Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:05AM +1100, Brendan Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x.  Well it's not
^^^
You mean 2.2.18?

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Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Steve Dobson
Karsten

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:43:54AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:05AM +1100, Brendan Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x.  Well it's not
> ^^^
> You mean 2.2.18?
> 
Yes, I spotted that.  I installed a 2.2.18 kernel two weeks ago (with
ext3 patched in - although I am not using it yet) provided by Steve
McIntyre) and last week I upgraded to Woody with out any problem.  
XF86-4.0.2 didn't come up straight away - first I had to set the correct
driver in the config file - but I had no problems with the devices.  I
can't see devfsd running. 

I don't known what the problom is with XF86-4 & 2.2.18.

I am waiting to go to 2.4.x for a bit.  Alan's best advice if you need
stable (and I do on my laptop) is to wait until x.x.5 or x.x.6 which is
when the kernel becomes stable on most platforms.

Steve

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cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi!

I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready
been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. Can
anacron replace cron or not? Since cron is quite cpu intensive (and battery by
that mean) and runs quite often... it is a battery hog for a battery powered
device, while on the otherhand anacron only runs when it runs from mains, and
conserver power that way... even linux laptop powered says so.. so what should
I do, should I remove cron and use solely anacron? I don't have and don't
intend to run any of my own background scheduled proceses, just the default
system ones...

THX in advance!

Bostjan
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Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-04 Thread Carlos Menezes


Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote:
> > Please,
> >
> > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA 
> > ethernet card  is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get 
> > messages like 'Network is unreachable'. My /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file 
> > set local IP to 10.0.0.2 and I know that pppd assigns a dynamic IP to my 
> > machine; it seems this is the problem, but how could I
> > configurate them correctly?
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> You need pppd to set up your default gateway.  Try 'man pppd' for details.
>

In Olaf Kirch's book there is a comment that defaultroute option of pppd only 
creates a default route if there is not  one.
If I initialize PCMCIA after pppd, all runs; if I initialize pppd after PCMCIA, 
network is unreachable.
Suggestions?

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Friendliest Laptop??

2001-03-04 Thread Yannick Asselin
Hi guys.

I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if
there are any laptops that are friendly to debian...

I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang
for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier??

Thanks!
Yannick



Re: Quick-access buttons on Toshiba 2775XDVD?

2001-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Can you provide pointer to TOSHIBA ML? (in English)
TIA.
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:55:58PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Are you subscribed to the Toshiba linux mailing list?  Somewhere there would
> be sure to have your model.
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Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes:

> I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready
> been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. 
> Can
> anacron replace cron or not?
> should I remove cron and use solely anacron? I don't have and don't
> intend to run any of my own background scheduled proceses, just the default
> system ones...

On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by
cron if anacron is install.  Here is part of my /etc/crontab:

25 6* * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
/etc/cron.daily
47 6* * 7   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
/etc/cron.weekly
52 61 * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
/etc/cron.monthly

So don't remove cron.

Dan



Re: XF86Setup&XF86Config + gnome doesn't start --solved

2001-03-04 Thread redstars
X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed... I figured out why x was executing 
"XF86_NONE" and therefore I installed a package named as "XF86_SVGA" so that x 
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Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
xsdg wrote:
> > BTW, I did try pci=biosirq as a kernel option but this only removed the
> Did you actually use "pci=biosirq", or did you use "pci=$your_cards_irq"?
I used "pci=biosirq" because "biosirq" is, as far as I can tell, a
correct value for the option "pci" whereas $your_cards_irq is not.
However, my network configuration is now
working (see my other message) and I do not need this option anymore.

> Also, I attempted to locate all my stuff dealing with the card (it's the only 
> card):
Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards,

Felix



Re: PCMCIA doesn't work anymore

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
Drew Parsons wrote:
> Bad phrasing.  What I meant was that Felix could try setting his BIOS to the
> 32-bit Cardbus option. (There are three alternatives: auto, 16-bit and
> 32-bit).
Thanks for your suggestions. However, the BIOS of my machine (a Thinkpad
i1267) does not offer these options, but the good thing is that I don't
need them because the card is now working (see my other message).

Regards,

Felix



Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
"Felix E. Klee" wrote:
> today, I compiled a kernel with xdsg's kernel config (the only option
> that I removed was the /dev file system support). Now, when I insert my
> FA510c network card I still hear a high low beep sequence but the card
> is correctly identified by cardctl ident. The error message that I get
> is
>   failed to allocate resource 0 for PCI device 1011:0019
>   got res[1080:108003ff] for resource 1 of PCI device 1011:0019
>   got res[1040:1043] for resource 6 of PCI device 1011:0019
>   PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (->0003)
>   PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:00.0. Please try
> using pci=biosirq.
> 
> What does that mean? What should I do?

Good news: the card is finally working! Today, I downloaded a new
version of the PCMCIA package (pcmcia-cs-3.1.24), removed the PCMCIA
support in the Kernel (2.4.2) and compiled the PCMCIA modules
seperately. All this should also be accomplished by upgrading to the new
version of the Bunk-distro (Jacob Meuser recommended that before) which
includes kernel version 2.4.2 and pcmcia-cs-3.1.24. It can be retrieved
from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html. One more thing: I did
not have to change any configuration files, everything seems to work out
of the box.

