Re: gdm not starting

> Greetings, > > I just did a fresh potato install for a friend, including X 3.3.6, Ximian > Gnome 1.4 and the ~bunk updates for 2.4.4 and gdm doesn't start on boot, > although it starts fine with `/etc/init.d/gdm start' as root. > > I checked the permissions on the file and compared the file t

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Weird... seems like hard drive performance is > very important too:) In fact, disk is often more important than the processor! When building a box, I go for RAM, disk, and processor in that order. If you don't have enough RAM,

gdm not starting

Greetings, I just did a fresh potato install for a friend, including X 3.3.6, Ximian Gnome 1.4 and the ~bunk updates for 2.4.4 and gdm doesn't start on boot, although it starts fine with `/etc/init.d/gdm start' as root. I checked the permissions on the file and compared the file to my own and all

Re: LILO error: "ran out of input data"?

From: Brian Dunnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: LILO error: "ran out of input data"? Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:52:57 -0500 Hey all... Just tried installing Debian 2.2 on an old K6 I had lying around... after wading through LOTS of stuff (the installer crash

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

Thanks for the input guys... I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing... and I'll share my results if anyone's interested. The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files Imac 400 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive time= 53 seconds Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive time= 80 secon

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

> > then again, unless you are talking absolutely high volume, there is > > nothing of big computational cost that your server will do, so i'd > > assume a pentium would work just as fine. however, if you have the > > means, go for the G4! > > No, go for the PIII, especially if you're going to run

mouse config for PowerBook Pismo?

Would anyone have suggestions for configuring the mouse for X v.3, Debian Potato release? This is for use with an Apple PowerBook "Pismo" 2000. When I launch X, I get some sort of desktop environment (WindowMaker?) with the cursor locked dead in the center of the screen. It won't move with eith

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > is that a serious question??? > the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC > is just pittyful compared to RISC. Irrelevant with today's modern CPUs like the PIII.

Re: usb scanner setup?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:35:22PM -0400, mikepolniak wrote: > Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with SANE > in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results? You may be interested in this article... http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/990489359/index_h

Re: [users] Maildir protocaol spec?

also sprach Eugene van Zyl (on Wed, 23 May 2001 09:01:13AM +0200): > I want to use a maildir as a sort of queue for processing incoming > emails with structered data which needs to be processed and written > to a db. Now, once I've decided to read a message, I move it to > ./cur, but how do I let a

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700): > Which platform of hardware would be best? > G4 from apple > Pentium something from somewhere is that a serious question??? the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC is just pittyful compared to RISC.

i386 or PowerPc

Hi all... I was wondering if anyone has both of these models running and which one they preferred? Speaking of performance only... not about ease of install, price... orcompaibility...etc   Pretend its used in a server environment with around 100 workstations(300 + users)   r

Re: Driver help

Hello Nate, I am pleased that you responded, and it is reassuring that your answers were not just questions returned for questions given. I have considered installing Mandrake, but I didn't have a copy. Is it lots easier? In previous attempts to get help I have sent the same communication i

boot system under unstable

hi, the boot system and init scripts seem to have changed location upon upgrading to unstable, most importantly I can't find a rc.local. Can someone point me to a document describing the new boot system? thanks, Renai

Re: Anyone has P3V4X + Promise ATA100 card?

Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have P3V4X + Promise ATA100 card and wish to get a ATA100 harddisk. > Right now I have Maxtor ATA66 on the Promise card but often have the "hde: > timeout waiting for DMA" error. I am not sure if this is the problem of the > harddisk or kernel (I t

Re: open gl man pages

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:27:18PM -0700, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I'm struggling to find a debian package that contains the OpenGL man pages in > man form. Is there one? I think they're in /usr/include/GL/ ;) Funny how they don't follow the standard man format... Seriously, I don't t

Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

Subject: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls Date: Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:14:20AM +0200 In reply to:Carel Fellinger Quoting Carel Fellinger([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Recently I upgraded a box to woody and ever since it takes a lot of time > to start ssh from that box. Only starting fr

Anyone has P3V4X + Promise ATA100 card?

