Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-19 Thread Jon Roed
On September 14, 2005 09:55 am, antgel wrote: > Jon Roed wrote: > > I can't find a driver for my chipset in the kernel options. I have an > > AMD Athlon 64 2800+. The chipset according to the manual that came with > > the motherboard is a SiS746 Northbridge and Si

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Jon Roed
I can't find a driver for my chipset in the kernel options. I have an AMD Athlon 64 2800+. The chipset according to the manual that came with the motherboard is a SiS746 Northbridge and SiS963 Southbridge. I can't find an option for either of those. Also, which IDE drivers should i make sur

webcam troubles

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Roed
i have been fooling around with my webcam trying to get it too work. I managed to get the webcam command to work (sort of) now it starts, but i get no picture, and an error that says: ftp: lost connection ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec ftp: lost connection ftp: connect failed, sleeping 10

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Roed
> Did you compile your kernel using make-kpkg? Using --initrd or > without? Does the /etc/lilo.conf file match your initrd? That is, > if you build an initrd did you specify it in yoiur /etc/lilo.conf > file? I am guessing not as that would match the symptoms so far. > > Bob I compiled my kern

Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-12 Thread Jon Roed
I have just compiled a new kernel (2.6.13) and i cannot get it too boot. When i select my new kernel from the boot loader i get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown block (3,1) Please append a correct "root= " boot option kernel panic: not syncing : VFS cannot open

Webcam error

2005-09-12 Thread Jon Roed
I have been trying to get my webcam to work on my Debian system. When i try to execute the webcam command i get this error: Hubert:/home/jon# webcam reading config file: /root/.webcamrc ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;h

VCD's and linux

2005-08-07 Thread Jon Roed
I was wondering if anyone knew of a program out there for making VCD's. I have heard of a couple of ways to do it, but they all seemed pretty complicated. Is there something nice and simple that doesn't involve using a terminal ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-15 Thread Jon Roed
I just tried to run apt-upgrade on my Debian system and i got the following error: Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.062-4_i386.deb) ... udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.062-4_i386.deb (--unpack):

KPackage problems

2005-07-08 Thread Jon Roed
Whenever i try to install anything with KPackage it gives me the error: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! kaffeine E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes It has always worked well in the past and only started doing this recently.

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-06 Thread Jon Roed
> If he hasn't restarted X, it could be as simple as him having pressed > Ctrl-Alt-PlusSignOnNumberPad or Ctrl-Alt-MinusSignOnNumPad. i checked into that, it wasn't the problem. Which is too bad cause that would be an easy fix. Thanks though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-06 Thread Jon Roed
On July 6, 2005 12:26 pm, roach wrote: > That sounds like an accessability setting. The setting for people with > sight problems. > > Is everything just large or are the colours effected too? Everything was just way to big, the colors were okay. I figured out how to return most of it to normal,

KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-05 Thread Jon Roed
For some reason one of the user accounts on my system seems to have messed up it's display settings. I have looked everywhere in the settings to see if i could get it back to normal but haven't managed. It looks as though the resolution is set too low (everything is huge) but when i look at t

Lexmark X125 with CUPS

2005-06-29 Thread Jon Roed
Does anyone know of a printer driver for the Lexmark X125 All-in-one printer that will work with CUPS ? The printer driver from linuxprinting.org supposedly only works with LPRng (and i haven't managed to get it to work with CUPS). Would it be worth switching to LPRng ? I e-mailed Lexmark's

permissions on folders

2005-06-09 Thread Jon Roed
I recently installed limewire (a file sharing program) and i am wondering if there is a way to share one downloads folder between both users on the system ? I tried creating a directory called /downloads and giving everyone permission to it, but limewire wouldn't let me use it. Anyone know why

grub vs lilo

2005-05-31 Thread Jon Roed
This is my lilo.conf file, i took out all the comments as requested. lba32 boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 bitmap=/boot/sid.bmp bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0 bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17 bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0 install=bmp prompt timeout=50 map=/boot/map vga=normal image=/boot/vmlinuz label=

Re: grub vs lilo

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Roed
On May 31, 2005 12:44 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Grub is uninstalled, but it is still written to your MBR. You'll need to > run 'lilo' as root (no options necessary) to get it to re-write itself > to the MBR and overwrite Grub. > > Just out of curiosity, why are you switching FROM grub TO lilo? M

grub vs lilo

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Roed
I am currently running Debian and i am trying to change my boot loader. I have GRUB right now, but i want to switch to LILO. I uninstalled GRUB with KPackage and installed LILO. I ran liloconfig and everything seems to be set up properly. But somehow when i reboot i still get GRUB. I checke

Re: Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

2005-05-15 Thread Jon Roed
> I had the same problem building 2.6.11, and solved it with the --initrd > option like Peter mentioned: > > make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image > > Note that if you use this option with pristine sources (not Debian's) then > you need to change /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf (see man mkin

Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

2005-05-10 Thread Jon Roed
I recently compiled my own kernel (2.6.10) on my debian system. Now when i try to boot it i get the error message that says : VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or un

KDE 3.4

2005-04-30 Thread Jon Roed
Does anyone know when there will be a debian package for KDE 3.4 ? I want to upgrade from 3.3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]