Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I am encountering this problem as well. I have been able to narrow it down to the kernel itself. If I use a debian standard kernel (2.4.22 or 2.6.0-test9) it boots fine. if I use a kernel I compiled myself (This kernel worked fine before

Zapping and rte

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone know if rte for Zapping has been packaged for debian unstable? If so could you please provide a link. Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/B9bnDAwPLUWQb6sRAuRTAKCXInkjAb8p+

Make-kpkg

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I am trying to find documentation to create modules with make-kpkg. I am trying to find out how I unpack a tar file and manipulate it so that I can issue a make-kpkg module_image ... Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Boot disc with a NOUSB option

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone know of any boot discs that can have the usb disabled upon the boot? The standard boot locks up my compaq laptop. Thanks. Regards, Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+e29/0k0FHD8

RE: Xfree 4.2.0 and KDM

> Finally I've downgrade to XFree 4.1 again. > > -Original Message- > From: Stephen J. Thompson (CaSS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: jueves 30 de mayo de 2002 20:30 > To: debian-user > Subject: Xfree 4.2.0 and KDM > > > Hello all, > > I have j

Xfree 4.2.0 and KDM

Hello all, I have just installed XFree 4.2.0 on two machines and found KDM has stopped working. Has anyone else encountered this problem. Does anyone have any pointers on how to solve it? Thanks. Stephen. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

A package that does not want to die

Hello All, I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the following: ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package firebird-classic needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. I have

Sound Editing Package

Hello all, Can anyone suggest a GOOD sound editing package for linux? I need to be able to trim sound files and save them as wav's. Thnaks all. Stephen.

Re: HP DeskJet driver (hpijs)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a look at the HP site and just download that proggie, the gs that is in unstable contains the drivers. Regards, Stephen. On Monday 20 Aug 2001 2:30 am, Marshal Wong wrote: > Carl Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has the HP DeskJet driver

Encrypted Filesystems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone know of any GOOD encrypted file systems for debian? I need something that creates a virtual drive that can be mounted under a loopback (possibly?) that has a GOOD algorithm behind it. Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: nvidia: downgrade to XFree86 4.0

Aug 06, 2001 at 01:34:59PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I see this regulary, binary only drivers from nVidia. Where are they? I > > >

Re: nvidia: downgrade to XFree86 4.0

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I see this regulary, binary only drivers from nVidia. Where are they? I downloaded the source for the drivers from the nVidia site and have regulary compiled them against whatever kernel I am using. Regards, Stephen. On Monday 06 Aug

Ghostscript and fonts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone know what the configuration file for ghostscript is to add extra fonts to it? Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Z+qLPmm0AnNwb5

Re: Woody problems

Thanks for that, Any idea when the updates could be ready? Regards, Stephen. On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable

Woody problems

Hello all, I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have received the following error: [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, chunk 2. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (2

Home news server

Hello all, I am looking for suggestions of a news server for a home network. It will be used to serve windows and linux machines. Thanks, Regards, Stephen.

Re: Tiff to Jpeg files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Thanks all, Convert works just great. Regards. Stephen. On Tuesday 24 July 2001 6:28 pm, Jason Healy wrote: > At 996016599s since epoch (07/24/01 13:16:39 -0400 UTC), Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > > I need to convert tiff files

Tiff to Jpeg files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello all, I need to convert tiff files to a jpeg file inside a batched routine. Does anyone have ideas on how to do this? I am hoping that there is a tiff2jpg type tool around. Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Tape backup software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello all, Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes. Thanks. Regards, Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For in

RealPlayer Installer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Has anyone managed to get the RealPlayer installer package to work under sid? Mine crashes out. Regards, Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQIXAwUBOzDUx7qZwrUTrK

AVI Player

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone know of a good AVI player for linux? Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7HTF9Pmm0AnNwb5MRAqhUAJsHZ/jNI2sYwo14C7hCNHQEhgZGAgCeNWOG

Re-installing everything.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, What is the best way of reinstalling all the packages on my system. I was thinking along the lines of apt-get install --reinstall, but it does not seem to work. Suggestions anyone? Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Source rpms

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello all, Is there a way to extract source rpm's on a debian box? If so please could you state how? Thanks. Regards, Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQIXAwU

dpkg error messages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone know why I am receiving the following error when I try the command dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc ? dpkg-buildpackage: invalid sign interface specified Thanks. Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Lin

Compiling for a specific processor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I am downloading packages for debian using the apt-get source --compile I would like to know how I make it compile for a specific processor. I am using a PII and I think the packages that I compile are for an i386. Thanks. Regards,

Re: No chance to get my IntellyMouse working under X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Enclosed is an extract from my XF86Config file for 4.0.2. This works for me. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device"

Printing

Hello all, Can anyone point me in the correct direction to find out how to set up a printer that is on a windows 95 machine? Thanks, Stephen.

Installing by floppy

Hello all, Can anyone help me please, I am trying to install potato via floppy disc on a machine and I am am finding that it takes over four hours from when I ask to install a module until the module list is displayed. On tty3 all it keeps displaying is "open error" over and over again. I have tri