Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread Moritz Schulte
Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference > between sid and unstable is? Debian distributions have a 'code-name': (the current) stable -> Potato (the current) testing -> Woody (the current) unstable -> Sid

Re: Win4Lin

2001-03-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Ok... yeah I just check and it seems that they are writing patch for 2.4 kernel but nothing comes out yet. and until I figure out if my UMAX usb scanner and usb logitech webcam pro works under win4lin, I will not buy it. Edwin Lau On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:03:02 stephen wrote: > > You wrote: > > >

Re: Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:42 PM 3/27/2001 +1000, Price, Tim wrote: >Hi all, > >I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 and am having trouble using >cdrecord/cdrdao. > >They are both complaining that there are no valid scsi devices. > >I have compiled in the appropriate (advansys.o) driver & am able to mount & >read data CD

Re: my left arrow key doesn't work!

2001-03-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:54:44AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > when typing at an xterm, my backspace key works (it rubs out the last > character) but my left arrow key doesn't (it doesn't move the cursor to the > left by one). > > i know there's a way to fix this, but searching man pages tur

RE: Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Price, Tim
> At 03:42 PM 3/27/2001 +1000, Price, Tim wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 and am having trouble using > >cdrecord/cdrdao. > > > >They are both complaining that there are no valid scsi devices. > > > >I have compiled in the appropriate (advansys.o) driver & am > able to

RE: Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread John Griffiths
>> >I have compiled in the appropriate (advansys.o) driver & am >> able to mount & >> >read data CDs. Just not write. >> >> got your SCSI emulation running? >> > >I didn't need scsi emulation in the 2.2 kernels - it's a scsi cd-writer. Has >this changed? Whoops guess its not that then.

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:22:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Rick Rezinas writes: > > For low voltage work (like with static ectricity),... > > "Static Electricity" is _high_ voltage. To quantify: air conducts electricity (draws a spark) when the electric field is stronger than 3x10^6 volts/me

Re: SourceForge binaries

2001-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
francisco m . neto wrote: > I one does so, and installs the package using dpkg, won't the > apt-get database get dependency problems when one tries to install > some other package that depends on the first package? Well, no. Apt wouldn't have caught on very well or even been accepted into de

kernel panic

2001-03-27 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all, hdc: timeout waiting for DMA hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } i got a whole bunch of these this morning and then our debian 2.2.17 system crashed with the following: kernel panic LFS: VRU block list corrupted i cant seem to find out what that means a

Re: SourceForge binaries

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Dalton
"francisco m . neto" wrote: > I one does so, and installs the package using dpkg, won't the > apt-get database get dependency problems when one tries to install > some other package that depends on the first package? The apt-get database and the dpkg database are one and the same. Actually

Re: I want to StartX Manually

2001-03-27 Thread Robert Cymbala
Dan wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > > I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot. How do I do > this. I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong > thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything. Where is it loacted? > > Any help will be ho

Hylafax fax user

2001-03-27 Thread
After having read all the documentation and a detailed, long article in a linux magazine, I've installed hylafax server & client under potato. If I launch faxsetup it simply tells, among other non-essential things,that not an fuser (fax user ???) is defined and exits regularly. Using sendfax -

X and S3 trio 3d/2x

2001-03-27 Thread neuromancien
Hi, I use a S3 trio 3d/2x video card, which is not supported by X (even with X4.0.2) with other han 640*480 in 256 colors mode (just annoying for a 8mo card) Does someone knows if a driver was recently released for this card or knows a solution (except changin my card) to the problem? Thanks in

Re: Problems with CD-writer in 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread christophe barbe
Have you enabled Scsi Generic support in your kernel config. It should give you a module called (IIRC) sg.o which is used to send specific scsi commands for cd writting. And you should have a /dev/sg too. Christophe On mar, 27 mar 2001 07:42:40 "Price, Tim" wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just upgrad

ld and php4pl1 - what is my problem?

