Re: Other mouse buttons on the Tecra 8100(I'm in same trouble on Dynabook Satellite 4260)

2001-09-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Kazuhiko Uebayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Norman > > I'm Kazuhiko. > I'm also in trouble about toshiba two-mini-mouse. > > I install unstable to my book PC, > using XFree86 4.1.0. & kernel 2.2.19. > > I try to re-edit /etc/X11/XF86Confing-4 > > Section "InputDevice" >

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Heather
> Rolf Heckemann wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > > >>Thanks to all that replied. > >>I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. > >>And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. > >> > >>I suppose I can do the .deb d

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Jeff Coppock
Tom Allison, 2001-Sep-04 19:02 -0400: > I was looking for something maybe like this: > dpkg -i ftp.debian.org./lots of path stuff/filename.deb > But it doesn't work that way, does it? What you want is: # apt-get -d install packagename This will only download the package and store it in /var/cach

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven Niedner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > > > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > > > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > > > 3 (wi

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
Thank You! (PS: It's not too OT as I don't want to try upgrading everything that works to 'testing') Jeff Coppock wrote: > Tom Allison, 2001-Sep-04 19:02 -0400: > >>I was looking for something maybe like this: >>dpkg -i ftp.debian.org./lots of path stuff/filename.deb >>But it doesn't work that

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Sven Niedner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > > 3 (with daemons) - than I have to reboot. > > This is already

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. > So I want to boot twice: > * With a small kernel without daemons (no ports, no network) > * With a big kernel with daemons (network, modem, printer) > > I have two kernels and decide at t

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
Rolf Heckemann wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: Thanks to all that replied. I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs mysel

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Jeff Coppock
Tom Allison, 2001-Sep-04 19:02 -0400: > I was looking for something maybe like this: > dpkg -i ftp.debian.org./lots of path stuff/filename.deb > But it doesn't work that way, does it? What you want is: # apt-get -d install packagename This will only download the package and store it in /var/cac

FIFO error

2001-09-04 Thread Arlen Carlson
Every so often I come across a unique error on booting into my Linux system on my IBM Thinkpad notebook, an error that I've never observed on my desktop Linux system... It occurs when my filesystem is checking at maximum mount count...I get an error regarding " /dev/socket/fifo" being "nonzero" an

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven Niedner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > > > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > > > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > > > 3 (w

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Sven Niedner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > > 3 (with daemons) - than I have to reboot. > > This is alread

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. > So I want to boot twice: > * With a small kernel without daemons (no ports, no network) > * With a big kernel with daemons (network, modem, printer) > > I have two kernels and decide at

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
Rolf Heckemann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > >>Thanks to all that replied. >>I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. >>And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. >> >>I suppose I can do the .deb download and in

FIFO error

2001-09-04 Thread Arlen Carlson
Every so often I come across a unique error on booting into my Linux system on my IBM Thinkpad notebook, an error that I've never observed on my desktop Linux system... It occurs when my filesystem is checking at maximum mount count...I get an error regarding " /dev/socket/fifo" being "nonzero" a

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Sven Niedner
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > 3 (with daemons) - than I have to reboot. This is already the way to go. You can pass the initlevel to the ker

Re: Other mouse buttons on the Tecra 8100(I'm in same trouble on Dynabook Satellite 4260)

2001-09-04 Thread Kazuhiko Uebayashi
Hi, Norman I'm Kazuhiko. I'm also in trouble about toshiba two-mini-mouse. I install unstable to my book PC, using XFree86 4.1.0. & kernel 2.2.19. I try to re-edit /etc/X11/XF86Confing-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse"

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
Check out the netenv package. It lets you set up scripts for modifying your configuration based on a kernel boot parameter netenv= R. On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:33:54PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi all! > > Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. > So I want to boot tw

Re: what module is that?

