Re: amd64: needed packages for ati drivers

Toshiro wrote: [...] the problem is that the 32bit packages that page mentions are for RedHat/SuSE, I don't know the names of the corresponding Debian packages; I've installed some packages with similar names, but obviously I'm missing something, that's why I'm asking for help :) Regards,

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: Hi there, Yo tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system [...] Hit Control-Alt-F2. (This brings you into a text-mode VT). Log-in as root. Fix the problem. There are probably another couple-dozen ways to solve this problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: Hi there, Hi there. tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system > [...] Boot into runlevel 1 and undo what you did. When booting with LILO, you do this by placing a "1" on the boot command line. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse ln -s /home//.themes /root/.themes And what would it be? Ta. If /root/.themes never existed before, I imagine this: # rm /root/.themes If you really need to

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: B.Hoffmann wrote: [ stuff ] After you do that, verify that everything is okay under /usr/share/gdm/themes/. For reference, this is what I have under /usr/share/gdm/themes: ./happygnome-list ./happygnome-list/background.svg ./happygnome-list

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: [...] it is continuing to report that 'circles' could not be loaded (this is the error I get) for graphical login, that's why it's reverting back to standard greeter. Boxes in that one still greyed out. [...] To fix this the Debian way, you might try "aptitude reinstall gdm".

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 01:39 -0600, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: B.Hoffmann wrote: Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse ln -s /home//.themes /root/.themes And what would it be? Ta

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

listrcv wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [...] If you see the beauty of the seperate files for what it is intended to do, its like magically everything comes into view. Hm, I don't see it with exim-config. What I see is only a mess of files and two large, unreadable files (template and config), whi

Re: apt-get install: x11-common vs xfree86-common: "trying to overwrite /etc/X11/Xsession"

will trillich wrote: we haven't figured out how to get past this apt-get snag: [...] dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package xfree86-common dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by

Re: Printf bug?

T wrote: Hi, the command printf seems to be ignoring the ending '\n' that passes to it: [...] It's an interaction between the echo command and the shell that's causing the trailing \n to be removed. Printf is working just fine: $ printf "hello\n" | od -t x1 - 000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 0a

Re: Kernel logging firestarter events to syslog and console

Anthony Simonelli wrote: Hey there, just upgraded to kernel image 2.6.8-3-686 and now all of the blocked connections from firestarter are logged in syslog and displayed at the console such as the following: Mar 27 21:25:25 debian kernel: ABORTED IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:0f:66:a1:89:28:00:12:17:27

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: [...] By the way, I use grub as boot-loader. In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst I added hdc=scsi at the end of the following line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro Should that perhaps be hdc=ide-scsi? [...] Yes. $ zless +5/ide-scsi /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en

Re: i want spam

Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] But on between 200 and 8000 per day depending on the day of the week [...] Use a better e-mail address such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The "+spambuster" part is a comment field that throws off the spammers (who don't like to send to spam-traps). Take a look at my e-ma

Re: Mounting partition as fs

Gregory Baker wrote: >> [...] I need to mount the XP partition in Linux so that I can point apt-get to it and load the packages from the .iso s. Could someone suggest a mount syntax that should allow me to do this? mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /NTFS/disk1.iso /mnt [...] I'd also like to know

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

Jon Dowland wrote: At 1143895291 past the epoch, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: Should that perhaps be hdc=ide-scsi? [...] Yes. $ zless +5/ide-scsi /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz That document is 6 or more years old now. You no longer

Re: mod_perl Not Working W/ Apache2 on Sid

Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm just trying to run a simple test set up, [...] SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry Options +ExecCGI [...] The root server directory is /var/www and I have a perl script in /var/www/perl. [...] Then perhaps you want -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Where I can get luxi sans font

Xiyan Lon wrote: I just install debian sarge with kde desktop (from minimal install). Everything work ok but I need font luxi sans on my kde desktop. Where I can find luxi sans font? Which package I must install? Best, Xiyan Lon The Luxi fonts are in the non-free section of your favorite Debi

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

Pascal Hakim wrote: Some people leak headers into the body of their email. For example, the first email in this month's archive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg0.html Don't worry about the body. It's the posters' responsibilities to protect other people e-mail addys whe

