in french
Anyhow, I guess we should get back to a more technical discussion not
that it's a particulary fashionable thing to do these day's on this list.
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Tom Zych wrote:
Thanks! I'm afraid the modules section change didn't help.
I don't quite trust 2.4 yet but it seems to be getting there.
If you could post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I'll take another
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possible via your monitors controls (on screen display) to reset your monitor
to it's factory default modes. Check your monitor handbook.
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been flustered and frustrated but never
flustrated.sounds painful ;-)
I like dselect too, apt-get leaves you oblivious to recommends and suggests,
which can and do change over the lifetime of a package, particulary if a
large package is split into smaller ones.
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What is dexconf?
I second that ... what is dexconf? To my knowledge I've never used it.
man dexconf.
If you have ever (re)configured xsever-xfree86 then you have used it. And yes
you can configure it not to touch your lovingly handcrafted X config.
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are just plain awkward to read when pasted and wrapped. And what about gpg ?
Attachments are pretty useful things on the whole, even if some of them might
contain things none of us are interested in .
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Option HWCursor off in there somewhere, but without
seeing your config all we can do is speculate.
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Load int10
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nothing to further our community's reputation.
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Modelines are deprecated in X4, unless you are trying to use a non-standard
video mode. See the xfree86 video timings howto for more info.
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(**) MGA(0): Using framebuffer device
You aren't using the framebuffer.
Section Device
Identifier Generic Video Card
Driver mga
Comment out this line:
# Option UseFBDev true
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not need them.
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2002/mgadrivers-2.0.tgz
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of swapd was
running very fine on my systems. Has anyone encountered the same
problem?
Yes. It has been reported as Bug#141212. /etc/init.d/swapd stop does not
work. Do kill -9 pid instead.
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Pat Colbeck wrote:
I know I've been dumb but I deleted everytning uder /var/cache/apt.
Is there a tool to rebuild my system as apt is now totally broken.
#apt-cache gencaches
should get you going again. Of course, you will have lost any deb's you had
in there.
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problems running startx anytime i try to run it it displays a
error mga_hal its for the matrox g series i have no clue what to do i have
configured x i dont know if i have installed woody correctly, its so
frustrating thanks
Ross
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want.
5- i run some command (apt-get, dpkg, or another) and the softwares are
installed.
6- i have two machines with the same configuration.
thanks.
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be
spam. Given that you are the author of such pearls of wisdom as What we need
is a Mutt macro that bounces fifty copies of their email back at them. I'm
not sure you are the best qualified person to comment on spam.
I have my opinion...
...and I'm not interested in it.
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Marcelo Leal wrote:
but i did not see this apt-move
there are apt-get apt-cache apt-config apt-setup apt-sortpkgs...
apt-move???
apt-move is a seperate package.
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begin quoting what Simon Hepburn said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:02:04PM
+0100:
Tell me something, how many spammers do you know who advertise their
address and telephone #.
Quite a few.
Speaks volumes...
Mostly stupid ones.
I guess you're in good company
that telling me to install foo won't help at
all. You have to say where foo is, how I'd find it from a bash shell and
exactly what I type to install it. I appreciate the verbosity.
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to upgrading
yet).
Well you are halfway there because xserver-common is an X4 package. The X3
version is xserver-common-v3. Check the versions of all your X packages.
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due to the fact that dselect does not currently understand replaces:. This
is a known bug. Do:
# apt-get install python
You should then be able to upgrade the rest of your stuff from within
dselect. If there is still stuff held back post again.
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Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
console-common_0.7.13_all.deb
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??? Obsolete/local Optional packages in section interpreters
*** Opt interpre python1.5-ba 1.5.2-18.4 none
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Make that what error messages does apt-get --ignore-hold upgrade give ?
it's getting late over here, time to go to bed.
Simon Hepburn wrote:
What error messages does apt-get upgrade give ?
Daniel Toffetti wrote:
Hi !
It seems that python has some kind of dependency problem which
not discrediting KMail in any way, I just don't believe that any
MUA should try and handle SMTP.
For the case of a standalone box without permanent connection I have to
disagree. Keep it simple.
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| John Lord wrote:
| Hi folks,
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| Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction
| with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job?
|
| It depends on you situation
|
| If you
Phil wrote:
I need to calculate valid modelines for a configuration. Does anyone know
where in the world (or on the web) that modeline calculator is???
apt-get install videogen
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you need to
read /usr/share/doc/apt-move/README. There were major changes between 3.x and
4.x. If you have not done apt-move fsck then perhaps the Packages.gz apt-move
creates are corrupted and this in turn is affecting /var/lib/dpkg/available.
