Re: Cannot get Debian sarge/linux-2.6.10 to recognize Netgear PCI Card

2005-01-09 Thread Aldebaran
On Sunday 09 January 2005 06:39 pm, johnc wrote: > Anyone have any more input on this one? (see below) > > Here's my lspci output ... the netgear Atheros device is no where to be > seen: > > # lspci -b > :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400] Chipset > Host Bridge > :00

Re: XFree86 + Radeon 9200se

2005-01-09 Thread Aldebaran
On Saturday 08 January 2005 10:39 pm, Adrian Parker wrote: > Hello all, > > I've recently installed Xfree86 from the testing branch. I have an ATI > Radeon 9200se card which I have been unable to get working. > > I've tried with the manufacturer's fglrx driver, and I've also tried > with xserver-x

Re: Problems with Kernel configuration

2005-01-07 Thread Aldebaran
On Friday 07 January 2005 06:54 pm, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > Hello, > > I am recompiling the kernel in order to get a driver > that does not come as default with debian, > nevertheless I can configure the kernel with make > config but no with > > make menuconfig > here ask me for ncurses I al

Re: sharing /var/cache between two installations of debian?

2005-01-06 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:35 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I want to both to use the same /var/cache partition. /var/cache has its > > own partition. I already share /tmp and swap. Is there anything in > > /var/cache, or is there anything that could be in /var/cache that would > > cause pr

Re: at was broken now is fixed

2005-01-06 Thread Aldebaran
addendum: for you on google: at was broken because it would accept jobs from a user with a username longer than 8 characters, but it would not execute those jobs at the following url is a bug report and a patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115295 that patch is at the end of

Re: at is broken

2005-01-06 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:26 am, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:32:35AM -0500, Aldebaran wrote: > > After thrashing back and forth in man pages and at.allow and at.deny I > > found that at has a bug. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=

at is broken

2005-01-06 Thread Aldebaran
After thrashing back and forth in man pages and at.allow and at.deny I found that at has a bug. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115295 Now at that bug report there is a patch. I managed to apply the patch but one hunk got rejected but that was for the change log so I imagine th

sharing /var/cache between two installations of debian?

2005-01-05 Thread Aldebaran
I am using apt-cacher and apt-build. apt-cacher keeps it's stash in /var/cache/apt-cacher/ and apt-build keeps it's stash in /var/cache/apt-build/repository. I have two debians installed. Deb1 and Deb2 on hda1 and hda2. I only use one at a time. For instance, I am using Deb1 currently, I make

Re: Synaptic toolbar missing icons and text

2005-01-05 Thread Aldebaran
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:30 pm, Gary Garibaldi wrote: > I seem to have lost the toolbar and it's icons to synaptic under sarge. > It was working correctly about a week ago before I did an upgrade > dist-upgrade. Does anyone know if this is a bug. > > Thank > > Gary Yes it is a bug. http://

Re: kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Aldebaran
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:36 am, Eric Persson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to recompile my kernel to a 2.6.8 one on debian sarge. > But no matter what I do it seems to get kernel panic when I try to boot. > See the message at > http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/debian_boot_2.6.8.gif

Re: dumb question - not sure where to begin configuring a wifi card

2004-12-24 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 23 December 2004 05:50 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I'm using Debian sarge, on an IBM Thinkpad 770x. > > I'm trying to get my pcmcia wifi card (Netgear wg511) working. It > works under windos 98SE, needed for radio programming, but not sure > where to start looking for coinfiguration. >

Re: apt-get autoclean

2004-12-23 Thread Aldebaran
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:57 am, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running > > "apt-get autoclean". > > Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an > option that

strange problem users retain interface after logout

2004-12-22 Thread Aldebaran
I have a wireless card, works fine. Under kernel 2.4.27 everything with the card is perfect. Under kernel 2.6.7 which I compiled (yea, thats the problem isnt' it) the following problem: Machine is booted user logs in user has access to internet everything works user logs out user (same or differen

Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

2004-12-21 Thread aldebaran
Andrew Konosky wrote: I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls, and what about extra packages and stuff? There is a list of mirr

Re: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread aldebaran
Toufeeq Hussain wrote: HI Paul, now here's an additional tip, if you run multiple kernels, the script will only install it on one version of the kernel, boo hoo! so that means you need to install nvidia everytime you switch kernels. The easy hack around this is to extract the the files from