Hi everyone, I have P3V4X + Promise ATA100 card and wish to get a ATA100 harddisk. Right now I have Maxtor ATA66 on the Promise card but often have the "hde: timeout waiting for DMA" error. I am not sure if this is the problem of the harddisk or kernel (I try 2.4 and 2.2) or VIA IDE contr

Re: Setting up USB under 2.4

Hi I have tried all this and i have enabled USB FS... Here is a part of my kernel-conf #USB support # CONFIG_USB=m # CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y # CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH is not set CONFIG_USB_UHCI=m CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=m # CONFIG_USB_OHCI is not set # CONFIG_USB_AUDIO is not

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

And of course updatedb will rebuild the database which depending on your system may be a short time or a *very* long time. On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: > "locate -e" limits your output to files in the database which still > exist. > > > "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMA

Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure if it's the same in woody, but on potato I'd take a look > at the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. In there make sure that you have a > line like: > > hosts:files dns > > Sounds like yours is either not using "files" at all or you

sendmail

Hello. I am trying to use the userdb functionality of sendmail. I am currently running sendmail from testing, with a 2.4.4 kernel. I have tried to make sendmail rewrite the userid of my outgoing mail, by modifying: /usr/share/sendmail.cf/ostype/debian.m4 and /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

"Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I upgraded a box to woody and ever since it takes a lot of time > to start ssh from that box. Only starting from that box, connecting to > it is normal, and (quit telling) only when my internet connection is down. > > With tcpdump it's clear

Re: usb scanner setup?

Lance Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:35:22PM -0400, mikepolniak wrote: > > Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with SANE > > in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results? > > While we're at it, how about the HP 3300Cse? An

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

On Thu, 24 May 2001 23:05:52 BST, Patrick wrote: > > Changing to testing/unstable did the trick. Its booted. > > Actually, this 200MMX with its 128MB RAM and 8 Gig hard drive was my pride > and joy once upon a time. when I moved it from NT Server to Linux, most > felt I had passed up on a super

Bash history problem/question

Hello, System: "Debian 2.2.18pre21" - "486dx" Bash version: "2.03-6" Background: Recently I have written a shell-script that is supposed to append every minute new history lines to a alternate file where they are being processed further. Problem: The command `history -a file` can't be execu

Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

Recently I upgraded a box to woody and ever since it takes a lot of time to start ssh from that box. Only starting from that box, connecting to it is normal, and (quit telling) only when my internet connection is down. With tcpdump it's clear that the only thing going on over the net is a DNS que

Re: login problem! (SOLVED)

I haven' t a symlink to /etc/init.d/rmnologin. Now all it's OK Many thanks El Jue 24 May 2001 18:53, J. Ramón Fdez escribió: > Hi all, > When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: > > login: jramon > Sytem bootup in progress - please wait > > Password: *** > Login incorre

Best sniffer?

What's the fav sniffer for you Debian gurus? Whether a .deb, source, or whatever, what is the most versatile and all-round best sniffer that is available? Thanks! -Mike

Re: usb scanner setup?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:35:22PM -0400, mikepolniak wrote: > Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with SANE > in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results? While we're at it, how about the HP 3300Cse? Anyone have it working? Lance Simmons

usb scanner setup?

Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with SANE in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results?

Re: ProFTPd and inet.d

Thanx mate... I finally figured out is was the ServerType directive. So switched it from standalone to inetd and everything is a happy camper. Cheers all, Scott "Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" wrote: > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Scott Fraser wrote: > > SF> has anyone tried to configure the above combo under

Re: ProFTPd and inet.d

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Scott Fraser wrote: SF> has anyone tried to configure the above combo under stable? So far, SF> everything I try in /etc/inetd.conf doesn't seem to work. If I use the SF> init script from /etc/init.d it works fine, but I really want this SF> service TCP-wrapped. SF> SF> Cheer

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

Changing to testing/unstable did the trick. Its booted. Actually, this 200MMX with its 128MB RAM and 8 Gig hard drive was my pride and joy once upon a time. when I moved it from NT Server to Linux, most felt I had passed up on a superb desktop machine when I could hav eput any old bit of tin as

