I also upgraded sid.
I didn't face any problem with x or kdm or keyboard
On 4/13/06, Žáček Kryštof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
X did not start
==
The symbolic link /etc/X11/X was wrongly set to /bin/true
Should be set to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg
for me it was
lvgdell600m:/etc/X11# ls -l
I wanted to have dual boot in my dell inspiron E1705. It comes 3 built
in partitions. First is name as dell utiltu type, second NTFs and
third CP/M /CTOS. I think all recovery software is kept in third
partition. If any one has installed dual boot debian in such a
situation, kindly guide me.
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On 4/13/06, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did, but I removed the second and third partitions, repartitioned that
part of the disk into two parititions and installed Windows on the first
one and Linux in the second one. Debian Unstable. It was a Dell Inspiron
5160.
Thanks for the response.
On 4/13/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You may want to take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, ans
/var/log/Xorg.log. You will probably see errors setting the kdb
parameters due to incorrect wording in xorg.conf.
The relevant section of my xorg.conf is
Option XkbRules
On 4/13/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My daughter has just bought an Inspiron 610, while she wouldn't let me
install linux on it, I booted up Knoppix and copied the first and third
partition to my linux box via the network and made a backup dvd of
these. Also need to back up the MBR
On 4/6/06, Ryan Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apt-get install bc
Thanks for the response. I searched troubleshooting section of
netbeans installation and found out. I installed bc and now it is ok.
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I had installed netbeans 5 in sarge without any problem. Now in Sid, I
tried to install netbeans-5_0-linux.bin. But I couldn't. I have set
both JAVAHOME and JAVA_HOME to jdk1.5. I checked md5sum. It is ok. I
tried as
./netbeans-5_0-linux.bin
sudo sh netbeans-5_0-linux.bin. All failed. I got bunch
On 4/4/06, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just out of curiosity, have you connected to an open access point? Or
at tried? That part looks like it whould work. The only different
thing I have in my network block is the line:
auth_alg=SHARED
right before my key. I
On 31st mar, on update wpasupplicant_0.4.8-1 was installed in my sid box.
A lot of changes in files.
no /etc/default/wpasupplicant
no /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
no /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant
Any ideas about changes and how to make it work?
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On 4/2/06, Michael Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
Yepp! I think that the delete from /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is an small
misfortune but in the default file you can set the path using the config
variable.
I copy the config file back from dpkg-bak and set in following new
parameter in
I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade...Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
x11-common
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1124kB
I am running sid. After last update, firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 is
crashing very often that in few sites. For example the following site
also crashes.
http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USCA1296?from=hrly_topnav_undeclared.
Any body else is also experiencing this.
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On 3/18/06, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not crashing on my machine. Using firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 in sid.
This could be an extension problem. Try running with -safe-mode option
and see if it crashes.
I ran in terminal as
firefox -safe-mode
and opened the above page. Still
I get msg while booting as
superblock last mount time is in the future FIXED
superblock last write time is in the future FIXED
What does it signify? If something wrong how to fix it?
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On 3/16/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:45:37 -0800
L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get msg while booting as
superblock last mount time is in the future FIXED
superblock last write time is in the future FIXED
What does it signify? If
On 3/5/06, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if
you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig.
Doesn't dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig also need root access to run?
yes.
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On 3/4/06, cga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. It will config allfonts. whenever you
add fonts do this.
Followed your recommendation but this seems to be mostly about
font-rendering choices. I saw that it did regenerate fontconfig's font
cache but where it went
On 3/4/06, cga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98
.. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in
/etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and
did and $ fc-list to verify all this magic
On 3/2/06, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:10:02AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
May be I was not clear. I wanted to packages installed say from nerim
source. How to get it?
I would like clarify that I would like to get a list of packages
installed from
On 3/3/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also wanted to get list of packages available from a source. As I
use apt, I wanted to use apt-cache as aptitude could not find as
suggested by Mr.Florian Ernst
As already suggested, if the source is already in you
/etc/apt/sources.list
On 3/1/06, loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Generally I boot from a LiveCD (Kurumim,Knoppix etc.)
create the partitions on the new HD with the same size as the original,
How to ensure same size?
but located in places where i can easily expand them.