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

Monique Y. Mudama wrote: [...] (I personally suspect that the email address I use confuses a lot of spam apps. "Hrm, remove the word spam ... but wait, that's not a legal address, toss that." I do check this address, but it's pretty easy to identify the fake amazon/chase/ebay/paypal/etc phishin

Re: mod_perl Not Working W/ Apache2 on Sid

Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 03 April 2006 19:14, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: >> [...] Then perhaps you want Thanks, but, as I said in the post, I tried that as well. If you're sure that's all it needs, I'll try it again. Hal Re-enable "Pe

Re: mod_perl Not Working W/ Apache2 on Sid

Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 03 April 2006 21:59, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Re-enable "PerlModule Apache2". When it aborts apache, report what apache says in its log file. Thanks for the tip. [Mon Apr 03 23:22:56 2006] [error] Can't locate Apache2.pm in @INC

Re: libapache-mod-php4 not on Debian3.1r1

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, For some reason libapache-mod-php4 is not on any of the Debian3.1r1 CD's. Can anybody verify that? Thanks! H No, I can't. I can't verify that it's not there, because it is: $ aptitude search libapache-mod-php4 p libapache-mod-php4 - server-side,

Re: how to compile sarge kernel 2.4.27-2

Serena Cantor wrote: I want to customize sarge kernel 2.4.27-2, so I install kernel-build-2.4.27-2, then [...] scripts/Configure: line 556: arch/i386/config.in: No such file or directory make: *** [config] Error 1 What's wrong? Your reply will be appreciated! It sounds like you need the ker

Re: filename prefixes while transfering images from memory cards

H.S. wrote: [...] So, to put it in very approximate terms, I am enquiring if my memory card maybe seen as a camera with an application in the same way as gtkam sees a camera through the USB port. ->HS Probably not. If it were me, I'd put each group of files into its own directory, then use

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. Thanks, I saved your message in case I ever need a grub boot floppy, but I think that you'll find syslinux and LILO more suited to the task. Syslinux is much easier to set up, and although LILO is hard to set

Re: how to compile sarge kernel 2.4.27-2

Serena Cantor wrote: --- Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --- "Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Serena Cantor wrote: I want to customize sarge kernel 2.4.27-2, so I install kernel-build-2.4.27-2, then [...] scripts/Con

Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

Derek Piper wrote: [...] I want to upgrade a couple of machines to kernel 2.6.16 Apparently you need a later version of udev than is in the debian stable branch (0.056). [...] :O You just explained my problems with 2.6.16.1. Since the mirrors in my sources.list didn't have 2.6.16, I went to

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

Mike McCarty wrote: Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: [...] Thanks, I saved your message in case I ever need a grub boot floppy, but I think that you'll find syslinux and LILO more suited to the task. To what task? [...] Oops, I should'be read the OP more closely :)

Re: packages meltdown

Adam Hardy wrote: I'm using testing and debian has got itself in a bad way now. I upgraded several packages 3 days ago and have been trying to sort it out since - I think the offending packages may be udev or libusb. I also added a line for usbfs /proc/bus/usb to my fstab. You probably shou

Re: libapache-mod-php4 not on Debian3.1r1

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: You're on Debian3.1r1 *CD's*? Or are you on 3.1r1 using the security updates? If you're on the CD's you are on a level of December 19 2005 and that library is not on it when I do a search! $ grep libapache-mod-php4 md5sums.txt 38cc33f1a4c6a70af7f6749cdf9694f6 ./pool/m

Re: How do I fix this?

M A wrote: Details thats all the ISP gave me, Surely there must be a way to detect this is happening, or the source of it, I have since removed all my secondary IP's, Does IPtables need to have rules for all my secondary Ips? I have no details of your situation, but I'd suspect that you had

Re: libapache-mod-php4 not on Debian3.1r1

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: [...] I have the DVD set, and it's on disk 2. Sumo, how did you get the DVD, bought it or jigdo-file'd it? I bought it. I see you found it on CD #14. Jigdo time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Removing packages?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This whole libc6 problem puzzles me. I thought that Linux libraries were version-numbered in such a way that the linker could distinguish compatible from incompatible versions. Why does this mechanism not work for libc6? -- hendrik I don't know the answer to y

