Re: xserver will not start after dist-upgrade

2009-09-29 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
2009/9/29 Svenn Are Bjerkem : > Anybody experienced this or have a solution. I found my own answer after some more googling: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548724 wasn't enough to google for xserver-xorg, there should also have been some intel words in there. Since th

xserver will not start after dist-upgrade

2009-09-29 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Hi, yesterday evening I did a dist-upgrade. Now the xserver is not starting anymore. I have lenny, testing and unstable deb packages in my sources.list and dist-upgrade pulled in 7.4 of xserver-xorg. I tried to downgrade to xserver-xorg to 7.3, but the server ends with the same message. There is

Re: ia32-apt-get or libc6-i386 on amd64, debian sid?

2009-07-20 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
2009/7/19 MRH : > I'm pretty confused with the latest changes in sid on amd64. Do ia32-* > packages replace -i386 packages or they are alternatives? After 'upgrading' > to ia32-apt-get I lost wine (however I found there is ia32-wine, which > unfortunately is not displayed in synaptic and I'm not su

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sunday 05 September 2004 01:52, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'll just hand the cluebat off to Karsten for this one, since he's > answered it quite nicely already from the last time some pinhead > got upset at established standards. > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html Interes

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 03 September 2004 19:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > People sign their messages on Usenet as well.  If you don't like > PGP or GPG, that's a personal problem that you need to take care of > on your own. Oh, so it is a personal problem... Well, I am taking care of it: I am asking those who do

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-04 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 03 September 2004 19:05, s. keeling wrote: > Well, that's the dumbest thought I've seen in a while.  I've seen > more signed posts to Usenet than I see in mailing lists. Then we don't hang out on the same usenet groups, I understand, because I really can't agree on that statement. And

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-03 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Paul, can you turn off this pgp crap? It is annoying On Wednesday 01 September 2004 01:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 ... > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBNQPnUzgNqloQMwcR

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-03 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:01, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why fracture and duplicate the effort already taken care of by > lists.debian.org? Because we are fed up with people using pgp and gpg on emails to mailinglists. -- Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-04 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Monday 01 December 2003 11:28, Hereon wrote: > 1) The Debian user community is substantially suboptimally served >    with the existence of the current debian-user list. As some debian users post to debian-user without being subscribed, they request to be cc'ed by the helpers. As said users ma

Re: system reboots before booting

2003-10-04 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 21:28, David Fokkema wrote: > Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand > is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on > different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it might mean > nothing... It means nothin

Re: Alsa and Realplayer

2003-05-29 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 10:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Problem 2: ... > Problem 3: Hi, used to have a working sound system before 2003-05-14, then did dist-upgrade on unstable/testing and lost sound. performed an dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base and got sound back. Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Centrino [OT]

2003-03-24 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sunday 23 March 2003 01:22, Robert Storey wrote: > The situation could change in the future, but for now it's like this: It has to. As in the article pointed out, Centrino is a /chipset/, Pentium M, or Banian as its nickname is, is the new processor that will bring uptime to laptops. In order

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Upgrading to Sid Via Apt-Get

2003-03-21 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 21 March 2003 19:00, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Greg Madden wrote: > > > > Change stable to unstable. > > - -- > > Greg Madden > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+e0vkk7rtxKWZzGsRAr47AKCk4ML/qd72IAJQVKSraacPJ1ygxQCgnh/k > > SwXY7KAxg1P64

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 15 March 2003 05:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:06:23 -0500 > > "Roberto Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone encountered this? How was this handled? What was the > > outcome? What can I do? > > Ask them if you can have the old machines. > > Check ou

Re: Averiguar Kernel

2003-03-15 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 14 March 2003 16:36, Emilio Murcia wrote: > En un terminal introduce I recomend http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish -- Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian spammed

2003-03-11 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 19:14, Carla Schroder wrote: > $100 cash reward for the inventor of an infallible spammer brain burner. > $500 if I get to pull the switch Quick money that fast This must be spam. -- Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-11 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:10, J. Lambrecht wrote: > Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids By reading a book? Then I recomend a couple of books by Alex Comfort. Should give you a real jump start to life. Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see. -- Svenn -- To U

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Thursday 06 March 2003 23:16, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > And if there is lots of heat, light and smoke, get the fire extinguisher > - it is not *totally* impossible for printers to catch fire. Old, very fast line printers could catch fire if the paper jamed while the printer still wanted to spit o

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-02 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sunday 02 March 2003 18:57, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > For 8139 cards, ne2k-pci will NOT work. You need the rtl8139, or 8139too > > drivers for RTL 8139-based network cards (they are

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-02 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > For 8139 cards, ne2k-pci will NOT work. You need the rtl8139, or 8139too > drivers for RTL 8139-based network cards (they are 100mbit/s nics). Hi, as I used to use SuSE before Debian I visited old friends: http://sdb.suse.de/en

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 01 March 2003 22:51, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Will: think recursively in order to answer both questions. For there to be a reasonable use of recursion it has to have a stopping condition. GNU and RUTE does not have a stopping condition, hence it is not reasonable to use any of them.