I use parted to move them around and create
On 3/1/06, Glenn Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been using 2.6.15 for about a week now. It's fantastic. Seems to
be faster than 2.6.8. I have scanning, sound, USB, cd burning, rsync,
nfs. All works well. I used the kernel from kernel.org. I didn't bother
with the ramdisk. Seems to be a
On 3/1/06, Florian Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello *,
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:10:02AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
May be I was not clear. I wanted to packages installed say from nerim
source. How to get it?
If there is an appropriate entry in /etc/apt/sources.list and the list
have
On 3/1/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
update-rc.d service defaults
which package has update-rc.d
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On 3/1/06, Florian Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:59:56PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
But for Debian Unofficial, it didn't work.
[...]
All sun packages are installed from debian-unofficial.
Works for me:
| $ aptitude search '~ODebian Unofficial' | wc -l
| 86
I was using sid kernel source from my sid partition. When I was
running sarge, I untarred sid kernel source 2.6.15 in /usr/src. Added
bootsplash patch did oldconfig using sarge's config file from
/boot/.and answered mostly all to defaults. I thought 2.6.15 will take
only linux-image, I tried
On 2/27/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
Is there any way to know packages installed from a particular source
and packages installable from a source.
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Try apt-cahce policy package name for
On 2/26/06, Andrew Cady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running a local caching dns server is just fine, and can improve
performance. If you are serving dhcp on a network, it is more or less
required. This is quite distinct from running an authoritative DNS
server which serves requests to the
My laptop is served by dhcp router. my hostname lvgdell600m.
lvgdell600m:~# cat /etc/hostname
lvgdell600m
my /etc/hosts is
lvgdell600m:~# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost lvgdell600m
192.168.1.51mohan
192.168.1.52lvgdell600m
192.168.1.53
On 2/26/06, David Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/22/06, L. V. Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
new udev suggests to remove hotplug. However sequence of activities by
So if hotplug is no longer suggested (where is this suggestion?),
During installation and reconfiguring udev in sid I got
I have del inspiron 600 m. Though network is working ok, I get msg
during booting like this.
tg3: tg3_request_firmware (eth%d): Couldn't get firmware tg3/tso-1.4.0
how to solve this.
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After an upgrade a week back in my sid box, I am getting following
error during boot.
eval: 1: array_udev_helper=udev: error
eval: 1: array_udev_helper=: error
Whether because of this or resultant, I don't get my boot splash. Any
one else experienced same? Whether any solution to solve the error
Is there any way to know packages installed from a particular source
and packages installable from a source.
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On 2/24/06, Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By default it will try to use gksu (which is a Recommends of synaptic,
BTW). Do you have GNOME installed as well? If not, that would be why it's
missing, probably. You can use kdesu instead of gksu.
Thanks. I found out about gksu and
On 2/25/06, jlmb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
On 2/24/06, Dan Sheffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Q1) Yes you run a program that scans the network range. Very usefull. Prob
even more ways.
Q2) You should never give full access to some random folder on a box for
security.
On 2/24/06, Andrew Cady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need to login as the appropriate user on the other machine. For
example, if your login name on 192.168.1.103 is lvg then you want:
scp /mnt/wind/Audio/file.mp3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/share/
In this case user lvg will need access to /share,
Today I did apt-get upgrade udev was one of the packages. I got some
udev error while booting. Because of this, my bootsplash didn't work.
But when I did grep boot, kernel, syslog and message for udev, I
didn't get anything.
At least, I though boot log will give some lines. Whethere anybody
My laptop is in lan for which dhcp server is router Linksys BEFW11S4.
Router is connected to cable modem. Router assigns IP randomly. My
laptop has both wifi and eth. It had ips 192.168.1.101 and
192.168.1.102. Another machine with eth has ip 192.168.1.103. This I
got it from that machine.
Q1) is
On 2/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To begin with, backports.org is designed to allow the user/admin to
stick with a proven and stable system, but upgrade small parts of it to
newer releases that are built to run on the older libraries available in
stable. For example, I
On 2/24/06, Dan Sheffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Q1) Yes you run a program that scans the network range. Very usefull. Prob
even more ways.
