Debian into an existing Loopback file system
Hi. I realize that the "best" way to install a distribtion of Linux is to wipe the disk and start over, but I'm curious if anyone has tried this. I put a copy of Dragon Linux on my laptop, in a 1-gig loop-back "partition" file so that it cohabitates with windows just fine. However, having actually tried to use it has caused me to see the .deb package system and dselect with renewed awe and reverence. Can Debian be installed "over the top" of such a loop- back style installation? Curt-
Re: Debian into an existing Loopback file system
> There are distros that are designed for people who want to give linux > a try without repartitioning. I tried one a couple years ago, and it > had a windoze-based installer that created the image file, and set up > loadlin with an initrd thing. If you get stuck, just look at how they > do it, or just use one of those and morph it into Debian once you've > installed :) This is exactly what I'm talking about. Dragon Linux in a one-gig loop-back "image file". And I would like to "morph it into Debian", but I'm not a programmer. I don't know all the ins and outs, thus my original statement that I know the best way to change distributions is to wipe out the old one and install the new one. Well, I would like to keep the present launch process. Debian web page and docs have no "neat loop-back image file" type of install described, just second partition style. Has anyone done this, changing from an non-Debian to a Debian "distribution" without actually erasing anything? The problem with Dragon Linux is its reliance on Slackware. The RPM's are unworkable, for me, and it's missing some security library object files that are making ssh fail. Curt-
Debian FDISK vs. Microsoft Format
Good afternoon, may your aim never waver. I am trying to install Debian and Windows on the same 4GB drive, and have run into a snag. After giving up on Windows, and making backups, I booted from the Debian CD and repartitioned. After reading the Multi-OS mini HowTo, I set up 4 partitions: 2.5GB FAT32 Primary Boot 1.6GB Linux Native Boot 100MB Linux Swap 100MB FAT32 Logical Debian installed fine, no problems. Putting in the Win95 CD and floppy, I started to format the C: partition. HOWEVER: Format reported 3.9GB of C: drive. This is very wrong. MS fdisk (on the floppy, yes I've done this sort of thing before) reports the correct sized partition of 2.5GB. Did I do this in the wrong order? Should I have used MS fdisk first, to create the partitions, then Debian fdisk to redefine as the correct partition types? That is the only thing I can think of doing differently. But I would prefer not to loose the Debian install. Suggestions gladly received. Curt-
Windows format results...
My thanks to the very well informed individuals who sent that information on the idiocy of Microsoft disk tools. After sleeping on it, I decided to just forget Windows at all. We shall see what I can do with dos and windows emulators for those few games (like SubSpace and Starcraft) which would be hard to live without... Yeah, I was keeping windows for games. Not worth it. Now if I could figure out what happened to ftp.jp.debian.org, and why trying to get files from them is failing awfully... Curt-
"SuperSoundProbe"?
As usual, a silly question. Sound isn't working on this laptop of mine. I installed the present "stable", not being interested in wiz-bang and headaches at the moment... Is there such a thing as a "probe" for sound cards? The SuperProbe for video has worked very well indeed. Just a thought. -- The Road goes ever on and one, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone and I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
2.4.9 kernel & pcmcia in Woody
Hi, y'all. I upgraded to Woody from Potato[e], it was not easy. apt-get dist-upgrade did some of the work, but it took repeated dselect cycles, then going through and finding things that had been "de-selected" for me, like man-db. When that's working, I decide to do the silly thing and update the kernel as well, from 2.2.18pre21 (or really close to that, forgive my memory) to 2.4.9 K6. The 2.4.9 requires manual editing of lilo.conf to add "initrd=/boot/initrd", but does not say where in lilo.conf to add that line. Experience said under the particular kernel boot entry, but it's not something a newbie would know. Since that particular kernel boot entry is created by these scripts anyway, I think the initrd comment is absurd to make the user perform. But anyway, 2.4.9 K6 it is. But it does not recognize my PCMCIA system: == Installing module i82365. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute. /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: insmod i82365 failed Installation failed. Please press ENTER when you are ready to continue. === This is the same module name that the 2.2.18 kernel loads and runs just fine. As far as I can tell, there's no reason it shouldn't detect the pcmcia. Yes, I loaded pcmcia_core first. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6. With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000 (module ne) with io and irq set by hand. I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels, the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link active, but eth0 will not activate. At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software, and repeated the above with no success. "linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module. I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0 interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had been defined. This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to break two other things. I had to type the below by hand. # ifup eth0 ifup: interface eth0 already configured # ifdown eth0 eth0: unknown interface: No such device # ifup eth0 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device If anyone can say "use this and this driver", I would be very grateful. Unfortunately, the only instructions I've been able to find, which I have tried, have failed. Curt- --- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history.
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Glen Mehn wrote: > > your pcmcia settings should still remain in /etc/pcmcia. Try removing the > stuf fyou did and adding the entry for pcmcia in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I did. The only difference now is that I get "ignorning unknown interface eth0=eth0". > you can use ifup/ifdown to manage the intervace, but also cardctl will > stop/start the card (and the interface). I have no such command as "cardctl", all I have is "cardmgr", and there is no manual entry for it. Simply running the command causes two beeps to sound, and no change in response. I found /etc/pcmcia/network script, tried ./network start eth0, and got the error: cat: /var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme: No such file or directory > You'll probably also want to read the kernel-pcmcia docs, assuming that > you're using the kernel drivers, rather than the third party add-ons. Your assumption is correct. Would you kindly point me to the location of such documents? > glne Curt- > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:19:07PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > > After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia > > ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6. > > > > With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000 > > (module ne) with io and irq set by hand. > > > > I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels, > > the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet > > card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link > > active, but eth0 will not activate. > > > > At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded > > the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software, > > and repeated the above with no success. > > > > "linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which > > the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize > > pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module. > > > > I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the > > modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an > > entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0 > > interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had > > been defined. > > > > This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also > > been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in > > the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to break two other > > things. I had to type the below by hand. > > > > # ifup eth0 > > ifup: interface eth0 already configured > > # ifdown eth0 > > eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > # ifup eth0 > > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > > eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device > > eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > > > If anyone can say "use this and this driver", I would be very grateful. > > Unfortunately, the only instructions I've been able to find, which I > > have tried, have failed. > > > > Curt- > > > > --- > > September 11th, 2001 > > The proudest day for gun control and central planning > > advocates in American history. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Glen S Mehn > Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Building Trust in Transactions (sm)
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Glen Mehn wrote: > > from the menuconfig--> help option: > > To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David x > x Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file Documentation/Changes forx > x location). Please also read the PCMCIA-HOWTO, available fromx > x http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto Thank you. I was hoping that the 2.4.9 kernel package would not require that I recompile it to do what the 2.2.18 kernel did "out of the box". Or should I say, "out of the .deb"? Thus I never was in the menuconfig. Only modconf. > have you installed the pcmcia-cs package as well? Did you look in > /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs? > > there's a README-2.4 in there. if you don't have cardctl, you probably > haven't installed the package(s) No, that package was not installed. The dependencies in dselect recomended "modules", but all the recomended modules were 2.2.x kernel, not 2.4, so I will have to assume that the 2.4.9 package has them. [music from Jepardy] Ok, dselect process done, it asked me to interactively configure the network interface. It doesn't work, ifup still says "ignoring unknown interface", but at least I can go off and read some docs that weren't there before. I'll just say that this was straight forward and working in 2.2.18, I'm surprised that it has gotten more obscure, more difficult in 2.4.x and the linuxconf and netconfig tools make it worse. H > glen Curt- > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:13:06PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > > Glen Mehn wrote: > > > > > > your pcmcia settings should still remain in /etc/pcmcia. Try removing the > > > stuf fyou did and adding the entry for pcmcia in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. > > > > I did. The only difference now is that I get "ignorning unknown > > interface eth0=eth0". > > > > > you can use ifup/ifdown to manage the intervace, but also cardctl will > > > stop/start the card (and the interface). > > > > I have no such command as "cardctl", all I have is "cardmgr", and there > > is no manual entry for it. > > > > Simply running the command causes two beeps to sound, and no change in > > response. > > > > I found /etc/pcmcia/network script, tried ./network start eth0, and got > > the error: > > > > cat: /var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme: No such file or directory > > > > > You'll probably also want to read the kernel-pcmcia docs, assuming > > > that you're using the kernel drivers, rather than the third party add-ons. > > > > Your assumption is correct. Would you kindly point me to the location of > > such documents? > > > > > glne > > > > Curt- > > > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:19:07PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia > > > > ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6. > > > > > > > > With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000 > > > > (module ne) with io and irq set by hand. > > > > > > > > I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels, > > > > the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet > > > > card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link > > > > active, but eth0 will not activate. > > > > > > > > At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded > > > > the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software, > > > > and repeated the above with no success. > > > > > > > > "linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which > > > > the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize > > > > pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module. > > > > > > > > I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the > > > > modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an > > > > entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0 > > > > interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had > > > > been defined. > > > > > > > > This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also > > > > been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in > > > > the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to b
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Final follow-up: Re-added entries to /etc/network/interfaces, getting the pcmcia-cs and iptables packages, and checking out the iptables masquerade instructions, the ethernet is now working and running as a gateway for my other machine. Happy days, thank you Glen. One point, it seems that there is an ipchains module that can be loaded in the debian 2.4.9 kernel. I deliberately did not use ipchains, so I don't hamstring myself into an older tech. It's nice to know it's there, however, but the ipchains syntax is almost identical. Thanks for the help, and I hope it's easier to point the next person to the answer. This should not have gotten harder, and linuxconf and netconfig need to be fixed. I will be submitting a bug report. Curt-
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Glen Mehn wrote: > have you installed the pcmcia-cs package as well? Did you look in > /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs? > > there's a README-2.4 in there. if you don't have cardctl, you probably > haven't installed the package(s) No, actually, there is no file named readme-2.4, there is a readme that also says there's a readme-2.4. > glen Thanks, Glen. You've been wonderful. This has turned into a very interesting quest. The last time I looked in the HOW-TO's, there was nothing about this either. Interesting. Why would things get harder with a new version? Curt-
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
> kernel pcmcia support is somewhat still experimental-- in the pcmcia-howto. Hmmm... Such is life, I guess. > however, I had trouble compiling the pcmcia-cs packages. I didn't compile anything, I used only the packages and modules that came with the kernel image. > Try installing the pcmcia-cs packages first, then the kernel, and then see > how we go. I think what worked was finally having every last piece of the puzzle, the pcmcia-cs package was just the last straw. Also, *NOT* using linuxconf or netconfig. > Did you install pcmcia support as modules? Yes, I selected the kernel modules for pcmcia. But I had to search the archives for mention of the fact that the names had changed since 2.2.18. The problem being that the old modules are *still there*. They just don't work. > glen Curt-
kernel 2.4.9 and pcmcia flash memory
Hi, yes, it's me again. Kernel 2.4.9, pcmcia enabled and working for the ethernet card, I plugged in my camera flash card last night and it would not mount: mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /flash "/dev/hde1: no such device" I am not at the machine right now, so I don't have access to the cardinfo &etc output, but it did detect the card and flash, and reported correctly that it was a "ata ide fixed disk". Did the location change under the new kernel? Is there yet another module with some completely unrelated name that I didn't know to load? Pointers welcome. Curt- --- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history.
