Kernel panic error

2003-10-20 Thread Anim Asante
I have got a grub menu.lst file with a section of the file looking like this  root (hd1,0)  kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1  boot   When I restart my machine and select this option, the boot up process begins up to a point and it gives the following error message:  Warning: unable to open an initial

Re: convert jpg pages to pdf file

2003-10-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:28:52PM +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > Have you got any LaTeX templates on doing this? > I care about things like auto-size the jpg files. Here is my template: === \newif\ifpdf \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined \pdffalse \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4pape

RE: motherboard temperatures

2003-10-20 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 3:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: motherboard temperatures > > > Greetings all, > > does anyone have a recommendation for a program to monitor > temperatures inside my box? Us

motherboard temperatures

2003-10-20 Thread Brian Walker
Greetings all, does anyone have a recommendation for a program to monitor temperatures inside my box? Using XP, I was getting feedback that the temps were too high despite 3 fans. The CPU was suffering. Now that HK temps are moderating a bit, I see no problem for now, but being forced to keep the

Re: Thanks Pigeon for Your mailfilterrc

2003-10-20 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 22:10, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:39:15AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > The dialog on spam has become so lenghty I am afraid you would never see > > my thank you note there. > > > > Just wanted you to know how much I appreciated your posting. > > Thanks

Re: Linux smb r/w access on subdir in Windows share

2003-10-20 Thread Doug MacFarlane
smbmount will do both IF your personal directory is also a share. You can mount the big share ro on /mnt/bigwin and the personal share rw on /mnt/personalwin BUT your personal share has to be a share. If it's a homedir, it may be a hidden share (starts with a $). I don't know how smbmount will

Re: Re: nVIDIA/Xft/OpenGL Problems

2003-10-20 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
Hi All, First up thanks Marc for your reply. Secondly in case anyone's wondering, I fixed my Q3A problem by supplying the correct libGL.so on the command line --- I think it had switched to using Mesa because I tried to run it with a broken nVIDIA setup. quake3 +set r_gldriver /usr/lib/libGL.so

Exim4 and MailDir

2003-10-20 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: Googling for an Exim4 + MailDir + HowTo has yeilded little of value to this poor soul. One referred to a maildirmake command, which isn't on my sarge box inspite of it's exim4 installation. I'm obviously missing something obvious here - does one simply enable maildir support in Exim4 and

Re: HELP - Need a DNS Guru

2003-10-20 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 13:57, Keith Goettert wrote: > > Ns1.helpfulhome.com is the DNS server for a variety of email and > websites. I have been having trouble lately with email arriving late > (several days) or not at all. As far as I can tell, this is a new > issue. I am concerned because loca

Re: software download

2003-10-20 Thread J. Javier Maestro
On Oct Mon 20 2003 02:01, SpawnPPC wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm Emanuele, from Italy. > > Where I can found and download with apt-get this software for DebianPPC > unstable distribution? > > - Wine > - WineX > - PSX Emulator > - Nintendo64 Emulator > - Atari Jaguard Emulator > - 3DO Emulator > - CD

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I will give up my keyboard and text mode interface when they pry it > from my cold dead fingers... I'm with you, there. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'`

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Brian Nelson
"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Watson wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: >> > What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug >> > about the boot logo in a new installation? >> >> Is this a logo that's displayed before

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:24:25PM +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 21:28:02, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:54:07PM +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: > > > I have a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 on CD-Rom 7 discs in > > > fact. Unfortunately my computer bios only p

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses instead of > the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from massively > collecting address from the web archives of this list? I will give up my keyboa

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:48:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private mail? I > think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. It's a bit far out for -curiosa as well, though... I think it would be good if there was a debian-offtopic

Re: Thanks Pigeon for Your mailfilterrc

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:39:15AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > The dialog on spam has become so lenghty I am afraid you would never see > my thank you note there. > > My copy of mailfilter (testing) did not like those line continuations so > I had to convert to individual entries - no probl

