Re: problems with filesystem

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:17, Luis Mendes wrote: > > e2fsprogs version 1.25 worked fine for me with kernel 2.4.17. > > > > I think that your problem is kernel related. Please send us a copy of > > the exact error messages you got on boot, then we can investigate it > > further. > > This sounds worryi

Re: problems with filesystem

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:38, Luis Mendes wrote: > > Not really. It's probably something trivial like forgetting to put the > > ext2 driver in the initrd image. > > Hmmm I am beginning to feel very stupid... I compiled the kernel > with the kernel-package utils and then installed the resulting .d

Re: Debian PC Requirements

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 05:29, James Hirschorn wrote: > > > You aren't running xplanet or something similar, are you? > > > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/140111 > > > > I run Xplanet and don't think I can reproduce that bug on KDE 3.0. I've > > had KDE up for an hour and top shows: > > > > 254 root

Re: Debian PC Requirements

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:40, Heather Stern wrote: > > I am seeing similar problems but it takes 4 days to get to 300M which > > forces me to logout. I have configured kdm to restart the X server on > > logout which solves the problems. > > > > I run Kmail, Konqueror, and Konsole, I don't run any oth

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 02:24, wandering jason wrote: > i'm trying to make a decision on which laptop to > purchase. i've great respect for the debian community, > and so i thought i'd ask for advice here. > > i'll use the laptop mostly for programming, writing, > browsing, and listening to news and le

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:44, CaT wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:27:05PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Probably if I was going to do what you're planning I'd get an old > > Thinkpad 385XD. PentiumMMX-233, 96M of RAM, 3G hard drive, 800x600 > > display, it's

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:27, martin f krafft wrote: > but before i'd buy another dell, i'd think thrice about it. they are > capitalist arseholes, blinded by money and seemingly uninterested to > let their clients run anything but micro$oft... If they were really capitalistic then they would provide

Re: pcmcia taints kernel

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:44, Boris Duerner wrote: > I have a problem with my pcmcia drivers on Woody/kernel 2.4.17-686. I > installed the pcmcia-cs package, but not the pcmcia modules, since they > were already included in the kernel. I know I have an i82365 chip, at least > that always used to work

Re: Boot Loader

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:50, Walter Hofmann wrote: > > Some Linux distros have a "modified" version of LILO which is graphical > > with a menu (Stormix, Mandrake, as a couple examples). > > And Debian! (I'm not sure if it is "modified", but it certainly can do > graphical logos.) Debian has a fairly

Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

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: crash and acpid

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

Re: crash and acpid

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. > &g

Re: crash and acpid

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 ;). >

Re: crash and acpid

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

Re: problems with lilo on a Asus A1200.

On Thu, 23 May 2002 14:55, William Reece wrote: > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 > Added Linux * > Added LinuxOLD > Added win > Syntax error at or above line 136 in file /etc/lilo.conf The file is 135 lines long, so ther

Re: lilo boots only from floppy disk

On Thu, 23 May 2002 19:29, Boris Duerner wrote: > I am having the problem suddenly that lilo wouldn't boot from MBR anymore, > but only from floppy. I get the error message "No operating system found". > I didn't get any errors when I re/installed lilo and so checked lilo that > actually gets insta

Re: x configuration

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:31, Ditch, Derek P., MO-ARNG wrote: > Using X version 3.x for that card is gonna be a pain. I'd suggest > using 4.1 and get the custom Savage chip from here > (http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html). They have a version for 3.x and > 4.x If you use the 4.x version

Re: SVGA XServer vs framebuffer + X_FBDEV

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:51, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > I want to run linux on not-very-fast machine (Pentium-1 class, not-so-much > memory). > What configuration requires more resourses (mostly RAM, also CPU), > X_SVGA (or similar) server or framebuffer + X_FBDEV server ? > What configuration is ligh

Re: vga16fb console settings

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 21:11, Jeff wrote: > I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT and I compiles a 2.4.19 kernel > that included the VESA and VGA16 Framebuffer support. The VESAFB > doesn't load at boot (perhaps the VESA on the PC is too old), but the > vga16fb loads fine. However, it loads a 640x48