Re: kernel 2.4.9 and pcmcia flash memory
I changed all the entries that had "ide_cs" to "ide-cs", as well as installed the pcmcia_cs module. It works, and better than before. An accidental physical removal did not lock up the system, as had happened in the past. Curt- Glen Mehn wrote: > > one thing that I did that worked was: > > in /etc/pcmcia/config, replace all occurrences of ide_cs with ide-cs. > > someone on the list suggested that that *couldn't* work, as the ide chipset > was/is on the cf card, however, it worked for me. > > Though I think that I did add in pcmcia/ide support (poke around in the > kernel config, it seems it was in an odd spot) > > glen > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:26:25PM -0700, Curt Howland wrote: > > Hi, yes, it's me again. > > > > Kernel 2.4.9, pcmcia enabled and working for the ethernet card, > > I plugged in my camera flash card last night and it would not > > mount: > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /flash > > > > "/dev/hde1: no such device" > > > > I am not at the machine right now, so I don't have access to > > the cardinfo &etc output, but it did detect the card and flash, > > and reported correctly that it was a "ata ide fixed disk". > > > > Did the location change under the new kernel? Is there yet > > another module with some completely unrelated name that I didn't > > know to load? > > > > Pointers welcome. > > > > Curt- > > > > --- > > September 11th, 2001 > > The proudest day for gun control and central planning > > advocates in American history. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Glen S Mehn > Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Building Trust in Transactions (sm) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Copy/Paste in KDE
Hi. When I've put something to the clipboard under *nix before, and hit the "paste" button in Netscape, it has correctly copied what was on the clipboard. It didn't matter if it was copied out of a term window by simply highlighting, or from another application. However, right now it does not work. There seems to be no way to paste from the KDE clipboard into Netscape. At least. Any ideas? Woody, with KDE and netscape 4.77 from Debian only. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: Copy/Paste in KDE
Unfortunately, that is what is failing. I have done this many, many times before, having used Debian since 1996. This is the first time that having the text highlighted has not caused it to be copied into the Netscape clipboard. Luckly, "middle click" works to copy into xterms. But unless the text is copied by the netscape copy function, it doesn't seem to be imported at all. Any thoughts? Would the particular window manager I'm using matter? I'm not even sure which ones I have on this machine. But I can easily make sure that "olwm" is the only one available. Is there a way to tell which one KDE is launching? Curt- Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcã wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not an expert on KDE, but I figure it out that if you want > to paste something to Netscape 4.77 the text has to be still > highlighted, otherwise nothing is pasted to Netscape. More than that > if the window where you selected the text is no longer available > is not to much to be done. You may try to open an xterm or other > terminal, type vi(m), enter insert mode and press middle button. > Then reselect the text and paste it onto Netscape. > > Some way the clipboard is not the same, I have no ideea why or how. > > I hope this helps. > > Ionel > > În data de 4/10/2001, 16:00:59, Curt Howland a scris: > > > > Hi. > > > > When I've put something to the clipboard under *nix before, and hit the > > "paste" button in Netscape, it has correctly copied what was on the > > clipboard. It didn't matter if it was copied out of a term window by > > simply highlighting, or from another application. > > > > However, right now it does not work. There seems to be no way to paste > > from the KDE clipboard into Netscape. At least. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Woody, with KDE and netscape 4.77 from Debian only. > > > > Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: Copy/Paste in KDE
> So you can't paste it even with Ctrl-v from Netscape? Exactly. Unless something was selected in netscape, the "paste" button isn't even highlighted. Or rather, Netscape has it's paste function completely disabled. The clipboard is "empty". > In my case if the selected text is still highlighted, I can press > middle button or Ctrl-v, and I get the text in Netscape. Yep, that's how it used to work for me, too. > It might be a problem of Xwindows manager. As I said I don't know KDE. > I use fvwm(2). This you get it by having a line fvwm in your > $/HOME/.xsession which has to be executable. But this is for xdm. gdm > and kde uses different configuration files. Can't help you here, sory. I'll look around, KDE seems to have lots of configuration files to get lost in. > For how long did you used kde? 4 days. :^) > Ionel Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Answer to copy/paste in KDE
The answer turned out to be "avoid the problem." Folks over on the KDE main list were mixed, some had never had the problem, some had never solved it, some had it miraculously fix itself. Netscape uses a different clipboard than KDE, the "X" clipboard, as opposed to something else. Darn. So open xclipboard, "middle click" the text into it, and then Netscape will paste just fine. Sure enough, it works. Final question for a while: How to update the menu's? When I first loaded KDE (or gnome, or just olwm earlier, the first time all the Debian packages show up nicely shuffled out into menus. But changes don't show up, neither delete nor add. Any clues? It would be annoying to have such wonderful initial features as automatic menu population only to have to then maintain those same menus (where ever they are...) by hand. Thoughts? Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: X-Fonts
I noticed this problem yesterday with Craft. So I just installed xfs and xfs-ttf, and it still doesn't work. Sam simptom, blank dialog boxes, like there just isn't any text. Any more suggestions? Curt- Andrew McMillan wrote: > > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 02:21:44 -0500, wrote: > > > > > *** Please say _something_ to me !! :) > > > > I'm running Debian 90% Woody on my laptop. > > > > The menus and dialog-boxes of most X win > > applications (Nedit, The Gimp, playlists) > > are all SquArEs !! Unreadable. > > > > Do you know what x-library might be > > responsible for the font problem ? > > > > Thank you ! > > I think I saw somewhere that this problem is to do with the internal font > server in X 4.1.0 which is seeing the wrong default encoding - the fix is > to use xfs to serve the fonts. > > Regards, > Andrew. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: x-window-manager link
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Debian into an existing Loopback file system
Hi. I realize that the "best" way to install a distribtion of Linux is to wipe the disk and start over, but I'm curious if anyone has tried this. I put a copy of Dragon Linux on my laptop, in a 1-gig loop-back "partition" file so that it cohabitates with windows just fine. However, having actually tried to use it has caused me to see the .deb package system and dselect with renewed awe and reverence. Can Debian be installed "over the top" of such a loop- back style installation? Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian into an existing Loopback file system
> There are distros that are designed for people who want to give linux > a try without repartitioning. I tried one a couple years ago, and it > had a windoze-based installer that created the image file, and set up > loadlin with an initrd thing. If you get stuck, just look at how they > do it, or just use one of those and morph it into Debian once you've > installed :) This is exactly what I'm talking about. Dragon Linux in a one-gig loop-back "image file". And I would like to "morph it into Debian", but I'm not a programmer. I don't know all the ins and outs, thus my original statement that I know the best way to change distributions is to wipe out the old one and install the new one. Well, I would like to keep the present launch process. Debian web page and docs have no "neat loop-back image file" type of install described, just second partition style. Has anyone done this, changing from an non-Debian to a Debian "distribution" without actually erasing anything? The problem with Dragon Linux is its reliance on Slackware. The RPM's are unworkable, for me, and it's missing some security library object files that are making ssh fail. Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian FDISK vs. Microsoft Format
Good afternoon, may your aim never waver. I am trying to install Debian and Windows on the same 4GB drive, and have run into a snag. After giving up on Windows, and making backups, I booted from the Debian CD and repartitioned. After reading the Multi-OS mini HowTo, I set up 4 partitions: 2.5GB FAT32 Primary Boot 1.6GB Linux Native Boot 100MB Linux Swap 100MB FAT32 Logical Debian installed fine, no problems. Putting in the Win95 CD and floppy, I started to format the C: partition. HOWEVER: Format reported 3.9GB of C: drive. This is very wrong. MS fdisk (on the floppy, yes I've done this sort of thing before) reports the correct sized partition of 2.5GB. Did I do this in the wrong order? Should I have used MS fdisk first, to create the partitions, then Debian fdisk to redefine as the correct partition types? That is the only thing I can think of doing differently. But I would prefer not to loose the Debian install. Suggestions gladly received. Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows format results...
My thanks to the very well informed individuals who sent that information on the idiocy of Microsoft disk tools. After sleeping on it, I decided to just forget Windows at all. We shall see what I can do with dos and windows emulators for those few games (like SubSpace and Starcraft) which would be hard to live without... Yeah, I was keeping windows for games. Not worth it. Now if I could figure out what happened to ftp.jp.debian.org, and why trying to get files from them is failing awfully... Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"SuperSoundProbe"?
As usual, a silly question. Sound isn't working on this laptop of mine. I installed the present "stable", not being interested in wiz-bang and headaches at the moment... Is there such a thing as a "probe" for sound cards? The SuperProbe for video has worked very well indeed. Just a thought. -- The Road goes ever on and one, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone and I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.4.9 kernel & pcmcia in Woody
Hi, y'all. I upgraded to Woody from Potato[e], it was not easy. apt-get dist-upgrade did some of the work, but it took repeated dselect cycles, then going through and finding things that had been "de-selected" for me, like man-db. When that's working, I decide to do the silly thing and update the kernel as well, from 2.2.18pre21 (or really close to that, forgive my memory) to 2.4.9 K6. The 2.4.9 requires manual editing of lilo.conf to add "initrd=/boot/initrd", but does not say where in lilo.conf to add that line. Experience said under the particular kernel boot entry, but it's not something a newbie would know. Since that particular kernel boot entry is created by these scripts anyway, I think the initrd comment is absurd to make the user perform. But anyway, 2.4.9 K6 it is. But it does not recognize my PCMCIA system: == Installing module i82365. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute. /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.9-k6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: insmod i82365 failed Installation failed. Please press ENTER when you are ready to continue. === This is the same module name that the 2.2.18 kernel loads and runs just fine. As far as I can tell, there's no reason it shouldn't detect the pcmcia. Yes, I loaded pcmcia_core first. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Glen Mehn wrote: > > your pcmcia settings should still remain in /etc/pcmcia. Try removing the stuf fyou >did and adding the entry for pcmcia in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I did. The only difference now is that I get "ignorning unknown interface eth0=eth0". > you can use ifup/ifdown to manage the intervace, but also cardctl will stop/start >the card (and the interface). I have no such command as "cardctl", all I have is "cardmgr", and there is no manual entry for it. Simply running the command causes two beeps to sound, and no change in response. I found /etc/pcmcia/network script, tried ./network start eth0, and got the error: cat: /var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme: No such file or directory > You'll probably also want to read the kernel-pcmcia docs, assuming that you're >using the kernel drivers, rather than the third party add-ons. Your assumption is correct. Would you kindly point me to the location of such documents? > glne Curt- > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:19:07PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > > After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia > > ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6. > > > > With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000 > > (module ne) with io and irq set by hand. > > > > I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels, > > the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet > > card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link > > active, but eth0 will not activate. > > > > At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded > > the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software, > > and repeated the above with no success. > > > > "linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which > > the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize > > pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module. > > > > I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the > > modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an > > entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0 > > interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had > > been defined. > > > > This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also > > been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in > > the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to break two other > > things. I had to type the below by hand. > > > > # ifup eth0 > > ifup: interface eth0 already configured > > # ifdown eth0 > > eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > # ifup eth0 > > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > > eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device > > eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > > > If anyone can say "use this and this driver", I would be very grateful. > > Unfortunately, the only instructions I've been able to find, which I > > have tried, have failed. > > > > Curt- > > > > --- > > September 11th, 2001 > > The proudest day for gun control and central planning > > advocates in American history. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Glen S Mehn > Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Building Trust in Transactions (sm) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Glen Mehn wrote: > > from the menuconfig--> help option: > > To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David x > x Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file Documentation/Changes forx > x location). Please also read the PCMCIA-HOWTO, available fromx > x http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto Thank you. I was hoping that the 2.4.9 kernel package would not require that I recompile it to do what the 2.2.18 kernel did "out of the box". Or should I say, "out of the .deb"? Thus I never was in the menuconfig. Only modconf. > have you installed the pcmcia-cs package as well? Did you look in >/usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs? > > there's a README-2.4 in there. if you don't have cardctl, you probably haven't >installed the package(s) No, that package was not installed. The dependencies in dselect recomended "modules", but all the recomended modules were 2.2.x kernel, not 2.4, so I will have to assume that the 2.4.9 package has them. [music from Jepardy] Ok, dselect process done, it asked me to interactively configure the network interface. It doesn't work, ifup still says "ignoring unknown interface", but at least I can go off and read some docs that weren't there before. I'll just say that this was straight forward and working in 2.2.18, I'm surprised that it has gotten more obscure, more difficult in 2.4.x and the linuxconf and netconfig tools make it worse. H > glen Curt- > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:13:06PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > > Glen Mehn wrote: > > > > > > your pcmcia settings should still remain in /etc/pcmcia. Try removing the stuf >fyou did and adding the entry for pcmcia in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. > > > > I did. The only difference now is that I get "ignorning unknown > > interface eth0=eth0". > > > > > you can use ifup/ifdown to manage the intervace, but also cardctl will >stop/start the card (and the interface). > > > > I have no such command as "cardctl", all I have is "cardmgr", and there > > is no manual entry for it. > > > > Simply running the command causes two beeps to sound, and no change in > > response. > > > > I found /etc/pcmcia/network script, tried ./network start eth0, and got > > the error: > > > > cat: /var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme: No such file or directory > > > > > You'll probably also want to read the kernel-pcmcia docs, assuming that >you're using the kernel drivers, rather than the third party add-ons. > > > > Your assumption is correct. Would you kindly point me to the location of > > such documents? > > > > > glne > > > > Curt- > > > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:19:07PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia > > > > ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6. > > > > > > > > With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000 > > > > (module ne) with io and irq set by hand. > > > > > > > > I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels, > > > > the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet > > > > card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link > > > > active, but eth0 will not activate. > > > > > > > > At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded > > > > the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software, > > > > and repeated the above with no success. > > > > > > > > "linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which > > > > the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize > > > > pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module. > > > > > > > > I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the > > > > modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an > > > > entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0 > > > > interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had > > > > been defined. > > > > > > > > This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also > > > > been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in > > > > the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to break two other >
