Re: gnome does not start

2003-03-08 Thread MW
I would suggest rather than using xdm, you start X using startx, then starting gnome from within X so you can get some error messages. regards Michael Westwind --- Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hello guys, > > since the las

Re: gnome does not start

2003-03-08 Thread MW
I would suggest rather than using xdm, you start X using startx, then starting gnome from within X so you can get some error messages. regards Michael Westwind --- Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hello guys, > > since the last

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread MW
had that one on a new box last night. install a package with wish in it, such as some version of tk8. regards Michael Westwind --- Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade to a recent kernel, and I'm running into an odd > problem. > > When I try to run '

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread MW
had that one on a new box last night. install a package with wish in it, such as some version of tk8. regards Michael Westwind --- Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade to a recent kernel, and I'm running into an odd > problem. > > When I try to run 'm

Re: how r you?

2003-01-20 Thread mw
'Don' Tommy, This list is about linux, a different operating system than microsoft windows. We have problems with linux as well, especially on laptops; but we aren't expected to handle questions about XP. It's the sense of a mailing list to stick on one main topic. Please try to ask your questio

Re: how r you?

2003-01-20 Thread mw
'Don' Tommy, This list is about linux, a different operating system than microsoft windows. We have problems with linux as well, especially on laptops; but we aren't expected to handle questions about XP. It's the sense of a mailing list to stick on one main topic. Please try to ask your questio

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread mw
I didn't use dselect now for a long time, but i remember the feeling when i moved to aptitude: ah, _that's it_. It's far more illustrative and easier to oversee problems with it's tree structured info-link-like movement, and colors. If you give it a try, note that there might be a problem using d

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread mw
I didn't use dselect now for a long time, but i remember the feeling when i moved to aptitude: ah, _that's it_. It's far more illustrative and easier to oversee problems with it's tree structured info-link-like movement, and colors. If you give it a try, note that there might be a problem using d

Re: APM and Power Savings not working...

2003-01-17 Thread mw
Hello Paulo ! Arne's seems to be right. Ther was a thread on this list - please enter the deb-lap archive at ( I'm not really good in digging other archives than my own :) Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:30:34 +0200 From: Dietmar Nusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Interesting spot, anyw

Re: APM and Power Savings not working...

2003-01-17 Thread mw
Hello Paulo ! Arne's seems to be right. Ther was a thread on this list - please enter the deb-lap archive at ( I'm not really good in digging other archives than my own :) Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:30:34 +0200 From: Dietmar Nusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Interesting spot, anyw

Re: got stuck in dpkg-available-cache

2003-01-16 Thread mw
Hello Bjoern. I didn't follow the thread, but maybe could add some general hints ? > Although dselect uses apt, it seems to have it's own information cache, > which is not updated by performing apt-get update. > But anyway, I still have no clue how to clean up the mess that I caused in > both syst

Re: got stuck in dpkg-available-cache

2003-01-16 Thread mw
Hello Bjoern. I didn't follow the thread, but maybe could add some general hints ? > Although dselect uses apt, it seems to have it's own information cache, > which is not updated by performing apt-get update. > But anyway, I still have no clue how to clean up the mess that I caused in > both syst

Re: dell precision m50 _very_ slow paging/swapping

2003-01-11 Thread mw
Hello Roe. Besides special hardware-related issues, I can imagine two main-lines to consider. Sorry, no simple answer but instead a bunch of questions here from me... 1. Provided that by 'paging out to disk' you mean swapping: What services are you running ? esp. what servers. Would be interest

Re: XFree86 DRI and SiS630

2003-01-11 Thread mw
Hello Paulo, and Jord. Jord Swart schrieb zu Re: XFree86 DRI and SiS630: > On Friday 10 January 2003 12:37, Paulo Lopes wrote: > > Hi, (...) > I'm not sure if I have DRI working though. I wouldn't know how to > check that. I think you'd see it if it works :) Just test some 3D-xscreensavers with an

Re: dell precision m50 _very_ slow paging/swapping

2003-01-11 Thread mw
Hello Roe. Besides special hardware-related issues, I can imagine two main-lines to consider. Sorry, no simple answer but instead a bunch of questions here from me... 1. Provided that by 'paging out to disk' you mean swapping: What services are you running ? esp. what servers. Would be interest

Re: XFree86 DRI and SiS630

2003-01-11 Thread mw
Hello Paulo, and Jord. Jord Swart schrieb zu Re: XFree86 DRI and SiS630: > On Friday 10 January 2003 12:37, Paulo Lopes wrote: > > Hi, (...) > I'm not sure if I have DRI working though. I wouldn't know how to > check that. I think you'd see it if it works :) Just test some 3D-xscreensavers with an

Access methods for pppd with netenv ?

2003-01-06 Thread mw
Hello, A friend of mine is going to live 'mobil' in spain, and needs to use her laptop for e-mail and internet anyway. I wonder how she could manage dialing to some ISP's under various technical conditions. For example, on analog lines you'll sometimes have to predial a '0' if connected to a '

Access methods for pppd with netenv ?

