Re: SCSI phase change message filling up log

2005-11-26 Thread Ralph Alvy
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 26 November 2005 16:39, Ralph Alvy wrote: >>Using Debian Testing. I find that the kernel keeps kicking out SCSI >> phase change messages, filling my log full of them all the time. They >> look like this: >> >>Nov 26 13:31:09 debia

SCSI phase change message filling up log

2005-11-26 Thread Ralph Alvy
Using Debian Testing. I find that the kernel keeps kicking out SCSI phase change messages, filling my log full of them all the time. They look like this: Nov 26 13:31:09 debian kernel: sd [...] phase change 6-7 [...] Also, during the Testing install, they fill the screen so much that I have to gu

Re: xscreensaver and KDE

2004-02-02 Thread Ralph Alvy
Paul M Foster wrote: > I've noticed that in KDE, in the Control Center, you can select > screensavers to run. Actually, either just one, or all of them randomly. > Paul How do you get KDE to use all of them randomly? I don't see that option on the screesaver config screen. I'm using KDE 3.15. -

Re: Pb with TEKRAM SCSI PCI driver

2004-01-02 Thread Ralph Alvy
FB wrote: > First of all : I'm a Linux beginer > > I have got the file "dc395-141.tar.gz.tar" > Decompressed it > patch the kernel sources 2.4.18 > launch "make-kpkg" > and got errors at the scsi driver compiling phase : > > > make -C scsi modules > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-

Re: tar question

2003-11-30 Thread Ralph Alvy
Bob_parker wrote: > - Original Message > From: Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: tar question > Date: 01/12/03 13:22 > >> >> I'm trying to create a compressed backup of

tar question

2003-11-30 Thread Ralph Alvy
I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the following location: /mnt/back When I try it uncompressed with tar cvf /mnt/back/20031130 ~ it succeeds. But when I try to do it compressed with tar cvfz /mnt/back/20031130 ~ I get the following erro

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-26 Thread Ralph Alvy
red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? > > > Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release > Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect The site is down. It should be up in a couple of days, I hear. Read about

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Ralph Alvy
Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser > identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites > the MSIE identification, while for others Netscape 4.7. > > Can I do this with Mozilla Firebird? And how? > > Thanks for any

Re: kdebase broken in sarge, what to do?

2003-11-04 Thread Ralph Alvy
Motyle wrote: > I have done as usual apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade > > It has told me that many packages will be removed, but I have proceeded > anyways (I just trust Debian). > > Well, the resulting system does not have KDE at all (see bug 210276 for > ksysguardd - kdebase depends on ksy

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
But gaim is already available as a binary for you. No need to compile it if you just apt-get update apt-get install gaim Ralph Alvy wrote: > John Peter wrote: > >> I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. >> I edited my sources.list t

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
John Peter wrote: > I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. > I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also > added stable ), main, contrib and non-free > Then I did : > apt-get update > apt-get build-dep gaim > John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not su

What is Nice memory?

2003-10-24 Thread Ralph Alvy
I'm running xmcpustate and notice that, besides CPU usage, it shows how much memory is being used, dividing it up into 4 categories of usage: User, Kernel, NIce, and System. What's *Nice* in this regard? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ralph Alvy
Bill Benedetto wrote: > FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work in Woody. > Does anyone have the steps necessary to do so? I haven't had > real good luck so far (although I haven't looked at it in a few > weeks). Thanks! Did you apt-get install libc5 xpm4.7 xlib6 before at

Re: tar question

2003-10-21 Thread Ralph Alvy
Ashish Ariga wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:47:29PM -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote: >> A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO >> device. That device is registered in the system as >> >> /dev/sda >> >> and is moun

tar question

2003-10-21 Thread Ralph Alvy
A newbie question. I'm trying to bakup the current directory to my MO device. That device is registered in the system as /dev/sda and is mounted on /mnt/mo Neither of the following attempts success in creating a backup.tar.gz file on my MO drive: tar cvzf /dev/sda bac