Re: What is the "real GRUB"?

Thomas H. George wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:22:09AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Quote from /etc/default/grub: "...you can only use modes which your graphic card supports via VBE you can see them in real GRUB with the command vbeinfo." Besides what Tom suggeste

Re: finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:14:35PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > I have a Debian router with dnsmasq working. > It connects to the ISP with DHCP. What is the > standard way to find the ip address or addresses, > which dnsmasq is using for upstream nameservers? > Here are some things which do

Re: Getting uvesafb to work on Squeeze

Am Montag, 9. August 2010 schrieb Tom H: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On ye olde Gentoo I was a happy user of uvesafb at my laptop’s native > > resolution of 1400x1050. A while ago I installed Squeeze, and naturally, > > I would like it to also have a tiny consol

Re (3): finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

Tom and others, From: Tom H Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:39:34 -0400 > dnsmasq gets its upstream dns servers from /etc/resolv.conf unless you > have set it to get them from elsewhere in /etc/dnsmasq.conf. As in the earlier message. pe...@joule:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) fi

Re: building 2.6.35

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:48:48 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm > is a good guide to building a kernel the Debian way. It is written by > d-u regular and is included in the kernel-package documentation as > /usr/share/kernel-package/docs/Kernel.htm Unfortuna

Re: building 2.6.35

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:10:10 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: > > I have been fumbling my way though building custom kernels on debian > using this guide http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm. > > Though, I have been using the .config from the stock 2.6.32 kernel and > customising it to fit

Re: Re (2): finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:10 PM, wrote: > >> # Change this line if you want dns to get its upstream servers from >> # somewhere other that /etc/resolv.conf >> #resolv-file= > > But I don't want to change anything.  I simply want > to know the nameserver addresses. I had misunderstood that your dn

Re (2): finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

Tom, From: Tom H Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:09:37 -0400 > ... dnsmasq is therefore using 127.0.0.1 as its upstream server, ... By the way, 127.0.0.1 is the local host, my machine running dnsmasq. "Upstream" is anything in the outside world including the ISP. Regards, ... Peter E.

Re (2): finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

Tom, > # Change this line if you want dns to get its upstream servers from > # somewhere other that /etc/resolv.conf > #resolv-file= But I don't want to change anything. I simply want to know the nameserver addresses. > ... dnsmasq is therefore using 127.0.0.1 as its upstream server, ... >Fro

Re: finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, wrote: > I have a Debian router with dnsmasq working. > It connects to the ISP with DHCP.  What is the > standard way to find the ip address or addresses, > which dnsmasq is using for upstream nameservers? > Here are some things which don't help. > > joule:~# cat /

Re: Getting uvesafb to work on Squeeze

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On ye olde Gentoo I was a happy user of uvesafb at my laptop’s native > resolution of 1400x1050. A while ago I installed Squeeze, and naturally, I > would like it to also have a tiny console font. (The “Tiny Console Font” > thread is wh

Getting uvesafb to work on Squeeze

Dear group On ye olde Gentoo I was a happy user of uvesafb at my laptop’s native resolution of 1400x1050. A while ago I installed Squeeze, and naturally, I would like it to also have a tiny console font. (The “Tiny Console Font” thread is what got me into investigating this issue again). :o) I

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Re: What is the "real GRUB"?

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:22:09AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >Quote from /etc/default/grub: > > > >"...you can only use modes which your graphic card supports via VBE > >you can see them in real GRUB with the command vbeinfo." > > > > Besides what Tom suggested if y

finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

I have a Debian router with dnsmasq working. It connects to the ISP with DHCP. What is the standard way to find the ip address or addresses, which dnsmasq is using for upstream nameservers? Here are some things which don't help. joule:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for gl

Re: What is the "real GRUB"?

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:53:18 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Quote from /etc/default/grub: > > "...you can only use modes which your graphic card supports via VBE you > can see them in real GRUB with the command vbeinfo." > > ? Just wild guessing here but... you know that GRUB can be run insid

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy: SUCCESS

On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 18:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:50:22 +1000, pierre wrote: > > (...) > > >> A quick try: use openDNS dns servers instead your router's ones. > >> > > Sorry, I can only send where proxy permits me to send.. > > :-) > > In Thunderbird 3.x, just click on

Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy: SUCCESS

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:50:22 +1000, pierre wrote: (...) >> A quick try: use openDNS dns servers instead your router's ones. >> > Sorry, I can only send where proxy permits me to send.. :-) In Thunderbird 3.x, just click on the button "Reply to list" instead of "Reply" so the replies can reach

Re: Java applications and font size

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:50:36 +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Have you checked (inside the java app) for a setting to define the >> interface layout to use in the program? >> >> I can select from various flavours, each of one using different fonts: >> >> [x] System native (wh

Re: No Consoles???

On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 10:28 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > > John W Foster wrote: > > > Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue > > > with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using > > > te

Re: No Consoles???

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:22 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 00:18 +0200, mar...@martin52.demon.nl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On my lenny (debian stable) I use F? to switch to a > > full-screen console and I use F? to switch the desktops. > > On my squeeze (debian testing) it works th

Re: No Consoles???

On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 00:18 +0200, mar...@martin52.demon.nl wrote: > Hi, > > On my lenny (debian stable) I use F? to switch to a > full-screen console and I use F? to switch the desktops. > On my squeeze (debian testing) it works the same way. > These distro's run on the same AMD64 p.c., on differ

Re: No Consoles???

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 03:44 +, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:07:43 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > > > Still have an issue > > with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. > > How did you access consoles? F1 F2 directly? > > > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) > http://xpt.sourcefor

Re: No Consoles???

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > John W Foster wrote: > > Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue > > with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using > > testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen to manage my

Re: building 2.6.35

* Alexander Samad [100808 12:45 +1000]: > Hi > > I am looking at how to build 2.6.35 the debian way so I end up with > deb packages. http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html Elimar -- >what IMHO then? IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;) -

Re: building 2.6.35

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Alexander Samad wrote: > >> sudo CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image > > You shouldn't compile using root permissions.  You don't need to use > sudo there and it is not desired. >From the kernel-package documentation: 4% $Get_

Re: building 2.6.35

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: > > I am looking at how to build 2.6.35 the debian way so I end up with > deb packages. the current situation is 2.6.35 is avail in experimental > (>?!) with out a linux-kbuild packages - last time I asked about this > it was because they onl

Re: building 2.6.35

On 2010-08-08 09:39 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Alexander Samad: >> >> I am looking at how to build 2.6.35 the debian way so I end up with >> deb packages. > > The easiest way to get a kernel deb is to fetch vanilla sources from > kernel.org, unpack them and run 'make && make deb-pkg'. I am not

Re: building 2.6.35

Alexander Samad: > > I am looking at how to build 2.6.35 the debian way so I end up with > deb packages. The easiest way to get a kernel deb is to fetch vanilla sources from kernel.org, unpack them and run 'make && make deb-pkg'. I am not sure whether such packages create an initramfs on installa

Re: What is the "real GRUB"?

Thomas H. George wrote: Quote from /etc/default/grub: "...you can only use modes which your graphic card supports via VBE you can see them in real GRUB with the command vbeinfo." Besides what Tom suggested if you have "hwinfo" installed you can run as root 'hwinfo --framebuffer' and get the

Re: building 2.6.35

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Alexander Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am looking at how to build 2.6.35 the debian way so I end up with > deb packages. the current situation is 2.6.35 is avail in experimental > (>?!) with out a linux-kbuild packages - last time I asked about this > it was because they