Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-15 Thread geek.
Are there .deb's out there for this? will this totaly break xfree86-common and all related 3.3.6 stuff?

2.6 removed in Sarge?

2004-03-04 Thread gEEk
Do anyone notice that 2.6 got disappeared in sarge? Why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Weird File Change in Debian Sarge

2004-02-22 Thread geek
My box is a P4 Xeon whitebox server w/ 1Gram, 3ware 7506-8 raid card hooked with 4x 160G maxtor HDD as RAID 5. Debian Sarge Plain 2.6.3 kernel LVM on root partition. XFS(built as module) filesystem on all partitions except /boot which runs on reiserfs I have lots of stories to tell about this serv

ifaddrlist missing

2002-11-13 Thread Geek Assault
Since I installed my last hand-compiled linus kernel I'm experiencing some problems with ifconfig and traceroute. Both of them are incapable of getting the ifaddrlist I guess. This is the output I get : :: sudo ifconfig : error fetching interface information: Device not found :: sudo ifconfig et

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-29 Thread Geek Assault
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:01:47AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Please help. I have loaded Debian on a Compaq Presario. X windows is > working fine, but I have no audio. The motherboard has an integrated > ES1869 chip for audio. Can anyone tell me which driver I have to use, > and how to get it se

which app uses what bandwith ??

2002-09-08 Thread Geek Assault
Are there any proggies around that'll show me what bandwith goes to which p= roggie ?? (No, not really the ntop stuff). Something that'll show me what goes to galeon, what to gtk-gnutella, stuff = like that. Does that even exist ?? Nobody seems to have heard about anything like this anyway .. Thx

Re: Setting num lock portion of keyboard to start as default

2002-09-09 Thread Geek Assault
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:13:13AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How do I do it? Both console and X. > Thanks 2 all > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NumlockX is what you need. Check http://dforce.

low ripping speed ??

2002-09-09 Thread Geek Assault
I'm using grip to rip with a recent DVD drive (bought in july). The rip speed is VERY slow, i don't get much higher than 2.4x. Someone suggested using cdda2wav instead of the standard slower cdparanoia, and I checked the DMA too, but still no effect. Is this behaviour normal ?? Am i missing a k

Re: integrity checkers

2002-09-12 Thread Geek Assault
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:52:23PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > tripwire's only in unstable right now, which is enough to make me want > to finally ditch it and go for one of the other integrity checkers: > > aide, samhain, integrit > > the question is, which one? can you provide some infor

Starting out...

1997-09-19 Thread Ms. Geek
For an account of my ongoing experiences building my computer, check out my website: http://www.amazoncity.com/~msgeek/clones/ "Ms Geek's 3D House Of Clones" Take care, --.\\<-H-- The World Wide Web-famous Ms. Geek "That's Ms.

Re: Starting out...

1997-09-20 Thread Ms. Geek
if your motherboard comes with an USB port, make sure >you can disable it through the BIOS setup program ; Linux seems to >dislike USBs. Yes, the PM8600 tweeze on the Award BIOS allows you to turn off any port you don't want. Including PS/2 rodents and USB. >Good luck wit

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 4/30/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo Geek wrote: > > >My mouse works fine under X, as a 2 button mouse. It has a trackball > >which doesn't work, whichever mouse I select. IT is a cheap mouse. I > >have tried using many protocols to make

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/1/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo Geek wrote: > > >On 4/30/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Deboo Geek wrote: > >> > >> > >>>My mouse works fine under X, as a 2 button mouse. It

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/1/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Deboo Geek: > > > > Yes, I'm doing it on the usual console, not under X. > > > > Here's the file content of gpm.conf: > > > > device=ttyS0 > > Mine says /dev/ttyS0 >

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/1/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Deboo Geek: > > On 5/1/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Incoming from Deboo Geek: > > > > > > > > device=ttyS0 > > > > > > Mine says /dev/ttyS

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/1/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Deboo Geek: > > On 5/1/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > From /etc/gpm.conf: > > > > > > # If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using > > >

Re: Mouse on console

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/2/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Deboo Geek: > > > > FIrst of all thanks a lot to Kent for pasting me the info from some > > howto, that did the work. setting the protocol to ms3 worked. Now, the > > only thing remaing is making t

Re: printing under debian

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 4/28/05, Jpydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now I am in icewm. so no more help from KDE-tools. so how can I configure > printer under icewm. I used Lprng but I like to adopt the *CUPS* system, so > what are the packages I need for cups ? Here's a step by step guide to configure and t

Re: Recommended kernel?