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Final follow-up: Re-added entries to /etc/network/interfaces, getting the pcmcia-cs and iptables packages, and checking out the iptables masquerade instructions, the ethernet is now working and running as a gateway for my other machine. Happy days, thank you Glen. One point, it seems that there is an ipchains module that can be loaded in the debian 2.4.9 kernel. I deliberately did not use ipchains, so I don't hamstring myself into an older tech. It's nice to know it's there, however, but the ipchains syntax is almost identical. Thanks for the help, and I hope it's easier to point the next person to the answer. This should not have gotten harder, and linuxconf and netconfig need to be fixed. I will be submitting a bug report. Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
Glen Mehn wrote: > have you installed the pcmcia-cs package as well? Did you look in >/usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs? > > there's a README-2.4 in there. if you don't have cardctl, you probably haven't >installed the package(s) No, actually, there is no file named readme-2.4, there is a readme that also says there's a readme-2.4. > glen Thanks, Glen. You've been wonderful. This has turned into a very interesting quest. The last time I looked in the HOW-TO's, there was nothing about this either. Interesting. Why would things get harder with a new version? Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
> kernel pcmcia support is somewhat still experimental-- in the pcmcia-howto. Hmmm... Such is life, I guess. > however, I had trouble compiling the pcmcia-cs packages. I didn't compile anything, I used only the packages and modules that came with the kernel image. > Try installing the pcmcia-cs packages first, then the kernel, and then see how we go. I think what worked was finally having every last piece of the puzzle, the pcmcia-cs package was just the last straw. Also, *NOT* using linuxconf or netconfig. > Did you install pcmcia support as modules? Yes, I selected the kernel modules for pcmcia. But I had to search the archives for mention of the fact that the names had changed since 2.2.18. The problem being that the old modules are *still there*. They just don't work. > glen Curt- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.4.9 and pcmcia flash memory
Hi, yes, it's me again. Kernel 2.4.9, pcmcia enabled and working for the ethernet card, I plugged in my camera flash card last night and it would not mount: mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /flash "/dev/hde1: no such device" I am not at the machine right now, so I don't have access to the cardinfo &etc output, but it did detect the card and flash, and reported correctly that it was a "ata ide fixed disk". Did the location change under the new kernel? Is there yet another module with some completely unrelated name that I didn't know to load? Pointers welcome. Curt- --- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.4.9 and pcmcia flash memory
I changed all the entries that had "ide_cs" to "ide-cs", as well as installed the pcmcia_cs module. It works, and better than before. An accidental physical removal did not lock up the system, as had happened in the past. Curt- Glen Mehn wrote: > > one thing that I did that worked was: > > in /etc/pcmcia/config, replace all occurrences of ide_cs with ide-cs. > > someone on the list suggested that that *couldn't* work, as the ide chipset was/is >on the cf card, however, it worked for me. > > Though I think that I did add in pcmcia/ide support (poke around in the kernel >config, it seems it was in an odd spot) > > glen > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:26:25PM -0700, Curt Howland wrote: > > Hi, yes, it's me again. > > > > Kernel 2.4.9, pcmcia enabled and working for the ethernet card, > > I plugged in my camera flash card last night and it would not > > mount: > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /flash > > > > "/dev/hde1: no such device" > > > > I am not at the machine right now, so I don't have access to > > the cardinfo &etc output, but it did detect the card and flash, > > and reported correctly that it was a "ata ide fixed disk". > > > > Did the location change under the new kernel? Is there yet > > another module with some completely unrelated name that I didn't > > know to load? > > > > Pointers welcome. > > > > Curt- > > > > --- > > September 11th, 2001 > > The proudest day for gun control and central planning > > advocates in American history. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Glen S Mehn > Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Building Trust in Transactions (sm) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copy/Paste in KDE
Hi. When I've put something to the clipboard under *nix before, and hit the "paste" button in Netscape, it has correctly copied what was on the clipboard. It didn't matter if it was copied out of a term window by simply highlighting, or from another application. However, right now it does not work. There seems to be no way to paste from the KDE clipboard into Netscape. At least. Any ideas? Woody, with KDE and netscape 4.77 from Debian only. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/Paste in KDE
Unfortunately, that is what is failing. I have done this many, many times before, having used Debian since 1996. This is the first time that having the text highlighted has not caused it to be copied into the Netscape clipboard. Luckly, "middle click" works to copy into xterms. But unless the text is copied by the netscape copy function, it doesn't seem to be imported at all. Any thoughts? Would the particular window manager I'm using matter? I'm not even sure which ones I have on this machine. But I can easily make sure that "olwm" is the only one available. Is there a way to tell which one KDE is launching? Curt- Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcã wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not an expert on KDE, but I figure it out that if you want > to paste something to Netscape 4.77 the text has to be still > highlighted, otherwise nothing is pasted to Netscape. More than that > if the window where you selected the text is no longer available > is not to much to be done. You may try to open an xterm or other > terminal, type vi(m), enter insert mode and press middle button. > Then reselect the text and paste it onto Netscape. > > Some way the clipboard is not the same, I have no ideea why or how. > > I hope this helps. > > Ionel > > În data de 4/10/2001, 16:00:59, Curt Howland a scris: > > > > Hi. > > > > When I've put something to the clipboard under *nix before, and hit the > > "paste" button in Netscape, it has correctly copied what was on the > > clipboard. It didn't matter if it was copied out of a term window by > > simply highlighting, or from another application. > > > > However, right now it does not work. There seems to be no way to paste > > from the KDE clipboard into Netscape. At least. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Woody, with KDE and netscape 4.77 from Debian only. > > > > Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/Paste in KDE
> So you can't paste it even with Ctrl-v from Netscape? Exactly. Unless something was selected in netscape, the "paste" button isn't even highlighted. Or rather, Netscape has it's paste function completely disabled. The clipboard is "empty". > In my case if the selected text is still highlighted, I can press > middle button or Ctrl-v, and I get the text in Netscape. Yep, that's how it used to work for me, too. > It might be a problem of Xwindows manager. As I said I don't know KDE. > I use fvwm(2). This you get it by having a line fvwm in your > $/HOME/.xsession which has to be executable. But this is for xdm. gdm > and kde uses different configuration files. Can't help you here, sory. I'll look around, KDE seems to have lots of configuration files to get lost in. > For how long did you used kde? 4 days. :^) > Ionel Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Answer to copy/paste in KDE
The answer turned out to be "avoid the problem." Folks over on the KDE main list were mixed, some had never had the problem, some had never solved it, some had it miraculously fix itself. Netscape uses a different clipboard than KDE, the "X" clipboard, as opposed to something else. Darn. So open xclipboard, "middle click" the text into it, and then Netscape will paste just fine. Sure enough, it works. Final question for a while: How to update the menu's? When I first loaded KDE (or gnome, or just olwm earlier, the first time all the Debian packages show up nicely shuffled out into menus. But changes don't show up, neither delete nor add. Any clues? It would be annoying to have such wonderful initial features as automatic menu population only to have to then maintain those same menus (where ever they are...) by hand. Thoughts? Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6. With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000 (module ne) with io and irq set by hand. I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels, the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link active, but eth0 will not activate. At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software, and repeated the above with no success. "linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module. I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0 interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had been defined. This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to break two other things. I had to type the below by hand. # ifup eth0 ifup: interface eth0 already configured # ifdown eth0 eth0: unknown interface: No such device # ifup eth0 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device If anyone can say "use this and this driver", I would be very grateful. Unfortunately, the only instructions I've been able to find, which I have tried, have failed. Curt- --- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x-window-manager link
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Re: X-Fonts
I noticed this problem yesterday with Craft. So I just installed xfs and xfs-ttf, and it still doesn't work. Sam simptom, blank dialog boxes, like there just isn't any text. Any more suggestions? Curt- Andrew McMillan wrote: > > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 02:21:44 -0500, wrote: > > > > > *** Please say _something_ to me !! :) > > > > I'm running Debian 90% Woody on my laptop. > > > > The menus and dialog-boxes of most X win > > applications (Nedit, The Gimp, playlists) > > are all SquArEs !! Unreadable. > > > > Do you know what x-library might be > > responsible for the font problem ? > > > > Thank you ! > > I think I saw somewhere that this problem is to do with the internal font > server in X 4.1.0 which is seeing the wrong default encoding - the fix is > to use xfs to serve the fonts. > > Regards, > Andrew. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop recommendations
There's also, http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html And if you need to overwrite Windows, http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ Emperor Linux seems to have passed into non-existence. On Sunday 06 June 2004 14:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Thus spake Rolf Heckemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ... > > > In your situation, I would probably consider the Lindows Mobile > > PC from sub300.com (http://www.sub300.com/port.htm). > > Looks interesting. Does anyone on the list have experience with > these machines? -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fujitsu Siemens E7010, Kernel 2.6.x and PCMCIA
I have a Sony Vaio GRT170, and have noticed problems with the PCMCIA as well. As with yours, the kernel modules load just fine, I insert a Compact Flash in a card adapter, which has always worked in the past, and it just doesn't show up. I try to mount the card, and it says "no valid file system". /dev/hde1 /mnt/flash vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 Could 2.6.x be having PCMCIA problems? This CF card and mount point worked fine earlier for me, even with 2.6.5. On Wednesday 09 June 2004 08:45, Christian Worm was heard to say: > Hello, > > has someone a working PCMCIA setup for this Notebook? I'm using > Debian Sarge with a selfcompiled 2.6.5 Kernel and can't get this > working. I installed pcmcia-cs and on startup it claims that it > watches 2 sockets: > > Jun 9 10:44:28 binford kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services > Jun 9 10:44:28 binford kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] > Jun 9 10:44:28 binford kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at > :02:0a.0 [10cf:10e6] > Jun 9 10:44:28 binford kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq > 11 Jun 9 10:44:28 binford kernel: Socket status: 3006 > Jun 9 10:44:28 binford kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at > :02:0a.1 [10cf:10e6] > Jun 9 10:44:29 binford kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq > 11 Jun 9 10:44:29 binford kernel: Socket status: 3006 > Jun 9 10:44:29 binford kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: > excluding 0x2e8-0x2ef 0x3c0-0x3df 0x400-0x407 0x4d0-0x4d7 > Jun 9 10:44:29 binford kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: > clean. Jun 9 10:44:29 binford kernel: cs: IO port probe > 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. Jun 9 10:44:29 binford kernel: cs: IO port > probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. > > Now, if I insert a PCMCIA card in socket 0, nothing happens. > cardctl ident shows no card, carcdtl status gives: > > Socket 0: > 3.3V CardBus card > function 0: [ready] > Socket 1: > no card > > If I insert the card in socket 1the system freezes until I eject > the card and on my first console appears: ca: pcmcia_socket1: > unable to apply power. > > My Notebook has an o2micro cardbus bridge listed by lspci: > > :02:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus > Controller (rev 02) > :02:0a.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus > Controller (rev 02) > > This is how the Kernelconfig or PCMCIA looks: > > # > # PCMCIA/CardBus support > # > CONFIG_PCMCIA=m > # CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set > CONFIG_YENTA=m > CONFIG_CARDBUS=y > CONFIG_I82092=m > CONFIG_I82365=m > CONFIG_TCIC=m > CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y > > If I use a 2.4.x Kernel with the pcmcia-cs kernelmodules I can use > a card in socket0. A card in socket1 freezes the system as well. > > I don't have any idea how I can solve this, google was no help. I > attached my kernelconfig to ths mail. If more information is needed > I will supply it. > > Just tell me what's needed. Any hint would be much apreciated! > > Thanks for your help! > > Christian Worm -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quick "X" question
Dear Debianians (or would that be Debianers? Debianites?) I remember in Xwindows there is an attribute, like "backing-store", such that when a window extends past the edge of the desktop and one is not using "virtual" desktops, moving the mouse to the edge of the screen that that window goes out beyond causes the open window to jump back inside the visible desktop area. A hint how to turn this function on would be nice as well, although I'm certain it's just a one-liner in XF86config-4. Trouble is, without remembering what it's called, I cannot look it up in The Fine Manual. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copy/paste
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 14:58, Dan Davison was heard to say: > Thanks Yves and Thorsten, but what about if I don't have a middle > mouse button (or at least did not manage to get middle mouse button > functionality when incompetently configuring X)? Oh no, that's no problem at all. It's called "three button emulation", try hitting both left and right at the same time and see if it acts as "paste". It should, it has on every Debian box I've put together without my deliberately setting it up. I think it's the default. > Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, USA Uh oh, Chicago school? I'm an Austrian. Are we allowed to even talk? :^) Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Un-installing this......
