re out why this happened. At least I've found a solution.
James
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, James Miller wrote:
Some new problems have cropped up since I dist-upgraded my Debian unstable
install. Odd that they did not show up immediately after the dist-upgrade,
but only now after having rebooted s
Some new problems have cropped up since I dist-upgraded my Debian unstable
install. Odd that they did not show up immediately after the dist-upgrade,
but only now after having rebooted several times. The most recent reboot
was necessitated by a momentary power failure.
So, here's the problem:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
How did you install the kernel? That is, did you install the general 2.6
package for your architecture (kernel-image-2.6-386, for example) or did you
install a specific kernel minor version (for example,
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386)?
I believe I specifi
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
I can only offer a guess, James, but the guess is that this report is nothing
to worry about. I guess this from a look at the details.
Thanks for your input, Ray. I was beginning to think maybe it was not a
matter for much concern, so it's good to hea
27;t remember much
about it though, and there's a special Debian way of doing it that I'm not
very familiar with, so it would be sort of like starting from square one.
If anyone has further input on the /dev/hdb errors referenced, the 2.6.12
kernel, udev, or other related advice, please o
I run a Debian unstable system here and recently did a
dist-upgrade--actually the Synaptic equivalent. In the process, I got a
new kernel (2.6.12). On reboot, I noticed alot of errors referencing
/dev/hdb. This is not the oldest of the 3 hard drives I have in this
machine, but it's also not ver
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Eric Bambach wrote:
What Ray means is to type in these commands at a console. In KDE you can look
for the program konsole. This will give you a command console similiar to a
DOS command prompt (But infinitely more powerful ;). You have to do these as
the root user. That means w
I've discovered that ls -tr is what I need to get the files listed in the
right time sequence (time of creation). ls -t gives, for example:
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.4_Rondo_-_Andante.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.3_Minuetto.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
BTW, what station are you recording? Perhaps I should give it a try, though
my tastes in classical music run more to a mix of early stuff like Bach and
some of the Romantics.
http://61.74.65.198:8000 Good sound quality, no commercials or DJ chat. So
far
Hello Ray:
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
options for streamripper? I just read its man page, and that says the app has
these options available:
-a [file]
Rip to single file.
Won't using these option avoid the problem you have in the first place?
I'm not sure. I did
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
I don't really need file permissions information, so using the -l switch is
overkill. But so far I have not determined how I can get the time information
I need without the other, file permission info.
I've found the -t switch to give me the t
Thanks for your response, J. I'm faced with a fairly complex task here. I
suppose a more reasonable man would say, "heck with this. I'm gonna go buy
myself some CD's." But if I were a more reasonable man, I wouldn't be
using Linux, now would I? . . . :)
Some of what you're saying is a bit beyon
Flemming's script did the job of getting wierd characters out of file
names for me, so that part of dealing with these recordings is nicely
resolved. Just run the comand in the dir where the files are, and in
about a second you have renamed 170 files. Now, if cat'ing them together
were even 1/1
Thanks for offering that, Flemming. Modifying the original script per your
directions does, indeed, seem to get rid of the other extraneous
characters. I ran it in a test directory, and the results seem to get just
what I was hoping for. I think I'll go ahead and run it in the real
directory no
Thanks for your input, Ray.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
1. See if the app "mp3wrap" (that's the Debian-Sid package name) helps in any
way relevant to your problem.
Ok. I'll check that.
2. Consider using playlists rather than joining the files. If you use xmms
for playback, it has a
I tried your perl script and it works really well, Flemming. Thanks for
bringing it to my attention. I see it works for all files in a given
directory--exactly what I need. Now, in place of something like
Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet\ For\ Piano\ \&\ Strings\
In\ D\ Major\
Among various frustrations recently I've had the gratifying success of
learning how to use streamripper to augment my music collection.
