Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

Arnau wrote: Hi all, I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although it's usable, now I'd like to use something ligther. Which desktop would you recommend me? thanks I like fluxbox+idesk in low mem

Re: Hard disk failure?

> Well, I have been wrong a few times before, but jumping to conclusions > has stood me well over the years on average. I'm a semi-almost-nearly > retired broadcast engineer and a Certified Electronics Technician with > over 55 years of corraling electrons for a living. They never seem to > want

Re: Hard disk failure?

Hello, Thank you very much for your help. I apreciate your time. The hard disk has faced the problem again today. The problem is that the disk exhibit the same errors (with different numbers) at boot. hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorre

Hard disk failure?

Hello Debian friends, On september 2005 I bought a new Seagate 160 GB hard disk type ST3160021A UDMA (not SATA) and after some time of good working I am getting some kind of errors, mainly on Debian Sarge startup. Sometimes my system do not boot because it says something like: " readonly filesyst

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

On 3/2/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anoop aryal wrote: > > >On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:32 pm, Doofus wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I hope someone can help me out here. > >>I'm finding 2.6 quite complex compared with the 2.4 kernels which I > >>understood and was comfortable with. >

Re: Reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 Doesn't Work

> The instructions at the top of the config file say: > # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom > # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum > # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > I don't pretend to understand why but it seems that deleting the file

Re: diff in octave and octave-forge

roberto wrote: > Hi all, > i know two different packages (among others) are downloadable for math > computing: > octave and octave-forge > > i have installed and currently using octave 2.1.69 but what are the > differences with octave-forge?? > can i install octave-forge without conflict with octa

Re: Kernel modules loaded twice

Piero Piutti wrote: > Hello. > > I run Etch with a custom build 2.6.12 kernel ("vanilla" with the CK patches > applied and built using kpkg). The kernel has been configured according to my > hardware (my pc is a HP NX9010 notebook) and it works nicely. > > I have noticed though that during the

Re: Starting USB in Debian with kernel 26

Filip Bartmann wrote: > I have trouble with starting Debian.It starts,normaly load modules for > bttv,tuner,audio,pci [success] and then was printed to console usb and > then starting not continue.I tried reboot,but,it was still same. > > > Just a guess, Boot with a live cd, mount your root pa

Re: Kernel Build Failure (long post!)

Jon D. Irish wrote: > I am trying to build a kernel off of 2.6.12.3 I want to do this to get > sound working. Thus, I downloaded everything from www.kernel.org > and uncompressed it to /usr/src. Upon running > "make xconfig" I load the default debian config from /boot.Next,

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote: > 16 July 2005 Lian Liming wrote: > > >>I wonder if there are any GUI cd writing tool available under >>Debian. What I find so far is "cdrecord" which is a command line CD >>writing tool. > > > If you have a full version of Nero Burning ROM for Windows, you can > do

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

Uwe Dippel escribió: Having read around 100 posts on this list, I am still confused. I do understand that we don't want scsi-emulation any longer. So far so good. I did change the link /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdb, consequentially. In order to have access to the drive, I also had to chgrp cdrom /dev/hdb.

Re: grub fails

Ramiro Aceves escribió: Johann Spies escribió: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:10:58PM +0300, Cristi Banciu wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I have a fairly new PC with the following hardware: messages like "Loading stage1.5" on the screen. Did you edit /boot/grub/menu.lst accordi

Re: grub fails

Johann Spies escribió: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:10:58PM +0300, Cristi Banciu wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I have a fairly new PC with the following hardware: messages like "Loading stage1.5" on the screen. Did you edit /boot/grub/menu.lst according to your kernel ? Yes. It never

Re: graphical frontend to pon/poff

Hello, I am using the Modem Lights Applet included in woody for Gnome 1.4. You then have a little icon on the task bar in which you can connect, discontect, watch modem lights, transfer activityetc. It uses pon and poff command by default, but you can change it if needed. You can find it in gn

issues when connecting to ISP with "pon" command.

Hello dear Debian fans. First, sorry if my english is not very correct. Here is my problem: Normally, I connect to my ISP trough kppp and a modem at /dev/ttyS0 perfectly without any problem. But recently I have also configured my ppp connection with the pppconfig configuration program. The pr