Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can

Re: Where are the GAIM sounds?

I'm talking about the actual wav files. The mechanism to play sounds works fine. When I hit "Test" with the default sound, there's nothing, but when I replace "(default)" with a wav file, it plays. -- Nick On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:41:53AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:30,

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Re: DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 06:23, James Green wrote: Hi all, I've got two Maxtor IDE hard drives. They have been working fine, but since I moved them into drive caddies I've been getting the following messages in dmesg output for the second drive: [snip] What shoul

Re: make-kpkg problem?

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:31:17PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > try doing a make-kpkg clean and then starting it again. Remember that > after a clean you must run it with the --revision switch if you want > to add a revision (and you do want to add a revision). Thanks. I had done the ma

Re: xemacs background won't show an .xpm file

Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://members.fcwm.org/glen/fvwm/fvwm2.jpg Nice - but do you LIKE those icons?! > > I can't get it to work on the Debian box. Instead of displaying the > pixmap I'm getting a solid black background. Following is the line I'm > using in .xema

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:49:30AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > Here neither. Sorry for that. > > setterm -cursor off > > seems to turn the cursor off. I think a start point for turning the > blinking off might be tput. sort of similar, how does one turn the console error beep off? regards, j

Re: Where are the GAIM sounds?

* Nick Traxler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020618 17:32]: > Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome. > None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are > they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable. They're built-in. they come in a sounds directory in

Re: OGG wont do

also sprach Florian Struck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.18.2349 +0200]: > How do you name it? ~/.abcde.conf it's in the manual pages... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] #define emacs eight megaby

Re: OGG wont do

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:06:50PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > I got grip to rip oggs. Here is my command line in grip: > > /usr/bin/oggenc > > Then I can play them using ogg123, as long as I'm not in KDE. For some > reason KDE requires control of oss? *shrug* Yes, KDE (arts subsystem) takes c

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 10:10 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to install Woody (using both the vanilla and bf > floppy series downloaded on Saturday 15 June) for several days now. > If I've counted correctly, I'm on my 7th attempt. :) > > The first several failed due to unr

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Jan Groenewald wrote: > sort of similar, how does one turn the console error beep > off? > Use command: xset -b Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:46:43AM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > > sort of similar, how does one turn the console error beep > > off? > Use command: xset -b I am not running X, I want to stop the beep on error or completion. man setterm, man console, man terminal didn't help, except that ^G produces a be

Re: apt-proxy 111 connection refused

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:22:12PM -0700, Paul Scott,,, wrote: > When I run apt-get update on the other machine I get 111 connection refused. > > Do I need something in /etc/exports or /etc/hosts.allow? A quote from the README: Q: A connection cannot be established with apt-proxy on a remote mac

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

Hi, Before we go into your message, which kernel version are you using? On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > # Better use the first BIOS ID for the disk we'll boot from; > > # we'll use the BIOS setup to boot from this > > disk=/dev/hdc > > bios=0x80 > > What exactly does th

Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs (OT)

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 18:41, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:32, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > But if you seriously want to do backups, you should have a look at > > tape drives. Harddisks, especially IDE disks are in no way a safe > > medium. > > Uh-oh don't start that one up again :) OK

Re: Can't get audio to work

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:36:37PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:25 am, you wrote: > > As far as what's next, what happens when you try and play an mp3 > > file? Whether via xmms or mpg123, you should get some meaningful > > output. > > "Failed to open sound device."

Re: Net Installation

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 00:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 08:57, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > So how do I make an installation disk since my old i386 \ > > doesn't boot from CDROM? > > > > I dd'd the root.bin to floppy because the README said this > > was needed for the install.. I

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:10:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > The next thing I can't figure out is why dpkg is using "potato" packages and > apt-get is using "stable". The "available" list in /var/lib/dpkg shows all > packages are from potato, and apt-get's sources list is all stable. It's a b

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:53:42AM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: > I am not running X, I want to stop the beep on error or > completion. man setterm, man console, man terminal > didn't help, except that ^G produces a beep. I use 'set bell-style none' in ~/.inputrc. (I'm assuming you're using bash.)

Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs (OT)

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:32, Nicos Gollan wrote: > But if you seriously want to do backups, you should have a look at > tape drives. Harddisks, especially IDE disks are in no way a safe > medium. Don't tapes get torn, munched and demagnetized? Why not do backups on CD-R/RW? Oleg -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

Moin George! George Karaolides schrieb am Wednesday, den 19. June 2002: > > ide0 on 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x 3f6 on IRQ14 > > md: could not lock [dev 16:03] sero-size? Marking faulty > > md: could not import [dev 16:03] > > md: autostart [dev 16:03] failed > > /dev/md1: invalid argument ... > That could ha

Re: Backup utilities

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 06:00, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello, I'm looking for recommendations on backing up the home > directories here at work. The scenario is as follows: I have > several work stations mounting their homes from a central server via > NFS so I don't think I'll be needing anythin

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 07:18, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning > as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller > partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its > size is 926 MB, and it contain

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Hi! I have this annoying problem with Evolution and gnupg; when I click a message lock icon to check the signature Evolution often hangs before the lock opens. I then have to brutally kill it and start anew. In my ./gnupg/options I have: --- keyserver x-hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net keyserver-options hono

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 09:53, Jan Groenewald wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:46:43AM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > > > sort of similar, how does one turn the console error beep > > > off? > > > > Use command: xset -b > > I am not running X, I want to stop the beep on error or > completion. man set

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

+ George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19.06.02 10:18]: > Before we go into your message, which kernel version are you using? kernel-image-2.4.18-686 [bios=0x80] > When you install an MBR on a disk using lilo, lilo will use the BIOS ID > currently lilo thinks is currently assigned to the disk.

Re: Backup utilities

hi ya jorge simple backup examples with tar tar zcvf /tmp/backup.tgz `find /root /boot /etc /bin /sbin /usr /home -mtime -90 -print ` than add date code to the backup file names ?? than make it run from cron and do incremental backups vs full vs weekly/monthly backups backup.

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 10:19, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > This may be another process hanging. What happens > if you swapoff everything when the system is lightly loaded? > Same thing happens, the HD blinks forever ... I suspect something 's wrong with my config - can someone look at it an see if an

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> > The machine is 200Mhz with 96Mb RAM. It already takes care of my > > personal as well as some work mail(including this list) and apache for > > the webmail stuff and PHPgroupware, so its under a bit of > > woh. hold it. > > maybe its just me but it seems phpgroupw

Re: apt-proxy problem - was -111 connection refused

Chris Halls wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:22:12PM -0700, Paul Scott,,, wrote: When I run apt-get update on the other machine I get 111 connection refused. Do I need something in /etc/exports or /etc/hosts.allow? A quote from the README: Thanks. I had forgotten about this README

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I tried the partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, and parted (I decided not >to try sfdisk yet). Same results, except parted produced this warning: > Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is > 2495

Kärlek

Hej Tor! Är du ute och påtar i trädgården? Efter att ha suttit och konfigurerat i dagar, äntligen fått till allting, och kört nu ett par veckor eller tre då säger jag bara en sak: Debian! Det är kärlek. Puss, HÖ -- ~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814

Re: Kärlek

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 11:30, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > Hej Tor! > ps! Sorry, wasn't supposed to go to the list...:o| HÖ -- ~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814 ~ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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Hi, I had a look at lindows.com after some discussion on slashdot, and the package names in their click-n-run warehouse are very debianish. They even have the 'application' libdbd-sybase-perl for download :-) Is lindows based on debian? -- René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://

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Since the current cyrus packages for stable and even woody are way(!!) outdated I was forced to install cyrus21 from unstable on my woody machine. I mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] the package maintainer but did not get a mail back yet... I added unstable to my sources list and installed the cyrus21 p

Re: simple (?) post install 2.2r6 problems

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:32:09AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, I managed to get my potato baked, and despite some problems with > Xwindows I got that as well as gnome running (with mouse!).. > > .however there are a few things that didn't quite work out > properly. > > - Xwindows starts

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I have just installed woody and am running into a few errors on boot up: --- insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020619.log Read-only file system insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020619202417.ksyms Read

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Here's another error that keeps popping up when booting: -- Starting ISDN services : no ISDN cards configured! Please configure 'hisax' module with modconf (read /usr/share/doc/isdnutils/HOWTO.isdnutils.gz for more info).

