Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:05AM +1100, Brendan Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not ^^^ You mean 2.2.18? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Ge

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Steve Dobson
Karsten On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:43:54AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:05AM +1100, Brendan Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not > ^^^ > Y

cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. Can anacron replace cron or not? Since cron is quite cpu intensive (and battery by that mean) and runs quite often... it is a battery hog fo

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-04 Thread Carlos Menezes
Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > > Please, > > > > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA > > ethernet card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get > > messages like 'Network is unreach

Friendliest Laptop??

2001-03-04 Thread Yannick Asselin
Hi guys. I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if there are any laptops that are friendly to debian... I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier?? Thanks! Yannick

Re: Quick-access buttons on Toshiba 2775XDVD?

2001-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Can you provide pointer to TOSHIBA ML? (in English) TIA. On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:55:58PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > Are you subscribed to the Toshiba linux mailing list? Somewhere there would > be sure to have your model. -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + +

Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready > been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. > Can > anacron replace cron or not? > should I remove cron and use solely anacron? I don't have

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

2001-03-04 Thread redstars
X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed... I figured out why x was executing "XF86_NONE" and therefore I installed a package named as "XF86_SVGA" so that x window could use it as default. It did.. anyway, thanks for all your help.. Get your free email with GroupWeb Worldmailer at http://www.w

Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
xsdg wrote: > > BTW, I did try pci=biosirq as a kernel option but this only removed the > Did you actually use "pci=biosirq", or did you use "pci=$your_cards_irq"? I used "pci=biosirq" because "biosirq" is, as far as I can tell, a correct value for the option "pci" whereas $your_cards_irq is not. H

Re: PCMCIA doesn't work anymore

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
Drew Parsons wrote: > Bad phrasing. What I meant was that Felix could try setting his BIOS to the > 32-bit Cardbus option. (There are three alternatives: auto, 16-bit and > 32-bit). Thanks for your suggestions. However, the BIOS of my machine (a Thinkpad i1267) does not offer these options, but th

Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
"Felix E. Klee" wrote: > today, I compiled a kernel with xdsg's kernel config (the only option > that I removed was the /dev file system support). Now, when I insert my > FA510c network card I still hear a high low beep sequence but the card > is correctly identified by cardctl ident. The error mes

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan Simon wrote: > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not > directly the kernels fault, it is the new devfs and/or the new input layer > that > causes the problem. Will *not* work for them? I thought it wouldn't work without them, because the generic poin

Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by > cron if anacron is install. Here is part of my /etc/crontab: > > 25 6* * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron

sound blaster configuration??

2001-03-04 Thread redstars
I haven't figured out how to configure sound in debian, I have read HOWTO and FAQ about configuring sound card but still not found any useful information, How can I configure my Sound Blaster 16 in debian ?? Get your free email with GroupWeb Worldmailer at http://www.worldmailer.com. Send and

Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > > On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by > > cron if anacron is install. Here is part of my /etc/crontab: > >

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

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

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Steve Dobson
Karsten On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:43:54AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:05AM +1100, Brendan Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not > ^^^ > You

cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. Can anacron replace cron or not? Since cron is quite cpu intensive (and battery by that mean) and runs quite often... it is a battery hog f

Re: Network configuration conflicts with PCMCIA ethernet card

2001-03-04 Thread Carlos Menezes
Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:05PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > > Please, > > > > Could someone give me suggestions? I've had some problems when my PCMCIA ethernet >card is on and I try to connect to my ISP by modem (ppp). I get messages like >'Network is unreachable'

Friendliest Laptop??

2001-03-04 Thread Yannick Asselin
Hi guys. I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if there are any laptops that are friendly to debian... I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier?? Thanks! Yannick -- To UNSUB

Re: Quick-access buttons on Toshiba 2775XDVD?

2001-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Can you provide pointer to TOSHIBA ML? (in English) TIA. On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:55:58PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > Are you subscribed to the Toshiba linux mailing list? Somewhere there would > be sure to have your model. -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + +

Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > I would like to know what to do with cron & anacron issue. There has allready > been some discusion on that topic here, but I am still not sure what to do. Can > anacron replace cron or not? > should I remove cron and use solely anacron? I don't have a

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

2001-03-04 Thread redstars
X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed... I figured out why x was executing "XF86_NONE" and therefore I installed a package named as "XF86_SVGA" so that x window could use it as default. It did.. anyway, thanks for all your help.. Get your free email with GroupWeb Worldmailer at http://www.

Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
xsdg wrote: > > BTW, I did try pci=biosirq as a kernel option but this only removed the > Did you actually use "pci=biosirq", or did you use "pci=$your_cards_irq"? I used "pci=biosirq" because "biosirq" is, as far as I can tell, a correct value for the option "pci" whereas $your_cards_irq is not.

Re: PCMCIA doesn't work anymore

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

Re: FA510c update

2001-03-04 Thread Felix E. Klee
"Felix E. Klee" wrote: > today, I compiled a kernel with xdsg's kernel config (the only option > that I removed was the /dev file system support). Now, when I insert my > FA510c network card I still hear a high low beep sequence but the card > is correctly identified by cardctl ident. The error me

Re: upgrading to 'testing' failure

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan Simon wrote: > X will not automatically work for kernels-2.1.18 and 2.4.x. Well it's not > directly the kernels fault, it is the new devfs and/or the new input layer that > causes the problem. Will *not* work for them? I thought it wouldn't work without them, because the generic pointe

Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by > cron if anacron is install. Here is part of my /etc/crontab: > > 25 6* * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacro

sound blaster configuration??

2001-03-04 Thread redstars
I haven't figured out how to configure sound in debian, I have read HOWTO and FAQ about configuring sound card but still not found any useful information, How can I configure my Sound Blaster 16 in debian ?? Get your free email with GroupWeb Worldmailer at http://www.worldmailer.com. Send and

Re: cron & anacron

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Christensen
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > > On my system, the default big cron jobs are automatically ignored by > > cron if anacron is install. Here is part of my /etc/crontab: > >

Re: Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

2001-03-04 Thread Yang Shouxun
Thanks for everybody. I finally set up the X-windows. I upgrade it to XFree86 4.0.x. But while installing, I found myself in a evil circularity due to dpkg doing interdependency, because I installed locale-zh. While the 3.3.x was removed and 4.0.x installed, the config file remains to be the