On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:57, you wrote:
Hi. Thanks for helping me.
Here is what I get when I try cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 | grep -i dri
Loaddri
Driver keyboard
Driver mouse
Driver mouse
Driver ati
Hello Jean-François,
Here's what I get with glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
So, it looks like DRI is not around, at least for OpenGL.
I don't know what to do? Is my kernel too old?
I don't think so (I assume that someone would have told you so
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:29, Eric Wagar wrote:
How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems
from the initial install? I see a lot of
documentation
on how to convert, but I'd like to get them
running
from the beginning.
Boot a Knoppix CD and do a chroot install
On Friday 15 October 2004 23:02, messmate wrote:
Hi folks,
what can this mean ' unable to find swap space signature'
on boot ?
Thanks for the info
Hi,
Apparently it means that the kernel couldn't activate the swap space (a region
on a hard disk used for storing temporary information when RAM
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:57, linux wrote:
Use chroot install to install the Knoppix to a hard drive.
Knoppix is based on Debian, so I assume Roberto means chroot install
using just your Knoppix CD, that's it.
[..] Sylvain.
I may be missing something, but you suggest to install Knopix
Hello Don,
Maybe another suggestion (since you have 2 disks):
install so that the most often used resources will be on one hard disk, and
the swap on the other.
? But I'm wondering, will this really improve the speed of the OS ?
Advanced users, please comment.
Cheers,
Sylvain.
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On Friday 24 September 2004 21:02, ScruLoose wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages
properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck.
I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge.
Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get
represented as a
BTW, Maybe checking the results in Mozilla as well will help you find the way
out. I remember doing this before I got FireFox working with japanese fonts.
Experiment a little, you'll find out.
Cheers,
Sylvain.
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On Wednesday 22 September 2004 18:36, Jianbo Wang wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know the frozen, release data of sarge? Thanks!
Regards!
Jianbo
Hello Jianbo,
We can only make forecasts based on the following figures:
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
because the final Sarge will be
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 22:21, John Fleming wrote:
_good_ and _stable_
That's what's really important, no?
Really naive question
It depends what _good_ means, don't you think?
- Could recently-released SpamAssassin 3.0 still make
it into Sarge, or is that way too new and not
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 22:48, Robert Brinson wrote:
Currently, I am a Gentoo Linux user. It is a great distribution for
people who want fine control over their system. I enjoy being able to
just emerge whatever_program. However, I am getting a little tired of
having to compile every
On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote:
server-xfree86.dfsg.1-6
Hi,
You will not find it in testing either, the version there being 1-4
apparently:
# apt-get install -s xserver-xfree86 | grep xserver-xfree86
xserver-xfree86
Inst xserver-xfree86 [4.3.0-7] (4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:45, Andrei Badea wrote:
pour Monsieur) Is it possible to get an older version of a package than is
now in
unstable? Particularly, I need xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-6 (the version in
sid being 1-7).
Thanks for help.
Andrei
Hi Andrei,
Apparently you can find
On Saturday 11 September 2004 19:14, Paul Akkermans wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have installed Gnome through apt-get install gdm. After doing this and
after rebooting my debian system I get the following message:
Hello,
Just 1 or 2 remarks if it can help you find a solution.
First, you don't
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:04, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:39, Paul Tsai wrote:
Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GNU == GNU is Not Unix, GNU was synonymous with
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:02, Bill Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:17:18 +0200
John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering if Linux can be considered Unix?
snip
As others in this thread have stated:
Linux Is Not UniX ;)
\sorry, couldn't help myself
Linus
. :)
-- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor)
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On Monday 28 June 2004 22:23, Joey Hess wrote:
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
Hello,
I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install
'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X.
I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on
saturday 2004/6/26:
http
Hello,
I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install
'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X.
I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on saturday
2004/6/26:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/
On Monday 28 June 2004 17:28, you wrote:
Hello,
I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install
'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X.
I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on
saturday 2004/6/26:
On Monday 28 June 2004 17:58, Ketil Froyn wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:28:27 +0200, Sylvain Vedrenne
[...]
I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian
[...]
on an IBM Thinkpad 560X.
[...]
partman says something like here are the partitions on your hard drive
but there is nothing
MrVanes wrote:
Since some time I don't have any fonts/text in GTK2 apps anymore.
Everywhere characters should be , there's void and spacing is like minimal,
so it looks like font nothing, with space 0 is selected or so.
The configure app switch (for GTK1) has text, switch2 is empty like the rest
Vijaya S wrote:
Hi all,
Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..?
Any suggestions atleast some combo of them..
Regards,
Vijaya
Hello,
Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer.
You need to have several partitions on 1, 2 or more disks...
