try
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, TrEB wrote:
>
> I can't get a stable connection with my T-Online provider.
> ... to Mobilcom's Freenet provider all is working fine.
> ... t-online disconnects after 4-5 secs
Hi, sorry for being late (prob: sendmail 8.9.3-23 compiled with
the PICKY_HOST option doesn't go well
> Le sam, 20 mai 2000, Alain Reinhardt a écrit :
>
> I always also suggest to try 'mc' (assuming MidNight Commander is installed)
> because it is always a good feeling for a new user to go as far as a file
> manager of some sort -in this case a very good one. Nothing means more when
> you begin t
On Sat, 20 May 2000, w trillich wrote:
> Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc
> Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right?
> Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather
> Dominic> not be running?
Mostly you will want to have syslogd, initd
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Robert> Every floppy I've written in a "DOS-box" so far wrote fine but
> Robert> didn't work, so I strongly recommend booting into real DOS (via
> Robert> when "Starting Windows 9x...").
>
> Have other people exerienced this? (I've neve
Hello, to everybody!
Call me silly - i want to compile a source package that build-depends
(pls. developers, add this line to more pkgs) on 'texinfo'.
I can not find a (source-)package with that name?
Where will i find it?
Thanks to repliers ;-) all the busy developers, greetings, martin
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