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/2/05, Vegard|drageV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then kernel 2.6.8 it is.. Thanks for the help folks!! > > Cheers, Vegard > > On 5/1/05, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vegard|drageV wrote: > > > I have not heard about that, but if that is so, I can try 2.6.8. > > > Still you d

gmailfs in debian sarge mounts the fs but shows no files

2005-05-01 Thread Deboo Geek
I installed gmailfs and fuse and as per the News-Debian.gz file, installed the fuse source and comiled the fuse module for my kernel and everything went OK. I am able to mount gmailfs and also get the mesage - "INFO:gmailfs:Connected to gmail" But after that I do not get any other message, and if

Re: gmailfs in debian sarge mounts the fs but shows no files

2005-05-02 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/2/05, redpike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/1/05, Deboo Geek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed gmailfs and fuse and as per the News-Debian.gz file, > > installed the fuse source and comiled the fuse module for my kernel > > and everything went O

New kernel compiled does't work, gives errors

2005-05-06 Thread Deboo Geek
Why does it happen that when a working (modular) kernel which is working fine on one system (a P - III), when copied to another system (a P4), boots but gives hundreds of messages a bout modules. I did copy the modules directory under the same subdirectory as it si on the other system. DOes a kerne

Re: New kernel compiled does't work, gives errors

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Nacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:32:56PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > > > Why does it happen that when a working (modular) kernel which is > > > working fine on one system (a P - III), when copied to another system > > &

Re: Recommended kernel?

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/3/05, Rob Brenart (TT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >They are in unstable, but they work fine in testing (2.6.10 does, > >anyway; haven't used 2.6.11 but I'm sure it is fine). > > > >On 5/1/05, Vegard|drageV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I will try these two candidates, but neither is availe

mp3 flash player support under debian

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
How well are these devices supported and which ones are supported? Where can I get the list? Is there PNP support for these devices in debian? Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any permissions etc. Now when I run firefox, it asks me to select one of the listed profiles but if I select any of the two, it says that the profile is already in use (even

A Vi (Vim) question

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
A small Vi question: How to move ahead/forward a line when in insert mode. I always have to use the arrow keys to move forward, when in insert mode. Is there any way to move ahead without shifting my right hand from the alphabets to the arrow keys? Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to

Screen: How to copy paste between ttys?

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
How do I copy/paste between different screens running on different ttys? And is there some console program that is something like the console "note" program and also runs under X (as a native X app, not in an xterm window) Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

Dydns service

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
Anyone knowing of a dydns.org kind of cheap service? I would like to use my own domain yet a cheaper service, because I would need it only for a few minutes everyday and not after that. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

Can Solaris and Debian co-exist?

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
Can I install Solaris on an HDD with a Debian (Sarge) system already installed? What do I need to do in order for both to work? I have Debian using just one partition, and the other is a swap partition. Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

CD-RW not detected at bootup

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
Running a 2.6.11 custom built kernel. It recognizes the CD Drive at boot but does not load the ide-scsi module at bootup even when it's mnentioned in /etc/modules. But if I manually load it, it works fine. So, right now I have made an alias cdrw="insmod /path/to/ide-scsi" and type cdrw everytime I

Config file for routing in debian

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
Where does debian store it's config in for the routes that show up with the route command? I have an eth0 card and running pppoe to connect to my ISp service. But the route that is already there is set to use the ip of the ethernet card as the default gateway. I need to set this up manually everyt

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:03:03PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > > I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also > > changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any > > permissions

Re: Screen: How to copy paste between ttys?