Streamripper is a program that writes an audio stream (e.g., from internet
radio) to your hard drive as an mp3 file. This is about the closest thing
to the myt
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a slackware user and usually compile the kernel myself so what i sugest
to you is to compile the kernel yourself (if know how to do it) and put the
modules for your sound card in kernel without using modules
for sound to see if there's a difference
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another solution is to comment out all the lines in /etc/modules.conf and
then uncomment only the necessary one for your kernel to work
(i.e. usb stuff, zip, vesa and sound). Also for this to work you must make
sure that nos script is loading the modul
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
input: PC Speaker
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use
Unfortunately, this note concerns my ongoing misfortunes with sound on a
mod'd Dell Optiplex running Debian unstable. I recently posted on trying
to get an ISA soundcard going on this machine, an endeavor which finally
resulted in frustration and failure. After that, I decided to take what
appe
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
No menus? This is a Debian system, right? The Debian package manager ... the
package installation scripts, to be more exact ... should be adding menu
choices to the standard X right-click floating menu without your needing to
do anything, working ... as t
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
First, let's clear up a bit of terminology.
Thanks for those clarifications. They clarify both how the terminology is
used as well as what the computer is doing--much needed gap-filling
information for someone like me.
You *might* be better served by swi
After all those complex problems with sound, let me ask for some help on
something that should be much easier to resolve. It should just be a
matter of automating something I currently do manually. This refers to the
same Debian unstable system I discussed in the sound card thread.
I've become
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, smertz wrote:
I have a new computer I installed Linux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
release 4 (Nahant), it has one of those all-in-one card readers on it. I have
made mountpoints as root as follows for my thumb, Compact flash and secure
digital drive.
mkdir /mnt/thumb
mkdir
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
module line in /etc/modules. I do have the option of swapping Soundman (3)
and Soundblaster (5) IRQ's, I suppose, to see if that makes any difference.
Haven't tried that yet.
Just tried it (made Soundman IRQ 5 and Soundblaster 3 and edited
/e
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
if that relieves any potential IRQ 3 conflict. Possible IRQ's for the card
are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15 for "Soundman" and 2, 3, 5, and 7 for
"Sound blaster."
i think you can use inte
I'll start the testing responses to this, your most recent, posting, and
move to your previous posting after this one. I wanted to ask about udev
before running the tests in your previous post on the assumption that its
presence might change something fundamental in testing procedures. The
test
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
bit more systematic than what you've been doing. (I'm seeing some gaps in
your testing, and I can't tell if you really are skipping steps or just being
terse in your reports to us.)
I'd call what I'm doing semi-controlled, semi-informed flailing. I know
s
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, smertz wrote:
Is there a command to see how the LV partitioning was done by the installer?
If so what is it?
I think the mount command might get what you want. If not, maybe dh. I've
used a system set up with LVM a little, but not enough to remember
precisely.
James
-
To uns
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
range) or to disable ttyS1 (COM 2 as the BIOS sees it, I believe) and see if
that relieves any potential IRQ 3 conflict.
I tried disabling COM 2 in the BIOS (set it to "off" there). When I look
at dmesg output, it does, indeed, appear to be off
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
One thing you don't mention trying is using a different audio device. I
suggest you try directing output to /dev/audio1 or /dev/dsp1 and see if that
improves the result. I don't know how to do that with mp3blaster; with mpg123
you would do
mpg123
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you post your /proc/interrupts here ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 25759543 XT-PIC timer
1: 23960 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 5223 XT-PIC PAS
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
Not totally, no. cat /pro/interrupts shows only PAS16 assigned to IRQ 3.
But dmesg output has ttyS1 using IRQ 3. It's a bit confusing to me. I
assigned it IRQ 3 because previously, when checking cat
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
Are you sure your soundcard is not sharing interrupts with other device ?
Not totally, no. cat /pro/interrupts shows only PAS16 assigned to IRQ 3.
But dmesg output has ttyS1 using IRQ 3. It's a bit confusing
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, NNK wrote:
I was wondering what I should be looking at in the different distros before
picking one to use.
Being a total novice, I don't have much experience on Linux, so I'm wondering
what I should be asking.
Any advice?