ProFTPd and inet.d

has anyone tried to configure the above combo under stable? So far, everything I try in /etc/inetd.conf doesn't seem to work. If I use the init script from /etc/init.d it works fine, but I really want this service TCP-wrapped. Cheers and thanx in advance folks. PS: yes, the ProFTPd is a .deb pack

Re: Multi-platform software development

On Thu, 24 May 2001, James Leigh wrote: > from what I have seems is is easy to port from linux -> win32 and very hard > to port from win32 -> linux. So the strategy for world domination should be: port apps to win32, when they get hooked... tell'em the apps run better on the OS they originally we

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

"locate -e" limits your output to files in the database which still exist. "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:16:26PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > > which locate (after updatedb) shows as being present when in actual > > fact they are not there. I did no

Re: Samba won't start

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | [...] | > Yes, that was it! Thanks. I had configured xinetd to run smbd and | > nmbd on-demand a while back, but forgot about it. Does samba work | > when run from xinetd?

Re: Setting up USB under 2.4

Hey, You have enabled 'CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS' haven't you? Also, if you have VIA chipset (that's what I have), make sure you're using 'usb-uhci.o', *not* 'uhci.o' Cameron Matheson On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:27:37PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all > > I have a USB Modem. Now i have enab

re: printer problem

I have discovered that apsfilterconfig writes three filters for my Brother HL-730 laser printer (which can simulate an HP LJIIP). In the printcap file it generates I find ascii|jet2p-letter-ascii-mono|jet2p lp|jet2p-letter-auto-mono|jet2p raw|jet2p-letter-raw|jet2p.

Re: Multi-platform software development

http://www.borland.com/kylix/ that my first thought, although you would be developing in Pascal, a c++ version is "on the way". gtk is ported to win32, so is gnome: http://www.gtk.org/ http://www.gtlinc.com/gnome.html http://www.gtlinc.com/uwin.html from what I have seems is is easy to port from

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #704

on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:32:03PM -0400, Marc Shapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please reply to list mail on list. Reply direct to list. Reply-to set to list. > Karsten, > > Thanks for the advice on which partitions can be used for both > releases. I certainly don't want to mess up apt-get

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:16:26PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > which locate (after updatedb) shows as being present when in actual > fact they are not there. I did not remove them by hand, it was only > when trying to do so that I found this situation. > > Does anyone have any explanation of why

open gl man pages

Hola~ I'm struggling to find a debian package that contains the OpenGL man pages in man form. Is there one? MO -- Michael O'Brien Tools Pixar [EMAIL PROTECTED] VIZZINI: You fell victim

Re: [users] Re: Unkillable process

on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:38:55PM -0700, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:23:13AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Tue, 22 May 2001 11:29:18PM -0700): > > > No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be > > > scrambled.

Re: login problem!

Log in as root. Look to see if you have a /etc/nologin file or an /etc/nologin.boot file. If you're seeing the "Sytem bootup in progress - please wait" message, that means that the nologin files are there, and only root is allowed to login. If those files are there, something went kinda wrong wit

Re: login problem!

This is happening because login won't allow non-root logins while the system is booting up. It thinks the system is booting up because of the existance of the file /etc/nologin. This file is removed automatically when entering multi-user mode. Two things to check: 1. What is your default run

Re: turning off exim on port 25

Yes, Exim will still deliver from the queue (there's a cron job to run every 30 minutes), and exim will still send outgoing email if needed. I use exim on any of my machines that will not be receiving mail for a domain. By eliminating the smtp line from inetd.conf, I don't show up with an active po

Re: MD5 passwords and NIS

Dave Sherohman wrote: > The debian installer warns about possible compatibility problems using MD5 > passwords in conjuction with NIS. Does NIS itself have difficulty dealing > with MD5 or is this warning just a reference to the possibility that some NIS > clients using the passwd map may not be s

Re: Debian2.2 and XFree86 version 4

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > > Does XFree86 version 4.x work well under debian2.2 (potato)? > Do you advise to install it instead version 3.x? > Does there exist debian package which installs XFree86 4.x > under debian2.2 ? > ... There are packages for XFree86 4.0.

