On Saturday 01 June 2002 5:25 am, Simon Read wrote:
> I'm considering building an Athlon XP 2100+ based system. I'd like to
> build it with a 333 MHz Front Side Bus. I'm considering KT333 based
> motherboards from various manufacturers. I'm especially enamoured
> with the EPoX 8K3A+. Does
After an old SCSI CD-ROM dyin' I've replaced it with an IDE, temorarly, and
am usin' SCSI emulation on the drive, basicaly so everything is still the
same, but I've noticed when rippin CD's I get the followin' error.. I've not
seen this before is this just to do with the SCSI emulation or is it
On Saturday 16 March 2002 4:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only
> notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in
> it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the
> huge ha
On Saturday 02 February 2002 11:01 pm, Petre Daniel wrote:
> i got 2.2r4 and it says something but the package that is obsoleted when i
> try to apt-get install mpg123..
> what's happening? :)))
I know what you're talkin' about, I got it to from a 2.2r3 CD turned out that
mpg123 is only on the CD
Okay I did a dist-upgrade to the latest SID on 5/01/2002, replaced the new
bin-utils that caused the kernel not to compile but now I can't build
netfiler, I try any kernel and any version I get the following (or something
very simlar to). This is from a clean 2.4.13 source & then patched with a
On Monday 07 January 2002 1:54 am, Dries Kimpe wrote:
> on the original and copy. While I was doing that, load also got up to 3-4.
> Looking at top, I saw that some kernel daemon (think kupdated) got *AlOT*
> of CPU. The system also started responding slow (missing eth0 traffic,
> ...)
>
> Maybe it
On Sunday 06 January 2002 3:52 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and
> i'd love some advise from you wise people!
>
> i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb
> swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE dri
On Monday 31 December 2001 2:10 am, dman wrote:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html
I would use that page but I've yet to get a page from that server :( I can
ping it but I never get a page *sigh*. I thought it was a Freeserve problem
but it also happens on other ISP's :(... The only
okay, I'm wanting to use xlockmore to secure my machine localy.. but I
can't.. cause of that damn public logout box.. I've read the man & info pages
but I see no refrence about how to disable the damn thing. The other thing is
I also want to provent people switching to (unused)terminals I can se
The Largedisk-HOWTO is a little unclear about this, but I take it that Linux
couldn't give a monkys about the disk size specifed in the BIOS and will
address the full size of the disk (as long as it's below 127Gb). Is that
right?
Ani
22 y/o Fem, English, single mother of 1, Free-lance Audio & Comp Techi. with
NVQ
Okay I'm gettin' a SparcUltra 2 'toy' after I come back from the christmas
break I was kind of wantin' to run Debian on it. As I understand it I need to
use a 'Sparc64' Port but there's only a Sparc port, so what am I to do?..
give up on Debian for my Ultra & Run NetBSD or use the Sparc port of
hdparm is reporting harddrive performence of >30Mb/s, yet ext2 & ext3 when
copying from 1 disk to another (on seprate channels) performence is sub 5k
I/O per sec. but reiserfs I'm getting over 30k I/O's per sec EH? i've
obviously missed something here
Also how can I work out aprox. I/O's per se
On Monday 26 November 2001 05:25, jennyw wrote:
> I reinstalled Debian 2.2. After installing the base system, it rebooted
> fine to finish the rest of the install. I logged in and used it for a bit
> then decided to reboot again. This time it hung after showing "LIL-". I
> asked on #debian on IRC a
On Friday 23 November 2001 04:36, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes, and newbies are also users, so their questions are appropriate in
> > this forum.
>
> So you're saying newbie questions are appropriate...
Very much so!
> But no one wants to read newbie
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 01:08, Petro wrote:
> I have a little...issue with dselect.
>
> I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers,
> and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them.
>
> At least one of these pieces of software is a perl mo
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 00:12, Howland, Curtis wrote:
> > Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese
> > and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental
> > updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with it
> > in the morning.
> >
> >
On Saturday 10 November 2001 19:03, Stan Brown wrote:
> OK, I'v got the bug.
>
> I'm siting here thinking about giving my stero system (medium high end) a
> computer for Christmas :-)
>
> Seroiousl what have people done for computers used promarliy as a steror
> system component? Seems to me tahe n
On Friday 09 November 2001 00:01, Steffen Evers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 23:33, Aniartia wrote:
> > > Is it the same procedure with woody (XFree86 4.1.0)?
> >
> > Yes but you shouldn't need to do this:
> > > > in Xsession:
> > > >
>
On Thursday 08 November 2001 21:54, Steffen Evers wrote:
> Is it the same procedure with woody (XFree86 4.1.0)?
