can't open initial console and kernel panic

hello! i have a really critical problem. i tried hdparm to enable dma access. but after some tests the system hung and i had to shutdown manually. now i can't boot debian anymore. the error messsage is: Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=

Re: Logitech MouseManPlus, gpm, and X

On a related note, I've noticed that the resolution of my mouse has increased since I have put it in the ps/2 port (I need to move the mouse further to make the pointer move the same amount). Does anyone know of any way to ajust this is X or gpm (responsiveness in gpm doesn't seem to have any

isdnutils does not start ipppd

hello! my father just updated his system to woody, now we have some isdn connection trouble. every config files are the same as before and everything seems to works but when isdnutils are started, it says: starting isdn: interfaces and not interfaces, ipppd. so when trying to open a

Re: getting XFree (potato!!) to work with geforce 2 MX (- !!)

On Thursday 23 November 2000 13:38, Manuel Reiter wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: well, thanks.. the problem is how to get X running with potato? i don't want to tell my father to install woody. i guess he will compile xfree 4 on his own if there is no other solution

Re: getting XFree (3) to work with geforce MX

On Wednesday 22 November 2000 18:32, you wrote: I had a machine with this card as well. At the time I looked, the documentation on xfree86.org said that this card is supported in the developement version of X 4.?.?, but not currently supported in the official release, but will be in the next

getting XFree to work with geforce MX

Hello list! i recently helped my father to install debian (potato r0) on his box. everything was fine, but X is a problem. i have to say this was ever a problem since he upgraded his graphic card to a hercules 3d prophet which is using the geforce MX chipset. he tried mandrake before but when

problem with (large) fonts

hello! something i really hate about X is it's font support. they are either too big or too small or plain ugly. i hope things will improve in the future.. but at the moment i only have two problems, maybe somebody can help me: some large fonts look crippled. i see this mainly in webbrowsers

Re: Skipstone [was: Netscape 6.0]

On Saturday 18 November 2000 20:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. but | unfortunatly there is only a woody version :( is there any way to get | skipstone for a potato system? I have Skipstone running fine on my potato system, and I really

Re: Netscape 6.0

My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. i have found its certainly more of a pig, and its interface is very sluggish, it does tend to be less stable too, but only for certain sites. i think for most people sticking with

Re: Netscape 6.0

i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. I just installed Skipstone, and it looks good (suits me better than Galeon, at least). Apart from being leaner than Mozilla/Netscape (small wonder, it aims to do much less), it has the one single feature which made me pay for the Opera

Re: Bug#15490: konqueror reloads page when starting xmms files

this happens really often, but i never managed to reproduce it. i watch a webpage in konqueror. then i start a new mp3 file in xmms and konqueror reloads. Aliens took over your computer ? :-) maybe ;-) Sorry, this doesn't make sense. A reload is triggered by F5, a click on the reload

isdn timeout

hello! i'm using potato and a normal isdn installation. i get disconnected when i'm idle for about 2 minutes. this is really annoying, cause sometimes i have problems to connect to my provider and i don't want to wait 5 minutes for a connection, just to get disconnected 2 minutes later.. also

Re: libkdecore.so.3: I'm getting same error

i don't know what's up with the mandrake files but i guess it's a bug anywhere... yesterday evening i ran an apt-get update and it installed 96 (!) updated kde2 packages. i just stand up, typed startx and everything was fine again. maybe i had different versions of kdelibs and kdebase packages

how safe is woody

any hints? i guess i'll upgrade. i want a stable system, but old packages are not really stable :( i this breaks things, can i simply remove the woody sourcelist line to reconvert to potato?

KDE2 problems

hello! i installed the kde2 debs and everthing worked fine. then i made an update and now i can't start it at all. the output in .xsession-error is: *snip* ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: getButtonShift__14QPlatinumStyleRiT1 kdeinit: error

how to get the latest STABLE releases?

hello! i just switched to debian and it simply rocks! yesterday i added the kde2 line to sources.list, started the download and went to bed. next morning i typed startx and everything was up and running! i still can't believe it. now the only downside of debian is that potato isn't up to date.

Re: how to get the latest STABLE releases?

well, isn't this a bit stupid? i mean, to get new MORE STABLE versions i have to use the UNSTABLE tree? why aren't stable packages for the unstable tree moved to the potato tree? am i dammned to use years old unstable software packages until woody is released next year? can i use single woody

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

hello! i just downloaded M18 from this place and unpacked the archive to /usr/local/mozilla/ but i have problems to start it. when i try to run mozilla as root it says: - ranger:/usr/lib# /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin

Re: libqt2.2.x help

try ./configure --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt2 i guess there is a problem finding qt2 when qt1 is installed too. i'm not an expert in this, but maybe it works for you On Saturday 04 November 2000 21:13, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello, I am attempting to './configure' a new kde2 utility

Fwd: Re: ISDN Dial In

i just got my first debian cd's ever and everything worked fine yet. but like every time i have problems setting up the ISDN connection (maybe it's the most complicated task cause i can't get online help during the configuration ;) i installed the isdnutils package, the kernel modules

Re: ISDN Dial In

ok, i enabled debugging. in /var/log/messages i have the following entry when i start isdnutils: Nov 3 15:14:33 ranger ipppd: info: no PAP secret entry for this user! I am nut sure it is important, but might be wrong. I have: [19:56:11 /tmp]$ grep CHAP /var/log/syslog Nov 3 19:01:31

Re: ISDN Dial In (solved)

thanks for your help, i got it working :) i had a really long username, containing to # chars, maybe that was the problem. i found out that i simply can leave out this chars. than it works. in the ipppd.ippp0 file i had a string like this: user = foo#more#bar it's working in the pap-secrets file

ISDN Dial In

hello i just got my first debian cd's ever and everything worked fine yet. but like every time i have problems setting up the ISDN connection (maybe it's the most complicated task cause i can't get online help during the configuration ;) i installed the isdnutils package, the kernel modules for

processor type and architecture optimizations

hello! i want to compile optimized binarys. so i was told to use -O3 -mcpu=xxx -march=yyy where i have to replace xxx and yyy of course. my question is, what values i have to use. i got an athlon processor. i *guess* it should be -mcpu=i686 -march=i368 but it's really just a wild guess i don't