Re: Odd spurious IP addr in ifconfig

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I think this is from the zerconf package which may have been inadvertently installed. You can probably purge it. Is it possible to permanently blacklist a package from being installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: gnome - window manager

debianista.deb wrote: hey Can anybody tell me where gnome sets the window manager (metacity) ? please My gnome runs without metacity how can I fix it ? please You might use the "gconf-editor" and go into /desktop/gnome/applications/window-manager. Unfortunately, when I've tried chan

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I am counting the number of key strokes and/or mouse clicks to set up a filter. In kmail all I had to was Message -> Create Filter -> Filter on Mailing-list debian-user and almost all the stuff is already filled up. Are you sure Tbird has "List ID" field? I could not

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

Rick Reynolds wrote: [...] I see that in my boot log [...] What is the boot log? I'm using Sarge, and I don't see a /var/log/boot.log or anything similar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the next step?

jlmb wrote: [...] 1. replace "stable" for "testing" on /etc/apt/sources.list (*optional, many people would recommend against this for a newbie). [...] I'm one of those people. Stick with "stable" if you're a newbie. You have to know more of what you're doing to deal with "testing" or "unstable

Re: What's the next step?

Rocky Ou wrote: [...] 1. Which package should I download so that I can browse webpages as how I'm doing under Windows? This is very important as lots of webpages will give me how-to instructions. Do I use apt-get x? Or something else? [...] I would start out with lynx--a text

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't switch spellings mid-text. [ plus 22 messages from other people ] Boy, am I glad I filtere

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

Pascal Hakim wrote: Making people subscribe is a barrier to entry, and we want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute. [...] That makes sense to me. I think that some people are confused about the difference between spam sent to their inboxes and spam sent the list. Some peop

Re: Gnome sound system

Mark Grieveson wrote: Try to adduser yourusername audio and restart gnome. I have the exact same problem. And, I get this result from the advice given: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: debian:/home/mark# adduser mark audio The user `mark' is already a member of `audio'. So, what do I try n

Re: syslog

Adam Hardy wrote: [...] I tried excluding it via /etc/syslog,conf, but I don't know which facility.priority it is being logged with. How can I find out? I recently had much fun (sarcasm) doing this. The only way I could find was to create separate logfiles for each facility: auth.*

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

Mike McCarty wrote: Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: [...] My e-mail address is "rather uninviting" to spammers :) Apropos of this, it could be done better. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a valid domain, Which is perfectly acceptable and necessary. which results in actual s

Re: vim display newline symbol

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi :) anyone know that how can i set var, to display the newline symbol like" \n \t " all of them(can't print symbol) whit vim; thanks any advance, :set list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: statd not binding to outgoing-port

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In according to: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/security.html#FIREWALLS one way to force statd to fixed ports is with the -p and -o options. So I added STATDOPTS="-p 854 -o 856" to /etc/init.d/nfs-common. [...] Did you add that line before the invoking of /et

Re: /dev/mouse disappears during reboot...

Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, on a sarge system I created a link ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse After reboot it is gone. [...] It's probably related to udev. I'd imagine that you can either create a udev rule for /dev/mouse or use a boot script to create the link on each boot. Caveat: I'm not

Re: newbie question on finding and keeping customized files with dpkg or apt

Marco Prandini wrote: [...] 1) I'd like to find which files of a package have been altered with respect to the original version, in the same way I did with "rpm -V". 2) I'd like to instruct "apt-get upgrade" to leave them alone For 2) you can use dpkg-divert to tell dpkg (the low-level packa

Re: How do I change default pdf viewer for firefox 1.5 ?

