apt usage with local debian mirror

2013-01-07 Thread Wakko Warner
I am not on the list, please keep me in CC. I'm using apt in a way that works for me. I have a local mirror and apt was setup to use /debian/apt-arch for various apt files (like sources.list, the /var/lib/apt/lists, /var/cache/apt, ...). This allows me to never need to do apt-get update. The

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-25 Thread Wakko Warner
that your replies also go to the list. 2007/10/24, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: pgega wrote: Please do not top post. I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. I completly do not know what

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-24 Thread Wakko Warner
. I did not set mem= on anything, but I do have the kernel compiled for 64gb ram. Using 2.6.23 and I notice no slowdowns having 4gb of ram. On Oct 24, 1:20 am, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map around those limitations

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-23 Thread Wakko Warner
Ron Johnson wrote: Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map around those limitations. For many years there have been 32-bit server motherboards that accept and use (in both Linux and Windows) up to 64GB RAM. I have a SuperMicro X7DA3+ board with 4gb of memory installed. Here's what I see:

Re: how to match parenthesis in sed

2007-10-17 Thread Wakko Warner
H.S. wrote: I think I have asked this before. Does thunar allow me to arrange the files spatially (drag and drop) and then to rename them sequentially in that order? I couldn't do this in Linux when I tried this earlier this year. I think I tried thunar too at that time after a suggestion by

Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel

2007-10-16 Thread Wakko Warner
Mumia W.. wrote: Your Iceweasel/Mozilla profile might also be messed up. Move your profile to someplace where Iceweasel can't find it, e.g. a trash directory. Do this before starting iceweasel again. Read here about your profile folder: Alternatively, you can invoke it as: iceweasel

iceweasel tab question

2007-10-15 Thread Wakko Warner
I know one browser I used or maybe even firefox used to. Is it possible to configure iceweasel so that when you middle click on a tab it'll open another tab with the same contents? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: iceweasel tab question

2007-10-15 Thread Wakko Warner
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Wakko Warner wrote: I know one browser I used or maybe even firefox used to. Is it possible to configure iceweasel so that when you middle click on a tab it'll open another tab with the same contents? You might want to look into TabMixPlus, https

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-11 Thread Wakko Warner
Orestes Leal wrote: El Dom, 7 de Octubre de 2007, 9:49 pm, Wakko Warner escribi??: Kelly Clowers wrote: I was looking at a V5100 or V7100 (both based on the X800 or X850 chip). But the question remains, is the R4xx chips supported in 3D? Yes r400 is supported: http

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-11 Thread Wakko Warner
Orestes Leal wrote: El Lun, 8 de Octubre de 2007, 5:21 pm, Wakko Warner escribi??: Kelly Clowers wrote: On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe and an AGP 8x version of the card. Not sure which they used

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-08 Thread Wakko Warner
Kelly Clowers wrote: On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I saw the X800 listed, unfortunately, ATI makes both a PCIe and an AGP 8x version of the card. Not sure which they used. If you have a clue, let me know. I'll email them and ask too. Well, I don't have any

PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-07 Thread Wakko Warner
Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet. I've been thinking about upgrading one of my computers but I've had difficulties figuring out if any PCIe video cards have open source 3D drivers. My current system is using an ATI FireGL X1 graphics card (R300 I think). I'm looking for

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-07 Thread Wakko Warner
Kelly Clowers wrote: On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet. If a card is supported, it shouldn't matter if it is AGP or PCIe, just as with older cards, it does not matter if they are PCI or AGP. I know that 2D

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-07 Thread Wakko Warner
Kelly Clowers wrote: I was looking at a V5100 or V7100 (both based on the X800 or X850 chip). But the question remains, is the R4xx chips supported in 3D? Yes r400 is supported: http://spearhead.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/gpus-beryl-what-is-needed/ Thanks. I saw the X800 listed,

ifupdown and --exclude ?

