Logout script

Hi, In my current setting if I press ctrl-alt-del, my system shuts down. I saw something in /etc/inittab like # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now I want to logout and restart my KDM and window manager by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL, Can anyone

Modules at boot time

Hi, I got my sound card to work by doing modprobe trident modprobe sound but I have to do this everytime at boot time. I also did update-modules expecting that it will modify the .conf file and I will be all set but that doesnt seem to be the case, How should I proceed from here, Thanks Kapil

Disabling startx in gdm

Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and want to type "startx" to enter into KDE which is my default enviornment. I use gdm and want to know 1) Which file actually is responsible for starting up gdm 2) How can I disable gdm to startup 3) I am not able to login as root from gdm.

Re: compiling a kernel?

If you want it really really short apt-cache search kernel-image You will get a variety of hits Choose 1 apt-get install kernel-image... You dont need anything else, It will modify lilo.conf, etc etc, and you just reboot :) If you wanna really compile a kernel, In debian you can use some

Could not open default font 'fixed'

Hi, I recently upgraded to Woody and am having in X configuration. I get an Fatal Server Error Could not open default font 'fixed'. I have installed all the possible fonts I could find but this doesnt solve the problem.Has anyone else had a similar problem, Thanks Kapil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RE: SIOCADDRT : No such device

-- On Thu, 2 May 2002 19:36:00 dkotian3 wrote: >Hi, >>>What an ifconfig give you ? >> ifconfig eth0 > eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found Hi, Can you also mail the output of cat /proc/interrupts. I have a weird feeling that your eth0 will not be listed there, Thanks

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

> > I have upgraded it to 2.4.18 from the source code www.kernel.org. > > And when I do ifconfig eth0, I get No such device. > > Is there a way to do it ? > > > > Any help on this would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks and Regards > > Deepak >

route goes on reboot ?

Hi, In my current configuration , I have to do an ifconfig eth0 IP addr and route commands everytime I reboot. The problem is on reboot, all these settings "vanish" and I have to give these commands again. I sort of know that these have to be put in some /etc/rc** but am not sure which file do I

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >"Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, I want to set up the route of my newly setup network. I have DEC >> 21143 chipsets and I have compiled/insmod the driver but am not sure >> if it works as I dont h

SIOCADDRT : No such device

Hi, I want to set up the route of my newly setup network. I have DEC 21143 chipsets and I have compiled/insmod the driver but am not sure if it works as I dont have the networking set up yet. I am working with Potato 2.2.19 kernel. Do I need networking setup before I can setup 'route' ? The pro

Tool to find out info about machine ?

Hi, Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information of a remote host by telling its IP address. I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known to me, Thanks Kapil See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed gu

config file for current kernel

Hi, I normally have to recompile my kernel a number of times. Obviously , the .config file in /usr/src/linux gets overwritten and I lose my old .config file. I know I can save it by a unique name but is there a command/utility which I could use to know the configuration of the current running k

linker problem

Hi, I am trying to install SOurce Navigator and am getting stuck in some linker error i think THe error when I get when compiling is /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [wish] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/soft/Sourcenavigator/tk8.1/unix' m

tulip driver woes ....

Hi, I have a DEC 21145 which uses a tulip driver, I do install via the net and am having problems with the driver/card. When I configure the driver modules, it says INSTALLATION SUCCEEDED , but when I configure the network, it fails to detect my DHCP connection. DO you know how to solve the pr

Info about MPICH

Hi, I have installed the MPICH libraries which allow us to run MPI programs on multiple nodes. I currently run my MPI programs on only one node as I am not on the network Every time i run my program to simulate more than one node, I have to enter my password.eg mpirun -np 32 a.out means that

Installing 2.4.16 over the network

Hi, I install Debian over the network and my network card driver has support in the 2.4.16 kernel only Currently I swap my network card to a configured network card and install debian, later I download the 2.4.16 image and recompile it--edit lilo.conf. It would be great if I can get the root.bi

Problem with DEC21143

Hi, I have a DEC21143 Network card which uses a tulip driver and am trying to install Woody. It seems that there is a bug in the driver which has also been reported but has anyone solved the problem ? I installed Redhat on my system and it worked fine, Can I use the tulip.c file from RedHat as

Problem with TULIP

Hi, I have a DLINK DFE 500TX REV-C2 network card which uses the tulip driver. I have installed Potato 2.2.19pre17 but am not able to configure the network, It failed to detect my DHCP while installing and I had to install Debian using CD's. When I give dmesg I get the following message for eth0

Help installing Jitterbug tracking system

Hi, We are trying to install Jitterbug tracking system on our system but have problems in Step 6 on the INSTALL file , It says our system is Debian Woody 2.2.20 INSTALL file says: 6) Set up secure access to the jitterbug binary through your web server. I normally only setup authentication for PA

Gnome problem

Hi, I recently swithced to gnome as my desktop from icewm and I am having a problem that my title bar is missing in all my applications..netscape,xterm, etc I am thus not able to move any window and the only way to close them is File--exit I had no problems like this in icewm, does any one know w

lilo.conf

Hi, I have installed Potato on my laptop and edited my lilo.conf to have dual boot other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows table = /dev/hda # restricted # alias=3 At boot time, I have to press shift and enter windows. I have seen some graphic selection option in some systems W

Re: X configuration problem

with huge mails, Thanks Kapil -- On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:38:50 ben wrote: >On Sunday 03 February 2002 12:16 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: >> Kapil Khosla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I could not install my base system due to network problems and stopped >>

X configuration problem

Hi, I could not install my base system due to network problems and stopped installation and did reboot. I then installed xserver-vga16, xf86setup. When I do startx i get the following error. dbe : Unknown error loading module Config error :/etc/X11/xf86config:48 Subsection "extmod" Module secti

Problem with tasksel

Hi, I was installing woody over the network and had some problem so could not install the base system. After rebooting I configured the problem with the network but now how to i resume the installation ? I just get the prompt and when i run tasksel it says No tasks were found Did you update your

Error loading keymap !!

Hi, Well I was doing pretty good this morning untilI broke X :-( .Here are the messages I get when I run startx:System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -eml "The X KEYBOARDkeymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> "-eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal t

Resizing file partitions

Hi , I have exceeded my LInux Partition space and and want to increase the partition size now. I have 2 windows partitions on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. Is there any way of giving that space to Linux without formatting my disk, Thanks Kapil

adsl and xemacs (beginner)

Hi, I am a beginner and have 2 questions: 1) I configured my DSL from Verizon from root, by using the Roariing Penguin software but when I go to my user account I am not able to connect as I dont have the adsl-start utility. Will I need to redo the process I did for root for every user account i c

How to make a copy of packages ?

Hi, I am trying to make a copy of packages between two debian systems I use the dpkg --get-selections > file and now want to install the same packages as in this "file" in another system. Can you tell me the way to do it ? Thanks Kapil

Problems in X configuration

Hi, I am trying to install Debian on my machine and am getting stuck in the X Configuration. I get the message _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :Cant connect errno = 111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :Cant connect errno = 111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :Cant connect errno = 111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :C

New user question

Hi , I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. When I put the windows bootable disk , Linux does not reckognize it. What shall I do ..thanks Kapil