Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-09-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [***Snipilisation!!!***] David I maintain that RTFM is not a suitable response. Teach a man to fish And maybe the fish will evolve to grow legs, crawl up behind the man fishing, and bite him on the backside ;)

Re: debconf 1.1.30 broken?

2002-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: I have been having the following problem with debconf in the past week: root@expresso apt-get install debconf Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, debconf is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly

Re: Compile libssl from source package

2002-09-10 Thread Robert Ian Smit
Talking to myself again. Sorry about that. Anyway, for future reference, I would like to mention that recompiling libssl on a Sparc with the -mv8 flag to gcc really speeds up the login process. On the debian-sparc list, someone referred me to a message in the archive. See for more detail:

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many thanks for this. So I can read in the _system_ menudefs.hook and the autogenerated menus will appear? Of course you can: , | Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook Quiet | | Mouse 1 R A Menu /Debian ` This will bind the Debian menu to

Re: Errors in upgrading old Woody. Help?

2002-09-10 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:51:55PM -0400, David Teague wrote: [snip] dpkg --audit dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 16531 package `cpp-3.0': `Depends' field, reference to `gcc-3.0-base': version contains ` ' It look like there is a

/lib/modules/2.4.18 missing while recompiling the kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Hello Everyone :) So i finaly decide to upgrading the kernel.. All seems to be ok except one thing, the module suport. It's strange cause i enable this module process in the xconfig menu...But i haven't got a /lib/modules/2.4.18/ dir... Maybe someone can help me :)) Pierre --Pierre

Re: Controlling the list?

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Claudio Bley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 17:28, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; How do I get a list of commands for this list server? It seems to be a rather simple list server (actually, it's driven by SmartList which is based on procmail). Try to send a

Re: helo

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with my lq100 I`m using windows 2000 and i have problems printing the self test printes ok but when I try to print enything in windows it apears with a space the letters are broken with a white space between A troll, surely? Tom --

Re: /lib/modules/2.4.18 missing while recompiling the kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Matthias Szupryczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020911 04:07]: [..] All seems to be ok except one thing, the module suport. [..] Maybe someone can help me :)) After you have created your kernel image with 'make bzImage' or similar, do the following (line 177-180

Kernel Panic with 2.4.19-686

2002-09-10 Thread J.S.Sahambi
Well, thanks for the replies about kernel upgrading :) Based on these replies I just installed Kernel 2.4.19-686 with apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 Then I changed the lilo.conf for the new and old kernel. While booting from new kernel it panics and gives the following message and

finding the right package

2002-09-10 Thread Phil Reardon
How do you find which package might contain something you need? I need glib-config-2.0 (so I can configure fribidi, which is needed to compile abiword from source). I do not know what package to get. Thanks for any suggestions. PCR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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Re: finding the right package

2002-09-10 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-09-10 15:40:54, Phil Reardon wrote: How do you find which package might contain something you need? I need glib-config-2.0 (so I can configure fribidi, which is needed to compile abiword from source). I do not know what package to get. Thanks for any suggestions. PCR `apt-cache

Re: finding the right package

2002-09-10 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
Phil Reardon wrote: How do you find which package might contain something you need? Have a look at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages , you will find search facilities there that allow you to search the package directory or to search the contents of available packages. I need

Perl: bad interpreter

2002-09-10 Thread Jacob S .
I've got a friend using one of my Debian machines to learn Perl. Tonight he started with the universal Hello world script. It seems to work great when run locally, but gives the following command when you attempt to run it on a local machine while the file is located on a separate computer

Re: Kernel Panic with 2.4.19-686

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
VFS: Cannot open root device 306 or 03:06 Pleae append a correct root= boot option Does it /etc/lilo.conf have the correct root= line? Does the kernel have IDE drivers (not as a module)? (306 above is /dev/hda6 I think) Does the kernel have ext3 drivers (not as a module)? You can read the

What happens to modules after recompiling to a new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Irvin Temp
Good day, Trying to understand things as much as i can. I need a little help on some concepts here. I installed linux and it detected my hardwaree.g lancard and loaded the module for it. After installation i downloaded latest kernel and recompiledit with drivers builtin the kernel. Q1. When i

Re: Kernel Panic with 2.4.19-686

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
J == J S Sahambi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J Then I changed the lilo.conf for the new and old kernel. Did you add initrd options to the new kernel stanza? Debian kernels use initrd, and you have to tell lilo that (incidentally, the new kernel image out to have warned you). J While

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2002-09-10 Thread Phil Reardon
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Re: mtent warning - newbie

2002-09-10 Thread ernst
Hi You just need a new line at the end of fstab, at the end of the line usbdevfs, just hit enter and there's your new line. /ernst On 10 Sep 2002, Setyo Nugroho wrote: I got 3 rows of the flwg msg during booting: [mtent] warning: no final new line at the end of etc/fstab The same msg,

Re: finding the right package

2002-09-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:22:29AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: On 2002-09-10 15:40:54, Phil Reardon wrote: How do you find which package might contain something you need? I need glib-config-2.0 (so I can configure fribidi, which is needed to compile abiword from source). I do not know what

how to really disable screenblanking.

2002-09-10 Thread Alex Polite
I'm trying to disable screenblanking on my freevo box (freevo.sourceforge.net). So far I have tried combinations of theese: setterm -blank 0 xset -dpms xset s reset /*Reset options*/ xset s expose /*Turn's off all screen savers*/ xset s noblank /*Turn's off screen blanking*/ xset s off

Re: What happens to modules after recompiling to a new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread nate
Irvin Temp said: Q1. When i recompiled my kernel what happens to the old modules that i have will they be unusable or i can still use this modules? depends, 95-99% of the time the older modules are unusable. if the kernel rev is very small, e.g. 2.4.18 to 2.4.19 or 2.2.19 to 2.2.20 you may

Re: What happens to modules after recompiling to a new kernel

2002-09-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:58:54PM -0700, Irvin Temp wrote: Good day, Trying to understand things as much as i can. I need a little help on some concepts here. I installed linux and it detected my hardware e.g lancard and loaded the module for it. After installation i downloaded latest

System boots with 2.4.29 but problem with RTL-8139

2002-09-10 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I added the initrd=/initrd.img to the section of new kernel and it works. :) Thanks :) But, second problem has cropped up. My ethernet has stopped working. I am using RTL-8139. I checked the config file for the new kernel and it says 8139cp and 8139too are not compiled in kernel and they are

Install older version of libc6

2002-09-10 Thread Lukas Kubin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 By I mistake I've installed a libc6 version from unstable (2.2.5-14) and lots of packages from unstable version. How can I get them back to stable (Woody)? Thank you. - -- Lukas Kubin phone: +420696398285 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information

Re: Install older version of libc6

2002-09-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:41:19AM +0200, Lukas Kubin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 By I mistake I've installed a libc6 version from unstable (2.2.5-14) and lots of packages from unstable version. How can I get them back to stable (Woody)? Thank you. You may be

Re: dhcp/windoze question

2002-09-10 Thread ernst
Hi On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I'm setting up a linux box for my friend (dual-booting actually), but i'm going to have to set up the network setting and i was looking for some advice first (because i can't change how the networking is done on his entire network).

Re: Install older version of libc6

2002-09-10 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:41, Lukas Kubin wrote: By I mistake I've installed a libc6 version from unstable (2.2.5-14) and lots of packages from unstable version. How can I get them back to stable (Woody)? In general, downgrades are not supported, and if the incident involves more than one or

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