2001-03-27 Thread Sven Hoexter
Hi guys, I tried to compile Apache and php myself and what it got was this message: ---schnipp make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/php-4.0.4pl1' /bin/sh /usr/local/src/php-4.0.4pl1/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -I. -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.4pl1/ -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.4p

Re: X connection

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:12:21PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I know xhost and xauth to get X connected from remote site. xhost > is insecure and xauth is complicated. I see ssh has portforwarding > (-X) for X. Can anyone pont me to how to do remote connection > usin

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread Glyn Millington
On 27 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Debian distributions have a 'code-name': > > (the current) stable -> Potato > (the current) testing -> Woody > (the current) unstable -> Sid > > Later, Woody will be the new stable and Sarge will be the new > testing. Unstable wi

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread John Griffiths
>> Debian distributions have a 'code-name': >> >> (the current) stable -> Potato >> (the current) testing -> Woody >> (the current) unstable -> Sid >> >> Later, Woody will be the new stable and Sarge will be the new >> testing. Unstable will be always Sid. > >There must be

compile err

2001-03-27 Thread bsd_linux
hi, i was trying to compile the 2.4.2 kernel and this error was the result of make bzImage. i would really appreciate if some one could tell me where i am goign wrong. thnaks in advance harsha

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-27 Thread Oliver Payne
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Noise. > -chris You might want to look at http://www.quietpc.com . They claim their CPU fans are practically inaudible. I ordered a SilentDrive enclosure from them and I'm very happy with it. Oliver

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RE: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #172

2001-03-27 Thread Victor Desa
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re : Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread neuromancien
Hi, the story is very simple: every debian release has the name of a character from the movie Toy Story: Slink Woody Mr Potato Sid Buzz fred >> Debian distributions have a 'code-name': >> >> (the current) stable -> Potato >> (the current) testing -> Woody >> (the cur

3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread Erik Steffl
I checked the debian planet, newsgroups etc and it looks like it should be working but it's not, here's the message that I get when I run glxinfo (or some GL program, e.g. atlantis of xscreensaver fame): jojda:~>glxinfo gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board fx Driver: ERROR no

Re: gs : no output

2001-03-27 Thread Andrea Vettorello
christophe barbe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use pdq (a print spooler system) under potato. It uses > ghostscript to convert postscript to printer format file. > First I thought there was a problem with pdq but know I'm sure the problem > comes from gs. > I've tried a lot of command and the r

sendmail 8.9.3-23 woes

2001-03-27 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have a stable box running sendmail 8.9.3-23 as a mailhub. Cleaning all masquerade-options off the .mc-file and re-running sendmailconfig still leaves DMdomain.net in the .cf. ka:/etc/mail# egrep domain sendmail.mc #Cwdomain.net #MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(ka.domain.net ka)dnl #MASQUERADE_AS(domain

Re: [jimg@cray.com: X can't find font 'fixed' and I'm going nuts!]

2001-03-27 Thread andrea gelmini
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:23:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' same problem here, but purging xfonts-pex and xfonts-jmk packages solved the problem. ciao, andrea

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:25:49 PDT, Jason Gunthorpe writes: > >On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > >> I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to >> your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company. > >It's common practice around here.. The pipe goin

Re: sendmail 8.9.3-23 woes

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a stable box running sendmail 8.9.3-23 as a mailhub. Cleaning > all masquerade-options off the .mc-file and re-running sendmailconfig > still leaves DMdomain.net in the .cf. > > ka:/etc/mail# egrep domain sendmail.mc > #Cwdomain.net > #MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(k

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Erik Steffl wrote: > looks like this one uses glide2, why do I have glide3 then? what's the > deal? simple. 3dfx cards support GLIDE v3 under Xfree86 4.x 3dfx cards support GLIDE v2 under Xfree86 3.x 3dfx cards support OPENGL under Xfree86 4.x virtually all games/apps that use glide use glide

Re: ld and php4pl1 - what is my problem?