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:12:28PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > > How do I copy/paste between different screens running on different > > ttys? > > I suggest using the mouse and install the gpm package. Then it

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Deboo Geek wrote: > > > A small Vi question: How to move ahead/forward a line when in insert > > mode. I always have to use the arrow keys to move for

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Deepak, R. (Masatran, R.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Deboo Geek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-05-08 > > A small Vi question: How to move ahead/forward a line when in insert > > mode. I always have to use the arrow keys to move forward, when in > > inse

Re: Screen: How to copy paste between ttys?

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-05-08T11:31:08-0400, Allan Wind wrote: > > On 2005-05-08T17:12:28+0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > > > How do I copy/paste between different screens running on different > > > ttys? And is there some console p

Re: Dydns service

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Matt Florido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo Geek wrote: > > On 5/8/05, Mostafa Z. Afgani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>dyndns.org has a free service. Perhaps that's what Paul was referring to. > > > > > > T

Re: Dydns service

2005-05-08 Thread Deboo Geek
On 5/8/05, Matt Florido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo Geek wrote: > > On 5/8/05, Matt Florido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I was trying out ipcheck script, but if ddclient supports zoneedit, I > > might use that instead. One question abou

Testing

2003-06-29 Thread Greek Geek
Knock, knock -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring start options of X

2003-07-05 Thread Greek Geek
out wich package configures what? Try "dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xfree" *HTH* Greek Geek :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation

2010-01-29 Thread Tech Geek
So I have been using my current Debian instalaltion for almost a year now and over this time I have installed, purged and deinstalled a lot of packages. It seems that the status file maintains a list of all the packages and their current states that have been ever installed on the system since the

Re: Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation

2010-02-01 Thread Tech Geek
> > Jeffrey, > > >Don't know if there's automatic way. But one way you can try is to write a > >script to remove those sections whose "Status" is not "installed" in the > >file /var/lib/dpkg/status. > I thought about that but I wondering if APT package management has some > in-built way to do it au

Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"?

2010-02-02 Thread Tech Geek
So I know my system has 2 GB Memory. debian:~# uname -a Linux debian 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 02:23:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux debian:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2063496 kB MemFree: 30268 kB Buffers:396792 kB Cached: 744344 kB SwapCached: 29612 kB Act

Re: Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"? (SOLVED)

2010-02-02 Thread Tech Geek
James, >( 2015 / 1024 ) = 1.96GB, which is what you are expecting. > But Int( 2015 / 1024 ) = 1, which is what you are seeing. Thanks for the wonderful explanation.

Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Tech Geek
I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from the init scripts on my console: Activating swap...Done

Please recommend: Simple, Web-based Issue tracking system for internal use

2010-03-10 Thread Tech Geek
Hi all, I am planning to use a issue tracking system (on Debian Lenny PC) for reporting bugs against software packages (not related to Debian or any linux distribution) internal to my organization. Here is a brief overview of the process...

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

2010-03-15 Thread Tech Geek
Did you take a look at this? http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debirf I have used it couple of times and I have been able to boot from RAM. The package is not in current stable version though but you can easily backport it.

Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Tech Geek
utomate this installation process through a script also keeping in mind that the dependencies of opera package might change in the future. Alternatively, if anyone can suggest a better method on how to achieve that would be great. Thanks, Tech Geek

Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Tech Geek
My bad...I didn't realize opera has a Debian repository..That should certainly solve the problem... Thanks for all your inputs...

Can't install deb kernel in chroot environment

2010-03-23 Thread Tech Geek
I know this use to work in Debian Etch but it is not working in Lenny. So I am trying to install a kernel image (after custom compiling) on a exisiting Debian Lenny installation which is on a hard drive partition (/dev/hda5). Here is what I am doing as "root" from a current Debian installation (on

Re: [SOLVED] Can't install deb kernel in chroot environment

2010-03-23 Thread Tech Geek
> Also, you should mount proc inside of the chroot, not to /proc. `mount -o bind > dev /mnt/dev; mount -t proc none /mnt/proc` Thanks! That worked!

Where is this deb.opera.com repository still coming from?