Good sir, The problem being that most people reacted to your request as one of ridicule itself. Being a Debian support forum, your asking about removal rather than assistance in getting it working is, politely put, unique. Your writing style is also quite difficult to understand. The combination of these factors led many, myself included, to delete your post without a second thought. Curt- On Monday 12 July 2004 09:33 it was so written: > not to sound like a grumpy old man..but I don't see what gives you > the right(with all your knowledge and wizardry)...to ridicule > someone asking for a little insight on something that makes no > sense to himonce again ..Oh Mighty Exalted One...thanks for > your negative input:-( -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Un-installing this......
[patting Yves on the back after his harrowing trip into Microsoft land...] On Tuesday 13 July 2004 04:49, Yves Rutschle was heard to say: > Y. - closes his browser in relief -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Un-installing this......
Thank you! My first belly laugh of the day. On Tuesday 13 July 2004 09:11, Sam Halliday was heard to say: > I kinda liked his style of writing. In my head it read like William > Shatner speaking it aloud! :-D > > You... know... what i mean! > > (/me goes through email and capitalises before sending. First > time... ever!) -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proposal: create a documentation packages for each laptop brand-serie
On Thursday 22 July 2004 09:43, Emma Jane Hogbin was heard to say: > I think this is a good idea, but I wonder how it will be different > from the information at: > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ Agreed. The repository already exists, let's utilize it. However, what the original writer was suggesting was a meta-package along the lines of "kde-extras" which itself depends on a suite of appropriate other Debian packages and specific configuration options which would complete the particular laptop. > In general I have found it very difficult to get authors to > _maintain_ their documentation. Maybe it is better to use the Linux > On Laptops as a resource to pull out the "best of the web" and put > them into a standard structure? Indeed. Laptop models change continually also, which makes keeping the meta-packages up to date and endless chore. > I would definitely be interested in seeing how this progresses, > emma I believe that contributing back to linux-on-laptops.com is "our" best method for documentation. It also spreads the load over different distributions of Linux, not just those of us with Debian. We may be a large community, but by no measure a majority. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: writing on NTFS
I believe this has something to do with Microsoft having effectively copyrighted / patented NTFS after their "failure" to do so with FAT. We can read it, but not write it. Longhorn will close this remaining loophole. Curt- On Tuesday 27 July 2004 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Am 27.07.04 17:25:25, schrieb Ivan Glushkov > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Hi all, > >I have a problem with my NTFS partition. Currently I have in my > >/etc/fstab the following: > > > ># > > > > > >/dev/hda1 /ntfs ntfs > >rw,exec,nodev,nosuid,users,gid=glushkov,umask=002 0 0 > >/dev/hda7 /data ntfs > >rw,exec,nodev,nosuid,users,gid=glushkov,umask=002 0 0 > > > >Looking at my kernel configuration one finds: > > > >cat .config | grep -i ntfs > >CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y > ># CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set > >CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y > > > >This way I can happily read my NTFS partition. But there is no > >way to write on them. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Ivan > > Hi Ivan, > > go "goggle.de" for "captive". Or > http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ > > Captive is the only linux-project that propperly support writing > on NTFS. > > > greetings > CB -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Release?
James, If they're savvy enough to consider Gentoo, just give them Debian Unstable. Go get a copy of the Woody mini net-install iso, and put "unstable" instead of "woody" into the /etc/apt/sources.list file when you finally connect to upgrade to the full install. Of course, that limits you to ext2/3 and LILO, while the latest Debian Installer can (will?) provide jfs, reiserfs, and uses GRUB only. Curt- On Tuesday 10 August 2004 14:35, James was heard to say: > I've got a group of portable user's that are trying to decide > between Debian and Gentoo. Naturally, I've gotten caught in the > mix, so I'm looking for thoughts and ideas. > > PS. Woody is way too old of a distro for me to recommend... -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Release?
I got the idea by trying it. Maybe you're using a later version than I did. It gave me no option not to use GRUB. On Tuesday 10 August 2004 15:17, Martin List-Petersen was heard to say: > > Debian Installer can (will?) provide jfs, reiserfs, and uses GRUB > > only. > > Not sure where you got that idea. I downloaded the daily d-i > (debian installer) businesscard image the other day. It features > ext2, ext3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs etc. and of course you can choose if > you want to install grub OR lilo. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Release?
I don't recall, but likely regular to see what the developers "have in store for the rest". On Tuesday 10 August 2004 16:06, Micha Feigin was heard to say: > Did you try the advanced option or the regular installation? -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new laptop recommendations?
On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:46, Micha Feigin was heard to say: > When it works, the Sony is fine, its just that they have one of the > worst customer service of any company in the world, and they are > clinically paranoid of wares, to the point that they cripple on > half descent piece of hardware the produce. I have a Sony Vaio GRT-170. I couldn't agree with you more. Very little of the APM functionality works, pretty much just power-off. The beautiful screen, built in Wifi, 64M of non-shared VideoRAM on AGP, amazing "everything" combination CD and DVD+/- RW... It's a wonderful machine. And also, this wonderful piece of hardware has no way to clean the fan or thermal fins except to mail it in for "repair" for at least a week and, as the people on the "support" phone told me, "expect to have the hard disk reformatted." Because the fan is dusty. I've let it go so long that, indeed, the machine does overheat and shut itself off because the fins are dusty. Talk about a design flaw! > Have a look at http://www.emperorlinux.com/ for example. Also http://www.linuxcertified.com/ pre-installs Debian. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Digital camera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok. First, is your camera USB connected or are you putting the memory card in the pcmcia slot? Either way, when you plug it in, check dmesg to see what happened and what new device the OS sees, to wit: == ohci_hcd :00:03.1: remote wakeup usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2911 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: HPModel: psc 2210 Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 == Note that the new attached "disk" is sdb, this is what I use in my /etc/fstab file: == # USB Thumb Drive /dev/sdb1 /mnt/thumb auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 == and lastly, create a directory, in this case "/mnt/thumb", with 777 permissions: === # ls -al /mnt total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 15 12:03 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 15 12:19 .. drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 29 03:14 flash drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Aug 5 18:03 thumb === You may have to experiment with device numbers, 0,1, etc, to make sure you get the right one. The "df" command is very useful to see if you have mounted something real or not. This is a transcription from my own camera memory card, which being compact flash I load into a pcmcia card adapter and access directly without using USB. To wit: == $ dmesg ... cs: memory probe 0xa000-0xa0ff: clean. hde: DELKIN DEVICES INC. CFLS1HV4-064, CFA DISK drive ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3 hde: max request size: 128KiB hde: 126464 sectors (64 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=247/16/32 /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 ide-cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0 /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 ~ $ cat /etc/fstab # mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /flash /dev/hde1 /mnt/flash vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 ~ $ mount /mnt/flash ~ $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 57193948 4068 13688588 75% / tmpfs 257612 0257612 0% /dev/shm /dev/hde16282012 62808 1% /mnt/flash == Please let the list know if this is not sufficient. Curt- On Monday 16 August 2004 10:08, Emil Carlsson was heard to say: > And how would I do this? it's not hdN or something like that > right? > > Ralph Bacolod wrote: > >You can access the memory card as a scsi device. > > > >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have a nikon coolpix 2100 but I can't get it to work under > >> debian with KDE running, any suggestions on how to make it work. > >> All the googleing doesn't seem to give any result =(. > >> > >>Regards > >> > >> > >>-- > >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > >__ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! > >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQSC0JS9Y35yItIgBAQE6ngf8DmIO1bo8tRo2XCB0fjN0dQX+NHzGFydR IjPNGVvFi5OY0aNUB2EWJq0gjJkwqbofTnBu3knOf7U7Ca+OyS2EzI5/p0LlBIRU JVQvtdIS6giboFnTpEviHDoyis2sLi4prlBdltqmrzaSw1cSzHhaIjDJ1kouZeAf rb4nTSBESZROy/NyIRPowqFkB9z94InVKe000Y5f6UtO7dcleainnbzLIVfl7fcQ tk6yBOwOxXEjO5+eUsZl2VkZew9lRlkd/QFI64BUg8LcXr/cT4v0Q41k4L6yYVsJ g5nZX1U7Dtpz9hAiLhB+wAvajOkmIzWYjkmYbbkpC1RbfFm/VeFcrg== =IRYk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sony PCG-C1VP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My first suggestion would be to try Knoppix on the box and find out the various boot options that are going to be needed. I have a PCG-GRT170, a marvelously fast piece of hardware, but I have to put noapm noapic to get Linux to work well. Knoppix pointed the way in several different matters from boot options to hardware identification to a working XF86Config-4. Knoppix is a great tool for trying things out first. Curt- On Monday 30 August 2004 16:16, Hector Scaramelli was heard to say: > Hi, > > Does anybody has experience installing Debian in this picturebook? > > Any help apprecited. > > Thanks > Hector - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQTOQNi9Y35yItIgBAQGiFQf/S0NcDYz0/YBaMlNs4KSxXn3WbXFhBmE2 QAx4FhDWH9gqNdqEyFj0iWXKK52vxJsmXlnzJt8353b0FqJkDmAnaZetAfkFwBVb HXVjjyUqL4MIaulEQeB2Tb1oOUpTrXj4vGsPyq4AD6y4Wm+qXueXTtIYoU4kbBtV dZvudMG+ZehOPlWxjhZ/CMGZGbZgO5bt4XDfeqJj9dxv0bcmNmIjerx8RMUyTLAV AXPNgOn1z3TrU+Tgr6LApSwR77yeGjdoqPFi/o89JwvAycDfCViPqo5vNIjUrr9z URxO4c1mWPMfF8F8hYxssgZtEJnQTqCdzSQILj0TsNfDZMdcxx7BIA== =GiQ+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sound after installing KDE...