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Sven Hoexter wrote: > What's the problem??? > I compiled Apache + php a several times on diverent *nix and it worked. > > This box is a Debian 2.2 System (Intel based) clearly you don't have the gd library installed. i suggest installing it and the development side of it for compilation. or disa

Re: re : Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, the story is very simple: every debian release has the name of a > character from the movie Toy Story: Slink Woody Mr Potato Sid Buzz > fred Right!! Research about to begin - many thanks Glyn M -- so here we

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Nate Amsden wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > looks like this one uses glide2, why do I have glide3 then? what's the > > deal? > > simple. > > 3dfx cards support GLIDE v3 under Xfree86 4.x > 3dfx cards support GLIDE v2 under Xfree86 3.x > 3dfx cards support OPENGL under Xfree86 4.x how d

Network Problems on Debian 2.2 box

2001-03-27 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Hi, Ok, the problem: I telnet, vnc, etc. (basically connect to the box with some sort of interactive client) and after about 5 mins (not sure couldn't quite time it) the client gets kicked of (Putty 0.51 reports Network error: Software caused connection abort). Now the machine refuses any netwo

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:57:42PM +1000, John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Debian distributions have a 'code-name': > >> > >> (the current) stable -> Potato > >> (the current) testing -> Woody > >> (the current) unstable -> Sid > >> > >> Later, Woody will be

Re: X connection

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:50:01PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:12:21PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I know xhost and xauth to get X connected from remote site. xhost > > is insecure and xauth is complicated. I se

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread David Steinberg
Hi Erik, On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > how do I make this work? I have tdfx module (loade), libglide3 and > libglide3-dev (like debian planet suggests), X output says that DRI is > used etc... yet I get the message: You need to install the xlibmesa3 package and, optionally, xlibmes

Re: keyboard problems

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:13:52AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a weird problem with my keyboard, but I'm not sure what to check > to figure out the problem. > > I have a desktop system, and the keyboard works as expected in X and in > the console. However when

Re: Reverting package installation state

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:23:31PM +0200, Felix E. Klee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I accidentally hit the wrong keys in dselect (really one of the most > user-hostile and dangerous programs that I know) and now half of my > system is marked for uninstallation. Because I did not notice i

[SOLVED:] strange postgres7 php4 problem

2001-03-27 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, when using postgres 7.0.3 with php 4 on potato don't forget to create a symlink from /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.1 to /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.0 as apache expects the later one. yours martin -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .''`. | \ / CAMPAIGN AGAINST | work:

Linux Counter Home Page

2001-03-27 Thread Joris Lambrecht
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Re: gs : no output

2001-03-27 Thread christophe barbe
Thank for your help. I've tried your command line and got still no output. Yesterday I've also upgraded to gs-aladdin 6.5 (I've rebuild the package from unstable) and still no output. I should have an interaction that I don't understand at all. Christophe On lun, 26 mar 2001 20:40:43 Andrea Vet

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-27 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 26 March 2001 22:16, John Hasler wrote: > Bud Rogers writes: > > I think debian is set up that way by default. Just add the select > > users to the group dialout. > > 'dialout' is for serial port users. 'dip' is for ppp users. OK, I missed that distinction. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROT

Software for Webcam

2001-03-27 Thread Victor
I'd like to buy a linux compatible usb webcam of the kind of Philips. My question is as simple as that: What are the X (gnone or kde) software in debian potato 2.2r2 CD's or web sites which I should install to look at the images generated by the webcam and to stream them through the internet? V

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-27 Thread eric
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0500, Bill White wrote: Now, when I update, I frequently can't see packages with "dpkg -l", but I can install them. That is to say, if the package libmumble exists but is not installed, and I run "dpkg -l '*mumble*'" I used to

Re: xscrabble for Debian?

2001-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anyone point me to a Debian package for xscrabble? > >I'm buildng a new machine for my SO & it's one of her favorites. Nobody seems to be working on it. I'll try to put something together. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PRO

Re: Relational Data Base Managers

2001-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alson van der Meulen wrote: >On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:18:46PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: >> Can some one give an objective comparison of the several >> relational database managers in debian (postgresql, mysql - are there >> any others?). >mysql and postgresql are the big free/open

Re: apt-get unmet dependencies

2001-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
"D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I did a apt-get wmppp.app and that downloaded ok but gave me this >message..Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: >wmppp.app: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-17 is installed Unmet >dependencies. Try using -f. How do I resolve this? T

Promise Raid Card

2001-03-27 Thread Bill Lumsden
I am trying to set up a Debian box and want to use a Promise Raid Card (mirrored) can anyone tell me what needs to be done for Debian to recognise it. Thanks in advance Bill