Re: Debian security support for older versions

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 01 March 2003 22:44, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I don't think you could have chosen a worse analogy. Read the thread again. I was replying to Paul Johnson who could not understand that people can need security support for more than three years. To you I would say that Moores law relate

Re: secondary root account

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:07, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Sure, you can attempt to detect such changes. However, if as > you say "suits never trust geeks" (which I personally disagree with) > then all the more reason to use sudo. As long as there is a need to know 'who did what' among more equal

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 01 March 2003 19:08, Nathan Malmberg wrote: > The network modules should come with the kernel image package, but > rather than in the "net" directory of the 2.2 kernels, the 2.4 kernels > place them in "kernel/drivers/net". Yeah, you're right. There is no rtl8139.o driver in my .../net

Re: Debian security support for older versions

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 01 March 2003 16:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > Software != household appliances They are placed next to each other in many stores. Now even grocery stores offer PC's. Milk, eggs and XP2003 ... Darwin says: Adopt or die. Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: secondary root account

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 28 February 2003 18:47, Craig Dickson wrote: > them a reason why you refuse to give it to them. (To me, "I'm > responsible for this machine, so I'm not going to have other people > mucking around on it as root" would be a good reason.) Holiday replacement. Sickness replacement. Sacked re

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 28 February 2003 23:22, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Using "make xconfig" in the kernel-source directory, I have the same problem, but upgraded from 2.2.20-compact to kernel-image-2.4.16 and lost connetction to net. The 2.2.20 was installed with woody from cd with lots of extra modules in /

Re: adding eth1

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 28 February 2003 21:53, Nathan E Norman wrote: > First, I have to mention that I hate rtl8139 cards :-) Would you care to tell why? I want to buy one... Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Debian security support for older versions

2003-03-01 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why is obscelesence somehow a surprise to people? Because you don't expect your vacuum cleaner to need a new hose every 3 years... ? Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Gamepads

2003-02-27 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Thursday 27 February 2003 19:25, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Any suggestions? People have suggested MS Sidewinders, which I will > consider, but I wonder if a cheaper solution exists (correct me if I am > wrong, but I last remember it going for $25-$30 (USD)). Is the Sidewinder Strategic Comman

Re: Problem with kernel 2.4.20

2003-02-27 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Upgrading alsa-modules caused an upgrade to kernel-image-2.4.16. I now boot the 2.4.16 but have no access to net. ifconfig does not show eth0, and an modprobe rtl* is installing an USB module and not the ethernet module. I fallback on 2.2.20 which seem to have a net/ dir in /lib/modules/2.2.20-

Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > this is particularly bad (I'm not used to SuSE), though this has > nothing to do with being German. > > But seriously, if you had the choice between apt-getty goodness and > anything else, which would you pick? Heck, I wish I could use apt-

Re: Debian-user as mbox format available?

2003-02-22 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 17:53, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > So far I haven't been able to > > find any archives carrying the mail traffic as plain mbox format. > if you subscribe, you will soon have a [very] phat mbox archive... that > is if you choose to store it in mbox rather than Maildir. I have su

Re: Debian-user as mbox format available?

2003-02-22 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 17:31, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:05:16PM +0100, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > > Hi, > > > > anybody having the debian-user mailinglist as mbox format file? > > This is bug #161440/#172658 against listarchives. Didn't kn

Hen and egg with tktable-dev

2003-02-22 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Hi, want to install tktable and tktable-dev and use tk8.4-dev tktable-dev need tk8.3-dev tk8.4-dev provide tk-dev tk8.3-dev conflict tk-dev So if I want tktable-dev I have to deinstall tk8.4-dev with which I want to develop. any opinions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Debian-user as mbox format available?

2003-02-22 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Hi, anybody having the debian-user mailinglist as mbox format file? I look for info using the web but I get kind of tired of the HTML based archives. I'd like to have the discussions in threads where I can keep the useful ones and delete the useless. So far I haven't been able to find any archives