Re: apt-get install problem

2002-06-19 Thread Alex Hunsley
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

2002-06-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
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). and

Stop please? (OT)

2002-06-19 Thread Nicos Gollan
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 medium.

Re: isdn start error

2002-06-19 Thread Dayalan Manohar
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

Re: fetchmail

2002-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:51:57PM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: what protocol does fetchmail use to fetch mail from hotmail? None. You get to use Hotmail's wonderful interface to get your webmail. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Installing 2.2r4 on a Compaq Evo machine

2002-06-19 Thread phillip . cook
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

Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread jani . pohjanraito
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

Re: Kernel Panic - ext2 vs cramfs

2002-06-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
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

2002-06-19 Thread Vaclav Hula
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 -- this

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
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

2002-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
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 files

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

2002-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
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

Re: apt + proxy

2002-06-19 Thread Joel
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:

Re: Lindows and debian packages

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
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? Yup.

Re: rc.local

2002-06-19 Thread Francisco M Neto
» Assim falou Marcelo em Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:15:56AM -0300: Pessoal, migrei p/ debian a pouco tempo e por orientação contida no prático do kov, instalei o file-rc para gerenciar os scripts de inicialização, mas agora quero colocar algumas configurações do hdparm na inicialização e não

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
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

Unresolved kernel symbols when installing a custom module

2002-06-19 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixão
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

help

2002-06-19 Thread fbrian
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)

2002-06-19 Thread David P James
[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

2002-06-19 Thread Peter Whysall
-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 and storage ??

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

2002-06-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
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? Maybe try

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

2002-06-19 Thread Walter Tautz
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] with a

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-19 Thread Ian D. Stewart
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

Re: bash login script problems...

2002-06-19 Thread Ivo Wever
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

Re: how to stop console cursor blink?

2002-06-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
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 setterm,

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
all, On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 05:30:47PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Why doesn't anyone follow the procedure outlined in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-post-install.en.html#s-kernel-baking ? Other than use of 'fakeroot' (which I don't use because I'm happy becoming root

What is happening to testing/unstable?

2002-06-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
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 scheduled to be upgraded. I mean that apt-get -s dist-upgrade shows nothing to

Re: sound problems...

2002-06-19 Thread Ivo Wever
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried playing a file in XMMS but it pops up an error window asking about the output configuration, etc. So at this point, I'm totally clueless. I've been reading the thread can't get audio to work and he seems to be having similiar problems. I compile my own

Re: insmod errors

2002-06-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
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 /var/log/ksymoops/20020619202417.ksyms Read

Soltek sl-75drv4 dma problems....

2002-06-19 Thread D.J. Bolderman
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:

Re: Unresolved kernel symbols when installing a custom module

2002-06-19 Thread Torsten Wolny
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, but

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

2002-06-19 Thread Matthias Ellinger
-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

2002-06-19 Thread Jorge Santos
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 build

Re: Backup utilities

2002-06-19 Thread Jorge Santos
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 the wheel if I

Re: bash login script problems...

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
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. Unlike

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
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

ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
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

2002-06-19 Thread Sebastiaan
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....

2002-06-19 Thread D.J. Bolderman
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, insert the line

Re: building Postgresql

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
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 remove

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 06:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 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. snip Not

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
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

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Biggadike
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

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-19 Thread Steve Juranich
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?

2002-06-19 Thread James Green
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

aptitude vs. dselect

2002-06-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
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

SOLVED! Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-19 Thread Steve Juranich
Thanks Travis and Dale. The umask argument did the trick. I changed it to 000 instead of 007, because I didn't want to have to fiddle around with group ownerships as well. Now to get wine working. I'd like to play Magic: The Gathering online without having to boot windoze. ;)

ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I've compiled a new 2.4.18 kernel for my woody system. However, the sound system doesn't work. The installed sound card, as showed by the lspci command, is: 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) the nearest option in the xconfig menu is the support for

Re: SOLVED! Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-19 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:00:21 -0700 Steve Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Travis and Dale. The umask argument did the trick. I changed it to 000 instead of 007, because I didn't want to have to fiddle around with group ownerships as well. Now to get wine working. I'd like to play

