Hi, Todd!
You should first mail to debian-user for questions like this. d-anounce
is definitely the wrong place. I left the other list adresses in for
this mail, so that people know that there was an answer to your
request. When you reply, please consider to remove some more.
I can only guess
On Saturday 24 February 2001 16:05, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
When I compile a program from the sources and it beakes for whatever
reason, how can I get rid of all the files that were created so far
If it's a debian package, cd to the unpacked src-packages top directory
(the one containing a dir
On Saturday 24 February 2001 06:47, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
I admit it. I'm a UNIX elitist. I know not all people will not
Me too ;-)
realize the philosophies of the UNIX operating system, the
small-tools approach, but if I can influence just one person into
It's the greatest thing.
What
Regarding recent questions, a hopeful seed of a Cross building micro HT
has been laid to
http://home.t-online.de/home/eislink/document/crosshto.txt
Input | comments, pointers cheeringly appreciated.
Be warned though that this seed has yet only been fertilized by partial
success in my own
On Saturday 17 February 2001 09:33, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 17 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote:
On Friday 16 February 2001 09:41, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm currently confused about X-4. I've been keeping up to date
You're actually running the old 3.3.6 server, propably you didn't
Hi, Frederik!
Good to hear you keep going .. :)
On Sunday 18 February 2001 20:38, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
I tried this (now with 4.0.2-3), but the error seems to remain the
same: What I did was:
debian/rules source.make
cd /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers
mv mga mga_old
tar
On Monday 19 February 2001 10:21, Eivind Arnesen wrote:
I was just beginning to feel comfortable with Debian, when my
X configuration broke down. I tried to remove XFree and install it
again, but there is too many dependency problems. It looks like the
package database
is really screwed up.
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 15:12, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote:
On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use
'debian/rules build', which is rather odd. Anyway, here
On Friday 16 February 2001 13:28, David Purton wrote:
I'v solved this prob by changing this line in xdm-config from true to
false:
! All displays should use authorization.
! X terminals may not be configured that way, so they will require
! individualized resource settings.
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ?
... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate
IRQs?
I would change the jumpers. Hoping the software ca multiplex is a
recipe for disaster.
And
On Friday 16 February 2001 15:04, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is
..
setup file. I get the X server up,(the gray screen) but when it tryes
to switch, the screen becomes black and there is no way to get it
back. I suppose it is
On Friday 16 February 2001 09:41, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm currently confused about X-4. I've been keeping up to date with
Testing and now I don't know which version of X I'm running. My
driver is xserver-svga 3.3.6X. I tried running xf86config and this
generated a XF86Config-4 file which
On Friday 16 February 2001 19:54, Robin Rowe wrote:
Hi. I have a little confusion with XFree86Config. What is the
difference between bpp and color depth?
Section Screen
DefaultColorDepth 32
This selects which of the following Display sections will be used.
martin
Hi, Martin!
On Friday 16 February 2001 15:54, Martin_Tanzer@dvs-berlin.de wrote:
As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the
hostname and want it active.
The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot...
martin
And not even that is necessary,
On Thursday 15 February 2001 13:07, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
if it's a good idea to let all users use it, why not just change the
execute permission to world permissions ?
Also, i took a look at gcombust (yuck) and couldn't find a way to
burn 12x cdrom's does anyone have any advice on this, i'm
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Pollywog wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:56:51 +0100 (MET), Roberto Diaz said:
example but I find I havent ggi.h nowhere :?
libggi2-dev but I got it from woody
It's actually just the same.
(but i'm working on this)
To have more output targets you may install
On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
list, but now I'm fairly certain it's a Debian-specific problem, since
I've succesfully build the debian source with modified matrox mga driver
using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use
'debian/rules build', which is
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
XF 4.0 won;t run on my machine.
XFCom_Rage128 Version 1.3/ X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: 6 September 1999
As the msg clearly says, you simply don't run an X4 server.