I'm running ALSA with 2.6.8, but every time I start KDE (as opposed to just leaving myself logged in) all the volume controls are reduced to zero. I turned on KDE sound service, no change. I am using kmix to watch the problem and turn the volume up, it seems to work fine and I haven't had any lock problems. Curt- On Wednesday 13 October 2004 08:00, Anders Breindahl was heard to say: > To me, it sound like you're trying to play some audio file from > within KDE using some direct interface like /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp0. > However, by default, KDE enables artsd, which locks the sound card. > Try `artsplay '? > > I could be wrong, but this was my first thought. > > Regars, Anders. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Long time to unpack kernel on IBM X31
LILO using the compact setting is also "instant", but compact is not on by default in LILO. On Sunday 03 October 2004 09:53, Tyler Schwend was heard to say: > > I just installed my first debian on IBM X31 notebook. Loading > > kernel takes too much time. > > I found that using Grub instead of Lilo fixed this for me. For > whatever reason, Grub is just instant. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Various Questions (2)
On the issue of defrag, Unlike Windows, any new file written in a UNIX style system is written contiguously. If a file is copied or moved, like when it is renamed, if it was fragmented before it will now be contiguous. Over time, UNIX file systems self-defrag. Also in a UNIX style system, having the disk heads moving "all over the place to find file fragments" isn't a bad thing, because the system is doing other things as well, so having the heads moving around means that the OS can read/write other things too, without causing IO bottlenecks. So don't bother to defrag. It's only on a Windows where new files are written into the first available open space no matter how small, that file fragmentation is inherent in the system. Curt- On Sunday 17 October 2004 10:59, Rony was heard to say: > For the defrag issue, someone mentioned there's a package called > defrag in the Debian package list. In the package desciption, it > states that it defrags some file system, but ext3, the one i'm > currently using, is not in the list. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia
Tom, First of all, "testing" is not really a distribution to trust. There are always things going on that sometimes mean things don't work. If you have a non-pcmcia network connection available go back to zero and install "Unstable" if you want the latest kernels. Autodetection for pcmcia is working well so once you are successfully booting 2.6 you should see pcmcia services being detected and installed. *Then* insert your wireless card and watch the console messages and dmesg to see what goes on and how it is registered. Don't forget the wireless tools package so iwconfig is available. Curt- On Tuesday 26 October 2004 07:16, Tom Allison was heard to say: > It's been a few years and I've reinstalled my notebook with debian > testing + Kernal 2.6. But I don't think what I used to do with > pcmcia is the best practice anymore. I did everything through > custom kernels and lots of compiling. > > My wireless NIC isn't recognized when inserted and I'm not sure > what the right package is to install anymore for pcmcia support. > > help? > > (sorry for posting on two lists, but I'm not getting any emails > from either in 24 hours, which is more than a little strange) -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia
I didn't say Sarge, I said Testing. He said Testing. Once Sarge is branched off, Testing will become completely unreliable and remain so for an unpredictable period. Unstable has the latest kernels, which I took from his note to be a prerequisite. It also works quite well. It's "unstable" aspect merely means that updates aught to be done carefully and manually. If it doesn't work well for you, such is life. I agree with you that Sarge is well past due. Sure I have opinions about how the installer could have been done that would have saved many months, but I'm neither a developer nor major contributor. I must, like the rest of us mere users, allow these volunteers to do what they see fit to deliver something they are satisfied with. I am pleased they do it at all. In the mean time, I will recommend what works for the environment that is being asked about. Curt- On Tuesday 26 October 2004 10:24, Derek Broughton was heard to say: > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 10:38, Curt Howland wrote: > > First of all, "testing" is not really a distribution to trust. > > There are always things going on that sometimes mean things don't > > work. > > > > If you have a non-pcmcia network connection available go back to > > zero and install "Unstable" if you want the latest kernels. > > Autodetection > > You declare testing to be untrustworthy, then recommend > unstable? > > Sarge is well past ready for prime-time. Sid isn't, and never can > be. -- > derek -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia
Then the sources.list had better not say "testing". Once Sarge is finalized, "testing" will be. a battleground? Hmmm, not sure what kind of phrase to use here. Usually I would have said "unstable", but "Unstable" is already taken. :^) Had the original writer *said* Sarge, I would have agreed. Hopefully, after reading these back-and-forths, Tom will better understand what folks are talking about and we can all avoid the confusion in the future. Curt- On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:43 it was so written: > Actually, at the present moment the state is not quite that bad as > sarge is expected to be released and there is official security > support (IIRC) now for sarge -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia
Derek, I've been running Sid for years, happily, continually updating and sending in the odd bug report. I believe you have "experimental" confused with "unstable". Experimental is where packages are first sent, to be checked against all the builds and dependencies, and see if it plays nice at all. Sarge is only "testing" until declared stable. Then "testing" goes off into the stratosphere, gets a new label, and there is nothing to ensure that it will even be self-compatible, much less functional, for an unforseeable time. Sid is, yes, "unstable". But Debian Unstable is a far sight more reliable and workable than most other distributions mainstream are. I've had difficulties, but the only time Debian was completely disfunctional in my experience was when I tried to run "testing" during the 6 months after a new stable had been released. Curt- > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 13:56, Curt Howland wrote: > > Unstable has the latest kernels, which I took from his note to be > > a prerequisite. It also works quite well. It's "unstable" aspect > > merely means that updates aught to be done carefully and > > manually. If it doesn't work well for you, such is life. On Tuesday 26 October 2004 14:21, Derek Broughton was heard to say: > That's completely backwards. First, Testing IS Sarge, and is going > to be so for the foreseeable future. Second, once Sarge goes > stable, Testing will still be a good deal more stable than > Unstable/Sid. Sid is routinely broken, nothing is supposed to > reach Testing until the problems are worked out of Sid. I agree > Sid works quite well. But it's a darn sight chancier than Testing. > > -- > derek -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia
Concerning "testing"... On Wednesday 27 October 2004 12:05, Derek Broughton was heard to say: > It will _never_ be in a less self-compatible or functional state > than Sid. That is belied by my own experience. I have received emails in regards to this back-and-forth saying that they had the same experience as I. There have been several threads on Debian Planet where others have had the same experience I had with testing. The last one I am aware of involved another round of naming convention discussion. You might find it interesting to see what others have to say there. If it works for you, great. I will continue to suggest unstable to the laptop crowd because that is what works for me, and laptops require the additional skills that unstable exercises. > Enough with the nauseating political statements You can stop replying any time you want. Your choice. > derek Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PE200-mau-combo
Instead of flaming such folks, especially on the list where they are least likely to see it, write back to them directly informing them what the list is for, or offering a helpful hint or two. Much more efficient. Curt- On Friday 29 October 2004 22:19, linux was heard to say: > Emil Carlsson wrote: > > linux wrote: > >> Emil Carlsson wrote: > >>> Norton Trevisan Roman wrote: > Em Sex, 2004-10-29 às 17:26, Emil Carlsson escreveu: > > Derek Broughton wrote: > >> On Friday 29 October 2004 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> HY I´m Wiskas and need driver for PE200-mau-combo > >>> thanks.(windows) -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: memory stick slot - Vaio PCG-frv35
Hi. I'm running a Vaio with a memory stick myself. It shows up as a USB device in the KDE Infocenter. Make sure that the usb_storage kernel module is loaded, at least. I thought it would show up in dmesg, but I just inserted a memory stick and it didn't show up. However, I have it listed in my /etc/fstab as: /dev/sda1 /mnt/stick auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 Try that and see what happens. On Saturday 30 October 2004 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Greetings, > > does anyone know what kind of device is the memory stick slot on > Sony Vaio PCG-FRV35? it does not seem to be neither usb nor pci; I > have Debian unstable installed, kernel 2.6.7; everything works fine > except for the memstick slot, from which I can see no sign at all. > > Thanks, > Antonio -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netinstall on Hp Pavilion ze5600
Can you pick up an old 10Mbps pcmcia ethernet card? It may seem strange, but the older standards are more likely to be recognized. Then you can take some time to identify what your preferred ethernet port is, and find the driver, while still performing useful work. Is DHCP turned on on your router? That helps in the auto configuration. Curt- On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:41, Sylvain LECORNE was heard to say: > Hie, > > I want to do a netinstall in my lap but linux (Debian 3.0 r2) > does not recognize my network card (conected to a local area with > acces to internet through a router). How can I do a net install ? > Thanks, > > Sylvain Lecorné -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: how to debug a random freezing problem?
Try reversing them, putting the 512 where the 256 was. I recall that on some of the systems I've worked on, the larger memory card had to go in the lower-numbered slot. Anyway, it couldn't hurt to try, and more memory is always a useful idea. Curt- On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:21, Adam Butler was heard to say: > Thanks for all the suggestions... in the end, I tried removing some > of my memory and it appears to have worked: I had 1x512 and 1x256 > (which should be possible, according to the manual), but now that I > removed the 256, the problem has disappeared. > > ta, > Adam -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)
Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the statement "vga=791" in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it did with 2.4. Sorry. On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:43, Kevin Collins was heard to say: > Has anyone been able to use a 2.6.x kernel and get a hi-res > framebuffer? Of those that can, can you post the relevent portions > of your kernel config for me? -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 700m SD cardslot - HowToUse?