Re: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-19 Thread Steve Juranich
As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am sending this to debian-user. This is a good place to hang out for Debian users of all levels. I encourage you to stick around. I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected

Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread John Foster
I have decided to build a new workstation and am asking for users input as to the best mainboard for the money available. I can go pretty much any direction i.e. AMD,Intel or possibly Alpha but I do not have any experience with Alpha. I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any

Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Matthew Tedder
I got Debian installed through through the net install version, but it never connected me to the network. There was a point at which it asked me if I wanted to setup a point-to-point connection, but I just want to connect to the network and the gateway server for Internet. So I said No and

[Fwd: Re: ntpdate troubles]

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:03:29 +0300 From: Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya is ntpd also running while you

Re: Kernel Panic - ext2 vs cramfs

2002-06-19 Thread curtis
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: 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

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-19 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:25 pm, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: in effigy. They won't blame Red Hat. After all, it was my decision to upgrade to 7.3. Not Red Hat's. Glen, could I interest you in apt-rpm ?? It's a rather sweet package for your RH

Re: Ifconfig !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2002-06-19 Thread Francisco M Neto
» Assim falou Elcio Mello em Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:40:31PM -0300: Não tem a necessidade de instalar o dhcpd, a não ser que a máquina seja servidor de dhcp para sua rede interna. A saber: dhcpcd != dhcpd. dhcpcd é o cliente, dhcpd é o servidor. -- []'s,

Re: ntpdate troubles (fwd)

2002-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:10:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles hi ya i think you are outside the range of ntpdate to fix it will only allow a few second

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, I have a similar problem as Matt. The only difference with me is that I forgot my ethernet card was smc and so bypassed the network configuration screen during installation process of debian. My question is: Do I just have to insmod the correct ethernet card driver into my running

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

2002-06-19 Thread D.J. Bolderman
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:45, D.J. Bolderman wrote: 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

Need to compile gphoto2 from CVS and install into packaging system

2002-06-19 Thread David Richmond
Hello! Having just switched to Debian (woody) from SuSE 7.3, I recall that, under SuSE, I had to download and compile the CVS snapshot of the gphoto2 digital camera library to get my Canon PowerShot A40 digital camera recognizable under Linux. The version of gphoto2 that ships with SuSE 7.3

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': Jerome I get the message Jerome Jerome no server suitable for synchronization found Jerome Jerome when lauching with no option. Jerome Jerome But when I add the option -q or -d everythings look right:

Re: ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:02:43PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) the nearest option in the xconfig menu is the support for Ensoniq Audio PCI (ES1370), so I compiled this one into the kernel. But I am afraid that this is

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for your answers Bill Benedetto wrote: Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome since a while I have troubles with `ntpdate': Jerome I get the message Jerome Jerome no server suitable for synchronization found Jerome Jerome when lauching with no option. Jerome Jerome But when I

RE: Need to compile gphoto2 from CVS and install into packaging

2002-06-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jun-2002 David Richmond wrote: Hello! Having just switched to Debian (woody) from SuSE 7.3, I recall that, under SuSE, I had to download and compile the CVS snapshot of the gphoto2 digital camera library to get my Canon PowerShot A40 digital camera recognizable under Linux. The

2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-19 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello all! I got a CD-ROM and a CD-burner the ide-scsi module makes both of the drivers emulate as scsi, I don't want the CD-ROM to appear as emulated scsi driver how can I avoid that? I can't install the VMware tools because VMware doesn't accept emulated scsi drivers (if I've understood this

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Bill (2) Did you use Bill /etc/init.d/ntpdate start Jerome at boot time Bill or did you run ntpdate directly? Jerome only to debug Bill If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell Bill ntpdate to use? Something inside your building or something Bill outside your

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: 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

what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
Our lug is having its first installfest this coming Saturday. What would be the best debian install for those who want it? Any chance of woody being officially released by then? -- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 14:10, Helgi Örn wrote: Hello all! I got a CD-ROM and a CD-burner the ide-scsi module makes both of the drivers emulate as scsi, I don't want the CD-ROM to appear as emulated scsi driver how can I avoid that? I can't install the VMware tools because VMware doesn't