You have to install a
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
Trying to switch from kbd to console-tools (testing distribution), I
get this error when configuring console-tools:
/var/lib/debconf/config.53881: null: command not found
console-tools failed to configure, with exit code 127
Any ideas
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, DSC Lithuania wrote:
You know, I'm sitting here using Microsoft Windows and Explorer. (I do use
linux,
but not for this system.)
And one of the things that makes me just a little bit paranoid about those
things
is the question of whether there might be a new virus
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, D-Man wrote:
| I try PS/2, Buttons 5, ZAxisMapping 4 5 - but strange things happen on
| the screen then. May be you have it for me.
My Logitech wheel mouse (wasn't cheap -- cost ~$40 and worth it) works
fine (or at least it did with RH 6.1 and 7.0 I don't have a new
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
How do I get rid of huge files in /var/log like `xdm.log' and `nmb',
and/or prevent them from accumulating in the first place? Can/must I
just delete or clear them every so often?
Yes and OR or man logrotate
hth, martin
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, USM Bish wrote:
Hi folk,
Just a small clarification. The mail placed below was received
by me today from bounce-debian-user. This was NOT initiated by
me. Quite surprised to see my name on the LOG (List of Greats!).
Just the queue to return the mail to the
Hi, nice people on this list.
I hope it's ok for you (and for you, John), when i cc my answers to pm
here. So many of you did already take part.
So here the story continues. We're getting closer, it seems ;-)
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, you wrote:
Martin, here are some of the answers that I found.
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
Second question. I have a mystery service running on port 1024. I
fairly
certain I haven't been hacked, but, who knows? When I do a nmap
localhost port 1024 shows up as unknown. How can I find out which
daemon is bound to 1024? Thanks in
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Daniel Barclay wrote:
I have a strange problem.
All of the sudden, various modules don't load when I boot (sound modules
for a basic SoundBlaster and ftape).
I haven't been messing with my configuration. Things worked last time
I booted a couple of days ago.
No
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote:
1) Sending this mail once was a great plenty. Three times seems a bit
excessive, don't you think?
Lot's of mail came in here doubled, tripled during the last days.
May be the slowness of the list during the last days has sth. to do
with it ...
On Mit, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Albert, I tried the configuration you suggested. I got a cursor in the
Please let me introduce myself as a man of wealth taste and the name
is martin 8-)
text mode but not in X. I was able to lite up menus.
In X? Did you already try to find out about your
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
As someone else suggested, try stopping gpm before launching X or trying to
configure X (via some graphic configuration utility that right now i don't
remember the name, where is dexter =).
I don't think, that is hte problem. The mouse moves, just
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
I'm not sure whether this has been tried yet
When I upgraded to X4.0.2, I did lose the cursor (it was moving but
invisible). Turned out the xserver was not upgraded, so it was still using
the xserver-svga 3.3.6, instead of using xserver-xfree86.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an easy way to compile a Debian source package with debugging
options turned on (removing the -O2 and adding -g to all the make
I'm afraid
dpkg-buildpackage --debug???
isn't quite ready :)
For a 'brute force' solution have a look at the
On Son, 28 Jan 2001, Yvon VODOUNON wrote:
I need help to set French local under X.
Yesterday i added 'export LC_ALL=de_DE to my .profile
Most programs honour it.
Have a look for the french code, could be fr
HTH, greetings, martin
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Andrew Clark wrote:
The easiest way I have found to do SMB mounts at boot time is to put
entries in /etc/fstab for them. IIRC:
mount -t smbfs //winpc/share /mnt/winpc/ -o
username=Administrator,password=blahblah
translates to:
//winpc/share /mnt/winpc smbfs
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, hogan wrote:
Have SiS IDE controller in my current Debian box - it says something about
bus-mastering disabled in bios, running in a more basic mode. Leave it be? Try
to enable it? I can't see any option in the bios that would affect this unless
bios is hard coded to
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Henry Gomersall wrote:
I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to
..