Re: vga16fb console settings

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 00:05, Jeff wrote: > > > I have a similar problem, I put the following in a script in > > > /etc/rc.boot: > > > > > > for n in /dev/vc/* ; do > > > echo "" > $n > > > done > > > fbset -a 800x600-75 > > > > > > If there's a better solution I'd like to know it. > > I've been pla

Re: vga16fb console settings

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:20, Frank Crins wrote: > > I have a similar problem, I put the following in a script in > > /etc/rc.boot: > > > > for n in /dev/vc/* ; do > > echo "" > $n > > done > > fbset -a 800x600-75 > > > > If there's a better solution I'd like to know it. > > You just have to put vga

Re: vga16fb console settings

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:24, Jeff wrote: > Ah, okay. So, I make a script, made it executable and put it in > /etc/rc.boot: > > > #!/bin/sh > for n in /dev/tty[1-6]* ; do > echo "" > $n > done > fbset -g 800 600 800 600 4 > > > This script worked in setting only tty1 to the 800x600 display. The

Re: Strange behaviour

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 02:13, Matthew Guenther wrote: > > > ?? His only reference to devfs was "If you use devfs you may need ...". > > > It doesn't seem likely that he used it at all. I think you're going > > > about this in the wrong order. Turn off devfs first, get it working, > > > THEN try fig

Re: Purchasse of laptop computer

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:12, Jay wrote: > I can't help to laugh at this post...LOL! I'm tempted to tell him that we don't sell laptops, we only sell bridges... ;) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:08 PM > To:

Re: [OT] : A new Laptop

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 07:15, Joris wrote: > > > CPU: AMD or Crusoe ? > > Amd for everything else, crusoe for an ultraexpensive typewriter. > Oh, and an AMD also qualifies for personal portable heater. Actually I don't think that it's an issue to make a choice on. Each laptop manufacturer has a

Re: Lilo Help

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:25, Designer wrote: > I ran " lilo" after that. It looked ok, but I still get the > > L01 01 01 01 > > repeating (01) moniker >From /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: L ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load

Re: disk speeds and tweaks

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:22, David Z Maze wrote: > de|ire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > so if a 5400 rpm is the fastest laptop drive available, what is the > > rpm of the standard drive? > > (I don't actually have an answer, but I strongly suspect that drives > with a higher rotation speed [and bet

Re: sony vaio losing disc space

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:37, Jodi Fodor wrote: > Do you know why my Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 is steadily losing space on my C > drive even when I haven't loaded any new programs or downloaded anything?? > In the past week it's dropped from 1.17 GB to 903 MB. My Norton Virus > Scan finds nothing. Thanks

Re: disk speeds and tweaks

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote: > I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was > quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible. > Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get > a bit over 3 hours on one battery, w

Re: For Help with lilo post-installation

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:25, H Mahi wrote: > Somebody help me with lilo : how can I cancel lilo from the MBR and > reinstall windows NT boot loader. > I have installed NT in my first partion and Linux in the second. Now when I > start my PC, it opens directly in the Linux.I don't have access to wi

Re: hardware failure

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 05:46, Thedore Knab wrote: > When I transfer files, I get a hugh amount of collisions on one of the > 2 ethernet cards I am transfering too. > > Running watch /sbin/ifconfig on 2 seperate machines on LAN. > > |--[Router]--[Internet] > > [Lapto

Re: Basic linux network questions (long)

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:23, Richard Wurdack wrote: > I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be > hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM), and > reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like Windows!). Here's the APM related kernel bui

Re: Basic linux network questions (long)

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:41, Heather wrote: > > If you want to try ACPI, though, beware that kernel support for it is > > not as mature as for APM, and it may not work as well. > > To clarify re ACPI: > > Kernel support seems to be much further along than it was several months > ago... but that's jus

Re: Basic linux network questions (long)

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:58, Heather wrote: > The choice of experimenting with crappy APM (because the Beast From Redmond > implements ACPI so much better than they implement APM, hardware > manufacturers no longer properly regression test it; I have first hand > experience with that issue) ... > >