Nope. A compact flash card in PCMCIA shows up as an IDE device. Here's my entries in /etc/fstab # mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /flash /dev/hde1 /mnt/flash vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 However, I have a dedicated Sony memorystick cardslot (this being a Sony Vaio, of course) that shows up as a SCSI device. # Sony Memory Stick /dev/sda1 /mnt/stick auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 A USB thumb drive shows up also as SCSI. # USB Thumb Drive /dev/sdb1 /mnt/thumb auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 I found the memorystick location "sda" by looking in the KDE Infocenter, since the card slot is always there. With the thumb drive, I looked in Infocenter after plugging in the thumb drive. Curt- On Wednesday 15 December 2004 09:26, Derek Broughton was heard to say: > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 04:10, Juraj Ziegler wrote: > > On my IBM Thinkpad X20, there is also a built-in CompactFlash > > reader. It is connected to the PCMCIA bus and the card is > > available as /dev/hda. > > Hda? That would normally be your primary IDE drive. /dev/sda, > perhaps? -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13
Unfortunately, the "display managers" seem to be a requirement of having X installed at all. What I do is rename the file /etc/init.d/kdm to kdm-do_not_run (yours would be /etc/init.d/xdm). This prevents the init scripts calling the program without actually screwing anything else up. It also makes it obvious what to change back once I want X to automatically run again. Maybe someone else knows what option in X to set to not have it launch. It's then a simple matter to type "startx" after logging in at the command line. About the char-major error, sorry, can't help with that one. Curt- On Thursday 30 December 2004 15:12, jose isaias cabrera was heard to say: > Greetings! > > I just installed Debian on a Dell Inspiron 7500. It's running > pretty good, but I loaded xdm and now it goes right into xdm and > fails with the "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13" and I > can't go back to the xterm. It's at the xdm logon screen. > > Two questions: > > 1. How do I stop xdm from loading at boot? > > 2. How do I fix this error message above? > > thanks, > > jose -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem getting my Crystal 4237b sound card to work
One of the standard packages in Debian is "reportbug". Get to a command line, type "reportbug", and it will walk you through submitting the bug with relevant versions, etc, already included. Curt- On Friday 31 December 2004 09:06, Alexander Toresson was heard to say: > I think I'll compose a bug-report. But I don't know where to submit > it. I'll check the main debian page and google for it. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop recomendation?
For my .02 FRN, I am right now using a Sony PCG-GRT170. It's a wonderful machine, but it suffers from all the "unique" aspects of a Sony Vaio machine. Almost none of the special keys work, hardware volume control, stuff like that. It all worked under WinXP, which it came with, of course. But it has a 15" nVidia AGP driven screen, DVD/CD writer, great sound, etc etc etc. I like it, but I had to fiddle with it to get all the primary hardware working. http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ is a good reference, you can look up a model you like and see what other people have done to get theirs working. Don't forget to contribute your own experiences. http://www.linuxcertified.com/ Linux Certified and http://www.emperorlinux.com/ Emporer Linux sell laptops with Linux pre-installed, including Debian. It sort of takes the fun out of it, but it takes out the stress too. I will echo what others have said about the IBM laptops. They are indeed built like tanks. I never got a taste for the red-eraser joystick, however, so I didn't buy one. Also, I liked the challenge of the Sony Vaio. I know it's sick of me, still I like to know that I'm running nasty cutting-edge stuff sometimes. I'm also thinking about home-building a dual-Athalon server for no good reason, just to play with SMP. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop recomendation?
Model certainly does matter. My Vaio (stop laughing!) has an internal card that works fine with the standard orinoco_pci driver under 2.6. It didn't work with the 2.4 kernel orinoco driver, because Sony had changed the card identifier by one digit. This was submitted as a patch to the kernel driver maintainer, and in due course made its way back down to the rest of us. I expect, since I've heard such things about Dell, that like Compaq and Sony they are playing with things to make them special. Curt- On Saturday 01 January 2005 11:48, Eric Hanchrow was heard to say: > All I have to add is one gotcha: I've never been able to figure out > how to get wireless working on either Linux of FreeBSD, even though > I have a card that works (at least some of the time :-() on > Windows. > > My laptop is a used Dell Latitude C640, but I suspect that doesn't > matter. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange harddisk noise
Back it up, quickly. Harddisks should never make such noise. On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:15, Martin Bock was heard to say: > In October 2003 I purchased my Acer Travelmate 801. Now since today > my harddisk makes strange noise, similar to old CPU fans hitting > their closure. Though the noise is not very loud I am worried. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting up network
If you're not averse to a little bit of hand editing, this is how I do it: In /etc/network/interfaces -- #iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static address 10.12.14.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 -- Then when I'm in a place like a hotel, I comment out the static entries and remove the comment from the dhcp, to wit: -- iface eth0 inet dhcp #iface eth0 inet static #address 10.12.14.16 #netmask 255.255.255.0 -- Then "ifdown eth0" and "ifup eth0" Of course, since you're using a pcmcia network card, you could just make the change before plugging in your card and when the card is inserted it will load the new configuration. Curt- On Sunday 23 January 2005 14:31, Pollywog was heard to say: > Thanks, I saw something about the map scheme when I was searching > for answers to my problem, but I found it rather confusing. I will > try this if the 'dhclient eth0' command fails to connect me. The > information you posted will be very helpful. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem upgrading my kernel to 2.4
When upgrading kernels it's a good idea to copy off the lsmod to a text file for just such driver problems. If you use "ifconfig -a" it will list all the known network devices, even if they're not configured in /etc/network/interfaces This is good, because sometimes the upgrades can change the interface numbers, the hardware you used to know as eth1 is now eth3, that sort of thing. As for not booting, hmmm. You could uninstall the 2.4 kernel, then reinstall in order to get a fresh set of configuration files, or dpkg-reconfigure kernel-2.4.x.whatever when running on 2.2 to see if that helps. At least your machine still boots 2.2, which makes fixing other things much easier. I'm running 2.6.10 right now myself, but I still have 2.2.19 from the Woody net-install, "just in case". Curt- On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:06, Tom Connolly was heard to say: > Hello list, > I've am new to Debian so this may seem trivial but it has really > got me stumped. > I have recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4 on my woody > system. when I booted into the new kernel, my ethernet adapter > didn't work. I did an "ifconfig" and all it showed was the > loopback device. I couldn't remember which driver I used so I > booted into the old kernel (I just added a new block to Lilo > without removing the old kernel). I found out which driver I had > but now my system hangs when I try to boot back into the new > kernel. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Tom -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Sarge released?
The Oracle will only say, "Soon..." On Saturday 29 January 2005 16:20, James was heard to say: > Any one heard when Sarge will be officially released? > > > James -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with 1280x800 resolution
Could be one of the cinamatic aspect ratio laptops I've been seeing. I remember when monitors taller than they were wide were made, because most people using a machine for work were using paper-shaped document forms. Now we see the shift in computing from "work" to "play", as screens optimized for viewing DVDs are all the rage. Curt- On Wednesday 16 February 2005 11:10, Barry, Christopher was heard to say: > 1280x800?? That's a very weird resolution. I've seen 1280x1024 and > 1600x1280 - but never 1280x800. Are you sure? > > -C -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's the best way to deal with a disconnect eth0?
You say he's tech savvy, so teach him what "ifup eth0" means. He can use it in the rare instance that he plugs it in. Then don't put eth0 in the "auto" line of /etc/network/interfaces Curt- On Wednesday 16 February 2005 11:30, Eric van der Paardt was heard to say: > I'm setting up a laptop for my companies president. He likes techy > things and asked me to setup a linux/winxp dual boot for him to > play with and compare. > > > > So I have it all setup, I've got a nearly apples to apples setup > running (except the windows partition is available under Linux but > not vice versa). > > > > The biggest thing holding me back is eth0, w/o a cable connected > you get a bunch of ugly DHCP connection junk on startup and it > takes a long time to time out. This will almost NEVER be > connected, but I don't want to just remove the auto setup for that > interface in case someday he does plug it into something... > > > > So is there a way with the /etc/interfaces stuff to only try to > auto-configure eth0 if there is a cable plugged in? > > > > Eric G. van der Paardt > > Systems Administrator > 715-485.9312x3198 > > Bishop Fixture & Millwork > > 101 Eagle Dr. > > Balsam Lake, WI 54801 -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's the best way to deal with a disconnect eth0?
Debian wins again. :^) On Wednesday 16 February 2005 11:45, Eric van der Paardt was heard to say: > ... and was easy as could be to setup. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with Vaio touchpad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up-To-Date Sid on a Vaio PCG-GRT170. I finally tracked down the problem I've had trying to go from kernel 2.6.10 to 2.6.11, which I noticed recently became the "official" latest Debian kernel. Or rather, 2.6.10 is showing up as obsolete today. Anyway, when the "psmouse" module loads in 2.6.10, I get the following message: - --- ~# modprobe psmouse input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1 - --- and everything works just fine. Smooth fine position control, 3-button emulation, copy/paste, strike the touchpad surface and it "clicks" button 1, stuff like that. However, under 2.6.11, the following message comes up: - --- ~# modprobe psmouse ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected Disabling hardware tapping input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 - --- Fine movement is no longer smooth, distance is inconsistent, copy/paste is flaky to say the least, and worst of all there is no "click" when I hit the touchpad with my finger. Is there a way to disable checking, to force "PS/2 Generic"-ness upon the module? Sometimes hardware detection can go too far, it seems. I'm not going to open a trouble ticket on the module until it's obvious there is no way around the detection routine, or I can communicate the action and fix to the kernel packagers. Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQpI7by9Y35yItIgBAQII3Qf/a/TpFnE2+HLMT5kkR7LMywozZrFgAhqf qhPpZPGwkTnsAXy10TIzhDJoHmetRsEtexX+SsEEzZZUsJQpRKHdkdz7YpNWRC68 PEcc/Tzu4xEEUMecN9lBaiQYJXCpqhboqhmn55tcQe/7/C9AaLSA9e8q8Z/NfZKZ g/igm8WCe4kKmJpr1zd1jYjyAgEjq44tUA6uf35b0eqo8deEK6bturSuddSeuvoZ a3bF+mk0krJUv1H0zENck1dVbNTAbqsrpC6TQQItU6v3IYW95Ggqw4n2u3Q9tE2t zkI0OtNVO+zjYyiuTqu/75M5s2HBAkLzuOuKP37Hvb5/CD0p74pnAQ== =Sela -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Vaio touchpad