Maxim Vexler wrote: Hello everyone. I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is /usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince. [...] Place these lines in your ~/.mailcap file: application/pdf; /usr/bin/e

Re: msttcorefonts installed but not visible

Anthony Campbell wrote: I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties. However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox. Any way to persuade this to work? Anthony If the fonts are located in one of the standard locations, "fc-cache -f -s -v" should

javadoc like system for C wanted

I'm looking for some opensource software that will allow me to embed documentation into C source files--similar to the way javadoc allows documentation inside of Java source files. Cweb, funnelweb and noweb are not what I'm looking for because they require that the programmer write in a language

Re: javadoc like system for C wanted

Gregory Seidman wrote: % apt-cache show doxygen [...] And Frank Gevaerts wrote: try doxygen Gregory, Frank, thank you. I knew someone had probably already written this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian as a sever OS

Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I am wondering that if it is safe to using the testing distro (now Etch) as the server's OS. Any comment is appreciated very much. thx! Deepahy If your server is going to be exposed to the Internet, it should be Debian/stable. Security updates are made avail

Re: rpm file

gianni wrote: Ihave problems installing W4L,cuse rpm file is not posible to convert to debian. [...] You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm file into a cpio file. From there, you could extract the files from the cpio file and copy them into the correct locat

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Your problem boils down to the fact that Thunderbird does not provide any convenient commands to make use of that information. When I was getting increasingly annoyed by this myself (with Mozilla Mail), I came across the following Thunderbird extension: http://www.cwei

Re: rpm file

Joey Hess wrote: Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb file from it. I know. > Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by hand makes no sense at all. Yes it does. If I did it by hand, I know that the right thing got put in the right place. Eit

afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

I'm using Sarge. I just did an "aptitude update," and now when I attempt to upgrade, aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev. I know that those are pretty critical to the functioning of the system, so I've temporarily put them on hold, and I'm not upgrading yet. My question i

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

Florian Kulzer wrote: You can use aptitude changelog libc6 libc6-dev Thanks, this'll be useful to me. I know it's in the man-page, but I didn't think about it. to see the changelogs for the new packages. Maybe that will tell you what is up. If that does not work (I often have problems wi

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

Joris Huizer wrote: I don't know exactly why libc6 is upgraded, but the upgrade seems to be part of the 3.1r2 update (see http://release.debian.org/stable/3.1/3.1r2/) I got it too, just tracking sarge too HTH, Thanks Joris, it does help. Wow, we're going to get another point release. This

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:31:23AM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: I just did an "aptitude update," and now when I attempt to upgrade, aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev. [...] Again if it's the stable versio

Re: Firestarter: how to auto start it?

lmyho wrote: --- "Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)" lmyho wrote: Can anyone help me [know] how to auto start the firestarter? [...] No, I can't ;-) I had some problems with firestarter, so I decided to write my own iptables script. I'd suspect that one of your n

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Besides, you can't "wipe" files on a journaling fs. So, you re- mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wipe the file(s) and then re- mount as ext3. [...] Huh? Are you suggesting that you can't permanently delete a file's data by overwriting the file before deleting it?

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

Andreas Rippl wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:46:56PM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: [...] Hi Sumo, Hi Andreas, I have gone through the update (without giving much thought I have to admit) and there was no trouble here. I guess I didn't give a second thought be

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

Willie Wonka wrote: [...] Oh - and I use Mozilla Mail - but this list (and others) have w-a-y too much mail for me to d/l and sort through Create a filter that sends the mail-list messages to a special folder. It is very manageable this way. > [...] plus I do NOT use javascript in my brows

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [...] If you do use ext3 in data-journalling mode (mount -o data=journal) that yes, it will be a lot slower than ext2. That's why the default is data=ordered. You can make it even faster, and still more safe than ext2, by using data=writeback. See "man mount". Mike.

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

Michael M. wrote: Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Yes, I know this is not Sid, but I read with interest the many posts covering the Xorg upgrade. I could practically hear the yelping. But I think you did not hear from most of the legions of Sid users for whom the Xorg upgrade

Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

Gil Citro wrote: [...] My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line, but when I give the command lpr or lp the output starts at the physical page boundary, and since the printer can't print to the physical page boundary, some of the output is cut off. [...] Send the

Re: Readline doesn't read /etc/inputrc (Sarge)

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:30:18 +0100, Kaffe wrote: Hi In order to disable bell on tab completion I have uncommented the line "set bell-style none" in /etc/inputrc. But I still have bell on tab completion. If I put the line "set bell-style none" in my ~.inputrc, the bell on tab completion is di

difference between two methods of holding a package

What is the difference between holding a package this way: # aptitude hold htdig and holding a package this way: # echo "htdig hold" | dpkg --set-selections -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More info -Re: How to install a downloaded printer driver?

