QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid

2012-03-14 Thread Mike Alborn
Hi all, I have a Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF (USB ID 046d:0994). The Pan/Tilt controls work fine under Debian Squeeze, but they fail under Debian Sid. When I plug in the camera, udev runs uvcdynctrl to load the pan/tilt controls into the driver. On Debian Squeeze, this works OK, but here is what h

Problem with Seagate ATA Tape drive

2002-02-04 Thread Mike Alborn
ttached at /dev/hdc (secondary master) /dev/tape points to /dev/ht0 (first and only tape in the system) Any ideas? (Please CC me any responses as I am not subscribed to the list) TIA, -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30B # http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org If you want me to be

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-03 Thread Mike Alborn
package like this: # dpkg -i package where package is the full name of the .deb file Note that, like its cousin rpm, dpkg won't track satisfy dependencies automagically, etc., etc. HTH, -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D The longer the title, the less important the job. pgpwBIlagVxs7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Mike Alborn
perhaps there is someone out there who has that may be of more help. HTH, -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young man. -- Moms Mabley pgpDQw6Rjh42q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: router stopped forwarding packets - SOLVED

2001-10-01 Thread Mike Alborn
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:38:00PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Mike Alborn (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:06:32AM -0700): > > I have a debian unstable machine here (specifics below) > > functioning as a router. At least, it _was_. This morning, each segment > >

router stopped forwarding packets

2001-10-01 Thread Mike Alborn
will route everything) As I mentioned, this machine has worked well up until now. When I have set up routers in the past, this was all it took to get them routing packets. If I have missed something, or if you would like more information, please let me know. -- Mike Alborn

Re: Kernel-image on intel

2001-09-28 Thread Mike Alborn
#x27;t use them in my lilo.conf. Here's what my config looks like for kernel 2.4.9: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-686 label=2.4.9-686 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-686 read-only # useful if your root filesystem is ext2 > > Also I do

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-27 Thread Mike Alborn
f and insert the apm driver into the kernel - I think it lives in kernel/arch/i386 - at least in 2.4.x I did this, and the system automagically powered itself off when shutting down. HTH, -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D Don't try to

Re: some questions about lilo

2001-09-27 Thread Mike Alborn
talog #Learning Debian GNU/Linux# that > lilo can only be installed in the mbr resp. in the boot block of the > first harddisk. Is this statement still valid ? As mentioned above, the statement is still valid if LILO is the only bootloader on the system. HTH, -- Mike Albo

Re: Which CDs to buy? (Did apt-get, nervous about kernel compile)

2001-09-26 Thread Mike Alborn
extras, like the "contrib" section, for instance. In any case, all of the above options you mention will contain enough to get the system up and connected. From there you can fetch the rest from the internet. HTH, -- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # pgp keyid: C36DC30D We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. -- Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates pgpjvmQfEqhmK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unix password config

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Alborn
user's password has to have at least 4 > characters, and the new password can't be too similar to the old one. > > I would like the setup so that the user can change their password to > practically anything. > Is this possible? > Check in /etc/pam.d/passwd -- Mike Alb

Re: Wrong cpu speed detection...

2001-09-23 Thread Mike Alborn
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:31:49AM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux it thinks > the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!! > > Does anyone know why? > > Regards, > Ricardo Diz What power mode is your machine in when it bo

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: *snip* > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get upgrade', I > get the following error: > > 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed,

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:14:40PM -0600, John Purser wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > No, I don't have a boot floppy though I think I might be able to make one > from the installation CD's. Do you know the partition where your root filesystem is located? If you do, you can boot the in

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-18 Thread Mike Alborn
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Folks- > > My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading > three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to > archive the files locally and have the two boxen behind the ipmasq'ed

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

2001-09-17 Thread Mike Alborn
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:22:01PM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > Mike, > thanx for your suggestions, but I have neither a .xinitrc, a .xsession, a > .Xinitrc, a .Xsession, or XINITRC set (I do have a .Xdefaults which > contains lots of stuff but nothing Gnomish). > I found that /etc/alternat

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

2001-09-17 Thread Mike Alborn
for config; perhaps you could set that differently, depending on which disk you happen to be running, and xinit will look there instead of the default .xinitrc hth, -Mike Alborn http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:26:25PM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: >