Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 20:34, Benedict Verheyen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 October 2003 03:32 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i have 2 matrox hd disks and whenever i want to set the dma to 1 i get this error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not

Re: Installing debian on new hardware.

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 02:18, Elie De Brauwer wrote: Hello list, i was just wondering, I have a new machine PIV 2.8ghz with hyperthreading, and a serial ata disk. What is the best way to launch a debian install on it ? Currently there's a gentoo with a custom kernel on it which i had to

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 06:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote: quote who=Wilko Fokken On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on some old computers

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:14:15AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: [snip] Is CC'ing at epidemic levels on debian-user? I don't find it bad, since the debian- mailing lists are

Re: Help with Debian Linux

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:13, Leo and Shelby wrote: hello, I have recently downloaded your 3.0 release for the x86 platform. It installed with a very little degree of difficulty but I am unable to launch X windows. It starts up then bombs out with a error message of No such file or

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:05, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi I have a problem on my laptop. Almost every time its running on batteries the time runs twice or more as fast as it should. It almost everytime happens if i plug AC on while its running... Im sure thats a stepping problem (laptops

Re: dist-upgrade deletes postgresql data!

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:24, Andrew Perrin wrote: I did a dist-upgrade yesterday in order to move to sarge, which I needed for various reasons. Part of the upgrade included a postgresql upgrade, which was fine; the dialog asked if I wanted to save backups, I said yes, and put them in

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:30, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 19:23, Ron Jr wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:05, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi I have a problem on my laptop. Almost every time its running on batteries the time runs twice or more as fast

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:39, Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:17, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:23:08PM -0600, Ron Jr insinuated: 'Most girls up through adult women become frightened and confused, often hysterical when presented with a traditional command prompt,' Cesterino explained, 'therefore the console

Re: Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:17, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Daniel L. Miller wrote: Howdy all. I've converted a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 128M RAM workstation from Windoze to Debian. Unfortunately, it seems that many operations are far slower - especially disk access. I've pasted the output of

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:08, Marc Shapiro wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:46:31 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days.

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:10, David Palmer. wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:37:49 +0100 Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my [...] [snip] --

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:04, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? One solution is the big stick:

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:17, Keresztes József wrote: Hi ! Sounds like you probably should try turning off the hardware cursor in X. Try setting the SWCursor option in the Device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I wrote Option SWCursor on to the file (device section) you

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:14, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i have 2 matrox hd disks and whenever i want to set the dma to 1 i get this error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted The first is a 40 Gb Matrox IDE and the second a 120 GB Matrox IDE. They are recent disks ( 1 year). My