2001-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:26, Michael Hothorn wrote: > Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 > System Clock set. Local time: Sun Sep 2 17:30:25 CEST 2001 See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for informatio

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Sven Niedner
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:33, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > So far I deleted most daemon-boot-scripts from /etc/rc2 and edit > /etc/inittab to set the runlevel at 2 (no daemons) or > 3 (with daemons) - than I have to reboot. This is already the way to go. You can pass the initlevel to the ke

Re: Other mouse buttons on the Tecra 8100(I'm in same trouble on Dynabook Satellite 4260)

2001-09-04 Thread Kazuhiko Uebayashi
Hi, Norman I'm Kazuhiko. I'm also in trouble about toshiba two-mini-mouse. I install unstable to my book PC, using XFree86 4.1.0. & kernel 2.2.19. I try to re-edit /etc/X11/XF86Confing-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse"

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Thanks to all that replied. > I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. > And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. > > I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was > hop

Re: Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
Check out the netenv package. It lets you set up scripts for modifying your configuration based on a kernel boot parameter netenv= R. On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:33:54PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi all! > > Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. > So I want to boot t

Re: what module is that?

2001-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:26, Michael Hothorn wrote: > Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 > System Clock set. Local time: Sun Sep 2 17:30:25 CEST 2001 See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for informati

Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
Hi all! Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. So I want to boot twice: * With a small kernel without daemons (no ports, no network) * With a big kernel with daemons (network, modem, printer) I have two kernels and decide at the lilo-boot-prompt which one to boot. How can I tell

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:37, you wrote: > > > Is this only after an resume? Are you using apmd? > > > Maybee you have enable the powersave function for the disk in the bios. > > > > It's only after an resume. Yes, I'm using apmd. > > > > But there is no bios setting for a powersave function

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, > > > after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 > > > spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. > > > > > > Does anyone note the same behaviour on other Notebooks? > > > > But there is no bios setting for a powersave functions of the hard d

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
Thanks to all that replied. I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was hoping for some manner in which I could use something like dpkg to specify

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:16, H.Heinold wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:19:16AM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 > > spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. > > > > Does anyone note the same b

Re: Removing the CD

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
I have a similar story with my IBM A21M, but I don't believe I ever got it working. But I was able to find something of a "hint". Change lilo.conf to include a line append="noprobe /dev/hdc cdrom=/dev/hdc" And see if that helps... Serge Rey wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:11:27PM +0100, P

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread greggy
greggy wrote: > > Imran Geriskovan wrote: > > > > Sorry for the cross posting. > > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > > > Well... > > > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. > > > > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > > branch 50 days ago

Re: what module is that?

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:12:11PM +0200, t3 wrote: > hi, > is there a general way to figure out what [bc]-major-minor belongs to > which device ? apt-get install kernel-source-2.x.y cd /usr/src bzcat kernel-source-2.x.y | tar xf - less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt R. -- Rolf Heck

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread H.Heinold
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:19:16AM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 > spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. > > Does anyone note the same behaviour on other Notebooks? > > Linux 2.4.9, Debian

Re: what module is that?

2001-09-04 Thread t3
hi, is there a general way to figure out what [bc]-major-minor belongs to which device ? greets, tilo Christoph Ulrich Scholler wrote: > > hi michael, > > it is the real time clock module that drives /dev/rtc. more info can be > found in the kernel configuration help text or in > /kern

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > Sorry for the cross posting. > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > Well... > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. Albeit a resolved one. Sorry - it's a matter of RTFM. > Now I have debian mac

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread greggy
Imran Geriskovan wrote: > > Sorry for the cross posting. > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > Well... > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. > > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install som

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages. > In dselect I choose the update option (using method apt). > Now the select says that it will going to u

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:35:04AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Thanks to all that replied. > I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. > And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. > > I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was > ho

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Imran Geriskovan
Sorry for the cross posting. But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. Well... For me Tom's point is a very important issue. Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages. In dselect I choose the update op

Effective Boot Procedure

2001-09-04 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
Hi all! Speed is for my old laptop (486, Debian 2.0) essential. So I want to boot twice: * With a small kernel without daemons (no ports, no network) * With a big kernel with daemons (network, modem, printer) I have two kernels and decide at the lilo-boot-prompt which one to boot. How can I tel