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:54:41PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: 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

Re: what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 10:55, Rick Pasotto wrote: Our lug is having its first installfest this coming Saturday. What would be the best debian install for those who want it? Any chance of woody being officially released by then? Woody, if you have the resources the DVD is very nice. You can

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bill Benedetto wrote: Bill (2) Did you use Bill /etc/init.d/ntpdate start Jerome at boot time Bill or did you run ntpdate directly? Jerome only to debug Bill If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell Bill ntpdate to use? Something inside your building or

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-19 Thread tvn1981
it is probably okay actually. after all, when you deactivate swap, all swap files have to be emptied and writting into memory. unfortunately, memory might not be able to hold it all, and swapping occurs. until all is swapped in, it takes a while. But it never get passed that stage ... so

Re: what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Dave Price
Rick, I have been installing woody from iso's for some time now, and recomend it (even to newbies). In fact there has been enough discussion here and elsehere re: potato-woody .vs. woody from cd that I would suggest the woody out of the box option as preferable for anyone except thos who

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: So it's normal for an install done with woody floppies to use stable as the source for packages? Unfortunately so, as far as I know. Ouch. I've probably got another system using old packages and I didn't even know it. Should I really use dselect

Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever

2002-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach tvn1981 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.06.19.2104 +0200]: I tried swapoff -a and reboot with Debian's default 2.2 kernel (Woody) and it turns swapoff immediately, no problem. it might be a problem. the 2.4 kernel has the most embarassing virtual memory management i've seen. quite possible

Printer problems in x

2002-06-19 Thread Rox de Gabba
I just installed cups and have configured my printer through cups web interface. Have a problem configuring the printer in x, so that i could print directly from kmail or openoffice. Here goes the problem... The printer i have added is working, command lpr -P printer name file is working

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

2002-06-19 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
+ Thomas -Balu- Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [19.06.02 11:14]: + George Karaolides [EMAIL PROTECTED] [19.06.02 10:18]: Have you got it all working normally before simulating failures? Can you boot into the RAID from either disk, using the BIOS setup to select? I am not sure if I tried to

Re: what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Rox de Gabba
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 20:55, Rick Pasotto wrote: Our lug is having its first installfest this coming Saturday. What would be the best debian install for those who want it? Any chance of woody being officially released by then? I think woody is stable enough, so i suggest you jst use woody,

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Joris
Okay. It works okay at boot time? No ! It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in `/var/log/syslog'. on my machine, I haven't got ntpdate to work out the hostnames of any ntp server. I just pinged them, copied the ip's and dpkg-reconfigure'd ntp to look for the ip's. It has

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

2002-06-19 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
+ Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [19.06.02 10:57]: The current md driver is broken-by-design in the autodetection issue. You have to compile the driver into the kernel and mark the partition as type 0xFD to make it autodetecteable. When using modules, you will be forced to reconstruct the

Matrox G550DH and XFree86

2002-06-19 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I have a Matrox G550 DualHead video card and I'd like to run XFree86 on it. I seem to remember having read somewhere that XFree 4.1 dos not have proper support for it but XFree 4.2 does... Is this true? If yes, what's the best way to go? Look for unofficial XFree 4.2 debs or to compile it

RE:what to use for installfest this saturday?

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Agno
How about creating a local woody mirror (using apt-move) with the stuff you'll install plus a woody install CD? Just check out the thread on Woody install insists on using Potato packages--basically, either skip both tasksel and dselect in the install (which I always do) and install other

Re: mirror, the perl script mirroring package

2002-06-19 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Paul E Condon wrote: I am attempting to setup a local private mirror of debian using the perl script package. It has run for several days. It quits from time to time and waits for the next initiation event from crontab, but it can't seem to clear its queue of requests

Sleeping X

2002-06-19 Thread Jeremy Turner
I am running Debian Sid with XFree86 4.1 and a USB keyboard and mouse. When my display power management kicks in, I cannot awake my display with the keyboard or the mouse (both USB devices) but only with a PS/2 keyboard (haven't tried a PS/2 mouse). Is there a way to tell XFree86 that my mouse