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Daniel B. wrote: That is not correct. On my home system, "vga = 10" gives me 60 lines of 132 characters, which is higher resolution than the default 24 x 80. My bad. which usually has the logo. To get rid of the logo, you probably need to recompile the kernel. That really sucks if true. A

Re: nVIDIA/Xft/OpenGL Problems

2003-10-20 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
Hi All, Sorry, please ignore my post, it was the well publicised fontconfig problem. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to connect to Freenode for the past couple of days. Actually q3demo still isn't working properly, but I'm sure I'll be able to get that one sorted out... then again, if anyone

Re: nVIDIA/Xft/OpenGL Problems

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:45:47AM +1000, Lucas J Barbuto wrote: > I'm running Sid with a custom 2.4.20 kernel. A recent dist-upgrade > provided me with nvidia-glx-1.0-4496-6 and new version of X-Window > (4.2.1-12.1). Among many other things. > Enlightenment and WindowMaker both managed to star

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joining in late On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 at 01:39 GMT, james terris penned: > >> > >> You moved the drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hde , meaning that the > >> physical location of the disk on your IDE chain has changed, right? > >> > >> So, um, w

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Andrés Roldán
"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> >> Daniel Barclay wrote: >> > Is it possible to disable the boot logo from LILO (e.g., via a kernel >> > boot parameter)? >> > >> > With vga=ask in lilo.conf, when I boot and select a video mode, it seems >> > LILO changes the vi

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Andrés Roldán
Just for the sake of being clear, LILO does not change anything in the kernel, it just passes parameters to the kernel and then, when the kernel has been completely loaded, LILO has nothing to do hereafter. Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to disable the boot logo from

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 21:32, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:55:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Marc Wilson wrote: > > >Feh. Why do these people think they should be running unstable? > > > > perhaps because it's the only usable debian distro/version? the > > stable is too

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Is it possible to disable the boot logo from LILO (e.g., via a kernel > > boot parameter)? > > > > With vga=ask in lilo.conf, when I boot and select a video mode, it seems > > LILO changes the video mode but the kernel immediately changes the mo

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel B.
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug > > about the boot logo in a new installation? > > Is this a logo that's displayed before the kernel is loaded? No, I don't think so. It

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 19:43, Tom wrote: > [Sunday 19 October 2003 19:09] John Hasler: > > > > To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like > > > are no option to me... > > > > What do you mean by graphical? Emacs has menus, icons, cut&paste > > with the mouse, mouse control o

woody spamassassin tests

2003-10-20 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi, Can someone tell me where I can find which tests are used/available in Woody's spamassassin package? I know I can do a "grep '^score ' *" in /etc/spamassassin, but does this tell me all the possible tests? In particular, there is nothing about matching MIME type html, which does look to

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 at 01:39 GMT, james terris penned: >> >> You moved the drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hde , meaning that the >> physical location of the disk on your IDE chain has changed, right? >> >> So, um, why boot=/dev/hda rather than boot=/dev/hde? > > Because I thought that boot= indicat

nVIDIA/Xft/OpenGL Problems

2003-10-20 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
Hello All, In a time of crisis I turn once again to debian-user... first the story. I'm running Sid with a custom 2.4.20 kernel. A recent dist-upgrade provided me with nvidia-glx-1.0-4496-6 and new version of X-Window (4.2.1-12.1). Soon after, I tried to start mozilla-firebird, which segfaulted

Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Damien Solley wrote: Hi Roberto The 2.4.22 kernel does have ACPI built-in, and the modules are definitely there: $ ls /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/ ac.o battery.o fan.othermal.o asus_acpi.o button.o processor.o toshiba_acpi.o I just doesn´t seem to be starting

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:55:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >Feh. Why do these people think they should be running unstable? > > perhaps because it's the only usable debian distro/version? the > stable is too old for desktops... testing is even worse than unstable... I

