Re: Which FS for USB Flash Drive

2009-01-27 Thread elijah rutschman
to find the root device. Regards, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread elijah rutschman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:36 AM, rjubio wrote: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? I've found that setting a higher blocksize (using the bs= parameter) makes dd go much faster. I usually set the blocksize to about 50 megabytes, depending on available RAM. Regards

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
wasn't showing any xul-runner instances. I appreciate the suggestions. Thank you. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, elijah rutschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running: > $ iceweasel --safe-mode Sorry, I meant to type iceweasel -safe-mode, with one dash before 'safe'. The result was the same, no window or output. -Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does: > > iceasel -safe-mode > > > show? Running: $ iceweasel --safe-mode gives the same result: there is no new window, and no console output. Thanks, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread elijah rutschman
e is no helpful console output. $ iceweasel $ $ firefox $ I have tried purging iceweasel and firefox with aptitude, then reinstalling, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Elijah Rutschman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread elijah rutschman
nkey javascript engine. However, I am not certain whether this support is compiled into the official debian package for elinks. -Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: index.php does not open instead download

2008-11-17 Thread elijah rutschman
Hope that helps. Elijah On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Lars Kuppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > just setting up my vmware server (just for testing). > I put an index.php into the server folder. But instead of opening it, > firefox wanna download the ind

power-efficiency & non-x86 desktop systems

2008-11-14 Thread elijah rutschman
ecture, or specifically, which CPU lines are specifically designed to be power-efficient? Are there any non-x86 motherboards with PCI, SATA, USB, etc. that would be powerful enough for moderate desktop use, i.e. web surfing, compiling software packages, and playing movies? Thanks, Elijah Rutschm

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread elijah rutschman
nge the font size using a dillorc file. Check http://www.dillo.org/dillorc links2 has to be started with the ' -g' flag to show graphics, and you have to calibrate it the first time in order to display graphics correctly. See http://links.twibright.com/calibration.html -Elijah -- To UNS

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread elijah rutschman
it ran just fine. If you don't need the graphics, links and elinks are really fast text-mode browsers. -Elijah -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-12 Thread elijah rutschman
graphically. FileZilla is a cross-platform FTP client that tracks succesful & failed transfers. The failed transfers can be reprocessed with just a few clicks. -Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-06 Thread elijah rutschman
y footprint but its geared more towards mobile devices. -Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual Box (Sun) + USB

2008-11-04 Thread elijah rutschman
los filtros de USB: http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/14/using-usb-device-filters-with-sun-xvm-virtualbox/ Saludos, Elijah

Re: grub with sata drives?

2008-11-03 Thread elijah rutschman
b1 as it is though, since that parameter is intended for the kernel and not the bootloader. -Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian installer

2008-10-27 Thread elijah rutschman
ion option. I have yet to experiment with LVM, so I don't know what this would entail, but I'm sure other members of this list could be more helpful in this area. Regards, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread elijah rutschman
qemu > > bochs The first thing I would try would be Wine since it requires Windows. Failing that, I'd probably set up a virtual machine with Qemu or VirtualBox and try installing Dos+Windows 3.1. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread elijah rutschman
re on a fast LAN, I'd recommend using netcat with dd instead of mounting / over NFS. You'll have much less overhead and can determine your own buffer size (via dd's blocksize parameter). Check the archives, I think we discussed this just a few weeks ago, or just google "

Re: etch and a half and the new kernel...

