Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-28 Thread Winston Smith
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:51:46PM +0530, Nishita Desai wrote: > Thank you for your reply Justin. But i810 does not work. It gives me > an error saying "No matching Device for instance (BusID :0:2:1) found" You might need the line: BusID "PCI:0:2:1" instead of: BusID

Re: how do i go back to stable? [was: reverting to 'standard' etch installation]

2007-11-03 Thread Winston Smith
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:53:52PM +, michael wrote: > I can give that a try but anybody else have any suggestions? (I've > removed some packages I'd installed under sid so now it's probably > not as clean/obvious as above suggests)... > > I guess I could remove lots of things and then se

Re: Easier to Read Fonts

2007-02-11 Thread Winston Smith
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:11:55PM -0500, Winston Smith wrote: > To my chagrin, web pages are actually easier to read indirectly from > my wife's Windows machine (when I connect to it by VNC from my Debian > box) than directly on my Debian box. Her Firefox uses Times New Roman, >

Easier to Read Fonts

2007-02-11 Thread Winston Smith
To my chagrin, web pages are actually easier to read indirectly from my wife's Windows machine (when I connect to it by VNC from my Debian box) than directly on my Debian box. Her Firefox uses Times New Roman, which I believe is a true type font. On my Firefox I've tried Serif, Free Serif (slightly

Re: Checking integrity of cached debs

2006-12-04 Thread Winston Smith
Winston Smith wrote: > Is there an easy way to check the integrity of cached debs and remove > corrupt ones? Also, is there an easy way to check the integrity of the > unchanging parts of installed packages? Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > You can install debsums for that, > &g

Checking integrity of cached debs

2006-12-02 Thread Winston Smith
Does apt-get check the integrity of cached debs before installing them? For example, if I did apt-get --download-only install which downloads the package to the file /var/cache/apt/archives/.version.deb but doesn't install it, and then sometime later, after the above file became corrupt becau

Re: Help: NO longer boots ;

2006-11-30 Thread Winston Smith
These are long shots, but since nobody else answered: If the reboot after the power failure was the first reboot since upgrading a package like udev or installing a new kernel, it could be that your grub or lilo stanza is wrong, especially if you have more than one hard drive. It could also be an

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-26 Thread Winston Smith
> > you're not alone: > > http://www.oclug.on.ca/archives/linux/2006-July/000920.html > > http://reporter.mozilla.org/app/report/?report_id=RMO11314606252824 One of those pages mentions fiddling with mtu settings. I second that. I had a problem like yours that I fixed by changing the mtu setting

Re: Video in mozilla/firefox

2006-11-19 Thread Winston Smith
I had a similar problem that I fixed by installing hal, which I had uninstalled for some reason. I realized it had to do with hal because of error messages that were printed in the terminal when I started firefox on the command line. Otherwise I wouldn't have seen these messages. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: kernel panic with SATA

2006-03-26 Thread Winston Smith
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:24:50PM +0200, oscar wrote: > I am trying to install Debian in a new Dell M70. I first used a CD with the > testing installer, but although it was able to boot from the CD, later it did > not recognize the CD. I have read in other places that it have to do with > SATA

Re: kernel panic with SATA

2006-03-26 Thread Winston Smith
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:44:23PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > The installer sets up disk names and labels one way, then the boot process > names them so they don't match. SATAs are hd's at one point, sd's at another. > And something moves them ahead of real SCSIs in /dev. > > Things seem to w

Re: Can't reinstall missing init.d script

2006-03-16 Thread Winston Smith
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:06:01PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Maybe you could extract the file from the .deb manually. > > This is probably the best idea. Thanks. That worked. If I recall correctly, I did: dpkg-deb --extract \

udev(?) reordered drives causes kernel panic after upgrade

2006-03-15 Thread Winston Smith
I had some trouble booting the 2.6.15-1-k7 kernel that I installed to satisfy dependencies in an upgrade from sarge to etch, which included an upgrade of udev. I got this message when booting: VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=

Can't reinstall missing init.d script

2006-03-14 Thread Winston Smith
Hi. I would like to recover the /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh script that came with it's package, which according to 'dpkg -S' is initscripts. I hid the current checkfs.sh and ran apt-get --reinstall install initscripts seemingly successfully, but no new checkfs.sh was created. I also tried 'dpkg-reco

Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-10 Thread Winston Smith
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:39:38AM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > Maybe it's #335708: mozilla-firefox: Firefox crashes with BadAlloc > Tags: confirmed; Merged with #330396, #331673, #334654, #345866; 135 > days old. > > Please check the bug reports, sounds very familiar to me. > > Regards. > Thanks

Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-09 Thread Winston Smith
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:02:36PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > ['http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=charlottesville+va'] > works fine in firefox 1.5.0.1 on my sid box. > you're running high 60's to low 70's for the next 5 days > with lows around 50, altern

Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-09 Thread Winston Smith
Could someone check if this link crashes mozilla and firefox as it does for me? Thanks. Win $ mozilla 'http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=charlottesville+va' > The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > T

Re: GDM screen too big for display

2006-03-03 Thread Winston Smith
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:37:44PM +0100, nikias wrote: > hello, > > gdm starts default as my login manager. > The problem is that it doesn't use the correct proportions of my screen. > Although everything looks sharp, I have to scroll to see the whole screen. > After I log in, Gnome starts and us

Re: Focus in KDE with kwin, New Widows Have Inferiority Complex (solved)

2006-01-11 Thread Winston Smith
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Winston Smith wrote: > How do I configure KDE and kwin so that the window for a new application > launched from an existing application, an icon, or the panel gets > focus automatically and doesn't appear below other windows? This was

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-26 Thread Winston Smith
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:02:47PM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > am> server. Assuming you're using dhcpd you'll want something > am> similar to this in your dhcpd.conf: > > am> host yourhostname { > am> hardware ethernet 00:11:22:AA:BB:CC; > am> fixed-address 192.168.0.123; > am>

Orphan Inodes After Power Outage

2005-11-03 Thread Winston Smith
After a power outage, a Debian box (without a UPS) had orphan inodes on 4 different partitions: /usr, /var, /tmp/, and /home. The /usr partition alone had 74 orphan inodes. Does that mean there are 74 missing files under /usr? There are no files in the lost+found directories for the partitions. T

Re: Vim question

2005-10-23 Thread Winston Smith
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:16:52PM -0500, Eric P wrote: > > If you wanted to instead replace > > > > line 1 > > line 2 > > line 3 > > > > with > > > > /* > > line 1 > > line 2 > > line 3 > > */ > > > > I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do. > > > > Actually, I would like to know ho

Re: excluding files w/ tar (retraction)

2005-06-03 Thread Winston Smith
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Winston Smith wrote: > One way to test exclude patterns is with > > tar -c --exclude=pattern includedirectorys | tar -t - > > Unfortunately, I didn't run such a test before responding to the > original poster, and now that

Re: excluding files w/ tar (retraction)

2005-06-02 Thread Winston Smith
One way to test exclude patterns is with tar -c --exclude=pattern includedirectorys | tar -t - Unfortunately, I didn't run such a test before responding to the original poster, and now that I have I would like to retract my previous posts on the subject. Sorry! The examples below show that t

Re: excluding files w/ tar

2005-06-02 Thread Winston Smith
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:48:09AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > `./*' wouldnt include (or exclude) `./.*' files where `.' would. Good catch. Thanks. Winston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: excluding files w/ tar

2005-06-02 Thread Winston Smith
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:08:15AM -0400, Winston Smith wrote: > would be, for example, "./tmp/", not "/tmp/". > > Try putting ./tmp/* instead of /tmp/* and so on in /tmp/excludes, or, if you My suggestion above assumes you use tar cv -X /tmp

Re: excluding files w/ tar

2005-06-02 Thread Winston Smith
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:00:18AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > i'm trying to back up an old suse box so that i can > clear it off and install debian. anyway, i want to > tar up basically everything (except for the obvious > stuff like proc, /tmp/, /dev, etc.) so i've made an

Re: All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-31 Thread Winston Smith
Winston (this poster) writes: > $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/*java* > #edited > java -> /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/bin/java > javac -> /usr/bin/jikes-sablevm > javadoc -> /usr/bin/gjdoc > javah -> /usr/bin/javah-cp > javap -> /usr/bin/javap-cp > javaws -> /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/bin/javaws > firefox-javaplugi

Re: All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-31 Thread Winston Smith
Wulfmann writes: > I'm currently on a WinME machine, Mozilla 1.7.5, Java 1.5. When I go to > the page and click on the "generate map" button I get a page with the > following error: > "Error connecting to the SAS server ... Thanks. That may be relevant. I don't know. Jonathan writes:

All browsers crash on button click (java?)

2005-05-30 Thread Winston Smith
All browsers I've tried including Mozilla, Firfox, and Epiphany crash (all browser windows cease to exist) when I click on the "generate map" button on this page: http://www.epa.gov/air/data/monloc.html?st~VA~Virginia It may have to do with java. I downloaded jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586.bin from sun

Re: select N random lines in a file

2004-08-23 Thread Winston Smith
ndom_line($filename); Another way is to use the Tie::File module, which treats the entire file as an array. Simply access a random array element. (END) Winston Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED] where x=winstonsmith, y=ispwest.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]