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug > about the boot logo in a new installation? Is this a logo that's displayed before the kernel is loaded? If so, my guess would be lilo. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-20 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:34, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Damien Solley wrote: > > Hi > > How do I enable ACPI with the debian kernel package > > kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (in Sarge)? I see that ACPI has been disabled > > by default with this kernel (closing bugs #210512, #210563, #210727, > > #211594

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread james terris
That installs lilo! yay! Of course now I have a new problem. When I reboot I get: LI So I changed lilo.conf from: disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hde1 to: #disk=/dev/hde #bios=0x80 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hde1 and now I get: LILO 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 0

Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Damien Solley wrote: Hi How do I enable ACPI with the debian kernel package kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (in Sarge)? I see that ACPI has been disabled by default with this kernel (closing bugs #210512, #210563, #210727, #211594). However, when I boot with "acpi=on" as a kernel argument, I get no ACPI

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Lance Simmons wrote: * Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031020 17:18]: Try apt-cache search epiphany (or whatever). Shows all packages with epiphany in the name. "apt-cache search " also shows all packages with in in the brief description and in the complete description. "apt-cache search br

Re: APM - Crash ?

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andy Neillans wrote: ( Re-submitted - last copy did not appear - sent 18th at 2:20PM) Hi, I have just installed Debian R3.0 onto a newish laptop (Packard Bell iGo 6000, which is a rebranded NEC Versa M300). If I enable APM, and cat /proc/apm I get a complete melt down - the screen fills with wh

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Daniel Barclay wrote: Is it possible to disable the boot logo from LILO (e.g., via a kernel boot parameter)? With vga=ask in lilo.conf, when I boot and select a video mode, it seems LILO changes the video mode but the kernel immediately changes the mode back (to whatever supports the logo). I want

Re: Initrd trouble

2003-10-20 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:13:59PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > modprobe: Can't locate module cramsfs > > mount: fs type cramfs not supported by kernel > > > I use romfs... So I guess I shouldn't need cramfs, why it tries to l

Re: 2.4.0 GNOME in Sid

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 15:11, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Now that I have done it (on Saturday afternoon) I did a "dselect update > > && apt-get -u dist-upgrade" > > Standard description of how unofficial Gnome repository packages are broke

Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-20 Thread Damien Solley
Hi How do I enable ACPI with the debian kernel package kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (in Sarge)? I see that ACPI has been disabled by default with this kernel (closing bugs #210512, #210563, #210727, #211594). However, when I boot with "acpi=on" as a kernel argument, I get no ACPI. Dmesg shows "ACPI:

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:55:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:09:19PM -0400, TR wrote: > > > >>I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star > >>a gnome terminal anymore. > > > > > >Yes, and certainly you're going to get L

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:09:19PM -0400, TR wrote: I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star a gnome terminal anymore. Yes, and certainly you're going to get LOTS of help with that problem, given this EXTREMELY informative report you've made. W

Re: Initrd trouble

2003-10-20 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > modprobe: Can't locate module cramsfs > mount: fs type cramfs not supported by kernel > I use romfs... So I guess I shouldn't need cramfs, why it tries to load > it, no idea. > I created the initrd with mkinitrd (the debian package)

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Tom said on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:49:11PM -0700: > > I know it's not the Unix way, but it takes me 30 minutes to blow away my > > HD and rebuild EVERYTHING (os, apps, user prefs). If my system gets the > > slightest bit untidy I

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:09:19PM -0400, TR wrote: > I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star > a gnome terminal anymore. Yes, and certainly you're going to get LOTS of help with that problem, given this EXTREMELY informative report you've made. Why, I'll just bet

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Olav Lavell writes: > Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a > "minimal" distribution The Debian base system is too much? > Yeah, unless you start installing stuff that did not came packaged from > Debian. > For instance, I like having a conservative Woody base syste

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread Lance Simmons
* Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031020 17:18]: > > Try apt-cache search epiphany (or whatever). Shows all packages with > epiphany in the name. "apt-cache search " also shows all packages with in in the brief description and in the complete description. "apt-cache search browser", for exam

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 23:06 GMT, james terris penned: > > That installs lilo! yay! > Of course now I have a new problem. > When I reboot I get: > > LI > > So I changed lilo.conf from: > disk=/dev/hde > bios=0x80 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hde1 > > to: > #disk=/dev/hde > #bios=0x80 > boot=/dev

Please permanently block *@lists.debian.org from your mailing lists: [info@bairestrade.com: canned peach in syrup x 850 grs.]