2008-09-22 Thread elijah rutschman
sitories. Cheers, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copy entire /usr

2008-09-12 Thread elijah r.
Use it to make disk images like you would with dd, but it won't take no for an answer when disk reads fail; it just tries again. This is probably the best way to ensure you aren't copying over corrupted data. -- Elijah http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

2008-09-12 Thread elijah r.
otherhost.com gzip /path/to/backup.img Cheers, -- Elijah http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound popping on powerbook DVI

2008-09-08 Thread elijah r.
ting Linux kernel bugs in Debian, see: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelReportingBugs Cheers, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound popping on powerbook DVI

2008-09-07 Thread elijah r.
stem noise. If that doesn't help, is there any difference with the clicking if you use headphones? Cheers, -Elijah http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread elijah r.
et a similar result, its most certainly on the college's end. -Elijah http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-11 Thread elijah r.
ins with Iceweasel. I haven't noticed any issues with those programs, but I have not used them heavily. I have definitely noticed faster system performance overall. -Elijah -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i want to only load certain programs on boot

2008-08-01 Thread elijah r.
process took during boot. -Elijah -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i want to only load certain programs on boot

2008-08-01 Thread elijah r.
Hi, Try: apt-get install sysv-rc-conf sysv-rc-conf On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:56 AM, darren naidoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When my system boots it boots with alot of programs. I want to select what i > want to load. Thanks > > _ > Sent from my phone using flurry -

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-07-31 Thread elijah r.
evice} bs=900k | bzip2 -9c | ssh -l ${user} ${host} "dd of=backup.img.bz2" Then verify the image. on the laptop: dd if=${device} bs=50M | md5sum on the server: bzip2 -d < backup.img.bz2 | md5sum Someone please correct me if this is wrong. -Elijah -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/

Re: UNIX Logins by Proxy Over the Web

2008-07-31 Thread elijah r.
>The web server that the clients would initially use is > not under my control but the UNIX application would hopefully > be. If the initial web server is not under your control, but the UNIX server is, why not install a web server on the UNIX machine? That would be the cleanest, fastest w

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread elijah r.
n. AFAIK, it basically acts like a buffer in situations like this. Be very careful with the syntax of dd; one misplaced character and you could wipe your hard disk or flash drive. Just an idea. Let me know if it works out. -Elijah On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL P

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread elijah r.
Correction: mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg should read: mount -o loop -t msdos zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg Material Safety Data Sheets do not play a part here. :-) You might also try -t vfat, one of them should work. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, elijah r. <[EM

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread elijah r.
runlevels failing, they seem erratic, which many times can be hardware-related. What kind of processor do you have? Have you run memtest on your memory? Have you tested your hard disk to make sure it doesn't have bad blocks or other errors? Cheers, Elijah -- http://elijahr.blogs

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread elijah r.
On a side note, what kinds of problems were you running into when installing other distros? I had problems installing most distros on a computer I built that was using a motherboard with a VIA C3 processor, which is missing the "CMOV" instruction that some 686 binaries are compiled with.

Re: Some interconnectivity

2008-07-02 Thread elijah r.
> I cannot forward X from the putty. Maybe I need a bidirection enable in the > firewall to do that. This might not be what you're looking for, but I believe that x11vnc with the -localhost argument would still let you do a VNC session over SSH. -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

2008-06-25 Thread elijah r.
Hi Mirco, Unless I am mistaken, if you don't have a DNS Server then winbind should do the trick. -Elijah On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > I have 2 new running Debian Etch :-) server into an (old) Windows > environment. &

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread elijah r.
scripts so they don't cause a suspend (though you might want to turn off the display to save battery.) Cheers, Elijah -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-18 Thread elijah r.
you are defeating the purpose of the list by telling people to leave for not knowing that 'talk' is a program. You'd make good use of the list if you offered some helpful insight. Remember that mailing lists are usually archived and indexed, so chances are you'd be helping mo

Re: unsubscribe

2003-02-08 Thread Elijah
unsubscribe Thanks very much for the help :) but I can't keep up with the traffic as I have only 56k dialup connection, bye ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xawtv - not working :(

2003-02-07 Thread Elijah
nd no channels are found :( my tv works for ntsc and probably us-broadcase (I've heard that philippines work for us-broadcast). I've got a Pixelview PlayTV pro w/ fm. Help? :( Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: monitor locks up when exiting X

2003-02-07 Thread Elijah
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:34, Elijah wrote: > > > My monitor powers down (led turns yellow) whenever I ctl+alt+F* or from > ctl+alt+backspace and from rebooting or shutting down, I get no messages > from shutting down because my screen is black and the LED seems to > indic

monitor locks up when exiting X

2003-02-06 Thread Elijah
worry that it could damage my monitor. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Phoenix debs for woody?