Felix



Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan Simon wrote:

> X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x.  Well it's not
> directly the kernels fault, it is the new devfs and/or the new input layer 
> that
> causes the problem.

Will *not* work for them?  I thought it wouldn't work without them, because the
generic pointer config has /dev/input/mice.  See bug #87854 against makedev, 
though
I may be wrong about solving the problem simply by adding that device node.  
Does
it really need kernel new input layer support?

Zeen,

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Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes:
> On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by
> cron if anacron is install.  Here is part of my /etc/crontab:
> 
> 25 6* * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
> /etc/cron.daily
> 47 6* * 7   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
> /etc/cron.weekly
> 52 61 * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
> /etc/cron.monthly
> 
> So don't remove cron.
 
 My system is like that too.  You're wrong, though;  cron doesn't do
anything if anacron is installed.  _nothing_, not even run anacron.
/usr/sbin/anacron runs as a daemon and does the run-parts stuff.  If you
check the package dependency, anacron only recomends, not depends on, cron.

 Go ahead and remove cron.

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sound blaster configuration??

2001-03-04 Thread redstars
I haven't figured out how to configure sound in debian, I have read HOWTO and 
FAQ about configuring sound card but still not found any useful information, 
How can I configure my Sound Blaster 16 in debian ??



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Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes:
> > On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by
> > cron if anacron is install.  Here is part of my /etc/crontab:
> > 
> > 25 6* * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
> > /etc/cron.daily
> > 47 6* * 7   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
> > /etc/cron.weekly
> > 52 61 * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
> > /etc/cron.monthly
> > 
> > So don't remove cron.
>  
>  My system is like that too.  You're wrong, though;  cron doesn't do
> anything if anacron is installed.  _nothing_, not even run anacron.
> ...
>  Go ahead and remove cron.

On my system there are a lot of files in /etc/cron.d which cron *does*
process, even though I have anacron installed.  So I think my advice
is sound, unless Bostjan has an installation with nothing in that
directory.  

My only point was that removing cron wouldn't accomplish anything that
Bostjan wanted, and would have the potential of removing functionality.

Dan



Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread kmself

on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:05AM +1100, Brendan Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x.  Well it's not
^^^
You mean 2.2.18?

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Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Steve Dobson

Karsten

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:43:54AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:05AM +1100, Brendan Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
>wrote:
> > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x.  Well it's not
> ^^^
> You mean 2.2.18?
> 
Yes, I spotted that.  I installed a 2.2.18 kernel two weeks ago (with
ext3 patched in - although I am not using it yet) provided by Steve
McIntyre) and last week I upgraded to Woody with out any problem.  
XF86-4.0.2 didn't come up straight away - first I had to set the correct
driver in the config file - but I had no problems with the devices.  I
can't see devfsd running. 

I don't known what the problom is with XF86-4 & 2.2.18.

I am waiting to go to 2.4.x for a bit.  Alan's best advice if you need
stable (and I do on my laptop) is to wait until x.x.5 or x.x.6 which is
when the kernel becomes stable on most platforms.

Steve

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cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Bostjan Muller

Hi!

I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready
been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. Can
anacron replace cron or not? Since cron is quite cpu intensive (and battery by
that mean) and runs quite often... it is a battery hog for a battery powered
device, while on the otherhand anacron only runs when it runs from mains, and
conserver power that way... even linux laptop powered says so.. so what should
I do, should I remove cron and use solely anacron? I don't have and don't
intend to run any of my own background scheduled proceses, just the default
system ones...

THX in advance!

Bostjan
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Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-04 Thread Carlos Menezes



Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote:
> > Please,
> >
> > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA ethernet 
>card  is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get messages like 
>'Network is unreachable'. My /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file set local IP to 10.0.0.2 
>and I know that pppd assigns a dynamic IP to my machine; it seems this is the 
>problem, but how could I
> > configurate them correctly?
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> You need pppd to set up your default gateway.  Try 'man pppd' for details.
>

In Olaf Kirch's book there is a comment that defaultroute option of pppd only creates 
a default route if there is not  one.
If I initialize PCMCIA after pppd, all runs; if I initialize pppd after PCMCIA, 
network is unreachable.
Suggestions?

Carlos Menezes.



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Friendliest Laptop??

2001-03-04 Thread Yannick Asselin

Hi guys.

I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if
there are any laptops that are friendly to debian...

I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang
for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier??

Thanks!
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Re: Quick-access buttons on Toshiba 2775XDVD?

2001-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki

Can you provide pointer to TOSHIBA ML? (in English)
TIA.
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:55:58PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Are you subscribed to the Toshiba linux mailing list?  Somewhere there would
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Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes:

> I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready
> been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. Can
> anacron replace cron or not?
> should I remove cron and use solely anacron? I don't have and don't
> intend to run any of my own background scheduled proceses, just the default
> system ones...