/etc/rc* and locate

I installed qmail and after setup problems, removed it via dselect in favour of a simpler program more suited to my needs. The removal left a large number of files which I have since tried to delete by hand. All went without problem except:- /etc/rc0.d/K20qmail /etc/rc1.d/K20qmail /etc/rc2.d/S20q

Re: Samba won't start

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: [...] > Yes, that was it! Thanks. I had configured xinetd to run smbd and > nmbd on-demand a while back, but forgot about it. Does samba work > when run from xinetd? I would rather have as few permanent services > on this machine as possibl

MD5 passwords and NIS

The debian installer warns about possible compatibility problems using MD5 passwords in conjuction with NIS. Does NIS itself have difficulty dealing with MD5 or is this warning just a reference to the possibility that some NIS clients using the passwd map may not be set up to recognize MD5 passwor

Re: getting ps to not display all processes for normal users

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:09:43PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > How can I make ps so that it doesn't display all processes for normal users? > ps aux would thus still only show that specific users processes. Ummm... Use `ps ux` instead? >From man ps: aSelect all processes on a term

RE: login problem!

Hi Try type your password in the login prompt to see if it is really those characters. Sometimes keyboard misconfiguration causes the different character is displayed when a key is pressed. If that is the case, try kdbconfig as root to change that Edwin Lau -Original Message- From: J. Ra

getting ps to not display all processes for normal users

Hi, How can I make ps so that it doesn't display all processes for normal users? ps aux would thus still only show that specific users processes. Regards, -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Prism Wireless The Internet will destroy the barriers that are isolating people from decent opportunities

Debian2.2 and XFree86 version 4

Does XFree86 version 4.x work well under debian2.2 (potato)? Do you advise to install it instead version 3.x? Does there exist debian package which installs XFree86 4.x under debian2.2 ? Jan

Re: Missing mails

On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:00:53 PDT, Jaye wrote: > > G'mornin' Paul, > And good afternoon to you, Jaye > Have you looked into your mail queue to verify that there is no mail sitting > there undelivered? I can see several other possible problems, but you can > quickly verify if the problem i

login problem!

Hi all, When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: login: jramon Sytem bootup in progress - please wait Password: *** Login incorrect I put the correct password, but it doesn't woork. However, I can login as root successfully. Where is the mistake? Thanks

login problem!

Hi all, When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: login: jramon Sytem bootup in progress - please wait Password: *** Login incorrect I put the correct password, but it doesn't woork. However, I can login as root successfully. Where is the mistake? Thanks

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

Hello Abner, If you had NVIDIA.tar.gz on a floppy and issued that command, then you *should* be able to now look at the floppy and see that it just decompressed into a NEW directory on your floppy. I see another has mentioned the use of the "-" is not required for the tar command. Now, typ

A call for a donation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello all, I'm Aigars Mahinovs, a Debian Developer from Latvia. At the moment I am at my last year in the secondary school and I'm doing my Debian work from my home PC, but as of September, when I'll go to a high school this will no longe

Re: udma100

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:48:51PM +0200, Sebastian Ezequiel Ovide wrote: > hi: > where can I download the floppy set to install Potato in my machine with > udma100 ? > On your favorite debian mirror. Try http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/udma66/

Re: udma100

Sebastian Ezequiel Ovide wrote: > hi: where can I download the floppy set to install Potato in my > machine with udma100 ? ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/udma66/ -- Thomas Weinbrenner

Setting up USB under 2.4

Hi all   I have a USB Modem. Now i have enabled USB in the 2.4 kernel as module.   I have enable the core and the uhci (i have a Via chip) hub driver. I have also enabled the acm (modem) module.   After i have insereted all these modules i got the message that the driver has detected the hub

frustration using /etc/modules.conf & 2.4.4 kernel

I recently installed the 2.4.4 kernel (with the Linux Progress Patch, for kicks) but I haven't been able to configure the modules I'd requested. To be brief I'll describe the situation since I ran apt-get upgrade this week. Modconf would show just two drivers, but I hadn't chosen these with my mo

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

On Thu, 24 May 2001 17:18:30 BST, Patrick wrote: > > After compiling the new kernel, I get the 'uncompresing kernel...OK' text > and then nothing happens, the system just hangs and i have to reboot it. any > ideas!? > > My system is a P200 MMX with 128MB RAM. Debian 2.2 fully upgraded with a > s