In addition to Ray's advice, I'll add a couple of obs
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
At 01:38 PM 4/6/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
> pas2 io=0x388 irq=3 dma=5
sb io=0x230 irq=5 dma=1
You are pretty much doing what I meant to be suggesting. You do need to adapt
this stuf to /etc/modules, not to grub.
Note though that the LILO paramet
Thanks for your response Ray. I've been able to get a little closer to
normal sound by following your advice. But it's not fully functional yet:
using mp3blaster I can get pretty much continuous sound playing
mp3's/ogg's. Pretty much meaning it is continuous and normal (maybe a bit
of scratchin
I'm having some perplexing sound problems on my Debian unstable system and
would like to ask for help, clarifications and sympathy :)
The system is a Dell Optiplex GX1 that's been somewhat modified (BIOS
update, Powerleap processor, maxed out for RAM, extra hard drives, new
power supply). It's
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Peter wrote:
> Slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29
>
> I just thought I will let the list know in case others have similar
> experiences, there was one in skype forum.
Thank you for posting this resolution, Peter. As someone who has to do
alot of web searching to resolve Linux prob
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Eric Bambach wrote:
> Yep, you're 95% of the way there.
> Instead of the -L option try the -D option. This works to circumvent IRC
> restrictions for me in school ;)
> Im not too well read on ssh forwarding so I dont know the technical difference
> between them, but it seems -
I've run across some material on the web recently that piqued my interest
owing to a situation we'll be faced with while on vacation. The situation
is as follows: we'll have access to a DSL connection for internet, but the
service blocks all but http/https traffic. So, no ftp'ing, instant
messaging
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, James Miller wrote:
> it should, it looks like the thing to get. It even serves more than one
> function to boot. Description appended below.
>
> D-Link Wireless Pocket Router/AP
> DWL-G730AP
>
> The Pocket Router/AP might be small in size, but is huge
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Alternative four: Not really an alternative, but check harder with your
> ISP. It's rare for an ISP really not to provide its customers with a way to
> send and receive e-mail, and I'd think it more likely that James, or his
> friend, misunderstood somet
In setting up a system for a friend (Mepis installation) and finding him a
cheap ISP (dialin), I've discovered his provider does not run an smtp
server. So, I'm looking for alternatives so he'll be able to send mail
from his machine. I've always only ever used smtp, and it's the only sort
of mail t
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 08:50 AM 2/4/2005 -0600, James Miller wrote:
> >Could moving the directory /usr/lib to the second drive have caused this
> >problem? Did I maybe screw up some permissions in copying? Any
> >suggestions--short of another install
On the wired/wireless bridge query I made recently, and whether this
should work under Linux as a way to sort of turn a wired NIC into a
wireless connection: while in the computer store the other day, I decided
to look at wireless bridges. Guess what: they didn't have any! But I did
run across some
This query refers to a Mepis (Debian variant) install I've done, as well
as to the live-CD version of that distro, from which the installation
runs. I'm setting up a computer for a friend who is not very
computer-literate, but who also can't afford XP, so I wanted a fairly
user-friendly distro, but
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, James Miller wrote:
> So, let me just ask: is this really some sort of solution to the wireless
> support problem under Linux? People objected to that poster's suggestion
> on the basis that it was too bulky (extra pieces of hardware like the
> bridge and
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, dave wrote:
> I use one in my room at my camp where I stay while I work. They wired
> the camp with Cisco wireless AP's. I use a Linksys ethernet to wireless
> bridge and it works fine. I had a Dlink but it gave me lots of
> problems. If you have more questions just ask.