Q2) You should never give full access to some random folder on a box for
security. below is what I have used to transfer file between PC. Only use
On 2/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you follow their recommendation and pin the backports sources to a
very low priority, then you should be OK. As far as upgrading, it will
not be officially supported to upgrade from Sarge+backports to Etch
(once Etch goes stable).
I have installed sarge r1 starting with base install and then using
apt-get kdebase, x-window-system-core, synaptic etc. After correcting
sudoers file for env, I could start synaptic from konsole. But when I
click synaptic in menu nothing happens. How to get it work?
Is it some program in kde
I have done base install and ndiswrapper tools and modules. I have
installed broadcom windows inf file, ndiswrapper -l worked and did
modprobe ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper -m.
Everything is OK. I have put HEX wep code in /etc/network/interfaces
# wireless interface
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet
Two machines with sarge installed are in a lan connected to dhcp
server. What is the simplest way to transfer files between them. Both
have different single user.
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On 2/23/06, Matt Zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
todd,
please keep replies on the list. thanks.
also use inline responses, it makes for better readability.
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:22 -0500, Todd Swackhamer wrote:
do i need to know much to go through this? this is my first debian
On 2/23/06, Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I transfer files and maintain systems on the lan all the time with scp
and ssh which are configured to avoid re-typing passwords. There's a
good discussion here:
Password-less logins with OpenSSH
On 2/21/06, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please post output of top -b -n 1 after you start loosing memory.
When firefox screen went blank
output as below
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ top -b -n 1
top - 06:26:15 up 12 min, 1 user, load average: 0.63, 0.97, 0.62
Tasks: 93 total, 3
On 2/22/06, Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hotplug: called by the kernel, loads the proper driver is can run scipts
udev: called by the kernel, dynamic filesystem in userspace that relies on
tmpfs, lately replaces hotplug
new udev suggests to remove hotplug. However sequence of
On 2/20/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
Wher one can get sarge cd isos with latest updates for new installations?
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I stand to be corrected but I believe Sarge + Security Updates do not
yet
I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times
system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole.
In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various
points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started
machine.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free
On 2/20/06, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And what makes you think it is Firefox to blame? Do you regain the
memory after shutting down Firefox? Please check memory usage using
top or similar application and post the outcomes.
After last post, it started hanging.
I am not BLAMING
Wher one can get sarge cd isos with latest updates for new installations?
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On 2/18/06, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed splashy and added vga=792 to the kernel. Do you get 1024x768
at the console?
Yes. I have vga=791 as options
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On 2/18/06, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This also didn't give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working
splashy?
I do indeed hsve Splashy working with Sid. Please post your GRUB menu.list
(or the LILO equivalent). We'll start there and see what we can do.
relevent portion
On 2/18/06, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only difference I can spot is the 'splash' which I don't have
Initially I also didn't have it. As it didn't work, I saw in ubuntu
forums with this addition to kernel option. Hence I added it.
Even then no use.
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On 2/18/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
Today I compiled kernel with same config but for enabling dell laptop
option and disabling radeonfb. But when I boot with new kernel and do
login through kdm, I get volume picture as given in attachment. I
don't know
On 2/18/06, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, given you're kernel name, I assume that you have compiled it yourself.
Are you sure that you have done it in such a way as to allow a boot splash?
(I'm not sure what you would need to compile in to a kernel for splashy as
I've not yet
On 2/18/06, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you get it if you log into a different windowing environment (Gnome,
fluxbox, edtc)?
Do you get it if you log in as a different user?
As I don't have other wm or other user I didn't try them.
Do you get it if you start with your old kernel?
On 2/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If vga=791 is not working for you you might try a different one.
In case it's not obvious rows are color depth columns are resolution. ;)
...#...640x480.800x600.1024x768.1280x1024
##
On 2/17/06, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you have a look at splashy? http://splashy.alioth.debian.org
yes. I feel bootsplash is much better than splashy. of course kernel
stuff involved.
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On 2/17/06, John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote:
Hi all,
I have a problem with udev here: every time when I
was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines
like this on the console:
udevd_even: run program /.../.../
I have dell inspiron 600m with sid. I tried to install bootsplash with
kernel patches. But failed. Then I tried splashy. This also didn't
give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working splashy? I saw in
dmesg I have both radeonfb and vesafb. Can this be source of problem?
I enabled debug in
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