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:37, you wrote: > > > Is this only after an resume? Are you using apmd? > > > Maybee you have enable the powersave function for the disk in the bios. > > > > It's only after an resume. Yes, I'm using apmd. > > > > But there is no bios setting for a powersave functio

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, > > > after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 > > > spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. > > > > > > Does anyone note the same behaviour on other Notebooks? > > > > But there is no bios setting for a powersave functions of the hard

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
Thanks to all that replied. I know that under dselect I can "hold" various packages. And if I edit the sources.list I can add a set of 'testing' entries. I suppose I can do the .deb download and installs myself but I was hoping for some manner in which I could use something like dpkg to specify

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:19:42PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Can someone give me an example of how I would upgrade a specific > package from 'testing' without affecting any of the apt-get libraries? > If I change the sources.list to include 'testing' then I get all > kinds of files selected for

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:16, H.Heinold wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:19:16AM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 > > spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. > > > > Does anyone note the same

Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. Does anyone note the same behaviour on other Notebooks? Linux 2.4.9, Debian Potato with 2.4 upgrade packages. Same was on Linux 2.2.18/19. Any ideas? Fra

Re: Removing the CD

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Allison
I have a similar story with my IBM A21M, but I don't believe I ever got it working. But I was able to find something of a "hint". Change lilo.conf to include a line append="noprobe /dev/hdc cdrom=/dev/hdc" And see if that helps... Serge Rey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:11:27PM +0100,

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread greggy
greggy wrote: > > Imran Geriskovan wrote: > > > > Sorry for the cross posting. > > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > > > Well... > > > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. > > > > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > > branch 50 days ag

Re: what module is that?

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:12:11PM +0200, t3 wrote: > hi, > is there a general way to figure out what [bc]-major-minor belongs to > which device ? apt-get install kernel-source-2.x.y cd /usr/src bzcat kernel-source-2.x.y | tar xf - less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt R. -- Rolf Hec

Re: Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread H.Heinold
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:19:16AM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 > spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. > > Does anyone note the same behaviour on other Notebooks? > > Linux 2.4.9, Debian

Re: what module is that?

2001-09-04 Thread t3
hi, is there a general way to figure out what [bc]-major-minor belongs to which device ? greets, tilo Christoph Ulrich Scholler wrote: > > hi michael, > > it is the real time clock module that drives /dev/rtc. more info can be > found in the kernel configuration help text or in > /ker

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > Sorry for the cross posting. > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > Well... > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. Albeit a resolved one. Sorry - it's a matter of RTFM. > Now I have debian ma

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread greggy
Imran Geriskovan wrote: > > Sorry for the cross posting. > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. > > Well... > > For me Tom's point is a very important issue. > > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install so

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages. > In dselect I choose the update option (using method apt). > Now the select says that it will going to

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Imran Geriskovan
Sorry for the cross posting. But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list. Well... For me Tom's point is a very important issue. Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages. In dselect I choose the update o

Re: Very Selective upgrade

2001-09-04 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:19:42PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Can someone give me an example of how I would upgrade a specific > package from 'testing' without affecting any of the apt-get libraries? > If I change the sources.list to include 'testing' then I get all > kinds of files selected fo

Hard disk spins down after resume

2001-09-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, after resuming from suspend to RAM, the hard disk of my Thinkpad T20 spins up, then spins down for a short time, and the spins up again. Does anyone note the same behaviour on other Notebooks? Linux 2.4.9, Debian Potato with 2.4 upgrade packages. Same was on Linux 2.2.18/19. Any ideas? Fr

Re: Problems with SMC EZ 10/100 Cardbus Card

2001-09-04 Thread Michael Thaler
Hello, > apart from the last 4 lines that actually are (more or less) ejecting the > card the instant it loads up! The last four lines are only there because I ejected after trying to ping another host. I don't think there is something wrong with the pcmcia-package in general > I'm unsure howevr