Re: Increasing PPP Dialup connection timeout

on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:51:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > For the last few days, I've been unable to connect to my ISP via > dialup modem. Before this, I had no problem and it would connect very > soon after dialing. Now, there appears to be line noise p

Re: Determining IP address of my pc (dial up and/or cable modem)

Wayne Topa writes: > If you used pppconfig/pon > plog Or even if you didn't. Plog is just #!/bin/sh if [ -s /var/log/ppp.log ]; then exec tail "$@" /var/log/ppp.log else exec tail "$@" /var/log/syslog | grep ' \(pppd\|chat\)\[' fi It doesn't care how pppd was started or configured. -- Jo

Re: About PGP signatures

on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:57:17PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:43:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > get a real mail client that supports RFCs. the relevant RFC is 2015 > > > > i recommend mutt > > Supporting RFCs is fine and should be en

Re: Missing mails

G'mornin' Paul, Have you looked into your mail queue to verify that there is no mail sitting there undelivered? I can see several other possible problems, but you can quickly verify if the problem is your box by reading the mail logs. Find out where your mailer keeps it's running logs and

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

Do you still have the config file that you used for your 2.2 kernel? If so put it in the 2.4 source tree named .config and run make oldconfig. That will make sure that you have all of the same config settings that you had before and either confirm that is is a configuration problem or prove that

LILO error: "ran out of input data"?

Hey all... Just tried installing Debian 2.2 on an old K6 I had lying around... after wading through LOTS of stuff (the installer crashes at random points, I get "unable to handle null dereference" or kernel paging errors, and I get segfaults when the installer tries to unzip the base2_2 and driver

udma100

hi: where can I download the floppy set to install Potato in my machine with udma100 ? ciao -- Sebastián Ezequiel Ovide ICQ:113198452 Universitá degli studi di Padova Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > > In the continuing saga of this unix/linux novice > > trying to install NVIDIA drivers from floppy I learned > > how with the help of the responses from this list t

Re: printer problem

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Subject: printer problem > Date: Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:23:54PM -0500 > > In reply to:Thomas H. George > > Quoting Thomas H. George([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Trying to make printer (brother HL-730 on parallel port) work from > > debian linux

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

Good question but I did that change. I wonder would woody solve this problem or is that taking a leap too far? Bunk seems to have done a great job for those of us who need stable Debian servers with USB support but what's the point if I can't boot it. - Original Message - From: "Hall Ste

Re: Customizing Netscape w/.Xresources & .Xdefaults

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:11AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > A couple of years ago I asked this question and received a reply that > answered it. I need to ask again due to a recent destruction of all of > my systems including the archives. I want to remove the "SHOP" button > from the Netscape t

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

> After compiling the new kernel, I get the 'uncompresing kernel... > OK' text and then nothing happens, the system just hangs and > i have to reboot it. any ideas!? > > My system is a P200 MMX with 128MB RAM. Debian 2.2 fully > upgraded with a... Did you change the kernel's processor (CPU) selec

Re: Customizing Netscape w/.Xresources & .Xdefaults

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:11AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > A couple of years ago I asked this question and received a reply that > answered it. I need to ask again due to a recent destruction of all of > my systems including the archives. I want to remove the "SHOP" button > from the Netscape t

hde timeout waiting for DMA ... HELP!!

Hi everyone, I think there is numerous posting on this subject, but I don't really know what is going on. Anyway, I have a Promise ATA100 on P3V4X. When I tried to install 2.2 from scratch and doing a dpkg installation. hde timeout waiting for DMA errow showed up. I am using Maxtor 9102

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > In the continuing saga of this unix/linux novice > trying to install NVIDIA drivers from floppy I learned > how with the help of the responses from this list to > mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar > -xzvf NVIDIA.t

2.2 to 2.4

After compiling the new kernel, I get the 'uncompresing kernel...OK' text and then nothing happens, the system just hangs and i have to reboot it. any ideas!? My system is a P200 MMX with 128MB RAM. Debian 2.2 fully upgraded with a sources.list as follows: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sta

Re: nis +

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:37:43AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > Maybe he has confused nis and nfs. Although I'm not sure why nfs should be a > kernel space daemon either. Maybe for performance reasons, or maybe just the > range of things NFS must do calls for it. While I'm sure that perform

Re: cs89x0_cs precompiled?

