Cool. Are there instructions anywhere on getting Quake working? I'm going
through the howto, but I'm missing libraries apparently:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] quake]$ ldd quake.x11
libm.so.5 => not found
libX11.so.6 => not found
libXext.so.6 => not found
libc.so.5 => not found
I h
Someone mentioned it on irc, on #debian a couple weeks ago, but I can't
remember the reference. Said there was some serial terminal emulator
that supported the 'linux' term type, so one wouldn't have to mess
around with minicom.
Anyone know what it is?
-- Ferret
Ok...
lupus:/usr/lib# dpkg -l xlib6g
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name VersionDescription
+++-===
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:42:15PM -0800):
> $ startx & exit
>
> ...which is what I use (do what I mean, not what I say). I can assure
> you there are no console sessions on this box.
this will kill my X immediately and log off. the only way i got it to
work is
it's automatically set up to use 3D acceleration.
pete
On Fri 02 Mar 01, 11:27 PM, Michael P. Soulier said:
> Hey people. I recently installed XFree86 4.0 and am using the tdfx driver
> for my Voodoo 3. Is it automatically set up to use 3D accel, or do I still
> have to work to do if I want
on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:52:28PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:55:32AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is there a way to run apt-get through a ftp/http firewall?
> >
> > Thank you
>
> Can you see web page from behind firewall?
> If so, you can us
also sprach John Galt (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:44:32PM -0700):
> Have you discussed this with the boot-floppies team?
nope. haven't had a chance yet. "the last time i tried" was yesterday
night.
martin
[greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@@@.net
--
"
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:48:30PM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> ...
> > > so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config!
> >
> > Um. How about:
> >
> > $ startx ; exit
>
> I think better option is to use nohup and actually exit. t
Have you discussed this with the boot-floppies team?
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
>also sprach ktb (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:42:20PM -0600):
>> Snag, at minimum -
>> rescue.bin
>> root.bin
>
>... except the last time that i tried root.bin from like 5 different
>locations, dd'ing and loop mo
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:30:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I
> have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it,
> but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured
i'm trying to compile userlink-source on the latest "stable" distribution. it
complains that /usr/include/linux/modversions.h dosn't exist (which it dosn't),
and if i switch /usr/include/linux to be a link to
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17, it just chokes during compile with compile
errors.
i've
Johnny Blade wrote:
>
> I've been attempting to prepare my machine to play
> some quake, but I can't get the 3dfx.o module to work.
> I downloaded the device3dfx source using apt-get, ran
> the buildpkg script, and then installed the .deb
> created. As the deb is trying to update-modules, I
> se
Hey people. I recently installed XFree86 4.0 and am using the tdfx driver
for my Voodoo 3. Is it automatically set up to use 3D accel, or do I still
have to work to do if I want to play Quake?
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. How
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:00:06PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> also sprach Robert Tucker (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:14:44PM -0800):
> > Ok... Now, what is vmware? And pvm? I see I have a lot of
> > memorization to do. I have two other computers (both 486's) and I
> > plan to initially
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:39:54PM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > edu) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a problem. I have RedHat on /dev/hd1, and Debian on /de
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:08:47PM -0800):
> Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher
> utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk
> radius. This tends to equalize head movement in and out. Unless heads
> park in either
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:22:47PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800):
> > > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition)
> > > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition)
> > > > hdb3 (extended partition containing l
Hey,
I was wondering if their was a way to manually install
mozilla plugins. I need the java one, but I can't get
it because I can't get FTP to work with my proxy
server (help with that too please). I did manage to
download it from a Windoze machine (the proxy server),
and so now I have a file n
Philipp Bliedung wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have simple question concerning compiling a programm
> When I compile a program from the sources and it beakes for whatever
> reason, how can I get rid of all the files that were created so far or
> how can I remove this 'broken' program ? Is there anyt
also sprach will trillich (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:47:12PM -0600):
> ANY operating system? would that include mac os x? :)
> seriously, would it do mac os 8 or 9?
don't quote me on it, but i don't think so. i should have said - any
operating system that runs on x86.