2010-03-24 Thread Tech Geek
I was under the impression that whenever you run apt-get update it reads the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list file and fetches the contents of it but apparently something else is going on too... So somtime back I added the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list: # Opera Browser Rep

glxinfo setting to verbose mode outputs no extra info?

2010-03-25 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, I am using Debian Lenny on a PC. I am trying to figure out why direct rendering is not working so upon giving "glxinfo" command I get: # glxinfo > glxinfo.txt name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) server

Re: glxinfo setting to verbose mode outputs no extra info?

2010-03-25 Thread Tech Geek
> What driver do you use? Basically I am using ATI Rage Mobility M1 card and Xorg is using "mach64" driver. # lspci | grep VGA 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M (rev 64) # # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver X.Org XInput driver : 2.0 (==) Match

Re: glxinfo setting to verbose mode outputs no extra info?

2010-03-26 Thread Tech Geek
Thanks Ron for the link. That was informative. I will try to go that route. But the original question still remains unanswered as to why setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose does not produces more ouput as it claims. Should I file a bug report against mesa-utils package?

Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Tech Geek
So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86 processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox, opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a crawl and becomes slow and sluggish. The system load increase up tp 5, the C

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Tech Geek
>You can try adding swap but I doubt it will help much as the disk is so old and slow The hard drive is quite recent and supports up to UDMA2 speeds although I too think that adding swap space won't make a difference. >Adding another 128MB or 256MB of memory would probably help the most with that

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-05 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, So I did get a chance to add swap to my system and guess what it made a significant difference. I had two instances of iceweasel, one instance of gedit, 3 gnome-terminal window open and the system is still running pretty decently. I know there is always the debate between how much Swap is suff

Re: Include a ftp client in initrd

2009-11-17 Thread Tech Geek
> Why not use a more complete busybox? I don't think busybox has ftp client in it. It has ftpget.

Re: Finding the source for a NIC driver.

2009-11-17 Thread Tech Geek
The source of your NIC driver should be in all kernel sources for each of the kernel that is installed on your system. Does that help? Type: # uname -r and see what kernel are you running and then check the source of the corresponding kernel?

Mounting partition from one drive to another driver (bind?)

2010-01-27 Thread Tech Geek
So my Debian Lenny is installed on /dev/sda1 (ext3 formatted). My VMware Virtual Machines are stored at the following locations on /dev/sda1 # ls -l /var/lib/vmware/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-22 16:35 hostd drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2010-01-25 12:21 Virtual Machines # I am r

Finding kernel modication that caused the boot failure using git-bisect?

2011-01-11 Thread Tech Geek
Back in the days when Debian repo had the linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686_2.6.30-8~bpo50+2_i386.deb kernel, I had installed on my PC. Now I have installed the current kernel package from lenny-backports -- linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686_2.6.32-29~bpo50+1_i386.deb. The problem is that the old 2.6.30 ker

Re: Finding kernel modication that caused the boot failure using git-bisect?

2011-01-13 Thread Tech Geek
Never mind. Found it in one of the Linus' post on LKML.

Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Tech Geek
Hello, I was wondering where can I find (or view) the .config file for the kernel (vmlinuz) that comes on the Debian Squeeze install discs. I tried searching on the internet but nothing came up. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Tech Geek
> It should be available at /boot/config-`uname -r` That would be true after the system installation finishes. What I am looking for is the config file for the kernel runs the installation process. For some reasons I suspect that there might be some difference between the kernel that installs Debia

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-08 Thread Tech Geek
> It is in the boot directory of the linux-image package, which is on the > first disk or in the packages section at www.debian.org. So, from what you just said, it means that both the kernels, one that runs from the install disc and the one that gets installed on the hard drive are exactly the sa

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

2011-07-11 Thread Tech Geek
Sven, > AFAIK the kernel in the installer is > split into many small packages from the regular linux-image package. So > the possible differences are version skews when a newer kernel hits the > archive, and missing modules that are not packaged for the installer. You are right. I discovered that