Christopher Nelson wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:17:57PM -0800, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:47:55PM -0800, lmyho wrote: Try downloading the cupswrapper deb from the brother site: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html#de >> [...]

Re: a question on motherboard replacement - audio problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] After closing a Gnome session or rebooting the computer, this alsaconf results seems to be lost as I get to the starting point (i.e. distorted sound for Gnome events and no sound for other applications). In other words, the work of alsaconf seem to be lost after

Re: Enabling printer

Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: I thought , the command to enable printer is " enable printer_name". Any idea, following not working on Debian 3.2, 2.4 smp kernel. arqiozone:~# enable hpl8n -su: enable: hpl8n: not a shell builtin [...] You accidentally invoked the bash shell's "enable" built-in

Re: a question on motherboard replacement - audio problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sumo Wrestler wrote: Did you ever try "alsactl store"? You should do this after you've gotten sound working to store the settings. Yes. I was suggested to do so in this list because I was getting an error message stating something about a state not present (check prev

Re: what kernel modules am I really using?

Javier Bernal wrote: Hello list, I want to know which of the modules that 'lsmod' shows I am currently using. lsmod shows 42 modules. Are all of them being used? Can I see which device is using which module? Thanks The third column of lsmod's output tells you if a module is being used.

Re: a question on motherboard replacement - audio problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sumo Wrestler wrote: Save the list of modules before using alsaconf like so: $ lsmod > mods1 Module Size Used by snd_intel8x0 36140 3 [...] I can see that the following lines have different numbers in the column "Used by", and the differenc

Re: what kernel modules am I really using?

Javier Bernal wrote: Is there any command that show me what module is being used by a device? > How can I view which process is using which module in /proc? > I don't know of a program to do this. You might try "aptitude search '~dmodule'" or "aptitude search proc". Look at the output from d

Re: what kernel modules am I really using?

Ivan Glushkov wrote: lsmod for me is always showing that no module is used, which is defenetely not true (for example for the driver modules). So, how do I see that for those modules? There are periods of time when certain modules are not used; for example, I'm offline right now, so lsmod t

Re: help

Chris Lale wrote: patrick bourne wrote: From: "Patrick Bourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: help with installation Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:23 AM Hello, I have recently downloaded the businesscard image for the stable release of the debian OS. [...] [...] 4. The Grub bootload

Re: what kernel modules am I really using?

Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-03-24, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The third column of lsmod's output tells you if a module is being used. Take a look in /proc to find out what process is using a particular module. Get info. about the lsmod comma

Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]

Levi Waldron wrote: [...] I ran the "stable" install disc again, specifying "linux vga=ask" at the boot prompt. It offered me the choice to scan all available vesa modes, and *nothing* showed up on my screen during the scan. This seems to be equivalent to a bug that has been reported and resolv

Re: apt-get and proxy servers

pedro lopez wrote: i conect to internet by a proxy server, how i can configure apt-get? I've never had to do it before, but I'd guess that you'd define the environment variable "http_proxy". Look at the man page for sources.list: $ man sources.list You would define (and export) the vari

Re: unistall or disable X-Mode, desintalar o desabilitar X-Mode, Debian Serge

Florian Kulzer wrote: pedro lopez wrote: My PC do can with the X-way, and the system generates an error when initiating, my interest not to repair that error, if to unistall or to desible the X-way completely. It is the first time that use linux, and not like doing that. I think the fastest w

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

S. Keeling wrote: [...] And it's really annoying on every install to have to fix user's PATHs adding /sbin so they can run ifconfig. [...] Create a link in /usr/local/bin to ifconfig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: updating drivers for an ATI card

[od] eeman wrote: [...] IT has become clear now that the reason why xwindow was not running was because of my video card. I found on ATI's site a Linux driver update.( Clicky clicky) however it only says it's

Re: amd64: needed packages for ati drivers

Toshiro wrote: Anybody know which packages should I need to install to be able to use the ati drivers? I'm trying to use the ati installer (ati-driver-installer-8.23.7-x86_64.run) in sid and I'm always getting errors; I suspect I'm missing some packages. Thanks in advance. Did you follow