martin
[greetings from the hea
hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1
out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my
sources.list, but
apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix
doesn't work, and
apt-get --download-only install postfix
reports that postfix is already
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> >
> > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root
> > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real
>
> why did you
William T Wilson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote:
>
> > > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
> > > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd
> > > processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die un
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:00:06PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> vmware allows you to run windoze on top of linux. or any operating
> system as a matter of fact. and pvm is distributed processing, i
> really just threw it in to emphasize that i don't see a place for
> computer games in the life of any p
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:24:08PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ lpr mail.out
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
> I've checked, the the lpd daemon is running on both machines.
>
> What am I missing?
Ah,
For the Aureal. Take a look on sourceforge.net I saw it out there when I
had to get it. You will have to compile it yourself. It used to be at
linux.aureal.com but they went out of business, but the driver modules are
at sourceforge. I had no problems compiling and installing it and it worked
gr
also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800):
> > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition)
> > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition)
> > > hdb3 (extended partition containing logical > slices)
> > > hdb5 /
> > > hdb6 /var
> > > hdb7 /tmp
> > > hdb8 /home
> > >
see subject, all the documentation i have been following on
linuxprinting.org involves ghostscript, which is broken on debian.
(see my other mail, all it does when run by lpd is spit out "svgalib:
Cannot get I/O permissions.")
if anyone has gotten this or a similar model working on debian could
Hey people. I need some help getting remote printing to work. I have a
print server with a local printer attached. I used magicfilter and now it
works great. Now, I'd like to be able to use lpr to remotely print to it like
I do at work.
My local /etc/printcap is
lp|Remote printer entry:\
> When I start X Windows, using the KDE window manager, I change to root
> (with su - )
> for administrative tasks. However I seem unable to run X window
> applications.
>
> Whatever X application I try to run, I inevitably get a message similar
> to "... unable to open display".
Try this. W
I finished installing the system. I got all the
partitions working after having to use expert mode in
fdisk. I then jumped back into the debian curses
install and it went right on to the next step, no
problems. That is a very robust installer. As of
right now I am booting from floppy until
also sprach Robert Tucker (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:41:24AM -0800):
> After reading the above ref. I am curious as to getting on-line
> after I boot into Linux. Do I need to have some files available
> beyond rescue.bin and root.bin? dbootstrap is mentioned as the
> program to use to continue install
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Martin Fluch wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I can't get X windows to work in Woody. xdm doesn't
> > start on its own, and if I try 'startx', it says:
> >
> > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (N such file or directory),
>
> Is the
ktb wrote:
> Assuming i386 and your going to do an install off the Internet -
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
>
> Snag, at minimum -
> rescue.bin
> root.bin
>
> Read this section again -
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-met
> What's the output of the following:
>
> $ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C
... this is what I set it to with the c
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>you know how you hit "c" to open other mailboxes and it says:
>
> Open mailbox ('?' for list):
>
>well, i can no longer use '?' to see the list of mailboxes. it does
>nothing; it simply drops me back to the main mailbox index.
>
>the only thing i can
Thanks! This was the problem. Now I have X windows
again. Some other stuff is not working completely
(the fonts look _bad_ all of a sudden), but I'm
running again.
Thanks for the help (and in 15 minutes, too!),
Aaron and the two others who replied.
Terry Hancock
> > Indeed, there is no /etc/X
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 02:17:44AM +0100):
> reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what
> this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing
> that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews,
> you loose context easily.
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:15:35PM -0800):
> On Fri 02 Mar 01, 8:06 PM, MaD dUCK said:
> > are you running mail as root??? don't do that!
> just out of curiosity, why? i've never heard a compelling reason
> for that
the simplest reason: because you shouldn't ever be l
>> [2001/02/26 22:26:25, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
>> file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are
available.
This is common in my log file as well. Is it a problem? Can it be fixed?
_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your f
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:59:25PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what
this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing
that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews,
you loose context easily. I know I should
Anyone have OpenGL experience? I'm porting my companies
engineering software from HP/IBM/SGI UNIX systems to Linux.
