I recently installed the frozen debian, and noticed something weird.
I run Xfree 3.3.6 and have a S3 Virge using the SVGA server.
xterm locks X when i list a dir with many files in it or if there is much
output to the window. It locks up for about 5-10 seconds and comes back.
in Eterm everything w
> Buffers: 93712 kB
> Cached: 78060 kB
>
> Is it normal, or I have a serious problem? Maybe a not well tuned
> kernel? Is there a way to release the memory used by the buffer and/or
> cache?
Don't worry.. Thats perfectly normal.. The caches speed up the system, and
it frees mem there
> I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded
> subdirectories, I did
> rm -d kdeo
> and I get Operation not permitted.
i use rm -r instead.
/Jonas
> Don't set LC_CTYPE or any of the other LC_* variable, and just set
> LANG=. It should exhibit the correct behaviour then. All of
> the LC variables will "inherit" values appropriate to the locale if just
> the LANG variable is set. The only problems are then "inheriting"
> behaviors for monetary
Hello,
> I think the problem comes from having LANG="C" but
> LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1". Try setting your LANG environment variable in
> /etc/environment to something that uses iso-8859-1 (en_US, en_UK, and
> most? western European languages). The iso-8859-1 character set defines
> twice as many chara
I have seen this discussed earlier, but i can't remember what to do about
it.
When i start perl it says:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "iso_8859_1",
LANG = "C"
are supported and
Hi Carl,
> Does anybody know how to get around the sound dma buffer problem? I
> am pretty sure the problem is that the system can't find any free
> memory in the bottom 16MB. I think that there is a way to lock in the
> dma buffer, but I don't remember how, and I haven't managed to find
> the r
Hi,
> I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink
> doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever
> unzip it. I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but
> when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error. I've saved
> it
I have been thinking of getting a graphics card with tv-out and was
wondering if there are any supported cards ?
I have heard various rumours that nvidia is going to support this in the
future..
thanks for any help
/Jonas
Hi,
> You have to tell wich device you want to remove, ie:
>
> echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 5 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
>
>[ Host Channel Id Lun ]
>
> this is "documented" in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c :-)
>
Sorry.. in my confusion i forgot to tell you i
Hello,
try "reset" :-)
I use it quite a lot.
/Jonas
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote:
> after reading a binary file sometimes the terminal gets all messed up and
> everything is displayed in symbols. I'm sure everyone has done this a few
> times. How can I get my terminal back to normal?
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Kenny Fowler wrote:
> I always select 'Yes' but it doesn't do anything. It
> goes back to the main screen and says 'Next:
> Partition a Hard Disk'.
>
Then just wipe out all of the partitions and create new in cfdisk.
you wont destroy the disk, just wipe out all the data on
Hello Cameron,
> I'm trying to install DGEN (genesis emulator), but when i run the
> configure script, it checks for autoconf and says it is missing. I went
> into dselect and searched for autoconf, sure enough, it was not
> installed. I installed it, rebooted, double-checked that it was
> inst
Hello Beavis,
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Beavis wrote:
> i am trying to set up ssh 1.2.27 on a slink 2.2.14 but i am not able to get
> a secure login.
> it says:
> Secure connection xx.xx.xx.xx refused: reverting to insecure method. Using
> rsh. WARNING: Connection will not be encryted.
>
> so,
Hi,
I posted a question a while ago, but noone answered AFAIK.
Anyway, I have an advansys scsi card with one plexiwriter attached to it.
I burnt something and cdrecord decided to crash so now the cdburner is
"locked", I can't open the cdtray nor can i access it in any way. I've
also experienced t
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Vitux wrote:
> it just says "bash: command not found"
> I know positively that ns-install is there among
> the rest of the untarred files, and I am logged in
> as root.
You must write ./ns-install since that directory you have extracted it to
is not in your path.
/Jonas
I was about to burn an iso image with cdrecord and it all seemed to be ok,
until i got this message:
Mar 13 22:27:33 hangar18 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 232406, scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
10 00
and now the burner is locked.
I've tried
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