2003-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
Bairestrade: Someone is apparently subscribing one or more mailing lists at @lists.debian.org to your mailing lists. These relate to a computer-related project, the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, which has no interest in your mailing lists. This has been reported to several spam reporting agenc

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tom said on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:49:11PM -0700: > I know it's not the Unix way, but it takes me 30 minutes to blow away my > HD and rebuild EVERYTHING (os, apps, user prefs). If my system gets the > slightest bit untidy I just start over. Huh? a) Course it the Unix way. b) 30 minutes? Yo

Re: Does anyone know how to...

2003-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:29:34PM -0400, Thomas Pomber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > fix the network settings for Xmule so that it will work properly? > > I'm running linux out of my xbox using Ed's Debian, which comes with > Xmule pre-installed. But it doesn't download. I tried editing the

Re: no sound

2003-10-20 Thread David Christensen
Sharon: > can you help me get the sound back on my computer it use to have sound > i took it to someone to fix it they fixed it but then i notice i have > no sound and the person that fixed it is no longer in bussiness > imagine that Of course we can help! :-) Can you please provide us with so

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:10:39PM +0100, Andrew Borland wrote: > [New User Alert] Please read install mamnual and, if you care, Debian Reference :-) You can start at: http://www.debian.org/doc Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread james terris
Hello, I recently had to move my hda drive to hde and now I can't figure out how to reinstall lilo so it knows to boot off hdie instead of hda1. If I boot off a floppy I can mount hde1 (mount /dev/hde1 /mnt) and see all my system files. I then modified /mnt/etc/lilo.conf to say: disk=/dev/hde bios=

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:43:35AM +0200, Olav Lavell wrote: > Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a > "minimal" distribution :) > > I did my first Debian install "right" after like 25 times. The install > program has no more secrets for me :) I'm still a noob, but I

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Olav Lavell
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > This is one of the things I love about debian -- it doesn't make any > assumptions about what you want on your machine. It installs the very > basics necessary to run the OS and update your packages, and then you > can choose what to add to your set

Konqueror and Firebird under gnome/gmc

2003-10-20 Thread Joseph Jones
I have Firebird and Konqueror on the same system with gnome/gmc. In gnomecc, under Document Handlers/Default Applications, I have Konqueror set. However, if I happen to have Firebird open when I actually open a url with gnome, it sends it to Firebird instead of Konqueror. Do I need to change so

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel B.
Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:09:35PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > > Is this something I need to do something about: > > > > Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > > > > > ... > > > > ... > > ... W

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
TR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star > a gnome terminal anymore. Congratulations. I take it you've tracked down the nature of the error, looked on http://bugs.debian.org/gnome-terminal, and reported the bug if it hasn't already

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 21:08 GMT, Andreas Janssen penned: > Andrew Borland (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> 1) Can anybody suggest any obvious reasons why I was not offered any >> of the X setup screens during the original installation? > > By default, Debian will not install XFree. You can howe

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
james terris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I enter the command: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt > > And i get the error: > > sh: /lib/ld_linux.so.2: version 'GLIBC_PRIVATE' not found (required by > /mnt/lib/libc.so.6) Not having any idea what you're booting off of, does s

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-20 Thread John Yurcik
--- John Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the answers.I did look at the read me > at > nvidia and it didn't illuminate what would solve > this. > (I upgraded my video card and then had Xserver > failure > in debian.) Anyway here is the results of uname -a & > my /usr/src/. > >[EM