Re: problems with filesystem

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:38, Luis Mendes wrote: > I am running woody on a Toshiba 1800-314. I decided to compile a new > kernel to fine tune a few things, include fb support and upgrade to > 2.4.17 (previously I was using the kernel image 2.2.20). The > compilation process was quite straightforward

Re: problems with filesystem

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Re: problems with filesystem

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Re: Debian PC Requirements

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 05:29, James Hirschorn wrote: > > > You aren't running xplanet or something similar, are you? > > > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/140111 > > > > I run Xplanet and don't think I can reproduce that bug on KDE 3.0. I've > > had KDE up for an hour and top shows: > > > > 254 root

Re: Debian PC Requirements

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:40, Heather Stern wrote: > > I am seeing similar problems but it takes 4 days to get to 300M which > > forces me to logout. I have configured kdm to restart the X server on > > logout which solves the problems. > > > > I run Kmail, Konqueror, and Konsole, I don't run any ot

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 02:24, wandering jason wrote: > i'm trying to make a decision on which laptop to > purchase. i've great respect for the debian community, > and so i thought i'd ask for advice here. > > i'll use the laptop mostly for programming, writing, > browsing, and listening to news and l

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:44, CaT wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:27:05PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Probably if I was going to do what you're planning I'd get an old > > Thinkpad 385XD. PentiumMMX-233, 96M of RAM, 3G hard drive, 800x600 > > display, it'

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:27, martin f krafft wrote: > but before i'd buy another dell, i'd think thrice about it. they are > capitalist arseholes, blinded by money and seemingly uninterested to > let their clients run anything but micro$oft... If they were really capitalistic then they would provid

Re: pcmcia taints kernel

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:44, Boris Duerner wrote: > I have a problem with my pcmcia drivers on Woody/kernel 2.4.17-686. I > installed the pcmcia-cs package, but not the pcmcia modules, since they > were already included in the kernel. I know I have an i82365 chip, at least > that always used to work

Re: Boot Loader

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:50, Walter Hofmann wrote: > > Some Linux distros have a "modified" version of LILO which is graphical > > with a menu (Stormix, Mandrake, as a couple examples). > > And Debian! (I'm not sure if it is "modified", but it certainly can do > graphical logos.) Debian has a fairl

Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?

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 anyon

Re: crash and acpid

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

Re: crash and acpid

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. > &g

Re: crash and acpid

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 ;). >

Re: crash and acpid

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

Re: problems with lilo on a Asus A1200.

On Thu, 23 May 2002 14:55, William Reece wrote: > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 > Added Linux * > Added LinuxOLD > Added win > Syntax error at or above line 136 in file /etc/lilo.conf The file is 135 lines long, so the

Re: lilo boots only from floppy disk

On Thu, 23 May 2002 19:29, Boris Duerner wrote: > I am having the problem suddenly that lilo wouldn't boot from MBR anymore, > but only from floppy. I get the error message "No operating system found". > I didn't get any errors when I re/installed lilo and so checked lilo that > actually gets inst

Re: disk speeds and tweaks

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote: > I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was > quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible. > Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get > a bit over 3 hours on one battery, w

Re: sony vaio losing disc space

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:37, Jodi Fodor wrote: > Do you know why my Sony Vaio PCG-FX310 is steadily losing space on my C > drive even when I haven't loaded any new programs or downloaded anything?? > In the past week it's dropped from 1.17 GB to 903 MB. My Norton Virus > Scan finds nothing. Thanks

Re: disk speeds and tweaks

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:22, David Z Maze wrote: > de|ire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > so if a 5400 rpm is the fastest laptop drive available, what is the > > rpm of the standard drive? > > (I don't actually have an answer, but I strongly suspect that drives > with a higher rotation speed [and bet

Re: Email Courtesy

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:02, xsdg wrote: > Hi all. This is just a reminder to please trim your replies to that part > of the mail being replied to which pertains to your response. Thanks! How amusing, someone with a 9 line sig starts telling us about email courtesy. Please trim your sig to 4 lines