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-19 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! | How can I set that user should login for SMTP the same | as for POP3? So he should use the same username and | password as for POP3 (that is the user linux account | username and password). Instead, exim supports SMTP AUTH. Yes, I would like to implement that. The problem is that

Re: ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:29:38 +0200 Jan Groenewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:02:43PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) the nearest option in the xconfig menu is the support for Ensoniq Audio PCI

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Derek Gladding wrote on Wed Jun 19, 2002 um 12:37:12AM: I've seen this happen, and although I can't shed any light on the underlying mechanics, I've found that using both update options (i.e. apt-get update and dselect menu option #1) before doing an update seems to make it

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

2002-06-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Helgi Örn wrote on Wed Jun 19, 2002 um 08:10:17PM: I can't install the VMware tools because VMware doesn't accept emulated scsi drivers (if I've understood this right). I doubt, ide-scsi is not your problem here. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wenn einer träumt, bleibt es ein

generic ps2 mouse driver

2002-06-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I need to set up a large amout of systems with Debian. While the systems are more or less the same (or ordered in bigger groups) there are many different ps2 mice around. They are randomly atached to a system and we don't care about wich mouse is pluged to wich system. The range goes from

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-19 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 15:18, Mike Mimic wrote: Hi! | How can I set that user should login for SMTP the same | as for POP3? So he should use the same username and | password as for POP3 (that is the user linux account | username and password). Instead, exim supports SMTP AUTH.

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Bill Okay. It works okay at boot time? Jerome No ! Jerome It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in Jerome `/var/log/syslog'. Bill Bill When you ran it by hand to debug it, the command looked something Bill like this, right? Bill Bill ntpdate -b

Re: mirror, the perl script mirroring package

2002-06-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 15:02, Walter Tautz wrote: I am attempting to setup a local private mirror of debian using the perl script package. It has run for several days. It quits from time to time and waits for the next initiation event from crontab, but it can't seem to clear its queue of

information

2002-06-19 Thread ZBenjudah
Hello was wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on the dosemue I have not been active in my LINUX OS for a while have been busy. I just cannot get it to work right I have kernel 2.2.12 #2 at least thats what it tells me when I install the operating system. When I installed

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
So I would guess this means that you cannot get to the machine you are ntpdate'ing against. You showed that it worked when you did it against ntp.apple.com. I assume that it also works when you debug it by hand? If so, I would guess that Joris' suggestion is a good one: Joris on my

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Brother. I must be pretty tired. See my corrections below --- Forwarded Message Date:Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:29:13 -0400 From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ntpdate troubles Bill Okay. It works okay at boot time? Jerome No ! Jerome It is why I debg it: I get exactly the

Re: ntpdate troubles

2002-06-19 Thread Bill Benedetto
Jerome BENOIT writes: Jerome I have just tried Jerome Jerome ntpdate 17.254.0.26 Jerome Jerome and I got exactly the same error message Jerome (17.254.0.26 is the ip btained via ping for ntp.apple.com) Jerome Jerome Very strange ! Really! Let me see if I have this straight...

Problems with bcast_2000 package

2002-06-19 Thread stan
I'm trying to install teh bcast_200 package and it's failing with: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bcast_2000c-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/cjpeg.1.gz', which is also in package libjpeg-progs If I go inot dselect and unselect libjpeg-progs, I

Re: ensoniq 5880 kernel support

2002-06-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
thank you very much for the answer. I've compiled my kernel with the sb module, and the problem remains the same, I cannot get sound as root (I think that if I get sound as root then I can modify the permissions in order to get sound as normal user). Everything is OK with the cdrom, the

3Com Modem + Realtek Network

2002-06-19 Thread dckrinke
I had trouble at first getting a 3Com 5610 modem to work with Debian Woody, but I was able to solve that for a while. It turns out that the 5610 wants to work on /dev/ttyS4 and Woody does not create this, by default. I read the Serial-HOWTO from TLDP and it told me how to create /dev/ttyS4.

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