Re: Sound stutter

2003-10-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 20:48 GMT, Michael Bona penned: > Hi all, > > one things really bugs me about my Linux box: Playing MP3s or Oggs is > frequently interrupted for a split second when there is a little more > than the usual disk activity. Say I open one programme and close > another at the sam

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 20:56 GMT, james terris penned: > Hello, I recently had to move my hda drive to hde and now I can't > figure out how to reinstall lilo so it knows to boot off hdie instead > of hda1. > > If I boot off a floppy I can mount hde1 (mount /dev/hde1 /mnt) and see > all my system f

APM - Crash ?

2003-10-20 Thread Andy Neillans
( Re-submitted - last copy did not appear - sent 18th at 2:20PM) > Hi, > > I have just installed Debian R3.0 onto a newish laptop (Packard Bell iGo > 6000, which is a rebranded NEC Versa M300). > > If I enable APM, and cat /proc/apm I get a complete melt down - the screen > fills with what appear

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Bona
David Palmer. wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:00:59 -0600 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0800, David Palmer wrote: >> > >> > What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without >> > disturbing epiphany the browser (with bo

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:23:30 -0400 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without > > disturbing epiphany the browser (with bookmarks). > > What I'd suggest you do: > > (0) Install apti

update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread TR
I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star a gnome terminal anymore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Andrew Borland (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > 1) Can anybody suggest any obvious reasons why I was not offered any > of the X setup screens during the original installation? By default, Debian will not install XFree. You can however select it at the end of the installation via dselect or t

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/10/03 05:22), David Palmer. wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:00:59 -0600 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > > > > > > What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without > > > disturbing epiph

Sound stutter

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Bona
Hi all, one things really bugs me about my Linux box: Playing MP3s or Oggs is frequently interrupted for a split second when there is a little more than the usual disk activity. Say I open one programme and close another at the same time. For the duration of that disk activity, sound stutters. Co

upgrade kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Sidney Brooks
I gave up on my well reported, here, effort to get my custom kernel 2.4.22 to support CD writing. I decided to try a prepackaged debian kernel as someone suggested here. As long as I was going to the trouble, I chose kernel-image-2.6.0-test4-1-386, using apt-get upgrade. It took over five hours to

Re: sed problem

2003-10-20 Thread Dave selby
Dave selby wrote: I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag & put it in a string. ie specialist cards I need the "specialist cards" in a variable $titlecontents I thought it would be easy with sed sed -n '//,/<\/title>/p' But no go. I have tried various ways but to no avail. Any ideas ?

disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is it possible to disable the boot logo from LILO (e.g., via a kernel boot parameter)? With vga=ask in lilo.conf, when I boot and select a video mode, it seems LILO changes the video mode but the kernel immediately changes the mode back (to whatever supports the logo). I want to boot using a higher

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:00:59 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > > > > What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without > > disturbing epiphany the browser (with bookmarks). > > Since the browser

moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread james terris
Hello, I recently had to move my hda drive to hde and now I can't figure out how to reinstall lilo so it knows to boot off hdie instead of hda1. If I boot off a floppy I can mount hde1 (mount /dev/hde1 /mnt) and see all my system files. I then modified /mnt/etc/lilo.conf to say: disk=/dev/hde bios=

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Kent West
Andrew Borland wrote: [New User Alert] I've just, sort of, completed my first installation of Debian and I'm ready to start asking questions. Installation is Woody 30r1 from the .iso images with apt-get configured to use CDs and also http, so I ended up with quite a bit of stuff automatically

package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug about the boot logo in a new installation? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
* David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > and you'll generally get a segfault where the program actually messes > up, rather than when the symptoms are seen later. There's a cost in > both memory and runtime, but using LD_PRELOAD inside gdb makes this a > lot less permanent. The thing that I fi

Re: mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Kent West
Marlin Unruh wrote: Is icew part of the debian install or is it from off the web? I would like to look at it if you recommend it. I prefer programs that are less dependent on a mouse. Hotkeys are so much faster Be aware, icewm is much less pretty and full-featured as KDE, but of course, that also