Our graphics take advantage of OpenGL. From what I can see
OpenGL is a set of graphics libraries that need a special
graphics card to run. I found the OpenGL libraries (actually
Me
dear all,
you know how you hit "c" to open other mailboxes and it says:
Open mailbox ('?' for list):
well, i can no longer use '?' to see the list of mailboxes. it does
nothing; it simply drops me back to the main mailbox index.
the only thing i can think of is that i *just* updated woody u
also sprach ktb (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:42:20PM -0600):
> Snag, at minimum -
> rescue.bin
> root.bin
... except the last time that i tried root.bin from like 5 different
locations, dd'ing and loop mounting it several times, it never turned
out to be a valid filesystem and i could never use it. may
I'm running Lyx 1.1.16fix1, using sgmltools under the DocBook class to
translate my sgml class document to other formats. Regardless of what I do
to view or export the text, I get an error stating:
File "/usr/lib/sgml/misc/sgmltools/python/utils.py",
line 250
This is the message thrown back when I run apt-get:
==
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/apache-doc_1.3.9-13.2_all.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `doc-linux-zh' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/a
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:39:59AM +0200, Hannu Virtanen wrote:
> Does anyone know, if there is available any debian ('stable, 'potato')
> package of the latest version (1.1.6fix1-1) of Lyx?
...
Not that I am aware of... I DL'd that version from www.lyx.org and compiled
it myself, getting it inst
on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:27:55AM -0800, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> SamBozo Debian User wrote:
> >
> > Hello to the group,
> > Recently there were comments made as to the "foolishness" of
> > rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of
> > the cli entr
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
...
> > so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config!
>
> Um. How about:
>
> $ startx ; exit
I think better option is to use nohup and actually exit. that way you
are sure. or use virtual console lock:-) if such a beast exists.
erik
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error
> doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I
> open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I
> a
"Lewis, James M." wrote:
>
> >
> > I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I
> > have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it,
> > but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and
> > running on another network, and there is
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote:
>
> When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root
> and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real
why did you do that? if you have seperate partitions there is no need
to back them up,
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> Even more, does anyone on list know of a good source for 'Linux laptops'
> now that both linuxlaptops.com and tuxtops.com seem to have suspended
> production?
>
> Glenn Becker
> Online Producer, Community
> SCI
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi all...
> I'm looking for a web site that would have
> a nice list and basic description of debian commands.
> Anyone know of such a place?
>
> or even just linux commands for that matter...
O'Reilly's
I don't have an intellimouse so this is an educated guess :-)
I think you may have a conflict between X and gpm. Try disabling gpm and
setting your device to /dev/psaux in XF86Config-4:
Option "Device""/dev/psaux"
Good luck, Simon.
On Saturday 03 March 2001 1:07 am, Charles Lewis wrote:
On Saturday 03 March 2001 01:22, Tibor D. wrote:
> Lars Knudsen wrote:
> > Have you tried adding
> >
> > sid/
> >
> > to your exclude file ? I am mirroring the i386 part of the debian
> > tree in a single rsync run using a relatively long exclude file.
> > This seems perfectly possible on a 64k lin
Sorry, I should have done that.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~#more /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=30
message=/boot/message
linear
default=RedHat7
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=RedHat7
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
image=/boot/vmlinu
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:34:20AM -0800, Robert Tucker wrote:
> Ok... I admit it. I seem to be a simpleton. I've been through the dirs
> and read all the docs and instructions and I've looked at all the files,
> etc. and I'm still not sure which files I use to create the disks I need
> to put Debi
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to set up a network connection between two computers which are
> connected with a serial cable (null modem).
> One computer is an i386 with 2.4.0, the other is an Macintosh Quadra 610
^^^
> with 2.2.10, bot
> The exact command I am using is as follows:
>
> rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192
> saens.debian.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso .
>
> which as far as I can tell is what the readme file says to do, substituting
> a real site for the sample given. I have tried
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:11AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I boot from boot floppy only, no lilo... and the boot floppy stratightaway
> loads the kernel without any lilo prompt.. and then gets stuck at Kernel
> Panic: No root file system.