How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Tech Geek
In Debian Lenny, X server use to correctly load the video driver (mach64_drv.so) for my VGA card: debian:~# lspci -v | grep VGA 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) After upgrading to Squeeze, X server defaults to vesa dri

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Tech Geek
>There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when > it does. Yes, I am aware of that, except that, in this case X does not detect the correct driver automagically...:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Iceweasel crashes with Illegal Instruction error message

2011-07-14 Thread Tech Geek
Hello, This happen on a fresh installed Debian 6.0.2 with 2.6.32-5-486 kernel. Running Icewesel web browser: # iceweasel crashes as soon as the brower loads with the error message "Illegal Instruction" Running Iceweasel with the following two commands works fine and I no longer see the crash: $ i

Re: Iceweasel crashes with Illegal Instruction error message

2011-07-15 Thread Tech Geek
> Are you sure you don't have flash player or java or any other plugin/ > extension installed? They can be located in many places. Run: > > locate libflashplayer.so Running the above commands returns nothing. I am sure I have not installed any plugin, extension, add-on, etc. after installing icewea

How to set the status of packages from "purge" to "install"

2011-07-19 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, After upgrading, installing and removing some packages from Lenny to Squeeze, I ended up with the following situation: debian6.0# dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt debian6.0# cat packages | grep purge cpp-4.4 purge dmsetup

Re: How to set the status of packages from "purge" to "install"

2011-07-19 Thread Tech Geek
> (Save yourself a few keystrokes: just type 'grep purge packages.txt'.) Definitely! Thanks for pointng that out. >sed -i 's/purge$/install/' packages.txt >dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt OK, so it is just done manually. I was wondering if there are any special tools (like dpk

Graphics Driver for XGI Volari Z9M card?

2011-08-02 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, I am trying to get my Graphics Card (XGI Volari Z9M) on Debian Squeeze, but I can't seem to find the correct driver for it. I tried the xserver-xorg-video-sis [1] driver by specifying the driver explicitly in the xorg.conf file: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device

Unknown key released messages in dmesg

2011-08-02 Thread Tech Geek
On my Debian Squeeze System, I get the following messages after the system has been running for some time: [ 16.218059] sshd (1565): /proc/1565/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/1565/oom_score_adj instead. [ 3584.185304] atkbd serio0: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x6e on isa00

Debian Xorg server release version confusion

2011-08-04 Thread Tech Geek
Hello, As per the Xorg website [1], the latest stable release is 7.6 which happened on 20 December 2010 and the next stable release will be 7.7 [2] somewhere in 2011 (which is not out yet). So my question is how come Debian Squeeze (stable) has Xorg server (xserver-xorg-core) 7.7 [3] already if t

Re: Debian Xorg server release version confusion

2011-08-05 Thread Tech Geek
I think I found out the reason...Every X release i.e. X11RX.X has a X server version associated with it. For example, X11R7.5 has X Server version 1.7 and the latest X11R7.6 has X Server version 1.9 [1] which clears the confusion. [1] ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Release_history -

Re: Graphics Driver for XGI Volari Z9M card?

2011-08-05 Thread Tech Geek
> Maybe related to this: > > xserver-xorg-video-sis: Black screen on PDX-089T with XGI Volari Z7 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610710 Not sure, since I have a Z9m card and I cannot find anywhere in the package information whether it supports this card or not. > In the meantime

Re: Graphics Driver for XGI Volari Z9M card?

2011-08-05 Thread Tech Geek
> SiS provides an updated driver at their site: > > *** > http://w3.sis.com/download > > Xorg (1.4~1.7) > File Name       2.81.08.zip > Version         v R2.81.08 > Release Date    2010-10-25 > Support Products        Z9s , Z9M , Z11 , Z11M , > File Size       19,925KB > Support OS      Linux , Yes

/etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
I have uncommented the following line in the /etc/inittab file on Debian Squeeze: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 Basically, I am trying to output a login console on Serial Port 1 also. This works if my system starts up normally i.e. via xdm->fluxbox. However, I want to do a auto lo