This particular card cannot be selected from the list of NICs during
installation (of the base system from the rescue disk). This then means I
..
Anyway to get this to work with 'apt-get --compile source pkgname'?
It would be really nice if there were a way to override the default
compile flags on a system wide basis.
Have a look at the simple doings of the pentium-builder pkg.
The idea is quite extendable.
greetings, martin
--
Is
a CDR, not RW, on my box. So the 'ro' option makes sense.
it saves you a 'file system is read-only, mounting ro' msg. ;-)
karsten, you see? Not only: At the end of your life it is not important,
how you've done it, but _that_ you've done it.
greetings, martin
--
Is there a key
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Harry Barnes wrote:
Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to
audio and disk ...
I have already undone this, after reading the post. My problem is I do not
seem to have /dev/cdrom
To get gtcd to play I had to change the device from
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, hammack wrote:
Long time and still no cursor. I've tried two pointers, Kensington Expert
Mouse serial, and a PS/2 Generic. I have tried all the combinations of
Protocol and Device that I can and still don't have a pointer in X. Below
are files and excerpts of
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote:
but now it says my kernel-headers don't match my kernel. I got
kernel-headers-2.2.18-1 and a custom-kernel compiled from
kernel-source-2.2.18-1. What do you think?
With modules? And no make clean / distclean after that?
make config before :^)
I'm
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Tommy Wu wrote:
I've try kernel 2.4.0, 2.4.1-pre8 - 10.
I can't create file larger than 1G on console (tty1 - tty6 and X11
terminal), but I can
create such file from telent. For the same OS, kernel... only a telnet
session can create
large file more than 1G.
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Stefan Srdic wrote:
I'm trying to get my cd-burner working under Debian 2.2. I've configured
my system so that the ide-scsi module is loaded at boot time and I've
I know that the module is loaded and functional because I can see the
However, I'm not sure which
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, David B. Harris wrote:
To quote Benjamin Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED],
I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using
mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other
things), but it gives me an error saying the files with the
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Tristan wrote:
I have an ES1869 PnP Audiodrive, IRQ 7 DMA 1 DMA 0. I am having problems
...
run isapnp, but isapnp doesn't detect my soundcard, and i tried using
sndconfig but it couldn't detect any soundcard either, the soundcard is
part of the motherboard, and i can get
Sven - who is desparate to run 2.4.0
#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
CONFIG_MD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set
# CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set
# CONFIG_MD_RAID1 is not set
# CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y
CONFIG_LVM_PROC_FS=y
try to leave
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Benjamin Black wrote:
alias sound-slot-1emu10k1
how do you figure this out? i mean where exactly do you look to find
out what the standard aliases are for sound card, network card, video
card, tv card, etc? where exactly did you read about sound-slot-0?
Hi!
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Nate Bargmann wrote:
I am looking for a method to archive a bunch of stuff off of a couple
different computers and since one is a laptop and one a desktop, it
seems a parallel attached CDR drive might be the answer (I'm not
Hi, Nate!
May be you're better off with some
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Anthony Fox wrote:
I have auto module loading compiled into my kernel. How do I
specify that when an application attempts to access the sound
hardware that the kernel should install the emu10k1 module into the
running kernel? Right now, the kernel installs the soundcore
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Kent Nyberg wrote:
I compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer and edited lilo
to:
vga=0x301
append=console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2
...
But when i for exempel, do an 'ls' in a dir with lots of things in it..
then
the framebuffer gets buggish.. (dont know how to
on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
2.2 cd's. However with the new PC every time I boot Linux will
complain the filesystems weren't properly unmounted and will do
a full check of the filesystems. I do ofcourse always make
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Javier Sieben wrote:
Hi!
I tried to install the emu10k1 module from ALSA. Having any troubles with
it, I deinstalled it. When I read that the final kernel (version 2.2.17)
had these module in it, I download, compile and install it with the modules.
