On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:58:55PM -0700, Janeque Peterson wrote:
I'm installing the full set on an older Thinkpad (390E) and after
choosing the language I get sent back to the same choose your language
screen. There's no error message of any kind. Anybody know what might be
going on?
Hit
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:01:46PM -0700, g r wrote:
It's a pity people have to ask around before they can
draw a rectangle with a graphics program. I had the
same question. I haven't come across a less intuitive
windows program than GIMP. I know I am commenting
based on my quick first
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
I can't seem to find the right Audio drivers for my motherboard.
I had to replace another board for this and the sound never worked.
I went ahead and removed the modules.conf find and rebuild it from
/etc/modutils/ and rebooted,
[My problem was being unable to set up a local repository with pinning]
As far as I'm concerned, this was a trememndous feat of collaborating to
save a poor sap some serious chunks of time.
Exactly both of these things mentioned below were the problem. Even with
this advice, it still took me
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:13:38PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
and for a while now the psmouse driver loses synch and goes nuts when I
switch the KVM, even though Hotplug should keep it in there, as per this
/var/log/messages:
My experience with PS/2, under Linux and Windows, is that it doesn't
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 06:55:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dual boot this computer to Debian 3.1 Sarge with kernel 2.6 and Windows
2000. Some time ago I created some VCDs on the Windows 2000, using
Nero, on a Sony CDRW. Now I tried to copy the video file, named avseq01.dat,
from the
I am working on a project where we need to maintain several deployments of
our code. I want to set up a repostory so we can:
- Package our main code up as a .deb
- Package CPAN modules up that don't already have .deb's
- Force certain versions of packages /not/ to upgrade until we're
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:48:42PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
This would be done by editing /etc/inittab to have a line like
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -l /bin/bash -n 38400 tty1
What user will own /bin/bash? Isn't it root?
Yep, unless you did something like:
Howdy,
X is not starting up for lack of a mouse, and sure enough, cat /dev/input/mice
gives: /dev/input/mice: no such device. This mouse was working 2 minutes
before I rebooted, and it came back up like this.
It has been a while since I've rebooted, so there's the chance that something
is
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:04:24AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
BTW - checkinstall.
Nice tool. It would be nice to have that linked into
perl -MCPAN intall Foo:Baz
My poor system is a mix of debian perl packages, packages I've created
with whatever tool that is to build packages
at 01:28:32PM -0400, Ryan King wrote:
Howdy,
X is not starting up for lack of a mouse, and sure enough, cat /dev/input/mice
gives: /dev/input/mice: no such device. This mouse was working 2 minutes
before I rebooted, and it came back up like this.
It has been a while since I've rebooted, so
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
To whom it may concern
I seem to have a problem whereby if I type the sarg, I get the following
output:
gate:/etc/squid# /usr/bin/sarg -n
sort: open failed: 021392: No such file or directory
Hrm, I don't know anything about
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:50:59PM +0200, Jim MacBaine wrote:
I'm quite stuck now. Vim works in the utf-8 xterm out of the box.
Maybe I should give up my emacs macros and consider to learn Vim...
As a public service to all Emacs inflictees, I hereby offer my .vimrc
services to anyone who might
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 06:58:58PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to come up with a shell script that will cat
or grep a file and if it contains the word SPAM it will then move it to
another folder.
I have been trying combinations of grep SPAM * | mv * ../spam
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 08:31:30PM -0400, Ryan King wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 06:58:58PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote:
I have been trying combinations of grep SPAM * | mv * ../spam however I
don't know what to put in for * since the filenames are always changing.
Try something like
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:22:03PM -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:
Hi! I have sarge, with kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I upgraded to a 2.6.12.3
using sarge's 2.6.8 config, but now I don't have sound. /dev/{dsp,mixer}
are gone. I have the use OSS API set under Device
Drivers-Sound-Advanced Linux Sound
) Get it working for
myself, and 2) Maybe help refine the docs a little so the next person after me
doesn't have to email one of the package maintainers.
Thanks in advance,
- Ryan King
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:49:04AM -0600, Ryan King wrote:
I rudely sent this to the package maintainer before I sent this here. The
instant I hit send (of course), I realized that this list is a more
appropriate
location for this question.
I am simply a clueless user trying to figure out
Knowing the answer to this question doesn't matter much, but I am
curious...
Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? What doesn't
make sense to me is that only some of the chars display wrong, and that
it's only the display that is ruined, but the actual characters are
It seems every time I install X I have to get someone else's XF86Config...
Every time I try to start the Server, it violently blanks out, where I have
to violently mash The Big Red Button. Anyway..
Could anyone who has the above Video Card E-Mail me the file?
TIA,
-Ryan
To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org
cc:(bcc: Ryan King/TUL-MIS/PEFS/PEC)
Subject: Lynx Proxy again
Hi all,
I did the following, still not working..
In netscape 4.5 I set my proxy - auto proxy -
http://proxy2.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac, and it worked fine...
so
Joe Emenaker wrote:
In fact, it has just occurred to me that we could have named them
alpha,
beta, and release instead of unstable, frozen, and stable.
David Coe Wrote
Please don't. Alpha (unfortunately) is already ambiguous
(thanks to DEC) ;-).
Who says version phase letters have to be
curious, but it makes the whole command-line experience easier
for my newbie eyes when the prompt is in color.
TIA,
-Ryan King
the psaux module loads during the boot-up, it says it's detected.
GPM starts fine as well.
I know the hardware works, because it worked when the PC had Win95 on it.
What am I overlooking?
Thanks,
-Ryan King
I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and was having
trouble with the floppy drive during the installation. (It does fine until
time to install the drivers, and then all I get /dev/fd0: Device not
configured).
When I `mount -t (ext2|msdos|dos|*) /dev/fd0 /mnt`,
I get:
mount:
net-related problem with that PC.
Now then, all this PCMCIA stuff has thrown me for a bit of a loop.
Thanks for any help,
-Ryan King
help would be thrilling, so thanks in advance,
-Ryan King
I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on
getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current
WindowsNT O/S.
I set up lilo so that my linux partition was bootable, and then, of course,
had to make it active. I figured, Well, I'm more familiar with
Okay, here's some more info that might help, or just convince you
that I need to reinstall.
When Linux boots, it recognizes my physical disk, and then later,
yes, all partitions... hda1,hda2,hda3.
Also, it is still type 83.
And I looked at the error message again, and it actually says this:
implemented (1024)
So I'm not quite sure I need to fix, but I think we're getting somewhere.
Thanks so much for your help already, you guys are the best.
-Ryan King
, (ad nauseum))...
Have I exhausted all hope yet?
-Ryan King
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