Re: Nvidia GeForce2 [was Re: woody]

2002-05-23 Thread patrick q
--- synthespian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Qua, 2002-05-22 às 21:51, Jerome Acks Jr escreveu: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:34:46PM +0200, Ferdinand Lachmann wrote: > > > I am a newby on debian woody 3.0. > > > Have a Nvidia GeForce2 DDR in my system. > > > Can,t get my xserver running,nor my

Re: apt-getting recommended/suggested packages?

2001-08-27 Thread patrick q
--- "Avdi B. Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quick question: is there a simple way to tell apt-get to install a > package *plus* all of it's recommended and suggested packages? For > example, KDevelop can utilize a whole slew of optional packages if > they > are installed, but by default apt-g

best practice for tar and gzip?

2001-08-12 Thread patrick q
Hi, I have a lot of important archives, up to 10,000 files per ~10 Meg tar.gz tarball, that I like to keep as safe as possible. I test the archives when I create them, have backups, and off-site backups of backups, but I am worried about possible file corruption, ie propagating possibly corrupt f

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
--- Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With most DSL connections you don't need a smarthost (that is, a > server that will accept your mail and forward it to the correct > server) and let you send your mail directly to the correct server. > Try to run eximconfig and set your server to a

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
SOLVED (sorta) I tweaked /usr/share/doc/exim/example.conf.gz to get a working configuration. I don't know what was wrong with the output from eximconfig but I did notice there was no setting for primary_hostname Cheers, patrick. --- patrick q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, &

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
FAIK, I'm just an ordinary dialup user and should be sending mail to my telco isp, pop.mts.net, to which I connect to retrieve mail, but which refuses telnet connections to port 25 patrick. > > On 09 Aug 2001 11:13:03 -0700, patrick q wrote: > > > > > > On 09 Aug 2001 1

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
> > On 09 Aug 2001 10:46:58 -0700, patrick q wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection to > the > > internet, single workstation. > > > > I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to > [

exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread patrick q
Hi, I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection to the internet, single workstation. I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and send internally but can't send externally, exim just queues the mail and logs with error: 2001-08-09 12:08:02 [EMA

Re: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't start with mutt) solved !

2001-07-12 Thread patrick q
--- Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Krzysztof Mazurczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is a task. Boil water for tee having: a cattle, faucet with > water, > > matches and gas cooker. The answer: turn on faucet, fill the cattle > with > > water, turn the gas on, wait for

Re: DSelect

2001-06-24 Thread patrick q
--- Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a newbie problem with DSelect. When I choose 'Select' > browse > the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed > that are > not currently installed, and I don't want. When I try to press the > '-' key > to not select

Re: Hardware

2001-06-23 Thread patrick q
--- Antonio Alberto Lobato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all ! > > Where do I find good and free downloads (or on line) of > books, manuals, tutorials or guides about hardware ? In English or > Portuguese. > I think it would help me in my linux learning. > install "The H

Re: ppp connection

2001-05-27 Thread patrick q
--- Arian Novruzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to configure my ppp in my new Debian 2.2 (well, I think > these > developers guys can make more easy the installation ;-) > My modem is a lucent one and I use the appropriate package to install > it. > I'm using the same script which w

Re: Binairies format

2001-05-25 Thread patrick q
--- Gael Pegliasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Following my previous message about 'packages compilation', (thanks > andrea for > your reply), I'm now wondering how it is possible to know for which > architecture > a program has been compiled for ? The canonical answer would be to c

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-15 Thread patrick q
--- Bryan Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > I am just curious :-) (No flames against cpio) > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > > > > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? > > > > > > > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt > > > > cd > > > > find

Re: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

2001-05-11 Thread patrick q
--- Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My notebook - Dell Latitude CPi R400GT > My OS - Debian Potato w/ kernel 2.4.4 > > Problem: > > Keep getting the following messages: > > ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged! > > INIT: Id "7" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > > > Q

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread patrick q
--- Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 > refuses to > boot. I do not think that my kernel Configuration is wrong. > > There was a Thread "trouble booting 2.4.4" some days ago, which > suggested to > put: > do_initr

Re: Stopping vim from auto-indenting

2001-05-05 Thread patrick q
--- mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I use vim to edit a file, then copy and paste some text into > this > file, the text gets automatically indented more than it should. Take > the following example: > Edit an empty file with vim, then try an paste in the following text: > !## NETSCAPE >

Re: switching kernels

2001-04-30 Thread patrick q
--- omicron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > How do i switch from a running kernel to another without having to > reboot the machine ? > > Thanks in advance > --omicron > try user-mode Linux, you can run a virtual machine with a different kernel as a process under your current kernel. I hav

cd reading tip (2.4.3 )

2001-04-29 Thread patrick q
I was trying to read one of my cdrom archives on a 2.4.3 machine with a cheap-ass generic ide/ATAPI cdrom drive, but all it could read was the lost+found directory... I could read the cd with other drives, so it wasn't a coaster. On a whim, I tried loading the scsi emulation drivers scsi_mod.o,

Re: wvdial doesn't connect

2001-03-11 Thread patrick q
What kind of modem? Winmodems aren't supported. (In general). Patrick. --- Henning Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there > > i recently installed debian potato on my pc, > everything works fine BUT > i cannot manage to connect to the internet, so i > still have to use > ms-windows for that

Re: HELP! HW problems, no ablitiy to boot

2001-03-11 Thread patrick q
regarding the lilo issue, I'd try install grub onto a floppy, it's a lot saner than lilo Patrick. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a rather odd problem. I have an all SCSI > system that includes 2 > disks, 1 burner, and 1 cd-rom. A few days ago, one > of my HDs stopped > working. It can't

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-12 Thread patrick q
> Oh, cool. Do you know if grub can boot off > /dev/hdc2 if LILO can't? > (LILO can't because my BIOS is cheap, thus I use > loadlin even though I > [almost] never boot Windo~1 anymore) > > -D yes, it's very flexible, far more so than lilo IMHO patrick.

Re: whoops -subject meant to be software RAID

2001-01-09 Thread patrick q
--- John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ># Would this be worthwhile? How hard is it to set > up a software raid? > >what do I do? does it matter that i want the whole > OS as well as the > >data storage mirrored? > > > >Fairly easy. Read the appropriate HOWTOs are > http://www.linuxdoc.org