Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed > > in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? > > It tends to be fixed, but on some hardware there's nothing the kernel can > do &

my font suddently become very ugly

2000-01-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly. I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that all other window's manager have the same problem. when I say fonts, I mean the fonts that is used by the application, such as t

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

2000-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed > in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? It tends to be fixed, but on some hardware there's nothing the kernel can do & human intervention is needed. I think you know what you

I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Forcing Full-duplex on D-Link 530TX (via-rhine driver)

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
I observe lots of collisions on my NIC. The nic is a D-Link DFE-530TX, and is talking to a Realtek8139 card on the other end. The Realtek card is configured in full-duplex 100baseTX mode. I looked thru the driver source (via-rhine.c), and there's no mention of what kind of media and mediaopt param

Re: replacement for secure-su

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Ernest Johanson wrote: Does anyone know what happened to the secure-su package, and whether there is a replacement? I couldn't find it in unstable, and the search function on debian.org is down right now. Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc me as I am getting the digest. Thanks

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote: $ ulimit -v unlimited $ ulimit -v 32767 $ ulimit -v 32767 $ ulimit -v 32768 bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted OTOH if you're talking about someone who switches his shell to get around the limits, that's my whole point. I need to know how to

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since > they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where > pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be > ulimited past that. Hmmm. How would a user "

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote: Then (in /etc/limits) I set "no limits" on my own accounts: - I would actually want to keep at least some of the limits on my own account as well, just to prevent a runaway process from causing problems, that is why i am interested in limits so reasonable no one

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-11 Thread John Dalbec
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an > 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried > autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In > almost all cases,

Re: Multiple Boot

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
LILO will do just fine. See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.html On 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > Alright so i'm cheap. > > I need a multi-boot prog, but I want a free one. > > I have a 5.3 gig hd with win98 on hda1 and linux on hda5 > > I also need s

Multiple Boot

2000-01-11 Thread atray
Hello list, Alright so i'm cheap. I need a multi-boot prog, but I want a free one. I have a 5.3 gig hd with win98 on hda1 and linux on hda5 I also need some help either setting it up to boot. Thanks, A.T. Ray *** Free voicemail and email, by phone or Web! Free phone calls too! Get it to

Re: iplogger is crashing my computer

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
I've also heard about those problems. I can't remember the details off-hand, but they can be found on the BUGTRAQ mailing list (www.securityfocus.com has an archive). I've done a bit of searching myself for the "ultimate ip logger" and I really prefer iplog. http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/ It has

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where > (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, Start out at http://www.themes.org They've got themes for pr

Re: can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-01-11 Thread John Foster
"Russell D. Cook" wrote: > > I'm running a Potato system at home. This weekend I inadvertently ran > apt-get dist-upgrade instead of apt-get dselect-upgrade. > > After the upgrade, I can't boot. I get "LIL-" and the system locks. > Can someone tell me what LIL- means, if anything, and whether a

Interviews for Debian positions at the LWE in New York

2000-01-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is looking for more Debian developers and persons with skills in web site design and implementation. Offering competitive wage in the Bay Area. Stock-Options, Quarterly Bonuses and Hiring Bonus. We are located in Emeryville which is *not* directly in San Jose but the North Bay

(off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey Everybody, I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: Manpage problems ?

2000-01-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
Dear Scurvy Newbie This is obviously a date problem. Run mandb -c man directories to index all manpage and in the future make sure newly intalled manpage date are later then the indexes or better yet go back to dos an never darken this discussion group again you hapless scoundrel. On Sa

@Home not working

2000-01-11 Thread Guyren G Howe
I'd be grateful for some advice about why I can't get a basic TCP network running on this *&^%&$%&^ thing. I have a Debian 2.1/Corel box. It has two tulip Ether cards, which work fine on my local LAN. (2 cards because I want to set up NAT, but I figured I'd get basic internet connection working fi

Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: "LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0100 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions >| (max 4) and located in the

Re: icecast-server install error

2000-01-11 Thread steve j. kondik
if the init.d script is trying to stop it, just do this: rm /etc/init.d/icecast touch /etc/init.d/icecast chmod +x /etc/init.d/icecast this will just make a dummy file that will satisfy dpkg so you can --purge it and try reinstalling it. -steve On 01/10/00 @ 04:39PM, Ryan White wrote: > > I se

icecast-server install error

2000-01-11 Thread Ryan White
I seem to have an problem installing icecast-server. Unpacking icecast-server (from .../icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ... start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/icecast: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess

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