Re: neighbor table overflow

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Jun 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > > I have installed woody on my machine, booting w/ RH 7.1. Right from the > > installation stages, I keep getting this message > > > > neighbor table overflow > I have had this when /etc/network/in

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

Hi Eduard, On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Eduard Bloch wrote: > The current md driver is broken-by-design in the autodetection issue. Broken-by-design? So there's a reason for this? > You have to compile the driver into the kernel and mark the partition as > type 0xFD to make it autodetecteable. Since

Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry

Em Qua, 2002-06-19 às 02:18, Aaron Maxwell escreveu: > I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning > as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller > partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its > size is 926 MB, and it conta

Re: insmod errors

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:09:06PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I have just installed woody and am running into a few errors on boot up: > > --- > insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020619.log Read-only > file system

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im trying to install debian potato on a 8500 series oldworld ppc. everything goes fine besides the "make debian bootable from the harddisk"-step. i dont have macos on the box, i only want debian :-) it would be nice if i could boot into linux from the harddisk or a rescue disk. however, using d

Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs (OT)

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 03:37, Oleg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:32, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > But if you seriously want to do backups, you should have a look at > > tape drives. Harddisks, especially IDE disks are in no way a safe > > medium. > > Don't tapes get torn, munched and demagnetized

Re: isdn start error

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 11:43, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > Here's another error that keeps popping up when booting: > > -- > Starting ISDN services : > no ISDN cards configured! Please configure 'hisax' module with > modconf (read /usr/share/doc/i

Re: Kärlek

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:30:52AM +0200, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > Hej Tor! > > Är du ute och påtar i trädgården? > Efter att ha suttit och konfigurerat i dagar, äntligen fått till > allting, och kört nu ett par veckor eller tre då säger jag bara en sak: > Debian! Det är kärlek. I think this s

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I'm trying to install something using apt-get and am getting the following error: cinnamon:/home/netphysic# apt-get install j2sdk1.3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages' (/var/s

Re: neighbor table overflow

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:06:11PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have had this when /etc/network/interfaces was not configured. > > It needed to contain the following, which for some reason was not > > configured during installation. > >

Re: apt-get install problem

Alex Hunsley wrote: > > I'm trying to install something using apt-get and am getting the following > error: Also I've just noticed that /var/cache/apt/archives doesn't have any .debs in it - instead it has a file called "lock" and a directory called "partial" which is empty is this the source

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I've just migrated from masqmail to postfix and it's working fine as far as I can tell, the only exception being local delivery. I can send mail to myself but not to any other computer on a small home LAN, consisting of three alltogether. I obviously can't handle the transports file. Here's my co

Re: apt-get install problem

Alex Hunsley wrote: > > I'm trying to install something using apt-get and am getting the following > error: > Doh! Problem solved. Just noticed the bit at the end of the long error message saying "do apt-get update to fix these problems". it's happily doing it now. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: 'Semi-Hot-Swap' of IDE discs

Hello nate / list. [...] > second if you don't fork out the cash for a ide hot swap backplane your > best bet I think would be to get a good removable disk drive holder, > and before removing the disk, power it down using hdparm. be sure nothing > is using the disk(no mounted filesystems etc). a

Stop please? (OT)

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 03:37, Oleg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:32, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > But if you seriously want to do backups, you should have a look > > > at tape drives. Harddisks, especially IDE disks are in no way a > > > safe

Re: isdn start error

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Dear All, Apologies if this is a trivial question, but I've installed a few Debian systems and have never come across this one! I'm trying to install 2.2r4 on a standard corporate Compaq Evo (1.8GHz Pentium) machine - 20GB hard disk on the primary master (not cable select) and CDROM on secondary

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I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help: I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives. And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads the kernel etcetc from floppy). So yes these are separate HD's. Now from previous experienc

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On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:54, curtis wrote: > Now, on my personal computer after updating to 2.4.xx, I made the same > changes, but I notices that during the boot there is a line entry: > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Look closer. There should be at least two VFS lines. For example, from a