2003-01-06 Thread mw
Hello, A friend of mine is going to live 'mobil' in spain, and needs to use her laptop for e-mail and internet anyway. I wonder how she could manage dialing to some ISP's under various technical conditions. For example, on analog lines you'll sometimes have to predial a '0' if connected to a '

Re: Inspiron 5000 text-console freezing, somehow linked to X ?

2002-12-15 Thread mw
ll freezes as usual. I couldn't manage to find out more yet, and have to leave it for now. True I don't understand what's going on, but the mouse-device seems to be a good trace since it could explain why the 'frost' appears together with starting X. I feel tha

Re: Inspiron 5000 text-console freezing, somehow linked to X ?

2002-12-15 Thread mw
ll freezes as usual. I couldn't manage to find out more yet, and have to leave it for now. True I don't understand what's going on, but the mouse-device seems to be a good trace since it could explain why the 'frost' appears together with starting X. I feel tha

Re: Page up/down keys not working (Dell i8000)

2002-12-14 Thread mw
Jimmy Hedman schrieb zu Re: Page up/down keys not working (Dell i8000): > Hmm, i just realized that the Page Up/dn buttons are working in console > but not in X, not a kernel problem then... > // Jimmy Perhaps some workaround with xkbcomp-Options ( and XF86Config-4 )? But I never used that, so..

Re: Page up/down keys not working (Dell i8000)

2002-12-14 Thread mw
Jimmy Hedman schrieb zu Re: Page up/down keys not working (Dell i8000): > Hmm, i just realized that the Page Up/dn buttons are working in console > but not in X, not a kernel problem then... > // Jimmy Perhaps some workaround with xkbcomp-Options ( and XF86Config-4 )? But I never used that, so..

Re: Inspiron 5000 text-console freezing, somehow linked to X ?

2002-12-09 Thread mw
Hello again. To add from the XF86-Log: "Cannot shadow an accelerated framebuffer" and later "Option UseFBDev not used". It's a 8 MB ATI Rage, and in the XF86Config i turned FBDev on and DPMS off. No errors else. nikolaj erichsen: > Hi > I have an i8100 and had the same kind of problem, the solu

Re: Inspiron 5000 text-console freezing, somehow linked to X ?

2002-12-09 Thread mw
Hello again. To add from the XF86-Log: "Cannot shadow an accelerated framebuffer" and later "Option UseFBDev not used". It's a 8 MB ATI Rage, and in the XF86Config i turned FBDev on and DPMS off. No errors else. nikolaj erichsen: > Hi > I have an i8100 and had the same kind of problem, the solu

Inspiron 5000 text-console freezing, somehow linked to X ?

2002-12-09 Thread mw
Hello. Ive managed one more step towards a running Woody on my Dell Inspiron 5000X is working, and I installed many packages last night :) I need to configure now from the text-console, but something wickened happens: After about two minutes from console-login suddenly there's no more input

Inspiron 5000 text-console freezing, somehow linked to X ?

2002-12-09 Thread mw
Hello. Ive managed one more step towards a running Woody on my Dell Inspiron 5000X is working, and I installed many packages last night :) I need to configure now from the text-console, but something wickened happens: After about two minutes from console-login suddenly there's no more input

Re: OT: how much disk space for linux + windows

2002-12-08 Thread mw
or my purposes ( desktop and some networks ), minimal 7 GB for both OS and some 'usual' desktop-data will be enough this time.* Greeetings- -- michl *There is an additional ( laptop-specific ) hibernation-partition of 500 MB. On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:34:18PM +0200, mw wrote: &

Re: OT: how much disk space for linux + windows

2002-12-08 Thread mw
or my purposes ( desktop and some networks ), minimal 7 GB for both OS and some 'usual' desktop-data will be enough this time.* Greeetings- -- michl *There is an additional ( laptop-specific ) hibernation-partition of 500 MB. On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:34:18PM +0200, mw wrote: &

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-26 Thread mw
( next building a minimal homenetwork with a Dell Inspiron 5000 ) mw schrieb zu Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows: > --- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- > ***Sorry:*** my first mail was sent accidently before finished. > > I intendet to do some more

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-26 Thread mw
( next building a minimal homenetwork with a Dell Inspiron 5000 ) mw schrieb zu Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows: > --- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- > ***Sorry:*** my first mail was sent accidently before finished. > > I intendet to do some more

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- ***Sorry:*** my first mail was sent accidently before finished. I intendet to do some more reading and thinking and fiddling on the whole thing, before bothering you Anyway. I guess that I don't clearly understand partioning. ( A second

grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- Hello, I guess i need the help from somebody very familiar with grub. I am going to install Woody and Win2000 with grub as bootloader on a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook ( P III, 128 MB, 12 GB ). I proceeded so far to partition the HD like sh