Yes but you shouldn't need to do this:
> > in Xsession:
> >
> > -
> > # Starts the imwheel process from the global
> > # Xsession file.
> > . /etc/X11/im
On Thursday 08 November 2001 00:31, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I had been using this method for about a year before I even
> > learned of apt-cache search, et all.
> >
> > If you install a program and it's missing a feature, check for
> > suggests and recommen
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:33, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> hey,
>
> what does it mean to have an S or an s when doing ls -l ??
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/)$ ls -l | grep home
> drwxrwsr-x8 root staff1024 Oct 15 12:02 home
I thought s = execute with SUID
And this is the point where I
On Sunday 04 November 2001 15:21, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> My little box crashed yesterday. The hard disk started making
> a repetitive whining, metallic noise.
Welcome to the world of dieing IBM as experenced by me 8 times.
> The hard disk is an IBM 40GB. Not sure of the model, but it's
> on
On Saturday 03 November 2001 17:24, John Purser wrote:
> Would someone either post a summary of the steps involved or point me to a
> HOW-TO that shows how to install this the debian way?
I got so confused I edited my sources.lst then
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# apt-get install apt debcon
On Saturday 03 November 2001 18:52, David P James wrote:
> My Debian Woody box has 128Mb of RAM, and a 128Mb swap partition...
> ...I understand that linux uses essentially as much RAM as it can
> because it is there. Now, I opened up that colossal memory hog, WP9 for
> linux. The RAM usage shot up
On Saturday 03 November 2001 09:52, Martin Kacerovsky wrote:
> My sources list:
> deb http://ftp.bg.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>
>
> I am in Czech republic but I think that bulgarian servers are "bloody" fast
> :)
QUIET! don't tell everyone!.. you'll spoil secret to f
On Saturday 03 November 2001 01:37, Stan Brown wrote:
> NOw, acording to the CD Recording HOWTO, I should be able to run "cdrecord
> -scanbus" and see what my avaialble devise are. Unfortunately, on both
> machines it just reports 7 slots, one of which has the SCSI tape in it.
I've always had prob
On Monday 29 October 2001 12:28, you wrote:
> this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my PS/2
> Mouse. Mh, what am I doing wrong...
It might be that it won't work :(.. from the XF86Config-v3 man pages:
Resolution count
sets the resolution of the device in c
On Monday 29 October 2001 11:24, Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I installed an USB graphic tablet under Sid w/ XF86 v4. I
> installed the tablet as second USB mouse device and it works well in X
> so far (okay, with no pressure sensitivity, but anyhow...). The problem
> ist that
On Saturday 20 October 2001 17:06, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Those are symbols from ncurses, as you would have seen if you had searched
> Google for the missing symbols. You need to install libncurses5 and
> libncurses5-dev packages.
Well I did, and 'twas what I first thought untill:
debian:/hom
I can't see any mechanisum to get the all dev packages besided geting them
down by hand one at a time. Have I missed something fundmental here?
Ani
On Saturday 20 October 2001 12:44, Tim Kane wrote:
> I'm new to debian itself, and seem to be having a problem with regard
> to modules.
>
> I've succesfully compiled and booted with kernel 2.4.12 without a
> problem. The issue I have is with missing modules.
>
> I've done a 'make modules' and 'mak
On Friday 19 October 2001 21:18, Craig Dickson wrote:
> To use ext3, you need a kernel that supports it. Patches for 2.2.19 and
> the current 2.4 kernels are available online. Also, Alan Cox's current
> 2.4 kernels (the -ac kernels) include ext3 support.
For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'spec
This only happens on my deb machine, do everything as I did on my other
boxes: untar a clean source, make & make install drivers, exicute the snddev
script, go into alsa-libs make & make instal, go into alsa-oss make & make
install, change ld.so.conf to include /usr/local/lib, ldconfig, go into
I've just finaly got X working only to find KDE, correctly, uses 75dpi font
rendering but gnome for some god forsaken reason is using 100dpi, anyone got
any ideas how to get gnome & kde on the same page, prefrably the 75dpi page?
Next thing, how do I get all of gnome down devel libs n' all with
On Sunday 14 October 2001 11:13, Colin Watson wrote:
> Are you running unstable? Have you read debian-devel or debian-x
> recently?
I think so.. and yes I did
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html
'Twas one of the first things I did.
Ani
okay I'm stuck on this one, xdm works great nice log in screen, but when I
try to log in I'm just dumped at xdm again, the only error I can find is:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-manager: No
such file or directory
(I get a similar one if I use startx from the cons
I've got a 2.2 r3 CD, an inet connection.. what's the quickest and pain-free
way to get to testing/unstable?
TIA
Ani
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