Re: 'Semi-Hot-Swap' of IDE discs

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:28:52PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Is there a way to force the disk to "spin up" before trying to mount > it? There don't seem to be a "reverse -Y option" to hdparm, does anyone > know of any other utility that might be worth trying? Maybe try hdparm -U/-R Ax --

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

When installing, after setting up apt for http or whatever, tell it you want to add another source. Go to edit by hand. Change all the 'stable' to 'woody' Continue the install (BTW: By editing /etc/apt/sources.list, you can fix your already performed install. Do a potato -> woody upgrade after

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

also sprach tvn1981 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.19.1118 +0200]: > Same thing happens, the HD blinks forever ... I suspect something 's > wrong with my config - can someone look at it an see if any major fault > ? it is probably okay actually. after all, when you deactivate swap, all swap file

Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs (OT) - dvd

hi ya > > Don't tapes get torn, munched and demagnetized? be more careful in handling and storage ?? > It's been years since I've seen that, but _maybe_ (or maybe not) > that's because I shell out USD3,000 for a DLT drive and USD60 > for DLT tapes... I'm sure AIT has the same quality. and y

Re: apt + proxy

Andrea Balzi wrote: Hi, I have installed a PC in a LAN where is not web-proxy without problems. After I put the PC in to a LAn with a web-proxy (squid), I've create the apt.conf file in to /etc/apt directory with the following line: Acquire::http::Proxy "10.0.0.169:1428" try: Acquire::h

Re: Lindows and debian packages

>>> Rene Seindal writes: Rene> I had a look at lindows.com after some discussion on slashdot, and the Rene> package names in their click-n-run warehouse are very debianish. They Rene> even have the 'application' libdbd-sybase-perl for download :-) Rene> Rene> Is lindows based on debian?

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Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:44:54PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I make an boot disk for the hdb/debian so that it only boots from > the floppy, but loads kernel etc from HD? The significant line in /etc/lilo.conf is

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Hi, I'm trying to install the ILK module from the GILK project (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~djp1/gilk.html) but when I insmod ilk.o I get this erro message: ilk.o: unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user ilk.o: unresolved symbol kmalloc ilk.o: unresolved symbol unregiste

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Hi: I am in the middle of upgrading to 3.0 and while apt/dpkg was installing th enew version of debconf I got these errors and not sure how to fix Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help: I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives. And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads the kernel etcetc from floppy). So yes these are separate HD's.

RE: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs (OT) - dvd

> -Original Message- > From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 June 2002 12:55 > To: Ron Johnson > Cc: Debian-User > Subject: Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs (OT) - dvd > > > > hi ya > > > > Don't tapes get torn, munched and demagnetized? > > be more careful in handling a

Re: 'Semi-Hot-Swap' of IDE discs

Vaclav Hula wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:28:52PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > > Is there a way to force the disk to "spin up" before trying to mount > > it? There don't seem to be a "reverse -Y option" to hdparm, does anyone > > know of any other utility that might be worth trying?

Re: Is Sun going to use Debian for their boxes?

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Toens Bueker wrote: > Hi *, > > I just read of a rumour about Suns new Linux-Boxes (LX50?!) and a "Sun-Linux" > distro on them. > > Wouldn't it be nice if this distro was Debian based? > alas, i think it's based on suse? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Can't get audio to work

On 2002.06.18 23:59 Glen Lee Edwards wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:41 am, you wrote: > The 'K7' builds are only for us who run AMD Athlons. I thought I > made this point in my previous message, but obviously not. Not sure what you mean. Last I heard the Duron, Thunderbird, and XP are all p

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Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Neal Lippman wrote: | I am having two problems with bash login scripts, which I cannot seem to sort | out. Probably something simple, but I'm missing it. | | 1. First, here is a few lines from my .bash_profile. These lines were | commented out by default, and I hav

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:53:42AM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:46:43AM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > > > sort of similar, how does one turn the console error beep > > > off? > > Use command: xset -b > I am not running X, I want to stop the beep on error or > completion. man

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all, On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:24:50AM -0400, Seneca wrote: > > --- > > insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020619.log Read-only > > file system > > insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/unix.o: cannot create > > /v