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- ***Sorry:*** my first mail was sent accidently before finished. I intendet to do some more reading and thinking and fiddling on the whole thing, before bothering you Anyway. I guess that I don't clearly understand partioning. ( A second

grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread mw
--- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- Hello, I guess i need the help from somebody very familiar with grub. I am going to install Woody and Win2000 with grub as bootloader on a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook ( P III, 128 MB, 12 GB ). I proceeded so far to partition the HD like sh

Re: shortcut

2002-11-09 Thread mw
Hello Joris ! I am very pleased to have wmaker running solo on my slow box here, and therefor tried to investigate the internal customizing. For a friend I I put some copied stuff together a few months ago, and I dare to post it here though I didn't check it for bugs now. Anyway, my configurati

Re: shortcut

2002-11-09 Thread mw
Hello Joris ! I am very pleased to have wmaker running solo on my slow box here, and therefor tried to investigate the internal customizing. For a friend I I put some copied stuff together a few months ago, and I dare to post it here though I didn't check it for bugs now. Anyway, my configurati

double-boot with grub: hibernation / suspend to disk

2002-11-08 Thread mw
Hello, I just bought a Dell Inspiron 5000 and want to install Win2000 and Debian-Woody, with GRUB as boot-loader. I've got no experience with laptops, grub, and also MS, though. But I am optimistic, thinking unix :-) Roughly I scheme out to partition from the Woody-Installation-CD's with cfdisk

double-boot with grub: hibernation / suspend to disk

2002-11-08 Thread mw
Hello, I just bought a Dell Inspiron 5000 and want to install Win2000 and Debian-Woody, with GRUB as boot-loader. I've got no experience with laptops, grub, and also MS, though. But I am optimistic, thinking unix :-) Roughly I scheme out to partition from the Woody-Installation-CD's with cfdisk

dell inspiron and cpx hardware qualities

2002-10-22 Thread mw
Hello again. One more question is about Dell Laptops. According to information from linux-laptop.net, they are in common ok for linux. I watch especially for insprons from 4000 and the cpx-series from 500 onward, which seem to be 'recent' enough and well supported. But there's one report about

OT: how much disk space for linux + windows

2002-10-22 Thread mw
Hello List. I am trying to buy a used laptop on ebay next time, but there's one question i'm quite unsure yet. I would like to install both linux (debian ) and windows ( probably 2000 ) because i want to use it for networking exercises with my good old desktop box here. I wonder how much disk s

OT: how much disk space for linux + windows

2002-10-22 Thread mw
Hello List. I am trying to buy a used laptop on ebay next time, but there's one question i'm quite unsure yet. I would like to install both linux (debian ) and windows ( probably 2000 ) because i want to use it for networking exercises with my good old desktop box here. I wonder how much disk s

dell inspiron and cpx hardware qualities

2002-10-22 Thread mw
Hello again. One more question is about Dell Laptops. According to information from linux-laptop.net, they are in common ok for linux. I watch especially for insprons from 4000 and the cpx-series from 500 onward, which seem to be 'recent' enough and well supported. But there's one report about

Re: Xfree86 4.2 Server Problem

2002-10-12 Thread mw
Hello Richard, If I understood you right, there may be involved other's Distros 'update' features...? I'm not very skilled in X-related things, and I know just a little about Debian Linux... anyway. 1) What's in your X-log. On Woody, it might be stored in /var/log/XFree86.0.log It's a good t

Re: Xfree86 4.2 Server Problem

2002-10-12 Thread mw
Hello Richard, If I understood you right, there may be involved other's Distros 'update' features...? I'm not very skilled in X-related things, and I know just a little about Debian Linux... anyway. 1) What's in your X-log. On Woody, it might be stored in /var/log/XFree86.0.log It's a good t

Re: Seeking recommendation for Laptop, must satisfy:

2002-10-07 Thread mw
Hello. I'm joining the list without having a laptop yet. I'm student with a rather small budget, and intend to buy a second hand Dell Inspiron 5100e with 600 Mhz / 20 GB for hopefully about 700 $ ( here in FRG ). I'm not sure about the price. > > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com can also be usef

Re: on which mirror can I find woody with kernel 2.4.8

2002-10-07 Thread mw
Hello suresh kumar sharma: > Hi, > I would like to Install a debian system with kernel > 2.4.8 and woody , > but I am not able to find which mirror to use for > download . http://www.debian.org/distrib Choose a mirror in the righthand corner on the top of the Page. Then choose a language at the b

Re: Seeking recommendation for Laptop, must satisfy:

2002-10-07 Thread mw
Hello. I'm joining the list without having a laptop yet. I'm student with a rather small budget, and intend to buy a second hand Dell Inspiron 5100e with 600 Mhz / 20 GB for hopefully about 700 $ ( here in FRG ). I'm not sure about the price. > > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com can also be use

Re: on which mirror can I find woody with kernel 2.4.8

2002-10-07 Thread mw
Hello suresh kumar sharma: > Hi, > I would like to Install a debian system with kernel > 2.4.8 and woody , > but I am not able to find which mirror to use for > download . http://www.debian.org/distrib Choose a mirror in the righthand corner on the top of the Page. Then choose a language at the