This question is not really Linux-specific, and is maybe more
hardware-oriented than OS-oriented. But being a Linux user, I'd like to
know if/how it might apply to me. It concerns a comment I read regarding
an article on wireless networking with Linux, and it's really something I
had earlier wonder
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> If you are looking for something *extremely* lightweight, you probably want
> to look at alternatives to X written for the embedded-systems world (PDAs
> and the like)... projects like microwindows and matchbox. These
> super-lightweight apps tend not to
Back in the day, I was something of an audiophile and was interested in
expensive sound systems. But that interest ended quite some time ago when
I realized how fettering sinking alot of money (and the time it takes to
earn it) into such things is. Nowadays, we have this notion of getting
sound fro
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, chuck gelm wrote:
> I have done something like this with a laptop with an 80486dx33
> with 80 MB of RAM. I think we can drop the 'paltry resources' theme.
I meant paltry for a day-to-day usage machine for real-world, productivity
purposes. I know it will work fine as a sor
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, James Miller wrote:
> BEGIN LINKSYS MANUAL EXCERPT-
> Note: For all modes of operation EXCEPT Access Point, the remote access
> point must be a second Linksys Wireless-B Access Point (WAP11). The Access
> Point will not comm
Sorry about the lack of details, Ray: it was because I already have both
interfaces working in this laptop and so don't really need help with
setting that up. If I take this laptop into an area with a wireless
network, for example, and the network has a dhcp server, I turn on the
computer, the modu
I'm trying to make a temporary internet connection for a friend who's
moving into and apt where they provide a wireless connection. Since I'm
not sure whether she'll eventually buy a new computer or simply add
necessary parts (mainly wireless adaptor) to some older machine I have, I
want to expend
This inquiry refers to a Debianish variant called Ubuntu and a certain
Debian package I've found and installed on it. The package wasn't in
Ubuntu's repository, so I located a .deb and downloaded and installed it
using dpkg -i. I figured after this I could simply try starting it from
the command li
Hello all. I'm running a new Debian variant called "Ubuntu"--sort of an
unstable/testing composite. I run a number of console apps and like to
keep a virtual console open for them (as opposed to using xterms). I've
found a nice sort of console windowing program called "twin" that allows
me to ru
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, J. wrote:
> After some Googling, I found this "reported" bug. The solution apparently
> lies in installing a lot of packages which weren't bundled on the
> distribution or apt sources (licensing issues), by uncommenting the two
> lines with repository "universe" on /etc/apt/sou
I've been trying to add a certain entry to my sources.list file (this is
Ubuntu--a newer Debian variant) but cannot puzzle out the right form for
it. I've looked at the Apt how to at Debian's site, as well as the
sources.list manpage: I didn't read them from beginning to end, but
looking in the pl
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, mike wrote:
> I have a question, when I'm on my many searchs for answers I come
> across pages in different languages (my native is english).
> I use Google and it translates some, not always that well though.
>
> Is there a linux program I can use to translate pages or is the
Hello Ray:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> initrd doesn't work that way. It loads modules *after* the kernel itself is
> loaded, but *before* the "real" root filesystem is mounted. So it provides
> a way to supply, for example, modules needs to mount disk drives to the
> kernel before
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> On that score ... just a wild, blue-sky thought here ... maybe your trying
> to use an 8 MB SGRAM on a card that only supports 4 MB is introducing a
> problem. Does anything improve if you remove this module and use only the
> onboard 4 MB?
Well, if I d
Hello Ray:
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> One more thought: although the spec for setting video mode looks like you
> can put in any old values, in fact you have to use a mode that the kernel
> source understands. I don't have a 2.6.x source tree handy, but 2.4.21
> doesn't include a
Hello Ray:
Good to see you're still with me. I was beginning if I were the only one
on this list manic enough to spend their weekend trying to work out
framebuffer display issues. Looks like I'm in good company, though :)
> First question: do you KNOW that your LCD display will support a refres
Latest on this problem is that I'm using only the video=atyfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
argument (no vga=xxx argument) in menu.lst. During the boot process the
screen goes black for a time--with just a cursor at the very bottom, which
starts scooting back and forth horizontally--then comes back just as it
The framebuffer how to documentation actually gives two lilo arguments for
the ati cards: vga=791 ("to make the display sane" as they say) and
video=atyfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] after the "append" argument. They presume you've
compiled the atyfb module into your kernel (which I haven't, though I made
a
Hello Ray:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> The vesa framebuffer is pretty generic; almost any *modern* video card
> should be able to drop back to its standards. But I do have older cards,
> like the ancient S3 I use in one of my test systems, that does not support
> the vesa framebuf
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> You might want to try 1280x1024 in vesa to see if it works
> there. Depending on color depth, the values for that are:
>
> 8 bit 0x307 = 775
> 16 bit 0x31A = 794
> 24 bit 0x31B =
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jim Nelson wrote:
> If you are using a 2.6 kernel (and maybe the 2.4), the kernel module for
> the ATI Rage series of graphics systems is aty128fb, not atyfb. I've
> had problems with vesafb myself, but with really old hardware (Trident
> TGUI 9660 on an old Thinkpad).