Re: Driver Support for Intel Motherboard

2003-10-20 Thread Mathieu Roy
"Srikanta Prasanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Dear Sir, > I am Srikanta Prasanna from Bangalore > (India) doing my final year Degree. I recently installed Debian > (Knoppix 3.2) on my system (P4, 2Ghz, 845 GLAD Intel motherboard). I > am not able to

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:24:24PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..I said "check out". Sissy Boy George declared war on 9/11/2001. > Both Bush Presidents has violated Arts. 87 and 86 in Iraq and Israel > enough to earn a death sentence under US law. As has Castro on > his failure to free "the un

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Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread jjluza
Le Lundi 20 Octobre 2003 19:12, Derrick 'dman' Hudson a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:25:26PM +0200, ananymous wrote: > | And is there a deb package for Sun's jdk? > > http://www.blackdown.org/ > > ( deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ sid main non-free ) > ( deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub

No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Andrew Borland
[New User Alert] I've just, sort of, completed my first installation of Debian and I'm ready to start asking questions. Installation is Woody 30r1 from the .iso images with apt-get configured to use CDs and also http, so I ended up with quite a bit of stuff automatically fetched from the securi

RE: mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Marlin Unruh
Kent, Thank you for the pointers on my mouse dilemma. I am currently at work, and the machine is at home. I will give it a whirl ASAP. I just built the box Saturday with new and spare parts and wanted to check debian out, but can't get around without the mouse. Is icew part of the debian install

how do you fix a lost interrupt error?

2003-10-20 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Anyone got any ideas on how to properly exit from a lost interrupt error? Occasionally my cdrom will hang and I get this: 'hdc: lost interrupt' Most often occurs when I've been swapping cdroms a lot looking for something. it'll run like that forever if i let it usually i hit the reset button to get

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Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
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Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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Re: 2.4.0 GNOME in Sid

2003-10-20 Thread Mental
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Now that I have done it (on Saturday afternoon) I did a "dselect update > && apt-get -u dist-upgrade" > > Now, for the fun part: > > Whence restarting gdm I get: > > > duke:~# /etc/init.d/gdm start > Starting GNOME Display Manager:

Re: 2.4.0 GNOME in Sid

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Now that I have done it (on Saturday afternoon) I did a "dselect update > && apt-get -u dist-upgrade" Standard description of how unofficial Gnome repository packages are broken deleted... Remove the unofficial packages you're using,

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:35:13AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > It isn't right. What it means is that an interrupt was asserted, but by > > the time the hardware got around to telling the CPU, it wasn't there any > > more. IRQ7 is the lowest priority interrupt, and that's where the service > > ro

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Your idea of "easier" does not reflect that of the open source > community, apparently. What does "open source" have to do with storing email addresses in archives in a format that is easily harvested by spam-bots? Does "open source" == "no p

Re: mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Kent West
Marlin Unruh wrote: How do you open the menu without the mouse working, with hot keys? Rob Wier wrote: Depends on what you're talking about. KDE? GNOME? I am using KDE. I had to mess around in the XF86Config-4 before I could even get startx to start KDE. I would like to know how to move arou

Driver Support for Intel Motherboard

2003-10-20 Thread Srikanta Prasanna
Dear Sir, I am Srikanta Prasanna from Bangalore (India) doing my final year Degree. I recently installed Debian (Knoppix 3.2) on my system (P4, 2Ghz, 845 GLAD Intel motherboard). I am not able to find a driver for my motherboard (the audio is not dete

Re: mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Kent West
Marlin Unruh wrote: Hi, I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If so what should I try for the set

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Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:35, iain d broadfoot wrote: > Hey list, > > I'm having a few problems with programs dying: > > liferea:0x407196c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 > gaim: 0x407466c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > I can't see a bugreport about this on libc6, and it doesn't

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