Re: [Solved] Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down

2005-12-14 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:44:27PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip: trouble after upgrading yaird] > > > I've just recovered from the same problem. The culprit seems to be yaird > (Bug#343042). I tried removing yaird, which gor me 'initramfs-tools' > installed, but the initrd would still not

Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down

2005-12-14 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, I've recently upgraded the linux-image-2.6-686 package to 2.6.14-5[1]. The installation went as normal when new kernel images are installed, but the ensuing reboot didn't work out as expected. Immediately after the first IDE disk was detected, output like this was generated on the console: /

Re: Dell XPS gen 3 trouble

2004-12-15 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:55:20PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > > > 1) The Dell XPS comes with two 160 GB sata drives, which are only > > usable from Linux when configured for pata access[1]. I have been > > unable to enable DMA[2] on the disks, which is obviously detrimental > > to performance.

Dell XPS gen 3 trouble

2004-12-14 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, After struggling with the onboard sata controller, on my brand new Dell XPS gen 3 at work, I finally got Debian booted and installed, using debian-installer rc2. Unfortunately, a few kinks remain to be ironed out: 1) The Dell XPS comes with two 160 GB sata drives, which are only usable from L

Nokia Cardphone under Linux 2.6.x

2004-06-09 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi, I am trying to get my Nokia Cardphone working with a 2.6.6 kernel on Debian unstable. So far I've been unsuccessful. All the documentation I've come across via Google (including the driver distributed by Nokia) is for the 2.4.x series, and as far as I can tell isn't working/compiling with 2.6

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:34, David selby wrote: > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. df(1) -- Søren O.

Re: Evolution Crashing after upgrade (unstable)

2003-06-03 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
tir, 2003-06-03 kl. 09:21 skrev Kristian: > Has anybody experienced a permanent Evolution startup crash right after > a recent upgrade on a Debian unstable machine? > > After the crash I get the chance to submit a bug report through > bugzilla, but on the bugzilla page there's no "evolution" packa

Re: Ximian Evolution unstable-on-testing sending problem

2003-04-05 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hello lør, 2003-04-05 kl. 15:25 skrev Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra: [snip: misfeature in Ximian Evolution in Debian] > Does this seems like warranting a bug report? I would suggest subscribing to the Evolution mailinglist at Ximians website. Quite a few of the evolution develop

Re: Wireless Ethernet hardware (Was: none)

2003-04-03 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hi tor, 2003-04-03 kl. 21:42 skrev David Z Maze: > Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip looking for wlan hardware] > My experience has been that brand doesn't matter; the only thing you > really care about is that your 802.11b card is based on an O

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2003-04-03 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
Hello I've been looking into buying hardware to build a wlan at home, to avoid all the annoying cables. However, determining which cards are supported (and reasonably easy to get running) with a stock Debian GNU/Linux (Unstable) install has proven tricky. Thus, I would very much like some input on

Re: documentation of libraries

2002-05-06 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be > lacking all sorts of libraries. > > Is there any documentation about what lib

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:26:49PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:15:38 +0200 "Johann Spies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:06:22AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > > > > > > Just curio