Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

As I know, there are also bibg applications ported from DOS to linux (like doom), I thoughtm that would be easy - just start a cross compiler, then fix some issues, ready. But I believe, it is not that easy, I suppose, this is a lot lot lot work. And as far as I understood, code from DOS C is fa

Re: No sound after bullseye install

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:52:12 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Yeah, that was it. I hadn't installed ALSA at all. I wasn't aware > > that pulseaudio sits on top of ALSA. > > Because PulseAudio "sits on top of" ALSA it also depends on it. Some > command-line tools for ALSA are not installed by de

No sound after bullseye install

Hi, after installing Debian bullseye I can't get sound to work. I'm using lightdm + dwm, and I have pulseaudio installed. "pavucontrol" ist stuck on the message "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..." I don't understand zilch about how sound on Linux works, but my previous version

Can't get sound to work

Hi all, this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the configuration file doesn't help. No other sound-outputting program works. H

Re: How to set up a WLAN?

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:40:30AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > I don't have any rt-2xxx or rt-25xx packages > installed, so support > must be compiled in the kernel(?). Those are just the modules. Can you do a lsmod | grep rt to see which one you've actually loaded? wifi-radar doesn't work eithe

How to set up a WLAN?

Hello, this message is all the more strange since I had wireless up and running with Debian once. But that system got hosed about a year ago for some reason or another, and now I've got it set up again and I'm completely stumped with the WLAN thingy. $ lsusb Bus 005 Device 003: ID 2001:3c00 D-Lin

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I see what you are saying. Tell me, in mutt can I have several (5-6) > compose messages open and switch between them and the main window that > I'm copying / pasting from? No, at least not in a single instance. > Also, will mutt reme

exim question

Hello, Due a to an error in my /etc/exim4/passwd.client, quite a bit of mail was refused by the remote SMTP relay host. I now fixed it but can't find the messages any more. Does exim dump them? I still have them in my sent-mail folder and can bounce them, but I thought there maybe was some queue s

How to do SMTP AUTH with exim?

Hello, I'm trying to send out email using exim. As I'm behind a firewall I can't just connect to any arbitary SMTP server out there but have to relay through my institution's SMTP server which requires authentification. Unfortunately I haven't found any information on how to make exim authentifica

Resurrecting ancient IOMEGA ZIP drive

Hello folks, for one last time I wanted to set in motion my old, parallel-port IOMEGA Zip Drive to back up my stack of disks before I retire (read: dump in the trash) the whole shebang for good. I think the proper driver is ppa. I connected everything but nothing happens. "Happens" in the sense t

"less" or "man" clear-screen issue

Hello, when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with "less", what bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two terminals (or use screen) when I need to keep an eye on the manpage while trying to comp

After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

Hello, After I did a sarge->etch update on the weekend the machine frequenty hangs during bootup with the message: waiting for root filesystem. All I can do is type "reboot" at the (initramfs) prompt, then it reboots and usually gets beyond that point. But of course now I'm in my office, and my w

DVD ROM Drive mounting confusion

Hello, in my box I have a DVD-ROM drive and a DVD burner. I ide-scsi'd both of them (because I occasionally use multi-session DVDs which, when using the ATAPI driver, are not mountable any more if the last session is beyond a certain position). This sould make the drives appear as /dev/scd0 and /d

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I don't know much about this, but you seem to have 2 vga= options > above. that could be part of the problem. Look, wise guy. There's a good reason why there are 2 such options given. In case you haven't figured it out youself, I'll tell you: I A M

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

Florian Kulzer wrote: > I use vga=0x303 and that looks exactly like Knoppix's fonts on my > terminals. However, I think this also depends on the kernel > configuration options related to the console fonts. Here is what I have: > > $ grep -i font /boot/config-$(uname -r) > # CONFIG_FONTS is not se

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > I use vga=791 however it depends on your video card to support it. > > Which video card is it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | grep VGA :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

Florian Kulzer wrote: > I use vga=0x303 and that looks exactly like Knoppix's fonts on my > terminals. However, I think this also depends on the kernel > configuration options related to the console fonts. Here is what I have: > > $ grep -i font /boot/config-$(uname -r) > # CONFIG_FONTS is not se

How to get those nice console fonts?

