lilo problem after upgrade on sid

2004-06-30 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
hi i've been running sid and after an apt-get -f upgrade yesterday morning, i found that my lilo hangs. the letters "LIL.." come up and it simply freezes. i read through several man-pages and lists and figured that the lilo may be pointing to incorrect map or something simply wrong with the MBR.

nvidia quadro 280: cannot start x

2003-10-15 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
hi i am having trouble starting x with this nvidia quadro graphics card on a dell precision 360. i got the driver from nvidia's website and installed it. i really think its not a driver issue but something fundamental with X. this is a new debian installation and i have never run X on it before.

Re: e1000 cannot bring up intel pro/1000 MT interface

2003-10-02 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
David Z Maze wrote: Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i have a dell precision 360 with an IntelĀ® PRO/1000 MT Gigabit6 Ethernet LOM. i learned that e1000 is the driver and got it by compiling kernel 2.4.22. i inserted aprop entries in /etc/network/interfaces and in modutil

e1000 cannot bring up intel pro/1000 MT interface

2003-10-01 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
hi, i have a dell precision 360 with an IntelĀ® PRO/1000 MT Gigabit6 Ethernet LOM. i learned that e1000 is the driver and got it by compiling kernel 2.4.22. i inserted aprop entries in /etc/network/interfaces and in modutils/ and updated modules.conf. when i try to bring up the interface, this

communicating between subnets

2003-09-04 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
here is the scenario. subnet 1 192.168.1.x contains a gateway 192.168.1.1 (with dual network interface) connected to the internet and a number of clients subnet 2 192.168.0.x contains a gateway 192.168.0.1 (with dual network interface) connected to the internet and a number of clients a friend a

Re: acme package - experiences

2003-08-27 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:40:39 +0200, Olivier Robert wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:20:35AM -0500, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:46:58 +0200, Olivier Robert wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm wondering if someone's

Re: acme package - experiences

2003-08-25 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:46:58 +0200, Olivier Robert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package. > The packege description is: > > acme - Enables the "multimedia buttons" found on laptopsacme - Enables > the "multimedia buttons" found on laptops > > I ha

Re: cannot install perl-doc

2003-08-25 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:49:57 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > apt-cache policy perl > rock:/home/dude# apt-cache policy perl perl: Installed: 5.8.0-17 Candidate: 5.8.0-17 Version Table: *** 5.8.0-17 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 5.6.1-8.3 0 500 http://security.debian.org s

cannot install perl-doc

2003-08-24 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
hello there, for some reason, when i try to install perl-doc, i get this message: ** Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution

installing gnome2.2, broken packages

2003-07-28 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
al: Depends: librsvg2-common but it is not going to be installed gtk2-engines-thinice: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.2.1) but 2.0.2-5woody1 is to be installed Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.2.1) but 1.0.1-3 is to be installed gtk2-engines-wasp: Depends: gnome-themes-ex

acme on gnome2.2

2003-03-26 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello there i have been using acme2.0-1woody1 on gnome2.2 (backport provided by evil-geniuses planet server). i had all the multimedia keys working on my compaq presario 1720US the first time i configured them. but i think after i restarted the machi

no X after installing msttcorefonts

2003-03-06 Thread praveen kallakuri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello i tried this on debian laptops but dint get any useful responses. hopefully someone here can help me. here's my setup; woody -- 2.4.17 customized for acpi - gnome2 - gdm2 i recently upgraded to gnome2 and things were fine except that my fonts we

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-02 Thread praveen kallakuri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- you dont have a lo in ur route: loopback interface. check whether you can ping to yourself (lo) 127.0.0.1 on each pc. then configure pc1 as 192.168.0.1. repeat the two steps with pc2, only changing the ip address. the initial sections of Net-HOWTO must help. so

Re: Power off

2003-03-01 Thread praveen kallakuri
acpi is a new standard in power management that is more under the control of the OS than the bios. if acpi is enabled, you should have things like ac_adapter, battery, etc under /proc/acpi. or you can check dmesg and whether you can see ACPI related messages, you should see messages like "batte

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-28 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
which of the messages appears!! :) in the shell where you say env variables are not reflected. solong Vineet Kumar wrote: * Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 18:16 PST]: On Friday 28 February 2003 01:06, praveen kallakuri wrote: your console may not be spawning a login shell. that

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread praveen kallakuri
your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login shell). trying using a standard terminal. or alternatively, put your environment variables in .bashrc in your HOME. and source .bashrc in your .bash_p