And you
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
Vijaya S wrote:
Hi all,
Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..?
Any suggestions atleast some combo of them..
Regards,
Vijaya
Hello,
Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer.
You need to have several partitions on 1, 2
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 18:51, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
KJ I've been doing some experimental installs (which, BTW, have worked
KJ perfectly so far) using the Beta4 installer:
KJ
KJ ../sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso.
KJ
KJ
KJ The console login screen shows the following:
KJ
KJ
Hello Kevin,
You might find this page interesting:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/compilers.html
It talks about standard ISO C++ and compilers.
By the way, GCC sure is a good choice for learning (_and_ for much more!).
Cheers,
Sylvain.
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 09:47, Kevin Mark wrote:
KM Hi
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 22:07, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
SV Hello Kevin,
SV
SV You might find this page interesting:
SV http://www.research.att.com/~bs/compilers.html
somewhat off topic C++ stuff
And this page is really worth looking at!
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#simple-program
Hi,
I don't know, but did you try
% apt-cache search
and
% apt-cache search | grep qmail
to find out?
hope this helps.
Sylvain.
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 21:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Da Does anyone know what the package name is for qmail on sarge? I have
Da tried to do an apt-get install
Quoting Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
Hello,
How to install the previous version of a package ?
Example:
I want to install gnome-session,
apt-get install gnome-session complains that there is a grave bug in
desktop-base version 0.3.13 - see below
Hello,
How to install the previous version of a package ?
Example:
I want to install gnome-session,
apt-get install gnome-session complains that there is a grave bug in
desktop-base version 0.3.13 - see below details from Debian-BTS. So I decide
to install later...
- Is it possible to
Hello,
From the command line, export works as I expect, but when I execute an export
command by launching a script, it doesn't work as I expect.
Example:
% cat try_it
export VARIABLE=ItWorksFineImHappy
% export VARIABLE=DoesntWorkImConfused
% echo $VARIABLE
DoesntWorkImConfused (so
Selon Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:41:15AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
From the command line, export works as I expect, but when I execute an
export
command by launching a script, it doesn't work as I expect.
Example:
% cat try_it
Hello,
I've got various problems with gdm since I upgraded my SID 2 days ago.
Thanks to some of you I found out how to put Window Maker, Gnome, Xfce and KDE
back into the drop-down list of gdm,
BUT gdm still doesn't work correctly
(before finding about the new SomeWM.desktop files, I messed
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:02, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
SV Hello,
SV
SV I've got various problems with gdm since I upgraded my SID 2 days ago.
SV
SV Thanks to some of you I found out how to put Window Maker, Gnome, Xfce
and KDE SV back into the drop-down list of gdm,
I mean I browsed recent
Hello,
= Can any of you send me a default/example Xsession file?
= And also tell me where it should be located to work?
I broke my gdm configuration 3 days ago
with an apt-get upgrade (SID) + various attempts I made.
I'll avoid stupid attempts next time
(such as removing a file/directory
Hi,
Finally I solved *all* the problems I had with gdm with:
apt-get --purge remove gdm
(it said it didn't remove /etc/dm/)
rm -rf /etc/dm/ (so that everything is removed)
apt-get install gdm
And now it works fine!
Cheers,
Sylvain.
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 19:21, you
Hi,
No more problem by now.
Apparently, I got rid of *all* the symptoms I had with gdm by doing this:
apt-get --purge remove gdm
(it said it didn't remove /etc/dm/)
rm -rf /etc/dm/ (so that everything is removed)
apt-get install gdm
And now it works
, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
Now I'm starting with Debian Sid / 2.6.3. I can watch videos with xine,
but I'm convinced the quality can be better. It looks there is no
mga_vid.ko or something... Will there be one in the future?
I think you need to ask the Matrox guys this question since IIRC mga_vid
Thanks for the information, Mario!
= I will try xv ;-)
Cheers.
Sylvain.
Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:59 +0100, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
Now I'm starting with Debian Sid / 2.6.3. I can watch videos with xine,
but I'm convinced the quality can be better. It looks
Hello,
Do you know where I can find up-to-date info concerning the mga_vid
driver, or what is supposed to replace it?
I used to have it last year (mga_vid.o) on my GNU/Linux system, a
Slackware 8.1 / 2.4.18 and it allowed me to watch videos with very good
quality using MPlayer.
Now I'm
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Hello,
I was happy using MPlayer with my Matrox G200 (quite an old card) with a
kernel 2.4.18 (or 2.4.22 I'm not sure). The driver it was using was '
mga_vid.o '.
Now I'm using Debian Sid with a 2.6.3 kernel.
I understand that for a 2.6.x kernel, the driver should be something
like '
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