2006-10-03 Thread Wakko Warner
I'm not subscribed, keep me in CC. I noticed that the --exclude option was depreciated. I have a need to keep lo up. What is the recommended way of doing this? Something like pre-down /bin/false ? I would like to know the opinions from others about not deconfiguring the network interfaces on

DSA 1073-1

2006-06-06 Thread Wakko Warner
Is package mysql-server-4.1 4.1.15-1 vulnerable? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

low mem boot disks

2000-02-20 Thread Wakko Warner
slink was the last debian dist with lowmem boot disks, where have they gone? Don't tell me that the programs have gotten so big they won't work on a 2-4mb machine. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals

x11amp/xmms

2000-01-22 Thread Wakko Warner
I just have one problem with xmms. I can't find the skin from x11amp which is what's keeping me from upgrading the one copy I have on my machine (I don't like the default skin and I've yet to find one I like other than the x11amp one). Does anyone happen have it or know anyone who has it? I'd

netscape and libc6 2.1

1999-10-07 Thread Wakko Warner
Is it a known bug that netscape is unstable with glibc 2.1? I'm using potato packages of netscape 4.61 on a slink machine (slight modifications to make it work w/o upgrading to packages from potato) and it hasn't crashed. The crash I'm experiencing is when I hit alt-w to close the window and NS

NIS current unstable

1999-10-01 Thread Wakko Warner
Is there any known problems with NIS and the current unstable (as of 9-30-1999) I have a diskless machine booting that mounts another for it's root (it's root is seperate of the server and has the latest unstable as of the above date). I have added the +: stuff to passwd/shadow,

less

1999-08-12 Thread Wakko Warner
Every time I go to less a file that might be a binary (to less), it asks if I want to view it. This has gotten very annoying and I haven't seen how to turn this off. I want to turn it off. And someone reply to me, the past few messages I asked were just ignored. -- Lab tests show that use of

xterm doesn't work like it did

1999-07-12 Thread Wakko Warner
Before I send a bug or a feature request maybe one of you can help me with this problem. The xterm package that's in slink (I'm not sure about the first 3.3.3.1 released in potato) used to let me hold down any one of shift, alt, and/or ctrl and hit the arrow keys (meaning it sent the same codes

Booting a sparc10

1999-05-10 Thread Wakko Warner
I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on. I can't get it to boot off the hard drive. It always complains about no disk label. The kernel on the cdrom is 2.2.1 The bootloader is silo. The disk is a 1.3gb with 2 partitions. First partition is almost the entire disk with type 83.

Snooping program

1999-01-08 Thread Wakko Warner
I'm looking for a program similar to the linspy that will work under kernel 2.2.x. If you're reading this and don't know what linspy is. It's similar to ttysnoop except that it's not a daemon. Linspy loads into the kernel and attaches to the write or read functions (forgot which). There's a

xserver-s3v package

1998-12-26 Thread Wakko Warner
--quote-- Description: X server for S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX-based graphics cards This package provides an X server suitable for use with video cards based on the S3 ViRGE chipset. In most cases, use of this X server is deprecated in favor of the SVGA X server. --quote-- Is there a reason use of

bootpd

1998-08-11 Thread Wakko Warner
Is there a way to keep bootpd from replying to computers when using multiple network boards? I'm going to be setting up 2 diskless machines (floppy boot actually) to get a random IP address. The machine I'll be running bootpd has 2 nics. One of them is the corporate's network, the other is my

midi-to-wav

1998-07-18 Thread Wakko Warner
I know that timidity will take a .mid and write a .wav (or to /dev/dsp or /dev/dac). Is there any program that will do the same (or convert to a .mid) for creative's CMF files? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

ppp PAP question

1998-06-27 Thread Wakko Warner
I have 2 machines (well, 1 machine 1 isp). I'd like to use PAP between them. in pap-secrets I have: wakko lwts... wakko bristol ... lwts is my computer at work bristol is the name I received from my ISP. Doesn't matter how I invoke pppd, the results are the same. It will

the boot disk's kernel

1998-05-24 Thread Wakko Warner
I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? P.S. Sorry if I sent this again, my mailer daemon has been dead for a week =( Please re-reply to this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

the boot disk's kernel

1998-05-19 Thread Wakko Warner
I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppd question

1998-01-31 Thread Wakko Warner
Philip Hands wrote: Does pppd support server assigned nameservers? I know some isp's tell what the name servers are, I was wondering if there was a way that pppd would set up the new nameserve If you are talking about the microsoft protocol tweaks that let you tell Win95 clients what