Hello, I'd like to have my console (non-X) fonts small and neat like Knoppix's. I tried the various vga=xxx kernel options but all of them produced bigger and uglier fonts. How is it done? --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

Jakub Narojczyk wrote: > Hi gdm and kdm are both "resource consumeing" so i recomend using xdm or > just startx command on an old machine. Especially when You're short on > RAM. Yes they are. gdm a lot more so than kdm (I chucked gdm because I thought it was even too slow on my 3GHz Athlon). > A

DVD ROM Drive confusion

Hello, in my box I have a DVD-ROM drive and a DVD burner. I ide-scsi'd both of them (because I occasionally use multi-session DVDs which, when using the ATAPI driver, are not mountable any more if the last session is beyond a certain position). This sould make the drives appear as /dev/scd0 and /d

Installing Fonts

First off - I can't believe I'm the only person having this trouble, but I couldn't find any useable information about this on the Net. Well, I'm trying to install a collection of TTF fonts on my Debian system. The strange thing is that I've managed it once but can't reproduce the way I did it. I

Re: Reliability of deborphan?

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:07:24 +0100, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you what's safe to delete. In one instance, the Opera browser has (had?) motif dependencies. However, because Opera is not a Debian package, and doesn't actually fail to install without the libmotif package, deborphan

Re: Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:29:02 +0100, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my S40unmountfs: echo -n "Unmounting local filesystems..." umount -tnoproc,noprocfs,nodevfs,nosysfs,nousbfs,nousbdevfs,nodevpts -d -a -r echo "done." # This is superfluous. mount -n -o remount,ro / The umou

Re: Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:47:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before power off, the filesystem has to be unmounted or it risks corruption. Since its being used (is busy) by the very scripts trying to unmount, it can't. The answer is for it to be remounted ro. Makes perfect s

Re: Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:27:12 +0100, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you try to fsck / while it is mounted read-write, you will be warned that this is a very bad idea. Note that I don't try to check / on shutdown, and / also isn't checked by checkfs.sh. I'm wondering what makes / re

Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

Hello, every day I turn my computer off when I leave work. Consequently, I have to turn I back on when I get back. About twice a week, of course, one of my 6 harddisk partitions is ready for its routine check on startup which costs me precious worktime. In an attempt to gain maybe 2 hours cum

Re: Need help with apt-move

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:00:11 +0100, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > try these and see if you can interpret these results better. > dpkg -l|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c > grep "Status" /var/lib/dpkg/status|sort |uniq -c Hi Kevin, thanks, but the numbers don't change: 850+ packages insta

Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 25.02.04 11:09:28: > You need to run dpkg-scanpackages. Read the Debian Repository HOWTO > . Simple enough, as I expected. I just didn't know where to look. Thanks also to the

How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

Hi folks, I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make apt recognize this repository? I tried adding deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/ to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is

Re: BUG

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: > smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this > next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to > redo the install from the beginning. A more experienced person > would fix the problem rather than reinstall, but a newbie fr

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: > It crashes Netscape (Navigator) on my machine. There's nothing to > protect. Everybody knows netscape sucks for now. > However, fact is fact. Haven't had netscape trouble under Linux yet (I don't use it much), but on an IRIX 6.4 system it dumps core the insta

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > over two months. > > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the > hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried

How to force reconfiguring of a package?

Hi folks, I have two questions related to Debian package management. 1) My apache server doesn't start up. When I manually try to start it, it complains that it can't figure out the hostname of the local system. Weird, because "hostname" returns the correct name. Anyway, I suspect that something

How to shut up dselect?

Hi, I have a question related to installing non-debian programs: When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9. I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of course, the debian package manager doesn't know about this, so whenever I use dselect, i

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > ljfour and 2400 even though I specified that it should use a 2400dpi > > printer that I found in modes.mf , supre to be exact. Anyclues would be > > this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on gho

Re: System crashes using 2.2.1 kernel with ATI Rage Fury

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Adam Wojnicki wrote: > I experience problems using my ATI Rage Fury (ATI Rage 128) video card > with 2.2.x kernel. > With 2.0.36 kernel I use a XRage128 server from SUSE and everything > works fine. I use the same card and X server and I upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.12 without