On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by
cron if anacron is install.  Here is part of my /etc/crontab:

25 6* * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
47 6* * 7   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
/etc/cron.weekly
52 61 * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
/etc/cron.monthly

So don't remove cron.

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Re: XF86Setup&XF86Config + gnome doesn't start --solved

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Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee

xsdg wrote:
> > BTW, I did try pci=biosirq as a kernel option but this only removed the
> Did you actually use "pci=biosirq", or did you use "pci=$your_cards_irq"?
I used "pci=biosirq" because "biosirq" is, as far as I can tell, a
correct value for the option "pci" whereas $your_cards_irq is not.
However, my network configuration is now
working (see my other message) and I do not need this option anymore.

> Also, I attempted to locate all my stuff dealing with the card (it's the only card):
Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards,

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Re: PCMCIA doesn't work anymore

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee

Drew Parsons wrote:
> Bad phrasing.  What I meant was that Felix could try setting his BIOS to the
> 32-bit Cardbus option. (There are three alternatives: auto, 16-bit and
> 32-bit).
Thanks for your suggestions. However, the BIOS of my machine (a Thinkpad
i1267) does not offer these options, but the good thing is that I don't
need them because the card is now working (see my other message).

Regards,

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Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee

"Felix E. Klee" wrote:
> today, I compiled a kernel with xdsg's kernel config (the only option
> that I removed was the /dev file system support). Now, when I insert my
> FA510c network card I still hear a high low beep sequence but the card
> is correctly identified by cardctl ident. The error message that I get
> is
>   failed to allocate resource 0 for PCI device 1011:0019
>   got res[1080:108003ff] for resource 1 of PCI device 1011:0019
>   got res[1040:1043] for resource 6 of PCI device 1011:0019
>   PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (->0003)
>   PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:00.0. Please try
> using pci=biosirq.
> 
> What does that mean? What should I do?

Good news: the card is finally working! Today, I downloaded a new
version of the PCMCIA package (pcmcia-cs-3.1.24), removed the PCMCIA
support in the Kernel (2.4.2) and compiled the PCMCIA modules
seperately. All this should also be accomplished by upgrading to the new
version of the Bunk-distro (Jacob Meuser recommended that before) which
includes kernel version 2.4.2 and pcmcia-cs-3.1.24. It can be retrieved
from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html. One more thing: I did
not have to change any configuration files, everything seems to work out
of the box.

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Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV

Brendan Simon wrote:

> X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x.  Well it's not
> directly the kernels fault, it is the new devfs and/or the new input layer that
> causes the problem.

Will *not* work for them?  I thought it wouldn't work without them, because the
generic pointer config has /dev/input/mice.  See bug #87854 against makedev, though
I may be wrong about solving the problem simply by adding that device node.  Does
it really need kernel new input layer support?

Zeen,

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Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Peter Cordes

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes:
> On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by
> cron if anacron is install.  Here is part of my /etc/crontab:
> 
> 25 6* * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
>/etc/cron.daily
> 47 6* * 7   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
>/etc/cron.weekly
> 52 61 * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
>/etc/cron.monthly
> 
> So don't remove cron.
 
 My system is like that too.  You're wrong, though;  cron doesn't do
anything if anacron is installed.  _nothing_, not even run anacron.
/usr/sbin/anacron runs as a daemon and does the run-parts stuff.  If you
check the package dependency, anacron only recomends, not depends on, cron.

 Go ahead and remove cron.

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2001-03-04 Thread redstars

I haven't figured out how to configure sound in debian, I have read HOWTO and FAQ 
about configuring sound card but still not found any useful information, How can I 
configure my Sound Blaster 16 in debian ??



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Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen

Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes:
> > On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by
> > cron if anacron is install.  Here is part of my /etc/crontab:
> > 
> > 25 6* * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
>/etc/cron.daily
> > 47 6* * 7   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
>/etc/cron.weekly
> > 52 61 * *   roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
>/etc/cron.monthly
> > 
> > So don't remove cron.
>  
>  My system is like that too.  You're wrong, though;  cron doesn't do
> anything if anacron is installed.  _nothing_, not even run anacron.
> ...
>  Go ahead and remove cron.

On my system there are a lot of files in /etc/cron.d which cron *does*
process, even though I have anacron installed.  So I think my advice
is sound, unless Bostjan has an installation with nothing in that
directory.  

My only point was that removing cron wouldn't accomplish anything that
Bostjan wanted, and would have the potential of removing functionality.

Dan


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Re: Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

2001-03-04 Thread Yang Shouxun

Thanks for everybody.  I finally set up the X-windows.  I upgrade it to 
XFree86 4.0.x.
But while installing, I found myself in a evil circularity due to dpkg 
doing interdependency, because I installed locale-zh.  While the 3.3.x 
was removed and 4.0.x installed, the config file remains to be the older 
one and the new version could not get configured.  I had to reinstall 
the whole system all over and tried not install other possibly 
conflicting packages at the first step.

Maybe there is a better way to do that.  If there is, please let me know.



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