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch USB

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:43, Emmanuel Di Pretoro wrote: > I try to install my ADSL modem (an Alcatel Speedtouch), but it's failed :-( > > Can you tell me if the installation 2.4.18 kernel is compiled with the > right options ? It is not AFAIK. You need to compile your own kernel with the kernel-pat

Re: ADSL & Speedtouch

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:55, Emmanuel Di Pretoro wrote: > avalon:/home/saorge# ping http://www.google.be > ping: unknown host http://www.google.be Ping takes host names not URLs. Try pinging "www.google.be" for better results. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux p

Re: Set http_proxy on cardctl insert

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:22, Philipp Haller wrote: > I am trying to cope with different network environments. I set up various > schemes in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. This works fine. For one of those > schemes I need to set http_proxy. I tried the following (in > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts): # Extra st

Re: Set http_proxy on cardctl insert

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:56, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Yet another idea: If you always use a proxy, then set http_proxy to > something like http://123.45.67.89:12345 and use iptables to redirect > all outgoing connections to the proxy instead of 123.45.67.89:12345. > This allows you to switch proxies o

Re: Set http_proxy on cardctl insert

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:23, Rob Walker wrote: > However, if the goal is to force outgoing web surfing to go somewhere > else, what about masquerading anything going to ports 80 and 443 from > the local machine. That way you wouldn't have to change the proxy > settings on whatever browser you were u

Re: usb Adsl modem for debian under biege g3

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:16, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem > > Have a look at this page (Google is your friend) > http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/ > > > USB askey ale070 (I think the full name is Dynalink ALE070 USB ADSL My package kernel-patch-2.4-speedto

Re: mtrr setup

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:25, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > It's a 650MHz celeron with 320 mb ram (ASUS A1). > > On mplayer i consistently get the message that my system is too slow to > play dvd. And as I said cpu use is around 95%. I use mplayer for playing > dvds. I also tried xine but it was

Re: doubt??

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:32, Pietro Calogero wrote: > Also, I found out the hard way that I cannot establish firewall security > for my machine unless I install kernel 2.4.x. Woody comes with iptables > (which work only with 2.4x) and Woody does NOT come with ipchains (which > work with 2.2x or 2.4x)

Re: Firewalls, basic questions

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:57, Pietro Calogero wrote: > 1. Is there a way of searching the apt database for specific files? In "dselect" go to "Select" then type "/ipchains". Or even just "apt-get install ipchains", for some things you can just figure that they use the most obvious name and install

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:16, Soren A wrote: > > Try "vga=791". > > Since I cannot see any obvious correlation between this "791" and the > parameters given above (which I didn't know one could do, having just read > everything on LILO I could get my hands on, 12 hours ago), could you please > elabora

Re: cdrw/dvd, hdparm, and ide-scsi

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:55, Thorsten Hirsch wrote: > > In the documentation for framebuffer (I think -- sorry it was a couple > > of days ago that I read it) it seems to say something like "if you set a > > video mode other than VGA-standard in your lilo.conf, you will not be > > able to switch to a

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote: > I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows > OS booting meight look suspecious to customs), but: You must have some charge in your battery when going through the security checks as they will want to see the machine running.

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: > You can even use a stock laptop, but fill one of your peripherals with > explosives. Getting around airport security is pretty trivial. (You > can even go to the Tim Horton's in the gate area, and get an orange > juice. It comes in a nice glass bot

Re: vmlinuz too big

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:05, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "Matej Cepl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Carl Baldwin wrote: > > > Tem certeza que no menu "Loadable Module Support" todas as opcoes > > > estao escolhidas? > > > > Guys, could you please switch to English? > > This is a public list. Just bec

Re: vmlinuz too big

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:39, Hugo S. Carrer wrote: > > > This is a public list. Just because English is the > > > language we (mostly) have in common is no reason people > > > shouldn't use their own language. I don't speak > > > anything else, and can't read much better, but I have no > > > proble