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insights.
If on the other hand you have a permanent connection and/or networked
machines, there are advantages to doing things the traditional unix way.
Apologies in advance to any unix diehards who consider this heresy :-)
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User Agent) doesn't do this.
In such a situation KMail keeps the undelivered message in the outbox. I
don't think you could call that giving up. The message is not simply lost
in cyberspace. How does Kmail keeping the message and trying again later
differ from what an mta does ?
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/vfs/modules/libcdda.so', which is also in
package libgnome-vfs0
libgnome-vfs-common replaces libgnome-vfs0. Try purging libgnome-vfs0 first.
bilbo:~ man apt-move
No manual entry for apt-move
does this mean i am missing some big pieces?
It means you need to install apt-move
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dave mallery wrote:
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote:
dave mallery wrote:
i did an apt-get -f install and exerpt the following problem:
Unpacking libgnome-vfs-common (from
.../libgnome-vfs-common_1.0.5-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives
Identifier G450
Driver mga
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Apart from that your config looks fine.
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file again if you still have problems.
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sure if that is my problem or yours.
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was referring to was this:
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks,
Richard
showing up as attachment #3 in your original post.
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the matrox stuff entirely.
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to the standard locale (C).
Any suggestions on how I can resolve this issue?
apt-get install localeconf
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Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:12:18AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote:
xlibs replaces xlib6g. I suspect you are having problems because you are
using dselect which handles replaces: badly.
How so? Its handling has always seemed fine to me.
Well, I can't give you any concrete
dselect which handles replaces: badly. Try
#apt-get install xlibs
If you are running X4 you might also want to check what other X3.3 packages
you have cluttering your system.
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Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
When I try to start X, I am told the mga_hal module can not be found.
You need to get the linux drivers from the matrox support site if you want
this lib.
You might like this:
apt-cache show mgapdesk
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a utility that you can use to force your disk
to run at the lower speed. I know in theory all these ATA standards are
supposed to be backwards compatible, but my own experiences tell me otherwise.
Simon Hepburn.
You are trying to use Xinerama and 3D accel together. They are incompatible.
Simon Hepburn.
from the cdrom. Use rescue root=/dev/hda1 or whatever partition your
root fs is on. I think it would be simpler to just fix your kernel config,
compile and install your 2.4 kernel than to mess around downgrading stuff.
Simon Hepburn.
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probably get the attention of one of the kde maintainers.
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and maybe try again.
Pierre wrote:
I can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10, the boot process looks
like :
LILO Loading Linux ...
Uncompressing Linux ... Ok booting the kernel
and then nothing else !
thanks for help.
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about in this forum not the Spanish Inquisition.
I too would love to see this thread come to a conclusion but I don't think
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is listed in /proc/pci
I don't really need 3d graphics at work,anyway if that's a problem. I do
need to get it back to running gnome, though. If anyone has a
suggestion, I thank you in advance.
-Glen
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== 19:43:52 sent from local host via smarthost (offset 4 min.)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:43:52 -0800
This is for debian-user which seems not to use any SPAM flag.
???
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Typical !! I just got this back in minutes, guess somebody fixed something
last night...
Simon Hepburn wrote:
You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the UK. It
used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted for by
the recent extensive thread
that, if at all, is largely a matter of personal preference.
And.. Another question.. Is there any way I can shut down temporarily
my LAN connection and later turn it back on again? I read about using
Ifconfig, but it seems like it is o longer available for download..
man ifupdown
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Identifier Dual Layout
Screen Screen_0
Screen Screen_1 LeftOf Screen_0
*
See note above about Screen_1
*
InputDevice Mouse_0 CorePointer
InputDevice Keyboard_0 CoreKeyboard
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TIA,
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Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 24
Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768
EndSubSection
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only restating the obvious.
(I will post separately about KDE if that helps, but I need help with gnome
first.)
TIA
Cam
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X has such appeal?
You are not alone...
No sane person should use frame buffers if they have the choice.
Like your mama told you: Just say no. Use text-mode and X11, and be
happy.
...that was a quote from Linus Torvalds.whoever he is :-)
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Drivermouse
Option ProtocolMicrosoft
Option Device /dev/mouse
# Jeff is adding the next line to try activate the scroll wheel
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5
Option Emulate3Buttons
#Option ChordMiddle
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etc compiled in, not as modules. You don't need initrd.
