RE: Newbie

2001-02-16 Thread #KUNDAN KUMAR#
Thanks Jimmy, Did the same as you asked. It worked fine, except for I had to give the aptget command with -f option, quite a few times. However, now I am having some strange problems, the monitor (under X) suddenly freezes. Even the keyboard doesn't work. And after sometimes, it is alright. Is

Re: Invalid partition table (rescue)

2001-02-16 Thread Robin Rowe
Chip, I don't know what's wrong, but a typical way to deal with this is to boot using a generic rescue (install) diskette. (Win98 doesn't understand Linux so whatever it may report is suspect.) A Debian install floppy has to work whether your CD will boot or not. When presented the main install

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread John Galt
Everything in /etc/init.d is a shell script that can be used to restart a daemon. Usage: /etc/init.d/foo restart. If there's not a init.d script, ps aux|grep foo to get the PID, then kill -HUP PID. That's just about it: if it doesn't fit into one of these two categories, it's not important to

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and /etc/init.d/networking restart want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Oops, still learning to read. I have a related problem, but it's with Gnome. Here's the sequence: 1) login as a regular use via gdm 2) open a terminal and su 3) gtop Leads to this error on the terminal: GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason :

Re: Latest Kernel

2001-02-16 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:24:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I was looking around debian.org for the latest kernel. Am correct that it is currently 2.2.17? I thought there was a new kernel out? There is a 2.2.18 kernel out. -- Andrew

Re: xdm takes ages to start after X upgrade SOLVEDish

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
On Friday 16 February 2001 13:28, David Purton wrote: I'v solved this prob by changing this line in xdm-config from true to false: ! All displays should use authorization. ! X terminals may not be configured that way, so they will require ! individualized resource settings.

Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ? ... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs? I would change the jumpers. Hoping the software ca multiplex is a recipe for disaster. And

Re: Special issues with X on a TFT screen?

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
On Friday 16 February 2001 15:04, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is .. setup file. I get the X server up,(the gray screen) but when it tryes to switch, the screen becomes black and there is no way to get it back. I suppose it is

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 - Very low resolution - how to increase?

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
On Friday 16 February 2001 09:41, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm currently confused about X-4. I've been keeping up to date with Testing and now I don't know which version of X I'm running. My driver is xserver-svga 3.3.6X. I tried running xf86config and this generated a XF86Config-4 file which

Re: XFree86Config bpp depth confusion

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
On Friday 16 February 2001 19:54, Robin Rowe wrote: Hi. I have a little confusion with XFree86Config. What is the difference between bpp and color depth? Section Screen DefaultColorDepth 32 This selects which of the following Display sections will be used. martin

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
Hi, Martin! On Friday 16 February 2001 15:54, Martin_Tanzer@dvs-berlin.de wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot... martin And not even that is necessary,

Re: xdm takes ages to start after X upgrade SOLVEDish

2001-02-16 Thread David Purton
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote: On Friday 16 February 2001 13:28, David Purton wrote: I'v solved this prob by changing this line in xdm-config from true to false: ! All displays should use authorization. ! X terminals may not be configured that way, so they will require !

Re: Newbie

2001-02-16 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
testing and woody both work fine. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:28:08PM -0500, D-Man wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:51:29PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: | First change all references to stable in your /etc/apt/sources.list to | woody. Then Shouldn't

Re: Newbie

2001-02-16 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
I should answer honestly here; this is over my head. I sincerely hope that someone on this list will have some idea. I am not familiar with TV tuner hardware for Linux, since I don't own any. I wish you good luck. Stick with it, these things usually do get worked out! :-) - Jimmy Kaplowitz

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a reboot to do this. Did you reboot after running fdisk when installing Debian? fdisk can

apt-get and dpkg woes

2001-02-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently decided to upgrade my system at home since it's been a while. I ran into a lot of problems, and the upgrade was VERY rough. However, after all of my playing around with the system, it seems to be left in a partially broken state. When I try to do an apt-get uprage, here's what

Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:16:44AM +1100, hogan wrote: Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ? no. or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs? yes. Read something in 2.4.1 kernel config about making serial ports nice to one another when on

Re: apt-get and dpkg woes

2001-02-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
Well, skip any response to this you have. I seem to have killed most of the system. I can still use the console, but X has died, as have several other programs. ssh still works though ;). On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:43:00PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: I recently decided to upgrade my system

PostgreSQL

2001-02-16 Thread Stewart Jenkins
Do I need postgresql starting up in my default runlevel of 2? I am running only a workstation that handles ip_masq and port forwarding. No database stuff that I am aware of. Can I remove this service from the runlevel? Thanks. -- Stewart... * They took the fourth amendment and I was

esound 0.2.4 for potato?

2001-02-16 Thread Rob Rati
Anyone know if there is a deb of esoundd 0.2.4 or higher for potato? I was surprised to see 0.2.22 (I believe it is) in unstable. Is there a reason it's so far behind? According to the esound site, the latest stable version is 0.2.8. Thanks. Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron

named dies mysteriously

2001-02-16 Thread Jeff Davis
I am running bind 8.2.2p7-1. Every couple days, I notice that named is just not running. No errors in syslog, nothing. Before I had a couple duplicate entries in the named.conf file, and I thought maybe removing them fixed the problem, but it didn't. All I can do is just restart the daemon. I

Re: named dies mysteriously

2001-02-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:11:44PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: I am running bind 8.2.2p7-1. vulnerable to root compromise. Every couple days, I notice that named is just not running. No errors in syslog, nothing. Before I had a couple duplicate entries in the named.conf file, and I thought

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-02-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Can you see web page from behind firewall? If so, you can use http apt-get for sure. For ftp apt-get and ipmasqarade firewall, you may need to activate ftp module to get it run. Regards, Osamu On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:55:32AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to run apt-get

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