2003-02-04 Thread Elijah
apart from that is > self-contained, so there are no complicated dependencies. > > Pigeon #Phoenix deb http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386 ./ just as synaptic says, converted from slackware tgz. Works great btw. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-02 Thread Elijah
user manual or something. > > > > YMMV, but in my case all I needed to do was include ide-scsi in > /etc/modules (kernel-image-2.4.20-686). I do it by using modconf and adding ide-scsi emulation from the menu ;) then I add the line in lilo.conf. reboot. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
is one's old but I'm not sure what they're using now ... http://www.debian.org/News/1997/19970401 Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
I usually do it by adding "append="hdd=ide-scsi" to the /etc/lilo.conf right after going to /dev/ then do "MAKEDEV -v scd0". Then reboot and run xcdroast. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mplayer - Divx avi videos run too fast!

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
hing right. here's the command I use: - mplayer -vo xv -ao sdl divxfile.avi -autosync 1 - Anybody got this working right?? Thanks for your time, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Error setting dma to hd

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
carefuly man hdparm and see other useful > things besides DMA that speed up your HD. ( -u -c -m... ) > > Sometimes there are no correct modules (my case) and the maximum state I > can reach is multi word dma... but is still better than plain disk > reading and also better than M$ reading disks. &

Error setting dma to hd

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
(off) --- I went to /etc/sysconfig/ and made a harddisks file there containing: --- USE_DMA 1 --- doesn't work either ... help? Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Jpilot sync problems [SOLVED]

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 18:14, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Saturday 01 February 2003 18:10, Elijah wrote: > > After upgrading pilot-link and jpilot I've been getting these errors: > > > > > >

Jpilot sync problems

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
Check your serial port and settings exiting with status -10 My settings used to work but what now? ... Will appreciate any help, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Deboostrap error

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
ing to add more kernel modules and adding fat32 partitions, I've been getting these errors. It seems to be having trouble executing something(from the error message, sorry I forgot) just from my observance, install works somehow after unmounting fat32 and removing a few modules. Elijah

RE: Nvidia source compiling problems

2003-01-15 Thread Elijah
symbolic link and it will probably compile. Works for me. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to set colors of ls listings?

2003-01-15 Thread Elijah
ct a theme from there. I think it's better to do 'ls --color' instead. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alsa sound for d4x, ut2003_demo ... sound issues again [NEVERMIND ... ]

2003-01-12 Thread Elijah
sound is gone again after reboot, it seems amixer is not being created in /dev/ somehow also snd-via82xx.o cannot be detected but it's already there!! ... this is getting on my nerves now .. never mind this question. :( oh, well .. Elijah On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 18:39, Elijah wrote: >

Alsa sound for d4x, ut2003_demo ... sound issues again

2003-01-12 Thread Elijah
Yes I've been able to get my sound running well using xmms, but now it seems unreal tournament doesn't seem to work and downloader for x (it's sounds) doesn't play it's usual wavs. Here's the error for unreal: ---- Valhalla:/h

Re: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working [SOLVED]

2003-01-11 Thread Elijah
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 04:16, Elijah wrote: > I got sound working!! but there's one problem left, xmms abruptly closes > by itself giving me the same mmap_commit and gdk error. Anyone know > what's causing it?? > > Elijah > got it fixed now :) . looks like a bug or

Re: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

2003-01-11 Thread Elijah
... then it closes by itself with the warning error: ----- elijah@Valhalla:/etc/modutils$ xmms ** WARNING **: mmap_commit Numerical argument out of domain Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1e84)! Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Elijah
try out opera or phoenix Elijah On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:02, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > my quest for small and fast applications seems to be never ending. :) > > one of the things that bother me in my set-up is browser. mozilla is > what i use currently and

AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

2003-01-09 Thread Elijah
after compiling several times it just would'nt work. I've already tried sndconfig, worked once with the test but after installing the alsa-drivers I don't hear anything anymore ... here's from lspci: -------- Valhalla:/home/elijah# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Tec

Re: Printer prints gibberish [SOLVED]

2003-01-08 Thread Elijah
ter configured for my box ... no wonder it didn't work. I got the drivers setup now and installed cups-bsd via synaptic. Works great. Cheers, Elijah On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 04:51, Mark Roach wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:54, Elijah wrote: > > I've had this problem in a w

Printer prints gibberish

2003-01-08 Thread Elijah
inter setup is commonly 'lpr' Is there an easy way to fix this? Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screen resolution in KDE or Gnome

2003-01-07 Thread Elijah
; subsection display then add your desired resolutions. here's some commands you might want to try: xf86config xf86cfg dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 there's probably an easier way (I forgot) but try these just in case .. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Where's /etc/rc.d/rc.local???

2003-01-07 Thread Elijah
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 20:16, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >>>>> "Elijah" == Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Elijah> Hi! I've been having problems with my second drive (hdd) > Elijah> since everytime I browse through it pauses o

Re: windows apps under debian

2003-01-07 Thread Elijah
rtability. check out wine or winex (for gaming). If that's only for office use then use wine. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where's /etc/rc.d/rc.local???

2003-01-07 Thread Elijah
is the proper way to setup my hdd? Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Simple xawtv question ...

2003-01-06 Thread Elijah
I'm about to configure xawtv and it showed some frequency tables from different countries, unfortunately for me it doesn't include the Philippines :( from what I know we use NTSC ... which do I choose, will this affect my tv viewing? (first time configuring my tv-tuner). Elija

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
Hi, ok, just tried it. But it seems that it still has 2.2.5 displayed on the available versions (??). That's weird ... Can having too many sources on my sources.list cause problems?? cause I think I'm having some now. I think I'll hash some of it... Elijah On Sun, 2003-01-05 a

Re: avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
at command up there ^ be enough to compile and create a deb? will I still need dependencies like the mplayers in the apt sources? eg. libvidencore0 Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
why I've decided to use the debs instead. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
Hello, I'm trying to install Mplayer 386 or 686 via synaptic but it seems I don't have libvidencore0. I checked out libvidencore0's dependency and it requires libc6. It doesn't seem to accept my current libc6 (currently installed) because it needs at least version 2.3 upwards. I've searched the de

Re: Nvidia compile error [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Elijah
> I'm glad you got it working! > > The above doesn't make sense to me. If you compiled your kernel you have > your kernel headers. /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src/README.Debian.gz > describes this. > > If you look at the Nvidia tarball file NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191/Makefile it > uses > > KERN

Re: Nvidia compile error [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Elijah
, untarred itself to /usr/src/, 'make install' the nvidia-kernels .. and it WORKED! ahhh that felt good ^.^ ... Compiling the kernel-source didn't help much so using the kernel-headers did it for me ... wow ... I've lost a ton of sleep on this one. Thanks very much to those who helpe

Re: Nvidia compile error [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Elijah
itself to /usr/src/, 'make install' the nvidia-kernels .. and it WORKED! ahhh that felt good ^.^ ... Compiling the kernel-source didn't help much so using the kernel-headers did it for me ... wow ... I've lost a ton of sleep on this one. Thanks very much to those who helpe

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Elijah
> > How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run? > > $ time app Oh, sorry about that. I suggested 'cron'. my mistake. I thought you want to schedule that script of something ^o^ Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
root partition. Do a df and you'll see all mounted partitions so you're just using up the root instead. Elijah > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:24, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now > > installed, but not confi