But I can't use
I just installed Debian 2.2 and compiled the 2.2.17 kernel on a 3.2 gig
Quantum Fireball EX. The drive is a slave on the primary IDE cable and
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdhdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
Hi, 'users' ;-)
i know most of you aren't so i dare to ask:
My last Q to this list received no reply (PIIX, 82371 DMA probs). May
be i should have added the hexdump of kmem to be more specific?
Starring at the intel 82371FB docs and kernel-sources
driver/block/ide-* and driver/pci/* for two
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
Well...there's volume knob on back of some soundcards :)
Install a mixer app for X...or tehre's a volume controller in xmms.
Andrei
also lots of console mixer apps out there. try aumix for example.
martin
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Brandt Dusthimer wrote:
and 2, I'm also usually the file sharing server.
so you know you're good ... ;-)
However, when everyone's uploading/downloading to/from me, I
experience major system lag and if do anything (even simple command
prompt stuff) there upload/download
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Liam Ward wrote:
I'm getting the following message when I run ps/top:
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data.
The message comes from a kernel symbol checking routine in (as far as i
remember) misc/symbol.c in the ps source tree.
I _knew_ for sure my
on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:09:22AM +0100, Max Reiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
is there somewhere a Star Office or OpenOffice deb?
Should you just be concerned that installing the standard sun download
would in any way break your system - that is not the case.
Just download, run: xxx0.bin -net
Howdy hackers, i'm stuck ...
Searching debian.org, kernel.org, etc. i can not find a solution.
search.debian.org gives just some BUG closed msgs and some people
giving up on the issue ...
Now i already downloaded the intel 82371FB docs, being prepared to
initialize the PCISet myself. But as i've
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Knud Sørensen wrote:
Hi
Hi, Knud!
I have installed debian 2.2 and have some problems
getting the internet to work.
I have noticed something strange.
/etc/init.d/inetd is a empty file !
So, your on your way - good!
if I move it to /etc/init.d/inetd.bak
and try to
Just kinda curious...how important is it to place the new System.map file
(created when you compiled a new kernel) in the /boot directory? I have
compiled a number of kernels and, after looking at this discussion, I
checked my /boot directory to see if I had moved my System.map file
Btw. forget it. I saw a pentium/100 with 8MB RAM, and it was unusable slow.
apt-get-installing a 20kb-package took 5 Minutes(!). After upgrading to 24MB
RAM (didn't check 16MB), it was a cool server, even able to run small
php3-scripts in a fast manner.
As always it only depends on what
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, ktb wrote:
I'm a little farther along with my mail trials. Out going works
fine but I can't receive with fetchmail. I'm using exim, fetchmail
and pine on Potato.
I use sendmail, so i don't understand the implications of your
configuration, BUT:
I can't see where you
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, TrEB wrote:
I can't get a stable connection with my T-Online provider.
... to Mobilcom's Freenet provider all is working fine.
... t-online disconnects after 4-5 secs
Hi, sorry for being late (prob: sendmail 8.9.3-23 compiled with
the PICKY_HOST option doesn't go well
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Robert Every floppy I've written in a DOS-box so far wrote fine but
Robert didn't work, so I strongly recommend booting into real DOS (via
Robert F8 when Starting Windows 9x...).
Have other people exerienced this? (I've never used
On Sat, 20 May 2000, w trillich wrote:
Dominic all that starting syslogd, starting inetd etc
Dominic when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right?
Dominic how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather
Dominic not be running?
Mostly you will want to have syslogd, initd ...
Le sam, 20 mai 2000, Alain Reinhardt a écrit :
I always also suggest to try 'mc' (assuming MidNight Commander is installed)
because it is always a good feeling for a new user to go as far as a file
manager of some sort -in this case a very good one. Nothing means more when
you begin than
Hello, to everybody!
Call me silly - i want to compile a source package that build-depends
(pls. developers, add this line to more pkgs) on 'texinfo'.
I can not find a (source-)package with that name?
Where will i find it?
Thanks to repliers ;-) all the busy developers, greetings, martin
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