I loaded the module in modconf, adding "proto=imps" and it responded with the generic PS/2 mouse detected again, and everything is working. I added it as a boot parameter in LILO so it won't be there with the old or newer kernels unless I specifically add it. Many thanks, Curt- On Monday 23 May 2005 17:00, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas was heard to say: > This sounds like the same thing I sent a mail before but for dell > inspiron 600m... I'm copying an answer I got pretty useful: > > 0 > A. C. Censi > to debian-laptop > > I have the same problem with an old vintage Sony Vaio PCG-R505JL, > From my research in the kernel lists, it seems that, for 2.6.11 > maintainer selected to disable the hardware double tapping of Alps > touchpad, in favor of doing it by software in the driver, as the > kernel message says. > > Unfotunately it does not work well for most people like us, so in > new kernel version 2.6.12, when released, the driver eill return to > use hardware tapping. Until them you can try use the psmouse > proto=imps, as suggested in the Fedora list (as an option to kernel > in grub or lilo if psmouse is in kernel, or as an option to module, > in modprobe,conf). In any way for me it does not worked !?!? > > ACC > 0 > > You can find that I guess in the archives... On posterior mail > exchange ACC indicated 2.6.11 kernel detects the touchpad > correctly, and its tapping is just disabled by kernel in favor of > software drivers (besides some bugs related to touchpad and mouse > present), but on kernel 2.6.12 (not released yet, but I read the > 1st rc change_log and the changes required seem to be there) the > tapping for the correctly detected touchpad will be enabled again > (at least that's what I got)... To revert touchpad detection to > what is detected on kernel 2.6.10, just modify boot parameter as > mentioned by ACC, it may work as it did for inspiron 600m, or it > might not as it didn't for ACC's Vaio... > > Javier. > > On 5/23/05, Thadeu Penna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can confirm the same weird behavior on HP Pavillion zx5820 > > here. I went back to sarge 2.6.8 to get it working fine again. It > > is a pity because I had to recompile alsa since 2.6.8 does not > > get along with my atiixp soundcard... > > > > Curt Howland wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Hi. Up-To-Date Sid on a Vaio PCG-GRT170. > > > > > > I finally tracked down the problem I've had trying to go from > > > kernel 2.6.10 to 2.6.11, which I noticed recently became the > > > "official" latest Debian kernel. Or rather, 2.6.10 is showing > > > up as obsolete today. > > > > > > Anyway, when the "psmouse" module loads in 2.6.10, I get the > > > following message: > > > - --- > > > ~# modprobe psmouse > > > input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1 > > > - --- > > > > > > and everything works just fine. Smooth fine position control, > > > 3-button emulation, copy/paste, strike the touchpad surface and > > > it "clicks" button 1, stuff like that. > > > > > > However, under 2.6.11, the following message comes up: > > > - --- > > > ~# modprobe psmouse > > > ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected > > > Disabling hardware tapping > > > input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 > > > - --- > > > > > > Fine movement is no longer smooth, distance is inconsistent, > > > copy/paste is flaky to say the least, and worst of all there is > > > no "click" when I hit the touchpad with my finger. > > > > > > Is there a way to disable checking, to force "PS/2 > > > Generic"-ness upon the module? Sometimes hardware detection can > > > go too far, it seems. > > > > > > I'm not going to open a trouble ticket on the module until it's > > > obvious there is no way around the detection routine, or I can > > > communicate the action and fix to the kernel packagers. > > > > > > Curt- > > > > -- > > ___ _ .''`. > > > >| |_ _. _| _ |_) _ ._ ._ _. : :' : > >| | |(_|(_|(/_|_| | (/_| || |(_| `. `'` > > > > Linux User #50500`- > > Prof.Adjunto - Instituto de Física ---Debian- > > Universidade Federal Fluminense Alpha/i386 > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: HP NX9005
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:09, José Manuel Valente was heard to say: > I an running debian testing. If any og you could help me, I´d > appreciate it. Jose', good afternoon. Although I cannot help you with the video card, I suggest strongly that you change your pointers in /etc/apt/sources.list to say "sarge" instead of "testing". When "sarge" becomes "stable" in the next week or so, the "testing" directories will become very unstable for some time. By pointing to "sarge" instead of "testing", you can avoid any problems that might otherwise occur. In the future after "testing" has calmed down, you can again point to "testing", or to the next named version, if you wish. Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQp8yxC9Y35yItIgBAQIbIgf7B8eCS6/I6y7nSDWLZOUhpFCKY82ptR7k qbtMdQkwlnMzvO4oR6zOJZUqR9mYGqt2h7FOwVeHzJAFA/mdSoythSXlrO/yhMEK zl9WfBTThv6EuJnfvKMF5rfrIlA/YhZYrG7JaEwWgJJf5SAVBN5R33NduqccJq8u RU6IFiogO6ZhwisTjabkGhWCTcukGXQeiDbpAJONKkPLk4z5piDMQa/cyXXvJStO y+6Qy0mw2HJLUnujnIz4QXd0Sz5VIeK0ZXaocVSo0n7eaSzyeAHBSvOdlmwbnanG xv2oMSv5fuQId3QziAu3HPlKxiuYFXUJ+lCTRzthMCHZTRx+avUPdg== =T8K1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix and apt-update / upgrade
On Saturday 11 June 2005 00:43, jiri svoboda was heard to say: > When I use apt-get update / upgrade funny things will happen > with the Knoppix HD Install. The one time I tried converting a Knoppix install, it took several cycles of apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade to get nearly to pure Sid, with lots of legacy Knoppix only packages still there. The best use of Knoppix in in my experience in terms of installation is first to see if Knoppix can detect all the hardware. Then I *write*it*down* for later references, what modules are loaded, I save the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file, and such. Then I use that information (and the entire XF86config-4 file) when doing a vanilla Debian install. Knoppix hardware detection has been very useful for downgrading new PCs from XP (puke!) to Win2K (lesser puke). Win2K cannot detect the newer hardware. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a Sony VGN-S260
While my Sony is a PCG-GRT170, I think my experience might help you. Knoppix correctly detected everything except the Sony-only hardware control buttons like volume and screen brightness. That gave me a reference whenever I needed to know things like what the sound card was, or video. In fact, I copied the Knoppix-generated /etc/X11/XF86conf-4 file as a whole after trying to get X working by hand. It yours has a touchpad too, you might have to add "psmouse proto=imps" as a boot parameter to kernel 2.6.11. In lilo.conf I have append="noapic noscsi psmouse proto=imps" I didn't need the psmouse parameter until 2.6.11, you may not either, but I found the noapic and noscsi to be required to get the machine to boot at all. Good luck! Sony makes beautiful hardware. My only objection is that there is no way to clean the internal fan and cooling fins. After about 12 months, it overheats and I have to take it in for "repair" just to clean it up. Stupid design flaw! On Friday 17 June 2005 12:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Hi everyone; > > I'm preparing to make the switch from Fedora to Debian. My main box > is a Sony VGN-S260 laptop. Has anyone experienced Debian on this > model ? Is there any general Debian/laptop advice you can offer? > > Thanks in advance for your help. I've read lots about the Debian > distro and I am looking forward to using it.. from what I read it > looks like you al have your act together and have produced an > awesome distro... -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound on Sony GRT170
Hi. Well, it worked under Knoppix, so I'm sure it's just me. I've just finished wiping and reinstalling Sid on a Vaio PCG-GRT170, which has worked before but got messed up with a Xwindows upgrade last week. Everything has come back except sound. mpg123 and xmms just hang until killed, and the following error is seen in dmesg: i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout? I've set the permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio to 777, just to make sure that wouldn't be a problem. Also... lsmod: i810_audio 24764 0 ac97_codec 13716 0 [i810_audio] soundcore 3940 2 [i810_audio] When I cat sound.au > /dev/audio, I get a screech, so it seems that's completely out of time sync. The Sound-HowTo talked about kernel modules, which doesn't seem to be the problem here. Any suggestions? I expect it's a permissions problem that I just don't see. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Jamie, In the README.debian, it states: "SUPPORT FOR 2.6 KERNELS: As of 1.0.5336-1, NVIDIA includes support for a 2.6 kernel. No extra steps are required." I have a Vaio PCG-GRT170 (no longer their absolute top of the line, but darned close!) with an nVidia card in it. Under 2.4.24, it's working fine. When I loaded 2.6.3, I recompiled the nVidia module from source. The nVidia splash screen comes up, for maybe .1 seconds, then it crashes back to the command line. I noticed that Xwin is now giving me these errors also: (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (module does not exist, 0) Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Any idea where GLcore went? Curt- On Friday 05 March 2004 15:13, Jamie Penman-Smithson wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, real life caught up with me... > > I tried that, and for you it'll probably work, but I was using a 2.6 > kernel, which the nvidia modules don't support yet. > > If you have an nvidia card and want to use it with a 2.6 kernel there > are two excellent resources which helped me: > > NVIDIA Linux Driver Patches / Tonne of info on NVIDIA drivers - > http://www.minion.de > Andrew's Debian-nVidia HOWTO - > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html > > Since you're using a 2.4.22 kernel you should be able to use XConfig > and use the nvidia drivers without any trouble, the only reason I > needed to download the patches was because I was using a 2.6 kernel. > > I've cc'd the list so if anyone comes across the thread, they have > some pointers on how to proceed if they have the same problem I/you > did. > > HTH > > -j -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Reinhard, thank you very much. I wonder if this will correct the problem of crashing under 2.6 as well... I hope so, then I can focus on getting sound working. Ugh! BTW, which readme did you find that in? Naa, I'll just look everywhere. :^) Curt- On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:38, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:57:49PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > I noticed that Xwin is now giving me these errors also: > > > > (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from > > module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! > > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from > > module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! > > > > Any idea where GLcore went? > > From the nvidia readme: > > You should also remove the following lines: > > Load "dri" > Load "GLcore" > > if they exist. There are also numerous options that can be added to > the XF86Config file to fine-tune the NVIDIA XFree86 driver. Please > see Appendix D for a complete list of these options. > > > regards, > Reinhard -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Card Yamaha
This has also happened to me on a Vaio GRT170. I've been putting off trying to fix it until I get X working on kernel 2.6, but I'll be following this discussion closely. Curt- On Monday 15 March 2004 15:03, nhoj wrote: > Hi Guys > > My sound card is my problem now ;-) > > lspci gives to me : > - Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha > Corporation YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio > Controller] > > - I tried run alsaconf. > - In alsaconf I selected my sound card > (0x37 YAMAHA_YMFXX), and pressed OK. > - "Card identifier : CARD_0" (then OK). > - "No_more_cards" - (then OK) > - Do you want to modify > /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5? - (then YES) > - I give the message : OK, 1 card(s) > configured - will prepare the card for > playng now..etc - (then OK) > > After this, when the alsaconf try > restart the service, I have this message : > > No ALSA driver installed > Starting ALSA sound driver (version > none):modprobe: Can't locate module > and failed. > Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the > Master output volume to 50% > No ALSA driver installed > Could not initialize the mixer, the > card was probably not detected correctly. > > -- > > Anybody can help me? > > Thanks > > > > > > > --- > Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. > AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! > http://antipopup.uol.com.br -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
Re: Sound Card Yamaha
Hi. Since I jumped into the fray, I figure an update is appropriate. I found that I did not install the alsa-modules package, just the alsa applications. Installing these under 2.4.24, alsaconf sees the i810 card now, which is an improvement, but it still doesn't work. What did start working is sound under 2.6.3. However, I have yet to get the nVidia driver to function under 2.6.3, so I'm not completely there yet. Still hammering away. Curt- On Monday 15 March 2004 18:09, Brandon L. Noard wrote: > Hello, > > I found the following link pretty helpful while > installing/configuring alsa a few days ago: > > http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=i >ndex&req=viewarticle&artid=541(sorry that doesn't fit on one line.) > > Also, The user documentation in /usr/share/doc/alsa-base, > /usr/share/doc/alsa-driver, /usr/share/doc/alsa-utils, > /usr/share/doc/alsa-source folders are very helpful. > Pay special attention to the '### DEBCONF MAGIC' command -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