Re: X and S3 trio 3d/2x

2001-03-27 Thread Oege Dijk
I have that same card, and I have it working. Under X 3.3.6 use the SVGA server, under X 4.0.x I use VESA, and that works, but I suspect there is a better server(ie more HWA). Anybody knows which that could be? The card is also knows as S3 86c362 or 86c368 IIRC, maybe that's why you couldn't fin

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-27 Thread Christoph Groth
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The group 'dip' already exists for that purpose and all the relevant > files are in it. The procedure outlined above adds users to it. > You can do the same thing with 'adduser'. A user in `dip' is allowed to call all the providers. Is there a simple wa

Re: Promise Raid Card

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Sand
Hi, Bill Lumsden wrote: > I am trying to set up a Debian box and want to use a Promise Raid Card > (mirrored) can anyone tell me what needs to be done for Debian to recognise > it. > the only that i know is that suse has some kernel Patches for the Promise Fastrack Raid Ide controller. And it´s

WaveLAN & Encryption

2001-03-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, at our lab, at my working place there was the encryption feature of the WaveLAN activated. As usual, the support group could help for Windows but failed for Linux. Does anyone know where I have to set the key, and how to set it such that the encryption feature of our WaveLAN can be use

Re: OpenSSH grief part 2

2001-03-27 Thread Luigi Fabio
On 25 Mar 2001, at 10:24, Krzys Majewski wrote: > it gives "1.99", that probably means the daemon is capable of ssh2. > Make sure you have a host DSA key (/etc/ssh/host_key or whatever) and > a user DSA key (~/.ssh/identity or whatever). It does say 1.99 - and I am proud to say that installing li

[OT] Slovak for StarOffice

2001-03-27 Thread frankie
Is there a slovak spell-checking dictionary for StarOffice? Spell? Ispell? Anything else? All ideas are welcome. aTdHvAaNnKcSe Miso&Frankie pgpi45axxibIs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pon and user in debian

2001-03-27 Thread Ilya Martynov
CG> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The group 'dip' already exists for that purpose and all the relevant >> files are in it. The procedure outlined above adds users to it. >> You can do the same thing with 'adduser'. CG> A user in `dip' is allowed to call all the providers. Is there

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-27 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > > I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to > > > your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company. > > It's common practice around here.. The pipe going out of the house is an > > excellent ground. However, i

Re: deleting specific files

2001-03-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi Karsten, thank you very much for your very detailed answer! Abrazos, Marcelo On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:09:35PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Please respond to list mail on-list. Reply redirected to list. > Reply-to: set to list. > > on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:23:15PM -0300, Marcelo C

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:46:37AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > how do I make this work? I have tdfx module (loade), libglide3 and > > libglide3-dev (like debian planet suggests), X output says that DRI is > > used etc... yet I get t

Re: permissions and fstab

2001-03-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi Carel thank you very much for your answer. Now a stupid question: how can I find the uid and gid of my account? Thanks in advance Marcelo On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:19:46AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Hi Marcello, > > 2) Mount by root, but for a specific user: >in /etc/fstab chan

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-27 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: [snip] > >A well built computer should connect all the metal case parts directly to > >the ground prong on the outlet, so to dissipate static it is usually > >sufficient to touch metal on a computer. > > Out of experience this isn´t always the case, but t

Re: enlightenment deb repository?

2001-03-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Does anyone know of an enlightenment deb repository I can > add to /etc/apt/sources.list? This page, http://www.bsu-hog.org/sources.list, has an entry for enlightenment packages, but I'm unable to connect to the site right now. Otherwise, I have the entry at home and can post it later if you a

Re: permissions and fstab

2001-03-27 Thread Ilya Martynov
MC> thank you very much for your answer. Now a stupid question: how MC> can I find the uid and gid of my account? use command 'id' -- Ilya Martynov AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com

Re: Re: permissions and fstab

2001-03-27 Thread paolo pedaletti
Salve Marcelo Chiapparini, > thank you very much for your answer. Now a stupid question: how can I find > the > uid and gid of my account? $ id -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa www.fastflow.it/~paolop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4755831