> I do have debian rescue di
I had X (XFree86 4.0.2)working fine until I started trying to get my
IntelliMouse wheel to work. I even tried running xf86config again. When I
startx it attempts to load but fails with no error messages. The last few
lines after it attempts:
...
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse1: Core Po
I'm thinking you could use a snort ruleset to do the trick...
They have a policy ruleset that covers it at
http://www.snort.org/Files/03012001/policy.rules
Looks like about a dozen or so rules for napster, and another half dozen
or so gnutella
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Martin Marconcini wrote:
on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem. I have RedHat on /dev/hd1, and Debian on /dev/hd5 (that I
> just transferred from another HD). The problem is, when I boot into Debian,
> the system.map of RedHat is still being used
AAA! apt-get dist-upgrade hosed my system yesterday!
Well, hosed is a bit rough... everything works but it seems 'su' is
busted. It says:
"su: Unrecognized Linux-PAM error
Sorry."
I've tried reinstalling all packages related to login, libpam, libpam-
modules, etc. I've tried pwconv'ing and pw
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:28:39PM -0800):
> $ startx ; exit
... which you can probably suspend... even more dangerous because now
the user doesn't even notice that the system has been accessed over
lunch. i think you can suspend. i am not sure.
martin
[greeting
Ok... I admit it. I seem to be a simpleton. I've been through the dirs
and read all the docs and instructions and I've looked at all the files,
etc. and I'm still not sure which files I use to create the disks I need
to put Debian on my machine. I want to do as little disk generation as
possable (i
I downloaded a theme from and used "control center" to install it. The
theme seems to be in ~/.themes but is not available under themeselector.
cat /dev/sndstat
would be the first thing I tried. Today seems to be my day to refer to
howtos...:)
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Walter Tautz wrote:
>I have recently suffered a mysterious failure in my sound
>card that was working perfectly (es1371) and the m
on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> also sprach Glenn Becker (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:14:48PM -0500):
> > I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to
> > 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-)
>
> well, do consi
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
>I;m integrating a Debian "testing" machine inot a network with lot's of
>FreeBSD machines, and some HP-UX, and Sun machines.
>
>I'm having a hard time geting the Debian box to print to our networked
>(JetDirect) printer. Can anyone give me a pointer to some d
This is more appropriate on debian-user, redirected. BTW, it's a FAQ,
look in the archives:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0102/msg02154.html
Just out of curiosity, what prompted you to use -project to ask? There
has been a rash of -user type questions on -project as of late, and I'm
wond
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:26:36PM -0500, Alec Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm faced with recommending a new printer for my parents as their old unit
> is starting to show its age. The goal is to find something for $350 or
> less which is Linux friendly since I'll also be using it. The print
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:33:35PM -0800, michael young ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> recently installed xfree86-4. now when I try to
> start x I get:
>
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
>
> ..
> ...
> .
>
> and so on...What else do I need to do?
Check your networking co
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:53:42PM -0300, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please, how do I can configure (set) my Video Card SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2
> on my Debian? I don't run X on my card video!!!
What kind of problem do you have?
I had the same video card and didn't have problems with i
>
> I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I
> have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it,
> but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and
> running on another network, and there is some info to that respect in
> the d
> Well, my method wasn't perfect, but it would probably get the napster
> traffic down 75% (depending on the knowledge of the userbase in
> question).
Never underestimate the power of free music =)
>
> I don't think you can get around the opennap problem, since you wouldn't
> know where it is loc
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:09:56AM -0800, Ian Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have a copy of Debian 2.1 Slink that I am trying
> to install to a second harddrive.
>
> I just recently found out on a website that cfdisk
> cannot create extended partitions. I attempted to do
> this whe
>
> >Is there an ftp equivalent? I am having trouble getting apt-get to work
> >using http, and am limited to using the ftp method at teh moment.
>
> You can download the packages with wget and add a line pointing
> to their location on your harddisk to sources.list (that's what I
Sorry!!
