Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 01:32, Michael Hothorn wrote: > I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM i1200 Thinkpad. I am using > ext2 filesystem for all partitions (but swap:-). It happend more than > once, that I left the machine on battery and left the office for more > than 3h > > Has anyone

Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

2002-05-10 Thread Michael Hothorn
Thank's to all of you. I think I'll try ext3 and see how it works. bye michael Linux is user friendly, it's just a bit picky about it's friends Michael Hothorn University of Heidelberg http://www.hothorn.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

2002-05-10 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michael Hothorn wrote: >I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM i1200 Thinkpad. I am using >ext2 filesystem for all partitions (but swap:-). It happend more than >once, that I left the machine on battery and left the office for more >than 3h Well, it shouldn't hurt

Re: Installing Debian Linux on my Laptop

2002-05-10 Thread Alexei Khlebnikov
On Wed, 08 May 2002 21:39:51 -0700 "Justin News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install linux on my IBM Thinkpad 560E. Unfortunately, i > don't have a CD ROM and I'd appreciate any help someone can offer. > I've installed linux before using CD ROMS and had no problems... but > i'm lost as

crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi everyone. Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In f

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 18:44, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process

lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2002-05-10 Thread Neill R Smith
Hello, I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every track, but these never get killed, and just pile up until the system proces

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program > like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better > solution. > > I have the following in my init scripts: > echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " |

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 19:40, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive > > program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be > > a better solution. > > > > I have the following i

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE Linux > might ;). I see. Then how do you do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:07, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE > > Linux might ;). > > I see. Then how do you do th

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or something else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:13, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. > > Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you > write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or some

Fwd: i8.1k: Framebuffer and APM problems

2002-05-10 Thread Tomasz Buchwald
--- Begin Message --- Hi folks, I have just install Debian Woody on my new i8.1k. I have A10 BIOS, Geforce2Go, +2.4.18 Linux and I have install vesafb and configure it for 0x305 mode. Every thing seems to work good till my system has blank screen. After 'press any +key' when tha sreen come back i

Re: Creating a Network Boot Disk

2002-05-10 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
ciao Justin News, > network boot disk so I can mount the CD ROM of my windows box onto my > laptop. That way i can i can install linux as if i had a CD ROM on my > laptop. It seems that to do a network installation of debian using floppy > disks is more trouble than it's worth. I have done it

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process the

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > faster the 4x. > > $ dmesg > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly.

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Heather Stern
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb:

[Fwd: Crash in Compaq 700 (was: crash and acpid)]

2002-05-10 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > Alessandro Speranza wrote: > > .. > > but my computer has crashed lately a > > couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I > > couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. > [snip] > > 2)I have debian sid on, has any of you h

Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-10 Thread Andre Berger
Hi! My friend has got this Dell Inspiron 2500, and I have some problems installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel 2.2.19 hangs at the initialization of the md (raid) driver, so I installed 2.2.19-idepci. Which boots, but doesn't seem to have i810 or ipx/ncpfs support... Is

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb:

Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java

2002-05-10 Thread Cassandra Lynette Ludwig
I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java plugin. This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-wise says that it should be working fine I installed it off the web-page,

Re: Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java

2002-05-10 Thread Pavel Mihaylov
На 11 май 2002 г. (събота), в 2.21 Cassandra Lynette Ludwig писа: > I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a > problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java > plugin. > > This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-wi

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: >> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: >> > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. I have the cdrw >> > 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write an

Re: Installing Debian Linux on my Laptop

2002-05-10 Thread Alexei Khlebnikov
On Wed, 08 May 2002 21:39:51 -0700 "Justin News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install linux on my IBM Thinkpad 560E. Unfortunately, i > don't have a CD ROM and I'd appreciate any help someone can offer. > I've installed linux before using CD ROMS and had no problems... but > i'm lost as

crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi everyone. Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 18:44, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to proces

lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2002-05-10 Thread Neill R Smith
Hello, I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every track, but these never get killed, and just pile up until the system proce

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program > like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better > solution. > > I have the following in my init scripts: > echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK "

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 19:40, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive > > program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be > > a better solution. > > > > I have the following

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE Linux > might ;). I see. Then how do you do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:07, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE > > Linux might ;). > > I see. Then how do you do t

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or something else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:13, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. > > Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you > write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or som

Fwd: i8.1k: Framebuffer and APM problems

2002-05-10 Thread Tomasz Buchwald
--- Begin Message --- Hi folks, I have just install Debian Woody on my new i8.1k. I have A10 BIOS, Geforce2Go, +2.4.18 Linux and I have install vesafb and configure it for 0x305 mode. Every thing seems to work good till my system has blank screen. After 'press any +key' when tha sreen come bac

Re: Creating a Network Boot Disk

2002-05-10 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
ciao Justin News, > network boot disk so I can mount the CD ROM of my windows box onto my > laptop. That way i can i can install linux as if i had a CD ROM on my > laptop. It seems that to do a network installation of debian using floppy > disks is more trouble than it's worth. I have done it

Re: crash and acpid

2002-05-10 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process the

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > faster the 4x. > > $ dmesg > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Heather Stern
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb:

[Fwd: Crash in Compaq 700 (was: crash and acpid)]

2002-05-10 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > Alessandro Speranza wrote: > > .. > > but my computer has crashed lately a > > couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I > > couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. > [snip] > > 2)I have debian sid on, has any of you

Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato

2002-05-10 Thread Andre Berger
--NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! My friend has got this Dell Inspiron 2500, and I have some problems installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel 2.2.19 hangs at the init

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb:

Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java

2002-05-10 Thread Cassandra Lynette Ludwig
I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java plugin. This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-wise says that it should be working fine I installed it off the web-page,

Re: Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java

2002-05-10 Thread Pavel Mihaylov
На 11 май 2002 г. (събота), в 2.21 Cassandra Lynette Ludwig писа: > I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a > problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java > plugin. > > This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-w

Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: >> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: >> > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. I have the cdrw >> > 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write a