Don Jackson wrote:
After recent upgrades in etch, I found my Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
waiting long periods for apparently DNS lookup (10-20 seconds every
time). This is happening on two different computers which were upgraded.
I find that my original entries of two nameservers in my
After recent upgrades in etch, I found my Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
waiting long periods for apparently DNS lookup (10-20 seconds every
time). This is happening on two different computers which were upgraded.
I find that my original entries of two nameservers in my resolv.conf
file are being
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:38 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0500, Don Jackson wrote:
Thanks, Digby...
SOLVED THE PROBLEM!
Changed the jumpers from Master to C Sel (cable select?) and behold,
BIOS then reported 4.3GB.
Just for the record
This is not Debian or Linux specific, but I hope that some experts on
this list can point me in the right direction.
I have a Fujitsu MPA3043AT IDE hard disk that formerly had a capacity of
about 4.3 GB. Hate to throw it away as it can still perform useful
service in an older computer I have.
Digby Tarvin wrote:
When you say you have tried deleting a partition, do you mean you
have tried deleting all partitions?
Yes. (only had one)
I have also had drives of similar capacity to yours which came with
a jumper option to limit the drive size to 2GB as a workaround for
limitations
I wish to (again) be able to click on a URL link in an email in
Thunderbird and have that link brought up on Firefox rather than
Konqueror. Some time ago, this was possible, but I cannot find the
magic combination of settings to do this any more.
I am using KDE 3.5.1 and 2.6.8-1-386
Linas Zvirblis wrote:
Don Jackson wrote:
I wish to (again) be able to click on a URL link in an email in
Thunderbird and have that link brought up on Firefox rather than
Konqueror. Some time ago, this was possible, but I cannot find the
magic combination of settings to do this any more
This may be considered off topic by some, but I just stumbled on an
interesting website with a program called Linux Distribution Chooser.
Even though I've been with Debian for a couple years now, I thought I'd
just test out the chooser...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
I went through the
John Hasler wrote:
Don Jackson writes:
I still don't know WHY there isn't a choice of desktops given the person
installing Debian.
There is a choice of desktops. There is a choice of _everything_.
OK, in the small context of the above quote, revise that to say:
I still don't know WHY
Interesting article on BBC news:
** Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled **
Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
outlines blueprints for a sub-$100 PC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm
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Clive Menzies wrote:
On (27/07/05 22:26), Kent West wrote:
I think printing is still pretty much a nightmare in Linux.
What I do, is to install cups (aptitude install cupsys - I always have
to install printer drivers also, but I never can remember (the name of
the package is non-intuitive,
Surely a minor annoyance, but it might be useful to find out why this list
gets periodic postings to it from lost AOL users wanting to get rid of art
files.
Does anyone know why these queries are being sent to this list, and if so, is
there something we can do to rectify the situation? Maybe
On Friday 12 November 2004 08:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I
create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried
mkboot as per LILO but it didn't seem a happy bunny.) Thanks, Michael
Michael,
On Sunday 26 September 2004 09:11 am, Don Jackson wrote:
On Saturday 25 September 2004 09:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote:
I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path
before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine
with 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard
On Saturday 02 October 2004 11:11 am, Edward Shornock wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
Try this link. It was just the thing for me.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php$sid=4622
Try this link, the non-404 version. :)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622
Another nice
On Saturday 25 September 2004 09:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote:
I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path
before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine with
96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather poor) here in the
Arkansas
I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path
before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine with
96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather poor) here in the
Arkansas Ozarks. She will be using it mainly for Email, web surfing,
I've been using KDE desktop on my system with Sarge. Last night did an
apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade before shutting system down. This
morning it booted up with Gnome desktop instead of the usual KDE, much to my
surprise and displeasure.
Hints on how to change back to KDE the least
On Saturday 04 September 2004 09:07 am, Kent West wrote:
Don Jackson wrote:
I've been using KDE desktop on my system with Sarge. Last night did an
apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade before shutting system down. This
morning it booted up with Gnome desktop instead of the usual KDE, much
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 01:31 pm, Magnus Ekhall wrote:
Hi,
I tried to install Sarge from a netinstall CD, but I run into trouble when
I get to tasksel.
There is no option to select Desktop environment or x server.
There are only options to install web server, file server and so on.
I'm
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 03:33 pm, Werner Otto wrote:
Hi all,
I have just installed Sarge on my new Shuttle SB75G2 pc. When it gets
to the stage that I need to configure my base system and select my
mirror or http apt sources it reboots, its not actioned by anything
more like a timer thing
I recently did several new installs that use this video card. I have found
the easiest method (using the new Debian Installer and kernel 2.6.7) is do
the install, and then when X does not come up, reboot using the Knoppix
CDROM, let Knoppix do it's thing and find the settings, then copy the
On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:34 am, Jason Rennie wrote:
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:45:15AM -0400, stan wrote:
I need to build a new unstable machine for some testing, and I thought
this might be a good oportunity to test the new installer.
How does one use it, at this point? Is there a
Using either aptitude or apt-get, I receive the following message during
install:
Unpacking module-init-tools
(from .../module-init-tools_3.1-pre5-1_i386.deb) ...
md5sum: MD5 check failed for '/etc/modprobe.conf'
dpkg: error
processing
way to recover
except to just reload everything.
Don
On 21 Jun 2004 at 21:58, Kent West wrote:
Don Jackson (AE5K) wrote:
On 21 Jun 2004 at 18:27, Kent West wrote:
Either leave the BusID setting blank (for an X86 machine with only one
video controller), or make sure it matches
I used the Debian Installer TC1 ... it installs, but gdm fails. I
looked at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, cannot determine what my problem
is.
Using Diamond Stealth SE video card with S3 Trio 732 chip, 1 MB
memory. Motherboard is FIC 503VA+, CPU is K6-2.
It appears it should be using the s3_drv.o
On 21 Jun 2004 at 16:34, Rthoreau wrote:
Did you turn off frame buffering, I have an old Nvidia card that everytime I
use frame buffering it will crash with a similar message, even if the device
section is correct. Also look at the obvious Device section see if your
BusID is correct.
On 21 Jun 2004 at 18:27, Kent West wrote:
Either leave the BusID setting blank (for an X86 machine with only one
video controller), or make sure it matches the output of lspci
(converting the hex to decimal).
Thanks Kent for the reply... there was no BusID given in the
XF86Config-4 file (I
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