Click of Death or RE: Second dead drive(?) or is it(?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, I wrote in about the strange clicking my drive was doing and then head crashing. Did this for two drives in the same box in a row. I replaced the power supply and the third hard drive functions normally. Nowhere on the web did I find any ad

Second dead drive(?) or is it(?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I put together my first Debian system 11 months ago. It's been a wonderful thing. The Debian community imho has created a manageable linux system. Now for my problem. Things ran fine (minus my stupid dinking) for 11 months. After a recent upgrade to

Network Problems

I upgraded my Debian (that I just got working!) to have KDE2.1.1 and somewhere along the way I installed something that now gives me a tap0 interface. I have to manually type 'ifconfig tap0 down' as root to be able to use PPP. What package started this guy up? How can I get rid of it. Shawn Ga

Alsa under Debian has me baffled

Under RedHat I just had to compile the thing. Sure I could do that under Debian as well, but I'm trying to go the package route. I downloaded the Alsa packages. I ran the command 'cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV audio' I run alsaconf (don't know what those values from 4-128 mean that it wants) It gets to

Re: PDAs

On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:04, Darryl Röthering wrote: > I too need to buy a PDA this week. Could those offering advice on this > thread also consider any knowledge they have about cell-phone/modem > integration? I understand that the Palm 7 can come with a modem. But can > you get a cell phone i

CDRW won't work

I just installed a CDRW HP9500i on my box and I'm using Debian Sid. I went throught HOWTO, up to the point of writing to the CDRW. I typed the following command: "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image" and got the following response: "Cdrecord 1.10a18 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 19

Parallel Port hosed-- Please help me

Okay I recompiled the kernel to get my CDBurner to work. Everything is cool until I goto print. The printer device is totally hosed. I've tried a wide variety of things to get it to work. I'm at a loss as to what to do next. I compiled parport and parport_pc as modules /etc/modules has a line:

Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0"

Just what does "Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0"" mean and how do I get rid of it???