Thank
Looking over the framebuffer how to again (fairly dated document by now)
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe my video card doesn't require a special
framebuffer module. There, under section 5.6 "Got an ATI card?" they
mention a particular module--atyfb. In my initrd, on the other hand, I
appear to h
I'm having some problems with the console display under a new Debian
variant (Ubuntu) I'm trying out and would like to ask for advice on
troubleshooting and maybe fixing the problem. The problem is that I
cannot seem to get the console to display at a high enough resolution. I
understand that the
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> In "standard Debian", the entries in /etc/modules get modprobe'd, not
> insmod'ed, so dependencies will be handled properly (assuming the
> dependencies file is up to date ... "standard Debian" runs depmod as part
> of the init process). You do put ONLY
I'm evaluating a new Debian-derivative distro called Ubuntu and have a few
questions related to getting it working right on my hardware. I'll start
with a simple modprobe question and later pose some more complex questions
about LVM/webmin and console resolution. So, the question about modprobe
a
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> somebody comes to seem easy after a time. I use Debian myself; its online
> installs (using a set of boot/root floppies or an install CD, but getting
> most packages from an up-to-date package repository) make it "easy" in a
> way that matters to me, tho
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Anna G. Zapata wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Can someone recommend an easy to use, home version of Linux that can be housed on a
> 1.9GB harddrive, 252MB memory, and
> 512 MHz? I've looked at Fedora and I don't think I have the resources for it.
The Libranet 2.0 free versio
I tend to use somewhat older computers and older, smaller (and
cheaper--sometimes free!) hard drives. As a result, I end up with 2 or
more hard drives in any given machine. I've been manually partitioning
and usually making / the mount point for smaller of the disks, /home the
mount point for the
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 3. Are the fonts all mode 644? (The actual fonts
> in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/, not the symlinks). Probably; you said
> you checked that already. And if other apps workm, that too indicates the
> problem is specific to the PDF font corrspondences.
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
Thanks for your response, Ray.
> 1. Just to eliminate possible rookie error ... do you know that the
> "certain" .pdf files are themselves good? Can you read them on Windows
> using Acrobat, or could you previously read it on this system? You've
> almost
Sorry to beat a dead horse over these font problems, but it's really
bothering me and interfering with my work. I've posted on this before,
but the issue remains unresolved. Previously I complained about a couple
of apps as having some font problems: browsers (Mozilla and Opera) and pdf
viewers (
Maybe this will be a final report on this issue. Most importantly, since
my last post I've been in contact with the author of xwingreek - a Russian
fellow who programs in Java and Python who also has an interest in
polytonic Greek (Greek with diacritical marks) input. He's been a great
help. Xwi
Well, xpdf if still not displaying and there are other font issues. I was
debating a reinstall (ugh) because of the way things have sort of gotten
out of hand with this system, but I'm going to defer that for as long as
possible. In spite of the setbacks in learning to use and administrate my
Lin
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> But recall that I asked a lot about the gsfonts package. Did you confirm
> that it is installed and properly configured? You can check its files in
> the Debian Package info at www.debian.org . Basically, it includes a bunch
> of files in /usr/share/fonts
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> First, font settings: I checked my reliable Debian-Sid workstation (that
> is, the host I do not use for experimentation or development, just for
> chores). Every font I checked on it -- the ones in various
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* directories, and th
Ok. It's finally time to confront this problem and attempt to resolve it.