Re: vmlinuz too big

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:14, Hugo S. Carrer wrote: > Anyway I agree with you that it would be chaotic if we had a > babel list. But one mail every now and then is not that bad Every spammer says that one mail every now and then is not that bad! The belief that you deserve to be the exception to the

Re: Battery life recovery - Everyone suggesting battery full drains, *read this*

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:55, yoda2 wrote: > Regarding the removal off the battery when on AC, i was wondering if > that's a good thing to do. I was told the battery "filters" the spikes > from the powernet so the electronics of you laptop get a stable spike > free current > > So the "filter" stor

Re: Battery Life

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:50, Tim Wood wrote: > I have a 4 year old Gateway 5150. It runs on the mains most of the time. > I leave the battery in all the time. > > Yesterday, as a check against what has been said on this list, I ran it > for 50 min. It went from 100% down to 50%. You may find that it

Re: Battery life recovery - Everyone suggesting battery full drains, *read this*

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:13, Ross Burton wrote: > Doh, IBM ThinkPad X22. > > Would it be safe to remove the battery whilst on? I don't fancy having > to shutdown/startup twice a day! I've tried that on several models of Thinkpad and friends have tried it on several other models. All the test resul

Re: What to choose? Mac or PC?

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:52, Matěj Hausenblas wrote: > Now I stand before a decision, what to buy, I've heard that the Macs are > more powerfull and aren't so quickly obsolete as PC's, but I never touched Being quickly obsolete is a really good thing if you want to buy second-hand! Ebay has

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:16, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: > Anyway, I'm working at 2 different locations and besides that I also have > net at home... This totals 3 different configs to send mail, so I would > try to figure out what's best to setup.. For sending mail from my laptop I have Postfix inst

Re: grub on ext3

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:36, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1825 +0100]: > > No problem. There is no diference between ext3 and ext2 file system in > > this case. > > ... provided that you did properly umount the filesystem before. > accessing an ext

Re: Probles with RAM detection IBM TP600

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:12, Andre Timmermann wrote: > So I should be able to use up to 160 MB RAM, but the BIOS shows only > 130496 kb of memory: > > 163840 kb installed, > 130496 kb usable Try forcing the matter with "mem=" on the command line. It may be that you can get Linux to use more memory

Re: Serious crash

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:25, Gary Hennigan wrote: > The other day I had a serious problem with my Debian laptop. I rarely > run it on batteries but a couple of days ago I did just that. After it > had been idle for around 2 hours I went to try and use it. No response > to any keys, so I powered it do

Re: Replacing Stolen laptop

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:55, Juergen Stuber wrote: > Not (i.e. no longer) true, the T series machines have touchpads, > otherwise I wouldn't be typing this on a T30 (they have the stick, too). Can you disable one of the forms of mouse device to exclusively use the other? I would like to use the sti

Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:33, Johannes Graumann wrote: > This might be a provoking question but I was wondering whether anybody on > the list had tried Gentoo Linux ... I get the impression that the custom > compiling done through this distribution might be the right thing for the > limited resources

Re: Debian <---> Gentoo

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:37, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Well, I'm aware that some of the BIG stuff will take a while to compile ... > am not planning to run KDE or Gnome though (Ion is what I use) - non the > less, I assume that a XFree86 compile will take a while ... but would it be > worth performa

Re: Virus Detected by Network Associates, Inc. Webshield SMTP V4.5 MR1a

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:21, Dan Rasmussen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:14:38PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > An E-mail from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > with subject Re: Application has been intercepted. The virus > > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in attachment your_details.z

Re: apache

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:35, Paul Bryan wrote: > That's exactly right. Whenever a request comes in on port 80, inetd starts > up an apache process to handle it. Once the request is completed, inetd > kills the apache process. inetd does not kill the Apache process, it reaps (via wait()) the Apache p

Re: apache

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:39, Paul Bryan wrote: > > If Apache decides not to die then most (all?) inetd programs will happily > > allow it to do so. [...] > Only serving a single connection makes sense to me, as otherwise it seems > to defeat the purpose of using inetd in the first place. In any event,

kernel pcmcia modules

I have just tried switching from the pcmcia-source package to the kernel tree for the PCMCIA drivers. When I insert my network card the correct device driver is loaded, but the pcmcia-cs code does not run dhclient etc. The kernel is the only thing that I have changed, with the other kernel with