I don't understand why you would want to install a precompiled kernel image
when you already have the source and seem capable of using it ?
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take it you enabled this in your scsi bios ? I have a similar problem with
my box, ide hdd, scsi periphs. In my case it won't boot from cdrom if the jaz
drive is empty :-) Mixing scsi and ide is such fun...
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IDE ribbon cable)
OS:
Debian potato
kernel-image-2.2.19 (version 2.2.19_4potato.5)
Any ideas how to get Linux and my 45GB disk to use DMA mode (besides
upgrading my aging machine, of course)?
Thanks,
Daniel
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: secondary head of fb0 was registered as fb1
TIA,
Paul
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yesterday and happened to notice that this
has already been fixed:
If I understand the changelog correctly, you will be dissapointed in the near
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] ?
Anyone know where to change the setting for the text editor or what
package has kfm (debian sid, kde stable)?
kfm was the file manager in kde 1.x
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anyone out there ?
Use dselect. It will complain and present you with a screen showing all
packages that provide mta. Select sendmail.
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temporarily remove qt1apps from your entry in sources.list and then do
dselect|update, dselect|select, what gets marked as obsolete ?
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Robert L. Harris wrote:
This is driving me nuts.
I use konqueror as my web browser. When I open a text
for potato.
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goes out of frequency.
Is the monitor very old ?
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backend
-xfs-xtt font server
Which one are you using ?
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I take it you don't understand what ;-) means.
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Simon Hepburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote:
I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway.
Install ext3fs. Show him the power switch
by passing the argument init 2 at boot time.
Alternatively just uninstall your display manager.
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XF86Config-4.
In woody and sid selecting stuff like WM's and DE's is done using
update-alternatives.
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for woody (testing)? I have
xfonts-base already installed.
xfonts-scalable for type1
msttcorefonts for truetype
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Brian Nelson wrote:
Simon Hepburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian Nelson wrote:
Those old (FX chipset?) motherboards only have a cacheable area of
64MB, so using more than 64MB can actually reduce performance, though I
think this effect would be less significant on Linux
already installed.
xfonts-scalable for type1
msttcorefonts for truetype
Do these packages depend on X3.3.6 or X4?
X4
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Looks to me like you are trying to use options that are only valid for an X4
config with X3.3
What version of debian are you using ?
What version of X are you using ?
To configure X3.3 do
#XF86Setup
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this
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the locale setting I want in the
first machine?
I've followed the previous discussion in this
list regarding this problem, but no conclusive
solution was given...
(BTW, the potato to woody upgrade doesn't upgrade
the locale package.)
Thanks in advance
Marcelo
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potato machine a simple LANG=DE_de was sufficient for that matter.
This would normally be set in /etc/environment. Not sure if this is in woody:
apt-get install localeconf
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Harry Putnam wrote:
How does one make an extended partition with cfdisk?
It does it automatically when you create a logical partition.
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for
backwards compatability ?
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? There are in excess of
9000 packages in sid ...you would be in for a very long read. Use a front end
to apt/dpkg such as dselect to display available packages.
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On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote:
I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway.
Install ext3fs. Show him the power switch ;-)
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It does if you have the relevant package installed
#dpkg -S xpm.h
#xlibs-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h
Otherwise try here:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents
Simon Hepburn.
in section Files, to use xfs-xtt.
FontPathunix/:7100
Simon Hepburn.
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 10:15 am, Simon Hepburn wrote:
Try commenting out
#Loadxtt
You are using the freetype back end and xtt. Choose one or the other. In
fact thinking about it aren't you using xfs-xtt with X 4 ? You would also
need to specify a path to your font server in section
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 11:14 am, Patrick Kirk wrote:
One more thing - how can I tell what version I'm running of X?
In an xterm or from the console do
#X -version
I assumed that as you were trying to load freetype/xtt that you were running
X4. What version of debian are you running ?
Simon
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 12:00 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote:
Any suggestions for a good finance program?
There is a good overview of linux financial software here:
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/269/
Simon Hepburn.
you display truetype fonts now ?
Simon Hepburn.
bad karma - throw it in
the bin and get a new one :-)
Simon Hepburn.
this compare to what you did ?
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servers config. At least I
think that is what he has decided to do. It's a bit confusingbut so is X
sometimes :-)
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, the
installer either hangs or leaves the system unbootable.
So much for flash graphical installers
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