Re: cpu freq scaling stopped working

2006-09-28 Thread Z F
Dear B.Hoffmann, I do not know if this is related, but I had a similar problem. What happened is that (for unknown to me reasons) cpufreq could not get the status of ac on or off this lead to the situation when cpufreq could not find relevant cpu-frequency rules to apply. As a result, it was not

video mode switch broken after recent upgrade

2006-09-27 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, After a recent upgrade of unstable, the video mode switch ctr+alt+keypad+/- do not work. THis happened on several computers, so I do not think that it is specific to the video cards, but rather to the xserver in general. By the way, xvidtune can switch between the video modes

module ABI major version doesn't match....

2006-08-22 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I recently upgraded Debian/unstable and X stopped working (on two machines). The error message is: module ABI major varsion (0) doesn't match the server's version (1) Failed to load module i810 (module requirement mismatch, 0) No drivers available. ANy ideas how this can be

glibc problem after upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, Some of my programs stopped working after a recent glibc upgrade of unstable. The error is this: version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference The problem is similar to the one described in: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443051.html ANy

GLIBC_2.0 error

2006-05-24 Thread Z F
Hello everybody I have a program (matlab) which stopped working after a recent upgrade of unstable. THe license manager wants to see GLIBC_2.0 defined. output of strings /lib/libc.so.6 | grep GLIB contains GLIBC_2.0 string, but the license manager still does not work. I have tried setting the

xdm crashes

2006-04-25 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I have added several local displays using /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers by adding the following lines to the default configuration #:0 local /usr/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :1 local /usr/bin/X :1 vt8 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :2 local

Re: Wireless roaming/configuration

2006-04-05 Thread Z F
of the switches, for example what is wep_tx_keyidx=0 I have only hex key not text. But what if I want to use a text string instead of hex? Thanks for your kind help Lazar --- Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 07:41:10PM -0700, Z F wrote: Hello everybody, I

Wireless roaming/configuration

2006-04-02 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I can not seem to figure out how to configure wireless roaming. That is, I would like to describe several networks with their WEP keys and ESSIDs. The goal is that as soon as available network is detected a connection is made. It seems to me that waproamd is the right package

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-08 Thread Z F
The only problem with using camera in linux is often there is no way to access raw images from the camera, only jpeg or tiff. --- mvephoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Generally speaking, pretty good. However, I tend to move away from the issue of having a digital camera work with my

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-08 Thread Z F
The problem is that the newest version of e2fsprogs fixed some problems which revealed new ones. It has to do with the fact that the local time is set after the disk is mounted. So if you clock is not on UT, you are in trouble. Thre possibilities to fix: 1. downgrade e2fsprogs (and e2fslibs) 2.

Re: How do I automate this?

2006-01-08 Thread Z F
modprobe usbserial vendor=0xc88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048 put usbserial vendor=0xc88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048 in /etc/modules pause for about 3 seconds and then run wvdial verizon write a script and put it in /etc/init.d/ directory and then link it to

UBS disk problems

2006-01-07 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I was searching the web, saw that some people have similar problem, but I could not find a solution... The problem is that I have a USB hard drive and when it is plugged in, it is detected fine and works on small files. If a large file is copied to the drive, something bad

ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
Hello everybody I am experiencing a strange problem with ext3 partitions. I have several computers running unstable and they started having troubles with partitions. Disks get corrupted all the time. When it happened on one of the computers, I thought it was a drive problem, but on several at the

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
On one system acpi is on, on others I do not remember, but I think is on too. (will check). but non of the systems have nforce2 :-) More over everything was fine for a long time. The kernel is at least several months old (custom compile). The other packages were upgraded recently. Lazar Z F

Re: fsck errors on boot

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
I have exactly the same problem on three my computers. running fsck and rebooting cases some errors in loading some files and results in corrupted file system which needs to be rechecked again. Any help is highly appreciated LazarAndrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been off this

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
I have no complains regarding how linux implements support for different features. I have some idea how hard it is even if you have all documentation (because documentations contain erros, I know it from my own experience). When you do not have documentation --- it is much much harder. What

Re: fsck errors on boot

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote on Dec, 16:[...] errors look like this /dev/hda3: Superblock last mount time is in the future /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY[...] This has just happened to me when I booted with a Knoppix Live

Re: fsck errors on boot

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
I downloaded 1.38-2 e2fsprogs and e2fslib and used dpkg -i to install. LazarAndrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Z F wrote: big snip In my case, I downgraded the e2fsprogs to 1.38-2 and the errors went away.So, even it it is not e2fsprogs, downgrading the package fixed the problem

Re: Power off

2003-08-30 Thread Z F
do you know if you have APM or ACPI ? Maybe you are compiling a wrong power manager into the kernel. Whether you have APM or ACPI depends on you BIOS. If you do not have ACPI option when you run make menuconfig see if you enabled Prompt for development/incomplete drivers in code maturity level

nis installation question

2003-08-28 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I have a question regarding NIS+ client installation. I am doing it for the first time and I think I followed all procedures from the NIS-HOWTO correctly. I am running unstable. The problem is that it worked, but after reboot it does not :-) ypcat passwd outputs correct

convert RedHat to Debian

2003-08-25 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I have a RedHat box and I would like to convert it to Debian. Is it possible to do it without reformatting the hard drive? If yes, how. I am not on the list so please reply to me directly. Thank you very much for your kind help Lazar __ Do you