Re: kernel pcmcia modules

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:56, mi wrote: > > I have just tried switching from the pcmcia-source package to the kernel > > tree for the PCMCIA drivers. > > /etc/default/pcmcia CPC=yenta_socket is alright ? Here is the contents of my /etc/default/pcmcia: # Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcm

Re: kernel pcmcia modules

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:11, Sam Clegg wrote: > Shouldn't /etc/network/interfaces control when and where to run > dhclient? Presumably the pcmcia scripts should call ifup eth? (or > send a hotplug even which then calls ifup eth?) at some > point which would then trigger dhcp (if thats what you speci

Re: kernel pcmcia modules

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 06:08, mi wrote: > > Here is the contents of my /etc/default/pcmcia: > > # Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia) > > PCMCIA=yes > > PCIC=i82365 > > PCIC_OPTS= > > CORE_OPTS= > > CARDMGR_OPTS= > > Are there any specific changes that you recommend I should try? > > y

Re: pcmcia-cs trouble

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:33, Ottavio Campana wrote: > The adapter seems to work only with the yenta_socket module. If I load > it I see the correct debug output. I've seens that the debian > package of pcmcia always loads the i82365 module, even if I specify > PCIC=yenta_socket . >

Re: pcmcia-cs trouble

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:00, Derek Broughton wrote: > > However my PCMCIA functionality is currently less than yours, when a card > > is inserted the driver is loaded but no scripts are run. > > iirc, you didn't have a PCMCIA card, it was a Cardbus card. In which case, > it should skip the pcmcia sc

Re: experience with late model laptops?

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > several manufacturers have expressed concerns over giving out details of > their 802.11{b,g,??} chips. The explanation given is that users could try > to pervert the frequencies or power output of the cards for nefarious > purposes. I am unde

Re: experience with late model laptops?

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:41, Micha Feigin wrote: > From personal experience and quite a few people I work with, IBM seem to > be a good option. When in Ottawa my Thinkpad started dieing from over-heat (the cooling fan was not working properly. Also the screen was dull (for unknown reasons - but th

Re: Wicked screensaver

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:31, Jason Straw wrote: > Can we please ban these auto responders? > > they are worse then the virus themselves... and I am seeing a lot of > this virus... Just deal with them the way you deal with all other spammers. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security En

Re: [OT] Virusses (many!) via list?

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:53, Stefan Goessling-Reisemann wrote: > since I wrote two messages to the list, I receive approx. 60 virus mails > per day. Seems that my address has gotten into the addressbook of some > poor virus-victims whose mail program (Outlook?) now sends out virusses by > the thousan

Re: Second hand laptop

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:49, ralph bacolod wrote: > Hi! Im planning to buy a second hand laptop .How do I > know if the monitor is a TFT monitor? What other > things should I look out for? One thing to consider is purchasing through your local LUG. If the laptop already runs Linux and the function

Re: changing root shell

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 04:33, Anish Muttreja wrote: > I did something very silly on mu laptop. I manged to set the root shell to > an incorrect value. > Now I can't login as root. For future reference, the way to solve this is to append "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel boot parameters (both GRUB and L

Re: Pentium-M

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 06:11, Simone Crippa wrote: > I have heard several different opinions about the best CPU optimization > for compiling a new Kernel for a Pentium-M (Centrino) system. > > Some say Pentium-IV others say Pentium-3. Rumor has it that the Pentium-M core is more similar to P-3 than P-

Re:

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 14:10, jamal khan wrote: > i want driver for crystal sound fusion (tm) cs-4281 Enable the option CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 and rebuild your kernel. One problem with that sound module is that it will not work correctly after suspend, so on resume you have to unload the module (fuser

Re: Debian Users...

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:00, Caoilte O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doesn't fam engage in periodic disk access? i certainly get > a lot less when not using kde despite having 256M RAM. I was under the impression that the sole point of FAM was to avoid disk access, it should use the kernel dn

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