Date: Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:26:55AM -0400 In reply to:Andrew Perrin Quoting Andrew Perrin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm having trouble compiling the cs89x0_cs module for a recycled IBM > EtherJet PCMCIA card, and wondering if: > > 1.) Anybody has one precompiled that I can pinch (kernel is

PCMCIA: Device or resource busy error

Greetings again - Still trying to get my second PCMCIA network card up and running. I managed to compile cs89x0_cs and get it installed right. I've verified that the card is visible to cardmgr: achebe:/etc/pcmcia# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "3Com Corporation", "3C589", "TP/BNC LAN Ca

Re: weird lilo problem

Can you mail your /etc/lilo.conf? Once upon a time, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >i have encountered an odd lilo problem. > >i have a scsi HD (linux) and an IDE HD (win2k). > >i configure lilo, run lilo, and it reports no errors. > >reboot, and lilo hangs

Re: gkrellm mail plugin

vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi glyn... > > fetchmail seems to work...i added that line, looked at the log file and > there it clearly logged the retrieval of my emails. as a result (i am > using telnet at the moment) your email also disappeared from the inbox i > was working on...the ema

Re: Determining IP address of my pc (dial up and/or cable modem)

Subject: Determining IP address of my pc (dial up and/or cable modem) Date: Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:35:57AM -0400 In reply to:Antonio Rodriguez Quoting Antonio Rodriguez([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I know this must be a very stupid question (+/+) flaming myself > Any way: I am not

Re: HOWTO recconstruct MBR

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Petr Danek wrote: PD> Hi list, PD> i have tarred backup of working partition .Is there some way to reconstruct mbr of that partiton to be bootable ? PD> I tried dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hdc1 with no luck. PD> where hda1 is working partition and hdc1 is partitio

Re: weird lilo problem

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:15:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have encountered an odd lilo problem. > > i have a scsi HD (linux) and an IDE HD (win2k). > > i configure lilo, run lilo, and it reports no errors. > > reboot, and lilo hangs. > > unplug IDE drive, run lilo again, and it rep

Re: HELP

A more detailed request might get a useful response... On Thu, 24 May 2001, Mike Barton wrote: > > > > -- Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I can afford a Free OS) Think this through with me, let me know your mind...Hunter/Garc

Re: iBCS broken with 2.2.19

Mike Barton wrote: > > ibcs-2.1-981105 compiles and works find with 2.2.18 but with 2.2.19 this > happens: > > pogo:/usr/src# modprobe iBCS > /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: unresolved symbol strlen_user > /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS failed > /lib/modules/2.

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > In the continuing saga of this unix/linux novice > trying to install NVIDIA drivers from floppy I learned > how with the help of the responses from this list to > mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar > -xzvf NVIDIA.t

iBCS broken with 2.2.19

ibcs-2.1-981105 compiles and works find with 2.2.18 but with 2.2.19 this happens: pogo:/usr/src# modprobe iBCS /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: unresolved symbol strlen_user /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS failed /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: insmod iBCS failed

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

On Thu, 17 May 2001 23:19:48 +0100, Mark Baker wrote: >I thought it did, but I've checked and it's only doing it on the >retry database (in /etc/cron.daily/exim), not the others. I'll fix >that. Below is my /etc/cron.daily/exim (it doesn't have exim_tidydb, though): #!/bin/sh # Uncomment the f

php-nuke

I'm trying to install php-nuke. I used deselect to install php4, and I uncommented the php4 load moduale statement in the httpd.conf, but when I go to the website it still tries to open the save program box. What am I missing? Wayne

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar > -xzvf NVIDIA.tar.gz". I could see written to the > screen all the various files being unzipped. Now I > can't find which directory these files are in. They > are not in the pare

Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

In the continuing saga of this unix/linux novice trying to install NVIDIA drivers from floppy I learned how with the help of the responses from this list to mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar -xzvf NVIDIA.tar.gz". I could see written to the screen all the various files being unz

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