Re: PPP

2001-03-27 Thread John Hasler
W.T. Boman writes: > The directory /etc/ppp does not show pap-secrects file but does show > pap-secrets.bak. 'mv pap-secrets.bak pap-secrets' as root should get you running. > What package on my potato cdrom contains this file... It is created by the ppp package. Please post the output of 'dpkg

Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Hi, How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, dpkg-scan-packages dosn't do it - I don't know how to get it to) to create the appropriate Packages & Release files and directory structure. apt-move doesn't lik

Re: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Eugene van Zyl wrote: > Hi, > > How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally > downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, dpkg-scan-packages > dosn't do it - I don't know how to get it to) to create the appropria

kernel question

2001-03-27 Thread JACKSON, DEAN
Help my hard drive has sustained very large physical damage. it boots sort of. as I use a multi processor system I would like to keep my kernel (it was a pain to configure) what is the best way of backing up my kernel? and restoring it! Dean Jackson TeleWare email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone 019

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-27 Thread Dave Whiteley
I agree with the info below. May I pass on another hint I was given many years ago. Before you start work, spit on your hands and rub them together. Some people's skin is very dry, and you want it to be slightly conductive. It also convinces the electronics that you mean business. ;-) On 27-

RE: kernel question

2001-03-27 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This WON't be easy if you're systemdisk is really damaged. It's pretty hard to explain this in an email because of the variety of conditions, let us know if you're getting somewhere or feeling rather lost. Did you allready boot into single user mode and run efsck2 ? Maybe you're just experiencing

Re: nis server and client

2001-03-27 Thread Igor Mozetic
Read /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz after you instal NIS. Very concise and informative. -Igor Mozetic

kernel 2.2.19 and module problems

2001-03-27 Thread Denzil Kelly
I upgraded to kernel 2.2.19 by executing the command: apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19-blah. This worked fine. However, I recompiled the kernel because I needed to enable scsi emulation so I could use my cd-rw. The recompile(make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modu

Re: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally >downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, >dpkg-scan-packages dosn't do it - I don't know how to get it to) to >create the appropriate Packages & Release files and directory structur

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 28 Mar 01, 1:28 AM, Erik Steffl said: > > this is confusing - I thought they use mesa (or basically any openGL > lib) and mesa was in turn implemented to use glide, so if new mesa > supports glide3 then all the games run fine... erik, glide is not mesa and mesa is not glide. mesa is

Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread Darryl Röthering
Can someone explain the advantage many see in Debian upgrades vrs. RedHat? To take a concrete example, lets say I planned to start upgrading my home throwaway box (where I put up slink a few years back). I have only installed so far using dpackage. If I do apt-gets for a whole set of packages,

printer cant continue after runnind out of paper

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Re: kernel 2.2.19 and module problems

2001-03-27 Thread eric
Denzil Kelly wrote: I upgraded to kernel 2.2.19 by executing the command: apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19-blah. This worked fine. However, I recompiled the kernel because I needed to enable scsi emulation so I could use my cd-rw. The recompile(make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make bzImage

Re: Printer reccommendation

2001-03-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Roberto Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've never had problems configuring an HP on Linux, and they're > > pretty reliable my Epson Stylus 740 prints like crap, and started > > doing so, right after the warranty ran out, so I'd recommend > > against Epson (but then that's only one printer,

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:06:05AM -0700, eric wrote: ... > I use both dselect/apt 's update chooing unstable main and apt-get > update , get the same result > dpkg there are too many error > > then I reboot , grub still show only 2.2.18 kernal, I also almost not > see any difference from

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread CaT
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:22:14PM +, Darryl Röthering wrote: > Can someone explain the advantage many see in Debian upgrades vrs. RedHat? Let me give you today's example: upgrading ssh on debian: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade if that's not good enough put in a testing or unstable line

Re: GLUG: Getting dselect to read .deb files without Packages,Release,etc files

2001-03-27 Thread Craig Balfour
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Eugene van Zyl wrote: > How do I get dselect or another apt frontend tool read and use locally > downloaded .deb files for which I'm unable (read apt-move, dpkg-scan-packages > dosn't do it - I don't know how to get it to) to create the appropriate > Pa

Kernel panic after upgrade to 2.4.2

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
Thanks in advance for your help. I decided to go to kernel 2.4.2 on my testing box. Did a apt-get install to get the source. Got my old config file from /boot and put it in the source and did a make oldconfig. I then did a make xconfig and made sure that I had ext2 support and elf and a.out all