This went my first e-mail to the lists.
I was trying to solve my problem quickly.
Do you have a suggestion of which lists to participate?
Or do you suggest that I don't send messages using vary lists at the same
time? Is this?
Marcelo
At 13:24 02/03/01 -0800, Alexander Hvostov wr
on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:27:38AM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have set up a "stable" machine that I plan on using for, among other
> things, and Amanda tapehost.
>
> Amanada mails you a report after every run. Problem is, I'm not getting
> that report. Further if I fire up el
I am running a dual cpu box and would like to get top to display the
load on each cpu seperately. When I briefly had Mandrake 7.2
installed, top showed each cpu individually, so it obviously can be
done. How can I configure it to do so?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stan Brown"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've found
>>that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring basis.
I have installed them on three computers with different configurations
and had no pro
also sprach Michael Leone (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:00:38PM -0500):
> There is memtest86. You might do better to bring them to a local computer
> shop, and ask them to leave it in their RAM tester overnight. I know PCM, on
> Walnut St. in Philadelphia, will do this for you.
found memtest86. i think
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From: "MaD dUCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian users" ; "plug"
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Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 3:37 PM
Subject: [PLUG] ram tests
> so i got a couple of pc100 sdram dimms sitting 'round and i don't know
> if they work. i have this linux box sitting h
Marcelo,
Do *not* crosspost this to irrelevant lists. You *will* get flamed (or
worse).
Regards,
Alex.
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on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:30:55PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
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> This is in the way of a partial followup to an earlier query of mine about
> locales and locale definitions ...
>
> I managed to change LC_ALL back to what I understand to be the default
> value, "C" ...
>
>
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:14:36PM -0800):
> true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdisk.
>
> > utmp/wtmp,
>
> what does the kernel have to do with utmp and wtmp? why would the kernel
> care about who is logging into your system?
okay, i see where you are coming fro
on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:19:23PM -0500, Robert Mosher ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I just got XFree 3.3.6 running on Debian 2.1r2, unfortunately the text is
> unreadable. It appears as a whole bunch of vertical lines, or random
> blocks. It appears this way at every resolution. However when I br
Hi,
Please, how do I can configure (set) my Video Card SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver 2.2
on my Debian? I don't run X on my card video!!!
Thanks Very Much!
Marcelo
Mocada, como faco para configurar minha placa de video SiS 6326 8MB AGP Ver
2.2 no Debian para poder executar o X??
Muito obrigado.
Mar
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86
looks nice.
martin
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Terry Hancock wrote:
>
> Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the
> unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get
> to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X
> packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but
> here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening
> s
so i got a couple of pc100 sdram dimms sitting 'round and i don't know
if they work. i have this linux box sitting here which i want to use
to test the things, but i don't know what software to use.
do you know of any hardcore ram test software for linux which will do
read and write tests on the r
Bastian Bowe wrote:
Hello,
what happens if you send some peace of text directly (as root) to the device?
eg. $ echo "This is a test" > /dev/usb/lp0
Bye
Interesting. I get a message "No such device."
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote:
> $ X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1
> X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory),
> aborting
> Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what
> should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what?
This file should be a symlink t
Terry Hancock wrote:
Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what
should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what?
Yes.
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Mar 1 01:50 /etc/X11/X ->
/usr/bin/X11/XFree86
Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the
unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get
to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X
packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but
here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening
steps):
$ X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1
X: Can
On Fri 02 Mar 01, 2:59 PM, MaD dUCK said:
> also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100):
> > /var: copy it to /tmp first?
> >or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var?
>
> thing is: the boot process needs scratch space.
true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdi
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100):
> /var: copy it to /tmp first?
>or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var?
thing is: the boot process needs scratch space. log files, utmp/wtmp,
pid files and all that jazz. these reside in /var, and a bootable
cdrom mu
also sprach Marcelo Chiapparini (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:29:11PM -0300):
> Thank you, this option worked too. I will remain stick with this one...
if you prefer ee over vi in general, then my approach will be the
better one. if you only want ee in mutt, use the .muttrc approach.
martin
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