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Hi all, I'm having some performance issues with this mb. I'm using a ata100 7400rpm ibm desktar hdd and hdparm -t /dev/hda shows: 'Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 10.19 seconds = 6.28 MB/sec' This is too slow for what I've seen from other people. hdparm -iv /dev/hda shows: dev/hda: mult

Re: Unresolved kernel symbols when installing a custom module

Hi, Am Mit, 2002-06-19 um 11.57 schrieb Goedson Teixeira Paixão: > > I'm trying to install the ILK module from the GILK project > (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~djp1/gilk.html) but when I insmod ilk.o I get > this erro message: > > ilk.o: unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user I'm not sure

Re: Soltek sl-75drv4 dma problems....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 June 2002 17:13, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > Does anybody have a clue how to fix this ? > > The board uses a VIA Apollo KT266A chipset. Try this: in lilo.conf, insert the line "append ide0=ata66", run lilo and reboot UDMA100 should work

Re: building Postgresql

Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:43:28PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: > | So, I was building postgresql from source (via debian/rules build) > | when it failed due to a missing header file, so I apt-got the package > | which contained the file reran the

Re: Backup utilities

Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 06:00, Jorge Santos wrote: > > > [...] > > > > [...] > Thanks to all, I'll think I'll go with one of the scripts from linux-backup.net, I knew I would be reinventing

Re: bash login script problems...

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >When you run a script in a subshell, it can modify the environment of > >that subshell, then that subshell terminates (when the script is done) > >and you get the prompt from your original shell again. Unl

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:59:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For some time now I have had nothing new from testing; I assumed this > was because of the freeze. However, the same seems to be happening with > unstable. I do an "apt-get update" and get the list of packages, but > nothing is sch

ntpdate troubles

Bonjour, since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': I get the message "no server suitable for synchronization found" when lauching with no option. But when I add the option "-q" or "-d" everythings look right: I quess I have missed something, but I do not know what. Any idea ? Thanks in

Re: SCSI parity errors

Hi, On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Thomas Good wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem with my SCSI harddisk/controller which occurs more often > > lately. The errors have the form: > > > > (scsi0:A:1:0): parity error detected in Data-in phase. SEQADDR(0x7c) >

Re: Soltek sl-75drv4 dma problems....

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 17:21, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 17:13, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > > Does anybody have a clue how to fix this ? > > > > The board uses a VIA Apollo KT266A chipset. > > Try this: > > in lilo.conf, in

Re: building Postgresql

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:40:28AM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:43:28PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | > I would start over with a clean 'apt-get source', then next time if | > you want to restart the build, first remov

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 06:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK lilo will also overwrite win2k boot manager in a way that will make > poor little win sulk and not ever be found again. So answer to any of the > three below will solve my problems, II. or III. being more robust I suppose. Not entire

Re: ntpdate troubles

hi ya is ntpd also running while you manually invoke ntpdate ?? ( you have to kill ntpd first ) what does ntpdate -v ntp.foo.com give you ?? - should give lots of info if it connected ( i pick on ntp.apple.com since they're up the street ) sample ntp testing commands o

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

Regarding your third question, there's a mini HOWTO on how to use the NT loader to boot Linux that still applies to Win 2k: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html >From reading this, I have been able to use the NT loader to boot Debian on a different partition -- I'm not sure if havi

Re: Can't get audio to work

Since you're having to rebuild your kernel, check out the reference docs at http://www.alsa-project.org. If memory serves, you'll need to build the alsa modules as part of your kernel build. -- Stephen W. Juranich

Re: DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

On Monday 17 June 2002 12:44 am, Rick Commo wrote: [ large snip ] > So... Before you used the caddies, were you running a 40 wire or 80 wire > (40 signal/ground pairs) cable? I would then wonder how adding a caddy > might affect the ground return paths for the signals. The problem could > potenti

aptitude vs. dselect

Hi, I'd heard that it's better to use "dselect update" than "apt-get update" because the former also updates dpkg's available database (which seems to me is pretty important). I've started using aptitude, but have gotten myself in the habit of running "deslect update", and wonder if this is still

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