Re: I want to StartX Manually

2001-03-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Robert Cymbala wrote: > > Dan wrote: > > To Whom It May Concern, > > > > > > I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot. How do I do > > this. I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong > > thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything. Where is it lo

lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-27 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! I apt-got lm-sensors-source and lm-sensors. The sources are in /usr/src/modules My current kernel-source is /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 I do not want to patch my kernel but use it as a module. I've read that I may want to use kernel-package to install the modules. I altered the Make

Re: permissions and fstab

2001-03-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:34:58AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi Carel > > thank you very much for your answer. Now a stupid question: how can I find > the > uid and gid of my account? Either us the command id $ id uid=1001(carel) gid=1001(carel) groups=1001(carel),24(cdrom),29

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread David Z. Maze
(Original reordered somewhat...) Darryl RXthering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DR> I have only installed so far using dpackage. DR> DR> If I do apt-gets for a whole set of packages, I will get my add-ons DR> upgraded to the latest and greatest (if I understand this DR> correctly). But I still will

Re: kernel 2.2.19 and module problems

2001-03-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:22:32AM -0700, eric wrote: ... > I copy and paste your install command > > lshih:~# apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19-blah > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.2.19-blah > > but not work That's b

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread Alan Shutko
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let me give you today's example: Nit: your example wasn't comparing apples and apples. You were running an up-to-date Debian system and an old RedHat system, which didn't ship ssh in the first place. With a current RH system, it would have been something like

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread John Hasler
Darryl Röthering writes: > Am I missing something? Yes. _everything_ is packaged, and apt handles all the dependencies. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: kernel 2.2.19 and module problems

2001-03-27 Thread eric
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:22:32AM -0700, eric wrote: I copy and paste your install command lshih:~# apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19-blah Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.2.19-blah but not w

Re: Relational Data Base Managers

2001-03-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 13:18:46 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Can some one give an objective comparison of the several > relational database managers in debian (postgresql, mysql - are there > any others?). I've seen an ITP for InterBase (e.g. firebird.sourceforge.net), but no packages yet.

Re: Win4Lin (fwd)

2001-03-27 Thread stephen
You wrote: > Ok... yeah I just check and it seems that they are writing patch for 2.4 > kernel but nothing comes out yet. and until I figure out if my UMAX usb > scanner and usb logitech webcam pro works under win4lin, I will not buy it. The way I understand it, if it works under Linux, then it

Re: kernel 2.2.19 and module problems

2001-03-27 Thread Wes Wannemacher
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:57:24AM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > I upgraded to kernel 2.2.19 by executing the command: > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19-blah. This worked > fine. However, I recompiled the kernel because I > needed to enable scsi emulation so I could use my > cd-rw. The recompile

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And upgrading a Red Hat distribution, especially between major > versions, is pretty much impossible; I've heard people have had very > good results upgrading between versions of Debian. I think that Debian people are just smarter at doing things the

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread DvB
David Z. Maze wrote: The one exception to this is the kernel; since it's reasonable to have multiple kernel versions installed, each is in its own package. You can manually install the most recent kernel package or not; things should still work fine. I just compiled 2.2.18 using make-kpkg

Howto change default keymap

2001-03-27 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, how do I change the default keymap. I want my system to keep the setting if reboot. install-keymap dvorak seems to me not enough. Thanks --Marcus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antbear.org

Re: I want to StartX Manually

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:47:30AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:25 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: I want to StartX Manually > > > >

Re: kernel 2.2.19 and module problems

2001-03-27 Thread Denzil Kelly
I think I got it fixed. running the command depmod -a seems to have created the necessary file in the new modules folder. While things seem to be somewhat back to normal, I do get the following after running the command. depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net/ibmtr.o de

Re: kernel question

2001-03-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
"JACKSON, DEAN" wrote: > > Help my hard drive has sustained very large physical damage. it boots sort > of. as I use a multi processor system I would like to keep my kernel (it was > a pain to configure) > what is the best way of backing up my kernel? and restoring it! > > Dean Jackson > TeleWare

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