At last, I found the documentation suggested by Mr. Tartler below. One of the things not included in Mr. Tartler's selection from the text is that the "TLS libraries" cannot be linked under 2.4, but must be linked under 2.6. file:/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian ---Begin Excerpt--- Likewise, not having these libraries installed under 2.6.x will prevent X from starting at all. Simple Explanation: To switch back and forth between the two systems simply run: dpkg-reconfigure -plow nvidia-glx ---End Excerpt--- Sure enough, reconfiguring under 2.6.3, it installed the links to the libraries, and I am now typing this note while running 2.6.3. My thanks to the Laptop list, at last everything is working. The transition from 2.4 to 2.6 is not absolutely smooth, but I guess on this Vaio with all its twisted hardware nothing is actually smooth, just really bitchen fast when it does work. Curt- On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:38, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:57:49PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > I noticed that Xwin is now giving me these errors also: > > > > (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (module does not exist, 0) > > > > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from > > module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! > > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from > > module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! > > > > Any idea where GLcore went? > > From the nvidia readme: > > You should also remove the following lines: > > Load "dri" > Load "GLcore" > > if they exist. There are also numerous options that can be added to > the XF86Config file to fine-tune the NVIDIA XFree86 driver. Please > see Appendix D for a complete list of these options. > > > regards, > Reinhard -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive. It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost anything x86 compatible. Curt- On Monday 29 March 2004 19:36, Hadar Pedhazur was heart to say: > I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and > burned) the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004. > > I booted directly from the cd, and hit enter at the boot prompt. I > see the prompts for language, keyboard, etc., however I never see > any prompts for partitioning the hard drive. After the first few > prompts, which includes asking whether I want to do a cd integrity > check, it drops me into a shell, and says to type "exit" to > continue the installation. If I do that, it just repeats the above > process. > > Output from dmesg shows that /dev/hda is recognized as the hard > drive (which is correct). During the "hardware detect" phase > (before the cd integrity check), the only check that hangs for a > bit (about 5 seconds) is the "ide-detect" phase. lsmod shows > ide-detect (and ide-core, etc.) are all loaded, but apparently they > still didn't detect the drive. > > I googled my brains out looking for similar things, and everything > that I found seemed to say that I should run fdisk or cfdisk from > the shell prompt, and prepare the drive for linux. That would be > great, but neither of those commands is anywhere in the tree on the > ramdisk that is installed as the temporary root partition. A "find" > on the CD doesn't reveal those files there either. > > OK, so here's the really strange part. The laptop had a running > version of Xandros Desktop 2.0 running on it, so it was already a > running Debian system, with a single Linux partition on it. I > wanted to play with 2.6.4 kernel, and KDE 3.2.1. Xandros installed > perfectly on the same laptop (version 1.0 a year ago, then version > 2.0 the two separate times that I installed it). > > I then booted from a Win98 floppy. I ran FDISK and created one > large DOS partition. I then booted the debian sid cd again, and > again, it doesn't recognize the drive. > > I'm stuck for new ideas of what to try to get the installation to > proceed, and any suggestions would be very welcome! > > Thanks in advance! > > P.S. Apologies if this is a duplicate. I just subscribed to the > list today, and realized that I sent it from a different email than > the one I subscribed with :-( -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have to run Knoppix with "knoppix noscsi noapic noapm" on my Vaio to get it past the unique hardware. That's one of the nice things about Knoppix, you can turn things off. It's also nice that the hd install process is simple and straight forward. However, I had to enter noscsi etc at boot by hand the first time before I could add it to /etc/lilo.conf. Knowing that ahead of time would have saved me some headaches. Curt- On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10:38, s. keeling was heart to say: > Incoming from Derek Broughton: > > Curt Howland wrote: > > >I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your > > > harddrive. It has excellent hardware detection, and will > > > install on almost anything x86 compatible. > > > > Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand > > is derived from knoppix) on an Inspiron 2500, I wouldn't count on > > it finding all your hardware. Darn thing dies doing scsi > > detection, on a system without scsi. It seems to do the scsi > > detection way too early... > > Isn't there a scsi=no boot parameter for getting around that? > > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently > advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling > - - - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQGmxiy9Y35yItIgBAQGTqgf6AvXUfr5I6NIQ6wyCRb+zcLO3HghzBVhT QLl+kdroOSyOT2DQG0TpQG+ggRR8Dqf/vNc9BzykBPns3Yv5RX+miMMcvgkfIk+w 81FEn9l7+RSQh28Xc7jJV25r3ZHZ5ObgFVpDtD7G9tZHFXpOC76+8stANN6wqtTf 9cOSlLeclIZ9zjcPhQpjqQw/dLJzgYQeY66qGf3qKKPflbfHRZT7CNcTQijo3NUz +RbJ8DxnI7eM7vbt9mIgVqC2rP2Z6C8l+qCTBRmcCRsXS58IuFvvSwOOJs2zlgRE L8OEienuJzvk2FuTrpB6r8N9r6FBzZy3aZ905G/+dHWgeFFcX4Y+nQ== =YA2H -END PGP SIGNATURE-
irremovable package?
Hi. Since this is on a laptop I thought I'd ask here since the users forum has not been responsive... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not allowing anything else to be processed. - - # dpkg -P --force-all nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (Reading database ... 118665 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 ... cat: alsa: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 - - Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and the rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long gone. Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQGnWNS9Y35yItIgBAQGC2wf8CbSHC7ZlV/PV5FgKdqu0Lpxk5gLiEsIz WvKpc5BWGujGw4aJz8uCPUbfPWhbXE7Q1jBKydZmkWHFT2ZLv1oZamDxgZMZeqKU YI9tkpZHiZRwT66RTJ1l98d+pxPN3TJppQOYw6fXxhWz1mAcRwM/hOm6abaiKQFj 2s/SBh03/EnAGKUbd5bkfwYRBm1aw0luwe87MnNhwFiv2Uh5rW5HXNy61enSvB65 PpAdl3zkS1+JXmCRSRATpHexFWzCaLwHqrcbS6/GzGyM2VMl1n2dr3pUbuuA9lmb 99pIx3YpzMAkgc0PozKxuYMn9Xocj407ANqzUPpiB7DMy8qB9J4k2Q== =oUV9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: irremovable package?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mr Marcum, you are a gentleman of the first order. Success, and Thank You I now know where to look when such things happen in the future. Curt- On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01:02, Bill Marcum was heart to say: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:00:11PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > Hi. Since this is on a laptop I thought I'd ask here since the > > users forum has not been responsive... > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not > > allowing anything else to be processed. > > > > - - > > # dpkg -P --force-all nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 > > (Reading database ... 118665 files and directories currently > > installed.) > > Removing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 ... > > cat: alsa: No such file or directory > > dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge): > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 > > - - > > > > Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and > > the rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long > > gone. > > Edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686.postrm > and insert "exit 0" as the second line. - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQGrSHi9Y35yItIgBAQHKDQf+JQWqv3QKWnOQNVr5pTWQ4h57xH9v9hNj PE+DZCjasTs1sEzCrVjm7bTJFbrO3qcfL6aYosQ0utBbhrpS/gA+8t6jIkzbLKdF Rr6hXhGYj1cMJJ6+7pdS1auQGq7vgW7j/sdjedJ4nuWC7Td5mxFssnUv1v/44bNG EP45z+mCdTy4Fzb4heZrTR33V1C6HyVvJ6Jl4YwBZg7DnSJVpp+EPWzG20BXFOyC +ontfSPodVcHDtlCnl8aMDWPlN40cHmxHfWi4le/6ngJAHsCL5246Lnsp+5TjGpE 42oBCE3mE9aU9nToYhxYZA2fzmQMEonRb6XOxOcgx6JBdUVIM9/wlg== =b5e1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Debian 3.0 Configuring Ethernet Card/Networking After Main Installation
Ok, here's how pcmcia ethernet works for me. I have installed the networking system. ifconfig shows the "lo" interface, I can ping and telnet to 127.0.0.1, and things like that. I hope yours is at that point also. If not, please make sure that you can. I then have entries in /etc/network/interfaces like this: - iface eth0 inet dhcp #iface eth0 inet static # address 192.168.0.1 # netmask 255.255.255.0 iface eth1 inet dhcp - ...so that it doesn't matter which one the pcmcia ethernet card happens to be assigned to. Static or dynamic depends on what your network looks like, use what is appropriate. While on the console, plug in the pcmcia ethernet card. What I see is something like this: - eth3: NE2000 compatable: io=0x300, irq3, hw_addr 00:01:02:03:04:05 - I would go back at this point and change the entry in the interfaces file to match eth3 as the interface name, issue the command "cardctl eject 0" or 1, depending on the slot used, and re-insert the card. ifconfig should then show a live ethernet interface. Give it a whirl and see what happens. Curt- On Wednesday 31 March 2004 09:24, rookie99 was heart to say: > I installed Debian 3.0 on an Inspiron 3500 recently. At the time, I > had no ethernet adapter installed and couldn't configure the > networking. However, I did configure the PCMCIA slots . > I can't find out how to go back to configure the networking and > Ethernet card now that Debian 3.0 is installed. I can get to the > Debian System Configuration screen, but it doesn't have options to > configure ethernet cards (it does have modem option). The ethernet > configuration was back in the main installation. > Is it still possible to configure my ethernet card and networking > at this time? Please note that I am new with Linux and not familiar > with its protocols. > > John -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Occasional short flicker from time to time on my Toshiba S 5200-902?!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I also had such a flicker on my Vaio GRT170 when I changed from a Knoppix hd-install to straight Debian. But once I upgraded to 2.6.4, the flicker went away. Curt- On Wednesday 07 April 2004 17:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heart to say: > High, > I read this message and kind of have the same problem. My laptop is > a new Satellite A25-208 RUNNING XP PRO.Can you help? > > Please contact me if possible. > > Thanks, > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQHSLkS9Y35yItIgBAQFuPgf+IOm6t8UYweku3NscjhNzh3Zr6jcOWJLD CioGZsl3w4vxTtplTxWZ4M2C1USCSGLLgcgE6O+ZehaLcJx3Qw5APaAl/RZnSqwR GTULJkCsPLXae/oStr0sDNTZAToPYYwYL1MbbdKB1GA0LOhy9rZ1fxltSyDEr8yR jYUKcVUo7+tVw7IjIkOL76biueObIQ7JfJXCGltN0F6SzQFv0AOoFP0vgBfXDNYh bmEfxu0mkvqQKnlNu1gQJcXDLiAN4bMku2PtsANIKZjV/3srLzrHktZQjffrwloA YxJXK3h1CA3EefCyrodsUVeh8qH5QaboUHHhBQD6pVSOxeT/I3g7mQ== =fcXE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Wireless PCMCIA
My Linksys has worked perfectly since 2.4.19, automatically detected &etc. Curt- On Friday 09 April 2004 13:13, Stefano Negro was heart to say: > Hi, > I am planning to buy a wireless PCMCIA card, so I am looking for > some good link for a compatibility list. > I don't want to become crazy to install it on my ACER 233XC. > > Thanks for anybody that could help me. > -- > > Ciao > Stblack > http://www.linux.it/~stblack/ -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing new kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- vga=791 is also a text boot, but it's something like 50x130 characters, which means the boot messages go by slower and there are more to see at once. Much better for trying to figure out when things are happening. Curt- On Monday 12 April 2004 22:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heart to say: > >Just a guess. > >Do you pass an option like vga="a certain number" to your kernel > > in lilo? > > Yes, "vga = 791" > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > If i dont use this, the screen becames smaller. O_o > > >If that's so you have to be sure to have compiled a video driver > >into your kernel. It then should work if you compile with these > > options CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y > >CONFIG_FB_VESA=y (Instead of this generic one you can also choose > > a more specific driver if the driver of your card is listed) > > Hummm i saw this options, will check for what i selected. > > >Other option is just to remove the vga= line from lilo and have > > linux have a text boot. > > I will try this one, maybe this "vga=791" in lilo.conf is not > needed anymore Thanks a lot. =) - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQHvgAi9Y35yItIgBAQExagf+LG4cxQPyHjU6d0CSuMhSCb8jSu34wfV+ e/Ckc6r5IbozB0Xhz+NVllnavbqL7QQ3zX7Ivk78tgONNSc24aVX1MHIX1Uzq1/d KopSQ+n6hFzjZIum+MxkDs+hXxoxf2yCRjULKPPYzRCYRU2b7/JcVhN8e8EZka0N HVhRZSejK/z3PFJS4rN55SpS9UEfE3AtDx2yd5xaVjMmCuJhJJOPw2XlB6syQpOo qnQZhPR4EUUwhGU8q7fUQZYtCI2gbU9c+zvFc3BYcU7WZXwhjIfYz06dzN+8YWxO z3Kp0IuOT1bGjLdRlHjQGOVrXrrI1uWWLDdAsNosoQwCJrSj0BhmMw== =XNHN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: {no subject}
On Monday 12 April 2004 18:20, the gekko kid was heard to say: > hi can anyone give me an idea of how to config my pcmcia devices Yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