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
> suspicious that I am compelled to ask if you are really sure that is > the correlation?  Please double check. Yes, I double checked that. As soon as I revert back to installing xdm, the login console appears on Serial Port 1. > Are there any messaged logged to /var/log/syslog concerning failure

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
Ivan, >        I guess that the inittab(5) entry in question is only started >        after rc.local finishes.  Therefore, starting startx(1) in the >        background may help. That was it. Adding "&" at the end of the command in rc.local did the trick! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Fan not working properly on Dell Inspiron N5010

2011-08-18 Thread Tech Geek
> FATAL: Error inserting coretemp > (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko): No such > device Try installing a more recent kernel like 2.6.39 from Squeeze backports [1]. 1: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/linux-image-2.6-686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Fan not working properly on Dell Inspiron N5010

2011-08-18 Thread Tech Geek
Sorry, I just realized that you are on a 64-bit machine. Try this: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/linux-image-2.6-amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-08 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, I am using Debian Lenny on x86 machine. I need to make the following command permanent upon every boot: xset s off -dpms I am booting into GNOME with GDM. I have tried adding this to my /home/user/.xinitrc file: #!/bin/bash xset s off -dpms and made it executable: chmod +x .xinitrc but it

Re: xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-08 Thread Tech Geek
>Is xset the only X client when it is run? Xorg resets its state when >the last client connects... The only other "active' program running is the totem player playing a .avi file. No network/ethernet cable is attached to the system. Also I forgot to mention that I am auto-logging into GNOME but t

Re: xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-08 Thread Tech Geek
>How is totem playing when .xinitrc is run? Not quite sure what you mean. This is the sequence. BIOS->Grub->System Boots->Systme Auto logs into GNOME->Totem Runs automatically (through sessions->startup script) .xinitrc file resides in my home directory /home/user/.xinitrc.

Re: xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-09 Thread Tech Geek
>I'd put a zenity line in there ( zenity --info --text "Run from .xinitrc" ) >that will wait for you to press 'ok' I tried it. I do get the dialog box but after clicking "OK" I get the dialog saying: "Your last session only lasted for less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this

Re: xset command setting not sticking

2010-09-09 Thread Tech Geek
OK after doing some more research I found the answer. 1. nano .xsession 2. Add contents: #~/bin/bash xset s off -dpms & exec gnome-session 3. chmod +x .xsession 4. Make sure the session "Xclient" is selected in GDM. That's it!

Upgrade SVN in Debian Lenny

2010-09-27 Thread Tech Geek
I am using Debian Lenny (amd64). I need to upgrade the current version of Subversion (1.5.1) on my Lenny system to something more recent, say 1.6. I noticed that Debian backport does not have the 1.6 version but Debian testing (squeeze) has 1.6 which is what I am looking for. What is the best way t

Giving svnadmin permissions to a regular user

2010-10-03 Thread Tech Geek
I am running Debian Lenny with subversion installed. I have a normal user called "svnmaster" to whom I would like to give permission to run all the svnadmin commands. How can I do that. My repositories usually live in /var/lib/svn/. I do not want to share the root password with this user (john). T

Installing latest version of mediawiki & removing Lenny's mediawiki package

2010-12-10 Thread Tech Geek
I am using Debian Lenny on my AMD Anthlon X2 box. Currently I am using mediawiki version 1.12 that shipps with Lenny. However, I would like to upgrade to latest version of mediawiki 1.16 [1]. I know Debian backports has 1.15 but I want 1.16 (or whatever is the latest version). What is the best met

Re: Debian Install Hangs

2010-12-10 Thread Tech Geek
Try the following kernel parameters -- first all of them together and thereafter in combination: acpi=off nolapci noapic

Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?

1998-04-24 Thread Bob the Geek
' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > > hi, > > I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom > for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages > that you know of? > > allan bart > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsu

Re: StarOffice

1998-04-26 Thread Bob the Geek
Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Hi, > > Does it list 'Lotus', 'Lotus123', '123', 'WK?', or anything else > that appear to be a Lotus file type? > Lotus 123 1.0 for dos Lotus 123 1.0 for windows and Lotus, as well as most any other major file system is supported. The puppie has balls. -- To UNS