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
ed symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o make: *** [package-install] Error 1 - I really appreciate any help I'm getting here :) Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
> Let me ask a stupid question, when you installed your running kernel's > corrisponding kernel-source package did you untar/bz2 it? If not then you > need to do that, cd into kernel-source-2.x.xx and run make oldconfig && make > dep. > > After that you should be able, from that directory, do

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 00:09, John Mitchell wrote: > Untar nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > cd to your kernel source > and run make-kpkg modules > then install the resulting deb. ok, I untar the package (tar -xzpvf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz) and from it unpacked the directory 'modules>nvidia-kernel-versi

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
I've tried it: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz also: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/debian/ both didn't work :( , also making a symlink from /usr/src/kernel-source- to /usr/src/linux is not possible because I don't have a 'linux' directory there ...

Nvidia compile error

2002-12-31 Thread Elijah
My nvidia drivers are not installing. I downloaded the source tarballs from the nvidia site, md5sum check them and do 'make install' or 'make' and got this error: In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24 linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make:

Re: Command for random? recursive?

2002-12-31 Thread Elijah
Yeah that's the one! I got it working now thanks to that command, running the files randomly won't be much of a problem now. Thanks again :) Elijah On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 01:30, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:47:49PM +0900, Elijah wrote: > I believe the

Re: Command for random? recursive?

2002-12-31 Thread Elijah
laying and plays the next file, this keeps going until the end of the mpg files. Can I delay the recursing until the current file is done playing? Many thanks for the help :) Elijah On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 18:29, Bob Proulx wrote: > Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-30 11:58:36 +0900]: &

Re: Command for random? recursive?

2002-12-29 Thread Elijah
anual. btw, I'm using gnome Elijah On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 12:38, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:37:31AM +0900, Elijah wrote: > > > 1. How do you perform a command to do things recursively? for example > > mplayer -vo xv -ao sdl *.mpg doesn't seem t

Command for random? recursive?

2002-12-29 Thread Elijah
on do I need to position it somewhere I like? Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X with nVidia GeForce2 MX

2002-12-28 Thread Elijah
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 18:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:03:33AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > What is the correct driver for the NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX > > video card (TV out) - I'm thinking it must be vga, > > but... just checking > > I think it's nvidia. Yo

Re: kernel panic: i have no root and i want to scream [SOLVED]

2002-12-28 Thread Elijah
got it working, hmmm I never noticed that ... Thanks :) Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel panic: i have no root and i want to scream

2002-12-28 Thread Elijah
nd one with the default configs and still got the error. This series of errors occured right after a fresh repartition and reformat of my hd ... Help! Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: You passed an undefined mode number

2002-12-27 Thread Elijah
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 14:26, Michael Heironimus wrote: > Have you tried booting with vga=ask and scanning for available modes? I > remember doing that when I was originally playing with large consoles. > The kernel documentation on mode numbers was a little out of date when I > was using it, I don

Re: You passed an undefined mode number

2002-12-27 Thread Elijah
I've tried vga=0x317 and it gave the same error :( vga=788 worked though, but in 800x600 resolution. What I'm looking forward to is the old 1040x768 resolution that I got used to with my old card... ) Update: I've also tried out vga=773 (passed an undefined mode ) vga=790 (passed an undefine

You passed an undefined mode number

2002-12-27 Thread Elijah
x27;m using grub. Many Thanks for your time, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pam 0.72-26 critically broken

2001-06-25 Thread elijah wright
alternately, rolling back to -25 seems to fix all problems. i'll try your revised package tomorrow afternoon as soon as possible. thankfully, a user messaged me about the issue before i logged out after updating my testing machine. =) elijah On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Sam Hartman wrote: &

Re: Bug#59683: xdm: when upgrading xdm to gdm xdm daemon fails to shutdown.

2000-03-07 Thread elijah wright
> > probably just needs a package script change... :) > You did not provide me with nearly enough information to know what you're > talking about. > I suspect you're assuming that gdm and xdm cannot coexist. They can, but > they need to be careful that don't both try to manage the same server