I've been sort of limping along with improperly displaying fonts for some
time now, but now some pdf documents I really need to view are displaying
with invisible text. I need to finally figure out what is causing this
font
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Adam Boettiger wrote:
> Eh, I guess it's still in Alpha or Beta...
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg06271.html
>
> So hmmm.
The earlier sourceforge post you supplied a url for seemed to be a
module/driver that can be installed to a Fedora system using
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Adam Boettiger wrote:
> I am a newbie to linux. Just partitioned my drive and installed Fedora
> Core 2 on a 10G partition. The partition and install went very smoothly
> and I am exploring linux but am stuck trying to get internet access.
>
> I'm on a Dell D600 laptop with a
I'd like to ask for some more help in interpreting entries in my
firewall's (Freesco) log. I check it periodically, just to see what's
happening and to try and figure out more about it and about network
security. Sort of a spare time, ongoing project. Anyway, for the last
few weeks I've noted th
I think I've finally straightened out this problem. I posted to the
Debian users' list about it, and someone (privately) indicated to me that
they'd had such a problem, and that it was traceable to a font permissions
problem. He had discovered this by using strace. I didn't even know
about strac
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, James Miller wrote:
> simply renamed the whole dir in my user's home dir. After that, the
> browser started working more normally. I don't recall confronting such a
Turns out I need to qualify this. The browser does, indeed, at least
start, whereas it
For close to 2 weeks I've been trying to get Mozilla working by apt-get
update(ing) and then dist-upgrade(ing), but to no avail. Several updates
for both Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox have been made to these packages
during that time, but I was still getting the segmentation fault when
trying to sta
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Kev wrote:
> >If memory serves (I'm not certain, though), the stock Debian install kernel
> >does NOT contain support for NICs that use the rtl8139 driver (or the newer
> >8139too driver). If that's the "comm one" you are referring to, you will
> >need to add a module for it t
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
> printk is the kernel's version of printf.
Oh. Guess I'll have to mull over that one awhile.
> So, in theory you can copy the thirteen new lines prefixed by '+' into
> the file, remove the '+' signs, and that file is done. What it does,
> and whether or
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, James Miller wrote:
>
> > Using sort of a scatter-gun (maybe scatter-brained?) approach to the
> > problem of booting a USB drive, I've managed to install a base Debian file
> > system to the USB dr
Using sort of a scatter-gun (maybe scatter-brained?) approach to the
problem of booting a USB drive, I've managed to install a base Debian file
system to the USB drive. Yes, the new beta Sarge installer gave me the
option of installing the system there. Booting is, as has been alluded in
the earl
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Kev wrote:
> I'm new to Linux, so i'm paling to install a gateway, with the following,
>
> 1. Firewall
> 2. DNS
> 3. DHCP
> 4. SMTP (relay only)
> 5. Email Virus Scaning
> 6. Gray Listing (email)
> 7. NAT
> 8 Web Cashing
> 9. Web Based Configuration tool for all above.
>
> can
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Eric Bambach wrote:
> 2.2.26 eh? Ill take a look.
Thanks. Much appreciated.
> The ones marked -prepatch? No, You shouldn't neccesarily apply these. They are
> testing versions in between releases. If you are on a desktop or can stand a
> few bugs, or need a new feature, the
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Eric Bambach wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:37 am, you wrote:
> > Just for reference, here's the code for the patch:
> >
> > --- linux-2.4.14-pre8-ext3/fs/super.c.orig Fri Nov 16 00:59:18 2001
> > +++ linux-2.4.14-pre8-ext3/fs/super.c Fri Nov 16 01:07:26 2001
> >
Thanks for your reply, Ray. So, I guess my assumption that these
problems are products of the beta-nature of Sid is correct in your view?
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> I can't comment on your specific problem, but at least I should clarify
> what I meant by "promptly". I didn't me
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